broadband internet provided on-demand video capability to studentsin the late 1990’s, instructors have been experimenting with the use of online lessons and videosto enhance student learning both inside and outside of the classroom (e.g. flipped classrooms1and distance learning2). Online videos and animations have been shown to be especiallyeffective for teaching molecular biology concepts3,4, which are often too small to see with thenaked eye and difficult to conceptualize.5 Several organizations have already created full lengthonline videos for biology topics that are available free of charge, including the BioVisions seriesfrom Harvard6, Khan Academy7, Open Courseware at MIT8, TED5, and several others9,10. Thesevideos allow students to learn and
traineesprogressed through iFEAT and gained information about the application process, we noted shiftsin perception of the most challenging and most important components of the application process.We also monitored any changes in trainee career aspirations, including candidates’ preferredtype(s) of institutions and academic positions, plans to conduct postdoctoral research, andanticipated application timeline. Data analysis involved looking at trends across survey questions. All questions had eithera numbered rating system or distinct multiples choices for participants to select. Trends weredetermined via either an average of all participant ratings or a percentage of participants whochose that answer. For some questions, participants chose more than
experiences in the laboratory session activities: As a result of the team based laboratory exercises, Q1. My understanding of the environmental relevance of the subject matter is: Q2. My interest in environmental engineering discipline and confidence in the subject matter is: Q3. My analytical and experimental skills are: Q4. My leadership and management skills are: Response options: A. Worse (W); B. The same (T); C. Better (B); D. Significantly better (S); E. N/A no opinion (N)Fig.1. Civil and environmental engineering students performing water treatment experiment: A.coagulation-flocculation-sedimentation-filtration techniques; B. sludge volume measurements
prospective students, visitors, and guests.Moreover, the lab modules, the software, and hardware employed to complete this project can beadapted to future laboratory and project developments in other areas such as DigitalCommunications, and Digital Control Systems curricula.References:1. Feisel, L. D., and Rosa, A. J., “The Role of the Laboratory in Undergraduate Engineering Education.” Journal ofEngineering Education 94(1): 121-130, 2005.2. Buket D. Barkana, “Curriculum Development of an Audio Processing Laboratory Course.” Signal & ImageProcessing, March, 2011.3. S. Shelke, M. Date, S. Patkar, R. Velmurugan, P. Rao, “A Remote Lab for Real-time Digital Signal Processing.”Education and Research Conference (EDERC), 5th European DSP, January
%), and Work (13%). The TCI was used as a pretest and posttest in the Fall 2012 and Fall 2014 as described in this paper. The pretest was administered during the first week of classes and the posttest was given in the last week of class. One common way to look at the pretest and posttest data on concept inventories is to calculate a G ain, G, from the pretest to the posttest as: Spost− Spre G= 100% − Spre (1) Where post S and S
the public who have allowed theengineering profession to get by working quietly and diligently, but not putting all their skills tothe best use of humanity.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant#1158863. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.Bibliography1. National Academy of Engineering. The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century. (National Academies Press, 2004).2. National Academy of Engineering. Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding
. Allen, I. E. and Seaman, J., Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States, Babson Survey Research Group, January 2013. 2. Angelino, L., Williams, F., and Natvig, D. “Strategies to Engage Online Students and Reduce Attrition Rates,” Journal of Educators Online, vol. 4:2, July 2007. 3. Dutton, J., Dutton, M., and Perry, J. “Do Online Students Perform as Well as Lecture Students?” Journal of Engineering Education, January 2001. 4. Haag, S. and Palais, J. “Engineering Online: Assessing Innovative Education,” Journal of Engineering Education, July 2002. 5. Hart, C. “Factors Associated With Student Persistence in an Online Program of Study: A Review of the Literature
Symposium Proceedings 1583. [5] Marks, J., K. J. Ketchman, et al. (2014). Understanding the Benefits of the Flipped Classroom in the Context of Sustainable Engineering. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Indianapolis, IN, ASEE. [6] Mason, G. S., T. R. Shuman, et al. (2013). "Comparing the Effectiveness of an Inverted Classroom to a Traditional Classroom in an Upper-Division Engineering Course." IEEE Transactions on Education 56(4): 430-435. [7] Goodson, C., S. Miertschin, et al. (2009). On-line Distance Education and Student Learning: Do They Measure Up? ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, ASEE. [8] Considine, C. (2003). Active Learning in Distance Education. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
., Roxburgh, C., … Madhav, S. (2012). The world at work : Jobs, pay, and skills for 3.5 billion people. Retrieved from http://www.madrimasd.org/empleo/documentos/doc/MGI-Global_labor_Full_Report_June_2012.pdf7. National Science Foundation. (2007). A national action plan for addressing the critical needs of the U.S. science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education system. Retrieved from http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/edu_com/draft_stem_rep.8. U.S. Census Bureau. (2011). The Hispanic population: 2010. Retrieved from http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-04.pdf.9. BBC News. (2008, August 14). Minorities set to be US majority. BBC News. Retrieved from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7559996.stm.10. Crisp, G., &
