years, she has developed a keen interest in advancing innovation in engineering education. At present, she actively explores various methods to enhance student engagement and optimize their learning experiences through curriculum and course design. Her primary teaching objective is to foster a lifelong learning mindset in her students by promoting critical thinking and problem-based learning. Dr. AbdelGawad’s teaching philosophy integrates real-life ethical dilemmas to encourage students to think deeply, challenge their opinions, and integrate ethics into their coursework to help shape them into successful, professional and socially responsible engineers. ©American Society for
Paper ID #45624BOARD # 59: Work In Progress: Development of the Asphalt Road-eo StudentCompetitionProf. Ramez Hajj, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Work In Progress: Development of the Asphalt Road-eo Student Competition Ramez Hajj rhajj@illinois.edu Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Paper ID #46142360 Degrees of Collaboration: An Autoethnographic Approach to DevelopingVR-Based Aviation Maintenance TrainingNathanael Kloeppel, Purdue Polytechnic Graduate ProgramsMr. Denis Uebiyev, Purdue University Ph.D. student in the Learning Design and Technology Program, focused on integrating and developing VR programs for training and adult education.Dr. Lisa Bosman, Purdue University Dr. Bosman holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering. Her engineering education research interests include entrepreneurially minded learning, energy education, interdisciplinary education, and faculty professional development.Mr. Joshua
Paper ID #38044Experience with the Development and Implementation of Online andHands-on Rocketry Education and OutreachMr. John Juhyun Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign John Kim is currently pursuing a master’s degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work focuses on the impact of hands-on kits and MOOCs towards enhancing science literacy.Timothy Plomin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Tim Plomin is currently pursuing a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Illi- nois at Urbana-Champaign. His work focuses on the impact of hands-on
and uncertainty.We are, of course, uncertain about how to handle this changing and uncertain world, but webelieve that individuals who are creative and entrepreneurial are more likely to succeed thanthose who are linear thinkers. Thus, we have developed a process to encourage creative thinkingby developing the whole-part-whole process using resources designed for just-in-time learningand using a recursive curriculum design. Thus the LIA process has been developed to encouragecreative and entrepreneur thinking. We want to influence students to make jobs rather than takejobs. We are interested in the ultimate reason for learning-- the application of knowledge thuscreating Knowledge in Action!///Ideas in Actions! (IIA)This activity is designed
developing learning environments is to begin byasking the question: what do we want students to be able to do as a result of learning? Theanswer to this question informs both the ILOs and is the basis for developing the assessmentprocess and criteria that are used to confirm an individual’s achievement. Overall, this approachspecifies that the design of an educational experience builds linkages (or alignment) between thecontent, the learning process and the assessment of learning - to the ILOs. This process, calledconstructive alignment, requires that the ILOs inform: • The way the curriculum is designed • The learning methods employed • The teaching approaches
Mechanical Engineering 5 david.akopian@utsa.edu, Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringAbstractEducational robotics provides many opportunities to enhance science, technology, engineering,and mathematics (STEM) education for students and teachers by using engineering and computerprogramming techniques integrated into the curriculum. In addition to in-class activities, thereare many programs targeting use of educational robotics in after-school activities. In this paper,we present our experience at the Interactive Technology Experience Center (iTEC) in design,development, and implementation of robotics activities for K-12 students and teachers. iTEC isa K-12 STEM center at the University of Texas at San
number of institutions focusing on curriculum development [Incorpera], by thesignificant number of publications in this area [Evans, Moriarty, Koen, Harris, Dutson,Armacost, Catalno, Brereton, Wankat, Jensen1-6], by the commitment of the engineeringaccreditation agency ABET in the assessment area [ABET], and by the continuing fundingemphasis by the National Science Foundation and other agencies. Much of this effort to enhanceengineering education is focused in the following areas: learning styles, multimediavisualization/simulation, hands-on experiences, use of real-world problems, and assessmenttechniques. These components form the foundation for the present work.2.1.1. Learning Style Background InformationLearning-style techniques, as they
