result of the course.IntroductionIn the United States (US), undergraduate engineering programs frequently culminate in acapstone course where students implement their engineering education in the design anddevelopment of solutions to open-ended, real-world problems1. These courses are of great valueto engineering students, faculty, and industry due to the opportunity to increase their engineeringskills2. While attainment of engineering skills is valuable, it is not enough in today’s globaleconomy as more and more US employers demonstrate interest in hiring engineers with abroader skill-set3,4. This need is resonant for students pursuing cross-disciplinary engineeringfields such as bioengineering as they must possess engineering skills (problem
out [19]. Therefore, smallsocial circles and a lack of peer-to-peer relationships limit an individual's source of motivation orencouragement to persist in high stress academic environments [20]. Understanding theinfluences of undergraduate learning through the SCT will allow us to target the factors that pushstudents to retain their degree program. Replicating these influences to a wider audience andmaking them more accessible will address the growing issue of retention and its impact withinthe United States.We utilized previously listed factors and Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory to delineatecommon barriers that may result in a lower self-efficacy and prevent a student from completingtheir degree. Many undergraduate students, especially
environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives SO 6: an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions SO 7: an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategiesTo satisfy Criterion 4, programs develop and implement a continuous improvement plan toensure that graduates attain the SOs. A continuous improvement plan is a cycle that includesthree main steps as illustrated in Figure 1: Assess, Evaluate, and Act. While accreditation is atthe program level, assessment of SOs is typically done at the course level with additionalassessments conducted outside of courses.Figure 1
Paper ID #32721A Characterization of Engineering and Computer Science UndergraduateParticipation in High-impact Educational Practices at Two WesternLand-grant InstitutionsDr. Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University Angela Minichiello is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University (USU) and a registered professional mechanical engineer. Her research examines issues of access, diversity, and inclusivity in engineering education. In particular, she is interested in engineering professional formation, problem-solving, and the intersections of online learning and alternative
after the Experimental Methods submission. Efforts will be made tocorrect such discrepancies in the future iterations.4.3 Future IterationsOne issue that is a challenge to resolve concerns the timeline of the project. As indicated inseveral student responses, it is difficult to give students time to build the project while alsohaving time to give them the information they need to build the model, which they would need toproperly design an experiment. One possibility to mitigate this is to assign a design project thatonly requires knowledge of the heat transfer concepts taught in, say, the first half of the semester.However, this does not seem to be a good solution since it will exclude key heat transferconcepts that are taught later in the
recommended to combat academic misconduct on out of classassignments is to incorporate in lab exams [3] or regular quizzes [4]. Faculty may perceiveincorporation of regular, frequent in-class assessment as establishing more of a passive testingenvironment, as well as taking up a large proportion of valuable class time. Students mayperceive this environment as providing too much assessment with not enough instruction, and/ora stressful, competitive, unwelcoming learning environment, characteristic of many courseswithin STEM disciplines [5]. As such, these concerns must be addressed directly in the design ofany in-class assessments. The intervention presented here uses one-on-one oral coding interviewexaminations for introductory computer science
the motor control system. As seen in Fig. 9, the systems consist of the twomotors, two speed controls, two fuses, two battery packs, and the receiver from the basic control system. Figure 9: Block Diagram of Motor Control SystemC. Mission Systems As the vehicle has evolved, several other design issues surfaced. The first was how to attach the wing stores tothe wings so that each rocket can be individually released. To solve this problem, the team has designed a clampingmechanism that will be servo actuated. The basic design can bee seen in Fig. 10: Figure 10: Initial Clamp Design
., Bartek, S., and Naylor, C., “Teaching Team Dynamics: Experiences in Second Year Mechanical Engineering Design”, Proc. CDIO Conference, Montreal, QC, June, 2010.25 Hodgson, A.J., and P.M. Ostafichuk, “Team-Based Learning in the Design Modules of a New, Integrated, 2nd Year Curriculum at UBC,” Proc. CDEN, Kananaskis, AB, July, 2005.26 Hodgson, A.J. and P.M. Ostafichuk, “Designing Extended Assignments for Team-Based Learning Modules,” Proc. CDEN 2006, Toronto, ON, July, 2006.27 Brickell, J., Porter, A., Reynolds, M., and R. Cosgrove, “Assigning Students to Groups for Engineering Design Projects: A Comparison of Five Methods,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 83, Issue 3, 259-62, July (1994).28 Feichtner
