share much in common with engineering, particularly in terms ofjob functions following graduation [21] such as project management; in both degree programsgraduates are trained to work with contingent problems. Two other degree programs are worthmentioning in terms of their need to deal with contingent problems and in which practitionersoften operate on heuristics rather than rules: teaching and nursing. Until fairly recently thesewere considered primarily occupations that women went into which associated them with lowerstatus than engineering or management given historical belief systems. However, the wayscontingent knowledge is used to manage highly contextualized problems is similar.An in-depth comparison of the educational methods used by
consistency. 3) we comparedthe practices emphasized across the student cases. We also developed short summaries for eachof the three participants focused on their emphasized practices, including excerpts from theirtranscripts for evidence.FindingsTable 1 shows three students’ desired engineering practices obtained via interview. The findingsrevealed that a wide range of engineering practices were identified as reasons for whyparticipants pursue ME. All three participants were excited about solving problems and buildingtangible artifacts in the engineering design projects. With a strong interest in design, Participant2 and Participant 3 named real-life application and design as motivators for pursuing anengineering career. These two participants also
HODAs used in the course. Lecture Assignments Due Systems Thinking Hands-on Activities Week Topics (Related to Archetypes) Archetypes Modeled by Students 1 CST. Mind Get textbook The Fifth Discipline Games led by instructor on mind grooves. Fieldbook and follow reading plan. grooving. 2 Systems zoo Description of an aviation or Games led by instructor on viewpoints and you aerospace system that has illustrates (CIRCLES IN THE AIR and MIND (Thinking in a reinforcing loop and draw the GROOVING). Previous years' projects Systems) system diagram. Class discussion 3
Paper ID #32523Elementary Students Learn How To Engineer Online (RTP)Dr. Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University Stacy Klein-Gardner’s career in P-12 STEM education focuses on increasing interest in and participation by females and URMs and on teacher professional development. She is an Adjunct Professor of Biomedi- cal Engineering at Vanderbilt University where she serves as the co-PI and co-Director of the NSF-funded Engineering For US All (e4usa) project. Dr. Klein-Gardner formerly served as the chair of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Board of Directors’ P12 Commission and the Pre-College
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 The ‘Typical Particle’ Approach to Learning Rigid Body DynamicsAbstractRigid body dynamics is a foundational course in all engineering curricula based upon themechanical sciences. It is one of three courses that make up The Mechanics Project, an effort at alarge R1 university in the southwest, to reimagine the learning experience in the sophomore-levelengineering mechanics courses (statics, dynamics, and deformable solids). The conversion ofthese courses to an objective-based system to assess mastery launched a reconsideration of thefundamental strands—the DNA—of the courses. The design objective of
interests include computer science education, software testing, software engineering, and programming languages. He is the project lead for Web-CAT, the most widely used open-source automated grading system in the world. Web-CAT is known for al- lowing instructors to grade students based on how well they test their own code. In addition, his research group has produced a number of other open-source tools used in classrooms at many other institutions. Currently, he is researching innovative for giving feedback to students as they work on assignments to provide a more welcoming experience for students, recognizing the effort they put in and the accomplish- ments they make as they work on solutions, rather than simply
step towards the development of a repeatable and reliable experimental instrumentfor use in academic research and engineering classrooms.The research presented in this paper is a continuation of a NSF funded project to evaluate theimpacts of teaching functional modelling in an engineering design curriculum [4]. During theinitial phases of the project, students in engineering design courses were given a series ofexperimental instruments or homework assignments to assess their ability to recognize productfunctionality, interpret and understand customer needs, and to explain or decompose a complexsystem. Students in prior studies had either previously learned functional modeling [3] or weretaught functional modeling as an intervention between
