worked at Iowa State University for 4 years as a student’s program coordinator for the Science Bound program, a pre-college through college program focused on working with scholars from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue a degree in STEM. He has been a research affiliate on multiple NSF-funded projects surrounding equity in STEM. Brian’s research interests are college access, retention, marginalized students, community colleges, first-generation, STEM education, STEM identity development and engineering education.Dr. Spencer Platt, University of South carolinaRuiqin Gao, University of South Carolina Ruiqin Gao is a doctoral candidate in the program of Educational Psychology and Research in the Col- lege of
Paper ID #37804Engagement in Practice: Reflections on Remote Community-Engaged Learning in the Context of a MultilateralInternational PartnershipPatrick Sours (Graduate Student)Howard L. Greene (Senior Project Manager) Howard Greene directs K-12 Education Outreach for the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University, bringing a rich array of university research and teaching intersections to the K-12 community. Specifically, Howard’s work seeks to improve awareness of engineering careers and academic preparation in K-12 and to build the skills of career ambassadorship in OSU undergraduate students. Howard
to Address Disasters Project funded by the Division of Graduate Education - NSF Research Traineeship (NRT)BackgroundDisasters continue to devastate communities across the globe, and recovery efforts require thecooperation and collaboration of experts and community members across disciplines [1-3]. TheDisaster Resilience and Risk Management (DRRM) program, funded through the NationalScience Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeship (NRT), is an interdisciplinary graduate programthat brings together faculty and graduate students from across one large, mid-Atlantic universityin order to develop novel transdisciplinary approaches to disaster-related issues. The projectseeks to improve understanding and support proactive decision-making relative to
], [9], [10]). Additionally,studies of wellness and coping related to graduate students are rare. While studies of specificstressors and populations all constitute valuable contributions to the study of doctoral studentretention, our team posits that there is a need for studies which explore multiple sources of stress.These stressors can then be compared to each other and to literature for existing coping strategiesto better understand which stressors are the most severely and frequently experienced bygraduate students. Such an effort can promote proactive interventions which improve upondoctoral students’ habits and the cultures they are situated in as an effort to avoid retentionissues.Our project proposes to situate and compare different
Education an educational software company focused on teaching sketching and spatial visualization skills.Dr. Huihui Qi, University of California, San Diego Dr.Huihui Qi is a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego.Dr. Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego Van Den Einde is a Teaching Professor in Structural Engineering at UC San Diego and the President of eGrove Education, Inc. She incorporates education innovations into courses (Peer Instruction, Project- based learning), prepares next generation faculty, advises student organizations, and is committed to fos- tering a supportive environment for diverse students. Her research focuses on engagement strategies for large
-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference: University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee Jul 30WIP: Using an Elevator Pitch Competition to Introduce Engineering Students to EntrepreneurshipIntroductionAn elevator pitch is a succinct description of a product or idea with the intention of allowing thelistener to review the main information in a brief period. An elevator pitch is aimed at creatinginterest in a project, product, or idea. Characteristics of a good elevator pitch include, a) concisebut persuasive, b) uses clear language, and d) highlights the specifics of the idea or product.The purpose of this project was to introduce first semester engineering students
ensure a consistent levelof complexity and difficulty for the exams from one year to the next. Figure 2 displays examplesof the assemblies that students were tasked to create on the final exams from 2019 – 2021.Figure 2. Assemblies required to be modeled by students on the ENCP A102 Final Exam for SP19, SP20, and SP21 (from left to right).A final project was also consistently assigned in ENCP A102 from SP19 to SP21. For thisproject, students created a 3D model and a corresponding 2D drawing of an assembly of theirchoosing. Consistent with the assessment of homework and exams, the final project evaluatedstudents in their ability to accurately represent their ideas in Creo (3D model and 2D drawing).However, this