from Carnegie Mellon University. He received US National Science Foundation CAREER Award, US Air Force Office of Sponsored Research’s Summer Faculty Fellowship, and Google’s ASPIRE Research award in security and privacy, inter alia. He is an expert in the areas of cybersecurity and privacy. He has hundreds of publications in the most reputable venues as well as numerous patents. His research has been funded by numerous government agencies and industry. He has chaired/served on the of top-tier security conferences, e.g., NDSS, USENIX, ACM CCS, IEEE SP, and serving as the deputy editor in-chief of IEEE TIFS and associate editor of Elsevier COMNET journals. More information can be obtained from http://nweb.eng.fiu.edu
building’s behavior. Schmucker found the use of thisexercise mostly beneficial for students, with many reporting that using the model resulted inclarity of the topic. This model offers a glimpse into load flow for gravity and lateral systems.Load flow is a vital concept in timber design, as there are often more components to gravity andlateral systems than other material types.Digital ModelsDigital models can be used in place of small-scale physical models if fabrication cost/time,storage, or educational flexibility constraints are of concern. Interactive digital tools can bedistributed to students for use outside of the classroom, which encourages more prolongedexperimentation with the model and allows for use as a learning aid when completing
Paper ID #48099Students’ Experiences of Learning Technical Writing in Computer ScienceCourses: Perspectives on AssessmentDr. Meghan Allen, University of British Columbia Meghan Allen is an Associate Professor of Teaching in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, where she has been teaching since 2007. She holds a PhD in Curriculum and Pedagogy and is interested in designing curriculum, understanding student experience, and mentoring future teaching-focused computer science faculty members. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Students’ Experiences of
. He is a certified IUCEE International Engineering Educator. He was awarded the ’Ing.Paed.IGIP’ title at ICTIEE, 2018. He is serving as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education Transformations (JEET). He is interested in conducting engineering education research, and his interests include student retention in online and in-person engineering courses/programs, data mining and learning analytics in engineering education, broadening student participation in engineering, faculty preparedness in cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of learning, and faculty experiences in teaching online courses. He has published papers at several engineering education research conferences and journals
, competencies, and knowledge that are associated with retention and advancementin the workplace. Qualitative research aims to address questions concerned with developing anunderstanding of the meaning and experience dimensions of humans’ lives and socialworlds.” [18] Sample • Sorority sisters from Carnegie Mellon University • Attended between 1975 to 1983 • Reconnected during 2020 pandemic • 20 women with STEM degrees • Two others obtained degree in theater design and later worked in Information TechnologySemi-structured interviews with 22 women were conducted with women who had beensorority sisters between 1975 and 1983. The participants were originally fromPennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, New
development. Second, from a practical Page 9.34.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition, Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationstandpoint, many engineers are already familiar with the tools included in the productdesign methodology. This familiarity will flatten the learning curve for our new designmethodology for hands-on activities. A product design methodology (DM) is shown in Figure 1. This DM is explained in detailin [13,15]. As the approach shown in Figure 1 will be the foundation for the developmentof a DM to support hands-on content, each component is briefly
. Instructors' personalviews, their perspective on the societal objectives of education, their role in the classroom, priorknowledge, preference for pedagogical strategies, and the structure of the content in their subjectarea act as amplifiers or filters based on the context and can influence accordingly how theylearn and apply new information in their classroom [11]. Since amplifiers and filters can play acrucial role in transforming TSPK into actual classroom practice, understanding this constructwill be instrumental in addressing the research question.Classroom practiceClassroom practice includes all activities and events that occur within the learning environment.Classroom practice is influenced by the interplay between personal PCK/PCK &
