of actively andskillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating informationgathered from or generated by observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication,as a guide to belief and action”.10 In this context, critical thinking targeted in this study is thestudents’ ability to gather information through various activities and connect and integrate thisinformation for use (as a guide to action) in a more complex assignment. The approach used issimilar to the one employed in Linder et. al. study in terms of assignment sequencing andbreaking up a larger assignment into smaller assignments. However, the smaller assignmentsused in this study are different in nature and type, and how they are connected
feedbackinformation from students. This type of information is interesting since the students arethe ones directly interacting with the MLM, but the instructor has to identify learninggains. Below, we provide a summary of the questions asked to the MLM groups, withthe initial conclusions drawn by the authors. It is important to stress once more that theseresults are only reflective of the groups who used the MLM in the fall semester due totime constraints.Question 1: “What was your opinion on the effectiveness of the FlipIt Physics product?”Sample Positives • “I think the success I had in this class can be attributed to how prepared I was for the lectures.” • “I really enjoyed Flipit physics it kept me organized and helped me understand.”Sample
There are multiple ways to contribute productively to a team“How many points do I get for this?” “How does this prepare me for practice?” Table 3: Discussion of traditional and revolutionary structures that support learningTraditional structures that support learning Revolutionary structures that support learningStandard course evaluations Evaluation of teaching that reflects learning and practiceBuying out of teaching Buying into teachingOne size fits all faculty evaluation and rewards Context-based individualized evaluationCounting underrepresented minorities (URMS) Developing ways to create an inclusive
school and a single definition or format that applies to all programs does not exist [1];however, a comprehensive culminating design experience is usually provided in a capstoneprogram. For Durel (1993) “a capstone course should be a synthesis, reflection and integration,and a bridge or a real-world preparatory experience that focuses on the post-graduation future”[2]. Dutson et al. (1997) [3] reviewed more than 100 papers describing capstone experiences inengineering education, presenting differences and similarities among institution and amongdifferent engineering departments. Capstone projects in civil engineering usually involvedetailed analysis and design; however, the construction of prototypes with testing and analysis isnot a common
engineering students arenovice researchers and that these skills require nurturing and guidance at this stage withopportunities for continued application.DiscussionThe Intervention sections are taught by a female professor, which since students self-select intothe courses, this is a factor that could influence, if not the successful completion by femalestudents, certainly the higher enrollment percentage of female students in the Interventionsections. The percentage of successful completion of the Intervention sections by female studentsis reflected by other underrepresented minority students in engineering as well. This isencouraging and suggests to the authors that the content variety and structure of the projects usedthis in model is one avenue
reflects the student’s attendance and performance inthe quizzes, lab assignments, industry project, and exams. Upon satisfactory completion of IE470course, students should be able to: o Understand the key performance measures of manufacturing systems. o Understand the different techniques and tools for manufacturing systems design and analysis. o Understand key techniques to improve manufacturing systems productivity and efficiency. o Be able to use process improvement methods in real manufacturing or service environments.The course includes the following topics: o Introduction to modern manufacturing o Basics of manufacturing systems o Manufacturing strategies o Demand planning and forecasting o Material
alsoprovide constructive feedback when grading to justify the score they assign. Figure 1 – Instructions for the peer grading processThe primary objective of implementing the peer grading method is to reinforce design conceptstaught in lecture and to further develop the students’ design skillset. Peer grading is implementedto expose students to various examples of design, to provide further opportunities for teamwork,and to facilitate reflective practice. The peer grading method is also utilized to motivate studentsto produce higher quality work considering their peers are evaluating them.2.3 Grade the grader procedureAfter the teams complete peer grading, the graded reports are returned to the appropriate teamsusing the
