-Director of the Nanotechnology Graduate Program (www.stevens.edu/nano) at Stevens. He has been awarded the NSF CAREER award, the ASEE Mechanics Division Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnson Jr. Outstanding New Educator Award, and the 2009 Outstanding Teacher Award from the Stevens Alumni Association.Dr. Patricia J. Holahan, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science) Patricia J. Holahan is an Associate Professor of Management in the School of Business, Stevens Insti- tute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA. She has served as PI/PD on several NSF funded projects that target large-scale institutional change and transformation where she oversaw the organizational research related to modelling
, minority and other underrepresented groups in mathematics, science and engi- neering.Dr. Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin Erik Dunmire is a professor of engineering and chemistry at College of Marin. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of California, Davis. His research interests include broadening access to and improving success in lower-division STEM education.Prof. Nicholas P. Langhoff, Skyline College Nicholas Langhoff is an associate professor of engineering and computer science at Skyline College in San Bruno, California. He is also a co-investigator for multiple grant projects at Ca˜nada College in Redwood City, California. He received his M.S. degree from San Francisco State University
Paper ID #13684Supporting Women in Computing through Regional ConferencesProf. Alka R Harriger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alka Harriger joined the faculty of the Computer and Information Technology Department (CIT) in 1982 and is currently a Professor of CIT. For the majority of that time, she has been actively involved in teaching software development courses. From 2008-2014, she led the NSF-ITEST funded SPIRIT (Surprising Possibilities Imagined and Realized through Information Technology) project. Since October 2013, she has been co-leading with Prof. Brad Harriger the NSF-ITEST funded TECHFIT (Teaching
). Phase 1 of the test bed is illustrated in Figure 3.This project demonstrates capabilities for providing a secure connection betweenSCADA systems affiliated with respective Microgrid. The model of the Microgrid atBuffalo State consists of a scaled-down set of equipment that includes generation,transmission, distribution, protection, monitoring, and control. Page 26.1503.5 Fig. 3. Phase 1 Test BedSCADA system supplied by Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) has beeninstalled to facilitate connection of IEDs (such as relays, meters, sensors, etc.) for accessto the cloud servers. The SCADA system sends commands to equipment
- NSF#1153281). This paper provides information on the progress of USM’sSummer Bridge Program that was developed as our model for blending the elements ofrecruitment, retention, and placement into an integrated, comprehensive but non-intrusiveprogram that promotes student success in transitioning from high schools and communitycolleges to University of Southern Maine. In the terms of broader Impacts: The project providesincreased opportunities for a larger, more diverse population of students, non-traditional,underrepresented and first generation, to obtain a STEM degree and to be placed in an awardingSTEM job upon graduation. This pilot study provides educational opportunities from entry todegree completion for 41 academically talented and
classes related to theirfield of specialization with minimum involvement in research projects that address nationalpriorities. Slow progress towards getting involved in meaningful basic and applied researchprojects may easily lead to a rapid declining interest in STEM and an eventual drop-out from theprogram4.In particular, numerous first-generation in college, economically disadvantaged and minoritystudents have difficulties navigating the college or graduate school system. Some of the proposedinitiatives that can aid in reducing the drop-outs from STEM careers are: (1) establishing a fellowshipprogram to reduce the student’s financial burden; (2) enhancing the faculty mentorship of minoritystudents and creating research oriented cohorts; (3
Paper ID #16531From Peripheral to Full Participation: Implications of Learning Theory forEducational Design and Learning Assessment in STEM ApprenticeshipsDr. Tamara Ball, University of California - Santa Cruz Dr. Tamara Ball is a project-scientist working with the the Sustainable Engineering and Ecological De- sign (SEED) collaborative at UCSC. She is the program director for Impact Designs - Engineering and Sustainability through Student Service (IDEASS) and Apprenticeships in Sustainability Science and En- gineering Design (ASCEND). She is interested in understanding how extracurricular and co-curricular innovations
cohortsAbstractThe capstone course sequence in an engineering or engineering technology program bringstogether all elements of the curriculum into a comprehensive learning experience. A team ofstudents works together, combining the topics learned during their undergraduate coursework tocomplete a substantial design project. Design courses can be uncomfortable for many studentsbecause of the open-ended nature of the requirement, leading to many questions such as “Are weon the right track? Do I have the right answer? Are we approaching this the right way?” Due totheir unique experiences, student veterans in engineering are well positioned to enable theircohorts to overcome these challenges. The military experience teaches veterans to becomeproblem-solvers
