also a Department Editor for IIE Transactions: Design & Manufacturing and serves on the editorial boards for Research in Engineering Design, Journal of Engineering Design, and Engineering Optimization.Emily A. Waterman, Pennsylvania State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The Prototype for X (PFX) Framework: Assessing Its Impact on Students’ Prototyping Awareness Abstract Each year, billions of dollars are invested by large companies in product research and design.Studies indicate that anywhere from 40-50% of those resources are wasted on cancelled productsor those which yield poor results75. The largest sunk cost of product
defense—is only completed once. In education theory, singularexperiences can be particularly difficult to learn from, as repeated practice helps develop strategies andbetter abstractions from examples [6]. Each person who experiences the PhD process holds a piece ofvaluable knowledge and experience, that is no longer directly useful to themselves. To make theseexperiences valuable, and to add productively to the body of knowledge and academic community, wemust find ways to share our lived experiences of being graduate students\.Indeed, ASEE Student Division specifically values this peer knowledge-building with their “Tricks of theTrade” paper category, which the Call for Papers says focuses on: Addressing problems and sharing experiences
used as an introduction to engineeringfor the badge [13]. Foundational topics were identified by examining core undergraduatecurricula in Mechanical Engineering and adapting these concepts to a level that was ageappropriate. The activities in each topic were chosen to let the girls explore this aspect ofengineering in an engaging, real life challenge at an appropriate skill level. The badge was tiedto core values of Girl Scouts such as “Make the world a better place,” “Use resources wisely,”and personal and team responsibility. This grounded the badge in familiar concepts that openedup an exploration of sustainability and the potential impact a girl can make on her communitythrough engineering. It was also
Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 10 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies.Dr. Gary R. Kirk, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia TechDr. Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia
Paper ID #11855The Impact of Teaming and Cognitive Style on Student Perceptions of DesignIdeation OutcomesDr. Kathryn W. Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley Dr. Kathryn Jablokow is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Design at Penn State University. A graduate of Ohio State University (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering), Dr. Jablokow’s teaching and research interests include problem solving, invention, and creativity in science and engineer- ing, as well as robotics and computational dynamics. In addition to her membership in ASEE, she is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of
- graduate engineering education. Focus areas include contemporary teaching and learning technologies, capstone, special degree programs with partnering academic institutions, and K-12 outreach. Dr. Filippas is especially proud of her collaboration with NSBE at VCU, an organization that embodies excellence in academics as well as community service, leadership and diversity. In addition, Dr. Filippas was instru- mental in establishing oSTEM on the campus as well as reaching out to other underrepresented minority groups to further the university’s commitment to student success and inclusive excellence.Prof. Umit Ozgur, Virginia Commonwealth University Umit Ozgur received his B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics
the summer pilot project, students will decide which modules) that areenvironmentally friendly in their operations (i.e., manufacturing and logistics).” The goals of the pilot project are listed as below. - The challenge was to design and produce a virtual prototype of a new attachment for a contemporary drone. - The design activity had to include the following: o Visual representation (using the CooL:SLiCE online CAD tool) of at least three design alternatives depicting the design changes o Assessment of the design change impacts on manufacturing process and supply chain sustainability performance (measured using energy use, carbon footprint, and supply chain configurations
with small and medium-sized enterprises.7 Junior Enterprise hassignificantly affected communities around the world. In the Huffington Post, Michele Hunt wroteof her impressions after the Junior Enterprise World Conference 2012 where she was a closingspeaker: “[Junior Enterprise students] are co-creating the future: collaboration, cooperation andinnovation...They understand on a very deep level that we are all connected and they arecommitted to put their vision of what the world can be, to work for the benefit of all.”6 Junior Page 20.25.5Enterprise has positively impacted students and citizens throughout the world.As a result of international
AC 2012-3204: EXPANDING YOUR HORIZONS: THE IMPACT OF A ONE-DAY STEM CONFERENCE ON MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS’ AND PAR-ENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARD STEM CAREERSDr. Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida Lisa Massi is the Director of Operations Analysis in the UCF College of Engineering & Computer Sci- ence. Her primary responsibilities include accreditation, assessment, and data administration. She is a Co-PI of a NSF-funded S-STEM program at UCF entitled the ”Young Entrepreneur & Scholar (YES) Scholarship Program.” Her research interests include factors that impact student persistence to graduation and STEM career intentions.Dr. Charles H. Reilly, University of Central Florida Charles H. Reilly is the Associate Dean
. She is currently a lead GTA in the Department of Biomedical Engineering where she helped pilot the electronic lab notebooks in junior level labs.Tanya M. Nocera PhD, The Ohio State University, Department of Biomedical Engineering Tanya M. Nocera, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Biomedical Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is focused on developing, teaching and assessing upper-level Biomedical Engineering laboratory courses, with particular interest in improving student technical communication skills. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Electronic Lab Notebooks Impact Biomedical Engineering Students’ Quality of Documentation and
management projects. She works extensively with food banks and food pantries on supply chain management and logistics focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are integral part of her service-learning based logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to assess impact of good supply chain practices such as coordinated decision making in stochastic supply chains, handling supply chains during times of crisis and
