14.1170.2This study is one of a series of investigations that our “Technology Education Teaching andLearning Project” has been engaged in over the past three years, for the purpose of studyingTechnology Education teaching practices and student learning outcomes. This work is framed bytwo seemingly simple questions: 1) What does technology education teaching look like? 2) Whatare technology education students learning? We charted this path because of the dearth ofresearch on Technology Education teaching and learning. In the early 1990s, Zuga conducted acomprehensive review of Technology Education research and concluded the vast majority ofresearch and scholarship in the field to that point had focused either on curriculum developmentor on teacher
. Page 22.69.4These research examples all point to the idea of future engineers. Engineering students haveidentities today, but how these identities impact their future career choices is important tounderstand. Davis, Beyerlein and Davis12 provide an engineering profile to serve as a guide forwhat an engineering student should be when they graduate. The profile was created throughmultiple focus groups that were based on ABET criteria, professional engineering societyopinions on what ethical engineers should be, opinions from industry, and defined competenciesfor a public university.12 The profile is designed to direct outcomes of universities for faculty andemployers.12Finally, multiple research projects originating through a team at James
. Prior to joining QUEST, Jessica was the Graduate Assistant in Columbia University’s Office of Student Engagement.Ms. Amanda Yard, University of Maryland, College Park Amanda Yard is a graduating senior from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Busi- ness. She is receiving a major in Supply Chain Management and a minor in Spanish Language and Cultures. She will be working for PepsiCo as an Integrated Supply Chain Associate in Schaumburg, IL. Amanda has been a member of the QUEST Honors Program since Spring 2013 where she has served as a mentor, as well as on the capstone project scoping team. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Impact of
scholarship, the Corcoran award for best article in the journal Chemical Engineering Education (twice), and the Martin award for best paper in the ChE Division at the ASEE Annual Meeting.Dr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has pub- lished two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance.” He has also published papers on effective use of simulation in engineer- ing, teaching design and engineering economics, and assessment of student learning.Dr. Laura P. Ford
is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Programs in Vir- ginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies. Matusovich
AC 2007-2375: SUCCESS STRATEGIES FOR CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSESWITH LARGE CLASSES, DIVERSE PROJECT TYPES, SMALL TO LARGESTUDENT TEAMS, AND VARIED FACULTY INTERESTS AND APPROACHESJanis Terpenny, Virginia Tech Janis Terpenny is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education with affiliated positions in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial & Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. She is co-Director of the NSF multi-university Center for e-Design. Her research interests focus on methods and representation schemes to support early design stages of engineered products and systems. She is currently a member of ASEE, ASME, IIE, and Alpha Pi Mu. She is the Design Economics area
, peer instruction, problem-based learning, project-based learning, inquiry-based learning, and challenge-based learning are among the researchbased instructional strategies that are student-centered and learner-oriented [6, 19, 20]. Withoutthe knowledge of the best-practices in education and how people learn, the university faculty willnot be able to design an ideal learning environment for their students. It is no surprise thatmajority of the students, particularly women, drop the STEM fields early in their careers in thecollege. The traditional instructional strategies employed in the STEM fields might beresponsible for abating students’ motivation and interest in STEM fields, particularly for womenand minority students. A more welcoming and
Paper ID #9597A Study of Feedback Provided to Student Teams Engaged in Open-EndedProjectsDr. Laura Hirshfield, Oregon State University Laura Hirshfield is a Post-Doctoral Scholar at Oregon State University. She received her B.S. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from Purdue University, both in chemical engineering. She is cur- rently doing research in the engineering education field, investigating technology-mediated active learning in a chemical engineering curriculum. After her post-doc, she plans to pursue a career in academia.Ms. Jaynie L. Whinnery, Oregon State University Jaynie Whinnery is a graduate
impactedhuman rights and capabilities (e.g. life, bodily health, bodily integrity, the development andexpression of senses, imagination and thought, emotional health, practical reason, affiliation,relationships with others, play, and control over one’s environment).Our approach in this paper is also informed by design-based research [34-38]. In design-basedresearch (DBR), scholars are striving to model how the design of a learning environment isconsequential for the forms of participation and engagement that emerge in that setting (e.g.design conjectures) [38]. Additionally DBR scholars seek to build claims about how those formsof participation and engagement lead to particular outcomes (e.g. theoretical conjectures) [38].To state this more
researching SMART assessment, a modified mastery learning pedagogy for problem based courses. He created and co-teaches a multi-year integrated system design (ISD) project for mechanical engineering students. He is a mentor to mechanical engineering graduate teaching fellows and actively champions the adoption and use of teaching technologies. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com The Differing Impact of a New Assessment Framework on Student Success – The Effect of Socioeconomic FactorsAbstractIn 2016, Michigan State University developed a new model of classroom education andassessment in their Mechanics of
