engagement in STEM education and careers.Amy Hurst, New York University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023The Impact of Participating in an Afterschool Professional Training Program on Youth Employees (RTP)1. IntroductionAfterschool STEM training programs for youth provide valuable opportunities to learn hands-on,real-world technical and social skills and develop STEM career interests [2,21]. However, manyyouths, especially in urban contexts, face financial pressures and may instead take afterschooljobs in non-technical fields such as food service or retail [5,30]. Paid out-of-schooltime (OST)professional training programs that can offer youth learning experiences while earning an
Generation Science Standards, Race to the Topand the addition of 100,000 New STEM educators etc. (Porter, 2015). Materials for studentlearning and engagement in STEM fields have been developed through private and governmentchannels such as Project Lead the Way, Engineering is Elementary, Engineering by Design,Probase and others to support the teachers with necessary understanding and skills to be able toteach engineering (Mativo & Park, 2012). On the other side, several charter or magnet schools areformed with rigorous, college-ready, STEM-focused curriculum while also preparing pupils forhigher level study and professional futures in STEM (Thomasian, 2011). Students at these schoolsare generally involved with hands-on projects in an informal
disciplines. How can we attract more students into engineering fields? Expose students toengineering early in their education. This paper focuses on “The Tour of Engineering” which isone class at a summer science program for rising 8 th and 9th graders at the South CarolinaGovernor’s School for Science and Mathematics. It describes the preparation, execution, studentperceptions, and learning outcomes for a week-long (30 hour) class. This class exposed studentsto the world of engineering by doing hands on activities and learn about different types ofengineering, improve problem solving and goal setting skills through team-building exercises,and self-assessments. The activities could be accomplished separately or progressively integratedinto a final
. They review the engineering design process and engage in problem-scoping and learn the criteria and constraints from the client letter. 2 Science Science Investigation: In this lesson, 5-PS1-3 students learn background information on magnets and magnetic materials. Students investigate different aspects of electromagnets that affect the strength of the electromagnet. They identify and select a variable to test in the following lesson.3 Science Science Investigation: In this lesson, 3
. Another goal of this paper is to promote these efforts to all interested faculty, to getfeedback, comments and suggestions to improve and optimize our enterprise. Modern powerengineering education requires that the student get the opportunity to apply as many of theconcepts presented in the theoretical and lecture portions of the course as allowable, and toacquire hands-on experience and receive training in practical aspects. Universities need and mustrespond to marketplace needs for engineers to design, plan, operate, and maintain power systemsusing leading-edge technologies. A particular attention must be given to the employers in thestate or immediate region. This aspect of the power engineering education should continue, withan added emphasis
requirements for engineering andcomputer science majors. All of this, however, was couched in the requirement that ourinformation technology requirement meets evolving ABET requirements. On the other hand,The Volgenau School’s Applied Computer Science major, although including stringentmathematics and computing requirements, has given little consideration to ABET at any point inthe design process.7. Retaining Students in the Major Page 12.1108.9Getting properly prepared high school graduates to select computer science or engineeringrelated majors is an important first step; however, much more must be done to retain themthrough graduation. Once on campus
University, Mankato. After receiving his Ph.D. from University of Minnesota in 2017, he works for the Iron Range Engineering, a project-based learning program. His teaching interests are in areas of materials science, structural analysis, finite element modeling and dynamic systems. His technical research focuses on multiscale modeling on mechanical behavior of nano and granular materials.Lauren Singelmann Lauren Singelmann earned her Ph.D. from North Dakota State University in Electrical and Computer Engineering and STEM Education in 2022. She is a faculty member for Iron Range Engineering through Minnesota State University, Mankato, and she supports instruction of Innovation-Based Learning courses at multiple institutions
