Paper ID #34687Community Designers: A Pilot Virtual Community Codesign SymposiumIng. Pamela Cristina Silva Diaz, PamLab Design and Engineering Pamela Silva D´ıaz is a mechanical engineer with experience in appropriate technology, participatory de- sign and humanitarian innovation. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012 and obtained her Master of Science in the same field at the University of Michigan in 2014. Through her business, PamLab Design and Engineering, she blends strategic design facilitation with mechanical engineering services to co
Paper ID #23133Design Thinking in Engineering Course DesignDr. Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University Nicholas D. Fila is a postdoctoral research associate in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Industrial Design at Iowa State University. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. His current research interests include innovation, empathy, design thinking, instructional design heuristics.Dr. Seda McKIlligan, Iowa State University Dr. McKilligan’s
education areemerging, significant research gaps remain. Comparing to technologies designed to enhance softskills – such as social, communication [36], and writing skills [37] – the number of technologiesspecifically tailored for STEM education remains limited. Our literature review reveals that thisscarcity is even more pronounced for tools developed specifically for post-secondary STEMeducation. As shown in Table 2, the majority of tools reviewed (8 out of 13), along with manyothers, are designed primarily for K-12 students, overlooking the distinct, more advancedchallenges faced by SLWD in higher education. Unlike the K-12 education, interdisciplinarylearning has been a central focus of higher education and research to meet industrial demands[38
postcolonialism [23]–[25]. Yet, certain scholars argue that the decades haveonly created a pseudo/neocolonial era rather than a truly postcolonial era [26], [27]. Consequently,one of the fundamental concerns that has remained over time is the concept of ‘brain drain’ [28],a term used to describe the immigration of exceptionally bright minds to the Western world at theexpense of local development [29]. The concept has been used extensively, though not exclusively,to discuss geographical developmentalism as it relates to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the MiddleEast and North Africa (MENA) [30]. Critiques argue that historical colonial influences have left alegacy in many African countries, disguised in the form of global education, introduced throughwestern
-service teachers of mathematics and science using state-of-the-art virtual design and earthquake engineering technologies. The research places teachers into aintimate workshop-based program that uses engaging experiences to develop content knowledgeand provide connections between education standards and practical application of theoreticalconcepts.IntroductionOne of the most difficult challenges in attracting students to engineering is conveying the ideathat relating theoretical and analytical results to real-world phenomena can be interesting andengaging. Innovation driven by advances in science and technology is a key component of theUS economy.1-2 However, this engine of economic development has multiple threats that willneed to be addressed
promoted through reflection, orthought about one’s own actions. With reflection, students become more aware of their ownprocesses. Although reflection is essential for learning, there has tended to be limited systematicreflection and metacognitive instructional activity in engineering (Ambrose, 2013; Cunninghamet al., 2015; Marra et al., 2017).Our NSF-funded research aimed to address this gap. Our research was conducted in a flippedfluid mechanics classroom, in which step-by-step instruction in planning, monitoring, andevaluating (PME) of problem-solving was provided as part of in-class exercises (i.e., directinstruction “in context”) to support metacognitive skills development and problem-solving.Students also reflected weekly in writing about
an introductory circuit class [G-A:2] last semester, however, Taylor switched his intended major from electrical to engineering to computer science [B-E:1] which Taylor feels best suits his overall interests, academic strengths, and long-term goals. Taylor is now in his second year of engineering study and is completing his required humanities and fundamental engineering science courses. Currently, Taylor expresses limited genuine interest [N-D:1] in most of these courses and hopes that his studies get more applied as he moves further along in the program. Taylor finds that his motivation for attending class is difficult to maintain. While he blames his lack of motivation on his courses, Taylor also admits that his passion for
