with an array of interdisciplinary design courses that range from introductory to capstone courses.Prof. Durga Suresh, Wentworth Institute of Technology Durga Suresh is an associate professor in the department of computer science and networking and has been teaching at WIT for over fifteen years, including courses in software engineering, databases, archi- tecture, and capstone projects. She has been involved in service-learning projects in urban Boston and has developed CS-outreach-oriented seminar classes in which college juniors and seniors develop and deploy CS curricula to middle school students. She has extensive experience with designing and teaching project based, multidisciplinary courses with collaboration
which is a major, but littlerecognized, challenge for engineering education. The use of computer assisted learning toprovide the required knowledge is already being promoted as an alternative. Clearly, thereis no need for a lecture if the same material is available by alternative methods and can beat a time and paced to suit an individual. Considering the effectiveness of such onlinelearning as the only metric, as educators are wont to do, is foolish. What will increasinglydrive adoption of automated learning platforms at all but the most elite institutions iseffectiveness vs. cost [26]. If there is no need for lectures, and laboratory work can besimulated, what is the purpose of a university other than as an aid to social mobility? Auniversity
professional skills regardless of which STEM career ischosen. Therefore, teachers need to not only teach standards that support STEM contentknowledge, they must also help students build professional skills.One of these professional skills that has been gaining more attention in K-12 education isargumentation11. Learning the process of argumentation helps the development of reasoning,critical thinking, communication, social behaviors, and information gathering skills. These skillsare necessary for daily life, professional activities, and all facets of education, which makesargumentation an important competency for students to engage in. Incorporating argumentationskills into curricula encourages students to become independent thinkers and problem
Engineer, Hindalco Industries, Dahej, India. Shift in-charge of daily smelter operations at primary Copper plant. 2000-2010: Research Assistant, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA. Fabricated and characterized High k dielectrics in semiconductors. 2004-2006: Graduate Teaching Assistant, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA. Taught applied physics lab to first year and second year students. 2010- 2013: Post- doctoral Fellow National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden Colorado, USA. Fabricated and characterized Photovoltaic/Solar cells and mentored graduate students. 2014-2016 (spring): Assistant Professor-College of Engineering and Technology, Northern New Mexico
visits; outcomes based accreditation would soon collapse for AACSB. Workingwith the Gang of Six, and with additional funds from NSF, Aldridge organized a series of 12regional workshops that engaged several hundred faculty members to learn the purposes andrequirements of EC 2000. Assembling faculty, not administrators, with a demonstrated interest inundergraduate teaching, Aldridge worked to develop a cadre of teaching faculty across differentinstitutions who understood and believed in outcomes assessment. These workshops were crucialto building on-the-ground interest and support for EC 2000 and outcomes assessment as a whole.It was also around this time that Gloria Rogers, an education specialist working with RoseHulman, got involved. Rogers
for youth in the form of internships at ayouth-staffed 3D print shop. The print shop opened in early 2017 as a “living laboratory” toprovide technical jobs to youth who completed Maker Foundations and are DHF Members. Theprint shop employs youth who are eligible to work through a state government minor workpermit and have completed the 14-week Maker Foundations program. Since opening, the printshop has employed 8 youth (4 female, 5 underrepresented minorities in STEM) between the agesof 15-18. The print shop offers 3D printing, 3D scanning, and 3D modeling services to clients.Six months after opening, the print shop youth employees have over 60 jobs and produced over4,000 objects. Example projects that youth completed include developing
• Wants to save the country Mechanical and • Focused on studying abroad in Germany Parker 2 Aerospace Engineering • Wants to help society colonize in space • Wants to coach or teach Ryan Textile Engineering 3 • Also wants to use his degree and make money • Enjoys gaining a variety of experiences Selyne Electrical Engineering 3 • Always wants to work on something newThemesThe results in this section include themes that emerged across the
frameworks for designing and assessing STEM lessons to support K-12 science teachers.Dr. JinA Yoon, Pusan National UniversityDr. Jeanna Wieselmann, Southern Methodist University Dr. Jeanna R. Wieselmann is a Research Assistant Professor at Southern Methodist University in Dal- las, TX. Her research focuses on gender equity in STEM and maintaining elementary girls’ interest in STEM through both in-school and out-of-school experiences. Dr. Wieselmann’s research has explored student participation patterns in small group STEM activities. She is interested in STEM schools, inte- grated STEM curriculum development, and teacher professional development to support gender-equitable teaching practices. c
