need for, and an ability to engage in life- 93.0% 2.9 long learning (j) a knowledge of contemporary issues 50.7% 3.9 (k) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern 93.0% 9.1 engineering tools necessary for engineering practiceConclusionThe skills gap both in the technical (“hard”) and professional (“soft”) skills is a reality of themodern science and engineering workforce, but collaboration of employers (industry orgovernmental agencies) with universities can lead to successful partnerships to design anddevelop curriculum that
contribution, we focus on providing acase study of our story that features an Enhanced Innovation Schema (i.e., one centered on use of a“Group Genius Approach”, Sawyer [2]) that has been leveraged by this team. This schema allowsinterdisciplinary voices, equitable conversations, and logistic models to be integrated into theprocesses by which funding opportunities are generated (please see more below).To begin, we illustrate the motivation behind this work and offer related and relevant literature tosituate this schema within the extant scholarship on problem identification and innovation-drivenapproaches in engineering education. We then offer theoretical background regarding the two majormodels that have been adopted and adapted to create the anchor
Education at the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia.Blakeley Calhoun Blakeley Calhoun is the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Success in the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, joining in July 2018. Blakeley has previously worked in Residence Life as an Assistant Community Director at Michigan State where she also completed her Master of Arts in Student Affairs Administration. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Full Paper: First Year Academic Co-Advising Improvement Lisa Lampe
enhancing the graduate mathematics curriculum with statistics courses. She is the 2017 recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award. Weems earned her BS in mathematics from Spelman College and her MA and PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park. She completed postdoctoral studies in the Statistics Depart- ment at NC State University, where she later joined the faculty and served for two years as Co-Director of Statistics Graduate Programs until moving to NCCU. She is a member of the American Statistical As- sociation and the National Association of Mathematicians as well as an advisory board member of the Infinite Possibilities Conference for women of color in
a curriculum to expand the use of virtual reality environments with real engineeringapplications in computer science courses to teach human technology interaction theory.1. IntroductionTechnical theory can be extremely abstract at the educational level. This leads to extensivereliance on students’ engagement with the material outside of the classroom through researchand internships to provide real-life context. The use of technology in the classroom is a way tobridge these experience gaps [1-3]. However, there is a question of how to integrate thistechnology effectively [4-5]. Considering this, a current project at San Francisco State University(SFSU) is exploring the use of a structural engineering project to explore and reinforce human
after hiring.Specifically, the skills and competencies supporting the Advanced Manufacturing sector havebeen shown to be in high demand and are the focus of the current project under National ScienceFoundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grant No.1601487.The goals and objectives of the NSF grant project are listed in Table I. Table I. Goals of the Project GOAL 1 To strengthen an Engineering Technology program serving the southern New Jersey region. Objective 1.1 Highlight technical and non-technical (soft) skills across the curriculum; align with industry needs, including student work-based learning opportunities such as undergraduate
Paper ID #36673Development of a biomedical engineering course for high school studentsusing a framework of student-centered pedagogyDr. Marjorie Letitia Hubbard, North Carolina School of Science and Math Dr. Marjorie Letitia Hubbard is a member of the engineering and research faculty at the North Carolina School of Science and Math (NCSSM) in Durham, North Carolina. As an engineering instructor at NCSSM, Dr. Hubbard has taught a variety of residential and online biomedical engineering courses, and she is also engaged in developing and implementing curriculum to prepare students for success in the research environment. For the
of Philosophy) in Electrical Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2019. He is cur- rently a Ph.D. student in the Energy Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW. His research interests include power engineering education, curriculum design and development, and condition monitoring of power system equipment.Dr. Jayashri Ravishankar, University of New South Wales A/Prof Jayashri Ravishankar is a Scientia Education Fellow and Associate Dean (Education) in the Fac- ulty of Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney. Her teaching and research interests include power system modelling, analysis and control, renewable energy integration, smart
Devin Berg is an Associate Professor and Program Director of the B.S. Mechanical Engineering program in the Engineering and Technology Department at the University of Wisconsin - Stout. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Global Engineering Projects from the Young African Leaders Initiative Thomas Lacksonen, Devin Berg, Scott Springer, University of Wisconsin-StoutKeywords: global design project, domestic internationalization, humanitarian engineeringAbstractIn this paper several projects that integrate globalization issues into undergraduate engineeringand technology coursework are discussed.The Mandela
course would only be sustained if we couldsuccessfully recruit new faculty for the course, who may or may not be interested. Broad-scaleresearch on faculty incorporation of diversity-oriented activities into the curriculum has foundthat even when faculty believe that diversity in a classroom leads to better learning outcomes,belief doesn’t necessarily translate into teaching practices that include diversity-orientedmaterials [4]. However, departmental support is important in integrating diversity into thecurriculum, as faculty who believed their departments emphasized the importance of diversity intheir field and supported the integration of diversity-related content into their courses were morelikely to do so [4], and were more likely to be
