major since the students are exposed to all levels ofcognitive difficulties such as, applying and linking the fundamental knowledge and theories into amore complex real-world application. Learning-by-doing can be very impactful in comprehendingabstract engineering concepts at the introductory level. So, a first-year scholar develops learn-to-learn by yourself skills by learning-by-doing. Some important benefits of participating inundergraduate research that might assist in the student’s preparation for either graduate educationor a professional career, include gaining experience and learning the research process, increasingknowledge and how the knowledge is applied, defining their future career plan, learning aboutacademia and graduate life
faculty have mentionedinclude: • Thinking about building systems as a whole, instead of individual systems • Different design strategies that can be used to create a net-zero building • Education on building science and construction • Real world operations and how to apply theoretical knowledge.Participating in a team-oriented project also allows students to build their soft skills. Here are someways that our students and faculty have said they have grown with the Solar Decathlon: • How to sell a story • Learning how to get architecture and engineering students to work together • Increasing their ability for proactive planning and research • Growing their own agency and confidence • Finding external partners
the vast majority of class activities anddeliverables are team-based. In-class lesson plans, especially those associated with buildingtowards the Cornerstone Project, are scaffolded in a manner such that resolution becomes moredependent on team dynamics as the semester progresses. ENGR 111 student feedback pertainingto the teamwork experience had been overwhelmingly positive prior to the pandemic [3].ENGR 111 also employs various forms of active learning, including collaborative, cooperative,problem-based, project-based, and discovery-based learning [8-16]. Cooperative learning takesplace when students pursue common goals as a team while being assessed individually and hasbeen shown to increase students’ sense of belonging, which, in turn
mostnegatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic may not be responding to surveys due to thestruggles they are facing. Although we were unable to undergo a thorough validation andreliability verification process for the added survey items, we felt it was acceptable to moveforward due to the fast-paced nature of the pandemic. We plan to continue to collect survey data and as classes move to in-person and hybridformats, recruiting participants will likely be more successful. We plan to conduct interviewswith students, selecting participants based on their demographics and the depth of their originalresponses to the survey. For example, our results showed a statistical difference between studentswho identified as Hispanic/Latino and White in terms
integration of engineering design and technology intoSTEM instruction for pre-college students. Roehrig and Moore expand upon this position stating, “... toprepare students to address the problems of our increasingly technological society, it is necessary toprovide them with opportunities to understand the problems through rich, engaging, and powerfulexperiences that integrate the disciplines of STEM” (Roehrig et al., 2012). They identify the EDP as a keystandard for inclusion in the scope of knowledge and skills for the K-12 student population (Roehrig etal., 2012).eSTEM Challenge PilotIn April 2021, NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs’ staff planned, implemented, and hosted a pilot ofour eSTEM Design Challenge. In partnership with NJIT’s Newark
interests/passions and STEM fields I I plan to apply for a STEM discipline when I go to college. E I know how to find out more about STEM if I want to. 0.5 0 A B C D E F G H I Figure 4. Program participants’ responses to pre- and post-program survey.funded researchers, as they are often looking for ways to add a broader impact component to theirresearch projects. The cost of these projects is as low to the host research group, as the projectsuse relatively inexpensive and commonly available equipment
generalautomotive engineering knowledge. Some of the topics that were covered are the following: 1. Baseline automotive engineering terminology 2. Vehicle setup and performance measures 3. Chassis design 4. Suspension design 5. Tire analysis 6. Engines 7. Drivetrain* 8. Brakes* 9. Aerodynamics* 10. Telemetry and Data Acquisition* 11. Vehicle models* 12. Analysis of common vehicle components** At the time of this submission these topics have yet to be covered however, there are plans tocover this information in future lectures.After the 30 minute lecture, the students were provided time to provide progress updates, ask foradvice/approval on projects they were working on, and go to the machine shop to continueworking on