perspective on classroom experiencesand being on campus for four years students have had more time to develop relationships withfaculty.DiscussionBy examining the student perspective, this research provides further insight into the role facultyplay in student engagement in learning during undergraduate careers. Framed in self-determination theory (SDT), results show students initially describe faculty behaviors aspositively contributing to student‟s autonomy, competence, and relatedness beliefs although theybecome neutral or negative at various points in time. A primary implication for practice is theneed for faculty, across all four years, to consider the potential impact of their behaviors asnegatively contributing to student motivation.The key
UofT in 1987. From 2001 to 2003 he was the Director and, before that (1988-2001), Associate Director, of the Pulp & Paper Centre at the University of Toronto, a Centre recognized as a model for Univer- sity/Industry Collaboration in research and education. He was the Associate Chair (Graduate Studies) in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry from 2003 to 2007. He was also the President of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering in 2008/2009, during which time we hosted the 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering. He was appointed Vice-Dean (Undergraduate) for the Faculty in 2007 until 2011 and has been Chair of his Department since July 1, 2011. Professor Allen’s area of
the development of innovative and entrepreneurial behavior in academia and in practice. She studAya Mouallem, Stanford University Aya Mouallem (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She received a BEng in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut. Aya is a graduate research assistant with the Designing Education Lab at Stanford, led by Professor Sheri Sheppard, and her research explores the accessibility of introductory electrical engineering education. She is supported by the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship and the RAISE Doctoral Fellowship.Dr. Helen L. Chen, Swarthmore College Helen L. Chen is a research scientist in the Designing Education
too far from being true in undergraduate education in the United States wherein students arememorizing their way through most of the curriculum. In an US News and World Reportarticle2, “High School Students Need to Think, Not Memorize”, an Advanced Placement biologyteacher is quoted “Students go through the motions of their lab assignments without graspingwhy, and ‘the exam is largely a vocabulary test’”.David Perkins3, co-director of Harvard Project Zero, a research center for cognitivedevelopment, and senior research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, pointsout several observations in his article on “Teaching for Understanding”. (1) “The student mightsimply be parroting the test and following memorized routines for stock
: Engineering Process – The engineering design process is amulti-step, iterative process that engineers use to design a product for a specific customerneed. Identify (Identify the Need) Describe (Describe the Need; Characterize and Analyze the System) Generate (Generate Concepts; Select a Concept) Embody (Embody the Concept; Test and Evaluate the Concept; Refine the Concept) Finalize (Finalize and Share the Design)Learning Objectives Area 3: Engineering Skills and Habits of Mind Systems thinking— Systems thinking is not one thing but a set of habits or practices within a framework that is based on the belief that the component parts of a system can best be understood in the context of relationships with each other and
Paper ID #26355Board 19: Impacts of Engineering Justice Curriculum: A Survey of StudentAttitudesDr. Tina Lee, University of Wisconsin-Stout Dr. Tina Lee is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Program Director for the Applied Social Science Program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.Dr. Elizabeth Anne Buchanan, University of Wisconsin-Stout Elizabeth Buchanan is Endowed Chair in Ethics and Acting Director, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.Dr. Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin-Stout Devin Berg is an Associate Professor and Program Director of the B.S. Mechanical
. Initially, a pre and post student survey was implemented thatprovided some key insight on the impact of the STEM bus program on K-12 students, albeit on asmall scale, which led to the decision to only collect a post survey from students to make it moreconvenient for the teachers.A. Survey DataFor this pilot study survey data, teachers found it challenging to get the students to complete boththe pre and post surveys, so after two school visits, we revised the survey to only one post surveyregarding students’ experience on the STEM bus. The descriptive statistics from these surveyresults provided valuable results that we show herein to address research question one. Question1 asked, “I have a good understanding of what STEM is”. On the pre-survey
all types of institutions, especiallyresearch universities, is critical in order to gain a better understanding of their impact and todevelop the most effective practices for various educational environments. Developing a broaderliterature-base on undergraduate research would be of particular importance to researchuniversities as the face the challenge of not having enough research opportunities to theincreasing number of interested undergraduate students13-15. Thus, the purpose of this study wasto examine the gains of two community college students who participated in an undergraduateresearch program at a research university.Description of Program From 2006 - 2012, a Midwest research university has delivered an REU. For 10-weeks inthe
Paper ID #27131Increasing Graduate School Enrollment of Female Industrial Engineers throughCUREsMs. Leslie Potter, Iowa State University Leslie Potter is a Senior Lecturer in the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department at Iowa State University. She served as Co-Chair of the IMSE Undergraduate Research Program for six years. She currently teaches courses on information engineering, programming, and process improve- ments. Her research interests include the impact of undergraduate research, engineering and professional skill integration, and teaching effectiveness.Dr. Richard Stone, Iowa State University
