to address the world’s toughest problems and work toward a sustainable future, with particular interests in interdisciplinary learning, real-world skill development, and faculty decision-making. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Cycles of Implementation and Improvement: How Reflection and Feedback Drive EBIP UseAbstractThis conference research paper highlights that even though Evidence-Based InstructionalPractices (EBIPs) are proven to enhance student learning in engineering education, many facultystruggle with their long-term integration. Reflective practices and feedback, though crucial forrefining teaching strategies, have been underexplored in the context
for student reflection and have achieved some level ofintegration and/or embedding into a program [15]. These open-ended events were intended tobuild intrinsic motivation in students through the three mechanisms identified in self-determination theory (viz. satisfying the needs for competence, relatedness, and autonomy) [9]by developing student self-efficacy in engineering design, introducing them to their discipline,classmates, and instructors, and connecting their classroom learning to real-world problems.The event described in this paper is similar to the concept of “designettes” but was of longerduration at 12-16 hours of student contact time [18], and focussed on the latter implementationphases of design, with correspondingly less
fabrication and testing. Teams are required to meet separately each week with theSponsor point-of-contact (known as the Client) and an experienced advisor not affiliated with theSponsor (known as the Team Mentor).Because of the real-world nature of capstone projects, students encounter safety hazards ofvarious types, some of which can pose serious dangers. There is a limited amount of literaturefocusing on safety in experiential learning courses. An extensive search found only three papersaddressing safety in capstone or related design/build courses [4] – [6], with the most recent beingseven years old. As our program grew, we recognized that the safety procedures we had in placedid not fully address the types of hazards students could encounter as
project, design, and test engineer as well as a consultant to industry. His research interests include the application of digital signal processing in energy systems and computer networks. He also has deep interest in engineering education and the use of technology to advance the learning experience of undergraduate students. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Challenges with Online Teaching and Learnings for the Post- Pandemic ClassroomAbstractAt the start of 2020, safety concerns stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic causededucational institutions around the world to rapidly transition to
engineering design and theimportance of protecting human life. Thus, we observe that, for those students who saw thedesign task as related to the events of Hurricane Katrina, knowledge of these events eliciteddesign thinking beyond the narrow confines of purely technical considerations. One practicalimplication emerging from this work is that framing or associating design problem-solving withcertain kinds of real-world events might improve engineering students’ capacity for broad think-ing and concern for others—the kinds of competencies needed for addressing issues of sustain-ability, ethics, and social justice. Future work includes analysis of interview transcripts fromthree other institutions where these design tasks and post-task interviews were
education.Keywords: cross-cultural study; creativity; culture of design education; cultural motivation.1. IntroductionStudents from different backgrounds carry with them different culturally-constructed values,practices and knowledge that are relevant to their learning of engineering. Students are moreengaged and more likely to be successful when their cultural ideas, practices and knowledge areacknowledged and supported in classrooms and college communities. But what if their values andunderstandings are repeatedly ignored or discouraged (Felder & Brent, 2005; Choi, 2010; Medin& Bang, 2014; Rivard, cited in Kizilcec, et al., 2017)? In the U.S., we think about “change lives;change organizations; change the world” (Stanford Graduate School of
awareness of themselves and the worldaround them, students should feel empowered to make career related decisions. WPRIparticipants indicated students are “working with career coaches on reflecting about their journeyand what they're interested in.”How: Career services provides an optional service to support and empower students.Though participants noted that some people, including some parents, believe the career servicesoffered should be a required part of the undergraduate curriculum, the participants believed itshould be optional to emulate real-world experiences students will encounter after leavingcollege. “We force you to meet with your academic adviser, we force you to go to class in order to get a credit, and we force you to do
