)-fundedproject on transdisciplinary education, known as the M3 (mission, meaning and making) project.The research project aimed to understand the transformative potential of transdisciplinaryapproaches in undergraduate education through a cross-college co-teaching model encompassingdisciplines such as engineering technology, anthropology, and business. Over three years, datawas collected and analyzed through interviews with over 100 students, faculty, andadministrators. During the NSF project research, graduate student researchers discovered thattheir endeavors not only signify an added value to the research but also embodied theconvergence of diverse disciplines. This convergence is vital for reshaping traditional highereducation paradigms, echoing the
materials perspective. With this mindset, we postulate that materialsresearch is entering discipline unspecific mindset, meaning that researchers across disciplines areinterested and able to contribute to solving key problems. That is, researchers in materialsscience and engineering projects self-select based on interests which are independent ofacademic training. This hypothesis will be tested by analyzing the correlation between academicmajor and department of the research advisor for ~ 150 applicants to the NSF-site REU programat the USF FMMI. REU applicants are mainly from science (chemistry and physics) andengineering (chemical, mechanical, biomedical, materials, and electrical) disciplines, and areasked to rank three projects of interest
research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. He also worked for several years in industry as project manager, senior engineer and consultant. He has taught and developed undergrad- uate and graduate courses in power electronics, power systems, renewable energy, smart grids, control, electric machines, instrumentation, radar and remote sensing, numerical methods, space and atmosphere physics, and applied physics. His research interests included power system stability, control and pro- tection, renewable energy system analysis, assessment and design, smart microgrids, power electronics and electric machines for non-conventional energy conversion, remote sensing, wave and turbulence, nu- merical modeling
institutions evenwhen most courses, particularly in STEM, have returned to face-to-face or hybrid instruction.Although the impetus for this project was the COVID-19 pandemic which forced institutions ofhigher education everywhere to move to an online remote teaching and learning format, and assuch negatively affected STEM fields which require hands-on labs and access to instrumentation,remote learning still remains part of most courses today.We describe continuing efforts to create learning environments and materials to support remotehands-on engaged student learning off-campus at two Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) toenable and enhance student learning beyond the institutional walls. The approach utilizesInternet of Things (IoT) kits as remote
, engineering program accreditation, and outcomes based assessment for both engineering programs and general education, and inclusive excellence for engineering an computer science programs. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Partnership for Equity: Cultivating Inclusive Professional Identities for Engineers and Computer Scientists across Four Unique Institutional ClimatesThe Partnership for Equity (P4E) project is funded under the NSF IUSE (ImprovingUndergraduate STEM Education) program. The goal of the project is to cultivate inclusiveprofessional identities in engineering and computer science students. The project definesinclusive professional identities
others. A national panel of 30 engineering education andevaluation professionals has called for a national resource to enable effective evaluation ofengineering education projects. This paper reports on the process and framework for creating alibrary of superior evaluation instruments, the ASSESS system, that supports scholarlyinnovation in engineering education. The overarching goal of the ASSESS project is to createand test the system, and engage the user community to position ASSESS resources for successfuladoption and implementation. The project seeks to disseminate evaluation instruments and tobuild the evaluation capacity of the engineering education community for more effectiveevaluation of engineering education development projects.A
-STEM Proposals: Capacity-Building WorkshopsMotivation and Project OverviewA series of workshops were developed and offered to build capacity for project teams to gatherand fully use institutional data as they develop their S-STEM proposals. The NSF S-STEMsolicitation includes a requirement that the project description “analyze institutional data … todetermine the potential number of eligible Scholars.” While faculty often are passionate aboutrecruiting and supporting engineering degree attainment for academically talented, low-incomescholars with unmet financial need, some might not be certain of how institutional data caninform and strengthen their project development. Additionally, faculty PIs often have
