University of Minnesota. She earned her PhD from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow studying the role of prototypes in companies. Carlye’s research is in the field of Design Theory and Methodology, and she studies how designers engage in the product development process and then improves tools and methods to support them. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Developing design ethnography interviewing competencies for novices1.0 IntroductionEthnographic research
introducing industry mentors to students.Through this proposed intervention, we explore the broad research question: How effective is theproposed approach in impacting professional identity formation and promoting industry-relatedcompetencies? Doing so involves addressing related questions such as: (1) what is theunderstanding of these applications and their impact on students in terms of interest, knowledgeof applications, and professional identity formation? (2) What is the relationship betweenstudents’ identity and course performance and assessments? (3) Is there a significant impact ofthe proposed approach on underrepresented groups especially women?We worked with four industry mentors from various areas of chemical engineering to design up-to
variousstakeholders on the practical measures to transform engineering educators to design andimplement innovative teaching and learning. Observations, discussions, and surveys will becarried out during educators’ training and their implementation of the new method of teachingand learning to study the transformation. Benchmarking visits will be carried out to discoverthe best practices. The qualitative data will be analyzed using thematic analysis to identify thegaps and the measures. Later, Delphi method will be employed to finalize the standards. Allthe data will be examined and triangulated to develop a framework containing the directions,actions, and transformation. This work-in-progress paper reports the research result of the first objective
technical leader. The program grew steadily, attracted 10 corporate sponsors,and was awarded two major NSF S-STEM grants. The NSF research sought to understand ifearly leadership training resulted in higher graduation and retentions rates and faster time tograduation for academically talented, financially disadvantaged STEM majors. The preliminaryresults indicate a highly positive association.The goal of the LDP has remained the same since inception, help STEM students become futureleaders in industry by providing leadership training and mentoring with a cohort experience ofco-curricular education and community service opportunities. Teaching and modeling authenticproblem-solving to future leaders is an essential strategy and key component of the
exposed to in associated core courses. Therefore, the addition of new materials does not create a significant cognitive overload or impediments to learning. • Laboratories offer an excellent place to compare the traditional and modern instrumentation, look at trade-offs and discuss better ways to design sampling campaigns and structural health monitoring programs. Therefore, they provide an ideal platform to discuss the role of modern day sensing and informatics and issues related to the inter-linkages between frequency, accuracy and precision of measurements.Given the growing need for cross-disciplinary engineering training, and ensuring engineering studentshave requisite skillsets necessary for the practice of
education.Avneet Hira (Assistant Professor) Avneet Hira is an Assistant Professor in the Human-Centered Engineering program at Boston College with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Teaching, Curriculum, and Society. Her scholarship is motivated by the fundamental question of how engineering and technology can support people in living well in an increasingly engineered world. Her research, which is in engineering education, focuses on affordances of technology, humanistic design, and engineering epistemology. Her work is inspired by Making and tinkering practices, especially those from different local knowledge systems.Brian Keith Smith Brian K Smith is the Honorable David S. Nelson Professional Chair and Associate
construction (AEC) women in the United States. In 2020, Dr. Ofori-Boadu received a National Science Foundation (NSF-RAPID) grant award to gain insights into undergraduate STEM student decision-making processes during pandemics. Through seed funds from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s Department of Education (Title III) and Center of Product Design and Advanced Manufacturing (CEPDAM) grants, she investigated the utilization of agricultural waste bio-chars for partial cement replacement resulting in a patent (U.S. Patent No. 11,104,611; August 31, 2021). Her research work has resulted in numerous citations, publications, presentations, and website references such as on the International Bio-char
Paper ID #36916A Multi-Phasic Approach to Increase Diversity AmongDoctoral Candidates in Biomedical EngineeringLacy White Lacy White is the Graduate Program Coordinator for the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. She earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a master's degree in Clinical Psychology from The University of Texas at Tyler. Lacy is interested in best practices in graduate recruitment and retention to ultimately increase the diversity of the biomedical engineering workforce.Carly Eressy Carly Eressy is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Biomedical
