theStudio Habits of Mind as defined through studies in arts classrooms through Bers’ [8] [9] notionof Positive Technological Development. During the Creepy Carrots project, we witnessed manyof the aforementioned dispositions and the following discussion will describe a few instanceswhere the Studio Habits of Mind and the six C’s of Positive Technological Developmentintersected. In the interest of time, we have chosen to explore those intersections that were mostprevalent in our analysis. This is by no means an exhaustive analysis of the intersection of thesebehaviors in this study or possible in subsequent studies. The authors suggest that further studymay reveal additional connections and deepen complexity and understanding of theseintersections
Research and Outreach Center in the School of Engineering, Mathematics and Science. In 2019, Dr. Kerzmann joined the Me- chanical Engineering and Material Science (MEMS) department at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the advising coordinator and associate professor in the MEMS department, where he positively engages with numerous mechanical engineering advisees, teaches courses in mechanical engineering and sustainability, and conducts research in energy systems. Throughout his career, Dr. Kerzmann has advised over eighty student projects, some of which have won regional and international awards. A recent project team won the Utility of Tomorrow competition, outperforming fifty-five international teams to bring
expertise; manage and lead projects; understand basic businessprinciples needed in small and large companies; and ideate when there are not alreadyestablished explicit design specifications.As a curriculum, most Mechanical Engineering programs by necessity are discipline focused,without much flexibility. Curricular changes typically involve a long process and significantjustification. There are also a number of required foundational courses such as math, physics,and mechanics that are followed by the obligatory ME-focused courses such as thermodynamics,fluids, dynamics, labs, and design courses. The sheer breadth of required courses significantlyconstrains the time available to explore other critical skills. These curricula are additionallyshaped
of proactive trainings andeducational resources to benefit all students. Understanding what institutional and programmaticexperiences engineers indicate as critical to their mental health will allow us to develop targetedinterventions, more inclusive teaching practices, and thoughtful advising guidelines.Furthermore, the study allows us to develop conceptual models about how academic culturedevelops in undergraduate programs. Here we describe the first phase of the project to developnew measures of students’ perceptions of a high stress culture in engineering and to understandfaculty and staff perspectives of undergraduate mental health.Project OverviewThe project CAREER: Supporting Undergraduate Mental Health by Building a Culture
will be encouraged to go into the interdisciplinary fields without feelingdisadvantaged compared to computer science majors. For instance, a student majoring in biologywill be more confident pursuing a degree/career in fields like biotechnology, bioengineeringwhich spans technology and biology after being introduced to computational thinking in abiology class [6]. Moreover, there has been a lot of effort by government and research agencies toencourage young people into STEM and technology careers. With this work of ours, we believeUniversity of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) will be doing its due diligence in supportingthese efforts. With this project, we want to take the initiative to start the CT pedagogicalmovement in our institution to
Engineering (Major: Industrial and Systems Engineering) from Anna University [Tamilnadu, India], her MS in Industrial Engineering from Auburn University, her MA in Management Science and MS in Applied Statistics from The University of Alabama. She has experi- ence working with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution etc. on transportation and operations management projects. She works extensively with food banks and food pantries on supply chain management and logistics focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are integral part of her service-learning based logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her
online. Specifically, the campus itself was closed to students and faculty alike, resulting in a hands-on laboratory component that shifted to an ad-hoc “kitchen table” video demonstration format. For senior capstone industrial sponsored projects, the team meetings, sponsor interactions, and project presentations were all converted to a “virtual” format. However, the biggest thing I missed was the interaction with the students in the classroom. I felt the environment was not as interactive and the students tended not to be as engaged. Course content was delivered virtually with lab videos recorded showing how the labs were performed (by the instructor) and the data were collected and sent to the students
