for Rural and American Indian Students Entering Computer Science Via Storytelling” PI: Brittany Fasy, Assistant Professor, Computer Science NSF Division of Research on Learning NSF Innovative Technology Experiences of Students and Teachers (iTEST) Award No. 1657553, $1,166,000 • “Designing a Middle Grades Spatial Skills Curriculum” PI: Nick Lux, Associate Professor, Education NSF Division of Research on Learning NSF Discovery Research K-12 (DRK12) Award No. 1720801, $445,499 • “Fostering Effective Oral Communication Skills for STEM Graduate Students” PI: Shannon Willoughby, Assistant Professor, Physics NSF Division of Graduate Education NSF Research Traineeship
Structures Technology, Structural Control and Health Monitoring and Innovative Engineering Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Dr. Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University Dr. Cheng Chen is currently an associate professor in the school of engineering at San Francisco State Paper ID #24126Dr. Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University Hao Jiang received the B.S. degree in materials sciences from Tsinghua University, China, in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego, in 2000. Hao Jiang has been with San Francisco State
Multi Objec- tive Control Algorithms (I-MOCA), the Traffic Responsive Iterative Urban-Control Model for Pattern- matching and Hypercube Optimal Parameters Setup (TRIUMPH OPS), the Multi Attribute Decision- making Optimizer for Next-generation Network-upgrade and Assessment (MADONNA), and the Safety and Mobility Agent-based Reinforcement-learning Traffic Simulation Add-on Module (SMART SAM). He was also one of the key developers of the dilemma zone protection Detection Control System (D-CS) that was selected as one of the seven top research innovations and findings in the state of Texas for the year 2002. Dr. Abbas served as the chair of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) traffic engineering council
current director for the Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER) which examines innovative and effective engineering education practices as well as classroom technologies that advance learning and teaching in engineering. He is also working on National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects exploring engineering design thinking. His areas of research include engineering design thinking, adult learning cognition, engineering education professional development and technical training. He has extensive international experience working on technical training and engineering educaton projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and U.S. Department of Labor, USAID. Countries where he has worked include
Education and Outreach (CEEO) “works in the areas of outreach, research, and tool development to make engineering and design accessible and feasible in P12 classrooms” [3] . In this study, funded by an internal grant from the CEEO’s innovation fund, we have developed a game that integrates and scaffolds content knowledge of engineering design while allowing students to playfully engage in problem solving and teamwork skills. Engineering education researchers have worked with P12 teachers to understand their mental models of engineering and how professional development can help them identify
Engineering. Dr. Bilec’s research program focuses on the built environment, life cycle assessment, sustainable healthcare, and energy impacts. She is interested in improving system-level en- vironmental performance of buildings, while developing a deeper understanding of indoor environmental quality, occupant impacts, and energy use. She is the Principal Investigator of a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research project, NSF EFRI-Barriers, Understanding, Integration – Life cycle Devel- opment (BUILD). As the associate director of education outreach in the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, Pitt’s center for green design, she translates research to community outreach programs and develops sustainable
-on prototyping for small scale,innovative projects. The space opened in January 2016 and is meant to support close to 7000undergraduate engineering and visual art students.As with many maker spaces, there can be a queue for the 3D printers since each job can run manyhours. One objective of this project was to communicate to students how many 3D printers are inuse without requiring them to come into the maker space. Also we wanted to create a “buzz” aboutactivity going on in the space, and increase awareness of the maker space among the students.While we could have simply posted 3D printer activity to a webpage, we wanted to use a methodof communication that highlighted making. Our approach was inspired by Natalie Jeremijenko’sart display
program toward new ABETstandards. The methods which were ranked the highest in compatibility with new ABETstandards, based on faculty reports, are increasing computer simulations, application exercises,case studies, open-ended problems, design projects, and use of groups in class [1].Recognizing this reality, this project, while incorporating active learning strategies that werealready shown to be effective in other institutions, has taken an innovative approach in designingthe course through integrating a variety of best practices and instructional activities with anemphasis on providing rich work-related experience for students. The distinctive features of thecourse includes (1) applied software training, (2) lab experiments, (3) fieldtrip to
. Orion, N., Ben-Chaim, D. & Kali, Y. (1997). Relationship between earth science education and spatial visualization. Journal of Geoscience Education 45: 129-132.14. Kell, Harrison, J., Lubinski, D., Benbow, C. P., & Steiger, J. H. (2013). Ceativity and Technical Innovation: Spatial Ability’s Unique Role. Psychological Science, 24.9, 1831- 1836. http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/07/10/0956797613478615, DOI: 10.1177/095679761347861515. Jones, S. & Burnett, G., (2008). Spatial ability and learning to program. Human Technology, Vol. 4 (1), pp. 47-61.16. Wai, J., Lubinski, D., & Benbow, C. P. (2009). Spatial ability for STEM domains: Aligning over 50 years of cumulative psychological knowledge solidifies its
