when considering models for course design.Keywords: course design, design object, design thinking, engineering design, backward designIntroductionDesigning courses is a nontrivial task [1,2] and an abundance of approaches, models, andmethods have been developed to guide the design of courses [3–5]. In creating a course,educators face several considerations regarding the scope of learning outcomes; the kinds ofactivities, content, or projects learners may engage in; the nature of interactions betweeninstructors and students and among students themselves; the structure or flexibility of theexperience; and many more [2,5]. As such, the potential design space is large and complex.Comparing the tradeoffs between alternatives may result in several
Optimized BERT Pre-training Approach (RoBERTa) [20]. This model was developedby Facebook and the University of Washington and was trained with over 160 GB of textualdata. Next, we used the Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) fordimension reduction to get an interpretable number of groupings within the data [21]. UMAPestimates a topology of the high-dimensional data and uses this information to construct a low-dimensional representation that preserves relationships present in the data. This approach is moreappropriate for non-linear relationships within data over more traditional dimension reductiontechniques like Principal Components Analysis [22]. Then, we used Hierarchical AgglomerativeClustering with Ward linkages to
University Kurt Becker is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University. His research includes engineering design thinking, systems engineering, engineering education professional development, technical training, and adult learning cognition. He is currently working on National Science Foundation funded projects exploring engineering design thinking and systems thinking, a USAID funded project in Egypt, “Center of Excellence in Water”, and Department of Education funded GEARUP projects in the area of STEM education related to engineering education. He has extensive international experience working on technical training and engineering projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, World
via the research-practice cycle.Research QuestionsThe present study addressed the following two research questions:(1) What are faculty members’ perspectives on the role of accreditation in engineering ethicseducation?(2) How, if at all, does accreditation influence their teaching decisions related to ethics?Project ContextThis study is part of a larger project that explored ethics and societal impacts education from theperspectives of faculty members, engineering students, and engineering alumni. The aim of thelarger project was to identify potential exemplars of engineering ethics education. As part of thelarger project, 38 interviews were conducted with educators throughout the United States [19].The interviewees were drawn from the
career at Cal Poly, Kevin practiced holistic design with Ove Arup & Partners (ARUP).Scott Mason FrancisBrent Alan Perkins (Mr.) Brent Perkins is a project structural engineer with Dudley Williams and Associates, P.A. in Wichita, Kansas. In 2000, Brent graduated from Kansas State University with both a Bachelor and Master of Science Degrees in Architectural Engineer. Brent is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Kansas and a licensed Structural Engineer in the State of Nebraska. Brent is a Charter Member of the Structural Engineers Association of Kansas and Missouri and serves as a member on the National Council of Structural Engineers Association Basic Education Committee
taught to apply physics principles tosolve ill-structured and complex engineering problems. The integration of engineering designprocesses to physics labs is meant to help students transfer physics learning to engineeringproblems, as well as to transfer the design skills learned in their engineering courses to thephysics lab. The purpose of this case study was to examine how, and to what extent, students engagedin a physics laboratory that is integrated using an engineering design project engage in transfer.We begin by briefly reviewing the existing literature on the integration of science andengineering practices, then provide a brief overview of transfer. We then describe the contextand content of the integrated physics labs, before
includesteps of choosing equations, monitoring, and evaluating problem solutions, and the combinationof these steps into more complex problem-solving strategies. These are metacognitive processesbecause they require the solver to think about anticipated, ongoing, and final problem-solvingsteps. Although research has identified characteristic differences between novice and expertproblem solvers, less is known about the more detailed ways in which students develop theirproblem-solving methods through experience. In this research project, we asked 1) Whichproblem-solving strategies do students report using, 2) Is strategy use correlated with level ofmetacognitive reflection and problem-solving confidence, 3) Is strategy use correlated withobjective
