electronics into theirair vehicle, writing test plans to evaluate system components, and conducting ground and flighttests for the system.1 Background In January 2003, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle System International (AUVSI)established the student unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) competition “aimed at stimulating andfostering interest in this innovative technology and encouraging careers in the field, thecompetition challenges the students to design, fabricate, and demonstrate a system capable ofcompleting a specific and independent aerial operation.”1 The Seafarer Chapter of AUVSI hoststhe annual competition during June at Webster Naval Outlying Field (Webster Field) in St. Inigoes,MD. Webster Field is an auxiliary field of Naval
continue to be under-represented infaculties of engineering and engineering workplaces [1-4], a disparity that intensifies at eachstage of an engineers’ career [5, 6]. Our primary objective in this paper is to examine anunexpected finding emerging from our study of engineering leadership—the significant over-representation of men in engineers’ identification of exemplary leaders. We explore twopossible explanations for this finding—individual women’s disinterest in leadership andstructural constraints limiting their rise. We use a post-hoc statistical analysis to examine theformer and a focused literature review to generate hypotheses about the latter.MethodologyData for this paper was drawn from larger study on engineering leadership driven by
eleven 4-year institutions in the United States from1988 to 2002. This report finds that nontraditional adult students have a reduced graduation ratecompared to traditional students, suggesting that they experience group-specific barriers.(3) Ourresearch work aims to enable faculty, administration, students, and higher education policyprofessionals in diversifying the pathways through STEM careers by contributing to the body ofknowledge about non-traditional students.For our work, an adult student is one who is 25 years or older, completing a bachelor of sciencein engineering degree. We define the traditional student as one who enrolls in a program directlyafter completing their high school years. Some traditional engineering students may take
project report at the end of the course. A general handout of "Design your Process forBecoming a World-Class Engineering Student" has been published in Appendix A of “StudyingEngineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career”11. The project challenges students to evaluatethemselves against a benchmark student—referred to as a "world-class" engineering student—based on the following objectives: 1. Setting goal(s), e.g. which major to pursue, graduating with an engineering degree, etc. 2. Developing a strong commitment to the goal of graduating in engineering, setting-up a plan to graduation 3. Being prepared to deal with inevitable adversity 4. Managing various aspects of personal life including interactions with family and friends
difference between a successful and a failing career, team, or even corporation. In the lastdecade there have been efforts such as those by the Association of American Colleges and Universities(AAC&U) to advance broad- based systemic innovation to build and sustain strong undergraduateeducation in the STEM fields.Our group is in the early stages of an innovative initiative to provide alternative communication andhumanities learning environments in STEM higher education. The group consists of faculty from severalacademic units including liberal arts, libraries, and technology. One of the learning experiences currentlybeing tested involves the tight coupling of all forms of interpersonal communication, and informationliteracy with technological
17Basic engineering background, professional development resources 16Links to local as well as global communities of practice 16Expert and user interface exchange of ideas, best practices, resources, and opportunities 16in engineeringResources such as “tangible” lesson plans, affordable curriculum, time estimates, and 16formal assessmentsUnderstanding engineering careers 15
learn and internalize the principles of design and to developcompetencies to help them succeed in their careers. Salient features of AME4163 include anauthentic, immersive experience and scaffolding of learning via structured assignments andlectures.Purpose: In this paper we focus on the development of competencies by students using anauthentic, immersive experience. The course is scaffolded and explicitly focuses on studentlearning and development of competencies throughout the semester. In this paper we track change-over-time of development of student competencies, specifically related to team, communication,and design process, for a better understanding of the effects of assignments on development ofcompetencies.Method: An instrument was
Paper ID #11775Does Motivation Matter for Conceptual Change: Developing Effective Qual-itative Research ApproachesDr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Matusovich is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Programs in Vir- ginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research
