Paper ID #43899Stories of Appalachian Engineers: A Phenomenographical Study of AppalachianStudents’ Quest for Success in Undergraduate Engineering ProgramsMr. Matthew Sheppard, Clemson University I earned my B.S. in Industrial Engineering and my M.S. in Mechanical Engineering; both at Clemson University. I have several years’ experience as a Manufacturing Engineer supporting process improvements, machine design, and capital project management. Now, I have entered into the Engineering and Science Education PhD program at Clemson University in tandem with teaching hands-on engineering principles in an undergraduate
Joyce B. Main is Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. degree in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University. Dr. Main examines student academic pathways and transitions to the workforce in science and engineering. She was a recipi- ent of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty Award, the 2015 Frontiers in Education Faculty Fellow Award, and the 2019 Betty Vetter Award for Research from WEPAN. In 2017, Dr. Main received a National Science Foundation CAREER award to examine
improve learningand retention in STEM with particular impact on underrepresented groups [1]. However, despiteadvances in classroom design for interactive teaching and pockets of enthusiastic adopters, thechallenge to bridge the gap from research results to common classroom practice remains.Workshops to introduce evidence-based teaching practices are prevalent, but one-time effortsrarely result in sustained change, and hence ongoing support is needed [2], [3].The study presented in this paper takes place in the context of the SIMPLE Design model forfaculty development, which was studied in implementation over a two-year period [4]. Asdescribed in more detail in the next section, the SIMPLE Design model employs ongoingdiscipline-based faculty
responsibledevelopment of ECE technologies [26]. The change process is being driven by a novel cross-functional, collaborative instructional model for course design and professional formation, calledX-teams. An X-team is comprised of process as well as content experts and uses pedagogicalapproaches that promote design thinking by faculty and students, systems thinking, leadership,socio-technical mindsets, and inclusion. X-teams are also serving as change agents for the rest ofthe department through communities of practice referred to as Y-circles. Y-circles, comprised ofX-team members, faculty, staff, and undergraduate and graduate students in the department, arebeginning a process of discovery and inquiry to bridge the engineering education research-to
suggested as an effective way of developing student math skills. Game show approaches for in class problem solving can be effective. A background in probability/statistics is becoming increasingly important in applying risk analysis to reactive systems, to catalytic reactions, and for sensitivity analysis. Propagation of error is another area where preparation could be improved. Some would argue that analytical mastery should be demonstrated before computational methods are used. Economics and other practical considerations. Some assert that discussing economics is impractical before formal coverage in a process design course, while others state it is important to bring practical limitations on reactor design and
and Evaluation Gale A. Mentzer, PhD, the owner and director of Acumen Research and Evaluation, has been a profes- sional program evaluator since 1998. She holds a PhD in Educational Research and Measurement from The University of Toledo and a Master of Arts in English Literature and Language—a unique combination of specializations that melds quantitative and qualitative methodologies. She and has extensive experience in the evaluation of projects focused on STEM education including evaluations of several multi-million dollar federally funded projects. Previously she taught graduate level courses for the College of Education at The University of Toledo in Statistics, Testing and Grading, Research Design, and Program
student’s successful engineering knowledge, practices, and values during the semester? 2. What factors other than the course contribute to developing student’s successful engineering knowledge, practices, and values during the semester? 3. What have you lost or retained about your own culture in favor of engineering culture? II. MethodA. SettingIn fall 2016, over 3,600 students registered for a FYE foundation course at asouthwestern university. The FYE program at this institution has undergone numerouschanges. These revisions are well-grounded in research and best practices. The course istaught to all those first-year students in about 30 sections. Instructors manage
for engineering, and fall shortof identifying the differences across student academic maturity and engineering discipline. Giventhe potential for strong impact on engineering students’ experiences, and faculty resourcelimitations, we sought to elucidate if some behaviors have a higher potential for impact thanothers, and if so, which faculty behaviors may best contribute to building faculty-student rapport.With these insights, engineering faculty can be trained to selectively focus on those which areexpected to have the greatest return on investment. To support the primary aim, students frommultiple disciplines in an engineering college were surveyed and asked to rank their perceptionsof faculty behaviors that best establish rapport with
, internships andpractical courses (Provitera, 20078). This paper describes a case in which a well designed andsuccessfully integrated Capstone Course can serve as an amalgam of theory and practice andprovide benefits like reinforcing learning, developing skills, and improving congruence withthe discipline.Background of the InstitutionLa Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) is a private, non profit institution founded in 1969 inthe city of Monterrey in northeastern Mexico. UDEM offers 35 undergraduate degreeprograms in fields such as business, medicine, architecture, engineering, education and law.It serves 3,000 preparatory, 8,000 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate students.Its undergraduate degree program in Industrial and Systems Engineering is focused
technical aspects of an engineering career and foster a broadersense of life-long learning.Other important aspects of professional practice that support design include budgeting, teaming,diversity & inclusion, ethics, and project impacts. These are described below.Budgeting Money is a key aspect of a design. Funding for capstone projects is an area of significantvariation among capstone courses nationally [7]. In our program, a two-phased fundingapproach is used, which augments their communication and persuasive skills. Each team isallocated a baseline funding amount. They are informed that they will have an opportunity to“pitch their project to interested investors” for additional funding. These investors are, in fact,the university’s
