Paper ID #28468Introducing Diverse Undergraduates to Computational ResearchDr. Bala Ram P.E., North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Bala Ram serves as a Professor in Industrial Systems Engineering and the Associate Dean for Aca- demic Affairs for the College of Engineering at NC A&T State University. As a faculty member, he played a significant role in the implementation of a PhD in Industrial & Systems Engineering. Dr. Ram served as the PI for a cross-disciplinary Research Experience for Undergraduates site sponsored by NSF. He is currently the PI for an NSF project on Innovation in Graduate Education. Dr. Ram
design. The site will recruit and train nine undergraduate students each summer andengage them in research endeavors on the design of sensors including student training inmathematical methods for extracting information from sensor systems. The program waslaunched in 2017, and nine undergraduate research projects advised by a team of faculty advisorsstarted in the summer. The projects embedded REU students in tasks whose focus was to designsensors and interpret their data by studying and programming appropriate machine learningalgorithms. The paper describes the technical details of the research activities and summarizesan independent assessment of the projects and learning experiences.1. IntroductionUndergraduate research projects, assessments
to disseminate the core of our research to the K-12 community and build thepipeline of young scientists and engineers who will be prepared to continue the important workof identifying and solving the grand global challenges of the future.Program DescriptionAt its core, the program teaches middle and high school teachers and students how to apply theEngineering Design Process (EDP) to solve real world problems through a project basedapproach. The prompt presented to participants is: Design a wearable device for a human,animal, or both, to address a “One Health” related issue. The One Health Initiative2 bringslight to issues at the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health. This promptencourages creativity in the brainstorming
Paper ID #24762New Communal Practices for Shadow CitiesMr. Scott Gerald Shall, Lawrence Technological University Scott Gerald Shall, AIA, is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean of the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) and the founding director of the International Design Clinic (IDC, www.internationaldesignclinic.org), a registered non-profit that realizes socially- responsive creative action with communities in need around the world. Since founding the IDC in 2006, Shall has worked through this organization to complete over a dozen projects on four continents. Shall’s
administrator, educator, and social entrepreneur, her past experience includes ser-vice as Associate Dean for Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, where she co-foundedthe campus-wide Women in Science Project. She founded and was chief executive of MentorNet, alarge-scale online nonprofit global mentoring network advancing diversity in engineering and science(1996-2008). At Stanford, she was consulting associate professor of mechanical engineering between1998 and 2002, collaborating with faculty and staff to create ”New Century Scholars: Teaching, Learn-ing, and Your Academic Career,” a summer workshop designed for new engineering faculty members. AFellow of the Association for Women in Science, Dr. Muller and her work have been recognized
on Digital Manufacturing. Her research is focused on mechatronics, digital manufacturing, digital thread, cyber physical systems, broadening participation, and engineering education. She is a Director of Mechatronics and Digital Manufacturing Lab at ODU and a lead of Area of Specialization Mecha- tronics Systems Design. She worked as a Visiting Researcher at Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing in Disputanta, VA on projects focusing on digital thread and cyber security of manufactur- ing systems. She has funded research in broadening participation efforts of underrepresented students in STEM funded by Office of Naval Research, focusing on mechatronic pathways. She is part of the ONR project related to
decision methodologies. Dr. Michaeli is actively involved in industry-government-academia partnerships to further the advancement of naval and marine engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Stern2STEM: A Pilot Program to Increase Veteran Retention and Success in STEM Degree ProgramsAbstractThe project, Stern2STEM, aims to advance STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics) education through the preparation of student veterans to pursue baccalaureateSTEM degrees and support the re-employment of these veterans into the Department of Defense(DoD) and the wider defense support industry. The program builds on the training that veteranshave received in highly
