Award in 2006. Dr Johnson is Co-PI on the NSF-EMAP project described in this paper and also co-founder and faculty adviser of the University of Alabama Chapter of Engineers without Borders.Karen Boykin, University of Alabama Dr. is the Assistant Director of the University of Alabama's Environmental Institute and a Research Engineer. She has broad experiences in environmental engineering and science. Dr. Boykin's personal research interests involve the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from both anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic sources. Prior work included modification of EPA landfill emission model to include applications for soil amendments to cover systems. Efforts have also
online version of the course was offered on a standard semesterschedule and had due dates approximately every week, but was otherwise asynchronous. Theinitial and ongoing development and management of the course follows a model that is differentthan the traditional single-faculty instructor course model. There are five roles in this model: (1)course developers or content experts, (2) instructional designers, (2) course supervisor or“instructor of record,” (3) distance learning instructors, and (5) technical support personnel. Inthis paper, the authors share their experiences as course developers, course supervisor, andlearning leaders for the “Fundamentals of Computer Systems” course. The paper discusses thecourse objectives, course design and
a wide range of unfamiliar challenges andexperiences. Moving from student to professional, newcomers interact with peers, colleagues,clients, and supervisors in ways that often differ significantly from those typical within auniversity (Jonassen, Strobel, & Lee, 2006). While an engineering degree program is positionedas preparation for the professional workplace, researchers and practitioners note a criticalmisalignment across engineering school and engineering work. This misalignment arises, at leastin part, from faculty and administrators’ misunderstandings about professional engineering work(Stevens, Johri, & O'Connor, 2014; Trevelyan, 2011). As a result, recent engineering graduatescan struggle to learn and adapt in their new
do and how engineers solve problems with elementary students4. Use problem-solving processes (i.e., science inquiry, model development, and design processes) to engage their students in complex open-ended problem solving14In the second summer academy, teachers’ concerns and interests were addressed, participantsshared their experiences with same-grade teachers, and advised new teachers that wereparticipating in their first-year summer academy. The learning goals for the second-yearacademy were to:1. Identify opportunities to augment science or mathematics learning through engineering2. Comfortably discuss what engineers do and describe select types of engineering3. Use engineering design process and model development process to engage
is expected to satisfy certain institutionallearning outcomes, including teaching students how to think critically, how to communicateclearly in a technical context, and how to apply engineering methods, design methodology inparticular. In its current state, the course falls short in meeting several of the institutionaloutcomes. In a series of conversations and meetings, the department faculty and leadershipidentified various deficiencies in the course with respect to meeting these outcomes, the mostprominent of which was the lack of curriculum dedicated to teaching and practicing engineeringdesign. To better achieve these outcomes, the course was redesigned during the summer of 2021,and three experimental sections of this course were taught
about the problem of sameness and difference and its relation topower” [6, p. 795]. It can be thought of as a framework, an analytical tool, a perspective, and a tool forsocial change [7]. Originally, intersectionality focused on the relationship of Black women to existing lawregarding issues of sexism and racism. Kimberle Crenshaw [2] - [3] theorized how the intersection ofthese two systems of oppression created important complications for Black women beyond the experienceof sexism by White women and racism by Black men. In subsequent decades, intersectionality has cometo be utilized in multiple traditions beyond legal studies (e.g., education [9], engineering education [1])and regarding multiple systems of oppression (e.g., socioeconomic
Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty Grant. She has also been recognized for the synergy of research and teaching as an invited participant of the 2016 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium and 2016 New Faculty Fellow for the Frontiers in Engineering Education Annual Conference. She also was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow for her work on female empowerment in engineering which won the National Association for Research in Science Teaching 2015 Outstanding Doctoral Research Award.Thaddeus Milton Thaddeus is a junior majoring in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Transportation at Purdue University. He works with Dr. Godwin
