Paper ID #39160Quantification of Competencies-based Curricula for Artificial IntelligenceDr. Yufang Jin, The University of Texas at San Antonio Dr. Yu-Fang Jin got her Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida in 2004. After her graduation, she joined the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Currently, she is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UTSA. Her research interest focus on applications of artificial intelligence, interpretation of deep learning models, and engineering education.Mr. Robert Applonie, The University of Texas at San Antonio Robert Applonie received his M.S
. Notwithstanding,the current general education curriculum in Taiwan still lacks engineering and humanitiesintegrated courses specifically designed for the College of Engineering, such as coursesrelated to engineering practice and corresponding cross-cultural socio-political systems. As aresult, students’ learning experiences are like a hodgepodge, lacking effectiveinterdisciplinary learning. Only a few engineering ethics courses are offered by professorsfrom the School of Engineering and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, but theyface human resource, professional, and teaching bottlenecks.Universities in Korea started offering engineering and humanities integrated courses as partof engineering curricula or liberal education around 2000. Like
Paper ID #38816Design and Evaluation of Modules to Teach PLC Interfacing ConceptsDr. Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University Dr. Sheng-Jen (”Tony”) Hsieh is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution and a member of the Graduate Faculty at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. His research interests include automation, robotics, cyber-manufacturing and Industry 4.0; optical/infrared imaging and instrumentation; micro/nano manufacturing; and design of technology for engineering ed- ucation. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation Laboratory at Texas A&M
competency derives from working effectively in diverse and multicultural international environments [7]. Professionalcompetency is best defined by the ability to communicate and work in diverse teams effectively [6]. Colleges are answering the need for global engineers by offering its students various international experiences throughinternships, projects, study abroad and academic exchange, collaborative research projects, service learning projects abroad,and graduate-level international programs [9], [10]. A survey of international engineering programs reported on the types ofprograms available, their challenges, and best practices [11]. Student recruitment, program scaling, and assessment methodsare some of the major challenges faced by these
received her B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Ohio State University in 2017, and her M.S. in Engineering Education Research from the University of Michigan in 2020. As a doctoral candidate in Engineering Education Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Sarah is studying the mental health experiences of engineering graduate students.Dr. Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan Aaron W. Johnson (he/him/his) is an Assistant Professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department and a Core Faculty member of the Engineering Education Research Program at the University of Michigan. He believes in a strong connection between engineering education research and practice, and his research
, some scholarly journal literature,and technical information. It should be noted that while the course enrollment consisted ofundergraduates, individual skill sets and experiences were varied, and that had an impact on theircomfort with information engagement and use. For example, two students in the class were in theprocess of applying to graduate school, and therefore, had more experience with scholarlyjournal literature.As stated above, there were several business research needs addressed in the course, however, wewill only detail one aspect here, which was to help the students identify and define a targetconsumer. It was important for them to do this because they needed to ensure their design wassomething people would eventually buy
Paper ID #40032Measuring the Impact of Extra-/Co-Curricular Participation onProfessional Formation of EngineersDr. Aimee Monique Cloutier, Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyDr. Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Holly Matusovich is the Associate Dean for Graduate and Professional Studies in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education where she has also served in key leadership positions. Dr. Matusovich is recognized for her research and leadership related to graduate student mentoring and faculty development. She won the Hokie Supervisor Spotlight Award in
component of engineering degree programs acrossaccredited engineering universities [1][2]. While the capstone experience may be different foreach university, all projects serve as an opportunity for students to gain practical experience byapplying the many topics learned throughout their undergraduate education, and thereby preparefor work after graduation. The research and design are completed from September to Februarywith several progress presentations and reports throughout. Oral presentations are delivered inMarch and the end-of-project report and presentations are given during the first week of April toother faculty members, students, and industry professionals. Through the end-of-yearpresentations, students are given the opportunity to
Learn., vol. 7, no. 2, Sep. 2013, doi: 10.7771/1541-5015.1339.[6] T. J. Moore, S. S. Guzey, and A. W. Glancy, “The EngrTEAMS Project: STEM Integration Curricula for Grades 4-8 (Curriculum Exchange),” presented at the 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2014, p. 24.1212.1-24.1212.2. Accessed: Feb. 11, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/the-engrteams-project-stem-integration-curricula- for-grades-4-8-curriculum-exchange[7] A. Hira and M. M. Hynes, “Design-based research to broaden participation in pre-college engineering: research and practice of an interest-based engineering challenges framework,” Eur. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 44, no. 1–2, pp. 103–122, Mar. 2019, doi: 10.1080
liberal arts university in Pakistan - and joined full-time as an assistant professor after his graduation and taught courses in engineering design, manufacturing, and thermodynamics; and oversaw the design and manufacturing workshop. After teaching for almost two years, Abdullah moved to the University of Oxford where, in addition to researching ways to adapt the internal combustion engine for a carbon-free mobility future, he tutors courses in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics in the Department of Engineering Science and is a Research Associate at Balliol College.Dr. Abdul Basit Memon, Habib University Dr. Abdul Basit Memon is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Habib University, a
