fields. Students were asked to choose their ideal grading ratio for STEM courses by distributing the total percentage of their grade (100%) into the following categories as they choose: Homework, Midterm Exam(s), Final, Class Attendance/Participation, Projects/Lab, and Other. Students were allowed to leave categories as 0% if they did not feel that any of their grade should be determined by that category. After, there were two questions asking students if they felt that grades were a good motivation to learn and if receiving grades hurts their educational process more than it helps it.5. Homework Completion Strategy. The final section of questions was related to each student’s homework completion process. The questions listed
American Institute of Architects and the Construction Specifi- cations Institute. His professional interests include great architecture and all things related to construction innovation.Mr. Veto Matthew Ray, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Mr. Matt Ray is a lecturer for the Construction Engineering Management Technology Program offered through the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University Purdue University In- dianapolis. He currently provides instruction for Soils and Foundations, Construction Cost and Bidding, Construction Project Cost and Production Control as well as managing the Certificate of Training in As- set Management. He is a graduate of Purdue School of Engineering
existing free, open source Real-time Operating Systemcalled FreeRTOS as a case study of RTOS in both lectures and lab sessions.FreeRTOS is a real-time kernel/scheduler designed to be small enough to run on amicrocontroller. It provides the real time scheduling functionality, inter-task communication,timing analysis and synchronization primitives for teaching RTOS. It also offers the richexample projects as the bases for developing embedded real-time systems. Moreover, FreeRTOSsupports a large number of underlying microcontroller architectures including advanced ARMCortexTM-Mx series, and has become the standard RTOS for microcontrollers. To simplify thestructure of the application code, The FreeRTOS software provides time-related
both quantitative and qual- itative research methods. Her current research project in National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) focuses on measuring engineering students’ entrepreneurial interests and related individual characteristics. Her Ph.D. dissertation involved using statistical modeling methods to explain and predict engineering students’ success outcomes, such as retention, academic performance, and grad- uation.Dr. Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford UniversityDr. Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes
positions in the U.S., Europe, and East Asia. He retired at the rank of Colonel. During his military career, Dr. Lenox also spent 15 years on the engineering faculty of USMA – including five years as the Director of the Civil Engineering Division. Upon his retirement from the U.S. Army in 1998, he joined the staff of the American Soci- ety of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In his position as educational staff leader of ASCE, he managed several new educational initiatives – collectively labeled as Project ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education). As ASCE’s Executive Vice President, Dr. Lenox led several educational and professional career-development projects for the civil engineering profession – with the overall
Paper ID #9270Visions of the Future of Engineering Education: Sharpening the FocusMr. Mark William Killgore PE, F.ASCE, D.WRE, American Society of Civil Engineers Mark Killgore, P.E. , D.WRE, F.ASCE serves as the ASCE Director responsible for the Society’s Raise the Bar initiative. He is also a Research Fellow specializing in transboundary water and energy issues at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining ASCE staff in late 2011, Killgore spent three years at Puget Sound Energy as a hydro manager, where he oversaw such functions as major capital project development related to dam safety, water management
an emphasis in program evaluation. She specializes in the evaluation of programs in STEM education across the K-20 spectrum and the evaluation of STEM Education and Public Outreach programs. Carol has designed and conducted evaluations of projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, NASA, the Arizona Board of Regents, Goddard Space Flight Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Arizona Department of Education, among others.Dr. Jeff Frolik, University of VermontDr. Paul G. Flikkema, Northern Arizona UniversityDr. Aaron T. Ohta, University of Hawaii at Manoa Dr. Aaron Ohta received a B.S. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2003, an M.S. from the University of
FormatVALUE Project BackgroundThe Association of American Colleges and Universities started the VALUE (Valid Assessmentof Learning in Undergraduate Education) project in 20072. This program was created in order tobetter show educational benefits, quality of learning, and retention and graduation rates. Sincethere are no standardized tests for the Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs), there was a need todevelop a way to document and assess student learning in undergraduate education.The VALUE project was driven by an advisory board made up of 12 people, national andinternational leaders. The main goal was to generate a way to evaluate student learning that wasbased on the work students produced through the curriculum across a set of Essential
understanding engineers involved specifically with Engineers Without Borders-USA.Dr. Amy Javernick-Will, University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Amy Javernick-Will is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder in the Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Department. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford Uni- versity and has focused her research efforts on knowledge transfer in global organizations, global projects, and increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in engineering.Dr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Daniel Knight is the Program Assessment and Research Associate with the Design Center Colorado in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of
Paper ID #9178Experiences in Implementing an NSF/REU Site on Interdisciplinary WaterSciences and Engineering during 2007-13Dr. Vinod K Lohani, Virginia Tech Dr. Vinod K Lohani is a professor in the Engineering Education Department and an adjunct faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the areas of sustainability, computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrology, and water resources. In a major ($1M+, NSF) curriculum reform and engineering education research project from 2004 to 2009, he led a team of engineering and education faculty to reform engineering
