challengesrelated to gathering and synthesizing stakeholder and contextual information to inform theirdesign projects. Broadly, these challenges fall into four areas: 1) planning information gathering,2) locating information and evaluating information quality, 3) processing and interpretinginformation, and 4) applying information to design decisions. The first two areas representchallenges with information gathering [9], [12], [13], whereas the last two areas representchallenges with information synthesis [16], [17].Related to planning information gathering, student teams that lack prior familiarity with theirintended stakeholders may struggle to develop a detailed plan in advance for gathering project-relevant information [18]. Student mindsets regarding
Interest Groups (FIGs)” in each First-Year Transition Class of ~24 Students.[1:FIGs are 6 to 8 students, 2:FIG Peer Mentors are older students,3:FIG Industrial Mentors are local practicing engineers linked to one first-year transition class Section.]Additional FIG ComponentsIn the fall, as part of the engineering version of the University’s first-year transition course, theFIG activities are launched with a DVD seminar entitled Success4Students.9 The 3+ hourseminar has six segments that address the following topics: Select your destination (where do you want to be in five years?) Determine your path (focusing on goal setting for the semester) Planning to succeed (emphasizing the importance of planning your schedule for the week
project teams in planning and development, through external evaluation, and as publication support. Most of his workDr. David Hicks David Hicks is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Before joining TAMU-K he served as Associate Professor and Department Head at Aalborg University in Esbjerg, Denmark. He has also held positions in research labs in the U.S. as well as Europe, and spent time as a researcher in the software industry.Dr. Breanna Michelle Weir Bailey P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville I am a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. I currently serve as the chair for the Department of Civil and
of the readings we had ormaybe a class discussion noted well who's job is it if not ours? Moving forward I plan to connectmy thoughts to the practice of research by thinking about how I can change my mind when Iconduct and write about research. Who will be reading my work? How can I make my workmore accessible to individuals who will be mass manufacturing a product I make or maybeindividuals like my parents who are just trying to look out for what is best for their children.Something I want to do the next time I read is to try to continue making these half sheet handoutsfor really interesting papers I read for my research and for my parents. This time around I tookmy time reading through the screentime paper, looking up terms or methods I
up a phone of our choice.Unfortunately, these phones did not work with our SIM cards,and we spent extra money to buy compatible phones. It is apity we were not informed; we would have planned for it andsaved our little penny. The unexpected cost incurred is notcool [Diary_21st September 2023]. iv. FoodThe food system in this place is quite different, especiallywith the presence of sugar in almost everything, unlikeNigeria, where I come from. Food with high sugar contentseems more affordable than healthier foods. Also, findingAfrican stores is challenging, and it tends to be expensivewhen you do find one. Adjusting to the local food is anotherstruggle, as the taste is different, and the food here is blandand lacks the spices we have
-2015 Conference.We are grateful to Dr. John Cicero, Dean, School of Engineering and Computing, NationalUniversity, for his help, guidance and support during the planning, preparation and other phasesof the conference. We are also grateful to the keynote speakers: Dr. Don Czechowicz, ProjectLeader at General Atomics, San Diego, CA; Dr. Muzibul Khan, Corporate Planner, KyoceraCommunications, Inc. San Diego, CA; Dr. Justin Opatkiewicz, Lecturer, Nano EngineeringDepartment, University of California, San Diego, CA; and Dr. J. Richard (Rich) Phillips,Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA.Our special thanks to Dr. Michael R. Cunningham, Chancellor of the National University System& President of National University
displaced student professional identity development related tothese intrinsic factors and their intertwined relationships with context and politics wereassociated with identity invisibility. Identity invisibility is multidimensional, but overall, in thisreview it referred to the ways higher education structures and demographics in a resettlementarea rendered displaced students “invisible,” based on their social identities, whether it was in thelack of concern for people seeking refuge in immigration laws or school planning and policies.This influence primarily impacted the types and levels of support displaced students receivedupon arrival to their resettlement institutions, but it also had to do with the invisibility ofdisplaced peoples
