expressly devoted to the first-year Engineering Program at Northeastern University. Recently, she has joined the expanding Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at NU to continue teaching Simulation, Facilities Planning, and Human-Machine Systems. She also serves as a Technical Advisor for Senior Capstone Design and graduate-level Challenge Projects in Northeastern’s Gordon Engineering Leadership Program. Dr. Jaeger has been the recipient of numerous awards in engineering education for both teaching and mentoring and has been involved in several engineering educational research initiatives through ASEE and beyond.Dr. Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University Dr. Courtney Pfluger received her Doctoral degree
the university. JohnRogers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign uses it to provide his students withthe relevant experience. He explains: I always tell my students you’ve got to be in the lab. You absolutely have to be in the lab. You can plan, you can do computer design and such, but until you get your hands dirty and really get a feel for what’s going on, you’re not going to have a good sense of what’s going to work and what’s not.Several participants noted an increasing connectivity between industry and academia, the resultof which was viewed by many innovators as good for the competitiveness of the nation and onethat helps both students and industry. According to David Morse, CTO of Corning
renderedvisible (e.g., “Given a -10 F night temperature, a 1500 calorie daily intake, and a 0.5 in thick coatworn by a homeless person, find the insulation material that will keep this person’s bodytemperature at 97 F throughout the night?”). Students could also identify alternate sources ofknowledge that would be useful to solving the larger homelessness problem “(e.g., social policy,urban planning, nutrition science, distributive economics)” [17]. Furthermore, they could identifywhat assumptions need to be challenged (e.g., what percentage of homeless people are adults vs.children, veterans vs. non-veterans, or how many actually own a coat that provides sufficientwarmth). Finally, students could contrast how their solutions would differ using only
Page 26.111.9on the lab activity with partners and will perform the lab activity during designated time periodsas we do not plan to manufacture additional apparatuses until after the lab is tested in aclassroom environment.Assessment will be comprised of three elements. First, students will be assessed using a conceptinventory style questionnaire with instrument deployment prior to the use of the lab and thenagain following the lab. The concept inventory style questionnaire will allow the courseinstructor to determine prior misconceptions that might exist—perhaps as a result of working onthe sophomore bike design project—and whether or not those misconceptions change as a resultof working with the Rotational Mechanics Lab. (A Dynamics Concept
, whethergeneral or more specific, in terms of ecological impacts. Socially-oriented definitions ofsustainability were few and far between. Few of Burian’s10 civil engineering seniors (19%) andgraduate students (50%) could identify the Triple Bottom line, defined by John Elkington11 as anaccounting framework to consider social, environmental, and economic “pillars” of sustainabilityfor project planning. The Brundtland Report similarly bases true sustainability on threedimensions; eco-, techno- and socio-centric dimensions.1 Other studies show that engineering Page 26.118.4students struggle to consider ethics at a society-level. Referencing the frequent use
.” Lone Ranger (Lone Ranger): “It was challenging to conceptually define the project by reading the short description.” (2) Students who struggled in the problem synthesis phase. Two members of the Star Wars 8 team, Skywalker and Kenobi, faced challenges in the problem synthesis phase, specifically in building the simulation and validating it. Ramvik, Solo and Squash, particularly struggled working with the simulations during the problem synthesis phase. Solo felt that he was ambitious in his plans, while Squash struggled with learning a new language for the simulation. Solo (Star Wars 8): “It was difficult because we were ambitious in our plans. I tried making my own ID Finite Difference Model in
) servicelearning project where 240 freshmen mechanical engineering students worked together in smallteams to design and deploy an engineering outreach experience for a designated age-group of 4th-11th grade students. This educational experience is designed to expose the freshmen engineeringstudents to a variety of concepts and skills necessary for successful negotiation of theirengineering careers. The project encourages the freshmen to challenge their assumptions andconceptions of what an engineer is and does. Other knowledge and skills gained includeunderstanding and using the engineering design process, effectively working on engineeringteams, effectively communicating, planning and making decisions, all while solving an open-ended problem. The