presented both an opportunityand a challenge, in that creating these questions would be beneficial to both the students learningfrom them as well as the instructors who are able to utilize them, but that creating questions of ahigh enough quality focusing on multiple conceptual perspectives is a significant timecommitment.In other courses, we had previously created course projects focused on curriculum development,in which students would develop learning tools that they themselves would have found helpful tolearn from in their coursework.10 In these projects, students found creative ways to communicateconcepts central to the course, including the writing and solving of exam-style problems. Studentsresponded extremely positively to these projects
Penn State. Dr. Hanagan has focused most of her research career on floor vibration serviceability, with a strong emphasis on steel structures. She has overseen dozens of research projects, participated in several committees, supervised many students, and written numerous papers that have contributed to the body of knowledge in vibration serviceability. While Dr. Hanagan’s primary research interest has been in the vibration serviceability of structures, one of her greatest passions is teaching. Her area of teaching specialization is structural engineering with a particular emphasis in the analysis and design of buildings. At Penn State she currently teaches a structural analysis course, the advanced steel design course
Engineering Education. Her research focuses on the interactions between student motivation and their learning experiences. Her projects include studies of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their development of problem-solving skills, self- regulated learning practices, and epistemic beliefs. Other projects in the Benson group involve students’ navigational capital, and researchers’ schema development through the peer review process. Dr. Benson is an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Fellow, and a member of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Tau Beta Pi. She earned a B.S. in
wider deployment. In particular, the educational systems in many sub-SaharanAfrican countries do not offer renewable energy courses. Furthermore, skills around writing proposals toacquire funding to finance these systems, basic project management skills around deploying andimplementing renewable energy systems and developing sustainable business models to ensure that theproductive use of the generated electricity provides sufficient income to sustain a renewable energyenterprise are often not incorporated into education curricula. This paper considers a new renewableenergy curriculum for the Burundian context that includes these components.Review of Existing Renewable Energy Programs in Sub-Saharan AfricaSeveral renewable energy masters
strategies during problem solving activities.Talha Naqash, Utah State University, Logan Graduate Research AssistantMr. Assad Iqbal, Arizona State University Assad Iqbal is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Arizona State University working on the National Sci- ence Foundation-funded research project i.e., Engineering For Us All (e4usa). Assad Iqbal is an informa- tion system engineer with a Ph.D. in Engineering Education and around 14 years of teaching experience in undergraduate engineering and technology education. His research interest is to explore ways to promote self-directed, self-regulated life-long learning among the undergraduate engineering student population. ©American Society for
education, project management, and knowledge management. Dr. Alsayyed has a Ph.D. in Industrial engineering, three Masters: (Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, and Project Management). Dr. Al- sayyed is a Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE) since 1997.Dr. Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University Yanjun Yan is an Associate Professor in Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University. Her research interests include engineering education, swarm robotics, statistical signal processing, and swarm intelligence. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 All-encompassing Skill Portal for Skills Management and Development Basel Alsayyed
for Engineering Education, 2023 Building Interest in Technology Careers through a Five-Week Saturday ProgramThe goal of the “Building Career Interest in Computer Science through Advanced Real-WorldTechnology Projects” (CICSTART) program, funded by the National Science FoundationAdvanced Technological Education (NSF ATE) program (DUE#2113261), is to provideadditional professional and technical skills to cohorts of high school students through a five-week Saturday Program. The curriculum is continuously reviewed and modified to addresscurrent skills needed by the technician workforce. While this program was originally proposedand planned as in-person, the leadership team decided to shift to a virtual
. A significant aspect of the project was to create a supportnetwork for the students that incorporated existing services provided by the university andestablished new services to aid students throughout their mentored research experience. One ofthe new services was the development and delivery of starting in the second year of the grant andcontinuing through the third year. The purpose of the workshops is to introduce students todifferent aspects of research. The first series of workshops (offered in the 2021-2022 academicyear) were mostly informational and provided initial support for undergraduate researchers. Fromthe experience of developing and hosting the first series, the style of the second series (offered inthe 2022-2023 academic
