, instructional material design, teacher training, and gender studies. She teaches undergraduate courses in environmental management, energy, and the fundamentals of industrial processes at the School of Engineering, UNAB. She currently coordinates the Educational and Academic Innovation Unit at the School of Engineering (UNAB). She is engaged in continuing teacher training in active learning methodologies at the three campuses of the School of Engineering (Concepci´on, Vi˜na del Mar, and Santiago, Chile). She authored several manuscripts in the science education area, joined several research projects, participated in international conferences with oral presentations and keynote lectures, and served as a referee for journals
paper describes our experiences conducting a collaborative cybersecurity project to increaseaccess to undergraduate cybersecurity education. The project was funded by the NSF and CyberFlorida. The project was a collaboration between two Florida public universities. One univer-sity is a large urban Hispanic-Serving Institution. We describe how the Software Engineering andProgramming Cyberlearning Environment (SEP-CyLE), in conjunction with other cybersecuritysystems, was used to develop basic cybersecurity materials, labs, and activities for undergradu-ate students and instructors. SEP-CyLE motivates students to learn in an interactive environmentwhere they can provide feedback to their peers while employing three learning and
Paper ID #47720Reimagining Multi-institutional Outreach Program Evaluation through theCultural Wealth of Students of ColorDr. Jae Hoon Lim, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Dr. Jae Hoon Lim is a Professor of Educational Research at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research explores the dialogical process of identity construction among students of color and examines the impact of sociocultural factors on their academic experiences. She has served as a co-PI for multiple federal grant projects, including a 1.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Her research has been published in
Paper ID #46803WIP: Utilizing short-format videos to enhance science communication in AECOStudentsDavid Francisco Coronado David Francisco Coronado Soria is a civil engineering graduaded at Universidad San Francisco de Quito with experience in research, teaching, and construction. His work focuses on sustainable design, structural analysis, and community development. He has collaborated on scientific publications, worked as a teaching assistant, and led engineering projects with social impact through Engineers Without Borders. He is now a candidate for a Master in Structural Engineering at the University of Porto to
infostering long-term research productivity, as well as the training provided in the correspondingcourses such as project management. With regard to improving the program, the industrymentors expressed a desire for clearer expectations regarding their role in mentoring students,particularly when students return to university. A detailed analysis of the feedback provided byindustry mentors and its implications for further improving the P3 model, indeed the state ofSTEM doctoral training, are presented. The conclusions of this study are expected to have broad impact beyond the P3 model asthey provide valuable insight into the mutual benefits of industry-university partnership fordoctoral education.1. Introduction There is growing
Methods to Inform Criteria for Broadening Participation in Institutions and Organizationsintroduction2022’s Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act [1]mandates efforts to “ensure collaboration and coordination across federal agencies, the privatesector, and with state and local governments to facilitate timely and effective reviews of allfederally funded projects.” The 4b requirement includes “measures of the institution’s ability toattract and retain a diverse and nontraditional student population in the fields of science,technology, engineering, and mathematics, which may include the ability to attract women,minorities, and individuals with disabilities.” To retain the workforce enabled by this act
) frameworks to conduct research related to postsecondary education/learning, job transitions, remote work, and work-life integration with a focus on helping women and marginalized groups manage and develop thriving and sustainable careers. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Two Years’ Comparison from Industries of the Future Research Experience for Preservice Teacher Summer Program AbstractThis paper reports two years’ experience from our implementation of the NSF project titled“Industries of the Future Research Experience for Preservice Teachers in STEM Settings.” Thegoal of the project is to host 10 high school preservice teachers each
