Paper ID #16448Best Practices for Using Algorithmic Calculated Questions via a Course Learn-ing Management SystemDr. Gillian M. Nicholls, Southeast Missouri State University Dr. Gillian M. Nicholls is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods at Southeast Missouri State University. Her research interests are in applying statistical analysis and optimization to supply chain management, transportation management, and engineering education. She holds the B.S. in Industrial Engineering (Lehigh University), Masters in Business Administration (Penn State University), M.S. in Industrial Engineering (University of Pittsburgh
Research Advisor to the Stanford University Epicenter.Dr. Michael R. Ladisch, Purdue University, West Lafayette Michael R. Ladisch is Director of the Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering (LORRE), and Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering with a joint appointment in the Wel- don School of Biomedical Engineering. He was CTO at Mascoma Corporation from 2007 to 2013 and serves on Agrivida’s SAB. His BS (1973) from Drexel University and MS (1974) and PhD (1977) from Purdue University are in Chemical Engineering. Ladisch’s research addresses transformation of renew- able resources into biofuels and bioproducts, protein bioseparations, and food pathogen detection. He is an author of two
Paper ID #17482The Effect of Soft Classroom: A New Learning Environment IntegratingMOOCs into Conventional Classrooms for College StudentsProf. Shih-Chung Jessy Kang P.E., National Taiwan UniversityYifen Li, National Taiwan University A graduate Student of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University.Dr. ChingMei Tseng c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The Effect of the Soft Classroom: A New Learning Environment integrating MOOCs into Conventional Classrooms for University Students!!Abstract !In the last two decades, new insights into the nature of teaching
Paper ID #15970Redesigning Engineering Education in Chile: How Selective Institutions Re-spond to an Ambitious National ReformDr. Sergio Celis, Universidad de Chile Sergio Celis is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering and Sciences at the Universidad de Chile. He conducts research on higher education, with a focus on teaching and learning in STEM fields. His primary research interest is in how multiple forces, internal and external to the institution, influence what and how we teach in colleges and universities. His doctoral thesis investigated how social and intellectual movements influenced the
Page 26.850.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Honing Interpersonal Communication Skills for Difficult Situations: Evidence for the Effectiveness of an Online Instructional ResourceIntroduction Interpersonal communication skills can be conceptualized as understanding the dynamicsand applying the principles of receiving and sending verbal and nonverbal messages.1Acrosscareer and educational fields, interpersonal communication skills are considered fundamental tosuccess. Effective communication has been associated empirically with higher quality academicaccomplishments, better professional and personal relationships, and increased
Paper ID #13533Improving Student Learning Experience in an Engineering Graphics Class-room through a Rapid Feedback and Re-submission CycleDr. Vimal Viswanathan, Tuskegee University Dr. Vimal Viswanathan is an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Tuskegee University. He earned his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. His research interests include design innovation, creativity, design theory and engineering education.Dr. Maria Calhoun Charlton, Tuskegee University Page 26.925.1
Paper ID #9208What do schoolgirls think of engineering? A critique of conversations from aparticipatory research approachDr. Jane Andrews, Aston University Dr Jane Andrews is Programme Director of a suite of Engineering Management Master’s Programmes at the School of Engineering & Applied Science, Aston University, UK. Her research interests include all aspects of engineering education with a particular focus on elementary level engineering education and gender issues within engineering.Dr. Robin Clark, Aston University
Paper ID #11605A Visual and Intuitive Approach to Teaching and Learning Concepts in WaveTheoryDr. Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic UniversityAdam Ginton, NA Adam Ginton recieved his B.S. in Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to that he attended Dreyfoos School of the Arts as a communications major. He anticipates becoming involved in education and eventually going to graduate school. Page 26.134.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015
Paper ID #11294Developing an effective mentoring program for early-career STEM faculty:Lessons learned from the first three years of an ADVANCE PAID programDr. Laila Guessous, Oakland University Laila Guessous, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the department of mechanical engineering at Oakland University (OU) in Rochester, MI. Her research and teaching interests lie in the areas of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, with an emphasis on computational methods. She is the program director for the NSF- funded AERIM REU program at OU, as well as a co-PI on the Oakland University WISE@OU NSF ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation
departments. A comprehensive programevaluation survey is done at the end of the mentorship experience and solicits feedback fromboth the student mentees and faculty mentors.Program ObjectivesAs originally designed, the primary objective of the program has been to help increase retentionof women students in engineering and technology majors. While this initial objective continuesto be important, the program has had numerous other benefits to both students and faculty. Withthis overall objective in mind, sub-objectives were developed to support the mentorshipexperience to assist and encourage the student participants to: • Form relationships with faculty and connect with upperclassmen and others within their departments and the
NSF and USDE awards for gender and dis- ability projects, and is currently co-PI on the KS-LSAMP project. Her research foci include gender and disabilities issues in post-secondary STEM education, mentoring and program evaluation. Thurston has conducted research and taught about disability, gender and evaluation issues for over 35 years.Dr. Beth A Montelone, Kansas State University Professor of Biology and Associate Dean for Research, College of Arts & Sciences Page 26.1052.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 KS-LSAMP Pathways to STEM: A Systems
