AC 2010-1448: ASSESSMENT OF ABET 3 A-K IN AN OPEN-ENDED CAPSTONE?Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler Ronald W. Welch is Professor and Chair for the Department of Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Tyler in Tyler, Texas. Until Jan 2007, Dr. Welch was at the United States Military Academy (USMA) where he held numerous leadership positions within the Civil Engineering Program and the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia. Ron Welch received a B.S. degree in Engineering Mechanics from USMA in 1982 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana IL in 1990 and 1999
degree.There are myriad reasons why women leave engineering such as lack of role models, confidenceissues, and the “chilly climate.”5 In order to counteract these obstacles and improve retention,institutions should provide opportunities for students to frequently interact with other students,staff, and faculty.6 One way to create the desired environment is through building living andlearning communities. The purpose of living and learning communities is to create a smaller Page 24.872.2community within a larger one so that an overwhelmingly large campus becomes morecomfortable.7 As students live and study together in a LLC, they are more likely to
with a basic understanding and learning beyond their own perspective [1,2]. Throughmentoring, individuals working with others may be able to increase their success and satisfactionin themselves, their work, and their career [1,2]. Beyond themselves, an individual may alsodevelop an understanding of others by gaining insight into different perspectives andexperiences. Through the growth potential in mentoring, an individual may identify newopportunities, both personally as well as professionally [1-3]. As organizations are recognizingthese benefits from studies conducted, more and more companies are investing in mentorshipprograms and are seeing positive returns on their investments [4,6].Traditional mentorship models often involve a single
Autoethnographic Exploration of STEAM (STEM + the Arts) Education,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 105, no. 1, pp. 15–42, Jan. 2016, doi: 10.1002/jee.20112.[18] S. Chowdhary, S. Daitzman, R. Eisenbud, E. Pan, and E. Graeff, “Care and Liberation in Creating a Student-Led Public Interest Technology Clinic,” in 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), Tempe, AZ, USA: IEEE, Nov. 2020, pp. 164–175. doi: 10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462188.[19] J. S. Cicek, P. K. Sheridan, L. A. Kuley, and R. Paul, “Through ‘Collaborative Autoethnography’: Researchers Explore Their Role as Participants in Characterizing the Identities of Engineering Education Graduate Students in Canada,” presented at the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference &
the academy in 2004. CDR James completed a his Doctorate in Plasma Physics at Columbia’s Plasma Physics Lab through Steven’s Institute of Technology in December 2008. Since then he has been the PI of the Coast Guard Academy Plasma Lab (CGAPL), Department Equity Officer, Science Lecture Coordinator, Internship Coordinator, Co-founder/Director for CGA’s Science Partnership for Innovation in Learning (Project SPIL), Genesis & Spectrum Council (CGA’s Black and Gay Student Unions) and the Science Department Diversity & Inclusion Officer. CDR James recently served as the Head of the Physics Section at the Coast Guard Academy, is a co-founder of the New London Freedom School, a Science Technology and Mathematics
limited resource base dictated little beyond a basic educational role.However, it was time worth spending as it gave our new faculty group a chance to develop acoherent EET program view. Another useful outcome was reaffirming the curriculum contentswith regional industry needs.By the end of the year, guidelines for TC2K self-study[2] were available from TAC of ABET. Itwas now becoming clear how much work remained to be accomplished. In addition to the self-study guidelines, representatives from each of our five Engineering Technology programs wereinvited to attend TAC of ABET’s pilot visit evaluator training session in January of 2001. Wewere afforded the opportunity to shadow our program's visitors as they made their preparations totrain for
committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology from preschool through college (P20).” – Vision: “ASEE will serve as the premier multidisciplinary society for individuals and organizations committed to advancing excellence in all aspects of engineering and engineering technology from preschool through college (P20).” ASEE P12 Strategic Plan Recommendations• ASEE Strategic Plan on P12 Engineering (Proposed)-September 2015• Goal: Extend ASEE as a leader, both externally and internally, within the Pre-school through grade 12 (P12) engineering education space, and increase awareness of and best practices within and beyond ASEE.• To do so, we recommend the following
