pipeline in three areas including gifted education, special education, and urban education.Ms. Carol Villanueva-Perez, Ball State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Barriers to Persistence of Engineering Students with Disabilities: A Review of LiteratureAbstractUndergraduate student retention is dependent not only on academic aptitude, but also on non-academic factors, which include the ability to integrate fully into their academicenvironments. Non-academic factors are likely to more significantly impact the success ofstudents with disabilities compared to their peers who do not have disabilities, especially withinscience, technology, engineering, and
Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Washington. In addition to perform- ing basic neuroscience research, he works with other neuroscientists and classroom teachers to develop educational materials to help K-12 students learn about the brain. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Neural Engineering for Secondary Science Classrooms (Resource Exchange) Visit http://www.csne-erc.org for free curriculum resources!Neural Engineering is a Contemporary, High Interest TopicMedia reports of cutting-edge technologies, such as brain-computer interfaces, deep brain stimulation, retinal
UC San Diego in 1999 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for US Mexican Studies, and later as a UC Faculty Fellow in Ethnic Studies. In 2015-16, she returned to UC San Diego as a fellow of the American Council on Education. As a bilingual/bicultural Latina, Camacho has 30 years of experience in higher ed- ucation advocating for underrepresented groups and first generation college students. For over a decade, her work on institutional transformation has received funding from the National Science Foundation to examine and address inequities in higher education, specifically as they relate to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). She served the NSF ADVANCE grant initiatives as a co-Principal
with applications to mechatronics and aerospace systems. Andrew worked as a post- doctoral researcher at the Centre for Mechatronics and Hybrid Technology (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada). He also worked as a Project Manager in the pharmaceutical industry (Apotex Inc.) for about three years. Before joining the University of Guelph in 2016, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Andrew worked with a num- ber of colleagues in NASA, the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), US Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). He is an elected Fellow of
exercise, with curriculumbeing designed to minimise competition with other regional Higher Education Institutions(HEIs). Courses are often planned to attract students who are ‘initiative-’ or ‘technology-aware’ (for example, the recent explosion of courses in Internet Engineering). It is bothdifficult and resource intensive to maintain meaningful advisory relationships with a broadrange of current engineering practitioners. Therefore many HEIs prefer to simply consult aselect band of industrially-based departmental friends when proposals are all but complete.One should therefore not be surprised that our curriculum is not always ideally suited to thecomplexities of the current industrial environment.The University’s PerspectiveThroughout the rapid
technology in a professional setting.Within engineering education, wikis have been used in several ways at several different levels.One example is the creation of ePortfolios in a freshman engineering design course8. Thestudents were given writing assignments in which they reflected on the human implications ofdesign. Another example can be found in a team-based capstone design project in which thewiki was used to document social knowledge and assess group performance9. A third example isa student-written online textbook5. In a senior level chemical engineering process controlscourse, an open-source text was written, edited, and reviewed by the students to allow them tolearn the course content though teaching it.This paper describes the use of a
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Integrating Sustainability Engineering into Second-Year CompositionAbstractCommunity colleges are currently facing several challenges, namely 1) increasing the number ofstudents successfully completing STEM degrees, 2) increasing the number of transfers betweencommunity colleges and four-year institutions in STEM majors, and 3) increasing the overalltechnical ability of the current workforce. As more community colleges offer engineering andengineering technology, they must also look for ways to increase student participation andretention within STEM and STEM-related fields that are feasible given cost and personnellimitations. One way our
UMBC in July 2001. The objective of theworkshop was to better equip high school teachers and counselors to identify, guide, and prepareprospective students at each of their schools for a career in engineering. The three-day workshopwas developed and presented by UMBC faculty from the College of Engineering and wasmodeled after work done by Raymond Landis1, former Dean of Engineering and Technology atCalifornia State University, Los Angeles. Invitations to the workshop with a brochure andapplication form were sent to area high schools in Maryland. Each participant received a $150stipend, meals, and Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) continuing educationcredits. The workshop was sponsored by a grant from the University System of
