engineers. Byteaching students the problem-solving strategies that are used by their professional counterparts,the gap between what students are taught in school and what is expected of them in theworkplace may be lessened.The purpose of this paper is to describe how agile ethnography [4], [5] was successfully used inour research project to examine workplace literacy practices and habits of mind employed byeight engineers in their workplaces over a period of three years. The overarching purpose of theproject was to develop models of disciplinary literacy instruction [6] and habits of mind [7] inengineering, both of which are potential methods for teaching students the knowledge, skills, andstrategies that may prepare them for an engineering career
order to model changes in shape due to the effects of osteoarthritis in order to provide surgeons and implant designers with suggestions to improve surgical outcomes. Her current research is focused on concept generation, accessibility in 3D printing, and effectively teaching first-year engineering with hands-on design projects. Dr. de Vries was recently named Erie 40 Under 40: Class of 2020 and received a 2017 Marshall Space Flight Faculty Fellowship at NASA in which she worked in Huntsville, AL for a summer assisting NASA engineers (specifically members of the Environmental Controls and Life Support Systems) in concept generation. At Behrend she teaches the first and final design courses for mechanical engineers (EDSGN
the lab and going to our work area. And this is the whole of the canoe which concrete gets placed on. And then that's how the canoe is created. So, I think this glimpse made me feel like an engineer because throughout my college career so far, most of our work has been just very ... Like writing, you don't actually get to see real-world applications.”Under theme 2, students described spaces where they were able to get together with other students tosocialize and plan outside of the classroom setting such as crafting projects, club meetings, and potlucks.One University B student described her crafting project, Figure 4: Cider made by RedShirt student to unwind after a test. “I was like in a quiz
Platform4.1 Application to Skills Development 4.1.1 Relevance to Mining EngineeringThe following summarises the relevance of the Simulacrum to skills development for miningengineers: • Puff-Puff test: Test in which the effectiveness of the ventilation system is assessed through visual inspection of the time taken for a puff of smoke to move between two designated points. • Ventilation design: Used to support design projects for mining engineers in order to optimise the ventilation system in an underground mine. This is particularly useful when considering that many operations in South Africa are undergoing a change from diesel to electric equipment which affects temperatures, diesel particulate matter and
. The third author is a faculty memberin an Educational Psychology program and the primary investigator of the second study.She is an experienced researcher who has used CI techniques on many projects and offeredher own wisdom during the second study. The fourth author is an undergraduateengineering student who conducted many of the interviews in the first study together withthe first author. The first and fourth authors were conducting CIs for the first time duringthe study and took extensive field notes to document their process. In the first study, thefirst and fourth authors were concerned about developing a survey as novices and lackingintuition about survey design, and they were encouraged by the second author to exploreand document the
mean that engineering is relegated to only high school students, if atall, despite the advantages it can bring to K-8 classrooms. Many times, these misconceptions canbe defeated by giving teachers specific examples and approaches to a more problem-based and aholistic approach to integrated teaching.Designing for TeachersProgram Objectives and Audience NeedsCustomizing teacher professional development sessions ensures relevancy for teacher needs inimplementing engineering content knowledge and hands-on open ended engineering challengesinto their classroom. The K-8 school principal requested an overview of engineering and how itrelates to Science, Engineering, Technology, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) and Project BasedLearning (PBL). Recognizing
, Architectural Technology, and a Master’s in Facility Management. His field experience includes residential and light commercial construction. He has been an architectural designer as well as superintendent for single and multi-family residential construction projects. Mr. Ray worked as an engineering design manager in the Building Components Manufacturing Industry for over fifteen years.Dr. Brandon Sorge, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis Brandon Sorge is an Assistant Professor of STEM Education Research in the Department of Technology Leadership and Communication at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI. His research interests include all aspects of STEM education, espeDr. Katrenia Reed