two different sets of diversity competencies [4-5] thathave evolved separately. Briefly put, the authors have primarily concerned themselveswith helping science and technology students develop diversity skills, not just in responseto the stipulations of regulatory bodies like Technology Accreditation Commission of theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(TAC of ABET), but also from a deeply felt need to help students succeed in theincreasingly diverse workplace.It is important to point out that while the cultural and ethnic diversity of faculty, staff andstudents play a crucial role in the multicultural training of students, and while every stepmust be taken to increase underrepresented groups on campus, such diversity is also
acontemporaneous context. The Scientists for Tomorrow initiative was developed and is nowimplemented following this framework.Education in STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics - has receivedgrowing attention over the past decade, with calls both for greater emphasis on these fieldsand for improvements in curricula and instruction within and across them. Multiple reportsand research support the premises that improving STEM education can lead to a generation ofmore qualified personnel able to direct and propel the “nation’s innovative capacity.” [1]Despite the increased attention to STEM/STEAM in policy and funding arenas, there remainssome confusion about STEM/STEAM, its individual subjects, the combination of its subjects,and even what
existing course material and in-class activi- field and becoming a successful practitioner [1]. Below, theties. The research project will use two-sections of the same authors describe the activities which will be used in thecourse taught during the same semester with approximately course to integrate problem-solving into the curriculum200 students in each section. Nine hands-on activities, while teaching the programming course concepts requiredeach covering a fundamental programming concept, were for an introductory computer science class. The course iscreated to explain these concepts to students with a visual, taught with a high-level of active learning as is shown inreal-world component. Both sections will cover
is also ofimportance to note that nearly 20 percent of the respondents have never attended a single ASEEevent” [11].Also of note is the lawnmower exercise used by the US Naval Academy—a week-longimmersive exercise designed to build demonstrable technical skills in structures and materials,thermo-fluid sciences, and engineering design; with the corollary goal of promoting confidenceand kinesthetic learning in the students who were tasked with disassembling, reassembling, andanalyzing the operation of the familiar machine. The exercise brought in students from severaldifferent fields of study together to work toward this common goal. “Student feedback for thisexercise was exceptional. Some specific comments follow:Hands on applications that
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Paper ID #7654Implementation and Assessment of a Curricular Module on the History andPhilosophy of Reverse Engineering in Biological SystemsDr. Dominic M. Halsmer PE, Oral Roberts University Dr. Dominic M. Halsmer is former Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Oral Roberts University, and currently serves as the Director of the ORU Center for Faith and Learning. He has been teaching engineering courses there for 20 years, and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Oklahoma. He received B.S. and M.S. Degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University in 1985 and 1986
industry professionals that volunteer in the classroom. Her goal is to provide educators with the tools they need to deliver effective, hands-on STEM instruction in the classroom. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Selecting and Designing Assessment to Measure Early Engineering Curriculum Impact on Application of Engineering Design and Attitudes Toward STEM I. IntroductionSTEM education is vital to the future of our country, state, and children. In fact, the UnitedStates Department of Commerce has reported that Science, Technology, Engineering and Math(STEM) jobs are growing at a rate of 17%, while other occupations are growing at only 9.8%.Engaging
forsophomores through seniors, with some data on the characteristic measures of a student as theyenter college (SAT scores, GPA, skills in math and science) and demographics. These are large,extensive detailed studies that informed our work.The vast amount of data from the P2P study is used in a number of ways. Knight16 used clusteranalysis to group skills of senior mechanical and chemical engineers. The professional skillsidentified by the students as strengths were leadership, teamwork, communication and contextualawareness, demonstrating that our graduates are likely bringing these desired skills to their futurework, and our programs are accomplishing this. In a study that asked undergraduates their viewon excellence in engineering education17, the
