employment in the roleof faculty members, they are well prepared in science, math, and engineering content andpractice, however, they generally lack training in student learning and instruction. A pragmaticapproach guided the investigation lead by three research sub-questions related to: a) practicealignment with the United States Next Generation Science Standards; b) knowledge of reform-based teaching practices; c) how fellows implement biomedical engineering research intosecondary science classes. Surveys, interviews, and lesson plan documents were utilized toanalyze the phenomenon from three perspectives in the form of an instrumental collective casestudy. The National Science Foundation GK-12 program, the context of the study, operated as
is part of an ongoing teaching and research project that leverages our collaborative teaching in smart phone app development. We plan to leverage this in generalizing the course offering so other interdisciplinary groups’ efforts are facilitated.Dr. Diana Mitsova, Florida Atlantic University Diana Mitsova has a background in research design, statistical and spatial analysis, as well as environ- mental planning and modeling using geographic information systems, and interactive computer simula- tion. Her primary area of research involves the impact of urban development on ecosystems and other environmentally sensitive areas.Her recent publications focus on the impact of climate-related stressors on coastal
Team Charter (artifact) TRANSITION PROCESSES Interpretation and evaluation of the team's analysis, Project plan (artifact) mission, including identification of its Shared mental model and team identity formulation and main tasks, the operative environmental conditions and resources available building (cognitive task) planning
and submit a paper to student-reviewed campus research journal. The program aims to impact a large number of studentsinterested in working on research and development projects in all disciplines within engineering.The program is centralized at the college level and supports student/faculty teams that competeby submitting formal proposals focused on basic research projects or the development of atechnology or product. Proposals are solicited every semester, including summer, and reviewedfor quality and impact with special attention to the mentoring plan. Since its inception (Spring2013), 178 projects have been supported, with participation of engineering students in theirsecond through fourth years. Student participants in this Armour R&D
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and BS/MS in wood science and forestry from the University of Maine. A member of the WSU faculty since 1996, he previously served as an associate professor at West Virginia University’s Division of Forestry.Tamara Laninga, University of Idaho Dr. Tamara Laninga is an assistant professor in the Department of Conservation Social Sciences and the Director of the Bioregional Planning and Community Design program (BIOP) at the University of Idaho (U-Idaho). She is the University of Idaho PI for the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA). She is an IDX instructor and also works closely with the outreach and environmental preferred products (EPP) teams. Dr. Laninga
Paper ID #11244Investigating the Synergies of Sustainability and BIM through CollaborativeProject-based LearningDr. Wei Wu, California State University, Fresno Wei Wu, PhD, LEED AP, CM-BIM, A.M.ASCE, is an Assistant Professor of the Construction Manage- ment Program in Lyles College of Engineering at California State University, Fresno. He received the Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering with a focus on Built Environment from Hunan University in China, the Master of Science in Environmental Change and Management at University of Oxford in the UK, and the Doctor of Philosophy in Design, Construction and Planning at
ideas Select a solution Build the device Test and evaluate the device Present/share your device 4. ReflectionFor resources that include the lesson plans with instructor notes and student secret agent packetscontact:Katheryn KennedyStevens Institute of Technology, CIESE, Castle Point on Hudson,Hoboken, New Jersey 07030 Katheryn.Kennedy@stevens.edu Page 26.1359.2
; Architectural Documentation I, where students plan and createconstruction drawings for a residential structure [11]. AMS 273; Architectural detailing, followsAMS 263 focusses on details for buildings in terms of function, contractibility, and aesthetics[12]. This course helps students tie in the intricate details associated with the residential andcommercial structures that student are exposed to in the curriculum. The final required course inthe sequence is AMS 363; Architectural Documentation II. In this course students plan andcreate construction drawings for a simple commercial building [13]. AMS 463; ArchitecturalDocumentation III is an elective course in which students plan and create constructiondocuments for the rehabilitation of existing
I plan to take advanced science classes in high school Scientists help protect the environment. Girls are as good as boys at science. Science can help me to make better choices about various things in my life (e.g., food to eat, cars to buy). Being nominated to go to Tech Trek camp means a lot to me. I like technology I am interested in a career in technology. Women are not welcome in technology jobs Girls are as good as boys at technology. My parents encourage me to pursue a career in technology. My teachers
competitions. Some students enter the course with a portfolio in hand. The teacherserves as resource and mentor, as the students present weekly plans and progress for a grade.This year a third course is being piloted called Engineering Technology. Designed primarily for9th grade students, the course focuses on engineering design, project management and hands ontechnical skills, which allows them to advance to the Intro to Engineering course with a richerpreparation. Evaluation will include the effectiveness of the course, the program’s impact on thestudents, and an assessment of the student work.IntroductionThe quest to design a new engineering program, deciding where to start, establishing the runningthemes for a whole new course, or set of courses
anancillary role in the service effort and do not travel to the site of the project. This study wasconducted during the 2013-2014 school year in the context of two courses offered at OhioNorthern University. Participants of the study included first-year programming students enrolledin a second semester introductory programming course and engineering education studentsenrolled in an upper-level elective course involved with developing lesson plans for teacherworkshops being conducted in the Dominican Republic by members of the university’s NorthernEngineers Without Boundaries student organization. The following sections of this paper willfirst examine the relevant background concerning prior research, explain the framework for thestudy, review the
