provide PD that aligns to The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Since 2008 she has provided teacher PD to science teachers in the tri-state area, including international visiting teachers and scholars. Dr. Borges’ research interests include: building STEM professional-teacher relationships, diversity and equity, and enhancing urban science teaching and learning.Dr. Vikram Kapila, New York University Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a DR K-12 research project, and an ITEST re- search project
Engineering, Materials and Processes, and Statics. Her teaching interests include development of solid communication skills and enhancing laboratory skills. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Curing the cheating epidemic? A multi-site, international comparison of perspectives on academic integrity and the way we “cure” by teaching———————————————————————————AbstractPlagiarism became an issue in both the scientific and political communities in Germany at thebeginning of the decade. The former German Minister of Defense and the Minister of Educationand Science lost their Ph.D. titles due to plagiarism and subsequently resigned. In response, aGerman
Turbulent Era.Dr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research In- stitute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research includes modeling steady state and transient behavior of advanced energy systems, inclusive of their thermal management, and the characterization and optimization of novel cycles. He has advised graduate and undergradu- ate research assistants and has received multi-agency funding for energy systems analysis and develop- ment. Sponsor examples include the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy and NASA. Dr. Haynes also develops fuel cells and alternative
incorporates performance, projects, portfolios, laboratory results, and application of knowledge to better assess the capabilities and placement of tracked students. The ETW also encourages using a variety of assignments based on the time available, the purpose of the assessment, and the cognitive level of the learning objective as part of the Planning a Class seminar and the development of in- class and out-of-class activities. The ETW should, as a minimum, include the added benefit of assessing a wider diversity of students by using a variety of assignments in this discussion. Of course, this wider variety of assignments will be more successful in smaller class sizes where the student-faculty interaction is greater and effective
. Define the term research. 2. Describe examples of research being conducted in STEM fields and the potential impact of that research on society. 3. List examples of career opportunities available in various STEM fields. 4. Collect scientific data in a laboratory setting. 5. Analyze and interpret simple scientific data generated in the laboratory. 6. List and describe the steps of the scientific method. 7. List and describe the steps of the engineering design process. 8. Compare and contrast the scientific method and the engineering design process. 9. Describe the difference between quantitative and qualitative data and provide examples of situations where each is used. 10. Demonstrate knowledge of the
University of British Columbia, Chemistry Teaching Laboratory Optimization with CWSEI, 2008—2011 Assistant Professor, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, August 2011—2017 Lecturer, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, January 2018 – presentDr. Pauline Entin, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018-present, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, 2014-2018, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ Associate Dean for Aca- demic Affairs, 2010-2014, College of Engineering, Forestry and Natural Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ Assist/Assoc/Full Professor, Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, 2001-2018
engineering ethics dilemma.27 And in a related study, Loui usedinterview data to show how formal instructional interventions can help reinforce and expandstudent awareness of, and commitments to, social and ethical responsibility.28 Clancy, Quinn, &Miller similarly used focus groups and surveys to assess their “case study laboratory” approach,finding significant improvements in students’ awareness of ethical issues.29However, very different results emerged from Drake et al.’s comparison of two kinds of ethicsinstruction, namely a full semester ethics course and an engineering course that included anethics module.30 Their results, based on DIT-2 scores, showed that neither approach resulted insignificant improvement in students’ moral development
public policy, assessing stakeholder needs and desires, resource analysis, and collective impact engagement. Currently, he is working closely with several local and national organizations to research and rally opposition against the transfer of federal public lands to state governance.Dr. Steven J. Burian P.E., University of Utah Dr. Steven J. Burian is an associate professor in the Urban Water Group in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Utah. Dr. Burian’s career spans more than a decade during which he has worked in design engineering, as a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a profes- sor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as a director of
review for difficult concepts; he highlighted cognitiveload theory and related it to problem-based learning [9]. In this work, he highlights thatmeasurement variation, which uses probability and statistics, is the difficult concept targeted in Page 26.840.9his research. He argued the effectiveness of scaffolding with worksheets in a laboratory settingover lectures and textbooks in problem-based learning in order to teach difficult engineeringconcepts.Other researchers, in proving the usefulness of simulations for teaching, highlighted typicalproblems that students encounter. In broad categories, students have difficulty with generatinghypotheses
