the help of a FD committee. The role of FD coordinator was part-time, and the budget wasprimarily used to fund a travel grant for early career faculty and to bring in periodic guestspeakers or workshops. In September 2019, the individual assigned to FD left their position,leaving a vacancy on campus and no immediate plan to fill the void. Also in the Fall of 2019, anew interim provost was appointed.Shortly thereafter, COVID-19 hit.NSF ADVANCE Empower and OFDAWhile no one would suggest that the Spring of 2020 will be looked back upon fondly, the chaosthat ensued when campus had to immediately pivot to online learning inadvertently led to somepositive impacts on campus. The FD void was felt broadly with no central location to address thefact
is active in the American Society for Engineering Education and is the Webmaster for the ASEE First-Year Programs Division and the First-Year Engi- neering Experience Conference. He is affiliated withthe Transportation Engineering program in the NYU Civil and Urban Engineering Department. He is the advisor for NYU student chapter of the Institute for Transportation Engineers. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Work-In-Progress: Using CATME in Team Development of One-Semester- Long Open-Ended First-Year Engineering Student Design Projects Rui Li1, Jack Bringardner1 1 Tandon School of
unique opportunity from mathematics education presents itself for design educators and facilitators; that is, teaching with manipulatives. We seek to transfer such practices in mathematics education to design education and practice. Challenges exist for design researchers to carefully craft activities in design education mainly because of the open-endedness of problems, decision-making that takes place while designing, and the inherent uncertainties in the design problems. Ultimately, the goal is to develop students’ ability to flexibly transfer expertise to other contexts and new design challenges” (Ali, Kinach, & Lande, 2019).ImpactsBy sharing learning trajectories across multiple communities, we seek to change the
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improvement.Students have participated in model rocket construction and launching each of the past twoyears. Four groups of students successfully constructed, launched, and retrieved their modelrockets.In summer 2019, three students participated in an onsite Arduino microcontroller project. In thisproject, students worked with mentors from the physics department to design, construct, and testfree fall apparatuses for use in three physics courses at the college. The students successfullydesigned, machined, and assembled lab quantities of free fall test apparatuses that have beenused by students in descriptive physics labs, physics for biological science majors labs, andphysics for physical scientists and engineers labs. At the conclusion of the project, the
become better science communicators, currently in the context of a multi-year NSF-funded EPSCoR project. She currently introduces VTS protocols in workshops on sci- ence education, science communication, and deliberative democracy. During the 2018-2019 academic year she was a fellow at the Institute of Civic Discourse and Democracy at Kansas State University.Dr. Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University Roman Taraban is Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Texas Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. His interests are in how undergraduate students learn, and especially, in critical thinking and how students draw meaningful con- nections in
/. [Accessed 2020].[6] Facultad de Ingenieria de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción, FIUNA, "Estudiantes y docentes de la FIUNA realizan «Taller de Diseño de Pequeños Satélites CANSAT» a Docentes en marco del Proyecto JEKUPYTY," 16 Dec 2019. [Online]. Available: http://www.ing.una.py/?p=40844. [Accessed 2021].[7] Facultad de Ingenieria de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción, FIUNA, "Culminó con éxito el Taller de Diseño de Pequeños Satélites Educativos CANSAT," 28 Oct 2019. [Online]. Available: http://www.ing.una.py/?p=39996. [Accessed 2021].[8] D. Ortiz, J. Moreira, L. Moreira, D. Stalder, B. Vega and J. Kurita, "CanSat Pico-satellite building workshop as an effective tool for STEAM education, a case study.," in ASEE: Proceedings
Department of Computer and Information Technology and an affiliated faculty at the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a B.E. in Information Systems, a M.S. in Technology, both from Tec de Monterrey; and a M.S. in Educational Technology and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research is focused on identifying how model-based cognition in STEM can be better supported by means of expert technological and computing tools such as cyber-physical systems,visualizations and modeling and simulation tools.Dr. Martin R. Okos, Purdue University, West Lafayette c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: Designing modeling-based
for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: Qualitative Insights from a Visual Expertise Experiment in Fluid MechanicsAbstractThis work-in-progress explores the qualitative analysis of work modeled after visual expertiseexperiments in cognitive psychology. In this experiment, participants were asked to sort imagesof fluid flows as either laminar or turbulent with no prior knowledge of the categories. The twogroups of participants were engineering students who had passed a Fluid Mechanics course(“Experienced in Fluids”) and students with no prior formal fluid training (“Novice in Fluids”).This experiment included an open-ended inquiry of participant understanding of the task theywere performing. (The
