GovernorAsa Hutchinson made headlines in 2015 with the enactment of new legislation requiring allArkansas public high schools to offer at least one computer science course. At the time, only afew states had implemented such requirements, and Information Technology & Informationestimated that computer science courses were offered at only one in ten schools nationwide(Armitage, 2015). The same Arkansas legislation, Act 187, also called for the establishment of astatewide task force to oversee the project and declared the overall lack of graduates withcomputer science skills to be a public emergency (Arkansas State Legislature, 2015). In late2020, the Arkansas Board of Education adopted new rules for the 2021-22 school year thatemphasized computer
engineering classroom. The six-week ESITconsisted of a pair of integrated design challenge based courses: Fundamentals ofEngineering Design and Problem Solving and the Project-Based Lesson Development.Our primary research questions were 1) was the ESIT successful in improving teachers’innovation and efficiency and 2) does this change translate to teacher practice?Our results are primarily descriptive due to low sample sizes and inconsistency inresponse rates on pre- and post measures. However, our results suggest that teachersefficiency and innovation in engineering improved during the ESIT. Teachers Page 15.1277.2significantly improved on measures of basic
, decisions on meaning ultimately cannot be taken away from those who are affected by a design, it stakeholders.” (p. 230)3. “They render design proposals empirically testable, at least in principle. Because a projected future cannot yet be observed, they provide arguments, demonstrations, if not tests for the projected reality of a design.” (p. 230)Utilizing human-centered design processes have been shown to increase productivity, improvequality, reduce errors, reduce training and support costs, improve people's acceptance of newproducts, enhance companies' reputations, increase user satisfaction and reduce developmentcosts8,9.A critical part of design thinking and human-centered design is understanding the peopleaffected by the design
%, aesthetics 15%,and deflection 39%. For the EVEN course the biofuels life cycle assessment (LCA) reinforcedthe sustainability concepts to some extent. However, students were allowed to select their ownimpact categories for the LCA and some selected entirely environmental and human healthimpacts, and lacked economic factors. The EVEN team project involved an exploration of solidwaste generation, recycling, and disposal via landfilling or incineration in 2007-2009; in 2010the students conducted an LCA comparing a biofuel to fossil fuel (gasoline or diesel).Table 2. Course assignments in 2009 and 2010Module CVEN EVEN Topic # lectures % grade Topic
AC 2011-2058: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING TO SUPPORT AN INNOVA-TION DISPOSITION WITHIN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONAmy C. Bradshaw, University of Oklahoma Amy C. Bradshaw is an Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology & Technology at the University of Oklahoma. Her scholarly interests include visuals and visual communication for learning and instruc- tion; complex problem solving; social and cultural implications of technologies; critical pedagogy; and educational philosophy. Current projects explore the overlaps (and gaps) between mental imagery, higher order thinking, and complex problem solving.Zahed Siddique, University of OklahomaPatricia Lea Hardre, University of Oklahoma Dr. Hardre is an Associate Professor of
managing research projects and initiatives in STEM student success, K-12 engineering and integrated STEM programs. She earned a B.S.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.Janet Callahan, Boise State University Janet Callahan is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Engineering at Boise State University and a Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department. Dr. Callahan received her Ph.D. in Materials Science, her M.S. in Metallurgy and her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut. Her educational research interests include freshmen engineering programs
reviews IT training methodologies. Thefifth section offers results and discussion on the literature review and the sixth and final sectionis devoted to the conclusions drawn from this literature review.IS/IT skillsThe Information Technology (IT) skills requirements can best be exemplified by the statement“Competent IT skills are critical for the success of IS projects and operations”.12 These skills areoften difficult to quantify which causes IT managers and IT professionals to struggle witharticulating what they are. Nakayama and Sutcliffe, in the article “Perspective-driven IT talentacquisition” provide exploratory research on what are IT skills and how an organization canacquire them. There are three reasons13 for the challenges in defining
Paper ID #6686Seeing the Big Picture: The Role that Undergraduate Work Experiences CanPlay in the Persistence of Female Engineering UndergraduatesMs. Cate Samuelson, University of Washington Cate Samuelson is a Doctoral Candidate in Education and Leadership Policy Studies at the University of Washington. She also works as a Research Assistant at the University of Washington (UW) Center for Workforce Development (CWD), where she conducts qualitative research and analysis on the Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE) project. Her research interests include P-20 school-community relations and community capacity
