Membership Development, Vice Chairman of IEEE Southeast Conference 2019 that was attended by 1100 attendees, organizer of numer- ous international conferences, Invited/Keynote speaker/Panel Moderator/Resource Person in international events. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 The Inclusive Engineering Consortium Abstract Over the last 7 years, a collaboration of 13 HBCU Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) programs has been working together to implement Experiment Centric Pedagogy to improve their student learning experience. The lessons learned and best practices of that effort have
-Fairbanks and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Washington State University. His writing has appeared in a wide variety of publications including Seven Hundred Kisses and Pillow: Exploring the Heart of Eros, and he recently published a chapbook titled In Sixteen Hands of Shadow.Dr. Leah C. Newman, MSOE Leah Newman, Ph.D., is an assistant professor and has been with the IE Program at MSOE since the fall of 2007. Dr. Newman’s research interests are in the study and design of medium-to-large-scale systems, particularly as it relates to the ”human factors” needs of the system. Specifically, she is interested in further exploring the area of social innovation as it relates to issues of culture and organizational and job
chemical and biofluids. Moreover, fluidic handling is the bottleneck for productionthrough-put in large scale DNA sequencing and IVD systems. The research question: “Is it possible toprovide a valuable learning experience through a faculty-initiated, authentic-industry productdevelopment effort in an undergraduate research program in a community college?” Two-yearcommunity colleges have very limited co-op / internship opportunities compared to 4-year schools. Figure 1. Example of an 8-channel dispenser using high precision nozzlesSuccess of any authentic industry experience requires careful planning before and during execution of thecycle and perceived authenticity. We chose judiciously narrowing the traditional development cycle
related IT tasks, (ii) operational aspects, (iii) overall user reception of this approachand also about (iv) the cost vs value considerations of this approach.With minor operational modifications, this approach can be applied as a generic model for manyengineering courses that have compute-intensive lab components. It’s a modular cloud-basedsolution that can be rapidly deployed to address specific course needs. We begin with a briefdescription of the Digital VLSI course, as a running example.Running Example – Digital VLSI CourseThe Digital VLSI course constitutes an important component in upper division electrical andcomputer engineering curriculum in VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) and System-On-Chip(SoC) design. In addition to in-class
Integer-Linear Programming (MILP) to determine unintended disparities in the impact of automated traffic law-enforcement on different groups in the city of Chicago.Nikhil Chandra Admal, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dr. Admal is a professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics and a Master’s in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. His research focuses on multiscale modeling of materials, particularly the mechanics of defects. Dr. Admal has published over 20 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is actively involved in engineering education, especially in incorporating real-world examples
professional manner.Providing students opportunities for self-advocacy in the classroom can be challenging. In theacademic setting, seeking feedback sometimes devolves into the student arguing over pointdeductions on an assignment. The use of detailed rubrics, especially for subjectively gradedassignments can prevent grade haggling – and they also provide a valuable lesson in theimportance of understanding expectations. Professors can mimic supervisors by requiringstudents to interact to clarify expectations and by setting up peer review situations to provideexperience in both getting and receiving feedback. They can also establish professional standardsof behavior such as students providing advance notice of absences, including relevantinformation in
AC 2009-705: HOW WE MEASURE SUCCESS MAKES A DIFFERENCE:EIGHT-SEMESTER PERSISTENCE AND GRADUATION RATES FOR FEMALEAND MALE ENGINEERING STUDENTSMatthew Ohland, Purdue University Matthew W. Ohland is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University and is the Past President of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida in 1996. Previously, he served as Assistant Director of the NSF-sponsored SUCCEED Engineering Education Coalition. He studies longitudinal student records in engineering education, team-member effectiveness, and the implementation of high-engagement teaching methods.Michelle
(albeit with considerable coordination of topics, as will bediscussed in section 6). For the second half of the semester, lectures transitioned into a series ofintegrated engineering case studies that engaged material from both disciplines as well as criticaltools from reflection. Lab activities were similarly organized with the first half-semesterhands-on applications of basic engineering principles and the second half an integrated,seven-week human-centered design project focused on issues of access and accessibility on theBC campus. Reflection utilized BC’s innovative small group Purposeful Ongoing Discussion(POD) model of near-peer mentors guiding students through various reflective practices tograpple with the ethical and moral dimensions of
