currently a PhD Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is also an assistant professor in the Industrial Engineering department at the National University of Tachira in Venezuela. He holds a Bachelor and Master degree in Industrial Engineering from the National University of Tachira in Venezuela and a Master in Business Administration from Temple University. Homero was member of the Fulbright program from 2011 to 2013. Homero’s current research interests are in active learning pedagogies, cultural differences, teamwork, and entrepreneurship education.Mr. Prateek Shekhar, Virginia Tech PhD Student Department of
and Entrepreneurship Education”.In Spring 2017, the dryer project was conducted as part of the MANE 450-“Manufacturing Designand Implementation” class. Three Manufacturing Engineering students were involved in the designof an alpha-prototype hops dryer. Through the project, students learned and gained engineering“design development skills” and “organization and team skills” [ 1 ]. The project enlightenedstudents on time and budget constraints, the challenges of knowledge application, and theimportance of outreach activities. Two students successfully graduated in Spring 2017 and theother student graduated in Fall 2017. This paper details the challenges, solutions and outcomes ofthis project-based course. The learning outcome from this project
), founder of The Design & Entrepreneurship Network (DEN), and Division I rower. In her spare time, Bre teaches design thinking workshops for higher education faculty/administrators at the Stanford d.School, coaches a global community of learners through IDEO U, and fails miserably at cooking.Dr. Elizabeth A. Reddy, University of San Diego Elizabeth Reddy is a post-doctoral research associate at the University of San Diego’s Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering. She is a social scientist, holding a PhD in cultural anthropology from the Univer- sity of California at Irvine and an MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago. She is Co-Chair of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology and
interactions with others [8], and data from anumber of studies of undergraduate learning suggest that student-faculty interaction issignificantly and positively related to college grade point average, degree attainment, graduatingwith honors, and enrollment in graduate school [9-12]. In addition, a recent study concluded thatfaculty interaction is significantly and positively associated with gains in engineering students’design and professional skills [13]. Instructor-student interaction can happen in various ways and degrees of intensity. Forinstance, faculty may interact with students both in and out of the classroom, discuss course-related topics, and offer academic advice. Out of class conversations on substantive matter, andfaculty-supervised
- mental degradation of materials. His education in the U.K. included B.Sc. (University of Leeds) and Ph.D. (University of Birmingham) degrees in Metallurgy and a diploma in Industrial Administration (As- ton University). He was the recipient of the Henry Morton Distinguished Teaching Professor Award in 2009. As Associate Dean, Prof. Sheppard had a leading role in the development of the undergraduate engineering curriculum at Stevens, including innovations in design education and initiatives to include entrepreneurship, sustainability, and global competency for undergraduate students.Dr. Susan Lowes, Teachers College, Columbia University Dr. Susan Lowes is Director of Research and Evaluation at the Institute for Learning
Paper ID #35217Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Virtual Pulley Inquiry-Based LearningActivity on Increasing Student Understanding of Newton’s Second LawMegan N Phillips, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Megan Phillips is a fourth-year student at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo pur- suing a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering with a concentration in Mechanical Design. She is minoring in German and Entrepreneurship and expects to graduate in March 2022. She has been work- ing as a learning assistant for the Department of Mechanical Engineering at California Polytechnic
credit hours) in classes such as written composition, oralcommunication, information literacy, and design thinking. An initial cohort of 35 first semesterfreshman students participated in the Seminar and Design Studio learning experiences allowingthem to explore their own story of who they were (Seminar) while tackling world hunger bydeveloping a “Garden in a Box” (Design Studio). During the spring of 2015 the faculty teamdecided to shift from a competency per outcome per credit hour system to a system wherecompetencies are separate from courses. The team believed this approach leverages the benefitsof utilizing traditional (and online) courses for scaffolding learning while eliminating thetractable but very large task of mapping every course
