Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

provide designs for everything humanity uses, from motorvehicles and refrigerators, to parks and city sidewalks, and all of these have the potentialto impact the environment. However, it is up to the engineering educators of today tohelp ensure that engineers of tomorrow will impact the environment in a positive manner.Through integrating exciting methods of learning sustainability in engineeringcurriculums, engineering students can learn how to design and produce in anenvironmentally friendly manner.Sustainable designing and sustainable productsIn the market place today, advertisements overwhelm the consumers with terms such aslonger lasting, improved, or lighter weight. One term rarely used in commercials issustainable. That is because many

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A Masi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

career paths, and certainty of career choice, for explorers versusnon-explorers. It is suggested that global initiatives in each area created an organized, morecoherent, learning space which students were able to use to, in effect, uniquely organize theirundergraduate learning experience. Explorer students were able to use activities in this space tofurther development of key integrative disciplinary abilities and shape careers that connectedengineering with other disciplines.IntroductionDeveloping engineering graduates who are able to use a range of engineering and social scienceor humanities perspectives, as well as professional abilities, in addressing complex globalproblems has become a important effort in engineering programs around the

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sowmya Panuganti, Purdue University; Justin Charles Major, Rowan University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #41964WIP: Accomplices and Allies: The Role of Chosen Family in EmpoweringEngineering StudentsSowmya Panuganti, Purdue University Sowmya Panuganti is a graduate student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is interested in understanding how engineering culture effects students’ mental health and well-being.Dr. Justin Charles Major, Rowan University Dr. Justin C. Major (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University where he leads ASPIRE Lab (Advancing Student Pathways through Inequality Research in Engineering). Justin’s research focuses on engineering

Conference Session

Mechanical and Architectural Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Robin Kizirian, Drexel University; Brittany Killen, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

drivers, opening a worksheet andrecording the collected data in it. In order to effectively demonstrate this program, many testsusing different variable types had been run to show the accuracy and repeatability of the robotthrough offsets6-13. This test is very useful for calibrating the robot on an Internet basis and beingable to record data in real-time without having to be in the same location as the robot or theMP2000 Readout Controller. Furthermore, it helps with the improvement of Internet-basedcontrols with the Yamaha Robot (Figure 1). This project enhances the students’ programmingcapabilities and understanding of the accuracy parameters in the Robotics and Mechatronicsfields. The students learned the basic steps of connection-oriented

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahman Motlagh; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

Adaptive PID Controller Using PC Matlab Alireza Rahrooh, Bahman Motlagh, & Walter Buchanan University of Central Florida/Northeastern UniversitySession topics: Effective Uses of Technology to Teach EngineeringAbstractThe speed and accuracy of microprocessors has extensively changed the way control systems aredesigned. Process controllers can be “taught” to adjust themselves without any operator intervention.These self-tuning or adaptive controllers are programmed to provide a stable system response undervarious disturbance conditions.This paper presents a fluid level system to be modeled and controlled utilizing an adaptive PIDcontroller to improve the output response

Collection

2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Carol Stokes-Cawley; Katie Cadwell

evening so that they can have their passport signed by engineersrepresenting different engineering fields. We have an inspirational keynote speaker from thefield of engineering speak about their career choice and path during a catered dinner. Thiscorporate sponsored evening provides company recognition and allows for the company toprovide the inspirational speaker and has been found through program evaluations to be a veryspecial evening for the girls.A “Typical” Project ENGAGE DayWhile there is no typical day at Project ENGAGE, this immersion course allows participants toexperience first-hand what engineers do, how they approach, design and solve problems, and thecreativity needed to accomplish these goals. Figure 1: Block

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

and acommunity college, we identify students’ funds of knowledge, or the knowledge gained fromstudents’ family and cultural backgrounds, that is crucial to engineering innovation but neglectedin the curriculum they encounter in college. These funds of knowledge include defining andsolving problems in the midst of financial and material scarcity; building, fixing, and adaptingtechnical artifacts and systems; and empathizing with marginalized groups and communities. Wesuggest that these knowledges position LIFGs as effective innovators of engineering design forcommunity development, though few pursue this path because of financial constraints. Finally,we identify future pathways of this exploratory research, including a) an