of mini learning workshops by incorporating academic researchand industry best practices through an academia-industry partnership. This endeavor wasintended to boost SV&V awareness and increase skilled SV&V practitioners so as to improveproduct and process quality levels throughout the software development community, resulting ina larger and better skilled software V&V user community.This project completed in August 2017: 1) Critically examined the existing SV&V coursecontents at the authors’ institute, 2) Identified areas where improvements could be made inpedagogy, 3) Developed forty-four delivery contact hours of ALTs, 4) Tested a ALT deliverystrategy, 5) Integrated and delivered new pedagogical tools in the course, 6
to emphasize topics appropriate for their majors. In addition, eachdepartment also developed a collaborative, hands-on design project to include in the course thatwould be appropriate and engaging for their students [16]. The topics of the design projectsimplemented were a robotics design task for EECS students, a reverse engineering and 3Dprinting task for MIEN students, and a water filtration project for CHNG students. Encouragedby the promising results observed from the 2020 and 2021 offering of the course for students inthe EECS, MIEN, and CHNG departments, an additional version of the course was developedand integrated into the curriculum for students in the Civil and Architectural EngineeringDepartment (CAEN) in 2022. Additionally
expose more students to the makerspace and to leverage making in helping studentslearn engineering concepts while applying them in projects. Both women and men had a near equaltendency to request a more integrated curriculum that includes utilizing the makerspace intoassignments, as a direct function of these students valuing making as an integral part ofengineering. For example, Waldo, a white man, discussed his idea to better integrate making intothe curriculum. We do have students coming in from a handful of classes that want to use the printers for their projects, but it's not as integrated into the curriculum as I think it should be. That's something we're definitely working on. Talking to professors saying, ‘Hey
; connected communities, and securing cyber-physical systems [4,5], we are not aware that currently exist an educational model that integrates cyber security as partof STEM curriculum. The program’s goal is to broaden knowledge of our STEM graduates to beaware of cyber issues as engineers. The curriculum is shown in Figure 1, where 4 tracks areavailable for the student’s interest and major of study. The courses within each track are existingcourses with security content added to them. Figure 1: Cyber-informed engineering curriculum for STEM majors. Each track gives the students an opportunity to earn a security certificate as part of their undergraduate degree. The color of boxes has no special meaning.The introductory
Paper ID #21891Exploring Students’ and Instructors’ Perceptions of Engineering: Case Stud-ies of Professionally Focused and Career Exploration CoursesDr. Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University Dr. Villanueva is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Department and an Adjunct Pro- fessor in the Bioengineering Department in Utah State University. Her multiple roles as an engineer, engineering educator, engineering educational researcher, and professional development mentor for un- derrepresented populations has aided her in the design and integration of educational and physiological technologies to research
experience report presents elements of yet early intervention can help to improve students’ self-an outreach program to elementary school children to efficacy and increase motivation. This deficiency is morebroaden participation in computing. The program is based predominant among minorities, including African Americanon a unique multi-faceted curriculum that facilitates the and Latino students, who are often largely underrepresentedpresentation of abstract computer science (CS) concepts in computing [2], [3], [4]. Hence, it is becoming increasinglywithin a summer camp setting. The curriculum exposes critical to research and experiment with effective methodsthe same abstract content to
. Villanueva is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Department and an Adjunct Pro- fessor in the Bioengineering Department in Utah State University. Her multiple roles as an engineer, engineering educator, engineering educational researcher, and professional development mentor for un- derrepresented populations has aided her in the design and integration of educational and physiological technologies to research ’best practices’ for student professional development and training. In addition, she is developing methodologies around affective management of curriculum, instruction, and research for engineering students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The
Technology. At Rose-Hulman, he co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, which was recognized in 1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He served as Project Director a Na- tional Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized innovative undergraduate engineering curricula. He has authored over 70 papers and offered over 30 workshops on faculty development, curricular change processes, cur- riculum redesign, and assessment. He has served as a program co-chair for three Frontiers in Education Conferences and the general chair for the 2009 conference. Prof. Froyd is a
tostrengthen it and to include industry. The process of “critical doing” actively involved facultyand students in the design of the new curriculum. Details on the process of developing our newcurriculum can be found in Ref. [2].The University approved the changes for implementation in Fall 2019. Additions to thecurriculum included the vertically integrated design course, data acquisition courses, and thesenior design course sequence.1. Vertically integrated design project courses (VIDP). Historically, the program has a strongsenior design course sequence where seniors work in teams on real projects sponsored andmentored by industry for an entire academic year. Senior design provides valuable experiencedoing hands-on engineering with practicing
Paper ID #36863Board 330: Iron Range Engineering Academic Scholarships for Co-Op BasedEngineering EducationDr. Catherine Mcgough Spence, Minnesota State University, Mankato Catherine Spence is an Assistant Professor at the Iron Range Engineering Bell Program through Min- nesota State University, Mankato. She received her PhD in Engineering and Science Education in 2019 and a BS in Electrical Engineering in 2014 at Clemson UnivDr. Emilie A. Siverling, Minnesota State University, Mankato Emilie A. Siverling is an Assistant Professor of Integrated Engineering and the Iron Range Engineering Bell Program through Minnesota
