optimistic projections about nanotechnological growththat fuel this initiative. In the face of unclear promise about that sector's future, we consider theconsequences of such plans for the most marginalized groups of workers; a sectordisproportionately minority in make-up.To indicate the origins, consequences, and robust nature of such optimism about newtechnologies in American culture, we compare discourse surrounding the PaNMT Partnership toearlier positive invocations of technology as a means of economic uplift. We consider howplanners in Chicago, facing decaying heavy industry and shrinking employment in the 1960s,turned to similarly upbeat depictions of emerging technologies and the post-secondary training ofworkers for that sector. We identify
AC 2010-948: HELPING ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE STUDENTS FIND THEIRVOICE: RADIO PRODUCTION AS A WAY TO ENHANCE STUDENTS'COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND THEIR COMPETENCE AT PLACINGENGINEERING AND SCIENCE IN A BROADER SOCIETAL CONTEXTAri Epstein, MIT ARI W. EPSTEIN is a lecturer in the MIT Terrascope program, and also in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is the lead developer and instructor of Terrascope Radio and serves as the director of Terrascope Youth Radio. He is particularly interested in team-oriented, project-based learning, and in bridging the gap between learning in formal academic settings and learning in "free-choice" or "informal" settings, such as museums, media
Idaho where he has taught since 1987. He is college coordinator of the inter-disciplinary senior design program and is an active participant in research activities within the National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology. He has published numerous articles on curriculum design and facilitation of active learning, assessment of professional skills within project courses, and knowledge management involving engineering software tools.Andrea Bill, University of Madison-WisconsinMichael Kyte, University of Idaho, MoscowKevin Heaslip, Utah State University Kevin Heaslip is an assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering specializing in Trans- portation Engineering. He received his PhD from
the MSTprogram are coordinated by the Department of Technological Studies. The Department ofTechnological Studies provides all of the T&E courses and has five full time professors and~6 adjunct professors. Educational requirements and advising for the MST students arecoordinated by the School of Education.Four works set important context for the Department of Technological Studies curriculumand the design of the MST program: (i) Benchmarks for Science Literacy (“Project 2061”),(ii) Technological Literacy Counts, (iii) Standards for Technological Literacy (STL) and (iv)Technically speaking- why all Americans need to know more about technology.2-5 Thesedocuments discuss the important role of teacher preparation in meeting educational goals
Paper ID #8256Challenges and opportunities in developing STEM curricula for tertiary in-stitutions in Africa: Materials Science and Engineering at AUST-AbujaProf. Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Penn State University Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering, has been a Penn State faculty member for the last thirty-six years. Prior to this he spent one and a half years as a research metallurgist and project leader with AMAX Extractive Metallurgy Lab (Golden, CO) working on a variety of industrial research projects in hydrometallurgy. Osseo-Asare
great deal of team learning. Major portions of the specialty area could be covered through project-based learning involving teams made up of students from several different class levels. Care would have to be taken, however, to ensure that all students do meaningful work. Seniors can’t just be bosses who make all the decisions; first-year students can’t be just “gophers.” And there is often a small portion of freeloaders. Overall, however, we believe that any disadvantages are more than outweighed by the advantage of having students work together on projects in which they are highly interested. • Textbooks: The textbooks that most of us use are based on a traditional chemical
9Future Oriented 8.3 10A second generation profile was produced by the project leadership team, based on input fromthe first survey and a desire for more observable attributes that can aid communication of desiredperformances to students, faculty, supervisors of engineers, and the engineers themselves. In thesecond draft profile development, some regrouping and expansion was done to addresssuggestions of the focus group. The resulting profile contained eleven attributes: motivation,technical competence, judgment/decision making, innovation, client/quality focus, businessorientation, product development, professional/ethical, teamwork, change management, andcommunication. Each of these was further delineated by
