. Depew served as Dean of the College of Applied Sciences at Western Carolina University from 1999- 2002. During his days in the classroom, Dr. Depew won or was nominated for numerous teaching awards, including the James G. Dwyer Award presented to the Outstanding Teacher in the College of Technology. He has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator for over $2 million dollars in external grants to support academic programs and applied research projects in his department and college and serves as a reviewer for programs funded by the National Science Foundation. He is the author of more than 60 technical publications and papers and has served as a technical consultant for Fortune 500 companies on
Corp. Jeanne Peters is the vice president of Advanced Science and Automation Corp. Peters received a B.A. in Math/Computer Science from the College of William and Mary. She worked at NASA Langley Re- search Center in Hampton, Va. for over 20 years as a senior programmer/analyst for George Washington University, University of Virginia, and Old Dominion University. She co-authored over 70 journal and conference papers in the areas of: computational mechanics, finite element method, shells/plates, compos- ite material panels, and tires. She has also worked on numerous projects to create advanced engineering design and learning environments for space systems which include multimodal user interfaces. Peters directs
) for one class (n=9) and Page 23.1369.5between 2.6 and 3.9 for another class (n=13). Problem areas are shown to vary depending on thegroup, but for both classes as a whole, the lowest mean score occurred for the basic literacy issueindicating the writing’s “closing synthesizes the elements, supports the main idea and finalizesthe paper”.Additional conference papers include Rhoulac and Crenshaw’s 2006 study[15] of 15 technicalreports written by seniors in civil engineering at Howard University, as well as Poltavtchenkoand Tingerthal’s 2011 study[16] of 9 group project reports written by construction managementstudents at a public middle-sized
many engineering andcomputer science. Video creation posed more work and time for both students and instructors;however, there are educational benefits of requiring students to review and explain their work: itprovides authentic engineering communication practice and seeds a habit of metacognition.Introduction and Related WorkEducators design pedagogical methods, activities to support student learning, and assessments ofstudent learning, while often considering the theoretical framing of how students learn. Whileengineering and computer science learning experiences include hands-on, practical experienceswith active learning exercises, laboratory work, experiments, projects, and internships, examsremain a primary tool for assessing students
first, and in the second, became confused aboutthe solution to an example problem. Reflecting on these two episodes and their implications formy instructional practice led to the following research questions: 1. In what ways does confusion manifest in an interactive classroom environment? 2. How can an instructor engage in reflective practice to make sense of and shift their framing of their confusion and mistakes?MethodsParticipants, Positionality, and ContextThis work is part of an ongoing ethnographic research project in which I serve as an instructor inthe chemical engineering department at a private, research-focused university while studying thefactors impacting instruction in the department from within. For this paper, I focus
studentsentered class. After five to ten minutes, solutions were projected using the lecture slides whilestudents switched writing tools and self-graded their quizzes. Several example retrieval practicequizzes are included in the appendix. Usually, quizzes were completed individually, butsometimes they were completed with a partner to encourage community or shared learning. Thelevel of difficulty varied depending on the goal and timing within the semester. Sometimes thesepractices were easier, reviewing past information and sometimes they were harder to preparestudents for an upcoming test. Retrieval practice quizzes included questions on assigned reading,previous lecture content, and homework. This encouraged students to keep pace with readingsections
Paper ID #41396Mixed Reality as a Teaching Tool for Improving Spatial Visualization in EngineeringStudentsMs. Israa Azzam, Purdue University, West Lafayette Israa is a Ph.D. student at Purdue University, specializing in digital technologies and control systems. She received her B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Beirut Arab University (BAU) in 2019 and her M.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 2021, specializing in Robust Control. Israa is a Research Assistant on the National Science Foundation-funded Project ”Research Initiation: Developing Spatial
practice it may be easier tobuild consensus around them. As the world’s largest development lending institution, the World Bank grappleswith these challenges daily. The CCG Chief Economist’s team seeks to illuminate the issue by:- In the long run, seeking to mainstream new approaches for robust decision making (RDM) into the design and implementation of WB projects, as well as into the analytical methods and policy processes of clients.- In the short-run, educating various audiences about deep uncertainty, how managing uncertainty differs from managing risk, and what tools are available to support RDM.In the past, researchers and practitioners have relied largely on lectures and publications to communicate todecision makers both the
