have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The research on nontraditional students has been published and presented at two academicconference proceedings. American Society for Engineering Educators in 2014 at Indianapolis,Indiana called “Nontraditional Student Access and Success in Engineering” and Frontiers inEducation in 2014 at Madrid, Spain called “Getting Better With Age: Older Students AchieveHigher Grades and Graduation Rates”. Page 26.636.7What do we plan to do during the next year to accomplish the goals?The researchers plan on investigating the relationship between economic status andnontraditional students to see
retention.Their longitudinal study revealed that those engineering students that participated inentrepreneurship education were more likely to be retained (70% vs. 51%) and claimed theywere more confident in their decision to pursue an engineering degree.1 Some of theentrepreneurship programs reviewed as part of their research revealed that while the programsdiffered, they also shared several features. Programs were generally available to seniors and wereproject based. Programs incorporated teams of students, sometimes across disciplines, workingon projects supplied by industry or by the students themselves. Project outcomes typicallyincluded working prototypes and business plans. Industry, practitioners, and experiencedentrepreneurs were often
Transfer Alliance Project (TAP)which will provide continued support and advice on putting together a competitive transferapplication for the university of their choice. The students are also offered a stipend of $1000 intravel funds in order to present their research project at a national conference. The TTE REUprogram is described in greater detail by Artis2,3.Data Collection MethodsThe evaluation of the TTE program examines the overall success of the REU Site. Formativeevaluation for each cohort of participants is conducted to ensure that the program is progressingas planned. The formative evaluation measures include a survey conducted midway, examinationof weekly research journal entries, and one-on-one progress meetings. The
assessment system is presented by Pierrakos and Watson3. Of courseany assessment plan involves the assessment of faculty effectiveness4, teaching5, and learning6-8.B. The Challenge of High Faculty TurnoverMaintaining a consistent assessment process in order to meet the ABET Criteria, as well asattaining student outcomes, maintaining course continuity and connectivity to other courses andprograms can be especially problematic in programs that have high faculty turnover. Forexample, at the USCGAs Electrical Engineering (EE) program, mandatory re-assignment andpromotion of personnel, we typically call “rotators,” creates an annual faculty turnover of about10%. Note 60% of the program’s instructors are permanent. Similarly, schools that hirednumerous
Paper ID #12495Bringing Lifeline Research to Vertically Integrated Classrooms via a Four-Point Bending Test of a PipeDr. Rupa Purasinghe, California State University, Los Angeles Dr. Purasinghe is a Professor of Civil Engineering at California State University at Los Angeles and coordinates Freshman Civil Engineering Design and Capstone Design courses as well as Computer Aided Structural Analysis/Design and Experimentation Lab. Please note that this paper has several co-authors as well.Mr. John E. Shamma John E. Shamma is the Facility Planning Team Manager for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Classrooms (Curriculum Exchange)AuthorsNicholas Stambach, Graduate Student Manager, nstambac@mines.eduBarbara Moskal, Director, bmoskal@mines.eduProgram Websitehttp://trefny.mines.edu/Program SummaryThe lesson plan that is proposed for presentation here wascreated as part of a larger, kindergarten through twelfth grade(K-12) outreach program. A unique feature of this program is theinclusion of all grade-levels, K-12, within a given district.Additionally, this program is modeled after a National ScienceFoundation GK-12 program, which was originally funded overten years ago. The lesson presented here targets grades 5 through8. Teachers who participate in this program attend a two-weeksummer workshop which is taught by
field of engineeringeducation and their graduate students (2013, n = 9 faculty, n = 8 graduate students; 2014, n = 8faculty, n = 10 graduate students), and ii) three broader participation workshops at national andinternational engineering education conferences (AAEE 2012, n = 16; ASEE 2013, n = 112; FIE2014, n = 18). This paper describes the model of the ongoing collaborative engagement process,summarizes findings and insights concerning research quality, and outlines plans for future work.IntroductionThe long-term goal of the research program initiated by this NSF-funded CAREER project is tocultivate, catalyze, and systemize a much needed theoretical discourse within the engineeringeducation research community around research quality in
Education Administration from George Washington University (Washington, DC). Under Mr. Goss’ direction, thousands of global engineering professionals from various corporate organizations have advanced their companies and employee’s careers with training through executive seminars, certifications, short courses and media distributed graduate degree programs.Dr. Philip Regier, Arizona State University Dr. Philip Regier is University Dean for Educational Initiatives and CEO of EdPlus at ASU. Page 26.307.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Starbucks College Achievement Plan: An Innovative Educational PartnershipOn
