analysis and modeling skillsthat would be needed for research projects that had to be conducted at a distance and so could notrely on experimental methods.Another important design change that was made to accommodate the online format was movingfrom mentoring triads to mentoring “pods.” Typically, we have formed mentoring triadsconsisting of an undergraduate research Scholar, a graduate student mentor, and a facultymentor. For the online offering, we first paired faculty where one typically uses experimentalresearch methods and the other typically uses computational research methods in order tofacilitate the planning of a rich set of Scholar projects that could be completed fully online. Eachfaculty member identified a graduate student mentor from
Paper ID #39024Approaches to Evidencing Intra-Team Equity in Student CollaborativeDesign Decision-Making InteractionsDr. Andrew David Moffat, University of Michigan Andrew Moffat is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan, working with the Engi- neering Education Research Unit and Center for Academic Innovation on an NSF-funded project to assess the effectiveness of Tandem, an in-house software platform designed to support and nurture teamwork skills in undergraduate engineering students. Andrew has a background in education research and evalua- tion, having previously worked on a project at the
ASEE-GSW2004-043 Who are the Good Team Players: Part II Richard Bannerot Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Houston AbstractWorking in teams, especially on multidisciplinary projects, is becoming more and morecommon in engineering as well as in other work environments. However, despite theimportance of “team-work” in engineering, there is little data on the characteristics of“good” and “poor” team players. This paper presents the second set of results from anongoing, horizontal study of this issue in two engineering design courses, one at
Sigma methodology often fail to develop analyticaland statistical competencies, which negatively impacts the adequate development of DMAICcycle, which stands for the 5 phases of the methodology: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve,and Control. This problem creates the necessity of improving the efficiency of theoretical –practical content delivery strategies and techniques in the academic formation such that studentscan be prepared for successful implementation of Lean Six Sigma projects. This evidence-basedpaper explores the implementation of Guided Learning Sequences, a content delivery techniquethat combines instruction, practice, and application into real-life inspired problems, to developdata analysis competencies related to the statistical
Paper ID #38762Career Outcomes Tracking New York City Louis Stokes Alliance forMinority Participation Research Scholars from 1993 to 2022Dr. Claude Brathwaite, City University of New York, City College Dr. Claude Brathwaite currently serves as the Director of Student Resources and Services at the City Col- lege Grove School of Engineering, utilizing a model of High Impact Practices and Engagement (HIPE). Dr. Brathwaite previously served as the Project Administrator and later Executive Director of the NYC Louis Stokes Alliance. He has also served as the Deputy Director of the City College Black Studies Pro- gram, the
significant.In a previous study, the innovation self-efficacy of undergraduate students enrolled in two juniorand senior level environmental engineering courses was found to increase after studentscompleted an activity on designing K-12 STEM projects related to the course outcomes (See fullinstrument in Bolhari and Tillema, 2022). In a follow-on study, it was of interest to evaluate theimpacts of the addition of mentors into the curriculum design activity. Previous research foundthat various forms of mentoring might increase innovation self-efficacy. In co-curricularactivities with communities via the group Design for America (DFA), student teams receivedbrief weekly coaching sessions with professional designers, and interviews identified these
students in CE and SE take. Both sections were given similar assignmentswith only minor details changed for exam questions.Description of this Implementation of Mastery GradingThe most important part of mastery grading is deciding how to organize course assessments. Inthis course, Rojas created five assessment categories: quizzes, homeworks, exams, a project, andindividual project contributions. Given that Rojas taught this course several times before, heassumed that previous assignments already mapped well to the Course Learning Objectives(CLOs) and he did not need to update the assignment content. Next, Rojas converted eachassignment so that he could grade them as either needs revision (NR), low pass (LP), or highpass (HP) with the only
, at that time, the undeveloped four-year SMSCP BS MCET degree program curriculum.The BS MCET curriculum was fashioned with advanced topics from the AAS SMSCP specifiedcourses; additional topics relating to project management and capstone projects [5]; andintegration of the general ET courses already offered. After completing the SMSCP instructortraining needed to teach in the Siemens program, the lead Mechatronics faculty author beganteaching the courses specific to the SMSCP in 2019. Through a strategic rotation of courseofferings, the author could offer the SMSCP-specific courses at least every two years.Additionally, when possible, SMSCP-specific courses in the AAS MCET program were offeredin this schedule. With external transfer pathways
