Engineering Education from Purdue University.Prof. James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University James D. Sweeney is Professor and Head of the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental En- gineering at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1988 and 1983, respectively, and his Sc.B. Engineering degree (Biomedical Engineering) from Brown University in 1979. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a Senior Member of the IEEE and AIChE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Talking about a Revolution: NSF RED Projects OverviewAbstractA
partnerships [e.g., 48]. These research results contribute tothe development of REDCON activities and information-sharing. Teams are at various places intheir project, represented by both year of award and success of the efforts, and their needs andchallenges vary. REDPAR broadly shares research results and research-informed strategies to thebenefit of all REDCON members.Acknowledgements - This material is based upon work supported the United States NationalScience Foundation (NSF) under Grants EEC- 1519438, 1519453, 1519339, 1519467, 1540042,1540072, 1623189, 1623067, 1632053, and 1730262.References1 S. M. Lord, E. J. Berger, N. N. Kellam, E. L. Ingram, D. M. Riley, D. T. Rover, N. Salzman, and J. D. Sweeney, “Talking about a Revolution
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, 2024 NSF RED: Transformative Change through the Capability ApproachAbstractOne of the future challenges facing academic disciplines—traditional STEM as well as the socialsciences and humanities—is how to prepare students to address complex socio-technicalproblems that require a range of disciplinary perspectives to address. The National ScienceFoundation RED project at Bucknell University is focused on enabling students to gain a moreintersectional engineering education by expanding individual pathways for students through anelectrical and computer engineering degree program. Towards this end the departmentundertook significant curricular reform prior from 2014 to 2017 to seeking support from theRED program in 2019.While there has been
;Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, June 2017, DOI: 10.18260/1-2--28538[12] S.M. Lord, B. Sukumaran, E.L. Ingram, A.A. Maciejewski, J.D. Sweeney, T. Martin, J.M.LeDoux, J.S. London, and N. Salzman, “Work in Progress: Progress of the NSF REDRevolution,” presented at ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, June2018, DOI: 10.18260/1-2--31299[13] S.M. Lord, E.J. Berger, N.N. Kellam, E.L. Ingram, D.M. Riley, D.T. Rover, N. Salzman,and J.D. Sweeney, “Talking about a Revolution: Overview of NSF RED Projects,” presented atASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, June 2017, DOI: 10.18260/1-2--28903[14] S.M. Lord, R. Olson, C.A. Roberts, C. Baillie, O.O. Dalrymple, and L.A. Perry,“Developing Changemaking Engineers – Year Five
as a Post-doc at ASU, spent several summers at the National Science Foundation, and worked in various traditional industrial engineering roles at Anheuser- Busch and GE Healthcare. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Instigating a Revolution of Additive Innovation:! An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking!!Introduction!!In 2015, the National Science Foundation (NSF) created a new program called “revolutionizingengineering departments” (RED), and awarded six grants to universities in the United States. TheRED project within the Polytechnic School at Arizona State University (ASU), entitled“Instigating a Revolution of Additive Innovation: An
Conference, Columbus, OH, June 25-28, 2017, https://peer.asee.org/28454.5. J. London, E. Berger, C. Margherio, E. Litzler and J. Branstad, “The RED teams as institutional mentors: Advice from the first year of the ‘revolution,’” in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Columbus, OH, June 25- 28, 2017.6. S. Lord, E. Berger, E. Ingram, N. Kellam, D. Rover, N. Salzman and J. Sweeney, “WIP: Talking about a revolution: Overview of NSF RED projects,” in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, Columbus, OH, June 25-28, 2017.7. E. H. Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership. San Francisco, CA: Wiley, 2016.8. N. Kellam, B. Coley and A. Boklage
Paper ID #38294Breaking Boundaries: An Organized Revolution for theProfessional Formation of Electrical EngineersChris S Ferekides (Associate Professor) Chris S. Ferekides received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of South Florida. He has been a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering Department since 1992. He is currently service as the department chair, and is the principal investigator of a NSF Funded RED Project that addresses the professional formation of electrical engineering students. His research is in the areas of electronic materials with a focus on photovoltaics.Carol
RED recipients began their grants over a year ago, with the second cohort joining themin the change process in the summer of 2016. A third cohort will be added in summer 2017.In line with participatory action research (Reason & Bradbury, 2001), this project seeks toproduce knowledge and action that is directly useful to the RED awardees. We bring togethertheories of institutional change within higher education (Kezar, 2001; Kezar & Eckel, 2002) inorder to understand how each RED team conceptualizes the change process. Through REDPAR(RED Participatory Action Research), an NSF-funded collaboration between Rose-HulmanInstitute of Technology and the University of Washington (UW), we work with the RED teamsto investigate the change process
