high schools in different areas, the background ofstudents is also very different. It would be ideal to offer this course in the junior year when thestudents already learned mechanics and design. However, due to the difficulty of the curriculumscheduling of mechanical engineering at ONU, this course has to be offered in the first year. Acomprehensive term-long project was therefore developed, which combines material testing,simple design knowledge for engineering applications, and material selection for the design.Project based learning (PBL) as an instructional tool has been widely used in the engineeringcurriculum.1, 2, 3 In this methodology, a question or problem is used to drive the students learningactivities to produce a product that can
Page 12.1472.9Technology programs in 2007 and was generated from responses to the spring 2007 METsurvey. The 2007 MET survey added four additional questions to the 2005 survey. One of theadditional questions asked MET programs to list their perceived strength(s), particularly thosestrengths attracting new students. We hope these strength data provide information about whattype of manufacturing curriculum attracts students to MET programs. A question pertaining tograduate level degrees was also added to the survey, as the 2005 survey did not specifically askprograms if a M.S. in Manufacturing Engineering Technology was offered.The graduate starting salary question was modified from a two-part question where a yes/noquestion was followed by a
Engineering. She completed a postdoc at the Center for Advanced Decision Support in Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) at UC Boulder. Beth’s career goals include increasing the diversity of engineering students and improving education for all engineering students. Three of Beth’s current projects are: 1) an NSF planning project for the Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research, 2) an NSF Scientific Leadership Scholars project providing 4-year scholarships to 30 students in computer science, environmental recourses engineering and mathematics and 3) a water resources curriculum project using CADSWES software
concepts applied in the Clinic projects have just been introduced in other courses, so that thematerial is still fresh in the students’ mind5. The sophomore clinic teams with the College ofCommunication to integrate the teaching of a common core of communication skills to allstudents. Faculty engage in reflexive pedagogy, continually assessing and revising the program.In addition to these curricular and pedagogical innovations, the College has a student-to-facultyratio of approximately 17:1 and class sizes not exceeding 35, facilitating personal student-facultyinteraction both within and outside of class The tightly structured curriculum results in strongcohort solidarity among students who take most of their courses together throughout the
is judgmental. A child-development professor recently expressed the spirit of such self-esteem with rare clarity: "As soon as you get into some of the more complicated things, kids may experience failure. They may feel like they're stupid." This spirit is as rampant in higher education as it is in elementary and secondary schools. At col- leges, self-esteem often goes hand in hand with multiculturalism or sensitivity to people of diverse races and ethnicities -- meaning that professors must avoid of- fending the identities (still another name for self-esteem) of victimized groups. Page 9.645.7Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for
thesestudents are recruited to engineering programs and persist until degree completion. For thepurpose of this study, those above the age of 25 years, enrolled in a bachelor’s engineeringprogram, are considered adult students. The age of 25 was selected as a threshold for this studyto exclude traditional students who entered degree programs right after high school, even thosewho may take up to six years for degree completion. Adult students can add a valuabledimension to the engineering curriculum, enriching the classroom dynamics by sharing real-world experiences, presenting a different model of faculty-student interactions, and bringing a set Page
: “In engineering classes, such issues aren’t the focus of the material, and many students aren’t aware of the process of developing sustainable products. In the future, I hope to find [the University’s engineering program] implementing environmental classes in their degree requirements. Courses such as [this one] can be beneficial for engineering students.” “I think all engineers should take this class as I think a lot of engineers (including myself) get too focused on the technical side of things and don’t take the time to care about world issues, including those in sustainability.”The topics that were mentioned the most by students (mentioned by at least 50% of the students,and marked with asterisks
