science con- cepts by creating innovative instructional resources and conducting interdisciplinary quasi-experimental research studies in and out of classroom environments. Dr. Menekse is the recipient of the 2014 William Elgin Wickenden Award by the American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Menekse also received three Seed-for-Success Awards (in 2017, 2018, and 2019) from Purdue University’s Excellence in Re- search Awards programs in recognition of obtaining three external grants of $1 million or more during each year. His research has been generously funded by grants from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), Purdue Research Foundation (PRF), and National Science Foundation (NSF
difficult mechanics concepts. She also participates in research to include social justice topics in a mechanical systems design course.Miss Megan Nicole Phillips, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Megan Phillips is a fourth-year student at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo pur- suing a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering with a concentration in Mechanical Design. She is minoring in German and Entrepreneurship and expects to graduate in March 2022. She has been work- ing as a learning assistant for the Department of Mechanical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University since September 2019, where she works to assist student learning in undergraduate dynamics
engineering education through a design-focused, project-rich curriculum that engages students through collaborations with industry and society across all eight semesters. A first-generation college student, Kurt earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the Univer- sity of Iowa. He has served as chair of ASEE’s International Division, and was founding chair of ASEE’s Community Engagement Division. He is recipient of best conference paper awards for the 2009 and 2016 ASEE Annual Conferences.Dr. Justin J Henriques Justin Henriques is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison Univer- sity. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in systems engineering, a masters in urban and environmental planning
# Pre Assessment Post AssessmentFigure 4. Assessment questionnaire given to 285 first year engineering students of ENGR 102 on fallsemester of 2019 (IRB ID: IRB2018-1594). Lighter bars show correct responses before training (Pre-assessment). Darker bars show correct responses after the 2 hours training. The number of responses isaveraged to a class of 95 studentsDiscussionIn this work, students consistently showed a lack of knowledge on the sustainable developmentprinciples chosen to measure students literacy in the four assessments performed as depicted in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4. Figures 3 and 4 depict 14 and 16 questions respectively after three and five more questions were added to the original questionnaire. Table 1
- ence in Digital Computer systems. He was the chair of the CSE department from1991 to 98. He has published over 100 journal papers, more than 200 papers in conference proceedings, and 3 books. He published a book on Java in 2003. He developed a custom DSP board with software for his DSP book. He is a senior member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visiting Speaker, IEEE Region 4 technical activities member and Fellow of ISPE. He received Life time Achievement award from ISAM, Lloyd L. Withrow Distinguished Speaker award from SAE, Best Teacher award from ASEE, and Oakland University. He has organized many international conferences. He is the editor in chief of an International Journal of Embedded system and
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart and Secure HomesAbstractRecent advances in wireless networks and electronics have led to the emergence of WirelessSensor networks (WSNs). These networks consist of small battery–powered motors with limitedcomputation and radio communication capabilities. Each sensor in a sensor network consists ofthree subsystems: the sensor subsystem which senses the environment, the processing subsystemwhich performs local computations on the sensed data, and the communication subsystem whichis responsible for message exchanges with neighboring sensors. WSNs comprise tiny wirelesscomputers that sense, process, and communicate environmental stimuli, including
Mines.Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Tech Chris Gewirtz is PhD student in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. His research interests start with how culture, history and identity influence assumptions made by engineers in their practice, and how to change assumptions to form innovative and socially conscious engineers. His dissertation focuses on c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #25708 the identities that engineers improvise at work, and how those align with stereotypes of the engineer as ”innovator” or ”helper”.Francesca Giardine, Smith CollegeAnne Kary, Smith College Anne Kary
University (2001). His past work experience includes eleven years at Delphi (formerly Delco Electronics) as an Advanced Project Engineer, eleven years at Whirlpool Corporation as a Lead Engineer/Solution Architect, and three years at Ivy Tech Community College as an Instructor/Program Chair of Pre-Engineering. Since 2015, he has been employed at the University of Southern Indiana as an Assistant Professor of Advanced Manu- facturing. He holds three patents, has served as an IEEE section officer since 2004, and has been a Licensed Profes- sional Engineer in the State of Indiana since 2005. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 It’s not a matter of time! (A
the College of Engineering. Dr. Briedis is involved in research in the study of motivation in engineering students. She has been involved in NSF-funded research in the areas of integration of computation in engineering curricula and in developing comprehensive strategies to retain early engineering students. She is active nationally and internationally in engineering accreditation and is a Fellow of ABET, ASEE, and the AIChE.Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia, Michigan State University Dr. Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia is a professor of Educational Psychology in the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education at Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. in Education and Psychology from the
, Lincoln Jenny Keshwani is an Assistant Professor of Biological Systems Engineering and Science Literacy Spe- cialist in the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is active in promoting science and engineering education in both formal and informal settings through her research, extension, and outreach activities. Dr. Keshwani is actively engaged in several cross-disciplinary regional and national efforts related to STEM education and outreach. Most recently, she was part of a team that received NSF funding to engage youth in STEM through wearable technologies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Understanding student
