Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Karen Marais’ educational research focuses on improving systems engineering education. She is the author of several technical publications, including 17 journal papers and two book chapters. She received an NSF CAREER award in 2014. Dr. Marais has worked in engineering for two decades, first in industry and then in academia. She holds a B. Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Stellenbosch, a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of South Africa, and an S.M and Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Assessment of Project-Based
Paper ID #27666Behavioral Ethics and Engineers: Factors Affecting Decision Making in CasesInvolving Risk and Public SafetyProf. Harold W. Walker, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Professor Walker is the Schwaber Professor of Environmental Engineering at WPI. Prior to coming to WPI, Professor Walker was the Founding Chair and Professor of Civil Engineering at Stony Brook Uni- versity (SUNY). He started his academic career as a faculty member in the Department of Civil, Environ- mental, and Geodetic Engineering at Ohio State University. He has taught concepts in engineering ethics for over 10 years c
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Mines Leslie Light is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Engineering, Design, and Society Division at the Colorado School of Mines, and the Director of the Cornerstone Design@Mines program. She received a B.S. In General Engineering, Product Design from Stanford University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Entrepreneurial Management. Prior to joining Mines she spent 20 years as a designer, project manager, and portfolio manager in Fortune 500 companies and smaller firms in the Silicon Valley and abroad. She is passionate about bringing the user-centered de- sign principles she learned at Stanford and in her career to Mines’ open-ended problem solving program
bestvalue-added path to success.Quality Improvement Program Review – the Overall Current StateAs previously stated, our program improvement activities are guided by a documented CQI Plan.The stated goals of this plan are for the MET Program at MSU to: • Support the mission and vision of the University (MSU), College of Engineering (COE), department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (M&IE) and Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) Program. • Prepare students for successful MET careers which suit our program constituents. • Maintain ABET-ETAC accreditation. • Define the MET program mission, educational objectives, and educational outcomes, define assessment tools and evaluation criteria, and
drives student engagement, as they becomeinvested in the projects that they develop, and the open-ended nature of the problems promotesthe idea that students must continually strive to update their skills throughout their careers. Thiscourse structure reinforces the integration of these systems in a mechatronics course. However,students also used prior knowledge from other courses to demonstrate and explain their devices.As students were able to measure physical parameters, they began to see utility in their labproject and could easily find additional applications for their mini-projects. The short term goalsare to evaluate existing course work and integrate more applications and demonstrations thatcould make an impact to the student’s learning
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96) On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the smartest), how would you rate your intelligence as an engineering student?7) Tell me about an experience that convinced you of this… a) Why was that experience important to you? b) What would you have to do to move up on the scale?8) Tell me about your strategies to be a good engineering student a) Where do you think these strategies come from? b) How have these strategies developed since you started engineering school? c) How will these strategies prepare you for your future career?Responses to Challenges9) Tell me about a specific part of engineering school that has been difficult for you. a) Why do you think it is/was difficult for you? b) What did you do when you realized it is/was
feedback to correct mistakes.If CS 1 only has MSPs, when will students learn to write larger programs? Our thoughts: ● Majors will learn to write larger programs in CS 2. ● Non-majors, if they need to program in their careers, are more likely to have to write programs similar to the MSPs, like writing a small add-on function for a statistical analysis tool, for google docs, for a database query, etc. If they need to write more substantial programs, they will probably take a CS 2 class (or more). ● With the above said, we note that we intentionally ran the experiment in a more “extreme” manner, to see what effect would occur. Going forward, our instructors plan to give one large assignment mid-quarter and one
, a Research Associate and President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota, and as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Advanced Microelectronics Laboratory at Northern Arizona University. Dr. St. Omer is an active member of IEEE, MRS, ASEE, and NSBE AE. She has also held several leadership positions at the national level during her academic career. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Where Should We Begin? Establishing a Baseline for First Year Student Awareness of Engineering EthicsAbstractThe first year engineering design course at a research institution in the southeastern United Statescontains a unit in engineering ethics, most recently
analysis to large-scale quantitative and longitudinal investigations. She is currently focusing on learning analytics research in open-ended domains such as engineering design and authentic scientific inquiry. With insights in learning sciences and a strong, computationally oriented mindset, she hopes to utilize learning analytics to investigate important questions with unprecedented granularity and generate actionable knowledge for the design of technology and curriculum.Dr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) enay Purzer is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education. She is the recipient of a 2012 NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students approach
