Alabama at Huntsville, where she taught undergraduate courses in industrial and systems engineering and served as the faculty advisor for the In- stitute of Industrial Engineering local student chapter. At RIMES, she is involved in developing graduate courses and exploring research opportunities in systems engineering. She has written research proposals to National Science Foundation, Locked Martin Aeronautical, Raytheon Energy Systems, Texas Higher Education Board, and Texas High School Project. She conducts research with a local charter high school assessing the attitudinal changes in high school students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. She has published in several peer-reviewed journals and conferences
AC 2011-2310: UNDERGRADUATE CONCEPTIONS OF THE ENGINEER-ING DESIGN PROCESS: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF A HUMAN-CENTEREDDESIGN COURSELora Oehlberg, University of California, Berkeley Lora Oehlberg is a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cal- ifornia at Berkeley, and a member of the Berkeley Institute of Design. She received a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley (2008) and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineer- ing from Stanford University (2006). Her doctoral research is on how designers use personal design information tools during collaborative new product development projects. Her background includes both corporate product design and
profes- sionals. Dr. High is a trainer for Project Lead the Way pre-Engineering. Additionally, she works with middle school teachers and students on engineering projects.Melanie C Page, Oklahoma State University Melanie C. Page received her Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from Arizona State University in 1998. She is currently a professor in the Department of Psyhcology and Director of the OSU Institute for Cre- ativity and Innovation (ICI) in the School of Entrepreneurship. Her research interests are mainly in pre- vention/intervention research; She is currently involved in several projects. One major project is looking at decreasing childhood overweight through family and peer interventions (FiSH project) with
to mechanical, chemical, electrical, andcomputer engineering, computer science, design, controls, and energy. Course goals includeexposing students to many facets of engineering and computer science to aid in major choice,developing practical technical skills relevant to subsequent projects, generating enthusiasm forfuture studies, and developing teamwork, design, presentation, and technical writing skills.Through a series of labs including drawing and 3D printing a robot chassis, soldering amicrocontroller circuit board, assembling a gear box, building sensor circuits, machining andcharacterizing hydrogen proton exchange membranes (PEM) fuel cells, C programming, andgenerating and detecting Gold codes, the students design, build, test, and
(1.5 gallon) is supplied to each faculty and stuff. Recyclingvarious papers, aluminum, cans, plastic bottles, and jugs, is encouraged.Green NSU and Cane River Green Market teamed up as partners for ‘Healthy Livings’ toarrange meetings with faculty and staff in the Student Union Building at NSU to promotethe importance and availability of fresh, locally grown and harvested fruits andvegetables.During fall of 2010, the University was awarded three projects through the EmpowerLouisiana Stimulus Funding through the department of Natural Resources Total.Finally the NSU has adopted 4.5 days week instead of 5 days week to cut its electric bill.Course Objectives The student should be able to: Understand, analyze, and explain the shift to
Session 1430 Peer Ratings in Cooperative Learning Teams Deborah B. Kaufman, Richard M. Felder, Hugh Fuller North Carolina State UniversitySynopsisA universal concern about cooperative learning is the possible existence of “hitchhikers,” teammembers who fail to fulfill their team responsibilities but get the same high grade as their moreresponsible teammates. A common way to minimize hitchhiking is to use peer ratings to assessindividual performance of team members and to adjust the team project grade for individualteam members based on their average ratings. Peer ratings have potential
; mathematical writing(http://www.fandm.edy/departments/mathematics) emphasizing clear explanations, unclutteredexpositions on the page, and well organized presentation; tutorials involving a significantnumber of drill problems with help on demand for students working in peer groups or on anindividual basis so that mistakes are fixed without any delay. A component that should be addedto the above list is a well-conceived set of hands-on experiments. It is well known that what youremember the most is what you have learned by doing. While that statement is readily accepted,the time constraint combined with the multidisciplinary nature of experiments (mini projects) isoften cited for not carrying it out as part of calculus class. At Virginia Tech, the
