integratingengineering design and industrial practice throughout all stages of Curriculum 21.” The NSF-funded coalitionsEXCEL and SYNTHESIS also are involved with early design. Especially notable is the work at the Universityof Maryland with freshmen,1 which was recently recognized by Boeing as one of the top four educationalefforts in the country. EXCEL and SYNTHESIS research has focused primarily on incorporating design in thefreshman year. SUCCEED has focused on integrating design throughout curricula. In the first year of funding, theCenter for Engineering Practice sponsored approximately 10 early-design projects. At the end of the secondyear, these projects were grouped together into a team called the Early Design Megaproject. The purpose ofthe
, ethnicity, gender, first-generation status, national origin). Informed by the context surrounding our inquiry, this wouldhave allowed us to observe any differences in pre-college knowledge and experience, learningoutcome achievement, and role rotations. Going forward, researchers hope to increase thesurvey response rates to more closely examine the role of minoritized identities in students’experiences across control and experimental sections.References[1] J. Peters, “Designing Inclusion into engineering education: A fresh, practical look at how diversity impacts on engineering and strategies for change,” Royal Academy of Engineering, London, UK. July 2018.[2] C. Leicht-scholten, A. Weheliye, and A. Wolffram, “Institutionalization
and diversity in bothacademia and the workplace. The instructor attended a Society of Women Engineers (SWE)conference in 2016 and became inspired to prepare engineers for embracing diversity andunderstanding the challenges that women and underrepresented minorities face in the workplace.The instructor had been a woman engineer in industry and in academia for many years, and hadexperienced many of the same challenges discussed in the research literature. The coursedevelopment was highly supported by the Dean of the School of Engineering (SoE), theEngineering Management, Systems and Technology Department chair, the EngineeringManagement Graduate program coordinator, the SoE’s Diversity and Inclusion program, and theother department chairs
focused on developing software applications to assist manufacturers design and plan operations on advanced machining lines that could be rapidly reconfigured to meet changes to a product’s design or production volume. In 2003 he joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of British Columbia as junior chair of the NSERC sponsored research program in Virtual Machining. His work at this time focused on the modeling of cutter/workpiece engagement geometry to support process modeling for aerospace machining applica- tions. He is currently on the faculty of the Engineering and Design Department at Western Washington University where he is director of the Manufacturing Engineering program
8½ ×11-inch sheet contained in both the main and elective maps are termed Course ContentSheets. Each sheet details the course content in terms of design, computer use, laboratoryexperience, written communication, and oral communication. These are major skill areas whichABET and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) have identified as those inwhich a graduating engineering student should be well qualified3, 4. We examined eachengineering course offered in the curriculum and attempted to identify which of these five areasare specifically addressed. In developing the course content sheet format, we recognized thatthere are different levels of sophistication or levels of content within each of these five areas.For example, the
Alliance members are still figuringout how research will inform the selection and/or design of the high impact practices and in turncontribute back into the collective knowledge. Participants’ comments range from lookingentirely to external sources to co-creating equity solutions.Ongoing CommunicationsOngoing Communications involves a range of approaches to strategically disseminate ideas andinformation and to educate stakeholders and decision makers to advance equity. The lack of timeto discuss problems and solutions during meetings is a major obstacle for the Alliance. Membersreflected that they are not able to have meaningful conversations about the issues they face anddevelop solutions that can help the Alliance move forward. This lack of
presents the NextGen roadmap to address theparticipation of underrepresented minorities in the STEM disciplines by Alumni participants ofthe programs, now represented in the Professoriate, the K-12, Industry and Agency settings. Theupdated responses to the 2022 survey will be presented along with data from the LinkedIntracking data.IntroductionParticipation from all communities across our nation is a national imperative for the US toremain competitive and US higher education programs must produce more graduates in theSTEM disciplines. A comprehensive evaluation of Alliance programs nationally in 2006 by theUrban Institute provided a blueprint and recommendations building on best practices by NYCLSAMP members (1991-2004) [1]. In the past two and a
