Digital Logic courses in Computer Science curriculum, andfor recruiting undergraduate researchers in cybersecurity related disciplines. We relate anecdotalsuccess in using the tool for such engagements and context for student involvement as part of anobject-oriented and agile software engineering project.1. IntroductionDigital logic instruction is typically a core component of Computer Science (CS), ElectricalEngineering (EE), and Computer Engineering (CpE) curricula. Most often, students are exposedto digital logic concepts early in their programs as a foundational steppingstone. CS students donot typically explore digital logic concepts further during their programs except as backgroundknowledge for courses like Computer Architecture or
practices in engineering education. His current duties include assessment, team development, outreach and education research for DC Colorado’s hands-on initiatives.Dr. Beverly Louie, University of Colorado Boulder Beverly Louie is the Faculty Advancement Research Associate in the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. Formerly she was the Director for teaching and learning initiatives in the Broadening Opportunities through the Broadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) Center, Director for the Women in Engineering Program and senior instructor in en- gineering courses ranging from first-year projects and chemical engineering unit operations. She holds B.S
, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Dr. Chris Swan, Tufts University Chris Swan is Dean of Undergraduate Education for the School of Engineering and an associate pro- fessor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Tufts University. He has additional appointments in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engage- ment, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to further engineering education innovations. He also does research on the development of sustainable materials management (SMM) strategies.Dr. Daniel
approaches to a broader audience.Dr. Edwin van Hassel, University of Antwerp Edwin van Hassel is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Transport and Regional economics, Antwerp University where he is also teaching three courses. He has an engineering degree in naval architecture and he has a PhD in applied economics. His main research interest and expertise is in inland navigation, port hinterland transport, ship design and transport modelling. He holds a PhD with a topic in the field of inland waterway transport. More recently the scope of his work has been extended to maritime cost chain modelling. He also is involved in several research ranging from logistics projects to infrastructure cost benefit analysis and
setting. Lab space was limited to~16-18 students per room, with two rooms available to the two sections of the lab. While themajority of students enrolled in the F2F section of the class, various restrictions and quarantineevents for students living on campus meant that a sizeable portion of students might beparticipating virtually during a given week. To accommodate the varying needs of all thesestudents, the introductory and expository portions of the course were streamed live and recordedvia the Zoom web conferencing platform. The instructor would deliver a prelab lecture and discussmaterial in one room with the content streamed live and projected in the second laboratory room.Students working remotely could follow along synchronously and all
,experimentation, and "learning by doing" to demolish the myth that STEM careers are only formen, encouraging more girls to participate. Colden, an academician from the School of PhysicalSciences, had a similar opinion, stating that face-to-face activities such as science fairs, wherehigh school students can carry out experiments and projects, are crucial to increasing interest inSTEM.SpeakersTo construct the interview protocol, the researchers of this study built a list of possible questionsthrough brainstorming. Then, considering the length of the interview, we categorized thequestions into themes and rephrased them to focus on the objective of the interview. Four mainthemes turned out to be the most important 1) culture and family, 2) professional
answering individual/groupquestions as needed. Throughout the course of the semester, students would complete a project(in teams) and three examinations. Mid-March 2020, however, COVID-19 forced AE 30 to moveto an online modality. A synchronous online class format was adopted for AE 30 for theremainder of the Spring 2020 semester. In the online class format, students joined a synchronousclass meeting for lecture and another one for lab through the videoconferencing software Zoom.Office hours also became an online Zoom meeting. Instead of walking around lab to answerquestions, the instructor and the few students that attended lab would talk through questions as agroup via Zoom. In the online environment, students were able to share their computer
and include topics in structural engineering, earthquake engineering, construction man- agement, transportation engineering, and engineering education. She also advises the Student Chapters of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) at New Mexico Tech.Ms. Janille A. Smith-Colin, Southern Methodist University Janille Smith-Colin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Fellow of Caruth Institute for Engineering Education at Southern Methodist University (SMU). She also leads the Infrastructure Projects and Organizations Research Group at SMU, whose mission is to advance sustainability and resilience goals through