community for the last 6 years, through engineeringand computing outreach programs. These programs have improved students STEM exposure,logical reasoning, reading and problem-solving skills. We accomplish this by infusingspecialized computing and educational gaming technology into the classroom and afterschoolprograms to reinvigorate K-12 students in our local area as a model for student computingengagement. Our research investigates methods to energize students through intrinsic motivationto work harder and to achieve a brighter future and to support the future STEM workforce.We want to build STEM workforce by providing more technology training to students at earlierages to potentially increase future enrollments. With traditional federal grants
of the challenge.Many models of engineering design for pre-college learners are consistent with Crismond andAdams’ recommendations. In the Next Generation Science Standards, “Defining and delimitingengineering problems” is one of three core components of the design process. For grades K-2,children should be able to “Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about asituation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through thedevelopment of a new or improved object or tool.” This is based on the 2012 National ResearchCouncil report that suggests that by the end of grade 2, children should understand that “asituation that people want to change or create can be approached as a problem to be
interdisciplinary in nature8. The NationalScience Board2 has criticized currently available curricular material as follows, “Few[curriculum materials] introduce real-world interdisciplinary problems and serve as thefoundation for advanced placement courses, school-to-work transition courses, or the challengesof a liberal arts college education. Most innovative science curricula, for instance, seekcoherence, integration, and movement from concrete ideas to abstract concepts9.” These sameconcerns are echoed in the literature that addresses mathematics education.Each of the projects that are discussed in this paper are based on the philosophy that mathematicsand science are related subjects that should be taught through hands-on experiences. The
AC 2010-2303: ADVENTURES FOR FUTURE ENGINEERS: K-12 OUTREACHSTRATEGIESCarolyn Vallas, University of Virginia Carolyn Vallas is General Faculty, the Director of the Center for Diversity in Engineering (CDE), and PI and CoPI on several National Science Foundation (NSF) grants at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS). Her responsibility over the past twenty five years has focused on diversity initiatives with emphasis on outreach, recruitment, admission, and retention programs for women and minorities in engineering. This involves a strong collaborative working relationship with engineering faculty and other departments on campus as well as funding
Engineering Education, 2017 Dual Credit Programs: K-12 Outreach, Recruiting, or BothAbstractRecruiting consumes considerable resources for any post-secondary institution. Manyinstitutions also have a mission of K-12 engagement. A dual credit program helps an institutionfulfill its K-12 outreach mission and also provide valuable recruiting opportunities. This paperexplores the process of creating and implementing a dual credit program at Purdue PolytechnicAnderson, a regional location Purdue University’s statewide program.Traditional dual credit programs are concurrent enrollment models, whereby high school coursesare taught by high school faculty and for which high school juniors and seniors can also earncollege credit. Other dual credit
professional development through 2010.When assessing the educational needs as a “whole” in Northern New York’s St. LawrenceCounty, there is an obvious contradiction in poverty and wealth. St. Lawrence County has someof the poorest and neediest rural K-12 schools in the state, while at the same time; it is a rich areain terms of colleges and universities. There is a wealth of diversity, leadership, academic rigorand excellence, and a vision for a global future within the county’s four institutions of highereducation. Over the last five years, all seventeen St. Lawrence County School Districts andBOCES have focused on building partnerships, creating consortiums and identifying and sharingresources to overcome the limitations of the economically
. Initialsolutions to the sustainable assessment and evaluation challenges and the correspondingworkload are discussed. Initial successes in managing ongoing assessment efforts andstrategies for maintaining department-wide consistency while supporting unique programapproaches are presented. Issues generated by curricular change are also considered.Department Accreditation Background1A multi-campus, multi-program engineering technology department went through a totalof three accreditation reviews in 2004 and 2005. The programs include “2+2”manufacturing and mechanical engineering technology programs at a large residentialcampus made up of primarily traditional full-time students (West Lafayette) and twoassociate degree mechanical engineering technology
," 2010 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2010, pp. S3G-1-S3G-6, doi: 10.1109/FIE.2010.5673256. 2. Rahman, F., & Andrews, C., & Wendell, K. B., & Batrouny, N. A., & Dalvi, T. S. (2019, June), Elementary Students Navigating the Demands of Giving Engineering Design Peer Feedback (Fundamental) Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--32699 3. Pintrich, P. R., & De Groot, E. V. (1990). Motivational and self-regulated learning components of classroom academic performance. Journal of Educational Psychology, 82(1), 33–40. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0663.82.1.33 4. Pintrich, P. R., Marx, R., & Boyle, R. (1993). Beyond
