, Emergent, and Distributed Systems, the Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, and the Journal of Computers and Applications. He was a founding program cochair of the International Workshop on Security in Systems and Networks (SSN), a general co-chair of the IFIP 2006 International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC ’06), and a member of the program committees of numerous conferences. His research was supported in part by the US National Science Foundation, NASA, and Cray Research. He is a recipient of the Faculty Research Award of Wayne State University in 2000, the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2002, and the Career Development Chair Award in
, what they have done, donow, and want to do as engineers (i.e., their career trajectories), what they know (knowledgeacquired through formal education and experience on the job), and what they want in life. AsMarcus points out, "distinctive identities are created from turbulence, fragments, interculturalreference, and the localized intensification of global possibilities." (1999: 59) So how doengineers experience mergers? How do mergers challenge engineers’ identities and practices?Mergers bring complex organizational changes to life. For example, engineers at one of theresearch sites work in a complex three-dimensional work arrangement brought by organizationalchanges that resulted from the merger between two aerospace giants. A three
to midcareer professionals, and theyare looking for opportunities after the 3-5 year investment during some of the most importantyears of their careers. In the above case, this includes follow on contracts at the university basedon the successes, enabling technology transfer for production, establishing or contributing to newcompanies based on the technology, etc. The point is, to get the best professionals in theCommunity of Scholars, the program has to be enticing to attract the best talent to enhance theother personnel (primarily faculty and students), and to be unique contributors in the team.Table 3 is a summary of the core members of the
- ter for Advanced Computing, Information Technology at Purdue University where he led the education and the educational technology effort for the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN). His work focuses on how semantic grid-based technologies and tools can co-exist with students’ lifestyles, learning patterns, and technology choices. Dr. Madhavan was the Chair of the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Education Program 2006 and was the curriculum director for the Supercomputing Ed- ucation Program 2005. In 2008, he was awarded the NSF CAREER award for work on learner-centric, adaptive cyber-tools and cyber-environments. He was one of 49 faculty members selected as the nation’s top engineering educators and
AC 2011-1392: TEMPERATURE ALARM LABORATORY DESIGN PROJECTFOR A CIRCUIT ANALYSIS COURSE IN A GENERAL ENGINEERINGCURRICULUMLoren Limberis, East Carolina University Dr. Limberis joined the Engineering faculty at ECU in August 2006. He earned his B.S. in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Utah. Dr. Limberis taught for several years as an Assistant Professor at The College of New Jersey and was a research analyst with Southwest Research Institute prior to his academic career. His research interests focus on designing techniques to utilize nature’s highly complex and sophisticated biological systems to develop biohybrid devices for use in biotechnology applications.Jason Yao, East
AC 2011-819: ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: LEARNING BYDOINGErik Sander, University of Florida Erik Sander began his career as a Project Manager and Senior Engineer analyzing advanced fighter aircraft engines and the Space Shuttle Main Engine for NASA, Lockheed Martin, General Electric, and Pratt & Whitney. He was also a Technology Transfer Officer for Lockheed Martin and the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. Starting in 1995, Erik joined the faculty of the University of Florida College of Engineer as Director of the University Center, Associate Director for the Engineering Research Center and the Florida Energy Systems Consortium, and Director of Industry Programs - all directed at fostering industrial
on aerody- namics. He has been teaching twenty five years at Austin High, teaching Physics, Chemistry, Dual Credit Chemistry and Physical Science and also two addtional years in Luling, Texas. His passion and goal is to prepare students on a daily basis for the next level in their education process - college and STEM careers beyond that. In addition to his teaching assignment he serves as the Science Department Chair which involves leading a team of nineteen teachers. This includes assisting in the areas of pedagogy, science content and course development. Recently Austin High achieved the level of a recognized high school in the State of Texas based on scores in all four core content areas. They are pushing on to
Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Creating Real-World Problem-Based Learning Challenges in Sustainable Technologies to Increase the STEM PipelineAbstractIn this paper, we report on the progress of the Problem Based Learning for SustainableTechnologies: Increasing the STEM Pipeline (STEM PBL) project of the New England Board ofHigher Education. This three-year National Science Foundation Advanced TechnologicalEducation (NSF-ATE) project is aimed at increasing student interest and preparedness in STEM-related careers by providing STEM educators across the U.S. with the training and resourcesneeded to introduce PBL in their classrooms. Working closely with industry, government, anduniversity collaborators involved in new
also noted that the legacy cycle helped students to think differently about theircareer trajectories and to consider STEM fields they had not previously considered: Implementation of this legacy cycle in the classroom has had a profound impact on the student perspective of careers in science and engineering. I teach at a small, rural school...Opportunities for furthering education after high school are limited for these students as most of them come from low SES families and motivation to attend postsecondary schools is scarce. Opening the door with aspects of engineering and scientific inquiry has made students aware that there are more fields of study besides teaching, medicine and business
careers in the future." • "My most rewarding aspect throughout the quarter would have to be between the interactions with my fellow students, seeing our prototype actually prove its concept, and using knowledge from the year to accomplish our goals. After two quarters of limited student involvement, finally getting to work in a group setting for more than a week was extremely rewarding to me." • "I have learned how surprisingly hard it is to work as a team to come to a solution." • "Another way that the course has helped me grow is by forcing me to become a better leader by getting a group of four people to work together effectively on one goal." • "This project also helped better my understanding of
basic competence in the English language is a prerequisite for themodern automotive engineering graduate. This is not always the case at comparableinstitutions.While motivation for the course, even in the “difficult” subjects such as Mechanics, tends tobe high, very often students pose the question (usually in the first EFL lesson taught) if thereis not a way for them to accredit the course, as they consider other areas to be more central totheir study. Clearly, at this early stage of their academic career, the important role of theEnglish language has not yet become clear to them – as the language of communicationbetween international companies and also the language in which the majority of academicreports are written (and in the student’s own
University. He is also an Associate Director of Purdue’s Global En- gineering Program, leads the Global Engineering Education Collaboratory (GEEC) research group, and is the recent recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. Dr. Jesiek draws on expertise from engineering, computing, and the social sciences to advance understanding of geographic, disciplinary, and historical variations in engineering education and professional practice.Prof. Josh Boyd, Purdue University Josh Boyd is associate professor and
individuals to teams or assess an individual’s fitness for a particular careerpath.5,6,7,8,9,10 These studies often produce conflicting results surrounding the benefits of teamdiversity or homogeneity of personality type,5,8 which limits the possible impact of the researchon engineering pedagogy. While some MBTI types may be statistically more likely to be theleader of a team or pursue a particular career, any type can excel in any position or field giventhe proper self reflection and knowledge of MBTI type. The value of this team training aspect ofMBTI is often overlooked or mentioned as an afterthought.5,10 Further, because of this aspect ofMBTI type, some studies discard the MBTI instrument in favor of other, more prescriptiveinstruments.6,7Rather
summary, our research demonstrates a number of differences in pre-college characteristicsbetween students beginning their postsecondary educations in community colleges, students whosuccessfully transferred to four-year institutions, and students who began in a four-yearengineering program. Though based on cross-sectional data, these findings allow us to considerhow pre-college characteristics and experiences may influence the academic pathways ofstudents interested in engineering majors and careers, and provide strong bases for hypothesesabout the impact of pre-college factors on the shape of the engineering workforce.Our findings suggest a unique set of pre-college characteristics are associated with a unique setof barriers to completing a
the importance of It is important to incorporate societaldevelopment: including social aspects in the engineering constraints into engineering decisions.36analyze process, including community feedback, a broad range of stakeholders, etc.Professional The responsibility or obligation that an It is important to use my engineeringconnectedness engineer or the engineering profession may abilities to provide a useful service to the have to help solve social problems or help community. othersCosts/benefits A recognition of the costs and benefits I would be willing to have a career that associated with engaging in
