indicated that having to work on common curriculumelements, such as common foundational courses in the first and second year of new programs,with multiple departments or colleges created issues with program development. Beyondfocusing on buy-in from other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)departments in the process, strategies for forming closer connections with other units in order todevelop shared goals and common instructional and assessment methods were discussed. Theseincluded large-scale decisions, such as choosing to merge an engineering college with the collegeof science at the institution to better support the collaborative curriculum initiatives that wereneeded.Planning for the future, allocation of resourcesItems 6
the last decade, she has dedicated her education efforts towards developing new experiential learning curriculum, creating preparation programs to address opportunity gaps, and enhancing involvement of student organizations in engineering education. Her academic research interest includes include sensing, sensors, soft materials, wearable sensors, and remote health monitoring/devices, where she has spent the last seven years developing thin-film optical pressure sensors and infant feeding dysfunction diagnostic devices.Prof. Truong Nguyen, University of California, San Diego Truong Q. Nguyen received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Paper ID #39808Addressing New ABET General Criteria Focusing on Diversity, Equity, andInclusionDr. Gary Lichtenstein, Arizona State University Gary Lichtenstein, Ed.D., is founder and principal of Quality Evaluation Designs, a firm specializing in education research and program evaluation. He is also Affiliate Associate faculty member in Rowan University’s Experiential Engineering Education department.Dr. Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, Rowan UniversityDr. Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Stephanie Cutler has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and a PhD in Engineering
Paper ID #37038Case Study: Encouraging Faculty Adoption of New Grading SoftwareDr. Ben Mertz, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Ben Mertz received his Ph. D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2010 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2005. He spent 7 years as a part of a lecturer team at Arizona State University before joining the Mechanical Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman as an Assistant Professor in 2018. His research interests in Engineering Education include teaching teamwork skills and implementing non-traditional content delivery
Paper ID #43892Positive Leadership: An Intentional Approach to Faculty Leadership DevelopmentDr. Heidi M Sherick, University of Michigan Dr. Heidi Sherick has worked in higher education for 30 years. Currently, Heidi is the Director of Leadership Development in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. She provides one-on-one coaching for faculty in new executive leadership roles as well as for newly promoted faculty (Assistant to Associate).Valerie N Johnson, University of MichiganMs. Heather Wagenschutz, University of Michigan ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Positive
. [Online]. Available: https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.udel.edu/dist/2/11245/files/2022/05/Cohort-Study- Final-April-26-2022.pdf. [Accessed April 7, 2023].[7] I. Villanueva, M. Di Stefano, L. Gelles, and K. Youmans, "Hidden Curriculum Awareness: A Comparison of Engineering Faculty, Graduate Students, and Undergraduates," World Education Engineering Forum, Albuquerque, NM, 2018.[8] J.M. Calarco, A Field Guide to Graduate School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020.[9] E. Margolis, The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education, New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.[10] R. Rice, M.D. Sorcenelli, and A. Austin, Heading New Voices: Academic Careers for a New Generation, Washington, DC
overseen by a global nonprofit organization with a long historyof implementing projects in Iraq. This organization initiated a collaboration between a US-basedinstitution with highly ranked and respected engineering programs and one of Iraq’s topuniversities. The engineering colleges of both Universities set out to collaborate on meetinginternational quality standards, through faculty exchange and professional development,curriculum development, and joint projects. In this evidence-based research paper, we present both the details of the design of theprofessional development workshop as well as the findings of the ensuing research conducted bymembers of the partnering institutions and organizations. The sections are presented as follows
Paper ID #43773Lessons Learned about Empowering Engineering Instructional Faculty througha Group Coaching ModelGemma Henderson, University of Miami Gemma Henderson presently holds the position of Director of Learning Platforms, Academic Systems, Innovation, and Experience at the University of Miami. With a background in educational development, Gemma collaborates and consults with faculty, academic units, and other stakeholders across the University, with a focus on digital pedagogies and curriculum development. Gemma actively participates in information technologies and educational initiatives to enhance both