sizeable enrollmentranging from 150 to 225 students per semester, the ECE Discovery Studio program relies heavilyon the utilization of Peer Leaders (PLs), a cohort of 15 to 20 upper-level EE and CmpE studentsselected to a stipend-eligible academic-year-long fellowship. The Peer Leader Fellowship (PLF)is facilitated in parallel to ECE Discovery Studio with the goal of providing easily accessiblementorship from students who have gone through similar experiences and have commonacademic interests within the expansive ECE curriculum. Each PL is assigned a mentee group of10 to 15 ECE Discovery Studio students and the course is designed to promote networkingamong small groups through interactive studio activities, peer reviews, team projects
-12 Engineering Learning [1], which recommends leveragingmaking as a form of active learning. Despite interest in this area, research still needs toinvestigate how to design and implement technology-rich training opportunities that motivateyouth from diverse backgrounds to participate in meaningful technical work and what the impactof such experiences is.In this study, we collaborated with a community partner that provides technology-rich learningexperiences for youth to set up an afterschool professional training program involving running a3D printshop for youth focused on digital modeling and fabrication. Over two years, two cohortsof youth (a total of 12 participants) participated in the project and worked at the 3D printshop attasks that
bachelor’s degree in Physics Engineering from Tecnologico de Monterrey and a doctoral degree in Mathematics Education from Syracuse University, NY. Dr. Dominguez is a member of the Researchers’ National System in Mexico (SNI-2) and has been a visiting researcher at Syracuse University, UT-Austin, and Universidad Andres Bello. Her main research areas are interdisciplinary education, teaching methods, faculty development, and gender issues in STEM education. She actively participates in several national and international projects, in mathematics, engineering, and science education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Students' perception of active learning in the Acoustic Physics
the initiation phase, Zafira crosses a threshold into a new and unknown world of engineeringstudies that requires her to overcome engineering tasks and trials, which she manages with helpfrom others, including a male peer mentor from Saudi Arabia who coaches her patiently until sheunderstands. He isn’t permitted, by his religious beliefs, to make eye contact or interact sociallywith any woman outside his family, but he finds innovative ways to assist Zafira by, for instance,using screen share to coach her on coding prior to an important project deadline.Equipped with new understandings of herself and a crucial sense of atonement with her father,Zafira enters the return phase, where she returns to the ordinary world with rewards from
-world problem encounteredafter graduation enjoys no such context [7]. In addition, the difficulty of creating one’s decision-making schema naturally becomes greater as the number of possible tools or approachesincrease, or as the decisions otherwise become more complex.Having years of practical experience is not the only possible way to build a level of expertise thatincludes conditional knowledge. Swan, Plummer, and West [4] contend that intentional focus onbuilding conditional knowledge can help improve the level of expertise developed in a universityprogram. Problem-based learning, capstone projects, and other teaching methods 1 may all helpstrengthen student conditional knowledge [5], [6], to a greater or lesser extent.Another instructional
response frequency Category Themes Positive Features -Enjoyed the experiments. (8) -Enjoyed the hands-on aspect of the work. (7) -Learned valuable skills. (7) -Learned new skills. (7) -Great feedback/attention/help from instructors. (6) -Instructor quality (6) -Enjoyed the motor project specifically. (4) -Enjoyed the challenge of experiment design techniques. (2) Room for Improvement -Not enough interaction with other participants. (8) -It was not always clear which activities (mostly asynchronous
Lab in the Department of Mechanical En- gineering at Stanford University. She has been involved in several major engineering education initiatives including the NSF-funded Center for the AdvanProf. George Toye Ph.D., P.E., is adjunct professor in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. While engaged in teaching project based engineering design thinking and innovations at the graduate level, he also con- tributes to research in engineering education, effectDr. Micah Lande, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Micah Lande, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor and E.R. Stensaas Chair for Engineering Education in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. He
, which is consistent with trends described in the literature. However, for URMparticipants, the career-forward experience results in a small/medium positive effect that isspecific to Engineering self-efficacy, an encouraging result.The decrease in commitment to an engineering career for URM students suggests that someaspect of the curriculum is likely causing issues. Considering the positive trend for EngineeringSelf Efficacy among this group, indicative of increased confidence for doing engineering, this isan especially intriguing and concerning result, which may be related to stereotype threat whereour focus on career practices causes URM students to project negative feelings or experiencesforward into their career. These findings merit
