used here to model environments. Students useseveral pre-made models, within which various environmental parameters can be adjusted. Students canplay with the parameters, transform the environment, and see the consequences as they run the simulation.Activity #1: Stream TablesThe first activity has students use stream tables to investigate the erosion of a streambed and the associatedgeologic features it creates. Students make observations about the erosional features that appear in thestreambed. A class discussion about their observations follows, embedded in the larger context of thecourse. This is the only activity that uses an actual stream table.Activity #2: Introduction to NetLogoThe first computer-based erosion simulation is a virtual
completion of this course, students should have the ability to: 1. Create preliminary vertical and lateral structural systems that are integrated with a comprehensive architectural design. a. Develop structural framing configurations based on Page 26.1407.5 conventional systems. b. Develop preliminary designs, integrated with studio projects, for vertical and lateral load resisting systems including preliminary sizes for slabs, beams, columns, walls and braces
. According totheir model, there are three primary influences on student outcomes: student pre-collegecharacteristics and experiences, organizational context and peer environment (Table 1). Page 26.1431.4 Table 1: Terenzini and Reason Conceptual Framework of College Impact: Primary Influences inStudent Learning (adapted from Terenzini and Reason (2005)8.Primary Influence ExamplesStudent Pre-college Characteristics Socio-demographic traitsand Experiences Academic preparation and performance Personal and
to increased self-efficacy in STEM fields and increased interest in pursuing a career in science or technology.Additionally, girls participating nationally in Tech Trek camps report large increases in comfort,enjoyment and interest in pursuing a career in programming as a result of taking core classes inmobile app development using App Inventor from MIT.1.0 Introduction The American Association of University Women (AAUW) research report ”Why SoFew? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)”[1] found thatwomen are vastly underrepresented in STEM majors and fields compared with their male peers.But “Why So Few?” also showed that those numbers can change when girls realize theirpotential in STEM at an early
, the focus shifts downthrough the survey questions. The responses on the survey did not affect the students score onthe survey. They received full credit for completing the survey.Results:The RADD results in Table 1 shows data for the past 10 years. From Fall of 2004 to Fall of 2014the results show an improvement demonstrating that as an assessment tool, RADD is working.Table 1. RADD Results. YEAR Require Stdev 3i Analysis Stdev 3k Design Drawing Sample -ments Sample 3k (Ave) Sample 3d (Ave) 3g (Ave) Size 3i (Ave) Size Size 2004-5, Fall 60.0 67.0 51.0 39.0 13 2005-6, Fall 73.0
security. She currently volunteers on the BYU red team, and is the CCDC coordinator for the school. Page 26.437.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Cyber War is not Gender War: Experiences of Creating a Productive Heterogeneous Environment in Cybersecurity ResearchAbstractWhile degree enrollments continue to see an increase in female enrollment, there remains adistinct gender gap in STEM disciplines 1. In particular, the Technology and Computing spacehave always struggled to recruit and retain women. A similar trend is seen
Engineering and Managementfaculty members and graduates students was created to facilitate collaboration among the threeparties involved. The partnering model shown in figure 1 can be beneficial to all parties involved.Having graduate CEM students working in real university projects benefits the university bylowering the costs that they would ordinarily incur by either having their architecture/engineeringteam and General Service’s staff or outside consultants working in the pre-construction phase of aproject. It benefits CEM faculty who supervise the graduate students because it provides themrelevant and current experience working on projects and an opportunity to interact with campusadministrators and personnel outside their department. Finally and
associated manufacturing processes tofabricate bipolar plates. Students will be assessed based upon their efficiency and precision insetting up the fixture and the following careful implementation of the fuel cell purifier platemachining process. Fixture Design to Supplement Machining and Fuel Cell EducationIntroductionIn the modern era of exponential technological expansion and innovation, the future of the fieldrelies heavily upon the advancement and education of the manufacturing process. According toan article regarding the United States GDP (Gross Domestic Product), “Manufacturing industriesgenerated $2.1 trillion in GDP (12.5 percent of total U.S. gross domestic product) in 2013.” (1)This percentage of United States GDP contributed by
