communication is absolutely essential for the success of ITprojects; this is the professional reality that IT students must be prepared to face after graduation.Just as we teach students to prepare for malware or system failure, we should also teach students Page 26.272.18to prep for effective collaboration and communication with adjacent disciplines. The realproblem of miscommunication must be personalized so the student recognizes that “this will bean issue for me in my actual career.”As a tool suite, Termediator can be used to sensitize students to the semantic misunderstandingsthat will occur in their professional careers. For example, when a
Military Academy. His current research interests include laboratory and field determination of geotechnical material properties for transportation systems and the use of remote sensing techniques to categorize geohazards. He has published over 85 peer reviewed articles relating to his research and educational activities. Dennis holds BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology), an MBA from Boston University and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas-Austin. He is a registered professional engineer in Arkansas and Colorado.Dr. Decker B Hains P.E., Western Michigan University Dr. Decker B. Hains is a Master Faculty Specialist in the
Education (CIEE) and Director of the Advanced Thermal Fluids Laboratory. Her interests in engineering education research center around recruitment and retention, engineer identity, engineering design instruction and methodology, learning through service, problem based learning methodologies, assessment of student learning, as well as com- plex problem solving. Her other research interests lie in cardiovascular fluid mechanics, sustainability, and K-12 engineering outreach. Dr. Pierrakos is a 2009 NSF CAREER Awardee. Dr. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics, an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Tech.Dr. Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University
high-risk students are closely trackeduntil their cumulative G.P.A reaches 2.0. Students are then expected to attend tutoring sessions.Typically, engineering faculty tutors freshman classes and sophomore classes are tutored by thevarious honor societies. Finally, the students are either required to seek professional counseling ormeet with the Academic Advisor regularly.Non-Engineering SpecificTutoring: In regard to our earlier observation that actions outside the SOE may be necessary toaffect retention of SOE students, the performance of engineering students in Math and basicScience courses becomes an increasingly important issue. The faculty that teach Chemistry,Physics and Calculus to the freshman engineering students are always available
anything just because. The thing that I was very frustrated with my physics education was that I wasn’t really allowed to put any of myself into it I was just mimicking the professor. All of my labs are open and creative and sometimes my laboratories are just about experiencing.” “The women, they’re a lot more open to working on projects collaboratively. I do try to be somewhat aware of my classroom demographics. For instance, I’ve got a class this quarter that’s all male so we’ve been able to do lots of car things and guy things but if I Page 15.436.11 had women in the class I’d kind of shy away from those
teams; impacts of project choice and context; and the retention and success of under- represented students). She has 9 years of industry work experience with the General Electric Company (GE), including the completion of a 2-year corporate management program. Throughout her career, she has managed over $8 million of sponsored research and is the author of 150 peer-reviewed publications. She is a member and Fellow of IIE, a member and Fellow of ASME, and a member of ASEE, INFORMS, Alpha Pi Mu, and Tau Beta Pi. She serves as an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and for the Engineering Economist. She has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching, in research, and for service.Dr
AIChE Journal cover. She is an active men- tor of undergraduate researchers and served as co-PI on an NSF REU site. Research within her Medical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory (M.D. ERL) also inspires the development of Desktop Experiment Modules (DEMos) for use in chemical engineering classrooms or as outreach activities in area schools. Adrienne has been an active member of ASEE’s WIED, ChED, and NEE leadership teams since 2003.Rebecca K. Toghiani, Mississippi State University Dr. Rebecca K. Toghiani is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at MSU. She received her B.S.ChE, M.S.ChE and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She received the 1996 Dow
AC 2012-3972: TO RAISE THE BAR OR NOT: ADDRESSING THE OPPO-SITIONDr. Stephen J. Ressler, U.S. Military Academy Colonel Stephen Ressler is professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) at West Point. He earned a B.S. degree from USMA in 1979, a master’s of science in civil engineering degree from Lehigh University in 1989, and a Ph.D. from Lehigh in 1991. An active duty Army officer, he has served in a variety of military engineering assignments around the world. He has been a member of the USMA faculty for 19 years, teaching courses in engi- neering mechanics, structural engineering, construction, and CE professional practice. He is a registered
sponsored on campus at which one of the experts in the field laidout the justification for assessment, and provided introductory materials and suggestions for how to get started. Acontinuing program for innovative teaching techniques has included several experts in the area of classroomassessment. One faculty member spent a sabbatical developing a post-graduation assessment tool for the COE. Anumber of books and other resources were purchased to establish a small “Assessment Library”. All of theseactivities combined to expedite implementation of the COE assessment program.The assessment coordination committee has also been collecting Information from other Institutions. Most programshave been doing some form of assessment in the past, but have not
engagement in science andengineering, and developing a diverse STEM workforce. However, Watts et al. [29] found thatactivities aimed at broadening participation of underrepresented groups in STEM fields were lessfrequently reported. Kamenetzky [30] reported that teaching and training were commonly cited,followed by broad dissemination and infrastructure enhancement. Cultural differences amongSTEM fields and political considerations may play a significant role in the types of broaderimpacts mentioned or omitted in research proposals [24], [30] . Roberts [24] found thatresearchers who mentioned societal benefits in their proposals were not more likely to proposedissemination of their results to relevant stakeholders compared to those who only
