develop the application, an integrated development environment was needed that had easy-to-use, but powerful graphics and physics libraries, as well as the ability to be optimized forpersonal mobile devices. In addition, the application needed to be accessible by as many studentsas possible, requiring the environment to support development for multiple platforms. Almost allmobile phones run either Android OS, or iOS. So, these were the platforms that the applicationsought to support. With these requirements in mind, it became evident that Unity [19], a popularcross-platform game engine, was an ideal environment to use to develop this application. As agame engine, Unity has many powerful and simple physics and graphics libraries, in addition toa
the game would benefit from collaborationwith educators who can provide insights to a young student’s mind. Moving forward, the authors areworking with more teachers, especially those who do not have a background in aerospace, to obtainfeedback. Hopefully, approvals will be granted soon to allow students playing the game to be surveyed toobtain a richer set of feedback.AcknowledgementsSupport for this project was graciously provided by NSF project REvolutionizing Diversity OfEngineering (REDO-E) (project 1730693).References[1] Data USA: Aerospace Engineers. 2018.[2] Elam, M. E., Donham, B. L., & Soloman, S. R. (2012). An engineering summer program forunderrepresented students from rural school districts. Journal of STEM Education
Paper ID #23062Developing an Evaluation Tool to Examine Motivational Factors of Non-studentCommunity Partnership ParticipantsDr. Julia D. Thompson, San Jose State University Dr. Julia Thompson directs the EPICS (Engineering Projects In Community Service) affiliate program at San Jose State University (EPICS@sjsu). Dr. Thompson is currently developing and expanding a service- learning EPICS program. The program is open to all engineering students, including seniors completing capstone requirements. Her research focuses on the characteristics of successful relationships between engineering service-learning programs and the
Paper ID #19678Creation of an Internet of Things (IoT)-Based Innovation LabDr. Shiny Abraham, Seattle University Shiny Abraham is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seattle University. She received the B.E. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Visveswaraiah Technological Uni- versity (VTU), India in 2007 and Ph.D. from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA in 2012. Her research interests span the areas of Wireless Communication, Internet of Things (IoT), Optimization using Game Theory, and Engineering Education Research. She is a member of the IEEE and ASEE, a technical pro- gram
Paper ID #29095Longitudinal Study to Develop and Evaluate the Impacts of a”Transformational” Undergraduate ECE Design Program: Study ResultsandBest Practices ReportDr. Rachael E Cate, Oregon State University Rachael Cate: Dr. Rachael Cate received her MA in rhetoric and composition from Oregon State Univer- sity in 2011 and her Ph.D. in Higher Education Leadership and Research from Oregon State University in 2016. She joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University as a member of the professional faculty in 2016. In this role, she provides engineering communications
school in engineering Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. https://peer.asee.org/21985Riordan, C. (2015). Single-sex schools: a place to learn. Rowman & Littlefield.Robinson, C. W., & Zajicek, J. M. (2005). Growing minds: The effects of a one-year school garden program on six constructs of life skills of elementary school children. Horl Technology, 15(3), 453-457.Seron, C., Silbey, S., Cech, E. & Rubineau, B. (2016). Persistence is cultural: Professional socialization and the reproduction of sex segregation. Work and Occupations, 43(2), 178- 214.Sage, R., Vandagriff, J., & Schmidt, J. (2018). Building life skills and interest in STEM through
proper planning and support by the administration.Therefore, the traditional mode of lecture where the information passes from the notes of theinstructor to the notes of the students - without passing through the mind of either one -continues as “the norm”.The purpose of this paper is to renew the call for deployment of better and more effectiveinstructional strategies in the classrooms of the Arab Gulf States, stressing on cooperativelearning practices as a viable alternative to the traditional (low-interaction lecture-based)environment that has gripped the engineering education of Region’s institution for decades.The paper sheds light on: theoretical roots, research support, current practices, andsuggestions for redesigning classes-if need be
themselves.” Second, a four-item scaleof cohesion22 was collected to measure the extent to which members get along, remain unitedand enjoy working together. An example item from this scale is, “We enjoy spending timetogether.” Responses for both competitive CM and cohesion were provided on a seven-pointresponse scale, ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree. Third, team efficacy forinnovation is the belief about the team’s ability to innovate. This construct was developed in thecurrent research with engineering students specifically in mind. The five item scale includeditems such as: “How confident are you that your team can develop new techniques?” and “Howconfident are you that your team can invent new things?” (α = .93, ICC[1] = .29
the other stages. The skills/abilities related to the impactstage received a negative score, indicating that they were more frequently ranked as least-improved than most-improved.Figure 5. Students valued skills/abilities mapped to the Entrepreneurially Minded Learning(EML) Framework.To increase participation in ICPs, higher education institutions may consider organizing ICPswith a limited time commitment and targeting students at their institutions early in theireducation when they typically have more time available. For example, low-stake ICPs could be apart of students’ first-year engineering experience. This intervention can also introduce studentsto engineering skills across the whole spectrum of the EML Framework early in their
