’ performanceduring the project as well as the quality of the product. Finally, although faculty often requirestudents to work in teams on design projects, they fail to provide instruction on group dynamics.Thus, faculty should consider including instruction on teamwork to promote student learning ofengineering design.References Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. (March 1997). Engineering criteria 2000: Criteriafor accrediting programs in engineering in the United States. ASEE Prism, 41-42. Byrd, J. S., & Hudgins, J. L. (1995). Teaming in the design laboratory. Journal of Engineering Education,84(4), 335-341. Coleman, R. J. (September 1996). The engineering education coalitions: A progress report. ASEE Prism,24-31
AT&T Bell Laboratories. Dr. Koen is supporting theInstitute by doing this survey in order to better align curriculum initiatives with the needs of the employers. Page 3.604.7
universities that use quarter systems versus semester systems,there are also other alternative systems for counting hours. While the typical U.S. system countsonly hours per week for traditional fall-spring semester courses, there were differences within theU.S. programs. California uses a system which accounts for time in class and expected timespent working on coursework outside of the classroom. The majority of the programs offer a 4-year degree. There are 6 programs which require 5-years for an undergraduate degree instead ofthe traditional 4-year degree.Also identified were disparities in reporting Lab hours versus Tutorial hours. The U.S. semestersystem allows for up to 3 hours in a laboratory-style course to count as 1 hour. In Canada
, Personalized Learning, and STEM Education.Dr. Mihai Boicu, George Mason University Mihai Boicu, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Information Technology at George Mason University, Associate Director of the Learning Agents Center (http://lac.gmu.edu), Co-Director of IT Entrepreneurship Laboratory (http://lite.gmu.edu) and Co-Director of ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Anti-racism, Inclusion, Diversity and Equity in Database CurriculumThrough Group Research Projects on Historical, Social and Ethical Database Related TopicsIntroductionThe purpose of this work in progress research paper is to present a redesign of a sequence of fourcourses in order to provide
their first term on campus as freshmanthrough senior design, students receive and have opportunities to practice both leadership andteamwork skills. This training begins with having students take the My Colorful Portraitpersonality test in a first year, first term course, and includes guidance on creating team normingdocuments, ways to motivate team members, etc. In courses with teamwork (project-basedcourses or laboratory courses), students receive additional training and reflection opportunities toreinforce these attitudes and skills.At JMU, freshmen engineering students are introduced to psychological safety in a first-yearengineering elective course as a two-week module. Psychological safety was also reinforced inthe spring semester of
of technology (learning management systems, online meetingsoftware, team management software, online polling/feedback software, and e-portfolios). Onthe same scale, participants were also asked to range their changes in content delivery includingasynchronous online content, synchronous online content, hyflex (in person and remote studentssimultaneously), and hybrid (mix of online and face-to-face). Participants were asked aboutchanges in teaching practice including the use of active learning, flipped classroom, physicallaboratory activities, and virtual laboratory activities. They were also asked, on the same slidingscale, if they had changed their availability outside the classroom, flexibility of deadlines,statements and accommodations for
analysis and decision-making processes. In the realm of design, he has actively engaged in product design and computer-aided design projects, including participation in the Shell Eco-Marathon. Each of these areas reflects Rackan’s versatility and dedication to mastering diverse aspects of modern engineering.Osama Desouky, Texas A&M University at Qatar Osama Desouky is a Technical Laboratory coordinator at Texas A&M University in Qatar. Osama is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in interdisciplinary engineering from Texas A&M University at College Station. He is responsible for assisting with experimental method courses, 3D printing, mechanics of materials, material science, senior design projects, and advanced
Exploring Sleep Health in Construction Students: A Pilot Study Saeed Rokooei, Raheleh Miralami, and George Ford Mississippi State University Research shows that an adequate and healthy sleep routine has a significant impact on general health and performance. Yet, the importance of sleep health is often underestimated in educational settings, as some courses may demand long hours of preparation and out-of-class work. This is especially evident in courses with physical work or laboratory activities where a set amount of time is not allocated for educational activities, and students may have to spend significant time outside
