EducationAbstract—Women and minortized groups share a common sense of belonging or, moreaccurately, lack of a sense of belonging in STEM, which exacerbates their underrepresentation inSTEM education and careers. Furthermore, an abundance of literature demonstrates that thisshared lack of belonging negatively influences their academic performance and persistence. Inengineering education specifically, research indicates that a lack of belonging contributes toundergraduate student attrition regardless of gender and race/ethnicity.Therefore, we proposed a project entitled “Promoviendo el Éxito Estudiantil a través de unSistema de Apoyo (PromESA): Promoting Student Success through a Social, Academic, andInstitutional Support System in Engineering Education
. degrees in mechanical engineering from Rice University. Among his research interests is Engineering Education.Dr. Karen Lozano, The University of Texas, Rio Grande ValleyDr. Javier A. OrtegaDr. Eleazar Marquez, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley Eleazar Marquez is a Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas Grande Valley. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 The Freshman Year Innovator Experience (FYIE): Bridging the URM Gap in STEMThe project focuses on increasing “effective STEM education and broadening participation” inunderrepresented minority (URM) STEM students at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley(UTRGV) to
Technologies at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has conducted research at both university and K-12 levels, with a focus on STEM learning and on the impact of different technologies on teaching and learning. She has directed evaluations of multi-year projects funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education and the National Science Foundation, and served on Dept. of Education and NSF Advisory and Review panels. Dr. Lowes has worked extensively with Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Stevens In- stitute of Technology’s School of Engineering and Science. She has co-authored papers and presentations on STEM learning in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Dr. Lowes is also Adjunct Professor
consecutive summers (2011-2014), she worked in the National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education on research and evaluation projects related to the use of technology in STEM education. Dr. London masters mixed methods and computational tools to address complex problems, including: science policy issues surrounding STEM learning in cyberlearning environments; evaluation and impact analysis of federal investments in R&D; and applications of simulation & model- ing tools to evaluate programs.Dr. Aditya Johri, George Mason University Aditya Johri is Associate Professor and Chair in the Applied Information Technology Department. Dr. Johri studies the use of information and communication technologies
1993, he has taught courses and laboratories in engineering mechanics, design, and entrepreneurship. His other responsibilities include undergraduate academic advising, senior design project supervision, undergraduate research supervision, and graduate research supervision. Dr. Bucinell has advised the SAE Baja, SAE Formula, and projects related to the ASME Human Powered Vehicle project. Dr. Bucinell has directed the International Virtual Design Studio project that ran in collaboration with the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey; Altim University in Ankara, Turkey; and ESIGELEC in Rouen, France. He also founded a chapter of Engineers Without Boarders at Union College and has traveled to Boru Village
Paper ID #10330Development of Agent-based Tutor & Simulator System and Assessment ofInstructional Modules Implemented in areas of Quality Control, Metrologyand PrototypingDr. Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.) Dr. Ciobanescu –Husanu received her PhD degree in mechanical engineering from Drexel University in 2005 and also hold a MS degree in aeronautical engineering from Polytechnic University of Bucharest. Her dissertation was on numerical investigation of fuel droplet interactions at near zero Reynolds numbers. Other research projects involved computational evaluation of Icing Scaling Methods
California and B.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from India.Dr. Pramod Abichandani, New Jersey Institute of TechnologyMs. Heydi L. Dominguez, New Jersey Institute of Technology Heydi Dominguez is a fourth-year undergraduate student pursuing her Bachelorˆa C™s Degree in Me- chanical Engineering and minoring in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Heydi is a first generation college student who isCraig IaboniKevin Alexander Nino ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Using the ARCS Model of Motivation to design 9-12 CS CurriculumAbstractThis ongoing project provides an overview on the use of the Attention, Relevance,Confidence