explicit directive to UK, MuSU, andPCC to cooperate in developing two new undergraduate engineering programs, one in chemical andone in mechanical engineering. This paper will concentrate on the mechanical engineering program. Inlate winter of 1996, the dean of the UK College of Engineering, the dean of the MuSU College ofIndustry and Technology (who is also the MuSU director of the Engineering Institute) and thepresident of Paducah Community College, jointly assembled a team of approximately 20 faculty andstaff to develop these two new baccalaureate programs. This group included a representative from theCHE and an ABET-knowledgeable EAC member, the latter to provide advice regarding programdevelopment and accreditation. Some of the pertinent
various aspectsof the design process as envisioned fifteen years from now. Briefly stated, design supportapplications are evolving toward environments that may or may not involve face-to-faceinteraction, such as Internet-related technologies and applications such as remote visualization.While the report was written primarily at the request of NASA and therefore has primary impacton NASA and Aerospace Industry planning efforts, the report (and interpretations of it) will haveimplications for Biomedical Engineering design efforts and plans. This paper will briefly reviewthe National Academy Report, and then will consider current and related future design thrustsand applications in Biomedical Engineering.1. Advanced Engineering Environments, Phase 2
, Georgia Institute of Technology, theUniversity of North Dakota, and Union College.As the EAC/ABET gains additional experience with C2000, the accreditation process, andparticularly the self-study materials, will in all likelihood be revised. The integrity of theaccreditation process under the new criteria will depend on the validity of the assessmentmeasures in use, the quality of the evaluators’ reports and last, but not least the soundness of theteams’ judgments.[I] Criteria for Accrediting Programs in Engineering in The United States, Effective for Evaluations During the1996-97 Accreditation Cycle, Engineering Accreditation Commission, Accrediting Board for Engineering andTechnology, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202.[2] ABET
Paper ID #41717Board 308: Improving Students’ Sociotechnical Literacy in EngineeringDr. Ethan E Danahy, Tufts University Dr. Ethan Danahy is a Research Associate Professor at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) with secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science within the School of Engineering at Tufts University. Having received his graduate degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Tufts University, he continues research in the design, implementation, and evaluation of different educational technologies. With particular attention to engaging students in the STEAM content
students to explore energy, and how heat energy from the Sun can be harnessed by a solar cooker to heat food. Many students might take technologies such as stoves, ovens, and toasters for granted, but these conveniences aren’t available to Lerato, a girl who lives in Botswana. Through the storybook Lerato Cooks Up a Plan, students will be introduced to Lerato and her family. Lerato and her siblings have to gather firewood in order to build a cooking fire to heat their food. When Page 22.667.2 Tsoane, another villager, returns from University, Lerato learns about the field of green engineering. Green
AC 2010-478: INSPIRING FUTURE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS THROUGHSCIENCE TEACHERSTodd Kaiser, Montana State University Todd J. Kaiser is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Montana State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Physics from Oregon State University and a B.S. in Physics from Montana State University. His current focus areas include microfabricated sensors and actuators.Peggy Taylor, Montana State University Peggy Taylor, Ed.D., is the Director of the Master of Science in Science Education (MSSE) program at Montana State University. As director of the program, Taylor recruits and advises
’ experience. While the current configuration has already offeredplenty of opportunities for students to practice AI and robotics, upgraded technologies havepotential to further improve the robot’s autonomous driving performance.In the 2024 - 2025 academic year, we plan to upgrade BearCart’s hardware configurations toinclude more advanced sensing and actuating components. While keeping behavioral cloning asthe backbone algorithm, we plan to update the software to adapt to physical changes in thesystem. Stay tuned for more details. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceMethods 1. Behavioral CloningThe behavioral cloning approach [3] will serve
