approaches,” International Journal of Design, vol. 4, no. 3, 2010.26 S. Papert and I. Harel. "Situating constructionism." Constructionism36.2, 1-11, 1991.27 R. A. Finke, T. B. Ward, and S.M. Smith, “Creative cognition: Theory, research, and applications.” 1992.28 M. Mani, J. Madan, J. H. Lee, K.W. Lyons, and S.K. Gupta, “Sustainability characterization for manufacturing processes,” International Journal of Production Research, vol. 52 no. 20, pp. 5895-5912, 2014.29 Ye, Y., Jankovic, M., Kremer, G. E., Yannou, B., Leroy, Y., & J. C. Bocquet, “Integration of environmental impact estimation in system architecture and supplier identification,” Research in Engineering Design, vol. 27 no. 2, pp. 117-140, 2016.30 A. Al-Saffar
tissue engineering/ biomaterials laboratory until 2017. She then became an Instructor of Physics and Engineering at Marian University of Indianapolis, Indiana, where she currently teaches Physics I, Physics II, Biophysics, and will soon be developing courses related to biomaterials for the launch of the new ES Witchger School of Engineering at Marian University. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Development and Assessment of an Introductory Undergraduate Course in BiophysicsAbstractIn the pursuit of deepening ones understanding of physics and its implications on biologicalfunctions
member of several journals and conferences worldwide. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Fabrication of Fluidic Devices through Dissolution of 3D Printed Material in PDMS MoldAbstractMicrofluidic devices have been used in various applications such as chemical, biological,clinical, pharmaceutical, etc. This has motivated researchers to develop inexpensive,straightforward techniques to fabricate such devices. A team of four senior undergraduatestudents in a microfabrication course completed a project to develop a novel method forfabricating miniature fluidic devices using dissolving a common material used in 3D printing,Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) in a
workforce. She is co ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Fostering Inclusive Department Climates: A Workshop for Department Chairs at the University of DelawareThis evidence-based practice paper describes the development and implementation of aninteractive workshop for department chairs focused on strategies to foster inclusive departmentclimates at the University of Delaware (UD). Literature on the underrepresentation of women inSTEM suggests climate is a key factor in women faculty’s lower levels of job satisfaction andhigher rates of turnover. Building on this scholarship, multiple research projects at UD motivatethe need for institutional efforts to improve climate and the
-Hammer, Westinghouse Electric Company,Mine Safety Appliances Company, and LB International have guided the engineering initiative.Statistics obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor show the importance anddesirability of graduates in the disciplines supported by the College1.The programs in Logistics, Software, and Manufacturing Engineering emphasize aninterdisciplinary approach to engineering education and build on existing strengths in business,communication skills, and mathematics. The engineering programs at the College are nicheprograms that are not typically offered at most educational institutions. The typical student in
cost.References[1] DOE award DE-OE0000427: “A nationwide consortium of universities to revitalize electric power engineering education by state-of-the-art laboratories.”, University of Minnesota. www.doeconsortium.ece.umn.edu (accessed Feb. 13, 2023).[2] “Introduction to Power Electronics.” University of Minnesota. https://cusp.umn.edu/power- electronics/intro-power-electronics (accessed Feb. 13, 2023)[3] E. Hossain, “Application of Simulink in Power Electronics,” in MATLAB and Simulink Crash Course for Engineers, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022, pp. 495-568. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89762-8_17[4] N.P.R Iyer, Power Electronic Converters: Interactive Modelling Using Simulink, CRC Press, 2018. https://doi.org
Zampaloni, University of Wisconsin, Platteville ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Entrepreneurial Minded Learning in a Core Junior-Level Mechanical Vibrations CourseAbstractThis paper describes the implementation of a project that incorporated prototyping and theentrepreneurial mindset into a core, junior-level Mechanical Vibrations course in the mechanicalengineering curriculum. The course underwent an update that included the modification of ahands-on prototyping project integrating aspects of the entrepreneurial mindset into the projectrequirements starting Summer 2021. The project required that all aspects were verified usingtraditional theoretical relationships, were
