software applications. MSTest is an open-source testframework with the Visual Studio IDE. MSTest provides a set of commands with a lot of optionsto customize the tests running at various NET applications. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Annual ConferenceIn order to reach the previously-stated design goal, several critical properties of the system aredefined below, e.g., reliability & robustness, authentication, correctness, and identity.Reliability and Robustness: Using UML and object-oriented concepts to plan and design theemployee and vendor management system resulted in a more reliable and robust system.Authentication: A very naïve and basic form of
: Traffic Engineering, Engineering Statistics, and Transportation Planning. Dr. Abadi serves as a member of several national and regional committees including TRB Standing Committee on Workforce Development and Organizational Excellence (AJE15), and ITE Transportation Education Council. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Understanding the Academic Shock of COVID-19: How are Students' Perceptions of the Online Learning Evolving over Time?1. IntroductionCOVID-19 outbreak was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a pandemic inMarch 2020 [1]. Being an infectious disease, COVID-19 is easily transmitted through person-to-person
students have limited exposure to engineering education, especially civilengineering. To fill this knowledge gap, the authors’ offered a new college-level, civilengineering course to high school students. Initial course planning anticipated an on-campusenvironment with a focus on hands-on learning. Due to COVID-19 and the university system’sresponse, the course shifted to an online platform. In this new setting, the course incorporatedboth synchronous and asynchronous modules with 18 students from geographicallocations spanning 11 time zones. The students had diverse prior exposure to civil engineering,virtual learning environments, and active learning techniques. This paper evaluates the newprogram’s effectiveness in increasing students’ interest
for a 70 million-dollar National Institutes of Health funded center based at the University of Washington. She has experience assessing student learning and other outcomes for K-12 and higher education populations, including both two and four- year college environments all over the country, and ensuring programs have strong evaluation plans and the necessary data for evidence based decision-making.Mr. Germain Degardin, New Mexico State University Germain graduated from New Mexico State University with a Bachelor in Economics, a Master in Busi- ness and Administration, a Master in Curriculum and Instruction, and a secondary education teaching license. Germain currently works for the Southwest Outreach Academic
scattered throughout. We thusabandoned efforts to show when students worked, at least for now.Total time spent is also something teachers would like to see. We tried putting time spent at the end ofeach day, plus a total at the end of the coding trail. We found though that teachers were most interestedin the total time; the detailed breakdown was interesting but not so important as to clutter the codingtrail. Thus, we plan to put the time info at the end of the coding trail, like below where the student spenta total of 42 minutes: 7/13 M----0 S---2|4--10 42minLikewise, teachers indicated wanting to know code size each day. Like time-of-day and time spent, suchinfo can quickly clutter the coding trail. Thus, we plan to just put the code
43 Lack of plan 11 Miscellaneous 4 Typos Total no. of errors 166Table 1: 11 error categories for the 166 errors in the 47 publications from 1985 to 2018 with an example of the most common error in each category.Obviously, we cannot provide explanations and examples for all 166 logic errors. Instead, wehighlighted in bold errors reported in multiple publications, and highlighted with an asterisk errors that[7, 8] found to be the most time-consuming, yielding 43 highlighted errors. References are included forall 211 errors, however, so that a reader can find details in previous publications of any error of interest.Common errorsTable 1
engineering education and design research, planning and consulting services. She is a registered Professional Engineer and was a Founding Faculty member of the Department of Engineering at Wake Forest University. She is passionate about curriculum development, scholarship and student mentoring on transportation systems, sustainabil- ity, and engineering design. Dr. Barrella completed her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Georgia Tech where she conducted research in transportation and sustainability as part of the Infrastructure Research Group (IRG). In addition to the Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Dr. Barrella holds a Master of City and Regional Planning (Transportation) from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Civil
