-orienteduniversities [1] in graduating potential industry leaders, managers and supervisors with a broaderview of STEM disciplines, which may provide additional incentive to prospective students to maketheir career decisions towards STEM areas.What is Mechatronics?The term mechatronics was first used in the late 1960s by a Japanese Electric Company to describethe engineering integration between mechanical and electrical systems. It is an integratedcomprehensive study of electromechanical systems, integrating electrical, mechanical andcomputer engineering areas [1]. Mechatronics can be defined as the analysis, design, andintegration of mechanics with electronics through intelligent computer control [2], as can be seenin Figure 1: Figure 1 Mechatronics
chassis. Projects will be evaluated on adherence to design constraints, creativity, and speed of their vehicles. Project Goals and Motivation: Baker College Flint has shifted its admissions and outreach processes over the past few years to focus more on middle school and high school students. Bringing younger students into the college creates a need for more hands on activities. Instead of showing students the laser cutter and 3D printers on a tour and demonstration we want to give them a hands on experience to design, do rough analysis and print out a shell for a remote control vehicle. Most students, especially students who come to us interested in STEM topics and STEM careers, have heard of 3D printing. Exposing students to the technology
is an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engi- neering at Oregon State UniversityDr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a study to characterize practicing engineers’ understand- ings of core engineering concepts. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Instructors Playing the Role of Developer and Implementer: Impacts on Material DevelopmentBackgroundThis
making and moral reasoning. The paper concludes with thoughtson the potential benefits of this approach and future directions for investigation.Ethical Reasoning in EngineeringThe need to respond to ethical dilemmas is important in many career fields. The presence ofethical decision making in medical or psychological professions may be more obvious to thegeneral public than in engineering. Although the existence of ethical decisions may not beimmediately recognizable in engineering, these dilemmas do exist. For example, a civil engineermay face environmental ethics decisions when designing a road that would cut through amountain; or a mechanical engineer may be required to serve as an expert witness on a court caseinvestigating the responsible
districts across Ohio preparing students for STEM career and college endeavors.Larraine A. Kapka, Sinclair Community College Assistant Dean and Professor, Sinclair Community College MSME, MS Ind Mgt, PE (Ohio) Over 20 years industry experience 15 years higher education experience c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Virtual Online Tensile Strength Testing SimulationAbstractSupported through NSF-DUE, this TUES Type 1 project is 1) developing an open source,virtual, online tensile testing laboratory simulation; 2) conducting research to compare the costsand learning outcomes for using on-site, hands-on tensile testing equipment versus an onlinesimulation; 3) creating close industry
highest ethical and professional standards towards employers and community during their professional career; recognize the need and engage in life-long learning activities through the pursuit of further studies, on-job training and certification; and reach professional success through working and communicating effectively within multidisciplinary team, solving real-world problems, and assuming leadership roles with integrity and high responsibility in their organizations.Common Theme of ExcellenceAll the institutions had some common approaches to accreditations. These are in spite of widedifferences in educational and cultural backgrounds of the students and faculty. Even betweenthe two institutions in the
among other serious academic subjects at the secondary school level that is not at the technician standard. The optics of this positioning in the eyes of the public is critical to engineering. It positions engineering to be fundamental to all highly educated people.”, Dan Mote, President of National Academy, October 2013.• "The problem solving, systems thinking, and teamwork aspects of engineering can benefit all students, whether or not they ever pursue an engineering career," said Linda Katehi, Chancellor of UC Davis, "A K-12 education that does not include at least some exposure to engineering is a lost opportunity for students and for the nation.“• “It is important to brand Engineering at the K-12 level to
treat- ment processes, and water education. She is involved in outreach programs for K-12 students to increase the participation of Hispanic female students in STEM fieldsDr. Gerri Cole, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017An Innovative Approach to Recruit and Retain Historically Underrepresented Students in EngineeringAbstractThe Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields do not usually attract firstgeneration, low-income, and minority students (such as women, Hispanics, and AfricanAmerican, etc.). There are various ways to increase the number of minority students’participation in STEM careers, but one of the most frequently
together.One of the benefits of spending many years in industry – over 50 years of combined experience –in new product development, is the experience of leading and managing teams who areconstantly innovating. This includes creating and inventing ways to build new products andprocesses and ways to significantly improve or replace existing products and processes andleading and managing teams of various professions and skills types (engineering, finance,marketing (product and outbound), manufacturing, service and support, etc.), from new hires, toseasoned, to end-of-career professionals. From that experience, we have realized that (1) theformulaic approach to engineering (and business) education has pushed innovation to thewayside, and (2) lack of
education; learning in the workplace; curricular and pedagogical development; and the preparation of professionals for social justice goals.Naeun Cheon, University of WashingtonMs. Elba Camila Moise, University of WashingtonDr. Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington Professor of Learning Sciences & Human Development c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Investigating Student Perceptions of an Engineering Department’s Climate: The Role of Peer RelationsDiversity in engineering remains low despite decades of rhetoric and efforts to broadenparticipation and retention. Social and cultural groups historically underrepresented in STEMeducation and careers
