and manufacturing. In subsequent summers, two of thepartner universities will host summer enrichment opportunities in Boston and St. Louis.Throughout the week, the camp participants explored the core competencies of creativity andinnovation through activities and games. In addition, the students studied and implementedvarious methodologies of creative problem solving through teamwork on various problems andproduct development projects/tasks. To further emphasize innovation as it relates to Americanhistory, two of the five days were spent visiting The Henry Ford which includes the Henry FordMuseum, Greenfield Village, a Ford F-150 truck assembly plant, and the Benson Ford ResearchCenter where they participated in a pilot version of the new
] 250 10 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 Torque [N-m] Figure 1. 100% biodiesel generator Figure 2. Generator results investigating unique oil integrated in a 1974 VW Super Beetle. feedstocks for efficiency and reduced emissions. Upon starting the EcoHawks in Fall 2008, the faculty mentor (fourth author) met withinterested students and defined a sustainable architecture as the approach to projects within theprogram. The student’s definition of
2000 from the University of London (UK) where he was deputy head of the Lifelong Learning Group now the School for Lifelong Education and International Development - at the Institute of Education. He has taught post- graduate courses in higher and professional education and consulted across the higher and professional education sector in the UK the USA and Canada. His research and scholarship focuses on the theory and practice of learning and teaching in higher and professional education. Recent projects and publications have focused on student learning and the professional development of teaching in higher education
advanced degrees in science andengineering from prestigious American universities, and they trained me for academic successfrom a young age. I went to regular school during the day, but nights and weekends were dedi-cated to family school, a school in which my parents pushed me beyond any public curriculum.They tutored me personally, never outsourcing my education to teachers or private tutors, and Ireaped the fruit of their labor. I graduated from one of the best public high schools in the countryat the time and from the best engineering undergraduate program in the world. I also completedmultiple research projects during my undergraduate program, and I had stellar letters of recom-mendation from both course instructors and research advisors. I
experiences and lessons learned in the design and development of aprofessional development course designed for first year graduate students in an interdisciplinarycomputational science program, under an NSF S-STEM grant funded project titled "AcademicSupport, Career Training, and Professional Development to Improve Interdisciplinary GraduateEducation for the Next Generation of Computational Scientists and Engineers". Herein wediscuss the development and implementation of this two-semester course sequence (1 credit eachsemester). The course modules included (a) Understanding the academic challenges, goals andtimelines in the interdisciplinary computational science program, (b) Individual DevelopmentPlanning, (c) Career Exploration, (d) Communication
the “why”, to thinkabout alternative explanations and to explain their reasoning [14]. Joughin identifies threegeneral classes of oral assessment [14]:(1) presentation, such as an in-class presentation on a topic or as part of a group project(2) application, such as the OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) innursing/medicine involving simulated patient interaction(3) interrogation, such as within an undergraduate or graduate course where the student isquizzed by one or more examiners.Our focus here is on the latter class: “interrogation” (although we will mostly try to avoid thisterminology due to its negative connotations). Studies have shown that the strength of these oralassessments is in its ability “to distinguish superficial
andpractice were present in this particular educational environment. More specifically, I wanted toexamine the relations of design and explore how students ethically negotiated these relations asthey completed their design work. This project comprised my doctoral research [1].During the 2015 and 2017 Fall semesters and the 2018 Spring semester, I attended each twice-weekly class meeting either in a classroom or at the course’s community partner’s facilities.During the two-hours and twenty-minute classroom meetings, both the students and theirinstructor, who had warmly accepted my request to be a participant observer in her course,welcomed my active participation in discussions about course content and our sharedexperiences working with the community
Burks Fasse is a Senior Research Scientist in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr. Fasse studies the efficacy and value of student-centered learning initiatives, specif- ically Problem-Based and Project-Based Inquiry Learning, in classrooms, instructional labs, and under- graduate research experiences. She joined the BME faculty in 2007 following ten years with Georgia Tech’s College of Computing where she was a member of the NSF-funded Learning By Design Problem- Based Learning curriculum development and research team. Dr. Fasse also conducted an NSF-funded ethnographic study of learning in a problem-driven, project-based bio-robotics research lab at Georgia Tech. She is on the
