five architectural studio courses. She is an active member of numerous on and off-campus committees, including the Applied Learning Review Board (Chair 2022 – 2023, member since 2016), Farmingdale Executive Committee (Chair 2018-2022, member 2016-2022), ASC, AAS, Public Art Task Force (former Chair), Calendar Committee (former Chair), Sustainability Committee, the American Society of Engineering Education Middle Atlantic Section (former Chair and Secretary and Treasurer). Professor LoPiccolo served as department chair from 2017-2021. She prepared and oversaw three successful ABET re-accreditation reports and visits, streamlined the department processes for student success, and actively linked students and graduates
Paper ID #45484Navigating Pathways: Qualitative Insights into Personal and ProfessionalTrajectories of Non-Traditional Groups across Engineering-Related AcademicDisciplinesMs. Kimberly A Luthi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide Dr. Kimberly Luthi is a Department Chair for the Applied Aerospace Sciences, and Faculty Member at Embry-Riddle Aeronautic University-Worldwide in the College of Aviation. Her research background is in workforce development education and engineering education.MICHAEL KOSLOSKI, Old Dominion UniversityBettina Mrusek, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide
Engineering (ICSE), Executive Director for Gulf Coast Environmental Equity Center (GCEEC), Director for the Solid Waste Sustainability Hub, Director for the Gulf Coast Center for Addressing Microplastics Pollution (GC-CAMP), and Director for the Sustainable Asphalt Materials Laboratory, as well as the founding faculty advisor for the Society of Sustainable Engineering. He teaches a mixture of undergraduate and graduate engineering courses. Dr. Wu is a committee member for Transportation Research Board (TRB) AJE35 and AKM 90, a member of American Society of Civil Engineer (ASCE), American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), and Academy of Pavement Science and Engineering (APSE), as well as an editorial member for
rig-orous academic instruction with a military framework. The paper explores VMI's capstone pro-jects' historical development and significance, highlighting how the military structure uniquelyshapes their design and implementation. This study investigates the academic and career impactsof these projects, drawing on feedback from students and faculty. Additionally, it identifies op-portunities for improvement, including fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, enhancing part-nerships with industry, and refining assessment criteria. Finally, the role of continuous improve-ment mechanisms, such as ABET accreditation, are assessed to ensure the ongoing relevance andeffectiveness of VMI’s capstone programs. This research aims to provide insights
students would beblock scheduled typically by an administrative assistant based on test scores and placement tests,and then the faculty advisor would meet with the student once a semester for the rest of thestudent’s academic career to advisee the student on the next semesters courses. This is a fairlystandard model that is used at many different institutions and is one that allows for one on onepersonal interactions with the student and minimizes the workload on the faculty advisor.However, in order to address the issues of mechanical engineering student retention, recruitment,and the initial math placement of these students the new active and structured advising modelwas created as seen in Fig. 1. The structured advising model integrates
meritand justifications. At one end, highly acclaimed universities pride themselves of having toprenowned mathematicians and scientists as faculty members in their engineering programs. Atthe opposing end, many other institutes of higher education, particularly community colleges,firmly require engineering degrees from their engineering faculty members.The Practice of Mathematicians and Scientists Teaching Engineering Courses:The author has been and is still an engineering faculty member at numerous institutes in the USand Saudi Arabia. During his twenty-five years of teaching and through personal interactionsand communications with other faculty members in conferences and similar academic activities,he came to know that some mathematicians and