- ence working with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution etc. on transportation and operations management projects. She works extensively with food banks and food pantries on supply chain management and logistics focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are integral part of her service-learning based logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to assess impact of good supply chain
discrimination in Chile remain evident, aswitnessed by international organizations' different world rankings and studies. According toeconomic theory, the current engineering focus continues to be project assessment, often withoutconsidering any social and environmental impact.According to [3], the social crisis in Chile in October 2019 demanded equality and finishedabuses, an apposition of a hierarchical society in which a group has greater power or status. Thisdemand is directly related to the social sustainability indicated by the SDGs. Given this context,there is already an approach to equality for students who participated in this study.METHODOLOGYThis research work evaluates the impact of problem-based learning (PBL) on sustainabilitycriteria for
Paper ID #35031Leveraging Mixed Reality for Augmented Structural Mechanics EducationDr. Mohamad Alipour, University of Virginia Mohamad Alipour is a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Engineering Systems and En- vironment at the University of Virginia. His research broadly focuses on data-driven structure and in- frastructure assessment and his specific research interests are in the field of learning-based information extraction, computer vision-based structural health monitoring and inspection, and mixed reality systems for structural analysis, design, and education.Prof. Devin K. Harris, University of
illustrates how Geomatics (which is a corequisite/prerequisitecourse to Springer 1) can give students practical experience that is applicable to Springer 1.The skills students acquire in Geomatics are directly transferable not only to the sequence ofSpringer courses, but also to other upper-level Civil Engineering courses, the proposed Keystonecourse that will replace the Capstone course, and the workplace. Even if students never surveyland, create maps, or model terrain while working in Civil Engineering, they will almostcertainly encounter those who do, and being conversant in the language of spatial data willprepare students for success in those kinds of interactions.The fourth objective is to assess student learning outcomes of the course via an
discussed the pros and cons of various gradingoptions (e.g., credit/no credit versus a regular grading scheme), tools for synchronous andasynchronous learning, and strategies for assessing learning. For example, in a late March facultymeeting, faculty spoke about a decision not to give any midterm exams and grappled with how toshow care for all the hardships and uncertainty students were experiencing, while also trying tofigure out how to monitor student learning. One faculty member said: “In the classroom setting,you can walk around and watch the students do a problem. [Online], how do I determine whetherthe students are actually working on material or not? That's, that's what I don’t have an answerfor.”At meetings from spring 2020 all the way to
customers. Our aims for this project are two-fold: 1) to helpundergraduate students see that engineering decisions made during the design, production, oreven after launch of a product can have larger consequences than originally anticipated; 2) todetermine if hands-on ethical problem-solving activities in the classroom increases studentcapability in ethical decision making.We have introduced this choose-your-own adventure activity in two courses: the college-widefirst-year Introduction to Engineering Problem Solving course and the second-year chemicalengineering Process Calculations course. This work-in-progress will present initial feedbackfrom students who have participated in the activity and an assessment of student ethical decision-making
Neurodiverse Students in the Distance Learning EnvironmentAbstractOne of the first large courses that engineering students encounter is Statics, which teachesvarious foundation topics and rigorous assessment schemes. Statics is an important course in thatit gives the student the necessary foundation to further succeed in their education and careers.Re-designs of the Statics course have been proposed to accommodate neurodiverse students,with the prospect that increasing diversity and promoting creative problem-solving skills has thepotential to be beneficial for the Civil Engineering (CE) profession. The objective of this paper isto report a re-design procedure of the Statics course to accommodate neurodiverse students andimprove
someindividual activities might have logistical differences across the two student audiences. In orderfor this to happen, throughout their courses and interactions with their professors and peers,distance learners need to see and experience themselves as participating, authentic members ofthe course community and academic environment, ultimately members of the graduate programcommunity of practice.Achieving this has necessitated a three-fold commitment to (1) a technology infrastructure thatgives students full access to all components of the course; (2) course instructional design thatensures alignment between course learning outcomes, assessments, activities, and coursecontent; and (3) faculty development to facilitate teaching practices that are