. This user experience studywill be used to make decisions around space designs and services offered in the library.Defining of Goals and TermsThe Lichtenberger Engineering Library is a branch library embedded in the University of IowaCollege of Engineering. The College of Engineering consists of six academic departments andover twenty research laboratory sites. Undergraduate enrollment is around 1700, approximately275 graduate students, and 110 faculty members [3]. This project started with the questions of“are we meeting the needs of those we serve?” and “are we using our resources and spaceeffectively?” However, as the conversations progressed there was no straightforward way toanswer those questions and one of the first major hurdles was to
Year Area (m2) Average Soil Type Plant Type Installed Soil Thickness (cm) Shiley Hall, 2009 255.5 8.0 Loamy Sand Sedum Album, University of Sedum Reflexum PortlandThe green roof is accessed through an Electrical Engineering laboratory, and is only viewablethrough windows in the staircase between the 2nd and 3rd floors of the building. Access is limitedto faculty and staff, as well as students who have special permission. Students typically onlyhave access to the roof if they are doing research related
(SCD) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I work with a group of wonderful and talented people at SCD’s Assessment and Research Laboratory to conduct research that informs and evaluates our practice of teaching and learning human-centered design in formal and informal learning environments. My Research focuses on studying students’ collaborative problem solving processes and the role of the teacher in facilitating these processes in STEM classrooms. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 WIP: Ongoing Evaluation of Pre-College Students’ Learning Outcomes During a Human-Centered Engineering Design Summer
culture as a starting point, J. Settlage, S. A. Southerland, L. K. Smetana, andP. S. Lottero-Perdue (Eds.), Routledge, 2017, pp. 207–266.[19] T. Anderson, and J. Shattuck, “Design-based research: A decade of progress in educationresearch?” Educational researcher, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 16-25, 2012.[20] C. E. Mundy, M. Potgieter, and M. K. Seery, “A design-based research approach toimproving pedagogy in the teaching laboratory,” Chemistry Education Research and Practice,vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 266-275, 2024.[21] M. Schreier, “Qualitative Content Analysis” in The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative DataAnalysis, pp. 170-183, 2014.[22] S. Stemler, “An overview of content analysis,” Practical assessment, research, andevaluation, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-6, 2001.[23] T
bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering at the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At Wright College, she has been a tutor, peer-to-peer mentor, and research assistant. She had an internship as a Software Engineer at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). She has also been part of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Women in Engineering Summer Program.Dr. Doris J. Espiritu, City Colleges of Chicago Doris Espiritu is the Dean of the Center of Excellence for Engineering and Computer Science and Professor of Chemistry at City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College. She also serves as the Senior Advisor to the Provost of the City Colleges of Chicago. Doris
. 36% I know how to support claims with supporting evidence in an academic 32% paper. I can work independently on a research project. 32% I can create a scientific poster presentation. 29% I can instruct others on the components of a research proposal. 29% I am proficient at analyzing data. 29%In both years, fellows showed strong improvement in their ability to collect and analyze data,skills that flowed directly from their laboratory research. Generally, the responses also reflectpositively on the professional
meaningful and increases their confidence in theirability to achieve the course’s learning outcomes.Project Approach This EM activity took place in a semester long engineering mechanics course, Statics andDynamics. At this university, statics and dynamics is a four-credit hour course required forstudents majoring in biomedical, civil, and mechanical engineering. The course meets for lecturethree times per week for 65 minutes and is supported by a laboratory that meets for one hour andforty minutes once per week. Statics and Dynamics students worked in groups of 3-4 to completethis activity. For the activity, students were given the “Clippers Worth the Cost?” handout anddimensioned pictures of the standard and “Power Lever” garden
-215 Electronics,” which is designed for sophomore students in theComputer & Electrical Engineering program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. This course isa follow-up to the foundational course titled “CEE-205 Circuit Analysis and Design” and aims todeepen students' understanding of electronic circuits. Key topics covered in the course includediodes, transistors (FETs, BJTs, MOSFETs, JFETs), operational amplifiers (op-amps), and activefilters. The course objectives are to analyze semiconductor device circuits, design amplifiercircuits, and use simulation tools and laboratory instruments for circuit analysis.The custom PCBAs are specifically designed for use during in-class activities, not for separatelaboratory sessions, allowing
