is an area they plan to focus on during thesecond semester of the capstone design course. Students were asked questions from Figure 2regarding their perceived strengths and areas for improvement. Responses to how studentsdescribed their strengths in areas related to their discipline are reflected below. “Due to the curriculum, I have strengths in water and wastewater, air pollution, and groundwater contaminants.” Page 26.678.17 “Resource accumulation and cost analysis on treatment units, water flow and regulations.” “Working in a team, equalization basins, headworks and tertiary treatment”Student responses when
integration (e.g., James MadisonUniversity) or an environmental or sustainability-focused track (e.g., Olin, Baylor, Arizona StateUniversity, University of San Diego, Lafayette, Grand Valley State). In addition, there is asustainable engineering concentration within civil engineering at Arizona State University and arenewable energy engineering degree offered at the Oregon Institute of Technology [24]. The airpollution and energy aspects of environmental engineering are often integrated into mechanicalengineering. Some mechanical engineering programs offer concentrations or certificates inenergy and sustainability or the environment, such as Boston University, NorthwesternUniversity, Arizona State University, and the University of Michigan
/subspecialties including MedicalInstrumentation, Imaging, Biomechanics and Human Factors, and Biomaterials/Cellular/TissueEngineering. With a thorough introduction to various technical and professional skills as well aseach subspecialty, it was hypothesized that there will be an improvement in student performancelater in the curriculum and that students can make informed decision while selecting appropriatetrack and career path. We have compiled data from our department’s Assessment Committeewho evaluate student outcome performance throughout the curriculum (sophomore throughsenior year) from student populations with the new BME 201 (post-201) and students in theprevious client-based sophomore course (pre-201). We have also assessed the
participants were the 2022 graduates, accounting for 34% of the total participants. ● Instructors Group (IG): consists of six members, four males and two females, each with specific roles and expertise in technical and administrative aspects of the course.ContextOur university's Construction Engineering (CE) program spans ten semesters and currentlyhas 190 students, with a 10% female participation. An essential curriculum component is the“Final Construction Engineering Portfolio Course” integrative course offered in the tenthsemester. Per the university decree regulating the program, the title portfolio coursecontributes to the two disciplinary areas of realization composed of the learning outcomes(LO), see Figure 1
true, complete solution to many of the problems we care about should includeeconomics, psychology, behavior, sociology21”. K-12 education and outreach by universitiesprovides an ideal platform to begin to develop engineering skills and engineering interest for thenext generation. This type of integrated education also meets the 2013 Next Generation Sciencestandards22 including the emphasis on students’ ability to “design solution in a safe and ethicalmanner, including considerations of environmental, social, and personal impacts”23, 24. In thecoming year, we have the opportunity to offer this curriculum to a mixed gender audience as partof the Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering camp called Discover Engineering, which isoffered for
university curricula. See his YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBomPE American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Adding Industry-Based Certification and a Recruiting Partnership to Increase High School Participation in a Workforce Pathways ProjectAbstractThe objective of this paper is to share how an industry-based certification (IBC) and a strategicrecruiting partnership were integrated with a federally-funded, Arduino-based high school dualenrollment course in basic electricity and instrumentation in order to increase high school teacherparticipation in the project (see Figure 1). Project COMPLETE is
and discussions on how toassist and teach the workshops, including a review of best practice pedagogy [2]. The workshopfosters a community of practice among educators, promoting collaboration and continuousimprovement in STEAM education. Teachers were surveyed 6 and 12 months post-workshop toreport on the implementation and use of AIR lessons and curriculum in their classrooms. Over85% of participating teachers reported using AIR materials to some extent in their classroom,with 45% reporting the use of 50% or more of the provided AIR materials. One educator utilizedthe provided curriculum and robotics kit to successfully apply for an in-kind grant, enabling herto purchase enough robotics kits for a full class.The AIR Teacher Workshop
how teacher motivation translates into student self-efficacy, informingthe design of pre-college curriculum and teacher training.(4) Learning and achievement of science, technology, and mathematics content and practicesWe coded 44 papers as having goals related to learning and achievement of science, technology,and mathematics content and practices. Of these, 18 (41%) provided outcomes that wereinterpretable. We identified few large scale and multiple small scale studies. Broadly, there isevidence that K-12 engineering activities sometimes enhance science and mathematics learning,but this is dependent on effective integration, an issue that has been noted elsewhere [20]. Forinstance, students who participated in Project Lead the Way had
