Paper ID #25013Integration outcomes and cultural capital in a NSBE ChapterTasha Zephirin, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Tasha Zephirin is a Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is an Executive Assistant for the National Association of Multicultural Program Advocates (NAMEPA) Inc. and has served as the Graduate Student Representative on the Purdue Engineering Advisory Council. Her research interests include exploring the role of noncurricular engineering education initiatives in the engineering experience, especially within and across
the 2017 WEPAN Inclusive Culture and Equity Award.Dr. Marie Claire Horner-Devine Dr. Claire Horner-Devine is the co-founder and co-director of three, federally funded, national programs (BRAINS, WEBS, and LATTICE) designed to accelerate and improve the career advancement of early- career women and researchers from underrepresented groups in STEM. She is also is the founder of Counterspace Consulting and creates professional development and leadership opportunities for STEM professionals, grounded in social science research and with equity, diversity and inclusion at their core. She has published this work in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CBE – Life Sciences Education and Neuron. Dr. Horner
Paper ID #43435Anti-racism, Inclusion, Diversity and Equity in Database Curriculum ThroughGroup Research Projects on Historical, Social and Ethical Database RelatedTopicsDr. Ioulia Rytikova, George Mason University Ioulia Rytikova is a Professor and an Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University. She received a B.S./M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Automated Control Systems Engineering and Information Processing. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Data Science and Big Data Analytics, Cognitive and Learning Sciences, Educational Data Mining
, CivilEngineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, and Miningand Minerals Engineering. Graduate coordinators from each department were invited to providenames of students in their department who were doing equity work.Figure 3: Count of students’ primary academic departmentFigure 4: Count of students’ source of financial support for educational and living expensesThe social identities of students were diverse in terms of gender identity, race/ethnicity, sexualorientation, first-generation status, and having a disability/chronic illness. Thirteen students(59.1%) identified as being a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Eight students consideredthemselves a first-generation undergraduate student (36.4%), and twelve students
American Council for Construction Education (ACCE). The program currently has 138students enrolled as majors and emphasizes estimating and scheduling skills. The programincludes a construction capstone project course which students complete in their last semester.This paper discusses the evolution of the Capstone course at Western Carolina University, thepositive contributions of the course to the program, and lessons learned from past offerings.The capstone course serves many purposes for the Construction Management program andstudents. The course is a simulation of a general contracting construction project from obtainingwork through the estimating, bidding, scheduling, and cash flow projections using plans andspecifications provided by an
Entrepreneurial Engineering CareerAbstractIf an engineering program has superb technical content, what, if anything, can be done to raisethe level of educational excellence in its graduates? Especially, if a key intent is to increase thedegree entrepreneurial-mindedness of its graduates and promote innovation? We believe theanswer is to truly integrate the core professional competencies cultivated by general educationinto the engineering curriculum and to have general education courses more specifically connectto issues that engineers need to be more aware of in a career climate of extensive globalization.General education is an essential educational component to be embraced as being on par inimportance in an engineering curriculum with technical topics
AC 2008-269: INCREASING AWARENESS ABOUT SERVICE INDUSTRIESOPPORTUNITIES FOR IET AND IE GRADUATESDonna Summers, University of Dayton Page 13.737.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Increasing Awareness About Service Industries Opportunities For IET and IE GraduatesToday’s global economy has significantly affected job opportunities for IndustrialEngineering Technology and Industrial Engineering graduates. Fortunately, IET and IEare adaptable degrees. The tools and techniques taught IETs and IEs focus onproductivity, costs, quality, and safety. Can you think of any organization, anywhere inthe world, that wouldn’t want to improve in these
Conference. Detailed summaries of each of the 8topics covered, generated from the Facilitators’ summaries and the Flip Chart notes, are includedin the Appendix. Also included there is a “Summary of Summaries” which attempts to capturethe common threads across all the specific topics. The current discussion is based on thissummary of summaries.Current State Positives:First and foremost, the current state of engineering education does supply industry withgraduates who have the technical competence they need. This is seen as an absolute necessitywhich must not be lost sight of when seeking change. In a closely related vein, the current statesuccessfully addresses most of the core demands of accreditation, particularly those“professional criteria” set
Paper ID #33691Self Reflection of Engineering Majors in General Chemistry IIDr. Patricia Muisener, Stevens Institute of Technology Dr. Patricia Muisener is an Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate and Undergrad- uate Education in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. She teaches and coordinates the General Chemistry I and II course sequence. She was previously at the University of South Florida as a faculty member and Assistant Chair in the Chemistry Department. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a M.S
setof 1 sh to 2 sh courses available to all engineers (and other students), with topics that address theaforementioned issues, meeting the needs of the typical engineering student that enters auniversity program, and meeting the needs likely to be forthcoming upon graduation. Since theseclasses are not currently available, and may be perceived as “radical” by the arts and sciencesfaculty, who have been comfortable for years teaching classes very different (and perhaps evenself-serving to their research or political interests), ASEE or a similar organization may need toserve as a central collection point of individuals willing to develop such specialized courses thataddress these deficits in the current general education course offerings. These
