Effectiveness, she worked as the Education Project Manager for the NSF-funded JTFD Engineering faculty development program, as a high school math and science teacher, and as an Assistant Principal and Instructional & Curriculum Coach.Lydia Ross, Arizona State University Lydia Ross is a doctoral candidate and graduate research assistant at Arizona State University. Her re- search interests focus on higher education equity and access, particularly within STEM.Prof. Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause is professor in the Materials Science Program in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and
, Computer Graphics, Materials Science and laboratory courses. Since 2015 she has been actively involved in the University of Miami College of Engineering’s ”Redefining Engineering Education” strategic plan on educational innovation. As part of this plan, Dr. Basalo worked with 2 other faculty members to organize inaugural Senior Design Expo in May 2017, an exposition where over 200 senior students showcased their Capstone projects to the University of Miami community, alumni and industry leaders. Starting in 2016 and through her work with the University of Miami’s Engaged Faculty Fellowship program, Dr. Basalo incorporated an academic service component into the final project for a sophomore-level Measurements Lab course
1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He served as Project Director a National Science Foun- dation (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, curriculum 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 Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the American So- ciety for Engineering Education (ASEE), an ABET Program Evaluator, the Editor-in-Chief for the
emphasize multiple modes of reflective output, including written text,drawings, and both audio and video recordings. A culminating student project is also presented.The project is a reflective work centered on helping students to plan their personal developmenttowards becoming a “world class engineering student” through the use of gap analysis.IntroductionStudent success in engineering is not only dependent on academic talent, but also the ability todevelop the right attitudes and behaviors required to be successful in the demanding collegecoursework. At Highline College we focus on changing student behavior through the use ofreflective teaching practices. A list of successful student behaviors is provided below: • Successful engineering
Geodetic Engineering from the University of the Philippines, his MS in Geode- tic Science from the Ohio State University, and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include technology-enhanced instruction and increasing the representation of female, minority and other underrepresented groups in mathematics, science and engi- neering.Prof. Nicholas P. Langhoff, Skyline College Nicholas Langhoff is an associate professor of engineering and computer science at Skyline College in San Bruno, California. He is also a co-investigator for multiple grant projects at Ca˜nada College in Redwood City, California. He received his M.S. degree from San Francisco State
Instead of relying on coordinators contracts started a threeday bootcamp. It provided to do all training, departmental week prior to the an overview of policies, the course experts led some sessions. This start of classes, thus project, the learning management reduced monotony for attendees limiting training system, and university online and leveraged expertise of options. recordkeeping systems, as well as colleagues. We found that if prepared instructors to teach the bootcamp is optional, those first two weeks of course content. missing training are behind. Instructors had a Deliberate decisions
-certified administrative processes. These good practices are havingimpact on an steadily increasing enrollment, a high employment rate and high satisfaction of theemployers. We firmly believe that one key factor that accounts for the attainment of our PEOs isthe strong collaboration with the regional industry which help us to offer a realistic project-basedexperience to our students which often results in successful research projects and publications.We also believe that our model can be of help for other Latin American engineering programstrying to evolve to international standards.IntroductionThe aim of these paper is to share, in a somewhat colloquial way, our experience in adapting ouracademic practices and processes to comply with the
Paper ID #12645Combining Digital with Analog Circuits in a Core Course for a Multidisci-plinary Engineering CurriculumDr. Harold R Underwood, Messiah College Dr. Underwood received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC) in 1989, and has been a faculty member of the engineering Department at Mes- siah College since 1992. Besides teaching Circuits, Electromagnetics, and Communications Systems, he supervises engineering students in the Communications Technology Group on credited work in the In- tegrated Projects Curriculum (IPC) of the Engineering Department, and other
