be reduced solely to the question of how much development, butrather the more challenging question of how much of what kind of development could beoccurring.Impetus for developing the assessment instrumentThis paper describes the process by which we developed an assessment instrument to measurestudents’ interpretive understanding of engineering design concepts as nascent indication ofdeveloping expertise in the middle school engineering education context. We had multipleinterrelated goals for this project. In part, we realized the need to create a new alternativeassessment as one of several means by which we might evaluate student learning outcomesrelated to a narratively-based engineering curriculum aligned to the Next Generation
Paper ID #34925Engineering Graduate Education: An Overwhelming Journey ofFirst-Generation ImmigrantsDr. Hoda Ehsan, Georgia Institute of Technology Hoda is a postdoctoral fellow at Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics & Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue. She received her B.S. in mechanical engineering in Iran, and obtained her M.S. in Childhood Education and New York teaching certification from City College of New York (CUNY-CCNY). She is now a graduate research assistant on STEM+C project. Her research interests
the survey were invited to an interview conducted near the endof the Winter semester or during the summer.Following the interview findings regarding team project experience (2016), we posed newquestions about peer relations in 2017. Findings from the 2017 interviews revealed topics relatedto equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). New questions were included in 2018 interviews toexplore EDI-related experiences and discourses. This paper focuses on the data from studentswho were interviewed in 2018. In summer 2018, the [first author] met with 4 male and 3 femalestudents, to examine issues linked with inclusion and exclusion. This led to a greaterunderstanding of the issues linked with gender, socioeconomic status, and race, as well as
Education through NAU’s Center for Science Teaching and Learning. Her areas of interest include broadening participation in STEM, math curriculum development, and out-of-school time STEM experiences.Dr. Nena E. Bloom, Northern Arizona University Dr. Nena Bloom is an evaluator and education researcher at the Center for Science Teaching and Learning at Northern Arizona University. The primary area of her work is evaluating STEM education projects that focus on opportunities for, and retention of, K-20 students in STEM areas, majors and fields. She also conducts education research focusing on questions about professional development for educators and how educators support student learning in STEM
Paper ID #28231The Centrality of Black Identity for Black Students in EngineeringDr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded MIDFIELD research project on engineering education
because it teaches you to obtainknowledge on your own and gives you a better understanding of the world that you live in. It also teaches you tothink critically and evaluate the information that you are receiving very quicklyI felt that I could show my creativity and what my mind can do which in college I do not believe there is enoughfreedom to express oneself in the classroom.TeamworkIt also displayed not just out thermodynamics abilities, but our skills to be leaders and work in a team, which areessential to be a great engineer. I think out project came out very well and I’m proud of how much we accomplishedand learned in just 3 hoursAlso, the group setting allows for a variety of ideas and backgrounds to come together in a unique way. The
French in 2020 from the University of Rhode Island. Besides her academic duties, she also works as a Learning and Talent Coordinator and consultant in Providence, RI where she works on various projects on teacher’s loans forgiveness programs, curriculum improvement and case management. Dira’s current research interests align with diversity, equity, and inclusion, specifically for Women of color, as well as community building and involvement American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Thinking as Argument: A Theoretical Framework for Studying How Faculty Arrive at Their Deeply-held Beliefs about Inequity in
has experience with outreach projects focused on STEM education and mentoring.Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University As an assistant professor of engineering education at Florida International University, Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong works and teaches at the intersection of engineering education, faculty development, and complex systems design. Alexandra completed her doctorate in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to attending Georgia Tech, Alexandra received a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from MIT and a master’s degree in systems engineering from the University of Virginia. Alexandra comes to FIU af- ter completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Georgia Tech’s Center for
