that better prepare them for their post-graduationplans.The student evaluation of their perceived effect of the program directly after the program’sconclusion was timed such that an immediate interpretation of the future effects on career goalscould be captured. It is also intended to capture the students’ responses following their fullparticipation in the associated senior design course.IV. Expected Results DiscussionWe hypothesize that the students that participated in the DeFINE program will possess a greaterreadiness for the workplace if their intention post-graduation is to move into the clinical orindustry environment. All are expected to graduate with a greater understanding of how toobserve needs and then further evaluate the
student across all of the courses. This meantthat data was available for the class as a whole and on the individual level, so changes in astudent’s attendance pattern throughout their college experience can also be evaluated. Thecourses were selected to give a representation of courses with different modes of instruction andincluded lecture, lecture/lab, and lecture/demonstration. The project was also conducted usingmultiple instructors who agreed to participate in the project research. The use of more than asingle instructor is an attempt to enable a more representative sample of the type of instructionthat students experience during their academic career at the university. This use of multipleinstructors also helped minimize the effect of a
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projects have been shownto be a both fun and educational way to motivate students and to help students learn/reinforceengineering design, as well as other topics. Overall, students in all three courses felt verypositively about the project and in particular senior students felt that more hands-on designexperiences should be provided throughout the curriculum to better prepare students for theirfuture career. In the future, budget, logistics, and course workload issues will be addressed inorder to implement these projects again. In addition, more open-ended hands-on design projectswill be implemented in other core and elective mechanical engineering courses to providestudents with a consistent experience throughout their four years of
appear to be a similar situation in the graduate-levelliterature. Thus, for the three contexts discussed, there exists no structured follow-up todetermine whether the students continued to improve in their oral presentations skills in thefuture. Given the logistics with several thousand graduate students, it is difficult to envision alarge-scale way to gather longitudinal data on the improvement of students’ oral communicationskills. However, graduate students in engineering are expected to take responsibility for theirown professional development. They know, or are learning, that making excellent oralpresentations is essential for their career success. Thus, constructive, actionable comments arelikely to be of some value even without follow-up
being exposed to substantial professional technicalities. Keystone coursescombine theory with hands-on design project courses. Capstone courses aim to allow studentsto integrate professional knowledge in design practices, assessing students’ overall learningresults across their college career. Futures thinking can be integrated in all three clusters ofcourses, though the levels of futures thinking ought to be adjusted according to students’maturity and levels of professional knowledge in civil engineering. By introducingfundamental concepts and methods in Futures Studies, the curricular experiment aims to helpstudents develop comprehensive and long-term thinking skills while being first exposed tothe civil engineering curriculum. To begin
numerical modeling with applications ranging from Biomedical Engineering to Materials Engineering. I have supervised a total of 10 MSc and PhD students throughout my career. My publication record consists of over 45 peer –reviewed journal publications in leading in- ternational journals with over 950 citations and an h-index of 15. I have made significant contributions in the area of composite mechanics research. Les has served on numerous University, National and Inter- national committees. He has served on the Schulich School of Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship Committee, member of the Schulich School of Engineering Undergraduate Committee, Schulich School of Engineering Post Graduate Committee and many others. He
. The author would arguethat most careers in computer science go beyond simply sitting around programming and requiremany other skills. The activities outlined below provide an introduction to some of these otherrequired skills. Additionally, all activities are either programming language independent orcould be tailored to whatever specific programming language you wish (or be done using genericpseudo-code).Two of the activities presented here, the Binary, Octal, and Hexadecimal Initial Keychains andBasic Networking, Message Passing, and Security with Party Hats and Candy, were inspired bythe Computer Science (CS) Unplugged website 1, 2. CS Unplugged 1, 2 provided videos,worksheets, and teaching guides to a variety of computer science
Education Collaborative.10. Caprari, F., & Palmisano, R. (2011). Multidisciplinary collaboration for sustainable innovation. Medical News Today. Retrieved from http:// www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/227404.php11. Designing a Career in Biomedical Engineering, Engineering in Medicine & Biology. (n.d.). Retrieved January 27, 2016, from http://www.embs.org/docs/careerguide.pdf12. McClelland, M. & Kleinke, D. (2013). Improving lives using multidisciplinary education; Partnering to benefit community, innovation, health & technology. Journal of Nursing Education; 52(7): 406-9. doi:10.3928/01484834-2013. PMID 2375594013. McClelland, M. & Kleinke, D. (2011). Innovative Educational Collaboration between
from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Drexel, he was a research scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University, from 2003-2004. Prof. Kandasamy is a recipient of the 2007 National Science Foundation Early Faculty (CAREER) Award and best student paper awards at the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing in 2006 and 2008, and the IEEE Pacific Rim Dependability Conference in 2012. He is a senior member of the IEEE.Dr. Thomas T. Hewett, Drexel University Tom Hewett is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and of Computer Science at Drexel University. His teaching included courses on Cognitive Psychology, Problem Solving and Creativity, the Psychology of Human
