noteveryone could attend even at that.The approach to scheduling meetings is discussed in the Activities section, and data collectionmethodologies are discussed in the Assessment Plan and Results section. 52.2.1 ActivitiesThe NFLC held weekly meetings during the semester for the faculty. Each meeting was structured toaddress one of the three outcomes, and the outcome addressed was rotated regularly. A schedule forthe Spring 2017 semester is presented in Table 1 to illustrate this. In order to address outcome 1, on-campus speakers were invited to discuss specific topics, such as creating instructional videos, activelearning techniques, and the learning management system. Sessions addressing
programs andretirements, the academic leadership team is moving all faculty to the more accepted 60-20-20faculty workload model. While still feeling the effects of the recession on endowments andthe need to support more research/scholarship and service by the tenure-track and tenuredfaculty, the nearly 95% tenured or tenured track faculty is being reshaped to be 75% tenuredor tenure-tracked and 25% adjunct or lecturer (non-tenure track) over the next 5-10 years.With the recent requirement for development plans for staff, the School of Engineeringimmediately began discussions and implemented plans for non-tenure track facultydevelopment.Current Faculty Development ModelThere are numerous articles on the effect the recent recession had on decreasing
Paper ID #20374Student Paper: Small Team Agile Systems Engineering For Rapid Prototyp-ing of Robotic SystemsMr. Charles Avery Noren, Texas A&M University Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory Charles Noren is an undergraduate research assistant at the Texas A&M University Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory and task leader for the rail-based robotic system project. He is expected to graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering in May of 2018, and plans to continue his education at Texas A&M University with a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering.Kendra Lynne Andersen, Texas A&M
construction was adapted in HB1647 building code of Florida Legislature. Najafi is a member of numerous professional societies and has served on many committees and programs, and continuously attends and presents refereed papers at international, national, and local 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, renewable energy, and public works. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 100% Renewable energy for Pennsylvania
Paper ID #19933Work in Progress: A Strategy for Assessing Learning Through Reflecting onDoingMr. Jackson Lyall Autrey, University of Oklahoma Jackson L. Autrey is a Master of Science student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ok- lahoma from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and currently is involved with research into design-based engineering education. After completion of his Master’s degree, Jackson plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering.Prof. Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma Zahed Siddique is a Professor of Mechanical
, ground station, andsupporting infrastructure; 2) comprehend the complex interaction and interdependencies of UASsubsystems; 3) understand mission operational planning considerations such as flight planningand data requirements planning; and 4) demonstrate the ability to clearly and conciselycommunicate a UAS mission analysis in both written and oral form. In addition, due to studentfeedback from its inaugural offering, this second offering of the course included the design,construction, and flight of an actual UAS in support of a selected remote sensing mission.While this 1-semester course was originally intended as a graduate class, its overwhelmingpopularity has resulted in it also being offered to seniors at UAF and now via video link to
that there werethree main curricular activities within engineering that had the potential to encourage EBR in theclassroom: the report to the client at the end of the unit, the types of questions the teacher askedof the students (i.e., asking students to further explain the “why” or “how” of their answers), andstudent discussions. However, this research did not address actual implementation of thecurricula. Mathis et al.18 explored students’ use of EBR during solution generation of anengineering design challenge in a seventh-grade classroom. The study found that students usedEBR most while planning a design idea and evaluating the tested design solution; also, instancesof EBR were found in student worksheets and group discussions. Both the
) award focusing on Predictive Plant Phenomics (P3). Our program aims toincrease agronomic output as highlighted by the National Plant Genome Initiative’s current five-year plan [NST, 2014]. Ph.D. training production levels and types are not always a good fit foraddressing complex technical and societal problems such as these. To train these scientists, theP3 NRT is using the T-training model proposed by the American Society of Plant Biology(ASPB) and described in “Unleashing a Decade of Innovation in Plant Science: A Vision for2015-2025”. This approach requires that students get broader exposure to multiple disciplines,work with industry and develop effective communication and collaboration skills withoutincreasing the time to graduation. This