. Her prior work experiences include product management, consulting, tutoring, marketing, and information technology.Rachel Eve Gail Swan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Rachel Swan is an undergraduate student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). Since 2022 she has been an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the ERAU Wireless Devices and Electromagnetics Laboratory (WiDE Lab). She has also been an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the ERAU Biologically Inspired Design-for-Resilience (BID4R) Lab since 2023. Her research projects and interests include hardware security for RF applications and machine learning. She is a recipient of the ERAU’s 2023 Outstanding Electrical Engineering Undergraduate
. Page 22.1246.16References1. Erwin, B., M. Cyr, and C. Rogers, Lego engineer and RoboLab: Teaching engineering with LabView from Kindergarten to graduate school. International Journal of Engineering Education, 2000. 16(3): p. 181-192.2. Resnick, M., Behavior construction kits. Communications of the ACM, 1993. 36(7): p. 64-71.3. Verner, I.M. and D.J. Ahlgren, Robot contest as a laboratory for experiential engineering education. ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, 2004. 4(2): p. 2-28.4. Petre, M. and B. Price, Using robotics to motivate ‘back door’ learning. Education and Information Technologies, 2004. 9(2): p. 147-158.5. Sklar, E. and A. Eguchi. RoboCupJunior — four years later, in Proceedings of the
educators and trainers of engineers need not assign themselves responsibility to teach students how to sort out and assess the diverse effects for different populations of engineering work in particular. Such analysis falls outside the boundaries of engineering practice. On the side of engineers, the image of service to human progress as a whole inhibits engineers from paying attention to and examining a myriad of differences that distinguish themselves from one another. In particular, they typically have no analysis of how or why what it has meant to be an engineer and what budding engineers have come to value as their knowledge have varied
AC 2011-2517: CONSIDERATION OF HAPPENSTANCE THEORY IN MA-JOR SELECTION AND MIGRATION IN A LARGE ENGINEERING PRO-GRAMOdis Hayden Griffin, Jr., East Carolina University O. Hayden Griffin, Jr. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He has over 35 years experience in industrial and government laboratories and academia.Sandie J. Griffin, Sandie J. Griffin is an academic advisor with over 15 years of university experience. She holds a BA in elementary education from Virginia Tech and an MS in academic advising from Kansas State University. Page 22.376.1
will not be an extraneous use ofclassroom time. On the classroom level, the software has to fulfill the needs of the teacher notonly with curriculum but as a means of tracking student progress and getting meaningfulfeedback akin to the more traditional use of hand grading. Teachers need to feel comfortablewith the software as a teaching or reinforcement tool and feel confident in allowing their studentsto use valuable class time on such software. The students have very different needs from thesoftware, such as reliability and ease of use. Each of these levels represent a set of stakeholders,or those with a controlling interest in the software; as such, each will be discussed in furtherdetail later in this paper along with the approach used to
clients to other resources. Thisnecessitates that effort be applied continuously to renew linkages to other services and to shareinformation on client needs. The larger community benefits from communication amongst thevarious service providers, since gaps and overlaps in services available can be identified. Anoverall communication strategy must exist in order to extend the reach of the InnovationIncubator to be statewide. Communication approaches will be discussed.I. IntroductionThe National Science Foundation in fall 2000 funded the University of Arkansas under thePartnership for Innovation program to initiate a new effort based on the “teaching through doing"paradigm. This effort is intended to produce diverse graduates equipped with and ready
subject. The American Red Cross creates a conceptual definition ofwater competency, where a competent swimmer can immerse his or herself in water completely,recover to the surface and tread water or float for at least a minute, be able to change orientation,moving in the water, and exiting from the water. Additionally, being able to adapt to differentwater conditions (e.g., variability in temperature, water clarity, calmness of the water) is animportant characteristic to consider in classifying water competency [2, 8].Swimming education programs have had more of a focus on teaching traditional swimmingstrokes used in competition (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly), causing adisconnect between what constitutes water competency in
) theyare required courses and (2) they are upper-level courses typically taken in the Junior or Senioryears. The instructors of these courses are free to select an assessment instrument (e.g., examquestion, homework question, project report, laboratory report, or presentation) for eachPerformance Indicator associated with their assigned SO. Based on the assessment instrumentchosen, the instructor develops a rubric for each Performance Indicator and selects PerformanceCriteria that are used to evaluate the students’ ability to meet that Performance Indicator. Theinstructor’s rubric generally follows a three-tiered approach for assessing the students’performance: “Developing”, “Satisfactory” and “Proficient.” The instructor may select a
latest technology with new knowledge and design.7 Technology is chosenand mediated by those in social power and domination, which has traditionally been anexclusively male domain.8 This domination has led to a monopoly of male engineers in controlof the technological knowledge and its power upon society. Male dominance in technology andengineering has rendered gender invisible in the science of design and technology. There is adanger in this rendering as it assumes gender as being non-relevant within the social creation oftechnology. Yet, “universities still tend to reproduce this professional engineering culture and thecorresponding social habit in favor of men” 9 resulting in research and design laboratories asprimarily male dominated spaces
