Mines Kathryn Johnson is an Associate Professor at the Colorado School of Mines in the Department of Elec- trical Engineering and Computer Science and is Jointly Appointed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s National Wind Technology Center. She has researched wind turbine control systems since 2002, with numerous projects related to reducing turbine loads and increasing energy capture. She has applied experiential learning techniques in several wind energy and control systems classes and began engineering education research related to social justice in control systems engineering in fall 2014. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Is Sociotechnical
each question was calculated. Results showed 24 responses to whatstudents liked best about the Story Circles and 18 responses to what they liked least. Theresponses were content analyzed first by each member of the four-person research teamindividually. Next, the researchers collectively discussed and decided on emerging themes fromthe student responses.Results indicate that a majority of students (75%) liked “getting to know classmates” best. Asshown in Figure 1, this theme has three specific sub-areas: getting to know classmates in general,getting to know classmates pertaining to teamwork, and getting to know their teammates’ pastexperience and background. The second theme was “communication.”Figure 1: Frequency of themes from “liked best
Education through Industry Immersion and a Focus on Identity.” Her research also includes NOx formation in lean-premixed combustion and electro- mechanical systems for sustainable processing of microalgae. Her work is published in venues including the Journal of Engineering Education, IEEE Transactions on Education, International Journal of Engineering Education, Transactions of ASME, Chemical Engineering Journal, Bioresource Technology, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, and Combustion and Flame. She is a member of the ASEE, ASME, and the Algae Biomass Organization. Dr. Shuman served as Chair for the ASEE Energy Conversion and Conservation Division. She received a Dipl. Ing. degree in mechanical engineering from
tissues [8,9].Furthermore, bioadhesives have been developed as delivery vehicles for cells [10,11] and otherbioactive factors [12,13], which may promote more regenerative healing. The current state ofbioadhesives focuses on sealing tissue defects; however, the aim for next-generation bioadhesivesis to promote complete healing, or regeneration [14]. Achieving this goal will require diversescientific teams, which produce higher impact work [15–17].Outreach with K-12 students is an effective way to engage younger students to study science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at the university level [18,19]. Focusing theseefforts on individuals who are traditionally underrepresented in STEM based on race, ethnicity,gender, sexual
Perceptions, Attitudes and Cultures in Engineering (SPACE) Lab that aspires to elevate the experiences of marginalized populations, dismantle systematic injustices, and transform the way inclusion is culti- vated in engineering through the implementation of novel technologies and methodologies in engineering education. Intrigued by the intersections of engineering education, mental health and social justice, Dr. Coley’s primary research interest focuses on virtual reality as a tool for developing empathetic and in- clusive mindsets among engineering faculty. She is also interested in hidden populations in engineering education and innovation for more inclusive pedagogies.Katreena Thomas, Arizona State University, Polytechnic
interpersonal factors that contributed to belongingness or exclusion. At the institutionallevel, four types of factors were identified: 1) professional relationships (withteachers/mentors); 2) pedagogical (which referred to the learning configurations of keycourses); 3) informational (particularly with respect to the types/modes of informationconveyed to students by the institution); and 4) sociopolitical (border-crossing and visaexperiences of Latinx E&CS students). At the individual level, participants related personal andinterpersonal factors, including their own and others’ grades and grade point averages.These institutional and interpersonal factors are interrelated, for instance, when particularlearning configurations impact (or are seen to
and Technology/2Lain Evaluation Research/3New Mexico State University / 4New Mexico Public Interest Research GroupAbstract—The numbers of students pursuing graduate education at the master’s level hasincreased nearly four-fold since 1966. In engineering, the number climbed from 13,705 mastersdegrees and 2,301 doctoral degrees awarded in 1966 to 33,872 masters and 5,776 doctoraldegrees awarded in 2004[2]. Women and under-represented minorities’ (URM) share ofengineering doctoral degrees have increased but members of these groups are stillunderrepresented at the doctoral level. This paper uses draw evidence about 24 facultymembers’ retrospective views of mentoring experiences from semi-structured qualitativeinterviews. Case study
