they have theopportunity to work on the project for more than half of the semester. The project is complex,challenging and fairly long. To reduce the length of the project, each group is only responsiblefor calculating the energy demand and interior design of one floor of the building. At the end ofthe project each group is required to submit a final report that includes the following: abstract,introduction, literature review, project design, conclusion, references, and appendix (thatincludes software-based drawings such as the floor plan, parking lot plan, elevation plan for thebuilding facade and location of the windows, solar panels on the roof, etc.).The project described above was used from the 2011 to the 2013 academic years in both
readings from Engineering: Its Role and Function in Human Society (Davenport and Rosenthal, editors, 1967).7 Page 26.1153.6 The Vision for Civil Engineering in 2025 (ASCE 2006)8Uncertainty, Risk, Climate Change, and the Future (Sorting Fact, Fear, and Fiction) The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Cannot Solve Our Global Problems (Petroski 2010)9 The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Oreskes and Conway 2014)10Energy: Public Reactions and Engineering Alternatives (Or, is there really a “War onCoal”?) The Essential Engineer (Petroski 2010)Infrastructure: Planning for the Future (Or
higher in the masterygrading sections. Qualitatively, student response to the mastery grading experience was largelypositive.Subsequent work is planned to provide additional quantitative data relative to thisimplementation of mastery grading, including both quantification of student reactions to themethod and on student achievement on learning outcomes. As this was the first time that bothinstructors had offered the course, no comparative grade data were available, nor was it possibleable to assess student performance in subsequent courses. However, we anticipate that thismastery grading approach, as with similar techniques discussed in the literature, will enhancestudent learning and make homework a more formative activity.This paper primarily
% > 5 years, 68.7% 4 year, 56.30% Page 26.1502.5Figure 1 Years at UTSA. Figure 2 Years in CSM Program.Course Components and Grading StructureThe “BIM for Construction Management” course was offered as a three-credit hour electivecourse. The main target audience was senior and junior students in the CSM program, whoalready completed basic construction courses including plan reading, estimating, scheduling, andproject management. The course was structured as a lecture-lab
she had any questions. The instructor could also solve some common problems through mini lectures for the whole class when the common issues had been identified.Following steps were used to implement the flipped classroom approach. Faculty involved in the trial had several meetings to discuss how to prepare and plan for implementing the flipped classroom approach. The classes were planned to be flipped during week #10 for the topics of impulse and momentum. We collaborated and worked together to prepare lectures and online quizzes along with the associated hands-on activities. In week #7, the definition of a flipped classroom was presented to the students. The purpose of this was to help them prepare for this new teaching
stateuniversities with a total of forty universities. Since 2000, Texas has been engaged in a programcalled “Closing the Gaps: The Texas Higher Education Plan,” an initiative of the Texas HigherEducation Coordinating Board (THECB) (THECB, 2014; Tienda & Sullivan, 2015, Rankin,2013). The goal of the plan is to reduce gaps in “participation, success, excellence, and research” Page 26.1506.3between Texas and other states by 2015. Texas made some progress towards meeting theexpected goals, including exceeding goals for overall degrees to African Americans and
GK-12 Outreach Program] improved fellows’ communication skills, increasedtheir sense of community involvement, and impacted career and future plans of theundergraduate fellows.” 9As one, male, engineering undergraduate stated, “If you cancommunicate with 8-year-olds, then communicating with everyone else becomes less of achallenge” 9 Page 26.1528.3 Figure 1: The Model – Energy Engineering and Education Outreach Student 2The Model evolved from the author’s graduate experience working with two programs describedlater in the paper. Both programs have been successful at North Carolina State University.There were many lessons learned 2
campus; most of theseactivities were offered through the Learning Resource Center (LRC). The SI program employs apeer-to-peer learning model, in which a student who has previously been successful in a coursereceives pedagogical training from the LRC and serves as an SI Leader, offering regular reviewseminars to students currently enrolled in the course. The CoE and DPO provided additionalresources to the LRC to increase the number of difficult lower-level engineering courses coveredby SI Leaders. In the future, we plan to require Scholars to participate in one of several weeklystudy groups during their first semester on campus (in subsequent semesters, participation in thestudy groups will be optional). The study groups will meet in the DPO
