interviews had a significant impact on and wereimpacted by the course-related events, and internships were stressful for many computingstudents as they were becoming a computing cultural obsession [5]. Another study examined anentrepreneurship course offered to low-income Brazilian students enrolled in science,technology, education, and arts disciplines [13]. The students in the study preferred to enter amore stable job market rather than risking their financial status to become an entrepreneur [13].In another study, lower-income students envisioned themselves employed in the softwareindustry in their immediate future and wanted to venture into entrepreneurial efforts later [17].Regarding graduate school pathways, prior scholarship found that
spent a great deal of time togetherdiscussing their projects and the various approaches and potential methods. The space created forthis experience emphasized the creative wisdom that each student brought to the process. Theywere not only allowed, but encouraged, to explore new questions, ways of thinking, and use ofsoftware tools. The workshop week culminated in team project presentations where each teampresented their overarching problem/topic. For the final project, students combined all theiracquired skills to create innovative, effective visualizations which tell a story about a data set oftheir choice [19]. This included the methods they have used to analyze data, results gained thusfar, and any plans for future collaborations to continue
the cross piece. The down button was actually not usedfor any function. Time ran out before figuring out how to make Project G move inreverse.Button “b” (the left gray button) started the fire, while button “a” (the right gray button)started the tail wagging.Figure 12: Controller. The black buttons control forward motion, stop, left and right. The Page 12.1200.10 gray buttons control the fire and tail wag.Godzilla – Beauty and the BeastOnce Godzilla was assembled and functioning, it was quite an impressive sight; yet, itsphysical appearance needed major improvements. Several members in the group made itundergo a beautification
and culturally diverse classrooms; physical and digital manipulatives and their application in engineer- ing courses; engineering identity; engineering literacies and critical literacies; cultures of engineering; retention, recruitment, and outreach for underrepresented minorities in STEM.Dr. Renata A. Revelo, University of Illinois, Chicago Renata A. Revelo is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She earned her B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and her Ph.D. in Education Organization and Leadership from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Dr. Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University Dr
to be used with the very audience for which they are intended.Many projects that are funded by NSF result in the production of lessons and activities. Anexamination of the literature shows that existing rubrics are designed to assess lesson planquality, perhaps as a way to assess the effectiveness of professional development. Another set ofrubrics can be found for lesson plans generated as a part of a preservice teacher program, whichare designed to generate a grade. This paper looks at lesson plans differently, without an attemptto assess quality. Because so many constituencies are creating lessons around engineering, andthose constituencies come from so many different academic backgrounds, the question of howthey get their approach to
research methods inform your work? 3. What research questions inform your work? 4. What educational practices or experiences inform your research? 5. What are the things you wish you knew to do your educational practice better?Figure 1. The triangle conveys three key elements of educational research at each point: clear research questions,relevant theory and appropriate methods. These formed the first three conference threads. Figure 2. Educational practice identifies and motivates questions and ideas, which lead to education research.Educational research results in answers and insight that then help to improve educational practice. The connectionbetween educational practice and research informed the final two conference threads. One can
tenure she created Energy Clubs for students in grades 3-5. Albers is passionate about experiential learning and strongly encourages the inclusion of hands-on activities into a curriculum. Her dissertation spans the Colleges of Engineering and Education and quantifies the effects of hands-on activities in an engineering lecture.Dr. Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University Dr. Laura Bottomley received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1984 and an M.S. in Electrical Engi- neering in 1985 from Virginia Tech. She received her Ph D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1992. Dr. Bottomley worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff in Transmission
