results and confounded datain the studies referenced above.The First-year Engineering ProgramThe Northeastern University College of Engineering, following a successful pilot in 2014,decided to adopt a “Cornerstone to Capstone” curriculum design for all incoming first-yearengineering students. The Cornerstone course incorporates hands-on, project-baseddesign work with computer programming. Previously taught in two separate first-yearcourses, the new Cornerstone course model blends programming and design in a way thatdemonstrates the intertwined nature of the two skills. The project-based Cornerstoneincludes occasional incongruent learning of course content. By highlighting the fact thatproblem-solving in engineering brings together groups of
trajectory is promising,suggesting a positive impact on student learning, while also guiding us towards targeted improvementsin our teaching methodologies.8 ConclusionOur exploration of the Notional Machine pedagogical approach in the CSE12 curriculum has progressedsignificantly since its inception in W23. Initially, as a pilot project, the feedback from the W23 and S23quarters provided foundational insights into the preliminary impact of this initiative. These initialsurveys indicated a promising direction, particularly in how students transitioned from CSE12 tosubsequent courses like Computer Architecture (CSE120), suggesting a potential enhancement in theirreadiness for more advanced topics.Building upon these initial insights, the results
EVANS is a Post Doctoral Fellow and Research Associate in the Evaluation Services center, College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Ohio, USA. Page 14.80.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 A NSF-Supported S-STEM Scholarship Program for Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Ethnic and Women Students in Engineering AbstractThis paper describes a scholarship project, funded by the National Science Foundation’s S-STEM Program, to enhance recruitment of underrepresented
establishing their own internal engineering goal [15],[39]. As an example, Micari & Pazos [42], in their study, discussed the importance of engagingstudents in relevant course work to students’ perception of curriculum and their success. Thiswas found again in Gasman et al’s. study [55], which also discusses the importance ofconnecting students with STEM capital, including STEM related opportunities and resources.Discovering that engineering faculty viewed their role in broadening participation as closelyconnected to how they support, encourage, and engage undergraduate students provides apotentially emerging engineering faculty perspective. Existing literature captures STEM facultyvoice in discussing their role in attracting more students into
team at Kettering University, and to the Society of Women Engineers at Kettering.Dr. Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology Gloria Ma is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Technology. She has been teaching robotics with Lego Mindstorm to ME freshmen for several years. She is actively involved in community services of offering robotics workshops to middle- and high-school girls. Her research in- terests are dynamics and system modeling, geometry modeling, project based engineering design, and robotics in manufacturing.Prof. Stephanie G. Wettstein, Montana State University Stephanie Wettstein is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering department at
James Madison University. Dr. Nagel joined the James Madison University after completing his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Oregon State University. He has a B.S. from Trine University and a M.S. from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, both in mechanical engineering. Since joining James Madison University, Nagel has helped to develop and teach the six course engineering design sequence which represents the spine of the curriculum for the Department of Engineering. The research and teaching interests of Dr. Nagel tend to revolve around engineering design and engineering design education, and in particular, the design conceptualization phase of the design process. He has performed research with the
Paper ID #7629Graduate Engineering Student Perceptions of ePortfolio and the Role of De-partmental CultureMahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Virginia Tech Jean Mohammadi-Aragh is a Ph.D. Candidate and Dean’s Teaching Fellow in Virginia Tech’s Engineer- ing Education Department. Prior to joining the Engineering Education Department, Jean earned her B.S. (2002) and her M.S. (2004) in Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University. Jean was a sci- entific visualization and virtual reality researcher for the Geosystems Research Institute, and outreach coordinator for Mississippi State’s Electrical and Computer Engineering
AC 2011-2209: TEACHING MECHANICS WITH MAPLERadian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is Assistant Professor within the Engineering Technology (ET) program - Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA, and Research Assistant Professor at DRI, Reno, Nevada. Before joining to the Drexel University Dr. Belu hold faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. His research interests included power system stability, control and protection, renewable energy system analysis, assessment and design, power electronics and electric machines for wind energy conversion, radar and remote sensing, wave and turbulence simulation, mea- surement and modeling
a member of the Engineering department at Harvey Mudd College since 1995, and has served as Associate Dean of Faculty for Academic Affairs. She is the co-author of the Journal of Engineering Education paper, ”Use of ”Studio” Methods in the Introductory Engineering Design Curriculum” and co-developer of the sophomore-level rocket-based experimental engineering lab course at HMC. Dr. Cardenas is currently exploring novel pedagogy for Introductory Environmental Engineering courses and researching marine hydrokinetic turbines.Prof. R. Erik Spjut, Harvey Mudd College Prof. Spjut is the Union Oil Company Design Fellow and Professor of Engineering in the Department of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College. He has served a
: first-year seminars and experiences,7-12 writing intensive courses,13collaborative assignments and projects,14, 15 undergraduate research,16, 17 diversity/globallearning,18, 19 and learning communities.20-22 In additions to these practices, some authors havereported other interventions designed to improve retention, including peer and facultymentoring,23, 24 bridge or college preparatory programs,24-26 and mandatory math tutoring.27In this study we explore the effectiveness of a variation of a learning community – namely aliving-learning community (LLC) of first-year engineering students that was started at ouruniversity in the fall of 2013 and is now in its second year. Loosely defined, an LLC is a groupof students who live together in a dorm
such assenior design. At the University of Toronto, Rottmann and Reeve [50] have developed a three-hour ethics workshop that introduces students to five different ethical frameworks and fourdifferent equity concepts. In an ongoing effort, Riley et al. [49] are studying the lessons learnedfrom social movements to bring about equity-oriented changes in engineering education andhave collected teaching resources at engineersshowup.com. The Partnership for Equity (P4E)project has sought to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion lessons in requiredundergraduate engineering and computer science courses on four different campuses bycollaborating with engineering and computer science faculty [13]. Many of the P4E activitieshave primarily focused
Relating Sociocultural Identities to What Students Perceive asValuable to their Professional and Learning Efficacy When Engaging in Virtual Engineering LabsAbstractVirtual, online, and digital learning tools can be used to provide equity in access to STEMknowledge. These tools also serve as the building blocks for personalized learning platforms. Theassessment instrument, Student Perceived Value of an Engineering Laboratory (SPVEL) wasdeveloped to ascertain the impact and efficacy of virtual and in-person engineering laboratories in21st-century undergraduate curriculum. SPVEL addresses an emerging need for assessingengineering labs that take place in a myriad of environments in higher education, i.e., in-person,virtual, and
on infrastructure today in a selected city.Gonzaga University, a medium-sized, private liberal arts university in the Pacific northwest,requires all first-semester students to complete a first-year seminar course (FYS). Each FYS hascommon learning outcomes: 1) differentiate how knowledge is created across differentdisciplines, 2) articulate how the student’s perspectives affect their discovery and generation ofknowledge, and 3) integrate how Gonzaga’s mission relates to the student’s own academic,personal, and spiritual aspirations. The course discussed in this paper was an FYS entitled“Equity and Infrastructure.” The 18 students enrolled in the course were engineering (includingmechanical, civil, and electrical) and computer science majors
. 2. Solutions of engineering problems by numerical analysis. 3. Dimensions and unit systems. 4. Thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.Topics: (each class is 80 minutes, two classes per week) 1. Review of concepts of thermodynamics, differential equations, dimensions and unit systems. Scope of course and introduction to the physics of the modes of heat transfer. An overview of thermal-fluid systems and their importance to society (2 classes) 2. Heat conduction in one dimension, radiation, heat convection, combined modes of heat transfer and electrical analogies. (1 class) 3. Introduction to heat exchangers. Effectiveness and NTU concepts. Single stream heat exchangers. (1 class) 4. One-dimensional heat
diverse promotion patterns as the product of individuals’ idiosyncratic interests,values, goals and competencies, leaving ourselves open to meritocratic explanations of career mobility. Incontrast, when we account for systemic inequities in organizations and society by critically examiningengineers’ careers in the aggregate, it is possible to gain insights into the “hidden curriculum”1 ofprofessional advancement. In this paper, we take the latter approach, adopting a critical secondaryanalysis of data originally collected for a project on situated workplace learning. The key contribution ofour analysis is to reframe the personal choice narrative of career advancement with a structuralexplanation of career stratification based on Jeannie Oakes
