Paper ID #34925Engineering Graduate Education: An Overwhelming Journey ofFirst-Generation ImmigrantsDr. Hoda Ehsan, Georgia Institute of Technology Hoda is a postdoctoral fellow at Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics & Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue. She received her B.S. in mechanical engineering in Iran, and obtained her M.S. in Childhood Education and New York teaching certification from City College of New York (CUNY-CCNY). She is now a graduate research assistant on STEM+C project. Her research interests
Paper ID #32625Integrating Public Health Topics in Drug Delivery System EducationMr. Jorge Jimenez, University of Pittsburgh Jorge Jimenez is a PhD candidate in bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering. They are part of the National Science Foundation’s Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP-KAT) program and has research interest in ophthalmic biomaterials, drug delivery systems, Latinx healthcare and advancing diversity and inclusion in education. They engage in teaching as research through the Center for the Integration of Research Teaching, and Learning
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Work-in-Progress: Leveraging interdisciplinary topics in first-year engineeringAbstractAt Michigan Technological University, students in engineering disciplines tend to see theirhumanities general education requirements as boxes to be checked off and have difficulty seeingtheir relevance to their future careers. Simultaneously, engineering educators recognize theimportance of humanistic skills and mindsets (communication, critical and creative thinking,comfort with ambiguity, ethical reasoning, etc.) as crucial to students’ success as practicingengineers. In the spring of 2019, Michigan Tech launched IDEAhub, an innovation incubator ofapproximately 80 faculty
Paper ID #32685Educating the Next Generation of Cybersecurity ExpertsDr. Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, West Virginia University Dr. Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova is a Professor at the Lane Department of Computer Science and Elec- trical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. Her research interests are in software engineering, cybersecurity, and data analytics, as well as in higher education focused on these areas. She has served as a Principal Investigator on various NSF, NASA, and industry funded projects. She leads the B.S. in Cybersecurity program and serves as Academic Coordinator of the M.S. in
and move towards their desired future.The third learning environment is ILead:Grad, a student-led group that coordinates workshopsand events to foster a culture of leadership development. By working in a team and building ashared vision, students get the experience of collaborating with others to design initiatives,making decisions as a group, and leading in their community.We conclude the paper with a list of recommendations to support educators to createopportunities for graduate students to engage with leadership development.IntroductionEngineering graduate studies immerse students in a robust technical training that equips them tosolve complex problems and generate innovative solutions to scientific and societal challenges.In recent times
, and other problems that are too time-consuming to solveanalytically, but the strategies for effective use of computational methods are not unique to thisfield. The paper presents general conclusions with strategies to implement a computer simulationtool like MATLAB/Simulink to teach advanced topics. The learning modules solve difficultproblems that would be impossible to solve analytically without advanced graduate levelcoursework and/or an inappropriately large amount of time.Over six-years of adapting and changing the learning modules, student success on – andperception of – the assignments improved. Use of computational tools broadens course contentdelivery by covering topics inaccessible through analytical methods in a first course on
Paper ID #34436Mapping the Future: Geomatics as an Essential Element of the NextGeneration of Civil Engineering CurriculumMr. Max Teddy, Clemson University Max Teddy completed both his undergraduate and graduate degrees with Clemson University’s Glenn Department of Civil Engineering. His studies were centered around transportation design, planning, and operations. He now works as a Civil Analyst for Kimley-Horn in West Palm Beach, Florida as part of the Roadway Design team.Dr. Wayne Sarasua, Clemson University Professor of Civil Engineering and co-Principal Investigator of Clemson’s NSF RED grant. Educational research
minoritized groups in order to move toward more socially just institutions. She approaches this through studies in the general chemistry curriculum, inquiry into the institution of STEM graduate education, and historical research into chemistry graduate education. Her dissertation research focuses on how the experiences of pregnant and/or parenting women graduate students in STEM are organized by policies and practices of higher education as they obtain graduate STEM degrees. She holds a Master’s Degree in Chemistry Education from Purdue University and a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Western Michigan University.Dr. Erica M. Stone, Middle Tennessee State University Erica M. Stone is an Assistant Professor of
Paper ID #32842Undergraduate Student Learning of Market-Driven Design Topics in aThird-Year Design CourseDr. Steven Hoffenson, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Systems & Enterprises) Steven Hoffenson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he directs the Design of Sustainable Products Across Complex Environments (Design SPACE) Laboratory. His research focuses on design education and training, design for market systems, multi-disciplinary design optimization, and policy modeling and analysis. Dr. Hoffenson holds a B.S. in Mechanical
Paper ID #33691Self Reflection of Engineering Majors in General Chemistry IIDr. Patricia Muisener, Stevens Institute of Technology Dr. Patricia Muisener is an Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate and Undergrad- uate Education in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. She teaches and coordinates the General Chemistry I and II course sequence. She was previously at the University of South Florida as a faculty member and Assistant Chair in the Chemistry Department. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a M.S
