Paper ID #35596Inequities in ”Stuckness”: Exploring mobility patterns to higher rankedinstitutions from undergraduate to graduate school based on students’race/ethnicity and first generation in college statusDr. David B Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University David B. Knight is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education and Special As- sistant to the Dean for Strategic Plan Implementation at Virginia Tech. He is also Director of Research of the Academy for Global Engineering at Virginia Tech and is affiliate faculty with the Higher Education Program. His research tends to be at the
bidding on the project exceeded theexpected project cost significantly. The drawings that are posted online are for the originalproposed project. Geotechnical reports and specifications associated with bid documents are alsoposted online. The objective is to work as a team to design critical components, planning andestimating including cost estimate, and to address transportation needs of the university due tothis new addition. You have the flexibility to incorporate innovative ideas that will add value tothe building. While bringing down the cost of the project is encouraged, it will be one of themany factors that should be considered to make this project functional and efficient.Group FormationEach group normally consisted of two people. The
todevote their time. Regardless, the end result was that a significant number of interested alumnino longer had protégés assigned to them.Protégé recruitment was then opened up to all undergraduate students in College of Engineeringand Applied Sciences via mass email. This resulted in additional protégé/mentor pairings butProceedings of the 2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference 3Copyright © 2023, American Society for Engineering Educationalso raised new issues like students who were planning to graduate during the fall semesterwanting to be connected with a mentor and additional interested students who did not match withavailable alumni. Follow-up, targeted emails to students in specific departments coinciding
year, the employment situation has been extremely severe. In 1998, theAction Plan for Revitalizing Education for the 21st Century proposed the development ofentrepreneurship education in colleges and universities. In the following two decades, thecountry has successively introduced dozens of policies and regulations for the promotion ofentrepreneurship education, and the strategic trend of entrepreneurship education hasgradually taken shape. “Innovative and Entrepreneurship Education” is a new conceptformally used in the Ministry of Education documents in 2010. On May 4, 2010, the Ministryof Education issued the “Opinions on Vigorously Promoting Innovative and EntrepreneurshipEducation in Colleges and Universities and Independent
beneficial to thestudents.IntroductionThe College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) was awarded an NSF S-STEM grant in 2016 with the purpose of creatingtwo cohorts of academically-talented, financially-needy students to pursue engineering studies.UWM is an urban research institution, and CEAS offers nine undergraduate majors. Currently,there are approximately 1700 undergraduates in CEAS. The Preparing Engineers and ComputerScientists (PECS) program was established, with a plan of creating two cohorts of ~10 studentseach. The program includes encouraging the students to take advantage of programs available toall students in CEAS as well as provides special opportunities to the scholarship
verbal communication through videoconferencing both for class purposes and for informal socializing. 6. The majority of students are worried about their academic progress. Programs may need to spend more time with students revisiting their academic plans and provide assurances for pathways to completion, counseling them for academic success, and coordinating academic resources such as tutoring and mentoring to facilitate confidence in completion.Next StepsThe next steps for this project include administering a survey with instructors(planned for May 2021). We ask instructors many of the same questions we askedstudents to gain their perspective. Please see Appendix B for the full InstructorQuestionnaire. While the
you learn about engineering and work inthe energy sector?” Following IRB protocol, we gathered data from semi-structured interviewsconducted via two student focus groups and 5 individual faculty interviews. Additionalinterviews are planned in the coming year. Interviews were recorded and transcribed (total of180 pp.). We are currently analyzing the data (transcriptions) using an iterative, constant-comparative process according to qualitative data analysis techniques specified by Miles,Huberman, and Saldaña [28] and Strauss and Corbin [29]. The analysis is done using a softwareanalysis program called Atlas.ti and entails the following procedures:• Reading the data: Each interview transcript was carefully read by the first author, who also
