an effect of the space. During the COVID-19 pandemiclockdowns, the L&L community decided to direct the intention of the space toward encouraging social connections among themembers. Previous goals were to form a STEM education research discussion group with an emphasis on the material beingdiscussed, however for the mental health of its participants during the lockdowns, the goals were altered to also incorporatepromoting socialization. The L&L community chose to augment the existing social capital of its members to continue personal Cultural Wealth Code Definition Students observing other students’ skills, knowledge, and interests and becoming inspired to work towards also having those Aspirational
realistic; for example,the cards can be made “sticky” so that they are easier to handle with one hand (which is all youhave in the simulation).Minecraft was used to create an aircraft factory, in which the players build airplanes out ofMinecraft blocks and other components. The LEGO aircraft was translated into Minecraft withonly a minor redesign. The supply chain of LEGO blocks and carrying bins was simulated inMinecraft with Minecraft blocks contained in chests and carried in backpacks or carts. Thetimers that regulated the pace of assembly in the LEGO simulation were replicated in Minecraftby chests controlled by redstone circuitry (an in-game control mechanism) that released blocks ata fixed pace, limiting how quickly students could build the
process leading to improvements in their capacity building, infrastructure, and proposal development efforts that support students in their STEM education and career pathways pursuits. VanIngen-Dunn as built her career on years of experience as engineer and project manager in human crashworthiness and safety design, development and testing, working for contractors in commuter rail, aerospace and defense industries. VanIngen-Dunn has an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a BSE degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa. She serves on the University of Iowa’s College of Engineering Advisory Board, and the YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix Board of Directors whose mission it
observations of student learningexperiences and the overall continuous improvement process.Continuous Improvement, Structure, and GoalsThe Mentored Academic EXperience (MAX) scholarship recipients include second-, third-, andfourth-year students majoring in mathematics; biology; chemistry; physics; information Page 26.403.2technology; electrical, computer, civil, mechanical and general engineering; and automotive, computer, electronics, and manufacturing engineering technology. The students represent adiverse mix of gender, race, socioeconomic background, and cultural experience and havedemonstrated a financial need. Scholars are awarded a $5,000
anLED, command a servo, or adjust a pulse width modulated signal. The students were responsiblefor all hardware and software development to achieve these goals. The results of this firstattempt at a mini-project were received quite favorably. The entire process took about threeweeks out of the course’s schedule.Electrical engineering has also held a project oriented multidisciplinary model. However, itsstudents often collaborated in the past with the mechanical engineering department. The courseinstructors played a greater role as mentors and advisors of a small team of students workingwith a larger multidisciplinary team rather than a formal instructor. Representative projectssupported existing College of Engineering and/or Mechanical
in course design and teaching practice encourage instructorsto increase diverse representation within the curriculum and create a welcoming classroomatmosphere. Ultimately, such changes may correct previously exclusive signals, both subtle andexplicit, that impact student belonging and thus make it more likely that minoritized groups willpersist within STEM [8]–[10].However, less of this critical examination of higher educational practice has focused on thegrading itself and the choice of scoring mechanisms that instructors use to describe theperformance of their students. Generally, the benchmark by which instructors may judge theefficacy of inclusive teaching practice has been an increase in exam scores or final grades.Essentially, an
Materials Processing,” wherein teams of two to fourChemical and Mechanical Engineering students work together on a product design related termproject to produce a material, e.g. recycled glass ceramic floor tile, and to characterize and testthe product properties and performance. In this context, students clearly must apply theirinterdisciplinary background to achieve deliberately interdisciplinary results in the short fifteento sixteen week semester. While the ChemE students typically do not have the background toconduct mechanical testing, the MechE’s usually are unfamiliar with reaction processes, forexample. The division of work is clear in most cases and the challenges apparent as studentsattempt to produce a product, define its
