workers2. At the same time, it isrecognized that nanotechnology is still a developing field and nanotechnology R&D is expectedto accelerate throughout the decade3. Patents and scientific papers on nanotechnology topicsquadrupled in the last decade, and this growth has accelerated in the past couple of years4. All ofthese trends point to a need to train nanoscience researchers and scientists to continue the growthin this field and meet the nanotechnology vision for 2020 set forth by NSF3.Along with continuous advances in nanoscience and technology, educators have developeddifferent courses and programs at both undergraduate and graduate levels to attract the best andbrightest students to the field and help creation of a new work-force. Wansom
. As one of the broadestengineering majors, mechanical engineering offers training in areas that range from thermal fluidsciences to mechatronics to machine design. In the ideal program, students are also given a tasteof industry work through team activities, project-based course content, or a required engineeringwork experience. Mechanical engineering graduates have the opportunity to join any number ofindustries, and are indeed highly sought-after for their problem solving skills and technicalbreadth. Yet, mechanical engineering students are generally not provided with guidance onmatching their interests with one of the multitude of jobs or non-traditional career paths availableto them.Students are also lacking direction on skills so
course. This leads us to wonder what the impact is upon women students’ interest inan engineering career from taking a course such as ours, compared to the impact upon women’sstudents’ interest in an engineering career where the outcomes of the design process are moretangible.A second line of research may also be suggested by our course. It has been shown thatengineering students have difficulty connecting the dots between what they learn about ethicaltheory in their classes and engineering design problems (for example, see Michelfelder andJones, 2016). There is some debate within the engineering community as to whether or not ethicsis best presented through case studies or as ethical theory. Does emphasizing the process ofthinking like an
and we suspect that we arenot alone. The first task deals with communicating effectively. This task focuses on articulatingthrough format, structure, grammar and syntax. Writing specialists are best trained in teachingthis practice. The other task deals with communicating technically. This task focuses ontechnical substance, technical analysis and interpretation, and the overall use of engineeringprinciples and concepts to explain and to conclude an answer to a posed question. Technical Page 8.818.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society
skills to compete in the globalbusiness environment when they meet with international business leaders on their travels abroad.They interact with America’s best entrepreneurs to learn business strategies. They design,implement, and lead a business project that aims to be the best of its kind in the world. They aretreated to guest lectures in the classroom and a year-long series of business workshops held bysome of the Northwest’s most successful business leaders. See Appendix 2 for descriptions ofthe three courses in the E-Scholars program.E-Scholars travel both domestically and abroad to meet business leaders across the globe. Allstudents travel to New York, where they meet with companies, consultants, non-profits andgovernment agencies, to
and has resulted in many publications (see https://sites.google.com/view/chenderson). He is a Fulbright Scholar and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Dr. Henderson is the senior editor for the journal ”Physical Review Physics Education Research” and has served on two National Academy of Sciences Committees: Under- graduate Physics Education Research and Implementation, and Developing Indicators for Undergraduate STEM Education.Dr. Daniel Collier, Western Michigan University Daniel (Dan) is an alum of Bradley University, Roosevelt University, and The University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign - and currently serves as a post-doctoral researcher for the Center for Research on In- structional Change in
and act globally’. The transitionfrom STEM to STEAM can have that global impact by leveraging the arts as a way to communicate andconnect globally.Key words: Art, aesthetics, design in engineering, expressive and sensory qualities, form.IntroductionAesthetics as a subject of formal study in higher education was first emphasized by John Dewey for theUS schools. Dewey referred to art as an experience between the artist, the work of art and its observer[1]. Each time an observer looks at Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, a new Mona Lisa is born. Art is acontinuum from the germination of an idea to the culmination of a complex creation in its supremeform. Aesthetics is a common thread in this process which is essentially a process of the
classes, conduct research, andinteract with departmental faculty, staff, and other graduate students, the climate they experienceand the support they receive at the departmental level can have a major impact on their success.When interventions address students directly, once they graduate, there may be no lasting changein the department. However, when faculty attitudes and mentoring practices along withdepartmental processes and procedures change, the changes are likely to be more sustainable.Using institutional theory as the analytical lens, the purpose of this paper is to examine how onecollaborative project implements a faculty-led institutional change model for diversifying theSTEM professoriate. Each participating doctoral granting
surface or deep levelprocessing) to study the impact of collaboration in these online learning environments, Pena-Shaff and Nicholls, (2004), [11].To be truly effective, safety culture and community learning structures must be built to facilitatethe interaction of researchers, educators and students from multiple disciplines. This effort isaimed at integrating multiple interests into one community, a community of safety practice. Inaddition, educational programs must be recast to produce a new breed of researcher prepared andsuited to working at the interface of multiple disciplines, thereby creating a second type ofintegration, a new learning community. However, several barriers must be overcome to achieveboth forms of integration effectively
scarcity ofinformation exist regarding the role of women engineers in the Arab world. The lack ofinformation about the integration of women into the workforce suggests the need formore studies investigating the status of female engineers in the Arab societies. Whileenrolment statistics of women in engineering in some Arab countries are impressive6 suchas in Bahrain (32%) and in Kuwait (49%), information about the career paths whichwomen engineers follow from enrolment till practicing the engineering career is not wellunderstood. Page 25.1482.2For the purpose of this research, Lebanon was considered as a case study. Lebanon hasone of the best educational
