, they do not necessarily have the time to make the high levels of coordination that many university and industry engagement initiatives require. Industry engineers also have problems with the availability of time, especially during the workday - for example, it is difficult for many to devote half a day to an activity as a workshop for trainees. Often there is no money available to develop the types of initiatives that are likely to have the greatest impact. Even when funding is available to establish a new initiative, long-term financial sustainability remains problem. This paper intends to show a program that might work as a first step for engineering schools and industries to develop relations and work together in the
year engineering technologydegree programs in the mid-1950’s in response to a need for more practically trained graduateswho would be able to enter the workforce without the need for specialized on the job training.ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.), the accreditation body forboth engineering and engineering technology programs, describes engineering and engineeringtechnology as “closely related professional fields that differ in curricular focus and careerpaths”[3]. Graduates from engineering programs are called engineers, graduates of four yeartechnology programs are known as technologists, and graduates from two year technologyprograms are called technicians. In general, engineering curricula are mainly focused
Paper ID #23392Bridges and Barriers: A Multi-year Study of Workload-related Learning Ex-periences from Diverse Student and Instructor Perspectives in First-year En-gineering EducationMs. Darlee Gerrard, University of Toronto Darlee Gerrard is a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering Education at the University of Toronto. She received her Hon. B.Sc. from the University of Toronto, B.Ed. from Brock University, and Masters degree from Memorial University. She coordinates leadership and community outreach programs in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include STEM
novel ways of connecting with relevantaudience. Our analysis demonstrates that diversity initiatives related to STEM attract voices fromvarious entities including individuals, large corporations, media outlets, and community interestgroups.IntroductionThe term “STEM education” refers to teaching and learning in the fields of science, technology,engineering, and mathematics. According to Sanders (2008), in the 1990s, the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) “SMET” was the shorthand for “science, mathematics, engineering, andtechnology” and an NSF program officer complained that “SMET” sounded too much like “smut,”that resulted in the new acronym “STEM” [1]. Although it took some time for STEM to catch on,and even as recently as 2003 few people know
Farook is a member of the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at Purdue University, Nothwest. Farook received the diploma of licentiate in mechanical engineering and B.S.M.E. in 1970 and 1972, respectively. He further received B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. in 1978 and 1983, respec- tively, from Illinois Institute of Technology. Farook’s current interests are in the areas of embedded system design, hardware-software interfacing, digital communication, networking, image processing, and biometrics, C++, Python, PHP and Java languages. He has a keen interest in pedagogy and instruction de- livery methods related to distance learning. He has a deep commitment to social justice and in achieving economic and
Information Sciences (%) Engineering & 5 Engineering Technology 0 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010Employment ProspectsIn addition to teaching responsibilities, I serve as an advisor to incoming freshmen into theMechanical Engineering Technology program at Indiana University – Purdue University FortWayne. Prior to the economic recession of 2008, new students and their parents rarely asked meabout employment and salary levels after graduation, but during and since the recession, thisquestion has become common
Paper ID #21769Selecting Estimating Software: Perspectives from the Construction IndustryDr. Charles McIntyre, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis Charles McIntyre is a Professor and Program Director of the Construction Engineering Management Technology Program at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He received a Ph.D. from Penn State in 1996. Prior to joining IUPUI, he was a faculty member and former chair in the Department of Construction Management and Engineering at North Dakota State University in Fargo. Dr. McIntyre’s current research includes sustainable construction, green
Bachelor degree in Electronics Engineering at Feng Chia University and both Master’s de- gree and Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering at Florida International University. He serves as the program coordinator of the Master program in Network Technology for the Department of Technology Systems and the lead faculty of Digital Communication Systems concentration for the Consortium Uni- versities of the Ph.D. in Technology Management. He is also the point of contact of ECU National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education (CAE-CDE). Dr. Chou teaches IT related courses, which include network security, network intrusion detection and prevention, wireless communications, and network management. His
Paper ID #22905Examining the Interactions Related to Role Modeling in an Elementary Out-reach Program (Work in Progress)Ms. Karen Miel, Tufts UniversityDr. Merredith D Portsmore, Tufts University Dr. Merredith Portsmore is the Director for Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (www.ceeo.tufts.edu). Merredith received all four of her degrees from Tufts (B.A. English, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, M.A. Education, PhD in Engineering Education). Her research interests focus on how children engage in de- signing and constructing solutions to engineering design problems and evaluating students’ design arti- facts. Her
Engineering Education, 2018The influence of early STEM career exploration as related to motivation and self-determination theoryDr. Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Dr. Hiroko Kawaguchi Warshauer, Dr. Laura Cano Amaya andMs. Sara TorresAbstractA science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) summer intervention program is thesetting for a career-exploration research study with over 30 adolescent students in a low-incomecommunity. Using motivation and self-determination theory as a framework, the impact of earlyexposure to engineering and mathematics career opportunities is examined. In the larger study weutilized mixed methods to analyze how changes in middle school students’ affective characteristicsmay be linked to their future career decision
