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seen asa field that is reserved for those who can endure the tough courses. At the same time, the realitiesand lived experiences of students of color such as around microaggressions and dailydiscrimination are neglected. There is an “unquestioned assumption” that knowledge inengineering is race- and gender- free [57]. There seems to be no recognition of theethnocentricity of the curriculum and the accepted epistemologies. Although students of colorare “holders and creators of knowledge” [68, p. 106] and contribute to the engineering field, thisknowledge differs from the perceived “bourgeois norms” in engineering.Classical engineering education philosophy situates engineering as a field where the ways ofthinking, doing and being are
withthe CSF framework would enhance our ability to mentor students to feel more confident abouttheir ability to contribute to their teams, value the talents of their teammates, and avoiddefaulting to stereotypical roles. For our Engineering students we work to instill anunderstanding of the CSF Strengths as natural talents. From this position of personal strength allstudents develop the required engineering skills, as defined through the lens of the ABET a-klearning outcomes. As each student possesses unique strengths, they will find a unique path tomastering the skills required for engineering practice. Figure 1: Strengths poster displayed in department commons.We were motivated to integrate Strengths into our Curriculum
trying an hour of programming by using their one-hourtutorials. Many projects target middle school including CS Unplugged [24] and some projects arefocused on a specific discipline like integrating math with computing at the K-12 level [26].In [15], a summer camp curriculum was presented where the students were taught appdevelopment using App Inventor and later introduced to Java. However, this camp’s focus was toteach app development (not programming only) in a particular platform to high school studentsonly. Even though they have found the camp to be successful in using APP Inventor andtransitioning to Java, their curriculum followed traditional learning techniques and most of theirstudents already had prior Java experience which played a
) non-diegetic, (b) moderately diegetic, and (c) completelydiegetic ways to present a player with educational elements in a game.Discussion of these levels leads to two approaches for incorporating diegesis in educationalgames. The first is to have goals of gameplay that are inseparable from the goals of the learningtask. In this scenario, the player completes the learning task as they play the game. This iscompletely diegetic and the most immersive and engaging. However, especially whendeveloping STEM educational games, there are a variety of problems that may not have goalsthat are easy to integrate with gameplay goals. In this case, it is necessary to combine diegeticelements with non-diegetic element to create an engaging experience. There
learning and instruction. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Industry-based Case Studies for an Online Graduate Certificate Wind Energy ProgramAbstract— This project involved the addition of practical, real world, experiences for online GraduateCertificate in Wind Energy students via case study based problems developed in cooperation withwind industry partners. Overall, five case studies were developed and integrated across three coursesoffered in Summer 2016, Fall 2016, and Spring 2017. A qualitative study employing focus groupsgathered feedback from the students in these courses. The students reported learning from and beingmotivated by the inclusion of the
(such as branch statements and functions) will beintroduced in similarly slow and step-by-step fashion, and early on during the curriculum.Students will still learn about binary representations of numbers and characters; but rather thanfront-loading the curriculum with these topics, they will be introduced in places where they canpresent an “aha” moment. For example, once students have experienced the results of integerdivision, the binary representation of integers will be introduced in order to explain theunexpected observed behavior. Once students have seen that counting (integers) up by 1’s willeventually yield a negative number, the binary 2’s complement will be introduced. And oncethey have experienced round-off errors with decimal
must deliver upper-level microcontroller/microprocessor curriculum content have reliedon producing component level skills and aptitudes in the students. It matches well with the subjectmatter and presentation of knowledge in textbooks. Reliance on developing electronics and computercomponent level knowledge to the exclusion of other knowledge has its critics [1].Broadly said, this work addresses, in part, the program's electronics and computing faculty concern thatthe program must make room for "timely content" in our semester lengthmicrocontroller/microprocessor curriculum. It must reach for a theme that could not be reached bysimply gluing component skills together. It must exercise “integrating skills” helpful to success insenior projects
exposure to ROS tostudents who possess the requisite Linux, Python and/or C++ skillset. In order to integrate ROSmore fully into the curriculum, and across engineering disciplines, another approach is needed.In 2015, MATLAB released the Robotics System Toolbox which provides a ROS interface andassociated robotics algorithms and tools. This MATLAB product enables engineering students,especially in an introductory course, to more easily communicate with any ROS-enabled robotsfrom standard Windows OS and/or Mac OS workstations running MATLAB. The advantage ofthis MATLAB solution is to provide students with a more intuitive and interactive programmingenvironment, visualization tools, and easy integration of other MATLAB toolboxes such ascomputer
NSF INCLUDES Mississippi Alliance for Women in Computing (MSAWC), partnering with stakeholders throughout the southern US to leverage, strengthen, and create awareness of existing programs and create new programs for young women in computing. Sarah holds a BS in Business Administration and Computer Information Systems from the Mississippi University for Women and a master’s degree in computer science from MSU. She earned her PhD in computer science from the University of Memphis.Ms. Litany H Lineberry, Mississippi State UniversityDr. Jessica Ivy, Mississippi State Universitt Dr. Jessica Ivy is an Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at Mississippi State University. Her research focuses on the integration
