education policy work and research in radar signal processing and communication systems. Jessica has additional interests in the areas of engineering education pedagogy, coding theory, physics-motivated machine learning, technology ethics, and computational social science.Michael A BalazsTitilayo Ogunyale ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 ©2024 The MITRE Corporation. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Approved for public release. Distribution unlimited 23-01425-03. Understanding Federal STEM Education InitiativesAbstractUnsurprisingly, the United States government actively recognizes the need to support initiatives inScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Respondents fall 2021 34 40 74 fall 2022 35 40 75To better understand the historical trend between the two sections, Figure 1 shows students’choices in the sections they completed their aerospace capstone design project. The plots showthat the capstone design project choices have been slightly skewed to aeronautics in recent years.There was a larger disparity in the earlier years, but students have picked up interests in theastronautics field lately. This could be due to the commercialization of Space and theestablishment of the United States Space Force. Figure 1: Enrollment trends in the Aerospace Engineering capstone design course (data from Department
Paper ID #36556Student-Centered Computer Science and Engineering Online Course Designwith Evidence-Based PedagogiesDr. Xiang Zhao, Alabama A&M University Dr. Xiang (Susie) Zhao, Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Alabama A&M University, has over 20 years of teaching experience in traditional on-campus settings or online format at several universities in US and aboard. Her teaching and research interests include numerical modeling & simulation, high performance algorithm design, data mining, and evidence-based STEM teaching pedagogies. Her recent research work has been
Minecraft to teach early engineering college students about the design process.Mr. Rob Sleezer, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rob Sleezer earned his Ph.D. in Microelectronics-Photonics from the University of Arkansas. He attended Oklahoma State University where he graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He is currently a faculty member at Twin Cities Engineering which is in the department of Integrated Engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato.Dr. Charles Xie c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 WIP: Visualizing Design Team Analytics for Representing and Understanding Design Teams
Faculty to Promote Inclusive Department ClimateAbstractDepartmental climate is a critical variable for the success of women and other underrepresentedengineers. Recruitment, retention, and promotion strategies have generally focused onindividuals, instead of group-level processes. We designed a process called Dialogues toemphasize inclusive and participatory departmental interactions by intentionally structuringiterative conversations and activities. Our approach builds on the strengths of engineeringculture, such as teamwork and problem solving, to transform group dynamics and mobilizedepartments toward gender equity.Rationale for the work and contribution to research in engineering educationEngineering is a challenging place for faculty
scientist for the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship be- tween educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co-developer of the Re- formed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 1500 times and his publications have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Prof. Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University Stephen
more exclusive towomen and other conditions that are experienced more equally by both men and women.MethodsThis research is part of a larger effort to understand the post-graduation experiences ofindividuals with undergraduate engineering degrees. Interviews were conducted in two phases,with two different sets of interview questions, both designed to elicit descriptions of engineeringexperiences in college and in the workforce from a diverse pool of graduates with undergraduatedegrees in engineering or computer science. Coding and analyzing data from two differentprotocols was expected to reduce any bias introduced in either set of interview questions towardidentifying or describing certain types of negative environments in the workforce over
career track. The study also examined the factors of support within the institution, withan emphasis on understanding the effectiveness of various programs and policies (i.e. family-friendly policies, mentoring programs, faculty diversity initiatives) designed to support womenfaculty in engineering.Background on the Problem Compared to their male peers in academic engineering programs, the female faculty isless likely to reach full professorships (Easterly and Ricard, 2011; Touchton, 2008). Rather,women are concentrated at the lower ranks of academia as assistant professors, lecturers andadjunct faculty (Fox, 2010). In 2006, women accounted for 30.5% of non-tenure track instructors, but only 11.9% of associate professors and 3.8% of full
Paper ID #18260Work in Progress: Do Students Really Understand Design Constraints? ABaseline StudyDr. J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University Dr. Hylton is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio Northern University. He pre- viously completed his graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, where he con- ducted research in both the School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Engineering Education. Prior to Purdue, he completed his undergraduate work at the University of Tulsa, also in Mechanical En- gineering. He currently teaches first-year engineering courses as well as
Engineering’s Bernard M. Gordon Prize and the 2004 NSPE Engineering Education Excellence Award. He is a past-chair of the ASEE IL/IN Section, and board member of Freshman Programs and Educational Research Methods Divisions. Page 12.488.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Developing an Understanding of Instructors’ Design Learning Philosophies in a Service-Learning ContextIntroductionEngineering design involves the creation of an artifact which impacts and becomes a part of theworld. Although design is generally considered an essential activity
