with internetaccess and we recorded their website browse history for future analysis. For the purpose of thisstudy, we have decided that the data analysis focuses only on the mathematical informationgathered from the facilitator during students’ design. Finally, participants were given access to atoolbox of resources such as rulers, calculators, writing utensils, and post-it notes. They wereable to use anything inside the toolbox during their design process. Name Gender Ethnicity Mathematics Design Experience Experience Kasira F White High Yes Mark M
, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, and cyber-security and wireless communication for smart grid. Dr. Rawat is the recipient of NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2016. His research is supported by US National Science Foundation, University Sponsored Program and Center for Sustainability grants. Dr. Rawat has published over 120 scientific/technical articles, 7 books and over 15 peer-reviewed book chapters. He has been serving as an Editor/Guest Editor for over 10 international journals. He serves as webmaster for IEEE INFOCOM 2016, Student Travel Grant Co-chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2015, track chair for wireless net- working and mobility of IEEE CCNC 2016, Track Chair for Communications
pedagogical and curricular practices at the intersection with the issues of gender and diversity. Dr. Zastavker is currently working with Dr. Stolk on an NSF-supported project to understand students’ motivational attitudes in a variety of educational environments with the goal of improving learning opportunities for students and equipping faculty with the knowledge and skills necessary to create such opportunities. One of the founding faculty at Olin College, Dr. Zastavker has been engaged in development and implementation of project-based experiences in fields ranging from sci- ence to engineering and design to social sciences (e.g., Critical Reflective Writing; Teaching and Learning in Undergraduate Science and
-learning. She has over sixty publications in peer reviewed conference and journals and she was member, PI or CO-PI of several multidisciplinary research grants, sponsored by the European Union, NSF and industry. She is member of IEEE society and Chair of Women In Engi- neering (WIE) Affinity Group for the IEEE Long Island section. She is the Public Seminar Coordinator for Renewable Energy and Sustainability Center at Farmingdale State CollegeDr. Mircea Alexandru Dabacan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca Mircea Alexandru Dabacan received the M. Eng. degree in electronics and telecommunications engineer- ing from the Polytechnic Institute of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 1984, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the
interpretingdata, conducting experiments, and locating and learning from literature. A study by Berdanier etal. examined the knowledge, skills, and attributes graduate students intending to pursue work inacademia and industry identified as important.5 Both groups of students emphasized problemsolving, meeting deadlines, communicating with a particular audience (both orally and inwriting), strong analytical ability, managing multiple projects, working in teams, and meetingdeadlines. Skills and knowledge emphasized exclusively by students intending to pursue industrycareers tended to industry-specific, like writing technical reports and learning new technologies.Those graduate engineers entering academia also emphasized skills that related to their
that straddle border between categories or don't quite fit Cases (note how) Describe •Use core cases to highlight central themes of category •Use border cases to highlight variation within category categories •Explore boundaries between categories Describe •Use border cases and common elements to suggest relationships •Dimensions of variation can guide relationships •Present summaries of outcome space to various parties (committee Collaborative members, peers, undergraduates, connections at conferences) •Feedback on
professionalsettings.The beauty of working with the football team is the critical nature of peer leadership on thesquad, so instrumental to success. Since the team wins or loses each week, there are immediateresults to assess performance. With a different opponent each week, there is always a need tomake new adjustments, and for captains to play a role in preparing the position players toperform well. In addition, there were ten first-year engineers on the football team, part of thenew crop of ‘rookies’. This enabled us to also examine their experience with the KGI/MBTItraining model in our seminar, and see how it might begin to connect to their involvement withthe team.So our study looks at two different populations of engineers, highlighted by our three upper
the development of empathy for the community, as is (again) adopting a mindset thatde-emphasizes one’s prior knowledge in order to develop an unbiased view and holisticunderstanding of a community’s true needs.4.3 CommunicationEffective communication skills are an essential component of utilizing empathic designtechniques to understand users’ needs, within or outside of service-learning contexts. Walther,Miller, and Kellam8 developed a series of four modules for cultivating empathic communicationskills among engineering students. These modules included (a) a direct focus on improvingspecific communication skills such as talking, listening, and observing, (b) role-playingactivities, (c) reflective writing exercises, and (d) “rich picture