team that has developed innovative ways to integrate Humanities, Science, Math, and Engineering curriculum into a studio based education model. In 2015, Sriram was selected as the Outstanding Young Alumni of the year by the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. Sriram serves as a facilitator for MACH, a unique faculty development experience, aimed at helping faculty and administrator develop a change agent tool box American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Let's Write About Impact!: Creating Persuasive Impact Statements to Disseminate and Propagate RED Research Principal investigators (PIs) and project
Special Education at Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. in Education and Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on the development of achievement motivation in educational settings and the interplay among motivation, emotions, and learning, especially in STEM fields. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Understanding the Impact of Institutional Supports on the Motivation, Belonging, Identity Development, and Persistence of Engineering StudentsAbstractThis NSF PFE-RIEF project is giving the PI an immersive experience working on social scienceresearch that
Professor at LeTourneau University. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology from LeTourneau in 1994 then proceeded to spend 16 years in industry focusing on machine and civil design as well as project management. In 2010 he began his teaching career at his alma mater to share his experiences with engineering and technology students. He earned a masters in Engineering Project Management from Eastern Michigan University in 2014. He is currently a co-PI on the schools NSF-STEP retention grant. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Six Years of Freshman Retention Efforts: Where are We Now?AbstractThe First-Year Initiatives for Retention Enhancement (FIRE) project
CMMI Division. Like many faculty at strictly undergraduate institutions, weroutinely provide opportunities for students to work on research projects and fund this researchin some situations through external grants. An innovation in this particular grant was the creationof a research collaboration between faculty and students at Lafayette and an NSF-fundedEngineering Research Center (ERC). As stated on the NSF website, “The goal of the ERCProgram is to integrate engineering research and education with technological innovation totransform national prosperity, health, and security.” To accomplish this goal, collaborationsbetween ERCs and other institutions are inherent in the work of an ERC; however, researchcollaborations between ERCs and small
]. While this decision is reasonable from an operational andresource management perspective, research on large classes have shown that students sufferdecreased academic engagement, motivation and achievement [3]–[5] . Instructors, on the otherhand, report having difficulty establishing rapport with their students and a growing inability tomonitor students’ learning gains and provide quality individualized feedback [4]–[6]. To addressthese issues, our project draws from Lattuca and Stark’s Academic Plan model [9], whichincorporates a thorough consideration of factors influencing curricular activities that can beapplied at the course, program, and institutional levels, and assumes that instructors are keyactors in curriculum development and revision
involved in research and evaluation on science, technology, engineering and mathematics education and issues of race/ethnicity, gender and disability for over 30 years. Her BS (Mathematics) is from LeMoyne College and MS (In- structional Technology) and PhD (Teacher Education) are from Syracuse University. Dr. Campbell an Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Fellow, has authored more than 100 publications including coauthoring Building Evaluation Capacity: Guide I Designing A Cross Project Evaluation and Guide II Collecting and Using Data in Cross-Project Evaluations”; ”A Framework for Evaluating Impacts of Informal Science Education Projects”; ”Engagement, Capacity and Continuity: A Trilogy for Student Success
faculty with little or no experience conducting social science research. TheRIEF grants support a two-year collaborative research project where an engineering facultymember is mentored by one or more engineering education researchers. Since 2016, the PFE:RIEF program has supported more than 40 projects across over 45 institutions. The present workdescribes preliminary efforts to build a community for new engineering educators and theirmentors in the NSF PFE: RIEF program. This community will facilitate interactions across teamsto share experiences and resources, and to expand professional networks. The goal is to build acommunity with multi-modal communication (i.e. in person meetings, online communication,etc.) to nucleate engineering faculty
Outstanding Teaching, RIT’s premiere teaching award. Dr. Kim has directed numerous undergraduate research projects and undergraduate and graduate research competitions in the 2012 GPEC (Global Plastics Environment Conference; Division of Society of Plastics Engineers). Page 23.1268.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Transforming Undergraduate Curriculum for Green Plastics Manufacturing Technology (GPMT)Student-Centered Learning and POGIL ApproachAll learning involves knowledge construction in one form or another; therefore, it is aconstructivist process.1,2