in Higher Education in China Feifei Zhong1 and Gene Hou2 1 Department of Engineering English, School of Foreign Languages Southwest Jiaotong University Chengdu, China, 611756 zhongfeifei@163.com 2 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529 ghou@odu.eduAbstract: This study aims to develop an effective curriculum plan to improve
,and graduate students) held a three week long professional development (PD) workshop at theNYU Tandon School of Engineering for ten pairs of science and math teachers from eight middleschools. During the PD workshop, using the LEGO kits, teachers learned myriad robot-relatedtasks, such as assembly, programming, actuation, motion planning, sensor integration, operations,and troubleshooting.Figure1: LEGO Mindstorms EV3 base robot to be used for STEM lessons.3. A Few Middle School STEM Lessons Developed to Implement Using RoboticsThe project team and the PD workshop participants collaborated to plan and develop robotics-based lessons under the TPACK framework. Specifically, the teachers began by identifying middleschool relevant science and math
teams use three cycles of launch, strategy,plan, requirements, design, implementation, test, and postmortem. Each cycle’s process iscontrolled by documentation that is reviewed and inspected. Students work on teams of 4 to 6where team members are assigned functional roles. In one case the project uses a client [17]while in another a semi-realistic client is employed [18]. All three papers reported that instead ofthe recommended three iterations, they were only able to implement two in a semester. They allreported that TSP required significant process and documentation overhead.At the time the TSP papers were reported in the literature, Reichlmayr [16] reported on the use ofAgile development in a sophomore-level semester-long project. The
coordinators to centralize informational resources including support activities (e.g.tutoring, workshops, etc.) and opportunities (e.g. research opportunities, internships,scholarships, presentations, etc.). It also houses resources for the technical writing module andinformation on student enhancement plans and professional development funding. Thedevelopment and implementation of personalized student enhancement plans (SEPs) which allowprogram participants to identify long-range plans and set associated short to long range goals insupport of these plans is one of the primary aspects of the program (Kunberger & Geiger, 2016).Originally implemented for upper level students, the activity has been expanded to all programparticipants for this
, datainterchange formats such as JSON, basic API development, system concepts such as I2C andUART serial interfaces, PWM motor control, and sensor fusion to improve robotic navigationand localization. This course was offered to students for the first time in the summer of 2016,and though formal feedback collection was limited, informal feedback indicated that studentsfound the course to be challenging, engaging, and beneficial to their overall understanding ofengineering.The paper walks the reader through the background of this course. It then discusses the weeklylesson plans, supplemental material provided to the students, and our general strategy forteaching the course's programming and system design concepts in such an accelerated timeframe. Finally
necessary and are all planned as part of the current project.Additionally, RCBC’s Workforce Development Institute and the Burlington County WorkforceDevelopment Board allow for the streamlined interaction between the college and industrypartners. This collaboration allows for the aligning of local, state, and federal resources underone umbrella. The WDI provides a unified, integrated workforce development system forBurlington County to identify and provide skills, training, and the education needed for theworkforce of today and tomorrow. The WDI diligently works to help prepare individuals foracademic success, for employment, and to gain critical new career skills meeting the needs ofindustry. The WDI accomplishes its mission through a mix of
administrative offices working in the areas of diversity,inclusion, social justice, equal opportunity, and access so that each office can better focus on itsmission and goals. As part of this effort, OSU has established three new positions—SpecialAssistant to the President for Community Diversity Relations, Vice President and ChiefDiversity Officer, and Executive Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, as wellas formed a new Leadership Council for Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice. All of these entitiesare working collaboratively to bring focused energy to university-wide planning andimplementation of equity and diversity efforts.Professional Development Opportunities. While there are many professional developmentopportunities at OSU
