Engineering on the Engineering Equity Extension Project and served as a curriculum consultant on a National Science Foundation Gender Equity grant. She also co-authored the Engineering Connections to STEM document published by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. She is currently serving on a commit- tee with the National Academy of Engineering, Guiding the Implementation of K-12 Engineering.Dr. Katherine C Titus-Becker, North Carolina State University Kathy Titus-Becker has worked in Higher Education for the past 20 years. She currently is the Director of the Women in Science and Engineering at NC State University
is taught in a senior design class for upperclassmenand new graduate students. In order to encourage critical analysis of design standards, especiallyhuman-related factors, a new design project was implemented that incorporates Autonomous Vehi-cles (AVs). Working in multi-disciplinary teams, students were required to develop new geometricdesign standards for fully autonomous AVs together with human cyclists on a principal arterial inPuerto Rico. The class was given an introductory lecture on AVs, after which they were requiredto review the literature, modify existing standards, and implement the findings into their roadwaydesigns. The teams evaluated the human-related aspects of design by re-considering multiple ge-ometric design parameters
toward building and determining how things work predicted engineeringidentity in undergraduates.While some prior studies have investigated the impact of engineering projects and workexperiences on career choice and persistence (e.g., Atman et al., 2010), the lack of studiesdirectly measuring engineering identity limits our ability to link these experiences to theprofessional formation of engineers. Only one prior study focused on the professionalaspects of engineering identity development in undergraduate students at a singleinstitution (Meyers, Ohland, Pawley, Sillman, & Smith, 2012), and found that design,teamwork and professional responsibility were most commonly associated byundergraduates with engineering. Yet this study was
playgroundI am frompeace one day andhell on earth the next day,for three months; afterthat a lot of questionswithout answers, likewhy my country? why my people?I am fromgreen and whitein primary;khaki and white in secondary;and everything now!! Page 24.670.5 Figures 1& 2We began with the students taking photographs of the everyday Rwandan environment such ashomes, streets, new high-rises and roundabouts. They then depicted the photographs in free-formtext in English - a third or fourth language for most students (Figure 1 & 2). 6 The curriculum wasadopted from the Photography and Literacy (PAL) Project by Stephen Mahan and MichaelBurkard
conducting assessment of certain topicsin the area of Advanced Engineering Mathematics. He also utilizes the principles outlined by avariety of scholars that include Theodore Marchese, Howard Gardner, Benjamin Bloom, EdgarDale, Hunter Boylan, Walter Barbe, Robert Barr & John Tagg, Ernest Pascarella & PatrickTerenzini, Neil Fleming & Colleen Mills. Scholars in the area of cognitive science and educational psychology have identified fourfeatures that clearly separate a problem based curriculum from a traditional, topic-basedcurriculum. These are listed below (Nickerson, et. al. 1985). The author has used these ideas inseveral of his ASEE publications successfully. Part of it has been reproduced here for sake ofclarity and
. [Duke University] Undergraduate Machine Learning o. DUQIS p. Electric Vehicles q. eNable r. Engineering World Health s. FEMMES+ t. Girls Engineering Change u. Hack[Duke University] v. IEEE w. Innoworks x. Material Advantage y. MEDesign z. Motorsports aa. NSBE bb. Pi Tau Sigma cc. Project Tadpole dd. Robotics ee. Runway of Dreams ff. SHPE gg. SmartHome hh. SWE ii. Tau Beta Pi jj. Tech for Equity kk. Other:_________ 3. On average, how much time do you spend each week in meetings for Pratt clubs? a. 0-4 hours
method of study and data collection. The coursetitles and objectives, major topics, textbooks and projects are discussed in Section 4, 5, 6, and 7,respectively, followed by some concluding remarks in Section 8.2. A Brief Review of the LiteratureWe review in this section the literature concerning the teaching and learning of informationretrieval. With increased interest in and importance of information retrieval and web search,more and more research projects have been on the subject of teaching and learning ofinformation retrieval. Fenandez-Luna et al.12 presented a comprehensive review of the state ofteaching and learning of information retrieval. In their paper, the authors presented taxonomy,educational goals, teaching and learning methods
visuallyimpaired for personal and professional use [6]. Race et al. have created a discernible tactileschematic using low-cost microcapsule fusers. These schematics act as tactile based circuitdiagrams for visually impaired with raised surfaces on paper [7]. Another approach given by Engelet al. is SVGPlott, which is an accessible tool to generate highly adaptable audio-tactile charts forthe visually impaired [8]. Hakim et al. proposed a mechatronics approach to process digital images,displaying them in tactile graphic format using a Raspberry Pi 3 and a mini push-pull solenoidwith a combination of Python and OpenCV to create an assistive device for the visually impaired[3]. There are multiple development projects approaching engineering education for the
