broader sector of the student population comprising students who are still in search of theircareer focus and objectives. Undergraduate research has received strong support from the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) through the development and funding of many research opportunities,including Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), Research in UndergraduateInstitutions (RUI), Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program(HBCU-UP), and Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program. Whilethese programs provide serious avenues for research preparation for students seeking furthereducation at the graduate level, there is a need, as outlined above, for broader-reaching programs.Thus, many
Paper ID #11157WHY DO UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN PERSIST AS STEM MAJORS?A STUDY AT TWO TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITIESDr. Ronald Brandt, Seton Hall University Ronald Brandt teaches physical science at the high school level, emphasizing Project Based Learning and inquiry based lab activities. Brandt seeks to inspire his students, especially young women, to develop a passion for STEM studies and consider a career in science and technology. Prior to entering the education profession, Ronald Brandt was an executive in the chemical industry serving as senior vice president at two multinational firms as well as President & CEO of an
all participating studentsneed to fulfil. This requirement involves active association of the students with an engineeringorganization on campus or involvement in an undergraduate research project. For thisrequirement, students may or may not be working with their mentor. However, they need toreport to their mentor at the end of the semester with a brief report and a presentation thathighlights the main achievements of their work. Student projects may range from involvementwith organizations such as SAE Mini Baja or IEEE Robotics to specifically working in aresearch laboratory on campus or assisting a faculty member with research. This activity isspecifically aimed at stimulating student interest in out-of-class activities. Benefits of such
, andsupport youth in strengthening their life skills. The MFYC was initially established as a sportfocused youth development center, but as it matured, the MFYC began to offer academicprograming in partnership with other units within and external to the university. Thesepartnerships resulted in much broader programming including the Everyday Engineering, KillerAsteroids, Discovery Dentistry, Creative Writing Unleased, Picture Perfect Health, Art as a Storyto name a few. These programs provided fun, challenging and creative explorations on a varietyof in-depth experiences in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics, and HealthSciences. Participants could choose a morning and afternoon class or one that met all day.Classes were taught by
Paper ID #11746Assessing the Spectrum of International Undergraduate Engineering Educa-tional ExperiencesDr. Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Mary Besterfield-Sacre is an Associate Professor and Fulton C. Noss Faculty Fellow in Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the Director for the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering, and serves as a Center Associate for the Learning Research and Development Center. Her principal research is in engineering education assessment, which has been funded by the NSF, Department of Ed, Sloan, EIF
method that has proven fruitful in helping to retain thesegroups, especially women, is to utilize a service-learning approach, which demonstrates theapplicability of course content and the ways that it can positively affect others4-7. Manyprograms, such as Engineers Without Borders, target service opportunities for engineers in a Page 26.649.2developing country. Other programs, such as the EPICS program founded at Purdue University,focus on service opportunities in the community around the institution. Regardless of the venue,these programs typically attract a higher percentage of female and minority participants than thenational averages for
. As a result, students obtain job ready skills and project abilities in 2years that can greatly leverage their early learning and focus.In a multi-university collaboration, all participants gain in shared information including:articulation agreements, ABET start-up templates and shared consultant advice, summerinternships, legal forms, competitions, joint projects and other synergistic areas. Using acollaboration mesh network strategy coupled with hybrid technology and proven teachingstrengths, a more efficient program is planned for pilot testing for SCU consortiums towardfurther feasibility assessment.1.0 IntroductionMajor advances can be made at the undergraduate level in STEM education. Large gains areexpected in program quality and
assistant professor of research in Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research includes undergraduate teaching reform, science literacy, quantitative literacy, and the impact of industry and research experiences on preservice and inservice teaching practice.Prof. James C. Baygents, The University of Arizona James C. Baygents is the associate dean of the College of Engineering at The University of Arizona. His primary responsibilities include academic affairs and recruitment, admissions and retention programs. Jim is a member of the Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering (ChEE) and the Program in Applied Mathematics at The UA. Jim joined The UA Engineering faculty
Paper ID #12167What makes an undergraduate course impactful? An examination of stu-dents’ perceptions of instructional environmentsDr. Alexandra Emelina Coso, Georgia Institute of Technology Alexandra Coso is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech’s Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning. She completed her Ph.D. in 2014 in Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to her time at Georgia Tech, she received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and her M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include graduate student experiences in engineering programs, engineering
Experience for Community College Students: Providing Connections from Community College to the Four-Year Institution Page 26.1576.2 The Summer Undergraduate Research Bridge Experience for Community College Students: Providing Connections from Community College to the Four-Year InstitutionIntroductionThe New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation Summer Community College Opportunityfor Research Experience (New Mexico AMP SCCORE), evolving in 2005 from a former NewMexico AMP program, assists community college students with their transition and acclimationto the culture and research of the university. The impressive outcomes of the former