training of mathematics teachers that is at the core of this problem. Since enrollment at UIC, Janet had dedicated her studies and research efforts on Mathematics Socialization and identity amongst pre-service elementary teachers, an effort at understanding the reasons for lack of interest in the subject with a view to proffer solution and engender/motivate interest amongst this group that will eventually reflect in their classroom practices. She is currently a Graduate Assistant with UIC Engage, a commu- nity focused project that provides help for less-privileged students from K-8 in mathematics, reading and writing. She continues to work as a substitute teacher occasionally to keep abreast with current practices
of the first 6 modules has one or more pre-lab homeworkassignments, lectures that include in-class activities, and an associated lab experiment performedin groups. The Mechanical Measurements module has an optional lab activity that the studentsperform as individuals for extra credit. The final module provides information on best practicesfor oral and written presentations as well as a guest speaker describing how measurements areused in their academic research. In addition, there is a required term project performed with thelab group. For the term project the teams are required to propose, design, execute, and report ona measurement experiment of their choosing. Student teams can borrow lab equipment or usefixed equipment on campus for
. In order to representthe second factor, “drawing to communicate ideas”, three items were designed including drawingto communicate ideas, drawing to explain or teach a concept to others, and drawing to generatecreative ideas for a project. In order to measure the third factor, “drawing to solve problems”,two items were developed that included drawing to think through a truss problem, and drawingunder pressure to come up with an idea. In order to measure the fourth factor, “drawing to create”,two items were developed that included drawing to express myself and drawing from imagination.Fabrigar also recommends that a factor is represented by three to five items while designing studiesfor performing EFA [29]. The hypothesized third and fourth
courses that explored technical and societal integration,and more design courses and projects that included themes of human-centered design andsystems thinking (Wisnioski, 2012). Paul B. Daitch at Rochester Polytechnic Instituteemphasized design as "the major vehicle which relates technique and society" (Daitch, 1970, p.21).PurposeFirst-Year Engineering (FYE) courses have received attention from practitioners and scholarsalike in the past couple of decades (Pendergrass et al., 2001; Kilgore et al., 2007). The First-Year Programs division of ASEE had 28 papers associated with it in the 2020 Annualconference alone. There is some agreement on the content that is taught in these courses,which comprises concepts such as design, mathematical modeling
Paper ID #32717Exploring Student Responses to Utility-value Interventions inEngineering StaticsMr. Lorenzo Laxamana Ruiz, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo Lorenzo L. Ruiz is a 4th year Industrial Engineering student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Throughout his undergraduate career, he has completed internships in various fields being exposed to manufacturing operations, business systems, and continuous improvement environments. He is currently working to- wards a career in technical project management. He has served three years on the board of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers which
—rather than investigating systemic or “watershed”-type hazards [13]-[15]. Someapproaches that aim toward broadening faculty teaching strategies rather than protecting studentsfrom them include integrating relevant applications of STEM content; emphasizing the societalcontext and social justice implications of engineering work [16]; and using project-basedlearning to engage students in real-world applications and collaborative work [17].Moreover, engineering’s tendency to cling to an idea of itself as “apolitical” and “neutral,” ratherthan acknowledging its social construction and baked-in centering of white masculinity, has beenshown to be correlated with the marginalization of under-represented participants in engineeringculture [18],[19]. The
levels of both structural response and secondary systems. After re- ceiving her PhD, Dr. Wong began a post-doctoral fellowship at Lawrence National Laboratory developing a modern computational framework for the nonlinear seismic analysis of Department of Energy nuclear facilities and systems. This work seeks to expand the understanding of soil structure interaction for these structures and the means of modeling this behavior both theoretically and experimentally. In addition to her research experience, Dr. Wong also has worked for the public and private engineering sectors in the areas of water infrastructure, transportation, data systems, and project management. She joined San Fran- cisco State University in 2014 as