, wefound that students not only consider they learned a lot from the labs (where Microsoft toolswere used) but also deem the tools easy to use, relevant to the course (supported the learningof course concepts), and valuable for their professional career. On the other hand, based onthe teacher assessment, Microsoft tools provide support for the application of many differentconcepts studied along the course within an integrated environment, reducing the learningcurve for students, while offering the added value of an industrial-level tool.1. INTRODUCTIONSoftware testing is a critical activity in software engineering, accounting for 30% to 90% ofthe total labor expended in developing software15. Yet software testing remains an under-estimated
. We believe that the LC approach incorporates and builds on many of the Page 24.1334.3suggestions in the literature on how to facilitate transfer; moreover, it makes a statement, early inthe students’ academic careers, about the importance of connecting courses in the major andthose in general education so as to facilitate transfer. This LC also builds on previous researchshowing that introducing narrative elements into problem-solving courses improves studentperformance in general as well as in computer programming-related problem-solving skills.4,9We begin this paper by introducing the concept of a first-year LC, along with the
or a strong connection to technology use to help students connect technical and policy subjects.Since the range of breadth and depth of the energy history is so vast, the case study proposedcovers the years between 1880 and 1935, highlights a series of legislative pursuits and impactson the private energy sector, the evolution of the energy product, and the development of theenergy industry. This case study will expose students to a portion of energy policy history in theUnited States and therefore help them understand the development of the current energy policyenvironment.Sample Case Study This section outlines the case study selected for this module. This case study follows aportion of the career of Samuel Insull and the
teamwork in engineering, design education, and engineering identity. She was awarded a CAREER grant from NSF to study expert teaching practices in capstone design courses nationwide, and is co-PI on NSF. Her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, the effects of curriculum on design cognition, the effects of differing design pedagogies on retention and motivation, the dynamics of cross-disciplinary collaboration in both academic and industry design environments, and gender and identity in engineering.Dr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Dr. Lisa DuPree McNair is an associate professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech where she also serves as assistant department head of Graduate
same thing,in the same way, at the same pace, at the same sequence, at the same time42. This focus on massproduced uniform learning hinders learning when students are forced to learn in a way, at a pace,at a sequence, or in a time they are uncomfortable with. Mass produced uniform learning alsoproduces a lot of inefficiencies since students often learn topics they are not interested inlearning, or that they do not need based on their career goals, or that they already know but areforced to relearn anyway with the rest of the class.The student’s learning goals can range from learning an entire standard curriculum, to learning asingle course, or even a single or multiple nodes from a single or several courses. In case thestudent chooses
Page 23.1234.4to be learning.Some of the benefits of introducing engineering (in particular engineering design) into themathematics and science curricula are increased interest in STEM subjects and careers in STEMfields. Several studies found an increase in students’ interest in these areas after implementingengineering design into K-12 science and mathematics classes13, 14, 21, 22. There was also anincrease found in students’ interest and attitudes in STEM subjects in studies that involvedcurriculum used as extra curricular programs such as Adventure Engineering19, Engineering isElementary23, and In the Middle of Engineering24.While there is limited data in this area, it has been suggested that the inclusion of engineering inK-12 can lead to
Socially Engaged Design.Vibhavari Vempala, University of Michigan Vibhavari (Vibha) Vempala is a PhD student in Engineering Education Research at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include access to opportunities, social networks, and career management of engineering students. Vibha received her B.S. in Engineering from the joint department of Biomedical Engineering at The North Carolina State University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan.Dr. Jingfeng Wu, University of Michigan Jingfeng Wu is currently a PhD student at the University of Michigan majoring in Engineering Education Research. She holds a PhD in Chemical
were established, HBCU’shave historically provided Black students with safe learning environments which affirm theirtalents in the context of their race, especially in STEM subjects [6], [23]. Students are alsosupported along their journey toward the doctorate by more readily receiving advising andmentorship from faculty who are of their same race, which matters in the mentorship andadvising of Black students. Only a few HBCUs are classified as doctoral granting institutions,yet these institutions are responsible for producing large numbers of doctoral students who mayaspire to pursue careers as academics [6]. This work offers a chance to explore further into howstudents navigate transitioning between these two seemingly conflicting cultures
