Valentina Rojas, University of FloridaSara is a senior civil engineering undergraduate student with a focus on construction at theUniversity of Florida. She is pursuing her bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering aswell as her construction management certificate. She is working as a research assistant in theSimmons Research Lab and the Weil Hall Structures & Materials Laboratory. Her researchinterests include leadership in engineering, the inclusion of minorities in the constructionindustry, and the development of sustainable materials at low cost. Building a Leadership Toolkit: Underrepresented Students’ Development of Leadership- Enabling Competencies through a Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates
Paper ID #36928Synthesizing Indicators of Quality across Traditions of NarrativeResearch MethodsMr. Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Pennsylvania State University Fourth-year doctoral student at Pennsylvania State University in the mechanical engineering department. Member of the Engineering Cognitive Research Laboratory (ECRL). Current research topics include grad- uate school attrition and persistence.Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University Catherine G.P. Berdanier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Penn- sylvania State University. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from The
materials recycling for pavement construction and numerical analysis in engineering appli- cations. He teaches Statics, Soil Mechanics and Foundation (Lectures and Labs), and Transportation Engineering Laboratories at CSU Chico.Dr. Kathleen Meehan, California State University, Chico Kathleen Meehan earned her B.S. in electrical engineering from Manhattan College and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. After graduation, she worked at Lytel, Inc., Polaroid Corporation, and Biocontrol Technology. She moved into academia full-time in 1997 and worked at the University of Denver, West Virginia University, and Virginia Tech. From 2013 to 2017, she was the director of the Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Paper ID #32875Broadening Engineering Orientation for First-Year StudentsProf. Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University Jill Davishahl is Assistant Professor and First Year Programs Director in the Engineering + Design de- partment at Western Washington University. Jill’s teaching, service, and research activities focus on en- hancing the engineering and design first year student experience by providing the foundational technical skills, student engagement opportunities, and professional skill development necessary to improve suc- cess in the major, with emphasis on supporting traditionally underserved student
proposal reviewer for SAGE, Emerald, IGI Global, Palgrave Macmillan, and CyberTech Publishing. She is currently involved in a National Science Foundation Research in Formation of Engineers project as a Co-PI. She has served in manufacturing leadership roles for Coca-Cola Bot- tling Company Consolidated, Abbott Laboratories, and Burlington Industries. She is a national member of ATD and has twice presented at the ATD International Conference and Exposition. Dr. Hughes is a Langevin Certified Master Trainer, Harvard Management Development Fellow, and a Darden School of Business Minority Executive Education Scholar. She has a PhD in Career and Technical Education from Virginia Tech, Master of Textiles in Textile Technology
showcasing how to use SPSS software to analyze data, and required completion ofIRB training modules in order to learn how to conduct studies involving human participants.Additional choice activities included laboratory safety training, a session on Big Data, andattending research presentations hosted by several departments on campus.Course OutlineThis 3-credit hour course met once per week for 14 weeks. The following outline showcases theactivities conducted and assignments submitted each week.Week 1During the first class meeting all of the students enrolled in the course met together at thebeginning of the period. The dean of the Honors College provided an overview of research andthe diversity of research being conducted at the university. The
addition, there is the problem of getting classroom assessment from facultywho are not in the engineering or technology department that is being accredited. In view ofthese problems, I believe that the technical courses in the curriculum should contribute to theteaching and assessment of the soft-skills. In particular, some of these topics can be taught usingmaterial that is germane to the technical course.I teach a course titled, “Electrical Power and Controls,” in the Electrical Engineering TechnologyProgram. It is a fourth-semester course and is required for all students in the program. Thiscourse has been described previously1, but it includes topics such as single and three-phasepower, power quality, basic magnetics, transformers, induction
incollaborative research settings, especially at the graduate level. Graduate engineering studentsare immediately expected to assimilate into a laboratory group, usually an interdependent team,with varying degrees of guidance by faculty members. The group dynamics and the role of trustas graduate students learn to conduct collaborative research is underexplored, but may haveramifications for the way in which graduate programs are structured or in how graduate studentsare matched with potential research advisors.Other theories and research also seek to understand mechanisms by which experts innovate inprofessional settings, and many of these have been applied to engineering education. Theories ofdistributed cognition 20 have been employed to understand
Paper ID #20444Development of a Web-based Decision Tool for Selection of Distributed En-ergy Resources and Systems (DERS) for Moving College and Corporate Cam-puses Toward Net-Zero EnergyDr. Christopher J. Damm, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Christopher Damm is Professor and Director of the Mechanical Engineering Program at the Milwau- kee School of Engineering where he teaches courses in thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, engineering design, renewable energy and advanced energy technologies. Dr. Damm’s research and con- sulting focus on energy conversion and pollutants associated with energy conversion
associate professor of chemistry at Tuskegee University where she specializes in physical chemistry and computational chemistry. Her research interests have ranged from calculating transition states of small molecule reactions in solution to molecular dynamics of polymers. She has worked on two American Chemical Society Physical Chemistry Exam Committees and is an active participant in the Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning Physical Chemistry Laboratory (POGIL-PCL) community.Carol A Handwerker Carol Handwerker is the Reinhardt Schuhmann, Jr. Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue Univer- sity. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Critical incident