AC 2011-819: ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: LEARNING BYDOINGErik Sander, University of Florida Erik Sander began his career as a Project Manager and Senior Engineer analyzing advanced fighter aircraft engines and the Space Shuttle Main Engine for NASA, Lockheed Martin, General Electric, and Pratt & Whitney. He was also a Technology Transfer Officer for Lockheed Martin and the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. Starting in 1995, Erik joined the faculty of the University of Florida College of Engineer as Director of the University Center, Associate Director for the Engineering Research Center and the Florida Energy Systems Consortium, and Director of Industry Programs - all directed at fostering industrial
department she worked as a Senior Consultant for Ernst and Young and as an Industrial Engineer for General Motors Corporation. She teaches undergraduate courses in engineering economics, engineering management, and probability and statistics in Industrial Engineering as well as engineering computing in the freshman engineering program. Dr. Bursic has done research and published work in the areas of Engineering and Project Management and Engineering Education. She is a member of IIE and ASEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Pennsylvania.Natasa Vidic, University of Pittsburgh Assistant Professor Industrial Engineering Department Swanson School of Engineering University of Pittsburgh
. These characteristics benefit the wholeengineering profession.Secondly, much research has been compiled that suggests that women generally have morenatural facility with relationship building. This is often seen in the early years of young girls inhow they play with others, how they work at projects, and how they think23. This keen ability isnurtured throughout their development and is noticed in the workplace. Women often have anatural ability to build and sustain productive relationships within a group and across boundaries.This asset serves as a model for all of the engineering professionals. No real work can beachieved today without learning the skills and attitudes that require collaboration and teamwork;hence good relationships.Because of
achievedthrough a design project, which allows Rice University engineering students (mentors) todevelop relationships with their mentees and promote higher education. Currently, DREAMserves three Houston, Texas public schools: Austin High School (AHS), Chavez High School(CHS), and KIPP Houston High School (KIPP). Mentees included in this study range fromgrades 9-12 at AHS, grades 9 and 11 at CHS, and only grade 9 at KIPP. Throughout theprogram, greater than 95% of mentees have been from underrepresented groups. Projects aredesigned, fabricated, and tested over a 5-7 week period. Mentees present and test their finaldesigns at Rice University on DREAM Day.Intuition Inventory (I.I.) and Physics Concepts Inventory (P.C.I.) data tracks the menteesprogress in
; Instruction at NC State University. Her research and theoretical interests include race and racial identity in education, African American academic achievement, emotions in education, and critical race theory. Dr. DeCuir-Gunby has served as a statistical consultant on numerous projects including the GenScope Assessment Project, a project designed to assess the use of technology on high school students' learning of genetics. She teaches courses in Educational Psychology, Adolescent Development, and Mixed Methods Research. She is a co-PI on an NSF ADVANCE Leadership grant.Barbara Smith, North Carolina State University Barbara Smith is the Executive Assistant Director of the PURPOSE Institute
AC 2011-2544: A DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF ENGINEERING MA-JORS WITH AN INTEREST IN TEACHINGSunni H. Newton, Georgia Institute of Technology Sunni H. Newton is currently in her 5th year of Georgia Tech’s PhD program in industrial organizational psychology, with a minor in quantitative psychology. She attended Georgia Tech as an undergraduate, double-majoring in psychology and management. She worked for several years as a graduate research assistant in a psychology lab where she helped conduct studies on adult learning. She currently works as a graduate research assistant in Georgia Tech’s Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning where she assists with assessment and data analysis for ongoing CETL projects
professionalpractice.Ressler17 and others18,19,20,21 discuss the importance of service learning, communicating withcustomers, and collaborating with colleagues and professional associates. Still others discusspartnering with industry as sources of problems for capstone and research projects forinternships. These opportunities are intended to facilitate the transition from the classroom to theworkplace and expose students to practitioners who, in addition to modeling technical expertise,also demonstrate the centrality of effective communication in the workplace. Page 22.167.3In an analysis of communication skills in the engineering workplace, Nicometo et al. report
