. Along with thisimage learners were presented with the following dilemma: ‘Owl has too many books and needsto get them organized and easily accessible. As a first step Owl plans to build a bridge over to asecond tree (yes, Owl can fly but flying is tough while carrying heavy books).’ And asked torespond as follows: ‘What type of bridge should Owl design? This week we’ll focus on tension;what types of bridges could Owl design that rely on tension? What design do you propose?’ Because all learners, in both A and B groups, would be contributing to the same discussion boards, Group B was
understand how technologywork and increased interest in engineering, while indicating that the activities had less of animpact on future course-taking plans or ability to be successful at school. These are consistentwith the overall goals of our effort, which was focused more on developing specific coding andelectronics skills and less specifically on developing interest in STEM careers or improving theparticipants’ performance in school. Table 2: Overall impact associated with participation in the outreach activity. Not at Slightly Moderately A Great Mean All Deal
Paper ID #15921Creating a University-Industry Advisory Board for a Joint Engineering SchoolDr. Duncan J Bremner, University of Glasgow Dr Duncan Bremner has over 30 years in the semiconductor industry and has held operational and strategic executive roles in product development and technology planning within leading organisations such as National Semiconductor and The Intel Corporation. Duncan is presently employed by the University of Glasgow’s School of Engineering working with both academic staff and industry partners to develop collaborative projects. He is also responsible for the development and delivery of the
Safety Training Series and Certification (undergraduate engineering students)In the current academic year we have experienced growth in both I/U partnerships and inprogram delivery. We currently partner with over twenty-five (25) industries and have plans toexpand to include government agencies, industry associations, and other academic institutionalpartners.ConclusionsIndustry partnerships can be highly beneficial to colleges and universities. Sustaining suchpartnerships requires that clear policies and procedures be in place to mitigate any possiblefinancial risks. The creation of the Engineering New Mexico Resource Network has provided usan organizational structure to manage our challenges and the administrative strength to
helpimprove performance in Calculus I.Another change will be how the EBC is delivered to the students. UNC Charlotte is changingcourse management systems from Moodle to Canvas, effective fall 2017. For 2016, the programwill remain in Moodle, with plans to use Canvas for 2017. The migration from Moodle toCanvas is expected to be relatively easy based on pilot studies.In order to maintain its usefulness, the EBC is modified and updated annually to reflect changesin the campus and university policies. The Forum interaction portion of the Boot Camp has roomfor growth. For example, student workers are developing a menu of topics and questions that canbe used as prompts. These improvements, combined with better timed communications with theparticipants
additional practice.Results from this study, and subsequent studies of student success in the calculus sequenceafter the 3-week program has been effect longer, will add to the data that will affect futureprogram planning. Additional student surveys will be created to learn more about studentperspectives that affect their participation and success in the program. Studies will beexpanded to include longitudinal results as the number of participants that continue throughthe calculus sequence increases. The search for the most effective program possible willlikely be an unending process as we strive to support students in engineering calculuscourses.VII. AcknowledgementThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under
Year 4, p<0.01. Pre-test Post-testYear 0 - No video project 43.7% 67.7%(“control”)n=60Year 1 - Made video only 47.1% 64.3%n=76Year 2- Watched video only 44.6% 65.7%n=68Year 3 - Made and watched 44.6% 65.7%videos, large teamsn=81Year 4 - Made and watched 44.6% 60.9%videos, shortn=75The original plans for this project extended for three years. However, our concept inventory dataat the conclusion of that time period indicated that students did not improve relative to thecontrol for making videos, watching videos, or for making
science and engineering wereintegrated, how the teachers felt about the integration, what they tried that failed and/orsucceeded, and what they planned to change in the future. These interviews occurredbefore the teaching of the first unit (whether it was science or engineering) and againafter the completion of both units. Second, classroom lessons were videorecordedusing an iPad provided by the research project. Teachers focused on videorecordingtheir engineering lessons and science lessons. Third, we leveraged existing Professional Learning Community [PLC] meetings toincorporate focus group interviews with participating teachers. During these meetingsteachers discussed difficulties and successes, problems gathering materials for lessons