steps, including112 identifying, analyzing, and synthesizing the text or other materials (Bowen 2009).113 Textbooks are an especially rich source for scholarly inquiry. Textbooks play a unique114 organizational role because they are “institutional artefacts that configure entire academic subject115 fields” (Palmer, Simmons, and Hall 2013, 485). Textbooks, are thus “key sites for assessing how116 scholarly ideas are developed and understood.” (Koschmann and Campbell 2019, 173).117 Comparative textbook analysis initially focused on social studies, but has expanded to include118 math and other subjects in the 21st century (Fan 2013; Nichols 2003; Chu 2017).119 While textbook reviews can serve a range of purposes
incorporate inclusive practices in the engineering curriculum which preparesneurodiverse students to achieve their full potential in the workforce. This work-in-progresspaper seeks to capitalize on the unique strengths of marginalized neurodiverse engineeringstudents. In this study, the innovation self-efficacy of engineering students who self-identify asneurodiverse is explored before and after a curricular intervention, which has been shown tohave the potential to enhance innovation self-efficacy, in an environmental engineering targetcourse. A previously validated Likert-type survey was used, which included the Very BriefInnovation Self-Efficacy scale, the Innovation Interests scale, and the Career Goals: InnovativeWork scale. Among the 47
, regardless of the major. Faculty efforts should address retention within the major.Starting in 1990, E. Seymour and N.M. Hewitt conducted a three–year study1of 335 students atseven universities to discover why undergraduates leave the sciences, mathematics orengineering (S.M.E.). On p. 32 they list “the most–commonly cited factors contributing to switchdecisions, namely • Lack or loss of interest in science • Belief that a non–S.M.E. major holds more interest, or offers a better education • Poor teaching by S.M.E. faculty • Feeling overwhelmed by the pace and load of curriculum demands”Most interestingly, the study does not find switchers and non–switchers to be two different kindsof people. Many of the concerns are shared by both groups
ASEE, he is chair of the Two-Year College Division, and Vice-Chair/Community Col- leges of the Pacific Southwest Section. He received the Outstanding Teaching Award for the ASEE/PSW Section in 2022.Dr. Lizabeth L. Thompson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Lizabeth is a professor at Cal Poly, SLO in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. She has been teaching for 22 years and has continued to develop innovative pedagogy such as project based, flipped classroom and competency grading. Through the SUSTAINStephen Robert Beard ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Comparing Success for Transfers Students and First-Time Freshmen Using
and how classroom and institutionaldesign can mitigate the effects.1 IntroductionThere is a growing call to diversify the pipeline of engineering students to meet the need oftechnological development and to advance equity in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMath (STEM). To achieve this goal, academic institutions are looking introspectively tounderstand how their campus environments are designed to foster student success and equity.This work seeks to identify gaps in engineering student success through a ten-year study ofacademic performance correlated to student identity and course attributes.The work of Tinto [1], [2] has been built upon to show that a students’ sense of belonging isrelated to their propensity to persist in higher
the development of algorithms to detect cheating behaviorvia side-facing cameras.ConclusionAs online education becomes more commonplace, so does the need for trustworthy andcomfortable remote proctoring. The front-facing camera arrangement limits cheating detection tobehavior within the view of the head and shoulders. The side-facing camera expands the view ofthe camera to capture the examinee’s head, torso, hands, and keyboard. This arrangement showspromise in detecting behaviors consistent with cheating. To investigate perceptions of side-facing cameras, we conducted a study where we surveyed four different groups of students toexamine their perspectives and views on the side-facing camera when compared to the front-facing camera. Our work
Paper ID #35817Analysis of barriers to graduation for transfer students in AerospaceEngineeringDr. Radha Aravamudhan, San Jose State University Radha Aravamudhan’s research interests include Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Community cultural wealth and their application to curriculum specifically with respect to undergraduate engineering educa- tion as well as creative Arts-Based Research and Documentary film making. She supports faculty research in the area of undergraduate STEAM teaching and learning with a focus on increasing retention and grad- uation rates of under-represented student populations in engineering.Dr
