education curriculum with a focus on laboratory courses for the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His courses leverage project-based learning, experiential learning, and self-paced activities. David has over ten years of industry experience specializing in mixed-signal RF integrated circuit design, power systems, and power electronics.Prof. Kia Bazargan, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Prof. Kia Bazargan is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Has has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters related to FPGAs and VLSI computer-aided design. He received his Bachelors degree
. Johnson et al. write, “…there is nothing special about the waterthat stays in the pipe and that which leaks” [7, p. 342]. Still others note that careers are morecomplex than the “leaking only” action of the pipeline – some successful scientists may leaveand then return, or may find fulfillment in other fields [22]. As an alternative, authors haveproposed other models, such as Etzkowitz’s [23] “vanish box” in which underrepresentedstudents (women, in particular) tend to vanish from scientific careers, but reappear in careers thatcombine science with business or communication skills. Perna [24] also suggests a “multiplepathways” model, which has been picked up by advocates for minority engineers [19]. Perna’smodel allows for alternate routes within
through in-formation gathering, proof-of-concept, prototype development, beta testing and now production-on-order stages: 1. Research, design and build appropriately sized physical hardware (e.g., intake and sorting tables) and optimize flow through their use. 2. Develop, wire and test individual units that use industry-proven commercial electronics to build robust totalizers that reduce errors and that can be maintainable by NYSARC staff. 3. Employ an industry-proven commercial industrial electronic controller/ display and write software for it, to collect and log data from all totalizers in a given plant, provide a real-time display to staff, and allow for the printing of individual receipts or bag labels.Proof of ConceptIn
aimed at supporting underprepared students through theirprerequisites, both academically and emotionally. The program was designed afterinterviewing many students, both those who persisted and those who left engineering,researching programs at other schools, and building upon prior experience. The mainprogram goals include an increased retention rate in engineering amongstunderprepared students and the creation of meaningful relationships and networks forthese students within their engineering experience.Specific program goals: ● Support the development of meaningful relationships for underprepared first-year students within their engineering experience. A student survey about interpersonal experiences with peers as well as
]. Unfortunately, it is also perceived as an area of under-preparation by recentgraduates [26]. Women’s experiences in engineering design teams has been the subject of a number ofstudies, with several studies noting that women’s experiences in teams could potentially“recreate sexist environments already found in the university environment for undergraduatewomen if they are not properly managed” [28, pp. 82]. Negative experiences in teams (not beingaccepted, heard, or respected by her peers) could have significant long-term impacts, i.e., it couldbe the difference between staying or abandoning engineering after graduation. During teamwork activities, students negotiate their identities, status, and authenticity.[29] showed that gender is a
peer reviewed conference proceedings articles in these areas. He has B.S. in ME, and both M.S. and Ph.D. in IE. He is a member of ASEE, INFORMS, and a senior member of IIE.Dr. Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and In- dustrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on design tools
course sections and the impact of coordination on matriculation . Most relevant to this paper, in 2009, Thompson, et. al, provide details of a model of coordination that worked for their firstyear 3engineering course . This paper adds to the body of knowledge with respect to best practices for course coordination, particularly with respect to information sharing among the instructional team, common test writing, strategies for training and mentorship, and management of supplies, lab access and prototype testing. This paper focuses on recommendations based on personal experiences by four faculty, two of whom have 10
, relevant, immediatelyapplicable to their work, and substantiated by experiences of their own or credible peers 13,14,15,16.As the authors have taught this course over the past eight years, a shared, consistent goal andcommitment to our students has been to make the course “authentically real,” speaking directlyto the experiences and learning goals of these project-experienced professionals. Following is abrief description of a few key ways in which our teaching of effective, real project managementhas evolved.An Emphasis on Living Order“Living order” is a concept that the authors have found helpful in exploring the definition ofproject success and how to best strategize to achieve success. Alex Laufer has writtenextensively about living order and