students to choose degrees in STEM majors is essential to theCUREs (I-CUREs). Through lectures and lab tours, I-CUREs development of HBCUs.introduce students to cutting-edge technologies in STEM This study is part of an NSF project in progress, “Earlierdisciplines. As students move through their first two years of Access to Cutting-Edge Research Experience forcollege, this model will have a significant impact on their undergraduate STEM Education at Jackson State University”educational and career trajectories. It could also help African and it aims to include cutting edge course-based undergraduateAmerican students become more engaged in STEM learning and
with the level of activity observed in each sleep Engineering Education. data, process it, and calculate the entropy values. stage with deeper levels of sleep corresponding to● The research project is, therefore, to evaluate less lower levels of entropy. complex biological systems that tend to have ● Subject data is obtained from the publicly available ● Multiscale Entropy reveals a potentially more reduced entropy
for aselection of successfully deployed tools are included in Appendix A.As other faculty became interested in these projects, it became clear that we would benefit fromstandardizing some of the grading tools. After determining a set of criteria and standards fordeveloping a more universal set of tools, which included guidelines for ease of use andadaptability, two GTAs were given the task of synthesizing the various existing grading toolswhile adding a few desired features. The result was grading tools in Google Sheets that allowgraders and instructors to review various grading statistics, rapidly modify rubrics, use and applystandard comments, and automatically generate, share, and upload complete rubrics for eachstudent or team to the LMS
virtual learning in 2020. After returning to on-campusactivities, these kits continued to be used to enable open-ended group projects, hands-onhomework assignments, and pre-laboratory exercises. We developed an affordable multi-courseelectronics kit by condensing three current hardware kits in the Circuit Analysis, Mechatronics,and Design Methodology courses. By removing redundant components and replacing expensiveparts with cheaper alternatives, we reduced the cost of the condensed kit by approximately 30%compared to purchasing the three course-specific kits. To support the kit usage, we created anonline repository with electronic safety, microcontroller tutorials, basic hardware and softwareinstruction, and coding examples. We developed a pre
Engineering Education, 2023 GIFT: Maximizing first-year students’ ‘least effort’ information gathering habits using Information Foraging TheoryIt has widely been reported that engineers use a ‘least effort’ approach to meeting theirinformation needs.[1,2] While some have translated this as some kind of intellectual laziness,one should rather think of it as an approach embedded in efficiency. Engineers want to find justenough information to be able to make a reliable decision and then get on with their project. Thisis in contrast to the typical research-based approach to information gathering in academia, wherecomprehensiveness is more valued. By tapping into the values underlying the least effortapproach, however, one can make the case
worked at Iowa State University for 4 years as a student’s program coordinator for the Science Bound program, a pre-college through college program focused on working with scholars from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue a degree in STEM. He has been a research affiliate on multiple NSF-funded projects surrounding equity in STEM. Brian’s research interests are college access, retention, marginalized students, community colleges, first-generation, STEM education, STEM identity development and engineering education.Dr. Spencer Platt, University of South carolinaRuiqin Gao, University of South Carolina Ruiqin Gao is a doctoral candidate in the program of Educational Psychology and Research in the Col- lege of
Paper ID #37804Engagement in Practice: Reflections on Remote Community-Engaged Learning in the Context of a MultilateralInternational PartnershipPatrick Sours (Graduate Student)Howard L. Greene (Senior Project Manager) Howard Greene directs K-12 Education Outreach for the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University, bringing a rich array of university research and teaching intersections to the K-12 community. Specifically, Howard’s work seeks to improve awareness of engineering careers and academic preparation in K-12 and to build the skills of career ambassadorship in OSU undergraduate students. Howard