comfortable standing up for themselves in the face of harassment. For example, Elioshared: I have a great relationship with my boss. She was not my professor [i.e., Elio had never taken a course with her], but she was the lead professor for the course. And she is always like, “You can come to me for anything,” and things like that. And she is a professor and she’s great about that for every student, not just me. I can hold my coworkers [fellow TAs] accountable a little bit more if anything they’re saying is like, “Whoa, [that’s inappropriate]” [unlike] if I were in a team of engineers in a group project with 200 other students in the mechanical [engineering] space and a professor that I barely know.Elio credited their professor with
]. Developed within theapplied disciplines of organizational theory and project management, engaged scholarshiprequires researchers to cooperatively interact with practitioner-stakeholders to identify,understand, and improve upon “complex social problems that often exceed our limitedcapabilities [as researchers] to study on our own” [18, p. 37]. Organizational engaged scholarshiphas been likened to design-based research in education, wherein education researchers team upwith a variety of education practitioner-stakeholders to iteratively advance the theory and designof an intervention to a complex educational problem, and is considered useful for researchersseeking to advance both scientific and practical knowledge together [17]; [20].Participants
present in the water supplies used to build the structure. And, once they are no longer needed, these structures can naturally biodegrade… [20, p. 477]The class session thus opens with a brief lecture (about five to ten minutes) taking off from thispotential application. There are ethical issues particular to humanitarian engineering which havebeen widely discussed in the professional ethics literature, including value conflicts betweencultures, long-term maintenance of development projects, differences in professional structuresand obligations between countries, political corruption, technology transfer, and so on [21], [22,pp. 169–87]. The lecture summarizes some of these issues to prime students’ thinking.The session then turns
. Her expertise extends to facilitating workshops and training sessions, catering to the needs of both staff and students within Purdue University.Sakhi Aggrawal, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI) Sakhi Aggrawal is a Graduate Research Fellow in Computer and Information Technology department at Purdue University. She completed her master’s degree in Business Analytics from Imperial College London and bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Technology and Organizational Leadership from Purdue University. She worked in industry for several years with her latest jobs being as project manager at Google and Microsoft. Her current research focuses on integrating project management processes in undergraduate
was focused on an interorganizational what we even mean by rural, what some issues are, and why we should carepartnership between middle schools and industry in Southwest, Appalachian about it, followed by findings that are really framing the purpose of ourVirginia. The goals of this project were around providing middle school students presentation today.with hands-on experiences with engineering in a way that was locally relevant –meaning the activities they engaged in had some important context that studentscould see in their daily lives and the connections with industry partners whowere in the classrooms with students demonstrated these connections further.These efforts have continued as a part of Jake’s
, professional Page 13.917.15ethics would no longer describe the avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of the noble,excellent and good. We should explore beauty as an ethical duty, and virtue as the pursuitof beauty in our products and the effect they have on people. Hence, we might then notonly proscribe the unsafe and environmentally reckless, but also disdain the tawdry, dirty,ugly, or maliciously destructive. If Christians going into our fields were imbued with thissense of an engineer’s calling, it might shape their career choices and projects to whichthey devote their lives. If Christian scholars sought to further develop this understandingof
they had withtheir primary advisor, many students did not know about existing resources on campus. Inaddition, no data had been collected about faculty perspectives on mentoring their graduatestudents. As a result, the fellows identified three projects to tackle during the 2022 calendar year:creating an engineering-specific individual development plan, surveying faculty members aboutmentorship, and educating students about healthy and toxic mentorship.Literature ReviewThe most influential factor on a graduate student’s doctoral experience is their primary researchadvisor [1] – [4], yet most institutions lack formal guidelines for the structure of this relationship.Identifying a mentor should be a major priority for graduate students early in
