experiments are introduced in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory andthen are never addressed again. This philosophy propagates a student perception that basicchemistry is not very important to their careers. To counter this perception, we will link organicchemistry with reaction engineering and chemical process pathways courses through a series ofcommon experiments. This will illustrate to the student the importance of using chemistry fun-damentals to design chemical reactors.Reaction Engineering ExperimentsWe are proposing to develop and implement a set of 4 experiments. Each of these experimentswill be integrated through various levels in the curriculum.Micro-Mixing ExperimentIn practice the issue of mixing and chemical reactions is economically very
unique aspects of each site visit canallow the same visit to serve several courses.Manufacturing is another example of how the students can learn more by seeing the facility. Anational curriculum for middle and high school students began in 1994 to introduce students tothe modern factory5. Teachers were introduced to the program through a video professionallyproduced by a television station. It set up teacher workshops and had interviews with thecompanies to learn how to prepare student’s visits. Teachers in social studies, science,communication skills and career training shared materials. One field trip could cover these cross-curricular areas to make the most of the event.Using a residential construction site for several courses in a
theory, and otherapplications, there are some students who still do not see why they should learn the subject. It isthe author’s opinion to let the students know their question is valid and they should seek answersas they learn more about electrical engineering. They should keep the question in their mind. Page 7.828.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThey should keep asking the question throughout their careers and see if they find betteranswers. The important point for the student is to
which was gratefully utilized for this pilot experiment. · The results of this pilot laboratory were overwhelming, as students responded more than favorably in both their coursework and course evaluations. This was the first time in the history of this author’s teaching career that students did not want to leave after the three- hour “lecture-laboratory” had ended. · Subsequently to this, several additional laboratory courses were held in this facility. A proposal to the College of Engineering dean was made to assist in obtaining larger quarters for the successful endeavor. · Major domestic and international ICS manufacturers were invited to the university for a presentation about the benefits of
an appreciation of the importance of data replication or good teamwork in a laboratory setting.] 4. Organization—organizing different values into the beginning of an internally consistent value system. [Examples: adopt a systematic approach to problem solving; demonstrate recognition of a need to balance freedom and responsibility; formulate a career plan.] 5. Characterization by a value or value complex—internalizing a value system and behaving accordingly in a pervasive, consistent, and predictable manner. [Examples: work independently and diligently, function effectively in group activities, act ethically
skills, which enables them to create new products and services [7]. urthermore, these programs have the potential to not only positively impact students’ academicFperformance but also offer them chances to enhance and refine essential skills vital for their future careers, such as presentation, communication, and teamwork abilities [8]. There are also benefits on the psychological level and that co-curricular activities provide a chance to develop initiative, identity work, and new social skills [9]. espite their perceived benefits, ICPs can also bring challenges for students that impact theirDexperience negatively. These challenges encompass aspects such as funding, organization, team dynamics, outreach, and accommodations
benefit ofbeing able to see how an industry operates and decide if they wanted to work in this industry or not.Overall, students had a positive perception of industry internships and noted how their experienceshad been valuable to their educational and career goals. The results from the surveys corroborateprevious research findings 1,2,14,15, while results from the semi-structured interviews add to theempirical data in this area of research with a focus on challenges, benefits, and perceptions that maycontribute to an overall positive internship experience.The findings from this research have implications for engineering students, engineering faculty, andindustry partners. Students may look at others’ perceptions of internships to help in their
environments thatpromote STEM literacy and practices among elementary students and teachers with a particular focus on energy-relatedconcepts.NIKOLAOS GATSISDr. Gatsis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University ofTexas at San Antonio, where he currently holds the GreenStar Endowed Professorship in Energy. His research interestsinclude optimal and secure operation of smart power grids and other coupled critical infrastructures, including waterdistribution systems and transportation networks. Dr. Gatsis is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the UTSAPresident’s Award for Research.MELISSA SANABIAMs. Sanabia received the Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at San
exams.The other factor was that some students dropped the course, because either they could not keep upwith the course requirements, or were not performing well in previous exams. One more reason wasthat some students were failing the course, but they could not drop the course, because of theuniversity policy of exceeding the withdraw limit during college career, thus they were not takingthe remaining exams during the semester. Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX Copyright 2024, American Society for Engineering Education 8Table 2 compares the grade
flagshipinstitution and the largest provider of tech workers in the region. This tri-institution collaborationleveraged existing relationships as an opportunity to expand current efforts to broadenparticipation in STEM majors and careers between the state’s flagship institution and the twoHBCUs. The goal of this coalition was to identify barriers to pursuing and earning STEM M.S.and Ph.D. degrees faced by Black, Latinx, and Native American students from the threeinstitutions; to identify and cultivate internal champions and mentors who can help to overcomeinstitutional biases; and to develop a framework for these institutions to work together in creatinga pathway to graduate degrees that could be extended to other institutions.Following a mixed methods
