with the REU project team, but with other graduate students, staff,and faculty members working in the structural engineering laboratories. The bi-weekly reportswere promptly critiqued by the Project Director and returned. A suggested outline and detailedinstruction for preparing the final report was given to the students at the end of the third week ofthe project. Using the bi-weekly reports and this outline, the students prepared the final projectTechnical Report. Thus, the whole REU Site provided an insight to the participants on the issues andconcerns with design, manufacture, testing and data synthesis of a range of different structuralengineering research projects. The work accomplished by the participants in each of theseprojects
evidentlyreluctant to speak, or shared their thoughts with multiple caveats or hesitations.Some participants mentioned that engaging with sociotechnical thinking is not “who[engineering instructors] are.” This included the idea that engineering faculty are not equipped toteach sociotechnical thinking, as well as arguments that students will not engage with it. Someparticipants also offered strategies to overcome this perceived barrier, including reframingsociotechnical thinking as “professional skills.” Sociotechnical thinking as a threat to coretechnical engineers was offered as a deeper reason for this uncertainty, discomfort, resistance, oravoidance. That is, as sociotechnical thinking introduces “new paradigms for engineering”, itthreatens a core aspect
as PI on 7 grants from NSF. He has been in the classroom, teaching more than 20 credits per year to engineering students for more than 25 years. His specific areas of expertise are in active learning, faculty development, and learning community development. He has been awarded the 2012 Progress Minnesota award, 2012 Labovitz Entrepreneurialism award, and 2012 Innovator of the Year award from the Rural Community College Alliance all for his work in developing the Iron Range Engineering program. His degrees are in civil engineering (B.S., University of North Dakota), and mechanical engineering (M.S., University of Central Florida). He is licensed as a professional engineer in the state of Minnesota
. Sheppard was named co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to form the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE), along with faculty at the University of Washington, Colorado School of Mines, and Howard University. More recently (2011) she was named as co-PI of a national NSF innovation center (Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at Stanford on summer research experiences for high school teachers. Her industry experiences includes engineering positions at Detroit’s ”Big Three:” Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, and Chrysler Corporation. At Stanford she has served a chair of the faculty senate, and is currently the Associate Vice Provost for Graduate
goodcommunication skills and be able to work well in teams. Some students said this was surprisingto them.One unexpected issue was the disappointment expressed by some students when they discoveredthat they would not learn a “new programming language”. We might have been able to minimizethe disappointment had we discussed MIT App Inventor as a visual language or talked aboutprototyping tools. The disappointment seemed short-lived since once the students started goingthrough the tutorials for MIT App Inventor, they enjoyed being able to make responsiveapplications so easily. Indeed the day before they were supposed to present their apps to theindustry representatives, students requested access to the lab in the evening and stayed until their10:00 pm curfew
, BS), architecture (MArch), and civil engineering (PhD, MS, MPhil) facilitates systems-level research intersecting disciplinary boundaries. She specializes in implementing Lean-Integrated Project Delivery / Target Value Design simulation gaming tools to effectively address complex, multidisciplinary challenges, and has delivered a TEDx talk about illuminating lean efficiency principles and aligning multidisciplinary teams toward common goals. For her research in interdisciplinary systems thinking, Dr. Rybkowski has been awarded the J. Thomas Regan Interdisciplinary Faculty Prize, the Harold L. Adams Interdisciplinary Professorship in Construction Science, and in 2019 was named by Texas A&M as a prestigious
a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) and Director for the Engineering Plus program. She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where students learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in en- gineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity
, a gap has been created between these branches of constructionto the point that their teaching approaches are different, thus forming a deficiency ofunderstanding between them and complex working environments in professional life.This study seeks to understand the cultural differences between civil engineering andarchitecture students, based on Hofstede's theory of cultural dimensions. Fivedimensions are evaluated: Individuality, Power distance, Uncertainty avoidance,Masculinity, and Long-term orientation. Data were collected from four groups: civilengineering students pre-pandemic and post-pandemic and architecture students’ pre-pandemic and post-pandemic to determine if the new teaching methods associated withthe COVID 2019 pandemic, may
