and closely related industries (Statistics, 2015). The literature reviewseemed to indicate that there would be no drop in value and demand for STEM field graduates(Covers, Jones, & Watson, 2011). The industry employment and output projections report,seemed to highlight that the largest STEM occupations are related to computers with an averageannual wage for STEM occupations being $77,880 in May of 2009. This average wage could beconsidered a motivating factor for students to pursue STEM related professions. While thesestudies indicate how STEM occupations are highly sought after because of varying factors suchas higher paying jobs and political and industry promotions of the STEM field. They still fail toaddress or identify why there is a
) and adaptive learning system (AL) are centrallymanaged by the University. The integration of engineering content with the LMS/AL requiredfrequent coordination between the engineering faculty and the University’s project manager.Using PowerPoint and teleconferences provided project managers an explanation of how theengineering content should be taught and delivered. For example, Figure 1 provides one visualrepresentation on how to deliver and integrate the engineering content with the University’s ALsoftware. Figure 1 consists of PowerPoint slides to create the flowchart. The University’s ALplatform is a presentation and analytics tool to track student progress for the educator. The ALsoftware was successfully applied for trigonometry and pre
to make soundjudgments about the credentials of a person with whom this professional shares a specialrelationship by considering but not being “distracted” by such a relationship. As Confucianistshave argued, “juxian bu biqin (selecting virtuous people does not avoid relatives).”Second, scholars in engineering management tend to emphasize cultural differences inimplementing and managing specific engineering projects. A vast majority of their theories andmethods are often drawn from the literature in international business and management. Forinstance, Wang and Thompson compare cultural differences in business ethics in Europe, US,and Asia.13 They have found that business organizations (e.g., companies) have variedunderstandings of: (1) moral
at Harvard Medical School where he was listed as a Research Associate in its Renal division.Dr. Tariq Akmal, Washington State University Tariq Akmal is currently the Chair of the Department of Teaching & Learning at Washington State Uni- versity. He has collaborated with engineering scholars on numerous projects, providing expertise in cur- riculum and instruction, learning, and K-12 schools.Dr. Ryan Anderson, Montana State UniversityDr. Phillip Himmer, Montanta State University, ECE Dept., Montana Microfabrication Facility Phillip Himmer received his B.S. in Physics at Washington State University and M.S. in physics at Mon- tana State University. He obtained his PhD in engineering at Montana State University in
Literacy to the Philosophy of Technology and Technological Citizenship: A Progress ReportI. IntroductionIn the last paper I presented in this division of ASEE (Neeley, 2006), I complained that it wasdistressing to see a group with such an ambitious and worthwhile project saddled with a namethat provided so little insight into its character and potential. The opening sections of TechnicallySpeaking: Why All Americans Need to Know More about Technology (2002), a joint publicationof the National Research Council and the National Academy of Engineering, make it clear thatthe initiative called “technological literacy” is concerned with a sophisticated and heterogeneouscombination of “knowledge, ways of thinking, and capabilities” and
universitaria professionale della Svizzeraitaliana (SUPSI).II.2.4. Evolution As the Global Perspectives Program has grown within Virginia Tech and gained externalrecognition [5], a variety of projects and programs have been initiated. Additional GPPexperiences from Virginia Tech have been started to Chile and Ecuador. Universität Basel, andmore recently Universität Zürich, have developed successful Global Perspectives Programs, asdiscussed previously. Learning of the Global Perspectives Program of the Virginia TechGraduate School has aided Texas Christian University in developing the Global Outlooks inEducation program [6], and a partnership with GPP Ecuador has led to the 21st Century FacultyInstitute at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito
108 Hours 324 C&PE 211: Mat and Energy 4 120 480 Balance C&PE 221: Chem Engineering 3 104 312 Thermo C&PE 327: Reservoir Engr 4 43 172 C&PE 511: Momentum Transfer 3 167 501 C&PE 521: Heat Transfer 3 149 447 C&PE 522: Economic Appraisal 2 205 410 Project C&PE 523: Mass Transfer 4 106
think more about the subject. The instructor created an atmosphere that made learning easier. The instructor explained course material using more than one approach Assignments or projects helped me learn the material.Table 2 provides the percentage of students out of these two sections who indicate that they“Strongly Agree”, “Agree”, “Uncertain”, “Disagree”, and “Strongly Disagree” for eachstatement listed above. The last column indicates the percentage of students who oit the questionor respond “Not Applicable”.Table 2. Student evaluations of instruction report based on selected items (out of 2 sections and57 responding students) Statement/Evaluation Strongly Agree Uncertain Disagree Strongly
