envision.Our vision of the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) “pipeline” is shown inFigure 1. Students “flow” through the STEM pipeline from kindergarten to BS degree bypassing through a series of pipes and tees with valves. The valves represent the teachers andclassroom experiences and the pipes represent the students’ personal goals and career objectives(i.e., where they are headed). At each tee-section a valve diverts some students out of themainstream into the STEM flow path. As shown, the flow path from kindergarten to a STEM BSdegree is far from straight. In fact, the path of least resistance delivers the overwhelmingmajority of the students into non-technical careers.At first glance, it would seem to be most effective to
teams will develop test plans fortheir fabricated ICs, and then execute the measurements in a state-of-the-art RF laboratory.At the end of the second term students will present their designs and measured results duringa final project review. After completing the two-semester sequence, students will haveexperienced the RFIC design and fabrication process first hand, working in teams to developIC designs and test plans, and will have acquired highly marketable skills for careers inRF/microwave engineering and IC design.In addition a new senior/first-year-graduate-level (4000-level) Analog VLSI course is beingdeveloped by the primary author that will ultimately become a pre-requisite for the RFICDesign course along with the previously mentioned RF
Session 2547 Overcoming Problems in Mechanical Engineering Technology Education through Innovative Projects Saeed D. Foroudastan, Ph.D., Associate Professor Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Department Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractTwo of the biggest problems facing mechanical engineering technology programs areretaining freshmen students and adequately preparing graduating seniors for the realworld. The reasons for these problems are simple. Freshmen students often becomefrustrated early in their college careers because they have to take so many classes yet
more than 6.0% in the first quarter of 2003. IEEE-USA is concerned thatthese increases in unemployment may not be a short term, cyclical phenomenon. “Thisunemployment could be as the result of much more fundamental structural changes in theU.S. economy that could have serious, long-term affects-not only on the future viabilityof engineering as a high-wage/high value added career – but on the nation’s economicand technological competitiveness and the continuing ability of small businesses to be amajor driver of innovation and job creation in the United States.”2Economic, Technological and Security Implications of OutsourcingThe prime movers in the conversion of scientific innovation into products and serviceshave been engineers and scientists
(1985-1998; Vicksburg, MS). He has authored/co-authored over a hundred technical papers and reports during his career in private industry, government and academia. His current research interests are nearshore wave transformations, coastal structures, tsunami inundation, hurricane surges, high performance computing, and engineering education.Ms. Qing Pang, Jackson State University Qing Pang, Instructor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Science, Engi- neering and Technology, Jackson State University. Page 24.475.1 c American Society for Engineering
engineering. Page 24.493.3There is a wealth of literature related to the need to draw diverse talent into STEM fields, and toinspire interest early in students‟ academic careers. If we are to build the capacity of pre-collegestudents to be leaders and innovators in the global technological workforce of the future, asarticulated in the National Action Plan for Addressing the Critical Needs of the U.S. Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education System, and re-iterated in Preparing theNext Generation of STEM Innovators: Identifying and Developing Our Nation’s Human Capital,“the Nation must enhance its „ability to produce a numerate and
incorporating one ormore community-based engineering projects as the core theme of the course. Service learning is 3of vital importance in the engineering profession and must be integrated into the engineeringcurriculum at an early stage of career development. Engineering projects with aspects of servicelearning are both challenging and motivating to students entering the engineering profession afterSTEM studies at the high school level. In addition to teaching the students engineering design 4and practice in the context of society and values, and instilling the recognition of engineeringissues and concerns, engineering project activity with service learning components
even tacitskills (increased self-efficacy to develop and share innovations and contributions) are results ofthe lab’s activity. This is due to both the demonstrated learning outcomes by students, and theirinternalized awareness and structuring of their learning as distinct but linked products of thesystem.ConclusionMy initial experience with the research lab was intended to develop very specific pieces ofexplicit content knowledge to support career development goals. However, the process ofbecoming exposed to both the context of research, and the collaborative knowledge sharingactivities of a specific research lab, became an unexpectedly rich source of grounded learning.The goal of simulating student learning in explicit, implicit, and tacit
