the best way to get an internship is to go to several career fairs (especially in the fall) and to practice interacting with industry representatives before they become “desperate” to get an internship o reading course material before class and doing “bullet point notes” is a good use of their time o that it is essential to get to know their professors in order to obtain good letters of recommendation later o it is better to spread classes out than to have them all consecutively during the day o study groups are essential o research is a good experience for all students Being too lenient on late assignments for
AC 2012-3372: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION NEEDS MOREENGINEERINGProf. A. Frank Ackerman, Montana Tech of the University of Montana A. Frank Ackerman has 50 years of experience in all phases of software development. In 1985, he founded the Institute For Zero Defect Software to do applied research, consulting, and training for software de- velopment organizations seeking to improve the reliability of their software. His personal experience has lead him to the conviction that today’s development organizations can achieve significant improvement in software reliability for a small increase in effort. Some of his current research and educational activities are focused on improving current specification, coding, test
University Eric A. Holt is a Graduate Instructor at Purdue University in the Building Construction Management Department. Holt earned a B.S. in building construction technology and spent 19 years in the residential construction industry. His career includes construction material sales and marketing, building inspection, customer home project management, and architectural design for homes and remodel projects. He earned a M.S. in technology from Purdue University, in construction management. He is currently working on his Ph.D. in construction management, focusing on experiential learning within construction education. He is a certified instructor for the National Association of Home Builders and teaches the Certified
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Modeling Student Success of International Undergraduate EngineersModeling student retention using entering secondary school academic performance metrics onlyis limited at best. Past research has shown that these variables can be somewhat informative, butare not the whole story. In order to expand our understanding of successful students, defined inthis study as students who are retained and ultimately graduate with a degree in engineering,student retention and graduation modeling has been extended to include not only secondaryschool academic performance, but also self-reported affective and attitudinal measures. TheStudent Attitudinal Success Instrument (SASI), a 161-item survey
ABET requires that an accredited engineering program must document studentoutcomes that demonstrate “the broad education necessary to understand the impact ofengineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”1 Theselearning outcomes should provide the foundation for establishing the desired global skills andqualities that will prepare students for success upon graduation. Numerous sources indicate thebenefits of achieving global awareness through actual international experience. Shuman et al.report that “engineering faculty are beginning to recognize that students who have participated instudy abroad programs are better problem solvers, have strong communication and cross-culturalcommunication skills, and are
AC 2012-5255: LESSONS LEARNED WITH TRANSATLANTIC UNDER-GRADUATE ENGINEERING DUAL DEGREE PROGRAMDr. Jan Helge Bohn, Virginia Tech Jan Helge Bohn is an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech. He received his B.S. in computer science and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., in 1988, 1989, and 1993, respectively. Bohn’s research centers about geometric modeling, software engineering, and the engineering design process in a global context.Prof. Manfred J. Hampe, Technische Universitt Darmstadt Manfred J. Hampe is professor for thermal process engineering at the mechanical engineering depart- ment of Technische Universitaet
Bloom‟s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain revised by Anderson in 2001) andwell serves the purposes of this research because design students must learn to evaluate clients‟needs and wants as well as to make judgments that will influence their creative products.Huitt goes on to relate critical thinking to the affective and macro/micro cognitive strategies butextends it to include behavioral strategies as well. (See Huitt‟s diagram, “Model of CriticalThinking & Its Modification,” and corresponding discussion in Appendix A.) This extensionenables him to suggest teaching strategies for developing critical thinking behaviors becauseeach component of the model must proceed successfully to complete critical thinking, and thesedifferent components