become moreprevalent. An index analysis of more than 12,000 journals and 160,000 conference proceedingswas conducted to determine the extent and nature of flipped classroom research. The searchterms flipped classroom, flipped instruction, inverted instruction, and inverted classroom wereused. The phenomenon appears to gain traction in 2010. Three scholarly research articles werepublished in 2010 and papers on the topic continue to be published every year with 137published articles in 2015 (Figure 1). However, with only 300 total articles, there is a notabledearth in the literature given the focus of the flipped classroom in traditional formal education.When the search is narrowed to engineering education, the number of articles is
undergraduate science research into our institute's curriculum issupported by a significant amount of research into the impact of such activities on scholarlyachievement in a number of fields. David Lopatto has published extensively on the positiveimpact of undergraduate research on academic programs. [1-5] Undergraduate research is shownin these publications to be key to producing engaged scientists for the future. Hinkel and Henke[6] show explicitly the positive impact participation in undergraduate programs has on futurestudent achievement and employment. In light of this information it is almost unforgivable not tooffer these opportunities to students who are willing to avail themselves of them.Science research courses give students the opportunity
a “Duckling”, when they reach level 6 they become a“Terran SCV”, and at level 15, their title is “Maxwell’s Demon”.Figure 1: A screenshot of the User Hub on vSTEM.org, as seen by an administrator. The website looksvery similar as a student or instructor, with a few icons changed, as distinguished in the figure.Team-working EvaluationsFinally, we use vSTEM to create student teams. For each course project we assign teams of threefor students to work in. Projects typically last one to two weeks. Using vSTEM, students are ableto see who their team members are and share their email address or phone number with theirteam if they desire. This can help students contact each other if they need to work on theirproject outside of class time
retentionrates. Then we will include descriptions of the newly designed first year engineering course, withdetailed information about our team-based projects. We will discuss both benefits and potentialpitfalls of this restructuring. Finally, retention data and trends will be discussed with someconclusions.IntroductionEngineering programs at universities and colleges across the country are faced with increasingdemands for high quality engineering graduates to meet the government’s goal of producing onemillion new STEM graduates by 2022 1. In support of this goal, the National ScienceFoundation has budgeted $135 million for 2016 to support the retention of STEM students 2 withadditional support coming at the state and university level. This recent
report a lightweight frame design usingadditive manufacturing. A solid frame is redesigned to maximize its strength to weight ratio byincreasing the amount of material in high stress areas, while decreasing material in other areaswith lower stress concentrations in order to optimize the lightweight capabilities while maintainingstructural integrity.1. IntroductionAdditive Manufacturing (AM) is still a fairly new manufacturing process. The process starts bytaking a 3D part and breaking it down into 2D cross sectional areas, while giving a finite thickness1.Additive manufacturing provides the opportunity to manufacture integrated components that aredifficult to make as a single component with other manufacturing processes. It is predicted
subsequently, their employers disallowedtheir participation for one reason or another. Following this outcome, in the second recruitmentphase, we decided to add another strategy to our recruitment efforts, what we are calling amediated recruitment strategy, in which we initially approached supervisory representatives inengineering organizations, established their initial interest, and subsequently sought to workwithin their organizational processes to ultimately invite a new engineer to participate, havingcleared all the organizational hurdles.Figure 1 (below) provides a synoptic image of the different points along the mediatedrecruitment ‘gauntlet.’ We have come to call this ‘the gauntlet’ because (as of the drafting of thismanuscript) only three
available for free on YouTube.Figure 1 illustrates how the perspective of a new technologies market potential differs from oneperspective to another. Figure1:DifferentPerspectivesofanEmergingTechnology’sMarketPotential Exemplar student projects in the first three years illustrate how students apply the principles ofnon-market analysis for real world clients in fields such as water and air drones, autonomouscars, hydropower, biodiesel trucks, smart traffic lights, bike sensors, wearable technologies,edible electronics, and environmental technologies. Feedback from clients and students illustratethe utility of the course.Faculty in other universities can teach a