program isinterested in, by meeting the decision-makers, presenting a short outline of yourresearch, and listening to what they have to say. Once you’ve written your proposal,have others give you feedback on how to improve it. Devise a long-range plan that willkeep you attentive to opportunities for new initiatives.Keywords: research funding, program officer, mentoring, mock panels1. IntroductionAlthough research funding is an indispensable requirement for advancement in anengineering faculty career, it has evidently received little attention in recent ASEEconference presentations. To address that need, this paper compiles advice from severalsuccessful engineering faculty—including two who have served as National ScienceFoundation program
stakeholder groups became convinced that this problem/opportunityneeded to be addressed, we proceeded to the initial planning stages.Step 2: VisionA persona is a popular concept and technique in user-centered design. A persona isdefined as a composite archetype of the user group. It is generated after in-depth researchand understanding of the user group and as such, it is a technique for presenting researchdata in a way that is easy to understand and creates empathy with users10. A name andphotograph, as well as details about the persona’s daily life, are used in a personadescription to provide vivid detail and facilitate empathy. The literature emphasizes howimportant it is for the persona to be based on actual research data rather than
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professionals anddigital library search tools and databases were immediately employed to review at least threejournal articles relevant to their research foci, which assisted to form the basis for independentresearch proposals. By week four, students presented research plans before a panel of faculty andstudent judges. In order to complete the program, each student produced three final deliverables -an oral presentation, a technical poster and a paper describing their work. In addition, studentswere exposed to STEM research in an application-driven industrial setting through a visit to aprivate corporation known for its innovation. A final survey and individualized assessments wereconducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the program and progress of
organization’s “Policy on Licensure and Licensure-Related Certification”—is to “encourages graduates…to strive for professional recognition byenhancing their individual credentials through licensure and certification programs..”15 ABET’s“Licensure, Registration, and Certification” web page identifies ABET’s role as “contributingsignificantly to the education of students who later seek official recognition of theirqualifications to serve the public.”16 The ABET vison and mission statements do not mentionlicensure or imply any support for licensure.17 The word “licensure” does not appear in theABET Constitution or in the current ABET Strategic Plan.18 The authors can find no statementin any official ABET document indicating that its criteria or policies
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Resistance is Futile: A New Collaborative Laboratory Game Based Lab to Teach Basic Circuit Concepts AbstractIn recent years, gamification of education has proven to be an effective paradigm in modernpedagogy. Following the success their previous work "Sector Vector”, the authors now present anew game-based laboratory to highlight the manipulation and calculation of resistors in circuits.In Game of Ohms [1] the lesson of electrical resistance is delivered as an interactive exercisebuilding an intricate circuit. As the game progresses, students are forced to make short and longterm plans to modify an evolving circuit which
. The first module illustrated the solution toa two-dimensional particle equilibrium problems using force polygons. The second module usedforce polygons, and their extension to funicular polygons, to determine the magnitudes ofreaction forces in a beam problem. As a result of the first semester's work, an additional designbased module is planned for the Spring semester. Descriptions of model problems, on whichclassroom work was based, are presented here.An end-of-course Statics Concept Inventory Exam, was given to the two Statics classes, in whichGraphical Statics modules were presented, as well as to two other sections of Statics, at theUniversity of St. Thomas, that did not include the graphics modules. The results of thisassessment are
the problem on hand.As we can see from how learning takes place in this initiative, there is a great balancebetween learning and service in this activity (Figure 2). The focus of working on theproject definitely is on service learning.Figure 2: What is Service Learning (Furco 2000)The three dimensions of service learning are 1. Curricular Content 2. Service 3. Social IssueThis project experience serves as a capstone project for the students. Students are able to Page 26.1367.4apply their curricular content and develop practical knowledge. For example, one of theprojects involves developing a sound maintenance plan for the wastewater plant