student body also can mean incorporating male students into programs that strive toincrease female participation and success.5Supplemental enrichment programs can greatly help recruit and retain women in engineeringmajors.6 Such programs are part of a larger need. According to the Bayer Facts of ScienceEducation Survey XV in 2011, 71% of those surveyed reported that additional staff is warrantedto enrich the amount of academic support necessary for retaining more engineering students.7These programs are particularly critical given that “weeding-out” practices have been found tobe harmful to young engineering students, with women and minority students more affected thantheir white male counterparts.7 Such support is especially warranted during the
AC 2012-4732: ONLINE DELIVERY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGLABORATORY COURSESDr. Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University Yacob Astatke completed both his doctorate of rngineering and B.S.E.E. degrees from Morgan State University (MSU) and his M.S.E.E. from Johns Hopkins University. He has been a full-time faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at MSU since Aug. 1994 and currently serves as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies. He teaches courses in both analog and digital electronic circuit design and instrumentation. Dr. Astatke has more than 10 years of experience in the development and delivery of synchronous and asynchronous web-based ECE courses in the USA and abroad
service alone 18,19. This longitudinal study is ongoing. Astin is quoted ascommenting: “The research is very impressive. Service-learning comes as close as anything I’veever seen to being a panacea for higher education. It has a powerful effect on students and apowerful effect on the teacher.” (Alexander Astin, Director, HERI, UCLA, remarks April 21,2004, at Emory University).MethodologyThe basic research question here is what impact this service-learning approach has on studentattitudes and their resulting performance. The “treatment” is: over the last seven years, anaverage of 30 engineering courses incorporated S-L to various degrees ranging from 5 to 100% ofcourse learning objectives and grades. On average about two-thirds of the students
their experience to lead.The Master of Engineering in Manufacturing (MEngM) at MIT was developed over a period of10 years, and has more than 200 alumni. It is based on the notion of a need for graduate leveleducation in the profession of engineering that is not fulfilled by the conventional research-oriented Master of Science degree. We have learned that there is a large pool of outstandingstudents who will seek out this degree once it is offered, and who have as alumni drawn stronglypositive reviews from their employers.Students in the program, a cross-section of the best and the brightest, are drawn to the notion thatmanufacturing is how technological advances and innovations become rooted in a nation'seconomy. They want to understand the
construction management has been strategically improved overthe last twelve years but the effective change to accommodate sustainable topics has resulted achange in prerequisites, adoption of limited elective courses, integration, and drive of the facultyfor the students to have access to material outside of required course work.PrerequisitesInternational Sustainable Development was established as prerequisite to the upper division. Thecourse satisfies the social/behavioral science requirement. The instructor is a buildingconstruction faculty member with a research interest in high performance and low-impactconstruction. The course focus is on providing resources for the understanding human impacts,limits of design, natural capacity, and social
., Gaff, J., Dienst, R., Wood, L. & Bavry, J. (1975). College professors and their impact on students. New York: Wiley-Interscience.5. See Antony, J.S. & Tayor, E. (2004). Theories and strategies of academic career socialization: Improving paths to the professoriate for black graduate students. In D.H. Wulff, A.E. Austin & Associates, Paths to the professoriate: Strategies for enriching the preparation of future faculty (pp. 92-114). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; Austin, A. E. (2002). Preparing the Next Generation of Faculty: Graduate School as Socialization to the Academic Career. Journal of Higher Education 73(1); Boyle, P., & Boice, B. (1998). Best Practices for
a Large Freshman Engineering Course,” Proceedings of the 2009ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 14-18, 2009, Austin, TX.3. Robson, V., Lohani, V. K., and Muffo, J. 2008. “Assessment in Engineering Education, Book Chapter inAssessment in the Disciplines,” vol. 3, Assessment in Engineering Programs: Evolving Best Practices, Editor:William E. Kelly, pp. 173-192, Association for Institutional Research, Tallahassee, FL.4. Lohani, V.K., Sanders, M., Wildman, T., Connor, J., Mallikarjunan, K., Dillaha, T., et al. 2005. “From BEEVT Page 25.135.11to DLR - NSF supported engineering education projects at Virginia Tech,” Proceedings
not have to be found for the FYEP course to impact retention.Previous research indicates that the highest instructor ratings on the FCQ are related toavailability of the instructor when the team is needed. [10] Focus group data support these resultswith students providing positive feedback on instructor access and negative feedback oninstructor unavailability with comments such as , “Improve the communication with us.” Thus,the FYEP model is robust enough to be imported into a college of engineering with less seasonedinstructors or a smaller instructor pool. Page 25.1347.8Future research on the impact of instruction within first year design
