demonstrate it.* The definition of “meeting a course objective” is achieving a “C” level (70%) on the task. Table 2: CE401 Course Assessment for 2020 Course Objective Assessment How Evaluated and Remarks a. Describe challenges facing civil All graded events in the course address this engineers in professional practice now 4 objective and students solidly met the and in the future. requirements. b. Develop short-term and long-term This specific course objective is only professional goals, to include directly addressed by the Career Paper, but
experience from another class or extracurricular activities that have their own designprocess to follow.Of the observations made during the research many of them were not surprising and expectedresults. These included the following. The senior ME 465 students didn’t have much change intheir design processes from the beginning to the end of the semester. This wasn’t surprising sincethey had already spent their entire academic career forming this process through other classesand personal experiences. The other not surprising thing with the senior ME 465 students is thatthey came in with more general knowledge of the design process than the incoming freshmanwith little to no engineering background. This means that during their time at [university
), computer-based simulationprojects of similar complexities were used to address the same topics.Creative thinking is an important skill needed for modern workplace in engineering and technology fields[3]. Instructors in higher education consider various ways of integrating creativity and innovation into thecourses they teach to better prepare students for their future careers [4]. Study shows that between the twocommonly-used approaches that enhance creativity, i.e., teaching vs. practice creativity, stimulatingcreativity by practices is considered to be more effective [5]. In addition, many professors used project-based learning [6, 7] when trying to foster creativity in their courses [8, 9].Due to robotics’ multi-disciplinary nature, we think
iniatives or other projectsthat are expected to last a minimum of 5 years. Courses are designed around anexperiantal learning pedagogy and not a lecture format.At NYU there are roughly 40 VIP teams operating. Students join teams for threesemesters. Each semester students enroll for one credit, and at the end of three semester,with three credits earned, students are able to apply their participation in VIP as atechincal elective towards their graduation. The three semester model creates anopportunity for students to move from beginners in their first semesters to team leaders intheir last, replicating how they might grow in their future careers. It also means that VIPprojects outlast any individual students participation. Students enter the VIP
pursuing a Master’s of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University.Carly Merrill, Bucknell University Carly Merrill is currently working in the healthcare industry where she is pursing a career in strategic product development. She has recently earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biomedical Engineering from Bucknell University.Dr. Jove Graham, Geisinger Jove Graham, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Center for Pharmacy Innovation and Outcomes at Geisinger, a nonprofit integrated health system in Pennsylvania.Troy Schwab, Bucknell University Troy Schwab is a computer scientist currently working as a federal consultant, specifically concerning data engineering. He received undergraduate degrees in
implementation of unconventional aerospace concepts, mightnaturally increase diversity in the field. Furthermore, there are many factors contributing to whether or nota student may choose to pursue a STEM-related career. Research suggests that early math achievement,math self-efficacy beliefs, and early exposure to STEM-related subjects are all indicative of whetherstudents enroll in STEM majors. While math achievement is a significant indicator of a student’s interestin engineering related fields, early exposure to STEM is one of the most influential factors in whetherstudents continue to seriously pursue related fields in their later academic career.The intent of this paper is to show that early STEM exposure, along with the implementation
level of confidence building prototypesIn the spring of 2020, questions taken from the General Engineering Self-Efficacy Scale [4] wereadded to the pre- and post-course surveys to assess student self-efficacy. Self-efficacy refers toan individual’s belief that they can do certain things [2], in this case the belief that they cansucceed in engineering. Studies have found that self-efficacy correlates with both academicperformance [5] and persistence [6]; research has found that while some aspects of women’sself-efficacy in engineering have increased over the years, their self-efficacy tends to decreaseover the course of their academic career [7]. Two questions from the survey are included here inFigures 8 and 9. The first question relates to
easierjustification of equipment and labor investment costs. Perhaps more importantly, studentsrepeatedly encounter the equipment and explore different portions of the apparatus throughout thecurriculum. Anecdotal feedback from the students on the learning gains from using real hardwareand preparing them for future careers in engineering has been positive. This feedback has beengathered verbally in the lab and through five-year post graduation surveys. Future work mayinclude more formal assessments of this apparatus specifically and an exploration on whetherstudents learn and retain information better through this tiered approach using a modularexperimental apparatus compared to an approach using independent experiments.Bill of MaterialsThe bill of materials
