1987 BS Engineering Physics - United States Military ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Course design to encourage spaced practiceAbstract:From athletics, school clubs, coursework, and jobs to hanging out with friends, endless scrolling,or binge watching, students have constant competition for their time. Each student mustprioritize their tasks. How much time should be devoted to reading a course textbook orreviewing class notes? When is the best time to complete homework sets or study for anassessment? Literature shows that students learn best when they space their practice or studyover time [1]. However, students are not always disciplined to follow this advice and often
Page 25.786.3on projects involving real-world customers, students viewed the instructor and teachingassistants as the most important customers. The primary project goal from the students’ perspective was on getting a good grade. Dannels4 argues that students are therefore learning tobe students and not professionals. Donald15 notes that in engineering education there is “acontinual tug-of-war between the theoretical and the professional.” (p. 63) Students often feelthat theory is emphasized over practice and wish for more practical hands-on learningexperiences. Because of a perceived lack of practical experience, some graduates find thetransition to professional practice to be a shocking experience.Missing from previous literature are studies
Paper ID #48036Engagement in Practice: Deconstructing – Reconstructing Toys in a DesignContext for Children with motor-impairmentsProf. Amanda R. Lowery, Vanderbilt University Amanda Lowery is a Professor of Practice at Vanderbilt University Department of Biomedical Engineering. She has been working in the field of accessibility and service learning for 9 years. Her specific interests are in early childhood mobility and toy accessibility.Eric Spivey, Vanderbilt University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Engagement in Practice: Deconstructing – Reconstructing Toys in a Design
since 1999. His research interests are in modeling and analysis of complex systems and processes, simulation and visualization, and their applications in manufacturing, healthcare, energy, and information systems. He teaches a number of courses in these areas at the under- graduate and graduate levels, and has developed several of these courses. He is currently leading the effort in designing a new undergraduate program in Data Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Indus- trial and Systems Engineers (IISE). He served in the Board of the Computer and Information Systems Division of IISE, serves as an Associate Editor of IISE Transactions on Healthcare System Engineering, and is an ABET Program Evaluator for
Nation’s Urban WaterInfrastructure (ReNUWIt). Participants to date have been 69% female and 39% from historicallyunderrepresented racial or ethnic groups. Outcomes include participant skill-building,development of researcher identity, pursuit of graduate school, and pursuit of careers in STEM.Assessments include pre- and post-surveys (quantitative and qualitative), as well as longitudinaltracking of participants (n=97 over 7 years). Assessment results suggest this multi-campus siteachieves participant-level and program-level impacts commensurate with those attained bysingle-campus REU Sites.IntroductionEngaging undergraduates in authentic science and engineering research experiences is widelyaccepted as a promising practice for promoting
design of a university degree scheme using skill sets10.” In their research itwas evident that direct involvement of employers was needed to identify necessary skill sets.Their approach encompasses the full range of skills, both non-technical and technical in nature.This allows for a skill set that the graduates consider employable in terms that employers willunderstand10. The identification of these skill sets by employers to the university develops a clearpath towards the degree being sought. Such a path is then clearly articulated to prospectivestudents.Making it Work: How to EducateWhile many students are becoming aware that academic credentials alone do not secure jobs, notenough are making changes. “Some have not realized that graduate
, Stanford University Dr. Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Be- sides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford Univer- sity, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element anal- ysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2003 Dr. Sheppard was named co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to form the Center for the Advancement of
in teaching programming to undergraduate and post-graduate students. She was awarded the Monash Vice Chancellor’s Award for Team-based Educational Development (2002) and School of Com- puter Science and Software Engineering Excellence Awards (2002 and 2003). Page 25.855.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Investigating Teacher’s Approaches to their Teaching Practice Abstract This report develops and analyses the reliability and validity of a Swedish transla- tion of the Trigwell and Prosser Approaches to Teaching
Paper ID #30769Transforming an Engineering Design Course into an Engaging LearningExperience using ePortfoliosMiss Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Taylor Tucker graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics and is now pursuing a master’s in Curriculum and Instruction through the Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching, and Agency (DELTA) program. She is interested in engineering design and lends her technical background to her research with the Collaborative Learning Lab, exploring how to improve ill-structured tasks for
Paper ID #28780Student practices developing needs statements for design problemsMr. Robert P. Loweth, University of Michigan Robert P. Loweth is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He earned a B.S. in Engineering Sciences from Yale University, with a double major in East Asian Studies. He also holds a Graduate Certificate in Chinese and American Studies, jointly awarded by Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University in China. His research focuses on how undergraduate engineering students solicit information from stakeholders and use this information to assess
rigorous assessment and tracking process and evaluate the impact of proposed interventionactivities on student and teacher outcomes.There are three key project activities to ensure the goals and activities listed above can be achieved:1) Investigate: research design to evaluate ethical research competency and self-efficacy; 2)Intervene: develop targeted learning/ training modules and use cases for undergraduates and highschool teachers; and 3) Instill: implement targeted intervention plan and learning modules onethical STEM research and practices in undergraduate and high school curricula.The first key activity will help in designing and developing a multidimensional approach to attainthe stated goals. The incoming freshmen are assessed to measure