, Vancouver Dr. Dave Kim is Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. His teaching and research have been in the areas of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, and manufacturing processes. In particular, he has been very active in pedagogical research in the area of writing pedagogy in engineering laboratory courses. Dr. Kim and his collaborators attracted close to $1M in research grants to study writing transfer of engineering undergraduates. For technical research, he has a long-standing involvement in research concerned with the manufacturing of advanced composite materials (CFRP/titanium stack, GFRP
, offering animmersive educational journey that bridges MSE education with elements of popular Televisionseries. Figure 2: TMEG Game protagonist, “Dr. Sterling”3.3 TMEG Game Narrative (Edu-tainment)The instructional content and the game characteristics identified above were integrated to developthe pilot game named "Crystalline Conundrums,". In this game, players step into the shoes of abrilliant young scientist named Dr. Ava Sterling, working in a high-tech laboratory that mirrors thecomplex worlds of "The Boys" and "Breaking Bad." The game's narrative weaves a story ofdiscovery, strategy, and application of Materials Science and Engineering principles, specificallyfocusing on Crystal Structures.Journey through the
this course in Spring 2024. There were 12 students enrolled, grouped into 4teams. Each team was allocated a 3D printer. Module 1 lasted three weeks, and each team wasallocated a 3D printer. In week 1 of Module 1, the author gave a lecture on the technologies andcomponents required to form a 3D printer. Then students spent one week assembling the printersfrom components. In week 3 of Module 1, students worked on printing test samples, whichincluded troubleshooting 3D printing.This course will be evaluated by the end of the semester. Ten common questions will be asked toevaluate the course: • The course is well organized. • The assignments aid me in achieving the course objectives. • The projects or laboratories aid me in achieving the
objectives of the Office of Sustainability. IDOS has alsostated that they would like to envision campus as a “living laboratory”, hoping to give studentsand student groups the opportunity to implement sustainability focused ideas during their time at[State University]. Their willingness and excitement to engage with students is clear and willhopefully contribute to a collaborative partnership with them as ideas for this course's projectaspect are further developed.Interestingly, ADEW and IDOS talked about the need to communicate to students the structuralfactors at play when it comes to enacting change at the university. Through working with variousstudent groups, they both find it necessary to explain the systems of power at the university,noting
that will be analyzed to determine the efficacy of the tool, and to develop new hints and strategies for helping students. This project plans to use our machine learning system to create, test, and deploy semi-automated hints in a timely manner. Keywords: Computer Science Education, Cybersecurity, Active Learning, Laboratory Expe-rience, Learning Environment, Experience Report, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning ©2024 American Society for Engineering Education 1IntroductionEDURange is an open source computer science education platform. It is a joint effort by studentsand faculty at multiple universities. Our primary goal is to develop educational tools
students’ performance in thesubject better. Rangel et al. [39] speculated that a generic growth mindset intervention needsdomain support to change academic performance.RecommendationsThe takeaway message from the literature review so far is that a genuinely effective debuggingeducation intervention must be holistic and domain specific. Holistic means that the interventionshould address both cognitive and affective components. Domain specificity means that anygrowth mindset message should be contextually situated within the subject matter materials.Hence, our next step is to develop a pilot debug training program within the laboratory sessions ofan introductory microelectronic course (Sedra & Smith [41]) at our institution.ConclusionThe
-sponsored collaborative research projects focused on broadening participation in STEM academia. Dr. Mendez’s research centers on the creation of optimal higher education policies and practices that advance faculty careers and student success, as well as the schooling experiences of Mexican-descent youth in the mid-20th century.Dr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research includes modeling steady state and transient behavior of advanced enDr. Billyde BrownRay Phillips, American Society for Engineering EducationJennifer TygretTaelor
; Exposition, 2019.[17] A. Dallal, “Student Preference of Video Length for Studying Machine Learning in a Flipped Classroom,” in 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2023.[18] A. Dallal, A. Dukes, and R. M. Clark, “Student performance in partially flipped ECE laboratory classes,” in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2020, vol. 2020-June.