such as printing orientation, infill density, and infill pattern on the mechanicalproperties of the commonly used polylactide (PLA) and its Tough version. Figure 1 PCE Vertical Test Stand (left) and Tinus Olsen Charpy Machine (right).MethodsTwo ET senior design students were assigned to work on this project. The senior design classesare capstone courses where students utilize their cumulative engineering knowledge towards areal-life project through research and experimentation. They come in a sequence of two 3-creditclasses in 2 competitive semesters (Senior Design I & Senior Design II). ASTM standards werefirst researched to determine specimen size and dimensions for the tests performed. Tensile andCharpy impact tests were
aspects. • Design and produce sound castings by using the principles and best practices in metal casting. • Use casting simulation software to perform the detail design of a casting feeding system that provides tranquil filling and minimizes defects. • Identify, evaluate, discuss, and propose recommendations to metal casting problems.The milestone-based PBL was first introduced in the Foundry and Heat Treatment course in theFall 2020 semester and again in the Fall 2021 semester with minor changes to account forlessons learned during the first implementation. The motivation for implementing a PBLmethodology in this course stemmed from the instructor’s (who is also the first author of thisstudy) experience teaching this
solutions to everyday life. • Learning what I thought I would hate in real life but actually loved it. • It was practical engineering. Very much real-world knowledge that would benefit any engineer. It was tangible and not theoretical. • Appreciated that learning felt realistic, as though it would be very applicable in the field. I have learned a fundamental basis for topics which directly pertain to my career.Most of the students feel that they are active learners and that they learn best by hands onactivities. Most students thought the real-world application allowed them to learn effectively andmotivated them. This matches well since some of the senior design projects were from real worldclients and industry partners
richcontexts are best examined using a pragmatic approach, such as design-based research.Conjecture mapping plays an important role in design-based research (DBR) since conjecturessupport the iterative testing used to examine and revise the learning environment, as it isdesigned and subsequently implemented [18].Design-based research (DBR) is an emerging paradigm for the study of learning in contextthrough the systematic design of instructional strategies and tools [19]. DBR aims at producingnew theories and practices that potentially impact learning and teaching in naturalistic settings.DBR is often employed in research to understand contexts, design effective systems, and makemeaningful changes for the subjects of the studies [20]. Traditional
campus Katreena Thomas is a graduate student at Arizona State University in the Engineering Education Systems and Design Doctoral program. She is a member of the Shifting Perceptions, Attitudes, and Cultures in Engineering (SPACE) Lab group and her research interests include broadening participation in engineer- ing, engineering leadership, and experiential learning experiences in engineering. She received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and her M.S. in Human Systems Engineering from Arizona State University.Julia Machele Brisbane, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Julia Brisbane is a Ph.D. student in the Engineering Education Department at Virginia Tech and an
Paper ID #38260Changing the Paradigm: Developing a Framework forSecondary Analysis of EER Qualitative DatasetsHolly M Matusovich (Associate Professor) Dr. Holly Matusovich is the Associate Dean for Graduate and Professional Studies in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education where she has also served in key leadership positions. Dr. Matusovich is recognized for her research and leadership related to graduate student mentoring and faculty development. She won the Hokie Supervisor Spotlight Award in 2014, received the College of Engineering Graduate
undergraduate students in her technical research spanning validation of CFD models for aerospace and renewable energy applications as well as optimizing efficiency of thermal-fluid systems. In her free time, she is likely out sailing!Ismail I Orabi (Professor) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Unified approach to teaching uncertainty across a three-course mechanical engineering laboratory sequence Abstract The ability to analyze and make sense of large volumes of experimental data is critical to prepare engineering graduates for the modern workplace. While
