Dakota Dr. Julie Robinson is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Dakota and the Director of UND’s Center for Engineering Education Research. Her research explores strategies for broadening access and participation in STEM, focusing on culturally relevant pedagogy in science and engineering. She also investigates strategies for increasing representation in STEM through teacher professional learning opportunities and by exploring the impact of group gender composition on girls’ motivation and engagement. Dr. Robinson is a PI and Co-PI on several NSF sponsored grant projects which focus on teacher professional learning and self-efficacy with implementing culturally relevant engineering education, connecting
Paper ID #43438Board 312: Increasing Retention for Rural and Underrepresented STEMStudentsDr. Carol S Gattis, University of Arkansas Dr. Carol Gattis is the Associate Dean for Special Projects in the Honors College and Adjunct Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas. She has 30+ years of successful STEM educational program design, development, and research relative to engineering and honors student recruitment, retention, diversity, international education, innovation, and course development.Dr. Paul D Adams, University of Arkansas Paul D. Adams, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of
Paper ID #43521Board 419: Untangling ’Neurodiversity’ and ’Neurodivergence’: Implicationsfor Research Practice in Engineering and STEM ContextsMs. Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut Connie Syharat is a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant at the University of Connecticut as a part of two neurodiversity-centered NSF-funded projects, Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (NSF:RED) ”Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engineering Innovation” and Innovations in Graduate Education (NSF:IGE) ”Encouraging the Participation of Neurodiverse Students in STEM Graduate Programs to Radically Enhance the
populartextbook table of contents. The main layout is that of a binder with tabs and pages. A “GettingStarted” tab contains pages on the project, a table of contents, resources on flipping classroomsand using ConcepTests, tutorials on using OneNote and the course package, and class materials(e.g., checklist, syllabus, schedule, and participation form). A “Resources” tab containsinformation and links to resources on active learning techniques, as well as suggestions and bestpractices for implementing these methods in the class. These two tabs are ubiquitous to anycourse and form the base template for faculty designing other courses using this package layout.The “Assessment” and “Chapter #” tabs contain relevant materials to the course, includinghomework
ThermodynamicsABSTRACTStagnating growth in our educational systems has piqued interests in alternative teachingmethods such as the inclusion of “serious games” into curricula. In response to those needs, aseries of educational games have been developed in accordance with pre-engineeringprograms such as Project Lead the Way (PLTW). The focus of development is in creating anengaging, educational environment by balancing fun and learning whilst meeting the standardsof commercial-level games and engineering and science curricula. This paper, in particular,presents the design and pedagogical methods, and the implementation of those methods, in athermodynamics serious game, Solaris One, that accommodates the integration of gamemechanics with learning. The game has broad
. As stated in Tech Tally: “This plug and- play approach would also providedata about technological literacy relatively quickly.”2 The approach of the workshop reportedhere pursued the path of modification existing assessments.Overview of Workshop MethodsThis work seeks to develop assessment tools based on existing course assessments already usedby faculty. The approach taken is based on the assumption that suitable assessments oftechnological and engineering literacy might be developed through modification or adaptation ofexisting course assessments. The starting points for broadly applicable assessment tools mayalready exist in the assignments, tests, quizzes, and projects that faculty have already developed.Faculty members who are already
from college. (Allnames are pseudonyms.)Preliminary FindingsThis analysis underscored the multi-faceted nature of workforce adaptability found in previousphases of this project [12] and highlighted the factors that impact workforce adaptability forearly-career engineers. Factors that positively contributed to early-career engineers’ ability toadapt to their professional roles included the engineer’s personal attributes (e.g., confidence anda feeling of autonomy over one’s ability to adapt), the engineer’s previous experiences (e.g.,having acquired a solid knowledge base through one’s schooling), and organizational factors(e.g., flexible work deadlines, helping company culture, innovative company culture, the abilityto pursue passion projects
systems. He is serving as the faculty advisor of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, and was awarded the 2019 Faculty Advisor award for the North-Central region of IISE.Dr. Stephanie Marie Teixeira-Poit, North Carolina A&T State University Stephanie M. Teixeira-Poit, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Carolina A&T State Uni- versity, leads large-scale, mixed-methods projects that seek to address disparities through complex inter- vention implementation and evaluation. Dr. Teixeira-Poit has three primary research streams. First, she implements and evaluates interventions to address workforce shortages and improve the capacity of the workforce. Second, she leads health services studies
Instructional Designer for the NSF JROTC Academy Award. As Research Associate Ms. Dean is primarily responsible for carrying out research activities including developing and deploying data col- lection instruments, cleaning data, conducting direct observations of the intervention, analyzing the data, and assisting the Lead Researcher with preparing annual reports and other tasks as required to ensure the successful implementation, analyses and dissemination of results of the research project. Additionally, as Instructional Designer Ms. Dean assists with the adaptation or development of STEM Curriculum to meet the Academy STEM curriculum outcomes, support feasibility testing of STEM Curriculum activities, and review and provide
