2022 ASEE Southeast Section Conference Data Acquisition for Collegiate Hybrid and Solid Rocketry - An Undergraduate Research ExperienceAbstract Involving undergraduate students in engineering research provides an opportunity and anavenue to gain in-depth and hands-on experiential learning with topics related to their major.Students involved learn about contributions to the field they study through research andunderstand the value of meaningful contributions, specifically experimentation and hardwaredevelopment. Working with a research advisor provides students with mentoring, teamwork, andinteraction with peers and graduate students. Research experience for undergraduate studentsprovides a unique
Paper ID #36227Python for chemical engineers: an efficient approach to teachnon-programmers to programProf. Gennady Gor, New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Gennady Gor received Ph.D. in theoretical physics from St. Petersburg State University, Russia in 2009. He continued his postdoctoral research in the United States, at Rutgers University, Princeton University and Naval Research Laboratory. In 2016 he joined the Chemical and Materials Engineering department at NJIT as an assistant professor. He authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, and is the recipient of the National Research Council Associateship (2014) and
turbomachinery instabilities, for which he received NASA Performance Cash awards. Dr. Richard is involved in tutoring, mentoring, and outreach and teaches first-year introductory engineering, fluid mechanics, and space plasma propulsion. He has authored/co-authored 45+ peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.Janie M Moore (Assistant Professor) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Work-in-Progress of an initial phase of a research study of data on student performance impacted from modifying a first-year/semester engineering core course during a global pandemic
data1.” How does one achieve such a desirable end? Traditionally,lecture format courses have been taught but these may not be the best way to achieve thedesired result.2,3 Most universities have blended lectures with a more hands onapproach.4-6 At Baylor University, mechanical engineering majors have two significantlaboratory courses. The first is a materials laboratory in the spring of their senior yearthat covers the basics of materials testing; hardness, stress and strain. The course is athree credit hour course with two hours of lecture and three house of lab. Students areexposed to collecting data and writing lab reports, but at this level, they do not do error Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference
field thantheir women peers accounting for only 19.8% among those who earned the engineering degree[1], [3]. By 2021, there was only a 2.4% increase in the total number of women graduating froman undergraduate engineering program [63]. Students of color are also underrepresented in theSTEM fields [1], [4], and their attrition in the STEM programs is likely to occur (e.g.,Latino/Latina/Latinx, African Americans, and Native Americans) [1], [5].Existing literature documented that men students’ high self-efficacy and low mathematical-related anxiety may be two of the factors driving their persistence in STEM courses [6] - [13].Self-efficacy, defined as “individual judgments of [one’s] capabilities to perform given actions”[14, p. 207], has been
]. In Computer Science (CS), studentsoften don’t see how their “systems” classes, like Computer Organization, fit in with theirprogramming classes. This results in decreased engagement with course content, whichundermines student learning. Reflective writing is a pedagogical strategy introduced by Dewey[2] and extended by Schon [3] that has been found to increase critical thinking in students byallowing them to analyze their experiences for better understanding. Moon’s [4] theory oflearning and reflection in undergraduate education explores reflection as a way to guide a studentfrom surface learning (memorizing facts) to deep learning (integrated ideas and a holisticview)[4]. Reflection that promotes deep learning can help CS students realize
, orathletics [1]. These extra-/co-curricular experiences encompass a significant part of many students’times as undergraduates [7]. In the 2018 National Survey of Student Engagement, 66% of seniorundergraduate engineering students reported weekly participation in co-curricular activities, and91% of survey respondents reported having held a leadership role in a student organization at somepoint during their time as undergraduate engineering students. Through these experiences, extra-/co-curricular participation can provide opportunities for students to practice skills in authenticenvironments [8]. By participating, students can connect to networks of peers and mentors [9],[10], increase sense of belonging in their discipline [10], [11], facilitate
