AbstractObjective: This paper presents students' views, experiences, and peer review of a capstoneproject for designing and manufacturing a Short Takeoff and Landing (STOL) Unmanned AerialVehicle (UAV). The project was part of the Boeing Bronze Propeller Competition, whichfocused on learning through Project-Based Learning (PBL), Model-Based Engineering (MBE),and Quality-Cost-Delivery (QCD) principles.Background: While the project had technical goals, its impact investigates how it shapedstudents' understanding of engineering practices. Students underwent teamwork, systemthinking, and trade-off difficulties in an actual, constraint-driven environment. Feedback fromclassmates resulted in diverse observations, showing both improvements and
a longitudinal plot that evolved as students progressed in theirpathway to complete their engineering degrees. Activities developed for each stage are brieflydescribed below. A. Belonging Stage ActivitiesThe belonging stage of the model used a sequence of two one-credit free electives designed aspart of the program. The courses included:● INGE-3001 – Introduction to Engineering was used for exposing first-year students to all engineering disciplines offered in the College of Engineering.● INGE-3002 – Introduction to Learning Communities: developed a non-conventional learning community connecting first-year students with seniors completing their capstone design project [17].The combination of these two courses allowed for students
comments and recommendations: 1. If your program is related to energy, built environment, materials and chemicals, water, and agriculture, the P3 Phase I would be a great funding resource for the capstone design. The Phase I begins in August and the competition is in April, which matches the schedule of standard capstone design courses. By participating the P3 competition, students will be more motivated to work. Their understanding of sustainability and their communication skills will be enhanced by presenting their designs to the audience visiting the competition. 2. If the program enrollment is small, you may propose projects focusing on a certain area (e.g., solar energy in our case) so both
Paper ID #9514Intervention to Improve Self-Efficacy and Sense of Belonging of First-YearUnderrepresented Engineering StudentsDr. Kari L. Jordan, The Ohio State University Dr. Kari L. Jordan earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University in 2006 and 2008 respectively. During her undergraduate tenure she was an active member of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and served on the Board of Directors. She was also the President of the ASEE student chapter at Michigan Tech. She was the recipient of a King-Chavez-Parks graduate fellowship and GEM Fellowship
highschool internships that engage students in authentic STEM environments [2], [3]. High schoolinternships are especially impactful for underrepresented minority (URM) female students inSTEM [1]. Prior research has shown that these internship opportunities can increase students’sense of self-efficacy in STEM fields, give students insight into career paths they might nototherwise be exposed to, and increase students’ interest in and pursuit of STEM-related majorsand careers.The home environment can also provide opportunity for students to increase and strengthenSTEM identity and the consideration of STEM careers. A model for STEM identity has beendeveloped as a framework building on disciplinary studies and includes the interplay of threeelements
Earth and Environment Sciences and CREATE for STEM Institute for Research on Science and Mathe- matics Education. Currently, her research focuses on cognition, assessment of student learning, validity and reliability in research, curriculum and visual design, and discipline-based education research.Miss Anastasia Katharine Ostrowski, University of Michigan Anastasia Ostrowski graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Biomedical Engineering where she worked with the Daly Design and Engineering Education Research Group and Transforming Engineering Education Laboratory. Her research focused on entrepreneurship self-efficacy and under- standing how biomedical engineering students engage in idea generation
broader communities, assessing not only academic performancebut also the real-world impact of students' work (Strobel J. et al., 2013).THE 5AX DESIGN MODEL OF GENERAL ENGINEERING COURSESThe authentic characteristics of general engineering courses cannot be fully realized througha single lesson but require a series of interconnected activities. Consequently, the design ofthese courses must incorporate the nine key elements: authentic context, authentic activities,imitation of expert work performance, multiple roles and perspectives, reflection, cooperation,expression, tutoring and scaffolding, and authentic evaluation. These elements should be usedto structure coherent and organized learning sequences. Based on the five authenticcharacteristics
