science methods courses. She has taught engineering to children in informal settings, and is a partner with Harford County Public Schools (Maryland) on a district-wide project to implement elementary engineering instruction using EiE units of instruction. Her research includes examining the ways in which children and adults critically analyze technologies, and investigations of factors that support and those that hinder elementary teachers as they learn to teach engineering. Page 22.1035.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Making Elementary Engineering Work
vision of clean energy technologies under development by FAU’s Ocean Engineering department played a key role in landing the new Center for Ocean Energy Technology. As a professional 3D designer, ani- mator, and artist, he employs high-end computer animation software applications to create short-subject films and videos. He has won numerous awards and international recognition for his work.Dr. Michael S Harris, Florida Atlantic UniversityDr. Ravi S Behara, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Ravi S. Behara is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology & Opera- tions Management in the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University. His current research interests include health care operations
workers, rapid development of information and communication technologies, growing callsfor social responsibility6, and rising complexity of engineered products2 all warrant engineeringstudents’ development of skills with which to situate their technical work. Furthermore, theincreasingly diverse engineering workforce and marketplace require “cultural competence”; thatis, a willingness and ability to consider culture in engineering problem-solving7. Therefore, ourdefinition of engineering design expertise should include an ability to design in context.It is generally assumed that in any given field, people begin as novices and as they practice overtime, develop into experts8,9. An expert is an individual who consistently performs with a highlevel
challenge the perceptions of who belong in computing.Elodie Billionniere Dr. Billionniere is a Senior Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Technology at Miami Dade College (MDC), where she leads the Cloud Computing Literacy Initiative. She has helped MDC secure over $3 million in federal funding the past three years for STEM and emerging technology education program. Dr. Billionniere's leadership and mentoring have been celebrated and recognized, most recently with the 2021-2023 The Northern Trust Bank of Florida Endowed Teaching Chair and 2019 Women of Color STEM’s College-Level Promotion of Education Award.Myrian Vidal-Herlle Myrian Herlle has been serving as an academic advisor for the Knight Foundation
improve outcomes. A well-designed assessment should give insight into bothareas with feedback. In other words, it should be both formative and summative. A formativeassessment can provide information to be used as feedback to modify teaching and learningactivities [1]. This type of assessment is often used to make informed changes to teaching. Theseassessments tend to be "low-stakes" as they are not always factored into final grades [2].Alternately, summative assessments are generally high-stakes assessments and are used to get afinal assessment of how much learning has taken place [3]. To assess programmatic studentlearning outcomes (SLO's), a summative assessment can be used. One such assessment to thisend is the AC exam, which will be
- ded electronic hardware for industrial, military, medical, and automotive applications. Ryan is currently pursuing a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Dakota State University. He previously earned his MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Saint Thomas and his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.Mr. Enrique Alvarez Vazquez, North Dakota State University Enrique is an experienced Systems Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the electrical and electronic manufacturing field. Highly skilled in Embedded Devices, Software Engineering, and Electronics. He is a strong information technology professional with two MSc’s and working on a Doctor of Philosophy
, the University leads the UK, producing highlyskilled, employable graduates many of whom go on to have professional careers. The ChangingFutures Project was conducted in the University’s School of Engineering & Applied Science.The School has around 2,500 students studying on a range of different undergraduate andpostgraduate Engineering & Applied Science Programmes in 6 different ‘discipline areas’including: Mechanical Engineering & Design: Computing Sciences: Chemical Engineering &Chemistry: Information Engineering & Maths: Electronic, Electrical Engineering & Physics:Engineering Systems and Engineer Management.Despite the breadth of literature and debate, the question of why engineering students are morelikely to fail
evaluations, the study aims toprovide a comprehensive assessment of team effectiveness, highlighting areas for growth forindividual students. The findings suggest that this approach not only increases the efficiency ofthe evaluation process, but also possibly improves student engagement, and the overall quality ofteamwork amongst student groups.IntroductionA language can be defined as a system of rules or symbols that combine to express or broadcastinformation, ultimately shaping how we perceive and communicate within different culturalcontexts [1]. Because not all users are familiar with machine-specific languages, NaturalLanguage Processing (NLP) has emerged as a subfield of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that enablescomputers to understand
actively engages in offering guidance in developing research studies, curriculum enhancements, and assessment methods pertaining to integration and cultivation of intercultural competence. Her expertise extends to facilitating workshops and training sessions, catering to the needs of both staff and students within Purdue University.Dr. Sakhi Aggrawal, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI) Dr. Sakhi Aggrawal is a lecturer and research scientist in Purdue University’s Department of Computer and Information Technology. Her work explores how project-management frameworks, teamwork dynamics, intercultural competencies and AI tools can enhance STEM and engineering education. She also serves as a technical program manager