– Extremely usefulHow likely is it that you would use these tutorials in 10 2.70 1.059 0 – Extremely unlikelythe future for a design project? 4 – Extremely likelyHow clear were the directions for the tutorials? 10 2.80 1.033 0 – Extremely unclear 4 – Extremely clearHow clear were the directions for the exercises? 10 3.00 .816 0 – Extremely unclear 4 – Extremely clearDescriptive statistics in Table 2 show that tutorials were widely considered necessary in order tocomplete the accompanying
Costs-benefits with engaging in socially responsible behavior, 0 such as service.Study design and processThe research was executed in three phases: instrument design (Phase I), validation (Phase II),and full survey launch and data analysis stage (Phase III). Phases I and II focused on tailoring theresearch instrument to be appropriate for both the research objectives and populations of interest.Phase III focused on answering the research question and laying the groundwork for futureresearch. The phases for this research project are described herein.Pilot phase I: Survey developmentA survey to identify social responsibility based on the PSRDM was developed using the DillmanTailored Design method [19
Paper ID #25588Students’ Experience with Collaborative Engineering Design Challenges in aMiddle School Engineering Course (Evaluation)Dr. Jessica D. Gale, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Jessica Gale is a Senior Research Scientist at Georgia Tech’s Center for Education Integrating Sci- ence, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC). Her research focuses on project-based learning, STEM integration at the elementary and middle grades levels, design-based implementation research, and fidelity of implementation. Dr. Gale has a particular interest in project-based engineering in elementary school communities and the socio
collaborate on multidisciplinary teams addressing real world challenges and with industry engagement. College signature programs include the Texas A&M I-Corps Site, Ag- giE Challenge, INSPIRES, and two annual Project Showcases. Magda is the Principal Investigator of the Texas A&M University I-Corps Site grant and has been active in promoting entrepreneurship both at the local and national level.Dr. So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University So Yoon Yoon, Ph.D., is an associate research scientist at Institute for Engineering Education and Innova- tion (IEEI) in College of Engineering at Texas A&M University and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES). She received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with
NI ResearchThis section presents excerpts from a Narrative Inquiry project with an SVSM undergraduateengineering student named Cooper (self-selected pseudonym). Cooper’s stories of becoming anengineer are being documented within a narrative inquiry project to understand the experiencesof “nontraditional” [71, 72] undergraduates in engineering [73, 74]. Examination of Cooper’sstories of becoming are important for the field of engineering education; they provide rare andvaluable glimpses into the knowledge, skills, and assets that returning veterans bring to theengineering profession, as well as the unique ways in which veterans experience formalengineering education. I share practical understandings gained about veteran student experiencethat
Paper ID #26270Practice Exam Program Impact on Student Academic Performance and Stu-dent RetentionMs. Dawn Patterson Shew M.Ed., University of Kansas Dawn Shew is the Director of Undergraduate Academic Services at the University of Kansas School of Engineering.Dr. Lorin P. Maletsky, University of Kansas Dr. Lorin Maletsky joined the Mechanical Engineering faculty at the University of Kansas in 2000. He is currently a full professor and serving as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the School of Engineering. He has created and taught a project, team-based freshmen course in Mechanical Engineering as well as
NSF funded project in the area of systems thinking. Morteza’s works have been published in presti- gious journals including, Expert Systems With Applications, Engineering Management Journal, Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, International Journal of Procurement Management, Int. Jour- nal of System of Systems Engineering, and Int. Journal of Engineering Education. Moreover, he is a reviewer in several journals and conferences including, IEEE TEM, IEEE Systems, Systems Engineer- ing, IEEE VR, ASEE, ASEM, HAI, TEI, CSCW, CHI PLAY, etc. He is a member of ASEM, ASEE, INFORMS, IEEE, INCOSE, and IISE. His main areas of research interest are systems thinking, complex systems, engineering education