into how the engineering educational community has been teachingcontrols from the time-domain and frequency-domain, the author conducted a comparativeliterature review. “Controls”, along with “Root locus” and “Bode plot” respectively, were usedas keywords to search the IEEE Transaction in Engineering Education and the ASEE AnnualConference Proceedings. The results from this quick review, as summarized in Table I, indicatethat, in both sources, more efforts on time-domain methods were reported than those onfrequency-domain methods, confirming the discrepancy between the existing efforts in the time-and frequency domain. Moreover, few publications returned from these two searches directlyaddressed the abovementioned concern [1-9].TABLE I Time
at the University of Cape Town. Her research on the student experience of learning, focusing mainly on science and engineering education, has been published across a range of journal articles in higher education and her recent book, Researching student learning in higher education: A social realist approach published in 2013 by Routledge. She holds an academic development post in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCT, and teaches in the undergraduate programme there. She is a coordinating editor for the international journal Higher Education and a co-editor for the Routledge/SRHE series Research into Higher Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020
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licensed Professional Engineer in PA. Ryan is also an advisor for Penn State’s National AEI Student Competition teams. His research interests include: integrated structural design methodologies and processes; Innovative methods for enhancing engineering education; and high performing wall enclosures. These three areas look towards the next generation of building engineering, including how systems are selected, configured and designed.M K Parfitt M. Kevin Parfitt, P.E., F.AEI is an award-winning educator in the Department of Architectural Engineering at Penn State and respected industry consultant. He performs educational practice-based research and teaches a variety of practice- oriented courses including First Year Seminar
Paper ID #48054Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindset via Hands-On Learning: A Case Study onProject-Based Learning in Advanced Manufacturing and Additive ManufacturingCoursesDr. Anu R Osta, Rowan University Dr Anu Osta is an Associate Teaching Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department at Rowan University. His teaching interests are Engineering Mechanics, Materials Science, Manufacturing, and Design.Dr. Behrad Koohbor, Rowan University Behrad Koohbor is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindset via
learning techniques and their application in medical fields, especially for retrieval and diagnostic purposes. Pursuing continuous financial support is an integral part of Dr. Rahman’s research agenda Over the years, Dr. Rahman ¬received (as both PI and Co-PI) several competitive grants for both Imaging Informatics and ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Paper ID #38684 Applied Machine Learning based research and also Instructional (CS Education) research, such as NSF HBCU-UP and NSF HBCU IUSE grants, and also several internal grants form MSU, such as ASCEND, I-Gap, etc.Frank EfeDr
anytime soon. I will most likely be in a career that Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2024, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 365 does require design philosophy and technical writing, so those are the big takeaways as far my professional career goes.” – Fall 2020The project also was an opportunity for the students to recognize their strength as a futureprofessional engineer: “My strengths that played a part in my contribution to the project are my work ethic, perseverance, and detail-oriented nature. My work ethic drove me to
Paper ID #41938Paradigm Shift? Preliminary Findings of Engineering Faculty Members’Mental Models of Assessment in the Era of Generative AIMs. Isil Anakok, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Ms.Anakok is Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She has a Ms. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech, and Bs. in Mechatronics Engineering from Kocaeli University, Turkey.Kai Jun Chew, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach Kai Jun ”KJ” Chew is an assistant professor in the Engineering Fundamentals department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He is
Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, pages 170-177, Sydney, 2001. [9] Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology Accreditation Department (ABET), Criteria for accrediting engineering programs, 2011 - 2012. ABET Inc.: Baltimore, MD, Retrieved from http://www.abet.org/eac-current-criteria/ [10] National Academy of Engineering (NAE), The engineering of 2020: Visions of engineering in the new century. Washington, DC: The National Academic Press, 2004. [11] Mousoulides, N. & English, L. Engineering Model Eliciting Activities for Elementary School Students. Trends in Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling International Perspectives on the