motivated by, beingwell-compensated for their work. It becomes more of a concern if highly controlled motivations(external or introjected) are the only incentives for career persistence. In this study population,this was a relatively small group (3 women and 1 man). What was similar among these fourparticipants was that both the man and women who expressed only controlled motivations alsodisplayed lower self-confidence regarding both engineering work and their career pathwaychoices than those participants expressing some autonomous motivations.For those participants who lacked the autonomous motivation, a universal expression of low self-efficacy emerged, particularly with regard to more technical tasks. For instance, Jacob seemed tobe planning his
in 2010 to nearly 600 billion USD by 2020 3.Green Manufacturing as defined by Smith and Melnyk 4 is “a system that integrates product andprocess design issues with issues of manufacturing planning and control in such a manner as toidentify, quantify, assess, and manage the flow of environmental waste with the goal of reducingand ultimately minimizing environmental impact while also trying to maximize resourceefficiency”. Increased environmental consciousness among manufacturing industries helped tofoster new techniques for streamlining processes and increased reusability. Financial benefits,Global Image, Environmental conservation, Regulations compliance, Stakeholders, Greeninnovations, Supply Chain requirements, and Market trends are some
do you imagine people with these jobs do on a day-to-day basis?7. Future plans Even though graduation is pretty far away, I’d like to get a sense of your future plans. What do you want to be when you grow up? Page 26.961.17 How did you choose (xxx)? Have you considered other areas/subjects?How would you become a (career choice)?What would you say it takes to be a good (insert student’s career choice)?How are you at (insert characteristics student mentions)?Are there any fields/careers you just don’t want to go into? Why?Who talks with you about career choices (parent, relative, teachers, etc.)?(If applicable
preparation or work done and decisions made by the facultyadvisor. This is because students have control over their design and technology choices, butcannot do much about the MAE curriculum and have difficulty countermanding the adviceof the faculty advisor. Thus the authors embarked on a plan to remedy two issues with this situation: • the reliance on faculty to bridge students’ skill gap, • the inaccessibility of a pathway through the curriculum that allows students to build their skills to the level these competitions require.Addressing the first issue requires the faculty to download their knowledge to the students ina more formal way, other than individual coaching. Although it is reasonable to individuallycoach a student or students
college. I really started freaking out.I was ready to give up. I remember calling my mom and telling her my plans to quit. Shetold me that I had never given up on anything and to not give up now. I was annoyed—Iwasn’t giving up I just couldn’t do the work. I didn’t belong here. She told me that shedidn’t want to hear me say that I can’t do anything. She was right. I’ll never forget thatconversation—I was ready to quit and she was the voice of reason.After almost dropping out I continued to take classes. I managed to calm down a little bit.I would tell myself that I can do this. I had already gotten through it this far. I’d be fine.I finally figured out that I was missing out on a lot of resources that were available forme. Office hours are one
both engineers and non- engineers to become members and work on “wickedproblems”, complex problems that are experienced as local manifestations of global trends. Suchwicked problems are contingent on multiple, interconnected factors manifest longitudinally atlocal, national and international levels (Gardner 2011). Global economic trends interrelated withlocal wages influence aggregate availability and consumption of resources including food,energy, water. Planning depends on local customs and, sociopolitical and legal institutions.Planet-scale environmental changes shape local climate and soil, affecting productivity andaccess to resources. In the interim, individuals and households experience the synchronic effectsof food, water and energy
nonacademic interactions with faculty, and thesocial supportive residential environment. Page 26.1450.9Using two-wave longitudinal data from 2004-2007 National Study of Living Learning Programs(NSLLP), Szelényi and Inkelas investigated how the living learning program affected 294 femalestudents’ persistence in STEM majors.21 The researchers found one year involvement in theliving-learning program at the beginning of the women’ college education has a long-termpositive relationship with plans to attend graduate school in the fourth year of college. Szelényi,Denson, and Inkelas investigated how living-learning program participation influenced