Design for X (DfX), a concept widely used in manufacturing industriesfor product design and development. We discuss on our experience of the course, where in toenhance student understanding of DfX, additive manufacturing technology was used to analyzehow the theoretical concepts learnt by students in class were reflected upon their product designand development in real time. Keywords: Additive Manufacturing; Design for Environment; Green energy; Green Manufacturing; Concept Based LearningIntroduction To shape and influence the trends of technological emergence in United States, there is asignificant push observed in steering the current emerging workforce towards Science,Technology, Engineering and
applicationof modern modeling and simulation tools which are reasonably easy to use and could assiststudents in dealing with complex problems. An example of such a tool is theMatlab/Simulink/Simscape set of modeling and simulation tools that can model many complexphysical systems [7].The course that is discussed in this paper integrates fundamental ideas from integrativeexperiences and project based learning. The course builds on the material covered across anumber of different engineering and science courses, and extends student ability from dealingwith simple textbook problems to solving complex real world engineering problems. The courseis going through development stages and reflects a number of lessons learned that already havebeen integrated or
involving industry-like scenarios werelengthy and costly, and eventually were stopped or replaced with traditional lectures.Nonetheless, these studies and attempts had a significant contribution in underlying theimportance of practical approaches in conveying knowledge to students in heat transfer andthermodynamics courses, which traditionally are dry-lecture based. Moreover, the contributionof thermal-fluids energy systems performance in global sustainable development is substantialbut was not emphasized until recently. Therefore it may not be reflected in the already developedlearning modules for these traditional courses [1].In this paper we aim to present our efforts in re-developing our thermal-fluid related courses inDrexel University’s
% Faculty Grades of Student Work ….….. 84% Student Comment Faculty Comments The students worked through programming exercises to learn the basics of CANoe for CAN analysis and simulation.Part 2: Discussion Question Given a reasonable amount of time, do you feel comfortable in approaching a vehicle instrumentation or data acquisition problem that involves the use of CAN? Yes Yes, I believe I have a firm grasp of the fundamental concepts of CAN. Kind of difficult with the amount of time the professor was away. Given adequate time and resources (manual, examples, etc.), I feel that I could solve vehicle instrumentation problems using CAN.Summary:This paper reflects a portion of the content of a course that is meant to help
demonstrated some degree of naivet´e in thinking that the small size would automatically translate into afully accountable cohort without any social scaffolding by us. Future programming could help alleviate thisissue by adding in explicit cohort building activities such as social events at the beginning of the program.Improved tracking of attendanceWe largely view surveys as being reflective of the minimum number of attendees that are present. Duringthe 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 program years, attendance was tracked by the number of surveys completedthroughout the program. For 2016-2017 program, the introduction of the session surveys improved ourattendance record keeping. Figure 10 presents the change in attendance over the course of the
even further.AcknowledgementsThis material was supported by the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience forUndergraduate Education (REU) Program (Award no. 1263293). Any opinions, findings, andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Bibliography[1] https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13542/nsf13542.pdf[2] Brownell, J.E., and Swaner, L.E.. Five High-Impact Practices: Research on Learning, Outcomes, Completion, and Quality; Chapter 4: "Undergraduate Research." Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2010.[3] Crowe, M., and Brakke, D. "Assessing the Impact of Undergraduate-Research
usabilityassessment method 21. The subscales are defined in SUMI are namely; Efficiency: reflects thedegree to which the software helps the user accomplish their task. Affect: measures theemotional response of the user to the software. Helpfulness: indicates whether system isrelatively self-explanatory, and for which the help system and documentation are good or not.Control: shows the degree to which users feel in control of the software, rather than beingcontrolled by the software. Learn ability: measures how quickly and easily the users felt theycould master the software or a new feature of the software. According to these scales, a systemthat achieves a score in the range of 40-60 is comparable in usability to most of successfulcommercial software
skills. Students also learn to use Excel/Matlab for data analyses, plotting andstatistical methods.3.9 Ethics, Social and Environmental InjusticesOne of highlights of the project is the inclusion of progressive humanities and qualitative socialsciences. Students in teams are required to watch movies and documentaries that reflect onsocial/environmental injustices, breach of ethics along with gender biases in STEM fields, andsocial prejudices. Students also participate in debates that focus on public policy and arerequired to study the discussions and decisions of the Whitehouse Office of Science andTechnology Policy.3.10 WebsiteA website has been created for the Algae Grows the Future project to promote outreach andmake the project’s resource
