design teaching team. Her teaching and course development focus on creating interactive learning activities at the intersection of design, leadership, teamwork, and identity formation. Her research focuses on methods to improve the teaching and learning of team effectiveness in engineering design courses.Mrs. Liz A. Kuley, University of Saskatchewan Elizabeth Kuley is a graduate of civil engineering at the University of Saskatchewan and currently com- pleting a Masters of Science studying the retention of engineering students at the University of Saskatchewan.Robyn Paul, University of Calgary Robyn is a Master’s student researching engineering leadership education at the University of Calgary. She graduated from
given.The littleBits activity could be improved by including more assistance from the mentors. Thementors could offer a few suggestions to the groups that needed a bit more encouragement.Nonetheless, the goal of this activity to help the girls develop their confidence in independentexploration with hardware was achieved. Figure 7: Participants engaged in littleBits activityDesigning an Electronic Greeting Card:During the final activity of the day, the group returned to the Maker’s Space. The girls learnedabout batteries, polarity, conductive materials, LEDs and DC motors. They were also taught howto solder. They were then challenged to use their own creativity to design an electronic greetingcard.The activity started with a
Paper ID #21386Military Veteran Students’ Pathways in Engineering Education (Year 4)Dr. Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a BS from Cornell University and the MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Chair of Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineering courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, engineering student persistence, and student autonomy. Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr
University. Before his full-time appointment with EAFIT, he served as Engineering Director for a chemical company for 7 years. His research interests are focused on the practice and teaching of process design, simulation and control and also on faculty and institutional development through engineering education research.Ms. S. Zahra Atiq, Purdue University, West Lafayette S. Zahra Atiq is a PhD student at the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University, West Lafayette. Her research interests include: computer science education specifically on teaching computer programming to undergraduates and how to improve their learning experiences. She is also interested in understanding student behaviors and performance in
Paper ID #12035Going Globally as a Russian Engineering UniversityDr. Julia Ziyatdinova, Kazan National Research Technological University Julia Ziyatdinova graduated from Kazan State Pedagogical University in 1999. Her major areas of study were foreign languages and she finished her University course with honors and qualification of teacher of English and Turkish. She continued her training and obtained PhD in Education degree in 2002. The topic of her PhD study was titled ”System of Character Education in the US Schools: Current State and Trends for the Development”. She also received additional minor degrees
learning shows positive results.• Sequential learners can continue learning without complete understanding of the subjectbeing studied.• Inductive information model promotes effective classroom learning.The iHASOB environment addresses the above assumptions to improve learning. The iHASOBenvironment is assumed to integrate information in a text form such as a PDF file with softwareand hardware to facilitate the above listed modes of learning. The sensors attached to thehardware board and the tablet provides physical stimulation through connections to the physicalworld of the student. The data received from the sensors are made available to the user ingraphical and other formats. This data can be further analyzed on the iPAD or transferred
experi- ence working with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution etc. on transportation and operations management projects. She works extensively with food banks and food pantries on supply chain management and logistics focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are integral part of her service-learning based logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to assess impact of good supply
teacher’s guides.1. Introduction1.1 Background Information and Literature ReviewA new trend in K-12 education is to incorporate concepts and ways of thinking from theengineering disciplines into math and science courses. A growing number of educators, startingat the postsecondary level and now spreading to the high school and elementary level, arerecognizing that awareness of and knowledge about engineering are crucial to students’ ability tonavigate our technology-dependent society. This effort by educators and policymakers to includeengineering in K-12 classrooms is part of an initiative that is often referred to as the“technological literacy” movement.The modern technological literacy movement can be said to have begun in 1996, when
