. The number of jobs available is 315,900. From 2014 to 2024, the job opportunities are projected to show little or no change.“Change in employment is expected to be tempered by slow growth or decline in mostmanufacturing sectors in which electrical and electronics engineers are employed. Job growth forelectrical and electronics engineers will occur largely in engineering services firms, becausemore companies are expected to cut costs by contracting their engineering services rather thandirectly employing engineers. These engineers also will be in demand to develop sophisticatedconsumer electronics. The rapid pace of technological innovation and development will likelydrive demand for electrical and electronics engineers in research
of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His re- search focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and their learning experiences. His projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers, their problem solving processes, and cultural fit. His education includes a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Bioengineering and Ph.D. in Engineer- ing and Science Education from Clemson University.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of
Department of Engineering and Applied Science EducationThe Need For over a decade, with initial funding from NSF, engineering faculty at the University ofNew Haven developed a response to calls for engineering education reform,1 which is now calledthe Multidisciplinary Engineering Foundation Spiral Curriculum (MEFSC).2-6 The curriculum,illustrated in Figure 1, consists of 10 multidisciplinary courses (EASC prefix), a subset of whichis taken by students across all engineering disciplines, primarily in the first two years. Thecourses are designed to develop both professional skills and foundational engineering concepts.First year courses are project-based, stressing the development of teamwork, project planningand communication skills. Sophomore
engineering majors, there have been undergraduatestudents from non-engineering majors as well as graduate students from both engineering andnon-engineering majors, providing a multidisciplinary environment for students to discuss andlearn about wicked problems.Although the semester-long project is a group project, students work on individual writingassignments that they submit throughout the semester. They are given prompts related to wickedproblems, sustainability, and social entrepreneurship, and they then write 600-1000 words inresponse to these prompts. These writing assignments require that students find appropriatereferences to provide facts and support their statements, but they also require some personalreflection, and convey each
Paper ID #19094Integrating Writing to Teach Engineered Environmental Systems DesignDr. Veera Gnaneswar Gude P.E., Mississippi State University Veera Gnaneswar Gude is a faculty member of civil and environmental engineering department at Mis- sissippi State University. He has degrees in chemical (B.S.) and environmental engineering (M.S., Ph.D.) disciplines with over 10 years of academic, industrial, and research experiences on various chemical and environmental engineering projects. He is a licensed professional engineer and a board certified environ- mental engineer. His passion for teaching continues for over 10 years
at Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Virginia in 2009 and moved to VCU in August 2016. Debra has served on the advisory board for Lighthouse for Computer Science (LH4CS). The goal of the Lighthouse project is to improve computer science diversity through faculty professional development. In addition, she is a member of the Advisory Council for the Deep Run High School’s Center for Informa- tion Technology in Glen Allen, Virginia, where she provides program support and assists in curriculum development for their technology-based preparatory program for future computer scientists.Dr. Mandayam Thirunarayanan, Florida International University Mandayam Osuri Thirunarayanan is an associate professor in the School of
Paper ID #24856The Role of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge in ASCE’s Raise theBar EffortHorst Brandes, University of Hawaii Horst Brandes is Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Hawaii (UH), where he has been a faculty member for the past 23 years. As a researcher, he has published nearly 100 scientific papers and conducted numerous research projects with funding in the millions of Dollars. He is the senior geotechnical engineering faculty member at UH. In addition to being a faculty member, he has been engaged in engineering practice for the past 25 years. In 2004, he founded Applied
Georgia Tech. Prior to his current appointments, he served as a Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education, via the National Academy of Engineering, as well as an Assistant Professor of Materials Engineering at the California Polytechnic State University.Megan F. Gambs, Boise State University Megan Gambs is the Project Manager for the Institute for STEM & Diversity Initiatives at Boise State University. She works towards improving access and success for those historically marginalized in STEM through programs with and opportunities for various stakeholder groups (e.g. students, teachers, and faculty). Her experience serving as a middle school science teacher in Nampa, Idaho, inform her work
results inthis paper.ResultsNegative perceptions of makerspace cultureUnderstanding women engineering students’ experiences and perceptions of makerspaces couldhelp us better understand how to improve makerspaces. While the participants had a wide rangeof perceptions, these negative themes point to critical concerns in makerspaces.One salient negative theme that participants experienced was that male students would oftendoubt their competency or attempt to dominate their project. While these women may interjectand attempt to assert their knowledge, the men would disregard them and sometimes even takeover their work.For instance, Betty, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student, described multiple instancesin which different male makers
Paper ID #25223Measuring Fidelity of Implementation in a Large-Scale Research Study (RTP)Dr. Cathy P. Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston Cathy Lachapelle leads the EiE team responsible for assessment and evaluation of our curricula. This includes the design and field-testing of assessment instruments and research on how children use EiE materials. Cathy is particularly interested in how collaborative interaction and scaffolded experiences with disciplinary practices help children learn science, math, and engineering. Her work on other STEM education research projects includes the national Women’s Experiences in College
to grade senior-capstone projects. [16] Jones and Abdallah haveventured into the area of performance indicators as a means to pinpoint more specific outcomesin a course. [17] Nayak et. al. has worked to compose rubrics that look to bridge the gap betweenthe course-outcomes in a laboratory setting to program-outcomes outlined by their department ofComputer Science and Engineering. [18] For Knecht, Moskal and Pavelich, their focus wascentralized around measuring and tracking growth in the design program at the Colorado Schoolof Mines. [19] In a study by Dancz, Plumblee II et al, civil engineering students were assessedduring their ‘Grand Challenge Sustainable Entrepreneurship Projects.’ [20] As evidenced by theabove, there is significant
Social factors Ethics, social systems, four public policy goals, public policy solutions Data security Threats, protection, response or recover, and social topicsProcedural analysis includes 11 short papers and a project. Unlike traditional classes whereassignments are isolated from other works, each paper will add towards the students’ projects.This way, students are not working on the project last-minute, and actively working towards afinal project product. The last type of analysis is the critical analysis. This ISAL class is anintroduction class to data science. Using Bloom’s Taxonomy, students are minimally expected tobe able to identify
experimentally characterized at themicro-scale.The overall goal of this research is to enhance the solid mechanics education by incorporatingmulti-scale experimental mechanics and visualization using scanning electron microscopy, digitalimage correlation (DIC), and mechanical testing into existing curricula. A multi-scale mechanicaland material experimentation (M3E) module for property characterization and materialvisualization is employed to transform undergraduate mechanics education. A schematic of theM3E module is shown in Figure 1. Informed by various components of our project, a frameworkfor an improved multi-scale solid mechanics education is developed that is complemented with anassessment method to evaluate students’ learning outcomes. At the
and Com- puter Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. At Rose-Hulman, he co-created the Inte- grated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, which was recognized in 1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He served as Project Director a National Science Foun- dation (NSF) Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized innovative undergraduate engineering curricula. He has authored over 70 papers and offered over 30 workshops on faculty development, curricular change processes, curriculum redesign, and assessment. He has served as a program co-chair for three Frontiers in Education Conferences and
skills reported by respondents is listed in Table 2. Table 2. Skills reported by student leaders as gained through OHI/O participation Communication Multi-directional communication Email communication Leading without authority Delegation of tasks Organization Teamwork Team-building Community building Leadership Web development Budgeting Fundraising/talking with sponsors Time management Event planning Hacking/technology skills Problem solving Project managementOne student
”Intellectual Property Law for Engineers and Scientists,” IEEE and John Wiley & Sons, Publishers (2004) c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 An Online Course on Intellectual Property for Undergraduates and Graduate Engineers and ScientistsIntroduction It can be said with a very high degree of confidence that all of the engineers and scientistsin our technology University classrooms at some point in their professional careers, will comeinto direct contact with the Intellectual Property Laws of this or other countries, and these lawswill have an impact on their extant projects. Whether using these Intellectual Property Laws toobtain exclusive rights covering their
energy engineering, by visiting more thanfifty industrial and commercial facilities, and reviewing more than two hundred energyefficiency improvement projects, author selected some of the most cost-effective ECMs whichcan result in significant energy savings and demand reduction for energy end-users. These ECMsinclude lowering the lighting power density by installing LED fixtures, affinity law and itsapplications in variable frequency drives installed on fans and pumps, high thermal efficiencywater heating systems, and installation of thermal energy storage. For each of the above ECMs,the author explains the concept of the ECM, how it may save energy, and what equipment isinvolved in that ECM. The discussion around the concept of each of the
the prediction and modelling of insidious cyber-attack patterns on host network layers. She also actively involved in core computing courses teaching and project development since 1992 in universities and companies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Applications of Linear Algebra applied to Big Data Analytics1. IntroductionThe digital universe (the data we create and copy annually) is doubling every two years and willreach 44 zettabytes (44 trillion gigabytes) in 2020 [1]. The stored digital data volume has grownexponentially over the past few years [2, 3]. In 1986, only three exabytes of data existed and in2011 it went up to 300 exabytes [3], and at the end of 2020 it might
Fellow and has been a White House invitee discussing STEM Inclusion. Dr. Lester holds professional memberships in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).Dr. Sahithya Reddivari, Georgia State University Sahithya Reddivari is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Georgia State University. She teaches freshman and sophomore engineering courses including, Introduction to Engineering, Engineering De- sign and Graphics (2D and 3D modeling) and Statics. She has developed experiential learning projects for first-year engineering students through the Instructional enhancement grant awarded by the Center for
beliefs, experiences, and practicescharacterize community members or organizations who support or encourage rural students tochoose engineering?The interviews explored the participants’ perceptions of their community overall, resources thathelped students explore postsecondary options, barriers students faced to enrolling inpostsecondary education/engineering, understanding of engineering as a field both generally andfor students from that community, and ways Virginia Tech can be a better community partnerand fulfill its mission as a public institution. This project aims to broaden participation inengineering by gaining a holistic understanding of the communities that effectively supportengineering major choice for rural students and provide
