achievable capstone projectaligned with the university’s ECE curriculum revision that expands the range of disciplinaryexperiences for students. The foundational knowledge students will be required to integrate intotheir design are a simple controls system, microcontroller programming, Bluetoothcommunication, and circuit design. Following Prince and Felder’s findings that it is more likelythat students can connect their learning to existing cognitive models when engineering work isrelated to a local context, we chose to situate technological design in autonomous farmingbecause the university is in a rural area [2]. The effectiveness of this project in terms ofencouraging student engagement, the alignment of skills to course goals, and
.,design notebook entries, artifacts, and performance on unit assignments). Observation data wereanalyzed using event mapping of core instructional practices across time within one design task.Data timelines offered a visual comparison of the range of activities over time as well as theapproximate length of each. Segments of data for each classroom event map were classified andlabeled based on explicit engineering design phases expressed in the teacher’s instruction as wellas discrete instructional activities enacted by the teacher. Data from interviews, reflection andstudent work were analyzed using content analysis. Triangulation of all data sets ensuredconfirmation of recurring patterns and emerging themes about how elementary school
engineers understand andaccount for a myriad of evolving social issues (including climate change, sustainability,resiliency, and social equity), along with advances in technology that change our understandingof the problems we face, as well as the tools we use to solve them. It is not adequate for civilengineers to simply find workable engineering solutions. Society expects civil engineers todevelop the best solutions, to protect and advance public health, safety, and welfare – theirprofessional duty.Civil engineers must have a much broader and deeper understanding of these factors than everbefore, while the pace of change continues to accelerate. Undergraduate civil engineeringprograms are challenged to fit in all that is required in a four-year
, decision-making, synthesis of information, autonomy and self confidence incompetencies in their engineering degree were improved [13]-[17].PBL has its own challenges and shortcomings. Heitmann [18] distinguishes between the product andcontent orientation of project work and the process and skill orientation. The former is concerned with“what was learnt" and “what was produced", while the latter is concerned with the development of thestudent's competence. The tension between these two orientations is ever-present. Client requirements,learning programme outcomes, financial and time limitations emphasise the product and contentorientation. Meanwhile, the true value of project work as a learning approach is in the process andskill orientation. Mills
inclusive, engaged, and socially just. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education Group whose diverse projects and group members are described at pawleyresearch.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She has received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early
measure of each student’s global preparednessand incorporates the nationally normed Global Perspective Inventory developed by Braskampand colleagues. This is enabling us to identify changes in global awareness, knowledge andthinking over the course of the students’ transition from incoming freshman to graduating senior.The resultant information and tools will provide insight to engineering administrators and facultyas they consider how to best prepare students for the global economy through three linkedstudies. This paper offers an overview of the progress to date of our NSF funded researchinitiative that investigates how the various internationally focused learning experiences withinengineering (both curricular and co-curricular) impact students
known as gateway courses, bottleneck courses, andcourses with high failure rate. These well-recognized challenges have been inspiring manyeducators to explore effective ways in teaching. In recent years, as technological developmentskeep driving down the cost for duplication of learning materials (e.g., shared videos online),flipped classroom teaching has been emerging as a new teaching strategy in improving students’learning outcomes2. Different from the traditional lecture teaching style, where students are oftenplaced in a passive role of retaining isolated facts, flipped classroom teaching aims to fosterstudent-centered active learning. There has been many positive experiences and practicespublished in the literature. The positive effect of
they play. Because the digestivesystem is an HCl acid environment, the metals can be solublilzed and become much moreavailable to exert toxic impacts. Therefore, the “immobile” heavy metal contamination ofsurface soils can lead to an unacceptable accumulation of human health risk. Interest in Cleveland area brownfield soil contamination grew out of a 1996 study in the areaof a notorious lead smelting site in the Cuyahoga River “flats” (Pfaff, 1996). Dr. Jennings joinedthe faculty of CWRU in 1993 to launch a new program in Environmental Engineering thatconcentrated on emerging topics such as urban soil remediation. Ms. Lisa Pfaff was anundergraduate student recruited to work with Dr. Jennings during the summer of 1994 on asummer internship
