in engineering classrooms pre-k through college.Miela Efraim, Tufts University Miela Efraim is a student at Tufts University in the Class of 2024 studying Engineering Psychology. She works as an undergraduate research assistant at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach.Prof. Chris B. Rogers, Tufts University Chris is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University with research in engineering education, robotics, musical instrument design, IoT, and anything else that sounds cool. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Analysis of Online Robotics Challenge Submissions (Fundamental)IntroductionRobotics competitions
Paper ID #33673Educational Opportunities for Technical Writing in Engineering EducationDr. Susan J. Ely, University of Southern Indiana Dr. Ely began her academic career at the community college level, after having worked as an engineer in areas of manufacturing, distribution, logistics and supply chain. Her research interests in Supply Chain Management include optimization through resiliency, lean supply chain practices and effective instruction in supply chain for career development, professional development of educators and online practices.Mr. Jotam E. Chen, University of Southern Indiana Jotam Chen is currently
Paper ID #33027Introduction to MATLAB Programming in Fundamentals of Engineering CourseDr. Djedjiga Belfadel, Fairfield University Djedjiga Belfadel is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Biomedical Engineering department at Fairfield University. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from the University of Connecticut in 2015, in electrical engineering. Her interests include embedded systems, target tracking, data association, sensor fusion, machine vision, engineering service, and education.Dr. Michael Zabinski, Fairfield University Professor, Mechanical Engineering,Fairfield University, Fairfield, CTDr. Isaac
the NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering(FE) exam and the NCEES Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) exam. Most statesrequire at least four years of experiences after completion of an EAC-ABET accreditedengineering degree. However, the education requirement is far from uniform. Many state lawsinclude pathways to licensure for applicants with a non-accredited engineering degree, anengineering technology degree, a non-engineering bachelor’s degree, and no postsecondarydegree. In the following study, state engineering laws and rules were reviewed to determine theeducation, experience, and examination pathways to professional engineering licensure. Inparticular, the accreditation requirements for applicants with EAC-ABET degrees, ETAC
Paper ID #34409Scaffolding Technical Writing Within a First-Year Engineering LabExperienceCassie Wallwey, The Ohio State University Cassie Wallwey is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Ohio State’s Department of Engineering Education. She is Graduate Teaching Associate for the Fundamentals of Engineering Honors program, and a Graduate Research Associate working in the RIME collaborative (https://u.osu.edu/rimetime) run by Dr. Rachel Kajfez. Her research interests include engineering student motivation and feedback in engineering class- rooms. Before enrolling at Ohio State University, Cassie earned her B.S. (2017) and M.S
Technology program, University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests are human factors, user experience, engineering education, and transportation safety. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Fundamental Theorem Learning with Optimum Pedagogy for Technology Integration in Quality Control Course (Work in Progress)AbstractAs technology advances and new software is developed, the education system is beingchallenged to adapt pedagogical approaches for the smooth integration of such tools into thecurriculum. These tools can be beneficial for teaching because they allow students to visualizedifficult concepts and can be used to execute functions that
Paper ID #33466Development of the Fit of Personal Interests and Perceptions ofEngineering Survey (F-PIPES) Instrument (Fundamental)Dr. Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Dr. Morgan Hynes is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity and Director of the FACE Lab research group at Purdue. In his research, Hynes explores the use of engineering to integrate academic subjects in K-12 classrooms. Specific research interests include design metacognition among learners of all ages; the knowledge base for teaching K-12 STEM through engi- neering; the relationships
Paper ID #32581Caregivers’ Multiple Roles in Supporting their Child through anEngineering Design Project (Fundamental)Dr. Amber Simpson, State University of New York at Binghamton Amber Simpson is a Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education in the Teaching, Learning and Edu- cational Leadership Department at Binghamton University. Her research interests include (1) examining individual’s identity(ies) in one or more STEM disciplines, (2) understanding the role of making and tinkering in formal and informal learning environments, and (3) investigating family engagement in and interactions around STEM-related activities
Paper ID #32319High School Student Outcome Expectations on Postsecondary Pathways inTwo Regions of Virginia (Fundamental)Kai Jun Chew, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kai Jun (KJ) Chew is a PhD candidate in the Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education. In the past, he has been involved in the engineering education field by working with Dr. Sheri Sheppard, engaging in multiple projects, such as ABET accreditation, curriculum redesign and others.Dr. Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Holly M. Matusovich is a Professor in the Department of Engineering
Paper ID #33711Assessing Elementary Students’ Engineering Design Thinking with an”Evaluate-And-Improve” Task (Fundamental)Nicole Alexandra Batrouny, Tufts University Nicole Batrouny is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University. Her engineering education research interests include upper elementary engineering education, integrated science and en- gineering, collaboration in engineering, and decision making in engineering. For her Master’s thesis, she uncovered talk moves used by 4th grade students that fostered collaborative, disciplinary decision-making during an engineering design outreach program. For
