in stretchable electronics, responsive material actuators, soft material manufacturing, and soft-bodied control. Dr. Kramer serves as an Associate Editor and Editorial Board member of Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Soft Robotics. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the NASA Early Career Faculty Award, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, and was named to the 2015 Forbes 30 under 30 list. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Enhancing Student Motivation and Self-Efficacy Through Soft Robot DesignAbstractThis research paper evaluates student perceptual changes in engineering motivation and self
Paper ID #21291Bottlenecks and Muddiest Points in a Freshman Circuits CourseDr. Cynthia Furse, University of Utah Dr. Cynthia Furse (PhD ’94) is the Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Utah and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Furse teaches / has taught electromagnetics, wireless communication, computational electromagnetics, microwave engineering, circuits, and antenna design. She is a leader and early developer of the flipped classroom, and began flipping her classes in 2007. She is now regularly engaged helping other faculty flip their classes (see Teach
2006-2344: A POWER SYSTEMS ANALYSIS PROJECTTimothy Skvarenina, Purdue University Dr. Skvarenina received the BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University. He served 21 years in the U.S. Air Force, in a variety of engineering and teaching positions. In the fall of 1991, he joined the faculty of the College of Technology at Purdue University where he currently holds the rank of Professor and teaches undergraduate courses in electrical machines and power systems and serves as the department assessment coordinator. He has authored or coauthored over 30 papers in the areas of power systems, pulsed power systems
issues of safety andconstructability, coping with construction management difficulties such as placing the concretewith a 1 cubic yard mixer and bags of concrete, miscommunication, delayed constructionapproval, and most importantly, bringing a project from concept through completion. Studentassessment data demonstrates that such projects contribute much, not only to students’ learning,but to student’s motivation and self-awareness as well. Any design-build project forces thestudents to develop resourcefulness, perseverance, adaptability, and creativity. One student’scomment: “I learned more in this course than any other I have taken in the program.”I. IntroductionOne of the many pillars of any educational endeavor is to gain understanding from
programs, faculty are introducing students to the concepts of aninterdisciplinary approach to problem solving and the challenges of working on aninterdisciplinary team as early as the second year of study9-12. Therefore, understanding students‟perceptions of interdisciplinarity at the start of these programs and courses could provide facultywith useful information about the preconceived notions of students as well as the factors whichled to those notions.This paper discusses results from one dimension of a larger research project aimed at uncoveringa model for second-year engineering students‟ perceptions of the interdisciplinary problem-solving approach13-14. The work presented here focuses on an important component of many ofthese
practice it may be easier tobuild consensus around them. As the world’s largest development lending institution, the World Bank grappleswith these challenges daily. The CCG Chief Economist’s team seeks to illuminate the issue by:- In the long run, seeking to mainstream new approaches for robust decision making (RDM) into the design and implementation of WB projects, as well as into the analytical methods and policy processes of clients.- In the short-run, educating various audiences about deep uncertainty, how managing uncertainty differs from managing risk, and what tools are available to support RDM.In the past, researchers and practitioners have relied largely on lectures and publications to communicate todecision makers both the
curricula has yet to be properly analyzed forits impact on students’ science knowledge and understanding 23, 24, 25.The study context: Developing design-based science curriculaFor the past six years, engineering and education students and faculty at the University ofVirginia have been working with middle school teachers to bring engineering curricula into theirclassrooms. Topics from science, math, and technology that have interesting engineeringapplications have been identified and engineering teaching kits are developed to help middleschool students learn science and math in the context of engineering design. The curricula,packaged as kits, focus on a well-defined set of concepts in science or math. All lesson plansinclude a final design
required; controlexperiments often focus attention on performance and implementation issues that are overlookedand difficult to capture in simulation; experiments can reveal whether or not assumptions madewhen making a control design are realistic; and experiments provide a way to identify controlmethods that seem to work under real-world conditions as well as those that clearly don’t. Thisfinal point leads to real learning.One opportunity arising from the lab’s neglect was that we were free to start from scratch with itsredesign, and when choosing the dynamic systems that would be the primary focus of experiment. Page 7.879.1
survey was developed and integrated into the end-of-course survey toinclude more specific questions for students on their experiences with PPs, specifically targetingbarriers and issues students experienced. This updated course survey was then disseminated tothe students in the most recent offering of the course (AU23) to elicit more responses fromstudents in the context of these computing activities. The student responses were analyzedinductively with the initial codebook but without rigidness as new codes were hypothesized tooccur within this new data sets suggesting that a non-rigid approach would allow uniquedeductive codes the ability to emerge from the new student responses on experiences. Thefinalized codebook was constructed and provided
Paper ID #15989Conceptualizing Student Identity Development through Self-Directed Learn-ing Opportunities in the First Year of an Engineering ProgramDr. Nick Tatar, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Nick Tatar, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Instructor of Education: Dr. Tatar received his PhD from the University of New Hampshire where he focused on student learning and student motivation dur- ing the high school to college transition. He initiated and developed a first-year seminar course at Olin College, a course that focuses on working in teams, diversity, and self-directed learning. He enjoys collab