very different in each department. Lead TAs have the freedom to developtheir own projects to improve specific aspects of teacher training and professional developmentwithin their own department. In the Paul M. Rady Mechanical Engineering Department, the LeadTA primarily focuses on training and supporting all first-year doctoral students (both first-yearTAs and first-year students that are not TAs). The initiatives carried out by the Lead TA and thePaul M. Rady Mechanical Engineering Department for the first-year doctoral students will be themain focus on this paper.To become the Lead TA in our department, a student applies for the position and is accepted oneyear before they intend to serve as the Lead TA. The year before their term starts
will be noted in the Results and Discussion Section.Project ApproachThis section will cover five major areas to be considered when starting an undergraduateresearch program: • Sponsorship • Setting the goals & scope of the program (includes how goal attainment will be assessed) • Budgeting: program expenses & funding • Matching undergraduate research students with faculty • Logistics & implementationFor each topic above (with the exception of the last topic) there will be two sections: one with adescription of how to address the topic from a theoretical perspective, and one with the details ofhow the topic was implemented for the SURE program.SponsorshipPrior to starting any major project, sponsorship should be
profitability10. SAP is the world’s largest provider of ERP software and serves over 437,000customers in more than 180 countries11. In addition, 92 percent of the Forbes Global 2000 useSAP in some fashion. The latest SAP S4/HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance)product is arranged in functional modules related to typical business system functions including: • Buy (Material Management – MM) • Sell (Sales and Distribution – SD) • Make (Production Planning – PP) • Track (Financial Accounting and Controlling – FI and CO) • People (Human Capital Management – HCM) • Store (Warehouse Management – WM) • Project (Project System – PS) • Maintain (Enterprise Asset Management – EAM) • Services (Customer Support – CS
research option with thesis, and a report. Theresearch option will allow students to work with MET, EET, ECE, and ME-EM faculty membersat Michigan Tech on various applied research projects, with the goal of enhancing their knowledgein practical applications. The most desired option, by both students and industry (see surveybelow), is an internship with industry. Students who choose the internship option will be able toparticipate in at least one internship opportunity and will acquire up to a maximum of 3 credits fora single opportunity with the maximum of up to 6 credits with multiple opportunities. The number Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of New
or fail to become engineers. Her research interests include utilizing a discipline-based focus to explore the professional identity formation of undergraduate civil engineering students and the in- and out-of-class experiences that shape these identities. She is also interested in the application of Grounded Theory and other qualitative methods to gain a nuanced understanding of individual student experiences. Dr. McCall’s current work includes an NSF-funded project examining the professional identity formation of undergraduate students with disabilities.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs
master’s and doctoral degrees in Sociology from Stanford University.Dr. James A Yonker American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Social Cognitive and Educational Environment Trends in Undergraduate Engineering: Results from Three Consecutive Cross- Sectional StudiesAbstract In 2008, 2015 and 2019 a College of Engineering at a large, Midwestern Research-Iuniversity deployed a survey to undergraduate students to assess the environment for educationin engineering, and a several educational decision factors related to retention in engineering. Theinstrument is based on the Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE) survey, extended
. ’Pete’ White Chair for Inno- vation in Engineering Education. He is the founding director of an interdisciplinary lab called Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS) at VT. He received a Ph.D. in civil engineering from VT. His research interests are in the areas of computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrol- ogy, engineering education, and international collaboration. He has served as a PI or co-PI on 18 projects, funded by the National Science Foundation, with a $8.4 million research funding participation from exter- nal sources. He has been directing/co-directing an NSF/Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site on interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering at VT since 2007
) brings to a short-term intensive study abroad program for undergraduate engineering students at a predominantly-White Institution such as the University of Missouri (MU). Created by the Office of Diversity and Outreach Initiatives and the International Engineering & STEM Programs office EDGES (Engineering Diversity Global Experience & Service) is an academic program that combines a social science and engineering curricula to provide students with hands on leadership, diversity, and project management skills in a global context. Using a mixed method methodology, this research study uses the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), personal reflections, and
