Paper ID #32667Redesigning Engineering Education for Neurodiversity: New Standards forInclusive CoursesDr. Maria Chrysochoou, University of Connecticut Maria Chrysochoou is a Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut. She obtained her BS in Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, her MS in Environmental Engineering at Technische Universit¨at Dresden in Germany and her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. She was hired as Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut in 2007, promoted to Associate
helps connect industrial engineering students with industry leaders. For the last year, he has been working as an undergraduate researcher with the Critical Research in Engineering and Technology Education (CREATE) group exploring the nature of student motivation in engineering mechanics courses.Dominick Trageser, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoDr. Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Ben D. Lutz is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Design at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He is the leader of the Critical Research in Engineering and Technology Education (CREATE) group at Cal Poly. His research interests include critical pedagogies; efforts for
CONCURRENT MATH on Higher Education Spaces: Innovation, Collaboration, and Finally, student perception is explored. A survey Technology”, IGI Global, 2013, pg. 165-185.was distributed to the students at the end of the semester to [3] Ewing, D., “Using the SCALE-UP Method to Create an Engineeringgive them an opportunity to give feedback for continued First Year Engineering Course”, presented at the 2017 annualcourse improvement. The question in Figure 8 was a multiple conference of the ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section, Dallas, TX, 2017.choice list while the question in Figure 9 was a free response. [4
settings such as summer camps, military experiences, and extra-curricular activities. Other research interests involve validation of CFD models for aerospace applications as well as optimizing efficiency of thermal-fluid systems.Dr. Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley Shannon Ciston is a Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Education in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Ciston holds degrees in chemical engineering from Northwestern University (PhD) and Illinois Institute of Technology (BS). She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in technical communications and applied pedagogy, and conducts engineering education research.Ms
of Massachusetts, the U.S. Department of Educa- tion, Houghton Mifflin, Verizon, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.Mr. Luis Rafael Frias II ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Mitigating Transfer Shock for Undergraduates in Engineering to Increase Diversity (Work in Progress)Background As part of its response to the anticipated workforce needs in STEM fields, the National Science Foundation S-STEM (Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) initiative provides essential scholarship support to academically talented and diverse students with interests in STEM careers. The success for this initiative is essential to broadening
Engagement and Service Learning as a Pedagogical Practice in EngineeringDr. Donna M. Riley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Donna Riley is Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech.Dr. Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Atsushi Akera is Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY). He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania. His current research is on the history of engineering education reform in the United States (1945-present). He is Lead for the Connecting Us Team of the Board Strategic Doing Ini- tiative; a candidate for PIC III Chair; past chair of
Statealso offers housing in the Women in the Sciences and Engineering (WISE) house. WISE Houseis a female only special living option for undergraduate students who are majoring in science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)5. WISE House is designed to providestudents with an opportunity to network with experienced professionals, receive mentoring,develop and build leadership skills, and engage in outreach within the State College communitywhile developing relationships with fellow female classmates5. As part of residency in WISEHouse, students are invited to attend professional conferences that are designed to help womendiscover how professional women in the sciences balance their education, careers, and personallives. Another program
container to the construction site, where it can produce the panels fromlocally sourced supplies. The design of a self-contained collection of wood-working equipmentwas discussed as a possibility of a student-team design competition, but has not been pursuedyet.Within the Engineering Department, a degree in Advanced Manufacturing is offered,specializing in manufacturing technologies and techniques. A team of three seniors, twoAdvanced Manufacturing students and one Industrial Engineering student, took for theircapstone project the design of a work cell that could easily and economically produce theassemblies for these houses. The team observed the construction site several times throughoutthe semester in order to identify the sizes of the parts
in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University in 2011. In the fall of 2011, she took a position as an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University in the College of Engineering as a part of the First Year Engineering Faculty with a focus on chemical engineering. She teaches the first year courses where are Engineering Design and Engineering Problem Solving. She also teaches senior Chemical Engineering Process Controls. She runs a faculty led international summer program to Sao Paulo, Brazil which focuses on Alternative Energy Technologies and Brazilian Culture.Dr. Richard Whalen, Northeastern University Dr. Richard Whalen is a Teaching Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, MA and a core