Paper ID #12015Leadership Development in Change: A Panel to Explore Experiences, Skills,and Learning in Change Management for New Engineering Educators.Dr. Ella Lee Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Ella L. Ingram is an Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for the Practice and Schol- arship of Education at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her educational research interests include promoting successful change practice of STEM faculty, effective evolution and ecology instruction, and facilitating undergraduate research experiences. Her teaching portfolio includes courses on: nutrition
Paper ID #11293Third-Year Status of a Summer Faculty Immersion ProgramDr. Juan C Morales, Universidad del Turabo Dr. Juan C. Morales, P.E., joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at Universidad del Turabo (UT), Gurabo, Puerto Rico, in 1995 and currently holds the rank of professor. Dr. Morales was the ABET Coordinator of the School of Engineering for the initial ABET-EAC accreditation of all four accredited programs at UT. He has been Department Head of Mechanical Engineering since 2003. His efforts to diffuse innovative teaching and learning practices derive directly from the outcomes assessment plan that he
numbers, bothquantitative and qualitative studies are often unable to capture the experiences of this populationeffectively. And because, as Crenshaw explains,30 experiences vary by domain, studies ofAfrican-American women college students more broadly may not effectively address the domainof engineering, where both gender and race are highly visible minority identities. Moreover,these minority positions are reinforced not only in engineering classrooms at predominantlywhite institutions, but in popular culture where engineers are generally shown as white men, suchas Apollo 13 (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and Fantastic 4 (2005). African-American femaleengineers rarely see mirrors of either facet of their identity in fiction or in fact
out the potentialtechnological decline of the nation. In order to prevent this decline, the Executive Summaryoffered four recommendations “that focus on the human, financial, and knowledge capitalnecessary for US prosperity. The four recommendations focus on actions in K–12 education(10,000 Teachers, 10 Million Minds), research (Sowing the Seeds), higher education (Best andBrightest), and economic policy (Incentives for Innovation)” 1.In addition, the 2010 report of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology2stated that “there is a large interest and achievement gap among some groups in Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), and African Americans, Hispanics, NativeAmericans, and women are seriously
Paper ID #12600Starter or Joiner, Market or Socially-Oriented: Predicting Career Choiceamong Undergraduate Engineering and Business StudentsMr. Florian Michael Lintl, Stanford University Florian is studying Environmental Planning and Ecological Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). His majors are Sustainable City Development, Renewable Energy, International Land Use Planning and Environmental Economics. He is also participant in the Entrepreneurial Qualification Program ”Manage&More”. This is a program of the Center for Innovation and Business Creation at the TU Munich (”UnternehmerTUM”) which
Paper ID #14059Stimulating and Supporting Change in Entrepreneurship Education: Lessonsfrom Institutions on the Front LinesElizabeth Nilsen, VentureWell Liz Nilsen is a Senior Program Officer at VentureWell, a national higher education network that culti- vates inventions and technical innovations to improve life for people and the planet. At VentureWell, Liz provides leadership to the Epicenter Pathways to Innovation initiative, an effort to engage with a cohort of colleges and universities to fully embed innovation and entrepreneurship in undergraduate engineering education. She also works on the development of new
Paper ID #13387Closing the gap between physics and calculus: Use of models in an integratedcourseProf. Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico & Universidad Andr´es Bello, Santi-ago, Chile Angeles Dominguez is a Professor of the Department of Mathematics within the School of Engineering at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, and she is currently at the University Andres Bello at Santiago, Chile, for a sabbatical period collaborating with the School of Engineering. She holds a bache- lor degree in Physics Engineering from Tecnologico de Monterrey and a doctoral degree in Mathematics
Paper ID #17160Gaining Insights into the Effects of Culturally Responsive Curriculum onHistorically Underrepresented Students’ Desire for Computer ScienceMs. Omoju Miller, UC Berkeley Omoju Miller is the lead researcher on the ”Hiphopathy” project at UC Berkeley. She has an undergrad- uate degree in Computer Science (2001) and a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2004) from the University of Memphis. She has over a decade of experience in the technology indus- try. She is currently a doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley in Computer Science Education. Omoju also served in a volunteer capacity as an advisor to
Paper ID #15782Increasing STEM Engagement in Minority Middle School Boys through Mak-ingDr. Jumoke ’Kemi’ Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University Dr. J. ’Kemi Ladeji-Osias is Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the De- partment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan State University in Baltimore. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in computer engineering. Dr. Ladeji-Osias earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Rutgers University. She is the Principal Investigator for Doctoral Scholars
Paper ID #16112Integrating Civility into the Classroom: Practicing and Teaching Civility toPrepare Students for Career SuccessProf. Ralph Ocon, Purdue University Calumet c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Integrating Civility into the Classroom: Practicing and Teaching Civility to Prepare Students for Career SuccessAbstractThe focus of most engineering and technology programs is to provide students with the technicalskills required for success in their future careers. Often overlooked, but equally important forcareer success, is training on the “soft skills.” In particular, faculty need to
