the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. He received his B.S. from the U.St. Military Academy, M.Phil. in engineering from the University of Cambridge, and M.S. in civil engineering from Stanford University. His research interests include sustainable design, construction, infrastructure systems, and engineering education.Lt. Col. Steven D. Hart, U.S. Military Academy Steve Hart is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with more than 23 years of service in both command and staff positions in Iraq, Kuwait, Panama, Germany, Korea, and the United States. He is currently assigned as the ERDC Engineering Fellow and Director of Infrastructure Studies in the Center for Innovation and Engineering
do.Health Systems LabIn Health Systems Lab, undergraduate Zoe was tasked with building an online dashboard toorganize large datasets that the other lab members would later analyze. The datasets were for astudy comparing participants’ activity levels, as measured by wearable sensors, with their healthoutcomes. Zoe worked closely with postdoctoral researcher Darius to design and program thedashboard. Although Darius is no longer a graduate student, he played the same mentoring rolethat graduate students often play for undergraduate researchers. Throughout their year-longlearning/teaching process, Zoe asked Darius numerous questions about the practical aspects ofdashboard-building as well as the epistemic meanings of the data they were working with
and Associate Director of Graduate Education in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School and as a Visiting Scholar- in-Residence at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. At Harvard Medical School, Dr. Venkatesh works with faculty on improving the first-year PhD courses in molecular biology and biochemistry, trains teaching assistants, expands programming to build community among graduate students, and researches the best ways to train and assess PhD students in skills such as experimental design and science com- munication. Her other work includes contributing to dance performances that raise awareness about the human impacts on marine life and designing and
research and praxis in engineering and design. To achieve thisgoal, we designed a course for STEM students that leverages a common STEM experience—adesign project—to help students understand the relevance and application of disability studies(and the liberal arts more broadly) to engineering and design.Previous scholarship addressing STEM and disability studies has most prominently addressedthe importance of redesigning STEM curricula to correct the underrepresentation of studentswith disabilities in STEM fields5,6. The goal of our course is to bring a disability studiesperspective to engineering tasks for all students, including needs assessments, concept sketches,and prototyping for an original design. This design experience—which we discuss in
identified by our team as having a significantwriting component. The second survey, hereafter referred to as the department survey, was givento faculty having key department administrative roles in every engineering department of theuniversity. Both surveys contained multiple-choice, select-all-that-apply, rate-on-a-scale, andshort-answer questions. The instructor survey consisted of four sections: i) participants’perceptions of writing within their discipline and expectations for their students after graduation,ii) instructional practices and assignment design related to writing, iii) participants’ perceptionsof challenges related to writing instruction, and iv) participants’ current best practices. Thesurvey contained 30 questions and took
judgments and exercise ethical practices.With funding from the National Science Foundation’s Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEMprogram (Award 1540298), the research team has been integrating CSR content into targetedcourses in petroleum engineering, mining engineering, design, and the liberal arts at theColorado School of Mines, Marietta College, and Virginia Tech. As described in greater depthbelow, those modules range from single assignments and lectures to a course-long, scaffoldedcase study. The material for the modules draws from existing peer-reviewed literature as well asthe researchers’ ongoing ethnographic research with engineers who practice in the mining and oiland gas industries. One of the common findings from interviews and
AC 2011-2241: REVISITING COMMUNICATION EXPERIENCES TO PRE-PARE FOR PROFESSIONAL PRACTICEKathryn Mobrand, University of Washington Kathryn Mobrand is a doctoral candidate and research assistant in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. She is working with Dr. Jennifer Turns on preparedness portfolios for engineering undergraduates; her focus is on the communication of practicing engineers.Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington. She is interested in all aspects of engineering education, including how to support engineering
at UIUC, Joseph earned an MS degree in Physics from Indiana University in Bloomington and a BS in Engineering Physics at UIUC.Ms. Allyson Jo Barlow, University of Nevada, Reno Ally Barlow graduated with her Doctoral Degree in Civil Engineering from Oregon State University, where she fused her technical background with her passion for education; her doctoral research focused on the exploration of student engagement from multiple methodological standpoints. Now she works as a Postdoctoral Scholar at University of Nevada Reno, expanding her knowledge of the field through work on faculty-faculty mentorship modes. Her research interests include student cognitive engagement and teacher best practices for in-class and
environmental ethics and bioethics, focusing on questions of ethics, science, and representation. He teaches a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses on related topics.Dr. Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University, West Lafayette Andrew O. Brightman is an Associate Professor of Engineering Practice in the Weldon School of Biomed- ical Engineering at Purdue University where he serves as Assistant Head for Academic Affairs. His re- search background is in cellular biochemistry, tissue engineering, and engineering ethics. He and his multidisciplinary team are committed to developing effective pedagogy and tools for enhancing ethical reasoning skills for innovative engineering design and socially responsible engineering
Paper ID #15745From Undergraduates to Ambassadors: The Impact of Engineering Ambas-sador Network TrainingDr. Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University Dr. Garner is Associate Director for Program Development and a Research Associate Professor in The Center for Educational Partnerships at Old Dominion University, VA.Mr. Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University - University Park Michael Alley is an associate professor of engineering communication at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer-Verlag, 2013) and founder of the web- site Writing Guidelines for
