the calculations and the technical drawings. Instead, much of engineering involves the communities in which we work. That means we have to talk to the people who live where our projects will be constructed and discuss our plans with people who may not understand what we are trying to do. [4]Although he was speaking about engineers, the thoughts he was conveying are important for alldisciplines and were one of the design outcomes of this course.Figure 1: Development of balanced design space.This course is supportive of the Engineering One Planet (EOP) program of the American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE) [5]. The course objectives (CO) map onto the eight EOP coreoutcomes as shown in Figure 2
assessmentmethods. We have endeavored to capture the gestalt of the project in this paper.Tiny House OriginsThe Tiny House, illustrated in Figures 1-6, emerged from several sources, including participationby the capstone students, Erin Elder and Ryan Bingham, in two junior-level IntegratedEngineering courses focused on sustainable design; lively conversations between the studentsand the client; extensive exploration of the literature on creativity, low-impact architecture,regional and community planning, systems thinking, and green construction1-27; examination ofonline documentation describing the design of small, tiny, nano, eco, and indigenous housing; Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference
robot capable of be performed in regards to its application to robotics. Some ofperforming obstacle avoidance using neural networks trained the research being performed includes: navigation and pathwith simulated sensor data. The only sensor used for detecting planning [1], [2], physical orientation determination [3],the environment was an infrared distance sensor attached to a obstacle and collision avoidance [4]–[6], manipulator andhobby servo, allowing for 180° of sensor visibility. In order totrain the neural networks, simulated sensor data was created motor control [7], and programming of the robot byusing LabVIEW and presented to a
Management. SiPapa Ansah Okohene, Colorado State UniversityZachary Lopez ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Exploring ASCE Future World Vision Callouts: Engaging First-Year Construction Management Students in Futuristic Built EnvironmentsAbstract:The construction industry is evolving rapidly, driven by sustainability imperatives, technologicaladvancements, and the need for adaptive urban planning. This work-in-progress paper exploreshow first-year Construction Management students engage with the American Society of CivilEngineers (ASCE) Future World Vision (FWV) Mega City 2070 platform—a virtualenvironment depicting a futuristic urban landscape. The study examines how students interactwith
his father that he did not want to continue because of the (a) (b) Figure 1: Two Virtue-of-the-Week stories. (a) Lu Ban and Ya Zi 21,22 , (b) Mercury and the Woodman 23 .hardship involved in farming. Lu Ban thought for a while and asked his son what his plan was forthe future. Ya Zi said he wanted to learn the skills of weaving and left home to learn weavingafterwards. One year later, Ya Zi returned home again. Lu Ban asked his son: “Why do you give up again?”Ya Zi said: “It was too difficult to do for me.”Lu Ban asked his son: “I see. Then, what is your plan for the future?”Ya Zi said: “Father, I would like to follow you and become a carpenter.”Lu Ban approved
providing career advice and if participants feltcomfortable discussing their career plans with their advisors. All ten of the participants interestedin tenure-track faculty jobs received advice from their advisors–often, quite extensively throughmock interviews and application materials feedback. In contrast, only four of the participantsdisinterested in tenure-track faculty jobs received any career advice from their advisors. Fourparticipants did not feel comfortable talking with their advisors about their career interestslargely because of perceptions that their advisors were unsupportive of non-tenure-track careers.Even if advisors personally lack non-academic work experience, part of inclusive mentorship isproviding an environment where
range of topics relevant to engineeringproduct development, including project management, design details, testing and analysis,ideation, prototyping, and needs-finding. The mid-semester survey revealed that most studentsreported engaging in discussions that aligned closely with the course’s core objectives.In Class A, most students indicated that “details of design” was the most discussed topic, whilein Class B, “project management” was most discussed (Table 3). This difference is likely due toone of the IMs in Class B having a specific focus and affinity towards the importance ofdeveloping skills related to team planning and management in engineering design processes.Table 3. Results from mid-semester survey: Which topic have you spoken with
excited to see links between theirmath and physiology course content. We plan to provide better priming and scaffolding here in future versions.When the code is complete, it generates a confusion chart, inference run time, and test accuracy (Figure 3).Students then enter that information into the Google Spreadsheet (Figure 4) and a cross-class summary is againgenerated (Figure 5). Finally, students are asked to put themselves in the shoes of clinicians and asked whetherthey would rely on this diagnostic tool to guide treatment, and what physiological consequences may resultfrom a treatment choice based on an incorrect diagnosis. We noted that the model trained on raw ECGsperforms at a level that is above the level of most clinicians but below the
