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construction safety, and in particular Prevention through Design. Upon graduation, he worked for four years as an Assistant Professor at UNC-Charlotte. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA, USA).Dr. Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University Dr. Elif Miskio˘glu is an early-career engineering education scholar and educator. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (with Genetics minor) from Iowa State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University. Her early Ph.D. work focused on the development of bacterial biosensors capable of screening pesticides for specifically targeting the malaria vector
engineeringprograms has grown by about 15%, from 1837 in 2009 [7] to 2114 in 2018 [8]. It is harder totrack the proliferation of non-tenure-track positions in chemical engineering, though by oneaccounting, the number of permanent non-tenure track faculty across all engineering disciplineshas nearly doubled in this time [9]. Most non-tenure-track faculty are hired to focus on teaching,and some universities deliberately connect these teaching faculty with incoming tenure-trackfaculty to set them with teaching resources early in their career [10] [11].The goal of this work is to describe a specific grassroots collaboration between a non-tenure-track associate professor (Professor A) and a tenure-track assistant professor (Professor B) todesign a new senior
role as project manager, Sarah worked as the SEI Coordinator for a local high school and has also developed an inclusion program for Migrant and Immigrant students that utilized co-teaching and active learning as keystones of the program. She began her educational career as a high school teacher, teaching courses in English, math, and science.Kristi Glassmeyer, Arizona State University Kristi Glassmeyer is a Ph.D student in Educational Policy and Evaluation at Arizona State University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Review and Assessment of an Evidence-Based Professional Development Program to Promote Active Learning Pedagogical Practices in the ClassroomAbstractA
optimization and decentralized control of microgrids.Dr. William C Farrow, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. WILLIAM C. FARROW has been teaching at the Milwaukee School of Engineering full time for 10 years in the Mechanical Engineering department. Besides teaching courses related to engineering design and engineering mechanics he works with students pursuing aerospace career goals. Dr. Farrow has worked for McDonnell Aircraft Comp., Eaton Corporation’s Corporate Research Division, and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab as a Faculty Research Fellow. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Robot Racing from Targeted Kit-based Components to a Functional
through college.Dr. Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University Kristen Wendell is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Associate Professor of Education at Tufts University. Her research efforts at at the Center for Engineering Education and Out- reach focus on supporting discourse and design practices during K-12, teacher education, and college- level engineering learning experiences, and increasing access to engineering in the elementary school ex- perience, especially in under-resourced schools. In 2016 she was a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). https://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/faculty/kristen- bethke-wendellProf. Chris Buergin
momentum transfer; medical product and process modeling; biomaterials; and entrepreneurship, innova- tion and commercialization in engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Spicing Up Instruction of Professional Topics in Biomedical EngineeringFull preparation for careers in the medical device industry requires that biomedical engineersenter the workforce with not only design and technical skills but also working knowledge oftopics such as device regulation, standards, intellectual property, healthcare economics, anddocumentation. There is growing demand for engineers who possess a combination of bothtechnical knowledge and understanding
progress, and time in class to work on the assignment with accessto the instructor. Suggestions for improvement included introducing the project earlier tospread out the due dates and allow more time to address feedback on previous parts or drafts.Discussion The PBL assignment was essentially a situated case/policy problem, according toJonassen’s typology (Jonassen & Hung, 2008), which involved a moderately structured, butopen-ended, realistic problem with multiple reasoning paths and solutions. The level ofcomplexity was moderate, but challenging for students based on the early point in theiracademic career, limited exposure to environmental management in an industrial context, andlimited exposure to inductive learning. Early in
