problematic with many examples involvingparticipant’s actively being incentivized to participate in unethical behavior. Through theplacement of false information within a crowdsourced event, outcomes can be affected such asthe swaying of consumer behavior from targeted bad reviews, the rerouting of human trafficthrough the input of inaccurate traffic or geographic data to crowdsourced systems, throughprank activity to cause harm to others or changing other’s crowdsourcing competition entries toalter the outcome [25].1.4 Research Purpose As crowdsourced and open innovation initiatives are continuing to grow in popularity,scope and global reach, it is imperative to consider the ethical implications for both theparticipants, and those who are
Mentor-focused Professional Development for Investigators Initiating Discipline-based Educational Research (DBER) in Biomedical EngineeringAbstractOur work (NSF PFE: RIEF Award 1927150) initiates a discipline-based educational researchstudy of student design self-efficacy in an undergraduate biomedical engineering (BME)program. A key component of this work focuses on our own professional development asengineering education researchers, which contributes to our abilities to undertake current andfuture engineering education studies. Our professional development goal is to establish andfollow a mentoring plan that facilitates our development of engineering education research skills.We targeted three areas for
) Research Experienceand Mentoring (REM) program nationally supports hands-on research and ongoing mentorship in STEMfields at various universities and colleges. The NSF EFRI-REM Mentoring Catalyst initiative was designedto build and train these robust, interactive research mentoring communities that are composed of faculty,postdoctoral associates and graduate student mentors, to broaden participation of underrepresented groups inSTEM research who are funded through NSF EFRI-REM. This work-in-progress paper describes the firstfive years of this initiative, where interactive training programs were implemented from multipleframeworks of effective mentoring. Principal investigators, postdoctoral associates and graduate studentsare often expected to
Teaching and Learning, and has on the Board of Directors for the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, served as their Director of Communications, and served for nearly 20 years as an Apple Distinguished Educator. Professor Yerrick is also a founding Member of the Science Educators for Equity, Diversity and Social Justice.Mr. Manoj MadabhushiMr. Rachith Ramanathapura Ramaswamy, University at Buffalo American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Assessing the Impact of Engineering Problem Typology on Students’ InitialProblem-Solving TrajectoryAbstractStudents often struggle in the initial phases of engineering problem solving as marked bydifficulties
Paper ID #32614Initial Faculty Perceptions of Scrum for Departmental ChangeDr. James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona BeachDr. Timothy A. Wilson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach Tim Wilson is chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.Olivia Elizabeth Roa, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Initial Faculty Perceptions of Scrum
(https://kinesis.consulting) in Phoenixville, PA American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Getting things done in data intensive inter-campus research initiatives: A social network analysis approach to understanding and building effective relationships between researchers and other university employeesIntroductionIt perhaps goes without saying that interpersonal relationships can make or break the success ofcomplex educational research projects. Sharing a common understanding of a project’s purposeand achieving trust between key personnel across a university is particularly challenging whenthose people come from
Institute of Education, Tsinghua University. He is interested in higher education ad- ministration as well as engineering education. Now his research interest focuses on the quality assurance in higher education, particularly quality assurance in engineering education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Research on the Diffusion of Innovation within Higher Education: Case of Double First-rate Initiative in the Chinese MainlandAbstractWorld-class university construction is a systematic and complex project led by the government withthe purpose of constructing world-class universities or disciplines, and has far-reaching nationalstrategic
Paper ID #32749Description, Assessment, and Outcomes of Three Initial InterventionsWithin a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT):Onboarding Event, Career Exploration Symposium, and MultidisciplinaryIntroductory CourseDr. Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez, University of Kentucky Dr. Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez is co-PI and project coordinator of a National Science Foundation Re- search Traineeship (NRT) program designed to enhance graduate education by fully integrating research and professional skill development within a diverse, inclusive and supportive academy. Originally from Mexico, Dr. Santillan-Jimenez joined
metrics in the classroom.Three questions the researchers wanted to answer include: 1) Initially designed as a multi-year development model, can The Citadel’s leadership assessment tool be used in a variety of courses? 2) Can students be objective and constructive through peer assessments to make a positive difference in team members’ leadership skills? 3) What improvements, if any, to the leadership assessment tool should be implemented in the future?The leadership assessment tool described later in this paper allowed the instructor to assessleadership skills objectively, identify discrepancies in contributed effort across teams, andprovide a means to continually improve foundational and capstone
about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in en- gineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Ms. Leslie Nolen, American Society of Civil Engineers Leslie Nolen, CAE, serves as director, educational activities for the American Society of Civil Engineers. She brings over 20 years of association management experience to her work with ASCE’s Committee on Education on issues of importance to the undergraduate and graduate level education of civil engineers. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Civil