Paper ID #42904Board 296: Immersive Engineering Learning and Workforce Development:Pushing the Boundaries of Knowledge Acquisition in a CAVEDr. Opeyemi Peter Ojajuni, Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Dr. Opeyemi Ojajuni is a post-doctoral research manager at Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA, with expertise in computer network infrastructure, artificial intelligence, virtual reality (VR), and data science. His research focuses on applying these technologies to STEM education, particularly improving enrollment, retention, and computational thinking development. He also
, applied electronics for measurement and instrumentation, and development of technology enhanced teaching tools and pedagogical framework for improved engineering education. Dr. Das has published more than 30 research articles in international journals and conference proceedings. He has designed and developed various hands-on teaching and learning tools for electrical engineering students. Dr. Das has lead several research projects as a Principal Investigator and has been funded by the Office of Undergraduate Research, Office of the Vice President for Research at KSU, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He has also led two projects for the development of open access laboratory instructional resources for
Pennsylvania Brett Frankel received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 2016 from the University of Pennsylvania. After an instructionally-focused postdoctoral position at Northwestern University, he returned to Penn as a senior lecturer. Dr. Frankel was a 2009-2010 Fulbright fellow to Budapest, Hungary studying mathematics and mathematics pedagogy, and a 2017-2018 Project NExT fellow. He served as a graduate assistant to the Penn Emerging Scholars Program, and co-founded the Northwestern Emerging Scholars Program to improve female retention in pipeline courses for the mathematics major. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Impact of an Emerging Scholars/Peer Led Team Learning program on
Paper ID #11079Sustainability Challenges & the Opportunities for Global Engagement: Link-ing Caribbean secondary school classrooms and Engineering Departments atUS UniversitiesDr. Maya A Trotz, University of South Florida Dr. Trotz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida. She works at the nexus of geochemistry/water quality and global/community sustainability and education. Her interests are interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, applied and forge non traditional university partnerships with local and international entities.Dr. Joniqua Howard
Research Experiences”. Science, Vol. 316, No. 24, pp. 548-549.10. Yoder, B. Engineering by the Numbers: www.asee.org/papers-and-publications/publications/14_11-47.pdf.11. Huston, J.C. and Burnet, G. (1982). “Iowa State University Senior Engineering Student Attitudes about Graduate Study”, Proceedings of the 1982 Frontiers in Education Conference, Columbia, SC.12. Carpinelli, J. D., Hirsch, L., S., Kimmel, H., Perna, A., & Rockland, R. (2007). “A Survey to Measure Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Attitudes toward Graduate Studies”, Paper presented at the International Conference on Engineering Education, Honolulu, HI.13. Hirsch, L. S., Carpinelli, J. D., Kimmel, H., and Perna, A. (2008). “Measuring Engineering
-navigating whiskerrobot, and a line-following robot.4. Broadened Education and Training of Fellows Through effective performance of their teaching, mentoring, and collaboration activities,Fellows are developing (i) a deeper understanding of STEM concepts; (ii) an ability to exploreand recognize connections and relationships between different STEM concepts; (iii) an ability topractice and reflect on the process of knowledge building; (iv) an ability to review others’ workand provide constructive criticism; and (v) an ability to revise and enhance their own work basedon others’ feedback. Development of these various abilities assists Fellows in their own researchsince every successful engineering research enterprise relies on deep understanding
. 50, no. 4, pp. 439-461.[17] M. Karp, S. Ackerson, and I. Cheng. Effective Advising for Postsecondary Students: A Practice Guide for Educators, WWC 2022003 What Works Clearinghouse, 2021.[18] G. Achenbach, L., J. Barker, and L. D. Thompson. A Systemic Approach to Recruiting and Retaining Women in Undergraduate Computing, 2018 CONECD - the Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference, 2018, [Online]. Available: https://www.asee.org/public/conferences/113/papers/24198/view[19] A. C. Lyons. Credit practices and financial education needs of Midwest college students, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, 2007, Champaign, IL.[20] P. A