unrecognized effects! Background RPS & Case Study Methods, Data Collection, and Analysis Results and Discussion Final Thoughts 2As algorithms proliferate across domains, their development for analysis,prediction, and generation tasks raises questions about fairness, justice,and inclusion. One primary reason is algorithmic data bias, a commonphenomenon across datasets and systems that reflects incomplete ormisused data. With the incentive to make generalized systems that cando everything, everywhere, data bias reflects the data makeup and howit leads to systematically unfairly generated decisions or outcomes.As future engineers, analysts, and scientists, it is fundamental thattechnology students are made aware early in their careers
implementing safety protocolsand guidelines to combat these alarming statistics. Identifying potential hazards andsystematically documenting factors that could lead to accidents in the future is a crucial skill inengineering. Although there are various methods for recording these hazards on constructionsites or predicting potential accidents, mastering this skill requires time and expertise, which canpose challenges for young engineers starting their careers. As the demands of their professionbecome increasingly rigorous, newly graduated engineers often undergo intensive training fortheir job sites. Instilling a deep understanding of safety concerns within them is essential, as oneof their critical responsibilities is preparing incident reports at
teach workshop participants regardless of their computing platform.Fig. 5 | Jupyter notebook training module: Snapshot of the RMD hands-on module using Jupyter notebook.Participants were able to go through the training modules on Google Colab from their laptop without any softwaresetup. The first CyberMAGICS workshop was held virtually on June 30 – July 2, 2022 (Fig. 6). The36 participants from 16 institutions included graduate students, postdocs and early-career faculty.A large number of participants were female and minority, and the institutions included HBCUand MSI such as Howard University and California State University, Northridge. The scheduleincluded lectures and hands-on training on QMD, RMD and NNQMD simulations, AI formaterials
education research center around recruitment and retention, engineer identity, engineering design instruction and methodology, learning through service, problem based learning methodologies, assessment of student learning, as well as com- plex problem solving. Her other research interests lie in cardiovascular fluid mechanics, sustainability, and K-12 engineering outreach. Dr. Pierrakos is a 2009 NSF CAREER Awardee. Dr. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics, an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Tech.Dr. Annie Soisson, Tufts University Annie Soisson is the Associate Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) at Tufts
project are to: 1) Provide an innovative network of support and communications among University-based outreach project directors and educational evaluation experts, creating a learning community to promote sharing of best practices and innovation that will deepen the impact of NCSU’s pre-college STEM programs on students’ future academic and career choices. 2) Develop and demonstrate a system of data-driven planning and analysis guided by best practices to facilitate longitudinal assessment of participant outcomes through development of a common STEM Outreach Evaluation Protocol as well as a database integrating records of NCSU K-12 outreach participants with NC Department of Public Instruction
context design of supply chains and logistic processes grows inimportance. There are also other trends worth mentioning, in particular in the context of the most recentglobal industrial recession, such as: • Growing anti-globalization and protectionist sentiments • De-industrialization of the highly-developed economies • Accelerated progress of technologies. The extended world-wide effects of recession and what is referred to as a “jobless”recovery from it, bring into focus the skills that future engineers should acquire in the course oftheir studies in order to be successful over the lifespan of their professional careers. A goodmodel to pursue in the curriculum updates or development is a T-shaped profile1 of a futureengineer
information literacy, medialiteracy, and information, communications and technology literacy), and Life and Career Skills(such as flexibility and adaptability, initiative and self-direction, social and cross-cultural skills,productivity and accountability, leadership and responsibility) as proposed by the Partnership for21st Century Skills.15-17This paper describes in detail how a second semester cornerstone (and pillar) course(Introduction to Chemical, Food, and Environmental Engineering Design) for CE, FE, and EE ishelping students to develop their creativity, as well as its alignment with the Investment Theoryof Creativity developed by Sternberg and Lubart.5-8 As stated previously, ITC comprises sixresources for creativity: intellectual processes
possibly different exams to be generated.6. Combining face-to-face and distance-education coursesAnother opportunity to teach two sections as if they were one is to combine the work fora face-to-face and distance-ed (“online”) section of the same course. Of our respondents,26 of them thought this would save time, and 13 didn’t (Figure 5). The reasons in favorof it saving time mirror those for teaching multiple face-to-face sections. For example,“I've done this dozens of times over a 40+ year career. Definitely easier because there isonly one set of exams and assignments to prepare and you are focused on the topic. Seecomment above about two sections of the same course in the same semester. [11]”Just as with multiple on-campus sections, questions
and Engineering:2000, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, 2000 (NSF 00-327).7. Adelman, C., Females and Men of the Engineering Path. A Model for Analysts of Undergraduate Careers, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Washington, D.C.; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998.8. Seymour, E., and Hewitt, N.M., Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1997.9. Williams, F. M., Emerson, C. J., “Feedback Loops and Critical Mass: The Flow of Women into Science and Engineering,” presented at Gender and Science and Technology (GSAT 10), Denmark, 2001.10. Ro, H., Marra, R., Terenzini, P., Trautvetter, L., Walser, A., and Lord, S. “If You
underrepresented groups in mathematics, science and engineering. Page 24.1013.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Programs to Enhance Retention and Success of Students Enrolled in Two-year College Engineering Programs Dr. Courtney Hadsell, Christine Burwell-Woo, Dr. Amelito EnriquezAbstract:A majority of California community college students enter college with low levels of preparationfor college level work, especially in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). As aresult, community college students wishing to pursue careers in Engineering are often