imparting critical thinking skillswould be necessary to determine the success of the exercises used by engineering technologystudents.References1 Douglas, E. P. Defining and Measuring Critical Thinking in Engineering. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences 56, 153-159 (2012).2 Gardiner, L. F. Redesigning Higher Education: Producing Dramatic Gains in Student Learning. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 7. (ERIC, 1994).3 Sax, L. J., Astin, A. W., Korn, W. S. & Gilmartin, S. K. The American College Teacher: National Norms for the 1998-99 HERI Faculty Survey. (ERIC, 1999). Page 26.424.74 Ahern, A
memberships.” The boundaries being drawn here are quite clear:politics do not belong in the IEEE, and LGBTQ individuals are ontologically political. It isinteresting that the latter two posters assumed the proposer(s) of the new language were LGBTQ(must be outsiders!), when in fact there was an organized response from the few out LGBTQIEEE members to alter the proposed wording before adoption of the proposed changes, as theproposed language was not truly inclusive of the LGBTQ community.Sexual orientation is private/doesn’t belong in the workplace: A slightly different (thoughrelated) boundary was drawn between professional and private spheres when frequentcommenter Luke Burgess (relation to Barry Burgess unknown) suggested that sexual
"biological clock" that imposes genuine constraints when women bear children. As anexample, Assimaki et al.’s 1 study of issues that affect the retention and professionaldevelopment of female faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering in universities in Greecenoted that there are difficulties related to “the demands of an academic career due to the paralleldemands of the role of the woman as wife and mother.” Similarly, women’s perceptions andprofessional issues in Civil Engineering include concerns with the level of commitment that anacademic career requires in comparison to their family obligations.10 Females also take careerbreaks due to their partner’s relocation or to take care of an elder family member.11 Researchsuggests that some females
Depoliticization Hinder Engineers’ Ability to Think About Social Injustices. In Engineering Education for Social Justice: Critical Explorations and Opportunities, (J. Lucena, Ed.) 67–84. New York: Springer.3. Case, J. M., & Light, G. (2011). Emerging research methodologies in engineering education research. Journal of Engineering Education, 100(1), 186-210.4. Bucciarelli., L. (1996). Designing engineers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.5. Dryburgh, H. (1999). Work hard, play hard: Women and professionalization in engineering—adapting to the culture. Gender & Society, 13, 664-682.6. Hacker, S. (1989). Pleasure, power and technology: Some tales of gender, engineering, and the cooperative workplace. Winchester, MA: Unwin
, plotting ofgraphs (when needed), and evaluation of the results associated with the lab.The mean and median lab scores of Control Group 2 and Experimental Group 2 are given inTable 5, along with values that assess the statistical significance of any improvement from 2013to 2014. As seen from the table, the mean and median scores for both groups are mostly in themiddle 90’s. The only exception is Experimental Group 2 scored in the middle 80’s for thetension test and Control Group 2 scored in the high 80’s for the beam deflection lab. There wasno improvement in the lab scores from 2013 to 2014, with the exception of the beam deflectionlab where the median score of Experimental Group 2 was statistically higher than Control Group2. Complete lab score
standalone development experiences forstudents who were new to the program, or who might only attend a single session. It was alsoimportant to communicate to students that reading the designated chapter(s) in advance of thediscussion session was not a requirement—students were encouraged to come regardless ofwhether they had the time (or interest) to read “Lean In.”Given the often personal nature of the discussion topics, the curriculum was intentionallydesigned with flexibility in order to be as responsive as possible to participants’ needs andrequests in real time. For instance, the early sessions included a formal time for writing injournals, a member introduction/update activity, a video introducing a professional developmentskill or topic, and
work explores engineering ethics empirically in a “developing world” context through aframework of care ethics. Care ethics, a.k.a., the ethic(s) of care, is particularly suitable for the“developing world” context because it helps draw attention to imbalances of power (e.g.,inequality, differential opportunity, and limitations on autonomy) that are often neglected byother ethical frameworks. In this work, we selected one element of care ethics (responsibility)and operationalized it in several ways: the language of responsibility; notions of paternalism; andawareness of key, influencing stakeholders. These lenses were developed and refined iterativelyby employing them in case study analyses of two design project reports written by teams