of successful groups. Common traits or best practices can be identified from thesegroups6,7,8. These include an appropriate topic of study, on-going funding, clearly-definedindividual goals, close faculty involvement, adequate training, continuity of team members, finaldocumentation of individual results, and an on-going knowledge base.Selecting a research topic appropriate for a group of undergraduates to handle is a significantchallenge. It needs to have enough depth to contribute to the field (and engage the students),while not requiring substantial skills beyond the early engineering courses. In addition, the best Page 11.1086.5topics
Paper ID #37072A Sequence of Laboratories for Beginning Statics ClassesJim Sizemore (Professor) Jim graduated from Washington State University with a B.S. and Stanford with a Ph.D. in engineering. He worked in the semiconductor industry for many years on a wide variety of projects such as ion-implantation, oxidation, diffusion, metal- semiconductor contacts, device physics, CCDs, LEDs, electronic noise, high voltage devices, radiation-hardened devices, thermal management, statistical analysis of yield, statistical process control, plasma process, IC materials adhesion and fracture, software, etc. He turned to
students designed a modular, cheap and robust wheelchair that waseasily modified. The focus was to accommodate growing children. Page 5.502.9 Figure 4: Reconfigurable Wheelchair for Growing ChildrenBoth of these projects presented the students with good open-ended design problems. Inaddition, students working on the projects were generally more apt to be faced with challengingproblems outside standard engineering practice, such as communicating and interacting withnon-technical sponsors. Market research conducted by the reconfigurable wheelchair grouphighlights the importance of ProCEED in helping to work with the community.1
ATE Center is widely known for innovative initiatives impacting advanced technological education as well as developing and broadly sharing successful educational mod- els and practices in technician education, with a particular emphasis on faculty development, the first year of study for success in engineering and technology majors, and mentoring educators nationally. Craft is President of Elaine L. Craft Educational Consulting, L.L.C.Caroline VanIngen-Dunn, Arizona State University Caroline VanIngen-Dunn is Director of the Science Foundation Arizona Center for STEM at Arizona State University, providing services for Maximizing the Educational and Economic Impact of STEM. VanIngen-Dunn is the inspiration behind the
/administrative commitment.13Despite the diversity in types of pedagogical strategies, the research on the impact of theseapproaches for students’ preparedness for global workforces has been limited.7 In contrast,however, researchers have identified many challenges associated with the implementation ofinternational experiences in engineering programs: limited capacity of an already content-fulland highly sequenced curriculum, high costs to implement globally focused programs, and therisk of delaying graduation when international experiences are included as a degreerequirement.7, 14 These challenges indicate that a more comprehensive and integrated approach toenhance development of global preparedness in engineering students is necessary to meet
, including thelearning modules. At the time of this first analysis, these modules were not as fully developed.A second experiment has already taken place since the first analysis. The next set of results,which should be forthcoming in the very near future, will examine not only the effect of theindustry collaboration, but more generally compare the use of technology in teaching theeconomics of engineering design. The experimental and control groups for the second round ofanalysis should distinguish clearly whether technology positively impacted the learningexperience. Further, in the second experiment, the study at UMass was not limited to honorsstudents, but included students of all capabilities.This research has been a collaborative effort
considerably decreasingoriginality and fluency of ideas generated in fact resonates with many. Industry has perceivednew BS engineering graduates as lacking design capability or creativity, as well as anappreciation for considering alternatives. Further, a 1995 ASME report ranked creative thinkingas 5th of 56 top desired “best practices” for new BS-level engineers as seen by industry andacademe.12 In the past several years, universities have responded to these challenges by addingmore design content and introducing more open-ended design problems into their engineeringcurricula. Articles discussing the guarded success of these initiatives have appeared in journals.Yet the need to increase the creative potential of graduates still persists. 13 In fact
an ability to engage in life-long learningj. a knowledge of contemporary issuesk. an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice. Page 6.842.1 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”II. Our Capstone Design CourseOur capstone design course is a one-semester, three-credit design course where students work inteams on hardware, software, and research-oriented design projects. In addition to the designexperiences
consistently expressed that the program experiences with the faculty, graduate students, andpeers had an impact on their career choices. Students who had participated over 9 years agoconsistently supported this finding. Program alumni discussed how the program confirmed theirinterest in pursuing graduate school, exposed them to the nature of graduate school, built theirconfidence and increased their enthusiasm for scientific research. A number of the programalumni are currently in/have completed medical school (14.7%), with 4 in MD/PhD programs.Some alumni found that while the research experience was valuable it allowed them to determinea non-research career was a better option (“Helped confirm that I was most comfortable workingin…medicine.”). Some
. Senkpeil, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Ryan Senkpeil is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University who’s research is focused on non-cognitive factors that impact engineering student performance and developing interventions to improve students’ non-cognitive factors.Ms. Julianna Sun Ge, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Julianna Ge is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. At Purdue, she created and currently teaches a novel course for undergraduate engineering students to explore the intersections of wellbeing, leadership, diversity and inclusion. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, her research interests