students in STEM areas,aiming to explore their academic trajectories and experiences. Adopting a musicalmetaphor, the study seeks to explore common themes in a choir of voices while alsorecognizing and honoring contributions of individuals. We use thematic analysis [19] togenerate themes that help us characterize the shared harmony while also distinguishingspecific melodies voiced by our participants .This work is part of a larger project investigating the experience of female STEMstudents in higher education in Portugal, Ireland, and Poland. The overall study wasdesigned phenomenologically, and the interviews were conducted in an open-ended,participant-driven way. In Poland and Ireland, the second author of this paper conductedall interviews in
experiencesthat span multiple disciplines and provide repeated exposure to real-world systems.Existing Approaches to Hands-On Mechanical EngineeringOne approach has been to emphasize project-based learning (PBL), by replacing existinglaboratory experiments or supplementing courses that previously lacked a lab component. PBL isa dynamic, student-centered approach to education that emphasizes students' independence,critical thinking, goal-setting, teamwork, communication, and reflection in practical settings[10].For example, one university [11] restructured its entire ME curriculum to include a new entry-level course centered around hands-on work with machines and electronics. In this course,students build and test a system throughout the semester
’ projects, or just by word of mouth and reputation. This process wasaugmented with other strategies such as snowballing and opportunistic strategies56, 59. Thisenabled both subjects and others close to the research project to recommend further people tocontact as possible subjects. “Can you think of anyone else that would be good to interview?”was asked at the end of the most of the interviews to find further subjects. Using thesetechniques, twenty-two subjects were identified.The diversity of the subjects was important from the point of view of both the research approachand the generalisability of the final results. Each criterion was broken into different categoriesaimed at reflecting the diversity of interest. The criteria used were: 1
betweenengineers’ professional and organizational work values, it is not possible to neatly dichotomizetheir careers using mutually exclusive tracks. Nearly a quarter of the sample valued technicalAND managerial orientations, while another quarter scored low on both orientations.More recently, a small but growing body of literature has begun to highlight a wider range ofengineers’ workplace realities. For example, Tremblay and his colleagues surveyed 900engineers in Quebec, Canada in the early 2000s and found multiple, divergent career paths—technical, managerial, project-based, hybrid and entrepreneurial [8]. Compared to engineers onthe two traditional paths, they found that project managers and those on hybrid paths quicklyreached a pay plateau, and
, 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
capacities including serving as learning coordinator for two international faculty learning projects, collaborating as an innova- tion coach to assist with scaling up innovations in technical education, developing curricular and learning materials based on learning science, and facilitating groups in a variety of settings. In addition, Mary is tenured faculty at Bellevue College where she chairs the Digital Media Arts program.Dr. Kenneth A. Walz, Madison Area Technical College Dr. Walz completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in Environmental Chemistry and Tech- nology, while conducting electrochemical research on lithium-ion batteries with Argonne National Lab- oratory and Rayovac. His studies also included
… fitting one’s own research—or the research of others—into larger intellectualpatterns.”1 These connections and interpretations can place the specialties in a larger context, opennew research directions, strengthen research-to-practice (and practice-to-research) cycles, andcreate missing links within and beyond academia. They also help make sense of the increasingscope, scale, and complexity of the body of knowledge and its blurring disciplinary boundaries,and serve as the basis for projects with a qualitatively different form of inquiry.While many cite the significant value of the scholarship of integration, it is relativelyunderdeveloped and under-theorized. Some argue that this form of scholarship has been slow togain acceptance as an integral
(B.S.) in civil engineering from the University of Costa Rica. Dr. Rojas is also a Professional Engineer registered in the State of Michigan. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Rojas has led numerous research studies in modeling, simulation, and visualization of construction engineering and management processes; engineering education; and construction economics. He has served as prin- cipal investigator or co-principal investigator in more than 20 different projects. These studies have been sponsored by government agencies and private sector organizations such as the National Science Founda- tion, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Army, the KERN Foundation, the Construction Industry Institute, the New