programs is associated with increased rates of retention among STEM undergraduates(Gleason et al., 2010; Tomasko, Ridgway, Waller, & Olesik, 2016). What is not well understoodare the ways in which bridge programs and other math-related support structures promote studentretention and success vis-à-vis their math identity. This study addresses this gap using a mixed-methods approach, assessing how BEES students’ math-related experiences have impacted theirmath skill development, sense of math identity, and efficacy.Math Components of BEESThe math components of the BEES project consist of a series of elements targeted at supportingand guiding students through their math experience at WWU. All students enrolled in the BEESprogram must take
Network (KEEN) which has partner institutions who are developing educa- tional experiences to foster an entrepreneurial mindset in their undergraduate engineering students. Doug Melton served as a faculty member for seventeen years within the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan. There, he also served as the program director for Entrepreneurship Across the University. Prior, Doug was the Director of Research & Development for Digisonix Incorporated. His disciplinary specializations include signal processing, acoustics, and wireless communications. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020
,reaction time etc).Literature ReviewThere are different approaches to motivate students in physics, electrical engineering, industrialengineering, and civil engineering, which have been developed by researchers who employ ECP(experimental-centric pedagogy) to help students understand how calculus is used in physics andother scientific courses. In this paper, the Hooke's law and the ruler experiment will be used toassist students in comprehending how calculus is applied in physics, industrial engineering, andcivil engineering.Chau et al. [5] fully explain derivatives to students while also demonstrating to them how cruciallyimportant derivatives are in many physics’ issues, demonstrating to them the strong relationshipbetween physics and
?This question particularly helps with the determination of participants’ interest in usingcalculator noting that functions are commonly covered as a part of high school education ofSTEM majors. STEM students’ knowledge of various technologies to solve engineering andmathematics problems can be an important part of their learning practices. These students areobserved to face major obstacles as a part of pedagogical research when they solve calculusrelated problems by Tokgöz (2017, 2019-1, 2019-2, 2016-1, 2016-2, 2015-1, 2015-2) andTokgöz et. al (2021-2, 2021-3, 2020-2, 2018, 2018-1, 2018-2, 2017, 2015). Solving some of theSTEM problems by hand can be challenging and technology can be used to solve such problems(Tokgöz et. al (2021-1, 2020-1
scrutinize factors that affected enrollment and persistence in engineering.This longitudinal retention study thus began in the fall of 2001, with the development of a hands-on first-year engineering course sequence that continues today, although in modified form.Analyzing student demographic data, along with retention data and academic performance data,has become an important aspect of evaluating the success of that experiment on an annual basis.Brockman et al.17 and others 18,18,20 have described in detail the motivations for and structure of theIntroduction to Engineering Systems I and II (EG 10111 and EG 10112) courses. The coursesequence comprises a series of team-oriented projects conducted over two semesters, andemphasizes a student-centered
Freshman Introduction to Aerospace Engineering”. Paper No. 1202-2, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, June ‘98.8. Schrage, D.P., “An Engineering Curriculum Built Around the Design Process”. Proceedings of the Annual ASEE Conference, Aerospace Design Session, Seattle, June ‘98.9. Aerospace Digital Library http://www.adl.gatech.edu10. Boyer, E.L., Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professorate. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, NJ, ‘90.11. Walt Crawford and Michael Gorman: "Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness & Reality.” American Library Association, Chicago and London, 1995.12. NSF Digital Libraries Initiative, All Projects Meeting, U. California
Paper ID #20874A competency-based flipped classroom for a first year hands-on engineeringdesign courseShankar Ramakrishnan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Dr. Shankar Ramakrishnan received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University. He is part of the engineering education team in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Currently he designs the curriculum for the freshman engineering program. He also designs and teaches engineering design courses in the first and sophomore years. His interests include active teaching methods and pedagogies for increased student
