Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Evaluating Improved Program-Level Assessment and the Subsequent Influence on Associate Constructor ExamAbstractThe American Council for Construction Education (ACCE) requires all accredited constructionprograms to demonstrate a direct assessment of twenty Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs).Before graduation, many construction programs require students to take the American Institute ofConstructors (AIC) Associate Constructor (AC) exam, where SLOs will be assessed at thenational level. There has been some discussion in the literature regarding an improvement toprogram-level SLO assessment to increase the overall AC exam
Paper ID #38249Solar PV Installation and Troubleshooting CourseDevelopmentMohsen Azizi MOHSEN AZIZI is an assistant professor in the School of Applied Engineering and Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. From 2010 to 2013, he was an R&D engineer at Aviya Tech Inc. and Pratt & Whitney Canada Inc., Longueuil, Canada, where he designed and developed control and fault diagnosis systems for jet engines. His research has been focused on
Finite Element Analysis 3 CENG 506 Design of Sustainable Structures 3 CENG 507 Advanced Steel Structures 3 CENG 508 Advanced Environmental Engineering 3 CENG 509 Energy Method and Stability 3 CENG 510 Sustainable infrastructure and cities 3The 4 years civil engineering curriculum and its courses designed and placed in 8 sequentialsemesters, as listed in Tables 5-13Table 5- First Year Civil Engineering Program (Semester 1) Academic Unit Per Code Course Name AC Hours (AU
,” National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students, 2021 [Online],Available: https://www.randolphcollege.edu/provost/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2021/08/5-key-faculty-practices-for-transfers.pdf.[20] US Census Bureau, “American Community Survey (ACS),” 2021 [Online], Available:https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/[21] C. Robinson (ed.), “2020 Statistical Abstract,” South Carolina Commission on HigherEducation, Columbia, SC. 42nd Edition.[22] S. Charbonneau (ed.), “2010 Statistical Abstract,” South Carolina Commission on HigherEducation, Columbia, SC. 32nd Edition.[23] M. Armour (ed.), “2015 Statistical Abstract,” South Carolina Commission on HigherEducation, Columbia, SC. 37nd Edition.[24] R. Chrestman and N.T. James, Success Rates of
laboratoryassignments.This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the introduction of SBG in the introductory circuitscourse. The study consists of a comparison of course objective assessment between studentswho were enrolled in the author’s Circuits I courses before and since the implementation ofSBG. Although assessment of final exam data show a decrease in final exam objectiveperformance after the implementation of SBG, course grades are unaffected by the change, andstudents are more aware of strengths and weaknesses in essential course objectives.Comparison to similar worksStandards-based grading (SBG) is an assessment approach that has grown in use since itsintroduction in the early 1980s and subsequent implementations in the 1990s and early 2000s. Inthe 2010s
that will have to be accommodated in the solution ofproblems, thus preparing the way for development in a non-cognate area.The learner should choose from a non-cognate area from which they can design, implementand evaluate an independent programme of in-depth study.There will be no one way of achieving the general aims of such programmes, neither willthere be one ideology that supports them..Notes and references[1] J. Heywood. Engineering Literacy: A component of liberal education. Proceedings ofthe Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education Washington, DC.,American Society for Engineering Education, AC 2010 – 1505, 2010.[2] J. Krupczak, J. W. Blake, K. A.., Disney, C. O.. Hilgarth, R. Libros, M. Mina, and
Circuits I at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of CSU Chico is athree-unit lecture course. It also has separate one-unit lab sections. The lectures meet three timesa week each for 50 minutes. The lab meets once a week for 2 hours. The student learningobjectives of this course are being able to: • Simplify and analyze various circuit configurations. • Apply Kirchhoff’s Laws and related analysis methods to calculate voltages, currents and power in DC and steady-state AC circuits, • Find Thévenin/Norton Equivalent circuits and maximum power transfer conditions for both DC and AC steady-state circuits, • Analyze ideal operational amplifier circuits with DC or AC sources, • Evaluate the first-order
phasesThe ECCD project will be achieved in the following phases:4.1 Defining Test Content: Project activities in this phase focused on identifying concepts that we deemedare critical to students’ success in electric circuit analysis. At this stage, we identified basic concepts thatinstructors think are most critical for students to master AC, DC, and circuit analysis concepts. We reliedon the contributions of instructors and content knowledge experts. At the conclusion of this stage, ECCDwas narrowed to focus on the most important concepts, and identify and associate specific items to selectedconcepts.4.2 Identify alternative conceptions: The major deliverables at this stage of the project are to develop thereason-tier of the ECCD, and to develop a