this debate include the attractiveness of the career forprospective students, the retention of those students who enter the program, the diversity ofstudents in the program, and then the degree of fit between program outcomes and the needsof the workplace. Within this debate it is generally assumed that the curriculum is the arenain potential need of reform [3]–[5]. Curriculum reform deliberations tend to operate at arelatively high level, with a central tension between “theory” (engineering and basic sciencecontent) and “practice” (professional skills, often in project type context) [6].A relatively recent focus for global curriculum discussions has been the spread of outcomes-based criteria for accreditation through the mechanism of the
engineering education, workforce development and faculty professional development. As for the Impacts of Technology on Society, her technology-optimization focused research includes solar energy and digital manufacturing.Jennifer Brinker, Northeast WI Technical College Jennifer Brinker’s teaching emphasizes learning from real-life projects. She recognizes and teaches the importance of saving energy, money and the environment, along with meeting customer comfort and pro- duction needs. She holds a Master’s Degree in Land Resources and Energy Analysis and Policy from UW-Madison and achieved Certified Energy Manager (CEM) certification. Jenny has conducted hun- dreds of commercial energy audits since beginning a career in
experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgement to draw conclusions. 7. An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.Engineering students who gain genuine facility in the above seven competencies will likely haveimpactful subsequent careers. Consequently a Program’s commitment to systematically fosterstudent attainment in SO 1-7 is a worthy enterprise.2. Create seven SO oversight committees, one for each ABET SO.The foundational component of our Program’s CI regimen is its seven standing SO 1-7 oversightcommittees (SO-1, SO-2,…SO-7). Each committee consists of three or four faculty members,and each committee has oversight responsibility for the SO in its purview
, continuing education, professional practice experience, active involvement in professional societies, community service, coaching, mentoring, and other learning and growth activities. Personal and professional development can include developing understanding of and competence in goal setting, personal time management, communication, delegation, personality types, networking, leadership, the socio-political process, and effecting change. In addition to the preceding, professional development can include career management, increasing discipline knowledge, understanding business fundamentals, contributing to the profession, self-employment, additional graduate studies, and achieving licensure and specialty certification.10. A
career, Nancy owned several businesses Page 12.1438.1 including a wholesale/retail business, rental property business, and a direct marketing business. As an independent contractor she has worked for the Department of Education, the US Census Bureau, and was a teacher for a private mental health institution. Nancy was awarded the Frank Murphy Outstanding Faculty Fellow of the Year for 2006 Windsor Halls. She was also recognized by the Residence Hall Association as the 2006 Fredrick L. Hovde© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Outstanding Faculty Fellow for all of
careers. Specifically,many colleges and universities applied for the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCEProgram for Institutional Transformation (ADVANCE), which was launched in 2001. Thepurpose of ADVANCE is to increase the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women inacademic science and engineering careers by transforming higher education institutions. NSFfunds recipient institutions for five years and requires that each college and university sign acooperative agreement, which means that each institution must have deliverables. The firstgroup of institutions received an ADVANCE grant in 2001 and the second group received agrant in 2003. The first round of ADVANCE grantees is now ending their five years, and theissue of
interested in how gender affects career choice. She believes strongly in the scientist-practitioner model, using her academic background to solve practical problems and using her problem solving experiences to enhance her teaching. She has received an award for excellence in service learning. Professor Amel has specific expertise developing assessment plans and dissemination approaches through her work on the UST Bush Foundation Grant. She has completed pedagogical presentations and publications about international education and service learning.Christopher Greene, University of Saint Thomas Dr. Chris Greene comes to the University of St. Thomas following a 20+ year career in industry
-- INTERVIEWER: Yeah, I see. YI105: Which I think is very relevant for future career stuff, to interact with people who -- who -- yeah, I mean have really good intentions, but maybe have slightly different view that to me surprises me.”YI105 claimed that she was used to a certain “politically correct” way of discussing diversity andwhen people diverged from the norm she was surprised. When YI105 first spoke about diversity, Page 12.558.10she used the acronym PC for politically correct. She also spoke about trying to frame diversity inthe “correct” way, so that people can understand. Several other participants talked about
