they complete research boot campexperiences,especially translation, including entrepreneurship. Participate in a clinical immersion Another lecture will cover graduate school experience in summer to grasp theclinical preparation. Students create a mock FDA impact their research may haveresearch document for a new device submission. ECE 398 Innovation and Engineering Design (2 credit hours) provides the tools Continue research throughout yearYear 3: needed for problem identification, solution Interact with research mentor andFocus on assessment, market
Bioengineering Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates: Launching an REU Program during a PandemicIntroductionNew computational methods, tools, and models are urgently needed both to improve human healthand to understand the molecular, biochemical, and biophysical principles of life. Such advancesare needed to provide early detection of disease, design new drugs and medical devices, andrecommend better therapeutic strategies [1, 2]. These efforts are most likely to succeed when acollaborative team with diverse backgrounds and experiences converges on a problem [3-5]. Tofacilitate such diversity, we have established an REU on the theme of “ComputationalBioengineering” to provide undergraduate students, particularly women and
mobility has imposed as a fact of life for researchers and teachers atgraduation level. Not to mention the necessary new competencies of educators such as:evaluation management; development competencies; communication skills; teamwork; ethicsand intercultural competencies. So this program has been designed to fulfill this lack ofengineering educators.The Port Engineering Program – The most recent one developed and implemented byCOPEC’s team, which is a program designed and implemented at Master of Science and theDoctor of Philosophy level very proper for the time and geographical region once there is thelargest seaport of Latin America [09].10. Study AbroadIn Brazil: It is a project that brings to Brazil students from abroad in a program of 15
Paper ID #11841Using Systematic Literature Reviews to Enhance Student LearningProf. Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University Branimir Pejcinovic received his Ph.D. degree from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a Pro- fessor and former Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education at Portland State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering department. In this role he has led department-wide changes in curriculum with emphasis on project- and lab-based instruction and learning. His research interests are in the areas of engineering education, semiconductor device characterization, design and simulation
Science and Mathematics, Engineering, and Technical EducationAbstractSTEM students face general education requirements in humanities as a part of theirdegree programs. Many students believe these courses are of little value to theireducation and career goals. Policy discussions at all levels of government has politicizedhistory education. History curriculum focusing on societal and political developmentsseems obscure to the high school or undergraduate STEM student. STEMstory focuses onengaging STEM students by examining history general education courses through thelens of history of technology. The study proposes curriculum for a U.S. history surveycourse focusing on progress in science and technology incorporating best practices
will also impact education inthese fields. Further, some of the materials have been disseminated for middle school and highschool students. This paper discusses how a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)program engaged undergraduates in this work, benefiting both the students and the VaNTH ERCand argues that similar programs, or even aspects of this program, would be very helpful to Page 13.128.2students considering faculty careers in engineering or graduate school in engineering education.1.2 Rationale for an REU program in bioengineering education research Almost any research experience is valuable as a component of an
academic interest in leadership de- velopment in academic contexts. She holds a M.A. in Education from Michigan State University and an M.A. in English from The Ohio State University.Mrs. Astri Briliyanti Astri is a graduate student in the Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University. She previously worked as a researcher and urban planner consultant in Indonesia, helping the government with the creation of spatial and development plan, as well as policy analysis and program evaluation. She is interested in program evaluation, sustainable tourism planning, and urban design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Partners in Professional
both equity-centered content and pedagogy (e.g., [20], [24]) in a range of courses. We describe the first phase of research to build a curricular and instructional changeframework to support educators who seek to revise or develop engineering courses to centerequity. Our emerging framework acknowledges that instructors – including tenure-track, contractfaculty, and graduate teaching assistants – will typically require professional development tosupport them as they design and teach these courses. We also acknowledge that for engineeringto move beyond siloed discussions of equity, academic programs need to revise multiple requiredcourses, including technical/ engineering science courses. In the following sections, we provide aproject
