will try to help as well as I will manage without affecting my work. Advertisement. Iwill make the program to reach people aware of necessity water by arranging flash mob, videos,and interesting advertisement. I will give it to company and it should be useful everyone.” When comparing the language use between the two above statements, it is clear that thefirst response reflects greater ethical awareness than the second one. This indicates that textanalysis technique may be useful in detecting ethical awareness. Table 3 Correlation Between Ethical Awareness Scores and LIWC Categories r score p-value SELF-REFERENCE -0.21 0.11
circumstances, writing is used not so much to demonstrate knowledge as toachieve an understanding of the students’ own learning process. Writing-to-learn assignments inthese contexts usually attempt to make the student aware of his or her learning issues, asking thestudent to reflect on what he or she may not understand. The modalities for doing so are various:students have been required to write step-by-step explanations of their problem-solving; 5, 6, 7they have been asked to explain how to do a problem to a relative neophyte in the class; 8 andthey have been encouraged to embed literary modes in their problem-solving narratives (e.g.explaining how to solve stoichiometric equations through baking analogies).9 While theseapproaches have resulted in
, more difficult levels. The gaming, iterative approachwas applied to a junior level biomaterials course, where progression was based on cognitiveability.Bloom’s taxonomy1 is familiar to many educators as a way of classifying different domains ofcognitive ability. The original taxonomy developed definitions for six cognitive domains;knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The taxonomy wasrevised in 2001 to reflect relevance to the 21st century and the nouns originally used to describethe cognitive domains were replaced with verbs 2. The categories are ordered from simple tocomplex and assume a cumulative hierarchy so that mastery of the lower domains is implied inorder to master the higher domains 3. Thus
effectiveness of the notebook both in its paper andelectronic form. We recognize that there is the potential for respondents to give only positiveresponses to this type of survey as it may be seen as a reflection of themselves and their work.Specifically, there is the potential for students to report that a tool is useful even when it has Page 26.591.8detrimental effects. We believe the potential for this limitations exists both for the paper andelectronic notebooks reducing its effect in our findings related to comparison; however, it is alimitation that must be considered when examining the results for just the paper or just theelectronic
not fully understand the complicated relationshipsbetween participants in a construction project, or which are suitable communication techniquesand efficient collaboration skills in a full-scale engineering project [4]. Knowledge ofengineering information flows, reflecting how physical, technical, managerial, social, andeconomic information is exchanged between teams, and how collaboration conflicts can beavoided when there are formal regulations to manage them, are seen as important components inBIM education. Sacks and Barak [9] mention that the civil engineering department of the TechnionInstitute, Israel, conceptualizes BIM as a skill rather than a tool. In their programs, it is taughtnot as a tool or in connection to any
69th MidYear Meeting Proceedings, Normal, IL.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1044269. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation. Page 26.627.10
students ought to provide system-optimized solutions, rather than component-best solutions, within the systems engineering “performance-risk- cost-schedule” framework. • Student immersion into new experiences, such as project team work on complete systems and software development management projects, rather than traditional engineering discipline component development projects. The Kolb experiential learning framework[10] will be used as model. The experiential learning framework comprises students’ experience, their skills to observe and reflect on the experiences, their abilities to learn from the experience, and their proficiency to try out the learned facts. • Student opportunity to
dishonesty. Sociological Inquiry, 69, 91-105. 3. Eckel, E.J. (2010). A reflection on plagiarism, patchwriting, and the engineering master’s thesis. [Viewpoints]. Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, 62. doi:10.5062/F4NC5Z42 4. Elander, J., Pittam, G., Lusher, J., Fox, P., & Payne, N. (2010). Evaluation of an intervention to help students avoid unintentional plagiarism by improving their authorial identity. Assessment & Evalution in Higher Education, 35, 157-171. doi: 10.1080/02602930802687745 5. Henslee, A.M., Goldsmith, J., Stone, N., & Kreuger, M. (in press for 2015). An online tutorial vs. pre-recorded lecture for reducing incidents of plagiarism. American Journal of Engineering
. The reason for this is to provide students with aconsistent vocabulary and a consistent set of general expectations as they experience variouscourses and instructors in the program. The rubric’s aim is to avoid the students’ commoncomplaint that graded aspects vary from class to class as well as to avoid their incorrectperception that writing as an engineer is a moving target, one that changes at the whim of theperson asking for the piece of writing. In addition, the rubric follows the format of rubrics usedin many of UMD’s required writing classes and reflects lessons learned from the writing studiesfaculty.The difficulty of creating a writing guide that is specific enough to help students and generalenough to address differing audience and
content assessment was revised to 13items to better reflect the refined course content. Some of the questions asked in Spring 2013were removed in second year assessment. Sample items from this assessment are shown below.2) The correct nanometer size scale in increasing order (smallest to largest) in terms of wellknown species is:3) Which nanomanufacturing category to pulsed laser deposition (PLD) and mechanical attrition Page 26.673.11(MA) fall under? 10The results from these assessments for Spring 2014 are shown below. NUE Content Assessment Pre & Post-Test Scores by Question
