championed more than 20 STEM outreach programs, impacting over 500 K-12 students. His contributions to education have been lauded with awards, including the College Educator of the Year by the Technology Alliance of Central New York (TACNY). A staunch advocate for hybrid teaching, Prof. Yung promotes a holistic learning environment rich in hands-on projects, experiential activities, and peer collaboration, a marked shift from conventional pedagogies. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Enhancing Engineering Capstone Design Preparedness: A Systematic Curriculum ApproachIntroductionEngineering education is pivotal in equipping students with the technical and
approach is often developed as either engineering faculty andstudents participating in an interdisciplinary effort or engineering departments implementingethics education across multiple engineering classes. Most of the literature studying ethics acrossthe curriculum focuses on institutions which do either the former or the latter, but not bothsimultaneously. However, assessment of student learning outcomes showed that if bothapproaches are used simultaneously and are purposefully connected with each other, the capacityof students to identify ethical systems and practical foundations for making judgments isimproved, and students are better able to apply an ethical system to value judgments.As part of an intermediate engineering design class
Paper ID #43538A New Personalized Learning Approach Towards Graduate STEM Education:A Pilot in Chemical EngineeringDr. April A. Dukes, University of Pittsburgh Dr. April Dukes is the Faculty and Future Faculty Program Director for the Engineering Educational Research Center (EERC) and the Institutional Co-leader for Pitt-CIRTL at the University of Pittsburgh. April’s research and teaching efforts engage graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to inform and support systemic change toward excellence and inclusivity in higher education.Ms. Valerie E. Kerr, University of Pittsburgh Valerie E. Kerr serves as the Graduate
discussionforum was established for each case study, whereby every student contributed an originaldiscussion thread and engaged in at least two responses to a peer's contribution. In addition,students were actively encouraged to engage in questioning and responding within the discussionand not just limited to their particular case study.The outcomes of this new pedagogical approach have been remarkably positive. The onlineformat promoted increased interaction, richer and more profound discussions, higherparticipation rates, and well-thought-out responses. Students benefited from extended reflectionand research time compared to traditional in-class presentations, resulting in a morecomprehensive understanding of engineering ethics. This innovative method
Engineering in 2009 from the Imperial College of London and his doctoral degree in 2020 from the University of Georgia, College of Engineering.Jack Yang, New York University Tandon School of Engineering ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 An Interactive Platform for Team-based Learning Using Machine Learning ApproachAbstractThis complete evidence-based paper explores the feasibility of developing an interactiveplatform with chatbot feature to facilitate project-based learning. Teamwork pedagogy is widelyused in engineering courses, particularly in first year (cornerstone) and senior-year (capstone)design courses, but also across the curriculum. Faculty have several
Paper ID #42351WIP: Impact of an Authentic Introductory Computer Programming Courseon New BAE Undergraduate Students’ Learning Motivation and Interest inthe DisciplineDr. Lucie Guertault, North Carolina State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 WIP: Impact of an authentic introductory computer programming course on new BAE undergraduate students’ learning motivation and interest in the disciplineIntroductionFrom automating tasks to analyzing large amounts of data, or solving complex mathematicalproblems, computer programming is a fundamental skill for engineering
Paper ID #43606Utilizing Micro-Credentials to Infuse Renewable Energy Concepts into EngineeringTechnology CurriculumDr. Khosro Shirvani, State University of New York, Farmingdale Khosro Shirvani, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Technology at Farmingdale State College (FSC). His research areas include Tribology, Additive Manufacturing of Metals, Renewable Energy, and Engineering Education. Since 2011, He has worked on projects sponsored by The Boeing Company, the National Institute of Standards & Technology, and National Science Foundation. Over the past 8 years, he has developed and taught
a shortage of both newand experienced engineers in RF engineering. The complete RF engineering curriculums are notgenerally offered at the undergraduate level. As providers of engineering technology education,when designing a new course or a program, we must consider the applicability and practicality ofthe course contents and the program. A micro-credential is a certificate program that helps studentsacquire knowledge, skills, and experience in a highly focused area by completing three or fourrelevant courses. The micro-credential in RF engineering for students in engineering technologyprograms must also be designed and implemented in such ways that the courses in the micro-credential are as self-contained as possible so that it does not