within Clemson Universityˆa C™s Glenn Department of Civil Engineering, the Founder and Owner of Integrated Resilience, LLC, he is a former Fluor Fellow, Director of Resilience Solutions, and Secretariat of the World EconomicDr. Jeffery M Plumblee II, JMP2 LLC Jeffery Plumblee is a project management, innovation, sustainability, and education consultant. He holds his BS, MS, MBA, and PhD from Clemson University, where he focused on civil engineering. Plumblee has managed a faculty grant and training program for an innovation and entrepreneurship nonprofit; served as a tenure-track faculty member in the Department of Engineering Leadership and Program Management at The Citadel; and developed and managed multiple
prototyping, entrepreneurship, andmanufacturing. We want students to be as conversant with making as they are with their calculators orcomputers, for making to be something they do when it makes sense to create a physical example orprototype. Further, we want it to be ok for this to be something you do for fun. We want students to beempowered to physically realize their ideas for class or personal use. Cultivating this environment willhelp foster student innovation and self-confidence (Dougherty, 2013; Brunhaver et al, 2012).Overview of Spaces and InitiativesDistributed Makerspace modelThe flagship makerspace at Bucknell University will be the re-envisioned craft center, opening in the Fall2015 semester. This space is co-located with a campus cafe
Paper ID #41398Analyzing Attrition: Predictive Model of Dropout Causes among EngineeringStudentsMs. Cristian Saavedra-Acuna, Universidad Andres Bello, Concepcion, Chile Cristian Saavedra is an assistant professor at the School of Engineering at the University Andres Bello in Concepcion, Chile. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering and a master’s degree in Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Cristian is certified in Industrial Engineering, University Teaching, Online Hybrid and Blended Education, and Entrepreneurship Educators. He teaches industrial engineering students and carries out academic
Paper ID #49646Integrating Engineering Research Experiences for Teachers into the K-12ClassroomMs. Catherine Elisabeth Lugo, UT Arlington Research Experience for Teachers - Fort Worth ISD Catherine Lugo graduated from Baylor University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Minor in Entrepreneurship. Before teaching at Fort Worth ISD, Lugo led the Robotics and Engineering K-12 Programs for the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas. Lugo will be in her 6th year of teaching engineering and robotics at I.M. Terrell Academy, where she built and developed the robotics program which features VEX Robotics and
energy systems, and these topics areaddressed in a future course in the curriculum.Baseline survey resultsDuring the fall 2018 semester a previously developed systems thinking skills survey (STSS) [16,17] was implemented as a pre- and post-test in the unmodified course in order to collect baselinedata. Participation in the survey was voluntary. The STSS was implemented usingSurveyMonkey® and the students that decided to participate completed the survey out of theclassroom. The pre-test was applied the first week of classes and 56 out of 58 students answeredthe survey. The post-test was applied the last week of classes and only 34 students completed thesurvey.The STSS [16, 17] has two sections. In the first section students use a Likert-scale to
Professional Responsibility Assessment (EPRA) tool was distributed toundergraduate engineering students across all majors and all academic years at 17 universities inthe spring of 2014 to assess student views of social responsibility. In total, 1885 undergraduatestudents completed the survey. One question on this survey asked if there were any collegeclasses that the student found influential to his/her views of social responsibility. Forty-threepercent of the students said that no classes had been influential to their views of socialresponsibility. If the student answered yes, an open-ended question then asked the student todescribe what courses had been influential and in what ways. These 1224 open-ended responseswere coded using emergent coding
23.1250.2Central Florida (UCF). To date, each of the collaborating partners has taught the SLS (spring2012) while two of the partners have additionally offered the FLBC and PMSC. Investigatorsfrom two of the institutions observed both the FLBC and PMSC at the third partner institutionduring the summer 2012 as preparation for offering both of these programs in summer 2013.Each course type is summarized below.Semester Long Seminar (SLS) - Each university offered this course as a 1 credit hour gradedcourse in spring 2012. The classes met for 50 minutes each week in a 15-week semester.Students were expected to work two hours per week, outside of class, on assignments. Eachinstitution handled recruitment for the seminar in varied ways. Both UCF and WSU have
Paper ID #23905Exploring How Engineering Internships and Undergraduate Research Expe-riences Inform and Influence College Students’ Career Decisions and FuturePlansKayla Powers, Stanford UniversityDr. Helen L. Chen, Stanford University Helen L. Chen is a research scientist in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of ePortfolio Initiatives in the Office of the Registrar at Stanford University. Chen’s current research interests include: 1) engineering and entrepreneurship education; 2) the pedagogy of ePortfolios and reflective practice in higher education; and 3) reimagining
