Paper ID #12406Solar Panel Efficacy vs. Altitude in an Urban City EnvironmentWiaam Yasser Elkhatib, Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) IUPUI Chapter Wiaam Y. Elkhatib is a biomedical engineering student and aspiring physician-engineer at Purdue Univer- sity, Indianapolis. Wiaam’s research with the Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy quantitates photovoltaic efficacy in urban environments, while as an intern through the Indiana University School of Medicine, he evaluates the musculoskeletal effects of various chronic kidney disease interventions. An avid campus educator and leader, Wiaam
requires, students come back to class inspired and driven tocomplete their studies. The graduate, thus, has acquired the necessary work readiness of skills,confidence, and self-efficacy to become a contributing member of the organization in a shortertimeframe [4]. This ease of transition into the career parallels the paradigm shift of employeeslooking beyond pay and wanting “learning opportunities, a sense of belonging and work-lifebalance” [5].Belonging is a fundamental human desire to be part of a group [6]. Studies have shown thatstudents with a higher sense of belonging to their university or major are more likely toovercome challenges and persist in their college studies [7-9]. Walton and Cohen [7] also foundthat a one-hour intervention to
Mathematics, graduate courses in Education, and is a thesis advisor on the master and doctoral programs on education at the Tecnologico de Monterrey. Her main research areas are: faculty development, teaching methods, and gender issues in STEM education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Women in Construction Engineering: Towards Continuous Improvement in the Student TrajectoryAbstractRecent retention studies identify factors that exist beyond the academic environment as critical tostudent dropout. In particular, in the Construction Engineering career, women's participation issimilar to that reported in professional life, less
Society for Engineering Educationcomposition (and ordering) of the 18 questions were as follows: 6 math, 2 electric circuits, 2statics, 2 chemistry, 1 thermodynamics, 1 dynamics, 1 material science, 1 computers, 1 ethicsand 1 engineering economics. In scoring the answers we separated the math questions from theengineering questions. Our previous studies demonstrated that the difficult math questions wererelatively easy for all of our participants.The participants were recruited to take part in the study through email and in-classannouncements. We only selected participants who indicated that they had a relatively highgrade point average (GPA) in engineering, and who stated that they were good in engineering(we refer to this as Q6) and that it was
2008-2009 academic year, a pilot lab course was developed and offered at Cal Poly forconstruction management and engineering students. The course curriculum focused on integratingthe course content of mechanical electrical and plumbing systems with regard to design,construction, and coordination issues commonly found among specialty contractors. As notedabove, the integrated curriculum model described by Hauck and Jackson5 has the potential toprovide tremendous opportunities to engage teaching strategies far beyond the common lectureapproach typically utilized in many single subject courses. Various methodologies such ascooperative learning require students to be active participants in their own education2. Therefore, totake advantage of the
consists of individuals associated with technological education and representativesof the micro nano technology industry, specifically community college instructors,administrators and students, K-12 teachers, career coaches, university faculty and administrators,and employers who hire micro nano technology technicians.The MNT-EC reached a total of 3,815 individuals in the first nine months (3,081 in outreachevents and 734 through podcasts and YouTube). The on-line platforms did not always have thecapability of reporting the characteristics of the audience, and this measure is not as robust as itwould have been with face-to-face outreach events. However, the information on audiencecategories was obtainable for 71% of the events and the distribution
Paper ID #25354Board 15: Introducing Students to Engineering by Helping Them RePictureTheir WorldLynn Mayo P.E., RePicture Engineering, PBC Lynn Mayo holds a M.S. in civil engineering from Stanford University and a B.S in civil engineering from Bucknell University. After working for over 30 years as a civil engineer, she became CEO of RePicture Engineering, PBC. RePIcture Engineering is dedicated to increasing interest and diversity in engineering by telling the stories of engineering projects, engineers, and organizations. Through the RePIcture.com site, we are helping students discover careers shaping the future and
Scholarship program at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology is afive-year project that started in fall 2012. The Project which is titled “Increasing StudentEnrollment and Achievement in Engineering and Engineering Technology” is focused onincreasing enrollment and retention of talented students in STEM undergraduate education. Theproject included two cohorts; each cohort goes through a four-year plan. In the first year, allscholarship recipients are engaged in learning communities with well-defined projects in appliedengineering such as robot building, truss design, flow visualization and aerodynamics. Thesehands-on modules are intended to assist students in making connections between math andphysics courses and their engineering applications
