education policy, and academic motivation.Miss Raeven Carmelita WatersMs. Ashley R Taylor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Ashley Taylor is a doctoral student in engineering education at Virginia Polytechnic and State University, where she also serves as a program assistant for the Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity and an advisor for international senior design projects in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Ashley received her MS in Mechanical Engineering, MPH in Public Health Education, and BS in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include broadening participation in engineering, the integration of engineering education and international development, and
minimize unexpected failure, whichinvolves activities from developing experiments within resource constraints, acquiringmeasurement data, and conducting statistical analysis. Through assessing potential failure modesand iterations in specimen-test designs, the research projects provided an effective platform toallow hands-on learning experience where students used various course knowledge in mechanics,probability/statistics, and finite element modeling to achieve the objective. In this paper, wepresent how the mechanical integrity of 3D-printed structures depends on the printing orientationand its implications in predicting failure probability under mass production. Also, considerationsand implementation of the intensive and immersive summer
undergraduate classes as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum. In particular, she is interested in the impact that these tools can have on student perception of the classroom environment, motivation and learning outcomes. She obtained her certifica- tion as a Training and Development Professional (CTDP) from the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) in 2010, providing her with a solid background in instructional design, facilitation and evaluation. She was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Fron- tiers of Engineering Education Symposium in 2013 and awarded the American Society for Engineering Education Educational Research
research focuses on designing the user experience of machine learning systems, particularly in social computing contexts.Prof. Joe Gibbs Politz, University of California San Diego Joe Gibbs Politz is an Associate Teaching Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at University of California San Diego. His research interests and experience include programming languages and systems as well as education for computer science and adjacent fields. He teaches broadly across the computer science curriculum with a focus on introductory programming and programming languages, and develops tools for teaching computing in both collegiate and secondary school settings. When not programming or teaching, he goes to the dog beach
Mechatronics Curriculum and Packaging Automation Laboratory Facility. In 2010 he as Co-PI received NSF-ATE grant entitled Meeting Workforce Needs for Mechatronics Tech- nicians. From 2003 through 2006, he was involved with Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL in developing direct computer control for hydrogen powered automotives. He is also involved in several direct computer control and wireless process control related research projects. His current interests are in the area of packaging machinery system design & control, industrial transducers, industrial process control systems, modeling and simulation of Mechatronics devices and systems in virtual environment, programmable logic controllers, programmable logic
and in learning the professional skills (communications, teamwork, organization, etc.)necessary for success. While most students opted to follow the suggested schedule, about 15% ofstudents instead chose to delay course participation until later in the semester. This varying paceof participation had an unexpected impact on some of the most dedicated students, who found itdifficult to engage in productive discussions online when not all of their classmates wereworking as quickly through the materials.IntroductionSuccessful engineering programs often integrate experiential learning experiences throughout thecurriculum. Cooperative education or internship programs may be the most familiar approach toexperiential learning in engineering; in these
ES220 student wrote: “[r]igid body systems are the basis for structuralengineering.” It was determined that this student did not answer the question, therefore theirresponse was placed in the “no effect” group; if the course had affected their view, they wouldhave answered the question. Responses were characterized as “positive” if they identified factorsthat are integral to the relationship between engineering and social justice or discussed thisrelationship in a positive manner, for example: “[i]t has opened [m]y eyes to the ethicalstandards needed in engineering.” The student clearly indicated that the course impacted howthey saw the need for ethics in engineering, which is an important component to the relationshipbetween engineering and
