Paper ID #27067Infusing STEM Courses with Problem-Based Learning about TransportationDisruptive TechnologiesDr. Charles E. Pierce, University of South Carolina Dr. Pierce is the Director for Diversity and Inclusion and Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He is a USC Connect Faculty Fellow for Integrative Learning and former Bell South Teaching Fellow in the College of Engineering and Computing. He is the ASEE Campus Representative and a Director for the Graduate Studies Division. Dr. Pierce has experience and interest in the evaluation of
, Coeur d'Alene, ID, October, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://search.proquest.com/docview/2193095035.[5] B. E. Hughes, W. J. Schell, and B. Tallman, "Development of Leadership Self-Efficacy: Comparing Engineers, Other STEM, and Non-STEM Majors," in FIE 2018 Conference Proceedings, San Jose, CA, October 2018.[6] W. J. Schell, E. H. Bryce, P. E. Brett Tallman, A. Emma, M. B. Romy, and B. K. Monika, "Exploring the Relationship Between Students’ Engineering Identity and Leadership Self-Efficacy," presented at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Tampa, Florida, 2019/06/15, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/32817.[7] W. J. Schell and B. E. Hughes, "Are Engineers’ Leadership Attitudes
participants’ reflections and interviews,journaling, and our observations of the participants’ own CAE. Additionally, we would measurethe growth in participants’ critical consciousness by using the Contemporary CriticalConsciousness Measure I and II surveys [7], [8]. After sharing the goals of the project withdifferent ASEE 2023 Annual Conference attendees [1] and talking to potentially interestedparticipants, we decided to shift the project to first collect a baseline on how Whiteness is beingconceptualized in engineering spaces. Following Cabrera’s [9] call to challenge the socialamnesia that calls into question effort and merit in higher education, we came to the conclusionthat amnesia regarding racialization and systemic racism in engineering is
Paper ID #41697Board 373: Research Initiation: Understanding Interactions Between Affectand Identity in First- and Second-Year Engineering StudentsDr. Emma Treadway, Trinity University Emma Treadway received the B.S. degree in Engineering Science from Trinity University in 2011, and her M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2017 and 2019, respectively. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.Dr. Jessica E S Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Jessica Swenson is an
and the Sloan Foundation and his team received for the best paper published in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008, 2011, and 2019 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011 and 2015. Dr. Ohland is an ABET Program Evaluator for ASEE and represents ASEE on the Engineering Accreditation Commission. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi and is a Fellow of the ASEE, IEEE, and AAAS. He was inducted into the ASEE Hall of Fame in 2023.Dr. Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University Marisa K. Orr is an Associate Professor in Engineering and Science Education with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University.Dr. Richard A. Layton, Richard A. Layton is Professor
, globally. At CISTAR she oversees all of the programming for CISTAR’s engineering workforce development pillar. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Being Mentored and then Mentoring: A Four-Year Success Story with CISTAR and NSBE SEEK Partnering in an NSF-funded Research Experience and Mentoring Summer ProgramAbstractIn this paper supporting a poster for the ASEE NSF grantee session, CISTAR and NSBE SEEKcelebrate four years of successfully partnering in a combined summer Research Experience andMentoring (REM) program funded, in part, by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Thesummer REM program begins in the first 6 weeks of summer with participating studentsreceiving a stipend and engaging in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow and conducted postdoctoral research with Ruth Streveler in the School of Engineering Educa- tion at Purdue University. His research interests include creating systems for sustainable improvement in engineering education, conceptual change and development in engineering students, and change in fac- ulty beliefs about teaching and learning. He serves as the Publications Chair for the ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division.Dr. Dong San Choi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dong San Choi is a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois
Instruments, Dallas, between 2011 and 2012. He was a Member of Technical Staff, IC Design at Maxim Integrated, San Diego, CA, between 2012 and 2016, and a Staff Engineer at Qualcomm, Tempe, AZ, between 2016 and 2019. In 2019, he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University, where he is currently an assistant professor and Jack H. Graham Endowed Fellow of Engineering. His research interests include power management IC design, hardware security, and energy-efficient computing. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 What Does it Take to Implement a Semiconductor Curriculum in High School? True Challenges and The Teachers
Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), and North American Materials Education Symposium (NAMES), Frontiers in Education (FiE), and Materials Science and Technology (MS&T) conferences. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Variations in Motivation for Learning to Use MATLAB Among First Year Engineering StudentsAbstractMotivation can affect learning, and there will be variations in students’ motivation for learning touse computational tools such as MATLAB. In this research, we seek to determine whetherdifferences in motivation correlate with students’ intended engineering major. Students from alarge midwestern state university were surveyed about their interest
course.Additionally, we hope to better understand the adoption process through interviews and focusgroups with students (both users and non-users).References[1] Tony Perez, Stephanie V Wormington, Michael M Barger, Rochelle D Schwartz-Bloom, You-kyung Lee, and Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia. Science expectancy, value, and cost profiles and their proximal and distal relations to undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and math persistence. Science education, 103(2):264–286, 2019.[2] Allison Godwin. The development of a measure of engineering identity. In ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2016.
