tend tobe lower than their non-minority peers, especially so at HBCUs. Previous studies found thatstudents enrolled in introductory engineering graphics courses at Virginia State University, anHBCU, had lower than average test scores on the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test:Visualization of Rotations (PSVT) when it was administered during the first week of class.Because of the positive correlation between visualization ability and academic success in STEMcourses, changes were made to the engineering graphics courses to add a variety of visualizationenhancing activities including the use of sketching, blocks and multimedia. The result of theseactivities was improvement of the students’ visualization abilities and it was hypothesized thatthis
nanostructures for photodynamic therapy and diagnosis of cancer. The ultimate goalis to acquire skills in computer modeling of physical principals for selectivenanophotothermolysis of cancer cells involving nanooptics, heat-mass transfer around laser-heated intracellular nanostructures, cell ablation, microbubble dynamics and nanoclusteraggregation.This is a science-oriented multidisciplinary course where the students secure solid training in researchtechniques, including the development of sophisticated numerical simulation methods for solvingcomplex problems in cancer nanomedicine, research skills working on regular assignments, presentingtheir results, getting experience in writing research reports/papers, and experimental
technologies.Vladimir I Prodanov, California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 Vlad Prodanov received MS and Ph.D. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1995 and 1997 respectively. He was with Bell Laboratories, Lucent Tech- nologies from 1997 until 2000 and Agere Systems (now LSI Logic) from 2000 to 2004. From 2004 to 2008 he was member of MHI Consulting, New Providence, NJ. Currently, he is an assistant professor with EE Dept., Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA. Mr. Prodanov has worked on various electronic systems for communications and contributed to two dozen peer-reviewed publications, three book chapters, and seventeen granted US patents
sponsor’s needs, and (3) systemsengineering concepts including project management, team work, communications, and ethics etc.Multidisciplinary design teams are used whereby the students interact with their peers and withthe faculty inside and outside of the class room. Some design examples are offered to show ourexperiences of incorporating Renewable Energy projects in the senior design course, like designand development of a biomass bioreactor test-bench, design and development of vertical axiswind turbine. The primary goal of the projects is to provide students with a deeper understandingof the need for renewable energy sources, the advantages and disadvantages of a particularenergy type, and the global and economic impact of the chosen energy
course was also suggested. The ability ofstudents to upload pictures and write an introduction about themselves to their instructor and classmatesprovides students with a “connection” to one another. This, in turn, helps students develop relationshipswith fellow classmates that may last long past the course itself.Consolidation is also essential to a successful LMS according to the study results. Students want Page 22.1338.7“control” over their courses and the ability to access all required materials plus collaborate with theirinstructor and classmates at their convenience in one single system. A well managed and detailed LMScan enable
Management, Lighting, Sustainable Buildings, Electrical Services Engineering and Organisational Change. He has pre- sented peer reviewed papers at ASEE annual conferences in Hawaii and Austin, SEFI and SEFI/IGIP conferences in Norway, Finland, Hungary, Turkey, Slovakia and Ireland in the last four years.Brian Bowe, Dublin Institute of Technology Page 22.1207.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Qualitative Research in Engineering EducationIntroductionEngineering education programs provide students with the knowledge, understanding,skills and competences required to
Defined Radio in Multidisciplinary Senior Design ProjectsAbstractIn this past year’s senior design program at California State University, Northridge (CSUN),faculty assigned two six-person teams with year-long design projects utilizing software definedradio (SDR). The course structure emulated a real world design project. Faculty acted ascustomers and management, presenting students with a list of requirements and constraints.Students were required to present weekly status updates on their designs, write specifications,documentation and test procedures. Students gained invaluable and in-demand expertise in thisemerging technology, while fulfilling the criteria required by the Accreditation Board forEngineering and
10 PTS d) ORAL PRESENTATION 10 PTS e) MODELING 20 PTS f) DETAILED DRAWINGS 20 PTS g) EXPLODED ASSEMBLY DRAWING 15 PTS h) PARTS LIST (BOM) 5 PTS i) PEER EVALUATION 5 PTS TOTAL 100 PTSDeliverable 1) A one page written pre-proposal of the project idea and the proposed mastergroup team members must be submitted by the second class period of 7th Week, and accepted bythe third class period. See Deliverable 4) item 2).Deliverable 2) Each master group must turn in fully