K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering De- sign Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant ”Additive Innova- tion: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s ”20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014, and received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Instructional Effectiveness, she worked as the Education Project Manager for the NSF-funded JTFD Engineering faculty development program, as a high school math and science teacher, and as an Assistant Principal and Instructional & Curriculum Coach.Lydia Ross, Arizona State UniversityDr. Casey Jane Ankeny, Northwestern UniversityProf. Jay Oswald c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #25428Effects of Alternative Course Design and Instructional Methods in the Engi-neering ClassroomDr. Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University Lindy Hamilton Mayled is the Director of Instructional
auto-graded online homework. Eric has been a member of ASEE since 2001. He currently serves as chair of the Pacific Northwest Section and was the recipient of the 2008 Section Outstanding Teaching Award.Todd R. Haskell, Western Washington University Todd Haskell is a cognitive scientist interested in learning and the development of expertise, especially in STEM fields. He is currently Associate Professor of Psychology at Western Washington University. In previous projects Dr. Haskell has worked on understanding how chemistry novices and experts navi- gate between macroscopic, symbolic, and small particle representations, and how pre-service elementary teachers translate an understanding of energy concepts from
Research in 2006,” Des. Res. Q., Sep. 2006.[2] E. Sanders, “An Evolving Map of Design Practice and Design Research,” Interactions, pp. 13–17, Dec. 2008.[3] IDEO, The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design. 2015.[4] C. B. Zoltowski, W. C. Oakes, and M. E. Cardella, “Students’ ways of experiencing human-centered design,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 101, no. 1, pp. 28–59, 2012.[5] I. Mohedas, S. Daly, and K. Sienko, “Design Ethnography in Capstone Design: Investigating Student Use and Perceptions,” Int. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 888–900, 2014.[6] R. P. Loweth, S. R. Daly, J. Liu, and K. H. Sienko, “Assessing Needs in a Cross-Cultural Design Project: Student Perspectives and Challenges,” Int. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 36, no. 2, pp
postdoctoral researcher in the Design Lab at UC San Diego.Dr. Mohsen M Dorodchi, UNC, Charlotte Dr. Dorodchi has been teaching in the field of computing for over 30 years of which 20 years as educator. He has taught majority of the courses in the computer science and engineering curriculum over the past 20 years such as introductory programming, data structures, databases, software engineering, system programming, etc. He is involved in multiple NSF supported research projects including Learning and Predictive Analytics Research, Research Practitioner Partnership, Implementing Teaching Methods to help Students learn more efficiently in active learning, etc.Erfan Al-Hossami, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Erfan Al
programs that work to bolster invention and entrepreneurship maypositively impact both students and teachers in their personal and professional growth and alsoinfluence the well-being of rural communities more broadly. Despite the symbiosis between rural areas and entrepreneurship, past attempts to expandthe K12 InVenture Prize program to rural regions have not been successful. A first strategyattempted was to provide travel stipends for students to travel to Georgia Tech for the statefinals. This offering, however, did not address the anxiety that students and teachers have aboutpresenting a project at an elite university. The leap from school competition to state competitionfelt too large for many schools. A second strategy was to
curriculum.An approach to enhance spatial thinking or spatial reasoning skills is learning three-dimensional(3D) modeling [4]. 3D modeling involves several steps and design decisions to make sure that afeasible design is made. Learning 3D modeling is supposed to not only enhance students’ designdecisions but also improve their spatial thinking ability. With the proliferation of consumer-level3D printing, Virtual Reality (VR), and Augmented Reality (AR), there is a sparked interestamong educators to teach 3D modeling using tools like Tinkercad in formal and informal settings[5], [6]. An additional benefit of 3D modeling knowledge is the career path it opens. Severalcompanies and industries are in the need for 3D designers for a variety of projects
better matched their strengths and/or interests. Someof the students with the “biggest ideas” around advancing novel, environmentally-friendlydesigns were disappointed that the engineering courses seemed to be focused on teaching currentpractice rather than creative solutions. Given these findings, it might be impactful on retention tohave EnvE students take a course specific to environmental engineering and/or one that allowsthem to be innovative in envisioning solutions to problems of their interest (such as a project-based course that allows students to select a project of interest, and significant latitude increatively exploring solutions).Students who felt that their education should be more balanced between technical and societalissues
