variables in a free-living environment willallow for an improved understanding of the link between the change in gait and healthconditions. Furthermore, compared to the cross-sectional in-lab assessment, continuousmonitoring will allow for an enhanced understanding of changes in gait from day to day that mayalert the healthcare team to a change in functional and health status. Through a collaborativeproject funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH), the Intelligent Structural HazardMitigation Laboratory at SFSU is developing the fundamental knowledge needed to establish analways-on, non-intrusive, non-wearable sensing system for the automated estimation of at-homegait parameters using floor vibrations. In this project, the students
production team submits a production laboratory report thatdetails the materials and equipment used, and the status after each major stage of production.This report is graded. In addition, the team that scores the highest on the protein productionrubric is guaranteed an A on the project. The protein production rubric is available in AppendixB. This arrangement creates an environment of friendly competition, as each team attempts togenerate the highest score on the production rubric, but can also earn a good grade by writing astrong report.The dollar values listed in the protein production rubric were based on benchmarking runsperformed during Summer 2006 and selected to encourage continued student experimentation inthe laboratory. For a typical
, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, which is used worldwide in over 250 institutions. Dr. Bailey is the Principal Inves- tigator (PI) for the RIT NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant. The goal of this multi-year university-level organizational transformation effort is to increase the representation and advancement of women STEM faculty. At the university level, she serves as Senior Faculty Associate to the Provost for ADVANCE and co-chairs the President’s Commission on Women.Dr. DeLois Kijana Crawford, Rochester Institute of Technology (GCCIS) Dr. Crawford is the Women of Color Team Leader for the ADVANCE@RIT Grant. She is a professor of Sociology and Anthropology. c American
Paper ID #20183Design, Code, Build, Test: Development of an Experiential Learning SummerEngineering and Computer Science Outreach Program for High School Stu-dents (Evaluation)Dr. Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Irvine Dr. Sharnnia Artis is the Assistant Dean of Access and Inclusion for the Henry Samueli School of Engi- neering and Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. She is responsible for programs at the pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate levels to facili- tate the recruitment, retention, and overall success of students from traditionally
in Computer Science. I am currently an Engineering Writing Fellow and have written previously on implementing Data Mining courses at an undergraduate level. I am the recipient of the Student Excellence Award in Computer Science in the UVU College of Technology & Computing.Dr. Elham Vaziripour, Utah Valley University Elham Vaziripour, Ph.D. in computer science, is currently a professor assistant at Utah Valley University. Her area of research is Security, UX research, and Data analysis. She graduated recently, Dec 2018, from Brigham Young University. Her dissertation was on analyzing security and privacy of secure messaging applications.Dr. Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University Afsaneh Minaie is a
your mentor?’ question is summarized in Figure 1. In thisquestion, the students who answered ‘yes’ were prompted to write down their peer-mentor’sname. Due to the diverse nature of our student population and peer-mentors, all of the resultsfrom this section with or without proper spelling of the peer-mentors’ names were consideredvalid. Those who did not remember their peer-mentor were given a list of names to pick from ina follow up question. Figure 1 only illustrates the results for the ‘Do you remember yourmentor?’ question without prompting to choose a name from a list. (a) (b) Figure 1: Percentage of the students remembered their peer-mentor’s name - TA or
improve the engineering curricula ata time when the number of engineering majors at Miami is increasing and will also significantlyadvance the pedagogy of educating engineers within a broad liberal arts education. Thisengineering education reform will promote a stronger environment for teaching and learning byproviding a bridge between science and engineering; SEAS students will obtain an in-depththeoretical understanding of engineering fundamentals, apply them to real-world problems, andcommunicate them with a broad liberal arts perspective. This reform will further the integrationof research-based learning and hence improve our graduates’ abilities to analyze, interpret, andsynthesize solutions for real life problems of the society.Background