% 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2021 Figure 1: Percent of REU participants from underrepresented groups in engineering (women, Hispanic, African American, Native American)Some Program LogisticsWhile the PIs were happy with the student make up, running and organizing the program in avirtual format was very challenging on many levels, including some basic program logistics.First, was the issue of how to pay students who would never set foot on campus. This was a newexperience for our institution and we presume for other institutions as well. Communicationswere necessary with the Human Resources and Payroll departments to figure out the properprocedures that needed to be followed to
circuits course or sequence appears to bedesirable. To date the system covers identification of series and parallel elements, includingcases with terminals; series and parallel simplification of resistors, inductors, capacitors, andgeneral impedances; analysis of single loop and single node-pair circuits including voltage andcurrent dividers; nodal and mesh analysis in both DC and AC (phasor analysis) cases includingsupernodes, supermeshes, and dependent sources; superposition, source transformation, andThévenin/Norton equivalent circuits for both DC and AC circuits; construction of Bode plots andidentification of filter types from transfer functions; sketching waveforms corresponding to agiven one, such as finding capacitor voltage given its
following reasoning statement is true? problems A. Tension in cable AB > Tension in cable AC B. Tension in cable AB = Tension in cable AC C. Tension in cable AB < Tension in cable AC D. Tension in cable AB + Tension in cable AC = W Involve evaluating possible options based on evaluation criteria and selecting an option. Decision- On a trip, a delivery person is carrying more than usual. making To minimize the load on the strap, the best option is: problems A. Reduce the strap length B. Increase the strap length C. Make the straps form isosceles triangle D. The length has no effect on the load These problems challenge
academic performance if they were part of any special educationalprograms on campus, and their gender. Stevens has several special academic programs thatsupport high-achieving students and students needing support to realize academic success. Thescholarship programs for high-performing students are called the Clark and the Pinnacle scholarprograms. The Link program supports students with educational needs with conditionaladmissions and tutoring access to support their first-semester success. The ACES program is partof the university’s efforts to recruit the number of underrepresented students in STEM andincludes both pre-college and undergraduate program components as well as financial aid. TheSTEP program is an optional program that provides a
.25032, 2015.[10] S. Hoffmann, I. Hua, E. Blatchley, and L. Nies, “Integrating sustainability into coursesacross the engineering curriculum: A faculty workshop model,” American Society forEngineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Paper AC 2010-1802, 9 pp, 2010.[11] N. R. Weber, M. Dyehouse, C.A. Harris, R. David, J. Fang, I. Hua, and J. Strobel, “First-year engineering students’ environmental awareness and conceptual understanding through apilot sustainable development module,” American Society for Engineering Education AnnualConference & Exposition. Paper AC 2011-1917. 21 pp, 2011.[12] R. Morris , P. Childs, and T. Hamilton, “Sustainability by design: a reflection on thesuitability of pedagogic practice in design and
asophisticated combination of mathematical equations, abstraction, sketching diagrams, etc.(McKenna, 2015). Problem solving in engineering demands very special habits of thinkingbecause in most of the cases, there is not one unique solution and an ability to find a goodsolution requires a wide variety of competencies related to mathematical, scientific, and socialknowledge (McKenna, 2015). While there has been extensive research done in assessingconceptual learning and misconceptions within engineering, the focus has been more onindividual courses like solubility and saturation (Krause & Tasooji, 2007), statics (Steif, Lobue,Kara, & Fay, 2010), digital logic (Herman, Loui, & Zilles, 2011), stress and strain (Brown,Montfort, & Findley
Annual Conference & Exposition, Louisville, KY, Paper No. AC 2010-925 7ASEE 2022 Paper, Minneapolis, MN, June 22, 2022 (Submission 22; April 10, 2022)[4] C. Carroll, S. A. Sell, and M. B. Sabick, “Introduction to Entrepreneurial-minded Learningfor Faculty of Foundational STEM Courses Using the KEEN Framework”, 2019 ASEE AnnualConference & Exposition, Louisville, KY, Paper #18279[5] https://engineeringunleashed.com/card/618AppendixIn this appendix, the tasks of each module are briefly introduced and student video samples areused to illustrate how each module works in the following sections.Module 1 Tasks: Atomic structure of engineering
