StructureThe one-week engineering workshop was called the Talented Researchers in Engineering (TRIE)program. There were eight student participants, all of whom were from local public or privateschools. A special effort was made to encourage participants from public schools in which themajority of students are from minority ethnic or gender backgrounds. This was done throughdirect phone calls to counselors and teachers, face to face meetings as well as email.Administrators of other potential participating private schools received an email about theprogram only. Three faculty members and a graduate assistant supervised the eight participants.The curriculum design intent was to expose these students to engineering methods thatdemonstrate applications of
Paper ID #43851Planning a Trucking Research Consortium using Industry Customer Discoveryand Innovation Ecosystem MappingProf. Mohamed Razi Nalim, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Dr. Razi Nalim is Chancellor’s Professor of Mechanical Engineering at IUPUI, where he directs the Combustion and Propulsion Research Laboratory and helps lead the Transportation and Autonomous Systems Institute. He has extensive experience in higher education and professional practice – in industry, academia, and government. He has administered research, sponsored work, graduate programs, international initiatives, accreditation
to UWM’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Jablonski is focusing her dissertation on sustainable oxidation of textile wastewater and is working to create small-scale wastewater treatment units for cottage textile industries. She trained at the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur, India where she worked on biodegradation of azo dye intermediates. Jablonski served as Co-chair of UWM’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders for two years since its inception in 2007 and continues to help design and implement water distribution projects in Guatemala. Jablonski was a 2008 recipient of the NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention, the 2008 Wisconsin Water Association
Bello (UNAB). She graduated as physics teacher (for middle and high school), physics (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. in Physics at Universidad Nacional de C´ordoba, Argentina. In 2013 she obtained a three-year postdoctoral position at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her focus is set on educational research, physics education, problem-solving, design of instructional material, teacher training and gender studies. She teaches undergraduate courses related to environmental management, energy and fundamentals of industrial processes at the School of Engineering, UNAB. She currently is coordinating the Educational and Academic Innovation Unit at the School of Engineering (UNAB) that is engaged with the continuing teacher
from the Revolutionizing Engineering Departments Participatory Action ResearchAbstractThis research paper describes participatory action research with change agents who are engagedin making academic change on their campuses through the NSF REvolutionizing Engineeringand Computer Science Departments (RED) Program, focusing on the first cohort of awardees.Through REDPAR (RED Participatory Action Research), an NSF-funded collaboration betweenRose-Hulman Institute of Technology and the University of Washington, we work with the REDteams to investigate the change process and also provide training and support. This paperaddresses one of the research questions guiding the study, “How do change agents
engineers, play a critical role inovercoming these barriers and protecting environmental quality. Preparation for college coursesin engineering begins in the P-12 schools, including high school science courses. Therefore,positive impacts on high school science students are expected from enhancing teacherproficiency. There are a variety of development and training programs for science teachers. Aunique program, described in this paper, embeds scientific research as a key component ofenhancing teacher proficiency. The Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Site programs havebeen implemented studied in a variety of STEM contexts for teacher development (9-13). This paper describes Research Experiences for Teachers (RET Site) that provides
, Page 25.602.2 integrating oral and written communication into all facets of the discipline, and providing training in “soft skills” such as leadership, management, creative problem solving, etc.All the while schools are reducing the total number of hours in the engineering curriculum toallow the average student to graduate in four years. 5 Accomplishing all of this is an impressiveundertaking, considering the approach to educating engineers since the 1950s.6Add to this mix the desire of Baylor University to grow in its various research areas, and it isclear that unless emphasis continues to be on quality undergraduate teaching, the demands of theresearch paradigm – graduate resources, labs, facilities, students – will
Foundation'sTransforming Undergraduate Education in STEM program (grant no. 1323259), addresses apersistent problem in engineering education: the discrepancy between the writing skills ofprogram graduates and the demands of writing in the workplace. In the project, new teachingmaterials are based on research about effective writing by civil engineering practitioners. Thematerials are integrated into existing courses and assignments, rather than through majorcurriculum changes, so that new instruction can be implemented more easily and quickly. Thisposter paper provides a brief summary of the project, emphasizing the teaching materials andassessment results from the past three years. More details can be found in several publications[1]-[5].Project Need, Background
,” they begin to understand that their undergraduate learning experiences are merelybuilding blocks upon which more in-depth learning is based. Exposure to actual researchprojects in the undergraduate curriculum also serves to enhance the students’ curiosity about howtheir undergraduate course subjects matter and how they can be used to solve more than just“textbook” problems6.There are different ways for undergraduate students to participate inresearch activities including on campus research assistant positions, summer research experienceprograms, independent study research credits, and even research-oriented degree requirements7. Page
