Annual Conference, June 10-13, San Antonio,TX.[6] Vernaza, K. M., Steinbrink, S., Brinkman, B. J., Vitolo, T. M. (2014). Scholars of Excellence inEngineering and Computer Science Program, An NSF S-STEM Grant: Assessment and Lessons Learned- First Award. Proceedings of ICEER2014-McMaster International Conference on EngineeringEducation and Research, August 24-26, Hamilton, Canada.[7] Steinbrink, S., Vernaza, K. M., Brinkman, B. J., Zhao, L. and Nogaj, A. (2018). A Rolling Stone:Analysis of one NSF-STEM Program Through Successive Grant Periods. Proceedings of the 2018American Society of Engineering Education National Conference, June 24-27, Salt Lake City, UT.[8] Steinbrink, S., Vernaza, K. M., Brinkman, B. J., Vitolo, T., and Nogaj, A. (2017
thinking, teamwork, and effectivecommunication. Requirements for homework assignments, which vary between individualwork and group collaboration, are posted on the course Web site, and all assignments aresubmitted electronically. Overall, students report a high degree of satisfaction with thiscourse. They welcome the interaction with their peers, and appreciate the flexibilityafforded them through electronic communication.IntroductionIt is common knowledge that a strong technical curriculum is required to produce graduateswho are ready to enter the workforce. However, success in college hinges on the student’sability to excel in a new learning environment where the focus of their educationalexperience is on discovery and active learning. This is
students leadership Character, Competence, andCapacity (C3) by helping them learn who they must be, what they need to know, and what skillsthey must demonstrate in effective leadership. The courses build upon each other as the studentsprogress through the program. We have designed the curriculum in such a manner as to give thefaculty in the BSLE program substantial contact with Leadership Engineering (LE) studentsevery semester. We have cross-listed 8 hours of the LE courses due to the parallel nature ofeducational objectives in Graphic Fundamentals, Engineering Probability and StatisticalMethods, and Systems Engineering.The BSLE program is also designed to meet ABET student outcomes. The outcomes “a” through“k” are primarily addressed our core
, HYPOTHEkids Christine Kovich is Co-Founder of Harlem Biospace, a biotech incubator for early stage life science com- panies. She is also Executive Director of HYPOTHEkids, the K-12 STEM education non-profit with a mission to provide underserved students with hands-on science and engineering educational and mentor- ship experiences such that they can thrive in the high tech economy of tomorrow. Christine spent the previous 14 years in strategy and product development in the payments industry, most recently creat- ing partnerships with technology start-ups at MasterCard. Prior to that she worked with large consumer brands like PepsiCo and M&M/Mars in Toronto and Moscow. She has an International Masters in Busi- ness
the realisticproperties of such systems are explored in the Motion Control Lab. Additionally, limitingfactors common to other automatic control systems are experienced in the laboratory activities ina way that takes the students past the commonly encountered “beyond the scope of this text”caveat. Four specific laboratory exercises are: 1) measuring the nonlinear command-flowrelationships of a directional control valve, 2) implementing computer-based feedback control onthe position of a hydraulic cylinder, 3) testing various control strategies on hydraulic motorspeed control, and 4) customizing cylinder position control to achieve specific motion controlspecifications. 1) Flow characteristics of a directional control valve: In this
Paper ID #44038Expanding Support for Engaged Remote Student Learning of Internet ofThings Concepts and TechnologyDr. David Hicks, Texas A&M University, Kingsville David Hicks is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Before joining TAMU-K he served as Associate Professor and Department Head at Aalborg University in Esbjerg, Denmark. He has also held positions in research labs in the U.S. as well as Europe, and spent time as a researcher in the software industry.Dr. Lifford McLauchlan, Texas A&M University, Kingsville Dr. Lifford
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engineering. Journal ofPre-College Engineering Education Research, 5(1), 40-60. Roth, W. M. 1996. Knowledge diffusion in a grade 4–5 classroom during a unit on civilengineering: An analysis of a classroom community in terms of its changing resources andpractices. Cognition and Instruction, 14(2), 179–220. Tanner, K. D., Chatman, L., & Allen, D. (2003). Approaches to biology teaching andlearning: Science teaching and learning across the school-university divide – cultivatingconversations through scientist-teacher partnerships. Cell Biology Education, 2, 195-201. Van Meetreren, B., & Zan, B. (2010). Revealing the work of young engineers in earlychildhood education. STEM in Early Education and Development Conference, Cedar