communities of practice (CoP) facilitated through theEngineering Collaboration for Online and Remote Education (E-CORE) initiative, forums andconferences organized through both the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) andthe American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and conversations at the BCCATEngineering Articulation Committee annual meeting. These forums focused on sharing best practicesacross the post-secondary sector to mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on students and instructors.This paper focuses on the adjustments made to the first-year design courses due to COVID-19, asoffered at a primarily open-access, teaching intensive university with class sizes of between 30 and 60students with no teaching assistant support
return to education after industry experience.Gary Lichtenstein (Founder & Principal, Quality Evaluation Designs) Gary Lichtenstein, Ed.D. is founder and principal of Quality Evaluation Designs, a firm specializing in education research and evaluation. My intellectual interests include mixed-methods research, program development and evaluation, and engineering education persistence. My expertise includes program evaluation, research design, proposal development, logic models, IRB and communities of practice.Kelsey Watts Kelsey Watts is a fifth-year graduate student at Clemson University. She is part of the Engineering Education Research Peer Review Training (EER PERT) team. She has also developed Systems Biology
lens for gathering,implementing, and iterating on potential best practices and insights in the coaching of designlearning. It can serve as a reflection tool for instructors and design coaches to help them identifythe strengths of their coaching method as well as uncover the pain points of students. This workalso has the potential to hold significance not only in design education, but in experientiallearning more broadly. To facilitate such impacts and sharpen the next generation of this idea,we seek feedback on this work-in-progress effort from the design education community, insupport of refining of the playbook structure. Please let us know your thoughts on its overallcomponents, layout, and functioning. What may be missing or overlooked
have gone on to be hired as Graduate Teaching Assistants forECE’s technical communication-focused courses after being accepted into the School’s graduateprogram. Initial plans are underway to codify the peer leader pipeline into a fellowship program,institutionalizing the culture of peer mentorship that has been established.While student feedback following the first academic year in the intended residential, studioformat has been overwhelmingly positive, we continue to look for themes in course feedback topositively adjust the course moving forward. Course design is never truly done when relying onevidence-based practices. The future of ECE Discovery Studio is bright, paving the way tocrucial research as we learn more about discipline-specific
graduate research assistant. He later worked at Haliburton Energy Services and worked at the Houston Independent School district as an APcalculus, Precalculus, and College Prep. Math instructor till 2019. From 2020 to the present, he is a Ph. D student at Prairie View A&M University/Electrical and Computer Engineering Department where works as a research assistant at the Center for Advancing Innovation in Smart Micro- grid. His main research interests are sustainable power and energy systems, microgrids, power electronics and motor drives, digital methods for measurements control systems, and digital signal processing.Samir Abood, Prairie View A & M University/ Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
understand undergraduate student and faculty member’s experiences in engineering education. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Integrating Teacher Empathy into the Engineering Classroom one Educator at a Time: An Action Research StudyAbstract: In this research paper, we explore the journey of one engineering faculty whileintegrating best practices from research on teacher empathy in their classroom. Teacher empathyis a term used in multiple fields of study, including higher education, nursing, and medicine, torefer to the empathetic skills of teachers. This body of research generally shows that betterteacher empathy
Design for the Class Project An undergraduate research assistant working with the principal investigator uses theFused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technology to conduct a preliminary study on therepeatability performance using PLA and ABS plastic filaments for two types of 3D printers.ABS and PLA filaments are widely used today in both education and industry. However, eachfilament has its strength and weakness, including stiffness, durability, chemical resistance, andheat resistance. Although PLA filament is one of the most accessible materials, it only fits intohobbyist applications due to its poor heat and chemical resistance. On the other hand, ABSfilament is lighter and more durable [15]. It is used in more practical applications
; and better student experience,covering mental healthiness, a design for all learners, etc.The world needs empathetic engineers, technology stewards [11], people who are aware of thechallenges the world faces, the multitude of voices needed to tackle the challenges in the worldtoday. There are several studies showing growing challenges for graduates entering theworkforce (e.g. [14],[15], and with regards to practical and communications-related skills insoftware engineering, [19],[20]), and with the global recession from COVID-19 [16], studentsneed to come to the job market with a more well-rounded engineering education. In curricula, wehave often sidelined the graduate attributes related to the so-called “soft” skills ofcommunication
