formed for each project and comprised of students selected on the basis of theirknowledge, grades and interest. The students are expected to work as a cohesive team with theopportunity to become team leaders and learn to communicate effectively and efficiently amongthe team members, peers, and sponsors. During these two semesters, SDP students also attempt toparticipate in design competitions and entrepreneurial projects. The course also emphasizesacquiring non-technical professional skills besides the engineering concepts; such as professionalcode of conduct, report writing, and team management which are very critical in today’s emergingglobal economies for a successful engineering career.At the end of the school year, the capstone design
were in an influential position to help undergraduates understand the importance of leadership to their careers and that it was important for these students to see leadership in an engineering context. It is a point of concern that only 18% felt engineering educators were well qualified to teach leadership to their students. 58% of the high importance group thought that at least half of their peers would agree that EL is of high importance. By comparison the group that thought EL was of little importance felt significantly less confident that their opinion was in the social norm, with only 15% thinking that at least half their peers would agree with their position (Fisher’s exact
mathematics, science, and engineering to analyze, formulate,interpret data, and design practical engineering systems. An engineering program is required totrain the student for life-long learning, to work professionally and ethically in multi-disciplinaryteams, to communicate orally, and in writing technical documentation [3][4][5]. Such anengineering program is often required to be accredited by the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET), which has been continually increasing its emphasis on theintegration of system design into the engineering curriculum [6]. In fact, one of the criteria of anaccredited undergraduate engineering program is to prepare for engineering practice through thecurriculum, culminating in a major design
grants at UW. Her research interests include secondary STEM partnerships and the meanings, negotiations, and conceptual changes associated with partnerships. She publishes and writes about STEM education extensively.Dr. Mike Borowczak, Erebus Labs Mike is the chief scientist and founder of Erebus Labs - a Hardware Security and Engineering Outreach company located in Laramie, WY. He is also the Senior Data Scientist at a recently acquired startup. He has worked with university faculty to promote and extend K20 STEM outreach in Ohio, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming. He also has over a decade of industry and research experience - mostly revolving around the semiconductor and bio-informatics industries - with specific
time helping to fill a community need. Service-learning combinescommunity engagement, critical reflection, reciprocity, and public dissemination in an effort tocreate effective partnerships2-3.Studies have shown that service-learning is a high-impact practice that increase student effort ina course through the process of solving real-world problems4-6. The application of service-learning to the classroom allows for students to participate in “active, challenging, learningexperiences, experience diversity, interact with faculty and peers about substantive matters,receive more frequent feedback, and discover the relevance of their learning through real-worldexperiences.”2 Additional benefits of service-learning have been found related to
cohorts. The initialfaculty cohort team comprises five of the six facilitators of the new cohorts. Moreover, all sevenmembers of the initial faculty cohort continue to meet. This community of practice is leading thedevelopment of additional workshops, implementation of an assessment/evaluation framework todocument the effect of active learning as this continues and expands through SCSE, writing grantproposals to enable further dissemination of the multidisciplinary cohort model approach acrossa college of engineering and science, and supporting each other’s individual research endeavors.IntroductionThis paper describes Work in Progress (WIP) efforts to increase active learning in a college ofengineering and science. Motivation for this project
assignment prompt posted on the LMS for the CRs is shown below. Five formats aredescribed. Note that for the analysis of this paper the last item is split into two distinct formatsbased on whether the item is an article or video. Concept Reflection Student BlogCONTRIBUTE **4-8 SENTENCES** FOR ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: (1 PT EACH) • Concept Analogies: Choose a complex concept from the reading or videos. Explain the concept using an analogy to a simplistic concept that would be familiar to your peers. Be sure to explicitly (though concisely) explain how the two inter-relate, or what commonalities the two share. • Materials Revelations: Choose a new concept from the assigned reading or videos. Select a common
