AC 2008-1766: SMALL INTERVENTIONS, BIG IMPACTS: HOWMODIFICATION OF DELIVERY PROCESS OF IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES FORFRESHMEN CAN DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE LEARNINGAly Tawfik, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Aly Tawfik is the VTSTA President and a Graduate Teaching Fellow in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is a doctoral student in the Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research is in the area of transportation systems. He is currently a workshop leader for freshmen courses at Virginia Tech.Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Janis Terpenny is an Associate Professor in Engineering Education and Mechanical
coordinates the Long Island Alternative Energy Consortium, a collaborative effort among seven campuses to develop multi-disciplinary, multi-institution undergraduate and experiential education programs in renewable and alternative energies. In recognition of his academic activities, he received the 2012 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.Dr. Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology Nada Marie Anid, Ph.D., is the first female dean of NYIT’s School of Engineering and Computing Sci- ences (SoECS). In this role, she oversees 80 engineering and computing sciences faculty members and approximately 3,500 graduate and undergraduate students at campuses located in Manhattan and Old Westbury, N.Y., the
designed to provide global competency to students so that claimsabout the success of educational practices might be evaluated [1] in [11]. This study contributesto the body of knowledge on how to and what prepares engineering students to be ready for theglobal job market and society they will face once they graduate by understanding how studentscome to appreciate cultural differences to interact effectively with different others in the contextof a global engineering course. This research supports the lifelong learning concept and ways todevelop the five competencies rated most important by the industry, which includes appreciatingand respecting cultural differences, collaborating and working on a multicultural team, using
warranted emphasis. Undergraduate research integrationinto curriculum promises benefits: student engagement and development of employer-desiredskills such as communication, teamwork, analytical reasoning, and the application of knowledgeto real-world settings. This paper details the FLC’s efforts to incorporate more research intoseven undergraduate classes by using discovery learning pedagogies and to begin compiling alist of best practices to share with others. The fact that these efforts span different undergraduategrade levels and disciplines offers key insights for any undergraduate program. Further,discussions about the formation and collaboration of the FLC at this university presents a guideto others for starting one of their
cooperation and collaboration. Three faculty members with apassion for inclusivity advise the group, each with different specialties: 1) systems researchand vision 2) systems research and practical skills expertise 3) CS education, inclusivepractices, and project management. This and other intentional components are highlighted inTable 3 and discussed further below.Figure 2: Total number of students on the computer systems research team per semester andunderrepresented groups in computing. SSD stands for students with services for disabilities.The components listed in Table 3 are extensions or variations of similarly successful orrecommended approaches discussed in the Related Works Section. Similar to ERSP, ourmodel has a designated faculty member
residential treatment center for adolescent girls in Arlington MA, focusing on program evaluation and outcomes after discharge. Since 2011, Dr. Tripathy has been teaching in the Sociology department at University of Massachusetts Lowell. She received teaching awards for applied and experiential learning in 2013 and 2014, was promoted to Associate Teaching Professor in 2018, and received the UMass Lowell Teaching Excellence Award in Sociology in 2018. From 2016-2019, Dr. Tripathy was the Director of the Bachelor of Liberal Arts program, an interdisciplinary major with an enrollment of 250 undergraduate students. During 2018- 2020, she collaborated with Dr. Kavitha Chandra to utilize participatory action research (PAR) as an
she conducts research on broadening participation in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computing (STEM+C). Due to her advocacy for diversifying the STEM+C space through evidence-based methods, program support, and mentoring, Dr. Waisome was appointed to serve as Special Assistant to the UF Dean of the Graduate School in the Division of Graduate Student Affairs. Dr. Waisome earned her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees and Ph.D. in civil engineering from UF. During her studies, she became passionate about issues of equity, access, and inclusion in engineering and computing and worked to develop programs and activities that supported diverse students in these disciplines.Dr. Kyla McMullen
Paper ID #13504Wireless Communication Testbed and Tools for Authentic STEM LearningVuk Marojevic, Virginia Tech Vuk Marojevic graduated from University of Hannover (MS), Germany, and Polytechnic University of Catalonia (PhD), Spain, both in electrical engineering. He joined Wireless@Virginia Tech in Summer 2013 as a Research Associate. His research interests are in software-defined radio technologies with ap- plication to 4G/5G cellular, UAV, and spectrum sharing, among others. Dr. Marojevic has been instructor of undergraduate and graduate level classes at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain, and Virginia
Engineering Education, 2016 Developing Student Centered Partnerships: Professional Socialization and the Transition to IndustryIntroductionThere is a persistent dialogue among academic and industrial stakeholders regarding the abilityof students to transition into full-time engineering positions in industry [2, 3]. Engineeringeducators and professionals have contributed to the conversation by suggesting the need forbroader collaborations between academia and industry[4, 5]. Academic-industry partnershipshave resulted and have led to significant benefits for both academic and industry stakeholders.Academia cites gaining funds to support research, testing theory in