hour video conferences which include additional training and reporting on our effortsto develop our plan for spreading the use of our educational ideas (in our case Mobile Hands-OnLearning). Included in the process is a requirement to test out our hypotheses (e.g. our valueproposition, possible income streams …) through a minimum of 100 customer interviews. Theprocess ran throughout January and February and was nearly a full-time effort. After February,we have continued to work on the plan we developed (to create a new division at ASEE to bringsome structure and support to MOHS pedagogy). There was also a one day workshop at ASEE inwhich the 9 pilot groups presented to help educate and recruit the next cohorts. Based on thesuccess of the pilot
projectbooklet. Page 26.727.7Figure 4 Engineering Activity RubricCATEGORY 4 3 2 1 ScoreConstruction Project plan and Project plan is neat Project plan is not Project plan andManagement: structure is neat and and orderly, but the neat and orderly, but structure are notDesign orderly. structure is not. the structure is. neat and orderly.Construction Building is complete Building is Building is Building isManagement: and per architectural
stateand the region will have a significant economic impact.This paper presents: • An overview of the online MFS program, including the curriculum, enrollment requirements, and graduation requirements. Also discussed is some historical background on face-to-face MFS education at the university. • A faculty training program offered by the university for online delivery of courses. • A discussion of hybrid, or blended, course delivery of two of the program’s courses in Fall 2014 as part of the process of converting them to an online format. • Assessment data from the course blended course delivery in Fall 2014, and assessment plans for future fully online courses
Nephrotex, we developed a coding schemebased on Safoutin and colleagues’ (2000) design attribute framework, which stems from ABETstudent outcome criterion 3c. Their original coding scheme consisted of fourteen elements: needrecognition, problem definition, planning, management, information gathering, idea generation,modeling, feasibility analysis, evaluation, selection/decision, implementation, communication,documentation, and iteration. We selected and modified 7 of the 14 codes that were applicable toNephrotex (Figure 5). We removed need recognition and modeling because students are giventhe needs statement and the modeling tools within the internship program. We removed ideageneration and implementation because students do not create a novel
Paper ID #11209Integrated Active Learning Tools for Enhanced Pedagogy in a Software En-gineering CourseDr. Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University Acharya joined Robert Morris University in Spring 2005 after serving 15 years in the Software Indus- try. His teaching involvement and research interest are in the area of Software Engineering education, Software Verification & Validation, Data Mining, Neural Networks, and Enterprise Resource Planning. He also has interest in Learning Objectives based Education Material Design and Development. Acharya is a co-author of ”Discrete Mathematics Applications for Information
“Critical Engineering Challenges”, I thinkit is problems in today’s society. I thought I would be working in a team of 3-4, working onsome sort of project that saves gas. I thought I would be doing lots of planning & engr. des.work.”Q2. Confidence and Success.A2. “Having an idea that I will be working on a motorcycle mademe a little scared due to my lack of motorcycle knowledge. I felt that I wouldn’t be THAT greatat building/machining b/c I’ve done only a little work with mechanical engineering. I did havesome confidence because I helped build a tricycle in engr. des. when I originally had no tricycleknowledge. I had about 50% confidence.”Q3. Faculty Mentoring. A3. “Initially, I thought I would be spending all my time with theresearch advisor
. This new program resulted from transitioning anexisting program in Manufacturing Engineering Technology along with its option in CAD/CAM.This new program accepted its first class of students in 2014 and plans to graduate 24 engineersper year starting in 2017. As part of the development of the curriculum for this new program,faculty in the department focused heavily on the recommendations from the Curriculum 2015initiative conducted by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).3-4 Its primary goal was toexamine the state of manufacturing education in the US and to develop a plan for revising andimproving it. Included in the sixteen recommendations were two that encouraged the furtherdevelopment of SME’s Four Pillars of Manufacturing, and its
