Paper ID #16753Student Benefits of Multidisciplinary versus Single-Disciplinary Design Ex-periences: A Cohort Study of a Capstone Design ProgramProf. Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware Dr. Buckley is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Delaware. She received her Bachelor’s of Engineering (2001) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware, and her MS (2004) and PhD (2006) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked on computational and experimental methods in spinal biomechanics. Since 2006, her research efforts have focused on
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providing the muchneeded skills and self-confidence required to persist and to succeed; the CDS offers such anopportunity.The purpose of this research is to explore the impact of participation in the CDS on women’sself-confidence in an engineering profession and to discover how they persisted in engineeringsince graduation. The specific research questions framing this investigation are: 1. What are the specific professional engineering skills gained as a result of participating in the Collegiate Design Series? 2. What experiences (positive and negative) from their participation in CDS contributed to Page 25.1311.4 their persistence in
Paper ID #21942A Mixed-methods Study of Non-text Social Media Content as a Window intoAfrican-American Youth STEM IdentitiesDonna Auguste, University of Colorado, Boulder Donna Auguste is a Ph.D candidate in the interdisciplinary ATLAS Institute, College of Engineering and Applied Science. Her research engages intergenerational learners of color with STEM through sensor- based experiences that are personally meaningful, providing an opportunity to assess impact of such ex- periences on STEM identities. She examines modern expressions of STEM identities in social media. She earned a M.S. in Information Technology
Page 24.570.2participants on projects that provide opportunities for discovering new knowledge; (2) to mentora diverse team of undergraduates; (3) to promote graduate study as a future professional goal;and (4) to provide instructive and appealing learning components. Undergraduates in the REUprogram attain three learning outcomes: design, conduct, and document a research experiment;function effectively on a multidisciplinary research team; and summarize both the technical andexperiential aspects of the research experience.The summer research appointments provide extensive time for research and discovery.However, specific periods are set aside for structured learning and professional developmentactivities. These activities provide the
SWRI as a primary dataacquisition tool, similar to her research initiatives. The visit increased her awareness on hownondestructive technologies can be applied for monitoring crack growth in fatigue studies ofmaterials. The perspective about a future research career broadened when realizing that largescale labs, such as SWRI, perform tests for industries across the world.The weekly progress presentations to her peers enabled the student to communicate to a broaderaudience unfamiliar with her work. To better improve communication, each student was Page 23.725.5evaluated by fellow graduate and undergraduate researchers throughout the summer
most sophisticated computers. ICperformance has dramatically improved since their first creation. However, with scaling of ICs toNano-scale, an ideal integrated circuit delivering reliable performance over its lifetime is almostimpossible. All ICs experience degradation over time due to the aging of underlying transistors.Working on latest technology issues is typically an opportunity available only to graduate levelstudents working on related research projects. To address this gap, using a NASA CurriculumImprovements Partnership Award for the Integration of Research (CIPAIR) grant, we havecreated a summer internship program that engages community college students in researchprojects on the latest challenges of circuit design in nano-scale
an emphasis on broad integratedtransdisciplinary knowledge.Furthermore, this paper describes an experiential college preparatory program for high schoolseniors embedded in an engineering company and reports the outcomes of a longitudinal studyover four and half years. The study gathered feedback from three secondary graduate cohorts onwhat knowledge content and learning practices in their secondary program were most helpful intheir success at the postsecondary level. Forty-eight secondary students entered the program,with forty-two completing it. The study also discusses the impact of low student-to-teacher ratiosand teacher experiences in transforming experiential knowledge into acquirable studentknowledge.The research offers insights on
