section of the survey and the initial validity tests. Though, more validity of the instrumentincluding psychometric statistical analyses, correlation matrices of theoretically related items forconstruct validity, and empirically testing the factor structure using maximum likelihood exploratoryfactor analysis are planned in the coming months. The paper ends with future research steps includingvalidation and distribution across universities in the United States. As mentioned earlier, the hope is thatothers are able to use and adapt the survey instrument and its supportive literature. While, our goal isspecific to measure senior engineer students, the survey could be adapted for recently graduated studentsearly in their professional
selection, human resources planning and placements [6]. Various competency models exists in the field of SE. Most of them have been developedfor specific contexts, since the required competencies can differ between organizations andprojects, and they can typically be tailored to the organization or project particularities. Themost well-known competency models in the field of SE are: • INCOSE UK Working Group Competency Model: identifies the competencies required to conduct good SE projects[8]. • Defense Acquisition University (DAU) ENG Competency Model: identifies the compe- tencies required for Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition engineering professionals [9]. • NASA Academy of Program/Project and Engineering
contributing to the overall achievements of the institutional goals.Programmatic accreditation, on the other hand, can apply to schools, departments, or programsthat are part of a larger educational institution.According to the US Department of Education, there are specific roles that accreditation isexpected to play within the educational system:7 1. Assess the quality of academic programs at institutions of higher education 2. Create a culture of continuous improvement of academic quality at colleges and universities and stimulate a general raising of standards among educational institutions 3. Involve faculty and staff comprehensively in institutional evaluation and planning 4. Establish criteria for professional certification and
students earning grades of C, D, and F or choosing to withdraw (W) from the classrather than take a hit to their grade point averages. This data illustrates an institutional andprogrammatic contradiction: despite the intention to better prepare students for the follow-onCalculus I course, fewer and fewer GS students were achieving high enough grades in Pre-Calcto be granted the status of being “calculus-ready.” Previously, the Pre-Calc course was lauded forsuccessfully preparing students along the undergraduate mathematics pathway [17] and wasconsidered crucial to the college’s strategic plan to broaden participation in engineering. Thischange motivated the research team to investigate what was happening to students within thiscourse.Qualitative
singled out for being virtually absent from all statistical measures in relation toMāori and Pasifika diversity, and the first objective of the Equal Educational OpportunitiesAction Plan was to develop standardized performance indicators for the postsecondary sectorthat all Faculties and Departments would be measured against.5 Government funding support hassince been introduced in 2003. The support is designed to enhance Māori and Pasifika studentparticipation in all postsecondary programs and is weighted specifically towards STEM-basedacademic disciplines.Literature on underrepresented minorities in engineering education has also noted persistentchallenges to increasing diversity. In the U.S. context, for instance, the aforementionedNAE/ASEE
ranging from classroom utilization to student success. Dr. Rincon received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, an MBA and an M.S. in Information Management from Arizona State University, and a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Planning from The University of Texas at Austin. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Minority women in the workplace: Aspirations, roadblocks and success strategiesAbstractApproximately one in four women leave the engineering profession within the first five years, arate much higher than their male counterparts[7]. Studies of STEM professionals have found thatwomen encounter numerous challenges
. Students are introduced to electrical drawings andobserve how information is communicated graphically. A greater connection is made bycomparing the drawings to what is actually in the laboratory building. The concept of branchcircuits and a main panel box is reinforced.The contractor teams for the K’nexercise are presented with the approved drawings for the K’nexpedestrian bridge. Based on the plans, each contractor has a week to submit requests forinformation (RFI) and prepare a bid based on labor, materials, overhead and profit.Week #10Lecture: Mechanical and Plumbing SystemsActivity: The K’nexercise is completed. A bid opening ceremony identifies the lowest bidder.A substantial bonus is given for the low bid, but all contractor teams build the
