disciplines;b. an ability to apply current knowledge and adapt to emerging applications of mathematics, science, engineering and technology;c. an ability to conduct, analyze and interpret experiments and apply experimental results to improve processes;d. an ability to apply creativity in the design of systems, components or appropriate to program objectives;e. an ability to function effectively on teams;f. an ability to identify, analyze, and solve technical problems;g. an ability to communicate effectively;h. a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in lifelong learning;i. an ability to understand professional, ethical and social responsibility;j. a respect for diversity and knowledge of contemporary professional, societal and global
Session 2150 Integrating TC2K from the Macro to the Micro: Program Assessment Inside and Outside of the Classroom David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgIntroduction This paper addresses specific, deliberate actions taken by the School of Science,Engineering, and Technology to establish and sustain a comprehensive program ofassessment and evaluation consistent with an academic environment of continuousimprovement that demonstrates compliance with the technology Criteria 2000 (TC2K).1The plan’s primary objective and ultimate end-state was to affect a
traditional laboratories must berestricted to ensure that instructors can be present. Simulators are based on the physical laws andcannot be used to ascertain if mathematical models correspond with nature; simulators are,however, excellent tools for analysis and design when the limits of the laws are known.The traditional way of conducting physical experiments is to participate in lab sessions inuniversity laboratories where students work in teams and receive tutorial help from instructors.Models for using information technology to enhance the learning experience for students whoare asynchronous in time and/or space and which are also suitable for on-campus students havebeen presented earlier3. Many academic institutions provide web-based
initiative, Dr. Mentzer prepares Technology and Engineering candidates for teacher licensure, conducts research and mentors graduate students. Nathan has taken an active role in guiding the evolution of the undergraduate teacher education program, an Integrated STEM education concentration and a minor in design and innovation at Purdue informed by his National Science Foundation funded research on Design Thinking. Nathan is strategic in connecting theory, practice and research. He engages P16 educators in research efforts to develop innovative pedagogical strategies situated in STEM education classrooms. He is active in the International Technology and Engineering Education’s Association through national and international
systems design andmechanical systems design courses with the goal of disrupting the social/technical dualism presentin engineering curriculum that often discourages engineering students from learning about andparticipating in social justice issues and discussions. Using a modular four-step process the socialjustice assignments have students engage in engineering analysis while at the same timeconsidering the impacts of the engineering technology on different groups of people. The firstiteration implementing the modules in a thermal systems design course showed studentengagement in the topics, and overall, a positive experience for the both the instructor and thestudents. The next steps for this project are to incorporate social justice modules
Experience The National Research Council’s recent Framework for K-12 Science Education (NRC, 2012)and the Next Generation Science Standards (Achieve, Inc., 2013) bring new urgency andimportance to the task of exposing K-12 students to the practices and big ideas of engineering.At the elementary school level, this task requires not only the adjustment of curriculum andpedagogy, but also a transformation in the preparation of new elementary teachers. The teachereducation community is limited in its understanding of how novice teachers of elementarystudents learn to teach engineering. Research is needed to inform a new model for preparing pre-service elementary teachers to teach engineering.For elementary school teachers, preparation in engineering
, critical thinking, problem solving, user tailoring (differentiation) and diagnostic intervention. She now works as an Emerging Technology and Media Professional at the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning at the University of Illinois, where she directs technology support for the campus ePortfolio platform. Current research interests include deeper pedagogical uses of visual material in behavioral and biological sciences.Dr. Ava R Wolf, Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning Ava Wolf, PhD supports faculty in developing courses that emphasize active and engaged learning, and conducts research on interactive learning spaces, effective teaching strategies, and the integration of tech- nology.Cheelan Bo
