Paper ID #37260Engineering Identity through Litter Pickup as Service LearningDr. Jordyn M. Wolfand, University of Portland Jordyn M. Wolfand earned a B.S. degree in environmental engineering from Tufts University and an M.S. and Ph.D. degree in environmental engineering from Stanford University. She joined the faculty at the University of Portland in 2020 and her primary research interests are in water resources engineering and urban hydrology.Dr. Kathleen Bieryla, University of Portland Kathleen Bieryla is an associate professor of biomedical and mechanical engineering in the Shiley School of Engineering at the
assessment study. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 85(2): 123-131.6. Jenison, R. D., S. K. Mickelson, R. Sidler-Kellogg, and C. Bouton. 1996. Mechanical dissection and design-build integrated into an introductory design graphics course. Paper presented at the 1996 ASEE Annual Conference, June 24, Washington, D. C.7. Cyr, M., V. Miragila, T. Nocera, and C. Rogers. 1997. A low-cost, innovative methodology for teaching engineering through experimentation. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86(2): 167- 171.8. Aglan, H. A. and S. F. Ali. 1996. Hands-on experiences: An integral part of engineering curriculum reform. Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 85(4): 327-330.9. Johnson, D., R. Johnson, and K. Smith. 1991. Active
interactive computer game as well as through hands-on exhibitcomponents. The computer games were designed to be deployable both within thephysical exhibit as well as online, to extend the outreach beyond the exhibit’s physicallocation (see Figure 1).The first game in the series, Design Station, invites the visitor to help employees of adesign firm as they attempt to design a pen that will sell well. The visitor engages inmarket research and uses the results of that research to select pen components likely toplease members of the market. The second game in the series, Some Assembly Required,introduces visitors to several characters engaged in different occupational roles related tomanufacturing, such as a manufacturing engineer, a machine technician
Page 24.400.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Developing Engineering Ethics through Expert Witness Role PlaysThis paper describes the development and formative assessment of an expert witness role playbased on traffic crash reconstruction designed to develop engineering ethics. The paper beginswith a short overview of ethics education pedagogies. Then, it describes expert witness role playas an approach for teaching engineering ethics and provides the specific example of a developedrole play. Next, results from formative evaluation using participant self-reports of the role playexperience are provided. The paper concludes with a description of important considerations fordeveloping an
started with a textbook sprint forfirst-year mechanics. And Site 2 was working on online problems as part of a larger revamp ofthe first-year engineering curriculum. The sites were connected by an initial request byBCcampus, an agency of the British Columbia government that acts as an umbrella body forpost-secondary institutions. The organization had identified a lack of OER options for first-yearengineering mechanics and wanted to generate collaboration to eventually put together atextbook. The faculty members at each site were contacted through a network of OER-focusedgroups and individuals, both outside of and within engineering.All first-year engineering students at each of our institutions study statics and particle dynamics,and students in
AC 2011-2551: IMPROVING MATH SKILLS THROUGH INTENSIVE MEN-TORING AND TUTORINGJianping Yue, Essex County College Jianping Yue is a Professor in the Division of Engineering Technologies and Computer Sciences at Essex County College, Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Yue is the Principle Investigator (PI) of the DUE 0622440 grant of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Yue received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Hydraulic and Coastal Engineering from Wuhan Institute of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering in Wuhan, China in 1977 and 1982, and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee in 1990
Paper ID #18261Exploring School-to-work Transitions through Reflective JournalingMr. Ben David Lutz, Virginia Tech Ben Lutz is a PhD student in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. His research in- terests include innovative pedagogies in engineering design, exploring student experiences within design settings, school-to-work transitions for new engineers, and efforts for inclusion and diversity within en- gineering. His current work explores how students describe their own learning in engineering design and how that learning supports transfer of learning from school into professional practice as well
utilizeinterdisciplinary courses, where engineering and business students work together to gain anunderstanding of each others’ disciplines. This approach enables students to enhance theirunderstanding of entrepreneurial ventures and their ability to work with peers from otherdisciplines to see a project through to fruition. All of these programs recognize the importance ofhaving graduates who understand concepts such as intellectual property, business plandevelopment, and how to start and operate a business.Such programs can vary greatly by institution, primarily because of limited faculty resources todevelop such programs. Since entrepreneurial education requires broad expertise, the limitedfaculty resources of the PUIs, along with their typically heavy and
evident in traditional academic artifacts such as research papers and academic projects unless the student, for example, is prompted to draw implications for practice. These connections often surface, however, in reflective work, self assessment, or creative endeavors of all kinds. […] Through integrative and applied learning, students pull together their entire experience inside and outside of the formal classroom; thus, artificial barriers between formal study and informal or tacit learning become permeable21.Assignments that encourage integrative thinking often require students and instructors to pullfrom resources beyond a single classroom and even beyond the bounds of the university toconnect with non
Paper ID #25365Examining Beginning Designers’ Design Self-regulation through Linkogra-phyDr. Andrew Jackson, Yale University Andrew Jackson is currently a postdoctoral associate at Yale University, developing and assessing sec- ondary engineering curriculum with the aim to broaden participation in engineering. He received a PhD in Technology through Purdue’s Polytechnic Institute, with an emphasis on Engineering and Technology Teacher Education. His teaching and research interests are to support students’ development as designers and the day-to-day practices of technology and engineering educators. His contributions toward
