Engineering (EE) from the Virginia Military Institute, Master’s Degree in EE from the George Washington University, and Ph.D. from the University of Louisville in Computer Engineering. He is also a graduate of the Signal Officer Basic Course, Signal Captain’s Career Course, and the Army Command and General Staff College. At West Point, LTC Lowrance also serves as a senior researcher in the Robotics Research Center. He has led multiple research projects related to robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. His research has led to over 25 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, several of which have won best paper awards.Major Eric M. Sturzinger, United States Military Academy MAJ Eric Sturzinger is a
Association’s collegiatechapters. Initially, these trainings were offered as “Chapter Operations Seminars” at the annualTBP Convention, later evolving into the current Interactive Chapter Exchange (ICE) program.After refining the training at the annual Convention, TBP started offering chapter leadershipseminars at various campuses and locations around the country. This series of seminars forstudent leaders of campus chapters evolved and transformed into the Engineering Futures (EF)program [12].In this midst of this development process, the Tau Beta Pi Association conducted a survey ofalumni donors to ascertain the value of TBP membership in their careers, and specifically whythey chose to continue to donate to the Association each year. Part of the
“integral part inengineering baccalaureate degree production in higher education [4].” According to the NationalScience Foundation's report, 42% of recipients of an undergraduate degree in engineeringattended a community college [5].Thus, research is needed on this viable and significant university transfer student population. TheNational Science Foundation commissioned a study that was overseen by the National Academyof Engineering’s Committee on Engineering Education and the Committee on Diversity in theEngineering Workforce as well as the National Research Council's Board on Higher Educationand Workforce the National Academies. This study was, in part, to investigate how "educationalinstitutions could improve pathways to careers in engineering
. Dr. Traum coordinated MSOE’s first crowd-funded senior design project. He also co-founded with students EASENET, a start- up renewable energy company to commercialize waste-to-energy biomass processors. Dr. Traum began his academic career as a founding faculty member in the Mechanical & Energy Engineer- ing Department at the University of North Texas - Denton where he established a successful, externally- funded researcher incubator that trained undergraduates to perform experimental research and encouraged matriculation to graduate school. Traum received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he held a research assistantship at MIT’s Institute for Soldier
EMwhile also furthering the long-standing instructional objectives of the course, which includewriting effective reports and analysis and collection of data. The results show, broadly, that mostteams met the instructional objectives of the project.IntroductionIn recent years we have seen a shift in the economy. Individuals are no longer spending theirentire careers working for a single organization. In fact, many individuals are experiencinggreater than ten position changes over the course of their career [2,3]. We have also seen manyindividuals starting their own organizations [4,5] or working on contracts [6]. These observedchanges require newly graduated engineers to not only be able to apply technical engineeringskills in the workforce but
-categorical, and generative—get moreout of their higher education and are much better prepared for their careers than those who do not(Love & Guthrie, 1999). This conceptual shift is necessary for effective performance in STEM,yet the typical engineering student progresses fewer than two positions along Perry’s nine-positionscheme in college (Pavelich & Moore, 1996).Research has been conducted to understand how these theories play out across various judgmentdomains (e.g., “personal taste, aesthetic, value, and truth” as per Kuhn, Cheney, & Weinstock,2000, p. 309) as well as different fields of knowledge such as science (Elby, Macrander, &Hammer, 2016), engineering (Christensen et al, 2015), and design (Eastman, McCracken, &
alleviate environmental concerns caused byfossil fuels and combustion engines. As such, these new transportation technologies are beginningto disrupt the automotive industry and are poised to capture increasing market shares. At the sametime, as concerns about combustion engine emissions are ever growing, combustion engine-basedtransportation infrastructure is expected to shrink and diminish over time. With this newtransformative and disruptive industry trend, vocational schools and institutions of highereducation are introducing programs to educate and prepare students as informed citizens of thenew electrification technology or as professionals with career interests in the electric vehicleindustry. As a contribution to the above educational
disparities and despite a variety of national and programmatic changes aimed atimproving outcomes for unrepresented groups, only marginal success has been achieved in thelast decade [1, 2]. The notable absence of low-SES students majoring in engineeringdisciplines has resulted in a profession that lacks the representation and diversity of the actualUS population and significantly impacts the career potential of low-SES students in theengineering fields [1]. Engineering faculty frequently recognize the problem, but often lackthe formal training in instructional best practices necessary to help underrepresented studentsto persist and succeed in their courses. Instead faculty often revert to teaching the way theywere taught, employing the long-venerated
, potential differences with tenure-line faculty, and challenges that are specific toinstructional faculty, as well as the role of faculty development on career pathways andpromotion. The research should also consider multiple institutional contexts, as this studyfocused on faculty at HSIs. In addition, the findings of this study highlighted a need to examineinstructional faculty members’ perceptions and use of resources, beyond on-campus workshops.Finally, the interest by the instructional faculty in engaging further with engineering educationresearch suggests an opportunity to examine their development of educational theory andresearch knowledge.The results illustrated that only instructional faculty had multiple dominant teachingperspectives