able to practice their disciplines in an authentic,hands-on environment while developing their professional skills and bridging their academicexperiences toward workplace practice [12]. As the program has grown and expanded to morestudents, projects, and instructors, the students’ opinions on the programs impact has remained ata high level [20]. The community organizations likewise have benefitted greatly from thesepartnerships, benefitting from the university’s expertise in technology and the creation of newproducts and processes that support the organizations core mission [21]. The success of theEPICS program was recognized by other institutions who have integrated this model ofcommunity engaged design at the university and K12 levels [22
Paper ID #30277The Impact of Internships on Civil Engineering Students’ Exploration ofLearning StylesHwangbo Bae, University of Florida Hwangbo Bae is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. He received a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech in 2018 and 2019, respectively. His major interests in research include understanding civil/construction engineers’ profes- sional development, the value of leadership that influences worker safety, and the
for the study was obtained from our Institutional ReviewBoard (protocol #IRB-FY2024-10). Shared survey data is only for students who filledout an IRB signed consent form at the beginning of the semester.ResultsSurvey Questions and Student Responses to Measure ImpactTable 1 outlines the survey questions designed to measure the impact of the bonus pointself-assessment rubric and peer evaluations on various aspects of student engagement,learning, anxiety alleviation, and overall course performance. The student responses inFigure 1 provide valuable insights into how these alternative grading practicesinfluenced their motivation and academic outcomes. Question Impact Area Survey
Paper ID #20325Hands-on Learning Environment and Educational Curriculum on Collabo-rative RoboticsProf. Ana Djuric P.E., Wayne State University Dr. Ana Djuric is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology in the College of Engineering at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Djuric research areas are industrial robots, kinematics, dynamics, control, and advanced manufacturing systems. She supervises multiple undergraduate and graduate students in their research and is a member of Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). Her Dipl.-Ing. degree is in the area of mechanical engineering from the University of
areas: (a) STEM education and identity development; (b) model-based assessment and instruction; (c) the impact of opportunity to learn on learning and achievement; and (d) discipline-based education research for culturally and linguistically diverse students.Melissa Almeida, University of California, Merced Melissa Almeida, a Ph.D. student in Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced, is deeply engaged in the intersection of learning, cognitive science, and STEM education. Her research evaluates the impact of classroom interventions, focusing on embodied cognition and the educational use of augmented and virtual reality technologies. Moving beyond initial feasibility, her work aims to
development of teamwork, as well as written and oral communication abilities.Measuring impact on student abilities after completing the widely varying types of pilotPBL subjects was another problem to solve. With the primary goal of energizing thefreshman year’s lecture based experience, and strengthening students’ confidence in theirabilities, a survey of ability self efficacy was developed.A choice of a survey design that employed a self efficacy scale of confidence in ability toperform a task was based on Bandura’s theory of self efficacy. Bandura’s key contentionabout the role of self efficacy in individual development was that a person’s confidencein his or her abilities would directly impact his or her course of action. Students engage intasks
Assessing the Impact of Active Learning on Students in Grades 3- 8 and Their Parents during GK-12 Outreach Program Administered Family STEM NightsAbstractRAMP-UP administered Family STEM Nights are supported by North Carolina StateUniversity and are held at public elementary or middle schools in Wake Countythroughout the school year. They are an opportunity for parents to bring their children toschool in the evening to learn about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)through fun, hands-on activities. The outreach program brings the activities to theschool, sets them up and administers them. Each activity is designed from everydaymaterials to teach parents and children that STEM fields exist and are learnable
the PBL handbook [13] outlines the need to scaffoldproblem-based learning. In effect, scaffolds transfer responsibility from the teacher to the studentby fostering autonomy. The chapter discusses two overarching purposes of scaffolds: to guidestudents through the task such that they are able to effectively engage with the problem, and toassist students in identifying and focusing on the most important aspects [14]. Such prompting issignificant for fostering agency and deeper engagement in students, who need to prepare forsimilar situations in their future careers. However, the actual effect of adding scaffoldingprompts in ill-structured engineering tasks is not clear; additionally, the impact of scaffoldingprompts on collaborative
ingraduates, can be enhanced through improved faculty teaching and learning methods. Thenew curricula should encourage deeper learning and understanding of context. They shouldcontain among other things: integrated experiential activities, interdisciplinary perspectives,addressing different learning styles and helping students to develop life-long learning skillsby assisting them to understand how they learn and provide a connectedness to the needs andissues of the broader community.[11-13]Service-learning is a pedagogical practice that deliberately integrates community serviceactivities with educational objectives. Students engage in meaningful learning throughapplied, active, project-based learning, drawing on multiple knowledge sources
paper presents an innovative teaching approach, how it is implemented, student responseresults of the implementation, and the assessment of impact on student learning. The findings arebased on surveys given to the students after each lab lesson taught in partnership with university(Project STEP) and community members. The purpose of this paper is to showcase authentic molecular technology research methods thathave been incorporated into a high school level water quality study in cooperation with awatershed restoration program. Typically, water quality studies focus on chemical analysis suchas pH, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, orthophosphates, nitrates, temperature,turbidity, macro-invertebrate survey and fecal coliform cultures