Director of Undergraduate Studies, and an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He is the faculty advisor ND’s student chapter of AICJacqueline Gartner Ph.D., Campbell University Jacqueline Gartner is founding faculty of Campbell University’s hands-on, project based chemical engineering program. She both teaches chemical engineering for the middle years and conducts research on how to create interventions to help engineering students succeed and persist to graduation. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 How We Teach: Transport Phenomena and ApplicationsAbstractThe AIChE Education Division
project examining how math and science motivational beliefs influence STEM students’ major choice in college. Her recent work focuses on exploring STEM students’ metacognition, entrepreneurial mindset, self-regulated learning strategies, and learning achievement.Dr. David K Pugalee, University of North Carolina at Charlotte David Pugalee is a full Professor and Director of the Center for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education (STEM) at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Pugalee has published works on STEM teaching and learning and on the NSF project Developing a Systemic, Scalable Model to Broaden Participation in Middle School Computer Science that focuses on computational thinking in science and mathematics. He
committee began by developing a document summarizing the program goals,student learning objectives, and student proficiencies, which provide the basis for the revisedcurriculum. These were mapped to the ABET required student learning outcomes [8]. Thisinformation was shared with the larger faculty of the department and their feedback wasintegrated into the document.While much work is still to be done on this project, the committee and larger faculty arecontinuing to utilize a structured design process based on Understanding by Design by Wigginsand McTighe. The current focus of the work involves collaborating with the departmentalinterest groups to map the existing curriculum content and evaluate it against the recentlydeveloped program goals
programquality in Eng Ed PhD programs originate from a different position. For example, researchers,Murzi, Shekhar, and Mc Nair cited the increasing number of Eng Ed PhD programs, as a keymotivator for their foundational scholarship on Eng Ed PhD program quality and as a reason foradditional research in this area [2]. Their work, as well as that of Lopez and Garcia [4] andBenson et al. [3], provides a strong basis for our study, having presented a document-based,comparative analysis of the formation, aims, requirements, and outcomes of existing Eng EdPhD programs. To expand the existing knowledge on the topic, we designed an overarchingInterpretative Phenomenological Analysis project to examine the conceptions of program qualitythat Eng Ed PhD program
Engineering at the University of California, Davis. Dr. White has been a faculty member at UC Davis since 2015, and he teaches process design and economics, process safety, bioseparations, and senior laboratory courses. He has helped lead the creation of the CHEM E CAD and Industrial Automation club at UC Davis, and he has sought to develop authentic, project-based learning experiences for his students in his courses. Dr. White also serves as the accreditation lead for the chemical engineering program at UC Davis. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Impact of The Design of Coffee, A General Education Chemical Engineering Course, on Students’ Decisions to Major in STEM
underlying values) atwork in their departments and programs. Specifically, this paper reports a subset of data that ispart of a larger NSF-funded research project (award #2024296) exploring the interplay amongindividual value foundations and disciplinary ethics frameworks in engineering and STEMeducation. We conclude by analyzing the conceptual and practical distinctions betweenresponsibility and accountability as they relate to the standards identified by the disciplinaryfaculty we interviewed.Faculty Roles in Shaping Normative ValuesStudents are often exposed to the ethical norms, or frameworks, of the discipline through manydifferent vehicles, both implicit and explicit. Students might be implicitly enculturated throughthe mentor-mentee
to toxic silica dust, amineral that slices the lung like shards of glass” (Lancianese, 2019, par. 5). The National ParkServices cite 764 as the death toll, in which the majority of these deaths were Black men (NPS,n.d.). Following congressional hearings and the public outcry about the working conditions atGauley Bridge, the Walsh Healy Act was passed in 1936, which was the first federal governmentintervention in worker safety and health (Bingham, 1980). This act only applied to contractorsworking on government-funded projects, which stipulated minimum wages, overtime wages, andsome health and safety requirements. Part of the act was to mandate the use of respirators,another way to shift the responsibility from the company to the workers