improvement.AcknowledgementThis material is supported by the National Science Foundation under DUE Grant Numbers 1501952and 1501938. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations presented are those of theauthors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] Wang, J., Fang, A. & Johnson, M., (2008). Enhancing and assessing life long learning skills through capstone projects. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. Pittsburgh, PA, 2008-324.[2] Shuman, L.J., Besterfield-Sacre, M. & Mcgourty, J., (2005). The abet "professional skills" — can they be taught? Can they be assessed? Journal of Engineering Education, 94 (1), 41-55.[3] Earnest, J., (2005). Abet
or agreed that they had the chance toupdate the writing instructional materials for their courses during this workshop. This feelingwas reflected in Figure 2(a) which shows the response to the statement “I had the chance toupdate the writing instructional materials for my courses during today’s sessions”. “I learned how to generate dimensions for my rubric” “I had the chance to update the materials for my own course” Engineering Engineering English English (a) Generating rubric dimensions (b) Updating
modelmanufacturing. In week six, sustainability is introduced with the three dimensions: economy,environment, and society. The product life-cycle perspective is introduced. Furthermore,pollutants, embodied energy, and impacts on workers are discussed. Embodied energy describesthe energy necessary to produce material and products including losses due to materialextraction, manufacturing, transport, process inefficiencies, electricity generation, and more. Theaccompanying homework assignment will have the students calculate material and labor costs ina given scenario and reflect on additional costs and sustainability factors.In the seventh week, product quality is reviewed in detail with regard to part dimension.Measurement frequency varies from 100% control
among university engineering faculty,practicing engineers, and the schools is necessary; it is important to demonstrate to youngpotential STEM professionals the relevance of STEM activities [6]. In addition to interactingwith practicing professionals, authentic experiential learning activities can promote STEMcareers. Experiential learning attempts to rectify what Kolb characterized as the “rejection” ofthe “real-world” by the educational establishment [7]. The key to experiential learning is thecreation of knowledge “through the transformation of experience” [7]. In this project, thisexperience will be the development of connected devices aimed at building automationapplications. This will allow students to experience, reflect, think, and act
through a flipped classroom approach. This result is seeminglycounterintuitive, especially given that the first-year faculty member had no prior exposure toflipped classroom model. Below we suggest a few possible explanations that could explain ourresults.In the faculty member’s reflection of the flipped classroom experience, it was noted that thispedagogical model more resembled that of a lab similar to one where a first year faculty memberhas just emerged from a multi-year research project. In many research labs it is common forsenior students to mentor and train the junior lab members. In that sense, working with smallergroups during instruction time did not seem foreign to the faculty member and put both thefaculty and students more at
(outer layer) and rubble (inner core) at the same time.The proposed construction sequence was also based on the assumption that it was a whollynew construction. Renovation or reconstruction would have different sequences, such asintegrating the old wall into the new wall. In addition, evidence of the key-in feature was onlyshown in eastern Jinshanling; this may or may not apply to all sections of the wall inJinshanling. If evidence is presented that the key-in was not used, the authors will update thedesign to reflect this.There was also an inaccuracy in Google Earth’s satellite images of the terrain and locationsof the Great Wall. When a placemark in Google Earth is placed in the center of the toweraccording to Google’s 2013 satellite image
form. Thequestions are also re-designed in order to attempt to maximize activation related to cryptographyconcepts by maximizing the effort subjects exert to answer the question. We expect that thesechanges to the fMRI methods will add to our understanding of where cryptography concepts areprocessed in the brain.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1500046. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.ReferencesAlvarez, J. A., & Emory, E. (2006). Executive function and the frontal lobes: a meta-analyticreview. Neuropsychology
presented is based upon work supported by the National Science FoundationDivision of Research on Learning under Grant No. DRL 1543175. Any opinions, findings andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation References[1] Wing, J. M. (2006). Computational thinking. Communications of the ACM, 49(3), 33-35.[2] Ginsburg, H. P., Inoue, N., & Seo, K. H. (1999). Young children doing mathematics: Observations of everyday activities. Mathematics in the early years, 1, 88-99.[3] Hutchinson, E., & Pournara, C. (2014). Pre-school children's performance on repeat- pattern tasks
