and developing pedagogical methods and materials to enhance engineering education. Her most recent educational research includes the collaboration with Tennessee State University and local high schools to infuse cyberinfrastructure learning experience into the pre-engineering and technology-based classrooms, the collaboration with community colleges to develop interactive games in empowering students with engineering literacy and problem-solving, the integration of system-on-chip concepts across two year Engineering Science and four year ECE curricula, and the implementation of an educational innovation that demonstrates science and engineering principles using an aquarium. Her work has resulted in over 100 journal and conference papers and book chapters.
Dr. Kauser Jahan, Rowan UniversityKauser Jahan, is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University. She received her B.S.C.E. from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, an MSCE from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Her passion as an educator and mentor has been recognized by many professional organizations over the years. She is the recipient of the Gloucester County Women of Achievement Award, Lindback Foundation Teaching Award, the NJ ASCE Educator of the Year award, the Gary J. Hunter Excellence in Mentoring Award, the ASEE Environmental Engineering Division Meritorious Service Award, the ASEE Women in Engineering Division Sharon A. Keillor Award and the WEPAN Women in Engineering Initiative Award. She has been instrumental in establishing the Attracting Women into Engineering, the Engineers on Wheels and Engineering Clinics for Teachers programs at Rowan University. She has served as the Institutional Representative and Advisory Board Chair for the Women's Professional Network at Rowan University for six years and currently is an advisory board member of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Council on Education (ACE) Office of Women in Higher Education (OWHE).
Mr. Talbot Bielefeldt, Clearwater Program EvaluationEducational program evaluator since 1995, working with a variety of federal, state, local, and corporate education initiatives. Current projects include evaluations of school/community and school/university grants focused on STEM education.
The Effectiveness of An Adaptive Serious Game for Digital Logic Design
ABSTRACTMost students benefit more deeply from guided learning than discovery learning. Even so, not all students are alike. Our research contention is that offering differentiated instructions that better fit students' educational needs in a narrative virtual reality (VR) environment will give them renewed hope for learning success. This paper presents such a development that augments an existing learning game, Gridlock, with an adaptive learning engine that assesses what really happens when a student's capacity is sabotaged in problem solving and to provide the help that is tailored to his/her needs. The game was deployed in Compute...