withlittle or no high quality laboratory experience in K-12, lack of experience building thingsduring childhood and adolescence, lack of understanding about how mechanical thingswork and a lack of experience measuring and hypothesizing have little background thatwould lead them to know about or to choose a STEM course of study without making aconnection to something they care about.The culture of inquiry and freedom from required content promoted questioning and whatwould be considered “off topic” discussions sometimes arose. Encouraging these questionscan increase student engagement when the facilitators are able to provide appropriatecontext for the student’s question rather than dismissing it.3. Community Service and Service LearningBeing part of
innovative solutions.30,31Experimenting has historically been core to engineering and engineering education, as is evidentby ABET’s learning outcome specifying that students should be able to “design and conductexperiments”.32 As a result, laboratory instruction has long been a staple of engineeringeducation. In Crismond and Adams’ (2012) Informed Design Teaching and Learning matrix, theability to conduct valid experiments was identified as a key design ability.33 From theperspective of engineering students, experimenting has been depicted as supplemental to andreinforcing of the general theory learned from lecture or a textbook.34 Therefore, the connectionbetween experimenting and innovation within engineering seems direct and pervasive.The
, Brookhaven National Laboratory, European Southern Observatory (Chile), Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) and the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. Christine works closely with Penn State University faculty Michael Alley (The Craft of Scientific Presentations and The Craft of Scientific Writing) and Melissa Marshall (TED, ”Talk Nerdy to Me”) on these courses. Christine is also the director of the Engineering Ambassadors Network, a start-up organization at 25 plus universities worldwide that teaches presentation skills to undergraduate engineering students, particularly women and underrepresented groups in engineering. These Engineering Ambassadors develop valuable leadership and communication skills, which
Paper ID #18703A Symbiotic Solution for Facilitating Faculty Transitions in Engineering AcademiaDr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research In- stitute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research includes modeling steady state and transient behavior of advanced energy systems, inclusive of their thermal management, and the characterization and optimization of novel cycles. He has advised graduate and undergradu- ate research assistants and has received multi-agency funding for
the program. There must be a suf- ficient number of faculty and they must have sufficient responsibility and authority to improve and implement the program.7. Facilities All facilities (classrooms, offices, laboratories, and associated equipment) must be adequate to support the attainment of the student outcomes. Modern tools, equip- ment and resources must be available to the students, and they must be systemati- cally maintained and upgraded.8. Institutional Institutional support and leadership must be adequate to ensure the continuity of the Support program. Institutional resources provided to the program must be
language such as MATLAB, and a few on full-semester, client-baseddesign projects, all seek to increase retention and improve understanding of engineering conceptsat an early stage. Below, a few of many quality program are described; these were selected becausethey highlight and assess topics of interest to our program, including creativity, real-world designchallenges, and development of technical skills and self-confidence. With the intention of exhibiting that engineering is a creative process and increasinginterest in electrical and computer engineering (ECE), The University of Alabama developed adesign laboratory freshmen course for ECE students [12]. In this course, the creative process forthe students’ designs included brainstorming
engineering education programs which necessitatesworking relationships between peers. This group nature brings students of differing identitiestogether, meeting frequently outside of classroom hours or instructor monitored interactions. Thestudents identified group projects, laboratory work, and classroom interactions as a particularhurdle towards engineering peers being a part of their social support networks. This seems tomirror literature which describes a gendered engineering student dynamic where womenexperience negative interactions and diminished project roles in team-based settings [40, 41].The additional layer of being transgender women complicates the ability to draw clear parallelsto existing studies on women in engineering, which often
) and for Science for Clean Energy (S4CE), another European Community Project (both are led by Alberto Striolo at University College London). He is on the advisory board for Fluid Phase Equilibria and is a member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Project on Recommended Reference Materials for Phase Equilibria Studies (led by Ala Bezyleva, NIST). He sat until recently on the advisory committee for the National High Magnetic Flux Laboratory Tallahassee (FTICR-MS facil- ity, USA), and the Network Coordination Council for the Canadian Oilsands Network of Research and Development (CONRAD). He was a principal Investigator and theme leader for Carbon Management Canada (a Canadian national
lacks proper internal oversight. A lack ofemphasis on selecting PIs who are well-equipped to lead supportive and diverse laboratories cou-pled with a lack of diversity in the researcher and PI populations frequently leads to an unhealthywork environment that Black PhD students have the burden of navigating throughout their entiredoctoral program. We hope that sharing our experiences will serve as a reference point in the refor-mation of the graduate engineering education system. By challenging biases and fostering a moreinclusive academic space, we aim to see an improvement in the graduation rates of Black doctoralcandidates.Introduction Academic spaces are experiencing an influx of diverse students feeling empowered to pur-sue higher
