engineering and digital electronics, including the text used by Project Lead the Way.Cheryl Beauchamp, Regent University Cheryl Beauchamp serves as the Engineering and Computer Science Department chair of Regent Univer- sity’s College of Arts & Sciences. She is a PhD student in the Engineering Education program at Virginia Tech. She earned her Master’s of Science degree in Computer Science from George Mason University and her Master’s of Education degree from Regent University. Her research interests include Computer Science education, STEM education, teamwork design, online learning, and cybersecurity. Currently, she is on a research team examining the impacts of the Summer Engineering Education for Kids out-of-school
productivity. Sadly, physical scientists who want to learn such things usually have to teach themselves.The project described here provides an authentic context in which our undergraduatemechanical engineers gain such computing expertise and more. Programming, design,simulation, and analysis are all intertwined in a project-based setting designed to beengaging for engineering students. We have patterned our approach after what cognitivepsychologists call a macro-context [7], connecting lessons and assignments to ameaningful overall goal that gives learning purpose. Research has shown that suchcontextualized learning is significantly more effective than traditional classroom learning[1,2,6].In addition to enriching the educational experiences of
biometry and statistics (2001) and an M.A. in mathematics (1997) from the University at Albany and a B.A. in mathematics (1994) from SUNY Geneseo.Dr. Alicia Dawn Beth, Landmark College Dr. Alicia Beth has worked in a number of roles in education, including as an educator from preschool to graduate level, researcher and program evaluator, and grant writer and director. In 2015, she secured $2.7 million in federal and philanthropic grants to establish UTeach Computer Science at The Univer- sity of Texas at Austin a program designed to increase the participation of students and teachers from groups historically underrepresented in computer science. Alicia earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in Educational Psychology from The
involvement of six people, including a facultytheatre director/acting coach/stage manager, three student actors, and two faculty or stafffacilitators, the online performance needed an additional member of the production team, aZoom Technical Moderator (ZTM), to support the activities of everyone in the production. Thisrole evolved as the production team and IT department learned from each other and developed“best practices” for operating a Zoom theater production. These best practices include: creatingand distributing different Zoom links to the same session for the cast, director, facilitators,student audience, and the ZTM; leading online rehearsals; and creating and sharing a “TimingSheet” (spreadsheet containing columns for time, performance
expectations set forth by ABET.IntroductionThe landscape of undergraduate engineering management programs in the United States hasexperienced an evolution captured by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology's(ABET) recognition of the need for traditional engineering disciplines alongside a morecomprehensive discipline that integrates leadership, communication, and teamworkcompetencies as seen in (Figure 1. Engineering Managers manufacture fiscal and enterprisevalue in creating, designing, and implementing technical projects, products, or system solutions[1]. The West Point Engineering Management (EM) Program embodies this approach. It ishoused in the Department of Systems Engineering at the United States Military Academy(USMA) as one of
Paper ID #34171Cross Sectional Assessment of CEM Curriculum Offerings at thePre-college level in North Carolina (Evaluation)Ms. Cayla Lenore Anderson, Clemson University Cayla Anderson is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in the Planning, Design, and Built Environment program at Clemson University. Her research interests include construction education at the pre-college level, workforce development for minorities in construction, and gender and space in- tersections on construction jobsites. Her interests stems from her experience as a Black woman in the construction industry. Cayla received a dual
for the innovation Studio in the Engineering department.Luke G. Grzech, Wartburg College Luke is a Student in the Engineering Science Department at Wartburg College. He is getting his major in Engineering Science and Minors in Mathematics and Leadership. Research interests include recruitment into STEM and diversity in STEM.Prof. Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University Kurt Becker is the current director for the Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER) which examines innovative and effective engineering education practices as well as classroom technologies that advance learning and teaching in engineering. He is also working on National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects exploring engineering