culture, some students were able to thrive, while others’ low levelsof self-efficacy prevented them from having successful experiences. Since most REU studentsworked individually, opportunities for mutual support among research teams were not developed.This project determined to create research experiences that would address these issues. With aPBL approach in mind, engineering faculty members recruited students with a variety of STEMbackgrounds to work collaboratively on a complex problem in transportation engineering. Theresearch was intended to be a collaborative effort among students to reach their common goal.This paper has described the REU as it has developed over two years.During the first year of the project (summer 2018), the eight
change the traditional norms in the institution of engineering education.It is with McIntosh’s challenge in mind that we turn our focus to unearned advantages anddisadvantages experienced by students within engineering education. Scholars have writtenabout engineering education as being a “raced, gendered and classed” institution. This is a wayof saying that the system educating engineers has historically been designed by and for Whitemen, mainly in the upper-to-middle class1–5. Unfortunately, it is this history that hasconsequences even today for the content of engineering curriculum as well as who becomes anengineer3,6,7. Even now, women, students of color, first generation college students, lower
Paper ID #30927Examining Pathways into Graduate School through Stewardship TheoryMr. Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Pennsylvania State University, University Park First-year graduate student at Pennsylvania State University in the mechanical engineering department. Previously a member of the Beyond Professional Identity research group based in Harding University based in Searcy, Arkansas. Current research interests include graduate school attrition and Stewardship Theory as applied to higher education.Dr. Catherine G.P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Catherine G.P. Berdanier is an Assistant Professor in
Paper ID #26833Tips and Tricks for a More Effective You: Lessons Learned From a USAFACadetMr. Alexander Samaniego, United States Air Force Alexander is a second class cadet at the United States Air Force Academy, originally from San Diego, CA, who is working towards a bachelors of science in systems engineering.Martin Span III, United States Air Force Trae is the Deputy Director of the Systems Engineering Program and Instructor of Systems Engineering at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is commissioned as Captain in the United States Air Force (USAF). In his role as Deputy Director
science at a Jewish Day School. I use my position and privilege to address inequities in STEM education and strive to stay mindful of my biases and assumptions based on my experiences and opinions.- Good morning, my name is Sandra Roach . I am a Black, able-bodied, cisgender woman of Caribbean decent. I am a research associate in the electrical and computer engineering department at Duke University. I am a first-generation immigrant, one of seven children raised in a two-parent household, and the first to graduate college in my family. I have worked in education for over twenty years and entrepreneurship for fifteen years running my tutoring company that focuses on building foundations in STEM. My current
Paper ID #17799Beyond the Interpretive: Finding Meaning in Qualitative DataDr. Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida Elliot P. Douglas is Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering Sciences and Distinguished Teach- ing Scholar at the University of Florida. His research interests are in the areas of active learning pedago- gies, problem-solving, critical thinking, diversity in engineering, and qualitative methodologies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Beyond the Interpretive: Finding Meaning in Qualitative DataAbstractThis theory paper compares two different
Paper ID #39597Redesigning a multi-disciplinary measurement lab and statistics course:An approach for navigating competing prioritiesDr. Nick A. Stites, University of Colorado Boulder Nick Stites is the Director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at CU Boulder and an in- structor with the Integrated Design Engineering program. Dr. Stites is the principal investigator (PI) of the Denver-Metro Engineering Consortium , which is a partnership between local community colleges and universities to support engineering pathways for transfer students. He is also a co-PI for TeachEngi- neering.org, which provides no-cost
professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) and Director for the Engineering Plus program. She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Culture of productivity: multidimensional impacts on STEM graduate students (work-in-progress)AbstractThose who do not conform to the ideology of the “ideal” normative human body/mind are oftenexcluded from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Lacking thediversity in experience and perspectives that diverse students, staff, and faculty bring to STEMimpedes our society’s progress to
STEM FacultyAbstractChanging teaching strategies in engineering education to become more interactive is important,though difficult. Intentional design of faculty development to engage faculty to make small,incremental changes within the context of a supportive, like-minded community, is important. Inthis paper, we merged two different methods to examine the PIs design decisions, and evaluatethe program’s implementation and outcomes. For the first method, the grant evaluator appliedconjecture mapping,1 a design-based research method, to examine the design and theoreticalconjectures, the mediating processes, and outcomes of implementation of a faculty developmentproject. The high level conjecture was that faculty who participate in a supportive
technical toolssuch as those from Federal Agencies (FEMA) or Research Institutes (Applied TechnologyCouncil). The different teams of students and professors were assigned based on their programsof study but having in mind not only each personal interest but the benefit to haveinterdisciplinary learning experiences. Table 3 shows the interdisciplinary team composition. Forthis learning and research case study project four (4) students and one (1) professor wereassigned. One student from Civil Engineering, two students from Architecture and one studentfrom Electrical Engineering. Two University Campuses were involved: Mayaguez and Rio-Piedras. Table 3: Interdisciplinary student team for case study Student
