appli- cations in machine learning, audio and speech processing, context-aware applications, speaker recogni- tion, human-computer interaction (HCI) systems, and innovations in engineering education. It constantly evolves around diverse and multidisciplinary teams. She has received two federal funding from National Science Foundation to improve engineering and STEM education for underrepresented and underserved students. Dr. Barkana has published more than one hundred research papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. She is an Associate Editor of Computational Intelligence, An International Journal-Wiley, and has served on the technical committees of many national/international conferences. She is a member
Yale University. Previous to academia, she was a middle school science teacher in a predominantly minority, low-income school, thus giving her special insight on how to adopt these topics for K-12 students. Dr. Maloney’s current research focuses on immigrant students, their teachers, and standardized tests in K-12 schools.Dr. Weilong Cong, Texas Tech University Dr. Weilong (Ben) Cong is an Assistant Professor in Department of Industrial Engineering at Texas Tech University (TTU). Dr. Cong received a Ph.D. in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Kansas State University in 2013. After graduation, Dr. Cong worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and a Research Assistant Professor at Kansas State University for
that the treatment of paraprofessionals within several of the learned professions to be quitevariable.2 Requirements for education, credentialing, and regulation are very well defined andformal in some but almost non-existent in others. For example, dentistry has very well definedrequirements for dental hygienists and assistants. Their education, licensure, and supervision andthe procedures they are allowed to perform are extremely well structured and defined and do notdiffer much from state to state. On the other hand, the requirements for accountingparaprofessionals are limited with almost no certifications or regulation.The PETC researched five learned professions unrelated to engineering including law, medicine,dentistry, accounting and
and graduate-level courses in the electrical, computer, and biomedical engineering departments. She also taught online electronics and information engineering courses at Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China, between 2019 and 2023. She is a recipient of federal funds from the National Science Foundation to improve engineering and STEM education for underrepresented and underserved students. She is an Associate Editor of Computational Intelligence, an International Journal-Wiley, and The Ohio Journal of Science and has served on many national/international conferences’ technical committees. She is a member of IEEE, IEEE Women in Engineering, and ASEE.Dr. Deana A. DiLuggo, University of Bridgeport
, University of Texas, El Paso Jose F. Espiritu is an Associate Professor in the Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering De- partment at The University of Texas at El Paso. He received a BS in Biochemical Engineering from the Instituto Tecnol´ogico de Zacatepec, a MS in Industrial Engineering from the Instituto Tecnol´ogico de Celaya. He obtained his MS and PhD degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His research interests are in the broad areas of risk and reliability analysis, energy systems optimization, sustainability engineering and engineering education. His work has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Journal of Risk and
development for secondaryschool teachers with emphasis on hands-on laboratory research and experiences in STEM fields.The paper also refers to the teachers’ experiences gained at the GSU Engineering Research Labsduring the summer 2017. Participants in the RET program completed 280 hours (seven weeks) oftraining and research experience in renewable energy topics. About 50 hours were devoted tolectures and workshops, and the rest, about 230 hours, were research activities, collaborating inresearch teams with undergraduate and graduate students, and engineering professors. Participantsalso developed lessons for their courses that were delivered to their own students during the 2017-2018 school year. The lessons were directly related to the experiences
Undergraduates (REU)program has been a pivotal initiative aimed at enhancing undergraduate education in science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The REU program provides studentswith opportunities to engage in hands-on research experiences, which are critical for fostering adeeper understanding of scientific inquiry and enhancing retention rates among undergraduates inSTEM disciplines (Alaee & Zwickl, 2021). The program has been instrumental in addressing thehigh attrition rates in STEM fields, particularly among students from diverse backgrounds, therebycontributing to a more inclusive and innovative workforce (Rodenbusch et al., 2016). One of theprimary benefits of REU programs is their positive impact on students' decisions