wheels independently. The motorsattach to the drive wheels at 90-degree angles and pivot vertically through bracketswelded to the frame. The brackets prevent any horizontal movement reducing stresson the motors. The motors attach to the suspension system and travel with the wheelsindependently. The angles that the motors are mounted also vary as the vehicletravels across uneven ground. This ensures that a motor will not hit the ground whenits respective wheel enters a hole. The two rear wheels are free to rotate and changedirection as the vehicle changes course. The rear wheels are mounted on a pivoting arm that allowsthe wheels to travel vertically, independent of the main drive wheels. The pivoting arm allows 30degrees of rear wheel travel in
data from 21 schools that participated in the 2008 Project to Assess Climate inEngineering survey, the classroom experiences of women in undergraduate engineering majorsare examined, with specific attention to the effect of race. This study explores the differences orsimilarities that exist between women of different race/ethnic groups with respect to theirperceptions and engagement with faculty and in classrooms, where students begin theirengineering careers.Literature ReviewRecent studies on the recruitment and retention of women in STEM fields have highlighted theneed for research on the intersecting factors of gender and race 4, 5, 6. Qualitative interviewapproaches have been successful in elucidating the perspectives of women STEM
in groundwater. There are many improvements that can be made by private citizens, uranium companies,and the regulatory agencies to maintain better water quality. Using this research experience, theteacher created a thematic unit using the question of “Is your water safe to drink?” for a highschool aquatic science class following the legacy cycle format. Students will explore whatmakes water safe to drink, where well water comes from, drilling water well practices, and theuranium mining process. Students will test their own water samples for basic watercontaminants. Student learning will be gauged by a scenario of the student working at anenvironmental lab and lastly sharing their new found knowledge with local publications.Students in this
-meaning supervisors.In a review of other professions, Morris2 interviewed executive women who had left upper levelmanagement positions with large corporations. She found that these women left because theywanted to make a difference in their position of power, but felt that their men peers were onlyinterested in the perks associated with power. This circumstance exemplifies incompleteoccupational socialization because these women were socialized to feel rewarded by making adifference, not from perks and position. These women left their traditional jobs to move intoroles that used their professional expertise, but had a focus of serving others.Socialization differences between genders have an effect in the educational system through theperception
implications. This implies that people ofmultiple cultural backgrounds are potentially impacted. Notably, there has been anunderrepresentation of non-Western ideologies in literature. Additionally, scholars expressed theneed for alternative methods for studying and improving AI ethics research and education.Therefore, from a theoretical standpoint, how can African IKS be applied to AI ethics educationand research community? Based on a 2019 publication by African scholars in the InternationalJournal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education (IJHSSE), the authors highlight seven sub-theories of African IKS. The sub-theories are communalism, functionalism, holisticism,preparedness, perennialism, vitalism, and indigenous standpoint theory (relative to
for the mock bid letting are that the students will: Page 5.154.21. Understand the entire bidding procedure2. Appreciate the attention to detail required to submit a responsive bid3. Work effectively in groups4. Interact effectively with contracting agency personnel, suppliers, subcontractors and competing contractors.5. Discreetly handle confidential information6. Conduct a thorough site visit.7. Interpret contract documents including standard plans and general specifications8. Visualize and communicate the construction process required to complete the project.9. Estimate the prime contractor’s portion of the cost of the project and provide
been the Co-Director of Engineering K-PhD, the Pratt School of Engineering's K-12 Outreach Center. In this position, he is an editor for the TeachEngineering digital library, develops afterschool engineering curricula through the TechXcite program, and manages Duke’s engineering GK-12 program.Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder MALINDA SCHAEFER ZARSKE is an engineering education doctoral student at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is on the development team for the TeachEngineering digital library and serves as a content editor. She has co-created and co-taught engineering elective courses for both high school and undergraduate students through CU-Boulder’s ITL K-12
the design of HCI based frameworks and environments to support distributed engineering collaboration in advanced manufacturing, robots, rehabilitation engineering, healthcare and space systems.Avinash Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Avinash Gupta is a Specialized Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is also a faculty affiliate in the Jump Simulation Center, CI-MED. He teaches software and hardware engineering courses in the Masters in Health Technology program. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science under the supervision of Professor J. Cecil from Oklahoma State University in the Fall
