Paper ID #10585Leading by Example for Engineering Design (LEED) to Meet Next Genera-tion Science Standards in Middle and High School Science and Math ClassesDr. Evan C. Lemley, University of Central OklahomaMr. Bob Melton, Putnam City Schools Bob Melton is the Assessment Coordinator/ STEM Facilitator for Putnam City Schools. Mr. Melton began his career in 1974 at Putnam City West High School, taught at Edmond Memorial High School, and was the Science Curriculum Coordinator for Putnam City Schools from 1993 to 2013. From1999 through 2003 he served as project director of a USDOE program to research the effective- ness of
review of corporate social responsibility,in which employees volunteer for and companies support community service, Fombrun,Gardberg, and Barnett claim that employees gain a “broader repertoire of cultural, relational, andself-leadership competencies.”11Furthermore, these collaborations can be beneficial to the learners in many ways: the publicgains positive attitudes towards science and engineering,1 view the technical fields as moreapproachable and relevant,10 are more aware of previously unknown careers, and retain scienceconcepts.2 However, despite the strong support for such scientist-educator collaborations,6-9,12-14these collaborations can often be difficult for science centers because of the scarce resourcesrequired to keep these non
activity preparation withthe HI-GEAR camp that tap into the faculty that have written in support via an outreachcomponent in CAREER or other broader impact NSF grants. 6. Assessment and Impact A significant amount of effort has gone into evaluating the content and impact of our summercamp. As our main goal was to positively influence high school students’ awareness ofengineering; our primary survey was geared towards looking for changes in their perceptions.Attendees were sent a pre-survey and asked to return it to us prior to the first day of camp. Thesurvey measured their “opinion” of engineering as a profession and asked them to let us knowwhat they hoped to get out of attending the camp. This was followed up by an exit survey at theend of
both the student (and instructor) would have liked to have more time to complete theproject, that is, get that ‘second try or test’ in to answer questions or concerns learned in the firstround of ‘evaluation and testing’. However, with a 15-week project and graduation imminent,choices were made to get the ‘best’ results with the scope of this design project and 3-creditcapstone course. So reflecting on the three parts of this project, i.e., the materials selection,fabrication and testing, the student experience incorporated previous engineering knowledgefrom courses, practical hands-on experience, and moved into the realm of independent life-longlearning needed throughout an engineering career. The advisor also hopes this example can beused to
relatedissues since most students are in mid-career managerial positions in their organizations. Energyis a prime mover of every business and would be more efficiently and profitably utilized whenpolicy makers have adequate knowledge of the basics. In most cases, the profit margin of anorganization depends largely on how much is being spent on energy. With the knowledge acquiredfrom the course, students have the knowledge to determine types of feasible, available renewableenergy sources that could be harnessed to supplement the conventional energy usage of theircompany. The renewable energy technology course was designed for students with engineeringtechnology and non-engineering technology backgrounds. The course was first taught in the SpringSemester
used by students for team collaboration (typically Skype andsimple integrated webcams) works very well because of the comparatively smaller number ofindividuals utilizing the technology at a given time.One of the greatest advantages for students at small liberal arts institutions is the relationshipdeveloped with faculty. Students have faculty as an instructor for several courses throughouttheir undergraduate careers and interact with them at many different levels (e.g. advising,tutoring, and club mentoring). A lack of this history with collaborating faculty has, in the past,caused some stress in students and impeded progress on design teams. We would like to find away to make it possible for each faculty to spend a few days at the beginning
, Arizona State UniversityDr. Shawn S Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Shawn Jordan, Ph.D.is an Assistant Professor in theDepartment of Engineering atArizona State Univer- sity. He is the PI on three NSF-funded projects: CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society (EEC 1351728), Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?(EEC 1329321), and Broadening the Reach of Engineering through Community Engagement (BRECE)(DUE 1259356). He is also Co-PI on one NSF-funded project: Should Makers be the Engineers of the Fu- ture?(EEC 1232772), and is senior personnel on an NSF-funded grant entitled Workshop: I-Corps for Learning (i-Corps-L). He received his Ph.D. in Engineering