(Architecture Students TeachingElementary Kids):The longest-running outreach program at the schoolwas developed by the local chapter of the AmericanInstitute of Architecture Students (AIAS) in 1999.ASTEK began with donated materials and limitedtime outside of the classroom and studio. Thisprogram partners with the local public school districtto engage fifth grade students in architecture,planning, and structures. The ten-week program hasarchitecture students from the university visit the sixlocal elementary schools to advocate for theprofession and community. Weekly assignmentsand activities are: A Story and VisualizationExercise, Textures and Materials, Urban Planning,Scale Sketching, Geometry in Architecture, TheArchitect’s Floor Plan, Structures in
Engi- neering Education and Energy Engineering. In addition, she has been lead mentor of FRC Team SUM #6003 for the past two years.Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University Dr. Carpenter is Founding Dean of Engineering at Campbell University. She is Chair of the ASEE Long-Rangge Planning Committee and the ASEE Strategic Doing Governance Team. She is a past Vice President of Professional Interest Councils for ASEE and past President of WEPAN. Currently Chair of the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge Scholars Program Steering Committee and an ASEE PEV for General Engineering, Dr. Carpenter regularly speaks at the national level on issues related to the success of women in engineering and innovative
Master Plan identified streetscape enhancements as a neighborhoodpriority, interns were initially going to support a City project to implement new lighting, streettrees, and aesthetic enhancements near a neighborhood high school. Due to delays in the project,the team pivoted from its original scope to instead make improvements to a neighborhood parkincluding a little free lending library, a drinking fountain, playground equipment refurbishingand over 500 feet of new road and sidewalk. In collaboration with a University of Notre Damestudent chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, BCe2 interns also worked on thedesign of a pedestrian bridge to replace a ruin in the park over Bowman Creek. By working inpartnership with several City
from the organizational sciences andengineering education literatures, nine professional competencies were selected as the structurefor the program. The competencies consisted of non-technical skills that are critical to one’semployability in most high-level jobs: conflict management, creativity, cultural adaptability,leadership, oral communication, planning, problem solving, teamwork, and writtencommunication (see Table 1). Competencies, or soft-skills, recommended in the literature [7]were discussed with engineering faculty members, industry professionals, graduate students, anddepartmental advisory boards to determine a final list for inclusion in the professionaldevelopment program.The individual competencies can be grouped into three
, providingcommunity assistance, funding, training, development of metrics to assess performance of greeninfrastructure, and promotion of best practices.5The City of Norfolk, the Green Infrastructure Center, Inc., and Old Dominion University havecollaborated on a National Fish and Wildlife Federation Grant titled “Developing a GreenInfrastructure Plan and Network for the Lafayette River Network”. As part of the project OldDominion University provided a training program to prepare veterans for the jobs in greeninfrastructure. Green infrastructure projects can provide business and employment opportunitiesfor veterans. This project includes a 20 hour educational course for veterans to educate them aboutthe green infrastructure industry, business and employment
inkey capstone exercises, including a mid-semester, peer-based design review as well as a final symposium.This student engagement and undergraduate networking has far reaching benefits, as the studentsinvolved enrich their own experiences and become resources to pass information and critiques along toone another.Our plan for assessing this program and its students involves following the participating studentsthroughout the sophomore, junior and senior years. Students, at varied stages in the curriculum, alongwith their mentors and industry sponsors, will be interviewed to assess the effectiveness of theintroductory course and the influence of early exposure to the capstone experience on their capstoneprojects. Project performance will also be
. Students complete an integrative design project in each courseand apply presented theory into real-world engineering problems. Course deliverables includewritten reports with detailed design data and analysis, group and individual presentations, andone or more working, physical product prototypes. Projects are also used to introduce enterprisesoft skills, including various levels of communication, teamwork, professionalism, andrecognizing ethical values. The sequence is finalized by a senior level capstone “Senior Design”course that requires student participation in interdisciplinary teams to bring a product fromconceptual design through manufacture. Activities include detail design, material selection, costestimation, process planning, schedule