AAUP which found approximately 20% of university faculty were in nontraditional positions.19Data Demographics – National Survey ParticipantsParticipants in the national survey represented a wide range of engineering disciplines anddiffering levels of familiarity with Engineering Leadership programs. Only 28% of respondentscame from universities with a formal, defined leadership program for engineering students whileonly 6% of respondents from schools without such a program knew of plans to start one.Respondents represented more than 13 different engineering disciplines with the heaviestrepresentation coming from Civil (38%) and Engineering Technology (17%). These percentagesdiffered significantlyi from the general engineering educator
Paper ID #15650Engineering, a Course of Men: The Inversion of That TrendProf. Luis Alfredo Martins Amaral, University of Minho - ALGORITMI Born in 1960 is Associate Professor at Department of Information Systems in the School of Engineering of University of Minho. Researches and teaches in the areas of Information Systems Planning, Information Systems Management and the Information Society, especially in the field of Public Administration. Chairman of the Board of the GCC - Computer Graphics Center since 2005. Pr´o-Rector of University of Minho between 2006 and 2009. President of the National College of Informatics
4.0Plan” learning system, the students are helped with their academics.18 The Academic Success andProfessional Development class helps the students with networking and working a career fair,and encourages them to become leaders, to be active in student organizations, and to completeresearch projects, as well as plan their career for ten years past the baccalaureate.Previous StudiesSince the authors began working with transfer students in 2002, they have been researching waysto help them become aware of ENGR and to assist with the transfer process. They are interestedin knowing how best to get more CC students interested in ENGR. They have worked to makethe transfer process smoother for the students and to support them once they transfer. Their
societies and has served on many com- mittees and programs, and continuously attends and presents refereed papers at international, national, and local professional meetings and conferences. Lastly, Najafi attends courses, seminars and workshops, and has developed courses, videos and software packages during his career. His areas of specialization in- clude transportation planning and management, legal aspects, construction contract administration, public works and renewable energy.Miss Mona Alsaffar, University of FloridaMs. Serafina C. SchwererLt. Nicholas Brown, University of Florida I am 2013 graduate of the University of Florida with a B.S. in Environmental Engineering. I was commis- sioned as an officer in
as a direct prerequisite or corequisite.We chose this criterion because these courses are expected to be the most directly impacted bythe calculus sequence. We narrowed the sample pool by selecting only those faculty memberswho taught these courses during the Fall 2014 or Spring 2015 terms (a pool of 60 faculty). Thisensured that these faculty members remembered their experiences teaching the selected courses.On occasion participants encouraged us to interview another faculty member who failed to meetour criteria but were considered to be important voices in our campus’s dialogue about this topic.Two such faculty were added to the sampling pool. By the end of the project, we plan tointerview at least two faculty members from each of the 12
notebooks and presentation. Rubrics are used to evaluate the contentof each work product by Peer Teaching Assistants (PTA) on the instructional team. PTA’s aretrained on the scoring rubric during regular meetings associate with course planning. The goalfor the grades are mainly to provide motivation to engage in the task and to receive some level offormative feedback on their work products. Therefore, the scores are relative to where they arein their development as a design team and do not provide a strong indicator of a learningprogression. A separate analysis of these work products is underway to determine a team’sprogression from novice designers with weak performance to highly functional design teams.An in-depth analysis is currently underway
secretary, vice chair, and chair. His ongoing involvement with ASEE focuses primarily on annual conference paper presentation themes associated with the Engineering Design Graphics, the Engineering Technology, and the New Engineering Educators Divisions and their education and instructional agendas.Mr. Daniel P. Zuberbier, East Carolina University Dan Zuberbier is the Education & Instructional Technology Librarian at East Carolina University (ECU). He planned for, launched, and currently manages the J.Y. Joyner Library 3D printing service which makes 3D printing accessible to all students, faculty and staff at ECU, and is currently developing a course on 3D printing for the North Carolina Summer Ventures in Math &