commonly and classically taught, tendsto remove the human and social context from consideration. While the EPS method produceswell-posed problems with easily checked solutions, it unintentionally reinforces the worldviewthat engineering is value-free profession where the rigor of one’s technical analysis is moreimportant than the context in which engineering is practiced1. Recognizing this consequence, agrowing body of literature calls for changing engineering education to be more human-centeredthrough awareness of the limitations of purely technical solutions2-5.Changing one’s approach to teaching in this way poses big challenges: how to add ideas to anoverstuffed curriculum—particularly ideas that involve a disciplinary background different
Paper ID #27214Professional Expectations and Program Climate Affect the Professional For-mation of EngineersDr. Manuel Alejandro Figueroa, The College of New Jersey Dr. Manuel Figueroa is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at The College of New Jersey. He teaches in the Department of Integrative STEM Education and prepares pre-service teachers to become K-12 technology and engineering educators. His research involves engaging college students in human centered design and improving creativity. He also develops biotechnology and nanotechnology inspired lessons that naturally integrate the STEM disciplines
unique opportunities topartner and integrate the GOAL programming into the public school system curriculum. Theschool system integration provides a consistent platform for the GOAL programming whichensures longevity of the program and its ability to reach intended audiences. Post launch, therehas been interest from other school systems to utilize GOAL, but logistics of implementation(e.g., disconnection between administrators and in-classroom implementers) creates a lot ofinertia toward getting relationships started. This factor has kept collaborations from expanding tothe scale of PGCPS or MCPS. While the COVID pandemic created a lot of chaos, it alsoprovided a unique opportunity where action was necessary. An additional aspect that
Robotics with Internet-of-Things for Student Learning on Industrial Robotics and Automation in Manufacturing AbstractThis paper explores the experience of implementing virtual reality (VR) laboratory activities withInternet-of-Things (IoT) for students to learn industrial robotics and automation in manufacturing.This work provides an innovative solution for optimizing learning effectiveness and improvingeducational outcomes through the development of VR models that can be used and integrated intothe existing robotics laboratory. We explore methods of using ABB RobotStudio to allow studentsto program traditional industrial robots using the project-based learning approach. Key features ofhow
digital natives (students), and incorporates: mind mapping (discoverybased learning), experts on call, gamification, all integrated through teacher views thatproduce dynamic project-based lesson plans. The system encourages an interdisciplinaryapproach that requires students to draw on multiple subject areas simultaneously to solvereal world problems. Previous research conducted by the authors has indicated that in thecontext of learning style models, the PLMS provides a balanced approach to learning andtherefore should be a very useful learning tool in the physics curriculum. This study willfirst present the results of attitudinal and learning style surveys that were conducted inlocal junior high schools that correlate learning style profiles
introducing new perspectives tohelp spark innovation in how we address important societal issues. In addition to attracting andretaining more students from underrepresented groups, it is important that all students receive thenecessary preparation to work with diverse peers in an effective and inclusive manner. In thisIUSE (Improving Undergraduate STEM Education) project, we are developing, implementing,and assessing curriculum changes that are intended to cultivate inclusive professional identitiesin engineering and computer science students. The key tenants of inclusive profession identitiesas defined by this project are: (a) fluency with the necessary technical knowledge, skills, andabilities for students to work in their chosen field, (b) an
concept-mapping approach both reduces the cognitive load, andimproves learning achievements of the students. Triplett et al. 18 propose Concept-in-Contextmaps (CCmaps) to link a wide array of different types of information that reflect the organizationof content within a topical area in an introductory materials course.While concept maps are deemed to be a good tool to portray knowledge structure and diagnoselearner’s misconception, we are more interested in their integration with generic learningparadigms and in this regard, our research shows the combination of active learning strategy withconcept mapping has led to plausible results for student oriented learning. Tembe and Kamble 19have studied 414 concept maps from 207 basic school students