remains a concern. Also, heavyworkloads and unfavorable program conditions cause stress, particularly in Architecture women.These negative interactions weaken AEC-PID because they result in declining views about theAEC profession. Therefore, women persistence in undergraduate AEC programs requiresdeveloping the ‘survival’ mentality and spurring the super woman mindset. While medium tostrong AEC-PID sustains the desire to persist in many Prevailing women, medium AEC-PID isalso associated with lowered desire to persist as a few Hesitant women become open to othercareers options. Excessively negative interactions erode AEC-PID and the desire to persist, asone Yielding woman plans her AEC program exit. It is critical that undergraduate AEC womenare
as the K-12 Outreach Coordinator where she plans and organizes outreach activities and camps for students in the Fargo-Moorhead area.Mr. Enrique Alvarez Vazquez, North Dakota State University Enrique is an experienced Systems Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the electrical and electronic manufacturing field. Highly skilled in Embedded Devices, Software Engineering, and Electronics. He is a strong information technology professional with two MSc’s and working on a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD focused in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University.Mary Pearson, North Dakota State University Mary is a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering with research focused in the area of
perspective, before coming to a conclusion on an ethical course of action[14]. However, despite understanding an appropriate course of action, individuals may stillbehave unethically. Explorations of unethical behavior have explored this process using theTheory of Planned Behavior [15, 16] and identifying obstacles to ethical behaviors [17]. In astudy on temptations to engage in unethical behavior in academic settings and work settings(e.g., undergraduates with internship experiences), similar decision-making processes andmotivators were identified in the academic and work settings, although with differentialimportance in their model [18]. For example, engaging in cheating behavior in high school waspredictive of decisions to violate workplace
performingsections was observed by an independent educator who shared a few observations. The studentsdid not ask many questions, and the questions that did come up were occasionally hostile. Anexample student question in one of these sections was “Why should girls get specialscholarships? This is unfair to me as a white male, and I should get the same chances.” Whenthe students broke into groups to work on solutions and strategies to improve diversity cultureone group of male students actually made a plan to form a “white male club” that would focuson supporting their rights. This result is disappointing, but consistent with the literature onbacklash from more privileged groups during diversity dialogs [23]. In the future, the teamplans to restructure the
Engineering, Smith College, and UMass – Amherst). Their research analyzedpersistence in engineering and related STEM majors as well as career interests. The studytested the hypothesis that the primary causes of underrepresentation of women in STEMincluded women having a lower self-assessment in STEM skills compared to males, aswell as family planning and work – life balance issues. Cech et al. also established a newcategory of a self-assessed “Professional Role Confidence,” which they defined asmeasuring the personal comfort level that a qualified female feels with fitting intoengineering as a career. Men reported a significantly higher comfort level compared towomen with respect to Professional Role Confidence.The prospect that gender influences
andinvestigation of more complex circuits, and 3) use of open-source software such as FreeMat fordeveloping analytic solutions to complex circuits. We plan to alternate between the threemodalities (hands-on, circuit simulation, numerical analysis) throughout the term. Hands-onactivities will involve setting up basic circuit law and series/parallel experiments; basic first-order RC and RL step response; building and measuring an audio amplifier using an op-amp;working with diodes and transistors as light emitters and switches as well as in switching circuitsfor motor control; use of photo, IR and ultrasound sensors in a microcontroller application, withassociated conditioning circuits; and characterizing frequency response of first- and second
or interesting they were. Not all of the activities were used by every Professor, in whichcase students were instructed to place an ’n/a’.While Engineering Design sections are taught by individual instructors, the course is conducted with a Page 13.164.3team-planning approach. All three of the authors were involved in co-coordinating this course over thesemesters of interest. Team meetings were conducted for all instructors every two weeks throughout thesemester. It was established that instructors of this course conduct the learning modes in a similar fashion.Accordingly, the results across the sections were combined to yield
