concerns about the college experience in general andour department in particular. In addition, we have assisted another honor society oncampus by educating freshmen on the vast career opportunities of technology majors.In the future, we plan to take a leadership role in developing and sustaining a family-oriented atmosphere among the department faculty and students. The faculty in ourdepartment has strongly supported our new student recognition program. In this, we havestarted recognizing scholars who may not have the high GPA’s, but have a greatcommitment in the academic arena and have performed services to our department. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech
solutions Student teams work on projects Sweeping Operations 10 Lab Safety Challenge 1: (remotely or in session) How to plan a 3D print 1030 Lab Tour Create school logo Multipiece/tolerance Concept Challenge 2: practice project 11 Intro
. 2In 2015 the President of Florida Atlantic University (FAU) identified diversity as one ofthe University’s platforms in the “Strategic Plan for the Race to Excellence” for FloridaAtlantic University. The University Diversity Council was thereafter established toidentify, promote, and build institutional cross-cultural competencies.In 2016, FAU received federal designation as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) as itsenrollment of full-time Hispanic undergraduate students reached 25%. At the sametime, FAU and the College of Engineering and Computer Science were awarded a TitleIII STEM Articulation grant from the US Department of Education. This grant whichserves as a STEM pipeline is in collaboration with two local state colleges
leadership position provides uniquepersonal and professional job experience for engineering students interested in advancing theircareer opportunities during their undergraduate program and increasing their employmentmarketability upon graduation.TEL also provides networking opportunities for the lab assistants while developing theirteam-building, collaboration, and project management skills. Lab assistants have the opportunityto step into leadership roles when taking on personal projects within the workplace. Assistantscreate plans and procedures in order to complete a multitude of projects, such as introducing abarcode system to the resource room inventory. These personal projects also improve labassistants’ creativity, planning, and time
. Faculty will reflect on the importance of using empathy and their interaction with students in teaching. 2. Faculty will apply the concept of empathy with equity-focused teaching strategies in their classroom settings. 3. Faculty will create an action plan to enact empathy in their teaching approaches towards their students. 2. Purpose of the workshop: Empathy in Equity-focused TeachingAs empathy is a component of the strategic vision of the College of Engineering at the University ofMichigan, this “Teaching with Empathy” workshop can potentially attract many faculty interested inincorporating more equity-focused teaching in their classrooms. Empathy, a learnable and teachable skill[10], can be a great starting point for the faculty’s equity
an NSF S-STEM-funded sophomore bridge program for engineering majors,known as the Engineering Fast-Forward Program. This paper also discusses the impact thespatial visualization curriculum has had on the students in the Fast-Forward program. TheFast-Forward program, which has been offered every summer from 2017 to 2021, is designed forstudents who have unmet financial needs which are determined by the financial aid office oncampus. This program seeks to retain students in engineering programs as well as increase thenumber of people in the engineering workforce. Participants in the Engineering Fast-ForwardProgram take Statics and Mechanics of Materials, Calculus III, and Professional Planning withSpatial Visualization in the summer before
flupandemic led to school closures driven by a need to both curtail the spread of the virus but moreso by the limitations posed by teacher absenteeism. The remote classroom tools available in the21st century was not present then, so the actions were significantly different. The most recenttime that educational institutions had to act to address a significant pandemic was the swineflu/H1n. In Ruben A. Proano (2016) [2], RIT put together a task force that worked to address (1)campus hygiene, (2) medicine and vaccine procurement, (3) confinement of infected students (4)public relations, (5) capacity planning of the medical center, (6) class disruption, (7) food andwastage logistics during the pandemic, and (8) class suspension. While these were
programs all found great benefits for participants including greater practicalcareer skills and specific recommendations for community changes [4] and increased skills andpromotions [5]. Ultimately to make these programs successful, Darwin and Palmer recommendaddressing four core principles: commitment from all participants to attend, confidentialityoutside of circle meetings, rapport between participants, and voluntary participation [6]. EACCfollowed these principles in developing the mentoring circles program.Program ImplementationProgram Leadership and Planning - The mentoring circles planning committee (MPC) is a sub-committee of EACC’s leadership team. This group consists of two club members (generallygraduate students) and the faculty/staff