specific value, say, 30 degrees, which would lessen the cognitive loading on the student.Li, et al. (Reference 9) state, “In a simple asymmetric configuration where steady state currentsflow through a straight wire and a loop, a somewhat surprising feature is that the resulting magneticfield can become chaotic depending on the relative size of the currents.” Even though the studyof chaotic behavior is beyond the scope of introductory calculus physics, discussing the variabilityof the current magnitudes in the straight wire and loop can elucidate its relevance with regard tomagnetic reconnection. Two moveable bar magnets would generate field lines that reconnect asthe distance between them changed, and could be illustrated in a 2-dimensional hand
and development, physical structure design, and control.A broad range of mobile robotics projects have been successfully implemented in undergraduateeducation over the last several years, from MIT’s famous 6.270 course9 to esoteric competitionssuch as the BEAM robot olympics10.Traditionally, mobile robotics courses at the undergraduate level have focused on issues in theconstruction and programming of these devices for tasks that rely on the use of either pre-defined map-based techniques or reactive architectures. Recently, development of a navigationmap through exploration has become a primary goal of many mobile robots2, and cooperationbetween individual robots is an increasingly accepted method for generating complex systembehaviors and
Work in Progress: Permanent Symposium on AIbetween technical specialists and decision makers may be the key to building AI as construc-tive and fit to purpose infrastructure in society.The outcomes of the broader research willinclude: (1) a fully developed conceptual framework addressing AI engagement challenges(2) a prototype PSAI platform tested on an international university network, and (3) rec-ommendations for scaling the platform through partnerships with universities, NGOs, andgovernments. This initial work-in-progress aims to document incremental advancements toward achiev-ing this broader objective, offering a transparent account of both our current approach andthe challenges encountered along the way. Beyond merely sharing
STEM curricula. She is particularly interested in equity in relation to STEM and maintaining diverse students’ STEM interest and engagement as they progress through elementary and middle school.Elizabeth Stretch, University of Minnesota ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Exploring a Teacher’s Discursive Moves in Facilitating Middle School Students’ Epistemic Practices of Engineering Abstract Integrating engineering into K-12 science classrooms is increasingly emphasized toenhance students’ engagement with scientific and mathematical concepts through real-worldproblem solving. Teachers play an important role in supporting
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withengineering education data through a specific engineering education example. In conducting TDA,multiple researcher decisions must be made for different modeling parameters. In the data analysis,a researcher must choose a filtering method, number of nearest neighbors (k), number of filterslices (n), overlap in data, and cut height (ε) for each dimension. The importance and effect on theconsistency and quality of the data differ for each decision. We present an example of studyingstudents’ underlying or latent diversity in attitudes beliefs and mindsets to illustrate the effect ofthese different researcher decisions on the resulting data progressions. We also discuss thestrengths of this new approach to understand better how multiple measures can be
, and Economic Performance. United States: Federal Register, 2009, pp. 1–13.[11] EIA, “U.S Energy Information Administration,” How much of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions are associated with electricity generation?, 2017. .[12] A. Jordan, T. I. M. Rayner, H. Schroeder, N. Adger, and K. Anderson, “Going beyond two degrees ? The risks and opportunities of alternative options,” vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 751–769, 2013.[13] Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project, “Pathways to deep decarbonization 2015 report- executive summary,” 2015.[14] UNESCO, “UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005 - 2014: The DESD at a glance,” 2005.[15] L. A. Kimaryo, “Integrating environmental education in primary school education in
regarding specific scenarios but inconsistencies in approaches have minimized thegreater possible impact of center evaluations [11, 12].Large-scale, cooperative efforts are essential to further innovation and effective practicesemerging from such centers [11]. A multi-institutional consortium, The ERC EvaluationConsortium (TEEC), was formed to combat prior shortcomings through the design of easilyaccessible quantitative and qualitative [13] evaluation instruments shared by all centers. Theconsortium is composed of ERC education directors, researchers, and evaluators from six NSF-funded ERCs.This research paper reports on the in-progress validation efforts for the Multi-ERC InstrumentInventory (MERCII) survey designed to assess the perceived impact
