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Technologies Laboratory have addressed sus- tainability challenges in the fields of systems design, technology selection, manufacturing, and water.Mr. Adam B. Baker, University of Michigan Page 24.1238.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 The PhD Advising Relationship: Needs of Returning and Directing-Pathway StudentsI. IntroductionThough a majority of engineering PhD students begin their doctoral career shortly aftercompleting an undergraduate degree (and perhaps a Master’s), a significant minority of studentsare “returners,” students who pursue a PhD after
students.Lastly, utilizing academic support services positively impacted the students’ academic success atthe CCs. These academic services that were available on campus included tutoring centers,libraries, and computer laboratories.4.4 Key to Success through Psychological FactorsPsychological factors that emerged from Wood’s (2010) in-depth interviews with the studentsincluded motivation, focus, and academic confidence. Internal and external motivation, as seenearlier, is key in students’ persistence and academic success. Students’ academic focus andpersonal commitment to their academic careers can also positively impact their academic successin CCs. Expressing an academic confidence also positively impacts the students’ success in their
business. He also is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. In the decade of the 90s, Dr. Sticklen founded and led a computer science laboratory in knowledge-based systems focused on task specific approaches to problem solving, better known as expert systems. Over the last decade, Dr. Sticklen has pursued engineering education research focused on early engineering with an emphasis on hybrid course design and problem-based learning; his current research is supported by NSF/DUE and NSF/CISE.Prof. Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian, Michigan State UniversityHannah McQuade, The Center for Engineering Education ResearchAndrew League, Michigan State UniversityMr. Chris John Bush, Center for Engineering
, the use of real-timebehavioural rubrics in laboratories has allowed TAs to become more aware of studentexperimental skills and adapt their instruction to student need16. These behavioural rubrics wereuseful in this context as the TA to student ratio was 1:2, but in ratios much higher than this, itwould not be possible for TAs to fill them out in real-time and respond to student needssimultaneously. One approach that could allow student assessment of larger classrooms is the useof behavioural checklists, such as those used to simultaneously assess technical and non-technical skills in medicine17, which provide a binary assessment of the existence of observablebehaviours. While this has potential for demonstrating weaknesses in terms of
thirty plus years, Dr. Rodgers has held various academic, research and administrative positions including serving as director of the Georgia Tech Air Quality laboratory from 1988 to 2008. He currently serves as deputy director for Research and Technology Transfer for National Center for Transportation Productivity and Management at Georgia Tech. Page 24.1305.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Use of Concept Maps to Assess Student Sustainability KnowledgeIntroductionSustainable DevelopmentSustainable development has emerged as a promising strategy for combating un-sustainablepatterns of
Engineers (SAE) Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award recipient.Mr. Michael DeLorme, Stevens Institute of Technology Mr. Michael DeLorme is an Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Associate at the Davidson Laboratory at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He has conducted over 50 significant marine hydrodynamic exper- iments on both surface and subsurface vehicles. Other areas of recent research include; the application of hydro-acoustic techniques for the detection, classification and tracking of non-emitting small vessels, the implementation of UUVs for port/maritime security and environmental assessment, and path planning of a UUV through a complex estuary.Eirik Hole, Stevens Institute of Technology (SSE) Eirik Hole has
introduction to systems- 4.1Thinking in Systems, Chapters 1 & 2 [6] thinking and model-based reasoning. To show how cognitive scientists study the waysNersessian (2009) engineers think and solve problems. Also, toHow Do Engineering Scientists Think? provide a second case study of an engineer at work, 2.7Model-Based Simulation in Biomedical to be analyzed later through the lens of Koen’sEngineering Research Laboratories [2
engineering through a two-week residential summer camp. The Summer Engineering Instituteprovides participants an insight into the engineering profession and the engineering educationalsystem through a combination of lectures, hands-on laboratory activities, field trips, workshops,panels, and projects. Among the strategies employed in developing the program are emphasizingall the major fields of engineering and the various paths to an engineering career, including therole of community colleges; targeting first generation students and underrepresented minorities;collaborating with high school faculty and staff through a nomination process to identify andselect potential students; collaboration among community college and university faculty indeveloping
effects of major disruptions on the supply chain. He serves as Teaching Assistant for the STFS course.Mr. Hai Fu, University of Kentucky Hai Fu is currently a PhD student in Brazing and Heat Exchanger Research Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Kentucky. He received his master’s degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China and bachelor’s degree from Southeast Uni- versity, Nanjing, China. Prior to his PhD study, he worked in Shanghai Intel Asia-Pacific R&D Ltd. as a thermal engineer for one and a half years. He also studied in the University of Cincinnati for his PhD for two years before transferring to the University of Kentucky to continue his PhD
