University in their School of Construction Management. Brad focuses on construction supervision, project management, strategic planning, preconstruction, and sustaining the built environment. At Purdue, Benhart also leads the Healthcare Construction Management program and works with the first ASHE (American Society of Healthcare Engineering) student chapter. His position allows him to further develop construction education in the built environment and be an in- dustry advocate for the next generation of builders. He is also very involved in field supervision training programs, both at Purdue and on the national level. He focuses on the sustainability of our industry by mentoring the retiring baby boomers with new foremen
outcomes of underrepresented groups in science, tech- nology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Using qualitative methodologies, she has explored access and success for underserved students of color in STEM and STEM intervention programs. This line of research also seeks to understand the nuances and complexities of participation and persistence in these fields and develop new models for explaining such phenomena. Her secondary research strand focuses on the participation and achievement of Black students and professionals in higher education. She is the PI or co-PI on several grant-funded research projects including the national Black Doctoral Women Study (BDWS), the Women in Engineering Study (WIES), and Bulls
the principles and theory of cybersecurity, but also equipped students with practical hands-on skills. This approach helped studentsturn abstract concepts into actual skills to solve real-world problems and challenges.This paper is organized as follows: Section 2 illustrates conceptual framework. Section 3describes game-based learning. Section 4 discusses problem-based learning. Section 5deliberates integrated learning. Section 6 demonstrates student-centric learning. We then describeself-paced learning in Section 7 and evaluation plan in Section 8. Finally, we conclude our workin the last section.2. Conceptual FrameworkIn this project, we built a learning system for cyber security education. It employed a variety ofeducational methods in
Paper ID #29237An Exploration of Faculty-Led Short-Term Engineering Study AbroadPrograms Offered by US InstitutionsDr. Jessica D Ventura, Endicott College Jessica D. Ventura, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Engineering department at Endicott College, a liberal arts institution north of Boston. She specializes in musculoskeletal biomechanics, with an emphasis on the lower body. Projects include prosthetic foot design, analysis of landing techniques, and limb loading of first time marathoners. Her current research uses personalized biomechanics analysis to inform runners and athletes of injury risk. Dr. Ventura also
Outcomes, • Assessment Under Special Circumstances, • General Assessment Information or Tools, • New ABET Criteria, and • Efficient/Sustainable Assessment Processes.Of the categories, the one with the most papers, and the most diversity of topics, is that ofAssessment of Specific Courses or Outcomes, such as [2]-[9]. The example papers considered inthis category include such diverse topics as using a lower level Physics course in outcomeassessment [2], use of an on-line Ethics module [4], metrics for “inclusive and socially justteaming practices [5],and an assessment of information literacy for ABET’s outcome 7 [6]. Asmany programs are now using a capstone design course or project as a major portion of theirABET assessment, there
team, and Kali Linux. In this paper, we provideexamples on how students’ knowledge of CPS security changes over the course of the program,how students are supported in and out of the classroom towards advancing their knowledge in thisfield. We also highlight the impact that project-based and team coordinated learning can have onincreasing students’ understanding of the fundamentals of CPS security.IntroductionA recent study by Cybersecurity Ventures [1], a respected publisher of cybersecurity content,predicts that 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs around the world will be unfilled by 2021. In the UnitedStates, the demand for professionals with cybersecurity expertise is outpacing all other occupations[2]. These reports, along with many others
) Experiential learning (second morning session). Students learned about the subject matterthrough a hands-on laboratory class or a computer-based activity. This direct experience allowedstudents to apply the basic principles of transportation engineering to solve a problem related tothe topic of the day. A faculty member and academic aides assisted students during the activity.3) Case-based learning (first afternoon session). An experienced transportation professional fromthe St. Louis area lectured on a recently completed project or a current project relevant to thetopic of the day. The purpose was to help students learn the subject matter and related decision-making processes through the case study of a real project in the state of Missouri or the
Engineering as a Program Coordinator Senior with the K-12 Engineering Education and Outreach team. Since then, Velez has managed such programs as FIRST LEGO League Robotics, MESA, and the National Summer Transportation Institute. She currently coordinates EPICS High (Engineering Projects in Community Service) to engage high school and mid- dle school students in human-centered engineering projects in their communities. Through this program, Velez works to build partnerships with school districts, industry, and non-profits to bring STEM program- ming to underserved communities across the state. Before joining ASU, Velez spent seven years as an elementary educator at a STEM focus school. She currently holds a Masters of
