by approximately 25% beforesubmission, masking the difference in student performance in the two sections when examiningthe final (adjusted) grades. The difference between the unadjusted final scores in the two sectionswas statistically significant (α = 0.05). This generates new inquiries into how we approachinstruction and evaluation in material balances, and what best practices may be. It is arguable Page 26.1697.9that Faculty A has the correct method for student success when measured by performance, butwe believe that Faculty B’s varied problem types better represent the desire to develop ourstudents into more versatile problem solvers and
. Page 26.1241.5Evolved Practices & Impact on Innovation:Reality can turn around the best of intentions. The program described above was soon modifiedwhen finding engineering instructors for the different TCUs proved to be problematic. One TCUhad an instructor identified before funding was awarded and is still part of the program. Anotherfound instructor within three weeks of funding and he participated 3 years in a number of coursesbut was caught up in some administrative changes and moved on. However, that same TCUfound a backup instructor and then a second backup instructor to help. The third TCU tookseveral months to find an instructor and he remained at the institution for one year and was luredaway by a national engineering firm in the
students in areas of progression and transition from undergraduate to graduate studies, research, and study abroad. Her research agenda and commitment to intellectual growth is driven by her life experience. While com- pleting her Master’s degree and for several years after, she worked in a family owned manufacturing firm. As a doctoral student, Shirl was recognized as an AGEP scholar and received the Bilsland Fellowship. Outstandingly, she collaborated in the creation of an innovation course and taught the initial offering. Un- til August 2014, she was a post-doctoral fellow researching entrepreneurship, innovation, and diversity. Today Dr. Donaldson’s research interests include entrepreneurship, innovation
- dyne (Pratt & Whitney), he helped design the Space Shuttle. As manager of Reactor Safety Analysis, Experimental Engineering, and Fluid Dynamics Technology at KAPL (Lockheed Martin), he conducted research for Naval Reactors. He currently serves as the Walter L. Robb director of Engineering Lead- ership and as an instructor in Engineering Science at Penn State. Erdman has chaired the local Jaycees, Department of Social Services Advisory Council, GE Share Board, and Curling Club; and served on the Human Services Planning Council, United Way, Chamber of Commerce, and Capital Fund Drive Boards of Directors. Erdman has also lectured on leadership topics at Penn State and RPI. He returned to campus frequently as a
is a State of Indiana Registered domestic mediator.Mr. Mark T Schuver, Purdue University, West Lafayette Mark Schuver is the Director for the Center for Professional Studies in Technology and Applied Re- search (ProSTAR) in the College of Technology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He is responsible for the administration/operations of the Center with Program Management oversight of the Rolls-Royce Master’s Degree, the Construction Management Master’s Degree and non-credit certificate programs for working professionals in the College of Technology. Prior to joining Purdue in 2002, Mark was employed by Caterpillar Inc. for 35 years with assignments in Product Design, Research and De- velopment
Engineering (NAE), the National Science Foundation(NSF), and the National Research Council (NRC) have charged engineering schools to prepareengineers for global workforces.3-5 The American Society for Engineering Education’s (ASEE)Green Report (2010) also calls for engineering colleges to adapt curricula and programs to Page 26.874.3incorporate “an appreciation of different cultures and business practices, and the understandingthat the practice of engineering is now global.”6 Additionally, ABET requires engineeringprograms to demonstrate that their graduates have “the broad education necessary to understandthe impact of engineering solutions in a
curriculum. Engineering design courses are frequently used to givestudents opportunities to practice entrepreneurial skills while working on real world engineeringproblems (Shartrand and Weilerstein, 2012). Entrepreneurial-Minded Learning (EML) pedagogyhas been developed as techniques that emphasize students learning to create value, gather andassimilate information to discover opportunities or insights for further action (Melton, 2014). TheEML pedagogy provides engineering faculty with a useful and effective tool for embeddingentrepreneurship modules within individual technical courses. Rather than displacing technicalcontent, EML promotes inductive learning and allows students to explore the “why”, “real-worldrelevance”, and “impact” of the
perspective for prompting STEM faculty to acquire SRL and other learning theories andprompting students to develop higher-order learning skills, which is the main implementationframework of a NSF-funded Target Infusion Project. The novelty of the presented frameworklies in building a broad teaching community among STEM instructors and learning scientists,whose members can provide the peer support to acquire learning theories and design, implement,and evaluate effective teaching practice in implementing SRL Assessment. This noveltyapproach enables STEM instructors to adapt or develop learning strategies that are particularlysuitable for a specific STEM subject. The process also enables students to be simultaneouslyprompted for learning, adopting, and