libraries.Linda M. N. Struble, Pennsylvania State University Linda Struble is the manager of the Engineering Library on the University Park campus of the Penn- sylvania State University. She graduated from the College of Arts and Architecture and the Schreyer Honors College of the Pennsylvania State University in 2010. Her interests include onboarding, student engagement, sustainability, project management, and operations. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Engineering Libraries and Student Organizations: Working Together to Enhance Outreach to Underrepresented GroupsABSTRACTRecruiting and retaining a diverse student population is extremely
cover student-selected topics outside my expertise, anunreasonable evaluation plan, and a student resistance to the concept of setting their own plan ofstudy. The potential benefits were seen to outweigh the potential pitfalls. The resultingexperiment was to manage the course as an engineering manager should manage an engineeringdepartment with the team setting the goals and project plan subject to managerial approval.The first night of class I arrived with a syllabus which contained the basics – course description,details of when the course met, my grading philosophy, my contact, and my office hours. Theonly class topic on the syllabus was that night’s – “Introduction and Course Development”. Afterintroducing myself to the class, I offered
economic and technological competitiveness. Often pre-college students Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section Conferencehave not been introduced to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) ina way to attract them to the fields as a career. This has been particularly challengingfor the engineering field, since specific instruction in engineering is quite limited in K-12 settings, with most engineering offerings not appearing until the high schoolyears. In an effort to increase awareness, programs such as Engineering is Elementar and Project Lead the Wa have developed curricula that can be used in school settings, andprograms such as FIRST have been developed to pique interest in engineering and sciencethough
Education at The Ohio State University. She holds degrees in Electrical Engineering (BS, ME) from the Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU) in Davao City, Philippines, and in Engineering Education (PhD) from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include learning experiences in fundamental engineering courses and data-informed reflective practice. Michelle’s professional experience includes roles in industry and academia, having worked as a software engineer, project lead and manager before becoming Assistant Professor and Department Chair for Elec- trical Engineering at the Ateneo de Davao University.Dr. Tamoghna Roy, DeepSig Inc. Tamoghna Roy works as a Principal Engineer at DeepSig where he is responsible for creating
education possesses the characteristic of"technology-led, project-based team learning, close ties with the industry”. To name a few,Stanford University launches Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), providingcustomized entrepreneurship courses for engineering students according to their educationlevel, which are given by both school and industry mentor [2]. Technical University ofMunich, a paragon of European entrepreneurial universities, sets up UnternehmerTUM andStart TUM to provide students with comprehensive guidance on the whole process of theirstarting a business, such as providing hands-on entrepreneurship training, basic equipment forproducing product prototypes in their start-up period [3]. Numerous School ofEntrepreneurship and
Institutional Innovation Staring from the Grassroots LevelAbstractIn this project, a town hall meeting was conducted with faculty and staff from all departments ina college of engineering. Teams of 10-12 people were asked to generate ideas for collaborativeexchange among faculty, staff, and students to better support student success, retention andprogression. The purpose of the town hall format was to intentionally initiate change within thecollege from the grass root levels instead of mandates coming top down. Dozens of ideas weregenerated, qualitatively sorted into common themes, and ordered by frequency. Each theme wasthen discussed in a meeting with administration to assign relative weights for anticipated costand perceived impact
Research (CEER) which examines innovative and effective engineering education practices as well as classroom technologies that advance learning and teaching in engineering. He is also working on National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects exploring engineering design thinking. His areas of research include engineering design thinking, adult learning cognition, engineering education professional development and technical training. He has extensive international experience working on technical training and engineering educaton projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and U.S. Department of Labor, USAID. Countries where he has worked include Armenia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Macedonia, Poland