. Military Academy, West Point, NY. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is an active member of ASEE and a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia. His research areas include climate change impact on water resource systems and infrastructure. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Helping Students Learn Engineering Mechanics Concepts through Integration of Simulation Software in Undergraduate CoursesABSTRACTThis paper describes recent experience within the civil engineering program at the U.S. MilitaryAcademy (USMA) to integrate simulation tools to assist students in
) Worldwiderecently accepted a Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award on Earth Day from the EPAfor contributions and innovations in protecting the Ozone Layer 2. In recent years, theSaturn Corporation teamed with the EPA to study car recycling 3.One of the best ways to ensure that future industry will be environmentally friendly is toteach the principles and importance of sustaining the environment to today's engineeringstudents. As demonstrated by such companies as IBM and Saturn, there are industriesworking hard to preserve the environment. One way to help future engineers learnsustainability is for universities to partner with such industries.Few fields of study can have a more dramatic impact on sustainable development thanthat of engineering. Engineers
as much as possible.What is important about this case is that the engineers involved recognized the dangers andactively took steps to reduce them. When we think about what engineers do, we usually envisionthem building or designing. But there are aspects of the job that often go unnoticed that areincredibly important to society. For the last decade, engineers involved with air bags could notsimply sit in a lab and research and design. They have had to stand before congressionalhearings, be interviewed by the media, find social solutions to technical problems, and some ofthem even had to face the rage of parents who’s children had been killed by air bags. They didnot always have a completely accurate picture of the risks, but they recognized
off-grid energy micro-grid design Students can make significant contributions to a team-based design an off-grid energy system that meets specified requirements in an economical wayIII. Course structureThe contents of a weekly course module are shown in Table 3. A consistent presentation is made,allowing the student to progress through their week’s responsibilities by following the links fromtop to bottom. The module begins with a video of the instructor introducing the technical contentand presenting the major tasks and deadlines for the week. Readings and video lectures present Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universitythe technical material. Practice problems reinforce the technical content
Interdisciplinary Design Experience and a core faculty member in the Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management at Bucknell. He was the founder and inaugural chair of the Undergrad- uate Research Track at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) conference, and co-organized the Biomedical Engineering Body-Of-Knowledge Summit. He served on the board of the Biomedical En- gineering Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) and was elected as chair of the division in 2012. He is the winner of the 2010 National ASEE Biomedical Engineering Teach- ing Award and in 2011 was selected to be a National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education faculty member
online coursework, which is easy access andconvenience to work at one’s own pace.A current challenge instructors face is how to use these tools effectively creating an onlinecourse environment that rivals an in-person classroom experience. “Many institutions … havefound it challenging to achieve faculty use that truly enhances the learning interaction betweenfaculty and students as opposed to simply posting materials online [8].”Research studies have confirmed that best practices exist for online learning [8, 9], yet the maininfluence in student outcomes is the instructor and his or her approach to teaching [9]. Oneexample is how might the instructor combat the loss of interaction forced by a classroom setting?“One of the most interesting
thoughtful, educated citizens. In addition, on a more practical level,when we look at the ABET Criteria 2000 5, several of the outcomes in Criterion 3 are eitherdirectly or indirectly tied to a person’s ability to be reflective. For example, the ability to designand conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data (3b) may require the designerto reflect on his/her preferred learning style, ability to interact effectively with others, etc. Inaddition, outcomes 3d (an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams), 3g (an ability tocommunicate effectively), 3h (the broad education necessary to understand the impact ofengineering solutions in a global and societal context), and 3j (knowledge of contemporaryissues) all require a degree of
for women than men [8].Since 2011, researchers at our institution have been studying the impact of gender-specificinterventions in computing and cybersecurity on the self-efficacy of girls and women incomputing. Mississippi State University’s (MSU) Bulldog Bytes K-12 computing andcybersecurity outreach program has engaged over 1000 informal computer science learners since2013 [4,9,10,11]. With increasing gaps between the number of computer science graduates and thenumber of unfilled jobs in computing, it is imperative that we discover opportunities for increasingentry and retention of persons traditionally underrepresented on computing pathways.For this project, the authors considered best practices from Bulldog Bytes