83% Final Grade 84%Table 2: Summary of direct assessment averages.8. Final remarksOffering an undergraduate course in intra-vehicle communication, with a supplemental hardwarelaboratory, has some challenges. In this paper, the author outlined the course content and a fewexamples of laboratory experiments based on Seed studio CAN shield with MCP2515 CAN BusController board and Arduino Mega 2560. The teaching methods used have proven to beefficient tools in responding successfully to the challenge of teaching an automotivecommunication course to both Electrical and Mechanical Engineering students. Additionalenhancements and improvements are planned for the laboratory experiments. This course canserve as a basis for other
that do not have a lab section. In addition, the majority of the students feel thatlearning outcome would be incomplete without the project. Hence, it could be concluded basedon the student response that the experiment based project introduced has high impact onlearning. Every student selected one or more options for question 4 which showed that theproject has substantially contributed to the improvement of various important skills includingdata analysis, experiment design etc.Future ImprovementsA number of improvements can be made to the current prototype resulting in better performanceand reliability. Some of the improvements that are currently being implemented or planned forthe future are summarized below:(i) Durability and reliability
parameters of PV systems; 4. Design, troubleshoot, and test PV systems; 5. Effectively communicate technical concepts.To provide students with hands-on and real-world experiences, a major course project is included.The objective of the project is to introduce students to the process of product design andrealization, and more specifically, (1) to generate system requirements, specification documents,design documents, and test plans; (2) to properly size system components such as batteries,inverters, charge controllers, and solar panels for a specific location; and (3) to test andtroubleshoot a PV system.Before the semester starts, the course project solicitation is posted and project proposals fromboth for-profit and non-profit
from faculty and students participating in the outreachactivities, in the near future we are planning to improve these programs by: • Increasing the availability of financial aid for prospective students from minorities to motivate enrollment • Creation of scholarships and grants with focus to minorities, to attract high performing students • Introduce techniques, other than standardized testing (SAT,ACT, etc.) as a measure of students potential that allows students from non-traditional educational experiences to succeed in the engineering programs • Creation of honor courses with focus in engineeringReferences[1] Georgia Southern University: Office of Strategic Research and Analysis, Comprehensive
was as shown in Figure 4. Figure 3. Instruction: Team Development Model Figure 4. Experimental groupsThe class leader explained the common task to the teams. They were to build a structure with theprovided 10 craft sticks. The structure dimensions were constrained to a maximum 12” x 6” x 4”size and a minimum 1” height per Figure 5. The objective of the structure build was to supportthe weight of ten US quarter coins. Moreover, the task was tested prior to the class activity with ahigh school AP science student to demonstrate that it was feasible to complete within thetimeframe planned, with her solution shown in Figure 6. When teams asked the class leader foradvice during the exercise
or 79 internet-based) or (2) IELTS minimum base score of 5.5.Exit RequirementsFollowing the completion of the program of study, including the thesis or final researchpaper, the student will present the final research paper, open to the public, to the graduatecommittee for critique and must pass a final oral examination administered by the graduatecommittee.Plans for AccreditationThe College of Engineering plans to seek recognition of the Professional Science Master’s inManufacturing Sustainability degree through the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) as aconcentration in a Professional Science Master’s program at Tennessee TechnologicalUniversity. The Professional Science Master’s is a unique professional degree grounded innatural science
. A Guide to Workplace Safety and Health in Washington State; F416-132-000; Washington State Department of Labor & Industries, 2013. 3. About WISHA, DOSH, and OSHA. A-Z Safety & Health Topics, http://www.lni.wa.gov/safety/topics/atoz/about/default.asp (accessed Jan 31, 2016). 4. Frequently Asked Questions. Directorate of Cooperative and State Programs | State Plans, https://www.osha.gov/dcsp/osp/index.html (accessed Jan 31, 2016). 5. Larson, N.; Rasnack, W.; Hoekstra, N.; Boland, C.; Leone, E.; Santos, I.; Healy, K. R.; Chawla, T. S.; Schoepe, S. Development Of a Solvent-Based Prepreg Treater. In 2015 ASEE Annual Conference And Exposition; American Society of Engineering Education