objectives of this project were: To expose students to one of the emerging technologies that are not normally covered in undergraduate engineering courses. To provide students with a culminating interdisciplinary design experience that allows student to utilize and adapt knowledge gained from a variety of undergraduate courses including electronics, digital design, computer architecture, computer science, and wireless communication in the design and implementation of a useful and eco-friendly application under realistic constraints such as low cost and low power consumption. To design and implement an environmental wireless sensor network capable of measuring temperature and pressure, powered
- PI on the NSF-funded projects:Might Young Makers Be the Engineers of the Future?,I-Corps for Learn- ing:Leveraging Maker Pathways to Scale Steam + Making Outreach Programs,Instigating a Revolution of Additive Innovation:An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking,andIncreasing Learning and Efficacy about Emerging Technologies through Transmedia Engagement by the Public in Science- in-Society Activities.He was also a participant in the NSF Innovation Corps for Learning 2015 cohort (Leveraging Maker Pathways to Scale Steam + Making Outreach Programs) and served as senior person- nel / instructional team on the 2014pilot for NSF’s Innovation Corps for Learning (I-Corps-L).Dr. Shawn S Jordan, Arizona State
turn students into virtuous practitioners. Gioia, in his discussion of the Ford Pinto case, makes the distinction between ethical decisions, which accord with accepted professional standards and codes of ethics and moral decisions, which stem from a higher conviction about what is 'right' (Gioia, 1992). Note that this higher conviction can only emerge after students have mastered ethical decision-making. The key final step here is to grasp the spirit of the codes and be able to apply them to new situations for which they were not specifically designed. Moral imagination is a crucial part of this process.Moral imagination is more than just a skill--it requires students to be able to switch frames
Accreditation Board for Engineering Technology (ABET) in1980, two organizations that have significant influence in engineering education today [6].As engineering education has become more intertwined with policy and accreditation over thelast century, there have been five major shifts in engineering education [9]. These include shiftstowards engineering science as well as outcome-based education and accreditation that havealready occurred. Shifts towards engineering design emphasis, applying educational research toengineering education, and integration of modern information and communication technologiesare happening presently [9]. Some of these shifts are intentional, such as the mass adoption ofABET accreditation, but some are more organic such as
systems, nature’s systems, and biomimetic solutions forpresent day problems. The systems examined throughout the course include food and agriculture,energy, information and communication technology (ICT), materials, and medicine. The course isdelivered through a combination of readings, lectures, guest lectures, class projects, assignments,and site visits. Students can expect to 1) assess the holistic benefits and issues of currentengineering solutions, 2) analyze fundamental capabilities of relevant natural systems for potentialapplications, and 3) create better solutions by applying learnings from nature to achieve the sameor similar benefits of current systems while minimizing issues from a whole systems perspective.Class lectures provide the
success for women engineering students at Santa Clara University. We examinedpsychosocial factors, such as commitment to engineering and confidence in engineering abilities,as well as the effect of a specific intervention on the retention rate of young women engineeringstudents.Studies have shown that among students with adequate aptitude for STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), girls drop out more often than boys. Severalprograms have been developed to encourage girls to persevere in their interests in STEM fields.In the summer of 1999, SCU hosted a National Science Foundation workshop[1] gatheringdirectors of such programs to share their experience and insights. Forty-four people representingover 30 STEM programs for girls
FPGA-based materials and practices foran undergraduate embedded system design laboratory. FPGA-based devices are especially wellsuited for building application-specific systems in an undergraduate embedded system designcourse due to their comparatively low cost, shorter design cycles and reusability. The laboratoryplatform uses an FPGA as the hardware substrate onto which students configure andsubsequently reconfigure IP core modules using modern embedded system development toolsand processes. The course materials are based on exemplary materials presented in recent XilinxXUP Professor Workshops on embedded system design and are engrained with state-of-the-artconcepts and technology applied to emerging methodologies for embedded system
and The Built Environment Engineering at Arizona State University. She holds a B.S. and a B.A.Econ degree from Beijing University, and received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil and Coastal Engineering from the University of Florida. Before ASU, she worked at the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama. Dr. Lou is very passionate about teaching and education research. In her teaching, she always emphasizes not just the ”how” but also the ”why” by providing background information on broader issues of the discipline and insights into theories and procedures. Dr. Lou has introduced active learning technologies (such as Clickers) to engage students more effectively
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postdocs were interviewed for theoriginal project, nine of whom held positions in the university’s school of education and eight inthe school of engineering.Interviewees were recruited by email using a combination of publicly-available information (e.g.,faculty web sites, university publications) and snowball sampling. Some interviewees chosevirtual interviews and others chose in-person interviews. In both cases, the interviews wererecorded and then transcribed. A professional transcription service was used for the in-personinterviews, whereas Zoom’s automatic transcription was used for virtual interviews. In bothcases, the interviewer checked the transcripts for accuracy prior to analysis and made light editsfor clarity, but did not change the
the game serverand engine distribution package.Humanitarian Supply Chain Inventory Management Strategy: Push vs. Pull In humanitarian supply chains, given the limited information and unpredictable demand in theearly days of a disaster response, it is typical that emergency supplies are quickly “pushed” tothe disaster location in the immediate response phase. However, once more accurate informationon beneficiaries’ requirements and locations of need are available, a more effective pull strategyis utilized during the subsequent response and reconstruction phases (Kovács and Spens 2007;Gatignon, Van Wassenhove, and Charles 2010). In the early disaster response phase, flow of commodities is determined and controlled at a pointclose to