, and interdependence – within a project managementframework.More recent change research appears to blend the two approaches. For example, Gosling andMintzberg (2003) note the “dominant model of managing change is Cartesian: Action resultsfrom deliberate strategies, carefully planned, that unfold as systematically managed sequences ofdecisions.” However, they counter, “change, to be successful, cannot follow some mechanisticschedule of steps, of formulation followed by implementation. Action and reflection have toblend in a natural flow.”These two primary categories of change, staged and complexity, provide us with a usefulframework for organizing the various models of change.In the subsequent section, we further constrain our investigation of
Session 1161 Citizen Engineers: Why and How We Engage City, State and Federal Governments On behalf of Engineering Education and Research Barbara Waugh, Ph.D. Director, University Relations Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, California Lueny Morell, M.S., P.E. Director, University Relations Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, California Isadore Davis Engineering Project Manager
training at the National Collegiate Inventors and In- novators Alliance (NCIIA). Babs is a serial entrepreneur and active in multiple entrepreneurial activities. She blogs about entrepreneurship on New Venturist. Babs taught entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for 15 years, where she maintains an adjunct position. Formerly, Babs was embedded entrepreneur for CMU’s Project Olympus and innovation advisor for CMU’s Institute for Social Innova- tion. For seven years at the University of Pittsburgh, Babs taught the Benchtop to Bedside new technology commercialization course. Babs is President of Carryer Consulting and co-founder of LaunchCyte, which has a portfolio of five companies. Babs has a Masters in
collaborate on Inservice visits tailored to the needs of specific courses taught. develop and pilot course assignments that integrate Inservice librarian visits with course content. meet regularly to discuss, evaluate, revise, and reimplement our collaborative project. Review of LiteratureInformation literacy is defined as the capability of a person to recognize the "different levels,types and formats of information and their appropriate uses. The ability to place information in acontext and an awareness of information access issues (copyright, privacy, globalization,currency of information, etc.) are key to information literacy”4. Information literacy is also aninstructional and intellectual
theirexperience through additional competencies, and develop a project that showcases andsummarizes their experiences to external facing audiences.It is expected that by the end of the course, students will be able to: ● Describe their growth in and mastery of competencies in the context of their undergraduate experiences ● Develop their social capital by working with a professional mentor to ask salient questions, receive meaningful feedback, and discuss [or evaluate] challenging decisions about their personal and professional future ● Design a set of guiding principles and values for their personal and professional futures and use their guiding principles and values to: ○ Describe what being an
that our perceptions of reality are socially constructed andthat by focusing on positive stories and experiences, particularly from people whose identitiesare marginalized, we can create a more positive reality in work and learning environments [4].Despite its prominence for over two decades, it is unknown to what extent APPI has been used inengineering education research. Further, there is limited to no evidence of utilizing APPI as aneducational intervention.1.1. APPI as a Research Methodology vs InterventionAs a part of an early-stage research project on evaluating the impact of asset-based practices inundergraduate engineering courses, we employed appreciative interviewing to elicit studentexperiences in applying their assets to projects
how others haveapproached empathy in curricula, projects, and practice. We applied Zaki’s model of empathy —which triangulates “sharing,” “thinking about” and “caring about,” as the theoretical frameworkguiding the inquiry — and performed a systematic literature review. We sought answers to thefollowing research questions: 1) How have educators integrated empathy development intolearning activities in STEM?; 2) What pedagogical approaches have been shown to promoteempathy of students in STEM?; and 3) How have scholars approached the development ofdifferent kinds of empathy in classrooms? After querying Google Scholar, analyzing more than10,000 publications, and applying the inclusion/exclusion criteria, we identified 63 articles thatcentered
undergraduatecomputing students worked in teams to sketch and create ethics based decision making scenariosusing paper or blackboard. This scenario creation activity model was later refined and employedin different Ethics in Engineering courses as a means to increase engagement through gameplayand role playing.In 2022, this work was expanded by joining forces with engineering faculty from the Virtues andVocations initiative and the Ethics at Work project which included other computing faculty,faculty from Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and faculty from Philosophy, where thegoal was to capture an engineering wide faculty and undergraduate student sentiment about ethicscontent in engineering. A multidisciplinary team of undergraduates, led by advising