reports), an underrepresented minority category, or within syllabus errata Category 2 - “Low design”– Disability used as a design constraint or requirement; tags include reference to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)3, assistive technology design projects for “people with disabilities” (sometimes shortened to “PwD”); few to no references to specific client needs, Category 3 - “High design” – Disability included as a facet of the design client (i.e., high design); tags include specific disabilities, meeting with the client, multiple references to client needs in paper Category 4 - “Perceptions and accommodations” – Disability as it relates to engineering student or faculty
Paper ID #30111Engineering graphics in a community-college setting: Challenges andopportunitiesDr. Hannah Dawes Budinoff, Pima Community College Hannah D. Budinoff is a researcher interested in additive manufacturing, geometric manufacturability analysis, design for manufacturing, and engineering education. She received her BS in mechanical engi- neering from the University of Arizona and recently completed her PhD in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Dr. Budinoff teaches CAD classes in her role as Instructional Faculty at Pima Community
-Champaign with the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS) Outstanding Young Alumni Award, Career Communications Group with a Black Engineer of the Year Award for college-level promotion of engineering education and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2023 to advance his work that centers engineering identities of Black men in engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Illuminating Growth Among Women in Engineering: A Retrospective on ASEE Data1 Introduction and Purpose The U.S. education community has fixated on Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM) content, including computer science, in PreK-20 levels
federal poverty line while more billionairesare created daily, police budgets swell, an eviction crisis looms, and climate change rapidlyaccelerates, the depth and breadth of the connections of technological advancement to mutuallyreinforcing systems of oppression in the United States have prompted a need to re-examineengineering education [1]-[5]. Given this dire state, it is critical that the engineering communitygrapples with the role engineers play in perpetuating fatal couplings of power and difference andthe steps that can be taken to disrupt the systems and cycles of violence from which theseinequitable couplings stem [6]. As Winner [7] noted, engineers engage in tasks that embed powerrelations into the technologies they produce and
analyt- ics, creativity and innovation, and emerging technologies. He is actively pursuing the development of educational techniques and methods in construction. He has developed construction-based simulation applications and strives to bring aspects of project management into simulation applications.Dr. Raheleh Miralami, Mississippi State UniversityDr. George D. Ford, Mississippi State University Dr. George Ford P.E. is the Director of Mississippi Stateˆa C™s Building Construction Science (BCS) program. Dr. Ford has 15 years of industrial experience including corporate work, and 16 years of teaching experience at the post-secondary level. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023
implementation of targeted STEM retention strategies at a Hispanic-serving institution. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 12(3), 280-299. https://doi.org/10.1177/1538192713486279Chen, J. C. (2017). Nontraditional adult learners: The neglected diversity in postsecondary education. SAGE Open, 7(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244017697161Chen, X., & Weko, T. (2009). Stats in brief: Students who study science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in post-secondary education (Report No. NCES 20009-161). U.S. Department of Education. http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009161.pdfCreswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2018). Designing and conducting mixed methods research (3rd ed). Sage.Delisle, J. (2017
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2016, Zaida became an ELATE@ Drexel (Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering) alumnus presenting an insti- tutional action project titled ”Raiders Abroad: A sustainable model for globally competent engineering students” that was adopted by the WCOE. The project, based on the work of cross functional teams estab- lished a strategic plan for 2016-2020 focusing on student participation and assessment on programs abroad and the development of a travel scholarship fund for students under financial hardship in the college. Mrs. Gracia brings twenty five years of experience as a mathematics’ professor at the Sacred Heart University in Puerto Rico. She led successful initiatives to increase minorities
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014, after which he served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. Aaron also obtained a master’s degree from MIT in 2010 and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 2008, both in aerospace engineering.Dr. Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan Dr. Cynthia Finelli is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Associate Professor of Education, and Director and Graduate Chair for Engineering Education Research Programs at University of Michigan (U-M). Dr. Finelli is a fellow in the American Society of Engineering Education, a Deputy Editor of the Journal for
