onmarket needs can be gained through the proper use of co-op evaluations.Therefore, great emphasis has been placed on developing evaluation criteria thatmeet the needs of the cooperative education programs and the ABET needs of thecollege or university. The University of Cincinnati (UC), along with manyengineering cooperative education and internship programs recognized thisassessment need, and developed new assessment tools in the late nineties inanticipation of the new ABET 2000 engineering criteria.Until 2003, evaluations were gathered on paper, making the charge of analyzing Page 12.1124.2and summarizing feedback for the departments a time consuming, if even
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, program and project management. LTC Raby teaches EV450 (Environmental Engineering for Community Development) and EV 481 (Water Resources Planning and Design).Mr. Erick Martinez, United States Military Academy Erick Martinez is a Captain in the United States Army and an Instructor in the Department of Geogra- phy and Environmental Engineering at the United States Military Academy. He is a 2007 graduate of the United States Military Academy with a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and recently graduated from the University of Florida with an M.E. in Environmental Engineering. He teaches Environmen- tal Engineering for Community Development, Environmental Science, and Environmental Engineering Technologies.Col
accomplished the following: (1) recruited andincreased participation in five targeted science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)majors, focusing on women, underrepresented student population, and undeclared and liberal artsstudents with strong math preparation; (2) retained and graduated academically talented, low 2income students in STEM programs by strongly encouraging students to register for 15+ creditsper semester to promote timely progress to graduation; (3) provided comprehensive supportstructures at critical junctures that include financial support, academic advisement, academicsupport, and career counseling, using a natural cohort approach to developing a professional STEMidentity
and educate future engineers1,2. Of specificconcern is the ability and capacity of four-year institutions to educate and supply this demand2.In an effort to meet the rising demands for engineers, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), in partnership with the state’s six community colleges, sought to increase the number ofcommunity college transfer students entering into the College of Engineering (COE). This effort,leveraged through a National Science Foundation Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics Talent Expansion Program grant (STEP), developed and institutionalized aneffective pathway for community college students to complete select freshman and sophomoreengineering courses that transfer to the university’s COE. However
provide a potential use for it.This work-in-progress paper describes the motivation and development process of these labs, aswell as preliminary lab examples and planned assessment.There is substantial discussion in the engineering community about the importance of includingill-structured problems into curriculum within engineering education, as these problems betterrepresent the experiences post-graduation [1]–[7]. However, past work has found that textbookproblems are rarely ill-structured in form and that students may be rarely exposed to ill-structured problems within their engineering curriculum [1], [2], [5]. One area in which ill-structured problems are easier to incorporate are within lab experiences. Student laboratoryexperiences are
Engineering Plus, as well as STEM education courses for pre-service teachers through the University’s CU Teach Engineering program. Additionally, she manages and mentors graduate and undergraduate engineering fellows who teach in local K-12 classrooms through the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program’s NSF-funded TEAMS initiative, is faculty advisor for the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and on the development team for the TeachEngineering digital library. Dr. Zarske’s primary research interests are on the impacts of project-based service-learning on student identity, recruitment, and retention in K-12 and undergraduate engineering.Ms. Madison J. Gallipo, University of Colorado Boulder Madison Gallipo is an
Technology and Society Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Page 11.1226.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Teaching Sustainable Engineering Ten Years Later: What’s Worked & What’s Next?AbstractTeaching environmentally related courses in environmental engineering and mechanicalengineering technology curricula at two institutions has generated a wealth of experiences.Design for the Environment at the associate level, Design for Society at the senior level, andSustainable Engineering at the graduate level are similar, complementary courses. Topics ineach include
, sense ofbelonging); enhanced career development (e.g., forum for enhancing skills, network for keepingup-to-date) [12]; and, increased satisfaction with the overall educational experience [15].Given that LCs are rich social interactions where personal relationships are developed, ways ofinteracting and collaborating are established, and a common sense of members’ identity iscreated [12], a learning community in the context of engineering education can impact students’sense of connectedness and self-efficacy [16],[17],[18]. Recognizing that military veteranstudents face unique challenges as they pursue their engineering and technology degrees, theirparticipation in a targeted learning community can addresses their unique challenges in
graduate school. This capstone experienceis meant to summarize and combine all of the previous coursework, which itself is developed inaccordance with the ABET EAC Criteria [13].In regard to the ABET EAC criteria, the civil engineering discipline is overseen by the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and must emphasize at least four of six areas ofconcentration: structural, transportation, geotechnical, construction, water resources, andenvironmental while also considering sustainability, business, ethics, and other issues of practice.The environmental engineering discipline is overseen by a consortium of organizations thatincludes the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (lead organization),ASCE, ASME, AIChE, and other
