Paper ID #38466Survey of the Entrepreneurial Mindset of Students in UndergraduateLaboratory CoursesAkshara SubramaniasivamDr. Rebecca Marie Reck, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Rebecca M. Reck is a Teaching Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign. Her research includes alternative grading, entrepreneurial mindset, instructional laboratories, and equity-focused teaching. She teaches biomedical instrumentation, signal processing, and control systems. She earned a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an M.S. in Electrical
incorporated theories on social cognitive career choices and student attrition mitigation to investigate the effectiveness of institutional interventions in increasing the retention and academic success of talented engineering students from economically disadvantaged families. She’s also involved in a project that explores the relationship between the institutional policies at UPRM and faculty and graduate students’ motivation to create good relationships between advisors and advisees.Dr. Nayda G. Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Nayda G. Santiago is professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) where she teaches the Capstone Course in
control classes experienced the same curriculum and wererequired to fulfill the same course requirements. The format of both groups includedsmall group collaborative learning activities, a cooperative learning capstone project(written and oral), individual assignments and reflections, some lectures, and classdiscussion as well as individual and group conferences.V. Data AnalysisFor this study, several forms of analysis were performed on the data. The statisticaltechniques used were selected because they provided a way to measure differencesbetween two groups. The post-test control group design enabled the researcher tomeasure differences between groups for treatment effects and key outcomes.First, descriptive statistics, simple frequency
Engineering (Ph.D. UCLA 2002), and she has several years’ experience in hands-on informal science education, including working at the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley. While at Cal Poly Pomona, she taught the first year engineering course, mentored student capstone re- search projects, and introduced nanoHUB simulation tools into the undergraduate curriculum in materials science and engineering and electrical engineering courses. Much of her work has focused on introducing STEM concepts to broad audiences and encouraging students, including women and others in traditionally under-represented groups, to consider graduate school. Four of her former research students are currently in, or have completed, Ph.D. programs
. Page 25.520.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Empathy and Caring as Conceptualized Inside and Outside of Engineering: Extensive Literature Review and Faculty Focus Group AnalysesAbstractThe purpose of this study was to investigate how faculty both inside and outside of engineeringconceptualize empathy and care and how they perceive empathy, care, and engineering to be (ornot to be) interrelated. The project employed a comprehensive comparative literature reviewalongside a thematical analysis of focus group interviews, the interviews being conducted withfaculty inside and outside of engineering. The primary research objectives include (1) definingempathy
critical thinking and deep learning of students when immersed in various active learning environments.Gurcan Comert, Benedict College Associate Professor of Engineering at Benedict College, has expertise in risk analyses and intelligent transportation systems via the development of applications of statistical models on different systems such as traffic signals and freeway monitoring. He is also engaged in the modeling and quantifying of cy- berattacks at transportation networks under the framework of connected and autonomous vehicles. He is currently serving as associate director at the Tier 1 University Transportation Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility. Part of different NSF and DOT funded projects, he has worked
and Technology Fellow at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). His research project at MCC fo- cuses on the design and implementation of microgrids to aid the expansion of modern electricity services in six Sub Saharan African countries: (1) Sierra Leone, (2) Liberia, (3) Ghana, (4) Benin, (5) Tanza- nia, and (6) Malawi. Prior to his current position at MCC, Shelby was a dual J. Herbert Hollomon and Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy fellow within the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) working on engineering education initiatives and the application of operational system engineer- ing techniques for peace building and diplomacy endeavors in Libya, Kenya, and Haiti. Shelby recently completed
critical of thefirst. Finally, elements of the curriculum that are essentially 100% engineering or 100% businesswere designed by one professor from the appropriate discipline and are taught by that oneprofessor, since an integrated learning experience was unnecessary. For the technologyentrepreneurship track that is the focus of this paper, 30 of the 42 required credits for the degreeare of the integrated design type, reinforcing the close relationship that engineers and managershave in companies.The program accepted its first group of students in the summer of 2001, and offered only thetechnology entrepreneurship track to the first entering class. It was open to all engineeringdisciplines. The course described in this paper is a part of the
, "Bluetooth: Technology for Short-Range Wireless Applications," in IEEE Internet Computing, vol. May-June, 2001.[11] IEEE, "Specification of IEEE 802.11, ." Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/index.html,2001.[12] D. Gajski et al., SpecC: Specification Language and Methodology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, March 2000.[13] E. Aronson et al., The Jigsaw Classroom, Sage Publishing Co., 1978. See also http://www.jigsaw.org/ Page 7.6.13 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright
numerical andtextual feedback. For example, if players did not identify the correct soil type they will see at theend “Incorrect soil type analysis”. Such textual feedback was included in order to provideimmediate feedback to the player, along with the numerical scores.ResultsIn the initial three years of this project, we gradually implemented three different versions ofGeoExplorer at four different universities, reaching a total of approximately 500 students in theperiod of 2016 to 2019. During this period, we iterated the game by addressing software bugsand feedback we received from students and instructors, as well as by fine-tuning the curriculum,when possible, and the supporting materials for an effective implementation. We report here