systems. He is serving as the faculty advisor of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, and was awarded the 2019 Faculty Advisor award for the North-Central region of IISE.Dr. Stephanie Marie Teixeira-Poit, North Carolina A&T State University Stephanie M. Teixeira-Poit, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Carolina A&T State Uni- versity, leads large-scale, mixed-methods projects that seek to address disparities through complex inter- vention implementation and evaluation. Dr. Teixeira-Poit has three primary research streams. First, she implements and evaluates interventions to address workforce shortages and improve the capacity of the workforce. Second, she leads health services studies
Paper ID #33876Reversing Gender Stereotypes in STEM Education in a Gender-SegregatedRegionSafia Malallah, Kansas State University Safia Malallah is a web developer, artist, and Ph.D. candidate at Kansas State University. She obtained her master’s degree in computer science from Montana State University in 2017. Her research is centered around metamorphic testing in scientific software. Safia’s research interests expanded to include com- puter science education after observing the influence computer science has on her children. Her current research project is examining methods of teaching young children computational
development within informal science environments as well as Research- Practice Partnerships to benefit the local community. For more information about current projects and interests, please visit alexandriamuller.com.Liliana Garcia, University of California, Santa Barbara Liliana is a doctoral student interested in STEM Education under the guidance of Julie Bianchini at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She earned her B.S in Physics and obtained a single subject teaching credential through CalTeach at UC Irvine. Liliana previously worked with Upward Bound Trio Programs at Occidental College, preparing under-represented youth for successful pathways into college and work environments. Her experiences as a first
at El Paso (UTEP) in 2018. He has worked on a number of projects in the field of image data mining, machine learning and deep learning for industrial inspection & quality control. His research interests are in big data analytics, application of machine learning and deep learning for both complex system analysis and healthcare. Email: mrahman13@miners.utep.eduDr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University Dr. Richard Chiou is Associate Professor within the Engineering Technology Department at Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His educational background is in manufacturing with an emphasis on
difficulties with online writing tools” [7, p. 3].Computer Science faculty were surveyed in June 2020 by Bizot et al [8]. 450 faculty respondedto the survey which had been distributed to the Computing Research Association (CRA) and theACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) mailing lists. Thefaculty reported that they changed their pedagogical techniques after the move online. Beforemoving online, 250 faculty had used active learning in their classes. After moving online, 34.9%discontinued active learning, 43.4% made minor changes and 21.3% made significant changes.Collaborative projects and labs were also impacted by the move online. Of the 180 faculty whoused collaborative projects, 13.9% discontinued them, 71.7% made
Paper ID #33742Facilitating Student Metacognition Using Exam Wrappers and Concept Mapsin a Problem Solving-based BME CourseDr. Rucha Joshi, University of California, Davis Rucha Joshi, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, is a faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis, CA, focusing on engineering education research and instructional innovation in Biomedical Engineering. Prior to joining UC Davis in 2018, she was post-doctoral fellow in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue, working on multiple educational projects in enhancing teaching, learn- ing, outreach, and diversity of engineers
variety of professionsincluding the process industry. In the medical field, the quality and safety of patient care isinfluenced by financial pressures, as found in multiple studies [21], [22]. Although the contextsof the medical field and process industry differ, they both rely on high-risk decision making.Such an example promotes the role of safety and budget criteria in decision making.Construction management education highlights the importance of investing time towardsplanning at the beginning of a project as it impacts the site safety and project quality [23]. Thisexample promotes the role of time, safety, and (plant) productivity criteria in decision making.These examples do not show evidence of the role of personal relationship criteria
