and technology education. His current research interest is to explore the use and impact of formative assessments in online learning to promote self-regulated, self-directed life-long learning. He has expertise in the development and use of think- aloud protocols, and quantitative, qualitative and mixed-method research designs. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Virtual REU Program: Engineering Education ResearchAbstract:This paper describes a National Science Foundation-funded Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU) Site program conducted through virtual working environment. Due to theCovid-19 pandemic
force which focuses on finding the current perception and help define theknowledge skill set needed for the upcoming era [26]. Their survey found a lack of capabilityamong graduate students in project management and business processes. These two elements areconsidered in this research through learning about the life cycle of a bike from productconceptualization to manufacturing and marketability to illustrate the impact of decisions on thevarious parts of the life cycle of a product. Based on the product development life cycle, the current research designs and buildslinkages within and between courses in engineering and business curricula to provide students witha compressive and integrated view of how products in the real-world
prior to Fall 2016. Thethree major areas of concern for the redesign effort are summarized in Table 1. This paperdescribes the efforts to reach the target population, promote multidisciplinary connections, andprovide a novel curriculum developed around the course workbook5 and designed to enrichstudent learning at Colorado School of Mines.Table 1: Significant Revisions to CSM 151 Implemented in Fall 2016 Target Topic Proposed Solution Improve Course Structure Design in-class activities to develop aspects of spatial visualization and move workbook to out-of-class homework Promote Multidisciplinary Introduce a team research project to explore the role spatial skills Connections play in
agree on the critical role that communication plays, there isdisagreement among how best to teach communication skills and practices. [4] [5] Further, notall engineering programs require a technical communication course, nor are all technicalcommunication courses developed or taught the same way, as institutional contexts, histories,structures, and requirements impact whether and how technical communication courses aretaught. [6] This is evident in the variety of engineering program designs for teaching technicalcommunication: as a standalone course offering from external departments - primarily English[4], to writing/communication across the curriculum models in which communication skills andpractices are taught within the context of the
] in Australia, there wereserious issues regarding the low motivation students had to interact with academics, which had an impact ontheir morale. Furthermore, student/staff ratios were very high; hence there was no capacity for any effort fromthe academics. Some academics felt that undergraduates were unmotivated and that there was no value toengaging with them outside the classroom environment. In order to find ways to address these problems, andprovide students with a space to develop sense of belonging and engage with their peers through a co-curricularexperience, the School of Civil Engineering in 2015 developed the Icarus program. Icarus is a voluntary,project-based, research program where students engage with peers in small projects
,Inc. Page 15.906.142. Abraham, N.S. & Abulencia, J.P. (2010). Use of the LITEE Lorn Manufacturing Case Studyin a Senior Chemical Engineering Unit Operations Laboratory, Journal of STEM Education:Innovations and Research. Accepted for publication.3. Brumm, T.J., Ellerston, A., Fisher, D., & Mickelson, S.K. (2004). Practicing Omega:Addressing Learning Outcomes in an On-line Case Simulation. Proceedings of the 2004American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.4. Connolly, P. (2010). The Application of an Engineering Design and Information SystemsCase Study in a Senior Level Product Data Management Course
similar backgrounds and have been found to increase theretention of HUG students [30]. Furthermore, Safe Zone ally training is an effective way topositively change campus climate by educating people about the terminologies of genderminorities and the biases these minorities experience [31, 19].To promote the pursuit of research careers among HUG students, we launched astudent-led initiative, the HUG Initiative, in the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering (ECE) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in which the proportion ofHUG students is consistently near 15% for both undergraduate and graduate programs. The HUGInitiative is a pilot study that systematically identifies the needs and obstacles of HUGs in theECE department
grant An Institutional Transformative Model to Increase Minority STEM Doctoral Student and Faculty Sucess.Dr. Yvette Maria Huet, Yvette Huet is Director of the ADVANCE Faculty Affairs and Diversity Office and a Professor of Kine- siology at UNC Charlotte. She has worked with and created a variety of workshops for faculty, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, and current and future leaders and provided professional development consultation to faculty. She has provided training at UNC Charlotte and other programs and institutions across the country, many with current or previous ADVANCE grants, that addresses best practices in recruitment, inherent bias, communication, mentoring and reappointment, promotion and
served as a key leader and member of the UW OMA&D Outreach and Recruitment Unit that contributed to two consecutive years of increased underrepresented freshmen student enrollment at the UW. In her current capacity as the Director for the Pacific Northwest Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Pro- gram at the UW, she strives to increase the recruitment, retention and graduation rates for underrepre- sented students in STEM disciplines while providing experiential and research opportunities. Through the LSAMP Program she was able to co-write the OMA&D/UW College of Engineering STEM focused study abroad seminar to Brisbane, Australia. This was selected for a best practice model workshop at
Paper ID #29994Scaling up the SIMPLE Design Model for Faculty Development: LessonsLearnedProf. Jill K Nelson, George Mason University Jill Nelson is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University. She earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Rice Uni- versity in 1998. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for graduate study, earning an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Dr. Nelson’s research focus is in statistical signal processing, specifically detection and estimation for