Systems and the director of the Flem- ming Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CEED) Center at Penn State Berks. She received her Ph.D.in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Auburn University. Dr. Kulturel-Konak has been teaching a variety of courses in Project Management, New Venture Creation, Statistics, etc. She engages her students in research and mission projects in the US and overseas as well. Her scholarly re- search interests are in i) modeling and optimization of complex systems and robustness under uncertainty with applications to facility layout, reliability, and scheduling, ii) student professional skill development and assessment. She has been a principal investigator in sponsored
August 2020 to November 2020. Students weredistributed in two courses of the B.S. Sustainable Development Engineering program and theB.S Mechatronics Engineering program (the official ID of each course appears inparentheses) taught by the Mexican lecturer, as follows: Technologies for the EnergyDistribution Systems (TE3053) and Computerized Control (MR2007).Instrumentation. Diverse types of instruments were used: diagnostic tests, with multiple-choice and true or false questions designed to establish the approximate knowledge of eachstudent; questionnaires, to understand motivation and intellectual engagement; exit surveys,to determine student satisfaction; and finally, to assess how well students performed eachoutcome and considering that
partnerships necessary to promote sustainable development [4]. Thesocial license is often invoked to refer to acceptance in a general way, failing to provideguidance on how to “navigate power inequalities, divergent interests, and diverse cultures ofcommunication and governance” [5]. Finally, the social license does not provide a clearframework for the people impacted by a business to hold that business accountable.Responsibility for defining what acceptable levels of a social license are -- and assessing whetherthey have achieved such levels of acceptance -- fall to companies. The social license is a far cryfrom rights-based community engagement frameworks, such as Free, Prior and InformedConsent (FPIC), mandated by the United Nations for projects
each individual is unique,recognizing the archetypes of prominent identities can increase our understanding of the type ofstudents who attend small schools and open the door for tailored instruction that capitalizes onthese identities in a school's population.Introduction and Literature Review The engineering education research community has struggled to agree on precisely what"engineering identity" is and how it is measured. Instead, many varying (but often complementary)definitions are proposed [1]. Direct assessments of engineering identity can be as simple as askingsome variation of the question, "Do you see yourself as an engineer?" [2]. This straightforwardapproach provides an answer that can then be quickly correlated with
employment when they have finished theireducation. Chegg, Inc. [9] discovered the “skills gap” when they surveyed both recentgraduates/employees and the hiring managers that interviewed and hired them. Each group was asked aset of questions about workplace skills and how well prepared they are to use them. The results showedthat students overestimated their abilities in every area when compared to what their employersobserved of their work [9]. The largest gap in their assessment came in the areas of communication.Recent graduates said they were prepared to speak with clients or supervisors 70% of the time, while theiremployers said that they were only prepared for about 44%. Harris concluded that students need the
change that embodies the values of student access and studentexcellence through its human resources practices.Departmental PoliciesDepartmental policies can cover a broad swath of rules, norms, practices, supports and barriersfrom the rules of engagement for students, course assessment, grading, acceptance in the major,academic roles and responsibilities, and faculty incentive and reward structures. In this paper, wefocus our analysis of departmental policies on the processes faculty undergo to assess growth andmake change, as the norms of these processes may have paved the way for collaborativeimprovement efforts during the RED grant. University of Texas at El Paso’s department ofcomputer science had a history of deliberate collaborative
Engineering at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). She earned her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Dr. Qi’s teaching interests include Engineering Design, Solid Mechanics, Mechanical System Design, and Computer-Aided Design. Dr. Qi’s areas of interest and expertise include design sustainability, Life Cycle Assessment, decision making for optimal design, and Computer-Aided Design and Engineering Education. Prior to her position at UCSD, she was an Assistant Professor at Grand Valley State University. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Design and build at home: development of a low