Strands-Model General Education was adopted to: Promote students’ intellectual development by affording them course-work in the fundamental academic disciplines of mathematics, natural science, literature, history, and social science; and Develop students’ skills and dispositions in six essential areas so that, upon successfully completing the curriculum, graduates ought to be able to: 1. Demonstrate skill in inquiry and analysis, including using a design process, synthesizing information from relevant sources, drawing conclusions, and recognizing implications and limitations (Inquiry and Analysis); 2. Demonstrate insight into their own cultural rules and biases, to have accurate understandings of other
engineering team. The focus of this team is on providing a consistent, comprehensive, and constructive educational experience that endorses the student-centered, professional and practice- oriented mission of Northeastern University. She teaches the Cornerstone of Engineering courses to first- year students as well as courses within the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. She is a recent recipient of the Outstanding Teacher of First-Year Students Award and is interested in research that compliments and informs her teaching. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Evaluating Student Success in a Pre-College General Engineering Program
University of Athens in 2007. Shortly thereafter she moved to the United States to pursue graduate studies at the University of Florida. She graduated with a M.S. in CE in 2009 and a Ph.D. in 2012. Dr. Michalaka is passionate about teaching in college and K-12 levels and conducting research in both transportation engineering, focused on traffic operations, congestion pricing, and traffic simulation, and engineering education. In 2020, she also obtained a Master of Science in Project Management from The Citadel. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Generative Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Engineering Education; Strengths, Challenges and ValidationPooya Niksiar
focuses on human-computer interaction, human-AI interaction, and social and collaborative computing. Since 2023, Dr. Smith has been continuously involved in efforts to assess and understand student adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) across campus. She participated in writing institution-wide policies for Mines, and she has given numerous guest lectures and organized numerous workshops on the ethics and use of GenAI in engineering education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Assessing Student Adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence across Engineering Education from 2023 to 2024AbstractGenerative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools and models have the
different groups of students: doctoral vs. masters students, first-generation vs.students who have had at least one parent earn a bachelor’s degree, difference between students indifferent majors, and potential different demographic groups. The results will be used to makerecommendations for a sustainable program for addressing graduate student professional,academic, and personal development opportunities and meeting the needs addressed in theNational Academy of Engineers’ 2018 Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century report.ConclusionAnalysis of participant reflections of GradPathways professional development workshops revealedmotivations for students selecting workshops, participant perceptions of workforce skills acquired,and the capacity
. I also approachedthe class with an understanding that becoming an effective lecturer is a process and that the skillsand techniques required for graduate courses in my own subject area will require a different sortof preparation and interaction than will large undergraduate level classes. Designing Problems, Evaluating Student Learning, and Developing a Course Alkim Akyurtlu, Graduate Student Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State UniversityThe EESP sessions by Ken Heller, Lillian McDermott, and Jim Stice were most influential inshaping my outlook on my role as an educator. The first two sessions concentrated on specifictechniques in the classroom, such as cooperative
Paper ID #18399Assessment and Implementation of an Interdisciplinary General EducationMinorKirsten A. Davis, Virginia Tech Kirsten is a PhD student in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also completed her mas- ter’s degree in Higher Education. She has previously worked in industry in the field of IT analytics and has experience with corporate recruiting. Her primary research interests are engineering study abroad, developing intercultural competency in engineering students, and international higher education.Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Tech Graduate Student in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. His
Ethics Institute and the Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education—to facilitate exchange and collaboration between philosophers and engineers. Prior to joining Penn State, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Science History Institute working on the history of engineering ethics education. Shih earned his PhD and MS in science and technology studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. He also has a graduate certificate in engineering education (ENGE) from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) Assisted Learning: Pushing the
Educate New Generation on Nuclear Technology through Collaborating Engineering Project Suxia Cui, John Fuller, Pamela Holland-Obiomon, and Warsame H. Ali Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Prairie View A&M University Session: Interdisciplinary programs, sustainability and alternative energy as related to engineering educationAbstractFor the past several decades, nuclear technology has remained as one of the top interested issuesdue to its application as a new energy resource as well as a threaten weapon of massivedestruction. In the United States, the National Nuclear Security Administration
to enhanceeducation. Studies show that students benefit from using ChatGPT in the classroom [16, 17], andmany educators now view AI as a valuable tool for enriching learning experiences for bothstudents [18, 19] and teachers [20, 21].Project ApproachResearch Categorization FrameworkFigure 1, below, gives an overview of what will be covered within this work. AI is broken downinto (i) Predictive AI and (ii) Generative AI. These topics are further categorized by (a) learningtype and architecture and (b) application level and focus, which will be explained in detail below.Although some aspects of the categorization may be subjective, it primarily serves as aframework for organizing the research and highlighting trends within each category