thestructural reinforced concrete members (Slabs, beams, columns and footings) for the structuralsystem by classifying the panel types of slabs” is assessed using Mid Term-1 Q3 abbreviated asMT1 Q3 and corresponds to SO_11 or SO ‘k’: “an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modernengineering tools necessary for engineering practice”; The performances in this assessment havefailed and therefore, the failing CO, PI and ABET SO are headlined for reflections and actionitems. The reason for failure is documented in the reflections section. In this case, the reason wasobserved as, 30% students had difficulty in locating the position of columns on architecturalbuilding plans. It was noted, that a course offered earlier, Civil Engineering Drawing
focus on boards featuring products fromthese two vendors. While Actel and Lattice are alternate options, there are more resourcesavailable for Xilinx and Intel PSG for faculty members. Some key aspects of PLD development board selection covered in this paper include thefollowing. • Contribution to student learning outcomes – Does the board contain all the components needed to complete the laboratory assignments? • PLD vendor – Does one want to use Xilinx with ISE/Vivado, or Intel PSG with Quartus? • Existing materials available – Are there existing lesson plans or laboratory assignments available? • Cost – How cost sensitive? Is this something purchased by the department or students? • Time – How much time is traded
themethodology behind the method in hopes to gain perspective and feedback from the engineeringeducation community. We describe details of this iterative method and present preliminaryfindings from two case study facilitations from an introductory anthropology course and a seniorcapstone engineering course. We end with our plans for improvements and future work with thismethod and the Advancing Cultural Change initiative at large.Background LiteratureWomen and people of color remain significantly underrepresented in engineering2. Thechallenge of recruiting and retaining women and people of color in engineering is due, in part, tothe exclusionary culture of the field. Engineering culture is perceived as being very competitiveand unwelcoming which prevent
awareness of each other’s thinking and shareddecision making associated with their design process and final reporting. What an effective teamneeds are executive skills for managing a design process that transitions their ideas into a plan,research, build, test and refine cycle. Project management tools can support the processes ifteam leaders know how to track and facilitate the process. One of the goals of this first yearengineering course is to develop these skills in the team members so they can effectively usethem for future design activities like senior design and multidisciplinary projects in industry. In this paper, we present results from a qualitative analysis of student responses to open-ended questions designed to elicit their
Academic faculty members in your department on research/programmatic experiences projects that align you’re your research/career interests. They should participate in professional activities that are common for people who have completed their doctorate. - For example, do some peer reviewing, give conference talks, contribute chapters to books, demos, write or assist your advisor in writing grant proposals; take charge in planning a seminar, meeting, workshop within the department or outside; teach some classes in a course.3) Access to Mentors Some graduate
suggested a move from“messing around” to “geeking out,” or from transitional to personal interest. John Cena began bytalking with other boys about weekend plans interspersed with questions about the lesson, thenmoving away from those boys to work on his design with another boy. Both boys focused ontheir work and designed and tested their products. John Cena’s behavior suggested a move from“hanging out”/situational to “messing around”/transitional interest. John had no interest in otherdesigns or taking his work home. The participation genres suggest a move from “hanging out,”to “messing around,” to “geeking out” and reflect an evolving interest for these students.55,56Below are Fig. 2, a photograph of John Cena and Fig. 3, a photograph of Caroline
Assessment of Learning Gains survey (SALG), anend-of-course focus group, and a pre/post open prompt survey. For the first offering ofthe course (spring, 2016) we used the SALG survey and the focus group as primaryindirect assessments. Direct methods included student course work samples (a variety ofwritten work, posters, presentations and final projects), a pre/post analysis of a scenarioinvolving hazardous chemicals, and a video-recorded session of teams analyzing anambiguous scenario indirectly related to course content. We used several of theseinstruments more than once in the two course offerings and we have an extensivecollection of student artifacts. Only a sample of the total assessment plan is reported here,and we emphasize that these are
