input voltage. In our experiment, the PWM signal is created by a microcontroller. Fig. 1. Buck Chopper Circuit TopologyIII embedded solutions An embedded solution can be created using any number of microprocessors, microcontrollers, single-board computers,FPGAs, or DSP boards. Some of the more common solutions seen at the undergraduate level include the Raspberry Pi single-board computer, the BeagleBone Black microcontroller, or an Arduino microcontroller. We’ve found that a Raspberry Pi requiresa bit more familiarity with operating systems and languages like LINUX and Python. Our students were introduced to theArduino Uno in an early course and this effort sought to build on that native
from 2000 through 2008, where he taught courses in environmental engineering, water resources, and environmental security. Dr. Manous has been actively involved with the ”professional” aspects of the engineering profession for over 20 years particularly through his involvement with the American Society of Civil Engineers where he chaired the ASCE Committee on Professional Practice, Post-Hurricane Katrina Critical Infrastructure Guidance Task Force, and Paraprofessional Task Committee. He is also chair of the Executive Board of the National Institute for Engineering Ethics (NIEE).Mr. Jon D Nelson, Tetra Tech, Inc. Jon D. Nelson, P.E. is a senior vice president in the central region of the Engineering and Consulting
faculty of Color offers to departments. For example, respondents who reportedhigh impact more strongly agreed with statements that having adequate representation of facultyof Color increases departmental rigor, helps best serve student needs, is vital to the strength ofthe department, and improves the department’s overall quality. BLI(M) faculty, by far, had thehighest faculty of Color impact scores (M=0.491, SD=0.434). Asian and white faculty hadcomparatively lower scores (Asian faculty: M=0.025, SD=0.813; white faculty: M=0.005,SD=0.939). The difference between BLI(M) and white faculty was statistically significant(p=.098). Furthermore, the faculty of Color impact score had a small standard deviation (0.434)for BLI(M) faculty, relative to all
others toward a goal,respecting differences, and helping peers in STEM settings. Together, these different measuresshow that summer programs effectively build STEM identity, attitudes, self-efficacy, and 21st-century skills in students through informal learning programs.The GGEE research team is completing a thematic analysis of the interview transcripts fromparticipating students to supplement and provide additional context on the impacts of the summerprograms assessed through the surveys. The GGEE program is also tracking longitudinal data ofstudents to see their STEM course trajectory after the camp to see if the camp experience has anyimpact on their academic career towards STEM.6.0 AcknowledgementsThis work was conducted through funding
result of having direct work experience inprofessional engineering settings. In other words, having work experience made students’ imagesof work more specific, while at the same time shifting them from the hopeful to the mundane. Inaddition to direct work experience, the authors note that students can gain familiarity withprofessional engineering work through their coursework or from family members who areengineers. With a few exceptions, this hopeful-to-mundane pattern characterized thedevelopment of students’ images of work during the course of their education.In this prior work authors described the images of work of students while they were still incollege, leaving open the question of how those images evolve when students pass the
Paper ID #24789Dilemmas in Co-Curricular Support: A Theoretical and Pragmatic Discus-sion on Current Practice and Future ChallengesDr. 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
differences, shevalued his approach, as long as it solves the problem efficiently. She believed that he belonged incomputer engineering because he was knowledgeable about the courses in the curriculum andhighly interested in cybersecurity and other topics in the field. Other differences she discussedincluded students who were analytical and engaged in deep thinking, which she felt wasnecessary for their first-year engineering courses and physics.Mr. Rhee (student chosen pseudonym; electrical engineer) mentioned how his peers weredifferent from him because of their work ethic. He insisted that they had a “talent or knack forthe curriculum” which made them understand the material faster, due to their previousexperiences. He also described how the
above 40% over the last 15-plus years [13]. Many universities across the U.S. have taken active steps to improve faculty diversity andthe advancement of women and faculty of color. The National Science Foundation (NSF) hasplayed an important role in this regard through its NSF ADVANCE Program. This is a fundingprogram aimed at understanding and addressing gender-based inequities – and their interactionswith race/ethnicity – in academic STEM fields. The University of X (UX) has received two NSFADVANCE grants. The first is a smaller PAID grant to develop workshops and resources onfaculty recruitment and on formal mentoring for engineering and the natural sciences at UX.4The second is an ADVANCE Institutional Transformation (IT) grant. This