his work in 3D plasmonic nanostructures. 2019 FYEE Conference : Penn State University , Pennsylvania Jul 28Full Paper: Probability and Statistics – Early Exposure in the Engineering CurriculumIntroductionProbability and Statistics classes are often introduced in the second year of an EngineeringProgram. However, the benefits of students being exposed to these subjects during the FreshmanYear have been identified by other researchers. Some of these benefits are: students’ earlyrecognition of the presence and importance of probability and statistics in addressing engineeringproblems; students’ recognition that statistics and engineering are not in fact two distinct,unrelated entities; and the
Research Group. She is currently working towards a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. She expects to graduate May of 2019. Her research interests include student development of identity and motivation in graduate engineering environments and understanding creativity in engineering design processes.Heather Lee Perkins, North Carolina State University Heather entered the Applied Social and Community Psychology program in the fall of 2014, after com- pleting her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati. She has participated in various research projects examining the interaction between stereotypes and science interest and confi- dence, their influence upon womens’ performance in school and the workplace
Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, the Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award and a Fellow of the Association for Women in Science. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 A First-Year Engineering Spatial Skills Enhancement Program: Implementation, Effectiveness, and Gender DifferencesAbstractResearch indicates that women and under-represented minorities (URM) display lower levels ofcompetence in the ability to visualize spatially, a malleable cognitive skill that is connected with successin engineering. To identify and assist first-year engineering students with low spatial ability, we launcheda spatial skills enhancement program as part of the Engineering
table explaining the process of creation step-by-step, includingthe required tools and expected duration for each step. Guidelines specified a maximum expectedtime, which for the semester examined was a total of two hours of active time. Completion ofthis plan assignment was required before physical creation of the projects began.MethodsThe project was assigned by a single member of the instructional team in their sections over thecourse of three fall semesters. The submissions examined in this paper were drawn from the mostrecent iteration of the sequence, delivered in Fall 2019. The project was not given in Fall 2020,when the course was administered remotely. After institutional review board approval, studentconsent, and compliance procedures
and an Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program. Her research interest focuses on changing the deficit base perspective of first-generation college students by providing asset-based approaches to understanding this population. Dina is interested in understanding how first-generation college students author their identities as engineers and negotiate their multiple identities in the current culture of engineering. Dina has won several awards including the 2022-2023 Outstanding Research Pub- lication Award by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division I, 2018 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Best Diversity Paper Award, 2019 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate
Engineering Education, 2019 Introducing College-level Laboratory Exercises in a Pre-college Summer ProgramThere are hundreds of pre-college summer programs that take place annually atcolleges and universities in the United States. [1,2] Many are enrichment programsdeveloped to expose middle and high school students to academic and researchexperiences in targeted fields such as Engineering and Sciences. [2] All are developedto include an experience of college life at that particular institution. [3, 4, 5] The UnitedStates Federal Service Academies all have pre-college programs that focus on thestudent experience at those institutions. This paper focuses on changes to AcademyIntroduction Mission, AIM, at the United States Coast Guard
technical societies, he has also served as a track or session chair for numerous conferences. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Robotic Competition Teams: Assessing the Experiential Education Value of Participation1. IntroductionCompetitions and prizes can contribute to innovative changes by influencing society or specificcommunities and individuals. According to Dias et al. [1], the potential societal benefits ofcompetitions include identifying excellence, influencing public perception for a specific domain,focusing communities on specific problems and mobilizing new talent, strengthening problem-solving communities by educating individuals.This research
Department at the University of Detroit Mercy. She earned both her M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Safety Protocols in Civil & Environmental Engineering LaboratoriesAbstractPromoting and achieving safety in academic laboratories for students and researchers is everyinstitution’s goal. To this end, lab practices are constantly reviewed and revised, and safetypolicies are generally documented. For this paper, a survey related to lab safety procedures wasconducted of civil and environmental engineering department heads, with a 25% response ratefor 56 institutions
involves water and wastewater, she has strong interests in engineering education research, teacher professional development, and secondary STEM education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 SISTEM: Increasing High School Students’ Engineering Career Awareness (Evaluation, Diversity)AbstractStudent Interactions with Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (SISTEM) is a programdesigned to make high school students aware of the variety of careers in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Furthermore, the SISTEM program sought to increaseexcitement and interest in STEM fields. Four sessions of SISTEM were conducted in 2016-2018with over 130 high