” Summer Fellowship Award” in 2019 and 2020, ”Robberson Summer Research and Creative Activity Fellowship” in 2017, ”Calvin & Marilyn Vogt Endowed Scholarship” in 2016, ”Outstanding Teaching Performance Award” in 2014 & 2015, and ”Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) Scholarship” in 2014.Dr. Mahdi Yazdanpour, Northern Kentucky University Dr. Mahdi Yazdanpour is an Assistant Professor of Mechatronics Engineering Technology at Northern Kentucky University. He is also the advisor of the Norse Robotics Club (NRC) and IEEE student chap- ter at NKU. Dr. Yazdanpour received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University, the MSc degree in Industrial Engineering from Amirkabir
Paper ID #20228Using Undergraduate Research to Teach Advanced MaterialsDr. William M. Jordan, Baylor University William Jordan is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in metallurgical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, an M.A. degree in theology from Denver Seminary, and a Ph.D. in mechanics and materials from Texas A & M University. He teaches materials-related courses and does research with natural fiber composite materials. He is also interested in entrepreneurship,sustainable engineering, and appropriate technology in developing countries
relation to environments, technologies, and human lives.Dr. Breanne Przestrzelski, University of San Diego Bre Przestrzelski, PhD, is a post-doctoral research associate in the General Engineering department in the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, where she seeks to innovatively integrate social justice, humani- tarian advancement, and peace into the traditional engineering canon. Before joining USD in August 2017, Bre spent 9 years at Clemson University, where she was a three-time graduate of the bioengineering program (BS, MS, and PhD), founder of The Design & Entrepreneurship Network (DEN), and Division I rower. In her spare time, Bre teaches design thinking workshops for higher education faculty
High Resource / Low Impact ResourceFigure 1. Cost-benefit visualization conveying average annual summary information offour first-year co-curriculars. Bubble size is proportional to the average number ofstudents participating over the life of each program offering.References[1] D. Rae and D.E. Melton,“Developing an entrepreneurial mindset in U.S. engineering education: the KEEN project,” J. of Eng. Entrepreneurship, 2016, 7(3).[2] Castaneda, D.I., et al., “24for24: 24-minute engagements in a summer bridge program for the Collegiate Class of 2024,” in Sixth Int. Conf. on E-Learning, 2020, 6 pp.[3] A.C. Estes, R.W. Welch., and S.J
which is discussed annually with theadvisor and perhaps another mentor. Additionally, coffee sessions and seminar series are theplatforms for informal interaction and the building of relationships among students and facultymembers, as well as people outside of their networks. The program also furnishes thesupplementary courses and activities including Energy/Entrepreneurship courses and aninternational summer school program in Computational Materials Science.Lessons LearnedThe main challenge of interdisciplinary programs is to help students work across traditionaldisciplinary boundaries. To overcome this obstacle, several studies pointed out the elements ofinterdisciplinary education [5, 8, 9, 10]; in particular, a review of the graduate-level
creating value elements of EM weredeployed in the class in the context of the use of a Corsi Rosenthal cube (a do-it-yourselfstructure that has recently become popular as an inexpensive way to reduce indoor particlepollution). Students generated concept maps pre-and post- micromoment intervention using thefreely available CMap Tools software. The digital concept maps were scored using thetraditional scoring approach, and the scores were used to provide a quantitative assessment ofwhether EM-oriented micromoments enhanced students’ entrepreneurial mindset. The conceptmap scoring (16 maps were scored for 8 students) indicated a significant increase in averageconcept map scores from the baseline average score of 30 to the after-intervention
experience through supplementalworkshops and seminars. Considering previous research, the Translational Application ofNanoscale Multiferroic Systems (TANMS) research center designed, implemented and assesseda comprehensive REU program to engage students in research during both the academic year andsummer months. TANMS’s REU is an eight-week research experience for undergraduates frommultiple 4-year universities and community colleges. The program components include researchin one of TANMS laboratories, seminars on ethics and diversity, workshops on entrepreneurship,and social events. These activities are woven into an experience to instill sixteen specific skillsthat were grouped into five core categories: I) communication (2 skills); II