-making and agency in migration,and the ways in which their positive identity development rested on having access and thereforecontrol over paid, and both career- and professional identity-building work opportunities.According to authors in this review, the instability displaced students experience as they developtheir professional identities was even more threatening when students are enrolled inengineering. This was primarily due to the culture of engineering and its focus on efficiency andrigor in the curriculum [31], evidenced by an “efficient and cost-effective transfer of a certainamount of content in a lockstep process” [77] (p. 258). Engineering plans of study are designedfor students in inherently stable situations, and for students like
important to note given the complexity of developing andintegrating instructional design agents into design projects, early implementations may rely moreon the curricular/project structure to frame and scaffold the agents. As the instructional designagents and curriculum evolve, more of these responsibilities may be incorporated into the agentsthemselves.In applying the instructional design agent’s framework, design educators should start byconsidering what they want their students to learn about design. Educationally speaking, theinstructional design agents within this framework act as an educational scaffold or means tosupport less experienced students to successfully engage and complete an activity they mightotherwise be unable to complete56
higher education at large.Altogether, we believe our project begins to address two current challenges in engineeringeducation: teaching critical thinking and working with AI-tools. Successful building anEngineering Novice chatbot for MEB has allowed us to demonstrate the use of ChatGPT as apositive learning tool in the field, a conceptual approach for a chatbot that could be useful inother courses in the chemical engineering curriculum where working with a novice engineercould be a helpful experience (e.g., design) or misconceptions are common and gaining exposureto solutions with these misconceptions would likely improve student learning (e.g.,thermodynamics and transport).MethodsChatbot Development. The chatbot is created using a base model of
in academic research, includingprogrammatic assessment and curriculum design. However, recent literature suggests thatacademics are observers of user experience, but not necessarily practitioners. In other words,academics study user experience, but they do not actively practice user experience as a processfor developing new frameworks, such as program design, curriculum, and technologies [16],[17]. Typically, programmatic decisions are made within academic committees composed offaculty with expertise in the subject matter; students—the actual users engaged with theprogram—are not included. Rarely do teachers, program directors, and other administratorsengage students as other than functional by-products of curricula. Rather, in typical
undergraduateengineering curriculum to real-world problems. While many students have demonstrated interest inworking on humanitarian projects that address the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs), these projects typically require longer timelines than a single semester capstone course will allow.To encourage student participation in achieving the SDGs, we have created an interdisciplinary course thatallows sophomore through senior-level undergraduate students to engage in utilizing human-wildlifecentered design to work on projects that prevent extinction and promote healthy human-wildlifeco-habitation. This field, known as Conservation Technology (CT), helps students 1) understand thecomplexities of solutions to the SDGs and the need for diverse
thought processes. They demonstrated several key strategies such as replacingexisting solutions to problems with new technology and adding to existing products to identifyapplications. By understanding specific strategies used in solution mapping, this study can leadto explicit instructional tools to support engineering students in developing solution mappingskills.IntroductionIn engineering, design is an important skill that involves devising a system, component orprocess to address needs [1]. A typical engineering design curriculum teaches design processesthat begin by defining a problem and identifying potential solutions to address that problem [2]–[4]. Engineering textbooks focus on initial problem definition that often utilizes
Paper ID #38487Board 254: Developing Tools, Pedagogies, and Policies for Computer-BasedCollaborative Learning ActivitiesMorgan M. Fong, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign Morgan is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Her current research focuses on developing methods and analyzing cooperative learning in undergraduate computing courses.Liia Butler, University of Illinois, Urbana - ChampaignDr. Abdussalam Alawini, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign Dr. Abdussalam Alawini received a doctoral degree in Computer Science from Portland State in 2016
