Computer Engineering and a rich academic experience spanning six years, her overarching goal is to craft engineering learning environments and experiences in a way that intricately engages students on a cognitive level. In addition to her role as an engineer and researcher, Shabnam is an advocate and ally for fostering greater inclusion in STEM fields and beyond.Dr. Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Nicole is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining VT, Dr. Pitterson was a postdoctoral scholar at Oregon State University. She holds a PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University and oth
College of Technology decided to implement the class. An outline of the class withdesired objectives was submitted to the curriculum committee of the MET department andapproved as a “Special Topics in MET” class. The class was offered with no prerequisite classesand approved as a technical selective for the two-year associate of science degree in MET.Employees from local industry as well as current students in MET were encouraged to registerfor the class. This class has been conducted during the fall semester in 2005, 2006 and 2007,serving over 40 students.This work details the organization of the class including objectives, hands-on activities,assessments, and course materials. Basically, the Book of Knowledge2 published by the ASQ
equitable engineering environments.Dr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research characterizes front-end design practices across the student to practitioner continuum and studies the impact of developed front-end design tools on design success.Dr. Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan Lisa Lattuca, Professor of Higher Education and member of the Core Faculty in the Engineering Education Research Program at the University of Michigan. She studies curriculum, teaching, and learning in college
optimize robots tocompete in a “Capture the Flag” style game. This paper will describe the course content andsummarize assessment results from the Fall 2010 pilot course.IntroductionIn Fall 2010, Harvey Mudd College began offering a new core curriculum with more electivity,including, for the first time, an elective in the fall semester of the freshman year. Most existingelectives have prerequisites and are not aimed at first-semester students. As part of thiscurriculum revision, HMC faculty have created a variety of new courses tailored to incomingfreshmen. The authors have recently completed teaching one of these courses, titled E11:Autonomous Vehicles, which offers an interdisciplinary hands-on introduction to engineeringmotivated by a robot
where he worked training engineers and technicians in high-speed transmission system for backbone networks.Dr. Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University Oenardi Lawanto is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State Uni- versity, USA. He received his B.S.E.E. from Iowa State University, his M.S.E.E. from the University of Dayton, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before coming to Utah State, Dr. Lawanto taught and held several administrative positions at one large private university in Indonesia. In his years of teaching experiences in the area of electrical engineering, he has gained new perspectives on teaching and learning. He has developed and
educational ecosystem. Given that any change happenswithin some context, it is necessary to take into account factors that may advance an idea or that mayinhibit success. Many education-funded projects are undertaken at a local level, such as within oneinstitution, within a curriculum, or even at the level of a single course. While the activities may be at alocal level, i.e. within one institution, there are many interacting components that can influence orimpact the advancement of an educational innovation. In particular, there are faculty and students, goalsfor a degree program or accreditation, institutional or departmental mission, the value and rewardsystem, and so on. By addressing multiple components of the broader ecosystem, an
future capacity needs for peaking power plants.I. IntroductionA common difficulty amongst academic engineering programs is the minimal amount ofcoursework that makes a solid connection to industry applications. Upper level coursesshould ease the transition from the university to the work place environment. There are sev-eral program models that ease the transition by exposing students to the industry environmentduring their education.One program model provides students the opportunity to observe professionals in the work-place. Another program allows students to work in the engineering industry as part of theircourse curriculum. A third program model tells students to take time off from school towork independently for an industry partner1. With
] - [13]. Mentoring is notlimited to faculty-student interactions. An early study by Good [14] indicated that freshmenneeded networking with upperclassmen to ease the transition from high school to university.Clark et al. [15] attributed peer relationships as a key factor in the success of student satisfaction,integration and retention in higher education. Peer mentoring can build a community of supportfor the mentee (i.e., freshmen) while enhancing the teamwork, instruction and communicationskills of the mentor (i.e., senior) [10]. When mentoring is from someone that is close in age andposition, it can also provide encouragement and social support [11]. Social support from mentorsand other women in STEM increased women’s persistence in STEM [16