time at UB, she was the architect of a strategic growth plan for engineering. Previously, she performed research and development on nanoscale magnetic materials and devices in support of the data storage industry for 16 years in Silicon Valley. Dr. Folks has co-authored more than 60 archival peer reviewed journal articles and 14 US patents, resulting in more than 12,400 citations. She served as President of the IEEE Magnetics Society from 2013-2014 - the first female president. She also served as chair of the congressionally-mandated National Academies panel which delivered the “2020 Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative” report. Dr. Folks has long been a champion for women and underrepresented
from theco-teacher would be from a similar perspective as the course student, a practice typically employed by co-hosts to make the topic more appealing to the audience [18]. For example, the co-teacher may ask agenuine or pre-planned question that leads to an alternate explanation, potentially leading to furtherdiscussions and helping students to better understand the topic. Studies indicate that students can alsoimprove their question asking skills from similar interactions as part of a vicarious learning strategy [19].This concept of employing graduate students as co-teachers is comparable to how students in fields suchas education and social science are traditionally trained through practicum courses and real-worldteaching
approaches were carried out as described below9,10 but they were based on acustom build manufacturing system and were not scalable nor reconfigurable alike thepreviously described efforts 5,6,7,8: • Yip-Hoi and Pasek developed a manufacturing system handling LEGO blocks9. Their paper focused on a general concept for a computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) environment intended for the design and assembly of ‘products’ built out of LEGO blocks. The ‘products’ are designed within a Lego CAD System. Process and trajectory planning software was utilized to determine the build sequence and robot program for assembling the products directly from the CAD models. The robot program is downloaded into a cell controller
significantly impactedby the pandemic.In our first year, travel restrictions and rescissions of internship offers led us to delay our initialpilot by a year. During this most recent summer of year two, we proceeded with delivery of ourenhanced internships albeit with online delivery of the pre- and post-internship workshops insteadof face-to-face delivery as originally planned. Despite some of the conveniences afforded byremote delivery, and the incentive of receiving $50 electronic Amazon gift card upon completionof the program, we were still only able to yield a net enrollment of 5 students who investedapproximately 14 hours to complete all activities associated with the enhanced internship.In addition to the significant impact of COVID, we
howto integrate STEM disciplines using a biomimicry context with engineering design as highschool students would experience in an integrated lesson. Teachers also collaborated during thesecond week of the PD to create their own integrated STEM units co-taught the next school year.The following school year, researchers, educators, and industry partners collaborated to providea variety of STEM learning opportunities to support these teachers in unit plan implementation.A total of 43 STEM teachers participated in the project, and 20 integrated STEM lessons wereimplemented in 47 STEM classrooms over three years (2016-2019 academic years).TRAILS researchers learned much from the participants of the TRAILS 1.0 program within amidwestern state
years? To what degree have they been exposed to these principles in the context of biomedical engineering? • RQ2: What topics or ethical foundations does the biomedical engineering community (e.g., students, faculty, industry) consider valuable? Which topics are already being taught to students, and what should be integrated into the curriculum? • RQ3: How effective is the “ethics everywhere” approach in integrating ethical reasoning into the current biomedical engineering curriculum? Does incorporating ethical learning broadly into required engineering content-based courses improve ethical reasoning and long-term character development?Planned Methodology and Future ResultsDefining the current state
Administration (Civil, Chemical, Computer Engineering, Electrical, Environmental, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Bioengineer- ing, Material Science), and as Faculty in the engineering department for the past twenty seven years. Industry experience: Consulting; since 1987; Had major or partial role in: I) performing research for industry, DOE and NSF, and II) in several oil industry or government (DOE, DOD, and NSF) proposals. Performed various consulting tasks from USA for several oil companies (Jawaby Oil Service Co., WAHA Oil and Oasis Co., London, England). The responsibilities included production planning, forecasting and reservoir maintenance. This production planning and forecasting consisted of history matching and
-prepared to perform research(1.0) My students were well-prepared to make technical presentations(0.6) My students had sufficient experience in computing to support their workLessons Learned and Planned ActionsThe formative evaluation of Year 1 of REU-PATHWAYS as well as the grant teams revealedsome interesting insights:• There is need for REU participants to feel they belong to the program. We will add a home room meeting every morning in Year 2 and Year 3.• Given that the community college students all commute to campus, a physical space is needed as a “homebase” to provide a communal location for interactions outside of their research labs.ConclusionsBased on the results from this final program evaluation, the REU-PATHWAYS program
