and senior con- sultant. He has taught and developed undergraduate and graduate courses in electronics, power systems, control and power electronics, electric machines, instrumentation, radar and remote sensing, numerical methods and data analysis, space and atmosphere physics, and physics. His research interests included power system stability, control and protection, renewable energy system analysis, assessment and design, power electronics and electric machines for wind energy conversion, radar and remote sensing, wave and turbulence simulation, measurement and modeling, numerical modeling, electromagnetic compatibility and engineering education. During his career Dr. Belu published several papers in referred
Program 2006 and was the curriculum director for the Supercomputing Education Program 2005. In January 2008, he was awarded the NSF CAREER award for work on transforming en- gineering education through learner-centric, adaptive cyber-tools and cyber-environments. He was one of 49 faculty members selected as the nation’s top engineering educators and researchers by the US National Academy of Engineering to the Frontiers in Engineering Education symposium.Dr. William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette William (Bill) Oakes is the Director of the EPICS Program and one of the founding faculty members of the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has held courtesy appointments in Mechanical
-generation of college students. Therefore, a significantnumber of first-generation college students do not get the academic support from their familymembers [Dennis et al.[9]]. Table 1 represents the enrollment data based on students’ profilesfrom fiscal year 2008 to 2013. Therefore, the students need to depend on the teachers andmentors for their success in their college career specially in Science, Technology, Engineering,and Mathematics (STEM) fields.Due to lack of proper education in the high school level, the incoming freshmen at TAMIU havefaced difficulty to deal with college level mathematics. Therefore, a significant class drop rate isfound in such lower division courses. Table 2 represents the student enrollment, successfulcompletion, and
University Richard Burgess currently works as the Associate Director of the Murdough Center for Engineering Pro- fessionalism (MCEP) and National Institute for Engineering Ethics (NIEE) at Texas Tech University. He oversees the day to day operations of the Center’s distance learning courses for both engineering students and practicing engineers. Additionally, he co-teaches an on-campus ethics course for undergraduate stu- dents. Burgess provides guest lectures on ethics throughout the Whitacre College of Engineering. Burgess has also begun working closely with Texas Tech’s T-STEM Center to incorporate ethics into K-12 STEM education. The push to increase the number of students pursuing STEM careers needs to be accompanied
Page 23.874.12 Desire to maintain involvement with a community 2317 18 that is not related to my universityLike Table 5, Table 6 conveys findings for survey items that are not directly linked to the ULOs,but items in Table 6 are directly linked to professional advancement, which is perhaps anunarticulated desired outcome of all undergraduate programs. Responses indicated that while justover 20% of respondents believed their project work provided them with professionallybeneficial connections, it provided approximately twice as many (38%) with knowledge orexperience that helped them change their minds about future plans—something of particularvalue when considering the importance of career satisfaction. Even more
resistance to incorporating these techniques to their full potential, Page 23.266.7especially from those faculty that have spent their entire careers using a traditional lecture style.For this reason, it is critical that the workshop allots time to discuss and solve the potentialdifficulties (for students and faculty alike) of incorporating a new pedagogical technique. It isimportant to remind the faculty that there is still a place for lecture; a wholesale coursemodification is not necessary or practical. Another crucial element of the theme workshops isfor the participants to experience a variety of PBLs and ACLs (wherein the KIT faculty
about family engineering is emerging. With the most recent adaptation of theFamily Math and Science modules for Engineering, we expect more literature in relevantforthcoming studies. A not -et published work on the role of parents in engineering educationprovides a detailed review of the literature of parents engagement in engineering and science andframes the literature with four common themes. The parent is viewed as24: Page 23.446.14 • Engineering career motivator • Engineering attitudes builder • Students’ achievement stimulus • Scientific/Engineering thinking guideFamily Engineering was created with the goal of “actively
and reform.Ren´ee S DeGraaf M.A., Lansing Community College Tutoring Services Coordinator, Student Services Division, Learning Assistance DepartmentProf. Louise Paquette, Lansing Community CollegeRuth Heckman, Lansing Community CollegeDr. Neeraj Buch, Michigan State UniversityDr. Thomas F. Wolff P.E., Michigan State University Page 23.488.1 Dr. Thomas F. Wolff is Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Studies at Michigan State University. In this capacity, he is responsible for all activities related to student services (academic ad- ministration, first year programs, advising, career planning, women
Interdisciplinary Design Skills1 INTRODUCTIONAt the Sunapee State University engineering majors are similar to those at other schools around thenation. Most students choose a specific major in an area of interest to them and their future career plans.Within the engineering major, these students follow a specific track of courses with little variation in theform of electives taken during the third and fourth years. With the only common courses between majorsbeing rooted in math, physics, chemistry, writing and some social sciences, it is unsurprising to find thatgraduates from different programs develop and exhibit a completely different set of technical skills. Theissue in this model surfaces when those graduates leave the university to begin their
. IntroductionEquipping graduate students with the skills they need to succeed in an academic career is aparamount issue in engineering education. There has been much concern that while graduatestudents receive extensive support in developing themselves as research scholars, there are fewopportunities for them to receive training on how to teach.5,10,24 Further, the recommendation inthe Educating the Engineer of 2020 (p. 92) calls for creating learning environments “in whichstudents (1) were more actively engaged than taking notes, (2) focused on problems, designchallenges and artifacts in addition to concepts, and (3) often worked with other students tounderstand and complete assigned tasks.14” Since active learning teaching methods, like theones mentioned in
the University of Washington at Seattle in 1982, 1987, and 1995, respectively. He began his academic career in 1998, and is currently the chair of the Department of Com- puter Science at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Wash. His research interest includes numerical Page 23.224.2 methods for forward and inverse solutions to partial differential equations with biomedical applications. Prior to his academic career, he was employed as a senior principal design engineer in the electronics industry, where he enjoyed fifteen years of experience developing parallel embedded signal and image
activities. The latter is thekind generally called “hybrid,” and was a better fit to the actual situation studied.Faculty PerspectiveAt most colleges and universities promotions and tenure are a function of research, publications,teaching and service. In a study of tenure and merit pay, Kasten reports that "teaching is secondin importance to research" and that "adequate teaching is a necessary but not sufficient conditionfor tenure."1 Teaching is a key job requirement and indeed many faculty report that thisinteraction with students is one of the reasons they chose an academic career. However, as juniorfaculty often lament - the realities of supporting the many aspects of research and the strongrelationship between success in these areas and success
Paper ID #6876Semester-long Concept Development Projects in Chemical Engineering Elec-tives CourseDr. Adrienne R Minerick, Michigan Technological University Adrienne Minerick received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 and B.S. from Michigan Technological University in 1998. Dr. Minerick’s research interests include electroki- netics, predominantly dielectrophoretic characterizations of cells, and the development of biomedical microdevices. She earned a 2007 NSF CAREER award, has published research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (2006), Lab on a Chip, and had an AIChE Journal
am not really interested, I want a good grade 50.8% to maintain my GPAEvidently, the percentages of answers to each question do not add up, which indicatesthat students have mixed motivations and goals. This assumption is confirmed by theircomments, like the following (quoted without editing). Page 23.1101.6On their decisions to take this course: “Although this course is a requirement for my major, I can still appreciate the need it has in my future career and I am excited to expand my knowledge on the subject.” “I am really only taking
using an electronic textbook during an exam. (2011 respondent) They are a great supplement to hard copies. (2012 respondent)Finally, the 2012 survey asked a question not included in 2011, whether students would chooseto use e-textbooks in the future. Students were invited to follow up with open-ended commentson why they would or would not use e-textbooks in the future. Two hundred ninety-nine studentsreplied. The most common themes expressed in these comments were cost (43%), preference forprint format (27%), and portability of e-textbooks (14%). One other recurring topic was thatstudents were looking ahead to their future careers, and many preferred print format for thereason of ensuring permanent access to books that they believed
: Technology, Economics, and Politics. In this regard studentsneed to learn: a. How standards play a part in their career; b. How to think critically about standards development and technology solutions; c. About the pace of standards development in terms of technical change; d. How standards help drive innovation; e. How standards development process provides good technical solutions; f. Why standards are flexible.What are the needs of undergraduate and graduate students?Harding (2011) further notes that the state of standards education at the university level isdiverse. There are different needs at the undergraduate and graduate levels: a. Undergraduate students require a basic level of
expense of breadth.The question I will respond to is: “What, if any, value is there in T-shaped undergraduatecourses and curricula?” Many students have began to form a T-shape before college andwill continue to become more T-shaped over time. But it is that during the undergraduateyears that students will transform their various interests into a mindset that will guidethem throughout their career. Teaching the T-shape also brings natural contact with themessiness of the real world, and therefore exercises the capacity for complex thinking. Iwill use the two words mindset and real world to focus the discussion below. Page 23.1237.13
design and teaches in a Masters of Arts program designed for second career STEM professionals. He also teaches a variety of courses to as- sist classroom teachers with curriculum development, analyzing their instruction and conducting action research. Dr. Marlette was awarded his Ph.D. from Kansas State University in 2002. During his pro- fessional career he has taught both middle and high school science, worked in professional development schools, and provided teacher professional development at all grade levels (K-12). He regularly collabo- rates with STEM faculty on various projects and grants to improve K-12 STEM learning. He currently is serving as a faculty fellow in the SIUE Center for STEM Research, Education
refrigerators on a chip, and waste heat recovery systems. He is also working on a new interdisciplinary sustainability curriculum in collaboration with colleagues in engineering and social sciences. He has initiated an international summer school on renewable energy sources in practice. He received the Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering in 1999, the NSF Career award in 2000, and the UC Santa Cruz School of Engineering FIRST Professor Award in 2004 Page 23.537.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 ENHANCING STUDENT LEARNING THROUGH A REALWORLD PROJECT IN A
