Graduate Committee of the Society of Women Engineers (GradSWE).Ms. Yanfen Li, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Yanfen Li is a third year Ph.D student in the department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focus is on biomaterials and tissue engineering. At the U of I, she is the Academic Liaison for the graduate section of the Society of Women Engineers.Prof. Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rohit Bhargava is Bliss Faculty Scholar of Engineering and Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a faculty member with affiliations in several departments across campus (Pri- mary – Bioengineering: Affiliated - Electrical and
state-of-the-art multimedia technologies exemplifiedby the World Wide Web and active learning pedagogy into the traditional introductory physics curriculum. In thisapproach, outside-the-classroom technology-based assignments are given equal weight with the in-class, activelearner collaborative activities. Although the JITT project is only six semesters old, there is already considerableevidence that its approach improves student attitudes, retention, and performance.ERIC R. HAMILTONEric Hamilton is Visiting Professor at the Center for the Study of International Collaboration at HiroshimaUniversity and Director of Learning Technology, Institute for Information Technology Applications, US Air ForceAcademy. He received AB and MAT degrees from the
and learningThe challengeAs 21st century science and engineering assault disciplinary boundaries towards addressingproblems in healthcare, the environment and energy, many engineering departments are seekingways to make the curriculum and the classroom more interdisciplinary. Areas as diverse as drugdelivery systems, green waste treatment plants, and skin injury treatments are all instances wherechemical engineering principles have been applied to pressing problems beyond the purvey oftraditional chemical engineering. However, while many faculty readily embrace inter and multi-disciplinary research programs, replicating boundary crossing in the classroom remainschallenging, if not contentious. Often, faculty educated within single engineering
for students from historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups who have unmet financial needs o Develop increased partnerships with entrepreneurs and corporations who can offer paid positions to Black and Latino male collegians o Provide financial incentives for more students to work with faculty on research projects, curriculum updates, and outreach projects in engineering and related STEM fields o Replace work-study positions and non-STEM related jobs with less time- consuming and higher-paying positions that allow students to spend more time on coursework, student design teams and study abroad trips
exceptions, complete a standard first-year curriculum,including the two-semester “Introduction to Engineering” course sequence, before declaring thefields of engineering that they plan to pursue. Engineering disciplines at the institution studiedinclude: aerospace, chemical, civil, computer, electrical and mechanical, along with computerscience and environmental geosciences. The students begin to take courses specific to theirchosen disciplines at the start of sophomore year. Historically, 85% of students who leaveengineering do so before the end of the first year, and the majority of the rest who leave do soduring the first semester of sophomore year. Thus, because this study involved sophomores,juniors and seniors, it does not evaluate the
conducting studies were with Attilio Poto; Dr. Matthew Mailman; Dr. Scott Nelson. ”Taking weekly lessons at Symphony Hall in Boston, where the greatest of musicians throughout time have stood, was awe-inspiring and magical.”Dr. Margaret Loraine Lowder, Southern Polytechnic State UniversityDr. Mir M. Atiqullah, Southern Polytechnic State UniversityDr. Rajnish Singh, Southern Polytechnic State UniversityDr. Craig A Chin, Southern Polytechnic State University Craig A. Chin received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Florida International University in 2006. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the electrical and computer engineering technology at Southern Polytechnic State University. His research
of Texas at Austin, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California and B.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from India. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: Examining the KEEN 3Cs Framework using content analysis and expert reviewAbstractThe KEEN 3Cs (Curiosity, Connections, and Creating Value) framework for entrepreneurialmindset (EM) was developed by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) toguide curriculum development, faculty professional development, and student-related initiativeswhen seeking to integrate EM into engineering education. The framework has seen growingpopularity and acceptance