Paper ID #16803A Thematic Analysis of the Maker Movement in Cyberspace Across CulturalContextsMiss Avneet Hira, Purdue University, West Lafayette Avneet is a doctoral student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research interests include K-12 education and first year engineering in the light of the engineering design process, and inclusion of digital fabrication labs into classrooms. Her current work at the FACE lab is on the use of classroom Makerspaces for an interest-based framework of engineering design. She is also inter- ested in cross-cultural work in engineering education to promote
Paper ID #13471An Online Course and Teacher Resource for Residential Building Codes andAbove Code Construction MethodsDr. Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech Tripp Shealy is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech.Miss Audra Ann Kiesling, Clemson University Audra Kiesling is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University.Mr. Timothy R. Smail, Federal Alliance for Safe Homes Tim Smail, Senior Vice President – Engineering & Technical Programs A results-driven professional, Tim has extensive educational, project management and research experience in disaster
Paper ID #28232How to be an effective journal and conference paper reviewer withoutbeing a jerkDr. Julie P Martin, Clemson University Julie P. Martin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. She is an associate professor of engineering education at The Ohio State University, a past president of WEPAN, and a Fellow of ASEE. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Reviewers and editors are essential to the publishing process, and yet no one evertells us how to write a constructive review. Reviewers typically
Paper ID #19401Impact of a Sophomore BME Design Fundamentals Course on Student Out-come Performance and Professional DevelopmentDr. Christa M Wille, University of Wisconsin, Madison Christa Wille is a Biomedical Engineering doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received an undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering and went on to get her clinical doctorate in Physical Therapy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She advanced her clinical skills through a Sports Physical Therapy Residency at UW Health. Although continuing to practice Physical Therapy, Christa has returned to academia to continue
for a hospital in the United Statesmay not work well in a hospital in Ethiopia. Students learn that just because a solution mayappear better for a context they are familiar with doesn’t mean it actually is better for the contextin which the product will be used. By learning about and engaging with the difficulties ofdesigning medical devices for a low-resource hospital, students must also reckon with the rolethat engineering plays in social and economic inequalities, both globally and domestically.Products like medical devices tend to be designed for communities with the most money to payfor them and the most resources to build them, and therefore often can’t meet the needs of thosewho need them the most.With these ideas in mind, the surgical
Paper ID #41361Board 206: Best Practices and Lessons Learned for Hiring Student Staff inAn Academic MakerspaceAudrey Boklage, University of Texas at Austin Audrey Boklage is research assistant in the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Her current work is focused on exploring pedagogical moves and interactions within university makerspaces to create a theoretical lens to info ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Best Practices and Lessons Learned for Hiring Student Staff in an Academic Makerspaces
those dispositions, skill levels,and practical tasks that are reasonably expected of graduates.6Within the United States, a similar call has been made for incorporating an entrepreneurialmindset into undergraduate engineering curricula. EM is a multi-faceted concept comprising awide range of characteristics, skills, and attitudes; its curricular presence is often implemented inways that enable an institution to best leverage its resources, including faculty background,available partnerships, and funding opportunities. 7 As defined by KEEN, entrepreneurial mindsetis a habit of mind geared toward action; a way of thinking about the world that empowers peopleto identify opportunities and create value in any context.8 Network members from more than
Paper ID #37033Counterspaces: Underrepresented Students Find Community and Support-iveLearning Spaces During a Global PandemicDr. Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder Janet Y. Tsai is a researcher and instructor in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on ways to encourage more students, especially women and those from nontraditional demographic groups, to pursue interests in the field of engineering. Janet assists in recruitment and retention efforts locally, nationally, and internationally, hoping to broaden the image of engineering
anyinitiative attempted. The faculty must have enthusiasm and passion for the engineeringprofession, enthusiasm for passing the torch to the next generation, enthusiasm in upholdingthe highest professional standards, and enthusiasm in believing in the unlimited potential oftheir students! With the goal in mind our team decided to hire as faculty only engineers witha proven track of industry experience that have passion and enthusiasm of teachingengineering the way is done out there in the real world so our graduating students will be“industry ready”. This decision was made based on the fact that from all the engineeringgraduates with a bachelor degree less than 10% continue their studies to a master’s degree orhigher [33] and eventually end up working
Paper ID #27142Immersion for Inclusion: Virtual Reality as a Novel Approach to DevelopingFacultyDr. Brooke Charae Coley, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Brooke Coley, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Dr. Coley is Principal Investigator of the Shifting Perceptions, Attitudes and Cultures in Engineering (SPACE) Lab that aspires to elevate the experiences of marginalized populations, dismantle systematic injustices, and transform the way inclusion is culti- vated in engineering through the implementation
Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement and testing. In her position, Sarah is responsible for developing instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and projects, and working with faculty to publish educational research. Her research interests primarily involve creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship education.Dr. Esther W Gomez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Esther Gomez is an assistant professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Gomez’s research program focuses on how me- chanical