Paper ID #29372An educational tool to optimize the consumption of primary energy inthermal-based distributed energy systemsDr. Joana Marques Melo, Purdue University Joana Marques Melo, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral researcher in Engineering Education at the CISTAR ERC - Purdue University. Dr. Marques Melo graduated from Penn State University with a Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering. She also earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from ISEP in Portugal, and her mas- ter’s degree in Energy for Sustainable Development from UPC in Spain. Her research interests include quantitative methods for engineering education research
sustainability, but also an increased demand for engineersand technicians knowledgeable and experienced in these areas. This requires the development ofinnovative curricula, new courses and new laboratories to educate students to work in these fastchanging industries. Engineering education moves into the twenty first century charged with anenvironmental agenda to respond to new economic realities. Enabling students to practice self-directed learning, to find solutions to design problems that are sustainable and to recognize thatthey are part of a global community are just a few of our educational goals. On the other hand,the renewable energy and sustainability are highly interdisciplinary, crossing over between anumbers of research areas, having strong
participation year(s), area of graduate study, and gender (all optional)The survey also included these open ended questions: What were the best parts of the program? What aspects of the programs could have been improved? What is your advice for future efforts to engage graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics with K12 students and teachers? and Additional comments?The survey was created online using Survey Monkey and is included in the Appendix. Each ofthe 76 Fellows were sent an email that included an invitation to participate, a link to the survey,and a human subjects research statement. The survey remained open for two months before itwas closed and the results prepared for analysis. The
practices bestsupport students in STEM majors to transfer to colleges and universities and how students’creativity and propensity for innovation affects students’ transfer persistence.[Portions of this paper in the review of the literature and research design have been reprintedfrom the 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 ASEE Poster Session Papers which provide preliminarymaterial for the reader.]1,2,3Motivation and overviewThere is a critical need for more students with engineering and science majors to enter into,persist, and graduate from postsecondary institutions. Increasing the diversity in engineering andscience is also a profound identified need.3 According to national statistics, the largest groups ofunderrepresented minority students in
soil components provided by the instructor and the class could then evaluate the winningsoil mixture based on optimum removal. Groups could also explore different types of plants, andwhether plant choice impacts nutrient removal. This lab provides an opportunity for students tolearn about research and how design standards are created for natural systems, and can be easilymodified depending on the research question.References 1. Redish, E.F. and Smith, K.A. (2008). Looking beyond content: skill development for engineers. Journal of Engineering Education 97(3): 295-307. 2. Richards, D.E. and Collura, M.A. (2015). Understanding a new paradigm for engineering science education using knowledge about student learning
Genevieve Gierke is graduating from Michigan Technological University in April 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering and a certificate in Global Technological Leadership from the Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership. She is currently researching polymeric coatings for im- plantable devices through controlled release of nitric oxide at Michigan Tech.Ms. Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University Mary Raber currently serves as Associate Director for the Institute for Leadership and Innovation and Director of the Enterprise Program at Michigan Technological University. She has overseen the imple- mentation and growth of the Enterprise Program at Michigan Tech since its inception in 2000, and
thermodynamics.The videos were created at the request of SUTD’s senior administration to help supplement theeducational resources of a young university. The design parameters were largely left to the MITTeaching and Learning Lab to define. In order to best support learning, the goals of the videoswere three-fold: 1) to reinforce pivotal concepts and multidisciplinary themes, 2) to provideopportunities for students to actively engage with content, and 3) to provide real-world examplesfrom everyday life, or from research, of the utility of these concepts. The videos were designedfor a variety of usage scenarios: in class, in recitation sections, for students to review whenstudying, and during faculty training workshops (to provide faculty with ideas for ways