CoE see theirstudents after three to five years beyond graduation? To better address this question for anotherABET visit in six years, CoE intends to enrich its program curriculum and equip students withadditional skills by incorporating an entrepreneurial mindset.In September 2017, the College of Engineering (CoE) decided to embed entrepreneurial skills inengineering learning activities for a number of courses throughout the program curriculum,requiring an efficient and integrated process. By incorporating EML in different coursesequences such as circuits, electronic design, and communications systems, students will havethe opportunity to develop and build up their entrepreneurial mindset.The CoE already offers elements of systems thinking
Paper ID #24082Establishing an Engineering Core – What Does Every Engineer Need to Know,Particularly About Systems Engineering?Dr. Devanandham Henry, Regent University Dr. Devanandham (Deva) Henry is an assistant professor at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia where he leads the systems engineering program. Previously, he was a research engineer with the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) at Stevens Institute of Technology. He has supported the develop- ment of Systems Readiness Levels, Graduate Software Engineering Reference Curriculum, the GUide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK), and
University for five years. In 2010, she was hired as an external evaluator to conduct research on community/university partnership relations at the University of Cincinnati. She has received several awards including the: 1) UW College of Education outstanding research award (2015); 2) UW College of Education outstanding service award (2016); and 3) Honored College of Education Faculty at Fall Convocation (2017). Her research interests include partnerships within pre-service and in-service teachers in STEM Education with a focus on engineering education and integrated STEM. An active mem- ber of AERA, ASEE, ASTE, NARST, and NSTA, Dr. Burrows has presented at numerous conferences, published in ranked journals (e.g. Journal
thinking because it involves an integration of several engineeringdisciplines. Topics in this course included control, actuation, wireless, signal transmission andanalog to digital conversion. Rahnavard’s robot was different from other educational robots because it was possible toaccess all of the components through the low-level integration, which is different from most robots,which have a high-level integration of components and software control. Students would haveaccess to signals on the robot that could be measured with standard equipment. The robot partsincluded discrete electrical, electronics, and integrated circuit elements. The robot has two analogcommands for velocity and direction, six digital commands, and analog data that can
computerassisted virtual environment (CAVE) EON Icatcher and EON Professional integrated developmentenvironment (IDE) software. Two groups of graduate students enrolled in the course for twoconsecutive years provided feedback through surveys, discussions, and informal interviews.Students gained practical experience with designing VR systems and VR environments,appreciated the labs, and were excited about their VR projects.IntroductionThe demand for new knowledge content is high in engineering education practice at the graduatelevel. It is expected that the graduate courses lead, or at least reflect, the current state oftechnological developments and scientific discoveries. To stay competitive and current,curriculum designers are under constant pressure to
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capability to recreate virtual versions of themajority of teaching laboratories in STEM fields, including manipulating objects, interactingwith realistic virtual versions of real equipment, creating visual and audio feedback based on thetheoretical parameters and the student’s inputs as well as generating realistic data from theexperiment. Incorporating VR labs into a traditional lab sequence will allow students to interactwith equipment not available at the institution and allow students to shift into an inquiry-basedinvestigation experimental techniques and practices safely. This first study into the effectivenessof VR experiments as perceived by the participants (students) has shown that utilizing VR labs ina traditional STEM curriculum is
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open courses (MOOCs) provide a number of modern offerings; for example, EdXprovides an offering of Valvano’s embedded systems course [7] and Coursera offers an ARMand a TI MSP 430 course [8]. However, both courses offer large, weekly programming projectsrather that small exercises integrated with the instruction. In contrast, the approach introduced inthis paper relies on the use of small, low-stakes assessments and exercises to enable the studentto quickly determine what they don’t yet know, then review the missing information.To fill this gap, the Runestone Interactive platform [3] provides a set of tools for creating interac-tive textbooks, with a focus on in-browser execution of (JavaScript-emulated) Python, a popularprogramming language
Associate Professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. She has a PhD in English Literature (Science Fiction) from Louisiana State University (2007), an MA in English from Montana State University, and a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. At LSU, Jennifer was part of the Communication Across the Curriculum (CxC) and worked in the Engineering Communication Studio. Jennifer has published articles in The Leading Edge, Carbon, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Foundation.Dr. Alicia Domack, Milwaukee School of Engineering I am associate professor and chair of the Humanities, Social Science, and Communication department at MSOE. I am also the IRB Director at MSOE. My background is in Developmental
