widespread, large-scale change to improve equity and supportcultures of inclusion in engineering. This is a case study of a 5-year organizational change effortwithin a Hispanic Serving Institution. The computer science department emphasized the use ofcontinuous improvement as a strategy for engaging faculty in change processes and departmentalpolicy. We offer the theoretical framing of Kezar’s model for developing student supportstructures using four mechanisms for change, and provide recommendations based on theexperience of one University of Texas at El Paso.Theoretical FrameworkDrawing from the current state of the research on higher education organizational change inundergraduate STEM reform efforts, an underlying premise of the theory of change
an opportunity to reinforce the classroom lessons on solar energy and toapply it in a real-life situation using the same equipment as in large scale solar installations thatare becoming more prevalent across the world. Students worked with suppliers andmanufacturers to acquire equipment and testing supplies, troubleshoot devices, and to betterunderstand how solar power is harnessed in large scale operations. The students came-up withtesting scenarios to test different aspects of the system, and designed a system that could testmany different variables including panel orientation, battery charging algorithm, and chargecontroller configuration. The team was given a maximum budget of $3,000 to spend on allaspects of the system, which include
ETD 505gain hands- on engineering experience and can benefit their credentials when entering into theengineering workforce.The many team members of the MTSU Solar Boat program have faced individual and team-related challenges during the process of completing the solar boat, but in learning efficientproblem-solving techniques, they have come up with a myriad of creative solutions. Throughoutthe time participating in the Solar Splash competition, the teams have come up with manycreative shortcuts for implementing a new design. In more recent years, MTSU Solar Boat teamshave incorporated an innovative drivetrain system. The drivetrain system helps to supportsteering and provides adjustable trim. Another addition is the hull, which was
systematically. A big focus of my thinking lately is on what the “broader impacts” I wantmy research to have one day. I know it is a typical-NSF buzzword, but I do want my work to havethe long-term and compounding effects that make large-scale change.R4: I am reaching my goals for gender equity by encouraging male faculty members to viewwomxn’s struggles in STEM from a different perspective. I am supporting womxn and individualswith other gender identities to identify faculty mentors that can serve as role models in STEM,since mentoring is key for retaining students in STEM [21]. I would prioritize the examination ofmentorship in prospective faculty teaching statements to identify individuals who will support allstudents pursuing a degree in
have come to realize, engineering work is not done inisolation. Rather, the engineering needs of the future are socio-technical, relying on more thantechnical prowess and demanding the input of diverse stakeholders and expertise. In response,engineering educators have increasingly recognized both holistic engineering design techniques,like human-centered design, and professional skills development of engineering students arecritical for engineering students to learn [3]. In recent years, engineering programs andengineering education research have seen a proliferation of works focused on developingstudents’ capacity to work on teams, communicate effectively, manage projects, etc. These typesof skills and the need to address socio-technical
Business School, and a Stanford Certified Project Manager (SCPM) certificate from Stanford Center for Professional Devel- opment. Michael often represents Boeing internationally and domestically as a speaker - presenter and has authored multiple patents on Computer-Aided Design and Computer-Aided Manufacturing and has published a book on nano science and multiple papers in lead journals addressing topics in large scale system integration and learning sciences.Mr. Fabian Zender, Georgia Institute of Technology Fabian Zender obtained his Undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in May of 2012. He is currently working towards completing the requirements for a PhD in
again were themain learning tool. Others provided helpful comments on some of the project deliverables (e.g.,user and technical documentation, status reports, etc.). Finally, one of the students helpedorganize a tour of Microsoft where a panel of program managers and developers gave shortpresentations and answered questions. At the time of this writing, our host has graciously agreedto provide a similar experience to the current class too.Guest feedback came primarily in verbal form, and was provided during the respective classsessions. In several notable cases the experts willingly engaged students additionally by postingfollow-up emails to the class mailing list as well as by individually mentoring some of themafterwards.The main measure of
and collaboration with others cuts across mental and physical health and he has done research on HIV/AIDS, depression, serious mental illness, child- hood diarrhea and acute respiratory illnesses, obesity and complementary and alternative medicine. Ryan has worked extensively in Latin America and Africa on health-related issues and helped redesign and implement a large-scale education reform in Qatar.Dr. Gery W. Ryan, Gery Ryan is Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and core faculty at the Pardee RAND Graduate School where he teaches policy analysis and methods courses and mentors graduate students. Trained as a med- ical anthropologist, Ryan has conducted research on decision-making processes, ethnographies of
Diversity in Technical Education: The Importance of Building Technical Capital ............ 294Assessment of Team Projects in an Electrical Power Systems Course ......................................................... 305Experience from a Faculty Exchange Program: Student Success Lessons from Cal Poly StateUniversity ............................................................................................................................................................................. 309Microhydro for Rural Electrification as a Learn-By-Doing and Multidisciplinary Project: LessonsLearned