relatives. At the second school, students were in a French Immersion program(B). Many had professional parents.The research project involved three classroom visits conducted in January 2011. In the first brief Page 22.685.2visit of approximately 15 minutes, researchers conducted pre-assessments of students’conceptions of engineers by having the students write and draw pictures of how they understoodfour careers (teacher, doctor, accountant and engineer) and then match a series of descriptors(including words such as caring, works with others etc.) to each career.Discussion of Pre-assessments: Stereotypes about CareersThe pre-assessment activity
librarians at theUniversity of Minnesota. But this series differs from others because it is written for students inengineering, using engineering terminology for keywords and engineering journals, conferenceproceedings, books, and databases for every example. Still, how literature is used varies fromone engineering discipline to another. Some areas, for example, place conference papers on parwith peer-reviewed journal articles while others do not. Focus groups conducted by Hoffmann etal. confirm that engineering students prefer subject-specific instruction that is relevant to theirwork.1Inspired by the citation analysis work Patricia Kirkwood presented at ASEE 200912, the author
for the ASME Student Design Competition and was taught at a largeresearch university. The second group of students created a robot for the Trinity College FireFighting Robot Competition and was taught at a small undergraduate university.2. ASME Student Design Competition – Recyclable Material Sorter Each year, ASME holds Student Professional Development Conferences throughout theUnited States.2 These conferences are a way for students to connect with engineers andengineering students across the country, and offer various competitions for students to comparetheir best work with their peers. Competitions include technical writing, technical posterpresentations, and oral presentations, but one of the most exciting events is the annual
the 50 percentile populations. Thus the assessment results compiled are based on course performances and grades, exams, projects, presentations of students, and writings as required in some courses. Furthermore, each course specifically addresses the learning outcomes and relation between the course and the Program outcomes, the methods used for the evaluation of students’ performance and the relevance of the course materials to the Program outcomes following the standards adopted for the assessment process. Students will be provided with the course descriptions including learning objectives and outcomes. Students also will provide their input on the Program outcomes. The results from this
Vermont, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Bioengineering from Clemson University.Ms. Sarah Jane GriggDavid R Bowman, Clemson UniversityMichelle Cook, Clemson UniversityRoy P Pargas, Clemson University / US Air Force Academy Dr. Roy Pargas is an Associate Professor in the Division of Human Centered Computing within the School of Computing at Clemson University. In the current 2010-2011 school year, he is on sabbatical as the Coleman-Richardson Chair for Computer Sciences at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO. He teaches undergraduate and graduate computer science courses. One of his research areas is in the development of software tools for teaching. Three such tools use the natural writing features of Tablet
between sub-disciplines.Assessment of Course GoalsPre- and Post-TestOne of the assessment tools designed for use with the course was a pre- and post-test. (The I2Iassessment instrument, which was used for both the pre- and post-test, is included as AppendixA.) The purpose of this test was to gauge students’ knowledge about infrastructure prior to tak-ing the course and then comparing to what they knew at the end of the course. This exam wasdeveloped by asking the faculty involved in developing the modules to write questions pertainingto that unit of material. The questions were then assembled, edited, critiqued by the facultyproject members and pilot tested on a group of volunteer students. After the pilot test, the resultswere analyzed and the
microcirculatory and cardio-respiratory physiology. He was course director of the medical physiology course for 5 years before returning to Stevens to start the Biomedical Engineering program. He was the PI or Co-PI on grants from NSF, NIH, AHA and New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology. Dr. Ritter has mentored 9 PhD students in Physiology and Biomedical Engineering and over 40 Masters student’s in Biomedical Engineering. He is the co-author of over 45 publications in peer reviewed jour- nals and numerous abstracts and presentations at local, national and international conferences. He is the primary author of an undergraduate textbook in Biomedical Engineering. His current research interests are in Systems Physiology