. Educated at MIT, he joined the University of Washington in 1905 as the headof the Mechanical Engineering Department. He had developed the first master plan for the 5University of Washington campus, and served as the University’s engineering consultant.Eastwood's appointment as head of the department was to have originally been one ofexpedience. Unable to find a suitable aeronautics man to run the new department, Bill Boeingput forth the name of Eastwood as a possible candidate, to at least get the department up andrunning until a suitable aeronautical engineer could be found. Harry Guggenheim approved ofthe idea, stating “It would be far better to have a first-rate mechanical engineer andexecutive
. As a K- 8 pre-service teacher educator, she includes engineering in her elementary and early childhood science methods courses and developed and taught an engineering methods course for middle school teachers. She also developed a graduate-level engineering education course for PreK-6 teachers. Dr. Lottero has provided professional learning experiences in multiple schools and school systems in Maryland. She has co-authored numerous engineering-focused articles for the teacher practitioner journal, Science and Children, and presents her research regularly through the American Society for Engineering Education. Her current research includes investigating how K-5 students plan, fail, and productively persist, and how
frompredictive analytics to autonomous drone warfare. Gupta, Turpen, and co-researchers, AndrewElby, Thomas Philip, and Daniel Dilliplane, participated in the design of the focus groupprompts. The sessions were loosely structured with planned prompts and activities, but withenough flexibility that facilitators could make decisions about adding new prompts or lettingstudents continue a conversation longer than intended. Ayush Gupta (Ayush) and DanielDilliplane (Dan) served as the facilitators for all the sessions. In addition to participating in thesesessions, students were given supplemental materials to read between many sessions and givenpost-session surveys. The first focus group session focused on students getting to know eachother, getting
and student entrepreneurship. Thompson is also Director of the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center at UWM. He is Co-PI on the Milwaukee I-Corps Site sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and helps lead the program which helps university based innovators explore markets for their technology through lean launch and the customer discovery process. He teaches new ventures as an adjunct instructor in UWM’s College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Lubar School of Business. Thompson was previously Managing Director at TechStar where he helped to launch several companies including MatriLab which won the 2006 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Competition. He previously served on the boards of startup
ecosystem are experiential in nature involving steps towardcommercialization or creating a startup (Duval-Couetil, Shartrand, & Reed, 2016). Theseactivities include the development of a business plan, consulting with practicing entrepreneurs,interviewing potential customers, delivering pitches, applying to grants, and prototyping aphysical product or application. What are not as common, however, are activities that focus oncultivating an entrepreneurial mindset (EM). A mindset can be defined as framework for makingpredications and judging the meanings of events in one’s world (Yeager & Dweck, 2012). Thistrend is changing, however, due to the increasing set of EM focused activities sponsored by theKERN Family Foundation. While the activities
Introduction and Chapters 1 & 2 Engineering, the main journal about LTS in engineering. Engineers Without Borders A critical document for how a leading organization in the (EWB-USA) Strategic Plan development and implementation of LTS sees its role in 2015-2020 11 the interaction between engineers and traditionally marginalized communities. EWB-USA has had a significant impact on the spread of LTS in engineering, specifically through international service projects that are
moved througheducational systems; scales are ‘envelopes of spacetime’ into which certain school-basedidentities (and not others) can be folded” (p. 309). Educational scales are consequential forstudents as they define what constitutes success and failure, or belonging vs. not fitting in; asNespor additionally notes, “scale is thus both an object and a means of power in educationalpractice” (p. 309).Nespor (2004) defines five aspects of educational scale: 1. “Scale is made through the production and circulation of artifacts: school buildings, desks, curriculum standards, textbooks, tests, plans, homework assignments, and so forth… scales can also be defined by interrupting circuits of artifacts. Pupil activities may be tightly
, describes the project, and connects these concepts to studentlearning and a summary of the outcomes.2 Software engineering foundationSoftware engineering is a vast collection of theory and practice with the goal of producing thehighest-quality software at the lowest cost. It shares many characteristics with traditionalengineering design processes, but for the purposes of this work, the following elements are theemphasis. In particular, this course promotes the Agile methodology, which is supposed toachieve the same results without imposing onerous, administration-heavy overhead.1 Agile is nota substitute for proper planning and execution, however, so this freedom demands discipline,which is generally lacking in students at this stage of their