moved from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he was the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, in 2010. Tryggvason received his doctorate from Brown University in 1985 and spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Courant Institute. After fifteen years as a professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Michigan, he moved to WPI in 2000. He has also held short term visiting positions at Caltech, NASA Lewis Engineering Research Center, University of Marseilles, and University of Paris VI. Professor Tryg- gvason is well known for his research on numerical simulations of multiphase and free-surface flows, vortex flows, and flows with phase changes. He is an
priority. As with many fields, thisdevelopment has the potential of impacting the teaching models and content of architecturalcourses and related research endeavors. This paper offers a case study of how a variety ofenvironmental-analysis technologies have been integrated within specific technical coursework,student research, and how the resulting feedback has been made visible to the student body andgeneral public.IntroductionIn Winter 2010, a team of NDSU College of Engineering and Architecture faculty and staffdeveloped a proposal for an NDSU Student Technology Fee Grant.1 The proposal, titled“Technology for Feedback,” aimed to benefit students both within and outside of NDSU’sprofessional architecture and mechanical engineering degree programs
won best paper at the Annual ASEE conference in both Design in Engineering Education Division and the Professional Interest Council 5 (PIC V) for her research in Inclusive Team-based learning. In 2023, she won the Northeastern Inaugural Global Educator Award for her impactful work developing and running international educational programs. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work-In-Progress: Integrating Sustainability Across the Chemical Engineering CurriculumAbstractThe United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development represents a global commitmentto addressing the world's most pressing economic, social, and environmental challenges with
, at the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS). Dr. Ilhem F. Hakem joined the Colloids, Polymers and Surfaces (CPS) Program and the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 2018 as Teaching Professor to support and expand the educational activi- ties of the CPS Program. This involves teaching of undergraduate and graduate level courses, supervising undergraduate and Master students in research projects related to soft materials and finally develop and get involved in K-12 outreach activities. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: A Summer Outreach Program in Chemical Engineering Emphasizing
. Ayala spent three years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Delaware where he expanded his knowledge on simulation of multiphase flows while acquiring skills in high performance parallel computing and scientific computation. Before that, Dr. Ayala hold a faculty position at Universidad de Oriente at Mechanical Engineering Department where he taught and developed graduate and undergraduate courses for a number of subjects such as Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Multiphase Flows, Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machinery, as well as Mechanical Engineering Laboratory courses. In addition, Dr. Ayala has had the opportunity to work for a number of engineering consulting companies, which have
ethics and service learning. If students need to learn tobe responsible to society, the arguments go, then students need to take more courses in ethicsand/or take courses that feature a service learning dimension.Ethics education for engineering students has gained new stature in the past fifteen years,spawning a movement to encourage engineering faculty to add ethical dimensions to theirtechnical courses. Resources for faculty are available at The Online Ethics Center forEngineering and Science. According to Whitbeck, the best approach to teaching ethics toengineering students is to adopt a “’hands on,’ ‘practice-oriented,’ ‘experiential,’ or ‘activelearning approach”: The active learning exercises should be chosen so that over the course
thatapproach because it consistently notes that there is no difference in time regarding theexamination of objectives and outcomes. Further, general models 5,6 provide for a one-dimensional assessment practice. That is, collect and analyze the data then make curriculummodifications to rectify any problems identified through data analysis 7. As a refinement of thegeneral models, assessment experts argue that the process of data triangulation, collection ofthree sets of data to examine the same phenomenon, strengthens the validity of assessmentresults 4,8.Recent research on evaluating engineering program effectiveness has focused on the portion ofthe ABET standards mandated in EC 2000 related to demonstrating achieving student outcomes9 . Examination
long learners’ and stay current with rapidly advancing technical changes and global competitive needs. • Provide graduates that are not only excellent problem solvers, but also exemplary communicators and top shelf team players.OIT works closely with Boeing to evolve a tailored program for advancing MMET students whoare full time Boeing employees and set up the times so that jobs are not impacted and classes are Page 11.1175.3provided right at the Boeing site. The course work also weaves in many of the specific needs ofBoeing such as ‘lean manufacturing’, advanced material understanding in composites andmethods of designing
experiences for first year studentsa. By 1982, over 175 educators acrossthe country came together to discuss first-year seminars, and the following year the AnnualConference on the Freshman Year Experience was born. Today, an effective first-yearexperience has been identified as a high impact educational practice by the Association ofAmerican Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Although these experiences differ significantlyfrom university to university, ranging anywhere from a single course specifically taken in themajor itself, through more involved practices including live-learn communities, Kuh emphasizesthe most influential points of a first-year experience include a “strong emphasis on criticalinquiry, frequent writing, information literacy