Entrepreneurial Mindset in Manufacturing courses.Manufacturing has always played a significant role in engineering education. Manufacturingwas one of the earliest types of engineering – as the focus was placed heavily on fabrication andmaking. While formal manufacturing education has decreased over the years, there are stillelements of this in educational institutes today. For example, the maker movement has gainedsignificant traction and resulted in the development and build of various facilities aroundinstitutes of higher education throughout the United States [16]. Given the importance ofmanufacturing in engineering curriculum, there is an opportunity to explore if the manner inwhich manufacturing is taught and if the pedagogical methods employed
, motivated, and successful future engineers.Keywords: Peer-to-Peer Learning; Education Community; Student Support; EngagementIntroduction Historically, most engineering curricula in university settings are developed and structured at aninstitution level based on an “engineering science” model or the grinter model where engineering is taughtafter a solid foundation in science and mathematics [1]. For many engineering programs, the first two yearsof the curriculum represent this engineering science approach where it has largely remained changed sincethe late 1950s [2]. During these early years, it is generally accepted that there is a convergence of factorsthat lead to student attrition [3]. Representative factors that play a role in attrition
University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, where he taught both in Dutch and in English. During this time his primary teaching and course develop- ment responsibilities were wide-ranging, but included running the Unit Operations laboratory, introducing Aspen Plus software to the curriculum, and developing a course for a new M.S. program on Renewable Energy (EUREC). In conjunction with his teaching appointment, he supervised dozens of internships (a part of the curriculum at the Hanze), and a number of undergraduate research projects with the Energy Knowledge Center (EKC) as well as a master’s thesis. In 2016, Dr. Barankin returned to the US to teach at the Colorado School of Mines. His primary teaching and course
with a computer-based data acquisition system to verifying predicted thin-walled pressure vessel pressures with strain gage techniques.The objectives of this paper are to relate the developed course and lab to the UT Martinengineering program curriculum and expected educational outcomes, to describe the developedcourse and lab content, to present some student feedback, and to note logistical issues regardingpresent and future offerings of the course.Efforts of other engineering educators from the literatureIn recent years, general objectives that were encountered at a 2002 ABET workshop forengineering educational laboratories have been listed and discussed1, and instrumentationcourses and laboratories have been documented for programs in
students (Fry, 2014; Vest, 2006).And yet, despite the development of research-based teaching strategies, innovative co-curricularprojects, and many years of funding and development from a variety of foundations andcorporations, change in STEM education is not pervasive. The lack of systemic change points toan important problem with the approach to change that the STEM education community haspursued thus far: change has been targeted at the course and curriculum levels, rather than atinstitutional levels. This research paper describes participatory action research with changeagents who are engaged in making academic change on their campuses through the NSFREvolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments (RED) Program. The firstcohort of
of PBL, Bareveld et al. [9] emphasized the importance of aholistic team approach by involving instructors and administrators to create both professionaldevelopment opportunities and curriculum innovations that lead to desired results. Our approachis ultimately geared towards this model.Problem statement and overviewBuilding on the above summary of prior work, our development and implementation of industry-inspired, PBL activities for an undergraduate dynamics course sought to address the followingkey challenges that also form the focal points of our discussion of impacts on student learning: 1. Perceived student disconnect between abstract principles and application (relevance) 2. Overcoming student resistance to PBL (motivation) 3
engineeringknowledge for achieving the SDGs [3]. We respond to the call by introducing elements ofsustainable development and global citizenship into a major elective course in the InformationEngineering curriculum.Our contribution and significanceThe current work is amongst the early efforts in integrating the achievement of SDGs into theformal undergraduate engineering curriculum. In this paper, we present the correspondingpedagogical design, implementation, and evaluation in a regular undergraduate course offered inHong Kong. The course aims to introduce to students a wide range of concepts and techniquesrelated to social media analytics and human information interactions. We adopt pedagogicalstrategies in design thinking to foster engineering student’s
1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He served as Project Director a National Science Foun- dation (NSF) Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized innovative undergraduate engineering curricula. He has authored over 70 papers and offered over 30 workshops on faculty development, curricular change processes, curriculum redesign, and assessment. He has served as a program co-chair for three Frontiers in Education Conferences and the general chair for the 2009 conference. Prof. Froyd is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the American So- ciety for Engineering Education (ASEE), an ABET Program Evaluator, the Editor-in-Chief for the