3 1 3 25 32.89% Writing for professional12 journals 3 7 3 1 1 1 1 2 8 2 29 38.16% Moving into supervisory13 positions 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 10.53% Research or working on14 design projects with a college or university 2 5 1 1 3 1 7 20 26.32% Attending technical
Paper ID #40917Progressive Insights in use of Machine Learning to Support StudentEngagement Diversity: The XYZ EduOwl chatbotDr. Arezou Shafaghat, Kennesaw State University I am a results-oriented and motivated professor, consultant, and scientist with over ten years of interna- tional professional experience in sustainable and smart urban development.Mohammad Jonaidi Dr. Jonaidi obtained his Ph.D. from Sydney University and is currently working at Kennesaw State University. During 38 years of research and industry professions, he has been involved in analysis and design of complex structural projects such as: FEA of high
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in critical thinking, in mathematical reasoning and analysis, a firm grounding in scientific and engineering methodologies and knowledge to address the complex, multidisciplinary, and multidimensional problems that humanity faces now and will in the future. Of course, educators in all fields are actively trying to change and be more effective. However, most engineering schools have not gone through fundamental changes since 1970’s. Although engineering is fundamentally pragmatic, hands-‐on, and project and application driven, engineering education has been drifting away from that approach since 1970-‐80s. By the end of 1980’s most major
general, and toward both aerospace and engineering inparticular. The seminar has also been useful in recruiting students to participate in extra-curricular high-altitude ballooning, and other MnSGC-sponsored aerospace projects (seeAppendix A), in subsequent semesters.Freshman Seminar OrganizationSpaceflight with Ballooning (Freshman Seminar) has the following (brief) course description: Outer space, sometimes called the Final Frontier, has always been difficult to reach due to the tremendous expense of rocket launches and the limited number of launch opportunities. In this hands-on course we will design and build mini-spacecraft and use (relatively) inexpensive helium-filled weather balloons to carry them into “near-space” – the upper
disposition. Dr. Lim and colleagues are currently developing, testing, and refining a survey instrument to assess students’ impulsive-analytic disposition. They have been investigating instructional strategies, such as use of prediction items and classroom vot- ing with clicker technology, to help students become aware of their impulsivity and to elicit and address mathematical misconceptions. Dr. Lim is also exploring the use of mathematical tasks to provoke stu- dents’ intellectual need for the concepts they are expected to learn. Lately, Dr. Lim has been involved in the iMPaCT-Math project to investigate the use of programming activities to foster student learning of foundational algebraic concepts.Mrs. Sharie Kranz
ofNorthern California) but now is part of a nationally coordinated effort (through NCSEA,National Council of Structural Engineers Associations) with many chapters in many differentstates. To learn more about this work and to glimpse the strengths and weaknesses of theinitiative, I interviewed past and current leaders of SE3 from SEAONC, reviewed materialsavailable on their website, and looked at some internal resources that were shared with me. Iinterviewed ten people between April 2022 and August 2022 via zoom. I have kept theirquotations anonymous and sent a draft for their review, to be sure that no unwanted identifyingmarkers remained. Prior to this work, I contacted the UCLA Institutional Board of Review aboutthis project, explained my research
knowledge andsociocultural issues in their field. For example, Franquesa [42], who obtained a Bachelor’sdegree in computer science engineering and a Master’s degree in sustainability, implementedservice-learning activities where students fixed and updated old (and sometimes broken)computers for local communities; Holloway [43], who was the department chair in Electrical andComputer Engineering and the director of an institute bringing policy-side perspectives on powerand energy, offered a class on global energy issues; and Bielefeldt [44], who holds a PhD in civilengineering and is interested in sustainability and social responsibility in engineering, employedtwo case studies consisting of a controversial local water supply project and Hurricane
better way than the traditional lecturemethod that could get through to more students and keep students engaged with the material.Something of an epiphany occurred while talking with a Computer Science colleague about theinability to keep students engaged in class. The colleague asked, “have you heard aboutPOGIL?” “What’s POGIL?”, was the natural reply.POGIL stands for Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning. The POGIL Project, a non-profitorganization dedicated to widening the use of POGIL, describes this pedagogy as “a student-centered, group-learning instructional strategy and philosophy developed through research onhow students learn best” [3]. The key element in POGIL is the use of worksheets, or “guidedinquiries” that students work
