improved communication (0%).When specifically queried “what skills did you learn that you did not know before class”, 54% ofstudents reported a topic based skill (e.g., using general circulation model output), whereas 38%reported an actual skill (e.g., improved statistics). When asked what they found most difficult,50% reported the topic, and 29% reported administrative issues (e.g., number of homeworks,final test/ project, etc.). Page 26.786.5 How much of current climate related classes are overlaps of previous material as a) listed
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for educational proposals and projects, and working with faculty to publish educational research. Her research interests primarily involve creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship education.Mr. Philip M. Reeves, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Mr. Reeves is a graduate student in the Educational Psychology program at Penn State.Irene B. Mena, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Irene B. Mena has a B.S. and M.S. in industrial engineering, and a Ph.D. in engineering education. Her research interests include first-year engineering and graduate student professional development.Dr. Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Thomas A. Litzinger is Director of the Leonhard Center
ratio of notes in each chord are equal.III. Conclusion and Future Work In this paper, we have tried to create a vivid description of the general physics classroom by reviewing several of the most commonly cited problems that result from the course content and method of instruction. We realize that without having implemented our project in an actual classroom or obtaining any data of our own, we cannot make any new conclusions. However, by describing a broad set of issues as well as simple solutions, we hope to offer the average teacher with at least one new idea to try and use with his or her own students. This process is in the preliminary stages, and we would like to
. He also worked on projects and consulted for a number of private companies, including Lockheed Martin, Harris, and Boeing. Zalewski served as a chairman of the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 5.4 on Industrial Software Quality, and of an International Federation of Automatic Control Technical Committee on Safety of Computer Control Systems. His major research interests include safety related, real-time embedded and cyberphysical computer systems, and computing education.Mr. Gerardo Javier Pinzon P.E., Texas A&M International University Page 26.180.1
process forapplying for grants: where to get NSF Fastlane or NIH Commons accounts; what internal formsneed to accompany an application; who needs to sign off on grant applications; when are thedeadlines for submitting a proposal; and, how does one build a budget including correct amountsfor indirect costs and fringe benefits. New faculty were also given copies of the OU Researchmagazine, which is another source of information about research projects currently underway atOU.As new faculty work on writing research proposals, one of the ways that they can hone theirproposal writing skills and build a funding record early on is to apply for internal fundingopportunities. Such opportunities clearly vary from institution to institution, but at OU, one
increasing number of flipped classroom resources to support technical education for renewable energy technicians. Jim sincerely believes energy independence through development of renewable energy sources is the correct course for our nation’s future and actively promotes and supports development of renewable energy projects in the Pacific Northwest. Page 26.494.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Developing and Deploying Flipped Classroom Resources for RenewableEnergy TechniciansMr. James Pytel, CREATE and Columbia Gorge Community CollegeJim Pytel received a Bachelor
. Courses are often integrated into these two major fields to allow for some exposure to themanufacturing industry. A paper in the Journal of Engineering Education notes that amovement to move to higher course content on manufacturing in both of these disciplines isneeded8. Many current engineering programs do not emphasize the marriage of design andmanufacturing in a modern industrial technical workforce.Many research studies have assessed the quality of exposure to manufacturing through the senior“Capstone” design project course. McMasters and Lang believe that too few in industry have anunderstanding of how the current engineering education is set-up. Therefore, if industry partnersare brought into the education process through design projects
support a subset of existing literature that shows studentsengaging in expert engineering practices and approaching problems with more nuance and skillthan is often expected of children in grade 3-5.11,12 This is further supported by an ongoing studyin its second year looking closely at teachers’ use of textbook based science and engineeringcurriculum versus teachers using researched project based science, hands on science andengineering curricula that directly addresses NGSS’ call for integrating engineering andscience.14 In the first year results of their study, students engaged in the hands-on project basedcurriculum outperformed their peers in the comparison curriculum, that used textbook basedwork, on outcome measures aligned to the core
simulation tools for quantum mechanics learning?Method and Research DesignThis work is part of Quantum Learning in Engineering And Physics (Quantum LEAP)project. The Quantum LEAP project aims to develop an integrated framework for the designand assessment of effective simulation-based learning environments for quantum educationbased on studies about engineering and physics students’ non-normative conceptions andmetacognitive learning strategies.Research Design. The presented study is guided by interpretive research design. Interpretiveresearch design enables the researcher to presume that knowledge and understanding areresults of interpretation and based on individual’s subjective experiences12. Interpretiveresearches consider that knowledge and
Society for Engineering Education, 2015 The DeFINE Program: A Clinical Immersion for Biomedical Needs Identification I. IntroductionThere is a need for biomedical engineering students to more fully engage in the problemidentification and needs-finding stages of the biomedical device design process throughexperiential learning and immersive experiences. Many publications have documented theimportance of immersion outcomes in design, technology commercialization, and overall studentlearning.Kline et al. documents eight best practices for technology commercialization projects that fosterinnovation education and fit a variety of innovation stages that might vary per student design.1Zappe et al. agrees