Paper ID #16034A Flipped Classroom Approach to Teaching Transportation EngineeringDr. Aliye Karabulut-Ilgu, Iowa State University Dr. Aliye Karabulut-Ilgu is a lecturer in the department of Civil, Construction and Environmental En- gineering at Iowa State University. Her background is in Curriculum and Instruction, and her research interests include online learning, hybrid learning, and technology integration in higher education.Ms. Suhan Yao, Iowa State University Suhan Yao is a graduate student in Curriculum and Instructional Technology master program at Iowa State University. She works as a graduate assistant with Dr
learners to integrate software testing and other qualityassurance concepts into their programming skills.This paper is organized into four sections. WReST-CyLE will be introduced in Section 2.Afterwards, gamification design architecture used in WReSTT tool will be presented inSection 3. Following that section, class study and assessment results will be presented inSection 4. Conclusions and future works will be discussed in Section 5.WReSTT-CyLE – A Cyber Enabled Software Testing Learning EnvironmentWReSTT, the initial repository, was an online software testing repository which iscontained with learning materials about software testing tools only. This project was acollaborative effort between Florida International University (FIU) and Florida A
Results from the Implementation of Wright State Model for Engineering Mathematics at University of Detroit MercyAbstractDifficulties with the Calculus sequence in the engineering curriculum leads to many studentsabandoning engineering programs. Many of these students are from underrepresented groups suchas women and students of color. This is a significant loss to the profession. The problem is notnew and engineering educators have worked on different strategies to alleviate this problem. Afairly well-known approach, first proposed by faculty from Wright State University, involvesteaching an Engineering Mathematics class to freshmen engineering students. Taught by engineers(and not mathematicians), this course typically covers
integration is not suitable for processes that do notrequire high temperatures for a reaction step, or (2) students encounter a lack of available timenear project completion because too much time is spent early in the project on correctimplementation of reaction kinetics. In the 2016 offering of Design III, 4 out of 6 groupssuccessfully incorporated heat integration in their process (see Figure 1). In the spring 2017offering of Design III, 7 out of 11 groups successfully incorporated heat integration in theirprocess, while in the summer 2017 offering of Design III, only 1 out of 4 groups successfullyincorporated heat integration in their process. Table 2 below presents an overview of the utilitycost benefit for the 12 senior design groups that chose
accepted academic definition is from Bringle & Hatcher [8, p. 112]: “Course-based, credit bearing educational experience in which students participate in an organized serviceactivity that meets identified community needs, and reflect on the service activity in such a wayas to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, andan enhanced sense of civic responsibility”. In 1995, the Engineering Projects in CommunityService Program (EPICS) became the first service-learning program integrated intoan engineering curriculum, which provided an innovative educational experiencefor engineering undergraduates at Purdue University [9]. Service-learning has since stronglyemerged as an important complement to
with students to better understand how the seminar influenced theirperceptions and what other activities or experiences also contribute to those changes as well.References[1] S. Condoor, "Importance of teaching the history of technology," IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, vol. 1, pp. T2G7-T2G-10, 2004.[2] K. C. D'Alessandro, M. K. Swenty and W. N. Collins, "Integrating History into Engineering Curriculum," American Society for Engineering Education - Southeast Section, pp. 1-7, 2014.[3] N. Dabbagh and D. A. Menascé, "Student perceptions of engineering entrepreneurship: An exploratory study," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 95, no. 2, pp. 153-164, 2006.[4] M. Davis, "Defining “Engineer:" How To Do It and Why It Matters
implementation of PBL activities hasbeen studied widely. Integration of design content into the freshman year is not a new concept; in1990, many Freshman Design courses were taught at universities nationwide. National ScienceFoundation’s Gateway Engineering Education Coalition [11] emphasized introducing design earlyin the engineering curriculum to help student retention. In the early years, the engineering designcourse was mainly intended to introduce the students to the engineering profession and designcomponents instead of engaging them in hands-on fabrication and testing [12].Many universities use Rube Goldberg-based design projects for first-year engineering students asa general engineering design course [14], [15]. Rube Goldberg projects were also
