and observation of student confidence in the labs willgage the total success of teaching manufacturing for a large class.ReferencesGroup Cell 1) Leighbody G.B. and Kidd D.M., Methods of Teaching Shop and Technical Subjects, Delmar publisher, 1966. 2) Nowak, M.L., Identification of Teaching Strategies and Leaning Activities for Manufacturing Technology Education Programs, Dissertation, Texas A&M University, 1988. 3) Miller M.R., Strategies for Developing an Exemplary Program in Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Dissertation, Texas A&M University, 1993. 4) Nelson M.S., Technical Competencies for Entry-Level Manufacturing Engineering Technologists for the Year 2000, Dissertation, Texas A&M
engineering student identity development and engineering student global preparedness. She completed her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Clemson University in 2014 and a certificate in Engineer- ing & Science Education in 2012. She completed her B.S in Biomedical Engineering from Michigan Technological University in 2003.Dr. Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California Gisele Ragusa is a Professor of Engineering Education at the University of Southern California. She conducts research on college transitions and retention of underrepresented students in engineering and also research about engineering global preparedness and engineering innovation. She also has research expertise in STEM K-12 and in STEM assessment. She
those whoare academically talented - have inadequate preparation for the increased rigors of collegeeducation through their K-12 education and limited family guidance due to the fact that moststudents are first generation college students. With support from NSF Scholarships in Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM), the Culturally Adaptive Pathway toSuccess (CAPS) program aims to build an inclusive pathway to accelerate the graduation foracademically talented, low-income students in Engineering (Civil Engineering, ElectricalEngineering, and Mechanical Engineering) and Computer Science majors at Cal State LA, whichtraditionally serves the underrepresented and educationally disadvantaged minority students inthe Los Angeles
intheir professional careers, whether in jobs or internships. This highlights the significantprofessional development opportunities available through participation in these teams,suggesting that students who do not join or cannot join due to time constraints may miss out onvaluable experiences that could benefit their entire engineering career.Communication is a critical skill for engineers, as they often need to collaborate with otherengineers and stakeholders. In many engineering roles, engineers also function as managers orcoordinators, making effective communication essential for their daily tasks. Furthermore,engineering work is typically project-based, with many projects lacking a predefined solution.Engineers are responsible for defining
and a B.S. in industrial engineer- ing from West Virginia University. Componation works in product and system development with primary research interests in project and systems management, decision theory, and engineering economics. He has managed and supported research efforts with DOD, NASA, and numerous defense and aerospace in- dustries. He a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and a Fellow with the American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM). Page 25.923.1
provide an important bridge between education and employment inengineering and providing marketable skills is a major function of the experience [1]. There isgrowing consensus around capstone projects as a potential site for teaching students professionalskills, such as problem solving and teamwork [2]. Yet there remains a gap in skills betweenemployer expectations and the graduates they hire [3], suggesting that not all capstone coursesare providing sufficient support for developing these skills. For example, [4] found limitedgrowth in professional skills in small, short-term project experiences.One potential amplifier of developing professional skills is self-efficacy. The central premisebehind self-efficacy theory is that having knowledge and
identity. For the purposes of thisstudy engineering identity is defined as set out by previous work by Stevens et al. [5] : anindividual’s belief that they ARE an engineer. As Stevens explains, this shift towards identifyingas an engineer is often accompanied by changes in disciplinary knowledge, and as a studentnavigates through the education process., For example, a student will likely have a strong senseof engineering identity when they feel that they are able to do tasks they associate with thoseperformed by a successful engineer, are identified as an engineer by their mentors, peers, andfamily, and have passed certain courses and graduated [6]. It should be noted that while this studyfocused on the engineering identity of mechanical
. Page 11.1128.10‚ Interestingly, we have seen some students take HSI, then ESP, declare electrical or computer engineering, and then help teach both courses as student assistants.‚ Two students attending ESP had previously attended HSI. They asked for permission to work a different, challenging laboratory project rather than the laboratory exercises they had previously completed in HSI. There assignment was to build a 24 hour clock using information provided in laboratory 7 as a guide. With no assistance from the instructor they were able to successfully complete the design task.‚ Paul Crips, a middle school educator, attended Thinking and Doing Mathematics workshop and then adapted some of the coursework for his use in
research group focused on the mechanical and tribological characterization of thin films. She also contributes to the engineering education community through studying the process/impacts of undergraduate research and navigational capital into graduate school. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Work-in-Progress: Addressing Recruitment Issues with Potential Transfer Students from State Technical CollegesIn this work-in-progress paper, we present emergent recruitment issues encountered during anongoing design-based project with participants from two-year colleges for an NSF-fundedscholarship program. Our hope is
Paper ID #15591Analyzing an Abbreviated Dynamics Concept Inventory and Its Role as anInstrument for Assessing Emergent Learning PedagogiesMr. Nick Stites, Purdue University, West Lafayette Nick Stites is pursuing a PhD in Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests include the development of novel pedagogical methods to teach core engineering courses and leveraging technology to enhance learning experiences. Nick holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering and has eight years of engineering experience. He also has four years of experience as an adjunct instructor at the community-college and