Paper ID #242472018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29The role of female engineering faculty in female student success and belong-ing: A case study at California State University, FresnoDr. Lalita G Oka, California State University, Fresno Dr. Lalita Oka is an Assistant Professor in the department of Civil and Geomatics Engineering at the California State University, Fresno. She teaches undergraduate and graduate level Geotechnical Engi- neering courses. Her research interests include Geomechanics, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Experimental
AC 2009-2411: A STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECT: MYTH AND FACTS ONINRUSH POWER CONSUMPTION AND MERCURY CONTENT OFINCANDESCENT VERSUS COMPACT FLUORESCENT LIGHTSMike Hay, University of Northern Iowa Mr. Mike Hay holds a BT in Industrial Technology/Mechanical Design from the University of Northern Iowa and an MA in Industrial Technology from the University of Northern Iowa. Mr. Hay has over 30 years of professional work experience in various Engineering positions and is listed on seven US patents. His graduate research was in planning optimum small-scale wind-electric systems. He has worked on several renewable energy and electric vehicle projects as well.Recayi "Reg" Pecen, University of Northern Iowa
undergraduate and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also, she introduced the first experiential activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Mr. Carlos Michael Ruiz, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.)Benjamin G Cohen, Drexel Department of Engineering Technology Undergraduate Studying Engineering Technology with a dual concentration in Mechanical and Electrical fields.Ms. Sarah Renee Andrieux Drexel University Class of 2021, BS Mechanical Engineering c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Undergraduate Freshmen Developing Advanced Research Project: Learn-by-Discovery Module to
perceptions of effective leadership practices of Presidents of historically black colleges and universities. Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress, 4(2), 207-228.Gagliardi, J. S., Espinosa, L. L., Turk, J. M., & Taylor, M. (2017). The American college president study: 2017. Washington, DC: American Council on Education, Center for Policy Research and Strategy; TIAA Institute.Jefferson, J., Park, S.E., Fletcher, T., Strong, A., Nicholson, S and Moten, J. (2023). Pillars of Success: Connecting STEM Undergraduate Preparation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to Experiences Along Graduate School Pathways. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and
proposal, while working in a research group with a faculty, and oftengraduate student, mentor; 2) Mentoring, which consists of a multi-tiered approach designed tosupport the students with trained peer mentors often former LEARN® participants assigned toeach student in the program, paired laboratory/faculty mentors, and a LEARN® programcoordinator; and 3) Community Building, which consists of living/learning opportunities, socialprogramming, and other non-research related extracurricular activities. It is hypothesized that theLEARN® program participants will:1. Demonstrate higher fall-to-fall retention, credits earned, GPA, and graduation rates compared to matched intra-institutional comparison groups;2. Demonstrate developmental gains in
A. Middlebrooks Award from the Geo-Institute, Collingwood Prize from ASCE, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, U.S. Society of Dams Scholarship, and Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship twice. Dr. Ajmera has delivered over 20 invited presentations. As an Assistant Professor, she has supervised over 100 high school, community college, undergraduate and graduate students on various research projects. She serves as President of the North Dakota Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a Councilor in the Engineering Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research and serves as their representative for the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) Oversight
- College of Medicine. Mr. Elizondo completed his undergraduate studies in Biology and graduate studies in Environmental Health, both at Texas A&M Uni- versity. In his role as a research assistant in the College of Medicine, Mr. Elizondo has facilitated various components associated with the MENTORS Project. As a first-generation Mexican-American and col- lege graduate, Mr. Elizondo provides a unique perspective in mentorship and pipeline into STEM careers among underrepresented and under-served minority high school students.Ms. Chiamaka Theclar Umah Chiamaka is experienced in Medical Practice and Project Management. She earned her Medical degree from the University of Lagos, Nigeria and a Masters in Public Health
graduates from Hampton University go on to graduate school. Thesestudents all have one or more summer research experiences at PWIs thanks to NSF REU programsand other similar programs. The students see themselves doing research in PWI labs and feelcomfortable in that atmosphere due to the immersive summer research internships.Ethics Case Study Project MethodologyHybrid Ethics Class Collaboration Between PWI and HBCUEthics guides all aspects of an engineer’s job from proper safety, process and product design andquality management22. Products and their contents, uses, and potential hazards must be properlydisclosed and labeled9. Engineers also have an ethical responsibility to credit intellectualproperty both within and without the company 9. A