involvedinstructors and students from a variety of STEM fields.The symposium was carefully planned to provide a vibrant, inclusive setting where attendeesmay showcase their work, network, and share ideas. It included a wide range of events, such asinteractive workshops, high school project exhibits, keynote addresses, and student posterpresentations. Together, these components demonstrated the program's capacity to inspire andretain students while demonstrating the depth and scope of current scientific, technological,engineering, and mathematical research.The chance for students at all levels—high school, undergraduate, and doctoral—to present theirresearch was one of the symposium's most notable features. The event, which included 50 highschool children, 32
communication by authoring their own work,critiquing the work of others, and responding to others’ critiques of their work. Some of thecommunication skills students should develop in this course are planning, conducting, andarticulating the importance of academic research; differentiating appropriate style and tone ofcommunicated ideas based on intended audience; and implementing proper citation usage,typically in IEEE style. Students should also become familiar with constructing a variety ofprofessional and academic documents based on standard formats and conventions, includinggrant applications and presentation proposals.Course assignmentsWriting assignmentsIt was important to both authors for the graduate students to trust that we were not going
technologies they teach but also acquire new skill sets, such as organizingteaching materials, presenting to beginners, and collaborating with teammates.AI technologies extend beyond chatbots and computer interfaces; they can be easily integrated into robots andIoT devices to enhance commonly used hardware in makerspaces with advanced intelligence. In light of this, thestudent team working on the Verbally Instructed Mobile Robot project is planning to deliver a workshop on thistopic. Specifically, they utilize large language models (LLMs) to translate natural language instructions intomovement plans for a mobile robot, enabling users to interactively command the robots with natural utterances.Experiential learning projects—Apply the technologies
thelimitations of change efforts that solely target individuals as the nexus of change. For example,instructors seeking to improve student outcomes in critical STEM courses or majors can applyresearch-based instructional strategies shown to lead to stronger learning and persistence [4], [5].Yet, while professional development programs can help individual instructors to plan andimplement significant changes to their teaching (e.g., [6]), the changes these instructors canmake may be limited by systemic factors, such as scheduling, classroom spaces, and collegialexpectations for content “coverage” [7], [8]. Moreover, when such changes are made byindividuals acting on their own, the population of students benefitting from such changes islimited to those
, funding institutions, and associations.Prof. Camila Zapata-Casabon, Universidad Andres Bello Master in Marketing and Market Research from the University of Barcelona, Spain. Industrial Civil Engineer from the Universidad del B´ıo-B´ıo. She has three diplomas in the areas of coaching, digital marketing and equality and empowerment of women. Her professional experience is linked to higher education as a project engineer and university management in the public and private area. Teacher at different universities in matters of entrepreneurship, business plans and marketing. She currently works as a teacher and academic secretary at the Faculty of Engineering of the Andr´es Bello University. The areas of research interest
courses in nuclear engineering. • There are no undergraduate rankings available from the last two decades, limiting peer and aspirant-peer comparisons among programs.History of the University of Florida's Undergraduate Nuclear Engineering CurriculumThe University of Florida Nuclear Engineering Program (NEP) has offered an ABET-accreditedbachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering since 1971. Between 2009 and 2011, the NEPexperienced a 100% faculty turnover and was merged into the Department of Materials Scienceand Engineering, which also offers a degree in Materials Science and Engineering.When the NEP first reformed in its new configuration, the planned faculty size was sixtenured/tenure-track (T/TT) faculty and one non-tenure-track
in terms of mobility, accessibility,travel time, safety, transportation expenditure, affordability, and investments. The usage of equitymeasures in planning and engineering is seen as implicit rather than explicit and can be coveredby a variety of terms, such as social equity, social justice, or social exclusion [1].Engineers design, create, and control the distribution of critical resources across society [2] andsociety is greatly impacted by the choices they make, especially when design decisions createstructural injustices. However, these impacts are often invisible to engineers, partly because theyhave not been considering the social consequences of their engineering decisions [3]. Thelikelihood of creating a more just society increases