people and communication”35.Construction engineering, scheduling and planning, estimating, and project management will continue tobe important competencies for constructors. These core subjects reflect the focus of most undergraduateconstruction curriculums today. Yet, competency in these traditional subjects alone is not sufficient tosucceed in today's construction environment. The growing need is for competencies in communicatingeffectively with people of diverse backgrounds, mentalities, attitudes, and experience. The success of eachconstruction venture depends on the abilities of managers and engineers to communicate orders,instructions, requests, reports and myriad other types of information, to all the participating parties52.This brief
, Page 25.602.2 integrating oral and written communication into all facets of the discipline, and providing training in “soft skills” such as leadership, management, creative problem solving, etc.All the while schools are reducing the total number of hours in the engineering curriculum toallow the average student to graduate in four years. 5 Accomplishing all of this is an impressiveundertaking, considering the approach to educating engineers since the 1950s.6Add to this mix the desire of Baylor University to grow in its various research areas, and it isclear that unless emphasis continues to be on quality undergraduate teaching, the demands of theresearch paradigm – graduate resources, labs, facilities, students – will
leadership skills, is creative, and hasthe skills and knowledge to bring about innovation.[10,11] Traditional engineering programs andcourses frequently struggle to address outcomes related to these skills, often working with theassumption that students either enter their programs with the abilities, or will acquire the skillswith little explicit instruction or assessment. Others, such as that described in this paper, haverecognized a need to include process oriented, project-based engineering courses in theirprograms as a means to address the calls of accreditation boards and industry for engineers withboth technical and professional skills. For example, in design courses students work together inteams to solve open ended problems through the
Education through NAU’s Center for Science Teaching and Learning. Her areas of interest include broadening participation in STEM, math curriculum development, and out-of-school time STEM experiences.Dr. Nena E. Bloom, Northern Arizona University Dr. Nena Bloom is an evaluator and education researcher at the Center for Science Teaching and Learning at Northern Arizona University. The primary area of her work is evaluating STEM education projects that focus on opportunities for, and retention of, K-20 students in STEM areas, majors and fields. She also conducts education research focusing on questions about professional development for educators and how educators support student learning in STEM
- force demographics, technology, and organizational structures. As director of the Simmons Research Lab, she researches competency development via education and training; interactions between humans and technology; and conceptualization of leadership in engineering. Supported by more than $7.5M in federal funding and with results disseminated across more than 100 refereed publications, her research aims to develop and sustain an effective engineering workforce with specific emphasis on inclusion. She has over ten years of construction and civil engineering experience working for energy companies and as a project management consultant; nearly 20 years of experience in academia; and extensive experience leading and
use in the mechanical engineering curriculum. The intention is to promote deep learning and improved engagement of students in subject matter. Leon is collaborating with colleagues from various disciplines in this venture. He also founded the TechnoLab technology awareness facility for junior engineering stu- dents and for school children, where the learners work in small teams to solve problems using Lego Dacta and other didactic equipment. The TechnoLab model has been adopted by several South African schools since its inception in 1997. Leon also founded the Space and Aviation Challenge for school learners in South Africa, which aimed at demystifying the aeronautical engineering profession. The Challenge was
/ (accessed August 2008).[9] Harmon, Christina and Huff, Chuck. Teaching Computer ethics with detailed historical cases: a web site with cases andinstructional support. Computers and Society, vol. 30, no. 3 (Sept. 2000), 24 – 25.[10] The Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula, Computing Curricula 2001, http://www.sigcse.org/cc2001/cc2001.pdf(accessed August 2008)[11] Little, Joyce C., Granger, Mary J., et al. Integrating Professionalism and Workplace Issues into the Computing andInformation Technology Curriculum: Report of the ITiCSE 1999 Working Group, SIGCSE Bulletin, 31(4), Dec. 1999, 106-120.[12] Schön, Donald A. The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. Aldershot, England: Arena, 1995.[13] Sher, George. Justifying Reverse
was first introduced in 1996, thesecriteria have been the subject of extensive discussions. In the words of Jack Lohmann2 (cited byFelder et al3), “Preparing for an ABET visit is no longer the academic equivalent of El Niño—something to be weathered every six years until things go back to normal.” Since the work ofequipping students with the attributes specified in program outcomes must be done at theindividual course level, all faculty members involved in teaching required courses must nowunderstand and be involved in the accreditation process on a continuing basis, not just in themonths preceding each visit.In this part of the world things were different. The institution, whose case study is discussed inthe present work, had just started
