agree on the critical role that communication plays, there isdisagreement among how best to teach communication skills and practices. [4] [5] Further, notall engineering programs require a technical communication course, nor are all technicalcommunication courses developed or taught the same way, as institutional contexts, histories,structures, and requirements impact whether and how technical communication courses aretaught. [6] This is evident in the variety of engineering program designs for teaching technicalcommunication: as a standalone course offering from external departments - primarily English[4], to writing/communication across the curriculum models in which communication skills andpractices are taught within the context of the
; specifically, the cost modeling and analysis of product development and manufacturing systems; and computer-aided design methodology.Dr. Lisa Abrams, The Ohio State University Dr. Lisa Abrams is currently the Associate Chair for the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University (OSU). She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Mechanical Engineer- ing and PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from Ohio State. She has seven years of industry experience in the areas of Design and Consulting. Her research focuses on the recruitment, retention, and success of undergraduate students, especially those populations who are under-represented in engineering. She has developed and taught a wide variety of
skills,” sense of belonging, and learningexperiences for peer leaders and female CS students. Additionally, pair programming and peerinstruction may be viable practices that will help benefit women in computing with regards tolearning experiences and learning outcomes, but not their retention or persistence. Highlycollaborative course offerings, such as flipped classrooms and “trio of best practices”classrooms, were shown to improve learning experiences, learning outcomes, retention, andpersistence of minoritized women in computing. Future research is still needed aroundpedagogical impacts on individual intersections such as Black women, Latina women, andNative American women. Additionally, future quantitative studies should provide
committee. The facilitator also reminded the committeemembers to be respectful of what is and was within the control of the advisory committee.The committee provided considerable input that was distilled to the following vision.Vision • Our University is the BEST place for women in engineering and computing because it leverages world class best practices to recruit, retain, and graduate women, setting alumni up for lifelong success. • On our journey to achieve equity for women, the Women’s Advisory Committee continues to be a resource to the administration, faculty, students, and graduates. • Recruitment Vision: Incoming classes in the college include women at world class levels of representation, • Retention Vision
Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2011 Dr. Sheppard was named as co-PI of a national NSF innovation center (Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at Stanford on summer research experiences for high school
operators during the actualconduct of testing. This practice can be incorporated at any institution for ease of operation andto ensure that any mishaps are quickly contained and addressed.Another recommendation that the program is beginning to implement is to standardize the sUASfleet across the institution to the extent possible. While there are many different sUAS systems,the users found that 2-3 multi-copters and 1-2 fixed-wing platforms could perform most of therequired testing and research. Standardizing the fleet simplifies purchases, training, and thesustainment of these systems.Each institution will have to weigh the cybersecurity risks outlined above when developing aplan to address them. As a military organization, the risks were deemed
coordinator for the Depart- ment. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in construction management. His primary research focus area is the economic, environmental, and energy impacts of construction. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021COVID-19 Effects on Engineering Technology and Construction Management Students: A Case StudyAbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected higher education across the country. Manycolleges and universities responded swiftly to this outbreak by moving to remote learning in orderto cope with the pandemic. The responses varied in different education systems at national andinternational levels
Out- reach. She works for the NDSU College of Engineering as the K-12 Outreach Coordinator where she plans and organizes outreach activities and camps for students in the Fargo-Moorhead area.Mary Pearson, North Dakota State University Mary is a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering with research focused in the area of bioelectromag- netics, specifically designing electronics that can be used as medical devices. She obtained her B.S. and M.S. degrees at NDSU in electrical and computer engineering. Mary is also interested in STEM education research.Mrs. Grace Sangalang Ng, Biola University Grace Sangalang Ng is a researcher, pursuing her Ph.D. in Educational Studies at Biola University. Her research interests