section 5,‘Findings’. In section 6, ‘Limitations and Future Work’, we will review our limitations and pointto future work.3 Background3.1 Defining MakingMaking refers to the practice of creating tangible objects ranging from sketches to manufacturedproducts [8] that are typically produced within the context of creative communities centered ontechnology and innovation (e.g., hobbyists and professionals dedicated to making personalizedfully functional objects) [9], [10] .We frame our understanding of Making through the perspective that Making goes beyond thekind of equipment and facilities that are used. Instead, Making is the emergent culture that comesout of the confluence of individuals with shared interests, varied experiences, and a
entering grades 5 through 10 through the ‘Young Scholars’ summer on-campus program, andS deployments of the Mobile Electronics Manufacturing Line (MEML) to schools in the area, exposing additional students to electrical engineering / electrical technology with hands-on experiments. These deployments were coordinated with the help of K-12 teachers.We were able to reach 111 students through our summer workshops as part of the Young Scholarsprogram at IUPUI, and just over 800 students through deployments of the MEML.The paper will summarize the efforts within the project, address funding, discuss results and emphasizelessons learned when approaching a large scale K-12 project. Many roadblocks were encounteredover the two
easily identify it as flawed and unpublishable.” After a majorsifting through potential publications, he settled on 304 journals, 167 from DOAJ, 121 fromBeall, and 16 that were cross-listed.36The results? Of the original 304 papers, 167 were accepted, 98 were rejected, and the remainderwere either still “under review” or had been sent to “derelict” websites. The number ofacceptances astonished the author: “I was expecting 10 to 15 percent, or worst case, a quarteraccepted. . . . Peer review is in a worse state than anyone guessed.”38 Even more disconcerting isthe fact that fully 60% of the acceptances “occurred with no sign of peer review.”36 Dear Alimo Atoa, We fully respect your choice and withdraw your artilce. If you are ready to publish
Paper ID #34082Engineering Virtual Design Competition – A Solution for High SchoolSummer Outreach During the Pandemic and Beyond (Evaluation)Ms. J. Jill Rogers, The University of Arizona J. Jill Rogers is the assistant director for ENGR 102 HS at the University of Arizona. ENGR 102 HS is an AP-type, dual credit college level, introductory engineering course offered to high school students. In 2014, the ENGR 102 HS program won the ASEE best practices in K-12 and University partnerships award. Over the years Rogers has developed K-12 science summer camps, conducted K-12 educational re- search, developed engineering
and Standardized Testing: Incorporating a Socio-Economic Factor in Admissions to Support Minority SuccessAbstractThis paper proposes a revised approach to the admission process for freshman students enteringthe minority serving institute, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The purpose of therevised approach is to better evaluate an extremely diverse population of applicants. The detailsfor the revised approach will be demonstrated through the use of data mining, statisticalmethods and association rule mining.UIC is located in Chicago, Illinois and enrolls greater than 20,000 students from a widespectrum of socio-economic neighborhoods. As a minority serving institute, it is of great concernto the
innovation, makerspaces and technology-assisted learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Beyond the Maker Movement: A Preliminary Partial Literature Review on the Role of Makerspaces in Engineering EducationabstractMakerspaces have grown over the last few years as public awareness of the maker movement hasincreased. Makerspaces are open to the public as community design studios that cultivatecreative and technology-based projects alike. Fabrication labs and makerspaces serve ascollective organizations that help facilitate design and prototyping for individuals that may nothave access to that equipment or material outside of that physical location. In engineeringeducation, there is a vast
Paper ID #44583Updates on a Work in Progress Assessing Student Perceptions of theBenefits of Continuing HyFlex Course Format Beyond the Covid-19 Pan-demicDr. Nicole Becklinger, University of Southern Indiana Nicole Becklinger is an assistant professor at the University of Southern Indiana. Her two primary areas of research are engineering educational methods and agricultural injury prevention. This research is part of an ongoing study investigating the potential student benefit of continuing to offer HyFlex course format as we move further from the Covid-19 pandemic. ©American Society for