faculty teaching classes at RIT.Focus Group Observations Overall, RIT provides a very good environment in which to work, and the environment has improved over time, in part due to administrative initiatives. Contribution of women faculty is devalued. Work-life balance is either a challenge or strength (variable across campus, and strongly dependent on college/department). Women seem to lack the ability to negotiate/advocate for resources. Initial male student perception of women faculty is poor (i.e., women faculty must prove themselves).A number of studies published in the literature have resulted in similar lists of barriers that arefaced by women in the STEM fields and reasons why women may leave these jobs. These reportthat women in
university.For example, Steven points to his advisor as having a good balance between his faculty positionand life for an “R1” school, and that he just couldn’t see himself writing grants all the time.Samantha and Christopher had a similar hesitation about pursuing grants, and wanting to be ableto focus on teaching.On the other hand, even if these participants realized they didn’t want their advisor’s type offaculty position, their advisor still often played a critical role in supporting their graduatestudents to achieve their goal pursuing a position that focuses on teaching. In Steven’s andValerie’s cases, their advisors encouraged them to take courses on college teaching. In Obie’s,Samantha’s, and Christopher’s cases, their advisors afforded them the
technological literacy of anexpanding portion of the population, and improve the skills of the workforce [4, 5].For the past two decades, we have worked to design educational experiences that reach allchildren, particularly those who are currently underserved or underrepresented. We have studiedthe literature, developed inclusive design principles that guide our work [6, 7], and workedcollaboratively with educators who regularly teach students from underrepresented populationsas we designed curricular resources. The Engineering is Elementary (EiE) curriculum is designedto introduce students to engineering concepts and practices. Each of the 20 units focuses on afield of engineering (e.g., chemical, biomedical, industrial); introduces students to an age
AC 2012-3970: 3RS FOR ENGINEERING SCHOLARS: RESPONSIBILI-TIES, REPERCUSSIONS, AND REMEDIES ASSOCIATED WITH PRO-FESSIONAL PLAGIARISMMs. Susan H. Sarapin M.A., Purdue University Susan Sarapin is a doctoral candidate in Purdue University’s Brian Lamb School of Communication Divi- sion of Media, Technology, and Society. She studies the effects of TV viewing on the public’s perceptions of and attitudes toward crime, criminals, and the justice system. This extends to the exploration of persua- sion in the courtroom and the lay public’s understanding of scientific concepts, statistics, and techniques. Sarapin intends to combine teaching, research, mentoring undergraduate and graduate research, and con- sulting
create a computer model of their bridge and performan analysis of their design with the assistance of engineering students from the American Societyof Civil Engineers Student Chapter. A maximum of 30 teams were allowed to participate in thecompetition. In addition to the standard load test (30 pts), each team was also judged on meetingspecifications (20 pts), load/weight ratio (20 pts), project report (15 pts), and aesthetics (15 pts). The competition followed the same format through the 2017 competition. Quite frankly,the competition had grown stale and needed improvements. There were several areas ofimprovement needed with the existing format. 1. Some of the bridges were holding more than 100 lbs, which exceeded the capacity the
criteria wouldbe returned without review10. This amendment to the proposal granting process emphasized NSF’scommitment to funding projects that connect science and engineering to society, via broaderimpacts.In 2010, the America COMPETES Act11 reauthorized the National Science Foundation, mandatingthe retention of the Broader Impact criterion, and requested that NSF issue a report to Congressregarding the effects of this criterion. One of the requirements requested in the report by Congresswas to provide evaluations performed by the Foundation to assess the degree to which the Broader Impact aspects of research proposals were carried out and how effective they have been at meeting the goals described in the research proposals
. Page 12.428.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Cultural models of the admissions process in engineering: Views on the role of genderAt the University of West State (UWest), a flagship, state university on the westcoast of the United States, students generally apply to the engineering collegeafter they have finished 2 years of prerequisite courses. Admission to the collegeis highly competitive, and although the college regularly offers informationalsessions about the application process, our analysis shows that the processremains occluded to students. The mystery surrounding the process makesnavigation of the process difficult, so we find students attempting to construct anunderstanding of the process by
