pathways, which due tosystemic racism also have historically privileged those communities with access to the resourcesto support early STEM exposure and learning (Calabrese Barton & Tan, 2018). Other similaritiesbetween STEM and sports include the shared emphasis on skill development, hours of individualpractice to achieve mastery, failure, observing and correcting performance issues, andperseverance to meet goals (Pallis & McNitt-Gray, 2013). Throughout history, women of color—including many influential African Americanwomen—have defied racial and gender inequalities to succeed in STEM. African Americanwomen such as Katherine Johnson, who performed the NASA calculations required for severalspace missions including the 1969 moon
experiential learning, and approaches for teaching and assessing systems thinking skills. Kirsten holds a B.S. in Engineering & Management from Clarkson University and an M.A.Ed. in Higher Education, M.S. in Systems Engineering, and Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Virginia Tech.Lori CzerwionkaElisa Camps TroncosoFrancisco J Montalvo © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com A Comparison of Two Scenario-Based Assessments of Systems ThinkingAbstractEngineers face complex and multidisciplinary problems in the modern work environment. Tounderstand and solve these complex problems
at the beginning of the program. Throughout the program, 11undergraduate students formally withdrew due to various reasons. The program ended with 62undergraduate students.Research MethodologyData were obtained through voluntary surveys of 2022 – 2023 GradTrack mentors and menteesplus a focus group of mentors.Links to online surveys were sent to the entire participant population, with different surveysdedicated to mentors or mentees. Surveys were administered to both mentors and mentees at thebeginning of the GradTrack program (pre-event) and at the end of the GradTrack program (post-event). The surveys were anonymous, and responses made voluntary. Survey questions wereaimed at learning how GradTrack might impact students. The surveys had
. Hacker is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Educational Psychology and participates in both the Learning Sciences Program and the Reading and Literacy Program. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Rubric development for technical reports in chemical engineering unit operations laboratory coursesAbstractThe purpose of this work was to test the inter-rater reliability (IRR) of a rubric used to gradetechnical reports in a senior-level chemical engineering laboratory course that has multipleinstructors that grade deliverables. The rubric consisted of fifteen constructs that providedstudents detailed guidance on instructor expectations with respect to the report sections
. Beyond that, there is a broad umbrella of the fast evolving “Science of Team Science”(SciTS) [5], and at the other side, the expanding field “Game-based learning” (GBL) with the useof games (digital and non-digital), particularly in engineering education [6], [7], using simplifiedrealistic situations [8], [9] or digital simulations [10]. Some limited experience has been reportedat ASEE Conferences on the intersection of team building games [11]- [21].Though the requirement for developing teamwork skills in the engineering curriculum is wellestablished, in view of the demands from industry, very little formal teaching is devoted toproviding content on team essentials, best practices for improved performance, members’ rolesand behaviors, and team
manufacturing to encourage student learning and use of these concepts in engineering design. More about Rohan’s work is available at prabhurohan.com.Dr. Elizabeth Marie Starkey, Pennsylvania State University Elizabeth Starkey is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Penn State. Her research focuses on creativity during the design process and building tools to facilitate learning and creativity in engineering design education.Dr. Mohammad Alsager Alzayed, Kuwait University Mohammad Alsager Alzayed is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Management Systems Engineer- ing at Kuwait University. He received his PhD in Industrial Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in August 2020.. He received his M.S. in Industrial
(particularly women), online learning, educational data mining, and the modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Bioengineering and graduate degrees in Industrial Engineering, all from Arizona State University.Prof. Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University Bianca L. Bernstein, Ph.D. is Professor of Counseling and Counseling Psychology in the College of In- tegrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. Dr. Bernstein guides the CareerWISE research program, supported by the National Science Foundation since 2006. Her over 250 publications and pre- sentations and over $4 M in external support have focused on the application of psychological science to the career advancement
