future learning activities and pursuits.Process for Becoming a World Class Engineering Student. III. Design Your Process Project LITERATURE REVIEW The Design Your Process For Becoming A World Class Engineering Student project (DYP) is a nationally adoptedI. Framework: Self-Regulated Learning reflective activity originally developed by Raymond B. Landis [11] and Steffen Peuker [12, 13]. The primary purposeFirst Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference August 6 – August 8, 2017, Daytona Beach, FL
held in summer session 2013. The reasoningfor a summer session was to ensure that among the seven participating students, most if not allwould have completed coursework in all six traditional subareas (structural, transportation,construction, environmental, geotechnical, and water resources) of the civil engineeringdiscipline.This first senior design project entailed the design of an outdoor civil engineering laboratory.The project was linked to the ABET EAC 2000 Outcome 3c and modified Bloom’s Taxonomydescribed in the section of this report in regard to preparation for accreditation.The students arranged themselves in six subarea teams, each of which had at least three studentsinvolved. This means that any one particular student was part of
to do STEMoutreach by giving presentations and demonstrations using an interactive humanoid robotthrough community events and school visits.A simple drag-and-drop graphical programming interface called Choregraphe that came with theNao robot made it possible for students without much programming experience to put togethersimple demonstrations. Over the years, different components like music, dance moves,impersonation, simple dialogues, storytelling, interactive games, etc. have been added to acollection of demonstrations which engaged the audients especially the school-aged-children.In the fall semesters of recent years, the Nao outreaches were integrated with the freshmen teamdesign projects conducted in another course: EGR101 Introduction
The New School for Design, New York. At DiLab Catalina teaches and coordi- nates the Engineering Challenges course which aims to initiate freshmen students in to engineering design practices by encouraging students to develop a project following a user-centered design process. She also teaches Visual Thinking, the exploratory course of the Major in Engineering, Design, and Innovation. This course addresses the theories and ideas that sustain the visual thinking process as well as method- ologies and practical implementation of visual representation through infographics, computer graphics, and physical computing. The course focus on representing the narrative of the findings using visual tools. Catalina has
environmentalchallenges they will face in the decades ahead.” The recent Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS) emphasize the influence and interdependence of science, engineering, and technologyon society [2], yet many science teachers are ill-prepared to teach these in their existingcurricular environments [3], [4], [5]. For high school students to successfully engage withengineering practices, engineering projects need to be authentic, interdisciplinary, and feasiblefor teachers within existing curricular time, materials, and standards requirements [6], [7].The author, a high school physics teacher, developed and implemented a curriculum unit toaddress these needs with the support of a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded ResearchExperience for Teachers
are moreinclusive and suited for the 21st century workforce. The CEE Department’s contribution to theRED program is called Revolutionizing Engineering Diversity (RevED). The RevED team isembarking on its second year, building on the momentum established in the prior year. Underguidance from RevED, the CEE Department faculty have taken part in workshops that haveestablished a shared set of values and language around diversity and inclusion. The CEEDepartment is currently engaged in implementing inclusive curriculum in several courses offeredfreshman through senior year. This poster intends to showcase the developments made in severalCEE courses that have developed student projects or assignments that enable students to have amore global and
Paper ID #22967Board 59: Shame in Engineering: Unpacking the Socio-Psychological Emo-tional Construct in the Context of Professional FormationDr. James L. Huff, Harding University James Huff is an assistant professor of engineering at Harding University. He is the lead investigator of the Beyond Professional Identity (BPI) lab, which conducts research that is aligned with unpacking psy- chological experiences of identity in professional domains. Additionally, James directs multiple student projects that use human-centered design in the context of community engagement. James received his Ph.D. in engineering education and
AngelesProf. Jim Kuo Jim Kuo (PhD Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, 2016) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Los Angeles. Jim’s current research is focused on wind and solar energy.John Christopher Bachman, California State University, Los Angeles ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Work-in-Progress: Using Asset-based Participatory Design Thinking to Develop STEM Video Modules to Promote Intrinsic Motivation in EngineeringAbstractThis paper presents the current progress of a STEM-NET research project titled as “Using Asset-based Participatory Design Thinking to Develop