Paper ID #37357Examining K-12 Singaporean Parents' EngineeringAwareness: An Initial Study of the Knowledge, Attitude, andBehavior (KAB) Framework (Fundamental)Akmal Zakwan Bin Zulkifli Akmal Zakwan Bin Zulkifli is an undergraduate student - currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science (Education) specializing in Physics and Mathematics at Nanyang Technological University-National Institute of Education (NTU- NIE). He is extremely passionate about STEM education and research on education-related matters in the STEM fields. He believes that there is much unexplored potential to learn and understand about STEM education
Page 12.338.4(legitimate) careers for women than are those who have not seen such presentations. Anopportunity presented itself to conduct a pilot study that, though limited in several ways, doesshed some new light on the tenability of this suggestion.Between April 1 and May 15, 2004, the Survey Research Institute at Purdue Universityconducted as a graduate student training exercise one of its periodic social surveys of the entirecontinental United States via a computer assisted telephone-interviewing (CATI) system. In thesystem, telephone numbers are selected randomly from a list of random digit dialing telephonenumbers that include all area codes and telephone prefixes throughout the United States. TheCATI system allows graduate student
on WILreveals that in almost all of the cases the focus is on employability/ placement of collegestudents and hardly any article on continuous learning or retention of employability skills ofworking professionals. This is of particular importance when evolving technologies arerapidly transforming the workplace. Research suggests that WIL adopted for workingprofessionals can help them remain relevant and grow in their chosen profession. Our studyconfirms this and further demonstrates that such a model can be offered at scale in asustainable way without compromising the quality of learning. We present here ourdescriptive study conducted in a multi-modal University that has institutionalized WIL tomeet the continuing education demands of about
, Miami.Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University As an assistant professor of engineering education at Florida International University, Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong works and teaches at the intersection of engineering education, faculty development, and complex systems design. Alexandra completed her graduate degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech (PhD) and Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia (UVa). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Proposing a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy Research Framework in Sub- Saharan African STEM Education: A Paradigm Shift from Deficit to Asset- Based PerspectivesAbstractResearch shows that
University of Texas at Austin, is a leaderin the areas of intellectual property and conflict of interest/commitment as they relate touniversity research activities. According to Dr. Nichols, three fundamental questions must beanswered to equitably determine ownership within a student/faculty mentor/private sectorpartnership:4 1. Who formulated the problem statement? 2. Who actually solved the problem? 3. Who provided the resources to accomplish the work?As part of a larger study addressing these questions, the authors of this paper have starteddeveloping a research instrument to help learn more about what students believe they own in avariety of partnering relationships under different idea generation and resource utilizationscenarios.The
science intotheir classrooms.While there are no current computer science standards within the NGSS, current studies haveresearched the most popular forms of teaching code: utilizing gamification of learning and/orproblem-based learning (PBL) [7]. In this study, we will explore the implementation of computerscience instruction leveraging the gamification framework and instructional technology. We seekto answer the following research question: How can teachers combine gamification of learningand robotics to teach computer programming?Researcher PositionalityI (Leslie Brown) am currently an engineering education graduate student at Utah StateUniversity. I worked as a software engineer after completing a mechanical engineeringundergraduate degree
conducted an undergraduate research project “Proposing a New Study inNon-Invasive Amperometric Glucose Sensing Technology through the NYC-LSAMP SummerFellowship Program” – with a freshman student. Since a non-invasive method of monitoringblood glucose would present major advantages over existing methods which use invasivetechnologies, our group has studied the possibility of using a novel sensing technology, anamperometric glucose sensor, based on the information derived from the relationship betweenglucose molecules and their electrochemical impedance within physiologic glucose levels.Changes in glucose concentrations can be monitored by measuring the impedance within awide range of frequencies in order to optimize the impact of glucose solution