Paper ID #37193Understanding the Situated Workplace Practices and Habitsof Engineers Using Agile EthnographyTheresa Green Dr. Theresa Green is a postdoctoral researcher at Utah State University with a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Utah State University. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Valparaiso University and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State University. Her research interests include K-12 STEM integration, curriculum development, and improving diversity and inclusion in engineering.Angela Minichiello (Assistant Professor) Angela (Angie) Minichiello, Ph.D., P. E., is an
Paper ID #31351SETS: Lessons Learned and Best Practices of Implementing S-STEM projectin the Engineering Technology Department of a Large Urban MinorityServing Public Research Intensive UniversityProf. Xiaojing Yuan, University of Houston, College of Technology (MERGED MEMBERSHIP WITH COE) Dr. Xiaojing Yuan is Associate Professor in the Computer Engineering Technology program of Engineer- ing Technology Department. She is the founder and director of the ISGRIN research lab and actively incorporating undergraduate research activities as part of final project requirements in several undergrad- uate junior and senior level
patents, as well asthe administration necessary to support commercialization activity. For these reasons,scholars have called for the expansion of entrepreneurship metrics beyond outcomessuch as number of new ventures and amount of licensing revenue (Gianiodis & Meek,2019; Huang-Saad et al., 2017; Klofsten et al., 2019).Education and Learning MetricsAs I-Corps is fundamentally a training program, it is expected that faculty who areexposed to the curriculum will find it effective and subsequently integrate it into theirteaching or training activities at the undergraduate and graduate levels, however, thistype of impact is difficult to track and measure. While it is straightforward to count newcourses, it can be more difficult to track
tradeoffsbetween dimensions be simultaneously balanced.Sustainability and Engineering EducationAlthough technological innovation has contributed to unsustainable practices, engineering is animportant field for developing and implementing sustainable development strategies.Sustainable engineering has emerged as a new field aimed at integrating and balancingeconomic, environmental, and social systems during development10. While there may be a newbreed of sustainable engineers, the National Research Council (NRC) speculates that there is aneed for practioners from all engineering disciplines to promote sustainability throughsustainable design11. Engineering design is fundamentally “a creative decision-making processthat aims to find an optimal balance of
characteristics.A case study experiment was conducted in an architectural engineering capstone. Here, these surveyswere deployed in conjunction with traditional qualitative verbal feedback and technical assessments. Results presented here suggest that capstone teams exhibit high-functioning attributes ofeffective teams based on the course formulation. Team dynamics evolved as the course progressednaturally and with the help of faculty based on the survey results. Discussions in this paper detailsurvey development, implementation, and sampled trends to represent how to use and interpret thesurvey output. Furthermore, best practices for implementing these ideas in other courses is touchedon. Evidence is presented to support the surveys as a tool and to
Paper ID #37621Examining the “narrow” and “expansive” socio-technicalimaginaries influencing college students’ collaborativereasoning about a design scenarioJennifer Radoff (Assistant Research Professor) Jennifer Radoff is an assistant research professor at the University of Maryland in College Park. She studies teaching and learning in K-16 STEM, with a focus on the interaction of conceptual, epistemological, and affective dynamics of learning amidst cultural and ideological landscapes. She supports educators as they work to create more equitable opportunities for students’ disciplinary engagement.Chandra Anne
Paper ID #28532Implementation of a laboratory experience in reinforced concrete coursesDr. Benjamin Z. Dymond, University of Minnesota Duluth Ben Dymond obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech before obtaining his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Ben is currently an assistant professor of structural engineering at the University of Minnesota Duluth.Dr. Matthew Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute Matthew (Matt) Swenty obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering from Missouri S&T and then worked as a bridge designer at the
to fail quicklyas a means to assist in advancing toward success are often discussed as fundamental keyattributes of successful entrepreneurs. Despite this, factors that influence and contribute toentrepreneurial success and how to increase entrepreneurial success through support mechanismsare far more understood than methods that would help support entrepreneurs in learning fromfailure, or finding ways to fail early and often in a way that helps them as opposed todiscouraging or demoralizing them. Given the rapid increase and interest within colleges ofengineering in introducing and exposing students to entrepreneurial experiences, and also indeveloping programs that help students start entrepreneurial ventures, it is timely to