Teaching.Bozeman, B., & Boardman, C. (2003). Managing the new multipurpose, multidiscipline university research center: Institutional innovation in the academic community. Washington, DC: IBM Endowment for the Business of Government.Bozeman, B., & Boardman, C. (2004). The NSF engineering research centers and the university– industry research revolution: A brief history featuring an interview with Erich Bloch. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 29(3-4), 365-375.Campbell, T. A., & Campbell, D. E. (1997). Faculty/student mentor program: Effects on academic performance and retention. Research in Higher Education, 38(6), 727-742.Chao, G. T., Walz, P., & Gardner, P. D. (1992). Formal and informal mentorships
andpolicies. In addition to this inter-institutional variety, travel abroad, co-op education, and exchangeprograms are considered student swirl (Borden, 2004). Finally, vertical transfer (moving from a2Y to a 4Y institution) and lateral transfer (moving from 4Y to 4Y institution) can result in loss ofcredit and increased time to degree completion (Shealy, Brawner, Mobley, & Layton, 2013).The Texas A&M-Chevron Engineering Academies (Academies) are a transition partnership withTexas 2Y minority serving institutions (MSIs), all of which also carry Hispanic Serving Institution(HSI) designation. This innovative partnership is built on an intentional co-enrollment programdesigned for students to pursue an engineering, engineering technology, or
State University in 1989. Dr. Lowell maintains a re- search program in directed energy weed control. She mentors undergraduate students in funded research projects who have gone on to present at local, state and national conferences.Dr. Abiodun Fasoro, Central State University Dr. Fasoro is an Assistant Professor of Manufacturing Engineering at Central State University, Wilber- force, OH. He is also the coordinator of CSU’s Additive Manufacturing and Rapids Prototyping Labora- tory. Dr. Fasoro is the Program Director of the Verizon Innovative Learning Program directed by Central State University. Prior to joining CSU, Dr. Fasoro was a Research Engineer at Owens Corning’s Global R&D center in Granville, OH. Dr
Station. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He was an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. At Rose-Hulman, he co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, which was recognized in 1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He served as Project Director a Na- tional Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized innovative
forthe growth and vitality of our labor force and economy need to be particularly recognized. Whenan economic underclass becomes the majority, the class division between the embarrassinglywealthy and the unacceptably poor not only caused alienation, resentment, and social unrest, butalso will affect the sustainability of economic prosperity (Greenhalgh, 2014).Promoting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) The innovation and advancement in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(STEM) is critical for America to ensure its leadership (Commerce Blog, 2012). AlthoughSTEM employment makes up a small fraction of total employment, only 1 in 18 workers or 7.6million people held STEM jobs. STEM positions grew rapidly from
, including the “backwardsdesign” of the course learning outcomes and the arrangement of the course into 5 modules and43 lessons has been described earlier (Parker et al., 2016). This paper presents the developmentof 12 lessons in the Fundamentals module. The innovation of this process is this: the authors areunaware of any other new course that has been collaboratively created by a community ofscholars located across the US.Work to DateThe Center for Infrastructure Transformation and Education (CIT-E) is a community of civil andenvironmental engineering faculty members representing more than 30 institutions interested inthe scholarship of infrastructure education. CIT-E activities have evolved in a short period oftime, starting with sharing
than 5. Multipleinterview times and multiple interviewers will be utilized as necessary. The total interviewtime should be less than 30 minutes.Objective: To gain insight and gage if applicant has the necessary resilience for engineeringat The Citadel and whether or not they will be an asset to our classes.Questions:1. Where are you from and something interesting about yourself.2. Why have you selected engineering as a potential major?3. What major are you considering and why?4. What other schools are you considering and why?5. Why are you interested in a military school and specifically why The Citadel?6. What are you career goals?7. What is a great engineering innovation in the past 100 years and why?Recommendation (Name in Order of
. E. 2008. CII Research Needs: An Academic Perspective. Construction Industry Institute. Houston, Texas US< https://www. construction-institute. org/scriptcontent/rtc2008_acl. pdf>(date accessed: 06 April 2010).BRUNDIERS, K. & WIEK, A. 2011. Educating students in real-world sustainability research: vision and implementation. Innovative Higher Education, 36, 107-124.DANCZ, C., KETCHMAN, K., BURKE, R., HOTTLE, T., PARRISH, K., BILEC, M., & LANDIS, A, 2016. Utilizing Civil Engineering Senior Design Capstone Projects to Evaluate Students Sustainability Education Across Engineering Education. Manuscript submitted for publication.ELZOMOR, M., MANN, C., PARRISH, K. & CHESTER, M. 2015. Positioning Students
holds a M.S. and B.S in Computer Science with a concentration in software engineering from the same university. Her primary research interests are in the areas of low- power high performance digital systems design, asynchronous design, self-timed digital system design and STEM education. As a result of her work, she has numerous peer reviewed journal and conference publications. She recently authored a book entitled ”Low Power Self-Timed Size Optimization for an Input Data Distribution,” which explores innovative techniques to reduce power consumption for portable electronic devices. She was recently awarded the 2016 Chair’s award for Rookie Researcher of the year in the Computer System Technology department. Dr
comparable to the overall university population.General Program InformationThe National Science Foundation S-STEM program at FGCU is entitled Encouraging the NextGeneration of Innovative iNtelligent Engaged Engineers to Reach Success (ENGINEERS).Coordinated by faculty from Bioengineering and Civil Engineering, the program currentlyincludes 35 students across all four programs from freshman through senior level. In order toidentify qualified students, the Principal Investigators (PIs) work with individuals from both theFoundation Office and the Office of Financial Aid. The University has a general scholarshipapplication process where students complete a single Foundation scholarship application and aFAFSA form and are placed into consideration for