, driving anurgent need for university graduates in this area [1]. In 2020, approximately a third ofcybersecurity positions in the United States were vacant [2] and greater vacancy rates areprojected in the future.Given the significant need, a variety of techniques have been utilized in cybersecurity educationto attempt to attract students and increase their interest, course satisfaction and retention.Cybersecurity education techniques have included puzzles [3] and challenges [4] as well asundergraduate research activities [5]. Other studies have assessed the use of techniques such aspeer mentoring [6], peer instruction [7], games [8] and competitions [9] in cybersecurityeducation.Some of these techniques work well in both online and in-person
values, and norms ofparticipation through everyday interactions with each other and the world around them. In thisway, knowledge and skills are socially co-constructed to form a commonly understood notion ofsomething like engineering processes. In addition to the sociocultural perspective, educationresearchers, practitioners and educators have used various frameworks to describe facets ofknowledge, including awareness, that they might observe or try to elicit. One of theseframeworks is Bloom’s Taxonomy, a framework that was updated to A taxonomy for learning,teaching, and assessing: A revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in 2001 [8].Bloom’s Taxonomy complements the sociocultural perspective when trying to understand facetsof
digital and physicalexplorations. Digitally, once the group assigned to build the archive in Rhino and Revit had asubstantial inventory, they began two tests. The first, performed in Revit, used the results of theinitial testing, which revealed components that had useful, and rare, structural assets, to testvarious structural approaches for the project. Through this assessment, it was confirmed thatthese large panels, which were discovered within an Isuzu assembly plant during the initialscavenging efforts, had the precision and structural capacity to become the chief framing elementfor the project. (Image 04) They were also, importantly, widely available for free, producedwhenever new engines arrived to the plant. Armed with this knowledge, both
A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation of Project Team FunctioningAbstractThis paper examines the effectiveness of teams in two distinct cohorts at the same university:engineering students enrolled in a Senior Design Capstone class, and business students enrolledin a business communication course. Both cohorts received identical professionalcommunication training on teamwork, conflict management, presentations, and team leadership.Both groups worked on similarly sized long-term project teams and completed the same pre- andpost-surveys to assess how their teams were functioning. The results point to differences andsimilarities in how students from two different disciplines function on a project team. Weidentify some characteristics that make a
archives and indicated struggles due to ethical, legal and technical problems[23]. All this literature is valuable, yet it does not indicate the applicability of FAIR withinengineering and medical scholarly articles. This study seeks to fill this gap, increasingawareness and enhancing research data management services provided to faculty, students andresearch groups.MethodsThis study is based on a mixed methodology of reviewing journals data sharing policies, creatingdescriptions, tables and coding to assess the articles. The articles, journals and publishers ofAerospace, Industrial Mechanical Science and Medical faculty affiliated with UIUC and CICOM are the focus of this study. A thorough review of data policies of journal and journalpublishers
campuses across the globe and are integral to the educationof students throughout colleges of engineering [1]–[5]. These spaces house a variety ofmachining and rapid-prototyping tools and are meant to facilitate a creative and encouragingatmosphere to allow users to work their way through iterative design cycles [6]–[8]. The type ofopen-ended design projects that tend to occur in such spaces promote active learning, which hasbeen consistently associated with uniquebenefits over traditional lecture-basedteaching. Such gains include improvedlearning [9]–[12] and retention [13]; higherstudent self-assessment of associatedcourses [12], [14]; and improved retentionof students, particularly in underrepresentedgroups [10], [15]–[17]. However, pitfallsand
: Assessment of Student Achievement (ASA), Advanced Technology Education (ATE), Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI), and Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics Scholarships (CSEMS). Prior to Keene State College he taught in the Manufacturing Engineering Tech- nology department at Wentworth Institute of Technology. He has also served as an adjunct professor for the Plastics Engineering Program for the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He has been a consultant for Ford Motor Company, Polaroid Inc., Timken Aerospace, and SMITHS Industries to name a few. As a guest scientist he consulted at the Army Materials Research for over 13 years in the Composite Devel- opment Division. He has numerous