. This entails raising awareness about the social, economic, andpolitical obstacles faced by women and girls and equipping engineers with the tools to respondcreatively and critically in the dismantling of unjust barriers. (Kantharajah, 2022). In the context of humanitarian engineering and critical consciousness, learning aboutgenerative themes of poverty, sexual violence against girls, and other systemic inequities allowstudents to think about how they would plan, create, and design technologies to solve thoseproblems (Kantharajah, 2022). Encouraging students to learn about and reflect on theseinequities fosters critical reflection and motivates them to envision their roles in driving positivechange through their agency and commitment to
students are given contact information by their academic and industry mentorsand invited to stay in touch.As part of CISTAR receiving an NSF grant, the REM students and their graduate studentmentors are invited to attend a two-day Emerging Researcher’s National Conference inWashington D.C. REM students gained critical skills with: (1) talks about the experience ofbeing underrepresented in STEM by a host of successful academics and businesspeople, (2)professional development workshops (e.g., communication, preparing for graduate school) and3) career pathway learning opportunities. Students were thrilled to present their research projectsto academics, peers (~1,000, >80% UR), industry professionals, as well as individualsrepresenting non-profits
Paper ID #41029Exploring the Impact of CM-II Meditation on Stress Levels in CollegeStudents through HRV AnalysisMr. Sreekanth Gopi, Kennesaw State University Over the years I have developed professionally into an aspiring Data Scientist, Machine Learning En- gineer, and seasoned Artificial Intelligence Researcher. Currently, I am in the process of publishing a few papers on stress reduction and improving student performance. More: Education: BE in Mechanical Engineering MBA in Information Technology MS in Computer Science (IP) Research interests: 1. Meditation 2. Music 3. AI Hackathons: 1. INTEL AI Hackathon FIRST
Engineering at Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, where she has been teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses at undergraduate and graduate level for over 25 years. She is directly involved in the Master’s level Engineering Projects and contributed actively to the STEM outreach project described in this paper.Bernhard Fuchs, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences Bernhard Fuchs holds a master degree in automation technology and is currently a lecturer in mechanical design at the FH Joanneum.Luka Grbeˇs, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences Luka Grbeˇs obtained his B.Sc degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Zagreb. Currently, he is completing a M.Sc. in Automotive
associateddisruptions to teaching and learning, there have been a number of changes to educationalpractices, and new challenges to student engagement and learning have emerged. Current studygoals therefore investigate whether the Discovery Program has retained positive impact onstudents and whether the current framework should be adapted for immersion within the post-pandemic secondary learning environment. To investigate current program impact and changes since the previous studies, structuredinterviews of participating secondary school teachers were performed following Spring and Fall2024 programming. Interviews focused on discerning how teachers currently integrate Discoveryprogramming into their existing curricula, as well as teacher perceptions of
UNICAMP in the area of solid state device processing and semiconductor devices design. In 1995, he began a career as a consultant. In 2006, he founded the BiLab-Business and Innovation Lab at UNIFACS, Salvador-BA, Brazil. Recently, Dr. Mons˜ao has been involved in nationwide science and technology outreach projects using a Robotic Musical Instrument he and a colleague have developed. His current research interests are in the areas of engineering education, robotics, mechatronics, automation, electronic instrumentation and innovation. He has now a Post Doc position in the Graduate Program of Mechatronics at the Federal University of Bahia, UFBA.Dr. Jes Fiais Cerqueira P.E., Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) J´es de
population within engineering practice.A semi-structured interview protocol was used during participant interviews. The interview wasdesigned to elicit information in three major areas with a focus on engineering identity:background, work experience, and identity in engineering. The background section consisted ofquestions relating to influences, undergraduate experiences, and their definition of an engineer.The work experience section explored their work history, relationships in the workplace, the rolerace and gender had in their experiences in the workplace, and whether they had ever consideredleaving engineering. The final section, identity in engineering probed the participants’ reflectionon their selves as engineers, their ideas of recognition
