, University of Virginia Sarah Lilly is a PhD student in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Special Education at the University of Virginia. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics and English and an M.A.Ed. in Secondary Educa- tion from The College of William and Mary. Her research centers on STEM education, particularly using qualitative methods to understand the integration of math and science concepts with computational mod- eling and engineering design practices in technology-enhanced learning environments. Prior to beginning doctoral work, she taught secondary mathematics for four years as well as created and implemented an interdisciplinary, project-based mathematics, science, and principles-of-technology
shift in pedagogical practices among industrial engineering educators, ultimatelyempowering the next generation of industrial engineers to drive innovation and progress in theindustry.IntroductionCuriosity is a primary motivator of learning, invention, and innovation. Curiosity is essential inengineering education for fostering critical thinking, problem-solving, and lifelong learning skillsrequired to face 21st-century issues [1], [2], [3]. Lindholm [4] posited strongly that modernity isfundamentally rooted in curiosity, which serves as a catalyst for knowledge acquisition, freshperspectives, and creative thinking in both individuals and groups. In the opinion of Pluck andJohnson [5], curiosity is an aspect of intrinsic motivation with great
. Undergraduate teaching assistants are integral tostudent success in the course. As the first points of contact for students, they assist with contentdelivery, guide students through hands-on labs and projects, and deliver feedback onassignments. Effective undergraduate teaching assistants are peer leaders and mentors to first-year students; through these workshops, we seek to ground their leadership and mentorshipapproaches in principles of global inclusion, diversity, belonging, equity, and access (GIDBEA).In this work, we outline the workshop curriculum. Scaffolded into three parts, the workshop isdesigned to provide the teaching assistants with the ability to recognize and confront bias amongindividuals and within teams, help them develop an
experiences into the curriculum. Leadership strategies that may feel uncomfortable to undergraduate students will become increasingly relevant as they gain experience with organizational contexts outside of the university classroom, but it can be overwhelming for them to wait until they leave university to learn these skills. Two historically popular strategies for integrating workplace learning into engineering education are semester long co-op terms and 16-month internships. If these two options are not feasible in a particular institutional Page 26.1519.12 context, it is possible to infuse meaningful experiential
experientialsettings, as evidenced by their higher levels of motivation and achievement. Furthermore, theauthors call for higher levels of faculty engagement with, and support of, diverse learner styles,toward building diversified teams of problem-solvers. The authors push against the traditionalrhetoric of diversity as an end in itself, and advocate for statistically balanced representation inthe student population and attention to diverse learning styles. By examining the ABET EC 2000 Criteria, Smith [5] concludes that the proposed criteria willbe difficult to achieve by certain students unless current engineering curriculums andpedagogical approaches are radically restructured. Smith ([5], p. 2) states, “student learningstyles encompass the spectrum of
Paper ID #41858High School Students’ Perspectives on Pre-college Engineering EducationCourses (Fundamental)Jialing Wu, Vanderbilt University Jialing Wu is an incoming first-year PhD student in Engineering Education at the Ohio State University. She earned her M.Ed. in International Education Policy and Management at Vanderbilt University, Peabody College, and also holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from China. Her research interests encompass international engineering education, pre-college engineering, as well as the application of quantitative methods and advanced technology in Engineering Education
Precollege division of ASEE in 2004; was awarded NAE’s 2008 Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education, and was conferred as an ASEE Fellow in 2011. She has served on multiple NAE committees, and on the NSF ENG division’s Advisory Committee. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Minority Status and Belonging: Engineering Math as a Vehicle to Build CommunityAbstractThis research explored feelings of belonging and engineering identity among entering first yearstudents, within the case study of an engineering math course at a large, public institution.Incoming first-year students who did not place
multi-dimensional model of engagement will serve as a better predictor of academic performance and retention for low-income STEM students than a single-dimensional model. 3. Specific Aim #3: Develop a platform to identify warning signs of engagement that may give advisors an early indication that a student is at risk of leaving school. o We hypothesize that a platform displaying multi-dimensional engagement levels over time will work as a better early warning tool for advisors than tracking end- of-semester grades alone.At the end of the S-STEM grant term, we will have developed an engaging two-year project-based curriculum in STEM including technical hands-on activities
. This percentage for engineering courses was mere 0.86%. This is unfortunate since theinfrastructure required for online education has been primary developed by engineers.The perceived obstacles in widespread integration of online courses in engineering curriculumscan be divided into two categories: physical obstacles and cultural obstacles. A major physicalbarrier is how to provide hands-on trainings, which traditionally take place in laboratories andmachine shops, in an online setting. However, this may not be a major problem since, contrary towhat one may expect, the data shows that online education is primary “local”. A little over half ofall students who took at least one online course took some face-to-face courses at the sameinstitution
. For example, Rowland28 found that uncertainty canprolong engagement and motivation and Doyle4 found that teachers are able to cushion the riskof uncertainty and encourage students to try more challenging open ended-tasks by providingopportunities for feedback or offering bonus points. Beyond a few studies, there is little researchon how exactly teachers leverage uncertainty within an academic task as a pedagogical tool.This study aims to address the lack of research by specifically examining the uncertainties thatmanifest as a teacher integrates an engineering design task.MethodsContext. This exploratory case study was done in the context of a grant-funded program towardthe development of a middle school engineering curriculum and the
- taminant transport, phytoremediation, ecological restoration and mathematical modeling of environmental systems. He specializes in providing access to undergraduate education in engineering and sciences to underrepresented minorities.Dr. Edison Perdomo, Central State University Dr. Edison Perdomo is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Central State University. His interest include the role of psychological function in the regulation of physiological mechanisms such as cardio- vascular and thermoregulations. Additionally, he is interested in cross-cultural differences in learning and communication styles and in studying how psycho-social differences can affect the rate of seeking medi- cal attention and compliance as
Paper ID #25333Alumni Feedback and Reflections on Industrial Demands and Transdisci-plinary Engineering Design EducationMs. Alyona Sharunova, University of Alberta Alyona Sharunova, BSc., is an Education Consultant at the Faculty of Engineering and a former Research Assistant at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta. Her background is in Psychology, Design, and Educational Development. The scope of her work lies in Transdisciplinary Engi- neering Education, Design Processes, Teaching and Learning Methodologies, Cognitive and Educational Psychology, and Curriculum Design and Enhancement.Miss
diverse students at UCSD by serving on the faculty advisory board for the IDEA Student Center. Her research is focused on engagement strategies for large classrooms and the development of K-16 curriculum in earthquake engineering. Page 26.1595.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Tracking Student Engagement with a Touchscreen App for Spatial Visualization Training and Freehand SketchingAbstractThe Spatial Visualization Trainer (SVT) App was developed for an iPad to enable students tofreehand sketch isometrics and orthographic projections. The App consists of
participate. Each summer, at least one week-long camp was offered forstudents in grades 3-8th, each with a distinct theme per grade-level. The eighth-grade theme was“rocketry and algebraic reasoning.” Each camp is organized to include a morning teambuildingactivity, a STEM career awareness module, an algebraic reasoning model, a science contentmodule, and an engineering module. The curriculum was developed by Martinez Ortiz (2015) asan integrated program that embeds NASA science and engineering hands-on activities along witha variety of career awareness readings, videos and online resources as guided by science and mathlearning standards for eighth grade. The content was delivered by an instructional team consistingof a teacher, a college pre-service
who completed the workshopbecame strong contributors and leaders in the Innovation Space.The workshop itself utilizes team-based experiential learning [6], coupled with real-life problemsto demonstrate the steps required to work through the engineering design process. By practicingand learning these skills the students become better prepared to interact in their engineeringcourses. Many of the personal interactions required of the workshop participants between facultyand their peers are what would be expected of them in their engineering curriculum. By havingthe students work on actual university related design problems, their interest level remains highand they tend to display more ownership of their solutions. Having an open-ended