is illustrated by some of the presentations at the 2013 annual conference shown inexhibit 1.Only one of the presentations came from outside the US, in this case, TheUniversity of Buenos Aires. The programme inadvertently highlights one of the dilemmasfacing those who would promote technological literacy namely, that it is all too often taken Application of peer-reviewed journal articles for enhancing technological literacy (Brooks, R.M., Cetin, M., Kavuturu, J and Al-Maghrabi, M-N). Demonstration of electrical principles in the classroom by hydraulic analogues (Graff, R. W and P. R. Leiffer). Waves of engineering: using a mini-wave flume to foster engineering literacy (Lyman-Holt, A. L and L. C Ribichaux). Simulating interest in
took four years to grow to its full size. We have recently submitted a new S-STEM proposal that, if funded, will initiate a design and development project that will include quantitative and qualitative assessment of the achievement of the programs ultimate goals, which include shifting the demographics of graduates at our institution and observing continued employment of CS/M Scholars in their field.1 Program Description1.1 RecruitmentWith the aid of staff in the Office of Admissions, we invite high-achievingfemale applicants with leadership potential to submit a short application. Indeciding whom to invite, we consider several broad measures of academic andpersonal achievement and don’t require that applicants
groupsof three, they took pictures of their whiteboards, and all pictures were stored in a repository for all(students, instructors and researchers) to review. When students worked individually, instructorsassessed their learning based on their written solutions. The analysis of the whiteboards confirmedthat at the beginning of the semester students used few representations, whereas by the end of itthey were incorporating congruently more than ten different representations, making their modelsmore robust.1. IntroductionIn the past four years, a special course has been taught in a private university in northern Mexico.While this is not the first course that has attempted to integrate two different subjects, even withinthe same university where this
platform provides animmersive environment which supports the team design process, the reviewprocess and the presentation process.There are examples of successful utilization of virtual worlds to supportcollaborative design in the literature.Ehsani and Chase [1] discuss the uses ofvirtual worlds with distributed design teams to reduce the time to developprototypes and reduce overall costs, and they included the review of several case Proceedings of the Spring 2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education 15studies in the architectural and construction field. One such
BSengineering graduates for future national economic growth [1-7]. Obvious methods foraddressing this issue are increasing engineering persistence [2] and increasing the participationof underrepresented populations that enter the engineering student pathway [6-8]. Although theannual number of total BS engineering graduates did increase over the last two decades, from66,852 in 2002 to 139,482 in 2022 [9], an increase of 209%, this increase was primarily fueledby the expansion of existing programs and the creation of new programs [10]. Thus, there is anopportunity to solve the engineering pathway issue by recruiting and retaining women.Unfortunately, the push to increase BS engineering graduates over the last two decades hasmarginally affected the
management; hybrid energy systems; microgrid protection ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 A Portable Educational Model for an Energy Management System of Duke EnergyIntroductionDuke Energy, the largest energy company in North Carolina (NC), is a publicly listed firmspecializing in energy holdings. The company's electric utilities provide services to 8.4 millionconsumers across North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. Inaddition, they collectively own an energy capacity of around 54,800 megawatts [1-4]. Thecorporation offers energy generating, transmission, and distribution services to its industrial,commercial, and residential clients
-PS4-4).This curriculum unit introduces students to engineering, solving a real-world problem andcreating a seemingly complex device that all students succeed in finishing. The unit is roughly a20-hour scaffolded module in which high school students design a stereolithographic 3D printerfor additive manufacturing. Our approach ensures all students can succeed by focusing ondesigning to meet specific requirements, not to win a competition. The project is team-based andallows for built-in redesign opportunities, which reflects both the collaborative and the iterativeprocess of real-world engineering. Figure 1. SLA printer setup (left). The PowerPoint slides are projected onto the surface of the resin solution to build a part layer by layer