adapt to the restrictedlearning environment3,4. This include creating a remote Mechanical Engineering Summer UndergraduateResearch Program to engage students in active research and to provide a mentored experience forindependent research work. Students were matched with faculty based on their fields of interest and wererequired to participate in a workshop series on research methods, scientific writing, career planning, andprofessional development5. Another attempt at asynchronous online delivery of remote introductoryphysics lectures used the Playposit technology which is an interactive audio (MP3 listening assignment)and video (MP4 viewing assignment) components6.Some of the challenges that have been reported include financial strains placed
. His interests include robot control, design of mechatronics systems, pneumatic actuation, motion planning and optimal control. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Teaching Robotics with Animated SimulationsAbstractIn this paper, we present a pedagogical method to teach the fundamentals of Robotics. The processprovides an intuitive way to create, manipulate, and simulate robots or multi-body systems. Themethod consists of constructing the robot geometry using a 3D modeling software such asSolidworks and importing it into MATLAB. Once in the MATLAB environment, homogenousbody transformations are used to manipulate the geometry. The innovative
since 2011. His other research interests include nonlinear optimization, financial engineering, facility alloca- tion problem, vehicle routing problem, solar energy systems, machine learning, system design, network analysis, inventory systems, and Riemannian geometry.Samantha Eddi Scarpinella , Quinnipiac University Samantha Scarpinella is a Senior Industrial Engineering major at Quinnipiac University with additionally pursuing mathematics and business minors. Her research interests include healthcare, human factors and engineering education. She is planning to be an engineering professor as her profession.Mr. Michael Giannone, Quinnipiac University Michael Giannone is currently a Senior at Quinnipiac University
orlesson planning process where an approximation of what was experienced is used with youngerstudents [1].Though the general goal of a research experience is well articulated, little is known about theactivities and interactions that actually occur in the laboratory space. An entire range offundamental questions persist regarding the nature of the experience and the assumptions abouthow these engagements impact participant development. For example: Once placed in aresearch laboratory, what sequence of practices do participants experience? or What set ofpractices and expected duration generalize across all research contexts? and finally, Whichsequence of practices and duration are most effective for building positive participant beliefsabout
incorporatingvideos into lectures in higher education has been extensively investigated by Carmichael et. al.[12].Finally, to enhance students’ connection with their peers and the instructor, discussion boardscan be created on the online learning management system on multiple open-ended topicsthroughout the semester. For example, in Machine Design course, a number of applicationsrequiring gears are denoted in the discussion board, and students are asked to discuss what typeof gear suits each application the best, and why. The effectiveness of discussion boards onstudents’ engagement has been previously suggested and investigated by educators in medical[6] and social sciences [13, 14].The refinement plans specified above could enhance students’ active
development of a new generation of hydraulic components and systems that can operate using environmentally friendlier fluids. Dr. Garcia has plans to actively continue the development of practical teaching tools that bring industry applications to the classroom.John H. Lumkes, Purdue University John Lumkes is the Assistant Dean & Associate Director, Office of Academic Programs, in the College of Agriculture, and Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. Dr. Lumkes received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1997. His current work focuses on agricultural automation and mechanization, international service-learning, fluid power, innovation and design, multi- domain modeling
widely different faculty, staff and administrativepositions. Traditionally, faculty conduct their research without engaging staff and administrationas peers with an equal stake in the outcome of their investigations. A recent NSF funded project,spanning three very different institutions (Purdue University, University of Texas El Paso, CalPoly San Luis Obispo) took a different approach. Their strategic plan included identifying andenlisting the active participation of Student Affairs personnel in their project’s implementationand data collection. Over the past three years, the PIs have been collecting deep student data,developing educational interventions and disseminating their research findings throughtraditional academic venues.Explicitly
pandemic. Engineering education is not immune to thesenew dynamics, and institutions need to plan and prepare to embrace new modalities of instruction.Historically, electrical engineering courses have had lab requirements that have involved physicalpresence in a laboratory with several pieces of test equipment available for testing circuits. Inrecent years, computer-based laboratory equipment has become available that can provide thesame robustness needed to facilitate learning for online electrical engineering courses. A pilotstudy was conducted at our institution using a home-based laboratory for two electrical engineeringcourses (Microcontrollers and Electric Circuit Analysis). Presented will be the development ofthe labs, implementation of the
