evaluation of projects related with environmental development and commu- nity participation. Use of audiovisual tools as learning support. Management of solid waste on industrial, urban and rural sectors. Knowledge and experience in economic botany research in social contexts. Experience on participation in environmental and intercultural education programs. Use of audiovisual tools as learning support Experience in surveying and floristic analysis of Andean vegetation.Nicol´as Gait´an-Albarrac´ın, Universidad Nacional de Colombia - GITIDCProf. Joana Carolina Chaves Vargas c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engagement in Practice: Impact of the implementation of
academia, most will facebalancing substantial research, teaching and service requirements. Yet, a graduate educationtypically focuses predominately on preparing students to lead research projects, without an emphasison development of pedagogical skills. Especially in engineering fields, graduate students may notautomatically be required to teach, receive pedagogical instruction, or engage in other careerdevelopment aspects beyond research. The exact reason for this is unclear but may be linked tounderestimating the positive impact of teaching by graduate students. Yet, there appear to beconcrete benefits for both the graduate students and the students taught by them. In fact, manygraduate students are interested in teaching and would like to
Page 22.340.3of teaching the basic analytical, programming design as well as graphical, problem-solving,teamwork, and communication skills. ENGR0012 is a second-semester core course thatcompletes the computer programming portion of the integrated curriculum package. Thiscourse focuses on the following curricular goals: teach students a general-purposeprogramming language, promote and encourage good programming practices, and illustratethe role computers play in solving real-world engineering problems. While both coursesoriginally covered many basic programming and problem-solving skills, they did not provideenough opportunities for written and oral presentation assignments or for effective advising.Advising ConcernsThe first-year student
train students in designing, instrumenting, and analyzing experiments,or the equivalent with computer software.It is important to understand the motivations of your faculty advisor with respect to your role as agraduate teaching assistant (GTA), but you should NOT resign yourself to the status quo ofessential but non-lecturing teaching tasks. The remainder of this section outlines suggestions togrow as an educator based on your experience with a particular class and/or level of relationshipwith the course instructor. Similarly, Reis (1997) also proposes a helpful stage-by-stage processfor students/post-docs to engage in increasingly independent, creative, and challenging teachingexperiences accompanied by close faculty mentorship (Chapter 6
of experience tutoring students and working with schools, and became interested in education through these experiences. Her primary interest is in informal learning environments and educational technologies. She currently conducts research with the Lawrence Hall of Science on their engineering exhibits and works to improve the facilitation and design of the exhibits. Her research fo- cuses on how science center visitors engage and tinker at engineering activities and the impacts of these open-ended tinkering activities in terms of STEM learning and engineering understanding.Ryan Shelby, University of California, Berkeley Ryan Shelby is a joint 2013-2014 Millennium Challenge Corporation-Arizona State University Science
Award.Dr. Lee W. Singleton, Whatcom Community College Lee Singleton is a professor at Whatcom Community College, in Bellingham, WA. He holds a BS in mathematics from Harding University, a MS in mathematics and PhD in biomedical mathematics from Florida State University. His current interests include 3D-printing, active learning, and infusing more physical activity into mathematics courses. Recent grant positions include principal investigator on the NSF-funded grant ”EAGER: MAKER: Engaging Math Students with 3D-Printing for STEM Success and co-PI on the NSF-funded grant ”Collaborative Research: Improving Representational Competence by Engaging with Physical Modeling in Foundational STEM Courses”.Todd Haskell, Western
undergraduate students in field-specific hands-on research by utilizing small internalgrants designed for undergraduate research. This study also aims to focus on how engaging inhands-on research impacted the students’ learning experiences, their professional developmentand even their academic results and achievements. In teaching focused universities, theopportunities for undergraduate students to get involved in externally funded research arelimited. However, a small grant from the universities can support involvement of bothundergraduate and faculty in research activities. In the last five years, the authors havesupervised more than 10 undergraduate students in the areas of architecture and manufacturing.It has been observed that engaging students