Paper ID #21438Engineering Industry Perspectives and Policies Related to Employees’ Pur-suit of Engineering Doctoral TrainingMs. Erika Mosyjowski, University of Michigan Erika Mosyjowski is a PhD student in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. She also earned a Master’s in Higher Education at Michigan and a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Sociology from Case Western Reserve University. Before pursuing a PhD, Erika had a dual appointment in UM’s College of Engineering working in student affairs and as a research associate. While grounded in the field of higher education
majors 11 o Pair Black and Latino male students with mentors who are recent alumni of engineering and related STEM programs so alumni can also provide academic advising o Reduce advising loads for academic advisors and revise their evaluation structure to reward quality (e.g., student satisfaction, development of strong personal relationships with advisees) over quantity (i.e., the number of students advised) To address poor quality teaching, engineering and related STEM educators can: o Change engineering and STEM graduate programs so they have mandatory education
independently predicted students’engineering identity. The relationships between gender and both engineering identity andpersistence were completely mediated by peer relations, but were not significantly mediated byfaculty support. Unlike gender, race had a significant independent effect on both engineeringidentity and persistence that was not mediated by other predictors. This suggests that otherfactors not captured by this set of predictors influenced their identification with the disciplineand their persistence.To better understand aspects of the program climate that influenced persistence and disciplinaryidentification, we conducted a qualitative analysis of responses to two open-ended items whichasked students to state identify the “best” part of
Paper ID #23738Algebra-Related Misconceptions Identified in a First-Year Engineering Rea-soning CourseDr. Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University Lizzie Y. Santiago, Ph.D., is a Teaching Associate Professor for the Fundamentals of Engineering Program in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and has postdoctoral training in neural tissue engineering and molecular neurosciences. She teaches freshman engineering courses and supports the outreach and recruiting activities of the college. Her research interests include neural tissue engineering
Paper ID #22617Revealing the Invisible: Conversations about -Isms and Power Relations inEngineering CoursesDr. Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego Dr. Joel Alejandro (Alex) Mejia is an assistant professor of General Engineering at the University of San Diego. His current research investigates the funds of knowledge of Latinx adolescents, and how they use these funds of knowledge to solve engineering problems in their communities. Dr. Mejia is particularly interested in how Latinx adolescents bring forth unique ways of knowing, doing, and being that provide them with particular ways of framing, approaching, and
Paper ID #22487A Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program Coupling Energy-related Research with Training in EntrepreneurshipDr. Adam T. Melvin, Louisiana State University Adam Melvin obtained a BS in Chemical Engineering and a BA in Chemistry from the University of Arizona, a MS in Chemical Engineering (with a minor in Biotechnology) and a Ph.D. in Chemical En- gineering from North Carolina State University. He was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. In August of 2013 he joined the faculty as an Assistant
students’ interest in this course, which also improved their performance.1. IntroductionRobotics is becoming one of the most attractive majors in the Colleges of Technology because ofthe advantages in respect of applications, jobs, and prospects. Therefore, more and more Collegesof Technology have or are planning to create robotics program. Usually, as an interdisciplinaryfield, the robotics programs are provided by either Computer Engineering Technology or MET.However, students of Engineering Technology, especially MET, are facing two dilemmas whenproviding robotics courses:(1) Technology programs mainly focus on hands-on skills and there are fewer fundamentalrobotics-related courses in the MET curriculum than in electrical engineering
assignments by students.References [1] Esther Shein, "Should Everybody Learn to Code?," Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 16-18, February 2014. [2] Philip Guo, "Teaching Programming the Way It Works Outside the Classroom," Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 10-11, August 2013. [3] Manojkumar Deshpande, Pradeep Waychal, and Prashant Udawant, "Analysis of Improved Pedagogy Applied for Teaching courses related to Computer Programming for First Year Engineering Programs," in ASEE International Forum, Seattle, 2015. [4] H. Estrada and F. Aguiniga, "Analysis of Laminated Composites: A Web-based Computer Program Based on Classical Lamination
Paper ID #21466Library and Student Innovation Center: Makerspace!Dr. Steven F. Barrett, University of Wyoming Dr. Steven F. Barrett, P.E., received the B.S. in Electronic Engineering Technology from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1979, the M.E.E.E. from the University of Idaho at Moscow in 1986, and the Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. He was formally an active duty faculty member and professor at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado and is now professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and associate dean for Academic Programs, College of Engineering and Applied Science
satellite design. Although my primary focus is with aerospace applications, I participate in many projects related to controls and heat transfer. Aside from my research, I focus heavily on the advancement of engineering education at the collegiate level. I work on revising and updating laboratory experiments to help improve student understanding of how concepts are applied and utilized. I also spend time writing design optimization MATLAB codes for various applications.Mr. Michael Golub, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis Michael Golub is the Academic Laboratory Supervisor for the Mechanical Engineering department at IUPUI. He is an associate faculty at the same school, and has taught at several other
