publishingconcepts, mentored in designing and testing hypotheses, and then involved in two challengesrelated to self-driving and networked vehicles. Two teams of 4 designed, implemented, testedvarious self-drive and V2X algorithms using real vehicles on a test course, analyzed/evaluatedtest results, wrote technical reports, and delivered presentations. After the summer program wasover, the technical reports were published in peer reviewed conferences and journals.Survey results show that students attained significant & real-world computer science skills inautonomous vehicle development leveraging real vehicles available. The programs alsoProceedings of the 2024 ASEE North Central Section ConferenceCopyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering
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MethodThe author started instruction for the course in 2018 using the traditional classroom lecturemethod using the learning management system (LMS) "Blackboard" (Bb). However, theassessment approaches and lessons learned apply to other LMSs. The course migrated to ahybrid delivery in 2019. The LMS and video conferencing (Zoom) technology facilitated themigration in delivery methods. This trend continued, and the course went entirely online in theSpring of 2020 with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. During this period in 2020, the authorbecame aware of the “flipped classroom” delivery method. [14] The syllabus was reworked tomove the lecture material out of the classroom into video presentations ranging in length from 10to 45 minutes. [13] Each
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book chapters, 34 journal publications, and more than 80 conference papers. She is recognized for her research and teaching, including Dean’s Awards for Outstanding New Faculty, Outstanding Teacher Award, and a Faculty Fellow. Dr. Matusovich has served the Educational Research and Methods (ERM) division of ASEE in many capacities over the past 10+ years including serving as Chair from 2017-2019. Dr. Matusovich is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Advances in Engineering Education and she serves on the ASEE committee for Scholarly Publications.Dr. Gwen Lee-Thomas, Quality Measures Dr. Gwen Lee-Thomas is the CEO of Quality Measures, LLC, a Virginia-based consulting firm specializing in program and
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individualswho are typically White and male, making it privileged knowledge to more dominantpopulations, intersectional knowledge is privileged to those smaller, more finitegroups who experience specific oppressions that have not been observed inmainstream conversation.Our conversations on methodological reform are tied deeply to the ideals of thistheory. 4 An exploration of intersectional statisticsshows we may actually know very little about the diversity of engineering education. • Reports show overall increases in enrollment and persistence each year (NSF, 2019; ASEE, 2019). • They also show increases by separate race/ethnicity, and sex
discovery of needs, the students get involved in proposing a feasibleand viable solution to the problem by adopting the engineering design process, prototypebuilding, testing, and final implementation of the design. Since the courses provide acomprehensive engineering design experience, it covers three of the five ABET student outcomecriteria for the year 2019-2020, i.e., outcomes 2, 3, and 5 [14].The capstone course models may range from need-based product designs to basic research. Froman engineering technology perspective, the need-based product design approach, in general, isadopted for the course. It is well known that teaching capstone design courses is different fromother traditional courses. Solving an open-ended design project involves
five cohorts, nine instances of threeclusters of animations viewers occurred; six of the nine instances occurred in the first three 5chapters. Thus, the disappearance of the third cluster may correspond with some of thesestudents withdrawing from the course during the middle of the semester.Table 2. The number of clusters selected for each cohort and chapter of the MEB zyBook. Year 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Chapter 1 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 3 2 3 3 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 2 2 2 2 5 2 2 3 2 3 6 2 2
faculty at the US Military Academy at West Point teaching civil engineering. He also served as the Director, Graduate Professional Development at Northeastern University’s College of Engineering. He is the recipient of the 2021 NSPE Engineering Education Excellence Award and the 2019 ASCE Thomas A Lenox ExCEEd Leadership Award.Tanya Kunberger Dr. Tanya Kunberger is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering and Construction Management in the U.A. Whitaker College of Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. Dr. Kunberger's educational research interests are in self-efficacy, persistence, and effective learning approaches in engineering and the development of an interest
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framework.ReferencesAbraham, Y. S. (2020). Importance of Active Learning in an Undergraduate Course inConstruction Scheduling. In 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access.Abraham, Y. S., Celik, B. G., Spaan, M., & Mansson, N. (2022). Assessing the Effectiveness ofVirtual Workshops with Active Learning Approaches in Construction Education. InternationalJournal of Engineering Education, 1562-1576.Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). 2021. Criteria for AccreditingEngineering Programs, 2020 – 2021. https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accrediting-engineering-programs-2020-2021/#GC3ASCE Civil Engineering Education Summit, “Mapping the Future of Civil EngineeringEducation”, May 28-20, 2019, Dallas
questions,and revising the questions if needed. Instructional videos of the content and examples in the firsthalf of the semester will be added, starting from more difficult ones. Scaffolding pedagogicalteaching support can be added to help students acquire the knowledge as needed. For example,additional resources can be included in the learning management system and released on aconditional basis if a student answered some quiz questions incorrectly or if a student’sperformance on some assignments falls below a threshold.References 1. N. Gautam, “Teaching courses on probability and statistics for engineers: classical topics in the modern technological era,” in 2019 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2009, Austin, Texas
million in research funding from the National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Johns Hopkins University, National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy and private industry. She is a senior member of the IEEE, and member of the ASEE, Bioelectromagnetics Society and Society of Women Engineers. She serves on the editorial board of the Bioelectromagnetics Society.Miss Kelsey Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno Kelsey is a doctoral student in the School of Engineering Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. There she completed her Bachelor’s and is working on her Master of Science in mechanical engineering. Her research focuses are on undergraduate
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grew students not only grasped the course materials but also know how to apply their knowledge in practical applications which is the most exciting parts of being an instructor. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: Assessing Student Performance and Perceptions in a “Flipped” Statics and Mechanics Engineering CourseIntroductionThe “flipped” classroom (also known as the inverted classroom) model has been a point ofdiscussion among many academic circles for the past couple of decades. With the emergence ofeducational technology and online-learning, flipped classrooms have become more common.Though there may be many different methods that are used to generate a flipped
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engineering currently has among the highestrepresentation of female tenured/tenure-track (T/TT) faculty. The ASEE reports 26.3% of theT/TT faculty in EnvE are female, which is higher than the 19.6% overall in engineering and justbehind biomedical at 27.7% and engineering management at 26.9% [11]. While EnvE is a long-time leader among engineering disciplines in female faculty, it is about average in the percentageof URM faculty and like other engineering disciplines particularly in URMWF (see Table 2). Asurvey from the AEESP found that its membership was: 52% white, 24% Asians, 7% Latinos,and 4% African Americans, as well as 5% from outside the U.S. [3].Table 2. T/TT Faculty Demographics - ASEE 2020 [12] Discipline Name N faculty % URM
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