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Paper ID #12643Renewable Energy Technician Education: Lessons from the German En-ergiewendeMary Slowinski, M.Ed., CREATE NSF-ATE Center Mary Slowinski received her M.Ed. in Learning Science from the University of Washington where she will complete her PhD in the same. She has worked extensively with the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education program in a variety of consulting capacities including serving as learning coordinator for two international faculty learning projects, participating as an Innovation Coach for a ”scaling-up innovations” project, developing curriculum and learning materials
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worked as a post-doctoral researcher with the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At UIUC she has collaborated with mul- tiple teams of engineering faculty on implementing and assessing instructional innovation. Dr. Cross is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Bioengineering working to redesign the curriculum through the NSF funded Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) grant. She is a member of the ASEE Leadership Virtual Community of Practice that organizes and facilitates Safe Zone Training work- shops. Dr. Cross has conducted multiple workshops on managing personal bias in STEM, both online and in-person. Dr. Cross
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federal funds for DOD research, development, test, and evaluation, a great deal of research inengineering goes to the design or development of technologies for the military [10]. Thisincludes a great deal of work by engineers in companies that aren’t identified as militarycontractors. For example, several top tech companies, including Amazon, Google, andMicrosoft all have past, current, or proposed projects with the DOD [11]. It is challenging togauge exactly how much engineering research is military-related, but a sense of the figure can beseen by looking at the percent of federal monies that go towards military research. In 2020, theUS National Science Board reported that about 44% of the federal monies directed to scienceand engineering
]. The semester-long faculty development programengaged faculty in activities centered around the additive innovation framework, with anembedded research goal of understanding the outcomes of faculty participation in such aprogram [3]. The program was developed as part of a research project that is funded by theNational Science Foundation “Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments”(RED) program [4] at Arizona State University (ASU). The RED project at ASU, entitled,“Instigating a Revolution of Additive Innovation: An Education Ecosystem of Making and RiskTaking” (EEC-1519339), is answering the call for revolution by empowering faculty to realize amindset of pedagogical risk-taking and additive innovation in their classrooms [4
issues, as well asrequiring students to think through the process of demonstrating their solution before class).Student SupportStudents have access to the instructors and TAs during the class time and office hours.Additionally, and in our experience a critical aspect of the course delivery, students andinstructors use a real-time collaboration tool, Slack, to communicate. Instructors and TAs makeimportant announcements, share suggestions and pointers for the assignment, announce last-minute updates to the courseware, answer student questions, provide diagnostic advice, and shareinformation about related events and talks. Students are able to pose questions, ask forassistance, share screenshots when they have issues, etc. Most important for
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, and J. G. Harris, “Lessons learned from two years of flippingcircuits i,” in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2015.[16] E. Godfrey and L. Parker, “Mapping the cultural landscape in engineering education,”Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 99, no. 1, pp. 5–22, 2010.[17] S. Lord, E. J. Berger, N. N. Kellam, E. L. Ingram, D. M. Riley, D. T. Rover, N. Salzman,and J. D. Sweeney, “Talking about a revolution: Overview of NSF RED projects,” in ASEEAnnual Conference & Exposition, 2017.[18] A. A. Maciejewski, T. W. Chen, Z. S. Byrne, M. A. De Miranda, L. B. S. Mcmeeking, B.M. Notaros, A. Pezeshki, S. Roy, A. M. Leland, M. D. Reese et al., “A holistic approach totransforming undergraduate electrical engineering education,” IEEE Access
improvement, such as the holistic ECE curriculum transformation projectat Colorado State University, proposing a new organizational structure that interweavesfoundational focus on math and science, creative focus via research and design opportunities,and professional focus on ethics; this is replacing the existing conventional, lecture-style, rigidECE curriculum [4]. Similar efforts have been funded by the RED initiative at Iowa StateUniversity and Virginia Tech [5]. More specific undergraduate ECE education improvementefforts have included pedagogical interventions, such as incorporating project-based learning [4],[6], as well as practical, tool-based interventions, such as the development and introduction of adebugging simulator at Stanford
