these communities[6], p.75. The six assets are aspirational, linguistic, familial, social, navigational, and resistantcapital. Aspirational capital is the “ability to maintain hopes and dreams for the future” (p. 77)which fosters an environment that allows students the opportunity to envision themselves incircumstances beyond their present situations. Linguistic capital is the set skills, specificallyintellectual and social, that students gain through the ability to communicate in multiplelanguages or language styles. Familial capital is the familial support and past cultural knowledgegiven to an individual which also includes a larger understanding of family, such as extendedfamily and close friends. Social capital is defined as “networks of
, not all Senior Capstone Designs are of this type. TG 421, on theother hand, provides a backbone of understanding for thinking outside the box, for alltypes and disciplines of capstone design that are innovative, without necessarily beingentrepreneurial.ReferencesFelder, Richard M., “Engineering Education: A Tale of Two Paradigms”,Vet, Charles M., “Educating Engineers for 2020 and Beyond”, National Academy of Engineering, .Sheppard, S.D., Macatangay, K., Colby, A., & Sullivan, W.M. 2008. Educating engineers: Designing forthe future of the field. New York: John Wiley & Sons. Page 26.1392.9Appendix A TG 403
and Clausen,16-24 whopresented a number of simple hands-on fluids and heat transfer experiments that can beconstructed from materials present in most engineering departments. This cross-courseintegration of course material has been shown to be a very effective learning tool that causesstudents to think beyond the content of each individual course.25Heat transfer from a simple light bulb is pertinent in our everyday lives. Every building, everystore and every vehicle have light bulbs. Standing on a stage with full lighting overhead, orsimply hovering a hand over a lit bulb demonstrates the heat transfer from a light bulb.Incandescent light bulbs only emit about 9% of their radiation in the visible spectrum; theremainder is wasted. A
experiences that reflectthe rigorous environment of higher education. Summer programs focused on Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) allow students to engage with advancedcoursework materials at the university level to obtain a better understanding of the STEM fieldthrough hands-on practical learning. In addition, summer programs provide a foretaste ofuniversity academic life to K-12 students through experiencing instructions at a college campus.In this Work in Progress Study, we present the initial development of a comprehensivepre-college two-week engineering summer program for high school students. The summerprogram consisted of two main components: project-based learning and student exposure toprofessional development
effectiveness of scaffolding strategies employed in digital cognitivetutors through academic achievement or growth rates [6, 7]. In this experimental study, a digitalassistive tutoring application was developed to assist in increasing student achievement andproblem-solving performance for undergraduate students enrolled in a Circuit Analysis course.This was achieved through the application's embedded performance-based scaffolding and full-step solutions. BackgroundTheoretical Frameworks The Model of Contingent Instruction [8, 9] and Metacognitive Support [10] served astheoretical frameworks in this research study. The Model of Contingent Instruction functioned asthe method of delivery for the
a constructivist grounded theory approach to develop a theoreticalmodel of researcher identity and epistemic thinking in undergraduate research experiences. Themanuscript identifies the process of moving from interviews to model construction based ingrounded theory.Useful methods texts and resources for thematic analysis methods:[36] K. L. Rieger, “Discriminating among grounded theory approaches,” Nursing Inquiry, vol. 26,no. 1. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01-Jan-2019.[34] K. Charmaz, Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide through QualitativeAnalysis. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications, 2006.SummaryTable 1 includes a summary of the main distinctions between content analysis, thematic analysis,and grounded theory. Pivoting
institute," presented at 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2009, pp. 14-177.[7] R. M. Felder and R. Brent, "Active learning: An introduction," ASQ higher education brief, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 1-5, 2009.[8] A. L. McGrath, "Personal reflection: An early introduction to SoTL and the shaping of an academic career," International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, vol. 6, no. 2, p. 29, 2012.[9] K. Mohd-Yusof and N. Samah, "From micro to macro levels of practice: A showcase of a SoTL journey within and beyond classroom experiences," Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 7-32, 2022. DOI: 10.36615/sotls.v6i2.279[10] M. Borrego, "Development of engineering