frequencies;the added system is namely called or referred to as the absorber [5]. This principle is used in theisolation system for the SAITO 180 gas engine. In this case, the primary isolation systemconsists of the engine mounts, and the absorber consists of the vibration isolation system fromthe SAITO 180 engine to the engine mount. In addition, damping was also added to thevibration absorber to prevent resonance and to improve the effective RPM operation of thevibration absorber. The damping material used in this case was sorbothane which helped bydissipating the vibration of the gas engine reciprocating motion. Figure 6(b) illustrates thevibration absorber attached to the engine mount.Viscoelastic damping treatments were also commonly used in the
MentorProgram [20, 23].IRAP/ELCIR includes course credit. Each participant must register for a research elective whichis conducted as an independent study course [14, 15, 20]. The elective can be taken for up to fourhours of credit [20, 24], although one hour is the typical load for an IRAP participant [14, 15].The course curriculum is adapted specifically to the IRAP process and spans three semesters,spring, summer and fall.IRAP/ELCIR’s spring activities are an “orientation and training workshop” [20]. These arefollowed in the summer by a “two-week trip to Yucatan in Mexico, where students take a classon introduction to research, visit research sites and tour cultural areas of Yucatan, includingUxmal, Chichen Itza, the cenotes and the Mundo Maya
interviewdata and how these mindsets impact the interviewees’ academic responsibilities, especially withrespect to teaching and research. Both teaching and research aspects have implications forengineering education. The interviews we analyzed included two faculty in a school ofengineering and two in a school of education at a public university in Western Canada.IntroductionIn modern day engineering education, there is much greater appreciation of qualitative researchand interest in understanding the individual narratives of research participants. The field ofengineering education research has gone through many evolutions since its beginnings in the 19thcentury. Mainly, there has been a shift in focus from improving quantitative productivity ofstudents
medicine [19] and business [20]. Previous researchers havedescribed HC in STEM education, such as physics research community culture [21] andgendered lessons in STEM course syllabi [22].Engineering status quo The status quo in engineering is a result of unchallenged, unacknowledged, orunaddressed HC and negative impacts those who has been traditionally excluded from thediscipline. Engineering has long fostered gendered values of objectivity, autonomy, andseparation that all genders display, uphold, and practice [22]. This objectivity feeds theperception that engineering is colorblind, class-blind, and gender-blind, and relies on a system ofmeritocracy as the basis for success [23]. Thus, meritocracy, or the hardest worker will receivethe
dealingwith the negative impact of toxic waste from solar cell manufacturing plants so that USA’salternative energy needs don’t end up trumping the needs of another community for access toclean air, water, and soil. Thus perspective-taking is at the heart of many engineering ethicsdilemmas [7]. In the lack of such perspective-taking, it is much more likely that the interests ofthose who have lesser access to conventional means of power will again get marginalized, and itis also likely that the solutions that emerge will be brittle - in the sense of being out of harmonywith the local context and thus over time being discarded, or disused [9].Within engineering ethics education, while there have been efforts to design course experiencesthat encourage
and reliability. Walther,Sochacka, and Kellam 6,15,16 recently published a quality framework for interpretive research thatprovides a model for researchers to communicate the validity and reliability of their work. TheQualifying Qualitative Research Quality (Q3) framework specifies six categories of quality. Thefollowing categories and definitions were taken directly from Walther, Sochacka, and Kellam 6: • Theoretical Validity – is concerned with capturing the agreement between the data or theory generated and the social reality of the context under investigation • Procedural Validity – focuses on incorporating processes or features into the study that will mitigate threats to validity and improve the fit between the
subjective matter of preference and purpose,and trade-offs typically occur between these attributes. For example, a rigorous proof might notbe as simple as a non-rigorous one (as evidenced by the fact that some authors use rigor to meandifficulty 1 ). However, one theory may outperform another in all three depth attributes.In the context of engineering education, a theory can also be evaluated in terms of its relevance toengineering problems. Increasing depth can also improve relevance, since a more general theorymay apply to a larger class of engineering problems, a simpler theory may be more practical tolearn and implement, and a more rigorous theory gives more reliable results.Many difficult junior and senior undergraduate courses in electrical
