PracticesInformal STEM EducationPromoting engineering and STEM through summer camps is a well-developed practice. Theliterature outlines several best approaches to effectively implement learning into camps. Workingwith hands-on activities increases interest in engineering while allowing students to practiceproblem solving and designing their own solutions to a problem [9 -11]. Such activities reinforceteamwork and communication skills as students collaborate in groups to develop solutions andexplain their ideas [11]. While using hands-on projects are common practice, they often lack amathematical component, which gives a less than accurate representation of college engineeringprograms [10]. The UACOE camps implements mathematical concepts within the
geographicallydispersed virtual teams that are now common in industry. VPTs consisted of four to six studentsfrom multiple REU sites around the United States who were asked to experiment with variouscollaboration and social network technologies to complete specified research-based and socialtasks. Surveys were used to collect formative and summative feedback. Students agreed theirVPT experiences were significant in their professional development and broadened their networkof colleagues. Further, VPTs increased their ability to comfortably provide feedback to theirpeers, learn about research projects at other sites, and develop a network of colleagues beyondtheir local research facility. VPT assignments were motivated by earlier assessments of REUcohorts, which
, so two lectures and two workshops wereheld each week. In moving to the summer 2007 offering, which spanned only six weeks, alecture and then a workshop were held each weekday, with a two-hour break between them. Afaculty member ran the lectures and workshops, but the workshops also had a teaching assistant:a graduate student in fall 2006 and an upper-class undergraduate in summer 2007. Thebreakdown of course content and delivery is presented in the Appendix (see Table A1, which is acompressed version of the summer course syllabus). The major content items for the courseinclude graphics, design, problem solving, graphing, computer programming, handling digitaldata, project management, communication, and ethics. In each offering of EngE2984, a
promoting student learning and success. Therefore, an investigation is warranted toexplore the relationship between student learning/success with these faculty constructs. 2II. Purpose of the Study The purpose of this research project was to explore the relationship betweenstudents’ perceptions of the importance of three faculty dimensions – technical currency,teaching techniques, and commitment to student success – and their self-reported learningand success. The research project answers the following questions: 1. How do students perceive the importance of three faculty dimensions – technical currency, teaching techniques, and
. Page 13.248.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Basswood BridgesAbstractThe “Elementary Engineering Design” course for freshmen students at Purdue UniversityCalumet consists of two components: one ME and one EE. Due to the two part structure and inorder to expose the students to the faculty, it is also team taught. The course counts as twocredits, with the format one hour lecture and three hours lab. The basswood bridge is the majorproject of the ME half and counts for one quarter of the total course grade. The object, as isusual with bridge projects, is to design, build and test a truss bridge having a high strength toweight ratio. The design process includes statics analysis in combination
options. Projects, commonly used in upper-level electivesand senior design courses, permit students to explore a particular topic in great depth. Grading aproject may involve reviewing deliverables such as proposals, design documents, posters,presentations, and final reports. Since team work is an important part of projects, assessmentmay also include factors such as individual effort, team communication, and projectmanagement.In compiling the list of tips presented in this paper, we not only relied on our experience as newfaculty members but also received advice from more experienced faculty. We interviewedseveral faculty members from different disciplines of engineering and computer science on howthey graded various course activities. Our first
. Currently, she is the Project Director of the Cincinnati Engineering Enhanced Math and Science Program.Dr. Anant R. Kukreti, University of Cincinnati ANANT R. KUKRETI, Ph.D., is Director for Engineering Outreach and Professor in the Department of Biomedical, Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cincinnati (UC), Cincinnati Ohio, USA. He joined UC on 8/15/00 and before that worked 22 years at University of Oklahoma. He teaches structural mechanics, with research in steel structures, seismic analysis and design, and engineer- ing education. He has won five major university teaching awards, two Professorships, two national ASEE teaching awards, and is internationally recognized in his primary research
Center in the College of Engineering at Iowa State Uni- versity I work with faculty, undergraduate and graduate students as well as diverse power industries to develop research projects of common interest. The Center started in 1963, and strong collaborations among faculty and industry have been key to our success. Members of the EPRC include Investor Owned Utilities, Municipal Utilities, Rural Electric Cooperatives and an ISO. Prior to joining Iowa State Uni- versity in 2014 I worked for 14 years with Iowa municipal electric, gas and water utilities through the Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities (IAMU). The goal was to manage risk and increase long term sustainability through wide-ranging projects ranging from
design for Wheel Loaders. He then joined Ford Motor Company / VisteonCorporation in 1999 as a Senior R&D engineer where he led the fault tolerant design of Drive-By-Wiresystems. He joined Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University Purdue Uni-versity at Indianapolis (IUPUI) to develop coursework and to establish a funded research program in thearea of Mechatronics and Controls in 2004. In his recent grant from National Science Foundation (NSF),he is currently leading a team to develop graduate courses and research projects to enhance creativityand innovativeness in the area of design and mechatronics. Dr. Anwar has published over 120 papers inpeer-reviewed journal and conference proceedings. He is also listed as an
, and use experience and intuition to steer their projects andnavigate challenges that may arise. One might characterize such skills as elements of researchprocess sophistication. However, while experienced researchers may be able to identify asophisticated application of such skills in which they “know it when they see it,” a need existsfor a way to consistently and systematically represent students’ varying levels of researchprocess sophistication. This would allow programs to evaluate groups of students at varyinglevels in their degree process as well as single students over time to evaluate progress.The need for a classification system to characterize the sophistication of graduate research inengineering became evident to our team in a