research fellow at Carnegie Mel- lon University, Pittsburgh (2001 – 2003) and BHP Institute for Steel Processing and Products, Australia (1998 – 2001). Dr. Manohar held the position of Chief Materials Scientist at Modern Industries, Pitts- burgh (2003 – 2004) and Assistant Manager (Metallurgy Group), Engineering Research Center, Telco, India (1985 – 1993). He has published over 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in- cluding a 2007 Best Paper Award by the Manufacturing Division of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), three review papers and five book chapters. He has participated in numerous national and international conferences. He is a member of ASM International, TMS, ACerS, AIST, ASEE
section. These two coursesections share the same hybrid structure, the same material, assignments, activities, assessments,course schedule, meeting times, and the same instructor. The only difference is the deliverymethod for live material. Students in the HF2F section are physically present for the classmeeting, and students in the HSOL section are digitally present for the class meeting. HSOLstudents interact in real time with HF2F students and with the instructor. Studies support thisneed for peer and instructor interaction, and suggest that it helps to overcome social andacademic isolation common with purely online courses13, 14.There is some technology required for the converged classroom. It is necessary to have a coursemanagement system
Paper ID #16410Introduction of Renewable Energy to High School Students in a SummerCamp: Hands-on Experimental ApproachDr. Farshid Zabihian, West Virginia University Institute of Technology Farshid Zabihian, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering West Virginia Uni- versity Institute of Technology Education: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering,Ryerson University, 2011 M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 1998 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Amir Kabir University of Technology, 1996 Authored or coauthored more than 80 papers in Journals and peer-reviewed conferences
3Correlation 0.278 0.308 0.375Sig. 0.021 0.010 0.001AnalysisExam 1 versus TimeAs Figure 1 shows, there is no meaningful relationship between time spent and exam grade. TheSpearman’s Rho correlation was nearly 0 and statistically insignificant (ρ = -0.029, p = 0.811).While students would generally argue that additional time would result in a higher exam score,they typically fail to account for similar increases in their peers scores. Students are also unlikelyto dramatically overcome exam unpreparedness with additional time. Students who don’t knowthe course material won’t magically learn it during the exam if given the opportunity. The examaverage was
commented that I had perhaps given too many!” While leading the workshop session, jot down short notes in a notebook about what hints you gave, what questions students asked, and how students interacted with one another. Reconstitute them into a typed report as soon as class is over if possible; the memory fades quickly. A good journal report will make the reader feel like they were there when reading the journal entry. The journal is an excellent way to keep the lecturers of the main course informed of how things in the special section are going. Rather than taking time out of their day to observe occasionally, you can take an hour to do a detailed write up. One faculty member commented that he could earnestly defend the value of the
since 2008. He works to increase student interest in the sciences through partnerships with Gift of Life, Dow Chemical, University of Pennsylvania, and Drexel University that bring real life biological and physical science into classrooms.Jessica S. Ward, Drexel University Jessica Ward serves as the Director of Operations for the DragonsTeach program. She previously worked in the College of Engineering at Drexel University for more than 9 years with a focus on recruitment, grant facilitation and STEM program management. During her tenure in the College of Engineering, Jessica successfully coordinated with multiple faculty members in the submission of approximately 600 grant proposals, including co-writing, editing
” by an expert on how to improvetheir presentation. Medical students are videotaped while performing consultations and thenreceive comments from their instructors and peers when the videos are played in public 9. In thesoftware engineering field, we use this approach to provide feedback to students on their oralpresentations, videotaping them and critiquing them post presentation.The usage of active learning activities also aids software engineering students. Formal inspections,for example, are traditionally used on software engineering projects to improve quality. However,in the classroom, formal inspections can be used to teach students both how to follow a disciplinessoftware development process and as an active learning exercise to improve