).Burke, R. J., & Mattis, M. C. (2007). Women and minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: Upping the numbers. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.Carlone, H. B., & Johnson, A. (2007). Understanding the science experiences of successful women of color: Science identity as an analytic lens. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 44(8), 1187-1218. doi:10.1002/tea.20237Cass, C. A. P., Hazari, Z., Cribbs, J., Sadler, P. M., & Sonnert, G. (2011). Examining the impact of mathematics identity on the choice of engineering careers for male and female students. Paper presented at the Frontiers in Education Conference Rapid City, SD.Chemers, M. M., Zurbriggen, E. L
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Hispanic students. Architecture, engineering, and technology students make upbetween 10% and 30% of the entering first year students. There was an application process forthe program. Students who were accepted, would be a part of a cohort of students who met witha lead instructor weekly, with the program being run as a 1-credit course. Additional instructorsfrom the student life side were also available to help facilitate activities, and connect students toco-curricular and extra-curricular aspects of college life. The present paper will describe some ofthe programming and assignments of this pilot program, and discuss some of the relatedstrengths, weaknesses, challenges, and successes. A primary focus of the programming was tohelp students
the importance of studyingscience at the elementary and middle school levels .4,5 In February 2015, the authors got anopportunity to present at the STEM Collaborative Super Saturday Technology Innovations,sponsored by COEHD Academy of Teacher Excellence, and held at UIW. The topic of thepresentation was on the summer workshops and the camp opportunities available for middleschool and high school students at the authors’ AVS Lab. We met with and talked to severalmiddle school teachers during the time and they inspired us to conduct a middle school campexclusively for girls because of the need for more diversity and women in engineering.Furthermore, the UIW School of Mathematics, Science, and Engineering (SMSE) hosts anannual Summer Science
Paper ID #12232Ongoing Development and Evaluation of an Engineering Service CourseDr. Michael Foster, George Fox UniversityDr. Gary E. Spivey, George Fox University Page 26.1202.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Ongoing Development and Evaluation of an Engineering Service CourseAbstractGeorge Fox University has a service-learning course required of all engineering programgraduates. The course began in 2010 as a one-credit per semester, four-semester sequencestarting
masculine culture may not functioneffectively in gender-diverse teams.17 These same factors are likely at play in limiting thediversity of engineering competition teams.Major technology and engineering based companies recognize diversity as beneficial and arecommitted to building a diverse workforce. To achieve those goals, many companies activelyidentify and recruit candidates with diverse backgrounds. For example, Boeing holds recruitmentactivities at minority serving institutions and advertises job opportunities through various media.ExxonMobil reaches out to potential candidates through outreach programs and companypartnerships with diversity organizations, such as the Hispanic Heritage Foundation and theNational Society of Black
-funded MIDFIELD research project on engineering education; she has served as a Co-PI on three research projects, including one on transfer students and another on student veterans in engineering and another on Black students in engineering.Dr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants Catherine E. Brawner is President of Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She received her Ph.D.in Educational Research and Policy Analysis from NC State University in 1996. She also has an MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. She specializes in eval- uation and research in engineering education, computer science education, and technology education. Dr
Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) stresses the significance of incorporating criticalthinking instruction, along with other general engineering expertise (e.g., soft skills) inengineering curriculum through their published student outcomes (Claris and Riley, Email: mshokrolahshirazi@marian.edu2012). Since the connection between CT and problem-solving in engineering is a recurringtheme in the literature, teaching and learning critical thinking should equip differentlevels of problems with varied features that involve appropriate hypotheses, methodsfor experiments, and structuring open design problems (Ahern, Dominguez, McNally,O’Sullivan, and Pedrosa, 2019). On the other hand, the challenging level of the problems is another key
Paper ID #41230Engineering Major Selection: Impacting Factors and Facilitating ClassroomStrategiesDr. Shaghayegh Abbasi, University of Portland Shaghayegh (Sherry) Abbasi received her B.S. in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. She continued her education in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of the University of Washington where she received her M.S. in 2007 in the field of self-assembly of electronic devices and earned a Ph.D. in 2011 in electrical and computer engineering with an emphasis in novel metal deposition techniques. Her current research interests are
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Institute of Technology and a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of South Florida.Dr. Ruthmae Sears Ruthmae Sears, Ph.D., is a Professor at the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on curriculum issues, the development of reasoning and proof skills, clinical experiences in secondary mathematics, and the integration of technologyKatherine Ann Alfredo, University of South Florida Dr. Katherine Alfredo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida. Dr. Alfredo’s research focuses on sustainable potable water provisions to include technical treatment and regulatory policy in both the U.S. and internationally. As a 2015