juniors. All class sections met for 27 minutes on Mondays; two sections met for 100 minutes on each of Tuesday and Thursday; two section met for 100 minutes on each of Wednesday and Friday. A PBL challenge to design and construct a Rube Goldberg machine was presented as a vehicle for incorporating engineering. The study was initiated in the fall semester of the high school academic year following a physics unit on motion, forces and energy. The driving question motivating the project was “How can we inspire school students (K6) to pursue STEM career pathways by using engineering practices and the physics of motion and energy?” The machines were to be the central feature of a STEM carnival for K6 students. This project facilitates a
sustainability.Jason D. Millar, Oregon Institute of Technology Jason Millar is a graduate student in the civil engineering program at Oregon Tech. With a background and emphasis in structural engineering, Jason is conducting a research study regarding the use of technology to enhance the education and application of non-destructive structural health monitoring. In his fourth year at Oregon Tech, Jason has enjoyed the opportunity to attend multiple national engineering conventions, hold leadership positions in several extracurricular clubs, and excel in a broad range of civil engineering and related projects. The ultimate career goal for Jason is to own a private consulting firm specializing in sustainable structural
, students in theexperimental groups completed the screencast exercises more than once.Study Context The project was implemented in a freshman "Mechanical Engineering Drawing" course thatwas offered in Mechanical Engineering Department. The course has been designed to teachstudents CAD modeling skills using Siemens NX and prepare them for their future career indesign and manufacturing. Students and instructors met for three hours every week for thiscourse. The present project was launched in Fall 2014 and it has been implemented since then(i.e., Fall 2014, Spring 2015, and Fall 2015). Students in the control groups received thetraditional instruction where the instructor made the screencast tutorials. Students in theexperimental groups were
Paper ID #14839Utilization of an Engineering Peer Tutoring Center for Undergraduate Stu-dentsDr. Ben Pelleg, Drexel University Dr. Ben Pelleg is an Assistant Teaching professor for the engineering core curriculum department at Drexel University. He earned a B.S. degree in applied and engineering physics from Cornell University in 2008 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University in 2014.Miss Kristin Imhoff, Drexel University Kristin Imhoff graduated from Drexel University with her Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering in 2009. She began her career at Drexel in 2009 as an academic advisor for the Mechanical
user community.This paper introduces this project, describes the academia-industry partnership, and provides anin-depth description of the project’s execution and outcomes.2 Project PartnersAcademia-industry partnership is the key to achievement of the project outcomes. From theconceptual stage, it was believed that by working hand in hand with the industry, both theacademia and industry would benefit. Students would gain knowledge that is currently practicedin the industry and which they would likely use in their professional career, and industry wouldbe able to train/retrain their personnel using a tested delivery strategy.2.1 Industry Partners – Formation and RoleUnderstanding project requirements, studying possible partnerships, and
industry.More importantly, any “recognition” is largely based on the equivalence of tertiary educationprograms. Engineering practice, the examination of ethics, engineering law, and engineeringpractices are often not covered in the engineering curricula in developing countries and the so-called equivalency of some courses may be little more than political education and deception.The curriculum reform will prepare students a good preparation when they graduate and for theirfuture career. It will impact construction management programs in the US and internationally,and indirectly over more than 25,000 corporate members of the Associated General Contractorsof America. It will provide a solid platform for long-term ethics training with a
of empathy within design, innovation and sustainability; synthesizing the influence of societal and individual worldviews on decision-making; assessing STEM students’ learning in the spaces of design, ethics, and sustainability; and exploring the impact of pre-engineering curriculum on students’ abilities and career trajectories.Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette Carla B. Zoltowski, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in engineering education, all from Purdue University. She has served as a lecturer in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Zoltowski’s academic and research
continuing effort to assess the degree to which a particulareducational intervention (see description of the ASCEND program below) can be successful inenabling participants to practice and demonstrate STEM-linked abilities applicable to careers insustainable design and development for the emerging green-tech economy. An initial review ofdata collected during a two-year pilot quickly led to the realization that attempts to evaluate theeffectiveness of the intervention and assess learning outcomes would be limited by the kinds ofinstruments readily available. Instruments including exit-interviews and surveys that rely onretrospective participant “self-report” data can be helpful for evaluating changes in participants’assumptions, attitudes
education (especially in regards to the design of complex systems), student preparation for post-graduation careers, and innovations in research-to-practice.Dr. Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette Robin S. Adams is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University and holds a PhD in Education, an MS in Materials Science and Engineering, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering. She researches cross-disciplinarity ways of thinking, acting and being; design learning; and engineering education transformation.Dr. Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is a Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the Univer- sity of Washington. She is