Nelson Pearson is an Ph.D. student at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research interest includes, social networks and the integration of diverse populations, engineering culture as well as engineering pedagogy. His education includes a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno.Ms. Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Clemson University Jacqueline Rohde is a senior undergraduate student in Bioengineering at Clemson University. Her re- search in engineering education focuses on the development student identity and attitudes with respect to engineering. She is a member of the National Scholars Program, Clemson University’s most prestigious merit-based scholarship. She is also involved in efforts to
].” This course would be expanded to include exposure and experience with electric propulsion designs. As the course materials are already designed and implemented, the redesign would be necessary to judiciously reallocate course time to the topics. c) In AT 44502 Aircraft Electronics, this course is “A study of the computer-based electronic systems used to control both flight and engine parameters on modern aircraft. The course examines the various systems with an emphasis on how each component integrates into the electronic structure of the aircraft [14].” The course would build upon AT 11600, AT 26200, and other courses in the program to examine the use of engine control parameters and integration into
Paper ID #37773Engineering Education for Sustainable Development: A Case Study fromEast China University of Science and TechnologyDr. Huiming Fan, East China University of Science and Technology I am an associate professor from the Institute of Higher Education, East China University of Science and Technology. I got a Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University in 2014. I was also a visiting scholar in the area of University-Industry Collaboration at North Carolina State University.Weijie GAOShi Siyi ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Engineering Education for Sustainable Development- A Case
“cross-cutting foundationalresearch capabilities” to “integrate natural and social science, engineering, and other disciplinaryapproaches” and “build capacity for climate assessment through training, education, andworkforce development.” Realization “requires new approaches to training and curriculum, aswell as research to evaluate the effectiveness of different approaches to research and teaching[1].”Charting a Path to Trans-disciplinary Collaborative Design, is a current NSF project that willevaluate, test, and model pedagogic methods in an existing interdisciplinary hybrid set of coursesdevoted to studying adaptation to sea level rise for urban neighborhoods in Norfolk, VA. Theexisting course set, combines lecture, community engagement, and
. With this concept in mind, this study focuses on the impact of a short-term (few week)cybersecurity micro-credential for K-12 teachers that included resources that aligned to the needsof their students. Over the of two iterations of this micro-credential study, the authors sought toanswer the research question, “What are the micro-credential cybersecurity successes andchallenges identified by the participants based on design thinking framework?” A total of 21 K-12 teacher participants engaged with two micro-credential experiences. The micro-credentialincludes unplugged activities via cybercards, essential vocabularies, and online research-backedresources and focused on an introduction to cybersecurity, the CIA Triad (Confidentiality,Integrity
controls and signal processing research include the design and modeling of intelligent controls, Kalman filters, and automation. Engi- neering education research includes curriculum and laboratory development for these concepts. Page 26.314.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 BYOE: Affordable and Portable Laboratory Kit for Control Systems CoursesPresenter InformationFeel free to contact the presenter for help implementing this in your classroom or laboratory.Rebecca ReckDepartment of Industrial and Enterprise Systems EngineeringUniversity of
1980s an expensive 16-bit ADC had a samplerate of only about 100Ksps. This could only unambiguously sample a signal with a bandwidth of50kHz or less, which was fine for audio, but not for broadband signals, and certainly not fordirect conversion of RF signals. Application specific integrated circuits (ASIC) helped advancehardware digital radios in the 1980s and 90s, and helped to usher in the era of digital mobilephones [2]. Today, ADCs operating with tens of Msps are relatively inexpensive, and for muchsteeper price, several Gsps sampling rates are available. This modern DSP technology hasallowed the ubiquitous use of SDRs, which has reversed the role of digital receivers. Relativelyinexpensive SDRs can now be quickly programmed for an
who feel differently. Additionally, the lastquestion of this section assesses students willingness to a potential change in curriculum. Question Questions Type Identifier D1 I would be surprised if a fellow student mentioned Likert agreement discomfort with this term D2 I would feel empathetic towards a classmate who finds Likert agreement this term problematic D3 I would be accepting of using an alternate phrase if a Likert agreement classmate expressed discomfort with the use of this termTable 3: Pre-CAR and post-CAR questions asked of respondents if they answer "StronglyDisagree" or
