conduct research projects within a thematic engineering or scienceresearch area. The faculty administrators for these sites are often responsible for recruitingparticipants, providing a high-quality research experience, and facilitating workshops to helpparticipants develop professional and research skills. When administering a REU program site, itmay also be suggested, or even required, that a plan be developed to evaluate the effectiveness ofthe site’s programming. Past and present REU administrators have used variety of routes fordeveloping their evaluation plans, including: using published engineering education articles todevelop an evaluation plan or integrating a social-science researcher who can advise onevaluation. The role of the social
a Professor and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University. His scholarly interests span computing education research, information technology for teaching and learning, and software engineering. Prior to coming to Drexel, Dr. Hislop spent 18 years working in government and industry, where his efforts included software development and support, technology planning and evaluation, and development and delivery of technical education.Lori Postner, Nassau Community CollegeDarci Burdge, Nassau Community College Darci Burdge is Assistant Chair and Professor of Computer Science at Nassau Community College. She has worked to increase students understanding of software development and
, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded MIDFIELD research project on engineering education; she has served as a Co-PI on three research projects, including one on transfer students and another on student veterans in engineering.Dr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Joyce B. Main is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social
, manage, and improve operations. Skills Include: Systems Integration Planning RFP Development/Grant Writing Technical management including software development, system administration , telecommunications Professional Development Process Re-engineering Disaster Recovery End User Training ERP Design/Implementation IT Manage- ment Project Management Solution Engineering Systems SupportProf. Dennis O. Owen, Purdue University Dennis Owen is an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University. His primary teaching interests include application development and computer hardware. He is active in recruiting and curriculum transformation. c American Society for
was funded in early 2015. A set of requirements for the HPC cluster weredetermined by an internal committee with members including co-authors (Lemley and Chen) andother faculty from across CMS with strong interest and backgrounds in computing. A Requestfor Proposal (RFP) was developed and distributed to potential vendors. Vendors' responses forthe RFP were rated and assessed by the internal committee, resulting in the selection of a vendorthat best met the RFP: Advanced Clustering Technologies (ACT). The Buddy cluster wasdelivered in mid-June of 2015 and on-site set-up and training occurred in late June 2015.As potential guidance to other PUIs that plan to acquire similar systems the items that made upthe RFP are shown below: 1. System
manufactured material. The overarching question forthe student to answer for the mock court and mock jury was why the material degraded andeventually failed. The degraded material provided the sample for analysis and characterization.Individual student problem solving required tier one prerequisite fundamental knowledge inSTEM disciplines in order to identify a strategic plan for root cause analysis of a failed material.Tier two application of this knowledge enabled systematic characterization of the failedsubstance to be conducted. Lastly, advanced knowledge and analytical skills completed the threetier scaffolding necessary to guide the student working on the PBL project. The student’s finalwritten report and expert testimony presented to the mock
multinational corporation that is expanding operations in both South America and Southeast Asia. You are involved in evaluating the feasibility of the expansion, including finding suitable locations and planning operations. How prepared are you to enter this work situation? What knowledge and capabilities do you have and what do you lack? Task: List and briefly describe five (5) competencies (knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes) you think would be most needed to complete this work assignment.We administered the GCS via an in-class online survey at both the start and end of the semester(in the same administration as the CQS and SRA). We coded student responses to reducevariation in wording and then compared the
design project to formulate the thread ofdesign in the curriculum. Table 2 provides a listing of the different courses hosting the designproject as part of the CASCADE project. As shown by table 1, implementation of the CASCADE project started in the academicyear of 2012 – 2013 and continued through the following years [21]. Currently the project is stillongoing with minor changes of logistics and participating faculty depending on availability offaculty and the changes in their assignments. Nevertheless, the general plan and objectives arestill the same with activities and participation expanding every year. Two departments participatedin the project at its inception in 2013. In the following years, two additional departments joinedand