that highlights and seeks to address the two-fold gap identified above.Section 2 focuses on engineering design, which is the specific aspect of engineering examined inthis paper. Section 3 outlines a case study and analysis of the design practice of an engineeringprofessional, as EP addresses a grassroots engineering problem. Section 4 discusses theimplications of this analysis. We close with a conclusion section.Section 1: The need for a socio-technical understanding of engineeringA core component of Engineering Education Research (EER) focuses on the differences betweenclassroom problems and workplace problems, and points to the need to prepare students for real-world problem-solving. “If students are to learn to think like engineers, they
social responsibility and moral decision-making,specifically in terms of engineering pedagogy.Keywords: social responsibility, embedded teams, human-centered design (HCD), engineeringeducationIntroductionSince Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) was first introduced in the 1950’s to expandorganizational bottom-lines from profit and legal considerations to issues of social impact, CSRhas grown into a global force for linking corporations with the areas in which members live andwork. Extant research has explored CSR on a broader organizational level, without necessarilyconsidering how social responsibility manifests on the team level. Thus, we contend that feelingsand understandings of responsibility experienced by students working on design
Paper ID #23362Thriving for Engineering Students and Institutions: Definition, Potential Im-pact, and Proposed Conceptual FrameworkMs. Julianna Sun Ge, Purdue University, West Lafayette Julianna Ge is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is also a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a Purdue Doctoral Fellow. At Purdue, she developed and currently teaches a novel course on thriving for undergraduate engineering students. At the broadest level, her research interests intersect the fields of engineering education, positive psychology, and human development
College of Engineering. The Engineering Education Transformations Institute at UGA is an innovative approach that fuses high quality engineering education research with systematic educational innovation to transform the educational practices and cultures of engineering. Dr. Walther’s research group, the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), is a dynamic in- terdisciplinary team that brings together professors, graduate, and undergraduate students from engineer- ing, art, educational psychology, and social work in the context of fundamental educational research. Dr. Walther’s research program spans interpretive research methodologies in engineering
the context of youth leadership programs, start-ups and innovation centers, and community-based initiatives. She is currently a Design Research Fellow and Lecturer at Olin College, with a focus on processes and frameworks for transformation in engineering education. Previously, she developed and launched the Energy Technology Program at Creighton University: an interdisciplinary undergraduate program in renewable energy and sustainable design. She has a B.S. in Mechanical Engi- neering from Olin College and an M.A. from Creighton University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Conversation and participation architectures: practices for creating
collaborated with the director of CarnegieMellon’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation.3. MethodsBecause many students are funded with the expectation that the research experience constitutesfull- or near full-time work, the program was both designed and scheduled to dovetail withinthese students’ scheduling needs. Initially, we had discussed what might be accomplished byhaving a single weekend experience (of the sort that other units on our campus are able toaccomplish through intensive weekend experiences and “micro” courses); however, we quicklydetermined that the kinds of learning outcomes and associated practice activities we wanted forstudents would need to unfold in a more systematically scaffolded way that
experiences in order to promote student’s empowerment and engagement in sustainability and social change.Dr. Liesl Baum, Virginia Tech Dr. Liesl Baum is a Research Assistant Professor and Senior Fellow at Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Design. She is a former middle school teacher and spent seven years teaching in Virginia public schools. Her research interests and goals are to develop a frame of mind that allows for creativity to occur for public school teachers, university faculty, and students of all levels. She works with both university faculty and public school teachers to combine the arts, technology, and critical and creative thinking to teach content standards. Her research and work interests
with engineeringbackgrounds (a postdoc and a tenured professor) and is sustained by contributions from guestspeakers from a variety of other fields, including education, cognitive psychology, technicalcommunication, visual art, interdisciplinary studies, and media/communications. Given theiradditional roles in course design and research on the project, two of these guests are coauthors onthis paper along with a graduate research assistant and a museum educator who provided VTStraining workshops at our university over the past few years for our core team and otherinterested faculty, postdocs, and students. As part of a larger study funded in part by the NationalScience Foundation (see Acknowledgments), this paper reports ongoing work to
casual and fun environment for building team-work, communication, and problem solving skills • Enhancing proficiency with relevant practical skills and tools • Expanding interest in the makerspace and maker communitySurvey responses from the participants demonstrate that the program has met the objectiveslisted above, having a significant impact on student skills and confidence as well as providing avaluable experience for participants outside of the classroom. Furthermore, the program hasproduced impactful events and products for the university and community. 4MethodsThe MIR series was designed with three tiers of
effective teams. As we moved online, we held information sessions for the instructors.We shared the information, ideas for how to move ahead and best practices. It seemed that beingable to process together was as important as the content shared in these sessions.While the pandemic caused disruption in many projects, it also provided motivated students towork in creative new ways. A benefit of the move to online is that the students could not tinkerand figure things out, but instead had to thoroughly plan and execute their projects. It presentedthe opportunity for students to engage in more analyses. Test plans were developed. Design forFailure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) is a part of the design process in normal times andthese analyses are
