development of a new generation of hydraulic components and systems that can operate using environmentally friendlier fluids. Dr. Garcia has plans to actively continue the development of practical teaching tools that bring industry applications to the classroom.John H. Lumkes, Purdue University John Lumkes is the Assistant Dean & Associate Director, Office of Academic Programs, in the College of Agriculture, and Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. Dr. Lumkes received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1997. His current work focuses on agricultural automation and mechanization, international service-learning, fluid power, innovation and design, multi- domain modeling
its own College orSchool, as is often the case at other universities. The placement of the department in MCAS isintended to facilitate engineering as a liberal arts subject. The plan is for the program to becomeaccredited as well. These institutional factors meant that we had a substantial amount ofinstitutional support to design an ambitious, interdisciplinary program of study for our students.5. Theoretical frameworksIn thinking about how to develop MMW into a Core course that fulfills requirements in naturalscience and history (as well as a course that can contribute to ABET accreditation), we decidedto introduce students to a series of theoretical frameworks that integrate engineering andtechnology with problems of context.One of the
additionalsupports be put in place to help students persist in STEM2-5. This paper will describe theprogram's recruitment strategies, the practices that have been most effective, and thedemographics of the successful applicants. In addition, the paper explores the evolution of cohortcommunity building efforts, starting with mostly faculty-led and planned events to events led bya consultant. Improvement in sense of community has been reflected in the evaluation reports,and selected supporting evidence will be shared from the reports.RecruitmentThis S-STEM grant was awarded in fall of 2018 with the goal of supporting at-risk studentsthrough multiple academic pathways, with our definition of at-risk as students who start atCampbell in a math class before pre
second or third year in my PhD degree program. 13 12.22% This is my second or third year in my PhD degree program and I have 5 5.81% passed my qualifying exam. I have passed the qualifying exam in my PhD degree program and I am 7 7.01% working on writing my dissertation. Other 3 3.07%In terms of career plans, the majority of the respondents were thinking about a career in industryfollowed by academia.Quantitative items. Respondents identified a number of factors related to
c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Offering Hands-on Manufacturing Workshops through Distance LearningAbstractThis paper reports on how institutions collaborating on Additive Manufacturing (AM) and SmartManufacturing (SM) have been able to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic and be able to modifytheir planned activities in 2020 in an effort to continue delivering quality training and educationto educators across the country. The pandemic made it impossible to offer the usual on-groundworkshops to STEM educators and industrial practitioners. As a workaround, the project teamsoffered instructional delivery via Zoom and Microsoft Teams while also providing distancelearning tools online. The best practices of the delivery and pros
decision- 7making and curriculum planning in SSA was identified as a persistent problem [30]. Left outof curricular planning without a sense of ownership, educators feel unmotivated to implementcurricular or pedagogical reforms. The authors went on to recommend that teachers should beinvolved in the planning of curriculum, developing in the process, a sense of sharedresponsibility for its implementation and eventual success. While this recommendation isillustrated using the linear model depicted in figure 2, a separate consideration comes into placewhen foreign trainers are brought in to facilitate teacher development [35]. Ministry of Local
technology (3 items), feelings of confidence whenworking independently, online learning, when working in teams, and when challenged (5 items).Finally, seven items from the Student Attitudes Toward STEM Survey ask students about futureacademic plans and personal contacts with individuals working in STEM-related careers.The pre-post intervention survey also includes the six items comprising the Revised ImplicitTheories of Intelligence (Self-Theory) Scale [4]. These items assess the degree to which studentsreport the belief in a growth mindset for intelligence. The items ask students to indicate agreementwith statements about the malleability of a person’s intelligence level, indicative of a growthmindset, using a 6-point Likert scale. The final three
semester, we selected 37 participants to interview based ontheir responses to several open-ended questions (e.g., please describe your educationalbackground) and demographic information. The goal of our sampling plan was to capture storiesof participants from different pathways with varying social identities and life experiences. Ourinitial plan was to obtain a demographically representative sample, however, we ended upslightly oversampling those from minoritized groups and non-traditional students to ensure thatwe were capturing variation in the life experiences of the participants. Of the 37 participants, 28also participated in the second and third interviews during the Autumn 2020 semester and Spring2021 semester, respectively.In accordance