imaging, and flows around multiple bodies in tandem.Dr. Jae Hoon Lim, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Jae Hoon Lim is an Assistant Professor of research methods at the University of North Carolina, Char- lotte, and she teaches introductory and advanced research method courses in the College of Education. Her research interests include socio-cultural issues in mathematics education and various equity topics in STEM fields. She has served as a Lead Investigator for multiple international and comparative educa- tional research and evaluation projects. She published more than 30 articles in scholarly and professional journals world-wide and authored seven book or monograph chapters.Dr. Patricia A. Tolley P.E
been employed. • Recipient of NBIA’s 1995 Randall M. Whaley Incubator of the Year Award. • The Incubator has remained financially self-sustaining since its inception.”Other universities observed Rensselaer’s success and founded their own incubators. Mian (1996a) in a study of Page 10.1096.1university technology business incubators found that the university affiliation adds value to incubator client firmsdue to the university’s image, laboratories and equipment, and student employees. Mian also listed the
. Valian’s visit, a FacultyLearning Community on Mental Models was initiated and is described below.The second speaker was Dr. Debra Rolison, head of Advanced Electrochemical Materials,Surface Chemistry Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. Since she is anoutstanding chemist and a knowledgeable promoter for gender equity the project team thoughtshe would be an effective advocate for change in the Colleges of Science and Engineering. Dr.Rolison visited the TAMU campus in February 2003 as a prelude to the WISE Conference. Sheinteracted with approximately fifty members of the A&M faculty and staff during an openlecture and several small group sessions. Dr. Rolison delivered a powerful message, “Time toThrive, Not Just Survive
are acceptable unless there is some reason, such as environmentalissues, that prohibits them from being on campus. Biotech companies tend to stay thefull four years, and IT companies tend to stay for a much shorter time. Once admitted,companies enjoy increased credibility due to the rigorous admittance process. TAPservices and dynamic atmosphere create an environment where entrepreneurs flourish,with flexible, furnished office and laboratory space, modern IT and biotechnologyinfrastructures, in-house business support, and convenient office facilities. As the firsttechnology business incubator facility in Maryland, TAP has refined its services soentrepreneurs can focus less on administrative details and more on growing theircompanies.Companies
. Toname but several: engineering design, economics, industrial psychology and sociology,manufacturing, and philosophy. The knowledge available to all these segments is large andlearning can be at various levels of depth which is determined to some extent by a person’sability and previous knowledge. When these knowledge dimensions are combined it is easyto imagine a substantive degree program in engineering/technological literacy. Equally it iseasy to perceive that the kind of teaching and learning necessary to bring about the outcomesof engineering/technological literacy would have to be very different to that undertaken in thesame courses when treated as separate entities within a traditional program. Both level andapproach would be different
has produced manyvery successful and innovative graduates. In a survey of aerospace professionals in laboratory,academe, and industry, it was noted that the respondents were not in favor of eliminating currenttechnical discipline boundaries as the base background for a student, but they did feel that theyshould be involved in interdisciplinary educational activities such as team design and teamproblem solving sessions1.The University of Arkansas Physics department has recently redefined the academic requirementsfor their degrees to allow more curriculum flexibility, allowing students to better tailor acurriculum for their career goals. At the Master of Science level, a MS Physics degree requiring acore physics block and all physics electives
AC 2011-2757: THERMODYNAMIC CONCEPTS IN A MODEL-ELICITINGACTIVITYPaul Nicholas van Bloemen Waanders, Cal Poly, Mechanical Engineering I am a Mechanical Engineering Masters Student studying at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.Andrew Kean, California Polytechnic State UniversityBrian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University Brian Self is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at California Polytechnic State Uni- versity in San Luis Obispo. Prior to joining the faculty at Cal Poly in 2006, he taught for seven years at the United States Air Force Academy and worked for four years in the Air Force Research Laboratories. Research interests include active learning and engineering education, spatial disorientation