engineering at ASU. Her interests include innovative teaching pedagogies for increased retention and student motivation, innovations in non-traditional delivery methods, as well as structured reflective practices throughout the engineering curriculum. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Flipped Solid Mechanics Course Designed Based-on the Interactive, Constructive, Active, and Passive (ICAP) FrameworkIntroductionAccording to Lage et al., “Inverting the classroom means that events that have traditionally takenplace inside the classroom now take place outside the classroom and vice versa”1. The wordflipped sometimes is also used for a classroom environment like this. A flipped (or
,environmental, civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering). There were a few differentanalysis methods taken for this project—one involved a structural narrative analysis method 13and another involved identifying critical events in students’ experiences and categorizing themusing the multi-dimensional model of emotions.14,15Research FindingsThis research project explored the role of emotion in engineering student learning with a focuson professional/connected knowing. The hypothesis of this research is that emotions are afacilitator of and essential mechanism in the acquisition of professional and connected ways ofknowing. The project has resulted in five journal articles—the following sections state theprimary research question and highlight some
continuous use of teamwork, peer-to-peer learning, and group assessmentssuch as projects. The collaborative working environment was a focus for both courses given thepre-requisite structure the department had adopted. Pre- or co-requisites of the course includePhysics 1, Chemistry 1, Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations andthe Freshman and Sophomore Engineering courses. Neither course requires Physics II (essentialsof electricity, magnetism, and optics) or any pre-requisite programming experience. This meantthat the courses had to accommodate students ranging from no programming background orbasic electrical theory to students with strong computer science/physics background. The authorschose to leverage this by
efficiencyare computed. Other aspects such as time to dry and noise are quantified to complete thecharacterization, which is compared with the original needs analysis to develop productredesign ideas.C. National Curricula (Infinity Project and Project Lead the Way)The teachers are introduced to the two most widely disseminated secondary levelengineering curricula. The overviews and specific engineering content come directlyfrom each organization so that a faithful and accurate experience is provided for theteachers. Infinity Project is an Electrical Engineering based curriculum (Digital SignalProcessing). The teachers experience a module that addresses digital representations ofimages through computer-based labs utilizing virtual instruments that run
International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP). His project with electrical vehicle at the Unicamp E-Racing team was awarded the first place at the national competition (Brazil) and international competition (USA), and he was selected in the Future Entrepreneurs Program promoted by Redemprendia.Zachary James Beyer, Purdue University, West Lafayette I am an undergraduate working in the Engineering Education department at Purdue University through the UPRISE program.Mr. Hassan Ali Al Yagoub, Purdue University, West Lafayette Hassan Al Yagoub is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education and an Explorer fellow at Purdue Uni- versity. His research interests include diversity & inclusion, international engineering
Paper ID #18393Who are we? Beyond Monolithic Perspectives of Latinxs in EngineeringDr. Renata A. Revelo, University of Illinois, Chicago Renata A. Revelo is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She earned her B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and her Ph.D. in Education Organization and Leadership from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Dr. Joel Alejandro Mejia, Angelo State University Joel Alejandro Mejia is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Angelo State University. He is
Computer ScienceDepartment, University of Washington7-10. The course itself might be unique in that it carries only two credits, is scheduled to meet onlytwice per week in fifty minute sessions, and still is expected to educate students to a depthcomparable to the typical preceding courses in mechanics, electricity and magnetism. Toprovide additional opportunities for problem solving, I hold an additional, strictly voluntary,recitation session each week. The course was created by me in response to curriculum changes in the School ofEngineering and taught for the first time in the fall 2004 semester. The population is about 180sophomores in the fall and about 100 sophomores in the spring. The spring class consists ofcoop students who have
Page 3.117.1with the capability and motivation to learn new concepts on their own. Educators will becomefacilitators of the learning process assessing student performance in real time to encourage theirgrowth in the use of these essential processes.A strong indication of the trend towards this performance based assessment became evidentwhen ABET voted to quit evaluating engineering schools on the basis of faculties, facilities,curriculum, and resources. The new criteria, to be used nationally, will look at outcomes,meaning the performance of students and recent graduates. Historically, engineering projectbased courses have been confined to the senior year. Many schools are now revampingcurriculums to create project based courses from the
the performance of their student designteam in the areas of technical quality, problem-solving ability, communications quality, and teamperformance.Peer evaluation is another method of assessing design frequently used in engineering courses.This method requires students to evaluate the performance of fellow team members incompleting the design project. For example, Byrd and Hudgins (1995) describe the individualpeer evaluation they use in teaching a senior design course for electrical and computer Page 3.529.4engineering students. Using a scale of 0-100, students rate themselves as well as their teammatesin several areas such as whether the
used inputvariables such as gender, residence, work experience (demographic variables), educational level,multiple-choice test score, career, project submission date, section activity (previous academicperformance variables). They measured model performance with accuracy, precision, andsensitivity metrics.Martinho et al.[16] presents a model based on a Fuzzy-ARTMAP neural network using onlyenrollment data collected for seven years. The model performance results showed an accuracy ofover 85%.Mubarak et al.[17] used Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and sequential logistic regression togenerate the predictive model. The dataset comprises variables such as mean number of sessionsper participant per week, access number behavior, problem, video wiki