study extensively analyzes students’ learning progress in intercultural competence. Datainvolving both quantitative and qualitative methods are used to assess student learning via pre-/post surveys and student performance in discussion board activities, reflection assignments,projects. The study emphasizes translating skills between disparate groups, be it a cultural,academic, or physical separation, as fundamental skills for the students of tomorrow.Certificate program designBuilding upon the existing agricultural-based partnership between a the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign and a Njala University in Sierra Leone, a new facet was establishedspecifically focused on Global Health.While significant work on global health-related topics
A Pharmacokinetic Simulation-Based Module to Introduce Mass Balances and Chemical Engineering Design Concepts to Engineering FreshmenIntroductionOften the opportunities for freshmen engineering students to be exposed to chemical engineeringare limited. Introduction to chemical engineering is typically a sophomore level course.Freshman general engineering courses come in a variety of forms from college orientationcourses to lectures on basics of design and safety to project-based laboratory or designexperiences. A recent survey of 50 chemical engineering undergraduate programs showed that6% of those programs offered engineering laboratory experiences for freshmen through generalengineering courses and 4
market. FANUC is one of the mostfamous companies and is commonly used in the industries. The most common type of roboticarm is their 6-joint robot, which is similar to the robot that is utilized in this project. AsMechanical Engineering Technology (MET) and Mechatronics Engineering Technology (MCET)students, being able to program automated machinery is crucial for them to find jobs. The schoolhas been offering Programmable Logic Controllers, Process Control and CNC machine coursesto build students’ strength. In order to complete all aspects of automation industries, this projectis designed to make up the lack of robotics programming education. Furthermore, this projectwill also prepare students who are interested in taking robotics
University of Central Florida and is anticipated to graduate in Spring 2019. He has two masters degrees one in mechanical engineering from UCF and another in aerospace engineering form Sharif University of Technology. He currently works in the Nanofabrication and BioMEMS Laboratory at UCF and his research areas include Nanofabrication, Microfluidics, Sensors and Actuators, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Optimization, and Mathematical Modeling. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Running Head: Project CoMET RETCollaborative Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Experiences for Teachers (CoMET) Train the Trainer Model of Supports Type 5 Work in ProgressThe K-12 learning environment is
, optimization, and directed many interdisciplinary projects related to design. Dr. Pidaparti’s research interests are in the broad areas of multi-disciplinary design, computational mechanics, nanotechnology, and related topics. Dr. Pidaparti has published over 250 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Pidaparti received a Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation and the Young Investigator Award from the Whitaker Foundation. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Gamma Tau, and Who’s Who societies. He is a member of professional societies including AIAA (Associate Fellow), AAAS (Fellow), ASME (Fellow), RAeS (Fellow), and ASEE (member). Dr. Pidaparti will move to
concern that engineering and other STEM students have forthe well-being of the public. Our team has embarked on a five-year grant fundedproject to study the effects of a broad range of community engagement activities, bothinside and outside of the classroom.In this paper, we provide an overview of the CE and ethics project at the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology (Georgia Tech), including a description of our assessmentefforts. We primarily focus here on its quantitative components, which involve theuse of an assessment instrument to collect data on how undergraduate STEM studentsperceive their responsibilities related to the public’s well-being. We administered amodified version of the Engineering Professional Responsibility Assessment (EPRA)survey
several NSF- and NIH-funded projects, primarily working with national professional development programs for early-career academics from groups underrepresented in STEM. She is also currently serving as a Virtual Visiting Scholar of the AD- VANCE Research and Coordination Network. Her research is grounded in critical race and feminist theories, and her research interests include community cultural wealth, counterspaces, intersectionality, and institutional change.Dr. Emily Knaphus-Soran, Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE), University of Wash-ington Emily Knaphus-Soran is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE) at the University of
