-Champaign. He creates and researches new opportunities for accessible and inclusive equitable education.Prof. Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dr. Yuting W. Chen received the B.S. degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2007, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2009 and 2011, all in Electrical Engineering. She is currently a Teaching Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of Women in Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her current interests include recruitment and retention of under-served students in STEM, leadership development for undergraduate and graduate students, and curriculum
Paper ID #32147Correlating Mechanics of Materials Student Performance with Scores of aTest over Prerequisite MaterialDr. Nicholas Alan Smith, Wichita State University Nick Smith is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Wichita State University.Dr. Roy Y. Myose, Wichita State University Roy Myose is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Wichita State University.Prof. Syed J Raza, Wichita State University Retired Air Force Air Vice Marshal. Masters in Aerospace Engineering from Air Force Institute of Tech- nology, Dec 1980. Joined faculty of the department of Aerospace Engineering at Wichita State University in
Paper ID #40816Alternative Modality of Delivery for the Exponential and LogarithmicFunctionsMr. Daniel Blessner, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus I’m a faculty member at the Penn State Wilkes Barre campus. I’m a civil and chemical engineer. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Alternative Modality of Delivery for the Exponential and Logarithmic FunctionsMaking engineering education more understandable to students can be difficult dueto the demanding mathematical requirements that the major requires. One specificarea of great difficulty for students is understanding the exponential
process.Having well-written learning objectives also helps the teachers to align the assessment tools andteaching methodologies with the topics of the courses [1]. These learning objectives shouldfollow Bloom’s Taxonomy, which defines a hierarchy of six levels in the cognitive domainwhere the objectives focus on recognizing knowledge and developing intellectual skills [2, 3].The author of [4] presents a study about the students’ motivation and how it can influence onlearning outcomes of the courses. Having a good environment, engaged and motivated studentsand positive relations between the teachers and students helps them to achieve learning outcomesmore easily and productively. The author states some reasons why having well-designed learningoutcomes is
Paper ID #38935Understanding the sin, cos, and tan calculator buttonsMr. Daniel Blessner, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus I’m a faculty member at the Penn State Wilkes Barre campus. I’m a civil and chemical engineer. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Understanding the sin, cos, and tan Calculator ButtonsAbstractMaking engineering education accessible to under prepared students enteringcollege from high school and students transitioning from the community collegelevel is sometimes difficult due to the demanding mathematical requirements themajor demands. One specific
engineering in the workplace.Ms. Carin Queener, University of Michigan Carin Queener has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering, and is now working in industry.Dr. Joi-Lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan Joi Mondisa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and an Engineering Education Faculty Member at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. Dr. Mondisa earned a PhD in Engineering Education, an MS in Industrial Engineering, an MBA, and a BS in General Engineering. She researches STEM mentoring experiences and mentoring intervention programs in higher education.Dr. Kinnis Gosha, Morehouse College Dr. Kinnis Gosha (Go-Shay) is an Assistant Professor in the
trends and to identify strategies to support students during times of crisis.IntroductionWe have expanded our analysis by incorporating data from our undergraduate registrar's office, whichincludes information about students who participated in our Engineering school survey. Our goal is toidentify correlations and patterns between the survey results and the academic data, such as attitudestoward the engineering program, study habits, and participation in extracurricular activities.We used the registrar's data to determine differences in academic performance between different majorsand demographic groups. Moreover, we can identify students struggling academically or facingchallenges and develop targeted programs and resources to help them achieve
students with only 2.7% completely rejecting itas a preferred online learning mode [9].During 2021 and 2022, as the world put its best efforts to bring back normalcy in life and inengineering education, many faculty were faced yet another transition from online to in-personinstruction. In particular, for those courses flipped during the pandemic, it is important toidentify critical elements for successful adaptation to in-person teaching. This paper investigateschanges in student participation in flipped classrooms as the university went through the phasedre-opening over the course of 2 years. The impact of the course modality change was analyzedfor both pre-class and in-class student participation in a Fluid Mechanics course offered as aflipped