create effective problem statements, and design, build, test, and analyze a prototype product that addresses realistic constraints and system requirements, while using basic project management techniques. 2. Students will use appropriate tools and software to collect and analyze data, to describe and predict the behavior of designs, and to justify design decisions based on appropriate models. 3. Students will apply basic teaming principles and team effectiveness practices, such as peer evaluation and role assignment, while working with their team. 4. Students will write a project report and give an oral/multimedia presentation following technical communication guidelines which include formatting
, engineeringlearning through out-of-school experiences prepare more African American boys and men tosucceed and have a positive impact in our society both nationally and internationally.During precollege years, Black boys participate in similar activities to other children; however,they face additional challenges. Much of the research on precollege informal learningexperiences focuses on mathematics and science exploration. [3-5]Research also reveals thatAfrican American male children have to contend with their multiple competing identities, withrespect to participating in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) relatedactivities, and their status among peers in their community. There are examples ofmathematically gifted African American boys who
acombination of the two. These pioneers helped individuals succeed in a variety of activities,mostly some combination of research and teaching work.Intellectual support, research work: By intellectual support, we mean support taking the form ofguidance on relevant content, pedagogy, or research techniques. For example, Sheri Sheppardspoke about her work in “facilitating people getting up to speed in this,” and “helping peoplelearn to do the work at high quality.” She gave the example of mentoring a fellow engineeringprofessor “on how you do this other kind of writing. And how do you make arguments now on adifferent kind of data than she’s ever been used to working with.” In other words, Sheppard hasleveraged her own experience and knowledge of doing
engineering in her elementary and early childhood science methods courses, and has developed engineering education courses for middle school pre-service teachers and practicing ele- mentary teachers. She has provided science and engineering professional development to multiple schools and school systems in Maryland, and has significantly contributed to the writing of many integrated STEM units of instruction used by teachers and school systems. Her research has examined factors that support and those that hinder elementary teachers as they learn to teach engineering, and currently focuses on how children and teachers learn to engineer and in the process, learn to fail and productively persist. She is the Director of the
PI first coded using in vivo and topic codes. This was followed by grouping codes intocategories. During the categorization process the two investigators discussed the categories asthey emerged from the codes providing peer review for the study58. After an initial set ofcategories emerged, the PI examined categories having a large number (>20) of codes andlooked for sub-categories. After coding was completed for a student, codes were compared withthe previous coding resulting in a repeated process of coding a student followed by comparing tothe previous coding results. This provided an ever emerging, expanding, and contracting codeand category list throughout the process. By saving the entire NVivo record after coding eachstudent, we were
notnecessarily the same cohort as the lecture sections so some students might have had Instructor Afor lecture and Instructor B for laboratory. The topics and the order in which they are covered arein the syllabus in appendix A.Winter 2011 – Traditional LectureIn the MC/MSD course taught by instructor B during winter quarter 2011, the course topics andlab structure were very similar to those in the spring 2015 course. However, what happened inlecture was very different. Most of each lecture period was spent in the traditional lecture mode,with the instructor presenting new material on the chalkboard and students taking notes. Eachclass period began by writing two to three key learning objectives for the day. Examples wereworked in class by the
scaf-fold on prior learning and experiences, addressing a continuum of lower level to higher levelthinking and deep learning as appropriate for the curriculum. Reflection essays, class discussion,individual and group projects/products, peer review and feedback, or other types of activities willbe used to measure learner progress on the learning objectives, and to provide timely and rele-vant feedback to both the instructor and learner. This information will be used by both the in-structor and learner(s) to guide decision making and engagement in bio-inspired design. Rubricsor grading guidelines will be created for each formative assessment to ensure they align with theproject goals and learning objectives. Summative assessment will occur at