more closely match objectives.5. Impact on student learningWe have attempted to use WebAssign as a lever to engage students in the learning process and toredirect their learning effort in Calculus and General Physics courses in the last several years.We have observed that weekly homework assignments and quizzes-delivered, collected andgraded through WebAssign-have · increased students’ time and effort · generated appropriate learning activities such as interactive and cooperative learning · increased contact between students and faculty Page 7.660.12 · increased reciprocity and cooperation among students Proceedings of the
American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Positioning Students to Understand Urban Sustainability Strategies through Vertical Integration: Years One through FourI. AbstractCommonly-adopted engineering pedagogy tends to be lecture-based, and places students in apassive and predominantly secondary role (Hung et al., 2003). Research in the field ofengineering education also highlights the ineffectiveness of such strategies and stronglyadvocates that faculty adopt advanced education strategies that actively engage learners. Citingmedical education as an example, engineering education research suggests problem-basedlearning and vertical integration as two key strategies that will assist in facilitating the activeengagement of
assertiveness, and generationalstereotypes before students transition to the workplace and during their first few years on the job.IntroductionGenerational cohorts are defined by the shared experiences, values, and cultural influences ofindividuals born within a specific time frame, and they exhibit distinct characteristics that cansignificantly impact their behaviors and attitudes in the workplace [1]. While these cohorts canbring diverse perspectives and strengths to the workplace, they can also clash in expectations,communication styles, and work approaches. Organizational psychologists refer tomanagement’s expectations for workers and vice versa as a psychological contract [2]. Likemany organizations, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH), a national
Education. Her research interests center on the concept of sense of belonging, peer and faculty interactions, and graduate education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 A Scoping Review on Non-Majority Students’ Sense of Belonging in Engineering and Computing Education: Uncovering the Barriers, Supports, and Contexts AbstractThis work-in-progress theory paper discusses the preliminary findings of a scoping literaturereview on non-majority students’ sense of belonging in engineering and computing education,focused on barriers, supports, and contexts. A substantial body of research underscores thesignificant impact of sense of belonging on
) takes place each summer onand around MIT’s campus. Approximately 40 students from the two universities arebrought together to interact with the MIT community and experience MIT’s academicenvironment. GLP consists of a series of classes to develop leadership and engineeringcompetencies. Students participate in classes on leadership, communication, ceramics,architectural drawing, globalization, and design.One of the classes associated with GLP employs design-based wilderness educationpedagogy. The curriculum used in this class was developed to holistically address thedevelopment of design thinking, engineering science, and leadership skills; it consists ofclassroom and shop activities on MIT’s campus, followed by a multi-day wildernessexpedition
displaced engineering students, understanding the supports and barriers to educational continuity for engineers in a disaster context, and preparing engineering students interdisci- plinarity to address disasters in their work. She works as a graduate research assistant for the Virginia Tech Disaster Resilience and Risk Management interdisciplinary graduate program, as well as for the VT Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication, collabo- ration, and identity in engineering
academiccommunity. There is ongoing debate about whether faculty should teach students how to use GAItools, restrict their usage to maintain academic integrity, or establish regulatory guidelines forsustained integration into higher education. Unfortunately, limited research exists beyondsurface-level policies and educator opinions regarding GAI, and its full impact on studentlearning remains largely unknown. Therefore, understanding students' perceptions and how theyuse GAI is crucial to ensuring its effective and ethical integration into higher education. As GAIcontinues to disrupt traditional educational paradigms, this study seeks to explore how studentsperceive its influence on their learning and problem-solving.As part of a larger mixed-methods study
, though, was planned to be spent developing and testing engineering designactivities for use in the participants’ classrooms. This focus is in line with Custer et al.’sfindings that design concepts are the ones science teachers report being the easiest to incorporateinto their existing curricula.3Reasons for Taking the WorkshopAs the inaugural workshop offering, it was important to check the alignment between theinstructor’s goals for the week and those of these experienced participants. This was done viaclass discussion. The two most common goals were engaging more students and helpingstudents know what engineering is. As one teacher put it, “Many of my best students are tryingto decide between careers in medicine and engineering. They know what