AC 2011-1128: A FOLLOW UP STUDY ON BUILDING CONNECTIONSBETWEEN EXPERIMENT, THEORY, AND PHYSICAL INTUITION INTHERMAL SYSTEMSBrent A Nelson, Northern Arizona University Brent Nelson joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Northern Arizona Uni- versity as an Assistant Professor in 2008. His research interests are in biomaterials and biomolecular characterization, multidisciplinary collaboration, and design learning.Constantin Ciocanel, Northern Arizona University Dr. Constantin ”Cornel” Ciocanel is Assistant Professor in the Mechanical engineering department at Northern Arizona University. He received a Doctorate from ”Gh. Asachi” Technical University of lasi, Romania and a Ph.D. from the
representative of Electrical Engi-neering at the Academy, as you can.Two years ago we decided that the EE module had to be changed. The former material was tech-nically accurate but not particularly interesting to the students. It also did not support course ob-jectives in the area of design, and it was not very representative of the Electrical Engineeringsection at the Academy. With the assistance of LT Martin Roberts, on loan to the Coast GuardAcademy from the U.S. Navy, we developed a new module featuring digital signal processingand speech recognition. It involves technology demonstrations with a high “wow” factor and ahands-on design project. This paper discusses that module
, namely that of its impact on the students’ learning successand course outcomes.The Institute’s faculty tries to invent every year new project topics in order to give thestudents the certainty of working on a new problem that has not yet been solved by students inprevious classes. This leads to a wide variety of project topics, which thus has different effectson the lessons learned and experience gained by our students. However, all projects have incommon that the team orientation promotes the development of certain generic skills stronglyrequired by industry, like the ability to work in teams, to keep records and to meet deadlines.An assessment of the learning effect through our project-based teaching method in the contextof a comparative study
on an engineering education project and pre- senting that work and student chapter activities at annual conference. As a faculty member, she regularly publishes and presents at the ASEE Annual Conference. Her interests are in design education and assess- ment in mechanical and biomedical engineering. She previously served ASEE in leadership roles in the ERM and Mechanics Divisions and as a PIC-III Chair. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Observations on student performance and learning outcomes in a class project for materials and manufacturing course1. AbstractCourse related projects have long been widely regarded as critical component of
a manned spacecraft.Prof. Peter J. Schubert, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Schubert is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and serves as the Director of the Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy (www.lugarenergycenter.org) and the faculty advisor for Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) at IUPUI. He holds 40 US Patents, a Professional Engineering License (Illinois), and has published over 95 technical papers and book chapters. Schubert has managed research projects from USDA, NASA, DOE, and DoD.Mr. Brock Schaffer,Miss Emiliya V. Akmayeva, Students for the Development and Exploration of SpaceMr. Patrick John Proctor, Indiana University-Purdue University
Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting. Jacob holds professional experience as a Teaching Assistant for introductory chemistry labs and peer mentor for various calculus courses at Rutgers University.Dan Battey, Rutgers University Dan Battey is an Associate Professor in Elementary Mathematics Education in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He was previously faculty at Arizona State University and a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA in the Center for Teaching and Learning, Diversity in Mathematics Education (DiME). His work centers on engaging teachers in opportunities to learn within and from their practice in a way that sustains and generates change as well as challenges
solutions, select & prototype concepts, and gather patient/clinical feedback on proposed solutions. Students presented their need, design process, and proposed solution in a video format. Experienced faculty, clinicians, local entrepreneurs, and design faculty from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and from the School of Architecture were available to question the students about their ideas in an organic and realistic manner in the Q&A following the video presentation. Students were evaluated on 1) the quality and level of accomplishment in their designs, and 2) the quality of the video presentation and communication of the process and outcomes.Assessments in 2017 (both J-Term and