teachingpractice, all participants – including me – talked about the topics they teach and/or theirpedagogical approach. Valerie, Nancy and I refer to guided inquiry as our pedagogical approach,while Elizabeth describes her pedagogical approach as constructivist and project based. We donot name topics or activities, which presupposes that any topic we teach is presented throughguided inquiry or within the context of a project. Renee, Ellen and Jill describe specific kits orkit publishers, topics, and strategies such as science notebooking. The kit-based curriculumpublishers these teachers mention make their pedagogical approach explicit in the teacher guidethat accompanies the kit, so these teachers might conflate the kit publisher or topic with
factsimply dynamic scattering, but in a cholesteric, the scattering state reverts only very slowly tothe clear original structure. The optic axis is arranged perpendicular to the cell plates and so thefilm starts off clear. Application of’ a low frequency voltage leads to disruption of the film into ascattering condition which can persist for months after the current is stopped. Application of analternating voltage above the Frederiks threshold and beyond the cut-off frequency causes aFrederiks effect which regains the original clear structure. The device thus has one stable andone metastable off state and thus exhibits memory.VI. References1. T. Kountotsis, "Liquid Crystal Display Design", Western New England College Summer Design Project, June
he earned his master’s degree in civil engineer- ing. He also worked as a project Analyst with AgileP3 after graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) in civil engineering from Covenant University, Nigeria. Adebayo has taught courses in Trans- portation and Chemistry at Morgan State University as part of his commitment to the STEM profession. He has attended conferences across the Transportation engineering field.Dr. Steve Efe, Morgan State University Dr. Steve Efe is an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director of the Center for Advanced Transporta- tion and Infrastructure Engineering Research. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering in Civil Engineering with a major in Structural Engineering and minDr
methodologies, community engagement projects, evaluation tools and tech- nology, and gender studies in STEM education. https://orcid.org/0000- 0002-0383-0179Prof. Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andr´es Bello, Santiago, Chile Mar´ıa Elena Truyol, Ph.D., is full professor and researcher of the Universidad Andr´es Bello (UNAB). She graduated as physics teacher (for middle and high school), physics (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. in Physics at Universidad Nacional de C´ordoba, Argentina. In 2013 she obtained a three-year postdoctoral position at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her focus is set on educational research, physics education, problem-solving, design of instructional material, teacher training and gender studies. She teaches
students feel successful, thus reinforcingSTEM identity. The perspectives of all three groups help to describe essential components of aresearch internship that can be employed in the development of high school STEM programs andways in which these programs can support URM students.Background and SignificanceCurrently, there are over one million STEM job openings without qualified applicants in theUnited States, and the field of Biomedical Engineering (BME) is projected to grow 10% from2021 to 2031 [7]. To meet growing BME workforce needs, it is essential to support initialstudent interests in STEM to aid students’ decision making. One strategy that has seensignificant success in encouraging students to pursue STEM and engineering fields has been
outcomes of the instructional design phase are clear learning objectives, clear ways toassess students' learning, and possible pedagogical approaches. Regarding the latter, we mustemphasize that virtual labs can be adopted with any pedagogical approach, includingdemonstrations, simulations, project- and problem-based learning, and inquiry-based learning.When you know in advance which approach you will use, a more tailored virtual lab can bedeveloped.2.2 Virtual Lab Design DocumentLike a game design document [31], a virtual lab design document is a comprehensive plan fordeveloping a virtual lab. It outlines the virtual lab's objectives, goals, and learning outcomes,as well as the instructional strategies and pedagogical approaches to be used. The
foundational assumption within the use of contentanalysis is that by establishing a set of common codes, organized into themes, large amounts ofqualitative textual data can be considered within fewer content categories [12] as a route to identifythemes or patterns in the text driven. Content analysis has variations based on research traditionwith some common steps: defining the categories, coding process and the coder training,implementation of coding, and analyzing the coded material [13]. Within coding, inductive anddeductive analyses may be useful depending on the existing prior knowledge on the research topic[14].Strengths & Weaknesses: Content analysis provides systematic analysis of text data whileallowing for an organic project-specific
