teaching approach, weleverage the insights of the HPL framework to explore how undergraduate engineering studentsinteract with data skills in relation to the HPL elements when reflecting on their own data skillslearning experiences. Our interview protocol, guided by the HPL framework, delves into studentperspectives on self-reflection, knowledge acquisition, and assessment related to data skills.4. METHODS4.1 Participant Recruitment and Selection.In this study conducted at a southeastern United States institution, 177 students completed arecruitment survey. All interested mechanical engineering (ME) students were automaticallyselected, as only a small number of participants were ME students. Meanwhile, interestedaerospace engineering (AE) students
science. ElaineSeymour’s work on change in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)fields identifies the locus of change as critical to its success; that which emerges bothfrom top down and bottom up is the most lasting and effective. [1] Seymour and Hewittalso identify the need for change: without it, engineering and science programs may losesome of their best students to other fields. [2]At Colorado School of Mines (CSM), undergraduate curricular reform emerged fromfaculty committees and administrative imperatives to improve education, university-wide.Between 1997 and 2001, CSM disseminated faculty mini-grants to enhance classroominnovation and adaptation. Funded proposals focused on curricular reform, betterclassroom use of technology
undergraduate students [6-8, 12].A natural and efficient way of teaching renewable energy into curriculum is the project-basedapproach, shaping the course content to local industry fields. Course content and deliverymethods should be structured to meet the demands and challenges of such a dynamic,interdisciplinary and complex applied science field. Laboratory work is a critical component ofthe engineering education, and a core component of technical programs. Unfortunately, in therenewable energy case, the equipment is expensive, in terms of acquisition and maintenance,requiring adequate space and utility access. To cope with such challenges we are proposing inthe next academic year to develop a virtual renewable energy laboratory, consisting of
‘..,,Ry~’,.:—‘ In the Course of-these projects, students are brought into close contact with engineers and engineering management in participating companies. The resulting experience is an essential~rnponent of the program. Table 2. Industrial perceptions of weaknesses in engineering graduates ● Technical arrogance ● No understanding of manufacturing processes ● A desire for complicated and “high-tech” solutions ● Lack of design capability or creativity ● Lack of appreciation for considering alternatives “ No knowledge of value engineering ● Lack of appreciation for variation ● All wanting to be analysts
in Table 2 as those to map from course learningoutcomes. During the summer and fall of 2017 the authors have been examining the learningoutcomes from every engineering technology course offered by the School of EngineeringTechnology. In the interest of conserving space we focus on the first program examined which isthe Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) program. Course learning objectives and outcomes (CLOOs) for 40 undergraduate courses in theMechanical Engineering Technology program (MET) were mapped to 20 competencies. A Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2018, American Society for Engineering Education
global context. Sincethen, an introductory course on sustainability has been added to the curriculum and the studentshave founded a student chapter that has begun to participate in organizing the outreach to apartner community in a developing region.In a new course sequence on disaster-mitigating design and practice, the undergraduate civilengineering and architecture students are working together in entrepreneurially oriented teams.Faculty members and representatives from industry and from foreign aid organizations arecollaborating in guiding the courses. The course activities address several accreditationoutcomes, have been structured to expose students to all six levels of Bloom’s taxonomy ofeducational objectives, and accommodate different
Achievement for the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. Holding dual positions, Dr. Walton’s responsibilities range from the recruitment and retention of a talented and diverse graduate student population to the management of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs, like the NSF-funded Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP), aim- ing at increasing the number of underrepresented minority students successfully completing high quality degree programs in STEM disciplines. A product of one of the very programs that she currently directs, LSAMP, Shannon holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, a master’s degree in Safety Engineering, and a doctorate in
Paper ID #12167What makes an undergraduate course impactful? An examination of stu-dents’ perceptions of instructional environmentsDr. Alexandra Emelina Coso, Georgia Institute of Technology Alexandra Coso is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech’s Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning. She completed her Ph.D. in 2014 in Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to her time at Georgia Tech, she received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and her M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include graduate student experiences in engineering programs, engineering
