Partnering Across Cultures: Bridging the Divide between Universities and Minority High Schools Marion Usselman1, Donna Llewellyn2, Dara O’Neil3, Gordon Kingsley3, 1 Center for Education Integrating Science, Math, and Computing (CEISMC) 2 Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) 3 School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe historical mission of most engineering-dominated Research-1 universities is to create newknowledge and to train students in technological fields. In the
isensuring that the task would still be a learning experience for the design team.Design ProcessThe design process is where the design learning facilitator provides the most guidance to theteam. Even though within the curriculum students are taught a design process (first E4 and thenemphasized throughout their other courses), students still deviated from an organized process. Asa coach, the faculty advisor guides the team towards the process they have learned. As oneprofessor says: “So they get to try [the design process] out early on, and then what we do as advisors in clinic is remind them about the process. Because I think a lot of times when they are given a real world project in clinic, the inclination is just to run out
-April 2006), and the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies (April 2006-September 2013). Dr. Karimi is a Fellow of ASEE, a Fellow of ASME, senior member of AIAA, and holds membership in ASHRAE, and Sigma Xi. He has served as the ASEE Campus Representative at UTSA, ASEE-GSW Section Campus Representative, and served as the Chair of ASEE Zone III (2005-07). He chaired the ASEE-GSW section during the 1996-97 academic year.Dr. Randall D. Manteufel, The University of Texas at San Antonio Dr. Randall Manteufel is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). He has won several teaching awards, including the 2012 University of Texas Sys- tem Regent’s Outstanding
. curriculum. M.S. Indiana State University, B.S. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Undergraduate Engineering Laboratories During COVID-19 Pandemic Maria Javaid, David Malooley, Edith Wittenmyer, William Clyburn, Oscar Henriquez, Larry Pritchett, Robert English, and Xiaolong Li Indiana State UniversityAbstractLaboratories have always been considered an integral part of undergraduate engineeringeducation.The recent COVID-19 pandemic has globally affected higher education and educators aredevising innovative ways to minimize the impact
the local community on the opioid crisis facing rural America.Interdisciplinary communication methods used by student teams to engage various communitystakeholders and the project sponsors are discussed. The challenges and lessons learnedassociated with connecting a large community project across three semesters in two differentdepartments with different learning objectives are discussed.IntroductionA senior design project course is designed to satisfy Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) engineering design criteria. ABET Criterion 5 on Curriculum describes theintegration of content as follows: “ The Integration of Content: Baccalaureate degree curriculamust provide a capstone or integrating experience that develops
- Black ○ 23 - Two or more races ○ 13 - Not specified ○ 7 - Hispanic/Latino ○ 2 - Did Not Disclose The program’s mission is to stimulate skills, talents and behaviors in first- andsecond-year engineering students that lead to success. The program’s vision seeks to establishthe Engineering Village as an integral part of every first-year engineering students’ purposefuland successful transition to the university, the College of Engineering, their chosen disciplineand the global community. The program offers diverse high-impact experiential learningactivities to help students determine the best path to the profession. The program integratesThe Career Identity Programhousing’s residential curriculum “Experience
Paper ID #39121A Self-Study of the IRE 5-Point Grading Scale for Promoting Growth Mind-setDr. Lauren Singelmann, Minnesota State University, Mankato Lauren Singelmann is an Assistant Professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato with the Iron Range Engineering program. She has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and STEM Education through North Dakota State University. Her research interests include learning analytics and alternative assessment.Dr. Yuezhou Wang, Minnesota State University, Mankato Dr. Yuezhou Wang is an associate professor in both Iron Range Engineering and Twin Cities Engineering programs
materials at a predominately undergraduate institution as hewas climbing the ladder toward tenure, promotion, and reputation. It should provide "savvy" forthe new engineering educator establishing research in such an environment.I. IntroductionResearch has historically been a component of the mission of universities and most colleges1.Emphasis on research has been heaviest at graduate degree - granting land grant or flagship Page 4.238.1institutions but mission statements; public relations material; promotion, tenure, and merit paycriteria; and even classroom objectives often loftily address the noble role of research even atpredominately