for Engineering Science majors, and is therefore takenby students with a variety of career interests within the broad umbrella of engineering. In thespring of 2017, when the data for this paper was collected, the class enrollment was 13 students.The class met twice weekly using a regular classroom format, with an additional weekly 3-hourlab session, where students worked on a semester-long design project.As part of the course requirements, each student was individually required to research acrowdfunding project and give a brief (5-10 min) presentation to the class, during which theywere to provide some insight into the design process itself. Specifically, students were asked tofocus on the following aspects of their chosen project in their
program which may make the sample less comparable toother engineering students at similar points in their academic career. As such, we delve deeperinto the context of the study. The study happened in an upper division project-based engineeringprogram which is part of the extended campus of a medium size public university in theMidwest. The course had a total of 28 students and 17 of the 28 fully participated and consentedto the research. Each semester the students in the program are placed on vertically integratedteams, meaning first and second semester juniors (J1s and J2s) are working with seniors (S1s andS2s), and assigned a project of the scope and scale of a typical capstone project. Students earnsix credits for completing this project
symptomatic dysfunction due to thestructural changes that are transforming the nature of work and reshaping employmentopportunities. This shows that organizations and policies are not keeping up with the changes inbusiness practices and new technologies that are defining what kind of jobs will be created andwhere they will be located. So there is a need for companies to redefine how and where differenttasks have to be carried out requiring new skills and new employer and employee relationships[2].It is very important to attempt that the possibility of international careers for engineers has beenexpanding access to low-cost talent professionals and creating a greater need for workers withhigher levels of education and specific skills in order to
learning [15][16]. Virtual embodiment hasbeen shown to influence agency, ownership and interpersonal attitudes through experiences thatenable the possibility of experiencing another person’s perspective first-hand. It is quite plausiblethat similar transformations could occur in IVR for engineering faculty to temporarily transferinto the student—veteran, person with a disability, woman, woman of color, LGBTQ individual,low socioeconomic status or first-generation perspectives—to live firsthand some of themarginalized experiences that ‘inclusion privilege’, power and implicit bias commonlycircumvent. IVR shows promise as a tool to influence the development of empathy towardspeople, careers and identities that are not our own.IVR has this potential
and recently tenured faculty to support each other in navigating academic careers; and a three-year reform effort in which Finnish engineers and architects engaged in participatory approaches topromoting sustainable development in engineering education countrywide [7]. Other approaches seekingto draw on collective expertise and participatory action have been used in Adams et al.’s Design ThinkingResearch Symposium, featuring a shared data-set analyzed by an interdisciplinary group of participants[8], Walther’s early formulation of interpretive research methods [9], and Paretti and McNair’sparticipatory panel sessions for the 2012 NSF EEC Grantees meeting [10]. Each of these applications ofthe unconference model have focused on areas of
Macintosh computers before Windows existed. At the time, Microsoft’s operating system was DOS, and Lotus 1-2-3 was the dominant spreadsheet program on that system. The truth is that Excel works well on Macs today. There are a few features that are exclusive to the Windows version, such as ActiveX controls and some add-ins.Using MS Excel in particular for education has three specific advantages: 1. Ubiquity in industry. Most mechanical engineering students are preparing to work in industry. When they start their career, it is almost certain that they will have access to Excel immediately. Many workplaces provide access to specialized tools, but that varies from one workplace to another. An engineer must justify
architectural and biomedical engineers. However,dynamics is a dreaded course for many students due to the difficulty of material, transitionalstage of their college career, and the relevance of the subject to their major1. Another issue thathas been observed is that the experiences taught in undergraduate dynamics are not genuine2. Atypical lecture course may not focus on the extension of in-class theories, examples, andidealizations to physical dynamic systems.To combat these issues, many authors have discussed the benefits of active, project-basedlearning over traditional, passive lecture courses3. We tried to create a stronger link between reallife problems and theory using motion capture technology. In a previous study, we used motioncapture
disability evaluated, may request that all videos be professionallycaptioned. Unfortunately, faculty receive these accommodation requests and assume that is theonly form of impairment and accessibility issue that needs to be accommodated. Precise researchin this field is difficult because we are attempting to quantify and circumscribe the effects onlearning and career outcomes from non-disclosed impairments within the universityenvironment. However, it is possible to quantify the prevalence of disabilities and impairmentsin the U.S. population and consider the fraction of students who request personalaccommodations. The prevalence of significant hearing impairment at speech frequencies in theU.S. for adults aged 20-29 is 2.2% [11]. In a recent
