option with outside work (i.e., co-ops or internships) excluded but including any paidwork to complete a task or tasks while attending school. Employment status is the generalized termto indicate whether a student was employed. GPA describes students’ academic achievement overtheir time at a particular institution or institutions. Jaradat’s [1], [2] Systems-Thinking Skillsinstrument was used to gauge how an individual deals with complex problems. The instrumentmeasures how holistically an individual handles complex problems and gives a score by analyzingseven major dimensions of systems thinking, for more detail about how the instrument wasdeveloped and how it works refer to [1], [2], [16], [17]).Systems-thinking skills were measured using an
underwater environments. It consists of low cost parts including aplastic tube, syringe, battery, servomotor and Arduino Uno controller. Figure 1. GUPPIE, a co-explorer robotNeu-pulator, shown in Figure 2, is a “co-worker” robot that uses electromyography (EMG) ofarm muscles to move a robotic arm. It consists of wooden links, EMG sensors, servomotors, abattery, and Arduino Uno. Figure 2. Neu-pulator, a co-worker robotFigure 3 shows the schedule of activities for the week-long camps in 2017. The first two days ofthe camp focused on general principles in robotics, engineering design, and programming.During the last three days, students built and tested GUPPIEs and Neu-pulators
knowledge rather than solely consumers of knowledge.BackgroundA 2016 Harvard Business School report found a faltering United States economy and a need forreform [1]. One principal reason for this faltering economy is the United States’ inability todevelop qualified science and engineering (S&E) human capital, in particular women andminorities. However, diversity in the S&E workforce has not improved over the last decade [2];and, given Hispanics aged 21 years and older represent 15% of the U.S. population, a mere 6%of the S&E workforce are Hispanic [2].The Bureau of Labor Statistics has projected that total employment in S&E jobs will increase at afaster rate (1.1% compound annual growth rate) from 2016 to 2026 than employment in
given a brief introduction toWISE@OU and its initiatives. There were typically one to two lunches each Fall andWinter for STEM faculty members. Each session provided time for informalnetworking as well as addressed a relevant topic – such as planning for the summer,connecting with upper-level administrators (including the Provost and ChiefInformation Officer), and working on grant proposals.Workshops were generally hosted for STEM non-tenured faculty, however selectsessions were for mid-level career faculty from all departments or for departmentchairs. These workshops focused on planning for promotion (associate to fullprofessor) and goal setting.In addition to career-related workshops, WISE@OU addressed bias-related concernsthrough
expertise in mechanical engineeringwas required. Thus, during a departmental faculty meeting two senior professors were selected forhelping the students with technical issues; one professor in the area of thermo-fluidics and the other inmaterials, machine tools and manufacturing. Each one was given one and half (1.5) credit hours of releasetime per semester for mentoring the undergraduate students with their specific technical problems, suchas technical projects and their oral presentations, preparing them for job interviews, writing technicalpapers for publication in journals and conference proceedings, etc. Both the professors maintained awritten document like a log-book or field notes for each mentoring session. These are powerful tools, forthe
email in the office. Throughout the daythey visit different places on the island: the laboratory where data is taken, the salmon holdingpens, and the cafeteria for lunch. At the end of the day the employee goes to their remote officeto check email and then follows a path of questions to finish the activity and exit the island.After the activity, the student must create a report to recommend if these GMO salmon should beapproved for human consumption. To guide the students to their recommendation, a series ofquestions were provided. For example, the activist was asked to include the followinginformation in the report: 1. Provide general information. What is the advantage to the production of this GMO? 2. Identify the intended use and
funding source.This paper outlines the strategy used to ensure that these students receive RCR trainingand seeks to highlight the challenges associated with implementing this training on acampus-wide scale at Georgia Tech. The aforementioned policy has both an online andan in-person component. For the purposes of this paper, the focus will be on the in-personportion. The policy is eventually supposed to grow to cover master’s students as well butthat process will not be discussed here.Federal policies and RCRSince 1989, NIH has required RCR education for trainees who are funded through certaincategories of its grants.[1] In 2009, NIH made several key modifications to its RCRpolicy. Included among the changes is that NIH now states that “online