., silentreading time, mathematics worksheets, etc.). However, these engineering interventions may notbe sufficiently appealing to students’ personal interests and resulting in a sustained, persistentpursuit of engineering.This paper presents pilot results from administering the Fit of Personal Interests and Perceptionsof Engineering Survey (F-PIPES) across 16 National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)Summer Engineering Experience for Kids (SEEK) workshop sites as part of a larger project. Thepilot included a survey of the 3rd-5th grade students’ personal interests as mapped to the sixdimensions of interests in Holland’s Career Theory (1997)—realistic, investigative, artistic,social, enterprising, and conventional. The students then took a survey
K-12 teachers to infuse engineering intotheir science classrooms, action must be taken to ensure teachers are prepared to successfullyimplement the new standards. Waiting until students reach middle or high school to incorporateengineering practices into the classroom is too late, as students begin making career decisionsand developing vital academic skills in elementary school. This makes the elementary years animportant time for introducing engineering, yet little is known about how prepared elementaryteachers are to integrate engineering practices into their science lessons. Most teacher preparation programs do not prepare elementary teachers to incorporateengineering practices into their classrooms, and professional development
People Learning Engineering Survey (APPLES), social good receivedthe highest average score of four motivations from 753 millennial students at four institutionswho persisted in engineering over five years [26]. In predicting the engineering career intentionsof 6,722 students from 50 institutions enrolled in the NSF-funded Sustainability and Gender inEngineering (SaGE) survey, Klotz, et al. determined students were more likely to chooseengineering if they wished to address energy-related issues, water-supply issues, or opportunitiesfor future generations their careers [27]. Since students enrolling at LUC are drawn to oursustainability initiatives [28, 29] and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) efforts[30-32], an integrated social
supportive engineering skills and mindsetsDuring this process the committee looked to see how well the outcomes in the onion mapped toinstitutional learning outcomes. Communication and cooperation were both part of the “basicengineering skills” whereas ethics, leadership, and culture and global awareness were allsubcategories of “multiple perspectives on role of engineers and engineering work.” We alsolooked at the mapping of the current ME learning outcomes to the onion in Figure 1. Ourdepartment outcomes include the following: our graduates will be successful in their careers, ourgraduates set and meet their own goals for career fulfillment, our graduates will continueprofessional development, our
career engineers to adapt to engineering workplace culture.Dr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University Dr. Samantha R. Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor within The Polytechnic School, one of six schools in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She is a mixed-methods researcher with focus on the preparation and pathways of engineering students. Her specific research interests include engineering student persistence and career decision-making, early career engineering practice, faculty pedagogical risk-taking, and entrepreneurial mindset. She completed her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford
manufacturing, aerial robotics, and an increased variety of electronicdevices, such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Students who enrolled this course not only learned theknowledge and critical thinking strategies necessary to excel in the STEM field but are alsofacilitated with the skills necessary to pursue a career in engineering.IntroductionI. VEX CompetitionThe VEX robotics competition matches are played on a 12 by 12-foot field with two alliance colors,red and blue. Each alliance color is composed of two teams forming a red alliance or bluealliance. The objective of the game is to obtain a higher score than the opposing alliance.Each new season features a unique stem challenge played with different scoring objects andmethods. In the 2018~2019 VEX
engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Com- puter Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant ”Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s ”20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014
; Most engineering students lack exposure to social justice in their coursework> Attract students to engineering through social justice theme: – Interdisciplinary field, may attract students from all majors – Appealing to underrepresented students, who are more likely to make educational and career choices based on opportunities for service to their communitiesNational Academy of Engineering (2008). Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering.Hess, J.L. and Fore, G. (2017) “A Systematic Literature Review of US Engineering Ethics Interventions.” Science and Engineering Ethics. DOI:10.1007/s11948-017-9910-6.Herkert, J.R. (2010) “Engineering ethics education in the
Paper ID #24843Helping Engineering Student Organization Members ”Break the Bias Habit”Dr. Jennifer Sheridan, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dr. Sheridan is the Executive and Research Director of the Women in Science & Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Dr. Manuela Romero, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dr. Manuela Romero is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs in the College of Engineering at UW-Madison. Dr. Romero oversees undergraduate student services, including student services centers (advising), engineering student development (career services, cooperative
appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. Her research interests include student persistence and pathways in engineering, gender equity, diversity, and academic policy. Dr. Orr is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award for her research entitled, ”Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-Makers.”Maya Rucks, Clemson University Maya Rucks is an engineering education doctoral student at Clemson University. She received her bache- lor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and her master’s degree in indus- trial engineering from Louisiana Tech University. Her areas of interest include, minorities in engineering, K-12 engineering, and engineering curriculum
