developed for a reason and that they did not always exist in the body of knowledge.This thought process, especially when stimulated in the context of many fundamental conceptsrelated to the subject (e.g., Discrete-event simulation, Production Planning and Control, Linearand Non-linear Programming, and Quality Control), is often the reason for outcomes c and e.When students are forced to think and research a topic on their own, they have been seen to havean increased long-term memory of the topic (outcome a). Outcome b can be an indirectconsequence that is likely to occur when students start seeing the whys behind the fundamentaltopics. The outcome d is seen when students spend time researching the topic on their own.In contrast to PBL, deductive
aimed at understanding the reason to select engineering as adiscipline to pursue, their perception of their first semester experience in college, and the level ofinterest in pursuing engineering.Reflective EssaysStudents were asked to write reflective essays about their college experience. In those essays,student wrote about which engineering discipline they plan to pursue, about challenges facedduring the semester, and about how their first semester affected their interest in pursuingengineering. Student submitted reflective essays at the middle and at the end of the semester.Results Page 23.1045.3First Year Engineering Program: All
(proposal, design, construction, testing, and preparation of final report, presentation anddemonstration. Assign a 1 if there is enough time to complete all tasks, otherwise assign a zero.The scoring for T is shown in Table 3 using the columns labeled Estimated Time and EstimatedTime.Skill metric (Sk): possess all skills (SP) needed =1 missing skills = 0Scoring Procedure: For each task list all the skills needed (e.g. microprocessor hardwaredesign, software design, assembly language programming, C programming, testing,organization, project planning, leadership, research writing, presentation design, speaking,record-keeping, scheduling, and all other required skills) Assign a number of 1-10 for each skillto each team member. Add all the skill
French Code, Canadian Code, The Euro Codes andthe International Building Codes. Building plans were never submitted for plan check by theMinistry of Public Works, Transport and Communications (MTPTC) or building constructioninspected as required by Ministry of the Interior and Local Government (MICT). Quality ofbuilding materials had also to be addressed. Since most of the buildings were not engineered, theworkshops were developed to address all building professionals and also the home owners inpreparation of home repairs and new constructions.Workshop PilotThe first step was to get in touch with the target audience. This was done through religiousbased non-governmental organizations (NGOs) both international and national. The first (pilot
ethics course during the completion of theirengineering degree plans. Under the current degree plans, students do have the option to take anethics course, PHIL 2306 Ethics: Philosophical Perspective on Human Conduct and Values, tofulfill their Humanities Core Requirement. This means that students entering this course mayhave little exposure to ethics or a general background of ethics, without specifically addressingengineering or sustainability. Students invariably receive their background in engineering ethics Page 23.1251.4throughout their coursework, their interaction with their professors, and through any internshipor coop opportunities they
overarching narrative to help students recognizewhat constitutes data falsification, data fabrication, and plagiarism (FFP). These three topics areof great importance to learning what the NSF and many other research bodies refer to asResponsible Conduct of Research (RCR). Students who play all three games also have theability to acquire a certificate of completion.Grant PhasesThis 24-month grant project ran from September 2010 to August 2012. Due to the significantworkload and short funding period, the project was broken down into 5 major phases and aninitial month by month plan (Table 1) guided progress towards project goals: • Page 23.1316.2
of the STEM disciplines.IntroductionNumerous reports, beginning with Rising Above the Gathering Storm2 (and more recently fromthe President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)3 & 4, have raised ournation’s awareness of the dire need to transform K-12 education in order to prepare and inspirethe vast numbers of K-12 students needed to meet our nation’s STEM-dependent workforceneeds. In the summer of 2006, to address and rise above one city’s own “gathering storm,”business and community leaders approached the Mobile Area Education Foundation (MAEF)and requested their leadership in addressing K-12 issues related to STEM workforce needs forthe region. Following a year of collaboration and planning, a pilot initiative
the nuances of microstructure and crystal structure, but are not conclusive.We plan to repeat the quiz, for credit and during the microstructure and heat treating portion ofthe class.The Electron Backscatter Diffraction TechniqueIntra-granular atomic arrangement can be determined by Electron Backscatter Diffraction(EBSD), a technique performed in conjunction with scanning electron microscopy. In EBSD, thetop atomic layers of a highly polished material diffract the incident electron beam. As intransmission electron microscopy, the resulting electron diffraction pattern at any point isuniquely determined by the crystal structure that the beam is incident upon. Computerizedmethods allow the patterns to be easily indexed to the corresponding