local undergraduates than with college facultyor teachers. Another issue at the K-12 level is the aptitude and comfort-level of the teachers topresent engineering materials6. As the developed demonstrations are also on video, they maygive teachers who are not comfortable with engineering material the opportunity to present thematerial to the students.This paper discusses the implementation of the project, along with the feedback from studentswho have developed (and run) the demonstrations. The primary objectives of the project are forBiotransport students to apply their knowledge and creativity to topics in biotransport andstimulate their interest in outreach and service to others. Each group chooses the intendedaudience for their end-product
regards togender, which may decrease the generalizability of the findings. In addition, participants were froma rural, mid-sized, science- and engineering-focused university, which may not be representative ofstudents in an urban setting or at a larger more generally focused university.As indicated above, for ETS students who majored in engineering technology hands-on disciplines,hands-on issues are one of their primary concerns [5]. Based on the survey results, we believe thatreflection practice in HCPP not only increases student engagement and retention [1] and develops a“prototype of their future” [9], it is also a meaningful practical experience to students in STEMhands-on disciplines, especially when facing challenges throughout the COVID-19
curriculum give students valuable and marketable engineering skillsafter only two years in the program. Our students, with some faculty guidance, are running anengineering consulting practice and working on a myriad of interesting and educational projects.Appropriate projects for student consultants are generally of the following types: diagnostic,development, or design. Diagnostic problems address questions such as “What is the oilymaterial that is contaminating this filter?” or “Why is the flooring material in our factoryfailing?” or “Why does our fiberglass preform process produce scrap during the summer monthsbut not during the winter?” Almost any phenomenon that needs an explanation fits thisChemEngine project profile. Development projects
primary focus on engineeringethics. Page 7.484.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationWhy Teach Philosophy to Engineers?Lafayette is one of a handful of small liberal arts colleges with accredited engineering programs.As such, we emphasize connections between engineering, social sciences, and humanitiesthroughout the curriculum. Ethics at its core is about morals, and moral philosophy has a richand strong tradition, beginning at least as far back as the ancient Greeks. To teach ethics in
semesters:1. Summer I, 19982. Spring, 20003. Summer I, 2000.The sample size was 156. The entities under study are the students who attended these classes.The unit of analysis is the student.Data Collection ProcedureReciprocal peer tutoring technique was adopted for teaching the class of Summer I, 2000. Theclass was divided into small groups ranging from three to five students. The groups met everyalternate day during the class period, discussed the materials that were presented by the tutor onthe previous day, developed a series of questions on the materials, and used the questions to quizeach other. The questions with correct answers were handed over to the tutor at the end of the
Paper ID #37026Board 329: Investigating the Impact of Context Choice on LearningExperience via Immersive Simulations in an Object-Oriented ProgrammingCourseDr. Sabahattin Gokhan Ozden, Pennsylvania State University, Abington Dr. Sabahattin Gokhan Ozden is an assistant professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State Abington. He has a Ph.D. and MISE from Auburn University in Industrial and Systems Engineering and a B.Sc. in Software Engineering and double major in Industrial Systems Engineer- ing from Izmir University of Economics. His research interests are warehousing, optimization, engi- neering education
foundations, pavement design & materials, and concrete durability. His interests also include: contemporary issues of engineering education in general, and those of the Middle East and the Arab Gulf States in particular. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 On Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry in the Arab Gulf States: Views, Challenges, and Potential RewardsAbstract: The paper focuses on the current stance of industry-academia relationships in theArab Gulf States( Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates), andargues that meaningful, long-lasting relations have begun to develop. But, there is much morethat can and must be done. The paper calls
and inclusion by measuring latent support for exclusionary practices, and designing interventions targeted at improving gaps in graduate student success and support, and faculty hiring, tenure, and promotion. Additionally, his research attempts to understand the impacts of online platforms and their algorithms on political contention in the United States.Lizandra C. Godwin, University of New Mexico Dr. Lizandra C. Godwin is a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Godwin earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida, and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Florida A&M University. Her
