reconfigurableelectronics with a new world of possibilities for student projects, such as robot competitions,video game design, embedded systems and more. Finally, the project will develop industry, K-12 and university partnerships to facilitate pathways to careers in the exciting field ofreconfigurable electronics for first-generation, minority and other under-served populations,including veterans. In summary, this project will provide the training and educational resourcesand promote best practices for community college, university, and high school instructors toenable them to teach new hardware technologies to a broad range of students, including thosewho have not previously had access to this level of training and career choice.The paper will address third
Technology from the Technical University of Munich, with specializations in Mechanical Engineering, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Finance. She is also an alumna scholar of the entrepreneurial qualification program at Munich’s Center for Innovation and Business Creation (UnternehmerTUM). Professionally, Nada currently works as a Senior Corporate Strategy Manager at a SaaS company. Her student practical experiences include roles as venture capital investment analyst, startup strategy consultant and entrepreneurial coach, alongside being team lead for innovation projects in the automotive industry.Dr. Helen L. Chen, Stanford University Helen L. Chen is a Research Scientist in the Designing Education Lab in Mechanical
minimized due to the adjustment.However, the core material was maintained with the breadth of the course still covered. As thiscourse serves as a core prerequisite, the removal of topics would impact follow-on courses and thefoundation for practice in engineering. The intent of reduced course material is to humanize thecourse by acknowledging that students do not comprehend the material online in the same waythey do in-person. However, this is countered by the requirements for students to have exposureto certain topics and skills. There is no right or wrong answer to this issue as both sides are equallysupported. SFSU’s CEETL has encouraged reasonable course adjustments such as changes inactivities, methods of student interactions and class topic
institutional structures of support. Identifying these factorsis critical to future growth of the STEM academic workforce and may inform policy movingforward on best practices to support women who seek to advance.Next steps in the research will focus on documenting successful strategies implemented at two-year institutions focused on developing a diverse representation of academic leaders in theSTEM higher education workforce. This includes further exploration of core questionssurrounding the factors that positively impact female academic professionals' advancement andretention in STEM-related administrative and senior-ranked positions. As institutions build moreequitable conditions for women, women have greater opportunities to move into these types
students exhibit aslight to strong preference for this mode of learning [10]–[12], and further that the technique canbe used to free up valuable class time (contact hours) for more tailored and interactivetechniques, especially active learning [13].There have been a number of articles which present suggestions or even guidelines on producinginstructional videos of varying types (e.g., lecture material, example problems/solutions,software tutorials) [14-15], and some of their best practices have been incorporated by theauthors, as shown below in the Methods section, including: keeping individual videos as short aspossible, focusing a video on no more than 3-4 learning outcomes, recording high-quality audioat sufficient volume, and more.MethodsThis
, Not So MuchAbstractThe broad objective of this research was to investigate middle school students' attitudes towards,and perceptions of, engineering and science. Additionally, the research investigated what impact,if any, long-term school-based collaboration with graduate level students from STEM disciplineshad on middle school student attitudes and perceptions of engineering and science. To capturestudent attitudes, two surveys were designed. The first assessed student attitudes towards, andperceptions of, engineering while the second assessed attitudes towards, and perceptions of,science. Surveys were administered to middle school students in science classrooms taking partin a NSF-funded Graduate STEM Fellowship in K-12 Education program
Carolina University, in 2005. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in technology management at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN. From 2004 to 2006 he worked as a Graduate Assistant with the Global Academic Initiatives program. Since 2006, he has been a Technology Support Specialist with the Information Technology and Computer Services Department at East Carolina University. His research interests include IPv6 adoption, VoIP PBX systems, and utilizing translation technologies residing in virtualized environments. Mr. Southworth is a member of the Association of Technology Management and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi and received the Certificate of Appreciation for lead