activities promoted greater gains inpositive attitudes toward engineering for the female students than for the male students.Implications from this study can inform teachers’ use of engineering design activities in scienceclassrooms for the purpose of teaching about engineering and also teaching science content at adeep conceptual level. Results may also be of interest to science curriculum developers andengineering educators involved in developing engineering outreach curricula for middle schoolstudents. With many states promoting STEM initiatives to encourage the rigorous teaching ofscience, technology, engineering and mathematics, the results of this study may help strengthenthe results of those efforts.References1. Ferguson, R.L. (2007
required to document the way they will work together (e.g. assign eachmember certain tasks based on current abilities or work cooperatively on everything) as well howto handle conflicts when they arise 17. Each group is expected to submit a weekly memo todocument their progress and identify questions and problems. The memos and the project planare posted to a website created and maintained by the students so that everyone involved,including those in Mexico, can stay informed and assist as necessary18.Logistics of the trip to Mexico are handled in large part by the students during the preparationphase. Each student is assigned some portion of the details of the trip such as finding hotels,arranging transportation to/from the airport and within
professional engineer, first as an R&D engineer in a Fortune 500 company, and then leading innovation and technology development efforts in a major engineering firm. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 1 Perceived Importance and Confidence in Leadership Ability: A National Survey of Final Year Canadian Engineering StudentsIntroductionEngineering leadership as a field of study has grown rapidly in the last two decades (Handley etal., 2018; Klassen et al., 2016), but there is limited understanding of how engineering studentsview the importance of leadership skills
Science at the University of California San Diego.Mr. Paul Andreas Hadjipieris, University of California, San Diego Paul Hadjipieris is an instructional designer at the University of California San Diego. He holds an MA, in history from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. His research agenda is on emerging educational tech- nologies and their application to the classroom. He is deeply involved in SoTL research at the University of California San Diego and currently working with faculty on course design and manuscript construction.Dr. Sheena Ghanbari SerslevDr. Carolyn L. Sandoval, University of California, San Diego Dr. Sandoval is the Associate Director of the Teaching + Learning Commons at the University of Cali
skillsthey developed as a result of working on it. They were also asked if this project work had anyimplications on their job searches. The questions are included as an appendix.The quantitative measures were taken to characterize the experience levels of the sample, but themajority of the survey data was qualitative in nature. The resulting study was executed from aphenomenological interpretivist perspective,12-13 as the data and conclusions drawn from themare very much a product of the environment in which these TAs and the researchers work.Further, the participants represented a range of perspectives on the TA experience, given thatthey had varying degrees of experience and worked on different aspects of the project.The coding scheme emerged from
weapons for parades, complete last minute advising and textbook pickup, and completeannual Corps wide training. However, the first-year students report 10 days before classes beginto complete initial military training and acclimate into the culture. “Challenge Week” starts onSaturday with freshmen move-in supported by parents of upperclassmen while the first-yearparents participate in a matriculation day fair. There is a table for each organization on campusto include each of the academic schools ending with a presentation by the president and aquestion and answer session with the parents. At the School of Engineering table, as parentsmeet with faculty, the parents are given a document with a picture and contact information for alldepartment
. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder Jacquelyn Sullivan is founding co-director of the Engineering Plus degree program in the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. She spearheaded design and launch of the Engineering GoldShirt Program to provide a unique access pathway to engineering for high potential, next tier students not admitted through the standard admissions process; this program is now being adapted at several engineering colleges. Sullivan led the founding of the Precollege division of ASEE in 2004; was awarded NAE’s 2008 Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education, and was conferred as an ASEE Fellow in 2011. She has served on multiple NAE
level – statement of problem Currently, in the ECE Department of the UofU, students may apply for major statusduring any semester in which they complete a set of required classes, see 2. The currentGPA for admission to major status is 2.8 on the classes listed, except for ECE 1020 andCp Sc 1010 in which CREDIT is required. This GPA, however, does not guaranteeadmission. The maximum number of students admitted per year is capped at 75 inaccordance with ECE program resources. Transfer students from ABET engineeringaccredited schools (USU, BYU for instance) will be admitted under the same criteria asUofU students. With the emergence of the spell out USHE program, public colleges inUtah are required to accept transfer credit from other non