solar monitoring and motor control applications Program a PLC to collect data for a SCADA system using both Analog and Discrete sensors Identify various software packages needed to communicate in a SCADA system Configure and test communications in a SCADA system Page 26.943.5 Create a Human Machine Interface (HMI) that reflects the operation of equipment Troubleshoot problems that occur while integrating a SCADA systemStudent activities and modules developedIntroducing the SCADA curriculum for the first semester was an extreme challenge since the labmodules were untested and it wasn’t clear how much of
manufacturing processes. Methods engineering, job shop and automation practices; machining and fabrication processes. Elements of Occupational Supervision: Preparation, training, and problems of the supervisor. Project Design I: Principles of project management and engineering economics. Development of proposals for senior design project. Project Design II: This is a capstone course for engineering technology majors. Students will work with a professor to design a project that reflects several aspects of the student’s curriculum. Group work. Students will prepare a written project report and give an oral presentation.The courses from the selected Industrial Engineering Technology program are
words in which word size reflects frequency. Page 26.957.7 Figure 1 Schematic of the relative importance and types of skills for entrylevel employees Recommendations Sabbaticals are an opportunity for renewal and growth. While faculty have many opportunities available to them during sabbatical, including research projects and different teaching experiences, the author is a strong advocate for industrybased sabbaticals, especially for those faculty who have limited industry experience or who regularly teach courses with industry connections, such as capstone design. As the author discovered on her industryimmersion
an estimated $2.7 billionin damages as a direct result of the storm.[4] Storm water sewer lines were blocked contributingto flooding, almost 100 wastewater treatment systems either failed or had significantinterruptions in service, and the loss of electrical power caused many others to go offline.[4]Over 70% of New Jersey’s water supply systems were impacted by the storm, mostly due to lossof power, and approximately 360,000 residents were under a boil water advisory, of whicharound 10,000 homes in Ocean County were still under a boil water advisory after one month.[4]New Jersey’s coastal counties are home to approximately 60% of the state’s total population[5],and this is reflected in the student population at Rowan University. Many of our
instructionalmaterials into the hands of instructors. These research-based materials can directly benefitstudents and in turn, assist in creating globally competitive engineers.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1361417. Any opinions, findings and conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References1. National Academy of Engineering. Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century. National Academies Press; 2005.2. National Science Foundation. Innovations in engineering education, curriculum, and infrastructure (IEECI
. The planetary gearset is the centerpiece of thebench-scale hybrid powertrain, which our students are completing over the course of fivesemesters. With the successful completion of the planetary gearset, our students are now readyto begin tackling the challenge of developing an overall control strategy for the hybrid system.AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to acknowledge the support of the NSF-TUES program in the Division ofUndergraduate Education, DUE-1044532, which made this research possible. Any opinions,findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authorsand do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Bibliography[1] Toyota Motor Corporation, "Toyota Hybrid
distinct from sex. Connellnotes that gender is not a supposedly biologically-obvious division between men and women, butinstead the way human society collectively makes relevant these reproductive distinctions Page 26.1007.5between human bodies in a social context. For us, the context is engineering education. In its simplest form, gender reflects the set of characteristics, behaviors, and practices that we think ofas “feminine” or “masculine” – characteristics that any individual biological male or female mayor may not embody.Race, like gender, is not a biological category but a social one. And unlike sex, race has nobiological basis, despite a
Paper ID #12276Interest-based engineering challenges phase I: Understanding students’ per-sonal, classroom, engineering, and career interestsCole H Joslyn, Purdue University, West Lafayette Cole Joslyn is a PhD student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests include holistic approaches to humanizing engineering education (such as ethics of care, human- istic education, contemplative and reflective practices, and spirituality) and how it can shape engineering as a socially just profession in service to humanity. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and a M.Ed. specializing
assurance that thefindings reflect accurate measures and that results are trustworthy. Test reliability further indicates theextent to which individual differences in scores can be attributed to ‘true’ differences. We used the mostpopular measure - Cronbach Alpha for the purpose. Table 2 shows the Cronbach Alpha values for thedata collected for each of the subsets. TABLE 2: CRONBACH ALPHA VALUE - SELF ASSESSMENT Subsets Alpha Value Coding Specific 0.7700 Generic 0.7190Since alpha values for both the sets were found to be equal to or greater than 0.70, the instrument wasjudged to be
collected on STEM self-efficacy, Page 26.1040.6expectations of STEM disciplines, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and groupidentification. While the pilot study involved a small population, the results provide importantinformation about the impact of the outreach activity on the participants’ attitudes towardsSTEM disciplines. In addition, they demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed tool for assessingSTEM outreach activities for high school students. Table 2 illustrates the reliability of thesubscale questions by using Cronbach’s alpha. The latter reflects the internal consistency of aninstrument, that
student motivation tended to have students that earned higher grades. Data collection is ongoing to fully investigate the relationship among Faculty Knowledge of SDT, the classroom learning environment, and students’ objective and subjective learning outcomes.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (ResearchInitiation Grant in Engineering Education) under Grant No. 1340304. Any opinions, findings,and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and donot necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Page 26.1041.9