Engineering Entrepreneurial Network (KEEN) has offered theMaking with Purpose Faculty development program as a 4-day event that focuses on EM facultydevelopment through makerspace projects and pedagogy. This coming year it will be offering twovariations of this workshop Making with EM Across the Curriculum and MakerSpark: A framework forDeveloping EM Making Activities [7].Three existing training opportunities have been pursued at the University of New Haven. These effortswere detailed in a prior paper by the authors [4] and included faculty members participating in acommunity makerspace, workshops focused on the maker pedagogy, and equipment training sessions thatincludes hands-on practice on the machines. Unfortunately, these expert-led and coach
increases in hard disk drives and was elected a National Academy of Inventors Fellow in 2018. Dr. Hipwell is currently the Oscar S. Wyatt, Jr. ’45 Chair II at Texas A&M University, where she has developed new classes on innovation and technology development as part of her leadership of the INVENT (INnoVation tools and Entrepreneurial New Technology) Lab. She is Co-PI on a National Science Foundation engineering education grant to develop a culture of and tools for iterative experimentation and continuous improvement in curriculum development.Dr. Mindy Bergman, Texas A&M University Dr. Bergman is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and Executive Director of Interdisciplinary Critical Studies at Texas A
, math) can be coupled withthe entrepreneurial mindset to broaden engineering participation using a transdisciplinary,humanistic approach. Part of the training included implementing the new curriculum in theengineering classroom and assessing student learning with a photovoice metacognitive reflectiontool to better understand student perceptions of the new curriculum. The focus on bio-inspired design, STEAM, and the entrepreneurial mindset wasintentional for the following reasons. First, developing aspiring engineers’ entrepreneurialmindsets encourages students to seek the “sweet spot” between customer viability, technologicalfeasibility, and business viability, ideally creating a valuable design with high innovation andimpact [8
Identification, and Value Creation into Problem-basedLearning Modules with Examples and Assessment Specific to Fluid Mechanics,” Proceedings ofthe 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA, June 2016.[17] L. Liu, J. Mynderse, A. Gerhart, and S. Arslan, “Fostering the Entrepreneurial Mindset inthe Junior and Senior Mechanical Engineering Curriculum with a Multi-Course Problem-basedLearning Experience,” Proceedings of the 45th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference,El Paso, TX, October 2015.[18] A.L. Gerhart, D.D. Carpenter, and R.W. Fletcher, “Developing Design and ProfessionalSkills through Project-based Learning focused on the Grand Challenges for Engineering,”Proceedings of the International Symposium on Project Approaches in
training is to be introducedto disciplinary research and then be provided with a means to gain further competence. We see,however, that new engineering educators are tasked with developing new courses, curricula,and programs. These initiatives require additional skills or areas of expertise: advising,mentoring, curriculum development, imaginative vision, program assessment, etc. None ofthese skills are likely addressed in a typical engineering Ph.D. curriculum. For these reasons,we believed that new engineering educators who envision themselves as change agents couldwork to adopt the disposition and skills of a change agent. The 2017 MACH workshop (NSFNSF 1723385) was focused specifically on emerging educators, and we structured the eventin order
, and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Research and Program Evaluation at the School of Education, UMass Lowell.Dr. Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts Lowell Dr. Yanfen Li is an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2018. Dr. Li has extensive experience in engineering education focusing on recruitment and retention of underrepresented and under resourced students and engineering pedagogy. Her work spans the areas of curriculum instruction and design, program design and evaluation, and the first-year college
engineering coursesAbstract. This paper presents the results of a survey on teachers' conceptual change regardingthe use of Project-Based Learnin (PBL). The objective is to investigate the teacher’s perceptionof the fertility in the use of this strategy within the context of projects offered alongsideundergraduate engineering programs. At Mauá Institute of Technology, where this research wasconducted, all students are instructed to complete at least two semester projects from a list ofprojects of their choice. In general, Project Based Learning stands out as a suitable approach forconducting these projects with groups of students. However, adopting the PBL strategy is notalways straightforward, as some teachers resist using it or even alter its