federal, state, and local governments. • Encourage interdisciplinary training, research, and public service programs related to aeronautics, space science and technology. • Recruit and train professionals, especially women, and underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities, for careers in aerospace related fields. • Develop a strong science, mathematics, and technology education base from elementary through university levels.Core OSGC programs include graduate fellowships, undergraduate scholarships, NASA centerinternships and mentorships, undergraduate research-based programs, and K-12 outreachprograms. University and community college partners provide the student and faculty base towhich NASA
< 20% NONE 0%Table 1: Degree of Commonality (Scale)The above table describes the Degree of Commonality between the various EMBoKs and isbased on the logic of normal distribution6. The 68-95-99.7 rule or empirical rule states that for anormal distribution, almost all values lie within 3 standard deviations of the mean. From that,about 68% of the values lie within 1 standard deviation of the mean.The ASEM EMBoK7 is used as the basis of comparison to other EM BoKs since it is based onthe undergraduate and graduate EM programs. ASEM EM BoK is the basis of the knowledgeEM graduates should have before they join the workforce. It is considered to be a pivotal point inthe career of an engineering manager; therefore it was
AC 2008-749: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOPROCESSING ANDMICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY COURSES: A MODEL FOR SHARED USE OFINSTRUCTIONAL LABORATORIES BETWEEN ENGINEERING AND SCIENCESusan Sharfstein, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Susan Sharfstein is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Biology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research interests are in mammalian cell culture for bioprocessing. Her teaching interests are in biotechnology and biochemical engineering and in integrating engineering and life science education. Professor Sharfstein received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award whose
, B., Reichgeelt, H., & Zhang, A. (2002).13. Peterson’s Guide to Graduate Study. (2005), Retrieved November 2005, from http://www.peterson.com.14. Price, B., Reichgelt, H., & Zhang, A. (2002). “Designing an Information Technology Curriculum: The GeorgiaSouthern University Experience”. Journal of Information Technology, 17(1), 1-6.15. Stokes, M. E., Davis, C. S., Koch, G. G. (2000). Categorical Data Analysis Using the Sas System. Cary, NC:SAS Publishing.16. United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (2006). Occupational Outlook Handbook. Retrieved June 5, 2006, fromhttp://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.toc.htm.17. United States Department of Labor (2004). Career Guide to Industries. Retrieved June 5, 2006, fromhttp://dol.gov/.18
at the earliest grades is not only a matter of personal equity,but also a matter of social responsibility.Because the foundation for STEM careers is laid in elementary classrooms, a pre-engineeringmathematics curriculum program is a long overdue consideration. A team of K-16 educators andelementary classroom teachers, under the guidance of faculty from the College of Engineeringand Science at Clemson University are developing a K-5 mathematics curriculum programdesigned to prepare students for STEM disciplines and to prepare teachers to effectivelyimplement the program. This curriculum is designed to provide elementary students with thekinds of learning experiences that will not only prepare them for higher level STEM courses, butwill also
goals appear to be difficult to achieve, as explained by Gover and Hurayin their recent book3 that outlines some of the reasons for the decline in engineering enrolment.It is not within the power of academic institutions to change the underlying global economics butit may be possible to craft strategies for recruitment based on changing the public perception ofengineering careers. Recruitment however, is only one aspect of the problem. A very importantvariable over which individual institutions have more control over is retention. It is of vitalimportance, more than ever before, that students who choose the engineering path are nurturedand retained in the system. One of the major stumbling blocks in the retention based approach isthe enthusiasm
Science Education, 21(10), 1051-1066.8 Southerland, S., Kittleson, J., Settlage, J., and Lanier, K. (2005). Individual and group meaning-making in an urban third grade classroom: red fog, cold cans, and seeping vapor. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 42(9), 1032-1061.9 Bandura (2001). Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective, Annual. Reviews of Psychology. 52, 1–26.10 Bandura, A. (1997). Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Company.11 Pajares, F. ( 2007) viewed on January 2, 2007. http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/eff.html12 Lent, R.W., Lopez, F.G., and Bieschke, K.J. (1991). Mathematics self-efficacy: Sources and relations to science- based career choice. Journal of Counseling