Paper ID #22787How to Increase the Impacts of the REU Experience in an InterdisciplinaryResearch-based REU SiteDr. Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville Dr. Hua Li, an Associate Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University- Kingsville, is interested in sustainable manufacturing, renewable energy, sustainability assessment, and engineering education. Dr. Li has served as P.I. and Co-P.I. in different projects funded by NSF, DOEd, DHS, and HP, totaling more than 2.5 million dollars.Prof. Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville Dr. Kai Jin is a Professor of Industrial
Mechanical Engineering have been assigned along-term, large-scale design/build project in order to study the effects of integrating thecurriculum on subject matter retention and design efficacy. The project, a bench-scale hybridelectric powertrain system, is designed, analyzed and fabricated by students in six modules,starting in their sophomore year and culminating in their final semester as seniors. This complexproject has been selected in order to integrate the core mechanical engineering courses:Mechanical Design, Thermodynamics, System Dynamics and Control, and Fluid Mechanics. Abench-scale hybrid-electric vehicle powertrain has sufficient complexity to involve allMechanical Engineering disciplines and the simplicity to be built by students
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 NSF CAREER: Towards a framework for engineering student innovationAbstractThe ability to innovate is essential in the rapidly evolving technological landscape. Many effortshave been made in engineering education to support student innovation (e.g., innovation andentrepreneurship programs and targeted courses). Yet, research on how engineering studentsapproach and experience innovation has been limited. In this CAREER project we conducted aseries of empirical studies using interviews, think-aloud protocols, and surveys to examineengineering students’ innovation skills, views of the innovation process, and experiences thatsupporedt their development of innovative competencies. Informed by
. Specifically, she is interested in novel design processes that financially and technically facilitate energy-efficient buildings. Her work also explores how principles of lean manufacturing facilitate energy-efficiency in the commercial building industry. Another research interest of Kristen’s is engineering education, where she explores how project- and experience-based learning foster better understanding of engineering and management principles. Prior to joining ASU, Kristen was at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-11) and then a Scientific Engineering Associate (2011-2012) in the Building Technologies and Urban Systems Department. She worked in the Commercial Buildings group
Paper ID #15342Positioning Students to Understand Urban Sustainability Strategies throughVertical Integration: Years 1 through 3Mr. Mohamed Elzomor, Arizona State University Mohamed grew up in Cairo, Egypt. Following college graduation in 2006 from American University in Cairo (AUC), he worked for several consultancy firms. He then joined a leading real estate corporation where he elevated to the post of a Deputy Project Manager for an office park project worth over hundred million USD. After completing his Masters of Engineering in Construction at the AUC, Mohamed could not bear the thought of leaving the School and so
Paper ID #9848Research Experience for Teachers Site: A Work-in Progress ReportDr. Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University VIKRAM KAPILA is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. His research interests are in control system technology, mechatronics, and K-12 STEM education. He directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers Site, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He received NYU-Poly’s 2002, 2008, and 2011 Jacobs Excellence in Education Award
sponsoredinterdisciplinary research project that studies how collaborative PBL affects the self-efficacy ofminority students in engineering. To achieve the project objectives, research activities areconducted collaboratively between an experienced engineering faculty and a learning scientistwith substantial expertise on knowledge building communities and instructional system design.The first stage of the research is an empirical study performed in a pilot course (EE440) thatemployed CPBL to analyze its impact and develop a better understanding of the learningcharacteristic of minority students. This paper focuses on describing the research method anddata analysis during the first stage. Preliminary findings identified critical factors in CPBL modelthat positively
focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Dr. Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington Susan Bobbitt Nolen is a Professor of Learning Sciences & Human Development in the University of Washington’s College of Education. She holds a PhD in Educational Psychology from Purdue Univer- sity. Her research focuses on the development-in-context of motivation to learn in school subjects and the relationships among motivation, engagement, and
graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; choi88@illinois.edu. Page 26.1438.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Creating Scalable Reform in Engineering Education Through Low-Cost Intrinsic Motivation Course Conversions of Engineering CoursesAbstract The low-cost intrinsic motivation (IM) course conversion project is an effort to improvethe quality of undergraduate engineering education by creating course designs that promotestudents’ intrinsic motivation to learn while keeping the
nature of these projects has engaged students in cross-cutting technologies by inspiring the integration and synthesis of ideas and facilitating a betterunderstanding of engineering design at the system level.For the past two summers, we have recruited 33 REU students, 22 external and 11 internalstudents into the program. Among external participants, seven are international exchangestudents from three Brazilian universities. During the 10-week summer program, they wereassigned to 31 projects supervised by 10 engineering faculty and 18 postdoc/graduate studentmentors. In addition to their individual projects, REU students were engaged in group activitiesincluding a group design project, research lab tours, weekly seminars, outreach and
nominated for the Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching, RIT’s premiere teach- ing award at RIT. Dr. Kim has directed numerous undergraduate research projects and several students won the first place in the undergraduate and graduate research competitions at the 2012 and 2013 GPEC (Global Plastics Environment Conference; Division of Society of Plastics Engineers).Prof. Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Professor Dell is an associate professor in the Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology department at RIT. She serves as the Faculty Associate to the Provost for Women Faculty and is co-PI for RIT’s NSF ADVANCE project. Her research interests include: characterization of biodegradable
, California State University, Los Angeles Jianyu Dong is a professor in electrical and computer engineering at CSULA. Her area of expertise is video compression/communication, multimedia networks, QoS, etc. As the PI of the NSF CCLI Project entitled ”Enhancing undergraduate computer networking curriculum using remote project-based learn- ing,” she works closely with colleagues from computer science to redesign the network curriculum to integrate project-based and inquiry-based learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Addressing the Learning Needs of Minority Students in Engineering through Participatory DesignAbstractThis paper provides
Paper ID #32916NSF Data Science Program with Career Support and Connections to Indus-tryDr. Carol Shubin, California State University Northridge Carol Shubin is a professor of mathematics at CSUN and the PI of NSF Data Science Program with Career Support and Connections to Industry. She is interested in partnering with other universities that want to start a data science program. She has been the PI or co-PI in several other STEM educational projects funded by the NSF or NASA and served as a Fulbright Scholar in Rwanda. American c Society for Engineering
integrated ProjectBased Learning (PBL), and undergraduate research experiences. The SPIRIT Scholar programattracted a diverse group of Engineering and Engineering Technology students, thus increasingthe percentage of female and minority student participation as compared to the host departmentprogram demographics. Over the last academic year, fifty-four undergraduate researchprojects/activities were conducted by the twenty-seven scholars under the direction of twelvefaculty fellows. Additionally, peer-to-peer mentorship and student leadership were developedthrough the program’s vertically integrated PBL model, which incorporated four courses andseven small-group design projects. Academic and professional support for the student scholarswere
Paper ID #30519Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindset and Innovation in a Cross-ListedScience and Engineering CourseDr. Bahram Roughani, Loyola University Maryland Professor of Physics and Associate Dean for the Natural and Applied Sciences at Loyola University Maryland. Experimental condensed matter physicist with emphasis on optical spectroscopy and Electron Microscopy of electronic materials. PI on the NSF-IUSE supported collaborative project, ”The PIPLINE Project”, a national effort in collaboration with American Physical Society (APS) aiming at enhancing Physics Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE) education
Performance Evaluation of an Ongoing Integrated Program for Recruitment, Retention, and Graduation of High- Achieving, Low-income Engineering StudentsAbstractThe present paper reports an update on an NSF-funded S-STEM program currently in its lastyear at the University of Illinois Chicago. Lessons learned during the project implementation arealso listed in the paper. A summary of the paper materials will be presented at the ASEE 2023Annual Conference and Exposition as part of the NSF Grantees Poster Session.The project's objectives are 1) enhancing students' learning by providing access to extra and co-curricular experiences, 2) creating a positive student experience through mentorship, and 3)ensuring successful student placement in