engineering design process and that theworkshops empowered them and their students to tackle projects previously perceived asbeyond their skill level. Insufficient preparation for troubleshooting hardware andsoftware issues was listed as the greatest barrier to fully realizing the technology’spotential in the classroom. Also highlighted was a lack of resources for development ofmeaningful lesson plans using this nascent technology.IntroductionDuring the summers of 2013 and 2014 four workshops were held for high school scienceand technology teachers. The workshop participants built and commissioned their ownRepRap 3D printers in order to take them back to their schools to use in classrooms.Workshops were intended to provide the tools and basic
heating to create a design plan and develop a materials budget for their passive solar house. (NGSS 4- PS3-4, 3-5-ETS1-2; CCSS 4.MD.A.3, 4.MD.A.2, SL.4.1)• Make a Prototype: Teams use their design plans to build their models. (NGSS 4-PS3-4; CCSS SL.4.1)• Test the Prototype: Teams conduct fair tests to determine if their models meet the criteria of the problem. Students calculate the total open area on each side of the house and roof. Teams prepare and present their findings. The class then compares their designs to determine the relationship between the team designs that were most successful and the features of those designs. (NGSS 4-PS3-4, 3-5-ETS1-3; CCSS SL.4.1)• Reflect and Redesign: Teams
-artsinstitution, could participate in service-learning projects through an engineering living-learningcommunity (LLC). This LLC is named Program for an Engineering Education Community(PEEC) and has included six student cohorts since its inception. The PEEC program is designedwith a 3-credit introduction to engineering course in the fall semester followed by a 1-creditcourse in the spring, with the intention that the service project planning occurs in the fall andimplementation in the spring. Of the approximately 110 incoming first year engineering studentseach year, the program is limited to about 25 students per year and continually reaches fullcapacity. Students are selected for the program based on interest and to create as much academic,ethnic, and
research interests include Structural Health Monitoring of bridges using Non-Destructive Testing, and rehabilitation, retrofitting and strengthening of structures. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the states on New Jersey and Alabama, with six years of industrial experience.Dr. Namhun Lee, Central Connecticut State University Dr. Namhun Lee is an assistant professor in the department of Manufacturing and Construction Manage- ment at Central Connecticut State University, where he has been teaching Construction Graphics/Quantity Take-Off, CAD & BIM Tools for Construction, Building Construction Systems, Building Construction Estimating, Heavy/Highway Construction Estimating, Construction Planning, and
microcontrollers and FPGAs. Kief retired from the Air Force in 1998 following 20 years of military service. His final military assignment was at the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center (AFOTEC) at Kirtland Air Force Base. Kief holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of New Mexico. He has published and taught in the areas of digital and programmable logic, satellite design, and system verification and validation. He is also an IEEE senior member.Dr. John Reutter III, Drake State Community and Technical College Dr. John Reutter is Director of Planning and Research for Drake State Community and Technical College with responsibility for guiding the College’s strategic planning process and
, schedule and risk. Elements andsubsystems were also linked horizontally and resulted in mutual interactions, some positive andsome not. It was only when all the parts and components were defined and linked (initially byrequirement, then by analysis or simulation, and finally physically) that the true performance(and risk) of a system was understood and managed1.SE was formalized into a series of documents created for the U.S. Government, starting with the Page 26.666.3seminal Mil-Std-499 Systems Engineering Management, which provided the program manager 2criteria for evaluating engineering planning
designedto be technically difficult or time consuming for the students. Homework assignments are createdbased on the course objectives and focus on soft-skills that engineering students get minimalexposure to throughout the remainder of their required curricula. Common assignments eachsemester include a Resume Critique, Graduation Plan, and an Engineering Challenges paperwhere students detail the motivations for completing their engineering degree and the challengesthey anticipate in the coming years. Student comments show that the Engineering Challengesassignment in particular really helped give them a “reality check” and exposed shortcomings intheir study habits or their school-work-home balance. Evaluation techniques for the courseinclude
impellers by implementing the algorithm of theconstant scallop height method to improve tool-path planning of rough machining. As a result, Page 26.1229.5cutting location (CL) data based on the geometry model of blade and hub of the impeller weregenerated. Finally, The CL data were confirmed by comparing them with original CAD modelthrough software simulations and later by machining experiments. The results of verificationproved the machining methodology and procedure to be successful [5].Since much of the machining time is consumed in rough cutting to remove unnecessary stockmaterials between impeller blades, Suhaimi et al. argued that 5-axis rough