and Learning (SOTL)—that has salient implications for ENED research and practice beyond thestudy’s context. We are aware of other frameworks that delineate between SOTL and discipline-basedresearch educational based on the degree of methodological rigor (e.g., Streveler et al., 2007), but weconsider that distinction to establish barriers to entry that are antithetical to the goal of onboardingengineering faculty to ENED research. Our ENED research programming includes: 1 1. ENED research incubator – Weekly meetings where EETI leadership helps faculty translate their ENED research project ideas into opportunities for grant proposals and
Paper ID #28642Correlating the student engineer’s design process with emotionalintelligence.Dr. Ryan H Koontz, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Ryan Koontz received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1999 and an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 2002 from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT). In 2004, Ryan joined the Center of Excellence for Advanced Multi-Disciplinary Projects (CAMP) as the manufacturing specialist. He currently instructs students of CAMP through the design and manufacturing process and helps produce parts for the co-curricular teams of CAMP. He completed
of Mechanics. Therefore, it is difficulty for engineeringstudents to truly understand the relationship between material structures and their mechanicalperformance. In general, this knowledge is not introduced in any undergraduate solid mechanicscourses. Only top students who can be involved in solid mechanics related research may have anopportunity to learn certain knowledge through undergraduate research projects. Most coursesonly require students to practice simplified engineering problems by solving equations withoutunderstanding the real reasons for certain material behavior [4-6].Additive manufacturing (AM) has been employed in many undergraduate education programs inthe last decade. Due to their unique material processing methods, 3D
graduate courses in teacher action research and gender and culture in science education. Her research interests include girls’ participation in science and engineering; teacher’s engagement in action research; and science teachers’ integration of the engineering design process to improve science learning.James Lehman, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. James D. Lehman is a Professor Emeritus of Learning Design and Technology and former Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Purdue University. He is member of the leadership teams of two current NSF-funded projects, Science Learning through Engineering Design (SLED) and Profes- sional Development for Computer Science (PD4CS). He holds a B.S. and M.S. in
do so by analyzing papers published with the ASEE annualconference proceedings. To assist the imagining of new possibilities, I then suggest twoways of reformulating empathy in the engineering context.Literature ReviewA prehistory of empathy in engineeringAccording to psychologist Lauren Wispé, empathy was studied in a variety of disciplinesthroughout the 20th century, and the fields in which empathy drew intense attentionshifted from time to time. In the 19th century, Germans used the word “Einfühlung” inaesthetics theory to describe the process in which a viewer projects oneself into the objectof beauty. At the turn of the century, “Einfühlung” migrated out of aesthetics and becamea choice for psychologists to describe the ability to
Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Springer received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University, his MBA and Doctorate in Adult and Community Education with a Cognate in Executive Development from Ball State University. He is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP), Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR & SHRM-SCP), in Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR), and, in civil and domestic mediation. Dr. Springer is a State of Indiana Registered domestic mediator. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 After Action Review of a U.S.-Based M.S. Degree Program Delivered in Kilimanjaro, Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
began teaching at the University of Utah later that year. He has taught one or more classes at the university every year since that time, including seven years he spent working in industry. Since 2000, he has primarily taught introductory circuits courses. His research interests, which have recently been revived, focus on spiking neural networks.Prof. Angela Rasmussen, University of Utah Dr. Angela Rasmussen is the Director of Mentoring and Advising, Director of Electrical Engineering Senior Projects, and Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Utah. Dr. Rasmussen graduated with a B.S. in Computer Engineer(1996), summa cum laude and top student in her
new engineering education strategies as well as the technologies to support the 21st century classroom (online and face to face). He also has assisted both the campus as well as the local community in developing technology programs that highlight student skills development in ways that engage and attract individuals towards STEAM and STEM fields by showcasing how those skills impact the current project in real-world ways that people can understand and be involved in. As part of a university that is focused on supporting the 21st century student demographic he continues to innovate and research on how we can design new methods of learning to educate both our students and communities on how STEM and STEAM make up
Paper ID #21654Civil Engineering Students’ Views on Infrastructure in the U.S.Dr. Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC Dr. Carol Haden is Vice President at Magnolia Consulting, LLC, a woman-owned, small business special- izing in independent research and evaluation. She has served as evaluator for STEM education projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Arizona Department of Education, among others. Her ar- eas of expertise include evaluations of engineering education curricula and programs, informal education
Paper ID #21896Developing a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) as a Decision SupportSystem in Horticulture IndustryDr. Lash B. Mapa, Purdue University Northwest Lash Mapa is a Professor in Industrial/Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University North- west (PNW). His undergraduate and graduate degrees are in Chemical Engineering. He has several years’ experience as a Chemical Engineer, Process and Project manager with European and U.S. manufacturing organizations. Currently, he is involved in the MS Technology program at PUC and has managed over thirty lean six sigma projects with manufacturing, service