). 2. The phasing of the software through a particular project. 3. Effective delivery methods. 4. Assignments suited and ill-suited to the 3D software. 5. Concerns related to the sophomore year. 6. Future considerations. The paper begins with a brief review of the use of computer software in architecturaleducation. It then proceeds to discuss the author’s methodology used to introduce ADT withintwo construction technology courses. The paper then examines the results of the data generatedfrom questionnaires and interviews of the students and architectural practitioners. It continues toexamine some of the limitations of this case study. The paper concludes with recommendationsand conclusions on the use of ADT in
the partner institutions. Differences include size and resources; studentmatriculation demographics and service/recruitment areas; faculty workload; and prior grantfunding experience. Throughout the S-STEM proposal preparation process, award negotiation,and grant implementation period, we have been conscious of the need to explicitly andintentionally recognize the expertise and assets of each participating individual and institutionchallenging the dynamic in which community colleges are, too often, viewed through a “deficitcognitive frame” [25] by B.S.-granting institutions in similar collaborations.This commitment to each other is aligned with the design of the ENGAGE Program, whichutilizes a mentoring and advising approach that we call
groups are encouragedto design meaningful experiments. In this process, the coordinator may be able to discover thosestudents with a high level of interest and enthusiasm. Some of these student-proposed experimentsmay be expanded/fine tuned into conceivable and practical entities. Several such experiments andtheir associated apparatuses that have been successfully conceived through the proposed approach arebriefly discussed. These case studies range from a simple and yet quite an ingenious experiment tothose that are novel and not commercially available. Elements of Group Dynamics and theinstrumental role of the coordinator in recognizing the capabilities and limitations of each group andhis/her necessary willingness to spend the time for
go with you through this. […] You need to have someone because you can’t do this alone. Maybe you can, you probably could if you tried, but it’s a lot better if you have a support group, like people to study with, people to do homework with, people who want to do projects with. You need a community. (F)ConclusionsWe set out to learn more about the pathways that the e-Girls participants had taken afterparticipating and what had impacted those pathways. We were struck by the variety of thedifferent journeys and directions that these young women had taken – they remind us howengineering education is indeed excellent preparation for many career paths and that there weremultiple benefits beyond the actual content expertise
in the world, they also tend to perceive science andtechnology related positions as positions that do not require team work, human interaction or personalcommunication skills7. Therefore, the majority of women avoid entering these fields through their careers.Today, successful women students mostly consider law, medicine and business as their future professionwhile giving less thought about engineering, technology or computing fields8.3. STEM Gender GapThere are several reasons for the gender gap in STEM fields; even though institutional prejudice is morelikely to play a contributing role in limiting the involvement of women in assumed masculine dominantareas. Educational or not, many organizations tend to favor men even though the basis of
in the world, they also tend to perceive science andtechnology related positions as positions that do not require team work, human interaction or personalcommunication skills7. Therefore, the majority of women avoid entering these fields through their careers.Today, successful women students mostly consider law, medicine and business as their future professionwhile giving less thought about engineering, technology or computing fields8.3. STEM Gender GapThere are several reasons for the gender gap in STEM fields; even though institutional prejudice is morelikely to play a contributing role in limiting the involvement of women in assumed masculine dominantareas. Educational or not, many organizations tend to favor men even though the basis of
in the world, they also tend to perceive science andtechnology related positions as positions that do not require team work, human interaction or personalcommunication skills7. Therefore, the majority of women avoid entering these fields through their careers.Today, successful women students mostly consider law, medicine and business as their future professionwhile giving less thought about engineering, technology or computing fields8.3. STEM Gender GapThere are several reasons for the gender gap in STEM fields; even though institutional prejudice is morelikely to play a contributing role in limiting the involvement of women in assumed masculine dominantareas. Educational or not, many organizations tend to favor men even though the basis of