Paper ID #36692Using a Knowledge Mapping Tool in EngineeringInformation Literacy Instruction: A First ExperimentHaoyong Lan (Engineering & Data Librarian) Haoyong Lan is the Engineering & Data Librarian at the University of Louisville, where he provides information literacy instruction, research assistance, data support, and collection development services to engineering students, faculty, and staff. He received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master's degree in Library and Information Science both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include
carbon fiber reinforced polymers to strengthen structures, analysis and testing for reinforced concrete frames under disproportionate collapse, and risk and reliability analysis of bridges and offshore structures. She is a registered professional engineer in Missouri.Fan Yu Fan Yu is a doctoral student at the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is originally from China. Fan received her MS in Elementary Education Science and a graduate certificate in Curriculum and Instructions in 2017. She worked as a K12 educational products developer for four years. Fan’s research interests include STEM education and UX design in learning technologies. She concerns about
the use of gendered rolesin cases like this. Should instructors offer only gender-neutral case studies like this one? As away of representing the diversity we desire in the profession, should we use a variety of caseswith a variety of characters, including cis and trans and the non-binary spectrum of gender? Dostudents have support elsewhere in the curriculum for learning about the non-binary genderspectrum to prepare them to respond in an engineering class? Would any of these approachesallow for more serious or inclusive discussions of both the ethical dilemma as well as gender biasor role schemas in the profession? Should ethics case studies be presented without names at alland rely solely on roles, especially if names seem to drive greater
for our students extendbeyond the school of engineering.The goals of this investigation were to determine the average spending by engineering majors ontextbooks across their classes for the fall 2022 quarter, the academic and financial impacts ofthese costs on students, and how students mitigated these costs. This knowledge will helpidentify where the library can provide additional support for course texts and OER. The surveywas not intended to be statistically significant, but it was intended to provide an insight into howtextbook costs impact students' experiences.MethodA 20 question survey (Appendix A) was developed, based on questions seen in similar surveyssuch as the Florida Virtual Campus Textbook Survey [5], the Virginia Course
tasked with creating a training program for instructors, helping implement a new Calculus sequence, implementing an observation program for foundational mathematics courses, and establishing partners across campus for collaboration. Prior to joining Wentworth, Dr. Donovan was program chair for mathe- matics, data analytics, and cybersecurity at Lasell University. Chairing three unique data-rich disciplines under one umbrella enabled an interdisciplinary approach to meeting student needs and curricular devel- opment. She was also responsible for the development and implementation of university wide quantitative reasoning initiatives. Scholarship has focused on first year programs, student success, and diversity & eq
. Overall, this research and case study contribute to the attention needed toaddress equity, inclusion, and representation challenges of black women in CS by highlightingissues faced when trying to develop and establish themselves in the field.1. IntroductionThe field of computer science (CS) has grown rapidly in recent years. Despite this progress,disparities in the industry persist, particularly for individuals from underrepresented groups. Forinstance, black women, who pursue CS as a career choice, experience significantunderrepresentation in the field. This underrepresentation is also reflected in the percentages ofblack women who are awarded Bachelor’s, Master’s, or their Doctorate in CS and related fields[12]. By examining challenges faced by
Paper ID #33721Gender and Human Imagery in the Halls of a BME DepartmentDr. Kali Lynn Morgan, Georgia Institute of Technology Kali is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds a master’s degree in Student Personnel in Higher Education from the University of Florida and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction- Higher Education emphasis from the University of South Florida. Her research explores equity in STEM education, student development and learning.Adrianna BernardoTodd M. Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology Todd is a lecturer
. Whenthis tool is properly integrated with effective pedagogies of engagement (like problem-basedlearning, or experiment-based learning), it can enhance students’ achievement of learning goalsand the development of essential skills such as teamwork, creativity, and digital skills. Also,online collaboration can facilitate peer assessment and peer learning. While it was found thatMiro was an effective learning tool in an engineering laboratory-intensive course, the smallsample size makes for the fact that these results cannot be generalized. A follow-up study withmore participants is required.ConclusionOur study confirms that Miro can be easily employed to facilitate effective online collaboration,thus enhancing student engagement. This is deemed to
