Session 2186 Integration of Electronics, Math, & English and Its Impact on Retention Dr. Ramesh Gaonkar, Dr. Charles J. Abaté Electrical & Computer Engineering Technology Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY 13215Abstract:At present, three forces are converging: 1) industry must compete globally in a rapidly changingtechnology, 2) the nature of the workforce is changing; new employees will be older andethnically diverse, and will include more women, 3) the basic mathematical and communicationskills of incoming students
formal and informal education. Levels of Skills Standards: To begin, three levels of Skills Standards must be integrated into the program so that it meets the needs and expectations of IT Managers, the IT workforce, and the community. The High Level must include professional certifications and industry-specific technical skills, and knowledge and abilities unique to individual industries and organizations, such as A+, CCNA, MCSE, etc. The Mid Level must include technical skills, knowledge, and abilities common to all jobs within a career cluster, such as the core IT skills. The Low Level skills are those foundation skills, knowledge, abilities, and personal behaviors required to be successful in today’s workplace [3, 4
implementation [2], [3].The integration of AI into CEM education presents both opportunities and challenges. TraditionalCEM curricula often focus on theoretical concepts and established methodologies, with limitedexposure to emerging technologies [4]. This approach creates a gap between traditionaleducation and the skills needed for an increasingly AI-driven industry. Moreover, while manyeducational institutions acknowledge the importance of AI literacy, there is often hesitation toincorporate AI into coursework due to perceived complexity and technical barriers [5], [6].Walter [7] found that many teachers feel overwhelmed by AI technology and lack sufficientknowledge about how it could best be used, with some institutions lacking dedicated resources
have investigated essential training in CM courses to advance construction industryintegration with the curricula to ensure students enter the workforce with adequate technology skills andknowledge. For example, Colorado State University’s (CSU) Construction Management Departmentlaunched an industry-sponsored pilot program including courses that focuses on integration BuildingInformation Modeling (BIM) into CM education [3]. The students developed BIM-enabled workflows andindustry best practice for lessons on various construction practices (divisions, e.g. masonry, steel, woodetc.) encapsulating the same input and output information that would be required in a more traditionalcurricula with the advantage of an interactive learning environment
on the skills that enable graduate school successIntroductionAttention is being paid to the importance of educating graduate engineering students for bothresearch careers and opportunities in industry, acknowledging that graduates are increasinglymaking the choice to pursue careers outside academia. Understanding the skills that enablesuccess both within and outside academia can help us provide more relevant and effectiveprogramming at the graduate level [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]. Research in this areaacknowledges the value of transferable (non-technical skills) to students during their graduatedegree, as well as during their transition to industry. Often these skills can be most effectivelydelivered
offerings at Collin College. Sincethen, the Technical Dual Credit program has expanded to include three partner school districtsAllen ISD, Wylie ISD, and Rockwall ISD, multiple high schools within the districts and a varietyof courses in the areas of Engineering and Technology. As shown in Figure 3, the number ofstudents engaged by the Collin College’s Engineering Department over the past four years hasgrown from 36 students in the 2010/2011 school year to 219 students for the 2013/2014 schoolyear. This growth can be attributed to several Best Practices.Figure 3- The Growth Of Technical Dual Credit At Collin CollegeStudents electing in their junior or senior year to take a Technical Dual Credit class, are choosingto start college early. It is a
mating was essential, as any interference between components would preventthe FEA simulation from running. 7 Figure 3 The mates for the bolted-flange-gasket assemblyThe third assignment, released in week thirteen, focused on FEA simulation. Design teams hadtwo and a half weeks to complete the simulation and submit a technical report. Several keytopics were discussed during the Q&A sessions, including:• Partial vs. Full Model of Assembly – Since running an FEA simulation on the entire assembly took over hours, a partial model (as shown in Figure 4) was recommended. This model included only one set of bolt and nut, significantly reducing computation time.• Bolt Connector
, work-integratedlearning program for undergraduate engineering students. The purpose of this engagement-in-practice paper is to describe the project partners, program design, and lessons learned. Thesemester-long program includes a 3-week pre-internship preparation session and a 12-weekwork-integrated experience. The short-term goal of this model is to support learning andconnections between students’ internships and their coursework. The longer-term goals of thismodel include future work opportunities for students and meaningful partnerships with localcommunity members and engineering employers.Partners Involved The two primary institutional partners are the School of Engineering and ComputerScience at Elizabethtown, a small private