incorporate diverse teamswith interventions on supportive and inclusive learning environments with equal status condi-tions15.Role of culture in design and creativityCulture-based early education initiatives in the past has recognized that issues of culture, lan-guage, cognition, community and socialization are central to learning16. Culture influences howwe see the world, how we see the community that we live in, and how we communicate witheach other. Being a part of a culture influences our learning, remembering, talking and behav-ing. Culture shapes mind, it provides us with the tool kit by which we construct not only ourworld but our very construction of ourselves and our powers. We cannot understand mental ac-tivity unless we consider the
2010, both in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He previously earned his Bachelor's in 2008 from the University of California, Berkeley. His course development includes civil engineering materials, dynamics, engineering design, engineering economics, first-year engineering experience, matrix analysis, mechanics, probability and risk in engineering, statics, and structural analysis. His research aims to better society by exploring how infrastructure materials can be made to be more environmentally sustainable and resilient; and by exploring how engineering can be structured to be more welcoming of diverse perspectives, which can fuel solutions in challenging societal
-regulated learning andachievement,” Learning and Individual Differences, vol. 49, pp. 32–45, Jul. 2016, doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2016.05.006.[6] M. A. Theobald, Increasing student motivation: strategies for middle and high schoolteachers. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Corwin Press, 2006.[7] E. E. J. Thoonen, P. J. C. Sleegers, T. T. D. Peetsma, and F. J. Oort, “Can teachers motivatestudents to learn?,” Educational Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 345–360, Sep. 2010, doi:10.1080/03055698.2010.507008.[8] “Status Dropout Rates,” American Community Survey (ACS), May 2021. Accessed: Feb. 10,2022. [Online]. Available: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/coj#fn1.[9] “U.S. High School Graduates, Underserved Students Will Face Significant Challenges inCollege
serving as a Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler. Dr. Barakat is a professionally registered engineer in Ontario, Canada, a Fulbright Specialist, and is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Dr. Barakat holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from McMaster University, Ontario, and a Master Degree from Concordia University, Canada. He is also the recipient of multiple awards including the ASME Edwin Church Medal (2020), ASME McDonald Mentoring Award (2014), ASME Dedicated Service Award (2011), and GVSU Distinguished Early-Career Award (2010). Dr. Barakat has served in many leadership positions for professional organizations such as ASME and ASEE. Dr
, incremental encoders, and quadrature encoding. • Describe the function and operation of accelerometers in your own words. Use appropriate figures, equations, and text. At a minimum, describe types of accelerometers (e.g., AC vs. DC response), accelerometer designs (e.g., compression vs. shear), the effect of mounting types, and IEPE.This portion of the project is aligned with the first sub-outcome of ABET Student Outcome 7:acquire new knowledge using appropriate learning strategies.Students are also provided with a case study on condition monitoring to review. Students areasked to identify stakeholders and explain how each stakeholder benefited or may benefit in thefuture from the application of condition monitoring in the
a co-inventor on 3 US patents related to control systems. Dr. McLauchlan is a member of ASEE and was the 2012-2014 Chair of the Ocean and Marine Engineering Division. He is also a member of IEEE (senior member), SPIE, Eta Kappa Nu, ACES and Tau Beta Pi, and has served on the IEEE Corpus Christi Section Board in various capacities such as Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary and Membership Development Officer. Dr. McLauchlan has received the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award twice and the Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award once for the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.David Hicks David Hicks is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Texas A&M
