amount of digitally stored data will increaseover the next decade as more people and companies conduct business online and use socialmedia, smartphones, and other mobile devices. As a result, businesses will increasingly needmathematicians to analyze the large amount of information and data collected. Analyses willhelp companies improve their business processes, design and develop new products, and evenadvertise products to potential customers.” A recent survey of senior Fortune 500 and federalagency business and technology leaders by the Harvard Business Review [3] reports that 70% ofthe respondents plan to hire data scientists. McKinsey Global Institute's May 2011 [7] researchreport indicates that the demand for big data analytical talent
research engineer.Dr. Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University Lindy Hamilton Mayled is the Director of Instructional Effectiveness for the Fulton Schools of Engineer- ing at Arizona State University. She has a PhD in Psychology of Learning, Education, and Technology from Grand Canyon University. Her research and areas of interest are in improving educational outcomes for STEM students through the integration of active learning and technology-enabled frequent feedback.Dr. Mark L. Nagurka, Marquette University MARK NAGURKA, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineer- ing at Marquette University. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from
that was collected to measureits impact. This paper represents more completed and newer data from this NSF project.Introduction and Background on STEPThe Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) seeksto increase the number of students (U.S. Citizens or permanent residents) receiving associate orbaccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science, technology, engineering,and mathematics (STEM). The National STEP Program was funded by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) for many years but has recently (2014) been archived and merged, along withtwo other programs, into the new Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Program.This increase is believed to be a direct result of
process to meet ISU’s United States diversity requirement. In this paper, thecourse content, course preparation, and classroom experiences are described.Course Development Process The idea for the development of an engineering college course to meet the university U.S.diversity requirement at ISU emerged after the authors were invited to speak on a panel ofwomen engineers in a related course that has been offered for many years at ISU within thecollege of liberal arts and sciences (LAS). This course is entitled: “Women in Science andEngineering”, and is also a 300 level undergraduate course aimed primarily at women students inthe sciences and engineering. Taught by zoology professor, Dr. Eugenia Farrar, who is also anaffiliated faculty member of
AC 2011-1940: INTERNATIONAL CREDITS IN THE EUROPEAN HIGHEREDUCATION AREAJeffrey J Evans, Purdue University, West Lafayette Jeffrey J. Evans received his BS from Purdue University and his MS and PhD in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology. His research interests are in adaptive computing systems, focusing on the effects of subsystem interactions on application performance. He is also interested in embedded systems and embedded systems security problems. He is a member of the ASEE, ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE.Glenn R. Blackwell, Purdue University, West Lafayette Glenn Blackwell has taught in the ECET Department at Purdue University for over 30 years. He has worked with the Lucerne
Page 22.978.2 Engineers, in the fulfillment of their professional duties, shall: 1. Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public. Professional obligations 2. Engineers shall at all times strive to serve the public interest. a. Engineers are encouraged to participate in civic affairs; career guidance for youths; and work for the advancement of the safety, health, and well-being of their community.(NSPE, 2011) .IEEE (International Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the largest engineering professionalsociety) code of ethics: We, the members of the IEEE, in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the quality of life throughout the world and in accepting a
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students to spend their time and effort.Who can be an engineer is then restricted to those who show aptitude in predefined outcomes andcan successfully navigate the grading structures given to them. We ask if it is possible to gradeacross a curriculum in a way that increases opportunities for student agency and can convey tostudents the multi-faceted nature of being an engineer. While technical skills and knowledge areimportant, they are only one aspect of being an engineer [5]. We introduce an attempted gradingstructure that includes six factors of engineering development used across each assignmentwithin a first year engineering course. This change informed ongoing efforts to align gradingapproaches that place value on student agency in student
Paper ID #43534Work in Progress: Leveraging Short, Curated Alumni Videos to Bridge the”Readiness Gap”Dr. Harly Ramsey, University of Southern California Harly Ramsey is an Associate Professor of Technical Communication Practice and the Associate Director of the Engineering in Society Program at the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering. She holds a Ph.D. in English, and her training in narrative theory, cultural studies, and rhetoric informs her teaching and scholarship. Her current research investigates students’ perspectives on their transition to the workforce; she also studies student
understanding of bias in LLMs and pro- vides insights into strategies for improving fairness and equity in NLP applications. Keywords: Large language models · fairness · bias1 IntroductionThe field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has undergone a significantshift in approach due to the emergence and widespread availability of large-scalepre-trained language models (LLMs). Examples of such models include BERT[1], GPT [2, 3], and LLAMA [4]. These models ingest large amounts of text frommostly internet sources and then aim to mimic human level language abilities.2 No Author Given On one hand, proprietary LLMs, developed by private companies, offer lim-ited transparency. The training data and algorithms remain secret, making