] suggesting the STEM environment is still less conducive to women’s persistence inSTEM education.Factors identified as barriers for women and underrepresented populations’ success in STEMinclude feeling excluded in male dominated environments [4], facing stereotypes ordiscrimination [5], lacking the ability to apply course material in real world scenarios[6], andlacking a sense of belonging [7]. Recent initiatives in the United States have focused onattracting and retaining women in STEM and identified best practices for combating the abovechallenges. Specifically, efforts proven to enhance female persistence in college includeestablished learning communities fostering strong peer groups, availability of female faculty ormentors and the availability
projects: a construction or build project; a sensing and dataanalysis project; and a sustainability-focused environmental project. Students complete projects in groups. They are tasked with navigating uncertainty aroundthe definition of the project in the planning phase. They complete the task, and the projectculminates with a demonstration or a presentation where they communicate what they have doneand why. This was the first year we used our “smart cities” project. The project was possiblebecause a faculty member with sensing expertise engaged with the teaching professor who wasleading the project. A master’s student who had worked with the sensing expert then workedwith the teaching professor to identify specific supplies required
since their creation. These norms and values harm the belonging ofstudents/staff/faculty with underrepresented identities. Students specifically, tend to slip intothinking themselves as victims and objects rather than agents (Tuck and Yang, 2018). Lastly, it isimportant to acknowledge the scholarship of social justice in education is vast and diverse. As aresult of the different projects in this space, the term “justice” takes on varying and sometimescontradictory meanings (Tuck and Yang, 2016). For the purpose of this paper, I will not define“justice” but instead draw on Tuck and Yang’s (2018) suggestion of “justice” being a signal toother scholars, therefore I align my project to justice in higher education to signal the inequityPaper: Lesson
the bachelor’s in computer science and MSc and PhD degrees in engineering sciences from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. He is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the Universidad Andres Bello, Viña del Mar, Chile. His research and teaching is focused on software engineering, software design, distributed systems and computer-supported collaborative learning, and new strategies for computer science teaching. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comA comparison between flipped classroom, traditional, online andemergency response teaching in SARS-COV-2 PandemicAbstract In the last years
engineering courses and found that first-time freshmen performed betterthan transfer students, and additionally, that this trend persisted across multiple instructors andsemesters of the same course [5]. A number of possible causes for this have been examined;Laanan et al. found in a survey of transfer students that many felt less comfortable interactingwith faculty at their new institution, and some felt increased stress and received lower grades [3].Concannon and Barrow found that engineering transfer students have lower self-efficacy thanfirst-time freshman, which was theorized to be due to transfer shock [4].A systematic literature review [6] was unable to locate research on transfer students after theirfirst post-transfer year, although the same
of the project (end of Summer 2021) and some unforeseen obstacles, thetextbook development has been lagging compared to the course content coverage. Besides time-availability constraints, a major challenge that has now been somewhat overcome was how toincorporate into the text the necessary volume of physical data without infringing copyright ofpublished commercial textbooks. Because of these delays, the work has not been yet shared withstudents for feedback, comments, or their assistant in content creation. It is anticipated that aworking version of the OER will be ready by the end of summer 2022 for use in our Fall 2022courses with two cohorts of approximately 150 students in total.At that point, pending clearance by our institution’s
, “Research as Guide for Curriculum Development: an Example from Introductory Electricity. Part 1: Investigation of Student Understanding,” Am. J. Phys., 60 (11), pp. 994-1013.5. Linder, C. J., Hillhouse, G., 1996, “Teaching by Conceptual Exploration,” Phys. Teach., 34, pp. 332-338.6. Laws, P. W., 1997, “Millikan Lecture 1996: Promoting Active Learning Based on Physics Education Research in Introductory Physics Courses,” Am. J. Phys. 65 (1), pp. 14-21. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education7. Thacker, B., Kim, E., Trefz, K., Lea, S. M., 1994, “Comparing
Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Task Force on ”Interdisciplinary Emergent Technologies” and the Vice Chair of the IEEE CIS Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning Technical Committee. She regularly serves as the Program Chair, Publications Chair, and Special Sessions Chair of the IEEE technically co-sponsored conferences such as ICACI, ICICIP, ICIST, and ISNN. Dr. Zhang received the UDC’s faculty recognition awards for Excellence in Research Award, Excellence in Teaching Award, and Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentorship Award in three consecutive years.Dr. Wagdy H Mahmoud P.E., University of the District of Columbia Wagdy H. Mahmoud is a Professor of electrical engineering at the Electrical
advancementof faculty and student research, curriculum development through courses, laboratory experiments,course projects, as well as STEM outreach with pK-12 schools. The hardware requirements of theplatform are inexpensive, and the setup is portable as well as easily extended to larger grids. Thesoftware for each node is created in the Arduino environment and the RSS data collection programis written in Python which is compiled and executed with tools accessible online. In the future, theuser interface will implement advanced inverse mapping algorithms and deep learning models torefine the display of visual details and statistical analysis of the RSS data
Paper ID #40375Innovative Teaching Technique for the Exponential and LogarithmicFunctionsMr. Daniel Blessner, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus I’m a faculty member at the Penn State Wilkes Barre campus. I’m a civil and chemical engineer. Contact information 570-406-7030 ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Innovative Teaching Technique for the Exponential and Logarithmic FunctionsMaking engineering education more understandable to students can be difficult dueto the demanding mathematical requirements the major demands. This is especiallytrue for mathematically under prepared
– a touchstone and tool of creative exploration thatinforms visual discovery. It fundamentally enables the visualization and development ofperceptions and ideas. We are constantly asking our students to define problems, speak them out,and write them down. But not all students can use these tools in the best way. These studentsneed to start by seeing on paper ideas that my come to life as they draw them.The assignment in the engineering class my simply be to draw anything at the beginning or endof class. Take no more than 3 minutes. Have the students concentrate on what they would justlike to get down on paper. This may actually be little more than a stick figure or the logo of afavorite team. But it also may be more than that. I have included
– a touchstone and tool of creative exploration thatinforms visual discovery. It fundamentally enables the visualization and development ofperceptions and ideas. We are constantly asking our students to define problems, speak them out,and write them down. But not all students can use these tools in the best way. These studentsneed to start by seeing on paper ideas that my come to life as they draw them.The assignment in the engineering class my simply be to draw anything at the beginning or endof class. Take no more than 3 minutes. Have the students concentrate on what they would justlike to get down on paper. This may actually be little more than a stick figure or the logo of afavorite team. But it also may be more than that. I have included
faculty/staff mentoring are also provided. The format,which was established with a grant from the National Science Foundation and had been in placesince 2004, has led to significant gains in both retention and graduation rates in the College ofEngineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS). CEAS is working to identify additional supportprograms to complement the gains that have already been made. Part of this work involvestrying to establish traits shared by successful (and non-successful) students.For the past two fall semesters, first-year students in CEAS have been recruited to complete astart-of-semester survey that includes questions related to aspects of their personality as well asself-efficacy and mindset. Various previous research has linked
Paper ID #32594Including Risk in a Case Study of When to Start Social Security BenefitsDr. Neal Lewis, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NEAL A. LEWIS, CPEM, received his Ph.D. in engineering management in 2004 and B.S. in chemical engineering in 1974 from the University of Missouri–Rolla and his MBA in 2000 from the University of New Haven. He has over 25 years of industrial experience at Procter and Gamble, and Bayer. He is a full time faculty member of the online Master of Engineering Management program at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Previously, he taught at UMR, Marshall University, University of Bridgeport
University as well as resources fromthe Educational Technology Research and Teaching Unit at the University of Geneva 7 to prepareour Data Science classes.5 https://www.brookings.edu/research/opportunity-engines-middle-class-mobility-in-higher-education/6 https://poorvucenter.yale.edu/faculty-resources/strategies-teaching/case-based-learning7 http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Case-based_learningCBL has a long history as a successful pedagogy technique in medical, law, and businessschools. Recently, the CBL method has become an increasingly popular trend in teachingsciences [1]. This method involves guided inquiry and is grounded in constructivism wherebystudents form new meanings by interacting with their knowledge and the environment [2].Examples of
