, providing critique and encouragement as necessary. Priorities alsoinclude acculturation and socialization to the library environment. More generally, the Universityof Toronto intrinsically mentors its librarians by requiring professional development activities asa condition for achieving permanent (tenured) status. The mentoring relationship has provenbeneficial for the mentors as well. Knowledge transfer and reflecting on career pathways canprovide perspective and motivation for experienced librarians. Additionally, the authors willpresent on areas for improvement and recommendations for future mentoring initiatives. Thediscussion will include a review of the research related to mentoring new employees, includingfindings that show a direct
the control unit which holds the LCD interface. The target users for this project are seniorcitizens. According to an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, between 2007 and2009, 99,628 emergency room visits were made by seniors. Two thirds of them were due to accidentaloverdoses. The design of the machine could be improved by adding a safety measure that would prevent anincorrect amount of pills being dispensed. Aside from this, the current design is effective in showing thepotential safety benefits of a low cost at-home pill dispenser.Keywords: Medical Assistance, Automation, Commercial Modular Design, C++ ProgrammingIntroductionOn December 2nd, 2015 the population of the United States was 322 million people, of which
for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012.Dr. Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette Monica E. Cardella is the Director of the INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering Edu- cation and is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University.Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University Kristina M. Tank is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the School of Education at Iowa State University. She currently teaches undergraduate courses in science education for elementary education majors. As a former elementary teacher, her research and teaching interests are centered around improv- ing elementary students’ science and engineering learning and increasing
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overheadcosts and access new revenue-producing services. Physician Partner approached us with arequest to update its existing physician information system to a more advanced, scalable andextensible, distributed database which can support concurrent use, high numbers of records andpotential web based secure access. Students from our CIS (Computer Information Systems)program were then given this challenging task of designing a new system for Physician Partners.The student, using the knowledge and skills they learned in the courses, proposed a new ISPRsystem that supports the current system functionality to existing levels of service, more scalablein terms of time, data, location and users, i.e. a higher number of records, a higher number ofconcurrent
Session 2530unstable, and can vary widely depending on what the current headlines say aboutemerging technologies. The image of engineering is also negatively affected by its close association withscience [4]. Thus, it is useful to look at the research in science for information onpotential reactions to engineering. Girls and boys develop ideas about science and who isqualified to be a scientist early in their education, often based largely on messages theyreceive outside of the school walls [6]. In order to effectively address students’ ideasabout science, it is important to understand the nature of those ideas [7, 8, 9]. Similarly,in order to address students’ ideas about engineering, it is important to understand whatideas students have
provide designs for everything humanity uses, from motorvehicles and refrigerators, to parks and city sidewalks, and all of these have the potentialto impact the environment. However, it is up to the engineering educators of today tohelp ensure that engineers of tomorrow will impact the environment in a positive manner.Through integrating exciting methods of learning sustainability in engineeringcurriculums, engineering students can learn how to design and produce in anenvironmentally friendly manner.Sustainable designing and sustainable productsIn the market place today, advertisements overwhelm the consumers with terms such aslonger lasting, improved, or lighter weight. One term rarely used in commercials issustainable. That is because many
career paths, and certainty of career choice, for explorers versusnon-explorers. It is suggested that global initiatives in each area created an organized, morecoherent, learning space which students were able to use to, in effect, uniquely organize theirundergraduate learning experience. Explorer students were able to use activities in this space tofurther development of key integrative disciplinary abilities and shape careers that connectedengineering with other disciplines.IntroductionDeveloping engineering graduates who are able to use a range of engineering and social scienceor humanities perspectives, as well as professional abilities, in addressing complex globalproblems has become a important effort in engineering programs around the