move off campus and losing access to university facilities and resources, having toengage in distance learning for the first time, having to shelter in place and practice physicaldistancing, losing income, and dealing with illness and death are just some of the challengesstudents faced in 2020. This is on top of everyday stress related to the engineering curriculum [1].It is to be expected that all of this would take a toll on mental health. Indeed, early studies on thepandemic’s impacts have found significant detriment to some students’ mental health [2], [3].As part of a larger mental health survey, we asked engineering students what strategies they wereusing to cope to with mental health challenges caused by the pandemic. While prior
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’ social emotional development as applied to teamwork and communication, and program assessment methods that minimize stakeholders’ efforts while maximizing the effectiveness of the measurement tool.Dr. Peter J Butler, Pennsylvania State UniversityDr. Tonya L. Peeples, Pennsylvania State University Professor Tonya Peeples joined the Penn State College of Engineering in August of 2018, as the Inaugural Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion and Professor of Chemical Engineering. Prior to joining Penn State she worked at the University of Iowa and in her 23 years at UI, served to advance diversity and American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020
Psy- chology and Sociology. Her research interests include issues related to social class and areas of existential psychology and counterfactual thinking.Dr. Jennifer Blue, Miami University Jennifer Blue is a Professor of Physics at Miami University. She works to give more people access to physics. Sometimes that’s reforming the curriculum for introductory classes, sometimes it’s working with K-12 science teachers, and sometimes it’s advocating for traditionally excluded populations, including women in STEM. Her website can be found here: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/bluejm/.Dr. Amy Summerville, Miami University Dr. Summerville is a Senior Research Scientist at Kairos research. She was previously an Associate
technological advancements, lessons learned from the countriesimpacted, and adoption and implementation of measures to smoothen the transition with the suddenpandemic outbreak. Engineering education must be at the forefront of technological improvements ineducation.The study utilized a content analysis methodology to review existing research on pandemics and theireffect on education globally. A variety of information exists from outside the United States, wheregovernment-level responses were required. The content analysis results and were overlapped to determinechanges to curriculums based on the need for alternative course delivery. A comparison is made ofprevious teaching and learning methods versus those collected via survey during the Covid-19
% Unknown… 7% International 13% 0% 20% 40% 60% Figure 2: Race/Ethnicity of the Institution’s Students 4Data Collection and Analysis. The primary method for data collection consisted of open-endedsurvey items via the EGR_Math course management system. Survey items were developed in theform of one-minute papers, exam wrappers and midterm feedback (Angelo & Cross, 1993;Eberly Center, 2019a). Students were encouraged to complete electronic one-minute papersduring the final few minutes of each class and lab to help instructors plan for the following
&M University and earned his Doctor of Philos- ophy in Civil (Environmental) Engineering. His research efforts are focused on drinking water quality and issues related to treatment of wastewater using physical, chemical, biological and electro-chemical/kinetic processes. His recent research efforts have been in the area of application of geographic information sys- tems to environmental management and sustainability, causes/effects of salinity in soils and corrosion of metal pipes. Dr. Tewari also has keen interest in STEM education, improving diversity in STEM areas, inclusion of hands-on and digital tools in curriculum. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Utility
Riemannian manifolds from Isfahan University (2008). This has provided her with a solid foundation in mathematics and has motivated her to apply her theoretical knowledge to real-world ap- plications such as healthcare. Throughout her academic career, she has accumulated nearly ten years of teaching experience in mathematics and statistics. She also regularly follows teaching and learning events at Office of Teaching & Learning (OTL) and NIH B.E.S.T. workshops as well as OTL Pedagogy Jour- nal Club and Pedagogy Teaching Workshop across multiple Universities. She also won the 2017 GEOC (Graduate Employees Organizing Committee) Teaching Award at Wayne State University. In 2018, she won Integrating Curriculum with