was, “my way of preparing for exams has worked wellall these years, I don’t need to change it now”.9 Prerequisite knowledge is also a factor. Overthe last few years the incoming freshmen have shown more proficiency with Excel® than in thepast, so they do not perceive the Excel® exercises to be as challenging as previously. The ENGR10 team plans to revise the Excel® content to better match the skills of current incoming students.Figure 4, taken from the 2002 study9, summarizes the responses from the same survey, with oneexception. The current course does not use MATLAB® but instead requires students to do 3Dsolid modeling using SolidWorks®, so the 2002 question about understanding of MATLAB® wasreplaced with a question about understanding of
difficulty of the goal, their prior experience,and peer encouragement from others 4. Students with high self-efficacy use more cognitive andmetacognitive strategies as well as self-regulatory strategies such as planning, monitoring, andregulating 11. Achievement motivation, which encompasses students’ attitudes about theirabilities and tasks, can elucidate student choices related to persistence in engineering, solvingproblems, and the value of tasks encountered in an engineering environment 12. Achievementmotivation serves as a useful framework for the examination of research questions related tostudents’ attitudes about pursuing engineering, and how these factors affect students’ learningexperiences.Phase 1: Identifying Relevant Factors
communication interaction scenario,selected from the CareerWISE content, is presented here: Monique wants to talk with her advisor, Dr. Hernandez, about taking the lead on an upcoming project in their lab. She is not sure how supportive Dr. Hernandez will be since she is already committed to a number of other projects, so she is trying to proceed cautiously and deliberately to convince him that she is capable of handling the extra work. In order to broach the topic with him, she uses the following plan to devise her approach…This particular communication interaction scenario pertains to multiple themes. Monique iscarefully planning the best strategy for negotiating with her advisor to secure a lead role on
Element up to 5 points Attendance Points (Max. 25 Points) 0-3 Absences up to 25 points School Attendance Record 4-6 Absences up to 15 points 7 or more Absences up to 5 points STEM Subjects: A total of eight STEM projects, popular to the South Texas students,from electrical, computer, environmental, mechanical, industrial, chemical, and architecturalengineering disciplines were developed by the faculty members under implicit lesson plans toexpose the students to STEM fields, to promote student enthusiasm
and lessons learned from this endeavorare summarized and conclusions are drawn through formative assessment activities conductedduring the summer camp. Solutions are proposed to rectify identified issues or challenges thatwere faced in this prototype case-study. In Section 4, we provide a summary and comment onour plans for future work.1. Pedagogical Model Through the proposed model we are trying to accomplish following learning objectives: a. Provide students with a view of Engineering as a unified profession and introduce them to key systems engineering principles. b. Introduce students to the product lifecycle and enhance their intuition of how today’s engineers use principles of Science and Mathematics to
the additional practice. Therefore, we suggestinstructors using these homework assignments should make them a required part of the regularcoursework.SchedulingAutomated analysis and the generation of reports within a few hours allows faculty to have dataabout their students’ learning immediately available to them. Generally the online homeworkassignments were due around midnight, analysis began at 9am and reports were ready for facultybefore the end of the work day for use in class the next day. The faculty reported that theyneeded more time than the overnight period to digest the contents of the report and modify theirlesson plan. Often this was because faculty had prepared their instructional material days orweeks in advance.We can address
sustainability. Prior to joining the JMU Engineering faculty in 2012, Dr. Barrella was at Georgia Tech completing her Ph.D. research as part of the Infrastructure Research Group (IRG). She also completed a teaching certificate and was actively involved with the Center for the En- hancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Georgia Tech. Her academic interests focus on two primary areas of sustainable transportation: (1) community-based design and planning and (2) strategic planning and policy development. Dr. Barrella is also interested in investigating how to best integrate these research interests into classroom and project experiences for her students