by some toexpand the established boundaries of life as defined include technological creations.Also, a topic of more recent interest: laboratory grown meat [29]. Although STS andother academic fields have begun to take an interest in non-human animals, the topic isthinly addressed in engineering ethics literature. And yet, as the primary source oflearning and training for aspiring engineers, engineering education has a responsibility toinclude in its curriculum ethical considerations of animal welfare in the development anddeployment of new engineered systems, and in existing engineering systems.Resources for a new engineering ethicsA good place to introduce engineering students to the idea of engineering with a focus onethics and animals
Paper ID #31635Applications of Linear Algebra applied to Big Data AnalyticsDr. Rajendran Swamidurai, Alabama State University Dr. Rajendran Swamidurai is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Alabama State University. He received his BE in 1992 and ME in 1998 from the University of Madras, and PhD in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Auburn University in 2009. He is an IEEE senior Member.Dr. Cadavious M Jones, Dr. Cadavious M. Jones is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Alabama State University. He received his BS in 2006 and MS in 2008 from Alabama State University, and PhD in Mathematics
their living environment which allows for an overlapbetween students’ social and academic activities.19, 20 COMPASS creates a learning communitybased on cohort participation in STEM based classes with other students like themselves with anopportunity for a residential component based on the students’ specific academic interests, acombination of the types of learning communities mentioned above.To increase the chances of retention, students must be involved early with both faculty and peersin the academic and social systems of the institution.13, 21-25 Learning communities assist in thisprocess.26 Institutions implement learning communities as a way to increase student involvement,build community, create a connection to the curriculum, enhance
for students’ personal actions that foster identification with the disciplinarycommunity [24], [31], [32]. It has since been integrated as a key construct for the development ofan engineering identity due to its critical relevance to students’ decisions of who and what theywant to become [23], [28]. How students understand their interests as consistent with their senseof self is an important consideration as they author their own unique engineering identities [23],[30], [33].In relation to an engineering identity, interest is defined as “a person’s likes, preferences,favorites, affinity toward, or attraction to a subject, topic, or activity [34, p. 1].” Interest isunderstood to consist both of how one feels about something as well as how they
can develop work experiences that fosterincreased student graduation and entry into STEM career pathways. This project, which iscurrently in its first year, seeks to examine how a curriculum that integrates cross-sectorpartnerships to provide work experiences can enhance STEM learning and retention. Usingmixed methods and grounded theory, the project will expand knowledge about: (1) the impact ofcross-sector partnerships that support work-focused experiential teaching and learning; (2)systematic ways to maintain and better use cross-sector partnerships; and (3) the degree to whicha model of work-focused learning experiences can be adopted at other two-year HSIs and byother STEM fields. Baseline data about Hispanic serving identity at the
Paper ID #17843Building Supports for Diversity through Engineering TeamsDr. Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His re- search focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and their learning experiences. His projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers, their problem solving processes, and cultural fit. His education includes a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Bioengineering and Ph.D. in
. Miller, “The effect of a first-year integrated engineering curriculum on graduation rates and student satisfaction: A longitudinal study,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 23–35, 2004.[6] J. E. Froyd and M. W. Ohland, “Integrated Engineering Curricula,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 94, no. 1, pp. 147–164, 2005.[7] B. D. Jones, M. C. Paretti, S. F. Hein, and T. W. Knott, “An analysis of motivation constructs with first-year engineering students: Relationships among expectancies, values, achievement, and career plans,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 99, no. 4, pp. 319–336, 2010.[8] Bechtel Corporation, “Women in Engineering - Profiles of Women Engineers - Bechtel,” 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.bechtel.com/about-us/diversity/women-in
cultural norms are consistently reported as anantidote to the low participation of women in the engineering workforce [3] [4]. This studyinvestigates a potential mechanism for shifting engineering cultural norms with the integration ofempathy in engineering; this may also be a springboard for cultural change and the developmentof a critical mass of women in an engineering. This study employs a well-established informalengineering education program which has educated over 4000 young women over a continuous20-year period. Program curriculum developers focus on methods which guide students to learnmore about engineering, to creatively solve engineering design problems, to connect theirpersonal interests to engineering and to guide learners to