multiple proposals, and building and testing the system. The classwas again split into two three-person design teams for all but the build and test phase, which wasdone as one large group. As far as the worms were concerned, the project was a complete failure;the system was too moist, and mold proliferated in the chamber while the worms died. However,to the extent that students took responsibility for developing project timelines, looking upinformation in the libraries, engaging in brainstorming sessions, and generally being moreinterested in the lecture content of the course than ever before, the project was a success.Student performance in the class reflected the success of the design approach; the grades rangedfrom C+ to A, but the average was
Paper ID #36981Work in Progress: Exploring Digital Competency Integrationin Primary and Secondary EducationBrandon Chi-Thien LeSunay Palsole Sunay is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Engineering Remote Education for Texas A&M. He has more than 20 years of experience in the academic technology arena and over fifteen years of experience in distance and online learning. Over his career, he has helped a few hundred faculty from varied disciplines develop hybrid and online courses. He has also helped plan, build and manage successful online programs in nursing, education, engineering, leadership, and cybersecurity
) fields, the US is increasingits funding for extracurricular educational science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM) programs at the K-12 level [1]. High school summer research programs are becomingmore common as studies show the benefits these programs can have on high school students’interests in STEM fields and their eventual enrollment in STEM majors [2]–[7]. These programsinvolve bringing high school students to a university campus and providing them with a researchexperience, guided by a faculty member, over several weeks during the summer. However, theimplementation of hands-on, research intensive programs for high school students can be difficultfor several reasons. One obstacle is the wide gap between high school
Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Prof. Jang’s research interests include smart structures, structural health monitoring, wireless sensor networks, and engineering education. At UConn, she has taught 9 undergraduate courses and 2 graduate courses, including a new graduate course she developed based on her research in structural health monitoring and sensors. Prof. Jang is the recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Engineering Educator award from UConn, and the 2018 Civil Engineering Educator of the Year award from the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers. She has served as the faculty advisor of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Paper ID #20978Enhancing Students’ Hands-On Skills of Wireless Technology Using NetworkSimulatorsDr. Te-Shun Chou, East Carolina University Dr. Te-Shun Chou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Technology Systems at ECU. He received his Bachelor degree in Electronics Engineering at Feng Chia University and both Master’s de- gree and Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering at Florida International University. He serves as the program coordinator of the Master program in Network Technology for the Department of Technology Systems and the lead faculty of Digital Communication Systems concentration for the
an engineering instructor with expertise in structural andcivil engineering. The instructor served as project director and student advisor, responsible forthe day-to-day project operations.During the course of the project, the students were introduced to a typical research process whichchallenged their talent, knowledge and understanding of their chosen field and taught them thelogical process of selecting potential research topics, evaluating each topic, then selecting one forfurther detailed research and analysis. The students also learned some of the economics involvedwith project development, especially when it comes to the thorny issue of prying loose the pursestrings of college financial support. Finally, on the technical end of the
structural and mechanical vibrations. He is a past recipient of ASME Ben C. Spark Medal, SME Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, and Merl K. Miller Award for best paper in computers in Engineering Journal. A TAC of ABET national Chair in 2009, he served ABET as a volunteer in capacities of Program Evaluator, Commissioner, Chair Elect, and National Chair for more than 18 years.Mr. Hamza Kadir Hamza Kadir is currently a graduate student in mechatronics engineering technology at Purdue Univer- sity. He has previously worked in the fields of application of a new SS7-Sigtran protocol interchanger for communication between Remote Terminal Units and a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system, and smart grid solutions