Director in his department since 2008, and he also acts as the Project Director for the NSF Bridge Program in his department. In the past he served as the Graduate Director and as the Undergraduate Director in his department, and he directed the NSF-LSAMP program on his campus during 2009-2014 and also directed the NSF-LSAMP Bridge-to-Doctorate pro- gram on his campus during 2010-2013.Dr. Yolanda Parker, Tarrant County College Dr. Yolanda Parker’s education includes earning a Bachelor of Science from Texas A&M University in Applied Mathematical Sciences, a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Dartmouth College (New Hampshire) and a Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from Illinois State University. She has held a
aftertreatment.Dr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Matusovich is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Programs in Vir- ginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers
K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering De- sign Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant ”Additive Innova- tion: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s ”20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014, and received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
scale, disparate data. He is currently working on a project that ambition to design a system capable of providing students customized motivational stimuli and perfor- mance feedback based on their affective states.Dr. Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Tucker holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in Engineering Design and Industrial En- gineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also affiliate faculty in Computer Science and Engineering. He teaches Introduction to Engineering Design (EDSGN 100) at the undergraduate level and developed and taught a graduate-level course titled Data Mining–Driven Design (EDSGN 561). As part of the Engineering Design Program’s
, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Lizabeth is a professor at Cal Poly, SLO in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. She has been teaching for 22 years and has continued to develop innovative pedagogy such as project based, flipped classroom and competency grading. Through the SUSTAIN SLO learning initiative she and her colleagues have been active researching in transformation in higher education.Dr. Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Jane Lehr is Chair of the Women’s & Gender Studies Department at California Polytechnic State Uni- versity, San Luis Obispo. She is also an Associate Professor in Ethnic Studies, Director of the Science, Technology &
Paper ID #14483Understanding Diverse and Atypical Engineering Students: Lessons LearnedFrom Community College Transfer Scholarship RecipientsDr. Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University Prof. Melani Plett is a Professor in Electrical Engineering at Seattle Pacific University. She has over eigh- teen years of experience in teaching a variety of engineering undergraduate students (freshman through senior) and has participated in several engineering education research projects, with a focus on how fac- ulty can best facilitate student learning.Angelina Lane, Seattle Pacific UniversityProf. Donald M. Peter P.E., Seattle
unsupervised methods for ML is the k-means clustering. It has extensiveapplications in IoT systems [24], and more recently solar analytics [3]. The introduction of k-meansin education, using our award-winning J-DSP was described in [11,16]. In this paper, we discuss howk-means is introduced in our classes in the context of solar energy monitoring and control. We have used the k-means algorithm as part of our Cyber Physical systems project [6] and havedescribed a method to detect and characterize solar array faults [4,5,17]. In this education project, weform a J-DSP simulation of k-means for fault detection to present to class for the purpose of showinghow ML is used in solar energy systems. The results obtained using k-means is shown in Fig. 7
Foundation (NSF) funded FORTE (Fostering Opportunities for Tomorrow’s Engineers) Program at UWM. Jablonski is focusing her dissertation on sustainable oxidation of textile wastewater and is working to create small-scale wastewater treatment units for cottage textile industries. She trained at the National Environmental Engineering Re- search Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur, India where she worked on biodegradation of azo dye intermediates. Jablonski served as Co-chair of UWM’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders for 2 years begin- ning with its inception in 2007 and continues to help design and implement water distribution projects in Guatemala as a mentor. Jablonski was a 2012 recipient of NSF’s EAPSI fellowship in
, assembled, stored, and transported. The simulation models in our proposed ISBL modules provide realistic animations and can be explored on a 2D display (low-immersion mode) or via a virtual reality (VR) headset (high-immersion mode). b. A PBL activity that mimics real-world problems/projects that arise in the system being modeled, hence resembling situations that learners may encounter at a future workplace.By treating the immersive simulation environment as a real-world system, both formal andinformal learning are enabled by own actions of the learners during and after virtual site visits. Inother words, instead of physically visiting a real-world facility, students perform virtual visits ofthe simulated system to make
providing both tools and community to faculty who seek to improve inclusivity andbelonging in their classrooms.Project Overview This National Science Foundation (NSF) Improving Undergraduate STEM Education(IUSE) project aimed to broadly answer two research questions: 1) What are the most effectivepractices to promote an inclusive engineering classroom? And 2) How do different learningcommunities (LC) foster and support inclusive engineering classrooms? This work is groundedin Henderson, Beach, and Finkelstein’s Theory of Change model which describes changestrategies in higher education through four quadrants: disseminating curriculum and pedagogy,developing reflective teachers, enacting policy, and developing a shared vision