Matters Higher Education Rubric has a set of 8 general standards and 43specific review standards. Out of these 43 specific review standards, 21 are considered essentialand each standard is worth 3 points, 14 are considered very important and each standard is worth2 points and remaining 8 are considered important and each is worth 1 point. Any an onlinecourse to be effective course should have minimum overall evaluation score of 84 whenevaluated by QM Peer Reviewers. In this paper, taking quality control course as an example,how technical engineering course can be developed as an effective online course has beenexplained. Quality control course is a mandatory course in all undergraduate degree in industrialengineering and industrial engineering
Foundation – Advanced Technical Education Grant AwardFaculty at Purdue University through the Supply Chain Management program and Ivy TechCommunity College in the statewide Supply Chain Management and Logistics curriculumcommittee came together in writing a proposal for an NSF Award “Technology-Based Logistics:Leveraging Indiana’s Role as the Crossroads of America” (Awards 1304619 and 1304520),which specifically addresses current industry concerns for future workers in supply chainmanagement technology through building a pipeline of educational curriculum that begins withsecondary education and continues through community college and four year institutions. Whileseveral of the pieces of this curriculum were already in existence, the grant provided
and interfacial phenomena. He has more than 30 peer reviewed journal publications, 600 citations, and $1.6M in external research sup- port with fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Max Planck Society, and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. He received his BS and PhD both in Chemical Engineering from Johns Hopkins in 1995 and 2000.Ashley Danielle Cramer, Lafayette College Ashley received her M.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Northwestern University in 2012 and her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Lafayette College in 2010. She worked developing point of cared (POC) medical diagnostic devices for Quidel Corporation until 2014. Ashley’s research interests include
whether this gap exists because students are consciously pursuing career interests dissimilar to their avocational interests or because they cannot identify opportunities for merging these two interest areas. For example, one student expressed interests in music, sports, writing, and general creativity, but mentioned a desire to become a biomedical engineering following an excitable demonstration experienced during an engineering summer camp. Students’ responses to questions about their leisurely activities and career aspirations were coded in categories. The categories for hobbies include language arts, sports, music, social, and performing arts. The categories for career aspirations include
served as a key leader and member of the UW OMA&D Outreach and Recruitment Unit that contributed to two consecutive years of increased underrepresented freshmen student enrollment at the UW. In her current capacity as the Director for the Pacific Northwest Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Pro- gram at the UW, she strives to increase the recruitment, retention and graduation rates for underrepre- sented students in STEM disciplines while providing experiential and research opportunities. Through the LSAMP Program she was able to co-write the OMA&D/UW College of Engineering STEM focused study abroad seminar to Brisbane, Australia. This was selected for a best practice model workshop at
expected to review the lesson objectives, read theassignment, answer the assigned questions, and work the pre-class problems. Questions are allbased on the reading assignment and are focused on definitions, formulas, and fundamentalconcepts. For example, in Solid Mechanics, students might be asked to define prismatic,homogeneous, and isotropic. Pre-class problems are fundament in nature requiring use ofparticular concepts, but not extensive in calculations. For example, in Statics a student might beasked to find the internal force in a single member of a simple truss using the method of sections.Pre-class work is peer-evaluated at the start of each lesson. The top header of the advanced sheetcontains the words “GO NO GO.” If the peer-evaluator
to generate a unique technical proposalin response to a Request For Proposal (RFP) or Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) suppliedby the instructor. The format selected for the RFP or BAA is widely used in the engineeringprofession. The proposal topic choices were guided by the need to: stimulate the interest ofstudents pursuing a variety of engineering disciplines; provide deliberately vague designconstraints to introduce students to the challenge of interpreting the intentions of the RFP orBAA; encourage individual creative content in the proposed solution; and adjust the technicalchallenge to be accessible to students with no previous engineering courses. A preliminarydesign review with peers and the instructor provided valuable feedback to
of the semester was applied. The test isa self-assessment that consists of 16 questions that are grouped into 5 categories of analysis thatare related to the five steps that are part of the effective creative process proposed byCsikszentmihalyi3: 1) Finding problems (preparation), 2) Gathering and reflecting oninformation (incubation), 3) Problem exploration (insight), 4) Generating and evaluating ideas(evaluation), and 5) Implementation (elaboration). Furthermore, a group of experts in the fieldwere invited to evaluate final projects and developed food products by means of the CreativeThinking VALUE Rubric, which is made up of a set of attributes that are common to creativethinking across disciplines4. Instructor-, peer-, and self
