knowledge (for an overview, see Hoskinson et al.1). Problem solving,whereby one applies abstract principles in an expert-like fashion in order to achieve a goal, playsa central role in this endeavor.In physics, such abstract principles are commonly embodied through equations and instantiatedthrough word problems. Problems often refer to idealized objects or events (e.g., a block slidingon an inclined lane). Yet, rather than eliciting abstract thinking, such problems reinforce roteassociation with formulas and restrict transfer toward “real-life” situations. Many scholars deemidealized problems responsible for students developing a formulaic approach toward problemsolving (i.e., “plug and chug”), and ultimately leaving introductory courses with poor
Education, 2025Performance Unveiled: Comparing Lightweight Devices Testbed and Virtual Machines for Edge ComputingAbstractTechnological innovations are accelerating across fields like engineering, IT, environmentalscience, and agriculture, the convergence of education & research has emerged as a vital andconcerning issue. Although the research in areas such as edge computing holds a lot of potentialfor real-world applications, its integration into engineering education remains marginalized dueto lack of curriculum alignment, lack of resources for faculty training, and industry-academiadisconnect. This study bridges the gap by investigating the suitability of hands-onexperimentation with edge computing frameworks to enhance
this paper wepropose a Hierarchically Segmented Routing (HSR) approach to solve this problem, based on the two well know routing protocols; theDSR and CGSR. The paper provides a comparative analysis of the proposed HSR protocol using a stochastic network simulation. I.INTRODUCTION Wireless device are becoming ubiquitous, with the ever increasing advances in wireless and mobile computing.Improved protocols must be developed to support these new mobile devices/ MANETs and to see that these devicesdo not overload the existing infrastructure network. The aim of this endeavor is to provide anytime, anywhereconnectivity for unlimited mobile devices without overloading the associated
RogerWilliams University is working on will make it look like asmall house. This will also help blend it into the rooftops. The Figure 1: A labeled section view of a model of the turbine. This diagramclient had ideas of being able to incorporate trademark shows the parts of the turbine and the titles referenced in this paperbuilding designs into the roof in order to conserve the style ofthe building.HIPS WECS will give these urban areas the capability toproduce wind energy using a revolutionary enclosure whichchannels air into a chamber where fluid dynamics greatly II. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING This data will show
to ensure they graduate with an engineering or engineeringtechnology degree within their timeline. These efforts can create a culture of opencommunication with student veterans and increase engagement of these students with faculty,engineering professionals, and peers to matriculate them into the campus engineeringcommunity.Key Words: veterans, engineering, engineering technology, academic program selection,academic program retentionIntroductionThrough the lens of organizational theory, this work examines undergraduate engineering andengineering technology opportunities at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), a large,public, research-intensive, state university, in the northeast United States, with respect toprogram selection and
3system (Chyung, 2015; Chyung, 2018) to support low-income, first-generation, and/or ruralgraduate students?” Methods We began this study at the start of the second semester of supporting the enrolledstudents in the program. Thirteen stakeholder interviews were conducted, representing facultymentors, advisors, as well as program and college leaders, who support the graduateengineering students enrolled in the scholarship program about the barriers and opportunitiesthey face while engaging with the students. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, andanalyzed, by a team of research assistants under the direction of one of the faculty memberswho is also a co-principal investigator. The research
outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching and research. His numerous honors include the 2021 Carpenter Award for Teaching and Student-Centered Research, the 2020 Alumni Mentoring Award, the 2020 Wilkes University President’s Award, the 2017 Outstanding Scholarship Award, the 2017 Outstanding Adviser Award, the 2017 and 2025 O’Hop Last Lecture Awards, the 2016 Outstanding New Faculty Award, the 2014 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Teaching Award, the 2013 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, the 2013 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Award, and the 2008 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Honorable Mention Award.Mahsa Khamechi, Wilkes University ©American Society for
