interdisciplinary collaborationduring the design phase of the construction process [23].The processes related to sustainable construction and building efficiency follows the overalldesign process, but in this case collaboration among team members is even more important andnot only during the early stage of the project, but during the whole project lifecycle. Beginningwith an outline, as a holistic system, the building design is then gradually detailed in designiterations with the multiple team members, and sustainability requirements, first defined athighly abstract level, become more specific. A sustainability benchmarking, that is, acomparative assessment of the sustainable definitions adopted, shall be made at the end of eachproject phase to refine the
, Digital Control Systems, Robot Dynamics and Control,Advanced Digital Signal Processing, Introduction to Mobile Robotics, Embedded Systems, andArtificial Intelligence.Additional courses were also proposed, in order to provide students with additional expertise thatis needed for AutoDrive; these include a one-credit introductory course for the competition andclasses in Sensors and Actuators and Computer Vision. A continuing assessment was alsoproposed, in order to determine what classes could be developed. Many other topics, such asmission planning, path planning, and diagnostics could be integrated into existing courses.Part of the process of recruiting and training undergraduate student team members involved theone-credit course mentioned above
identified the problem of ambiguity in promotion systems—ambiguityin what is valued, what counts, the timeline, how work should be documented, and the standardsby which quality is assessed. From interviews with STEM faculty who had received tenure ortheir first promotion, Banerjee and Pawley [5] found that women do not get enough informationabout policies and application requirements. In this “foggy climate,” they must develop theirown “fog lights” of formal and informal resources. While ambiguity is often cited as a problemwithin the assistant-to-associate promotion system, ambiguity seems especially pronounced forpromotion from associate to full [20]. In interviews with science and engineering academics at aresearch university, Fox and Colatrella
general may be less able to meet relatedness needs of women ascompared to men faculty, and the extreme gender imbalance in engineering departments likelyexacerbates this.Concluding RemarksThis study has added to the existing literature on the importance of developing belonging andmeeting relatedness needs for women at all levels in the engineering academe. The three basicneeds of self-determination theory (autonomy, competence, relatedness) were assessed inengineering, computer science, and physics faculty using a qualitative research design. Theworkplace experiences that have served to meet or frustrate autonomy and competence needs ofmen and women faculty seem comparable, but relatedness needs reveal an important genderdifference. On the whole
competencies is teaching biomimicry or bio-inspired designin an engineering curriculum.Our research addresses the gap in resources for effectively teaching engineering students how toperform bio-inspired design by creating instructional resources based on Concept-Knowledge(C-K) design theory. C-K theory is known for integrating multiple domains of information andfacilitating innovation through connection building. We used this theory to create lectures, in-class activities, assignments, rubrics and templates that scaffold the discovery and knowledgetransfer processes involved in using natural designs to inspire engineering solutions.To assess the learning impact of our C-K theory instructional resources, we conducted astatistical comparison of student
+ community viasurvey. For example, Woodford et al. (2012) conducted a quantitative study which sought todetermine predictors in heterosexual students about their attitudes toward the LGBT communityas a whole, as opposed to asking about certain sub-communities within the LGBTQIA+community. Works of this nature were most often quantitative, but can also be qualitative innature. For example, Evans & Harriott (2004) conducted an ethnographic study to explore howheterosexual students’ perceptions about the LGBTQ+ community changed when they wereexposed to the community. Work that followed this theme could also take the form of askingLGBTQIA+ students about the climate of their university to assess attitudes surrounding theLGBTQIA+ community. The
epistemic models matchthe situation.2 We call out this study as “quasi” autoethnographic as this work did not explicitly follow thetraditional approaches used by most autoethnographical studies. We detail our approach in themethods section.the original documents were designed for a different purpose3. It is also not a pre- and post-analysis of student performance – the student cohort performance was statistically-equivalent tothe prior year at a 98% pass rate (the course is assessed on a pass/no record basis).In the following section, we briefly describe the classroom intervention and data collection thatinvolved student focus groups. This description is then followed by a quasi-autoethnographicreflection and analysis of the focus group transcripts