design efforts.” Educational Researcher 32(1): 32-34.12. Blumenfeld, P.C., 1991. “Motivating project-based learning: Sustaining the doing, supporting the learning.” Educational Psychologist 26(3/4): 368-398.13. Jayarao, A. 2014. “Engaging young minds to be tomorrow’s innovators.” In Einstein Fellows: Best Practices in STEM Education. T. Spuck and L. Jenkins (Eds.), New York, NY: Peter Lang: 158-181.14. Larmer, J. and Mergendoller, J.R. 2010. “Seven essentials for project-based learning.” Educational Leadership 68(1): 34-37.15. Spuck, T. 2014. “Putting the ‘authenticity’ into science learning.” In Einstein Fellows: Best Practices in STEM Education. T. Spuck and L. Jenkins (eds.), New York, NY: Peter Lang, 118-157.16
strong impact on the learning experience and should receive training toensure consistency and that learning objectives are met.1 IntroductionIn the past five years, nearly half of undergraduate mechanical and manufacturing engineeringstudents enrolled in a mandatory third-year materials science course at the University of Calgaryconsistently report on their end-of-course surveys that their laboratories are not linked to theirin-class learning or to their careers following graduation. There have also been calls from thelocal engineering industry, the local government [1], and University of Calgary administration [2]for more industry-relevant learning to be included in post-secondary curricula. Previous work bythe ASEE has established that the
the pandemic), this paper discusses the operations of the year as well as reviewing theoperations and outcomes throughout the four-year program.The paper compares the results of operating in a hybrid mode with two years of in-personoperations and one year of virtual operations. The survey instruments that have beenconsistently used throughout the program (including all three – in-person, hybrid and online –offering modalities) are well suited to facilitate this comparison.Like in 2020, significant uncertainty about the ability to conduct future REU programs onsiteremains. Changes in the severity of impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential forfuture pandemics make it critical to identify best practices for all REU offering modalities
AC 2007-657: OBSERVATIONS FROM A PROJECT TO ENCOURAGEMULTIPLE-YEAR, INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION ON RESEARCH FORUNDERGRADUATESStephen Silliman, University of Notre Dame Stephen E. Silliman is a Professor of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences and the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. His primary area of research is in groundwater hydraulics and chemical transport. He has pursued research and educational programs in both Haiti and Benin (West Africa) involving both undergraduate and graduate students. Page 12.1116.1
Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Parallel Simulation of Many-core Processors: Integration of Research and EducationAbstractProviding undergraduate students with an opportunity to experience meaningful academicresearch has a potential impact on their future career choice. Our approach combines twoseemingly contradicting attributes: (i) to make it exciting, the effort targets a grand researchobjective; and (ii) to make the experience self-assuring and overall positive, the concrete taskhanded to a student is feasible, given their background and time constraints, while stillcontributing towards the grand objective. We believe that this can motivate a wider range ofundergraduate students, including
Kinesthetic Mode = 5 Tactical- 3% Concrete Boylan, H. R. (2002). What Works: Research-Based Best Practices in Developmental Education. Boone, NC: National Center for Developmental Education. Sometimes, in engineering disciplines “Kinesthetic” and “Visual” may slightly overlap. In a laboratory setting, the students can actually “see and observe” certain operations when they “perform” experiments. See and observe may be interpreted as visual. Perform may be interpreted as Kinesthetic. Therefore, a
participants self-identified as male and two as female. Participants were from a range of non-electricalengineering majors (e.g., music technology, computer science, economics/statistics, andbiomedical engineering). This study was approved by the Carnegie Mellon UniversityInstitutional Review Board.Measures & MaterialsMeasuresThe researchers developed a survey instrument to measure self-efficacy (SE) related toengineering skills of tinkering and design as well as sense of identity. Self-efficacy items werecreated using the best practices recommendations from the literature including using a 100-pointunipolar scale anchored by degree of certainty and beginning each item with “I can” (Bandura,1997; Pajares, Hartley, and Valiante, 2001; Talsma, 2018