specific requirements. These have driven the development of technology to adjust cellular structure of foams via controlled ultrasonic irradiation. She has attracted >£6.1M of funding from Government, Innovate UK and Industry to investi- gate materials and structures for a broad range of applications and works at the interface with manufactur- ing and embedded intelligence systems. She is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom.Prof. Paul P. Conway, Loughborough University Prof. Paul P Conway CEng, SMIEEE, FIMechE is Dean of the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Manufacturing Processes at
learning allowing a significantamount of interaction between the students and the instructor in discussion.6 ConcepTests can alsosimply be used in problem sets, quizzes, and exams as a more standard means of assessment,although they are obviously more lacking in the opportunity for student engagement in theseapproaches.Within chemical engineering, ConcepTest questions have been developed for most of the commoncore courses, including mass and energy balances, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat andmass transfer, separations and kinetics, which were made publicly available to otherinstructors.1,2,7-9 However, until recently no ConcepTest questions had been developed from thesesame resources that addressed the concepts of process control. This
an Arduino Uno microcontroller development platform and an open source stepper motordriver circuit that can either be purchased or built in-house. Angle conversion of the IP isperformed using a low cost rotary encoder and the analog to digital convertor of the ArduinoUno. Additionally, a digital Proportional Integral Derivative control algorithm is presented thataddresses the issues of sample time, derivative kick, on-the-fly tuning and reset windup. Thecode is documented to explain these phenomenon and to enable tuning using standard practicessuch as Ziegler-Nichols tuning. Through the use of 3D printing technology and open-sourceelectronics and computer code, the material cost of the system was kept under $100 per unit,making this an ideal
Session 3213 A Department-Wide Distributed Advising System Susan Montgomery University of MichiganABSTRACTIn the spring of 1997 the department of chemical engineering at the University of Michigandecided to implement a distributed advising system, wherein the responsibility for advising ourundergraduate students would be distributed among the faculty. This paper describes thecomponents of the advising system, training and informational materials developed, and reportson the first semester’s implementation.INTRODUCTIONThe department of chemical engineering at the
occupations. Theseoccupations are expected to add roughly 21,300 new jobs from 324,500 jobs to 345,800 jobs from2016 to 2026. The annual average pay range for electrical or mechanical engineering technicians inthe country is between $41,250 and $64,810, and the highest-paid 10% make $76,660 or more peryear. According to Lifecycle (2019), "Engineering Education Now: The Widening Skills Gap" article,job openings in tech and manufacturing continues to grow well into the double-digits, however, 39%of companies feel that graduates are inadequately trained. This is manifested in a widening skills gap.This skills gap is exacerbated not only by the evolving engineering skillset needed for technologicalproduct development, but also by the rate of retiring
ASU Mentorship 360. Authors appreciate Dr. Gu to encourage hisstudents to participate this PBL activityReferences[1] D. Garcia-Garcia, N. Montanes, L. Quiles-Carrillo, J. Ivorra-Martínez, and R. Sanchis, “IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROJECT BASED LEARNING METHODOLOGY IN THE ‘MATERIALS. DESIGN AND RESTYLING’ SUBJECT,” Online Conference, Mar. 2021, pp. 9883–9891. doi: 10.21125/inted.2021.2057.[2] A. Yousuf, M. Mustafa, and A. De La Cruz, “Project Based Learning,” in 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, Louisville, Kentucky, Jun. 2010, p. 15.996.1- 15.996.8. doi: 10.18260/1-2--16081.[3] S. Krishnan and M. R. Nalim, “Project Based Learning In Introductory Thermodynamics,” in 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
specifics could easilybe changed to fit any accrediting body. Like CMM 4, the MPTM has five levels of increasinglymore mature outcomes-based process teaching. The levels are as follows.1. Initial: The teaching and learning process is characterized as typically ad hoc. There are nodefined learning outcomes, no program goals, and there is no process in place for improvement.The department has no specified goals or objectives; individual courses have no specified goalsor objectives; professors teach each course in whatever manner he or she chooses with nomandated collaboration with colleagues or specification of material to be covered in that course;individual students are given the opportunity to learn what his or her professor deemed importantand
published 100+ journal papers and conference papers. His research interests are 1) Creating Innovative Sustainable Materials, 2) Digital Construction, 3) BIM and VDC, 4) Virtual Testing Lab, 5) Construction Education, and 6) Sustainability. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Improving Construction Site Safety by Incident Reporting Through Utilizing Virtual Reality Author1 Name and Author2 Name (12 points, Bold, centered)AbstractThe construction industry consistently records one of the highest accident rates compared toother occupations, resulting in millions of workers suffering from construction-related injuriessuch as falls, trips, slips, and other
