team, and Kali Linux. In this paper, we provideexamples on how students’ knowledge of CPS security changes over the course of the program,how students are supported in and out of the classroom towards advancing their knowledge in thisfield. We also highlight the impact that project-based and team coordinated learning can have onincreasing students’ understanding of the fundamentals of CPS security.IntroductionA recent study by Cybersecurity Ventures [1], a respected publisher of cybersecurity content,predicts that 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs around the world will be unfilled by 2021. In the UnitedStates, the demand for professionals with cybersecurity expertise is outpacing all other occupations[2]. These reports, along with many others
Engineering as a Program Coordinator Senior with the K-12 Engineering Education and Outreach team. Since then, Velez has managed such programs as FIRST LEGO League Robotics, MESA, and the National Summer Transportation Institute. She currently coordinates EPICS High (Engineering Projects in Community Service) to engage high school and mid- dle school students in human-centered engineering projects in their communities. Through this program, Velez works to build partnerships with school districts, industry, and non-profits to bring STEM program- ming to underserved communities across the state. Before joining ASU, Velez spent seven years as an elementary educator at a STEM focus school. She currently holds a Masters of
, knowledge, and skills to find and strengthen their own voice and to navigate critical transitions such as starting college and entering the workforce. Jordan-Bloch’s scholarly research centers on the intersection of social psychology and education, and current projects include work on: the perception of mattering as a mechanism in teacher-student relationships, the relational context of cohort-based learning, and how gender inequality is experienced and understood during critical transitions for young women. Jordan-Bloch received her B.A. in sociology from Brown University and her Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University.Ms. Shoshanah Cohen, Stanford University Shoshanah Cohen is the Director of Community Engaged
Paper ID #215014-D Printing of Pressure Sensors and Energy Harvesting Devices for Engi-neering EducationProf. Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso Dr. Tseng is a Professor and Chair of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering at UTEP. His research focuses on the computational intelligence, data mining, bio- informatics and advanced manu- facturing. Dr. Tseng published in many refereed journals such as IEEE Transactions, IIE Transaction, Journal of Manufacturing Systems and others. He has been serving as a principle investigator of many research projects, funded by NSF, NASA, DoEd, KSEF and LMC. He
Louisiana State University (LSU) in energy researchto engage participating students in innovative projects related to biofuels, energy storage, andcatalysis. Participants interact with university faculty as well as local industry and entrepreneurs.Over the course of the summer, students develop a commercialization plan for their summerresearch project aided by mentors from the LSU Business & Technology Center. The combinationof local industry, entrepreneurship, and world-class research facilities and faculty offer the REUstudents an opportunity that is hard to match. In recent years the authors have discussed the uniqueopportunities available to those with graduate degrees with undergraduate chemical engineeringstudents at LSU. Through these
Mathematics Profes- sional Engineer License Certifications: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Current Position: Associate Chair Engineering Technology and Mechanical Engineering Technology Program Director Industrial Experience Over 20 years of industrial experience initially as a Royal Naval Dockyard indentured craftsman machinist and Design Draftsman and project manager on Leander class Steam Turbine Naval frigates and diesel electric submarines. Most recently includes 12 years in Research and Development and Lean Six Sigma process improvement experience troubleshooting process issues in the Paper, Chemical, and Converting Industries.Mr. Karl J. Huehne, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Mr. Huehne has
).Certainly all academic institution types have a role to play in HPC and CI education. This paperis focused on the deployment of a HPC cluster at a Predominantly Undergraduate Institution(PUI). At a PUI the engagement of students in research projects is mostly from theundergraduate ranks which is markedly different from research intensive university. The idea ofundergraduate research (UGR), if unfamiliar, may seem like a stretch, but Kuh3 and others4-5have observed the positive effect of improved persistence in college courses generally and inSTEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) courses in particular, for thosestudents involved in UGR.This paper is in a series of reports about progress of high performance computing at UCO