runs a competitive robotics after school team at The School at Columbia University. Dr. Eguchi has been involved in RoboCupJunior, an educational robotics competition, since 2000, as the technical committee and organizing committee members, as well as the co-chair and general chair, in international, national, and local levels. In addition, she is the vice president of RoboCup Federation representing RoboCupJunior, and a member of the RoboCup Federation Board of Trustees. Dr. Eguchi has been involved in several international collaboration educational robotics projects including the CoSpace educational robotics projects with the Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Control Centre (ARICC) at Singapore Polytechnic
taught a new form of theengineering design process, iterative design. Basic iterative design involves looping through thedesign process, showing that it is never ending, but rather builds upon past projects/designs(Figure 6). From there the individual builds upon the process, evolving it into their own personalmachine. The focus of iterative design processes is to increase design quality due to increasedtransition and collection time5. Page 24.893.7 Figure 6: Basic Iterative Loop204.1 PERT ModelingThe Programming Evaluation and Review Technique21 (PERT) evolved from the critical pathmodel used to find the quickest
traditional manner, many knowledge communities may be trainingdoctoral students at great length and expense for jobs they will never obtain 2,30,32,33.Research also shows that even those graduates who eventually do land a job in academia arefinding themselves to be lacking general professional skills and are largely unprepared to work Page 24.1124.4cooperatively with other faculty, participate in interdisciplinary projects, or serveadministratively as leaders in academic departments 1,13. Many career skills not typically situatedwithin traditional Ph.D. coursework - including the ability to cope with change, possessing amindset capable of recognizing
artifact consisted ofa pre-questionnaire (week 2) and post-questionnaire (week 8) rating students’ knowledge, skills,abilities, and attitude.Student Artifact 1 (Reflection Paper). In the reflection paper, nine questions were provided toguide the student to reflect on their experiences within the program.The nine questions were: Page 24.1226.41. Describe your research project and your role in the project.2. What did you expect to get out of this research experience?3. How has this research experience met your expectations?4. What have you learned, and how did you learn it?5. What part of this research experience helped
information and its impact on the doctor-patient rela- tionship, physical and verbal abuse among college athletes, gender role stereotypes, human interactions with various environments, and religiosity.Jim Dorward, Utah State University Jim Dorward is the Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Education at Utah State University. He specializes in Program Evaluation, Research Methods, and Mathematics Education. His collaborations in STEM project-based research include the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives, the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, an evaluation capacity building service project for the Math and Science Partnership program, and the Instructional Architect (service software
concepts and skillsdeveloped in the writing course. Moreover, traditional English composition is taught to connect tothe computing courses that first-year students take. The common student assignment across thethree courses in this learning community is a game design document which includes analysis(background and problem description, target audience, review of existing projects and mediaselection), design (user characteristics, goals and objectives, and description of the deliveryplatform), and project description (narrative of project design, review of relevant literature,flowchart of the entire project, and storyboards). When given the chance to work on a meaningfulproject of their own choosing, students collaboratively created video game
integrating engineering,targeting student difficulties in mathematics, and promoting student success in STEM degreeprograms.Methods utilized in the development of this textbook will be continually discussed with theadvisory board (concept and results), use of language, and pedagogical foundation (teachingphilosophy).BackgroundAn undergraduate student majoring in Engineering Education is in the process of writing amathematics textbook which integrates engineering concepts for high school students. To ensurethis project is properly managed, the student is being advised and assisted by a professor with aPh.D. in Engineering Education to ensure proper engineering examples are included. Anadvisory board of volunteer teachers is serving as a resource for
and supporting learning environments in academic settings, including 35 computing labs and 2 academic buildings. She is currently co-PI on two active NSF projects, including a Cyberlearning project to de- velop collaborative design environments for engineers, and an Ethics in Science and Engineering project to develop online course modules to develop moral reasoning abilities in engineers. Her research has also been funded by the Department of Homeland Security, by corporate foundations, and by the Purdue Research Foundation and College of Engineering. She is a member of the Purdue Advisory Council for instructional computing, and has been awarded a Service Learning award, a Diversity Fellow award, and the
ExCEL-SCstudent cohorts comprised of robust student enrichment components focusing onacademic performance, academic growth, academic success, directed academic reflection,life skills development, learning community participation, and supportive facultyguidance.Objective 3: To provide an enhanced leadership development program focusing onprincipled leadership in civil engineering, as well as developing professional leadershipskills. To develop student leadership skills through a broad-based program for ExCEL-SC student cohorts including interaction with professional mentors, meetings withengineering leaders, involvement in community service projects, engineering field trips,and participation in forums on leadership aspects of overarching