(summary of the Water, Earth, and Biota initiative as a 2000highlight for Geosciences), Geotimes, 46(7), 25-26. Page 26.1400.84. Hooper, R., and E. Foufoula-Georgiou (2008), Advancing the Theory and Practice of Hydrologic Science, EosTrans. AGU, 89(39), doi:10.1029/2008EO390005.5. CUAHSI (2010). Water in a Dynamic Planet: A Five-year Strategic Plan for Water Science(http://dx.doi.org/10.4211/sciplan.200711).6. Cunningham, S. (2005): Visualization in Science Education, in Invention and Impact: Building Excellence inUndergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education, AAAS Press.7
urban density andsustainability.Politics:Finally, we tried to use local, municipal political issues (in a non-partisan way) to demonstratethe significance of their chosen discipline to their daily lives. In 2014, we were fortunate enoughto have a highly contested, well covered mayoral race in which transportation and urbanplanning issues were extremely prominent. Each candidate’s platform focused on theirtransportation plan, and debates often circulated around issues of transit planning, funding, andand urban versus suburban divide. Strategies for using the mayoral race included: (A) showingclips from mayoral debates, especially the heated moments around their policies ontransportation, or recent television interviews, (B) recent newspaper
course you will incorporate into curriculum?” We are verydelighted to learn that, 60% of the participants plan to use at least 25% of our activities andresources in their teaching. Indeed during the workshop, our participants frequently requestedpermission for them to use our lecture slides, assignments, and video tutorials in theirclassrooms. In response, we kept most of our materials available online for extended time afterthe workshop to allow the participants to make copies. Below are some of the comments fromour participants. “I just watched the video on the Parts of a Computer. It was excellent. I would like to use this video as well as some of the PowerPoints in my Information Processing
Education student learning outcomes4 Upon graduation from an accredited ACCE 4-year degree program, a graduate shall be able to: 1. Create written communications appropriate to the construction discipline. 2. Create oral presentations appropriate to the construction discipline. 3. Create a construction project safety plan. 4. Create construction project cost estimates. 5. Create construction project schedules. 6. Analyze professional decisions based on ethical principles. 7. Analyze construction documents for planning and management of construction processes. 8. Analyze methods, materials, and equipment used to construct projects. 9. Apply construction management skills as a member of a multi-disciplinary team. 10. Apply electronic-based technology
‘customer’ concept strengthens the ‘model’ theme. It is also important to note that the word ‘model’ is serving two purposes. First it is the name of a theme (a group of words). Second it is a concept (a single word or merged group of words). It is because the word ‘model’ is the most connected word in the theme that makes it the name of that theme. Likewise, the ‘business’ theme in the entrepreneurship texts include the concepts ‘opportunity’, ‘planning’, ‘idea’ and ‘action’. Although each of the three bodies of text are distinct, there are some important commonalities. Each contains as a key theme ‘product’ at approximately the same high level of importance. Both
Syracuse, oneof the city’s most impoverished but also culturally rich neighborhoods.The authors working closely with Marc Norman and a pair of Imagining Americaresearch fellows, began planning courses that could advance a new collaboration in thepublic realm, a first for Syracuse architecture and engineering students working withinthe curricular framework of the design studio and professional elective courses.Figure 2: Diagram, showing student interaction with local stakeholders and neighborhood Page 26.407.4 representatives, including the Syracuse Housing Authority, schools and the Parks Department.The ClientThe client
because of safetyissues, expenses, and lack of qualified teaching assistants. This paper presents the planning anddevelopment of a web-based application that can simulate a virtual laboratory for electricmachines. This Virtual Power Laboratory 1 (VPL) is developed on a universal web-basedplatform that can be accessed anywhere by most mobile devices and modern computers. As aproof of concept, nine virtual experiments have been developed for DC motors and generators.Machine concepts are summarized using text, 2D and 3D graphics as well as multimediaanimation. The animated graphical user interface (GUI) plays an important role as it enablesstudents to review and retain basic concepts by building a bridge from the virtual environment tothe real
