estimating, project management, and client coordination.The goal is to change the students’ role from a traditional reactionary model who listens tolectures and takes notes, to a subject matter expert. This new style of teaching has the studentstake the curriculum, research it, interface with the industry, utilize legal expertise, problem solvethe material and then teach the results to their peers. The new student transition increasedparticipation of other students and in their understanding of the topics being learned. Page 24.1248.5 Class FormatThe new class format reflected the students’ transformation
from the engineering major declared themselves to befirst-generation college attendees. Exactly 50% of them declared their major as physicalmechanics; the other 50% were declared electrical engineering, bio-engineering, or engineeringtechnology (ET) majors.Most of the students admitted to the biology cohort (81%) were first-generation collegeattendees. Almost all of them declared their major as connected to the medical field (future pre-med department, bio-med department, or nursing).Among nearly all students, the stated reason for attending the university was “financial reasons”or “to have a better job”; only two answered “because I like to study” or “to make myfamily/parents proud”. At the same time, only 12% of cohort students were working
Paper ID #27138Adding the Extra 5 Percent: Undergraduate TA’s Creating Value in the Class-roomMrs. Alicia Baumann, Arizona State University Ali Baumann received her master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wyoming before working as senior systems engineer at General Dynamics C4 Systems. She is now part of the freshman engineering education team in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State Uni- versity. Currently, she focuses on enhancing the curriculum for the freshman engineering program to incorporate industry standards into hands-on design projects. She is an instructor for the
problem-based learning and service learning alsobecame popular approaches to connect course material with field applications, often using client-driven scenarios and open-ended challenges.5,6 This attention to increasing student engagementwas in part prompted by an increased awareness of the value of active learning and team-basedproblem solving.These initiatives manifested themselves in a variety of fashions, including improving studentexperiences using cornerstone and capstone design projects as well as the creation of U.S.Government sponsored initiatives. For example, the grant-funded “Learning Factory” projectwas developed to simultaneously create a practice-based curriculum and the supporting physicalfacilities required to design/fabricate
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
includes videos, tutorials, casestudies, and other materials. ASTM offers faculty and students resources. NIST offers grants forstandards integration into curriculum. ASME offers courses tailored to the needs of industryprofessionals.Standards integration in capstone projects requires engineering students to have previousknowledge of standards and standards resources. Despite being identified as the most effectiveway to introduce standards to engineering students [6]–[9], curricular integration of standardstraining is still uncommon [10]. The main reasons for this state are: (1) development of newcourses and implementation of curricular changes are challenging, (2) highly intensive trainingassociated with engineering curriculum leaves little time
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
often required to take corecourses in physics and mathematics. These courses are generally offered by therespective departments and have no affiliation to the engineering departments. Theproblem with this design is that engineering students are not able to connect or integratetheir learning across disciplines. In other words the students can not see how what theyare learning in physics and mathematics apply to their engineering curriculum 6.One solution is to ascertain faculties that work in industry 1. This is to ensure thatstudents are seeing the field from both the textbook ideologies and an experiencedmentor. The most common teaching style for design project is problem based learning(PBL). Problem based learning is a "learn by doing
strictly “social” or “technical.” In this paper, we briefly reviewapproaches taken to teach energy in engineering. We then examine CSPs and make the case forhow they might be used within engineering. We discuss our preliminary ideas for the course itself.The goal of this paper is to stimulate discussion within the ASEE community to improve courseeffectiveness in enhancing student learning. This project is part of a larger overall effort at theUniversity of San Diego to integrate social justice themes across the curriculum of a new generalengineering department. This paper will present our progress towards instantiating in theclassroom the broader vision laid out for our program. 1IntroductionThere is
University in 1989 and served as assistant and associate professor at Michigan State University. In 2001, Rover returned to Iowa State as a professor in computer engineering and became Associate Dean of the College of Engineering in 2004. Her recent projects have included software systems for performance visualization, system-level design techniques and tools for embedded systems, models for interdisciplinary teaching and learning, and curriculum integration.James Melsa, Iowa State University James Melsa is Dean Emeritus of the College of Engineering. Dr. Melsa earned his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona- Tucson in 1965. In addition to an active career in industry
development to aid teachers in building new expertise andcurriculum that incorporates engineering concepts.Many programs have been designed to provide this kind of professional development inthe response to the new standards. For example, Custer, Ross and Daugherty (2014)worked with 21 science teachers to incorporate engineering concepts into science lessons.Moorhead, et. al. (2016) developed robotics activities aligned with the NGSS, andworked with math and science teachers to implement them in classrooms. Berry andDeRosa (2015) provided professional development in which teachers learned aboutengineering education and developed their own engineering curriculum aligned with theNGSS. Bowen (2014) described teacher internships that provide experience
pipeline by building confidence and skills and ultimatelypreparing students for graduate work in robotics or computer science. Boonthum-Denecke et al.also propose that although robotics is interdisciplinary, it should be taught differently tocomputer science versus mechanical or electrical engineers. One difference is whether the courseis taught in simulation or with physical hardware. The results of the ARTSI alliance was that 300HBCU students were served, there were 51 research experiences for undergraduates (REU)internships, 23 HBCU faculty were trained, and workshops were held for 1,450 K-12 students.There were also 10 students who went on to graduate studies.Methods: Workshop SessionThe Fourth FoMRE Workshop was held September 27-28, 2019, a
