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friction factorwith hand valves and now are using digital signal controlled solenoid valves. Dataacquisition includes pressure drop and flow. The design for this project includedselection of the proper devices for the correct range of variables. Our second examplewas a laboratory cooling tower used to cool hot water with ambient air. Similar conceptswere introduced for this experiment. Our intentions are to automate other seniorlaboratory experiments. Each of these labs lasts 4-6 3 hour sessions (up to two weeks).To help prepare the students for these experiments we may give mini-lectures or havediscussions with the teams.In addition to the below listed experiments the students may spend time on a largedistillation column or a dual stage
Creep Response of Asphalt Mixture and Pavement Rutting Estimates, American Society for Testing and Materials, STP 1147, pp 329-347, Philadelphia, 1992.(8) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews) and S.Jahanian, A Pedagogical Strategy for gradual Enhancement of Creative Performance of the Students, European Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 24, No. 1, 1999.(9) S.Jahanian and Robert Brooks (a/k/a James Matthews), Multidisciplinary Project-A Tool for Learning the Subject, Journal of American Society of Engineering Education, April 1999, pp 153-162. 78910
to other controller because of its discrete low error response characteristics. REFERENCES [1] Liping Guo, “Design Projects in a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Course in Electrical Engineering Technology”, the Technology Interface Journal/Fall 2009, Volume 10 No. 1, ISSN# 1523-9926
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hotdirection could be used to significantly reduce the number of channel with an averaged temperature of 330K and exits themesh and thus solution time, however, the general projection channel with an average temperature of 323.7K. Cold waterfunction in COMSOL does not work with the structured mesh. enters the cold channel with an average temperature of 300K and exits with an average temperature of 310.5K. However, IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS the temperatures at the channel centers only slightly changed
Engineering Education majoring in Engineering Education at Florida International University, where he also serves as a graduate research assistant contributing to various projects supporting post-traditional students and transfer students. His research interests include community college-minority serving institution partnerships, transfer students, post-traditional students, and broadening participation in engineering education. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Tuskegee University, an M.S in journalism from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, an M.S. in physics from Fisk University, an M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Central Florida and an M.Ed. in educational leadership
as a result of learning processes. Measuring these changesis difficult or impractical, so performance is used as a proxy measure. In theory, greaterperformance is indicative of greater learning. In the modern classroom, that almost alwaystranslates practically as various flavors of assessments (homework assignments, projects,quizzes, labs, exams) with point values. A final grade is assigned based on a weighted sum ofpoints. More accumulated points represent a better performance, implying greater learning. Suchis the intention of the grading scheme.When instructors create proper rubrics for assignments that explicitly map learning objectives topoint values, it may be clear how the points earned on the assignment represent materialsuccessfully
in Pattee Library. This event was highly successful, with135 unique attendees: more than half from STEM disciplines.The main goal of the Writing Retreat is to provide space and time for graduate students to workon writing projects, such as theses, dissertations, academic projects, or research outputs. As seenin figure 3, participants could share their writing goals on a whiteboard, adding a degree ofaccountability that some participants reported they appreciated. Secondary goals includeproviding low-stakes social interaction for students while supporting their cognitive load byreducing distractions and providing basic needs like food (and caffeine) while they write. Theevent planners create and distribute study packs for attendees that
engineering professional organization that supports women inengineering and technology fields. As participants of this national organization, the youngwomen can be members of the local group at their college or university. The research team forthe larger research project recruited participants by emailing members of this nationalorganization using their listserv. The engineering women in this study have self-selected toparticipate in this organization and are enrolled across multiple institutions of higher education.For this study, I combined cross-sectional survey data from across two years, such thatengineering women participants completed a survey in either Spring 2019 or Spring 2020. As thefocus of this study is women in engineering, the final
design process, from conceptualization to testing and evaluation.Results from the ISE measurement instrument show significant increases in six of eight ISEfactors exclusively in the research group. Reflective responses support these results and highlightthat active and experiential learning with integrated design elements can be augmented byleveraging technology, leading to a challenging and yet fulfilling and meaningful learningexperience.IntroductionEngineering education is undergoing a critical shift to integrate experiential and design-basedlearning into traditionally analytical curricula [1–3]. Although first-year engineering courses andsenior capstone projects often emphasize creativity and innovation, second- and third-yearcourses
emissions on regional and national scales, supported by funding from NSF through ASPIRE and the Federal Highway Administration through the City of El Paso. 2. Water Treatment, Resource Recovery, and Conservation: She leads pilot-scale projects on water reuse, resource recovery, and brine reduction from desalination, utilizing advanced technologies such as membrane processes and electrodialysis. These efforts are funded by El Paso Water, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the National Alliance for Water Innovation, and NOAA. 3. Engineering Workforce Development: Dr. Santiago champions the success of Hispanic students and Latinas in STEM and academia. She provides opportunities for UTEP students to engage in study-abroad
