best-practices available for students with physical or visible disabilities and those with non-visible disabilities for both lecture-based classrooms and active learning environments. Classroom and laboratory spaces are made physically accessible for a wide range of bodies. Accessibility options like extra time and providing multi-modal instructions via video or notes are achievable and have been widely implemented. Assessment like homeworks, tests, individual assignments can be adjusted to meet the needs of the individual student. Approaches like delivering content through multiple modes seeks to engage a (relatively) neurodiverse student body. ● Active learning
This is challenging for the students,especially in a group environment such as senior capstone design. Likewise, studies have shownthat the international students have a difficult time succeeding in courses requiring the students togive formal presentations, which is true in senior capstone design.9,36,54 During the qualitative datacollection, international students often cited the nontraditional mode of course presentationsinstead of traditional course learning modes (sitting in class or laboratory). Further, internationalstudents expressed concern that their limited English-speaking ability may adversely affect theirteam.It was also found that the student’s intrinsic value decreased overall from the beginning of the fallsemester of senior
, why he wanted to be a BME major, and how he now believed he had amisconception of BME: They have a biochemistry degree at the school I'm at. I'm in biomedical engineering and I guess when I got into it I thought it was more like that laboratory track where you work under somebody helping them do their research or whatever. But I think now that I've seen about half of it, I can tell its hardcore engineering which I was not expecting it to be. (Derek)Derek now faced the conflict of having an ideal future possible career that was no longerconnected to his present tasks. He described the curriculum as being a major factor in his choiceand his feelings of being stuck in engineering: I really wanted
during the product testing event and beyond.Through this project, The DoSeum extends its educational impact to include college studentswhile positioning these college students as role models for children, particularly the students inThe DoSeum’s after school programs. The primary service provided to The DoSeum by thispartnership with the Engineering Section at San Antonio College is to allow The DoSeum tofulfill the four dimensions of children’s museums as defined by the Association of Children’sMuseums (ACM) [22], [23]. According to the ACM, “all children’s museums function acrossfour dimensions, as local destinations, educational laboratories, community resources, andadvocates for children. They are experts in designing learning spaces that
failure to switch from a PhD to a master's. That was the second time I went to counseling. I was just kind of working through those feelings of failure, even though it was an active decision.All the participants expressed that they found the utilization of counseling to be helpful. Becky,for example, described how going to counseling in response to the anxiety attacks she hadexperienced in her research laboratory, gave her useful tools. She shared, I did feel as though I was able to get good insights. He showed me how to like if I had another anxiety attack, breathing mechanisms that I could do to kind of stimulate my parasympathetic system and slow my heart rate and stuff like that, calm my system down.Erin
development have grown into the backbone inless than two years.With the in-depth promotion of the Outstanding Engineers Plan, pilot colleges anduniversities have explored more school-enterprise joint training models in practice, such ascentralized model and decentralized model [26]; project-driven model [27]; tri-dimensionalmodel [28]; strategic alliance-based model; base plus laboratory model [29]; task-orientedmodel [30]; model based on the CDIO concept [31]; elite class model [32], etc.(as shown inTable1) Establishing a long-term mechanism of school-enterprise cooperation can not onlyachieve the deep integration of schools and enterprises, improve the quality of talent training,achieve the complementary advantages of schools and enterprises, but
(SSI) have received increased attention from many science andengineering educators, as it provides a meaningful learning opportunity to improve students'argumentation skills [4] - [7]. In the SSI environment, students can formulate positions, negotiatediverse ideas, and make decisions about important issues directly related to their everyday life [8].The problems in SSI contexts are “more open-ended, debatable, complex, or ill-structured” [9,p.140] than the general scientific hypothesis in the laboratory. In this kind of environment, studentsare required to apply their epistemic understanding of argument (i.e., what counts as good evidence,what counts as a good claim) to debate, reach a consensus, or make decisions [10] - [12].Sadler [6
of multiphase flows while acquiring skills in high performance parallel computing and scientific computation. Before that, Dr. Ayala hold a faculty position at Universidad de Oriente at Mechanical Engineering Department where he taught and developed graduate and undergraduate courses for a number of subjects such as Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Multiphase Flows, Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machinery, as well as Mechanical Engineering Laboratory courses. In addition, Dr. Ayala has had the opportunity to work for a number of engineering consulting companies, which have given him an important perspective and exposure to industry. He has been directly involved in at least 20 different
