senior biomedical engineering student at George Washington Univer- sity minoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She has expertise in micro and nanofabrication processes.Dr. Hurriyet Aydin Ok, GWU Dr. Hurriyet Aydin Ok is a senior research fellow at GWU Cyber Security & Privacy Research Institute (CSPRI) and teaches courses in E-Commerce Security and Augmented and Virtual Reality. Prior to GWU, Hurriyet was a member of the IT leadership team for over 24 years at the World Bank Group, and contributed in the areas of enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, identity and access management, new technology infrastructure strategy, and IT learning and career development. Dr. Ok is the Founder of VRT-U, LLC, a
currently few programsin the nation that utilize machine learning toolkits to prepare the next generation of ML & AI-educated engineers for industry and academic careers. This paper will guide educators to designand implement ML/AI into engineering curricula (without a specific AI or ML focus within thecourse) using simple, cheap, and open-source tools and technological aid from an online platformin collaboration with Edge Impulse. Specific examples include 1) facial recognition technologiesand the biases involved, 2) air quality detection using an accelerometer, 3) roadside litter detector,4) automated bird identifier, and 5) wildlife camera trap detection.IntroductionIn 2015, while seeking to create a global development framework, the United
students persist in engineering careers. Seymour and Hewitt’s [14] study addsto the attrition investigation by isolating that the attitude of faculty who promoted the notion of “weed outcourses,” or barrier courses contribute to attrition. From a student perspective, these barriers lead to thenotion of students need strong self-efficacy [15]. Self-efficacy are beliefs about a person’s ability tosuccessfully complete tasks. There are four main sources of self-efficacy [16]: 1) past experiences withrelated tasks, 2) vicarious experiences (i.e., observing others succeeding or failing), 3) forms of socialpersuasion, and 4) one’s physiological/emotional state. To be successful, motivation unfolds over threerecurrent phases: pre-task engagement, on-task
program that displaychallenges facing our students. The diverse population in our classrooms demands a broaderspectrum in instructional approaches. This project focuses on creating assorted resources toengage all students regardless of background in different ways of learning to create a solid baseunderstanding of the material and increase success in future courses as well as in the students'future engineering careers. Our approaches include a granular course structure, differentinstructional technologies, support of learning assistants in the classroom, tutoring outside theclassroom, and different forms of assessment and accessibility. The author has used mixedqualitative and quantitative approaches to measure the success of the statics and
organization. Below are some of our reflections ofthis realization. Julia Cannon - Former Project Manager When I first joined Engineers Without Borders, as a privileged white person I did not yet recognize the abundance of privilege that inherently saturates the field of engineering, let alone with engineering volunteerism. I remember initially identifying with EWB as a space that would allow me to prove the degree of “good” in my intentions. I chose to jointhe Nicaragua project team. Being a newer project meant a higher potential for travel,which was an attractive motivator for me at the time. I remember telling others that I wasinterested in pursuing a career in international development, with the internal hope thatthey
Future of ME LabWhile the course is fulfilling its purpose, a concern of the author is the lateness in whichit occurs in the curriculum. A student on the four year traditional track must then takeME Lab and the senior capstone design course concurrently. This creates time pressuresthat stretch the students. For this reason, each year there are a number of students whoopt to take ME Lab in the spring ( the only time it is offered) and then graduate inDecember, taking the capstone design course (offered every semester) during the fallsemester. Faculty numbers and availability preclude offering ME Lab each semester.Another concern is that the student’s major lab experience is occurring in what is usuallythe last semester of their academic career
emotional and physical reaction. Faculty development programs concentrating on the various sources of improving self- efficacy shall consequently influence the Well-being of teachers.Problem statementThe significance of research on Well-being has substantially increased through the years.Well-being is a vast spectrum of our physical, emotional, intellectual, and socialamelioration. Research has focused on Well-being within various realms of careers. Manyconsider that Well-being is subjective and needs skills to attain overall Well-being
, better prepares them to become practicingengineering professionals, and results in higher outcome expectations by students of their futureengineering careers [17, 18, 19]. Ten students completed the pre-course survey in Figure 5. Oneadditional student completed the post-course survey in Figure 6, totaling 11.The pre-course survey results in Figure 5 below show that all students were ‘Very confident’ or‘Somewhat Confident’ at conducting experiments and building prototypes etc, but students’confidence was lower for analyzing and designing systems and subsystems. Developingelectronic components to build a complete system was students’ least confident skill with 5 of 10(50%) reporting ‘Somewhat Unconfident' or ‘Very Unconfident’. Students’ second
deep learning. This is a significant resultgiven that we did not advise students on why we were asking them to reflect, or what we hopedthey would gain from the activity. Our study provides quantitative evidence that answeringreflection prompts correlates with improved performance on exams and qualitative evidence thatstudents believe that reflection can help with conceptual understanding and deep learning.Reflection should be considered as a strategy for helping students think critically about coursematerial.Key Words: Reflective practice, Quantitative Study, Computer Organization1 IntroductionIt is important for college students to understand the “big picture” of their undergraduatecurriculum and how it prepares them for their careers [1
