, leading to the creation of new applications for new and existing technology; patents and licenses. 2. Scholarship of integration, bringing and connecting knowledge together from various sources in the field as in course and curriculum improvements and innovations, developing measures to increase the relevance of ET curriculum to industry, writing of undergraduate text books and book chapters. 3. Scholarship of application through consulting activities, leading to improved processes, practices, programs and products in industry. Page 8.1162.5 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering
leading and largest MSIs in theU.S., thus rendering and reflecting the sample to be representative of the minority population.The recommendations provided are preliminary, and future research could explore additionaldemographics and engage a more diverse student population. Furthermore, future studies couldexplore if different cohorts, such as undergraduates and graduates, or student nationalities, suchas international students and local students, have a significant impact on their motivations. Thiscould contribute to a broader understanding and support a larger and more representative sampleof students across various educational institutions.Conclusions and RecommendationsThe findings of this study revealed that several academic, financial, and
academia that is inclusive, collaborative, and supportive as well as connected to industry,government, and academia on multiple levels. SWE WIA addresses the identified gap inacademic community building by bringing together academics from a variety of institution typesinterested in topics broader than (but indirectly related to) promotion and tenure requirementssuch as support and technical networks, fostering women interested in academia, and bestpractice sharing.With respect to network building the SWE Women in Academia community facilitatesmentorship, collaboration (industry, academic), and consultant opportunities. As discussedpreviously, a formal mentoring program was started to connected junior and senior faculty froma variety of
contributing to the overall achievements of the institutional goals.Programmatic accreditation, on the other hand, can apply to schools, departments, or programsthat are part of a larger educational institution.According to the US Department of Education, there are specific roles that accreditation isexpected to play within the educational system:7 1. Assess the quality of academic programs at institutions of higher education 2. Create a culture of continuous improvement of academic quality at colleges and universities and stimulate a general raising of standards among educational institutions 3. Involve faculty and staff comprehensively in institutional evaluation and planning 4. Establish criteria for professional certification and
community colleges partnering with Drexel University andalso to middle and high schools participating in activities organized by the AET faculty.Specifically, the hands-on nanotechnology course will be offered to the students of BurlingtonCounty College (BCC), Delaware County Community College (DCCC), Montgomery CountyCommunity College (MCCC), and Pennsylvania Institute of Technology (PIT), which have dualdegree programs with Drexel’s AET program. In addition, the developed course material will beadapted for presentations at the middle and high schools to provide an introduction tonanotechnology with the aim of stimulating an interest in STEM areas.The need for a large number of practical engineers with background in advanced and
Engineering at Kettering University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Synergies between Experience and Study in Graduate Engineering EducationAbstractVarious programs and research initiatives seek to support the success of master’s students inengineering. However, as programs can have diverse groups of students, supporting their successmay not be a one-size fits all. Our work focuses on a group we define as Returners, who spentfive or more years in industry before returning to university for a master’s degree. As part of alarger survey with approximately 300 engineering student participants who were pursuingmaster’s degrees, we asked them to evaluate the influence of their prior work experiences ontheir
in1995 as a means of providing students with academic credit through participation in long-termservice-learning projects. Student teams are vertically-integrated multidisciplinary teams,comprised of students of all years of undergraduate study and multiple majors [1]. Studentoutcomes are often summarized to include technical skills, communication skills, organizationalskills, teamwork experiences, resourcefulness, resource management, sponsor awareness throughcustomer and client interaction, expanded community awareness, and professional ethics [1].Over 30 institutions across the US have an EPICS program, as well as multiple institutionsabroad. The EPICS program was implemented at Arizona State University in 2009 and has sincegrown to
. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2003 Dr. Sheppard was named co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to form the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE), along with faculty at the University of Washington, Colorado School of Mines, and Howard University. More recently (2011) she was named as co-PI of a national NSF innovation center (Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at Stanford on summer research experiences for high school teachers. Her industry experiences
course, and students satisfy thisrequirement in a variety of ways. A large proportion of students participate in real-world,industry-sponsored projects. Nearly all programs have a strong connection with industry at thecapstone level, leveraging their geographical location both to identify design projects and toinvolve people from industry as adjunct faculty in the classroom. In addition, there is interestamong some faculty and administrators in allowing student credit for activities such asundergraduate research or competitive design projects sponsored by student organizations.At the ASU Polytechnic campus, the Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) degreeprogram enrolled its first students in fall of 2005 and graduated the first cohort of
to do something bigger than themselves.” On this project, focusing on“why” supports: • using research to inform instructional practices; • stimulating a socio-technical context in engineering; and • fostering motivation, inspiration, and innovation.A Y-circle is vital to departmental change as a vehicle for implementing and blending processesbased on collaborative transformation, crucial conversations [26], and essential tension [27]. AY-circle is comprised of X-team members, department faculty members, postdocs, academicadvisers and other interested staff, and undergraduate and graduate students. Participants includefuture X-team members who will learn from the experiences of current X-team members. X-teams share progress
engineering education, and c) createfaculty resources needed to lower barriers for participation while developing faculty expertise inLTS. The outcomes from these efforts will include: (1) faculty resources for development,management, and assessment of LTS programs; (2) faculty/staff resources for training otherfaculty in LTS; (3) summary reports/presentations for administrators, industry, and communitypartners; (4) publication of successful programs; and (5) a nationwide picture of faculty andinstitutional transformations.To achieve these goals, our methodology aims to develop a tipping point in engineeringeducation with the 4D Process (Discover, Distill, Design, and Disseminate). The Discoverystage involves reviewing previous LTS efforts through
science and engineering university in China, held the first conference onengineering ethics. Experts and scholars from multiple universities, including SouthwestJiaotong University and Dalian University of Technology, participated in the conference andprovided prospects for China's engineering ethics industry, such as building a curriculumsystem, improving status, and integrating with engineering education. At present, the overall quality of engineering activity teams in our country is difficult toensure, and engineers who enter society have not fully realized their true value, and their rolein enterprises is not prominent. Engineering students from science and engineering universities,as potential targets for engineers, are closely related
knowledge of the social considerations of sustainabilityin a newly implemented course, and identified a need for collaboration with social scientists onthe subject.15 Also, at a recent Center for Sustainable Engineering Workshop (May 2011),participants indicated a gap in the social metrics of measuring sustainability.16Consistent with the findings summarized above, the creative use of recycled materials inconcrete was introduced to students within a term project in the Civil Engineering Materialscourse at Manhattan College during the past three years. In the term project students engage inresearch to design their “Greencrete” using recycled materials, industrial waste products orindustrial byproducts. Students are expected to engage in research and
Paper ID #43863Enhancing Engineering Capstone Design Preparedness: A Systematic CurriculumApproachDr. Pun To (Douglas) Yung, Syracuse University Douglas Yung is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Syracuse University and serves as the Director for the Bioengineering undergraduate program. He completed his B.S. in electrical engineering and mathematics at UCLA in 2003 and later pursued a Ph.D. in bioengineering from Caltech in 2008. Following this, he spent time at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, working on sensor development
” criteria)and giving students an opportunity early on to experience a professional designatmosphere.”9 Participating students are pursuing a minor in “Product Realization” as partof their undergraduate engineering curriculum. The creative educational practices at theSwanson Center are reminiscent of those at IIT’s Invention Center and Northwestern’sEDC program, featuring teams of students solving real-world design problems in acreativity-intense, technologically supportive atmosphere. “Generally,” says Besterfield-Sacre, “five groups participate per semester. We team each group with a corporatesponsor, a faculty advisor, and a graduate-student advisor. While we adhere to no specificeducational or creative pedagogy, students are enabled and