is also a faculty of Project management at Fairleigh Dickinson University, in Vancouver, B.C. Her research focuses on the management of the soil and water interface for maximum productivity within the envi- ronmental requirements of long term sustainability, climate change issues and overall ecosystem health. Other research projects include watershed modeling and simulations, project management, curriculum design and development, Information technology and distance education.Dr. Daniel N. Moriasi, USDA-ARS Dr. Daniel Moriassi is a scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Engineering from Egerton University at Kenya, and both his master’s in Biological and
returning members and two were first-year members. Theyoungest had completed 3 semesters at the university; all others had completed at least 5semesters. With the exception of the new members, all participants were team officers.Experience on the team ranged from about 6 months to almost 5 years. One student had brieflyparticipated in another collegiate engineering competition team.The InterviewInterviews have been used to explore leadership development among several groups, includingathletes,5 members of the military,6, 7 and college student leaders.7, 8 The technique is especiallyvaluable for uncovering participants’ implicit leadership theories, allowing researchers tounderstand “what people actually mean when they attribute actions to
: interactive multimedia for e-books, interactive video learning, and 3D/2D anima- tion. Professor Santiago recently published a book entitled, ”Circuit Analysis for Dummies” in 2013 after being discovered on YouTube. Professor Santiago received several teaching awards from the United States Air Force Academy and CTU. In 2015, he was awarded CTU’s Faculty of the Year for Teaching Innovations. Professor Santiago has been a 12-time invited speaker in celebration of Asian-Pacific Amer- ican Heritage Month giving multi-media presentations on leadership, diversity and opportunity at various military installations in Colorado and Wyoming.Dr. Jing Guo, Colorado Technical University Dr. Jing Guo is a Wireless Device Applications
no need to integrate leadership development opportunitiesinto K-12 or post-secondary education. Instead, employers may provide the sub-set of engineersidentified as high potential leaders with role specific training. While these two assumptions have 1limited empirical backing, they nevertheless persist in engineers’ professional practice leavingmeritocratic assumptions about leadership and inequitable promotion patterns intact.In 2011, the Journal of Leadership Studies published a special issue dedicated to conceptualconsensus in the otherwise disparate field of leadership learning. According to Allen and Roberts[11], leadership learning
) Research Institute led by the University of California-San Diego and includes faculty from the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Texas at Austin, Yale University, and the National University.Dr. Ronald P. Uhlig, National University From 2010-2014, Dr. Ronald P. Uhlig was Dean, School of Business and Management, National Univer- sity, La Jolla, CA. He returned to the engineering faculty in 2014 and is currently Chair, Department of Engineering, School of Technology and Engineering. During 2005-2010 he served in multiple positions including Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, and Academic Pro- gram Director for the Master of
scale, disparate data. He is currently working on a project that ambitions to design a system capable of providing students customized motivational stimuli and performance feedback based on their affective states.Dr. Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Tucker holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in Engineering Design and Industrial En- gineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also affiliate faculty in Computer Science and Engineering. He teaches Introduction to Engineering Design (EDSGN 100) at the undergraduate level and developed and taught a graduate-level course titled Data Mining–Driven Design (EDSGN 561). As part of the Engineering Design Program’s ”Summers
of engineering education where students will bring together their gained engineering knowledge and nontechnical professional skills such as teamwork, professionalism, communication, and project management. At the end of the second-semester, the Capstone Design course finishes with a whole-day open house event featuring team presentations, a poster session, and review session with panel judges. The audience is fellow students, faculty, external sponsors, and a panel of judges mostly comprised of the Mechanical Engineering Advisory Council (MEAC) members.Throughout the school year, the EDM and SDP classes are required to interact thus encouragingexchange of experiences, self-reflection, and
KathmanduUniversity and the faculty and students of the University’s Mechanical Department.References Page 23.137.91. www.kathmandu.edu.np, Accessed 1/6/20132. Fadrhonc, T., and Lauridsen, L., “The Two Sides of Diversity – Schools as a Means of Integration,” http://geert- hofstede.com/applications.html, Accessed 1/6/20133. Hofstede, G., Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations. 2nd Edition, Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications, 20014. Lemone, K., “Analyzing Cultural Influences on ELearning Transactional Issues,” Proceedings of ELearn05- World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate
been involved with.In addition comparisons will be made using student assessments of course outcomes foreach of the three years of the comparison (from both the student and faculty perspective).BackgroundCurriculum: The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) has made alterations toits Introduction to Engineering Design (ENES 101) course, modifying it from a purelylecture and design-on-paper course to a more active learning and hands-on experience forthe past ten years. As a senior chemical engineering major (bioengineering track) atUMBC who has worked as a teaching fellow for the ENES 101 course the past two years,I have both personally experienced the benefits of this alteration as a student and I havewitnessed the impact
. For instance, inthe realm of social media, data science has brought about a paradigm shift in the understandingof communication. It has moved beyond analyzing communication as signs or discourse and nowencompasses the collection, storage, and processing of communication data. This expansion inperspective has opened up new possibilities for studying and leveraging social media platformsin various domains. For example, at the earlier stage of social media, Langlois et al. proposed anontological shift, suggesting that with the help of data science, “we must expand from the studyof communication as signs or discourse to include the study of communication as data collection,storage, and processing [5, p. 2].” Consequently, these new technologies