. Such a framework helps effective pedagogical strategies such as activelearning (AL) and project-based learning (PBL), which are especially relevant to a highly lab-orientedcourse such as this course titled ‘Introduction to Animation’. Finally, the framework has also beentested on a range of VR media to check its accessibility. On the whole, this proposed framework canbe used to not only teach basic modeling and animation concepts such as spatial coordinates, coordinatesystems, transformation, and parametric curves, but it is also used to teach basic graphics programmingconcepts. Hence, instead of a touchscreen, the modules have to be developed from scratch for accessvia regular desktop PCs. Such a framework helps effective pedagogical
Femineer® teacher has been trained on year one and two of thecurriculum and she has successfully taught a cohort of 36 female students in Creative Robotics.This will be her first year teaching a cohort of Wearable Technology. This study about 21st centurylearning skills and STEM confidence will add to the body of research about female high schoolstudents in STEM [2]. LITERATURE REVIEW This brief literature review will examine 21st century learning skills with the outcomes ofcritical thinking, project-based learning, and programming skills. Elements of STEM confidencewill also be presented. This literature review will illustrate the themes of 21st century learning skillsand STEM confidence which will
School LevelAbstractFor Institution, STEM education at a high school level and enrollment of a diverse population ofstudents have long been priorities. The aerospace engineering department at Institution hasimplemented programs to address those priorities within the discipline itself. Camp SOAR, aweek-long summer STEM camp for high school students interested in aerospace engineering,seeks to introduce aerospace concepts in an accessible way while providing hands-on buildingand learning experience to students. High school students are instructed in key engineeringconcepts and aerospace engineering fundamentals, which they then apply to a major project thatthey test in a competition at the end of the week. In addition, a new diversity initiative
thedesign of their new HSI Program. The University of Arizona, one of first conference awardees,held a working conference that brought together over 100 faculty, students, and administratorsfrom 42 Southwestern higher-education institutions, including 37 HSIs and five emerging HSIs,to identify gaps, opportunities, and key recommendations for transforming STEM education atHSIs. Following the conference, the STEM in HSI Working Group at the University of Arizonawas formed to spearhead broader impacts informed by the conference recommendations [1] andanchored in the notion of “servingness” at HSIs [2]. This paper presents the work tied to and theproducts resulting from the 2017 conference project thus far, framed from a perspective ofpromoting
“meritocracy of difficulty” [3] where student success can be interpreted as “beingable to take it” [4]. Within engineering, disciplinary subcultures have also been described [5].This work is part of a larger study to understand how students experience stress as part ofengineering culture. The overarching goal of the project is to understand how a culture of stressdevelops in engineering and how it impacts student perceptions of inclusion in engineeringdisciplines and their level of identification with engineering. Our previous work has indicatedthat correlative relationships exist between engineering student identity, perceptions of inclusion,and self-reported stress, anxiety, and depression [2]. The current work is a project status updateto present
Engineering and others have assertedthe need for exposing K-12 students to engineering to help them develop 21st century skills,improve science and mathematics achievement, develop technological literacy, and inspire andprepare students to pursue careers in engineering4–6. This has resulted in the rapid growth of K-12 engineering curricula like Project Lead The Way, the International Technology andEngineering Education Association’s Engineering byDesign, and extracurricular programs likeFIRST Robotics.Many of these engineering initiatives included significant programming components. Roboticscompetitions typically involve varying degrees of programming to control the robots and allowthem to operate autonomously, while many K-12 engineering curricula
Mechanical Engineering. The NAE Grand Challenges are broad, important concepts forengineers to accomplish in this century for the betterment of humankind, and provide ourstudents with a large number of topics to consider for their project. We provide the students witha broad goal shown in Table 1 and allow them to brainstorm ideas to pursue. Our students breakinto groups to make initial prototypes (column 3 of table 1) of a product they would like topursue for the summer. The students then assess the various prototypes as a group advocatingfor both their design and another groups’ design. This competitive process ends with the classvoting as a whole on which project will go forward. We then assign a project lead from amongthe students to carry the