Cincinnati Senior Mechanical Engineering Student at the University of CincinnatiMiss Gabrielle Anne Notorgiacomo, University of Cincinnati Honors Program Gabrielle Notorgiacomo is a Biomedical Engineering Major of the Class of 2019. She has experience in MATLAB, conversational Spanish, and leadership/management. So far in her college career, she has maintained a 4.0 GPA, a spot on the Dean’s List, and membership in the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society. She is also a member of Phi Sigma Rho (commonly known as Phi Rho, the engineering sorority).Mr. Jacob Daniel Wells Page 26.649.1 c
thatdistinguish itself from the other ITL methods: (1) A relatively longer duration and amount oftime a student is involved in the research project; (2) A clearly defined research scope andobjective; and (3) Promotion of both teamwork and individual excellence. This paper describeshow I leveraged my own background and student interest to initiate the collaborative researchproject, how undergraduates participated in the research project through different avenues, andhow the experience enhanced their skills in critical analysis, problem-solving, communicationand teamwork, which positively impacts their career, regardless of whether they pursue anindustry job or an academic position after graduation.Some practices I have been promoting in undergraduate
conduct research on the ”Towards zero-energy buildings based on energy- harvesting electrochromic window (EH-ECW) and thermoelectrics (TE) systems” project, (2012-present). Associate Director, Mathematics Academy. Program creates access to engineering for educationally and economically disadvantaged students, (2011-2014). Associate Director, Engineering Discovery Days. The largest UW College of Engineering annual event brings over 8,000 students and families to campus to explore engineering through interactive activities, (2012-2014). Board President, NW Career Educators and Employers Association. Organization brings together career educators and employers to improve the economic vitality of the Pacific Northwest
major with a high level of one-on-one advising. However, a high degree of flexibility also contributes. In the LSE program,iterative revision and recreation of an individualized curriculum and career plan are understoodas signs of success rather than failure or deviation. Students are encouraged to understand anddesign their major as a “whole-person technical degree” that does not require them to pass, toassimilate, to compartmentalize, or to conform to stereotypes. We suggest that this holisticflexibility may disrupt barriers such as impostor syndrome by positioning the student not asimpostor but as designer and creator – even when enrolled in technical courses in which thesex/gender ratio is skewed male. Lessons learned from “liberal studies
HBCUdidn’t resemble the larger population - there were more African-American male engineers incomparison to the overall population. Also, she noticed that the majority of professors at herHBCU were not African American and remembered how during her exit interview she wasencouraged to become “one of those faces that you want to see”. She says: “(…) I guess places I went during (my) college career, I kinda began to see some differences and understand some of the differences when I attended my first NSBE conference. And so, in attending NSBE, you kinda notice, like there are lots of African-American males here, a lot more males than there were females. And so, to start to kinda think, um, that the gender makeup at an HBCU was, within
tools and application and having also total quality management diploma and being quality master holder dealing with all quality systems as documentation , CAPA management , RCA , facility maintenance and also ISO 9000/2008 expert in addition to being certified from Bernard Castle in UK as sterile area facility Design expert as per ISO regulations . Egyptian pharmacist graduate of 2007 who started my career as a research and development pharmacist in SEDICO pharmaceuticals in EGYPT for about 2 years dealing with new dosage forms formulation and then rotated to Methodology and stability department in which i dealt with dosage form analysis and innovation of new methods of analysis dealing with all laboratory
fault on individual students due to delayingtheir academic goals attributed to economical and personal obligations.This research critically explores some pathways of AAM engineering transfer students throughthe conceptual lens of racial and mathematical identities. This work focuses on students who arecurrently enrolled at 4-year institutions and who have attended community colleges at one pointin their academic careers in the pursuit of engineering degrees.Racial identity development research literature indicates that racial identity is based on anindividual’s perception that is shared by a common racial heritage with a particular group3,4,5,6.Research shows that African American students who have a strong racial identity are betterequipped to