Paper ID #45583Analysis of a Scientific Paper to Scaffold Lab Report Writing SkillsProf. Lessa Grunenfelder, University of Southern California Lessa Grunenfelder has a BS in astronautical engineering and a MS and PhD in materials science, all from the University of Southern California. In 2015 she joined the USC Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science as teaching faculty. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on material properties, processing, selection, and design. She is passionate about sharing her love of materials science with students through curriculum that combines
critical forretention in STEM [9]. Many participants in these programs come from diverse backgrounds andmay face unique challenges in their pursuit of a STEM education. By providing a supportiveenvironment that includes mentorship, holistic academic and personal development, and culturalimmersion activities, summer bridge programs help students build their support network whichcan be instrumental in their academic and personal success [2].Our engineering bridge program at the University of Washington is designed to support talentedbut underrepresented incoming first-year students pursuing degrees in engineering and computerscience. To support these students, our recently redesigned four-week summer bridge programfocuses on preparing first-year
Paper ID #45495Work in Progress: Incentivizing Independent Study in Engineering MechanicsCoursesDr. Jennifer E. Holte, University of St. Thomas Jennifer Holte is a Senior Adjunct Faculty member and Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of St. Thomas and serves as the School of Engineering’s Community College and Transfer Coordinator. She holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Work in Progress: Incentivizing Independent Study in Engineering
engineering and social science, focusing on understanding how innovation self-efficacy develops among engineering students with diverse neurotypes. Additionally, she investigates household resilience capacity in relation to sustainable practices, employing both quantitative and qualitative research methods.Dr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) and Director of the Engineering Education Program. Her research interests in engineering education include community engagement, ethics, and sustainability. Bielefeldt is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering
studentswho answered incorrectly struggled with the concept of a resultant reaction force. Those who gotthe magnitude correct but had an incorrect direction used physical understanding such as theconcept of leverage or equilibrium equations to identify an increase in magnitude resulting fromthe changed dimension. Researchers posit that students were able to get the magnitude but notthe direction because students often struggle with visualizing force direction. By examiningstudent reasoning patterns, instructors can develop more impactful pedagogical practices totarget student difficulties.Previous WorkThe Concept Warehouse (https://conceptwarehouse.tufts.edu/cw/CW.php) is a faculty resourceto rapidly deploy concept questions through an online format
Paper ID #45447A Course on Air Quality Monitoring and Control for Mechanical EngineeringSeniorsDr. Amir Ahmad Naqwi, University of St. Thomas The author has an adjunct faculty appointment at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of St. Thomas (MN), where he has been involved in the development and instruction of laboratory courses in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer. He has a long-standing interest in air quality management and control. This course is a part of a package of electives including a course on water quality management and control offered by the Civil Engineering Department
d’Entremont, P.Eng., is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UBC. Her work focuses on student learning and curriculum development in mechanical en- gineering. She teaches courses in mechanics, including orthopaedic biomechanics and injury biomechan- ics, and mechanical design, and teaches Arts and Commerce students about engineering. Her teaching- related interests include active learning, open educational resources (OER), and open pedagogy. She also focuses on student mental wellbeing and equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) issues in engineering education and the broader engineering profession.Dr. Katherine A. Lyon ©American Society for Engineering
Technology Programs, and her research focus is in student engagement and retention in engineering and engineering technology education. Contact: talley@txstate.eduDr. Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University Dr. Hammond is Director of the Texas A&M University Institute for Engineering Education & Innovation and also the chair of the Engineering Education Faculty. She is also Director of the Sketch Recognition Lab and Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. She is a member of the Center for Population and Aging, the Center for Remote Health Technologies & Systems as well as the Institute for Data Science. Hammond is a PI for over 13 million in funded research, from NSF, DARPA, Google