to, say,the norms of a writing seminar where all are expected to acquire the skill without finding outwho is incapable at writing. What seemed to be coming up in this interview was a daily experience of beingconstructed as incapable, in programming (for Isaac) and/or in engineering. We call this thecultural construction of ability, of being “not cut out for” the discipline. The disability at play inthis educational fact is not one that often gets labeled or spoken out loud in those terms, thoughneither is it only living inside one student’s head. The sort of ability hierarchies at play herehave a mutually acknowledged meaning and institutional consequences. By cultural constructionof ability we mean to acknowledge the many levels on
Grade Percentile mean of the completeobservations dataset was 56.2, indicating that participants with higher than average grades weremore likely to complete both the pre-and-post course surveys.Mechanics Self-Efficacy – This self-efficacy scale has been used in previous research 31 tomeasure student confidence in a range of mechanics-related activities. Items include draw afree-body diagram, write the equations of equilibrium for a system, carry out the problem-solving process to analyze a system and overall, the skill and knowledge needed to complete allof the above tasks. These items had a high Cronbach alpha (α = 0.90) so they were averaged intoa combined score creating a variable called Mechanics Self-Efficacy.Empathy – This measure is
of research.17In the next section, each author was asked to share the story of their experience with SOI in theirown words, with the aim of providing readers an opportunity to “‘experience’ a set of key ideaswhile also coming ‘into contact with...different languages, modes of communication, and forms ofinquiry”17 (p.51). The authors were provided with guidance for the structure of these accounts,specifically (1) authors should aim to write approximately 1500 words or less about their case, (2)accounts should be written in first person, (3) accounts should include a brief history of the projectand a basic description to provide readers with context, and (4) accounts should close with a briefdiscussion highlighting what the author found
Career Hiring Process Satisfaction Navigation Integration Leadership Scholarship Recognition (WLI) Grant writing (F) Promoting Mid-Tenure Grant Climate Your Work
Paper ID #15197What is the Length of a Toilet Paper Tube? A Hands-On, Team-Based Lessonin the Ethics of Data CollectionDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Director for Graduate Initiatives at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engi- neering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and
in real settings; and in creating positive learning and work environments. She has a B.S. inEngineering, an M.BA., and has worked in industry for over 18 years. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Mapping Assets of Diverse Groups for Chemical Engineering Design Problem Framing AbilityAbstractEngineering programs across the US are engaged in efforts to increase the diversity of theirstudent populations. Despite these efforts, students from groups underrepresented in engineeringare still less likely to persist, relative to their peers. One approach taken is adding design earlierin programs, but faculty sometimes doubt that freshmen and sophomore students have thecapacity to
Civil Engineering Professional Seminaroffering (CE 491). This course is designed to provide graduating students with newopportunities to develop a skill set that will help foster their individual growth andlearning. Class participants learn and practice oral and written communication skillsusing practical examples in their selected area of interest. The other goals of this courseinclude: Further understanding of the civil engineering field and related topics; Developing multidisciplinary collaboration and team-building skills; Enhancing communication skills in both oral and written formats through writing and presentation exercises; and Providing support toward completion of their degree.Each student is divided
the important homework/practice problems with realworld examples. The summary video helped instructors spend more time on working out theproblems and examples in class. (2) The summary video could also help students who want toreview the material covered in class at home and practice. Moreover, these videos were availablefor students who miss a class to go back and review what was covered in class and be up to speedfor the next lecture. (3) The concept was different from a traditional all-online course whichprovided videos of full lectures online and did not provide opportunities for students to interactwith the instructors and peers in class. In this method, the instructors spent more time on workingproblems and quizzes during normal