teaches both an introduction to systems engineering course and Engineering andPublic Policy course. The former is heavy on engineering design with a blind eye to the reality ofthe civic society and the latter heavy on policy with overview of engineering design. There isroom for cross pollination and in this paper, we identify stakeholder analysis as the first SEprocess or tool and examine it with a decolonization lens. The goal of this paper is examinationand recommendation and not definitive statement. We also apply our examination to a systemsengineering project and student stakeholder artifact commonly used and developed anddemonstrate a simple exercise of decolonization.Additionally, there is a significant and growing trend of engineering
foundation for high-level problem-solving and success inSTEM, which have often been overlooked in K-12 education. It also indicated that spatial skillsas cognitive skills can be improved if appropriate constructive exercises are offered to facilitatethe learning process.In this NSF-funded project, we aim to enhance Student’s Spatial Skills Through AugmentedReality (SSTAR). This interactive, color-coded tool provides a step-by-step 3D learningexperience, providing scaffolding and engagement while learning spatial skills. Students canscan images with smart devices to trigger 3D models with manipulable components forconstructing the correct 3D models. They can also visualize different surfaces projected on thesides of a glass box offering 2D
) Sustainability in Engineering Graphics and Bicycle-Powered BlendersBackgroundThe purpose of this work-in-progress paper is to share developments related to an ASEEEngineering for One Planet (EOP) Mini-Grant Program Cohort 2 Award to the autho that beganin the summer of 2023 and ran through January 2024. The project has two objectives: 1) Use theEOP Framework (Figure 1) to modify learning outcomes in MEAM 1010 Introduction toMechanical Design, a course that is already taught every semester to classes of ~80 students, and2) Leverage the EOP Framework to create MEAM 2300, a new course on bicycle engineeringand culture. The students have identified that outside MEAM 1010, there are no othermechanical engineering courses they can
studentcompletion of tasks [21].In computer science, we often ask students to build larger programming projects over the span ofdays or weeks. As teachers, we know that students do not always have the skills to project andtime manage themselves well on these larger projects. Additionally, we know that trying toestimate how long it takes to plan, program, and test software projects is hard [22] and evensoftware organizations in industry find it challenging to deliver software on time [23]. To helpscaffold students on these larger projects, teachers often break projects up into milestones orseparate gradable deliverables.Benefits of Milestones in Programming ProjectsBy breaking these larger projects into distinct milestone assignments, teachers can more
emotionalintelligence, have been utilized to influence the development of a leadership initiative toempower faculty to enact positive change. To address identified leadership gaps, the ADVANCEFaculty Leadership Initiative was established to empower faculty to enact positive change.Program goals include defining campus leadership roles, building essential skills, leveragingindividual strengths, navigating implementation challenges, and fostering communityengagement through action-learning projects. The inaugural cohort consists of 21 faculty from 10departments and seven academic ranks (Full Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor,Professor of Practice, Instructor, Senior Lecturer, and Research Scientist). The group includeseight gender minorities
project is part of a larger project understanding and addressing food insecurity on one college campus. • Grant: • Goal 1: Narrate the stories of food inequity on campus. • Goal 2: Identify issues that the campus can directly impact to make change. • Goal 3: Engage engineering students in engineering design projects to: • Project 1: Develop a check-in and check-out station for the campus food pantry. • Project 2: Develop an inventory system for the campus food pantry. • Project 3: Teach engineering students about narrative inequiry. 11/6/2024 | © Justin C. Major, Ph.D. | 5As I mentioned, this project was part of a larger grant initiative
and paired it to my personal teaching philosophy as an educator and program facilitator. By empowering students to make key decisions in the trajectory of coursework or a project in the studio classroom, I recognize that they take ownership and responsibility for the success of the work. In the example of Women in Technology, I charged the students with setting the vision, sharing their ideas, and allowed for creative brainstorming to initiate conversation.Initial Actions in Summer 2023 for upcoming Fall semester - Created a CampusGroups page - Participated in resource fair during New Student Orientation - Tabled at TigerFest Activities Fair (Club Fair) - Participated in Lighting the Way - Sent Welcome e-mails to all women