skills.In terms of curriculum placement, the seminar complements a prerequisite lecture course as anexperiential introduction to computer engineering. The seminar aspect of the laboratory class isideal for this purpose in that it allows for presentation and discussion of underlying conceptsonly to the extent students require for a particular hands-on laboratory exercise. Accordingly,exercises are designed so that students do not have to understand theoretical concepts to anygreat extent before working with their applications.Since computers intrinsically involve electronics, the first laboratory exercises investigateelectronics principles. These exercises serve as experiential validation of basic direct-current(DC) circuit theory introduced in the
informationto the engineering students. A number of methods have been developed for enhancing studentlearning including multimedia developments,1,2 active, problem-based learning,3 collaborativelearning,4,5 and participation in cooperative education.6 Several papers have specificallyaddressed methods for improving or supplementing the teaching of engineering including the useof spreadsheets to solve two-dimensional heat transfer problems,7 the use of a transport approachin teaching turbulent thermal convection,8 the use of computers to evaluate view factors inthermal radiation,9 implementation of a computational method for teaching free convection,10and the use of an integrated experimental/analytical/numerical approach that brings theexcitement of
explore the mechanicalintricacies of assembling the robot. Several teams were required to improvise and troubleshootas an error was made in assembly or different pieces than advertised were included in their kits. Following assembly, the students were asked to use the NXT brick, the „brain‟ of the robot, tocreate a simple program. The NXT brick‟s have object-oriented programming capability thatallows five commands to be programmed and executed. After familiarization with theprogramming language of the Mindstorm, the students were asked to investigate some of thesensors included in the kit by following instructions on connecting the sensors properly andverifying their correct operation. The integration of the sensors into their projects
to explain ERC goals, provide strategies for ERC design, and promotestrategies for integrating Convergent and Transdisciplinary Research and Team Science intoERC proposals. Participation in the Planning Grant program is not required to submit an ERCproposal. In 2021, 23 teams joined the PGW, with a total of 114 participants from 54 institutionsacross the U.S. The 2021 program consisted of three, half-day sessions spanning three weeks.The workshop agenda was created collaboratively by leaders at NSF and ASEE, with particularattention to recommendations from prior cohorts.In this this paper, we share: 1) information presented at the workshop about the key foundational components of an ERC 2) results of the workshop evaluation 3) access
limited and highly optimized by design, thus requiring security solutions to be lightweight and mostly passive. Additionally, most processes have strict performance requirements, such as short-time delays and high reliability. When designing and deploying security solutions, balancing those requirements with the potential impacts of security and resilience goals must be carefully considered. • In most industries, OT/ICS/IIoT technologies are mixed and connected with other IT technologies, and business applications, creating complexity that offers multiple opportunities for threat actors to initiate and propagate an attack.Since OT/ICS often involves integration and interaction with physical processes
papers that assert (or sought) determination of an educational outcome as a result of adefined intervention. This paper thus presents the results of the scholarship of synthesis ratherthan the results of the scholarship of discovery. Indeed, the articles we analyze and the metricswe have developed are based on a synthesis of characteristics.The PR2OVE-IT database is intended to be a tool for translating education research results intopractical classroom use by engineering faculty who are not engaged in educational research. Assuch, the website divided into five major categories for searching and viewing information aboutarticles: interventions (instructional practices), subject/content area (content or context of thelearning environment), study
Session 2653 Providing Connections Between Freshmen and Senior Engineers Through a Design Experience Craig J. Gunn, Craig W. Somerton, Brian Thompson Department of Mechanical Engineering Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824IntroductionThe typical engineering curriculum in most programs revolves around math, physics, andchemistry components. Students prepare for future engineering activities by building afoundation that will allow them to function at the upper levels of their majors. Little or