. in civil engineering from VT. His research interests are in the areas of computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrol- ogy, engineering education, and international collaboration. He has led several interdisciplinary research and curriculum reform projects, funded by the National Science Foundation, and has participated in re- search and curriculum development projects with $4.5 million funding from external sources. He has been directing/co-directing an NSF/Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site on interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering at VT since 2007. This site has 66 alumni to date. Dr. Lohani collab- orated with his colleagues to implement a study abroad project (2007-12
support the development ofinterdisciplinary curricula at the undergraduate level and encourage faculty and studentengagement in interdisciplinary projects that could be later presented at the university, regional,national and international levels. SEMS-ROC demonstrates diversity in research backgroundsof the faculty and includes interdisciplinary interests of all three departments in the school.Research activities tend to cluster around several broad topic areas involving faculty from acrossSEMS disciplines as well as in some cases, from other Schools at the institution along with otherinstitutions around the country.One of the initiatives undertaken at SEMS-ROC to break down the departmental-level andschool-level silos and encourage to nurture
Paper ID #15665Probing the Flipped Classroom: Results of A Controlled Study of Teachingand Learning Outcomes in Undergraduate Engineering and MathematicsDr. Nancy K. Lape, Harvey Mudd College Nancy K. Lape is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College.Dr. Rachel Levy, Harvey Mudd College Rachel Levy is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and the Associate Dean of Faculty Development at Harvey Mudd College. In addition to her work on fluid mechanics, she is an investigator on two NSF-funded education projects: one studying flipped classrooms and the other preparing teachers for mathematical modeling
Adrian H. Tan and Fabian H. Tan Department of Civil Engineering The Ohio State University Abstract – In the field of construction engineering, the use of computer imaging, and more recentlyvirtual reality, has become instrumental in the creation of educational simulations, which can be used topresent techniques and details in a manner that is easily understood by students. Because these tools areincreasingly used in the simulation of modern buildings and construction projects, the same system can becombined with engineering and historical studies as a means of demonstrating the construction of ancientmonuments, which will enable historians and engineers to understand the
liberal arts specialization;and at least 4 LSE courses: two on project-based learning, a senior project course, and acapstone.As of Fall 2014, over 34.5% of the 55 LSE total graduates are women. Eighteen of these 55alumni graduated with an engineering concentration that included at least 4 quarters of theintroductory computer science sequence (CSC 123, 101, 102, and 103) – and thus, for thepurposes of this paper, function as a comparison group to the computing disciplines at CPSU andnationally. Of these eighteen LSE-computing disciplines alumni, seven, or 38.9%, are women. Page 26.1095.2Why this difference? One explanation is that LSE is a small
trained on a long term technology transfer (plastic mold making) project between government of Pakistan and government of Japan. He holds a master degree in Mechatronic Engineering and bachelor in Mechanical Engineering both from the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore Pakistan. He has extensive teaching and industrial experience.Mrs. IMAN ABDULWAHEED, United Arab Emirates University Mrs IMAN ABDULWAHEED;graduated from United Emirates Emirates University in February in 2014 with a mechanical engineering degree.During her residency in the university she was an enthusiastic par- ticipant in academic and extracurricular activities.She was an active member and office holder in ASME, ASAA and Robotics and
at improving entering students’ college readinessand mathematics placement. The small scale intervention, A Bridge to Calculus, is intended toimprove students’ placement from College Algebra into Calculus 1. The target population forthis effort are students with high school experience in a Calculus course but whose performanceon placement exams does not reflect this experience. At our institution this is a significantnumber of students and the goal of the project is to develop methods to address and acceleratestudents in this category. The course design, to take advantage of the students’ prior experience,emphasizes practice and mastery using a modified emporium course design and the ALEKSsoftware1. This intervention runs as a summer course
Paper ID #17811Using Simulation Experiences, Real Customers, and Outcome Driven Inno-vation to Foster Empathy and an Entrepreneurial Mindset in a SophomoreEngineering Design StudioDr. Cristi Bell-Huff, Lawrence Technological University Cristi L. Bell-Huff, PhD is the Director of the Studio for Entrepreneurial Engineering Design at Lawrence Technological University where she teaches courses on fundamentals of engineering design projects and entrepreneurial engineering design. In addition to her PhD in Chemical Engineering, she also has an MA in Educational Studies and is a certified teacher in Michigan. She has industrial
