foster innovativethinking. As such, EML has been shown to be effective at developing these value creationelements in engineering students [6, 7]. While EML is widely accepted to be stackable with otherpedagogical methods [8, 9], inclusion of additional material on top of existing coursework hasthe risk of overburdening students. Yet, a more balanced integration may add to the workload ofinstructors if additional training and course development is required. Also, despite adoptionacross a broad range of disciplines, EML is frequently defined differently based on in-disciplinecontext [10], highlighting the critical role that transdisciplinary communication has in creatingvalue, especially in the engineering classroom.2.2 Technical Communication in
-up, city-wide traffic simulations10. Students start with CTSiM, a visual modeling andsimulation environment that emphasizes computational thinking11, 12, to learn how vehicle dy-namics and driver behavior models can be implemented using an agent-based paradigm. Theycombine their fundamental knowledge of Newton’s laws of mechanics, i.e., relations betweenvehicle acceleration, speed, and distance to model vehicle movement, and then extend thesemodels to include driver behaviors, such as look-ahead distance and gap acceptance to modeltraffic flow on city streets. CTSiM provides the basis for designing a progression of C 3STEMmodeling and behavior analysis units that start from vehicles driving at constant speed to model-ing traffic flow at
engineering is often associated with innovation and advancement. However, apervasive challenge within this discipline is the sex imbalance of its institutions and workforce.Despite recent societal efforts to promote gender equality, engineering continues to exhibitdrastic underrepresentation of women. This carries issues related to equity as well as thediversity and innovation potential of engineering professions. Women comprise only 29% of thescience and engineering workforce and the ratio of men to women varies widely based onspecific fields. For example, in 2013, only 15% of engineers were women. This figure drops to8% for mechanical engineers and 11% for electrical engineers [5, 6]. Science and engineering arenecessary contributors for
AC 2012-4541: LESSONS LEARNED ON PREPARATION, MOTIVATION,EXPECTATION, AND REFLECTION WHILE TEACHING AND MENTOR-ING AS A GRADUATE STUDENTKacie Caple D’Alessandro, Virginia Tech Kacie C. D’Alessandro is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Structural Engineering and Materials Pro- gram of Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Va.). She received both her B.S. and M.S. from Clemson University. Once completing the Ph.D. program at Virginia Tech, D’Alessandro plans to pursue a career in academia to teach and to continue research on concrete structures. She also plans to pursue opportunities with engineering education research and K-12 outreach programs
Paper ID #15657Understanding Engineering Students’ Professional Pathways: A Longitudi-nal Mixed-Methods StudyDr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Samantha Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor of Engineering in the Fulton Schools of Engineering Poly- technic School. Dr. Brunhaver recently joined Arizona State after completing her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She also has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University. Dr. Brunhaver’s research examines the career decision-making and professional identity formation of engineering
probes was alsoplanned. For this purpose, a traversing mechanism developed at GIT was attached from the tailsection of the aircraft model. Special materials and structural components had been developedon the mockup at GIT to minimize vibrations of the probe. A custom software package wasdeveloped to automate the data acquisition, storage, and probe traverse functions. Developmentof this software proceeded at a fast pace, under very tight time constraints. Due to recurringproblems with the traverse, this software system could not be tested fully until shortly before theshipping time.Hot-film anemometry and LSVS/LASCV in the Boeing VTOL tunnel in December posedseveral unique challenges. Hot-film sensors must be calibrated in a flow environment
in any Q-courses. In a similar manner to the paper-based exam, students were allowed one re-take of theon-line exam if they were not satisfied with the outcome.Hence, the Q-course Readiness test provided a pass/fail gate-keeping mechanism whichprohibited students who “failed” from registering in a quantitative (Q) course and insteadmandated remedial curricular requirements. This nature of the placement process was perceivedto be a hurdle which students would seek to avoid despite any diagnostic benefit arising from theplacement exam. (A perception among some faculty was that students would cheat to avoidfailure and the corresponding mandated remedial course work.)After the electronic version of the Q-course Readiness test came on-line, the