thesame way that experts learn (as Marshall M. Lib strongly suggested in 1996 to ASEE). Wepropose that conscious implementation of ungraded classrooms is an ideal means to deepenengineering formation. This paper examines the impact of ungraded classrooms in geotechnicalengineering classrooms at the junior and senior undergraduate levels. Throughout this timeperiod student opinion surveys and student learning outcomes data have been collected toevaluate the effectiveness and reception of ungraded classrooms. These classrooms have a finalgrade, but the individual homework, quizzes, projects, and exams are treated as assignments inthe engineering office. They are submitted, reviewed, and then revised. Revisions occur as manytimes as needed until
Society (STS) joined forces with the Chair of the Engineering Department atLoyola University Maryland (LUM) to radically transform the university’s introductoryengineering course. The former contributor arrived at the project having spent several yearsexperimenting in the classroom with various pedagogical strategies intended to historicize forengineering students the political, social, and economic context in which they (and those whocame before them) have lived, learned, and worked. That the complementary interests and skillsof a recent STS PhD and a seasoned Electrical Engineer would converge on the same problem(i.e., How to place engineering in context?) and at the same moment in time (i.e., mid-2022) maybe fortuitous. More likely, though, it
ofinformation [30, 31]. From there, five best practices of podcasting were presented and elaboratedon in the lecture. Students were encouraged to provide examples of how they had or had not seenthese best practices done in their homework assignment. This conversation was followed up byintroducing students to campus technology and support resources. Students were encouraged totake advantage of library technology and support resources to ensure that their project wassuccessful. Next, podcast formatting options, project management suggestions, and copyrightlaw for finding outside content were discussed in detail. This lecture ended with tutorials of thesoftwares Audacity and Garageband for the creation of podcasts [32].Podcasting and Science Communication
. Each engineering kit guided families through an engineering design process– identifying a task or problem, research, plan/design, create, test, reiterate, and communicate.Each kit included low-cost materials (e.g., straws, electrical tape, LED lights), a child guide, anda facilitation guide with built in supports such as optional open-ended questions andtroubleshooting tips. See our project website at (blinded) for access to the kits and guides. As anexample of an engineering problem, families were tasked with the following: It is challenging for stray animals to survive extreme weather conditions. Your task is to design a prototype of an animal house that will help stray animals survive extreme weather conditions
technicalengineer has also evolved into a “team-player entrepreneur” [3, pp. 2], someone who can provideengineering solutions in a much broader context.Another important facet of educating the modern engineer is exposure to interdisciplinaryexperiences and projects. Like EM, the term interdisciplinary has many varied definitions [9].One common definition of interdisciplinary competency is “a process of answering a question,solving a problem, or addressing a topic that is too broad or complex to be dealt with adequatelyby a single discipline or profession” [4, pp. 3]. Other descriptions state that “interdisciplinarityhas often been characterized – and implicitly defined – as borrowing; researchers or instructorsborrow concepts, theories, or methods from one
valuable to an electrician as well as to an electrical engineer.The dual enrollment courses further seek to scaffold the students’ academic preparation byintegrating assignments and content related to what they are learning in their math, science, andlanguage arts classes. The engineering applications can help motivate the students to learn theacademic content, while the inquiry-based nature of the curriculum can help provide insight. Wehave observed many existing technical elective courses offered in high schools to follow a modelof project-based “doing” rather than project-based “learning.” The students follow a series ofsteps laid out in a manual and produce a cool project, but they don’t necessarily understand whatthey have done and wouldn’t
Saint Vincent College. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania, a Board Certified Environmental Engineer, a Diplomate Water Resources Engineer, a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His current professional service includes the ASCE Committee on Education and the ASCE Civil Engineering Program Criteria Task Committee.Wayne R Bergstrom Wayne Bergstrom is a Principal Engineer at Bechtel Infrastructure and a Bechtel Fellow. His technical focus is on heavy civil and earthwork engineering for Bechtel’s major infrastructure projects throughout the world. Bergstrom received a Ph.D. in civil/geotechnical engineering from the