lecture with a one-sentence explanation of the “big picture” for the day. This practice will keep you on track byensuring that whatever you plan to discuss has some purpose, and it will help the students tomaintain an awareness of the goals and purposes of the course.During the lecture, use visual aids whenever you can. For example, in an electronics class, showstudents an integrated chip and the manufacturer’s sheet that accompanies it. In an imageprocessing class, show students a plastic phantom and images of it taken in various modalities andfrom varying perspectives. Bring the real world into the students’ hands, and allow them toglimpse the excitement of an actual product that results from the equations and theories beingdiscussed. Not only
workshops held at WPI’s Makerspace and Prototyping Lab, while collaborating with clubs and organizations on campus to bring new workshops into the space.Cameron Wian, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Robotics Engineering and Computer Science Student Makerspace Workshop CoordinatorSydney Kerivan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Sydney Kerivan is an Environmental Engineering student at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester MA. Her position as Workshop Coordinator at the WPI Innovation Studio focuses on leading a team of facilitators to develop and teach educational workshops for the WPI community. She is currently focusing on the training systems for the workshop team and is responsible for weekly events and
list of design materials which were provided for the teams to selectfrom for the construction of their design. The results of this project (fall 2020) will be comparedto (fall 2021 – under a less restrictive COVID protocol) and pre-COVID (2002, 2008 and 2011)semesters – when this project was used in a first-year introduction to engineering design course.Introduction At our institution, first-year engineering students (~700 students) have a common first year,which includes chemistry I & II, physics I & II, calculus I and II, ENGCMP I and II (which arefocused on writing for engineers – taught by the English department specifically for ourengineering students), an introduction to engineering analysis and a computing class. The
once per week for three hours. The time is generally broken into a lectureperiod of 45 minutes and a 2-hour-long lab period (except for the first class meeting, which isdescribed in the next section).We presume that the entering students have been exposed tomechanics in their high-school physics classes and have a passing familiarity with the notions ofdifferentiation and integration from calculus (this is typical for our entering classes). To date, thesubject has been offered twice, with eight students enrolled each time.The goals of the subject are: • To build excitement for engineering among first-year students by engaging them in an interesting hands-on project. • To introduce a few fundamental concepts from electronics to the
Paper ID #21908Measuring Student Learning of Crystal Structures Using Computer-basedVisualizationsDr. Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis Dr. Susan P. Gentry is a Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment in the Materials Science and Engineering department at the University of California, Davis. In her current position at UC Davis, she is integrating computational modules into the undergraduate and graduate materials curriculum. She is specifically interested in students’ computational literacy and life-long learning of computational materi- als science tools.Dr. Tanya Faltens, Purdue University, West
researched by Becker (2010).4A summary of his surveys indicates that the greatest disparity is found in four categories:1) hands-on know how; 2) methods, systems know how; 3) ability to work in teams; and4) communication skills. The ETIC was created to address these gaps while responding tothe regional economy’s requirements for well-qualified workers. By having direct accessto industry, students benefit from real-life experiential activities while gaining thefoundational skills necessary to their integration into the workforce.Progress to-dateSince the launch of the Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC) inMarch 2015, the School has put into action a strategic plan to nurture an entrepreneurialecosystem at the new facility. All
do young elementary students considervariables, specifications, and constraints when evaluating and redesigning solutions toengineering design problems?MethodologyThe study's subjects were six Kindergarten and nine 3rd-grade students at a public, magnetelementary school in a large, urban school district. The school's demographics wererepresentative of the state and district averages, and the school had recently been named a STEMschool by the district, which meant that it was expected to integrate STEM across all subjects,and provide students with increased opportunities for engaging in STEM activities such asscience fairs and university/industry partnerships. Even before this designation, the schoolemployed an engineering coach who saw