-learning project that would keep students engaged. TheEngineering Leadership Program objectives were to: • Provide monthly exposure to successful women in engineering, including practicing engineers, engineering alumni, and engineering faculty members whose presentations featured their latest research, experiences, and personal journeys with students • Utilize an individual and group-mentoring model designed to match sophomore- engineering majors with junior and senior engineering majors to specifically target feelings of isolation in engineering. This adapted a mentoring program for all STEM students at Douglass that was already being planned for the 2013-2014 year to target engineering students
mathematics and science lesson plans to complete the learning circle by tyingmathematics/science problems to their experiences. Many of these students decide to apply foracademic magnet middle schools focused on STEM based on the success of the 4th and 5th gradeintegrated lesson/field trip curriculum to The Citadel. Assessment of curriculum changes basedon the field trip, student reflective essays, and future attendance at middle and high schoolSTEM magnets will demonstrate the importance of collaboration between universities andelementary and middle school programs (especially STEM focused programs) on engagementwith STEM disciplines in the future.IntroductionEverywhere you read there are discussions about the importance to increase the number
Paper ID #11616Characterizing Student Music Preference and Engineering Major ChoiceMr. Frank Blubaugh, Purdue University Frank Blubaugh is a graduating senior in Multidisciplinary Engineering at Purdue University. He has a diverse academic background in acoustical engineering, education, and music performance.Dr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette Joyce B. Main is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate
fortwo and three mass systems, a single mass system was chosen for in-class implementation forsimplicity. Two and three mass virtual models are more appropriate for a senior level controlsystems or vibrations elective, and we plan to introduce the virtual laboratories into those classesin 2015. Page 26.1703.4We have also completed a model of the ECP-505 inverted pendulum for use in a senior levelcontrol systems course 38 . The ECP design is unlike other inverted pendulum models in that the (a) ECP rectilinear stage 37 (b) Simulink model of ECP rectilinear stage Figure 1: ECP-210 rectilinear stage and
Washington St. Louis at 8. Using Peer Review to Improve Students’ Writing. Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing, University of Michigan at 9. How to Plan And Guide In-Class Peer Review Activities. The Teaching Center, University of Washington St. Louis at 10. White, A. The Elements of Graphic Design. 224 (Allworth Press, 2011).11. Tufte, E. Beautiful Evidence. 213 (Graphics Press, 2006). Page 26.1707.12Appendix 1: Rubric used to evaluate capstone report figures Scoring Question 1 2 3
. Palomba, C. A. and Banta, T. W., Assessment Essentials: Planning, Implementing, and Improving Assessment in Higher Education, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA 1999.23. Anon., Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs Effective for Reviews During the 2015-2016 Page 26.1730.11 Accreditation Cycle, ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission, 2015, Accessed on January 28, 2015. from http://www.abet.org/uploadedFiles/Accreditation/Accreditation_Step_by_Step/Accreditation_Documents/Curre nt/2015-2016/E001%2015-16%20EAC%20Criteria%2011-7-14.pdf
homework and examsTeam based assignments included the following: project letter of understanding project plan team contract final design report final graphics portfolioData CollectionData were sourced directly from the completed grade sheets after all individual and team gradeshad been entered. Grades from certain semesters (labeled in graphs presented below) werechosen specifically for this study. The semesters were chosen on the basis of having had no Page 26.1740.5reflective journal assignment, versus having had a reflective journal assignment. The lastrequirement, when selecting the semesters to analyze, are that
facilitate that retention should be an important focus when planning courses and choosingteaching methods.In early mechanics courses, such as statics and solid mechanics, a student ought to rememberbasic concepts and formulas for equilibrium, shear and moment diagrams, truss analysis,buckling, stress and strain computation for various loadings and other important topics. Thatsaid, student recollection of those concepts, an essential part of applying them in the widercontext of engineering design, is notoriously poor1. The authors’ experience strongly indicatesthat our students have difficulty dredging up knowledge that they haven’t touched recently, and