/training support. The general philosophy of engineering education is to producegraduates of high academic standard and of immediate value to the industry. EngineeringEducation is the process of training engineers for the purposes of initiating, facilitating andimplementing the technological development in the society. The preparation of students who aredeeply knowledgeable of the technical fundamentals as well as the professional skills ofengineering is considered the main objective of engineering education is [1].Engineering education in Saudi Arabia started in1962 when the first College of Engineering wasestablished within a collaborative project between the government of the Kingdom of SaudiArabia represented by the Ministry of Education and
Page 23.405.6solve the problem type of the day – but they have not made the connection between thisalgebraic skill and an actual solving technique. Consequently, knowing which skills to chooseand when to apply them, e.g., calculating perimeter, area, converting volume from cubic feet togallons, when used out of the context of a worksheet or book chapter, was intimidating. Whenthe calculations were combined into a project spreadsheet, the connections became moreobvious.The most challenging aspect for the media arts students was the technical report. Even thoughthe paper had been outlined in class, the submitted technical writing was, in general, too briefand lacking in description. They didn’t seem quite convinced that the interesting part of
address the issues of physical consistency discussed in this article. Afew examples are discussed in this paper.References 1. D. Isbell, M. Hardin, J. Underwood, “Mars Climate Orbiter Team Finds Likely Cause of Loss.” Internet document. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/news/mco990930.html. Sept. 30, 1999. 2. Mathsoft. “Matlab – The Language of Technical Computing.” Internet document. http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/. 2013. 3. PTC-MathCad. Internet reference: http://www.ptc.com/product/mathcad/. 2013. 4. Maplesoft – Technical Computing Software for Engineers. Internet reference: http://www.maplesoft.com/. 2013. 5. National Instruments, “Improving the Productivity of Engineers and Scientists
teach better time management skills.We believe that an important component of these studies would be to investigate whether theyaffect students’ perceptions of whether they have time to complete their homework.Encouraging E/ET students to complete more homework in their mathematics courses seemsessential to training the next generation of engineers. In addition to providing insights towardpossible effective classroom policies, we hope that the results of this survey can inform futurerigorous research, helping mathematics education researchers to focus on the most pertinentvariables in their experiments.BIBLIOGRAPHY: 1. M. Affouf and T.P. Walsh, ―An Assessment of Web-Based Homework in the Teaching of College Algebra,‖ International
State University (PSU), Brigham Young University (BYU), andBrigham Young University-Idaho (BYU-I) co-teach the program.Students attend interactive classroom sessions, visit companies within Singapore to learn aboutproduct development and design, and work on a collaborative group project that includes a finalpresentation and typically a proof–of-concept prototype. Student teams are intentionally diverse,with representation from the different universities and cultures. In this way, students experiencediversity of thought both technically and culturally that enriches the development of designconcepts and the learning experience. In addition, students and faculty experience the culturaldiversity of the host location while also learning from each
technical objectives will be to 1. Discuss the variety of material property choices that nature has made in various human body components. 2. Compare and contrast nature as a designer to human engineers as designers. 3. Explain the difference between strength and stiffness of a material. 4. Define the ultimate tensile strength and modulus of elasticity of a material. 5. Determine the modulus of elasticity of a bone using a bone bending apparatus. 6. Determine the ultimate tensile strength of a bone using a bone breaking apparatus.The class will also discuss differences between nature as a designer and humans as designers.Figure 1. Bone test samples gage length determination and testing apparatus.Future work:Meaningful
show how general Java workhorse discrete FourierTransform and other EEG analysis methods 7 can be introduced at an early stage to engineeringtechnology students with tools and concepts that will be further reinforced in EEG analysis andfuture DSP courses.public class Fourier { public static double[] discreteFT(double[]fdata, int N, boolean fwd){ double X[] = new double[2*N]; double omega; int k, ki, kr, n; if (fwd){ omega = 2.0*Math.PI/N; } else { omega = -2.0*Math.PI/N; } for(k=0; k>= 1; } j += k; }if (fwd) fscale = 1.0;else fscale = -1.0;M = 2;while( M < 2*N
3 2 1 0 None Q1 Q2a Q2b Q3a Q3b Q4 Q5a Q5bFigure 1: Distribution of quizzes selected by students to be attempted a second time. Fivestudents chose not to improve any of their quizzes.No significant difference was found in quiz performance between genders. This was basedon 95% confidence intervals for the difference of median performance between males andfemales, generated from 5,000 bootstrapped samples for each quiz shown in Figure 2. Difference in Median Score (M−F) 100