provides additive manufacturing support for design courses, laboratory courses, and entrepreneur initiatives. This facility houses several different technology 3D printers that capable of printing parts from polymers, fibers, composites, and metals as well as 3D scanning and subtractive manufacturing equipment. His research focuses on machining and manufacturing with a specific concentration on the use of additive manufacturing processes for advanced materials. He emphasis on design for additive manufacturing (DfAM), topology optimization, lightweight applications, and finite element analysis in additive manufacturing processes. Dr. Vora extensively teaches the additive manufacturing technology through the dedicated
, and 50% were Pell-eligible.With a student-faculty ratio of 12:1 and average class size of 17.8, Augsburg offers a relationalacademic culture with a focus on student learning. In 2018, the Hagfors Center for Science,Business & Religion opened, providing enhanced classrooms to support active learning andexpanded laboratory space to support undergraduate research. About 35-40 full-timeundergraduate research slots within the STEM disciplines are funded through Augsburg’s officeof undergraduate research and a TRiO McNair Scholars program each summer. Over the last fiveyears, nine new tenure-track STEM faculty were hired, increasing the capacity to mentorundergraduate researchers.1.3 The AugSTEM Scholars ProgramAugsburg has received two awards
laboratory projects in the middle years [27]–[29].Engineering teams offer a mode for interdisciplinarity and task delegation so students can finishlarge and complicated projects within the span of a course. What is not often taught, however,are the various skills necessary in the social processes that make teaming effective:communication, delegation, and conflict resolution, to name a few [30]–[32]. The socialcircumstances in which these skills become relevant can reveal hidden epistemologies that guidethe teaming process, especially when gender differences and dynamics are considered [21].Within engineering, these epistemologies are woven into the culture of engineering learningenvironments and often the engineering field itself [18]. Therefore, we
mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and an adjunct faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. His broad research interests include engineering education, as well as control and optimization of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to power and energy systems, multi-agent systems, robotics, and
in Ghana and Kenya. Her expertiseinforms national scientific policy as a member of President Biden’s Council of Advisors onScience and Technology. Moreover, Hammond is one of only 33 people to have been elected toall three National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [57].A third symposium speaker was Rory Cooper, Assistant Vice Chancellor and DistinguishedProfessor of Rehabilitation Science and Technology at the University of Pittsburg (Pitt); as wellas Founding Director of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories [40, pp. 66–68], [58] andwheelchair-marathon champion. Having sustained an injury during his U.S. Army service,Cooper has utilized a wheelchair since, turning unexpected challenges into opportunities toinspire
teachers and students to create understanding through conceptual modeling. She has experience in creating professional learning experiences, designing coaching systems, and developing frameworks and lessons. Her research interests include STEM education, system thinking, conceptual modeling, and coaching.Dr. Nancy Ruzycki, University of Florida Dr. Nancy Ruzycki, is the Director of Undergraduate Laboratories and Faculty Lecturer within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida Herbert Wetheim College of Engineering. Her focus is on developing curriculum ba ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Examining STEMM Mentorship within Student
, several faculties have devised different mechanisms for engaging studentsat the early stage of their entry into the STEM departments. This includes pairing new studentswith their senior college mates at the laboratories to create more directed mentorship and co-research opportunities [41], thus enabling the programs to adapt to the ever-changing WOCSTEM student interests [42], [43].3.0 TheoryIn 2012 Strayhorn conducted a study to explore the experiences of Black males engaged in Blackmale initiatives. The study yielded a sense of belonging framework. To understand therelationship between campus climate and STEM culture, we utilize Strayhorn's Sense ofBelonging framework (2012). The framework explores how the context of spaces can foster asense of
Paper ID #41608Board 278: Faculty and Staff Ideas and Expectations for a Culture of Wellnessin EngineeringMs. Eileen Johnson, University of Michigan Eileen Johnson received her BS and MS in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She previously worked in tissue engineering and genetic engineering throughout her education. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. After teaching an online laboratory class, she became interested in engineering education research. Her current research interests are in engineering student mental health & wellness
business process improvement (solving business challenges with technology solutions). His research focus are in cyber executive management, expert crowdsourcing, and decision analytics. Brian is also the Deputy Vice President for Digital Engineering Programs at Parsons Corporation.Dr. Mihai Boicu, George Mason University Mihai Boicu, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Information Technology at George Mason University, Associate Director of the Learning Agents Center (http://lac.gmu.edu), Co-Director of IT Entrepreneurship Laboratory (http://lite.gmu.edu) and Co-Director of ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Considering Professional Diversity as a Factor in a
Engineering Dr. Cory J. Prust is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He earned his BSEE degree from MSOE in 2001 and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2006. Prior to joining MSOE in 2009, he was a Technical Staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He teaches courses in the signal processing, communication systems, and embedded systems areas.Elizabeth Taylor, Milwaukee School of Engineering Elizabeth Taylor is the director of the STEM Center at Milwaukee School of Engineering where she directs institutional strategy for K-12 STEM programming and outreach and oversees the operations of the Center. She advocates for the alignment of
