the third track involveda relatively new pre-existing AS degree program6 that would be updated.Furthermore, one of the faculty members on the SET curriculum feasibility committee alreadyhad a $.5 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technology Education (ATE)grant titled, “Intelligent Infrastructure Systems Education Project”, with its foremost projectgoals being curriculum development (including course material and labs) and two-year collegefaculty development activities. Today, this technology is better known as the Internet of Things(IoT) or cyber-physical systems (CPSs) technology. Cyber-physical systems technology refers toembedded control systems that are “tightly coupled” to the real world and require timing toperform
process the studentcomes to class, listens to a lecture, takes notes of key points made, reviews the materialsometime after the lecture, uses the combination of class notes, homework solutions, anddiscussions with classmates to prepare homework, complete projects, write reports and study forexams. A major component of academic student engagement occurs outside of the classroomafter the lecture. This activity is often backend loaded with increasing independent effortexpended as an exam or deadline approaches.A flipped learning environment includes the activities found in a traditional setting, but also hasadditional activities that promise to increase academic engagement. The key difference is that thestudent must come to class prepared to
Administration from Harvard University. One of his major research interests has been the impact of gender on science careers. This research has resulted in two books (both authored with the assistance of Gerald Holton): Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension and Gender Differences in Science Careers: The Project Access Study.Dr. Philip Michael Sadler, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Philip Sadler holds a B.S. in Physics from MIT and an Ed.D. from Harvard. He co-authored the first integrated computer and laboratory introductory calculus course in 1975. He has taught middle school mathematics, engineering, and science and both undergraduate science and graduate teaching courses at Harvard. His research
recognized, has contributed to scholarship more than 140 articles, presentations, books and reviews on software development methodologies, management, organizational change, and program management. Dr. Springer sits on many university and community boards and advisory committees. He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University, his MBA and Doctorate in Adult and Community Education with a Cognate in Executive Development from Ball State University. Dr. Springer is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP), Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), in Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR), and, in civil and domestic mediation. He is a State of Indiana Registered domestic
. Like I just learned the universal [coefficient] theorem and how it connects to my research project. Once I understand and can apply it, then I get it. I work twice as hard [as others] to understand, but once I get it then I really see the connection and it’s much easier for me. I have to see how it’s applied in a conceptual way for me to get it.Carina: Honestly, I'm a little lazy, to be honest, especially when it doesn't really interest me. Ifit's something I have to do and I know I'm not going to like it. I guess I come to the point where,if it's too much material to where is overwhelming just to learn one simple thing, its just toomuch, and I get lazy about it and I don't even want to pursue reading it.Jasmine: I prefer to work by myself
Paper ID #14160Transportation System Based Summer Academy for Teachers (RTP, Strand4)Dr. Shashi S. Nambisan P.E., University of Tennessee, Knoxville Shashi Nambisan is a Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT). Since 1989, he has led efforts on more than 165 research, education, and outreach projects that have addressed local, statewide, regional and national issues in transportation and infrastructure systems management related to policy, planning, operations, safety, and risk analysis. He has authored or co-authored more than 125 peer reviewed journal and conference publications. Along
important for womenof color. The importance of faculty-student relationships has also been explored more broadly interms of its impact on student motivation32, learning in situated (problem- and project-based)environments e.g., 33, 34, 35, and graduate education e.g., 36, 37. Similarly, Ong et al.’s 2011 reviewof the literature found that women felt that “professors played a critical role in making a STEMcareer a reality”38 for undergraduate and graduate women. Maton and Hrabowski III39 found thatinteraction with faculty, and particularly minority faculty, in and outside the classroom candecrease the feelings of isolation among minority students and contribute to positive outcomessuch as academic achievement, confidence, and persistence.“Mentoring