students.Palm Beach State College (PBSC): Serving more than 40,000 students, with 27.5% identifyingas Hispanic and 53% of full-time students eligible for need-based aid. PBSC offers 130 programsand 13 primary areas of study, including Computer Science & Information Technology andScience & Environment. It is a significant producer of Associate degrees and serves as a crucialpathway for students to seamlessly transfer to FAU, a requirement for participation in the presentproject.III. Student Enrollment and Graduation TrendsIII.1 National Trends in 2-Year College Enrollment and Graduation of AA STEM MajorsThe plethora of data and institutional/organizational reports provide clear evidence of the more-than-anticipated impact of Covid-19 not only on
Development. Recognizing a trend of under-represented students choosing engineeringtechnology as a major in far greater percentage than engineering, the authors developed an onlinesurvey of engineering technology students. The overall goal of this work and later research is todiscover more about engineering technology students, the choices they make, and the things theyare considering for their future.An outline was developed to address the research questions, particularly designed to assure thatanswers to the research questions would be available for analysis. A combination of multiplechoice questions were designed to obtain demographic data, while other question types wereutilized to obtain data and open-ended responses to questions relevant to
faculty to do a better job of integrating science, math and communication in the engineering curricula.17,18,19 In 1995, the National Research Council’s (NRC) Board on Engineering Education called upon all engineering colleges to provide more exposure to interdisciplinary/cross-disciplinary aspects of teamwork, hands-on experience, creative design, and exposure to “real” engineering and industrial practices, identifying integration of key fundamental concepts in science and engineering as the number-one principle for new engineering curricula and culture.20 Ideally, entire curricula would comprehensively integrate these subjects. However, integrating these subject domains into engineering is most critical at the freshman level
learn-ing from the course will be presented at the conference.The course was developed as part of a National Science Foundation grant in the Course, Curricu-lum, and Laboratory Improvement program. The course was piloted in Spring 2010. Prelimi-nary assessment efforts from this pilot offering will be presented at the conference and feedbackwill be sought from conference participants to help the researchers on the project.BackgroundThe University of Wisconsin—Platteville (UWP) is a four year comprehensive public universityenrolling 6,700 undergraduates with 2,100 students in the college of Engineering, Mathematics,and Science. The university is best known for its engineering programs, which include Civil,Environmental, Mechanical, Industrial
makes timely effective assessment and feedback a logisticalchallenge. As a result, building a knowledge base for how to successfully implement PD intolarge first-year engineering programs is appealing.Several universities are now structuring programs to include PD components earlier becausethe impact on pluralistic outcomes is clear [12]. First-year engineering and computing studentsare being exposed to environments that contextualize the curriculum. Many large universitieshave taken steps to afford their students opportunities to work with real stakeholders andindustry partners – taking part in engineering design processes, rapid prototyping, problemsolving, organizational leadership, and systems communication. But, for large lecture courses
journal has the mission of advancing and disseminating knowledge on all aspects of social and technological innovation for improved health and healthcare, with an emphasis on research addressing developing settings and with a developmental focus. Studies across a broad range of innovation activities are covered. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: design, implementation and evaluation of innovations in the global health context; development and implementation of appropriate health technologies; theories and methodologies that support health innovation practice; training and curricula in global health innovation; and interdisciplinary research that highlights the interface
platforms.Design thinking as a semi-formal method demonstrated application efficiency. This method sets atime frame and general approaches, but at the same time does not limit participants in the choiceof specific techniques. This research continues the series of studies about the future of project-based learning using design thinking published in ASEE in 2018 and 2021 (Taratukhin, 2018,2021).This paper explores innovative educational events held in pandemic and post-pandemic times bySAP University Alliances mostly in collaboration with the University of Muenster: IdeathonChallenge 2020, Virtual Research experience – International Project (VRE-IP), Bizarre IT-IDEATHON, International Conference for Information Systems and Design (ICID). For instance,VRE-IP
“screwed” insociety—in the world—by helping others. It may be impossible to look at the global aspect ofnot harming anyone, because your supervisor may fire you for not doing it the way the companywants the IE to do it.When the group defines understanding the impact of engineering solutions, then the last part ofthe outcome—in a global and societal context—seems to grow dimmer or to take on a morerestricted meaning. A mid-program student says that IEs need a broad education in order to seeopportunities for IEs within companies that would call forth their IE skills and to explain whatIEs can do for the companies. The graduating student says that with a broad education, an IE canvoice an opinion on whether it was a good engineering design and why
