Session 14-2 Baylor’s New Engineering Admissions Plan- Phase I Benjamin S. Kelley, Adam P. Ecklund School of Engineering and Computer Science Aaron Dabney Office of Admission Services Baylor University AbstractBaylor University is best known for academic programs in medicine, liberal arts, business, law, andreligion. Baylor’s School of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) is a relatively young andsmall component
: Planning and Implementation (Experience)AbstractThis paper discusses the transition of an established residential Summer Bridge Program to avirtual learning experience due to the COVID-19 restrictions of summer 2020. The program aimsto increase retention of first-year engineering students through a curriculum focused on academicreadiness in math and chemistry, professional development, familiarity with campus andavailable resources, and a broad-based knowledge of engineering fields and the engineeringdesign process. Outside of the curriculum, participants build community and a sense ofbelonging with social, professional development, and philanthropic programming. With theconstraints of remote instruction, math readiness and community building were
Paper ID #33512Assessing the Pedagogical Needs to Couple Front-end Planning Tools withSustainable Infrastructure ProjectsDr. Mohamed Elzomor, Florida International University Dr. Mohamed ElZomor is an Assistant Professor at Florida International University (FIU), College of Engineering and Computing and teaches at the Moss School of Construction, Infrastructure and Sustain- ability. Dr. ElZomor completed his doctorate at Arizona State University (ASU), Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Prior to attending ASU, Dr. ElZomor received a master’s of science degree in Architecture from University of Arizona, a master’s degree
about resolving women’sunderrepresentation in male-dominated STEM fields [6]. This paper describes how alumnae ofMiami University in Oxford, OH, worked with their alma mater to form an external Women’sAdvisory Committee to the College of Engineering and Computing. The group chartered amission to “provide leadership in a collaborative environment with faculty, staff, students,alumni and others to improve recruitment, retention and graduation support for women inengineering and computing…”. Members of the Committee engage with the College regularlyand give both guidance and action to efforts related to student success for women students andfaculty.Recently, the Committee embarked on the development of a strategic plan to maximize theimpact of the
expectations as well as better support students'career goals. This work-in-progress uses preliminary student survey data to explore one suchtype of relationship – that between students’ perceptions of BME and their career plans andgoals. This report will present the findings of this initial exploration, introduce two theoreticalframeworks commonly used to study engineering student career paths, and discuss theimplications of both on the development of a future multi-institutional study of BME students.WIP Data Collection and Analysis Eighty-one BME students (54 undergraduate and 27 graduate) at a large, research-intensive, public university in the Midwest completed a short anonymous survey (IRBHUM00178033). All survey respondents were asked
Paper ID #35513Advancing Engineering Education Using a Teaching Focused Plan ForCreating an Inclusive ClassroomDr. Tracy Anne Hammond PhD, Texas A&M University Dr. Hammond is Director of the Texas A&M University Institute for Engineering Education & Innovation and also the chair of the Engineering Education Faculty. She is also Director of the Sketch Recognition Lab and Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. She is a member of the Center for Population and Aging, the Center for Remote Health Technologies & Systems as well as the Institute for Data Science. Hammond is a PI for
Paper ID #35477First-Year Engineering Students’ Reflections: Plans in Response toPerceived Performance on Course Learning ObjectivesKayla Ney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Biological Systems Engineering Kayla is a Master’s student in Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a focus in engineering education. She received her B.S. in Biological Systems Engineering at UNL and is currently pursuing an M.S. in BSE. Her current research is investigating antioxidant microparticles for the mitigation of low back pain. As an undergraduate, Kayla conducted data analysis under Dr. Diefes
ASEE-NMWSC2013-0051 Promoting Nanotechnology among Middle School Students: Development and Implementation of Lesson Plans Achintya N. Bezbaruah*,#; Rajani G. Pillai**; Hannah Hood*; Holly Erickson***; Eric Dobervich***; Jane Laux***; Jamie Varholdt***; AdamGehlhar***; Michelle Weber***; Harjyoti Kalita*; Talal Almeelbi*; Mary Pate*; Michael Quamme*; Mohammad Enayet Hossain*; Seydou Cisse*; Amanda Grosz*; Navaratnam Leelaruban* *Nanoenvirology Research Group, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108; **College of Business, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58102; ***West
Paper ID #32327Developing an Equally Effective Alternate-access Plan forVision-impaired and Blind Students Enrolled in Mechanical EngineeringTechnology CoursesDr. Nancy E. Study, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Nancy E. Study is an Associate Teaching Professor in the School of Engineering at Penn State Behrend where she teaches courses in engineering graphics and rapid prototyping, and is the coordinator of the rapid prototyping lab. Her research interests include visualization, standardization of CAD practices, design for 3D printing, and haptics. Nancy is a former chair of the ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division
Session 6-1 The Evolution of a Senior Capstone Course in the Context of a Research-Based University Quality Enhancement Plan Farrokh Attarzadeh, Enrique Barbieri, Miguel Ramos Engineering Technology Department College of Technology University of Houston AbstractThe process of reaffirming accreditation at the University of Houston has identifiedresearch-based instruction as a critical component of the campus learning environmentfor the foreseeable future. This assertion is consistent with broader trends in
Paper ID #35522Full Paper: Student-developed plans for use of maker spaces in aself-selected creative design projectDr. Benjamin Daniel Chambers, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education Benjamin Chambers is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, and Director of the Frith First-Year Engineering Design Lab. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with three degrees from Virginia Tech, including an MS Civil Infrastructure Engineering, MS Entomology, and a PhD in Environmental Design and Planning. His educational research interests include student creativity, and the