increasing the level of interest in pursuing careers in science,mathematics, and engineering among seventh-graders in the communities adjacent to the Center.This paper will describe these two programs.The NSF Navy Civilian Service (NNCS) ProgramIn this program, ONR, in partnership with NSF, seeks to revitalize the NRE by providing studentscholarship, fellowship, and research support to the Nation’s research universities to create withthe NRE a collaborative educational and research environment which will contribute to thesolution of problems of Navy interest and produce graduates who will work for the Navy upongraduation. The program supports promising graduate and undergraduate students in responseto proposals submitted by university PIs and
the SVEs’ engineeringeducation pathways.ResultsParticipants described a variety of reasons for choosing engineering and expressed a diversity ofentry points into the major. As is the case with such an important decision, participants describedmultiple influences on their decision to major in engineering.Research Question # 1: What are some broader influences on the decision to major inengineering?Theme 1: Decision to major in engineering was made prior to military service (n=7)This group of participants indicated that they were already interested in engineering prior toentering the military. A self-described “late bloomer,” B1AAE performed well in science andmath during high school and took classes in drafting and architecture which he says
India. He has worked as an Assistant Professor (2014–2018) in the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, KLE Technological University, India. He is a certified IUCEE International Engineering Educator. He was awarded the ’Ing.Paed.IGIP’ title at ICTIEE, 2018. He is serving as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education Transformations (JEET). He is interested in conducting engineering education research, and his interests include student retention in online and in-person engineering courses/programs, data mining and learning analytics in engineering education, broadening student participation in engineering, faculty preparedness in cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of
Paper ID #6745A Grand Challenge-based Framework for Contextual Learning in Engineer-ingDr. Lisa G. Huettel, Duke University Dr. Lisa G. Huettel is an associate professor of the practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University where she also serves as associate chair and director of Undergraduate Studies for the department. She received a B.S. in Engineering Science from Harvard University and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Duke University. Her research interests are focused on engineering education, curriculum and laboratory development, and applications of
, including wind, solar, geothermal, and energy ef-ficiency. She has served as a NSF Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education. She alsowas part of the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration working group that devel-oped the Renewable Energy Competency Model (http://www.careeronestop.org/CompetencyModel/). DrAlfano also served as the only community college representative on the National Academy of SciencesCommittee on Workforce Trends in the U.S. Energy and Mining Industries which released their report inMarch 2013 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Renewable Energy Technician Education: The Impact of International Faculty
other questions. One graduate student explained, "…the guidance and supportof my faculty advisor has been tremendous. He has acted as a mentor in all aspects of myexperience here at CSM, not only in my research."Question 2: Three undergraduates indicated that the program had stimulated their interest inpursuing a graduate education, e.g., "This program has confirmed that I belong in my chosenfield and that I want to continue to pursue mathematics for my graduate work". Two otherundergraduate students indicated that participation in the program had stimulated their interest inpursuing careers that contained a research component. Only one undergraduate student indicatedthat, thus far, her goals had not been influenced by participating in the
inquire about a student’s sense of satisfaction surrounding intrinsic andextrinsic goals related to their engineering writing classes. Of all the motivational constructsexamined in our broader work, intrinsic and extrinsic goal orientation are the ones thatcorrespond most directly with students’ existing basic psychological needs—for stimulation,self-regard, the approval of others, belonging, and reward. It’s reasonable to understand that thepromise of satisfaction of these needs plays into a student’s motivation as he or she enters agiven class.So, what is it about engineering writing classes that students perceive to be less satisfying, onaverage, than non-writing engineering courses they are beginning at the same time? To explorethe reasons