participated in two engineering design lessons in their classrooms, one utilizingLEGO materials, and one utilizing common craft materials. Lessons were co-designed by theauthor and the classroom teachers to encourage iteration, and match Crismond'srecommendations for good engineering design challenges (Fig 1).5 1. Authentic, hands-on tasks 2. Familiar and easy-to-work materials using known fabrication skills 3. Clearly defined outcomes that allow for multiple solutions 4. Student-centered collaborative work and higher-order thinking 5. Allow for multiple design iterations to improve the product 6. Clear links to limited number of science and engineering conceptsFigure 1. Crismond's (2001) summary of features of a
supplies are needed to irrigate the fields. One of the hand-moveable, pressure-regulated sprinkler lines was assembled in one of the fields for testing. Tolpan villagers andNorth American volunteers celebrated the success of the irrigation system that operated asplanned in such a steep and challenging terrain. A small drip irrigation system to water avegetable garden plot at the top of one of the hillside fields was also installed for demonstrationpurposes. After saying their goodbyes to the Tolpan people, and a day of sightseeing in thecapital city of Tegucigalpa, the student team and the other volunteers flew home to the U.S. andCanada on “World Water Day,” March 22, 2001.Besides these desired engineering outcomes, a number of cross-cultural
Department of Defense (D0D) Fellow at UTRGV.He is a member of INCOSE and ASEE. He received the outstanding junior faculty award from the ASEE Manufacturing division in 2017 and 2018 and currently serves as the program chair of the ASEE manufacturing division.Dr. Teresa Wu, Arizona State University Dr. Teresa Wu is a Professor in School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University. Her expertise lies in distributed decision support and informatics. Dr. Wu has published over 80 journal papers in Information Science Journal, ASME Transactions: Journal of Com- puting and Information Science in Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. She is currently serving on editorial
-Verbaldimensions caused faculty to use both lecture and non-lecture activities to a higher extent. Ourstudy argues that mismatch in learning preferences between faculty and students is notnecessarily detrimental in the classroom environment. It further argues that mismatch on certaindimensions of learning may in fact, make the classroom more interesting and involving for thestudents.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.EEC-1519412. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References[1] Clark, C. M., & Peterson, P. L. (1984). Teachers
Biomedical Engineering program. He was the PI or Co-PI on grants from NSF, NIH, AHA and New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology. Dr. Ritter has mentored 9 PhD students in Physiology and Biomedical Engineering and over 40 Masters student’s in Biomedical Engineering. He is the co-author of over 45 publications in peer reviewed journals and numerous abstracts and presentations at local, national and international conferences. He is the pri- mary author of an undergraduate textbook in Biomedical Engineering. His current research interests are in Systems Physiology, Rotary Protein Motors, The Failing Heart, and Biorobotics. He recently started a Biorobotics lab for research in Robotics and minimalyy invasive surgery
Campus Coordinator for the NOAA Center for Earth Systems Science and Remote Sensing Technology. He was the Founding Director of the UPRM Institute for Research in Integrative Systems and Engineering, and Associate Director of the NSF CenSSIS ERC. His research interests are in integrating physical models with data driven approaches for information extraction using remote or minimally intrusive sensing. He has over 160 publications. He is Fellow of SPIE and the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico. Received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers award from the US President in 1997. He chairs the SPIE Conference on Algorithms, Technologies and Applications for Multispectral, and
of engagement and focus amongst students. Additionally, students often have a hard timeconnecting the mathematics they learn in the classroom to real-world engineering applications.Conversely, transitioning to a wholly active learning curriculum, or even flipping the classroom,can help demonstrate how the material applies to real-world problems, but these approaches canlead to mixed results in learning outcomes. We attempted to strike a middle ground between thesetwo extremes in a mechanical engineering, junior level vibrations course at Villanova Universityby implementing what we called “no-lecture Fridays.” Each Friday session of class was dedicatedto allowing students to work on an often open-ended, real-world application of the content