real‐world problems addressing the SDGs in Pakistan. The results shown in Figure 3 illustrates that overall USPCAS‐W addresses the six targets of the Water SDG, but each individual degree track does not provide comprehensive coverage. This is an identified area to continue to address in the future to further infuse Water SDG coverage, especially how to translate to actions from graduates and the professional communities they enter. At the completion of the program, student learning in outcomes tied to SDG6 will be assessed. Figure 3. Four degree programs coverage of Water SDG targets. The summary results from the 2016 review of four USPCAS‐W joint research groups is shown in Figure 4
fit with Dyer et al.’s model while maintainingacceptable statistical fit.Selecting the Items – ISE.5 ScaleThe selection of the individual items that make up the ISE.5 was guided by the five-factorconfirmatory factor analysis (Table 2). Three-items, each representing a factor were obviouschoices: Factor 1 - Experimenting E.1 (factor loading .83), Factor 2 – Idea Networking I.4(factor loading 1.00) and Factor 3 – Questioning Q.1 (factor loading .97). Factor 4 had threeitems with very similar loadings, so we chose Observing Q.2 (Generate new ideas by observingthe world - factor loading .69) because it appeared be to more applicable to a more generalundergraduate perspective than the other items that referenced “products and services.” Finally
semiclassical asymptotics, scattering theory and Maslov operator theory, as well as academic integrity in international engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 The Moral Foundations of Chinese Engineering Students: A Preliminary InvestigationAbstractTechnology-related disasters and scandals have resulted in concerns regarding the safety and ethicsof Chinese companies and practitioners. Although China now graduates and employs more science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors than any other country in the world,ethics is not yet a central component of engineering education. Simply importing foreign curricula,however, would be
.© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Teaching Inquiry-Based STEM in the Elementary Grades Using Manipulatives: A SySTEMic Solution ReportIntroductionYoung learners come to school holding myriad conceptions about how the world works,particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM .1-3Further, young students’ conceptions are commonly based on fragmented knowledge or naïveperspectives that contribute to the importance of early exposure to and practice with scrutinizingsituations scientifically.1,3 An important part of helping children gain the skills necessary toapproach situations scientifically involves preparing them to conduct scientific inquiry.3 Thedevelopment of
/science courses in the engineering program. It is believed that a well-conceived properly run pre-engineering “prep- program” would provide an excellent venue forrejuvenation and preparation of students entering engineering in the Arab Gulf States.In this endeavor, the author draws on his own observations as a faculty member in the Region(recently in Qatar and earlier in Saudi Arabia) along with views expressed by colleagues, ex-students, alumni and others in the same arena.Background:Engineering education in the Arab Middle East had its early start shortly after World War One.Colleges of engineering- or Schools of Engineering as they were referred to- were founded inCairo and Alexandria, Egypt and in Beirut, Lebanon. By the end of World War Two
innovative, and offers ideas on how to enable them to do so.Views of the National Academy of Engineering and various futurists are used to showthat the world is experiencing a shift from the knowledge age, with its left-brainfoundation, to other more demanding possibilities such as the conceptual, opportunity,wicked-problems, and Grand Challenges ages, which also require strong right-braincapabilities.The commonality among various future scenarios is the need for whole-brain thinking.Maintaining U.S. global leadership, enhancing national security, achieving personal andorganizational success and significance, and functioning effectively as a people-servingprofession will increasingly require right-brain individual and group qualities such
children-produced drawings of the “engineer at work” and theiranalysis is provided as a means to explore how children-produced drawings can serve as aninterpretive and analytic tool. The paper demonstrates how children-produced drawings canbe used in research as empirical data that can be analyzed to make sense of our world incontext.Just as subject-produced drawings have been used to study children’s attitudes towardsprofessions in science (Chambers, 1983; Fort & Varney, 1989), researchers have used theDraw-an-Engineer assessment, an adaptation of the Draw-a-Scientist test, as a tool toexamine children’s attitudes and knowledge of engineers and engineering (Cunningham &Knight, 2004; Cunningham, Lachapelle & Lindgren-Streicher, 2005
byfar the largest pre-engineering curriculum throughout the United States with a presence in over6500 schools nationally.10 Since its conception in 1997, PLTW rapidly expanded and grew, tothe point where it now covers all states and the District of Columbia. One of the core claimsfrom PLTW is that by including real-world STEM problems into the pre-college curriculum,these disciplinary topics will become interesting to students. As they wrote in a recent brochure: PLTW EngineeringTM is more than just another high school engineering program. It is about applying science, technology, engineering, and math through a project-based, hands-on approach to solve complex, open-ended problems in a real-world context. Students focus