. . . . In terms of notifying emergency services, we are concerned about false positives. In the case of a game, there are likely coaches and trainers that can assess the situation and notify emergency services if necessary. But, if the athlete is running or biking by themselves, then it might be wise to contact emergency services if the athlete doesn’t acknowledge the problem shortly after hypoglycemia is detected. This might be a good question for a diabetic or an athlete. Thanks for the questions and keep up the good work! Heather.Figure 11: Sample response to student questions about the project
CEE PhD fellowship cap for the academic year of 2019-2020 for his research contribution in the field of transportation engineering. Research interest of Mr. Rahman include winter roadway maintenance, shared-use mobility, social-media data analysis, traffic operation at intersection, and connected and au- tonomous vehicle.Dr. Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, Texas A&M University Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez is an associate professor at Texas A and M University in the College of Ed- ucation and Human Development in the department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture. In her research, she is interested in the assessing STEM interventions on student outcomes, measuring academic growth, and evaluating the impact of curricular
2020, because the course was remote, theteam project was software based rather than the prior hands-on rapid prototyping project.3.2. InstrumentsStudents’ performance was assessed using the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Rotations(PSVT:R) [18] to measure student proficiency on spatial visualization skills. The PSVT:R is atimed 30 multiple choice question assessment where students identify the correct objectorientation based on a particular rotation. Participants had 20 minutes to complete the PSVT:Rusing an online learning management system (Canvas for both courses). The same online testwas used both pre-COVID-19 and during the pandemic. In both cases Spatial Vis lessons werethen assigned as part of the students’ regular schoolwork
submission of journals in the course management system to track and discuss group progress and roadblocks – Creation of an online Request for Information inquiry file using Google Forms available to the entire class for examination and discussion during scope development and verification. o External assessment – The project assessment incorporated real professional relationships in the project review. Project sponsors and leaders in the regional construction sector were engaged in the ongoing development of the project by the students. RESOURCE CURATION AND PRESENTATIONThe curation of resources to reduce the anxiety of students in research activities was a
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enrollments for Hispanic/Latino, American Indian/AlaskaNative, and African American students (all of whom are generally underrepresented in S&E) grewby 65%, 55%, and 50%, respectively. Yet, concerns remain about persistent academic achievementgaps between various demographic groups, STEM teacher quality, the rankings of U.S. studentson international STEM assessments, foreign student enrollments and increased educationattainment in other countries, and the ability of the U.S. STEM education system to meet domesticdemand for STEM labor.To better understanding STEM efforts, different kinds of data sources are used, such as NationalAssessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Trends in International Mathematics and ScienceStudy (TIMSS), Program for
applicants in” as opposed to writing qualificationsto screen them out. When candidates are selected for phone interviews, then selected for on-siteinterviews, committees must be able to base those selections on screening criteria that are clearlylinked to the qualifications, as opposed to basing them on their own professional experientialvalues, and (unchecked) assumptions.In addition, the demographic impact of screening is assessed after selection of candidates forphone interviews, and then again after selection of candidates for on-site interviews, to allowcommittees to determine whether their process might have led to the disproportionate eliminationof one group or another. In such an event, the OSU Search Advocate program will assistcommittees
Paper ID #17712Beyond the Technical: Developing Lifelong Learning and Metacognition forthe Engineering WorkplaceProf. Rose M. Marra Ph.D., University of Missouri Rose M. Marra is a Professor of Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri. She is PI of the NSF-funded Supporting Collaboration in Engineering Education, and has studied and published on engineering education, women and minorities in STEM, online learning and assessment. Marra holds a PhD. in Educational Leadership and Innovation and worked as a software engineer before entering academe.Dr. So Mi Kim, University of Missouri Dr. So Mi Kim completed her