years, universities are looking toimprove their retention and completion rates and the first two years of study are playing a big rolein these two parameters. In addition, the average number of new enrollments in undergraduate EEprograms is flat or increased slowly nationwide, while the same number for the other programsincreased [1]. On the other hand, many of the EE employers are looking only for highly skilledworkers or the students with a graduate degree. Getting graduate degree will result in more yearsof study to get hired in Electrical Engineering.The previous course plan in the EE program at California State University San Marcos was startingwith math, science, and general study courses. Then the plan proceeds into basic circuit theory
engaged with this project in comparison to the prospect of amore traditional design report. This agrees with the literature that states that hands-onexperiences improve student engagement. While students also expressed an increase inmotivation, only three of five teams completed the testing portion of the project. We hypothesizethat a lack of executive functioning skills, like task planning and time management, lead to teamsnot building their designs despite the improved motivation. For example, McCord and 14Matusovich state “…we found that feeling a time crunch can cause students to shift from amastery mode to a coping mode of learning” [16]. Completing a design, build, and test projectinvolves mastery-based learning that students might shift
3Dprintedquarantinebooths FDM Ventilators Parts to convert existing manual ventilator systems FDM intoautomaticones FDM Adaptorsforavarietyofmedicaldevices 3 SLS(SelectiveLaser Sintering)&FDM Oxygenvalves Venturitypevalvesforrespirators(needsregulatory SLA(Stereolithography) approvalfirstduetothematerialsused) SLA COVID-19testswabs 3DP lung models for use in surgical planning & SLA
its own College orSchool, as is often the case at other universities. The placement of the department in MCAS isintended to facilitate engineering as a liberal arts subject. The plan is for the program to becomeaccredited as well. These institutional factors meant that we had a substantial amount ofinstitutional support to design an ambitious, interdisciplinary program of study for our students.5. Theoretical frameworksIn thinking about how to develop MMW into a Core course that fulfills requirements in naturalscience and history (as well as a course that can contribute to ABET accreditation), we decidedto introduce students to a series of theoretical frameworks that integrate engineering andtechnology with problems of context.One of the
effort ofconducting research on Vector-borne diseases and Mosquitos is planned to be continued. TheIoT monitoring system can perform data collection, including environmental data related to themosquito breeding sites. The researchers have worked for the development of the customizedIoT system for mosquito researchers. In order to expand the impact, research and teaching effortshave been integrated. Three capstone projects have been created in Fall 2020. They havedesigned a mobile weather station, a Raspberry Cluster server, and a water sampling drone formosquito research. These capstone projects concluded in Spring 2021. It was found that therewere synergies in creating projects in a common theme. Three teams had significant differences.It
additionalsupports be put in place to help students persist in STEM2-5. This paper will describe theprogram's recruitment strategies, the practices that have been most effective, and thedemographics of the successful applicants. In addition, the paper explores the evolution of cohortcommunity building efforts, starting with mostly faculty-led and planned events to events led bya consultant. Improvement in sense of community has been reflected in the evaluation reports,and selected supporting evidence will be shared from the reports.RecruitmentThis S-STEM grant was awarded in fall of 2018 with the goal of supporting at-risk studentsthrough multiple academic pathways, with our definition of at-risk as students who start atCampbell in a math class before pre
questions using a Likert scale and written comments. Surveyresults will be used to improve the VLE for subsequent semesters.The following sections outline an overview of MATLAB Marina, course description, teachingpedagogy, assessment plans, concluding remarks, and future work.Overview of MATLAB MarinaMATLAB Marina consists of a main website hosted on a Georgia Southern University serverwith a domain name www.matlabmarina.com and multimedia tutorials hosted on YouTube withdirect links on the site.The overall structure of the VLE emulates the organization of chapters/topics covered intextbooks used for standard computer science and engineering programming courses [8]-[10].The three main areas of the VLE are Fundamental Programming Concepts