mechanisms for design learning specifically.One set of pedagogies that has shown promise in supporting students in developing as designersis experiential learning, which can broadly be described as educators purposefully engaging withlearners in direct experiences and structured reflection [7]. Some benefits of this pedagogy havealso been found to include supporting learner’s employability [8], while helping students learn tobecome boundary spanners [9]. However, a particular gap in the literature remains in betterunderstanding how instructors can support student learning in design-focused experientiallearning environments that are open-ended and time-constrained. In such cases, supportingdesign learners can be conceptualized as coaching, a just-in
learning of students who participate in industry-and field-specific clubs, the importance of STEM faculty mentors, the value of trained andknowledgeable advisors, inclusion of industry to strengthen STEM programs, and factors thatimprove employability of students in a field.Employment outcomes are one of the most rewarding and most telling of a program’s success,and especially if tracking of students can continue for at least five years after graduation. Thismeans that institutions must work to strengthen alumni tracking mechanisms to increase responserates and to establish relationships that ensure that alumni share their stories. Although it wasnot shared in this particular paper, exploration of those who have not completed academicprograms are
from these4.3.2 Broad assessment satellitesandIwasignorantoftheactualimportanceof Programmatically, the SEES program has provided a spaceresearchuntilIwasselectedfortheprogram.Thewealth of insight into the state of STEM: summer program definitely had an impact on my• Many more students want the opportunity than the selected field of study. I was unsure about engineering program can accommodate butthenafterdoingthisprogramandlearningaboutits• Students eagerly absorb as much STEM material as we requirement for analysis, deeper trains of thought, and can provide
computers that were Page 10.624.1“multimedia capable,” which opened new pathways for delivering instructional materials. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationBeginning in 1999, there was a notable increase in the number of students who purchased laptopcomputers. As the number of students with laptops increased, several experiments wereconducted where students with laptops were segregated into all-laptop sections of the firstengineering course. Marked improvements in the teaching/learning
college faculty and high school science teachers with training materials in thenuclear sciences that they can use in their courses and classrooms at their home institutions.Success for the WSU program will be determined by the numbers of regional college faculty andhigh school teachers who complete the summer experiences, their subsequent usage of trainingmaterials, an increase in the number of non-WSU users of the WSU reactor facilities in eitherresearch or training, and an increase in the numbers of undergraduate and graduate studentsinterested in pursuing educational opportunities in WSU’s nuclear science programs.Initially, the focus for the training opportunities will be on neutron activation analysis for trace
retain a student who mightotherwise leave. We need to look very carefully at ways in which administrators may help toretain students.One of the primary reasons students drop out of school is financial. Frequently deans anddepartment heads have some funds at their disposal which can be used as grants or partial tuitionscholarships to help a needy student over a rough spot with their personal finances. Frequentlythis does not have to be a large amount of money. At the author's institution, it has been foundthat we get better retention with partial tuition scholarships than with full scholarships. At othertimes, maybe all a student needs is money for books or supplies. Whatever the cause of theirfinancial plight, having a mechanism by which we can
students gain a higher-level understanding of the designand development process, while also increasing the level of student interest and making theproject more challenging.Innovation and the Mechanisms by Which It OccursFor the purposes of this course, the working definition of innovation was that it is the use ofideas, tools, materials, and processes to achieve desired outcomes. Radical innovations weretreated as ones that achieve outcomes in fundamentally new ways, or that achieve unprecedentedoutcomes. This is opposed to incremental changes, which were treated as evolutionaryimprovements to existing solutions.The instructor impressed upon students the notion that innovations can be planned for and thenachieved by following a methodical series
American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity (CoNECD), Frontiers in Education (FIE), as well as major psychological con- ferences.Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University Catherine G.P. Berdanier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Penn- sylvania State University. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from The University of South Dakota, her M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and her PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research expertise lies in characterizing graduate-level attrition, persistence, and career trajectories; engineering writing and communication; and
