valuable in explaining the “how” and“why” questions around a complex single case, particularly in the areas of technology andinnovation. This guidance proved particularly relevant, as intentional decisions were frequently madein response to these two higher-order questions, which consistently demanded explanation,reasoning, and deeper understanding rather than opting for the most readily available solution.Given the early stage of the case, the long-term results or in-depth research needed to provide adetailed assessment is left for future study. The proposition for this case study is identifying whatintentional choices were made to integrate an industry certification into a cybersecuritycurriculum while meeting the overall learning goals of
Paper ID #47712MNT-CURN and START: Successful Nationwide Programs for ConnectingCommunity College and Technical Education Students to Research OpportunitiesSophia Isabela Salter, Micro Nano Technology Education Center Sophia Salter graduated with a BS in Neurobiology from UC San Diego in June 2023. She has been a mentor within the Micro Nano Technology Education Center for the past four years and will be starting medical school at the University of Chicago in August 2025.Dr. Jared Ashcroft, Pasadena City College Jared Ashcroft graduated with a BS in Chemistry from Long Beach State in California and subsequently attended
Paper ID #43435Anti-racism, Inclusion, Diversity and Equity in Database Curriculum ThroughGroup Research Projects on Historical, Social and Ethical Database RelatedTopicsDr. Ioulia Rytikova, George Mason University Ioulia Rytikova is a Professor and an Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University. She received a B.S./M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Automated Control Systems Engineering and Information Processing. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Data Science and Big Data Analytics, Cognitive and Learning Sciences, Educational Data Mining
Paper ID #40960Effectiveness of Scrum in Enhancing Feedback Accessibility among UndergraduateResearch Students: Insights from Integrated Feedback Dynamics FrameworkSakhi Aggrawal, Purdue University Sakhi Aggrawal is a Graduate Research Fellow in Computer and Information Technology department at Purdue University. She completed her master’s degree in Business Analytics from Imperial College London and bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Technology and Organizational Leadership from Purdue University. She worked in industry for several years with her latest jobs being as project manager at Google and Microsoft. Her
in the program provedpositive which, as one student wrote, “Only furthers and deepens the desire of education.” Page 12.1508.8One undergrad was given the opportunity to accompany her PhD mentor and professor to asymposium in South Korea. On this trip she was indulged with information from a design worldthat she would have never known existed. She notes, “I am now much more interested inresearch mainly because I know what is out there and have heard about many of the issues theydeal with first hand. It is important for students to know about all sorts of research that is goingon in their field of study before entering graduate school. This
Paper ID #45401Adjusting and Designing Assessments in Reducing the Negative Impact of theArtificial Intelligence: A Proposed Study of ChatGPT Usage in IntroductoryJava Programming CourseDr. Nur Dean, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York Nur Dean is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Systems Department at Farmingdale State College in New York. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from The Graduate Center, City University of New York and holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Hofstra University in New York. With a primary research focus on Game Theory and Social Networks, Dr. Dean also harbors a keen
student cohort meetings, not having adedicated program coordinator, not offering group meetings to discuss resumes, careers,graduate school, or offer a poster conference. While it is typical at other NSF-funded REUprograms to have a program coordinator, each student in the AFIT Summer Research Programis directed through his or her own AFIT Faculty Advisor and has a unique experience. Anotherunique aspect of the AFIT summer program is that all students are required to work the samecore hours between 0900 and 1500 each day.The new paradigm that we present in this paper is novel and unique because we were able tofigure out a way forward to assess students’ experiences in 2012 and use this information to gainsupport and resources to upgrade future
Paper ID #39818Board 215: Applying Research Results in Instructor Development to ReduceStudent Resistance to Active Learning: Project UpdateMs. Lea K. Marlor, University of Michigan Lea Marlor is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, studying Engineering Education Research. She joined the University of Michigan in Sept 2019. Previously, she was the Associate Director for Education for the Center for Energy Efficient ElecDr. Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan Dr. Cynthia Finelli is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Professor of Education, and Director and Graduate Chair for
Paper ID #9779The Influence of Summer Research Experiences on Community College Stu-dents’ Efficacy and Pursuit of a Bachelor’s Degree in Science and EngineeringDr. Sharnnia Artis, University of California, BerkeleyDr. Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech Dr. Catherine Amelink is Director of Graduate Programs and Assessment in the College of Engineering, Virginia Tech. Page 24.1227.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 The Influence of Summer Research Experiences on Community
information. Specifically, the research questions motivating this study include 1)What WE2NG RET program elements have the greatest control on teacher experience and is teacherlearning affected by those elements? And 2) How does teachers’ confidence (in their understandingof STEM curriculum) change due to their participation in the WE2NG RET program?General Program Logistics The WE2NG program supports teacher participants to attend a full-time (40 hours/week) paidsix-week summer training at CSM where they engage in research under the direction of faculty andgraduate student mentors. Participants are paired with a research group on campus (including afaculty advisor and graduate research assistants) based on their STEM content interests and thescope
Sensitivity VignetteDr. Xiao has a rather heavy accent. When Dr. Xiao was a fellow university colleague ofDr. Willard, Dr. Willard would continually ridicule Dr. Xiao's English, joking with othersabout how difficult it was to understand him. As a result many graduate students wouldavoid taking Dr. Xiao's classes or having him on their committees. Partly because of this,Dr. Xiao eventually left to take a job at another university. Several years later, Dr. Xiaofinds himself on a NSF review panel that is reviewing one of Dr. Willard's grantproposals. Of all of the members of the review panel, Dr. Xiao is the most knowledgeablein the area of research that Dr. Willard is proposing to study and, consequently, the othermembers of the panel look to him as
influence their teaching practices? This research was designed to understand theinfluence that accreditation, as an external force, has on ethics education via the educators taskedwith teaching it. This study employed an exploratory qualitative approach and drew on semi-structured interviews that probed participants’ ethics teaching practices and perspectives,including the influences and motivations related to their instruction. Interviews were completedwith 20 engineering ethics educators who represented a range of engineering disciplines across17 institutions in the United States. Inductive analysis of the transcripts indicated a bifurcatedresponse to accreditation in the context of ethics and societal impacts education. On one hand,accreditation
GC 2012-5612: CROSS-CULTURAL ACTIVE LEARNING: PRELIMINARYRESULTS OF A CASE STUDY OF AN AMERICAN PROFESSOR TEACH-ING IN CHINADr. Susan M Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently Professor and Coordinator of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineer- ing courses, feminist and liberative pedagogies, engineering student persistence, and student autonomy. Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Lord is active in the engineering education community
institutions [1]. Another study surveyed faculty at amedium-sized, research active, private institute and found that there is a weak safety culturewithin academia [7].Engineering student societies serve as an extension of a student’s formal learning from the theoryand lab-based classes into actual practice. Studies on safety in academic settings generally focuson academic research laboratories with graduate students and postdoctoral researchers (e.g. [9],[10], [11]) or focus on formal learning such as laboratory sessions or classroom teaching (e.g.[12], [13]). None of the existing studies we found in the literature focus on universityundergraduate student safety practices in co-curricular activities such as engineering clubs andengineering team
Undergraduate Research Experience Intensity on Measures of Student Success," Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, vol. 23, no. 1, 04/04 2023, doi: 10.14434/josotl.v23i1.32675.[2] S. Russell, M. Hancock, and J. McCullough, "Benefits of Undergraduate Research Experience," Science, vol. 316, pp. 548-549, 2007.[3] R. S. Hathaway, B. A. Nagda, and S. R. Gregerman, "The Relationship of Undergraduate Research to Graduate and Professional Education Pursuit: An Empirical Study," Journal of College Student Development, vol. 43, pp. 614-631, 2002.[4] B. A. Nagda, S. R. Gregerman, J. Jonides, W. von Hippel, and J. S. Lerner, "Undergraduate student-faculty partnerships affect student retention," The
Paper ID #40315Board 241: Connected Learning Spaces Supporting Engineering InterestDevelopment: A Case Study of Ego-Centric Network Analysis ofRelationshipsMr. Raul Mishael Sedas, University of California, Irvine Educational researcher and evaluator of out-of-school environments focused on engineering. Learning scientist and designer interested in design-based activities that foster and enhance STEAM+Design learn- ing for the empowerment of non-dominant populations.Mizuko Ito ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Connected Learning Spaces Supporting Engineering Interest
and analyze the electrical impedance of biological tissues, the use of fractional-order equivalent circuit models, and exploring impedance-based sensing for health-focused applications. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 IRES: Undergraduate Engineering Students Intercultural Communication Competence Before and After Participation in a 12-week International Research Experience in the Czech RepublicIntroductionUndergraduate research is a high-impact educational practice [1] that provides opportunities forstudents to develop their research and technical skills, network with other students/professors,raise their awareness of graduate studies, and understand the social context
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
people react to uncertainty. In particular, he is interested in how technical people (scientists, engineers) make decisions with numbers. There are examples in the historical record where decisions ignored uncertainty and the results led to catastrophic failure. Prof. del Rosario’s research goals are to understand how technical people experience uncertainty, and use that understanding to help them make better decisions. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Beyond "How's it going?": A CollaborativeAutoethnographic Study by Early Instructors in aFirst-Year Engineering Studio CourseAbstractIn this complete research paper, we study student-instructor communication in an engineeringstudio
Presidential Award 2023 ASEE 2023: Multidisciplinary Engineering Division’s ’Best Diversity Paper’ Award DSIR 2021: ’Outstanding Paper’ AwardProf. Dita Puspita Sari, Shibaura Institute of Technology I am a condensed matter physics experimentalist with expertise in superconductivity and magnetic materials, particularly organic-based compounds, studied by muon spectroscopy. I am currently an Associate Professor in the Innovative Global Program (IGP) and the Global Course of Engineering and Science (GEneS), Shibaura Institute of Technology, where I teach Physics subjects for undergraduate and graduate courses. My colleagues and I have been conducting the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Program for our
/inventive 10 Confidence in practical abilities Discussion of practical knowledge/practical abilities/having 8 the ability to apply knowledge hands-on Cultural capital Discussion of cultural capital in the sense of having a strong 4 cultural/familial background Note: % of students = percent of students that mentioned respective theme at least oncePositionality statementThree coders with different training and backgrounds were involved in the coding of the essays.The first coder was a white female educational psychologist with graduate training in educationresearch. Given her research interest in studying the
Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) led by Northeastern University. He was also UPRM campus coordinator for the Center for Power Electronic Systems (CPES) a NSF ERC led by Virginia Tech. He was director of the UPRM Tropical Center for Earth and Space Studies (TCESS), a NASA University Research Center, ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Paper ID #43708 and Director of the UPRM Laboratory for Applied Remote Sensing and Image Processing (LARSIP). Dr. Velez-Reyes is a strong advocate on promoting access to excellent higher education to all students particularly those from socioeconomically
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
Session 3130 Threats to Validity in a Study of the Effects of Hypermedia Instruction on Learning Outcomes - a Switched Replications Experiment Malgorzata S. Zywno Ryerson UniversityAbstractEducational researchers in university settings face many difficulties in trying to conduct controlledaction research studies on the effects of hypermedia on learning outcomes, where threats tovalidity and reliability are often beyond the influence of the investigator. Switched Replicationsexperiment and another, semester