groups [12,13]. In 2006 the NCEES added the requirement for a master’s degree or equivalent education toits model law with a goal for implementation of this requirement in 2020; in 2014 thisrequirement was removed from the model law [14].The primary driver for graduate education is to impart the skills and knowledge needed in theprofession, which also enable a successful and rewarding career. The ASCE has explored theoutcomes that should be met to prepare civil engineers for entry into the profession, detailing“the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for entry into the practice of civil engineering atthe professional level” in the CEBOK [6, p. vii]. The Body of Knowledge has evolved andchanged over time, from an initial document in 2004
, developing, andmaintaining the online platform through which the Parsons Problems were offered to students.References[1] B. W. Char and T. T. Hewett, “A first year common course on computational problem solving and programming,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc., 2014.[2] R. Bualuan, “Teaching computer programming skills to first-year engineering students using fun animation in Matlab,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc., 2006.[3] D. Ronan and D. Cenk Erdil, “Impact on computing attitudes and career intentions in a rotation-based survey course,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc., vol. 2020-June, 2020.[4] Code.org, CSTA, and ECEP Alliance, “2020 State of Computer Science Education: Illuminating Disparities,” 2020.[5
Operations Research from Pennsylvania State University (PSU) in 2010 and 2012, respectively. Dr. Ashour was the inaugural re- cipient of William and Wendy Korb Early Career Professorship in Industrial Engineering in 2016. Dr. Ashour’s research areas include applied decision making, modeling and simulation, virtual reality, and process improvement. He contributed to research directed to improve engineering education.Mr. James Devin Cunningham, Carnegie Mellon University PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, with research interests in machine learning and reinforcement learning.Christian Enmanuel Lopez, Lafayette College I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science with an affiliation in
MSD related complaints reported by the workers where they were exposed to awkwardpostures.It's been rigorously established that the students learning with hands-on projects escalate their interest andmotivation to lead a successful career in the industry upon graduation. Students' learning performancecurve alleviates while using the project-based learning (PBL) technique, as they experience the process inreal-time [7], [8]. They apply their theoretical knowledge acquired in class within the defined context. Anengineering technology level-4 course named "Ergonomics and Process Optimization" had been instructedfollowing the PBL technique in Fall 2019. A total of 18 students were divided into nine groups assigneda real industrial problem and
engineering students. Theapplicability of PID in many different career fields, implies that many degree programs couldbenefit from adding it to their curriculum. Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering,Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, Mechanical EngineeringTechnology, etc. are all degrees that either already offer disciplines or courses that study thedesign and use of automated control [5].Part of the Advanced PLC laboratory at our university, the Amatrol Process Control System,shown in Fig. 1, is used to teach programming of industrial equipment for controlling the flowrate and level of fluids [3]. It is not concerned with the theory of PID control, rather it focuses onthe programming of industrial equipment and the
broader awareness of career pathways in CEE and how URMs cansucceed in a professional engineering career.A change in leadership and personnel occurred in the third year but the RevED team was able toanalyze student interviews that revealed how our students perceived diversity and inclusion atthe university. The analysis of these interviews helped influence the future interview protocol tobe used in the fifth year. Curricular development continued with the guidance of student clinicteams. These teams developed small assignments and classroom examples using globalexamples, domestic examples, and even utilized methods to engage visual learners. This effort isimportant since the inclusion of students’ lived experiences is based in critical education
addition, the simulator will behoused in the Virtual Reality Center at the university so that local K-12 students can experiencethe wonder of flight, as well as some of the engineering aspects of aircraft design. Therefore, thesimulator and its interfaces must be engineered to be used as an effective flight-simulator andinclude the necessary safety parameters, yet simple enough for a non-expert to operate. One goalof this project is that through the experience of using the flight-simulator, K-12 students will bemore motivated to pursue careers in engineering disciplines.Although nearly complete, there are a few aspects of the system that need further engineeringanalysis and development. Finite element analysis will be applied to the mechanical