intended to capture students’ attitudes, behaviors, and beliefsrelated to planning their initial career steps, including (1) their current plan of study, (2)undergraduate experiences, (3) knowledge, beliefs, and influences, (4) career plans andexpectations, and (5) background characteristics. The “knowledge, beliefs, and influences”section includes questions in which students are asked to self-report their subjective task values(STV) related to finding a first position post-graduation.The research team developed items for the four dimensions of the STV construct – attainmentvalue, intrinsic value, utility value, and cost – in close consultation with published surveysutilizing EVT in education and engineering education17-19,24-25 to ensure that the
activity relates to engineering design. While there isliterature describing which brain regions support particular cognitive functions, far less is knownabout how these are developed through learning and how they support design thinking. Bymeasuring hemodynamic responses during brainstorming tasks with freshmen (n=14) and senior(n=9) engineering students we find a significant difference (p<0.001) in the cognitive activationrequired to generate solutions. Freshmen engineering students show 5 times greater activation inthe dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (known to involve working memory, cognitive flexibility,planning, inhibition, and abstract reasoning) compared to seniors. While seniors show an averageof 10 times increase in activation in the
02-03 07-08 12-13Figure 1. TAMUS URM STEM Enrollment from Fall 1992-2016. Data taken from NSF WebAMP survey.As with the URM STEM enrollment data, the URM STEM BS degree data in Figure 2 are alsocyclic as a reflection of the student pool of eligible majors. With few exceptions, growth hascontinued as enrollment has continued to increase. The degree data appear to have more dipssince the time to degree completion varies according to how quickly the students move throughtheir degree plans. Some students may postpone their studies for a year or two and then return tocomplete their degrees once they experience the benefit of a degree in the workforce. TAMUS URM STEM Bachelor Degrees 1,400 1,200 1,000
Materials Science & Engineering from Boise State in 2014. In the Spring of 2016, Ann was recognized as part of the first cohort of University Innovation Fellows at Boise State, and has worked as a Fellow to collect and incorporate student feedback into future plans for makerspaces on the Boise State campus. As an undergraduate and graduate student, she has been involved with the Society of Women Engineers, and also taught a materials science laboratory course as a graduate teaching assis- tant. She has volunteered at numerous STEM outreach activities on and off of the Boise State campus throughout her time as a student and is passionate about increasing diversity in STEM and helping girls and women to
Collaboration ReflectionSelf-Reflection AssignmentsThe self-evaluation rubric has been incorporated into a junior-level chemical engineeringundergraduate course through self-reflection assignments. Five times during the semester,students were given an essay prompt to identify one or more skills to work on in the followingtwo-week period (first essay) or one-month period (subsequent essays except the last). Studentswere asked to assess their current proficiency level in that skill according to the self-evaluationrubric, describe their goals related to the skill and their plan for improvement, and share progressin the skill(s) if any had been made since the previous essay. This process required the
.”) Day 2: Materials exploration, notebook introduction with “mentor text,” team planning with Ideas cards Day 3: Building, testing, iterating windmills, documenting with notebook cards Day 4: Oral presentations and writing task, supported by completed notebooks Data collection and analysis Our overall project follows a design-based research approach (Cobb et al., 2003). The particularcase study reported here took place during pilot-testing of supports based on findings from thebaseline phase. At least two members of the research team were participant observers in theclassroom each day. Data sources included researchers’ field notes, digital notebook artifacts,video recordings of
recently finished an internship at Walt Disney World. This semester, she is currently doing research on complex signal pro- cessing along with the oral history project. Outside of working on these research projects, she spends her time shadowing different Dental offices, and volunteering at the Animal Humane Society and Hennepin County Medical Center. She is currently preparing to apply to dental school, and plans to become a gen- eral dentist, or specialize to become an orthodontist. After gaining enough experience in the field, she hopes to open her own practice.Dr. Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology Dr. Lanzerotti is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Augsburg College (Minneapolis, MN), an
