resourcesavailable to support their work goals. This might include having adequate staff support to allowfaculty to excel in their teaching and scholarship work: The staff critical from every perspective. They support … the advising side; we have laboratory facilities where staff are critical in making sure that the facilities are up and running and information technology that everything is working the way it should. (Female faculty member, doctoral university)On the other hand, tight budgets or some management decisions left faculty feeling frustrated andunable to do their jobs in a way that was satisfying for pursuing their autonomy: So it’s a direct result of having resources cut and creating an almost toxic
schedule was modified to include two 75-minute recitation periods and one 50-minutelecture/assessment period each week for a total of 3 class meetings in a week. The number of coursecredits did not change, but the additional 50-minute period was assigned as a mandatory section that hadto be added for the students taking each course. The justification for additional seat time is similar to howphysical laboratories are viewed within the Carnegie unit system—the out-of-class time associated withrecitation time is less than pure lecture because a lot of the work is done in class.One implication of this approach was that we needed different rooms for lecture and recitation. A quirk ofthe university’s classroom reservation system resulted in needing to
-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI Grad: 08/2014 Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Grad: 08/2007 BachelorDr. Phapanin Charoenphol, Texas A&M University Phapanin Charoenphol is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. She earned her M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She teaches thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, engineering laboratory, and senior design studio courses. Her research interests include engineering education and targeted drug delivery. In 2022, she was awarded the ASME Best Teacher Award and earned the ACUE Certificate in Effective College
Tech- nical State University (2018). She is an Assistant Professor and Program Director of Information Sci- ence/Systems in the School of Library and Information Sciences at North Carolina Central University, Lab Director for the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Equity Research (LAIER), Co-Director for the Center fOr Data Equity (CODE), an AAAS IF/THEN ambassador, and an Office e-Learning faculty fellow at North Carolina Central University. Her research focuses on utilizing machine learning to identify sources of misinformation on social media and on improving fault detection in autonomous vehicles. Dr. Grady advocates increasing the number of women and minorities in computer science. She believes that
in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. She is the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Thermofluidics for Clean Energy. In 2008, she received the inaugural Bullitt Environmental Fellowship for leadership in the environmental field. She was awarded the I.W. Smith Award for Outstanding achievement in creative mechanical engineering within 10 years of graduation (2011) and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Early Researcher Award (2012). She is the Director of the Thermofluids for Energy and Advanced Materials (TEAM) Laboratory working in fuel cells, electrolyzers, and subsurface geology. In 2014 she became a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering and was
design opportunities.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to first and foremost recognize the United States Military Academycadets who participated in the Timber Truss Engineering Design Project from 2017-2022. Theauthors would also like to thank all laboratory technicians and faculty from the Department ofCivil and Mechanical Engineering who supported execution of the project. The views expressedin this work are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or positionof the United States Military Academy, Department of the Army, Department of Defense, orU.S. Government.References[1] J. Lawson, M. Kam-Biron, and B. Perkins, “Used the Most, Taught the Least. An Analysis of Current Wood Engineering Education in
MechanicalEngineering laboratories for manufacturing and design. The informal nature of the space is tofacilitate a low barrier to entry for students, so that a larger quantity can begin developing skillsbefore outgrowing it and moving on to more appropriate labs and projects in other areas of thecampus. Figure 1: Library Makerspace Figure 2: ME Manufacturing and Design LabMechanical Engineering Manufacturing and Design LabsThe Mechanical Engineering department serves as the most striking contrast to the LibraryMakerspace, nearly to being the complete opposite in regard to management and history. Withinthe context of the school, the mechanical engineering department has consistently been thelargest and one of the oldest departments for
in cell, developmental and molecular biology. She has mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students as well as postdoctoral fel- lows in her laboratory. In the Graduate School she oversees over 9.000 students in masters, specialist and doctoral programs. She is responsible for all academic and administrative matters related to graduate education at FIU. She has served as the Executive Editor for the journal Pigment Cell and Melanoma Re- search and is currently in its editorial board. She has served as a member of grant review panels for NSF, NIH, and AHA and is currently on the NIGMS TWD review panel. She has been funded by NIGMS, NIAMS and AHA and is currently the PI of FL-AGEP and co-PI of an NIGMS T32
postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before starting her academic career at Oklahoma State University (OSU), where she was an assistant professor 2014-2020 and then a tenured associate professor until January 2021 before moving to UB. Dr. Ford Versypt leads the Systems Biomedicine and Pharmaceutics Laboratory. She was the 2020-2021 Chair for the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division (CHED). Dr. Ford Versypt has been recognized with the NSF CAREER Award, ASEE CHED Ray W. Fahien Award and Joseph J. Martin Award, and AIChE CAST Division David Himmelblau Award for Innovations in Computer-Based Chemical Engineering Education. She is an Academic Trustee of Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering Corporation
careergoals: “I plan to pursue a PhD in biomedical engineering in the areas of tissue engineering andregenerative medicine. I ultimately hope to pursue a position in a research laboratory in industry,specifically in the pharmaceutical industry.”Students’ self-positioning as research assistants and agentic positions occurred over time inprevious examples when reflecting on their research experience. They prioritized theirresponsibilities as research assistants and recognized their research identity development throughgaining and practicing skills in order to be a better engineer or in an engineering research-relatedposition.DiscussionOur results demonstrate students took up varied positions when reflecting on technical work andresearch experience, and
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customizing bandages for newborns to making easier-to-openpill bottles. The making process exists as improvisation, readily addressing problems in apractical manner in the best interest of the patient.Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH) movement also reveals the ingenuity of people outsidetraditional halls of power, that being academia and big industry firms. One of these events, “Theuse of the speculum in a practical way – Transfeminist Hard Lab” sought to teach participantshow to run a test for HPV using only vinegar [52]. During COVID-19, GOSH organizers workedto reverse-engineer personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical/laboratory equipment aspatented models of production left hospital workers short of vital tools. This was something
engineeringlaboratories but have space to use a self-contained testing system. SLU is a large, private, four-year, highly residential university with doctoral programs and high research activity (R2); Rose-Hulman is a small, private, four-year, highly residential university without doctoralprograms, classified as special focus four-year: engineering schools. Neither institution had astructural engineering laboratory prior to this implementation, but both focus heavily on theundergraduate learning experience. The project utilizes the Modular Strong-block TestingSystem [5] when needed to test larger-scale specimens. While a full structural engineering labwould be ideal to conduct such tests, the self-contained system provides an economical solutionfor smaller
, and Openscaledemonstrate and provide emergent solutions that can be applied to manufacturing, medicine,aerospace, and other complex systems. This research paper will demonstrate the above conceptsas applied to an engineering manufacturing case study data using IBM Waton opensclae.BackgroundSystem Engineering (SE) LifecycleThe term System Engineering from Bell Laboratories came into vogue in the early 1940s and hasbeen extensively used initially with military systems starting with WWII [3]. With highereducation now teaching SE, this system approach today is used to solve highly complexproblems both for the military and in private industries (e.g. Aerospace). The Department ofDefence (DoD) published and maintains an important document called
making sure every student graduate and the course curriculum and all that stuff.Drawing from our findings, EIF are not just restricted to their primary duty of teaching, they arealso involved in multiple other roles across the leadership spectrum in engineering education.One of the EIF that typifies this is Victor. Victor is the associate department chair; as such, heenumerates the number of leadership roles he takes on in his department. I'm the associate chair in the department, I am in charge of the undergraduate curriculum. I support several of the tasks such as scheduling, managing personnel, laboratories. Also, I am, in part of academics, I'm an ABET accredited program evaluator. So, during the last cycle, I
discuss the implementation and student learning outcomes of the ML course. Ifalternative methods were incorporated in the course (i.e., flipped classroom and project-basedlearning) the article was removed from further analysis. If the course was a Massive Open OnlineCourse (MOOC), if it had online lecture components or if it was a mobile game learning system itwas eliminated from the screening. If data for the study was collected for only part of the semesterthe study was eliminated from the list. If ML was applied to only a portion of a course, for examplea laboratory, the study was removed from the list. If the study was performed on non-humansubjects, like mice, the study was removed. Other criterions used to eliminate articles
shouldconsider the class length and class format. For example, a laboratory class may have a differentneed for breaks compared to an interactive lecture, or watching asynchronous videos. Among thecourses included in the survey, no consistent trend was evident on effectiveness of breaks withinspecific courses.Students were asked to report on how many of their courses included breaks. Results shown inFigure 4 indicated that breaks are not universally applied in all classes. However, as shown inFigure 7 and Figure 8, regardless of the number of courses that offer breaks, the percentage ofstudents who reported a positive effect of breaks on their ability to focus and learn was five toten times greater than the number of students who reported a negative