CEAS. Hence, mostfaculty and students in the CEAS are non-URM.Research QuestionThe research question focuses on Iliana’s experiences navigating her engineering education as afirst-generation, low-income Latina. What do her responses say about her experience studyingengineering as a first-generation, low-income, Latina? The following research question is thefocus of the analysis: What does one woman of color’s description of her experiences in auniversity’s undergraduate engineering program reveal about the supports, barriers, andchallenges for different students in the process of forming engineering identities?Iliana was chosen as the participant for this analysis – a purposive sample; she was the right“window” into the phenomenon in which I
. During her time at the University of Virginia, she has taught ordinary or partial differential equations almost every semester. She has been putting work into refining these classes so that they involve more active learning and critical thinking for students. In 2020-2021, she redesigned ordinary differential equations with two other professors to make it an inquiry-oriented class. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 The Impact of Prior Knowledge on Students Performance and Help-Seeking Behavior in a Graduate Engineering Math CourseEngineering Math I is an introductory graduate-level course cross listed between theApplied Math department and the Mechanical
), 3240–3253.Kostakis, V., Niaros, V., & Giotitsas, C. (2015). Open source 3D printingas a means of learning: an educational experiment in two high schools in Greece. Telematics and Informatics, 32(1), 118-128.Leduc-Mills, B., & Eisenberg, M. (2011). The UCube: a child-friendly device for introductory three-dimensional design. Proceedings of the 10th international conference on interaction design and children. New York.Maloy, R., Trust, T., Kommers, S., Malinowski, A., & LoRoche, I. (2017). 3D modeling and printing in history/social studies classrooms: initial lessons and insights. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 17(2).Mellis, D., & Buechley, L. (2012). Case studies in the
undergraduate research projects, and his research interests include manufacturing laboratory pedagogy and writing pedagogy.Dr. Wendy Michelle Olson, Washington State University, VancouverMr. Kevin Michael Wandro, Washington State University - Vancouver Mr. Kevin Wandro is an undergraduate student at Washington State University - Vancouver in the Me- chanical Engineering Department. He has been involved with writing transfer on Dr. Kim’s NSF team, interested in automated systems and robotics.NarayanKripa Sundararajan, Washington State University, Pullman NarayanKripa is a doctoral candidate in educational psychology at Washington State University, Pullman. Her research interests include program evaluation, quantitative and mixed
.” International Journal of STEM Education 5(4), 2018. 2. S.S. Guzey, M. Harwell, M. Moreno, Y. Peralta, and T.J. Moore. “The impact of design- based STEM integration on student achievements in engineering, science, and mathematics.” Journal of Science Education and Technology 26, 2017. 3. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Educator Capacity Building in K-12 Engineering Education. Building Capacity for Teaching Engineering in K-12 Education. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2020. 4. NGSS Lead States. Next Generation Science Standards: For states, by states. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2013. 5. E.R. Bannilower, P.S. Smith, K.A. Malzahn, C.L. Plumley, E.M
expression and engagement and anexemplary professional development opportunity. I hope this research enables and encouragessimilar teams to emerge and flourish, giving future students the same quality of engineering andprofessional education as I have been honored to experience.References[1] ABET - Criteria for Accrediting Applied Science Programs, 2012 - 2013: 2011. http://abet.org/asac- criteria-2012-2013/. Accessed: 2011-12.[2] Bédard, D. et al. 2012. Problem-based and Project-based Learning in Engineering and Medicine: Determinants of Students’ Engagement and Persistence. Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning. 6, 2 (Aug. 2012).[3] Choo, C.W. 2006. The Knowing Organization: How Organizations Use
Paper ID #39035Native and Immigrant Students: An Analysis of Well-being Using PISA 2018Mr. Syed Ali Kamal, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Syed Ali Kamal is a doctoral student in the Department of Engineering Education at University at Buffalo. His research interests lie in the area of social justice and issues related to diversity, equity and Inclusion. Before doctoral studies he worked in the higher education sector of Pakistan. He holds a masters degree in economics and is passionate about institutional and policy issues in the education sector. He has previously worked in projects aimed at