in a large publicuniversity in the United States, a general engineering freshman cornerstone design course and asenior Mechanical Engineering design capstone course. These were analyzed throughobservations and other ethnographic methods. The third design setting is professionalengineering companies. This setting was analyzed through the research team’s experiencesworking on design teams for multiple companies. Data suggests that engineering education andindustry organizational contexts constitute processes of design differently. These findingschallenge the typical rhetoric that undergraduate education project courses are intended toprovide students with real-world design experiences.IntroductionEngineering design has been defined as a
in 2006 and won the award in 2007, 2008 and 2011. Page 23.890.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Measuring intercultural sensitivity: A case study of the REU program at UPRMAbstractThe National Academy of Engineering’s call to educate global engineers has sparked a numberof globalizing programs and coursework at different institutions. Nevertheless, there is a need toquantify the extent to which the ability of recent graduates to understand, appreciate, and acceptdifferences among cultures is being influenced by globalizing programs and coursework
for prototyping, the ability to iterate designs quickly, as well asdeveloping some of the teamwork and workplace professionalism skills associated with projectwork typically found in industry.Freshman and sophomores studying engineering benefit a great deal when they network andbond through the shared experiences of project work. Community college students, in particular,exhibit improved retention and graduation rates as a result of building a shared sense ofcommunity [3], [4]. With their commuting status and typically heavy part-time job workload,community college students don’t often socialize outside of class, which leads to isolation bothsocially and academically. Project based learning can help this by promoting a student’s sense ofself
Directorate in Rome, New York, under Linked Data experts Nicholas Del Rio and Timothy Lebo. His dissertation centers around the use of ontologies and NLP to enrich the research process, with a use case in software development life cycle provenance.Dr. Omar Ochoa, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityDr. Christina Frederick, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Dr. Frederick is currently a Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator in the Human Factors and Systems Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Dr. Frederick received her Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of Rochest ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Microelectronic
that both male and female engineering studentspositively benefit from taking a sociotechnical course compared to a technical course across allthree categories, with a more pronounced influence on female students.1. Introduction and BackgroundEngineering education programs typically focus on developing students’ technical skills withless attention given to the societal, cultural, or political context in which complex engineeringproblem solving occurs [e.g., 1-5]. This is particularly prevalent during students’ second yearwhen coursework is mainly centered on decontextualized engineering science classes [6, 7]. Thislack of contextualization can make it difficult for students to connect what they are learning towhat they would do as a practicing
welfarehas also become critical to ensure solutions being developed not only support end users but alsoaddress the problem as identified by end users [2], [5]. Moreover, beyond applying the technicalknowledge gained in the coursework, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)highlighted that graduating engineering students must know how to “work as part of teams,communicate well, and understand the economic, social, environment, and international contextof their professional activities” [6, p.1]. Stemming from this point is the need to instill societalperspectives into graduating engineering students so they holistically understand the impact oftheir products locally and globally [7].With the scope of engineering expanding past the
research and educational activities – reflecting the values, beliefs, and ways ofthinking that lead toward sustainable development in the context of engineering and engineeringeducation. The Minor will be highly informed by best practices for user-centered design,introducing opportunities for self-reflection, trial and error, and action-taking through a student-centered project-based learning approach that recognizes that students are in transition toadulthood. A robust stakeholder engagement process will be undertaken to align activities withgoals, involving three undergraduate mentors per year as co-designers and co-facilitators.Although the Minor will be open to all students with basic qualifications, unlike traditional minorsthat require
Graduate Research Assistant and Ph.D. student in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University (USU). With an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering and a Master’s in Engineering Management, coupled with over 12 years of teaching experience with undergraduate engineering students, Zain is currently dedicated to pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Education at USU in Logan, UT, USA. His current focus is on coursework and literature exploration, with a particular interest in studying Meta-cognitive processes and how engineering students self-regulate their cognition and motivation strategies during problem solving activities.Dr. Angela Minichiello, Utah State University Angela (Angie) Minichiello is a
practices by learning from evidence-based techniques and approaches within the field. We work to help our community stay current on well-founded best practices by critically engaging with recent literature and hearing from experts within the engineering education sphere. · We grow through effort and persistence: We cultivate a growth mindset culture, seeking development and improvement in our understanding and practice of engineering pedagogy. The canon of engineering education research is always growing, so we continue to grow along with it and stay up to date via journal club and cutting-edge discussions. · Our community makes us strong: We strive to build a supportive space for students and educators alike to learn from one
in 2014, Dr. Rahman extensively conducted research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA for almost six years as a Research Scientist. He significantly contributed to research and development of the image processing, classification, and retrieval methods extensively used in the NLM’s Open-i Search Engine for biomedical literature. Dr. Rahman has good expertise in the fields of Computer Vision, Image Processing, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, and Data Mining and their application to retrieval of biomedical images from large collections. Since joining Morgan, Dr. Rahman also has been actively involved in basic educational and instructional re- search by infusing several interactive and active
