of Young People in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)AbstractThis paper describes a new collaboration between a DOD government institution of highereducation in the United States and the History Center of the Institute of Electrical andElectronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technology organization for the advancementof technology, to create a workforce development and one-on-one career-building and life-changing mentorship program for female undergraduate students in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This project provides the students with hands-onSTEM research in the government institution and one-on-one exposure to some of the world’sleading female science and engineering
Paper ID #40331Challenges in Designing Complex Engineering Problems to Meet ABETOutcome 1Dr. Bijan G Mobasseri, Villanova UniveristyMs. Liesl Klein, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI) Liesl Krause-Klein is a assistant teaching professor at Villanova University in their electrical and computer engineering department. She graduated from Purdue University’s Polytechnic institute in 2022. Her research focused on student well-being. She is currently in charge of curriculum for capstone projects within her department.Mr. Edward Stephen Char Jr., Villanova University BS EE Villanova University 1996 MS EE Villanova
LearnersAbstractThe Mechanics of Materials course has been offered in a “flipped” modality over the past 8years. This course is an entry-level course required for several engineering majors such as Civil,Mechanical, Biomedical, Materials Science, and Manufacturing Engineering. The class haslarge enrollments of 100 to 120 students per section and an annual enrollment of 400 students.In the flipped course, the lectures were being delivered using pre-recorded videos. The in-personclass time was used to present a brief recitation of the lecture material, discuss challengingconcepts, and solve problems.The course was redesigned in the summer of 2020 as part of a research project funded by theEngineering Education Center of the National Science Foundation to
]. Students from cultures and groups underrepresented in STEM may experience moretrouble navigating the differences between their home culture and culture of science thanstudents from well-represented groups [3, 4]. This can lead to difficulties in STEM achievement,even when there is existing interest [5]. For female learners in particular, developing andretaining their interest in the STEM classroom is critical to diversifying the engineeringworkforce [6]. Women are still underrepresented in the STEM workforce, yet a diverse pool oftalent with strong STEM knowledge and skills is vital for maintaining the US innovation base [7,8]. The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the Engineering for US All (e4usa) project in2018 partly in recognition of
control and estimation theory, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and cognitive systems. Dr. Gadsden completed his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and Management (Business) and then earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at McMaster in the area of estimation the- ory with applications to mechatronics and aerospace systems. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher for nearly three years at the Centre for Mechatronics and Hybrid Technology (Hamilton, Ontario). He also worked concurrently as a Project Manager in the pharmaceutical industry (Apotex Inc., Toronto, Ontario). Before joining McMaster University, Dr. Gadsden was an Associate/Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph and an Assistant
2015. Dr. Ohland is an ABET Pro- gram Evaluator for ASEE. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi and is a Fellow of the ASEE, IEEE, and AAAS.Dr. Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis Kenneth Reid is the Associate Dean and Director of Engineering at the R. B. Annis School of Engineering at the University of Indianapolis. He and his coauthors were awarded the Wickenden award (Journal of Engineering Education, 2014) and Best Paper award, Educational Research and Methods Division (ASEE, 2014). He was awarded an IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award (2013) for designing the B.S. degree in Engineering Education. He is a co-PI on the ”Engineering for Us All” (e4usa) project to develop a high school
universities such as Purdue University, University of Puerto Rico, University of South Florida,and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Some of them end up working for US Corps ofEngineers national laboratories (Acosta, 2004).Involvement in Undergraduate Research Experiences (URE) is related to considerably increasedpersistence and improved academic performance of students in science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) disciplines. UREs have shown to promote students’ sense of project ownership,self-effectiveness, and scientific identity. The advantages derived from URE have a very good impact onminority students and their improved STEM retention (Vater, 2019).Case Studies:Case study 1: University of Cincinnati Structural