including Summer Scholars,activities, and classes due to COVID-19 in 2020, the Bridge to Engineering Excellence (BEE)Program was developed by the LSU College of Engineering.The initial major concern when creating program was that incoming CoE students would not beprepared for college level calculus due to lack of high school math preparation and anyopportunities that connected with LSU and current students.The LSU CoE is focused on meeting the demands of the engineering industrial community forlow-income, diverse populations Due to historic segregation, unprecedented natural disasters,and economic hardship, Louisiana public schools place 49th in the nation [2]. Poverty is theprimary reason, and many incoming students, despite their best academic
Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate education through hands-on learn- ing. As a volunteer for Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, Luchini-Colbry facilitates interactive seminars on interpersonal communications and problem solving skills for engineering students across the U.S.Dr
’ matriculation byfocusing on African Americans at PWIs, to a great extent, education and psychological researchexcludes the experiences of African American male students persisting at HBCUs.Although the significant and positive impact of attending HBCUs is well established16, this paperargues that racially homogenous education settings such as HBCUs are not devoid of deficitintellectual stereotyping of African American male students. Further, the nature and function ofwithin-race and gender based ideas about students’ work ethic and skills may operate uniquely inracially homogeneous settings. Therefore, the purposes of the paper are to 1) elucidate thepresence of within-race stereotypes of Black engineering students (African American andinternational
of teaching approaches This index can assistinstructors in creating active learning modules that impact all student learning styles effectively. Table 1. Learning Styles categories. Table 2. Overview of the MBTI categories43.Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Personality TypeThe Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is similar to Felder-Silverman Learning Style, but islinked to personality preferences [Table 2]. MBTI includes four categories of how an individualprocesses and evaluates information43. The first category describes how a person interacts withhis or her environment. People who take initiative and gain energy from interactions are knownas Extroverts (E). Introverts (I), on the
Assessing Evidence-Based Teaching Practices for Active Learning in Large Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Classes,” Life Sciences Education, 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.14-06-0095[9] A. F. Cabrera, J. L. Crissman, E. M. Bernal, A. Nora, P .T. Terenzini and E. T. Pascarella, “Collaborative learning: Its impact on college students' development and diversity,” Journal of College Student Development, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 20-34, 2002.[10] J. Bouwma-Gearhart, “ Research University STEM Faculty Members’ Motivation to Engage in Teaching Professional Development: Building the Choir Through an Appeal to Extrinsic Motivation and Ego,” Journal of Science Education and Technology, vol. 21, no.5
Education: Were Engineering Teachers Ready to Teach Online?," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 4, p. 2127, 2021.[22] C. Wang and H. Zhao, "The impact of COVID-19 on anxiety in Chinese university students," Frontiers in psychology, vol. 11, p. 1168, 2020.[23] S. Asgari, J. Trajkovic, M. Rahmani, W. Zhang, R. C. Lo, and A. Sciortino, "An observational study of engineering online education during the COVID-19 pandemic," Plos one, vol. 16, no. 4, p. e0250041, 2021.[24] T. Crick, C. Knight, R. Watermeyer, and J. Goodall, "The impact of COVID-19 and “Emergency Remote Teaching” on the UK computer science education community," in United Kingdom & Ireland
their viewpoint [3].been used to bring more realism to the issue being debated. Debates have been successfully used in a variety of disciplinesIn a junior-level environmental science course, role-play to include sociology, history, psychology, biotechnology,debates were utilized to present and discuss controversial math, health, dentistry, nursing, marketing, and numerousenvironmental issues in realistic scenarios that occur other disciplines [4].throughout the United States. Using these debates as a Benefits of in-class debates include promoting activeplatform, a model to build, assess, and reflect on students’ engagement, which
describes how the dynamic nature of this project has posed a challenge for her andher students where shifting intermediate goals and student turnover has led to a lack ofconsistency in work quality and output. For students engaged in the research on pay (rather thanfor course credit) the SE Faculty is flexible in allowing them to choose when they want to workor leave the research team altogether. She has resolved to maintain flexible deliverables, but in amanner, that better facilitates and tracks students’ growth while contributing to the project.CommunicationCS and SE Faculty have both identified lack of communication (or miscommunication) as anissue that has impeded progress on the project. Varying degrees of understanding of desireddeliverables