Texas Tech University students even though the international experienceis required instead of options. Benefits include the following. Study abroad experiences in the early stages of a student’s career statistically improve 4 year, 5 year and 6 year graduation rates, with the greatest improvement in the 4 year graduation rates. Student with a study abroad experience have higher GPAs at graduation than students that did not study abroad. Study abroad experiences have shown to improve retention of underrepresented groups.In addition to positively benefiting the students, the hope is that the international and studyabroad experiences benefits the departments and WCOE. One benefit may be that the studyabroad
representing a career plan wasdeveloped, and different mechanisms for documenting and measuring student learning are discussed.Four questions to be answeredTo provide a streamlined curriculum responding to the abovementioned criteria, four questionshave to be asked and properly answered: 1- Are we teaching our students the right things (What)? 2- Are the students grasping the taught contents and concepts (How much)? 3- Are we properly measuring their learning (How)? 4- Are we properly documenting the results for continuous improvement (Is it better than the last time it was taught)?To answer these four questions, the department got immersed into a thorough review of thecurriculum, not for the purpose of reinventing the
all of theother material learned throughout the student’s college career is pulled together in a realisticsimulation, is a wonderful place for programs to partner with industry. In the author’s program,students self-form teams that are then required to find and partner with one or more professionalswho mentor the team throughout the course. A mentoring agreement is prepared, outlining theexpectations of student team and the mentor, how they will communicate, schedule/timeline(including turnaround time), etc.Students and especially student teams are a regular feature of the IAB meetings, and facilitaterecruiting mentors from the board. Typically, at each meeting there is some form of studentpresentation, such as one from a new course or a team
Paper ID #10874Multi-Disciplinary Teams and Collaborative Peer Learning in an Introduc-tory Nuclear Engineering CourseSamuel A. Heider, U.S. Military Academy BA Physics from the Universty of Nebraska at Lincoln, 2004 PATRIOT Missile system Fire Control Officer 2004-2007, PATRIOT Fire Direction Center Officer 2007, BCT Company Commander 2007-2008, Validation Transition Team Leader (AFG) 2008-2009, Engineer Captain Career Course 2010 MS Nuclear Engineering from Kansas State University, 2012 Instructor United States Military Academy 2012-PresentCol. Bryndol A. Sones, U.S. Military AcademyDr. Brian E. Moretti, Department of Physics
Chair and the University’s Academic Director. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Industrial Automation from the National University of Colombia in 1995 and 2000, respectively. As part of his early career development in 1995, he started a machine design company in Colombia, but then in 1999, he moved to Spain and worked for Tekniker R&D designing ultraprecision machines. In 2001, Dr. Tovar was selected for the prestigious Fulbright fellowship program and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2004 and 2005, respectively. As a graduate student at Notre Dame, while studying bone functional adaptation, Dr. Tovar proposed a structural
engineering technology programs, it is not so common in other disciplines like industrialdistribution (ID) even if they are housed in a traditional engineering/ engineering technologydepartment. A part of the problem is that many people (both students and instructors alike)perceive ID as “Technical Sales only” major. However, the ID curriculum is comprised ofseveral courses in logistics, supply chain management, quality, and several engineering andcommon body of knowledge (CBK) courses. Likewise, many ID graduates pursue career paths inoperations and supply chain management, not just technical sales.This paper presents a case study of experiential learning model in a senior level undergraduateclass in industrial distribution program at Texas A&M
Glen Livesay is an Professor of Applied Biology and Biomedical Engineering; he co-developed and co- teaches the biomedical engineering capstone design sequence at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Glen’s educational research interests include student learning styles, the statistical evaluation of assess- ment instruments, and increasing student engagement with hands-on activities. He has received an NSF CAREER award and served as a Fellow at the National Effective Teaching Institute.Dr. Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Julia M. Williams is Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assess- ment & Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
, such as visibility, feedback and mapping.7,10 These few topics, inparticular, provide students with the vocabulary they will need to work as, and with, experienceddesigners in their academic and professional careers. Toward the middle of the term, as studentstransition from completing lab and homework assignments to conceiving and prototyping theirown projects, lecture topics shift to implementation, including usability, the ease of use andlearnability of a product or its interface;8 interaction design, a product’s physical, digital, behav-ioral and social considerations;13 and hacking and prototyping, including the history and re-sources available through the do-it-yourself community.3The technical sessions introduce students to the