markets. Such grants offer faculty and their students theopportunity for a more traditional, extended research experience, with adequate time to reflect on alternativeapproaches, design of experiments, interpretation of data and the technical and societal significance of findings.While undergraduate faculty are at some disadvantage in proposing such research unless their laboratories areparticularly well-equipped by virtue of ongoing graduate research activity, faculty who are willing to pursueresearch on industrially-significant topics that "fall in the cracks" among higher-priority R&D goals can use thesesources to develop a program of specialized, frequently methodological research work as a means of steadysupport for undergraduate
-methods research on and for people at work, ensuring that organizations intentionally center the human experience. Sreyoshi has spoken at over 100+ global venues, addressing diverse audiences ranging from academics, NSF PIs, in- dustry leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals to students or high-schoolers starting out with Computer Sciences, helping them strategize and broaden participation, as well as explore, understand, and apply emerging technologies. Sreyoshi is committed to broadening participation among underrepresented mi- norities in engineering and serves as a Senator at the Society of Women Engineers. She is also part of the Advisory Board at the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and serves as an
Paper ID #30070Engineering Students’ Epistemological Thinking in the Context of SeniorDesign ProjectsMiss Qiushi Li, Shanghai Jiaotong UniversityJiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jiabin Zhu is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni- versity. Her primary research interests relate to the assessment of teaching and learning in engineering, cognitive development of graduate and undergraduate students, and global engineering. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue University in 2013. c American Society for Engineering
faculty mentorship, the pathway into and through graduate education, and gender and race in engineering.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. She is also the Engineering Workforce Development Director for CISTAR, the Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources, a Na- tional Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. Her research focuses on how identity, among other affective factors, influences diverse students to choose engineering and persist in engineering. She also studies how different experiences within the practice and
, misses much of the largerpicture and places too much of the onus to change on the faculty members.BackgroundIn 2006, the author completed a study that was aimed at shedding some light on the parts of theuniversity teaching picture that for too long had been left in the dark: the good teaching.[1] Theresearch was initially inspired by the disjuncture between the plethora of negative critiques ofteaching in research universities and the author’s personal experience as a graduate student andinstructional consultant in those settings. Excellent teaching in those settings had been generallyoverlooked in the literature, and much of the existing research on effective teaching was focusedon instructors’ actions – what they did in their classrooms
Gillette, Director, Liberal Arts & Engineering Studies, Colleges of Liberal Arts & Engineering. Has 20 years of multi-disciplinary collaborative team development expertise all focused on community development, documentation, educational outreach, and technology prototype development and testing. Past work has included project development for various educational and communications divisions of NASA, Universal Studios, and Disney Imagineering. Has over 16 years experience teaching undergradu- ate and graduate level students in technical communications, cross-disciplinary technology development and testing, and in media technology design and use for many universities in the USA, Japan and Aus- tralia
Paper ID #17882Ascertaining the Impact of P:12 Engineering Education Initiatives: StudentImpact through Teacher ImpactDr. Marissa H. Forbes, University of Colorado, Boulder Marissa Forbes is a research associate in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the Univer- sity of Colorado Boulder and lead editor of the TeachEngineering digital library. She previously taught middle school science and engineering and wrote K-12 STEM curricula while an NSF GK-12 graduate engineering fellow at CU. With a master’s degree in civil engineering she went on to teach advanced placement and algebra-based physics for the Denver
faculty and students. There is, therefore, a need for more research to expand the literature oncurriculum interventions that promote a holistic approach that fosters curiosity, creativity,problem-solving, and faculty buy-in.In this study, we provide an interdisciplinary approach to Computer Aided Design and Modelingcurriculum that integrates an entrepreneurial mindset, bio-inspired design, and STEAM (Science,Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) to provide real-world experiential learning tobetter prepare engineering students for entering the workforce. Such learning experiences willensure that students develop employability skills, a lack of which could lead to graduates missingout on rewarding careers [4]. The proposed solution will
students. In 2018 and 2019, she collaborated with Dr. Kavitha Chandra to utilize participatory action research (PAR) as an evaluation approach for the Research, Academics, and Mentoring Pathways (RAMP) summer program for first-year female engineering students.Prof. Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Kavitha Chandra is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Professor of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering in the Francis College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She directs the Research, Academics and Mentoring Pathways (RAMP) to Success program that aims to estab- lish successful pathways to graduate school and interdisciplinary careers for new undergraduate students
perspective, we can also usediscourse identity to determine students’ internalization of the discipline’s ethical canons anddisciplinary identity based on how they discursively position themselves in relation to the valuesof the profession. For example, research conducted by Dannels [17] and Douglas and colleagues[43] explored the discursive practices utilized by students throughout a variety of academiccontexts. They found that students did not perceive themselves as engineers; they perceivedthemselves as students working for a grade that would lead them to graduate from an engineeringprogram. In these studies, these students utilized discourse to maintain their student identitiesand separated themselves from engineers. To strengthen the link