-made artifacts have developmental value in their lives1. Work built onthis hypothesis is intended to foster, support and promote young children’s natural propensitiesfor engineering thinking by providing appropriate formal and informal learning experiences .Currently, science, technology, and math, three of the four disciplines comprising STEM, havean established presence in the early childhood education curriculum and practice whileengineering is a relative newcomer with regards to both content and pedagogy as well as themanner in which it can be integrated into an early education classroom2,3. Research studieswithin developmental engineering can contribute to the knowledge needed in creatingdevelopmentally appropriate engineering-relevant
11364 Community College, Bayside NY 11364 Abstract—The iron and zinc environments in selected tissue complimentary variables has been a standard topic in signalsamples have been studied with EXAFS at Brookhaven analysis courses where data in large frequency range would beSynchrotron Light Source and the scientific process including needed to investigate small time scale information. Andata analysis has been used to show community college pre- EXAFS scan usually would cover a range of scattered waveengineering students about hand-on experience in student vector (wave vector k ~ 2*pi/wavelength) that corresponds toresearch projects. The EXAFS data collection was done using
across the University focusing on curriculum development and digital pedagogies. Gemma engages in information technologies and educational initiatives to enrich undergraduate and graduate courses on behalf of Academic Technologies. Gemma currently serves as the Curriculum Development Lead in a collaborative research project, funded by the National Science Foundation, with faculty at the University of Texas El Paso, University of Miami, and Florida International University focused on undergraduate engineering education at Hispanic Serving Institutions. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Enhancing Leadership Capabilities of Engineering Instructional Faculty
explicitly stated in NGSS, they are implicitlywoven into the standards, and can be extracted through analysis of the document. NOE aspects,although reported in less than a dozen papers, show consistency among researchers, and a fewexamples include engineering as a distinct body of knowledge, the use of creativity inengineering, and social- and cultural-embeddedness. Teachers and students have a naiveunderstanding of NOE, which can be enhanced through exposure to engineering instruction andthe engineering design process. We believe that an introduction to NOE will improve K-12engineering education. Specifically, understanding NOE allows learners to make sense ofengineering and technology in daily life, helps learners to make informed decisions
greater empathy?” Participant responses were thematically analyzed in MAXQDA. The themes that emerged revealed five areas engineering educators feel greater empathy would benefit engineering formation: empathy for collaboration, diversity, individualized learning, professional practice, and understanding students. All participants expressed that empathy could enhance engineering formation. A reoccurring pattern in responses was participants describing an understanding of students that lead them to suggest empathetic actions. This response pattern demonstrates how educators began an empathetic process using cognitive empathy then proceeded to behavioral empathy. Our findings provide insight into how educators should be
Paper ID #21645Overriding Tradition? An Initial Exploration of the Intersection of Institu-tional and Disciplinary Cultures from the Student PerspectiveMr. Ashish Agrawal, Virginia Tech Ashish Agrawal is a PhD candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He did his B-Tech from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and his MS from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, both in Electric Engineering. His research inter- ests include experiences of international faculty and students in US classrooms, sociology of education, and critical and
University. She teaches elementary science methods and secondary science and mathematics methods courses with emphasis on multicultural education and equity pedagogies. Her research interests include both formal and informal STEM education, with specialization in the integration of engineering and computer science into science education through preservice and inservice educator development.Dr. Stacie I Ringleb, Old Dominion University Stacie Ringleb is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Old Dominion University. Dr. Ringleb received a B.S. in biomedical engineering from Case Western Re- serve University in 1997, a M.S.E. from Temple University in Mechanical Engineering in 1999
on empirical evidence to gain an understanding of how and whythe designed learning works. Thus, our ultimate goal is to utilize the DBR process to developtheories that can be translated into classroom practices to enhance students’ understanding ofscience, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subjects while simultaneously inspiringthem to pursue STEM careers. We employ DBR constructs, in the context of a robotics-basedinstructional framework, to support both student and teacher learning in several ways. The use ofrobotics serves to help stimulate an interest in STEM learning for students. In addition, roboticscan help break the silos of the underlying disciplines of STEM to help realize the vision ofintegrating these disciplines. Such
research by introducing students to research projects with a broader impact in terms of energy, the environment, and emerging scientific technologies. 3. Provide students with the opportunity to participate in all aspects of a scientific campaign, including research experience (laboratory work, literature review) and communication of scientific data (oral presentations, poster presentations, writing of manuscripts/peer-review process). 2Tier 1: Research methods/skill developmentThe first tier of eCURe involves recruitment and initial preparation of needed STEM skillsthrough CUREs within existing General Chemistry coursework or
Paper ID #39991Board 28: Work-in-progress: Transforming the Molecular and CellularEngineering Educational Experience in Biomedical EngineeringProf. Cameron Michael Kim, Duke University Cameron Kim is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and serves as the Associate Director for Undergraduate Education. He is researching the role of ethics-guided design frameworks in the classroom for emergent biotechnologies, including gene and cell-based therapies. His education development in molecular engineering and biotechnology results from 10 years in developing protein