the material or the building’s structural components. The software selectedfor completing the drawings were AutoCAD and Revit.AutoCAD/ Revit ArchitectureAutoCAD was used to produce 2-D representations of the floor plans, also known as top views,as well as elevations or front and end views and construction details. These construction details,or working drawings, were included because they typically show how the parts of the buildingscan be built. The plans and elevations were imported into Revit Architecture and then used tocreate an outline to generate the general layout of the building as it would have been placed insitu. These plans specifically provided the thickness of walls, location and width of doors as wellas windows. Alternately, the
: Transport and the Environment and Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board. Dr. Bhavsar was pre- viously a postdoctoral fellow in a connected vehicle research program in the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University, where he worked on several connected vehicle technology research projects. Dr. Bhavsar received his Ph.D. degree in 2013 and his M.S. degree in 2006 from Clemson University. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on development of an evaluation framework for connected vehicle technology supported alternative fuel vehicles. Dr. Bhavsar also has three years of experience in the private sector in developing transportation engineering and planning solutions
workshop. Ninety-nine out of 140(71%) educators plan to incorporate workshop material into the classes that they teach during theacademic year following workshop attendance.Assessment is a vital part of any curriculum reform project and helps provide useful informationfor workshop enhancements and determining if the workshop has met its objectives. Anevaluation plan has been implemented for the project that uses a value-creation evaluationframework to determine the merit or worth of the project. To date, evaluation activities havemeasured the “Immediate Value” and “Potential Value” of the project sponsored activities.Evaluation activities are now focusing on measuring the “Applied Value” by tracking studentsimpacted by outreach activities and
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 include transportation planning and management, legal aspects, construction contract administration, and public works. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Technical Review of Companies able to Support the Education and Naval Installations’ Renewable Energy Goals through the use of Tidal and Hydro Kinetic Energy DevicesAbstractTidal Energy uses the earth’s gravitational interactions with the sun and moon to converthydraulic energy into usable electric power for
IEEE.Lei Wang, Anhui Polytechnic University Lei Wang received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical and electronic engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2010. From November 2010 till date he works in Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, China. He is an Associate Professor at Anhui Polytechnic University. His current research interests include engineering education, intelligent manufacturing system, job shop scheduling and mobile robot path planning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Multi-Lab-Driven Learning Method Used for Robotics ROS Study Chaomin Luo1, Jiawen Wang2, Wenbing Zhao3, and Lei Wang4
. Having both groups (i.e., the GEER Office and faculty) participate inthe interviews provide an objective environment in which to judge the potential readiness andsuccess in carrying out international research. Interviewers gauge the level of interest thatstudents demonstrate in connecting the potential impact of their research to societal problemsand arrange mutually beneficial research partnerships between students and faculty.Once selected, students are co-advised by faculty from Virginia Tech and the University ofNottingham on projects of joint institutional interest. Students are required to attend several pre-departure workshops which include (3) Orientations during the Spring Semester and a (3) weekResearch Planning Seminar at the
updated with each submitted documentation report.Thorough task plans are only required to be detailed for the few weeks after each documentsubmission since the project can take a different turn in that time. The team leader is responsiblefor preparing this section with the team’s input. Each successive report adds to the previousschedule. The schedule helps the team to think ahead, plan for the future, and it helps instructorsevaluate the direction the project is taking.(2) Communication: Each week, project teams are required to contact a representative from thePeruvian community with which they are working. A contact log is utilized to document theprocess. The contact log is a gold mine of information for future project teams since students
capabilities and interestsof the individual through a variety of methods, explaining the institutional goals, self-allocatingthose goals, and analyzing them in teams to identify projects. Eight individuals specificallymentioned the identification of projects as a benefit. The presentation material was liked by eightindividuals – most of them liked audio visual clips. Seven participants liked meditation andseven liked the delivery style of the workshop faculty. Four participants liked opportunities tomake presentations on their goal realization plans to other groups and four participants likedinteractive nature of the workshop. Some of them referred to increased engagement because ofthe interactive nature. Four participants liked the way workshop