, define boundaries,research various sources and come up with a range of alternative solutions. In other words,the project brief or aim should not narrowly specify the solution or what should be built.Projects should allow for some freedom of expression and some experimentation in order forstudents to select the most appropriate solution. Some projects should allow for theconsideration of not only technical aspects, but also economic, socio-cultural and ethicalfactors.The closer the projects are to commercial reality the better, as it trains students to handle real-world problems that they may face in their professional careers. Exposure to a number ofopen-ended projects ranging in focus and complexity helps with student learning andconfidence3,4
Engineers, Instrument Society of America, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and Institute of Physics. He has been a member of the IEEE-EMBS Page 24.1018.1 Administrative Committee and the NIH Surgery and Bioengineering Study Section. He is the recipient of the 2001 IEEE-EMBS Career Achievement Award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Promoting Active Learning in Biomedical Engineering Classes through Blended InstructionAbstractIn 2013 we implemented blended teaching in one of the core biomedical engineering
size (ranging from 3 up to several hundred), student profile (ranging from traditional, college-aged students to students who are non- traditional in a variety of ways), Page 24.1020.4 course delivery approaches (ranging from all face-to-face to some fully online delivery), appointment types and career stage (ranging from new PhDs on the tenure track to tenured faculty to non-tenure-track appointments at various ranks), institution type (public/private four-year, community college), research responsibilities (ranging from essentially none to fairly intense research expectations
Computer Engineering at Drexel, and is an author of several technical papers in the field of Engineering Technology Education.Siddharth VyasDr. Adrian A. Pollock, MISTRAS Group, Inc. Dr. Adrian Pollock has been a leader in the field of acoustic emission for 40 years. He has made his career as an employee of the top AE instrument manufacturers. His extensive work includes basic research, applications development, instrument development, education and training, and personnel qualification and certification. He is a recipient of the Gold Medal Award of the Acoustic Emission Working Group, the Tutorial Citation of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing, and a 25 year service award from ASTM International. He has
quite positive. The own nature of methodologies used allowed their combination according to their needs. From a strictly technical point of view, an engineer from any field may be able to apply his knowledge for solving the problems which may arise during his professional career. The combination of methodologies centered on the student with prompt seminars, may ease student’s tasks afterwards at strongly technical degrees such as Marine Engineering, by giving them an accurate starting point. For these purposes, we have regarded very positively the elaboration of online audiovisual material following the Flipped Classroom concept. This learning method plays an essential part taking the theoretical contents out of the
the Start-Up (ENTR 3101) from our business school.This course and the certificate will empower our graduates to confront challenging businesscases and to seek solution from a business perspective. Our goal is to get our Engineeringstudents to work with business students from the inception of an entrepreneurship project untilcommercialization (from ECGR4090/5090 to ENTR 3101).ConclusionIn summary, the offering of this course allowed some of our students the opportunity to exploreinnovation and entrepreneurship. These students will start their career with an edge over otherengineering students because they will be able to launch businesses successfully by using ourprogram and taking advantage of the resources available to them from our
in engineering mechanics with students, faculty, and practicing engineers. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2011 and multiple research and teaching awards. Page 24.1031.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Recollecting experience in interviews: the structure and organization of engineering ‘interview talk’AbstractThe use of interviews as a means for gathering data in hopes of gaining insight into issues ofinterest (e.g. conceptual understanding, relevant contexts, personal epistemologies, etc.) iswidely utilized within
transactional frame ofmind: their attention was on how the activity would meet their course requirements and expandtheir career-related experience. The engineering students approached the project from a relationalframe of mind; their attention was on the needs of the client. The end result was that the client,who had participated in three consecutive years of “service learning” projects, declined toparticipate in future collaborations.One of the consequences of putting a priority on the relationships is that the completion ofprescribed projects may then be secondary. Task oriented people may find these types of CEprojects as “accomplishing little” because the accomplishments are not in the visible physicaldomain. When the focus is “relational,” the
, graphics, and communication. These oversights may have caused the students to question the relevance of the teamwork activities to their design project, in turn, leading them to label the exercises as “busy work” (a term they use all too readily for many of the assignments in DTC, even those that they come to value later in their undergraduate career). The syllabus also did not explicitly list how the teamwork assignments would be weighted in the final course grade. While they were included as part of the student’s “individual grade,” this only comprised 10% of the final grade, of which, the teamwork assessments were only a small part.2) Adding eight additional exercises to an already crowded curriculum was a mistake. The principal
. The educational diversity in BME results not only from differentuniversities failing to cover the whole “core,” as we have defined it, but from students havingmany elective experiences. Whether students have more breadth (a large number of common courses) or more depth(tracks) is clearly an unresolved question in BME undergraduate education, with opinions ofacademia and industry reflecting the diversity that is seen in programs. It will be of interest torevisit this in another ten years, but this is not necessarily a question that needs to be resolved. Aremaining question is whether both approaches are equally good for all students, or whether eachis best for a subset of students, perhaps having different career