. Available CD-ROM.SOHAIL ANWARSohail Anwar holds a Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Vocational Education from the Pennsylvania StateUniversity and a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. Hecompleted additional graduate coursework in control theory and applied math ematical sciences at theUniversity of Texas at Arlington. He is currently serving as an associate professor of Engineering and theprogram coordinator of Electrical Engineering Technology at The Pennsylvania State University, AltoonaCollege. Since 1996, he has also served as an invited professor of Electrical Engineering at IUT Bethune,France.ERIC GRANLUNDEric Granlund holds a M.E. degree in Engineering Mechanics from The Pennsylvania State
Bachelor’s Plus 30 Task Force); develop a program and white paper to communicate theNCEES position on the educational requirements; and provide assistance to UPLG with thelanguage proposed by the 2008 Bachelor’s Plus Task Force. The Engineering Education TaskForce prepared a lengthy report that addressed the analyses, offered possible alternative licensurepathways, and included a white paper. The task force also developed a flowchart to demonstratehow a national clearinghouse might function. At the 2009 NCEES annual meeting, the task forcemoved to charge “an appropriate committee or task force” with “further developing a nationalclearinghouse.” The motion passed by a vote of 50 to 11.24,26UPLG also offered a motion in 2009 to incorporate into the ML
Pennsylvania.While the benefits to the students are vital, the impact of a co-op program goes beyond thestudents. Industry can gain benefit by obtaining staffing for projects at a substantially reducedrate (and typically without the benefits overhead). Moreover, by hiring interns and co-opstudents, industry can develop a recruiting system that allows them to make better hiringdecisions than can be done via a resume and interview alone.The benefit also extends to the higher education institutions. An organized co-op program canhelp the institution develop relationships with regional and national industry. Thoserelationships can be valuable in many ways. For example, at the authors’ institution, the industryrelations developed through the co-op program have
integration of material testing and prototyping equipment into both labs and coursework. She is pursuing her Ph.D. in Engineering Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research interests include identity development in engineering education, student voice and participation in engineering education, and pedagogical strategies for enhancing retention in engineering education.Dr. Heidi G. Loshbaugh, University of Colorado Boulder Heidi G. Loshbaugh, Ph.D., is passionate about higher education’s role in the public good. She has taught, conducted research, and served as a college administrator with a keen focus on equity. As a community college dean, she was PI for a $3.5M US Dept. of Ed. award to transform STEM
builds on our earlier study [1],which developed a conceptual model of belongingness among international engineering doctoralstudents based on their interactions with faculty, peers, and staff. A literature review informedthis conceptualization and revealed a lack of consistency in the conceptual structure ofbelongingness in both higher education and engineering education. This work will include thefollowing: 1) a brief review on the varied characteristics of sense of belonging (e.g., definitionsand constructs/defining components) in different context (e.g., K-12 education, undergraduateeducation, graduate education, and community) among different populations (e.g., adolescents,undergraduate students, underrepresented students, and adults), 2) a
the social structures in which they lead their professional lives. Faculty behaviors and attitudes undoubtedly have a significant impact on nontraditionalengineering students’ decisions to remain or leave. An expanding literature details the kinds ofacademic settings and experiences associated with a positive student outcome28. Teaching andadvising obviously affect a student's experience, while curricular development and revision havea less direct impact. Faculty figure as teachers, advisors, and curriculum designers in discussions of influenceson undergraduate retention30,20. Leading critics of engineering education agree that the“weeding” impact of traditional curriculum and pedagogical approaches of engineering courseshas a
of South FloridaDr. Dhinesh Balaji Radhakrishnan, Purdue University Dhinesh Radhakrishnan is a research scientist in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 WIP: Role of an Electrical Engineering Department’s Revolutionary Programs through the Lens of Impostor Syndrome and Self-Efficacy: AnUndergraduate Researcher’s Investigation in a Participatory Action Research ProjectAbstractPurpose: In this work-in-progress paper, we discuss the student-led research efforts investigatingthe role of new programmatic activities within the University of South Florida’s (USF)Department of Electrical Engineering (D-EE) and
Paper ID #37304Student performance impacted from modifying a first-year/semester engineering core course during a globalpandemicJacques C. Richard (Instructional Associate Professor/Aerospace Engineer) Dr. Jacques C. Richard is an instructional associate professor and REU Principal Investigator at Texas A&M University. He got his Ph.D. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He studies plasmas using particle and spectral methods, as well as engineering education factors that build critical algorithmic thinking skills in diverse engineering students. Research includes plasma turbulence and plasma jets, and jet engine
Paper ID #36451”The only difference is now it counts:” Exploring the Role of a SummerBridge Program in Shaping Student Expectations of EngineeringTaylor Y. Johnson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Taylor Y. Johnson is a graduate student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, where she serves as a graduate research assistant. Taylor earned her Bachelor’s from The University of Texas at Austin in Biomedical Engineering. She was previously a member of the student support staff for the Virginia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Engineering
´enez is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering Education (EED) and an affiliate faculty to the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on understanding the role of engineering communities while enacting their agency in participatory and transformational change. She is particularly interested in broadening the participation of minoritized communities by studying the role of professional development in shaping organizational cultures. As an education practitioner, she also looks at evidence-based practices to incorporate social responsibility skills and collaborative and inclusive teams into the curriculum. Dr. Rivera-Jim´enez graduated from the University