Qualtrics software (www.qualtrics.com) and studentsreceive a $5 gift certificate upon completion. While the survey is not anonymous so as to linkstudent achievement outcomes with affective outcomes, student responses are kept confidentialaccording to IRB protocol. The survey “The Student Opinion about Calculus Courses Survey,” developed by DukeUniversity for its NSF sponsored Project CALC: Calculus as Laboratory Course,16-18 forms thebasis for the closed-ended questions in our survey and is available on the Online EvaluationResource Library (OERL) website (oerl.sri.com). The purpose of the original survey, whichclosely matches the intended purpose of the survey used for this research, was to gatherinformation about student attitudes and
equal moral standing.Yet largely for historical reasons, engineering education in China continues to reflect both nativeChinese and imported Soviet influences, and largely lacks the kinds of pedagogical foundations,engineering curricula, institutional infrastructure, laboratory resources, and faculty resources tosupport and realize outcomes that initially emerged in a very different national and culturalcontext. The policy reforms needed to effectively adapt and apply such ideas will likely requireincredible pedagogical and institutional reforms in Chinese engineering degree programs. Page 24.497.11“Incomplete” Pragmatic Policymaking
; Environmental Engineering and Department of Mechanical En-gineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pedro Reis is the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research group (EGS.Lab: Elasticity, Geometry and Statistics Laboratory) is dedicated to the fundamental understanding of the mechanics of thin objects and their intrinsic geometric nonlinearities. Professor Reis received a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Manchester, UK (1999), a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Mathematics (Part III Maths) from St. John’s College and DAMTP, University of Cambridge (2000) and a Ph.D. in physics
founding faculty member of the James Madison Uni- versity Department of Engineering. At JMU, Dr. Pierrakos is the Director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE) and Director of the Advanced Thermal Fluids Laboratory. Her interests in engineering education research center around recruitment and retention, engineer identity, engineering design instruction and methodology, learning through service, problem based learning methodologies, assessment of student learning, as well as complex problem solving. Her other research interests lie in cardiovascular fluid mechanics, sustainability, and K-12 engineering outreach. Dr. Pierrakos is a 2009 NSF CAREER Awardee. Dr. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in Engineering
. 17-28.7. Marin, J.A., J.E. Armstrong, and J.L. Kays, Elements of an Optimal Capstone Design Experience. J. Eng. Educ., 1999. 88(19-22).8. Beudoin, D.L. and D.F. Ollis, A project and process engineering laboratory for freshmen. J. Eng. Educ., 1995. 84: p. 279-284.9. Clough, G.W.e.a., The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century. 2004, Washington, DC: National Academcy Press. Page 24.148.1410. Kotys-Schwartz, D., D. Knight, and G. Pawlas, First-Year and Capstone Design Projects: Is the Bookend Curriculum Approach Effective for Skill Gain, in American Society for Engineering
model for the course. The “Thermo-Fluids 1” course became, tostudents, the 7-mission “Hunt for Energy and Power”. The same textbook was used in thenew delivery model as had been used previously; the same laboratory experiments wereundertaken by students, but students had a different approach to the workload.Throughout the course, students proceeded at their own pace, and completed 7 “missions”,each with 5 levels of performance. The first 3 levels were successively more complexanalytical problems. The 4th level was a lab report based on a moderately challengingopen-ended lab experiment, and the 5th level was an opportunity for the student to extend aconcept based on the content of the earlier lab experiment. The concept of “Design” wasbuilt into
Paper ID #9326Application of Sustainable Solutions in International Service-Learning Engi-neering ProjectsMr. Carlos German Montoya Rodriguez, Ohio State University Carlos G. Montoya is a PhD. candidate in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineer- ing at The Ohio State University and his expected date of graduation is August 2014. He also received his M.S. in Civil Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2010. His research is on the topics of pave- ment design, soil mechanics, resilient modulus testing, evaluation of field and laboratory test data, as well as finite element modeling of
processing, novel instrumentation development, and integration science; new dielectric, superconducting, semiconducting, and pyroelectric materials for energy conversion and energy storage; ferroelectric and piezoelectric thin films for microelectromechanical systems; scanning probe and x-ray diffraction characterization meth- ods; and spectroscopic ellipsometry. Specifically he is interested in developing novel integration science strategies to combine material functionalities that result in significantly enhanced, or even new, properties. Prior to arriving at OSU he spent eight years at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) as a postdoc- toral researcher and member of the technical staff. There, his research on 2nd