trained as an artist, who intends to make a grand sculptural gesture that has never been seen before and yet still make something functional. Caught between opposite requirements, pushed by celebrity culture one way, and pulled by a utilitarian philosophy the other, he may be blind to emergent blooper…function plus unlikely gesture equals a screw-up5.Deyan Sudjic, the architecture critic for the London Times recently wrote extensivelyabout the “push by celebrity culture” to shape current architectural forms. He wrote that architecture has always been dependent on the allocation of precious resources and scarce manpower. As such, its execution has always been at the discretion of those with their
what a civil or structural engineer does.ii. An understanding of an engineer as one who “makes,” “creates” or “designs.”iii. Increased enthusiasm for engineering as a discipline.iv. More likelihood of describing engineering professionals as problem solvers, big picture thinkers, innovative, and creative.v. More confidence in their own emerging engineering skills.vi. Appreciation for the engineering principles of self-critique/validation and conservative assumptions.vii. An understanding of the value and importance of drawing diagrams as a Page 23.600.3 fundamental engineering skillSpecifically those teaching methodologies that aimed to
AC 2011-2358: IMPACTS OF LIVING LEARNING COMMUNITIES ONENGINEERING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND SENSE OF AFFILIA-TIONShannon Ciston, University of New Haven Shannon Ciston is an Assistant Professor of Multidisciplinary Engineering at the University of New Haven in Connecticut. Her background is in Chemical Engineering, with degrees from Northwestern University (Ph.D.) and Illinois Institute of Technology (B.S.). Dr. Ciston’s research interests are in two main ar- eas: Engineering Education (including student experience, attitudes, and perceptions) and Sustainability (including impacts of the Chemical and Energy industries on water resources).Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, Ph.D., University of New Haven Assistant Professor of
continuously downloaded. The CCS100 spectrometer costs about $2000 – with the tungsten light source and sample chamber shown in the figure, the cost of a station is about $3000. Four spectrometers were acquired for NECC from the ALERT grant and another four were borrowed from the NU HTT&TL. The CCS100 spectrometers are being developed to be part of the NU freshman HTT&TL experience, but the EST104 course was their first use in an “Intro to Engineering” class. Handouts describing the use of the instruments and projects to be accomplished using the spectral information were created for the EST104 class. The spectrometer provided an excellent vehicle to introduce MATLAB array operations. The spectrometer comes with a Thorlabs proprietary software
leadership.Designing curriculum is one matter; rebuilding an entire program’s educational outcomes(PEOs) is another. The Department of Civil Engineering at Lawrence Technological Universitydecided to adopt the BOK2 as the new standard for their PEOs just two years before their ABETaccreditation visit in 2010.13 Although this was very progressive, accomplishing this effort waslikened to “a quest to slay the Multi-Headed Hydra.” The department encountered numerouschallenges, including faculty members who were unfamiliar with the BOK2 and Bloom’sTaxonomy, adjunct professors who were suddenly bombarded with educational psychology Page 25.1188.5terminology, debates
of the disciplines working in the integrative field is also vital to success. The key isenabling individuals from different disciplines to work interactively to solve problems andinnovate within the selected field. An example of a good integration is engineering and businessworking on blockchain and financial technology. This area requires complete integration ofexpertise from these two disciplines to develop new ideas and solutions. One Director describedthe selection of the integrative field as “Emerging and will be impacting (society), almost cuttingacross disciplines. A Big umbrella where people can have flexibility to create their own world.”As seen in Equation 1 the integrative field term is in the exponent. This means the degree
engineering in particular, one of the lowest populations numerically, face even steepercultures of exclusion when entering a discipline that is dominated by men [17].Research Questions In this paper, we interrogate how Latine/Hispanic engineering TFF’s contributions, bothformal and informal, contribute to and are constrained by Garcia’s four facets of servingness.This leads us to our two primary research questions. First, what motivates Latine/HispanicServingness in Engineering Higher EducationTFF to foster servingness for Latine/Hispanic students, and how are they contributing tothis effort? Second, what are Latine/Hispanic TFF’s perceptions of the internal supportthey receive from their institution and external organizational forces? Notably
