Paper ID #37103Proposal for the design of a professional practice program forgeology and mining engineering students through acommunity outreach projectMonica Quezada-Espinoza (PhD) Monica Quezada-Espinoza is a professor and researcher at the School of Engineering at the Universidad Andres Bello in Santiago, Chile, where currently collaborates with the Educational and Academic Innovation Unit, UNIDA (for its acronym in Spanish), as an instructor in active learning methodologies. Her research interest topics involve university education in STEM areas, faculty and continuing professional development, research-based
with students?Participants. Seven Black engineering faculty who participated as mentees in the IMPACTmentoring program were recruited to participate in this study. The IMPACT program pairedBlack engineering faculty with primarily White emeriti faculty for career-focused mentorship,networking, and advocacy. The program intended to serve as an innovative strategy tocomplement a constellation approach to mentoring as the emeriti faculty were charged withsupplementing, not supplanting, existing mentoring relationships. The inclusion of emeritifaculty also served as a pathway for retirees to continue to make meaningful contributions to theprofession and to capitalize on their greater discretionary time while leveraging their wealth ofexperience in
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference Evolution of a Flipped Classroom: From Prototype to Personalized Learning Autar Kaw University of South Florida Renee M. Clark University of PittsburghAbstractThe flipped classroom is an innovative pedagogical approach where students complete preclasspreparation outside the classroom and then use class time to actively focus on answeringconceptual questions and solving procedural exercises in individual and group settings
first-year chemical engineering seminar and an elective course focused on biopharmaceutical process development. Dr. Goldberg has spearheaded departmental initiatives including a peer mentoring program, pedagogical training of undergraduate teaching fellows, and implementation of course learning communities. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Dr. Goldberg advises undergraduate students, with a special emphasis on preparation for placement in industry and graduate school. Dr. Goldberg conducts quantitative and qualitative pedagogical research to evaluate the success of her teaching innovations. In her role as the Chemical Engineering Associate Chair for Strategic Initiatives, Dr. Goldberg works to enhance the
create the tour application, whichenabled them to add in notations, supplemental graphics such as floor plans or connection details,and voice clips to the images, and to link the images together in one application. The draft tourFigure 2: Students using virtual reality headsets in classroom space. Photo taken by the College ofEngineering media staff.went through several revision rounds between the authors and AISC before being finalized. Theauthors wrote the quiz and survey questions and obtained feedback from AISC to create the finalversion. The Makerspace at the College of Engineering has approximately 26 Oculus Go headsets,which were purchased through an Educational Innovation Small Grant program through Univer-sity of Wisconsin
value relates to the identification of unexpected opportunities. A number of specificand measurable EM student outcomes were developed by Ohio Northern University, termed theexpanded KEEN student outcomes (eKSOs) [6]. The eKSOs cover both the primary EM categories ofcuriosity, making connections, and creating value and the secondary EM categories ofcommunication, collaboration, and character. In the same way that PBL can be used to helpstudents practice and improve their practical skills, entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) canbe used to help students to identify and solve problems in innovative ways using EM skills [7].Additionally, information literacy is one of the skills prioritized by employers that recentgraduates tend to lack that is
. Wang, “Gatekeepers of Engineering Workforce Diversity? The Academic and Employment Returns to Student Participation in Voluntary Cooperative Education Programs,” Res. High. Educ., vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 448–477, 2021, doi: 10.1007/s11162-020-09596-7.[30] C. Samuelson and E. Litzler, “Seeing the big picture: The role that undergraduate work experiences can play in the persistence of female engineering undergraduates,” Atlanta, GA, 2013.[31] M. Schar, S. Gilmartin, B. Rieken, S. Brunhaver, H. Chen, and S. Sheppard, “The Making of an Innovative Engineer: Academic and Life Experiences that Shape Engineering Task and Innovation Self-Efficacy,” in American Society for Engineering Education, Columbus, Ohio, 2017, pp. 3–18
Paper ID #37154Equipando Padres: Apoya el éxito de tu estudiante(Empowering parents to make a difference.)Dayna Lee Martínez (Director, Research & Innovation) (Society of HispanicProfessional Engineers, Inc.) Dayna currently serves as a Director of Research & Innovation at SHPE. In this role, she oversees the Equipando Padres program, Noche de Ciencias, as well as different aspects of research and data analysis. An industrial engineer by training, before joining SHPE, Dayna was a faculty member in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at Northeastern University in Boston, MA after working at
) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com An Undergraduate Research Experience in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Cybersecurity – Outcomes and Lessons LearnedAbstractThis paper is an update of a Work-in-Progress presented at the ASEE 2021 virtual conference [1]and includes new data from after the 2021 paper was accepted for publication. An undergraduateresearch experience was developed in response to an Office of Naval Research program seekingto develop “innovative solutions that directly maintain, or cultivate a diverse, world-class STEMworkforce in order to maintain the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps' technological superiority.”During the fall 2020
, she served as a Lecturer in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and as an Instructor in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. Dr. Salinas is interested in teaching design thinking strategies across the freshman and senior levels. She is passionate about design for people with disabilities, creating an engaging classroom, using active learning techniques and integrating user-centered design approaches to create a targeted and meaningful experience for her students.Megan Sanders (Senior Assessment Associate) Megan is the Senior Assessment Associate in the Trefny Innovative Instruction Center at Colorado School of Mines. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
Inventors, the American Institute for Chemical Engineers, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.Valerie N Johnson Valerie N. Johnson has a doctorate in English literature and is the Managing Director of Dean’s Special Projects in the University of Michigan College of Engineering. At U-M since 2003, she helped launch Mcubed, a university-wide initiative that provides real-time seed funding for innovative research by interdisciplinary faculty teams, as well as the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID). She has won awards for her university teaching.Kaylee Smith Kaylee Smith has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a MS in Chemical Engineering from the
, M. Raber, and L. K. Fiss, “GPA as a Product, Not a Measure,of Success,” in The Demonstrable Value of Honors Education: New Research Evidence, ed.Andrew Cognard-Black, National Collegiate Honors Council Monograph Series, pp. 115-149,2019.[8] L. A. Meadows, M. Raber, and L. K. Fiss, “Innovation and Inclusion—Applying designthinking and lean startup in the honors context,” Excellence, Innovation and Ingenuity in HonorsEducation, ed. Graeme Harper, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 79-97, 2019.[9] L. K. Fiss, J. Irwin, and Y. (S.) Tan, “S-STEM Student Reflections and IDP Process,” 2021ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, https://peer.asee.org/37693, 2021.[10] R. Kegan, In over our heads: The mental demands of modern life. Harvard
. Smith, N. Okoroafor, H. Jordt, and M.P.Wenderoth. “Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, andmathematics,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,111(23):8410{8415, 2014.[2] M. Stains, J. Harshman, M.K. Barker, S.V. Chasteen, R. Cole, S.E. DeChenne-Peters, et al.“Anatomy of stem teaching in north American universities,” Science, 359(6383):1468-1470,2018.[3] M. Borrego, J.E. Froyd, and T.S. Hall. “Diffusion of engineering education innovations: Asurvey of awareness and adoption rates in U.S. engineering departments,” Journal ofEngineering Education, 99(3):185-207, 2010.[4] C. Henderson and M.H. Dancy. “Barriers to the use of research-based instructional strategies:The
2007 and Masters of Science in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2011. Cross completed her doctoral program in the Engineering Education department at Virginia Tech in 2015 and worked as a post-doctoral researcher with the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC). Dr. Cross worked in the Department of Bioengineering working to redesign the curriculum through the NSF funded Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) grant. She is a member of the ASEE Leadership Virtual Community of Practice (LVCP) that organizes and facilitates Safe Zone Training workshops. Dr. Cross has conducted workshops on managing
are fewer. A set of innovative analog and digitalcommunication experiments were introduced in [1,2] using a combination of hardware andLabView exercises. The references in [1,2] include some other communication laboratoryefforts. Proakis, Salehi, and Bauch have a text book on using MATLAB for teachingcommunication systems [3] with companion materials available on using Simulink to teachdigital modulation techniques. Giordano and Levesque have a book [4] on modeling digitalcommunication systems using Simulink. New Jersey Institute of Technology has a website [5]dedicated to their communication systems laboratory including the use of Simulink and softwaredefined radio experiments. But the above resources do not specifically address teaching