stage,for example, if feedback on an idea leads to the generation of several new ideas. The ultimateselection of a solution is supported by further refining several solutions based on testing,feedback from stakeholders, secondary research, and numerous support tools. Analysis,development, and selection tools and strategies include decision matrices—which may beweighted—[3], [42], usability testing [58], [59], six thinking hats [60], pros and cons [42],plusses, potentials and concerns (PPC) [61], concept combination tables [42] and qualityfunction deployment [3]. This Develop stage aligns with aspects of the product developmentprocess described by Pahl et al. [19], where “Conceptual Design” and “Embodiment Design”involve iterative refinement and
Paper ID #41120Fostering Student Ownership and Active Learning through Student-Led GroupLectures in a Civil Engineering Materials CourseDr. Shenghua Wu, University of South Alabama Dr. Shenghua Wu is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Coastal, and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Alabama. His research areas include civil engineering materials characterization, pavement performance evaluation and modeling, design, and maintenance, multidisciplinary approach to address complex engineering issues, as well as STEM education. He is the Director for the Solid Waste Sustainability Hub
Park Evaluators, an American Evaluation Association affiliate organization and is a member of the Amer- ican Educational Research Association and American Evaluation Association, in addition to ASEE. Dr. Brawner is also an Extension Services Consultant for the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) and, in that role, advises computer science departments on diversifying their under- graduate student population. Dr. Brawner previously served as principal evaluator of the NSF-sponsored SUCCEED Coalition. She remains an active researcher with MIDFIELD, studying gender issues, trans- fers, and matriculation models in engineering.Dr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering
include socio-cultural issues in mathematics education and various equity topics in STEM fields. She has served as a Lead or Co-investigator for multiple educational research and evaluation projects. She published more than 30 articles in scholarly and professional journals world-wide and authored seven book or monograph chapters. Page 25.368.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Critical Review of Research on the Role of Social Engagement in Engineering Students’ Retention and Academic Success Sandra L. Dika and Jae Hoon Lim
populations of as many as 90 million inhabitants. In the U.S, over 30 million inhabitants will live in New York City by the year 2100 [41]. Furthermore, the median life expectancy in the United States is expected to reach 100 years or more at that time [42]. Therefore, overcrowdedness, traffic jams, and air quality will be primary concerns at that time. The project requirements and deliverables: - To research and explore mechanical technologies that have a potential to be used in the vehicles of the next century to solve the problem of overcrowdedness in the large city road networks. The technical constraints included the requirement of having mechanical systems in the design. - To use one mechanical
as metacognition, mental models, and the use of strategic questioning. It alsoaddresses systemic issues that influence learning such as stereotype threat and institutionalizedforms of sexism in STEM education. Second, LAs attend a weekly content preparation with theinstructor of the course. In this content preparation, LAs engage in the same cognitive tasks as thestudents and anticipate potential questions from students and possible approaches to instruction.This helps LAs prepare themselves for the kinds of questions they might get from students andprepare different lines of questioning and facilitation. The final prong is the work in theclassroom. LAs work in pairs in the classroom and engage with students individually as well as ingroups
,respectively). While the finite element module had a slightly lower score (Figure 2, question 8,average Likert score of 3.75), this may have been due to changes in specific finite elementsoftware while abroad and availability of specific software in India versus the United States. Figure 2. Average Likert scores from the post survey for questions related to student preparedness. Overall, the circumstance of meeting, living, and working with new peers in aninternational setting did not seem to cause personal or professional issues during the program.While it is difficult to make strong conclusions from such a small sample size (four students),variability in personality, career interests, and
design scope development detailed of the activities design experience “Construction” phase described here unit testing system testing system deployment Figure 2. Waterfall development process2. Design ExperienceBefore creating the design experience, input from faculty, alumni, and employers was solicited. Itwas agreed that it was important that students, in addition to learning about embedded systems, (i)experience an environment
); as an upper-division andgraduate level course (primarily to engineers); as an intensive “Intersession” class (8 day and 10day format); and as a short course for faculty. The class is based on a “creative system”,developed by the author, which codifies the techniques she developed over a 30-year managementcareer. The class builds on the NASA Systems Engineering process, which was developed by ateam, led by the author in the early 1990’s1. Many references (see Bibliography for a sample)were used to support the experienced-based course design. While there are numerous coursesavailable in elements of this class (e.g. senior design classes), to the author’s knowledge there areno other classes which integrate all the pieces into an overall process
, and PhD), founder of The Design & Entrepreneurship Network (DEN), and Division I rower. In her spare time, Bre teaches design thinking workshops for higher education faculty/administrators at the Stanford d.School as a University Innovation Fellow, coaches a global community of learners through IDEO U, and fails miserably at cooking.Dr. Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford Univer- sity. She is currently Professor and Chair of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include inclusive pedagogies, electronics, optoelectronics, materials sci- ence, first year engineering