picture of existing diversity in engineering.This paper is intended to continue to fill the gap surrounding diversity of sexuality by discussinglessons learned from the author’s recent dissertation work focused on the experiences of tenuretrack engineering faculty who identify as sexual minorities. Those lessons include overlapdiscovered between the experiences of faculty who identify as women and faculty of all genderswho identify as sexual minorities. The intended outcome of this paper is to encourage thoughtfuldiscussions with deans and other diversity allies regarding how to expand the EDC DiversityInitiative beyond its gendered and racial/ethnic lenses to incorporate additional identities held byengineering faculty members, students, and
novice software designers. J Res Comput Educ. 2001;33(3):235 – 250.20. Scott JB. The Practice of Usability: Teaching User Engagement Through Service-Learning. Tech Commun Q. 2008;17(4):381–412. doi:10.1080/10572250802324929.21. Mohedas I, Daly SR, Sienko KH. Requirements development: approaches and behaviors of novice designers. J Mech Des. 2015.22. Mohedas I, Daly SR, Sienko KH. Design Ethnography in Capstone Design: Investigating Student Use and Perceptions. Int J Eng Educ. 2014;30(4):888–900.23. Creswell JW. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. 4th ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications; 2013.24. Mohedas I, Daly SR, Sienko KH. Gathering and Synthesizing Information During
future scientificand technical workers.The National Science Foundation reports the number of degrees in the physical andmathematical sciences peaked in the early 1970s, degrees in engineering and computer sciencepeaked in the mid-1980s, and trends in the biological sciences showed a long, slow decline inearned degrees in the 1980s but a reversal of this trend in the 1990s.7 There is evidence tosuggest that underrepresented groups in science and engineering, particularly women, areattracted to careers where they feel that they can have a positive impact on society.Educational experiences in sustainability, with their focus on societal impact andinterconnectedness, should have a broad appeal, especially to young women. Working towardssolving
. remembering and represent the lowest level of understanding. 3. Application The ability to use learned material in new and concrete apply; calculate; situations. This may include the application of rules, chart; compute; methods, concepts, principles, laws, and theories. determine; Learning outcomes in this area require a higher level of demonstrate; understanding than those under comprehension. implement; relate; report; solve; use. 4. Analysis The ability to break down material into its component analyze
College of Engineer- ing’s K-12 outreach programs, and the college’s summer programs. Specking is actively involved in the Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management divisions and is the current Chair-elect of the ASEE Diversity Committee. Specking received a B.S. in Computer Engineering and a M.S. in Industrial Engi- neering from the University of Arkansas and is currently working on a PhD in Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Transforming Outreach Education: Implementing Industrial Engineering Classroom Activities as Outreach ProjectsAbstractOutreach is vital to increasing pre-college interest in
and experiments in fluidmechanics, they generally do not possess the capabilities to perform hydrodynamic testing. Thispaper will present the work by the authors to develop a water flume that would allowhydrodynamic testing at velocities up to 2.0 m/s. The flume was constructed by anundergraduate and at a cost lower than commonly available commercial units. Both thefabrication process and the potential experiments that the flume could house are designed toimprove student learning in the area of fluid mechanics. The design is developed to be relativelycompact, with a 7’x3.5’ footprint and utilizes a commonly available single-stage centrifugalpump. Flow velocities in the test section can be varied passively by changing the insertcontaining the
). Breadth in problem scoping: A comparison of freshman and senior engineering students. International Journal of Engineering Education, 24(2), 234.[10] Leppavirta, J., Kettunen, H., & Sihvola, A. (2010). Complex problem exercises in developing engineering students' conceptual and procedural knowledge of electromagnetics. IEEE Transactions on Education, 54(1), 63-66.[11] Kothiyal, A., Rajendran, B., & Murthy, S. (2015, April). Delayed Guidance: A teaching- learning strategy to develop ill-structured problem solving skills in engineering. In 2015 International Conference on Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering (pp. 164-171). IEEE.[12] Riis, J. O., Achenbach, M., Israelsen, P., Kyvsgaard Hansen
students who work in partnership withchemical engineering researchers in an effort to create a distributed online network of air qualitysensors.Middle and high school students were trained by undergraduate mentors to monitor and maintaintheir own outdoor air quality sensor with the help of teaching materials that were co-developedwith Breathe Utah, a local community group concerned with air quality. With the help of thesetailored teaching modules, students learned about the science behind air quality research and thedifficulties common to physical measurements to better prepare them to analyze their data. Oncetrained, students are expected to become semi-independent researchers in charge of monitoringand maintaining their piece of a larger air