. Once scientific literacyincreases, it is assumed, a positive attitude toward science and technology will inevitablyfollow.4 However, these assumptions do not hold up when considered in light of studieschallenging the connection between “exposure to science in the media, level of knowledge, and afavorable attitude toward research and its applications” (p. 450).4 For instance, research hasshown that the most informed members of the public also have a “substantial degree ofskepticism and suspicion” toward biotechnologies (p. 450).4A second critique of the deficit model is that it disregards “lay” knowledge, or publics’knowledge about S&E in their lives. Expertise is conceptualized in narrow terms as somethingacquired only through formal
interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Student Persistence Through Uncertainty Toward Successful Creative PracticeAbstract: To increase creative practice among students in engineering and other
Polytechnic Institute and State University VINOD K. LOHANI is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education and an adjunct faculty in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Virginia Tech in 1995. His areas of teaching and research include engineering education, international collaboration and hydrology & water resources.Garrett Bradley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Garrett Bradley currently works for Amsted Rail –Griffin Wheel division as an international manufacturing engineer, with current project assignment in Xinyang, Henan, China. Garrett graduated from Virginia Tech in 2007 with a
Paper ID #10889Inspiring Student Engagement through Two-Minute FolliesDr. James L Klosky P.E., U.S. Military Academy Led Klosky is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civl and Mechanical Engineering at West Point. He is a past winner of ASEE’s National Teaching Medal and works primarily in the areas of Engineering Education and Infrastructure.Mr. Scott M. Katalenich, U.S. Military Academy Major Scott Katalenich is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineer- ing at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY. He received his B.S. from the United States Military Academy
Paper ID #36716A.S. degree Career Pathway within the Florida State CollegeSystem that includes a Professional Engineering LicenseMarilyn Barger (Dr.) Marilyn Barger is the Senior Educational Advisor for FLATE and FloridaMakes, Inc.She has a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, a licensed Professional Engineer in Florida, and holds a licensed patent. Dr. Barger is a Fellow of ASEE, with over 25 years of experience developing engineering technology and engineering curriculum for K-12 through Graduate engineering programs.Richard Gilbert (Professor)Sam Ajlani © American Society for
Paper ID #32565Graduate Student Experiences As Told Through Instagram PostsMs. Liesl Krause, Purdue University at West Lafayette Liesl Krause is a current Ph.D. student at Purdue University in the Polytechnic Institute. She is cur- rently funded through the Purdue Doctoral Fellowship. She has research interests in student mentorship in graduate school and student well-being. Liesl graduated from Villanova University in 2016 with her Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering and graduated from Purdue University’s Weldon School of Biomedi- cal Engineering in 2018 with her Master’s. Liesl is the current President of PhD Balance
. The demands of the team memo (research project) ledstudents to apply information literacy skills (see information literacy objectives organized by visitabove) to real-life research needs. Rather than evaluating students on their ability to retain certainfacts about a specific database, we, through this integrative model, provided students with the agencyto seek out new information resources and the ability to evaluate the efficacy of such resources aswell. This ability translates to, not only the LEAP 1500 course, but provides students an opportunityto apply these skills and knowledge sets to other settings and courses as well, much like “teachingfishing” in lieu of “giving fish.” The applicability goes beyond this assignment, this course
Opening Pathways to Higher Education through Engineering Projects David Cavallo, Arnan Sipitakiat, Anindita Basu, Shaundra Bryant MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St., E15-319, Cambridge, Ma. 02139 Tel: 617.253.8897, Fax: 617.253.6215 Email: [cavallo, arnans, anindita, bryant]@media.mit.edu Abstract: A major obstacle to attracting minority candidates into engineering disciplines is the difficulty in ensuring a sufficient of interested and qualified candidates. We present our work in K-12 education in both school and informal settings on a constructionist approach to engineering projects based upon
strategies.I. IntroductionCommon approaches to the promotion of critical thinking involve the application of “activelearning” in the classroom and writing assignments outside the classroom.Schrivner1 has cited the difficulty in motivating students to participate, noting the importance ofsetting an expectation of participation in classroom dialog. Another common frustration is thedifficulty in finding time to move class room time beyond the first few levels of course materialintroduction and application while still fitting all the desired topics into the course.Writing assignments have gained popularity as a means of allowing students to practice theircritical thinking skills. This resurgence is due in part to the Writing-Across-the-Curriculum(WAC
careers.As described in the ‘Background’ section, experiential community service learning is a popular andintellectually sound endeavor. Curricula changes linking course outcomes to hands-on service learningprojects is in itself an innovative concept, however the proposed initiative goes far beyond curriculumchange to involve every stage of the female student experience. Students are groomed to be service-focused leaders before they apply to Georgia Southern through the K-12 outreach including theinnovative BUILD program. Once enrolled, they experience an immersive student living and learningcommunity where traditional programmatic barriers between Civil Engineering and ConstructionManagement are broken and those relationship are fostered through