thedepartment interacts with students, and that this is important on a department level.We found that across engineering disciplines there is a different expectation about pursuing anengineering career after graduation. Students pursuing bioengineering, for example, were lesslikely to indicate that they planned to pursue an engineering career, which might be expectedgiven the interest of some bioengineering students to attend medical or dental school.Self-reported stress, anxiety, and depression was found to be high in our study [14], which agreeswith previous work on mental health in college students [5]. However, while we found that theaverage self-reported stress, anxiety, and depression scores of all participants do not differ acrossengineering
ASSETS students spent a significant amount oftime in community college. The program is not for transfer students with only one semester atcommunity college or students who earned advanced community college credits while in highschool. Second, the grant specifically targets STEM transfer students who plan to pursue anon-medical STEM field. If a student mentions that they want to become a medicalprofessional (medical doctor, dentist, etc.), the student is not selected. Third, there are severalother particular cases in which we were not able to accept students. For example, if thestudent’s transfer was delayed from the fall to the spring semester or if they could notparticipate in the ASSETS bootcamp, the students were put on a waitlist.Thus far
easy for the player. Theoverarching analog is the idea that managing a map of space traffic is similar to managing a map of cartraffic on earth. Each car and spacecraft has the probability for a random event to occur, meant to simulatethe spontaneity of road and space travel. Moreover, players must plan the timing of each movement theymake with careful precision. The movements of each car and spacecraft are closely coupled with eachother. All of the aforementioned serve as an introduction to dynamics and controls, an important elementof aerospace engineering, which addresses problems relating to modeling, simulation, and control ofaerospace systems. Analogs are made even more apparent by the use of pop-ups, most of which serve asdirect
addition to thestudents in the program, family members were invited to participate in the activities so that itbecame more of a family affair than simply a student-only program. Twelve students participatedin the program that was remotely delivered over a period of two months. A pre-program survey ofthe participants was performed before the start of the program and a post-program survey wasconducted after the program. Additional details of the program, the surveys, and the measuredlearning outcomes will be presented in this paper along with plans for program expansion.IntroductionPhiladelphia has the highest poverty rate among the largest 10 cities in the country[1]. Reflectiveof the high poverty rate, Philadelphia residents are more likely than
communication and interaction to achieve year 1 projectgoals. COVID-19 prevented only two planned activities: (1) physical tours to local and regionalindustry and governmental employers (who are currently working remotely) and (2) the outreachactivities associated with the Summer Coding & Cyber camps (which were cancelled for summer2020). As the public health situation improves in 2021 and beyond, these activities are expectedto be completed in person. If the COVID-19 restrictions continue, opportunities for virtual toursto industry and governmental employers will be explored.7.0 Conclusion and Future WorkDespite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic and its related restrictions, in year1 of the ACCESS program, the project team
, likely have implications forengineering students’ interest in continuing in engineering and professionals’ plans to stay intheir engineering jobs. Indeed, persons with disabilities are equally likely to enter engineeringmajors, but graduate with engineering degrees at lower rates. Similarly, only 65% of personswith disabilities who have an engineering or science degree are employed in STEM, versus 85%of persons without disabilities [9]. I thus examine students’ and professionals’ intentions to stayin engineering in the future.MethodsEngineering Students: ASEE Diversity & Inclusion SurveyThe ASEE Diversity and Inclusion Survey (ASEE-DIS) includes 1,729 students enrolled in anengineering program in one of eight US colleges or universities. 4 A
programstructure, activities, and timeline, and report on our preliminary findings (gained from surveys andinterviews), successes, and challenges from running the program in the hopes of making this modelaccessible to others interested in exploring it.ISMP Structure, Activities, and TimelineCohort 2 of the ISMP is running from Summer, 2020 through Spring, 2021. We planned to startwith the second cohort of ISMP in Fall of 2020, however we ultimately launched the programearly, in June of 2020, to buffer student disappointment of sweeping, COVID-19 pandemic-relatedsummer internship cancellations.We are facilitating the program using USD’s Torero Employer and Alumni Mentors (TEAM)networking platform, which is run by PeopleGrove (https://www.peoplegrove.com