experience in organizing and administering NSF/REU site for Interdisciplinary Water Sciences and Engineering. She has taken initiative in modifying the assessment instrument for this REU site and is gathering experience in the field of assessment and evaluation. She has experience in developing LEWAS-based modules and working with first-year curriculum. She also mentors undergraduates from CS, engaged in the expansion of LEWAS.Mr. Walter McDonald, Virginia Tech Walter McDonald is a Ph.D. Candidate, jointly advised by Drs. Dymond and Lohani, in the CEE program at Virginia Tech with a focus in water-resources engineering. He received a B.S. in civil engineering from Texas Tech University and a M.S. in civil engineering
broad agreement on the content of the PDP, namelypracticing new teaching methods and standards for lecturing, there was no pre-determinedcurriculum. Moreover, a uniform theoretical foundation was lacking, and each facilitatoremphasized different pedagogical models. Page 26.1782.5Starting around the year 2008, the number of new faculty increased substantially, thus making itnecessary to offer more than twice as many workshops per year. This required the use of agreater number of facilitators, and hence the development of a uniform curriculum in order tooffer consistent workshops. The necessary restructuring of our program provided us with
development, not only of the students enrolled in classes, but of the unit’s teachingassistants (TAs). These undergraduate and graduate students serve in the classroom, gradeassignments, support open lab hours, and attend trainings. Additionally, some TAs choose tospend extra hours developing the spring semester robot design project offered to first-yearengineering students. Participating in this curriculum development project not only directlyimpacts the first-year students’ design experience but also gives the TAs a unique opportunity forprofessional development. They are responsible for all aspects of project development andcreation, including designing the competition scenario, constructing the physical course therobots compete upon, and
skills in order to becomebetter at identifying opportunities to create value. An entrepreneurial mindset will allow them touse their technical skills effectively in turning opportunity to an achievement that has societaland economic value. Engineering students with entrepreneurial training are therefore expected tobegin their career with a competitive advantage. To develop entrepreneurial engineers, theTagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven is enriching its curriculum byintegrating e-learning modules into regular engineering courses. When complete, there will be 18e-learning modules targeting various entrepreneurial concepts and skills based on the KEENFramework. In this paper, the approach of integrating the e-learning
the adoption of buildingprototypes to think and develop design ideas.Although there has been limited research on embodied cognition in engineering learning, theexisting research has suggested that constructing learning environments with tools and objectsprovides benefits for engineering design learning. In a study by Roth15, fourth and fifth gradersengaged in an engineering design curriculum, which included design activities such as buildingstructures of bridges and towers with given materials. It was found that the students’ engineeringdesign learning increased in several aspects through students’ interaction with tools, materialsand artifacts in the environment. For instance, Roth observed that when two students workedtogether to construct
Paper ID #23198NeuroBytes: Development of an Integrative Educational Module Across Neu-rophysiology and Engineering (Evaluation)Ms. Isabel Maria Gossler, University of Arizona Isabel Gossler is currently a student at the University of Arizona and will be graduating in May 2018 with a BSHS in Physiology.Dr. Vignesh Subbian, University of Arizona Vignesh Subbian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the De- partment of Systems & Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona. His primary interests are biomedical informatics, healthcare systems engineering, and STEM integration.Ms
interms of, 1) needs and justification, 2) planning process, 3) program description and objectives,4) curriculum, 5) implementation issues related to faculty, students, and resources, and 6)examples of MSV related industry projects. The description also includes the process, startingfrom a concept paper development through approval of the program by the State Commission ofHigher Education.IntroductionAdvanced modeling, simulation, and visualization technologies provide an innovative way forhumans to learn and understand extremely sophisticated concepts and problem solving skills aswell as effectively design and optimize complex systems and processes. Through visualizing,manipulating, and interacting with computer-generated simulations and models