process used by the National Aeronautics andSpace AdministrationExamining the outputs of the NASA process reveal varied types of output in all of the stages. Theoutputs of that process can be broadly grouped into the following headings: 1. Proposal of Program/Project Goals 2. Development of Requirements 3. Formation of Planned Activities 4. Documentation of ResultsEach design phase culminates in a set of formal reviews. The formal design reviews areubiquitous in engineering design and are often overlooked in other areas of engineering andtechnology education. The CCSU process aims to cover the types of output produced throughoutall design phases and introduce the students to the work flow around formal design reviews. TheCCSU process is
organize andteach paired sections of Technology, English, and Communication courses. All 3 classroominstructors in each set of sections work together within the Integrated First-Year Experience,which ultimately aims to tie essential skills and concepts from the humanities and STEM fieldsto realistic global problems and contexts. The program was implemented for more than 500 first-year students in each academic year (2015–16 and 2016–17). Our research responds to questionsabout the potential for integrated courses to improve students’ conceptual learning andengagement with the university, and about the most effective ways for instructors andadministrators to plan, support, and implement this kind of integration. We demonstrate thepotential for
and Stiffness of Engineering Systems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 What’s Shaking with SESMC? A Work in Progress Update on an NSF S-STEM ProjectAbstractScholarships in Engineering, Science, Mathematics and Computer Science (SESMC,“Seismic”) is an NSF S-STEM project at Allan Hancock College (AHC), a community college inSanta Maria, California. In 2012, SESMC was funded at $599,929 for five-years. SESMC’s finalyear will be 2017–18.This work will present the current status of the project. As planned, 12 scholars would be in thefirst cohort, and 24 in each of the following three years, for 84 total annual awards. Awards arebased on equal parts academic
-learning communities for engineeringundergraduates at Virginia Tech. These living-learning communities were created to providesocial and academic support for first-year female and male engineering students. Combined,these learning communities now support over 600 students, the majority of whom are enrolled intheir first-year of college. This also includes a large support team of upperclassmen students (i.e.,sophomores, juniors, and seniors) who serve as mentors and committee members.PurposeThe work presented here is part of a multi-year plan to impact every student involved in either ofthe living-learning communities. In this paper, we describe the work to date, which includes ourcollaboration with faculty in the field of sociology to develop the
approach was to first identify critical areas for graduate student development. Aninitial list was created that grouped potential competencies in three areas, shown inTable 1. Competencies in this list were drawn from work on developmental assessment centersfor managers [2, 3], with input from the faculties in the different engineering disciplines at theUniversity of Tulsa, as well as their Industrial Advisory Boards.Table 1. Initial set of professional competencies. Technical Communication Cultural Information Seeking Oral Communication Cultural Adaptability Planning and Organizing Leadership Teamwork Problem Solving
to produce sample curricula that show how students can incorporate afall or spring semester abroad in a standard four-year, eight-semester graduation plan. Suchplans are constructed so as to not require additional summer study or application of AdvancedPlacement or International Baccalaureate credits.The process of creating these sample curricula is labor-intensive. Starting with the curricularrequirements at our institution for a specific major, noting prerequisite streams and limitations onwhen specific courses are offered, we then investigate the course offerings in that discipline aswell as in mathematics in one of the study abroad programs. Note is made of the general levelof each course and semester(s) offered. Courses that appear to
Paper ID #19543Student Interns Work to Activate First Floor SpacesProf. Charlie Setterfield, Sinclair Community College Charlie Setterfield is a Professor of Architectural Technology at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. With more than 20 years experience in the architectural and construction industries, including responsibilities in all aspects of architectural project delivery and construction management, Setterfield brings real-world experience to the classroom. Setterfield’s courses focus on BIM, IPD, materials and means of construction, ”green building”, professional practice and building codes. As a Plans
explore knowledge gaps. 1f View problems with an open mindset and explore opportunities with passion. 4c Provide and accept constructive criticism, including self-evaluation. 4f Manage informal communications.The single-point rubric format was explicitly chosen for its abilities to clearly state performanceexpectations and solicit qualitative feedback. The rubric layout was divided into a set ofcategories that roughly follow the timeline of a typical client interaction: preparatory activities,status reporting, planned questions, and follow-up questions. Two additional categories, mindsetand professionalism, were also included to capture traits that should be present throughout theinteraction. For