at Austin Dr. Althea Woodruff is the coordinator of the Well-being in Learning Environments initiative at the University of Texas at Austin’s Longhorn Wellness Center and Counseling and Mental Health Center. On this project, she collaborates with UT faculty and administrators to embed wellness practices across colleges and departments and in classrooms, office hours, and other learning contexts. She also lectures and works at the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk in the College of Education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 1
university.Prof. H. Tuba Ozkan-Haller, Oregon State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Empowering Faculty and Administrators to Re-Imagine a Socially Just Institution through Use of Critical PedagogiesAbstractOregon State University received an NSF-supported ADVANCE Institutional Transformationaward several years ago. The innovation and core of the project is a 60-hour seminar for STEMfaculty and administrators, most of whom have positional authority. The ADVANCE seminaraddresses the need for ideological and structural changes across the university grounded in anintersectional understanding of identity and social structures. Participants are introduced totheories of systems of
graduation.LEEDLEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a sustainability rating schemecreated and managed by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). Using a system ofcredits for sustainability features, buildings certified under the LEED system are eligible for aplaque advertising the sustainable nature of the building. LEED certification is based on thebuildings performance in seven key areas: Location and Transportation, Sustainable Sites, WaterEfficiency, Energy and Atmosphere, Materials and Resources, Indoor Environmental Quality,and Innovation. LEED APs (Accredited Professional) are credentialed to guide a project throughthe LEED certification process. Before becoming a LEED AP, members must first achieve aLEED GA (Green
Graphical Communication. Her research interests involve the retention of women in engineering degree programs and effective pedagogy in undergraduate engineering curriculum.Dr. Yosef S. Allam, Colorado School of Mines Yosef Allam is a Teaching Associate Professor in the EPICS first-year engineering program at the Col- orado School of Mines. Prior to joining Mines, he was an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Funda- mentals Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and an Affiliate Director for Project Lead The Way in Florida, as well as an Instructor in the First-Year Engineering Program at The Ohio State University. He graduated from The Ohio State University with B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial and
. 5AppendicesCourse schedule Class # Topic Assignments due Class 1 Introduction to reflection N/A What is ‘BME’ Class 2 Intro to design thinking Reflection - What is engineering Reading on four levels of reflection Preferred Name/Pronoun form Read and sign syllabus Class 3 Shop introduction Campus Map Design Project Project Presentations Class 4 BMES introduction Reflection - Working styles Interviewing skills Design thinking reading Sense of belonging Class 5 Entrepreneurial mindset Reflection - Design
on next generation biofuels and bioproducts and agricultural biotechnology. Current projects examine the management of microbial communities in applications including water treatment, food and energy production, and soil treatment for the control of pests and pathogens. More than $9 million of her ex- tramural funding at UC Davis has been in support of undergraduate and graduate student preparation in engineering. This includes a NSF GK-12 award to improve leadership, communication and collaboration skills, and teaching capabilities in engineering graduate students pursuing research in the areas of renew- able energy, climate change and environmental sustainability. She received her BS degree from Syracuse
: ning.gong@temple.edu.Dr. Brian P. Butz, Temple University Dr. Brian P. Butz is a Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. In 1987, Professor Butz founded the Intelligent Systems Application Center (ISAC) which provided a focal point within Temple University for research in intelligent systems. Professor Butz’s research efforts focused on expert/knowledge-based systems and intelligent tutoring systems. He has been the Principal Investigator for several projects that immerse users into a particular virtual envi- ronment in which they are able to learn both theory and application within a specific subject area. From 1989 through 1996, Professor Butz was the Chair of
the WIMS ERC, (d) provide an academically conducive and safe living and learningresidential experience, and (e) strongly encourage young women to reach their fullest potential.This program provides knowledge and research-based experimental learning in cutting-edgeWIMS technologies. Additional instruction includes college-level calculus, Unigraphics, C++programming, Internet research, topical seminars exploring various majors in engineering, andspecial topics for future women engineers. The topical seminars introduce various disciplinesof engineering (mechanical, electrical, chemical, material science, computer science, civil andenvironmental). During the program, students engage in group projects, with competitionsengendering high motivation