, teaching assistants, and students engaged in data science courses offeredat the three participating institutions. For objective (3) we collected approximately 200 surveyresponses validating important data science concepts from the existing body of knowledgepresented by the Edison Project [1]. Faculty and industry practitioners from data science andclosely related fields comprised the survey respondents.Preliminary results of our overall efforts will be presented at the ASEE National Conference andExposition in the NSF Grantees poster session, however this paper focuses on the developmentand analysis of the difficulty protocol. As a work in progress, our data, analyses, and findings arenot yet final and are subject to change as we progress through
thermodynamics class,” ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 22-25, 2003, Nashville, Tennessee. American Society for Engineering Education, 2003.10. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, "Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs 2018-2019," [Online]. Available: http://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accrediting- engineering-programs-2018-2019/#program. [Accessed: January 30, 2019].
next step to engineering careers: Career-related activities, value,and belonging. Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. SanFrancisco, CA. ● In this work, the relationship of engaging in career-related activities and student motivation was examined.Bovee, E. A., Lira, A. K., Briedis, D., Linnenbrink-Garcia, L., & Walton, S. P. (2019). Theimpacts of scholarships on engineering students’ motivation. American Society of EngineeringEducation (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition. Tampa, Florida. ● This paper described our initial efforts to examine how scholarships influence engineering students’ motivation.Bovee, E. A., Mahmood, Z., Robinson, K. A., Walton, S. P., Briedis, D., & Linnenbrink
, and has led the development of the project ”Systemic Transformation of Education Through Evidence-based Reforms”, which he submitted to NSF; it was approved by NSF in 2015 (NSF-DUE 1525574). He now serves as PI of this 5-year, $3,000,000 IUSE project that seeks to get faculty in a research intensive university to adopt evidence-based teaching practices, and to change the system to one that values and rewards both teaching and research, with an end result of increasing graduation rates and numbers in the STEM disciplinesDr. Robert L Potter, University of South Florida c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019
summer activities. This overview of theCISTAR summer programs provides ways for others in the engineering education community tounderstand what was successful as a part of these summer programs how summer programs cancontinue to improve to develop participants’ knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as identitiesand motivations.References 1. Drummond Oakes, M., & Cardella, M. E., & Sydlik, M., & Everett, K. M. (2019, June), Board 41: Developing Summer Research Programs at an NSF ERC: Activities, Assessment, and Adaptation Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida. https://peer.asee.org/32344
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engineering and ET in 2014 was 3.8% and 10.7% respectively. Thisfinding is not surprising to those familiar with ET programs. Table 1 shows the number of Blackstudents as a percentage of the total enrollment in ET and engineering (EN) at the top 10schools for ET enrollment in 2019 as reported by the American Society of EngineeringEducation (ASEE) [1]. For all of the institutions on the list that offer accredited bachelor’s degreeprograms in both engineering and ET, the proportion of Black students in ET is higher than theproportion of Black students in engineering, and for most the ET number is more than doublethat of engineering.The NAE report went on to recommend that agencies consider funding research aimed at betterunderstanding the reasons for
senior-levelstudents [1,6]. Students were recruited as rising juniors in three cohorts consisting of eight, eight,and ten students from 2017-2019. These students comprised the core of a Student LearningCommunity (SLC). The SLC met to every two-weeks with activities designed to promotesuccessful academic habits and professional development as well as foster a sense-of-belongingand provide opportunity for both peer and faculty mentorship. Learning communities, especiallyfor first-year students, have proven to be effective at improving retention [7,8].A Faculty Learning Community (FLC) was also formed, and the group participated in acomprehensive program designed to increase interactions between faculty and students, supportstudent retention
