, 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
number of federal research grants and funding for the department. A focus was placed on thedepartment’s graduate programs to support fundamental research. The EE programs, like anumber of programs across the U.S., which used to focus on producing engineers to meet theneeds of industry, had transformed into an institution with a graduate program to meet theresearch needs of the government and military (Issapor, Sheppard, 2015). While USF EE facultyhave flexibility to customize their approach to educating students, many faculty members engageprimarily in research and teaching. It is also observed that when faculty do engage in service-oriented activities, a significant portion of these may be regarded as research-related, includingactivities such
commit hundreds of hours each summer to encouraging the campers and assisting inairplane construction. Recently, a partnership with Battle Creek Public Schools funded by theW.K. Kellogg Foundation has allowed us to reach even more K-12 students from populationsunderrepresented in STEM. PCEC is constantly considering opportunities to expand our summercamp offerings and provide new experiences for K-12 students to explore STEM careers andinteract with the latest technologies. This past summer, we debuted a faculty-led cybersecuritybootcamp for high-school students in which they learned about cybersecurity fundamentals, DNSpharming attacks, and buffer overflow attacks to get a feel for different attacks andcountermeasures.Since the late 1990s, PCEC
must complete 2 courses, oneduring their first term of co-op experience and the other in the last 4 months of their finalterm. Students also must write a report at the end of each term. The courses are centeredaround reflection and portfolio management, while the term paper is a description of their joband is reflective in nature. Similar to other schools, there is a fee associated with both of thesecourses for access to the portal, much like other co-op programs. Students also choose to do internships outside of the co-op program. Although theseinternships are within their field of study, they are not registered with the coop program.There are various logistical and personal reasons for this decision and are not fully discussedin this
foundation forthe challenges that lie ahead for engineering professionals of the future in their practice ofengineering in the real world, as well as engineering research in graduate school, industry, andgovernment laboratories. Mastering the engineering and scientific fundamentals will be necessarybut will not be sufficient. An ability to engage in life-long learning and discovery will be acornerstone for professional growth to remain relevant in the dynamic world order of the future,where economic realities, global competition [5-6], climate change, national security, andsustainability issues will continue to play a significant role.While classroom education that emphasize mastery of scientific and engineering fundamentals isessential, it is not
were explained. The students from both departments agreed that theEE student are responsible for developing the hardware portion of the project and CSSE studentsare in charge of implementing the webserver, and frontend graphical user interface. There weretotal of five projects, 18 EE and 24 CSSE students were involved with this collaboration. The totalof five teams were formed consisting of five to eight students from both departments. A list offinal projects and their description is shown in Table 3. 4. AssessmentThe collaboration project was worth 100 points, which was a total of 10% of the final grade forEE students. The grade for the project was consisted of individual work (30%), and teamwork(70%). The EE students were required to write
Paper ID #22860Assessing the Active Learning in Engineering Education Based on BOPPPSModelProf. Fu zhongli, National University of Defense Technology Zhongli-FU, is Associate Professor of Center for National Security and Strategic Studies(CNSSS)at Na- tional University of Defense Technology (NUDT),China. His research focuses on engineering education, including adult education and distance learning practice. He has conducted research on engineering ed- ucation as a visiting scholar in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2013. He is the member of the International Association for Continuing Engineering
Paper ID #33440Assessing and Communicating Professional Competency Development ThroughExperiential LearningDr. John H. Callewaert, University of Michigan John Callewaert is Director of Strategic Projects in the Office of the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Engineering, University of Michigan. He previously served as a program director with the University of Michigan’s Graham Sustainability Institute, Director of the University of Michigan- Flint’s Office of Research, and the Director of the Institute for Community and Environment at Colby- Sawyer College. He completed doctoral study in Resource
Paper ID #27554Fostering Belonging through an Undergraduate Summer Internship: A Com-munity of Practice Model for Engineering Research EducationMs. Nicole Bowers, Arizona State UniversityDr. Michelle Jordan , Arizona State University Michelle Jordan is as associate professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State Uni- versity. She also serves as the Education Director for the QESST Engineering Research Center. Michelle’s program of research focuses on social interactions in collaborative learning contexts. She is particularly interested in how students navigate communication challenges as they negotiate
; Innovation and creativity, Complex problem-solving and Analytical thinking. Thecurrent panorama is especially detrimental for educational institutions in Latin America. Inthis particular circumstance, the need to explore new models for developing internationalcooperation, negotiation and leadership became evident. The preliminary results and findingsof this study indicate that international virtually collaboration could be an effective strategyto train students with international skills and to develop certain personal attitudes such asenthusiasm, motivation and intellectual engagement.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to acknowledge the financial support of Writing Lab, TecLabs,Tecnologico de Monterrey, in the production of this work. The
. Emmett is a certified Project Management Professional and since 2018 has supported strategic global and online initiatives in engineering, including developing online modules to train global engineering competencies. He is the author of the books Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of US Garden Writing (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016) and with David E. Nye, Environmental Humanities: A Critical Introduction (MIT Press, 2017). With Gregg Mitman and Marco Armiero, he edited the collection of critical reflections and works of art, Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene (University of Chicago, 2018). His humanities scholarship has appeared in the journals Environmental