to the engineering curriculum itself.”1This paper documents the new design structure to include literature influencing the re-build. Thestudy concludes with an exploration of a framework for addressing and managing the need tomaintain an evolving curriculum going forward. Included will be a discussion of the challengesdriving the need for a re-build as well as the evaluation of various options, some of which werenot selected to be pursued at this time.“The re-building strategy…is a fundamental change of academic view linking academia withsocietal context and needs…by emphasizing a shared set of values, identity and commitment. Itis about educating engineers who will become change agents after graduation, with anunderstanding of stakeholder
boost their STEM resume. Through our technology platform and community, RePicture.com, students tell the story of STEM all around us and discover diverse role models. The RePicture Program is helping students “breaking through” the artificial barriers that prevent many from pursuing and flourishing in STEM by building their STEM identity, moving beyond what they know, and showing them what is possible.Katie P. Wheaton, M.S., P.E., S.E. Katie P. Wheaton is a Senior Instructor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department of Case Western Reserve University. She teaches undergraduate courses related to Structural Design, Surveying, Computer Graphics, and Civil Engineering Systems. She is the faculty advisor
Paper ID #40032Measuring the Impact of Extra-/Co-Curricular Participation onProfessional Formation of EngineersDr. Aimee Monique Cloutier, Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyDr. Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Holly Matusovich is the Associate Dean for Graduate and Professional Studies in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education where she has also served in key leadership positions. Dr. Matusovich is recognized for her research and leadership related to graduate student mentoring and faculty development. She won the Hokie Supervisor Spotlight Award in
skillsdeveloped during the mechanical engineering program. In the case of the Exo-Arm project, thepresentation at the Capstone Design Showcase hosted by the University has led to intensediscussions and interest from different stakeholders in engineering education: sophomore andjunior students, faculty, program administrators, industry advisers.Faculty arguing the opportunity to develop a program in robotics can make a strong example ofthis project and propose the adoption of more applied formal and informal education avenues(modify current coursework, introduce elective coursework, organize student club activities)dedicated to maintaining and enhance the education in key aspects of robotics (theory ofmechanisms, theory of control, theory of dynamic
that having a shared identity with a mentor to be significant to his experience. Thisshared identity paired with the relationship he built with this mentor provided him an opportunity toreframe how he views his own future in engineering and provided him with a model of howsomeone with a similar background can choose to pursue education beyond that of a bachelor’sdegree.Bernice found that the flexibility of the program allowed for her participation to continue to bemeaningful throughout the duration of the project even when she was inundated with coursework,eventually jumping back into the project when her schedule allowed.Calvin found that coming from Prairie View A&M University and working on the project withstudents from Texas A&M
) Funding for the GC DELI project was provided by artificial heart valve, one of the a NSF Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM biomedical engineering hands‐on projects developed for the workshop. (TUES) grant and the high school adaptation of the curriculum is funded by the Intel Foundation.CHiMES (Community Helpers in Math, Engineering and Science) for EPICS High is a programdesigned to connect industry mentors with high school engineering students engaged incommunity
situational analysis of semi-structured interviews, we attribute this lack of competenceto “undone ethics” in engineering education. Here, we want to formulate what the ideas aroundundone ethics might look like, particularly in the context of engineering education andengineering ethics. This paper develops the terminology “undone ethics” through exploring theconcept of “undone science,” drawn from literatures of science and technology studies (STS).Undone science is defined as research that has been “left unfunded, incomplete, or generallyignored”[1],[2]. In order to map out the connections of undone ethics to undone science, weattempt to create a typology of undone ethics, drawing from empirical, qualitative data throughinterviews with engineering
, theresa@creus.com jjhu@bridgeport.edu, abhilash@bridgeport.edu, aelsayed@bridgeport.edu Abstract—The University of Bridgeport (UB) received Achieve) is an NSF IUSE: HSI project funded under thefunding from the National Science Foundation's Division of Planning or Pilot Projects (PPP) track for the purposes ofUndergraduate Education through its IUSE: HSI Initiative in thesummer of 2022 to increase retention, persistence, preparedness, planning a process for building capacity and enhancingand graduation rates of students majoring in Computer, undergraduate STEM education at less-resourced institutionsElectrical, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science (CS) as a means of increasing
network of university resources, and guide students in the exploration and selection of amajor and career direction.360 Coaching builds on the Advising-as-Teaching learner-centered approach to advising atNorthwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science [4], andsimilarly aims to leverage a naturally developing community within our first-semesterengineering design course, EGR 101L – Engineering Design and Communication. While manyof our 360 Coaches are involved with our first-semester design course as either an instructor or adesign team technical mentor, this is not universally true; some of our 360 Coaches are notinvolved in our first-semester course. This is a distinction between our 360 Coaching programand
and subsequentPhysics II course and corequisite Calculus I grades. The findings provide information that can beused by other institutions of similar size and scope to examine the structure of their first yearcourses in engineering, initiate university policies, and develop interventions to support math,physics, and overall graduation success.IntroductionThe first year coursework, similar in most engineering curriculums, involves a series ofintroductory engineering design, graphical communication, and programming courses. Inaddition students are required to complete Calculus I and Physics I as a prerequisite to CalculusII and Physics II which are themselves prerequisites to advanced engineering science courses(i.e., statics, dynamics, fluid