Education and Sustainable Development from Kathmandu University, a master’s in Biosystems Engineering from Michigan State University and a dual-major doctorate in Biosystems Engineering and Environmental Engineering from Michigan State. Dr. Aryal’s research interests are in water quality, hydrology, phytoremediation, agricultural conservation practices, urban best- management practices (BMPs), and ecological engineering. Pertaining to education, his interests are in innovative instructional techniques to enhance student motivation and learning.Gautam Biswas Gautam Biswas conducts research in Intelligent Systems with primary interests in monitoring, control, and fault adaptivity of complex cyber-physical systems. In
related to theircapstone design project or team and/or their future careers. These reflections were due two daysafter each speaker’s presentation to keep students from falling behind.3. Methods 3.1 Research questionIn our research, we set out to assess the impact of the redesigned CE Codes and Regulationscourse on students’ learning related to ethics for the practicing civil engineer. This study aimedto answer the following research question:Can professional, civil engineering-focused ethical instruction scaffolded in a Codes andRegulations course impact students’ preparation to be successful, ethically-minded civilengineering practitioners? 3.2 Participants, data collection, and analysisAt Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, the CE Codes
laboratory courses. Dr. Kim and his collaborators attracted close to $1M research grants to study writing transfer of engineering undergraduates. For the technical research, he has a long-standing involvement in research concerned with manufacturing of advanced composite materials (CFRP/titanium stack, GFRP, nanocomposites, etc.) for automotive, marine, and aerospace applications. His recent research efforts have also included the fatigue behavior of manufactured products, with the focus of fatigue strength improvement of aerospace, automotive, and rail structures. He has been the author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed papers in these areas.John D Lynch John Lynch received the BSEE degree from the University of Utah in
Paper ID #35741Finite Element Analysis and Design as a Degree Requirement inUndergraduate Mechanical Engineering CurriculumDr. Shield B Lin, Prairie View A&M University Shield Lin received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1986. He has worked as an engineer in a tire manufacturer and served as a consultant for an automobile company and a projector manufacturer. As a professor in mechanical engineering at Prairie View A&M University, he teaches courses in Dynamic Systems and Controls, and Finite Element Analysis and Design. In addition to teaching, he conducts research in
are also interested in researched-based pedagogy, including project-based learning, community-based learning, and inclusive teaching. Furthermore, they are dedicated to improving the climate for under-represented students in engineering, including LGBTQIA+ individuals.Christopher Tossas-Betancourt Christopher Tossas-Betancourt is a doctoral candidate and graduate student research assistant at the University of Michigan. Christopher is currently pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. He received a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include computational modeling of cardiovascular blood flow
was increased to 5 feet.The additions were: • There were constraints imposed on weight and size of the device and on operator contact with the device. • Multiple performance requirements were imposed (two different targets for which the device had to be pre-calibrated (no practice)). • Constraints (requirements) were placed on performance (five successful launches per eight attempts [four at each target]). • Goals were established (eight successful launches out of eight attempts, and a preference of a gravity-driven, light-weight design).An eight-page document completely describing the project was given to the class onAugust 24th, the first class meeting. The project continued throughout the semester. AnInitial
Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) and is a Senior member of MLA's Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP). His research interests include studying the information seeking behaviors and data practices of STEM researchers, mentoring emerging LIS professionals, and improving information literacy instruction for students in the sciences. He has published on these topics in journals such as College & Research Libraries, portal: Libraries and the academy, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, and the Journal of the Medical Library Association. His work in these areas has been recognized by the ALA Library Instruction Round Table with "Top Twenty" awards in 2018 and 2019. Previously, Alex was the