Paper ID #32884Does a Review Course Increase FE Exam Preparedness?Dr. Matthew K. Swenty, Virginia Military Institute Matthew (Matt) Swenty obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering from Missouri S&T and then worked as a bridge designer at the Missouri Department of Transportation. After obtaining his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech, he worked at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center. He is currently a professor of Civil Engineering at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). He teaches engineering mechanics and structural engineering courses and enjoys working with his students
Corps of Engineers for over 24 years including eleven years on the faculty at the United States Military Academy.Dr. Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel Robert Rabb is a professor and the Mechanical Engineering Program Director at The Citadel. He previ- ously taught mechanical engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy and his M.S.E. and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching interests are in mechatronics, regenerative power, and multidisciplinary engineering.Dr. Alyson Grace Eggleston, The Citadel Alyson G. Eggleston is an Assistant Professor in the
an ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Workshop mentor for five years as well as the founding coordinator for the Oregon Tech Excellence in Teaching Workshop.Dr. Jesse M. Kinder, Oregon Institute of Technology I am a professor of physics at the Oregon Institute of Technology. I earned my bachelor’s degree in Physics and Astronomy from DePauw University and my Master’s and Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Pennsylvania. My research interests include carbon nanotubes, quantum chemistry, and biological physics. I love teaching physics and introducing undergraduate students to physics research.Dr. Ben S. Bunting Jr, Oregon Institute of Technology American c
Paper ID #33553Reflecting on 10 years of Centralized Engineering Student DiversityInitiatives (Experience)Ms. Lisa Trahan, University of California, San Diego Lisa Trahan joined UC San Diego’s IDEA Engineering Student Center in 2018 as Director of Strategic Initiatives and Assessment. Ms. Trahan leads planning and development of new student success initiatives and programs within the Center. She provides expertise to assess, improve, and evaluate the impact of the Center’s programs on student retention and success. Previously, Ms. Trahan was a Research and Evaluation Associate at The Lawrence Hall of Science, UC
their establishment, the diversity programs initiated recruitment and yield efforts to increase the diversity within the college. With the college focusing on recruitment of high achieving students, the diversity programs would target the underrepresented populations needing attention in engineering. Efforts were made independently from each other and therefore each program would host their own recruitment events without significant collaboration. With the continued research and attention on the theory of intersectionality, two years ago, the two diversity programs collaborated to create an event that recognized the different identities that our prospective students could hold. The event formed to be “You Belong Here: Women of Color Weekend
the EMA test cycle will soon be initiated. Dr.Everett Pryde, Research Leader, Oilseed Crops Laboratory,Northern Regional Research Laboratory, USDA, Peoria,Illinois is cooperating on these tests. The EMA AlternateFuels Committee is monitoring these tests. Twelve tractors are also being operated in NorthDakota fields on blends of sunflower oil and diesel fuel.Flower Power, Inc., P.O. Box 26, Grand Forks, ND 58201, issponsoring the project and NDSU is providing the dataanalysis. John Deere, Allis-Chalmers, and J.I. Case arethe manufacturers represented in the program. The tractorsrange in power from 120 hp to 250 hp. Six tractors arebeing run on a 25% blend of sunoil and diesel fuel. Theremaining tractors operate on a 50% blend. A
other engineering programs that are offered by the Department of Engineeringand Technology, some of which are mentioned in the next section.Student Research DisseminationEssential to the evolving expectations of the academic career and the society served isdissemination of active-learning initiatives. The audience includes colleagues and students oncampus, administrators, community members, accrediting boards, leaders of other educationalinstitutions, and government representatives. For purposes of awareness, validation, andrecruitment of prospective students, various means of dissemination were employed during thisacademic endowment period. Crucial to the success of this endowment was providing a venuefor students to train for future
Paper ID #34956An Initial Exploration of Engineering Student Perceptions of COVID’sImpact on Connectedness, Learning, and STEM IdentityDr. Craig O. Stewart, University of Memphis Dr. Craig O. Stewart is an associate professor of Communication at the University of Memphis. His primary areas of research are Science Communication and Discourse Studies and has published in Science Communication, International Journal of Science Education, Research in Science Education, among other outlets.Dr. Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado Denver Dr. Maryam Darbeheshti is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the
Paper ID #33589A Call to Create an Open-source Project Initiative for CybersecurityVirtual LabsDr. Radana Dvorak, City University of Seattle Dr. Dvorak received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of London, Queen Mary College and Master’s in AI from the University of Sussex. Dr. Dvorak has been working in IT, higher education, academic industry and program development for over 25 years. She has served as a researcher, university professor and Dean in the US, UK, and the Cayman Islands. Currently, Dr. Dvorak is an associate professor and program manager at the School of Technology & Computing at City
. Initially, a pre and post student survey was implemented thatprovided some key insight on the impact of the STEM bus program on K-12 students, albeit on asmall scale, which led to the decision to only collect a post survey from students to make it moreconvenient for the teachers.A. Survey DataFor this pilot study survey data, teachers found it challenging to get the students to complete boththe pre and post surveys, so after two school visits, we revised the survey to only one post surveyregarding students’ experience on the STEM bus. The descriptive statistics from these surveyresults provided valuable results that we show herein to address research question one. Question1 asked, “I have a good understanding of what STEM is”. On the pre-survey