. eventually students will learn to be and do themselves. Teachers model a passion for knowing and demonstrate how knowledge is acquired. Teachers create and guide students to informative experience and then facilitate ways to reflect on experience to make it meaningful. Page 26.80.5 5. New learning fits to the student’s Teachers recognize that they have a small (albeit important) lifetime of learning. role to play in each student’s lengthy process of learning and
in the spring of the sophomore year. This structure provided an overlap of students intheir first and second year in the course. All student teams met concurrently one evening perweek to work on faculty-provided projects. Each faculty member was responsible forapproximately four teams. Faculty and students began each year of the program with excitement,but over time, a number of significant challenges emerged, among these the explosive growth ofthe George Fox University engineering program and its potential effect on the sustainability ofthe program. Therefore, in this paper we follow-up on our published review of the first few yearsof the program. Here we discuss the mechanics of these changes and their continuing effect onthe overall
. Starting in 2000, Alan began to focus on supporting higher education partners in projects that address broadening participation in the sciences, graduate student development, curriculum innovation, instructional technology, teacher professional development and other education reforms. For the past five years, Alan has been the lead evaluator for Epicenter, an NSF-funded STEP Center focused on infusing entrepreneurship and innovation into undergraduate engineering education.Mr. Emanuel Costache, SageFox Consulting Group Since joining SageFox in 2009, Emanuel has worked on the evaluation team for a variety of NIH- and NSF-funded projects, including the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter
Paper ID #25464An Interdisciplinary Elective Course to Build Computational Skills for Math-ematical Modeling in Science and EngineeringDr. Ashlee N. Ford Versypt, Oklahoma State University Dr. Ashlee N. Ford Versypt is an assistant professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Okla- homa State University. She earned her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in ChE at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her B.S. at the University of Oklahoma. She did postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on developing computational models for multiscale tissue physiology and pharmacology
Paper ID #25864A Longitudinal Evaluation of an AP Type, Dual-Enrollment Introduction toEngineering Course: Examining Teacher Effect on Student Self-Efficacy andInterest in Engineering (Evaluation)Dr. Amy Annette Rogers, Delaware State University Dr. Amy Rogers has an earned Ph.D. in Social Psychology. Her current appointment is as Associate Professor and former Chairperson of the Department of Psychology at Delaware State University. She specializes in areas surrounding social justice. Her current application of social justice principals is in the area of the access/success of women/girls to science, technology
, he returned to academia at Tufts University, earning his MS and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering for his work with low-cost educational technologies and his develop- ment and use of technologies to aid usage tracking in makerspaces to examine them as interactive learning environments.Dr. Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Northeastern University Dr. Kathryn Schulte Grahame is an Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University and a mem- ber of the first-year engineering team. The focus of this team is on providing a consistent, comprehensive, and constructive educational experience that endorses the student-centered, professional and practice- oriented mission of Northeastern University. She teaches the Cornerstone
ranged from improvingstudy habits to learning technical skills that would not only help them successfully complete thepilot bridge camp, but also provide academic skills that would potentially help them to be moresuccessful in an undergraduate program. Participants also learned life skills to prepare them forprofessional careers. The learning experiences integrated math and technology into hands-onengineering and science projects over three months in 2-3 week intervals. After the completionof each face-to-face session, participants had the needed tools, skills, and information toaccomplish each related independent project. The independent projects engaged the participantsthroughout the summer, built skills and self-confidence in each successive