Cockburn2,3.The course has involved requirements, preliminary design, and then a sequence of two weekiterations in which detailed design, implementation, integration, and testing were all performed.During the 2010-2011 academic year, the computer and software engineering capstone designproject included a pair of mini-projects to introduce students to the agile process. The first mini-project involved creating a client-server software system in which data could be written on onecomputer and displayed on another. For the second mini-project, the students had to program amicrocontroller to communicate remotely with a computer terminal. A graphical user interfaceon the terminal allowed the user to send commands to the microcontroller to enable/disable
reviewers.While the EPICS program has strived to develop common tools, they have been implementedslightly differently by different advisors. Some advisors have tried to tie the expecteddeliverables to a formula to eliminate as much subjectivity as possible. One problem with that isthat these teams have begun to think about the formulas rather than meeting the customer’sneeds. A visible sign of this bias is in the projects the students design. In teams with formulas,there is a tendency to produce one or at most two semester projects because a deliverable to thecustomer factors in each semester. One of the important aspects of EPICS is that the curricularstructure allows for projects that are large scale and significance. Such projects often takemultiple
. Also the inclusion of the business(particularly market research) exacerbated the serial dependencies that can exist ininterdisciplinary design projects, i.e., one team’s progress on hold until it receives the workproducts of another. Specific lessons learned from analyzing the difficulties encountered in thisarea include: Page 22.1037.12 • Plan projects with no more than four disciplines. Although a single project involving all disciplines is resource-efficient and may mirror the real world, the potential for serial dependencies between subteams grows exponentially with the number disciplines. The central pedagogical
. TheRobotics program might introduce a module called “Ethics of AI in Academia” at the semester'sstart to discuss acceptable practices thoroughly.Integrating GenAI into the curriculum can enhance the learning experience when approachedthoughtfully. Students suggest that instructors incorporate GenAI into demonstrations orassignments, guided by clear pedagogical objectives. For example, in a robotics programmingcourse, an instructor could use ChatGPT to generate a function and test it in real-time on a robotsimulator, showcasing both successes and failures. This method captivates student interest whileteaching valuable lessons on the iterative process of using AI-generated code. In writing-intensivecomponents, such as project reports, instructors may
https://wmich.edu/electrical-computer/electrical-objectivesTable V: Sample Program Educational Objectives (PEOs) (Electrical/Electronic EngineeringPrograms)3) Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs): It is not uncommon to utilize the PLOs or SOs thatare mandated by the respective accreditation organization verbatim in toto. Some authors havereported that their accreditation organization more or less standardizes their instructional practices(things such as the textbook that must be followed; the lesson plan that must be followed; etc.)to a large extent (e.g., NCAAA in KSA). In some cases, some additional outcomes are added.Washington Accord (WA) recommends a set of 12 Graduate Attributes (GA)3 —see Table VI—which have been adopted in many places
to come together and chat with avery limited agenda. We host a coffee chat and a workshop or lightning talk each month of thesemester and a pre-semester work-in before each semester. The most common topics in theseevents are facilitating teamwork, improving inclusivity and belonging, preparing instructionalstaff, and sharing lessons learned when the unexpected happens in a lab. In each section below,we summarize the key takeaways and helpful resources we have collected related to each ofthese four areas to share with other laboratory instructors. Table 1 - CoP Organizing Team Demographics and BackgroundTitle, Race Gender Years of Teaching Types of Lab and DesignDepartment
possible and may be used to improve the existing braking systems. However, thissystem, as built, cannot achieve the performance required by the current braking standards. Besides the major milestones and project design, we will describe the lessons learned and assessmentof this project throughout the academic year. The educational impact of such project is assessed as well,focusing on the interdisciplinary nature of the approach.1. Introduction 1.1. Educational Context Capstone projects are a graduation requirement for our Engineering Technology program at DrexelUniversity. The capstone course sequence consists of 3 quarter-based courses, 3 credits each course, thatstudent need to complete during their senior year. During these
of bias,increase a sense of agency, and ultimately empower students.1. IntroductionGiven clear evidence of disparities in educational attainment, much importance has been placedon increasing use of inclusive teaching to help close this so-called achievement gap [1]–[4]. Inscience, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines, deliberate inclusive practicemay reduce the “leaving” phenomenon where those underrepresented amongst STEM majorssuch as women and minoritized racial groups would otherwise fail to complete their STEMdegree program [5]–[7]. For example, active learning has been shown to improve learning gainsand reduce failure rates especially among underrepresented minority (URM) students [2].Similarly, current recommendations
. Sadri specializes in resilience engineering, evacuation modeling, shared mobility, social influence modeling, machine learning, agent-based modeling, and network modeling. Dr. Sadri’s research is currently funded by National Science Foundation (NSF), United States Department of Transportation (USDOT), Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Dr. Sadri’s previous research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP), and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Mr. Khondhaker Al Momin, University of Oklahoma Khondhaker Al Momin is a senior lecturer in
“Changing the Conversation,” 2008, National Academy Press, Committee on Public Understanding of EngineeringMessages, http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12187Create a culture in engineering colleges that welcomes women. Successful female engineeringmajors have typically “fit in with the guys”. Until faculty and student peers welcome womenalong with their femininity, symbolized by the sorority girl wearing pink, capable young womenwill continue to reject engineering rather than redefine or reject their sense of self.Integrate successful retention models. Some retention efforts were identified as having positiveimpacts including cohort registration, mentoring, living-learning communities, high-qualityacademic advising services, undergraduate