program is to encourage persistence and performance ofacademically-promising students with financial need by providing opportunities to buildcommunity and self-efficacy.During the summer before freshmen year, ExCEL scholars complete Calculus I in a small,learner-focused class with an accelerated format. In face-to-face sessions, students wereintroduced to traditional Calculus I topics with lectures and problem-solving sessions. In onlinesessions, students were challenged to engage conceptually with content through writing-intensivejournal entries and discussion boards. Course instruction was enriched with a parallel civilengineering seminar where students conducted projects and demonstrations to connect Calculuscontent with future engineering
others found increase access and lower stress. As part of a larger study, thispaper examines three students’ experiences taking mechanical engineering courses during thepandemic; the analysis serves as a pilot study for a larger research project that encompassesinterviews with 23 students across two universities in the U.S. and South Africa. As part of thepilot, this paper assesses the value of an a priori codebook based on six previously identifieddimensions of engineering culture [1], which serve as the framework for this study, as a means tounderstand what is entrenched and what is malleable.Literature ReviewResearch on engineering culture has explored its values, beliefs, and underlying ideologies of theculture (e.g., meritocracy, rigor
writing educators can improve their writingpedagogies to improve engineering students’ writing transfer from various general educationcourses to multiple writing courses in the major. Ultimately, these results could be leveraged tosupport a study of learning strategies that enhance the quality of engineering students’ writing incollege.2. Scope of DataThe participating instructors were recruited to ensure a diversity of submission formats andengineering disciplines. Instructors signed a consent form that had been approved by eachinstitution’s Institutional Research Board (IRB). Instructors were compensated for their effortscollecting student samples. Students were recruited by visiting classrooms and providing anexplanation of the project. IRB
learning new material. It has been used in upper-level coursesparticularly geared toward project-based learning [11].2. Motivation to use MATLAB/Simulink in the senior electiveThe strategies described in this paper were understood through a course in mechanical vibrations.This is a senior level elective course with an emphasis on practical complex problems.Challenging problems in industry generally require computers, so one course objective hasalways been “use computer tools to analyze linear and nonlinear vibration systems.” For thereader uninterested in vibration applications, note that “nonlinear vibration systems” areextremely difficult to solve without a computer and never attempted at the undergraduate level.MATLAB and Simulink are well
Instructional Designer for the NSF JROTC Academy Award. As Research Associate Ms. Dean is primarily responsible for carrying out research activities including developing and deploying data col- lection instruments, cleaning data, conducting direct observations of the intervention, analyzing the data, and assisting the Lead Researcher with preparing annual reports and other tasks as required to ensure the successful implementation, analyses and dissemination of results of the research project. Additionally, as Instructional Designer Ms. Dean assists with the adaptation or development of STEM Curriculum to meet the Academy STEM curriculum outcomes, support feasibility testing of STEM Curriculum activities, and review and provide
and beyond. He is actively engaged in different projects at the department focusing on teamwork and leadership competencies in engineering. Tahsin’s long term goal is to bridge the engineering competency gap between industry demand and academic fulfillment.Dr. Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Homero Murzi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with honorary appointments at the University of Queensland (Australia) and University of Los Andes (Venezuela). He holds degrees in Industrial Engineering (BS, MS), Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Engineering Education (PhD). Homero is the leader of the Engineering Competencies, Learn
informal learning environments. His recent projects include de- veloping and evaluating STEM-related programs, curriculums, and activities for children and their fami- lies, and conducting research on museum educators and their professional development.Ms. Yessenia Argudo, New York Hall of Science Yessenia holds a master of public health in community health education from CUNY School of Public Health and Public Policy. She has worked in various areas within public health including respectful maternal care, sexual and reproductive health, nutrition and global health. Her belief that ”knowledge is power” has fueled her career choices and led her to join NYSCI as a research and development assistant. She will be
Paper ID #32979Participation and Learning in Labs Before and During a PandemicMs. Madalyn Wilson-Fetrow, University of New MexicoDr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical and Biological En- gineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was