Pico W on projects.Preliminary results are promising and indicate that the Pico W with MicroPython could be used asan inexpensive embedded alternative to PC-based data acquisition systems typically implementedwith a USB DAQ device (e.g., myDAQ, etc.) and software employed with graphical or text-based programming (e.g., LabVIEW, Matlab, etc.). More testing with data acquisition projectsand student feedback will be needed to confirm these conclusions.References[1] D. Loker and S. Strom, “Innovative Laboratory Projects for a Measurements and Instrumentation Course,” AnnualMeeting, American Society for Engineering Education, 2019.[2] D. Loker, "MicroPython in a Wireless Communications Systems Course," Annual Meeting, American Society
onTechnology for Education (T4E), Warangal, India: IEEE, Dec. 2015, pp. 53–60. doi:10.1109/T4E.2015.2.[4] A. Collins, J. S. Brown, and S. E. Newman, “Cognitive Apprenticeship: Teaching theCrafts of Reading, Writing, and Mathematics,” in Knowing, Learning, and Instruction: Essays inHonor of Robert Glaser, L. Erlbaum Associates, 1989, pp. 453–494.[5] E. Etkina, A. Karelina, M. Ruibal-Villasenor, D. Rosengrant, R. Jordan, and C. E.Hmelo-Silver, “Design and Reflection Help Students Develop Scientific Abilities: Learning inIntroductory Physics Laboratories,” J. Learn. Sci., vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 54–98, Jan. 2010, doi:10.1080/10508400903452876.[6] S. Sheppard and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Eds., Educatingengineers
project [14], we employed a longitudinal mixed methods study design toidentify the most common and severe stressors experienced by a cohort of students at oneinstitution. Drawing from the results of Year 1 of study and a review of the literature on graduatestudent stressors, we developed in Year 2 the Stressors for Doctoral Students Questionnaire forEngineering (SDSQ-E) and administered it twice, in fall 2022 [15] and in spring 2023. TheSDSQ-E measures the severity and frequency of stressors including advisor-related stressors,class-taking stressors, research or laboratory stressors, campus life and financial stressors, andidentity-related or microaggression-related stressors. In this update to the final year of ourproject, we will present a high
thecapability for explaining complex concepts or subjects, creation of code, fixing errors in existingcode, mathematical problem solving, the ideation and planning of laboratory experiences, amongothers [6]. On the other hand, the importance in engineering of creativity, critical thinking, andthe ability to solve complex problems, presents an opportunity to maximize the potential of thistool and explore new ways to use it.Impact on Assignments The emergence of ChatGPT introduces several profound implications for engineeringeducation, reshaping traditional teaching methods and prompting a reevaluation of assessmentstrategies. Traditional assignments that have always been done in engineering education, such asstandardized tests and multi-answer
in the Microelectronics-Photonics Program and the Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering. He received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame working in the Nano-Optics Research Lab with J. Merz and A. Mintairov. After this he was a Welch Postdoctoral Research Associate, researching plasmonic nanostructures at Rice University with Douglas Natelson in the Department of Physics & Astronomy. In the summer of 2017 he was a Fellow at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC working with Jake Fontana on tunable subnanometer gap plasmonic metasurfaces as part of the Office of Naval Research Summer Faculty Research Program. At the NRL he worked in the Center for Biomolecular Science and
members of the lab group and attend weekly lab meetings, undergo lab safety training, and learn how to use state-of-the art laboratory equipment (Figure 4). They take data and analyze the results, and they might have to repeat multiple experiments. The research experiences are truly