faculty member at Northern Arizona University.Dr. Kyle Nathan Winfree, Northern Arizona University Dr. Winfree is the Associate Director for Undergraduate Programs in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems as Northern Arizona University. His research focuses on wearable technologies as applied to health assessment and rehabilitation.Dr. Corinna Marie Fleischmann P.E., United States Coast Guard Academy CAPT Corinna Fleischmann is a licensed Professional Engineer with military, academic and research experience in water resources engineering, environmental engineering, coastal resiliency, construction project management and engineering education. CAPT Fleischmann is a career educator who has been a
of Virginia Patent Foundation. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Paper ID #48048 Chris received his doctorate in nuclear physics from the University of Virginia in 2001. In 2003, he became a registered U.S. Patent Agent and in 2008 he became a Certified Licensing Professional. He is also an active member of the Association of University Technology Managers and helped create and manage the AUTM TransACT database for deal comps. Chris also provides guest lectures for entrepreneurship classes at Vanderbilt. Prior to his graduate school career, Chris worked as a software design
: Students decompose a problem to explore, design, and implement creative solutions, continuously evaluate progress, and navigate uncertainty. Develop scientific habits of the mind: Students apply scientific content from diverse fields to appropriately design experiments, gather and manage data, analyze and draw conclusions. Develop personal and professional identities: Students reflect upon their experiences to further their sense of self in order to become confident career-ready leaders.1B. The InSciTE modelTo accomplish the program objectives, InSciTE was designed as a stand-alone undergraduatecertificate housed by CSE. This provides the independence and flexibility necessary to navigatethe barriers that marginalized students face in
, thereby influencing diversity and inclusion in academia (Onyeador et al., 2021;Russell et al., 2019). For example, Degner et al (2019) found that the use of gender-specificlanguage or the stereotyping of particular ethnic and racial groups may unintentionally convey amessage of exclusivity, leading certain groups to feel marginalized in their engineering educationstudies and careers. Apart from that, such biases can be subliminally present in instructionalmaterials, research papers, and everyday communications, leading to a persistence of bias thataffects individuals’ opportunities in a variety of settings (Llorens et al., 2021; Schnierle et al.,2019). In consequence, researchers and educators in the field of engineering education
: metacognition, study abroad, undergraduate, intercultural competence, globalmindset, higher education, gender differences1. BackgroundIntercultural competence is an increasingly prominent skill that needs to be taught by highereducation institutions to foster global-mindedness in students [1], [2]. Intercultural competencerefers to an individual’s ability to communicate effectively and appropriately with people fromdifferent cultural backgrounds [3]. In higher education, students’ intercultural development isnow a necessary skill, whether they pursue global careers or not, because the scope of issues andwork individuals encounter today has grown on a global scale [4], [5]. Research shows that withhigher education institutes prioritizing
students to connect their education totheir lived experiences and societal needs. Some things that I get really excited about as an instructor is showing them the relevance of the material they're learning beyond why they thought they were taking the class. So oftentimes students come in with a very kind of narrow perspective on why they have to take the course. Either it's just to graduate or get units or throw something on their TV, or they want to learn one specific skill for applying for a job, and so on. But I want to demonstrate to students that the topics that I'm teaching could be relevant more widely in their everyday lives, or help them think more broadly about their career opportunities
, understanding and applying standards, codes, and specifications isessential for career success and closely aligns with ABET student outcomes, which support theprogram’s educational objectives to prepare graduates for professional engineering practice.However, a significant gap exists in how engineering faculty systematically integrate theteaching of these concepts into the curriculum. This pilot study at the University of SouthAlabama aims to address this gap by utilizing Bloom’s learning framework to design learningmodules that can be incorporated into existing civil engineering courses. These modules spanvarious levels, including an introductory freshman course, sophomore-level mechanics ofmaterials, junior-level civil engineering materials, and