also like to thank Dr. ThomasLitzinger and Dr. Sarah Zappe for their support, feedback, and guidance. Page 26.1575.16List of references1.Association of American Universities Committee on Postdoctoral Education Report. (1998).Retrieved August 29, 2012 from http://www.aau.edu/publications/reports.aspx?id=69002.Akerlind, G. S. (2005). Postdoctoral Researchers: Roles, Functions and Career Prospects.Higher Education Research & Development, 24(1): 21-40.3.Akerlind. G. S. (2010). Developing as a Researcher Post-PhD. In L. McAlpine & G. S. Akerlind (Eds.), Becomingan Academic: International
addressed modern structural analysis techniques covered in an introductorygraduate level course that qualified students may still take. The change also effectively reducedthe required track in structural engineering by one credit hour (from seven to six).The evolution of the junior structural design course that is the focus of this paper is summarizedin Table 1. Specific details regarding course structure such as enrollment, number of sections,and class meeting times are given to provide context for the discussions on specific componentsof the inverted classroom format that follow.Table 1 – Evolution of Structural Design Course Format(s) at Villanova University Semester < Spring Spring 2012 Spring 2013 Spring 2014
andGeneral Statistics. Two instructors of Linear Algebra have already run a course using commonhomework. And the group that oversees our multi-section Scientific Computing course isconsidering a similar approach. If successful, these efforts would achieve full coordination of theentire suite of service courses across every STEM or related discipline.Acknowledgments The authors would like to acknowledge the assistance of Jude Garzolini in conducting the humansubjects study. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundationunder Grant Nos. DUE-0856815 (Idaho STEP), DUE-0963659 (I^3), and DUE-1347830(WIDER). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do
evaluationof new learning spaces”. The PST model facilitates the design of an ALC by structuring theprocess into distinct dimensions and stages, and offering guiding questions for each stage. Thedimensions are pedagogy, space, and technology, and the relevant stages are design andoperation. For instance, a guiding question for the classroom design stage is "what is the overallfocus (of the space) and what type(s) of learning and teaching are we trying to foster (in thisspace)?"3 ContextThis pilot study was conducted at a large teaching-focused tertiary institution in Norway, whichhas a long history of engineering education. The institution currently offers eight differentbachelor’s level programs in engineering and four master’s level programs in
even less on engineering technology students. Since we found Page 26.1777.14that students writing skills do improve throughout the semester, research in this area must focuson engineering technology students and the development of their writing skills throughout thecurriculum.Bibliography1 Lester, N. et al. Writing Across The Curriculum: A College Snapshot. Urban Education 38, 5-34, doi:10.1177/0042085902238684 (2003).2 Hart Research Associates. Falling Short? College Learning and Career Success. (2015).3 Fraiberg, S. & Adam, M. in Professional Communication Conference, 2002. IPCC 2002. Proceedings. IEEE
Oriented Capstone Courses, Journal of Engineering Education, January 1997.6. Davis, D., Beyerlein, S., Harrison, O., Thompson, P., Trevisan, M., and Mount, B., A Conceptual Model for Capstone Engineering Design Performance and Assessment, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education 2006.7. BachnakR., Verma S. and Coppinger T., Restructuring the Capstone Course Leads to Successful Projects, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition , American Society for Engineering Education 2005.8. McKenzie L.J., Trevisan M.S., Davis D.C., and BeyerleinS.W., Capstone Design Courses and
understanding that students bring to the table can be used as a resourcefor more effective ethics education.References Basart, J. M. & Serra, M. (2013). Engineering ethics beyond engineers’ ethics. Science andEngineering Ethics, 19, 179-187.Cech, E. A. (2014). Culture of Disengagement in Engineering Education?.Science, Technology& Human Values, 39(1), 42-72.Culver, S. M., Puri, I. K., Wokutch, R. E., & Lohani, V. (2013). Comparison of engagementwith ethics between an engineering and a business program. Science and Engineering Ethics, 19,585-597.Haidt, J. & Joseph, C. (2004). Intuitive ethics: How innately prepared intuitions generateculturally variable virtues. Daedalus, 133, 55-66.Harris Jr., C. E. (2008). The good engineer: Giving
., Guggemos, A.A., & Shane, J. (2011, April). Exploration of strategies for attracting and retaining female construction management students. Paper presented at the 47th ASC Annual International Conference, Omaha, NE.16. MacPhee, D., Farro, S., & Canetto, S.S. (2013). Academic self-efficacy and performance of underrepresented STEM majors: Gender, ethnic, and social class patterns. Analyses of Social Issues & Public Policy, 13(1), 347- 369. doi: 10.1111/asap.1203317. Marra, R.M., Rodgers, K.A., Shen, D., & Bogue, B. (2009). Women engineering students and self-efficacy: A multi-year, multi-institution study of women engineering student self-efficacy. Journal of Engineering Education, 98(1), 27-38. doi: 10.1002/j.2168
for the message and the brand? 5. What images have you chosen to tell your story? Does each image work together and independently to enhance your message? Are they relatable to the audience? 6. How are you incorporating language, images and media to be compelling and contemporary (aka avoiding walls of text)? 7. Is the channel(s) you’ve chosen the most appropriate for the message and the audience? Page 26.772.168. ConclusionAt the graduation ceremony for the YTT, the members stepped up to a podium in front of theirfellow members, parents, friends, and representatives from the engineering community whomthey had interviewed