Conference Session

Faculty Development II: Building Community Among STEM Educators

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington, Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

the point of improving along that scale of the taxonomy. So, you know, basic research things. Find a good goal. Improving the thought process of the students. Find a good model to help you design things. Do the design and then find a good way of measurement and then do a feedback loop on all of them. Hopefully if anything, our work modeled all of that and gave people a way to spring forward from that. …For many years after I retired I continued to do workshops on these taxonomies and really focusing on how do you get people to understand critical thinking better. …But through all of this I have always done TA training, really getting incoming TAs to understand those taxonomies, understand how the course of the teaching fit in and

Conference Session

WIED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalie Fabert, Arizona State University; Marilyn Cabay, Ph.D., Argosy University, Phoenix; Melissa B Rivers, Arizona State University; Mary Lee Smith, Arizona State University; Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

graduate school over the course of anentire academic year. Participants recruited from private and public research universities acrossthe U.S. submitted Internet journal entries (blogs) and/or were interviewed biweekly during falland spring semesters. Ethnographic techniques1 were employed to elicit details of concreteincidents. Constant comparative analysis2 was used for understanding journal entries andinterview transcripts. A common experience among participants in both components of the studywas “feeling different” from an implied institutional norm, according to preliminary results.Students sometimes self-isolated in order to meet a perceived need to present themselves ascapable and as “fitting in” with the institutional norm implied in

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 6

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meaghan Pearson, University of Michigan; Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jacqueline Handley, University of Michigan; Joi-Lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

contributes to theirminoritization in STEM. In doing so, we seek to identify ways to improve their experiences inSTEM higher education and entrepreneurial spaces. Relying on Collins’ (1990) domains ofpower framework, the following question guides the study: To what extent do everydayencounters and practices of marginalization in STEM higher education and entrepreneurialeducation spaces shape Black women’s engagement in STEM entrepreneurial educationprogramming? To answer this question, we conducted semi-structured interviews (n=7) of Blackwomen faculty in STEM higher education who have engaged or not engaged in entrepreneurshipeducation programming. These conversations reveal the various ways Black women navigate inand outside of entrepreneurship

Conference Session

Underrepresented Populations

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

minorities can be furtherexacerbated by the pedagogical decisions of engineering educators. This exacerbation candirectly influence the attitudes, perceptions, and interests of students in underrepresented groupswhich may prohibit their engagement in the future. The findings seek to provide examples ofteam dynamics for precollege engineering educators to help improve effective collaboration thatpromotes positive engineering experiences for students.IntroductionIn a field dominated by interdisciplinary and cross-functional teams to solve complex worldproblems, a common pedagogical practice in engineering education is to engage students withengineering concepts through team-based projects. This initial pedagogical practice began inhigher education in

Conference Session

Research Informing Teaching Practice II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Flora P. McMartin, Broad-based Knowledge, LLC; Joseph G. Tront, Virginia Tech; Sarah Giersch, Broad-based Knowledge, LLC

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

first phases of the study (conducted during 2011),which addresses research questions one, two and four.1.1 Background of the Premier AwardThe Premier Award competition was instituted with two primary goals: to recognize and rewardthe efforts of faculty (and students) developing courseware and to provide an external measure ofthe quality of the courseware.14 The Premier Award was created as a program within theSynthesis Coalition, one of the NSF engineering education coalitions funded in the 1990’s,which focused on improving engineering education by designing, implementing and assessingapproaches to undergraduate engineering education that emphasized multidisciplinary synthesis,teamwork and communication, hands-on and laboratory experiences

Conference Session

Faculty Career Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; D. Patrick O'Neal, Louisiana Tech University; Lori L. Bakken, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. Prior to moving to academia in 2005, he led several industrial nanomedicine-based development projects as PI on NSF (SBIR), NIH (STTR), and NIST (ATP) grants. With a research focus in biomedical optics, he has published peer-reviewed articles in basic cancer research, biomedical electro-optic instrumentation, clinical cancer therapies, and mathemati- cal techniques for dealing with complex biological systems. Based on experiences instructing courses like Biomedical Engineering Senior Design and his previous experience in the medical device industry, he has developed a strong interest in optimizing gender interactions and productivity in engineering projects and