of her previous research has focused on software designers’ formal and non-formal educational experiences and use of precedent materials. These studies have highlighted the importance of cross-disciplinary skills and student engagement in large-scale, real-world projects. Dr. Exter currently leads an effort to evaluate a new transdisciplinary degree program which provides both liberal arts and technical content through competency-based experiential learning.Terri S. Krause, Purdue University Terri Krause has a BBA from the University of Notre Dame, with 30 years experience in business and industry; and, a MSEd in Learning Design and Technology from Purdue University. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in
differences, shevalued his approach, as long as it solves the problem efficiently. She believed that he belonged incomputer engineering because he was knowledgeable about the courses in the curriculum andhighly interested in cybersecurity and other topics in the field. Other differences she discussedincluded students who were analytical and engaged in deep thinking, which she felt wasnecessary for their first-year engineering courses and physics.Mr. Rhee (student chosen pseudonym; electrical engineer) mentioned how his peers weredifferent from him because of their work ethic. He insisted that they had a “talent or knack forthe curriculum” which made them understand the material faster, due to their previousexperiences. He also described how the
. Betterunderstanding the relation between moral intuitions and ethical reasoning among an understudiedpopulation allows for the possibility of crafting more effective ethics education.MethodParticipantsParticipants were undergraduate engineering students enrolled in the course “Global EngineeringEthics” (GEE), at the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute(UM-SJTU JI). The UM-SJTU JI is a US-Chinese educational institute founded in 2006 andlocated in the Minhang campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. It offers BS,MS, and PhD degrees in engineering, and has ABET accredited programs in mechanicalengineering and electrical and computer engineering. To partially fulfill ABET student outcomesrelated to ethics, the UM
correlations were found between any of the surveyitems and lab report grades. Only Fall 2020 showed any significant correlations between any ofthe survey items and whether the students were on or off campus when they performed the lab.However, there was a significant difference (P=0.0004) between the initial hybrid lab term andthe subsequent terms when it came to equally engaging all students in the lab group. This canperhaps be attributed to the combination of improved lab handouts and, paradoxically, havingless equipment set up for the students prior to lab. Overall, the new labs which built on skillslearned earlier in the curriculum proved to be more successful at helping the students feelengaged while mastering the material. Additionally, lessons
STEM pedagogy, design thinking, project-based learning and educational entrepreneurship.Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Carla B. Zoltowski is an assistant professor of engineering practice in the Schools of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue. Prior to this she was Co-Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue where she was responsible for developing curriculum and assessment tools and overseeing the research efforts within EPICS. Her academic and research interests include the profes- sional formation of
California, San Diego Dr. Sandoval is the Associate Director of the Teaching + Learning Commons at the University of Cali- fornia, San Diego. She earned a PhD in Adult Education-Human Resource Development. Her research interests include adult learning and development, faculty deProf. Curt Schurgers, University of California San Diego Curt Schurgers is a Teaching Professor in the UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research and teaching are focused on course redesign, active learning, and project-based learning. He also co-directs a hands-on undergraduate research program called Engineers for Exploration, in which students apply their engineering knowledge to problems in exploration and
. Constructive learning goes beyond learning byreceiving knowledge, to learning by building systems, with immediate, visual feedback.Collaborative learning encourages students to interact with instructors and librarians via livelinks and remote-controlled “show me” sessions and by reviewing multimedia FAQs of recorded“show me” sessions. Inquiry-based learning guides the student into pursuing exploratoryresearch in a community of students and scholars. A text mining and visualization tool enablesstudents to identify and explore emerging technology trends in computer science as part of ourinquiry-based framework. Our project documents, evaluation materials and a prototype areavailable at www.cse.lehigh.edu/~cimel.1.0 IntroductionCIMEL is a multimedia