Industry).The Mandala and Semester Project Assignments are designed to help students develop theircreative problem-solving skills. Both assignments required students to use their imaginations tovisualize and construct a physical model. Although both assignments are designed to promotecreative problem-solving, the author used these assignments to illustrate how civility componentscan also be incorporated into them.The Mandala Presentations occurred in Week 9 and the Semester Project Presentations occurredin Week 13 of the semester. During the first 9 weeks of the semester, students learned aboutvisualization, mental barriers to creativity and the phases of the creative problem-solvingprocess. The Mandala and Project assignments provided an
has been serving as a principle investigator of many research projects, funded by NSF, NASA, DoEd, KSEF and LMC. He is currently serving as an editor of Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces.Dr. Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.) Irina Ciobanescu Husanu, Ph. D. is Assistant Clinical Professor with Drexel University, Engineer- ing Technology program. Her area of expertise is in thermo-fluid sciences with applications in micro- combustion, fuel cells, green fuels and plasma assisted combustion. She has prior industrial experience in aerospace engineering that encompasses both theoretical analysis and experimental investigations such as designing and testing of propulsion systems
engaged or wouldhave a limited exposure to STEM fields. Moreover, outreach activities have been used as onesolution to the current US shortage of professionals in engineering and science10.According to the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), service learninghas been identified as one of the high-impact teaching and learning practices11. Programs, likeEngineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS), have been created to include servicelearning activities into the engineering curriculum. Service learning is a well-known andeffective pedagogical method that engages learners of diverse backgrounds, especially those ofunderrepresented backgrounds12-14.The project described in this paper combined the service learning pedagogy
Annual Engineering Expo for the past 7 years. The Annual Engineering Expo is a COE’s flagship event where all senior students showcase their Design projects and products. More than 700 participants from public, industry and academia attend this event annually. Dr. Darabi is an ABET IDEAL Scholar and has led the MIE Department ABET team in two successful accreditations (2008 and 2014) of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering programs. Dr. Darabi has been the lead developer of several educational software systems as well as the author of multiple educational reports and papers. Dr. Darabi’s research group uses Big Data, process mining, data mining, Operations Research, high performance computing, and
introduce BME applications to high school students,the authors developed a BME high school summer program that was piloted in the summer of2019. Aimed at introducing students to the BME field, the program focused on introducingneuroscience and neuroengineering principles using low-cost and open source materials.The California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) program“BioEngineering Your Brain: Controlling the World with Your Brainwaves” introduced basicneuroscience and bioengineering concepts to 24 high school students through lecture basedmaterial, in class assignments and activities, and hands-on laboratory projects. Through the useof low-cost and open source electroencephalography (EEG) devices (OpenBCI, Brooklyn, NY
Technology Management undergraduate concentration of the Industrial Technology Program and earned graduate faculty status in Fall 2006. In 2008, Dr. Murphy assumed the role of the Technology Education Master’s Degree Program Coordinator; assisting the program to in- crease enrollment from approximately 30 students to around 70+ students (to date). Other responsibilities for Dr. Murphy as Program Coordinator include meeting with incoming graduate students, advising stu- dents, coordinating service-learning projects for students, and engaging students in research endeavors. Dr. Murphy was promoted to full professor in 2016. Dr. Murphy serves as Co-Principal Investigator on two grants sponsored by the United States Depart
, succeed a lot”: How validating experiential learning influenced civil engineering students’ approach to coursework.IntroductionThe U.S. workforce needs engineers, and current enrollment, persistence, and graduation inundergraduate engineering programs are not on track to meet those needs. Civil engineersdesign, construct, and manage projects to meet society’s need for transportation, water,buildings, bridges, water and wastewater treatment and other infrastructures. With continuedU.S. investment in these backbone systems, the demand for civil engineers is increasing at a rateof 5% over the next 10 years which is faster than the average for all occupations [1]. Like otherengineering disciplines, an entry level position requires