-making duringthe student-to-student interaction of collaborative engineering design projects? To confirmopportunities for all six reflective decision-making elements during classroom project work, weconducted content analysis of the EiE curriculum units. As discussed above, in Lesson 4 of allunits, we found learning tasks that could reasonably be expected to call upon these six elements.Partnering with four elementary teachers, we video recorded seven EiE units at four differentgrade levels (water filters in 2nd grade, bridges in 3rd grade, circuits in 4th grade, and maglevvehicles, windmills, pollinators, and knee braces in 5th grade). During each unit, we focusedvideo recorders on one or two student groups. We also collected students’ paper
Paper ID #11853Using an Instrument Blueprint to Support the Rigorous Development of NewSurveys and Assessments in Engineering EducationMs. Jessica Menold Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Jessica Menold is a second year graduate student interested in entrepreneurship, the design process, and innovativeness of engineering graduates and professionals. She is currently working as a student mentor in the Lion Launch Pad program, where she works to support student entrepreneurs. Jessica is currently conducting her graduate research with Dr. Kathryn Jablokow on a project devoted to the development of a
beginning of class. 6At Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech), an initiative to encourage the inclusionof blended learning in the classroom began in the 2013-2014 academic year. Faculty wereencouraged to submit proposals to the Jackson Center Blended Learning Grant program for“course/program reform or expansion projects using blended and online learning”.7 Through thisprogram, faculty can receive funds to help them incorporate blended learning or on-lineresources into their courses or programs. Faculty within the First-Year Engineering Programreceived a small grant to develop pre-lesson instructional modules for the coverage of first-yearENG course topics on MATLAB. These pre-lessons would allow for additional course support,instruction
Paper ID #12501Presenting Test Benches and Device Characteristics of Programmable LogicIn An Introductory Logic Circuits CourseDr. Krista M Hill, University of Hartford Dr. Krista M. Hill is an associate professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. PhD and MSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Inst. in Worcester MA, and previ- ously a project engineer at Digital Equipment Corp. She instructs graduate and undergraduate computer engineering computer courses, directs graduate research, and performs research involving embedded mi- croprocessor based systems. Her current projects
supports Innovation and Start-Up Projects. While at Un- ternehmerTUM, Florian was involved in a marketing project for a tourism startup (Social Tourist) and consulting for another startup that monitors super lightweight structures (fos4x). He joined the Designing Education Lab to learn more about entrepreneurial decision making for profit or non-profit organizations and social entrepreneurship in general.Dr. Qu Jin, Stanford University Qu Jin is a postdoctoral scholar in the Designing Education Lab at Stanford University. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Engineering Education from Purdue University in 2013, M.S. degree in Biomedical En- gineering from Purdue University in 2009, and B.S. degree in Material Science and
student led presentation. It would to be nice if each student could present more than once in the semester with a different team member. It was a good learning experience. I wish you could do it twice a week! • I am a busy grad student and didn’t have time to devote 20+ hours to one presentation. Time guidelines for the project may help future students have an idea of how much time is expected to be spend on this. [My team mate and I] had very different views on how much time each task would require, which caused some issues, I think. Good – I really learned that material and felt confident about the concepts. • Students can be given the choice to select team
Page 26.238.2for water demand worldwide present challenges to scientists and engineers to attain sustainablemanagement of water resources. A recent United Nations report projects that virtually everynation will face a water supply problem within the next 8 years; currently more than a billionpeople have little access to clean drinking water, and 2 billion live in conditions of waterscarcity2. To address these critical issues, the NAE’s “The Engineer of 2020” highlights the needfor implementing ecologically sustainable practices to preserve the environment for futuregenerations. Further, the report emphasizes that water supplies will affect the future of theworld’s economy and stability3. As a result, the NAE warns that unless better ways to
, TaskValue and Intrinsic Goal Orientation in 2012, and Task Value in 2013). This suggests that themost stable impact of the studio-based learning environment is the impact it has on students’views of Task Value. Unfortunately, the stable impact of the new instructional technique yieldeda decrease in students’ perceptions of the class’ Task Value. However, even Task Value scoreswere found to vary as a function of Major, Race, and Gender. This suggests that these TaskValue scores, as well as those from other scales, must be evaluated in light of the demographiccharacteristics of the students who provide those scores.Qualitative DataAs part of the overall research for this project, all participants were asked to complete a series of50 qualitative
an ongoing collaborative action research project that aims to develop a tool for assessingengineering students’ development of WSP literacy. Specifically, we provide a matrix of 22concrete ILOs for WSP literacy, as well as two different approaches to assessing (some of) themin engineering education. We expect that engineering educators will find these ILOs andassessment strategies valuable for adopting a constructive alignment approach for WSP literacyin their teaching.Study overviewThe study reported on in this paper is a collaborative action research project in which theresearchers have worked together with different groups of interested engineering educators tomake sense of previous empirical research about engineering students