demands of employers, but how do schools respond? A report from theNational Research Council [32] cites a disconnect between colleges’ response to the industry-demands for STEM qualified workers and prescribes recommendations. While the report focuseson the business-university disconnect, we can use the information to ask what universities seekin incoming students. Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson partake in a world-wide outreach programto analyze how well minority/disadvantaged students are prepared for STEM jobs in theirBridge-to-Employment (BTE) program [33]. The results are mixed, but the partnershipestablishes a relation where business/industry guides career-training for disadvantaged youth anda broader impact is potential with a shared
student programs. He has published and presented widely in areas of surface science, electronic materials and processes, project management, and industry/university relations. He holds 4 patents and has received awards for excellence in technical innovation (IBM), technical authorship (IBM), teaching (University of Colorado), and scholarship (National Science Foundation).John Bugado, National University John Bugado has a MBA Degree from San Diego State University with a specialization in Technology Management, and a BS Degree in Mathematics with a minor in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University. John is currently enjoying his 20th year at NU, the last 6 years as a
of Dentistry. She also serves as the Statewide Director of the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) in Indiana. LSAMP Indiana is a National Science Foundation program that works to increase the number of undergraduate underrepresented minority students receiving degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The alliance includes eight universities, providing a variety of programs for students. Shaw is a native of Gary, Indiana, and received her bachelor’s degree from Purdue University. She later graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Doctor of Dental Medicine and a Master's in Public Health. Shaw began her professional career in higher
of the intellectual merit and the broader impactstatements. The Key findings from these statements are:The first component of this project will be the implementation of a REU program that willprovide a rich research experience and professional development opportunities to a largepopulation of under-served minority students enrolled in the 13+ engineering programs andtheir partner community colleges that have been unable to participate in traditional summerresident research programs. It builds on the strength of an existing 13+ institution Engineeringconsortium. The REU/RET Megasite will be built around the Smart and Connected City researchtheme, which will encompass the following research strengths in the host sites: Cyber Security,Power
evident that these skill sets, in particular entrepreneurially-minded education, arevaluable in preparing undergraduate engineering students to join the complex, technology-enabled, global 21st-century workforce [10]. In addition to integration into classrooms byindividual faculty members, programs like the NSF-funded I-Corps™ for Learning program (I-Corps™ L) have supported this shift in curriculum and aim to improve the scalability ofeducational innovations by leveraging the entrepreneurial mindset [10].The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) values EM for its potential to graduateengineering students who go on to “create personal, economic, and societal value through alifetime of meaningful work” [10]. The EM is often discussed in
Session 2160 On Reform of Engineering Education in the Arab Gulf States: A Focus on Pre-Engineering “Prep-Program” By W. Akili Professor of Civil Engineering (retired)Introduction:Engineering education in the Arab Gulf States (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, United ArabEmirates, Qatar, and Sultanate of Oman) faces many challenges today. Changes in the externalenvironment (e.g. reduced funding, increased costs, demands by industry for well-seasonedgraduates, and rapid advances in technology) coupled with the
others in both teaching-learning situations and work. The training plan created in PAC project has been designed to foster student interaction through the use of various tools in high quality virtual environments, enhancing cooperative group work. ● Training has to be considered as a lifelong process. The PAC project contributes to university curriculums, since the designed training plan can be incorporated to both regulated studies at Undergraduate and Master degree levels. Moreover, it could also be useful for non-regulated studies. ● Another factor to consider is globalization, which has to be understood not only in market and economic aspects, but also in a broader educational aspect. Education