people learn and use engineering, and cur- rently co-directs the National Center for Cognition and Mathematics Instruction. He is a faculty member for the Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences. As part of his service to the nation, Dr. Nathan served on the National Academy of Engineering/National Research Council Commit- tee on Integrated STEM Education, and is currently a planning committee member for the Space Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council workshop Sharing the Adventure with the Student: Exploring the Intersections of NASA Space Science and Education. At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Nathan holds affiliate appointments in the Department of
on Pahl and Beitz as depicted by Dubberly.54 According to this process model, “In principle, the planning and design process proceeds from the planning and clarification of the task, through the identification of the required functions, the elaboration of principle solutions, the construction of modular structures, to the final documentationFig. 1: Engineering design process of the complete product.”.53Many models55 of design
for a personaldevelopment plan; development programs for women leaders, framing said leadershipdevelopment as identity work9; emphasis on factors which contribute to work engagement (e.g.,opportunity for ongoing challenges, novel experiences and continuous learning as well as workmatched to women’s interests and background); and supporting relationships (e.g., mentors andsponsors).Fewer programs and studies appear to be available which specifically address how to preparefemale engineering students for the transition beyond the bachelor’s degree with regard to thepsychological and systemic barriers they will face. Such studies and programs for thispreparation to enter either the workforce or engineering-related graduate programs comprise
Improving math skills, (STARS) in Engineering Program. Providing community- based support system10 A Comprehensive Plan with Emphasis on Improving math skills, yes Math Preparation to Improve Retention providing community-based and Graduation Rates in Engineering support system, application Fields. of classroom concepts in industry11 Engineering Learning Communities: Improving math skills, Relationships, Results, and Retention. Providing community- based support system
thelevel they were comfortable with—beginning by expressing their ideas in gesture ordemonstration and then adding spoken or written language as they learned or needed it. The experiences of investigating, planning, building, testing, and refining bring learning beyond linguistic barriers. There are many points of entry in a unit of study. The learning in a unit involving engineering moves beyond simple labeling and completing sentence frames. It is dynamic learning and often can be used to reach a student at their exact language acquisition level. The EL teacher and I loved doing EiE together because it was a chance for students to use academic language in authentic situations. The parts of the lesson where materials are tested
frompredictive analytics to autonomous drone warfare. Gupta, Turpen, and co-researchers, AndrewElby, Thomas Philip, and Daniel Dilliplane, participated in the design of the focus groupprompts. The sessions were loosely structured with planned prompts and activities, but withenough flexibility that facilitators could make decisions about adding new prompts or lettingstudents continue a conversation longer than intended. Ayush Gupta (Ayush) and DanielDilliplane (Dan) served as the facilitators for all the sessions. In addition to participating in thesesessions, students were given supplemental materials to read between many sessions and givenpost-session surveys. The first focus group session focused on students getting to know eachother, getting
, the college successfully developed andimplemented a program curriculum involving day and night classes in electrical engineering andcomputer engineering. The curriculum program consists of 11-week courses and allows aflexible schedule for students to successfully complete an ABET-accredited degree in eitherBSEE or BSCE. During 2017, CoE proudly received an ABET re-accreditation for six yearswith no required interim reports.In 2015, the University tasked the CoE to develop a strategic plan in delivering onlineundergraduate and graduate engineering courses. Starting in April 2015, the college embraced aflipped learning approach for future and online delivery of undergraduate engineering courses.One reason for adopting flipped learning concerns
: Documentation and analysis of prior solution attempts • Element C: Presentation and justification of solution design requirements Component II: Generating and Defending an Original Solution • Element D: Design concept generation, analysis, and selection • Element E: Application of STEM principles and practices • Element F: Consideration of design viability Component III: Constructing and Testing a Prototype • Element G: Construction of a testable prototype • Element H: Prototype testing and data collection plan • Element I: Testing, data collection and analysis Component IV: Evaluation, Reflection, and Recommendations • Element J: Documentation of external evaluation • Element K: Reflection on