Paper ID #21147Analysis of Basic Video Metrics in a Flipped Statics CourseBenjamin Keith Morris, The University of Georgia Benjamin Morris is a senior at The University of Georgia with a major in Mechanical Engineering.Dr. Siddharth Savadatti, University of Georgia Dr. Siddharth Savadatti received his PhD in Computational Mechanics from North Carolina State Univer- sity in 2011 and has since been on the faculty of the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. He teaches mechanics and numerical methods courses such as Statics, Fluid Mechanics, Programming, Numerical Methods for Engineers and Finite Element
Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE), funded by a $4.4 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. She was director of the NSF-funded Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE), a national research center that was funded from 2003-2010. Dr. Atman is the author or co-author on over 115 archival publications. She has been invited to give many keynote addresses, including a Distinguished Lecture at the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) 2014 Annual Conference. Dr. Atman joined the UW in 1998 after seven years on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on engineering education pedagogy, engineering design learning, assessing the consid
’ ability to meaningfully integrate these advancements into their curriculum and their classroom activities 2. The demands placed on teachers by new reform guidelines -- both state and national -- that call for less dependence on textbooks, lectures, and de-contextualized lab work and more emphasis on inquiry-based learning using a real-world context that combines science and mathematics “to solve a human problem, meet a societal need, or develop a product.” 51.1.1 PRISM as a Knowledge-Management ToolPRISM integrates the digital learning space for Indiana’s 6th - 8th grade teachers of science andmathematics. Essentially, our website merges a large, complex, and dispersed physical entityinto a virtual, web-delivered
as strong ties to faculty and other students, tutoring, availability of numerousstudent clubs, and living/learning communities10,11,12.Still, a large body of research has shown that women who choose to major in engineering uponstarting college tend to graduate at rates similar or higher to those of their male counterparts16,17.Multiple studies, such as Consentino et al.18 and Lord et al.17 found that retention is not theprimary reason for the low percentage of women in engineering, but rather, recruitment. That is,when women enter college intending to study engineering, they usually do eventually graduatewith an engineering degree and don’t transfer to a non-engineering field. However, very fewfemale high school seniors do in fact choose
AC 2011-315: MODAL ENGAGEMENTS IN PRECOLLEGE ENGINEER-ING: TRACKING MATH AND SCIENCE CONCEPTS ACROSS SYMBOLS,SKETCHES, SOFTWARE, SILICONE AND WOODMitchell J. Nathan, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mitchell J. Nathan, BSEE, PhD, is professor of Educational Psychology, with affiliate appointments in Curriculum & Instruction and Psychology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and a faculty fel- low at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) and the Center on Education and Work. Dr. Nathan studies the cognitive, embodied, and social processes involved in STEM reasoning, learn- ing and teaching, especially in mathematics and engineering classrooms and in laboratory settings, using both quantitative
as a bottleneck illuminates the ladder of barriers disabled students have to climb tosucceed [6]. We, the authors, typically take a social view of disability in presenting information forengineering instructors to change their practices to be more accessible to all students. A socialperspective of disability defines disability as a consequence of inaccessible environments, ratherthan an inherent problem in individuals. In other words, the environment is disabling, which inthis case is the classroom and administrative system of obtaining accommodations. Instructorscan use the insights gained from these interviews to develop awareness for accessibility in theclassroom beyond formal accommodations and become aware of the ways
computing and engineering students, wewill need to develop a research agenda that further elucidates this nascent area of study. Weparticularly expect that intentional work will be needed to uncover the as-yet poorly understoodecosystem surrounding TNB computing students, their advocates, and their allies. In particular,we see a clear need to understand intersections with race and disability, as the 2015 U.S.Transgender Survey showed that TNB people of color and people with disabilities had worseoutcomes than their already marginalized peers [3]. In order to be a force for change for thisgoal, we held a virtual workshop to develop a research agenda that includes TNB students inBPC/BPE for inclusive and intersectional policy, practices, and
Paper ID #36812Mobile Phone-Based Contact and Non-Contact Vibration Sensing forStructural Dynamics Teaching LaboratoriesDr. Charles Riley, Oregon Institute of Technology Dr. Riley has been teaching mechanics concepts for over 20 years and has been honored with both the ASCE ExCEEd New Faculty Excellence in Civil Engineering Education Award (2012) and the Beer and Johnston Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award (2013). While he teaches freshman to graduate- level courses across the civil engineering curriculum, his focus is on engineering mechanics. He im- plements classroom demonstrations at every opportunity as part of a