the most frequently cited. Indeed mathematics proficiency is at the heart ofnational conversations about education at all levels. News headlines and policy reportswarn that U.S. K-12 declining mathematics test scores portend concerns for nationalcompetitiveness1. “Change the Equation,” the national initiative led by more than 100corporate CEOs, underscores math proficiency as essential to achieve STEM literacy andto stimulate technological innovation and economic prosperity. The recent February 2012report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology includes afocus on mathematics preparation as one of five key strategies to produce one millionadditional college graduates with degrees in science, technology, engineering
. She is passionate about engineering education at the college level and increasing the pipeline in K-12. She directs the organization of the Nebraska Robotics Expo, an annual statewide K-12 robotics competition, now in its 11th season. Prior to joining the faculty at UNL, Ms. Gilmore held engineering positions in telecommunications research and development, wireless system deployment, and manufacturing control systems. Ms. Gilmore holds a Master of Science degree in elec- trical and computer engineering from Georgia Tech, a BS in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech, and a BS in mathematics from Spelman College. Gilmore is a registered professional engineer in the state of Nebraska.Dr. Tareq Daher, University of
opportunities, gaining new perspectives, improvingcommunication and feedback skills, and receiving guidance on writing emails and graduateschool applications. Some mentees also noted the value of discussing non-professional topics. Participants suggested included having more regular meetings with a structure of keygoals and timelines, opening up the conversation to address specific skills or personal issues, andhaving more group events that bring together multiple mentorship pairs. Some mentees alsomentioned the value of having upperclassmen undergrads as mentors for younger students whomay not be interested in going to grad school. The suggestion to have more group events alsohighlights the importance of creating a community for mentorship
. Under her mentorship, Dr. Ofori-Boadu’s students have presented 10 research posters at various NCAT Undergraduate Research Symposia resulting in her receiv- ing a 2017 Certificate of Recognition for Undergraduate Research Mentoring. She was also selected as a 2018 National Science Foundation - NC A & T ADVANCE IT Faculty Scholar. Her primary research en- gagements have been in bio-modified cement pastes, sustainable construction, and STEM education. She has received over $170,000 to support her teaching, research, and outreach projects. Overall, Dr. Ofori- Boadu’s research work has resulted in 1 book publication, 13 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 5 conference proceedings, 2 accepted manuscripts (in-press
basic premise of the BSC is that corporate success in the “new economy”, (i.e. organizationsspawned by the information revolution such as software vendors), requires excellentperformance in multiple perspectives of performance. This is in contrast to more than a centuryof experience during which corporations thrived in the “old economy”, (i.e. classicmanufacturing concerns of the industrial revolution such as steel mills), by an almost solitary Page 9.1234.2focus on the financial bottom line. In the early 1990’s, a study of several companies from thebanking, oil, insurance, and retail industries showed that the following four BSC perspectives
present Page 11.1179.10material at an appropriate level, which presents a challenge to faculty and teaching assistantsused to teaching undergraduates. The CDE worked with the new instructors to develop means bywhich they could present interesting material that was at a satisfactory level for the ITEparticipants. In the case of the Chemistry workshop, the solution was to divide the class into twocomponents and have an instructor with experience teaching high school administer thelaboratory portion. For the Calculus workshop, the material was revised and the approachchanged so that the class was structured around a single
prototype. These consultants value different outputs, which are essentiallyperformance criteria. Each of the five internal consultants in Nephrotex prioritizes two outputparameters and identifies specific threshold values for each output. For example, the clinicalengineer would like a high degree of biocompatibility and high flux, and the manufacturingengineer would like a device with high reliability but low cost. The consultants’ concerns areoften in conflict with one another (e.g., as flux increases, cost also increases), reflecting theconflicting demands common in professional engineering design projects.During the second half of the internship, students switch teams and inform their new teammembers of the research they have conducted thus far