area of study. The responsibilities ofthe student and faculty member were clearly communicated each semester at the first workshop.Awardees signed a Mentoring Agreement at the beginning of each semester and submittedmentoring logs at the end of the semester. T4 STEM scholars and mentors committed to meetingat least every other week for the first six weeks of the semester to make sure the student got offto a good start, and on a monthly basis thereafter. Mentors worked with the students to developand manage an Individual Academic Learning Plan (IALP) which helped the student gauge theamount of time and coursework necessary to complete his/her studies by taking the courses inthe proper sequence.To maintain their scholarship, students were
negative impact onstudent interest in the course. This was seen in the fall of 2014, when in spite of marketing thecourse broadly, most students had already planned their fall class line-up and the course failed tofill to the course minimum and was cancelled for that term.Upon investigation and interviews with students who were thought to be viable coursecustomers, it was revealed that after the course’s one year hiatus in 2013, the group ofprospective students planning to take the course had advanced in their programs and were nolonger able to fit the course into their schedule which now included a healthy dose of researchcredits. Additionally, the perceived unreliable availability of the course led students whoseinterests were in industrial
1AbstractAs society addresses the major challenges associated with food, water, energy and climatechange there is an increasing need for engineers that are interdisciplinary and globallycompetent. The Master’s International Program (MIP) at the University of South Florida is agraduate partnership with the U.S. Peace Corps that provides over two years of supervisedprofessional service and international research experiences that include specialized training inlanguage, culture, participatory planning, and sustainable development. The students gain aglobal perspective while performing research in an international context of economic, social, andenvironmental limitations. Using a survey tool with quantitative and qualitative metrics, thisstudy assessed
day of researchwas dedicated to the elaboration of a “wish list,” as well as the planning of the 7-weekexperience. The student was free to include any ideas he ideally wanted to cover or implement.This list was then reviewed and arranged in order of importance by the faculty advisor and theundergraduate student. Being relatively new to programming on Arduino and with the concept ofcontrol and signal processing, the student started the experience by tackling multiple easyindividual tasks in order to get more familiar with the material involved in this mechatronicproject. The initial wish list included such tasks as adding LEDs to the car to provide visualchecks to the user; creating a smartphone application for wireless user input
more broadly aboutour mentoring agenda.As we were completing the survey and focus group analysis, an unusually high percentage ofwomen in the 2012 cohort of new STEM faculty (5 out of 8) presented the WISE@OU programwith a unique opportunity to test out different mentoring models and have a lasting impact onthis and subsequent faculty cohorts (Table 1). Therefore, in parallel with making plans to initiatea formal mentoring program, one-on-one, peer-to-peer and group mentoring activities wereorganized by the WISE@OU leadership team, first for the 2012 cohort and then expanded toinclude the 2011, 2013 and now 2014 STEM faculty hires. Some of these activities include one-on-one review of practical grant-related information, peer-review of
Student Opinion of TeachingSurvey. In fall 2013, the results encouraged further development of both hardware and softwarelabs, which we continued in fall 2014. Course enrollment also increased by 60% in fall 2014,from 13 to 21 students. Favorable teaching evaluations and comments from fall 2013 encouragedeven more classroom interaction, which led us to the “flipping” model. The fall 2014 course hasbeen evaluated with a new Teaching Survey, supplemented with custom questions about theflipped classroom. We further evaluated this flipped classroom for the degree of instructor-supported active learning and problem solving and student interaction, and for impact on studentfinal exam performance. The results were mixed, and we discuss plans for future
Topics (learning objective) First half of semester Second half of semester Expectations Class Management (3,4) Introductions (1) Personal Development (3,5) Keys to Success (3) Diversity (7) Pre-Calculus, Trigonometry (3,4) Well-being (5,6) Engineering Profession (2) Design Project Planning (7) Learning and Teaching Styles (5) Teamwork (7) Career Fair (2,6) Design Project (7,8) Professors and Other Resources (6) Reflection Paper (2,3,4,5,6,7,8) Advising (3,6)The course began by providing supplemental instruction for