engineer’s career builds off oftheir experiences, skills learned, and relationships made. It is common for an engineer to movepositions almost yearly so that s/he can gain valuable skill sets in his/her early years at acompany. From each new team, the engineer learns what they enjoy and whom they enjoyworking with. Each of these experiences plays an important role in where the engineer movesnext. Companies want to invest time and money in employees that are hard workers and get jobsdone efficiently and effectively. By succeeding in a certain position, a person can set themselvesup well for their next project.Figure. 3. The connected technical courses and disconnected design trajectories of undergraduate engineering students (left) and the connected
course tend to perform strongerthan those in the fall semester, likely due to the fact that most of the fall semester students arefirst semester freshmen, undergoing all of the transitional processes that occur when studentsembark upon their college career. Students in the spring semester have already made it throughthe critical first semester, and have that experience to draw upon when addressing the demands ofthe course. This plot seems to corroborate the experiences of the instructors.Finally, the influence of attending the open lab on students’ scores was also assessed. The coursescore data from all 3 sections of CENE 180 during the first semester of this implementation werecompared against the number of times a student attended the optional
issues related to ensure equitable accessibility. To addressdesigners and engineers an opportunity to apply mathematical these challenges, institutions need to consistently makemodels, validate the physics and behavioral constraints of significant investment in infrastructure and technologicalprinciples, and test engineering theories as they apply to real adaptation to stay current. The results are graduates withscenarios. This not only applies to testing circuit designs, but significant technical proficiency, improved problem-solvingproficiency, and critical skills that pay dividends throughout challenging to provide students with an adequate learningan engineer’s career
to effectively work in teams without thestudents being required to work on sets of individual tasks [22]. Such applications show thatgamification does not need to be applied to individual assignments of a class. Instead, it canfunction as the framework for extra-credit work and self-study. Additionally, the spread ofmotivations previously revealed indicates that students actively took part in additional class workfor the purpose of learning without being primarily motivated by the other benefits.Math EducationMathematics is a subject that is central to a wide range of careers and STEM classes. Onecomponent of gamification is the aim towards making education more enjoyable, improvingengagement, and allowing more information to be retained [23
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personal definitions of success, short and long-term goalplanning, regular assessment of goals, time-management, giving and receiving constructivefeedback, preparing for course registration, utilizing campus resources, and asking for help.4.3 Instructional SupportIn Fall 2020, course planning and instruction was led by a single faculty member with additionalsupport from other faculty for lab instruction. With the general structure established, yearlypreparation for the course centers on project development (i.e., Project Partners, challenges, andsupporting materials), coordinating the many visitors that share information on programrequirements, library and writing center resources, student services, career readiness, studyabroad, student clubs
Paper ID #37455Evaluating Students’ Entrepreneurial Mindset Attributes in First-YearDesign ProjectsNicholas H. CheongDr. Meagan Eleanor Ita, The Ohio State University Dr. Meagan Ita is a Research Scientist at Arvinas working to develop disease modifying therapies for neu- rodegenerative diseases. Her career passion is to develop novel biotechnologies and therapeutics to better understand human physiology with the goal of equitably extending healthspan, ideally at the intersection of healthcare and STEM education. Meagan has experience as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Engineering Education from The Ohio State University (OSU
students would benefit from moredeliberate, distributed practice with measurement and data acquisition [1]. Second, themeasurement and data acquisition activities were much more hands-on than the statisticscurriculum, creating very different energy and engagement in the class throughout thesemester. We wanted to modify the course to address these two concerns but decided to takea more holistic approach to the redesign.This paper outlines our comprehensive approach to redesigning Data Analysis. We not onlyconsider changes to the assessments and activities of the class, but we also re-evaluate thelearning objectives in the context of program and college level goals and students’professional careers. We utilize a curricular priority framework to
University as the California State Affiliate University for Project Lead the Way, a nationally- recognized program for preparing middle and high school students for careers in engineering. Dr. Hayhurst and his wife, Mari, raise, show and judge AKC champion Great Danes, Whippets and Boxers. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 13 Classifying Student Engineering Design Project Types Micah Lande and Larry Leifer Center for Design Research
to pursue engineering as a future career more so than non-First-Generation students. Items D and P in Table 5 represent the “Positive” and “Negative” elements of the Social Capital dimension. Item D prompted respondents about their having a group of older working professional friends who offer them advice about challenges in engineering while Item P prompted respondents about their having a sense of being on their own when it comes to their engineering pursuits. Table 6. Item analysis between White Students (n = 47) and Students of Color (n = 26). Italicized items and means have been negated; and italicized, bolded font indicates a result with statistical significance. White Students Students of