approach that involves assessing the applicability andrelevance of threat scenarios that a system can face once it is deployed in the real-worldenvironment [16]. It is a systematic approach to identifying, mapping, and mitigating design-level security problems (Soares Cruzes et al., 2018). It helps identify and describe security flaws,access points, and appropriate security requirements during the software development process toensure that the software can be made capable of mitigating possible threats [17]. Threat modelingusually takes place during the early stages of the software development lifecycle [18], [19] as ithelps fix issues during the development rather than rework the design after it has been deployed.Fundamentally, threat modeling
. Likewise, these regions significantly affect Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), butthey do not constitute a suitable space for international collaborative learning projects. Thegeographical distribution of MOOCs follows the same trend as COIL projects, as 78% of MOOCsoffered in 2021 are launched by North American and Asian platforms (excluding Chinese MOOCplatforms), among which Coursera, EDXand Swayan (Asiatic) stand out as the most popular, therest of MOOCs are offered by European platforms, among which FutureLearn from the UnitedKingdom highlight is the most outstanding. South America and Central America are geographicregions reporting fewer MOOC application cases. This trend could stem from low interest incollaboration between North American
applications of the 5 parts of the Inquiry to teaching follow. (i) Question: To initiate discussion around a course concept, the instructor will ask the buddingengineers what they already know and why they believe the learning matters. Student questions and priorknowledge are elicited to understand the independent insights. (ii) Predict: Given that the necessity of a concept’s existence is established, how would theconcept apply to real world examples? (At this stage, the instructor has not yet fully articulated theconcept as they would have had in a Transmission method setting. The onus is on the students to discussamongst themselves and come up with a rationale to apply to solve the given problems). (iii) Experiment: The
mechanics. His major areas of research interest centers on pavement engineering, sustainable infrastructure development, soil mechanics, physical and numerical modeling of soil structures, computational geo-mechanics, con- stitutive modeling, pavement design, characterization and prediction of behavior of pavement materials, linear and non-linear finite element applications in geotechnical engineering, geo-structural systems anal- ysis, structural mechanics, sustainable infrastructure development, and material model development. He had been actively involved in planning, designing, supervising, and constructing many civil engineering projects, such as roads, storm drain systems, a $70 million water supply scheme which is
the University of Kentucky (UK) first as an undergraduate research intern and then as a graduate student performing his doctoral research at the UK Center for Applied En- ergy Research (CAER) and at the University of Alicante (Spain). After obtaining his Ph.D. in 2008, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) prior to returning to UK, where he now holds the positions of Program Manager at CAER and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the De- partment of Chemistry. His current research focuses on the application of heterogeneous catalysis to the production of renewable fuels and chemicals, with emphasis on the upgrading of algae and waste oils to drop-in hydrocarbon fuels. His synergistic
ScienceDepartments (NSF RED) grant, are developing a new pedagogical framework where theemphasis is on connecting key concepts across the three main courses using practical real-world applications. This framework is referred to as a knowledge integration (KI) framework[5]-[7]. In this KI framework, the instructors of the three aforementioned courses worktogether to develop learning activities and cognitive exercises which enable students torecognize the interconnectedness between the concepts of the three courses. Such a frameworkproperly contextualizes the topics in each course to make the student learning deeper and moremeaningful.However, in order to achieve this benefit of the KI framework, students must be able toanalyze, synthesize, and evaluate new
students perceive computing andengineering positively and appreciate diverse applications, integrating engineering into theirareas of interest and expertise.To further promote inclusion and diversity, it is important to incorporate activities such asworkshops and talks [6] [7]. Hira et al. [6] emphasize the importance of broadening the contextof engineering activities to increase inclusivity and accessibility, allowing students to work onpersonally meaningful projects. Similarly, Noel et al. [7] emphasize the importance ofincorporating art and engineering workshops as a means to foster inclusion and build confidencewithin makerspaces. By integrating artistic elements into engineering projects, these workshopsencourage students to tap into their