Paper ID #32764Faculty Perceptions of STEM Student and Faculty Experiences During theCOVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study (WIP).Mr. Mehdi Lamssali, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University Experienced research assistant with a Master of Science - MS focused on Civil Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and working towards a Ph.D. in Applied Science and Technology.Ms. Olivia Kay Nicholas, RAPID My name is Olivia Nicholas. I am a sophomore in the Built Environment department majoring in Ge- omatics at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. I am
Paper ID #26132Construction and Measurement of University-based Entrepreneurial Ecosys-tem Evaluation Index System: A Case Study of Zhejiang University in ChinaMiss Yanjie Xie, Zhejiang University Miss Yanjie Xie, Zhejiang University Ph.D. candidate in School of Public Affairs in Zhejiang University. Research direction: Educational Economy and Management.Prof. Wei Zhang, Zhejiang University 2015-Present Professor, Institute of China’s Science,Technology and Education Strategy, Zhejiang Uni- versity Associate director of Research Center on Science and Education Development Strategy, Zhejiang University 2012-2014 Professor
Paper ID #40319Board 430: What Constitutes Research Excellence? Experimental Findingson Factors Driving Faculty Perceptions of Tenure Candidates in STEMDr. John K. Wagner, University of New Mexico Dr. John K. Wagner is a Postdoctoral Fellow for the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Profes- soriate (AGEP) joint project between the University of New Mexico, Arizona State University, and the University of Oregon. His research interests focus on improving equity in higher education, and the impacts of technology on public opinion and political psychology. Specifically, Dr. Wagner’s research explores how to improve equity
with the Couse Extension -two weekssummer undergraduate research experiences on AI/ML and robotics in the Autonomous SystemsLaboratory directed by Dr. Marco Pavone at Stanford University. The success in the developmentof this course is due to the collaboration with Stanford University, which opening HamptonUndergraduate students' eyes to the larger issues in the area of study; due to the support fromindustry such as IBM and NVDIA, which provide Hampton University free training license forthe online course and resources.KeywordsResearch-based learning; Machine Learning and Robotics I. Introduction “Safe Aviation Autonomy with Learning-enabled Components in the Loop: from FormalAssurances to Trusted Recovery Methods” is a NASA funded
Education, 2021 Peer teaching research group model for upper level environmental engineering class with student-led lectures and journal article discussionsAbstractAn upper level environmental engineering class focusing on hazardous waste and air pollutionwas organized to mimic a graduate school research group. It is an upper-level required class forenvironmental engineering majors. In most weeks of the MWF class, a different student eachweek prepared a lecture and taught that week’s material on Monday. On Wednesday the facultymember followed this up with more explanation and clarification. Friday was a class discussionof a journal article related to the topic. The student would prepare the lecture a week or so inadvance and faculty member
, Purdue University Todd R. Kelley is an Associate Professor in Technology Leadership and Innovation. Dr. Kelley joined Purdue in 2008 upon completion of his PhD at the University of Georgia. He was hired as a P-12 STEM educational researcher and technology teacher educator. His dissertation research was on teaching and learning engineering design in secondary education. Prior to graduate school, Kelley was a high school and middle school technology education teacher for nine years teaching in three school districts in New York state and Indiana. Dr. Kelley’s research focus is in design and cognition seeking to better understand how young students learn design and how design improves STEM education. He joined a team
Paper ID #20595Measuring the success of an educational program through box-and-arrowdiagram: A case study of the Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment Inter-disciplinary Instructional InstituteDr. Umesh Adhikari, Michigan State University Dr. Adhikari is Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engi- neering at Michigan State University.Dr. Jade Mitchell, Michigan Sate University, Dept. of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Dr. Jade Mitchell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering at Michigan State University. She received her B.S