glaciology. In recent years, he has focused on issues of mathematical education and outreach and he has developed a wide range of K-12 outreach projects. His current interests include the mathematical education of teachers, the scholarship of outreach, computational mathematics, and complex dynamics. Page 26.896.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Fundamental Research: Impacts of Outreach on Entering College Students Interests in STEM (Fundamental)IntroductionThe need to train qualified science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM
effectiveness inmultiple modes of delivery. An important aspect of improvement in the course structure wasaddition of mini-labs, small concept experiments or practical problems in the classroom to bringan entrepreneurial mindset to the course. The present research also highlights the studentmotivation as this is another area of focus for modern instructional design. The study used theprocess of asking students to grade their own homework. The students were provided with thecorrect answers after submission of their assignments on the LMS and provided with a gradingrubric developed in an earlier study to grade their work. This helped students learn the materialmore effectively, instilling and encouraging self-learning. This also helped the students to
all of these options it is difficult to iden-tify the best model. Each serves to further the student’s understanding of industry challengescommonly encountered and expose students to real world problems.Substantial benefits can be realized by both industry and academia when the unique re-sources of each institution are focused upon achieving a common goal. Replicating the ex-periences and knowledge that students gain through practical application of their knowledgein an industry setting is unrealistic in a classroom environment. Many institutions have im-plemented industry placement programs as a part of their curriculum in order to expose stu-dents to industry applications. Cooperative Education for Enterprise Development (CEED) is
meaningswith engineering, and how educational experiences may need to be designed and assessed toaddress the complete (and varying) meaning(s) of the concept.In this paper, we present portions of a larger research project motivated in part by the researchquestion: What is the set of concepts, ideas, approaches, tools, methods, and philosophies that could be included as the “necessary knowledge of sustainability” for all engineering students?Our approaches to answering the research question include three parts: (1) an in-depth collectionand analysis of published descriptions of sustainable engineering in practice, in research, and ineducational innovation; (2) a set of interviews conducted with undergraduate students at
to show how shareddialogue between a mid-career faculty member and an early-career postdoctoral researcher canshed light on issues and lessons related to preparing for an academic career. The aim of this workwas to use individual reflection and collective sensemaking to examine professional formationand explore how to seed and sustain a discipline-based education research group in engineering.PositionalityThe collective and individual voices are woven throughout the paper with the author’s namespecified for personal reflections. Both of us completed our undergraduate and graduate degreesin civil engineering at large, public research-intensive universities in the United States: Denise, aBlack woman, at Clemson University and Madeline, a White
2006-22: ENGINEERING, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND PEACE: A REVOLUTION OFTHE HEARTGeorge Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton George Catalano is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering.He researches and teaches in the areas of engineering design, the fluid dynamics of the natural world and applied mathematics and is included in the Philosophers’ Index for his work in environmental ethicsCaroline Baillie, Queens University-Kingston Caroline Baillie was appointed in 2003 as the Dupont Canada Chair in Engineering Education Research and Development, the first position of its kind in the world. Caroline previously worked for the UK Centre for Materials Education, which was a national programme to
family member at both sessions, andsecond session hosted around 40 people, illustrating the size of the community created by theprograms. An important outcome of the post-program mentoring sessions was for the students topresent their research at a regional or national conference. Students worked with their mentorsshortly after the summer program ended to determine the best fitting conference for their workamong the potential opportunities. These opportunities included the ERN conference, ArkansasIDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (Arkansas INBRE), the 2023 Membranes forViral Purification (MVP) Center annual meeting, and the 2023 MAST center annual meeting.Poster development and presentation practice sessions were held leading
type of students the program does a greatgood, and what program processes and characteristics are transferable to similarprograms across the country. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact therelationships and interactions with faculty, graduate student mentors, and otherundergraduate researchers in a summer program at Oklahoma State University careerpaths. Results indicated that students knowledge and skills on material science and futurecareers, increased from the pre to post test.IntroductionUndergraduate research has been identified as an educational practice that directlyaddresses challenges facing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)education1, 7, 8. Specifically, engaging undergraduates in research is
; specifically, the cost modeling and analysis of product development and manufacturing systems; and computer-aided design methodology.Dr. Lisa Abrams, The Ohio State University Dr. Lisa Abrams is currently the Associate Chair for the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University (OSU). She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Mechanical Engineer- ing and PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from Ohio State. She has seven years of industry experience in the areas of Design and Consulting. Her research focuses on the recruitment, retention, and success of undergraduate students, especially those populations who are under-represented in engineering. She has developed and taught a wide variety of
description languages and microcontrollers. Formerly Mr. Van Ginneken was Chief Scientist and a co-founder of Magma Design Automation Inc. Before joining Magma, he was at Synopsys, where he worked in the Design Compiler group and the Advanced Technology Group. From 1989 to 1995 he was at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, where he worked on logic synthesis. Mr. van Ginneken holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Eindhoven University.Nicholas James RiveraMr. Brian Michael Tugade, DigiPen Institute of Technology Page 26.90.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015