learning experiences designed toengage the students in an iterative design process with real-world applications.Each summer, the College of Engineering hosts various weeklong camps for middle and highschool students with a particular theme or engineering focus. During the summer of 2023, theDeLaMare Library Makerspace supported this program by hosting several design thinking andrapid prototyping sessions to accompany the already robust camp curriculum.Over the course of three 1-hour sessions, students worked in small groups to explore human-centered design principles and fabricate a prototype. The first session was an introduction to thedesign thinking process and the tools available in the makerspace. Each team explored the themeof accessibility
approach offered byMacCrimmon and Taylor identified complexity as a limitation in problem formulation, andprovided a review of decision strategies to overcome it.36 These include: 1) determining theproblem boundaries, or examining the assumptions; 2) examining changes, or focusing on anyalterations in the problem description; 3) factoring into sub-problems using methods such asmorphological analysis37 and attribute listing38, and 4) focusing on controllable components, orselective focusing.39Fogler and LeBlanc’s40 textbook on Engineering Problem Solving also proposed severalstrategies to assist in defining the “real problem” underlying a given engineering problem. Theseinclude: 1) employing critical thinking questions to identify assumptions and
six years [4]. Explicitlyfocusing on engineering and STEM at the transfer juncture is essential because it expandsopportunities to recruit more diverse students into engineering careers, it explores engineeringarticulation and transfer barriers, and can inform curriculum and student service needs withinengineering transfer programs. Given that engineering students transfer differently and benefit from more pre-transferpreparation, focus on the engineering transfer process is vital[5]. However, existing researchdoes not provide an adequate understanding of how to increase engineering transfer success.Developing a better understanding of the application of the theory of transfer student capital inengineering transfer will increase
, both from Cornell University. He joined Virginia Tech in 2013 as the Head of the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and was named the Roanoke Electric Steel Professor in 2016. Prior to joining VT, he was a professor of ECE at the University of New Mexico (UNM) from 1994 to 2013, and most recently the Interim Department Chair and the Endowed Chair Professor in Microelectronics there. Before 1994, Dr. Lester worked as an engineer for the General Electric Electronics Laboratory in Syracuse, New York for 6 years where he worked on transistors for mm-wave applications. There in 1986 he co-invented the first Pseudomorphic HEMT, a device that was later highlighted in the Guinness Book of World
. Ultimately, her work aims to build bridges between those designing and those being designed for.Patrick Hancock Patrick I. Hancock is a Doctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment (ESE). His research focuses on developing collaborative engineering practices that facilitate processes and generate outcomes that meet community definitions of social justice. Patrick’s work has appeared in Nature Sustainability, American Psychologist and iScience.Bethany Gordon (PhD Candidate) (University of Virginia) Bethany Gordon is an incoming assistant professor at the University of Washington (Fall 2022). Her research is focused on applications of behavioral science to improve the
knowledgebegins, so too does the knowledge construction process. However, the learner of knowledge doesnot necessarily know how to use this new knowledge to solve real-world problems, particularlyin the engineering field.In knowledge construction, critical thinking and logical thinking are important goals forstudents’ learning processes. Students need to learn to explain their opinions, and also toelaborate the ways in which they carry out tasks and to solve problems in the tasks given [5], [6].However, learning is subjective and different for each person. How can knowledge constructionbe adapted for online social learning environments to cater for individual students? Instructionalscaffolding plays a crucial role in the online learning environment.The
note addresses, short-courses, and service and leadership on numerous technical committees. Bhatia’s extensive research has achieved both breadth and depth, ranging from the material characterization of soils to the application of geosynthetics and natural mate- rials in waste containment, road and building construction, and erosion control. She has held numerous offices such as Vice President of the North American Geosynthetics Society (NAGS) and member of the prestigious Technical Committees Council and International Activities Committee Task Force of the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Her collaborative research is further evidenced by her new vision which brought together the