both from Michigan Tech. Her research program involves using complementary methods (e.g., statistical modeling and analytics, psychological assessment) to evaluate how individual differences are important and impact behaviors at a cultural, social, and behavioral level. She has served as a project evaluator in the multiple NSF funded projects. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 S-STEM Student Reflections and IDP ProcessIntroductionStudent reflections and using individual development plans (IDPs) for mentoring have been anintegral part of an NSF S-STEM project focusing on students pursuing baccalaureate degrees inEngineering
produced to give other faculty a starting point on etiquette in the virtualclassroom [83]. The Engineering Education Faculty’s weekly meetings have ranged from hearing prominentspeakers from around the country on their role in engineering education, book reviews on currenteducational resources, and open discussions on the current state of teaching online. This diversityand ability to be a part of the group has added to the tight-knit community we have developed.Multiple daily writing groups have been created to provide faculty with a small group to meet with.Usually, the meetings are one hour, writing for twenty-five minutes, taking a break, and writingagain. The focus gives you a set time to complete work, get feedback on a project or
might be all but one. In this method,students can also choose to work towards the grade they want in order to spend their timeelsewhere (Nilson, 2015). Another instructor might use a mix of traditional grading and pass/failgrading. For example, to earn an A in a course, a student may have to receive an average examscore of 80%. The instructor can also set bars for specific grade levels such as a C resulting fromfailing a peer evaluation. In all of these systems, missing one element on the overall gradechecklist results in a lower grade.As all elements become pass or fail, the specifications for an assignment must be made veryclear. Writing good specifications is a lot like writing good requirements for a project. Just likerequirements in
universities. Recognizing the importance of partnerships with the informal learning communities, she has built strong ties with national museums and science centers with goals that align with the academic community she represents. While at Caltech, she launched the NSF-funded Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory Science Education Center project and served as senior advisor for development of the $5M hands-on exhibit and learning center. She currently sits on the Board of Advisors for the UM Exhibit Museum of Natural History, is a member of the UM Museum Studies Program Steering Committee, and consults to national science centers such as the Exploratorium, the
interest are in modeling complex systems, security, software engineering and pedagogy. Her email is petrie@fau.eduIvan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University Ivan E. Esparragoza is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Penn State. His interests are in engineering design education, innovative design, global design, and global engineering education. He has introduced multinational design projects in a freshman introductory engineering design course in collaboration with institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean as part of his effort to contribute to the formation of world class engineers for the Americas. He is actively involved in the International Division of the American Society
in science learn- ing and educational change. Chandra pursues projects that have high potential for leveraging sustainable change in undergraduate STEM programs and makes these struggles for change a direct focus of her research efforts.Dr. Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park Ayush Gupta is Assistant Research Professor in Physics and Keystone Instructor in the A. J. Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. Broadly speaking he is interested in modeling learning and reasoning processes. In particular, he is attracted to fine-grained analysis of video data both from a micro- genetic learning analysis methodology (drawing on knowledge in pieces) as well as interaction analysis
, she is primarily tasked with the education of undergraduate engineers. In her courses, she employs active learning techniques and project-based learning. Her previous education research, also at Stanford, focused on the role of cultural capital in science education. Her current interests include en- gineering students’ development of social responsibility and the impact of students’ backgrounds in their formation as engineers.Dr. Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University Gregg M. Warnick is the Director of the Weidman Center for Global Leadership and Associate Teaching Professor of Engineering Leadership within the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology at Brigham Young University (BYU). The