. 1759-1773, 2016.[3] V. Tinto, "Learning Communities: Building Gateways to Student Success," The National Teaching and Learning Forum, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 1-11, 1998 1998.[4] Blinded.[5] Gallup Inc. "Clifton Strengths." https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/252137/home.aspx (accessed February 5, 2024.[6] K. J. Cunningham, "Graduate Engineering Peer Review Groups: Developing Communicators and Community," presented at the ASEE 2019 Annual Conference, June, 2019, 2019.[7] G. A. Nichols and C. A. MacKenzie, "Identifying research priorities through decision analysis: A case study for cover crops," Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, vol. 7, 2023, doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1040927.[8] T
methods for involving students in curriculum development and teaching through Peer Designed Instruction.Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University As an assistant professor of engineering education at Florida International University, Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong works and teaches at the intersection of engineering education, faculty development, and complex systems design. Alexandra completed her doctorate in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech in spring, 2014. Prior to attending Georgia Tech, Alexandra received a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from MIT (2007) and a master’s degree in systems engineering from the University of Virginia (2010). Alexandra comes to FIU after completing a
not exhaustive, it does provide groundwork forfurther study, and provides a comprehensive understanding of the aims and objectives of theWEAAP network.IntroductionNumerous challenges loom for higher education these days, with many affecting colleges ofengineering uniquely. Even as engineering colleges within our nation’s universities becomemajor units for industrial and global engagement, they face difficulties of decreased stateappropriations, rising salaries, competition for enrollment, low K-12 interest in engineering,capped tuition and pressure to expand alternative funding sources. Financial constraints intersectwith equity issues, particularly for engineering colleges: recruiting and retaining women inundergraduate and graduate
separate NetworkPolicy interface would alsoenable the system to handle specialized user interfaces; e.g., administrator, instructor. The latterwould be particularly relevant to provide real time statistics on the system to instructors andpotentially empower them to affect the system while it is running.4 System configurationSystem initialization is done through a set of configuration files, among which there should beone root file. This root file is provided as file://, http(s):// or ftp:// URL to the EvoParsons jar. Thisjar represents the server-side component of our project. A few scripts are meant to facilitate Table 1: Components of EvoParsons system and their purpose Interface/class Meaning
engineering student identity development and engineering student global preparedness. She completed her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Clemson University in 2014 and a certificate in Engineer- ing & Science Education in 2012. She completed her B.S in Biomedical Engineering from Michigan Technological University in 2003.Dr. Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California Gisele Ragusa is a Professor of Engineering Education at the University of Southern California. She conducts research on college transitions and retention of underrepresented students in engineering and also research about engineering global preparedness and engineering innovation. She also has research expertise in STEM K-12 and in STEM assessment. She
Active Learning in Dynamics: Hands-on Shake Table Testing Amanda Bao*, Ph.D., PE Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology*: Corresponding Author, 78 Lomb Memorial Drive, ENT-3154, Rochester, NY 14623, USAPhone: 585-475-4956, Fax: 585-475-7964, Email: axbite@rit.eduAbstract:Dynamics is one of the core courses in Civil Engineering Technology. The principles ofdynamics apply to civil engineering practices in the areas of roadway design, bridge design,building design and seismic retrofit and rehabilitation. Students should have a functionalunderstanding of the course materials rather than substitute numbers into the given equations.Active learning
of these workshops and grants were focused in the area of alternativeenergy. An additional workshop on this topic is being currently being developed.These Act 48 teacher in-service workshops were hands-on and interactive. Teachers performedexperiments and materials were available through Penn State Hazleton for use in theirclassrooms. Workshop activities and lesson plans were linked to the Pennsylvania AcademicStandards for Science and Technology and the Academic Standards for Environment andEcology.Teachers also participated in field experiences related to a 3.2 kW photovoltaic power stationwhich is connected to the Pennsylvania Power and Light grid and a full-size solar powered car.These field experiences and related activities were