4INVENTION EDUCATION: POSITIONING YOUTH AS AGENTS OF CHANGEstudents as mentors who, with the support of classroom teachers and community partners, deliverinvention-specific programming scaffolded to grade levels (elementary, middle and high school),where youth engage in invention by utilizing human-centered design themes to frame STEMactivities, having a team-based, open-ended invention project, and learning the steps in theinvention process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test). The first step in human-centereddesign is for the inventor, designer, or engineer to empathize with a user in order to better definea problem from the user’s point of view. Then the inventor applies STEM concepts and practicesto ideate (brainstorm) solutions and
student. Many first-year students do not yet understand the connection betweencommunication skills and their future engineering careers [3], but implementing WID activitiescan help students better understand the connection.WID activities can range in size and complexity from students writing a short explanation of acalculation up to students developing a full technical report about a project or experiment. Whenlooking for effective ways to incorporate writing into ENGR 101, we knew it would be importantto show the students how writing is essential in engineering, not just talk about it. Therefore, wedeliberately integrated writing throughout the semester with a variety of assignment types.Student comments on anonymous end-of-the-semester course
resources and research practices ● Providing consultations to biomedical engineering faculty, researchers, and students at each stage of the research life cycle, on topics such as research data management, scholarly publishing, grant development, and research integrity ● Partnering with faculty by actively contributing to research proposals and projects, curriculum development and delivery, and evidence-based decision makingThe size of the Biomedical Engineering program has increased and that has resulted in the BMEliaison librarian having an opportunity to focus more on the design of 100 level classes.Connections between the library and the BME department have always been strong, but now theapproach is more
3 CENG 402 Sustainable Water and Sanitation 3 CENG 403 Foundation Analysis and Design 3 CENG 404 Construction Management 3 CENG 405 Pavement Analysis and Design 3 CENG 406 Pre-stressed Concrete 3 CENG 500 Senior Project 5 Civil Engineering Electives CENG 501 Reinforced Concrete III 3 CENG 502 Earthquake Engineering 3 CENG 503 Sustainable Water 3 CENG 504 Bridge Analysis and Design 3 CENG 505
researchers take care of all their livingneeds (planning meals, cooking, cleaning). Because they had no transportation, the researchassociates spent all their time at the WHMF except for occasional trips to West Jefferson, NorthCarolina (an approximate 15-minute drive, one way) or outings related to the needs of WHMF.Host partners west and Redman served as learning guides and mentors. They identified projectneeds and shared knowledge, however they largely entrusted the research associates to designand complete the projects. These projects ranged in scale and scope from repairs (e.g.,retrofitting a 200 square-foot building with shear bracing on the foundation) to designingprocesses (e.g., a humane process to harvest livestock). While there were
traditionally comefrom small farming towns that are dehydrated from educational and occupational resources(Klutter, 1980). These areas remain economically disenfranchised and environmentallyneglected. Virginia’s higher education and health institutions acknowledge the plights ofAppalachian communities and develop community-based projects embedded in their researchand courses to serve and meet their needs as well as similar underserved communities (GobblerConnect, n.d.). Similarly, institutions are embedding additional support structures for Blackcommunities [especially along the coastal areas of Virginia] that are navigating anti-Blackracism, environmental issues regarding rising sea levels, financial strain due to significant wealthgaps, and more
Development in UW–Madison College of En- gineering’s Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity in Engineering (IEDE) Office, and the Assistant Director of Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB). Don also serves as PI and co-PI of multiple NSF-funded projects, including: the NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Aspire Alliance, the NSF IUSE: Inclusive STEM Teaching Project, and the NSF LEAPS: EVOLVED project. He received his Ph.D. in Cell & Molecular Biology (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and B.S. in Biology (Bucknell University). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Creating Inclusivity in Engineering Teaching and Learning Contexts: Adapting the Aspire
unfamiliar organizational context and negotiatereal world engineering projects with escalating complexities and uncertainties. Career resilienceplays an important role in early career engineers’ identify transition from students to professionals,yet current literature examining the career resilience of engineers is rather limited, and the samplesof resilience studies were largely confined to engineers in North America. Based on interviewswith 16 early career engineers in China, this paper presents a grounded theory analysis of thedevelopment of career resilience for recent engineering graduates at the workplace. The studyfound that perceived mini-crises, supporting resources, and positive adaptation are the threeladders of career resilience for