Project; YpsiWrites, a community resource in collaboration with 826michigan and the Ypsilanti District Library; and Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Organizations. She also has cultivated and coordinates collaborations with secondary writing centers and numerous community organizations. Blakeslee earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University and her Masters in Technical and Scientific Communication at Miami University. Her career spans more than 35 years, and she has taught courses in rhetoric and composition and technical communication. She also has served as Director of Un- dergraduate Studies, Co-Chair of General Education Implementation, and Graduate and Writing Program Coordinator. Blakeslee has
chemicalengineering graduate student, realized many low activation emotions when reflecting on his ownexperiences undergraduate organizations. Early on in his college career, Joshua recalls feeling anaversion to a minority serving organization because he felt it “wasn’t meant for someone with[his] background” being in good academic standing. Reflecting on this experience Joshuaexplains his thought process throughout the situation. I felt like, as black student myself, I came from an inner-city context where there weren't a lot of resources that we had. In a way that I wanted to do better and support my community, but I also wanted to get out of it. I didn't want to be [Joshua] from the hood. I didn't want to be seen like that, even
through teaching methods, policies, and culture change.Prof. Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Patrice M. Buzzanell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida and Endowed Visiting Professor for the School of Media and Design at Shanghai Jiao- tong University. Fellow and Past President of the International Communication Association (ICA), she served as President of the Council of Communication Associations and the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender. She is a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communica- tion Association. Her research focuses on career, work-life policy, resilience, gender, and engineering
isbecoming increasingly important in many industries and organizations. The ability to effectivelycollect, store, process, and analyze large-scale data sets is becoming critical for businesses to gaininsights, make informed decisions, and stay competitive. As a result, there is a growing demandfor professionals who have the skills and knowledge to work with big data systems. A big datasystems course can provide students with the skills and knowledge they need to work with large-scale data sets and use data-driven approaches to solve real-world problems. It can also preparestudents for careers in a variety of industries, such as finance, healthcare, e-commerce, and more.The objective of this work in progress is to share the experience of designing a
learn how to make their projects more visible. While moststudents utilize social media already, few have developed project portfolios, andacademic makerspaces can naturally demonstrate the value for career preparation androle model the development of better project documentation.Moving forward, the authors hope to conduct follow up interviews for all four spaces asthe university and makerspace functions continue to develop. To begin to assess the long-term impact on engineering student design skills, longitudinal studies from the first-yearthrough capstone should be used. Many first-year engineering programs now utilizemakerspaces, either embedded in the design course itself or by encouraging training anduse of the larger school makerspace
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students, and 100 senior students hadcompleted the perceptions survey. The response rate observed in this survey showed that First-year students are still developing their interests when entering college life and have someengagement in official university activities. Sophomore students had a relatively low responserate, which showed a diminished passion and increased tiredness towards college life activities.The renewed increase in participation by junior and senior year students indicates theirmatureness to get ready for graduation and start their career, which encourages them to getinvolved in college activities such as this survey to make sure their voices are heard. 120 100
Paper ID #33597Exploring the Team Dynamics of Undergraduate Engineering Virtual TeamsDuring the Rapid Transition Online Due to COVID-19Miss Alexis Rae Walsh, University of Tennessee at Knoxville In May 2021, Alexis completed her fourth year at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, earning a B.S. in Honors Industrial Engineering with a minor in Reliability & Maintainability Engineering. Beginning in July, Alexis will be starting her career as a Technical Solutions Engineer for Epic Systems.Ms. Sarah E. Norris, University of Tennessee, Knoxville I am majoring in Aerospace Engineering with course work in computer science
their effort. More recently, Dillon et al. described the intercollegiate coaching modelemployed by the KEEN Faculty Development workshops [7].Motivation and BackgroundIn seeking an institutional grant from the Kern Family Foundation in 2014, the TagliatelaCollege of Engineering at the University of New Haven embraced the value of its studentshaving an EM. Most of our graduates pursue careers in industry and the core faculty team thatled the institutional grant firmly believed that an EM would give students a competitive edge inthe job market in the near term, and make them creative go-to leaders within their companies as they progressed in their careers. Broadly embracing EML in all of our
career pathways, and (3) design as central to educa- tional and global change. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Faculty perceptions of and approaches for fostering engineering student motivation at Hispanic Serving InstitutionsAbstractThis research paper examines faculty perceptions of and approaches towards fostering students’motivation to learn engineering at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). By aligning learningexperiences with what motivates Hispanic or Latinx students, the resulting higher studentmotivation could increase the sense of belonging for underrepresented populations inengineering, ultimately improving student retention