-oriented development methods, and team-oriented learning and problem-solving with real-world challenges.The developed and validated cases besides traditional teaching and learning methods, andlaboratory activities, use browser-readable interactive 2D and 3D objects, animation,videos, 3D objects of real components, virtual 3D disassembly methods of objects, andsimulated (virtual) factory tours that the students can create, explore and study.Our educational and computational methods introduce a novel approach to developingand running undergraduate and graduate courses in this subject area for face-to-face,honors and distance learning modes.The objective of this research was to create a case-based / problem-based teaching andlearning curriculum that
implementation becomes rapidly complex as the length ofthe code word and the uncoded message increase. As a result, most coding theory uses a (7,4)code in which the code word has seven bits of which four bits contain the information.2 The coderesults in a manageable number of 128 code words of which only 16 form valid codes. Theredundancy is used for error correction. Now suppose a (15,7) code is used allowing 32,768possible code words for which only 128 are valid information codes. This complexity can bereduced by using several functions in the Matlab Communications Toolbox, providing a uniquelearning opportunity for the engineering technology student.INTRODUCTION2Channel coding refers to the class of signal transformations designed to improve
bioengineering.Baker and Leary (1995) conducted interviews with female students in K-2, K-5, K-8, and K-12in an effort to determine what factors influenced them to pursue the field of biology [4]. Duringthe interviews, students from middle to high school said that they rejected physical sciencebecause the area was not viewed as related to helping or caring, instead preferring biology thatwould allow them to help people, animals, or the earth [4]. Keeves and Kotte (1992) foundthat men were more likely to enroll in physics and chemistry courses in secondary school.Biology was the only female-dominated area; females exceeded the number of male studentsenrolled [25]. This saturation exists because biology has been traditionally viewed by women as anurturing
such assignments, the writing ofgames promotes strategic thinking. A programmer must consider how to properly utilize datastructures to represent the elements of the game and how to establish the necessary heuristics forevaluating the status of the game.In the past, each card game program had to be essentially written from scratch, but what reallychanges from implementation of one game to the next? How does the concept of a card or adeck differ? There is a great deal of functionality that stays the same, regardless of the cardgame being implemented. This card game assignment is used in our third introductoryprogramming course, where after two quarters of C++ in a text-based context, students areintroduced to graphical user interfaces (GUI
, length, andconsistency with the topics covered in the science classes of the EAF attendees, but with effort toavoid duplication of material and experiments these students will typically see in their schools.The activities completed at EAF will not be effective if the participants do not understand thescience behind the project. The printed material that is used is also checked and approved byeducation faculty members. This material presents the relevant information needed to completethe activity and also gives some background and relevant career information as well as sourcesof additional information on the topic.Another key role for members from the College of Education is serving as team guides. Theteams of participants are given two college
sample sizes and more general qualitativedata can hopefully decipher the specifics of outreach work that are attractive to all students andthe effect these aspects have on the academic career and students’ general satisfaction withreceiving an engineering degree. Comparative studies are also needed to see how females inoutreach program differ from those who are not engaged in outreach as well as longitudinal workon how the impact of outreach is sustained over time. These findings are promising and open thedoor for discovering the link between outreach and enhancing engineering education at thecollege level.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank NSF, the LLL Foundation, and Tufts UCCPS: UniversityCollege for Citizenship and Public
with others. Finally, students who become involvedearlier and progress into leadership positions tend to challenge themselves to continue thesuccess of their predecessors. They work hard to maintain or improve upon the traditionof success that has been developed. In recent history, all of our chapter presidents havepreviously held other officer positions and proved their abilities to their peers. Creatingyounger member involvement may come from creating necessary but relatively lowerresponsibility positions. Positions that require younger members may include having afreshman and sophomore class representative, community service coordinator, publicitychair, recruiting chair, and others that support chapter activities. All of these positionshave