could also provefruitful for STEM educators to assist in planning and ordering of interventions and strategies toensure students’ success.” (Long et al., 2015). These implications make clear recommendationsabout the need for further research based on their publication.Practice implications were most often recommendations for educators and other stakeholders inthe educational process. One example is “'Findings suggest that the interactive theater sketch canhelp students work on teams more productively and demonstrate increasing value for diversity.”(Paguyo, Atadero, Rambo-Hernandez, & Francis, 2015).Finally, the third type of implications observed was policy implications. These implications aremade to larger systems that govern or control
textbook required for the course. However, the course instructor plans to adapt atextbook as a future goal for the class. The textbook will be required to give an overview of theresearch design and methods, project management, quality control, ways to encourage teamwork, tips for the team leader, suggestions for sharing certain duties for a successful project,project reporting, cost estimation, resource management, prototyping, literature review, thepatent process, etc. The course instructor used a variety of resources for the initial courses tocover these topics but realized that the assessment of the specific topics are difficult without theuse of a textbook.VI. ProjectsThe projects identified by the course instructor were assigned based on
university, the University of Toronto. In order to address theseconcerns, both the first-year engineering students’ and course coordinators’ perspectives must beunderstood. By considering both perspectives, this study provides insights that may informcourse scheduling, course curriculum development and integration of campus resources toimprove student experiences with the first-year engineering workload. Further, this informationwill help our faculty to better support students' transition to university. The result of thisresearch may also lead to improved recruitment efforts and better planning of engineeringprograms. We hope that by tackling the issue of workload we will enrich and further improve thestudents' experience. Numerous research studies
goal; constraints are requirementsfor the design; operators are primitive information processes that modify the design state; andepisodes are operators in a meaningful sequence. The TEAM includes ten operators – select,create, simulate, calculate, compare, accept, reject, suspend, patch, and refine – and six types ofepisodes – assimilate, document, plan, repair, specify, and verify – to create a picture of howmechanical design engineers of varying backgrounds and experience approach and solve designproblems [8]. Another attempt to study ideation processes was the work done by Nagy, Ullman,and Dietterich who developed a data representation for collaborative mechanical designimplemented in a computerized design history tool (DHT). This technique
"After Graduation" plans I can negotiate with my potential employer After an interview, I know how to follow up Post- Workshop I know how to dress appropriately for interviews Score I can connect with interviewers during an interview Pre- Workshop ScoreI
instructors, changes in student-outcomesover time, and demonstrate a means to evaluate how student learning aligns with non-technicalcriteria. This paper offers an initial evaluation of the strengths and limitations of the methodology,comparisons to past use of concept maps in education assessment, and offers next steps for thisresearch.2.0 Research DesignOne of the challenging aspects of any assessment is determining what are sufficient direct andindirect measures and how to incorporate both into a continuous improvement plan (CIP)7. Directmeasures such as tests and problem sets, which are used in most courses, coupled with indirectsurveys can lead to a “death by assessment” if they are not connected to a CIP focused onprogrammatic goals or if the
. A member of the Grand Portage Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Jordan obtained both his Masters of Community & Regional Planning and Bachelors of Media Arts from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque where he lives with his wife and three daughters.Mr. Nicolai Loner, University of New Mexico c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Asset-based design projects in a freshman level courseAbstractThis Complete Research paper describes how we identified diverse student assets and redesigneda first year course to develop professional engineering identity. Despite many efforts to diversifyengineering, first-generation college attendees, non-traditional students, and students
building methods.” • “I know it will be very helpful in my next job and later down the road in USACE.” • “It is something to keep in the back of my head for post-Army careers.” • “I expect its relevance to grow as I transition out of the Army in the future.” • “I believe that it will be valuable as an officer as well as in my career in the civilian sector. I also think that the opportunity to earn credentials as an Engineer in training while attending school is a great way to be more marketable in both the civilian and military sectors.” • “The credential is not as applicable in the military but if [students] plan on working as a civil engineer in the future it will be a great skill set to have