development of several initiatives aimed at improving student retention and graduation rates as well as supporting faculty with development with effective learning and teaching pedagogies.Dr. Barbara A. Heifferon, Louisiana State University Page 25.1445.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Using Technology to Teach Communications and Communications to Teach Technology in a Study-Abroad Learning EnvironmentAbstract:In the summer of 2010, Louisiana State University (LSU) developed a study-abroad course,Industrial Engineering 4785
in 1999. In September 1999 he began a position as a postdoctoral research associate with the Physics Education Group at the University of Washington. He has published papers in the Physics Teacher magazine and the 2002 and 2003 PER Conference Proceedings and has had a paper accepted for publication in the Physics Education Research Supplement to the AJP.Stephanie Barr, Chicago State University Stephanie A. Barr is currently a graduate student in mathematics at Chicago State University (CSU). She earned her B.S. in mathematics in 2007 from CSU with a minor in physics. She is currently involved in researching student understanding of physics, focusing on student use of
Paper ID #36718Enhancing job-readiness through short courses: A case study in powerengineeringMr. Hua Chai, University of New South Wales Hua Chai received his dual Bachelor’s Degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Project Management from North China Electric Power University, China, in 2014. He received his Master’s degree (Master of Philosophy) in Electrical Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2019. He is cur- rently a Ph.D. student in the Energy Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW. His research interests include power engineering education, curriculum
Paper ID #38482Panel: Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Perspectives onAdvancing Women and Gender Equity in Engineering - for the Next 130YearsDr. Baishakhi Bose, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Baishakhi Bose is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL). Her cur- rent research focus is on life cycle assessment of novel polymers, building materials and plastic recycling processes. She obtained her PhD. in Materials Engineering from Purdue University in 2021. Since 2014, she has taught courses in Civil, Materials and First Year Engineering to undergraduates, and mentored
having publications. Such experience will likely have an influence inthe student’s career choice. Research students also get financial support and sometimes thebenefit of office space. A study1of science, mathematics, and engineering majors concludes: (p.384) “All students, regardless of race or ethnicity, appreciated those departments and facultywho had given them a discipline–specific work–study opportunity or the chance to be involvedwith a research project. We found that research opportunities for any undergraduates were rareon all seven campuses. However, students who had been involved in departmental research werevery enthusiastic about their experience and felt it greatly enhanced their interest in the field.”Another book2 on retention
school analytics curriculum andeducation to reach underserved students, such as those from rural areas. At least thirty 9th-12thgrade mathematics, computer science, and pre-engineering teachers will participate in AR-DATAand work with faculty mentors, graduate students, curriculum coaches, and industry experts in asix-week RET Summer Program and academic-year follow up to develop and disseminatelearning modules to enhance current curriculum, attain new knowledge of data analytics andengineering applications, and benefit professionally through the RET program activities. Thelearning modules developed will reflect current cutting-edge analytics research, as well as thedevelopment needs of next-generation analytics workforce.KeywordsData Analytics
Paper ID #9048The PEER Collaborative: Supporting engineering education research facultywith near-peer mentoring unconference workshopsDr. Alice L Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alice L. Pawley is an associate professor in the School of Engineering Education with affiliations with the Women’s Studies Program and Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She has a B.Eng. in chemical engineering (with distinction) from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering with a Ph.D. minor in women’s studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She
research interests include designing computer chips, electronic design automation and developing software for computer hardware. She has won several awards for her work on the development of software tools for computer engineering. In addition, Dr. Behjat has a passion for increasing the statues of women in Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Dr. Behjat was the recipient of 2015 Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) Women in Engineering Champion Award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 K-12 Digital Skills Programs as Preparation for Engineering Study: A Systematic Literature
numerous awards include the first Fraunhofer-Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Society in 2006; the 2015 Boyer Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Engineering Innovation from the College of Engineering; and 2006 and 2015 Mars Fontana Best Teacher Awards from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. During his tenure as Graduate Studies Chair over the past four years, Wolfgang Windl has pioneered and successfully introduced the first holistic admission protocol within the MSE Department and is currently helping to extend this approach to the College of Engineering and the OSU Graduate School. c American Society for Engineering
return to education after industry experience.Gary Lichtenstein (Founder & Principal, Quality Evaluation Designs) Gary Lichtenstein, Ed.D. is founder and principal of Quality Evaluation Designs, a firm specializing in education research and evaluation. My intellectual interests include mixed-methods research, program development and evaluation, and engineering education persistence. My expertise includes program evaluation, research design, proposal development, logic models, IRB and communities of practice.Kelsey Watts Kelsey Watts is a fifth-year graduate student at Clemson University. She is part of the Engineering Education Research Peer Review Training (EER PERT) team. She has also developed Systems Biology