driven by a variety ofdifferent factors. Some individuals were simply the only individual working in a particularfunction and felt the lack of like others to collaborate with. Maureen expressed this feeling fromthe first day she walked into her job: “I was the only in-house developer. I didn’t know what I was doing and I had no one to help me. The first day, I walked in and they told me they promised five iPad apps in three months…” (Maureen, Women’s)In Maureen's case, feelings of isolation produced doubt regarding her ability to meet heremployer's expectations. Her isolation amplifies her job stress. In other cases, peers with similarjob descriptions were present in the work environment but the age gap between the early
students in their PLEs could be furtherclassified by means of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy10 knowledge dimension that represents arange from concrete (factual) to abstract (metacognitive); however this was not part of thisstudy.The first part of the survey11 was divided into 3 sections in which students were asked toevaluate in a five-point scale if they: 1=strongly disagree, 2=disagree, 3=neither agree nordisagree, 4=agree, or 5=strongly agree. The second part of the survey contained open questionsso that students have a space to write about their PLEs as well as his/her learning throughtechnological tools, several information sources, and their PLNs.The information obtained was classified into quantitative and qualitative data. To do this, wecreated
homework with peers Mostly individual learning (highly inter-active learning) Students About 50 civil engineering Two sections of ~23 students each: 34 enrolled About 25 architectural engineering engineering/pre-engineering, 5 architecture, 4 natural sciences, 2 business Course Required Part of sustainability-focused residential academic context Sustainability was the second program (similar to a living learning community); learning module in the course about 30% of the students also taking a 3-credit
patterns’21. As it was hypothesized that the aptitudes for lifelong learning were present in thesedata, and this hypothesis required testing, the research literature on lifelong learning wasinvestigated for potential theory or theoretical frameworks to guide the study. Deakin Crick etal’s (2004) Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI) was selected for a number of reasons6.Importantly, Deakin Crick et al. (2004) have extensively investigated how to characterize lifelonglearning, and write about its many facets6. They explore the notion of lifelong learningholistically in its relevance over one’s lifetime, as well as in the context of traditional learning,including classroom, formal and informal, and self-directed learning6. They position their
practical andunfamiliar environment. The workshops taught me not only about basic humanitarianengineering principles, but also about the Cambodian culture. Participating in the trip haslet me meet a wide range of people, both peers and professionals, who I would not have thechance to meet usually. I hope to continue applying what I learned on the trip throughout mystudies and professional career.Both these students went on to enrol and complete the EfaHC course in June/July 2015, oneachieving the highest mark in the class. Both are now currently volunteering with the localchapter of EWB-A. For these students, completing the EfaHC course after the Summitallowed them to use the Summit as a base for some of their assessment items and allowedthem to
more time consuming than a multiple choice test, an instructor canclearly determine what skills were used in the creation of an artifact through a semi-structuredinterview with the student. The authors plan to delve more deeply into artifact elicitation as anevaluative method in further work.This is not to suggest that Making takes the place of rigorous engineering training. As the datapresented in this paper shows, there would be a clear need for the purposeful integration ofhigher level math into project based making. Making alone does not appear to teach the mathskills needed for today’s engineer. The integration of higher mathematics into Making couldcome in the form of post-prototype write-ups. Engineering students could, as often occurs
. thoroughlydescribes graphical communication of parts, but does not mention verbal descriptions.2 TheMechanical Design Process by Ullman briefly mentions that parts can be described semanticallyand that teams must communicate to collaborate, but does not elaborate on semanticrepresentations.3 Verbal descriptions of parts seem to lie outside the typical curricular materialsfor engineering.In a previous study we identified that students had difficulty communicating design ideas withtheir peers on design teams.4 This difficulty occurred during sketching and verbal descriptions ofparts and assemblies. Students’ difficulties with verbal communication directly interfered withtheir ability to work productively together.In this study we examine the verbal aspect of