development. Thesemodules were intended for formal use within upper division high school agricultural curriculum,following appropriate basic mathematics and science classes. Material from the vehicle balancemodule will be used to illustrate the curricular developments explored in this paper. This modulewas selected for highlighting and presentation within this paper as the most comprehensive andready for external review, as well as being the one which best illustrated the use of moderntechnology to solve a problem which has existed throughout the mechanization of agriculture.Figure 1 reveals college students in 1905 at Purdue checking their hand calculations of draft on ahitching system using a physical simulator [15]. High school students using this
Paper ID #31490An Initial Look into the Computer Science and Cybersecurity PathwaysProject for Career and Technical Education CurriculaDr. Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University Dr. Vukica Jovanovic is a Batten Fellow and an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology in Me- chanical Engineering Technology Program. She holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University in Mechanical Engineering Technology, focuses on Digital Manufacturing, Magistar (Ph.D. candidate) degree in Ind- sutrial Engineering and Management, focused on Production Systems Design, and dipl.ing. degree in Industrial Engineering focused on Mechatronics
following four factors. 1. Design and implement an inspiring approach to early engineering education. From the very beginning, illustrate real ECE problems whose solutions benefit society. Engage the students through hands-on projects in which their team solves these problems. This approach—which eschews “toy” problems or “recipe” projects—mmakes ECE significantly more relevant and exciting to the students and provides them with opportunities to understand how their work might impact the world. The projects make connections to the real world by addressing contemporary problems and the students discover the importance of ECE problems and the excitement of designing creative solutions. This approach benefits
Paper ID #27071Board 27: Using an Immersive Classroom Simulated Environment for Mathand Science Discourse Development in Pre-service TeachersDr. Ricky T Castles, East Carolina University Dr. Ricky Castles is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He is primarily affiliated with the ECU Electrical Engineering concentration. His research work focuses on the use of wireless sensor networks, microcontrollers, and physiological data collection for a variety of applications. His primary interest is in the area of adaptive tutorial systems, but he has ongoing projects in biomedical
, less than 5% of all adults employed in STEM are deaf [4]. The NationalScience Foundation [5] and National Academy of Engineering [6], [7] have started to encourageresearch initiatives in inclusion and diversification in undergraduate classes, especially inScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. The NSF and NAE havemade these research initiatives a priority because studies have shown that teams that are diverseare more effective at problem solving [8], making decisions [9], and ultimately have a greaterimpact on the quality of science produced [10]. As William Wulf, former President of theNational Academy of Engineering, eloquently stated: “… creativity does not spring fromnothing; it is grounded in our life experiences
—one was preparing to be a high school science teacher, while thesecond was an in-service math teacher. My lab is housed in the chemical engineering departmentat Tennessee Tech University and is very hands on science orientated. The central theme in mylab is fuel cells, promoting green energy—the topic easily lends itself to high school levelscience questions and demonstrations.The math teacher was given the challenge to make some portion of an existing fuel cell projectrelevant to her curriculum. Her project was focused on assessment of freezing phenomena inautomotive fuel cell applications. She worked very closely with an undergraduate student in mylab in analyzing the state and amount of water distributed within the active layers of a fuel
knowledge, and the nature of expert intuition in engineering design 12 .Taking a different perspective, Bucciarelli has explored the social process of engineering expertsas they collectively draw on their own design knowledge and experience in constructing a newengineering design 5 . Others have addressed the need to instruct students in the skills ofengineering design through the creation of exercises in problem solving 26 , mechanical building8, 34 , visualization in design 46 , or teamwork 5 . There is a growing trend to take advantage of multimedia curricular materials to enhancestudent learning in engineering. These materials include computer-based packages that mightcontain simulations, graphics, text, video clips, as well as
AC 2010-2414: THE ENGINEERING PROFESSOR OF 2020: THE FORGOTTENVARIABLELueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard Lueny Morell, M.S., P.E., is Program Manager in the Strategy and Innovation Office staff of Hewlett Packard Laboratories (HPL) in Palo Alto, California. She is responsible for facilitating external research collaborations for HPL and lead initiatives focused on R&D talent development, collaborating with external partners (government entities and other corporate labs) to pursue strategies and initiatives of benefit to the research community. In the past, she was in charge of developing engineering/science curriculum innovation initiatives worldwide in support of HPL research and technology