student-student interaction side.In summary, several of the actions taken to address the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions willcontinue to be implemented in the capstone/senior design class, while others will need to beimproved on over time so that future emergencies still allow a positive learning environment,even when forced to not be F2F.References1. Bergmann J, Sams A. Before You Flip, Consider This. Phi Delta Kappan. 94(2):25-25.doi:10.1177/0031721712094002062. Ruben A. Proano (2016) Case—Dealing with the Bug in the Classrooms: Planning for aPandemic. INFORMS Transactions on Education 16(3):97-103.https://doi.org/10.1287/ited.2016.0156cs3. Campillo-Ferrer, J.M., Miralles-Martínez, P. Effectiveness of the flipped classroommodel on
captured four different views of leadership: 1) leaders hold positions and do certain things;2) leadership can happen without a position of leader; 3) leadership enriches the life of a group;4). leadership is lifelong learning. Leadership Competency Builder [11] was used as the theoretical underpinning in theprior exploratory qualitative study. All five meta-competencies: 1) Leading self, 2) providingstrategic focus, 3) connecting with others, 4) leading others, 5) delivering results, emerged fromthe qualitative data. The instrument contained items instantiating all these five meta-competencies. The items in this instrument are a combination of items referenced from existinginstruments and items that are self-developed based on the
participants. Involved personnelplays different roles in the REU site and is closely related to the success of a REU site. In thispaper, the authors analyzed and compared the impacts of different elements in aninterdisciplinary REU site at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) on its success in twodifferent settings: individual project and group project. This REU site, titled REU Site:Integrating Research in Sustainable Energy and the Environment across Disciplines (IR-SEED),adopts an interdisciplinary and balanced approach as a guiding principle and providesfundamental research training to REU participants in emerging energy technologies. The IR-SEED REU site is multidisciplinary in nature and focuses on different aspects of sustainableenergy
Paper ID #28004Work in Progress: Analyzing a Distributed Expertise Model in an Under-graduate Engineering CourseMs. Sara Willner-Giwerc , Tufts University Sara Willner-Giwerc is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Tufts University. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, which supports her research at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) on technological tools and pedagogical approaches for facilitating hands on learning in educational settings.Dr. Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University Kristen Wendell is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and
%), varied little (between 1.9% and 2.9%) and remainslow (currently 2.9%).1 The destinations of US study abroad students have become more diverseover the past decade, with China being a big gainer. Very few US students, however, want tostudy in the Middle East, since it is perceived as a dangerous place. Students from the MiddleEast, by way of contrast, want to study in the US, although world politics continue to conspireagainst that. All of these students need international exposure, but for quite different reasons. Itis informative to consider what US engineering students should aim to achieve throughinternational experience, in comparison with what engineering students in the United ArabEmirates should focus on.Preparation for international
ASEE Di- vision in 2009. She also has been an Electrical Engineering Professor for two Mexican universities. Dr. Mendoza is interested in Pre-college and College Engineering Readiness, Socioeconomically Disadvan- taged Engineering Students, Latino Studies in Engineering and Computer Aided/Instructional Technology in Engineering.Dr. So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University So Yoon Yoon, Ph.D., is an assistant research scientist at Institute for Engineering Education and Innova- tion (IEEI) within the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and Texas A&M University. She received her Ph.D. and M.S.Ed.in Educational Psychology with the specialties in Gifted Education and Research Methods &
Paper ID #17649Brewing Change: A Forum for Women in Engineering and the SciencesDr. Alandra Kahl, Pennsylvania State University, Greater Allegheny Dr. Alandra Kahl currently teaches engineering design and sustainable systems at The Pennsylvania State University, Greater Allegheny campus. She received her doctorate in environmental engineering from the University of Arizona in 2013, where her dissertation focused on the fate and transport of contaminants of emerging concern in an arid region. Dr. Kahl’s research interests include engineering of sustainable systems, treatment of emerging contaminants via natural systems and
AC 2011-2203: INTEGRATING CURRICULUM, INSTRUCTION, AND AS-SESSMENT IN A LASER SYSTEMS COURSEPatricia F. Mead, Ph.D., Norfolk State University Patricia F. Mead, Ph.D., earned the doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Electrophysics from University of Maryland, College Park, in 1994. She joined the faculty of Norfolk State University (NSU) as Professor of Optical Engineering in summer 2004. Since her appointment, Dr. Mead has been active in the development of innovative curricula for Optical Engineering courses, and she serves as Education Director for the NSF funded Nano- and Bio-Inspired Materials and Devices Center for Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST). Dr. Mead also