Page 26.1568.2their learning, so as to attain learning levels beyond recollection and understanding.The NGSS also challenge K-12 teachers to incorporate engineering design at all grade levels.Project-based learning, in the form of engineering design projects using an analysis-informeddesign process, have been shown to increase student achievement in math and science subjectareas in studies in which teachers are trained or already familiar with the relevant pedagogicalstudies.2,3 Hirsch et al.4 found in their Pre-Engineering Instructional and Outreach Program thatmany teachers possessed limited knowledge of engineering careers and had low self-efficacy interms of preparing students for engineering careers before participating in the
American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Undergraduate Students’ Recognition and Development as ResearchersAbstractThe purpose of this work is to investigate how undergraduate engineering students perceivebeing recognized as researchers and what they identify to influence their development asresearchers. Student responses (n=21) to open-ended survey items were analyzed usingqualitative content analysis. The students who participated in this study were frombioengineering and material science and engineering departments with varying amounts ofresearch experience (one to five years) and at varying stages in their undergraduate careers(sophomore to senior). All of the students in the study self
Paper ID #11313Understanding the New Civil Engineering Program Criteria: Preparing toPrepare the Future Civil EngineerDr. Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama Kenneth J. Fridley serves as Senior Associate Dean for Administration of the College of Engineering at the University of Alabama. Previously, Dr. Fridley served as Head of the Department of Civil, Construc- tion and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama for 12 years. Dr. Fridley has been recognized as a dedicated educator throughout his career and has received several awards for his teaching efforts, including the ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil
recruited to be teachers to acquire the technical knowledge andcertifications and pedagogical skills to teach renewable energy in their classrooms; 3)develop and implement a 2+2+2 pathway through partnership with high schools anduniversities to allow students interested in renewable energy careers to have a definedcareer ladder with multiple exit points integrated with industry certifications and collegecertificate and degree attainment; 4) conduct continuous assessment and evaluation withembedded targeted research of curricular and professional development strategies toensure that student, faculty, and industry goals are attained; and, 5) disseminate both theproducts and the partnership process to maximize the impact both regionally andnationally
level or through aprofessional career. While a number of students have followed this path (including, as a non-comprehensive list, MS or PhD students within the field currently enrolled at RPI, Duke,Cornell, U. Rochester, and U. Pittsburgh), more recent cohorts are “too young” to have such dataas they are still enrolled as undergraduates. It would be helpful to follow up with theseindividuals and the others that have participated in the program to gain a better understanding ofhow this REU experience shaped their future career decisions.ConclusionsSystems medicine, or translational systems biology, is a highly diverse area of study that is stillevolving. Engineers can benefit from gaining exposure to this field as it provides novel
courses to retrain engineers for the war and post-warindustrial efforts. Similarly. the engineering enterprise contained in Seeley’s interpretation of theWickenden report has a comparable assertion.[7, 9] One of Seeley’s main critiques of Americanengineering in particular is that it had become little concerned with student self-realization orself-assessment as opposed to the specialized and more theoretical nature of Europeanengineering. Heidegger’s works span a number of important topics, but one he addresses throughouthis career is how the meaning of words is interpreted by human beings. Usually his efforts on thesubject are summarized into the question of being. One method whereby he constructs andexplores the concept of being is
technology project had a high impact in the areas oftime management, engineering career awareness and planning, research methods and techniques,critical thinking concepts, and unit systems and conversions. From previous research we haveconfirmed the fact that engineering students with the demographics of The University of Texas atEl Paso prefer a class that uses technology.Finally, from the attitudinal survey, as a whole, the majority of the students were actively engagedin the different activities required to do the 3D technology project. Comments like the followingwere written on the open-ended questions of the survey: • Question 48. What new technical and engineering concepts did you learn from this project? o “I learned how to use