the practice, and lead them into post-academia endeavors. Capstones differfrom regular courses since they are integrative. With respect to the Master ofEngineering Management program, the capstone course is a one-semester "putting itall together" course that gives students an opportunity to use their knowledge andskills, collaborate with their peers, practice their presentation and organizational skillsand ultimately, showcase what they have learned and achieved during their residencyin the Master Program. Peterson and Humble [2] studied the total undergraduate andmaster student intake for Engineering Management programs in USA during the year2004. They identified that 75% of the students were taken for master programs. Thereare a variety of
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physical projects (manually made or 3-D printed) simulating an ancient device of their choice.Results from student and peer evaluations are consistently favorable.I. Introduction How many people know that the first 3-D image in the history of humankind was created34,000 years ago by a ‘paleoengineer’ on the rock ceiling of a cave in Italy? How many of usknow that about 12,000 years ago, hafted tools contributed to the discovery of farming on amajor scale, allowing ancient ‘agricultural engineers’ to invent more effective farming tools?What about 10,000 years ago, when Mesolithic ‘mechanical engineers’ were able to createhypermicroliths (extremely small stone tools) with skills comparable to present-day diamondcutters, except without a
sponsored projects, and Fellowships. Information pertaining to fellowshipsencompassed where to find the solicitation, how to complete the application, as well as theimportance of adhering to the instructions and deadline.Session 2: Future Faculty Forum: What is Assistant Professorship?Introducing the audience to the different aspects of the career will dispel any myths surroundingthe roles of an assistant professor, as well as to encourage them to consider pursuing this career.Key topic areas included: A guide to a successful academic job search; The 'hats' of a tenuretrack faculty member: teaching, research, and service; Grant funding options for engineeringfaculty; Proposal writing that yields results; The importance of dissemination of
individuals based on theirprogress on the project in that semester as well as how they function as a team and communicatewith each other and their community partner. Peer evaluations facilitate the evaluation ofteamwork and help to delineate individual contributions.While most of the grading rubrics and core assessment process of EPICS was used in the samemanner as other sections, the team reporting documentation and requirements were taken mostlyfrom the requirements of EWB-USA. These met or exceeded the requirements for the EPICSprocesses and maintained the consistency with the EWB-USA students.Team StructureEPICS and EWB-USA both had student leadership roles and these were combined. We delayedhow these were split up until the first class and spent
Table 1. WWU MFGE CurriculumYear Qtr Prog # Course Name Crdts Year Qtr Prog # Course Name Crdts Fall ENG 101 Writing and Critical Inquiry 5 Fall MFGE 332 Introduction to CAM and CNC 4 MATH 124 Calculus and Analytic Geometry I 5 MFGE 341 Quality Assurance 4 CHEM 121 General Chemistry I 5 EE 351 Electronics for Engineering 4 Winter ENGR 104
evidence-based peer instructional approaches. Of these four intervention strategies, the one that has relevance to this paper is to provide for“guided professional experiences that would combine academic and professional components”through the vehicle of second year industrial internships 17. Early internships as detailed in thispaper are aligned with strategies 2 and 3 from above. Each student would be assigned anindustrial mentor with whom the student would work with for the tenure of the internship.Students would benefit by working with fellow interns and a cross section of companyemployees. Thereby, students pursuing internship would belong to a “community of practice”.To recap, programs that have been successful in improving the retention and
roles in their colleges anduniversities, and face the same challenges to increase the number of women in their fields. TheSociety of Women Engineers provides copious resources to assist women in all of these areas.Regional and Society conferences offer workshops directed at career development for femalefaculty and for those aspiring towards a faculty position including the following topics from themost recent Society conference in 2015: ● How to Choose your Academic Service Obligations Wisely ● Reviewing Academic Papers: How to Give Useful, Effective Feedback as a Peer Reviewer ● Pedagogy 101 - Introduction to Teaching ● Tips on Grant Proposal Writing for NSF CAREER Grants and Other Programs ● Alternative Pathways to an Engineering