inspiration.One hypothesis is that once a reference reaches a certain advanced level, students will shift todepend on pictures to generate inspiration, as there seems to be a trade-off between reading easeand image ease/quantity. The image analysis here suggests that references with the most pictures,as well as simple diagrams or microscopic pictures, are preferred by students. This could meanthat there are key elements required to stimulate biological inspiration that need to be present,whether in terms of images or text.5. AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to acknowledge the participants of this study. We would also like tothank the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering Seed Grant program forfunding this work.6. References[1
gridThe course had an important impact since some of the students went on to participate as policyentrepreneurs: legislative assistants, utility employees and renewable energy consultants inPuerto Rico’s electricity sector from 2009 to 2014. Another important outcome of that coursewas the participation of graduate and undergraduate students in public hearings related to netmetering regulations proposed by PREPA in 2008. The utility had an initial draft of theregulations that was too restrictive, and would have hindered the ability of industrial, commercialand residential clients to install renewable energy systems for their own use. In the end, thechanges made to the proposed regulation were attained in part due to the participation of
students featuredin previous studies of engineering students, such as a lifelong love of tinkering [26]. Forexample, B12AE developed an interest in engineering as a child, when he “liked to destroythings and take them apart.” For him, “engineering was just something I always wanted to do, Ialways wanted to build things, and create the new technology that’s doing somethingspectacular.” C8CN said ever since he was five or six years old he enjoyed “playing with thelittle Army figures, or just playing with Legos,” thus stimulating his interest in engineering. 8FGSVE were attracted to the engineering major because of the opportunity to engage inproblem solving and to be of service to others. Participants
Page 11.1403.4of the program. This GK—12 Fellows project aspires to stimulate interest in high school students towardSTEM related fields by incorporating sensing, instrumentation, and modern computingtechnologies into Active Physics, Marine Biology, Regents Physics, and Living Environmentcurricula. The project also aims to enhance student achievement on standardized exams. Thegoal is to have the students form a deep appreciation of STEM disciplines so that they canconsider career options in STEM-related disciplines. To achieve the goals of the program, 13 RAISE Fellows are deployed in four inner-cityhigh schools to serve as teaching assistants in the classrooms and labs and as science resources tothe teachers. Each RAISE Fellow
Paper ID #37367UX design research for improving student experience inonline laboratoriesAmy Ragland Amy is a passionate educator who believes in accessibility and equal access to education for all. A part of the UGA Online Learning team, Amy has extensive experience in developing, designing, and supporting impactful online courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Outside of her work at UGA, Amy has experience as a library media specialist and technology instructor in K12 classrooms. As an instructor, a course developer, and a human, Amy believes that online-delivered courses remove barriers to
task-oriented metrics in place. Ngai et al. [3]introduced a learning AI-based platform for wearable computing, consisting of a user-friendlyconstruction platform, a hybrid text-graphical programming environment, and a sample syllabusguiding students through basic concepts in wearable computing. The study observed heightenedattention and engagement in the learned topics, attributed to participants' interest in the AI-basedplatform.Wong and Looi [4] investigated swarm intelligence education employing a feedback-based AImodel. Their study delved into how feedback mechanisms can enhance participants' learningexperiences. In particular, they found that feedback provided by the AI model enabled learners toreceive immediate correction, reinforcement
activities [16].Another author, Baumol [17], gives us a different lens through which to view innovation andentrepreneurship education in relation to the technical focus of an engineer’s education:“Education for mastery of scientific knowledge and methods is enormously valuable forinnovation and growth…. but can impede heterodox thinking and imagination….On one side,education provides technical competence and mastery of currently available analytic tools tofuture entrepreneurs and others who will participate in activities related to innovation andgrowth. On the other side, education can stimulate creativity and imagination and facilitatetheir utilization. But the following hypothesis is at least tenable: educational methods that areeffective in
practices opportunity and plan to improvement, and (c) plan to improve performance improve performance.Growth Measure achieved level Rate current importance and ownAchieved of (individual) level in professional attributes. o Scope of professional performance with regard Identify areas of greatest growth. development gains to important ethical and Describe (a) gains, (b) impacts o Quality of impacts professional attributes and (c) broader