assessing engineering student learning. She has participated in a number of curriculum innovation projects and has been active in the engineering education research and assessment communities. She is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and was a Fulbright lecturer/researcher in Sweden.Heidi Diefes-Dux, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Food Science from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Food Process Engineering from the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. Since 1999, she has been a faculty member within the First
computers far less thantheir male counterparts in their science classes, and learned less about the new technology. In1992, The American Association of University Women (AAUW) published a report, HowSchools Shortchange Girls.17 This report provided evidence that girls were often ignored in theclassroom and neglected in the curriculum. In 1998, a follow-up report was published titled,Gender Gaps: Where Schools Still Fail Our Children.18 Based on an analysis of over 1,000research documents published between 1990 and 1998, Gender Gaps reveals that girls havemade some strides, but gaps still remain in the areas of science and mathematics (AAUW, 1998).Cumulatively, these experiences logically lead to lowered educational and career aspirations inscience
progress in theattainment of learning goals. An ability to self-reflect undergirds one’s ability to be a self-directed learner.Kember et al. [2] emphasized the importance of reflective practices in a professional degreeby stating that the use of reflective practices while dealing with complex problemsdifferentiates “experts” in the profession from “novices.” According to Siewiorek et al. [3],undergraduate engineers learn to work on their problem-solving skills in preparation to workeffectively on real-world problems, and in this process, reflection is extremely important fornovices as reflection causes a shift in the individual thinking from self-centeredness to self-awareness. Having enhanced self-awareness takes students a step closer to being
University Claudio holds Bachelor’s degree in Control Engineering at Higher Education Institute of Amazonia (2011), and he holds his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Campinas (2014) in Brazil. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. at Purdue University in Engineering Education. He has experience as a visiting graduate researcher at the University of New Mexico (USA) and professional experience at K&A Wireless as a research associate in Albuquerque (USA). Additionally, he worked at Hitachi Automotive Systems America as an Intern in Research & Development in Detroit (USA) and Senior Product Engineer at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in Brazil. Claudio’s research focuses on under
. Her duties vary from admissions, recruitment, marketing, data analysis, graduate funding, etc. She also provides administrative support to the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Prior to her current position, she was the Program Coordinator/Coordinator of Administrative Services at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and prior to that the Program Assistant at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the college. Mais holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Master’s degree in Hospitality Management, and is currently a doctoral student in the Engineering and Computing Education program at FIU. Her research interests are in graduate and postdoctoral education with a focus
courses based on the engineeringdiscipline (Statics for civil engineering, Circuits for electrical engineering, and Statics andCircuits for mechanical engineering). Therefore, graduation rates for engineering majors arebased on only those that make it through these Gateway courses. At The Citadel, students mustdeclare a major before they arrive to campus for their first semester. The Registrar’s Office thenbuilds the appropriate course schedule around their major choice. So each student counts ingraduation statistics from the day they enter The Citadel. Therefore, some type of plan wasneeded to address the issues mentioned above.The new Dean led an inclusive team to establish a six year strategic plan (LEAD 2018) whilepresenting data noting areas
lives. Finally, I suggest some individual faculty characteristics that helpexplain the variation in outlook and behaviors among colleagues in the same departments andinstitutions. The literature suggests that the behavior and attitudes of faculty have an impact on theeducational success and even the retention of their students. Although engineering facultymembers are important actors, through their teaching, advising, and designing of curriculum,their professional lives tend to be described at the methodological extremes of either multi-disciplinary, national faculty attitude surveys or participant observation accounts centered onstudents’ lives34, 10. There is little available that focuses on the culture of U.S. engineeringeducators and
including the development of pre-test and post-test assessment questions. Additionally, he has a background in remote sensing, data analysis and signal processing from the University of New Hampshire.Dr. Vinod K Lohani, Virginia Tech Dr. Vinod K Lohani is a professor in the Engineering Education Department and an adjunct faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the areas of sustainability, computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrology, and water resources. In a major ($1M+, NSF) curriculum reform and engineering education research project from 2004 to 2009, he led a team of engineering and education faculty to reform engineering curriculum of an
support for establishing collaborative efforts, underscores the necessity for a multi-faceted doctoral training approach to support doctoral students more effectively.We believe that the insights reported here will help in designing support systems that willempower faculty to contribute to the training of doctoral workforce for the benefit of society atlarge. It will also inform curriculum development and help prepare students better for a widerrange of career paths.1. IntroductionPhD training holds a crucial role in higher education within STEM disciplines, traditionallyfocusing on enhancing doctoral students' academic skills, including in-depth research on ascientific question or engineering problem, communication of newly generated knowledge
structures for their studentsgoing forward. Centers for teaching and learning on university campuses could includeinterpersonal practices as they prepare faculty to support identity in their curriculum and classes.While identity may be supported through specific features like testing, assignments, projects, andclassroom setup, there may be other things to consider in training faculty to develop engineeringidentities through recognition. By mobilizing faculty in seeing students as engineers andengineering people through recognition as respect, students may be better supported in joiningthe community of engineering and seeing themselves as engineers.7 Limitations and Future Work Although this work exploring participants experiences of faculty