Paper ID #6230A Hands-On, Active Learning Approach to Increasing Manufacturing Knowl-edge in Engineering StudentsDr. Jay R. Goldberg P.E., Marquette University Jay R. Goldberg, Ph.D, P. E. is a Clinical Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Marquette University, and Director of the Healthcare Technologies Management program at Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee). He teaches courses involving project management, new product development, and medical device design. His experience includes development of new prod- ucts in urology, orthopedics, GI, and dentistry. Dr. Goldberg
. Britzius Distinguished Engineer Award from the Minnesota Federation of Engineering, Science and Technology Societies and the Civil Engineer of the Year from the Illinois Section ASCE. Page 24.171.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 An Interactive Steel Connection Teaching Tool – A Virtual StructureAbstractSteel connections play important roles in the integrity of a structure, and many structural failuresare attributed to connection failures. Connections are the glue that holds a structure together.The failures of the Hartford Civic
Engineering Department at University of Florida. He is the Director of the Unit Operations Laboratory, currently working on the development platforms to enhance the instruction of Unit Operations Laboratories ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work-in-progress: Elevating Chemical Engineering Outreach Through Collaborative Efforts Showcasing Fluid Flow ExperimentsABSTRACTThe Summer Enrichment Academy (SEA) is a summer program at the University of Maryland,Baltimore County (UMBC), which introduces pre-college students to science, engineering, arts,and humanities fields. Students participate in engaging, informative, and interactive week-longworkshops to gain a preview of the college
. product design) and the virtualformat, leadership in virtual teams is critical. Jarvenpaa and Leidner, in their seminal paper oncommunication and trust in virtual teams, mention that the leader in the high performancestudent teams they studied emerged “after an individual had produced something or exhibitedskills, ability, or interest critical for the role. Moreover, the leadership role was not static butrather rotated among members, depending on the task to be accomplished.”3 In other words, theleader first demonstrated competence to lead the team and established some credibility. Theyfurther mention that leaders need to insure that team members have a clear understanding of theirresponsibilities and should be proactive in maintaining high
” (HDR) degree from Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris VI, Sorbonne Universities (2011) in the area of Engineering Sciences. Prior to his actual position, he was an Associate Professor at University of Wyoming (UW) and prior to that he was an Assistant Professor and the Director of the AE Program at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). He participated significantly to the development of the current architectural engineering undergraduate and master’s programs at IIT. During his stay at IIT, he taught thermal and fluids engineering (thermody- namics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics), building sciences, physical performance of buildings, building enclosure, as well as design courses, such as HVAC, energy
professor and researcher at the School of Engineering at Universidad Andr´es Bello in Santiago, Chile, where she collaborates with the Educational and Academic Innovation Unit (UNIDA) as an instructor in active learning methodologies and mentors engineering faculty in educational research. She is the Secretary of the Women in Engineering Division (WIED) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and an associate researcher in the STEM Latin America Network, specifically in the STEM + Gender group. Her research interests are diverse and focus on university education in STEM fields, faculty and professional development, research-based methodologies, and the use of evaluation tools and technology for education
models. Aaron holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Michigan and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to re-joining Michigan, he was an instructor in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.Dr. Sarah Jane Bork, University of Georgia Dr. Sarah Jane (SJ) Bork is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering with an emphasis on engineering education research. Dr. Bork’s research has focused on examining the mental health experiences of engineering graduate students. She has studied different areas (e.g., social factors, engineering culture, etc.) using a variety of research methods (e.g., regression analysis
globally about so- cietal issues. He applies games especially in areas where it is challenging to study and educate in natural environments and collects detailed and expansive behavioral data in a controlled manner. Working across disciplines, Dr. Harteveld has designed and evaluated games on flooding, urban heat islands, debris collection, and pro se litigants. He is a strong proponent of integrating research and edu- cation and a significant portion of his work is devoted to translating research outcomes to the classroom or informal settings, in order to make sure that the next generation is ready to deal with the societal challenges of the 21st Century.Victoria Bennett, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDr. Yevgeniya V