would otherwise not have the opportunity to explore the World Wide Web, the opportunity tonot only explore this environment, but also be a part of it.During the course of the program the students were given tours and exposure to other colleges anduniversities including the University of Maryland at College Park, and the United States NavalAcademy. Several of the students attended the National Society of Black Engineers Conference inNashville, Tennessee. At this conference the students were exposed to over 100 engineeringcolleges and universities from throughout the country, 175 corporate representatives, in excess of6000 college and high school students from across the United States. The participating studentsalso attended the United States
would be part of the solution.III. Interface Design and ImplementationAfter finalization of the conceptual design and program requirements, appropriate software waschosen for the application. It was determined that Macromedia’s Authorware Attain was the bestchoice for the actual program framework. The timeline-style authoring environment coupledwith powerful Knowledge Object capabilities made Authorware the most attractive choice interms of starting from scratch. In addition, Macromedia Fireworks provided an excellentgraphics tool for developing the various graphics that were used in the software. Its expert use oflayering and live effects would be of particular interest in editing graphics to suit particular needsof the application.The various
.4 The JE model gives students the opportunity towork with several different companies and organizations during their time as a consultant. CUBEConsulting provides these opportunities and also regularly schedules entrepreneurs from thelocal community to speak at meetings and connect with the consultants. CUBE Consultingmembers and international Junior Entrepreneurs alike have said these connections were essentialin securing internship and job opportunities.In their responses, almost all Junior Entrepreneurs cited interpersonal development as a benefitof being involved with Junior Enterprise. Although academic work provides a strong base ofknowledge for engineers, these courses often do not stress leadership, management, andteamwork skills
number of domestic students getting graduate degreesin engineering and challenged the Society to take an active role in the process.Here is what he said.: ASEE needs to increase its efforts in promoting research and graduate education. There is the perception that ASEE is involved only in promoting and improving engineering education, specifically teaching, at the undergraduate level. We need to change that perception by expanding ASEE activities related to research and graduate education. Furthermore, there is a need to increase the number of Americans seeking and completing engineering graduate degrees. Currently, the number of Americans completing graduate degrees is alarmingly low, and as a
AcknowledgementsWe acknowledge the support from the UTSA GREAT seed funding and the UTSA TechPoP fund toG.S. and N.I.A., and UTSA's startup funding to G.S. The authors extend their gratitude to Joel Salinas,for insightful discussion throughout the course of this work, and to Sean Tritley for assistance withthe ReNcell VM culturing. References1. Chen, W., Hu, Y., & Ju, D. (2020). Gene therapy for neurodegenerative disorders: advances, insights and prospects. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica. B, 10(8), 1347–1359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsb.2020.01.0152. Huang, L., & Wang, G. (2017). The Effects of Different Factors on the Behavior of Neural Stem Cells. Stem cells international, 2017
fromthis study could be that engineering educators and practitioners alike might benefit from asystematic examination of students’ personal-professional alignment to gain further insight intothe effectiveness of our curricula and potential ways to improve them. Questions I am left withfor example include the following: Are there opportunities to share professional societydocuments in class discussions about engineering, beyond simply exposing students to the codesof ethics? Could contextualized problems or project-based service-learning be ways to highlightthe social ramifications and significance of engineering work while also teaching technicalskills? It is essential that these factors converge if students are to experience an education
Paper ID #20444Development of a Web-based Decision Tool for Selection of Distributed En-ergy Resources and Systems (DERS) for Moving College and Corporate Cam-puses Toward Net-Zero EnergyDr. Christopher J. Damm, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Christopher Damm is Professor and Director of the Mechanical Engineering Program at the Milwau- kee School of Engineering where he teaches courses in thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, engineering design, renewable energy and advanced energy technologies. Dr. Damm’s research and con- sulting focus on energy conversion and pollutants associated with energy conversion
reaction (water formation) to demonstrate fuel cell operation. Due to time constraints,and variable weather conditions, we chose not to characterize the solar cell itself, although its V-icharacteristics also show maximum power output at intermediate V and i values, as wellknown.. Experiment #2: SILICON WAFER OXIDATION 45,46 Oxidation of an ultrapure semiconductor silicon (Si) wafer produces an insulator silicondioxide (SiO2) layer which may be incorporated into a microelectronics metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) device such as a field effect transistor (MOSFET). Other SiO2 uses inmicroelectronics include impurity gettering, device isolation, masking against impurities,junction passivation, and insulating between metal layers. The
