Con- ference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (IEEE BIBE 2007), Achievement Award of the 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing, and 2005 IEEE-Granular Computing Outstanding Service Award at 2005 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Integrating Security Education into a CS Curriculum - Practices and Experience1 Zhongli Ding, Michael Weeks, Yanqing Zhang, and Yi Pan Department of Computer Science Georgia State
ones that focus on skill development related to engi-neering practice13, 17-19. Showing engineering students the significance and utility of bio-inspired design is easy.Teaching them how to do bio-inspired design without requiring them to be fully trained as biolo-gists is much more difficult. Teaching bio-inspired design in an engineering curriculum has tradi-tionally relied on either the ad hoc application of biological inspiration or research methods andtools that are tied to specific engineering design methodologies. Typically within the classroom,a tool or method is presented with an example that illustrates the technique and students are ex-pected to practice the inherent knowledge transfer steps required to understand the
which represents the spine of the curriculum for the Department of Engineering. The research and teaching interests of Dr. Nagel tend to revolve around engineering design and engineering design education, and in particular, the design conceptualization phase of the design process. He has performed research with the US Army Chemical Corps, General Motors Research and Development Center, and the US Air Force Academy, and he has received grants from the NSF, the EPA, and General Motors Corporation.Prof. Matt Robert Bohm, University of LouisvilleDr. Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Julie S. Linsey is an Associate Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineer- ing at the Georgia
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Integrating an Introduction to Engineering Experience into a University Seminar CourseAbstractRetention statistics show that the most drastic decline in retention rates for engineering andengineering technology majors at Texas State University occur after the first and second years.To address this issue, the LBJ Institute of STEM Education and Research at Texas State isemploying a multi-faceted approach to implement proven strategies for increasing studentretention as a part of an NSF IUSE (Improving Undergraduate STEM Education) grant, TexasState STEM Rising Stars. One of these strategies is to introduce a new first-year introduction toengineering
Currently a professor of Mathematics at Brigham Young University, where he has served on the faculty since 2005. He received his Ph.D. > in Mathematics from Indiana University in 2002 and was an Arnold Ross Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University from 2002-2005. Since then, he has won several grants from the National Science Foundation, including a CAREER award in 2009. His current research interests are in nonlinear and stochastic dynamical systems, numerical analysis and scientific computing, healthcare analytics, actuarial science, and network science. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Modeling across the Curriculum: A SIAM-NSF initiative
sociotechnicalthinking pervades the entire engineering curriculum. The focus here is on an engineering science(ES) course.During the Fall 2014 and Fall 2015 semesters, our research team integrated social justiceconcepts into the ES core course “Introduction to Feedback Control Systems” (IFCS) at ourpublic university, the Colorado School of Mines (CSM). Our motivation was to introducestudents to a missing or underrepresented element of the curriculum at CSM, and to do so in sucha manner that challenges the “sacred cow” notion of the ES core curriculum2, 3, reinforcing thehigh value of social justice to engineering as opposed to placing it in a course with lowerperceived value. We have previously reported on results from this integration4, 5; this paper
plastics and environmental consideration in materials selection for production design, the impact of technology paired with active learning pedagogies on student learning, and effective strategies for increasing gender diversity in STEM disciplines. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Transforming Curriculum for Workforce Development in Green Plastics Manufacturing Technology (GPMT) for STEM: Lesson LearnedIntroductionManufacturing is integrally tied to advancements in materials science and engineering. "GreenPlastics Manufacturing Technology" (GPMT) is an emerging discipline that encompasses arange of activities in science and technology, from the research and development of non
joined Howard University in 2006 as an Assistant Professor. Her research interests are algorithms and computational biology.Dr. Alex Pantaleev, SUNY Oswego Alex Pantaleev received a B.A. degree in computer science from the American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, in 2003, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio in 2007 and 2008, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the State University of New York, Oswego. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Incorporating Service-Oriented Programming into the Computer Science Curriculum using Course