resources available, 4. To provide an opportunity for students to develop relationships with full-time faculty and other students in an academic area of interest to them, 5. To excite students about the building industry with its vague coverage of field and emerging trends, and 6. To expose students to the various career paths and options within AE that they may want to focus on.Development of the AE FYS Framework Using the field of architectural engineering as a central point to leverage collaboration, arevitalization of the AE FYS to meet both university and department goals was possible. Thenew FYS structure established a new responsive, replicable, and theoretically-informed approachby following the
problem-solving skills and examine the relationship between these skills andwomen’s choices to persist in their PhD programs.Since its inception in 2006, the CareerWISE team has consisted of students, faculty and staff Page 15.263.4from a wide-range of disciplines, including psychology, physical sciences, engineering,educational technology, curriculum and instruction, education policy, theatre, and arts and mediadesign. Additionally the CW project actively attempts to provide professional developmentopportunities for students on the team. CW graduate researchers acquire roles based on theirskills and interests and create and maintain scholarly
], [28]. The neurodivergent students withinengineering face academic difficulties and often have lower retention rates when compared toneurotypical students [2]. Studies suggest a variety of ways to create a more inclusive learningenvironment that better supports neurodivergent students such as implementing universal designof learning (UDL) and emerging technologies like AI in the classroom [4]. Others suggest thatco-curricular work-based learning will allow for better accessibility for all students due to theflexibility the program allows and the ability to incorporate hands-on experiences [29],[30].However, other studies note that work-based learning can also negatively impact students due toa lack of support for individuals within the
innovator, pioneer of online distance education, and academic. With a PhD in Artificial Intelligence in Education, she engages in multi-disciplinary research into learning with emerging technologies, inclusive education and research methods. In 2021, she received an international award from the British Council for Digital Innovation in Teaching for the CIELL mobile app, with a special commendation for its contribution to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. For over 30 years, she has been teaching online postgraduate students and has supervised over 30 PhD students to completion. As an expert she has evaluated proposals and monitored progress of research funded by the European Commission. And she has worked with the
category by category and explorehow their interplay may have facilitated participants coming to experience innovation in thedistinct way described by the category. Thus, these results present a detailed and specializedview of the phenomenon. We report more general trends in the Thematic Analysis Resultssection.Table 4. List of Individual and Project Characteristics Common to the Categories of Innovation Category Common Individual Characteristics Common Project Characteristics 1. Realize a • Limited design experience • Specific functional requirements technological • Enjoys emergent problem solving • No real-world context function • Perfectionism
currently has over 1000 students enrolled in 17 degree programs. Program areas include computer science, information technology, and information systems; construction engineering technology and construction management; engineering and technology management; systems engineering, environmental engineering, wireless communications, database administration and Homeland security and safety engineering. Before joining National University Dr. Evans acquired 12+ years of voluntary involvement with higher education, including adjunct teaching and research in engineering at the University of Colorado and formal advisory involvement in both science and engineering at the University of Texas. Other past professional and academic activities
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planning grant for curriculumreform. The goals of our curriculum redesign are to maintain our curricular flexibilitywhile introducing a theme-based structure focused on major concepts and principles, andto integrate this theme throughout the core and the technical focus areas. This theme,Integrated Sensing and Information Processing, reflects the active research areas of themajority of the ECE faculty, and embodies key concepts of all components of ECEwithin a real-world framework. During the planning phase, we developed andimplemented an assessment plan and obtained baseline results, investigated modernpedagogical techniques and integration approaches, and defined a process for ourcurriculum redesign. In 2004, NSF awarded Duke a curriculum
, andtheir making skills, a survey instrument was administered to students enrolled in 7 sections of thecourse and a written individual reflection about their course experience was assigned to studentsenrolled in 4 sections of the course, both at the end of the Fall 2022 semester. Quantitativeanalyses of the 163 survey responses to the Likert scale questions show that students 1)corresponded mostly with the self-determined types of motivation, i.e., they were mostlymotivated to do this project for their own benefits and chose to do this project themselvesbecause of the value it provided; 2) were curious, actively seeking out new information andknowledge while working on the project, and enjoyed the personal growth and learning theygained from their
Support for Blind or Low-Vision (BLV) Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) LearnersAbstractThere is a growing, yet relatively limited body of research exploring the experiences of learnerswith disabilities in introductory electrical and computer engineering (ECE) education. With theproven importance of introductory ECE education in influencing students’ undergraduateinterests and future career prospects in technology, the inaccessibility of the field to learners withdisabilities poses an inequitable access barrier that further marginalizes these learners, oftenpreventing them from exploring the field in the first place. In particular, as ECE largely relies onvisual cues for designing, building, testing, and debugging