such knowledge to identify potential schools for graduate study. (5) Students should be encouraged to attend conferences in their field. This is another way to make the student feel part of a community and show the student best practices in research and presentation.ConclusionsWhile this study includes all disciplines in the cohort, mentoring in the context of research iscritical for all disciplines, especially for engineering students. These mentoring practicesenhance oral and written skills and knowledge of career opportunities while connecting facultywith students on a personal level; all skills that prepare students in ways that a traditionalclassroom setting cannot do. Additionally, the interactions between students of
, and/or mentorship to navigate the graduate admissions andfunding processes. Unfortunately, the research and practice communities know very little aboutthe transition of low-income students from smaller institutions to graduate study at R1 institutions.To answer these questions and to build inter-organizational partnerships with other S-STEMs, weare planning to host a virtual summit, called the Supporting S-STEM Graduate TrajectoriesSummit with S-STEM leaders and relevant stakeholders supporting undergraduate students in theirengineering formation to identify pinch points for universities and student support offices inhelping students prepare, apply, and be competitive for acceptance into graduate school, withsupport of an S-STEM Hub
Engineering Scholars.Prof. Rob Twardock, College of Lake County Rob Twardock is an engineering professor at College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois since 2000. Rob is a graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineer- ing. He worked as a consulting engineer in Michigan and Illinois for 10 years prior to starting to teach at Mt. Hood Community College in 1998. Rob is the Co-Department Chair of Engineering Transfer and teaches all lower division engineering courses offered. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Incorporating Makerspace Design and Fabrication Activities Into Engineering Design
in the Public Policy Center, and director of the Center for Research on Undergraduate Education at the University of Iowa. His research uses a social psychological lens to explore key issues in higher education, including student success, diversity and equity, admissions, rankings, and quantitative research methodology. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Systems Engineering Initiative for Student Success (SEISS) Framework for Transforming Organizational Designs Arunkumar Pennathur1*, Priyadarshini Pennathur1, Emily Blosser2, Nicholas Bowman3 1 Department of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso
those with complex trauma [20], [21] and should be part of any program aiming tosupport URM students. Future surveys and evidence of intern work can help qualify and quantifywhich of these elements may be impactful to URM students.This case study of a high school summer research internship adds to the evidence that researchinternship experiences contribute to STEM interest and identity. However, the data here revealthat interviewing parents can give additional details on home STEM talk and can supply crucialevidence of early family STEM recognition, a powerful element in the development STEMidentity. This study also indicates a role for parental involvement in the design of STEM highschool research experiences, as their participation may
preference for either AE or RO and then for either CE or AC.In the summer of 2022, an engineering research project was undertaken by two undergraduatestudents, a professor and a mentor who is a senior-level practicing engineer. The researchproject focused on development of a strategy to inform engineering designers of the benefits, ordrawbacks, of engaging in either digital prototyping or physical prototyping (or both). Theproject was funded by industry and the college. The project ran for a ten-week summer session,but then continued after that in a less aggressive manner. That prototyping oriented researchproject functions as the testbed for the Kolb Method research reported on here. The initial ideafor this Kolb Method work was highlighted as part
: Using Workshops to Scaffold InterdisciplinaryResearch, Collaboration, and Community BuildingAbstractCo-creation in academe can take multiple forms. In this research, the co-creation focus is oncollaboration between faculty and graduate students to develop educational modules. Thisactivity is designed to improve graduate education and prepare students for conducting graduateresearch. In previous work presented at ASEE 2022, we discussed benefits and challenges ofparticipating in the co-creation process. This current paper focuses on how we took lessons fromour first year and transformed them into a structure to better support interdisciplinary research,collaboration, and community building.We will discuss how we supported the process of co
in industry, ABET, and the National Research Council for reform in the wayengineering graduates are trained. Product Design and Development project spine courses arefashioned to allow students to work in teams while solving ill-structured problems that may havemultiple “correct” solutions and undefined constraints that influence the choice of solution.Students and faculty alike adopt a mindset that favors product development in their classroomsand their work practice. At South Dakota Mines we have found: § Stronger integration of product development into project and non-project classes § Faculty culture change toward more active learning techniques to engage students § Improved student outcomes (e.g., content knowledge, self
his research focused on codesign with rural communities on the construction and optimization of water storage. Patrick’s Ph.D. research efforts focused on the impacts of Humanitarian Engineering with an emphasis on Engineering Education and development of student intercultural competency and pedagogical approaches.Cherish Vance, The Ohio State UniversityTylesha D. Drayton, The Ohio State University Tylesha D. Drayton, EIT is pursuing a PhD as a graduate student in the Engineering Education Department at The Ohio State University. She earned a BS in Civil Engineering, a MS degree in Environmental Engineering, and a MS degree in Engineering and Public ©American Society for Engineering
education and practice and has been working in the areas of innovation, leadership development, inclusion, ethics, and, faculty development leveraging design research and mixed methods approaches.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Swarthmore College Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education andDr. Helen L. Chen, Swarthmore College Helen L. Chen is a research scientist in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical En- gineering at Stanford University. She has been involved in several major engineering education
