The South Dakota School of Mines andTechnology began a revision of the freshman engineering curriculum in 1997. Beginning with a pilot program of 25 students, the program is now required for virtually all firstyear engineering students. The program, FC 2000, utilizes a project -based learning approach and features student teams to integrate material in general engineering, mathematics, science and English. Small projects (2-3 per semester) are designed to give students an exposure to engineering design in a variety of engineering disciplines. Project components include designing and conducting experiments, analyzing data, and presentation of technical data. In this paper we present a model for the first year curriculum, preliminary assessment results, and plans for future integration.
Dr. Michael West is an associate professor and head of the department of materials and metallurgical engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SD Mines). Between 2008Between -2013, he served as site director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Friction Stir Processing (CFSP). Since then, he has been involved in a range of projects involving friction stir joining and alloy processing in a variety of metal alloys including aluminum alloys, ODS steels, titanium alloys, cast irons, and dissimilar metal alloys. He is also actively engaged in STEM-Ed projects and serves as the director for the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) "Back to the Future", coordinator for the Army Educational Outreach REAP program for High school students at SD Mines, and PI for the S-STEM Culture and Attitude program starting in 2016. Dr. West is active in several professional societies including ASM (directing the ASM Materials Camp for high school students), The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, and the American Welding Society (serving as faculty advisor for the Black Hills American Welding Society chapter on the SD Mines campus). Stuart Kellogg is Professor and Head of Industrial Engineering at SDSMT. His discipline research areas of interest include applied probability and stochastic models but his passion over the last two decades rests with STEM Education and STEM Education research. He has over 30 publications in first year engineering programs, broadening opportunities for intellectual diversity, project based learning, technology enabled support models, and assessment methods. He has participated in the NSF Rigorous Research in Engineering Educations and REES symposiums and has directed assessment of a variety of campus and multi-institutional programs. Dr. Jennifer Karlin, University of Southern MaineJennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic development. She is now at the University of Southern Maine where she is a research professor of engineering and the curriculum specialist for the Maine Regulatory Training and Ethics Center. Culture and Attitude: A scholarship, mentoring and professional development program to increase the number of women graduating with engineering degrees. AbstractIndustry, media, and academia desire a more diverse engineering workforce. In response to those needs, faculty at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SD Mines) established the Culture and Attitude (C&A) program in fall 2010 with the support of a National Science Foundation S-STEM award. The program provides scholarships for academically bright and financially needy women, and also recognizes the need to change the fundamental paradigm (culture) for recruiting, and retaining students, particularly women, in engineering. To that end, the C&A program created a strong mentoring program, one that advocated a transformational appro...
Since 2009, the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T) has hosted a new Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site entitled Back to the Future. The focus of the REU site is metallurgical engineering research with an emphasis in art and history. This latter aspect is embedded within the site as there is significant evidence that a richer learning environment can be created in engineering by establishing a context within the liberal arts, as described in the recent National Academy of Engineering's Educating the Engineer of 2020 report. In addition to being involved in research projects to develop specific technical skills in engineering, students in this program are engaged in unique supplemental activities that support learning the societal context and potential impact of their research. Specific program activities for a "holistic" approach to an engineering REU experience are described in the paper.A combination of professional development activities, societal context and diversity activities, and library activities are performed to investigate the broader impacts of student research. These activities lead to substantial opportunities for student self-reflection. Finally, assessment activities and results are also described in the paper with a focus on the development of students with different learning-styles and implications for recruiting from underrepresented groups in the STEM disciplines.
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