extent to which the three strategies are (1) currently being implemented, and (2)are planned to be implemented. The supposition was that those scoring higher on VECTERS’value and expectancy items would be more likely to currently be integrating a classroom strategyand would be more likely to plan on using the strategy in the future (either initiating orcontinuing to use). Regarding costs, a cost-increases-with-usage hypothesis was supposed bysome on the research team even though expectancy theory supported the cost-decreases-with-usage hypothesis.Construct validity was further examined by applying orthogonal (varimax) rotation factoranalysis. Analysis was applied to VECTERS’ three sub-tests (formative feedback, real-worldapplications, and
university in In- donesia. He has developed and delivered numerous international workshops on student-centered learning and online learning-related topics during his service. Dr. Lawanto’s research interests include cognition, learning, and instruction, and online learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Students’ Self-Regulation in a Senior Capstone Design Context: A Comparison between Mechanical and Biological Engineering Design ProjectsAbstract Self-regulated learning (SRL), which is often called self-regulation, is a complexrepository of knowledge and skills for planning, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, andcontinually improving the learning process. Studies suggest
eschew methods that predict the likelihood of certain events (i.e., predictiveapproaches), and instead focused on pursuing opportunities where they are able to exert a higherlevel of control on the outcome (i.e., effectual approaches)15.Effectuation builds on work by Simon16 and others17, proposing the bounded rational model ofhuman cognition and identifying heuristics that humans use to make decisions. Sarasvathyproposed five heuristics that represent thinking in the effectual style of logic and situates them inopposition to what are referred to as ‘causal’ heuristics that aid decisions through predictiveapproaches and planning. The two sets of heuristics are reproduced in Table 1 below. Table 1 Table of effectual heuristics adapted from
fleeting.The following vignette is an example of a typical type of interaction that is not planned andemerges momentarily to address a specific purpose before passing quickly. This vignette alsoshows how these types of interactions seem occasioned by the fact that new engineers frequentlywork in isolation and more senior engineers only sometimes check in on the progress of theirwork or in order to correct them.This case involves a chemical engineer, Curtis, who works in the position of developmentalengineer for Large Southern Steel Mill. The title of “developmental engineer” was part of aprogram initiated by the company to bring in and train new engineering talent, in order toinculcate them into the ways of the company (thus not requiring the “re
planned minor in space operations program are developed andmapped to the educational outcomes established by the AET program.IntroductionThe commercial space industry is evolving in ways unforeseen twenty years ago. The financialsuccess of people like Elon Musk (Paypal), Paul Allen (Microsoft), Richard Branson (Virgin),and Jeff Bezos (Amazon) allows these individuals the freedom to invest in or start up their owncommercial space companies. These people have been influenced by the grandeur of the ApolloProgram in the 1960s, and they use their wealth to invest in the future of the space industry asindividuals, not as a part of a government entity. Such investments are largely unseen in thecorporate conglomerate paradigm of the late 20th century
teaching engineeringconcepts and may perceive a greater benefit from professional development onengineering in the classroom. In addition, rural teachers indicated different priorities forprofessional development. Though teachers overall saw the greatest benefit fromprofessional development on lesson plans that incorporate engineering, rural teachersindicated an even higher benefit just from having access to an expert teacher inengineering.The lower confidence that we see may be indicative of the limited support, community,and resources available to teachers in rural areas who often have a more limited budgetand fewer colleagues to collaborate with. These results make a strong case for thecreation of a professional development program that targets
results, electronic notes (i.e. reflections), and design artifacts are of the selected terms, explain why. collected through automatic, unobtrusive logging as students design. Analyzing data Gathering Information Planning
group. These are members that are the “regulars” of thecommunity – those who can be counted on to interact and participate on an ongoing basis. In 1PEPS, the active group is comprised of key members from the six partner schools. As shown inTable 1, the active members were identified during the planning stages of PEPS.The outermost circle is comprised of the peripheral group. These are members who pop in andout of the community and who interact less regularly. In PEPS the peripheral group is comprisedof advisors and career center personnel at other engineering institutions. And finally, outside thecircle are outsiders –those who are not yet in the
involvement, and their plans of teaching STEM after graduation.We received a total of 23 applications including one pre-service teacher. Eleven teachers havebeen selected as final candidates to participate in the RET program at Oakland University. Anacceptance letter was sent to the candidates, and all the candidates returned the signed letterwithin a week. Table 1 shows the profile of teachers selected for the 2016 summer program. Table 1: 2016 RET Teachers’ Profile Applicants School District School Level Teaching Years of (F/M) Subject Teaching 1 (F) Avondale High School Math
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Journey to Initial Accreditation of a Civil Engineering ProgramAbstractStarting a new engineering program that fulfills ABET EAC 2000 requirements is a majorundertaking. With a new program, there is great responsibility to develop the curricula andassessment tools to meet university, community, and stakeholder requirements while meetingABET EAC outcomes. In this paper, the authors will discuss the process of implementing anew civil engineering program at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas (in theAmarillo, Texas metropolitan area). This discussion includes the planning, launch, andimplementation of curricula that lead to a successful initial ABET EAC accreditation, as