geometry andassemblies with hundreds or even thousands of parts. Because companies do not function only ongeometry alone, systems have been developed to cut down the time from design to manufactureby including intelligent information along with the model. This information includes specifications,design details, costs, materials, tooling, assemblies, and testing data 15. These knowledge-basedsystems are intelligent software that can manage and take advantage of design engineering tasks.They capture design intent, part relationships, standards, and rules that govern productconfiguration, engineering, and geometry. Knowledge-based systems also allow the productexpert, rather than a programmer, to define and write the rules using spreadsheets or
Paper ID #37953Work In Progress: Implementing Team Projects in OnlineCourses - Balancing Individual Responsibility and TeamCollaborationAnoop Singh Grewal (Lecturer)Haolin Zhu (Lecturer Sr. & Co-Director ) Dr. Haolin Zhu earned her BEng in Engineering Mechanics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and her Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University, with a focus on computational solid mechanics. Dr. Zhu is a Senior Lecturer of the freshman engineering education team in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU) and the recipient of the Fulton Outstanding
Paper ID #37777Work in progress: Using Community-Based ParticipatoryDesign and a Context Canvas to design engineering designcourses.Imane Aboutajedyne Imane Aboutajedyne is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She is a Ph.D student in Engineering Education at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Fez, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco. She received her Design Thinking Certificates from the School of Design thinking (D- school) at Hasso Platner Institute in Germany. Ms. Aboutajedyne received her Master of Science in Mechanical
thesame material they teach to residential, degree-seeking students. The main difference is, for ouronline programs, the faculty are not working solo to design and implement these courses. Rather,they are the subject-matter experts working with a design team that guides them through student-centered “backwards design” (so called, because it works backwards from the desired end state).Backwards design is a best practice for instructional design [1], involving these three steps: ● articulating course learning goals (i.e., learning objectives that define what students should be able to do at the end of the course) in an action-oriented, measurable way, ● creating assessments that demonstrate whether students have met these learning
Paper ID #46121Retrospective Insights in Choosing a Career in EngineeringLily Skau, Austin Peay State University Lily Skau is an undergraduate student at Austin Peay State University pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics and a minor in Mathematics and Sociology. She plans to graduate with her degree and minors in May of 2026 and enter the industry as a Mechanical Engineer.Emmabeth Parrish Vaughn, Austin Peay State University Dr. Emmabeth Vaughn is an Assistant Professor in the Physics, Engineering, and Astronomy Department at Austin Peay State University. Before join faculty at Austin Peay, she worked in
mindsets. We encourage them to embrace the state of struggle that exists on thespectrum of learning new material rather than taking it as a sign that they should giveup. We cultivate a more profound sense of responsibility in the students for their owneducation. For instance, during the last day of the intensive, students complete and sign aformal-looking document titled, “My Personal Contract for Success in Math 4 andBeyond,” and supply eight things they will do as part of their study plan for the upcomingsemester. Some of the study plans include, “I will ask for help when I need it,” “I will notgive up,” “I will have fun,” I will become a PREP TA after next semester.”For both the Energy Academy and the PREP intensive, each four hour day included
becomeclear to educators that students need to be introduced to engineering at an early age, and that K-12teachers need assistance from engineers and engineering educators. It further states that all successfulengineering outreach programs have a “do” or “hands-on” component, hearing or reading aboutengineers or engineering is not enough. Many universities are actively using outreach to promote STEMpipelines by offering workshops for students and teachers, hosting residential camps, competitions,conducting outreach activities at schools, conducting and sponsoring contests, developing materials andwebsites, and bringing students to campus for outreach activities.10,3,16,20,22 Websites for mostengineering colleges indicate that they offer one of these
. PhD. Civil Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS , May 2008. Dr. Palomo is currently a Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). In this position, Dr. Palomo is responsible for teaching courses such as Introduction to Civil Engineering; Hydraulics; Water and Wastewater Treatment; Groundwater Mechanics; Research Experience of Undergraduate Students; and Engineering Outreach Service Learning courses, among others. She is also a faculty advisor for the California Water Environment Association (CWEA), and Engineers Without Boarders (EWB) student chapters. Additionally, Dr. Palomo is the CE Water Analysis laboratory director and