acquire technical skillsand knowledge both in the classroom and outside.The paper describes the various learning modules developed by the HBCU networks coveringcourses in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) first two years curriculum: Introductionto Electrical Engineering, Electric Circuits and Lab, and Electronic Circuits and Lab... theseactivities were built on the ECP courses that have already been developed, evaluated, andadopted at Howard University and Morgan State University, with an established NationalScience Foundation (NSF) funded Engineering Research Center (ERC) at RenssalaerPolytechnic Institute (RPI).While these courses were developed using the Mobile studio, the newECP based learning modules have been developed using the
otherwise leave STEM majors due to lack of engagement and/or motivation1. Despitegrowing interest, many universities struggle with how to best update engineering curriculum andovercome barriers to adequately merge and teach new concepts, like sustainability, in an alreadyfull curriculum2,3.Two methods for integrating sustainability into engineering curriculum predominate theliterature; these methods have been generalized as a stand-alone course-based method and amodular-based method. In the stand-alone course-based method, an engineering programestablishes one or two distinct, stand-alone courses into the students’ curriculum that focus onsustainability in engineering. In the modular-based method, engineering programs integratesustainability
engineering profession to think more rigorously about sustainability and theenvironment. A growing number of academics and professionals in CCEM infuse sustainabilityprinciples, including alternative energy, energy efficiency, and others, into their research.Sustainability is generally taught in upper-level classes, yet lower-level classes may includesome supplemental sustainability course. Although undergraduate students may have an interestin sustainability, their exposure to it comes later in their educational curriculum [3]. Sustainability has been identified as a “wicked problem” [4, 6], unstructured and thusdifficult to model, with multiple interconnected and integrated aspects that spans policy domainsand levels of government. Research
from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Dr. Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Oregon State University Jana L. Bouwma-Gearhart is an associate professor of STEM education at Oregon State University. Her research widely concerns improving education at research universities. Her earlier research explored en- hancements to faculty motivation to improve undergraduate education. Her more recent research concerns organizational change towards postsecondary STEM education improvement at
@temple.edu.Dr. Saroj K Biswas, Temple University Saroj Biswas is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Temple University specializing in electrical machines and power systems, multimedia tutoring, and control and optimization of dynamic systems. He has been the principle investigator of a project for the development of an intelligent tutoring shell that allows instructors create their own web-based tutoring system. His current research focuses on security of cyber-physical systems based on multiagent framework with applications to the power grid, and the integration of an intelligent virtual laboratory environment in curriculum. He is an associate editor of Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive
reported. Eleven research groups from the Functional Materials andManufacturing Institute (FMMI) at the University of South Florida and sixteen STEM educatorsat various levels, including in-service high school teachers, community college faculty members,and pre-service teachers, have participated in this research experience over the first two years.The location of this RET site in the highly-equipped and instrumented FMMI, along with itsfocus on a single interdisciplinary research area, allowed participants to make substantialprogress in functional materials research and curriculum development. Implementation of thesite resulted in (a) facilitation of teachers’ research progress and lesson plan development viainterrelated activities including an
Paper ID #14633Enhancing Verification and Validation Education Using Active Learning ToolsDeveloped through an Academia-Industry PartnershipDr. Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University Acharya joined Robert Morris University in Spring 2005 after serving 15 years in the Software Indus- try. His teaching involvement and research interest are in the area of Software Engineering education, Software Verification & Validation, Data Mining, Neural Networks, and Enterprise Resource Planning. He also has interest in Learning Objectives based Education Material Design and Development. Acharya is a co-author of ”Discrete