Paper ID #14604Recommended Practices for Managing Large, Multi-Site Engineering Edu-cation Research Data Collection ProjectsDr. Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas - Austin Maura Borrego is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. She previously served as a Program Director at the National Science Foun- dation and an associate dean and director of interdisciplinary graduate programs. Her research awards include U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and two
a substantial demand forfocused educational research to evaluate the effectiveness of new online teaching and learningapproaches. After the initial push to move education online in spring of 2020, many educatorstried to adapt their best practices in the following fall and spring semesters as it became apparentthe pandemic would persist [6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18]. These adaptations included settingexpectations for online conduct, confirming attendance during synchronous portions of onlineclasses, encouraging student engagement through breakout groups and discussion boards, andinvesting in infrastructure needed to host online classes through a variety of learningmanagement systems [13, 16, 19]. During later stages of the pandemic, many
Minnesota, Dulut ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Experiences in Piloting a Program for Implementing High Impact Practices with Limited ResourcesAbstractIt is known that low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students in engineering andcomputer science have rates of retention and graduation that lag behind their peers. A growingbody of research has identified a range of high-impact practices and exemplar programs thathave been successful in improving outcomes for these at-risk populations. Some areas that thesepractices seek to address include: financial need, academic preparation, sense of community,confidence, and professional identity. The challenge of
graduating students to pursue and achieve theirperceived success.This is a Research Paper and Evidence-Based Practice Paper to explore how graduatingundergraduate engineering students conceive of career and personal success. Through aqualitative review of “vision plans” students create to map to their first 5 to 10 years post-graduation plans, we have categorized areas for success that include themes of production,experience, character and relationships. Through in-class exercises in a senior year (non-capstone) course on professional orientation and a freshmen class orienting students to college,30 students used exercises and assignments that have them use design thinking, networking, andinformational interviews to better identify and understand
the University of Illinois at Chicago. Darrin performs research with the Bioengineering Experience for Science Teachers (BEST) Program as a Graduate Assistant. He has also worked as a high school biology and environmental science teacher for over 10 years. Darrin received his B.A. in Environmental Science from Denison University and an M.A.T. from National Louis University. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Building the Bioengineering Experience for Science Teachers (BEST) Program (Work in Progress, Diversity)INTRODUCTION With the release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in 2013, the teachingof
through similar research experiencesand outreach events. The education leadership team and evaluators from these NSF-fundedcenters have formed a consortium to share information and resources in an effort to leverage thecombined expertise and resources.Consortium team members submitted, and were recently awarded, an NSF ERC Supplement tofund these collaborative efforts. The major focus of this supplement was to address the challengeof evaluating and standardizing instruments developed to measure the impact of education anddiversity efforts. As stated in Section 4.6 of the NSF ERC Best Practice Manual [7], “NSFrecognizes the importance of assessing the impact of all ERC University and PrecollegeEducation programs and the General Outreach to involve
theoretical principles of technical tasks, they struggle withevaluating and synthesising real engineering problems due to a lack of actual experience1,2. Suchexperience can be gained through real-world engineering research projects, where creative andadaptive problem-solving is facilitated in a contextual learning environment3,4. Contextuallearning is especially important for natural resources, environmental, biological, civil and otherengineers who practice at the interface of the living environment (i.e. ecosystems)5.Industry depends on its ability to attract graduates with a deep technical and broad professionalskills base. Professional skills are considered an integral part of an engineers formal education asstipulated in the professional
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Preparing Ethical Leaders in Engineering Research and Practice: Designing an Ethical Leadership ModuleAbstractRecent occurrences of high-profile ethical scandals in industry and the academy attest to the needfor strong leadership in upholding ethical standards and cultures in business and academicorganizations. Many engineering graduate students become leaders of research groups orindustry projects after finishing their education. While many institutions train their graduatestudents in research and professional ethics, such training tends to focus on students’ individualconduct. To date, few programs have explicitly sought to improve graduate engineering
of engineering and the process knowledge of engineering education? Manyengineering faculty, and much of the research, discuss this interface as occurring in classroomsand other formal education opportunities. Considering only formal education is limiting to ourunderstanding of the practice of engineering education and the impact of engineers on society;founding axioms, as discussed below, are a recurring theme in the translation of technicalliteracy. Jesiek et al.5 show the increasing use of the various models to discuss the connectionsbetween research and practice, including Stokes’ research quadrants6 and the more familiarresearch to practice cycle as adapted for and by the National Science Foundation during the timeof the Course