ethicspolicies, rules, and regulations. Instructor-led training programs mostly rely on lecture-basedpresentations and individual reading and writing assignments5 whereby trainees assume a passiverole in learning. Traditional classroom training has advantages and disadvantages. It is the mostcommon, expected, and accepted approach for training across a variety of learning goals.Additionally, this training has been shown to have the desirable effect of overall improvement inethical outcomes.6 Through passive engagement in the training content, students may learn therules, regulations, and policies of a profession, but it may be that students do not learn the beststrategies for enacting these principles. Traditional classroom training programs do not
program at Rowan Universityoffers many opportunities to study how other programs prepare engineering students and torevise and adopt the best practices of these programs. Two faculty members developed thecapstone design course following a review of capstone courses offered by other programs. Theyalso drew on their own previous experiences with similar courses and their experiences inindustry. The Civil Engineering Design Project is the culminating design experience for thegraduating seniors. The Design Project is a sequence of two 2-credit hour courses during thesenior year. The senior civil and environmental engineering students work in teams of 4 or 5students to solve an open-ended design project. Local engineering firms provide the projects
Paper ID #44544A Novel Curriculum for an Engineering Degree in STEM Education andTeacher PreparationDr. Mohamed Gharib, Texas A&M University Dr. Mohamed Gharib is an associate professor and program coordinator for the Mechatronics Engineering Technology and STEM Education programs at the School of Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research interests are in the fields of Robotics, Dynamics and Control, Vibrations, and STEM Education. He is an expert in designing, prototyping, modeling, and simulation of robotic systems. He is also a STEM education specialist and program developer, including planning
broadly used lexicon whileacknowledging the need for broader discipline examination and consideration of this lexicon andwhether the lexicon needs updating, but as the project grows more work will be done withIndigenous colleagues to find inclusive framing and phrasing.Engineering education increasingly includes teaching human-centered design processes as part ofthe fundamental skills necessary for design thinking with a key research and learning area beinghow to understand and engage with the people ultimately impacted by the design [32], [33]. It isimportant to note that while there is a significant body of literature on the value of human-centered design, as well as foundations of how to teach it, there is not a significant body ofknowledge on
realityequipment that is not normally available in conventional educational contexts may substituteexperiential learning that requires actual physical resources to be performed [22].Therefore, developing a methodology that incorporates VR in a Lean Manufacturing course isjustified by multiple fundamental reasons. VR enhances content retention through immersiveexperiences, allows the practical application of Lean concepts in simulated environments,reduces risks and costs associated with real physical settings, and facilitates accessibility andflexibility in learning. Additionally, it stimulates interest and participation, enables effectiveperformance evaluation, caters to diverse learning styles, aligns with technological trends, andfosters collaboration
Paper ID #9562NSF-NUE: NanoTRA- Texas Regional Alliance to foster ’NanotechnologyEnvironment, Health, and Safety Awareness’ in tomorrow’s Engineering andTechnology LeadersDr. Jitendra S. Tate, Texas State University, San Marcos Dr. Tate, associate professor of manufacturing engineering, has established safe handling practices for industrial (such as nanoclay) and engineered (such as carbon nanotubes) nanoparticles in his research and teaching, dealing with advanced polymer nanocomposites. His research lab will serve as the training site on health and safety issues of nanomaterials. Dr. Tate is a mechanical engineer by training
Paper ID #19362The Role of Empathy in Supporting Teaching Moves of Engineering DesignPeer EducatorsMs. Emilia Dewi Tanu, University of Maryland, College Park Emilia Tanu is a recent graduate of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering program at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has collaborated with members of UMD’s Physics Education and Engi- neering Education Research Groups, and researchers at Olin College of Engineering. While at UMD, she was the co-chair of the Women in Engineering Student Advisory Board and a student ambassador for the Clark School of Engineering. She hopes to eventually pursue