Dr. Kate Fu is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology with a joint appointment in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to this appointment, she has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). In May 2012, she completed her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2009, and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University in 2007. Her work has focused on studying the engineering design process through cognitive studies, and extending those findings to the development of methods and tools to facilitate more effective and
AC 2012-5085: RESPONSES TO AN UNFAMILIAR THING: HOW LEARN-ING ABOUT A STRUCTURAL SCULPTURE CAN MAKE IT MORE AP-PEALINGDr. Charles E. Riley, Oregon Institute of Technology Charles Riley has a background in transportation structures and structural mechanics. He teaches across the curriculum from the interdisciplinary freshman experience through the mechanics sequence, project management, structural design, and into the senior capstone. His interests in engineering education are varied, but are ultimately focused on excellence in the classroom and student retention (both retaining them in the program and having them retain information!).Dr. Sean St.Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology Sean St.Clair is an Associate
mL c 2 n . mL2Upon completion of the initial parameter estimation, students are able to examine the stabilitypredictions of the model by varying the gain K p . Contrary to what they would expect based onthe theory of second order systems, the plan has a critical gain K * 3 , beyond which the system ploses its stability as illustrated in Figure 7. Figure 7. Root locus of a third order system with critical gain Kp=3
orientationwhich endured and strengthened through the course of the RAISE program.As mentioned above, we also grouped students into “family groups” which were assigned to 1-2 peermentors. Through team-building with the staff of the OP and other activities that were done in thesegroups (including walking between locations on campus), students had sustained interaction with asmaller group of students than the entire group of program participants, which in turn fostereddeveloping closer relationships with a subset of their peers with the goal of increasing the likelihood ofstudents maintaining these relationships beyond the conclusion of the program.Outdoor ExperienceThe Outdoor Experience portion of the RAISE program is designed to provide an opportunity
schools and teachers were recruited to establish HSE teams andprovide in-house teacher-coaches. During the summer of 2007, an initial workshop was heldwith several K-12 teachers to design the HSE program and present some basic engineering andbusiness concepts. Three of these teachers went on to start teams at their schools. The HSEprogram director worked with these teams through the 2007/08 academic year to select projects,assist teams in establishing university partnerships, and advise and monitor the teams during thefirst pilot year. The three pilot teams – from Cass Tech in Detroit, Calumet High School inMichigan’s Upper Peninsula, and Utica High School, a suburban Detroit area school – presentedtheir work at the University Undergraduate Expo
also within their academic training, earlyin their professional socialization, that an ethical mindset can be best imparted to engineeringstudents so that they have multiple opportunities to think through these complex issues and so thatit becomes a part not just of their thinking but also their identity.Engineering Ethics EducationThe field of engineering ethics has a growing pool of scholarly work over the last decade. Muchof the growth in published work can be attributed to maintaining accreditation with professionalassociations such as ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology). A literarystudy of 26 published engineering ethics interventions in scholarly journals between 2000 and2015 noted that "The majority of the 26
to the engineering education community through research related to undergraduate research programs and navigational capital needed for graduate school.Mr. Dennis M Lee, Clemson University Dennis M. Lee is a doctoral candidate in the Engineering and Science Education Department at Clemson University. He received his BA and MS in bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Prior to his studies at Clemson University, he taught introductory biology at Tri-County Technical College in Pendleton, SC. His research interests include the development of researcher identity and epistemic cognition in undergraduate STEM students.Ms. Anne Marguerite McAlister, University of Virginia Anne McAlister is a research