underrepre- sented groups in engineering. Canek earned his PhDDr. Yvette E. Pearson P.E., Rice University Dr. Yvette E. Pearson holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.S. in Chemistry from Southern University and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science from the University of New Orleans. She is Associate Dean for Accreditation and Assessment in the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University, a Program Evaluator for the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, a registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana, a former Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation, and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.Dr. Reginald Desroches, Rice
) toperform a SWOT analysis. The conclusion from the AHP analysis was that users preferredOnshape for simple mechanical modeling suggesting that its advantages lay in its browser-basedinterface which eliminated installation and licensing, and its ability to allow merge/branchversions of a design.Wu et al. [7] provide a survey of Cloud-Based software tools for design and analysis. Their goalwas to assess the extent to which both design and analysis capabilities could be executed usingthis new generation of systems and to review the key capabilities and benefits of availablepackages. In the area of design, the authors summarize features of AutoCAD 360, Fusion 360,Creo®/Windchill®, Teamcenter®/NX®/SolidEdge®, 3DExperience/Solidworks®/CATIA,Onshape and
a commongoal (a new way of being and relating requires imagining what non-hierarchical structures wouldlook like). The project of liberation is the project of daring to imagine.IntroductionTeaching takes place in a physical space with configured interactions of the instructor with thestudents. The traditional mode of education presupposes the instructor as an authority“depositing” knowledge into the “clean-slates” (students’ minds), who in turn regurgitate thatdeposited (memorized) knowledge in assessments. This is described as the banking concept ofeducation by Freire [1]. This model discourages creative engagement of the student with theworld and encourages uncritical acceptance of the oppressive power structures. This process
Research Experience (eCURe)program, designing “green” cosmetics by substituting toxic organic chemicals with naturalsubstances to improve efficacy and safety of these products. This was the first experience inwhich I was allowed to work on my own and assess which components of the formula could bemodified to improve the products. This experience was valuable because it taught me criticalthinking and troubleshooting, but most importantly, I gained the confidence to be less reliant onmy mentor and begin working independently. Through this experience I realized how much Ienjoyed research and it led me to apply to the NIH BUILD PODER Undergraduate researchprogram, a collaborative internship between PCC and California State University, Northridge. Iwas
, her research interests include engineering education, particularly as related to systems thinking, organizational cultures, professional identity development, and supporting the success and ideas of underrepresented students within engineering.Dr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton (2003) and a Ph.D. in Engineering Edu- cation from Purdue University (2008). Her research focuses on strategies for design innovations through divergent and convergent thinking as well as through deep needs and community assessments using design ethnography, and
’ personalities and work habits. To beeffective, he argued that engineering leaders should have strong technical skills, be hands off,resolve conflict using logical reasoning, base personnel assessments on project outcomes, andinteract with engineers as equals. While Mallette’s proposed theory might indeed result ineffective engineering leaders, he did not test it with a group of engineers, nor did he test hisassumption that the majority of engineers are Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judgers (INTJMyers Briggs personality type). Wyrick similarly characterized engineers as a distinctive group,but he did so based on data he collected over ten years in four engineering management cohortsin the United States and Sweden [11]. Using Kolb’s Learning Style
. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue. Prior to this she was Co-Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue where she was responsible for developing curriculum and assessment tools and overseeing the research efforts within EPICS. Her academic and research interests include the profes- sional formation of engineers, diversity and inclusion in engineering, human-centered design, engineering ethics, leadership, service-learning, and accessibility and assistive-technology.Prof. Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South Florida Patrice M. Buzzanell is a Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication and the School of Engineering Education (courtesy) at Purdue University. Editor of three books and author of over
the central problem that youth were solving in thecurriculum. It had them think of a solution to provide relief to people affected by a disaster.Youth were asked follow-up questions based on their responses. All interviews were transcribedand coded by the research team. Youth responses to the engineering design challenge were codedto identify the design moves proposed by the youth, the evaluative criteria or constraints that theyouth used to assess the quality of their proposed solution, and the reasoning youth provided, ifany, to justify their design choices.Our session observation protocol focused on observing the degree to which youth were engagedin different activities, the degree to which youth were enacting various engineering