particularsection of Introduction to Engineering and one particular chemistry laboratory and lecturecombination. Between three and eight learning communities would be established each semester;more for the fall semester and fewer in the spring. Students would enroll in the learningcommunity after learning about these via email, word of mouth, or during summer orientationsessions. Although these learning communities involved different departments, it was truly alevel zero stage, as the intended use of the benefit was strictly for engineering students (refer toTable 1, Column B). Over time, some of the benefits of these learning communities had diffusedto other departments in science and mathematics, which led in 2007-2008 to increasing thenumbers and types
isfocused on engineering and technological literacy.Some of the courses shown in the model were developed and trialled but “politics” intervenedand brought the work to a halt. An independent evaluation of the work was carried out byProfessor Dr Heiko Steffens of the Technical University of Berlin [22] but other studies werealso completed that were published (see below). The design follows Whitehead’s three stagesbut assumes students will experience other complete cycles in each of the stages.The first stage of romance is characterised by short intensive course in manufacturingtechnology and materials and processes in a custom built laboratory. The course designed andimplemented by Owen took place over two weeks, the students being in attendance for
-sustaining fellowship program with Virginia Tech(VT) hosted at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT), with the vision of graduatestudents and faculty working together to connect research and practice. The program was Page 24.651.4originally intended to provide a laboratory for VT graduate students to practice engineeringeducation in the classroom and for RHIT faculty to build their expertise in the discipline ofengineering education. The implemented program retained the benefits to RHIT faculty, butchanged the activities of the fellows. In essence, the program took advantage of the expertise ofthe first applicants to re-envision their roles as
sabbaticals (2001-2002 and 2008-2009) with the Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM and has served as consultant to Sandia’s Microsystems Science, Technology & Components Division since 2001. His major research interest in the oil and gas industry is telemetry of borehole sensor data to the surface during drilling, com- pletions, and production. Dr. Stalford’s broad area of research is in microsystems and nanotechnology, seeking new and novel solutions to challenging oil and gas problems. His work with Sandia has focusing on designing, fabricating, testing and characterizing various micro/nanotechnology systems that includes Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), tunable MEMS devices, RF nanotechnology
class and discussed the incident with the Dean of engineering. The Dean ofStudents and director of disability services were then contacted and proceeded to deal with Matt.Matt had registered his disorder with the university but the instructor had been unaware of it.The lesson taken away from the instructor in this case was to pay closer attention when a studentseems “slightly off” and to check in with them with a greater frequency.Student RequestsA faculty member’s time is split in many directions; between teaching lectures and laboratories,service to the department and university not to mention research and professional development,time is a very limited quantity for a faculty member. New faculty members feel this time cruncheven more because
together and leveraging the research team’s expertise in civil engineering, engineeringeducation, and communication. We are focusing on the immediate need for improved, readily-transferrable techniques for the incorporation of technical writing in engineering courses, mosttypically at the sophomore and junior levels. The premise with selecting the sophomore andjunior levels is that most programs “bookend” technical writing in some fashion, with freshman-level design courses and senior-level capstone courses often being more project-based andalready involving substantial writing. In contrast, the sophomore and junior levels tend not toinclude much writing beyond formatted laboratory reports, although with resource limitationseven these reports have
, interior, or body structure). Figure 9. Major tasks within the Deep Orange product development process. Establishing the learning environment. The nature of designing activities requires an environment that is not of a traditional classroom nature. Deep Orange requires students to collaborate and interact with each other and with faculty on a regular basis in a permanent collaborative space (resembling a studio). The students work on workstations grouped by their team membership as well as team white boards in the Systems Integration Laboratory (SIL), which is divided into two sections; one is an office like area, and the second is a workshop to build and assemble the concept vehicle. The SIL is equipped with
assignments 7. In their implementation, students were assigned into teams with aspecific problem in according to their answers to the background part assignment. In theteamwork, students took different roles in different tasks. Students’ grades were determined byboth their individual and group work. Bohorquez and Toft-Nielsen employed collaborativelearning in a problem-oriented medical electronics laboratory to develop biomedical engineeringstudents' expertise and self-efficacy 8. In their collaborative learning, students were assigned withspecific course-related projects and required to work collaboratively with their team members.They were also required to co-tutoring each other and switch role assignments in differentprojects. In the project