results in light of implications, limitations, and future directions.Keywords: first-year engineering education, application engagement, behavioral engagement,social engagement, emotional engagement, and cognitive engagement.IntroductionStudents’ engagement is considered a fundamental motivational construct in engineeringeducation and is often associated with learning and experience [1], [2], [3]. Existing literaturehas defined students’ engagement differently depending on the context of its use, where mostresearchers have discussed engagement with an explicit link to students’ academic activities andtasks [4]. For example, in one of the early seminal papers, Meece and colleagues [5] definedengagement as students’ participation with the learning
Paper ID #42646Enhancing Academic Pathways: A Data-Driven Approach to Reducing CurriculumComplexity and Improving Graduation Rates in Higher EducationDr. Ahmad Slim, The University of Arizona Dr. Ahmad Slim is a PostDoc researcher at the University of Arizona, where he specializes in educational data mining and machine learning. With a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of New Mexico, he leads initiatives to develop analytics solutions that support strategic decision-making in academic and administrative domains. His work includes the creation of predictive models and data visualization tools that aim to
. The flipped format is a much more efficient way todeliver fundamental content so that we can spend class time on more interesting cases andapplications. I suppose that is the intent of having students read the textbook, but I found thatstudents were much more willing to engage with a video lecture than they are with a book.I have one caution about the flipped class. There’s a big difference between struggling with aworkout problem yourself and watching someone else do it in a video. Therefore, I think theexample problem videos are somewhat problematic because they can potentially create a falseconfidence in the students. The students often reported easily understanding the video examples,then having no idea how to start the homework problems
Paper ID #37765Assessment of Precision, Foundation, and Knowledge inEngineering MechanicsJiehong Liao Dr. Jiehong Liao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU). She earned a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2004 with the Rensselaer Medal award and as as a member of the inaugural class of Gates Millennium Scholars. In 2011, she earned a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Rice University. Before joining FGCU in 2015, she was a visiting Assistant Professor of Biotechnology in the Division of Science and Technology
, especially in conjunction with the National Science Foundation'sADVANCE program25. Useful references for the results from this program include the book byLaVaque et al.26 and Virginia Tech's summary Advance Portal Website27. Fundamental causesof the disparities in advancement in academia are addressed in Virginia Valian's seminalwork,28where the concept of "small inequities which build up over time" is explored in detail.Much of the research described in these references is applicable to the problem of increasingdiversity among engineering graduate students, either directly or with appropriate modifications.Initiatives Which Support Diversity in Graduate ProgramsA. Undergraduate Research ProgramsUndergraduate research programs have long been
Paper ID #12703Structuring Capstone Design Assessment to Achieve Student, Faculty, andEmployer PrioritiesDr. Denny Davis, Ohio State University Dr. Davis is Visiting Professor in the Engineering Education Innovation Center at The Ohio State Univer- sity and Emeritus Professor in Engineering Education at Washington State University. For three decades, he has led multi-institution teams in the development and testing of curriculum materials and assessments for engineering design courses. He is owner of Verity Design Learning LLC, a publisher of workbooks for design reviews and teamwork development. He is a Fellow of the
curricula, but few institutions offer an integratedhands-on design course sequence for all four undergraduate years. This paper is a case studyof the development of a four-year integrated hands-on design curriculum to motivate, retain,and prepare mechanical engineering students for success in their capstone (senior) designcourse and future careers. Over a period of ten years, a team of faculty members haveincorporated hands-on design components into a sequence of five mechanical design courses,as well as an introductory fluid mechanics laboratory course. Courses in all four years ofinstruction (Freshman: Computer-Aided Design; Sophomore: Design for Manufacturability;Junior: Mechanical Design I and Mechanical Design II, Fundamentals of Fluid
Paper ID #41151Further Strategies to Increase Engagement in an Online/Hybrid Signals andSystems CourseDr. Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Lanzerotti is a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Previously she worked at the United States Military Academy (West Point, NY).Dr. Scott Dunning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Scott Dunning is Associate Department Head and Chief of Staff for the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Prior to that, he served