graduatestudents were in the age range of 22-291. Naturally, statistics will vary across fields, sincepathways vary by academic field, and in some fields, such as education, it is expected thatgraduate work will follow significant work experience. Furthermore, these statistics will varyover time, since a person’s educational decisions are affected by many external factors, includinggeneral economic conditions and the job market in a given field. In the mechanical engineeringdepartment of the University of Michigan, there are currently 57 students with a gap of threeyears or more between the completion of their undergraduate program and enrollment ingraduate school. Given that the University of Michigan graduates over 150 mechanicalengineering graduate
industrial design, business and start up experience.The inspiration for High Technology Venture Start-up, came from the Stanford TechnologyVentures Program and The University of Michigan’s Program in Manufacturing. Both of theseprograms provide a blend of entrepreneurship, business, and engineering. Since our institution isa small four-year college with an undergraduate focus, providing the level of experience studentsat these schools get is impossible. We tried, however, to distill some elements into a three-hour,semester-long class. The most important elements for us to incorporate into the class were:working with a real company that designs, engineers and supports real products;multidisciplinary teams; and, developing a real product for real
program that introduces pre-college students to acampus environment while providing them with a glimpse of the life of an undergraduate studentpursuing a technical major.Engineering Camp was first offered at Bucknell University in July 2008 with support from theNSF (as a “broader impact” part of a larger project)6. In this pilot year the program welcomed 268th–10th grade students aged 13-16 (10 girls, 16 boys); all but one were from local area schools,and many were from disadvantaged rural schools (schools in areas with a high percentage oflow-income families and/or having limited course offerings in upper-level mathematics andscience in the high school). Since its inception, camp has grown to incorporate three tracks(rising 8-10th grade “rookies
perspectives of creativity research—internal andexternal approaches—situate creativity work from either an individual or individual-in-contextstandpoint, respectively.4 The present investigation views returners’ experience from anindividual-in-context perspective because the extent to which participants engage in engineeringpractice before and after enrolling in doctoral programs varies by individual and milieu.Amabile1 conceptualized the componential framework of creativity (CFoC) to outline factorsthat affect an individual’s engagement with the creative process. After refinement, theframework shifted away from the individual, and toward an individual-in-context stance, whicheventually became known as the CMoC.2 Ultimately, the CMoC evolved to
teaching and uses active learning techniques to help students achieve an expert-like level of thinking. She guides students in bridging the gap between facts and usable knowledge to solve complex engineering problems.Prof. Curt Schurgers, University of California, San Diego Curt Schurgers is a Teaching Professor in the UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research and teaching are focused on course redesign, active learning, and project-based learning. He also co-directs a hands-on undergraduate research program called Engineers for Exploration, in which students apply their engineering knowledge to problems in exploration and conservation.Minju Kim, University of California, San Diego Minju Kim is a
MountainCommunity College, and United Tribes Technical College) in the State worked together toconceive, design, and implement different STEM-enhancement activities for the tribal collegeand reservation high and middle school students1. This effort culminated in continued fundingfrom the North Dakota Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NDEPSCoR)of the NSF, since 2004 under the title “Nurturing American Tribal Undergraduates in Researchand Education (NATURE).” A research component, Tribal College Undergraduate ResearchMentoring Program (TCURMP), was added to NATURE in 2007 as a pilot program. It was laterincluded as a regular component of NATURE 2, 3. Current information on the program can beobtained from the website: http://www.ndsu.edu
Experience for Community College Students: Providing Connections from Community College to the Four-Year Institution Page 26.1576.2 The Summer Undergraduate Research Bridge Experience for Community College Students: Providing Connections from Community College to the Four-Year InstitutionIntroductionThe New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation Summer Community College Opportunityfor Research Experience (New Mexico AMP SCCORE), evolving in 2005 from a former NewMexico AMP program, assists community college students with their transition and acclimationto the culture and research of the university. The impressive outcomes of the former
- ufacturing and embedded intelligence systems.Dr. Timothy J. Jacobs, Texas A&M University Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Director of Interdisci- plinary Engineering for Undergraduate and Graduate Programs.Charles M. Wolf D.Eng, PE, BCEE, Texas A&M University Dr. Charles ”Chuck” Wolf is a Professor of Practice in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University and Director of Texas A&M’s Doctor of Engineering program. He has spent the majority of his career in progressive industry leadership positions from project engineering and management to client development and organizational leadership. He has led teams in the delivery of