education. It will enumerate the rewards that accrue to both facultyand students through an international exchange and the components that must necessarily beincluded in the program if it is to be successful and live a long and prosperous life. It willinclude such things as: making the initial contact, evaluating the proposed site, developing abudget, generating support, documenting the responsibilities of each institution, planning for thetrip, emergency contingency plans, orientation meetings with the students, language difficulties,academic credit, recruiting, technical projects, and final evaluation.The paper will conclude by reviewing two different exchange programs, one in Europe, which iswell established and has been operating for many years
innovation", the Universityhas formulated a new training plan with reference to the philosophy and experience ofworld-class universities, and hired top international scholars to participate in thetraining process.3.2.2 Innovative graduate student’s talent training mode In terms of the innovation of graduate talent training mode, many domesticcolleges and universities have carried out active exploration in the training ofprofessional masters, among which the project talent training mode has become animportant choice for domestic colleges and universities to train professional masters,and has achieved positive results, and has been widely recognized and graduallypromoted. Among them, Tsinghua University and Zhejiang University are the
questions, and potentially identify areas of research interest. This paperis the outcome of an Innovations in Graduate Education project supported by the National ScienceFoundation. The authors are graduate students from three engineering majors from the Universityof Massachusetts Lowell and the University of the District of Columbia co-creating an educationalmodule with faculty and experts on human balance. The developed module related to analyzingthe vestibular balance system mechanics will be integrated into undergraduate courses acrossengineering departments in partnering institutions. Index Terms Vestibular System, Experiential Learning, Co-creation, Simulation
-credit students (upper-level undergraduates) 4-credit students (graduate students)1) Project paper: 20% (proposal 3%, outline 1) Project paper: 20% (proposal 3%, outline 7%, paper 10%) 7%, paper 10%)2) Project video: 10% 2) Project video: 10%3) Final exam: 20% 3) Final exam: 20%4) Midterm exam: 20% 4) Midterm exam: 20%5) Homework/quizzes: 10% 5) Homework/quizzes: 10%6) Case study: 10% 6) Case study: 5%7) Participation: 10% 7) Policy memos: 5% 8) Briefing: 5
equipment orenvironmental conditions. Nevertheless, there exists a need to expose students to opportunities tocarry out routine data collection and analysis, to think about the plan for sampling, and to evaluatethe findings. The collaborative project that is described in this paper focuses on simulation of thesampling of an air pollutant, particulate matter. Faculty at Northern Arizona University (NAU)and Arizona State University (ASU) collaborated to enhance the teaching of Air QualityEngineering (AQE) in their institutions. Basic information regarding ambient particles, includingtheir sources, size distributions, and methods of collection were first introduced. Jointly preparedassessments including an individual knowledge assessment, a
Paper ID #39511Board 91: Work-in-Progress: A Systematic Gap Analysis of the AustralianPower Engineering CurriculumMiss Nisaka Munasinghe, University of New South Wales Nisaka Munasinghe is an enthusiastic undergraduate student at the University of New South Wales. She will be graduating with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Hons), 2023, with her thesis project present- ing research for improvements to the Australian Power Engineering Curriculum. Since 2020, she has been working in construction as a cadet engineer with Sydney Trains, helping deliver and commission railway signalling projects for the NSW transport
, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and generalEngineering that included Chemical Engineering and Computer Engineering concepts. Classsizes ranged from 10 – 60 students and included first, second, third, and fourth-year students. Allcourses were previously taught in-person with traditional lectures, homework, exams, quizzes,team projects, and active learning exercises. Five of the classes included labs and 10 of the 12classes traditionally had closed-book, closed-notes quizzes and exams. After the switch to onlinelearning, all 12 of the classes used a blend of synchronous and asynchronous lectures, videos,and office hours using Zoom, and just two classes remained in a closed-book and/or closed-notesformat for quizzes and exams.CE1412
designing the curriculum and teaching in the freshman engineering program and the mechanical engineering program. She is also the Co-Director of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) at ASU. In this role, she focuses on student support and tracking, curriculum, program requirements, as well as programming for current students in GCSP. Dr. Zhu was also involved in the ASU ProMod project, the Engineering Projects in Community Service program, the Engineering Futures program, the Global Freshman Academy/Earned Admission Program, and the ASU Kern Project. She was a part of the team that designed a largely team and activity based online Introduction to Engineering course. She has also co-developed two unique MOOCs