Paper ID #44485Board 174: Fostering Inclusivity and Engagement while Learning by Doing:A New Paradigm in Engineering Education Based on Student-Designed, Student-TaughtCoursesMr. Eliot Nathaniel Wachtel, University of California, Santa Cruz Eliot Wachtel is a fourth year Robotics Engineering Student, Student Instructor, Undergraduate Researcher, and Club leader at UC Santa Cruz. He has been involved in teaching and mentoring undergraduate peers in engineering concepts for three years, acting as the formal lead instructor for two undergraduate courses. When not teaching, or learning, he is doing research in the Braingeneers
. “Service learning is anintentional and collaborative pedagogical practice that engages students in structured service toaddress an identified community need and help them ‘gain further understanding of coursecontent, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility[4]’[5].” Support documents for our QEP go on to highlight the importance of service learningbeing academically integrated with the course learning objectives while focusing oncommunity needs, involvement of the community partner in the design of the service learningproject, the importance of structured student reflection throughout the project, and a preferencefor the service learning experiences to last the majority of the semester. A service
development program, and a local technology training company. It details thegeneralized struggles and successes of the students, the lessons learned, and a second curriculumand class structure based on those findings. Finally it presents unanswered questions and presentsrecommendations for future courses presented by University/community/businesspartnerships.1 IntroductionAccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 2014 and 2024, the job market for SoftwareDevelopers will grow by 17% 1 which is ”much faster than average”. In Florida, Application andSystem Software Developers will grow by approximately 31% and 24%, respectively 2 . Theserates are 1.8 and 1.3 times the national projection. In order to fill these job openings, recruiters
jurisdictionalauthorities to establish a $200 million airport infrastructure improvement program, which issolely focused on increasing roadway capacity for a critical area surrounding an internationalairport and associated industrial manufacturing facilities. The transportation improvementprogram includes three new interchanges and a realignment of the primary airport access road.The capstone design project at The Citadel focused on determining an optimal solution for one ofthe new interchange locations. The use of this real-world assignment as a capstone design projectwas enthusiastically supported by the region’s airport authority, local jurisdictions, consultingengineering, and construction community. Students work in teams of 4-5 to develop designsolutions to
humanitarian engineering between these extremes. To fill, the EWBHumanitarian Design Summits were developed. These are two-week internationalexperiences combining facilitated workshops, cultural experiences and a community visit.They provide opportunities for students to engage in a scaffolded community basedhumanitarian engineering experience. They are available to mid-program students to optionaltake and are designed to be a lead into later year service-learning projects. At one Australianuniversity a range of curriculum methods have been used to incorporate the experience intostudents’ formal program including work experience, research projects and a for-creditcourse. These have created different outcomes, with those more tightly integrated into
include the ability to • apply an interdisciplinary set of technical, leadership and other professional skills to address important challenges facing society • practice engineering with a holistic understanding of how engineers engage with stakeholders and impact society • have a critical awareness of their personal attitudes, behaviors and values and the ways in which these align with their professional aspirationsEarly thoughts on our vision for this program are described in [6]. Examples of our sociotechnicalcurricular approach have been published for courses including circuits, An Integrated Approach toEnergy, and Materials Science [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13].Minnesota State University, Mankato (MSU)Students earn a
~1200community attendees.IntroductionThrough the service learning structure, both students and community partners help to fulfill eachother’s needs. A robotics service learning [1] course at Fairfield University teaches theprinciples of robotics through hands-on activities and requires each student to participate in amentoring relationship with a local high school robotics team. These types of programs havebeen implemented at other universities [2-5]. Through these relationships, students gain a deeperunderstanding of the principles of robotics from the classroom, through teaching those principlesto others and helping their mentored team solve problems. Students gain an appreciation for, andcapability to, inspire younger generations to engage in STEM
Page 15.546.4than traditional practice.14 The focus of many IUEs on engineering in context strengthens theneed to investigate potential gender differences in students’ interdisciplinary understanding.The use of a disciplinary affiliation lens for this project was grounded in several studies. A studyat the University of California – Berkeley, for instance, revealed that undergraduate engineeringstudents have a strong belief system surrounding the nature of disciplines, which negativelyaffected the integration of these disciplines within the curriculum.15 Another study analyzedstudents’ perceptions of a lab course in communication systems.15,16 The results indicated thestudents viewed electrical engineers as technicians, focusing on the