courses do students talk about when they discuss their entrance to majorexperiences?) In contrast, thematic analysis is more equipped to answer ‘why’ or ‘how’ questions(e.g., Why do students discuss passing courses differently? Or How do students’ experiences inintroductory engineering courses influence students’ career intentions?) Thematic analysis shouldidentify explicit and implicit ideas within data to develop themes that then provide answers to theresearch questions [24]. Explicit ideas are straightforward expressions repeated within the data.Implicit ideas require digging into the meaning behind the words to identify unspoken truths thatappear in subtle ways in the data. Coding contributes to systematically identifying these ideas thatcan
teaching in engineering courses are incompatible withengineering students’ learning style preferences [18]. In addition, little research has includedacademic faculty and practicing engineers as two distinct groups. Commonly these groups arecombined and defined as professionals. In order to better integrate ill-structured problems within the curriculum, the approach tothese problems associated with a person’s learning style should be examined, as well as thedifferentiation between learning styles among participant (faculty, student, practicing engineers)groups. This is important as differences between groups can be the result of significant externalfactors as well as influence educational instruction. The goal of this study is to explore
undergraduate engineering courses and a graduate course on entrepreneurship, she also enjoys teaching qualitative research methods in engineering education in the Engineering Education Systems and Design PhD program at ASU. She is deputy editor of the Journal of Engineering Education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Conceptualization and Situating of Sense of Belonging Among International Engineering Doctoral Students: In Light of the Previous LiteratureIntroductionThis work aims to conceptualize and situate the concept of ‘sense of belonging’ amonginternational engineering doctoral students. This conceptual paper
allowsstudents from both Florida A & M University (FAMU) and the Florida State University (FSU) toattend a single, joint college located in Tallahassee, Florida. This COE is dedicated to botheducation and research across multiple engineering areas, allowing students and faculty theopportunity to engage in innovative research skills. The COE Library is a tight space confined intwo rooms within the COE building itself, managed by librarians and staff from FSU Libraries,while employing student assistants from both institutions. This case study explores how FSU’sCOE Librarians have used this distinctive opportunity to create a model of embeddedlibrarianship in both relationships and improve outreach to make an impact on the lives of thefaculty, staff
become an engineer. According to EWEP, ability is not the issue on the part of girlsand young women. Previous studies have found that girls, on average, are just as or more likelyas boys to have taken the high school science and math courses (biology, chemistry, physics, andadvanced algebra) necessary to enter engineering school.Curiously enough, Puerto Rico is the one location in the Western world where a very rigorous 5-year engineering school, the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, UPRM, attracts roughly40% to any engineering area and significantly more females than males to Industrial Engineering(IE) in particular. While attrition and retention issues continue to be similar to those in otherparts of the United States, the University of
intensive advisement. The ASU plan followsthe recipe for success determined by others in the recent report: “A Matter of Degrees: PromisingPractices for Community College Student Success”.1 The same practices which work well at theCC work well for the transfer student, especially in their first year of transfer. According to thereport the fundamentals of a good success program include the following: a strong start; clear,coherent pathways; integrated support; high expectations and high support; intensive studentengagement; design for scale; and professional development.1A requirement of the NSF scholarships is that the students attend a one-semester creditAcademic Success Class each semester. The course content changes each semester
thinking about its future needs for life-long learning, and whatacademia should do about it represents intention by academia to emphasize a “marketpull” course of action with industry as customer. The academic institution desires to be ofgreat help to local and regional industry by teaching students skills of immediate andtangible use by industry. Industry prospers, economies are fortified, academia hasfulfilled its role, and America is strengthened. The antithetical method is often negativelyviewed as too “theoretical” or ivory tower in approach.While useful to some degree, the “market pull” approach is necessarily reactionary,shortsighted, and works not to strengthen America’s economy but to weaken it. Anacademic “market pull” approach
outside educational environments (Casanova et al., 2021; Moran,Catalano, and Martinez, 2024). Another article investigates the role of language policies inelementary schools and their effects on the educational experiences of diasporic Indigenousstudents (Campbell-Montalvo, 2021). All studies underscore the significance of maintaining anIndigenous identity on students' educational experiences and outcomes, stressing the vital role ofsupportive teachers and community programs. Overall, these studies shed light on the uniquechallenges and strengths of diasporic Indigenous students in K-12 education, emphasizing the needfor more nuanced literature. In addition, these students are mainly focused on Mexican Indigenousand Guatemalan Indigenous students