andtechnical considerations in engineering work [3], [10], [11]. Yet, such sociotechnical integrationhas historically been difficult to achieve in the engineering curriculum. This is due, in part, to thestructure of many engineering curricula which often emphasize technical engineering sciencecourses and rely almost exclusively on closed-ended, decontextualized problems [12], [13].Neeley et al. [14] describe the historical progression of such integration in their review paper, inwhich they observed four surges in activity around applied science and technology studies. Theydescribe the most recent of these, in 2017-2018, as “embedded sociotechnical systems thinking”(p. 11), a time period which also saw the beginning of the research activities described
different experimentalstress analysis methods and experimental designs to enhance the learning of the mechanicsconcepts. One paper proposed the optical method of caustics to study the effects of the presenceof a crack in machine components and structural members1; experiments were included tovisually demonstrate to the students the state of stress at a crack tip. The use and importance ofnumerical methods in designing and dimensioning of machine components is increasing.However, Franz et. al showed the benefits to students of using photoelastic experiments besidenumerical calculation2. Many cases used the electrical-resistance strain gages to interest the
controlled throughArduino (Zoltar is a famous brand of mechanical fortune tellers). An example of one traditionalescape room is shown in Figure 2. The introduction to the project and the milestone assessments are done during class time,while construction of the projects are done outside of class. Students construct their projects intheir own creative vision. Materials, electronics, and methodology are all decided by thestudents, with the instructor available for advice or troubleshooting on particular parts.Generally, students gravitate toward cost-efficient materials like plywood and acrylic. Manygroups use Arduino hardware and sensors to add an electrical component to their project.Woodworking was done using either a CNC mill, a laser
been extensively used to understand student emotions in other STEM fields[11]. However, this theory has not been used extensively in the context of computerprogramming. A better understanding of student emotions may help educators designcurriculum and pedagogy to mitigate the effects of negative emotions, and to promote positiveemotions. This improved curriculum and pedagogy may eventually help students maximize theirlearning and performance in programming courses.2. Research QuestionsThe overarching objective of this study is to understand the emotions experienced by first-yearengineering students as they work on programming problems. Specifically, I ask the followingresearch questions: 1. What emotions do first-year engineering students
the workshop and the PHLIpS Method. Overall the workshop feedback was verypositive and avenues for improvement to the PHLIpS Method also resulted.IntroductionMany professor are aware that active learning is a more effective approach than traditionalengineering lecture courses1 but they often lack the tools and time necessary to implement activelearning in their classrooms. As part of an NSF CCLI Phase II project, completed in 2008, theauthors developed, tested, and validated active learning products in the specific domain ofengineering mechanics 2. Over 25 active learning products (ALPs) were created anddisseminated as part of this collaborative effort. In addition, a general and repeatable approachto developing the active learning products
Station. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He was an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. At Rose-Hulman, he co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, which was recognized in 1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He served as Project Director a Na- tional Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized innovative
the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Zimbabwe. He was coordinator of the Africa Virtual University Project at NUST in Zimbabwe. He was founding chairman of the Electronic Science and Technology Program at Universiti Sains Malaysia. A frequent presenter at international conferences, Mariasingam has focused on quality in distance education, reforms and innovation in engineering education, alternative delivery approaches and alternative approaches to financing engineering education. He has developed a comprehensive set of quality standards in terms of rigorous benchmarks for assessment of the quality of online degree programs. He has published papers and
topics andprovide a pathway for them to pursue engineering careers in the future.As a result, the incorporation of DLI in engineering can promote participation fromunderrepresented groups by encouraging them to be involved in engineering communities, andprovides an avenue for these groups to pursue engineering careers in the future. While there aremany different approaches to increasing diversity in engineering, we hope the results obtainedfrom this DLI project will lead to more equitable participation in engineering disciplines and amore diversified engineering workforce.Research DesignFor this research, engineers are considered as a social group. Engineers across various sub-disciplines (e.g. electrical, mechanical, civil) use literacy
the Director of Education for the Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Tech- nology Center - an NSF funded Engineering Research Center. Dr. Husman is an assistant editor of the Journal of Engineering Education, has been a guest editor of Educational Psychology Review, served on editorial board for top educational research journals, and currently sits on the editorial board of Learn- ing and Instruction. In 2006 she was awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER grant award and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the President of the United States. She has conducted and advised on educational research projects and grants in both the public and private sectors, and
2008, Henderson et al [4] developed the four categories of change strategiesmodel to classify strategies that have been used to conceptualize or to create change inundergraduate STEM education. The similarity of these categories to those developed through anindependent review of an overlapping literature base [5] suggests that the four categories arerobust and meaningful. Following are the four categories: ● Disseminating Curriculum and Pedagogy: This category is based on the phenomena of tell/teach individuals about new teaching conceptions and/or practices and encourage their use. ● Developing Reflective Teachers: Encourage/Support individuals to develop new teaching conceptions and/or practices ● Enacting Policy: Enact new