confident that many aspects can be generalized into the general academic settingregardless of research disciplinary focus area.Tuckman’s 5 Stages of Team Development [1], Figure 1, is very much applicable for teams thatare required to work together versus teams that choose to work together. As educators, wecommonly see these stages play out in group design projects, especially when it comes to the“storming” stage when students start complaining about their peers and show frustration towardsthe inability to be productive as a group. Tuckman’s model offers a good foundation, yet theauthors set out to propose a modified framework that describes the stages that occur when people“choose” to work together, versus Tuckman’s model which describes the
with engineering department faculty, staff, advisors, andfemale students. By understanding how and why elective tracks become gendered withinengineering majors, we hope to identify effective strategies for improving the preparation ofwomen to pursue technical roles and career paths in their chosen field of study, with the broadgoal of improving the workplace retention of female engineers.As this project is ongoing, we plan to present preliminary results based on wave one (1)interviews with 30 female engineering students in their sophomore year (the year when electivetrack selections are made).Project Background and Theoretical FrameworkExisting research shows that men and women in gender-typed occupations – such as engineering– often
Koretsky is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in Chemical Engineering. He currently has research activity in areas related engineering education and is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher-level cognitive and social skills in engineering problem solving. His research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of
international engineering teamwork behaviors, the integration, and implementation of team-based assignments and projects into STEM course designs and using mixed-method, especially natural language processing to student written research data, such as peer-to-peer comments. Siqing also works as the technical support manager at CATME research group.Dr. Wei Zakharov, Purdue University at West Lafayette Wei Zakharov is an Assistant Professor of Library Science and Engineering Information Specialist in the Purdue University Libraries. Dr.Zakharov is the faculty liaison to Aeronautical and Astronautical Engi- neering, Aviation and Transportation Technology, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering Education. Her
multiple awards for excellence in instruction. He also has worked on several research projects, programs, and initiatives to help students bridge the gap between high school and college as well as preparing students for the rigors of mathematics. His research interests include engineering education, integration of novel technologies into engineering classroom, excellence in instruction, water, and wastewater treatment, civil engineering infrastructure, and transportation engi- neering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Pilot Program: Infusing Rubin Education into First-Year SeminarIntroductionThe purpose of this GIFTS and paper is to
/computer science students was conducted at the University of New Mexico. The scholarshipprogram involved elements such as faculty mentoring, career development activities and financial support foreach student scholar. In this paper, the program details are furnished and data on the positive impacts of suchactivities on student academic success is presented. IntroductionThe S-STEM (Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) project (NSFAward ID 1458854) at the University of New Mexico (UNM) officially started awarding scholarships in the fall2015. Funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation, the S-STEM project at UNM focuses onretaining and graduating
interdisciplinary teams were formed, each with a distinct designchallenge.InstructionwascarriedoutthroughacombinationofonlinelearningfollowingtheIDEOdesignthinkingcurriculum,aswellastraditionallecture,andinteractivediscussions.Studentparticipationandlearningwas recorded in a central physical or electronic notebook, and assessed through a combination ofquizzes,andprojectupdates,andothermeans.Settingupmilestonesthatthestudentshadtomeetalongthewaywereusedtoencouragestudentgroupstocommunicatewithoneanotherandensurethattheyweremakingprogress.ThedesignsweretestedbymembersofthepublicataChallengeevent,aswellasbytheneed-knoweroftheirteam.Finally,studentswererequiredtocreateavideopresentationoftheir final design as a way to both conclude the class project and
of New Mexico, Albuquerque Copyright © 2020, American Society for Engineering Education 2 Gen3 CSP Program DiscussionIn order to investigate the integration challenges of a CSP-TES system with a sCO2 power cycle,the DOE has issued “The Generation 3 Concentrating Solar Power Systems (Gen3 CSP) fundingprogram will build on prior research for high-temperature concentrating solar thermal power(CSP) technologies. Projects will focus on de-risking CSP technologies by advancing high-temperature components and developing integrated assembly designs with thermal energy storagethat can reach high operating temperatures.4” The Gen 3 program is