educators have addressed theindustry-driven desire to help students work more effectively on teams and on projects, includinglarge center-based multidisciplinary efforts involving engineers from different fields,1 programsvertically integrated by courses,2 classroom-based integration of students within and outsideengineering in the sciences,3 teaming between business and engineering students in a capstonedesign course4 and graduate product design with business and engineering students.5 In addition,of course, many cross-disciplinary business and engineering programs and minors in other fieldsfor engineering students are available at many campuses.A means has been developed at Penn State Altoona to address many of these student and facultyissues
AC 2009-864: CONNECTOR FACULTY: A FRIENDLY FACE FOR EARLYENGINEERING STUDENTSDaina Briedis, Michigan State University Dr. DAINA BRIEDIS is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Michigan State University. Dr. Briedis has been involved in several areas of education research including student retention, curriculum redesign, and the use of technology in the classroom. She is a co-PI on two NSF grants in the areas of integration of computation in engineering curricula and in developing comprehensive strategies to retain early engineering students. She is active nationally and internationally in engineering accreditation and is a Fellow of
aids to enhanced student learning.Dr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Lisa D. McNair is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Educational Networks and Impacts at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Dr. David Reeping, University of Michigan
mentorship that goes beyond the logistics of successfully completing a degree tothe holistic goals of whole-student growth and discovery of a path to lifelong personalfulfillment.Studies have shown that diverse array of factors may impact a student’s adjustment to collegeand their academic success, including self-efficacy and sense of belonging and community [1,2].We set out to create an advising framework that by design supports students as they develop self-efficacy and places students in cohorts to support community building and sense of belonging.This advising effort builds on previously reported efforts to implement a learner-centeredapproach for first-year advising, Advising-as-Teaching, at Northwestern University’sMcCormick School of
specific to teamwork orcommunication in the programming class, beyond mention of building a resume or digitalportfolio. The CLOs may need to be specifically revised to promote student awareness andpractice of communication and teamwork through computation.The skills listed in Figure 2 were emphasized during the ideation and development of thesecourses, and the survey results suggest that they were also communicated to most students. Notethat we are not examining student competency here, but rather focusing on their experience ofthe program. These data establish a meaningful baseline by showing that most students saw astrong connection between the Engineering+ coursework and the key skills emphasized by thecurriculum designers. Additionally, in
the graduate assistant for the Rising Sophomore Abroad Program, a global engineering course and study abroad program for first year engi- neering students. Her primary research interests are engineering study abroad, developing intercultural competency in engineering students, and international higher education.Mr. Timothy Kinoshita, Virginia Tech Timothy Kinoshita is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. His research interests include graduate education, global engineering education, and education policy.Dr. Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Tech Diana Bairaktarova is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and the Director of the
9.522.10As a specification of the system is developed, the pieces of hardware in hardware specificationlanguage can be packaged as reusable IP blocks21. Different manufacturers can reuse these Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationblocks in different designs. Sometimes IP blocks are called virtual components or cores22. Onechallenge when working with cores is interfacing between them when the cores are written indifferent specification languages. This demonstrates further the need for organization in thedesign process to minimize communication errors between software packages.To further aid in
participation in makerspaces is ascribed to early childhood experienceswith making [72]. Unsurprisingly, societal pressures and work-family conflicts experienced bywomen students in face of choice goals exist across geographical boundaries (e.g., in Japan, [38];in Thailand [62]; and in Canada [50]).Similarly, different cultural backgrounds enable students to develop cultural resources withintheir communities and apply these resources to their university experience [73]. Familial capitalsupports marginalized students to pursue humanitarian engineering through encouraging storiesand role models [74]. First-generation students also gain funds of knowledge from their familiesand communities regarding tinkering, perspective taking, and reading people [75
likelihood to accomplish a task.Physiological states that are experienced by an individual during an activity such as emotions orstress also have been shown to impact one’s self-efficacy [15].In an effort to relate the self-efficacy aspect of cognitive career theory to engineering students’ andengineers’ perceptions of important skills and abilities Winters et al. [9] conducted a longitudinalstudy. This research study questioned engineering students about their perceived importance ofvarious abilities such as math, science, and business. The individuals were surveyed throughouttheir undergraduate education and then again four years post-graduation. The researchersdetermined that as students’ progress through their undergraduate engineering education
organizations were already conducting longitudinal studies to measure their progress in these areas, we would have no reason to worry. We know, however, that’s rarely the case. A 1980 study by the ACSA, Tracking Study of Architecture Graduates, revealed almost identical concerns, as did the 1996 Building Community report as well as others before and after. None of these studies concluded that education is hopelessly flawed, but instead, that there is ample room for improvement on all fronts—if we do, in fact, agree that these are crucial skill sets needed to operate in the design and construction industries.”2Previous studies by one of our authors have found that architecture students value technicalcompetency