papers. Prior to joining OU, Dr. Zhang was a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Page 13.89.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Progress Report on a Hands-On Interdisciplinary Program for Severe Weather and Next-Generation Multi-Function Radar Through the team’s community of scholars, this paper describes the pedagogical detailsof an on-going NSF Department of Undergraduate Education (DUE) project that com-menced in the fall 2004 semester. Fostering deep learning, this multi-year project offersa new active-learning and hands-on laboratory program that is
minimized through enhanced radar and longer warning lead times. To study thesetopics, the program has generated a unique, interdisciplinary research-oriented learningenvironment that will train future engineers and meteorologists in the full set of competenciesneeded to take raw radar data and transform it into meaningful interpretations of weatherphenomena.A key element of the program is the development, implementation and refinement of a set ofseveral undergraduate courses and laboratory modules that are offered by the Schools ofMeteorology and Electrical & Computer Engineering, that provides hands-on experiences in thespecial knowledge and skills necessary for organizing real-time weather data, improving andpreparing that data for display
. Page 22.1574.158. Cummings J, Finholt T, Foster I, Kesselman C, Lawrence KA. Beyond Being There: A Blueprint for Advancing the Design, Development, and Evaluation of Virtual Organizations [Internet]. 2008 [cited 2011 Jan 19]. Available from: http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/events/VirtOrg2008/VO_report.pdf9. Wankat P. An Analysis of the Articles in the Journal of Engineering Education. Journal of Engineering Education. 1999;88(1):37-42.10. Wankat P. Analysis of the First Ten Years of the Journal of Engineering Education. Journal of Engineering Education. 2004;93(1):13-21.11. Jesiek B, Borrego M, Beddoes K. Expanding global engineering education research collaboration. In: SEFI Annual Conference. Aalborg, Denmark: 2008.12
Paper ID #30691Student Relationships: A Social Network AnalysisDr. Noah Salzman, Boise State University Noah Salzman is an Assistant Professor at Boise State University, where he is a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and IDoTeach, a pre-service STEM teacher preparation program. His work focuses on the transition from pre-college to university engineering programs, how exposure to engineering prior to matriculation affects the experiences of engineering students, and engineering in the K-12 classroom. He has worked as a high school science, mathematics, and engineering and technology teacher
Educational Research and Policy Analysis from NC State University in 1996. She also has an MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a bachelorˆa C™Dr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including tDr. Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University Marisa K. Orr is an Associate Professor in Engineering and Science Education with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University.Dr. Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc Rebecca Brent is President of
effort undertaken.This paper examines the collective stories of six (6) engineering educators who came together ina NSF-sponsored community of practice [CoP] (Lave, 1991) to develop reflective teachingpractices as a means of advancing more equity-oriented engineering education efforts at theirhome institution, a large, Research I, midwestern university. Through collaborativeautoethnography, the authors examined their preconceived notions and prior experiences withDEI efforts. They worked together to reflect on past, current, and future practices that wouldultimately promote their shared goal of better, more inclusive classrooms for all students.The authors offer a shared narrative, constructed from the stories they shared as members of
thus may affect human health. So in fulfilling the dictum toprotect the environment, engineers will also safeguard human health.Classroom ApplicationsThe GPGP provides a timely vehicle for student exploration through an engineering ethics prism.Asking students to keep a log of their own plastic usage is illuminating as a starting point; plasticis so ubiquitous that we often overlook how frequently we encounter it. Today, for example, thisauthor touched plastic even when opening mail: those envelopes with clear windows containcellophane. She also ate a bagel for breakfast, sliced with a plastic-handled knife, with butterfrom a plastic-lined wrapper. Later, during a brief shopping expedition, she realized that in theflotilla of grocery carts
of Coding for the Future: A Case Study of the megaGEMS Coding AcademyAbstractGirls in Engineering, Mathematics, and Science (GEMS) is a free after-school club and summercamp for girls interested in exploring their career in various Science, Technology, Engineering,and Mathematics (STEM) fields. GEMS is the outreach program for the Autonomous VehicleSystems Research and Education Laboratories. GEMS programs are designed to educate youngwomen about STEM by providing hands-on experiential learning in robotics, programming, andresearch [1]. GEMS is divided into two main programs: miniGEMS for rising fifth througheighth-grade middle school students, and megaGEMS for rising ninth through twelfth-grade highschool students [2]. miniGEMS