Paper ID #41964WIP: Accomplices and Allies: The Role of Chosen Family in EmpoweringEngineering StudentsSowmya Panuganti, Purdue University Sowmya Panuganti is a graduate student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is interested in understanding how engineering culture effects students’ mental health and well-being.Dr. Justin Charles Major, Rowan University Dr. Justin C. Major (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University where he leads ASPIRE Lab (Advancing Student Pathways through Inequality Research in Engineering). Justin’s research focuses on engineering
drivers, opening a worksheet andrecording the collected data in it. In order to effectively demonstrate this program, many testsusing different variable types had been run to show the accuracy and repeatability of the robotthrough offsets6-13. This test is very useful for calibrating the robot on an Internet basis and beingable to record data in real-time without having to be in the same location as the robot or theMP2000 Readout Controller. Furthermore, it helps with the improvement of Internet-basedcontrols with the Yamaha Robot (Figure 1). This project enhances the students’ programmingcapabilities and understanding of the accuracy parameters in the Robotics and Mechatronicsfields. The students learned the basic steps of connection-oriented
Adaptive PID Controller Using PC Matlab Alireza Rahrooh, Bahman Motlagh, & Walter Buchanan University of Central Florida/Northeastern UniversitySession topics: Effective Uses of Technology to Teach EngineeringAbstractThe speed and accuracy of microprocessors has extensively changed the way control systems aredesigned. Process controllers can be “taught” to adjust themselves without any operator intervention.These self-tuning or adaptive controllers are programmed to provide a stable system response undervarious disturbance conditions.This paper presents a fluid level system to be modeled and controlled utilizing an adaptive PIDcontroller to improve the output response
evening so that they can have their passport signed by engineersrepresenting different engineering fields. We have an inspirational keynote speaker from thefield of engineering speak about their career choice and path during a catered dinner. Thiscorporate sponsored evening provides company recognition and allows for the company toprovide the inspirational speaker and has been found through program evaluations to be a veryspecial evening for the girls.A “Typical” Project ENGAGE DayWhile there is no typical day at Project ENGAGE, this immersion course allows participants toexperience first-hand what engineers do, how they approach, design and solve problems, and thecreativity needed to accomplish these goals. Figure 1: Block
Paper ID #48216BOARD # 220: Engineering Education in Ghana and the USA: Factors Involvedin Successful Career Integration of Female Ghanaian Engineering Studentsinto the USA Engineering FieldMs. Gloria Appiah Nsiah, Arizona State University Gloria is an Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student at Arizona State University whose research involves computational chemical risk assessment of endocrine disruption through wastewater exposure, particularly in developing communities. Originally from Ghana, Gloria is passionate about enhancing the quality of engineering education for a more impactful and effective learning experience
and acommunity college, we identify students’ funds of knowledge, or the knowledge gained fromstudents’ family and cultural backgrounds, that is crucial to engineering innovation but neglectedin the curriculum they encounter in college. These funds of knowledge include defining andsolving problems in the midst of financial and material scarcity; building, fixing, and adaptingtechnical artifacts and systems; and empathizing with marginalized groups and communities. Wesuggest that these knowledges position LIFGs as effective innovators of engineering design forcommunity development, though few pursue this path because of financial constraints. Finally,we identify future pathways of this exploratory research, including a) an
the point of improving along that scale of the taxonomy. So, you know, basic research things. Find a good goal. Improving the thought process of the students. Find a good model to help you design things. Do the design and then find a good way of measurement and then do a feedback loop on all of them. Hopefully if anything, our work modeled all of that and gave people a way to spring forward from that. …For many years after I retired I continued to do workshops on these taxonomies and really focusing on how do you get people to understand critical thinking better. …But through all of this I have always done TA training, really getting incoming TAs to understand those taxonomies, understand how the course of the teaching fit in and
graduate school over the course of anentire academic year. Participants recruited from private and public research universities acrossthe U.S. submitted Internet journal entries (blogs) and/or were interviewed biweekly during falland spring semesters. Ethnographic techniques1 were employed to elicit details of concreteincidents. Constant comparative analysis2 was used for understanding journal entries andinterview transcripts. A common experience among participants in both components of the studywas “feeling different” from an implied institutional norm, according to preliminary results.Students sometimes self-isolated in order to meet a perceived need to present themselves ascapable and as “fitting in” with the institutional norm implied in
Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. Kyle teaches first-year design, medical device instrumentation, and capstone design courses at Duke. He leads the Outreach Design Education (ODE) Program, an NIH-funded set of activities focused on enhancing STEM identity in younger students through engineering design education. Over 1000 students in New York and North Carolina have been introduced to engineering design through ODE-associated pre-college programs and courses. Kyle received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kettering University (’02) and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University (’07). He is a fellow of the AIMBE and BMES and serves on the BMES Board of Directors.Ido Davidesco
contributes to theirminoritization in STEM. In doing so, we seek to identify ways to improve their experiences inSTEM higher education and entrepreneurial spaces. Relying on Collins’ (1990) domains ofpower framework, the following question guides the study: To what extent do everydayencounters and practices of marginalization in STEM higher education and entrepreneurialeducation spaces shape Black women’s engagement in STEM entrepreneurial educationprogramming? To answer this question, we conducted semi-structured interviews (n=7) of Blackwomen faculty in STEM higher education who have engaged or not engaged in entrepreneurshipeducation programming. These conversations reveal the various ways Black women navigate inand outside of entrepreneurship
minorities can be furtherexacerbated by the pedagogical decisions of engineering educators. This exacerbation candirectly influence the attitudes, perceptions, and interests of students in underrepresented groupswhich may prohibit their engagement in the future. The findings seek to provide examples ofteam dynamics for precollege engineering educators to help improve effective collaboration thatpromotes positive engineering experiences for students.IntroductionIn a field dominated by interdisciplinary and cross-functional teams to solve complex worldproblems, a common pedagogical practice in engineering education is to engage students withengineering concepts through team-based projects. This initial pedagogical practice began inhigher education in
first phases of the study (conducted during 2011),which addresses research questions one, two and four.1.1 Background of the Premier AwardThe Premier Award competition was instituted with two primary goals: to recognize and rewardthe efforts of faculty (and students) developing courseware and to provide an external measure ofthe quality of the courseware.14 The Premier Award was created as a program within theSynthesis Coalition, one of the NSF engineering education coalitions funded in the 1990’s,which focused on improving engineering education by designing, implementing and assessingapproaches to undergraduate engineering education that emphasized multidisciplinary synthesis,teamwork and communication, hands-on and laboratory experiences
of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. Prior to moving to academia in 2005, he led several industrial nanomedicine-based development projects as PI on NSF (SBIR), NIH (STTR), and NIST (ATP) grants. With a research focus in biomedical optics, he has published peer-reviewed articles in basic cancer research, biomedical electro-optic instrumentation, clinical cancer therapies, and mathemati- cal techniques for dealing with complex biological systems. Based on experiences instructing courses like Biomedical Engineering Senior Design and his previous experience in the medical device industry, he has developed a strong interest in optimizing gender interactions and productivity in engineering projects and
industry, and therefore, its training isrooted in the contingent, a fact that was not understood when sandwich courses weredeveloped in the 1960’s. Academics evidently viewed training as a means of enablingstudents to apply the scientific knowledge learnt in college courses in industrial situations.There was no recognition of the fact that different ways of thinking were involved. It isargued that these different ways of thinking (epistemologies) and their conditioning, whichform the ontologies (especially attitudes) of those involved, are at the heart of many of theproblems experienced by Bingham.2. From the story of Britain’s Vaccine Task Force – The Long ShotBefore any Covid 19 cases had been reported in the UK, on Jan 27th 2020, an
. Students in the Madison College Renewable EnergyProgram complete several courses in solar and renewable energy that are making use of the newsolar PV system. Students in the program learn to design, specify, and model performance forvarious types of solar installations. They also learn to estimate the effects of shading, modulesoiling, and snow cover. Most importantly, they learn hands-on installation skills that includebasic construction, workplace safety, solar assembly and wiring, electrical safety, codecompliance, safe commissioning and system verification practices.The college’s system is comprised of several sub-arrays, each of which is connected to one ofseventeen DC to AC inverters. The sub-arrays include ballast mounted panels in both