illnesses10. SO2 emissions when mixed with other chemicalsin the atmosphere form sulfuric acid causing damage to trees, foliage, and farmland, and formingair particulates. Table 1 documents the health implications of the six pollutants of interest for thisstudy. AQI or Air Quality Index is a measure of air pollution, which ranges from 0 to 500. Whenthe value is less than 50 or below, it is a representation of good air quality; and when it exceeds100, the air quality is designated as unhealthy. The values close to 300 are hazardous11.The six harmful pollutants were selected for the study on the impacts of covid-19 on air pollution.The research that was conducted by the student interns during their summer internships, as well asstudents in the
Networks (pre-requesite) Topics vLab experiments Tools used in vLabs Hardening devices, • Encrypting configuration files • Virtual local area networks access control lists and • Using hash function to store credentials • Modern routers and switches best practices for • Applying access control lists (ACLs) with management capability network management • Sniffing a Telnet sessions for passwords • Using Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) as a replacement of Telnet for managing devices • Secure local area networks (LANs) by blocking
address calls for greater workplace and college readiness as well as increase thenumber of students who consider a career in a STEM-related field.Despite the rise in interest in providing students with learning experiences that foster connection-making across the STEM disciplines, there is little research on how best to do so or on whatfactors make integration more likely to increase student learning, interest, retention,achievement, or other valued outcomes. Indeed, there is considerable confusion about just whatintegrated STEM education is and how, if at all, it is different from STEM education that is notintegrated.This paper summarizes the findings and presents the recommendations from a recentlycompleted study of integrated K-12 STEM
improve the model, plans are in process to provide additional instructionand support specifically for PMs as a separate cohort. Additional evening class meetings areplanned just for the student PMs. Local alumni, whose primary job is project management, arebeing sought to serve as resources and mentors, and offer first-hand examples of effectivemanagement tools and techniques. A follow-up survey is planned after the changes have beenfully implemented.References1. Watkins, G., “Best Practices for Faculty Mentorship of Capstone Design Projects, Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia2. Howe, S., Poulos, S., & Rosenbauer, L., The 2015 Capstone Design Survey: Observations from the Front Lines, Proceedings
University where she was a professor for 24 years and served as the Director of Student Services as well as the Women in Engineering Coordinator. She received her B.S. in chemical engineering from University of Michigan in 1985 and she received her M.S. in 1988 and her Ph.D. in 1991 in chemical engineering both from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Karen’s educational emphasis includes: critical thinking, enhancing mathematics, engineering entrepreneurship in education, communication skills, K-12 engineering education, and promoting women in engineering. Her technical work and research focuses on sustainable chemical process design, computer aided design, mixed integer nonlinear programing, and multicriteria decision
computed.Benchmark Study ResultsA previous study that was performed by Russell and Stouffer was used as a baseline program forcomparison purposes [2]. The Russell and Stouffer study was selected for four reasons. In 2002 The initial impact of the 1996 ABET EC2000 accreditation criteria on engineering curriculums was in the process of being documented [9]. ABET’s 2006 report on the impact of EC2000 during the period 1994-2004 indicated that improvements in student learning had occurred as a result of changes in engineering program curricula, teaching methods, faculty practices, and student experiences in the classroom [9]. ASCE had not yet published a Body of Knowledge. Civil engineering curriculums had not yet been
experiences and training.Dr. Stephanie Marie Kusano, University of Michigan Stephanie Kusano is an assessment specialist at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at University of Michigan. She has a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, all from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include engaged learning and high impact practices, assessment, and learning analytics. Her teaching experience has primarily been with first-year engineering.Dr. Tershia A. Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan Tershia Pinder-Grover is the Director of the Center for Research on Learning in Teaching in Engineering (CRLT-Engin) at the University of Michigan (U-M). She
presentations and were expected to prepare students for theircapstone project thoroughly.Objective of the paperThis paper describes a relatively new and growing program (PMT) at KSP and uses a multi-disciplinaryteam-taught course (COT 706) as a case study to reflect on the outcomes from implementing industryadvisory board's recommendations. While low student enrollments characterize the program/course, theexperience and process involved in the design of COT 706 provide valuable insights on pedagogy, team-teaching, and best practices for student learning.The purpose of this pedagogical research study is to assess using COT 706 course whether a team-taught8-week hybrid format accomplishes the objectives of providing the flexibility in format and skill
