of educators and educational researchers who are exploring how to integrate science, mathematics and engineering within authentic school contexts and researching the nature of the resultant student learningMike Ryan, Georgia Institute of Technology Mike Ryan is research faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC). Mike has expertise in the design and use of project- based learning (PBL) to facilitate standards-based learning. - Mike is the Co-PI for the NSF-funded project Science Learning Integrating Design, Engineering and Robotics (SLIDER), overseeing curriculum design, teacher learning and research strategy. The project
has authored or co-authored over 50 journal and approximately 125 conference papers and holds 11 patents in the area of wireless communications. In 2010 he was co-recipient of the Fred W. Eller- sick MILCOM Award for the best paper in the unclassified technical program. He is currently a Senior Member of IEEE, and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. He was formerly an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Tech- nologies, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and IEEE Transactions on Education. In 2003 he was named Outstanding New Assistant Professor by the Vir- ginia Tech College of
Paper ID #9482Cloud Computing: Is it a way to go for academia?Prof. Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National University I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, M.Sc. in Engineering, and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. In my capacity as Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Information and Media Systems at the Na- tional University of San Diego, I administer 4 graduate and 4 undergraduate programs. Furthermore, I manage 7 specializations, 2 certification programs, as well as the teaching and scholarship of 14 full-time faculty members (7 Full Professors, 4 Associate Professors, and 3 Assistant Professors) and more than 115
particular task and their beliefs about the relative cost and value of that task [15]– [17]. Individuals’ competence beliefs and the costs and values they associate with a particularchoice are informed by their past experiences, personal identity beliefs, the societal/culturalcontext, and individuals’ interactions with these cultural norms or expectations [16], [17]. Ourfindings suggested that returners perceived higher levels of costs in a number of areas comparedto their direct-pathway peers. These costs included academic costs, which relate to individuals’feelings about their academic performance, relationships with peers, and adjusting to a new typeof work and environment; balance costs, which include challenges with family and
of the research team wrotedown short descriptions of undergraduates we have known through our own experience in STEMeducation one per sticky note, along with a specific goal, action, need, or problem they mighthave or be engaged in. Examples are “a junior has anxiety concerning a high stakes exam,” “aworking student can’t attend help sessions due to schedule,“ or “an international student hasdifficulty finding a study group.” At first, each member placed her sticky notes under theappropriate student category we had written on the white board.Manually cluster ad-hoc data. When we could no longer generate new data (new sticky notes),we moved into a manual clustering process, also known as affinity diagramming, where wemanually sorted our data
previously taught technology and engineering (T&E) courses in Maryland’s Public School System. He is nationally recognized for his work related to the safer design of makerspaces and collaborative STEM labs. Dr. Love is an Authorized OSHA Trainer for General Industry. He has also served on committees at state and national levels that developed P-12 engineering education standards. Dr. Love is the recipi- ent of ASEE’s Fall 2022 Middle Atlantic Conference Best Paper Award. Prior to his employment at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore he was a tenure track faculty member in elementary/middle grades STEM education at Penn State University’s Capital Campus.Dr. Andrew John Hughes, California State University, San
BeliefsAbstractIntroductory engineering courses shape college students’ college expectations, motivation, andengineering role identity. Engineering role identity describes the ways in which students seethemselves as the kind of person who can do engineering and is often described by three keybeliefs constructs, one of which is recognition. Recognition beliefs—feeling that meaningfulothers to students (e.g., peers, faculty, TAs, etc.) see them as engineers—are the most essentialcomponents of identity development in engineering for first- and second-year students. Whilemuch work has been done to link classroom experiences to engineering identity development,fewer studies have investigated course redesign as an intervention to support these outcomes.Often, these course
refereed research conference articles, and 20 refereed pedagogical conference articles. As a PI or Co-PI, Traum has attracted over $841 K in funding for research, education, and entrepreneurial ventures from multiple sources including NSF, NASA, ASHRAE, AIAA, Sigma Xi, the Texas State Energy Conservation Office, and several industry sponsors including Toshiba and Oshkosh. Most recently as Associate Professor and Director of Engineering Programs at Philadelphia University, Dr. Traum led the Mechanical Engineering Program through a successful ABET interim visit resulting in no deficiencies, weaknesses, or concerns. Previously, Dr. Traum was an assistant professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), one
instructional pedagogy for remote, in-person, and hybrid STEM education. Prior to his UF appointment, Dr. Traum was founding CEO of Engineer Inc., a successful for-profit education technology social enterprise that produced STEM lab kits for universities and K-12 schools. Previously, Dr. Traum was Associate Professor and Director of Engineering Programs at Philadelphia University; an assistant professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), one of the nation’s top-ten undergraduate-serving engineering universities; and a founding faculty member of the Mechanical & Energy Engineering Department at the University of North Texas – Denton. Traum received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from
Paper ID #28390Minority Status and Belonging: Engineering Math as a Vehicle to BuildCommunityDr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She recently became the director for the Engineering Plus program, which offers a design-focused, flexible Bachelor’s degree. Professor Bielefeldt was for- merly the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and