; Environmental Engineering students at the University ofIowa. At the end of each semester, students complete a survey to evaluate the condition of thelab, curriculum, and equipment, what they felt worked well and not so well, and to note any testsor materials that were not done which they would have liked to do. This evaluation was thensummarized and used to guide further development of the lab space and the curriculum. The useof the surveys together with significant equipment upgrades and purchases has led to asubstantial improvement in the lab experience for the students.Introduction As a “practical” profession, it can be argued that engineering is intrinsically hands-on,but at the undergraduate engineering education level, a solid laboratory
in Figure 12. Students typically account in their laboratory reports howthe lower w/c concrete mixtures are more difficult to compact in the cylinder molds than thehigher w/c mixtures. (a) (b) Figure 12. Comparison Between (a) 0.40 and (b) 0.60 W/C MixturesThis experiment also has a “real world” portion. Students are asked to provide cases where 0.40,0.50, and 0.60 w/c concrete mixtures would be used in engineering practice. This provides anopportunity for students to research engineering projects and determine what w/c is frequentlyused for certain structures (bridge beams, highway pavements, sidewalks, etc…).Concrete Curing ExperimentThe concrete curing experiment is a
Champaign Alison Kerr received a doctoral degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from The University of Tulsa. Her research interests include training development and evaluation as explored across a variety of academic disciplines and organizational settings. She is currently assisting on a number of training projects aimed at developing engineering students on relevant non-technical professional skills including ethical practice and presentation. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Chemical Engineers’ Experiences of Ethics in the Health Products IndustryAbstractWhile ethics education for chemical engineers has been emphasized, potential
developing students readily capable of participating in the workforce upon graduation. Hiringcompanies directly benefit, as these programs provide industry relevant experiences andknowledge that significantly reduce the training development time and costs to provide similarexperiences in-house. This model has worked well for decades but is challenged by rapidtechnical advances, reduced academic funding, and an expanding impetus to maintainaffordability in undergraduate education.This confluence of factors has the potential to impact the ability of universities to keep facilitiesat a state representative of current industry practice, possibly resulting in a transition towardsimulation-based experiences and a reduction in equipment-based experiences
Diversity Kona 7&8 Mohan Jr. High Urban/High DiversityCasesTo report the findings from this research, each of the 5 curricular module “cases” will bepresented. This will include a short description of each curricular module followed by adescription of how each module used content and/or context integration. Finally, a cross caseanalysis of the findings will be discussed.Human Impact on Mississippi River Recreational Area DesignThis 7-lesson curricular module aimed at 5th grade students invites students to design a way topreserve the land in a park from human impacts related to landforms, in
Education at the University of Washington, Seat- tle. Her research interests focus on the potential roles of socioeconomic status, ethnicity, gender, and other political identifiers in determining undergraduate engagement across a variety of majors, including engineering.Joanna Wright, University of Washington Joanna Wright is an M.Ed. student in Learning Sciences and Human Development at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her education research interests span early childhood through higher education, with a focus on the impact of pedagogical practices and contexts on learning and development. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Engagement Patterns Across Race, Gender
; specifically examining the impact of team interactions and gender. Arlisa's research interest includes issues of engineering recruitment, retention, and equity in science, engineering and technology,which stems from her personal academic and professional experience as an engineer. Before returning to graduate school to pursue a Doctorate degree, she worked as an engineer in the semiconductor manufacturing industry for ten years. In her current position, Director of Learning Support Services at Estrella Mountain Community College (EMCC)in Avondale,AZ, she utilizes her academic and professional background to prepare students for successful careers in the science, technology
AC 2010-610: EMPORIUM BASED REDESIGN OF STATICS: AN INNOVATIVEAPPROACH TO ENHANCE LEARNING AND REDUCE COSTSMasoud Rais-Rohani, Mississippi State University Masoud Rais-Rohani is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. He teaches courses in aircraft structures, structural mechanics, and design optimization, and his primary research activities are in the area of structural and multidisciplinary design optimization.Andrew Walters, Mississippi State University Andrew Walters is an instructor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. His primary area of teaching is undergraduate engineering mechanics courses such as Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Materials. Prior to joining