males. For ECE, which comprises about twenty-three percent oftenure and tenure-track engineering faculty and may have a slightly lower fraction of US bornfaculty due to a historically high fraction of foreign doctorates, about one hundred-twentydomestic engineering assistant professors are hired every year with about twenty-five per year Page 24.604.3being female. The electrical engineering devices most similar in scaling to this pathway to anengineering academic career are probably filters and not pipelines.This paper is focused on the connection between BS and PhD degree production in the context ofgender equity and domestic versus international
“paradigmaticcognition” which he defines as “classifying a particular instance as belonging to a category orconcept” (p. 9); and “narrative cognition [that] configures the diverse elements of a particularaction into a unified whole in which each element is connected to the central purpose of theaction,” (p. 11). These two types of knowledge can be treated as analytic processes, where aparadigmatic analysis “seeks to locate common themes or conceptual manifestations among thestories collected as data” (p. 14; grounded theory is a type of paradigmatic analysis) while anarrative analysis “synthesizes or configures events into an explanation of, for example […] howan individual made a career choice.” (p. 16) So narrative analysis “is the procedure throughwhich the
career, Dr. Ertekin published papers in referred journals and in conference proceedings in his area of research interest. He has also been PI for various NSF research projects including NSF-TUES and MRI programs. Dr. Ertekin is an active member in the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and currently serves as a chair of Philadelphia SME Chapter-15.Mr. M. Eric Carr, Drexel University Mr. Eric Carr is a full-time Laboratory Manager and part-time adjunct instructor with Drexel University’s Engineering Technology program. Eric assists faculty members with the development and implementa- tion of various Engineering Technology courses. A graduate of Old Dominion University’s Computer Engineering Technology
Engineering. Her M.S. and Ph.D. are from Stanford University, and her B.S. is from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She directed the graduate program in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech for 18 months before accepting a 2010 Sci- ence and Technology Policy Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is an Associate Editor for Journal of Engineering Education (2012-2014). Dr. Borrego has earned NSF CAREER and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) awards for her engineering education research. Her results are published in 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Engineering Education and Review of Higher Education. She is the recipient of
Paper ID #8949planning and inventory control (with Ron Askin - Joint Publishers Book of the Year Award - 2003, Insti-tute for Industrial Engineering), and a set of case studies used in introductory operations research classes.He did early work in web based education and has had classes on-line since 1997. His teaching awards in-clude the Andersen Consulting Teaching Award, 1992; a sabbatical appointment to the United States Mil-itary Academy, Department of Systems Engineering, 1995-1996 (awarded the Department of the Army,Commander’s Award for Civilian Service); the UA University-Wide Teaching Award for Meritorious De-partmental Achievement in Undergraduate Education, 1997; and the EL-Paso Natural Gas FoundationFaculty Career Teaching/Research
Paper ID #9372Collaborative Research: Identifying and Assessing Key Factors of Engineer-ing InnovativenessDr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette S¸enay Purzer an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. In 2011, she received a NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students approach innovation. She is also a NAE/CASEE New Faculty Fellow. Purzer conducts research on aspects of design education such as innovation and information literacy.Dr. Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Kathryn Jablokow is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
ECCS Department Ohio Northern University Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810 Ada, OH 45810 f-hassan@onu.edu n-alsbou@onu.eduAbstractEducators should always seek opportunities to enhance their course material and equip studentswith skills to help them achieve success in their career after graduation. One skill that has drawnmuch attention recently is the entrepreneurial mindset. This paper presents a project-basedlearning approach that infuses some of the soft skills associated with the entrepreneurial mindsetwith the technical skills of electric circuit analysis and design through a specific multi-phase