students and AI and teaches them with adiverse skill set, enabling the customization and development of new products for variousindustries. By incorporating this open-ended problem-solving approach into the curriculum,educational programs, especially those in robotic engineering technology, can significantlyenhance student learning outcomes. Conceptual telerobotic system for remote maintenance of transmission lines Output: Display monitor with speakers Target images Audio signals Drone with an Target Location: integrated robot
, and, sociopolitical consciousness.These tenets can be employed in various contexts with a diverse population through classroominstruction, during teacher education, and as a framework for educational research [7]. Manyscholars have highlighted the role of CRP in facilitating the success of URM students inmathematics and science in K–12 education [8-9]. In this study, CRP is an importantconsideration, because when science and math teachers instruct from a Eurocentric point of view,they fail to include an approach that connects curriculum, instruction, and assessment to theexperiences, cultures, and traditions of URM students [10-11]. Teachers pursuing CRP will needto understand the sense-making practices of communities, the science-related
Rui Liu, Behnam Ghalamchi Cal Poly, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoAbstractThis study presents an in-depth exploration of the implications of integrating digital twins intoengineering education. Drawing on an extensive review of published research papers, conferencepapers, and case studies, the research is structured into several key chapters focusing on thedefinition of digital twins (DT), their relationship with engineering education, their influence ondiversity and inclusion, and their alignment with ethical engineering principles. The studyculminates in proposing a novel approach to integrating digital twins into engineering education.We propose a new lab for the mechanical vibrations course
greater sense of belonging to discipline, self-efficacy, and career readiness; particularly for under-represented minority (URM) students [3].However, such active-learning experiences are usually offered late in their engineering degree(e.g., senior-capstone projects) rather than early and often throughout the curriculum. Mostredesign efforts to address this issue typically focus on single, or multiple but disjointed gatewaycourses [4]. An example of a critical path in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)department at Sacramento State is shown in Figure 1.Figure-1: Example curriculum path in the EEE major, showing long engineering pre-requisite chains called critical-paths. Courses shown in Bold, shaded, are redesigned as a part of the
education curriculum with a focus on laboratory courses for the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His courses leverage project-based learning, experiential learning, and self-paced activities. David has over ten years of industry experience specializing in mixed-signal RF integrated circuit design, power systems, and power electronics.Prof. Kia Bazargan, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Prof. Kia Bazargan is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Has has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters related to FPGAs and VLSI computer-aided design. He received his Bachelors degree
construction of reality in the child (M. Cook, Trans.). London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1955.[7] L. Vygotsky, Thought and language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1962.[8] M. Alias, T. A. Lashari, Z. A. Akasah, M. J. Kesot, Translating theory into practice: integrating the affective and cognitive learning dimensions for effective instruction in engineering education. European Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 39 No. 2, 212- 232, 2014.[9] O.A. Hassan, Learning Theories and Assessment Methodologies – An Engineering Educational Perspective. European Journal of Engineering Education Vol. 36 No. 4, 327–339, 2011.13 | P a g e
with the content and with integrating such tasks into theirclassroom, leading to more lasting implementation of engineering education [18], [23], [24], [25],[26]. Reimers et al. [27] also proposed that there are five elements necessary in effective PD topromote the integration of engineering across the curriculum: 1) a focus on engineering content,2) an emphasis on engineering pedagogical content knowledge, 3) a connection to how engineeringdesign incorporates the application of other content areas, 4) exposure to engineering curricula,and 5) alignment to local and national standards.Limited in the literature on effective K-12 engineering education PD is the incorporation ofculturally relevant pedagogy to situate engineering within local
missing a deliverable.Leveraged Strengths of Group Members: This is a very interesting aspect that sheds light on thenature of the teamwork. The 2nd column (a value of 0) suggests that at an individual level, teammembers did not require the strengths of other team members. This could imply that theinterdisciplinary collaboration was not that integrative in nature; i.e. the sum of the individualtalents did not result in something greater than the whole. The value at the team level (3rdcolumn) contradicts that at the individual level (5th column) and is very positive in nature.However, the importance placed on this aspect was low. This may suggest a misunderstanding atthe team level about the nature of their collaboration (as demonstrated by the