study, students enrolled two engineering coursesin a public, minority-serving institution in Texas, were surveyed to understand their academicexperiences during the period of remote instruction and provide valuable insight and assistance toidentify pedagogical strengths as well as areas of opportunities for faculty members who are orwill be offering online courses. The survey particularly focused on capturing various instructionaland pedagogical supports and approaches such as course expectations, lecture format, assignments,office hours, and student accommodations. Results indicate that faculty members were effectivelyable to encourage students to contact them if they had questions regarding coursework andassignments. Similarly, seventy-six
a humanistic approach to educating students. This humanistic approachacknowledges the importance of the affective side of teaching and learning. Engineering, whichshares many of the highly technical, decision-making aspects of nursing, could benefit from thisapproach for engineering education.Our ProgramOur team developed a Community of Practice (CoP) informed by a humanistic-educative caringframework, grounded in Caring Science, where the curriculum is about the process and intent tolearn coming from the interactions and transactions between faculty and learners. Thisframework embraces openness, human discovery, and deep reflection [4]. It also includesawareness of how learning works and co-creating meaningful learning experiences that
recognized as a critical professional skill in support ofengineering design work. As such, there are a growing number of curricular initiatives to supportthe development of engineering students' empathy as a design skill [14]. These initiatives span avariety of approaches, including stakeholder engagement in human-centered design, service-learning projects, and curriculum on ethical impacts of our engineering work [18]. However,within engineering, students identified empathy as a critical interpersonal skill for buildingrelationships in their everyday lives, yet struggled to see how empathy is involved in theirengineering work [19]. This disconnect highlights the importance of emphasizing empathy as notonly an engineering design skill, but also as a
, Oregon State UniversityDr. Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology Prateek Shekhar is an Assistant Professor - Engineering Education division at New Jersey Institute of Technology. His research is focused on examining translation of engineering education research in prac- tice, assessment and evaluation of dissemination initiatives and educational programs in engineering dis- ciplines. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California and B.S. in Electronics and Communica- tion Engineering from India.Dr. Shane A. Brown, P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor and Associate
candid look at how much students learn and why they should be learning More-New Edition. Princeton University Press.Carlson, E. D., Engebretson, J., & Chamberlain, R. M. (2006). Photovoice as a Social Process of Critical Consciousness. Qualitative Health Research, 16(6), 836–852. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732306287525Castaneda, D. I. (2019). Exploring Critical Consciousness in Engineering Curriculum Through an Ill-Structured Problem. 2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028370Crenshaw, K. (1991). Women of color at the center: Selections from the third national conference on women of color and the law: Mapping the margins: Intersectionality
of Engineeringat Penn State University has an endowment having the goal of developing faculty competenciesto integrate ethics into the engineering curriculum and assess student learning of ethics. Since theuniversity and the College of Engineering are considerably large, comprised of many units withstakeholders in engineering ethics— including various departments, institutes, centers, andprograms—getting to know our faculty, surveying their existing efforts, and identifying interestgroups are foundational to the success of our faculty development programs. In the process, wereferenced the asset-based community development (ABCD) approach [1, 2] and adapted it toour mission of faculty development. This paper discusses the opportunities
strategies availablefor its implementation [7], resulting in sporadic use across the field.Scholars emphasize the importance of structured reflection practices in the engineeringclassroom. Schön [8] contends that reflective practice is crucial for professionals to develop thecapacity to solve complex, real-world problems. Moon [9] suggests that reflective learningshould be integrated into the curriculum to enable students to make connections betweentheoretical knowledge and practical applications. Dewey's [10] work on reflective thinkingsupports this approach, highlighting the need for active and persistent consideration of one'sexperiences for meaningful learning.Reflection is operationalized within the engineering classroom using various