soft computing. At the conclusion of the course, students haddeveloped their own paradigms and semester projects related to their particularresearch interest. Students made use of current literature for theory formation andhypothesis building related to biological and environmental systems. Futureresearchers must effectively use methods to simulate ambiguous systems fordirecting limited resources toward the solution of these problems. Principlecourse topics included fuzzy variables, inference systems, neural networks, signalprocessing, controls, visual simulation, machine vision, and genetic algorithms insupport of modeling. Students were expected to read and critique related journalarticles each week. To enhance communication skills, students
1.9 46.1 34.5 1990 4,894 8.5 2.0 37.6 46.7 2000 5,321 15.7 3.2 35.5 46.1 2004 5,776 17.6 3.2 26.7 57.2Notes: *URM = Under Represented Minority: African Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, andHispanics.** Data are available for different years due to differences in reporting at the federal level.Source: Commission on Professionals in Science and Engineering, 2006. “Four Decades of STEM Degrees, 1966-2004: ‘The Devil is in the Details’.” STEM Workforce Data Project Report No. 6. Online data archives
parents.At the ASEE-2001 conference, many papers were presented on study abroad programs.Pathmomvanich and Najafi7 discussed the general benefits of such study abroad programs. Chenand Simmons8 in their paper discussed the issues concerning their proposed study abroadprogram between Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Alexandria University inEgypt. Their collaboration was funded by USAID. Upadhyaya and Kerlin9 described the cyber-linked collaboration in their senior course on Introduction to Maintenance Engineering with twouniversities abroad: one in France and the other in Brazil. A set of guidelines was developed inorder to successfully carry out the senior projects. Finally, they have discussed the challenges ofcyber-linked projects
(RIAM) program that is a joint effort between the Operations Research and IndustrialEngineering Graduate Program at The University of Texas at Austin, the Risk ManagementGroup at South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company (STPNOC), and the Nuclear AssetManagement Program at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The main objective of theRIAM program is: to make optimal risk-informed decisions at both operational and executivemanagement levels by taking into account budget, internal project dependencies, outageduration, and regulatory safety constraints; to appropriately model and include the uncertaintyrelated to rates of return on investments, energy prices, failure mechanisms, and costs forreplacement and spare parts; and to provide
settings to introduce students to the fundamentals of engineering. In some cases,students are provided with a kit that allows them to experience the process of building the robotas well as the design and programming aspects.Our project uses the advantages of both approaches to target multiple audiences. Each of thefollowing groups will benefit from the various types of interaction that are possible, rangingfrom graduate students participating in design and prototyping to high school students observinga control system demonstration. The toolkit is ideal for addressing different levels of interest andinvolvement. The possible audiences include: 1. High school students interested in engineering 2. University or community college technology
AC 2008-1018: FORMATIVE EVALUATION OF A PROFESSIONALDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS INFUSINGENGINEERING DESIGN INTO THE CLASSROOMJodi Cullum, Utah State University Jodi Cullum is a doctoral student in the Experimental and Applied Psychology program at Utah State University. Her interests lie in outcomes research in health psychology and program evaluation more broadly. Jodi has been involved in numerous small-scale research studies in Canada and the United States as well as large-scale national projects. She has been involved in STEM evaluation for the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education since May 2007.Christine Hailey, Utah State University
founding editor of ASEE’s Advances in Engineering Education and served as a Senior Associate Editor and an Editorial Review Board member for the Journal of Engineering Education. He has been principle or co-principle investigator on over twenty-five sponsored research projects from the National Science Foundation, the Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE), Health and Human Services and the Department of Transportation. He was the Academic Dean for the Spring 2002 “Semester at Sea” voyage and is an ASEE Fellow. Page 13.795.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008