survey and sought funding for the initial trip. In the summer of 2006 five students alongwith a member of the Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty traveled to Arada Vieja. Throughcommunity meetings, individual conversations, water quality testing, and health survey, the project teamestablished a clearer picture of the community’s concerns and priorities. Based on the findings of theassessment trip, and taking into consideration the ability of the student EWB chapter, the project team andcommunity decided to implement a filtration system to improve drinking water quality.In the months following the assessment trip, students worked on the design of the filtration system anddeveloped an education plan to address factors such as system use
. Scholarship recipients will be linked throughcohort teaming sessions with campus resources, local industry partners and experts, and facultymentors, to propose, critique, select, develop, and implement commercially viable technologyproducts. The novel approach to engineering education developed through this project will serveto enrich the creative potential of new graduates in technical fields and expand small businesscreation and employment, both of importance to growth regions where there may be fewer largecorporate employers. Key dimensions of those who exhibit entrepreneurial thinking include agrowth mindset, a regular practice of creativity, and high personal self‐efficacy. Withentrepreneurism seen as an enabling force to overcome employment and
of 2014 QCC enrolled more than16,000 students and employed 391 full-time and 530 part-time Faculty [1]. QCC has an openenrollment policy meaning that any applicant with a high school diploma or equivalent GED iseligible for admission to an Associate’s Degree Program [2]. It has been reported however thatlarge numbers of graduating high school students are not ready for college [3,4]; and that in NewYork City and some surrounding communities the percentages of graduating students are muchhigher than those “college ready” based on their New York State Regents algebra exam scores[5]. This is a big concern because proficiency in Algebra II is expected for students enteringSTEM disciplines [6]. Although the college has an open enrollment policy
2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic SectionSpring Conference: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Apr 7 Paper ID #20817Liberal arts writing and physics lab report writing in the context of kinemat-ics thinkingDr. sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College Sunil Dehipawala received his B.S. degree from University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and Ph.D from City University of New York. Currently, he is working as a faculty member at Queensborough Community College of CUNY.Prof. Vazgen Shekoyan Dr. Vazgen Shekoyan is a professor of physics and his experiences include pedagogy, CubeSat, etc.Dr. Rex Taibu, Queensborough Community
and counseling.The TECT workshop, a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded proof-of-concept project,incorporates the well-established STEM model of hands-on problem-based learning to improvestudent learning and comprehension. To reinforce this approach, the TECT workshop makes useof existing engineering related student summer camps to conduct concurrent teacher andcounselor in-service education and promote best practices that reach across the diversity ofstudent learning styles and interests. In the TECT workshops, the teachers and counselorsinteract with students in the summer camps, learn new engineering and pedagogical content, andparticipate in teaching selected summer camp activities.To date, three TECT workshops have been held that
AC 2009-278: LABORATORY EXPERIMENTATION AND REAL-TIMECOMPUTING: AN INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAhmed Rubaai, Howard University AHMED RUBAAI received the M.S.E.E degree from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1983, and the Dr. Eng. degree from Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1988. In 1988, he joined Howard University, Washington, D.C., as a faculty member, where he is presently a Professor of Electrical Engineering. He is the Founder and Lead Developer of Howard University Multipurpose and Multidisciplinary Automation and Control Laboratory. His research interests include built-in intelligent controller for high performance industrial drives, hardware testing in
career opportunities [15], “rusty” mathematicsskills, family commitments, concerns about time to degree completion [15], and lack ofawareness about STEM career opportunities [16]. The Problem-based Initiatives for Powerful Engagement and Learning In NavalEngineering and Science (PIPELINES) aims at bridging this disconnect by offering a workforcelearning experience that supports students’ awareness and development of career-critical skills,while also highlighting potential civilian career pathways in the Navy. In addition, thePIPELINES program is a unique opportunity for us to investigate the complexities of developingSTEM readiness of underrepresented populations through an interactive ethnographic approach.In the program, teams of