. 1Pandemic Impacts on Faculty CareersIn early 2020, as COVID-19 cases spread across the United States, university administratorsbegan to plan institutional responses. While the full scope of the pandemic was yet unknown, itwas clear COVID-19 would greatly affect normal university operations. By mid-March, manyuniversities had suspended in-person classes and closed student housing, shuttered research labs,banned university sponsored travel, and asked faculty and staff to work from home. At the sametime, many states instituted “stay-at-home” orders for all but essential personnel, leaving schoolsand childcare centers closed. Faced with these new employment conditions, and in many casesvastly increased caregiving demands, faculty adjusted their day-to
experience [International experience is required of all engineering students].The main components of the TIP experience include: • Intrapreneurial orientation courses • Mentorship by faculty • Mentorship by industry experts • Internship (including the opportunity for international internships) • Extra-curricular activities and projects focused on gaining experience with customer discovery, product development, and business plan developmentThe project has resulted in curriculum and pedagogical models that are aimed at fosteringintrapreneurial thinking, dispositions, and competencies. The models advocate for thenetworking and connection points between extra-curricular activities, curriculum devoted tointrapreneurial
Radiation heat transfer 13 View factor for radiation heat transfer 14 Mass diffusionSeveral open courses referenced A Heat Transfer Textbook by Lienhard and Lienhard [30]. Theauthors hold the copyright, so this is not OER, but the authors have made the book availableelectronically at no charge. Since one main goal of the project was to reduce the cost of requiredcourse materials, it was decided to use this no-cost digital textbook as the main textbook for theSpring 2020 course while other OER materials were planned and created for this course.Therefore, the instructor’s efforts to create content shifted to producing short videos andplanning to eventually create an open textbook for the course. The textbook that was previouslyused in
measures described below. Wewill additionally invite all 33 prior interviewees to complete a third interview, using a semi-structured interview protocol as described below. To achieve our sampling targets, we willcollect detailed demographic information to characterize this group and make plans for Phase 2.Participants and Recruitment – Phase 2 (Professional Sample)To further enhance our ability to address the research questions for this study, we will carry out asecond phase of data collection with a separate group of study participants. With the goal ofcollecting data from respondents who have somewhat similar backgrounds and levels ofexperience as compared to the Phase 1 group, we will recruit early career professionals with: 1) aBS degree in
investigate the impact of an emotional experience coupled with a targeted ethical intervention,we used a sophomore level Experiential Learning Seminar (ExpLS) over the course of two years,Spring 2017 and Spring 2019, for a total of 50 students with 35 participating in the survey. Thesestudents had declared or were planning to declare their major in biomedical engineering. Thecourse met once a week for 50 minutes and was focused on building professional skills in areflective environment including team-building, communication, and leadership. Each year thecourse was run, there was a slightly different line up of topics ranging from the biodesign process,personal values, listening and empathy, future career plans, and ethics based on the faculty
technology advancement, the challenges of online instruction can be daunting as seen inthe lack of immediacy or engagement between instructors and students. Course design is asystematic planning process for developing learning experiences and it aims at ensuring learningoutcomes, assessments and activities support one another to provide students the best opportunityto learn [19]. The appropriateness of a course for online delivery relies on its consistent structurewhich allows learning, communication, and collaboration. As a result, the ease of online learningdepends on factors including cognitive complexity of course design elements such as alignmentbetween instruction and assessments, active pedagogy, and faculty support [19]. Ko & Rossen [20
addition, it covers how culturally responsiveteaching and global learning are being promoted for global competence by increased domesticInternationalization efforts.The importance of exploring global teaching and learning models and the significance of facultyengagement are emphasized in this paper. It also discusses how international virtual exchangelearning gained popularity because of COVID-19 and how the GREAT program plans tointegrate it by offering a grant to support faculty with an aim to promote the internationalizationof the curriculum and global learning for all. This paper also discusses how lessons learned fromteaching abroad and international education are being incorporated for domesticinternationalization to provide similar
Course and Lab Projects Development Director at Stanford, where he brings his 25-year industry experience to the role. He is responsible for the ongoing strategy, design, curriculum plan and instruction plans for capstone courses in the Mechanical Engineering Department, as part of a broad effort to redesign the curriculum requirements for the undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering. Jeff has over twenty years’ product development and manufacturing experience bringing medical and consumer products to market, through the course of my career journey with Apple, SGI, Nektar, Boston Scientific and Amazon/Lab126. In addition to working with and training engineers in industry, his 9+ years coaching and teaching