there is an adequatesupply of these workers for our nation’s industries. We support community and technicalcolleges by developing skill standards, designing curricula, developing teaching materials, andtraining faculty to teach new photonics courses. OP-TEC recently commissioned a survey ofover four thousand U.S. photonics employers to determine their current and projected needs fortechnicians.8 We also polled the thirty-two existing two-year photonics colleges to estimate thefuture supply of new technicians.9 These surveys unearthed a huge disparity between supply anddemand. There is a current and projected need of over 800 new photonics technicians per year,while the colleges are producing less than 300 graduates to fill these jobs.These are
to a group of senior levelhigh school students. The main objective of the game is to teach the engineering design processto the students in a fun gaming environment. The game has different levels (tutorial, water towerlevel & train bridge level) and progressions, and uses a tower building simulation as an exampleto explain the design process and to assess their understanding of the game. The goals (forexample: achieve a minimum height, do not exceed a maximum cost, and bear a minimum load)of the game are clearly defined at the beginning of each level. After learning the engineeringdesign process through the game, the students work on a hands-on design project applying thedesign process. The effectiveness of the game is examined through a
Automation 14.3% 14.3% 35.7% 35.7% 13. Computer Integrated manufacturing 23.1% 15.4% 38.5% 23.1% 14. Project and Organizational Management 16.7% 25.0% 50.0% 33.3% 15. Capstone Projects in manufacturing / Senior 21.4% 14.3% 50.4% 21.4% Design Projects 16. Sustainable manufacturing 22.2% 33.3% 11.1% 44.4% Table 5: The manufacturing engineering technology contents covered by the participating faculty B.S. in
. He is the Pro- gram Director of the Professional Engineering Management Program. He is a Fellow in NASA’s Center for Program/Project Management Research. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Management. He is author of the book Transforming Organizations: Strategies and Methods. He was the Editor of the Engineering Management Journal. Tim Kotnour, Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Timothy.Kotnour@ucf.edu.Dr. Charles H. Reilly, University of Central Florida Charles H. Reilly is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science and a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and
Paper ID #9962Methods for Examining the Educational Pathways of Adult MakersDr. Micah Lande, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Dr. Micah Lande teaches human-centered design innovation at Arizona State University and researches how engineers learn and apply a design process to their work. He is an assistant professor in the Depart- ment of Engineering on Arizona State University’s Polytechnic campus.Dr. 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
research she seeks to identify methods of facilitating human interaction with advanced technologies, including mobile devices, to support learning. Specifically, her ongoing projects examine the design of intelligent tutoring systems, delivered on mobile devices, to support middle school mathematics learning and exploring the design and usability aspects of mobile device use by children.Dr. JAMIKA D BURGE, Information Systems Worldwide Jamika Burge is a Senior Scientist at Information Systems Worldwide (i SW), a technology, engineering, and research company providing high-end advanced technical, integration, engineering and analysis so- lutions to the US Government and other customers. From 2007-2009, she was a
aclass, you may be the only instructor teaching the course. Then you are responsible forall the homework, exams, and labs. To make matters worse, multiple-section coursestend to be introductory courses, where students need to be given more complete guidanceon how to do the projects, and are less prepared to deal with ambiguity. Any mis-specification can lead to mass confusion. If problems arise, you cannot rely on acolleague to help fix them as you could if the colleague were teaching another section.In summary, these guidelines can be gleaned from the responses. • If the course you are teaching is new (to you), then multiple sections of the same course is definitely, overwhelmingly, less work than teaching two new courses. • If
also be focused upon reaching veterans. Approximately 3.4percent of Indiana community college students are identified as military or veteran students withapproximately 2.3 percent of the total student population benefiting from VA educationalbenefits. The project team will distribute materials to the Indiana Department of VeteransAffairs, which includes logistics careers as part of the new Veterans Retraining AssistancePrograms (VRAP), approved in 2012.22 The VRAP program focuses on training veterans througheducational benefits for programs in high demand careers. In collaboration with the VRAPveterans will be able to take a pathway from military skills to the Certificate through AS / AASdegrees to BS degrees at the university
new coursesin PD&C that combine biological systems with traditional PD&C topics. The addition of thesetopics requires the elimination of some of the traditional content, but these investigators havefound the addition to be beneficial in enhancing student learning.Other instructors have been able to develop and implement experiments in-house [4-5, 8, 18-22] orare able to access experimental equipment over the internet [23-24]. Evaluations of both of thesewere generally positive. However, not all instructors have the resources to develop or implementactual experiments, and some of these instructors have turned to computational tools or computersimulations[6-7, 25-36] or case study projects [37-38] to provide surrogate experiential
summarizes several of these key points, matching the literature and theexperience of the authors.Table 1: Career Change Factors Career Change Literature Influence on Career Change of Authors FindingCareer Changes Occur Often P.Kauffmann: Single company for 21 years, positions always engineering oriented, transitioned from engineering design to engineering management after four years. W.Schell: Four companies in 15 years, starting in traditional engineering roles and moving into engineering, project, program, and technology management.Job and career mobility
Paper ID #10543The Influence of Internship Participation on Construction Industry HiringProfessionals When Selecting New Hires and Determining Starting Salariesfor Construction Engineering GraduatesDr. Kathleen M Short, University of the District of Columbia- CC, Workforce Development and LifelongLearning Kathleen Short earned a PhD in Environmental Design and Planning and a Master of Science in Build- ing/Construction Science and Management from Virginia Tech. She also earned a Bachelor of Social Work from Concord University. She is currently the Project Director for the Construction Academy and the Hospitality Academy in the