a teaching assistant for four semesters of a programming fundamentals course. She is a strong proponent of fomenting divergent thinking in the engineering curriculum specifically by leveraging the arts.Ms. Andrea Essenfeld, University of Florida Andrea Essenfeld is a recent graduate from the University of Florida’s, earning her bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering in December 2020. Her undergraduate research focuses on creativity tests and divergent thinking. She is passionate about how the mind learns and expresses itself, and thus has been working most recently in the engineering education domain.Dr. Jade Williams, University of Florida Dr. Williams is a Lecturer in the Dial Center for Oral
Session 1053 Mold Design for Injection Molding: A Successful Industry-University Partnership Case Study Masud Salimian Advanced Engineering Design Center, Morgan State UniversityAbstractIn spring semester of 1999, a visit from Black and Decker Power Tool Division to Morgan StateUniversity’s School of Engineering and ensuing meetings resulted in establishing a partnershipwith tremendous success in a number of areas on which the partnership had focused. One of theareas, the mold design for the injection molding machine, was extremely successful and became amodel for
exploration of: 1) race, gender, and identity and 2) computer science education research in order to inform pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women and minorities in computer-related engineering fields.Jasmine Skye Batten, Florida International University Jasmine Batten is an undergraduate computer science education researcher whose goal is to earn her PhD in computer science and become a professor. She is interested in improving women’s retention in com- puter science by researching different pedagogical techniques including active learning and gamification and their effects on women. She will graduate from Florida International University in August 2019 with her BS in computer science
mountain to monitor seismic activity, for example, they either have to supplyelectricity using cables or hike out to each sensor every six months or so to replace batteries.The aim of this paper is to identify, appraise and select high quality research evidence relevant tothe coastal monitoring use of WSNs to serve as educational engineering project. Before theproject started an extensive literature reviewed was conducted to offer an overview of the present Page 24.876.2state of this field of study and identify the principal resources that maybe used to implement ourproject. A WSN is an autonomous network system consisting of large number of
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Accessing Engineering Standards: A Study in ARL Best Practices for Acquiring and DisseminatingAbstractEngineering Standards are seemingly the bane of every engineering librarian's existence.Sometimes it feels like they give collection development a bad name. Librarians want them,researchers want them, students want them, but they are hard to acquire and can cost a fortune.Especially when an institution doesn’t have a specific policy for them. Given these (and other)headaches surrounding Standards, librarians at Florida State University (FSU) decided toconduct a study of how Association of Research Libraries (ARL) are accessing their
this paper is to examine the impacts of different mindsets on the way educatorsapproach their teaching and research. Although the results from this four-person study are notgeneralizable to engineering or education faculty more broadly, gaining a better understanding ofthe problem-solving-relevant mindsets of these individuals can add greater detail andunderstanding to concepts explored in previously established literature.This paper is organized as follows. In the next section, we describe the background and literaturerelevant to our study. Next, we describe our methods for collecting and analyzing the interviewtranscript data. The Findings section describes the mindsets and themes we found in the databased on the analysis process. It is
Paper ID #11716Experiences with Capstone Projects in a Master of Engineering ManagementProgram: A case studyDr. Ali Hilal-Alnaqbi , United Arab Emirates University Dr Ali is an Emirates by birth and a citizenship. He graduated with PhD as a biomedical Engineer from University of Strathclyde in Scotland. Ali is holds a Post-Doc certificate from Harvard. He is a fellow of the BWH in Boston. Ali started his career in 2006 in the UAEU as the assistant professor at the department of mechanical engineering where he is as now works as a department chair and acting assistant dean for research and graduate studies. Ali was promoted
Education Research Council . ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Perception Study of an Online Electricity and Magnetism Course for Working StudentsAbstractTeaching basic sciences to engineering students online, specifically for "working students,"presents a unique challenge. It is contentious whether the conventional method ofinstruction employed in traditional daytime undergraduate programs is the most suitable forsuch a diverse group of students. Working students have limited time and energy due towork and family commitments, weak mathematical and conceptual foundations, and, formost of them, no plans for postgraduate studies or scientific research. This study
Session 2045 Effect of Guided Research Experience on Product Design Performance: A Pilot Study Gül E. Okudan 1 and Bonnie Osif2 School of Engineering Design and Professional Programs 1 Engineering Library2 The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802AbstractTeams are used in industry, not only to increase productivity in solving problems but also to formand sustain strategic capabilities through employee learning. To prepare students for similarproblem
student knowledge and retention, studies I. INTRODUCTION suggest that PBL enhances students’ abilities to apply their knowledge both immediately and in the long term. Thus theB ioengineering suffers from a significant lag between laboratory bench discovery and realimplementation. A primary challenge in engineering education world PBL approach can help integrate classroom learning, research
Paper ID #6662A Follow-Up Study of a First-Year Leadership and Service Learning ModuleMs. Farzana Ansari, University of California, Berkeley Farzana Ansari is a graduate student studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in May 2012 and her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on retrievals analysis and novel material characterization for orthopedic devices, par- ticularly those for shoulder replacement. Her work experiences in industry and