rates greatly out of balance with natural flow regimes. Manyof these issues arise from a centralized approach to water resource management in urban areas,and a decreased reliance on large centralized water infrastructure projects may help decrease thefeedbacks which themselves may negatively impact our water supplies, or at least contribute tothe uncertainty of regional and global climate.Additionally, the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission has stated in its report on reuse in theBoston area that: “[A] deliberate and sustainable approach to water resources [must be taken] ifwe are to expand economic development and maintain our high quality of life... [One strategy is]reclamation and reuse of treated wastewater for non-potable uses such as
engineering Chemical engineering, IT Major of Indian Comp engineering Instrumentation Comp engineering Comp engineering students and control, comp engineering Online meeting Once None Once Once with India *The project had 7 Japanese students but only 3 travelled to India and fully participated in the program ** The project had 4 Japanese students but only 3 travelled to India and fully participated in the program2014 ProgramIn 2014, we planned two projects, ‘cultural portal’ for regional
mathematics and science. Project TESAL (Teachers Engaged in Science And Literacy)is a three year Math Science Partnership providing proximal context for developing this model.Project TESAL involved two weeks professional development each summer, two days eachsemester, and classroom observations/support. Teachers participated all three years and createdthen implemented and refined two lesson plans per year. Project TESAL involved 24participating teachers from four counties with 41% to 67% low-income students, less than 80%highly qualified mathematics or science teachers, and below average mathematics and sciencetest scores in a state well below the national average.Our model includes the following steps:Step 1: Identify mathematics and science
assess and address more successful curricular applications andteaching methods in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Departments.Currently, the senior-level course in Sustainability is required for Environmental Engineers andserves as an environmental elective for the majority of Civil Engineers. Environmental and Civilengineers at Florida Gulf Coast University share the same course template for the first two years.Performance in the senior level Sustainability in Engineering course varies even though thetopics reflect all varieties of infrastructure including energy efficiency, construction,transportation and water and waste infrastructure as well as project planning, life cycle analysesand economic topics. Students in both disciplines
290 video card orgreater. A photo after deconstruction of the wall between the classroom and the storage room canbe seen in Figure 1, and a full floor plan can be seen in Figure 2.Figure 1: The computer classroom right after the wall was removed. Figure 2: Floor Plan of the Creative SpaceWith the new space, sixty-one items were added to enrich the Tool Library. Twenty-nine werecables, adapters and chargers.The other thirty-two are all related to the three central themes of the creative space:Prototyping four types of 3-D scanners drawing tablets various measuring and hand tools needed to build items from scratchVirtual Reality Oculus Rift headset Movio BT-300 augmented reality headset leap motion
university-specific information reflecting the university’soverall vision and purpose ((Kibuuka, 2001), as cited in Creamer and Ghoston (2013)), and areoften developed through strategic planning in institutions. Thus, multiple research studies haveacknowledged mission statements to be important in describing institutions intent and goals(e.g.,Tierney, 1999; Young, 2001), and have argued that institutions need to be more strategic indeveloping statements which truly reflect their characteristics (e.g., Barnett (2003) in Kreber andMhina (2007)). In describing contradicting views on the significance of mission statementsKreber and Mhina (2007) cite Detomasi (1995) to describe how the latter suggest that missionstatements are “embarrassingly vague, and
utilitarian goals supportingcareer development and professionalism to more holistic goals of citizenship and broadliberal education. The goal of this work is to support ongoing conversations in highereducation about integrative and interdisciplinary education efforts by providing a sharedlanguage and classification system for understanding these efforts.Higher education wrestles with the balance of what Kwame Appiah has called its“utopian” and the “utilitarian” instincts: the “utopian” motivation to educate citizensbroadly, regardless of their future plans; and the “utilitarian” goal of burnishing theircredentials for the job market. Stewart-Gambino and Rossmann (2015), surveyingevidence of the effectiveness of integration efforts both historically