engineering students. The integration and socialization of individual faculty have consequences on the students' engineering education and programs, which affects the thriving of students on an institutional level [58] Systems of support at the meso-level, including relationships with peers, professors, minority networks, and professional development organizations affect an individual’s thriving [57] Institutions implementing professional development workshops & programs increases the confidence, communication skills, and strengthens students’ engineering identities [39] Institutions can provide greater access to university resources and academic
22.1363.6respectively, and some 347, 25, and 17 peer-reviewed articles using Web of Science® [retrievedAugust 16, 2010].It should be noted that memory of past accidents and their lessons learned are not only encodedin education, but they are often “institutionalized”, in building codes for example orOccupational Health and Safety regulations. As a result, instilling the memory of past accidentsand their lessons learned in engineering students can be seen as serving the function of diversityin redundancy (where memory resides and who recalls and exercises it) to help to avoid a repeatof similar accidents. Teaching engineering students about accident causation and system safetycan serve to complement and reinforce institutionalized safety requirements, and it
Enduring Engineering Education Built on the Basics and Reinforced throughPractical Problem Solution .......................................................................................................... 369A Proposed Grand Challenges Scholars Program in the Lyles College of Engineering ............... 376Expanding the Community College Engineering Educational Pipeline through CollaborativePartnerships ................................................................................................................................ 381Engaging Community College Students in Engineering Research through Design andImplementation of a Cyber-Physical System for Myoelectric-Controlled Robot Car ................. 394Visual Learning Tool for Teaching
on thephase of the innovation process under consideration. For example, if we are studying anentrepreneurial team engaged in concept generation, then the same metrics can be used as with adesign team engaged in the same phase of the process; if the entrepreneurial team is focused onbusiness model development, however, then the outcome metrics will need to be chosenaccordingly. One aim of this study is to gather evidence to support this claim, so we can expandour investigation of I-Corps™ teams to a large scale effort.3.0 Research Methods3.1 Research Context and Research AimsThe primary objective of the NSF I-Corps™ program is to help university-based researchersdiscover markets for their technologies and determine whether they are ready to
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Examining an Equity-focused Collective Impact Project through the Lens of Alliance Members’ Prior Experiences Rebecca Zarch1 and Monica M. McGill2 1 SageFox Consulting Group 2 CSEdResearch.org 1 rzarch@sagefoxgroup.com, 2 monica@csedresearch.org Abstract Research Problem: A Collective Impact (CI) model provides a foundation for bringing together independent organizations, networks, and societies in a structured way to achieve large-scale
here with reference to these three categories.2.1 Learning Goals for the Design CourseDesign plays a central role in engineering education, giving a capstone experience to integrateand apply prior learning to a large-scale project. A typical process design course achieves a setof learning objectives, including the following components. Attitudes Knowledge Skills • Design is goal oriented, • Process synthesis • Defining and the result must satisfy a • Flowsheeting completing an open- student-prepared • Engineering economics ended project specification • Equipment sizing and
. Of the 135 EiE teachers who began the project, 114 completed the first year of datacollection. Of the 114, 73 taught the EiE curriculum to only one classroom of students duringyear 1, while 41 taught the EiE curriculum to two or more classrooms of students. In total, 3620students learned the EiE curriculum during the first year of the project. A subset of 26 E4 Project teachers were selected at the beginning of the first year of datacollection for close observation to gather qualitative data regarding teacher instruction, teacherfidelity of implementation, student engagement and teacher-student interactions. Theirclassrooms are “Case Study Sites” where E4 Project team members: video-record classroomactivity and student team group
the public when COI issues are of concern. This is done throughpublic statements outlining institutional policies and commitment to managing and enforcingCOIs. If a COI issue arises that puts into question an institution’s reputation, a crisiscommunication strategy should be implemented to address concerns.EducationEducation related to COIs typically consists of comprehensive training programs that universitiesinstitute to increase awareness and develop competencies in recognizing and managing conflictsof interest (Annane et al., 2019). These target individuals at all levels including students, facultymembers, and even external stakeholders. Most universities require faculty, students, andadministrators engaged in research to complete online
drawing missing a critical dimension for fabrication, he cannot continue until theomission is rectified and the drawing corrected. As instructors our assessment activities are well-defined, objective and readily accomplished.Learning Experiences and InstructionFinally, the last step in the backward course design process is to develop the learning experiences andinstruction to achieve the desired results. The following sections briefly describe the distinctactivities required to achieve the learning objectives. They are outlined here to give a general senseof the course activities. These lessons equate to the ten, 5-hour lab meetings of the course.1. Bicycle frame building terminology, processes and skillsStudents are introduced to the history of
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