DESIGN COURSES FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLSIntroductionIn addition to completing a challenging technical curriculum, engineering graduates mustdemonstrate teamwork, communication, and other professional skills including professional andethical responsibility, life-long learning, and understanding the impact of engineering solutionsin a global and societal context. Unless these outcomes are integrated into students' conceptionsof being a "successful engineer" (getting a job and advancing their career), they will be under-valued and under-developed. This project demonstrates the use of industry-modeled 360°performance reviews in a team-based capstone project to link professional skills with an
Section I, the team resolved to build three to four experiential designexperiences (with a minimum of two hands-on projects) into the curriculum, and to re-task the learning work spaces to enable the implementation of these experiential designprojects.e) Minimizing impact on total credits and resources: Given that students must complete126 credits to meet graduation requirements, and that there is strong push by theuniversity to decrease the total credits to accelerate student graduation and cut operatingcosts, a constraint that the design must satisfy is that it must have no impact on the creditrequirements as well as the financial resources available to the Department.Step 2: Define the level of proficiency for each SKAIn the second step, the
teach- ing both undergraduate and graduate design and education-related classes at Stanford University, she con- ducts research on weld and solder-connect fatigue and impact failures, fracture mechanics, applied finite element analysis, and engineering education. In addition, from 1999-2008, she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). Sheppard’s graduate work was done at the University of Michigan.Ms. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University Samantha Brunhaver is a fourth-year graduate student at Stanford University. She is currently working on
skills,” sense of belonging, and learningexperiences for peer leaders and female CS students. Additionally, pair programming and peerinstruction may be viable practices that will help benefit women in computing with regards tolearning experiences and learning outcomes, but not their retention or persistence. Highlycollaborative course offerings, such as flipped classrooms and “trio of best practices”classrooms, were shown to improve learning experiences, learning outcomes, retention, andpersistence of minoritized women in computing. Future research is still needed aroundpedagogical impacts on individual intersections such as Black women, Latina women, andNative American women. Additionally, future quantitative studies should provide
committee. The facilitator also reminded the committeemembers to be respectful of what is and was within the control of the advisory committee.The committee provided considerable input that was distilled to the following vision.Vision • Our University is the BEST place for women in engineering and computing because it leverages world class best practices to recruit, retain, and graduate women, setting alumni up for lifelong success. • On our journey to achieve equity for women, the Women’s Advisory Committee continues to be a resource to the administration, faculty, students, and graduates. • Recruitment Vision: Incoming classes in the college include women at world class levels of representation, • Retention Vision
Paper ID #20567Setting the Foundations for International and Cross-disciplinary Innovation:The U.S.-Denmark Summer School ”Renewable Energy: In Practice”Dr. Tela Favaloro, University of California, Santa Cruz Tela Favaloro received a B.S. degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Univer- sity of California, Santa Cruz. She is currently working to further the development and dissemination of alternative energy technology; as project manager of a green building design initiative and researcher with the Center for Sustainable Engineering and Power Systems. Her background is in the development of
with a phenomenon? Professional development is a subset of learning and phenomenography focuses onlearning. Therefore, phenomenography can investigate research questions on the professionalformation of undergraduates, a topic of national interest [48]. The undergraduate curriculumbenefits by staying up to date with industry practices. Undergraduates have the opportunity to bemore prepared for the competitive high-stakes workforce. They have the opportunity to practicedifficult aspects of engineering and design. They have an opportunity to understand theworkforce they are about to enter. Industry gains new employees who are potentially betterequipped and trained for the technical and professional skills needed for the job. The
Paper ID #43851Planning a Trucking Research Consortium using Industry Customer Discoveryand Innovation Ecosystem MappingProf. Mohamed Razi Nalim, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Dr. Razi Nalim is Chancellor’s Professor of Mechanical Engineering at IUPUI, where he directs the Combustion and Propulsion Research Laboratory and helps lead the Transportation and Autonomous Systems Institute. He has extensive experience in higher education and professional practice – in industry, academia, and government. He has administered research, sponsored work, graduate programs, international initiatives, accreditation
. degrees in Civil Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 To Be or Not to Be: A Dialogic Discussion of Two Researchers’ Hidden and Transitioning Identities Introduction Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence “I am”. With this opening adapted from a poem by Richard O. Moore (2010), we emphasize howsome of the simplest aspects of the human experience contain vast complexity: identity;belonging; education; justice. The CoNECD community focuses on these aspects and centers thescholarship and practice of equity and
environments actually helpingstudents to learn and to build confidence and motivation toward engineering design? Towardanswering this question, the juxtaposition of qualitative and quantitative research methods usedherein allows us to investigate the impact that these spaces are having on student motivation andconfidence in engineering design [8]. This paper presents results from mixed-methods researchconsisting of a longitudinal quantitative study and a qualitative interview study focused onunderstanding the factors leading toward student involvement in makerspaces.BackgroundThe longitudinal study presented in this paper consists of a survey that gathers information fromstudents on their involvement in the makerspace, self-efficacy for conducting