mathematics, science, and engineering in the solution of civil engineering problems (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze data and interpret results (c) an ability to design a civil engineering system, component, or process to meet desired project needs (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams including participation in a senior-level design project sequence (e) an ability to identify, formulate, analyze, and solve engineering problems Page 15.128.3 (f) an understanding and appreciation of all aspects of professionalism including
as the University of Maryland Libraries have incommon with recruitment efforts similar to these? Maybe more than those affiliated with theinformation services field realize (in the Conclusion the identities for those nicknames will berevealed).In the summer of 2008, librarians Jim Miller, Bob Kackley, and Nevenka Zdravkovska of theEngineering & Physical Sciences Library (EPSL) at the University of Maryland gave twobibliographic instruction sessions to Summer Program students on campus. Students were fromtwo local magnet schools, Oxon Hill High School and Charles H. Flowers High School for anInventor’s Camp for the program, Project Lead the Way. After talking to Alex Prasertchoung,the coordinator for the two classes, we realized that
such as these, engineers will increasingly work on globallydispersed teams, where engineers in the United States may be working virtually with otherindividuals around the world. Graduates of engineering programs need to be prepared to workon projects that may be physically located in another country. They must also be able to work ondiverse teams with other engineers who may be from a different culture or country. As NAEnotes, “Many advanced engineering designs are accomplished using virtual global teams –highly integrated engineering teams comprised of researchers located around the world. Theseteams often function across multiple time zones, multiple cultures, and sometimes multiplelanguages.”2Employers of engineers have expressed the need
2011. Ms. Cross is currently in the fourth year of the Engineering Education PhD program at Vir- ginia Tech and involved with multiple educational research projects with faculty and graduate students. Her research interests include teamwork and communication skills, assessment, diversity, and identity construction.Dr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Holly Matusovich (co-PI) is an Assistant Professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. Her expertise includes motivation and related frameworks, using these frameworks broadly to study student
Engineering Dr. Leroy Z. Emkin Practice” Week 6 “Challenges in Flightdeck Design” Dr. Amy Pritchett Week 7 “Putting Nanomaterials to Work for Biomedical Dr. Younan Xia Research” Weei 8 "Applying to Graduate School" Dr. Jeffrey Donnell Week 9 “The Problems with Interconnect” Dr. Paul Kohl Week 10 End of Program Project Presentations ParticipantsMeetings are held every Tuesday morning where each participant reports orally what he/she hasaccomplished in the past week and his/her plans for the current week. Following the individualresearch status reports, fundamental research
large projects and portfolios, butthese are typically more time-consuming and difficult to evaluate. Page 23.1151.3 2The SurveyIn order to find out how others were using textbook exercises, we developed a web survey usingGoogle Forms and sent it to three listservs for college educators and educational researchers: thePOD Mailing List, the ACM SIGCSE Members List, and the Engineering Technology* listserv.Most of the questions on the survey were open-ended.The survey collected 142 responses. Due to the uncontrolled nature of a web survey, this
students were done twice; once before the principles of innovative thinkingand problem solving was introduced to the students and once after the students were introduced tothese principles and were tasked with its application on various activity-based class projects. Thelone survey for the capstone-design students were done towards the end of the semester. It wasobserved that there was considerable improvement in the Cronbach’s alpha number (a measure ofconsistency) in the second survey that was done at the end of the semester by which time thestudents were effectively well versed with the EM mindset and were able to successfullyimplement it. However, for the capstone course it was observed that the Cronbach’s alpha numberwere similar due to the
background is in propulsion systems and combustion. Dr. Husanu has more than a decade of industrial experience in aerospace engineering that encompasses extensive experimental investigations related to energy projects such as development of a novel method of shale natural gas extraction using repurposed aircraft engines powered on natural gas. She also has extended experience in curriculum development in her area of expertise. As chair of the Engineering Technology Curriculum Committee, she is actively engaged in aligning the curricular changes and SLO to the industry driven student competencies. Her main current research interest is in engineering pedagogy, focusing on development of integrated mechanical engineering