supportive and how to navigate through those portions that are not;● Research strategies with respect to proposals, collaborations, managing grants, etc.;● Managing a budget;● Publishing and scholarship with prompts focusing on presubmission, mentoring students with writing, responding to reviewers, and many other related topics;● Safety covering laboratory setting, IRB, or related topics;● Mentoring researchers at the student, postdoctoral, technician levels;● Teaching and advising both in person and online including responding to evaluations and managing disruptive students and situations;● Service ranging from the department through to national and international level;● Tenure and promotion including strategies for best presenting a package
through promoting socialjustice and equity, providing a safe and supportive learning environment, caring about the planet,and leading with trust and integrity. Integral to STEMpathy is teaching informed bycompassionate concern for others and the world expressed through projects and assignmentsdesigned to improve lives and solve pressing societal and environmental problems. STEMpathystudy participants were asked to indicate the degree to which projects and assignments weregeared toward making the world a better place and reflected compassion for others outside ofengineering. It has been argued that the days of the laboratory scientist, responsive only to peerreviewers and funding agencies, have given way to demands for scientists accountable to
not argue with the points of these particular articles, incontrast to readings on other sociotechnical topics in this course. They did not problematize theauthor’s arguments and instead tended to repeat the article’s claims and voice their alignment.Some students put the article’s findings in personal context.Most students seemed to understand the limitations of the study cited in the Boston Reviewarticle (Moran-Thomas, 2020): the study was conducted in a laboratory setting with healthyvolunteers, and found racial bias in the device’s outputs–there was a clear pattern of great biasfor dark-skinned subjects and least for the lightest skin tones, and this bias was worse at loweroxygen levels. There is no reference to studies on the implications
earlyconversations about instructor priorities and directives from the overarching departmentalinitiative, one focus of the redesign was to improve student engagement in the course.Based on the student engagement focus, two members of the team (the industrial design associateprofessor and engineering education postdoc) oversaw a team of graduate and undergraduateindustrial design students who observed both lecture and laboratory sessions and informallyinterviewed students over a four-week period. The observation focus was student behaviors withinthe course settings and observers’ experience of the course setting from the student perspective,while interviews provided clarifications of these observations and additional experiences andperspectives related to
Laboratory for the Teaching and Learning of Electronic and Computer Engineering. Lect. Notes Networks Syst. 298, 502–513 (2021).13. Da, E. et al. Experiences of Minority College Students with Disabilities in STEM. J. Postsecond. Educ. Disabil. 29, 37514. Toft, A. Identity Management and Community Belonging: The Coming Out Careers of Young Disabled LGBT+ Persons. Sex. Cult. 2020 246 24, 1893–1912 (2020).15. Bain, S., Santos, D. L., Kupczynski, L. & Mundy, M.-A. Determining Academic Success in Students with Disabilities in Higher Education. Int. J. High. Educ. 8, 16–38 (2019).16. Haas, A. M. & Eble, M. F. Key theoretical frameworks : teaching technical communication in the twenty-first century. 32017. Morson
for the senior-level project subject. After we implemented these alternatives in the spring, for the fall term and duration of the2020-2021 academic year, we have focused our efforts primarily on enhancing the cohesivenessof each cohort between spring terms by adding additional technical content to our fall seminars;the sophomore seminar, for example, has been expanded into a lecture/laboratory format, thejunior seminar has been expanded to include autonomous simulation engines, and through thesenior seminar, students discuss and work out, in consultation with faculty, instructors and domainexperts, the senior spring project they want to undertake. The undergraduate education committee in the department of mechanical
Mississippi State University (2010-2011) and at Virginia Tech (2011-2016). She also served as Director for Re-search Division and Industrial and Agricultural Services Division, Mississippi State Chemical Laboratory (2006- 2011). She is currently a Professor at Virginia Tech (2016-present). She has served as adhoc reviewer for a number of scientific journals and funding agencies. She served as associate editor for the Journal of Environmental Quality and the Soil Science Society of America Journal. She is an expert on method development for analysis of organic chemicals in environmental matrixes and environmental occurrence, fate, and impact of organic chemicals. She has successfully managed and accomplished close to $11 million
Paper ID #38347The Development of Sociotechnical Thinking in EngineeringUndergraduatesKathryn Johnson Kathryn Johnson is a Professor at the Colorado School of Mines in the Department of Electrical Engineering and is Jointly Appointed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. After starting her career with a research focus on wind energy control systems, first developed an interest in engineering education research in the Fall 2011 when she experienced Aalborg University's (Denmark) Problem-Based Learning philosophy. Since then, she has led two NSF grants in social justice and sociotechncial thinking in