Paper ID #24803Summer Bridge Design: Purposely Fostering Engineering Expertise and Suc-cess with the Redshirting in Engineering Program ScholarsMs. Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder TANYA D. ENNIS is the current Engineering GoldShirt Program Director at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. She received her M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her career in the telecommunications industry included positions in software and
, respectively. In 2006, she resigned from her faculty job and came to Connecticut for family reunion. Throughout her academic career in Australia and Sin- gapore, she had developed a very strong interest in learning psychology and educational measurement. She then opted for a second Ph.D. in educational psychology, specialized in measurement, evaluation and assessment at University of Connecticut. She earned her second Ph.D. in 2010. Li has a unique cross- disciplinary educational and research background in mechatronics engineering, specialized in control and robotics, and educational psychology, specialized in statistical analysis and program evaluation.Dr. Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven Ron Harichandran is
about“people” an act of giving significance to the story in the context of participating in the program.Across the interviews, every girl described her interest in making and all but one described activeinvolvement in different modes of making. Some of the girls described making at homefollowing specific YouTube channels or as a mutual interest with a family member. For others,making was an integral part of their school as they participated in maker classes or followed atrack in school. Eight girls described a specific STEM discipline as one of their career options.Half of the girls who came to the program described learning about the program from asupportive teacher who encouraged them in pursuing their interest in making.At the same time
Paper ID #26509”Where do we go from here?” A Discussion Regarding Technological Liter-acy / Philosophy of EngineeringProf. Carl O. Hilgarth, Shawnee State University Carl O. Hilgarth, M.S., is current division chair of the ASEE Technological and Engineering Literacy / Philosophy of Engineering Division of ASEE. He is Professor Emeritus and former chair of engineering technologies at Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Management and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronau- tics. Mr. Hilgarth has a 29-year career in academia
], motivatingstudents to pursue science careers [8] [9], enhancing student learning outcomes [10] [11],promoting STEM career among women [12], and psychological processes relevant to the problem[13] [14] are all examples of targeted interventions.On the other hand, an engaging first-year engineering experience can circumvent the need forinterventions and has been shown to play a critical role in encouraging excitement, retention, andsatisfaction in engineering [15] [16]. This is attributable to the importance of the first year and itsfrequent coincidence with failed classes and dropouts [17]. In addition, completion of the first-year (i.e., first-year retention) is predictive of eventual graduation rates [17]. Therefore, significantefforts have been invested
and machine learning. Specifically, he is interested in smartphone security, and IoT security.Dr. Kristina Rigden, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Kristina Rigden is the Director of Outreach Programs and the Women in Engineering Program for the College of Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). In her position, she provides several different outreach programming events to engage K-12 female students to pursue STEM majors and/or careers. Dr. Rigden holds a B.A. in Liberal Studies from Cal Poly Pomona, a TESOL certificate, a M.A. in Teaching with a multiple-subject credential and an Ed.D. from the University of Southern California.Dr. Thomas Ketseoglou
integratetechnical and professional skills and knowledge in their development as an engineer [1]”. Inaddition, engineering students’ involvement in activities outside of the classroom, such asstudent competition teams, contributes to their achievement of numerous other outcomes;according to Simmons, et al, engagement with these activities enhances students’ “career andprofessional development, communication and leadership development, intellectualdevelopment, personal and social development, academic and social engagement, interculturalcompetence, satisfaction with college experiences, and college belonging and persistence inmajor and college [2]”. Working on a competition team, therefore, contributes to thedevelopment of students’ design and build skills
Paper ID #28782Landscape of Engineering Technology Programs as seen from ASEEAimee T Ulstad P.E., The Ohio State University Aimee Ulstad, P.E is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Integrated Systems Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio State, Aimee was an industry professional in various field in engineering for over 30 years. Aimee received her degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Business Administration from Ohio State. She began her career as a packaging equipment engineer at Procter and Gamble, then moved to Anheuser-Busch where she worked for
important to ensuring persistence, we utilized empirical datafrom the MIDFIELD dataset [21]. MIDFIELD consists of data collected from over 1.5 millionundergraduate, degree-seeking students from 19 different institutions. It is a longitudinal studentrecord level database, which means it includes everything that appears on students’ transcripts,and that it contains tracking information on each student during their academic career. Itconsiders not only demographic student information (such as sex, ethnicity, and age), but alsoacademic information (such as their major, enrollment status, term and year in which the studentFigure 1: Adapted version of Astin’s I-E-O model applied to computing students to assess persis-tence/graduation rates. Includes pre
Diversity andInclusivityGoal:To strengthen faculty’s connection to industry and aid their ability to facilitate studentconnections, faculty will participate in an industry immersion experience during the summerwhere they work with practicing engineers and learn current industry practices. Additionally,faculty will acquire relevant industrial and teacher trainings. Ultimately, faculty will see theirrole, or identity, as moving students towards becoming practicing engineers who create a “morejust and humane world.” Students, too, will reflect on their identities as engineers and how thoserelate to their education and career paths. To bridge course work and industry practices, anIndustry Advisor with extensive experience in industry and passion for