faculty; 2)providing curricular components that develop specific student knowledge and skills; 3)structuring the physical environment to promote entrepreneurial minded learning; and 4)providing opportunities for students to engage in meaningful extra-curricular activities. Thispaper focuses on the curricular component of this framework.As part of these curricular activities, 18 short, self-paced, e-learning modules will be developedand integrated into courses spanning all four years across all engineering and computer sciencedisciplines. Each module contains readings, short videos and self-assessment exercises. Five ofthese e-learning modules were developed in fall 2014, four of these five were piloted in theSpring 2015 semester, and all five
construction, make improvements and operate the device inmy mind. . . In this way I am able to rapidly develop a perfect conception without touchinganything.”22The design process in engineering is often discussed as iterative processes in books on thesubject4, 5, 6. In many cases, the iteration is discussed as an aside4, 6. In one text, the designiterations is a central theme, but refers to the evolution of products in the market rather thaniterations of prototypes during development 5. All reviewed books present a design matrix as ifmany product concepts were being developed in parallel2, 3, 4, 5, 6, which is interesting given thateconomic analysis shows that it is generally best to focus only on the design most likely to besuccessful23.One area
that you know most people can’t you know, ultimately identify with, and with NSBE it gives you something to really like identify myself […].Being African American and just being a … and because of like I you know have the confidence of being like you know a bright engineer knowing that I belong here and knowing how important and how significant I am to not only to my family, but to others as well.” (Johnny) “[…] when I went to the conference I’m walking around and I’m seeing people that look like me. That have you know, did such things with their lives, so they just gave me the confidence, like, hey, if I wanna get out and do this, I can actually do it. I can actually put my mind to it and
Paper ID #26693Assessing the Networking Preferences and Resource Satisfaction among En-gineering Faculty in the California State University SystemDr. Lalita G. Oka, California State University, Fresno Dr. Lalita Oka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Geomatics Engineering at the California State University, Fresno. She teaches undergraduate and graduate level Geotechnical Engi- neering courses. Her research interests include Geomechanics, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Experimental and Numerical Modeling, and Engineering Pedagogy. Her pedagogical work is supported by the ’Course Redesign with
Paper ID #26662Board 106: Did Math Make Me Move? The Design and Initial Evaluation ofa Culturally Appropriate Gestural Educational Technology (Research)Ms. Tiffanie R. Smith, University of Florida Tiffanie R. Smith is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Florida studying Human Centered Comput- ing in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering. She received her B.S. in Computer Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University in 2013. She is an NSF Graduate Re- search Fellow as well as a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow. Her research interests include educational technologies
clearly shows that students and teachers havedifferent perceptions; such discrepancy shall be kept in mind when designing STEM-learning projects; and communication towards mutual understanding among students andteachers are often needed for ensuring effective teaching and learning. In general, STEM-Inc students had higher interest and confidence towards engineering thanentrepreneurship, which is understandable since STEM-Inc essentially is a project for STEMlearning; and entrepreneurship has been used as a tool to engage students in STEM learning.However, it is worthwhile noting that activities incorporating both engineering andentrepreneurship (such as the field trip to a fast pitch competition where students presentbusiness ideas with
(Full Paper)Improving student accessibility, equity, course performance, and lab skills:How introduction of ClassTranscribe is changing engineering education at theUniversity of IllinoisAbstractThis paper presents three case studies that examined the use of ClassTranscribe in a diverse setof undergraduate engineering classes in 2019 and 2020 at the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign. ClassTranscribe, a video viewing system designed with accessibility andlearning in mind, was first presented to the ASEE community in 2019 [1]. The pedagogicalfeatures of the tool include: pause, leave and resume viewing; captions available in multiplelanguages; downloadable transcriptions; shareable links to video moments; and searchablecontent within
Paper ID #29859Initiatives to financially, academically, and socially supportunderrepresented minorities in STEM disciplinesDr. Anitha Sarah Subburaj, West Texas A&M University Dr. Anitha Subburaj is an Assistant Professor at West Texas A&M University. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2014 from Texas Tech University, where she worked as a Research Assistant on the project, ”Advanced Battery Modeling and Evaluation”. She received her ME degree from Anna Uni- versity, India in 2007. She held a position as Assistant Professor, at Kumaraguru College of Technology, India for three years. Her areas
Paper ID #29061Interventions in Faculty Recruiting, Screening, and Hiring ProcessesEnable Greater Engineering Faculty DiversityDr. Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder Robyn Sandekian, PhD, is the Manager of Diverse Faculty Recruiting for the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. In this role, Robyn works with hiring commit- tees throughout the College to ensure that faculty searches reach a broad pool of potential applicants and coordinates training offered by the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) to identify and reduce implicit bias