-ETS1-4. Develop a model to generatehow different factors affect the plants in data for iterative testing and modifications oftheir terraria. This is an interdisciplinary a proposed tool.project that incorporates environmentaland engineering concepts. Engineeringconcepts include the use of laser-cutters to Suppliescreate the acrylic terrariums (CAD files • Terrariums (CAD plans or use 2L bottles)available but students can also use 2-liter • Soil, sand, pebbles, fertilizerbottles
still allowing for specialization within the track. For this M.Eng. program the electives could have been reduced from two to one course and consequently the core can be increased to 12 credit hours, to include all four core courses offered, which would have helped with the enrollment in the respective courses. • A more detailed plan for incorporating assessment of aggregate student performance and closing the loop in the program development process and ongoing improvement of the program should have been developed and communicated to the university leadership. • This proposed graduate program is an example of outcomes based curricular design developed to fit very local needs, goals, and constraints
appropriate concepts to project planning, idea generation, prototyping, modeling and conveying information both in written and oral formats 7. Use effective team processes, communication, and conflict resolution skills 8. Design a product that meets a set of constraints ME Capstone II By the end of this course students will: 1. Apply the steps in product realization process to a specific project 2. Function in a team environment to make a project plan and complete the project 3. Write an engineering project report 4. Use effective team processes, communication, and conflict resolution skills 5. Design a product that meets a set of constraintsFigure 3: ME Capstone Learning Outcomes in accordance with ABET
. Weeklydeadlines alternate between project checkpoints and reflections to provide individuals and groupstime to understand the feedback received, connect with their team members, discuss with theirpeer mentor, and develop questions and a plan for the next checkpoint.Groups are made up of four to six students. Since MATLAB App involves various components,each group member has ownership of a specific component on the interface with the group goalof making sure they integrate. MATLAB is taught as part of this second semester, first-yearcourses, the program language, and interface are a natural extension of the knowledge they areusing regularly in class. As part of the final reflection, use the Likert scale to rate their learningin various objectives
course activities. The faculty and students from both institutionsheld meetings in tandem (in person) and at the end of the planning process, everyone cametogether to discuss the preferences and needs by all students and faculty.The two main objectives throughout this process were to establish a working collaboration withparticipating faculty and to successfully teach a global exposure course to provide students theopportunity to engage in multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary communication and collaborationwhile becoming aware of global and cross-cultural approaches to water crises and sanitation.Access to clean water and sanitation practices varies widely across the globe and the students aretypically trained to develop solutions utilizing the
Paper ID #40604GIFTS: Situational Learning of MATLAB Using Data Collection and Analy-sisModules Based on Upper-Level Engineering Lab ExperimentsProf. Brian Patrick O’Connell, Northeastern University Dr. O’Connell is an associate teaching professor in the First-Year Engineering program at Northeastern University. He studied at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2006 then worked in industry as a Mechanical Engineer working on ruggedized submarine optronic systems. He returned to academia in 2011 at Tufts University planning to work towards more advanced R&D but fell for engineering education and educational
isguided by real-world concerns. We suspect this may be due to a lack of agreement on bestpractices, or due to misalignment between university curricula and actual (i.e., in practice) jobrequirements. This work-in-progress paper briefly contextualizes the alignment problem, andargues for a framework that treats the project components of courses as first-class citizens. Wepresent five example categories, with three item-prompts each, from the framework, which couldpotentially be instantiated for independent project-based engineering courses. We also present theoutlines of an experimental plan for evaluating the framework.IntroductionThere has been a growing recognition in engineering pedagogy of the importance of class-basedprojects for the