systems.Mr. John Kaemmerlen, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) John is a Senior Lecturer at RIT in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, and is the Director of the Toyota Production Systems Laboratory. His areas of concentration are Lean, Production Systems, Facilities Planning, and Supply Chain Management. He also guides many of the capstone projects that RIT engineering students complete in the multidisciplinary senior design program. He has been at RIT for 7 years following 31 years at Eastman Kodak Co.Dr. Matthew Marshall, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Matthew Marshall is an Associate Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Rochester Institute of Technology. He
from the National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (NSFATE) program. The program is now completing its second year and graduating a first group ofwell-prepared photonics technicians ready for employment in the growing photonics industry inthe state and across the US. The second year marked the successful completion of the programcurriculum and further development of the Optics and Photonics Laboratory. Outreach activitiesincluded summer programs for high school and middle school students. The paper describes theoutcomes of the two year project in relation to the objectives of the NSF ATE grant. Challengesand lessons learned along the way are discussed, together with plans for sustainability and futureexpansion of the
Paper ID #11093A Holistic View of Building Information Modeling Education in Post-SecondaryInstitutionsDr. Namhun Lee, Central Connecticut State University Dr. Namhun Lee is an assistant professor in the department of Manufacturing and Construction Manage- ment at Central Connecticut State University, where he has been teaching Construction Graphics/Quantity Take-Off, CAD & BIM Tools for Construction, Building Construction Systems, Heavy/Highway Con- struction Estimating, Building Construction Estimating, Construction Planning, and Construction Project Management. Dr. Lee’s main research areas include Construction
earlierinterdisciplinary efforts. The EnGAGE project was used as an innovative way to promotecollaboration between the two classes while achieving traditional course goals in each. Studentswere involved in all aspects of the project, including site assessment, design, planning and willbe an integral part of construction of the garden. Participants completed short pre and postsurveys during various phases of the project, and will be resurveyed at the project conclusion aswell as asked to write reflections on their to gain qualitative and quantitative data regardingproject success.Introduction:Entry level engineering courses are beginning to emphasize production of a more well-roundedengineer through service and community involvement. Interest in outside of the
in table 2supports the previous statement. With this in mind, the next step would be to evaluate theassignments that the students worked to compare against their survey responses as is planned infuture work.The CaseA simulation for a mass casualty event caused by a tornado hitting the community was plannedand executed by the Nursing department at TSU. The initial goal was for the Nursing departmentto provide a simulated experience in mass casualty treatments for their students. As the Nursingstaff proceeded to plan for the event they came to the point where they asked for help from otherareas to support their activities. Faculty and students from the Engineering Technologydepartment participated in the simulation that was run in real time
duration. The author therefore decided on a hybrid sabbatical model that combined one longer placement and a number of short visits, thus ensuring both deepdive and broad exposure. Sabbatical Planning The first step in coordinating the yearlong sabbatical, as discussed above, was determining the general structure: in this case, one faculty internship placement for four to six months at one company (for depth) and multiple short visits (one to three days each) to a wide range of companies (for breadth). Having established this framework about a year in advance of the sabbatical, the author prepared a cover letter explaining her role at Smith and technical background, her goals for the sabbatical, and how companies could benefit (versatile
-based public discussion and inform publicpolicy.1The SRN model incorporates public stakeholders into the research throughout the project forresearch activities, rather than peripherally for broader impacts goals. Hence, the tasks ofeducation, outreach and outcomes assessment assume a larger role than in some NSF projectsand are envisioned to work closely with researchers to foster relationships with stakeholders thatbenefit both research and broader impacts goals.Outreach in STEM fieldsThe National Science Foundation emphasizes education and outreach activities in its science andengineering awards through its required broader impacts section in all submitted researchproposals. Funded researchers are required to make a plan for sharing results