application. To provide empirical support forour ideas and implementation, we present both quantitative and qualitative assessment datacollected from students using focus groups and survey. The goal of the assessment was tounderstand student motivation and to document students’ experiences working as a part ofinterdisciplinary teams.IntroductionEngineers are often motivated by the desire to have a real world impact through their work. Thisdesire is present not only among practicing engineers but also among engineering students andfaculty. Over the past couple of decades, engineering faculty members across institutions haveleveraged this motivation to design courses and experiences for students where they can make apositive impact in the life of
there isn't existing knowledge within the company. Graduates should also be familiar with basic measurement practices. Engineers that cannot operate a caliper or micrometer correctly as basic engineering tools degrade confidence.• Validation processes are a critical knowledge gap. Most manufacturing processes require validation for new installations. Statistical evidence of machine capability is required for this process. In the growing technical manufacturing of our state this is critical for manufacturing engineers (all medical, lithium-ion battery, most automotive, etc). It is generally a best practice of manufacturing engineering as a means of documenting your process as being ready for production.• Basic and
both formal and informallearning opportunities.This paper presents STEM-UpTM to the engineering community as a comprehensive best-practicethat makes math and science a common vernacular within an underrepresented community. Thispaper is not a qualitative or quantitative study in the traditional sense of formal research. Rather,this paper highlights aspects of STEM-UpTM as an informal science initiative that has created amenu of opportunities – i.e. a value chain - to broadly engage an entire community in creating a Page 25.268.3sustained network for an affinity toward science, technology, engineering and math.Literature ReviewIn the last
AreasHistorically, software written for vehicles has been based on proprietary tools and softwareengineering processes3. The trend in the automobile industry is of increasing integration ofsoftware with digital and mechanical systems. Areas of impact range from vehicle power plantcontrol to that of integrated entertainment systems complete with Internet access. The sheer bulkof code integrated in a typical vehicle is pushing the engineering of software systems out of theproprietary realm and into software engineering mainstream where the automotive industry mustadapt best practices for control of software system reliability and complexity. The amount ofdevelopment activity directly related to software engineering has risen, in some cases, to 40% ofthe
expected to participate in evaluating capstoneteams’ oral presentations. These are formal 20-minute presentations of the team’s resultsfollowed by a 10-minute question and answer period with the collective faculty members. Inaddition, faculty mentors are expected to attend the end-of-semester Senior Design expo andassist with the evaluation of their teams’ technical poster presentations. Faculty mentors provideformal feedback to the course instructor concerning both the oral and poster presentations.These expectations are in aligned with identified best practices for faculty mentoring whichinclude [Watkins, 2011]: 1) Regularly scheduled group meetings, 2) Individual group member queries
design as well as graduate-level courses in engineering innovation and technology management. He has nearly 30 years of combined academic and industrial management experience. He received his B.S.M.E. and M.S.M.E. degrees from Michigan Technological University.Dr. Daina Briedis, Michigan State University Daina Briedis is a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Michigan State University and Assistant Dean for Student Advancement and Program Assessment in the College of Engineering. Briedis has been involved in several areas of education research including student retention, curriculum redesign, and the use of technology in the classroom. She is a Co-PI on two NSF grants
operational planning, project management, and technical sales and marketing. Prior to joining the University, Hunter worked for several companies, including IBM and Anaquest, Inc., as an engineer, engineering manager, technical sales professional, and Director of Informational Technol- ogy. At the University of Arizona, she oversees the freshman engineering experience, which includes the introductory engineering course required of entry-level students. She also teaches undergraduate/graduate courses in the Engineering Management program. She is a member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Project Management Institute (PMI), and American Society for Engineering