pursuing postsecondaryeducation, and prepare for high-demand careers [11]. Several factors are associated withstudents’ continued participation in STEM disciplines, and ultimately, their pursuit of STEMcareers. An important factor is student interest in STEM. Research indicates that hands-on,inquiry-based activities delivered in informal environments are key factors in helping to developcritical thinking skills and play a significant role in increasing students’ interest and engagementin STEM and the likelihood that they will consider science-related occupations [12].The engineering-focused STEM Academy project is a partnership between an institution ofhigher learning, school districts, state agencies, private foundations, and other STEM
Paper ID #26760An Engineering Grand Challenge-focused Research Experience for Teachers(RET) Program: Purpose, Outcomes, and Evaluation (Evaluation)Dr. Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University Jerome P. Lavelle is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of engineering economic analysis, decision analysis, project management, leadership, engineering management and engineering education.Dr. Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University Dr. Laura Bottomley, Teaching Associate Professor of Electrical
virtual applications.lack an understanding of fundamental programming conceptsand that learning to program is difficult for many students [1], IV. CURRICULUM AND METHODOLOGY[6], [7]. As a result, CS educators have tried a variety of In this project, basic computing concepts—sequencing,instructional methods to assist beginning programmers [7]. variables assignments, operators (arithmetic and relational),Furthermore, results from other studies to discover why some conditionals, iteration—are introduced beginning with day-students have difficulty learning to program point towards the to-day examples with which students are familiar and canfundamentals of programming [8]. From the findings of these
, Gainesville. She did post-doctoral work with the USDA in Peoria, IL as a biochemist in soy- bean oligosaccharides before joining Central State University in 1989. Dr. Lowell maintains a research program in directed energy to kill weeds as an integrated pest management strategy. She mentors un- dergraduate students in funded research projects who have gone on to present at local, state and national conferences.Dr. Xiaofang Wei, Central State University Dr. Xiaofang Wei, Professor of Geography, GIS, and Remote Sensing at the Department of Water Re- sources Management (WRM) at Central State University. Dr. Wei received her bachelor degree from Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping and her doctoral degree from
ensure that students learning can perform effectively in a professionalsetting [5, 6]. Due to this factor, there have been several methods designed to aid in studentlearning especially in engineering education, such as active learning [7–11], project-basedlearning [12, 12–16], inquiry-based learning [17].Active learning has been aware of improvement of students’ affect toward engineering educationin support of meaningful engagement with computer engineering concepts and practices [7].Compeau et al. [8] developed an active learning pedagogy in engineering electromagneticscourse, in which engineering students are actively engaged in learning through specially designedactivities, followed by reflection upon. A teaching plan is elaborated in [9
of Science at FAU.Her research interests aDr. Hanqi Zhuang, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Hanqi Zhuang is a professor in Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University. His research interests are in Robotics, Computer Vision, and their applications, as well as Engineering Education. He ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Empowering Hispanic Students in STEM throughFinancial LiteracyABSTRACTThe session will report on successes of addressing financial literacy of students in a collaborativeDOE project between two state colleges and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) university witha combined 140,000+ undergraduate students. The
University of Puerto Rico, MayagA¼ez Campus. She has a M.S. in Clinical Psychology from the Caribbean Center of Advanced Studies in Puerto Rico [today the Carlos Albizu University] and a Ph.D. in EducationDr. Aidsa I. Santiago-Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Dr. Aidsa I. Santiago-Rom´an is a Professor and Former Chair in the Engineering Sciences and Materials (CIIM) Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayag¨uez Campus (UPRM). Dr. Santiago earned a BS and MS in Industrial Engineering from UPRM and Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Dr. Santiago has over 20 years of experience in academia and has been successful in obtaining funding and publishing for various research projects