), unsupervised learning (clustering, anomaly detection), and neural networks.The two lectures in the module were presented at the end of the semester, after the course’s finalexam but the week before students gave presentations on their course-long group projects. Thisscheduling had two advantages: (1) the module could draw on the entirety of the course’stechnical material, and (2) students could focus on the module instead of worrying about studyingfor their final exam. The module was led by the first author of this paper, who was the course’sgraduate teaching assistant and whose research focuses on AI ethics and policy education.ParticipantsAlthough three-fourths of the students enrolled in ML 1 were graduate students in computerscience, the course
% Statics (Control) 9 7 78%Continued persistence in engineering pathways will be evaluated with student enrollment inupper-level courses. The research team will consider final grades in mechatronics, systems andcontrols, and signal and systems, once the student cohorts reach those courses.Conclusion and Future WorkSo far, the difference in academic performance and initial persistence in engineering pathwayshave not been statistically significant between the PLTL and the control sections. However,there is some evidence for a positive change at the start of the research project. Not shown inthis work in progress is the qualitative data captured by pre- and post-surveys, interviews, as
learningmodels, identifying bias in datasets, and building a machine learning model.Shark AI is implemented as a three-year project, and is currently in year three of implementation.To date, we have partnered with 57 teachers and 597 students in 47 schools. Thiswork-in-progress paper is part of an ongoing investigation to explore how teachers adapt thiscurriculum to their own classroom, and describe successes and lessons learned, which can beapplied to others wishing to design and develop similar curricula. In this paper, we focus on theShark AI implementation of one 7th grade science teacher and describe the implementationchoices and changes she made for her own classroom and students’ needs, including hermodifications of the curriculum, researcher
diversity, equity, and inclusion in the STEM fields through innovative, evidence-based strategies and is driven by a commitment to enhancing equity in all learning and working spaces. Lara has a diverse professional background that spans non-profit, legal, and educational sectors. She served as the Director of Development & Training at The Arc New London County, where she led grant writing efforts, cultivated community partnerships, and provided technology training. Her earlier roles include working as a Paralegal Advocate at the Connecticut Legal Rights Project, offering legal services to individuals with mental illness, and as Program Director at Literacy Volunteers of Greater New Haven, where she managed
about time and space allocated for faculty members contributing from different disciplines. • That time and space can be used creatively over time to conceptualize a new framework for delivering content that’s not traditionally incorporated into STEM programs. • Shared group vision and leadership is required to make the most of those spaces. Having a common conceptual framework for problem solving – like design thinking – can help with those connections. • The motivation of key personnel will carry the project for the first few years, but what’s created must translate to new team members, administrators, and faculty who come on board. New champions for the effort should be a constant point of
participatoryaction research (PAR) approach, twelve (12) engineering instructional faculty members wererecruited purposively and strategically from these institutions. In January 2024, the InternationalMentoring Association (IMA) at University of Florida organized an online IMA Mentor trainingtitled “RITA Mentor Training - Building Futures” for these participants upon request of theprincipal investigators of this NSF project. The workshop was divided into four modules: theory,skills and strengths, responsive mentoring, and assessment. This paper focused on the secondmodule which focused on the skills and strengths that drive effective mentoring. A special focuswas put on an important mentor skill module titled ‘designing powerful questions’ in which
Paper ID #47068BOARD # 322: An NSF FMRG Supported Exploratory Study of PromptingLarge Language Models for a Conversational Manufacturing Education PlatformFatemeh Karimi Kenari, University of North Carolina at Charlotteyasaswi bhumireddy, University of North Carolina at CharlotteXiaoliang Yan, Georgia Institute of TechnologyDr. Mahmoud Dinar, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Mahmoud Dinar is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. His main research interest involves integrating AI in multimodal computational frameworks to understand and aid design for manufacturing. His ongoing projects are creating a
the locus of BPC efforts influence the norms ofthe department relative to DEAI?MethodsStudy SitesThis project is funded through the NSF EDU Core Research program. Study sites were threecomputing departments in three different states. Site selection was based on (1) highundergraduate degree-production, (2) involvement in NSF BPC initiatives, (3) experiencingsuccess in some BPC areas and lagging in others. To identify sites, we drew data from theNational Center for Educational Statistics Integrated Postsecondary Educational Data Systems(IPEDS) database, including undergraduate degree completion trends for computer andinformation sciences (CIP 11) departments in public, doctoral-granting institutions in the last sixyears. We sought departments
electromechanical actuation; weaving techniques like tapestry, plainweave, twill,and krokbragd weaving; color theory, loom history, culturally relevant cloth; and linear algebra, 1 Available online at https://sites.google.com/view/roboloom 2 We used an Ahsford 8 shaft loom found here: https://woolery.com/ashford-katie-table-loom.html Figure 1: Assembled RoboLooms used in the Spring 2024 course.including matrices and matrix operations. For the final project, students designed and wove aninteractive cloth, using math to analyze its properties and justify their engineering choices.RoboLoom, Figure 1, is a robotic Jacquard loom designed to foster interdisciplinary collabora-tion as students build, program, and weave on it [7]. Provided