AC 2012-3847: CCLI: MODEL ELICITING ACTIVITIESDr. Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh Larry J. Shuman is Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and professor of industrial engineering at the Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on improving the engineering education experience with an emphasis on assessment of design and problem solving, and the study of the ethical behavior of engineers and engineering managers. A former Senior Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education, Shuman is the Founding Editor of Advances in Engineering Education. He has published widely in engineering education literature, and is co-author of Engineering Ethics: Balancing Cost
committee report notes inefficiencyin preparing students for the workplace and higher education.2 Of particular concern is the lownumbers of college graduates in STEM fields who will help the U.S. retain its global lead inscience and technology.2 In response to these concerns, educators have been developinginnovative strategies to introduce STEM education earlier in the education timeline.3-4The objective of this research is to test the effectiveness of a guided discovery approach inpromoting STEM education through the use of robotics among students who are nationallyunderrepresented in STEM. The research question driving this investigation is whether a
environmental systems engineering from Clemson University.Dr. Andrea L. Welker, Villanova University Andrea L. Welker, P.E., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engi- neering at Villanova University. Welker teaches a variety of geotechnical undergraduate and graduate classes, including foundation design and geosynthetics. Her research focuses on the geotechnical aspects of stormwater control measures. In addition to teaching and performing research, she is the assessment chair and study abroad advisor for her department. Page 25.1217.1 c American Society
Abstract The low recruitment and high attrition rate of women in engineering is well documented.Women account for only twenty percent of the entering class cohort, and drop out at a rate tenpercent higher than their male counterparts.1 Although in the past twenty years women havemade inroads into many fields that were male-dominated, women have made little or no progressin engineering.1 This paper has three goals. First, this paper will review existing literature that identifiescurrent and alternative theories about why engineering programs do not retain female students.Second, this paper will synthesize motivational psychology research into a best-practice modelfor engineering programs. Last, we hypothesize that photovoltaic
innovative plan for thedevelopment, implementation, and evaluation of an effective curriculum of CFD intended as acommon course for senior undergraduate and junior graduate level students. The curriculum isbeing designed with learning objectives, applications, conditions, and exercise notes. One of themain objectives is to teach students from novice to expert users preparing them with adequatefluid mechanics fundamentals and hands-on CFD project works in order to prepare them for theircapstone design projects, higher education and further research in fluid mechanics. We haveplanned to incorporate a CFD educational interface for hands-on student experience in fluidmechanics, which reflects real-world engineering applications used in companies
ownership of their own learning. The discovery approach used by the author tries to buildon these principles to establish an innovative instructional design by marrying content withpresentation style in theory as well as in practice. Utilizing real-world problems as a stimulus forstudent learning is not at all new and has been in practice for a very long time. Educators haveunderstood that scholars have defined problem-based learning as minds-on, hands-on, focused,experiential learning. Instructors have also been encouraged to act as cognitive coaches who cannurture an environment that can support open inquiry. The author was inspired by the uniqueideas presented by these scholars and researchers. He has tried to build on such intelligent ideasto
both governmental and non-governmental organizations. Acharya has a M.Eng. in computer technology and a D.Eng. in computer science and information management with a concentration in knowledge dis- covery, both from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. His teaching involvement and research interests are in the areas of software engineering and development (verification and validation) and enter- prise resource planning. He also has interest in learning objectives-based education material design and development. Acharya is a co-author of ”Discrete Mathematics Applications for Information Systems Professionals,” 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall. He is a life member of Nepal Engineering Association and is also a member
-level design solution using appropriate design methods and tools. (4) Document the finished product or process according to standard practice. Page 25.230.4Additionally, the department identified senior design reports for the assessment of its secondcriterion related to Engineering Impact: Outcome: Explain the impact of engineering solutions on the economy, environment, political landscape, and society; apply the principles of sustainability to the design of engineering systems. Criterion: (2) Incorporate sustainability principles in the design of a civil engineering project.As described later herein