Engineering Design Pedagogy ResearchAbstractProject-based design classes are increasingly common in undergraduate engineeringprograms. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of guidelines to support the development,implementation and efficacy evaluation of such new courses. Engineering design projectsfrequently serve as experiential learning activities for students to appropriately apply amethodical design process to specific design contexts. However, it is challenging forinstructors to ensure that students achieve the intended learning objectives within project-based design classes. It is also difficult for researchers to directly compare design processesfollowed by students within different learning environments. These challenges are partly dueto
, international construction, project delivery systems, statistical methods for construction engineers, project management practices, and engineering educational research methods. He is an active member of the American Society for Engineering Education and American Society of Civil Engineers, Construction Research Council of Construction Institute, ASCE. Page 26.352.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Closing Achievement Gaps using the Green-BIM Teaching Method in Construction Education Curriculum Jin-Lee Kim
Director for the Engineering Plus program. She has served as the Associate Chair for UndergraduateDr. Joseph Polman Polman Joe Polman is a Professor of Learning Sciences and Science Education, as well as Associate Dean for Research, in the School of Education at University of Colorado Boulder. He designs and studies project-based learning environments for youth in schools andProf. Michael Hannigan Michael P. Hannigan is an Associate Professor in the University of Colorado’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Southern Methodist University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Science from Calt ©American Society for Engineering Education
Virginia University. While her doctorate is in Curriculum and Instruction, focusing on higher education teaching of STEM fields, she also holds B.S. and M.A. degrees in Mathematics. Dr. Hensel has over seven years of experience working in engineering teams and in project management and administration as a Mathematician and Computer Systems Analyst for the U. S. Department of Energy as well as more than 25 years of experience teaching mathematics, statistics, computer science, and first-year engineering courses in higher education institutions. Currently, she leads a team of faculty who are dedicated to providing first-year engineering students with a high- quality, challenging, and engaging educational experience with
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849 5 Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849 * Corresponding authorAbstractThe importance of data science and engineering (DSE) education cannot be overstated andundergraduate education offers a critical link in providing more DSE exposure to students andexpanding the supply of DSE talent. Currently significant progress has been made in classwork,while progress in hands-on research experience is still lacking. To help fill this gap, we proposeto create data-enabled engineering project (DEEP) modules in the form of interactive JupyterNotebooks based on real data and applications. We
of the mostsignificant SIMPLE Design principles over two different NSF-funded projects. In theprojects discussed here, we examine a collaborative, reflective process grounded inproduct development and in work with other STEM faculty who have an interest inimproving and refining their teaching. Our guiding research question over both studies is:How can teaching development groups serve to support instructors in learning about andimplementing interactive teaching strategies?The SIMPLE Design FrameworkThe principal idea that frames both the SIMPLE Design framework and the decisionsmade about the design and implementation of this project is that teaching is a designprocess. Laurillard describes teaching as design (similar to engineering or
engineering from Northwestern University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Outcomes & Lessons Learned from a NSF-REU Site on Metrology & Non-Destructive InspectionAbstractThe objective of this paper is to detail the outcomes and lessons learned over the past three yearsof the project cycle, from a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU) site on metrology and non-destructive inspection (NDI). Besidesdetailing the evolution of the major activities over the course of the project progression, theproject performance in terms of meeting outcomes and the lessons learned will be elaborated on.The goal of this REU site was to enhance
) Participatory Action Research (PAR) project, a practice-research collaboration that provides customized faculty de- velopment support for 26 RED project teams. Williams’ publications on academic change, assessment, engineering and professional communication, tablet PCs, and ungrading have appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education and IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, among others. She has been awarded grants from Microsoft, HP, the Engineering Communication Foundation, and National Science Foundation. She has received numerous awards, including the 2015 Schlesinger Award (IEEE Professional Communication Society) and 2010 Sterling Olmsted Award (ASEE Liberal Education Divi- sion).Dr. Eva Andrijcic