stressful for somecandidates, is an invaluable means for assessing candidate’s teaching skills. A scheduledpresentation is also an opportunity for regular faculty to meet adjunct candidates, before andafter the seminar, to get to know the candidate and discuss matters of mutual interest, includingpotential future collaboration. (1)Some of the adjunct faculty-particularly those who are seniors in specific industries- could offerimportant linkages for the development of industrial affiliate programs, co-op activities, summertraining opportunities, and employment opportunities for new graduates. They may also providenew ideas for senior design projects, topics for graduate theses, or render help in theestablishment of collaborative research
. x ' x ' y = C y (2) z ' p z 1 1Then, the projection from camera-centered coordinates to image coordinates is expressed by Eq. 3. x u y v
programs.AcknowledgementsFunding for this project was supplied by the National Science Foundation under award numbersEEC-1240327 and -1240328. The authors were appreciative of the time spent by participants torespond to the survey questions and by members of the P20 Motivation and Learning Lab forhelp with data coding and analysis.References 1 Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. New York: Freeman 2 Klassen, R. M., Usher, E. L., & Bong, M. (2010). Teachers’ collective efficacy, job satisfaction, and job stress in cross-cultural context. Journal of Experimental Education, 78, 464-486. doi: 10.1080/00220970903292975 3 Hsieh, P., Sullivan, J. R., Sass, D. a., & Guerra, N. S. (2012). Undergraduate engineering students’ beliefs
. Pedagogicallymotivated design would have integrated mathematics with applications subjects to partlyout-design motivation and contextualization problems.Much of the research in mathematics in engineering education takes for granted the traditionaldesign of engineering education with mathematics courses in the first year. The aim of theresearch is then to alleviate learning problems created by the traditional design itself and thealienation of mathematics from the application fields. There is a substantial difference betweenteaching mathematics to future mathematicians and to engineering students. 6 Alternative designslike problem-based and some project-based learning integrate mathematics with engineeringsubjects to provide a context for mathematics. 7The
—such as “the concept of force” in physics (FCI1);the area of “statics” (CATS2); or “digital logic” in computer science (DLCI3). The questions arefrequently based on science and engineering education research, including research onmisconceptions and common student errors.CIs often have substantial research guiding their development. Nevertheless, validating anassessment involves explicating the proposed uses and interpretation of test scores andmarshaling evidence to support the acceptability and plausibility of particular claims about themeaning of those scores.4 As part of a larger research project we have developed an analyticframework to assess the validity of classroom assessments such as CIs.5 In developing thisframework we have conducted
Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, we offer a variety of engineering degreeprograms. The faculty considers it especially important to apply modern didactical methodslike project based learning in the degree program as early as possible to increase theefficiency of knowledge transfer and to fortify the students’ motivation to learn and to Page 26.410.6cooperate actively. Students are confronted, complementary to their regular courses, withproblems that are of a multidisciplinary nature and demand a certain degree of mathematicalproficiency7. This leads to a closer cooperation among the faculty and thus to a bettercoordination of the courses that take
engineering drawing, improve their threedimensional (3D) visualization skills, and to teach the fundamentals of a computer aided design.The students meet with the instructor twice a week in the laboratory during this three-credit-hoursemester-long course with each class lasting two hours long. Each class is scheduled to deliverthe lecture first after which the students are allowed to complete their assigned homework andask questions as needed. The students learn the principles of orthographic projections and applythe principles to multiple view drawings by hand during the first four weeks of a fourteen-weeksemester. A 3D computer aided parametric modeling tool, CATIA, is then introduced after handdrawing, followed by auxiliary and section views
the schoolprovides the environment with a desirable behavior for the system. We call the academic controlobjective the "Operator."This paper focuses on the agent system by building a simple dashboard tool that will collect students'information about their progress through the curriculum in a program and will generate advisingrecommendations. The agent logic employs principles used in project management tools designed tohelp the students complete their degree plan sooner. For example, it would provide a visualizationmap of course sequences, customized for each student, making advising adjustments that willoptimize the time to obtain the degree under a constrained set of resources. At the same time, theagent system provides feedback to the