units each year. Each unit should be aligned to the research foci of the engineeringcenter, and be informed and inspired by the RET teachers’ lab experiences. The unit needs to bealigned to the NGSS, connect to real-life engineering problems, use a project-based learningpedagogical approach, and include embedded assessments of student learning. The teachers arealso encouraged to incorporate at least one engineering design challenge. Beginning with the 2014 cohort, Kristen Bergsman designed and facilitated a curriculumdesign workshop to support RET teachers in this task throughout the summer. Originally,teachers met for a weekly curriculum design session focused on the collaborative task ofdeveloping a new science curriculum unit linked to
create user stories, a class structure diagram, a sequencediagram for a system feature, or a statechart for a web application interface or to define thebehavior of a class. The case study questions that require a class decomposition have acomplexity in the range of 10 classes.The team and individual exercises vary in complexity and difficulty. Some are as simple as doinga screen shot to show that an online tool, such as a Trello planning board, has been setup. Othersrequire team discussion or individual programming activity. Most of the Before-Class individualexercises are completion of a small quiz assessing a minimal knowledge of the topic based onreading and viewing a subset of the resources provided on the topic page. Most exercises areworth
insights about the culture of engineering degree programs which may be ripe for cultivatingmoments of shame. 10Through the findings, we learn that engineering identity is complex. The study of engineering identity hasbeen an important trend in the literature on engineering marginalization and student experience.12,15Within this work, identity alignment is often discussed as a dimension of students’ experiences, and ameasure in which students can agree or disagree with on a survey. But the assessment of engineeringidentity is typically performed with the underlying assumption that achieving a strong identity will lead topositive outcomes within engineering degree programs (e.g., retention) and
doing. Recentresearch in these disciplines has suggested that these educational norms influence many aspectsof students’ experiences, feelings, and outcomes, including the identities that students form asstudents and as pre-professionals.The influence of Locke and the traditionalist view of education is evident in STEM fields, andengineering departments in particular: STEM subjects are known for support of meritocracy andfor grading practices based primarily on high-stakes assessments [2-4]. Foundational courses --the start of an unforgiving undergraduate workload -- serve to “weed out” students at an earlystage, and typically result in large numbers of D, F and W grades, which often leads students todrop the major [2-3; 5]. The curriculum in
interest in the context of this paper are thosewhose approach was based on the integration of stakeholder observations. Specific experienceswere described by students as having impacted their direction, and led them towards newexplicitly community-motivated problem frames in which the perception and ‘feel’ of a place,something that was only uncovered through iterative observation and repeated experience,became primary data, taking priority over earlier more preliminary external assessments (C).S2 We wanted to tell some sort of story that would link to [engineering] interests we have but then we broke itdown and ended up going in different directions from where we started. We did the sketch walk up and down everystreet and that that made a
assessed his performance to design better learning environments that pro- mote students’ conceptual understanding. In 2015, Ruben earned the M.S in Chemical Engineering at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia where he also received the title of Chemical Engineer in 2012. His research interests include students’ cognition and metacognition in the engineering curriculum.Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University Kristina M. Tank is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the School of Education at Iowa State University. She currently teaches undergraduate courses in science education for elementary education majors. As a former elementary teacher, her research and teaching interests are centered around improv
students to mentor middle school youth.Dr. Olukemi Akintewe, University of South Florida Dr. Olukemi Akintewe is an instructor in the Department of Medical Engineering. She received a B.E. degree in chemical engineering from City College of New York, CUNY, a M.Sc in materials science & engineering from The Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of South Florida. Dr. Akintewe has focused her research in service-learning in engineering education; engi- neering predictive assessment models that supports students’ learning, classroom management techniques and best teaching practices.Dr. Schinnel Kylan Small, University of South Florida Schinnel Small is an Instructor I and IT