. Students are guided through the literature reviewprocess by our engineering librarian, then conduct a literature review on their topic of research.Once the literature review is completed, time is spent with each team making sure the properquestion or hypothesis is generated. Next, a high level research plan is developed with acorresponding list of equipment and materials that each student needs in order to perform theirexperimentation. Students are allowed to purchase small items needed for their research if theitems are not available in the currently existing undergraduate research lab. We do not have a setbudget for the students because we might decide to spend more on a particular item because ofits reusability for future experiments
engineering course. The main focus is on teaching students to performengineering and research projects to meet the required specifications while applying computationalintelligence techniques for autonomous robots or other applications.A series of well-prepared projects assigned to students to cover various topics in this course assist instudent learning for enhancement of research skills. Teaching and learning strategies by the project-based methodology were associated with ABET learning outcomes intended to improve studentresearch capability [3]. In this on-going project, the objective is to perform an in-depth technicalresearch consisting of multiple projects utilized on robot navigation, motion planning and mappingapplications. Opinions of
academic career, he spent 14 years in industry where he held leadership positions focused on process improvement and organizational development. Page 26.1654.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Using Agile Project Management to Maximize You and Your Coauthors’ ProductivityAbstractFor decades as information technology (IT) projects grew bigger and more complex, projectfailures seemed to become increasingly common, in spite of intense efforts to apply traditionalproject planning. Those traditional planning tools focused on balancing the triple
developing new sustainability-enriched engineering education material is the need for knowledge and skills from multipledisciplines to be incorporated into learning experiences. This creates limitations to whatinstructors can accomplish with students lacking the necessary knowledge and skills unless thereare added requirements for pre-requisite coursework, additional time taken in class to teach extramaterial, or extra assignments for students to learn the material independently. Each of thesesolutions means the course must be modified to reduce content or increase time and effort ofstudents to enable new content to be included. In most cases this is a major impediment and onethat prevents instructors from moving forward with plans for anything more
. Page 26.1459.5 Table 3. Statistical analysis comparing current cohort’s current (pre) and intended (post) frequency of STEM classroom practices Question Survey N Mean Std. Dev. P-value How often do you use (or plan to use) Pre 20 3.80 1.322 0.673 teacher-led lectures or discussion Post 16 3.63 1.088 How often do you use (or plan to use) Pre 20 2.00 0.918 0.033* student-led class discussions or Post 16 2.81 1.276 presentations How often do you have (or plan to Pre 20 4.25 0.911 0.865 have) students
plans for the future. A discussion on theconcept of a polytechnic institution, its definition, and transformative nature is included to clarifythe reasons behind this radical and somewhat unsettling approach to education reformation.IntroductionAcademic institutions of higher learning are facing many difficult challenges, includingdeclining enrollment trends, complaints about costs vs. value, curricular stagnation, and inabilityto adapt quickly to changing environments facing graduating students. Many researchers andauthors claim that the traditional educational methods and structure espoused by universities isoutdated and potentially restrictive to learners. 1, 2 The College of Technology at PurdueUniversity is dealing with these challenges
like to workon. Based on their interest, the students were subdivided into two teams: one toaddress the remediation of an acid mine drainage site and one to evaluate possiblehandling methods of flow-back water from fracking sites. The activities includedin the projects were an in depth literature review, prototype design, laboratoryassessment, economic analysis, environmental regulation evaluation, communityaction plan development and submission of a final design report. The objectivewas to assess if these activities could enable the students' to develop into aneffective interdisciplinary team and to address the potential lack of interest in coreSTEM classes. In addition to describing the students' key activities, we willdescribe issues faced
, the goals for the program are:GOAL A: Increase department diversity.The primary objective is to attract and retain traditionally underrepresented groups to engineering,especially women, and in effect, increase departmental diversity. In order to achieve this, the CECMdepartment plans to expose a wide range of groups to the civil engineering profession before theyenter Georgia Southern University by developing relationships with local high schools and communitycolleges. Additionally, the department will continue to host the “Camp Invention” summer camp, forgrades 1-6, and continue to provide faculty and students as mentors and judges for the AssociatedGeneral Contractors (AGC) Skills competition. Also critical to the achievement of the
Generation Science Standards1 (NGSS) and an all-out push by President Obama andthe Department of Education seek to reform science education by introducing engineeringcontent and practices into Kindergarten through 12th-grade instruction. Science teachers acrossthe grades are tasked with including engineering in their science curricula creating the need forresearch on NGSS execution and roadblocks. This qualitative study stemmed from anexperienced high school physics teacher’s unexpected change in co-planned engineeringinstruction during a math and science enrichment camp. In an attempt to understand Evan’s*actions, this study examined the origins of and tensions within Evan’s engineering educationepistemology (EEE). My main research questions were