to build consensusaround a vision change that led to design becoming a major feature of the curriculum.Building Shared MeaningOur first goal was to explore the interests and priorities of those in the department and identifyareas of shared focus and those without. The change process started in a Fall 2013 ABET retreatwhere faculty and staff participated in two thought exercises. For the first exercise, each personwas asked to “write down the traits or behaviors you would look for if you were asked to identifya successful ... graduate five years after graduation.” Some example cards are shown in Figure 1.The second exercise asked each person to “describe the best undergraduate degree program inelectrical or computer engineering in the country
short video. This generated far better results with students putting morethought into both the demonstrations and the descriptions of their work. Minimal guidance wasgiven in this first trial and, based on these first results, we compiled a best practices guide to set aminimum standard for future classes.Some key best practices we found were: • Keep reports concise and on topic to minimize the video length. • Videos should be no more than 5-8 minutes (for these projects anything longer was repetitive and unnecessarily impacted grading times). • When possible, use a screen recording app rather than an iPhone to take video of terminal operations so text can clearly be read. • Group presentations are possible using a Zoom
students, refining design concepts while tackling newchallenges. The course has also provided opportunities for students to continue their work overthe summer and even after graduation; such continuity has allowed students to deepen andexpand their impact on the communities in which they are working.References[1] D. W. Butin, Service-Learning in Theory and Practice: The Future of Community Engagement in Higher Education. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.[2] J. Eyler and D. E. Giles, and A. W. Astin, Where’s the Learning in Service-Learning? John Wiley & Sons, 2010.[3] S. Freeman, S. L. Eddy, M. McDonough, M. K. Smith, N. Okoroafor, H. Jordt, and M. P. Wenderoth, “Active learning increases student performance in science
Professor in the Engineering Education Department at Virginia Poly- technic Institute and State University. London is a mixed methods researcher with interests in research impact, cyberlearning, and instructional change in STEM Education. Prior to being a faculty member, London worked at the National Science Foundation, GE Healthcare, and Anheuser-Busch. She earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Black Faces, White Spaces: Understanding the Role of Counterspaces in the Black Engineering Graduate Student Experience So
Paper ID #34436Mapping the Future: Geomatics as an Essential Element of the NextGeneration of Civil Engineering CurriculumMr. Max Teddy, Clemson University Max Teddy completed both his undergraduate and graduate degrees with Clemson University’s Glenn Department of Civil Engineering. His studies were centered around transportation design, planning, and operations. He now works as a Civil Analyst for Kimley-Horn in West Palm Beach, Florida as part of the Roadway Design team.Dr. Wayne Sarasua, Clemson University Professor of Civil Engineering and co-Principal Investigator of Clemson’s NSF RED grant. Educational research
learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in en- gineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Prof. JoAnn Silverstein P.E., University of Colorado Boulder JoAnn Silverstein is a Professor in Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has a BA in Psychology (Stanford University), BS, MS, and PhD in Civil Engineering (University of California, Davis) and is a registered Professional Engineer (Colorado). Her research interests are Water and wastewater treatment process analysis
Paper ID #32781A Review of the Teaching Modalities Chosen by Faculty During the GlobalPandemicProf. Dani Fadda P.E., University of Texas at Dallas Dr. Fadda is Associate Professor of Practice in Mechanical Engineering. His background includes two decades of engineering practice in the energy industry where he has held numerous positions. Dr. Fadda has worked in product research and developed patented products for chemical, petrochemical, and nuclear applications. He is an ASME Fellow and a Professional Engineer.Dr. Oziel Rios, University of Texas at Dallas Dr. Oziel Rios earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from
with the WFU Program for Leadership and Character and many colleagues across the university. With inclusion being a core value, she is proud that the WFU Engineering team represents 60% female engineering faculty and 40% female students, plus 20% of students from ethnic minority groups. Her areas of expertise include engineering identity, complex problem solving across cognitive and non-cognitive domains, recruitment and retention, PBL, engineering design, learning through ser- vice, character education in engineering contexts, etc. She also conducts research in cardiovascular fluid mechanics and sustainable energy technologies. Prior to joining Wake Forest University, Olga served as a Program Director at the