Paper ID #38080The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Student Performanceand Persistence in an Aerospace Engineering CurriculumKathryn Anne Wingate (Instructor) Assistant teaching professor in the Aerospace Engineering department at University of Colorado BoulderAaron W. Johnson (Assistant Professor) Aaron W. Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department and a Core Faculty member of the Engineering Education Research Program at the University of Michigan. He believes in a strong connection between engineering education research and practice, and his research leverages his experience
the best practices to teach and for students to learn. For instance, such is thecase with the design of presentation slides.39Finally, we do not need yet another study that comes to the final conclusion that communicationskills in engineering are important. No one disputes this. What we need is a study that minesdown to determine what important things about communication we are teaching well and whatwe are failing to teach, based on students’ needs and professional activities beyond theclassroom. Much could be handled through individual department surveys of visiting boards andrecent graduates, and by using surveys already given out by co-op offices. If these surveys could
dissertation focus. In addition, eachfellow was asked to design a framework so that the scholars developed strong researchmentoring skills and increased their sense of belonging in their engineering discipline (identitydevelopment) and their scholar cohort (comradery within the cohort).Mentorship web for fellows on the research university campus and technical/communitycollege locationsSince these graduate students could come from any computing or engineering program withinthe research university, they had a wide range of undergraduate degrees. The grant leadershipteam was therefore needed to incorporate training related to communities of practice,engineering identity and cohort building. During the first year, the fellows had routine meetingswith the
A. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Dr. Jesus Gonzalez is currently a lecturer in the Department of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering of the College of Engineering and Computer Science. He holds a PhD from The University of Sheffield in United Kingdom in Materials Science and Engineering. During the PhD, he received the Foster Research Prize given to the best PhD thesis related to glass technology. His research interest is in the mechanical properties of glass at room and high temperature. Dr. Gonzalez has also a broad experience in the glass industry, specifically in fabrication of automotive safety glass. He worked for Vitro Glass Company for more than 19 years where he held
Worcester area in-service teachers, WPI faculty and graduate students, industry partners, and the Figure 2. Overview of the RET Site components and STEM Education Center at WPI for outcomes. continued engagement.Teacher Recruitment, Selection, and ParticipationTen (10) teachers comprising of both pre-service and in-service middle or high school teachershave participated in each cohort over the two years of the NSF RET grant. Employing the samestrategies and best practices in hiring faculty from underrepresented groups,11,12 we developed aninclusive announcement, advertised widely, did targeted recruiting through contacts with schoolprincipals and leaders, and developed a rubric for the RET participant selection in
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degree in civil engineering from the University of Vermont in 1981.Dr. Kleio Avrithi, P.E., Mercer University Dr. Avrithi earned a Diploma in Civil Engineering, an MS in Structural Engineering both from the Na- tional Technical University of Athens, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests include uncertainty and risk quantification for design, optimization, resilience, and systems design. She is member of ASCE, ASEE, ASME, and ASTM.Ms. Jennifer Hofmann, American Society of Civil Engineers Jennifer Hofmann, M.A.Ed, Aff.M.ASCE is the Manager of Professional Advancement at
. engineeringeducation to identify ways in which alternative pedagogies and applications of engineering mightbe foreclosed by these “best practices,” however well-intentioned. It focuses on ABETformulations regarding undergraduate engineering since 1980 as a set of epistemic and sociallyregulatory instruments. Analyzing both the purported function and the content of outcomesincluded in ABET documents over the last three decades, the paper shows how ABET hasprojected a formative role for outcomes in curricular development and institutional credibility. Inparticular, impacts of ABET outcomes-focused practices upon diversity, public participation, andthe pursuit of social justice in engineering education (and thus in the profession of engineering)will be examined
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design process, and the importance of teamwork6. Reformers have tried and, thus far,have failed to significantly influence students’ beliefs concerning engineering when theintervention occurs at a secondary level6. Secondary education may be too late to significantlyinfluence the subjects that students’ value. It is now time to examine the impact of such programswhen these programs are implemented at a younger level.This paper describes an engineering outreach program that is being implemented at anelementary level between the Colorado School of Mines and elementary schools in AdamsCounty District 50. Our program has been developed based on best practices from othersuccessful engineering outreach programs for pre-college schools, such as the
Paper ID #37764Is Natural Language Processing Effective in Education Research? A casestudy in student perceptions of TA supportNeha Kardam, University of Washington Neha Kardam is a third-year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle.Ms. Shruti Misra, University of Washington I am a graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. My research interest is broadly focused on studying innovation in university-industry partnerships. I am interesting in various ways that universitiesDr. Denise Wilson, University of Washington