caps, leads to significant differences in the minimum entrance grades between thevarious programs. Currently, Mechanical Engineering requires the highest entrance grades.Each program has a discipline specific curriculum and associated courses. Courses that covermaterial that is required across the various programs are normally taught in the “common core”.Engineering Dynamics (ENGG 349) is one such common core course, required in second year inall of the five main programs except for Electrical Engineering, and has a typical yearlyenrolment of 350-450 students.Although based on elementary calculus and a single law of motion, Engineering Dynamics isconsidered to be one of the most challenging second-year courses. The course failure rate overthe
courses in 3D modeling, virtual collaboration, 3D data interoperability, and graphics standards and data exchange. Professor Hartman also leads a team in the development and delivery of the online Purdue PLM Certificate Program and in the development of the next-generation manufacturing curriculum at Purdue focusing on manufacturing systems and the holistic product lifecycle.Amy B Mueller, Purdue University, West Lafayette Amy B Mueller is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the College of Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette campus. She received her BS in ME from Purdue University and her MBA in Information Systems from the University of Toledo. Before joining the faculty in 2012, Ms. Mueller spent over 30
Penn State Erie, the Behrend College since 2006. He has taught various courses in solid mechanics and engineering design for all levels of undergraduate students ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Targeted Approach to Improving Spatial Visualization Skills of First-Year Engineering Students AbstractDecades of studies on spatial visualization skills have provided solid evidence that improvingsuch skills will benefit learning in STEM broadly. While some colleges and universities havespatial thinking training built into the curriculum, it is not always efficient to require all studentsto take the training
, Arizona State University Melissa is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum Studies, at Arizona State University. Her research interests are methodological approaches to educational research and her specific interests are in teacher education and issues of equity. She is a member of the CareerWISE research and content teams at Arizona State University.Mary Lee Smith, Arizona State University Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder. Professor, University of Colorado. Regents Professor, Arizona State University. Widely published in social science research methodology (e.g., multiple methods, meta- analysis, and qualitative research) and social policy. Currently Regents Professor Emeritus and Senior Consultant, Integrated
of empathy within design, innovation and sustainability; synthesizing the influence of societal and individual worldviews on decision-making; assessing STEM students’ learning in the spaces of design, ethics, and sustainability; and exploring the impact of pre-engineering curriculum on students’ abilities and career trajectories.Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette Carla B. Zoltowski, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in engineering education, all from Purdue University. She has served as a lecturer in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Zoltowski’s academic and research
efficaciouslyreplaced by an audio or tactile one; or that hands-on and observational exercises might beequivalent to one another; or that different persons might justifiably use different instruments toundertake the same technical learning or labor. In short, this paper sketches a politics ofengineering epistemologies around issues of disability.This is part of a larger project regarding the meanings of identity in STEM education moregenerally, a body of work by scholars loosely grouped under the emergent Engineering Studies(ES) rubric.* This scholarship is not extensive but in the last few years it has carefully ∗considered the social instrumentality of categories including race, class, gender, LGBT identities,and age as enacted in
team hasconducted a research project that provides the environment and its accompanying diverseresources to different universities in North America and South America. In Spring 2016, Prime(pseudonym) University decided to use Freeform for an undergraduate dynamics course.The goal of this study was to examine how students perceived the Freeform learningenvironment at Prime University, whose school context differs from that of Purdue University.Much research has focused on estimating the quantitative impact of educational interventions(especially curricular) on student learning outcomes. However, previous research has paid lessattention to how students perceive the potential affordances of the learning environmentassociated with an intervention
training at the National Collegiate Inventors and In- novators Alliance (NCIIA). Babs is a serial entrepreneur and active in multiple entrepreneurial activities. She blogs about entrepreneurship on New Venturist. Babs taught entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for 15 years, where she maintains an adjunct position. Formerly, Babs was embedded entrepreneur for CMU’s Project Olympus and innovation advisor for CMU’s Institute for Social Innova- tion. For seven years at the University of Pittsburgh, Babs taught the Benchtop to Bedside new technology commercialization course. Babs is President of Carryer Consulting and co-founder of LaunchCyte, which has a portfolio of five companies. Babs has a Masters in
2016 and is an Assistant Professor-Educator in Biomedical Engineering and the Undergraduate Program Director in Biomedical Engineering. Before joining the University of Cincinnati, she was an Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biomedical Engi- neering at Syracuse University for two years. She teaches a variety of biomedical engineering courses from the first year to the fifth year in the curriculum, including CAD, electric circuits, and sensing and measurement. Her educational research interests include the use of teaching technologies and student engagement in learning. Her Ph.D. and Masters in Biomedical Engineering were granted from Vanderbilt University where she completed a certificate in college teaching. She
Paper ID #13121Work-in-Progress: An Educational Tool to Support Learning Robot VisionDr. Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Golf Coast University Dr. Fernando Gonzalez joined FGCU as an Assistant Professor in the Software Engineering Program in the fall of 2013. Previously he has worked at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas, the U.S. Department of Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico and at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Gonzalez graduated from the University of Illinois in 1997 with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. He received his Master’s