introduction to the concept of non-profit organizations and philanthropy as catalysts for social change, a series of lectures connectingvarious technical areas of engineering to their social impact, a semester-long project that examinesengineering successes and their unintended consequences, a student-driven proposal developmentand grant review process that would facilitate the selection of a non-profit organization to receivea $10,000 investment from the Neilom Foundation, and an end-of-the-semester celebration wherestudents present their projects to guests from non-profit organizations and the local community.Throughout the offering of the course, the instructional team learned that students appreciate theopportunity to be engaged in philanthropic
, knowledge, and skills to find and strengthen their own voice and to navigate critical transitions such as starting college and entering the workforce. Jordan-Bloch’s scholarly research centers on the intersection of social psychology and education, and current projects include work on: the perception of mattering as a mechanism in teacher-student relationships, the relational context of cohort-based learning, and how gender inequality is experienced and understood during critical transitions for young women. Jordan-Bloch received her B.A. in sociology from Brown University and her Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University.Ms. Shoshanah Cohen, Stanford University Shoshanah Cohen is the Director of Community Engaged
Paper ID #215014-D Printing of Pressure Sensors and Energy Harvesting Devices for Engi-neering EducationProf. Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso Dr. Tseng is a Professor and Chair of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering at UTEP. His research focuses on the computational intelligence, data mining, bio- informatics and advanced manu- facturing. Dr. Tseng published in many refereed journals such as IEEE Transactions, IIE Transaction, Journal of Manufacturing Systems and others. He has been serving as a principle investigator of many research projects, funded by NSF, NASA, DoEd, KSEF and LMC. He
become well acquainted. Teaching assistants are not provided.A predominantly traditional approach to engineering education was the established pedagogy untilthe early 2000s. Group work was usually disconnected from technical engineering content andtended not to include engineering project work. Little formative assessment of the learning processexisted and the predominant approach relied upon summative assessments (e.g., individual end-of-semester written examinations). During the mid-2000s, some transformation in engineeringeducation occurred, with change manifested though the implementation of problem- or project-based learning (PBL) wherein the traditional curriculum began to include several ‘islands’ of PBL.For the academic year 2009/10, a
a tour of the primary structures andequipment which had been installed by a professional solar, hydroelectric power installationcontractor.The Rapid Center is a university-based research and development center. The Center’s industry-experienced faculty and staff work with business partners to address their specific needs and toremove obstacles to product commercialization and process improvement. The Rapid Centerfosters a culture of collaborative innovation that helps clients refine existing products, developnew ones and improve business practices. At the same time, the Center’s engineering andtechnology students, working with faculty mentors and course instructors, work to address real-world problems for project sponsors while they gain
to improve the information literacy instructional curricula at higher educationinstitutions, but will also provide an innovative and tested approach to evaluating theeffectiveness of instruction offered by the library. Findings from this study will be used todevelop a transferable model for information literacy instruction and assessment. Literature Review Assessing student learning from an information literacy session has always been amulti-faceted problem, depending on what the outcomes are and how engaged the students arewith those outcomes, whether during the session or in class through discussion or a project theyturn in. Other librarians using bibliographies and evaluation of citations
Louisiana State University (LSU) in energy researchto engage participating students in innovative projects related to biofuels, energy storage, andcatalysis. Participants interact with university faculty as well as local industry and entrepreneurs.Over the course of the summer, students develop a commercialization plan for their summerresearch project aided by mentors from the LSU Business & Technology Center. The combinationof local industry, entrepreneurship, and world-class research facilities and faculty offer the REUstudents an opportunity that is hard to match. In recent years the authors have discussed the uniqueopportunities available to those with graduate degrees with undergraduate chemical engineeringstudents at LSU. Through these