engineering education focusing on recruitment and retention of underrepresented and under resourced students and engineering pedagogy. Her work spans the areas of curriculum instruction and design, program design and evaluation, and the first-year college experience. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress (WIP): Engineering Faculty’s Academic Influence on Student Persistence: Faculty Use, Knowledge, and Comfort in Providing Encouragement to StudentsAbstract: This work-in-progress paper focuses on how engineering faculty’s perception ofproviding encouragement can influence student persistence. Previous literature has shown thatfaculty influence has a
impact, hinges on their ability tocommunicate the value of their work, and this Work in Progress paper seeks to address thatchallenge. Much valuable literature in science communication has described ways of helpingscientists expand their thinking about how and why to communicate, including setting goals andunderstanding audiences[1]. However, practical approaches needed to accomplish these aimshave been limited. Therefore, we have explored a ground-up approach that not only motivatesbut gives a framework for scientists and engineers to share the impact of their science andengage with society.A common approach to communication training for scientists has been lacking, leading toinconsistency across the field and a gap in knowledge around research
the professional development efforts associated with the "Industrial Robotics" and"Automation & PLC" courses within the Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology(ECET) curriculum at SHSU. These courses will also be required for Mechanical EngineeringTechnology (MET) students pursuing Manufacturing and Mechatronics concentrations.One of the primary certification options considered is the Fiji Automatic Numerical Control(FANUC) certification. Established in 1956, FANUC has installed approximately 4.2 millionCNCs and 600,000 robots worldwide. The primary author underwent a week-long training withFANUC America in Michigan in October 2022 to acquire hands-on skills for a fully automatedenvironment. This training is intended to prepare
from minoritized and marginalized identities. A Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), her work has led to changes in policies and practices to advance equity and inclusion in ASEE, ASCE, ABET and other global organizations. As past chair of ASCE’s Formal Engineering Education Committee, Dr. Pearson and her team led the organization’s charge of educating programs on strategies for the inclusion of principles of sustainability in engineering curricula, in large part by promoting a transdisciplinary, convergent approach to attaining the UN Sustainable Development Goals. For the past few years, she has served on the Civil Engineering Program Criteria Task Committee, where she helped develop
Paper ID #39231Work in Progress: Creating Effective Prompts for ”Teaming” SessionsDr. Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington Dr. Jennifer Turns is a full professor in the Human Centered Design & Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington. Engineering education is her primary area of scholarship, and has been throughout her career. In her work, she currently focuses on the role of reflection in engineering student learning and the relationship of research and practice in engineering education. In recent years, she has been the co-director of the Consortium to Promote
and inclusion in STEM education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Motivating Learners: Improving Student Outcomes in Math through Online Faculty Professional Development Chris S. Hulleman University of Virginia Dustin B. Thoman San Diego State University Zach Himmelberger Motivate Lab Teresa K. Hulleman Motivate Lab Paul Beardlsey Cal Poly Pomona
Technical State University. Dr. Cropps earned her PhD in Agricultural Education from Purdue University. Her dissertation focused on the experiences of Black women doctoral candidates in agricultural disciplines at PWIs. Her research interests include the mentoring, advising, and doctoral socialization of marginalized graduate students; Black collegiate women; marginalized groups in STEM and agriculture; critical qualitative research, and diversity education.Jue Wu, University of California, BerkeleyMs. Samara Rose Boyle Samara is an undergraduate studying neuroscience at Rice University in Houston, TX. She works as a research assistant for Dr. Yvette E. Pearson in the George R. Brown School of Engineering. Her primary
Paper ID #41793WIP: Developing a Framework for Ethical Integration of Technology in InstructionProf. Helen Choi, University of Southern California Helen Choi is a Senior Lecturer in the Engineering in Society Program at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. She teaches courses in writing, communication, and information literacy. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work in progress: Developing a framework for ethical integration of technology in instructionBackgroundIn a university setting where the adoption of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT seemslike a