upcoming career fair had thestaff thinking the students might want a session with the Business Librarian to learn how to usevarious database to search for information on the company they were going to interact with at thefair. The last class added was one related to a genome and protein database. Since one of thedepartments in the College of Engineering is Biomedical Engineering, there has been quite a bitof research being done on genomes and proteins so it was thought they might be interested in thisclass. After all this debate, the library staff arrived at a listing of which classes would be offeredfor the first semester, Spring 2013. They were Library Overview, RefWorks, Standards, Web ofScience, Finding Company Information, PubMed, SciFinder
. Hispanic femalesare the only exception. In addition to the higher rate of choosing AsE shown in Figure 1,Hispanic females have much higher graduation rates in AsE than ME. They also have highergraduation rates than their male peers in either major. In AsE, women of each race exceptAsian have equal or higher graduation rates than their male peers.Who graduates in ME or AsE? (Exchange between ME and AsE) In addition to having overlapping curricula, at two of the six schools represented here, ME andAsE are even managed by the same administrative unit, so some exchange of students might beexpected between the degree programs as students fine-tune their career goals. Figure 4illustrates the six-year graduation rates for each race-gender group when we
, rotation, and stratification, bio-fluid mechanical problems at the microscale, and engineering education topics. He currently serves as the faculty advisor to the student section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at the University of San Diego. He is the vice chair of the Education and Career Outreach Committee of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society. He serves at the chair of the Engineering, Technology and Applied Sciences Section as well as on the Council and Executive Committee of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Chinese history. Leighbody andKidd also concluded "learning requires active experiences" in their survey3.Nowak4 ranked teaching strategies and learning activities within technology education. Thehighest ranked strategy was the one with product-oriented and laboratory-based content. Thesecond highest rank was for strategy using technology focus, and the lowest was for strategy thatrelied heavily on classroom orientation.Having hands-on laboratory is one condition, but the laboratory practices should be relevant toprepare graduates for their manufacturing career. Miller5 surveyed 25 department heads of USmanufacturing programs and concluded that an exemplary manufacturing program should: a) Require more technical coursework, b) Require or
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Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and the founding Director of their Office of Technology Discovery. Dr. Wenker started his career as an anesthesiologist in 1985. He is triple European board certified in anesthesiology, critical care medicine and emergency/disaster medicine as well as American board certified in Antiaging and Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Wenker served many years as emergency/trauma physician on board rescue helicopters, ICU airplanes, ambulances, and emergency physician vehicles. He worked as a trauma field physician, rescue diver, disaster medicine triage and lead physician, and served many years as chief of a medical team for special police
background relates totheir chosen degree programs, let alone theirfuture careers. And despite the national call toincrease the number of graduates in engineeringand other STEM disciplines7 , the inability ofincoming students to successfully advance pastthe traditional freshman calculus sequenceremains a primary cause of attrition inengineering programs across the country. Assuch, there is a drastic need for a proven modelwhich eliminates the first-year mathematicsbottleneck in the traditional engineeringcurriculum, yet can be readily adopted byengineering programs across the country. Such Figure 1. The Derivative Labis the focus of this work.The Wright State model begins with the
, predatory publishers use morethird-party email addresses, claim false impact factors, fake rapid peer review, and simulateacademic expertise. This is the first study to investigate predatory publishing through anempirical social science lens and our results suggest that there are quantifiable linguistic andmeta-linguistic indicators that can, to some degree, distinguish between predatory publishers andthose journals that seek to publish honestly.Introduction In recent years, the rise of scientific misconduct has drawn attention to the “publish orperish” mentality consuming academia, which highlights a drive for researchers to publish earlyand often in their career.3 The pressure to publish regularly can tamper with the quality ofresearch and