Arizona State University, Professor Odesma Dalrymple.Prof. Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette Heidi A. Diefes-Dux is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Uni- versity. She received her B.S. and M.S. in food science from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in food process engineering from the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue Univer- sity. She is a member of Purdue’s Teaching Academy. Since 1999, she has been a faculty member within the First-year Engineering program at Purdue, the gateway for all first-year students entering the College of Engineering. She has coordinated and taught in a required first-year engineering course that engages
impending detailed design? Students were asked to answer the questions using a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being very helpfuland 1 not helpful at all. Results are shown in Figure 9. While it is a little alarming that thestudents did not see more value in the project, it is not an overall concern. This is partially due tothe fact that one cannot always see the value in something they have already learned, and how itis applicable to what they are currently learning. From the faculty assessment perspective, the current senior design students show morefamiliarity with completing complex project and design work than the two previous classes.These students are further along in the design process and exhibiting a much greater chance ofsuccessfully meeting
processes and the design of advanced composite materials. With regards to engineering educational re- search, Vasquez is working on the analysis of assessment methods to improve collaborative learning and on implementing computational tools to understand Transport Phenomena concepts. Vasquez has taught the Unit Operation Laboratories for three years.Dr. Zachary J. West, University of Dayton Dr. Zachary West is a Senior Research Engineer in the Energy & Environmental Engineering Division at the University of Dayton Research Institute and a Graduate Faculty member at the University of Dayton. He received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Tri-State University, Angola, IN, a M.S. in chemical engineering from the
, collaborate, and completeproject deliverables.Purpose of StudyThe goals of this study were to (1) identify common communication challenges faced by studentsworking on virtual teams and (2) present strategies based on students’ experiences and theliterature that students and faculty can use to address the common communication challengesidentified. Our work was guided by the following research questions: 1. What were the key limiting factors for reaching project milestones and overall project success on a virtual team? 2. What strategies did students adapt to address challenges unique to virtual teams?MethodsWe collected open-ended survey and interview data using institutional review board (IRB)approved procedures. In total, 51 open-ended
within engineeringeducation literature: intrapersonal, interpersonal, cognitive, and behavioral competencies.Framing student success as thriving is critical for engineering, with growing concerns forengineering students’ wellbeing. For example, stress and high levels of anxiety have beenidentified as prevalent in engineering students [5]. The culture of engineering has included alevel of pride associated with the difficulty of the field [6], and stress culture of engineering hasbeen identified [7]. Bringing a focus of wellbeing and thriving to engineering education can becritical for making meaningful change.The goal of student success or thriving is ultimately to provide a positive educational experiencethat supports student growth and
and gender groups to answer the researchquestions. BACKGROUND AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Retention of engineering students remains a concern across demographic groups and stagesof undergraduate education. In particular, numerous studies have documented that women and BLIstudents face systemic exclusion and marginalization in engineering environments that reduce theirengineering retention [7], [8], [9], [10]. Progress in addressing these issues has been slow, andrepresentation across engineering majors remains uneven, with many engineering educationcontexts overrepresenting men and White students [9]. Some of the reasons progress is slow is thatthe issue is multifaceted; the pursuit of engineering is a complex decision
) coach facilitating intercultural competency training for IEP students. Biannually the IEP organizes the Colloquium on International Engineering Education. Sigrid recently received the DAAD Alumni Association’s Excellence Award for Educational Exchange (2019) and the URI Administrative Excellence Award (2019). Under her leadership, the IEP was awarded NAFSA’s Senator Paul Simon Spotlight price for innovative campus internationalization (2011), and the Andrew Heiskell Award (2012) by the Institute for International Education. Berka was educated at RWTH Aachen, Washington University, St. Louis and the University of California, Santa Barbara. In previous ap- pointments, she taught German Studies at Barnard College in New
the future. Italso presents a summary of the findings, the model that was created from the qualitative data,strategies and consequences that emerged from the implemented curriculum. Section 4 discussesthe findings in light of the design objectives and the transferability of the findings to otherpopulations and areas. The qualitative results are detailed in the Appendix.2 What We Created: More Than Just Assigning a Project Great teachers are the engineers, not technicians, of education.2.1 To Educate, Not Train: The Parallel Curriculum Model and the Novice to Professional MethodologyBecoming project-focused caused some concerns in faculty. The shift to more concrete tasksfrom theoretical ones may result in
EngineeringAbstractHow can we impart the excitement of biomedical engineering to our freshmen from the momentthey step on campus? We have found great success with “Modeling and Design” an innovative,required course which engages our students as biomedical engineers from their first day at JohnsHopkins. Small groups, guided by upperclassmen lab managers, teaching assistants, and faculty,work through five modules including modeling human efficiency, the arm, and thecardiovascular system, as well as a foam core design project. By the conclusion of the fifthmodule, an independent modeling project, 96% of the students appreciate the value of working inteams to tackle complex challenges. They have become adept at developing and testing theirhypotheses, and presenting