Paper ID #12714Theorizing can contribute to marginalized students’ agency in engineeringpersistence.Mr. Stephen Douglas Secules, University of Maryland, College Park Stephen is an Education PhD student at UMCP, researching engineering education. He has a prior aca- demic and professional background in engineering, having worked as an engineer and project manager in building acoustics consulting firms for 5 years prior to becoming an educational researcher. His research interests include socio-cultural dimensions of engineering classrooms.Dr. Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park Ayush Gupta is Research
-210.22. Spradley, J. P. (1980). Participant Observation, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, NY.23. Robson, C. (2002). Real World Research, Blackwell, Malden, MA.24. Joychelovitch, S., & Bauer, M. W. (2000). Narrative interviewing, in M. W. Bauer and G. Gaskell (eds). Qualitative researching with text, image and sound: A practical handbook, Sage, London, 57-74.25. Layton, R. A., Loughry, M. L., Ohland, M. W., & Ricco, G. D. (2010). Design and validation of a web-based system for assigning members to teams using instructor-specified criteria. Advances in Engineering Education, 2(1), 1-28.26. Ohland, M.W., Loughry, M.L., Woehr, D.J., Finelli, C.J., Bullard, L.G., Felder, R.M., Layton, R.A., Pomeranz, H.R
situation, coupled with the growing demand for a technically skilledlabor force, business leaders, policymakers, educational institutions, and activists haveresponded by crafting numerous outreach campaigns to appeal to women to becomeengineers. For the most part, there has been a tendency to see any effort to recruit womento engineering as positive, with little consideration given to the manner in which suchcampaigns are designed to achieve their goals. In this paper, I offer a critical examinationof three prominent outreach strategies and how they present ideas about how best toengage women in engineering. I argue that the messaging in all of these programscharacterizes women as a homogenous entity, without considering questions of
best possible system solution. Inpractice, the top-down approach is counter-poised with situational exigencies concerning what isavailable, physically possible, permitted for use, or for which parties external to the developmentproject have imposed constraints. As a result, the practical method of systems engineering is toseek a comprehensive design solution that satisfies a range of constraints and provides a goodsolution which satisfices the major stakeholders.Systems engineering education stresses taking a holistic view of the situation to ensure that thesystem designed is the most appropriate throughout the system life cycle. Systems engineerstypically have a background in a particular technology domain, providing the systems engineer
to (a) begin to acquire an understanding ofconstruction hazards grasp difficult technical concepts and; (b) understand how safety sciencechanges over time as a project is observed and lessons are learned; (c) analyze the impacts oftechnical decisions on the execution of the project; and (d) appreciate the importance of ethicalconsiderations in the design and construction decision-making process. Case studies are alsouseful in the education of the engineer and construction manager since they provide anopportunity for students to appreciate the problems of stakeholders to the construction process[21]. Other researchers have integrated case studies into engineering curriculum for differentpurposes [4, 16]. These include: Introductions to
evaluated entirely on first assessment. Theweight of these tasks leads many engineering instructors to de-emphasize oral communicationefficacy, leaving students at a disadvantage when required to give high-quality formalpresentations later in their career.The authors feel that one possibility capable of making a major impact on developingconstructive feedback is recording and subsequent review of oral presentations. Currenttechnology enables presentations to be recorded, edited, and uploaded online with minimal effortrequired from the instructor. A similar practice has been shown to reduce the time commitmentrequired for pre-laboratory overview lessons.4 While preparing videos involves little extraneouseffort, the instructor still sacrifices his or
get better at what they practice. Like all adaptive bi-ological entities, students will become proficient at navigating the environments they have hadtime to explore 25,26 . If their environment is highly structured, they will learn to operate in an or-dered environment very well. On the other hand if the environment is entirely unstructured, theywill do their best to cope with the disorder. The real world is a mix of order and disorder. Sowith the goal of preparing our students for the real world, it makes sense to create a classroomenvironment that has a balance between order and disorder. Page 26.1532.6Counter to what many faculty
, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia - Purdue University, West Lafayette,IN ´ Juan David Ortega Alvarez is an assistant professor at Universidad EAFIT and served as the Head of the Process Engineering Department from 2010 to 2014. He holds an MS in Process Engineering and Energy Technology from Hochschule Bremerhaven (Germany) and is currently enrolled as a first-year graduate student in the Engineering Education Doctoral Program at Purdue University. Before his full- time appointment with EAFIT, he served as Engineering Director for a chemical company for 7 years. His research interests are focused on the practice and teaching of process design, simulation and control and also on faculty and