Paper ID #43928Promoting Equity and Cognitive Growth: The Influence of an AuthenticLearning Assignment on Engineering Problem-Solving SkillsDr. Boni Frances Yraguen, Vanderbilt University Boni Yraguen is an Instructional Consultant with the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching. Boni is passionate about engineering education. She has led and participated in various educational studies on the impact of student reflections, authentic learning assignments, the use of technology in the classroom, and graduate education.Elisa Koolman, University of Texas at Austin Elisa is a Ph. D. student at the University of Texas at Austin. They
international students. The analyses for answeringour two research questions were conducted independently in this exploratory study.Study ParticipantsStudy participants were students from a first-year engineering course in the spring semester andmost students were in their first year of study (more than 91%). This data consist 1477 studentsworked on 409 teams. Among the participants 370 were females,1102 were males, and 5students selected other or not prefer to answer. 1166 students were US-citizen and 311 wereinternational. Also, 899 students were White, 338 Asian, 33 Black, 129 Hispanic, 1 NativeAmerican, and 48 “Other.” There were 29 students who declined to answer. We are focused atteam-level effects rather than individual-level experiences, so we
especiallygirls) and affording exploration of topics such as social justice, healthcare, and climate change,and emphasize project-based learning, collaboration and teamwork. The novice-friendlyNetsBlox programming environment accesses publicly available data sources to allow explorationof these cutting-edge computing ideas. This paper describes our research and development effortsto develop a new modular, project-based course comprised of four 9-weekmodules—“CSFrontiers” (CSF)—that seeks to dramatically expand access to the most interestingand exciting frontiers of computing and 21st century skills (such as collaboration and dataliteracy). The curriculum is designed with the goals of fostering student interest, and in turn, thedevelopment of a diverse
: Note: Students were given the understanding of current divider rules in series, parallel networks. This problem is the application of these concepts and their inter-relationship. Students had not seen a similar problem before.Data Collection: The class survey was tested for reliability and validity before it was used fordata collection. The items were reviewed several times by the researchers and the departmentfaculty for their structure, simplicity and intended meaning. It was then pilot tested on five upperlevel graduate students. Items were revised many times and some were rewritten based on thefeedback from the faculty and the students. After obtaining approval from the
environmental impacts of electronics as a context for science helps enhance general societalknowledge and awareness. The inputs to the program include high school science teachers fromIndiana and Alabama, faculty and engineering graduate students at Purdue University andTuskegee University who served as research mentors, and an industrial advisory board,comprised of representatives from electronics companies. Recruiting participants for the RET began in the early winter, with admissions andmatching to research projects finalized by spring. During the spring, teacher participants woulddiscuss the research project with faculty mentors, and make tentative plants for the summer.Because the program included two universities, the kick-off and
Paper ID #37108Where Are We, and Where to Next? ’Neurodiversity’ in EngineeringEducation ResearchTheo Sorg, Purdue University Theo Sorg (they/them) is a third-year PhD student and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. They received their Bachelor’s de- gree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Purdue University. As an undergraduate, they also received a Cooperative Education Program certificate for their work as a Pathways Intern at NASA’s John- son Space Center. Their research interests focus on challenging problematic conceptions and
communication faculty, the two faculty members approach assessment ofstudent needs and work in terms of the efficacy of their communication in reaching theirdesired audience. However, this instructional model of having full-time technicalcommunication faculty deliver one-on-one tutoring is not scalable in light of the limitedpool of available faculty and related costs; accordingly, alternate models for instruction,such as the establishment of a communication fellows program as that described in [7],need to be explored if the Hub continues and grows. StudentsAt USC, about 74% of engineering graduate students were born outside of the U.S.[1].This aspect of the engineering graduate student population is also evident among theHub's students, as over
incorporate AI into educational curricula and teaching methods. Additionally, Aggrawal mentors students at various levels and is actively seeking collaborative opportunities in her field. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025Assessing and Characterizing Perspective-Taking Abilities in Undergraduate Students: A Case Study ApproachAbstractThis Empirical Research Paper (Full Paper, 10 pages) investigates the development ofperspective-taking abilities in undergraduate students utilizing a case study approach.Background: The increasing emphasis on preparing graduates for a globalized workforcenecessitates the development of intercultural communication skills. Perspective-taking is key
enhance analytical abilities and promote problem-solving skills usingmultiple levels of abstraction [15]. Institutes define the CT according to unique goals and standards, meaning no unifiedCT definitions exist among researchers. For example, the International Society for Technologyin Education (ISTE) defines CT as a systematic approach for solving problems in computersciences and other subject areas and careers [16]. According to the K–12 Computer ScienceFramework, CT is closely related to computer sciences, specifically the capabilities ofcomputers for solving various problems using algorithms. The framework includes corepractices for promoting the computing culture, collaborating using computing, definingcomputational problems
Paper ID #29069Preparing Advanced Manufacturing Technicians for the Workplace:Perspectives from Rural EmployersDr. Faye R. Jones, Florida State University Faye R. Jones is a Senior Research Associate at Florida State University’s College of Communication and Information. Her research interests include STEM student outcomes and the exploration of student pathways through institutional research.Dr. Marcia A. Mardis, Florida A&M University - Florida State University Marcia A. Mardis is a Professor and Associate Dean at Florida State University’s College of Communica- tion & Information and Associate Director of the
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