) Biography Lilianny Virguez is an Instructional Assistant Professor at the Engineering Education Department at University of Florida. She holds a Masters' degree in Management Systems Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. She has work experience in telecommunications engineering and teaches undergraduate engineering courses such as engineering design and elements of electrical engineering. Her research interests include the intersection of core non-cognitive skills and engineering students’ success.Andrea Goncher (Lecturer)Idalis Villanueva (Dr.) For the past 10 years, Dr. Idalis Villanueva has worked on several engineering education projects where she derives from her experiences in engineering
their teaching on the expertise gained from the academic context where theywere educated and industry environment where they have worked. Even in current day UnitedStates, professions like structural engineering have fewer female and minority industry leadersthan those that are White Caucasian male [1], and the same follows for academics in this field.As a result, many faculty members have limited exposure to the notable published works,projects, and other contributions of under-represented individuals to share with students.Historically, entry to professions in the built environment have been riddled by barriers due togender, race, and class. This continues to negatively affect not only the number of women andminority students who choose to
engineering experience working for energy companies and as a project management consultant; nearly 15 years of experience in academia; and extensive experience leading and conducting multi-institutional, workforce-related research and outreach. She is concerned first about the human condition and driven and inspired by what a civil engineering or construction organization can achieve by attending to the needs of its people. Her current research centers engineers across three themes: diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); inter- actions between humans and technology; and competency development via education and training. She is currently investigating the development of artificial intelligence (AI) awareness as a critical
or were placed inquarantine during some part of the quarter. For some activities, the students away from campuscould participate fully in the activities; while for others, they were only able to watch the face-to-face students perform the activity while still completing the assignment. A few activities lentthemselves to be conducted virtually for everyone. For others, the best solution was asynchronous Zoom session simultaneously projected on a classroom screen using a participant’ssmartphone to capture the activity being conducted live. For other activities, an asynchronoussolution provided a richer experience for the students using PowerPointShow, video footages,and Screencast-O-Matic editing. The hands-on activities included arches and
homes and use the EPA’s EJSCREEN tool to look at the demographics inthe area and pollutants they are subjected to. During class, students were given a briefexplanation of California’s Cap and Trade Policy. They then played a game to simulate the openmarket of allowances and see where emissions improvements were and were not made. Studentswere then asked what changes could be made to the game (and, by extension, to the Cap-and-Trade Policy) to encourage equity.The senior Capstone class experienced a broader inclusion of social justice in their classcurriculum. From the start of the quarter, students were told they would need to include a socialjustice analysis as part of their Capstone project report. This analysis was required to includemeans
and achieving certain learningoutcomes desired of engineering graduates. This paper provides preliminary analysis in thevalidation process of the E-FSSE survey that began in October, 2006 (see E-FSSE Survey inAppendix I). Thus far, three of the nine universities in the validation project have completed thesurvey, via the web. This paper provides some preliminary analysis in the validation process andnext steps. Several more validation steps are necessary before analysis is complete.IntroductionIn the wake of the National Academy of Engineering’s “Educating the Engineer of 2020” reportand the highly acclaimed National Academies’ “Rising Above the Gathering Storm” report,today’s engineering community is increasingly concerned with and attuned
binder for students.There are also usually two Team Tech Directors who are also selected via an application andinterview process. They are responsible for finding a corporate partner, selecting the project andstudent team members, managing the scope, schedule and budget of a year long, multi-disciplinary project and presenting the project at the SWE National ConferenceThe last position in this core is the Professional Section Liaison. She is the contact between theSWE student section and the SWE Central Coast Professional Section. She organizesprofessional/student events and works with the professional section to organize events to reachout to the community to educate them about engineering possibilities/disciplines.Campus Relations CoreThe