rate of peers who were eligible but did not join (N = 33)and 53.0% of peers who were not eligible to join (N = 202) (Figure 4).The students and university benefit from higher retention and graduation rates. With respect tofinancial benefits, the primary cost of the program to the university is faculty time. The cost offaculty time to run the program, including course release time provided to the leadership team, isapproximately $45,000/year. Using term-to-term retention rates of the first three cohorts of theprogram (N = 21) the projected net revenue benefit to the institution over seven years (until allthree cohorts would graduate) is approximately $112,000. Less quantifiable benefits includeincreases in university rankings due to increased
, and maintains a portfolio of NSF and private grants to support STEM and CTE pathways in the region.Christopher Russell Christopher Russell is the Information and Engineering Technologies Project Manager at Northern Vir- ginia College. His research focuses on developing novel methods of integrating digital fabrication into formal and informal STEM instruction. Currently, he manages two NSF ATE awards - Makers By Design, a design thinking professional learning program for interdisciplinary groups of educators, and Product Design Incubator, a summer-long entrepreneurship program for community college students.Antarjot Kaur ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Building Data
organizational structures, increases the likelihood of effective curricularand cultural change. Next steps for this project involve a continued focus on requiring all four vertically-integrated courses in the curriculum and scaling up. Currently only two are required courses, whilethe other two are electives. As these courses become more integrated, the need for consistentinstruction across instructors increases as the classes become larger or require more sections.Conclusion This poster represents ongoing work towards curricular and cultural change in the Schoolof Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. We are using an approach thataddresses change at three levels to increase the likelihood of the changes becoming
importance to his job of, “…the interpretation and continued iteration ofgraphs, charts, and even the products/prototypes/projects themselves.” Another mechanicalengineer described how he used tables: “We look at volume calculations [in a table] associatedwith tank capacities, product flow rates through piping, pressure measurements related to thermalexpansion.”Other engineers accentuated the importance of statistics rather than algebra. An aerospaceengineer explained how, “Regression analysis can also be used to mathematically sort out whichvariables in the data sets have an impact on increasing items such as revenue, programeffectiveness and product flow in production in a manufacturing facility.” She also describedhow “Data analytics is very
their classrooms, comprisingvarious studies in the project, including replication studies that will make our findings morerobust.Study 6: Structured experience working in teams and doing self and peer evaluations makesparticipants better team members.Purpose of study: Explore the effect of structured team experiences and use of a peer evaluationsystem on team skills and team-member effectiveness. Prior research has found that completingpeer evaluations familiarizes students with team skills and improves new teammates’ satisfactionwith those team members on a future team.Study 7: Feedback improves team skills.Purpose of study: We explore the effect of five feedback alternatives on team performance,satisfaction, team cohesion, team efficacy and
Paper ID #19808Expanding Engineering through an S-STEM ProgramDr. Ricky T Castles, East Carolina University Dr. Ricky Castles is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He is primarily affiliated with the ECU Electrical Engineering concentration. His research work focuses on the use of wireless sensor networks, microcontrollers, and physiological data collection for a variety of applications. His primary interest is in the area of adaptive tutorial systems, but he has ongoing projects in the area of hospital patient health monitoring. He is actively engaged in K-12 outreach
award. In total, her projects have received over $20 million dollars in external funding. This funding has produced 12 software packages that have been requested from (and shared with) more than 3000 researchers in 86 countries (as of October 2012). Dr. Camp has published over 80 refereed articles and 12 invited articles, and these articles have been cited almost 4,000 times (per Microsoft Academic Search) and over 7,000 times (per Google Scholar) as of December 2012. Dr. Camp is an ACM Fellow, an ACM Distinguished Lecturer, and an IEEE Fellow. She has enjoyed being a Fulbright Scholar in New Zealand (in 2006), a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Bonn in Germany (in 2010), and a keynote presenter at
she also serves as co-Director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC) and CATALYST Fellow at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Steve Robert Harrison, Dept of Computer Science, Virginia Tech Steve Harrison is the Director of the Human-Centered Design Program at Virginia Tech, an associate professor of practice in Computer Science
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the impact of creating the videos is inprogress and will be reported at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference.5. Conclusion This project is studying the role of prosocial affordance beliefs about the ECE professionon motivation to persist in the profession. It also seeks to understand whether a simpleclassroom intervention that forces the student to think about the prosocial value of thecourse material can improve their beliefs about the profession, and in turn, their persistenceintensions. 46. References Bardi, A., & Schwartz, S. H. (2003). “Values and behavior: Strength and structure of relations,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
size, as well as provide opportunities to test other Minecraft-based activitiestargeting additional spatial skills like mental slicing and perspective taking. Ultimately, weintend to assess the effectiveness of those new activities with the results from refined mentalrotation and 2D-to-3D transformation activities, intent on developing a cohesive Minecraft-basedintervention that most effectively grows a variety of spatial skills in middle grades learners.FundingThis project is funded by the National Science Foundation under Award DRL-1720801.References[1] C. M. Ganley, M. Vasilyeva, and A. Dulaney, "Spatial Ability Mediates the Gender Difference in Middle School Students' Science Performance," Child Development, vol. 85, no. 4, pp