servicelearning pedagogy has significant positive effects on students’ academic performance (GPA,writing skills, critical thinking skills), leadership skills, and increased commitment to continuedcivic participation7. 68% of students engaged in the Engineering Projects in Community Service(EPICS) projects from Purdue University reported that participation in service learningpositively impacted their determination to continue in engineering8.The premise is that engineering design can function as a motivator for learning foundationalskills that are necessary precursors to higher level engineering skills9. Therefore, the use ofdevelopmentally-appropriate engineering curricula that builds on current cognitive researchbecomes an attractive instructional
main point of these standards is that the evaluation of students’ performance will based on samples of work in three categories of students: those in the upper 75 percentile, those in the 50 – 75 percentile and those below the 50 percentile populations. Thus the assessment results compiled are based on course performances and grades, exams, projects, presentations of students, and writings as required in some courses. Furthermore, each course specifically addresses the learning outcomes and relation between the course and the Program outcomes, the methods used for the evaluation of students’ performance and the relevance of the course materials to the Program outcomes following the standards
Asian American participants with Chinese heritages face lesscultural challenges than their non-Asian peers when going to China for research collaboration orstudy. However, our research found several unique challenges for this specific population. Onemajor challenge came from the “Chinese common knowledge” expectation they received fromChinese people. Another main challenge stems deeply and powerfully from inside themselves:the rediscovery of their self-identity.In our study, several Asian American participants agree that Chinese people’s expectation thatthey are “Chinese” because of their appearance create unexpected cultural challenges ordiscomforts that the other ethnic groups often do not face. One participant describes one of
on the exam?); 2. Many college students do not know how to take effective notes. Although various strategies and formats for effective “note-taking” have been identified. The fact is that “note-taking” is seldom taught; 3. The listening, language, and/or motor skill deficits of some students make it difficult for them to identify important lecture content and write it down correctly and quickly enough during a lecture; 4. Instructors sometimes get off-track from the primary objectives of the lecture. Professors—especially those who really know and love their disciplines—are famous for going off on tangents during a lecture. Although getting off-track would break the monotony, it could make it
their camera to their desired height usingtethers, and have it take a photograph of the target area. Then analysis of the photographwould be done using the MATLAB program developed in stages during the course. Theresult of the analysis was to determine the area enclosed by the figure on the ground. Many Page 22.149.2different designs for timers were created from the materials given, ranging from water clocktimers, viscous timers, ice timers, etc.The programming component of the project was done as individuals, i.e. each student wasresponsible for writing the analysis software. The lab component of the course taught basicprogramming constructs such
be mapped to the ACRL Information LiteracyStandards for Science and Technology1, specifically meeting Standard Two, PerformanceIndicator 5, Outcome (d), and working towards Standard 4, Performance Indicator 3, Outcome(a). The learning outcomes of this station also map to Standard Three, Performance Indicator 1,Outcome (b).Additional peer-reviewed journals were also on hand so the students could compare thedescriptive journals articles from Structural Engineering International to a peer-reviewed article,and introduce the peer-review process. This helps students to work towards Standard 1,Performance Indicator 1, Outcome (a). A complete explanation of the ACRL Standards,Performance Indicators and Outcomes that are associated with this station
. Additionally, there is evidence of bias in peer reviews, showing that a female postdoctoral applicant had to be significantly more productive than a male applicant, helping to explain the lower success rate of female scientists in achieving high academic rank. While biases do change, the recent research studies show that gender stereotypes are clearly still at play. Recent research on marriage and family responsibilities, show that women are at a disadvantage if they have children17,18. In business and industry both women and men identify family responsibilities as a possible barrier to advancement, but women are affected differently than men by this “family penalty.”19,20 Among women and men with
. Traditional assessments didnot encourage the development of ill-structured problem solving skills. In order to assessproblem solving skills, Woods and his colleagues devised questions that enable students todisplay the processes they use to solve problems.17 They also made evaluations of attitude andskill towards lifelong learning. Rustin assessed his engineering students by allowing theexamination to be taken during a period of several days to condition his students to be dependenton the library.19 Since there is usually no single preferred solution, Rustin evaluated his studentsin detail, including the reasonableness of assumptions and value judgments made. In terms ofdifficulties in writing examination questions, Carter had made significant