Diversified Workforce in Nuclear Energy and SecurityAbstractA workforce equipped with essential data analytics skills is crucial to maintaining the UnitedStates' economic growth and security, especially for nuclear energy industries and non-proliferation. Data analytics skills are in high demand in order to generate data-driven, robustsolutions to solve global challenges and support decision-making for stakeholders in nuclearenergy and security areas. This paper presents the technical approach that facilitates theintegration of fundamental data analytics skills into pipeline building toward a diversifiedworkforce through a suite of well-designed, comprehensive summer enrichment programs forhigh school, undergraduate and graduate students. The summer
., compared to 2.6 million in India and 4.7 million in China [1].STEM literacy is critical to human capital competency for the economy [2]. Therefore,encouraging more high school students to aspire to STEM careers can increase the likelihood ofapplying for jobs in STEM fields. Because many internal and external factors may influence highschool students’ aspirations for STEM careers, previous research on this topic often employs atheory-driven approach to identify predictors from large scale survey (LSS) data and formulatehypotheses for statistical tests. Existing LSS datasets, such as the Education Longitudinal Studyof 2002 (ELS:2002), promise a comprehensive investigation of the factors that contribute to highschool students' persistence in STEM
, Geometric Abstraction, and Mathematics as they relate toengineering and art. Woven into the theoretical content are hands-on projects where studentslearn basic sketching skills, hand build a ceramic still-life piece, visit local galleries andmuseums, and, using elements or art and principles of design, turn data into data visualizationsand data physicalizations: data-driven physical artefacts whose geometry or material propertiesencode data. Students use an adapted Jansen and Dragicevic [1] information visualizationpipeline to move from raw data to data wrangling to visual and physical presentation. This paperpresents examples of the process and concludes with observations and lessons learned.Figure 1. Informa0on visualiza0on pipeline. Jansen and
collaboration between ARCH,ARCE, and CM students; inviting diverse guest speakers to share their industry projects andlessons learned in all degree programs; or simply incorporating diverse figures in architecturalrenderings. The underlying goal of these faculty is to educate students on the implications ofdesign decisions as they relate to those DEI issues listed in, but not limited to, Table 1.Another means of exposure that students have to DEI topics, particularly in technical degreeprograms within the CAED, tends to be through co-curricular club activities or a senior capstoneproject. There are several clubs at the university that promote under-represented studentparticipation in service-learning projects and competitions. Among them are chapters
per week. Interview participantdemographics are shown in Table 1. Table 1: Interview Participant DemographicsThe interviews lasted about one hour and focused on capturing detailed descriptions of students’experiences. We tailored specific interview questions for each participant based on their surveyresponses to obtain insight into project details, team structure, how the team completed theproject, challenges experienced by individuals, and general difficulties experienced by the virtualteam project experience (Appendix B). All interviews were conducted by two members of theresearch team. During the Zoom interview, a member of the research team informed theinterviewee that the meeting was being recorded, introduced
discipline. The presentation was designed to highlight therelevant goals of the topic by putting forth the technical information that arose from the research.It employed the use of a power point to highlight the construction process of Devon House using Q c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 PAPER ID: 18690rendered photographs of the 3-D model. The entire session will last for one hour: approximately20 minutes for the presentation, which will also allow for the explanation of what the research isabout and allows any questions on the waiver; 20 minutes for questions, which will be
students, including service projects in global settings, internationaltravel more generally, and awareness of global poverty and development issues from the newsand media. During college, social responsibility ideas were shaped by courses with internationalcontent (inside and outside of engineering), international service-related groups (e.g. EngineersWithout Borders), study abroad, and work experiences. There was a weak negative correlationbetween students’ average social responsibility attitude overall and their level of interest in livingdomestically; and a weak positive correlation between their professional connectedness andinterest in living internationally in a developing country. The strength of these correlations variedby student gender
Recognition for Undergraduate Research Mentoring. She was also selected as a 2018 National Science Foundation - NC A & T ADVANCE IT Faculty Scholar. She has received $170,000 to support her teaching, research, and outreach projects. Overall, Dr. Ofori-Boadu’s research work has resulted in 1 book publication, 12 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 5 conference proceedings, 3 manuscripts under conditional acceptance, 4 accepted abstracts, 29 presentations at na- tional conferences, and 27 poster sessions. In 2016, her paper to the Built Environment Project and Asset Management journal was recognized as the 2016 Highly Commended Paper. In 2015, Dr. Ofori-Boadu established her STEM ACTIVATED! program for middle-school