: • describe the trends of scholarship in engineering; • demonstrate understanding of the research lifecycle in engineering publications; • critically evaluate data management planning through case study review of an engineering project plan; • compare scientometrics rankings of engineering publications and conferences to quality markers; • contrast and evaluate the methods of evidence synthesis and original research; • compare the implementation of evidence synthesis research methods and standards in engineering scholarship and disciplines; • develop a draft paper publication; o prepare a research pitch or proposal
elective options.The goal of this curriculum is to provide a wide range of enterprise managers and otherprofessionals with the analytical and analogical tools enterprise wide systemsdevelopment, integration, management, and optimization. As it will be defined by thisprogram, ESIM will cover a wide range of competencies pertinent to enterprise systemsat all levels, including: • Management and human resource systems • Organizational design and structure • Decision making and strategy setting • New product/service development • Project management • Production and operationsDuening & Goss 8 March 2008American Society for Engineering Education
can also include demonstrations of real-world applications. Forexample, in the capstone design courses and projects, students can use relatively inexpensivemicrocontrollers such as Arduino, Raspberry PI, and Beaglebone to serve as complementaryhardware with the myDAQ from National Instruments. These affordable microcontrollers havebeen investigated or used by past student group projects. Instructors can also use myDAQ andthe microcontrollers to demonstrate key concepts found in circuit analysis and electronicscourses. To further promote user engagement, any student questions raised from the interactiveand multimedia content can be addressed in the online and required interactive chat sessions.From an online perspective, synchronous delivery
Paper ID #42084Work-in-Progress: Pursuing STEM/STEAM Certification as a Method forMaintaining an Integrated STEM/STEAM Learning EnvironmentTalia Capozzoli Kessler, Georgia Institute of Technology Talia Kessler, MSPP is a research associate at The Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) at Georgia Tech. As a research associate, she works on research and evaluation projects centering on K-12 STEM education. She has a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Georgia Tech and is currently studying towards a PhD in Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University.Keisha Simmons, Georgia
]. Deleuze and Guattari see desire as an internal force, as researchers, driving ourknowledge contribution. “We desire, not because we lack something that we do not have, butbecause of the forces and action that are actively becoming” [6]. This project is a continuation of‘becoming’ a doctoral student professional, researching and constantly evolving.Climate change and the “wicked problems” [7] associated with it, are a global reality.Unfortunately, today’s leaders tend to focus on the current rather than issues that willsignificantly impact the future [8]. Culturally, many people have not accepted the urgency ofclimate change. However, renewable energy resources appear to be one of the most efficientways to curb the environmental problems
engineering senior design projects already had industry sponsorship, and a significant number of Bucknell alumni had also gone on to found businesses, such as Home Depot, Lending Tree, StellaService, Kiva.org, Quidsi, The Pit, YCombinator, and Integra Life Sciences. Strategic Planning and Innovation Working Group Two key events marked a more intentional approach to building an ecosystem. The first was a oneday summer retreat in 2010. At this meeting, coled by an internal and an external facilitator, a first draft of the image in Figure 1 was created as a way to graphically represent the current status of the ecosystem. Video clips of the meeting can be found at
pedagogical materials fail to engage students incritical thinking. We believe that these examples are representative of typical situationsencountered by students and instructors at many institutions, and that they provide a clear andaccurate assessment of some fundamental issues that must be addressed.Anecdotes from Student Questions. In the last two years or so, several of our formerstudents have visited us to ask questions pertaining to their current course projects. Strikingly,although their questions varied in topic, all questions fit a disturbing pattern. In each case thestudents began by saying “we just have one question,” implying that only one ‘simple’ obstaclestood in the way of completing their project. After a few minutes of