Dh 2015). Within this frame of reference, compe-tences as: the ability to communicate with colleagues and bosses, the ability to express their opinionwith respect and forcefulness, to argue their positions, to manage resources, to lead teams, or theability to solve environmental problems reinforce and complete an engineer professional exercise.There is also another issue to add to this context: nowadays there is a lack of effective pedagogicalpractices that prepare students as future engineers, according to the soft skills required by markets(World Economic Forum 2016). Within this framework, the problem statement of this project is focused on how to contribute toexisting curriculum and pedagogy to strengthen the skills needed by
useful for understanding problem solving.O’Connor et al. suggest a mediated discourse analysis to explore the process of becoming anengineer.44 In their study they analyze student presentations in a project based class. Since projectpresentations are a common practice in many engineering curricula, they seek to understand howthe practice plays a role in reproducing a certain aspect of engineering culture, the belief thatengineering design is isolated from the social and political realm.45 In their study the mediatingobjects included presentation technology such as the projector and desktop computer along withsoftware such as PowerPoint and SolidWorks. The mediational means will depend on the study,though because we are interested in how students
Teaching Professor) Marko Lubarda is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He teaches mechanics, materials science, design, computational analysis, and engineering mathematics courses, and has co-authored the undergraduate textbook Intermediate Solid Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 2020). He is dedicated to engineering pedagogy and enriching students' learning experiences through teaching innovations, curriculum design, and support of undergraduate student research.Alex M PhanNathan Delson (Professor) Nathan Delson is a Teaching Professor at the University of California at San Diego. His research interests include
undergraduate curriculum. Many universities currently offer or are developing suchcourses. A consideration when developing these courses is the challenge of teaching engineeringto those who are not fully committed to an engineering major or those in non-technical degreeswho may not recognize the value of an engineering background for the techno-culture. At theUnited States Military Academy (USMA), a critical piece of the liberal education is a sequenceof engineering courses, which is required for all majors, including non-engineering majors.USMA offers three-course engineering sequences in a variety of engineering subdisciplines(civil, mechanical, electrical, etc). The three courses in the Civil Engineering sequence are:CE300, Fundamentals of
literature reviews, data management, finding funding, and reading retention.Attendance at and response to these instruction sessions suggest that a formal program ofinstruction can be beneficial to engineering graduate students. Considering that individualstudents approach the librarians for instruction on topics such as strategies for literature reviews,or that individual faculty members approach the librarians for instruction to the students in theirlabs on topics such as best resources for researching specific subjects or instruction on citationmanagement applications, one might reasonably conclude that there is an unmet need for a broadinstruction program. In this project, the engineering librarians of the U-M disseminated aQualtrics survey to
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
, "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
within a curriculum. Adelman (op cit) reports that among men and women who indicatedengineering/architecture as their intended field, 54.3% of men and 21.3% of women earnedbachelor’s degrees in their intended field. He also shows that engineering attracts a relativelyhigh percentage of students who have a constant vision of their career goals and a low percentageof students who have a constantly changing vision.Kroc, et al4 considered graduation rates across university curricula using data for 130,000students from 44 universities. They considered graduation rates as a function of major, notingtrends in transfers between majors, considering in-migrants, or those who transfer intoengineering from another field and out-migrants, engineering
and artificial intelligence.Dr. Nathaniel Hunsu, University of Georgia Nathaniel Hunsu is an assistant professor of Engineering Education. He is affiliated with the Engineering Education Transformational Institute and the school of electrical and computer engineering at the university. His interest is at the nexus of the res ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Systematic Review of Faculty Adoption and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering EducationIntroductionThe growing integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into higher education has sparkedincreased interest in understanding how faculty adopt and implement these technologies in theirteaching
Years of S-STEMBackgroundThe National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) states that two million bachelor’s degreeswere conferred over the 2021-22 academic year with engineering accounting for 6% of thosedegrees. While engineering is listed in the top fields for degrees awarded, it falls behind businessand health professionals, 19% and 13%, respectively [1]. NCES reports that although manyincoming post-secondary students initially pursue STEM degrees, 35% change their field ofstudy within three years [2]. A study by Eris et al. investigated the differences between persistersand non-persisters in engineering programs. They identified factors such as parents, mentors,confidence levels in math and science, financial difficulties, and
-solving.Although there is growing interest in the pedagogical potential of science fiction, its use inengineering education remains limited. One reason may be that existing efforts often feeldisconnected from the core of engineering practice. Many approaches draw on methods from thehumanities, such as analyzing films or short stories to spark discussion, but they often fail toconnect these explorations to the hands-on, design-oriented activities that better engageengineering students. Aligning science fiction with practical, project-based work could betterembed it into the engineering curriculum and make its value more apparent.Future-Oriented Approached in Human-Computer InteractionHuman–Computer Interaction (HCI) is a multidisciplinary field focused on
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
Paper ID #47438Quest: Human Learning - A Framework for Incorporating Generative-AITeaching and Learning Instruction in STEM Pre-Service Teacher Preparation(Evaluation)Dr. Christine Liebe, Colorado School of Mines Christine Liebe is a computer science education researcher at the Colorado School of Mines. Her research interests include K-12 computer science curriculum, instruction, assessment, and teacher preparation. Additionally, she participates in statewide CS KDr. Sabina Anne Schill, Colorado School of Mines Sabina is the Interim Assistant Director or Teach@Mines at Colorado School of Mines. She got her PhD 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
,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
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
. 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
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