. 4. Diversify the pipeline of students interested in computing as a professional pathway through recruitment and inclusion of underrepresented populations.In the following sections, we lay out the camp plan and rationale for said plan, discuss thefacilitators’ lessons learned, present the results and analysis of surveys given at the beginningand end of the camp, discuss related work, and conclude with our next steps.The SUCCESS CampThe inaugural SUCCESS camp took place July 9-12, 2024, as an on-campus experience.Participants were recruited through Arizona State University University’s summer programspage, and ad hoc communications with local school districts and personal contacts. Campdevelopment was funded by a corporate
part of its 2022–2027 Strategic Directions Plan, Seattle University launched a multi-year,multi-phased effort to comprehensively reimagine and revise curriculum with a call to integratepractices that would make the education we offer distinctly unique and relevant to globalchallenges. The Reimagine and Revise the Curriculum (RRC) initiative was divided into fourphases: launching, reimagining, revising, and implementing curricular changes in priority areassuch as Sustainability and Climate Change, Racial Injustice and Widening Economic Inequity,and Technological Change and its Impact on Society.Prior work by the authors [5] focused on reimagining the undergraduate ECE curriculum bybridging professional formation and technical preparation in
andassignment, as detailed in the next section. Each of the three projects is conducted in teams of 3-4 students each and follows asimilar timeline. In the first week, we focus on technical content - apparatus and safety trainings,fundamental MSE principles relevant to the experiments, preliminary data collection andcomputational modeling, etc. We also introduce the final deliverable for the project and theassociated scenario, both to help students plan effectively and also to contextualize their workmore broadly societally. Over the next couple weeks, as students conduct their project work, weintroduce more complex considerations and questions to address, both from the MSE side (howdoes this really work at a fundamental level?) and from the
typically associated with “crafting” such as sewing machines, buttonmakers, and vinyl cutters [3]. Based on the historical gendering of crafting and fiber arts as“female,” we asked ourselves: by using crochet to study mechanical properties of materials, canwe flip the script on typical gender stereotypes that exist in an engineering course? Wouldstudents come away with an updated understanding of fiber arts as a form of engineering? Couldpositioning fiber arts in the context of engineering send the message that skills that women havebeen developing for millennia are just as much of an asset to an engineering skillset as 3Dprinting and the use of hand tools?In this paper, we present a lesson plan that can be used to introduce mechanical properties
STEMschool subjects in general significantly lower than in the group of other school subjects. Thismain-effect can be classified as a large effect [6].The main-effect between the two samples is also significant (F(1, 55) = 12.45, p < .001,𝜂𝑝2 = .18). In result, the school-sample rates their competence in school subjects in generalsignificantly lower as the female pupils who plan to participate in a P12-activity. This main-effect can be classified as a large effect [6].Additionally, Figure 7 shows a significant ordinal interaction between the two subject groups andthe two samples (F(1, 55) = 18.19, p < .001, 𝜂𝑝2 = .25). This shows that pupils from the schoolsample rate their competence in engineering & computing related STEM subjects as
, Fair & Effective Grading, Group Dynamics & Processes, and UniversalDesign for Learning. TA consultants, in pairs, choose the topic they want to champion and spendthe summer developing a workshop that incorporates the most recent literature. This allowsworkshops to evolve over time and address pressing needs, but still be offered on standardizedtopics identified by full-time staff. They are required to create multiple choice questions as“knowledge checks” for participants and to identify learning objectives.Involving experienced graduate TAs in the training process not only increases buy-in forparticipants, but gives those facilitators the opportunity to gain experience in developingworkshops, designing lesson plans, and creating a
within the same state was not available, we selected institutions from neighboringstates with similar enrollment sizes and public R1 status. This rigorous pairing process ensures arobust comparison between institutions with and without ADVANCE initiatives. We then used theselected cases to identify necessary or sufficient factors for the given outcomes [11], [52].While we have concluded one round of data collection, at the time of writing this paper we arevalidating our data, to enhance the reliability of our analyses. Once all data is collected, we willexecute our QCA with outcomes of interest for the cases and factors related to it. While QCAallows the study of one outcome at a time, we plan to sequentially explore multiple outcomes asresult
Southern Indiana (USI). Her interests include faculty and organizational development to support both faculty and student success, learning analytics, teaching innovations, and systems thinking and storytelling for institutional change. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Approaches for Efficiently Identifying and Characterizing Student Need Assessments in Two-Year Colleges.AbstractThis paper describes an approach that can be used by faculty and administrators to efficientlydevelop program-level student support plans to increase student retention and completion inSTEM disciplines. These recommendations were developed as part of a National ScienceFoundation-sponsored workshop