topics.Mr. David W Reazin, Purdue University Dave Reazin is currently a third year student at Purdue University working towards a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Automatic Controls and Integrated Software Methods. Scheduled to grad- uate in 2016, Dave plans to enter industry before returning to school to complete his Masters. Through- out his time at Purdue, Dave has also worked as a Resident Assistant and Staff Resident for University Residences, a Teaching Assistant and Grading Systems Team Lead for the Purdue University First Year Honors Engineering Program, and an Electrical Engineering Intern for United Launch Alliance in Cape Canaveral, FL
have to meet with an advisor.Students’ first contact with the first-year advisor takes place during their summer orientationprogram. The first-year advisor is involved in orientation planning for the college andparticipates in information and advising sessions during orientation. During orientation incomingstudents are assigned to both the first-year advisor and their discipline-specific advisor.Various means of communication are utilized throughout the students’ first semester to keepthem informed about upcoming events, announcements, etc. First-year students receive broadcast Page 26.693.4emails about upcoming
described in this paper was funded via the Idaho STEM Talent Expansion Program(STEP) grant, awarded in 2010. At the start of the grant, an external advisory board was created,led by the Provost and including the Deans of Engineering and Arts & Sciences, and severalcommunity members interested in increasing the science, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM) workforce in this state. The advisory board met twice annually, andreviewed the targets of the grant each time they met. The grant’s objective was explicitly focusedon first-year success: “The Idaho STEP Program represents an institutional plan and commitment to first year success for incoming STEM majors at Boise State University. It is designed for student success
some elements (videos and materials) and less for others (time required,overall structure). These effects were considered, along with the instructors’ overallperceptions of this first iteration of flipping, in planning for spring 2013.Spring Semester 2013Structure: Several key changes to the structure of the course were implemented in spring 2013.Class attendance was made optional in this semester, and “optional work sessions” with theinstructors/teaching assistant were substituted and made available to students. This change wasimplemented in response to student feedback on the time required in the course. The changewas also made in an effort to encourage students toward self-empowered learning, andstrengthening their skills related to ABET
" in their names or Page 26.716.4descriptions often cover environmental and economic issues as well as the implementation ofpractical solutions.The class is planned for 10 weekly lectures of 3 hours each, which represents 11 weeks (with afinal exam) of a regular quarter. Lectures are intended to be delivered by either the instructor or aspecialist in the topic being taught. Two laboratory sessions on the major renewable energysystems are embedded in this course. The last section of each lecture (each divided in threemajor sections: resources, system components and characteristics, and design) focuses on thedesign of the different products and/or
gain ownership through planning their academic goals. Classroom time is conserved by building reflection into other settings, and the process encourages continuous iterative reflection rather than a single paper or event at the end of the field experience. This is particularly important…where regular classroom meetings are difficult to arrange. [6, p. 30] Page 26.722.5Cooperative education, then, is similar to an internship serving to deepen the students’ practicalskills as well as their knowledge base. There are, of course, other forms of experiential learning. Increasingly, research is becoming anarea of interest for
literature. Paris: International Institute for Educational Planning.[8] Yoon, K. S., Duncan, T., Lee, S. W. Y., Scarloss, B., & Shapley, K. L. (2007). Reviewing the Evidence on How Teacher Professional Development Affects Student Achievement. Issues & Answers. REL 2007-No. 033. Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest (NJ1).[9] S. Y. Yoon, H. Diefes-Dux, and J. Strobel, (2013) “First-Year Effects Of An Engineering Professional Development Program On Elementary Teachers,” Am. J. Eng. Educ. AJEE, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 67–84.[10] Guskey, T. R. (1998). The age of our accountability. Journal of Staff Development, 19(4), 36-44.[11] Newman, D. (2010). An empirical