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 design. She received ICA’s Mentorship Award and the Provost Outstanding Mentor Award at Purdue, where she was University Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair and Director of the Susan Bulke- ley Butler Center
and in their future careers.1.0 IntroductionTo properly contextualize Carnegie Mellon’s work around DEI, we need to situate it within alarger movement that has gained traction and momentum around engineering and social justice[1]-[3]. These happenings build upon the seminal work of Baillie [4], Riley [5], and their jointwork with their collaborators [6]. This has sprung a series of engineering and social justice-related or -infused courses, seminar series, and workshops across engineering campuses such asthose at the University of San Diego [7], Colorado School of Mines [8], Purdue [9], Stanford[10], the National Academies [11], and others. The most recent illustration is a series of global,humanitarian, and peace engineering programs that
in the Mechanical Engineering Department, as part of a broad effort to redesign the curriculum requirements for the undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering. Jeff has over twenty years’ product development and manufacturing experience bringing medical and consumer products to market, through the course of my career journey with Apple, SGI, Nektar, Boston Scientific and Amazon/Lab126. In addition to working with and training engineers in industry, his 9+ years coaching and teaching students in science and sports provide an excellent foundation for educating engineers to make a difference in the world. Specialties: Leading organizations to deliver innovative, thoughtful products; thorough understanding of
resource was through a volunteer program that was also created within SCU. TheSociety of Women Engineers (SWE) chapter had recently created the cleverly named SWE++program where members of SWE teach programming to local 7th grade girls who had notpreviously been exposed to computers or the world of programming. This outreach puts femalecollege students in teaching positions in front of their younger counterparts. This works to shiftimplicit gendered stereotypes that can hinder a pathway to a STEM-related career [6]. SWE++transitioned to online in Spring 2020 and hosted weekly Zoom sessions. Students from theSTEM Outreach class supported these SWE++ lessons by joining the virtual sessions and goinginto Zoom breakout rooms to work with smaller
thedevelopment of the projects. The second program is the IDEAS Learning Community thatengages about 25 first-year students yearly in a one-semester partnership with an outreachprogram from Indianapolis, Indiana which is about an hour from campus. The central classcombines career exploration and integration into the university with discussions and experiencesaround diversity. The engagement with the outreach program provides a context and activitiesthat enhance the learning goals and provides experiences to bring the class together. Thedeliverables are activities for K12 students both at the outreach center and for an annual visit tocampus.EPICS ResultsEPICS is large and complex, with many stakeholders. We first examined the three commonstakeholders of
lead to business and academicpartnerships, career opportunities, and continued friendships. Relevant to the projects, iterationand diverse perspectives can be encouraged through observing actions, overhearingconversations, and impromptu training [9].Ending a hackathonCompetitive and high-pressure environments are frequently documented deterrents to beginnerand non-male participants [3]. Though prizes are not primary motivators for participants at civichackathons [15], the competition itself with collaboration instead of antagonistic settings stillincreases excitement [3]. While some hackathons have eliminated prizes altogether [4], analternative is creating theme-based awards such as Hope’s "The Healthy Communities Award"and "The Information
peers, the students had the opportunity to develop peer support and stronger interests and motivations for learning. Note that in addition to gaining technical knowledge, the students also learned team collaboration, which is essential not only in course and capstone projects, but also in their future career.(3) Hands-on and real-world oriented: The summer program encouraged the students to solve problems that are practical, meaningful, and with real-world implications. With the help of the faculty mentors, the students had the chance to tinker and dabble various prototypes until the perfection of the final product is reached.(4) It was offered online instead of face-to-face: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our campus was
[9,14]. Isolation also has important career consequences: those who are not well-integrated socially among their classmates and co-workers are more likely to miss out on2 This definition, and my operationalization below, includes under the “disability” umbrella people who themselvesmight not identify as having a disability (e.g., someone with leukemia). The case for doing so is the sharedexperiences of socially- and environmentally- produced exclusions that persons within that umbrella often share[15].3 Per National Center on Disability and Journalism guidelines (https://ncdj.org/style-guide/), I use person-firstlanguage (i.e., “persons with disabilities” rather than “disabled persons”) when talking about individuals withphysical and/or