interventions and etc[6].Still engineers will always have to have a strong analytical skill in order to perform in any fieldand they will use it to solve problems. That is what makes them problem solvers [7].5. Engineering EducationEngineering is a social unit, with significant decision-making power in the process ofdevelopment of society. The engineer is, above all, an opinion leader who builds his/her ideasfrom the benchmark set by their professional community.The academic knowledge must provide the basic foundation to get, keep, and progress on a jobto achieve the best results.Sustainability is another aspect when it is about the impact of engineering projects; so new andmore complex demands are arising due to the economic and social needs for the
intended to give credit to the body of scholarship and research on which a new practiceis built as well as make a case for legitimacy for new work. Most universities require researchand publication of their faculty for tenure and promotion. To be successful in this process, acandidate needs to show impact. This impact is usually heavily based on citation metrics. Whilethere is a push from some, such as those in the open scholarship movement to change thispractice and put value on other metrics of impact [3], it remains a heavy driver at most academicinstitutions, meaning citation practices have broad impact on who gets recognition in academia[4]. In addition, research that is more heavily cited usually is regarded as more impactful and ismore
Paper ID #15572Re-designing Design: A Technology-enhanced Graduate-level Biomedical De-sign CourseDr. Katherine E Reuther, Columbia University Katherine E. Reuther, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University and the Assistant Director of the Columbia-Coulter Translational Research Partnership. She is is working on developing new instructional tools and programs to enhance graduate education in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She has spearheaded the development of a graduate-level Biomedical Design program that covers all aspects of the design process, including needs identification
the potential for technology andproduct development and commercialization.Strategic Market Assessment for New Technologies (SMA) was developed to integrate many ofthese goals in one setting, utilizing a graduate level course and inter-disciplinary format. Thecourse was designed to allow science/medical, engineering, and business graduate students towork in inter-disciplinary teams, in conjunction with university investigators. This would occurunder the direction and supervision of business, engineering and science/medical faculty withsignificant professional experience as practitioners, academicians, and entrepreneurs in theirrespective fields.SMA introduces the student and investigator faculty teams to intellectual property (IP
Retention Strategies for Engineering and Computer Science High Impact Practices (HIP) during first year in college Raman Unnikrishnan and Victor H. Delgado College of Engineering and Computer Science Hye Sun Moon and Edward Sullivan Office of Institutional Research & Analytical Studies California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 AbstractThe High Tech Education working group of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness(Jobs Council) concluded that an increase in the number of U.S. engineering and computerscience graduates
conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect conceptual change and associated impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and per- sistence. The other is on the factors that promote persistence and success in retention of undergraduate students in engineering. He was a coauthor for best paper award in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2013.Prof. Robert J. Culbertson, Arizona State University Robert J. Culbertson is an Associate Professor of Physics. Currently, he teaches introductory mechanics
AC 2012-5293: EXAMINING THE EXPLANATORY VARIABLES THATIMPACT GRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENT ENROLLMENTDr. Manoj K. Jha, Morgan State University Manoj K. Jha is professor and Founding Director of the Center for Advanced Transportation and Infras- tructure Engineering Research (CATIER) in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Morgan State University, Baltimore, Md., USA. He obtained a Ph.D. in civil engineering with transportation special- ization from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2000; a M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Old Dominion University in 1993; and a B.E. degree in mechanical engineering from the Na- tional Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India, in 1991. He also attended the
with program faculty. Finally, students created portfolios and individualdevelopment plans which would be expected to support their career development, but studentsreported that these requirements were more onerous than helpful. The D3EM program serves asan example of how impactful programs can be designed to encourage students to explore avariety of potential future career pathways, particularly beyond tenure-track faculty positions.Implications from the findings include the continued implementation of such programs andsustained efforts to change the conversation about PhD careers that reflect the job market andgraduate student interests.Introduction In the past decade, graduate engineering education has emerged as a research
- signed for elementary education majors. He is director of the ASU Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) Project, which strives to produce more and better high school physics teachers. He is also director of Master of Natural Science degree program, a graduate program designed for in-service science teachers. He works on improving persistence of students in STEM majors, especially under-prepared students and students from under-represented groups.Ke Liu, Arizona State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Extending Faculty Development through a Sustainable Community of PracticeAbstractResearch has shown that creating communities of practice can help solidify
of engineering culture that act as barriers to LGBTQ equality.As recommended by Woodford et al. [45], the program offers an incremental design withsuccessive trainings to address audiences with varying levels of knowledge and awareness. Thecontent of the Safe Zone workshops are tailored for an Engineering/STEM audience byincorporating the findings from our research on LGBTQ in Engineering. This is done by variousmeans such as direct presentation of quantitative results, case studies about experiences ofLGBTQ individuals in STEM, and activities exploring how STEM culture impacts LGBTQindividuals. Upon completion of Safe Zone training, graduates receive a Safe Zone sticker todisplay in their workplace. This simple symbol of LGBTQ