definition of stakeholders simplifies the contextual information,as some populations could be more affected by a spill. Looking for a deeper understanding ofthe problem and construction of a more accurate model of the design context, the instructorsscaffolded the team to think more in-depth about the design context. By the last deliverable,the team specifically characterized the impacted communities as "including the communitiesof Sandia National Laboratories, the Albuquerque International Sunport, and those in nearbyneighborhoods."Regarding the requirements, the team identified legal, technical, social, and environmentalrequirements of the design problem. Table 3 summarizes the requirements the team definedin their first and last deliverables. The
understanding different perspectives, build connectionsbetween their ideas and those of their teammates, and can more effectively create value through adeeper understanding of how individual and community values shape the human experience.Despite its recognized importance [42], teamwork skills (and other inter- and intrapersonal skills)are often relegated to the realm of “soft skills,” considered separate from “technical” engineeringskills, and potentially neglected in favor of more “rigorous” content [43]. Similarly, the role thatreflection and internalization play in skill and mindset development is often undervalued inengineering [44] despite engineering education’s increasing study of their value [45]–[47]. SDLencourages students to engage in
practices relatedto international immersions and fair-trade learning, it partnered with Greene County CareerCenter to develop and facilitate participant pre-departure sessions that included culturalorientation, intercultural competence development sessions, health, safety and travel informationand technical preparation (Hargman, Paris, & Blache-Cohen, 2014; Lough & Toms, 2018).Additionally, Cohorts 2 and 3 participants and program facilitators engaged in the Global UpGlobal Competence Certificate (GCC) online learning opportunity offered through AFSIntercultural Programs (https://afs.org/Certificate) before, during and after the participants’ twoto three-week international or domestic immersion. All the technical preparation was
Technical Excellence Award, and the Best Paper Award of the 2004 International Con- ference on Computer Design. He is a technical program committee member of International Symposium on Low Power Electronics Design and International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design.Dr. Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University Hao Jiang received the B.S. degree in materials sciences from Tsinghua University, China, in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego, in 2000. Hao Jiang has been with San Francisco State University since August 2007 as an assistant professor in electrical en- gineering. Prior joining SFSU, he worked for Broadcom Corporation, Jazz Semiconductor and Conexant
map total score increase was observed at both universities after introducing themicromoment activities. In summary, we developed technical micromoment activities anddemonstrated their effectiveness using concept maps as EML assessment tools for core chemicalengineering courses.1. IntroductionThe Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) is defined as an “inclination to discover, evaluate, and exploitopportunities.[1]” With more than 50 engineering school partners, the Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN) has adopted and disseminated an Entrepreneurially MindedLearning (EML) Framework to infuse EM in engineering students. The EML framework isfounded on the 3 C’s principles of curiosity, connections, and creating value.[2], [3] Numerousresources
course stands out for its collaborative approach, as previously described in [Author (s),2024]. Students are organized into triads, considering their previous academic performance tocreate a balanced combination of skills. In a nontraditional format, the course blends theorywith practice, focusing on teamwork, analyzing real construction case studies, and presentingweekly topics such as proposal analysis, construction execution, cost analysis, and projectmanagement.The course's practical sessions involve: − studying the construction processes that are relevant to the projects, − exploring the possibility of implementing new technologies, and − analyzing technical and administrative data from real projects tendered publicly.The course
Technical Excellence Award, and the Best Paper Award of the 2004 International Conference on Computer Design. He has served on technical program com- mittees of Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, International Symposium on Low Power Electronics Design, and International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design.Dr. Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University Xiaorong Zhang received the B.S. degree in computer science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2006, the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from University of Rhode Island, Kingston, in 2009 and 2013 respectively. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State University. Her