AC 2008-1091: ASSESSING STUDENTS’ LEARNING OUTCOMES DURINGSUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCESOlga Pierrakos, James Madison University OLGA PIERRAKOS is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at James Madison University. Dr. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics, an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Her research interests are cardiovascular fluid mechanics and engineering education research, which includes engineering assessment, undergraduate research, design education methodologies, epistemologies of interdisciplinary education, and K-12 engineering education.Maura Borrego, Virginia Polytechnic
registering for this course, and they takedigital electronics concurrently. In developing this experiment-based data-acquisition-supportedinstrumentation course, a detailed literature survey2, 5-11 was conducted. A freshmen-levelcourse2 for mechanical engineering students covered LabVIEW12 software integrated with threeexperimental modules (tank level, temperature, and force). A junior-level instrumentation andexperimental methods course5 for mechanical engineering students also integrated the use ofLabVIEW software with temperature, pressure, strain gage, and vibration measurement systems.Developments of similar courses were reported in recent years for agricultural and biologicalengineering students6, mechanical and industrial engineering students7
common sense things, rather than just the book smarts. (Judith) I think a lot of the people around me doing the same type of work are a lot more knowledgeable. They have worked on their cars, and they have a certain kind of mechanical knowledge that I don’t. I think sometimes that hurts me not to be more that way. (Joy) Changing PerceptionsIf self-talk controls how a person performs, the self-perception of women engineers reflectsperformers who do not have confidence in their problem solving ability and natural skill. Theirself-perception is not one of confidence and creativity. Their self image is distorted andcontributes to the mismatch in perception of their fit into the workplace, or
AC 2012-5541: BEST PRACTICES FOR USING GLOBAL VIRTUAL TEAMSMr. Holt Zaugg, Brigham Young University Holt Zaugg will be completing a doctoral program in the McKay School of Education at Brigham Young University in the Educational Inquiry, Measurement, and Evaluation program in the summer of 2012. His research focuses on communication patterns of engineering students working on global, virtual teams, and test item measurement analysis using item response theory and confirmatory factor analysis.Dr. Alan R. Parkinson, Brigham Young UniversityDr. Spencer P. Magleby, Brigham Young University Spencer Magleby is a professor in mechanical engineering at Brigham Young University and in 2005 was appointed Associate Dean in the
thefaculty's engineering departments at the national level. The above meant that the team had to: • Redesign the Module • Search for facilitators to teach the Module. • Coordinate with each undergraduate course and the three campuses. • Maintain quality assurance mechanisms (team meetings, weekly contact with module teachers, analysis of daily evaluations, material resources, collaborating students, etc.)We made adjustments redesigning, ending up with four main objectives as outlined in Figure 2. Connect students Communication with the and feedback as a "Facilitators" and
associated with materials,texture or surface properties and volume. Solid models are sometimes easier to create thansurface models. They are the most accurate 3D representation and most complete dimensionally.When rendered, solid models may appear realistic enough to be considered virtual models,minimizing the need for physical models. They are less costly to develop than physical models.Solid models accurately communicate design intent and can be used for engineering designanalysis in finite element method (FEM). Fits and tolerances can be visualized in assemblies andclashes can be checked and eliminated. Accuracy and completeness of design is easy to achievein a short time with solid models and they offer minimum error-checking efforts. This is
development). These projects have included Robotics Platforms, Planning, Monitoring and Control algorithms, Sensor Interface, User Interfaces, Wireless communication, Signal Processing, etc. All of this involves direction and teaching teams to use the required tools and apply en- gineering skills to transform a concept into a product. She also manages interdisciplinary senior design projects in collaboration with other engineering departments such as Textiles Engineering, mechanical en- gineering, etc. Beyond senior design, she has also created and teaches undergraduate and graduate-level classes in ECE (Python in Engineering, Practical Engineering Prototyping (PrEP). She also has designed and taught ECE Robotics summer