Engineering at the University of Toronto with a specialization in musculoskeletal sciences.Dr. Dawn M Kilkenny, University of Toronto Dawn Kilkenny is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering at the University of Toronto. She is the current Vice Dean, First Year Engineering and has vested interest in the transition to post-secondary learning and BME experiential learning. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Re-evaluation of an immersive secondary school inquiry-based STEM program post pandemic: Understanding how to meet student needs after learning disruptions (Evaluation)AbstractSenior secondary (grades
workforces and international teams.2Engineering global preparedness has become an important educational outcome and is a naturalextension to concerns by a multitude of national commissions as well as scholars.3–5 Yet limited Page 26.186.3research has been conducted that operationally defines engineering global preparedness,specifies the various educational practices for achieving global preparedness, or determines towhat degree global preparedness results from students’ personal attributes, prior experiences, orcurricular/co-curricular/extra-curricular experiences. Engineering faculty have acknowledgedanecdotally that students who participate in study
, and a PhD from Drexel University in Mechanical Engineering in 2003. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Orthopedic Biomechanics Lab at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Ringleb research interests include, biome- chanics and rehabilitation engineering as well as multi-disciplinary approaches to improving engineering education.Dr. Jennifer Jill Kidd, Old Dominion University Dr. Jennifer Kidd is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Old Dominion Uni- versity. Her research interests include engineering education, computational thinking, student-authored digital content, classroom assessment, especially peer review, and diversity issues. She currently has sup- port from the National Science
Paper ID #7120Augmenting a First-year Design Course with an Undergraduate Student Ad-ministered SolidWorks ModuleDr. Richard Whalen, Northeastern University Richard Whalen received his Ph.D. from Northeastern University in Mechanical Engineering. Over the past decade he has been a member of the Northeastern University’s Gateway Team. This is a team of teaching faculty devoted to the development and enhancement of the first-year General Engineering pro- gram at Northeastern. The focus of this team is to provide a consistent, comprehensive, and constructive educational experience in engineering that endorses the student
opportunities in which to remove barriers for womenwithin the engineering and computing discipline by understanding their experiences and participation in the fields.I. INTRODUCTION Recent reports from the National Science Foundation (NSF) have indicated that while the number of women in Science and Engineering (S&E) related jobs continue to grow, the group remains underrepresented in the S&E workforce relative to their overall presence in the population [1]. The lack of women in STEM transcends traditional narratives on the importance of broadening participation and increasing STEM diversity because of the nuanced issues women face in a male dominated field. Issues concerning women feeling unwelcomed in STEM begin at the academic level and
motivated by engineering applications. In particular, she is interested in high-dimensional machine learning problems that stem from applications, including data analysis issues related to STEM education research. She created ”Project Rhea,” a student-driven online learning project at www.projectrhea.org. She is a three-time recipient of Purdue’s Seed for Suc- cess Award. She is also a recipient of the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Faculty Award, the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teaching Award and the Wilfred ”Duke” Hesselberth Award for Teaching Excellence. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Characterizing MOOC Learners from Survey Data Using Modeling and 𝒏𝒏-TARP
of the Department of Mathematics within the School of Engineering, a researcher at the School of Education, and Associate Dean of Faculty Development at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. Also, she is currently collabo- rating with the School of Engineering at the University Andres Bello at Santiago, Chile. Angeles holds a bachelor degree in Physics Engineering from Tecnologico de Monterrey and a doctoral degree in Mathe- matics Education from Syracuse University, NY. Dr. Dominguez is a member of the Researchers’ National System in Mexico (SNI-1) and has been a visiting researcher at Syracuse University, at UT-Austin and at Universidad Andres Bello. She teaches
Paper ID #11545Assessing ”Wicked Sustainability Problem”-Literacy in Engineering Educa-tionMs. Johanna Lonngren, Chalmers University of Technology Johanna L¨onngren is a PhD student in the Engineering Education Research group at Chalmers University of Technology. She holds an MSc degree in Engineering Nanoscience from the Faculty of Engineer- ing at Lund University in Sweden. Her main research interest is engineering education for sustainable development, particularly students’ approaches to wicked sustainability problems.Dr. Magdalena Svanstr¨om, Chalmers University of Technology Magdalena Svanstr¨om is an Associate
issues with unreliable internet connectivity. Respondents notedthat technical difficulties—including slow internet speeds and frequent disconnections —exacerbated their struggles, leading to increased procrastination and missed deadlines.Collectively, these insights underscore the complexities of achieving a beneficial school-work-life balance for online students. Work obligations, personal responsibilities, distractions fromfamily and friends, and inadequate online learning facilities create a formidable barrier toacademic success. Without targeted support and resources, these factors can significantly hinderstudents' ability to manage their time effectively and thrive in online learning environments.Theme 3: Limited Awareness of Time
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. Ayala spent three years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Delaware where he expanded his knowledge on simulation of multiphase flows while acquiring skills in high performance parallel computing and scientific computation. Before that, Dr. Ayala hold a faculty position at Universidad de Oriente at Mechanical Engineering Department where he taught and developed graduate and undergraduate courses for a number of subjects such as Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Multiphase Flows, Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machinery, as well as Mechanical Engineering Laboratory courses. In addition, Dr. Ayala has had the opportunity to work for a number of engineering consulting companies, which have