Aggrawal, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI) Sakhi Aggrawal is a Graduate Research Fellow in Computer and Information Technology department at Purdue University. She completed her master’s degree in Business Analytics from Imperial College London and bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Technology and Organizational Leadership from Purdue University. She worked in industry for several years with her latest jobs being as project manager at Google and Microsoft. Her current research focuses on integrating project management processes in undergraduate education. Her main goal is to understand how work management and product development practices widely used in industry can be modified and adapted to
activities as more important.These four activities are: traditional research; research with undergraduates; funding fromexternal sources; and creative, innovative or entrepreneurial activities. Teaching; advisingstudent clubs and projects; and service to the department, college or university were judged bythe deans to count about the same today as they did five years ago. A majority of thecomprehensive universities per the 1994 National Survey11 reported that professional activitiesand service to the institution held steady in value over time. Teaching rose in value at 58% ofthe responding comprehensive institutions. In the case of research, the responses were equallymixed between holding steady over time or counting more. In contrast, publication
Paper ID #39087”Say It Anyhow You Can”: Unpacking How Engineering Faculty MembersApproach Culturally Relevant Engineering Education at an Iraqi UniversityMoses Olayemi, Purdue University, West Lafayette Moses Olayemi is a Doctoral Candidate and Bilsland Dissertation Fellow in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests revolve around the professional development of engineering educators in low resource/post-conflict settings and the design and contextualization of in- struments to measure the impact of educational interventions. Research projects on these topics have and are currently
Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin. He was also involved with forensic investigations in Iowa and Wisconsin and participated in structural coordination efforts at Ground Zero in September of 2001. He holds professional engineering licenses in the states of Arizona and Illinois. John’s academic interests lie in the field of student-centered learning and teaching and discipline- based educational research.Davis Ray My name is Davis Ray. I am 21 years old, and a life-long resident of Arizona. I am a first year Mechanical Engineering graduate student at Northern Arizona University. My primary research project is sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, and focuses on improving engineering education
(HDSTEM) curriculum uses a humanities format as a context todiscuss science and engineering advancement. The foundation of an HDSTEM curriculum is thatit would reassert the importance of humans and human impact in science and engineering, whilerecognizing the social, political, and cultural catalysts and outcomes of technological innovation.Therefore, we hypothesize that through an HDSTEM curriculum, students will not only developtechnically accurate solutions to problems posed in an engineering curriculum but will alsoquestion their ideas' impact on society. For this project, we draw on the case of an HDSTEMcourse, “World War II and Technology,” taught at Texas Tech University (TTU) and RochesterInstitute of Technology (RIT). Specifically, we
Dutton [10] to develop a job crafting scaleto assess the work design and work satisfaction of 118 employees in different industries, rangingacross education, business, financial operations, and construction. Also, job crafting theory hasbeen used to study the roles and responsibilities of early-career scholars in engineering education[7]. Studies within the field of organizational behavior have shown self-efficacy to be positivelycorrelated with job crafting tendencies [13], [14]. III. Methodology A. Research Project OverviewThis work is part of a larger multiple case study [2], [4] exploring the experiences andamplifying the voices of EIF at HSIs. Each participant was treated as a case. The current studydiscussed in this paper
has worked in the biotech (Principal Engineer), product design, and automotive (Toyota) sectors for two decades as a licensed Professional Engineer. He has also taught high school and attended seminary. When not in the office, you can find him in the mountains of Bozeman or working on his engineering education side projects at educadia.org or on his YouTube channel.William J. Schell (Associate Professor)Bryce E. Hughes (Associate Professor) Bryce E. Hughes is an Associate Professor in Adult and Higher Education at Montana State University, and holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Organizational Change from the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as an M.A. in Student Development Administration from Seattle