education. Therefore, offeringa single elective SE-related course or covering the topic to some extent without providingopportunities for students to actually make use of the knowledge in different settings is not agood solution to the issue of software testing; these techniques require repeated practice beforethey become second nature.Our ApproachSoftware testing is an extremely broad subject, and even a dedicated one-semester course cannotadequately cover all the important concepts and techniques with an appropriate level of detail, letalone a course with a more general learning objective. Instead of only briefly covering softwaretesting (if at all) in one course, we need to teach this important topic from beginner programmingclasses (e.g., CS
National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam, teaching two short courses in quantitative analysis to advanced finance stu- dents.Yufan FeiJihao LI, University of Southern CaliforniaJunqiang WangJunmeng Xu, University of Southern California ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Automated Analytic Dataset Generation and Assessment for Engineering Analytics Education Bruce Wilcox, Yufan Fei, Jihao Li, Junqiang Wang, Junmeng Xu University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USAAbstractIn recent years, there has been significant growth in analytics programs at the undergraduate andmasters’ levels in Industrial and Systems
as a research engineer for the National Association of Home Builders Research Foundation where he was a project manager for the EER energy efficiency research and demonstration residence. He recently com- pleted his Ph.D. concentrating on reconstruction and demolition with a cognate specialty in education. He currently teaches in and administers the Purdue Department of Building Construction Management’s graduate program.Joe Orczyk, Purdue University Joseph J. Orczyk, PhD, PE Associate Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette 1989 Purdue University - Ph.D. - construction engineering & management 1981 University of Michigan - MBA 1975 Pennsylvania State University - BS - civil engineering Joe
scientist at Gould Inc. and two years as a senior experimental ceramist at General Motors Corporation. Page 14.890.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Multi-Institute Team Teaching (MITT): A Novel Approach to Highly Specialized Graduate EducationSummaryAs engineering becomes more and more specialized, academic institutions often have fewerspecialists to teach specific topic areas. This situation can potentially compromise the student‟sability to obtain a comprehensive education. Often as a result, highly specialized graduatecourses cannot be offered due to the small enrollment of students
All M, T, C, S, L, Lego VDG I, A S, T, E M M, H A & Sensors Generators VDG Design A S, T, E L M A, S, T, P, U, E T, C, W Use of LegosConclusions and Future Plans Focusing on technology innovations, rather than education research, this paper reveals for the first time Lego-basedVan de Graaff generators field-tested on approximately 200 K-12, undergraduate and graduate students. As most of theeducators in engineering in the US have doctoral
, rather than education research, this paper reveals for the first time Lego-basedVan de Graaff generators field-tested on approximately 200 K-12, undergraduate and graduate students. As most of theeducators in engineering in the US have doctoral degrees in research areas related to engineering fields, their knowledgeand focus on education research is limited. On the other hand most of those who have doctoral degrees in educationresearch are less focused on the use of latest micro and nanotechnologies in their everyday research work. Consequently,it has become difficult to develop research partnerships with education researchers particularly in the areas of newtechnologies. Nevertheless the future plans of the research reported in this paper
, rather than education research, this paper reveals for the first time Lego-basedVan de Graaff generators field-tested on approximately 200 K-12, undergraduate and graduate students. As most of theeducators in engineering in the US have doctoral degrees in research areas related to engineering fields, their knowledgeand focus on education research is limited. On the other hand most of those who have doctoral degrees in educationresearch are less focused on the use of latest micro and nanotechnologies in their everyday research work. Consequently,it has become difficult to develop research partnerships with education researchers particularly in the areas of newtechnologies. Nevertheless the future plans of the research reported in this paper
AC 2011-1197: DEVELOPMENT OF ENGINEERING LABORATORY PROJECTSFOR GENERAL EDUCATION ENGINEERING COURSESJohn Krupczak, Hope College Professor of Engineering, Hope College, Holland, MI 49423Lauren Aprill Page 22.493.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Development of Engineering Laboratory Projects for General Education Engineering CoursesAbstractA group of laboratory projects is being developed for use in either general education engineeringcourses to improve technological literacy or in introduction to engineering courses. The projectseach focus on the construction of a working
AC 2009-63: THE IMPORTANCE OF AN ON-CAMPUS RESIDENCYEXPERIENCE IN DISTANCE-EDUCATION PROGRAMSThomas Descoteaux, Norwich University Director of Engineering Graduate Programs Norwich University Northfield, VTDavid Muckerman, CH2M HIll Client Service Manager CH2M HILL Atlanta, GAScott Sabol, Vermont Technical College Professor and Chairman Architectural & Building Engineering Technology Dept. Vermont Technical College Randolph Center, VT Page 14.1226.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 The Importance of an On-Campus Residency Experience In Distance Education
Paper ID #30375A Framework for Evaluation of Large Online Graduate Level Courses forProfessional LearnersDr. Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Douglas is an Assistant Professor in the Purdue School of Engineering Education. Her research is focused on improving methods of assessment in large learning environments to foster high-quality learning opportunities. Additionally, she studies techniques to validate findings from machine-generated educational data.Hillary E. Merzdorf, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Hillary E. Merzdorf