Foundation (NSF) funded projects: Professional Formation of Engineers: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF) - Using Digital Badging and Design Challenge Modules to Develop Professional Identity; Professional Formation of Engineers: REvolutionizing engineering and computer science Departments (IUSE PFE\RED) - Formation of Accomplished Chemical Engineers for Transform- ing Society. She is a member of the CBE department’s ABET and Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone Design courses. She is associated with
introductory engineering classes where certain students just can’t keep up with the rest of the class. Not everyone is cut out for engineering, not everyone has the natural intelligence, the grit, the academic background necessary for success. Certain students are struggling in this class, especially the students from disadvantaged backgrounds and groups. They ask a lot of questions in office hours, they work slowly, they seem lost in laboratory sessions. If they are struggling so deeply and so early, perhaps they aren’t going to make it. We feel bad for them and would like to help, but aren’t sure how to motivate them or catch them up. Do they need extra office hours? But there’s not time to help
design, Microcomputer Architecture, Microcontrollers, Nan- otechnology, and Renewable Energy Systems. In recent years, she has worked with colleagues to apply these technologies to Biomass research, Solar Cells efficiency capture research, and Renewable Energy Curriculum developments. Dr. Ososanya teaches a myriad of Electrical Engineering courses and labs, including Electric Circuits, Digital Systems courses, VLSI, VHDL, Solar Energy (PV) and Solar Thermal systems, Mechatronics, and Electrical Engineering Senior Project design courses. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Graduate Project on the Development of a Wearable Sensor Platform Powered by
further argued students who complete advanced mathematics and science courseswhile in high school are more academically prepared to pursue and succeed in STEM degreeprograms and professions2,7–12. Adelman8 explains that students at a minimum need to completethree and three-quarters worth of credits in mathematics in high school to successfully pursue abachelor’s degree. Further, students need to complete two and half credits in science, with twoof those having a laboratory portion8. Adelman8 recommends as mathematics courses calculus,pre-calculus, or trigonometry, and the science courses he recommends includes a combination ofbiology, chemistry, and physics. These are the same courses ANSEP recommends high schoolstudents to complete19. Adelman8
2006)12; and ParliamentaryLaw No. 562 (“PL 562” hereafter) which set out to merge the nation’s 150 specialized semi-professional colleges into a new system of eight regional “University Colleges.” This was donefor the purpose of simultaneously expanding educational access, controlling cost, and upholdingthe status of “medium cycle” bachelor’s degrees—generally semi-professional degrees in fieldssuch as teaching or nursing, but also more traditional, craft-oriented programs in engineering.While PL 562 affects primarily the Diplom (baccalaureate) institutions, it has had compleximplications for all engineering degree programs and institutions in Denmark.The tension between neoliberal policies and social welfare principles is also evident
, and informal interactions with students. This informal training also illuminated theparticular pressure points within the engineering school experience: the timing of homework andexams, the laboratory experiences, and the general rhythm of when academic stress runs at itshighest level. We correlate these experiences with some of the by-major results presented later. Page 26.1049.9Results and discussionMotivation for the data presented here. Our dataset is rich with respect to the students we havesupported over the years: 297 students who experienced a wide range of challenges. The datasetanalysis continues, and the results presented here are
Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters.Ms. Maggie Varga, Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education Maggie Varga, Chief Operating Officer, Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) Maggie Varga is the COO for the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE). In this capacity, Maggie leads the SOCHEIntern Program, which employs nearly 300 students annually in co- operation with local government and small businesses, as well as the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The program provides high impact experiential learning opportunities for students while generating economic bene- fit and enhancing
Undergraduate Curriculum Com- mittee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone De- sign courses. She is associated with several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning and retention.Victor Law, Program of Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences at University of New Mexico Dr. Victor Law is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico in the
explicitly excluding transgender, non-binary, andgender nonconforming students. Access denied: Barriers for transfer students to research experiences and cohort modelprograms (Cynthia Hampton and Stephen Secules). Many co-curricular support efforts rely onstudents gaining research experiences in a structured and mentored setting. For most engineeringresearch laboratories, there are one or more required prerequisite courses that a student mustcomplete before they can be used. In many cases, these courses are taken by students during theirfreshman or sophomore year. Thus, transfer students are unable to access these labs withouthaving to take these courses out of sequence. Many programs for the support of minority and women engineering
Microbiology at a Hispanic-serving community college in Miami, Florida. As an educator, they utilized equitable teaching practices & encouraged student agency to ensure positive learning outcomes. Their first year of PhD research focused on undergraduate student perceptions of social responsibility in STEMM, with special emphasis placed on the importance of science communication & policy advocacy, as well as the intersection of institutional culture & transformational change towards cultivating more inclusive & equitable access for underrepresented minority students in STEMM fields. They are now pivoting to explore critical mentorship & building out a new study. Outside of their research, they are the