factors may cause a hospital to upgrade 5.As per researchers, factors such as aging facilities, population shifts, stringent building codes,and others are creating the demand for new or renovated healthcare facilities 16 (Carpenter 2004).Furthermore, the Affordable Care Act is also having an impact on design requirements, callingfor an increase in mental health and preventative care facilities3. Page 26.164.4The term Facility Management for this research encompasses planning and design activities,construction management, and operations. The activities vary widely from big picture strategicplanning to highly detailed furnishings and equipment
) Page 26.952.7We also asked the students if they would be willing to self-finance the cost of an internationaltrip to gain similar experience and their budget. We have presented their responses in figure 4.Nine of the ten Indian students and all the three visiting Japanese students indicated theirwillingness. Each of them gave different budgets. We agree that the budgets would be influencedby the financial situation of individuals and wanted to just get an indication of the extent of thebenefits that they have received and collect information for planning similar experiments. 9 8 7 6 5 Willing to Self Finance 4
engineering curricula -Test engineering curricula -Use the Explore-Create-Share model to structure -Familiarize with engineering/design software curriculum planning -Share best practices in STEM education -Recieve support from teacher mentorsteachers with the opportunity to learn about engineering concepts informed by classroom andindustry practices, test curriculum materials, collaborate with industry and education experts,familiarize with engineering and product development software, and share best practices inSTEM education. The second phase is the Authoring Phase. This phase focuses on training
tasks for the upcoming week. This is furthersolidified by weekly status reports that provide additional reflection on the project progress,outline problems, and highlight effort expended. In addition, students are required to draft aProblem Statement, Requirements Specification, Functional Design, Project Plan, and Test Plan.The nature of the projects varies widely from continuing a previous project with well-definedexpectations to venturing into uncharted waters with only a vague sense of a reasonabledestination. Thus all of these documents are flexible in their nature. For example, the test plancould be for the final product or for a milestone. Either way it will contain similar complexityand comprehensiveness. Assessment for this semester
-Barre Pennsylvania with a BS in Electrical Engineering and a Minor in Physics. A key member of the facil- ities operations team for the past twenty-two years. I have been involved with nearly $300 million in new construction and renovations over the past twenty years. Originated, planned, specified, bid, and managed many millions of dollars in successful energy saving projects. Enjoy sharing our experiences and knowledge with our students, the University community and the local community. Raising awareness to sustainable practices by being an example, organizing campus events, guest presenting, and student involvement.Dr. Michael Mahon Ph.D., Abington Heights School District Michael Mahon is the superintendent of
Paper ID #14224Lessons Learned from Team-Teaching a PBL Robotics Course with Multi-Disciplinary Instructors and StudentsDr. Jose M Garcia, Purdue University Biography Dr. Jose Garcia has been involved in several local and statewide recruitment events, where he was able to develop short workshops in fluid power and STEM. He is also working on the development of a new generation of hydraulic components and systems that can operate using environmentally friendlier fluids. Dr. Garcia has plans to actively continue the development of practical teaching tools that bring industry applications to the classroom.Prof. Rick Homkes
patent and mock SBIR serve asrealistic exercises that inform and instruct students in the components of a successful technologyventure and the competitive nature of securing funding for a start-up company.The drafting of patent claims is instructive in defining an invention with respect to the prior art,and gauging its strengths and weaknesses regarding infringement: the value of a project isultimately in the strength of any ensuing patent claims. The SBIR proposal has a standardizedformat that will compel students to review the competing technologies; make a rationale for theapproach; define technical objectives; organize the research effort by formulating a detailed workplan with specific tasks, milestones and schedules, and contingency plans
wereencouraged to continue to work together in the College of Engineering Senior Design I andSenior Design II courses with the intent of them being able to commercialize the design.Part of the faculty effort was to build and promote a culture of innovation among engineeringstudents; therefore as a follow up from the course offering in the spring 2013 the facultysupported two projects during their capstone senior design courses for the fall 2013-spring 2014semesters with a strong plan for commercialization of the product. These students weremotivated, self-driven and excited about their projects and the possibility of launching a businesssuccessfully by using our program, and taking advantage of the resources available to them fromour University’s Office
document and assess how wehave integrated design in all four years of a traditional mechanical engineering program.Overview of the Design Process Engineering projects may be broken into several distinct phases, although in reality, the phasesoverlap or may be even be entirely different from that presented here. Design is rarely a linearprocess, it is iterative in nature. Each design project is unique, there is no one process to followfor design. In general, the design process can be described as: • Define the problem (which includes establishing objectives and criteria, and developing a plan), • synthesize math, science and engineering knowledge to develop alternatives, • evaluate the alternatives (through testing, analysis
Women < Men Medium Laboratory, Research, and Studio Space Women < Men Eldercare Policies Women < Men Stop the Clock Policies Women < Men Page 26.162.7RIT included an additional question: How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the quality of the long-range career map/plan that you have created? Of the 404 respondents to this particular question (thisexcludes the 18 who did not respond), 52% of men and 55% of women respondents were very satisfiedor satisfied with the quality of