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE)

industry, and therefore, its training isrooted in the contingent, a fact that was not understood when sandwich courses weredeveloped in the 1960’s. Academics evidently viewed training as a means of enablingstudents to apply the scientific knowledge learnt in college courses in industrial situations.There was no recognition of the fact that different ways of thinking were involved. It isargued that these different ways of thinking (epistemologies) and their conditioning, whichform the ontologies (especially attitudes) of those involved, are at the heart of many of theproblems experienced by Bingham.2. From the story of Britain’s Vaccine Task Force – The Long ShotBefore any Covid 19 cases had been reported in the UK, on Jan 27th 2020, an

Conference Session

ECCD - Technical Session 2 - Solar Energy

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kenneth A. Walz, Madison Area Technical College; Joel B. Shoemaker, Madison Area Technical College; Steven Michael Ansorge, Madison Area Technical College; Adam Gusse, Sunvest Solar, Inc; Nicholas J. Hylla, Midwest Renewable Energy Association

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

. Students in the Madison College Renewable EnergyProgram complete several courses in solar and renewable energy that are making use of the newsolar PV system. Students in the program learn to design, specify, and model performance forvarious types of solar installations. They also learn to estimate the effects of shading, modulesoiling, and snow cover. Most importantly, they learn hands-on installation skills that includebasic construction, workplace safety, solar assembly and wiring, electrical safety, codecompliance, safe commissioning and system verification practices.The college’s system is comprised of several sub-arrays, each of which is connected to one ofseventeen DC to AC inverters. The sub-arrays include ballast mounted panels in both

Conference Session

Retaining and Developing Women Faculty in STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey Beddoes, Purdue University; Corey T Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

.[49] H. Ja Shin, "Childcare Options in South Korea: Experiences and Perceptions of Female College Faculty," NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, vol. 2, pp. 122-141, 2009.[50] S. M. van Anders, "Why the Academic Pipeline Leaks: Fewer Men than Women Perceive Barriers to Becoming Professors," Sex Roles, vol. 51, pp. 511-521, 2004.[51] K. De Welde and S. L. Laursen, "The Glass Obstacle Course: Informal and Formal Barriers For Women Ph.D. Students in STEM Fields," International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology vol. 3, pp. 571- 595, 2011.[52] M. A. Mason and M. Goulden, "Do Babies Matter? The Effect of Family Formation on the Lifelong Careers of Academic Men and Women," Academe Online, 2002

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nutnicha Nigon, Oregon State University; Julie Tucker, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Materials Division (MATS)

learning activities [5], [8], research that combine these aspects is limited. Variousresearch focuses on developing and testing these adaptive tools from either the design of theprogramming and frameworks aspect [7], [9], [10] or to quantify their effectiveness in promotingconceptual learning based on performance (such as scores) [4], [11], [12] and perceptions [12],[13], [14]. Rarely do they focus on exploring how students develop their conceptual knowledgewhile navigating through and interacting with such tools.In this study, we sought to understand the ways that our newly developed CALM could besupporting (or hindering) students conceptual learning. We took a qualitative approach to furtherinvestigate how students interact with the CALM through

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Evaluating Student Behaviors and Attitudes

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University; Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Paul D. Mathis, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

of these questions was highly variable. They may have beenused to clarify/request information and perspectives, improve conceptual understanding, identifydesign concepts, organize team processes and interaction.18Observation has been depicted as a key skill within engineering design, particularly in regards toits usefulness in meeting users’ needs.21,22 According to Kolodner and Wills, observation isdirectly tied to perceptiveness which enables an engineer to have a meta-awareness of thecontext in which a problem is embedded, along with how that context formulates the problem athand.23 Observation seems particularly key to the growing body of knowledge on empathicdesign within engineering, where the direct focus may involve observing