broader world and toward the future),making connections (e.g., integrating knowledge from multiple sources), and creating value (e.g.,understanding stakeholders and seeking opportunity) [8].This paper describes a group project created for an introductory thermal sciences course taken bysecond-year engineering students at University of San Diego. A significant amount of theoreticalcontent is covered in the course, and typical example and homework problems have fairly weakconnections to real-world problems. Because concepts presented without contextualization orapplication have little meaning to students [9], the project was developed to provide ameaningful student-centered learning experience, which has been shown to better anchorknowledge and
1 Use of Student Surveys to Improve Efficacy of Lab Experience and Guide Lab Development Robert W. Williams, Salam F. Rahmatalla Civil and Environmental Engineering The University of IowaAbstract One way to refocus the importance of hands-on education is to allow students to haveownership of their lab experience so that, in time, the lab curriculum is tailored to their needs andwants. This paper discusses the use of student surveys to help improve the efficacy of labexperience for undergraduate Civil &
Education, 2025Performance Unveiled: Comparing Lightweight Devices Testbed and Virtual Machines for Edge ComputingAbstractTechnological innovations are accelerating across fields like engineering, IT, environmentalscience, and agriculture, the convergence of education & research has emerged as a vital andconcerning issue. Although the research in areas such as edge computing holds a lot of potentialfor real-world applications, its integration into engineering education remains marginalized dueto lack of curriculum alignment, lack of resources for faculty training, and industry-academiadisconnect. This study bridges the gap by investigating the suitability of hands-onexperimentation with edge computing frameworks to enhance
discussion,particularly when they can speak and hear their own words. Visual learners like words,pictures, symbols, flow charts, diagrams, and reading books. Sequential learners prefer linearreasoning, step-by-step procedures, and material that comes to them in a steady stream. Globallearners are strong integrators and synthesizers making intuitive discoveries and connectionsto see the overall system or pattern26. Both innate personality traits and prior experiences mayinfluence preferences on each of these scales.The Index of Learning Styles provides scores showing the strengths of an individual‘spreference for one category or the other on each of the four dimensions. The instrument is a44-item questionnaire4 that requires choosing one of two
officially began in Guthrie on Christmas Eve 1890 in the McKennon Opera House whenTerritorial Governor George W. Steele signed legislation providing for the establishment of anagricultural and mechanical college as well as an agricultural experiment station in PayneCounty, Oklahoma Territory, effective December 25, 1890 [5]. At long last, Stillwater wasdesignated as the location for the college by the designated commission. On May 15, 1957,Oklahoma A&M changed its name Oklahoma State University of Agricultural and AppliedSciences to reflect the broadening scope of curriculum offered. However, the name was quicklyshortened to Oklahoma State University for most purposes, and the "Agricultural & AppliedSciences" name was formally dropped in
Paper ID #13565Learning from Senior-Level Engineering & Business Development Profes-sionals to Create Globally Competent Engineers via On- and Off-CampusActivitiesDr. Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Jane Lehr is Chair of the Women’s & Gender Studies Department at California Polytechnic State Uni- versity, San Luis Obispo. She is also an Associate Professor in Ethnic Studies, Director of the Science, Technology & Society Minor Programs, and Faculty Director of the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minor- ity and Underrepresented Student Participation in STEM Program at Cal Poly. She
semester, Divergersrepresent 9.5% of the students tested, Assimilators represent 41%, Convergers represent35.7% and Accommodators represent 13.8%. Most students reported an expected benefitto having learning style diversity within a team, expressing a perception that learningstyle diversity would aid in the development of robust solutions to team assignments.When questioned about the impact of learning style diversity on team management, thestudents expressed an expectation that compromise would be needed (particularly in viewof the learning style differences). However, many students also found it difficult to relatethe information on their own learning style preference to effective team managementskills. The feedback has been used to modify
ofretention in the major by 2.3 times compared to first-year students from prior years, while non-participation lowered the odds of retention by 1.35 times.IntroductionIn 2011, President Obama called for U.S. engineering schools to graduate an additional 10,000engineering students every year.1 One impetus for making this appeal, as explained by the JobsCouncil, was that engineers drive innovation, creating jobs for skilled and unskilled workersalike.2 In short: more engineers can drive economic recovery, and by extension, stability. Inresponse to the appeal, many engineering school deans recognized that one solution was toimprove the retention rate of engineering students,3 specifically first-year retention, which at thetime was reported to be around