knowledge of biomedical devices based on nanotechnology, microfluidics, andmicroscale engineering. Along with the hands-on activities at the microscale, various readingmodules and lab tours introduce the techniques necessary to develop technology at the micro-and nanoscale. The challenge of this project is to produce a design for the experimental device,manufacture that design in a biocompatible material, and study the effect of surface topology oncell attachment. Additionally, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software is then introducedboth as a tool for educational purposes (allowing the students to visualize the flow propertiesdescribed in other materials) and as a method to analyze their devices. They later use thesoftware to perform
2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference CAN WE USE A MATLAB APPLICATION TO IMPROVE STUDENTPERFORMANCE ON TRIGONOMETRY OF 3-DIMENSIONAL VECTOR PROBLEM SOLVING? Frank Caserta, Jr.1, James McCusker2, Bo Tao1 and Gloria Ma1 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering and Technology 2 Department of Electrical Engineering and Technology Wentworth Institute of Technology Abstract3-Dimensional vectors are a basic concept for electrical and mechanical engineering andcomputer science students. To improve the performance of
ERC. His research interests are in integrating physical models with data driven approaches for information extraction using remote sensing. He has over 160 publications. He is Fellow of SPIE and the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico. Received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers award from the US President in 1997. He chairs the SPIE Conference on Algorithms, Technologies and Applications for Multispectral, and Hyperspectral Imaging. He is board member of the Inclusive Engineering Consortium (IEC).Brian J Skromme (Professor) (Arizona State University) Brian Skromme is a Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University, and served
. Page 24.781.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Integration in K–12 STEM Education: Status, Prospects, and an Agenda for Research1Education for K-12 students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) hasreceived increasing attention over the past decade with calls both for greater emphasis on thesefields and for improvements in the quality of curricula and instruction.1,2,3,4,5,6,7 In response,numerous new instructional materials, programs, and specialized schools are emerging. Whilemost of these initiatives address one or more of the STEM subjects separately, particularlymathematics and science, there are increasing efforts to
undergraduate students at a Civil Engineering program. It aims to improve theresearch competencies of civil engineering students through immersing the students in differenttypes of research exercises. The activities have been exploratory, experimental and theoretical.The focus of the new approach is on developing soft skills, gaining practical and hands-on skills,research management and planning, and presenting the results in an optimum manner. Sixundergraduate students from two departments were involved in various components of a researchproject related to the post-tensioned concrete structures. The core project started in a companyspecialized in post-tensioning industry.Initially, the learning objective was to gain a deep understanding of the
computer science education, diversity and inclusion, digital creativity support, and aging and technology. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comPromoting Human-Centered Mindsets and Practices in STEM: Insights from a Capstone Course on 3D Printing Prosthetic DevicesAbstractIn STEM education there can often be a greater emphasis on technical aspects of design anddevelopment in comparison to potential social impacts. Yet, it is becoming increasingly urgent toapproach design with a socio-technical perspective. Updating STEM education to integrate deepconsideration of social factors with technical content, however, remains a
environmental sciences and environmental engineering. He has retired from the city of Corpus Christi, Texas, where he was the Director of Animal Control as part of the City/County Health Department. His professional career has also included being a Golf Course Superintendent, as well as performing marine biology research, environmental science research, mariculture research, and consulting in environmental concerns. He is also a published author of original scientific research involving bird predation on shrimp mariculture ponds with a resulting grant to present the paper in Venice, Italy. He is married and has three adult children.Mr. Raul C. Rivas, Texas A&M University, Kingsville Raul Rivas is a Ph.D. candidate in the
Paper ID #37542There and Back Again: Lessons Learned from FacilitatedFaculty Discussions on the Move Online and then Back Faceto FaceKaran Watson (Provost Emeritus & Sr. Professor) Karan L. Watson, Ph.D., P.E., is currently Provost Emeritus and a Regents Senior Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, having joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1983 as an Assistant Professor. She served as the Co- Director of the Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation and is currently a distinguished fellow of this Institute. She has served in numerous administrative roles at Texas A&M