Paper ID #41273Exploring Engineering Graduate Students’ Perceptions of Creativity in Academicand Research EnvironmentsAutumn R. Deitrick, Pennsylvania State University Autumn Deitrick is a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). She is working under Dr. Catherine Berdanier in the Engineering Cognitive Research Laboratory (ECRL) studying creativity in graduate-level engineering education. She earned her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Penn State and her S.M. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paper ID #41180Exploring the Evolution of Engineering Doctoral Students’ Academic andCareer Goals in the First Year of Graduate SchoolGabriella M. Sallai, Pennsylvania State University Gaby Sallai is currently a graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering department at Penn State. She is working under Dr. Catherine Berdanier in the Engineering Cognitive Research Laboratory (ECRL) studying the experiences of engineering graduate students. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Franklin & Marshall College in Physics and Women & Gender Studies.Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University Catherine
Institute for Systems Research. Prof. Sochol directs the Bioinspired Advanced Manufacturing (BAM) Laboratory, which pioneers micro/nanoscale additive manufacturing or “3D Printing” approaches to solve mechanically and physically complex challenges, with an emphasis on biomedical applications. Prof. Sochol has developed and teaches two courses: (i) a dual undergraduate-graduate-level “Additive Manufacturing” course, and (ii) an undergraduate-level course, entitled “The Legend of Zelda: A Link to Machine Design”. Prof. Sochol received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2006, and both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2009 and
concerns and family responsibilitiesas key factors affecting students’ mental well-being, with many students juggling multiple responsibilities alongsidetheir academic pursuits ([34]).Development of rPPG Technology In the development of rPPG technologies, significant challenges arise in real-time data acquisition and processing,particularly when integrating with systems like LLMs. One of the key challenges has been adapting rPPG algorithmsto work effectively across diverse demographics and in various environmental conditions, as traditional connectedPPG algorithms often focus on homogenous subject groups in stationary laboratory settings. Recent advancementsin rPPG have enhanced its accuracy and adaptability, particularly in varied environmental
research fellow at the same institution. During this time, he combined research in computational material sciences with teaching duties in undergraduate laboratories. He then served as an assistant lecturer at the Dundalk Institute of Technology in Dundalk, Ireland, before joining the Institute of Technology Sligo (now ATU Sligo). Akinlolu is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), a recognition of his expertise in teaching and learning in higher education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Teaching basic concepts in machine learning to engineering students: A hands-on approachDavid O. Obada1,2,10,11*, Simeon A. Abolade2, Shittu B
/her knowledge on the topic). In order to make these meetings more dynamicand participative, the remote instructor uses CIT resources such as Menti – an interactive platform thatfacilitates the interaction of the students with the remote instructor using students' cellular phones. Inremote locations, the internet bandwidth is limited. Using only ONE computer to implement thesynchronous meeting (instead of each student connected to the videoconference) improvescommunication with the class, and the students' interactions via cell phones have no impact on thebandwidth. The remote instructor has access to the minimum CIT resources at the location where theinstructor lives (cameras, microphones, tablet, board, laboratory equipment, and others) to
% Lab 20%In our mastery-based course, a student earned a C- (the grade required for pre-requisite courseslike ours) after mastering all the Fundamental skills (Table 2). Beyond this, any Important skillthat a student passes increased their grade by 1/3 of a letter, a pattern that continued with masteryof the Additional skills. Even though students who only passed the Fundamental skills may notget as much practice with the Important and Additional skills, they were still exposed to theseskills during in-class instruction and through homework and laboratory exercises. By achievingmastery on the Fundamental skills, students will have a full understanding of these topics thatthey can apply to future engineering
not-knowing in reasoning about a novel problem,” Chemistry Education Research and Practice, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 956– 970, 2023, doi: 10.1039/D3RP00018D.[31] D. A. Kolb, Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development. New Jersey: Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1984.[32] A. Kolb and D. Kolb, “Eight important things to know about the experiential learning cycle,” Australian Educational Leader, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 8–14, Aug. 2020, doi: 10.3316/informit.192540196827567.[33] A. Konak, T. K. Clark, and M. Nasereddin, “Using Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle to improve student learning in virtual computer laboratories,” Computers & Education, vol. 72, pp. 11–22, Mar. 2014, doi: 10.1016
wind energy, particularly in the characterization of fatigue and ultimate loads for floating offshore wind turbine concepts.Dr. Maija A. Benitz, Roger Williams University Dr. Maija Benitz is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Roger Williams University, where she has taught since 2017. Prior to joining RWU, she taught at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, after completing her doctoral work jointly in the Multiphase Flow Laboratory and the Wind Energy Center at UMass Amherst.Dr. Lillian Clark Jeznach, Roger Williams University Dr. Lillian Jeznach is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Roger Williams University. She teaches the first year curriculum as well as upper-level courses related to