Paper ID #38328Recognition of Subtle Bias Tempers Explicit GenderStereotyping Among STEM StudentsDarnishia Lashalle Slade Darnishia Slade-Morris is a PhD student in Michigan Technological University's Applied Cognitive Sciences and Human Factors Program. Her research focus includes self-efficacy, mental toughness, and microaggressions. Darnishia is also the Pavlis Educator and Manager of Global Engagement Programs in the Pavlis Honors College at Michigan Tech. She’s a foodie who enjoys spending time with friends and family as well as impromptu road trips!Logan C Burley Logan is currently working as a project
of Engineering, Design andComputing at the University of Colorado Denver with representation from each of the fivedepartments, as well as faculty at multiple stages in their career (instructors, assistant, associate,and full professors in clinical, research, and tenure tracks). This cohort represents a broadsampling across the college, and provides a foundation for the FLC to influence, transform, andlayer a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the college.Initial results from this project center on findings that address the research question: How canparticipation in an FLC nudge engineering faculty to adopt and personalize mindful reflectionand DEI best practices? This paper includes initial findings from participant
. Kerrie Douglas, Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue, studies how to improve the quality of classroom assessments and evaluation of online learning in a variety of engineering education contexts. She holds a PhD in Educational Psychology and a M.A. in Educational Studies, with focus on school counseling. She is a co-PI on the SCALE project, leading the evaluation and assessment efforts. She recently received an NSF award to study engineering instructor decisions and student support during COVID-19 and impact the pandemic is having on engineering students. She also recently won the prestigious CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation to study increasing the fairness of engineering
education [50], [51].Citation analysisWhen we selected our foundational papers we expected to find at least a few citations for them,so we were quite surprised to find only one passing reference. Is this citation politics at play, orcould there be some other explanation? We cannot make conclusions from our small study. Aswe delve further into this work it is important to recognize that the authors we cite “positions ourwork in a field. It aligns us with particular epistemologies and ontologies; ways of knowing andof ways of being. It can polarise us from others [52].”Future ResearchThis project is a proof-of-concept first step at mapping the DEI and social justice work publishedin the STEM librarianship sphere. Although we ended up with only a few
includes civil engineering materials, dynamics, engineering design, engineering economics, first-year engineering experience, matrix analysis, mechanics, probability and risk in engineering, statics, and structural analysis. His research aims to better society by exploring how infrastructure materials can be made to be more environmentally sustainable and resilient; and by exploring how engineering can be structured to be more welcoming of diverse perspectives, which can fuel solutions in challenging societal inequities.Monica Palomo (Professor) Dr. Mónica Palomo is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where she teaches senior projects, and environmental and
reinforce the course's fundamentals and solve intractable and real-life problems.2 The EvolutionIn 2001 and 2003, NSF funded [14, 15] the first author's project to develop open educationresources (OER) [16] for a course in Numerical Methods, including textbook content,PowerPoint presentations, multiple-choice tests, historical anecdotes, real-life applications, andlecture videos. These resources were implemented and assessed to compare the traditional © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conferencelecture course with a course where web-based resources were available to the students and wereused actively in and outside the classroom.A typical flipped
skillsneeded in the workforce. Students must instead embrace a new form of learning in whichthey gain knowledge and learn to apply information and concepts from different perspectives(Tan, 2021). Consequently, Telenko et al. (2015), Kazerounian & Foley (2007), and Klukken,Parsons, & Columbus (1997) have found that this new form of learning requires a curriculumthat applies problem-focused, project-based, and design-centric education. As of late, muchemphasis has been placed on the need to develop a curriculum that is more open-mindedinstead of one that employs activities that have a fixed narrative (Tan, 2021). Therefore, thisstudy aims to address the wider community of people who are studying engineering inSingapore as first-generation
immediately after the first required seminar, HON 2150 (there is an optional foundationalseminar for first-semester first-year students), and consists of the first of the experientialcomponents. In practice, students often complete the Immersion later in their careers, after theyhave taken another seminar and/or other components. The metaphor of immersion is consciouslychosen: the idea is for a student to allow themselves to absorb an experience in 360 degrees, totake it in, and to begin to process it, but with an emphasis on observation. In this way, it’s mostclosely linked with the Honors Ability (our program learning outcomes) Embrace Ambiguity [8].Later components, including the Honors Project and Leadership/Mentorship, engage the Actwith Purpose