, not including travel expenses or voluntary shoptime. The total publications for the project include five peer-reviewed journalpublications [7-11] and two doctoral dissertations.Project 1 Timeline6/2012 project start7/2012 spec9/2012 prelim design1/2013 final design5/2013 build complete testing begins, iteration through 1/20144/2014 project finishedProject 2Project 2, a long-range UAV, was Design/Build/Fly project for tracking African WildDogs in Zimbabwe. Cost constraints were critical – the non-profit who approached theSchool of MME—Washington State University capstone design program, known as theIndustrial Design Clinic (IDC), had minimal money to support the project, and thecapstone clinic funded parts and materials from residual monies
alumni to date. Dr. Lohani collab-orated with his colleagues to implement a study abroad project (2007-12), funded under the US-BrazilHigher Education Program of the U.S. Department of Education, at VT. He has published over 70 papersin peer-reviewed journals and conferences. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Combined Contribution of 12 REU Students to the Development of the LEWAS LabAbstractThe Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS) lab is a high-frequency, real-time environmental monitoring lab located on the campus of Virginia Tech. This lab hasdeveloped over the course of 9 years from a prototype system used in one class to a real-timeenvironmental
and integration of the teams. Even though the PM is a peer, he/she must act as anauthority. In general, this has not been a problem because the teams quickly recognize thebenefit of the PM provides. The DPM is a backup for the PM, but he/she also provides theconfiguration management for the project. The organization is shown below in Figure 1. HALO Project Manager Deputy Project Manager Communications, Architecture Construction Electrical Power Life Support Command & Robotics
as air-core inductors using thick wiregauge. The initial electrical system testing consisted of charging then discharging the Rayleigh circuitcapacitors through power resistors at 20V , 150 V, and 400 V to assess heat dissipation issues and to notepotential ringing problems in the PFN. As of this writing, testing is on-going. The low-voltage capacitorshave been charged to 50 V, and successfully discharged through the armature. No issues were found. C. Measurement System Testing 12The Rogowski coil was first used with a low-power PFN to demonstrate its ability to capture short pulseduration currents. The bullet chronograph will be assessed during integrated system testing. Specifically,the
, 12Student Veterans’ Acculturation to U.S. Higher Education Culture Acculturation models offer a theoretical framework to explain student veterans’ culturalconflict as they reintegrate into higher education.15 Acculturation is as a complex process ofbalancing cultural changes resulting from the encounter of two or more cultural groups.21 Asstudent veterans (non-dominant group) enter the culture of higher education (dominant culture),acculturation models take into account the existence of peer differentiation and dynamicsbetween both groups. Berry’s acculturation model discussed four possible resolutions from thiscultural exchange: (a) assimilation, (dismissal of prior cultural identity and acceptance of newculture), (b) separation (cultural
the institution. • Impact on research (direction/integrity) • Impact on student advising12. Financial and personal costs (and • Personal factors to consider: goals, benefits) to founders of new venture resources, time, talent, tolerance for risk and Faculty involvement in expected rewards commercialization and startup activities • Impact on publishing, tenure, promotion impacts their relationship with and view • Relationships with administrators, peers, of their institution and associated and students responsibilities. • Maintaining balance13. Effective communication
the Humanities Cologne. Her PhD thesis focused on identity models in the transcultural space and used specific examples of German speaking literature from Bohemia and Moravia in the Czech Republic. Whilst a lecturer at the universities of Cologne and Olomouc and writing various publications, Kristina Lahl researched sociocultural references in German literature from the age of Enlightenment to the present using transdisciplinary approaches. Her main areas of research are sociotechnical narratives, ritualization and human self-assurance in interaction with artificial intelligence, as well as Second-Order Cybernetics.Dr. Rene Vossen, RWTH Aachen University Dr. Rene Vossen is Managing Director of the Institute for
funding policy. Dr. Madhavan also served as Visiting Research Scientist at Microsoft Research, Internet Services Research Group. His research has been published in Nature Nan- otechnology, IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, and several other top peer-reviewed venues. Dr. Madhavan currently serves as PI or Co-PI on federal and industry funded projects totaling over $20M.Dr. Michael Richey, The Boeing Company Dr. Michael Richey is a Boeing Associate Technical Fellow currently assigned to support technology and innovation research at The Boeing Company. Michael is responsible for leading a team conducting engineering education research projects that focus