UniversityAbstractPenn State University has hosted an NSF-sponsored GK-12 Outreach project for the past fiveyears, and has just begun the second phase of the project. The Penn State project utilizes thetalents of many science and engineering graduate students as teachers, mentors and role modelsfor the K-12 classrooms. The project focuses on developing skills of students in the areas ofscience, technology, engineering and mathematics through the use of Advanced TransportationTechnologies. A new project component was devised and implemented--the interaction of K-12students with college freshman via a website project. The college freshmen were asked to createa website describing a component of "Clean Energy", which was to include an assessment tool toprovide
interests include Robotics, Vibrations, Controls Systems, Internet-based Quality Control, and Renewable Energy Systems. Page 22.515.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 E-Quality Control Method for Measuring Solar Cell EfficiencyAbstractRecent results of laboratory and course development under an NSF, CCLI sponsored project,“CCLI Phase II: E-Quality for Manufacturing (EQM) Integrated with Web-enabled ProductionSystems for Engineering Technology Education” (NSF Award # 0618665) are presented. Thispaper discusses an educational effort that incorporates Renewable Energy in a senior
) community impacts from project implementation. [4-6, 13,14]. Through support of an NSF IUSE Development and Implementation Tier grant, the C-EEEMis now in its second year for replication in two cities, Youngstown, Ohio and Louisville,Kentucky.By operating in the complexity of a real-world context and providing more personalized learningand professional skill building supporting personalized learning and professional skill building,the C-EEEM represents and example of the future of engineering education [15]. Nonetheless,the C-EEEM learning environment also supports a range of STEM and STEM-adjacentdisciplines. Through a careful curriculum that centers on community-driven, strategicallydeveloped projects in critical areas for these communities (e.g
the control group, theexperiment group was shown how many intentionally buggy instructor solutions their testsexposed.Our results measured the quality of student test cases for the control and experiment groups. Afterstudents in the experiment group completed two projects with additional feedback on their testcases, they completed a final project without the additional feedback. Despite not receivingadditional feedback, their test cases were of higher quality, exposing on average 5% more buggysolutions than students from the control group. We found this difference to be statisticallysignificant after controlling for GPA and whether students worked alone or with a partner.2 IntroductionTesting is an integral part of software development that
Links to Retention Research," Minnesota Campus Compact, Minnesota, 2008.[14] T. Kennedy and L. Houghtalen, "Engagement in Practice: Lessons Learned While Developing Community Partners (and a New Engineering Program) for Service Learnin," in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, 2018.[15] W. Oakes, E. Coyle and L. Jamieson, "Curriculum, EPICS: A Model of Service-Learning in an Engineering," in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, St. Louis, 2000.[16] W. Oakes and M. Thompson, "Integration of Service Learning into a Freshman Engineering Course," in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual
continuing education.In addition to laying out requirements for assessment, the criteria document also requiresprograms to demonstrate that assessment results are used in a formal continuous improvementprocess to further develop the program.Assessment AcronymsThe MET program utilizes the centralized assessment process provided by the college ofengineering (COE). The COE first began an integrated process of strategic planning,measurement, evaluation, and feedback in 1992, with the purpose of identifying continuousimprovement opportunities. The principal components and their interactions are summarized inthe Assessment Triad shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 – Assessment TriadAs illustrated above, the continuous improvement
Education, 2021 CSUN Data Science Program with Career Support and Connections to IndustryData Science Program with Career Support and Connections to Industry, supported by NSF DUEIUSE, is an interdisciplinary workforce training program that encompasses a summer bootcamp,year-long research projects, biweekly seminars, and career support. Our program has had twocohorts, one in 2019-2020 and the other in 2020-2021. This paper discusses how to design, imple-ment, manage, and assess a data science program for undergraduates.California State University Northridge (CSUN). CSUN is a federally designated Hispanic ServingInstitution (HSI) and Minority Institution (MI). It is among the largest single-campus