study found that being able to test the use of the robotsin actual homes versus in a laboratory setting gave useful feedback, both in areas that needimprovement and in what ways people really used the robots to assist with their ADL. For those people with lower-limb mobility issues that use power wheelchairs, one issuefacing that needs to be addressed is charging the wheelchairs’ batteries. This activity sometimesrequires manual dexterity that the disabled person does not have. Work has been done to create awireless power transfer pad that a wheelchair could simply be parked on to charge it, rather thanrequiring the wheelchair to be plugged in. This technology would increase the self-reliance ofpowered wheelchair users and make it easier
school students participated in a week-long summer camp thatfocused on electrical and computer engineering (ECE) concepts and practices. The five-daysummer camp consisted of hands-on activities, tours of different laboratories in ECE disciplines,and a group project that spanned the whole week where students built circuits using theSparkFun Inventor’s kit. During the group activity, the students were organized into eightgroups, and each group was mentored by an undergraduate mentor who facilitated thecollaborative hands-on activities. The middle school students completed validated and reliablepre and post-surveys adapted from the Student Attitudes Toward STEM (S-STEM) Survey andthe Group Work Skills Questionnaire Manual. The S-STEM survey is
Electrical andComputing Engineering (ECE), and educational researchers from the Teaching + LearningCommons at UC San Diego. The study is based on data collected from Fall 2021 to Fall 2022.Over 5 quarters, a team of 7 faculty from MAE and ECE designed and implemented oral examsin 13 undergraduate engineering classes (9 unique courses): ● MAE 30A Statics and Introduction to Dynamics ● MAE 30B Dynamics and vibrations ● MAE 131A Solid Mechanics I ● MAE 131B Solid Mechanics II ● MAE 107 Computational Methods in Engineering ● MAE 8 MATLAB Programming for Engineering Analysis ● ECE 35 Introduction to Analog Design ● ECE 65 Components and Circuits Laboratory ● ECE 101 Linear Systems Fundamentals ● ECE 144 LabVIEW
May 2023. The Center houses a complete job shop with rapidprototyping and fabrication capabilities staffed by skilled and experienced civilian engineers fromCMI2. The goal of the Marne Innovation Center is to rapidly convert ideas brought by Soldiersinto viable prototypes for testing and refinement in the field. Promising ideas are then scaled upby the nonprofit CMI2, which works with DEVCOM through a Congressional initiative, calledthe Catalyst-Pathfinder program, which is managed by the Army Research Laboratory with a goalto bridge gaps in defense innovation.This paper’s goal is reporting lessons learned and best practices gleaned from this ongoingpartnership to better enable similar collaborations across organizations in the future. For
Research Groups. With the firstmentorship seminar, the goal was to introduce the College of Engineering Mentoring Fellows,the purpose behind the Mentorship Seminar Series, explain how important the state of graduatestudent-faculty member relationships can be, give a break-down of mentor and mentee roles andresponsibilities, introduce the IDP as a tool for mentorship and teach graduate students howcreate their own IDP. The second seminar aimed to initiate the discussion about poor mentorshiprelationships, what it might look like, for example in a laboratory space, what factors cancontribute to inefficient mentoring, and educate attendees on how to improve their reactionstowards any mentoring problem that may arise to avoid creating further
' access to CSEdmay be unevenly distributed across different types of schools and districts. When students dohave access to courses, there may be disparities in enrollment rates between different studentsubgroups. When students do enroll in CS courses, there still may be inequities in terms of whichstudents feel included and which students ultimately benefit from participating in those courses.The relationships between the four components of CAPE and examples of equity issues toaddress within each component are represented in Figure 1. In our work, we utilized CAPE asour framework for understanding how to measure and address equity in CSEd.Figure 1: CAPE FrameworkThe Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance as a Laboratory for DataThe
required orsupplementary materials for their course. These choices are often protected by academic freedompolicies [3].In particular, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medical sciences (STEM)courses may rely heavily on IM, such as textbooks, to augment lecture and laboratory learningactivities and lectures. Textbooks are often content-rich and may have substantial onlineresources to assist learners and support instruction [2]. However, there are a myriad of additionalinformation resources available to supplement or replace textbooks, and these might bepurchased by students, provided by faculty (e.g. course reserves), provided through universityand college libraries, or be Open Access or Open Educational Resources (OER) that
racial identity (i.e., visibility ofPOC) was often equated with inability and stereotypes in engineering [40]. Thus, claiming thatcolor-neutral attitudes exist in engineering negates the lived experiences of POC and thehypervisibility they are constantly exposed to in classroom, laboratories, or team activities.Colorblindness, and the idea that attitudes and behaviors in engineering are race-neutral, alsolead to issues of “otherness,” racialization, and cultural dissonance [41], [42], all of which havedetrimental effects on students of color. Moreover, colorblindness institutionalizes racism without asking for accountability whenracist acts occur. For instance, McGee argued that racism in STEM continues to exist becauseracially hostile