University.Dr. Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College Jenn Stroud Rossmann is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lafayette College. She earned her BS in mechanical engineering and her PhD in applied physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Lafayette, she was a faculty member at Harvey Mudd College. Her scholarly interests include the fluid dynamics of blood in vessels affected by atherosclerosis and aneurysm, the cultural history of engineering, and the aerodynamics of sports projectiles. She writes the essay series ”An engineer reads a novel” for Public Books. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 An Integrative Education in Engineering and
interdisciplinary design, art, activism, andengineering, culminating in a DJ/VJ set. Students were also engaged in weekly career andcollege planning activities where they reflected on their interests and career goals through vlogson websites they created. In addition, seminars were given on resume-writing by our collegeadmissions team along with advice on how to ask for recommendation letters (and what shouldbe in them). These activities were common among all sections and have been offered to betterprepare students for the college and career planning process and to place engineering in abroader, social context, particularly in endeavors championed by people that looked more likethem. ection DescriptionRacecar SThe Racecar section was composed of
used, and all the standardized test scoreswere converted to SAT values using the pre-2005 version of the ACT-to-SAT concordance table[7]. In the MIDFIELD database, the only ACT score variable provided is ACT Composite;therefore, all SATs were also converted to a total score—with a maximum of 1600 (sum of SATVerbal and SAT Math, MIDFIELD data timeframe before SAT switched to separate CriticalReading and Writing scores with a maximum of 2400). For students with two SAT values afterthe conversion, the higher score was used.Next, all high school grade point averages were converted to a 5.0 scale. Only five of the 11institutions had maximum high school grade point averages less than 5.0; thus, converting to a5.0 scale conserved data resolution
the students with techniques to evaluate a job offer, and lesson 11 is an optional sessionthat provides information on graduate school opportunities for engineers.Table 3: Senior ESSP Lessons Lesson Session Title Assignment 1 Strategy to Find Full-Time Employment 2 An Effective Resume (Same as Update Professional Resume Sophomore Video) 3 Career Fair Preparation (Same as Attend Career Fair and Speak to Four Sophomore Video) Companies Minimum 4 Interviewing Complete, Evaluate, and Upload Interview Session with Peer 5 Written
the grant: block scheduling of freshmen,creating a new First-Year Experience course, creation of new student learning communities inhousing, expansion of the peer mentor program, and development of a new Faculty Staff mentorprogram. Figure 2 shows the goals of objectives of the Strengthening Institutions grant. CDP Goal 1. Strengthen SJSU’s core academic performance in two key areas: retention and graduation. Objective 1.1. By Fall 2019, SJSU will increase freshman to sophomore student retention by 5%. Objective 1.2. By Fall 2019, SJSU will increase the 6-year graduation rate by 9% for all first- time freshmen. Objective 1.3. By Fall 2019, for upper division transfers, SJSU will increase the 5-year graduation rate by 6%. CDP Goal 2. Providing
success, such as navigating mentor-mentee relationships, sense of belonging, and findingsupport services, but additional opportunities exist to help prepare them for academicparticulars such as grant writing and publishing (RQ2)Navigating mentor-mentee relationshipsThe second highest average of the measures that were evaluated was the collection of questionssurrounding “Navigating future mentor-mentee relationships” (Fig 2). Alumni from theGradTrack program highlighted how their participation in GradTrack influenced how theyapproach mentoring during their time as a graduate student. Alumni said that GradTrackprovided them with a foundation to establish relationships with other mentees and mentors. Onealumnus who is now a mentor, mentioned the
America. He has published 7 books, and more than 300 peer- reviewed papers. His PhD students hold academic positions in the USA and in Europe, and senior technical positions in various US National Laboratories. Professor Abdallah is a senior member of IEEE and a recipient of the IEEE Millennium medal. He is also active in the IEEE Control Systems Society most recently serving as the general chair of the 2008 Conference of Decision and Control CDC 2008.Dr. Andrew Karl Koch, John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education Dr. Andrew K. Koch is the President and Chief Operating Officer of the non-profit John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education. A leading advocate for making