Paper ID #12703Structuring Capstone Design Assessment to Achieve Student, Faculty, andEmployer PrioritiesDr. Denny Davis, Ohio State University Dr. Davis is Visiting Professor in the Engineering Education Innovation Center at The Ohio State Univer- sity and Emeritus Professor in Engineering Education at Washington State University. For three decades, he has led multi-institution teams in the development and testing of curriculum materials and assessments for engineering design courses. He is owner of Verity Design Learning LLC, a publisher of workbooks for design reviews and teamwork development. He is a Fellow of the
chosen fromSyracuse University CIE Department.Additionally, four male students werechosen from Lebanese AmericanUniversity (LAU) and one malestudent from the American Universityof Sharjah. The most notable changefrom the first internship was theaddition of two students from the2008 DSIP internship who served as Figure 1: DSIP 2008 student interns on a construction site visitteaching assistants. The addition oftwo teaching assistants from Syracuse University served to enhance the overall learningexperience for the 2009 interns. The 2009 curriculum was revised extensively. All lectures wereprovided from DCC staff members. Lecture topics in contracts and change orders, mechanical,electrical and plumbing management, and finance were added to the
], and felt that they learned the material better thanthey otherwise would have [2, 9, 11]. They found it very helpful in identifying their errors [9].They felt that they were more engaged in the dual-submission process [5]. What they liked bestwas self-grading [5]. Their attitudes toward the methodology improved from early in thesemester to later on [4]. Students who completed homework wrappers [13] said they made themmore likely to think about what confused them about a problem. In the Harvard peer-instructionapproach, they “greatly value[d] the team discussions in improving their skills.” The onlyreactions that were less than glowing came from the UMBC students [12], who had just a slightpositive perception of writing their reflection
, CS2, and OOP using Java. What should weteach in each level? What is the most important material for the student? How does astudent perform if our emphasis is on concepts or programming skill? Since the firstauthor was a professional programmer, we also discuss the expectations from a softwareengineer point of view.In this paper, we will focus on CSI and provide a teaching sample on how much thestudent should know about Java in CSI. We will also cover CSII, AdvancedProgramming, and object-oriented analysis and design with UML [5-6].Our goal is to teach students in a gradually improving mechanism for the OOP conceptissue while focusing on developing programming skills for most of our ComputerScience majors. 2. CS I: How much the student
participants were surveyed to indicate the overallsatisfaction of the workshop through open-ended questions. The format of the workshop wasgenerally liked by the participants with respect to hands-on activities, guest speakers, and freeresources and materials directly applicable to the respective class.The workshop was a great growth experience in terms of the participants gaining knowledgeand understanding about the concepts of computer education. The workshop created a greatimpact on the pre-college audience by presenting a good view of computing careeropportunities and hopefully increased the interests in the fields of computer science among allthe participating students.Barr and Stephenson [5] suggest that computational thinking enables
. Page 14.705.9Figures 8 – 10: Garden concept drawn by Kavi Engle with Google SketchUp. Hoopa Valley High Schoolstudents break ground for the school garden. Kavi Engle holds his carved salmon for end of garden trellis.Figures 11-13 Pateisha Ferris and Sara Chase decorate the garden entrance with wood burnings of nativeplants using both Hupa and common names.Assessment MethodsThe following sections describe the assessment activities for the DYF Teacher Institute and theDYF ENGR 215 class taught at Hoopa Valley High School.DYF Teacher InstituteFifteen K-12 educators participated in the DYF institute including six men and nine women.We used two mechanisms for assessment: a pre/post-institute knowledge and attitude instrument(Appendices B & C
Darlington or SSR can then be used to operate equipment such as on/off valves,relays, mechanical contactors, lights, etc.Analog I/O use standard DC signals in the ranges of 0 to 5V, 0 to10V, -5 to 5V, -10 to 10V, 0 to20ma, 4 to 20ma, 0 to 1ma, or -1 to 1ma. Current based systems are often used in industrialautomation because they are not affected by signal deviations caused by resistance in long cableruns. Choosing the right signal can be frustrating and usually depends on what signals thecontrol hardware and transducers support. Some can be configured dynamically; however, mostare set from the manufacture.Transducers and controllers are needed to convert the low voltage/current DC control signals foruse in a laboratory. Many types of controllers