education and pedagogical innovations that aid in providing equal opportunities to students from all backgrounds.Dr. Alicia Betsinger, Dartmouth CollegeMs. Holly Wilkinson P.E., Dartmouth College Holly Wilkinson is Assistant Dean of Academic and Student Affairs at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. She previously served as Director of Career Services at Thayer School, Director of Re- cruitment at Colorado School of Mines, and Director of Engineering Admissions at Norwich University. She holds a Master of Business Administration from Norwich University and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Union College.Mr. Ray Helm, Dartmouth CollegeDr. Yanmin Zhang, Dartmouth CollegePritish Ponaka, Dartmouth
and therefore is potentially very useful in careers of the students post graduation. Specific lab activities were developed to help students learn the program. In the firstthree years of the curriculum development (2013 - 2015), an introductory SW lab utilizedtutorials native to SW. Students completed the tutorials in a computer lab with help from theinstructors and teaching assistants (TAs), and then they practiced their new skills by creating apart according to the information provided in an ASTM standard. In 2016, a new SWIntroductory Lab was developed specially to teach the student the key tools and features that theyneed for labs and the design project. The students were also instructed to learn on their own withresources such as
24.2%In addition, all students who indicated a willingness to be interviewed were contacted, and fourinterviews were conducted. Interview questions asked them about choosing to major inengineering, their current career plans, their plans to use their engineering skills in volunteering,the main things they took from the class, how (if at all) it changed their thinking, how they thinkabout ethics, and if they thought the skills and information from their general education courseswould be useful in their careers.Survey data was analyzed to see if survey responses in any areas changed significantly betweenthe pre- and post-surveys using paired sample t-tests. Results were also analyzed, usingindependent sample t-tests, to see if groups of students
]. Accordingly, effective introductorycourses are important for students’ future success in their program of study, and therefore,careers [1], [3], [8]–[11]. As summarized by Temple et al. [3]: “[F]irst year courses can improve academic performance, stimulate interest and improve retention, and better prepare students for future coursework. It is important that students acquire the qualities that prepare them to be successful engineers in the changing workplace, including the ability to work on and communicate with members of a multidisciplinary and professional team.”Research on high-impact educational practices has shown that in-class active or collaborativelearning in introductory science, technology, engineering, and
Hart Center for Engineering Leadership has a dual mandateMethodist for career development and college-wide leadership development.University (2010) SMU embeds its learning in first and final year design courses, and offers assessments to every single incoming freshman.Rice University The Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL) offers a(2010) certificate in engineering leadership that is a combination of coursework, experiential labs, an internship and a final presentation. RCEL experimenting with a course on leadership coaching in partnership with the business school and in the process of developing a professional master’s degree in
Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1998. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious, Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. She is a Fellow of the American So- ciety of Engineering Education, holds membership in a number of organizations and presently serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Society of Black Engineers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Citizen Engineering: Disrupting Expertise in Classroom and CommunityAbstractA new engineering course at a large land-grant university seeks to introduce non
environment, in additionto formal instruction on the use of methodical approaches to observe, interview, and identifyand prioritize user needs, will thoroughly prepare students to identify not only potentialopportunities, but also the requirements and constraints imposed by users and theirenvironment.3. Program StructureInterdisciplinary Medical Product Design courseIn 2014, the Bioengineering Clinical Immersion summer program was launched with nine risingseniors. Applicants were accepted on the basis of GPA, career goals, and potential for success.Some preference was given to students enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Medical Product Designcourse over the traditional senior design capstone sequence. The IMPD course is a two-semestermedical
and can contribute, you are Come with skills immediately in.” “You have to be assertive… that is how we see who is Assert yourself Integration really interested and who is just hanging around.” “When different people come together there is a Insert yourself sorting. If you can’t hang with the group, you don’t stick around.” “40+ hours per week is fine; the experience launches Give us your all careers.” Ethos of Commitment
the activities students participated in involved social interaction. Toincrease the quality of data in this vector mini-classes that involved everyday interpersonalinteraction were not included. Going to an event with friends or learning from peers and mentorswas considered everyday interaction, and was thus excluded. Activities in this category includereading books, participating in career fairs, participating in diversity and leadership training, andseeing plays. Participating in these activities pushes students to have a deeper understanding ofthe world and their peers and how to interact with them than everyday interactions.Managing EmotionsManaging emotions involved activities that were specifically structured to give students tools
Paper ID #14455An Application-based Learning Approach to C Programming Concepts andMethods for EngineersProf. Wesley Lawson, University of Maryland, College Park Prof. Lawson has earned five degrees from the University of Maryland, including a Ph,D, in Electrical Engineering in 1985. In his professional career at College Park, where he has been a full professor since 1997, he has worked on high-power microwave devices, medical devices, and engineering education. He is an author or coauthor on 5 books and over 70 refereed journal articles and 200 conference presentations and publications.Mr. Stephen Douglas Secules