Carolina University2. Some of the issues of web-based graduate programs werealso discussed3,4. Parmentier et al. proposed a multidisciplinary, innovative graduate curriculumin technology at Arizona State University. This program offers students options that deal withsocial scientific approaches to study “technology’s role in global economics, political, and socialdevelopment and change”5. It also provides the impact of technology on society. North CarolinaAgriculture and Technical State University also initiated an interdisciplinary master’s program incomputational sciences where it consist of various areas such as engineering, physical sciences,life sciences, agriculture, environmental sciences, technology and business6. Western
Appendix) includes core business, engineering, and sciences classes aswell as interdisciplinary seminars and electives in management, engineering, and mathematicsproviding a strong interdisciplinary foundation. Part of the core is engagement with activeresearch or community-based design projects where they are mixed with engineering and othermajors. The multi-year participation in the programs allows IBE students to serve in leadershippositions on authentic projects and develop an understanding of working with engineers.Seminars expose students to contemporary topics related to the design and management ofsocially responsible modern organizations and enterprises. They leverage thought leaders on andoff campus in rotating topic areas that include
. We have developed a series of hands-on modules that introduce freshman engineering students to chemical, mechanical, and electricalengineering principles through application to the human body. Students are engaged in thescientific discovery process as they explore the engineering systems within the human bodyusing exciting hands-on “reverse engineering” methods. The modules explore respiration,metabolism, pulmonary mechanics, the cardiovascular system, work and power, electricalsignals, biomechanics, and mechanics of materials. Through the investigation of these systems,students learn basic concepts of mass and energy balances; fluid flow; work, energy, andefficiency; forces and levers; material strength and stresses; and electrical signal
completed in 1998, 2004, and 2008, re- spectively. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, and ASEE. Dr. Bender’s research interests include various topics in Operating Systems and Networking, including adhoc networks, real time systems, multimedia communications, and system security. The focus of his current research is on the application of test driven and behavior driven development to distributed real time sensor/actuator networks. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Work in Progress: One approach to Software Engineering project selection for small student populations Paul Bender
Paper ID #37288”Just a little bit on the outside for the whole time”: Social belongingconfidence and the persistence of machine learning and artificialintelligence studentsKatherine MaoSharon Ferguson, University of Toronto Sharon is a PhD student in the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. She previously completed her Bachelors in Industrial Engineering also at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the Future of Work on online communication. She is passionate about supporting women in Engineering and STEM more broadly, both within and outside of her research. She has
integration of accelerometers in teaching numericaldifferentiation and integration concepts, emphasizing practical applications and providing a hands-on, interactive learning experience. This approach enhances student engagement andcomprehension by allowing them to analyze real-world data. Students encounter critical challengessuch as sensor drift, noise, and data smoothing, thereby developing essential problem-solving skillsrelevant to fields like robotics, aerospace engineering, and biomechanics. The investigationhighlights the significant impact of sensor drift and noise on data analysis. Techniques such asdetrending, low-pass filtering, Power Spectral Density (PSD) filtering, and Savitzky-Golayfiltering were employed to address these issues. The
CollegeMr. Mark J. Stratton, Society of Manufacturing Engineers Mark Stratton is a member and Industry Relations Manager of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers at their international headquarters in Dearborn, Mich. He serves the manufacturing education and research community and the SME Center for Education, coordinating the role of SME in higher education and workforce development. He is engaged in initiatives that focus input from industry and academia on curricula that prepare graduates for employment in manufacturing industries, assessing the quality of manufacturing education programs through accreditation, faculty development, resource development, publication of manufacturing research, and recognition programs