haveseveral advantages that other conventional internships do not have. Virtual internships offerflexibility that not only enables students to complete tasks on time but also creates an optimizedwork-life balance. Additionally, students can work from anywhere across the globe andcollaborate with peers and mentors from multiple countries and disciplinary backgrounds.Furthermore, virtual internships have been found to increase motivation and enable students tolearn better [2] by allowing them to have more flexibility, mobility, and autonomy in their work[3]. Yet, little is known about how to facilitate, expand, and market virtual internship processes.The purpose of this study is to respond to the following guiding research question: Whatinternship
faculty and enhance plans of work associated with tenure andpromotion preparation and overall career advancement. The goal is to drive discovery andlearning within an environment that supports the development of project proposals and theprocess of peer review. These mini-grants encourage leadership and career development,mentoring, networking and research collaboration, while enhancing and advancing theuniversity’s multifaceted initiatives and scholarship infrastructure. In support of the overarchinginstitutional transformation project, successful grant proposals are also required to align with oneor more of the AdvanceUniX project goals. In addition to directly supporting careeradvancement with funding, the grant design and structure also
new to reading peer-reviewed literature. There were two main deliverables for students, a poster they would present at the end of the summer and a 2-page IEEE-style abstract. Students were taught in interactive sessions how to structure a scientific paper, how to find and cite papers in the literature, how to make their writing flow, the importance of editing, how to visualize data, and best practices for presenting and discussing their work orally. All class exercises directly contributed to the student’s completion of their poster and IEEE abstract and did not add any additional “busy work” to their schedules.• Weekly Seminar and Journal Club Series: Every Thursday at 10 AM, students met for either a seminar or
○ è 6. Collaborate with peers ○ è 7. Use simulation software ○␣ ○ 8. Create simulations ○␣ ○ ○: Represented è: Partially represented ○␣: Not represented Table 1: Comparison of learning goals for traditional and virtual laboratories.Just as models and simulation are not meant to replace physical prototypes in industry, virtuallabs should not replace physical labs. They serve complementary purposes: the physical labsassist students in connecting the mathematical concepts to reality, and virtual labs help studentsconnect mathematical concepts
class period.Adopting the CW in the Context of Existing Trajectories of Practice.Both Al and Joe had promoted active learning in their pre-pandemic, pre-CW practice. Theiradoption of the CW was part of their trajectories of instructional practice, taken up to servespecific goals. Al used simulation activities and assigned one or two multiple choice conceptquestions during class, polling using “ABCD cards” and using a form of peer instruction (Mazur,1997). His goal was to uncover and support students’ conceptual thinking. This practice providedan easy entry point for Al’s use of the CW; he simply substituted the tool’s ConcepTests andpolling features for his previous method. The tool’s affordance for adding and using studentwritten explanations
Disabilities Quarterly, Teaching Exceptional Children,andIntervention School and Clinic. She is committed to collaborative grant writing and is the co-principal investigator of literacy projects funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. A former special education teacher, Amber has taught in Iowa, Arizona, and Florida, and was a post-doctoral associate at Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability and Reform (CEEDAR Center) and clinical assistant professor within the College of Education at University of Florida. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered
introduced to a variety of campus resources, including Shah Center for Engineering career development, Library, Learning Enhancement Center, Writing Center, and Counseling Services. Students thus had the opportunity to learn more about campus resources, connect with their peers, and faculty and staff from the HC as well as the College of Engineering, and upper-class students from their programs. As the semester progressed, COF-IMPRESS-C scholars were encouraged to attend several other professional development opportunity and virtual community event held by HC. Dale Carnegie Training: COF-IMPRESS-C scholars were also invited to participate in Dale Carnegie training sessions, a program initiated by the college of engineering and in
design prototypes, but do not serve as an instructor or the course.Some 360 Coaches are instructors for our first-year design course and others are technicalmentors for design teams in the first-year design course, while the remainder are not involved inthe first-year design course.ImplementationOur 360 Coaching program places every first-year engineering student in a cohort of 12-14 peerswith layered support to mentor them and guide them to broader university support whenwarranted – a 360 Coach, an academic dean, and an E-Team (Engineering Team) peer mentor –helpful humans to serve as guides to university life. To support their roles as whole-studentmentors and advisors, every 360 Coach and E-Teamer (E-Team peer mentor) in the layeredsupport