professional development [14]. These examples highlight the variety ofinitiatives that institutions have undertaken to prepare engineering PhDs for career optionsbeyond the academy. Doctoral programs provide a transferable skill set beyond discipline-specific knowledge that is valuable for many careers, for example, communication, projectmanagement, and innovative thinking [15, 16]. It is imperative for engineering educators tocontinue to grow and sustain opportunities to support PhDs as they navigate the school-to-worktransition.One opportunity, and the focus of this paper, is multi-session, cohort programs that provide ahigh intensity learning experience with a community of people [17-19]. For example, TheDepartment of Biochemistry at U of T offers
concepts of neural engineering. Later, asecond session was added each week to allow for professional development topics to beinterwoven into the curriculum design work with a focus on the NGSS practices and conceptionsof engineering design. The goals of the design sessions were: 1) to support teachers’ research apprenticeshipexperience through readings, discussions, and activities as well as to build connections betweenthe lab apprenticeship and their teaching practice; 2) to build an understanding of the new visionfor K-12 engineering education, with a particular emphasis on the NGSS science and engineeringpractices; 3) to collaboratively author one or more innovative curriculum modules on neuralengineering. Teachers were given a
region. CA2VES employs a two prongedapproach to impact recruitment and career development: (1) support of educational pathwaydevelopment and (2) utilization of K-12 STEM initiatives to engage the next generation ofstudents and workers in advanced manufacturing learning and skill development. Throughpathway development programs CA2VES is able to work with local 2-year colleges to develop apipeline of next generation technicians with the capacity to positively impact the region’sgrowing economy. By 2018, it is projected that over 40 percent of advanced manufacturing jobs will requirepost-secondary education.24 Post-secondary education may include industry recognizedcertification, associate’s degrees, bachelor’s degrees or beyond where any
from Small Numbers” of Underrepresented Students’ Stories: Discussing a Method to Learn about Institutional Structure Through Narrative. Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, GA, June 23-26, 2013.6 Elliott, R. and Timulak, L. (2005). Descriptive and Interpretive Approaches to Qualitative Research. In Miles, J. and Gilbert, P. (Eds.), A Handbook of Research Methods for Clinical and Health Psychology (pp. 147-159). Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press.7 Walther, J. and Radcliffe, D. F. (2007). The Competence Dilemma in Engineering Education: Moving Beyond Simple Graduate Attribute Mapping. Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, 13(1): 41-51.8 Deardorff, D
Session 1309 Movement from a Taxonomy-Driven Strategy of Instruction to a Challenge-Driven Strategy in Teaching Introductory Biomechanics Robert J. Roselli, Sean P. Brophy Department of Biomedical Engineering / The Learning Technology Center Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37235AbstractMany courses adopt a traditional approach to instruction, characterized by lectures that follow alinear progression through a textbook that is organized about the general taxonomy of the subjectmatter. New theories of learning suggest that this
sustaining and organizing key efforts. During thisyear the team engaged in 1) information sharing, 2) community building, and 3) developing aunit identity. Efforts to forge a community of practice resulted in a new name-- the Outreach,Admissions, Scholarships and Inclusion Services (OASIS) unit. The OASIS unit organizedactivities to enable the College of Engineering to address critical issues of increasing thepathways for students into STEM with the sustainable support systems that enable participants ofall ages (pre-K-12, college, graduate students, and beyond) to thrive. In working with theAssociate Dean, this group set a goal of providing strategies and support to create a welcomingenvironment for learning and scholarship within the college and
Paper ID #21746Gatekeepers to Broadening Participation in Engineering: A Qualitative In-vestigation of a Case Site in Virginia (Work in Progress)Mr. Andrew L Gillen, Virginia Tech Andrew Gillen is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in the Department of Engineering Edu- cation at Virginia Tech. Andrew received his B.S. in Civil Engineering with an environmental engineering concentration from Northeastern University.Dr. Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia Tech Cheryl Carrico is a Research faculty member for Virginia Tech. Her current research focus relates to STEM career pathways (K-12 through early career) and
design, which incorporate course design, outreach activities, and generalconsiderations for engineering. These preliminary recommendations can be utilized by educators tosupport women and non-binary students towards the goal of creating more diverse design teams inundergraduate studies and beyond, ultimately leading to the innovative and creative hard-tech solutionsneeded to solve society’s biggest problems. Importantly, we aim for this paper to act as a motivator toconduct further research in the area of gender considerations in CAD tools and trainings to betterunderstand the actual barriers that women and non-binary individuals face in this field.IntroductionEngineers will need to play a critical role in addressing the increasingly complex