Collection

2005 GSW

Authors

S. Easwaran

is one of the most difficult techniques in DSP to visualize, understand,interpret and implement especially for those encountering it for the first time7. This is becausethe concept of discrete convolution and its effect on discrete-time signals are not intuitive fromits defining equation (Equation 1) whose definition and mathematics seems confusing at first.Because of this, discrete convolution was taught by the author along the above systematicpresentation and approach, and by providing visual explanations of its interpretations. This wasaccomplished by specifically designing and implementing two novel software tools. Eachsoftware tool was designed to visually explain the interpretation of the discrete convolutionequation from one of two

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Student Learning 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri - Columbia; Douglas J. Hacker

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

-accredited engineering program, and students completedpre-engineering courses at other community colleges or universities. Currently, IRE offers afour-year engineering program at the same location, Mesabi Community College. Studentsgraduate with a B.S. in Engineering, and most have a specialization in either mechanicalengineering or electrical engineering, although other specializations are available. The two-year,junior/senior program is non-traditional, in that students take few traditional courses; rather,students work in teams every semester to solve real-world problems presented by local industrypartners. All work is supervised and mentored by faculty as well as industry mentors. Directinstruction in self-directed learning is included

Conference Session

Computational Thinking in Pre-College Engineering

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dazhi Yang, Boise State University; Youngkyun Baek, Boise State University; Bhaskar Chittoori P.E., Boise State University; William H. Stewart, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

Paper ID #25504Elementary Students’ Computational Thinking Practice in A Bridge Designand Building Challenge (Fundamental)Dr. Dazhi Yang, Boise State University Dazhi Yang is an associate professor at Boise State University. Her research lies at the intersection of STEM education and technology-supported learning. Her current research focuses on integrating compu- tational thinking in STEM learning, instructional strategies and online course design, and strategies for teaching difficult and complex science and engineering concepts.Dr. Youngkyun Baek, Boise State University Dr. Baek has been a professor of educational

Conference Session

Computational Thinking in Pre-College Engineering

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sean P. Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University; Muhsin Menekse, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ibrahim H. Yeter, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

undergraduate courses in science education for elementary education majors. As a former elementary teacher, her research and teaching interests are centered around improv- ing elementary students’ science and engineering learning and increasing teachers’ use of effective STEM instruction in the elementary grades. With the increased emphasis on improved teaching and learning of STEM disciplines in K-12 classrooms, Tank examines how to better support and prepare pre-service and in-service teachers to meet the challenge of integrating STEM disciplines in a manner that supports teach- ing and learning across multiple disciplines. More recently, her research has focused on using literacy to support scientific inquiry, engineering

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Strategies Beyond the Classroom to Tackle Gender Issues

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine G Nelson, Arizona State University; Susan Shapcott, University of Bath ; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

storywas remarkable. Chantel lives with her mother, her older sister and her sister’s two children. Shealso works. She feels pressure to help her mother and her sister, who rely on Chantel for bothtime and money. Despite these distractions, Chantel does whatever it takes to succeed in school,including overcoming setbacks. She shared one of the setbacks she had with us “I ended upgetting a C- in calculus and you had to get a C to go on to the next class so technically I failed itbecause I had to retake it. I took it the last time and got an A, ever since I've gotten an A in everymath course.” Chantel's story epitomizes the foundation of Dweck's self-theories research.11 Shebelieved she could improve her calculus ability with hard work and a

Conference Session

Product Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Kramer, Kansas State University; Jeffrey Tucker, Kansas State University; Bret Lanz, Kansas State University; Dale Wunderlich, Kansas State University; Jeffrey Katz, Kansas State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurs and small businesses to improve theircompetitiveness.1. BackgroundThe Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI) is a multi-disciplinary center that is part of theKansas State University College of Engineering. It is both a Kansas Technology EnterpriseCorporation (KTEC) Center of Excellence and a U.S. Economic Development AdministrationUniversity Center. Its mission is to advance technologies, people, and companies throughcollaborative engineering and business partnerships. Page 12.566.2In 1995, AMI established an operation to enhance the education of engineering students that waspatterned after teaching hospitals. In our model, AMI employs

Conference Session

Novel Applications of Computers/Software in Energy Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kala Meah, University of Wyoming; Steven Fletcher, University of Wyoming; Sadrul Ula, University of Wyoming; Steven Barrett, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