effectiveness of validated instructional practices across five diverse institutions. This research will identify ways to support engagement and conceptual learning of diverse populations of students, within the contexts of the educational systems (i.e., institutional contexts, instructor and student histories, beliefs and practices, and the innovation – the CW). 4. Promote and track propagation of the enhanced CW via targeted community building in ME. This will be accomplished through workshops, implementation of an Action Research Fellows Program, collaboration with professional societies in ME and outreach efforts to two-year colleges. 5. Continue to develop and refine a sustainability plan for continued
feedback emphasized Stimulatingthe importance of “hands-on” skills and “reinforcing Course Difficulty 3.53 4.00holes” from previous experiences, motivating theimportance of these courses to bridge topics from Overall 4.59 4.83introductory biology to biotechnology design. InstructorFuture Directions Enhancing the MCTE track at Duke University will provide more BME students with thecurricular excellence and scaffolding to succeed in upper-level advanced electives and futurecareers in the biotechnology sector. We will equip our BME undergraduates with the technical andconceptual expertise to foster an engineering perspective to the world-class multidisciplinaryMCTE field. Our plans emphasize
have lead to real world implementations and/or are being developed with Cornell Technology Licensing. Some of the David’s favorites include: ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Paper ID #38838* Creation of the Cornell Cup USA presented by Intel, now the Cornell Cup – Arm Enabled, internationalembedded systems competition * Cape Canaveral AFS / NASA Kennedy collaboration Minotaur LaunchVehicle Feasibility Study, turning minotaur missiles into low orbit launch vehicles and leading to success-ful launch of the OSR-5 satellite * Unmanned Aircraft Evasive Maneuver Mission Re-planning AlgorithmDevelopment
Transportation Research. His research interests include systems modeling, analysis and control, data analysis and decision support in healthcare, infor- mation systems and engineering education research. His work has been funded by federal organizations including National Science Foundation and Army Office of Research and medical device manufacturing industry. He has taught courses in the areas of systems modeling and performance analysis, information systems design, production planning, facilities design, and systems simulation. He co-authored the 2006 Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year textbook, Design of Industrial Information Systems, Elsevier.Dr. Renee M. Clark, University of Pittsburgh Renee Clark serves as the Director
engineering and science experiences. The survey was administered by ourexternal evaluator, who also removed identifying information and sorted the data for thefaculty team to examine. In this paper, we analyze student responses by multipledemographic categories: gender, race and ethnicity, and scholarship status (a proxy forsocioeconomic status, given that recipients must meet particular income and financialneed requirements). We did not conduct a statistical analysis due to the small sample size(n=13). In future work, we plan to combine descriptive statistics with qualitative analysisof student interviews.ResultsBelongingnessThe most significant difference in student reporting of undergraduate belongingness wereby socioeconomic status, as students
21 19 20 0 ABET APR/MPR Faculty/Student Industry Academic Strategic Research Engagement Engagement Support Planning Support Inactive Advisory Board (47) Active Advisory Board (22)Figure 1a. Comparison of reasons for an advisory board (question 4) bifurcated between“active” and “inactive” advisory boards (ABET=ABET Accreditation | APR=Academic ProgramReview | MPR=Maintaining Program Relevancy). Reason for Advisory Board (Q4) 100 92
discussions.Even with evidence cited in the vision papers from the NAE and specific disciplines, there stillexists a lack of teaching and learning opportunities to address this gap.BackgroundIncluded in the vision of the University’s strategic plan is the aspiration to impact the worldthrough solutions-oriented approaches to major societal issues. The university recognized a needfor an interdisciplinary approach as many of the solutions lie at the interface between law,policy, and engineering. The University established the Law, Policy and Engineering (LPE)initiative in 2018 to foster collaboration between of the College of Engineering, the Law School,and the School of International Affairs. A result of this initiative was the design and approval tobegin