Technological University. Additionally, he has six years of industrial experience as a Senior Engineer and 17 years of academic experience as a professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor. Foroudastan’s academic experience includes teaching at Tennessee Technological University and Middle Tennessee State University in the areas of civil engineering, me- chanical engineering, and engineering technology. He has actively advised undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, and minority students in academics and career guidance. Foroudastan has also served as Faculty Advisor for SAE, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Pre-engineering, ASME, Experimental Vehicles Program (EVP), and Tau Alpha Pi Honors Society. In
objective of this session is to review and emphasize concepts that are important to developing safety-critical and secure embedded systems.4. Embedded Systems Research: This is a non-traditional UnLecture where the focus is on academic research experience rather than industry experience. Undergraduate students will be teamed with graduate students for this exercise, and the graduate students will serve as session moderators. In the retrospective phase, the emphasis will be on topics such as developing a research hypothesis, experimental methods, industry jobs versus research careers, and examples of graduate research projects in embedded systems. In the examination phase, students will present examples of how classroom learning aids
Congressional STEM Caucus. In 2007, Dr. Abts joined the University of Maryland (UMD) at College Park faculty where he has a joint appointment as a Research Associate Professor in the A. James Clark School of Engineering and the College of Education. Dr. Abts has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, Department of Energy and the Kern Family Foundation concentrating his research efforts in Early College and high school to college / career transitions.Dr. Gail Lynn Goldberg Dr. Goldberg received her Bachelor of Arts in 1971 from Queens College and her Ph.D. in English in 1977 from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. After serving for a decade as Assessment Specialist
programtargeting the improvement of undergraduate engineering education. Faculty proposed large-scalerenovations of a specific undergraduate course or closely-related group of courses, with the goalof improving student engagement, learning outcomes, and faculty teaching experiences.Alternatively, faculty could propose to develop teaching technologies that would facilitate theimplementation of evidence-based teaching practices. Priority in funding was given to projectsthat would impact large numbers of students or provide critical interventions early in students’learning careers.“Live deep, not fast,” is an admonition coined in the early 1900’s by literature professor, critic,and editor Henry Seidel Canby 1. Faculty participating in SIIP were invited to
included restoration and recovery of critical infrastructure. Eric also led the creation of the Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center and the Indiana Fire Training System both new government functions that were created with new laws and funding. Retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel from the U.S. Army in 2004, Dr. Dietz led a number of Army Acquisition and research programs throughout his career including power systems, chemical sensors and command and control systems. An Indiana native, Eric was graduated in 1984 from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology after earning a bachelor of science in chemical engineer- ing. He also earned a master’s of science from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1986 and a PhD in chemical
SYSTEM USED IN THIS COURSE… LEVEL OF AGREEMENT 1. made the course objectives relevant. 2. motivated me to do well in the course. 3. will help me towards reaching my future career goals. 4. was an effective way to assess my learning. 5. required too much effort. 6. was useful in my pursuit of other goals. 7. made me frustrated and anxious. 8. required too much time. 9. helped me better understand my learning. 10. increased my level of responsibility for my own learning. 11. represented how the real world assesses success and failure. 12. limited my ability to be successful in the course. 13. accurately measured the understanding I gained on the course
Research and Learning (INSPIRE) at Purdue University. In 2011, she received a NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students ap- proach innovation. She is also a NAE/CASEE New Faculty Fellow. She is an editorial board member for the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education (JPEER) and the journal of Science Education. Purzer conducts research on the assessment of difficult and often vaguely defined constructs such as innovative- ness, information literacy, engineering design, and data-driven decision-making. Purzer has M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Science Education from Arizona State University. She also has a B.S. degree in Physics Education and a B.S.E. in Engineering.Dr. Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue