-0836861). This project requires students to design, build, test, and analyze a lab-scalehorizontal axis wind turbine. The goals of this project were to create project modules that couldbe easily adaptable to various curriculums and applications, including K-12 programs.1In 2010 – 2012, three project modules were integrated into the first-year curriculum at MichiganTech: aquaculture, biomechanics, and wind energy. For the aquaculture module, students built,tested, and analyzed their own aerator or used 3D modeling to develop a new impeller for anexisting pump to use in water circulation. Students working on the biomechanics module createda prosthetic leg device and analyzed the motion and forces generated during the kickingmovement. Students
Paper ID #6169Correlation Analysis of Scaffolding Creative Problem Solving Through Ques-tion Prompts with Process and Outcomes of Project-Based Service LearningDr. Wei Zheng, Jackson State University Dr. Wei Zheng is an associate professor of Civil Engineering at Jackson State University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001 and has over ten years of industrial experience. Since becoming a faculty member at JSU in 2005, he has made continuous efforts to integrate emerging technologies and cognitive skill development into engineering curriculum.Mr. Liusheng Wang, Jackson State
dissertationwork. These findings provide a useful background for future graduate student developmentprograms, and outline the successful (and also less effective) components of this GK-12program.Bibliography1. Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education. http://www.gk12.org/. Last accessed December 14, 2012.2. Mitchell-Blackwood, J., Figueroa, M., Kokar, C., Fontecchio, A., and Fromm, E. (2010), “Tracking middle school perceptions of engineering during an inquiry based engineering science and design curriculum.” Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference.3. S. Thompson, (2006). “Examining Change in Underrepresented Minority Students’ Perceptions of Engineering Sciences as a Result of a GK-12 Collaboration
Hallowell, University of Colorado Dr. Matthew Hallowell is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He earned a PhD with a dual focus in Construction Engineering and Management and Occupational Safety and Health from Oregon State University. He also earned a BS and MS in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University. For his efforts in teaching innovations, Dr. Hallowell has received the National Science Foun- dation CAREER award, Beavers Endowed Faculty Fellowship, John and Mercedes Peebles Innovation in Education Award, the ASCE New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering’s Teaching Award, University of Colorado College of En
. Richard Layton is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His professional work includes student teaming, persistence, migration, and retention of engineering undergraduates, and consulting in data vi- sualization and graph design. He is also a singer and songwriter.rebecca lyonsMr. Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Daniel M. Ferguson is a graduate student in the Engineering Education Program at Purdue University and the recipient of three NSF awards for research in engineering education. Prior to coming to Purdue, he was assistant professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Before
nationwide. These are often designedfrom scratch and tend to be “personal courses” – designed by instructors to cover what they feelis important. Therefore, while they may be prerequisites to second-year courses, first-yearengineering programs are not necessarily integrated into the curriculum. Further, since they areoften designed with little consideration for existing models, overall outcomes and content varywidely. This leads to, first, the issue of course developers “reinventing the wheel” as successfulmodels are not adequately disseminated. The problem is exacerbated by a lack of definition offirst year models: a developer may know what they want in a course, but how do they find acourse with similar outcomes with nothing more than “first-year