epistemological stances are enacted in engineering education research. He has been involved in faculty development activities since 1998, through the ExCEEd Teaching Workshops of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Essential Teaching Seminars of the American Society of Mechanical Engi- neers, and the U.S. National Science Foundation-sponsored SUCCEED Coalition. He has also been active in promoting qualitative research methods in engineering education through workshops presented as part of an NSF project. He has received several awards for his work, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the Ralph Teetor Education Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers, being named a
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 during lectures and in-class examples. She also participated
Session 1526 MECHATRONICS/PROCESS CONTROL REMOTE LABORATORY Hong Wong, Vikram Kapila, and Anthony Tzes Department of Mechanical Engineering Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NYAbstract Under an NSF—DUE sponsored laboratory development program, we have developed amultidisciplinary mechatronics/process control remote laboratory (MPCRL) consisting of anarray of experiments, which expose students to elements of aerospace, mechanical, electrical,civil, and chemical engineering. A new laboratory curriculum and manual have been developedto introduce students to PC-based
its use of disciplinary structures andtechniques from various fields, including engineering, computing, education, business, psychology,and sociology. Graduate student researchers in different majors collaborate in designing educationalmodules, and the project emphasizes creating a supportive environment for student participants to ex-press their opinions and address concerns using a participatory action research framework. The projectfollows an iterative improvement process, utilizing both qualitative and quantitative data from studentsand facilitators to achieve project goals.The faculty mentors in this project who are a multidisciplinary group from electrical and mechanicalengineering, sociology, and psychology, presented a research topic
Resources Fellow, and a Shultz Humanitarian Engineering Fellow at the Colorado School of Mines (Mines). She holds BS and MS degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Mines, a JD from Loyola Uni- versity New Orleans School of Law, and a PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering from Mines. Prior to joining the Faculty at Mines, Linda served in various roles in the oil and gas industry including operations engineer, production engineer, attorney, and international negotiator for oil and gas project de- velopment. She teaches Properties of Reservoir Fluids, Petroleum Seminar, Field Session, Fossil Energy, Environmental Law and Sustainability, and Corporate Social Responsibility. In addition to teaching in the Petroleum
fields. Theseareas of findings are summarized in Fig. 1. Fig. 1: Areas of findings from lit reviewGender Bias in CAD and Mechanical EngineeringHistorically, computers and technology have been seen as gendered, masculine disciplines in society [15].In the ‘90s, research showed that males were more computer-oriented in general than females, which waslargely attributed to socialization and gender roles at the time (e.g. males being technical and femalesbeing artistic and “less concerned with practical issues”) [16]. This bias towards males being moretechnical and computer-oriented shows from an early age in children, where girls have been found toprefer computer programs that emphasize communication and inter
any CAD software. These studentswant to learn CAD in the context of their already-initiated design education.Being a social sciences-administered design program, our program’s faculty are, for the mostpart, inexpert with CAD. This includes the faculty co-authors, one of whom (Malazita) is adigital designer and humanist who is competent with Autodesk Maya and the other of whom(Nieusma) is a social scientist and design scholar with undergraduate training in engineering and1 This approach also has the notable benefit of reaching a very large number of engineeringstudents with limited instructional resources. Given the much smaller size of our design program,extensibility of instruction is less of a concern to us.elementary knowledge of CAD. We
Education at Purdue University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Applied Ethics via Encouraging Intuitive Reflection and Deliberate DiscourseAbstractArtificial intelligence’s (AI) widespread societal impact means that students of alldisciplines will be working in roles adjacent to this new technology. As a result, theyneed to understand how to appropriately navigate and behave ethically in practice. Thepurpose of this paper is to introduce and detail a learning intervention intended toenhance the ethical behavior of future AI developers and engineers. The SIMDEconceptual framework was developed to offer a basis for understanding the pre-rationalaspects of
are wicked because problems are not necessarily solved but changed since thesubjects that a problem-solver is working with relate to humans. This requires theengineer to think analytically and critically, not only on technical issuesbut also onthose that are social and humanistic[2, 3].KTH‟s examination criteria, in accordancewith the Qualifications specified for Master of Science in Engineering in the SwedishHigher Education Ordinance[4], includes requirements onthe students to demonstratethe ability to identify, formulate and deal with complex issues, and to present his orher conclusions, and the knowledge and arguments on which they are based, in speechand writing to different audiences in both national and international contexts