number of students receiving final grades of A or B, and also not a significant numberof students are dropping the course.As part of activity 4, every peer leader student received training that included an introductionsession, weekly preview sessions, and a final lesson learned session. The introduction sessioninvolved faculty engaging peer leaders in cooperative-style learning exercises and mentoring bestpractices that are subsequently applied in the activities. Weekly preview sessions with“gatekeeper” course faculty covered course content and pedagogical approaches. Ongoingchallenges and lessons learned were documented in a final session with all mentors and facultyinvolved. The number of mentors in the fall 2016 were four, in spring 2017 were
one sability to contribute to the level of their talent is an ethical and professional responsibility to thefield.This paper shares some early results from our broader NSF-funded project, titled Identif ingMarginalization and Allying Tendencies to Transform Engineering Relationships, or I-MATTER. The project s research questions are: 1. What does marginalization look like within engineering classrooms where teamwork is a primary feature? 2. How is marginalization legible (or not) to instructors at the classroom level? 3. What are the different ways that instructors respond to incidents of peer-to-peer marginalization? 4. How might the lessons of this work be implemented to systematically alert instructors when
, and computer science. The long term goals of this project are to increaseparticipant interest in STEM careers and college attendance. In the short term, we anticipateincreased technology proficiency, STEM engagement and academic achievement. Additionaloutcomes include increased teacher and mentor understanding of STEM instruction delivery andmentorship. This presentation will provide evaluation results and lessons learned during the firstyear of this project, including the effects of strategies, such as mentorship and early exposure touniversity-based STEM resources. Recommendations for developing a prototypical process fordeveloping programs that broaden participation of underrepresented students will also bediscussed.IntroductionIn many
aim of these workshops is to enhance the teachers’ repertoire of engineering lessonsthat are available for elementary and middle school teachers, and help them to adapt andimplement these lessons in their classrooms. For instance, teachers used the Design Squad’slessons to learn the engineering design process. In the engineering design process, the learnersengage in asking questions, imagining possible solutions, planning, creating, and improvingdesigns to solve a problem (see Appendix D). Classroom support visits were another componentof the program intended to ensure success of the teachers implementing what they learned fromthe courses into their classrooms. Site visits were also used to document and assess the needs ofteachers and
and authentic, the belief thateach member brings different and potentially useful information to the task, and theopportunity to iterate design ideas over time. Framing agency provides a lens forunderstanding the kinds of design learning experiences students need to direct their ownlearning and negotiate that learning with peers in design projects.IntroductionManaging design projects in undergraduate coursework is challenging, in large partbecause design problems are ill-structured, meaning there are many possible solutionsand framings of any design problem [2]. As engineering programs have increasinglyincorporated design challenges into first year and core courses, faculty must makedifficult decisions about feasibly managing design
feedback fromhigh school students who are the participants in educational outreach is the Engineering Projectsin Community Service learning (EPICS) Program at Purdue University, which began as anundergraduate program but has been implemented successfully in high schools for over a decade[22]. In contrast to our work presented here, EPICS is a large-scale program involving longer-scale projects such as design teams. This contrasts with our work in that toy adaptation can beconducted in one session as a 1.5 or 2 hour activity without the required resources, infrastructure,and partnerships needed to facilitate high school design team initiatives, making toy adaptation amore feasible addition to existing or smaller-scale outreach efforts.Ultimately
Programs in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He is also Director of Research of the Academy for Global Engineering at Virginia Tech, and is affiliate faculty with the Higher Education Program. His research tends to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems-level perspective of how engineering educa- tion can become more effective, efficient, and inclusive, tends to be data-driven by leveraging large-scale institutional, state, or national data sets, and considers the intersection between policy and organizational contexts. He has B.S., M.S., and M.U.E.P. degrees from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Higher Education from Pennsylvania State University.Dr. Tremayne O’Brian Waller