University of Connecticut, respectively. He worked for nine years in the industry as an engineer/manager in India and Bangladesh before starting his graduate study in the US. He started his career as a faculty member in 2019 at the University of Connecticut. His research interests lie in the field of concrete technology with a focus on finite element modeling of ultra high performance concrete. He is also interested in educational research. He is presently working on redesigning the Soil Mechanics course, which incorporates inclusive teaching practices considering the experience and needs of neurodivergent learners. This project is a part of an NSF-funded IUSE/PFE:RED grant. © American Society for
alternative pathways. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Avoiding Barriers: A Literature Review on the Alternative Pathways for Women in Computer ScienceAbstractChallenges remain in fulfilling skilled professionals to meet the growing demand for the computingworkforce. Computer and information technology occupations are projected to grow at an above-average rate of 13% from 2020 to 2030. To meet the need for computer science jobs, the computerscience education research (CSER) community has explored pedagogical theories and practices toprepare students for careers in the field. However, the focus has been on
industrial applications. During his time at Purdue, he has been awarded several grants to develop technology for the improvement of fluid power systems. As the director of his research group at Purdue, he received funding for the development of contamination resistant valves for the throttle control of fighter jet engines. The resulting design of this project generated a modified poppet valve that improved its response time from 40ms to 10ms. He has developed with his students an IoT irrigation system for water deprived areas in Arequipa, Peru. He has also conducted research in novel methods for the hybridization of electrically powered drive trains using hydraulic accumulators. Most recently he is developing an autonomous
pre- and post- entrepreneurial knowledge familiarity tests, entrepreneurialself-efficacy scales, creative mindset scales, an epistemic curiosity scale, and students’ writtenself-reflection responses. We expect results to show increases in students’ learning and theimpact of SRL on students’ learning in entrepreneurship-related concepts and applicationthrough self-reflection in the full-scale study. The findings of this work will demonstrate theimpact of SRL in an entrepreneurial learning context using theory-grounded pedagogicalpractices.IntroductionThe Engineering of 2020 Project envisioned that colleges and universities should fosterengineering students’ curiosity, creativity, innovation, and leadership and problem-solvingabilities to meet
Materials Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and went on to complete his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. After completing a postdoc with the Cornell Active Learning Initiative, he joined the School of Engineering and Technology at UW Tacoma to help establish its new mechanical engineering program. His teaching and research interests include solid mechanics, engineering design, and inquiry-guided learning. He has supervised undergraduate and master's student research projects and capstone design teams.Eric Burkholder (Postdoctoral Scholar) Eric Burkholder is an assistant professor of physics and of chemical engineering at Auburn Univeristy. He received his PhD in chemical
1The number of times a program has been awarded and what ET programs have benefited fromthe NSF program are listed in Table IV. The most listed program is Engineering Technologywith no specific major. Still, the number of awards for ET is very low compared to those inengineering in Table III. Most of the awards granted by NSF S-STEM program involvesscholarships for students and the number varied from very few to over 200 students. Someuniversities included minorities such as Hispanics or Black populations in their project. Thedegrees varied from Associates to Bachelors and even some Master degrees. When comparingthe summaries from Tables III and IV, clearly, the number of students impacted by grantsawarded to those in engineering surpasses
Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering with a focus in construction engineering and management from UA. Her research interests include occupational safety and health, workforce training and development, engineering educa- tion, Building Information Modeling, machine learning and AI in construction, and construction progress monitoring and simulation. Dr. Song is leading research projects funded by the U.S. Department of Labor and NSF to advance worker safety training and workforce development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023WIP: Assessing the Need for Mental Health Curricula for Civil, Architecture, and Construction Engineering: A Preliminary StudyAbstractThe mental health