, we do not need so much and thanks to technology the plans are not made by hand as those engineers who were in charge of the project had to do when the school was built in the 50s and we know that technology at that time was not as advanced as it is today.”“Thanks to this activity I was able to discover where I want to focus on my Master’s; before, Ihad doubts about what I would do with my future.” Photos. In total, there were 113 photos and the number of photos per essay ranged from 5– 7. Photos were grouped according to its content and three broad categories emerged. The firstcategory consisted of 65 (58%) photos related to the design and construction of the structure andspecific damage observed from earthquakes. The second category
Paper ID #37671Work in Progress: Broadening Participation in Engineering with the STEMExcellence in Engineering Equity (SEEE) ProjectTaryn Melkus Bayles, University of Pittsburgh Taryn Melkus Bayles is a Professor, Teaching Track, in the Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Depart- ment at the University of Pittsburgh, and serves as the Vice Chair of Undergraduate Education. She has spent part of her career working in industry with Exxon, Westinghouse, Phillips Petroleum and Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center (now NETL). Her industrial experience has included process engineering, computer modeling and control, process
www.slayte.com Engagement in Practice: The University of Maryland’s Get Out and Learn (GOAL) Engineering Kit InitiativeUndergraduate engineering education often reinforces an arbitrary sociotechnical divide thatattempts to isolate technical skills from their embedded social environments (Cech & Sherick,2015). Engineering curriculum focuses primarily on developing technical skills, often withoutconsideration of the social (e.g., cultural, political, economic) contexts within these technologies,skills, or training are situated. Service-learning opportunities for engineering students and facultyrepresent one opportunity set for bridging social and technical knowledge and skills. Furthermore,service-learning courses can
, Lincoln Jenny Keshwani is an Assistant Professor of Biological Systems Engineering and Science Literacy Spe- cialist in the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is active in promoting science and engineering education in both formal and informal settings through her research, extension, and outreach activities. Dr. Keshwani is actively engaged in several cross-disciplinary regional and national efforts related to STEM education and outreach. Most recently, she was part of a team that received NSF funding to engage youth in STEM through wearable technologies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Understanding student
AC 2008-1616: INTEGRATING ENGINEERING ETHICS EDUCATION INTO AMULTI-DISCIPLINARY SEMINAR COURSE: MAKING THE “SOFT”OUTCOMES RELEVANTDavid Cottrell, University of North Carolina at Charlotte DR. DAVID S. COTTRELL is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1978 and retired in 2000 after more than 22 years of service with the US Army Corps of Engineers. Studies at Texas A&M University resulted in an MS Degree in Civil Engineering in 1987 and a PhD in 1995. He is a registered Professional Engineer and has taught courses in statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, graphic
questions sought to get information on students’ perceptions of engineering while twoquestions were used for project evaluation. Overall the interviews supported the conclusionsdrawn from the Draw an Engineering and writing assignments.When asked to define engineering only one student was unable to do so. Responses from otherstudents were focused around themes of solving problems, technology, and the application ofscience and math. When asked what they had learned about engineering half of the respondentscomments centered around the theme that engineering was both challenging and rewarding.“…shouldn’t be afraid to take on challenges.” Another theme that emerged from half theresponses was that of a need for management and organization when
products and processes to enhancesafety, improve health and welfare of the public in performance of their professional duties.We are making these changes to stay on the cutting edge of technologies and markets that areof crucial importance to our stakeholders – engineers, students and industries that supportengineering applications. Challenges to ethically drive innovations to produce connectivitybetween people, systems and their performance in most circumstances have started affectingengineering education. This paper will map future ethical challenges affecting engineeringeducation. The knowledge base, economy and globalization continue to challenge the basicindustrial and hi-tech era assumptions upon which most public schools, curricula
, an individual may obtain a professionallicense.Proposed Changes to Licensure RequirementsASCE has expressed concern that a BS degree is not sufficient preparation for professionallylicensed civil engineering practice.2 ASCE has reported that the knowledge, skills, and attitudesof the 21st century engineer exceed those faced by the 20th century engineer. They state thatglobalization, sustainability requirements, emerging technology, and increased complexityrequire additional education.2 ASCE has twice, in 1998 and 2005, formed committees to analyzecurrent requirements to determine what is lacking and to categorize proposed academicrequirement changes. The first committee issued ASCE Policy Statement 465 (PS-465).3 Thisled to ASCE writing a
Session 1626 Integrating Wind Engineering Research to Curriculum Through Multimedia Partha P. Sarkar, Kishor C. Mehta, James R. McDonald, Ernst W. Kiesling Texas Tech University ABSTRACTA courseware development project, which aims to transfer the research results to curriculum through themultimedia technology in the multi-disciplinary area of wind cngineenng, is discussed in this article. Thiscourseware, containing four modules, is designed to supplement certain senior
qualitative research methods, project- based learning, and theoretical foundations of education technology.Dr. Krishna Pakala, Boise State University Krishna Pakala, Ph.D., is an Clinical Assistant Professor at Boise State University, Idaho. His academic research interests include innovative teaching and learning strategies, use of emerging technologies, and mobile teaching and learning strategies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Building an Effective Online Thermodynamics Course for Undergraduate Engineering Students1. BackgroundOnline learning does not appear to be the common option when approaching some core engineeringcourses. However, the growing need for online engineering courses