traditional 3D printing to medicalapplications. Scalfani has reported on the efforts of the University of Alabama libraries tofacilitate an open access 3D printing studio5. The studio users incorporate these services intoclass projects, research, and instruction. Scalfani has also recommended the deployment of the3D studio in a visibly open area in their library. Colegrove reported findings from the Universityof Nevada, Reno (UNR)6. He indicated that the services offered by the campus library weresubstantial and cut across numerous disciplines. He reported that cross-disciplinary users quicklyadopted the 3D printing services offered by the UNR library and that the new 3D printers wereoperating at or near capacity during their first year of deployment
Appoffers the simulation of this action performed with planes parallel to the coordinate planes XY,XZ and YZ. In Figure 4 we can see images of this simulation, representing reversible thoughtwhich we consider is as key element for the visualization process. Fig. 4. Simulation that fosters the visualization process.The intersection of the curves will be projected on the XY coordinate plane, and a simulationperformed with another button also reverse this effect to reconstruct the surface.About solids of revolutionThe second level of our AR App includes the visualization of solids of revolution. Traditionallythe subject of calculating the volume of a solid of revolution is in the chapter on applications ofIntegral Calculus. In this
. Fig. 7. Experimental setup using Kincet sensorRegarding to the implementation, we program on a computer with Intel Core i5-2430 2.0 GHzCPU, 4 GB DDR main memory. The Kinect sensor is connected to this computer through USBport. We program under 64-bit Windows 7 operating system with Kinect SDK 1.7, XNAS40 aswell as EmguCV version 2.9.0. The programming IDE for this project is Microsoft Visual Studio2010 with .NET framework 4.0.We have 72 volunteers including 38 female and 34 male, and ask them to walk in front of thesensor back and forth. The program records gait silhouettes as well as gender of the testedperson. Page 26.808.9The following are
working in a marketing research firm. Practicumexperiences also allow students to design and develop a project in which they applyknowledge and develop skills such as a doctoral student preparing the components of anonline course. Service Learning Experiences are distinguished by being mutually beneficial for bothstudent and community. Service learning is growing rapidly and is considered a part ofexperiential education by its very nature of learning, performing a job within the community,and serious reflection by the student. Service learning involves solving some of society'sissues; such as, homelessness, poverty, lack of quality education, pollution, etc. One of thegoals of service learning is to help students become aware of these issues
project and list them withinthe report section they planned to implement the literature. The efficacy of this pedagogicalchange to contextualize examples followed by immediate application was assessed by measuringthe frequency and type of citations used by all 3 sections of the class. Citation analysis found astatistically insignificant 7% increase in total number of citations used by the test sectionstudents. Although the utilization of engineering standards did not increase, the use of greyliterature in the test section increase 83% compared with the two control sections taught by thesame engineering faculty. Furthermore the test section decreased their use of multimediainformation. Two subsequent sections of the course taught by other
critical need for qualified engineering graduates to join the workforce. The mostrecent U.S. Bureau of Labor projections through 2020 show significant growth of jobs in thescience, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. Marra1 et al states thatengineering and science fields will grow at more than 3 times the rate of other disciplines.However, in the midst of the demand, institutions of higher education are faced with thechallenge of retaining students within their engineering programs1-5. Student attrition has beenattributed to several factors including: student attitudes and a sense of belonging in discipline,preparation for the course material, and quality of teaching and compatibility with studentlearning styles1,6-10. Although
made the switch from Instruc- tional Laboratory Supervisor to Post-Doctoral Research Associate on an engineering education project. His research area has been engineering education, specifically around the development and assessment of technologies to bring fluid mechanics and heat transfer laboratory experiences into the classroom.Prof. Robert F. Richards, Washington State University Dr. Robert Richards received the PhD in Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. He then worked in the Building and Fire Research Laboratory at NIST as a Post-Doctoral Researcher before joining the faculty of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. His research is in
Curriculum Development. Notable is her number of years in the Academic and Educational Technology field and the experience it brings to her present position.Tonya Troka, Colorado Technical University Tonya Troka, with more than 10 years of experience working with online students, has been a leader of the adaptive learning implementation project since its initial launch in October 2012. As the University Program Director for General Education/Psychology, she works directly with the general education cur- riculum that was used to integrate the adaptive learning technology into the classroom. Troka has also provided insight into using the technology in the classroom and how success should be measured