AC 2011-1585: WE CAN’T GET NO SATISFACTION!: THE RELATION-SHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS’ ETHICAL REASONING AND THEIR SAT-ISFACTION WITH ENGINEERING ETHICS EDUCATIONMatthew Holsapple, Univeristy of Michigan Matthew Holsapple is a doctoral candidate at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Ed- ucation at the University of Michigan. His research interests include moral development and character education in higher students, professional ethics education, and research design and quasi-experimental methods in research on college student outcomes.Janel Sutkus, Carnegie Mellon UniversityDonald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University Dr. Donald Carpenter is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and the
AC 2011-2179: THE DESIGN PROCESS AS AN APPROACH TO UNDER-STANDING ENGINEERING AS A PROFESSIONRebecca N. Macdonald, University of Alabama NSF GK-12 Fellow, Doctoral student in Civil EngineeringBeth Todd, University of Alabama Dr. Beth Todd is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama. Page 22.1438.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 The Design Process as an Approach to Understanding Engineering as a ProfessionIntroduction and BackgroundThe importance of furthering science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in
to classical music.Prof. Richard G. Helps, Brigham Young University Richard Helps is an associate professor in the Information Technology Program at BYU. He has research interests in embedded systems, human-computer interaction and curriculum design. He is a member off ASEE, IEEE, IEEE-CS, ACM-SIGITE and an ABET PEV for Information Technology. Page 23.1057.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Security Analysis of CPS: Understanding Current Concerns as a Foundation for Future
., (1991). Managing Transitions, Reading, MA, Persons Books.19- Roberge, M., (1998). Tant d’hiver au coeur du changement. Québec, Les Éditions Septembre. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationBiographyNOËL BOUTINNoël Boutin is a full professor in the Departement of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Université deSherbrooke, in Québec Canada. He received B. Ing (1973) and M. Sc. A. (1975) degrees in Electrical Engineeringfrom the Université de Sherbrooke. His technical interests include RF circuit design and communication systems.His pedagogical interests include the development of the human
covered in the existing laboratory experiments,and allow them to gain practice in designing their own experimental and analytical processes.Initial implementation of the projects has produced favorable results, both from the student andinstructor perspectives. Similar projects can easily be implemented at other institutions usingavailable or low-cost equipment to help students understand basic thermal science concepts.References1. Roy, S., Nasr, K.J. and Berry, K.J. (2002), Development of a project-based and design-driven thermodynamics course [CD-ROM]. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal, Quebec.2. DeJong, N. (2002), Teaching cycle optimization in introductory
a junior member. She hopes to further her education in graduate school.Meagan Vaughan, LeTourneau University Meagan Vaughan is a Mechanical engineering senior student at LeTourneau University. Her senior design experience has focused on the development of an above-knee prosthesis. Page 12.51.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Hydraulic Circuits Laboratory – To Improve Student Understanding of Basic ElectricityAbstractConcepts of voltage and current have often seemed foreign to students since they are measurablebut not directly visible. For nearly forty
transfer students, another on student veterans in engineering and another on Black students in engineering.Dr. Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc Rebecca Brent is President of Education Designs, Inc., a consulting firm located in Chapel Hill, N.C. She is a certified program evaluator and a faculty development consultant. Brent received her B.A. from Mill- saps College in Jackson, Miss., her M.Ed. from Mississippi State University, and her Ed.D. from Auburn University. She was an Associate Professor of education at East Carolina University before starting her consulting firm in 1996.Dr. Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University Marisa K. Orr is an Assistant Professor in Engineering and Science Education with a joint
2006-350: ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDINGS OF ENGINEERINGAND TECHNOLOGYChristine Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston Christine M. Cunningham is the Vice President of Research at the Museum of Science, Boston. She has been developing science and engineering curriculum, designing and offering teacher professional development programs, and conducting research and assessment related to the learning and teaching of science and engineering for over 15 years. Christine is particularly interested in making science and engineering more accessible to marginalized populations. Christine received a joint Bachelors and Masters degree in Biology from Yale University and a Ph.D. in
Paper ID #40139Understanding Students’ Self-regulation in a HyFlex Design Thinking CourseDr. Lakshmy Mohandas, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Lakshmy Mohandas received her Ph.D. (2022) in Engineering Technology from Purdue University, In- diana. Her research interests include the HyFlex learning model, student engagement, equitable learning using different modes of participation, student motivation, and achievement goals.Prof. Nathan Mentzer, Campbell University Nathan Mentzer is an assistant professor in the College of Technology with a joint appointment in the College of Education at Purdue University. Hired
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Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Engineering Education Guilds: Understanding Their Vision for InnovationIntroductionThe major aim of this project is to understand how, and the extent to which, engineeringeducation guilds (e.g., the Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE)and the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN)) foster propagation and adoption oftheir respective pedagogical innovations. Engineering education guilds like CPREE and KEENseek to work at the forefront of educational innovation by creating networks of instructor changeagents who design and implement a particular innovation in their own context to further theprofessional formation of