handling this problem. The reason is thatthe plan that an optimization gives you may be a good one, but it is wrong. The assumptions thatgo into the model will not play themselves out over time. The demand will be different, the cost Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationof materials will be different, the supply of key material will be different, and everything will bedifferent. In essence, you have optimized a problem that will never exist in reality. And becauseof the nature of optimization, the optimal answer can change dramatically if there is a
in order to reduce assessment data collection, yet increase theusefulness in the evaluation process. We have eagerly incorporated the updated ABET view ofmultidisciplinary teams, which until recently was unknown to us.INTRODUCTIONThe Geological Engineering program at The University of North Dakota has recently finished anABET compliancy review. As a relatively small engineering program in numbers of both facultyand students, we would like to share our experience and lessons learned and posit their relevanceto any size program. We found it best to have a well-thought-out scalable assessment plan thatproperly samples cohorts at a summative learning point without duplication. In practice, recentlytrained faculty were easier to convince of the
virtual offering.Traditionally, BME seniors took this laboratory course before senior design to gainmanufacturing skills and approval access to the university machine shop. During the ten-weekcourse, they would learn how to operate the drill press, lathe, mill, and laser cutter to machinetheir own digital microscope using manufacturing plans given to them and watching the teachingassistant (TA) perform a demonstration. However, the virtual offering requirement shifted themain deliverables from simply machining a device to developing the manufacturing plans tomachine said device. Although completing both is ideal, there is still great value in learning howto use your resources and learned machining knowledge to develop rational manufacturing
these processes relate, specifically, to a software venture. This paperpresents the overall instructional plan of the course and discusses each of the course’scomponents. The implementation of the project component is discussed, in particular, in detail.The design and implementation challenges that were encountered are discussed.This course was run in Spring of 2020 and started as an in-classroom course, later transitioningto an online course due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The outcomes of the course are discussed.Possible future enhancements are considered.1. IntroductionSoftware businesses have been responsible for tremendous growth and changes in society. Oncesmall startups, names like Google, Microsoft, PayPal and Facebook now are among the
projects. He received his PhD in Technology Management from Indiana State University with a specialization in Construction Management. He joined academia in 2014. His research focus is on contract administration on heavy civil projects, as well as on construction education. His teaching areas include 1. introduction to the built environment and construction management, 2. construction materials and methods, 3. construction equipment, 4. building construction cost estimating, 5. heavy civil construc- tion cost estimating, 6. project planning, scheduling, and control, 7. temporary structures, and 8. contract changes and claims. American c Society for
technology competition developed a “contingency thinking”strategy to pivot and address stakeholder’s needs despite the uncertain impacts of COVID-19.Contingency thinking is an adaptive planning strategy based on the principles of design thinkingand value assessment. This strategy is an iterative process which includes: assessing the value ofactivities, developing contingency plans with increasing fidelity, collecting feedback fromstakeholders, and incorporating feedback into the next iteration of contingency plans.Competition organizers employed this process because it reinforced the core mission of thecompetition and delivered minimum viable value irrespective of the ever-changing COVID-19implications. The contingency thinking process resulted in
Paper ID #34427Work in Progress: Building Career Goals and Boosting Self-efficacy inEngineering StudentsDr. Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suarez is a Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico Mayag¨uez (UPRM). She graduated with a BS in Industrial Engineering from UPRM (1983), a MSIE (1985) from Purdue University, and a PhD in Industrial Engineering (1996) from The Pennsylvania State University. Her teaching and research interests include: Discrete Event Simulation, Facilities Planning, Material Handling Systems, Women in Academia in
, Virginia Tech Tremayne O. Waller is the Director of Graduate Student Programs at Virginia Tech. He was the Interim Director for the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives (OADI) and Director of the McNair Scholars Program at Cornell University. He has also worked as the Associate Director of Advising and Diver- sity in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning and Diversity Programs in Engineering at Cornell University. He completed his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Virginia Tech. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID
woodmodels, the model of a dam, and the DaVinci bridge to name a few. The students used theirown background, strengths, and interests to develop a personalized learning module which isevident from the student abstract that accompanied the model. This paper illustrates thelesson plan, the timeline, cost, and planning for the models, the lessons to be learned fromeach model, and the appropriate method for assessment of such topics.Introduction This was a one-week module in an advanced materials class to teach the concept oftheory to practice. Essentially, the goal was to teach the students the concept that theexperiment might look very different than the original but still be able to get the desired result.Lesson Plan The students were
