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WIP: Belonging Matters: Exploring Student Engagement in Innovation Ecosystems
2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
Year: 2024 | Conference Paper |
This innovative practice WIP paper describes how a sense of belonging is a crucial element in closing the participation gap in Innovation Competitions and Programs (ICPs) among underrepresented students. Apart from fostering student innovations and career readiness, ICPs, such as hackathons, startup incubator competitions, and customer discovery labs, are essential to college entrepreneurship ecos...Show More
Exploring the Transformative Influence of Student Innovation Competitions and Programs: Insights from their Organizers
2024 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)
Year: 2024 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (1)
Student innovation competitions and programs have gained substantial recognition as the number of students entering science, technology, engineering, mathematics, entrepreneurial, and business fields continues to increase. Student participants, mentors, organizers, and faculty members see these competitions and programs as catalysts for fostering creativity, initiative, and entrepreneurial spirit....Show More
Innovation Competitions in STEM Education: A Comprehensive Analysis of Attributes and Student Experiences
2024 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)
Year: 2024 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (1)
In order to gain technical and professional experience, many students in STEM fields participate in extracurricular activities, called such as Innovation Competition and Programs (ICPs). ICPs can offer students a hands-on experience in their field, fostering creativity and entrepreneurship while also solving problems as a team. While the literature emphasizes the many benefits that ICPs offer and ...Show More
Solving Sequential Competitive Facility Location Challenges: Using Parallel Genetic Algorithms
2024 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP)
Year: 2024 | Conference Paper |
In smart computing, addressing combinatorial optimization game theory problems is essential for resolving intricate challenges involving limited resources and significant strategic interactions among decision-makers. In this paper, we solved sequential combinatorial optimization game theory problems using an evolutionary algorithm called the Game-Theoretic Genetic Algorithm (GTGA), where it is com...Show More
Best Practices for Cultivating Innovative Thinking Skills in Innovation Competitions and Programs
Abdullah Konak;Sadan Kulturel-Konak;David R. Schneider;Khanjan Mehta
2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
Year: 2023 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
Engineering and computing education have always embraced student Innovation Competitions and Programs (ICPs), such as design challenges, hackathons, startup competitions, and boot camps. These programs are typically organized to increase interest in STEM fields, achieve the broader objective of forming well-rounded engineers and encourage students to bring their innovative ideas into real life. In...Show More
Perceived Barriers and Costs Associated with Participation in Student Innovation Competitions
2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
Year: 2023 | Conference Paper |
Student innovation competitions and programs, hereafter called ICPs, such as hackathons, start-up incubator competitions, design challenges, boot camps, and customer discovery labs, have emerged as pipeline-builders and transformative for higher education entrepreneurial ecosystems. Moreover, ICPs foster students' STEM-based experiences and serve as a gateway for career readiness. There is a dispa...Show More
An Adaptive Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for Economic Emission Dispatch
Tsung-Che Chiang;Thammarsat Visutarrom;Sadan Kulturel-Konak;Abdullah Konak
2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)
Year: 2022 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (1)
This paper addresses the economic emission dispatch (EED) problem where the goal is to allocate the power output of power generation units to satisfy power demand and minimize the cost and emissions simultaneously. We propose a multiobjective differential evolution algorithm and a reinforcement learning technique to adaptively control the parameters of differential evolution. Moreover, the propose...Show More
Reinforcement Learning-Based Differential Evolution for Solving Economic Dispatch Problems
Thammarsat Visutarrom;Tsung-Che Chiang;Abdullah Konak;Sadan Kulturel-Konak
2020 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)
Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (7)
In power systems, economic dispatch (ED) deals with the power allocation of power generation units to meet the power demand and minimize the cost. Many metaheuristics have been proposed to solve the ED problem with promising results. However, the performance of these algorithms might be sensitive to their parameter settings, and parameter tuning requires considerable effort. In this paper, a reinf...Show More
Agent-Based Simulations for Multi-Robot Systems Exploration of Tree-Like Environments
2018 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR)
Year: 2018 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
In this paper, an agent-based simulation model is proposed to explore an unknown tree with arbitrary edge distances by a set of robots which are initially located at the root of the tree and expected to return back to the root after all nodes are explored. The proposed algorithm depends only on local information stored at nodes using a bookkeeping token left at nodes by robots. It is shown that th...Show More
A dynamic flocking algorithm with a restrictive partnership model to support mobile ad hoc networks
2017 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR)
Year: 2017 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (1)
This paper presents an improved flocking algorithm to increase the connectivity of a mobile ad hoc network using autonomous and intelligent agents. Flocking algorithms usually aim to simulate realistic movements of a group of agents. In this paper, however, agents use a flocking algorithm to find a solution to a computationally very difficult optimization problem in real-time as the topology of th...Show More
A distributed multi-agent algorithm for topology control in mobile ad-hoc networks
2017 18th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)
Year: 2017 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (5)
Without requiring a fixed infrastructure, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) has many application areas, including sensor networks, vehicular networks, robot swarms, and disaster emergency networks. On the other hand, MANETs have dynamic topologies that could be disconnected because of the mobility of nodes. This paper presents an improved flocking algorithm to maintain the connectivity of a MANET us...Show More
Measuring global awareness interest development of engineering and information technology students
Sadan Kulturel-Konak;Abdullah Konak;Ivan E. Esparragoza;Gül E. Okudan Kremer
2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |
Engineers and information technology professionals often work in international settings or teams, as well as across diverse cultures in today's global economy. Ever expanding globalized society has required updates in organizational procedures and practices, especially for engineering and information technology organizations, to keep up with increasingly competitive and technology-oriented markets...Show More
Impact of collaborative learning on student perception of virtual computer laboratories
Abdullah Konak;Michael R. Bartolacci;Sadan Kulturel-Konak;Mahdi Nasereddin
2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
In the last decade, virtual computer laboratories have been successfully used to provide students with hands-on experimentation in information technology fields in a cost effective and secure manner. In this paper, we study the effect of collaborative learning on student perception and acceptance of virtual computing as a learning medium. Virtual computing is a relatively new technology and can be...Show More
Creative problem solving builds entrepreneurial mindset
Adriana Perez Camacho;Allison Janowski;Abdullah Konak;Sadan Kulturel-Konak
2016 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)
Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (4)
This paper introduces how several hands-on activities fostering the development of creative thinking as a fundamental part of the youth's entrepreneurial mindset are used. Students in various disciplines from the Pennsylvania State University-Berks Campus served as mentors for a primarily middle-school and high-school group of students and teachers during the service-learning workshops conducted i...Show More
STEM students' global awareness knowledge assessment
2016 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)
Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |
Assessing professional skills, such as teamwork, global awareness, ethics and creative problem solving, in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines encourages growth and experience for students. The paper focuses on the professional skill, global awareness, and gauging students' knowledge about this skill. According to the Model of Domain Learning (MDL), as students ...Show More
Behaviorally anchored rating scales for teamwork peer assessment
2016 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)
Year: 2016 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
In team projects, peer evaluations are frequently used to evaluate students' teamwork skills and their individual contributions to project outcomes. Unfortunately, peer evaluations are usually time consuming to conduct due to the large amount of data collected. In order to efficiently assess teamwork skills of students through peer and self-evaluations, we created a web-based tool called Peer Eval...Show More
Teamwork attitude, interest, and self-efficacy: Their implications for teaching teamwork skills to engineering students
Abdullah Konak;Sadan Kulturel-Konak;Gül E. Okudan Kremer;Ivan E. Esparragoza
2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
Year: 2015 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (8)
The complex and multidisciplinary nature of today's engineering problems demands that new graduates excel in not only technical knowledge but also teamwork skills. In fact, the lack of effective teamwork has been identified among the most important factors contributing to the high failure rate of complex engineering projects. In this paper, we focus on engineering students' attitudes toward teamwo...Show More
Professional skills, such as teamwork, global awareness, creative problem solving, and ethics, are essential for the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. The focus of this paper is teamwork. In particular, this paper discusses how efficacy and attitudes affect teamwork for the students majoring in Information Sciences and Technology programs, either virtual or face-to-f...Show More
Professional skills are an important part of students' college education, but they are not the simplest to measure and assess. This research shows the steps that have been taken to assess students' global awareness, who are in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The research focuses on creating assessment tools and rubrics that will evaluate a student's stage o...Show More
A tool for assessing ethical awareness and reasoning development of engineering students
Ivan E. Esparragoza;Sadan Kulturel-Konak;Abdullah Konak;Gul E. Kremer
2014 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL)
Year: 2014 | Conference Paper |
Due to the importance of ethics in the professional practice, a great effort has been undertaken by the academia to prepare students with the necessary ethical skills. However, the big challenge has been to assess the development of those skills. The aim of this work is to create an assessment tool that enables: (1) evaluation of development of ethical skills in students at different stages, calle...Show More
The Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CEED) at the Penn State Berks Campus conducts Entrepreneurship Workshops facilitated by college student mentors for middle and high school students from inner-city Reading, PA. These workshops serve to incubate early entrepreneurship exposure, promote creative problem solving, and to highlight how entrepreneurship attracts students from mul...Show More
This paper discusses the importance of assessing teamwork professional skills, in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. There is a difficulty in assessing teamwork skills in an educational setting. The main objective of this research is to propose an assessment framework and rubric for facilitating the assessment of teamwork skills. In this paper, learning outco...Show More
With projected high growth in STEM occupations and the desire to keep the U.S. competitive in the global economy, there are many initiatives in STEM education to develop highly skilled workers. In addition to preparing for careers in the STEM fields, it is being more and more recognized that STEM training is a valuable part of an education in any field. The study of STEM fields can lead to the dev...Show More
A cyber security discovery program: Hands-on cryptography
2014 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference
Year: 2014 | Conference Paper |
As our society increasingly depends on information systems, it is critical for government and private organizations to have access to a talented pool of individuals who are skilled in confronting threats to information security, responding to emergencies, protecting vital information technology assets, and helping to create policies that ensure the privacy of individuals. However, the educational ...Show More
Fostering student learning in information security fields through collaborative learning in virtual computer laboratories
2013 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)
Year: 2013 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
This paper discusses the benefits of group work in a Collaborative Virtual Computer Laboratory (CVCLAB) to enhance student learning in information security fields. The CVCLAB integrates virtual machine technologies and pedagogical approaches in a collaborative leaning model to address the challenges in the information security education. A qualitative analysis of student experiences of the CVCLAB ...Show More
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