ABET accredited engineering program within theirinstitution and are on NSF’s list of top 50 baccalaureate origin institutions who graduate the mostundergraduates who go on to receive a PhD in science or engineering.Research responses from our Phase I survey as well as from the interviews developed for PhaseII will be used to produce evidence-based insights and recommendations towards (1) increasingunderrepresented minority students’ interest in graduate STEM degrees, (2) retaining andgraduating Black students in those programs, and (3) documenting best practices for others touse in supporting student success. Furthermore, our study along with dissemination workshopswill advance current scholarship in two main ways. First, our research will add
, STEM education, and ABET accreditation.Dr. Steve U. Efe, Morgan State University Dr. Steve Efe is an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director of the Center for Advanced Transporta- tion and Infrastructure Engineering Research. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering in Civil Engineering with a major in Structural Engineering and minor in Construction from Morgan State University. He has more than 15 years of outstanding experience in practicing, teaching, and research in civil and transporta- tion engineering. He is experienced in project management, inspection and construction supervision, adaptive materials and construction techniques, high performance material testing and simulations, mate- rial modeling and
implied anintegrated approach that could deliver on the potential of the HSS to contribute to engineeringeducation. A report commissioned by ABET to assess the impact of the EC2000 redesigndescribed the motivation for change: “For most of the second half of the 20th century, ABET’saccreditation criteria dictated all major elements of an accredited engineering program, includingprogram curricula, faculty, and facilities. In the mid-1990s, however, the engineering communitycollectively began to question the validity of such rigid accreditation requirements” (Lattuca,Terenzini, and Fredericks, 2006, p. 1). The new criteria were designed to allow flexibility and promote pedagogical andcurricular innovation. Perhaps most significantly, they
. Kim is a curriculum theorist, teacher educator, and narrative inquiry methodologist. Her research centers on various epistemological underpin- nings of curriculum studies, particularly engaging in hermeneutical excavation of the stories of students and teachers around the notion of Bildung, a human way of developing or cultivating one’s capacity. She received the Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award in 2018 from Texas Tech University, and the Out- standing Publication Award from the American Education Research Association in 2017 for her book, Understanding Narrative Inquiry, published in 2016. She has published numerous articles in journals including Journal of Curriculum Studies, International Journal of
element for a system such as ours because they meet the design requirement thatthe system should need minimal additional training. Satisfying the “minimal additional training”requirement means that the engineering education teaching and research community could applythe this kind of system off the shelf in their own work to identify important trends and answerrelevant questions in their own contexts.In educational data, NLP techniques have been used to study a variety of topics. Crossley et al.,[12], [13] used a series of rule-based approaches to study students’ sentiments and their mathidentities in an intelligent tutoring system. Crossley et al [14] also used an NLP approach tostudy differences in students writing styles as a function of their
Paper ID #33459Framing Engineering as Community Activism for Values-Driven Engineer-ing(RFE Design and Development - Year 2)Dr. Joni M. Lakin, University of Alabama Joni M. Lakin (Ph.D. , The University of Iowa) is Associate Professor of Educational Research at the University of Alabama. Her research interests include educational assessment, educational evaluation methods, and increasing diversity in STEM fields.Dr. Daniela Marghitu, Auburn University Dr. Daniela Marghitu is a faculty member in the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department at Auburn University, where she has worked since 1996. She has published
Paper ID #34900Pedagogy Improvement in Aerospace Structures Education Using VirtualLabs: Before, During, and After the COVID-19 School Closures and RemoteLearningWaterloo Tsutsui, Purdue University Waterloo Tsutsui, Ph.D., P.E., is a Lecturer and Lab Coordinator in the School of Aeronautics and As- tronautics at Purdue University. Tsutsui’s research interests are energy storage systems, multifunctional structures and materials design, fatigue and fracture, and scholarship of teaching and learning. Before Purdue, Tsutsui was an engineer in the automotive industry for more than 10 years.Eric J. Williamson, Purdue University