. Additionally, online tools havebeen developed to increase students’ engagement in an online learning environment, which couldenhance the learning process and diminish students’ feelings of isolation [10]. In particular,video-based breakout rooms have been broadly used in the synchronous format, where studentsare assigned to groups and work together to solve problems [11, 12]. On the other hand, at RHITcourses were offered in-person in Fall 2020; however, the social distancing restrictions,including only one student allowed per desk, did not allow in-person breakout discussions, asallowed in Fall 2021 when some of the restrictions were lifted. The teaching tools andapproaches used, at both UD and RHIT, in Fall 2020 and Fall 2021 and are evaluated in
answer-based, though in a limited number of cases they may requestsome intermediate steps. Little assessment data on student learning in linear circuits using suchtools has however been reported.A more sophisticated though complex approach is step-based learning, where every major step ofa student’s work is accepted by the computer and immediately evaluated, giving more frequentfeedback. Such systems in general have been shown to produce learning gains of 0.76σcomparable to those achieved by very expensive expert tutoring (0.79σ), and significantly betterthan those usually found for answer-based systems (0.31σ) [9]. A system of this type calledCircuit Tutor has been developed and assessed in several prior studies [10-20]. In controlled
revealed how the ubiquity ofthat stress culture leads to the normalization and trivialization of mental health challenges. Thecommon thinking seems to be that because all engineering students are stressed out, there are noreal mental health challenges to be concerned about; anyone suffering is just like everyone else,and therefore not to be taken seriously. In other words, mental health challenges are beingconflated with a level of stress engineering students should be able to handle (see section 6) bystudents, faculty, and counselors. Common is being conflated with unproblematic. As oneinterviewee explained, engineering “is really tough, so we’re all depressed, like all messed upmentally, so everything gets swept under the rug. It's like almost
college leaders were present. One director went so far as to say that Chloe’s leadership was untested and questionable when a junior faculty candidate applied to work in the research center he led. Amanda is a white woman and administrator in the college of engineering who oversees the college’s executive leadership program, which offers support for research center directors. Chloe asks Amanda for advice about her difficulties with the center directors. Amanda tells Chloe the center directors have never behaved the way she is describing them. When Chloe probes Amanda for more insights, Amanda admits that several people have told her that Chloe is too emotional and demanding. In fact, the
prior work, aspects of engineering education programs that undermine students’ mental healthhave been identified, along with implications for engineering educators and administrators(Beddoes & Danowitz, 2022). Policy and practice-related recommendations from that analysisincluded eliminating certain exam formats, sharing stories of “failure”, supporting faculty to bemore understanding and accommodating, and not trivializing mental health challenges. In thispaper, we turned to another aspect of the system: counseling and disability service centers. Basedon interviews with undergraduate engineering students at five universities in the United States whohad a variety of mental health diagnoses, we identified the challenges they encountered
Paper ID #38080The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Student Performanceand Persistence in an Aerospace Engineering CurriculumKathryn Anne Wingate (Instructor) Assistant teaching professor in the Aerospace Engineering department at University of Colorado BoulderAaron W. Johnson (Assistant Professor) Aaron W. Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department and a Core Faculty member of the Engineering Education Research Program at the University of Michigan. He believes in a strong connection between engineering education research and practice, and his research leverages his experience
Society of Engineering Education, a Deputy Editor of the Journal for Engineering Education, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education, and past chair of the Educational Research and Methods Division of ASEE. She founded the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineering at U-M in 2003 and served as its Director for 12 years. Prior to joining U-M, Dr. Finelli was the Richard L. Terrell Professor of Excellence in Teaching, founding director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Kettering University. Dr. Finelli’s current research interests include student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based