Paper ID #43877The Virtues of Engineering Practice: An Investigation of Professional Codesof Ethics in EngineeringElizabeth M BoatmanDr. Kyle Luthy, Wake Forest University Dr. Kyle Luthy is an Assistant Professor and founding faculty member in the Department of Engineering at Wake Forest University. Kyle has taught across the engineering curriculum and placed intentional focus on the virtue of humility. Kyle holds a Ph.D. and a MS in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University, as well as BS degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science from Louisiana State University. As an
-timed, adaptive, electronically administered, proctored, semi-secure exam); The Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project (MDTP) exam (a timed, non-adaptive exam, sold in booklet form, but parts of which are electronic, non-secure, not originally used for placement, but is being used by the University of California, Cal State and Community College systems as one pillar in their placement procedure for several different levels of mathematics); The Entry Level Mathematics (ELM) exam (a highly-controlled, secure exam, regulated by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), but not designed for placement into higher level mathematics
, USA. The students enrolled in this course arejunior and senior year students from either electrical or computer engineering majors. Asdiscussed, the Fall 2021 students and Spring 2021 students did not receive any instruction onsystems thinking whereas students from Fall 2023 did.For this study, we randomly selected five student team projects from each of the Fall 2021,Spring 2023, and Fall 2023 semesters (total 15 projects) and analyzed their security casedeliverables using the rubrics we developed. Next, we discuss our scoring approach based on therubric we developed for assessing STRIDE and system thinking during threat modeling.Data analysisScoring using the rubric.The first step in the data analysis process was to score the security case
that can be generalized andreused in a variety of situations. More recently, MEAs have been expanded through a four-yearcollaborative research project between seven universities. The purpose of the research is theimplementation of models and modeling as a foundation for undergraduate science, technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM) curriculum and assessments within the engineeringdomain2.When developing MEAs, the original creators proposed six principles3,4 and characteristics ofMEAs: 1. The Model-Construction Principle requires that the students come up with a procedure or model for explaining a “mathematically significant” situation. 2. The Reality Principle puts the problem in context and offers a client who needs a realistic
Paper ID #32841Optimized Cohort Creation for Hybrid Online Design-learning DuringCOVID-19Ms. Sheng Lun (Christine) Cao, University of Calgary Sheng Lun (Christine) Cao is a second-year Master of science student with Dr. Laleh Behjat at the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary. Her research combines engineering design educa- tion with techniques from Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Christine also works as a an engineering education research assistant for Dr. Elena Rangelova and Dr. Ivan Detchev.Prof. Laleh Behjat P.Eng., University of Calgary Dr. Laleh Behjat is a Professor in the Department of Electrical
Paper ID #37486The Impact of Faculty’s Use of Pedagogical CommunicationPlatforms on Professor-Student RapportTina Zecher (Evaluation Associate) Tina Zecher is an evaluator and education researcher in the Center for Science Teaching and Learning at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. She holds a B.S. in Economics/Finance from the University of Texas at Dallas and an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction. Ms. Zecher serves as an evaluator and educational researcher on federally and privately funded grants
of Curriculum & Instruction. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow and conducted postdoctoral research with Ruth Streveler in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests include creating systems for sustainable improvement in engineering education, conceptual change and development in engineering students, and change in faculty beliefs about teaching and learning. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 What’s in a Linked List? A Phenomenographic Study of Data
Paper ID #26099Standard-based Grading In Introductory Physics Laboratory CoursesDr. Yan Wu, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Yan Wu graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in Precision Instruments and a minor in Electronics and Computer Technology. She received her M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama in 1998. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2005. Her Ph.D. thesis work was in the area of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) with a focus on effect of space charges on micro