Engineering Formation (RIEF)provides funding for an engineering faculty member to partner with an established engineeringeducation research (EER) mentor to complete a two-year project. The proposal requires a robustEER research plan and mentoring plan, and proposal reviewers are instructed to give equalweight to both. This research paper is a product of a collaborative autoethnographic study of atripartite mentoring relationship.Julie is an established member of the engineering education research (EER) community and is atenured associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio StateUniversity (OSU). Paul is an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) whose
Aid and ReliefDistribution (HARD) Game” as an experiential learning tool that explores the potential for increasedoperational efficiency while balancing decision tradeoffs impacting humanitarian supply chain per-formance, including beneficiary demand satisfaction, operational costs, and transportation resourcesutilization. The HARD game is intended for graduate and undergraduate students in courses dealingwith topics on supply chain management. It allows students to analyze aspects that significantly impacthumanitarian supply chain operations, such as: supply chain coordination and planning, supply chainrisks, demand volatility, and competing objectives. Statistical analysis of students’ survey responsesprovide evidence that the HARD game is
national imperative.To help understand our regional challenges, we used NSF Bridges to Engineering (BEE)Planning Grant (# 0230535), Project SMART, to conduct 7 Cincinnati-area focus groups with 11professionals and 39 K-12 administrators and teachers to identify ways to increase engineeringenrollment. Meetings identified causes and solutions for declining engineering enrollment.Then, surveys in spring 2003 investigated the lack of engineering understanding among students.Of 4,263 Grade 6-12 students from 14 school districts, 28% were interested in engineering, andin particular, 12% of females and 33% of ethnic students were interested in engineering [36].(However 5% of high school graduates applied for engineering, and 1% of
courses on the study plans, and requiring studentsto have a manuscript in the process of publication prior to graduation.What do the Findings Tell Us?What challenges do international ESL GA’s in the sciences and engineering face in fulfilling thewriting responsibilities of their assistantships and academic programs? The findings suggestthat the four most important challenges for ESL GA’s are, listed in order of significance: (a)advisor/major professor issues, (b) basic communication issues, (c) writing for theirassistantships (research reports, journal article manuscripts, conference proceedings, etc.), and(d) the fact that the writing courses that are offered at the university where this study wasconducted usually don’t count as part of their
planned along the way.The charge of the Curriculum Committee is to coordinate the development of new undergraduateand graduate curricula that are compatible with the BOK.5 This includes finding existingcurricula that already contain elements supportive of the BOK and share what is learned. Theapproach is to find a diverse range of universities that are willing to serve as design partners anddevelop model curricula that both incorporate the BOK and meet the needs of all universitieswhether they are public or private, large or small, research-focused or teaching-focused. To date,18 universities ranging from Bucknell and Norwich to Penn State and the University of Nebraskahave volunteered to participate. The committee formed in August 2003 and is
.). EPICS still operates and has spread to many universities [5]. While students benefit fromworking on authentic multidisciplinary projects over multiple semesters, a limiting factor on theprogram was the faculty reward structure. Advising teams takes time and energy, and the effortwas not rewarded in the faculty review, promotion, and tenure process. Coyle, one of three co-founders of EPICS, valued the vertical integration of the program, and brought this aspect of theprogram to faculty research. In VIP, faculty establish teams to support large-scale long-termscholarship and exploration efforts, and teams are largely multidisciplinary across the VIPConsortium.In the Summer of 2014, Georgia Tech hosted a planning meeting for a proposed consortium
editorial thatsuggested that the creation of an association of engineering libraries would help to promotecooperation and standardization.44 In May of the same year, representatives from twentyengineering and scientific societies, including F. L Bishop, the secretary of SPEE, met at theEngineering Societies Library in New York City to discuss plans to create a universalclassification system for technical literature.45A handful of engineering librarians joined SPEE in the 1910s. One of them was Ellwood H.McClelland, who succeeded Harrison Craver as head of the Technology Department in theCarnegie Library of Pittsburgh. McClelland joined SPEE in 1912 and would remain a memberthrough 1950. He was an active contributor to SPEE and helped to index