tendency becoming more towards the theoretical from the practical. Many faculty overthe years have regretted the loss of the "hands on" experience of lab work. Theory courses mostoften lack the hands-on experience that is given traditional lab courses and do not resonate wellwith the students without the lab component [4].In order to rectify the problem, software simulations have been proposed to replace the labcomponent. While simulations can be used to reinforce concepts, they could not adequatelypresent problems that students could encounter in a real laboratory, nor would they provide theappropriate hands-on experience necessary for effective learning [5], [6]. Despite the fact that thecourses can greatly be supported by simulation tools
had three stations.Workshop StationOn evenings when there were three rotations, the third was a “workshop” station. All students inthe Math 152 track complete workshops each week in an effort to develop effective problem-solving strategies and written mathematical explanation skills. These problems often requirestudents to do additional research, connect graphs, tables, and equations, and provide supportingdetails beyond merely solving a problem. In addition, the workshop problems force students tobe metacognitive in order to make personal connections to learning [15]. Students submittedapproximately one or two workshops each week to their instructor for a grade which drew onboth mathematical accuracy and written explanation. An example of a
gravitate to. Additionally, this made for a unique environment to evaluate veteranimpact on the non-veteran students.Veterans are experienced learners [3] and as such they have been taught through their militaryexperience how to learn and be proficient on a new topic or process. In the military environment,not knowing how a piece of equipment works can, unfortunately, have life or death consequences.They bring this dogged determination to the classroom and typically pick up new topics faster thantheir non-veteran counterparts. Additionally, veteran students adapt well to new situations, areempathetic, and have developed exceptional time-management skills. [4] This compliment of skillsenables them to be successful in the classroom. They also impart
size can be relatable to otherUniversities both small and large alike. The intro course faces issues both with limited resourcessuch as lab space and funding, as well as lacking interpersonal exchange between TA’s andstudents. Where small universities face limited resources and large universities often have largestudent-to-faculty ratios, this paper highlights how enhancing student lab experience has boostedretention rates.The introductory course now has a lab dedicated to providing a workspace for the class’ groupprojects. The workspace is equipped with soldering irons, 3D printers, and a laser cutter. The labis manned in rotation by eight teaching assistants (3 graduate and 5 undergraduate students) whohost various hands-on help sessions
possesses 28 years of consulting experience in the area of building structural design. In 2016 he was the recipient of the University of Delaware Excellence in Teaching Award.Dr. Kevin R Guidry Kevin R. Guidry is the Associate Director for Educational Assessment at the University of Delaware Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning. He works with faculty on exploring new pedagogies and improving existing teaching practices to enhance student learning. Guidry specializes in assessment of student learning and survey methodology having worked on teaching, learning, and assessment research and practice at levels ranging from individual courses to projects spanning hundreds of colleges and universities
of Engineering at Roger Williams University and an Associate Professor and Director of the Civil Engineering Analysis Group at the United States Military Academy. Dr. O’ Neill is a retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He has been active at the national level with ASCE’s Committee on Accreditation Operations (COAO) the Technical Council on Computing and Information Technology (TCCIT), Committee on Faculty Develop- ment (CFD) and Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) initiative. Dr. O’Neill is a licensed Professional Engineer in California, Florida, Nevada and Virginia. He is a senior civil engineering pro- gram evaluator for ABET. He is an American Society of Civil Engineering
, engineering ethics, and environmental justice.Erica D. McCray, University of Florida Dr. Erica D. McCray is an Associate Professor of Special Education at the University of Florida. Prior to joining the faculty, she served as a special educator for students with behavioral and learning disabilities in Title I elementary and middle school settings. Dr. McCray has been recognized on multiple levels for her teaching and research, which focuses on diversity issues. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: An Exploration of the In/Authentic Experiences of EngineersAbstractThis paper is a work in progress