to Address Disasters Project funded by the Division of Graduate Education - NSF Research Traineeship (NRT)BackgroundDisasters continue to devastate communities across the globe, and recovery efforts require thecooperation and collaboration of experts and community members across disciplines [1-3]. TheDisaster Resilience and Risk Management (DRRM) program, funded through the NationalScience Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeship (NRT), is an interdisciplinary graduate programthat brings together faculty and graduate students from across one large, mid-Atlantic universityin order to develop novel transdisciplinary approaches to disaster-related issues. The projectseeks to improve understanding and support proactive decision-making relative to
], [9], [10]). Additionally,studies of wellness and coping related to graduate students are rare. While studies of specificstressors and populations all constitute valuable contributions to the study of doctoral studentretention, our team posits that there is a need for studies which explore multiple sources of stress.These stressors can then be compared to each other and to literature for existing coping strategiesto better understand which stressors are the most severely and frequently experienced bygraduate students. Such an effort can promote proactive interventions which improve upondoctoral students’ habits and the cultures they are situated in as an effort to avoid retentionissues.Our project proposes to situate and compare different
Education an educational software company focused on teaching sketching and spatial visualization skills.Dr. Huihui Qi, University of California, San Diego Dr.Huihui Qi is a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego.Dr. Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego Van Den Einde is a Teaching Professor in Structural Engineering at UC San Diego and the President of eGrove Education, Inc. She incorporates education innovations into courses (Peer Instruction, Project- based learning), prepares next generation faculty, advises student organizations, and is committed to fos- tering a supportive environment for diverse students. Her research focuses on engagement strategies for large
-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference: University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee Jul 30WIP: Using an Elevator Pitch Competition to Introduce Engineering Students to EntrepreneurshipIntroductionAn elevator pitch is a succinct description of a product or idea with the intention of allowing thelistener to review the main information in a brief period. An elevator pitch is aimed at creatinginterest in a project, product, or idea. Characteristics of a good elevator pitch include, a) concisebut persuasive, b) uses clear language, and d) highlights the specifics of the idea or product.The purpose of this project was to introduce first semester engineering students
ensure a consistent levelof complexity and difficulty for the exams from one year to the next. Figure 2 displays examplesof the assemblies that students were tasked to create on the final exams from 2019 – 2021.Figure 2. Assemblies required to be modeled by students on the ENCP A102 Final Exam for SP19, SP20, and SP21 (from left to right).A final project was also consistently assigned in ENCP A102 from SP19 to SP21. For thisproject, students created a 3D model and a corresponding 2D drawing of an assembly of theirchoosing. Consistent with the assessment of homework and exams, the final project evaluatedstudents in their ability to accurately represent their ideas in Creo (3D model and 2D drawing).However, this
presented both an opportunityand a challenge, in that creating these questions would be beneficial to both the students learningfrom them as well as the instructors who are able to utilize them, but that creating questions of ahigh enough quality focusing on multiple conceptual perspectives is a significant timecommitment.In other courses, we had previously created course projects focused on curriculum development,in which students would develop learning tools that they themselves would have found helpful tolearn from in their coursework.10 In these projects, students found creative ways to communicateconcepts central to the course, including the writing and solving of exam-style problems. Studentsresponded extremely positively to these projects
Penn State. Dr. Hanagan has focused most of her research career on floor vibration serviceability, with a strong emphasis on steel structures. She has overseen dozens of research projects, participated in several committees, supervised many students, and written numerous papers that have contributed to the body of knowledge in vibration serviceability. While Dr. Hanagan’s primary research interest has been in the vibration serviceability of structures, one of her greatest passions is teaching. Her area of teaching specialization is structural engineering with a particular emphasis in the analysis and design of buildings. At Penn State she currently teaches a structural analysis course, the advanced steel design course
Engineering Education. Her research focuses on the interactions between student motivation and their learning experiences. Her projects include studies of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their development of problem-solving skills, self- regulated learning practices, and epistemic beliefs. Other projects in the Benson group involve students’ navigational capital, and researchers’ schema development through the peer review process. Dr. Benson is an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Fellow, and a member of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Tau Beta Pi. She earned a B.S. in