engineering profession is focused on student skills developmentto meet future infrastructure demands in establishing a sustainable world and raising the globalquality of life. To meet increasing societal demands, civil engineers are required to be effectivemaster builders, skillful stewards of the environment, innovators, managers of risk, and leadersof public policy1,2. These characteristics are especially relevant to graduates entering careers inengineering. Effective application of well-constructed scholarship of instruction techniques inhigher education curriculum, play a valuable role in preparing engineering graduates to meet thehigh calling of these demands. Instructional methods that focus on active learning techniques,hands-on field
Teaching Core STEM PracticesAbstractBackground: Several of the recent reform efforts in K-12 STEM education (e.g. Next GenerationScience Standards [NGSS and Common Core State Standards-Mathematics [CCSS-M]) have includedsignificant emphasis on the practices of STEM. We argue that K-12 teachers’ ability to effectivelyengage their students in these core STEM practices is fundamental to the success of potential and currentengineering students and their subsequent careers as engineers. Practices such as identifying problems,modeling using mathematics, and arguing from evidence are fundamental processes in engineering.Helping students develop their capacity to engage in these practices early in their education will
team work. Teachers who responded that they had had outside help planning engineeringactivities were able to identify some elements of engineering but were mostly concerned withunderstanding careers and “how stuff works”. Those who claimed no experience withengineering had mixed success correctly identifying engineering and were more focused onusing it to teach other core subjects such as math, reading, and science. Interestingly, three whoclaimed they did not know about engineering identified the core elements that we would callcritical engineering skills. Shown in figure 10, the majority of participants identified coreengineering skills, while 18 participants did not know or did not answer. Core
Piedmont Megalopolis from South Carolina, North Carolina, Geor- gia and Tennessee utilizing this university-based product-development center to grow the economy and enhance the educational experience. Before Dr. Sanger entered the academic world, he had a very suc- cessful 25 year career in industry developing, launching and commercializing new technologies. Many of these technologies are now taken for granted: superconducting magnets for magnetic resonance imaging, high performance accelerator magnets for the Superconducting Super Collider, low cost power electronics for electric automobiles, high temperature power conditioning for the next generation Army tank, high power SiC switches for power utility energy
Paper ID #16477Implementing a Challenge-Inspired Undergraduate ExperienceDr. Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Marcia Pool is a Lecturer in bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In her career, Marcia has been active in improving undergraduate education through developing problem-based laboratories to enhance experimental design skills; developing a preliminary design course focused on problem identification and market space (based on an industry partner’s protocol); and mentoring and guiding student teams through the senior design capstone course and a translational
Paper ID #14566Visualization of Wave Phenomena by an Array of Coupled Oscillators ¨Dr. Gunter Bischof, Joanneum University of Applied Sciences Throughout his career, Dr. G¨unter Bischof has combined his interest in science and engineering appli- cation. He studied physics at the University of Vienna, Austria, and acquired industry experience as development engineer at Siemens Corporation. Currently he teaches Engineering Mathematics at Joan- neum University of Applied Sciences. His research interests focus on automotive engineering, materials physics, and on engineering education.Mr. Thomas Singraber B.Sc., Joanneum
research stories and II.becoming an engineering education researcher. This paper will report on section one whereparticipants were asked to submit three photos or images that they felt were good representationsof: (1) themselves before participating in the workshops, (2) where they see themselves presentlyand (3) where they hope to be in the future.Of the 21 participants that were interviewed for the follow-up to the RREE project, 18 providedthe solicited photos/images and discussed their rationale for their choice when prompted in theinterviews. The photos/images spanned the range of personal life events or interests to career andresearch endeavors.In this paper we will describe the common themes associated with the photos/images in terms ofhow
” magazine Member of the Editorial board, ”Kibertonia” magazine (Kiev, Ukraine) Scientific Advisor, Great Russian Cyclopaedia Member of Advi- sory board, Russian Virtual Computer Museum Member IT History Society Invited lector, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technics (”Fiz-Tech”), 1999-2011 Invited lector, Hanoi University of Technology (Hanoi, Vietnam), 2005-2008 Invited lector, Hanoi Open University (Hanoi, Vietnam), 2009-2012 Awards: IEEE Computer History Competition CHC’60 Award, 2006 IEEE 2010 Student Competition Best Archi- tecture Prize, 2010 Yuri Gagarin medal from Federation of Cosmonautics of Russian, 2010 Books (in Russian): Informatics (Moscow, 2003) (with coauthors) The Career in IT (Moscow