, we propose an interview study that aims to examine details and descriptions ofthe teaming experience in the students’ voices.IntroductionDesign projects are increasingly viewed as essential experiential learning opportunities forengineering students. Best practices for teaching design, such as limiting team size, consideringstudent diversity, scoping project tasks, and effective documentation is difficult to implementwhen projects are open-ended, largely student-directed, open to students at all levels,multi-disciplinary, competition-oriented, and so on. In previous work, we examined studentteaming experiences from a diversity perspective through an end-of-course survey and found thatstudents from different demographic backgrounds reported
Paper ID #32927Design and Validation of a System to Assign Students to Projects Basedon Student PreferencesMr. Siqing Wei, Purdue University, West Lafayette Siqing Wei received BSEE and MSEE from Purdue University. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Education program at Purdue University. After years of experience of serving the peer teacher and a graduate teaching assistant in first-year-engineering courses, he is now a research assistant at CATME research group studying how cultural diversity impacts teamwork and how to help students improve intercultural competency and teamwork competency by
and directives to move courses entirely online createdchaos in the higher education ecosystem and collapsed many of the support structures studentshad taken for granted, such as campus communities, study groups, and regular routines. As aresult, this research project conducted during the initial months of the pandemic reflects notmerely the challenges of working online, but rather working online under social isolation.MethodsOur study was based on utilizing semi-structured interviews from a broad spectrum of subjects.The interviews I conducted were part of a paired study design: a postdoctoral fellow to theproject, later joined by a graduate research assistant to the project, interviewed engineeringeducators, ed tech executives, and
c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Student-Centered Program to Increase STEM Interest through NASA-STEM ContentAbstractThis article is an evidence-based practice paper which is based on NASA Minority UniversityResearch and Education Project (MUREP) Aerospace Academy (AA) program implemented atFlorida Atlantic University (FAU). The program is focused on student-centered methodology forinfusion of NASA-STEM contents into the existing curriculum in middle and high schools. Thisnovel program aims to increase awareness and create interest in underserved minority students inGrades 6-12 for pursuing STEM fields. FAU has designed and embedded the NASA-STEMcontents into Florida’s existing Next
Paper ID #32217Designing a new holistic engineering programDr. Julia D Thompson, University of San Francisco Julia Thompson is an Assistant Professor at University of San Francisco. She has a passion for integrating the soul’s work into the engineering design process and technology. She is driven to help students, and people in general, look at technology as a pathway toward healing of earth and unjust social structure. Julia did her undergrad in chemical engineering at UC Berkeley and her PhD in engineering education at Purdue. Her research interests focus on how engineering design practices impact the relationships that
. Initially, a pre and post student survey was implemented thatprovided some key insight on the impact of the STEM bus program on K-12 students, albeit on asmall scale, which led to the decision to only collect a post survey from students to make it moreconvenient for the teachers.A. Survey DataFor this pilot study survey data, teachers found it challenging to get the students to complete boththe pre and post surveys, so after two school visits, we revised the survey to only one post surveyregarding students’ experience on the STEM bus. The descriptive statistics from these surveyresults provided valuable results that we show herein to address research question one. Question1 asked, “I have a good understanding of what STEM is”. On the pre-survey
A. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Dr. Jesus Gonzalez is currently a lecturer in the Department of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering of the College of Engineering and Computer Science. He holds a PhD from The University of Sheffield in United Kingdom in Materials Science and Engineering. During the PhD, he received the Foster Research Prize given to the best PhD thesis related to glass technology. His research interest is in the mechanical properties of glass at room and high temperature. Dr. Gonzalez has also a broad experience in the glass industry, specifically in fabrication of automotive safety glass. He worked for Vitro Glass Company for more than 19 years where he held