Initiatives,” includedspeakers from The Gatsby Charitable Trust and The Kavli Foundation, both private foundationssupporting neuroscience research, as well as researchers from the United States and Japan whodescribed their contributions toward the BRAIN Initiative and the Brain/MINDS project,respectively. The panelists described funding priorities and international efforts to understandthe fundamental mechanisms of the brain.STEM Policy ActivitiesAlthough my sabbatical goal included attendance at meetings and workshops related tobiomedical engineering policy, the opportunity arose to participate in activities related toScience, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) policy issues.I served as the AIMBE representative for a workshop held by the
made.Initial course design The statics course considered here is part of a typical calculus-based engineeringmechanics sequence. Topics in the course include force and moment vectors, equilibrium,structural analysis, friction, centroids, and moments of inertia. The class meets three times aweek for 50 minutes over 15 weeks. The course has weekly assignments, four unit exams, afinal exam, and a design project. Some small changes were made to this outline in order toaccommodate “flipping” the class as detailed below. A learning management website was utilized to “flip” the statics course. The course siteconsisted of videos and notes to be viewed by students before class. It also containedassignments and student grades. Students obtained
, analyzing, and interpreting bibliometric dataremains a challenge. Applying information visualization techniques to bibliometric maps creates graphicalrepresentations that enhance users’ understanding of network structure. With the increasing availability ofsophisticated tools that allow for easy data analysis, mapping bibliometric data has become more accessible tolibrarians.This paper examines the value of visualizing bibliometric data. Specifically, it relates the experience of usingthe Sci2 Tool to analyze the data collected for a citation analysis project and to visualize the co-authors, co-citation, and bibliographic coupling networks revealed by that analysis. Furthermore, it discusses thechallenges encountered while using the Sci2 Tool for
time to generate test cases as the pro- gram graph provides visual aid for test case generation. 2. Improves the correctness of test cases. Students have more confidence when they practice white–box testing. 3. Increases students’ involvement. Students are interested in test automation and willing to keep working on the project for extension.5. Conclusion Page 26.42.11This paper presents a novel approach to build a program graph visualizer for teaching white-boxtesting techniques. The program graph is constructed from bytecode to handle compound condi-tion for a variety of testing coverage. The graph program visualizer
students to assist teachers in theclassroom. Also, the instructional lead teacher will conduct model lessons in classes throughoutthe school to provide examples of lessons and activities that can be facilitated in existingcurriculum. It is anticipated that student enthusiasm and engagement in these lessons will, inturn, increase teacher motivation to engage with the program.The results of the survey, as noted, are also being used to pursue additional funding opportunitiesto support the goals and objectives of the committee. Grants have been submitted throughGoogle Community Grants and Project Lead the Way (PLTW), national initiatives that have the
conceptual understanding.The lecture on venturi flow in the context of Bernoulli’s equation was given the day before theexercise took place. Students completed an online quiz following the lecture which tested theirunderstanding of the relationship between velocity and pressure in a venturi.In the following class students were given the link so that they could view the experiment live ontheir laptops. The instructor controlled the experiment and projected the image. Students couldobserve the change in pressure along the venturi from the height of the colored fluid in themanometer tubes. They were then asked to perform calculations based on the experiment. Theworksheet included a diagram of the venturi used in the remote lab, calculation questions
important for educational institutions where enrollment is growing faster thanthe budget and the resource.After using BroadReach Extended, the students repeatedly express satisfaction with immediatelab experiment grading and the ability to use feedback to correct lab work and resubmit the lab toachieve the maximum grade.In the future, we would like to expand the BRE project and make the system more usable to agreater number of faculty teaching technical classes with labs. Grading and feedback scripts canbe difficult and tedious, and may not be possible for all faculty to create. A future BRE upgradeis intended to include a menu-driven module for less experienced faculty, and an advancedmodule that accepts complex programming statements for