Paper ID #8602Engineering Education Outside the Classroom: Informal Learning Environ-ments as Settings for Engineering Education for both the Public and Engi-neersCanek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette Canek Phillips is a graduate student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University-West Lafayette and works as a graduate assistant in Dr. Alice Pawley’s Research in Feminist Engineering Lab. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University. His research is focused on how people relate knowledge in engineering
previously been written with chalk on a chalkboard. Hieband Ralston 7 provide a detailed presentation of how DyKnow and Tablet PCs were used in thisinitial deployment.All faculty teaching mathematics now fully embrace the use of Tablet PCs and DyKnow andconfirm that the effort has been successful because the department took the approach of firstsimply using Tablet PCs and DyKnow to replicate established and familiar classroom practices.The creation of framework notes (or skeleton notes) was a logical progression for using TabletPCs and DyKnow in a way that existing research indicated had positive impacts for teaching andlearning. Only after replicating established practices did faculty feel comfortable leveraging thepower of Tablet PCs and DyKnow
effect on student learningexperience in PD&C at Rowan University.The Undergraduate Process Dynamics and Control CourseThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) stipulates that chemicalengineering graduates are able to “design, analyze, and control physical, chemical, andbiological processes” [1, emphasis added]. These processes are intrinsically dynamic, in the sense thattheir variables are constantly changing with time; yet in most chemical engineering programs,the first and only course that focuses on dynamic behavior is PD&C. In this single course,students are required to develop a wide range of knowledge, abilities, and skills (KAS) coveringboth dynamics and control, such as those defined by Edgar et al. and
desirable when compared to other engineeringschools because they have a shorter on-the-job learning curve as a result of the practicalexperience they gained. Faculty members engaged in industry-supported research usuallyinvolve undergraduates. Thus, the graduate profile reflects the College vision of “A scholarlycommunity dedicated to excellence through student-centered education and researchemphasizing professional practice in engineering and applied science" and the College missionof preparing “job-ready graduates.”Background on S-STEM Scholars ProgramBegun in 2010, the S-STEM Scholar Program increases opportunities for financially needy butacademically talented students. These students: • Come into the S-STEM Scholar Program as first-time
strategy currently employed for addressing assessment and eventualABET accreditation of the program. Each of these aspects is a great challenge for any newprogram, but due to the complexity and the interdepartmental multidisciplinary requirements of arobotics engineering program great care and effort was made to assure that the foundationalaspects of the program such as projects, research, and student learning were all complementaryto current and future success of the program. The author also discusses innovative approachesused in teaching within this program. The perspectives and impact of multidisciplinary designs,approaches, and experiences of the robotics engineering degree program on constituentsincluding students, faculty, administration
/industry andin colleges/universities) collaboration might improve success. Using a quantitative study,researchers attempted to determine whether disconnects for change are a derivative oftechnology and innovation. After all, the process of innovation be it locally or globally, isparamount to future successes. The team of experts within notes the paradigm of Pracademics –a cross between Practice and Academics - as one way to afford best practices within College-Industry (CI) collaboration and for innovation at-large between colleagues. Before addressingC-I, however, an understanding of how certain technological tools are chosen for progress-forward entities.IntroductionDefining the term innovation provides the first basis to our study, as: "an
the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She plays a leadership role in Purdue’s first-semester first-year engineering course which serves approximately 1,800 students each year. Her research focuses on the development of engineering thinking skills (primarily operationalized as design thinking and mathematical thinking) amongst students as young as 4-years-old, college students, as well as practicing professionals.Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University Matthew W. Ohland is Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University and a Professorial Re- search Fellow at Central Queensland University. He has degrees from Swarthmore