assessments, with paired interactive components. The middle sectionprocess in the diagram is iterated for each module in the suggested flow, but as described before thestudent can really jump around to any point in the flow chart. Figure 3. Suggested flow of the education toolIn order to fully support the curriculum, the capstone team also felt that it was important andnecessary to include some other components. There is a reference wiki section on the websitehighlighting the main formulas and charts needed for each module or topic. There is also transparentdocumentation of the entire project—from where to find the resources supporting the curriculumaspect to how the technical products were integrated. An accompanying blog
from the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan.Prof. Rashaunda M. Henderson, The University of Texas at Dallas Rashaunda Henderson received the B.S.E.E. degree from Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, in 1992, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The University of Michigan, Ann Ar- bor, MI, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. From 1999 to 2007, she worked as a R&D device engineer at Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector). Since Fall 2007, she has been researching novel passive components and integration techniques for millimeter-wave circuits and systems at UT Dallas in Richardson, TX. As an Associate Professor she advises
in a college, we will generate views of the organization that integrate both structuralresources, needs and constraints on capacity, and grassroots efforts, resources, needs andconstraints on capacity. The social and the technical subsystems in an organization areinterdependent – that is, one does not have a purpose without the other, so both will need to beexamined and designed jointly.To this end, we present the Systems Engineering Initiative for Student Success (SEISS)framework we are developing for enabling educational organizations to scan, evaluate andtransform their operations to achieve their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals in studentrecruitment, retention, and graduation. Our SEISS framework which views a college or a
Matthew W. Ohland is Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by over $14.5 million from the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his team received Best Paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008 and 2011 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011. Dr. Ohland is Chair of the IEEE Curriculum and Pedagogy Committee and an ABET Program Evaluator for ASEE. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau
productive, as it fostersadaptability while ensuring structure. However, for undergraduate students transitioning from astructured K-12 system to an open academic setting, a structured pathway to student successbecomes essential. Without clear guidance, excessive freedom may lead to distractions,impacting learning and retention. By integrating flexible learning pathways, education canmaintain academic rigor while allowing adaptive approaches that support student success acrossvaried learning needs [4].Figure 1: Challenges in Conventional Education (Courtesy: National Center for Education Statistics -2022)The pie chart titled "Challenges in Conventional Education in the USA" illustrates four keyissues that impact traditional educational models: 1
specific content knowledge to teach engineering [6]. There is a need for bothengaging engineering curricula for primary and secondary students, as well as for well-trainedteachers who are prepared to teach engineering. In order to address the need for high-quality secondary school engineering educationopportunities, the HYPOTHEKids (Hk) Maker Lab has implemented a curriculum developmenteffort based around the engineering design process (EDP). We emphasize engineering designbecause the open-ended nature of the EDP gives students greater accountability and ownershipover their learning and it has been demonstrated to be an effective method for improving studentknowledge of STEM content areas [7]. The goals of this effort are to (1) introduce
different fields of study [3],[5],[6]. Many times social responsibility inengineering is incorporated into engineering degree programs via service-learning, volunteerism,clubs, etc.; however, sometimes the mark is missed because students do not fully understand the“inequalities and injustices among those helping and those being helped” [3].Our course, The Sky’s the Limit: Drones for Social Good, was designed to engage engineeringstudents with concepts of social justice integrated into an engineering curriculum. While someengineering classes introduce themes of social awareness, such as ethics, into the curriculum, thepresentation is often done as a discrete class component lasting for a week or so. The inclusion ofsocial justice material in
whatengineering disciplines and careers can be and do in the world. This structural change canreinvigorate higher education and forge new connections and collaborations among high schooltechnology programs or vocational high schools, two-year colleges, and four-year institutions.Curricular and Pedagogical ChangesThese structural changes establishing inclusive infrastructure pathways for EWD and DCIundergird an integrated plan to develop and deploy inclusive engineering curricula andparticipatory learning pedagogies over the next decade (Figure 2).Pre-college curriculum development is at the start of EWD and our pedagogical approach willintegrate the engineering design process,24 design thinking skills,25 and engineering habits ofmind,26 which have proven
Paper ID #40775Creating Pathways to Engineering through Sponsored Summer CampsDr. Racheida S Lewis, University of Georgia Racheida S. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia in the Engineering Ed- ucation Transformations Institute (EETI) and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Lewis believes in creating a diverse engineering field and strives to do so through connecting with teaching, and mentoring future engineers. She has devoted her life to this mission through her leadership and lifetime membership in the National Society of Black Engineers. Ultimately, Dr. Lewis
traditional approaches [2,3].The Department of Physics at FIU conducted a series of studies that applied a number of thoseapproaches and found that 3 of them improved student retention and learning in introductoryphysics courses [10,11]. These included: • Peer-Led Learning Assistants in an Active Learning classroomCombining Active Learning Approaches for Improving Computing Course Outcomes • Collaborative, active learning (i.e., flipped) within the classroom • Online, just-in-time, tutorials as an integrated part of the curriculumIn our approach, we expanded and customized these approaches for use in an introductoryprogramming course for Computer Science Majors. By using this approach, we expected thefollowing outcomes:Outcome