of personal engagementswith citizens of the country. This system understanding enabled the student’s ability to assessand update system complexity as research and engagements were conducted. It exemplifies theadult learning, or andragogical [12] approach needed to understand a complex system and itassists the student and faculty mentor in shared understanding of how best to apply ideationtechniques and EM methods in follow on efforts. (Figure 2: Example Systems Diagram for an Engineering/Technical Problem on Green Energy)Framing the problem for evaluation of design alternatives is enabled through detailed functionaldecomposition and value modeling. Figure 3 is one example of a larger value model treeconducted by a student studying informal
Paper ID #38908Empowering Faculty Members through Mooc in Techno-Pedagogical Con-tentDr. K.S.A. Dinesh Kumar, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chennai, India Dr. K. S. A. Dinesh Kumar, M. E., Ph.D. is presently Professor of Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research (NITTTR) Chennai, Government of India. He has coordinated more than 150 training programmes for National participants and 06 International programmes in the area of Technology Enabled Teaching Learning, Student Assessment and Evaluation, Instructional Design and Delivery system
students to interact directly with high schoolteachers and assist in designing research-focused curriculum to motivate and excite students into pursuingSTEM careers. A multi-level mentoring experience was created by pairing the RET participants with theREU students, faculty mentors and graduate students. RET participants joined 4 weeks before the end ofthe program. RET welcoming events were added to foster inclusion into the research environment. Onesuch event, REU science chalk talks, enabled both groups to ask and answer questions, creating a uniquebond. Teachers were learning from the REU students which reinvigorated learning and teachingexperiences for all. The program achieved its overarching goals with noticed improved mentoring
-based approaches to understanding this population. Dina is interested in understanding how first-generation college students author their identities as engineers and negotiate their multiple identities in the current culture of engineering. Dina has won several awards including the 2022-2023 Outstanding Research Publication Award by the American Educational Research Asso- ciation (AERA) Division I, 2018 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Best Diversity Paper Award, 2019 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award and the Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Distinguished Scholar Award. Dina’s dissertation pro- posal was selected as part of the top 3 in the 2018
. As a rising engineering education scholar, she aims to use her research to provide tools to design more inclusive and supportive learning spaces for students from diverse backgrounds.Jameka Wiggins, The Ohio State University Jameka Wiggins is a graduate student at The Ohio State University, pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Ed- ucation with a specialization in Organizational Change in Higher Education and Industry and a Master’s in Engineering Management. As a scholar and advocate, she seeks to amplify the voices of underrepre- sented groups in engineering by exploring their experiences, encouraging student and faculty engagement through critical questioning, and supporting these groups both personally and
an adjunct professor of Microbiology at a Hispanic-serving community college in Miami, Florida. As an educator, they utilized equitable teaching practices and encouraged student agency to ensure positive learning outcomes. Their doctoral research focuses on so- cial responsibility in science and engineering, with special emphasis placed on the importance of science communication and policy advocacy. They are also interested in the intersection of institutional culture and transformational change towards cultivating more inclusive and equitable access for underrepresented minority students in STEM fields. Outside of their research, they are the President of the Policy Advocacy in Science and Engineering (PASE
Paper ID #39604Team dynamics and cultural competency in a first-year engineeringclassroomDr. Jutshi Agarwal, University of Cincinnati Jutshi Agarwal is a Post Doctoral Fellow with the Department of Engineering and Computng Education at the University of Cincinnati. She has a Doctoral degrree in Engineering Education and a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from University of Cincinnati, and a Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from SRM University, India. Her research areas of interest are graduate student professional development for a career in academia, preparing future faculty, and using AI tools to solve
training required. Thestudy's restriction to faculty, alumni, and recruiters at a business school in southern Californiawas acknowledged by the authors as a study drawback. They suggested conducting moreresearch to see if there are any potential discrepancies in issues similar to those raised in thecurrent study [29].The previous studies have confirmed that there is a gap between engineering education andindustrial practices and skills. Much of this gap can be attributed to the lack of the engineeringfaculty's industrial experience, as most universities focus on research [16]. Other reasons for thisgap can be related to differences in the way of thinking and differences in their goals andobjectives, as academics strive for recognition from their
) workplaces. The RAB decides the themesbased on recent scholarship, interests of the community, and current events. Forexample, the RAB selected the 2019 theme of identity-based harassment given acombination of new reports on sex- and gender- based harassment released by theNational Academies, the #MeToo movement, and the dearth of literature consideringharassment from an intersectional perspective, for example, by looking at gender-based harassment in tandem and intertwined with race-based harassment ratherthan in isolation from one another.These two-day workshops are designed to engage participants in facilitated discussionson current research and practice, identify areas of synergy and unanswered questions,and then prioritize where additional or
Engineering at Penn State. Their work focuses on grid-interactive building controls. They are passionate about undergraduate engineering education and research.Baraa J. AlkhatatbehLorine Awuor Ouma ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Energizing High School Students Towards Building Design: A Summer Camp Experience Architectural Engineering (AE) is a critical engineering major for the future of building designgiven how important buildings impact our everyday lives as well as our environment. However, the majorof AE is comparatively small and relatively unknown as compared to other majors like civil engineeringand mechanical engineering. It has been shown in the pre-college literature that the