, and reflection. The collaboration between theEngineering Technology Center and the Creative Space enhances services offered by bothentities to ensure that students can fully explore all aspects of innovation by providingopportunities to tinker, explore, brainstorm, and create.AcknowledgmentsThank you to the Engineering Technology Center for all their support through this wholeprocess, including John Kostman, Matt McLaughlin, Tom Barnhart, Doug Eltoft, ChristopherFomon, Daniel Mentzer, and Danny Tang.Thank you to all those at the University of Minnesota (LATIS [Liberal Arts Technologies andInnovation Services], Medical Device Center, Walter Engineering Library, and DigiFabLab[College of Design]), University of Wisconsin – Madison (Wendt
Hispanic – 43%. Over 55% of LaGuardia’s students receivedfinancial aid in 2015 and over 55% of its students who were living with their parentsbelonged to homes with a family income of less than $25,000 while over 75 % of itsstudents who were living away from their parents belong to homes with a family incomeof less than $25,000. The lofty goal of joint/dual degrees is to bridge the gap that dividesthe number of students from underrepresented and underserved populations who canaccess and earn an engineering degree so that more engineering degrees can be earned tobetter reflect the nation's diversity.In the AS/BE program, the student spends two years at the community college, and uponreceiving an AS degree, enters our engineering program as a 3rd
audience time only masked the significance of the usability data with an activity thatdid not reflect usability, but merely represented passive reception. All tasks were re-analyzed and certainprocedures were modified to focus on activities that indicated differences in usability. The testing timeoverall has been reduced from the initial design of several hours per user (four platforms, nine tests) toabout 20 minutes per platform or about 45 minutes for a complete single user experience (two platforms,three tests). It would have been difficult and expensive to recruit a statistically significant number ofusers to complete a set of tasks lasting several hours per user.One of the difficulties of measuring cross-platform occurs when the app
carriedout in order to obtain refined velocity profiles to confirm the flow quality in the contraction andtest section. Furthermore, velocity profiles should be measured in different locations through thesection length and with different water levels to verify the flow quality along the channel is asdesired. Subsequently, the flow quality can be improved by screen mesh density and correctionsin the diffuser. The end tank will be also modified to avoid any flow reflection from the end wall.Despite the students spent a lot of time and effort on this project and they were very committedto its completion, they were not able to finish the construction in time. It was originally expectedthat the project could not be finished in two semesters because it
are those of the authorsand do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The authors alsowould like to acknowledge the effort from Ms. Caroline Liron, Dr. Matthew Verleger, whohelped conduct the project in their classes, Dr. James Pembridge who offered suggestions on theproject design and implementation, and the support from the Institution Research at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University who conducted and collected the survey data for this project.Bibliography1. Bualuan, R. (2006). Teaching Computer Programming Skills to First-year Engineering Students Using Fun Animation in MATLAB,” Paper presented at the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Chicago, IL.2
methodology will not only improve students’ learningbut will also offer low-cost and flexible training platform necessary for 21st century students.Even though AUC is a preferable type of feedback compared to KCR, it is more complex andtherefore expensive to develop. Instructional designers are often interested in efficiency. It mightbe expected that the additional steps necessary for AUC would require more study time.References [1] Nahvi, M. (1996). Dynamics of student-computer interaction in a simulation environment: Reflections on curricular issues. Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education, USA, 1383-1386. [2] Hsieh, S., & Hsieh, P.Y. (2004). Integrating virtual learning system for programmable logic controller
scope isinterdisciplinary including design, development and research. The research paper is relevantto Chi Xu’s Ph.D. dissertation. Furthermore, the information is also used in a graduate levelpublic works engineering and management class that is offered each fall semester. Thismakes it relevant to the theme of the ASEE Graduate Studies Division.IntroductionThe solar energy is an ideal energy can gain from the sun, as a type of renewable energy, solarenergy has its advantage: widespread, low contamination and flexibility. High concentratedphotovoltaics is new solar technology which can produce electricity cost-effectively. Byusing a reflection system to concentrate solar radiation can decrease cost and increase theefficiency. HCPV uses cooling