criticisms have been one of the motivating features behind the development ofstrategies that may use slide presentations more effectively to promote student learning, suchas the interactive slide presentations that are the focus of this study. A number of studiessupport the idea that modified slide design, well-developed handouts to accompany slides,and increased student note-taking can enhance student performance. For example, Alley et al.[2,3] studied how slide design impacts student performance. Traditional slide design containsa short phrase or keyword as the title, and bullet points which relate to the title phrase. Alleyet al. [2,3] proposed a new slide design approach, which employs a “succinct sentenceheadline … supported not by a bullet
Paper ID #8918Using a ”Flipped Classroom” Model in Undergraduate Newtonian DynamicsProf. Susan B Swithenbank, US Coast Guard Academy Dr. Swithenbank is an Assistant Professor at the US Coast Guard Academy in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. Prior to working at the USCGA, she was a researcher at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim Norway. She has a PhD from MIT in Ocean Engineering.Prof. Thomas William DeNucci, U.S. Coast Guard Academy Thomas DeNucci is an Assistant Professor of Ship Design at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New
to assess the impact of case-based instruction on conceptual understanding andtheir attitudes towards case studies.VI. Acknowledgements This research is funded by the National Science Foundation (Grant # DUE 1140109.Statements made in this paper are the opinions of the authors and may or may not reflect theviews of the National Science Foundation. We would also like to thank our graduate students,Verrol McLeary and Niya King, for their assistance during the lab courses.VII. References1. Howe, N. and W. Strauss, Millennials Rising: The Next Generation. 2000, New York: Vintage Books.2. Elam, C.L., T.D. Stratton, and D.D. Gibson, Welcoming a New Generation To College: The Millennial Students. Journal of College
electrical energy from the reaction of hydrogenand oxygen. Each of the experiments lasts for two weeks.In Engineering Foundations, students are also introduced to a number of professional skills, suchas technical writing, communication, engineering ethics, and the engineering design process.Technical writing is covered by requiring the students to prepare laboratory reports for each ofthe four hands-on experiments. Communication is emphasized through a group presentation thatrequires the students to research one of the fourteen Grand Challenges9 identified by the NationalAcademy of Engineers and to present their findings to the class. Ethics is covered during alecture that uses practical examples and role playing to emphasize the challenges in
Paper ID #10355Enhancing the STEM Curriculum Through a Multidisciplinary Approachthat Integrates Biology and EngineeringProf. Jennifer Vernengo, Rowan University Jennifer Vernengo is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. Jennifer re- ceived her Ph.D. from Drexel University in 2007. She began work as a materials scientist at Synthes Bio- materials, then joined Drexel University College of Medicine as postdoc in 2009. Jennifer two published research papers and one patent in the area of injectable biomaterials for orthopedic tissue replacement and repair. She is particularly interested in
. She served as the founding Director of the Rose-Hulman Center for the Practice and Scholarship of Education, and is currently the Associate Dean of Learning & Technology as well as a founding member of the team that annually delivers Rose-Hulman’s ’Making Academic Change Happen’ workshop. Kay C has received a number of awards for teaching, research, and mentoring, including the Louisiana ”Professor of the Year” award from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a CA- REER award from the National Science Foundation, the Tulane University ”Inspirational Undergraduate Professor” award; the Tulane University President’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching; the Graduate Alliance for
“ComputationalThinking Using Hands-On Activities” such as introduction to Excel, PowerPoint, Robotics, and VisualProgramming. These K-12 outreach activities are supported through a project titled - STARS (Students& Technology in Academia, Research & Service) Alliance. The primary objective of the STARS projectis the broadening of participation in computing through best practices and community building.Provisions will be made for visits to these and other K-12 schools to advertise the program and makepresentations on Cyber Security. We plan to make few of the Cyber Security courses and modules onlineto K-12 schools teachers, local two year and four year college teachers and others interested in CyberSecurity education and awareness
student performance (e.g.grade), apart from merely passing the courses, is important to ultimate success in engineering. Arecent longitudinal study3 further indicates that success, measured solely by the grade achievedin the first semester of college mathematics, independent of secondary mathematics preparationor achievement, is by itself a reliable predictor of retention among engineering undergraduates.This research underscores the importance for engineering education of developing a morethorough and complete understanding of the effective use of interventions aimed at improvingoutcomes in calculus. Impactful interventions with potential for use across the spectrum ofdelivery platforms (traditional, hybrid, synchronous broadcast, asynchronous