, Indianapolis, 2014. Available: https://www.asee.org/public/conferences/32/papers/8816/view10. G. S. Mason, T. R. Shuman, and K. E. Cook, “Comparing the Effectiveness of an Inverted Classroom to a Traditional Classroom in an Upper-Division Engineering Course,” IEEE transactions on Education, 56(4), 430-435, 2013.11. L. Zhiyu, “Exploring Electrical Engineering Curriculum Teaching Reformation Based on Blended Learning Mode,” The 8th International Conference on Computer Science & Education, Colombo, 1058-1062, 2013. doi: 10.1109/ICCSE.2013.655407012. R. H. Rockland, L. Hirsch, L. Burr-Alexander, G. D. Carpinelli and H. S. Kimmel “Learning outside the classroom – Flipping an Undergraduate Circuits Analysis Course,” 120th American
and assessing risk during the conceptual design phase. This riskidentification method was tested in the university’s mechanics of materials lab todetermine if it can successfully provide “engineering experience” from which thestudents can draw on to initiate their failure investigations and classifications. The stepsfor using RED to guide a failure analysis investigation, shown in Figure 3.2, are: (1)generate the functional model of the failed part, (2) select the relevant functions from thehistorical failure database, and (3) perform risk calculations. The results displayed on thefever chart and the related risk report present students with a ranking of failures thatoccurred in similar components. In the example in Figure 3.2, the fever
recommender systems.Dr. Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville Jeffrey L. Hieb is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at the Univer- sity of Louisville. He graduated from Furman University in 1992 with degrees in Computer Science and Philosophy. After 10 years working in industry, he returned to school, completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering at the University of Louisville’s Speed School of Engineering in 2008. Since com- pleting his degree, he has been teaching engineering mathematics courses and continuing his dissertation research in cyber security for industrial control systems. In his teaching, Dr. Hieb focuses on innovative and effective use of tablets
instructional materials, including a scoring system eval- uated for reliability, with over 400 schools from the U.S., Australia, Germany, and South Korea. Dr. Norback has studied communication and other basic skills in the workplace and developed curriculum over the past 30 years—first at Educational Testing Service; then as part of the Center for Skills Enhance- ment, Inc., which she founded, with clients including the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Skill Standards Board, and universities. Since arriving at Georgia Tech in 2000 her work has focused on oral communication for engineering students and engineers. Dr. Norback has published over 20 articles in the past decade alone, in the ASEE Annual Conference
and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University and Director of the Center for Research and Education in Advanced Transportation engineering Systems (CREATEs). Dr. Mehta has extensive experience in teaching constructon materials, pavement design, and transportaiton engineering. Dr. Mehta has published several technical and educational papers in leading professional organizations.Miss Shivani D Patel, New Jersey Department of Transportation American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Long-Term Impact of New Jersey National Summer Transportation Institute Hosted at Rowan University on Career Choices of Cohorts (Evaluation)Abstract
Paper ID #25864A Longitudinal Evaluation of an AP Type, Dual-Enrollment Introduction toEngineering Course: Examining Teacher Effect on Student Self-Efficacy andInterest in Engineering (Evaluation)Dr. Amy Annette Rogers, Delaware State University Dr. Amy Rogers has an earned Ph.D. in Social Psychology. Her current appointment is as Associate Professor and former Chairperson of the Department of Psychology at Delaware State University. She specializes in areas surrounding social justice. Her current application of social justice principals is in the area of the access/success of women/girls to science, technology
of students. Dr. Minces leads the team that designed the tools presented in this poster, which can be accessed for free at www.listeningtowaves.com/sound-exploration American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Developing and popularizing STEM online tools.The case of Listening to Waves’ tools for the science of music. Victor Hugo Minces, University of California, San Diego 1Abstract.Music is a source of joy and identity formation in all cultures and socio-economic strata, and itsconnections with science, technology, engineering, and math are numerous. One importantconnection is with the physics