2025 ASEE Northeast Section Conference, March 22, 2025, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. WPI Systems Engineering Awareness Digital Badge Program Pilot program in Micro-credentials Terri A. Camesano1, Elizabeth Wilson2, Valerie Smedile Rifkin3 1 Graduate and Professional Studies & Chemical Engineering; 2Systems Engineering Program; 3Academic Technology Center Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA 01609 terric@wpi.edu Abstract— Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has a
Paper ID #22561Work in Progress: How Do Students Respond to Active Learning? A CodingGuide for a Systematic Review of the LiteratureCaroline Elizabeth Crockett, University of Michigan Caroline Crockett is a graduate student at University of Michigan, working towards a PhD in electrical engineering. Her current interests include student resistance to active learning and electrical engineering education research.Mr. Kevin A. Nguyen, University of Texas, Austin Kevin Nguyen is a Ph.D candidate in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education program at University of Texas at Austin. He has worked
into practical use in the design and resdesign of learning environments. In recent years and in collaboration with colleagues at Northwestern, he created FUSE Studios to reimagine STEAM education around the values of innova- tion, making, and collaboration (https://www.fusestudio.net/). Since 2012, FUSE has been implemented in more than 135 school and community sites around the US and will soon begin in Helsinki, Finland. Stevens co-led two large National Science Foundation (NSF) research centers—the Center for the Ad- vancement of Engineering Education (CAEE) and the Learning in Informal and Formal Environments Center (LIFE)—and has received numerous research grants from NSF and various private foundations
tocommunicate current science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)concepts to the public and design engineering design challenges related to the concepts.The engineering students then teach the FSWs at an elementary school to children andtheir families. The project targets families with children in first grade in year one andending at fifth grade in year five.The BAS project’s intent is to build a scalable model for STEM learning that involvesengineers and families and includes a supporting infrastructure for family and communityinvolvement. The goals are to identify scalable methods of engaging URM audiences anddeveloping their interest in STEM fields. Additionally, the project aims to create a cost-effective, technology-based method of
school.Some of the activities are described below.University of Detroit Jesuit High School brought a group of about 20 sophomores and juniors tocampus in November. Four young Ford engineers – two of whom are UDM alumni – sat on a paneland described their education and job functions, then answered questions from the students. The panelsession was followed by demonstrations in two engineering laboratories. Each of the demonstrationsinvolved state-of-the-art applications of technology. The civil engineering demonstration covered theoperation of a Geographic Information System. The demonstration from mechanical engineeringcovered the measurement of vortex shedding frequency behind a cylinder using a laser dopplervelocimeter. Both demonstrations seemed to
of a building and its representation. Thispaper presents a personal effort to address Computer Graphics in the ArchitecturalEngineering Curriculum not only as a representational and visualization tool but also as ameans of extending spatial understanding and as a method of informing the design process.Towards this effort a body of knowledge mainly from Descriptive Geometry has beenintegrated into the instruction of Computer Graphics courses. Concepts such as parametricform development, topological surfaces, as well as advanced visualization procedures,including kinematic simulations, have also been added to the body of knowledge coveredby these courses.IntroductionOne of the most important contributions of information technology to the
open source which is its greatest strength but at the same time, it can be considered as its greatest weakness because there are not many defined standards for NoSQL databases; so, no two NoSQL databases are equal. 2. No stored procedures in Mongodb (NoSql database). 3. GUI mode tools to access the database is not flexibly available in market. 4. It is so difficult to find NoSQL experts because it is the latest technology and NoSQL developers are in learning mode [5, 6, 10, and 11].Differences between Relational Database and Big DataPersonal user information, geographic location data, user-generated data and text, machine-logging data,sensor-generated data, and satellite images are just a few examples of the ever-expanding
skillsets. This accelerated demand forSTEM skills has created significant difficulties for employers, who increasingly struggle to findthe level of skilled workers needed for the ever-accelerating number of STEM-related jobsavailable [3]. Reports from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology [4],[5] forecast a shortage of one million emerging STEM professionals in the U.S. over the next tenyears. The same reports confirm low college enrollment in STEM fields, coupled with adisturbingly low graduation rate of less than 40%, with even more severe shortfalls for minoritiesand women. Contributing to this shortfall is the ongoing lack of early exposure to inclusive,STEM education opportunities for all groups of people - a decisive