Paper ID #39932Exploring Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Understanding of PowerDynamicsKenya Z Mejia, University of Washington Kenya Z. Mejia is a PhD Candidate at the University of Washington in the Human Centered Design and Engineering program. Her work focuses on diversity and inclusion in engineering education focusing on engineering design education.Hailee Kenney, University of WashingtonTiffany Dewitt, University of WashingtonDr. Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington Dr. Jennifer Turns is a full professor in the Human Centered Design & Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at the
be made, the corestatement will be around for a long time. Lesson #7, EC 2000 is not going to go away. Acceptit and institute it as soon as possible. The earlier you start, the easier it will be.VI. ConclusionsThis paper discusses twelve academic processes designed to meet the requirements of EC 2000Criterion 2 and Criterion 3 and presents a general model established at Loyola MarymountUniversity that integrates those processes into a system for continuous improvement. Themodel presented can also serve as a framework to help engineering educators andadministrators better understand the full implications of EC 2000. This paper also presentssome ways in which EC 2000 and its mandate for continuous improvement can be used toincrease the quality
research related to women in engineering and our citation wasfor “exceptional research committed to understanding the intersectionality of race andgender.” The External Evaluation Panel (EEP) has been formed including three distinguishedmembers. This group has convened twice to provide feedback to the project team on currentprogress and plans.Work during this second year has focused on finalizing methodology for including transferstudents. We have also refined the analysis including designing displays, considering theexchange of students between similar fields such as Electrical and Computer Engineering andMechanical and Aerospace Engineering. A conference paper focused on the large fields ofElectrical and Mechanical Engineering was not initially
AC 2011-1729: UNDERSTANDING THE TECHNICAL ENTREPRENEUR-SHIP LANDSCAPE IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONMary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh Mary Besterfield-Sacre is an Associate Professor and Fulton C. Noss Faculty Fellow in Department of Industrial Engineering, a Center Associate for the Learning Research and Development Center, and the Director for the Engineering Education Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Her principal research is in engineering education assessment, which has been funded by the NSF, Department of Edu- cation, Sloan Foundation, Engineering Information Foundation, and the NCIIA. Mary’s current research focuses on three distinct but highly correlated areas innovative product
experiencing increased health problems due to irregular working hours and are also noticing a spike in societal issues, which are hard to evaluate in dollar terms by the governments of the countries involved.Importance of engineers understanding Globalization and the pros and cons associated with it:Globalization is perhaps the central concept of our age. It is a highly complex interaction offorces producing integration and disintegration, cooperation and conflict, order and disorder.Accordingly, the complexities associated with globalization have increased exponentially ascompared to a few decades ago. Hence, since in today’s economy, engineers design products fora global marketplace, they need to understand the following
that undergird the social contexts in whichresearch takes place. Engineers occupy a critical role in broadening an understanding of the built,sociotechnical world while developing, designing, and constructing systems that are rooted indominant society and dominant societal values. While engineering research shares manyepistemic and methodological characteristics with traditional scientific fields, engineeringresearch differs from pure, scientific research by applying scientific solutions for global,economic, environmental, and societal needs. These values are made salient in engineeringresearch, as they both limit and invoke the work the community is motivated to research, as wellas what work is valued, promoted, and funded. As this paper is a
Paper ID #9985Making and Engineering: Understanding Similarities and DifferencesJames Logan Oplinger, Arizona State University I am a student at Arizona State University, studying electrical engineering. I plan on going to graduate school at ASU for the Engineering (MS) degree. After I graduate I will work in industry, but I plan on becoming an engineering professor afterwards.Mr. Andrew Michael HeimanMatthew Dickens, Arizona State University Sophmore Electrical Engineering Student at Arizona State Universities’ Honors College interested in engineering education and the entertainment industry.Ms. Christina Hobson Foster
Designing new procedures or devices 0.608 Science 0.692 Understanding science in everyday life 0.822 Interest Telling others about scientific concepts 0.773 Making scientific observations 0.773 Engineering 0.660 I hope to gain knowledge across multiple fields 0.380 Confidence I often learn from my peers 0.423 I identify relationships between topics from different fields 0.555 I analyze
LASSI and LTM are designed to help students understand and identify the ways they learn.The surveys questions that the students answered throughout the semester were focused on howthey were learning, access to faculty and academic services, and changes during the firstsemester.One of the key premises of this project is that making them effective learners within the collegeenvironment, which is very different to what they are used to, may reduce the 57% attrition rateof freshman engineering students. Studies have shown that failing engineering freshman don’thave lower academic abilities; in fact, some of them have higher IQ’s than the averageengineering student.1 Other studies demonstrate that traditional lecture oriented teaching leads tolower