, narrative researchers engage with theories pertaining to the specific topic andcontext of their research to help examine the stories generated there [13]. In the context ofeducational research, for example, micro theories may include learning theories, theories aboutmotivation or self-regulation, or theories about technology-based learning. Importantly, whileKim [13] supports the use of micro-level theory for narrative interpretation, Kim [13] reminds usthat narrative research is meant to privilege participants’ stories above all; she cautions about thedangers of “chopping off” parts of still developing stories to make them fit the theories weconsult in efforts to better understand the data. As Kim [13] offers, “theories should inform orguide us to
autonomous? Do they feelcompetent? Do they feel a sense of belonging/relatedness? And of these needs, which require themost attention in workplace culture change? Which are best fulfilled and when? The CAReSstudy seeks to address all of these questions and more. But, first, the study has focused on tooldevelopment to ensure that how the three psychological needs are measured is valid, reliable, andsuitable to the engineering workplace context.MethodsA survey was developed for the engineering CAReS study which contained demographic items,workplace information, several short answer/open-ended questions, and 171 Likert-scale itemsfocused on competence, autonomy, and relatedness as well as barriers to workplace success(including sexual harassment and
merits of engineeringdesign integration. This paper examines the impact of an NSF funded program (DRL-1102990), the CincinnatiEngineering Enhanced Math and Science (CEEMS) Partnership, designed to assist teachers inintegrating engineering design challenges in traditional math and science courses with requiredacademic standards and high stakes tests that measure student mastery of those standards. Usingevaluation and research results from CEEMS, this paper will detail the advantages, as well as thechallenges, of integrating engineering design into these courses. CEEMS targets middle school and high school (grades 6-12) science, technology,engineering, and math (STEM) teachers in 14 regional school districts. Teachers participate inthe grant
Paper ID #13054A Student-developed Rotational Mechanics Laboratory Exercise to Link En-gineering Design and ScienceMr. Jacob Michael Wild, James Madison UniversityDr. Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University Dr. Robert Nagel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. Dr. Nagel joined the James Madison University after completing his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Oregon State University. He has a B.S. from Trine University and a M.S. from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, both in mechanical engineering. Since joining James Madison University, Nagel has
point-and-click were entering college withalmost no knowledge of the inner workings of the hardware that they were so accustomed tousing. These younger students were becoming master users of technology but had almost noknowledge about how things actually worked. And yet, every one of these students was about tospend a large portion of their next four years of school working on computers and evenprogramming them without knowing much about how their programs translated into operationsand results. That is how the idea was hatched to create a real-world hands-on project that wouldtie software to hardware and provide insight into how voltage and current provide the basis forall computer information processing. The fact that most of the material
inform the director and student leaders within our new makerspace to aid in creating policies and fostering a culture of inclusion while bringing light to exclusionary pressures students feel in other spaces on campus?RQ3) Which of the policies mentioned above, and to what degree, are effective in fostering a community of inclusion within a makerspace? (Not included in this paper and reliant on post intervention data collected in years two and beyond)BACKGROUNDThe Colorado School of Mines is a mid-sized STEM-focused institution in the Western UnitedStates. With approximately 7,500 total students across a variety of engineering and STEMdisciplines, it displays a typical gender ratio for undergraduate engineering programs
secured multiple grants for innovative projects. A senior member of IEEE, he actively contributes to the field through publications and conference presentations. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Case Studies of ChatGPT for Embedded Systems TeachingAbstractThe rise of AI technology, particularly Generative AI, has significantly transformed the landscapeof higher education. Generative AI, such as ChatGPT, has been extensively studied in fields likeComputer Science to assess its effectiveness in enhancing learning. However, its impact on morespecialized areas, such as bare-metal embedded systems, remains underexplored. Bare-metalembedded systems, which include hardware (e.g
Paper ID #21233But How Do You Feel?Mr. Werner Zorman, Harvey Mudd College Werner Zorman is the Associate Professor and Annenberg Chair of Leadership at Harvey Mudd Col- lege. Before he joined Harvey Mudd, he was the Associate Director of Leadership Programs at Cornell’s College of Engineering from 2012 to 2016. Mr. Zorman received his M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Technology in Vienna. He worked for 23+ years in the telecom industry in Europe and North America as engineer, leader, mentor, coach and leadership development professional. After a long and fulfilling customer-facing career, Mr