experience with Electrical and Mechanicalengineering students enrolled in one course. The biggest conclusion from their study was thatstudents struggled to manage their time appropriately to finish the projects, but were able tocomplete them on time. In this case, the students were charged with creating a complete roboticsystem, not just a subsystem component that would interface to a base unit. They alsohighlighted the importance of using PBL as a tool to put the theoretical content of a class into areal life context.Maxwell and Meedem3 reported in their article the perceptions of students who participated in a1999 robotics competition. One of the students reported enjoying learning to work in a team. Thestudent also reflected on the importance of
choices?□ Could radial and tangential forces on shafts carrying gears be measured? That would con- nect the lab to the analyses in class and the book. It would also connect this lab to the bear- ing lab.□ Learning about gears has encouraged me to think about other mechanical components and how they are made. I would like to learn how real gears are machined. Seems like it would be very specialized manufacturing. Could students be asked to make real components, such as gears and bearings. These ideas and suggestions are a source of new lab activities. Although some are easier thanothers to implement, many are worthwhile and reflect a deep understanding of gear concepts. The experiments have been well received and based on student
an intensive writing and presentation experience with criticalfeedback engages students in a continuous reflection on the elements of the complete designprocess throughout the entire semester. It was found that this approach produces students whoare better prepared for their senior design projects and engineering practice. Students noted anincrease in their understanding of machine design concepts as an integration of all their priorpreparatory training. The effectiveness of the revised course structure was evaluated through asurvey of previous and current students.Introduction and backgroundPrior to 2011, one of the common concerns of the Mechanical Engineering department’s seniorstudents was the inability to “engineer” or practice “design
modifyobservation parameters prior to the start of a class or lab. The observer function records real-timeinstructional data as code strings during a class or lab. The student function assesses students viaLikert scale survey items for formative or summative use for the class or lab. The instructorfunction allows instructors to explore their pedagogy after a class or lab via reflective items. Last,the researcher function compiles the data collected by the other G-RATE functions. Previous papers have traced the evolution of the G-RATE through its development andinitial pilot test3,4. Representing large quantities of the captured rich classroom data in ways
other; here, we focus onlearning outcomes, since they are better suited for our goals of supporting curricular design.6Learning outcomes defined in this project take many of the properties defined in Harden et al.1999 while also drawing substantially from the CDIO framework.3,4,7 In particular, theseoutcomes match all seven criteria of the framework in Harden et al.: they reflect the mission ofthe department, they are clear and unambiguous, they are specific, generalizable andmanageable, and they are designed in such a way that their interrelationships are clear. However,these outcomes are designed to match a level of specificity beyond what is described in Harden;per the CDIO framework, the space of competencies in engineering and design can
lectureAlthough the first author was mindful that the FYS audience drew from all of the majors acrosscampus (liberal arts and non-liberal arts) and needed to address the nature and value of criticalthinking, the choice of the subject matter and its treatment reflected the usual direction of theconversation about the discipline of the liberal arts in engineering. As a case study of theapplication of critical thinking, the lecture delves into conspiracy theories regarding the collapseof the World Trade Center Towers on 9-11. The opportunity to prepare for the plenary lecturegave the first author the motivation to seriously consider the efforts by a handful of engineersand architects to reopen the investigation of the collapse as part of the 9-11 Truth
objective standards.5. ConclusionImplementation of mastery grading orients homework assignments toward formative assessment.While it does require additional time investment on the part of both faculty and students, it alsoresulted in a positive reception from students and showed other benefits. Faculty members newto implementation of mastery grading kept a journal containing reflections on the process, fromwhich suggestions can be made to other new faculty who may consider implementing thetechnique. Page 26.1187.10 When presenting the method to students, emphasize it as a technique to enhance learning. When doing so, students were
column reflects the percentage of respondents who checked either "agree" or"strongly agree."The preceding survey results show that the majority of respondents felt that InWIC componentswere valuable or changed their lives in valuable ways. Remarkably, five of the survey itemswere given positive marks by every respondent. Only five of the line items received scores inthe seventy or eighty percent range. The remaining questions lie at the ninety percent level.Pairing the preceding positive response rates with the high survey response rate supports theclaim that the Celebration was successful and deserves emulation by additional regional areasseeking to increase the participation of women in computing
surveys are used to measure thestudents’ knowledge and perception of IPD, and how that knowledge and perception changed asa result of the collaborative competition. The paper will also include an overview of the threeprior years of the competition as a reflection of lessons learned and improvements made to thecompetition format to improve student outcomes.IntroductionConstruction productivity has declined at a rate of -0.32% per year for the 48 year period from1964-2012.1 Inefficiency in the delivery of construction projects is one of the driving forcesbehind the shift toward integrated project delivery (IPD).2 IPD seeks to foster collaborationamong the project participants throughout all phases of a project, from the early design phase