to be delivered in a distance learning format.At the University of Cincinnati, a large, urban, midwestern university, a common first-yearengineering design course sequence is taught, which focuses on developing students’ design,algorithmic, mathematical, and spatial thinking skills along with other professional skills such aswritten and oral communication, teamwork, and professional ethics. The course meets twice aweek for two hours each and relies heavily on team-based, hands-on activities and projects tohelp students learn the course material. Additionally, the course uses a flipped classroomapproach, where students watch assigned videos or read selected chapters from the textbookprior to attending class and spend most of class time
Agency Full scale heat and electricity E.ON (Järfälla) 2015, 2017 generation and environmental Rya CHP and Renova (Gothenberg) 2019 impacts Air transportation systems Arlanda International Airport 2015, 2017 Urban infrastructure Hammarby Sjöstad (Eco-City) 2015, 2017 Royal Seaport 2019 Full scale municipal wastewater Käppala Wastewater Treatment Plant 2015 treatment Bromma Wastewater Treatment Plant 2019 Sustainable building Skanska Headquarters (Stockholm) 2015, 2017 construction projects Pilot scale innovations in
also afforded the opportunity to lead an impactul Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Principles of Engineering (PoE) course, a project-based learning survey of the engineering discipline. Since the Summer of 2015 I have been privileged to work with the Texas A and M Sketch Recognition Lab (TAMU SRL) to evaluate a couple of online tutorial tools (Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS)) cur- rently under development, Mechanix and Sketchtivity, that provide immediate constructive feedback to the students and student-level metrics to the instructors. I presented on this work at the state and national PLTW Conventions and at CPTTE in 2016. I also spent 5 semesters beginning the Fall of 2015 taking online courses learning how to
Paper ID #34490Teaching Spatial Skills Online During a Global PandemicDr. Melissa C. Richards, Clarkson University Dr. Melissa C. Richards is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Horizons Programs and Robotics Outreach Program for the Institute for STEM Education at Clarkson University. Trained in problem and project-based STEM education, she believes in a holistic approach to education to provide students with tools that foster growth and balance in every aspect of their lives. Using this approach, she has developed and implemented hands-on STEM projects and K-12 and higher education outreach activities
withfull PPE, except he wears glasses instead of safety goggles. In stark contrast, Dee Dee is shownwith blonde hair and wearing a short, pink, sleeveless dress, and ballet shoes; she is wearing noPPE. Dexter’s glasses and lab coat stereotypically represent intelligence. Yet, Dee Dee’s small,pink clothing is suggestive of softness, youth, and frivolity. Moreover, Dee Dee’s blonde hairconnotes the “dumb blonde” stereotype [19]. Notably, all embodied characteristics of Dee Dee’scharacter in the show. Dexter is shown much larger and in the foreground. His upright postureand hands on his hips demonstrate a character designed to project confidence. Dee Dee’s stanceand sideways look projects a flighty personality, unconcerned with serious matters
projects ranging from consumer products to power systems. As a consultant she worked with over 75 different clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Prof. Wodin-Schwartz is passionate about teaching core engineering and critical thinking skills that apply to application driven problem solving. She is excited to work with students to help them understand not only the technical skills required of them as engineers but also the social, environmental, and physical implications of implementing technical engineering solutions. Her work with adding context to problems and projects her courses has lead her to receive teaching awards including the Russell M. Searle and Morgan Distinguished Instructorships in
University of Maine FYE integrated math, physics, programming,and engineering content with a goal of improving retention [6]. Other programs use projects aspart of courses to motivate and encourage engineering students [7]. Again, Mohammadi-Araghand Kajfez [5] note the paucity of work regarding the benefits of drawbacks of FYE vis a visdirect matriculation.The first year can have a significant impact on future college success; aspects about their identityand competency are formed during this time [8]. A few researchers have recognized this impactand critically examined first year of engineering programs. An in-depth analysis of studentsleaving one engineering program found that a mismatch in interest followed by feelings of lowcompetence accounted
; Program Manager for Electrical Transmission and Distribution Contracts, Iraq Project and Contracting Office (PCO), Bagh- dad, Iraq; Assistant Public Works Officer, Program Management Officer, Operations Officer, AROICC, ROICC, and Facilities, Engineering and Acquisition Division Director, Public Works Department, NAS Sigonella, Sicily; Seabee Enlisted Community Manager (BUPERS-325D), NSA Millington, Millington, TN; and Assistant Current Operations Officer (N3C1) and Current Operations Officer (N3C), Navy Expe- ditionary Combat Command (NECC), JEB Little Creek-Fort Story, VA. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electri- cal Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the state of