to design with community members is less common – as co-equals. roject Influences and InnovationsPIn nuclear engineering, we drew on research highlighting the history of inequity, lack of transparency, and environmental damage in nuclear technology development and design. For example, students watched recorded interviews of Black and Indigenous people impacted by the Manhattan Project and Japanese people who survived the World War II bombings of their country—and then engaged in a discussion about the implications of identity and power in the development of nuclear technologies. Drawing from the social sciences, students also learned grounded theory [6] and practiced coding sections of dialogue drawn
indigenous community of Lumbisi, Ecuador.The course is NOT a capstone design course – rather its intent is to rigorously evaluate theeffectiveness of engineering design practices serving the developing world. This paper willdocument the development of the course, the proposed instructional objectives and communityoutcomes, and the process of effectively engaging students in this work. The course was offeredfor the first time in Spring 2016, co-taught by faculty from all five departments, plus anadditional collaborator in the College of Engineering at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito(USFQ) in Ecuador. All six educational units share knowledge and resources, both in theclassroom and via a virtual meeting space, which also is accessible by the
, and technology development.In spite of all the advances made, LabCTS faces a difficult pathway to move forward. Among themany challenges, we underline here the following: • Reaching stronger cooperation between engineering faculty and humanities, allowing capstone projects focused on social impact and community development. ITA is a conservative institution in which capstone projects are driven to hardcore engineering and industrial ends. • Establishing a more articulated educative program around specific student projects, combining disciplines, service learning, and accredited activities. A possible way of doing so is integrating the engaged engineering program as a cluster into the recently established minor in
AC 2011-438: IMPLEMENTING ENGAGE STRATEGIES TO IMPROVERETENTION: FOCUS ON SPATIAL SKILLS - ENGINEERING SCHOOLSDISCUSS SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGESSusan Staffin Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology Susan Staffin Metz is Director of Special Projects in Engineering Education at Stevens Institute of Tech- nology. As a founder and president (1997 2002) of WEPAN, Women in Engineering Proactive Network, Susan has worked with over 200 colleges and universities to increase access and engagement of women in engineering and science through research, policy and program development. She is currently the prin- cipal investigator for ENGAGE, Engaging Students in Engineering, (www.engageengineering.org) a five year project funded by
2006-1933: RE-ENGAGING ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN HANDS-ONEDUCATIONDon Millard, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteJason Coutermarsh, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteKenneth Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Page 11.1062.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Re-Engaging Engineering Students in Hands-On EducationAbstractThis paper presents the technologies and implementation activities that are underdevelopment to re-engage students in “hands-on”, in and out of class exploration,experimentation and design to aid students’ understanding of the “big ideas” in electricalengineering. It describes (while the presentation will demonstrate) the Mobile Laboratoryhardware
. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Impact of Differently Worded Reflection Prompts on Engineering Students’ Metacognitive StrategiesAbstractNew engineering educators are often unaware that students struggle to reach a deep level ofmetacognitive processing when reflecting on their thinking/learning strategies. To designreflections that successfully engage students in valuable levels of metacognitive processing,instructors need to recognize their goals for their students and align reflection prompt wordchoice to these goals. This study used differently worded reflection prompts to engage studentsin thinking about their weekly performance
Paper ID #33888Examining the Impact of Interpersonal Interactions on Course-levelPersistence Intentions Among Online Undergraduate Engineering StudentsJaveed Kittur, Arizona State University Javeed Kittur is currently a doctoral student (Engineering Education Systems and Design) at Arizona State University, USA. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a Master’s degree in Power Systems from India in 2011 and 2014 respectively. He has worked with Tata Consultancy Services as Assistant Systems Engineer from 2011-2012, India. He has worked as an Assistant Professor (2014 to 2018) in the