progress nearly a full position of thedesired total of four, this is certainly a significant contribution.The research summarized in this section shows that the Perry scheme is a useful tool for bothanalyzing curricular reforms as well as shaping them. The purposes of this study embrace bothof these goals. Early results from the overall longitudinal and cross-sectional study, such asthose reported in this paper, will provide benchmarking data for engineering faculty andadministrators. The second set of studies cited show that this benchmarking data can thenspecifically and effectively inform overall curricular reforms.MethodResearch Design. The data collection for this study is part of a larger research study in theCollege of Engineering at the
Knowledge,” Handb. Sci. Technol. Stud., p. 377, 2008.[20] R. Duschinsky, “Tabula Rasa and Human Nature,” Philosophy, vol. 87, no. 4, pp. 509– 529, 2012.[21] S. M. Wilson and P. L. Peterson, “Theories of Learning and Teaching: What Do They Mean for Educators? Working Paper.,” Natl. Educ. Assoc. Res. Dep., 2006.[22] M. G. Jones and L. Brader-Araje, “The impact of constructivism on education: Language, discourse, and meaning,” Am. Commun. J., vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 1–10, 2002.[23] E. Wenger, Communities of practice: learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.[24] C. D. Wylie, “‘I just love research’: Beliefs about what makes researchers successful,” Soc. Epistemol., 2018.[25] A. L
Shew Associate Professor, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia TechMarie C. Paretti (Professor) Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she is Associate Director of the Virginia Tech Center for Coastal Studies and Education Director of the interdisciplinary Disaster Resilience and Risk Management graduate program. She received a B.S. in chemical engineering and an M.A. in English from Virginia Tech, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on communication and collaboration, design education, and identity (including race, gender, class, and other demographic identities) in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER
to increase renewable energy use in the Island. A contribution towards addressing part of the challenges facing PV energy is to reduce the time and costs related to administrative processes, interconnection, as well as addressing planning and zoning issues. As a follow-up to the ARET study Dr. O’Neill and Dr. Irizarry led a rooftop solar challenge project under DOE’s SunShot Initiative. Three graduate students and six undergraduate students participated in this project. The team identified, analyzed, and provided best practices that could overcome processing and planning obstacles that impede a faster growth of rooftop PV systems. All the recommendations presented in the final report would have a great impact on Puerto Rico’s PV market; for
, resulting in poorer performanceand diminished interest in pursuing technical careers.2, 6 Although there is a rising demand forelectrical and electronic goods, foreign competition for electronic products and increasing use ofengineering services performed in other countries are negatively impacting employment growthin the U.S. In contrast, the number of graduating engineers in other countries is on the rise – nowplacing the U.S. behind China, Japan and India.7 Page 10.1351.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for
. Order for management (zakaz NA upravlenie), (1967).4 Abramo, G., D’Angelo, C. A. & Di Costa, F. University-industry research collaboration: a model to assess university capability. Higher Education 62, 163-181, doi:10.1007/s10734-010-9372-0 (2010).5 Motohashi, K. & Muramatsu, S. Examining the university industry collaboration policy in Japan: Patent analysis. Technology in Society 34, 149-162, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2012.02.006 (2012).6 Gatson, J. M. INDUSTRY–UNIVERSITY ENGAGEMENT IN MULTICULTURAL ENGINEERING PROGRAMS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY, Kansas State University, (2015).7 Pertuze, J. A., Calder, E. S., Greitzer, E. M. & Lucas, W. A. Best practices for industry
development of a new practice-based curriculum and physicalfacilities for product realization and manufacturing. The major goal is to provide animproved educational experience that emphasizes the interdependency of manufacturingand design in a business environment. The overall outcome intended to graduate betterengineering professionals exhibiting the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in thehighly competitive world of today and tomorrow. The key element in this approach isactive learning: the combination of curriculum revitalization coordinated with hands-onexperiences. Thus, the gap is reduced between traditional lecture vs laboratory, academia Page
, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). She served the NSF ADVANCE grant initiatives as a co-Principal Investigator, working to improve practices to recruit and retain women of color in STEM and enhance institutional climate at USD. Other current research grants support pathways for veterans in higher edu- cation, and the NSF program called, ”Revolutionizing Engineering & Computer Science Departments.” Her co-authored books include The Borderlands of Education (with Susan Lord), Mentoring Faculty of Color, and Beginning a Career in Academia: A Guide for Graduate Students of Color. She is past-Vice President (2017) of the Pacific Sociological Association, and an appointed consultant to the American Sociological