).The GUI for the students will serve the following functionality: • Student login with their WCU authentication credentials. Then the student can search for a certain company required skills, a certain certification offered by the university for specific skills, and build/maintain a plan for their certification. • Employers’ login through the system with special permissions and authentications. They can post their jobs, but more importantly the skills that they have openings for. • University, a program director, or a university outreach officer can login with their university credentials. They can see what the needed skills for the market are, evaluate and re-evaluate the curriculum to check if the
, Phase 2Baccomplished but extended with supplemental funding to increase our sample size, and Phase 3underway. To summarize the overarching research plan for the CAREER grant: Phase 1A (years1 and 2) was a qualitative study of N = 42 graduate students that were identified as “departers”(those who left their doctoral plan of study) and questioners (those who were considering leavingtheir program). Phase 1B (years 3 and 4) collects time-series data from questioners using SMS textmessages, collected three times per week from participants over an entire year. The first cohort ofparticipants completed an entire year of the study in January 2023, and a second cohort ofparticipants started in October 2022. Phase 2 (year 5) investigates faculty
for the CST majors the CS3 course is a mandatory one. Also, no recoveryafter the end of the pandemic (in Fall 2021) is recorded for the CS3 enrollment numbers.Figure 4 summarizes Table 3 and demonstrates that COVID-19 affected the enrollment numbersfor students across all ethnicities. However, it can be observed that different ethnicities havedifferent patterns of when students of those ethnicities were affected most. We cannot explain whythe timelines of the changes in the enrollment numbers for different ethnicities vary. However, thisis an interesting phenomenon that we plan to investigate in our future work.Figure 2. Enrollment For CS1, CS2, and CS3 Courses for Men and Women: Overall Enrollment for CST and non-CST
Commission and, as commissioner, served as chair for two terms. She also chaired the Driver’s Education Advisory Committee and the Motorcycle Safety Advisory Com- mittee for the Michigan Department of State—work that resulted in new legislation for Michigan. She began her career as an engineer for General Motors Truck Group and has been nationally recognized in higher education as both an American Council on Education Fellow and a New Leadership Academy Fellow. Currently Dr. El-Sayed serves on the Bloomfield Hills Board of Education, serves as a director on the BHS Foundation Board and serves on the Advancement Committee for the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP). She is married and has three adult
perspectivetowards and impact of the classroom’s physical features and conditions (i.e., whether supportiveor not to learning) differed from student to student.6. ConclusionsOur preliminary research on perceived “surroundings” in the classroom is part of a larger studyof the impact of systematic, repeated reflection on the development of metacognition, self-regulatory skills, and academic performance in engineering education. We plan to continue ourinvestigation of students’ reflections regarding their “surroundings” as part of our larger researchstudy. Upon conducting a focus group with these students one year later, their notion of peersand instructor as “surroundings” persisted. In fact, these students further named the “vibe” in theclassroom as their
to work on and frame the problem by creating design criteria for the problem. They must identify at least one social, economic, and environmental design criteria.Step Three: Explore Lots of Using their design criteria developed in step two, the groups use a multicriteriaOptions assessment tool to explore solutions and how well they solve the problem using the design criteria to measure success.Step Four: Justify your Students justify what solution idea solves their problem most effectively andRecommendation comes up with an implementation plan for their solution including predicted
for evaluation, corresponding to particular student competencies the authors hope toimprove.Student creativity and comfort with uncertaintyAs described above, the redesign of ENGGEN 115 attempts to strike a new (for the course)balance between concrete and open-ended design problems in PBL. Yang found that sketchvolume generated in the first quarter of the design cycle correlates significantly with designoutcome.[5] To assess students’ willingness to sit in uncertainty at the beginning of a designproject, a study is planned focused on the number of initial concepts a student or student teamgenerates before moving on to concept selection and prototyping.Teaching staff surveysBecause performance in ENGGEN 115 helps determine the rank order in
- appropriate format (IEEE, other types) o Written: Completeness - no important information missing o Graphic(s): placement of graphics o Graphic(s): Completeness [Axes, Units, legend, or key, trendline, etc]. o Graphic(s): Caption (complete, correct, logical order of info)Teamwork: - Definition: o Original: Demonstrates commitment to high team function o Revised: Demonstrates commitment to productively complete tasks as a group - Original Evidence: o Contributed to establishing goals o Assisted in planning tasks o Accepted Individual Responsibility (completed assigned tasks well by deadline, etc.) o Effectively communicated with other team