and qualitative research methods. Dr. Nathan has secured over $20M in external re- search funds and has over 80 peer-reviewed publications in education and Learning Sciences research, as well as over 100 scholarly presentations to US and international audiences. He is Principal Investiga- tor or co-Principal Investigator of 5 active grants from NSF and the US Dept. of Education, including the AWAKEN Project (funded by NSF-EEP), which examines learning, instruction, teacher beliefs and engineering practices in order to foster a more diverse and more able pool of engineering students and practitioners, and the Tangibility for the Teaching, Learning, and Communicating of Mathematics Project (NSF-REESE), which explores
moredisposed to read discipline-based journals. Part-time faculty do not report spending asubstantially different amount of time on professional development” (p. 61)31.A study by Keim and Biletzky35, which focused on professional development and evaluations ofpart-time faculty at community colleges, found that there was a need for development activitiesand thorough teaching evaluations. They recommended that part-time faculty receive feedbackfrom peers and administrators on their teaching in addition to student evaluations. Theysuggested that the student end-of-course evaluations were often incomplete and did not provideenough detail to improve teaching and classroom performance.Roueche, Roueche, & Milliron36 found that community college
AC 2011-176: IMPACT OF COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING WORK-SHOPS IN ENGINEERING CALCULUS COURSE ON APPLIED MATH-EMATICALLisa Schneider, Cornell University Lisa Schneider has been the Director of Engineering Learning Initiatives in Cornell University’s College of Engineering since 2002. Learning Initiatives’ programs enhance the educational environment of the College by facilitating opportunities for collaborative learning, undergraduate research, teaching skill development, peer instruction, and leadership development. Schneider received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell in 1997. Before taking her current position, she taught Sociology as an assistant professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and then served
goal, because it relates to a large literature oninequality in the engineering field among males and females at all stages of the academic ladder.4In particular we document the extent to which females report learning less as a result of theshake table experiment than their male peers. The plan of the paper is as follows. First, we briefly describe recent developments inbench scale shake tables and teleoperation and teleobservation technologies designed to allowstudents at institutions without shake tables to be able to perform real-time exercises in structural Page 22.883.3dynamics and earthquake engineering. Second, we introduce
performances and address them?Figure 1: Histogram showing the results of the ‘Likert section of the survey. Note thatthe x-axis displays both of the two possible scales the students may have used when an-swering the survey.In response to how the TIDEE activities; TC, TMC, & TWA; prepared them for professionalpractice, four of the students gave very similar responses, namely that the peer feedback allowedthem to “evaluate my team interactions through their eyes.” One student commented that “Mostpeople make up stuff to write about and don’t take it too seriously … Everyone has the mentalitythat the other group members will pick up the slack and that the professors aren’t going
the „dumbing down‟ uf universitylevel STEM curricula,, then isn‟t it possible that STEM education at the K-12 levels hassomehow failed? Furthermore, could it be that many of their peers who have deemed themselvestoo lacking in mathematical ability to pursue STEM majors, in fact, have a strong potential tounderstand mathematical concepts, but lack the opportunity to realize this potential throughoutthe K-12 STEM education curricula as currently constructed?These response questions are rhetorical. Of course, if indeed, students who graduate from STEMuniversity programs having glaring weaknesses in understanding of basic mathematical concepts,then, by definition, there is a fundamental flaw, at least in the guiding philosophy of STEMeducation
part of the faculty responsible for RPI’s Capstone Design Course. Page 22.205.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Analysis of Engineering Capstone Design Student Reflective Memos: What Students Say and What They Don’t SayAbstractHaving students articulate and reflect upon their experience is a valuable and importantway to reinforce an appreciation for lessons learned in the context of capstone design.Taken together with peer evaluations, end-of-semester student reflective memos can bean invaluable source of assessment information and provide guidance for