explore ways inwhich Cloud Computing technologies can be leveraged to improve classroom instruction, hasbeen developed to support the educational component of the NSF CAREER grant awarded in2011 to Dr. Reza Curtmola at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. The goal of the programwas twofold: first, to expose high school teachers to the concept of Cloud Computing and thetechnologies associated with it, and second, to help teachers develop curriculum units based onCloud Computing technologies that can be integrated into different high-school subjects.Sixteen high-school teachers participated in the program. The participants’ teaching areasspanned a wide array of subjects ranging from Computer Technology, Math, Physics andChemistry, to Human
research laboratories. Academic partners are often able toimmediately offer internship placements as research assistants in applied research laboratories oncampus, and local collaborative research projects with industrial partners can pave the way intocorporate contexts. In short, program development strategy should prioritize academicpartnerships, leverage these to place initial cohorts of students, then supplement these withindependently developed internship opportunities over time.Focus on reciprocity to stimulate collaboration on internships. Many academic partners may behesitant to offer help on placing foreign students in internships, especially if local degreeprograms require an internship placement for their own students. GSEP offers
University. The University of East Anglia has been delivering a ‘Rotation PhD’in which students visit different labs in 10-week long research mini-projects, directed bydifferent supervisors and trained in different techniques. The ‘Integrated PhD’ at theUniversity of Southampton has offered 3 laboratory rotation projects after which the studentis awarded an MRes (Master of Research) and they then spend 3 more years deepening theirexpertise towards a PhD degree. These approaches have been successful over the years anddemonstrate an appetite for very varied, skills-training focused programs that provide theresearcher with broader knowledge and varied competencies that prepare them foremployment. However, these programs are typically found in
+ years (Figure 3). Finallyat the Ford Rouge Factory, the students observed modern manufacturing in a plant that serves asa leader in green industrial sustainability. Page 25.364.7 Figure 2. Student fabricating a Model T at the Henry Ford Museum – a hands-on experience of the changes in production over the past 100 years.Figure 3. Students at Greenfield Village where they were able to encounter the environs of American innovators such as Edison and the Wright brothers.The third day was held at the Benson Ford Research Center. The Henry Ford has manyextensive educational outreach programs, and our camp participants were
Paper ID #19060Institutionalizing Campus Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programmingby Optimizing a Faculty Grantmaking Process: A Case StudyVictoria Matthew, VentureWell Victoria Matthew is Senior Program Officer for Faculty Development at VentureWell, where she plays a lead role in the Pathways to Innovation Program, Epicenter’s faculty development and engagement strategy. She designs in-person and online convenings, engages experts, and curates content that fosters the Pathways faculty goals of integrating entrepreneurship and innovation into undergraduate engineering. Prior to joining VentureWell, Victoria worked for
students participated in a research seminar, as in Table 2, to help reinforce the terminalend of the pipeline. Graduate school faculty, coordinators, and students assisted ECSE III withscholarly writing, research protocol, and analytical co-curricular activities (e.g., scavenger huntthroughout UWM libraries, tour of an industrial research facility). That effort helped ECSE IIIstudents prepare a year earlier for the Sophomore Research Experience b (SRE) program. RonaldE. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program interns shared their projects with ECSE IIIstudents in a mutual learning exchange, also. The Committee on Institutional CooperationSummer Research Opportunity Program (CIC/SROP) participants explained to ECSE IIIstudents how to prepare
, and lessons learned.Program OverviewThe goal of the KickStarter program is to improve the recruitment and retention of Latinxstudents in STEM fields and careers by enhancing CC-HSIs’ participation and competitivenessin NSF-funded STEM initiatives.Primary objectives for KickStarter are to: 1. Increase the number of CC-HSIs who compete successfully as lead grantees on NSF projects; 2. Strengthen CC-HSIs’ STEM infrastructure (i.e., their capacity to increase recruitment and retention success rates among Latinx students); and 3. Engage CC-HSIs with a broader range of partners in K-12, industry, four-year institutions, and researchers to help sustain STEM programs and improve CC-HSI federal program competitiveness.Key