the expressway waswhere thousands of people lived. So, while the expressway achieved its goal of creating anefficient means to travel through the Bronx via automobile, it destroyed a community in theprocess. As a result, 5,000 residents were displaced from 1,500+ apartments, 113 streetsreworked, housing prices plummeted, and unemployment skyrocketed, to name a few of thenegative consequences. The alternative route suggested by engineers and community memberswould have displaced only a total of nineteen families—with the demolition of the Third Avenuetransport depot and six dilapidated tenement brownstones according to Journalist, Robert Caro.This goes beyond the efficiency of the design of the expressway and centers on ethical concerns.Civil
in K-12education. As a result of three decades of initiatives, girls have made consistent gains to close thegap in K-12 mathematics and science achievement [7]. Girls are now graduating from high schoolhaving taken equal numbers of mathematics and science credits and earning higher grades in thosesubjects than their male classmates. Additionally, girls have shown comparable success inAdvanced Placement courses, have as strong of a grade point average, and are equally likely toselect a STEM field of study in undergraduate education [8]-[10]. Despite such gains in K-12education, enrollment is still more than 80% male by the third year in most university engineeringprograms. Aware of these statistics, we chose to not interrogate students, but
career growth opportunities. Asmentees navigate through their career path, the journey of mentorship serves as a valuableopportunity for learning and growth.4.2 Mentor: characteristics, requirements, and common meaningThe benefits from a mentorship relationship are less obvious to the mentor. Interestingly, themost frequent type of motivation coded was intrinsic, indicating an emphasis on personal benefitfrom the support of a mentee’s growth. Mentors value the mutual growth and insight gained frommentorship as “passing along wisdom and experiences with a mentee, but it goes beyond this…it is more of a shared journey.” The mentor's perspective on mentorship connects guidance withreflection, often motivated by past experiences. Another emergent
cooperation during the UpperPaleolithic and Mesolithic periods [39], [40]. Humans possess a unique capacity to alter theirsurroundings, creating objects and systems imbued with meanings beyond their naturalfunctions. Early hominins may have conceptualized relational frameworks and folk notions oftime, space, and force through observing nature, contributing—through embodied activity—tothe development of symbolic systems such as storytelling and to causal reasoning about theproperties and functions of materials like sticks, stones, fire, and water [41]. Here, storytelling isseen as an early technology—an object—of emotional and communal survival. These earlyinsights may have laid the cognitive groundwork for psychological understanding and
semester extension due to the work-loadof the first semester. This evidence indicates that a pilot section of a second semester of EG 1003 could betested with a quarter of first-year students. Further research questions regarding the curriculumand logistics of the potential second semester cornerstone follow (1) Through what methods canentrepreneurship be incorporated in a cornerstone course to give students the toolkit to take theirproject beyond the course? (2) What should be the breakdown of classroom time when workingon an open-ended project for a second semester cornerstone? With the additional researchquestions on the implementation of the second semester cornerstone, more insight could beprovided to determine if a second semester
2002 to teach full-time. Mostly, he worries about how to make undergraduate engineering students more professional. Once a tennis player, he is now trying to become a golfer. Bridge, cooking, and his family take the rest of his time.Dr. Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California Gisele Ragusa is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of En- gineering and Rossier School of Education. She has expertise in engineering education, design pedagogy, faculty development, K-12 STEM education and assessment, measurement, and advanced research de- sign. Page 25.90.1
://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-will- transform-teaching-and-learning-lets-get-it-right[11] Y. K. Dwivedi et al., “Opinion Paper: ‘So what if ChatGPT wrote it?’ Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy,” Int. J. Inf. Manag., vol. 71, p. 102642, Aug. 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102642.[12] M. Sherin, V. Jacobs, and R. Philipp, Mathematics Teacher Noticing: Seeing Through Teachers’ Eyes. Routledge, 2011.[13] K. K. H. Chan, L. Xu, R. Cooper, A. Berry, and J. H. Van Driel, “Teacher noticing in science education: do you see what I see?,” Stud. Sci. Educ., vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 1–44, Jan. 2021, doi: 10.1080/03057267.2020.1755803.[14