officially began in Guthrie on Christmas Eve 1890 in the McKennon Opera House whenTerritorial Governor George W. Steele signed legislation providing for the establishment of anagricultural and mechanical college as well as an agricultural experiment station in PayneCounty, Oklahoma Territory, effective December 25, 1890 [5]. At long last, Stillwater wasdesignated as the location for the college by the designated commission. On May 15, 1957,Oklahoma A&M changed its name Oklahoma State University of Agricultural and AppliedSciences to reflect the broadening scope of curriculum offered. However, the name was quicklyshortened to Oklahoma State University for most purposes, and the "Agricultural & AppliedSciences" name was formally dropped in
health [11]. These categories are echoed in the ABETEnvironmental Engineering curriculum standards: (a) mathematics, fundamental sciences, andfluid mechanics, (b) material and energy balance, fate and transport in/between air, water, andsoil phases, (c) hands on experiments and data analysis, (d) design of systems considering risk,uncertainty, sustainability, etc., and (e) professional practice and project management includingpolicy and regulation [32]. These categories form the basis of course groupings shown in Table2. Among the eight EnvE PUIs, three were selected for direct curricular comparison – Cal PolyHumboldt, Saint Francis, and UW-Platteville. These three cover the temporal and spatialvariation of EnvE PUIs. Two are public, state
2006-1950: A LABORATORY DEMONSTRATION OF SPATIAL ENCODING INMRIMarkus Billeter, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Institute for BiomedicalEngineering MARKUS BILLETER is a MS student in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He is currently working on his Master Thesis at Northwestern University which is the last step to receive his MS degree.Grace M. Nijm, Northwestern University GRACE M. NIJM earned her B.S. in Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 2004 and her B.S. in Computer Science from Benedictine University in the same year. In 2005, she was awarded the NSF Graduate Research
(HT) is a required course for students completing the mechanical engineering concentration andis taught annually in the Spring. Students typically take the course during their third-year in theengineering program. In Spring 2024, 30 students were enrolled in HT.In Spring 2009, the instructor began teaching a heat transfer course using a traditional,lecture-based pedagogy. During the following years, the instructor both heard from other facultyand witnessed how electrical engineering students were better prepared to handle the open-endproblems encountered during Senior Design projects. One electrical engineering course inparticular (ENGE 420 Embedded Systems Design, taught by Dr. Gary Spivey) seemed to be themain contributor to student
and advocate independent action [27].2.4 Assessing Team OutcomesWhen working with engineering design teams in industry, we may evaluate the performance ofeach team in terms of its solutions (e.g., effectiveness in addressing needs, technical feasibility,originality) and its processes (e.g., adherence to schedule and budget, effective communication).These assessments are often highly context-specific, requiring an evaluation process that relies onappropriate experts for judgement. Nevertheless, these evaluations of team solutions andprocesses can also leverage well-established engineering design and project management metrics,including those described by Dean, et al. [10], Shah, et al. [36], and Anbari [3]. In working withstudent design teams
Graduate Advising Award in 2015, and won the 2018 Graduate Student Mentor Award for the College of Engineering. Dr. Matusovich has gradu- ated 10 doctoral students since starting her research program in Spring 2009. Dr. Matusovich co-hosts the Dissertation Institute, a one-week workshop each summer funded by NSF, to help underrepresented students develop the skills and writing habits to complete doctorate degrees in engineering. Across all of her research avenues, Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 12 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award with her share of funding be ingnearly $2.3 million. She has co-authored 2 book chapters, 21 journal publications and more than 70 conference papers. She has won
grapples with the recent emergence of these approaches, they continue to engage indiscussions about how to establish rigor and quality in qualitative work (Kellam & Cirell, 2018;Walther et al., 2017). Despite the epistemological and methodological diversity in qualitativeengineering education research, many scholars (e.g., Authors, 2018; Koro-Ljungberg & Douglas,2008; Walther, Sochacka, & Kellam, 2013) agree that multiple procedures are needed toestablish quality throughout the qualitative research process, from the initial conceptualization ofa study through its publication.We affirm that multiple methods can and should be used to establish quality and rigor inqualitative research. In this paper, however, we focus exclusively on one