, New York. At DiLab Catalina teaches and coordi- nates the Engineering Challenges course which aims to initiate freshmen students in to engineering design practices by encouraging students to develop a project following a user-centered design process. She also teaches Visual Thinking, the exploratory course of the Major in Engineering, Design, and Innovation. This course addresses the theories and ideas that sustain the visual thinking process as well as method- ologies and practical implementation of visual representation through infographics, computer graphics, and physical computing. The course focus on representing the narrative of the findings using visual tools. Catalina has been directing FabLabUC
regarding “team performance” or “team dynamics,” typically assessedthrough measures of team communication, leadership, and project management. The pervasiveassumption underlying much of this research is that effective team functioning results ineffective innovation outcomes. Yet, the relationship between team dynamics and innovationoutcomes has not been well studied. Most of the existing research does not assess theeffectiveness of the final product of teamwork, nor does most existing research examineinnovation outcomes in relation to team functioning. In this paper, we examine the relationshipbetween team dynamics and innovation outcomes. Using an entrepreneurial simulation in anupper division thermodynamics course, this mixed-methods study
Lecturer and is the recipient of the Fulton Outstanding Lecturer Award. She focuses on designing the curriculum and teaching in the freshman engineering pro- gram. She is also involved in the NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program, the ASU ProMod project, the Engineering Projects in Community Service program, the Engineering Futures program, the Global Freshman Academy/Earned Admission Program, and the ASU Kern Project. Dr. Zhu also designs and teaches courses in mechanical engineering at ASU, including Statics, Mechanics of Materials, Mechan- ical Design, Mechanism Analysis and Design, Finite Element Analysis, etc. She was a part of the team that designed a largely team and activity based online Introduction to
development efforts that support students in their STEM education and career pathways pursuits. VanIngen-Dunn as built her career on years of experience as engineer and project manager in human crashworthiness and safety design, development and testing, working for contractors in commuter rail, aerospace and defense industries. VanIngen-Dunn has an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a BSE degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa. She serves on the University of Iowa’s College of Engineering Advisory Board, and the YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix Board of Directors.Miss Maria A. Reyes, Phoenix College With over 25 years of higher education experience, Maria Reyes has devoted
participated in the on-line service experience. Half theclass chose the service option and half chose to program a simulation. The service-learningoption involved tutoring middle school and high school students in math, responding to fourwriting prompts or reflections, and a project. The project entailed the undergraduates creatingtheir own lesson and activity about probability which was offered to the entire tutoringcommunity. Each tutor first presented a brief lesson about a statistics topic such ascombinations, dice, cards, and other topics typical early on in a probability course. Theundergraduate tutors created a game board with categories drawn from the brief lessons theyoffered immediately prior to the game. Every correct answer was awarded a
components.Mechatronics is a newer branch of mechanical engineering that is a synergistic combination ofmechanical, electrical, electronics, computer science, control techniques, and informationsystems. Integrating mechatronics content in mechanical engineering curriculum has been achallenge since it has been viewed as a significant deviation from traditional courses. In the past,pedagogical approaches like semester-long, project-based classes, or linking mechatronics toother engineering disciplines, have been used to integrate mechatronics into the mechanicalengineering curriculum, with varying results. Furthermore, teaching an interdisciplinary class ofthis nature within a semester is a difficult pedagogical endeavor. To overcome these issues, thetopics and
forRegional Education Service Agency (RESA) 3 where he provided services to Kanawha, Putnam, Boone,and Clay counties in the areas of instructional practices, staff development, grant writing, and STEMactivities.As part of his duties at RESA 3, Mr. Carte became a certified Literacy Design Collaborative trainer bythe Southern Regional Education Board. He was one of five trainers that helped initiate Cohort I in WestVirginia at High Schools That Work locations. He completed SREB’s LDC Trainers Academy during thesummer of 2014, and was often called upon to work with schools and districts in the area of literacy.Mr. Carte is the former director of Project TESAL (Teachers Engaged in STEM and Literacy), which is athree-year, federal Math-Science Partnership
functionality. They also had to provide a technical report ofthe design and construction of it. In addition, they were required to create complete experimentalprocedure, data sheets, and analysis and to describe the requirements for a lab report based on theexperiment that future students can complete and turn in for a grade in the heat transfer lab. Thelast part of the project that challenged the students to reflect on their own learning and the wayfuture students may learn the concepts. The reflection component may not be present in typicalprojects, and/or may not be probed. The learning of the students was probed via a survey of afew questions. The questions asked the students if the project increased their understanding ofthe technical concept they