investigationson a series of engineering problems with increased complexity. Opportunities to utilize essentialpractical skills for engineers, include Data Acquisition, Data Analysis, Critical Thinking,Numerical Simulation, Problem Solving, Design of Experiments, and Communication Skills, havealso been incorporated into these lab modules. In this work, we summarize a total of nine multiple-week lab activities, which are designed to prepare students to work in fields related to both thermaland mechanical systems.Introduction and Literature ReviewThe engineering teaching laboratory is intended to be a place to integrate theory with practice. Itspurpose is widely accepted as a place to develop technical and personal skills and establishcognitive abilities to
Experience on Enrollment and Recruiting in Engineering Technology”, in 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, 2021.[8] A. M. Oliveira, “Effectively Teaching Majors And Non-Majors In Hands-On Electrical Engineering Technology Courses”, in 2013 North Midwest Section Meeting, 2021.[9] M. M. Uddin, “Best Practices in Advising Engineering Technology Students for Retention and Persistence to Graduation”, Journal of Technology, Management & Applied Engineering, vol 36, no 1, 2020.[10] G. Stefanek, N. Desai, T. Brady, and J. Guncheon, “AN INNOVATIVE BRIDGE COURSE TO ENHANCE RETENTION IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMS”, Issues in Information Systems, vol 21, no 3, pp. 83–94, 2020.[11] E. M. Dell, “Supporting
[64]. It must be cultivated by designing with the particularindividuals in mind who comprise the membership [64,65].Works in Progress: social mechanism for supporting entrepreneurial projectsAt the University of Virginia, we have been developing an informal experimental initiative thatfocuses on harnessing these peer effects through a community of practice, and have already seensome successes with only a small staff. We noticed the aforementioned gap between the increaseof entrepreneurial education programs on par with other institution’s offerings and the unaffectedoutput of successful founders. Having added to our staff a recent graduate of the Engineeringprogram who had pursued a technology entrepreneurship project after graduation, we had
tradeoffs involved in the practice of engineering, and how engineering decisions have an impact society and the environment. Each ETK emphasizes the engineering design approach to problem solving, and includes real-world constraints (budget, cost, time, risk, reliability, safety, and customer needs and demands) and each involves a design challenge that requires creativity and teamwork.Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia Carolyn Vallas is General Faculty and Director of Center for Diversity in Engineering at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science. She received the B.A. degree in Education from Seattle University, and the M.S. degree in Education Psychology and
. Figure 5. Program Organizing CommitteeThe program is facilitated by the Department of Faculty Development. The Director of FacultyDevelopment is the Program Leader, responsible for overall execution of the program. Thesupport staff member researches best practices, develops measuring tools for data collection, andtracks program progress by analyzing the data collected from the measuring tools. FacultyPosition A and Faculty Position B are voluntary advisory roles on the committee. These facultyrepresentatives are drawn from the Faculty Development Advisory Council. The two facultymembers selected represent both military and civilian faculty, with one member from eachcategory. The faculty selected for the committee are both experienced professors
well-being, health, and quality oflife,” 2 forward-thinking innovators who “make a world of difference,” 3 and agents of technicalsolutions that can “ensure the sustainability of civilization and the health of its citizens, whilereducing individual and societal vulnerabilities and enhancing the joy of living in the modernworld” 4. Similarly, most engineering professional societies market themselves with statementscentered on their contribution to society like “Advancing Technology for Humanity” 5 and“ASCE stands at the forefront of a profession that plans, designs, constructs, and operatessociety’s economic and social engine…” 6. The relationship between engineers and “the public”sits at the very core of engineers’ professional identity and
didn't teach was leadership skills, communication skills, and conflict resolution skills.• The best way to learn this [project management] is by practicing it in increments of increasing responsibility and risk.• I think basic management skills should be focused on ... Management skills are primarily what I use in my career on a day to day basis. Issues such as how to deal with employee problems and requests, ..., [and] leadership are all important basic management skills that have been learned more on the job.• Adding more teamwork projects, assigning a manager for the team and allowing the students to work together to deal with their project would only benefit the students.Alumni also believe an internship is an important