survey and primary investigations reveal that coursematerial, homework and even the entire class set up can change because of course evaluations.To faculty, it is clear that their preparation material changes from one school term to the next;alternatively, students do not seem to see (realize) the changes. Their experience isdiscontinuous, whereas faculty teach the same course many times in a career. One reason themajority of students do not agree with faculty on this statement could be because the changesthat do happen to the preparation material get smaller and smaller each year. Another facultymember noted “…Now that I’ve been teaching for a long time, course evaluations allow me tofiddle with the knob ever so slightly.” Everyone notices when
andrandomly-assigned members could be extremely beneficial for students future careers in which,they would need to work in such teams. Finally, below are some of the students comments inregards to this course:“The instructor is teaching a very intensive and difficult topic and did a good job of getting theinformation across in the time frame provided. He expects a lot out of his students, and for thisreason, I feel like I have benefited greatly by trying my best to keep up with his expectations. Ifeel like I have gotten more out of his class than I have from any other professor.”“The robots may still have some bugs to work out. I hope the prior experience from the labs andproject this semester will be helpful for this class in the future
students. Over the span of his career, Dr. Libre authored and co-authored 3 chapter books, 17 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 60 conference papers. He has advised and co-advised 8 gradu- ate students and mentored over 30 undergraduate students. He has collaborated with scholars from several countries, including Iran, China, Slovenia, Canada, and the US. He also served as a reviewer for 6 journals and a committee member of 5 conferences. He is the recipient of the University of Missouri President Award for Innovative Teaching (2018), the Teaching with Technology Award in the Focus on Teaching and technology conference (2018), Joseph H Senne Jr. Academy of Civil Engineering Faculty Teaching and Service Achievement
enrollment in many majors.NEET is based on the following four principles: 1. Our education should focus on preparing our students to develop the new machines and systems that they will build in the middle of the 21st century. 2. We should help our students prepare themselves to be makers, discoverers or positioned along this spectrum, and we should teach engineering fundamentals as a foundation for careers in both research and practice. 3. We should build our education around the way our students learn best, engaging them in their learning, and implementing pilots to understand the desirable balance of classroom, project, and digital education for the digital natives. 4. In view of the speed of scientific
this activity. This person also identified as having a gender that is under-represented in the field of computing. Only one person wished to spend more time on thisactivity (question 6) and specifically stated:“I liked learning what people did with their careers because I have no clue what to do with mine.It gives me ideas! And hope!”Only two students specifically answered the open ended question each stating:“I thought the choice of contributors was good.” Assessing Weekly Computing Contributor Activity 5 4.4 Average Likert
the PI on an NSF INCLUDES (Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Dis- coverers in Engineering and Science) project/Symposium for ADVANCING STEM Latinas in Academic Careers. Prior to his Dean position, Dr. Qubbaj served as Senior Associate Vice President/Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & Diversity at UTRGV. He is also a full professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Qubbaj received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma with specialization in combustion and energy system. His research has been sponsored by NSF, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense.Dr. Emmett Tomai, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley Emmett Tomai is an
activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Kevin Frank, Drexel University Drexel University student studying Mechanical Engineering Technology. Currently on CO-OP and work- ing on the Unity3D implementation portion of this project.Ms. Ayanna Elise Gardner, Drexel University After graduating with her associate’s degree in Engineering Technology from Delaware County Commu- nity College in 2018, Ayanna transferred to Drexel University to continue her undergraduate career. Her interest in the hands-on applications of the Engineering Technology field was sparked during her time as an organizational-level helicopter mechanic for the United States
academic interests. Ben has degrees in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Case Western Reserve University and started his career at CWRU’s think[box] makerspace. Outside of his work in the Anderson Labs, Ben mentors students on a local high school robotics team and likes working on projects that blend music and engineering, like a piano that sends real time musical instructions to a choir, and giant musical Tesla Coils. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Makerspaces for the Multitudes - Strategies to Expand Access and Use of a College MakerspaceIntroductionThis evidence-based practice paper reports the effectiveness of various strategies to
Early Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) that tested the feasibility ofcoupling Maker concepts with real world concerns in manufacturing and production engineeringin high school classrooms. Through the EAGER, we engaged in a 3-year pilot research study onhow the Making as Micro-Manufacture M2 model may create a situated learning space. In the M2model, students can develop self-constructed educational experiences through their directengagement in Making for everyday, real world use. Practically, we applied the M2 model in theform of a practice-based learning career and technology education (CTE) course focused oncombining Making, Engineering, and elementary science curriculum implementation.For our study, we pursued the following two