information, the General Causality Orientations Scale (GCOS) [6] score, andaspect of student learning, as it is how instructors communicate Exams, Quizzes, In-lab Activities, Lab Assignments, Projects, In-class Activities, Class Assignments, or self-identified feedback preferences. Students were recruited for themisconceptions or gaps in knowledge to learners [2] and therefore, a Other, allowing them to enter an additional activity used. Instructors could also select that they do not quantitative data collection in Fall 2020. This quantitative data was used toworthwhile and deserving focus
perceived appropriateness? 4. What are teachers’ rationales for (a) integrating or (b) not integrating specific digital technologies? Literature ReviewEngineering, Technology, and Science: Natural Integration Opportunities for PositiveOutcomesFor decades, educational researchers have espoused integrated science instruction as a means toincrease student engagement, interest in science, and achievement (e.g., Roth, 2001). As a result,many different commercial curricula (e.g., Engineering is Elementary, Project Lead the Way,Lego Robotics) and open-source software (e.g., WISEngineering) exist to facilitate integratedinstruction. Further, design-based, project-based, and problem-based learning can
physics. Perhaps thesubject matter is uncomfortable. How does one justify an ethical position without the experienceof application of an ethical decision? Are ethical guidelines too strict in their interpretation, orare there areas of gray, where the interpretation varies from engineer to engineer based on theirhome teachings, beliefs, and experiences? And given these possibilities, what are theramifications the engineer must understand if an ethical challenge is presented?RamificationsIn projects that encounter an ethical dilemma, there is seldom a simple choice, yes or no, good,or bad, right or wrong. Most problems that have such a decision base are more centered onmoral grounds which are based on youthful teachings in the home. Most ethical
SWIVL device showing (a) the SWIVL base and USB speaker and (b) the marker While using Zoom through the iPad in the primary means of projecting a view of theinstructor to the students, the projector in each classroom runs on a separate computer and it isoften useful to sign into the Zoom meeting with this computer also. Through this computer, anumber of other in-class technologies can be utilized. The simplest method is to use the ShareScreen feature on Zoom from this computer so that the exact image projected onto the screen inthe classroom is shared at full resolution to remote students, reducing issues with the iPadcamera quality. Alternatively, a separate camera can be connected to this computer for differenttypes of demonstrations
Paper ID #32956Equity, Engineering, and Excellence: Pathways to Student SuccessDr. Doris J. Espiritu, Wilbur Wright College Doris J. Espiritu, PhD is the Executive Director of the College Center of Excellence in Engineering and Computer Science and a professor of Chemistry at Wright College. Doris Espiritu is one of the first National Science Foundation’s research awardees under the Hispanic- Serving Institutions (HSI) Program. She pioneered Engineering at Wright and had grown the Engineering program enrollment by 700 % within two years of the NSF-HSI project. Doris founded six student chapters of national organizations
case we could not locate such information [36]. We then performed data processing and endedwith n = 1,775 records for the next step in our analysis. We applied the following Python librariesand packages to process the data: • Pandas: an open-source data analysis and manipulation tool for Python [37]. We used version 1.1.0 in the analysis. • Numpy: an open-source project to enable numerical computing in Python [38]. We applied version 1.18.1. • lxml: a Python library for processing XML and HTML [39], and we used version 4.3.0 in data collection and processing. • Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK): a suite of open-source libraries for symbolic and sta- tistical natural language processing for English written in
A Comprehensive and Culminating Thermodynamics Lab Competition Thomas Shepard University of MinnesotaIntroductionLab components to engineering courses are valuable for providing students with hands-onexperiences, demonstrating principles learned during lecture and developing basic experimentaland measurement skills. Depending on the target learning outcomes, students in a lab class maytake part in a variety of experiences including demonstrations, “cookbook” type experiments,guided inquiry exercises, and independent/design projects (Edwards & Recktenwald, 2010;Prince & Felder, 2006; Prince & Felder 2007). Typically the lab component runs
