author has been involved either as leader or as team element in different projectssince its very beginning in 2004. Table II lists the author related projects.Table II – Author’s involvement in iJUP Program Nº Year Topic 1 2004 Use of optical fibers for temperature and strain monitoring of a carbon fiber reinforced polymer along and after the curing process (Team element) 2 2004 Development of a displacement transducer for civil engineering applications (Leader) Page 21.51.9 3 2005 Displacement transducer for monitoring applications in civil engineering (Team element) 4 2005 Micro Displacement
into K-12.Nevertheless, many students complete high school never having the chance to learn CS.We have created a summer coding camp for high-school students (including 8th graders entering9th grade) and designed a multi-year study to assess its effectiveness as an informal learningenvironment, based on theories of human motivation such as Self-Determination Theory 1 .The camp is a 1-week immersion experience, 9am to 5pm with food and activities, that introducesbasic programming via MIT APP Inventor. Lecture material and in-class exercises draw uponmeaningful applications, many appealing to “social good.” One unique aspect is the inclusion ofprofessional and career development activities that engage students and broaden perspectives onCS and
comprehensive, integrated engineeringexperience to students enrolled in humanities, social sciences, life science and other non-engineering degree programs. Lessons learned through the development and implementation ofthis course may be applicable to programs seeking to expand or develop minors in engineering orprovide challenging and rewarding experiences in design-based courses to students who mightotherwise be reluctant to explore this potentially demanding and work-intensive field.Introduction“All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mindwake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, forthey may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.”1
levels. His tremendous re- search experience in manufacturing includes environmentally conscious manufacturing, Internet based robotics, and Web based quality. In the past years, he has been involved in sustainable manufacturing for maximizing energy and material recovery while minimizing environmental impact.Dr. Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University Irina Ciobanescu Husanu, Ph. D. is Assistant Clinical Professor with Drexel University, Engineer- ing Technology program. Her area of expertise is in thermo-fluid sciences with applications in micro- combustion, fuel cells, green fuels and plasma assisted combustion. She has prior industrial experience in aerospace engineering that encompasses both
proposed project may be offered the opportunity to visit OU.In general, Fellowships are offered to applicants meeting the following criteria:· Have excellent academic records in their current or previous program of study, as indicated by a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.3/4.0.· Score of 1200/1600 (quantitative + verbal) on the GRE general test for graduate students, and an ACT score of 30 or a SAT score of greater than 1325 for undergraduate students.· Show a strong interest in engineering, math, science, and math and science education pedagogy.· Indicate plans to pursue graduate degree, preferably Ph.D., in engineering, environmental science, or math and science education.· Identify areas of research interest
RiborgMann, in which he claims that 80% of engineering success in engineering is due to “soft” skillsand 20% due to “hard” skills as exhibited by working engineers [3]. The term “professionalskills” is more current in modern literature and will be used for the duration of this paper.Definitions such as skills pertaining “to personality, attitude and behavior rather than to formal ortechnical knowledge” and “soft skills engender automatic chains of psychological, emotional,and psychological responses which have an immensely real impact within the mind, body, andsociety at large” [4] are included in professional skills. Collegiate undergraduate engineering programs are tasked with preparing students toenter the engineering industry. Typically
quality ofan online engineering class can be proven to be equal to or better than an in-person alternative,there will be difficulty in transitioning all programs to be fully online.The other issue with remote education for engineering courses is the spectrum of topics thatcourses cover. Full engineering degrees require courses in theory, application, professional skills,and additional extracurricular courses. To receive a fully remote degree in an engineering field, astudent would have to successfully complete all of these courses. This means that the degreeawarding department would have to make all these courses available to all students remotely, oroutsource classes to other programs, colleges, or universities. Implementing a new style