Paper ID #19293Characterizing Students’ Micro-Iterations Strategies through Data-LoggedDesign ActionsDr. Corey T. Schimpf, The Concord Consoritum Corey Schimpf is a Learning Analytics Scientist at the non-for-profit Concord Consortium, which de- velops technology and curriculum for STEM learning in K-12. One avenue of his work focuses on the development and analysis of learning analytics that model students’ cognitive states or strategies from fine-grained computer-logged data from students participating in open-ended technology-centered science and engineering projects. In another avenue of his work he develops assistive
Mathematics Profes- sional Engineer License Certifications: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Current Position: Associate Chair Engineering Technology and Mechanical Engineering Technology Program Director Industrial Experience Over 20 years of industrial experience initially as a Royal Naval Dockyard indentured craftsman machinist and Design Draftsman and project manager on Leander class Steam Turbine Naval frigates and diesel electric submarines. Most recently includes 12 years in Research and Development and Lean Six Sigma process improvement experience troubleshooting process issues in the Paper, Chemical, and Converting Industries.Mr. Karl J. Huehne, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Mr. Huehne has
).Certainly all academic institution types have a role to play in HPC and CI education. This paperis focused on the deployment of a HPC cluster at a Predominantly Undergraduate Institution(PUI). At a PUI the engagement of students in research projects is mostly from theundergraduate ranks which is markedly different from research intensive university. The idea ofundergraduate research (UGR), if unfamiliar, may seem like a stretch, but Kuh3 and others4-5have observed the positive effect of improved persistence in college courses generally and inSTEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) courses in particular, for thosestudents involved in UGR.This paper is in a series of reports about progress of high performance computing at UCO
tochange, so too will the content and format of the EGCI. Monitoring the EGCI’s performanceagainst current trends and practices in engineering graphics can help keep the instrument a usefultool in engineering education research. With the instrument having met its intended level of rigor[1], widespread testing can now be done on different psychometric aspects to better prepare it forwidespread use. One of the first measures to be further substantiated is the instrument’s validity.BackgroundThe EGCI was developed as part of a larger project examining understanding andmisconceptions in engineering graphics with a goal of creating an assessment instrument.Experts in the field were consulted to identify important topics in the field which included
regards many educators have developed project-based learning exercises in engineering and other courses so that the students will learn by doing.Project-based learning motivates the learners and provides “hands-on” and “minds-on” training.A laboratory-based civil engineering course in Computer Aided Structural Analysis Design andExperimentation is redesigned using Fink’s Taxonomy of significant learning with learning goalsand several dimensions from foundational knowledge, application, integration, human dimension,caring and learning how to learn. In this respect, e-Learning plays a critical role in knowledge andskills development as well as course management. Learning Management System Moodle is usedas an e-Learning tool for communication with
. Such a framework helps effective pedagogical strategies such as activelearning (AL) and project-based learning (PBL), which are especially relevant to a highly lab-orientedcourse such as this course titled ‘Introduction to Animation’. Finally, the framework has also beentested on a range of VR media to check its accessibility. On the whole, this proposed framework canbe used to not only teach basic modeling and animation concepts such as spatial coordinates, coordinatesystems, transformation, and parametric curves, but it is also used to teach basic graphics programmingconcepts. Hence, instead of a touchscreen, the modules have to be developed from scratch for accessvia regular desktop PCs. Such a framework helps effective pedagogical
Femineer® teacher has been trained on year one and two of thecurriculum and she has successfully taught a cohort of 36 female students in Creative Robotics.This will be her first year teaching a cohort of Wearable Technology. This study about 21st centurylearning skills and STEM confidence will add to the body of research about female high schoolstudents in STEM [2]. LITERATURE REVIEW This brief literature review will examine 21st century learning skills with the outcomes ofcritical thinking, project-based learning, and programming skills. Elements of STEM confidencewill also be presented. This literature review will illustrate the themes of 21st century learning skillsand STEM confidence which will
programs. She also has projects with local companies on the topic of process simulations and analysis for environmental remediation. Dr. Rivera was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is a first generation engineer and doctor- ate. She completed her bachelor’s and Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez with five publications and two patent applications on the topic of nanotechnology for environ- mental remediation. Dr. Rivera has close to 10 years of teaching experience in Higher Education and professional training. Before joining IE3, Dr. Rivera was the Assistant Director of the Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) program at the University of Florida. Dr