Past President and Wise Woman of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender. She has received career achievement awards from ICA, NCA, the Central States Communication Association, and Purdue University where she was a Distinguished University Professor in communication and engineer- ing education (by courtesy) and Endowed Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. Her primary research areas are organizational communication, career, work-life, resilience, feminist/gender, and design. Her grants have focused on ethics, institutional transformation, and diversity-equity-inclusion-belongingness in the professional formation of engineers.Dr. Sean M
career. Student questionstypically focused on grading. For those that asked about internships, information about schoolresources were provided and an offer was made to have the instructor review their resume. Of the37 students in the class, 3 of them submitted a resume for review.Academic integrity was addressed by asking students not to share the content of the oral examwith classmates, and instructor and IA had a comment area in the grading sheet to indicatesuspected academic integrity concerns. In Fall Quarter 2021 of MAE 30A there was no evidenceof students sharing oral exam content. To the contrary, students on the second day of the examscontinued to make mistakes, which would not be the case if the oral exam content had beenwidely shared
onboardingprocess to prepare them for oral exam administration, as well as ongoing feedback andmentorship. This ties in with a broader impact of this project, which is to better prepare the nextgeneration of engineering educators from the training we develop and implement. Some of theIAs who participate in this project have a strong interest in engineering education careers, andthe IA training they receive from this project will better prepare them as engineering educators.Oral exams are also excellent opportunities for technical conversations, similar to those seen inindustry interviews or in authentic team collaborations. IA training for this project, thus,translates beyond academic careers and can be of value to IAs focused on industry careers.Develop
identify competenciesneeded for transdisciplinary research teams. The competencies are focused on students and earlycareer academic professionals and especially those entering careers in FEWS fields and thoseteaching or mentoring these groups. The review identified competencies related to six domainareas, oriented around the individual, relationships and connections, team, process, outputs andoutcomes, and growth. As academic institutions continue to recognize the role oftransdisciplinary research in addressing complex societal issues, graduate education programswill have to incorporate transdisciplinary competencies into the curriculum. We offer thecompetencies identified by the INFEWS-ER project as a contribution to this ongoingconversation
assignments, ad the use of technology in the classroom. Boni hopes to pursue a career in academia with a focus on teaching and engineering education.Anna K LummusHannia Elisa KoolmanRoxanne Moore (Research Engineer II) Roxanne Moore is a Senior Research Engineer in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on design and engineering education with a focus on promoting diversity and inclusion. She has served as PI and co-PI for grants from multiple sponsors including NSF and Amazon totaling more than $9M. In addition, her STEM outreach programs and curricula have impacted
) and culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP). Currently, K-12schooling in the U.S. lacks exposure to the appreciation and knowledge surrounding thecreativity, rewarding work, and positive learning outcomes associated with STEM related careers[1]. This lack of exposure especially limits females and people of color, both of whom arealready underrepresented in STEM fields [2], [3]. As such, while the need for improving thesuccess rates in STEM coursework is pertinent across all racial and ethnic backgrounds, it isespecially critical to address the needs of students from underrepresented and historicallymarginalized populations that are disproportionately less likely to pursue and persist throughSTEM-related degree programs [4]. Any reform
programs in the US within undergraduate institutions. As previously noted,programs included for analysis include ABET accredited EnvE and CivE programs whileexcluding others that may incidentally place students in EnvE careers such as GeneralEngineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Chemical Engineering. The record presented here canbe used by academic intuitions to identify peer programs for individual program benchmarkingefforts. Further, prospective faculty may find such a list illuminating as much publicity is givento research-focused faculty positions in engineering graduate schools while less uniform data isavailable for teaching-focused faculty options. Finally, students who wish to pursueenvironmental engineering at a PUI due to the
education spans a variety of fields, including electronic hardware, software,and signals and systems. Therefore, the diverse learning outcomes of an undergraduate educationin ECE lay a strong foundational base that enables students to pursue lucrative careers intechnology in a variety of technical disciplines where there still exists a gap between the numberof engineering graduates and the increasing demand for talent by the growing technologyindustry [1] – [3].There have been significant efforts to improve undergraduate ECE education using holistic aswell as specialized approaches. The Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer ScienceDepartments (RED) grant by the National Science Foundation has supported efforts introducingsystem-wide curricular
Paper ID #33250Resilience in the Home Office Through a Scaled-down MicrogridMs. Tessa Veurink, University of Pittsburgh Tessa Veurink graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Electric Power. Her interests include renewable energy, sustainability, and electric power.Mr. Bradley G. Fox, University of Pittsburgh Bradley Fox is an electrical engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh. He is interested in power electronics and enjoys learning about a variety of other disciplines as well. He plans to start his career in industry in 2021 and grow as a