Paper ID #32705Measuring Connections: Novel Methods and FindingsDr. Elise Barrella P.E., DfX Consulting LLC Dr. Elise Barrella is the founder and CEO of DfX Consulting LLC which offers engineering education and design research, planning and consulting services. She is a registered Professional Engineer and was a Founding Faculty member of the Department of Engineering at Wake Forest University. She is passionate about curriculum development, scholarship and student mentoring on transportation systems, sustainabil- ity, and engineering design. Dr. Barrella completed her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Georgia Tech where
second or third year in my PhD degree program. 13 12.22% This is my second or third year in my PhD degree program and I have 5 5.81% passed my qualifying exam. I have passed the qualifying exam in my PhD degree program and I am 7 7.01% working on writing my dissertation. Other 3 3.07%In terms of career plans, the majority of the respondents were thinking about a career in industryfollowed by academia.Quantitative items. Respondents identified a number of factors related to
meetings to fosterunderstanding and communicate with students. Nevertheless, irrespective of their teachingpedagogy, class interactivity was among the apparent challenges in online classes. The use ofactive learning techniques increased the level of interactivity in the classes.In future work, we plan to survey more faculty from other departments and other engineeringschools to analyze their experience and share their points on how to teach an effective engineeringclass. Also, in a different study, we plan to investigate active learning effectiveness in online ECEclasses.References[1] K. P. Hardy and B. L. Bower, "Instructional and work life issues for distance learning faculty," New Dir. Community Coll., vol. 2004, no. 128, pp. 47–54, 2004
c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Offering Hands-on Manufacturing Workshops through Distance LearningAbstractThis paper reports on how institutions collaborating on Additive Manufacturing (AM) and SmartManufacturing (SM) have been able to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic and be able to modifytheir planned activities in 2020 in an effort to continue delivering quality training and educationto educators across the country. The pandemic made it impossible to offer the usual on-groundworkshops to STEM educators and industrial practitioners. As a workaround, the project teamsoffered instructional delivery via Zoom and Microsoft Teams while also providing distancelearning tools online. The best practices of the delivery and pros
a mountain (locally-relevant) within given constraints. The activity provides an opportunity to design and revise asolution (open-ended) while getting first-hand experience with potential and kinetic energy (statescience standards). Materials include buckets, trash bags, masking tape, marbles, and foam pipeinsulation (low-cost, accessible materials). Industry partners discussed how the constraints,design processes, failure, and teamwork related to the project were relevant to their own work(locally relevant).As part of our sustainability and broadening participation, the team researched open sources tohouse our curriculum plans. The team developed and included information beyond thecurriculum sheets to aid teachers in using the material
decision- 7making and curriculum planning in SSA was identified as a persistent problem [30]. Left outof curricular planning without a sense of ownership, educators feel unmotivated to implementcurricular or pedagogical reforms. The authors went on to recommend that teachers should beinvolved in the planning of curriculum, developing in the process, a sense of sharedresponsibility for its implementation and eventual success. While this recommendation isillustrated using the linear model depicted in figure 2, a separate consideration comes into placewhen foreign trainers are brought in to facilitate teacher development [35]. Ministry of Local
State University Aminul Islam Khan PhD Candidate School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Washington State University, Pullman, WA Biosketch Khan completed his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Bangladesh University of En- gineering and Technology (BUET) in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He worked as an Assistant Professor at mechanical engineering department, BUET for 6 years. Currently, Khan is a Ph.D. candidate at Wash- ington State University with multidisciplinary research including hands-on learning for STEM education, drug transport across blood-brain barrier, inverse techniques, deep learning and plans to pursue a teaching career upon earning his Ph.D.Olufunso Oje, Washington
The Wild World of Wireless in the 2020s – What do we need to be teaching?AbstractToday, a Google search of the Internet of Things (IoT) routinely yields upwards of 5 billion hits.Even if the average person doesn’t know what the IoT entails, they have probably heard this newlycoined term at some point during recent times. Likewise, a Google search of wireless technologycommonly yields over a billion hits. The relationship between the two: most of the IoT applicationsrecently implemented and those conceived/planned for future deployment depend upon wirelessconnectivity. Predictions by IoT Analytics are that less than 10% of future IoT apps will be of thewired variety! The average technology savvy individual would