likerequiring workers to have reasonable strength deterring women from applying and thatcompanies are worried about the impact of family’s responsibilities women may have.Professional recruitment was also found to rely heavily on word of mouth and male networks,which may not reach women as effectively [13]. Women are made aware of construction as acareer opportunity later in life than men [23]. Fielden el al. [6], suggests that the way forward forwomen in construction is for companies to have more female recruiters at panel interviews,emphasize on management skills over technical skills in their job postings and have support sitesfor networking and mentoring for women.Recruitment and retention of female construction studentsAs mentioned previously
Paper ID #24820To Be or Not To Be: A Dialogic Discussion of Two Researchers’ Hidden andTransitioning IdentitiesDr. Stephen Secules, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Stephen is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue. He has a prior academic and professional background in engineering, having worked professionally as an acousti- cal engineer. His research focuses on equity and inclusion in undergraduate engineering education. He uses critical qualitative and ethnographic methodologies to investigate and improve engineering class- room culture. He is
develop courses, utilizing the making and doing from engineering andtechnology, the human and cultural interface of social sciences, and the business perspectives ofentrepreneurship. The project used a design-based research approach to create, test, and refine thecurriculum, alongside ethnographic methods to examine university change processes to establishthe model. Interviews were conducted with current students and alumni of the courses, faculty,and administrators of the colleges to gather insights. Midway through the three-year project, theexternal evaluator for the NSF project underscored the crucial value of having graduateresearchers from various colleges working on this project- highlighting their role in driving thetransformation
capabilities; that is, we must have a knowledge of Metaphysics. But this discipline can only be approached after the study of Physics; for the science of Physics borders on Metaphysics and must even precede it in the course of our studies, as is clear to all who are familiar with these questions” [20].Maimonides indicates that the knowledge passed on from God is meant for a more intelligentsociety than what he observed. This is also evident by his belief that parables were necessary forpromulgating divine wisdom. “[T]he Almighty, desiring to lead us to perfection and to improve our state of society, has revealed to us laws which are to regulate our actions. These laws, however, presuppose an advanced state of
influential from the perspectiveof students majoring in engineering and can help educators tailor future outreach programs totarget diverse groups of students more effectively and more broadly develop STEM interest.2. BackgroundWithin the U.S. over at least the past decade, there have been repeated calls for increased STEMeducation in the K-12 curriculum as a pathway for supporting development of creative andinnovative technology solutions [2]. Research conducted by Sheridan seems to support thesecalls, finding that critical thinking and analysis skills previously thought to be unreachable untilhigher education levels can be reached by kindergarteners [3]. Waltston found that harnessingthe interest of children as young as kindergarten allows for
first design. Following the construction of theirdesign using only paper, tape, and a penny or washer, they perform a drop test from a height ofone meter to compare their craft’s performance to that of a free-falling washer. After this test,they iteratively improve their design two times, performing a 1-meter drop test after eachimprovement. Following a 20-minute period of iterative design, development, and testing,students engage in a class discussion to compare their design solutions. Activity 3 (Field trip): At the science center, students engage in a visual thinkingstrategy [27] exercise where they observe an image of a city with a wildfire in the background(see [24] for a description of the activity). They discuss their observations
Teachers (NSF-ITEST) project is to develop, implement, andrefine a program for integrating engineering design practices with an emphasis on emergingtechnologies (i.e., making, DIY electronics) into home environments of families with a child ingrade 3-6 from under-resourced communities. This project has two components. Each family (1)defines a home- or community-based problem and creates a prototype to improve the lives of selfor others; and (2) engages in low-cost engineering design kits in their home environments. Thispaper presents findings from two years of interview data, as well video data collected in projectsessions and home environments from 21 families. Results are presented as highlights of findingfrom on-going analyses to address three