–women.BackgroundA. Previouse findingsIn the fall of 2013 Innopolis University conducted an extensive survey5 of groups ofstakeholders on what competencies they consider important for IT specialists. More than900 respondents participated in the survey. The groups of stakeholders included high-school students with an explicit interest in IT, students of IT specialties, IT professionals,top management of IT companies, and owners of IT businesses. By “explicit interest” inIT we mean that high-school students attend extra-curricular classes in IT (often for extrafees), for example, in programming, web and virtual design, robotics, etc.It was discovered among respondents over 18 years old, which represents students of ITspecialties and IT professionals of all
empathy, andmake use of Design Heuristics in generating concepts.MethodParticipantsParticipants in this study include eight engineering and industrial design students from a largeMidwestern university, interacting in dyads. Participants included five males and three females,with all females appearing in the two industrial design dyads. Students were identified andselected to represent two programs focusing on design, with two undergraduate dyads and twograduate dyads. The undergraduate dyads included students in a junior-level industrial designcourse (n=2) and students in a sophomore-level mechanical engineering course. The graduatedyads included students in an engineering design studio (n=2) and an industrial design studio(n=2
high school students, supporting the teacher for some phases of theprogram and leading lectures and hands-on activities in later phases. The graduate students are in turnsupported by undergraduate students, who help prepare lab materials and lesson plans.In addition to the UAS program’s STEM program, UAF has received a separate line of STEM fundingto teach basic UAS operations in Alaska Native Villages. Page 26.1613.7Modern Blanket Toss. The Modern Blanket Toss is a STEM program administered by Alaska UpwardBound and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Experimental Program to Stimulate CompetitiveResearch (EPSCoR) program[5]. The program
, to better serve as gender equity allies. Dr. Green is the author of a series of advocacy tips, published by the Women in Engineering Division (WIED) of ASEE and available at wied.asee.org.Dr. Beth M Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette Beth Holloway is the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education and Director of the Women in Engi- neering Program (WIEP) in the College of Engineering at Purdue University. She is the current chair of the Women in Engineering Division of ASEE. Holloway received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue University.Prof. Archie L Holmes Jr., University of Virginia Archie Holmes, Jr. is a Professor in the Charles L
outside theirmajors.One way to promote engineering and liberal arts is to use projects with an innovative andentrepreneurial emphasis.32 Students are challenged by big questions that are open ended andthat allows them to pursue creative solutions, typically in capstone projects. This helps studentsto see their engineering education in the global context.Another way to integrate engineering and liberal arts is to develop minors such as “TechnologyManagement and Policy” that is available at the University of Virginia.33 As an interdisciplinaryminor, it is open to all undergraduates. This program helped engineering students find relevantliberal arts courses that are a vital component of a professional study. If these courses areimportant for a minor
less an imparter of knowledge and more a designer and a facilitator oflearning experiences and opportunities. In other words, the real challenge in college teaching isnot trying to cover the material for the students, as many of us believe and practice today; but,rather uncovering the material with the students. This is a call for all faculty involved withteaching engineering courses and as members of faculty teams who develop, maintain andimplement engineering programs , to consider not only the content and topics that make up anengineering degree but also how students engage with these materials. It is primarily a call toconsider how students engage in their college experience, and to search for proper tools that canbe deployed to stimulate
educational exigency for motivating young Qataris to choose STEM educational pathways amid myriad options for high-‐paying government jobs that require little, if any, post-‐secondary education. To contribute to this vision, Texas A&M University at Qatar, in partnership with local industry, developed and introduced STEM enrichment programs for K–12 students and teachers through its Initiative in Engineering Leadership, Innovation, and Teaching Excellence (ELITE). ELITE has become an organizational fulcrum for marshaling campus-‐wide collaboration in support of STEM enrichment, and for developing the external partnerships necessary to fund such efforts
student learning.The undergraduate engineering curriculum at our institution is limited to built-in project-basedcornerstone, sophomore, and senior capstone design courses. The master of engineering in thepast few years has become mostly a two-year, course-only program. Clearly, there was a need fora broader strategy aimed at improving our student research capabilities by incorporating anembedded IBL component into the curriculum.BackgroundOur focus on multiphysics research began in 2006 when the University received a grant toinvestigate advanced laser processing as applied to the aerospace manufacturing industry. Thegrant was sponsored by the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) under theNational Aerospace Leadership Initiative
excellent access to the medical campus due to the Department of Bioengineering'srelationship with the College of Medicine (jointly within Colleges of Medicine and Engineering).Additionally, the UIC Innovation Center offers a neutral space where all of these disciplines cancome together on equal footing. We believe this is an important facet of an interdisciplinarycourse in that no single department has primary ownership of the course. In Fall 2012, theprogram was launched in the Department of Bioengineering as Interdisciplinary Medical ProductDevelopment (IMPD), with cross-listed course offerings to include Industrial Design (bothgraduate and undergraduates) and Business (undergraduates and MBA students). In Fall 2013,the program was expanded to