onlineeducation offers a variety of resources and focuses primarily on teaching the fundamentaltheories and concepts, one disadvantage is the lack of hands-on experience and direct interaction[1]. Particularly in engineering education, where abstract engineering concepts ideally can bebetter understood by doing the related hands-on activities such as laboratory experiments. Tosolve the issue of the practical training shortage and the lack of hands-on experience with onlineeducation, VR takes the learning experience to a next level in terms of interaction andengagement. VR refers to an artificial world that replicates the real world environment generatedby computers, and that simulates the physical presence of a user in the virtual environment [2].With the
” (Harborth, 2015, p 19). In keeping with this philosophy, we have sought methods tohelp our advisors have the time to do more than course planning. Effective advising helps studentstake stock of their interests and values and connect them to their academic, professional andpersonal goals. In other words, effective advising promotes introspection and reflection. Over thepast two and a half years, we have transformed our advising program using a flipped classroomapproach, combined with a series of questions designed to promote introspection and reflection inthe student.The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering requires students to meet with an advisor once persemester. To ensure this meeting occurs, a hold preventing registration is placed on each
Paper ID #23356Leveraging the Tech-savvy Next-generation Talents and Hackathon Techniquesto Accelerate Digital Enterprise Journey and Space-related EndeavorsProf. Victor Taratukhin, SAP America Victor Taratukhin received his Ph.D. in Engineering Design in 1998 and Ph.D. in Computing Sciences and Engineering in 2002. Victor was a Lecturer in Decision Engineering and Module Leader (IT for Product Realization) at Cranfield University, UK (2001-2004), SAP University Alliances Program Director (2004- 2012). He is Next-Gen Network Global Projects and Regional Director for Silicon Valley and US West at SAP America, Inc
of students, “Engineering lessons are reservedfor students who are a part of the Gifted and Talented program,” but not for others, “specialeducation is not encouraged to teach it.” Another participant wrote, “We just don’t talk aboutscience much at all. We’re pretty much told to focus on math and reading since those are twosubject areas we test in each year. We do teach science for half the year, but I don’t think theadministration cares how, when, or how much it is taught.” Knowledge and training. Responses in this category were related to participants’ lack ofknowledge of engineering. Some participants said that they knew so very little about engineeringthat they did not know what they needed. As one teacher stated, “I don't know
successfully achieve this goal, thereare three specific measurable objectives: 1) Develop innovative course modules to use in current undergraduate engineering curriculum to improve students’ career readiness, 2) Develop graduate certificate program to advance students’ professional preparedness, and 3) Create an online based cost-effectiveness structure to enhance education and learning impacts.There are four major components in this project, including 1) manufacturing related materialsstandards course module development, 2) manufacturing related quality control standards coursemodule development, 3) professional/graduate level certificate program development, and 4)industrial experience sharing through webinar. This two-year
Paper ID #241352018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29Engineers on Wheels: A Mobile Engineering Outreach ProgramMs. Bhumi Mevawala, Engineers on Wheels I am a senior Civil Engineering major at Rowan University focusing on the studies of young students and engineering in the nearby public schools since the beginning of 2017. As a researcher, I am tasked with surveying the students at the beginning and at the end of the program to calculate how many students interest in engineering has changed over the weeks after multiple activities and simulations
learning styles in content development The ABET accreditation process and you FERPA and Title IX: What you are required to know and do Starting your class: What to do? Typical classroom/course scenarios: Your options and approaches The academic job searchThe workshops were facilitated mostly by the program coordinator, who has experience indelivering engineering teaching workshops. II.C Off-Campus Workshops/SessionsTo obtain a different perspective than that provided by the textbook and the workshop facilitator,the participants were expected to attend a teaching-related workshop or educational session thatwas offered off-campus. Different students addressed this requirement in different ways, buteach had to
Construction Engineering Technology Program Assessment FrameworkAbstractWith the ultimate goal of engineering programs to improve student learning, this paper presentsthe assessment framework developed, adopted, and implemented by the ConstructionEngineering Technology (CET) program at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.The framework is set up to measure the attainment of both the Program Educational Objectives(PEOs) and Students Outcomes (SOs), as required by the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET). The assessment of the PEOs was conducted through indirect measuresincluding surveys to alumni and industry advisory council. The assessment of SOs
courses and the first-year introduction to engineering course. He is also developing a collaborative study abroad program in West Africa built around social enterprise initiatives.Stacey L. Zimmerman, Elizabethtown College Stacey Zimmerman is a Gallup-certified strengths coach who believes in the powerful combination of honoring our natural talents while uncovering our unique purpose in life. She currently directs strengths education, coaching, and leadership development at Elizabethtown College, and she was a former human resources professional. Through the lens of strengths and leadership development, she is able to mentor and coach individuals with the goal of living authentic lives. c
Paper ID #23727Comparing Peer Evaluations of Teamwork Behavior by K-12 Students versusFirst-year Engineering StudentsDr. Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Daniel M. Ferguson is CATME Managing Director and a research associate at Purdue University. Prior to coming to Purdue he was Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Before assuming that position he was Associate Director of the Inter-Professional Studies Program [IPRO] and Senior Lecturer at Illinois Institute of Technology and involved in research in service learning, assessment processes and