’ minds and the structure in the subject matter. Metaphors,examples, and demonstrations are the elements of the bridge,” (Mckeachie, 1994). LaterMcKeachie says “From the standpoint of theory, the activity of the student, the sensorimotornature of the experience, and the individualization of laboratory instruction should contributepositively to learning.”A note about the lectures required is appropriate; Many Machine Design texts leave one or bothof these labs’ subject areas out of their coverage. Last year, one of this paper’s authors surveyedthe coverage of torsion loads by six common Machine Design Texts. He rated only three of thesix as giving complete torsional coverage, one as giving inadequate partial coverage, and two astotally inadequate
mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and an adjunct faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. His broad research interests include engineering education, as well as control and optimization of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to power and energy systems, multi-agent systems, robotics, and
AC 2011-1551: LOOKING AT ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH AMOTIVATION/CONFIDENCE FRAMEWORKSamantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University Samantha Brunhaver is a third year graduate student at Stanford University. She is currently working on her PhD in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in engineering education. She completed a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University in 2008 and a MS in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Design for Manufacturing from Stanford University in 2010.Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Consulting Senior Scholar principally responsible for the Preparations for the Professions Program
AC 2011-1678: ASSESSMENT OF ABET STUDENT OUTCOMES DUR-ING INDUSTRIAL INTERNSHIPSDr. Karyn L. Biasca, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Karyn Biasca is a Professor in the Paper Science and Engineering Department, where she has taught since 1989. She received her B.S in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1981 and worked for Kimberly-Clark Corporation as a process engineer for three years. Finding the career paths available within the corporate environment unappealing, she returned to graduate school, earning her Ph.D. from the Institute of Paper Chemistry (Appleton, WI) in 1989. Her current research interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning, especially on
Page 15.1050.7GSE for measuring of modeling self-efficacy. In building our self-efficacy scale, we followedtwo essentials: first, we investigated other relevant scales in fields that are close to engineeringmodeling and academic setting, and second, we observed the guidelines suggested by Bandura.Pajares [28] provides a comprehensive list of the relevant efficacy scales for academic settings.We used his list of scales and added other available scales to create a comparison list of scales.This list is provided in Table 3.Table 3. Major Self-efficacy Scales for Various Academic Tasks Source Sample Question or Direction Answer Options Teaching Efficacy How much can you …? [Completed by various
; Instruction at NC State University. Her research and theoretical interests include race and racial identity in education, African American academic achievement, emotions in education, and critical race theory. Dr. DeCuir-Gunby has served as a statistical consultant on numerous projects including the GenScope Assessment Project, a project designed to assess the use of technology on high school students' learning of genetics. She teaches courses in Educational Psychology, Adolescent Development, and Mixed Methods Research. She is a co-PI on an NSF ADVANCE Leadership grant.Barbara Smith, North Carolina State University Barbara Smith is the Executive Assistant Director of the PURPOSE Institute
aerospace engineering from the University of Missouri and an MS in mechanical engineering from the University of WisconsinMadison. She has coordinated ABET efforts at the department, college and campus levels for over a decade and serves as a program evaluator for ABET. Address: Academic Affairs, University of Missouri System, Columbia, MO 65211. Email: chris@umsystem.eduWilliam Schonberg, Missouri University of Science & Technology Dr. William P. Schonberg, P.E., is Professor and Chair of the Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Department at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly known as the University of Missouri-Rolla). Dr. Schonberg has 25 years teaching and research
,collaboration, and teamwork under the systems engineering (SE) rubric, and grounded in theprinciple Ciulla5 asserts that “[t]eamwork without tolerance of difference in opinion, gender,racial, or cultural background is unacceptable.” In developing the workshops, we adapted the methods of Problem-Based Learning(PBL), imported from medical education and adapted to undergraduate teaching and learning byDuch, Groh, and Allen and their colleagues at the University of Delaware.9 The preparatory andbackground materials were compiled and synthesized from SE textbooks, scientific studies,journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, and materials from numerousinformational and interactive websites. We drew the problem statements directly