Paper ID #33132Mentoring Correlates to Characteristics of University K12 OutreachPrograms: Survey Findings (Fundamental)Miss Sabina A. Schill, University of Colorado Boulder Sabina is an environmental engineering PhD candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. She re- ceived her BS in Physics from Westminster College, SLC in 2015, and spent a year tutoring K-12 students in math before entering graduate school. Sabina participated in the NSF-funded GK-12 Fellowship pro- gram in 2016-2017, and in 2019-2020 was a recipient of CU Boulder’s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in STEM Education.Dr. Angela R. Bielefeldt
Paper ID #34586Learning Through Doing: Preservice Elementary Teacher Reflections on theEngineering Design Process (Fundamental)Dr. Matthew Perkins Coppola, Purdue University Fort Wayne Dr. Perkins Coppola is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the School of Education at Purdue University Fort Wayne. His research agenda centers on elementary and secondary preservice teacher preparation. While a lecturer at Towson University in 2014, he was inspired to research engineering design pedagogy in elementary schools after attending a talk by Dr. Pamela Lottero-Perdue. He began his career as a high school physics teacher
Lecturer at Northwest College in Powell, WY. He has published over 200 papers on a variety of topics. He most recently co-authored a text, Perspectives on Engineering (2011), an IEEE eBook, Shaping an Engineering Career: Book 2: Dual Career Ladders (2013), and another text, So You Want to be an Engineer? (2015).Dr. S. Renee Dechert, Northwest College Renee Dechert is a professor of English at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming, where she teaches courses in technical writing, business communication, composition, and social media. Her current re- search focus is on the rhetoric of social media, She also blogs about the Colorado Rockies.Dr. Andrea Carneal Burrows, University of Wyoming Dr. Andrea C. Burrows is a
field notes [44]. Feedback obtained from both content experts and engineeringstudents will inform revisions to the initial set of items prior to distribution and testing.The engineering task will be based on questions from the Statics Concept Inventory [45, 46].Statics questions were chosen because the subject is fundamental to mechanical, civil, and otherrelated engineering fields. This computation will be followed with an “intuition check” questionthat asks the user to assess the confidence in their answer choice how they choose their answer, ifthey would go to their manager with just this prediction, and how they would justify their answer.The resulting two-part instrument will then be distributed to collect responses that will be usedfor
Paper ID #32540Let’s Write About Impact!: Creating Persuasive Impact Statements toDisseminate and Propagate RED ResearchDr. Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Julia M. Williams is Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her research areas include technical communication, assessment, accreditation, and the development of change management strategies for faculty and staff. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education, In- ternational Journal of Engineering Education, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and Technical Communication Quarterly, among
Paper ID #34354Poetry Writing in Engineering Education: Results and Insights From anExploratory StudyProf. Elif Akcali, University of Florida Dr. Elif Akc¸alı is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida (UF), where she is also The Cottmeyer Family Innovative Frontiers Faculty Fellow. She is an industrial engineer, a visual artist, and an explorer of the interplay between thinking and making in the arts and engineering. In 2013, Dr. Akc¸alı was selected as the Creative Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Florida, and spent two semesters in the
Paper ID #34023Embedding Technical Writing Into Mechanical Engineering Curriculum:Tools for Immediate Feedback on Student PerformanceMary M. McCall, University of Detroit Mercy I have taught Technical Writing and Business Communication at the university and community college level for more than 30 years. My current focus at Detroit Mercy is the Embedded Technical Writing Program for Mechanical Engineering, now in its sixth year. Other work includes reference book and fiction publishing, communication consulting with business and industry, and writing, employee training, and developing marketing strategies for non-profit and
Paper ID #32253In-Class Real-Time Assessments of Students’ Fundamental Vector andCalculus Skills in an Undergraduate Engineering Dynamics CourseProf. Ning Fang, Utah State University Ning Fang is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University, U.S.A. He has taught a variety of courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels, such as engineering dy- namics, metal machining, and design for manufacturing. His areas of interest include computer-assisted instructional technology, curricular reform in engineering education, and the modeling and optimization of manufacturing processes. He earned
Paper ID #34255Middle School Engineering Teachers’ Enactment of Pedagogies Rooted inFunds of Knowledge and Translanguaging: A Comparative Case Study(Fundamental)Dr. Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University Amy Wilson-Lopez is an associate professor at Utah State University who studies culturally sustaining engineering pedagogies and literacies with linguistically diverse students.Jorge Americo Acosta Feliz American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Middle School Engineering Teachers’ Enactments of Pedagogies Rooted in Funds of Knowledge and
Manufacturing (MMEM) at California State University Chico in 2015 as an Assistant Professor. Dr O’Connor teaches a myriad of courses including: Dynamics, Materials, Thermodynamics, Machine Design, and Vibrations. In addition, he is the faculty advisor to both Chico State Rocketry and SAE Mini Baja student clubs. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Switching Gears in Machine Design; A Focus Toward Technical Writing Skills in Lieu of a Hands-On Semester Design and Fabrication ProjectAbstractIn light of the recent global pandemic, many universities have decidedly transitioned to fullyonline. The obvious consequence being that technical hands-on