addressed? 5. To what extent do programs focus on experiential learning?The impetus for this research is a desire to examine how a College of Technology at a majorresearch-intensive university might integrate more innovative and innovation-related curriculumand experiences into its degree programs in a way that complements existing programs inentrepreneurship, business, and engineering. It also reflects a need to develop a body ofknowledge in this area which addresses a desire of the administration to “move beyond thenarrow definition of Technology as artifacts, systems, and processes to a much broader meaningthat includes leadership, innovation, commercialization, emerging technologies,entrepreneurship, applied and use-inspired research
epistemologies.Dr. Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park Chandra Turpen is a Research Associate at the University of Maryland, College Park with the Physics Education Research Group. She completed her PhD in Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder specializing in Physics Education Research. Chandra’s work involves designing and researching contexts for learning within higher education. In her research, Chandra draws from the perspectives of anthropol- ogy, cultural psychology, and the learning sciences. Through in-situ studies of classroom and institutional practice, Chandra focuses on the role of culture in science learning and educational change. Chandra pur- sues projects that have high potential
problem situation and a carrying out a casestudy including desktop and field work. (3) Identifying an intermediate city on the Northerncoast of Peru affected negatively by climate change as case study, aiming for the students todevelop risk management plans and public space design.The course’s theoretical, methodological and procedural contents are aimed at conducting arisk diagnosis and delivering solution schemes. These contents include participatory andsocial responsibility academic methodologies that combine local knowledge and technicalknow-how in order to generate new knowledge.Innovation is applied to the production of information through two participatory workshops:the first one for risk diagnosis and solution guidelines, and the second
certain engineering topics. Specifi-cally, we have pursued two main research avenues: MEAs as teaching tools and MEAs as learn-ing assessment tools. This paper summarizes our results for these two research thrusts as we en-ter our fourth project year. Particular emphasis is placed on our mixed measurements for studentlearning and achievement, and an examination of the relative conceptual gain for a series ofMEA experiments, including those where a comparison group was available.Introduction“Collaborative Research: Improving Engineering Students' Learning Strategies Through Modelsand Modeling” is a CCLI Type 3 project involving seven university partners: California Poly-technic State University, Colorado School of Mines, Purdue University, United
Mathematics’ coordinator is toassure the equity of the evaluation methods through the semesters. Since the coordinators havebeen in that position for at least two years and have been math instructors at this university forseveral years, we are confident that they know the material as well as the structures of the exams.Therefore, for this study we consider comparable the final grades of a course to those of the samecourse a year before.The same kind of tests were conducted in all courses and semesters compared. There were threetests during the semester. All sections of a course took the tests on the same day. The tests hadthe following structure: • 25% of the evaluation: Conceptual questions. • 25% of the evaluation: Multiple choice questions, in
interesting to note that one topic where the ABET criteria might go beyond theexpectations of the BOK outcomes is an explicit reference to professional licensure. However,since (1) the BOK defines the knowledge, skills and attitudes expected of an individual “enteringthe practice of civil engineering at the professional level” (to be a licensed professional engineer)and (2) pre-licensure education and experience are central themes of the BOK, the fact thatlicensure is not explicitly included in any of the 24 outcomes is perhaps not overly surprising.Nevertheless, awareness of the importance of licensure and, specifically, knowledge of thelicensure process, content and expectations for passing the FE and PE exams, and theexpectations and requirements
currently works as an Engineer for W.L. Gore & Associates’ Medical Product Division.Julie C Karand, University of Delaware Julie Karand is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Delaware (UD). Throughout her engineering career, she has tried to integrate global engineering into her work. Prior to working at UD, she spent the final year of her PhD at the University of Cape Town and a year in Tanzania, teaching and conducting clinical research as a Fulbright US Scholar. Now at UD, her scholarship work includes embedding global engineering opportunities into the engineering curriculum through study abroad programs, new courses, serving as an advisor for UD’s Engineers Without Borders, and
+ ∇·(ρV) = 0, (1) ∂tMomentum (Navier-Stokes): DV ρ = −∇p + f − ∇× [µ(∇×V)] + ∇ [(λ + 2µ)∇·V] . (2) DtThermal energy: DT Dp ρcp = + ∇·(k∇T ). (3) Dt DtIn these equations, the variables take their usual meanings: t time, ρ the mass density, Vthe velocity vector, p the pressure, f a volumetric body force, µ the dynamic viscosity, λthe bulk viscosity, cp the specific heat at constant pressure, T the temperature, and k thethermal conductivity. The