Conceptual Site ModelsAbstractIn environmental engineering site remediation projects, community perception of environmentaland health risks can influence a project’s scope and design. Therefore, community engagement iscritical to shaping an engineer’s definition of an environmental problem. However, lower-levelundergraduate engineering curricula rarely address the incorporation of community input intoenvironmental engineering problem definition, as environmental engineering coursework tendsto utilize pre-defined problems to develop and assess technical knowledge and skills. Upper-level courses that do include community participation in environmental engineering design tendto be reflective, having students evaluate the social impact of a pre-defined
development and assessment of students’ spatial visualization skills, effective integration of 3D modeling into engineering design, and women’s retention in engineering. Page 25.1311.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Impact of Contextualized, Hands-On, Collaborative Learning on Women’s Persistence in Professional Engineering: Preliminary Findings from a Mixed Methods Study Heidi M. Steinhauer Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityAbstractAs many of our female students desire to develop a
College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, theBCE2 pilot drew on key principles from engaged learning and innovation ecosystemenvironments [4-7], applying elements of the persistence framework [8] by providingopportunities for early research and active learning in the community. The pilot has served as thetemplate for developing a generalized model of core elements and critical factors – theCommunity-Engaged Educational Ecosystem Model (C-EEEM, pronounced ‘seam’) [9].At the close of this grant, BCE2 has shown outcomes across its domains of interest – fromneighborhoods to student regional and STEM retention. In its final year, C-EEEM expandededucational programming and partnerships into another city in the region as a prelude to
minimally helpful or not helpful at all. Further, wemust consider our impact on students from marginalized communities. We approach this workwith an aim to actively dismantle systems of injustice, or with a lens of what Coles-Ritchie et al.[4] describe as critical community-engaged pedagogy. Coles-Ritchie et al. further explain that“well-intentioned, or ‘benevolent’ service-learning projects can be more insidious [than] overtbigotry” [4, p. 3]. Considering Paulo Freire’s idea of true dialogue [5], we approach communityengagement—discussions between instructor, student, and community partner—by questioningourselves, encouraging students to see community knowledge and ways of knowing as just asvalid as traditional educational structures, and sharing
mentorship andmotivates students to continue project engagement. The EPICS India team identified a projectthrough discussions with IITD faculty leading their RuTAG, where they could add value aligningwith potential engineering expertise - by designing a more ergonomic tractor. While the studentteam operates solely at Purdue, IITD staff and faculty provide technical guidance and answercommunity questions, or revisit user criteria. Regular communication occurs online on an as-needed basis.During the pandemic, RuTAG initiated a series of online meetings when students in India werefully remote. For one of these, RuTAG and EPICS India teams started meeting bi-semesterly forWeLD-ER (“We learn through discussion - EPICS and RuTAG”), which have continued
ConsiderationsThe use of project methodology, Design Thinking, combining project development bystudents with a higher purpose (solving real problems involving the community), isextremely important for the construction of a humanized and systematic view of projectsamong students. By focusing on the user, empathy, and continuous user participationthroughout the process, students' perceptions regarding the impact of their projects andtheir future professional roles are broadened.AcknowledgmentThe authors express their gratitude to the five partners who have contributed and continueto contribute to the development of the extension projects of the Engineering and othercourses at the institution, namely: Eco-Cultural Plant; Educational Pastime;Environmental
part of a semester-long course toengage with community members and collaborate on the co-determined projects.There has been an active movement towards prioritizing community impacts as equally, if notmore, important than student outcomes [2]. In addition, there have been recent broader efforts toshift from “service” to “learning, partnership and community development” [3]. With ourcommunity-engaged engineering courses having been offered as stand-alone courses, severalinstructors were concerned with students’ lack of preparedness to work with community partnersand overall motivation, as well as the overall continuity among courses. Students struggled towork alongside partners to identify felt needs and design for low-resource settings in a
the full breadth of the course's impact on them, both academically and personally.The GCOs defined by our University fall into five broad categories: knowledge anddevelopment of a global frame of reference; attitude toward cultural differences; attitude towardpersonal growth; skills concerning communication, adaptation, and interaction across cultures;action in seeking out opportunities for engagement. Each of these categories has specificlearning outcomes underneath them, as well as suggested evaluation strategies.This paper describes how each program was structured differently to address the GCOs, givingspecific instances of how these learning outcomes are targeted with course experiences and howthey are assessed. Assessment of student
keycomponent to long-term impact is continued contact, thus we also engaged with participantsthrough social media and follow-ups and provided all workshop materials on our website fordownload and reference.We expanded the breadth of REACT to include multiple departments and workshop components.The mission of the event is to provide connections between science researchers and scienceeducators and disseminate activities practiced by student outreach groups on campus. We proposedthis idea in April 2017 to the University of Michigan’s Center for Educational Outreach (CEO),and it was first planned for June 2017. REACT 2017 was attended by 19 teachers and receiveduniversal acclaim from its participants. With this success, we planned REACT again for June