ESL courses at Mada Walabu University for over seven years, where he also served the university assum- ing various positions such as being Quality Assurance Director, Teachers Development Leader, Pedagogy Trainer as well as English Language Center Coordinator. Atota was also a principal investigator of the project entitled ”Engendering Higher Education Curricula”, where he, along with four project members, investigated gender issues in higher education and devised comprehensive interventions in the form of training for students, academic, support and administrative staff as well as by writing guidelines for the university. Atota is interested in working to ensure equity and quality in higher education, particularly for
culture includes the principle thatleadership is everybody’s responsibility and that it is essential to High Performance. This madethe notion of training a newly hired engineer in leadership fundamentals more natural.To begin the journey toward crafting the systematic development process, we began bysurveying the top business schools across the country. With our needs clearly in mind and abudget estimate in hand, we ended up selecting the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) toprovide our basic management training and the University of Notre Dame (ND) to provide theleadership training and to facilitate the internal development of the program. The UTA offerings
research projectand focuses on how researchers and participants construct a shared understanding of the latter’s“experience-near constructs”14, that is, the participants’ accounts of their social reality in theirown terms. Handling Data shifts the focus of meaning making to the research team with the goalof developing the “experience-distant constructs”, that is, the knowledge claims or contributionsto theory that are grounded in participants’ lived realities but are constructed within the meaningconventions of the relevant research community.(ii) Typology of validation constructsThe typology comprises five validation constructs that conceptualize fundamental aspects orprocesses that constitute overall quality. These constructs are offered as a
-laboratory courses at Iowa State, for a required fluid mechanics sequence atCornell, and for an aerodynamics course at Howard. Descriptions for Iowa, Iowa State, Cornelland Howard follow.Iowa The introductory level fluid dynamics course at Iowa is a 4-semester hour junior levelcourse required in Mechanical and Civil & Environmental Engineering and frequently elected byBiomedical Engineering students. Traditionally, course used 4-lectures per week for AFD with afew additional EFD labs for purpose of highlighting fundamental principles. Course restructured Page 9.450.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American
University in Baltimore, Maryland, is the lead institution for this program. TheSCR2 program is designed to engage underperforming REU students in research opportunitiesdemonstrated to improve students’ retention and graduation rates. In addition, teachers fromlocal community colleges and high schools are recruited in this program as RET participants.The experience of RET participants in hands-on engineering research projects helps themencourage their students to pursue engineering as a career. The SCR2 program offers summerresearch experience (eight weeks for students and six weeks for teachers) focusing on smart andconnected cities. In this paper, we present our learnings from the last three years of the SCR2program, which will inform the progress
Paper ID #31431Ohio Technology Education Status Study (Fundamental)Joanne Baltazar Vakil, The Ohio State University Joanne Baltazar Vakil is a STEM Education PhD Candidate at The Ohio State University. She holds a Masters in Mathematics for Educators from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She has taught middle school/high school for sixteen years, with a focus of mathematics and science, in which she had students implement the engineering design process with challenge-based learning.Dr. Paul E. Post, The Ohio State University Ph.D. in Industrial Technology, Purdue University M.S. in Industrial Education, Purdue University B.S
the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, at the University of California San Diego.Owen Terry Crocker, University of California, San Diego Owen is a third year undergraduate at UC San Diego, majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Physics. Owen worked on literature review, data analysis, and writing the manuscript. Owen is also an instructional assistant, having taught in ”Introduction to Engineering Graphics and Design” and ”Statics and Introduction to Dynamics” courses. They are also a team lead in Human Powered Submarine at UCSD, leading the design and construction of the submarine’s hull. Owen plans to continue their study in a graduate Mechanical Engineering program at UCSD and hopes