,and professional networking opportunities, while gaining direct access and exposure to over 30technical staff members, including 16 day-of volunteers/mentors, 10 technical talk speakers, and8 gallery walk judges. A majority of the intern participants (over 85%) attended technical talksand gained exposure to cutting edge technologies and relevant topics (including hypersonics,natural disaster response, anti-gravity machines, and 5G networks). Many of these interactionsdirectly informed the students’ project brainstorming sessions and eventual final proposals.Students who responded to the survey stated that they met and interacted with on average three ormore staff outside of technical talks and approximately 46% stated their confidence
Engineering Safety Vests TBD Engineering Plastic Filters TBDUnits will be available for FREE download when completed. Sign up here to be notified: YES Elementary YES Middle School YES Out of SchoolYES ResourcesA suite of resources, design to support learning and instruction accompany each YES unit. Theseare available in print and digital form and include:Teacher Guide: Contains eight to ten, 45-minute lessonsContext-Setting Narrative: Introduces the engineering problem students will solve. (K–2) A story is read aloud and its illustrations projected. (K–2 OS) A dynamic poster introduces the activity’s focus. (3–5) Comics preview the engineering work students will do
CTMembers of the education research community have argued that computational thinking needs tobe taught in courses beyond computer science [7], [12], [13]. The National Science Foundation(NSF) has recently promoted the integration of computational thinking into math and sciencecourses, resulting in so-called STEM + computing curricular approaches (STEM + C). However,this CT instruction has been positioned as an add-on, rather than an integral component ofdisciplinary practice in these efforts [14]. Expanding this work, the NSF’s Discovery ResearchPreK-12 program has encouraged projects that “integrate computing and computational thinkingwithin one or more of the other STEM disciplines as a way to improve teaching and learning informal education
implemented in 2021 and 2022. The 2021 programfocused on immersing teachers in authentic AI projects, while the 2022 program focused ondeveloping teachers’ foundational knowledge before joining a specific AI research project.Teachers in both summers took an orientation in the first week. In the 2021 summer program,teachers participated in one of the four research projects, including AI application in cancerdetection, AI algorithm, architecture and circuit, and device from Week 2 mornings. Theygathered in the afternoons to share their research, participate in instructional workshops anddiscussions, and develop lesson plans for middle- and high-school students. What changed in the2022 summer program was the morning research component. Teachers learned
flow visualization to undergraduate students. This course aims tobridge the gap between two distinct areas of knowledge: the art and science of fluid mechanics.Designed for students with minimal to no background in photography or physics, this non-mathematical course provides an opportunity for students to explore a variety of aesthetic issuesthrough practical and creative assignments. The course consists of lectures on photography skills,fluid physics, visualization techniques, critique sessions, and a guest lecture. Assignments consistof images paired with written technical reports, and critique sessions. The primary objective ofthe course is "integrative thinking". Other course objectives evaluated through students’assignments and projects
Paper ID #38108Work in Progress: Re-Interpreting Engineering Laboratory LiteratureThrough the Lens of Cognitive LoadGregory Wickham, Harvey Mudd CollegeMatthew Spencer, Harvey Mudd College Matthew Spencer is an associate professor of engineering at Harvey Mudd College. His research interests include hands-on learning, MEMS, ultrasound imaging and circuit design. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Re-interpreting Engineering Laboratory Literature Through the Lens of Cognitive LoadAbstract -- This WIP theory paper argues laboratory and engineering project classes
-changing, global,connected, competitive, and technology-driven world.To highlight how high the demand for cyber security professionals is, the US government agency,the Bureau of Labor Statistics [5], predicts that the number of cyber security jobs will increase 28percent by 2026. According to the U.S. Department of Labor Employment Occupational OutlookHandbook, cyber security related jobs are projected to grow 33 percent from 2020 to 2030 alone,much faster than the average for all other occupations. These jobs will include skilled analysts,managers, and administrators. The numbers don’t include closely related fields, shown in Table 1.for reference. The growth for the Information Security Analyst field (ISA) alone translates to about16,300