, a conceptual drone that utilizes Titan’s methane oceans asa fuel supply for repeatable flight will be designed. The proposed methane fuel supply may beapplied to future drones and even in larger-scaled aircrafts performing research missions on Titan.Future work for this project includes further investigation of the liquid methane refueling system, theliquid methane/liquid oxygen propulsion system, control mechanisms, and structural analysis andmaterial integrity in the environments of Titan. A prototype of this exploration drone could bedeveloped in as soon as 2 years. References[1] Hassanalian, M., Rice, D. and Abdelkefi, A., “Evolution of space drones for planetary exploration: a review
automated waterproof system that measuresand detects traces of nitrite, nitrate, and ammonia using the API method in a mid-to-large sized watercontainer. This means that the system will automatically dose and mix the solutions followed bycalculating the concentration of the elements based on their colors. The device within the overallsystem will detect the concentration of these aquatic livestock byproducts and alert the user of actionsthat should be taken to balance the water chemistry of the breeding environment. The “wow factor”of the project will be the design of this device and layout of the overall automated system, as it willbe unique to any system out on the market.Sampling BreakdownThe system will monitor the aquatic tank by rotating the
interest andknowledge. Four different projects were designed: 1) a 3D-printed spirograph, 2) a night light, 3) anoptical intrusion detection with memory, and 4) a traffic light. Students who participated in the camp(N=56) built and optimized their own take-home electronic devices. Pre- and post-surveys were collectedto analyze the students’ engineering self-efficacy, knowledge, and engineering skills. Results suggestedthat students’ self-efficacy and beliefs in succeeding in engineering majors and careers increased aftertheir experiences in the camp; they also improved their engineering knowledge and skills (p
subject matter expertise, adeep understanding of effective pedagogy and experience and/or interest in adopting evidence-based teaching practices. With support from the National Science Foundation, Stevens Institute ofTechnology began working with cohorts of teaching faculty who teach the core Science, Math andEngineering courses taken by 85% of first year students. Faculty worked together for three yearsto change their instructional practices with the goal to increase the use of active learning andfacilitate development of deep and transferable learning [1]. The General Chemistry curriculum atStevens Institute of Technology, as part of this NSF Foundations project, was redesigned tofacilitate student engagement, motivation and interaction with
co-author on an engineering textbook, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, which is used worldwide in over 250 institutions. Dr. Bailey has served as the Principal Investigator (PI) on several externally funded efforts, most recently for the RIT NSF ADVANCE Institu- tional Transformation grant (2012-2019). The goal of this large-scale ($3.4M), multi-year university-level organizational transformation effort is to increase the representation and advancement of women STEM faculty. The project has resulted in impactful new programs, practices, and policies as well as a new dedicated unit within the Office of the Provost.Dr. Naveen Sharma, Rochester Institute of TechnologyLana Verschage, Rochester Institute of
and a PhD.In my experience in STEM, I have constantly been underestimated and mis labeled in theareas of which I found interest. This constant mis categorization and lack of representationcreated a strong sense of not belonging which drove me to me the representation in myfield and create the support structures that I did not have that would have made adifference for me walking my path. On this project I worked in conjunction with two stellarcolleagues Kathy Chen, situated to my left in the picture, the Executive Director of theSTEM Education Center at WPI, who is the daughter of immigrant parents from Taiwan, cis-female, middle-class, able-bodied, PhD. Kathy is someone who always felt as an outsider ornot belonging in STEM, she used her
Paper ID #33883Work in Progress: Evaluation of a Remote Undergraduate ResearchExperience in Chemical EngineeringDr. Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Professor and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement and testing. In her position, Sarah is responsible for developing instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and projects, and working with faculty to
duration of the CISTAR grant. The process will rununtil the end of the CISTAR NSF project, estimated for 2027. The survey will be sent yearly toan estimated maximum of 1155 participants of CISTAR programs (which includes students fromsecondary education through graduate education in a variety of ongoing and summerprogramming). Each participant will be contacted via a provided email to update theirprofessional progression. The maximum amount of time that a participant might be in the studyis starting in Summer 2021 through Fall 2027. As new cohorts of participants in CISTAR engagewith the center each year, they will be added to the study.Survey developmentThe first round of surveys comprises four topics: task difficulty questions, identity