departments likely varies significantly by region,policy environments, and student and faculty demographics. Research is needed to advance ourscholarly understanding of cultural factors in engineering that impede and promote LGBTQequality, which in turn will allow us to contour the content and promising practices of Safe Zoneworkshops to be most effective for engineering audiences.Our mixed-methods research plan uses surveys of engineering deans, faculty and students as wellas ethnographic participant observations of a Virtual Community of Practice for LGBTQinclusion in STEM. The surveys and ethnographic research generate new knowledge andunderstanding of engineering cultures, which provides empirically grounded ways that the nextSafe Zone workshops
build the WID fundedSTEM tools. On average, there are 10-12 teams per year in the UAH Product Realization CDC.Typically, 3-4 teams per year work on STEM tool projects funded by WID. All STEM tools aredelivered to the K-12 classroom with complete documentation including an Operations Manual,Teacher Lesson Plan, Student Worksheet, and a Final Report that provides instructions forreplication of the STEM tool for use in other classrooms or schools. All STEM tools aredesigned with safety as a top-level requirement, and durability as a close second. The tools aredesigned to be used indefinitely and with minimal maintenance. The STEM tools are alsodesigned to be modular, such that parts and components can be easily replaced by the teacher.To date, 27
who have researched the same academic skill and are tasked to summarize and develop steps to implement the skill into their learning practice, using a Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle model (more information in Appendix B). At this time, student teams also review and choose an infographic platform; 3. Student teams develop a draft infographic using their chosen platform. Draft is to be scaled to a 8.5”x11” paper size and printed in color for in-class peer review; 4. Feedback is generated from in-class facilitated workshop and returned to student team in order to finalize infographic and formally submit. A quality effort is incentivized by giving some extra points for the student favorite (top vote
while expanding our understanding of how students evolve to acquire expert-level design skills. The results inform leaders in engineering education and developers ofinstructional materials and curricula, as well as teachers and designers planning classroomstrategies, of initiatives in formal engineering education. The development of educationalstrategies are explored and developed through a workshop of engineering design educators tomove students along a trajectory towards expert design behavior. Table 1 presents an overview ofthe problem, approach, and potential outcomes of this project.Background and Significance of Related WorkThere has been a significant impediment in providing quantitative empirical evidence about thecognitive behavior of
learneddramatically shifted towards the above average and well above average categories after theimplementation of the 3D technology project. Another set of questions in which the majority of the students agree on their perceivedlearning is shown in Figure 6 for the first year and Figure 8 for year two. In this set of questions theagreement of the students was higher than 60% and lower than 70% for year one and between 80%and 82.6% for year two. Here we can see that the 3D technology project had a high impact in theareas of time management, engineering career awareness and planning, research methods andtechniques, critical thinking concepts, and unit systems and conversions. From previous research wehave confirmed the fact that engineering students
student-centeredfocus, and active learning strategies that have enabled success despite the multiple externalstudent commitments.The strategic plan was to leverage the experience of the full-time faculty to jointly developmodules for the freshman introductory course, Introduction to Engineering. The flippedclassroom model seems to be a consistent extension of the existing classroom practice ofproviding theory in brief introductions, followed by significant classroom practice in problemsolving. Once developed, the course was initially offered to students who met on campus, usingthe online modules. The time in the classroom was used to identify unforeseen issues and bugsthat impeded student learning, and to model synchronous “chats” to answer
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Sustainable Development and Engineering TechnologyI. IntroductionThere are different definitions of sustainable development but according to Geir Asheim1“Sustainability is defined as a requirement of our generation to manage the resource base suchthat the average quality of life that we ensure ourselves can potentially be shared by all futuregenerations…. Development is sustainable if it involves a non-decreasing average quality oflife.” According to a United Nations 2016 report2, for the first time countries around the worldhave added sustainable development plans and a record number have agreed to make positivesteps to address climate change. As such, we are living at a