Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She received her M.S. in Counselor Education, Student Affairs Administration from Radford University, and M.S. in Career and Technical Education and B.S. in Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise both from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.Christi Boone, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University C. L. BOONE is the Coordinator of Academic Support Services for the College Of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She received her M.A. & B.A. degrees in English from Radford University.Bevlee Watford, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University DR. BEVLEE A. WATFORD, P.E. is the
technical, social, economicand ethical issues. 3 This application of learning is not only a worthy learning objective in itself,but also an effective route to greater retention of knowledge and depth of mastery. This issupported by Caine 4 who wrote, “Children learn best if they are immersed in complexexperiences and are given the opportunity to actively process what they have learned.” Further,Stevenson and Stigler 5 pointed out that only 16 percent of instruction in U.S. classrooms couldbe characterized as application.Perhaps the most compelling research driving the need for application is that the majority ofstudents learn best when instruction emphasizes application, as Conrath reported in Our OtherYouth. 6 To assist students in achieving
novel curriculum based upon provenpedagogical approaches designed to engage the students and improve their mastery of concepts.This paper highlights two curriculum modules developed for a bioprocess engineering programas part of a larger curriculum improvement program.Project BackgroundIn 1999, the National Research Council published How People Learn: Mind, Brain, Experience,and School 2 as the summary of what we know from research about the first three words of thistitle. This document proposed four “centerednesses” that, taken together, optimize learning:knowledge-centeredness, student-centeredness, assessment-centeredness, and community-centeredness. When these four are in place, studies show that students increase both theircontent
Paper ID #19845Students’ Self-regulation in a Senior Capstone Design Context: A Compari-son Between Mechanical and Biological Engineering Design ProjectsAndreas Febrian, Utah State University, Engineering Education He received his bachelor and master degree in computer science (CS) from Universitas Indonesia, one of the top university in Indonesia. He was an active student who involved in various activities, such as research, teaching assistantship, and student organizations in the campus. He developed various CS skills through courses and research activities, especially in computer architecture, robotics, and web develop
Paper ID #20044The Use of Narrative in Undergraduate Engineering EducationDr. Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University Dr. Halada, Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at Stony Brook University, directs an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program in Engineering Science. He designs educational ma- terials focused on nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing, and how engineers learn from engineering disasters and how failure and risk analysis can be used to teach about ethics and societal implications of emerging technologies. Halada also coordinates the Long Island Alternative Energy Consortium, a
Paper ID #17842Quantifying and Assessing Trends on the National Science Foundation’s BroaderImpact CriterionDina Verd´ın, Purdue University Dina Verd´ın is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education and M.S. student in Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. She completed her undergraduate degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering at San Jos´e State University. Dina is a 2016 recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). Her research interest focuses on first-generation college students, specifically around changing deficit base paradigms by providing asset base perspectives for
Paper ID #30333Critical Incident Assessment as a Tool to Reflect on Student’s EmotionalResponse During International ExperiencesMr. Matthew Korey, Purdue University Matthew Korey received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Ohio State University (2011) where he studied the toxicity of various chemical compounds on hepatocytic cells. Matthew then joined the re- search groups of Dr. Jeffrey Youngblood and Dr. John Howarter at Purdue University in 2015 where he specialized in building a more robust understanding of sustainability in plastics through considering the full lifecycle of a product. For his work at Purdue
Paper ID #13115How Misconceptions Might be Repaired through Inquiry Based ActivitiesMs. Gina Cristina Adam, University of California, Santa Barbara Gina C. Adam is pursuing her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a M.A. in Teaching and Learning at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her main research interest is conceptual understanding in engi- neering education. Additionally, she helped as a graduate student researcher in two large scale engineering education projects, one related to developing a taxonomy for the field supervised by Dr. Cynthia Finelli at University of Michigan and one on pioneers in
Paper ID #13347A Qualitative Study of Motivation in Alaska Native Science & EngineeringProgram (ANSEP) Precollege StudentsMichele Yatchmeneff, Purdue University, West Lafayette I am Unangax/Aleut or Alaska Native born and raised in Alaska. I come from a line of Unangax fishermen and spent much of my childhood in the Aleutians subsistence living. I am currently pursing my PhD in Engineering Education at Purdue University. My current dissertation title is: A Qualitative Study of Mo- tivation in Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program (ANSEP) Precollege Students. Prior to starting at Purdue University, I was the
Paper ID #11490Project-based learning in a high school pre-engineering program: Findingson student achievement (RTP, Strand 3)Todd France, University of Colorado Boulder Todd France is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is part of the Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education Program and helps teach and develop curriculum at a high school STEM academy. His research focuses on pre-engineering education and project-based learning. Page 26.1265.1 c American Society for