achievements [3]. Therefore, we focused our interview questions onlearning experiences and outcome expectations.MethodsThe participant pool for our study was comprised of students in University of Michigan’s newmedical product development Master’s program. The program instructors have experienceteaching traditional BME and product development courses and also have experience working inindustry. They introduced Quality Engineering principles to the students through their ownlectures as well as through guest lectures by invited industry professionals. The students applythe principles they learn in class to a team project that spans the length of the program.After our study was deemed exempt from further review by the University of Michigan IRB
Scholars. Despite disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, virtualadaptations kept students engaged during the first 18 months of the project. Faculty-generatedprogress reports, coordinated through EAB Navigate, were essential in identifying andsupporting at-risk students. This hybrid approach, combining human oversight with centralizedtracking, enabled a structured and effective response to student needs, playing a key role in theprogram's overall success.Managing Educational Risk toward Student SuccessResearch InsightsThe education research team continues to conduct and analyze qualitative studies on theexperiences and support of ECS Scholars students. We utilized two core concepts, educationalrisk and student success, to explore how
engagement.Create your 3D Eye: A Lesson Module for Grades 6-8 from ImageSTEAM Teacher's Workshop,was aimed to ease the complexity of the study of an eye by creating a 3D eye using TinkerCAD.Students liked the challenge and the 7th graders enjoyed their learning as it was very engaging.ConclusionThe intellectual merit of the project included the design and use of computational cameratechnology modules in middle school science and math curriculum. This objective was met andexceeded the scope by expanding into the social sciences. Additionally, it showed students wereboth motivated and engaged in their learning activities. Thirteen lesson modules were created andare accessible at the imagesteam.org website. The lesson modules are tied to national and
Paper ID #47281BOARD # 399: NSF BPE: Mentee and Mentor Satisfaction of the IMPACTSInclusive Mentoring HubDr. Sylvia L. Mendez, University of Kentucky Dr. Sylvia Mendez is a Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership Studies at the University of Kentucky. She earned a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Kansas, a MS in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Colorado State University, and a BA in Economics from Washington State University. Dr. Mendez is engaged in several National Science Foundation-sponsored collaborative research projects focused on broadening participation
forces in the train example andthe transmission of vibrations in the tuning fork example. This progression demonstrates a clearshift from basic causal reasoning to a more nuanced understanding of underlying mechanisms,reflected in increasingly detailed and explicit visual representations. Carlie’s journey highlightsthe development of their ability to identify components and illustrate their interactions andspatial relationships, ultimately leading to more complete and scientifically robust explanations. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTThis material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IUSE-2430541. This three-year project, spanning from 2022 to 2025, involves researching and
worth investing time into amidst their stressful schedules. Particularly in thefield of engineering, graduated students find work everywhere from the oil and gas industry inHouston and Qatar to civil engineering projects in Flint, Michigan and the Dominican Republic.We believe that framing teaching about the variety of people they will work with intoprofessional-skill career preparation [13] will engage students further. Through this mechanism,we will still engage trained peer leaders to have mentorship groups for discussion, reflection, andsupport, but teaching all students communication and conflict resolution skills will hopefullyreach a broader student population.AcknowledgmentsWe would like to thank the National Science Foundation for the
are more in like administrative roles, ratherthan technical ones.” Within the engineering department, she noted the presence of some womenengineers but a significantly higher number of women project managers, commenting that “theratio [in the engineering department] wasn’t super ideal.” Her observations suggested thatwomen in her company might be less likely to hold roles that required engineering skills, bothwithin and outside the engineering department.When comparing gender representation in their school and workplace experiences, participants’perspectives on which setting had better representation varied and appeared to be influenced bytheir specific engineering fields. For example, A003 described the 1:1 gender ratio in herinternship
serves as Director of the Master of Engineering program in Computer Science and Engineering. She regularly mentors undergraduate and graduate research projects that have received institutional recognition and funding.William J. Rothwell, Penn State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Paper ID #48259William J. Rothwell, PhD, DBA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, RODC, FLMI, CPTD Fellow is a DistinguishedProfessor at Penn State, and is a leading expert in workforce development. With 300+ publications,including 170 books, and a legacy of top-ranked programs, he has profoundly shaped the future ofvocational education
axis and 180° aboutanother axis [1]. This test is widely used in engineering graphics to assess visualization ability.The topics covered in EGT 120 include multiview projection, auxiliary and section views,isometric views, assembly drawings, detail drawings, and dimensioning standards. Work is doneboth with hand sketching and CAD using Creo. EGT 121 implements both sketching and CADwork and covers the topics of ANSI standards, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing,sectioned assemblies, working drawings, fasteners, weld and finish symbols, advanced layouts,and bill of materials.The extremely significant relationship between PSVTR scores and grades in the engineeringgraphics courses was expected based on the amount of 3D visualization required