existing engineering programs, we identified five key points ofdistinction for the program:Entrepreneurial Graduates. Despite consistent demand from industry for graduates withbetter business skills, there is no Australian Engineering School that makes this their key focus.CSU Engineering is housed within the Faculty of Business, and one of the research strengthsof the Faculty is entrepreneurship. This allows these skills to be made part of the core businessof the degree, rather than an add-on elective, or projects serviced by a central university unit.4 x 1 year work placements. A key driver of our program was to help solve a workforce needin regional Australia. Many engineering organisations are already employing cadet engineerson an ad hoc
Paper ID #15009Using an e-Learning Environment to Create a Baseline of Understanding ofDigital Logic KnowledgeDr. Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University Carolyn Plumb is the Director of Educational Innovation and Strategic Projects in the College of En- gineering at Montana State University (MSU). Plumb has been involved in engineering education and program evaluation for over 25 years. At MSU, she works on various curriculum and instruction projects including instructional development for faculty and graduate students. She also serves as the college’s assessment and evaluation expert.Dr. Brock J. LaMeres, Montana State
engineering curriculum, the devices are used in the experimentsand projects of many courses, such as digital systems, microcontroller, embedded systems,computer organization, etc. There are wide varieties of input devices. It is difficult to maintain acomplete inventory for the lab. In addition, because these input devices are customized for asmall and specialized market, they are relatively expensive. For example, a GPS module or atouch sensor module costs more than many processor boards. An Android device (a phone or a tablet) is a miniature computer with a touch screen and anarray of sensors. There is an opportunity to use its sensors as the I/O peripherals. A low-endentry-level device is just “commodity” and cheaper than special I/O modules
Paper ID #16715Recruiting via Creation of STEM Solutions to Societal ProblemsProf. Alka R Harriger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alka Harriger joined the faculty of the Computer and Information Technology Department (CIT) in 1982 and is currently a Professor of CIT. For the majority of that time, she has been actively involved in teaching software development courses. From 2008-2014, she led the NSF-ITEST funded SPIRIT (Surprising Possibilities Imagined and Realized through Information Technology) project. Since October 2013, she has been co-leading with Prof. Brad Harriger the NSF-ITEST funded TECHFIT (Teaching
glaciology. In recent years, he has focused on issues of mathematical education and outreach and he has developed a wide range of K-12 outreach projects. His current interests include the mathematical education of teachers, the scholarship of outreach, computational mathematics, and complex dynamics. Page 26.896.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Fundamental Research: Impacts of Outreach on Entering College Students Interests in STEM (Fundamental)IntroductionThe need to train qualified science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM
Paper ID #12207Including Universal Design in Engineering Courses to Attract Diverse Stu-dentsDr. Brianna Blaser, University of Washington Brianna Blaser is a counselor/coordinator at the DO-IT Center at the University of Washington where she works with the AccessEngineering program. She earned a bachelors degree in math and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in women studies at the University of Washington. She has a background in broadening participation and career development in science and engineering fields. Before joining DO-IT, she was the project director for the AAAS (American Association for
gatekeeping courses. Among many factors to this failure, an important one isattributed to the lack of engaging pedagogy inside and outside classrooms. Through this NSFWIDER Program sponsored planning project, a team of faculty and administrators at AlabamaAgricultural and Mechanical University (AAMU) are implementing evidence-based instructionalpractices in foundation courses in STEM curricula. Recognizing that it is essential to implementeffective pedagogy in gateway courses where most attrition occurs, this project has conducted apilot study, which focuses on: (1) collecting baseline data about the extent to which evidence-based practices are currently being used in STEM gateway courses; (2) redesigning threefoundational gateway courses in
in research havedemonstrated a number of benefits, including increases in students’ research-based experience,facility in conducting individual research projects, ability to collaborate effectively in research-based settings, and ability to communicate and present research and research-based findings 1, 3, 8.Programs emphasizing research experiences for undergraduate students have a rich history, with Page 26.1243.2funded research experience for undergraduate (REU) programs arising more than twenty-fiveyears ago 1. A goal of such programs is to retain and strengthen the presence of students engagedin science, technology, engineering, and