well as retention and diversity concerns within engineering education and engineering as a profession.Brock E. Barry, U.S. Military Academy Dr. Barry is an assistant professor and course director in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engi- neering at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He predominately teaches in the area of engineer- ing mechanics. His current areas of research include professional ethics, economic factors influencing engineering education, identity development, and non-verbal communication. Dr. Barry is a licensed professional engineer with multiple years of consulting experience.Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame Kerry L. Meyers is an Associate Professional Faculty member in the
enclosure that was implemented required all custom components aside from standard hard-ware. Several jigs and fixtures were developed to improve part manufacturing repeatability andaccuracy. The frame of the enclosure is constructed from 1/16” aluminum angle which was cutusing a stop fence and a standard miter saw with a metal blade to ensure repeatable 27” lengthcuts from 96” lengths of aluminum Figure 3-11 (A). (A) Miter Saw Fence Built to Cut Aluminum Angle. (B) Drill Press and Table Used For Drilling Alumi- num Angles. Figure 3-11: Aluminum Angle
college consistently ranked at the bottom of student concerns across everyyear and engineering major. We also needed a better understanding of how the studentsexperienced the program structure of our women in engineering program and if it could beimproved to better reflect the needs of this new student cohort. Finally, we wanted to know howprevalent these declining engagement trends were on campus and what, if any, steps could betaken to improve them. This paper focuses on focus groups held with undergraduate women inengineering students, and contextual interviews held with other campus programs, clubs andorganizations. First, we present a summary of what we learned about this new cohort of studentsas well as the key survey findings that informed
among the attitudes, beliefs, motivation, cognitive skills, and engineering skills of K-16 engineering learners; and teaching engineering.Mrs. Kayla R. Maxey, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Kayla is a doctoral candidate in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses on creating and sustaining cultures of inclusion in engineering. She investigates normative cultural ideologies produced and reinforced by engineering education structures (e.g. departments, courses, poli- cies) to determine the influence on initiatives to recruit, retain, and support diverse students. Her current work explores the cultural productions of faculty to understand how to improve inclusion in
engineering [7], [9]. Cheryan contends that women would be more likely to select engineeringmajors if there was more messaging about how different and diverse types of people can succeedin the field, and if the diversity of the work was emphasized [7], [9]. Similarly, the NAE, whichis responsible for the Engineer Girl website, has reported on the need to provide richer, morefocused messages about engineering to make it more appealing to young people, particularlywomen. In one report titled, “Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving the PublicUnderstanding of Engineering” they advocate the need for new and improved messages topersuade girls and underrepresented minorities to consider engineer as a career choice.According to the report, new
government agencies. In 2010, Dr. Lambrinidou co-conceived the graduate level engineering ethics course ”Engi- neering Ethics and the Public,” which she has been co-teaching to students in engineering and science. She is co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) research and education project developing an ethnographic approach to engineering ethics education. Page 26.322.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Canons against Cannons? Social Justice and the Engineering Ethics ImaginaryAbstractWhat if social
assistance for the Department of Defense to improve the energy and demand perfor- mance of military facilities, development, and implementation of water and power distribution technolo- gies to improve conditions in border communities along the Texas/Mexico border. Previously, Schneider was Chief of the Technology Requirements Branch for the U.S. Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command. He led a team of information and training technology experts in the evaluation of existing and emerging training and educational technologies and evaluated them for inclusion into the Air Force’s learning processes. Schneider’s experience includes various human-centered management positions as well as a faculty appointment to the
authorscontacted the office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) at NSF. The OISE supportsprograms to expand and enhance leading edge international research and education opportunitiesfor U.S. scientists and engineers, especially at the early career stage. It specifically works to build Page 22.1264.3and strengthen effective institutional partnerships throughout the global science and engineeringresearch and education community, and it supports international collaborations in NSF's nationalpriority research areas 1.While keeping this objective in mind, a proposal was submitted to NSF office of InternationalScience and Engineering for holding