Computer Science degree at UVUis accredited by Computing Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) [22]. Currently, the Computer Science Department hasmore than 1300 students.Computer Engineering Program’s Senior Design Project CourseOur Senior Design Project Course serves as a project-oriented capstone course for computerengineering majors. This required course emphasizes major hardware and software co-design.This course satisfies the ABET requirements for providing students with significant hands-ondesign experience [22]. The course learning outcomes are as follows:Upon successful completion, students should be able to . . . 1. Identify relevant topics from previous courses and then apply
problem solving, technology commercialization, and design. Some havesuggested adding technical skills, including the use of SolidWorks and other design software intothe curriculum. A hiring manager at US Synthetic went so far as to state that he needs peoplewho can solve problems, stating that he would rather hire a really good art graduate who couldsolve problems than an engineering graduate that could not solve problems.Moreover, recent initiatives at the University of Utah, such as the entrepreneurship certificate,would allow students to receive a certificate after taking business, engineering, and law coursesrelated to entrepreneurship. However, very few courses are offered in the College ofEngineering that satisfy the course requirement for
20180). Like Crouch, the authors of this panel discussion paper are also concerned about generaleducational environments and more specifically about engineering and science education. Theauthors openly discussed the pros and cons between the major traditional educational paradigmsand the new emerging paradigms without reaching any consensus. It is realized that it would beappropriate to raise some of the important issues and differences here in order to more openlydiscuss them with the audience during the panel discussion session. Differences of opinionbetween the authors may lead to passionate debates during the panel discussion session with newperspectives.The U.S. is losing its leadership in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM
college’s Technical Writer and the university’sScience, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Librarian, the workshops offered inthe fall semester include training in reference management systems and basic information literacy.The spring semester workshops focus on how to prepare papers for submittal to conferences andjournals and technical reports as part of the requirements for grant funding. The keystone workshopof this series, offered in the fall and spring semesters, is Literature Review for Engineers: How toSearch, How to Write. During this workshop, the STEM Librarian describes a quality searchprocess and demonstrates methods to organize and evaluate different forms of literature and theTechnical Writer describes the writing of a
Paper ID #12519Flipped Classes: Do Instructors Need To Reinvent the Wheel When It ComesTo Course Content?Dr. Matthew James Jensen, Florida Institute of Technology Dr. Matthew J. Jensen received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2006. Matthew received his doctorate from Clemson University in 2011 in Mechanical Engineering, focused primarily on automotive control systems and dynamics. During his graduate studies, Matthew was awarded the Department of Mechanical Engineering Endowed Teaching Fellowship. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and
, Technology, Engineering, and Math) students,change their major at least once while in university [1]. However, much of the research on thistopic focuses on the ‘why’ of major changes rather than the ‘where’ [2]–[5]. Such studies employframeworks like expectancy-value theory or social cognitive career theory to explain studentrational for changing majors, often highlighting the role elements like grade point average [6],salary expectations [7], or engineering identity [8] play in the decision-making process.Just as important as knowing why students change majors, however, is knowing what majorsstudents are leaving and entering. To this end, a historic dataset was used to examineundergraduate engineering student degree program changes. The following
AC 2007-1375: SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DESIGN PROJECTS FORENGINEERING FRESHMENJennifer Mullin, Virginia TechJinsoo Kim, Korea National University of Education Dr. Jinsoo Kim is a visiting professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech from July 2006 to July 2007. He is a professor in the Department of Technology Education at Korea National University of Education. He is interested in subject-matter education of Technology, Engineering, and Industry. His permanent e-mail address is jskim@knue.ac.krVinod Lohani, Virginia TechJenny Lo, Virginia Tech Page 12.1336.1© American Society for
AC 2008-2099: MOTIVATING RESEARCH IN AN ENGINEERING TEACHINGINSTITUTIONHoward Evans, National University Dr. Howard Evans was appointed founding Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology, National University, in October, 2003. He received B.S. degrees in Physics and Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering Science from the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Evans has over 20 years of executive and senior technical management experience at 3M Company and IBM Corporation, primarily leading multidisciplinary, global technical organizations responsible for R&D; new business and market development; manufacturing