. Leydens won the Exemplar in Engineering Ethics Educa- tion Award from the National Academy of Engineering, along with CSM colleagues Juan C. Lucena and Kathryn Johnson, for a cross-disciplinary suite of courses that enact macroethics by making social justice visible in engineering education. In 2017, he and two co-authors won the Best Paper Award in the Mi- norities in Engineering Division at the American Society for Engineering Education annual conference. With co-author Juan C. Lucena, Dr. Leydens’ most recent book is Engineering Justice: Transforming En- gineering Education and Practice (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2018). His current research grant project explores how to foster and assess sociotechnical thinking in
students and faculty in a larger effort to create distinctive and impactful learningexperiences for all students: • A new center for teaching and learning that supports innovative and active learning was opened. • Teaching faculty, which comprise 20% of the faculty on campus, are encouraged to participate in ASEE and engineering education scholarship and applications within the classroom • A new division and major were recently created that provides the opportunity to re- design educational offerings and incorporate PBL. • Through NSF-funded research projects outside of the work presented in this paper, faculty from multiple departments already enjoyed strong relationships that were combining new
Paper ID #16861Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Depression and Its Impact on Stu-dent Success and Academic RetentionSherif Elmeligy Abdelhamid, Virginia Tech Sherif is a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is a graduate research assistant at Network Dynamics and Simulations Science Laboratory. Sherif’s research work lies at the intersection of computation, biology and education: in particular, he is interested in designing and building software systems to enable domain experts to easily access and effectively use high performance computing to
, Environ- mental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living- learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service- learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Dr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder Daniel W. Knight is the Program Assessment and Research Associate at Design
Paper ID #27445Positionality: The Stories of Self that Impact OthersCynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech ynthia Hampton is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She also serves as program and student support for the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED). While at Virginia Tech, Cynthia has directed summer bridge programs, led peer support initia- tives for underrepresented groups, and served on various commissions, committees, and research groups focused on student support, organizational change, graduate student policy, and culturally responsive evaluation
relation to critique and professional identity formation. His work crosses multiple disciplines, including engineering education, instructional design and technology, design theory and education, and human-computer interaction.Denise McAllister Wilder NCIDQ, Purdue University Denise McAllister Wilder, NCIDQ is a doctoral student at the Purdue Polytechnic Institute in the School of Construction Management Technology. She has taught and practiced in the architecture, engineering, and construction community for over twenty-five years and is a registered interior designer in Indiana. Her areas of research focus include aging in place, studio learning in a transdisciplinary technology environ- ment, BIM and lighting
classes, though the practice is not widespread. For example, Huff [4] andJohnson, Leydens, and Moskal [9] have augmented engineering classes with social justiceconcepts, and Riley [10] and Leydens and Lucena [6] have published books that can be used as aguide for doing so in many disciplines. A consideration of “sociotechnical” from a humanorganizations perspective is described by Subrahmanian for a design engineering class [11].Engineering has been introduced as a sociotechnical process in a new introductory classdescribed in [12]. Hoople and Choi-Fitzpatrick have recently published a new text designed tofoster sociotechnical integration into engineering classes [13]. Other examples exist, but suchcases do not represent the bulk of engineering
characterize engineering as a unique field, and what are the mechanisms by which these defining elements change over time? 2) How do elements such as innovation, critical thinking, systems thinking, biology, mathematics, physical sciences, engineering sciences, problem solving, design, analysis, judgment, and communication relate to each other to characterize the core of engineering as a profession? 3) What is the source of these core elements, and how are they shaped? Is engineering best characterized by the people it serves, the problems it addresses, the knowledge used to address problems, the methods by which knowledge is applied, or its social relevancy or impact? 4) What is the
Paper ID #30308A Review of the State of LGBTQIA+ Student Research in STEM andEngineering EducationMadeleine Jennings, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Madeleine Jennings is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant at Arizona State University - Polytechnic Campus, pursuing a PhD in Engineering Education Systems and Design and a MS in Human Systems Engineering. They received a BS in Manufacturing Engineering from Texas State University - San Marcos. Madeleine’s research interests include investigating and improving the experiences of invisible identities in engineering, such as LGBTQIA+ engineering
aspects of the flipped and blended learning environments.Ms. Jacquelyn E. Borinski, Georgia Institute of Technology Jacquelyn E. Borinski will receive a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2014. She is the External Vice President for the Georgia Tech Chamber Choir and volunteer with the Georgia Aquar- ium. Her research interests include pediatric device design and human-robot interaction. She is an Under- graduate collaborator with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta designing interactive teaching modules for math and science using the patient’s condition as motivation. She was awarded a Women in Engineering Scholarship from Axion BioSystems.Kimberly Danielle Haight, Georgia Institute of TechnologyMs