science and advancement of materials, such as concrete and cementitious materials, glass fibers, and composite materials. Dr. Torres’ research interest also extends to the classroom, where he is constantly evolving his courses to provide the best education to his students.Dr. Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University, San Marcos Page 26.1262.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Project Based Learning in Concrete Industry Project Management Abstract A Project Based Learning (PBL) method has been implemented in a
components for an Op-Amp class; o Design and build a multistage BJT amplifier.9. Leaning Management System (LMS)LMSs such as Canvas®, aTutor®, Blackboard®, Desire2Learn®, Moodle®, eCollege®, amongothers can be of great aid in active learning as it can be used to guide students to take a moreactive role in their learning. LMSs have a large number of functionality including: course contentdelivery (for self-service and self-guided services), portability, content personalization,reporting, tracking, grading, etc. It is a key mechanism for e-learning in colleges and universitiesworldwide. The practicability to allow course material delivery to be accessed by students at anyplace and time makes LMS strategically useful in active learning. LMS
, Mississippi State University Braden T. Smith obtained a bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from Louisiana Tech University. He is currently a graduate student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Mississippi State University who is concurrently enrolled in the masters and doctoral degree programs and recieved the 2015 Construction Materials Research Center Teaching Assistant Award. Page 26.832.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Hands on Development of Communication Skills Within an Undergraduate Construction Materials
deficiency in generative thinking at the systemlevel in students. The lack of courses where students are challenged to integrate all the knowledge they Page 26.1271.6have acquired during their undergraduate engineering career, and the high volume of demand ofengineers with system integration knowledge has led some engineering schools to developgraduate programs that educate engineers on how to incorporate all their engineering backgroundknowledge, and experience in the practical development of engineering systems. For example,the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers a graduate system engineering program thatemphasizes the importance of
Ramnath, Ohio State University Dr. Rajiv Ramnath is Director of Practice at the Collaborative for Enterprise Transformation and Innova- tion (CETI), and an evangelist for AweSim, a consortium that seeks to bring high-performance computing based modelling and simulation to small and medium enterprises in the Midwest, and an Expert at the Na- tional Science Foundation ACI Program. He was formerly Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Concentus Technology Corp., in Columbus, Ohio, and led product-development and government-funded R&D – notably through the National Information Infrastructure Integration Protocols program funded by Vice President Gore’s ATP initiative. He is now engaged in developing industry
, graduation dates are delayed based on revisedprogram of study. Not being on the same campus two years in a row creates a major difficulty torepeat the failed courses. The revisions of the schedules for these out-of-synch students arehandled on a case by case basis and require close coordination between the two campuses todevelop a feasible program of study with minimum impact on timely graduation.Student SurveysA survey targeting various aspects of the dual diploma program is given to the students whograduated since 2011 at SIUE. The survey asked 29 questions on dual diploma program serviceand academics aspects, as well as general questions about SIUE. The students are also asked togive their opinions about the importance of the issues addressed in
women engineers’ perceptions and experiences has yieldedvaluable data that naturally calls for analyses involving: (a) examinations of, and, (b) points ofcomparison with the dominant male experience with tertiary education and professionalization inengineering disciplines. Yet, few recent studies have examined or sought to generate data withthe objective of providing points of comparison between male and female engineers’ mentoringand career socialization discourses or focused analyses of male engineers’ discourses. We reporton results from the second leg of a two-part research study designed to address this gap incomparative gender analyses of mentoring and career socialization discourses. The presentanalysis is motivated in part by results
University Press, 1988.[21] G. Pólya, Mathematical Methods in Science vol. XI. Washington, D.C.: Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1963.[22] G. Pólya, Induction and Analogy in Mathematics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990. Page 26.842.15[23] J. O. Masingila and F. E. Moellwald, "Using Polya to foster a classroom environment for real-world problem solving," School Science and Mathematics, vol. 93, pp. 245 - 249, 1993.[24] T. Passmore, "Polya's Legacy: Fully Forgotten or Getting a New Perspective in Theory and Practice?," Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, vol. 21, pp. 44-53