Paper ID #12534Building a STEM Pathway with Engineering by Design andMs. Laura E. LeMire, The Community College of Baltimore County Upon graduation from the University of Maryland at College Park with her masters in geotechnical en- gineering, Laura went to work for Baltimore Gas and Electric where during her career there she was responsible for substation and transmission line construction projects, relocation and installation of BGE facilities for Oriole Park at Camden Yards and for the Light Rail, and for improving service reliability. After obtaining her MBA, Laura became the Director of Corporate Purchasing and was a
outreach program for kindergarten through eighth grade for over tenyears [12, 13, 14, 15]. These prior efforts were completed with a different school district and theresultant model is being transferred and tested here. DPS has been involved in this collaborationsince the summer of 2013. Page 26.383.3Recruitment of teachers and of graduate student participants to this program occurs in the springof each year. Contacts are made with teachers through the school partner district liaisons, e.g.,principals, special project coordinator, parent-teacher organizations, etc. Once an interestedteacher has been identified, follow-up emails or phone calls are
diversity, quality, and rigorthe characteristics necessary to serve a 21st-century nation and world. Capstone projects arewidely acknowledged as important components in engineering, engineering technology, design,and business undergraduate education.2,6,15Much has been written on the topic, particularly on capstone courses in engineering.6, 17 Someresearchers have focused on capstone programming and structure.13, 17, 18 Others haveemphasized multidisciplinary collaborations.10, 19, 20 A smaller amount of research has addressedthe assessment of student knowledge patterns in multidisciplinary environments.4, 21, 22 However,little research has examined the role of faculty and their beliefs on the success factors, as well as,time commitments for
Paper ID #15247Fixture Design to Supplement Machining and Fuel Cell EducationProf. Yeong Ryu, State University of New York, Farmingdale YEONG S. RYU graduated from Columbia University with a Ph.D. and Master of Philosophy in Mechan- ical Engineering in 1994. He has served as an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Farmingdale State College (SUNY) since 2006. In addition, he has conducted various research projects at Xerox Corporation (1994-1995), Hyundai Motor Corporation (1995-1997), and New Jersey Institute of Technology (2001-2003). He has been teaching and conducting research in a broad range of
engineering course combining liberal education topics andintroductory engineering topics. This course also includes a substantial design project whichincorporates a cultural engagement component through collaboration with international partners.The first offering of this new course revealed that, while some reservations persist, students foundvalue in exploring what it means to be an engineer in a broader global context.IntroductionA traditional engineering curriculum will likely fail to provide students with the critical skills ofcultural engagement necessary to live and work in a globally connected world and profession. Itis not surprising that much of the traditional engineering curriculum has been focused onproviding solutions to the problems of
Research.Dr. Vikram Kapila, New York University Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics and Control Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a GK-12 Fellows project, and a DR K-12 research project, all funded by NSF. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests include K-12 STEM education, mechatronics, robotics, and control system technology. Under Research Experience for Teachers Site and GK-12 Fellows programs, funded by NSF, and the Central Brooklyn STEM Initiative (CBSI), funded by six philanthropic foundations
’ experiences and develop a futureprotocol and establish a baseline of identity and community development for FYE students. Thesurvey is part of a multi-year project, and this initial understanding will shape future interviewsallowing the impact of the FYE experience to be further explored. Ultimately, the larger studyseeks to understand the impact various decisions made regarding FYE have on community andidentity development as student move through multiple pathways. The baseline survey will guidethe development of future aspects of this project while providing insights about FYE students’communities and views of themselves.IntroductionOver the last several years, there have been calls for changes to engineering education in order toensure that
as 2004 chair of the ASEE ChE Division, has served as an ABET program evaluator and on the AIChE/ABET Education & Accreditation Committee. He has also served as Assessment Coordinator in WPI’s Interdis- ciplinary and Global Studies Division and as Director of WPI’s Washington DC Project Center. He was secretary/treasurer of the new Education Division of AIChE. In 2009 he was awarded the rank of Fellow in the ASEE, and in 2013 was awarded the rank of Fellow in AIChE.Rozwell JohnsonDr. Zoe Reidinger c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 IntegratingInclusivePedagogyandExperientialLearningtoSupportStudent Empowerment,Activism,andInstitutionalChange