(IMPACT), began in Fall 2015 with the intent of serving as an innovative complementto prevailing approaches that support career mentorship opportunities of URM faculty and thecareer engagement of emeriti faculty. Synergistic pairings of early- through mid-career URMengineering faculty from a variety of institutions with strategic emeriti engineering faculty werecreated based upon technical expertise. Under this mentoring paradigm, URM faculty benefitfrom participation in activities designed to further their socialization process into the engineeringacademic profession and to afford them access to the vast insights, greater discretionary time,and networks of accomplished emeriti faculty. Incentives for emeriti faculty to participate in theIMPACT
Dr. Nina Goodey is an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, U.S.A. She has expertise in enzymology and is interested in engineering of soil enzymatic function. She enjoys mentoring student research.Fr. Donal Thomas MacVeigh S.J. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The NECST Program - Networking and Engaging in Computer Science and Information Technology Program1. IntroductionIn this paper, we describe the NECST Program and its innovative mentorship structure fortransitioning graduate students in computer science whose undergraduate experiences may be inother disciplines
done at course levels without approval from thehigher levels.Further enhancement of the laboratories and course project includes making slaves amicrocontroller-based control system, as well as adding a light sensor and LED to form a closedloop control system that provides feedback in the form of analog signals. With the motor speedcontrol project, there is one drawback, that is, all signals are digital. The addition of the lightsensor adds the analog component to the DCS. Student learning will be evaluated throughsurveys as the laboratories and course project are finalized.References1. Avitabile, P., Hodgkins, J., and Van Zandt, T., “Innovative Teaching of Fourier Series Using Labview,” Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, 2006.2. Bowen, K
engineering students and measure this decision-making within the context of both pro-social and anti- social behaviors. He is heavily involved in the ERM, Materials, and Community Engagement divisions of ASEE. He received the 2008 President’s Service Learning Award for innovations in the use of service learning at Cal Poly. In 2004 he was named a Templeton Research Fellow by the Center for Academic Integrity. Dr. Harding received both the 1999 Apprentice Faculty Grant and 2000 New Faculty Fellow Award for his contributions to engineering education.Dr. Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patrick Cunningham is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. During
University General Engineering Program. She also participated in the NSF’s Innovation Corps for Learning (I-Corps L) program and was a research mentor through National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experience and Mentoring (REM). Dr. Rowlinson is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, Biomedical Engineering Society, and Society For Biomaterials.Dr. Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University Dr. Elizabeth Stephan is the Director of Academics for the General Engineering Program at Clemson University. She holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Akron. Since 2002, she has taught, developed, and and now coordinates the
. Carpenter regularly speaks at the national level on issues related to the success of women in engineering and innovative STEM curricula.Dr. Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University Lee Rynearson an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Campbell University. He received a B.S. and M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2008 and earned his PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University in 2016. He also has previous experience as an instructor of engineering at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology, in Kanazawa, Japan. His current research interests focus on instruction for metacognition and problem solving. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017
sense that studentswithin design teams come from different Engineering Technology concentrations, namely,mechanical, manufacturing, electrical, and environmental engineering technology.Interdisciplinary team work is increasingly becoming prevalent in today’s global market and thenew senior design course is intended to prepare students for working in environments wherecrossing traditional professional boundaries is a necessity for promoting innovation and criticalthinking.For the study, the students in the course took the Engineering Design Self-Efficacy measurementtool at the start of their senior design project and then again at the end of the semester to try tomeasure the change in their self-efficacy, or their belief in their own ability to
learning, civic engagement and community. Laura holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 WIP: The Impact of Project Based Service Learning on Students' Professional Identities and Career Readiness 1. Introduction Project based service-learning (PBSL), as an innovative pedagogy and strategy, has beenintegrated into engineering education through curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricularactivities in many universities to improve engineering education with many favorable impacts onstudents [1-10]. There is evidence that PBSL has a positive influence on student learningoutcomes, as well as on an
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procedures Intuitive Abstract thinker, innovative, Oriented toward theories and underlying meanings Input Visual Prefer visual representations of presented material Verbal Prefer written and spoken explanations Processing Active Learns by trying things out, enjoy working in groups Passive Learns by thinking things through, prefer working alone or with a single familiar partner Understanding Sequential
2017 Pacific Southwest SectionMeeting: Tempe, Arizona Apr 20 Paper ID #20660On-line learning practices of millennial students in the flipped classroomDr. Jean-Michel I. Maarek, University of Southern California Jean-Michel Maarek is professor of engineering practice and director of undergraduate affairs in the De- partment of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. His educational interested include engaged learning, the flipped classroom, student assessment, and innovative laboratories c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017