curriculum and students’ campus life experience. The results of interviewsare summarized by the Chair and presented to the entire faculty at the departmental meetings.UTSA Graduating Student Survey: UTSA’s Office of Institutional Effectiveness conductssurveys of all graduating students both at undergraduate and graduate levels on a regular basis.The results are summarized for each degree program, each college, and the entire university.Student performance measuresThe primary performance measures used to assess whether students are achieving the ProgramOutcomes include graded homework, quizzes, exams, laboratory reports, project reports, and oralpresentations. The results of the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam also provide
increase the retention and graduation rates(shown in Table 1).The RGV service area of UTRGV encompasses the four counties on Texas’ southernmost borderwith Mexico including Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, and Willacy counties. Approximately 93% ofUTRGV students are residents in one of the four counties (~61% from Hidalgo County, ~28%from Cameron County, ~3% from Starr County, and ~1% from Willacy County).The need for the proposed project is based on three key characteristics of the region (Table 2): • Rapidly Growing Population: In terms of population, Table 2 shows that Hidalgo County (the largest county in the RGV) is growing at a faster rate than the USA. • Very Young Population: The U.S. Census Bureau also reports that the
] reported that student focus groups provided access to in depth understanding ofengineering students’ attitudes around and resistance to nontraditional teaching methods thatwere otherwise less directly measured through surveys. To this end, future efforts of this ongoingresearch project include collection of in-depth qualitative data from a subset of participantsthrough observation and/or interviews that will seek to gain descriptive, experiential insight intoindividual and interpersonal processes toward implementing EBIPs into engineering courses.Additionally, the project will generate longitudinal data through working with facultyparticipants over the course of a class term in order to gain understanding of fluctuating demandsand needs that may
student’s own design process and solutions. 3. Merely manipulating or altering others’ images through digital or other processes does not in itself constitute legitimate appropriation, and may qualify as copyright violation. 4. Attribution of uses of others’ creative work is essential, and can be handled in a number of ways: – In presentations summarizing research or precedent analysis, any representation of source projects should be accompanied by identifying information (building, location, designers, date). Students should also be aware that rights to photographic imagery are also often held by photographers independently of the source project’s designers. – In cases in which
engineering standards, students' prior knowledge, and real-world applicationsFigure 7. Applying the product development process to develop a laboratory course that connects engineering standards, students' prior knowledge, and real-world applications.The two laboratory modules discussed in this paper were part of our department's laboratoryrenovation project. Our team was tasked with designing, developing, and teaching the newlaboratory course to replace the preexisting laboratory course in the previous curriculum. Thecomprehensive details of the project and the complete course design can be found in our earlierpublication [2]. For creating the two laboratory modules presented in this paper, we followed atraditional product development
, Geographical Information System and other civil engineering discipline. He has handled several national and international projects in the area of engineering, technology and Engineering Education. He has offered MOOC programme on SWAYAM Portal in the area of Student Assessment and Evaluation, Technology Enabled Teaching Learning, Sustainable Construction Materials and Techniques, Civil Infrastructure for Smart City Development etc.Dr. Janardhanan Gangathulasi, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chennai,India Janardhanan Gangathulasi holds both Bachelor in Engineering (Civil Engineering), Masters degree in Geotechnical Engineering from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, India and
motivation and their learning experiences. Her projects include studies of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their development of problem-solving skills, self- regulated learning practices, and epistemic beliefs. Other projects in the Benson group involve students’ navigational capital, and researchers’ schema development through the peer review process. Dr. Benson is an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Fellow, and a member of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Tau Beta Pi. She earned a B.S. in Bioengineering (1978) from the University of Vermont, and M.S. (1986) and Ph.D. (2002
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