State University in 2023. His two papers have been selected and featured as cover articles on Intelligence & Robotics Journal. He won six oral and poster presentation awards at multiple conferences. Dr. Lei received the Best Paper Award in 2022 International Conference on Swarm Intelligence. Dr. Lei serves as Youth Editorial Board Member of Intelligence and Robotics. Dr. Lei has served on the technical program committee for numerous international conferences, such as IEEE-CEC, IEEE-IJCNN, ICSI, and PRIS, etc. Dr. Lei has extensively published journal and conference papers in robotics, intelligent systems, and engineering education areas. His research interests include engineering education, robotics and
of student understanding of engineering ethics, a pre-post survey was conducted,evaluating three learning strategies: (1) analyzing current ethics cases and writing a technical report, (2)reviewing online resources (videos) and assessment based on an individualized test, and (3) activelearning, which involved developing and performing a skit by the engineering student group andpresenting an alternative ending to the class.The surveys sought feedback from students on: (1) the impact of engineering ethics in their engineeringeducation and career, (2) their preference for individual technical writing or group active learningapproaches, (3) their initial thoughts on the task of making a skit, and (4) their experiences inscriptwriting and skit
both experiments, there were around 40 sessions with 86% of the participants in Experiment2 having a second phase but only around 42% of the participants in Experiment 3 having asecond phase. This difference was the result of expert selection method used with the goal ofhaving around the same time of expert elicitation in both experiments. Through thisobservation, it can be determined that there were about 371 inputs per person on average inExperiment 2 and 304 inputs per person on average in Experiment 3. While there were moreinputs per person on average in Experiment 2, the inverse is true when looking at the averageinputs per session for the two experiments – there were 199 inputs per session on average inExperiment 2 compared to the 219
Extracardiac Soft Robotic Device for the Failing Heart: Mechanical Coupling and Synchronization,” Soft Robotics, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 241–250, Sep. 2017, doi: 10.1089/soro.2016.0076.[1] M. Hammond, V. Cichella, and C. Lamuta, “Bioinspired Soft Robotics: State of the Art, Challenges, and Future Directions,” Curr Robot Rep, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 65–80, Sep. 2023, doi: 10.1007/s43154-023-00102-2.[2] N. Elango and A. A. M. Faudzi, “A review article: investigations on soft materials for soft robot manipulations,” The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, vol. 80, no. 5–8, pp. 1027–1037, Sep. 2015, doi: 10.1007/s00170-015-7085-3.[3] L. Cecilia, Soft robotics: trends, applications and challenges.[4] F. Ilievski, A. D
Number: 24055-01. Quantitative data were obtained from a short survey sent toCyBR-MSI program alumni in April-May 2024. The survey was received by program alumnibetween 12-20 months after program participation, depending on which workshop(s) an alumnusattended. The survey was sent to 248 individuals―6 participated as program mentors or sessionfacilitators, 2 reportedly signed up for an information session but did not participate in aprogram, 8 had undeliverable email addresses, and 3 had outside circumstances that made itchallenging to reach them (e.g., retired, on family/medical leave)–leading to a sample of 229program alumni. Seventy-two program alumni (~31%) completed the survey (see Table 1 fordemographic information).Survey instrumentation
broad-based technicalknowledge and skills, with a specialization in an emerging technology, such as photonics,robotics & automation, instrumentation & control, biomedical equipment etc. The AAS degreecurriculum for preparing these techs typically includes a technical core of electronics, plus 3-4specialty courses in one of these emerging technologies. An example that has been tested andproven very successful is in Photonics.Indian River State College (FL) converted its EET program to the Photonics SystemsTechnology (PST) curriculum structure in 2008, including several other specialties such asrobotics, fiber optics communications, instrumentation & control, and biomedical equipment.This change reenergized IRSC’s rapidly declining
Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE, funded by the Helmsley Charitable Trust), a member of the governing board for the International Research in Engineering Education Network, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education. Dr. Turns has published over 175 journal and conference papers on topics related to engineering education.Yuliana Flores, University of Washington ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Generative AI as a Thinking Partner in Doctoral Education: An Autoethnographic ExplorationIntroductionTeaching doctoral students in interdisciplinary PhD programs presents unique pedagogicalchallenges that