for learning, teaching,mentoring, and advising; designing, building, and fixing; collaborating; and participating.In recent years, there has been growing interest in understanding the impact of maker spaces ineducation and the best practices for developing new maker spaces. In particular, a reoccurringtopic of discussion in engineering education revolves around the need to increase retention andimprove recruitment of students, especially women, minorities, and first generations, intoengineering related fields. While the difficulty of the engineering curriculum and poor teachinghave been recognized as factors influencing attrition, other issues like the lack of belonging inengineering have a great impact on the decision to leave.19-22 In other
Computer Engineering at Utah Valley University. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. all in Electrical Engineering from University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include gender issues in the academic sciences and engineering fields, Embedded Systems Design, Mobile Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks, Nanotechnology, Data Mining and Databases.Dr. Paul Weber, Utah Valley University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Virtual Reality Implementation of a Scanning Electron Microscope in Nanotechnology EducationAbstractA virtual reality representation of a scanning electron microscope was developed to be used as apedagogical tool to train students in its
concern that the current electronicscourse was not significant nor applied enough to enable them to participate in multidisciplinaryprojects and co-op opportunities involving electrical and computer components, sensors, dataacquisition software or controls. Students suggested that more hands on data acquisition andanalyses projects throughout the curriculum, would be extremely valuable in preparation for theworkplace.RIT is addressing these needs by developing a new curriculum based on the EnhancedEducational Experience for Engineers Program (E 4) which was pioneered by Drexel in 1988 3. Acritical component of E 4 is the Engineering Test, Simulation and Design Laboratory (ETSDL) 4,the adaptation of which defines the scope of this paper. The ETSDL
student chapter of the American Society ofCivil Engineers (ASCE). The authors would also like to thank the suggestions and guidance byMr. Stephen Lynch.References1. L. M. Frehill, et al., "Confronting the "New" American Dilemma," NACME,2008.2. M. T. Gibbons. (2010, December 22 2011). Engineering by the Numbers. Available: http://www.asee.org/papers- and-publications/publications/college-profiles/2010-profile-engineering-statistics.pdf3. D. J. Nelson, "A National Analysis of MINORITIES in Science and Engineering Faculties at Research Universities," Advancing Science, Serving Society, Washington D.C.2007.4. R. J. Burke, "Women and minorities in STEM: a primer," in Women and minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering
actively involved in the entrepreneurial process of establishing new companies. Since arriving at Charlotte I co-founded and I am the Chairman of the Board for PiES, Project for innovation, Energy and Sustainability, a non-profit green business incubator that incubated seven companies. I am a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), Institute of Physics (FInstP), and the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Page 24.1142.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 2014 ASEE Annual Conference
Specialist at the Penn State Center for Science and the Schools (CSATS) and a former high school biology teacher. Her role at CSATS is to work with Penn State research faculty to bring current research to the classroom by developing content-specific professional development for precollege teachers. Tiffany’s main interest lies in helping teachers break down the walls of the traditional classroom by engaging students in the practices of scientists and engineers through classroom research projects based on authentic research.Dr. Christine M Cunningham, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Christine Cunningham is an educational researcher who works to make engineering and science more relevant, accessible, and understandable
Ph.D. student in Communication, when she worked as a communication consultant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She has been the director of the program since its inception and has developed a four-year curriculum plan in all seven departments in the college. Her responsibilities include faculty development (she has facilitated numerous college-wide workshops), TA training (approximately 15 graduate students from the Humanities work with CLEAR to develop the communication competence of engineering undergraduates), programmatic and basic research, instructional development, and assessment. Dr. Kedrowicz’s work has been presented at international, national, and regional
the lead inventor on a patent for assistive technology. Her current research includes innovative design-based pedagogy, human- itarian engineering, and ways to attract and retain traditionally underrepresented groups in engineering education.Dr. Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin Dr. Richard H. Crawford is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and is the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty fellow No. 3. He received his B.S.M.E. from Louisiana State University in 1982, and his M.S.M.E. in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1989, both from Purdue University. He joined the faculty of UT in January 1990 and teaches mechanical engineering design and geometry modeling for design