to erode trust in the data (11/24 participants) and can lead to a more dangerousinterpretation of variability (2/24 participants). These results have important implications forcommunication on interdisciplinary teams and teaching statistics to engineering students.IntroductionVariability is ubiquitous in engineering but its impact is often ignored, sometimes to dangerouseffect. For example, in the 1940s the U.S. Air Force had serious issues with uncontrollableaircraft: At the height of this calamity 17 pilots crashed in a single day [1]. The standard at thetime was to design aircraft for “the average man,” with non-adjustable controls assuming fixedhuman dimensions. Gilbert Daniels [2] studied the measurements of 4063 pilots, and found
AC 2011-512: DESIGN EDUCATION FOR THE WORLD OF NEAR TO-MORROW: EMPOWERING STUDENTS TO LEARN HOW TO LEARNDirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology Dirk Schaefer is an Assistant Professor at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Dr. Schaefer was a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Durham University, UK. During his time at Durham, he earned a Postgradu- ate Certificate in ”Teaching and Learning in Higher Education” (PG-Cert). He joined Durham from a Senior Research Associate position at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where he earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science. Dr. Schaefer has published more than 95 technical
) responsibility, d) a sense of humor, e)integrity, f) time-management, and g) motivation. Along with personal attributes interpersonalabilities are also considered a part of soft skills, such as: a) empathy, b) leadership, c)communication, d) good manners, e) sociability, and f) the ability to teach. Employers overallhave included such soft or applied skills as Creativity/Innovation, Ethics/Social Responsibility,Professionalism/Work Ethic, Lifelong Learning/Self Direction, and Critical Thinking/ProblemSolving as high need skills.48With a general understanding of what soft skills are defined, how does an academic IT programintegrate soft skills into the curriculum becomes the question for future research.Bibliography1 Lyytinen, K., & Robey, D. (1999
structures, and the response and protection of wood-frame buildings to natural hazards, such as wind and earthquakes. He has been active in various areas of research and has been awarded numerous externally-funded research grants. In addition, Fridley has more than 70 refereed publications and over 100 conference presentations. In addition to teaching and research, Fridley is involved in numerous professional activities and organizations. Since 1990, he has been a member of the American Society for Engineering Education. In 2008, he was named a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and he has held numerous leadership positions in the organization, including
-sector linkages in line with to the social and economic situation of their countries; b. Promote the strengthening of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in primary and secondary schools; c. Encourage opinion surveys among secondary school students on science and scientific professions. d. Define the theme and supervise the development of a case study and/or project for the sharing of best practices and experiences in the region and make recommendations to COMCYT to take action; e. Promote the continued professional development of faculty members in their fields and periodic training on the latest teaching and research methods; f
Milwaukee School of Engineering faculty as well as co-founding the Mechanical and Energy Engineering Department at the University of North Texas – Denton. Traum received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, and he holds dual B.S. degrees from the UC Irvine in mechanical and aerospace engineering.Dr. Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Amit Jariwala is the Director of Design & Innovation for the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He develops and maintains industry partnerships to support experiential, entrepreneurial, and innovative learning experiences within the academic curriculum of the school. He is a Woodruff School Teaching Fellow and strives to
government experience in construction, engineering, and research and eight years of academic experience. He was Co-Chair of the ASCE Civil Engineering in the Oceans V conference. He was the only manager in the 55-year history of the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory ever to win the Employee-of-the-Year Award. He has won numerous awards for project management. He has conducted research for the Construction Industry Institute, Center for Construction Industry Studies, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, OSHA and other organizations. He has published 45 journal and conference pa- pers. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and the M.S. and B.S. in Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M University
Foundation has supported Dr. Solomon’s research through grants such as the Research Initiation Award, Excellence in Research (EiR), and Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE). He was selected as a summer faculty research fellow at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in 2019 and 2020. Dr. Solomon received the Faculty Achievement Award from Tuskegee University in 2023. Dr. Solomon has published and presented 50 technical papers in various journals and AIAA and ASEE conferences.Mr. Hang Song, Auburn University Hang Song is currently affiliated with Auburn University, where he plays a pivotal role in the field of environmental research, particularly in the application of
Anti-Mirroring Related Alter Position Alter Alter Position Alter Subcodes Alter Gender Alter Gender Type of Type of Support SupportFindings & DiscussionProfessors and FacultyWitnessingOne of the simplest and most common ways professors and faculty witnessed nonbinaryengineering students was by respecting their preferred pronouns; respecting students’ pronounsis especially impactful due to the structural positions faculty hold in the laboratory and classroomsettings. Leon, Zayn, and Gwen Douglas shared experiences where they were happy that theirprofessors gendered them
82 Accident Reconstruction: A Model-Eliciting Activity in Dynamics Collin Heller and Brian Self California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoAbstractTypical assignments in a traditional dynamics course often do little to motivate students or togive them an indication of how they would use the material in a future job situation. Manyinstructors are now attempting to provide motivational projects, hands-on demonstrations, andeven laboratory assignments to increase understanding and