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The goal of this session is to increase the participants' knowledge of current funding opportunities at the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support projects with potential significant impacts on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)...

The FIE conference has throughout its history emphasized work at the frontiers of education. This pre-conference workshop reflects a policy shift at the National Science Foundation, Department of Education, and Department of Defense, and others who have ...

Engineering education researchers focus on research, putting research into practice, and creating innovative practice. These foci require meaningful communication that elicits a desired response (e.g. adoption of innovation). Innovation advocates and ...

This interactive workshop uses the metaphor of a baseball team to illustrate the variety of people-roles involved in making educational improvements happen, as well as the academic ecosystem in which these changes occur. When making smaller-scale changes, ...

Engineering courses often make use of term projects to tie together course concepts and enable open-ended learning. Projects can also be used to teach entrepreneurial-minded learning (EML). At Rose-Hulman we offer mobile/web app development in 4 different ...

This paper describes the use of a space usage determination algorithm for teaching signal processing and machine learning concepts to undergraduate electrical engineering and computer science students. An Android device transmits a high-frequency signal ...

SimVascular is an open source software platform for cardiovascular simulation, providing a complete pipeline from medical image data to volumetric model construction, meshing, and blood flow simulation. Previous workshops and educational programs have ...

The first Persuasive Technology (PT) emerged in the 1970s, and was being defined as an interactive computer system used to change human behavior. Research has shown the viability of these technologies in a variety of contexts such as advertising, reducing ...

Recently, games have grown in popularity as tools to support student learning and motivation. Accordingly, games represent one possible contributor to student motivation, an outcome of engineering education particularly important to learning and to ...

The lack of success of advertising campaigns on drug use is attributed to the use of inappropriate language at a young audience. It is believe that an approach based on digital games can achieve greater success because they offer the attractive ...

The amount of data is exploding, and by all estimations will continue its exponential growth. This has led to an increased demand for engineers and data scientists. However, courses imparting crucial ideas from data design, administration and maintenance ...

There has been a recent surge in the need for computer science educational resources. Often, this need is addressed with computer-based learning tools. However, many of these tools target coding skills and software design rather than teaching foundational ...

Virginia Tech is in the process of an intensive restructuring of its Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department, driven by an NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Department (RED) grant. As a natural first step, discussion has centered on how the ...

The literature does not include a good synthesis of how ethics, particularly macroethical issues, are integrated into the education of computing versus engineering students. Survey responses from faculty who teach computing students (n=188) were ...

Real world information technology projects cut across multiple business domains and processes, involve large amounts of data and an assortment of different technologies. Advanced courses within an IS programs must include projects that help students gain ...

State of the art technologies in micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) devices have been proposed to address important issues in renewable energies, health sciences, consumer electronics, and information technology. Incorporation of ...

Technical solution skills — though important — are not enough for effective, multicultural teamwork. Despite broad consensus on the vital function of communication- and social skills, they tend to be underrepresented in the training of ...

Engineering writing and communication is increasingly required of engineering undergraduate and graduate students; yet this call is rarely met through research-based methods. This research posits that deep investigation of the cognitive processes within ...

Written communication is neither systematically developed nor practised in the engineering curriculum, despite expectations by universities and employers that engineering graduates will be proficient communicators, and despite interventions to develop ...

The abstract is the quintessential technical writing genre, because abstract writing involves judiciously selecting content and conveying such content in lean, focused writing. This study tested the efficacy of the structured abstract content framework, ...

Quality of the offered higher education for the next generations plays an important role to shape the future of United States. To improve American society, it is needed to pay profound attention to higher education of racial/ethnic minorities and ensure ...

Earlier studies have analyzed FIE and the community built around it, e.g. the origin, format, and future direction of the conference. We propose a new lens: that of diversity, with the motivation of identifying potential role models or the lack thereof. ...

Seeing themselves represented in the role models they aspire to, has been shown to be important to students' sense of belonging and success. Underrepresented college students in STEM fields are exposed to only a small set of role models. This set often ...

Although quite recently our diversity and inclusion core values were challenged, we should not forget to recognize the importance and value of bringing together students from underrepresented minorities and their different perspectives into our various ...

In this work, we introduce the Materials Science Conceptual Evaluation (MSCE). This is a 31 item multiple choice test designed to complement the Materials Concept Inventory (MCI) developed in 2002 by Krause et al. In developing this assessment, we ...

The study of the motivational aspect and its relevance to the comprehension of the efficacy of learning has been the subject matter of several researches. According to the Self-determination Theory (SDT) there is a relation between the context, the ...

To correctly engage in the instrument development process takes time. According to Benson's model of construct validation (1) there are at least three lengthy stages (substantive, structural, external) to construct validation when developing a new ...

Computer Science 2 is one of the core elements of any computer science program; however, there has been little progress towards the development of a concept inventory for this key introductory course for CS majors. Plans to address this gap using the ...

One of the key goals as an educator is to stimulate the curiosity of students in order to instill a desire to further explore and learn the subject matter outside of the classroom. Another important goal, often underemphasized, is to enhance the student's ...

There have been some social constructivist learning approaches used in computing sciences (CS) education, but none of them has actually validated the student reflection process, which is a critical component of the action learning associated with them. ...