semesters. This is also supported by 5 project team peer evaluations where, to oursurprise, we noticed no incidents of conflict or complaints about teammates.Table 7. ERU course: Student rating of student-centered learning model and of new materialusefulness for their learning (survey issued in the middle of the semester). (1 is lowest rating, 10is best rating). N=60 students responded to this survey. (Survey taking is voluntary andanonymous.) Pedagogy With the student-centered learning approach, I feel my 1: 7%; 2: 5%; 3: 5%; 4: 8%; 5: 7%; 6: in-class time is more productive compared to when I just 10%; 7: 20%; 8: 15%; 9: 11%; 10: 12% sit quietly listening to lecture - median = 7 Technical Prelecture videos - median = 6
EducationInfusing engineering-related concepts into K-12 level curriculum is a rather new initiative forpublic school teachers in the United States, especially those who teach technology education.Maurice Thomas, in a paper presented at the Mississippi Valley Technology Teacher EducationConference, stated that “Technology education has the opportunity to become a partner withengineering and benefit from their image, support, and political power. Many argue that we[technology education] would gain a great deal and lose little because engineering content fitscomfortably with technology education objectives and content.”1 Many technology teachers,however, wonder if this new initiative is viable for the future of the technology educationprofession, or that
specific examples. Of these, 28% identified a STEM issue (e.g. wiring, soldering, learning about electronics), 28% identified some aspect of project management or design (e.g., finding enough time, getting information, creating new ideas). Of the three students who did not give an example of a challenge, one responded, “Actually you see we worked good as a team and when we helped each other nothing was hard to accomplish.” • When asked to identify important things learned about planning and implementing their project, many students used “design language” in their open response. Some examples are: - “ Drawing things out and thinking before we made it.” - “Get all the information
the diversity programs’ budgetsLessons Learned: As with many new initiatives, there is a learning curve as processes and programming are refined. The biggest challenge we found with the events was communication. Admitted engineering students receive a lot of communication and invites to different on‐campus events. There was confusion on which events offered what information, conflicting events and then the number of times admitted students are even able to come to campus. The other issue on communication was ensuring that the correct populations were invited to the events. We will be taking a more active role in the invite pool and messaging being sent to try to avoid some of those issues. The engineering college is also creating a
Paper ID #15781Documentation, Review, and Assessment of a State of Michigan-funded En-gineering Undergraduate Summer Internship for the Development and Im-plementation of an Energy Usage Planning Tool for a Large Grain Elevatorand Grain Storage FacilityDr. Robert W. Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University Robert Fletcher joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Lawrence Technological University in the summer of 2003, after two decades of various industry engineering positions in research, and product development. Dr. Fletcher earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from the
and virtual conferences and workshop, and at some of them, made presentation on findings on air pollution, waste water reuse, and heavy metal contamination.Dr. Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University Dr. Oludare Owolabi, a professional engineer in Maryland, joined the Morgan State University faculty in 2010. He is the assistant director of the Center for Advanced Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Research (CATIER) at Morgan State Universit ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Transforming Pedagogical Assessment: AI and Computer Vision-Enhanced Classroom Observations for Experiment-Centric Learning EnvironmentsAbstract:This paper presents an innovative
concerned with your engagement inthe thought process than the actual values you get out. Following the format below carefully will helpyou engage in this thought process and maximize partial credit in the case of technical errors.Format: Reports are expected to be 1-3 pages and should contain the following sections and elements.Sections should be delineated by headings: Introduction, Methods, etc. Beyond the technical content,i.e., the calculation itself, this document will be graded for clarity, critical thinking, completeness inaddressing the issues below, and grammar. There is no minimum or maximum length – but shorter,more concise reports are preferred in technical writing.Title: A concise title that indicates the activity you choseAuthor: Your