publication, or 3)submitted and under consideration for publication.The required internship is an opportunity for the student to apply the knowledge gained in thedoctoral program to a practical, career-related area. This internship is educational in nature and isinitiated by application and may be fulfilled in either an industrial or educational organization. Theintern works in industry or cooperating agency with supervision from the advisor. The internship maybe related to the dissertation topic, or provide a capstone experience for the doctoral student.Research activities encompass investigative study of a research topic related to the student’s researchinterest, writing research proposals, reporting of research findings, and statistical
approaches such as project-based learning and flipped classroom. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024An Exploratory Analysis of an Electrical Engineering Technology Curriculum using Bernstein’s Instructional DiscourseAbstractThis paper analyzes the undergraduate electrical engineering technology curriculum at anengineering technology college at a private R2 (based on Carnegie Classification) university inthe USA. The purpose of this analysis is to identify key elements of the curriculum being studiedincluding selection, sequencing, pacing of the course content, and evaluation criteria. Data forthis work include the undergraduate plan of study, course outlines, and course syllabi for
learning, engineering, the social sciences, and technology, particularly sus- tainability, designing open-ended problem/project-based learning environments, social computing/gaming applications for education, and problem solving in ill-structured/complex domains.Dr David F Radcliffe, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. David Radcliffe is the Kamyar Haghighi head and Epistemology Professor of Engineering Education in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue. His research focuses on the nature of engineering; engineering habits of mind, how engineering knowledge is created and shared and how it is learned especially outside the classroom. Over the past 20 years he has conducted field research on the practice of
scanners and other mobile devices in Holtsville, N.Y. His largely experimental research is focused on parametric studies of novel lightweight composites and simulations of functionally-graded materials under load.Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University VIKRAM KAPILA is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY, where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Re- mote Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests are in cooperative control
general safety practices within a six month period, or suspension oreven immediate termination because of breaking safety related rules and/or policy. TheState of Michigan (2008) has documentation that states that the safety and health ruleswill uniformly enforce disciplinary action among partnering employers on their projects.It further states that employees who fail to work in a safe manner will be automaticallydismissed from a project due to the deliberate violation of safety rules or safety policiesand procedures. Therefore, it is important that an organization develops a technique tohelp employees to adhere to their safety rules or policy17. a. Application of Creativity Concept/Technique: PPC Technique An idea generated to reduce
their field ofexpertise. This can only be achieved by breaking down walls of isolation between specialtieswithin engineering disciplines and with other relevant disciplines such as business andmarketing.ConclusionsThe difference in focus between engineering and technology programs has grown increasinglywide as they attempt to differentiate themselves. As engineering programs become increasinglybased on engineering science, the practical component of traditional engineering curricula growsweaker. In many programs it is reduced to a single senior capstone project conducted withclassmates of the same discipline. Throughout all levels of the system, both industry andacademia, over-specialization has created an environment in which cross
Paper ID #40858Speaker Nonverbal Unintentionality: An OpenPose Intervention forEngineering StudentsDr. Luke LeFebvre, University of Kentucky Dr. Luke LeFebvre is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Kentucky. He has taught public speaking for over two decades, directed the foundational communication course, and man- aged an institutional communication training center. His research explores classroom communication and instructional processes. He has partnered on several interdisciplinary collaborative projects and received external funding from the National Science Foundation and National
class exercises,work is always done with this scenario as the foundation. In classes for majors, this is usually thereverse; students learn the tools first and apply them to real problems as capstone projects. Wefind our approach for the course yielded greater outcomes than the approach that is usuallyeffective for majors. Even though this reverse strategy seems sensible, students can still getdiscouraged or disengaged with some bland material. To address this and assure sustainableengagement in lessons, we use strategies we described in active learning: gamification and two-way teaching.4.1 Assignment Design based on GamificationThe gamification case study we present is a group assignment that focuses on protocol design.Through its completion
proposed that actualengineering examples and reporting of case-studies should be used. Similarly Gao [10] discussedthe Task-Based-Instruction and the Project-Based-Instruction pedagogies as learner-centeredapproaches to teach technical writing, the former being based on assigned writing tasks for eachlesson, typically to a student team, while the latter utilizes a team-project for most of thesemester. He emphasized that the core or focus for either approach is not the learning of anystructure and grammar points, but instead communicating the tasks involved in technical writing,although language proficiency still helps students, as it improves student completion of the tasks.Several innovative approaches have been proposed to teach technical