joint during the IC position. This compels them to thinkabout the mechanics of the position and leads to another CPS question (Figures 4 and 5)concerning the correct free body diagram.These early research and revise exercises ultimately lead to a major concern about the ICproblem, namely the static equilibrium condition that is caused by multiple muscle actuatorsacross the shoulder joint. Thus, the students must make some initial assumptions, such as equalstress in all muscles or each muscle is activated to its maximum force. To test their assumptions,the students are encouraged to make some initial calculations of the forces at the shoulder joint.They are given anthropometric data about the shoulder (Figure 6), such as muscle origin
Paper ID #33770A Graduate-level Engineering Ethics Course: An Initial Attempt toProvoke Moral ImaginationMr. Yousef Jalali, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Yousef Jalali is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He re- ceived a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering and M.Eng. in Energy Systems Engineering. His research interests include interaction between critical thinking, imagination, and ethical reasoning, interpersonal and interinstitutional collaboration, diversity, equity, and inclusion, systems thinking, and chemical en- gineering learning systems. Yousef
). Reflections on a decade leading a medical student well-being initiative. Academic Medicine,94(6), 771-774. doi:10.1097/ACM.000000000000254013. Beauchemin, J. D. (2018). Solution-focused wellness: A randomized controlled trial of college students. Health& Social Work, 43(2), 94-100. doi:10.1093/hsw/hly00714. Center for Collegiate Mental Health. (2018). 2017 Annual Report. University Park, PA: Penn State University.15. Locke, B. D., Bieschke, K. J., Castonguay, L. G., & Hayes, J. A. (2012). The Center for Collegiate MentalHealth: Studying college student mental health through an innovative research infrastructure that brings science andpractice together. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 20(4), 233-245. doi:10.3109
variations here in thethree expansion schools who have been running the program for 1-3 years. U. of California, Santa Barbara: ERSP is currently in its third year at UCSB. The program has preserved all of the main elements of the original model. Compared to the program at UCSD, ERSP at UCSB started on a small scale which helped create an intimate community of mentors and students. Key outcomes include that the program has had no attrition so far, and more than 50% of the students continued research beyond ERSP. Building on ERSP's initial success, we are on track for a significant expansion of the program in the coming academic year. A few minor variations in UCSB's implementation are: (1) Using a shared messaging platform for communication among
the inherent nature of computational modeling.1.0 importance of undergraduate research for diverse students:Table 1 presents data from American Society of Engineering Education’s annual reporton engineering education data for 2018 from U.S. institutions. Tables 1(a) - (d) presentthe 10-year trend of B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. graduates, and tenured and tenured faculty.There have been several initiatives, both sponsored and unsponsored, that have had thegoal of addressing diversity and inclusion in various facets of engineering education.The data in these tables for the two largest underrepresented groups: African-Americansand Hispanics is revealing. As a percentage, the range of degrees awarded inengineering at the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. levels has
Paper ID #33826Developing Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives and Measuring the Effectsof a Pandemic in a Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentMr. Tiago R. Forin, Rowan University Tiago Forin is a PhD candidate in Engineering Education and researcher at Purdue University affiliated with XRoads Research Group, the Global Engineering Program and the Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Effectiveness. He received a Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Florida State University and a Master’s degree in environmental engineering from Purdue University.Dr. Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University Dr
Paper ID #34271Mentoring and Advising Students in an S-STEM Project: Strengths Trainingfrom a Social Justice Perspective in Engineering & Computer Science asContext – Initial ImplementationDr. Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Jane Lehr is a Professor in Ethnic Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies and Director of the Office of Student Research at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is affiliated faculty in Computer Science and Software Engineering and Science, Technology and Society. She is also the Faculty Director of the California State University (CSU
Paper ID #33173The Rapid Model: Initial Results From Testing a Model to Set Up aCourse-Sharing Consortia for STEM Programs at the Graduate LevelDr. Thomas L. Acker, Northern Arizona University Dr. Tom Acker is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Arizona University, where he has been since 1996. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University. His duties include teaching and performing research related to energy systems, power system modeling, renewable energy, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics. His research in wind energy relates to and wind flow modeling for distributed wind
Paper ID #32441Work in Progress: Novel Initiatives for Senior Design CollaborativeProjects With Healthcare Workers and Undergraduate Students—a COVID-19Response Nursing HackathonProf. Christine E. King, University of California, Irvine Dr. Christine King is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine. She re- ceived her BS and MS from Manhattan College in Mechanical Engineering and her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UC Irvine, where she developed brain-computer interface systems for neurorehabil- itation. She was a post-doctorate in the Wireless Health Institute at the University of
Paper ID #34897Providing Support to High School STEM Teachers at UnderrepresentedSchools Through a Yearlong Professional Development Initiative (WIP,Diversity)Dr. Bonnie Achee, Southeastern Louisiana University In addition to her primary roles of undergraduate coordinator and instructor for the Department of Com- puter Science at Southeastern Louisiana, Dr. Achee also serves as faculty advisor for the student chapter of ACM-W, Women in Computing. She founded the Lion’s Code Coding Camp to provide a summer program for pre-college students and recruit students to the discipline and university. Her research focus is