), 20133-2014. He is IEEE Education Society Membership Development Chair and Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award Chair. Professor Mousavinezhad received Michigan State University ECE Department’s Distinguished Alumni Award, May 2009, ASEE ECE Division’s 2007 Meritorious Service Award, ASEE/NCS Distinguished Service Award, April 6, 2002, for significant and sustained leadership. In 1994 he received ASEE Zone II Outstanding Campus Representative Award. He is also a Senior Mem- ber of IEEE, has been a reviewer for IEEE Transactions including the Transactions on Education. His teaching and research interests include digital signal processing (DSP) and Bioelectromagnetics. He has been a reviewer for engineering
collaboration, coordinate joint activities,and address issues related to solar trainings, etc. [1-3].The central objective of the SITN/South-Central Region is to enable a rapid increase in theamount of solar installation workforce in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico,Missouri, and Texas. SITN establishes and maintains a network of educational, industry, andstate partners to ensure the availability, effectiveness, and standardization of solar installationtraining throughout the South-Central region at secondary and post-secondary training programs(vocational technical high schools and programs as well as community college programs).Standardized solar training of instructors will, in turn, provide a seamless career pathway forsolar installation
frugal innovations to address healthcare challenges in resource-limited settings. Prof. Sienko has led efforts at the University of Michigan to incorporate the constraints of global health technologies within engineering design at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is the recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Sci- ence Foundation, a Teaching Innovation Prize from the UM Provost, and a UM Undergraduate Teaching Award. While at MIT, she was a winner of the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. Page 24.639.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014
was incorporated into our database.Initial MEM ProgramThe MEM program both initially and in its current form requires students to complete 10 three-credit courses (30 credits total). The proposals for the MEM program initially included threecore courses – Human Relations and Team Building (which was to be taught by the College ofBusiness at Rowan), Introduction to Engineering Management, and Engineering Economics.The proposals for the initial MEM program included four areas of specialization: the ProjectManagement specialization, the Construction Management specialization, the EngineeringEntrepreneurship specialization, and the Career-Based specialization. Each specializationincluded four proposed courses. The evolution of each specialization
Keasling). Since moving to Washington University in St. Louis, my research focuses on characterizing and engineering environmental microorganisms. Milestones reached include 13C-metabolic pathway analysis, metabolic flux modeling, and systems genetic engineering of E.coli and cyanobacteria for chemical productions. I have received NSF CAREER Award (2010) and Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2010). I teach Process Dynamics and Control, Fluid Mechanics, Bioprocess Engineering, and Metabolic Engineering at Washington University. I also co-taught Advanced Energy Laboratory (2011) and Interna- tional Experience in Bioenergy (2012). I received a Department Chair’s Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2013.Dr
skills, and toteach the fundamentals of a computer aided design. The students meet the instructor twice aweek in the laboratory during this three-credit-hour semester-long course with each class lastingtwo hours. The course is taught using traditional teaching methods with the introduction tographics concepts and examples in the first hour, and tutoring the homework in the second hour.Students passively absorb the information and work individually to solve the problems. Thelimited class time means that not all students get the immediate help they need. In addition,many of them do not follow up during office or tutoring hours for additional assistance. Since itis early in their university career, they often are not mature enough to admit they are
Experience seminar for incoming freshmen. He also tutored students in engineering science, physics, math, and mechanical engineering courses. Also throughout his college career, he has become the president of the soccer club, and president of the SAE Collegiate Student Chapter at New Mexico Tech. He has become an active member of different professional societies including SAE, ASME, ASEE and AIAA. Awards presented to him include Standout Techie, the President’s Honor Roll, and New Mexico Tech Scholar.Mr. Francisco Mart´ın Vigil, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology Francisco Vigil is from Espa˜nola, NM. He graduated from NMT in December 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and plans to
and enhancement, non-invasive surgical tool design and bio-materials applications. During his career, Dr. Ertekin published papers in referred journals and in conference proceedings in his area of research interest. He has also been PI for various NSF research projects including NSF-TUES and MRI programs. Dr. Ertekin is an active member in the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and currently serves as a chair of Philadelphia SME Chapter-15.Dr. Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.)Dr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng.)Mr. joshua Konstantinos Page 24.800.1