Paper ID #37827Thinking Beyond the Service Course Model: IntentionalIntegration of Technical Communication Courses in a BMEUndergraduate CurriculumJulie Stella Julie Stella is a Visiting Lecturer in the Technology Leadership and Communication de- partment of the IUPUI School of Engineering and Technology. She teaches writing and communication to undergraduate engineering students at IUPUI. She has also taught courses at the graduate level in education technology, usable interface design, and ed- ucation public policy. Her background is fairly diverse, though it centers on writing and teaching. Ms. Stella spent 11
Paper ID #37711Preliminary Results from a Work in Progress Assessing StudentPerceptions of the Benefits of Continuing HyFlex Course Format Beyondthe COVID-19 PandemicDr. Nicole Becklinger, University of Southern Indiana ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Preliminary Results from a Work in Progress Assessing Student Perceptions of the Benefits of Continuing HyFlex Course Format Beyond the COVID-19 PandemicAbstractBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic required instructors to quickly alter course formats,with many adopting synchronous online, asynchronous online, or hybrid and HyFlex teachingmodels. As the pandemic abates, it
Paper ID #33438Making it Work in the Virtual Capstone Climate and Beyond: Project-basedPerspectives Across a Variety of Programs and UniversitiesDr. Shraddha Joshi, James Madison University Dr. Shraddha Joshi is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. She earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University with her research focused on understanding the role of requirements in engineering design by novices. At Clemson, Dr. Joshi has worked on multiple industry sponsored research projects (Michelin tweel –low rolling resistance for non-pneumatic tires
Paper ID #27655Work in Progress: Education Beyond Borders – Efforts of a Student Chapterto Foster Education and Promote Academic Excellence in STEM FieldsMiss Keyshlan Karinn´e Aybar Mart´ınez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Keyshlan K. Aybar Mart´ınez is a 6th year Mechanical Engineering Student. Pursuing also, a minor in Project Management and Aerospace Engineering. Also, this year she is the President of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) increasing the membership by 33%. The last year she was the fundraising leader of the ASEE. Had experience in the industry as Test Engineering in UTC Aerospace
introduction. The remaining lecture andbuild activities remained consistent through the remainder of the week. Videos were updated toinclude new examples and examples from current events that would be more familiar to thecampers.By freeing up one full day of content, the students were given the opportunity to add more funtime into the schedule. Wednesday morning was spent at the ERAU swimming pool. Robotdemonstrations of underwater robots was scheduled, but could not be performed due to the robotbecoming unavailable due to technical issues beyond the coordinator’s control. The afternoonwas spent with students from the Robotics Association at Embry-Riddle (RAER) demonstratingtheir robotic systems. These demonstrations included: a legged robot, a quad
Paper ID #12724Assessing teaming skills and major identity through collaborative sophomoredesign projects across disciplines.Dr. Jennifer R Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr Amos joined the Bioengineering Department at the University of Illinois in 2009 and is currently a Sr Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate programs. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of South Carolina. She has developed and offered more than 5 courses since joining the faculty and has taken the lead roll in curriculum development for the department.Dr. Troy J
academic misconduct conducted by students in classes inhigher education across disciplines. This research is a result of the combined efforts of facultymembers representing the disciplines of humanities, arts, social sciences, business, languages,music, and various engineering fields. The goal is to bring to light the various methods andstrategies that students use to cheat during exams, quizzes, term papers, etc. As a collaborativeeffort, the authors also investigate techniques faculty can use to prevent academic misconduct inboth face-to-face and virtual classrooms.Student viewpoints are also presented as part of this study and are collected through ananonymous survey. Students get a chance to reveal what motivates them to cheat in exams,quizzes
publications. Evelyn is not only outstanding in teaching and research, but also in service. She recently received the 2013 Chair’s Award for Outstanding Service in the Department of Computer System Tech- nology.Ms. Nina Exner, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University Nina Exner is a research librarian at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University and a doctoral pre-candidate in information science at UNC-CH. Her research and publishing history centers around researcher emergence, practitioner-researcher information needs, and mentoring.Dr. Sherry F AbernathyDr. Rajeev K Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Rajeev Agrawal has been teaching in the Department of Computer