, test and refine a “heart lung system” (Integrates allprinciples). Student teams present their final designs along with an analysis of design decisionsin an open forum (Collaboration/Public Artifacts). Concepts and key ideas are reinforced andcontinuity between lessons is maintained through the use of a design notebook. In thenotebook, students record daily artifacts representing their understanding (Metacognition) thatare publically displayed on a classroom artifact board (Public Artifacts).To date, the INSPIRES Heart Lung system curriculum has been used by over 35 science(Biology, Chemistry, Physics) and technology (Engineering, Pre-Engineering, Allied Health andTechnology Education) teachers impacting more than 1000 students in the mid
Paper ID #15009Using an e-Learning Environment to Create a Baseline of Understanding ofDigital Logic KnowledgeDr. Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University Carolyn Plumb is the Director of Educational Innovation and Strategic Projects in the College of En- gineering at Montana State University (MSU). Plumb has been involved in engineering education and program evaluation for over 25 years. At MSU, she works on various curriculum and instruction projects including instructional development for faculty and graduate students. She also serves as the college’s assessment and evaluation expert.Dr. Brock J. LaMeres, Montana State
the proportion of content related to micro- versusmacroethical issues. Only 30 ASEE conference papers returned from a search on “macroethics”,suggesting that macroethics is less commonly taught in courses and/or co-curricular activities.Ethical instruction methods in courses have been categorized into multiple types: ethics acrossthe curriculum; professional codes of ethics; humanist readings; ethical problem-solvingheuristics; groundings in theoretical ethics; case studies; debate; role-playing; and service-learning.27,29 Many programs teach ethics through a number of these methods. For example,Catalano16 at SUNY-Binghamton describes ethics integration that includes theory, case studies,and humanist readings. Two studies suggest that one of
in multiple innovation CoPs.Figure 3: Spread of context-rich collaborative problem solving.In total, the context-rich CCPS has been integrated into fourteen courses in five departments andis now been practiced by 28 faculty instructors, most of whom had not been using this RBISbefore SIIP. While the spread of CCPS has been the most far reaching spread of RBIS, otherRBIS are also spreading across the program. Classroom response systems (i.e., clickers) and peerinstruction [4] are being used in 16 SIIP-affiliated courses, most of which had not been usingclickers before SIIP. The use of an adaptive learning and testing platform is now being used in10 SIIP-affiliated courses. The use of the Comprehensive Assessment of Team MemberEffectiveness
applications and cre- ates techno-economic models for emerging energy technologies.Steffi A Renninger, George Washington University Steffi Renninger is currently a doctoral candidate in Applied Social Psychology at George Washington University. Steffi’s general research interests are in examining how health communications influence or promote health behaviors, particularly physical activity and vaccination uptake.Prof. Ekundayo Shittu, George Washington University Ekundayo (Dayo) Shittu is an assistant professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at George Washington University. Professor Shittu conducts basic and applied research that take a systems approach to address the different dimensions of decision
social import can have a profound effect on recruitment and retention. Even easier, there are many resources from the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT), for instance, that discuss how to include more relevant assignments into introductory curricu- lum to encourage the participation of women and minorities [Citation: https://www.ncwit.org/resources/customcatalog/engage-students-meaningful- curriculum]. These sorts of efforts don’t require more resources than those already being expended to teach an introductory course. • Encouragement goes a long way. Again, NCWIT has wonderful re- sources related to this [CITATION: https://www.ncwit.org/resources/top- 10-ways-retain-students-computing
background in English, philosophy, science, and all levels of education, Heather is currently a doc- toral student in curriculum and instruction and educational psychology. She is interested in psychological barriers affecting retention and success for students. Having been raised by an engineer, this project is close to her heart. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Promoting Inclusive Engineering Identities in First-Year Engineering CoursesIntroductionIn order to cultivate a diverse and inclusive engineering student population, engineeringprograms must purposefully teach engineering students to identify as engineers, appreciatediversity, and work
. The S-STEM mentor provides social mentoring, which is a form of informalmentoring in which mentoring opportunities arise ad hoc, starting and ending quickly based on aspecific learning need. Besides face-to-face mentoring, it also integrates online tools as part ofthe mentoring process. A member of the S-STEM project management team serves as an S-STEM mentor and tracks student’s progress in meeting program requirements and implementearly interventions for students in academic distress. A student meets their assigned S-STEMmentor once a semester, after submitting the first set of course instructor reports and meeting thedegree program academic advisor. Prior to the meeting, the S-STEM mentor reviews andapproves completed online forms