a loose relationship with connections established by individual faculty orstaff members without formal ties. These individual connections have now grown to includesignificant National Science Foundation (NSF) scholarships in science, technology, engineering,and mathematics (S-STEM) grant known as Engineering Neighbors: Gaining Access, GrowingEngineers (ENGAGE). This creates a partnership between the institutions to support studentsuccess through pre-transfer, during transfer, and post-transfer stages. This is done byminimizing economic barriers and supporting student development in five areas: academic,engineering transfer/career path, personal, connection, and professional. ENGAGE is alsodesigned to create sustainable change so that our
their career in industry. The second sectionfocused on grasping a general understanding of either ethical reasoning or global awareness,depending courses that the faculty member taught the prior academic year. Section three askedquestions associated with the barriers and challenges associated with teaching a Pathways Course.Section four asked was designed for non-Pathways faculty and sked about their knowledge of thePathways program. The fifth section asked about the faculty member to reflect on the Pathwayscourse they had taught or briefly talk about any future plans for the course. The last question askedhow ethical/global awareness factored into their teaching more generally. 5. Results and Discussion 5.1.Incentives When
wideruniversity population of undergraduate students, from different majors ranging from theMechanical Engineering Technology program, Industrial Technology program, Career andTechnical Education teacher program, and Mechanical Engineering program students at ODU.This course is a part of manufacturing concentration for MET students. The course curriculumincludes an overview of various AM processes. It explains how AM enables the creation ofcomplex geometries from the bottom-up, without many of the constraints of traditionalmanufacturing methods such as machining, molding, and casting and commonly taught machinistapproach CAD modelling methodology. This paper discusses the development andimplementation of AM course and provide recommendations for
the Sloan Foundation and his team received for the best paper published in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008, 2011, and 2019 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011 and 2015. Dr. Ohland is an ABET Program Evaluator for ASEE. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi and is a Fellow of the ASEE, IEEE, and AAAS.Dr. Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University Marisa K. Orr is an Assistant Professor in Engineering and Science Education with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. Her research interests include student persistence and pathways in engineering, gender equity, diversity, and academic policy. Dr. Orr is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award for
MIDFIELD research project on engineering education; she has served as a Co-PI on three research projects, including one on transfer students and another on student veterans in engineering.Dr. Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University Marisa K. Orr is an Assistant Professor in Engineering and Science Education with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. Her research interests include student persistence and pathways in engineering, gender equity, diversity, and academic policy. Dr. Orr is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award for her research entitled, ”Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-Makers.”Dr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants
active learning strategies. Findings indicated that collaborative learningand problem-based learning seemed to be the most commonly used strategies followed by cooperativelearning and concept tests. Interestingly, concept tests, peer instruction, and 1-minute paper were threestrategies about which the participants had the least knowledge.In the follow-up interviews, participants indicated that they mostly learned the aforementioned usedactive learning strategies through the university level workshops they attended. One of the participantswas a teaching assistant for a professor who was the pioneers of active learning engineering during theirgraduate studies, and that impacted their teaching career in the long run. Being able to observe
material is consistent with their future career (Wigfield, 1994; Wigfield &Eccles, 2000). The interest component is based on how students perceive course topics andinstructional methods, interesting (Hidi & Ann Renninger, 2006; Renninger, Hidi, Krapp, &Renninger, 2014). Further, the success component is formed on expectancy for success(Wigfield, 1994; Wigfield & Eccles, 2000). This component reflects students’ self-efficacy aboutthe coursework (Bandura, 1986). The caring component is based on students believes thatinstructors care about their success and well-being (Noddings, 1992).Motivation can be perceived as a student’s intention and engagement in learning as student’saction (Christenson, Reschly, & Wylie, 2012). In other