. The purpose ofthis paper is to introduce the format of a new general education initiative at Virginia Tech,describe our assessment process and results, and discuss how our initial assessment will informfuture iterations of the assessment cycle. In our description of this project, we highlight thepotentially productive tension between curriculum design and assessment in an environment ofinstitutional change.Background General education is often structured in a “checklist” format, where students need tocomplete a prescribed number of credits in each of several categories. Virginia Tech has usedsuch a system for many years, but recently recognized several weaknesses of this model. First,most students lack intentionality in their
Paper ID #23944Technology’s Role in Student Understanding of Mathematics in Modern Un-dergraduate Engineering CoursesAndrew Phillips, The Ohio State University Andrew H. Phillips graduated summa cum laude from The Ohio State University in May 2016 with a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and with Honors Research Distinction. He is currently fin- ishing his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and then he will pursue a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. His engineering education interests include first-year engineering, active learning, learning theory, and teaching design, programming, and mathematics. As a
courses by adding a few new course integrations to each MELcourse. MEL I begins with simpler and shorter, almost closed-ended experiments. Asadditional course material is integrated, experiments become more complex, growing to moreopen-ended projects in MEL III.MEL I experiments integrate material from electrical circuits, physics and mathematics coursestaken prior to or in the same semester shown in red in Figure 1. King et al3 gives severalexamples of experiments that require this multidisciplinary integration. MEL II integrates theMEL I related courses with Strength of Materials, Fluid Mechanics, and Probability andStatistics shown in green in Figure 1. MEL III integrates the MEL I and II related courses withMachine Design, Dynamics
AC 2011-644: A CASE STUDY ON PILL-SIZED ROBOT IN GASTRO-INTESTINAL TRACT TO TEACH ROBOT PROGRAMMING AND NAV-IGATIONYi Guo, Stevens Institute of Technology Yi Guo received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Xi’an University of Tech- nology, China, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. She obtained the Ph.D. degree from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 1999. From 2000 to 2002, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida from 2002 to 2005. Since 2005, she has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Her main research
with the responsibilityof promoting interest and enthusiasm for learning. Instructors are also encouraged to act ascognitive coaches who can nurture an environment that can support open inquiry (Barrows,2000). It is important that the aims and objectives of problem-based learning be reflected inevery aspect of the learning environment created. Problem-based curriculum should documentaccomplishments at the upper levels of Bloom's Taxonomy Triangle (Boud & Feletti, 1991).Scholars in the area of cognitive science and educational psychology have identified fourfeatures that clearly separate a problem-based curriculum from a traditional, topic-basedcurriculum (Nickerson, et. al. 1985). In this presentation, the author describes how he
machining classes in the ET curriculum enables students tobecome aware of how their design, dimensioning and tolerance calculating, and qualitycan drastically influence the downstream manufacturing processes. This is especiallyhelpful for students in the mechanical and industrial concentrations as they have a high Page 15.920.2probability of designing parts that will require machining processes during theirmanufacture. In industry, having mechanical and industrial engineers “cross-train” is nota new concept.This paper describes the NSF E-quality project implemented in the CNC course offeredwithin the Applied Engineering Technology Program and describes
VP for Finance (2015-2016). He also co-founded the Oregon Chapter of the IEEE Education Society in 2005 and sits on its executive committee, and was Program Chair for the 1st and 2nd IEEE Conferences on Technology for Sustainability. His research activities are focused on electrically conductive adhesives, the electrical conduction mechanisms in discontinuous nanoparticle thin metal films, with applications to nanopackaging and single-electron transistor nanoelectronics, and on an NSF-funded project in under- graduate nanotechnology education. He has edited or co-authored five books on electronics packaging and two on nanodevices, (two of which have just been published in Chinese,) and lectures internationally
Florida. She holds a Masters’ degree in Management Systems Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. She has work experience in telecommunications engineering and has taught undergraduate engineering courses such as engineering design at the first-year level and elements of electrical engi- neering. Her research interests include motivation to succeed in engineering with a focus on first-year students.Dr. Pamela L Dickrell, University of Florida Dr. Pamela Dickrell is the Associate Chair for Academics in the Department of Engineering Education, in the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. Her research focuses on effective teaching methods and hands-on learning opportunities for