Studies: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Florida in 2000 and completed a Ph.D. in Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006. She served as a postdoctoral associate in MIT’s Biological Engineering Division before spending two years as a Research Coordinator for Student Development at University of North Texas. She is currently a high school science instructor specializing in chemistry and the life sciences. She has taught college-level courses in the biosciences and maintains an interest in studying students pursuing the STEM fields. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 The Pencil-Top Fidget: Reinventing Shop (Metal Drilling
Section of the Transportation Research Board and the past chair of its Committee on Traveler Behavior and Values. He is also the past chair of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR). Dr. Pendyala has his PhD and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering with a specialization in transportation systems from the University of California at Davis. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras in Chennai, India. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #26472Dr. Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University
(ACS), Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors (AEESP), American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). Dr. Shipley has also received several prestigious teaching and research awards for instance the University of Texas Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, UTSA’s Faculty Service to Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Award and is a part of the UTSA’s Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars.Dr. Krystel K. Castillo-Villar, The University of Texas at San Antonio Krystel Castillo-Villar received her Ph.D. from Texas Tech University and her Sc.D. from Monterey Tech (ITESM). She is currently the GreenStar Endowed Associate Professor in Energy in the Department of Mechanical
board member for several journals including the EDGJ. He has been a program chair for the Southeast- ern Section and has served as its Engineering Design Graphics Division’s vice chair and chair and as its Instructional Unit’s secretary, vice chair, and chair. His ongoing involvement with ASEE has focused on annual conference paper presentation themes associated with the Engineering Design Graphics, Engineer- ing Libraries, Engineering Technology, New Engineering Educators, and the Two-Year College Divisions and their educational and instructional agendas. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Adoption of Additive Manufacturing Certifications and Metal
accreditation .Figure 1. Growth of number of papers presented and published in ASEE conferences between 1998-2018 on projectsrelated to community development, EWB, humanitarian engineering and community service (Source: peer.asee.orgdatabase)But what if these problems are so complex that they cannot be solved by engineering projectsalone, and certainly not by engineers in training operating in highly constrained educationalenvironments (e.g., 50-75 min classes, 14-week semesters, design classes away fromcommunities, etc.) and under limited resources of time, money and expertise? Where and howcan/should engineering educators focus their attention and resources to develop, organize,integrate, and support these projects so they can be more effective and
retention, increasing student awareness and inter- est in research and engineering, STEM education, critical thinking skills, and recruitment and retention of women and minorities.Mrs. Anika Coolbaugh Pirkey, Mid-Atlantic Technology, Research and Innovation Center Anika Pirkey currently works as a Chemical Engineer in the Pilot Plant Division of the Mid-Atlantic Technology, Research and Innovation Center (MATRIC) in South Charleston, West Virginia. She grad- uated Summa Cum Laude with a BSChE and BME Certificate in 2017 from West Virginia University (WVU) and will begin the doctoral program in Chemical Engineering at WVU in Fall 2019. While ob- taining her undergraduate degree, Mrs. Pirkey worked with the Fundamentals of
, collaboration, and consistency.Dr. Phyllis Leary Newbill, Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, Virginia Tech Dr. Phyllis Newbill is the Outreach and Engagement Coordinator at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) at Virginia Tech. She serves as the liaison between the university and the Science c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #27081Museum of Western Virginia and directs the Virginia Tech Science Festival. She has worked in scienceeducation at preschool, high school, university, and adult education levels. She has both formal and infor-mal instructional experience
Isabel Bradburn studies contexts of development and STEM education.Dr. Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia Tech Cheryl Carrico is a part-time faculty Research Scientist for Virginia Tech and owner of Cheryl Carrico Consulting, LLC. Her current research focus relates to STEM career pathways (K-12 through early career) and conceptual understanding of core engineering principles. She is currently a Member-at-Large for the Pre-college Division of ASEE. Dr. Carrico’s consulting company specializes in research evaluations and industry consulting. Dr. Carrico received her B.S. in chemical engineering from Virginia Tech, Masters of Engineering from North Carolina State University, MBA from King University, and PhD in Engineering
Engineering Educators (ASEE) 126th Conference and Exposition, June 16-19, 2019, Tampa, FL, In press.[2] W. Waite, "V&V education initiatives," presented at the Foundations ‘04, Tempe, AZ, October 13-15, 2004. [Online]. Available: https://web.archive.org/web/20160305062751/https://scs.org/confernc/foundations/finalp rogram.doc.[3] P. L. Chinn and M. K. Kramer, Theory and Nursing: A Systematic Approach. St. Louis, MO: Mosby, 1995.[4] G. R. Oliver, Foundations of the Assumed Business Operations and Strategy Body of Knowledge (BOSBOK): An Outline of Shareable Knowledge. Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press, 2012.[5] D. Siebels, The Quality Improvement Glossary. Milwaukee, WI: ASQ
