AC 2011-303: BRIDGING THE VALLEY OF DEATH: A 360 APPROACHTO UNDERSTANDING ADOPTION OF INNOVATIONS IN ENGINEER-ING EDUCATIONKirsten A. Davis, Boise State University Kirsten A. Davis is an Assistant Professor in the Construction Management Department within the College of Engineering at Boise State University. Dr. Davis earned a B.Arch. in Architecture and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Tennessee, an M.S. in Civil Engineering specializing in Construction Engineering and Management from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineer- ing specializing in Construction Engineering and Management from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her educational research
Paper ID #23944Technology’s Role in Student Understanding of Mathematics in Modern Un-dergraduate Engineering CoursesAndrew Phillips, The Ohio State University Andrew H. Phillips graduated summa cum laude from The Ohio State University in May 2016 with a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and with Honors Research Distinction. He is currently fin- ishing his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and then he will pursue a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. His engineering education interests include first-year engineering, active learning, learning theory, and teaching design, programming, and mathematics. As a
disadvantage, through a lens of cultural capital 5. By understanding how institutionsidentify students by socioeconomic status first, we can lay a foundation for explaining how thesestudents navigate college, but also better designing and evaluating interventions.Research DesignThe research site is a small predominately White, private Carnegie Research University (highresearch activity), located in the eastern United States. Approximately 80% of all bachelor’sdegrees conferred by the school are in engineering or science. The school has a relatively diversepopulation in terms of ethnicity/race: Asian students represent 30% of all undergraduates in theschool, White students 27%, Latina/o students 12% and Black students, 11%14. In addition, theschool is
was voltage while it wasintensity in the other. Again, this is a true statement but misses the important point that thedependent variable in one case was time while it was the phase in the second applet. Real-timefeedback about responses students give to such animations may help them to be more carefulobservers and place those observations in the context of some underlying principle. These areimportant problem solving and engineering design skills.ConclusionWe have demonstrated a pedagogical technique for utilizing wireless tablet computers to provideopen-ended feedback of conceptual understanding of applet simulations in an engineeringcontext. The results indicate a strong learning gain. Real-time feedback guides the instructor inaddressing
concurrently with ongoing work on their capstoneproject.Some context must be provided in order to understand the motivation for this approach.First, at a small private Midwest university, the capstone projects are two-semesterprojects. In addition, each student group works on a different project. Some of thoseprojects are composed of only mechanical engineering students, but the majority of groupsinclude students from another department.There are four major reasons for the approach described in this paper: 1) Redesign is a critical part of the design process, and is covered in the course. However, since most students do not start prototype development until spring semester, redesign cannot be readily exercised and evaluated in the fall
, inevitably raising retention rates in engineering programs!Dr. Benjamin Ahn, The Ohio State University Dr. Benjamin Ahn is an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University in the Department of Engineer- ing Education.Mr. Matthew Nelson, Iowa State University My background and interests are in RF, embedded systems, and engineering education. I have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Computer Engineering both from Iowa State University. I am now working towards my PhD in Engineering Education in th ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Understanding the Male Student Perspective of Gender Inequity in Engineering EducationAbstractIt is well
Paper ID #44008Board 409: Toward Understanding Engineering Transfer Students’ Transitionsfrom Community Colleges to 4-year InstitutionsProf. Karcher Morris, University of California, San Diego Karcher Morris is an Assistant Teaching Professor at UC San Diego. Morris joined UC San Diego’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department within the Jacobs School of Engineering as an Assistant Teaching Professor in 2020.Dr. Jaclyn Duerr, University of California, San Diego Impassioned by her own transfer student experience, Dr. Jaclyn Duerr acts as an advocate and agent for student success initiatives at the university
Paper ID #37823Mediating Expectations: Understanding the Influence of Grades onProfessional Identity Formation in Undergraduate Engineering StudentsJackson Clyde SmithIlham KabirDr. Cassandra McCall, Utah State University Cassandra McCall, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Department at Utah State University. Her research centers the intersection identity formation, engineering culture, and dis- ability studies. Her work has received several awards including best paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education and the Australasian Journal of Engineering Education. She holds a Ph.D. in En
- and peer-evaluations, and provide rater training. He can occasionally be found playing guitar at a local open mic. Page 26.11.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Understanding Diverse Pathways: Disciplinary Trajectories of Engineering Students Year 3—NSF REE Grant 1129383AbstractEngineering as a whole continues to suffer from a low participation of women of all races andBlack, Hispanic, and Native American men. To diversify pathways for students to and throughengineering and to improve student success, we must first know how to measure success andprovide baseline
Paper ID #15882Using Focus Groups to Understand Military Veteran Students’ Pathways inEngineering EducationDr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette Joyce B. Main is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Michelle M. Camacho, University of San Diego Michelle Madsen Camacho is Chair and Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of San Diego. She formerly held two postdoctoral