Paper ID #33865Multidimensional Linguistic Analysis of Multiple Undergraduate WritingSamples Collected from Engineering Students in Entry-level LaboratoryCourses at Three UniversitiesDr. Dave Kim, Washington State University-Vancouver Dr. Dave Kim is Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator in the School of Engineer- ing and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. His teaching and research have been in the areas of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, and manufacturing processes. In par- ticular, he has been very active in pedagogical research in the area of writing pedagogy of
Paper ID #33208Academic Writing at the Doctoral and Professional Level in Engineering:The Current State of the Field and Pathways ForwardMs. Kate Caroline Batson, University of Georgia KateBatsonis a PhD candidate within Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia. Her research is centered around writing practices at the doctoral and professional levels within engineering. Previously, she served as an instructor in the Intensive English Program (IEP) at The University of Missis- sippi, where she taught 18 different courses and served as the IEP Operations Coordinator. She was also the IEP in-house
Paper ID #34213Work-In-Progress: Leveraging Interdisciplinary Topics in First-yearEngineeringDr. Brett Hamlin, Michigan Technological University Brett Hamlin is a student centered educator who focuses his effort in active collaborative discovery based learning designed around student driven interests. Dr. Hamlin spends much of his time engaging and mentoring students to guide them towards answering their own questions. Dr. Hamlin a Senior Lecturer and Interim Chair of the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Technological University.Dr. AJ Hamlin, Michigan Technological University AJ Hamlin is a Principal
Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, sewage and interior design. A third outcome was the exposure of small gaps in fundamental preparation and understanding. This refers to fundamental errors that otherwise would not have been apparent. This elucidation, in the opinion of this instructor, was more apparent than when students are solving design problems. Specifically, some students wrote exam problems that violated some theory from another course or Figure 5: Depiction of from within the course. When an instructor is writing problems, Example Problem
writing. o Create a course structure that is clear and predictable to help students manage their remote work. • Set reasonable expectations for the instructors: o Select learning activities that can be done in the short preparation time and leverage the instructional team’s expertise.These priorities reflected the effect of the pandemic on both the students and the instructionalteam.The instructional team opted to reuse prior laboratory modules to ensure that each unit was well-planned. These modules already had lab manuals that provided background information,experimental procedures, and grading expectations. Data for these experiments was availablefrom past course offerings, and the
aspect of this processis that the student directly sees how the classroom theory is used to bring their robot creations tolife using the widely accessible and computationally intuitive programming MATLAB language.Many robotic toolboxes available which help with the visualization and manipulation of robotsoften obscure the underlying robotics theory with abstract black boxes or layers of programmingabstraction that make the toolboxes more robust, efficient, and more general purpose. These robottoolboxes are often more beneficial to those with programming experience, who have somebackground in robotics and are not concerned with the underlying theory. One goal of this work isto make teaching the fundamentals of robotic theory more accessible to
communication.Specifically, we conducted a title search for “communication or writing or speaking orpresentations” and then examined the papers individually to determine whether they serve one ormore of four functions: (1) develop or assess the communication abilities of engineering students, (2) assess student attitudes and experiences in communication courses, (3) analyze pedagogical strategies or curriculum design processes for teaching engineering students to communicate, or (4) provide fundamental understanding of engineering writing and speaking. The search function in PEER makes it possible to identify trends across the divisions ofASEE and over time, but this function is far from perfect. A strategy like the title search
, a midwestern STEM-focusedinstitution, received an internal grant to develop a class in research for undergraduates. Thisclass, which is designed to be offered online either for cohorts or for individual students as anindependent study, contains information and resources on a diverse range of issues such asmotivation for research, research ethics, planning a research project, conducting literaturesearches, experimental procedures, keeping lab documentation for various types of projects, dataanalysis, technical writing, intellectual property, and issues relevant to scoping out one’s ownresearch project.This paper will give the background for the course development, evaluation of the requiredcontent and decisions on structure and format, and
experience of using UML andObject-Oriented design concepts in conjunction with project-based learning. This perspectivewould be valuable to raise critical thinking and facilitate the conceptual learning in high levelcomputer science and STEM classes.It is well noticed that the theme of project-based learning is learn-by-doing. Students will gainexperience by being exposed to real world problem and challenges and finding solutions by theapplying concepts and methodologies. This class was planned to ensure that students areprovided an environment for the successfully tackling of a problem using the knowledge units,not just landing a job.To align with the course objective of changing mindsets from “wild” code writing to prior planningand documentation
research is discipline-specific and focuses on identifying how self-efficacy relates to engineering design achievement in an undergraduate BME curriculum. Twogoals of our research include: 1) to increase self-efficacy of undergraduate BME students byproviding project-based learning experiences throughout the curriculum; and 2) to identify ifbiomedical engineering student self-efficacy differences correlate with student ability toeffectively translate fundamental knowledge toward engineering design.Since we bring disciplinary expertise, our choice of mentors parallels the engineering educationresearch topics required to successfully approach our study’s research goals. Again, we targetedthree areas for development: social science research in design