in the context of higher education institutions in Latin America and theCaribbean, which are directly related to some advances in compliance with SustainableDevelopment Goals (SDG) number 4 on quality education of the countries of this region inthe SDG Index. The obtained data allow us to understand the existence of educational needsof university professors from Latin America and the Caribbean, who wanted to learn not onlyabout STEM and migration but also about the intersectionality of DEI with other minorities,such as black communities, natives, Hispanics in the United States, and LGBTIQ+.IntroductionSignificant efforts have been made to promote gender equality in higher education. However,addressing broader projects on Diversity, Equity
minimizes on-the-job-training and allows the workplace to maximize the productivity of newhires that have the necessary skills to integrate seamlessly and almost immediately into theirworkplace. The academia-to-industry skills gap in engineering has existed for many years,specifically in the areas of communication, collaboration, professionalism, project management,etc., which are collectively called professional skills [1], [2]. Professional skills in engineeringcan be defined as the skills needed to succeed in the engineering industry such as employabilityskills, leadership skills, interpersonal skills, organization skills, emotional intelligence skills, etc.The term “soft skills” was first referenced for engineering education in 1918 by Charles
of middle and high-school-aged Black scholarspartook in a summer program for two weeks to learn about AI in science. Throughout theprogram, they explored how paleontologists utilize computer vision to classify images forscientific purposes. The children also identified potential issues with AI, such as biases in thedatasets used to train ML models. Not only did the scholars learn about AI, but they also hadhands-on experiences building models using Google Teachable Machine, a teacher andstudent-friendly tool for classifying data. For their project presentations, participants createdposters that identified community-relevant issues to address via computer vision, theclassification to perform, the data they used, and classification
project were to assess and enhance the usability of PMKS+. Thisinvolved identifying and addressing the challenges and user needs associated with the application.A redesigned interface, informed by user research and feedback, was implemented, alongside theaddition of new features to improve the overall user experience. The effectiveness of these changeswas analyzed to determine their impact. Such changes will not only improve the usability ofPMKS+ software at WPI but also at other universities with Mechanical Engineering degrees whereplanar linkages are an important topic in the curriculum.The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 delves into the background of the application,including its development history and earlier improvements. Section 3
Paper ID #48220MSI Faculty on the Rise: Strengthening Federal Grant Proposals throughCross-Institution Collaborations and NetworkingMs. Randi Sims, Clemson University Randi is a current Ph.D. student in the department of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University. Her research interests center around undergraduate research experiences using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Her career goals are to work as an evaluator or consultant on educationally based research projects with an emphasis on statistical analyses and big data.Kelsey Watts, University of Virginia Kelsey Watts is a postdoc at the
component.Then, they spent another 7 days to complete the second component. Finally, they focused on thethird component in the last a few days. In what follows, we will describe each component in details.4.1 Arduino and robotics We used an off-the-shelf robotic kit: “OSOYOO V2.1 Smart IOT Robot Car Kit for Arduino” available at Amazon. It costs about $65 per kit and has a product page which contains 16 basic lessons (Fig. 1) and 8 sample projects (Fig. 2). The basic lessons are self-explanatory and have detailed instructions of circuit building and coding. Only a few participants had limited prior experience with Arduino and computer programming, but the kits are very suitable for beginners who do not have prior experience with Arduino
their degrees, etc. Thesevisualizations could be very helpful in describing students’ paths through programs. Secondly,colleges considering changes to admissions and/or transfer processes into and within the collegecould use the visualizations to get an accurate “as-is” view of student paths. This could be helpful indeveloping new processes as well as benchmarking for evaluating the performance of any changes.Specific research questions (RQs) of this project were: RQ1: Are there differences in entrance and/or exit patterns of undergraduate engineering programs that can be visualized with Sankey diagrams? RQ2: Do patterns in student flows suggest where in a particular program, or on which students, resources aimed at improving retention