Pacific University Don has taught electrical engineering at Seattle Pacific University since 1987, specializing in analog and power electronics, Before that he worked as a design/evaluation/diagnostics engineer at Tektronx, Inc. for eleven years. He has been involved in various consulting projects, including two summers as a NASA Summer Faculty Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laborary in Pasadena, CA. He has a B.S. in Physics from Seattle Pacfic University and an MSEE from the University of Washington. Don is an IEEE senior member and member of the ASEE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Supporting Diverse and Atypical Engineering Students
Paper ID #9010New Metaphors for New Understandings: Ontological Questions about De-veloping Grounded Theories in Engineering EducationDr. Kacey Beddoes, Oregon State University Kacey Beddoes is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University. Her current research interests include interdisciplinary engineering education, gender in engineering education research, research methodologies, and peer review. She received her PhD in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech, and serves as Managing Editor of Engineering Studies and Assistant Editor of the Global Engineering Series
receiving his degree in fire protection engineering from the University of Maryland in 2009, he joined the Nonreactor Nuclear Division (NNFD) at ORNL as a fire protection system engineer and designer. In this role, he developed his skills as a system engineer overseeing the design, installation and modification of unique FP systems protecting special nuclear materials. To better his understanding of the additional hazards and specialized operations of NNFD, Mr. Landmesser earned a master’s degree in nuclear engineering. For the past five years, he has served as a design engineer and project manager for the Laboratory Modernization Division (LMD) supporting new construction and modernization of existing infrastructure. In
several months ofdeveloping, researching and testing the right tools that could help us to create the website, in June2010, we created WikiMatematica.org. We invited around 150 Guatemalan students fromGalileo University (www.galileo.edu), from different engineering fields and stages of theircareers, to use WikiMatematica.org as a notebook. These students/users were allowed toinput the material they were learning in their math courses as well as videos or other explanationsthey felt were useful for understanding whatever they were learning.The methodology used to assist users in inputting the content to WikiMatematica.org wasthe following: 1. We created a wiki-page for each math course offered at the engineering school. Each one of these
backgrounds in engineering (i.e.,undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering) positively affected student learning on twoengineering outcomes: 1) the engineering design process, and 2) understanding of careers in engineering (who engineers are and what engineers do). The results indicated that educators having backgrounds in engineering did notsignificantly affect student understanding of the engineering design process or careers inengineering when compared to educators having backgrounds in science, mathematics,technology education, or other disciplines. There were, however, statistically significantdifferences between the groups of educators. Students of educators with backgrounds intechnology education had the highest
Paper ID #42018Study of Thermodynamics Syllabi as A Step Toward Understanding Second-and Third-Year RetentionDr. Christine E. Hailey, Texas State University Christine Hailey is a Professor in the Ingram School of Engineering and past Dean of the College of Science Engineering at Texas State University. Prior to coming to Texas State University, she served on the faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and as Dean of the College of Engineering at Utah State University. She is actively involved in ABET as a member of the EAC Executive Committee. ©American Society for
for programs seeking to improve equity and inclusion in STEM. Dr. Ptak now serves as the Director of Integrated Academic Support Programs for the Rutgers Learning Centers American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Work in Progress: Understanding the Impact of Inequity on Student Learning Experiences During a Time of Multiple Crises I. IntroductionDuring the spring semester of 2020, concurrent with the public health crisis caused by COVID-19 and the associated economic crisis, the United States was going through a period ofsignificant civil unrest due to racialized violence against Black people. In this very challengingclimate, many
Center for Design. Her work is primarily focused on design strategy and research. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Design Learning Preferences of First-Year Electrical and Computer Engineering Students - Work in ProgressPurposeThe individuals that apply to and attend engineering post-secondary institutions are a part of arapidly changing and highly-diverse group. If we develop a deeper understanding of today’sengineering students - what motivates them, what interests them, and what’s important to them -we can use that knowledge to help inform their experiences. Engineering programs certainlyhave specific objectives and requirements to
be understood through anintegrated team approach. The resultant data from these outputs are interconnected and requirecollaborative thinking to understand their full impact on energy consumption.Figure 2 – Diagram showing the energy modeling process in conjunction with architectural and engineeringdiscipline involvement during design. The gray bars refer to the energy use on the left axis while the colored curvesin the background represent the two different disciplines involvement throughout the different phases of design. The course described in this paper is designed to cover two major challenges in buildingdesign education. First, the team process by which architects and engineers will face thechallenge of synthesizing design
Paper ID #25043Using Signals of Opportunity to Experience and Understand HF IonosphericRadio PropagationDr. Paul Benjamin Crilly, U.S. Coast Guard Academy Paul Crilly is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the United States Coast Guard Academy. He re- ceived his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University, his M. S. and B.S. degrees at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, all in Electrical Engineering. He was previously an Associate Professor of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering at the University of Tennessee and was a Development Engineer at the Hewlett Packard Company. His areas of interest include laboratory development