theequilibrium equations and subsequently a decision is made on whether to keep or discard eachreaction couple with the help of an equations/unknown table. We provide three examples to showthe application of this universal approach to different types of problems that involve bearingsupports. We have found assessing the effectiveness of this approach difficult in a Statics class,but plan on implementing an assessment in Capstone Design.Introduction and MotivationThe fundamental purpose of a Statics course is to initiate and encourage the development of astudent’s engineering judgment, at least with regards to mechanics, by employing the free-bodydiagram (FBD) as a tool. In a standard undergraduate civil or mechanical engineering curriculum,students build
both from Michigan Tech. Her research program involves using complementary methods (e.g., statistical modeling and analytics, psychological assessment) to evaluate how individual differences are important and impact behaviors at a cultural, social, and behavioral level. She has served as a project evaluator in the multiple NSF funded projects. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 S-STEM Student Reflections and IDP ProcessIntroductionStudent reflections and using individual development plans (IDPs) for mentoring have been anintegral part of an NSF S-STEM project focusing on students pursuing baccalaureate degrees inEngineering
. Beyza Akgun, Georgia Institute of Technology Beyza Akgun is a graduate from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she received a B.S. in Me- chanical Engineering, a minor in Industrial Design, and a concentration in Automotive Engineering in May 2021. During her undergraduate studies, Beyza was involved in Georgia Tech Motorsports, the school’s Formula SAE team, research on prototyping in design, and assistantship in a project-based de- sign course. Following graduation, Beyza accepted a full-time offer at Triumph Integrated Systems in Connecticut as a project engineer, and she plans to further continue her education by pursuing graduate school in the future.Dr. Katherine Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology
to share the teaching load and learn bestpractices from each other such as project design and LMS (online learning management system)usage. This team-teaching model can readily continue even after the pandemic is over.Throughout the course, the instructors met weekly or biweekly to share observations of the classand adjust plans for the next few weeks. Content-wise, the instructors were able to share theirexpertise on different topics in several formats. Besides learning about multiple topics, thestudents conducted two team-projects with typically three students on a team. The first projectwas to build a touchless candy dispenser. We invited community children and their families tovisit the project room, one family at a time, for a safe
). New partners sometimes inquire whether that person could be eliminated from the program to save costs. In short, our answer is a resounding no. This person is the glue that holds the teams and their research together. 3. Team-based research. Projects work best, and the program scales best, when students work in teams. We have found that teams of between 2-4 students maximize the benefits of team-based work, while still making it feasible for students to find time to coordinate and work together. 4. Mentor students on planning their course load while they participate in ERSP. At UCSB, we found that there is a tendency for students to take ERSP as an overload even though they receive elective credit that
system (Author 2018). The pioneering engineering educators atTsinghua emulated the engineering curriculum and instructional methods from the US. Thoughthe teaching was conducted in Chinese, major textbooks and reading materials provided to thestudents were written in English. Programs like electrical engineering and aviation engineeringadapted relevant teaching plans from MIT –including a 4-year Bachelor’s program and the use ofa credit system. For the aircraft program, the general courses and most fundamental professionalcourses of aviation program were almost the same as the mechanical program. Of course, there arealso a wide range of professional bases and less professional courses.(Cao 1999).Based on the Sino-US agreement, Tsinghua started
that also motivated this study. Swivl robot-facilitated classes, as wellas continuous improvement checks, have been well documented in the literature as a means tosupport and promote instructor reflection and development. Initially designed to capturepresentations, the Swivl is a robotic mount for a smart device and remote controlled with adevice called a marker. The Swivl tracks and records the person holding the marker [3].What follows are guiding self-study questions that ultimately facilitate an institutionalcontinuous improvement plan, leveraged with the same formative motivations as the QualityMatters framework. (1) Can course quality be most effectively impacted through a full QM, 43-criterion review or can a subset of QM