this course are offered with total enrollment varyingbetween 115 to 255, this number is expected to rise. This course has CS1 as a prerequisite so weexpect students to have some programming experience. We chose to use python in this course, asit is easy-to-use across many topics. It is a bonus that this allows us to introduce a language that isotherwise not a standard part of our lower-division curriculum.Our experience working with undergraduate research students helped inform our decisions abouttechnologies and approaches for this course. Mentoring undergraduate research students as theylearned python, git, and SQL helped reinforce the need for these topics in our curriculum andprovided an opportunity to try various tutorials, IDEs, and
were just aseager to learn about how to teach these concepts to students. The lead instructors took time todiscuss instructional strategies with the faculty participants, pointing out commonmisconceptions and common mistakes made by students. These discussions were interspersedthroughout the institute program, so that participants were engaged in a learning format thatalternated between digesting new information and skills, and integrating this information intotheir instructional repertoire. Equally important was providing participants with instructionalmaterials in an accessible format that they could easily utilize in their classrooms. Participants inthe workshop were provided with both teacher lesson plans and student handouts for each of
Impact of a Clinical Observations and Needs Finding Course on Biomedical Engineering Education OutcomesAbstractIn the field of biomedical engineering, needs identification and solution development are animportant element of the design process. In our undergraduate curriculum, a course was designedto allow clinical observation and provide an opportunity for students to learn about engineeringdesign and engage with clinicians via completing rotations in medical facilities near our campus.While this type of course is not unique, evaluating its efficacy is not simple. Given the broadrange of institutional resources available- such as proximity to a medical school, or residencyprograms- reporting the quality of such courses within the
&M Engineering Academies, which is the first engineering transition program of its kind in the United States. This innovative program provides a pathway to students interested in pursuing an engineering degree at Texas A&M University. Students admitted to an Engineering Academy are Texas A&M engineering students co‐enrolled at Texas A&M University in the College of Engineering and at a participating 2‐year institution. They enroll in math, science and core curriculum courses through the 2‐year and have the unique opportunity to enroll in Texas A&M engineering courses taught by Texas A&M faculty on the 2‐year campus. Students can spend a minimum of one year up to a maximum of two years co‐enrolled before transitioning
Microsoft employees, for Sept. 20’s climate strike. Fortune Magazine. [Online]. Available: https://fortune.com/2019/09/16/global-climate-strike-protest-google-amazon-microsoft-walkout/20. Edwards, J. R., & Cable, D. M. (2009). The value of value congruence. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(3), 654-677.21. Edwards, J. R., & Shipp, A. J. (2007). The relationship between person-environment fit and outcomes: An integrative theoretical framework. In Eds. C. Ostroff & T. A. Judge, Perspectives on Organizational Fit. Jossey-Bass.22. Jehn, K. A., Chadwick, C., & Thatcher, S. M. (1997). To agree or not to agree: The effects of value congruence, individual demographic dissimilarity, and conflict on
reflection “on the service activity in such a way as to gain further understanding of the course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility” [16]. Performing civic-engagement projects without reflecting upon the experience is simply volunteerism [17]. For greatest impact towards the project goals, students must evaluate what happened, how the events fit within their curriculum and personal development, and how their behavior will change in the future as a result of the experience. Figure 1: Project Method OverviewThe activities of this program depend upon a wide variety of partners both internal and externalto Wartburg College. The
to consider and design with ethical, equity, andsocial justice implications in mind. Further, there is still a general lack of diversity ofstakeholder parameters in early engineering design classes. Introduction to systems engineeringcourses lack integration of current thinking on community engagement ethics and that absencecan be seen across the systems engineering curriculum, as well. We ask: How do we createlearning opportunities/engineering interventions that are technically sound, and also prioritizecommunity voice, cultural appropriateness, and contextual efficacy? In this paper, we reviewthree methods of stakeholder analysis taught in system engineering courses and identify whereand how one can integrate community voices through a
Paper ID #42012Board 397: Sustainable Racial Equity: Creating a New Generation of EngineeringEducation DEI LeadersDr. Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Homero Murzi (he/´el/his) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with honorary appointments at the University of Queensland (Australia) and the University of Los Andes (Venezuela). Homero is the leader of the Engineering Competencies, Learning, and Inclusive Practices for Success (ECLIPS) Lab, where he leads a team focused on doing research on contemporary, culturally relevant, and