AC 2012-4605: INTEGRATING POWER ENGINEERING INTO MIDDLEAND HIGH SCHOOL MATH CURRICULUMSMr. Mark Vincent Abbott, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Mark Abbott obtained his B.S. degree from the University of California, Davis, in biomedical engineering. He is now a graduate student at California State University, Los Angeles, studying electrical engineering. Abbott’s main interests are in power and systems engineering. His research involves improving efficiency of residential vertical axis wind turbines by developing a control algorithm for an adaptive, power sensing, and pulse-width-modulation (PWM) controller. As an IMPACT LA Fellow, Abbott works closely with teachers from LAUSD to develop hands-on
current issues, excite student interest in finding solutions to challenges that face theirgeneration, and engage students in learning the required skills to solve these problems.Never has it been more important to engage more students in science and engineering than intoday’s society where the demand for engineers is expected to significantly exceed the supply inthe near future1. Concurrent to this growing deficit in technically-trained workers is the rapiddiversification of our population. In order to fill the gap, people from diverse backgrounds willneed to be motivated to choose engineering as a career choice2. Extensive research shows thatone way to engage students is to connect problems to societal impact by integrating the “humanelement
by mostASP students.This paper proceeds as follows. First, we discuss how the practices used by ASP at our institutionand the research literature informed our approach to designing the new ASP lab sections. Then,we discuss the design and implementation of these lab sections. Next, we examine the success ofthese lab sections in fostering a sense of connectivity among ASP students through studentpre/post survey data. Finally, we reflect on strengths and areas for improvement and discuss nextsteps to continue creating a more equitable course.BackgroundOur CS1 course enrolls 600-1,200 students per semester. While the course is targeted towardstudents with no prior programming experience, our students come from a wide range ofcomputer programming
inclusive classroom. The teaching fellows arecurrently writing up their results for FIE submission. The Research Faculty Fellows meet weekly to plan and design classroom experiments in theirown classroom, write NSF proposals, and give feedback on each other's work and publications. Manyof the participants found the training on how to write strong research proposals highly valuable andcommented that the group provided valuable insight and feedback into the proposal writing process.The grant writing training includes tips and guidelines for how to write a research proposal, plan atimeline, budget the project, involve the best collaborators, and create project management andpersonnel documents such as a biosketch and facilities description
STEM education.Prof. Nicholas P. Langhoff, Skyline College Nicholas Langhoff is an associate professor of engineering and computer science at Skyline College in San Bruno, California. He is also a co-investigator for multiple grant projects at Ca˜nada College in Redwood City, California. He received his M.S. degree from San Francisco State University in embedded electrical engineering and computer systems. His research interests include technology-enhanced instruction, online engineering education, metacognitive teaching and learning strategies, reading apprenticeship in STEM, and the development of novel instructional equipment and curricula for enhancing academic success in science and engineering
12.1205.2IntroductionThis paper describes how a systematic effort is being carried out at the University of Missouri-Columbia, to promote student awareness of best practices in energy efficiency, reusable energy,waste reduction and productivity improvements. In particular, it illustrates how the activities of anewly established Missouri Industrial Assessment Center (U.S. Department of Energy, IACProgram) in the College of Engineering can be logically integrated with both graduate andundergraduate engineering education in this regard.Missouri Industrial Assessment CenterWith the backing of the U.S. Department of Energy, and in partnership with the Missouri StateDepartment of Natural Resources (MoDNR), the State Department of Economic Development,the University of
, and published an Engineering Thermodynamics textbook in 1990. His current research includes engineering education pedagogical research, the study of electrostatic energy generation in moving dielectric materials, and general applications of non-equilibrium thermodynamics.William Keat, Union College William D. Keat is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Union College. Professor Keat earned BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has taught numerous courses in design from the freshman to the graduate level and conducts research in the area