from ASSIST (Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer)website assist.org.5A similar situation exists with regard to the Freshman Introduction to Engineering course, someform of which is recommended or required for a majority of engineering majors. This courseranges from a 1-unit survey of career options to a 3-unit project-based introduction to design, Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education 93which is in many cases discipline specific. Other more subtle differences in course
Paper ID #45190Evaluating the five pillars of a Summer Bridge Program and their influenceon participants’ intentions to complete an engineering degree.Lorena Benavides-Riano, Mississippi State University Lorena Benavides-Riano, originally from Colombia, is a second-year Engineering Ph.D. student at Mississippi State University. In July 2020, she completed her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering at the National University of Colombia. After graduation, Lorena worked as a research assistant investigating the effects of development projects on environmental parameters and rural communities in Colombia, South
thoroughreviews of the literature; in which two are most recognized: systematic and scoping literaturereviews. These two methods are particularly useful forms of reviewing what is already writtenand known about the topic, identifying research gaps, and in some cases, and analyzing existingliterature. Scoping Reviews and Systematic Literature Reviews are similar and different in theirown ways. For example, a scoping review may be utilized for understanding the “breadth” of aresearch topic, but a systematic literature review may be utilized for understanding the “depth”and appraise the literature of a topic [1]. Both of these literature reviews are helpful for noviceresearchers when they are beginning a project or want to explore the potential of a
lab. Students returned from the lab and had lunch provided bythe program. The students spent the next couple of hours either working on project deliverables(poster, paper, etc.) or meeting with presenters (researchers, student groups, etc.). Each dayconcluded with an SEL activity. Students were dismissed from the program at 3:15 pm each dayand returned to a school near their home by school bus.Project PresentationsThe program culminated in a presentation of learning through a poster session that resembled amini science fair competition. Students worked on research papers and prepared posters thatthey presented to expert judges (university faculty, graduate students, science teachers), andtheir families. The purpose of the event was to provide
secured multiple grants for innovative projects. A senior member of IEEE, he actively contributes to the field through publications and conference presentations. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Direct Assessment of Student Achievement through D2LAbstractThis paper delves into the implementation of D2L/Brightspace learning outcome toolsspecifically designed for the direct assessment of course outcomes, with a keen focus on ABETStudent Outcomes (SOs) based on our experience preparing for the ABET accreditation visit.ABET accreditation is a mark of excellence in applied science, computing, engineering, andtechnology programs. This accreditation guarantees that graduates are equipped with
to the smart farm project ▪ Practicing 3D design using Sketchup Team building app Setting your own goal of the project 7 ▪ Introduction to the smart farm project 2 ▪ Setting up the physical computing Team building environment Setting your own goal of the project Reviewing software coding and 3D design for building smart farms 8-10 ▪ Software design for their projects 3-4 ▪ Hardware design reconstructing the Arduino code 3D printing and leveraging various
, examining their impact on teachers’ practices and student learning. Ana’s research also explores the pedagogical potential of environmental citizen science, particularly how science learning occurs through participation in community-based projects. She is currently a Research Associate at Manchester Metropolitan University and an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, where she teaches undergraduate modules on international education and research with children and young people.Dr. Alison Buxton, University of Sheffield ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Paper ID #49151Dr Alison Buxton is a
Paper ID #45865Empowering Educators: A Pilot Study of Faculty Training on Building Decarbonizationand Clean Energy IntegrationMohamed Khalafalla, Florida A&M University - Florida State University Dr. Mohamed Khalafalla is an Assistant Professor of Construction Engineering at Florida A&M University’s School of Architecture and Engineering Technology. His research expertise includes risk analysis, cost estimating, and concrete materials research. Dr. Khalafalla has contributed extensively to projects sponsored by the Department of Energy and the Tennessee Department of Transportation, conducting studies in