application areas of biometrics used by commercial, governmentand law enforcement agencies. The global biometrics market has a compound annualgrowth rate of 21.3 percent. There is much research interest in different biometricsystems and this has led to increasing efforts in ensuring that biometrics is taught at theundergraduate level [2][3][4][5][6][7]. The authors are in the final year of an NSF TUESType 2 grant that is based on the theme of vertically integrating biometrics experimentsthroughout the undergraduate curriculum [7]. Three universities have joined together inthis effort [8][9][10][11][12].Biometrics involves signal/image processing in a pattern recognition framework [13][14].There are two types of biometric systems. Biometric
and internships. As we identified in the I-Corps curriculum, aminimum viable product of the Engineering Ambassadors Network is an advanced presentationstrategy that we teach to our Engineering Ambassadors: the assertion-evidence approach.8 Ourresearch has found that audiences of STEM presentations have a deeper understanding and betterrecall when the presenter follows the assertion-evidence approach, as opposed to the commonpractice of style of having a phrase headline supported by a bulleted list.9 Through the I-Corps curriculum, we realized that we could dramatically increase ourmarket size on communicating the minimum viable product by creating slightly altered versionsof the websites that we created for targeting the Engineering
maindeliverable and student assessment instrument for the course. The second step is for students toconduct research in the summer as outlined in the proposal.2. Research ProgramThe two-step research program was implemented as part of a curriculum enhancement project inthe Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. The nanotechnology LINK project, orLearning Integration of New Knowledge, exposes undergraduate students to fundamentalconcepts and applications in nanotechnology, with an emphasis on end-of-life management ofproducts containing nanomaterials. Content is delivered across multiple linked courses (Pierceand Berge, 2014) using active learning pedagogical strategies. To complement and extendstudent learning of nanotechnology, research
. Astatke played a leading role in the development and implementation of the first completely online un- dergraduate ECE program in the State of Maryland. He has published over 50 papers and presented his research work at regional, national and international conferences. He also runs several exciting summer camps geared towards middle school, high school, and community college students to expose and increase their interest in pursuing Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Dr. Astatke travels to Ethiopia every summer to provide training and guest lectures related to the use of the mobile laboratory technology and pedagogy to enhance the ECE curriculum at five different universities.Dr. Michael J
, California State University, Los Angeles Jianyu Dong is a professor in electrical and computer engineering at CSULA. Her area of expertise is video compression/communication, multimedia networks, QoS, etc. As the PI of the NSF CCLI Project entitled ”Enhancing undergraduate computer networking curriculum using remote project-based learn- ing,” she works closely with colleagues from computer science to redesign the network curriculum to integrate project-based and inquiry-based learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Addressing the Learning Needs of Minority Students in Engineering through Participatory DesignAbstractThis paper provides
her in the design and integration of educational and physiological technologies to research ’best practices’ for student professional development and training. In addition, she is developing methodologies around affective management of curriculum and instruction in engineer- ing students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Self-Regulated Learning in Engineering Education: A Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site ProgramAbstractThis paper reports the most recent results of an ongoing Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU) Site program funded by the NSF TUES-Type 1 funds. The 10-weeksummer program focuses on engineering education research on self
Best Paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008 and 2011 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011. Dr. Ohland is Chair of the IEEE Curriculum and Pedagogy Committee and an ABET Program Evaluator for ASEE. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi and is a Fellow of the ASEE and IEEE.Mr. Russell Andrew Long, Purdue University, West Lafayette Russell Long, M.Ed. is Director of Project Assessment at the Purdue University School of Engineer- ing Education and Managing Director of The Multiple-Institution Database for Investigating Engineer- ing Longitudinal Development (MIDFIELD). He has extensive experience in performance funding, large data set analysis, program review, assessment