. In contrast, several REDCON memberteam belong to universities classified as doctoral universities/highest research. The lessons thesegroups learn about accomplishing change will help determine how important are factors such asfaculty reward systems, work-life balance, and student demographic contexts. Through theirsimilarities (e.g., common purpose of improving diversity and inclusion) and their differences(e.g., the pedagogical, organizational, and curricular approaches they employ), we will learnabout barriers and drivers of large scale change efforts. The information produced by the REDteams will serve higher education, and engineering education in particular, by creating a set ofmodels for change.REDPARNSF funded the collaborative effort
of teaching assistants in the classroom is oneapproach that instructors use to help with implementation of active learning activities and anoption to provide peer-to-peer guidance. While teaching assistants can come in both flavors ofgraduate and undergraduate, multiple studies show the positive effects of using undergraduateteaching assistants (UGTA) on the overall student experience.In a 2015 study by Arizona State University Schools of Engineering [2], undergraduate studentretention practices were analyzed to determine the factors of retention of first-year engineeringprograms. Comparisons in the value of curricular and co-curricular experiences as well asstudent support programs showed that providing peer mentors as role models or UGTAs
are described below.The PeopleThe workshop coordinators were the ETW veteran as content coordinator and a member of thefaculty teaching commission as logistics coordinator. The ETW veteran organized the workshopcontent, oriented the seminar presenters and mentors, and ensured that background materialswould be used effectively, including texts, board writing materials, and posters of the teachingmodel and other key frameworks. He prepared the ice-breaker and team-building exercises andmaintained the workshop as a large-scale demonstration of the teaching model. He also removedthe careful incorporation of civil engineering content from the ETW study guide and slides andmade a deliberate effort to ensure that the workshop contents could be
audience he co-authored a book on security literacy and has given numerous talks on security. His current funded research is targeted at developing robust countermeasures for network-based security exploits and large scale attack simulation environ- ments and is the director of the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) test bed project. He has given over 75 presentations in the area of computer security and has testified in front of the U.S. Senate committee of the Judiciary on security issues associated with peer-to-peer networking. He has served as an ABET program evaluator representing IEEE for five years. He is a Fellow of IEEE and received the IEEE Educational Activities Board Major
trips, chapters must rely on non-college-affiliated professional mentors. This creates challenges in both supporting and assessingthe service learning occurring. This paper describes those difficulties and recent efforts toformalize the academic aspects of the program at Lafayette College.IntroductionEngineers Without Borders–USA (EWB–USA) was founded in 2002 by Dr. Bernard Amadei, aProfessor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder. Its mission is to support “community-driven developmentprograms worldwide through the design and implementation of sustainable engineering projects,while fostering responsible leadership”.1 Since its inception, EWB–USA has grown to over12,000
trips, chapters must rely on non-college-affiliated professional mentors. This creates challenges in both supporting and assessingthe service learning occurring. This paper describes those difficulties and recent efforts toformalize the academic aspects of the program at Lafayette College.IntroductionEngineers Without Borders–USA (EWB–USA) was founded in 2002 by Dr. Bernard Amadei, aProfessor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder. Its mission is to support “community-driven developmentprograms worldwide through the design and implementation of sustainable engineering projects,while fostering responsible leadership”.1 Since its inception, EWB–USA has grown to over12,000
students themselves, and they wanted the mentors to play a moreactive role. The class was initially designed to be a “hands-off” environment for the professorsand mentors, giving the students the opportunity to pro-actively determine internal deadlines, thedetails of the problems and ways to find them. The mentors and professors were availablealways, but students had to actively seek them out. This structure is something that students arenot used to, and had a hard time adjusting to.Key lessons learned to be implemented in next years class, are that more structure and classinstruction upfront are needed. This will give students the “tool-kit” necessary to solve open-ended problems. In addition, mentors will establish overall project timelines and