disabilities like PTSD and TBI.Often, they are seen as being mentally deficient or unintelligent because of generalizations madefrom exaggerated public cases.Unique Skills of Student Veterans with DisabilitiesPast research has focused on the deficits of student veterans with disabilities and how they needto be better supported by the administrators and faculty members of academic institutions [1],[7], [10], [13]. However, student veterans’ disability status does not negate the unique skills andpositive attributes acquired during military service. Student veterans, including student veteranswith disabilities, may find themselves better suited than others to conquer the challenges of anundergraduate engineering program [5], [6], [11]. Due to extensive
Journal ofEngineering Education (JEE) moved to a research focused journal and Purdue University grantedits first doctoral degree [4]. Yet, despite the general consensus on the initiation of EER, membersof the EER community still debated the identity of EER and its status as a discipline, community,or field as late as 2009 [5].The creation of the initial departments of engineering education enabled the development ofindividuals with expertise in engineering education research and the interest to prepare theseresearchers has grown. As of 2015, there were only four programs identified that had a PhD orDoctorate degree in Engineering Education based on the following departmental/programqualifications: (1) a degree offered by an engineering school or
, applicable to cybersecurity research. All institutions and organizations that are members of the RELLIS Academic Alliance will comply with this policy and all applicable laws and regulations related to cybersecurity research. This commitment applies to all cybersecurity-related research studies, projects, and course assignments regardless of the source of funding or whether they are funded or unfunded.Procedures and Responsibilities 1 GENERAL 1.1 All research studies, projects, and course assignments conducted under the auspices of the RELLIS Academic Alliance that involve the investigation of the security or vulnerability of System or non-System software, hardware, and/or networks must be reviewed and approved by the
, “Accredited Programs.” Accessed: Mar. 06, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://amspub.abet.org/aps/category-search.[11] M. K. Orr, M. W. Ohland, C. E. Brawner, R. A. Layton, S. M. Lord, and R. A. Long, “Engineering Matriculation Paths: Outcomes of Direct Matriculation, First-Year Engineering, and Post-General Education Models,” in 2012 Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, 2012, pp. 1–5, doi: 10.1109/FIE.2012.6462357.[12] A. M. Singer, J. Mathews, and M. E. J. P. E, “Understanding First-Year Engineering Student Definitions of Engineering Disciplines,” in 2020 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2020, pp. 1–5.[13] G. Hein, K. Torrey, J. Hertel, D. Oppliger, J. M. Keith, and G. Archer, “Integrating
, 2011.[3] E. M. Duffy and M. M. Cooper, “Assessing TA buy-in to expectations and alignment of actual teaching practices in a transformed general chemistry laboratory course,” Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 189–208, 2020.[4] R. Tormey, C. Hardebolle, and S. Isaac, “The Teaching Toolkit: design of a one-day pedagogical workshop for engineering graduate teaching assistants,” Eur. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 378–392, 2020.[5] T. Bourelle, “Preparing Graduate Students to Teach Online: Theoretical and Pedagogical Practices,” Writ. Progr. Adm., vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 90–113, 2016.[6] F. Marbouti, K. J. Rodgers, H. Jung, A. Moon, and H. A. Diefes-Dux, “Factors that help and hinder teaching assistants
general, her relationship was not a topic of discussion with her colleagues because shetypically did not discuss non-work-related topics at work. Even when commiserating with otherfaculty members, the discussions typically focused on the lack of time each of them had to meetthe standard expectations of a faculty position. So, even though she worked to integrate heridentities as a wife and mother into her professional environment, her colleagues did not engagewith her in discussing those roles. As far as her colleagues were concerned, she was simplyanother engineering faculty member who specialized in a particular, technical topic and waswilling to take on more administrative roles than other colleagues. Even though she did notintentionally
Paper ID #26527Toward a T-Shaped Integration of Mathematics in Mechanical EngineeringDr. Amitabha Ghosh, Rochester Institute of Technology Dr. Amitabha Ghosh is a licensed Professional Engineer with a Ph.D. in general engineering composite (Major: Aerospace Engineering) from Mississippi State University. He obtained his B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. His primary teaching responsibilities are in the areas of fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. He is also a significant