. The initial phase of the collaboration has been a certificate program for SUESstudents. The SUES students receive a certificate recognizing their achievement of five courses that aretaught by LTU American professors, who teach the courses in English in Shanghai. The SUES studentundergraduate programs are the Automotive Engineering BS degree and the Electrical Engineering BSdegree. The courses include Introduction to Engineering, Introduction to Electrical Engineering, QualityControl, Automotive Microcontrollers, VLSI design, Project Management, Engineering Cost Analysis,Electrical Machines, and Control Systems. This program is ongoing and has been since 2005. Eachyear, continuous improvements and enhancements are made to the program
their non-ELC peers.BackgroundPrior research has suggested several potential contributing factors to lower rates of academicsuccess and retention within undergraduate engineering. These include lack of support andrecognition [2], inadequate advising [3], and feelings of disconnection to peers and faculty [4]–[6]. In addition to these factors linked with negative student outcomes, research has alsoidentified a host of best practices linked to positive student outcomes. Called high-impactpractices, these include learning communities, first-year seminars, writing-intensive courses,problem-based learning, collaborative assignments, and research and service opportunities [7].Specific to engineering, the use of hands-on collaborative design projects
. They crossed paths at events on campus before attendingthe same open house session for the Ph.D. program. Once they enrolled in the same program,they were part of the same cohort where they took many of the same classes, were part of thesame project teams and reading groups, and eventually shared social circles. Through theseshared experiences, they started talking about their experiences with the Ph.D. program,including similar observations and commonalities. Their similar prior experiences withengineering (especially their prior M.S. degrees at Purdue) and the accompanying uneasecontributed to them interrogating their experiences further, which formed the seed for this work.ScopingWe find it important to note that we write about the soul of
using amodern engineering tool. One significant advantage is that we can solve symbolic equations forany variable value. Therefore, the design process generally requires solving problems over arange of variable values to obtain a satisfactory design. An essential part of our approach iseducating our students to question, test, and verify “answers” to all of their problem solutions.Verifying answers is done by developing and implementing test case scenarios to verify theproblem’s validity. Lecture examples and homework problems throughout the course are solvedwith all equations formulated symbolically, and test cases are used to verify the equations. Thecircular shaft design project is divided into multiple phases. Each phase of the project
One” in The Serial Pod- cast and Storytelling in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2016), ”Sweeney Todd as Victorian Transmedial Storyworld” and ”The Sympathy of Suspense: Gaskell and Braddon’s Slow and Fast Sensation Fiction in Family Magazines” (both in Victorian Periodicals Review (49.1: 2016, 49.3: 2016)). Her current book project examines the dynamics of transfictional characters in the British long nineteenth century.Dr. Duane Lewis Abata, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Abata has worked in academia for over forty years at universities and with the Federal government around the country. He began his career at the University of Wisconsin, served as Associate Dean and Dean at Michigan Technological
, and ASEE Campus Repre- sentative. Dr. Miguel is also a member-at-large of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) Board of Directors. She has been a member of the ECEDHA Annual Conference Program Committee since 2013.Dr. Jean M. Jacoby, Seattle University Jean Jacoby is an Associate Dean and a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Science and Engineering at Seattle University. Dr. Jacoby joined SU as the Clare Boothe Luce Pro- fessor of Environmental Engineering. Since 2010, she has served as the director of the SU Project Center and coordinates the college’s undergraduate research program. Dr. Jacoby is the co-Principal Investiga- tor on an NSF
NSF-funded project at UTEP dedicated to broadening the participation of Latinx students in higher edu- cation. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Latinx Students’ Sense of Belonging in Engineering and Computer Science at an HSIThe persistent under-representation of Latinx people, particularly Latinas, in Engineering andComputer Science (E&CS) is well-documented. This under-representation occurs both in thepipeline into and through undergraduate E&CS studies, as well as into the profession: only one-tenth of E&CS degrees were awarded to “Hispanics” in the ten-year period from 2004 to 2014[1], while 2018 data showed that only 8% of the
influenceswomen’s efforts to persist and succeed in STEM fields. This study, which is part of a largerNSF-funded project within the CareerWISE (CW) research program, highlighted the voices ofwhite women and WoC in STEM doctoral programs with the goal of identifying factors thatpromote their STEM persistence. A total of 33 women in STEM doctoral programs across theUnited States were interviewed. Participants were asked to provide recommendations for fellowwomen in STEM who are considering leaving their programs to facilitate their persistenceamidst challenges they might face. The findings were summarized into four broad themes: 1)seek interpersonal support, 2) prioritize mental health and wellbeing, 3) affirm and encourageone’s belongingness in STEM, and 4