. Perry’sDevelopmental Scheme). 4 A student typically enters the university in positions 1 or 2 with avery ‘right or wrong’ point of view. As the student progresses through their collegiate career andengages in experiences, they transcend through positions 2, 3, and 4; ideally graduating inposition 5 (or higher) where they have acquired the ability to perceive knowledge and values asrelative, contingent and contextual.4 Because the university is an educational environment, theintellectual development of the student from positions 1 or 2 to position 5 is an important part ofthe transformation of the student and the goal of the institution.Experiences play an important role in this transformation and sadly, not all experiences arepositive; potentially having a
say that I have enough talent to be a visual artist and possibly have a career in visual art.9 I can draw objects and buildings as well as Frank Lloyd Wright did. Page 23.616.8Appendix 2: Description of activities in the ten classes 1. Draw the plastic pipe fitting in < 25 min (pre-test drawing); how to hold a pencil; draw lines of various weights; rotate paper so minimize angular deviation of the wrist; draw orthographic views of a cube (top, side, front) 2. Collect homework; review orthographic views of a cube; draw a circle with the 8-point method; draw orthographic views of a metal electrical box 3. Collect
monitored construction schedules and continually communicated progress to all appropriate stakeholders, and designed a construction lay down area with the Army Corps of Engineers and the contractor and coordinated alternative traffic flow with emergency response and facility personnel. Mr. Bates’ career in the Air Force provided experience with several Department of Defense construction projects where he was able to refine his leadership and construction management skills. He planned, resourced, and executed the design-build of over thirty construction projects involving airfield pavements, base facilities, maintenance and repair ranging from $25K to $180M. He wrote project statements of work, performed periodic
. Page 23.748.9 Analyzing the reported data on mandatory technology and comparing it with the technology weknow is used in the courses, we found that a lot of technology went unnoticed. In the groupinterview we could state that students did not identify the used technology with the survey Items. English language is perceived as a mandatory skill among students. In the case of ICT studentswhere data form higher courses is gathered, it can be seen that mastery in English increases asthey progress in their careers. It is usual for teachers to make students read material in Englishand the awareness of the importance of the language increases with this practice. The use of technology when studying showed that the main difficulty laid not with the
radiation hardened nanoelectronics. Dr. Ryan joined JSNN after working at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany as Associate Vice President of Technology and Professor of Nanoscience from 2005 to 2008. At CNSE, he managed the cleanrooms and numerous consortia involving CNSE and its industrial partners such as IBM, TEL, AMAT, ASML and others. Dr. Ryan joined CNSE after a 25 year career with IBM. From 2003 to 2005, he was a Distinguished Engineer and Director of Advanced Materials and Process Technology Development and served as the site executive for IBM at Albany Nanotech. Prior to that assignment Dr. Ryan managed interconnect technology groups in research, development and
that students who are self-regulated, who keep their goals inmind, and know what they are doing and why they are doing it feel competent and do their workat a level that would enable them to do well in the class. This finding aligns well with empiricalstudies in cognitive science29. The implications of these findings suggest the importance ofmotivation, self-regulation, and self-efficacy in student learning process. While contentknowledge is important, keeping students motivated, self-regulated, and efficacious wouldcertainly help students reach their academic and career goals.Acknowledgements This project was funded by the National Science Foundation TUES Program through the Division of Undergraduate Education (Proposal 0837647). The authors
and Engineering Tech- nology programs covering topics such as control systems, digital signal processing and electromagnetics.Manuel Alejandro Martinez, Virginia Tech Manuel A. Martinez is a sophomore at Virginia Tech majoring in Chemical Engineering. He hopes to pursue a career in the chemical industry with a focus on monitoring chemical impacts on environmental Page 23.783.1 health. He participated in the summer 2012 NSF REU Program, Water Sciences and Engineering, as a water quality monitoring technician in the LEWAS Lab. Based on his performance in this program, he was brought on as a student member of
academic careers about the impact of learning these geotechnicalconcepts for other classes, graduate school or jobs.CONCLUSIONSThe installation of an educational module that for the first time integrates remote major researchinstrumentation into an undergraduate class appears to have been successful. Students’perceptions of the module were very positive. Students agreed that observing the stressdistribution under the footing and loading it to failure in the live experiment helped them betterunderstand stress distribution and bearing capacity. Additionally, many students showed interestin interacting with students from other schools. Many students showed interest in seeing moreexperiments like this one for other applications in geotechnical
disseminated throughASEE conference papers, and some of the problem sets described in this paper will be used inthe next edition of Felder et al. 5Current efforts include expanding the dissemination of this material through the ASEE ChemicalEngineering Division (CHED) Summer School. This will help extend the reach of thesematerials to an audience of educators early in their careers who will be able to directly impact thestudents they teach. The 2012 ASEE-CHED Summer School was held at the University of Page 23.793.2Maine in Orono, Maine, July 21- 27. The Summer School included over 20 workshops andmany opportunities for faculty to network and share
the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, a Guest Researcher position in the Institute of Life Science and Technology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and a Visiting Researcher position at Microsoft Research Asia. Tan was a recipient of the prestigious US National Science Foun- dation’s Early Faculty Development (CAREER) Award, and she was a Chinese National Natural Science Funds’ Distinguished (Overseas) Young Scholar. In addition to serving on numerous program commit- tees, she was a co-organizer (with Blake Hannaford) of the International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems from 2003 to 2005. In 2006, Tan served as the Found- ing Chair of the IEEE