bootcamp. Some studieshave suggested the I-Corps model has several potential benefits within undergraduate education,but more research is needed to elucidate the features of I-Corps that are most valuable at theundergraduate level.In this study, we developed a new Entrepreneurial Bioengineering elective course for junior andsenior undergraduate engineering students that models various aspects of the I-Corps program.The course introduces entrepreneurship, business model canvas, and lean start-up principles tothe students with a focus on medical device customer discovery and technologycommercialization. Students work in teams to form project ideas, interview customers, testbusiness model hypotheses, and present their discoveries. The goal of this
proposed course plan, includingthe topic of the research they would like to perform with the SPECTRA scholars or examples ofpotential research projects. Four ACE Fellows were working in the program at the time of ourstudy; all four Fellows had had the opportunity to lead a research project, but at the time ofinterviews only two had had the chance to teach at a partnered technical college. During theresearch course, the students and ACE Fellows work closely together to produce and implementstudent-led research projects facilitated by the ACE Fellow. The relationship between the ACEfellow and the SPECTRA scholars resembles a near-peer mentoring relationship. This paper aims to observe the relationship between the students and the ACE
needs. As such, program leaders must work to (1) provideeffective, accurate, and personalized support; and (2) provide information and recommendationsfor curricular developments and resource management. Both efforts rely on a strong foundationof data to inform decision-making. As such, this paper describes the quantitative portion of alarger mixed-methods project, from which the authors identified initial baseline conditions ofstudents’ academic performance in the focal course and revealed potential influential factors asrevealed in a logistic regression model predicting the likelihood of a student to receive a passinggrade. Future plans for educational data mining beyond the focal course are discussed. This worksuggests some opportunities for
(InternationalProfessional Engineering Educator Registered) title was achieved through the project“Pedagogical training of engineering educators—EnTER" (created in 2018). This wasachieved with the support of the only professional regulatory body that overseesengineering teaching professionals, the International Standard Classification ofOccupations (ISCO), with code 2311 (ISCO Code 08) as “Higher education teachingprofessional: Engineering educator" [4–6]. Thus, this article will show how the reviewedprograms are structured, and will provide a proposal for engineering that seeks to reflect,innovate, and rethink its teaching practices. Some research shows that engineering teachingpractices closely linked to the concept of traditional science are recognized, but in
had agreater reported percentage (90%) of strongly agreed or agreed that “the amount of time I spenddoing research is meaningful” compared to NT participants (72%) (Figure 3F). More surveydata is available in Appendix A and included questions that did not see differences like “Mymentor explains clear goals and direction for my research/project,” and “I have a lot of personalinfluence in my research” (Appendix A, Figure 7).Overall, the students surveyed had a relatively positive experience. The largest amount ofdisagreement came from the question “I have a lot of personal influence in my research,” whichwas ~15% of undergraduate researchers (Appendix A, Figure 7). This fits with the commonmode of providing project-oriented goals to
course, in which one of the learning objectives was the ability to workeffectively on a team to complete a semester-long design project. Data were collected fromapproximately 90 participants in each of two fall semesters and 50 participants in each of twospring semesters, for a total of nearly 280 sets of responses. Study variables were the fourTuckman team development stages.The questionnaire was administered at the 75% completion point of the semester, where it wasexpected that the teams would have approached the Performing stage, or were between Normingand Performing. The questionnaire results revealed that student teams were operating accordingto the Norming and/or Performing stages, which could be an indication of face and contentvalidity
well aware of these novel technologies, we need to update our curriculum andcourse design. In this paper, I present some laboratories (labs) that the students conducted as apart of a course project in the ubiquitous computing class. This course is an elective forundergraduate Computer and Information Sciences or Information technology students. Thestudents who take this course are either juniors or seniors. Covid-19 has taught us how remoteteaching is useful to ensure proper education during the time of the pandemic. This project aimsto design different lab modules that the students can conduct without purchasing hardware. Idesigned this course at the time of covid pandemic to ensure student learning and success in aneconomical way. I devised