educational structures and practices, to recognize,confront, and address the harms of settler colonialism and anti-Indigeneity (e.g. [7]).Our focus on four distinct transdisciplinary approaches reflected the conference’s theme, but alsospoke to the sometimes amorphous identity of the SIG itself. The SIG is made up of membersworking in non-traditional engineering education spaces, including projects and initiativesfocusing on sociotechnical knowledge and humanistic engineering, arts and humanitiesintegration within core engineering curricula, communication and teamwork instruction,transdisciplinary integration of leadership, and decolonizing engineering education. Itsmembership includes engineers who have developed transdisciplinary research and
projects can foster the inclusion of students with learning disabilities (Daniela and Lytras, 2019; Nanou and Karampatzakis, 2022). In the case of tertiary education, industrial-scale robots are used to prepare students for careers in industry by emphasizing aspects such as hardware, software, and human-machine interfaces (Nagai, 2001; Brell-Çokcan and Braumann, 2013). However, industrial-scale robots are expensive to purchase. In addition, there is usually some oversight over their usage due to time-sharing and to prevent damage, which prevents "free-play" by students. Some solutions to this include the use of miniature robots and the use of online labs (Mallik and Kapila, 2020; Stein and Lédeczi, 2021). Though these reduce the cost of the setups
situations using inquiry, project-based instruction, andincrease opportunities for student collaboration and communication. This paper describes theinnovative use of a motion simulation-based framework to provide active student participation inauthentic engineering experiences for learning about dynamic systems. The project’s theoreticalunderpinnings are based on situated learning where new educational material is presented in anauthentic context, and social interaction and collaboration are required for learning to occur.Through a learner-centered approach, students use physical simulation and large-scalevisualization to discover the impact that design decisions have on a dynamic system, whilegaining hands-on experience in configuring and operating
Paper ID #21024Development of a Survey Instrument to Evaluate Student Systems Engineer-ing AbilityDiane Constance Aloisio, Purdue University Diane Aloisio is a PhD candidate in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. Her research concentrates on taking a systems approach to finding the common causes of systems engineering accidents and project failures. Diane received a dual BS degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from University at Buffalo in New York.Dr. Karen Marais, Purdue University Dr. Karen Marais’ educational research focuses on improving systems engineering education. She is
Paper ID #25342Institutional Agents’ Roles in Serving Student Veterans and Implications forStudent Veterans in EngineeringDr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded MIDFIELD
resources, and determining how to solve thechallenges of setting up a secure and viable network. The capstone event for students whoparticipated in the IT club is a two-day cyber defense competition (CDC) on the Iowa StateUniversity campus. During the remote setup, the high school students were able to log into achat room and ask for guidance or clarification from college students supporting the equipmenton campus. These chat conversations were logged and this paper utilizes content analysis toquantitatively analyze the chat conversations in terms of the students progressing throughBloom’s taxonomy. The results demonstrated that students were in the Applying, Analyzing andEvaluating stages of learning, showing that the students did perform active
minimize the effects ofnegative social identification can provide socialization opportunities to students. Additionally,establishing self-belief in engineering students can be accomplished by socialization of students;allowing them to observe one another’s goal setting and accomplishing those goals will allowthem to model their behaviors after each other. Consider long-term, independent projects thatmodel professional projects which require incremental goal setting and accomplishments; oftenthese take place in capstone or senior design projects, but introduction to these types of projectsearlier not only expose students to various types of engineering careers, but also allow them toexercise self-belief in lower-stakes opportunities.Finally, one
participant, but they will also gatherpersonal documents and observe their actions to fully understand their experience. In the caseof education, narrative analysis can be used to understand a group of students' experiences in acertain class, project, or discipline.Kellam et. al's [13] study expands on Polkinghorne's [20] narrative analysis and analysis ofnarratives by testing three data synthesis methods specific to engineering education research.The first method, thematic analysis, is focused on interpreting data to produce themes relatingto the topic of interest. In this method, the researcher's themes are embedded throughout thepresentation of the narrative, providing the reader with a clear depiction of the researcher'sinterpretation. The second
: An Interview-Based Study of Ethics FrameworksAbstractUnderstanding institutional leaders’ perspectives on ethics frameworks can help us betterconceptualize where, how, and for whom ethics is made explicit across and within STEM relateddisciplines and, in turn, to better understand the ways developing professionals are enculturatedtoward responsibility within their disciplines. As part of an NSF-funded institutionaltransformation project, our research team conducted interviews with academic leaders about theframeworks of ethics in their home departments, programs, and fields. This paper reports on aseries of eleven (11) interviews whose content describes the perspectives of disciplinary leadersfrom biology, chemistry, computer science
Paper ID #37847A Strategic Curriculum Design for an IntroductoryEngineering Course to Encourage Self-Empowerment ofMinority StudentsVictor Manuel Garcia (Research Associate) Victor Garcia holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Victor is currently a research civil engineer at the US Army – Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, MS. He leads research projects sponsored by the US Department of Defense that focus on improving the design and construction practices for military transportation installations. Victor has been also collaborating with UTEP faculty on