approach [2]. Thismistreatment of variability extends to engineering, with an example from interface designproviding an illuminating example.In the 1940s the US Air Force had serious issues transitioning their fleet to jet fighters. At theheight of this calamity 17 pilots crashed in a single day [3]. While the Air Force initially blamedindividual pilots and instructors, the researcher Gilbert Daniels investigated the aircrafts’ humaninterfaces. The standard at the time was to design for “the average man,” with non-adjustablecontrols assuming fixed human dimensions. Daniels studied the measurements of 4063 pilots,and found that precisely zero were average [4]. The solution to this design error was dramatic:The Air Force effectively “banned” the
planning course goalsmight continue to consider the value of adding new course competencies for technologyinnovators [48] like ‘communicate effectively about career dreams’ and ‘develop abilities toanalyze and enjoy emotional experience.” Do modern students equate a high need to performwith innovative endeavors?Revealing stories indicate gender alliance: Participants show gender alliance in the way theyanswer the prompt, each gender projects themselves onto their storytelling counterpart withimages of motivation. Interestingly, writing a story through the perspective of the gender thatyou identify with increases the amount of affiliation themes.Affiliation responses in general suggest respondents need to be relatable and care about
suggests that several pre-college (e.g., extracurricular activities, service/volunteerroles and social experiences) and early college experiences (e.g., academic courses, part-timeemployment) play a critical role in shaping students’ ethical perspectives. We more specificallypresent our findings organized around eight types of experiences and influences, which are inturn related to three categories of learned outcomes and three types of learning mechanisms. Aswe discuss in more detail below, the results of this study will likely be of interest to engineeringeducators, policymakers, and researchers with an interest in administering and studying high-impact ethics interventions for undergraduate engineering students. More specifically, our
,” in Nonconventional and Vernacular Construction Materials, 2nd ed., K. Harries and B. Sharma, Eds. Woodhead, 2020.[13] N. Ospina Uribe, P. C. Silva Díaz, A. I. Santiago Román, and C. Papadopoulos, “Building Effective Community Resilience through Active Participation,” in Annual Conference and Exposition of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2019.[14] M. Favretti, Futurephobia: Teaching for Power and Life. To appear: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2022.[15] A. Mathie and G. Cunningham, Eds., From Clients to Citizens: Communities Changing the Course of Their Own Development. Practical Action Pub., 2008.[16] P. C. Silva Díaz, N. Ospina Uribe, C. Papadopoulos, M. Castro Sitiriche, and L. Seijo Maldonado
Paper ID #32384Examining the STEM Institution and Imagining the Beginnings of aRevolutionary Praxis Through the Queer PerspectiveMadeleine Jennings, Arizona State University Madeleine Jennings is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant at Arizona State University - Polytechnic Campus, pursuing a PhD in Engineering Education Systems and Design and a MS in Human Systems Engineering. They received a BS in Manufacturing Engineering from Texas State University - San Marcos. Madeleine’s research interests include investigating and improving the experiences of marginalized and invisible identities in engineering, such as
. Racialmicroaggressions are brief, everyday exchanges that derogate individuals for their membershipin a particular racial category, a phenomenon originally conceptualized Chester Pierce, whoseAfrican American psychiatric patients reported demeaning interactions with White people thatseemed to have cumulative, negative effects (Pierce, 1975). They may be verbal, non-verbal, orenvironmental (Nadal et al., 2013), and often, they are subtle and ambiguous, and have negativeeffects. Illustrating several examples of racial microaggressions in engineering and computingcontexts does not require a thorough review of research. Examples may include students of colorRunning Head: RACIALIZED ISOLATING INTERACTIONS
good impression of what an engineer truly is.The art of engineering involves skills such as design, estimation, analysis, synthesis, andvisualization. The best way to learn the art of engineering is by doing engineering. This can beaccomplished by using plenty of hands-on activities. In fact, the most successful outreachprograms use mainly a hands-on approach1, 6, 7. Moreover, these programs have successfullyrecruited and retained women and minorities, as well as improved their attitude toward math andsciencee.g., 6, 7, 8.A very effective type of hands-on project has been labeled as a “Design, Build, and Test (DBT)Project.” DBT projects have been effectively used as an engineering and science tool for morethan 15 years. The original idea arose