“engineering identity” and “belonging in engineering” analogously [33, 40, 41]. However,Rohde et al. [42] investigated how design experiences – which can be considered sociotechnical– impacted first-year electrical and computer engineering students’ sense of belonging andidentity and found that students do not discuss their identity and belonging in engineering as thesame thing. Therefore, more research is needed to explore the relationship between how studentsperceive the sociotechnical nature of engineering and their general attitudes toward the field,rather than focusing narrowly on their identity.A questionnaire has been developed to measure engineering students’ attitudes toward the field,as well as their perceptions of the sociotechnical nature
Consortium for Product Development Leadership in the 21stCentury (PD21), customizes course materials and elective courses to meet the needs of theirrespective constituency. The program balances technical and business perspectives in an effortto provide technical leaders with the skills and knowledge to create best-in-class productportfolios.The program at RIT, known as the Masters in Product Development (MPD), is a joint effortbetween the College of Business and the Kate Gleason College of Engineering. In addition to acourse in Leadership in Product Development, the core of the curriculum consists of threesystems design and management courses: Systems Engineering (SE), Systems Architecture (SA),and Systems and Project Management. Students are also
AC 2009-1228: CONTENT IN CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSES: PILOT SURVEYRESULTS FROM FACULTY, STUDENTS, AND INDUSTRYSusannah Howe, Smith College Susannah Howe is the Design Clinic Director in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. She coordinates and teaches the capstone engineering design course and serves as co-faculty advisor for entrepreneurial activity at Smith. Her interests include capstone design pedagogy and structure, entrepreneurship education across disciplines at the undergraduate level, and applied design in K-12 education.Ron Lasser, Tufts University Ron Lasser is a Professor of the Practice at Tufts University in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He brings his industrial experience and
and themodel curriculum to ensure that important aspects were satisfied. This review process and theresultant changes in the curriculum are then documented as part of the continuous improvementprocess for the program as a whole.2.3 StakeholdersThe mission and objectives of the program are defined to varying degrees, by the differentstakeholders. The stakeholders can also play a significant role, in their various spheres, in theevaluation process. As part of the accreditation process we defined our stakeholders and brieflyanalyzed their degree of involvement.Using the Stakeholder analysis table from Worthen et al.11 in table 13.1 we can definestakeholders and give an initial indication of their role. The obvious stakeholders are students
Efforts to launch a centralized A new Center for Entrepreneurship of I&E home for I&E efforts (both on campus. physical and virtual) throughout the college of engineering or the entire university Source: Nilsen et al., 2015 Figure 3: Taxonomy of InterventionsFindingsProjectsundertaken/implementedEarlier work reported on the number of projects undertaken and implemented by the full set of50 participating schools in the original project, categorized as to variety of interventions (Nilsen,2016). The schools participating in the follow-up research provided updated information on theirwork, which was
): p. 138-153.10. Cooper, H., The battle over homework: common ground for administrators, teachers, and Parents. 2nd ed. 2001, Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.11. Goldstein, A., Does homework help?: Areview of research. Elementary School Journal, 1960. 1: p. 212- 214.12. Shaffer, P.S. and L.C. McDermott, A research-based approach to improving student understanding of the vector nature of kinematical concepts. American Journal of Physics, 2005. 73(10): p. 921-931.13. Maloney, D.P., et al., Surveying students' conceptual knowledge of electricity and magnetism. American Journal of Physics, 2001. 69(7): p. S12.14. Passow, H.J., et al., Factors influencing engineering students' decisions to cheat by type of assessment
). Thus,the need of the hour is classroom environments that provide teachers opportunities for engagingdeeply and meaningfully with the technology and scaffolding the implementation of technologyto support science and engineering learning. This exploratory work presents findings from astudy that investigates teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge in the context of aproject-based unit using a CAD tool- Energy3D (Xie et al., 2014). It looks at ways in whichteachers orchestrated their classroom instruction and interactions with the students. The researchquestion guiding this study is- How do teachers orchestrate a project-based engineering designand science activity supported by a CAD tool?Method A single subject case study