. These projects are an outgrowth of a student-created serviceorganization. It is loosely patterned after Engineers Without Borders from whomwe have learned a great deal.Many approaches to poverty issues are from a top-down perspective, usinggovernmental policies and spending to try to make changes. Engineering servicelearning can be part of a bottom-up approach, using technology and socialentrepreneurship as tools to make a difference in poor communities. With afocus on service, technology can be an instrument of peace, communitydevelopment, restoration of human dignity, and the alleviation of hunger andsuffering. This happens as these endeavors and their practitioners orient theircraft toward an end that has meaning as well as economic
universities.The focus of the project is on microwave processing of composite materials, includingcharacterization of materials properties before and after heat treatment and vibrational analysis ofthe composite system. This year's senior engineering students are participating in the first yearof the multi-year project.To accelerate the project achievements for subsequent student participants, an interdisciplinarytransitional summer program is being proposed as a method for technology transfer from thisyear's seniors to the upcoming seniors via a four-week team interaction.IntroductionTo succeed in today’s complex and rapidly advancing global marketplace, graduating engineersmust be able to work on interdisciplinary teams that may be geographically spread
AC 2009-425: COHERENCE AND CORRESPONDENCE IN ENGINEERINGDESIGN EVALUATIONSJonathan Evans, MIT Jonathan R. Evans earned his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Utah in 2007. He has spent time designing devices ranging from nuclear waste processing equipment to special effects technology. He is currently working on his Master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on the application of decision-making cognitive methods to the engineering design process.Konstantinos Katsikopoulos, Max Planck Institute for Human Development Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering and
improvement in mathematics skills over theshort term increase more, but the effects are not as lasting as desired. This could be a result ofstudent tendency to memorize what is needed to the moment, and during the 1-1.5 monthsbetween the PPP and the beginning of fall classes, their knowledge fades.There are many colleges and universities whose engineering students struggle with theircalculus requirements. Based on the results of this study, there are several recommendationsto consider: 1) Institute a bridge program to support students and increase success. 2) Usetutors along with any technology intervention. 3) Ensure the program length providessufficient hours for immersion in the content but also allows time to process material andengage in
Paper ID #11367Enhancing Spatial Visualization Skills in Engineering Drawing CourseDr. Tumkor Serdar, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown Serdar Tumkor is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at University of Pitts- burgh at Johnstown. Dr. Tumkor has 20 years of experience in academia, having taught at Stevens Institute of Technology and Istanbul Technical University. His 25 years engineering experience includes design, manufacturing, and product development. He has been lecturing Manufacturing Processes, Machine De- sign, Engineering Design, and Computer Aided Technical Drawing courses.Prof. Roelof
in Wastewater Treatment. Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Biologia. LIV. 97-110. 2009.Author BiographiesLuke Plante, P.E., United States Military AcademyLuke Plante is a Major in the United States Army and an Assistant Professor in the Departmentof Geography and Environmental Engineering at the United States Military Academy. He is a2008 graduate of the United States Military Academy with a B.S. in Environmental Engineeringand graduated from Columbia University with an M.S. in Environmental Engineering in 2016.He teaches Environmental Biological Systems, Environmental Science, EnvironmentalEngineering Technologies, Introduction to Environmental Engineering, Advanced IndividualStudy I-II, Biochemical Treatment, and Officership.Matthew
stages to sketch basicideas. Although technology is being used in place of pencil and paper, currentresearch on cognition and the impact of technology on thinking and learning isexploring how interfacing with a keyboard and not a hand-held device like astylus or pencil is influencing thinking. 3 Keyboards drive productivity, but notnecessarily creativity. If the creative visual processing is only done through acomputer, then are engineering students limiting their thinking capacity andstaying restricted to thinking that is mostly verbal and rational?At this stage in my career, I’ve been in the classroom close to a quarter centuryand I wonder if the newer professors, who have mostly learned with technology,lack basic drawing skills. For the most