Engineering Education, 2013 Exploring the Experience of Undergraduate Research: A Case Study Using FacebookIntroductionParticipating in research as an undergraduate can be a powerful learning experience, helpingstudents form connections with faculty, put classroom knowledge into practice, develop researchskills and prepare for graduate study. Undergraduate research is a “high impact” educationalpractice1 that can be particularly effective for engaging students from diverse backgrounds.2–5The NSF makes a substantial investment in undergraduate research experiences, which it views as“one of the most effective avenues for attracting talented undergraduates”6 and preparing them forgraduate study and careers in
, we designed asurvey targeting graduating senior students. These senior students have experienced all thecomputational modules throughout their curriculum and, therefore, best represent the studentsaffected by the SIIP project. This survey was distributed in the Materials Design course (MSE395), which is a required course for all senior MSE students. The survey focuses on three majorparts: (1) Computational learning experience; (2) Research and job hunting experience; and (3)Attitude towards computational tools. We received 32 responses out of a class of 103students.5.1 Computational learning experienceTo understand the influence of computational modules on student learning throughout thecurriculum, we asked the following three questions
Conference & ExpositionCopyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Engineering Ethics Workshop: The ERC offers a very popular workshop onengineering ethics to provide the students with resources for understanding andaddressing ethically significant problems that arise in their research and their work asprofessional engineers.Communications Workshop: The communications workshop offered to the REUstudents each year includes communication skills involving poster making andpresentations, writing abstracts and papers, resume and cover letter writing. The mostpopular portion of the workshop is a segment on best practices for presenting scientificmaterial to various audiences.Engineering Graduate School Seminar: At the beginning of the
design given a set of choices • Determine (or estimate) how long various stages of the design problem take to complete and propose a timetable to meet the customer requirements for the design • Apply engineering principles to develop a model for the design to predict system performance • Invent a robust and functional prototype for the design problem • Gain practical design experience through teamwork and a hands-on approach • Develop a sense of responsibility to their design project and their design team • Demonstrate the working design, explaining key features and suggesting improvements given more time • Explain (or communicate) ideas in both written and oral formsItems listed
participantschange their teaching practices, by increasing the use of strategies such as inquiry/hand-onlearning and integrating disciplines and subjects, after participation in the SWEPT program. Thepositive impact of collaborations between teachers and mentors is also evident in articles writtenby teachers participating in SWEPT/RET. Research-based experiences enhance contentknowledge and can lead to the development of classroom lessons that use best practices such asproblem-based learning. In one such example, a Georgia Tech biomedical engineering facultymember, a graduate student, and a high school biology teacher have embarked on a journey ofdeveloping and implementing problem-based units that revolve around various biomedicalengineering topics.17
available when I need to talk about my progress in my program. 5. Teaches me the details of good research practice. 6. Provides information about ongoing relevant research. 7. Takes an interest in my well-being and life-work balance. Instructions: For each of the following statements, rate your advisor’s behavior towards you.a 8. Cares about me as a whole person, not just as a scholar. 9. Provides emotional support when I need it. 10. Is attentive and responsive to my needs. 11. Has my best interests at heart. 12. Would support me in any career path I might choose. 13. Helps me secure funding for my graduate studies. 14. Teaches me to write grant and contract proposals. 15. Helps me develop professional
Theory & Techniques Society (MTT-S). Schwartz has authored or co-authored 25 papers and conferences including one Best Student Paper (ANTEM/URSI), and co-authored one book chapter on Optoelectronic VLSI. His expertise spans a broad variety of topics including photonics, analog and integrated circuits, microwave and mm- wave technology, and recently, sensing applications.Dr. Ashley Ater Kranov, ABET Ashley Ater Kranov is ABET’s Managing Director of Professional Services. Her department is responsi- ble for ensuring the quality training of program evaluators, partnering with faculty and industry to conduct robust and innovative technical education research, and providing educational opportunities on sustainable
Paper ID #42007Validity Evidence for the Sophomore Engineering Experiences SurveyMiss Fanyi Zhang, Purdue University Fanyi is a third-year Ph.D. student at Purdue University. She majors in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and works as a Graduate Research Assistant for the Women in Engineering program. Her area of interest focuses on conceptualizing and promoting flourishing and understanding the dynamics of positive relationships. Her current research agenda includes developing a mentor support framework and promoting the effective design of mentor training.Dr. Beth M. Holloway, Purdue University Beth Holloway is
Risk Management and Insurance industry. Throughout her career, she wrote articles and papers on the topic of Risk Management Information Systems and delivered several invited presentations at Risk Management Conferences as she was a recognized expert in the discipline.Dr. Lisa Cullington, National University Lisa Cullington, Ph.D. is an educational researcher with expertise in curriculum development, learning outcomes and educational assessment best practices. She focuses on building and evaluating academic programs that promote inclusive excellence for all learners. Currently, Dr. Cullington serves as the Director of Learning Outcomes for National University. Previously, she was the Founding Co-Director of the
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