ReviewComputational ThinkingComputational thinking (CT) has gained momentum in pre-college education as these skills arenecessary for solving problems and developing a more competitive 21st century engineeringworkforce [16]. Though many CT definitions exist, Wing defines CT as “solving problems,designing systems, and understanding human behavior, by drawing on the concepts fundamentalto computer science” [9]. CT has become a prerequisite for many undertakings in the 21st centuryand is acknowledged as a foundational competency that supports the potential for creativeproblem solving and innovation across disciplines [9,17]. The benefits of CT integration in coresubjects have led countries globally to incorporate CT in their academic standards (e.g., ISTE &
: Association for Computing Machinery, Mar. 2017, pp. 513–518. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/3017680.3017781[27] P. J. Hawrylak, J. Hale, and M. Papa, “Undergraduate Educational Pathways for Developing a High-Performance Computing Workforce,” in Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2017 on Sustainability, Success and Impact, ser. PEARC17. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, Jul. 2017, pp. 1–4. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/3093338.3093355[28] J. Curtis, B. Broome, and C. Murphy-Ortega, “Avenue-E: An Innovative Student Transfer Pathway Program,” in 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings. Salt Lake City, Utah: ASEE
Paper ID #37630TEACHING EARTH SYSTEMS BEYOND THECLASSROOM: DEVELOPING A MIXED REALITY (XR)SANDBOXDamith Tennakoon Mr Damith Tennakoon is an undergraduate research assistant for the XR Sandbox Development project at GeoVA Lab under supervisor Dr. Mojgan Jadidi. He has a passion to devise, develop and apply high-tech in engineering education. In a world that is constantly evolving, he believes that through the application of physics and engineering, we can steer the spear of innovation towards sustainability and technological advancements. Damith is a driven and hands-on learner, working towards his Space
, reductionism, cool innovations to technical problems, and that’s their contribution. I’m not saying it’s not valuable or anything else I’m saying that’s the default, that’s the mindset.”The majority of the interviewees from Engineering (even those initially unsure) were able tomake connections between macroethics and/or social justice and their teaching or research. Onthe research side, Zachary (Eng) also mentioned proposals related to the environment andclimate change that consider impacts on communities, not only with the initial development butalso in the longer term community acceptance of climate-related technologies. Alex (Eng) gaveexamples related to research ethics and reporting.On the teaching side, some examples provided by
on a freely available license to WordArt.com) Commentary and Endline Survey Quotes I gained or improved on a variety of skills that will aid me in my engineering career. I feel that I developed my ability to work in a team setting and communicate effectively with team members. … I was proud of the work that we produced for our final presentation and felt that it reflected our group's efforts. I also improved my time management 1. skills as this was a very large project to complete. Finally, I felt that I improved my ability to understand the context of a problem and then use that understanding to develop innovative solutions that can be practically applied. Of
2023 semester. We expect to have10 to 15 students enrolled but will cap enrollment at 20 students for the initial offering. Ratherthan a separate laboratory section, some lecture time will be allocated for students to work ontheir code in interdisciplinary teams. These teams will also be assigned joint exercises to becompleted outside of class.The outline of our paper is as follows. The next section provides the context, motivation, andgoals for the courses. The following section details the content for the proposed courses inquantum computing. An innovation in the courses, the development of a Python-based quantumcomputer simulator, is then detailed, followed by a discussion of learning outcomes and selectedundergraduate research projects.2
productsof design drive innovation which is valued in our current neoliberal economic system to whichengineering education is coupled, and a subset of faculty simply like to teach design courses.This paper reports on early stage results of a second year course design course within anelectrical and computer engineering curriculum. The course is part of a significant curriculumreform which has been in place for two years in the ECE Department at Bucknell University.The curriculum implemented a “design thread” to ensure design taught at least once in each yearas shown in Figure 1. In part the curricular change was due to the importance engineeringstudents reported design play in their own development in a decade of responses to surveys doneas part of
likely to stay in engineering),which can be encouraged by both hearing from diverse identities and finding social relevancewithin STEM [5], [9]. Presenting engineering within a societal context can also aid in retention,as women in particular often choose engineering as a path to help people [9], [10]. Curricular andinstitutional changes, innovated with these factors in mind, can assist in making engineeringmore appealing, welcoming, and inclusive for women and URMs.Despite the urgency that disparate representation in STEM presents, history, ethics, and identity(HEI) are almost never included in graduate programs, as shown in the Appendix. Graduatestudents generally constitute the next generation of leaders in academia, industry, and policy