entertaining any prejudice against me” (cited in Ahmed et al. 2006, p. 77). They are not expecting you. Discomfort involved this failure to fit. (p. 41) ASEE 2021A sense of belonging, therefore, can implicate how well a student feels that they fit into aparticular discipline, field, or career based on a level of comfort and acceptance offered by thatspace. It, in turn, influences students’ confidence in their own ability to succeed and themotivation needed to persist in the field [7], [15]-[17]. As Brammer [9] indicates, In other words, when women and girls believe that others – society, teachers, mentors, or parents – hold stereotypical beliefs that females are somehow less able to
the students had already worked in aninternship position using the topics taught in the course and 87.5% had not. However, 41.67% ofthe students plan on using the topics taught in the course during their career or a futureinternship.Course Content. As mentioned previously, we applied different pedagogical methods to aquality control course. This course introduces students to statistical techniques used in thedesign, control, and improvement of quality. In particular, our research focused on two moduleswithin the course: Modeling Process Quality and Interpreting Process Quality. These modulesare a review of students’ prior statistics courses with focus on how these concepts are applicableto quality control.The topics discussed in Modeling
cognitive work in the classroom underthe tutelage of the instructor and peers. The flipped classroom model was recently instituted at StateUniversity of New York (SUNY) Maritime College in a junior-level engineering course with a studentpopulation of largely varying abilities and career goals, including students who seek U.S. Coast Guardlicensure. The motivation for adopting the flipped classroom model was threefold: (1) The traditionalclassroom may be a disconnect for license students who often work in teams and spend many hours inactive-learning environments like ship simulators and on a training ship. Thus, it is reasonable tosuspect that the flipped classroom model may resonate well with license students who seem to thrive inthese hands-on
7 Iterative design improvement 8 Metacognition, academic career planning, introduction to sustainability 9 Life cycle thinking, phases of LCA, project scope Project 2 10 Functional unit, system diagrams and boundaries 11 Quantitative skills, estimations, and data acquisition for LCA Projects 1 & 2 12 Inventory analysis, interpretations, prototype testing THANKSGIVING BREAK 13 Professional communication, featured industry product development Conclusion 14 Project showcase, wrap upFigure 2. Fall 2020 course schedule for the introduction to engineering course at University
gained? What course topic knowledge was acquired? How was your peer’s approach to the assignment different from your approach? Based on the findings, how might you approach an assignment like this in the future? When did you start working on the assignment? How much time did you dedicate to the assignment? Do you think this is adequate? Why or why not? In the future, how might you approach an assignment like this again? 2. Summary of Why this Matters (1/2 page minimum): • Identify what type of job or career you might like to have in the future. Why is this competency important for this type of job? Why are assignments like these important in preparing you for entering the workforce? Why are the concepts
received its NSF funding.The collaborative nature was embedded from before the beginning and the lessonslearned in the past decade of culturally responsive engineering education could bringguidance to any engineering program serving a mostly minority population.Rationale for this was based upon an efficacy of approach to recruitment, initialeducational support and final career preparation. A diverse cohort of instructors that areIndigenous and non-Indigenous having diverse experiences ranging from decades tograduate students coordinated efforts to provide students with accessible instructionand support them in their quest. The collaborative nature of this program was cultivatedby more than a decade of relationship building between the TCUs and the
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enhance analytical abilities and promote problem-solving skills usingmultiple levels of abstraction [15]. Institutes define the CT according to unique goals and standards, meaning no unifiedCT definitions exist among researchers. For example, the International Society for Technologyin Education (ISTE) defines CT as a systematic approach for solving problems in computersciences and other subject areas and careers [16]. According to the K–12 Computer ScienceFramework, CT is closely related to computer sciences, specifically the capabilities ofcomputers for solving various problems using algorithms. The framework includes corepractices for promoting the computing culture, collaborating using computing, definingcomputational problems
with ex- perimental validation efforts focused at characterization of the stress/strain evolution at the microstructural scale during in situ loading. He is a recipient of the TMS Young Leaders Award, the ASME Orr Award, TMS Early Career Faculty Fellow, the NSF CAREER Award, and the AFOSR, ONR, and DARPA Young Investigator/Faculty Awards. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Pedagogy Improvement in Aerospace Structures Education Using Virtual Labs: Before, During, and After the COVID-19 School Closures and Remote LearningAbstractWe implemented Virtual Labs as a tool to assist students in familiarizing
New Hampshire in 2018.Dr. Sudarshan T. Kurwadkar, California State University, Fullerton Dr. Sudarshan Kurwadkar is a Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at California State University, Fullerton. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and a Board-Certified En- vironmental Engineer. During his academic career, he has received numerous awards, scholarships, and fellowships. He won the Teaching Excellence Award, 2018 Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activ- ities Award, Faculty Advisor of Distinction 2020, 2019 ASCE Outstanding Faculty Advisor in the State of California, and 2020 L. Donald Shield Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activities. He was awarded numerous summer