change following participation in an integrated learningexperience?Below we describe the intervention, the integrated math, science, and engineering unit, followedby discussing our research methods. Finally, we conclude by examining our findings within thecontext of the literature.Integrated Math, Science, and Engineering UnitThe engineering design process anchored mathematics and science learning throughout ourintegrated unit. Students engaged in lessons to explore science, engineering, and mathematicsinterconnections and designed solutions for a water quality problem. Table 1 provides anoverview of the key topics addressed in the unit. Appendix A displays a lesson plan used to teacha key topic, conservation of mass and operations and algebraic
) learned that construction engineers will focus on “Business,Management & Contracts” (68%), and construction engineering students (ConE) provided “Cost& Budget” (76%) as the most prominent theme described. These themes tie directly to the riskand reward scenarios of different contract types that are presented in lecture, and then practicedin the game. Other themes included: “Planning” (41% CivE, 24% ConE), “Owner/CivilCommunication Coordination” (32% CivE, 35% ConE), “Construction and Execution” (19%CivE, 12% ConE), and “Risks” (14% CivE, 6% ConE). 46% of the CivE responses (n=37) and41% of the ConE responses (n=17) were coded to multiple themes. Most coded categories aresimilar in the percentage of civil and construction engineering
%.It becomes more crucial than ever to study how students perform and behave in classroomenvironments. A deeper understanding of student behavior, motivation, and interest are necessarybefore implementing changes in the curriculum. Student motivation has proven to be an efficient and reliable precursor to measure studentsuccess and persistence in STEM. Motivation is regarded as one of the most influential aspects ofsuccess [20], alongside sound technical knowledge in engineering. Across all disciplines,educators and practitioners have noted the importance of student motivation in producing anengaging learning environment [21]. The impact of student motivation is studied for decades andresearchers have suggested various intervention plans to
Figure 3. Faculty Mentor Goals andmentoring map worksheet was to provide an Expectations of Mentee Worksheetopportunity for mentoring to become a visualexercise, with mentors and mentees co-developing the map that documents career goals,development plans, professional networks to engage with, and identification of resources.Documentation of aspirations, strategies, and resources for goal achievement is an importantaspect of the mentoring process. Mapping these items help mentees and mentors create visualconnections and associate related characteristics and can advance mentoring conversations fromsuperficial to strategic [32], [33].Mentors were additionally provided with a meeting log worksheet to document meetings withmentees
students (n = 46, 23%). In terms of students’ residency, there were moreinternational students (n = 119, 60%) than domestic students (n = 79, 40%). For educationlevel, a similar number of students participated at the master’s level (n = 100, 51%) andthe doctoral level (n = 98, 49%). These representation patterns were similar both in thecomparison and treatment groups.InstrumentWe administered a modified version of the Skills Perception Inventory which was originallydeveloped by Alpay and Walsh 19 . Alpay and Walsh’s inventory was initially developed tomeasure engineering graduate students’ confidence levels after attending three-day work-shops to enhance transferable skills in four areas: 1) communication, 2) group work, 3)project planning and
Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education. His re- search interests includes diversity, equity, and inclusion and empathy within the engineering pedagogy.Dr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette Joyce B. Main is Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. degree in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University. Dr. Main examines student academic pathways and transitions to the workforce in science and engineering. She was a recipi- ent of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Educational Research and Methods Division
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stress will help us to develop strategies to reduce it as many colleges are planning toimplement the HyFlex model during Spring 2021. In this study, we have two goals: (1) identify the sources of stress for sophomore andjunior level undergraduate students during the Fall 2020 semester and (2) investigate the efficacyof HyFlex instructional tools used in both classes in regard to students’ learning and reducingstress levels during the Fall semester.Class Information and StructureEngineering Physics Engineering Physics - Electricity and Magnetism, is a 5-credit sophomore level calculus-based physics course and is required for most engineering majors. There were a total of 103students enrolled under 5 lab sections during the Fall