provides innovative technical solutions and cross-trainingfor professors and students alike.laborative research projects at the NWRT. The proposed laboratory/teaching program willprovide abundant opportunities for individuals that may concurrently assume responsibilitiesas researchers, educators, and students. The NWRT will facilitate joint efforts that infuseeducation with the excitement of discovery and enrich research through a diversity of learningperspectives.Integrated Interdiscliplinary Curriculum The project is truly a cross-disciplinary effort between the School of Meteorology and theSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering. This cross-fertilization between engineeringand meteorology is also exemplified in efforts currently
identify their plans after receiving thePh.D. degree, including a postdoctoral position, or faculty position, including teaching orresearch related positions. The one-on-one interviews were conducted to understand the cohortmembers’ career plans and goals, their graduation timeline, their perceived strengths andweaknesses, and where they sought assistance, within and beyond what the activities of themodel were already targeting. This initial interview was also significant in establishingcredibility with the cohort members, through sharing similar experiences as an academic and as aformer Ph.D. student who experienced similar questions, challenges, and decisions. It was alsosignificant to clarify the job search and job preparation efforts targeted
, New York, 1989.[32] Mary E. Ahlum-Heath and Francis J. Di Vesta, “The Effect of Conscious Controlled Verbalization of a Cognitive Strategy on Transfer in Problem Solving,” Memory and Cognition, Vol. 14 pp. 281-285, 1986.[33] David K. Pugalee, “Writing, Mathematics, and Metacognition: Looking for Connections Through Students’ Work in Mathematical Problem Solving,” School Science and Mathematics, Vol. 101, No. 5, May 2001.[34] Sigmund Tobias and Howard T. Everson, “Assessing Metacognitive Knowledge Monitoring,” College Board Report No. 96-01, College Entrance Examination Board, 1996.[35] Sigmund Tobias and Howard T. Everson, “Knowing What You Know and What You Don’t: Further Research on Metacognitive
Paper ID #46593Successful Engineering Capstone Design Projects based on a collaborationbetween the US Army and an Electrical Engineering program with a focuson CybersecurityDr. Virgilio Ernesto Gonzalez, University of Texas at El Paso Virgilio Gonzalez, Associate Chair and Professor of Practice at the ECE department at The University of Texas at El Paso, and started his first appointment at UTEP in 2001. He focuses his research on communication technologies. He received the UT System Board of Regents Outstanding Teaching Award and is actively engaged in K-12 Engineering outreach.Pilar Gonzalez, University of Texas at El Paso
learning of discipline-specific technical material(“writing to learn”).While the adoption of a writing across the curriculum approach is preferred from a pedagogicalstandpoint, its wide-ranging nature is logistically daunting for many reasons, ranging from thecourse/instructor level (“how do I include writing in my course?”) all the way through theprogram level (“how can we coordinate, support, and document the inclusion of writing acrossdozens of courses and instructors?”). At the course level, individual instructors have littleincentive to add more to their teaching workload, especially at research-intensive universities;moreover, the inclusion of writing as a new pedagogical element is widely perceived asparticularly time-intensive owing to the
. Page 12.600.2Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati CARLA PURDY is associate professor, department of electrical and computer engineering, University of Cincinnati, and secretary/treasurer ASEE-Graduate Studies Division.© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Page 12.600.3© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007Enabling a Strong U.S. Engineering Workforce for Technological Innovation: A National Partnership in Graduate Professional Education with Industry To Enhance U.S. Competitiveness and Economic DevelopmentI. Introduction ─Investing in America’s Future through EngineeringThis is the first of four invited papers prepared for a special panel
address the regional stormwater management challenges, it is critical to integrate knowledge,methods, data, languages, and expertise from different disciplines to pursue common researchchallenges across multiple communities. One way to achieve this convergence is through atransdisciplinary framework. Transdisciplinarity, an approach to human communication,meaning-making and collaborative decisions, supports the co-construction and soft assembly ofcomplex models and paradigms that value the input and design of structures across disciplinesfrom the very beginning. The current ascendancy of transdisciplinarity in research is highlightedby an exponential growth of publications, a widening array of contexts, and increased interestacross academic