Paper ID #43804A Holistic Approach to Civil Engineering Capstone DesignProf. Sarath Chandra Kumar Jagupilla P.E., Stevens Institute of Technology Professor Jagupilla (Prof. J) is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in the Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. He is also a licensed professional engineer, a board-certified environmental engineer, an ASCE ExCEEd graduate and an ABET PEV (program evaluator) for AAEES. Prof. J serves as the instructor for civil engineering senior design, probability and statistics for engineers, modeling and
British Columbia, where he serves as the program advisor for the Manufacturing Engineering undergraduate program. Casey’s research interests include multi-campus instruction and the development of open educational resources.Abbas Hosseini, University of British Columbia, Vancouver ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Reflections on Multi-campus Teaching in a New Manufacturing Engineering ProgramAbstractIn 2019, the University of British Columbia (UBC) initiated a new multi-campus manufacturingengineering program involving two campuses situated over 450 km apart. Each institution isresponsible for managing its own curriculum and specialization within manufacturing
neutronics and thermal hydraulics to radiation biophysics and nuclear waste managementpolicy. We note that several textbooks were unintentionally not included in this analysis andshould be included in further studies. These include [28], [29], [30]. When faculty teach courses,textbooks are not always available, thus a compilation of course notes and journal articles iscreated. Such compilations are sometimes the basis of new books that are written, thus out of thenecessity of teaching courses and evolving the curriculum. Although there exists no primarytextbook or set of books that is exhaustive of nuclear engineering curricula, an analysis of someof the nuclear engineering textbooks that are available today offers a starting point for howknowledge
Paper ID #41055Implementing PackML in the Engineering and Technology CurriculumDr. Maged Mikhail, Purdue University Northwest Dr. Maged B.Mikhail, Assistant Professor, Mechatronics Engineering Technology Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, August 2013. Dissertation title: aˆ CDevelopment of Integrated Decision Fusion Software System ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Implementing PackML in the Engineering and Technology CurriculumAbstractPackML (Packaging Machine Language) is an automation standard widely
Paper ID #43184Asset-Based Approaches to Transformative Learning: Community and Culturein an Undergraduate Engineering Research Program at a Hispanic ServingInstitutionDr. Hilda Cecilia Contreras Aguirre, New Mexico State University Hilda Cecilia Contreras Aguirre, EdD is a STEM education researcher at New Mexico State University. She focuses her research on qualitative/mixed methods studies addressing minority and underrepresented student college performance and persistence through high-impact practices, particularly in STEM disciplines. Her main lines of inquiry examine best practices in mentoring and promotion of
higher education.Asma WasfiMohammad HayajnehBisni Fahad Mon, United Arab Emirates UniversityAmeer Slim, University of New Mexico ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Enhancing Academic Pathways: A Data-Driven Approach to Reducing Curriculum Complexity and Improving Graduation Rates in Higher Education Ahmad Slim† , Gregory L. Heileman† , Husain Al Yusuf† , Ameer Slim‡ , Yiming Zhang† , Mohammad Hayajneh• , Bisni Fahad Mon• , Asma Wasfi Fayes• {ahslim@arizona.edu, heileman@arizona.edu, halyusuf@arizona.edu, ahs1993@unm.edu, yimingzhang1@arizona.edu, mhayajneh@uaeu.ac.ae
) and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Design Education) from Stanford University.Prof. Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University Bala Maheswaran, PhD COE Distinguished Professor Northeastern University 367 Snell Engineering Center Boston, MA 02115 ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Unique, Action-Oriented, Collaborative Approach to Co- Creating a New Open-Source Sustainability Teaching Guide under a Creative Commons LicenseThe Interdivisional Town Hall (ITH) session at the ASEE Annual Conference offers theopportunity for members from different divisions and unaffiliated attendees to come together todiscuss topics of interest across the society
diversecommunity of educators and science learners [8].Present StudyThe present work-in-progress research utilizes the WISE platform to advance an original social-justice oriented science curriculum which will be scalable to a diverse set of middle schoolscience teachers and learners. The final product will improve students’ argumentation skills,conceptual understanding, and scientific literacy by engaging learners in the following activities: ● Exploring the varied structures/functions of organs, organ systems, and scientific arguments; ● Learning about emergent solutions in biomedical engineering to prolong the storage of human organs; ● Constructing evidence-based arguments in the form of policy proposals designed to mitigate racial