recently entered a tenth edition. The author hastaken several ideas from Aiken’s textbooks and has adapted them to help the studentsdevelop intellectual curiosity while they learn the engineering subject matter (Aiken,1997, 2000). Hunter R. Boylan is the Chairperson for American Council of DevelopmentalEducation Associations. In his book, What Works: Research-Based Best Practices inDevelopmental Education, Dr. Boylan gives tips for accommodating diversity throughinstruction. His tips are to train faculty in alternative forms of instruction if they areexpected to use diverse instructional methods. One must administer a learning stylesinventory to the students as a regular assessment process, and then share the learningstyles information with
. Page 23.1368.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 What’s Trust Got to Do with It? Assessing a Research-Based Mentoring Program for Novice EngineersAbstractWhile the importance of trust has largely been explored in large business organizations, littleattention has been given to the role of trust in one-on-one mentoring relationships betweenengineers1. Trust has been relatively understudied in academic settings, especially in mentoringrelationships between undergraduate and graduate students in research laboratory settings. Byassessing ways of creating and maintaining trust in engineering relationships, we will be able tocreate more comprehensive guidelines on building
understand the similarities and differencesbetween a student, faculty, and practicing engineer in terms of their design processes, but are onlylimited to three participants. Given the variability of the design processes across the participants,further studies focused on understanding the similarities and differences between students, faculty,and practicing engineers’ problem solving processes are needed across a larger dataset. Anotherlimitation of our study is that because this paper is part of a larger study, the size of the institutioneach participant attended was not standardized, which may impact the findings of this study. Thisvariable will be considered further in future studies. Moving forward, the research team will continue to
AC 2012-3161: A HOLISTIC VIEW ON HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT, AS-SESSMENT, AND FUTURE OF AN OPEN COURSEWARE IN NUMERI-CAL METHODSProf. Autar Kaw, University of South Florida Autar Kaw is a professor of mechanical engineering and Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher at the University of South Florida, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from Clemson Univer- sity. His main scholarly interests are in engineering education research methods, open courseware de- velopment, bascule bridge design, body armor, and micromechanics of composite materials. With major funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, he is the lead developer of award-winning online resources for an undergraduate course in numerical methods
maximizes creativity and innovation before implementation. It is important to note that ittakes comparable time and money to convert a bad idea to practice as it does a good idea.Making correct decisions from the best innovation during this phase is necessary to enablesuccess. This is particularly true for the SBCF project where millions of $US were spentpreviously in an industry research environment, without reaching the Objectives and Goalsnecessary for using the technology in development and production of primary structure.Satisfying Different Objectives with Common ResourcesResearch and Development contractors are most interested in getting the work done according tothe contractual requirements. Universities are focused on scholarly products
point toward other possible, heretofore unknown,elements of the role concept of STEM researchers.In this paper, we describe the design of our instrument and examine the results of our pilot study Page 15.204.4among a multi-national body of STEM graduate students. We also discuss possible applicationsof our instrument to the study of research integrity and for the assessment of pedagogicalapproaches to responsible conduct of research.II. MethodInventory DevelopmentOur multidisciplinary team of researchers utilized a modified Delphi approach to identifystatements that could be used to measure the constructs of authority, responsibility, autonomy
Paper ID #34637Visualizing Arguments to Scaffold Graduate Writing in EngineeringEducationDr. Kristen Moore, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Kristen R. Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at University at Buffalo. Her research focuses primarily on technical communication and issues of equity, inclusion, and social justice. She is the author of Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn: Building Coalitions for Action (2019), in addition to a range of articles. She has received a number of awards for her research, including the Joenk Award for the best