includes group design - build projects incorporating planning, management, and documentation. Page 26.262.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Assessment of Inverted Classroom Success Based on Felder’s Index of Learning StylesAbstractInverting the classroom is a pedagogical practice that has recently gained significant popularity.With the increase in its use, it is essential to understand the impacts of the practice and students’experiences in this type of classroom. This pedagogical structure was implemented in a first-yearengineering course
approach to teaching professional communication, andintroduce our larger research project, which aims to assess the effectiveness of our program.Finally, we shall briefly reflect on whether the small communication class is really as inefficientas some have suggested. The purpose of this study is to develop the theoretical groundwork fora larger study we are just beginning to conduct on the efficacy of our professionalcommunication program. Using the investigative tools of narrative research and discourseanalysis, we hope ultimately to determine the degree to which our program, which maintainssmall classes and focuses on cultivating students’ rhetorical judgment, effectively graftsprofessional communication onto our students’ burgeoning
answers toParts (a) and (c) of the question described in Figure 2 when they begin trying to explain theirrespective answers in Parts (b) and (d). This self-critique of the student’s conceptions (andmisconceptions) would seem to represent learning at the highest levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy13.3. MethodsConcept Quizzes were incorporated into two courses: an introductory material and energybalances course (CHE 205) and a transport phenomena course focusing on fluid mechanics andheat transfer (CHE 311). Concept Quizzes were given to students as a typical typed questionsheet and lasted 10 minutes of class time. When giving a Concept Quiz to students, the instructoralso projected the quiz content onto a screen in the classroom, read the questions to the
Material Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in China in 2007. Her research interests focus on educational studies that can help improve teaching, learning, and educational policy decision makings using both quantitative and qual- itative research methods. Her current research project in National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) focuses on measuring engineering students’ entrepreneurial interests and related individual characteristics. Her Ph.D. dissertation involved using statistical modeling methods to explain and predict engineering students’ success outcomes, such as retention, academic performance, and grad- uation
best practices from the scholarship of teaching and learning. Outside of course development, his primary re- search interests are in biomechanics, rehabilitation, prosthetics, and robotics. His current research projects include robotic methods modeling and predicting human motion, the functional evaluation of a variety of prosthetic devices, and the creating of low-cost virtual reality systems for stroke rehabilitation. His goals are to offer the best possible education to his students and to increase the mobility and manipulability of persons with disabilities.Dr. Robert James O’Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University Dr. ROBERT (BOB) J. O’NEILL is Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Civil
Paper ID #13115How Misconceptions Might be Repaired through Inquiry Based ActivitiesMs. Gina Cristina Adam, University of California, Santa Barbara Gina C. Adam is pursuing her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a M.A. in Teaching and Learning at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her main research interest is conceptual understanding in engi- neering education. Additionally, she helped as a graduate student researcher in two large scale engineering education projects, one related to developing a taxonomy for the field supervised by Dr. Cynthia Finelli at University of Michigan and one on pioneers in
). We found no significant relationshipbetween the students’ performance and mastery scores for their favorite course (r = .01, p> .05)but did find a significant relationship when they considered their least favorite course (r = .34,p< .01). Our analysis also revealed a significant negative correlation between courseachievement (grade), and mastery learning in the students’ least favorite course (r = -.29, p< .01)and for their performance scores (r = -.48, p< .01). We found no significant relationshipbetween course achievement and the scores on either form of motivation.Discussion and ImplicationsOur goal with this project was to determine how engineering student motivation shifts due totheir favoritism for their courses and the
that application ofthe principles is a bottleneck to many students’ learning experience in fundamental engineeringcourses.While engineering design has been widely used to improve students’ skills in applications,students have limited opportunities to learn from projects in fundamental engineering coursesdue to broad spectrum of content, strict schedule, relatively large enrollment, limited budget, andstudents’ design skills. This study selected engineering dynamics course as an example toimprove students’ capability in applying the principles in dynamics into problem solving throughreflective learning practices.Engineering dynamics is a high-enrollment engineering core course; while one of the mostdifficult courses to teach and learn in
Paper ID #12870A ”Trick and Think” Approach to a Second-Order Circuit LabDr. Ilan Grav´e, Elizabethtown College Ilan Grav´e received B.Sc. in Physics and Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. in Physics from Tel-Aviv University in Israel, and a PhD in Applied Physics from Caltech, in Pasadena, California (1993). In the past he has lead high-tech R&D avionics projects at the Israeli Aircraft Industries; has been a se- nior researcher and adviser at the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, in the Ministry of Post and Communications in Rome, Italy; and has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Univer- sity
Competition. He has worked for United Technologies (Hamilton Sundstrand) and General Dynamics on numerous projects including International Space Station Life Support, Joint Strike Fighter Propulsion Control Systems and U.S. Army Biodefense. He received his B.S. from Vanderbilt University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Browne serves as the Chair of the Engineering Technology Division of the Southeastern Section of ASEE; he also does extensive volunteer work for the FIRST Foundation (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology).Mr. David George Vutetakis Jr, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Mr. Vutetakis is a graduate student at The University of