supportlearning.Final considerationsThe use of multiple forms of learning support is satisfactorily perceived by students and teachers,corroborating significantly to the teaching-learning process. Balancing support activities fordirect or indirect learning support proved to be a wise option. According to the authors’perception, the most successful results are related to students’ motivation and commitment inPhysics class. Students’ commitment must always be encouraged, throughout the academic year.Implementing similar activities in others schools will demand planning efforts and commitmentfrom teachers’ teams.References[1] CUTRI, R.; STEM, N.; MATTASOGLIO NETO, O.; SILVA CAMPOS, L. DA; MARTIN, P.A.; SOUZA,K.P.V. DE. Student’s perception of actions to support
specific corporate accounts, use of shared resources across thedivision, and a divisional marketing plan to highlight the focus on the customer.Meeting the Needs of our CustomersThe results of our efforts have been noticeable. There has been a reduction in effort for getting internal and external stakeholders to engage in a meaningful way
. Throughout the evolutionof the interdisciplinary teaching strategies, the authors gained knowledge, experience andconvictions that guided future experimentation. This article aims to share these experiences anddescribe future plans to measure the impact on learning. A subsequent article will discussattempts to measure changes in students’ learning.The theme of the interdisciplinary, experiential learning in the two courses is the societal impactsof new technologies. The courses are elective courses from different departments; Nanoscienceand Nanotechnology, a science elective, and Science Fiction, a general studies elective, areintegrated with three activities focused around this theme. In the nanotechnology course, societalimpacts of nanotechnology
Work:We plan to continue to follow the progress of the students from the three sections of ME 1001,taught during fall 2015.The authors also are busy currently implementing fully collaborative learning communities, tyingthe two-credit Introduction to Mechanical Engineering course with other courses commonlytaken by incoming freshman: English Composition 1, and Introduction to Graphics. We areactively recruiting faculty members who wish to collaborate in these learning communities sothat the students can fully benefit from the documented advantages of such communities. We donot have a budget to compensate faculty members who agree to collaborate, so we are insteadworking on marketing efforts to educate the faculty members to the many possible
andhence they were familiar with each other, and have a history of prior collaboration for workingon different problems.Data Sources• Discourse moves. Student teams completed a performance task towards the end of the semester. The task included an information and data package and asked student teams to decide on the best system to reduce the energy consumption and cost of a town library (adding solar panels, installing a green roof, or making no changes to existing design) and make a recommendation to the client. The task also promoted students to document their problem scoping, their plan for managing time and team, explain the formulae for total system cost, construct a graphical representation for 10-year cost for current
and Research Scientist II at Georgia Tech’s Center for Educa- tion Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC). Dr. Alemdar has experience evaluat- ing programs that fall under the umbrella of educational evaluation, including K-12 educational curricula, K-12 STEM programs after-school programs, and comprehensive school reform initiatives. Across these evaluations, she has used a variety of evaluation methods, ranging from a multi-level evaluation plan de- signed to assess program impact to methods such as program monitoring designed to facilitate program improvement. She received her Ph.D. in Research, Measurement and Statistics from the Department of Education Policy at Georgia State University (GSU
-efficacy,motivation, outcome expectancy, and anxiety). We also wanted to include our own questionsregarding future career plans, ability to recall previous coursework, and attitude toward designand associated skills. Because there is no requirement or incentive to complete the survey, it is inour interest to make it as quick to complete and simple as possible. For that reason, we reducedthe Carberry instrument to no more than two self-concepts (self-efficacy for all three surveys,and anxiety in surveys 2 and 3).The course uses Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME) tocapture and assess team dynamics.7-9 CATME provides summary and analysis of teams andindividuals based on a set of algorithms, and in certain cases flags