Strands-Model General Education was adopted to: Promote students’ intellectual development by affording them course-work in the fundamental academic disciplines of mathematics, natural science, literature, history, and social science; and Develop students’ skills and dispositions in six essential areas so that, upon successfully completing the curriculum, graduates ought to be able to: 1. Demonstrate skill in inquiry and analysis, including using a design process, synthesizing information from relevant sources, drawing conclusions, and recognizing implications and limitations (Inquiry and Analysis); 2. Demonstrate insight into their own cultural rules and biases, to have accurate understandings of other
manages the day-to-day administrative and program functions of the graduate traineeship in rural resource resiliency for food, energy and water systems.Prof. Matthew R. Sanderson, Kansas State University Matthew R. Sanderson is the Randall C. Hill Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work and Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences at Kansas State University. Currently, he is working on several projects that examine co-evolving relations between humans and ecosystems.Dr. Rebecca Cors, Wisconsin Center for Education Research Rebecca Cors is a researcher and evaluator with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, UW- Madison, who focuses on science and nature learning, which often happens
.)Q13 People I have met through CIT-E activities are now part of my professional network.o Yeso NoQ14 How has your experience with CIT-E affected your attitude toward teaching in general andyour perspective toward civil and environmental engineering education in general?________________________________________________________________Q18CIT-E is interested in continuing to develop new materials and growing its community ofpractice.Based on the existing course outline (click here to view a PDF of the lesson topics: Modelcourse outline ). Can you recommend any topics for potential development?o Yeso NoQ20 Please recommend topics for potential development in the text box below
Director of the Online Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering Program at Penn State. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from The University of South Dakota, her M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue Univer- sity. Her research interests include graduate-level engineering education, including inter- and multidisci- plinary graduate education, online engineering cognition and learning, and engineering communication.Prof. Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Karen A. Thole is a Distinguished Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. She holds two degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the
rationale for, and some results of, these education and evaluationactivities.BACKGROUNDThe NRT Program at Purdue UniversityThe Purdue Sustainable Food Energy and Water System (SFEWS) NRT is a collaboration of agriculturalscientists and practitioners, engineers, and economists, from several department and across two USacademic institutions. External collaborators include two US national labs, three companies, and twointernational institutions. These individuals and entities were brought together to form an interdisciplinarytraineeship program designed to develop graduate students into leaders able to find solutions related tosustaining food supplies, energy, and water (FEW) given that in two to three generations, the globalpopulation will grow to
Paper ID #33004Preparing the Next Generation Advanced Manufacturing Workforce UsingCollaborative Robots and Experiential Learning (Work in Progress)Mr. Kenechukwu Churchill Mbanisi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Kenechukwu C. Mbanisi received the B.Eng. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Covenant University, Nigeria, in 2013, and the M.S. degree in robotics engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), MA, USA in 2018. He is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree in robotics engi- neering from WPI, USA. His research interests include shared autonomy, haptic feedback, human motion modeling
Paper ID #32832Developing Intrapreneurship in the Next Generation of EngineeringInnovators and LeadersDr. Tim Dallas P.E., Texas Tech University Tim Dallas is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas Tech University. Dr. Dal- las’ research includes developing educational technologies for deployment to under-served regions of the world. His research group has developed MEMS-based educational technologies that have been com- mercialized, expanding dissemination. He has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Education. Dr. Dallas received the B.A. degree in Physics from the University of
addition to making numerous other conference presentations. Straub’s research spans the gauntlet between technology, commercialization and technology policy. In particular, his research has recently focused on cybersecurity topics including intrusion detection and forensics, robotic command and control, aerospace command and 3D printing quality assurance. Straub is a member of Sigma Xi, the AAAS, the AIAA and several other technical societies, he has also served as a track or session chair for numerous conferences. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Pandemic Response: Hybrid-Flexible Course Delivery for General Education Computer
engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2011 Dr. Sheppard was named as co-PI of a national NSF innovation center (Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at Stanford on summer research experiences for high school teachers. Her industry experiences includes engineering positions at Detroit’s ”Big Three:” Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, and Chrysler Corporation. At Stanford she has served a chair of the faculty senate, and recently served as Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education.Dr. Helen L. Chen, Stanford University Helen L. Chen is a research scientist in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at
two groups.In addition, while our data from the 2019 REM cohort demonstrates the general appeal of theprogram, much was learned from the interviews we did a year later (for excerpts from theirinterviews, see the video mentioned earlier). Participants in these interviews were asked toreflect on the program’s value in a way that captured its longer-term impact. Here are twotypical examples from participants talking about the life-changing impact the REM program hadon them: • A teacher recommended being a program participant: “if you want to grow as an educator, as a human being, and as a lifelong learner.” • An undergraduate student said: “I learned so much. And so now I’m definitely considering going to graduate school