intelligence-led security), and NetMentors.Org (the first national online career development eMentoring community). Dr. Green earned a Doctor of Man- agement and an MS in Technology Management from the University of Maryland University College, an MBA from the University of Michigan, and a BS in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.Alyssa E. Cohen Sherman, University of Maryland Alyssa Cohen Sherman is the manager for entrepreneurship education at the Maryland Technology Enter- prise Institute (Mtech) at the University of Maryland. In this role, Alyssa manages a wide range of Mtech educational initiatives, including the Minor in Technology Entrepreneurship and the Hinman CEOs Pro- gram. In
, was that some students watching thevideo reported this to be a decision point in their careers. Some of the comments from students inthis category are shown below.This video really got me thinking. It made me realize how careless I can be sometimes, and howserious that really can be. For example, if I alone pour my used oil into the ground it doesn’t doas much, but when I do it repeatedly along with several others doing the same thing, it becomesa big problem. Not to just look at my actions in everyday life, but to look at how I should act inthe field. It isn’t enough to just design something to the specs. The specifications still allowenergy inefficiency and chemicals to be put into the environment, but what if I go above andbeyond? Instead
engineering career paths. Between 50 and 70 % of respondentsagreed or strongly agreed that their ELC provided the tools needed to: cope in a competitiveatmosphere, handle stress, and manage time. Only two disagree responses were recorded. Figure 4: Responses to question “The ELC provided the tools needed to enhance student…”The survey ended with five open ended questions, which were answered by 60 to 65respondents. • What feedback do you get from ELC participants? • What value do you think your ELC brings to students? • What value do you think your ELC brings to your institution? • What are some incentives for students to join your ELC (e.g., scholarship, better housing, tutoring, social
merit ofinnovative teaching practices and career induction experiences for students. We foundthat science and engineering outreach activities combined with teacher professionaldevelopment seminars and a socio-constructivist framework for teaching provide aneffective approach for limiting the use of accountability systems as the sole reference forsuccess. Similarly, the approach helped teachers cope with the pressures of high-stakestesting while conducting professional experimentation to change their attitudes andbeliefs about science and engineering topics. Specifically, the use of graduate students ascontent-resources in classrooms creates a collaborative environment that encouragesteachers to avoid tendencies to narrow curriculum standards
Page 10.111.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationGrumman’s Electronic Systems sector employees with Baltimore inner-city high school studentsto help them achieve their dreams of pursuing technical and business careers. “WORTHY is aninvestment in our future” says Iorizzo, “while the students gain valuable one-on-one experiencein a real work environment, our employees are playing a critical role in developing the future ofour workforce.”1 Each year, Northrop Grumman selects at least 10 Baltimore inner-city highschool students for the program who are entering into their sophomore or junior years
/interviewpanel consisted of the Dean of Engineering, Assistant Dean (Transition & Diversity), a Senioracademic staff member from each Department of the Faculty (usually Head of Department)and a Human Resources Officer.Due to the high standard of applicants, the Faculty decided to award 4 Fellowships (one morethan originally planned). The Faculty will actively encourage the career progression anddevelopment of the successful candidates, and provide opportunities for articulation into themore sought after Teaching and Research positions. The expectation is that, in the long term,this will lead to more women academics in senior positions and contribute to attracting morewomen into engineering.Expected benefits for the FacultyIt is expected that the
courses developed by theconsortium. The web-based modules offer a rapid-response method to introduce the workforce atvarious levels (new graduates, incumbent workers, career transition, etc.) to the biotechnologyindustry and provide them with valuable real-world information that will better enable them to beimmediately productive in their new job. In addition, because the modules can be incorporated intoacademic courses, they can serve as a bridge for workers to pursue further higher education.Ultimately, the online modules will be available throughout the state for workforce training and thecommunity college curriculum will be available to colleges throughout the state that either have orwant to develop a program in biotechnology