withfaculty partners from other institutions. For students from SPU and SHU, once students have self-identified as candidates, they will work with a faculty member there, coupled with a mentor fromMSU to transition into their graduate studies at MSU. If students demonstrate interest earlier thantheir senior year, a faculty member at that institution will advise them as they select their computerscience and other courses to facilitate the transition or to increase the value of the MSCS to theircareer plans. Students accepted into this program who come from a non-NECST consortium memberwill be assigned an MSU advisor; such students as well as MSU undergraduates accepted as NECSTscholars, will interact with the SPU and SHU faculty through other
have plans to investigate the relationship between reasons for selectinga major and retention. This analysis will provide further implications for engineering faculty tobetter understand the reasons that are associated with persistence in the major. ReferencesBandura, A. (1986). Social foundations of thought and action: A social cognitive theory. NY.: Prentice-Hall.Beggs, J. M., Bantham, J. H., & Taylor, S. (2008). Distinguishing the factors influencing college students' choice of major. College Student Journal, 42, 381-394.Brown, S. D., Lent, R. W., Telander, K., & Tramayne, S. (2011). Social cognitive career theory, conscientiousness, and work performance: A meta-analytic
PBSL Activities The four PBSL activities are as follows: 1) “I am an instructor in a STEM class”: At the moment of the writing, we are still discussingwith a local high school for details. We plan to conduct this activity in fall 2017. 2) “Design customized food barrels for a food pantry”: This project challenges sophomoresto work on a project that is not strictly designed (assumptions, contexts, etc.) but has a concreteend goal. Through communication with employees at the local food pantry, 16 students in 8teams interacted with them at each step of their projects such as design, development, and testphases to maintain constant goal alignment. This activity is being implemented into theTechnical Communications course this semester
; however, not much curricular emphasis isplaced on developing leadership skills through graduate school or for junior faculty members.Recent studies have linked transformational leadership5,6 –the leadership style that seeks to helpeach individual member of a team develop her or his maximum talent and potential—toinnovation success,27 learning outcomes, and higher productivity.28 By adopting a“transformational leadership” approach to leading and sculpting a research group, advisors canhelp students plan their own success. Outlining specific roles for students and helping them to setgoals for themselves at the same time as a research advisor sets overall goals for the team canhelp to form a productive research group.In sum, there are several
questions, the options given were the standard selections for such a survey: stronglyagree, agree, fair/neutral, disagree, or strongly disagree. Some questions offered a range ofoptions pertaining to each specific question; a few of these questions asked students to selectmore than one option.An initial questionnaire was created as a “test survey” for students. It was administered in aclass to sophomore students noted as being primarily. The students were asked to answer a set ofquestions regarding their perception of the program’s education. Additionally, they wereinquired about their future education and career plans. The students completed thequestionnaires promptly and returned them. After reviewing the first questionnaire, theresearchers
to activelylearn about it? Several options were explored but the robot solution was found to be morepractical, that is, it could explore without endangering human life. The special robot can be sentto the volcano to investigate ongoing activities plus it can bring back samples of materials ofinterest. This type of thinking resulted in planning and creating lessons about exploring avolcano using a robot that was required to visit several sites of the volcano while taking theshortest time possible. The lessons are shown in Table 1. Table 1: An overview of eight robotic lessons for 5th gradeLesson Name Driving Question 1 Danger Zone How can scientists study dangerous
amount of time dedicated to this effort. In theseexperiments the focus was on extensive testing.It was desired, though not fully achieved, to scaffold the number of variables that each experimentconsidered (Table 2), yet many experiments only lent to manipulation of one variable. However,this highlights that when developing a plan for scaffolding it can be desirable not to increase thechallenge level of every aspect for each new assignment. Alternatively, instructors can increaseand then reduce challenge level of a specific aspect in order to increase the challenge of anotheraspect without overwhelming the students. Typically the final step in such a process is anassignment that incorporates increased complexity across multiple aspects but where
these courses and the course which they are currently enrolled, c) how the courses they have taken so far have moved them closer to their career plans/goals.Students are also expected to include several paragraphs about themselves, and other experiencesthat may be related to their career goals and future plans. In addition, each senior design capstoneproject team is required to create a separate ePortfolio that articulates their capstone projectsincluding reflection and narrative about the individual contribution of each member of the team.Examples of ePortfolio sites developed by Auburn BSEN students are listed below: • http://hallienelson18.wix.com/hallie-nelson • http://kingbenpaul.wix.com/eportfolio • http://ceg0032.wix.com
, butcould still be greatly improved. Although the improvement was not completely designed, muchof the more difficult analysis was completed, which showed that the proposed system waspotentially worthwhile. In addition, Br. Lawrence was able to learn some basic heat transferconcepts that were relevant to the evaporator, which may shape future plans and modifications tothe maple-making process. In particular, he was quite interested to learn that increasing theflowrate in his proposed cooling-water system would – counterintuitively – decrease theeffectiveness of the attached sap melter. The collaboration also increased the awareness of themaple program among the engineering community, and vice versa. The student who completedthe project stated that