lists of question prompts provided to them before they start their own projects. Thestudents’ community service learning included the following phases: Phase 1: Training. Seminars or on-line materials on creative problem solving skills areprovided to students before they go to the community learning sites. Students will learn thematerials to master how to solve a problem facing them in their service. Phase 2: On-site: Students are introduced to their community partners or mentors and starttheir service learning project for about two month period. Assisted by their mentors, the studentswill be introduced with the problems that the community faces and will select the project topicsthat fit into their learning interest and ability levels
Paper ID #36831Using Observational Learning Theory to Interpret HowEngineering and Computer Science Faculty Learn to MentorPostdoctoral ScholarsMatthew Bahnson Postdoc in Engineering Education at Penn State with Catherine Berdanier.Catherine G.p. Berdanier Catherine G.P. Berdanier is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University and is the Director of the online Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering Program at Penn State. Her research interests include graduate-and postdoctoral-level engineering education; attrition and persistence mechanisms, metrics, policy, and
Mechanical Engineering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Taking a Bandsaw to 1st Grade: Transforming Elementary Schoolthrough Hands-on STEAM Education (Evaluation)AbstractIt is well recognized that the world needs interdisciplinary problem solvers and creative thinkersto address the problems of the future. Training in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering,Art, and Math (STEAM) is crucial for understanding the complexity of the world around us andfor identifying and tackling critical issues ranging from climate change to gender inequities. Tothat end, many programs have been launched all around the world to expose students to STEAMfields and to
expertiseresides. For example, there is the attitude that educational knowledge and practice from K-12 andadult education can not be directly applicable to higher education.The visiting scholar model also relies on the assumption that most of the local audience has thesame learning needs and desires and roughly the same availability. That is, since a workshop isscheduled for a given time with a defined agenda, it is necessary that the local audience beavailable to participate. If one misses the workshop, one might have a summary or materials torely upon, or a video tape to review, but seldom would one have the chance to engage thespeaker or other participants at another time. It is also necessary that the visitor make someassumptions about where the
Paper ID #23501Designing for Children with Sensory Processing DisordersDr. Louise R Manfredi, Syracuse University Dr. Manfredi holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2011) and a BDes in Product Design (2006) from the University of Leeds, UK. Dr. Manfredi’s primary research interest centers on sustainable product development, and how the deci- sions designers and engineers make affect the environment during the life cycle of these products.Prof. Bekir Kelceoglu, Syracuse University Prof. Bekir Kelceoglu was born in Ankara, Turkey and attended Anadolu University, where he received his B.A. in Interior Architecture. Even
Paper ID #41070Board 221: CAREER: Disrupting the Status Quo Regarding Who Gets to bean Engineer - Exploring the Intent-to-Impact Gap for Rectifying InequityDr. Jeremi S London, Vanderbilt University Dr. Jeremi London is an Assistant Provost for Academic Opportunities and Belonging, and an Associate Professor of Practice of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. London is a mixed methods researcher with interests in research impact and organizational change that promotes equity.Dr. Brianna Benedict McIntyre, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Dr. Brianna Benedict McIntyre recently joined the
approach, teaching renewable energy comes with several challenges, which could be grouped as follows: a. Educational challenges: Integrating renewable energy topics into existing curricula or developing brand-new courses or even whole new curricula is time and effort intensive. Universities might not have enough personnel, or not have the right personnel. Educators might need specialized training to effectively teach renewable energy concepts. b. Technical Challenges: The field of renewable energy is evolving quickly, making it challenging for educational materials to stay current. Providing students with practical, up-to-date hands-on experience can be difficult due to the high cost and complexity of renewable energy equipment
, as well as alternativemodels and materials, that are designed to recruit, and support, a more diverse student population(i.e., major, gender, ethnicity) into interdisciplinary computing programs. For the 2021 meeting,faculty attended panels featuring speakers from industry, program alumni, and grant fundingagencies.ParticipantsOf the 36 participants in the 2021 institute, 33 responded to the survey and 27 had complete data.The participants come from a range of backgrounds and experience; see Table 1 for detaileddemographic data. Participants who opened the survey, even if they did not consent toparticipate, were eligible to win an Amazon gift card.Table 1 Participants’ Demographic Data Academic Position Full Professor