Indian/AlaskaNatives 0.3%, multi-racial 9.5%, unknown 4.9%.6At Cañada College, the discrepancy in the levels of preparation among different ethnicities ismanifested in student persistence. During a recent planning initiative led by the College President,a cohort study of newly enrolling students at Cañada was performed. Table 1 shows a summaryof one-year and two-year persistence rates of students by ethnicity. Among Hispanic students theone-year persistence rate was 59.4%, and the two-year persistence rate was 28.8%. The one-yearpersistence rate of African American students was 46.7%, and the two-year rate 20%, significantlylower than those of white students whose one-year and two-year persistence rates were 72.5% and54.4%, respectively. Given
Paper ID #7284Public Works Projects as Vehicles for Engineering Education and OutreachMs. Shannon Weiss, David Heil & Associate, Inc. Shannon Weiss is a project coordinator and specializes in the design and implementation of evaluation and market research projects related to DHA’s core areas of emphasis in science, engineering, health, and environmental education; and institutional strategic and business planning. Her work serves a range of academic institutions, government agencies, corporations and non-profit enterprises including projects funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of
Page 23.1107.5is easily assimilated by beginners with no previous programming experience. Despite itssimplicity and speed of use in the classroom, this language is sophisticated enough for studentsto use it to take readings from D-to-A converters, encode the equations of calibration curvesusing math blocks, write wireless communications programs using Bluetooth, and write data-logging programs to store sequences of time-stamped sensor readings in files (see Figure 2).D. Professional Development Experiences for EducatorsThe professional development model for the teachers planning to teach the SENSE ITcurriculum adopts the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework,which sees content knowledge, technology, and pedagogy not in
mentoring or a mentored role.Key factors in the simultaneous development of team skills and team member skillsA thoughtful and well planned approach to team development and support is needed to counterthe challenges presented by time pressures, to help change previously learned habits associatedwith working in teams, to convince students that development of team skills is a requiredoutcome of the course on a level similar to project completion, and to help teams harness thebenefits of diversity rather than allowing non-constructive conflict to hamper team effectiveness.Key factors that have proven to support the simultaneous development of team skills and teammember skills in the context of the mechanical engineering capstone design project at Ohio
planning to flip acourse for the first time should heed:Get Buy in from Students. The faculty should carefully explain the benefits of the flippedapproach to the class so that the students buy into the method. Without some salesmanship,students are likely to reject the approach just because it is different.Do Not Over-Flip. A flipped classroom is more a time management strategy than a pedagogicalapproach. The improved time management facilitates better pedagogy, but be mindful of thedifferences. Specifically, note that it is not essential for everything in the course to be “flipped.”It does not mean that you cannot ever deliver a traditional lecture or assign traditionalhomework. If the subject content or the mentality of the students demands a
multimedia exercises, 3D software and othertechnologies used in graphic engineering3,16,17,18,19.Researchers like P. Connolly20 suggested a need to develop spatial abilities in GraphicEngineering subjects. Barr21 analysed future academic engineering plans with modern trends inmind and highlighted that the most important subject that should be included in a programmeshould be the development of spatial skills. Historically there has been a great deal of interest inthe methods of instruction and technologies that could potentially increase the spatial skills of itsusers22, 23, 24. Currently, the rise of virtual reality (be it augmented, desktop or immersive) hasfuelled the renewed research about the development of spatial ability.Over the last few
Service Ribbon, Expert Marksmanship Qualification Badge with Grenade Bar, and Marksman Marksmanship Qualification Badge with Rifle Bar. Work Experience: Utah State University, Jan. 2010 to present, instructor for ETE 1020 energy, power, transportation systems control technology exploration of the concepts and processes relating to the control and automation (both hard and programmable) of technical systems in the areas of energy and power, transportation, and agricultural and related biotech- nologies. California University of PA, Jan. 2008 to May 2009, Teaching Assistant. Assisted the professor in class preparation, lesson plans, and distribution of materials Also gain teaching experience by lecturing the class