total class time for the term. The researchers were forced to agree with the professors thatwas an inappropriate use of time in design classes. An interesting point raised by the professorsin this study is the appropriateness of the assessment method depends on the class and its role inthe curriculum. In a course aimed primarily at teaching ethics or professional skills, a significantassessment exercise may be appropriate. However, in embedding ethics instruction in designclasses (as Davis and Feinerman were proposing), a more efficient assessment method is calledfor. Interestingly, there was consensus among the professors that 15 minutes at the beginningand end of the course would be an appropriate amount of time for ethics instruction
chemical kinetics as an example shown in Table 1. While the LHETM model can be adaptedto traditional lecture-based formats, its strength lies in its ability to weave together active learningand inductive teaching, thereby promoting students’ cognitive and metacognitive abilities. Themodel follows a structured sequence starting with L (Law), followed by H (Hypothesis), E(Experiment), and T (Theory), integrating M (Mathematics) at any stage where appropriate.Depending on the specific focus or requirements of a topic, instructors have the flexibility to adjustthe order of these elements to best suit the educational objectives.Table 1. Guideline of using LHETM model in teaching chemical kinetics. Way of instruction
, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Kayla is a doctoral student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research interest includes the influence of informal engineering learning experiences on diverse students’ attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions of engineering, and the relationship between students’ interests and the practices and cultures of engineering. Her current work at the FACE lab is on teaching strategies for K-12 STEM educators integrating engineering design and the development of engineering skills of K-12 learners.Dr. Morgan M Hynes, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Morgan Hynes is an Assistant Professor in the School of
writing will not necessarily improvewriting skills. The students find the assignments disconnected from the course content, anddo not have the knowledge to move into disciplinary writing. Teaching writing, however,takes time away from content instruction. To integrate writing into their curriculum,engineering professors need pedagogical models that provide writing support to studentswithout eliminating content instruction time. The writing studio model, developed byresearchers in the field of rhetoric and composition, provides an environment outside of theclassroom to support the students as they develop into disciplinary writers. Using a case studyapproach, the researchers analyze initial data from this pilot course. Students not onlypractice
University. She spent 12 years teaching secondary science and engineering in Oklahoma, and is a 2014 recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.Dr. Nick Lux, Montana State University Dr. Nicholas Lux has is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in MSU’s Department of Education. His teaching and research interests are in the area of educational technology. He has worked in the fields of K-12 and higher education for 18 years, and currently teaches in the Montana State University Teacher Education Program. He has experience in educational technology theory and practice in K-12 contexts and teacher education, with a focus on STEM teaching and learning, technology
graduate degree. In the future, I hope to obtain a masterˆa C™s deLaura E. Cruz, The Pennylvania State University Laura Cruz (Ph.D, UC Berkeley 2001) is an Associate Research Professor for Teaching & Learning Schol- arship with the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at Penn State. She previously served as the director of two Centers for Teaching and Learni ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Hands-Off: Perceptions of Biomedical Engineering Technology Internships under a Global PandemicAbstractInternships are an integral component of bio-medical engineering programs, as they providestudents with hands-on experience working in real-world settings. To fully
includedlunch and opening remarks from an Epicenter Research Team leader who described thepurpose of the gathering. Later in the afternoon, the hosts launched a series of panel sessions.Each session was convened around a theme aligned with the FIGS research questions, i.e.,“students,” “programs,” and “curriculum.”6 The panels featured a moderator who was acontent-area expert and three to four panel members who were content-area expert scholars orpractitioners, selected on the basis of biographical and research statements that each attendeeprovided as part of the Summit registration process.Table 1 shows the central questions around which panelists were asked to organize theircomments, by session (names and affiliations of all presenters are included in