checked and categorized individually by the instructor.Prompting ChatGPT in this manner – with clear, specific, and explicit instructions – was foundto produce a high rate of accurate classifications. It would miss many responses that should havebeen sorted into one of the groups, but leaving any space for ChatGPT to make its owninterpretation led to many incorrect classifications. Through much trial and error, it wasdetermined that writing the prompt in such a way that does not allow ChatGPT to interpret orassume anything is the best way to avoid false positive or negatives.Using Warm-ups in classFor most classes, the answers to all warm-up questions were summarized on slides and shared atthe beginning of class, starting with the muddiest point
learning in the classroom with real-world experiences in thecommunity. Studying abroad provides students with opportunities to learn how to navigatedifferent cultures, work with diverse peers, and gain new perspectives and global awareness. TheMercer on Mission (MOM) program at Mercer University in Macon, GA bridges service-learning with short-term, faculty-led study abroad opportunities to provide transformativeexperiences for students through academic instruction, cultural immersion, applied research,meaningful service, and personal reflection. In this study, the MOM program was evaluated forits impact on student participants. Program evaluation included a holistic assessment of theprogram. Research goals included evaluation of effectiveness in
-generation, LGBTQ, and special needs backgrounds [15]. These groups reportfeeling invisible and questioned about their scientific competencies compared to their White andAsian peers [15], [32]. Latine Doctoral Students and Cross-Cultural Mentoring Relationships in STEM FieldsAmong the full-time STEM doctoral program enrollment in the US context, Latine students, whoare citizens or permanent residents, constitute only about 6.9%, despite representing the nation’slargest marginalized group (19.5%) [5], [17], [25]. Parallel to the lack of diversity in the STEMstudent body, the percentage of Latine faculty members in the US higher education system isreported to be around 6% [26]. This number is even more drastically scarce within theengineering and
engage the students in theideas of the articles, we provided students with three reading questions that they would respondto before coming to class. The questions are listed below: 1. What do you want to know more about regarding air pollution exposure across race and poverty level? What questions do you have? 2. How might past policies and events help you make more sense of the paper's findings? 3. As the study’s authors write: “A focus on poverty to the exclusion of race may be insufficient to meet the needs of all burdened populations.” The researchers found that even after accounting for poverty, they saw differential impacts based on race. Why do you think it is important to separate out race and poverty level and
quantitative summarydimensions such as total word count, the number of “big” words (longer than 6 letters), andpercentage of the dictionary’s words appearing in the text, as well as various psychologicalcategories, using both standard and custom dictionaries [8]. The psychological portion using thestandard dictionary reports four summary measures (analytical thinking, clout, authenticity, andemotional tone) and nine dimensions (linguistic, drives, cognition, affect, social, culture,lifestyle, physical, perception, and conversation).The four LIWC summary measures provide their analysis of the text as a dichotomy comparisonfrom a normalized percentage of several variables [7]. Lower analytical thinking scores indicatemore informal, personable writing
multiple marginalized identities for all three participants. 4As mentioned, this presentation is part of a larger NSF funded study assessing thein/authentic experiences of engineers in tech. We are interviewing 40 engineers, 10each of Black men, Black women, White men, and White women. Data is currentlybeing collected for the study. The three participants for this presentation werechosen due to their unique stories centered around their self-identified intersectingmarginalized identities. At the time of writing, there were only five womeninterviewed. Four White women working in the tech industry and one Black womanworking outside of tech.Two semi-structured
creative when designing their solution. Foradvanced courses, students may even be the one to select the topic and nature of the project bydeveloping their own project questions and defining project success in their own terms.e. Critique and RevisionStudents in a PBL environment should be able to critique other projects and revise their ownproject based on criticism. This will ensure that the projects they create are that of a higherquality. This is different from a typical classroom as it is not just the teacher providing feedbackon the project but other individuals such as other students, experts, and peers. This gives thecritique and revision of the project a real-world point of view and helps enforce the authenticitybrought up earlier.f. Public