Paper ID #24790Board 11: Predicting At-Risk Students in a Circuit Analysis Course UsingSupervised Machine LearningProf. James P Becker, Montana State University James Becker is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Montana State University. His professional interests include microwave circuits, radio frequency electronics, nanoelectronics, cyber- learning, metacognition, and distance education.Ms. Emily Sior, Montana State University Emily Sior is a student at Montana State University, graduating in May 2019 with a major in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Computer Engineering. Her interests include
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made filling the planned RScohorts extremely challenging. Three recruiting years (2017-2019), instead of the originallyplanned two, were needed to enlist enough students for the study, in cadres of six, nine, and six,respectively. Within the design of the overall program, the researchers sought to include multiple climate-based features, common in smaller engineering departments and advocacy organizations [23]. Topromote intra-group socialization, students were invited to in-home celebratory dinners withfaculty members, social functions on and off-campus, and seminars with the primary researchers.Significant effort was invested in esteem-building for the RS, by providing a welcomingcommunity for them and demonstrating that faculty and
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Paper ID #34532Hands on STEM Learning at Home with 3D-Printed ManipulativesEric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College Eric Davishahl holds an MS degree in mechanical engineering and serves as associate professor and engineering program coordinator at Whatcom Community College. His teaching and research interests include developing, implementing and assessing active learning instructional strategies and auto-graded online homework. Eric has been a member of ASEE since 2001. He currently serves as awards chair for the Pacific Northwest Section and was the recipient of the 2008 Section Outstanding Teaching Award.Dr. Lee
., Atadero, R.A., Rambo-Hernandez, K.E., and Francis, J. “Creating InclusiveEnvironments in First-Year Engineering Classes to Support Student Retention and Learning.”ASEE Annual Conference 2015. Seattle, WA, USA. June 14-17, 2015.[2] Rambo-Hernandez, K.E., Roy, A., Morris, M., Hensel, R., Schwartz, J., Hasemi, M.,Atadero, R. & Paguyo, C. “Using Interactive Theater to Promote Inclusive Behaviors in Teamsfor First-Year Engineering Students: A Sustainable Approach” ASEE CoNECD Conference.Washington, D.C. April 29-May 2, 2018.[3] Hedayati, A., Atadero, R.A., Baker, D. and Casper, A. “Analyzing the Effects of anInnovative Intervention to Infuse Diversity and Inclusion in a Statics Course.” ASEE AnnualConference, Tampa, FL, USA. June 16-19, 2019.[4
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approaches, and serves on the editorial board for Engineering Studies and the Journal of Engineering Education. She joined the ASU faculty in 2014 and teaches courses in the undergraduate engineering program as well as the Engineering Education Systems and Design Ph.D. program. Brunhaver graduated with her B.S. in mechanical engineering from Northeastern University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on fostering greater workplace adaptability among engineering undergraduates and early-career professionals. Other awards Dr. Brunhaver has won for her research include the 2021 ASEE PIC IV Best Paper Award, the
., Honeycutt, C. F., Judson, E., Krause, S. J., Middleton, J. A., Hjelmstad, K. D., Hjelmstad, K. A., Mayled, L., & Culbertson, R. J. (2019, June). Examining effects of an evidence-based professional development program on student achievement. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference, Tampa, FL.[14] Mayled, L., Ross, L., Krause, S. J., Hjelmstad, K. D., Judson, E., Middleton, J. A., Culbertson, R. J., Hjelmstad, K. L., & Glassmeyer, K. (2019, June). Impact of evidence- based active learning faculty development on low-SES engineering students’ achievement. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE
skills and perceive their learning environment. He has written more than 115 refereed technical papers, and his opinion editorials have appeared in the Tampa Bay Times, the Tampa Tribune, and the Chronicle Vitae.Dr. Rasim Guldiken, University of South Florida Dr. Rasim Guldiken is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of the Mechanical Engi- neering Department at USF. Since joining USF in 2008, he has taught Fluid Mechanics courses to 1,700+ students and was invited to attend the ASEE National Eff ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Community as “Surroundings” in a Classroom EcosystemAbstractIn this paper, we preliminarily examine the notion of the