differ byrace, X2(4, N = 246) = 0.000, p > .05 and we accept the H1 hypothesis as true that ‘the reportedlevels of RMA are different for women of color and other females’ studying engineering. Also,were calculated the correlations for all the scales and sub-scales. Interestingly, the elevated PHQscores were correlated with microaggressions [r (243) = .22, p < .01]. This relationship will befurther explored in the individual interviews.Based on the correlations, engineering identity was related to the internalization sub-scale of theWIAS. The internalization level is an indication that a women has integrated a personallydefined positive view of womanhood into their identity despite cultural norms or the antitheticalpositions of the women 20
is most effective when it reflects an understanding of learning as multidimensional, integrated, and revealed in performance over time. Formative assessment across the software application development process is intentionally integrated into the project. Each learning objective is addressed by at least two means of assessment. 3. Assessment works best when the programs it seeks to improve have clear, explicitly stated purposes. As the first-year students are still developing programmers, opportunities for formative assessment feedback are placed at critical points in the design process. 4. Assessment requires attention to outcomes but also and equally to the experiences that lead to those outcomes. Kolb’s
responses to this climatesurvey, was highlighted as an aspect of the culture of engineering education in Godfrey andParker’s [61] ethnographic study. They found that “the shared hardship was likened to a bootcamp mentality seen as binding students into a shared identity” (p. 12). This “shared identity”may help students feel a sense of belonging. There may be ways to promote these academic andsocial benefits of peer relations within the classroom or curriculum. For example, Meeuwisseand colleagues’ [26] found that more cooperative learning environments had a positive impact onstudents’ formal and informal interactions with peers and faculty, which in turn had a positiveimpact on students’ sense of belonging.Ong and colleagues [6] described a
additionalscenarios was demonstrated by a student defining the problem as, ‘providing electricitywhenever and wherever electricity is not available’. This empirical evidence was collectedthrough content analysis, and cognitive processes of experts, as heuristics are based on collectedpast experiences and difficult to verbalize.Heuristics in instructional designFrom an instructional and curriculum design perspective, the use of heuristics can prove valuableas behavioral research shows that experts utilize heuristics effectively, which distinguishes themfrom novices23. Evidence suggests that expert instructional designers use heuristics whendesigning new or revising instructional systems5,24,25. A Delphi study conducted by York andErtmer5 examined previous
individual diversity(i.e. breadth of experience of an individual) of both faculty and students. Foor et al.63 alsorecommend faculty to pay attention to “us” and “them” classroom dynamics that are establishedas a result of “capital differences” among diverse students and to be aware that students withaverage grades can also excel as engineers. In general, Foor et al.63 insist that faculty must makeunder-represented students feel “more welcome” in engineering colleges. Thus faculty cancertainly help students develop the critically required social capital29 and cultural wealth26.Insight 2: Research-based instructional strategies influence academic integration of all thestudents, more so of women. Faculty members use of research-based
Paper ID #22662Second Year of Using the Sidekick Basic Kit for TI LaunchPad with Elemen-tary School StudentsMs. Tara N. Kimmey, Colorado STEM Academy 5th/6th grade teacher in Westminster, Colorado. She earned her Bachelor’s of Science in Liberal Studies from Longwood University in 2011 with a concentration in Elementary Education. She then went on to earn her Master’s of Science in Curriculum and Instruction in Special Education K-12 in 2012.Dr. Cameron H. G. Wright P.E., University of Wyoming Cameron H. G. Wright, Ph.D., P.E., is a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer En- gineering at the University of
, he was a science educator at Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS). Dr. Spiegel also served as Director of Research & Development for a multimedia development company and as founding Director of the Center for Integrating Research & Learning (CIRL) at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University. Under Dr. Spiegel’s leadership, the CIRL matured into a thriving Center recognized as one of the leading National Science Foundation Laboratories for activities to pro- mote science, mathematics, and technology (STEM) education. While at Florida State University, Dr. Spiegel also directed an award winning teacher enhancement program for middle grades science teachers, entitled
Paper ID #21811Technology Enhanced Pre-Calculus Classrooms (Work in Progress)Dr. Melissa Danforth, California State University, Bakersfield Melissa Danforth is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at CSUB. Dr. Danforth was the PI for a NSF Federal Cyber Service grant (NSF- DUE1241636) to create models for information assurance education and outreach. Dr. Danforth was the Project Director for a U.S. Department of Education grant (P031S100081) to create engineering pathways for students in the CSUB service area. She is the co-PI for an NSF IUSE grant for STEM
Paper ID #23625Assessing Engineering Disciplines with Expected Success for Females in SaudiArabiaDr. Ahmed M. El-Sherbeeny, King Saud University Ahmed M. El-Sherbeeny is an assistant professor at the Industrial Engineering department (since 2010) and head of the Alumni and Employment Unit (since 2013) at the College of Engineering, King Saud University. He completed both his PhD (2006) and Master’s (2001) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University (WVU), where he was a graduate teaching and research assistant. He holds a BSME from the American University in Cairo (AUC, 1998). El-Sherbeeny’s research
Paper ID #23982A Low-cost Affordable Viscometer Design for Experimental Fluid ViscosityVerification and Drag Coefficient CalculationMr. Joseph Michael Derrick, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis I am a young professional engineer who has graduated from Purdue University in Indianapolis with a masters in Mechanical Engineering. It should also be noted that I also received my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from there as well. My graduate studies was focused in thermal/fluid sciences and sys- tems/controls. Currently, my interests lie in aerospace applications with an emphasis in space propulsion and