, Missouri. 10.18260/1-2--8765.Ordonez, R., & Benavidez, H., & Marchese, A. J., & Newell, J. A., & Schmalzel, J. L., & Sukumaran, B., & Ramachandran, R., & Haynes, J. (2000, June), A Pedagogical Concept Of Integrating Multidisciplinary Design And Technical Communication Paper presented at 2000 Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri. 10.18260/1-2- 8621.Pinkus, R. A., & Simmons, C. A. (2000, June), Professional Writing Seminar For Engineering Students: A Pilot Project And Evaluation Paper presented at 2000 Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri. 10.18260/1-2--8638.Ray, J. L. (2000, June), The Unrecognized Side Of Senior Capstone Design Paper presented at 2000 Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri
an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Educa- tion / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions, specifically on design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Prof. Eva Chi, University of New Mexico Eva Chi is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological
of K-12, program evaluation and teamwork practices in engineering education. His current duties include assessment, team development, outreach and education research for DC Col- orado’s hands-on initiatives.Dr. Chris Swan, Tufts University Chris Swan is Dean of Undergraduate Education for the School of Engineering and an associate pro- fessor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Tufts University. He has additional appointments in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engage- ment, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can
you choose to do?My interest in interdisciplinarity stems from my experiences as an undergraduate engineeringstudent. My senior capstone project involved working on an interdisc iplinary design projectfocused on designing and developing a vertical takeoff and lift system (VTOL). The problem wasdefined in the context of a 2040 urban rescue. There were four different disciplines involved—industrial and systems engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering,and aerospace engineering. Tensions arose throughout the project among the mechanical andaerospace engineers, including instances where I was left unsure of how I fit besides sharing myknowledge about anthropometric dimensions when designing with ergonomics in mind
core competencies of creativity through in-class activities and games, as well as assignedwork. In addition, the students study and implement various methodologies of creative problemsolving through various problems and product development assignments. Teamwork isemphasized and each student is given at least two opportunities to act as a team leader during aproblem solving or product development project. All students’ leadership skills are both self-assessed and assessed by each team member.On the first day of the course, the students were surveyed on their general perceptions ofcreativity, problem solving, teamwork , leadership, the role of creativity in engineering, and theirpersonal view on their own creativity. After the course, the same
– innovative design and entrepreneurship, engineering modeling, and global competency in engineering. She is currently associate editor for the AEE Journal.Dr. Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette Nathalie Duval-Couetil is the Director of the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, Associate Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University. She is responsible for the launch and devel- opment of the university’s multidisciplinary undergraduate entrepreneurship program, which has involved over 5000 students from all majors since 2005. She has established entrepreneurship capstone, global en
understand the content ofthe design project, they are able to address the boundary between being precise and being clear.For even an experienced technical writing teacher, who might have twenty different researchtopics in a class, the ability to comment on precision is challenging. Another advantage of our approach is the depth of the content. Assuming that a student ina typical technical writing course spends 3 hours outside of class for every hour in class onassignments and assuming that 2 of those hours are spent on the writing, the student would spendat most 15 hours researching the topic of the document sequence. However, because eachstudent in Effective Engineering Writing has one entire design course (with 2 hours of largelecture and 3
Paper ID #22361Voices of the Millennial Generation: Connections Between Physics, ScientificLiteracy and Attitudes towards Future Space ExplorationMs. Danielle Roslyn Montecalvo, American University Danielle Montecalvo is a May 2018 graduate from American University in Washington, D.C. with a B.A. in International Studies and Physics. She recently served as an intern on the Space Studies Board at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and for the Office of International and Interagency Relations at NASA Headquarters, where she worked on space policy initiatives and public outreach projects. In the
learning to design teaching and learning, program content and structure, student assessment, and continuous course improvement techniques. She managed and was a key contributor to a two-year pilot project to introduce blended learning into the chemical engineering capstone design courses, and is the author of a number of recent journal, book, and conference contribu- tions on engineering education. Her research focusses on how to teach innovation and sustainable design practices to engineers and develop a curriculum reflective of engineering practice requirements. Recently she has taught a short course on how to design and teach process engineering courses to professors in Peru and workshops on Metacognition and
Paper ID #9695Faculty Perceptions of Student Engagement: A Qualitative InquiryMariaf´e Taev´ı Panizo, James Madison University Mariaf´e Panizo is a second year graduate student in JMU’s Graduate Psychology program. She has been working on engineering education research projects for one and a half years, focusing on non-cognitive factors that impact engineering student success. She is currently working on her M.A. thesis on Beliefs on Depression.Mr. John Hollander, James Madison UniversityDr. Jesse Pappas, James Madison UniversityDr. Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University OLGA PIERRAKOS is an associate professor and