. Given this, some responsibilityis clearly borne for these impacts, too. It is then apparent that ethics training that omitsconsideration of the social and ethical effects of science and technology on broader society isproblematically incomplete.4 As the NAE has helpfully highlighted recently, an expanded perspective has begun totake shape in many innovative undergraduate engineering ethics courses.5 Yet – perhaps due tothe lack of accreditation and the diversity of degree programs – few such broadening effortsseem to be found in graduate ethics training. Those that do exist tend to focus on particular setsof issues in specific disciplines (for example, issues of privacy in computer security), which arelaudable but not widely transferable
experience in biotech, defense, and medical device testing at large companies and start-ups. Aileen’s current research areas include en- trepreneurship engineering education, impact and engaged learning. Aileen has a Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, a Doctorate of Philosophy from The Johns Hop- kins University School of Medicine, and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Aileen is also a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Sigma Gamma.Prof. Colleen M. Seifert, University of Michigan Colleen M. Seifert is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in
Science Foundation.References[1] National Research Council of the National Academies, "Exploring the Intersection of Science Education and 21st Century Skills: A Workshop Summary," The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2010.[2] J. T. Nelson, A. R. Murphy, J. S. Linsey, M. R. Bohm and R. L. Nagel, "A Function-Based Scoring Method for Evaluating Student Mental Models of Systems," in Proceedings of the ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Quebec City, 2018.[3] A. Gogus and N. G. Gogus, "Evaluation of Mental Models (EMM) in Mathematics Domain," in International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age, 2009.[4] R
University Distinguished Faculty Award and 2013-2014 Gannon University Faculty Award for Excellence in Service-Learning. Dr. Vernaza does research in engineering education and high-strain deformation of materials. She is currently the PI of an NSF S-STEM.Dr. Christina Keenan Remucal, University of Wisconsin-Madison Associate Professor Christy Remucal (n´ee Christina Ren´ee Keenan) leads the Aquatic Chemistry group at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is a faculty member in the Department of Civil & Environ- mental Engineering, the Environmental Chemistry & Technology Program, and the Limnology & Marine Science Program. She holds an MS (2004) and a PhD (2009) in Civil & Environmental Engineering from
observed wasunaffected by gender of the students or the teaching subject of advisors. Continual assessment,and improvement of assessment instruments, is vital as project-based learning continues to be afocal point for teaching about energy, and as organizers plan how to best shape future events toimprove energy literacy of our current and future decision-makers.IntroductionEnergy literacy encompasses knowledge of energy principles in technical, social, and economicrealms, as well as the ability to critically apply that knowledge to solve problems and formopinions. Collective advancement of energy literacy among the general population is thought tobe instrumental in implementing sustainable energy solutions in the near future. Langfitt et al
. The average of thestudent responses for each survey question was computed and is shown in Table 8. Studentsseem to be confident that they will do well in math if they exert enough effort. Moreover, theyperceive supportive relationships with other students, faculty, and student support staff. BecauseMath Jam is held in the Learning Center where tutoring and support service programs areoffered, students become familiar with the environment and services offered.Academic and social integration as articulated by Tinto’s model of college studentpersistence/withdrawal strongly influences the retention of students. It is often assumed that atcommunity colleges, both academic and social integration are more difficult to achieve becauseof students lack
).Dr. Steve Chenoweth, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Steve Chenoweth is associate professor of computer science and software engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. There, he has participated in launching bachelors and masters level software engineering programs, and a minor in robotics. His prior experience included teaching and assessing systems at Bell Laboratories, as well as teaching and designing software at NCR Corp. He brought from industry the alternative perspective of how training programs are assessed for effectiveness there.Dr. Kay C Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Kay C Dee received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering
Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the Director for the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering, and serves as a Center Associate for the Learning Research and Development Center. Her principal research is in engineering education assessment, which has been funded by the NSF, Department of Ed, Sloan, EIF, and NCIIA. Dr. Sacre’s current research focuses on three distinct but highly correlated areas – innovative design and entrepreneurship, engineering modeling, and global competency in engineering. She is currently associate editor for the AEE Journal.Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University Dr. Carpenter is founding Dean of Engineering at Campbell University. She is
of understandingfundamental statics and dynamics concepts covered in lecture and in the textbook.3The paper summarizes in proper chronological order the essence of 6 very different lab projectswhich focus on shop skills (2 labs with 2 weeks/lab), statics (2 labs with 2 weeks/lab), anddynamics (2 labs with 3 weeks/lab). For each project, a SolidWorks® CAD (computer-aided-design) model was required and students were expected to procure their own components, oftencleverly scrounging zero-cost raw materials on their own. They were also introduced to a newquality control term: “fancy dorm room quality,” as the use of advanced manufacturingprocesses (at least by undergraduate standards) such as machining were not required. For eachlab project, the
Paper ID #6286Insights into the Process of Building a Presentation Scoring System for Engi-neersDr. Tristan T. Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Tristan T. Utschig is a Senior Academic Professional in the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning and is Assistant Director for the Scholarship and Assessment of Teaching and Learning at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Formerly, he was a tenured Associate Professor of Engineering Physics at Lewis-Clark State College. Dr. Utschig has regularly published and presented work on a variety of topics including assessment instruments and methodologies
an important factor in developinga competent and highly skilled workforce. As noted in a recent National Academy ofEngineering report [10] focused on the emerging U.S. manufacturing market. The reportnotes: “Manufacturing is changing in ways that may favor American ingenuity. Rapidlyadvancing technologies in areas such as biomanufacturing, robotics, smart sensors, cloud-based computing, and nanotechnology have transformed not only the factory floor but alsothe way products are invented and designed, putting a premium on continual innovation andhighly skilled workers. …. Future manufacturing will involve a global supply web, but theUnited States has a potentially great advantage because of our tight connections amonginnovation, design, and
. (aerospace in the classroom)http://www.nationalacademies.org/sputnik/bybee4.htm10. Osborne, L. J. 2007. Thinking, speaking, and writing for freshmen. 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. 112 – 116. (communication issues)11. Pandergrass, N. A. et al. 1999. Improving first-year engineering education. 29thASEE/IEE Frontiers in Education Conference. 13c2-6 – 13c2-10 (first year reform)12. Parettie, Marie and Macnair, Lisa. 2008. Introduction to the special issue on communication in engineering curricula: Mapping the Landscape. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications, 51 (3) Sept 2008: 238 – 241 and following materials. (communication issues)13. Pather, Edward E. 2009. Teaching and learning
) is a program for at risk students. Community volunteers, PSBstudent tutors and PSB staff work together to provide opportunities for middle and high schoolstudents to improve academic and leadership skills. PLASTCar is a unique, interdisciplinary, Page 15.1294.3semester long program for sixth graders. A course in the Plastics Engineering Technologyprogram partners with courses in Business and Psychology to work with sixth graders to designand build small Matchbox® race cars. They work through the entire design process includingconcepts, computer modeling, prototyping, wind tunnel testing, final production and ultimatelythe races. Many other
. The intent is to supportincreased attention to and wide application for engineering and technology institutions in theirquest to advance technological innovation and economic development. Page 23.28.2Introduction & Background Contemporary pressures1 on universities in the USA, and perhaps the world, areengendering extensive rethinking of their missions and activities to these ends. Generally thetradition tripartite missions of learning/teaching, research/discovery, and engagement/serviceremain but what changes is a more strategic deployment of resources and activities towards theeffort in each of these missions. Within the
isdeveloped influences the identity development. Carlone and Johnson’s theoretical frameworkcan be applied to engineering identity development. In this case, we focus on the culturalcontext in which the identity develops, namely the MSI campus.Researchers have conducted studies on identity development of engineering students,specifically. They found that three factors influence the development of an engineering identity,(1) how engineering is understood as a science, (2) the rules that govern the behavior of anengineer, and (3) the environmental setting of the institution in which one learns to become anengineer28, 29. It is this latter factor that we have examined in this study. Taken together, theimportance of studying the development of an