is also a Diplomate Water Resources Engineer (D.WRE). He is an elected Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (F.ASCE). His pas- sion for teaching continues for over 15 years since his graduate school. He has been active with ASEE and engineering education research for over 15 years. He is interested in enhancing critical thinking skills among civil engineering students through various approaches and understanding student perceptions and experiences about high-impact learning activities and teaching strategies. His research interests are in the areas of resource-efficient desalination, resource recovery from used water, renewable biofuels, and sustainability.Dr. Benjamin S. Magbanua Jr., Mississippi State
Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Pune, India, and her Master’s and Doctorate from Marquette University, Wisconsin. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Student Success Initiative to Engage and Provide Academic Support for First Year Engineering StudentsAbstractThis Work in Progress paper will describe the Student Success Initiative at Grand Valley StateUniversity. The Student Success Initiative is focused on the retention of first year engineeringstudents through social engagement and academic support. The social engagement was initiatedwith an incoming student welcome luncheon for the past two academic years, and in
, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Jay Weitzen is the Associate Department Chair for Undergraduate Affairs of the Electrical and computer Engineering Department. Now in his 32nd year at UMass Lowell, he teaches the first year ECE cohort and has been working on curriculum models for improving engagement and motivation of first year students through the use of ”personal education” devices. His research interests are in the performance of large 4G and now 5G wireless networks. He is Senior Member of the IEEE, has 2 patents and has authored over 100 papers in the literature. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Teaching Circuits and Electronics Laboratory
-2014 of the ASEE Virtual Community of Practice (VCP) for mechanics educators across the country. His current research focuses on student problem-solving pro- cesses and use of worked examples, change models and evidence-based teaching practices in engineering curricula, and the role of non-cognitive and affective factors in student academic outcomes and overall success.Mr. Justin Charles Major, Purdue University Justin C. Major is a third-year Engineering Education Ph.D student and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at Purdue University. Prior to graduate school, he completed Bachelor’s de- grees in both Mechanical Engineering and Secondary Mathematics Education at the University of Nevada
engineering contexts. She also focuses on the implementation of learning objective-based grading and teaching assistant training. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: Understanding Grader Reliability through the Lens of Cognitive ModelingIntroductionThe evaluation of student learning, whether formal or informal, is essential to the educationalprocess as we know it. The results of such evaluation can communicate valuable informationthat may inform highly consequential decisions for individual students, instructors, curriculumdesigners, administrators, and even policy makers. With such significant consequences, it isimperative that evaluation data, often
. Richard Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the Behrend College of the Pennsylvania State University. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computing Science from the University of Alberta in 2009 and 2015, respectively. His research focuses on the application of artificial intelligence in games and machine learning techniques in data mining.Dr. Heather C. Lum, Pennsylvania State UniversityDr. Lisa Jo Elliott, Pennsylvania State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Integrating Simulation Games and Virtual Reality to Teach Manufacturing
2018, she was an assistant professor of practice in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at OSU. In Autumn 2018, she joined Campbell University as an Associate Professor of Engineering. Dr. Polasik’s research interests include modeling of microstructure-property relationships in metals, as- sessment of educational outcomes, and engineering-specific epistemology in undergraduate students. Dr. Polasik is a member of ASM, TMS, and ASEE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Interactive and Collaborative Materials Science and Processing Course with Integrated LabIntroductionResearch has established that learning is dramatically improved
systems design, and engineering education. He is a co-founder of zyBooks.com.Dr. Alex Daniel Edgcomb, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand Alex Edgcomb is Sr. Software Engineer at zyBooks, a startup spun-off from UC Riverside and acquired by Wiley. zyBooks develops interactive, web-native learning materials for STEM courses. Alex actively studies and publishes the efficacy of web-native learning materials on student outcomes. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Manual Analysis of Homework Coding Errors for Improved Teaching and HelpAbstractPrevious research reports common student errors in introductory programming (CS1) classes.Knowing common errors
, Valencia College Jennifer Snyder serves as the Dean of Science for Valencia College’s East Campus. She earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Predicting Degree Completion through Data MiningAbstractUniversities and colleges continuously strive to increase student retention and degree completion.The U.S. Department of Education has set the goal of preparing a society with individuals capableto “understand, explore and engage with the world
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Preparing Ethical Leaders in Engineering Research and Practice: Designing an Ethical Leadership ModuleAbstractRecent occurrences of high-profile ethical scandals in industry and the academy attest to the needfor strong leadership in upholding ethical standards and cultures in business and academicorganizations. Many engineering graduate students become leaders of research groups orindustry projects after finishing their education. While many institutions train their graduatestudents in research and professional ethics, such training tends to focus on students’ individualconduct. To date, few programs have explicitly sought to improve graduate engineering
Paper ID #29991Changing 3rd World Lives Through STEM Education in HondurasDr. Sanjeev Adhikari, Kennesaw State University Dr. Sanjeev Adhikari is faculty from Kennesaw State University. Previously he was faculty at Morehead State University from 2009 to 2016 and faculty at Purdue University – Indianapolis from 2016 to 2019. He has completed Ph.D. degree in civil engineering, focusing on construction management from Michigan Technological University in 2008. He has an extensive teaching background with a total of 18 years of the academic experience at five different universities. He has always been praised by students and