the UK. He started his career in the UK as the Senior Research Assistant at the SERC Engineering Design Centre. He joined Brunel University in 1995 where he worked for 18 years before joining United Arab Emirates University in August 2011. During his stay at Brunel he has worked with many British industries. Dr Sivaloganathan is a keen researcher in Design and was the Convenor for the International Engineering Design Conferences in 1998 and 2000. He has been a regular participant of the ASEE annual conference during the past few years. He has published more than 85 papers in reputed journals and conferences.Mr. Adewale Oriyomi Oseni, United Arab Emirate University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Oseni Adewale is a PhD student at
consults in control and computer applications and legal matters. He was a co-founder of Berkeley Process Control, which sold mechanical control products. His education was at Cooper Union and MIT. He has awards from several engineering organizations.Dr. Carlotta A Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Carlotta A. Berry is a professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology. She is the director of the multidisciplinary minor in robotics and co- director of the Rose building undergraduate diversity scholarship and professional development program. She has been the President of the Technical Editor Board for the ASEE Computers in Education Journal since 2012
, pp. 361-370, 2017.3. R. Moore, S. Newton, and M. Alemdar, “K-12 Inventure Prize: Teacher reflections on educating K-12 inventors,” Technology & Innovation, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 221-233, 2019.4. R. Moore, M. Alemdar, S. H. Newton, and A. N. Holcomb, “The K-12 InVenture Challenge: Inspiring Future STEM Innovators,” in Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, OH, USA, June 24-28, 2017, https://peer.asee.org/288702017, 2017.5. “d.school: design thinking bootcamp bootleg,” Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, [Online]. Available: https://dschool. stanford.edu/resources/the-bootcamp-bootleg, [accessed 2019 Nov 1].6. “InVenture Challenge Lesson Plans,” Georgia Tech K-12 InVenture Prize [Online
Providing an Intradisciplinary Team Experience for Off-Track Students in a Senior Level Capstone Design Two Course Sequence March 26, 2019 ASEE Zone 1 Conference By Leonard Anderson, Ph.D., C.P.C.Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA Aslah K. AlshaieaStudent, Department of Civil Engineering, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MAAbstractPracticing Civil Engineers today must have the ability to work as a team member with other civilengineering
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Active Learning Exercises,” Association for Engineering Education - Engineering Library Division Papers, 2019.[4] M.E. Kuhl, “Fostering an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Systems Simulation,” 2020 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference Proceedings, Rochester, NY, 2020, pp. 142-148.[5] L. Bosman, N. Duval-Couetil, B. Mayer and P. McNamara, “Using Online Discussions to Develop the Entrepreneurial Mindset in Environmental Engineering Undergraduates: A Case Study,” International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy, 9(3), pp. 4-19, 2019.[6] F. Bellotti, R. Berta, A. De Gloria, E. Lavagnino, A. Antonaci, F. Dagnino, M. Ott, M. Romero, M. Usart, I.S. Mayer, “Serious Games and the Development of an Entrepreneurial Mindset
marginalized in science andengineering (National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, 2023). We also soughtto build the unit to culminate in an engineering-design performance assessment that wouldengage students in designing a CubeSat satellite. Phenomenon-based curricula are built around compelling, often local, phenomena thatstimulate students’ interest and drive their engagement in ongoing sequences of learning.Phenomena are accessible scenarios that create space for students to ask questions and leveragetheir everyday experiences to make sense of them. In the case of our unit design, we conductedwhat have been called ‘student interest surveys’ (Penuel et al., 2019) to learn abouts students’interest in phenomena related to space
2025 ASEE Northeast Section Conference, March 22, 2025, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA. Optimizing an advanced contextual Question Answering model through the fine-tuning of a Pretrained Large Language Model. Safeena Khanam Department of Computer Science University of Bridgeport Bridgeport, USA skhanam@my.bridgeport.eduAbstract— Pretrained Large Language Models (LLMs) are models address this challenge, open-source LLMs have
2025 ASEE Northeast Section Conference, March 22, 2025, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA. Revolutionizing Wildfire Detection with Convolutional Neural Networks: A VGG16 Model Approach Lakshmi Aishwarya Malladi[1], Navarun Gupta[2], Ahmed El-Sayed[2], Xingguo Xiong[2] Department of Computer Science, University of Bridgeport, [1] Bridgeport, CT 06604, USA [2] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT
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Paper ID #37620A Comprehensive Study on The Effectiveness of ActiveLearning Techniques in Remote Learning ClassesAmr Hassan Dr. Amr Hassan (also know as Amr Mahmoud) received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering and the M.Sc degree in Engineering Physics from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2011 and 2015, respectively. He earned his PhD in Computer Engineering from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor with the same department, since August 2019. Dr. Hassan's primary focus is on education