Bank of Chicago [now J.P. Morgan Chase], where he founded and managed the bank’s market leading professional Cash Management Consulting Group, initiated the bank’s non-credit service product man- agement organization and profit center profitability programs and was instrumental in the breakthrough EDI/EFT payment system implemented by General Motors. Dr. Ferguson is a graduate of Notre Dame, Stanford and Purdue Universities, a special edition editor of the Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship and a member of Tau Beta Pi.Dr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018
does not have designated meeting times. The courseis delivered in a variety of formats including online videos, professional events/presentations, in-person workshops, and an organized, guided mentors program. Students earn 0.5 credit persemester for a mandatory total of three credits earned for the first three years of the CareerCompass program.The overall goals of Career Compass are to provide professional guidance and to develop a senseof personal awareness within each student such that he/she proactively searches for and finds apost-graduation career path best suited to his/her professional interests and personal aspirations.Development of the Career Compass ProgramCurrently, many technical institutions and colleges of engineering offer a
in the elds of engineering mechanics, robotics and control systems; precision agriculture and remote sensing; and biofuels and renewable energy. Dr.Nagchaudhuri received his bachelors degree from Jadavpur University in Calcutta, India with a honors in Mechanical Engineering in 1983, thereafter, he worked in a multinational industry for four years before joining Tulane University as a graduate student in the fall of 1987. He received his M.S. degree from Tulane University in 1989 and Ph.D. degree from Duke University in 1992.Dr. Corinne Johnson Rutzke, Corinne Rutzke Dr. Corinne Johnson Rutzke is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Biological and Envi- ronmental Engineering at Cornell University
. Prior to joining UCR, she was a postdoctoral fellow at UC-Berkeley and received her doctorate from Stanford University. She was named a University of California Provost’s Engineering Research Faculty Fellow, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, a DARE Doctoral Fellow, and a Stanford Graduate Science and Engineering Fellow. Eskandari is a recipient of ASEE’s Early Engineering Educator Award and the prestigious K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders of Higher Education Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021To Inhibit or Invite: Collaboration From Far AwayAbstractThis
to address soft skills such as leadership,negotiation, and empathy. In the Construction Management program housed in the School ofEngineering at our institution, a pilot course titled Strategic Responses to Cyclical Environmentsis being offered. Students’ careers and their ability to make an impact in firms will be enhancedby leveraging their increased understanding of competitive advantage, positioning, and strategicplanning via this course.In response to the boom and bust cycle typical of the Architecture / Engineering / Construction(AEC) industry, students are learning to gather and process ambiguous information while forgingmeaningful plans for the future. Intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial initiative, tough analyticalthinking
. Since 2006, entering freshman take an “Introduction to Engineering” course, a two credithour course that meets the university’s “freshman experience” requirement. The course also givesfreshman engineers an introduction to the engineering profession, engineering design, differentengineering disciplines, and critical thinking. In the fall of 2011, there were 450 students in 12 sectionstaught by an instruction team of four faculty and six graduate teaching assistants. Critical Thinkingbecame an explicit part of the course in response to the University’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP),and the introduction to engineering course is responsible for teaching students the critical thinkingframework adopted by the university. Another significant
49 59 7. Ability to design a system, component or process to meet desired needs. 37 45 8. Ability to use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary 25 41 for engineering practice 9. Ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering. 24 25 10. Broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions 24 33 in a global and societal context. 11. Knowledge of contemporary issues. 12 27 Table 3. Survey results, in order of priority, and structured in terms of the ABET 2000 criteria. The 2nd and 3rd columns are the percentage
standard co-op plan.)3) Administer post-assessment to student cohort.Phase 51) Administer pre-assessment to student cohort.2) Provide student test group with a specific classroom activity subsequent to their co-opterm.3) Perform final assessment of co-op and classroom learning for student cohort (bothgroups).4) Determine research results and disseminate.Pilot study impact and outcomesThe outcomes of the pilot study would include one thread of this overall integration, byfocusing on a subset of selected learning outcomes and designing one corresponding set Page 14.753.6of templates and best practices for co op companies, and a complementary set ofclassroom