disability/elderlyEach project team consists of a community member with a need for assistive technology, theirhealthcare professional, an engineering student mentor, and a team of four 5th-12th gradestudents. The authors helped facilitate the overall projects and served as gatekeepers to identifyproject choices. The roles of the team members can be briefly defined as: 1. Community Member: The community member and their assistive technology need provides the focus of each project. The community member plays an integral active role on each project team. For the success of each project, it is essential to understand the desires of the community member and to involve the community member in the design process through frequent
, which may be neutral and or negative [11]. A deeperunderstanding of students’ beliefs about diversity in engineering may help identify areas ofopportunity, design effective interventions, and measure progress. Unfortunaltey, while severalstudies as noted herein have advanced the engineering education community’s understanding ofthe experiences of underrepresented students, less work has focused on unpacking the beliefs ofengineering students more broadly as it relates to these topics.PurposeAccordingly, the purpose of this paper is to discuss the methodological lessons learned in anattempt to advance understanding of the values engineering students’ hold about diversity.Leveraging Eccles’ Expectancy Value Theory [12], we explored the following
programs in construction management, industrial design, informationtechnology, manufacturing or mechanical engineering technology, and technology & engineeringeducation. The purpose of these visits was to learn more about how they are structured, theirhistory, their faculty, and other related items. This paper presents findings from these visits, inthe areas of types of faculty, teaching loads, enrollment trends, local organization, placement,experiential learning, scholarship & scholarly productivity, industry experience, industryadvisory boards, and program accreditation.Motivation The primary purpose of this study was to better understand programs in constructionmanagement, industrial design, information technology, manufacturing
Lafayette Tamara J. Moore, Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of Engineering Education, University Faculty Scholar, and Executive Co-Director of the INSPIRE Institute at Purdue University. Dr. Moore’s research is centered on the engineering design-based STEM integration in K-12 and postsecondary classrooms.Dr. Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Douglas is an Associate Professor in the Purdue School of Engineering Education. Her research is focused on improving methods of assessment in engineering learning environments and supporting engineering students. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Assessment of K-12 Students’ Microelectronics
Paper ID #25202Work in Progress: An Intersectional Conceptual Framework for Understand-ing How to Measure Socioeconomic Inequality in Engineering EducationMr. Justin Charles Major, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Justin C. Major is a third-year Engineering Education Ph.D student and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at Purdue University. Prior to graduate school, he completed Bachelor’s de- grees in both Mechanical Engineering and Secondary Mathematics Education at the University of Nevada, Reno with a focus on K-12 Engineering Education. Justin’s current research
pedagogicalpractices such as inquiry based learning, problem based learning, and open pedagogy. This ap-proach to teaching engineering uses guided inquiry in combination with modular design projectsto help students become comfortable with innovating new ideas. By its design, the course moti-vates student interest over longer periods of time and enables students with minimal prior expo-sure to engineering to engage interactively with the instructor and their peers.KeywordsStudent-centered pedagogy, design thinking, K-12 engineering education, STEM educationIntroductionThe factors influencing the recruitment and persistence of students in engineering fields havebeen intensely investigated by a wide range of stakeholders to understand recent trends in engi
Engineering Education respectively. His research investigates the development of new classroom innovations, assessment tech- niques, and identifying new ways to empirically understand how engineering students and educators learn. He currently serves as the Graduate Program Chair for the Engineering Education Systems and Design Ph.D. program. He is also the immediate past chair of the Research in Engineering Education Network (REEN) and a deputy editor for the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE). Prior to joining ASU he was a graduate research assistant at the Tufts’ Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023WIP: Using Think-Aloud Sessions to
and processinghardware/software was implemented. This required knowledge from the domains of ElectricalEngineering, Computer Engineering, Embedded Design and Digital Signal Processing.Formulating an experimental set-up with the limited hardware to mimic the challenges faced inthe real-world scenario of vibration analysis in aerospace applications required creativity andcareful consideration. Input from SME and faculty advisor was valuable.Communication between team members required to understand their individual strengths andweaknesses and schedule appropriate tasks to progress project development and meet importantdeadlines was a crucial challenge in this project. Additionally, communicating with the SME andadvisor to define requirements
University Milo Koretsky is the McDonnell Family Bridge Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and in the Department of Education at Tufts University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 WIP: Using Machine Learning to Map Student Narratives of Understanding and Promoting Linguistic JusticeIntroductionThis work-in-progress paper expands on a collaboration between engineering educationresearchers and machine learning researchers to automate the analysis of written responses toconceptually challenging questions in statics and dynamics courses [1]. Using the
into engineering designs. Usingexamples from the curriculum efforts of these programs, this contribution presents a work-in-progress that explores how Foundry-guided approaches to curriculum development in theseprograms provides potential opportunities for integrating inclusive engineering frameworks intostudents' overall learning experiences.KeywordsRenaissance Foundry Model, Holistic Professional, Innovation-Driven Learning, STEM,undergraduate research, community outreachIntroductionIn this contribution, we describe the work related to the development of several outreach andeducational programs at a mid-sized, rural, public, four-year university that have beenimplemented using a Foundry-guided approach to curriculum development. The Foundry