most likely to graduate in ME. Pathways of ME starters and ME graduates areillustrated. Nearly half of all ME graduates started somewhere other than ME.Key outcomesThis research has involved considerable work in developing effective data displays. As a result,an additional outcome of this project is a new course, ME 497/597 Visualizing Data, developedand taught by Dr. Richard Layton at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The course is aboutthe principles and practices of designing truthful and compelling visual displays of quantitativedata. This work involves principles of rhetoric, human perception, graphic design, data analysis,and computer programming.The course goals are that after taking this course, students will be able to
University Tori Vogel is a May 2014 graduate of American University. She attained her degree in Sociology with a minor in Applied Physics. In her studies she has worked to explore the various intersections between sociology and physics. In particular, she has conducted research on cochlear implants and their impact on the deaf community. In addition, she is actively pursuing a gender study of the sociological implications of factors leading to a career choice in STEM. On campus, Tori has held leadership roles within student groups. These roles include serving for two years as Vice President of Students Fighting Homelessness and Hunger and serving as President of the Downtown Touring Fellowship. While attending American
turbomachinery aerodynamics. At BYU he teaches undergraduate courses in applications of fluid dynamics and gas turbine engine design; graduate courses on compressible flow and turbulence; and has coached Capstone teams. His research interests are experimental and computational fluid dynamics, turbomachinery, computational science and engineering, and engineering education. Dr. Gorrell is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA, currently serving as Vice President - Education, and member of the AIAA Gas Turbine Engine Technical Committee.. He is also a member of the ASME International Gas Turbine Institute Turbomachinery Committee.Dr. C. Greg Jensen, Brigham Young UniversityBrett Stone, Brigham Young University Brett Stone
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Increasing Retention in Engineering and Computer Science with a Focus on Academically At-Risk First Year and Sophomore Students1. IntroductionThe program described in this paper seeks to increase retention rates for engineering andcomputer science students and to evaluate the effectiveness of best practices for retention ofacademically at-risk students. The main hypothesis is that students who fall behind their cohortearly in their college career are less likely to be retained in engineering and computer science.As such, we focus this project on the academically “at-risk” student group defined as first-yearcollege students who are not
between academic theory and real world practice. Accordingly, the proposedsenior projects should include elements of both credible analysis and experimental proofing asdiscussed in ABETs criteria6. The senior design project can serve as an excellent culminatingexperience in the program of study when it focuses on research and design projects that have Page 24.632.4practical value to consumers or to industry. For the Drexel’s College of Engineering’s ETprogram at our university, the senior design course is a year-long educational journey (threequarters) that takes an idea generated by a student team or an industrial sponsor and culminatesin a
in 2005. Prior to his current position, he worked as a learning scientist for the VaNTH Engineering Research Center at Northwestern University for three years. Yalvac’s research is in STEM education, 21st century skills, and design and evaluation of learning environments informed by the How People Learn framework.Dr. Emily Binks-Cantrell, Texas A&M University Emily (Binks) Cantrell, Ph.D., is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Reading and Language Arts at Texas A&M University - College Station, where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in reading and ESL, co-directs the Texas A&M Reading Clinic, and also serves as the adviser for the Aggie Story- telling Association. She has published
students traveled to Bolivia tocomplete the construction of the bridge. During their four-week stay in Bolivia, the students wereasked to keep reflective journals that were guided by a series of weekly writing prompts. Weconsidered the following research questions in the study: To what degree did the project advance the students’ mastery of technical concepts? Page 24.94.2 How did complexities (e.g., linguistics, local construction practices, diverse social and cultural environment) related to the site affect students’ perceptions of engineering design/construction, particularly within a global and social context? How