include the Engineering Success Program, established to provide academic support to first- generation underrepresented college students, and the Engineering Learning Community Introduction to Research Program, a high impact learning and research opportunity that offers freshmen underrepresented engineering students a chance to partake in a one-credit class and research project while gaining global experience with a research trip to Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Garcia also leads efforts directing and coor- dinating the Engineering Summer Bridge Program, which gives first-generation students a head start on engineering and math courses before their first semester begins. Before joining the College of Engineering, Garcia
Paper ID #18083Girls Who Draft: A STEM Outreach InitiativeDr. Ali Ahmad, Northwestern State University Ali Ahmad is the Head of the Engineering Technology Department at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. He received a B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Jordan (Amman, Jordan; with Highest Distinction) and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida (Orlando, Fl, USA). He has diverse expertise in human-computer interaction, quality engineering, and simulating human-machine systems. He previously worked on projects related to transfer of training in
of Institutions of HigherEducation [1]. As the 4th largest academic unit on VCU’s campus, the School of Engineering iscomprised of 2,000 students with demographics that reflect the diverse community in which itserves. The development of collaborations such as public-private partnerships and projects withlocal communities has been VCU Engineering’s essential ingredient for talent development, notonly because of well-established relationships with the business community, but also becausethese community partnerships give way to a continuum of college-bound students that translatesinto a sustainable diverse STEM pipeline. The desire to expand the number of public-privatepartnerships within the local community, however, presents both
introduces different Engineering discipline and is taught by SWE officers, SWEmembers, or students from other Engineering clubs. SWE provides lunch, snacks, a theme-oriented t-shirt and a goodie-bag filled with school supplies to all participants, includingvolunteers. All students participate in a closing ceremony to conclude the event. Additionally, the7th-8th group displays their completed robotic projects in a showcase. Figure 3 shows a sample labfrom all age groups, Kinder-3rd, 4th-6th, and 7th-8th. A sample lab activity is provided in the AppendixA. Figure 3: Imagineer Day 2017Results and AnalysisThe purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact the outreach event has on K-8 graders,particularly girls, as
recently, as Vice Chair of ACM SIGSOFT and General Chair of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering. She has participated in many CRAW and ACM mentoring events; is a founding adviser of MSU Women in Computing, the MSU ACM-W Chapter; and co-led TechKobwa, a technology camp for secondary-school teachers and female students in Rwanda, for three summers. She was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award in 2017.Ms. Michelle Slattery, Peak Research Michelle Slattery has more than 30 years’ experience as a professional evaluator working with diverse clients on complex project evaluations. Her business, Peak Research LLC, is celebrating 25 years of providing services to evaluate S-STEM, BPC, RED
undergraduate student at the University of Michigan studying materials science and engineering with a minor in chemistry. He is also a member of the engineering honors program, an instructor for a first-year engineering design course, an instructor in a senior-level materials science course, and a researcher in ultrafast optical sciences.Dr. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication
culture. Broaderimpacts of this program on Native American youth involve precollege partnerships developedbetween teachers and research mentors post-RET, such as student and faculty mentor visits tolocal participant classrooms at least once a year to support teachers with their RET researchlesson plan; a nanophotonics afterschool club for 3rd graders; an afterschool STEM programbringing together precollege teachers, students, parents, and university students, an on-campusUA optics summer camp with an RET partner school; Frontiers for Young Minds project withCIAN and an RET participant’s students; STEM comic book development collaboration with anRET participant as illustrator; and RET STEM education contributions for dissemination onCIAN’s
- tivity messaging. Currently, Dr. Bornstein is leading a series of research studies investigating the impacts of physical inactivity and low physical fitness on military readiness and national security. Dr. Bornstein’s research has been featured in over 130 media outlets worldwide, including USA Today, Newsweek, Stars and Stripes, and National Public Radio. Based on his research, Dr. Bornstein has provided numerous briefings to senior military personnel and lawmakers, including briefings at The Pentagon and Capitol Hill. In addition to his research, Dr. Bornstein has held national leadership positions in the physical ac- tivity and public health field including: Project Coordinator for the U.S. National Physical Activity
a deficiency lens and seek to mold these students tobecome more like their privileged peers. The first-generation college students, from working-classfamily backgrounds, we came to know through our own research and teaching spoke about howtheir experiences and the experiences of their community as people who worked with their handsfor a living were devalued and even erased from the engineering curriculum and teaching practices[5]. Thus, in our first ethnographic research project with first-generation college students inengineering, we challenged the dominant deficiency lens by investigating the unique strengthsthese students brought with them to engineering by virtue of those very backgrounds. Many of thelow-income, first-generation college
Paper ID #24800Board 30: Sustainable Bridges from Campus to Campus: Outcomes for TwoCohorts of Jump Start Second-year Bridge Participants (#1525367)Dr. Catherine L. Cohan, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Catherine Cohan holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and has been a research psychologist for over 20 years. Her areas of expertise include engineering education, retention of underrepresented students, mea- surement, and assessment. She is currently an Assistant Research Professor on the Sustainable Bridges NSF IUSE project (Peter Butler, PI). Previously, she was the project coordinator the the Toys’n MORE
Campus (UPRM). Ospina Uribe has diverse interests in the research area of Community Resilience; Appropriate Technology, and Climate Change. During her Master’s program she become involved in a pilot project to co-develop workshops aimed at strengthening community resilience through the creation of practical solutions for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene challenges in Puerto Rico through opportunities supported by NSF, Oxfam America and the Response Innovation Lab.Pamela Cristina Silva D´ıaz Pamela Cristina Silva D´ıaz was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and completed her bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012. She obtained her Master of Science in the same field
, 2016Changes in Undergraduate Engineering College Climate and Predictorsof Major Commitment: Results from Climate Studies in 2008 and 2015Abstract This paper presents results of two cross-sectional investigations of educational andinterpersonal climate in a college of engineering at a large mid-western university. In 2008 andin 2015 we deployed a survey ("Project to Assess Climate in Engineering”) to undergraduateengineering students. In each survey year, just over 1000 eligible students participated andresponded to items contributing to scales rating their professors, teaching assistants, collegeresources, confidence (self-efficacy) in engineering, student interactions, perceptions ofengineering, and commitment to an engineering major
integrated through teacher views that produce dynamic project-basedlesson plans. The system encourages an interdisciplinary approach that requires studentsto draw on multiple subject areas simultaneously to solve real world problems.This paper presents the results of the initial evaluation of the DLMS. After providing thedetails regarding its infrastructure, a critical evaluation of the platform and how itsupports both teachers and students in a balanced approach to learning is presented. Thisevaluation draws upon the Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model (FSLM) in thatelements of the DLSM are evaluated within the context of the models four dimensions.The initial results of a pilot project aimed at evaluating its effectiveness in schools
) “social learning theories contribute to adultlearning by highlighting the importance of social context and explicating the process ofmodeling and mentoring” (p. 139). This theory states that people learn from one anotherand it includes the concepts of observational learning, imitation, and modeling. Purpose This project piloted an innovative mentoring approach by creating a virtualflipped classroom experience where students received instruction via prerecordedtutorials describing tasks for the week in addition to their mentoring experience. Over aneight week-period, graduate students from a research one university in Southeast U.S.mentored underrepresented student groups from rural counties in the
and coded the online student presence and interactions for a randomly selected subsetof the 6 courses offered. In Fall semester, 2015 the following courses were offered (with theirface-to-face and distance enrollment): ENGR/ECE 501 – Foundations of Systems Engineering (88 Face-to-Face, 39 Distance students) ENGR/ECE 532 – Dynamics of Complex Systems (25 Face-to-Face, 27 Distance students) ENGR 530 – Introduction to Systems Engineering Processes (9 Face-to-Face, 21 Distance students) ENGR 531 – Engineering Risk Analysis (6 Face-to-Face, 17 Distance students) ENGR 567 – Systems Engineering Architecture (6 Face-to-Face, 9 Distance students) MECH 501 – Project and Program Management