with challenges that are vastly different from the challenges facedby previous generations. These challenges include global competition, intelligent technology,and a constantly changing work environment. But the speed with which this civilizationcontinues to advance is fundamentally challenging the way in which engineering is practiced andthe way in which engineering and engineering technology students are educated. Technologicalbreakthroughs—the Internet and apple products most prominent among them—have effected anincreasingly global “workplace” in which the collaborative efforts of multinational teams areunhampered by geographical distance or time zones, and this global workplace in turn isintroducing new imperatives not only to engineering
.2• Absence of Inter- and Multi-disciplinarity: The lamented present lack of inter- and multi-disciplinarity in school curricula continues into many engineering studies: there are no multidisciplinary contexts, broad views or historical references. The rather broad interest of women is directly opposed by a unilateral, outmoded learning/training program which is not only unattractive to women, but also bypasses an actual demand of modern education: the complexity of the global market, the social reference, economical objectives as well as the ecological boundaries call for more comprehensive and integrated thought and action, which has to be mirrored in interdisciplinary approaches.• Disregard of “Social Skills
anengineering course to satisfy the C&A requirements, the content of the course, samplestudent artifacts, and suggested modifications for future versions of the course. I. IntroductionLike many similar programs, a goal of our University’s Electrical & ComputerEngineering (ECE) Department has been to increase student retention from year-to-year,with particular emphasis on the transition from the Freshman to the Sophomore year.This challenge is being addressed through a number of initiatives, includingmodifications to the early portion of the student curriculum. A primary purpose of thelatter modifications has been to increase faculty contact with Freshman ECE studentsfrom just one credit hour to a total of
), a University Affiliated ResearchCenter (UARC), we consider opportunities to broaden our talent pool through targeted activitiesin inclusion, recruiting, and retention. In the search for a novel, inclusive, and informativerecruitment tool to engage future interns and new hires, our team of representatives from variousinternship programs across our organization designed a hackathon-style, engineering competitioncalled Net-Hack. The intent of Net-Hack is to address these challenges by providing students withnetworking training and professional development, followed by facilitating introductions betweeninterns and staff through technical talks, mentoring, and workshops. Net-Hack saw participationfrom over 75 college interns who were assigned to
investigations on Socially Oriented Education. He belongs to the National System of Researchers, Level 1 and belongs to the circle of distinguished professors of the Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey.Patricia V´azquez-Villegas Dr. Patricia V´azquez-Villegas has a bachelor’s degree in the Food Sciences Engineering program and a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from Tecnologico de Monterrey. She has experience working in the development and application of sustainable platforms for the purification and detection of biomarkers. Has made research internships at the Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia and the Water Center for Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2018 she was Coordinator at the Writing Lab of the
diplomas on June 6, 1911.The institution was authorized by the General Assembly in 1920 to institute a four-year teachereducation curriculum and to confer the baccalaureate degree upon its graduates. The Board ofTrustees proposed in 1921 that the name be changed. East Carolina Teachers College wasauthorized in 1929 to initiate graduate programs, and it conferred the first Master of Arts degreein 1933. In 1941, the college was charged to plan for a liberal arts program.In 1951, to reflect the institution's expanding academic commitments, the name was changed toEast Carolina College. As the fastest growing educational institution in North Carolina, by 1960it had become the state's third largest institution of higher learning. During the expansion of
Reaching Out to High School Girls: The Role of a Student Organization in Developing an On-campus Technology Workshop Mara H. Wasburn, Susan G. Miller Purdue UniversityAbstractWomen and girls will comprise at least half of the available science, engineering, and technologytalent pool. Therefore, it becomes imperative to attract more women and girls into thesedisciplines. In 2002 at Purdue University, the student group Women in Technology invited aselect number of high school juniors who were at risk of losing interest in math, science, andcomputers, and their parents to the Purdue campus for an all-day workshop. The program wasplanned, designed, and executed
and Associate Professor inthe Department of Mathematical Sciences. His pedagogical interests include understanding the first yearexperience of his students, visualization in mathematics, and the use of the Internet as a learning tool.ANN DARNELL is the Data Manager for the Model Institutions for Excellence Program and is currentlyresponsible for leading a longitudinal study for the evaluation of the MIE program. She has also evaluated theTechnology Integration Challenge Grant and has extensive experience in information technology.LILLY ROMO is a research associate for The Model Institutions for Excellence Initiative at UTEP. She earned aB.S. in Psychology with a minor in computer science. She is currently responsible for the collection