PowerWorld simulation, and for thesecond scenario, the steady state and transient (transmission line faults) behaviors of WT are simulatedand effects are analyzed using MATLAB/SIMULINK. This paper also presents a financial evaluation forthe grid-connected PV and WT systems. This integrated simulation and economic study will help toenrich power system teaching, and the student will have a better understanding of the distributed powergeneration.IntroductionEach kilowatt-hour (kWh) generated from renewable resources saves the environment from the burningof fossil fuels. The coal-fired and the natural-gas-fired power plants produce 2.11 lbs and 1.17 lbs carbondioxide, respectively, to generate 1 kWh electricity1. Electricity generation from the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Yongjin Kwon, Drexel University; Shreepud Rauniar, Drexel University; Horacio Sosa, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. Page 11.858.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Laboratory Development for Robotics and Automation Education Using Internet Based TechnologyAbstract This paper describes laboratory and curriculum development integrated withInternet based robotics and automation for engineering technology education. DrexelUniversity’s Applied Engineering Technology Program received a NSF CCLI grant todevelop a series of laboratory courses in the area of internet based robotics andautomation in manufacturing. The development efforts include industrial partnershipwith Yamaha Robotics, restructured and advanced courses in applied engineeringprogram curriculum, and laboratory activities integrated with network technologies

Conference Session

Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zack Bowles; Philippe E. Tissot; Jeremy Flores; G. Beate Zimmer; Alexey L. Sadovski; Carl Steidley

Water Level Forecasting along the Texas Coast: Interdisciplinary Research with Undergraduates. G. Beate Zimmer, Philippe E. Tissot, Jeremy S. Flores, Zack Bowles, Alexey L. Sadovski, Carl Steidley. Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX 78412.Abstract:While pure mathematics makes it sometimes difficult to involve undergraduates who have notyet completed the higher level math courses in research projects, research in applied mathematicsis generally more accessible to these students. We present an example of an integrated researchenvironment including faculty, research professionals and students which has facilitated theproductive

Conference Session

Advancing Equity in Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simonne Renee Whitmore, Southern University and A&M College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

about the value and necessity of affirmative action and diversity, equity, and inclusion(DEI) initiatives, with the abundance of opportunities and vacancies in construction management,increasing interest and participation by members of historically marginalized racial/ethnicminority communities may be an effective way to partially address the growing demands of theindustry.It has been suggested that the phrase “historically marginalized communities” better conveys thefact that underrepresentation of racial/ethnic minorities usually doesn’t reflect a lack of interest oreffort, but instead a lack of opportunity. [2] In the field of construction management, African-Americans compromise only 4.8% of the construction managers in the U.S. in 2023 [1

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Curriculum and Programming Resources, Part 1 of 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jose M. Garcia, Purdue University (Statewide Technology); Yury Alexandrovich Kuleshov, Purdue University, West Lafayette; John H. Lumkes

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

robots in STEMrecruitment include: 1) improved student perception in STEM disciplines, 2) expanded studentinterest in choosing STEM careers among students, 3) better student retention rates throughoutSTEM career paths. Robotics present a unique advantage as engineering teaching tool because itcan be used to explain basic concepts in mechanics like Newton’s laws but can also be used forexplaining more involved topics like electronics, hydraulics or programming.The broad goal of this project was to increase awareness of STEM fields; and particularly, thediscipline of fluid power among young students attending middle and high schools. The datapresented here was collected during a series of workshops that used a hydraulic robotic micro-excavator

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elisa Bravo, University of Michigan ; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Jesse Austin-Breneman

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

reflection for makerspace staff to consider when creating a makerspace that encouragesbelonging. To promote a culture of belonging in academic makerspaces, this study suggestsadministrators and staff members should consider the variation in understanding how onebelongs to a space.1 IntroductionAcademic makerspaces are spaces where users learn, share, and create new knowledge throughthe act of building physical objects using tools and supported by expertise from mentors or staffmembers [6], [8], [9] . Building equitable makerspaces is a major goal for many makerspaceproponents in order to increase access to knowledge that was once out of reach for many [10].Prior research has shown that access to tools and expertise in makerspaces can improve