International, Ford, and DRDC Toronto. He is the founding director of the ”Univer- sity of Toronto Institute for Multidisciplinary Design and Innovation”, an industry-centred project-based learning institute in partnership with major aerospace and automotive companies. Dr. Behdinan is the past President of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME), served as a member of the technical and scholarship committees of the High Performance Computing Virtual Lab- oratory (HPCVL) and a member of the Design Division of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI). He is the founding director and principal investigator of the University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering ”Advanced
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, interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Student Persistence Through Uncertainty Toward Successful Creative PracticeAbstract: To increase creative practice among students in engineering and other
engaged in a longitudinal research project for teacher professional development in informal learning environments and blended arenas (MOOCs and SPOCs) that impact student performance and engagement. I look at questions involving fluency in geo-literacy around consequential everyday issues and ’sense of place.’ For this research I examine prevailing western worldviews of science that are constructed and derivative of Cartesian principles and philosophic under- pinnings and compare them with other worldviews that take native and aboriginal account of the ways we view our relationship with the planet and with each other.Laura E Meyers, City University of Seattle Laura E. Meyers is an associate faculty member in the School
projects, and working with faculty to publish educational research. Her research interests primarily involve creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship education.Dr. Esther W. Gomez, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Esther Gomez is an assistant professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Gomez’s research focuses on exploring how the interplay of chemical and mechanical signals regulates cell behavior and function and the progression of disease. She is also the Co-Director of a National Science Foundation sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates program focused on the Integration of Biology and Materials in Chemical Engineering.Manish
undergraduate students through research projects and honor thesis, the majority in the areas of mobile computing and mHealth. Her efforts over the last several years have led to several papers published in top ACM and IEEE conferences with undergraduate co-authors. Her field of interest encompasses Security, Trust and Privacy in Pervasive Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile Computing, CS education, and Mobile Healthcare Privacy. She has ben very active in broadening participation of women and underrepresented minority in computer science. She has also been working as an active member of various international conference technical program and journal review boards. She Additionally, she has served as Co Chair of IEEE
engineering projects course at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder, Knight et al. found that students who took the coursedemonstrated increased retention when compared with their peers who did not take the course [3].When Knight et al. discussed possible explanations for this increased retention, they attributed itto “the impact of active hands-on pedagogy, creation of student learning communities, an earlyexperience on the human side of engineering, self-directed acquisition of knowledge by students,instructor mentoring, and the success orientation of the course” [3]. It has been shown that ifstudents have a strong, positive conviction about their knowledge in engineering, then they aremore likely to succeed academically in the specific subject, as
focus in engineering and science educa- tion. Founder of the Design Entrepreneuring Studio: Barbara helps teams generate creative environments. Companies that she has worked with renew their commitment to innovation. She also helps students an- swer these questions when she teaches some of these methods to engineering, design, business, medicine, and law students. Her courses use active storytelling and self-reflective observation as one form to help student and industry leaders traverse across the iterative stages of a project- from the early, inspirational stages to prototyping and then to delivery. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Implementing Abbreviated Personas into
is also a faculty of Project management at Fairleigh Dickinson University, in Vancouver, B.C. Her research focuses on the management of the soil and water interface for maximum productivity within the envi- ronmental requirements of long term sustainability, climate change issues and overall ecosystem health. Other research projects include watershed modeling and simulations, project management, curriculum design and development, Information technology and distance education.Dr. Daniel N. Moriasi, USDA-ARS Dr. Daniel Moriassi is a scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Engineering from Egerton University at Kenya, and both his master’s in Biological and
onexpressed interest and enthusiasm by an application including free response questions, andevidence of potential, (selection was not based on previous academic achievement).Program Details:The programs were 3 days long, including 8 hour days. The days were a mix of classroomsessions, team design project time, research laboratory tours, and field trips. The theme “STEPUP! Design your future” was applied for summer 2008, and the theme “STEP into a GreenerFuture!” was applied for the summer of 2009. In 2008, there were 16 girl participants and 8graduate or undergraduate facilitators. In 2009, there were 24 girl participants and 10 graduateor undergraduate facilitators, plus one high school volunteer facilitator. Classroom activities consisted of
,problem sets and projects outside the classroom. The need is to use them more inside theclassroom. In spite of this recognition and many faculty who do use these approaches in class,most university learning spaces are designed to be optimized for straight lecture. Active andcooperative processes can be brought into any space but why not design the space with them inmind? Learning spaces of a different design send a message to both faculty and students that adifferent approach to learning is expected.Two classrooms were redesigned to easily accommodate active and cooperative approaches infirst-year classes. The first room was a computer classroom. It was previously arranged in atraditional configuration where each student had a computer arranged