University and the winner of the 2018 FACT2 award for Excellence in Instruction given to one professor from the entire SUNY system. He also received the 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award from the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Mid-Atlantic Division. He has been twice elected as a member of the ASME Mechanisms and Robotics committee and served as the Program Chair for the 2014 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, as the Conference Chair for the 2015 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference and has served as symposium and session chairs for many ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences. He was the general Conference Co-Chair for the 2016 ASME International Design Engineering
applications. She also has authored and co-authored articles in various technical journals and conferences in these areas of education in the engineering field. Dr. Mulay has been working with minority students in the STEM fields since her graduate school days. She has been assistant director for the REAP summer camps funded by NSF, which aimed towards increasing the participation of minority students in STEM research. She has also been part of the FAMU STEM Day team, assisting with the demonstration and experiment portion of this annual event. She has assisted many undergraduate students in getting internships and scholarships through various programs. Dr. Mulay received her master’s of science degree and Ph.D. in
your own program is structured and administered. 2. Discuss how BME master’s programs as a whole can better align with industry needs and expectations of BME graduates. 3. Discuss how access might be limited to BME master’s programs, specifically among under-represented students and international students.Discussions were limited to 30 minutes and all individual ideas were recorded via sticky notes.Groups then aggregated common ideas which were documented on a worksheet and submitted toworkshop organizers. All information from worksheets were digitized and combined in onedocument. The research team viewed all responses across participant groups and workshops.Common themes were highlighted based on keywords and phrases
.2. Strategy 2a. Strategy is founded on the requirements of stakeholders and the external opportunities and threats. 2b. Strategy relies on evaluating internal strengths. 2c. Strategy, policies and procedures are created, revised. 2d. Strategy, policies and procedures are deployed and controlled.3. Employees 3a. Employee plans align with the organization's strategy. 3b. Employees' knowledge and skills are enhanced. 3c. Employees are engaged, committed, and empowered
experiment, fail, andlearn. Students were challenged in courses to explore and understand the root cause of theproblem they were assigned, the sustainability of technical solutions, and consider the ethics ofproposed actions; these objectives harking back to the intent as described in 1996.Assessments conducted in the Program’s International Leadership of Engineering andDevelopment course highlighted the value of virtual international collaboration but also pointedtoward the need for travel-based experiences. These results led to the expansion of virtual andtravel activities. 2 The perceived need for enhanced global awareness and enhanced worldviewintegrated within the leadership curriculum drove an investigation into how best to deliver
(0.71) (0.51) (0.65) (1.21) (0.60)Note. The rubric includes the five elements of the note-taking guide that was developed based on the principles ofwriting practices and introduced by ETW for instructors. Items 1, 2, and 3 are related to the writing element. Items4, 5, and 6 are related to the ideas elements. Items 7 and 8 are related to the note appearances element. Item 9 isrelated to the use of technical drawings. Lastly, item 10 is related to the equations and calculations element. M ismean; in parenthesis, SD is standard deviation.It is important to note that Students 1 and 2 had the highest note-taking scores. Both wrote theirnotes by hand and opted out of the skeletal notes. Their notes included information
firstpart of the survey included 38 items grouped in seven hypothesized domains: a) Engineering faculty’s personal knowledge of GenAI (three items) For example, “How many GenAI-focused professional development sessions have you attended so far?”. b) Engineering faculty’s knowledge of GenAI use for pedagogical purposes (six items). For example, “How aware are you of using GenAI for creating exams/quizzes?” (1=Not aware, 2=Aware but have not used, 3=Have tried using GenAI, and 4=Regularly use GenAI for creating exams/quizzes); c) Engineering faculty’s acknowledgment for the potential use of GenAI by
,function within these frameworks, and their leaders must balance productivity, stakeholdersatisfaction, and personal development. The extent to which these factors are integrated intomanagerial decisions determines whether an institution operates as a technical system, anorganization, or a consolidated institution [2].University governance involves both management and leadership, each playing a distinct yetinterconnected role. Governance pertains to institutional legitimacy, the frameworks and policiesthat enable internal capacities to align with external relationships and institutional missions.Management, in contrast, focuses on operational effectiveness—ensuring that strategic andadministrative tasks are executed efficiently to support