AC 2011-2484: EMPLOYING ENGINEERING DESIGN TOOLS FOR DE-SIGNING/REDESIGNING OF COURSESZeshan Hyder, Virginia Tech & UET Lahore Zeshan Hyder is a PhD student in Mining & Minerals Engineering Department, Virginia Polytechnic In- stitute & State University, Virginia. He has completed his Masters Degree from University of Engineering & Technology Lahore, Pakistan and is currently working in Virginia Center for Coal & Energy Research (VCCER) under supervision of Prof Dr. Michael Karmis for research in Underground Coal Gasification.zulfiqar Ali, Department of Mining & Mineral Engineering,Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State universityVA, USA.Janis P. Terpenny, Virginia Tech Janis Terpenny is a
Paper ID #36474Walking Between Two Worlds: Creating a Framework for ConductingCulturally-Responsive Research with University Indigenous CommunitiesQualla Jo Ketchum, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Qualla Jo Ketchum (she/her/they) is a PhD Candidate in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. She received her Bachelors of Science and Masters of Science in Biosystems En- gineering at Oklahoma State University. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and her Indigeneity impacts all she does from her technical research in water resources to her pedagogical practices and edu
addresses the global literacy needs of professionalsinvolved with global engineering. To support achieving these outcomes, the School alsoapproved several best practices to guide the development and improvement of relevantengineering programs.IntroductionProducing globally competent engineers for the 21st century is increasingly important in aworld that is “flat” and more globally connected. Engineers are now facing the distinctpossibility that they will be working for a multinational company, or NGO that requiresmulticultural awareness, some degree of foreign language proficiency, and the ability tocommunicate effectively across cultures and time zones. However, data from the Institute forInternational Education show that few US science and
author their identities as engineers and negotiate their multiple identities in the current culture of engineering. Dina has won several awards including the 2018 ASEE/IEEE Fron- tiers in Education Conference Best Diversity Paper Award, 2019 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award and the Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Distinguished Scholar Award. Dina’s dissertation proposal was selected as part of the top 3 in the 2018 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division D In-Progress Research Gala.Dr. Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines Jessica M. Smith is Associate Professor in the Engineering, Design & Society Division at the Colorado
earlierstage in the program. Students will be required to address the various technical challenges asthey progress towards more advanced classes. This process will provide an opportunity toevaluate students’ level of knowledge in a planned and incremental procedure, culminating in amore accurate assessment of their learning outcomes.We will continue to use the existing program capstone course EGT417 (Senior Project inEngineering Technology), as the class where the students will conclude and present their seniorprojects as the culminating effort towards graduation. This course is described in the NKUUndergraduate Catalog as the “Preparation and proposal for the capstone project design in anarea of student's primary program major. After the preparation
structure to allow each plan to be used in anyprofessional development participant’s classroom. Having this specific template presentedthe engineering concepts throughout the plan but specifically described the engineeringcontent in the casual explanation and rationale to give the teachers a brief explanation ofthe details. The use of this outline tied the engineering content to education practices tocreate the highest amount of internalization for students in a format that was easy to accessand understand. The poster session followed the initial portion of the workshop to expose teachers tosome of the undergraduate and graduate level research that was currently being done atManhattan College. These students were invited to come and present
thedeliverables. Another major finding from these preliminary data is that the interaction betweenthe two dimensions of this study (the learners’ information behaviour and the learning task) wasclear in many responses but the levels of interaction will be further investigated by conductinginterviews. It is important to mention that the presented data in this paper constitute a smallportion of the collected data for this study as the research is still in progress.Investigating information behaviour of engineering students is an area of research thatengineering librarians are best suited to do and it will definitely guide the practice they dothrough direct instruction to the class, meeting with students, or by providing web-basedsolutions such as subject
Electronics at MIT working under the direction of Dr. Steven Leeb. His research interests include sensors and instrumentation for energy and power systems; renewable energy generation, integration, and control; and energy policy. In addi- tion to research, Dr. Lindahl aids Dr. Leeb’s instruction of several courses related to power electronics, microcontrollers, and product design. He also serves as a Communication Lab advisor in MIT’s Electri- cal Engineering and Computer Science Department, where he provides peer-coaching services regarding technical communication to fellow EECS postdocs and graduate students.Samantha Dale Strasser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Samantha Dale Strasser aims to elucidate how cell
for posterity and toencourage engagement within other academic institutions and professional societies. Some of ourexamples and strategies can be scaled and adapted to address institutional or regional challengesor to increase awareness and engagement in other national societies. Outcomes seen throughinitiatives have resulted in increased connections with previously disenfranchised members tothe ASEE community, engagement across divisions, and expanded programming in support ofdiversity, equity, and inclusion practices.1. Importance of Diversity, Equity, and InclusionEngineers have a significant impact on society. Their actions shape future technology,infrastructure, and innovation. Improving workforce diversity has been shown to
Paper ID #26944Innovation, Design, and Self-Efficacy: The Impact of MakerspacesRoxana Maria Carbonell, University of Texas, Austin Roxana Carbonell is a current graduate student in mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary research interests are prosthetics, additive manufacturing, makerspaces, and engi- neering education.Madison E. Andrews, University of Texas, Austin Madison Andrews is a STEM Education doctoral student and Graduate Research Assistant in the Depart- ment of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from