professionals—white men, minority men,white women, and minority women—and to design educational requirements that accommodatethese different strategies or educational pathways. Our NSF-funded Alternate Pathways toSuccess in Information Technology (APSIT∗) program is seeking to explore the nature of the ITand engineering educational and career pathways used by successful female and minorityGeorgia Tech alumni. In particular, the specific goals of this project are: • To define alternate indices of IT and engineering success that reflect a broader interpretation of societal value than indicated by yearly income and job prestige. • To determine the nature of successful IT and engineering educational and career pathways used by women and other
research opportunities, bridge programs, and gender-segregated sections of science or math. Such opportunities should be identified, assessed, andexported as best practice.Provide greater flexibility in the engineering curriculum. Recognizing that more students wantbreadth in their undergraduate education, and that many transfer into Colleges of Engineeringand/or may arrive less prepared to study engineering, the curriculum needs to be less dense andmore flexible. Changes to the curriculum should include reducing the number of requiredcourses and reducing the prerequisite chain and encouraging diversity of learning opportunities.We should continue to develop the evolving concept of international engineering programs, andcontinue to consider 3-year
hiring and retention, and pathways to an academic career.Dr. Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin Christine Julien is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where she leads the Mobile and Pervasive Computing research group. She also serves as the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion forMs. Kiersten Elyse Fernandez, University of Texas at Austin ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 The Impact of Engineering Summer Camp Counseling on Students' Community Cultural Wealth and Engineering IdentitiesAbstractIt has been shown that out-of-classroom experiences build engineering students’ professionalskills
cumulative grade point average and are more likely to leavetheir STEM discipline [15], [16], highlighting the importance of positive interactions betweenstudents and professors [14]. The relationship between students’ retention in STEM majors andexperiences with discrimination by professors is especially significant for women andunderrepresented racially minoritized students, who are more likely to self-select out of STEMby the fourth year of college than their men, white, and Asian American classmates [10]. Ofparticular concern to the present study, Park et al. [10] found that nearly half of the women andBlack students in the study were not retained in STEM and graduated with a non-STEM degree.Further, women students of Color experienced higher
improving the practical effectiveness of engineering ethics that draws on theories in hermeneutics, practical philosophy, and discourse ethics has recently been awarded the ”Outstanding Dissertation Award” in Liaoning Province, China.Prof. Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is Assistant Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He is also an Associate Director of Purdue’s Global En- gineering Program, leads the Global Engineering Education Collaboratory (GEEC) research group, and is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S. in
´enez is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering Education (EED) and an affiliate faculty to the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on understanding the role of engineering communities while enacting their agency in participatory and transformational change. She is particularly interested in broadening the participation of minoritized communities by studying the role of professional development in shaping organizational cultures. As an education practitioner, she also looks at evidence-based practices to incorporate social responsibility skills and collaborative and inclusive teams into the curriculum. Dr. Rivera-Jim´enez graduated from the University
• Report writing • Good design requires a cost estimating • Oral presentation mastery of chemical engineering sciencesThe profession has nearly unanimous agreement that these learning goals are important andshould be achieved by performing a project within the undergraduate chemical engineeringcurriculum. Examples of design projects are available in many textbooks and from CACHE2. Page 12.1366.32.2 Learning Goals for Operability This paper presents an argument for an enhancement in the curriculum by providingadditional operability topics to achieve the following learning goals
engineering and design work.Dr. Molly Y. Mollica, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Molly Y. Mollica (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Dr. Mollica earned her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Ohio State University (OSU), M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from OSU, and Ph.D. in bioengineering at the University of Washington. She also trained as a postdoctoral scholar-fellow at Bloodworks Northwest Research Institute. Molly’s wetlab research interests are at the intersection of engineering mechanics, mechanobiology, and health equity. Her educational research interests are in community-engaged learning, project-based
mainly focused on the reform strategies of engineering① The Engineers’ Council for Professional Development (ECPD) was founded in 1932 as an engineeringprofessional body dedicated to the education, accreditation, regulation and professional development ofengineering professionals and students in the United States. In 1980, ECPD was renamed the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) to more accurately describe its emphasis on accreditation.http://www.abet.org/about-abet/history/teaching and curriculum from the perspective of curriculum design, students appraisal andclassroom teaching evaluation under ABET accreditation, and impact of ABET upon thedevelopment of engineering disciplines and programs. A few monographs were also
combustion systems such as spark-ignition anddiesel engines, gas turbines, detonation and ramjets, oil and coal technologies, and even fuel cells2 to contrast with combustion. The textbook by Borman and Ragland3 covers most of the topics,with supplemental materials picked from Moran and Shapiro4 and Turns5. One large liquid-fuelrocket project is assigned after the first third of the semester, which concentrates on reinforcingthe equilibrium combustion in various conditions and introduces students to aerospacepropulsion concepts. A smaller second project provides students with an opportunity to studyincineration technologies.Concurrently, eleven weeks of laboratory exercises are offered in the thirteen-week summersemester when the course is