School LevelAbstractFor Institution, STEM education at a high school level and enrollment of a diverse population ofstudents have long been priorities. The aerospace engineering department at Institution hasimplemented programs to address those priorities within the discipline itself. Camp SOAR, aweek-long summer STEM camp for high school students interested in aerospace engineering,seeks to introduce aerospace concepts in an accessible way while providing hands-on buildingand learning experience to students. High school students are instructed in key engineeringconcepts and aerospace engineering fundamentals, which they then apply to a major project thatthey test in a competition at the end of the week. In addition, a new diversity initiative
computational thinkingskills. This study first proposes a framework of computational thinking in the contextof engineering (CT-ENG), using qualitative content analysis on industry interviews.The authors then introduce the program of the Robotics Class of Zhejiang Universityin China, providing an integrative approach to teaching computational thinkingeffectively. The Robotics Class engages students in project-based computing-aidedengineering activities throughout the four-year bachelor’s program, and improvestheir computational thinking skills through engineering engagement. The findings inthis study could have some implications for non-CS engineering majors to promotecomputing education and equip students with computational thinking at digital era.Key
thedesign of their new HSI Program. The University of Arizona, one of first conference awardees,held a working conference that brought together over 100 faculty, students, and administratorsfrom 42 Southwestern higher-education institutions, including 37 HSIs and five emerging HSIs,to identify gaps, opportunities, and key recommendations for transforming STEM education atHSIs. Following the conference, the STEM in HSI Working Group at the University of Arizonawas formed to spearhead broader impacts informed by the conference recommendations [1] andanchored in the notion of “servingness” at HSIs [2]. This paper presents the work tied to and theproducts resulting from the 2017 conference project thus far, framed from a perspective ofpromoting
“meritocracy of difficulty” [3] where student success can be interpreted as “beingable to take it” [4]. Within engineering, disciplinary subcultures have also been described [5].This work is part of a larger study to understand how students experience stress as part ofengineering culture. The overarching goal of the project is to understand how a culture of stressdevelops in engineering and how it impacts student perceptions of inclusion in engineeringdisciplines and their level of identification with engineering. Our previous work has indicatedthat correlative relationships exist between engineering student identity, perceptions of inclusion,and self-reported stress, anxiety, and depression [2]. The current work is a project status updateto present
, "Creating Ideas into Reality: Spaces and Programs thatOpen Up the Imagination." [1]In addition to learning about available resources, the librarian also wanted students to be awareof a new text messaging system through which they could ask for help as well as where thelibrarian’s office was located.The library in the past was part of a larger paper scavenger hunt in which students would learnabout all of the resources available through the College of Engineering. This hunt was timeconsuming, and many students lost interest and did not complete it. The author decided to add abit more technology and fun to the project. For Fall 2018, it was decided that a small test run ofthe augmented reality scavenger hunt in the library would conclude the college
supervision, production management, financialmanagement, project management, safety management, and accounting. These topics comprisedapproximately 24% of the credit hours required to complete the existing degree. Themathematical rigor and technical content of the degree program had been reduced over a periodof more than a decade.A series of discussions was held with regional representatives from industry with the objectivesof determining the characteristics of successful program graduates, the employment potential forgraduates of the existing program, and the employment potential for graduates of a redesigneddegree program. A consensus developed regarding the following curriculum criteria: There was a need for increased mathematical rigor in
executive director of the i-STEM network. She holds a BS degree in elementary education, an MA in Education Administration and an EDS in Educational Leadership. As a 30 year veteran teacher and administrator she has been in- volved in school reform, assessment, literacy, student achievement, and school improvement. Her current work involves coordinating partnerships with educators, the Idaho Department of Education, business, and industry to raise STEM Education awareness. Anne’s research interests include STEM education, inquiry and project-based instruction with the incorporation of 21st Century learning, change practices, and cultural influences on school effectiveness. c American Society