State University Wilkes-Barre campus. He holds master degrees in Business Administration and Software Engineering. He regularly teaches courses in computer science, game development, and information sciences and tech- nology. Before coming to Penn State Mr. Chiampi worked in the information technology industry for over 10 years. His primary research interest is the application of Virtual Reality (VR) on engineering education. He recently received funding to create a VR lab to investigate the extent VR can be used to augment surveying education.Dr. Muhammad Usman, York University Muhammad Usman is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University. He received
success in the information society.Unpublished paper, Bloomington IN: Indiana University.[12] Savery, J. R. and Duffy, T.M. Problem Based Learning: An Instructional Model and its ConstructivistFramework. Educational Technology, 35 (5):31-38, 1995.[13] Latham, A. S., "Responding to cultural learning styles." Educational Leadership, 54(7), 88-89, 1997.[14] Keirsey, D., and Bates, M., Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types, Prometheus NemesisBook Company,1984.[15] National Science Board, "A National Action Plan for Addressing the Critical Needs of the U.S. Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education System." National Science Foundation, NSB-07-114, 2007
have an expectation of high grades without corresponding effort 11. The tendency to cheat is higher. 12. Distractions are more abundant. Internet addiction is a relatively new factor.These items are all interrelated; some are caused by others, so that some will be groupedtogether in an effort to find common denominators.Explanations of positive items1. Technical familiarityStudents are very computer-literate, having grown up using PC’s. They rapidly pick upnew software tools for calculations. They are comfortable with technology. Most ownseveral electronic gadgets and rapidly learn how to use them; they have a strong ability tolocate information via Google and other search engines. Because the incoming studentshave exhibited
readiness. Additionally, examining the applicability of thesemethods across diverse educational contexts and integrating emerging technologies in thelearning process can provide deeper insights and broader validation of these pedagogicalstrategies.4.5 Conclusions This study evaluated the impact of a case study activity in a graduate engineering course,using surveys to gather insights from 39 participants. The findings highlight the efficacy of casestudies in enhancing students' engagement and understanding of complex engineering concepts.The analysis employed robust statistical tools to ensure reliability and validity. The implicationsfor academia, industry, and government policy underscore the value of active learning techniquesin
acknowledged in any of the maps, and fewidentified limitations/information needs. However, all of the maps did include stakeholderidentification, with researchers, funding groups, and policy makers recognized by all. A fewmaps also recognized the environment, and technology artifacts as stakeholders. Consumers oftechnologies were defined differently based on what scope was selected by each group. Mostmaps made a distinction between technical knowledge and business/policy knowledge, but onlyone mentioned community knowledge. In general, increasing the variety and number ofstakeholder relationships seemed to help people better identify how knowledge exists and movesin this system.Perspective Dimension: Only three of the maps included some form of
dominates VP P2 , P P1 is strictly better than P P2 . Hence, P P1 is kept in the nextgeneration. The same pair-wise dominance relation is computed for all the individuals.The algorithm moves to the next generation when each (parent, child) pair have been evaluated bythe minimum number of unique students. The students are anonymously uniquely identified byEvoParsons. As it is unethical to force all the students to solve all the paired puzzles, the brokerneeds to maintain better selection policy to expedite PPHC-P’s evolution. consider that it hasbeen properly evaluated (minimum of 2 evaluations).4 ExperimentEvoParsons was used during Spring 2017 with Information Technology students enrolled in anonline introductory programming course at the
correlate with the level of use, as one user logged in for two“marathon sessions” (not active by our definition).Suggested Best and Worst Ways to Inform FacultyThe communication channel that most participants voiced was a good way to inform otherfaculty of this new tool was by word of mouth, or as one participant suggested, “find advocatesat particular schools…” Comparable to this would be finding opinion leaders at a wide variety ofuniversities. Suggestions included campus visits and more workshops. Two participantssuggested contacting the university technology support offices or centers for teaching andlearning.There were several participants who discouraged using email as a way to inform other facultyabout the AIChE Concept Warehouse. One