MentorshipMost importantly, evidence from the research on teacher scholarship shows that for professionaldevelopment to be effective, it must be an ongoing process that extends beyond the lifetime ofprofessional development workshops [25]. Instructors are best suited to succeed when theycultivate a community of practice that meets regularly to discuss resources, pedagogicalapproaches, and tools that teachers use to improve student outcomes. The philosophy of thefacilitators was that participation is most effective when participants complement others bybringing their wealth of individual experiences. At the intersection of those unique experienceslies the picture of the ideal educator. Participants were encouraged to learn from their peers andthe
entrepreneurship,tailored to engineering students. These educational opportunities are provided either byintegrating entrepreneurship concepts into the engineering curriculum or through non-engineering courses, minors, and certificate programs available to engineering students [2].However, despite the growing recognition of the importance of entrepreneurship education forengineering graduates, research indicates that its widespread inclusion in undergraduateengineering curricula is still limited and not yet fully institutionalized [2, 3]. This could be due tofactors such as ABET accreditation requirements or constraints related to program flexibility andresources. ABET, Inc. is a recognized organization responsible for accreditation of around
. Instead of grading for total level of learning, wespent an exorbitant amount of time focused on trying to make sure we “nickel and dimed” everystudent equally, consistently assessing the same penalty for the same errors. In a sense, precisegrading became more important than measuring student learning. As a result, we missed theforest for the trees and were less prepared to adjust course topics and class lectures for theoverall goal of student learning. For even the best designed rubric cannot accurately reflectstudent learning without including instructor intuition.After a semester grading against a rubric, our instructor intuition and grading confidence quicklygrew. Within this maturation process, we became more adept at focusing on the overall
Paper ID #22303Standardizing the Statics Curriculum Across Multiple InstructorsDr. Kimberly B. Demoret P.E., Florida Institute of Technology Kimberly B. Demoret, Ph.D., P.E., teaches Statics and Aerospace Engineering Capstone Design at the Florida Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Florida Tech in 2015, she worked for eight years at Kennedy Space Center on development of launch systems in support of NASA’s space exploration goals. Before that she was a US Air Force officer for 20 years, supporting several aerospace programs as a developmental engineer and manager.Dr. Jennifer Schlegel, Florida Institute of
for the project was to create value in the lives of children and families. FYP1 project 1182 project because it dealt with more than just building. We had to keep track of finances, marketing, environ- mental impact and building all in one; The robot project in FEH2 . It challenged our creativity and helped us get a picture of how real life problems are solved. market research The Software Design Project was the pinnacle of EM because it was group work that involved many facets of creativity and teamwork. (non-course) experiences I worked on a water project with a group of engineers
scooter has two bases, one for each foot, as shown in Figure 2 [6]. Figure 2: AODI Scooter [6] Along with researching these scooter companies, we researched different methods ofmovement. Within this, we discovered the Leveraged Freedom Chair and Mobility Worldwide[7, 8]. The Leveraged Freedom Chair is a wheelchair which uses two levers in order to improvemechanical advantage for the user. The chair uses both arms in order to pump the wheelchair justlike a normal one but instead of pushing on the wheels like a normal one, the levers are in frontof the wheels, as shown in Figure 3. Figure 3: Leveraged Freedom Chair [7] Mobility Worldwide is another wheelchair which has
get better at what they practice. Like all adaptive bi-ological entities, students will become proficient at navigating the environments they have hadtime to explore 25,26 . If their environment is highly structured, they will learn to operate in an or-dered environment very well. On the other hand if the environment is entirely unstructured, theywill do their best to cope with the disorder. The real world is a mix of order and disorder. Sowith the goal of preparing our students for the real world, it makes sense to create a classroomenvironment that has a balance between order and disorder. Page 26.1532.6Counter to what many faculty
Paper ID #22854Lessons Learned from an S-STEM GrantDr. Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University Dr. Ricky Castles is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He is primarily affiliated with the ECU Electrical Engineering concentration. His research work focuses on the use of wireless sensor networks, microcontrollers, and physiological data collection for a variety of applications. He is also interested in engineering education research including leadership development, broadening participating, and opportunities for first generation college students.Dr. Evelyn C. Brown, North