.[49] H. Ja Shin, "Childcare Options in South Korea: Experiences and Perceptions of Female College Faculty," NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, vol. 2, pp. 122-141, 2009.[50] S. M. van Anders, "Why the Academic Pipeline Leaks: Fewer Men than Women Perceive Barriers to Becoming Professors," Sex Roles, vol. 51, pp. 511-521, 2004.[51] K. De Welde and S. L. Laursen, "The Glass Obstacle Course: Informal and Formal Barriers For Women Ph.D. Students in STEM Fields," International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology vol. 3, pp. 571- 595, 2011.[52] M. A. Mason and M. Goulden, "Do Babies Matter? The Effect of Family Formation on the Lifelong Careers of Academic Men and Women," Academe Online, 2002
learning activities [5], [8], research that combine these aspects is limited. Variousresearch focuses on developing and testing these adaptive tools from either the design of theprogramming and frameworks aspect [7], [9], [10] or to quantify their effectiveness in promotingconceptual learning based on performance (such as scores) [4], [11], [12] and perceptions [12],[13], [14]. Rarely do they focus on exploring how students develop their conceptual knowledgewhile navigating through and interacting with such tools.In this study, we sought to understand the ways that our newly developed CALM could besupporting (or hindering) students conceptual learning. We took a qualitative approach to furtherinvestigate how students interact with the CALM through
of these questions was highly variable. They may have beenused to clarify/request information and perspectives, improve conceptual understanding, identifydesign concepts, organize team processes and interaction.18Observation has been depicted as a key skill within engineering design, particularly in regards toits usefulness in meeting users’ needs.21,22 According to Kolodner and Wills, observation isdirectly tied to perceptiveness which enables an engineer to have a meta-awareness of thecontext in which a problem is embedded, along with how that context formulates the problem athand.23 Observation seems particularly key to the growing body of knowledge on empathicdesign within engineering, where the direct focus may involve observing
is one of the most difficult techniques in DSP to visualize, understand,interpret and implement especially for those encountering it for the first time7. This is becausethe concept of discrete convolution and its effect on discrete-time signals are not intuitive fromits defining equation (Equation 1) whose definition and mathematics seems confusing at first.Because of this, discrete convolution was taught by the author along the above systematicpresentation and approach, and by providing visual explanations of its interpretations. This wasaccomplished by specifically designing and implementing two novel software tools. Eachsoftware tool was designed to visually explain the interpretation of the discrete convolutionequation from one of two
-accredited engineering program, and students completedpre-engineering courses at other community colleges or universities. Currently, IRE offers afour-year engineering program at the same location, Mesabi Community College. Studentsgraduate with a B.S. in Engineering, and most have a specialization in either mechanicalengineering or electrical engineering, although other specializations are available. The two-year,junior/senior program is non-traditional, in that students take few traditional courses; rather,students work in teams every semester to solve real-world problems presented by local industrypartners. All work is supervised and mentored by faculty as well as industry mentors. Directinstruction in self-directed learning is included
Paper ID #25504Elementary Students’ Computational Thinking Practice in A Bridge Designand Building Challenge (Fundamental)Dr. Dazhi Yang, Boise State University Dazhi Yang is an associate professor at Boise State University. Her research lies at the intersection of STEM education and technology-supported learning. Her current research focuses on integrating compu- tational thinking in STEM learning, instructional strategies and online course design, and strategies for teaching difficult and complex science and engineering concepts.Dr. Youngkyun Baek, Boise State University Dr. Baek has been a professor of educational
undergraduate courses in science education for elementary education majors. As a former elementary teacher, her research and teaching interests are centered around improv- ing elementary students’ science and engineering learning and increasing teachers’ use of effective STEM instruction in the elementary grades. With the increased emphasis on improved teaching and learning of STEM disciplines in K-12 classrooms, Tank examines how to better support and prepare pre-service and in-service teachers to meet the challenge of integrating STEM disciplines in a manner that supports teach- ing and learning across multiple disciplines. More recently, her research has focused on using literacy to support scientific inquiry, engineering