solutions for each design problem. After each ideation session, they weregiven a short questionnaire asking students to evaluate the diversity of their design solutions, inaddition to their familiarity with the given design problem.ParticipantsFifteen undergraduate students participated in this study from various universities across the USand Puerto Rico. The group was composed of 5 males and 10 females, ages 19 to 24. Themajority of the students had some exposure to computer science; however, their backgroundsranged from disciplines such as Photography and Psychology to Biomedical and ComputerEngineering. Our goal in selecting this diverse set of students was to understand whether this setof problems would lead to a thorough exploration of the
). Page 26.582.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Effectiveness of Simulation versus Hands-on Labs: A Case Study for Teaching an Electronics Course AbstractThe use of Simulation-based labs has been gaining currency in the domains of engineering andtechnology programs. How effective is simulation-based teaching methodology in comparison totraditional hands-on activity based labs? To answer this question a study was conducted toexplore the impact of the use of computer simulation design methods on students‘ learning forcircuit construction in an undergraduate technical course. A mixed method research design wasemployed to
the fall of 2014. This class was co-taught by professors from the MechanicalEngineering Technology (MET), Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) and the Computerand Information Technology (CIT) programs at Purdue University.The goal of this paper is to document the activities carried out during the semester the coursewas taught and present the lessons learned from teaching multidisciplinary students with thebackgrounds in MET, EET and CIT.The objective of the course was to provide a Project Based Learning (PBL) experience for thestudents. Students were tasked to specify, design, and develop prototype sub-systems for existingrobots. During the semester, the students attended lectures and participated in laboratories thatwere heavily focused
the National Science Foundation.The authors would like to thank the participants who volunteered their time in completing thesurveys described herein, along with the ASEE LEES division reviewers for their insights andhelpful comments on the initial draft. Page 26.740.11References1. Genco, N., Hölttä-Otto, K., & Seepersad, C. C. (2012). An experimental investigation of the innovation capabilities of undergraduate engineering students. Journal of Engineering Education, 101(1), 60-81.2. Duderstadt, J. J. (2010). Engineering for a Changing World: A Roadmap to the Future of American Engineering Practice, Research, and
constraints such as desirability,affordability, language, safety etc. pose as major barriers for most students to participate in suchprograms.International student groups bring significant cultural diversity on a university campus. In2012/13, an estimated 819,644 international students studied in US with 19% (2nd highest)enrolled in various engineering and technology programs17. International students andassociations promote awareness of cultural diversity and global understanding within theuniversity and the broader community. Engaging local students with these diverse groups ofinternational students through activities, group projects, and discussions can be an effective wayof exposing students to learn cultural diversity, practices, ethics, and
research over past 10 years has resulted in national and international recognition, industry collaborations, 5 patents/patent appli- cations and over 75 scholarly publications in highly regarded discipline specific journals, peer-reviewed conference proceedings and invited book chapters. He is a scientific and technical reviewer for over 50 in- ternational journals, book publishers, and several funding agencies. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of New Mexico and a board certified environmental engineer. His research interests include water and wastewater treatment, bioelectrochemical systems, desalination, algae, biofuels, and sustain- ability. He enjoys teaching and mentoring undergraduate and
semesters. Thesample is primarily from F2014 (n=148), with only 16 matched pre/post surveys from S2014. Asthe data show, students demonstrated no measurable gains on any area in the sustainabilitysurvey between the before-program and after-program measures. There were, however,significant gains on a few of the individual survey items. Most notable was a significant increasein students’ reported concern for social justice issues (post mean score 3.8, p=0.04). Studentsalso felt they knew more about recycling after participating in the learning experience, althoughthe post response was still quite low (post mean score 2.8, p=0.04). Slight increases in studentperformance were noted on questions related to the waste food/energy/food production system
an initiative sponsored by the WVU Libraries and the Office of the Provost. The objective of the program is to insert information literacy skill throughout a course, thus stimulating students to develop new research strategies and capabilities. The students learn to think critically about what and how they search for information, become more discriminating about the sources they use, and become more aware of ethical and legal ways of using information. 3. Integration of IL into the Mechanical Engineering Program Capstone Project Experience shows that even senior level students have not received proper training, either directly or indirectly, in information literacy. They usually search for information intuitively
Paper ID #11592What Behaviors and Characteristics Do Engineering Student CompetitionTeam Members Associate with Leadership?Ms. Kim Graves Wolfinbarger, The University of Oklahoma Kim Graves Wolfinbarger is a doctoral candidate in Industrial & Systems Engineering. Her research ex- plores leadership development among engineering student competition team members. Kim directs the Jerry Holmes Engineering Leadership Program at OU. She holds a master’s degree in industrial engineer- ing and a BBA in marketing, both from Oklahoma.Dr. Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma Dr. Randa L. Shehab is a professor and the Director