, instead of designing aproduct from scratch, is often used to improve the product and better fulfill the customers’expectations, while reducing the development time and cost. On the freshman level, it isadvisable to focus on the first area, information recovery. As one phase of evolutionary design,reverse engineering lends itself to this end. In this paper, the example of a two-cycle gas weedtrimmer subjected to reverse engineering is used to demonstrate how a freshman engineeringdesign program can benefit from evolutionary design. Evolutionary design can serve as aretention tool in freshman engineering by appealing to student interest, incorporating teamwork,recognizing the demands of industry, and demystifying the design process.1. Introduction
. Christopher S. Greene, University of Saint Thomas Christopher Greene got his B.S. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and then did his master’s and Ph.D. at MIT, where he studied control theory. Following a 23-year career at Honeywell and another industrial company, he joined the University of St. Thomas School of Engineering. He is currently the Director of the Electrical Engineering program at St. Thomas and does research on the applications of control theory.Mr. Scott Edward MorganDr. Miguel Angelo Rodrigues Silvestre, University of Beira Interior Miguel Angelo Rodrigues Silvestre is an Assistant Professor at University of Beira Interior (UBI) in Portugal and an Integrated Researcher
Session 2613 Integrating Soft Criteria into the ChE Curriculum Phillip C. Wankat, Frank S. Oreovicz, and W. Nicholas Delgass Chemical Engineering, Purdue UniversityAbstractIncorporating the soft criteria included in ABET 2000 into the curriculum has proved tobe a challenge for many engineering programs. Our approach has been to prioritize theimportance of the six criteria and proportion effort accordingly. We have been quitesuccessful in integrating communication skills into the ChE curriculum and more thanmeet ABET criteria. We believe that we do a more than adequate job with our secondand third priorities, teamwork
to the student’s understanding of current methods andequipment used in industry at the time.It was noticed that a larger percentage of faculty had little or no industrial experience whencompared to previous years. More faculty were hired directly out of university programs, and theones that were from industry had less experience and far less responsible roles. This isparticularly bad for a discipline that is primarily concerned with the application of the conceptstaught in class.Academia, as a whole, has shifted towards research oriented programs. Many believe thatworking on basic research will help bring about innovation. The issue here is that in the majorityof the cases, the research revolves around many premises that are not practical or
AC 2011-459: PREPARING ENGINEERING STUDENTS FOR WORK INTHE 21ST CENTURYDean C. Millar, University at Buffalo, SUNY Dean C. Millar is an Assistant Dean of Engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. In 1994, he began the Engineering Career Institute, a program that complements engineer- ing coursework and gives engineering students key career-professional skills, including pre-employment classes and credit-worthy industrial employment experience. Page 22.1173.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Preparing Engineering Students for Work in
faculty. Second, once these examples of artificialintelligence become widespread, their use will continue. And third, faculty will need to adjust. It hasbeen clear to the Engineering Education community for some time that our students’ learningoutcomes are better when we teach using research-based methods that have evolved beyond the1950s-versions of our classrooms. Just as the hand-held calculator in the 80s, the internet in the 90s,and cell phones in the 2000s changed the way engineering educators instructed and assessed, sotoday’s technology enhancers (some might say disruptors) require us to adapt. In this paper we willbriefly discuss the current state of AI in engineering classrooms and then discuss what we think canbe done to future-proof
power shape reform efforts.Dr. Yan Chen, University of New Mexico Yan Chen is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of New Mexico. Her research interests focus on computer supported collaborative learning, learning sciences, online learning and teaching, and educational equity for multicultural/multiethnic edu- cation.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical and Biological En- gineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is
integrated surveys, nutritionallabel analysis, workshops, and the use of analytical tools, the study not only met its objective butalso facilitated the practical application of these skills. Students were able to analyze andcorrelate nutritional information from packaged breakfast food labels, enabling them to identifyhealthier options for their morning meals.The implications of these findings extend beyond the immediate educational environment. Theinsights gained can be instrumental in developing robust nutrition education programs thatemphasize the importance of understanding nutritional labels and making healthy dietarychoices, which can instill lifelong healthy eating habits in students. Furthermore, the study'ssuccess highlights its potential
in the NSF 2010 FIRE(Fostering Interdisciplinary Research in Education) program, it would appear that a major reasonis that students are not sufficiently motivated by STEM topics. The five funded proposals includethe following:(FP-1): “Applying Embodied Learning” Award #1042995 . “This project brings cognitivescientists together with physicists. The goal is to improve high school and college students'physics proficiency through specific types of lab experiences that allow the student to becomepart of the physical system being studied. Lab experiences where students have direct experiencewith physics quantities (e.g., feeling forces--as opposed to reading about force, seeing forcesbeing exerted on someone else, or even measuring forces with
-journals/internet- plagiarism-among-college-students/ docview/195178831/se-2.[15] J. Dryden. "But are they grateful? Educating online users about copyright," presented at ACRL, San Diego, CA, USA, April 10-13, 2013, 90-96.[16] L. Schmidt and M. English, “Copyright Instruction in LIS Programs: Report of a Survey of Standards in the U.S.A,” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 736–743, 2015. [Online]. DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2015.08.004.[17] L. Saunders and A. N. Estell, “Copyright Literacy of Library and Information Science Students in the United States,” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 329–353, 2019. [Online]. DOI: 10.3138/jelis.2018
National Science Foundation projects in the engineering education realm, researching engineering career trajectories, student motivation, and learning. Sreyoshi has been recognized as a Fellow at the Academy for Teaching Excellence at Virginia Tech (VTGrATE) and a Fellow at the Global Perspectives Program (GPP) and was inducted to the Yale Bouchet Honor Society during her time at Virginia Tech. She has also been honored as an Engaged Ad- vocate in 2022 and an Emerging Leader in Technology (New ELiTE) in 2021 by the Society of Women Engineers. Views expressed in this paper are the author’s own, and do not necessarily reflect those of organizations she is associated with. Learn more about Sreyoshi’s impact
al.’s work focused on gender, and does not include a broader range of terms relatingto culture and diversity). Increasingly, however, word-search algorithms are being used asanother way to monitor and measure written language. For example, such algorithms track theuse of gendered pronouns in internet-based text (http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/case-studies/nlp.html#tabs-3) and are leading to new thinking of “debiasing” language. Simple wordclouds are another means of depicting trends. These methods are appealing because of the speedat which coding can be accomplished and the assurance that results will be consistent andaccurate. This paper is designed to examine the development and application of one suchalgorithm, that we
defined asrecognition, understanding, and ability. The attainment of the BOK is expected to occur througha broad undergraduate education, specialized education at the masters level, and practicalexperience during the pre-licensure and post-licensure periods. As the policy comes to fruition,draft commentaries are being published that provide more specific guidance and elaborate on theintent of the BOK outcomes.The BOK outcomes are closely linked to the accreditation criteria (ABET 2004) for ABETaccredited civil engineering programs. The draft commentary which provides guidance to civilengineering program ABET evaluators (ASCE 2004b) is ambitious in what undergraduate civilengineering programs are expected to achieve. The requirements include for
industrial placements, jointconferences, seminars and, most recently, joint team projects1. Many of these activities utilizevideoconferencing and other electronic technologies, which are critical to the goal of having cost-effective programs. The symbiotic relationships among the different facets of the collaborationhave proven very beneficial as each new activity is supported and enriched by elements of theprevious activities.Rationale for Internationalization of the Curricula: The world is changing in fundamentalways, and as educators we must be responsive to these changes. We are moving rapidly into anetworked society, in which old and familiar institutions are losing their power, including thenation state itself2. Furthermore, the economy is
, engineering ethics, program managementand written and oral communication. Furthermore, provides the students with the opportunity tobecome more proficient in a second language and develop professional competencies (e.g. travelsafety, use of public transportation, required international documentation, etc.). In accordance with ABET criteria, the ETHOS course was designed to have the followingoutcomes: 1. Enhance the ability of students to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering fundamentals: The internships require simple mathematical calculations and application of basic engineering principles. Basic math concepts are required to plan a travel budget for the internship. 2. Enhance the ability of