, University of Vermont Holly Buckland Parker is an educational developer at the Center for Teaching and Learning at the Univer- sity of Vermont (UVM). Holly coordinates the Graduate Teaching Program and conducts workshops on pedagogy and educational technologies. Dr. Buckland Parker continues to work on her research interests regarding the implementation of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and inclusive teaching practices in Higher Education. Holly is also a part-time faculty member in the Higher Education and Student Af- fairs Program in the College of Education and Social Services at the University of Vermont. She teaches graduate courses on the implementation of anti-racist teaching practices, inclusive teaching
University.Dr. Kenneth A. Loparo, Case Western Reserve University Kenneth A. Loparo is the Nord Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and holds academic appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the Case School of Engineering. He has received numerous awards including the Sigma Xi Research Award for contributions to stochastic control, the John S. Diekoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching, the Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Engineering and Science Pro- fessor Award, the Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, the Carl F. Wittke Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and the Srinivasa P. Gutti Memorial
University in mechanical engineering and STEM education respectively, and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Assessment of a Survey Instrument for Measuring Affective PathwaysAbstractThis research paper analyzes the emotions that students experience while completing ill-definedcomplex problems called Open-Ended Modeling Problems in their engineering courses. Studentsare asked to make their own modeling decisions, rather than being given those assumptions, as isthe case in most textbook problems. There are many approaches they can take, and having tomake decisions and assumptions that impact the
National Experimental University of T´achira in Venezuela. In addition, she has several years of experience in research and practice at graduate educa- tion level in the engineering field, with special focus on assess based perspectives, minoritized students’ socialization, and agency in graduate education. Her strengths include qualitative research study design and implementation. Her dissertation examined Latinx motivation to pursue Ph.D. in engineering, mi- noritized engineering doctoral students’ socialization and the impact of the engineering context in their experiences. Her research expertise lies in diversity and inclusion in graduate education, with a particu- lar interest in minoritized students’ socialization
BYUprogram and its initial success, as subsequently outlined, has been the use of graduate students asmentors and liaisons between the project sponsors and the undergraduate students.Capstone Course at BYU CE DepartmentHistoryIn order to meet important educational objectives outlined by ABET and ASCE, the BYU CEdepartment, similar to other CE departments, is trying to provide graduates with the best possiblepreparation for professional practice by enhancing the capstone program. Over the past 15-20years, the BYU CE senior design has been through several transformations motivated byincreased emphasis on culminating experiences as well as feedback from students and alumni.Early versions of the BYU CE capstone program included a one-hour
developers use it a lot outside of academia,one application of Slack in the classroom is in software development [17], [21]. Additionally, thesoftware has been used to support scientific research [19], [22], student seminar reflection andcollaboration, and graduate thesis work [14], [18]. These are examples of Slack’s use as acollaborative tool for students. But, research on Slack’s use in the classroom is very limitedespecially when considering its potential in an engineering design context.EGN3000L is the course presented in this paper. The most similar implementation of Slackfound to EGN3000L was for a post- graduate course in management and economics [23] becauseof the scale of the course, strategy for teaming, and focus on Learning and Teaching
a breaktime which also plays an important role in the learning environment. A particular roomand adjacent outdoor area was designated for breaks and “hanging out” before and after theprogram. Peer mentors were in charge of food preparation and each day nutritious snackswere provided. Sharing food is one of the most common forms of human camaraderie aswell as a basic need 7 and incorporating this into the program was an important part ofcohort building. Many participants would also join in, bringing food from their homes toshare with the group. From a more practical standpoint, providing food can enhancelearning and well-being for those students who leave home for an early start withoutbreakfast.2. Themed Contextualized LearningThe quest for
individual team member. For the team that starts in the summer, the faculty can give them more autonomy in defining the project scope and objective. c) Promotion of both teamwork and individual excellence: Available ITL methods normally have students working in teams with similar learning speed and paths. Students in the RBL model will form teams and have plenty of opportunities to practice teamwork. At the same time, each student will be encouraged to do his/her best in achieving the individual goal set by the supervising faculty and the student. For example, after completing the senior design, the students who will attend graduate school/medical school are usually motivated to write up a
enrolled in a first-yearengineering design course (3 sections) and 52 graduate engineering students enrolled in amaster’s level systems engineering course (2 sections) at Penn State University. Studentsvolunteered to participate based on a description of our research project and received nocompensation for their participation. Each student completed a concept map of a course-relatedtopic as a class exercise mid-way through each course; the topics were systems thinking(undergraduates) and creativity (graduates), respectively. All students were provided with briefinstructions about concept mapping and performed at least one “practice map” before completingthe maps of interest; they were given approximately 30 minutes to complete each mapping task
India.Dr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa D. McNair is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as co-Director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and re- flective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice
. However,engineering educators are relative newcomers to the service-learning field. As late adopters, it isimportant to recognize that the field of service-learning in education has had a research life of itsown for years, and has a whole body of knowledge as a discrete discipline.The motivation for this work is to begin with a review of literature for service-learning as an Page 15.858.2educational method prior to its wider adoption by the engineering education community. As wemove forward in looking at the impact of service in engineering education, it is opportune tolook at the gains of our predecessors and take what they have to offer us
base and insightfulquestions.”6Liberal ArtsThe Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology’s [ABET] 2000 Criteria have a veryclear set of expectations for engineering degree programs related to the integration of technicaland non-technical disciplines. For employers, a drawback of the engineering graduate is a lack ofbreadth in terms of their ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing. In addition,graduates are lacking in background knowledge relating to public policy and political sciencesissues. Goldberg’s research states that current engineering curricula are not designed to providethe kind of breadth that is necessary to apply engineering concepts of design and analysis in non-traditional settings, and that breadth is
. We will combine it with the contrastiveanalysis of the interviews to examine the instructors’ conceptions and beliefs of teaching andlearning.MethodTo examine the possible long-term impacts of our faculty development program, we design aqualitative multiple-case study. This method allows for the deep examination of a phenomenonthrough the convergent analysis of different data sources [32], [33]. Our research questions are: 1)How might the faculty development experience have impacted participant instructors’instructional practices in the long term? 2) How might the faculty development experience haveimpacted participant instructors’ perceptions and beliefs about learning and teaching in the longterm?The study participants are six instructors
in his department including; modified mastery learning in early engineering courses and a multi-year integrated system design (ISD) project for honors students. The ISD team currently has 50+ students working to design and build an electric bicycle and human powered vehi- cles. He is a mentor to mechanical engineering graduate teaching fellows. He is also active in technology adoption and support. Geoffrey holds a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University and Bachelor de- grees in Mechanical Engineering and Physics from Cedarville University. His research interests are fo- cused on best practices for student learning and student success.Dr. Michele J. Grimm, Michigan State University
course is minimal as theTAs receive course credit rather than pay for this extra time and the course can be taught by agraduate student.Taking an iterative, design research approach to this course, [5] surveys are collected before andafter each semester, and the content is revised as necessary. The TAs response to the courseranges from not seeing the point to becoming deeply engaged and committed to learning more toimprove their teaching. There remains a concern about the need to repeat content for new TAs,aligning the pedagogical theory with the current needs of the TAs, and integration with eachcourse specifically, in order to help TAs develop pedagogic content knowledge.The current iteration of the course is focused more on aligning with the
inverted sections with those in control sections (i.e., traditional coursemodel). Treatment and control students completed the same measures (e.g., content assessmentsand student attitude surveys) and faculty members, who taught in both conditions, alsocompleted reflection papers related to their experiences. The guiding research questions for thestudy and an overview of the assessment measures are shown in Table 1 below (more details onassessment measures are included in a subsequent section of this paper). In the final year of thestudy, the researchers designed what they felt were “best practices” for the inverted model in allsections of their courses and the same outcome measures were used.Table1.EvaluationQuestionsandOutcomeMeasures
developed the RED Start Up Session, a half-day workshop that establishes bestpractices for RED teams’ work and enables early successes in these five year projects. As the RED Participatory Action Research team (REDPAR)—comprised of individualsfrom Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and the University of Washington—we have takenthe research data collected as we work with RED teams, as well as the research literature onacademic change, and translated it into practical strategies that can benefit RED teams and otherchangemakers as they embark on their change projects [5]. In the RED Start Up Session (offeredfor new RED teams preceding the annual RED Consortium Meeting), attendees are introduced tothese best practices through interactive
received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton Univer- sity. The winner of numerous teaching and research awards, Dr. Ellis received the 2007 U.S. Professor of the Year Award for Baccalaureate Colleges from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teach- ing and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. His research focuses on creating K-16 learning environments that support the growth of learners’ imaginations and their capacity for engaging in collaborative knowledge work.Mr. Al Rudnitsky, Smith College Al Rudnitsky teaches Introduction to the Learning Sciences; Thinking, Knowing and the Design of Learn
hundreds of new and experienced engineers. His research interests include; design education, product architecture, mechanical reliability, design for manufacture and quality. Mark graduated from Rensselaer with a B.S. in mechanical engineering in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1987.Mr. Kurt Stephen Stresau, University of Central Florida c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Case Study Approach for Understanding the Impact of Team Selection on the Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Capstone TeamsAn important ingredient for capstone project success is teamwork. Most, if not all, capstoneteams will deal with issues such as poor communication, social
. These so calledprofessional master’s or Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) degrees are designed for the individualwho is seeking a competitive edge upon embarking on a career in industry, but is not interestedin completing an in-depth research project and publishing. Students entering these programs areanxious to enter the work force, as such the programs are typically designed to be completed in-residence, in one year or less. While it is not impossible to do so, the large majority of theseindividuals will not continue on to complete a Ph.D. upon graduation from these programs. Assuch, the M.Eng. degree is often viewed as a terminal graduate degree.The professional master’s degree is of course not a novel concept. Around the turn of the centurythe