engineering, forensic engineering and Professional Ethics in Engineering. He has been devoted to various Federal Sponsored Project, currently being the Project Di- rector of two projects for the US Department of Education and one project as Co-Principal Investigator for the NSF. Doctor V´azquez obtained his BS, MSCE and PhD from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez and a Juris Doctor from the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, all of them with honors. Finally, doctor V´azquez is both a Licensed Professional Engineer and a Licensed Professional Attorney at Law and Public Notary in Puerto Rico’s jurisdiction.Prof. Fabio Andrade Rengifo P.E., University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Director of the
of Video Case Studies for use incourses that impart knowledge on SV&V topics viz. requirements engineering, software reviews,configuration management, and software testing. Four key skill areas sought after by employers,namely communication skills, applied knowledge of methods, applied knowledge of tools, andresearch exposure are used to drive the development funded by a National Science Foundationgrant and perfected through an industry-academia partnership.In this paper, we discuss in detail the four project plans the researchers and their industrycounterparts followed over the past two years in the development and eventual dissemination ofactive learning tools. A course enhancement plan was used to drive activities related toreviewing
engineer in the athletic footwear and medical device industries for 10 years before joining the faculty at Northeastern University in 2006. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 NSF REU-PATHWAYS: Pathways for Community College Students to Enrich Their Education and CareersNortheastern University received an NSF grant # 2150417 from the division of EngineeringEducation and Centers (EEC) to establish a three-year REU (Undergraduate Research Experience)site focusing on smart engineering for community college students. The REU Site hosts 10students each year during the summer session to participate in research projects focusing on thefield of Smart Engineering.The REU
and high-rise projects. His current research interests mainly focus on Smart Structures Technology, Structural Control and Health Monitoring and Innovative Engineering Education.Dr. Juan M Caicedo, University of South Carolina Dr. Caicedo is an associate professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Carolina. His research interests are in structural dynamics, model updating and engi- neering education. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Universidad del Valle in Colombia, South America, and his M.Sc. and D.Sc. from Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Caicedo’s teach- ing interests include the development of critical thinking in undergraduate and
bonding, (2). Pre-departure Symposium: during the first week of June, thePI hosts a 4-day in-person symposium aimed at providing technical and professionaldevelopment training for the IRES students. Additionally, this symposium serves to furtherencourage team bonding amongst the students and PI, and (3). 10-week research experience inStockholm: From June-August the students work in different host labs at SciLifeLab on a diverseset of bioinformatics-related projects. During the last week of the program, the PI hosts aresearch symposium where all IRES students present their research findings to their mentors andpeers. Lastly, all IRES students with accepted abstracts are given the opportunity to present atthe annual biomedical engineering society
Paper ID #6888Learned Lessons from the First Year Research Experiences for Teachers Pro-gramDr. Tolga Kaya, Central Michigan University Dr. Tolga Kaya currently holds a joint assistant professor position in the School of Engineering and Technology and the Science of Advanced Materials program at Central Michigan University. Prior to joining CMU, Dr. Kaya was a post-doctorate associate at Yale University from 2007 to 2010, a research and teaching assistant at Istanbul Technical University from 1999 to 2007. In 2007, he was a consultant at Brightwell Corp. Dr. Kaya was also a senior VLSI analog design engineer and project
) research. One promising approach toincrease diversity of undergraduates in STEM disciplines focuses on communicating culturallyvalued outcomes of the research being conducted (Estrada et al., 2016). We aim to develop abetter understanding of how to support communication of the broader impacts and societalbenefits of research conducted within an National Science Foundation (NSF) funded engineeringresearch project. The main impact of this work is intended to be an increase in representationaldiversity in STEM through imparting the meaningfulness of research to URM students. Keywords: broader impacts, diversity, STEM, societal benefitsBROADER IMPACTS & SOCIETAL BENEFITS