has received numerous awards and honors including the Michigan ACE Network Distinguished Woman in Higher Education Leadership Award; the Geochemical Society Distinguished Service Award; the WMU Excellence in Diversity Rising Star Award; the WMU College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Achievement in Teaching Award; and the WMU Emerging Scholar Award. She was named a 2019 Crain’s Notable Women in STEM, and is the recipient of numerous grants from state and federal agencies such as the Department of Energy, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, the Office of Naval Research, and the National Science Foundation, including an NSF CAREER award.David W. Wahl David W. Wahl is a social psychologist currently working
twotypes of explanations. The first explanation represented a situation where the instructoroverexplained a concept and provided too much information to be meaningful, while the secondexample was simple and easy to understand. I have also been like Zara… The first stuff was easy like ‘okay sig. figs (significant figures) cool’ and then it got to adding in work, heat, dew point, and other such things and I just got really confused… So, I drew a picture of a lecture hall format, with a couple people in it and, like some of the people are saying ‘I don't understand’ and then some of the people are saying ‘I understand, I'm totally going to ace this exam.’ I feel in this class there's people who understand and
in the program from around the university and elsewhere; ongoing continuousimprovement efforts in the home program.References1. B. Jaeger, & E. LaRochelle, E.. EWB – “Engineers Without Borders: Educationally, a world of benefits” . 2009 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference Proceedings, Paper AC 2009-740, Austin, TX, 2009.2. E. J. Coyle, L.H., Jamieson, W. C., Oakes, “EPICS: Engineering Projects in Community Service”, International Journal of Engineering Education Vol 21, No. 1, Feb. 2005, pp. 139-150.3. J. L. Huff, C. B. Zoltowski, and W. C. Oakes, “Preparing Engineers for the Workplace through Service Learning: Perceptions of EPICS Alumni”, ”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 105, No. 1
to Appendix) are the most critical questions. In a sense and based on roughestimation and initial findings, the concepts that generally garnered the lowest scores are: ● The role of time constant in first-order circuit operations. (Concept Group D) ● The behavior of reactive elements in terms of power delivery and dissipation in an AC-source circuit. (Concept Groups B and G)Interestingly, these significant concepts are also considered difficult based on the findings from aprevious study [12] wherein students responded to survey questions about electric circuit conceptsand then ranked them based on their perceived importance and level of understanding. The resultsshowed that transient analysis and reactive power are students’ least
. sphere.Role of Instructors are expected to explain the materials in Instructors should establish rapport with their stu-instructors lecture and homework assignments. dents and be approachable. Instructors should tailor their explanations to stu- Instructors challenge students to think and apply dents and may articulate fixed ideas of ”how one ideas. learns.” Grades are indicative of acquired knowledge. Grades reflect an ability to apply knowledge.Evaluation Tests are for students to “prove” they have ac- Accounts for individual differences in assessment quired the correct knowledge as evaluated by the
number of mutually tested learning objectives, there were a few learning objectives that were not tested for each cohort. Figure 2: Proportion of competency level achievement by Furthermore, only two each cohort for objective X in the quizzes proportions at a time can be considered for a directionalhypothesis test. Therefore, each cohort was compared against every other cohort generating threegroups of tests (AB, BC and AC). For each group, these tests were carried out
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Paper ID #37532Work in Progress: An Integrative Learning-CenteredAdvising Experience for First Year StudentsShelly Gulati (Associate Professor and Chair) Dr. Shelly Gulati is Associate Professor and Chair of Bioengineering. She is also serving as the Faculty Fellow, Academic Advising. She has been at Pacific since 2010. She received a BS in Chemical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in Bioengineering from University of California, Berkeley. She also spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in London at Imperial College. Dr. Gulati’s research expertise is biomicrofluidics. More recently, her
the risk of bodily injury. During this course, emphasis was placed on developing theability to choose the correct tooling that is required to complete a part in the most efficient andprecise manner. The material selected to build thrust stand was 80/20 because it is designed to belight, sturdy, and easily implemented. However, machining was necessary to make the parts forthe stand. This was achieved with the use of two machines (Bridgeport vertical mill and Jet Toolshorizontal bandsaw). The proper usage of those machines was also covered in the class. Introduction to electrical engineering (ECE 2001) covered DC circuits and analysis methodssuch as mesh analysis, node analysis, and circuit reduction methods. AC circuits were alsoexplored