by the National Science Foundation tointegrate the long-standing research advances, achieved by the University of Tennessee (UT),Knoxville, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), on ceramic-matrix composites(CMCs) into the interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate level curricula of Materials andMechanics at UT.PROJECT COMPONENTSResearch Significant high-quality and innovative research progress covering a broad class oftechnologically important areas of CMCs, including fabrication, characterization, modeling anddesign, has been accomplished at ORNL as well as at UT since early 80's[1-39]. The researchadvances of CMCs are ready for being integrated into curriculum development. The continuedresearch efforts are currently being
impossible to truly learn without the learner being active in someway [2]. Active learning helps students to ascend above the initial cognition levels of rememberand understand from the revised Bloom’s taxonomy [3], requiring learners at the least to applyand analyze. Project-based learning is an important active learning technique, which allowsstudents to build upon what they already know from previous courses [1] and further deepentheir knowledge as they evaluate and create. In addition to deepening their knowledge of specifictechnical competencies from the engineering curriculum, project-based learning allows studentsto acquire skills that will be vital to them throughout their careers, including problem solving,communication, teamwork as well as
courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Dr. Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Oregon State University Jana L. Bouwma-Gearhart is an associate professor of STEM education at Oregon State University. Her research widely concerns improving education at research universities. Her earlier research explored en- hancements to faculty motivation to improve undergraduate education. Her more recent research concerns organizational change towards postsecondary STEM education improvement at research universities, in- cluding the interactions of levers (people
classroom and office scenarios, The Citadeldecided in late June to purchase a Swivl for each classroom and selected labs, as well as an iPadfor each faculty member. The Citadel also transitioned to a new LMS and integrated Zoom intothe LMS for easy of scheduling and cloud recording.Transitioning to Hyflex and Online LearningThe rapid pivot to online learning created some growing pains for both faculty and students, butmore importantly, neither group was prepared for remote learning. As early as June 2020, it wasclear that training was needed prior to the Fall 2020 semester for both faculty and studentsregarding what constitutes quality online learning, in the event that no face-to-face instructionwere possible. The Citadel’s CEITL&DE initially
Page 26.874.5as “an at-home effort to initiate students on the path to global competency in ways that fit theirstandard curricula.”23 According to the authors, integrated class experience often involves suchactivities as introductory education in the language, customs, history, and government in thecountry under study and sometimes provides a substitute for international travel throughelectronic interactions.In addition to program types outlined above, scholars outline various program components.Grandin and Maher define seven parameters by which programmatic components may vary.20These parameters are as follows: Short-term vs. long-term; English-language vs. Non-Englishlanguage; degree of cultural exposure/immersion; degree of curricular
- shasa BP 255 Kinshasa XI, Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr.Ing, Aachen University, Germany (1990) Dipl. Ing (MS Eng), Aachen University, Germany (1986) c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Using Excel as a Tool to Teach Manufacturing and Heat TransferIntroduction The use of Excel in engineering education is a practical and important topic as Excel isused widely in real-world engineering practice. Microsoft Excel is an affordable, accessible andsimple computational tool for engineering students worldwide. In recent years, Excel has increasingly been used as a computational tool in science andengineering education [1-5] and in other fields [6-11]. The advantages of this tool are
Implementation of the MRF24J40MA Module This paper provides an overview of a capstone demonstration project that is a requiredsenior design project and is an integral part of EET curriculum at Old Dominion University.Students may choose to participate in the microprocessor capstone project with faculty mentorsas part of a university research activity or they may elect to prepare and submit a proposal for analternative project funded by the student under faculty direction. This demonstration project isone of the components of an on-going undergraduate research project in the ElectricalEngineering Technology department. Student team members in this demonstration project were given all of the necessaryhardware and software resources to