prior work done in measuring spatialvisualization skills, our work involves contributions concerning international engineeringeducation.We are embarking on this project to develop a test from scratch rather than using existingassessment tools. Before making our own, we want to learn from previous projects what doesand does not work in existing assessment tools with a critical lens. Often, the tests currently usedin literature and the subsequent course or curriculum appear to result in score gains of studentsafter the intervention [3]. We are questioning whether this could be a result of the test notaccurately capturing the spatial visualization skills initially, whether this reflects ceiling/flooreffect in statistical data analyses, or if gains
fall 2021, over 50% of students had average grades of less than 70% in the first two mid-termexams [10, 11]. From spring 2020 through summer 2022, most instructors were soft in assessingstudent knowledge due to COVID pandemic. During this period, students took most exams onlinewithout an effective proctoring system. Moreover, in many cases take-home exams or projectsemployed to assess students’ knowledge. The greatest challenge for instructors was to maintainthe academic integrity of their exams [12, 13]. Many instructors could find the solutions to theironline exams, take-home exams, or projects on such online tutoring services as Chegg orCoursehero [14, 15].Instructor Initiated Drop policyIn fall 2022, the university again allowed the
learning theory of situated learning[1], [2], such playful learning may enable instructors to create assignments that induce studentsto break free of the typical student mindset of finding the “right” answer.Mars: An Ethical Expedition! is an interactive, 12 week, narrative game about the colonization ofMars by various engineering specialists. Students take on the role of a head engineer and arepresented with situations that require high-stakes decision-making. Various game mechanicsinduce students to act as they would on-the-fly, within a real engineering project context, usingpersonal reasoning and richly context-dependent justifications, rather than simply right/wronganswers. Each segment of the game is presented in audio and text that ends
Paper ID #38253Development of a Manufacturing Assessment Survey to PromoteEntrepreneurial Mindset in EngineeringFatemeh MozaffarDr. Cheng Chen, University of Georgia Cheng holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Georgia and has published nu- merous papers on topics such as computational design, geometric modeling, and engineering education. He is always seeking innovative approaches to fill knowledge gaps and to assist in solving complex de- sign issues. He is currently working on several projects to develop various natural language models for requirement management. Cheng is passionate about applying
-regardless of background [1]. With a projected increase in STEM jobs of 8 percent by 2029 (ahigher rate than non-STEM jobs [2]) there is a need to address the equitable cultivation of aSTEM workforce that is diverse and culturally relevant.In order to broaden the interest of young learners in STEM, many educators are including art intheir STEM activities (making STEAM the new acronym.) This inclusionary practice has thepotential to encourage a more diverse population of learners to become engaged in STEMpractices [3]. With arts-inclusive STEM programming, we prepare students to beinterdisciplinary collaborators who can add new perspectives to the increasing demand forinnovation.Even with governmental initiatives and inclusive practices to increase
International Council for Com- puter Communications. He has served as a member of the Steering Committee for Project Inkwell.Dr. Shatha Jawad Jawad, National University Dr. Shatha Jawad has more than 22 years of experience in teaching and more than three years as a software engineer. She had UNESCO Fellowship in the field of Information and Communication Technologies, in 2002. Her Ph.D. is in computer engineering. She is a member of the Institute for Learning-enabled Op- timization at Scale (TILOS) which has an NSF grant that began on November 1, 2021, for five years. TILOS is a National Science Foundation-funded Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institute led by the University of California-San Diego and includes
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studies, and discussions to teach ethics. Hess and Foremake three pedagogical suggestions in [10] that could utilize perspective-taking: integratingmicro-insertions of ethics across the curriculum, community-engaged approaches, and real-worldstrategies. Perspective-taking skills interface with many of the daily tasks of engineers in theirinteractions with clients and co-workers in efforts to meet project requirements such ascommunicating across disciplines (e.g. engineering to business) and understanding the needs ofthe client. Todd and Galinsky in [12] performed a literature review of the efficacy of perspective-taking as a strategy for improving intergroup relations and reducing bias in a psychologicalcontext. They stated in [12, p. 374