students.Students therefore often struggle to identify with the profession and are not ready for theworkforce when they graduate. This NSF PFE: RIEF project examines a unique experiencewhere a student-faculty-industry integrated community is created to help bridge the gap betweenindustry needs and the competencies developed within chemical engineering programs.The project's main goal is to better understand how implementing contemporary industryproblems into one of the sophomore chemical engineering courses impacts students’ engineeringidentity formation and self-efficacy development. To analyze the impacts of the intervention, thisproject employs design-based research (DBR) approach to guide the development,implementation, and evaluation of materials and
- facts. Her outreach work focuses on creating resources for K-12 educators to support engineering edu- cation in the classroom. She is also the founder of STOMP (stompnetwork.org), LEGOengineering.com (legoengineering.com) and the Teacher Engineering Education Program (teep.tufts.edu).Jessica Watkins, Vanderbilt University Jessica Watkins is Assistant Professor of Science Education at Vanderbilt University.Dr. Rebecca D. Swanson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach Dr. Swanson is a postdoctoral research associate studying teacher learning in an online graduate-level engineering education program at Tufts University. Prior to joining the CEEO at Tufts, Dr. Swanson worked on research projects studying
University, West Lafayette Anna earned her M.S. Ed in School Counseling and PhD in Educational Psychology from Purdue Univer- sity. Her research interests are related to measurement and assessment in engineering education. Page 26.1054.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Large-scale Research on Engineering Design in Secondary Classrooms: Big Learner Data Using Energy3D Computer-Aided DesignAbstractThrough a five-year collaborative project, the Concord Consortium and Purdue University areapplying a data-intensive approach to study one of the most fundamental research topics
buildrelationships with other scholars from diverse STEM disciplines. The seminar coursework iscentered on semester-long investigative projects designed and completed by teams, typicallymultidisciplinary ones. A small group of faculty oversees the seminar and selection of scholars.Our approach in this program is to provide faculty mentoring for the scholars while alsodeveloping stepping-stone peer-mentoring for professional development. This structure supportsstudents and helps them develop leadership qualities. The recipients, as defined by the programcriteria, are diverse: multiple majors (all eligible STEM majors are included), male, female, andnon-traditional students, as well as students with different ethnicities, religious affiliations,backgrounds
Paper ID #44529Board 257: Engineering BRIDGE Program to Enhance Transfer Students’Sense of BelongingDr. Jeyoung Woo, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Jeyoung Woo is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). He is a registered Professional Engineer (Civil - Construction) in Texas. He has worked in the industry for nine years as a project manager, a corporate quality manager, a field engineer, and a designer. Also, he conducted several research projects about construction labor productivity, construction safety
this grant, he advised over 500 individual calculus students on their course projects. He was given an Outstanding Advising Award by USF and has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards at the department, college, university (Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teaching Award) and state (TIP award) levels. Scott is also a co-PI of a Helios-funded Middle School Residency Program for Science and Math (for which he teaches the capstone course) and is on the leadership committee for an NSF IUSE grant to transform STEM Education at USF. His research is in the areas of solution thermodynamics and environmental monitoring and modeling.Dr. James Franklin Wysong Jr, Hillsborough Community College Dr. James Wysong has
, such as sight distance and vertical curve equations. Five themes emerged from theethnographic data relating concept and context1:Theme 1 - Sequential relationship between project constraint identification and utility ofthe concept.Identifying project constraints preceded the utilization of concepts during the roundabout project.Project constraints consisted of client preferences, minimum standards set by relevant regulatingagencies, right-of-way limitations, scheduling, and stakeholder perception. Conceptmanifestation, such as roundabout and curve geometry, always followed site planningconstraints, such as right-of-way limitations and water drainage. Therefore members of theproject team utilized explicit transportation engineering design