several years, many students have complainedabout the work load they were assigned in different courses. Some students even tried to comeup with strategies to lessen the work load, such as forming the same team for several courseprojects with certain team members working on one project only. This defeats the purpose ofteamwork, can hurt students’ motivation for learning, has a negative impact on future studentrecruitment, and creates too much pressure for students, all of which can lead to other seriousproblems. On the other hand, reducing the contents of the laboratory and course projects is notthe best solution to this problem since most of the faculty members involved felt that theyassigned the students what was necessary in order for the
Paper ID #36464Integrating Universal Design and Accessibility intoBioengineering CurriculumAlyssa Catherine Taylor (Dr.) Associate Teaching Professor in Bioengineering with a decade of teaching experience across introductory, lab, and senior design courses. Interested in topics such as curriculum innovation (e.g., universal design and accessibility), inclusive teaching strategies, incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion-related course content, technical communication, and accreditation best practices. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Tyler as a lecturer in Curriculum & Instruction and as the Assistant Director of the East Texas STEM Center. She currently works as the Director of the East Texas STEM Center implementing numerous STEM reform initiatives. Ms. Trampus’ primary research interests are in STEM reform. She has been actively involved in evaluating and implementing best practices in recruitment and retention of historically underserved student populations into the STEM fields, evaluation of P-16 alignment in Texas in STEM, implementing reform initiatives in secondary STEM curriculum and pre-service/in-service training for secondary STEM
., “Closing the assessment feedback loop: the use of a qualitative evaluation process from the joint hybrid-electric vehicle/NSF-Penn State science education project,” Proceedings of ASEE AC2005-1410, 2005.9. D. Tallon, R. Streit, C.Y. Wang, C. Bakis, C. Randall, M. Lanagan, et al., “Graduate Automotive Technology Education in energy storage systems - GATE Penn State,” International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning, Vol. 11, No. 4/5/6, 534-541, 2001.10. Rizkalla, M., Yokomoto, C., Pfile, R., et al., “Using senior research, design and development projects in the development of a course in electric vehicle technology,” Proceedings of ASEE AC2000-3432, 2000.11. Rizkalla, M., Yokomoto, C
context of the student’s temperaments as determined by the Keirsey Temperament Sorter.Results are presented discussing the impact of team composition on both team and peer ratings.Literature ReviewEngineering curricula have been historically very technically focused, with larger classes focusedon a specific engineering topic1. This style of instruction does not accurately reflect anengineer’s job requirements, which often include multi-disciplinary problem-solving andworking in groups. Under recent ABET guidance, there has been an increased push for project-based learning that integrates complex, group problem-solving to better align with employer’sneeds2. There is a large body of research related to how to best select individuals for
and improvise their teaching,” American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, 2020.[6] B. J. Fishman, W. Penuel, A. Allen, B. Haugan Cheng, and N. Sabelli, “Design-based implementation research: An emerging model for transforming the relationship of research and practice,” National Society for the Study of Education, vol. 112, no. 2, pp. 136–156, 2013. https://doi.org/http://www.rowmaneducation.com/journals/ATE/[7] L. A. Gelles, S. M. Lord, G. D. Hoople, D. A. Chen, and J. A. Mejia, “Compassionate flexibility and self-discipline: Student adaptation to emergency remote teaching in an integrated engineering energy course during COVID-19,” Education Sciences, vol. 10, no. 11, p. 304
. Presentations are based onresearch-backed results and cover a variety of recruiting and classroom practices designed toreduce the impact of negative stereotypes and help with successful student outcomes. Pastparticipants report they have implemented practices suggested in the workshops and that doingso has increased their enrollment and the diversity of their classrooms. Page 23.1132.14The Tapestry Workshops program has demonstrated that a large benefit may be gained from therelatively small investment of a three-day workshop. High school computer science teachers areeager to learn how best to attract and retain more and more diverse students. By giving
. Prior to this Dr. Karen was at Oklahoma State University where she was a professor for 24 years and served as the Director of Student Services as well as the Women in Engineering Coordinator. She received her B.S. in chemical engineering from University of Michigan in 1985 and she received her M.S. in 1988 and her Ph.D. in 1991 in chemical engineering both from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Karen’s educational emphasis includes: critical thinking, enhancing mathematics, engineering entrepreneurship in education, communication skills, K-12 engineering education, and promoting women in engineering. Her technical work and research focuses on sustainable chemical process design, computer aided design, mixed integer