wider deployment. In particular, the educational systems in many sub-SaharanAfrican countries do not offer renewable energy courses. Furthermore, skills around writing proposals toacquire funding to finance these systems, basic project management skills around deploying andimplementing renewable energy systems and developing sustainable business models to ensure that theproductive use of the generated electricity provides sufficient income to sustain a renewable energyenterprise are often not incorporated into education curricula. This paper considers a new renewableenergy curriculum for the Burundian context that includes these components.Review of Existing Renewable Energy Programs in Sub-Saharan AfricaSeveral renewable energy masters
strategies during problem solving activities.Talha Naqash, Utah State University, Logan Graduate Research AssistantMr. Assad Iqbal, Arizona State University Assad Iqbal is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Arizona State University working on the National Sci- ence Foundation-funded research project i.e., Engineering For Us All (e4usa). Assad Iqbal is an informa- tion system engineer with a Ph.D. in Engineering Education and around 14 years of teaching experience in undergraduate engineering and technology education. His research interest is to explore ways to promote self-directed, self-regulated life-long learning among the undergraduate engineering student population. ©American Society for
education, project management, and knowledge management. Dr. Alsayyed has a Ph.D. in Industrial engineering, three Masters: (Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, and Project Management). Dr. Al- sayyed is a Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE) since 1997.Dr. Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University Yanjun Yan is an Associate Professor in Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University. Her research interests include engineering education, swarm robotics, statistical signal processing, and swarm intelligence. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 All-encompassing Skill Portal for Skills Management and Development Basel Alsayyed
for Engineering Education, 2023 Building Interest in Technology Careers through a Five-Week Saturday ProgramThe goal of the “Building Career Interest in Computer Science through Advanced Real-WorldTechnology Projects” (CICSTART) program, funded by the National Science FoundationAdvanced Technological Education (NSF ATE) program (DUE#2113261), is to provideadditional professional and technical skills to cohorts of high school students through a five-week Saturday Program. The curriculum is continuously reviewed and modified to addresscurrent skills needed by the technician workforce. While this program was originally proposedand planned as in-person, the leadership team decided to shift to a virtual
. A significant aspect of the project was to create a supportnetwork for the students that incorporated existing services provided by the university andestablished new services to aid students throughout their mentored research experience. One ofthe new services was the development and delivery of starting in the second year of the grant andcontinuing through the third year. The purpose of the workshops is to introduce students todifferent aspects of research. The first series of workshops (offered in the 2021-2022 academicyear) were mostly informational and provided initial support for undergraduate researchers. Fromthe experience of developing and hosting the first series, the style of the second series (offered inthe 2022-2023 academic
,and professional networking opportunities, while gaining direct access and exposure to over 30technical staff members, including 16 day-of volunteers/mentors, 10 technical talk speakers, and8 gallery walk judges. A majority of the intern participants (over 85%) attended technical talksand gained exposure to cutting edge technologies and relevant topics (including hypersonics,natural disaster response, anti-gravity machines, and 5G networks). Many of these interactionsdirectly informed the students’ project brainstorming sessions and eventual final proposals.Students who responded to the survey stated that they met and interacted with on average three ormore staff outside of technical talks and approximately 46% stated their confidence
Engineering Safety Vests TBD Engineering Plastic Filters TBDUnits will be available for FREE download when completed. Sign up here to be notified: YES Elementary YES Middle School YES Out of SchoolYES ResourcesA suite of resources, design to support learning and instruction accompany each YES unit. Theseare available in print and digital form and include:Teacher Guide: Contains eight to ten, 45-minute lessonsContext-Setting Narrative: Introduces the engineering problem students will solve. (K–2) A story is read aloud and its illustrations projected. (K–2 OS) A dynamic poster introduces the activity’s focus. (3–5) Comics preview the engineering work students will do