. • Collaboration with local schools to create pipeline to the degree. • Support activities to ensure the creation of a close-knit community with national peer to peer connections. • Support activities to promote and develop soft skills among participants including leadership, communications skills, and teamwork. • By presenting our efforts, we hope that other institutions who are considering expanding their programs of study can benefit from our experience by adopting best practices while avoiding pitfalls.Keywords:Cyber Security, Cyber Security Education, Collaborative Degrees, Career Pathways, NISTIntroduction and MotivationAs cyber security is becoming an integral part of every business and personal digital asset, thedemand for
Session T4A4An Early Hands-On Experience in Mechanical Engineering that Seems Particularly of Interest to Female Students Richard Bannerot Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Houston AbstractThe main purpose of this paper is to present an individual project for an early engineeringcourse in which students were required to learn about a particular component of amechanical system, to develop a demonstration of it, to prepare supportingdocumentation and then to explain it to their peers. Engineering
)Victoria ThomsenReed Jeffrey Forrest (Student Researcher)Jillian Seniuk Cicek (Assistant Professor)© American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comDefining Engineering Education Research: The Elevator PitchAbstractWe are a group of Engineering Education Research (EER) graduate students in Canada, whereEER is a relatively nascent field of study. As such, we often find ourselves explaining the natureof the discipline to non-EER individuals or organizations. A key issue is that the audienceusually includes peers in engineering or granting agencies associated with engineering who maylack an understanding of the lexicon and epistemological approaches used within EER. If wewant their support, we need their
join research projects although some students do have some level ofresearch experience in robotics related areas (e.g., through robotics competitions). The projectalso involved two M.S. level graduate students with limited swarm robotics experience. Thegraduate students played dual roles as near-peer mentors (for helping new students gettingaround campus and lab facilities) and as research team participants. Therefore, heterogeneousstudent teams were purposefully assembled so that participants had diverse knowledge /experience levels and diverse backgrounds (e.g., race, social-economic, majors).The project included ten weeks of on-campus robotics research experience. Unlike “typical”REU sites where each student is paired with a mentor and
. Educators worldwide wereimpelled to devise strategies and innovative ways to minimize the impact of the pandemic onstudent learning [6]. The most popular approach was to deliver the courses remotely to studentsto avoid community spread. A plethora of teaching pedagogies have been investigated byresearchers in the past, especially in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics areassuch as active learning, flipped classroom, online discussion groups, and peer mentoring [7-12].Students were also forced to adapt to the continuously changing teaching methodologies as therewere strict regulations on in-person interactions. Online instruction has been proven to beeffective for teaching theoretical knowledge [13]. However, courses involving
solutions are encouraged [43–49]. In addition, use of small group work supportsalternative ways of knowing, often valued by for girls and underserved minorities [50–54].Through the design of engaging, meaningful engineering experiences, the intersectionalidentities of students otherwise marginalized across racial, gender, ethnicity, and languagepreference can thrive. Learning substantive knowledge and practices can foster changes inperceptions students perceptions of themselves and their peers as successful students and disruptclassroom hierarchies.Iterative design cycles of curriculum development based in design-based researchOur third analysis is a re-assessment of the lessons learned from over 20 years of design-basedresearch (DBR) on curriculum
class to familiarize students with theonline lecture format. Students were encouraged to take notes when viewing the videos, just asthey would in a traditional lecture. Learning and retention benefits were cited for listening,watching, writing, and practicing course material to encourage practiced study. Students werealso strongly encouraged to review the online example problems, which were not required forcourse credit. The instructor also informed students the new out-of-class work would be balancedwith dedicated time in class towards homework.In 2021, students were given a one-page handout on the first day with information about thepedagogical benefits of a flipped classroom, as well as tips for successfully completing a coursein the flipped
create an inclusive learningenvironment that empowers neurodiverse learners. It was attempted to achieve this goal byimproving the accessibility of the content, promoting active (collaborative) learning, engagingstudents by using real world examples, and offering a variety of assessments in this course.Actions such as adding captions to the pre-recorded videos, posting class notes, recording andlive streaming the class, and using the class eBook were made to enhance the courseaccessibility.Active learning such as think-pair-share strategy, collaborative problem-solving activities, andbrainstorming were offered during class time to enhance peer-to-peer interactions, align students’progress with the class schedule, and improve student engagement