who had a different one. And I didn’t meet with her but we had extra time so she was telling me about how like gas from the cars could pollute the stream, and I thought that that was a good idea cause that was happening. Interviewer: Yeah, um, so, so your new ideas did not come from the like speed dating model comparison. It came from you sitting down with your friend and talking about your ideas. Student 5: Yeah.Even more, Student 5 shared that the conceptual model provided enough information tounderstand other students’ mental models: Student 5: Um, most of them use arrows instead of drawing a lot of the rain and they do like big arrows and small arrows and they didn't really describe what was
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choice.The portfolio project was introduced as an opportunity to illustrate the student’s thought processes andpersonal growth to future employers , rather than simply to demonstrate they could make some controlsystem work. Accordingly, 50% of the portfolio grade was for reflection and meaning making and 50%technical content. To help students make their portfolio project more than a collection of artifacts,students were required to address the following prompts in their writeup:In your portfolio, make sure you invite the reader to understand you better by describing a little aboutyour learning process. Talk about:1) Where you had to make judgments in the face of uncertainty. (What was the uncertainty, how did youproceed? What happened next?)2) Where
justification component. Figure 4 shows two sample questions thatwere given on the topics of Riemann sums and centroids. Figure 4: Two “Concept Check” questions that are used to gain insight into student thinking and their line of reasoning while problem-solving.The online questions given as a “concept check” prior to exams were awarded full credit forcompletion, and not for accuracy. These questions were talked about in class a day or two beforethe exam to allow students to see where they may have applied incorrect reasoning and otheravenues they might have taken to answer the question. The exam questions were given onexams with one point counting toward the multiple choice portion of the answer and five pointstoward the justification portion of
high school girls excel in relatingscience concepts to design projects – processes more akin to the way professional engineersoperate in the real world.35In his role as P.I. of the NSF-funded National Center for Learning and Teaching NanoscaleScience and Engineering, Chang is spearheading a new effort to develop, test, and implementinnovative nano-centered STEM curricula in secondary schools. The National ScienceFoundation’s decision to fund the NCLT is a further example of the way in which the NationalNanotechnology Initiative is catalyzing new developments in engineering education with far- Page 10.955.7 “Proceedings of the 2005 American
) – Indicates a Work in Progress Friday, April 1, 2011 (Morning)08:30 – 09:45 AM Concurrent Session Presentations Experiential Learning Jim Helbling, et al., Configuration Of Senior Capstone Course Using Team- 1 Teaching To Maximize Communication Skills And Minimize Team Conflict Mohammad Amin, et al., Investigation of a Masters Research Project for 13 Validation of Program's Goals and Student Learning Outcomes Jennifer Van Donk, et al., Developing a low cost prosthetic foot for the Vida Nueva 30 Clinic: A multidisciplinary senior design project Instrumentation & Lab Studies Ricardo Medina, et
800undergraduate students at any one time, the Department utilizes innovative teaching methods andcurricula. This talk will summarize the Department’s recent innovations in undergraduate educationincluding the establishment of degree programs in biotechnology and bioinformatics, the incorporation of acapstone design experience with an emphasis on iterative design, and the introduction of cutting-edgetechnologies including microarray analysis and tissue engineering into core lab courses. Also presentedwill be an overview of educational initiatives outside the classroom including an NSF-sponsored ResearchExperience for Undergraduates (REU) program targeted to students from primarily undergraduateinstitutions, outreach activities with local high schools, and
aseducators prepare the next generation of engineers.There were over 90 submissions which resulted in many excellent papers and posters. As you readthese proceedings, you will see a roadmap marked by breadth, depth and innovation that will beused to navigate engineering education. Educators constantly hear that our students are changing.These proceedings demonstrate that our educators are more than prepared for this change.This conference included educators, researchers and practitioners from industry, academia andgovernment. We were fortunate to have several keynote speakers including: Dr. Don Czechowicz,Project Leader at General Atomics, San Diego, CA; Dr. Muzibul Khan, Corporate Planner,Kyocera Communications, Inc. San Diego, CA; Dr. Justin