communications.4 Participating inundergraduate research is also a proven strategy for recruiting and retaining students fromdiverse backgrounds into STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields.5–9Well-structured undergraduate research programs provide opportunities for students to engage inknowledge discovery, production and meaning-making.10 Undergraduate research programs canalso promote what Hodge, Baxter Magolda, and Haynes11 have described as an engagedlearning approach: “Guid[ing] students to develop an internally defined and integrated belief system and identity, which prepare them personally and intellectually for lifelong learning. Actively engag[ing] students in discovering new knowledge in a sequenced
started, I have reworked some of my teaching activities in this and otherclasses. Further, our department is holding one of our CPREE meeting/workshops specifically onissues related to group work in our engineering and pre-engineering classrooms. In our first plenarymeeting, we spent time talking about what our image of successful students is: what changes we wishto affect in them over the term. All of these were set off by the process of reflecting on reflecting. I do think this is actually connected to a fundamental issue in education - that the curriculum wegenerate for students is informed by an image of what sort of people we want to produce at the end ofthe educational or training process and that for instructors to take the time to
. CSM’s curriculum also engages students in humanities, ethics, and social sciences.Students can earn a minor in Public Affairs through the 21-credit hour McBride Honors Program,which integrates STEM, liberal arts, public policy, anthropology, and experiential learning to givestudents a well-rounded education. Additionally, students can earn an 18-credit hour HumanitarianEngineering Minor, which emphasizes how engineering can contribute to co-creating just andsustainable solutions for communities.SummaryWe believe findings from our longitudinal, mixed-methods study will have considerablepotential to enhance ongoing efforts to cultivate social and ethical responsibility among futureengineers, including by investigating differences in perceptions
water curricula tomeet industry demands. Therefore, developing water-related courses in Egypt is a must. Development of the finalized undergraduate courses listed in Table 5 is underway byEPU faculty teams with assistance from US university Center collaborators. Initiation of therevised water curriculum throughout the five EPU water programs is scheduled to begin inFall of 2021 with the initiation of prerequisite courses across all EPUs, followed byadditional water engineering courses being introduced in subsequent semesters by select EPUmembers and broadcast to all EPU programs through an online MOODLE LMS. For future research, getting students' perspectives on courses' importance can addadvantages to the adjusted curricula
computer simulation ofphysical problems demanded by industry. In terms of delivery, instructors often blend traditionallectures with practical exercises using tools like ANSYS or MATLAB to ensure that students gainboth theoretical knowledge and practical experience [4]. Many programs also integrate project-based learning to help students better understand how FEM is applied in real-world engineeringscenarios [5]. Lately, full online asynchronous courses on the introduction of FEA have beenemerging in various education platforms such as Coursera, LinkedIn Learning, and EdX.Balancing the range of topics in a finite element analysis course requires thoughtful planning,especially with limited credits in the curriculum. The emphasis on practical
also describe the evolution of this ethics lesson from an earlier classroom activityinvolving precision and accuracy in data measurement, which has been used in high school,college and continuing education settings for more than two decades. This paper describes thedevelopment of the curriculum; lessons learned from the classroom; and an analysis of studentartifacts from the most recent offering as part of an engineering undergraduate research programat Michigan State University. The lesson materials are provided in appendices, in order to allowother educators to adapt these materials for their own classrooms.Background: Ethical Practices in ResearchKenneth D. Pimple summarized the responsible conduct of research (RCR) as the search for“truth
deliverables that do not address the problem.Design is inherently nonlinear, inefficient, and complex [4], [5]. Students often find thereality of engineering design overwhelming the first time they experience it. They beginundergraduate engineering programs learning science and math through formats steepedin a learning culture that is linear and process-oriented to identify the single answers tocarefully constructed problems. Consequently, students demonstrate significantdiscomfort or reticence when thrust into situations in which they are expected to embracea nonlinear, circuitous process to solve an ill-defined problem. In these circumstancesstudents employ their practiced, linear paradigms and struggle to engage in the requisitework of