in engineering, care ethics in engineering, humanitarian engineering, engineering ethics, and computer modeling of electric power and renewable energy systems.Ms. Ngan T.T. Nguyen, Texas Tech University Ngan Nguyen is a research assistant and doctoral candidate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruc- tion at Texas Tech University. Her research is focused on fostering the learning experiences of Asian international graduate students in higher education.Dr. Jeong-Hee Kim, Texas Tech University Jeong-Hee Kim is Chairperson and Professor of Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education in the De- partment of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas Tech University. Kim is a curriculum theorist, teacher educator, and
their social interaction network.Algorithms used to generate predictive models applied to delayed graduation issues wereDecision tree, K-nearest neighbor (KNN), Neuronal Network, Neive Bayes, and Support VectorMachine. The highest performing of these algorithms was the Neural Network with 98%accuracy and the Decision Tree with 91% accuracy. The Decision Tree algorithm is the mostwidely used predictive model for identifying student dropout in higher education institutions[13]. A recommended explanation of how a neural network or Decision Tree works can befound elsewhere [14].Lykourentzou et al.[15] used a multi-layer morphological neural network (MLM) support vectormachine and probabilistic analysis techniques, using three decision schemes. They
- cilitating productive collaborations of individuals who are geographically and culturally distributed. Dr. Zhang has published numerous papers in the areas of HCI, CSCW, KM, social informatics and related disciplines. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Content Analysis of Data Science Graduate Programs in the U.S. I. INTRODUCTION Data science is an emerging academic field [1], which has its origins in Big Data and CloudComputing and other complex science-related domains. Data Science is concerned with managinglarge and complex data and the use of data analytics technologies [1]. The three pillars of
paper, using dataand narratives from the United States and Iran as examples, I identify roadblocks to theengagement of women in STEM careers. Using the two countries with which I am mostfamiliar as examples is instructive, because this side-by-side comparison shows thatundesirable outcomes in the domain of women in STEM fields can and do occur forvastly different reasons, which I discuss.Keywords: education; equal opportunity; gender equity; labor laws; misogyny; sexism;women’s rights; workforce diversity1. IntroductionIt is generally recognized that the economic benefits of scientific and technologicaladvancement cannot be achieved unless the available workforce is efficiently and fullyutilized [1], [2]. So, far from being an issue that
number ofapplications and students enrolling in the EP.In addition, most high school academic counselors reported less positive attitudes about theacademic rigor of community college coursework [12]. Since underrepresented minorities (Black 4and Hispanic), women, financially challenged, and first-generation college students more oftenbegin their higher education at community colleges than their white, male, and higher incomecounterparts [21, 22], they are already confronted with an inferiority barrier by the time they enrollat a community college. The false belief that community colleges are inferior, represent somesecond-class status, and limited
student mental health-related help-seeking in undergraduate engineer- ing students. She is completing this project in collaboration with faculty members from educational and counseling psychology. With this work, they aim to better understand the help-seeking beliefs of under- graduate engineering students and develop interventions to improve mental health-related help-seeking. Other research interests include engineering communication and integration of process safety into a unit operations course.Melanie E. Miller, University of Kentucky Melanie Miller, M.S., (She/her/hers) is a Counseling Psychology Ph.D. student at the University of Ken- tucky. American c
their education [3],[5]-[7]. By positively impacting students’ sense of belongingon campus, and specifically in engineering, through multicultural-specific leadership andcommunity training, this type of curricula can transform students’ experiences in terms ofcultural competency and engagement in social justice topics. Part of this process is utilizingtransformative leadership pedagogy to elevate, recognize and integrate the voices as well asviews of students who have been traditionally silenced. Their inclusion in the narrative of STEMcontributions and the highlighting of their importance in the success of the higher learninginstitutions will assist in transforming the current non-inclusive perception.The purpose of this contribution is to
student is in autonomous vehi- cles, engineering education, and aviation technology. His thesis topic focuses on conducting engineering analysis of semi-autonomous trailer connections.Miss Emily Rada, Purdue University, West Lafayette Emily Rada is a master’s Engineering Technology student at Purdue University, studying predictive main- tenance in turbine generators. She graduated in May 2019 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Tech- nology from Purdue University, concentrating on power generation and fuel sources.Dr. Anne M. Lucietto, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Lucietto has focused her research in engineering technology education and the understanding of engineering technology students. She teaches in an
University of San Diego, she worked as a Senior Research Engineer at L3 Technologies. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Thermodynamics Design Project that Applies Theory, Explores Renewable Energy Topics, and Considers the Economic and Social Impacts of the DesignsAbstractThermodynamics courses introduce theoretical concepts that can be applied to real-worldproblems using impactful project-based learning (PBL). Entrepreneurially minded learning(EML) can augment PBL by instilling an entrepreneurial mindset (EM), categorized by curiosity,making connections, and creating value, in the students. This paper describes a group
Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and an Engineering Education Faculty Member at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. Dr. Mondisa holds a PhD in Engineering Education, an MS in Industrial Engineering, an MBA, and a BS in General Engineering. She researches STEM mentoring experiences and mentoring intervention programs in higher education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Using Photovoice to Examine the Mental Health Experiences of Engineering Graduate Students during COVID-19 (Work in Progress)AbstractMental health service utilization and reported mental