time,we were also learning Morse Code and about different things that have to do with radioand radio communications. We also did a lot more things, but this is just a vagueoverview of how Tech Camp was. I thought that it was really fun and if there will be aTech Camp for General Licenses, then I will definitely go. My favorite part of TechCamp was being a fox, but I also thought that learning more about ham radio was veryfun and educating.”Wendy Masters(Grade 8)“My name is Jordan Goldblatt. I am a graduate of Tech Camp 2000, Session 1. I hadmany good experiences there and learned a lot of things about Amateur Radio. Probablythe best experience was being the "fox" in the fox hunts. Being the fox means that Itransmit a signal for about 20
self-efficacy between the pre and post-survey among thestudents who self-identified as neurodiverse and maybe neurodiverse but these differences werenot statistically significant. A limitation of the study was the lack of ability to pair the data forindividual students and a low number of neurodiverse students in the dataset. This preliminarywork calls attention to the need to consider neurodiverse students in our instructional practices.In the future, we hope the research will expand our understanding of a neurodiverse-friendlycurricular design in preparation for engineering students with autism spectrum disorder and othertypes of neurodiversity for the workforce, as well as assisting engineering educators in theadoption of practices that
from a leader orother authority figure. In addition to being a technology-rich generation, Gen Y is one whichwants to know that what they spend their time on is significant to the world around them. In onestudy, the vast majority of millennials surveyed agreed that they believed it was possible forthem to do something great and perhaps make a positive impact for the common good of society.In this way, Carpino, Ugalde, and Gow argue that the expectations of today’s millennial-agecollege students are much different than previous generations35. These researchers suggest thatwhen a millennial enters the classroom they want to know that there is a practical application anduse to what they are learning, and that they prefer active over passive
Coordinator for the Texas Alliance for Minority Participation program from 1993 to 2002, and is currently the Department Chairperson for Physics, Engineering, & Architecture. He has been involved in numerous initiatives to integrate the findings of physics and engineering education research with education practice. Page 14.505.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 EDGE 2008 Program – The First Signs of MaturityAbstractThis paper presents a brief description and history of the EDGE (Early Development of GeneralEngineering) Summer Bridge Program that was initiated in 2003 1 and focuses on
Education (IJSRME), ISSN,vol. 1, pp. 2455-5630, 2016. Available: [hered][10] Sparks, Erin, and Mary Jo Waits. "Degrees for What Jobs? Raising Expectations forUniversities and Colleges in a Global Economy." NGA Center for Best Practices [Online], 2011.Available: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED517709.pdf[11] Han, Luyi, and John V. Winters. "Industry fluctuations and college major choices: Evidencefrom an energy boom and bust." Economics of Education Review, vol. 77, p. 101996, 2020.[12] Tessema, Banbul Shewakena, and Sintayehu Belay Abejehu. "University-industrycollaboration in curriculum development: Analysis of banking and finance graduates’ attributesfrom educators and industries perspective." Education Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 87-93
, contributing to innovative studies in the field of civil infrastructure. His primary research area focuses on sustainable design for pavement systems, aiming to develop environmentally responsible, durable, and cost-effective solutions for modern transportation networks. Samuel’s work explores the integration of green materials, lifecycle assessment, and resilient engineering practices in pavement design. Through his research, he seeks to address key challenges in infrastructure sustainability while promoting long-term resilience in the face of climate change and increasing urban demandsTolulope Abiri, Morgan State University Tolulope Abiri is a graduate student in Civil Engineering at Morgan State University, where he also
. 4 Practice HW #2 covered Inventory Management concepts. This HW was designed to give the students an idea of how they should be thinking in terms of inventory for the large-scale operation. When they originally baked cookies in the pilot kitchen, the instructor had planned for all the necessary raw materials of 1 batch of cookies to be in front of them (not measured). After that, the students had to think about the material requirements planning for baking approximately 1,200 cookies in a day. The instructor gave an approximation of some costs and her thought process, using the eggs needed for the recipe as an example. The students had to determine the need per day, the need per year, the order size, and the floor