technique to build such applications on these devices, where object detection is an imperativetask that is to recognize categories of objects and label their locations. This paper presented a seniordesign project that implemented object detection on Raspberry Pi via machine learning models. It isto employ Raspberry Pi Kits and a web-camera to detect predefined objects by running mobile deeplearning models. Moreover, it was extended to recognize weapons in images with transfer learningtechniques, which is to fine-tune the models on new annotated datasets collected from Internet.Specifically, it applied a Google USB accelerator to improve the detection speed. Preliminaryvalidation results demonstrate that the models can effectively detect general
infographics to increase environmental health literacy) reflectsthe direction provided through the DipLab project. Over a period of eight years, a total of130 students have participated in the process of community engagement by completingthis module incorporated into three different courses, and this article summarizes thelessons learned.MethodsCourse Catalog Description. A module was developed and incorporated into threeseparate courses. The descriptions of each course are provided, below: 1. CArE 5001: Experimental Course: “Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematic (STEAM) Diplomacy aims to excite interdisciplinary students to consider diplomatic craft and foreign policy to further professional business interests as well
Engineering Accreditation Commission [11] in 2019. Thisexploratory study draws on interviews with industrial advisory board members. The followingresearch questions were formulated to guide the study: 1. What do industry members consider important in terms of the competencies acquired by recent graduates? 2. What are industry members’ views on the role of international accreditation for the enhancement of engineering programs?Conceptual FrameworkTo inform the study, we chose the conceptual framework proposed by Volkwein et al. [12](Figure 1), developed for the project "Engineering Change: A Study of the Impact of EC2000". Itpostulates that the modified EC2000 accreditation standards will effect changes in curriculum
©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Experienced Teaching Assistants’ Perceptions of a Simulated Environment for Facilitating Discussions with Individual Student Avatars from a Design Team in ConflictIntroductionThis Complete Research paper describes the outcomes of using a simulated environment forteaching assistants (TAs) to practice managing conflicts on teams of undergraduate studentsengaged in a design project. Team-based projects are frequently used in engineeringundergraduate courses, especially in introductory engineering courses. In addition to technicalcompetence, team-based design projects support the development of collaboration andcommunication skills and engage novice engineers in higher
Bache- lor’s degree in Business Administration and Psychology and her Master’s degree in Industrial and Orga- nizational Psychology from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. She has presented her research at annual meeting of the Academy of Management and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology annual conference. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Elective Track Choice and Career Attitudes in Engineering Undergraduate Education: Antecedents, Gender Differences, and ImplicationsIntroduction With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Program,this Institutional and Community Transformation project aims to serve the national interest
funded several projects at the University of Puerto Rico. Inthis paper, we will discuss the projects that share the common goal of retention, graduation, andcontinuation in STEM careers; EECOS, NoTeS and RISE-UP.2. NSF-funded Projects and Results. 2.1. EECOSThe primary goal of the Ecosystem for Expanding Capabilities and Opportunities (EECOS)for STEM Scholars project was to provide an ecosystem with financial, academic, and socio-emotional support to increase retentionand persistence of STEM studentsseverely affected by Hurricane María onSeptember 20, 2017, in the first place.EECOS served 65 talented low-incomeSTEM Hispanic students from 2018 to2021. EECOS received a secondsupplement granted in March of 2020 tosupport a group of 16 STEM
University, and a B.S. in general engineering from Gonzaga University.Sidrah MGWatson ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023CAREER: Testing the Performance of Outcome Measures for LGBTQ STEM Students and their PeersAbstractThe purpose of this NSF CAREER project is to explore the participation of LGBTQ students inSTEM fields. LGBTQ students leave engineering and other STEM majors and careers at higherrates than their heterosexual, cisgender peers, and the climate within these fields is a contributingfactor to this difference in attrition. In order to develop a diverse engineering workforce andadequately prepare the next generation of engineers and other STEM professionals
in the mid-20th century.Dr. Valerie Martin Conley, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Valerie Martin Conley is dean of the College of Education and professor of Leadership, Research, and Foundations at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She previously served as director of the Center for Higher Education, professor, and department chair at Ohio University. She was the PI for the NSF funded research project: Academic Career Success in Science and Engineering-Related Fields for Female Faculty at Public Two-Year Institutions. She is co-author of The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era.Molly Stuhlsatz, BSCS Science Learning American