Paper ID #9142Adopting the BOK2 Student Outcomes: A Six-Year RetrospectiveDr. Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University Donald D. Carpenter, PhD, PE, LEED AP is Professor of Civil Engineering where he teaches courses on ethics/professionalism and water resources. Dr. Carpenter is an accredited green design professional (LEED AP) and practicing professional engineer (PE) whose expertise includes Low Impact Development (LID), innovative stormwater best management practices (BMPs), hydrologic and stormwater modeling and design, and field data collection for performance monitoring. His University appointments
. Caldwell’s primary research ex- periences included the development of design methods for lightweight systems (BMW Manufacturing Co.) and modeling the functionality and interactions of mechanical systems to support conceptual de- sign (National Science Foundation). Prior to his graduate work, Dr. Caldwell gained design experience working at Electrolux Major Appliances on a team designing and developing consumer bottom-mount refrigerators. Among other awards, Dr. Caldwell received the Graduate Teaching Fellowship from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Departmental Doctoral and Masters Awards in Me- chanical Engineering from Clemson University, and the R.C. Edwards Graduate Recruiting Fellowship from
the engineering design process (Figure 1) to guide middle school students through classic science and design projects. The engineering design process (EDP) adds a level of robustness to projects that may be perceived as overdone or not Figure 1. Engineering Design Process Graphic impactful. The curricula are designed using a modular approach such that each module lastsapproximately three weeks in the classroom environment. A version for each module isdeveloped for
appropriate designs, but tocommunicate these designs in written, oral, and graphical form to a variety of audiences rangingfrom their technical peers to the general public. Indeed, almost all professional engineeringorganizations cite effective communication skills as a top priority for graduating engineers. Forinstance, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)’s The Engineer of 2020: Visions ofEngineering in the New Century outlines expectations for engineers entering practice within thenear future (National Academy of Engineering, 2004). The report states that it is impossible topractice engineering without communication, and engineers functioning in global networks musthave “an ability to communicate convincingly and to shape the opinions and
between an academicinstitution and an employer designed to engage students in practical engineering experiencethrough rotations of full-time employment and course study. Co-op employment providesstudents with discipline-relevant professional experience and early entry into the engineeringlabor force while serving as a recruitment tool for co-op companies. While much is known aboutthe value of cooperative education programs, relatively little is known about why there aredifferent rates of participation by race/ethnicity and how recruitment and pre-screening practicesinfluence the diversity of students who participate in co-op programs. The objectives of thisresearch project are to identify factors that influence student access to cooperative
. Candace K Chan, Arizona State University Candace K. Chan is an assistant professor in Materials Science and Engineering in the School for Engi- neering of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University. She teaches introductory materials science to undergraduate engineering majors and is exploring the role of frequent, formative feedback and web-based teaching and learning on student engagement and understanding of materials concepts. Dr. Chan also teaches an advanced course on electrochemical energy conversion and storage and leads a group of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers focused on the design and characterization of novel materials for batteries and photoelectrochemical applications
experimental group. The approach for this subject, detailed in Mora et al.23, was based on projects with the aim of performing a final measure at the laboratory. Familiarization of students with the concepts needed for performing the Page 24.1029.6 final practice was achieved through applying challenge based learning (CBL) where students had research for finding creative answers to several questions relating their subject.• In the third experience a complete implementation was adopted, affecting all matters and every enrolled student. In this case, the approach was mainly problem-based, as students had to
problems involving the engineering design process, criticaland creative thinking, and technology applications (such as JMP, Pspice, TI Calculator software,CAS) are planned for inclusion.The textbook offers an authentic opportunity to tie content to the Next Generation ScienceStandards and Common Core standards in Mathematics. Authentic examples provide a realisticcontext in, for example, "Defining and Delimiting Engineering Problems" (NGSS) and "Modelwith mathematics," from the Standards of Mathematical Practice in the Common Core,Mathematics standards 3,4.Reflection on Mathematics Textbooks Before DevelopmentTextbooks have been the common tools for communicating mathematics to students alongsidethe demonstration of practice problems on the board