Paper ID #43795Pedagogy of Engagement: Exploring Three Methods in an Engineering Ethicsand Professionalism CourseJessica Wolf, University of British Columbia Jessica Wolf is a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UBC. Her research focuses on equity issues in engineering education, particularly looking at the impacts of engineering outreach programs on historically marginalized groups in STEM.Gayatri Gopalan, University of British Columbia Gayatri Gopalan is a PhD student in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. Her research
Systems course, and is a member of the instructional team for several CEE undergraduate courses.Lauren StewartWayne Li (Oliver Professor of Practice)Larissa Simoes Novelino © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comWork-In-Progress: Teaching Innovation, Design Thinking, and Leadership through OrigamiAbstractIn the past two decades, origami has been used in an increasing number of applications, acrossengineering disciplines. In addition to solar panels, surgical devices, robotic systems, and otherengineering applications, origami has also been employed as an educational tool throughout theP-20 continuum. Specific to undergraduate
found in [5].)3.2 Corresponding courses at MTUThe Computer Science and Software Engineering programs at MTU have equivalent courses toQU’s TSP and SPM. TSP is required for CS and SE majors, and SPM is required for SE majors.A significant number of non-majors take both courses as well. TSP is a junior-level course whichmajors take after having completed introductory programming courses and data structures, whileSPM is a senior-level course usually taken by undergraduate majors in their last year, and bygraduate students.In TSP, during the first five weeks students learn fundamentals of software development in a team,including UML documentation, revision control, and automated testing. Students are taught thebasics of the Scrum process and
. I’m nervous that they’re gonna be like,man, she doesn’t know anything. But otherwise, no, [I’m not nervous]. I think just because it'shands-on, I feel prepared for it, you know, like as far as my technical writing skills and my teamwork skills and my people skills and that kind of stuff.[Now that I’ve been at work for 3 months] Mostly my responsibilities are just doing whateveranybody tells me to do, so that can range anywhere from working on [specific softwarepackage], which is something that I actually know how to do personally … or working on areport or attaching wires or testing some sort of a component. I’m not having to learn a whole lotyet, but for the stuff that I’m doing, I feel completely prepared for it. [...] I read up on
Engineering in 2012. She was an Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Instrumentation Department of Los Medanos College during 2016-2017 academic year. She was an Adjunct Faculty at San Francisco State University and Diablo Valley College during 2015- 2016 academic year, and an instructor at UWM from January 2014 until May 2015. She is the principal investigator on several grants such as National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation for the acquisition of FTIR Spectroscopic Imaging system, Student Success Grant, and CSU Chico Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. She is also a co- principal investigator on another NSF-MRI grant and an Office of Naval Research Grant. She is currently the director
thelatter depicts how they might actually view design, supported by quotes regarding the activitiesof designing in the workplace. In other words, a participant might explicitly articulate design asseparate from a social world, but when describing the actual design experience, the experienceclearly is recognized as a social activity situated across many actors.Design as Lifecycle:“[N]obody just takes something, just writes something and builds then sells…because thingshappen in cycles, things happen in stages and phases, and that is a basic fundamental concept ofhow ideas materialize…” (emphasis ours). This statement, made by Rajesh, articulated a salienttheme that we found to pervade the transcripts. The alums tended to construe design as
design, portfolio assessment, scoring BACKGROUND Today, decades after the term “rubric” began to enter common parlance among educators, onemight well ask, “What more is left to say about rubrics that has not already been said?” Articles,book chapters, and entire volumes have been written about rubrics—what they are, what typesexist, how they are created, and how and why they should be used. Many of those involved in edu-cation were first introduced to rubrics in the 1970s and 80s as scoring tools to facilitate the directFALL 2017 1 ADVANCES IN
Paper ID #43909Methodologies for Evaluating the Impact of STEM Outreach on HistoricallyMarginalized Groups in Engineering: a Systematic Literature Review (Other,Diversity)Jessica Nhu Tran, University of British Columbia Jessica Tran is an oncoming graduate student pursing a master’s degree in engineering education at the University of British Columbia (UBC). They are interested in exploring justice-oriented pedagogies and praxis, decolonization, and EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion) within engineering education spaces, particularly within K-12 STEM outreach.Jessica Wolf, University of British Columbia Jessica Wolf is a