to be successful in programs such as the EPICSprogram 3. “Service learning which has been described as experimental learning through theintegration of traditional classroom teaching with structured community service” 4, ispedagogically consistent with the literature on recruitment and retention of women in scienceand engineering with its social context; emphasis on general educational goals includingcommunication; employment of cooperative and interdisciplinary approaches; and problems witha “holistic, global scope” 5,6,7 and containing many attributes or factors that are relevant for Page 10.77.1 “Proceedings of the 2005
, interior, or body structure). Figure 9. Major tasks within the Deep Orange product development process. Establishing the learning environment. The nature of designing activities requires an environment that is not of a traditional classroom nature. Deep Orange requires students to collaborate and interact with each other and with faculty on a regular basis in a permanent collaborative space (resembling a studio). The students work on workstations grouped by their team membership as well as team white boards in the Systems Integration Laboratory (SIL), which is divided into two sections; one is an office like area, and the second is a workshop to build and assemble the concept vehicle. The SIL is equipped with
). Papadopoulos has diverse research and teaching interests in structural mechanics, biomechanics, engineer- ing ethics, and engineering education. He is PI of two NSF sponsored research projects and is co-author of Lying by Approximation: The Truth about Finite Element Analysis. Papadopoulos is currently the Program Chair Elect of the ASEE Mechanics Division and serves on numerous committees at UPRM that relate to undergraduate and graduate education.Dr. William Joseph Frey, Univ. Puerto Rico - Mayaguez William J. Frey has taught research, business, engineering, and computer ethics at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez since 1990. He is a member and former director of that university’s Center for Ethics in the
range of new technologies and systems.Dr. Mar´ıa Helguera, Rochester Institute of Technology Mar´ıa Helguera was born in Mexico city where she got a BS in Physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She also holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and a PhD in Imaging Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) . Dr. Helguera is the principal investigator in the Biomedical and Materials Multimodal Imaging Laboratory in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science (CIS), RIT. Dr. Helguera is also very interested in implementing novel pedagogies in science and technology and has been involved with the freshman imaging project since its inception
many engineering andcomputer science. Video creation posed more work and time for both students and instructors;however, there are educational benefits of requiring students to review and explain their work: itprovides authentic engineering communication practice and seeds a habit of metacognition.Introduction and Related WorkEducators design pedagogical methods, activities to support student learning, and assessments ofstudent learning, while often considering the theoretical framing of how students learn. Whileengineering and computer science learning experiences include hands-on, practical experienceswith active learning exercises, laboratory work, experiments, projects, and internships, examsremain a primary tool for assessing students
Ghaisas, University of Oklahoma Shalaka has pursued a B.A. in Economics and M.A. in English from Fergusson College. She has com- pleted her MS in Teaching and Curriculum from Syracuse University.Dr. Xun Ge, University of Oklahoma Dr. Xun Ge (University of Oklahoma, xge@ou.edu) is Professor of Instructional Psychology and Tech- nology in the Department of Educational Psychology, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, the Uni- versity of Oklahoma. Her research expertise involves the design of question prompts in scaffolding stu- dents’ complex and ill-structured problem solving and self-regulated learning. Dr. Ge (2004) developed a conceptual framework using question prompts and peer interactions to facilitate
hireadditional missile oriented faculty members.However, for individuals who have left the university and entered government or industrialemployment, there may not be a temporal window through which they can return to such asetting. Accordingly, another delivery system may need to be developed to satisfy the needs ofthe missile community. Distance learning represents one alternative. Another alternative is acompany or agency sponsored on-site external degree program administered by a university.External Degree Programs. The corporate or government agency sponsored on-site deliverysystem has one big advantage over the formal university system. Companies and governmentagencies typically have a number of individuals who are qualified to teach graduate