local communities [2]. What happens to the individuals who are released? Some integrateinto their community; some commit crimes that require reincarceration.The U.S. Department of Education, an entity that funds many educational programs for inmates,defines correctional education as: “a fundamental component of rehabilitative programmingoffered in juvenile justice confinement facilities, most American prisons, and many jails anddetention centers” [3]. Consistent with this definition, prison education is defined in this paper asa subset of correctional education. Thus, statistics on correctional education include prisoneducation information. Inmate education can occur in a prison or another type of correctionalinstitution. Although this paper
theory.Throughout the latter part of the 20th century, substantial academic effort went into betterunderstanding service-learning’s potential benefits across disciplines. This history has influencedcontemporary scholarship. Kendall et al., [7] discovered 147 different definitions related toservice-learning. By the year 2003, Furco had estimated this list had grown to over 200 [8].Pearson [9] provides a definition with some common characteristics of others. She writes “The term service-learning was defined in federal legislation for the first time in the National and Community Service Act of 1990 …. [Service-learning is a] method under which students or participants learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully
Engineering Education 3questions, had their cameras on, and asked questions when in doubt. Most students aim to get an“A” grade and losing 5% of the grade would decrease their chances.Another aspect to consider in engagement axis was that students are afraid of harassment whenasking fundamental questions and as such limit their in-class interaction in. In fact, a student washarassed for asking a fundamental question during Fall 2020, which resulted in a strict noharassment policy which stipulated that if any student is caught harassing or bullying any otherstudent, then that student would meet with strict and severe disciplinary repercussions which caninclude failing the class or being reported to the
achievement, namely award recognition and graduateschool enrollment, are presented.Senior Projects Course DescriptionAs defined in the course syllabus, the senior projects course objectives are as follows. • The primary objective is for students to integrate their knowledge through the completion of the capstone design project. In addition to the basic principles of design, students will develop team skills, communication skills, and an understanding of the overall design process. Students will also review case histories and issues related to biomedical ethics.The first semester of the sequence involves the fundamentals of design based to a large degree onone of the few texts covering the topic from a
critical thinking and preparation for thecollege level calculus, physics and chemistry that are typical for engineering students and toenrich their problem solving and technical verbal/writing communication skills.Written communication /Reading I course was designed to enhance students’ technical writingand engineering communication skills and to give them an opportunity to explore differentwriting techniques. Library reading is integrated with writing activities that promote competencyin information gathering and organization skills, as well as critical thinking skills. The objectivewas for solid improvement in basic writing/reading and technical communication skills at theend of 11th grade.Chemistry/Science Literacy Standards/Skills set include
. Measuring the effectiveness of a brief United diagnostic essay as an A technical writing courseScharf [58] 2014 States of 274 assignment and as a pre- ACRL IL SET for upper-year students. America and posttest to measure information literacy skills. A Fundamentals of
which this task was delivered is designatedas part of the “writing intensive curriculum.” A few courses, such as technical writing, are Table 1. Timeline and opportunities for feedback in the Virtual CVD Process Development Task.Timeline Key Task Information & Student-Coach Opportunity for Feedback MilestonesTask Task context is framed The coach delivers an introductory presentation on the industrialBegins Task goals and performance context, engineering science background, the Virtual CVD metrics are introduced Reactor software, and task objectives and deliverables. Feedback Issued laboratory notebook is limited to in-class
information collected from student exit interviews, surveys, and considerablefaculty discussion to direct the curricular revisions. The primary changes to the curriculumincluded a reduction in number and reorganization of the required courses in the core curriculum, Page 26.904.2the addition of a required statistics course, the reorganization of the format and timing of thecourse labs, and the addition of a sophomore level design and manufacturing oriented course. Itis this sophomore level course that is the focus of this article.The first year engineering curriculum at Ohio State, like that of many engineering programs,includes a fundamentals