seek to create an infrastructure that would eliminate disabling barriers,and work with stakeholders historically impacted but often ignored. Integrating a social justicemindset in engineering would normalize universal design while reducing the social acceptabilityfor “unforeseen” consequences.” This group subsequently convened bi-weekly with the aim ofcollaboratively developing a series of comprehensive lessons that could be shared with the largerCIT-E community of practice and would follow the established CIT-E lesson template.Motivated by the literature mentioned previously, the group decided to focus on the use of casestudies of past and current infrastructure projects that resulted in social inequities as a vehicle.Case studies have been
of guest speakers from alumni or industry was a common response.3) Although not mutually exclusive, the suggestion of having an ethics course received significant support, as judged by the number of observations, and as compared to distribution of instruction across the curriculum or adding to existing course(s).4) Practice in team and group work was cited as important to the development of ethical and professional behavior.Bibliography1. Gustafson, R. & Merrill, J. 2000. Developing an Outcomes Assessment Survey for Seniors, Alumni and Managers/Supervisors. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 18-21, St. Louis, MO.2. Gustafson, R., Castro, J. & Hussen, P. 2001. Alumni Perceptions of the Graduate Needs in Business and
pedagogy, antenna theory, and remote sensing. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Design of a Wind Tunnel: A Student Project to Design and Build Their Own Wind Tunnels as the Culmination of Fluid Mechanics LaboratoryAbstractFluid Mechanics Laboratory (or a similarly titled course) is an integral part of any mechanicalengineering curriculum. One of the instruments used to demonstrate several key principles offluid flow is the wind tunnel. Currently, our department does not have a wind tunnel that canadequately demonstrate several desired fluid flow concepts to the students. Therefore, as part
computer andInternet resources such as gigabits network, video conferencing and remote control software. Butwe found that it could be adapted to minimal IT resources such as cable modem at 1 Mbps andaudio-only feedback between teacher and students. System performance and student feedbackfor the first 7-week class period are reported herein. IntroductionOne of the thrusts in the UGA/Biological & Agricultural Engineering Department curriculum isto enhance the experiential learning aspects for our engineering students during class lectures aswell as during laboratory experiments needed for the course. Based on Student Technology feesand departmental funds, the Collaborative Distance Education (CDE
, allowing students to view lectures from their computer terminals. And, in atwo-way, interactive format, they’ll still be able to pose questions to the lecturer and interact with the lecturer’sdata and information in real time."1 Many questions, however, remain — such as: What curriculum changes need to be made in order toeffectively utilize technology-based instructional delivery? How well can students adapt their learning style tosuch an environment? How does technology-based instructional delivery impact academic performance —does it hinder or help students learn? What impact does technology-based instructional delivery have on stu-dents’ perceptions of the course and the instructor? What are the advantages and disadvantages of technology
. Page 22.1341.2* World of Warcraft is a fantasy video game involving warfare.So, how should we conduct team training? What do students know about teams on the way in?Does anything we do actually make our students better team members? This paper endeavorsonly to address the first two questions. While an extensive student performance-basedassessment of teamwork is done across the curriculum, this paper will only look at how tointroduce students to teamwork using a discovery-based pedagogy that enables students torealize that “student teams” are “real team experiences” not “simulations” and that teamwork is askill that can be developed and must be practiced and not just something they will do when theyget a job. Limited course-level assessment
National Science Foundations Advanced Technological Education (NSF-ATE) as a Regional Center of Excellence. FLATE’s mission is to support manufacturing education in K-14 programs through outreach, professional development, curriculum reform and technician research. She earned a Ph.D. in Civil En- gineering/Environmental from the University of South Florida and served on the Engineering faculty at Hofstra University and the FSU-FAMU College of Engineering. Dr. Barger has authored over 50 papers for presentations on engineering and technology education, serves on several national advisory boards for CTE and workforce education initiatives, and is a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Edu- cation (ASEE) and the
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