Paper ID #11491Project-based learning in a high school pre-engineering program: Findingson student behavior (RTP, Strand 3)Todd France, University of Colorado, Boulder Todd France is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is part of the Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education Program and helps teach and develop curriculum at a high school STEM academy. His research focuses on pre-engineering education and project-based learning. Page 26.1266.1 c American Society for
Paper ID #12637Reaching Out to the Masses: Building Literacy About Engineering AmongstNon-Engineering StudentsJonathan Grunert, Virginia Tech Jonathan Grunert is a graduate student in Virginia Tech’s department of Science and Technology in Soci- ety, with backgrounds in history and library science. His broader interests are in the history of scientific representation. He has taught courses in American history, Science and Society, and Engineering Cultures.Dr. Peter Doolittle, Virginia Tech Peter Doolittle is currently the Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning, Executive Director of the Center for
Paper ID #12614Results & Lessons Learned from a Chemical Engineering Freshman DesignLaboratoryProf. Anthony Edward Butterfield, University of Utah Anthony Butterfield is an Assistant Professor (Lecturing) in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Utah. He received his B. S. and Ph. D. from the University of Utah and a M. S. from the University of California, San Diego. His teaching responsibilities include the senior unit operations laboratory and freshman design laboratory. His research interests focus on undergraduate education, targeted drug delivery, photobioreactor design, and
Paper ID #12371Student Perceptions on the Impact of Formative Peer Team Member Effec-tiveness Evaluation in an Introductory Design CourseProf. Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette Nathan Mentzer is an assistant professor in the College of Technology with a joint appointment in the College of Education at Purdue University. Hired as a part of the strategic P12 STEM initiative, he prepares Engineering/Technology candidates for teacher licensure. Dr. Mentzer’s educational efforts in pedagogical content knowledge are guided by a research theme centered in student learning of engineer- ing design thinking on the
Paper ID #14909Improving the Impact of Experiential Learning Activities through the Assess-ment of Student Learning StylesDr. Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and In- dustrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr
.Statistically significant differences were seen in confidence solving open-ended problems,confidence in personal/interpersonal skills, and overall confidence (p=0.032, p=0.001, p=0.000,respectively). Interestingly, there was not a statistically significant change from before to after inmath and science confidence, despite the technical nature of the student research experiences(p=0.314). All changes were in the positive direction indicating increased confidence from Pre toPost intervention, as overall confidence levels increased from a mean of 3.85 to 4.25 on a 5-pointscale. Table 3: Paired Two-Sample for Means T-Test, APPLES Confidence Confidence in Confidence in Confidence in
Paper ID #9763Examining the Transition To Engineering: A Multi-Case Study of Six DiverseSummer Bridge Program ParticipantsWalter C. Lee, Virginia Tech Walter Lee is a PhD candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where he also serves as a program assistant for the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity. His re- search interests include student retention, diversity, motivation, and first-year experiences in engineering. Mr. Lee received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in Spring 2012 focusing on how co-curricular support is used to impact the experiences of undergraduate
Paper ID #8516First-Year Engineering Team Responses to Feedback on Their MathematicalModels - A Video StudyOguz Hanoglu, Purdue University, West Lafayette Oguz Hanoglu is currently a graduate student at Purdue University in the School of Engineering Edu- cation. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey. He conducts research within the First-Year Engineering Program to help the development, implementation, and assessment of model- eliciting activities with authentic engineering contexts. He is also a
recognize and resolve ethical dilemmas. In a former paper we described the process of devel-oping and validating a scoring rubric [7] for assessing students. Here we provide additional dataon the testing of a sample of 120 students’ (freshman through graduate) ability to recognize andresolve ethical dilemmas.BackgroundUntil recently engineering educators focused primarily on providing students with technicalskills and gave little priority to developing skills for societal decision-making, or even makingstudents aware of the societal dimensions of engineering [8]. By 1999, only 27% of ABET ac-credited institutions listed an ethics-related course requirement [9], even though an increasingnumber of philosophers, engineers and ethicists were focusing
Page 6.246.2 Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationrequired forced the students to be active learners. Since they are working in groups of 3 to 5students, they are able to support each other, sharing their strengths and learning styles. Whenthese labs have been run in the past, a collaborative buzz fills the room. By requiring writtenreports for both labs, the students have to reflect on their tests and observations.The writing required is “expressive,” requiring students to think through the problems presented.According to Julie Sharp, “… engineering educators can use writing-to-learn assignments to helpstudents learn technical material,” (Sharp, 1997). The labs are designed to run in
decades.3. Institutional Views: Business & Government.The standard business model of the product life cycle is Introduction, Growth, Maturation,Saturation and Decline based on the supply and demand and the corporate return on theinvestment. 29 There are important technical PLC models within this industrial model such asProduct Lifecycle Management (PLM).30 which maintains the knowledge base for a product andis usually integrated in high-end Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems.Products have a birth, a life, and a death, and they are financed and marketed with this in mind.Product sales and profits start at a low level, then rise until market saturation occurs for theproduct type (and market share stabilizes for a particular product). This is