● Project Context ● Problem Context ● Developing the Situational Judgement Inventory (SJI) ● SJI Pilot Results ● Moving Forward 2In order to fully contextualize our SJI instrument, we will first provide backgroundinformation related to our research team, project context, and education plan. Thenwe will explain our process for developing the SJI and talk through some of ourpreliminary findings
an engineering identity early in theirmatriculation can be significant drivers of attrition from technical fields. Previous researchsuggests that project-based learning builds students’ engineering/computing identity by piquingand developing student interest in engineering topics. Literature on the sense of belonging inengineering suggests that experiencing camaraderie within course-based teams, and particularlyhaving a clear purpose or role within the team, can promote that sense of belonging. The currentresearch project sought to implement evidence-based practices to enhance first-year students’identity and sense of belonging in engineering and computing, in the context of a two-semesterintroductory course sequence that integrates students
called Living with the Lab offers animmersive, hands-on, project-based course sequence that focuses on problem-solving andbuilding a strong academic foundation for engineering fundamentals. Equipment like millingmachines, soldering irons, and drills are all used within the course sequence. The classroomsetup is strategically designed to encourage collaboration through a six-person table layout.Feedback was received that female engineering students often felt intimidated when entering theclassroom and underconfident while using the equipment. A workshop that provided femalestudents advanced access to the equipment by working through multiple hands-on activitieswhile also making connections with female faculty, engaging with upper-level female
engineering courses. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Lessons Learned: Implementing Equitable Teaming Practices in first-year GE CoursesBackground and MotivationAspiring engineering students at Virginia Tech initially enroll in a General Engineering programduring their first year of the curriculum. In this program, students are expected to develop, alongwith other skills, professional teamwork strategies in an engineering setting through asemester-long team project. These types of team projects have been shown to influence students'sense of belonging as they begin their studies, something that can be a factor in retention andsuccess in an engineering program. Many instructors
to develop and sustain an effective engineering workforce with specific emphasis on inclusion. She has over ten years of construction and civil engineering experience working for energy companies and as a project management consultant; nearly 20 years of experience in academia; and extensive experience leading and conducting multi-institutional, workforce-related research and outreach. She holds civil engi- neering degrees (BS, MS, PhD) from Clemson University and is a registered Professional Engineer (PE), Project Management Professional (PMP), and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accred- ited Professional (LEED-AP).Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida ©American Society for
currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Educa- tion / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions, specifically on design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Ms. Madalyn Wilson-Fetrow, University of New MexicoDr. Pil Kang, University of New Mexico Sung ”Pil” Kang is an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico. His
and nature of asset-based practices both in theory and practice, andhelped identify a variety of practical asset-based pedagogical strategies from community-inspireddesign projects and asset-mapping to translanguaging and cross-institutional faculty professionaldevelopment initiatives. We believe that these findings will potentially motivate the engineeringeducation community to actively implement asset-based approaches in design instruction, andfurther develop and test more nuanced strategies that draw upon students’ funds of knowledgeand cultural wealth.IntroductionEngineering design is typically recognized and taught as a team activity, with cornerstone andcapstone project-based courses requiring students to work on teams and to navigate
improving the qualityand throughput of undergraduate engineering programs: 1) development of interdisciplinaryundergraduate engineering curricula, 2) team-based engaged learning and research, 3) research-basedteaching practices (RBTPs), 4) collaborations between academia and industry, 5) online/distancelearning and telecommuting skills, and 6) the persistence of traditionally underrepresented students.In addition, future prospects of interdisciplinary project-based learning are discussed from threeaspects: student competency, faculty development, and industry collaboration. IntroductionThe need for highly trained and capable engineers to address increasingly complex problems that facesociety is clear