Agricultural and Biological Engineers; member American Society for Engineering Education, North American College and Teachers of Agriculture, and Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.Sharnnia Artis, Ohio State University Sharnnia Artis is a Post Doctoral Researcher in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU) where she conducts research in engineering education with a focus on engaging women and under- represented populations. Prior to joining OSU, Dr. Artis worked as a Human Factors Engineer in the private sector. She received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech
and a B.S. in industrial engineer- ing from West Virginia University. Componation works in product and system development with primary research interests in project and systems management, decision theory, and engineering economics. He has managed and supported research efforts with DOD, NASA, and numerous defense and aerospace in- dustries. He a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and a Fellow with the American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM). Page 25.923.1
to experience, and choice of and positioning within particularenvironments – becomes the critical element of the self-directed experience.This study presents a framework for self-directed learning based primarily on the phases andprocesses outlined in the Pintrich framework for self-regulation, but with the addition of an“Intention” phase that describes initial student processes in open learning environments. Asshown in the Zimmerman model, we combine the Monitoring and Control phases into a singlephase, as Pintrich et al. have not found much separation of these processes in practical settings.35The complete framework used in this study is described in Table II.Goals for this studyThe goal of this study is to highlights issues in SDL that
, master planning, management for energy conservation/renewable energy projects and space planning for campus expansion. As a senior administrative leader, I have facilitated climate action planning in com- pliance with the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) and re- ceived the Outstanding Climate Leadership award that recognized successful carbon reduction strategies, innovative curriculum and the dynamic engagement faculty, staff and students in a the pursuit of carbon neutrality. Although my primary formal training has been in the field of architecture, recent doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania were focused in the field of higher education management. As part of an
.Prof. Stephen P. Mattingly, University of Texas at Arlington STEPHEN MATTINGLY is a Professor in Civil Engineering and the Director of the Center for Trans- portation Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. Previously, he worked at the Institute of Trans- portation Studies, University of California, Irvine and University of Alaska, Fairbanks. His most recent research projects address a variety of interdisciplinary topics including developing an app for crowd- sourcing bicycle and pedestrian conflict data, transportation public health performance measures, policy and infrastructure improvements resulting from bicycle and pedestrian fatality crashes, linking physi- cal activity levels to travel modes
University Reginald DesRoches is the Karen and John Huff School Chair and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. As School Chair, he provides leadership to a top- ranked program with 100 faculty and staff and 1,100 stProf. Stephen P. Mattingly, University of Texas at Arlington STEPHEN MATTINGLY is a Professor in Civil Engineering and the Director of the Center for Trans- portation Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. Previously, he worked at the Institute of Trans- portation Studies, University of California, Irvine and University of Alaska, Fairbanks. His most recent research projects address a variety of interdisciplinary topics including developing an app
the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Currall was a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group. He has been a grantee on $21,533,893 in external funding of which over 78% came from refereed research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health. Currall was lead author of a book on university- business-government collaboration entitled, Organized Innovation: A Blueprint for Renewing America’s Prosperity (Oxford University Press, 2014). Based on a study funded by the NSF, the book is the cul- mination of a 10-year research project on interdisciplinary research involving science, engineering, and medicine. He has served as a member of
Paper ID #32956Equity, Engineering, and Excellence: Pathways to Student SuccessDr. Doris J. Espiritu, Wilbur Wright College Doris J. Espiritu, PhD is the Executive Director of the College Center of Excellence in Engineering and Computer Science and a professor of Chemistry at Wright College. Doris Espiritu is one of the first National Science Foundation’s research awardees under the Hispanic- Serving Institutions (HSI) Program. She pioneered Engineering at Wright and had grown the Engineering program enrollment by 700 % within two years of the NSF-HSI project. Doris founded six student chapters of national organizations