technology contentknowledge and implement that knowledge effectively in designing integrated STEMlearning environments. To increase students’ interest in STEM fields and improve thequality of integrated STEM education, we developed a series of integrated engineeringand technology focused teacher professional development (PD) activities.In this paper, we discuss the effectiveness of a two-week long PD which was a part of aNational Science Foundation (NSF) funded Innovative Technology Experiences forStudents and Teachers (ITEST) project. This workshop was implemented at a Research 1University campus in Summer 2019. The project goals were to enhance in-serviceteachers’ engineering and cutting edge technology content knowledge to help them
Infras- tructure: An Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering.Dr. Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez, Colorado State University Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Construction Management at Colorado State University. He is committed to advancing research and teaching in the sustainability of infrastructure projects. He believes that educating the next generation of professionals will play a pivotal role in making sustainability a standard practice.Dr. Frederick Paige, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Frederick (”Freddy”) Paige is the Assistant Director of the Virginia Center for Housing Research and an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech in the Vecellio
courses'competitive nature.Engagement is one of the main factors that can be used to predict academic success. An engagedstudent is more likely to have short-term goals such as an intention to participate in an internshipprogram or long-term goals such as intentions to pursue graduate studies or move into the technicalworkforce. Tutoring sessions, field trips, and research projects have been introduced to theundergraduate engineering student's curriculum ostensibly to increase engagement. Peerdiscussions in undergraduate courses have helped develop the personal and social skills to thrivein an engineering major. Peer discussions seem to enhance student learning compared with coursesthat do not allow peer discussions [2]. Capstone projects serve as a great
teaching and doing research. She is on the USD team implementing ”Developing Changemaking Engineers”, an NSF-sponsored Revolutionizing Engineering Education (RED) project. Dr. Lord is the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award.Mr. Mou Deng Riiny, SunGate Solar American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Learning about Solar Power in South Sudan: An International CollaborationAbstractMore than 1 billion people in the world currently live in energy poverty. Solar energy has vastpotential for South Sudan but there are challenges to implementing it. How can students andothers such as technicians learn about the context of South Sudan and the particular
questions asked in the classroom to students onZoom, or read questions that were brought up through the chat box. It was also distractive tomonitor and ensure that the delivery of both synchronous and asynchronous lectures wasworking properly. I had the Zoom recording, I had the slides, my own writing on the board…I have to listen to the questions from Zoom, and from the students who were in the classroom. Sometimes people ask questions through the chat box, which was very hard for me to follow. – P8Several other difficulties were also identified from our interviews. Two participants hadtechnical difficulties using functions or features of Zoom or projecting to the classroom andZoom at the same time. One participant stated
Paper ID #32450Managing Uncertainty in CAD-enabled Engineering Design TasksMrs. Ying Ying Seah, Purdue University, West Lafayette Ying Ying Seah is a Ph.D. candidate in Technology in the Department of Computer Information Tech- nology at Purdue University. Her research interest mainly focuses on developing and validating novel curricular approaches and technology-enhanced learning environments in STEM education, integrating scientific and engineering thinking in the relevant disciplines. Specifically, her current project focuses on designing, implementing, and validating a Learning by Design curricular approach in science
that lead to reducing the quantityand diversity of possible solutions, the results of the study can support engineering instructors toprovide scaffolding as they provide lessons on concept generation for their students.IntroductionWith the increasing complexity of problems in the world, engineers must develop innovativesolutions to pressing problems, as described by the National Academy of Engineering [1]. Toequip students with important design skills, design education has adopted project-based coursesthat require students to tackle open-ended problems [2]. However, despite the changes in thecurriculum, studies have indicated the challenges of teaching students how to innovate [3], [4].Engineers engage in concept generation in design, which