' access to CSEdmay be unevenly distributed across different types of schools and districts. When students dohave access to courses, there may be disparities in enrollment rates between different studentsubgroups. When students do enroll in CS courses, there still may be inequities in terms of whichstudents feel included and which students ultimately benefit from participating in those courses.The relationships between the four components of CAPE and examples of equity issues toaddress within each component are represented in Figure 1. In our work, we utilized CAPE asour framework for understanding how to measure and address equity in CSEd.Figure 1: CAPE FrameworkThe Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance as a Laboratory for DataThe
racial identity (i.e., visibility ofPOC) was often equated with inability and stereotypes in engineering [40]. Thus, claiming thatcolor-neutral attitudes exist in engineering negates the lived experiences of POC and thehypervisibility they are constantly exposed to in classroom, laboratories, or team activities.Colorblindness, and the idea that attitudes and behaviors in engineering are race-neutral, alsolead to issues of “otherness,” racialization, and cultural dissonance [41], [42], all of which havedetrimental effects on students of color. Moreover, colorblindness institutionalizes racism without asking for accountability whenracist acts occur. For instance, McGee argued that racism in STEM continues to exist becauseracially hostile
uniquely positioned as agentsfor diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) reform via shaping and maintaining the STEM cultureand provide critical levers for systems change [17]. In particular, Societies, members andsupporters from diverse STEM influencers across academia and industry, government, and nonprofits provide ‘multiple levers’ for DEI reform by shaping disciplinary culture and serving awide range of stakeholders [3], [18]. Academic literature often defines the role of STEMprofessional societies as multifaceted—spanning across varied disciplinary functions—frequently collaborating with other STEM system gatekeepers, (i.e., corporate entities,laboratories, and academic organizations) to optimize the engagement of all STEM talent andfoster
Paper ID #18737It’s Simply Different There! Studying Abroad to Advance Engineering Prob-lem Solving while Cultivating Engineering LeadershipDr. Robert Prewitt Penno P.E., University of Dayton Dr. Robert Penno is a life, senior member of IEEE and a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Penno helped initiate Study Abroad programs for engineering students at the University of Dayton and has co-led five, month-long Study Abroad trips to Italy. He has also performed research at the Air Force Research Laboratories at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in
University of South Carolina, Watson worked in two different middle school classrooms as a NSF GK-12/Pi Fellow. While at the University of Tennessee, she participated in the co-op (industrial internship) program and was appointed a co-op ambassador to mentor undergraduate students pursuing industrial internships. She also has mentored undergraduate research assistants during her master’s and Ph.D. programs. Her primary research interests include preparing doctoral students for industry and academic careers and the rheology of ionic liquids and cellulose solutions.Dr. Jed S. Lyons, University of South Carolina Jed Lyons is a professor of mechanical engineering and the Faculty Director of the Center for Teaching
Laboratories Ph.D. Scholar. Wood joined the faculty at the University of Texas in Sept. 1989 and established a computational and experimental laboratory for research in engineering design and manufacturing. He was a National Science Foundation Young Investigator, the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in Engineering, and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Austin.Dr. Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin Richard H. Crawford is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas, Austin, and is the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow No. 3. He received his B.S.M.E. from Louisiana State University in 1982 and his M.S.M.E. in 1985 and Ph.D. in
of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez with a B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. She earned an NSF RIEF award recognizing her effort in transitioning from a meaningful ten-year teaching faculty career into engineering education research. Before her current role, she taught STEM courses at diverse institutions such as HSI, community college, and R1 public university.Justin Ortagus, University of Florida Justin C. Ortagus is an Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration & Policy and Director of the Institute of Higher Education. His research typically examines the impact of online education, community colleges, and state policies on the opportunities and outcomes of underserved college students. His recent
research at the University of California, Irvine; and nanotechnology research at Sandia National Laboratory. He gained practical engineering experience as a patent reviewer for Lenker Engineering and a software engineer for Pacific Gas & Electric Company and Visual Solutions, Inc. For 14 years he owned and operated an organic farm, where he developed and directed a yearlong apprentice program in sustainable agriculture, ran informal education programs both on the farm and as outreach in local schools, and designed and fabricated small-scale farming equipment. He holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University and an M.S. in Physics from the University of California, Irvine.Danielle Harlow
motivated and talented people to learn how to define and achieve their dreams. Farrokh Mistree holds the L. A. Comp Chair in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. Prior to this position, he was the Associate Chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech – Savannah. He was also the Founding Director of the Systems Realization Laboratory at Georgia Tech. Farrokh’s current research focus is model-based realization of complex systems by managing uncertainty and complexity. The key question he is investigating is what are the principles underlying rapid and robust concept exploration when the analysis models are incomplete and