understanding of the aims and uses of engineering knowledge. The purpose of this work is to explore if there is a relationship between a participant’srace/ethnic background and the paradigm which they hold, specifically that of the NewEcological Paradigm. This will provide educators and researchers a way to increase ourknowledge for broadening the participation of traditionally marginalized populations inengineering. This project utilized existing survey data of senior engineering students at a U.S.university to investigate this relationship. It is hypothesized that students from traditionallyunderrepresented groups and people of color will be more likely to endorse the New EcologicalParadigm than their White counterparts. A Pearson’s chi-square
objective varied between facultygroups. CC faculty pointed to specific engineering fundamental content knowledge to fulfill thiscourse outcome as one faculty member articulates: Fundamental [concept]is force, free body diagrams, unit conversion, electric circuit, dynamics…. This is very important for them to have this kind of concept to be able to deal with the next classesIn contrast, COE faculty pointed to career exploration and the design process to help studentsdevelop an engineering identity. COE faculty scaffold activities, such as personal reflections,research papers, and team projects, for students to explore engineering disciplines.All CC participants also teach second-year engineering courses. They use topics and
environment, energy, the media, or defense. Extra credit can also be earnedthrough an approved community volunteer student activity. Some typical student writing projects are: (a) submit the day's lecture notes, (b) write apersonal statement of values, (c) write a personal statement of convictions regarding theenvironment, or (d) write a summary of a recent course-related article that appears in a magazinesuch as Scientific American or National Geographic. Students are assigned readings in textbooks by Barbour(1993), Volti (2005), and Brown(2001). They are encouraged, optionally, to develop a reading journal that contains theirpersonal notes and outlines of all the textbook readings. It follows their twice-weekly readingassignments, reporting
aspects of switching from face-to-face to on-lineinstruction was to ensure that ABET student outcomes were still being met in the courses.Faculty especially had to address how student outcomes that rely on lab experimentation, studentteamwork, and capstone presentations would be demonstrated. For lab experimentation,engineering programs purchased new software to give students a similar experience to being in-person. The computer science program was able to continue to use the same software utilized inthe face-to-face instruction. Virtual conference software allowed for students to continuesynchronous meetings for teamwork and for the capstone project presentations. The SEASDirector of Student Engagement held weekly meetings with students so they
, 2009). With this information in mind, developing a college campus that is 100% wheelchairaccessible is an important aspect of the design process. The purpose of this project is to educateand inform others about the difficulties encountered regarding wheel chair accessibility onCentral Michigan University’s campus. Upon completion of this activity, areas requiringimprovement to become more accessible to wheelchairs will be recognized. Safe and relevantredesign recommendations to accommodate the needs of wheelchair accessibility will beprovided with the intention of improving wheelchair accessibility.STATEMENT OF WORK:The purpose of this project was to determine how wheelchair accessible Central MichiganUniversity’s campus is and offer
courses completely online with only three weeks lead time. In the fall semester of2020 I converted a team-based, hands-on design project course to a hybrid in-person/online format. I alsotaught an in-person course, as well as an online course as a teaching overload to accommodate studentswho opted for a fully online class schedule. And at any given time during the semester, the hybrid and in-person classes both had numerous students who were working remotely due to quarantine, effectivelyrequiring two parallel modes of course delivery, participation, and assessment. These experiences haveentailed, among other things, rapidly learning how to manage new technologies for producing virtualcontent, learning how to assign and assess student work
and removed from its original tubular frame. A newmounting base was designed and fabricated, and it was then placed in my garage where it sat forabout 25 years as an unfinished project.The project was pursued though-out the years, but only in the planning stages and the collectionof additional surplus parts to be used in the system. The control system was designed and re-designed several times but physical work, in earnest, did not begin until late 2010. By Fall 2012the system was functional. Additional control elements and features were added periodicallysince the initial commissioning of the system.Students were first invited and attended a demonstration in the Spring of 2013. Thesedemonstrations continued through Fall of 2019. My hope is