majors. These courses are not calculus based or evenparticularly algebra based. Rather they introduce the phenomena of physics then support it withshort, very basic equations. Often these classes are found on campuses under names such as“Physics for Poets” or “Physics of Toys”. Putting these two together would result in a project based course focused on the designcycle. Students could work to create several smaller projects following the design cycle.Introduction and small scale projects would allow students to develop familiarity with the designcycle. There exist a large number of well used engineering projects, such as the mouse-trap car,Rube Goldberg devices, toothpick bridges, cardboard canoes, and etc. These small projects canbe
having obtained her PhD in 2007 from the University of Illinois at Chicago under the supervision of Dr. Thomas L. Theis. She has developed a research program in sustainable engineering of bioproducts. Her research ranges from design of systems based on industrial ecology and byproduct synergies, life cycle and sustainability assessments of biopolymers and biofuels, and design and analy- sis of sustainable solutions for healthcare. Since 2007, she has lead seven federal research projects and collaborated on many more, totaling over $7M in research, with over $12M in collaborative research. At ASU, Dr. Landis continues to grow her research activities and collaborations to include multidisciplinary approaches to
introduced to mechanical engineersas well. Mechanical engineers are frequently called upon not only to design a system’s physicalmechanism and actuation, but also to design, program, and package the control architecture. Buteven if they aren’t the primary programmers, they should understand how the interface has towork, as well as how the controller may be limited in memory, speed, and input/output.Many schools employ microcontroller projects in first year coursework for electrical andcomputer engineers (e.g., Villanova2, Western Kentucky University3), but a growing list haveincorporated microcontrollers into their first year coursework for all engineers. Louisiana Tech4and Western New England University5 both seek to engage and motivate engineering
) accreditationoutcome 3(h) that requires engineering departments to show that they are providing studentswith “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in aglobal, economic, environmental, and societal context”.5In response, universities have developed a range of high-profile international educationprograms geared specifically to all Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)majors.6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Parkinson classified these programs into nine categories of study abroadprograms for engineering students, including dual degree, exchange, extended field trip,extension, internship or co-op, mentored travel, partner sub-contract, project-basedlearning/service learning, and research abroad..11 Although the relative number
engineering grant supporting Historically Black University and Col- leges; ”Building Learning Communities to Improve Student Achievement: Albany City School District” , and ”Educational Leadership Program Enhancement Project at Syracuse University” Teacher Leadership Quality Program. She is also the PI on both ”Syracuse City School District Title II B Mathematics and Science Partnership: Science Project and Mathematics MSP Grant initiatives.Dr. Corey A Graves, North Carolina A&T State University Corey A. Graves is an associate professor and the director of the Auto Mobile Pervasive and Embedded Design 9AMPED) Laboratory in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at North Carolina A&T State University
prior to Fall 2016. Thethree major areas of concern for the redesign effort are summarized in Table 1. This paperdescribes the efforts to reach the target population, promote multidisciplinary connections, andprovide a novel curriculum developed around the course workbook5 and designed to enrichstudent learning at Colorado School of Mines.Table 1: Significant Revisions to CSM 151 Implemented in Fall 2016 Target Topic Proposed Solution Improve Course Structure Design in-class activities to develop aspects of spatial visualization and move workbook to out-of-class homework Promote Multidisciplinary Introduce a team research project to explore the role spatial skills Connections play in
the Year Award from the National Society of Black Engineers.Dr. Todd Pagano, Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf Todd Pagano is the Associate Dean for Teaching & Scholarship Excellence and Professor of Chemistry at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf (RIT/NTID) where he is responsible for oversight of NTID’s undergraduate research initiatives and has mentored over sixty Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing undergrads in his own scientific research projects. He was the founding director of the Laboratory Science Technology program at NTID; a unique degree granting program for Deaf/Hard- of-Hearing students. In this role he led the design and