responses. Many engineering faculty reported that althoughstudents were initially excited about the videos, their engagement diminished over time andusing instructional videos did not necessarily translate to improved academic performance. Sincemore and more students prefer asynchronous video modules due to their flexibility [4], it isimportant to explore effective strategies to design video that can facilitate learning for diverselearners in engineering.During 2020-2021, a team of engineering faculty and educational researchers at Cal State LAconducted a collaborative research project to explore the use of an innovative instructionaldesign method called participatory design thinking (PDT) in the design process of video modules[5]. We believe that
this program that can be used from middle to high school toteach students about microcontrollers. As a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic, educators atall levels have had to shift their methods of providing instruction to include remote education. Thishas presented many challenges and has also created opportunities to attempt new approaches toengage students. This innovative solution is a breakthrough in remote education, which opens thedoor to more possibilities and opportunities.References [1] C. Sneider, C. Stephenson, B. Schafer, and L. Flick, “Computational thinking in high school science classrooms,” The Science Teacher, vol. 81, no. 5, p. 53, 2014. [2] NGSS Lead States, Next generation science standards: for states, by states
ofmain variables. The report should also include an overall description of a major producingcompany, production capacity and facilities, business performance, market position, employment,and innovation leadership. In a special report (4% of the final grade), students analyze the socialimpacts from the product (production chain) and the company (from public records ofperformance). Table 4 provides examples of the topics covered in one report regarding theproducing company.Table 4. Examples of impacts for a fertilizer producing company as evaluated by a student teamin the Reactive Process Engineering Course [8] Global The company has a worldwide presence across six continents, with more
they embark ontheir capstone projects and ultimately their career.Developing CuriosityCuriosity was encouraged in the class in lectures, mechanical dissection exercises, and curiositychallenges. In the first lecture of the class the example of the discovery of Teflon by Roy J.Plunket [Roberts 1989] was discussed in which Plunket inquisitively cut open a gas cylinder thatdid not release gas to find out the reason why. To emphasize the importance of understatingunderlying operational principles of devices, the example of piezoelectric pumps was presentedas an example of technological innovation in one area, piezoelectric membranes, impactedtechnology in other areas, pumps. Then students were assigned a task where they had to identifyan area of
Paper ID #38443Bridging the Knowledge Gap Between Design Requirements and CAD - AJointEmbedding ApproachDr. Cheng Chen, University of Georgia Cheng holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Georgia and has published nu- merous papers on topics such as computational design, geometric modeling, and engineering education. He is always seeking innovative approaches to fill knowledge gaps and to assist in solving complex de- sign issues. He is currently working on several projects to develop various natural language models for requirement management. Cheng is passionate about applying his domain expertise
subject mastery(Pulfrey 2011, Feldman 2018)). Though grades can function as an important form of feedback(Cameron 2001, Midgley 2001), grades may affect students differently in ways that contribute toinequality, and do not constitute the only possible form of feedback (Ferns 2021). In addition,grades can reduce trust and harm the relationships between students and teachers (Chamberlin2018, Tannock 2015).Grading can be a site of pedagogical innovation to promote equity and student learning (e.g.,Feldman, 2018), and ungrading is an example of such an innovation (Kohn and Blum, 2020).According to the Lafayette Center for Teaching and Learning, ungrading can be understood as“an umbrella term for any assessment that decenters the action of an
the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. After completion of her graduate studies, she worked as an environmental engineer for the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP). Her research interests include bioremediation of contaminated groundwater and soils; the fate and transport of pollutants in the environment; biodegrada- tion of industrial and municipal wastewaters; physicochemical treatment of water and wastewater treat- ment; applied microbiology in environmental engineering. Dr. Kauser Jahan has been one of the corner- stones of the College of Engineering at Rowan University. She is a leader and innovator in the area of curriculum development and has become a nationally and internationally