the Uni- versity of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). With a focus on professional development, program- ming, retention and inclusion in higher education, Erica’s role in CWIT includes planning the CWIT Scholars Program, speaker series, Living Learning Community, First Year Experience course, Allies in CWIT practicum, Sophomore Leadership Practicum, and recruitment for both the Scholars and Affiliates programs. D’Eramo holds a B.A. in Business from Franklin & Marshall College and a M.A. in High Education Administration from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.Katherine Bell O’Keefe American c Society for Engineering Education, 20211Powerful Pre
earlier in the curriculum. Another approach isthe creation of project management workshops or one-day seminars. At Villanova University, the mechanical engineering capstone design course was revampedto include more project management activities. In addition to the standard triple constraint ofscope management, schedule, and cost control, the updated curriculum includes theimplementation of a communication plan, dashboard status reports, project commissioning &testing plans, and project close-out. Student teams are provided with effective templates tofacilitate implementation and the activities are integrated directly into the design process. Asurvey of graduating students found that 57% of students considered the project managementactivities
deploy and operate existing wind energy technology, but to evolve thetechnology to be more efficient, cost effective, and adaptable to the electricity grid. Asprogressively larger and technologically more sophisticated turbines are designed and built, bothonshore and off, and as wind plants continue to provide an ever-larger fraction of the energysupply, there are significant scientific and engineering challenges to be addressed such asmaterials and structures, grid integration, and energy storage [6], [7]. In planning for the future,universities, and members of the North American Wind Energy Academy (NAWEA), identifieda number of strategies to address the lack of university programs, most of which rely oncollaboration. These include
technologicaladvances in their prospective fields of science and engineering.The NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site in Collaborative MultidisciplinaryEngineering Design Experiences for Teachers (CoMET) discussed here was designed to provideteachers hands-on engineering design experience covering all aspects of the sensor research forthe IoT era, from the manufacturing of a sensor, to the hardware and software that allows them tooperate. In order to support the STEM educational services for teachers and students in middleand high schools, this site program focused on the creation of lesson plans easily adapted to anyclassroom and competent teacher trainers who could ensure quality pre-service and in-serviceteacher education, by providing multi
secure information technology (IT) systems, with responsibility for aspects of Software development system and/or network development Systems architecture Technology R&D Systems requirements planning Test and evaluation Systems development Operate and Maintain Provides the support, administration, and Data administration maintenance necessary to ensure effective Knowledge
design and manufacture high quality products at a minimum cost in a fast pacedenvironment, they are now more interested in the workforce who understands what is requiredfor the growth and profitability of the company. The present issue faced by industry andmanufacturing sector is not the number of students but well qualified and trained engineeringstudents (Deleveaux & Ruud, 1997). A few earlier studies have highlighted some of the major weakness of the engineering studentsas identified by the manufacturing industry (Hood, Sorensen, & Magleby, 1993, Trent & Todd,2012). The deficiencies include effective interpersonal and communication skills, projectplanning, time management, multi-disciplinary knowledge, teamwork, budget planning
Ph.D. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Howard University and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He is currently serving as professor and chairper- son of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at one of the nation’s preeminent public urban research institutions, Morgan State University. His career spans over twenty-eight years of progres- sive scholarly experience in such areas as research administration/ implementation, pedagogical inno- vation, international collaboration, strategic planning, promoting community engagement and academic program development. He instructs courses in computer vision, computer graphics, electromagnetics and characterization of semiconductor
an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Leadership and Program Management (ELPM) in the School of Engineering (SOE) at The Citadel. She joined the program in Aug 2020. She teaches project management, technical planning and scheduling, and construction management courses at The Citadel. Dr. Vesali earned her PhD in Civil Engineering from Florida International Uni- versity. She holds M.Sc. in Construction Engineering and Management from IAU, and B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology. Prior to joining The Citadel, she worked at Plaza Construction, Florida Group LLC. She worked with the corporate Quality Management team and project management team for high-rise
Paper ID #33553Reflecting on 10 years of Centralized Engineering Student DiversityInitiatives (Experience)Ms. Lisa Trahan, University of California, San Diego Lisa Trahan joined UC San Diego’s IDEA Engineering Student Center in 2018 as Director of Strategic Initiatives and Assessment. Ms. Trahan leads planning and development of new student success initiatives and programs within the Center. She provides expertise to assess, improve, and evaluate the impact of the Center’s programs on student retention and success. Previously, Ms. Trahan was a Research and Evaluation Associate at The Lawrence Hall of Science, UC
, CLW (now Cassidy Turley), and Jacobs Advanced Planning Group, which seeded her interest in understanding the relationship of workers, workplaces and technology. She has held a variety of positions in engineering, architecture, interior design, and con- struction firms, which drives her interest in teaching essential communication skills to students in those fields. Gobes-Ryan is on the Board of Directors of The Environmental Design Research Association. In this organization she has also served as Co-Chair of the Workplace Environments Network (WEN) since 2000 and Co-Chair of the Communication Network since 2016. She is a member of the National Communication Association. Gobes-Ryan is a Florida Licensed Interior