RESOURCE MANAGEMENTThe Shell Eco-Marathon (SEM) is an international competition that 1. Clear Team Structurechallenges student teams to design, build, and drive energy-efficient vehicles. This case study focuses on the SEM team at Texas How did we ensure money and time are not wasted?A&M University in Qatar, chosen for its unique context of Reuse extra spare Elaborate onovercoming significant budget constraints and time limitations. The & vital old car reason and use of
(EduFusion NSG) presents an innovative, integrated framework thataddresses the critical gap between academia and industry, providing a structured ecosystemthat promotes collaboration, educator training, and market-relevant course offerings toenhance entrepreneurship and economic resilience on a national scale.IntroductionThe EDUFUSION Project, officially launched on December 1, 2024, is a 48-month initiativefunded under the European Union’s ERASMUS-EDU-2024-CBHE program (Project ID:101179805). This project aims to address critical challenges in Kazakhstan’s highereducation system by bridging the gap between academia and industry, enhancing educatortraining, and delivering innovative, market-aligned online courses. By fosteringcollaboration
methodology employed in this study involved a systematic, multi-phase approach designed tocapture detailed and replicable data. The steps included: 1. Data Collection: Utility bills, equipment specifications, and operational data were analyzed to establish baseline metrics for energy, water, and resource usage. This step ensured that the assessment was grounded in accurate, comprehensive data. 2. On-Site Assessment: A comprehensive walkthrough of the facility was conducted, focusing on key areas such as: o Equipment efficiency and maintenance. o Lighting systems and HVAC performance. o Water usage patterns and waste management practices. This stage involved detailed documentation and
Goal Setting and Strategic Planning Intuition and Rapid Decision Making Strategic planning is foundational to Alumni stress that intuition, developed 1. Gather Data - Data consisted of 28 student assignments from three sections of long-term success. Alumni emphasize
young children. By addressing thesegaps, the research hopes to provide valuable insights into how early education can better equipteachers and children for a future shaped by AI. As AI continues to influence the globaleducational landscape, fostering awareness and foundational skills from a young age is critical,ensuring children are prepared for the digital future. This research addresses two key questions:1) What are early childhood teachers' perceptions regarding AI in Azerbaijan? 2) What are thekindergarten teachers' suggestions for incorporating AI tools more effectively in the K-schoolsetting? A qualitative method approach was employed. A systematic sample of 16 teachers fromdifferent regions of Azerbaijan was selected for semi-structured
in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101. https://doi.org/10.1191/1478088706qp063oaCappelli, C. J., Boice, K. L., & Alemdar, M. (2019). Evaluating University-Based Summer STEM Programs: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned. Journal of STEM Outreach, 2(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.15695/jstem/v2i1.13Friedman, A. D., Melendez, C. R., Bush, A. A., Lai, S. K., & McLaughlin, J. E. (2017). The Young Innovators Program at the Eshelman Institute for Innovation: A case study examining the role of a professional pharmacy school in enhancing STEM pursuits among secondary school students. International Journal of STEM Education, 4(1), 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-017-0081-4Hora, M. T., Wolfgram, M., Huerta, A
either a two-day intensive training, or could bebroken up into two weeks of six smaller training sessions (modules). Each module willconsist of 1) presentation materials mapping learning objectives and the relatededucational theories, 2) peer mentor created case scenario videos, and 3) an activelearning activity that practices theories and case study topics from the module.This short format is intended to be delivered at the beginning of each course semester,when students have returned to campus, in time for certification of new peer mentors, oras a refresher for returning peer mentors to be prepared to serve in the first-yearmakerspace classroom the same semester.Results and ReflectionsThe results of the portion of the research project
, 2018, p.6). This is the current teamwork student outcome. Prados, J. W., Peterson, G. D., & Lattuca, L. R. (2005). Quality Assurance of Many engineering schools use CATME to assess their students’ teamwork skills Engineering Education through Accreditation: The Impact of Engineering Criteriafor ABET accreditation (e.g. Beigpourian et al., 2019; Brawner et al., 2018; Lucietto 2000 and Its Global Influence. Journal of Engineering Education, 94(1), 165–184.& Berry, 2017