and university clients. Heil is a co-author of Family Engineering: An Activity and Event Planning Guide, and serves as a member-at-large on the Executive Committee of ASEE’s K-12 Division.Mr. Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering Greg Pearson is a senior program officer with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in Washing- ton, D.C. Pearson currently serves as the responsible staff officer for the public and private-sector funded study ”Integrated STEM Education: Developing a Research Agenda.” He is also study director for the NSF-funded project ”Changing the Conversation: From Research to Action” and the project ”Changing the Conversation: Building the Community,” supported by the United engineering
students’ reasoningvisible to their teacher as well as their fellow classmates. The tool allows teachers to create alesson plan on InterLACE’s Web site consisting of questions and challenges, which they canthen present to their students on a centrally located screen in the classroom as well as through thedesktop, laptop, or tablet devices the students use to answer those questions and challenges. Thetool then aggregates the students’ posts, which the teacher and students can view andsubsequently discuss. The first version of the tool was barebones and allowed text-only posts thatcould be rearranged onscreen so that the teacher and the students could group responses bypatterns such as similarity (for examples of this, see “Kraig’s Use of the
to scaleup to meet the increasing demands. The remainder of the paper will focus on the creation,evolution, and future growth plans for the course, and will point to lessons learned that canassist in adaptation for other institutions.Evolution of a Course – Design and StructureThe authors of this paper, with feet planted in academia, industry, and our community,observed a gap in our curriculum that needed to be addressed. Industry was looking to hireengineers with a set of skills and experiences we felt our undergraduates were notadequately receiving. We also perceive a growing need for our students to have globalawareness and community involvement to be better able to act as stewards of theengineering discipline throughout their careers. In
“somewhat successful” or “very successful” with theirimplementation. Those respondents who did not use active learning were unsure how to usethese methods in their specific class, believe that their teaching responsibilities did not allowthem to use these approaches, or did not feel as though active learning was necessary. Thispaper examines these responses further to determine whether or not their teachingresponsibilities, their confidence with a variety of teaching-related tasks (e.g., lesson planning,working with students, etc.), and use of teaching peer mentors influence their decisions toincorporate active learning into their teaching practice. Recommendations for faculty supervisorsand TA training program organizers are provided.1
, coordinating efforts among K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) outreach programs, and working closely with university enrollment management and data management professionals at the Friday Institute at NC State University. She works closely with both large and small NC State outreach groups offering K-12 outreach to teachers and students. She also assists with planning, implementing, managing, and reporting of project activities which include survey development, coordination of data collection, interfacing with data managers, coordination of meetings and workshops for outreach providers to gather feedback, identify best practices, and disseminate findings
communicate effectively in English in written form”. The following areas ofimprovement have been found from IFT core competencies mapping: “understand the basicprinciples and practices of cleaning and sanitation in food processing operations”, and“understand the requirements for water utilization and waste management in food and foodprocessing”. FE program using of assessment results to improve student learning throughcurricular modifications as well as a summary of improvements and modifications up to date Page 23.437.2(such as using a plan to perform embedded assessments in several FE courses) are presented. IntroductionUniversidad de las Américas
conversations: prompted conversations,and spontaneous conversations. The prompted conversations were initiated by the programcoordinator, who articulated a brief question or statement asking students to reflect on key aspectsof their undergraduate research experiences, including: students’ expectations and goals for participating in the program students’ goals for their research projects ways to handle research obstacles lessons students learned through research students’ future goals and plans related to research, graduate study and careers Page 23.580.4Other than posting these initial conversational prompts/questions
Engineering Technology (Weber State University) Masters in Construction Manage- ment (Purdue University)Dr. Thomas James Paskett, Weber State University Dr. Thomas J. Paskett. I have a Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in Adult Organization and Learning from the University of Idaho. I also have a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Uni- versity of Phoenix. I hold a Bachelor Degree in Architectural Studies from the University of Utah. My drafting experience began with my Associate Degree in Architectural Drafting Technology from Ricks College, now Brigham Young University-Idaho. I have been designing residential buildings since 1992 and have had home plans built for the Salt Lake County Parade of Homes. It