Paper ID #40178The Effect of In-Person versus Pre-recorded Final Presentations onStudent Learning Outcomes and EngagementJulie Leonard-Duke, University of Virginia Julie Leonard-Duke is a current graduate student in Biomedical Engineering at UVA highly interested in engineering education research. During her undergraduate degree at Georgia Tech, Julie was involved with engineering education research in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Center for Aca- demic Success. Additionally, Julie was named a University Innovation Fellow and through her training at the Stanford Design School designed a new
. The originaloffering was cohort-based and it employed a weekend format; meeting from Friday throughSunday. The cohort met three times a semester, twice in the summer semester, for a total of fivesemesters (Fall, Spring, Summer, Fall and Spring). After 22 months, all members of the initialcohort format graduated in the May 2000 graduation ceremony. Because of its non-traditionalapproach, the state’s authorization included the establishment of a different fee structure thannormal on-campus classes which resulted in a program cost that was higher than traditional on-campus equivalent programs.The Center for Professional Studies in Technology and Applied Research (ProSTAR) wasapproved by Purdue University under the College of Technology as an
their Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute (HSyE) as a post- doctoral research fellow. Native from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dayna graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus (¡Colegio!) and then she completed a master’s and PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of South Florida in Tampa. Being Hispanic and an engineer herself, Dayna has a passion for increasing Hispanic representation in STEM. She currently lives with her husband Andrés, their two sons David and Sebastián, and their miniature schnauzer Lucca in Winter Garden, Florida.Esther Gonzalez (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Inc
among these demandsis the call for outfitting students – the future workforce – with so-called 21st-century skills [3].Most notably, these include skills of abstract thinking, critical reasoning, technicalcommunication, teamwork, lifelong learning, creativity, and leadership. A critical line ofresponse to equipping students with these skills has been pedagogical advances and instructionalinnovation at the course and curriculum levels. Student-centric, active-learning, and experientialeducational practices – such as flipped classes, project-based courses, undergraduate research,and work-integrated learning – have emerged as effective tools for supporting students’professional skill development in line with expectations of the modern workplace [4
statisticallysignificant difference at α = 0.05. It should be noted that these grades are reasonable for agraduate course since a C is generally considered unsatisfactory at the graduate level. As ameasure of practical significance, the experienced instructor’s assessment of student quality isthat the latter class was on average a weaker group—which makes their better performance evenmore significant. The students learned the material in a better way using modern tools, in a waythey will remember better, and in a way that will help them get a job. This is far more importantthan the improved test scores.The students were highly engaged in the 2013 class; they felt that learning the material usingspreadsheets was a job skill that they could market. This was
. His PhD work at CU Boulder focused on how student’s con- nections of social responsibility and engineering change throughout college as well as how engineering service is valued in employment and supported in the workplace.Dr. Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines Jessica M. Smith is Associate Professor in the Engineering, Design & Society Division at the Colorado School of Mines and Director of Humanitarian Engineering Graduate Programs. Her research and teach- ing bring anthropological perspectives to bear on questions of social responsibility and engineering. In 2016 the National Academy of Engineering recognized her Corporate Social Responsibility course as a national exemplar in teaching engineering
technical currency issues via faculty development activities!” • “Every faculty member should be encouraged to complete several classes from the education department to assist in the development of teaching skills. The skill of teaching young men and women is not automatically obtained…” • “We need easy and rapid dissemination of best practices as found by educational research centers.” • “Why educate our students to a standard that is ten years old? …Wouldn’t it be better to educate our students for the standard that will exist ten years in the future? How can this be done without technical currency?” • “Resources are the key, you can have all the policies and good intentions you want but
. Hiring the Next Generation of Faculty, volume 2010(152). New Directions for Community Colleges, 2011. [4] M Bernardine Dias, Brett Browning, G Ayorkor Mills-Tettey, Nathan Amanquah, and Noura El-Moughny. Undergraduate robotics education in technologically underserved communities. In Proceedings 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 1387–1392. IEEE, 2007. doi: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363178. [5] Michael Rosenblatt and Howie Choset. Designing and implementing hands-on robotics labs. IEEE Intelligent Systems and their Applications, 15(6):32–39, 2000. doi: 10.1109/5254.895856. [6] Glen R Rasmussen. An evaluation of a student-centered and instructor-centered method of conducting a graduate course in
interdisciplinary skills, context to design impacts and real-worldmanagement structure. Such projects benefit the University and its students. They give students real worldexperience with core knowledge in a variety of technical and specific discipline domains [4]. They 2provide a real-world testbed for engaging first-hand the real-world challenges of communityimplementation [5]. Moreover, PBL provides a network of connections and experiences that students canbuild on as they finish their college degrees and take their next steps into graduate school or careers [4].As was shown by Strand, this has many advantages over other kinds of experiential or
Teacher Education Program (MCCE), and the Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU - CRA-WP). Dr. Dillon currently serves as a Co-PI for the STARS Computing Corps, which recently has been renewed for funding by NSF. He has also conducted a Faculty in Residency at Google during the summer of 2018 to learn more about this company’s culture, practices, and to understand the expectations for candidates (e.g. aspiring CS majors) who pursue career opportunities at this company and related prominent companies in tech.Zubayer Ahmed Sadid, Florida International University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Educational Expertise: Faculty Insights on Preparing Computing
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