Paper ID #42441The Impact of the New DEI Landscape on Minoritized Engineering Students’Recruitment and RetentionJordan Williamson, CSEdResearch Jordan Williamson graduated with a BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests center on minority experiences in the American Education System.Dr. Julie M. Smith, CSEdResearch.org Dr. Julie M. Smith is a senior education researcher at CSEdResearch.org. She holds degrees in Curriculum & Instruction and Software Development. She also completed a doctoral program in Learning Technologies at the University of North Texas. Her research focus is
develop curriculum that improve students’ contributionto society and that encourage students to seek opportunities to create value when designing. Thismodule has the potential to meet the need of higher-educational institutions’ mission to supportDEI initiatives on campuses.Keywords: student engagement, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), Entrepreneurial-MindedLearning (EML), Kern Engineering Entrepreneurial Network (KEEN) frameworkIntroductionHigher education institutions are currently seeking new approaches to address the new ABETcriteria to include diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in engineering education. Institutions arecurrently seeking methods to integrate DEI into curriculum, assessment, workplace climate,faculty practice and
, where traditional teachingmethods and curricula are revaluated and updated. Faculty members play a crucial role in thistransition, as they need to embrace new teaching approaches and often step outside theircomfort zones. Despite these challenges, the push towards entrepreneurial education inengineering is gaining momentum. It is being driven by the recognition that the engineers oftomorrow need to be adaptable, innovative, and ready to face the challenges of a rapidlychanging world. This evolution in engineering education is not just a response to marketdemands, it is a necessary step in preparing students to be leaders and innovators in a worldwhere engineering and entrepreneurship are increasingly intertwined.In conclusion, the integration
-Piñera, et al., “Design and integration of a problem-based biofabrication course into an undergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum”, J Biol Eng 10, 2016, 10.[3] A.B. Abell, “Embracing Ambiguity: A Framework for Promoting Iterative Design Thinking Approaches in Open-Ended Engineering and Design Curricula”, 2017.[4] S. R. Daly, C. M. Seifert, S. Yilmaz, R. Gonzalez, "Comparing Ideation Techniques for Beginning Designers", ASME. J. Mech. Des. October 2016; 138(10): 101108.[5] T.C. Davies, J. Manzin, M. Meraw, et al., “Understanding the Development of a Design Thinking Mindset During a Biomedical Engineering Third-Year Course”, Biomed Eng Education 2023, 3, pp.123–132.[6] A. S. T. Wong, & C
transdisciplinary ontology model for engineering education[42].Additionally, curriculum development and integration in engineering education have employedan ontological approach. Bussemaker et al. (2017) presented a method for continuous reflectionand evolution of chemical engineering curricula, utilizing ontology to model topics, modules,and learning outcomes, demonstrating its effectiveness in curriculum development andintegration through a case study [43]. Moreover, proposing the digital transformation of thetransportation engineering program, Khabarova and Volegzhanina (2022) advocated for anontology-based concept and tools, emphasizing that standardizing education content throughontological concepts and relations enables the development of web
overview and a sample of initial findings categorizing equity-centered content.Project overview The goal of the NSF Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) grant that includesthis effort is the development of a Teaching Engineering Equity (TEE) Center at the Universityof Michigan. The Center will support existing and new efforts aligned with the College ofEngineering’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategic mission and share initiatives withleaders similarly committed to equity-centered engineering education. Currently, the TEE Centerhas three main objectives: (1) designing and validating an evidence-based framework forcreating an equity-centered engineering curriculum; (2) generating and evaluating a collection ofDEI
-23 school year,through all three semesters or all four quarters of the academic year. In total, 35 differentchemical engineering programs were assessed. Of these programs, 29 are the top ranked nationalchemical engineering programs according to US News & World Report [9]; 6 additional stateschools from the PAC-12 represent the remainder. Using the assembled database, this workexamines departments' 4-year undergraduate curriculums, master programs, and the teachingload and composition of faculty members within the department. While there are limitations inrelying on some of these data sources, our work may serve to provide a snapshot of chemicalengineering curricula in the United States, to aid departments in comparing how their