Environmental Engineering Design Course ExperienceCourse Motivation and ObjectiveEvery year, the instructors of the senior design course for Civil and Environmental Engineeringdevelop course materials and projects to illustrate the various professional life aspects ofpracticing engineers, including successful project proposal writing, development of statusreports, and final project delivery, analysis of ethics issues, and economics. The students areexpected to work in multi-disciplinary teams to successfully complete a civil/environmentalproject need. Defining the technology opportunity space, a compelling practical need, and aproject that capitalizes on the backgrounds of students in structures and materials, construction
Engineering Program from 1993-97, and starting in January 2008, he is serving as Director of the Computer Engineering Program. From 1990-92, he was a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. He worked for TRW in Redondo Beach, CA for 11 years, primarily on signal processing projects. He is a member of IEEE, ASEE, ACM, AAAS, and SHOT.Dominic Dalbello, Allan Hancock College Dominic J. Dal Bello received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara. He is currently Assistant Professor of Engineering at Allan Hancock College, a California community college in Santa Maria, where he teaches Statics
and stipends, as well as summer salary forundergraduate students. Services rendered have included hosting symposia, wind and solarresource evaluation, energy audits, participation in grassroots efforts, as well as websitemaintenance. The strong belief that this program provides valuable services to the communityhas led to outstanding efforts on the part of the students.The clean energy projects have been an excellent way to address many of the ABET A-Kcriteria. These team-based, multidisciplinary projects have been especially effective at drivinghome the importance of environmentalism and the need for engineers to be leaders andcommunicators during policy discussions. The projects also reinforce and expand on coreacademic subjects through
material. However, notmany students could have completed the above term project during the period when this subjectwas taught. Those who succeeded learned a lot, but others maintained a lack of understanding ofthe subject regardless of the time they invested.DigiCom, which operates in the same manner as the system introduced in the teaching material,was designed. DigiCom was developed with VHDL using the ALTERA design software QuartusII and implemented on the ALTERA Cyclone FPGA. This kit is a not general digital design kit,but it has the same features that “A Simple Computer” introduced in Computer SystemArchitecture.DigiCom was utilized in the 2007 term. The learning performance and improvements of thestudents were analyzed by comparing the
and open innovation engineering-related projects become more wide-spread and globally orientated, we must pay attention to cybersecurity issues that can emerge.The sharing of data and personally identifiable information are fundamental aspects ofcrowdsourcing and open innovation initiatives, necessitating the evaluation of the cybersecurityconcerns of user privacy, data confidentiality, data integrity and system availability. Lapseswithin any area of the cybersecurity realm can result in damages to reputation, cause for legaldamage or regulatory action. Governance of crowdsourced projects must include attention to both ethicalconsiderations, as well as cybersecurity issues, regardless of their scope and scale. Theexploitation of
AC 2008-2313: CULTURAL COMPETENCY ASSESSMENTAngela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder Page 13.345.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Cultural Competency AssessmentAbstractCultural competency is defined as the ability to effectively interact with people from diversecultures and recognize the importance of cultural differences. These skills will be increasinglyimportant for environmental engineers who work on teams with professionals from diversebackgrounds and design solutions to global problems. For example, these skills are particularlyimportant when engaging in projects for Engineers Without Borders (EWB) and similarorganizations
University of Tennessee. Dr. Bronzini holds the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Penn State and a B.S. degree from Stanford University, all in Civil Engineering. He has 41 years of experience in transportation and civil engineering research, teaching, and consulting, and is a registered Professional Engineer. He is a member of ASEE and ASCE, has been an ABET civil engineering program evaluator for many years, and is a National Associate of the National Academies.Michael Casey, George Mason University Michael J. Casey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering at George Mason University in the area of Construction and Project Management. Dr