to the accident. Whenfirst implemented, students were tasked with developing a step-by-step procedure, keeping inmind that the police were the end user/customer. Although students were free to create acomputer program, the teams rarely did so. During the fall 2010 quarter, students wereinstructed to create an Excel file with a user’s manual to perform the analysis. The paper willdiscuss student surveys, comparison of exam performance, responses on reflection exercises, andperformance on the Dynamics Concept Inventory.Introduction to MEAsThe Accident Reconstruction MEA was implemented in a Dynamics course at the CaliforniaPolytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. While the class is offered through themechanical engineering department
AC 2011-1128: A FOLLOW UP STUDY ON BUILDING CONNECTIONSBETWEEN EXPERIMENT, THEORY, AND PHYSICAL INTUITION INTHERMAL SYSTEMSBrent A Nelson, Northern Arizona University Brent Nelson joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Northern Arizona Uni- versity as an Assistant Professor in 2008. His research interests are in biomaterials and biomolecular characterization, multidisciplinary collaboration, and design learning.Constantin Ciocanel, Northern Arizona University Dr. Constantin ”Cornel” Ciocanel is Assistant Professor in the Mechanical engineering department at Northern Arizona University. He received a Doctorate from ”Gh. Asachi” Technical University of lasi, Romania and a Ph.D. from the
Lebanon, Tennessee; for CDAI in Atlanta, Georgia and at UTC / Carrier in Lewisburg, Tennessee. Dr. Schmidt is a member of the ASEE and a licensed profes- sional engineer in Tennessee and Georgia. He is also a member of ASME, ASHRAE, ASA and INCE. Dr. Schmidt’s research interests include aeroacoustics and ultrasonics, and has authored several journal and conference papers on these subjects.Daniel Hoch, University of North Carolina, CharlotteNabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Nabila (Nan) BouSaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Nabila (Nan) BouSaba is a faculty asso- ciate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of North Carolina in Char- lotte. Nan Earned
continue bioinformatics laboratory development as a part of the educational component. Page 15.1023.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Reflections and Measures of STEM Teaching and Learning on K-12 Creative And Performing Arts StudentsAbstract Despite the fact that many students with interests in the creative and performing arts havethe potential to be successful in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), theyoften rule out pursuing careers in STEM. We argue that one reason for this is the broader societaldichotomy between creative and technical fields: students
Paper ID #44747How Can Managed Retreat Solutions be Just, Fair, Economical, andEnvironmentally Sustainable?Ms. Mari Dalton, University of Texas at Austin Mari Dalton is a senior at the University of Texas at Austin pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with a minor in Communication Studies. Mari’s academic research focuses on managed retreat as a transformative climate change adaptation strategy where they consider the interactions between environmental, economic, and social systems. Mari works as a Geotechnical Intern at ANS Geo where they assist is site investigations, utilize technical software programs
; Shulock, N. (2009). Technical difficulties: Meeting California’s workforce needs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Sacramento, CA: California State University–Sacramento, Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy.[3] Tyson, W., Lee, R., Borman, K. M., & Hanson, M. A. (2007). Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) pathways: High school science and math coursework and postsecondary degree attainment. Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 12(3), 243-270.[4] Xue, Y., & Larson, R. C. (2015). STEM crisis or STEM surplus? Yes and yes. Monthly Labor Review.[5] NGSS Lead States. (2013). Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By
years he has developed and taught first-year engineering courses at the University and actively worked with high school students and teachers to increase and enhance engineering content in K-12 education. This includes consulting on K-12 engineering curriculum development for the State of Michigan. In 2004 Mr. Oppliger was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Award for Service honoring this outreach work. He has presented papers at several national conferences on engineering education. Before coming to Michigan Tech, Mr. Oppliger taught math and science at the secondary level for 11 years. Before that, he worked for 5 years as a project engineer in the marine construction industry.Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological
challenges in transitioning to the world ofinnovation champions (entrepreneurs and “intrapreneurs”) such as: An engineering education is typically focused on technical depth rather than breadth in fields such as business practice, accounting and finance, operations management, etc. Additionally, the historical engineering curriculum has not included a substantial component of “soft skills” such as ethics, persuasive communications, written and oral presentations, team building, crisis management, and the other skills necessary to succeed as an entrepreneur, the value of which have been recognized by ABET and other organizations.iv, v An engineering education typically does not provide sufficient opportunity to lead teams
Paper ID #46365Engineering Inclusion: Understanding Faculty and Student ViewsDr. Shenghua Wu, University of South Alabama Dr. Shenghua Wu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Coastal, and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Alabama. His research areas include civil engineering materials characterization, pavement performance evaluation and modeling, design, and maintenance, multidisciplinary approach to address complex engineering issues, as well as STEM education. He holds multiple leadership roles, including the Director for Interdisciplinary Center for Sustainable Engineering (ICSE