college build capacity, both short-term and long-term, to pursue morecompetitive federal funding in support of its mission to educate and train its local community?Our paper presents a solution to build a rural community college’s capacity for writing andmanaging a federal grant funded by the NSF ATE program. By partnering with a local butexternal project manager, the community college and its Principal Investigator (PI) were able tosuccessfully secure grant funds and carry out the project to its completion in the midst of manybarriers and setbacks throughout the project. In addition, the project manager was able to “bridgethe gap” between the community college and main university partner as they learned togetherhow each institution works and the
in society, with choice and control over their own lives [emphasis added]. This may also involve medical intervention to assist [emphasis added] with what may be perceived as harmful to the individual. Under the social model, accounts of lived experience are essential [emphasis added] as they are the best guide for researchers on barriers to independence and equality.” [9, p. 5]2.2. Language MattersThe American Psychological Association APA, [17] provides a guideline for writing aboutdisability in research distinguishing between person-first and identity-first language. Person-firstlanguage emphasizes the person before the disability (e.g., person with a disability) whileidentity-first language emphasizes the
about ethical practice and facilitate collaboration [1]. While engineering codes of ethicsdo not necessarily mobilize care, as Warford [2] notes, that does not make care unimportant:“The absence of care from the most visible normative value statements in the profession... isproblematic.” Indeed, care is increasingly visible in engineering education scholarship. Even as itemerges as an important mode of discussion and action, care is an unstable category andmobilized to mean different things in different contexts.Though care may not be present in many statements about the profession, engineering educationscholars are writing about it. For many scholars, care for students can guide faculty to enhanceindividual relationships through various
you think the following factors are to your engineering program? Ethical and/or social issues Policy implications of engineering Broad education in the humanities and social sciences Writing skills 4. How important do you think the following factors are to your engineering program? Background in math and science Basic research Invention and/or innovation Advancement of scientific knowledgeEmpathy Lesson and AssignmentThe empathy lesson and assignment used with the test groups in this study were developed withthe assistance of Dr. Sochacka from the University of Georgia who was gracious to lend
questioning and research topic was developed by thementor. The initial stages of the project and starting reference materials were likely also plannedout by the mentor. The mentees presented their work at the end of the summer, but they may nothave seen it through the arduous process of article writing, peer review, and publication. Thementees also did not see the follow-up stage of reflection on the remaining open questions in theproject and seeking inspiration for the next research topic.This research is not without limitations. For one, social desirability bias may have shapedstudents’ responses to the periodic assessments because they were aware that their mentorswould see their responses. Thus, students may have artificially inflated their
Human Subjects Protection, Export Control, Regulatory Considerations Intellectual Property Protection and Licensing Accounting SBIR Budget, Direct and Indirect Costs Peer Review Evaluation CriteriaIn some respects, it is easier to write an SBIR proposal than business plan (a commonassignment in traditional entrepreneurship courses). Both require a description of the offering,target market, value proposition, and milestones leading to the deployment of a minimum viableproduct or service. However, federal agencies explain in detail the rubric with which SBIRproposals are evaluated; this guides the student’s writing and makes grading less subjective
results in "improved affective and cognitive learning and critical thinking, offeringlearners/students the opportunity to obtain a broad general knowledge base" [8]. Participation inmultidisciplinary courses also assists students in developing many skills that are highly valued inthe workforce. Among these are hard skills such as management skills, reporting and writing skills,problem-solving skills, and soft skills such as communication, curiosity, empathy, and teamwork[8]. This is why the Stitt Scholars Program was instituted. It provides profound collaborativeopportunities through experiential learning in a multidisciplinary academic and professionalenvironment. A multidisciplinary approach to education highlights the inherent differences