of Nebraska. Building this alliancewill provide an additional element of proficiency that is essential to the students’practical understanding of systems in the built environment and interaction with industryprofessionals. The proposed project will develop a series of workshops and seminarsconsisting of demonstrations, lectures, hands-on activities, and construction site visitsconducted and attended by contractors, consultants, faculty, and students. This paper willpresent background information regarding the different learning styles of engineeringstudents, distribution of learning style surveys to AE students and electrical apprentices,and analysis of those results. Based on the analysis of the learning surveys, a descriptionabout how to
strong aptitude in mathematics and science fields. Theprogram began as a strictly seminar series which addressed diverse topics such as plasmaphysics, stealth astrophysics and satellite reconnaissance. After two years the program evolvedto a hands-on project based learning program which emphasized the engineering design process.Each year the program focuses on a central theme and design project, around which a variety ofmini challenges are used to teach students about fundamental engineering concepts which relateto their design project. To date the YESS program has incorporated such projects as hot airballoons, mouse trap cars, renewable energy systems and hemodialysis devices. In addition totrying to increase student’s understanding of
the areas of science, engineering technology andmanagement of technology with an opportunity to join an innovative Professional ScienceMaster’s (PSM) Degree program in “Advanced Engineering Technologies-Plus” designed toaddress current industrial needs. This high quality application oriented program will require atotal of 30 credit hours divided into four categories: 1) Core courses, 2) Major required courses,3) General elective courses and (4) Thesis or a project. The core courses are tailored to broadenthe students’ technical entrepreneurialship prospective and require a minimum of nine credithours in the areas of total quality management, financial engineering and technical/ legalcommunication with Technology Transfer applications. New and
. Her research is focused on collaborative design of products and materials, multiscale design, topology design, and robust design. Some of her design projects include cellular or honeycomb heat sinks for microprocessor applications, actively cooled components for gas turbine engines, robust mesostructure design for rapid manufacturing, deployable structures, and resilient structural panels that absorb impact. She teaches a course in mechanical engineering design methodology for undergraduates, in which she has implemented a new 'learning journal' initiative to encourage reflective learning. For graduates, she has created a new course on design of complex engineering systems.Kathy
-oriented, analytical techniques, maintaining a close relationship betweentheory and practice by incorporating hands-on laboratories in the most of courses. WSU-DET houses dedicated laboratories for all if its programs, including the Circuit Lab, theControl System Lab, the Microprocessor Lab, the Electric Machines and InstrumentationLab, the Computer Lab, and the EET/MCT Projects Labs for the EET/MCT courses. Thisproposed project would utilize WSU-DET I&M laboratory, as well as the Focus:HOPEindustrial facilities to develop and house the new, restructured cooperative/distributedI&M laboratory. Focus:HOPE - The Coalition for New Manufacturing Education, alsocalled the Greenfield Coalition is made up of Focus: Hope’s Center for
dealt with modeling and identification of the respiratory system. He worked for Honeywell (then AiResearch) from 1975 to 1981, in the fluidics group. In 1981 he left AiResearch and co-founded a small company to developed a medical fluidic device that provided oxygen in an intermittent mode to ambulatory patients. He is inventor/co-inventor of several fluid-control related ideas and holds 3 patents. He has been involved in advising Junior High and High School students, getting them excited about engineering and technology. He participated in an interdisciplinary, project whose goal was to design and build a cart that would autonomously paint the stripes in a soccer field. Electrical
2006-830: EMBEDDED COMPUTER SYSTEMS & PHOTONICS: APROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLTEACHERSMichael Pelletier, Northern Essex Community CollegeWayne Kibbe, Northern Essex Community CollegePaul Chanley, Northern Essex Community College Page 11.529.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Embedded Computer Systems & Photonics: A Professional Development Course for Middle and High School TeachersAbstractThe STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Fellows Program wasa new initiative of the Northeast Network STEM Pipeline Project in 2004-2005, to focusattention on STEM education in middle schools and high schools
, Texas A&M University Isaac Sabat’s program of research broadly focuses on understanding and improving the working lives of stigmatized employees. He is particularly interested in examining strategies in which these employees can engage, such as disclosing or acknowledging their identities, to effectively remediate the workplace obstacles that they face. He has conducted various interrelated projects that examine how the effectiveness of expressing one’s identity is impacted by the extent to which stigmas are previously known, visible, or discovered by others over time. This is a novel area, given that disclosures have previously been conceptualized as a dichotomous, all-or-nothing phenomenon. This work has been