engineering courses, independent of position of thesecourses within their curricula. We hope that this will lower the barrier for our colleagues to startto incorporate these broad elements–even in small ways–into their classrooms. With the data weare collecting, we plan to demonstrate how effective these approaches are in helping studentsdevelop the abilities necessary to foster new engineers who will help us create the equitable, andsustainable future envisioned by the UNSDGs.References[1] Unesco, "Engineering for sustainable development : delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals.," ed, p. 185.[2] ABET. "Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2022 – 2023." ABET. https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation
, global awareness, sustainability, and diversity, equity and inclusion. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Alumni Engagement and Mentoring Integrated in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum1.0 Introduction.Alumni engagement is intensively and widely fostered by colleges and universities to attractfunding and donations, prestige, and loyalty. Engaged alumni can also improve the rate of jobplacement and internship opportunities for current students. In addition, alumni can provide amost valuable source of mentoring for students in their curriculum and career. However, thereare limited approaches to engage alumni with curricular courses. Some experiences includeinvited talks and
the correct answer, but notin a computationally efficient way. The easiest method to mitigate this issue is to create problemswhich involve an array instead of a single scalar value. This would make the problem socomputationally inefficient to do by hand that the student would need to use MATLAB. The sidebenefit of this approach is that the results are easier to view, and a relationship between variablesmay be observed. It should be noted that students who had MATLAB Grader experience in their ComputerApplications in Engineering course seemed to adjust more easily to the MATLAB Graderproblems in their core curriculum courses that also contained MATLAB Grader and hence had amore positive learning experience. It is believed this is
Paper ID #42974Small Shifts: New Methods for Improving Communication Experiences forWomen in Early Engineering CoursesDr. Jonathan M Adams, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Jonathan Adams is an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition and the writing program administrator at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, AZ. His research on rhetorical theory, infrastructure, and communication pedagogy informs his teaching of courses in rhetoric, composition, and technical communication in engineering.Ashley Rea, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, PrescottBrian Roth, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
Paper ID #43629Innovative Next-Generation Virtual Reality-based ImmersiveApproaches forLearning Engineering ConceptsJ Cecil, Oklahoma State University Dr. J Cecil directs the Center for Cyber-Physical Systems in the department of computer science at Oklahoma State University. His research interest deal with modeling simulation and exchange of information which has led to the creation of interdisciplinary approaches and Frameworks including the creation of cyber physical approaches to support distributed Manufacturing to the design of human centered Computing approaches involving extended reality technologies to support
-focused positions and findings from other researchers and educators, we propose anasset-based approach to building faculty competencies for ethics instruction and describe threesets of faculty assets for practitioners to consider. Given that questions concerning the morepersonal, self-directing side of an educator’s professional growth have only been systematicallyexplored in literature outside engineering education, we hope that our examination of the roles offaculty and their assets may begin a similar dialogue in engineering education.IntroductionWith the growth of publications and shared resources coming to light for the engineeringeducation community, instructors are continually presented with new approaches and strategiesthey can apply in
Engineering Curriculum ModernizationAbstractThe Schulich School of Engineering has recently undertaken staged redesign and implementationof a new software engineering curriculum. Stakeholders were asked to consider a set offormulated questions for their topic and related list of courses. Consultation comments,suggestions, and previous feedback were evaluated and incorporated into the proposal. Theproposed curriculum changes were rolled out in a staged approach. The rollout of the new secondyear curriculum started in Fall 2022 with the new third year curriculum beginning in Fall 2023.An initial survey was conducted to evaluate student feedback on course content and experience.Using a quasi-experimental post-test only design, students who experienced