specific research questions for the overall project are 1. How doesparticipation in the program influence students’ social capital related to pursuing anundergraduate engineering degree and career opportunities? and 2. In what ways do students ondifferent pathways to engineering baccalaureate success gain awareness of, access to, andactively pursue social capital in making decisions to persist in engineering studies and formingcareer plans?This work in progress paper explores a subset of data, specifically those students who wereinvolved in and have complete data available from the first two years of the program. This papermainly speaks to the first research question posed by the project, exploring the question: Howhave students’ engineering
innovations; and diversity in the STEM fields, particularly for women.Dr. Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University Dr. Craig J. Scott received his Ph.D. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Howard University and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He is currently serving as professor and chairper- son of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at one of the nation’s preeminent public urban research institutions, Morgan State University. His career spans over twenty-eight years of progres- sive scholarly experience in such areas as research administration/ implementation, pedagogical inno- vation, international collaboration, strategic planning, promoting community engagement and
as Project Lead the Way [3]. Project Lead theWay is a well-established program providing an engineering-specific curriculum and training tohigh school educators.This program can also be seen as a school-university partnership; however, most partnershipsfocus on teacher professional development. Brady describes that some of these partnershipsinclude supervision and mentoring, collaborative teaching initiatives, action research, jointprofessional development, shared planning, and school enrichment and support [4]. This programis a partnership focused on students.Ultimately, this program is innovative, as it is a university offering a high school class. The courseis unique to the university’s community. The course material is essentially the
Botswana towards sustainable economicgrowth, global competitiveness, and improved quality of life (Atkinson & Mayo, 2010). On October 1st, 2016 Botswana formed the Ministry of Tertiary Education, Research,Science and Technology with the explicitly stated goal of transforming Botswana from aresource-based to a knowledge-based economy. The impetus for such an initiative was set forthin Botswana’s Vision 2036. Set forth in 2016, this new “vision” for Botswana was predicated onthe mapping of a transformative agenda that reflected the aspirations and goals of the nation. Forthis vision to come to fruition it was imperative that Botswana create a strategic plan to help withredefining their resource-based economy to that of a knowledge-based
that are not considered minorities isessential to understand the planning direction for future investment. But many incorporatingfactors make it a very confounding issue and that calls for further studies. Most of the resultsindicate an inevitable role of the co-curricular spaces in the daily activities of students. Forexample, students of the surveyed group responded upon daily usage of the spaces, in which thenewly renovated space is among highly used regularly. The frequent use of the co-curricular areasof the library Annex and Zachry, suggested the interior design and environment in those two placesresemble in different aspects. For instance, both locations have access to coffee shops and studyresources. Also, the results further show the
of the intervention was postponed to the summer semester due to the globalcoronavirus pandemic, so we will describe the planned activity instead. In this phase, each teamexpands their literature review and proposes recommendations for pursuing future design andresearch efforts. These proposed efforts should create value in some way for a stakeholder groupthat is negatively impacted (or not positively impacted) by the current design. Students will writea report quantifying how their proposed improvements could create value for their chosenstakeholder group via changing the dynamics of bias in the situation being modeled.In contrast to Phase 1, where teams wrote for a non-technical audience, students are told to writethis deliverable for a
pretending to be robots, (3) a hands-on station to plan and test routes through the maze, (4) panels with detailed information about different branches of engineering, and (5) an interactive coding video game that a robot should be coded. In this field trip children only interacted with the station number 2 and 5. Puppy Playground is an engineering design activity that 5- to 7-year old children are asked to design a puppy playground for Eva’s puppy. They use the giant foam blocks in the science center to build their playground. To analyze the video recordings, we utilized a coding scheme based on our CT framework. To gain a deep understanding of the competencies, we collectively watched several videos of K-2 aged children engaging in STEM+CT
test sensing and measurement instrumentation circuits that use resistors,capacitors, op-amps, and sensors.Specifically, by the end of the course, the student will be able to:● Use a voltage divider to create a sensing circuit;● Produce a Bode plot and explain the frequency response of a circuit;● Design low-pass, high-pass, and band-pass filters/amplifiers;● Analyze data and transform measured data;● Troubleshoot a circuit.The equipment needed to conduct that labs and some of the p-sets include a computer, an AnalogDiscovery 2 (Digilent, https://store.digilentinc.com/), and 5V power supply circuit board,powered by a USB port of students’ laptop computers. The power supply was designed byBradley Minch (plans and materials list found at https
funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 1744006. The authors aregrateful to the help provided by the following research students at Angelo State University: JesseLee, Maria Ochoa, Austin Poole, Nicholas Manrique and Timmons (TJ) Spies.References[1] ODPM, 2004. The Egan Review: skills for sustainable communities. London: Office of theDeputy Prime Minister.[2] AlWaer, H., R. Bickerton, and R. D. Kirk. 2014. Examining the Components Required forAssessing the Sustainability of Communities in the UK. J Archit Plann Res. 31 (1): 1–26.[3] Male, S. A. 2010. Generic Engineering Competencies: A Review and Modelling Approach.Education Research and Perspectives, 37(1), 25-51.[4] Ritchie, H., Sheppard, A., Croft, N., Peel, D. 2017. Planning
program early, designing a program structure that facilitatesthese planned research goals, and considering participation of undergraduate versus graduatestudents.IntroductionAlthough developing global competence is important for engineering students to be successful inthe globally connected workforce, many students find it challenging to participate in traditionalstudy abroad programs for financial or scheduling reasons [1]. One type of programming thataddresses these concerns is international research experiences, which not only support thedevelopment of students’ global competencies and technical engineering skills [2], but alsoprovide benefits and opportunities for faculty members who coordinate these experiences. Whileresearch has focused on
this step, teams brainstorm andexplore different approaches to dispensing frosting onto the cookie (i.e. knife, frosting bag,frosting syringe, etc.). A prototype, written procedures, and safe food handling plan is thendeveloped to be used for creating cookie sandwiches. The teams are then provided a smallquantity of cookies and frosting in order to perform a test.Prior to the two volunteers performing the assembly test, teams are given ten minutes to train thevolunteers however they see fit. The purpose of utilizing volunteers during the assembly test is tohelp students determine if the procedures are clear, if any assumptions have been made, and ifthey effectively communicated with the volunteers. Oftentimes, teams quickly realized that
understand that only their imagination limits them to using this flexible toolto develop scenarios to test the worthiness of the design project. Stress over and over again thepurpose is not to make a Financial Operational Model to get a value for the Internal Rate of Return,Net Present Value, and Payback time in years. It is to develop scenarios to test the project’sviability, to see potential weaknesses that must be studied further before moving ahead with theproject, and to plan for success. And that is not all. A good Financial Operational Model is a livingdocument. Once the design is built and put in practice, it still has use. It can be modified todetermine upgrades to potential equipment, changes to feed stocks, issues with labor wages
educational psychology studies argued that the study strategies comprise of thestudents’ behaviors related to learning, such as the ability to organize information, planning,motivation, and so on [9], [10]. Also, Graham & Robin [11] considered study strategies as thespecific processes taken by the students to learn a specific topic.Prior studies have researched the relationship between study strategies with students’ academicachievement. For instance, Sangiry and colleagues [12] have studied the different factorsresponsible for the academic achievement of pharmacy students. They found that timemanagement (prioritizing the content for the exam preparation) and study strategies (whilestudying, ability to guess the important questions for the exam
majors. We estimate about 5-10graduating engineers per year out of approximately 100 students currently qualify (or nearlyqualify) for this designation. It is our plan that by creating and promoting this Scholars Program,we will encourage more students to engage in these activities, potentially up to 25-50 students perclass year. To date we’ve had one cohort of nine scholars graduate with the next cohort expectedto complete their requirements this spring.In the rest of this paper we will discuss the history of the program, as well as our experiences todate in administering the program. We are interested in learning how or if this program deepenscultural competency among participants and if the credentialing aspect of the program
were invited to attend. A review of the cohort schedule showed thatapproximately three-quarters of the ENGR 2100 students had schedules that would allow them toattend.Students in ENGR 2100 were invited to participate in a survey related to their study habits (hoursper week in class, studying alone, studying with a group), use of tutoring, used of faculty officehours, and work hours per week. Two forms of the survey were administered, one for the start ofthe semester related to students’ plans for each of the categories and one for the end of thesemester related to their actual time allocation. The pre-semester version of the survey is alsoshown in the Appendix. Students who completed both start- and end-of-semester surveys wereentered into a