Paper ID #38029Board 316: Improving Two-Year Students’ Spatiotemporal Computing Skillsthrough START InternshipDr. Jia Lu, Valdosta State University Dr. Jia Lu is a Professor of Geography and Urban Planning at Valdosta State University. She teaches courses in Urban Community Planning, Environmental Science, and GIS Applications in Planning. Her research interests include population and employment analyses, urban modeling, spatial analyses, and GIS applications in planning and transportation. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Improving 2-year students’ spatiotemporal computing
?● How might we increase the use of evidence-based and inclusive teaching practices?● Do campuses have different systems for annual reviews and tenure/promotion reviews?● How is student feedback incorporated into teaching evaluations?Future WorkOur Dean plans to integrate aspects of the new teaching evaluation process into annual faculty activityreports, which are used to document performance and determine faculty merit raises. These reportsinclude self-reported and database collected information such as: publications, grants, course enrollment,course evaluation summaries, advisee count, committee participation, etc. New sections will be includedfor teaching self-reflections, teaching improvement plans and progress, and other teaching
that the most appropriate would be an ADVANCE Adaptation Grant focused onchanging the culture on campus to retain female faculty, adapting strategies that had beensuccessful at other institutions. These included the Advocates and Allies Program (A&A)developed as part of the North Dakota State University (NDSU) ADVANCE InstitutionalTransformation grant2, cross-disciplinary mentoring including Mutual Mentoring3 and facilitatedpeer mentoring circles4, and policy review. The proposal was originally planned for submissionin January 2020; a decision was made to hold off until January 2021.Shortly thereafter, COVID-19 hit.Part 2: Faculty Development (FD)Elsewhere on campus in 2018, FD was housed in the admissions office with a FD coordinatorand
sections of the class were divided into 13 teams of 3 or 4members each. The particular problem posed for this term was a degree plan management anddemand forecasting system, inspired in part by a component of E-COACH, a system co-developed at Texas Tech University by one of the authors of this paper5. There were sevenfaculty members who acted as client-stakeholders; none of them being either of the two actualinstructors of the requirements course. Six of the seven faculty members were clients for 2 Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationteams, with the other one
, & Saldana, 2014) we identified three categories ofanticipated (planned) role expectations and actual roles. Role expectation was defined as “theteacher’s preferred program responsibility” and included three categories: classroom manager,helper, and learner. The categories were based on verbatim wording in the transcripts. Classroommanager referred to teachers having and using their pedagogical content knowledge regardingtheir classrooms. Helpers indicated a desire to help in whatever ways needed and included acombination of jobs such as classroom manager or to review lesson plans for pedagogicalcontent knowledge (e.g., timing and appropriateness of content for sixth grade). Finally, learnershad a specific intent to learn more about
also a broad experience in the glass industry, specifically in fabrication of automotive safety glass. He worked for Vitro Glass Company for more than 19 years where he held different positions such as Process Engineer, Materials Planning and Logistics Manager, Production Superintendent, Manufacturing Engineer and Glass Technologist. During his time in the company, he co-authored two patents related to glass fabrication and glass coatings pro- cessing. Dr. Gonzalez is a Six-Sigma Black Belt and has participated in numerous process improvement projects. He has been trained as well in the Methodology of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) that he applied to solve complex problems. In the manufacturing operations field
began working with Dr. Brobst on research related to this projectin 2019.This summary gives a short overview of the program and reports on student demographics, butfocuses primarily on the research, including both the design and findings so far. This summarycloses with a brief discussion of plans for the future. Further details will be provided in the fullposter presentation.OverviewThe CS/M Scholars Program supports WWU students majoring in math or computer sciencewith scholarships averaging about $4500 per year, renewable for up to four years, and variouscurricular and co-curricular activities. Students are recruited from WWU’s applicant pool whilethey are still in high school. Typically, ten to fifteen new CS/M Scholars are recruited for
Virginia University Dr. Pyrialakou is an Assistant Professor at the Wadsworth Department of Civil and Environmental En- gineering at West Virginia University. She received her Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 2011 and in 2016 she earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Pyrialakou’s expertise and interests involve the use of statistical, econometric, spa- tial, and economic analysis tools in the broader research area of transportation planning and evaluation of transportation systems. She started working in the area of engineering education at Purdue University when she taught Introduction to Transportation Engineering in spring 2016. She
Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Alrajhi also serves as a teaching assistant in the College of Architecture and Planning at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. In 2015, he received a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture (BArch) from Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. Pursuing his long-term goals, Alrajhi obtained a full scholarship to continue graduate studies in the United States. He earned a Master’s degree in Architecture (MArch) from Arizona State University in 2020. Generally, Alrajhi’s ar- eas of interest are architectural education, learning environments, design thinking, and curriculum design.Dr. Brian Carl Nelson, Arizona State University Brian C. Nelson is a professor of educational technology with
-to-face mentoring activities during the COVID-19outbreak were mainly replaced by video conferencing and emailing. Our structural equationmodeling (SEM) results indicated that e-mentoring inputs (i.e., e-mentoring attitude andindividual development plan) and processes (i.e., e-mentoring frequency, perceived instrumentalsupport, and perceived psychosocial support) are positively associated with mentoringsatisfaction, which in turn positively predicts student academic, career, and mental healthoutcomes. The findings also revealed that mentoring experience, academic progress, career self-belief, and mental health of underrepresented groups—females, lower socioeconomic status(SES) students, and students with disabilities—were disproportionately
-world projects, and 4. propose a continuous improvement plan for the course sequence.Course Development HistoryThe global capstone course sequence was created to give students an engineering experience in a real-world, global development context. This was first offered in the 2015-2016 academic year as a projectoption in a traditional civil engineering capstone (CE Capstone) course sequence for students interestedin working on a humanitarian engineering project. The initial project was a water supply, treatment anddistribution project in collaboration with a rural community in Tanzania. Due to the growth in popularityof the Tanzania project and minor differences in course deliverables that created student confusion, aseparate section
ResourceNetwork (ENMRN) that aid in finding and correcting those shortcomings through mathematical andscientific analysis, providing encouragement and assistance to such businesses that reach out to them.One such instance was a brewery that reached out to ENMRN in 2019 that, in only a few years it hadbeen in operation, was experiencing such growth that they were planning on expanding for the third time.Now a business does not often grow this quickly without finding effective ways to conserve resources, butoutside opinions and analysis can always be of benefit. By analyzing the practices already employed bythis brewery, combined with recommendations from NMSU’s faculty, staff, and students after conductingan on-site visit, the brewery’s savings and
calculus and ordinary and partial differential equations.Face-to-face, collaborative problem-based learning activities consist of student groups (4-5students/group) developing numerical and analytical solutions to 35 biotransport problems throughout thesemester. Students actively dialogue and solve the problems, whereas the professor and teachingassistant roam the classroom to facilitate problem solving only when groups reach an impasse. Theresponse to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic disrupted this teaching plan, resulting in the math-intensivecourse moving to online delivery. It was critical to ensure the student-centered active learning activity ofcollaborative problem-based learning was maintained during imposed changes in course delivery format.To
Math/Science Career Conferences for Girls Lillian L. Goettler North Dakota State University In 1975 a number of women scientists and engineers in the San Francisco Bay area organized the first Expanding Your Horizons career conference to interest girls in math/science based careers. These one-day confer- ences offer giris a variety of hands-on workshop experiences as well as an opportunity to get to know women active in math/science fields and discuss their career paths and plans. These conferences were well re- ceived in the Bay area and inspired many similar conferences across the country. Two years ago at this time, a colleague from the Mathematical Sciences Department, Dr. Doris
the data you are using comes from,the better the end product will be.To have a hands-on program it is critical that lab space be readily accessible and equipped forstudent use. UMD and the Swenson College of Science and Engineering showed considerableforesight when planning the building as they included significant state-of-the-art laboratoryspace in the new James I. Swenson Civil Engineering Building. The floor plan of the lab level isshown in Figure 1, with a photo of the completed general projects lab shown Figure 2.Figure 1: 1st Story Floor Plan of Swenson Civil Engineering Building 2010 ASEE North Midwest Sectional ConferenceFigure 2: General Purpose/Hydrology LabThe second focus area of the curriculum is