in this manner can provide the desired garage layout and successful installation of allhardware additions to the garage in a safe and error free manner.Shine involves going beyond the removal of clutter in effort to establish a clean workspace. Thesecleaning tasks may include dusting newly installed wall shelves, clearing spider webs and saw dustoff the garage walls, wiping down power tools such as a chop saw, or miter saw, and scrapingdried materials off the floor such as paint or mud (Table 3).Standardization aims at establishing standard operating practices for the work area. In this mannerstandardization sets the expectations that help perpetuate the 5S process. For example, where arebatteries for power tools kept and how should one of
), many of which are initiated by localuniversities/governments as enterprise centers.Recent studies have developed a more positive awareness of educating people inentrepreneurship and eventually how to become entrepreneurial. It has been determined that 1)potential entrepreneurs can be encouraged through university-based entrepreneurship programs2) entrepreneurship within an established definition can be taught and 3) entrepreneurial alumnido succeed and they themselves provide further insights and educational materials fordissemination in the classroom.21, 22, 23 Studies by Wolfe, Adkins and Sherman,24 have shown Page 11.559.4that universities
completed a project named "Aristotle" to find the components of aneffective team. The internal report concluded that psychological safety is the foundation ofeffective teamwork [7]. The report continued that after psychological safety is present otherattributes (team dependability, team structure & role clarity, work meaning/sense of purpose, andimpact of the work) begin to impact team effectiveness significantly [8]. However, teams needpsychological safety first.Other researchers correlated psychological safety with leadership through individualscollectively experiencing situations with shared expectations to create value. Psychologicalsafety measures team members' ability to take small risks when working with others [9]. A studyby Schaubroeck
to insert the test specimen, which is at room temperature,through an existing hole in the side of the oven and begin recording expansion vs. time datausing the dial indicator and the stopwatch. It was soon determined that there was a problem withthis. The part begins warming up before the dial indicator can be positioned to take themeasurements. After a few failed attempts were made to account for this pre-warming of the testpart we came upon a novel approach to solve this problem. The part is inserted into a roomtemperature oven and the dial indicator is zeroed. The part is then removed and the oven isheated to the desired temperature. The part is inserted into the pre-heated oven, the dial indicatoris positioned and then an initial dial
approaches for a rapidly changingworld.Now in its sixth year, EBB provides flexible funding for faculty-driven projects with a particularemphasis on high-value, transformative change. Through a focused group of stakeholders,this initiative defines a coordinated strategy that places engineering fundamentals within asocietal context, thus fostering a passion for life-long learning. Further details, including acomprehensive assessment of successful outcomes, were presented at this venue one yearearlier5. The 2010 paper illustrates how a well-defined infrastructure at the College level ‒ withleadership provided by a collaborative group of faculty ‒ is used to define objectives, facilitatethe development of new ideas and programs, and begin to
helps to communicate key findings [3]. By considering various datavisualizations methods as well as the design principles used to present them, understanding andinterpretation by the user can be improved.In the 1890’s, W.E.B. DuBois published artistic visualizations of African American civil rightsviolations that grabbed the public’s attention and clearly displays the intended conclusions [4].These pioneering data visualizations demonstrate the profound significance of creativity withinthe field of data representation and analysis. Through his use of intricate hand-drawn charts,graphs, and maps, DuBois demonstrated that the presentation of data could go beyond statisticsand become a powerful tool for conveying complex realities. For example
engineering students in 10 different majors, working with a staff of six professional advisers and two graduate student advisers. Amanda has been at MSU since 1997 and has experience in the Department of Residence Life, the Law College and most recently as an academic adviser in the College of Education. She is a PhD candidate in the Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education program at MSU, focusing her research on women's colleges that have had to pursue coeducation in order to survive.Cynthia Helman, Michigan State University Page 14.749.1 CYNTHIA K. HELMAN is the Coordinator of Living & Learning
Paper ID #16921Sustaining Innovation in Engineering Education through Faculty Communi-tiesDr. Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Geoffrey L. Herman is a visiting assistant professor with the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in En- gineering Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a research assistant professor with the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer En- gineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow and conducted postdoctoral research with Ruth Streveler in the
. dissertations, with Masters’ candidates using more “grey literature,” or literature notgenerally accessed through the main collections of libraries, like technical reports, industry andgovernment standards, government documents and web-based resources.11 Kirkwood’s findingsshowed that roughly 40% of the resources cited in all theses and dissertations in civil engineeringin the period 2003-2004 were grey literature. Kirkwood noted that this result correlated well witha finding of 41% grey literature citations in a study of engineering graduate student Masters’theses at Mississippi State University reported by Virginia K. Williams and Christine LeaFletcher.13 She then checked the citations against library holdings as a way of informing futurecollection
the University of Georgia. Her professional career has been dedicated to non-profit organizations in the form of events planning, development, grant writing, and coordinating educational activities for K-12 students. Page 23.1083.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 STEM Applications: Integrating Informal Learning with the Formal Learning EnvironmentAbstractMany times only a select group of students are able to participate in after school activities due tovarious reasons. Because only a few students are able to participate from a given class