Paper ID #45223Insights and Updates on Identity Constructs Among Hispanic EngineeringStudents and Professionals: A Longitudinal StudyDr. Dayna Lee Mart´ınez, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc. Dayna is a Senior Director of Research & Impact at the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), where she leads a team of professionals who specialize in data-driven design and implementation of programs and services to empower pre-college students, parents, graduate students, and faculty members in STEM fields, with a particular focus on advancing Hispanic representation and success. With over 15 years
these quizzes is objectively scored using astandardized rubric. General linear modeling is used to determine if quiz scores differ by quizconstruction condition, and if learning style preference interacts with quiz condition to predictperformance on each assessment. Findings portray a complex relationship between quizconstruction, learning style preference, and assessment performance.Introduction / Statement of ProblemColleges and schools of engineering award approximately 22,000 mechanical engineeringbachelor’s degrees each year, yet only 12% of these degrees are awarded to women (NSF 2015).This percentage increased significantly between 1970 and the mid-1980s, but has remainedstagnant since then. Racial diversity also remains a concern; the
the Faculty of Information Studies (University of Toronto) in 2005. Mindy worked at the UTM campus as a Science Liaison Librarian for 11 years before becoming the Head of the Engineering & Computer Science Library at the St. George campus in 2016. In the times in between, she worked in education in a variety of different capacities, both nationally and internationally. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Survey of Research in Engineering Librarianship, 2015-2019AbstractThis work-in-progress research study aims to examine what research was conducted pertaining toengineering librarianship from 2015-2019 (pre-pandemic) with a particular focus onmethodology. Peer
Paper ID #37036Oscillators for System ID and Inertia Measurement in UndergraduateDynamicsDr. Michael P. Hennessey, University of St. Thomas Michael P. Hennessey (Mike) joined the full-time faculty at the University of St. Thomas as an Assistant Professor fall semester 2000 and was promoted in 2014 to Professor of Mechanical Engineering (tenured since 2006). He is an expert in kinematics, dynamics, and control of mechanical systems, along with related areas of applied mathematics, such as in automation and transportation. As of summer 2023, he has 54 publications, in journals (11), conferences (41), magazines (1), and
impact the field but are at high risk of academic failure.Each student was assigned a focused research project relating to both their interests and majorsand was mentored by a dedicated faculty and graduate student. Each Friday afternoon of theprogram, the students participated in either roundtable discussions, brainstorming meetings,seminars, or workshops. These activities were updated based on feedback from the 2015 and 2016participants. Roundtable discussions with the Principal Investigator (PI) helped form anenvironment of trust and respect which promoted student participation. These discussions focusedon experiences within engineering programs, creative potential, and challenges associated withADHD. Brainstorming meetings and hands-on
networks. Game based learning allows students havefun whilst learning by actively learning and practicing the right ways things should be done. Often, thegame is started on a slow pace gradually advancing gain in skill until the student is able to successfullynavigate the difficult levels. There is a constant increase in cyberattacks all over the world, an estimateof $106 Billion was recorded for cyber hacks in the United States in 2016 alone. The cybersecurity skillsshortage is also posing a major concern. Hence, it has become imperative to develop a learning platformfor the next generation of cybersecurity professionals to learn and be further equipped by introducingcybersecurity with the concept of gaming. Some of the games developed offer some
processes that use bioactive agents. This is a highly transdisciplinaryfield that involves principles in both engineering: chemical, mechanical, electrical, industrial,agricultural, and environmental, and biology: biochemistry and microbiology. At our university,we offer an introductory course in Bioprocess Engineering to seniors and entering graduatestudents for any of the disciplines listed above. This course is co-taught by faculty in bothchemical engineering (CHE) and biosystems and agricultural engineering (BAE). This class canbe a challenge to teach due to the diversity of the students at different levels and from differentdisciplines.As part of their grade for the course, students participate in a “hands-on” class project designedto give the
Paper ID #16513An Overview and Preliminary Assessment of a Summer Transportation En-gineering Education Program (STEEP) for Ninth GradersDr. Shashi S. Nambisan P.E., University of Tennessee - Knoxville Shashi Nambisan is a Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT). Since 1989, he has led efforts on more than 165 research, education, and outreach projects that have addressed local, statewide, regional and national issues in transportation and infrastructure systems management related to policy, planning, operations, safety, and risk analysis. He has authored or co-authored more than 125 peer