Session 1153 Impact of Vertically Integrated Team Design Projects on First Year Engineering Students Helen K. Qammar1, H. Michael Cheung1, Edward A. Evans1, Sandra Prettyman Spickard2, Francis S. Broadway3, Rex D. Ramsier4 Department of Chemical Engineering1/ Educational Foundations and Leadership2/ Department of Curricular and Instructional Studies3/ Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering4 The University of Akron Akron, Ohio
. Braswell, J. Johnson, B. Brown and J. Payton, "Pivoting during a pandemic: Designing a virtual summer camp to increase confidence of black and latina girls," in Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2021.[27] M. R. Schilling and M. Pinnell, "The STEM gender gap: An evaluation of the efficacy of women in engineering camps," in 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2018.[28] A. Martinez Ortiz, L. Rodriguez Amaya, H. Kawaguchi Warshauer, S. Garcia Torres, E. Scanlon and M. Pruett, "They choose to attend academic summer camps? A mixed methods study exploring the impact of a NASA academic summer pre-engineering camp on middle school students in a Latino community," Journal of
and adaptive Beamforming c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Engaging COEUR Principles to Achieve Higher Impact in Student Learning through a Campus- Community Partnership with the Air Force Institute of TechnologyAbstract This work presents a preliminary thematic analysis of student benefits and student outcomesthat are achieved in a summer undergraduate research program following the implementationof the Council of Undergraduate Research Characteristics of Excellence in UndergraduateResearch (COEUR) principles in a campus-community partnership. Our partnership betweenthe Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and Southwestern Ohio Council for HigherEducation (SOCHE) engages
. As an emerging field though,approaches for best practice methodologies are still being established and studied. Along theselines, pedagogy that promotes best learning for students in this area is also being developed. Asan evolving topic, there is a natural drive to try new approaches. These conditions promoteresearch into new techniques and technologies targeted at improving the well-being of vulnerablepeople.Among the approaches that have shown success in local, small-scale context are designs that canbe classified as Appropriate Technology (AT). Appropriate Technology is a term for solutionswith the intention to meet the needs of communities based on their available resources, capacityand, significantly, the input of the people in the
been proven effective in engineeringeducation. Finding these projects requires community engagement on the part of the instructor.Sometimes the instructor has to be creative in redefining the project scope in order to integratethem smoothly in engineering courses. The example project in this paper demonstrated thatcommunity-based activities and resources are adequate for such purposes. The example is relatedto the learning trail project of the Ariel Foundation Park in Mount Vernon, Ohio. There is a needto verify the load capacity of an old truss bridge. Students in a Computer Aided Engineeringclass used this occasion to hone their ANSYS skills. It has been a service-learning experience forstudents. Service-Learning projects can be integrated
in undergraduate classes (problem based learning, games and simulations, etc.) as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering as well as broader engineering curriculum. In addition, she is actively engaged in the development of a variety of informal science education approaches with the goal of exciting and teaching K-12 students about regenerative medicine and its potential. Page 26.250.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Assessing the Impact of Game-Based Pedagogy on the Development
behavioral experiments, institutional analysis, and qualitative data collection. Through his work, Peyman systematically investigated the interplay of natural, physical, and institutional factors in coupled human-environment systems. He focused on understanding the prerequisites for building resilient communities at various scales, aiming to enhance adaptability in the context of climate change.Miss Nuela Chidubem Enebechi, Purdue University Nuela Chidubem Enebechi (Nuela) is a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. She is an international student from Nigeria and received her bachelor’s in Computer Science at Minnesota State University Moorhead.Mr. Andrew Pierce, Purdue University Andrew Pierce is the
professional skills necessary for interdisciplinary collaboration. Thesummer training is more about relationship building and reviewing literature surrounding theissues of the potential projects. We then conduct a formal panel review, similar to an NSF reviewprocess, to evaluate the potential community projects in terms of feasibility, impact, scope,relationships, and timeline. The highest-scoring projects are then chosen for student teams topursue, and relationships with the community partners are initiated. Student teams are chosenbased on student interests and an even distribution of necessary skills.Interdisciplinary community-engaged design coursesDuring the fall and spring semesters of the academic year, the student teams continue theirdesign