entireengineering careers in college and on into their professional careers. Repeated use ofcomputational tools leads to familiarity, and to what now is called “pervasive computing” in thesense that the slide rule was simply a well-known tool to the student. Most engineeringundergraduate students do not develop like familiarity with computational environments likeMATLAB for the simple reason they do not achieve self-reliance with MATLAB, largelybecause they do not use it throughout their undergraduate experience.The crux issue is that higher order learning, i.e. concept oriented learning, is necessary beforetransference across problem settings is effective.2 To enable higher order learning in the contextof a computer toolset, the tools must be mastered
, defines requirements for assessment measures used byengineering technology programs. The purpose of assessment and evaluation activities is todocument that program objectives and outcomes are being met. The criteria document2 statesthat: Assessment measures typically consist of, but are not limited to, student portfolios, student performance in project work and activity-based learning; results of integrated curricular experiences; relevant nationally-normed examinations; results of surveys to assess graduate and employer satisfaction with employment, career development, career Page 12.282.6 mobility, and job title; and preparation for
(VIP) Program is an engineering educationprogram that operates in a research and development context. Undergraduate students that joinVIP teams earn academic credit for their participation in design efforts that assist faculty andgraduate students with research and development issues in their areas of technical expertise. Theteams are: multidisciplinary – drawing students from across engineering; vertically-integrated –maintaining a mix of sophomores through PhD students each semester; and long-term – eachundergraduate student may participate in a project for up to seven semesters and each graduatestudent may participate for the duration of their graduate career. The continuity, technical depth,and disciplinary breadth of these teams enable
scholars in the United States are usually detached from engineering related coursesbefore they get an opportunity to be formally educated in such subjects. In Temple University, Highschool students are reached out to through a summer robotics program run by the ex-chair of theElectrical Engineering Department, Dr. John Helferty. 80% of Participants in this program havegone on to study engineering in college, and about 40% have been known to graduate with anengineering degree. An impact was also made in engineering for the disabled when TempleUniversity graduated the first ever blind-deaf engineering student (Scott Stoffel). He not onlyperformed outstandingly throughout his academic career, but also created several senior designprojects
children's abilities to function in three dimensions—all skills that are important for prospering in the modern world 10. • Learning about engineering will increase students' awareness of and access to scientific and technical careers. The number of American citizens pursuing engineering is decreasing. Early introduction to engineering can encourage many capable students, especially girls and minorities, to consider it as a career and enroll in the necessary science and math courses in high school 2,8. • Engineering and technological literacy are necessary for the 21st century. As our society increasingly depends on engineering and technology, our citizens need to understand these fields 11,12.Goals and ObjectivesEngineering
learning objectives.Finally course evaluation addresses issues related to the reliability of data gathering and datainterpretation as well as course verification and validation and the mechanism of using theresults to modify the course.2. Elements of ABET EC200 Criteria2.1 Program Educational Objectives and Program OutcomesABET EC 20003 defines Program educational objectives as "broad statements that describethe career and professional accomplishment that the program is preparing graduates toachieve". It also defines Program outcomes as "statements that describe what the studentsare expected to know and be able to do by the time of graduation".Program Educational objectives have to be consistent with the mission of the institution, EC2000 criteria
such as an “understanding of the social, cultural, global andenvironmental responsibilities of the professional engineer”4. However, issues pertaining tothis broader concept of professional responsibilities might have no implication on theperformance criteria an individual is measured against in the workplace. Hence, in industrysome the qualities or attitudes postulated in Engineers Australia’s Graduate Attributes are notexplicitly measured insofar they are not related to job performance.The second predicament results from the fast changing nature and increasing diversity ofprofessional practice. Universities are confronted with the task of preparing students for amultitude of career paths, each of which demands performance in very specific