program which promotesthe development and commercialization of products and processes throughindustry/university research partnerships. Through MIPS, University faculty andgraduate students conduct research projects for Maryland companies. The feature thatdistinguishes this program from other research programs is that MIPS proposals areevaluated not only on technical merit, but most importantly on potential for economicbenefit. Maryland companies with MIPS projects gain access to the creative talents and Page 9.1249.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition
research at the graduate level. However, studying creativity at thegraduate level is essential because creativity is required to generate new knowledge throughresearch. This study seeks to address the gap in knowledge about graduate-level creativitythrough a thematic analysis of five semi-structured interviews with engineering graduatestudents. These interviews are part of a larger mixed-methods research project with the goal ofcharacterizing the creative climate of graduate-level engineering education. In the interviews, weasked participants about their creative endeavors, how they define creativity, and theirperceptions of creativity within engineering. We used Hunter et al.’s (2005) creative climatedimensions as a theoretical framework to
engineeringfundamentals.IntroductionMore than ever, the world needs innovative products, services and organizations to help societymove forward. Those who will design these advances often seek opportunities in college to bothdevelop and test new ways to solve problems in ever-growing ecosystems and new engineeringapplications. Though engineering programs often excel at teaching technical capabilities,communication, leadership, teamwork and project-based learning activities gain less attention. Inaddition, engineering programs typically lack a structured method to apply entrepreneurialthinking to their studies, where questions of financial viability, social usefulness and potentialdemand for their engineering solutions are integrated into their coursework. Therefore, co
collaborative writing skills; and (d)feedback from the instructional team guiding continuous improvement in the course.BackgroundCollaboration and communication impact engineering practice in profound ways. Engineers needto be creative, innovative problem solvers, often under time constraints. As a result, effectiveteamwork and communication are paramount. To equip students with the teamwork andcommunication skills necessary for engineering practice, educators have developed variousapproaches including writing across the curriculum, cooperative project-based learning, andintegrated communication instruction. For more than ten years, we have integrated teamwork andcommunication (oral and written) instruction into the freshman and senior
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Marshall University Huntington, WV 25705 ferdjallah@marshall.edu, asad.salem@marshall.edu AbstractThe objective of this study is to design a framework that allows undergraduate students, regardlessof their technical expertise, to actively participate in researching complex interdisciplinaryengineering projects. To illustrate this objective, we designed a framework focusing on modelingand simulating the settling of coal fly ash, a byproduct of coal-fired power plants. This studyfocuses on coal burning, aiming to raise awareness among future students about the
]. 2. Sustainability and climate change (S/CC) topics. S/CC problems have recently been coming to the forefront as problems that need to be urgently addressed. Given the important role engineers play in transportation, manufacturing, design, and other areas relevant to S/CC, it is important for engineering students to be exposed to these topics throughout their studies. o Within S/CC topics, the concept of circularity (as in the circular economy) is discussed and included as a requirement for student projects. In this course and in this paper, circularity is referred to as Cradle to Cradle (C2C), based on the book by McDonough and Braungart [3]. The C2C approach promotes a
outside of the classroom. Reacting tothis emergency, within three weeks, the President of SEC and Professors of the Practice from theengineering entrepreneurship program developed a summer instruction program which focusedon professional skill development through a virtual implementation. All faculty involved hadimplemented internship programs in their companies and were convinced that a program couldbe offered, not to completely replace an internship at a company, but to build the professionalskills students would need in their jobs. Ultimately, the virtual internship program involved over350 students, almost 60 mentors, and seven faculty. It was divided into two 6-week phases – 1)professional skill training and 2) teamwork project
first-year students, and 2) the introduction of a more flexible first year curriculum thatoffers two paths for incoming First-Year Engineering (FYE) students. The new course waspiloted in Spring 2011, has grown into a key element of the modernized curriculum, and wasmade required for all first-year engineering students beginning in the 2014/15 academic year. Inthe context of engagement as much as retention, significant changes have been made to the newcourse curriculum to increase the active learning opportunities offered to the students as well asto link the various elements of the course (e.g., class activities, team-based design project, andsummative assessments) to the engineering challenges facing engineers and society today
Coursesmulti-disciplinary integration of their designs due to the isolated nature of topics in the classroom(Andersen et al. 2007; ASCE 2008). For students to become more multidisciplinary in nature, studentsneed to learn how real project teams interact and how they coordinate designs while maintainingtechnical execution. This combination of skills remains an area of study within engineering educationthat still is in need of further development and refinement for different majors (McNair et al. 2011).In looking at Tomek’s (2011) work, it was paramount to distill in the students the understanding ofroles, responsibilities, and the integration of the various disciplines. Yet, academically this remainsincreasingly difficult to develop within confined
is a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science and Assistant Dean for Special Projects in Page 23.17.1 the School of Engineering & Computer Science at Baylor University. She teaches a wide variety of engineering and computer science courses, leads the iNova Weekly Innovation Challenge, and is a KEEN Fellow. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 “The Influence of Culture, Process, Leadership and Workspace on Innovation and Intrapreneurship in American Corporations, and the Implications for Engineering Education”Current entrepreneurship education