changes the RBASOE engineeringDesignSpine program has undergone in its five years of implementation. The paper also containskey lessons learned from this unique program that will be of interest to the greater engineeringeducation community. We summarize the curricular changes and decisions made over the pastfive years, as well as present novel data gleaned from student and faculty reflections. This paperwill be of interest to programs which aim to truly integrate design into an engineeringcurriculum.The population for this study is a relatively young engineering department (pre-ABETaccreditation) situated within a liberal arts teaching college in the Midwest. The University ofIndianapolis has about 5,000 full time students and is located in an
related topic so that they can use to teach a STEMconcept required by the school’s curriculum. This way, the instructional unit can bridge the gapbetween textbook knowledge and real-world applications. The high school students will learn theselected concept in the context of manufacturing industry through simulation and automationhands-on experimentation. This paper introduces the RET program at the Penn State Behrend’s site. We will start witha program description, the research and curriculum design components, followed by curriculumimplementation and evaluation status to date. A reflection on lessons learned will also be shared.2. RET Program DescriptionThe RET program recruits 13 teachers and community college faculty each year from
:00am EST slot for formalprogram engagement (see Table below for the schedule). As a large segment of the incominggraduate student cohort was from Asia, that slot translated into 10:00pm - 12:00midnight inBeijing. Virtual Happy Hours were scheduled each day @ 9:00pm EST / 10:00am GMT+8 and co-hosted by volunteer student ambassadors. The introductory meeting was a large-scale Zoom welcome, attended by faculty, staff,peers, and students from all CEAS departments, and focused on warm welcomes, wide smiles, abit of silliness, and as much excitement as could be transmitted in a virtual space. Immediatelyfollowing was exclusive peer-to-peer time, where new students and student ambassadors couldnetwork in multiple Zoom breakouts, curated with
Involving RET’sPrior to the inception of the NSF RET program, the first large scale evaluation of teacherresearch experience programs was initiated as The SWEPT Study [11]. Findings from this studyof eight SWEPT sites showed that participating teachers experienced a gain in science contentknowledge, positive attitudes towards science and interest in engaging in inquiry-basedinstructional practices. Following the SWEPT study, other significant evaluations indicated thatteachers engaged in literature searches and reading about concepts related to the research in theirlaboratory, performed a variety of procedures, experienced and overcame frustration, appliedlogic and creative insight to analyzing their data, presented their research to peers
program that will prepare Spelman faculty to integrate data science into their own teaching and research, while simultaneously preparing faculty at MSU to effectively recruit, support and mentor a more diverse student population. 4. Building a Consortium: we have begun conversations with a consortium of HBCUs interested in learning from and adapting these efforts to expand access to data science; while this is a longer-term goal, we are committed to collaborating with these institutions to bring similar opportunities in data science to their students and faculty.These efforts will equip students and faculty in STEM with the computational and mathematicalskills necessary to leverage data within their own domains
-College and Pre-Professional Supports:CWIT’s Bookend Approach to Inclusive Excellence in Undergraduate Tech Education Presented by: Danyelle Tauryce Ireland, Ph.D. Cindy Greenwood, M.Ed. Erica D’Eramo, M.A. Kate O’Keefe, M.S.Ed. 2 AGENDA 1. Introduction 2. Pre-College Programs a. Impact b. Lessons Learned 3. Pre-Professional Programs a. Impact b. Lessons Learned 4. Future Directions 5. Adapting the Model 6. Where to Start 7. Q&AThe Center for Women in Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore Countyhas a 21 year record of working to enable success
systems engineering concepts through experiential learning opportunities. • Provide multidisciplinary design opportunities in interesting and challenging areas. • Design, build, and test subsystems that are integrated into a larger project. • Ensure that the EAC/ABET EC2000 design, multidisciplinary teamwork, and communication outcomes are satisfied.This paper is organized as follows. Section 2 describes the large-scale systems engineeringprojects either completed or still under development at the University of North Dakota, utilizinga student labor force comprised primarily of electrical and mechanical engineering students.Seven brief case studies are presented in Section 2, with an analysis of their sustainability andscalability
continually revising their engineering curriculum and programs in aneffort to produce the highest quality practicing engineers. Both the nature of the job of anengineer and the marketplace have changed dramatically through the years. Today’s engineerworks in a highly competitive and global marketplace. Additionally, they are required to havefar more than just good technical skills. They must also have good communication, leadershipand business skills. Many innovative programs have been developed to better prepare studentsfor the changing global economy and for the new demands being placed on engineers. Onepedagogical technique that has been found to enhance the educational experience ofundergraduate engineering students is service-learning. Service