members expressed apressing need for students to be exposed to business planning, financial statements and financialratio analysis with special emphasis on understanding how engineering project decisions impactcompany financial statements1.Shortly after the initial work was carried out to incorporate changes in the engineering economycourse to address the key concerns of the advisory boards, the Penn State University Presidentcalled upon faculty members to put special emphasis on developing business skills in allstudents. The university president called upon the faculty to “Invent Penn State: Let’s turndiscoveries into a great economy, together.”2 The president put forth a $30 million investmentin economic development and student career success
GeographicInformation Systems (GIS). The proposed framework helps realize the ultimate goal of nurturingGIS/Geo-Informatics students with advanced geospatial skills while contributing to enhancedcritical thinking and problem solving skills due to the interactive delivery of modules. The‘interactive’ nature of the framework allows the transition from conventional methods that arepassive and uni-directional to active learning through involvement driven by the event-responsemechanism. As a result, GIS academic programs can give advanced state-of-the-art training totheir students, thereby increasing their graduation rates, employability, and overall career success.This paper delineates some of the common examples employed in geospatial education andelaborates with
Paper ID #16217Developing Global Learning Outcomes in a Civil Engineering ProgramDr. Steven J. Burian, University of Utah Dr. Steve Burian is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Utah. Dr. Burian’s career spans two decades during which he has worked in design engineering, as a sci- entist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a professor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as a co-founder of Harit Solutions, an engineering design and sustainability consulting firm in India. He has research and teaching expertise related to the engineering of
9 .Some have suggested that strategies to improve retention in the first year include hands-onengineering projects 10,11 and real-world experience 12 . Participation in co-ops increasesself-efficacy which is reported to improve retention; albeit co-op experiences do not usually occuruntil after the first year 8 .Other researchers argue that student’s pathways through engineering are guided by theiridentification with engineering rather than a homogeneous curriculum acting like a pipeline 13 . Inessence, freshman engineering retention might be improved by stronger identification withengineering careers 14 . Studies have shown positive results from efforts in career planning 15 anddeveloping a better understanding of what engineers do 14
communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teach- ing practices in design education, 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.Miss Cassandra Jo Groen
Bachelor of Engineering in Aerospace Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and his PhD from the Queensland University of Technology. He started his pro- fessional career in 1995 as a project engineer at Roaduser Research International, and following his PhD joined the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in the Autonomous Systems Laboratory. At CSIRO he held various roles including Principal Research Scientist, project leader and the Robotics Systems and Marine Robotics team leader before moving to QUT in 2013. A strong advocate of robotic systems in civilian applications, Dr Dunbabin is involved in a number of initia- tives aimed at promoting, educating and
educators, we not only need to convey information, but must alsoprovide students with different learning styles and diverse backgrounds the means to develop theskills required for a broad range of career paths, from teaching and research to design, industryand production.8 Three of the most important abilities for engineers — logical reasoning, critical thinking, andproblem solving — are some of the toughest to teach. In addition to these abilities, developing acommand of electromagnetics requires the ability to visualize and manipulate fields and vectorsin three dimensions, making this subject one of the most difficult to teach within the field ofengineering.9 Usually, individuals who are highly educated in the subject, such as instructors,have
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, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies. Matusovich has authored a book chapter, 10 journal manuscripts and more than 50
lead, in turn,to an increased number of students who will pursue careers in engineering or other STEM fields.One means to accomplish this is through the National Science Foundation’s ResearchExperiences for Teachers (RET) program5, which seeks to develop collaborative relationshipsbetween pre-service and in-service K12 STEM teachers, community college faculty and theengineering research community, with the goal of allowing STEM teachers to translateuniversity-gained knowledge and research experiences into their classrooms. This paper reportson an ongoing (2014-2016) RET project at the University of South Florida (USF).Our approach to developing a high quality RET professional development experience for STEMteachers is based on our beliefs that
designed to consist of four sections. The traditional PBL teachingstrategies are utilized with some expansion in key areas that we felt were missing in the long termgoals of most summer STEAM programs, specifically, making the connection to a job, career,major, or field of study. Based on this thinking, a learning block is composed of the followingsections as can be seen below:Learning blocks are then strung together to create a much more dynamic program for a week longsetting such as the one seen below:The order of a learning block is important. The first portion is specifically tailored to give realworld careers, jobs, majors, fields of study that engage the learner upfront. These examplesdemonstrate what concepts we are about to teach and how
, students are asked to relate theirsimulation leadership experiences to more domain-specific problems that they might encounterin their future careers. This paper will present three simulation scenarios that the group has testedand will share the experiences encountered by participating students as well as the faculty andstaff organizers.IntroductionTraditional undergraduate engineering programs offer students little in the way of leadershiptraining. They also offer students little exposure to complex real-world problems. Yet, thegeneral expectation is that one day our students will be able to lead the way in solving complexproblems.At Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, we seek out ways to provide our students withexposure to real world problems