supporting non-dominant student populations. Her current research focuses on creating inclusive and equitable learning environments through the development and implementation of strategies geared towards increasing student sense of belonging.Joseph Arthur Brobst (Research Assistant Professor) Previously a high school science teacher, I am now an educational research and program evaluation specialist located in the The Center for Educational Partnerships at Old Dominion University. Though I have been involved in a wide variety of projects and initiatives, common threads throughout my work have included STEM teacher professional development and broadening participation in STEM among individuals ranging from elementary school
1 2 3 4 Environmental Engineering , Mechanical Engineering , Electrical Engineering , Biomedical Engineering , Computer Science5Abstract Project Statement Raised Garden BedsThe Pennsylvania Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Engineer raised and Both garden beds are 7 x 4 ft. and will be placed in the courtyard area of PASSH (Figure 2b). One bedHome (PASSH) is a nursing home located wheelchair accessible garden will have flowers and the other will have herbs. Although unshown in the drawing, the beds will alsoin Erie, PA, that is
, the author received from his students for the following questions.Some questions1) Suppose you get access to your university computing system for a few minutes and youcould change your grade with no one finding out. Will you change your grade ?2) You are working in a group project and you know very well that your contribution to thegroup project was substantially lower than other partners. Are you comfortable receiving thesame grade as other group members ?3) You are an engineering major, but you have to take an art course; how bad is it to copythe homework for a class you think you will never use in your professional life?4) You are personally against getting Covid vaccination. Would you lie to your collegeadministration that you have been
projects and group members are described at pawleyresearch.org. She was a National Academy of Engineering CASEE Fellow in 2007, received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women, and received the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute in 2013. She has been author or co-author on papers receiving ASEE-ERM’s best paper award, the AAEE Best Paper Award, the Benjamin Dasher award, and co-authored the paper nominated by the ASEE Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for ASEE Best PIC Paper for 2018. More recently, she received her school’s Award for Excellence in
loadassociated with project work and reduce the time taken to grade and provide feedback tostudents. The goal of this workshop is to introduce participants to the ACJ approach. Theprocess underpinning the ACJ software tool will be explored, and participants will be takenthrough the procedure of setting up an ACJ session and given the opportunity to experiencethe process of assessment using the ACJ tool. Following this hands-on experience of ACJ,participants and facilitators will discuss the possible benefits and challenges of using ACJ ina formative and summative assessment capacity with first-year engineering students.Workshop attendees will require a device that is wireless fidelity enabled.IntroductionThe initial stages of this workshop will focus on
laptops destop computers tablets smartphones Comparing LMS usage prior to COVID to now, students more often/alwaysread emails (+12%) and write emails (+12%), message their instructor more(+6%), but talk with classmates much less (-18%). In terms of applied learning,students report a significant decline in labs (-52%), group projects (-27%),demonstrations (-21%), and problem-based learning (-8%). Though some faculty ASEE Final Paper Submission May 2021shared involvement in volunteer efforts to create PPE/medical equipment at the ETForum, students in this survey report a decline in service
Teaching in covid-19 disrupted semester Anu Aggarwal Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign1. AbstractCovid – 19 has radically changed how group activities are carried out across the world especiallyin countries with higher incidence of the disease, like the US. An activity of concern to theeducators is face-to-face teaching in classroom, in-lab work, in-person office hours, in-classexams and group-based project activities. The Covid-19 epidemic required most educators tomove all these activities online.Given that the flipped and online classes are a common practice in this era of internettechnology, there was no
advance in STEM fields and being a part of institutional change to support women in overcoming barriers. Dr. Luthi is recognized for her efforts in securing federal grants through the National Science Foundation and Department of Labor that provide educators the tools they need to encourage women to enter and succeed in careers to include engineering and engineering technology where they are traditionally under-represented.Dr. Lisa Macon, Valencia College Dr. Lisa Macon holds a BS in Computer Science from Hofstra University, an MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a PhD in Mathematics from University of Central Florida. She has worked as a software developer and project manager in the