opportunitiesguaranteeing stimulating lifelong career-development opportunities. These benchmarks forsuccess include: “an ability to learn how to learn, an ability to form learning communities,and an ability to collaborate in distributed corporate settings, across countries, continents andcultures”[3].Universities attempt to capture the demand for the new skillset by revising and extending theexistent intended learning outcomes (ILOs) to include references to the meta-competencies.Biggs and Tang[5] note that the most effective ILOs will challenge students to go further than‘solve’ or ‘explain’, asking instead to ‘apply to professional practice’, ‘hypothesise’,‘reflect’, even ‘relate to principles’, in short to demonstrate the so-called higher-orderthinking skills
3.35 0.12 dimension of engineering as a consequence of this course. As a consequence of this class, I feel more 99 3.35 0.12 empowered to make a positive difference in the world. Table 1: Student responses.Finally, the students were asked if the class changed their perspective/goals/behavior in any way.For the 55 students that answered affirmative to this question (equivalent to 65% of the studentsthat answered the question), their responses can be divided into four main categories: 1)Increased self-awareness, 2) Redefined role of engineers, 3) Broadened career options as anengineer, and 4) Motivated drive to make a difference. For the first category, we talked in lectureextensively
UNICAMP in the area of solid state device processing and semiconductor devices design. In 1995, he began a career as a consultant. In 2006, he founded the BiLab-Business and Innovation Lab at UNIFACS, Salvador-BA, Brazil. Recently, Dr. Mons˜ao has been involved in nationwide science and technology outreach projects using a Robotic Musical Instrument he and a colleague have developed. His current research interests are in the areas of engineering education, robotics, mechatronics, automation, electronic instrumentation and innovation. He has now a Post Doc position in the Graduate Program of Mechatronics at the Federal University of Bahia, UFBA.Dr. Jes Fiais Cerqueira P.E., Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) J´es de
1st-year course in electrical and computerengineering recently developed and implemented at DigiPen Institute of Technology. Theprimary objective of the course is to engage students in authentic engineering work early in theiracademic careers. Previous studies have shown that student engagement often leads to increasedstudent retention rates in engineering programs. Moreover, including engineering work in the 1styear of a program often better prepares students for their subsequent and more advancedengineering courses.The project currently implemented consists of sensor and telemetry systems for high-altitudeballoons. Students are required to use the cricketsat design approach, which involves an electriccircuit with an output that changes
assigned the editor role to someone who lacked writing skills thatthey did not know about until they received the first draft of the paper.The few teams that reported the project plan did not support planning also acknowledged in theinterviews a lack of initiative (19%) as a barrier:There was a lot of ambiguity about who's gonna take over the leadership role. I felt like somefolks require, they wanted to have meetings every week when I didn't feel like it was necessaryand I felt like the path has been clearly laid out. I guess just in general I would say it kind ofreminded me of taking a step back from where I am in my career to being on that level where youare subject to everybody's wants and needs a lot more than I am now. To be honest with you
0.46-0.48: ‘describe calculation methods’, ‘estimate uncertainties in results’, and ‘explain routine data processing such as calibration corrections’. Weak positive correlations were seen with ‘justifying adjustments or corrections’ and ‘examining data for consistency’. An interesting result is that there was almost no effect for the behaviors ‘anticipate results from theory’ and ‘compare data to previous work or literature’. This may point to either a weakness in the curriculum in reinforcing these behaviors, or a lack of maturity and understanding on the part of the students at this point in their academic careers. One lab that stands out is Lab 6. This had a very low positive correlation for the total number
DTRA Grant HDTRA1-11-1-0016, DTRACNIMS Contract HDTRA1-11-D-0016-0001, and NSF NetSE Grant CNS-1011769.References [1] W. K. LeBold, R. Delauretis, and K. D. Shell. The purdue interest questionnaire: An interest inventory to assist engineer students in planning their career. annual Frontiers in Education Conference, 1977. [2] John P. Bean. Dropouts and turnover: The synthesis and test of a causal model of student attrition. Research in higher education, 12(2):155–187, 1980. [3] James A. Beane and Richard P. Lipka. Self-concept, self-esteem, and the curriculum. Columbia University, Teachers College, 1986. [4] Malene Rode Larsen, Hanna Bjornoy Sommersel, and Michael Søgaard Larsen. Evidence on Dropout Phenomena at Universities
]. Available: http://www.comsoc.org/blog/breaking- newstelecommunication-engineering-now-official-accreditation-criteria. [Accessed 30 January 2016].[12] K. Pretz, "Telecommunications Engineering Is Now a Distinct Education Discipline," 21 November 2014. [Online]. Available: http://theinstitute.ieee.org/career-and-education/university-education/telecommunications- engineering-is-now-a-distinct-education-discipline.[13] G. P. Wiggins and J. McTighe, "What is backward design?," in Understanding by design, NJ, Merill Prentice Hall, 2001, pp. 7-19.[14] L. W. Anderson and D. R. Krathwohl, A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: A revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives., New York: Longman, 2001.[15] T. Litzinger
students opportunities for acquiring 21st century knowledge and skills required to compete with a technology-rich workforce environment. The second c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Paper ID #15360 grant aims at providing educational and administrative support to undergraduate student in areas of career and financial management planning. He has been selected as Research Fellow at the Educational Test- ing Service at Princeton for two consecutive summer terms. He has been program chair and president of the regional association (Southwest Educational Research Association) and presently