evaluation. MethodsThe present work was conducted as part of a larger study of teaching effectiveness across STEMat the research site (Bouwma-Gearhart, Perry, & Presley, 2014; Koretsky, 2015; Koretsky et al.,2016). The research project is a broad institutional effort to cultivate interdisciplinarycommunities of practice focused on improving teaching practices in STEM. Faculty evaluationthus plays a critical role in enhancing teaching practices because the data collected and feedbackprovided are designed to help faculty improve as instructors. As a result, this research focuses onfaculty perceptions of teaching evaluation data, in particular the kinds of data they would like tocollect or stakeholders
manufacturing-focused courses. Sarah’s research interests include aspects of project-based learning and enhancing 21st century skills in undergraduate engineering students.Dr. Adam Lenz, Oregon State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Exploring students’ and instructors’ perceptions of engineering: case studies of professionally-focused and career exploration courses Work in ProgressAbstractPrevious work developed a working definition of engineering professional identity (EPI), definedas the degree of internalization of the norms, behaviors, language, values, and practices ofengineering. This EPI
protons and electrons with varyingnumber of neutrons. By focusing on calculus there are some books that include visualexplanations (see for example references [2-10]). Of a special interest is the work by Apostol andMamikon from Caltech [11,12]. They were able to explain integration of some functions withoutthe need for mathematical formulas. The author of this paper published papers on this topic [13-20] in addition to books [21,22], one for understanding concepts in “Control Systems” and theother for understanding the basics of “Newton’s Laws of Motion.”The bigger pictureThis work is part of a multi-modal integrated project aimed at understanding concepts in STEM.The approach is meant to help both teachers and students, thereby allowing for
of Colorado (CU) Boulder [6] concluded that a hands-on approachto engineering education greatly benefited overall retention, particularly in underrepresentedpopulations. The researchers implemented a course called First-Year Engineering Projects,which required hands-on design experience which emphasized teamwork and successfulimplementation of a student-researched plan [6]. Traditionally, such an experience would notoccur for engineering students until the final year of their program, in the form of a SeniorDesign or Capstone project. Alternatively, low retention rates in engineering curriculum have been attributed todifficulties insufficient support in non-engineering core math and science courses required to betaken by engineering
the professor for this course. In theinitial contact, the goal was to begin building a collaborative relationship as they discussed somebackground information on the course and the way it had been run in the past. After thatconversation, an official ‘kick-off’ meeting was held. The discussion centered on the overallredesign process as well as a projected timeline. Roles were defined and a general plan of attackwas created. Regular weekly meetings (Thursday mornings) were scheduled with thestakeholders involved (instructor and instructional designer) in order to help keep the project ontrack.The first thing done was to begin a document that came to be called the ‘Course Map’. It wascreated as a Google Doc so all parties involved could add
Paper ID #21703#EngineersWeek: Broadening our Understanding of Community Engage-ment Through Analysis of Twitter Use During the National Engineers WeekDr. Aqdas Malik, George Mason University Aqdas Malik is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Information Sciences and Tech- nology, George Mason University. His multidisciplinary academic and industry experience spans two key disciplines: Human-Computer Interaction and Social Media Communication and Analytics. He is currently engaged in a number of research projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). In some of his recent projects he has applied
division bylaws;• developed and circulated newsletters on Diversity Committee efforts;• worked with the ASEE Board of Directors to get Figure 1. Example of Footsteps from approval for and to institutionalize the ASEE Best 2017 Annual Conference Diversity Paper;• piloted the footsteps project, where large stickers were placed on the floor throughout the convention center in Indianapolis in high traffic spaces (see Figure 3);• created the call for papers and an assessment tool for the ASEE Best Diversity Paper; and• worked with ASEE information technology staff to identify potential papers within the paper review