Paper ID #33385Teaching an Immersive Experiential Introductory Biomedical EngineeringCourse in the Land of Covid (AKA: An Old Dog Has to Learn New Tricks)Dr. Charles J. Robinson, Clarkson University IEEE Life Fellow, AIMBE Founding Fellow, U.N.E.S.C.O. Academician. Director, Center for Rehabilita- tion Engineering, Science, and Technology (CREST), and Shulman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY. (Retired) Senior Rehab Research Career Scientist, VA Medical Center, Syracuse, NY. Adjunct Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, SUNY Upstate Medical
. IntroductionMono-disciplinary solutions are falling short as we face complex issues (e.g. climate change,housing shortages, medical crises) in a globalized world where individuals with diverseexperiences and training work beyond disciplinary categories, often leading to expandedperspectives on daunting problems with socio-technical concerns [1]. As undergraduate studentsprepare for careers that will involve solving complex problems requiring input fromheterogeneous domains, they need practice working in interdisciplinary teams. However,students and instructors face challenges in these settings. Within undergraduate curricula, suchlearning objectives are often measured as individual outcomes in courses but accomplishedthrough teamwork. In these scenarios
in contexts in which they are expected to workwith others and devise solutions to complex problems relevant to the social community anddiffering fields [9]. This encourages students to develop abilities for effective communicationand teamwork, as well as applying ethical and social responsibility to their learning throughpractical applications. Lastly, networking competencies focus on broadening a student’s learningenvironment through multidisciplinary, multicultural, and international learning connections [9].The authors of this paper realize the importance of innovation pedagogy and believe thateducational models need to adapt and educate students to be innovative, self-driven learners tobetter prepare them for careers in an ever-changing
Paper ID #34586Learning Through Doing: Preservice Elementary Teacher Reflections on theEngineering Design Process (Fundamental)Dr. Matthew Perkins Coppola, Purdue University Fort Wayne Dr. Perkins Coppola is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the School of Education at Purdue University Fort Wayne. His research agenda centers on elementary and secondary preservice teacher preparation. While a lecturer at Towson University in 2014, he was inspired to research engineering design pedagogy in elementary schools after attending a talk by Dr. Pamela Lottero-Perdue. He began his career as a high school physics teacher
bilingual students. She has also contributed to the training and development of faculty in developing and evaluating various engineering curriculum and courses at UPRM, applying the outcome-based educational framework. She has also incorporated theories on social cognitive career choices and student attrition mitigation to investigate the effectiveness of institutional interventions in increasing the retention and academic success of talented engineering students from economically disadvantaged families. She’s also involved in a project that explores the relationship between the institutional policies at UPRM and faculty and graduate students’ motivation to create good relationships between advisors and advisees.Edward
in shifting student bias towards inclusion in the three interventions. The mostpromising approach is student-led, where senior students worked to change the student culturedirectly.Introduction and BackgroundImproving diversity in STEM fields is an important goal and has been widely studied. It is well-known that students and professionals in STEM careers in the USA do not reflect the generalpopulation of the country [1]. For example, white men make up 31.6% of the general populationwhile they make up 51% of scientists and engineers. Black men make up 6% of the populationand 3% of the STEM workforce. The percentage of non-white and non-Asian people in the USAis 31.3% while the percentage of this sub-population working in STEM is just 12%. In
(computerassisted design) allows engineers (and students) to build and test virtual prototypes beforecommitting resources to physical prototypes (e.g., Klahr, Triona, & Williams, 2007). As K-12education seeks to provide the foundation for a generation of students who can pursue careers inengineering if they desire, students need to become familiar with and confident engaging not justin science and engineering practices but also to use physical and digital tools that facilitatesuccessful problem solving (Wang et al., 2011). A previous review of the literature identified keydigital technologies that teachers should incorporate and/or students should learn to use as part ofauthentic engineering opportunities (see Maeng & Gonczi, 2020). These include
. [45]–[48]Engineering is Advances in knowledge are so rapid that even the [2], [3], [24],constantly evolving. fundamentals of engineering are no longer fixed. [41], [45]–[48] Engineers need to continue learning throughout their careers to keep up with changes in technologies and the contexts in which they are used.Engineering is about Engineers solve complex problems by synthesizing [2], [3], [9],synthesizing and information and approaches from STEM and non- [24], [41]–[49]integrating knowledge. STEM disciplines.Engineering makes the The goal of making the world better for all people [2], [3], [41],world a better
Paper ID #34563 Soheil Fatehiboroujeni received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Merced in 2018. As a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Soheil is working in the Active Learning Initiative to promote student learning and the use of computational tools such as Matlab and ANSYS in the context of fluid mechanics and heat transfer.Dr. Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic