study in engineering and computer science. SMU islocated in a smaller town situated within a large urban area. SMU’s student population isapproximately 11,000 of which approximately 6,000 are undergraduate students. The LyleSchool of Engineering undergraduate population is approximately 1,000. Undergraduate degreeprograms in the Lyle School of Engineering include: civil engineering, environmentalengineering, electrical engineering, engineering management, computer engineering, computerscience and mechanical engineering.BackgroundOne of the overarching goals of the program was to increase retention of undergraduateengineering students, particularly throughout the pivotal first two years of study. The impact onthe persistence/retention of
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, beliefs, self-regulation, and achievement.Min Tang, College of Education, Learning and Cognition Program,Florida State University The research interests of mine are: 1) to understand teachers’ pedagogical practices and the potential effects of those practices on students’ critical thinking and epistemic beliefs in engineering domain, 2) to quantify epistemically-related emotions that occur during the epistemic activity, 3) to explore the best pedagogical practices to improve the efficiency integrating classroom project-based learning and students’ real-world problem-solving practice. I have MS degree from Florida State University in Curriculum and Instruction and BA degree from China Nanchang University in English
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learning settings [30, 31]. Fisher et al. [31] used a literature review tomap 20 professional outcomes to 22 activities; they determined that ethics could be developedvia seven activities: academic competitions, departmental groups, housing communities, media,project teams, service organizations, and student governance. They tried to validate the literatureresults via interviews with 10 engineers who had recent experience as direct supervisors of entry-level engineers; however, ethics was among five attributes not validated by these interviews.Alumni feedback has been used to assess a number of professional skills such as teamwork,leadership and communication [32-34]. Wankat et al. [32] found that among 99 chemicalengineering (ChE) alumni survey
upperlevel students were considered academically eligible if they had overall college GPA ≥2.75, andthey were further evaluated on their academic performance in their engineering curriculum. Theupper level students were also evaluated for their leadership and professional involvement whileattending LSU. All potential scholars were verified to be financially eligible based on theFAFSA expected family contributions being less than the cost of attendance. To remain eligible,all students were required to maintain an overall GPA of 2.75 or greater and participate in theservices provided as part of the S-STEM project. If a student did not meet the criteria at thecompletion of any semester, they were placed on scholarship probation for the subsequent
State University in 1980 and 1983, and his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University in 1989.Prof. Weinan Gao, Georgia Southern University Weinan Gao is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Southern University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at New York Uni- versity in 2017. His research interests include control, optimization and their application to intelligent transportation systems and cyber physical systems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 STEM Education from the Industry Practitioners’ PerspectiveAbstractThis study explores the industry
a Faculty lecturer in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Al-Hammoud has a passion for teaching where she continuously seeks new technologies to involve students in their learning process. She is actively involved in the Ideas Clinic, a major experiential learning initiative at the University of Waterloo. She is also responsible for developing a process and assessing graduate attributes at the department to target areas for improvement in the curriculum. This resulted in several publications in this educational research areas. Dr. Al-Hammoud won the "Ameet and Meena Chakma award for exceptional teaching by a student” in 2014 and the "Engineering Society Teaching
as a matter of convenience rather than as a matter of intent. This observation issupported by Lichtenstein, et. al., [1] who conclude that engineering majors show the least benefitfrom their general education as compared to all other majors. These authors suggest that thereason for this lack of benefit is based on time management. Engineering students tend to placea higher time priority on classes they view as favoring the acquisition of highly marketable skillsover educationally enriching experiences. Because of this perspective, engineering studentssometimes need encouragement to help them see how their lives and their careers may bepositively impacted by their general studies.A history of the efforts to build and develop courses that
work with Bill Boeingon the wind tunnel project, Millerresigned from the University in thesummer of 1917 to become ChiefEngineer at the newly renamed BoeingAirplane Company.6 Concurrent with this turn ofevents, the Mechanical Engineering Fig. 2 The Boeing Wind Tunnel at the University ofdepartment began a search for a new Washington (c.1918). Clairmont Egtvedt isfaculty member to implement and third from left. This facility is still in use butinstruct a complete aeronautics with a modern 3’x3’ wind tunnel inside.curriculum. This search led to thehiring of Frank McKone for the 1917-1918 academic year. The curriculum that McKoneorganized
coursemanagement systems (CMS). Since Tablet PCs are integrated into the college curriculum as well Page 14.841.3as students’ lives (i.e., they are comfortable with the affordances offered by the Tablet PC) andthe use of CMS is spread thorough the college, GCC is an excellent laboratory to assess thistechnology.All the classrooms are equipped with network ports, wireless networking, and electrical outlets ateach seat. The backbone is all fiber connected running at gigabit speeds with multiple trunks toeach of the academic buildings. The campus network has ample bandwidth with capacity to growin the future. In addition, all students and faculty have
AC 2012-3937: COMPARING FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING TECHNOL-OGY PERSISTERS AND NON-PERSISTERSMr. Martin John Wagner, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Martin J. Wagner is a graduate student in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI. He is working on his master’s of science in technology. He is an IT Project Leader for Indiana University. He is also Adjunct Faculty for the IUPUI Kelley School of Business.Prof. Barbara Christe, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Barbara Christe is an Associate Professor and Program Director for biomedical engineering technology at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Prior to teaching, Christe was a Clinical Engineer at the
am also indebted to my colleagues in physicsMark Utlaut, Tom McGlinn, and the University of Portland computer support staff for their help(past and present) in this project. Finally I would like to thank the adjunct lab instructors: EllainLaJoie, Bruce Meeves, and Greg Mulder, for their often heroic effort.References1. David Hestenes (1987), "A Modeling theory of physics instruction", Am J. Phys, 55, 440-454.2. David Hestenes (1992), "Modeling games in a Newtonian World", Am J. Phys, 60, 732-748.3. R. R. Borchers (1988), "In Praise of Visualization and Simulation ", Computers in Physics Jan/Feb )4. P.W. Laws (1988) in The Conference on Computers in Physics Instruction, E. F. Redish and J. S. Risley, Eds,Addison Wesley.5. P. W. Laws, et al
) concept inventory research to uncover the underlyingcause of learning difficulty with the content,8 (d) development of active learning strategies foruse in the classroom, (e) project-based tasks for students to learn by doing, (f) peerteaching/learning and a (g) development of a more clearly articulated problem-solving approachhas been proposed specifically for Mechanics of Materials to improve student learning9. Among our personal efforts to improve learning of Mechanics of Materials, we observedthat students often miss the global connections of the many topics in the course, that students get“lost” in the midst of problem solutions, and that students have difficulty storing their knowledgein their memories. All too often, we have known
Paper ID #38588Board 240: Computational Thinking in the Formation of Engineers: Year 3Dr. Noemi V Mendoza Diaz, Texas A&M University Dr. Mendoza is a faculty member of Technology Management in the College of Education-Engineering at Texas A&M University. She has worked as electrical engineering professor in Mexico. She recently obtained funds from NSF to investigate enculturation to engineering and computational thinking in engi- neering students. She is the co-advisor of the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers and advisor of Latinos in Engineering and Science at TAMU and is interested in computing
, curriculum, courses, et cetera. • Seek ways to collaborate with other departments on campus.ConclusionFirst-year engineering professors find themselves in a unique situation, often coming frompositions at the height of their technical careers while perhaps lacking certain skills in the area ofteaching. The aim of this paper has been to offer a host of practical suggestions from theviewpoint of two new professors. One final piece of advice – recognize that you will make somemistakes! Most of your colleagues – and even your students – will understand your position andwill be forgiving of errors. With strong efforts to improve your teaching style and a positiveattitude in the classroom, the success you experienced as a graduate student will find its
a result, Mount Everest, in addition to being the tallest peak on theplanet, is also the world’s highest garbage heap. It is a far cry from the awe-inspiring vistasMallory, Irvine, and other climbers witnessed a century ago.This paper explores the complex issue of the environmental degradation of Mount Everest,focusing on ethical implications, such as environmental stewardship and waste management, andoffering suggestions for classroom implementation. Specifically, the paper examinesbackground, classroom suitability, problem definition, ethical considerations, and potentialengineering solutions, such as the Mount Everest Biogas Project and a variety ofretrieval/recycling efforts. Instructors in search of a unique and compelling ethics case
engineering and society course, others had been introduced to causalloops for control courses, and some students had seen journey maps in their industrialengineering courses) the nature of the projects, the amount of time dedicated to exploration, andthe emphasis on thinking holistically was felt to be novel. In class discussions, students offeredfeedback about the lack of “understanding the problem space” in their previous curriculum andexpressed that the tools introduced in the course would have been useful in their design courses.A major challenge for students was coming to grips with the ambiguity of the course – the ideathat there was not one right answer as well as struggling with the idea that their final maps wouldstill be incomplete
International Technology Education Association, American Society of Engineering Education, and WEPAN.John R. Duncan, Clemson University John Duncan is currently a faculty member in Clemson University. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Human Resource Education and has completed as Masters in Education (2001) and an MBA (1991). John has complete a broad base of statistical coursework ranging from basics to Item Response Theory and applied those skills in quantitative and qualitative research projects resulting in numerous publications and presentations at national and international conferences. The previous research includes the use of virtual
. Her prior work experiences include product management, consulting, tutoring, marketing, and information technology.Rachel Eve Gail Swan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Rachel Swan is an undergraduate student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). Since 2022 she has been an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the ERAU Wireless Devices and Electromagnetics Laboratory (WiDE Lab). She has also been an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the ERAU Biologically Inspired Design-for-Resilience (BID4R) Lab since 2023. Her research projects and interests include hardware security for RF applications and machine learning. She is a recipient of the ERAU’s 2023 Outstanding Electrical Engineering Undergraduate
uncertain how to adjust their instruction tomotivate their students. Many instructors who design new laboratory-based and project-basedinstruction to boost motivation find that these efforts are often greeted by apathy or resistancefrom the students. This situation is further exacerbated by curriculum (re)design efforts whichemphasize the presentation and transmission of course material rather than everyday teachingdecisions that motivate, or demotivate, the students to learn the material3. Based on the premise that educational psychology must inform the practice of teaching4,this primer first presents and synthesizes a selection of recent theories of motivation. With thesetheories as a backdrop, we discuss how these theories can be used in
State University. We will provide a description of the studio approach, and analysis ofstudent perception of the first quarter of the widespread studio implementation in three classes:material balances, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics. We will also comment on theadministrative support and department culture needed for this type of curricular innovation.The foundation of the studio architecture is based on the demonstrated effectiveness of activelearning pedagogies from the physics education research community. These methods seek topromote a substantially higher level of engagement from students during in-class times. In arecent study, Deslauriers et al.1 studied the effectiveness of active learning reform pedagogiesusing a split design
writing, engineeringundergraduates seem to struggle when they are assigned to write in their major classes. Thispaper aims to investigate the areas of writing competencies where students improve or strugglein lower-division engineering laboratory courses. We collected and analyzed lab report samplesfrom sixty-four students (n = 64) in a total of seven sophomore-level civil, electrical, andmechanical engineering courses at three different universities, consisting of a polytechnicuniversity, a liberal art-focused private university, and a branch campus of research-one landgrant university in the academic years of 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. The analysis results fromthe lab sample assessment, using nine lab report writing outcomes, indicate that 30% or
College of Science and Engineering at Uni- versidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, an M.Sc. in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University as a Fulbright Scholar, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, and two Graduate Certificates from Virginia Tech in Engi- neering Education and Future Professoriate. MiguelAndr´es’s research includes sustainable infrastructure design and planning, smart and resilient cities, and the development of engineers who not only have strong technical and practical knowledge but the social awareness and agency to address global humanitarian, environmental, and social justice challenges. For him, social justice
days of class and involved thepreliminary design, detailed design, construction, and load testing of a model bridge usingextruded polystyrene foam. It was found that the event provided a stress-free learningenvironment, and the students that participated received, on average, higher grades for abridge design course project than those that did not participate [8].Following the successful implementation of the Design Days event model for severalengineering programs, it was clear that the Architectural Engineering program would bewell-suited for an event with a similar format. Mui et al. (2019) describes the planningprocess and implementation of the first edition of the ‘AE Design Days’ event during the veryfirst two days of class for the first
engineering researcher. She can be reached by e-mail at capage@tamu.edu.Dr. Karen L. Butler-Purry, Texas A&M University Karen Butler-Purry is the Associate Provost for Graduate Studies and Professional Studies as well as a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. She was one of the principal investigators on the NSF-funded E3 RET grant. Her re- search interests include computer and intelligent systems applications to power distribution systems and engineering education. She can be reached by e-mail at klbutler@tamu.edu.Chance W. Lewis, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Chance W. Lewis is the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor
systematic literature reviews, includingconducting comprehensive searches of reputable databases, applying pre-determined selectioncriteria, performing an extraction of data, and a determination and report of findings (Borrego etal., 2014). Our processes are described further.Search Procedures and Search StringsA search for information sources to study the gender gap among Middle Eastern femaleengineering students was conducted. Specifically, we used the database Education Source tosearch for articles. We used one database because this was a preliminary project. Based on ourinclusion criteria, we sought to locate articles which were: ● Included college-age participants from a Middle Eastern country, ● Which discussed gendered differences.Given
municipal wharf, the re-design of the shipping crates used totransport all-electric Zero Motorcycles (http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/) overseas, the designand installation of a linked rainwater catchment and smart irrigation system that uses a data- driven sensor network to deliver water on demand and most recently, a net energy analysis of arecently commissioned plastic-to-fuel conversion machine. Interdisciplinary teams of undergraduates lead the projects while working closely withlocal experts including university researchers, elected municipal officials and staff, industry andnon-profit professionals, activists, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists to define project topics anddevelop detailed project plans. As undergraduate teams move
Education Conference (FIE), 2021, pp. 1–5.[13] A. F. Almarshoud, ‘Developing a rubric-based framework for measuring the ABET outcomes achieved by students of electric machinery courses’, International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 27, no. 4, p. 859, 2011.[14] D. Christensen et al., ‘A Self-Study of Faculty Methods, Attitudes, and Perceptions of Oral Engineering Exams’, in 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2023.[15] V. Sathy and K. A. Hogan, Inclusive teaching: Strategies for promoting equity in the college classroom. West Virginia University Press, 2022.
) grant to form the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE), along with faculty at the University of Washington, Colorado School of Mines, and Howard University. She was co-principal investigator with Professor Larry Leifer on a multi-university NSF grant that was critically looking at engineering undergraduate curriculum (Synthesis), and from 1997-1999 served as co-director of Stanford's Learning Lab. Sheri is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). She was awarded the 2004 ASEE Chester F. Carlson Award in recognition