their role in ensuring a wide residential coverage to Chicago during itsexpansion.A cumulative online exam was given during the week of Thanksgiving, but students could takethe exam starting as early as the Thursday before Thanksgiving. The content of the examincluded all lectures, readings, and book discussions up to the date of the exam. In addition, theexam was divided into two online quizzes – one with all the closed-ended questions that could beautomatically graded at the end of students’ attempts and one with open-ended questions thatinstructors manually graded. Students were provided a second attempt at the automaticallygraded quiz during the exam period if they wished.Finally, a semester paper was given to students. This project was
Paper ID #39936Board 264: Endeavour S-STEM Program for First-Year Students: 3rd-YearResultsDr. Diana G. de la Rosa-Pohl, University of Houston Diana de la Rosa-Pohl is an Instructional Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Houston (UH). She is currently the Director of the Endeavour S-STEM Program. In addition to S-STEM courses, she teaches courses in computer engineering and capstone design. She has also developed multiple project-based first-year experience programs. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Endeavour S
university established goals anddominantly pursuing undergraduate majors. The University related actions to pursue.has five schools: Architecture and Design, Computing andData Science, Engineering, Management, and Sciences and Inclusive Excellence: We commit to the continuous de-Humanities. It offers 21 undergraduate degree programs and velopment of a campus culture that is increasingly diverse,equitable, and inclusive. We strive to develop a campus where projects, as discussed by the authors in [5]. In this paper,everyone feels valued and meaningfully supported toward the authors present an innovative method of using a learningreaching their full potential
professor, he worked as a structural engineering professional at Skidmore, Owings & MerrillDr. Robert Petrulis Dr. Petrulis is an independent consultant specializing in education-related project evaluation and research. He is based in Columbia, South Carolina.Dr. Wenshen Pong, P.E., San Francisco State University Wenshen Pong received his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He joined the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University in 1998. He teaches courses in Civil/Structural Engineering. He has received many grants from NSF, Department of Education and NASA.Dr. Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University Xiaorong Zhang received the B.S. degree in
Paper ID #38022Toward Bidirectional Faculty Development: A Collaborative Model forDesigning and Implementing Faculty Trainings on Evidence-BasedStrategies for Supporting Student Learning in Low- and Middle-IncomeCountriesMr. Steven Ghambi, Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences Steven Ghambi has over seven years experience as a lecturer in Materials engineering, currently with the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS). While searching for better teaching strategies, Steven got attached to the NEST project co-implemented by Rice University and MUBAS. Through these collaborations, Steven has
not be placed on the same teamfor both lecture and lab, but rather have independent teams. In the lab, teams are 2 or 3 members;in lecture, teams are 3-4 members. Teams in both parts are created using gruepr, an open-sourcesoftware tool designed to define an optimal project team [2-3], where considerations are made toaccount for time zone (when remote learning) and/or schedule (for in-person instruction) and toavoid placement of a single female on a team where possible.Lecture teams are formed during the first session of class, and pre-S2020 were often adjournedafter the first project (duration 3 weeks), rotating teams every 3 weeks as projects change.Beginning in Fall 2020 teams stayed together for all projects, as online learning continued
the issue whilemeeting the original design specifications.Beatrice additionally observed variations in professional judgment among the engineers she hadworked with on various projects. As she explained in considerable detail: So each one [professional engineer] is a different person, and they have their own personal preferences of, “This should be engineered this way, I would like you to do it this way.” It’s their license, so we do it their way. But if you were to talk to the other professional engineer, just in the other office, they might have a different opinion on it. So, it’s like, “Which one’s the right one?” Knowing what’s best is hard, especially in an area that can have so many variables. Because
security CTFs are focused on discrete software,work on research projects, and utilize software and hardware networking, or hardware problems. In contrast, MITRE eCTFtools in an environment developed to address cyber threats. takes a systems approach to security, i.e., it considers both the Morgan State University (MSU) has created a unique envi- hardware and the software counterparts under considerationronment that addresses the barriers to minority participation in for security analysis. Secondly, the eCTF framework providesCTFs. MSU established a National Center for Academic Ex- a balanced approach to cyber-attack and defense strategies.cellence in Cyber Defense called the Cybersecurity Assurance