engineering postdoctoral appointments influence postdoctoral scholars’ view of the professoriate? 2. How does the view of the professoriate influence postdoctoral scholars’ career decision-making process?Literature ReviewA postdoctoral appointment is evolving into an important stepping stone to entering theengineering professoriate because it affords doctoral graduates with advanced preparation toassume the research, teaching, and service responsibilities of a tenure-track faculty member(Andalib et al., 2018; Main & Wang, 2019). Research has demonstrated that postdoctoralappointments are exceptionally advantageous for URMs and women, as their enhanced trainingleads them to be more competitive in the professoriate job
, benefits, and relationships as time goes on allows for deeper insights into bestpractices and recommendations for future actions and collaborations. Methodology This study employed a single holistic case study design as described per Yin [21] to buildoff the analysis previously completed using data from the first year of VT PEERS. Because theparticipants of this study belong to the same stakeholder group, the process of collaboration asunderstood from their perspectives are more likely to be common, making the use of a singleholistic case study appropriate [21]. According to Baxter and Jack [22], case study research alsoallows for the specific context to be understood—in this case, the specific
methods for engineering education research, diversity in engineering education, and technical communication in engineering.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clem- son University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National
Paper ID #28748A Simple Method Allowing Students to Improve Their 3-D VisualizationSkillsDr. Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College Dan G. Dimitriu has been practicing engineering since 1970 and taught engineering courses concurrently for more than 20 years at various institutions. In 2001, he joined San Antonio College full-time as the Coordinator of its Engineering program. He has been involved with several engineering societies and became a member of the Two-year College Division of ASEE in 2002. His research interests are in engineering graphics, 3-D Visualization, fuel cells, plastics, and engineering education. He
compromisedon innovative research outcomes of their unique ideas by setting up the parameters of physicalequipment in a way that allowed other lab members to collect data as well. Similar tensions were observed in work practices of lab B where asking for help orguidance did not necessarily translate into lab members perceiving their work as interdependentespecially in ways that would elicit certain expectations from each other. A graduate student whowas new in the lab commented on asking other people for help: "Because I am less experiencedin the code... I could go to my advisor or someone that worked with a similar code earlier... If Imentioned my problem, they could say, ‘I did do that earlier and I can help you with that.’" Butwhile discussing
an educationally nurturingenvironment to a group of freshmen and observe how such an enhanced environment helps themface challenges within their university experience. Currently a third of the freshman class isenrolled in this community. This effort has started in 2000 and has graduated the first team in2005. The first year, there were approximately 25 students and thereafter 45 and above. Thispaper is based on research activities described in a dissertation by Richard Freeman entitledIncorporating TQM and CQI techniques into Evaluation Tools for the Electrical and ComputerEngineering Learning Communities.Learning communities are a concept that has existed, and been practiced, for many years. Sincecommunities are normally viewed as groups of
AC 2011-870: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CAPSTONE PROJECT:COLLABORATION BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERINGSTUDENTSAnouk Desjardins, Eng., MASc, Ecole Polytechnique de Montral Since 2008, Anouk Desjardins has been developing and teaching the ING4901 Sustainable Development Capstone Project course. She graduated from the cole Polytechnique de Montral (EPM) with a degree in Civil Engineering, and earned her Masters of Applied Sciences in 1999. She worked on engineering design projects for several years as a project engineer and project leader. In 2008, she joined EPM as a research associate for sustainable development projects, and as Instructor for capstone projects in Civil Engineering and sustainable development, and
Course Compared to Two Previous SemestersWhen this information is compared to the time data survey in Figure 4, this seems to indicate thatthe current semester students learned to study more efficiently. The current semester studentsspent less time preparing for each class and yet they either improved or had no statistical changefor their grade on three of the four exams. This answers the second research question that theirstudying efficiency did improve as a result of their self-assessment.Test grades are the best surrogate of student learning but overall performance in a class does notindicate whether or not individual students learned the material better throughout the semester.Moreover, the above