the culture of their home campus. Students alsoutilized digital portfolios in the course to complete reflections on class content related to eachGrand Challenge theme area. It should be noted that, ASU operates a well-established NAEGrand Challenge Scholars Program that enrols more than 100 students every year. Throughthe knowledge transfer initialized by the joint course, UNSW aims to gradually launch itsown Grand Challenges for Engineering program locally in Australia.This work provides information about the course and describes the outcomes of the course asrelated to the students’ experience, instructor’s experience, and comparison to other courses.Formal assessment of course effectiveness was not completed in this pilot effort. To
five year SCUengineering programs and suggest ways to support future growth and improve the quality ofexisting programs with proven adaptive mesh network architecture. Analogous to a wirelessmesh network, a communication topology is implemented between universities (each like a meshnode) that can relay data across the network with a clearly defined protocol (standardization andarticulation agreements).Existing SCU programs and in particular Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities (LACU)Engineering Physics Programs have many advantages over large engineering schools. However,they may be weaker in the number of class offerings, available ABET BS majors, departmentdistinctive capacities, low upper class enrollments, facilities and equipment, and
Oneself. Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation.6. Pistrui, D., Layer, J. and Dietrich, S. (2013). Mapping the Behaviors, Motives and Professional Competencies of Entrepreneurially Minded Engineers in Theory and Practice: An Empirical Investigation. The Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship, ASEE Special Issue, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 39-54.7. Dietrich, S. (2012). A Critical Examination of the Construct Validity of the TTI Performance DNA Survey for the Purpose of Differentiating the Entrepreneurially-Minded Engineer. Doctoral Dissertation, College of Technology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.8. Pistrui, D., Bonnstetter, R., Bonnstetter, B. and Fry, C. (2011). Creating, Educating and Assessing a New Class of
AC 2007-576: FORMING THE GLOBAL ENGINEER FOR THE AMERICAS:GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND OPPORTUNITIES INVOLVINGLATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEANIvan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University Ivan Esparragoza is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Penn State University. His interests are in engineering design education, innovative design, and global design. He has introduced multinational design projects in a freshman introductory engineering design course in collaboration with institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean as part of his effort to contribute to the formation of world class engineers for the Americas. He is actively involved in the Latin American and Caribbean
humanitiesand social sciences as core engineering contents. This challenge is reflected in thedevelopment of engineering curricula, where the central issue is how to embody anddemonstrate creativity and hybridity through the integration of humanities, entrepreneurship,social sciences, and art (HESA). The goal of this paper is to explore the nature of hybridity inhybrid engineering education and its implications in a broader context. Research methods and data collectionResearch site: The university The university is a prestigious, research-focused engineering institution located in amajor industrial city, often compared to Carnegie Mellon University for its forward-lookingapproach to building collaborative and mutually
- led entrepreneurship activities, all coupled with the culture shift on college campuses influenced by the maker movement have played major role in inspiring universities to invest in Makerspaces. [7, p.1]Makerspaces provide the setting where anyone, no matter their skill level, has the opportunity tolearn by doing, and to get advice and support form peers in the process. As a 2013Educause Learning Initiative Report states, “…makerspaces have become arenas for informal,project-driven, self-directed learning, providing workspace to tinker, try out solutions, and hearinput from colleagues with similar interests. Where these spaces are open to use by faculty,students, and staff from a cross-section of content areas, they promote
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degree programs are embedded with innovation instruction andexercises, innovation training will remain out of reach for most low-income students.The bridge program engages students in a specially designed 3-credit hour course where 2-credithours are dedicated to teaching students about innovation and developing their innovative thinkingand behaviors. One-credit hour is devoted to student success strategies and developing feelings ofbeing welcome at the university through guest speakers. Outside of class, bridge studentsparticipate in cohort building and mentoring activities. The bridge program included 12 NSF S-STEM students as well as 12 non-STEM students, all of which are participating in the HonorsCollege Path Program which is designed to