the NSEI doctorate program to pursue her PhD in nuclear engineering. Her research areas include graphite oxidation, candidate alloy oxidation, carbon transport in HTGRs and thorium nuclear fuel.Mr. Matthew Paul Simones, Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute, University of MissouriJohn C. Kennedy, University of Missouri Currently a Ph.D. candidate and Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri. Specialize in experiments and numeric modeling of Fluid-Structure Interaction for nuclear fuel applications. Earned a M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2012.Hakan UsMr. Philip F Makarewicz, University of MissouriDr. Janese Annetta Neher
behaviorsfocused on questioning techniques [21], instructional frameworks for integration [22], the impactof disciplinary background [23], and professional development [24].A smaller portion of studies measured the impact of the intervention on changing behaviors (9%)or increasing knowledge (15%). This included measuring the performance of the final prototypemeeting design criteria [25] [26]. Others focused on measuring increased spatial thinking [27][28], changes in science and engineering practices [43], and increased understanding of scienceconcepts [29] [26] [30]. Only [31] evaluated engineering concepts.Table 1. Identifying Trends in Research Aims for Middle School Engineering Education Categories
hypotheses and drove my ability to refine my customer discovery approach.” “Conducting customer interviews before reaching out to any potential investors because: interviews establish whom your potential customers are, where the fields are that your product will perform the best, and what your selling points should be for the product.”Below is the remark from a graduate male student on the program impact on selecting his PhDthesis topic. “Deciding on a topic for thesis for a Ph.D. student is a major task. I will use my experience to reshape my objectives of research and choose the topic and courses accordingly.; The interviews helped me in taking decisions on my Ph.D. topic selection. I will choose my
program to others.The SEEK Mentor post program survey was designed for programmatic purposes not necessarilyfor research purposes. Therefore, the design of the SEEK Mentor survey wasn’t developed with aresearch lens in mind. Particularly, there wasn’t a keen focus on leadership development andhow that impact plays a critical part in the effectiveness of individuals hired to work withstudents. This is very similar to professional development that is designed for K-12 teachers.FUTURE WORKOne particular project recommended for future work consists of comparing classroom mentorsfeedback on site leaders and their level of interest in the program to the students’ perceptions ofclassroom mentors and interest outcomes. For SEEK, each student completes
-Saad has a fourteen- year history of bringing about organizational change in higher educa- tion, leveraging evidence-based practices at University of Michigan. She created the U-M BME graduate design program, co-founded the U-M College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship, launched the U-M National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node, and developed the U-M BME Instructional In- cubator. She is a canonical instructor for both the NSF and National Institute of Health (NIH) I-Corps Programs. Dr. Huang- Saad has received numerous awards for her teaching and student advising, includ- ing the 1938E College of Engineering Award, the Thomas M. Sawyer, Jr. Teaching Award, the U-M ASEE Outstanding Professor Award, the
students. Research in Higher Education,57(6):714–738, 2016.[4] Juan E. Gilbert Jerlando F.L. Jackson, LaVar J. Charleston and Cheryl Seals. Changingattitudes about computing science at historically black colleges and universities: Benefits of anintervention program designed for undergraduates. Journal of African American Studies,17(2):162––173, 2011.[5] LaVar Charleston and Rual Leon. Constructing self-efficacy in stem graduate education.Journal for Multicultural Education, 10:152–166, 2016.[6] Patricia Somers and James Cofer. Singing the student loan blues: Multiple voices, multipleapproaches. In Student loan debt: Problems and prospects; proceedings from a nationalsymposium, 1997.[7] Margaret A. Baker and Sandra A Sgoutas-Emch. Evidence-based
Chemical Technology & Management for industry-based students taught by distance learning on a part time basis. The MEng course is a first-degree course extended to provide depth beyond BEng level and requires a higher level of qualifications at entry from school leavers. The MSc courses are post-graduate level and normally require a good first degree for entry. It is the strength of this post-graduate Masters programme in terms of its industrial contacts, development of relevant and new course material bound in industrial practice that has had a significant impact on our undergraduate teaching programme. The existing BEng & MEng course material has always provided underlining teaching and the development of Core