arelooking beyond students with traditional educations. According to a 2015 article 3 , in certain cases, it does not even matter whether a candidate has a bachelor’s degree in a specific area: companies are looking for candidates with hands-on experience in software development through “hack-a-thons,” extracurricular projects, and internships.The purpose of this article is to describe an attempt to provide non-traditional students with thissort of hands-on knowledge and experience via a 12-week programming course provided by aUniversity and community partnership. We describe the partnership and the resulting courseincluding several problems that were encountered and lessons learned. We then describe a coursethat was planned
other functional groups within thebusiness structure to attain project success in the “real world.”In response to calls from our alumni advisory board for a leadership experience integratingbusiness and engineering disciplines, a leadership development competition was designed usingsustainability as the theme. Students developing leadership skills from both engineering andbusiness were organized into teams to identify and solve a sustainability problem. Each studentwas not only focused on the overall competition, but also in defining their roles and leadershipopportunities. Both teams and individual students had periodic metrics to report, as well as detailtheir plans for influencing stakeholders or teammates in specific action areas. While
Justifywhytheirdesignsolutionisappropriatebasedonapplicationofcore communicatetheir science/mathematicsconcepts. designsolutionthrough B Justifywhytheirdesignsolutionisappropriatebasedoninformationobtainedin useofevidence-based problemscoping. reasoning. En grTEAMS Projec t i s fu nded by t h e N a t i o n a l Sci e n ce F o u n da t i o n un d er gra nt NSF DUE- 1238140Notebooks in the CurriculaThroughout the design project, each student maintains an engineering notebook in order to take notes, develop ideas,record testing and observations, document decisions, and plan next steps. Each of the 13 units has both commonelements of the notebook and elements that are specific to that unit. The common elements of the notebooks
formulate business plans and execute them perfectly. However, thecommunity has realized that startups are fundamentally different that large companies, leading to theconcept of the “lean startup”[7] which says that new ventures should quickly and cheaply validate orinvalidate hypotheses through delivering the minimum viable product to potential customers well beforecommitting to large investments and long timeframe development efforts. This approach essentiallyamounts to an application of the scientific method in a new venture context[7].The nation’s 160,000 libraries empower the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. Libraries aredigital decentralized networks that empower innovators from all facets of society through access toknowledge
Columbia. She is part of a research group that studies the experience of women student in engineering, focusing on how students perceptions of engineering affect their recruitment and persistence in the field.Mr. Atif Shoukat Ali, University of British Columbia Atif is currently working towards finishing his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at UBC, with a specialization in Mechatronics. He is primarily interested in the field of Robotics, with a focus on robot locomotion and trajectory planning which encompasses state estimation, localization and mapping. His work is also geared towards control systems and human robot interaction. Atif has been an advocate for early childhood robotics education through
schools how to design and draft usingcomputer applications such as Autodesk AutoCAD. The program, named “Girls Who Draft”,aims to stimulate awareness regarding career options in engineering/technology, motivate moreyoung women to pursue careers in these areas, and to recruit more female students into theuniversity program to eventually graduate with a degree in these high demand fields. Theprogram is structured so that young women from nearby schools come for a 2-hour block to oneof the departments’ computer labs that have the AutoCAD software available. The engineeringtechnology faculty and students provide these young women with a hands-on introduction todrafting. Future expansions of “Girls Who Draft” plan include multi-day and multi
grounding of critical AC systemsand become familiar with and verify the proper operation of circuit protection devices duringindustrial servicing and maintenance operations. In the second laboratory meeting studentsbecome familiar with the planning required to determine an adequate site location for a windturbine generator; they learn to determine the proper DC wiring to use for a wind-powered systeminstallation; they demonstrate the proper installation and operation of a wind-powered system anddevelop skills for the proper installation and operation of a stop switch in a wind-powered electricalsystem. In the third laboratory meeting students learn the proper installation and operation of solarpowered systems; they develop skills for the proper
design. This study of commercial drives complements the classroomlectures during this period, which cover the design and stress analysis of individual gears.As previously stated, a primary goal of the lab course is to give students a real-world experienceworking as a machine design engineer. The lab follows each of the major steps in the design of alarge, custom-designed mechanical system. The individual assignments for the laboratory arelisted in this section. Assignment 1: Survey of the lift site and research into the state of the art in ski lifts – Students are given the location of their lifts. They must use GPS to survey the site, plan the lift elevation, and identify the tallest cable support pole, as shown in Figure 2
and connect materials in the course with their area of study, as well as overall academic and career plans. Eportfolios are reviewed by instructor and teaching assistants to both provide feedback and assess student performance.In summary, the design of the course and its implementation follows our teaching philosophy,that all learning is multidisciplinary. The course includes aspects of engineering design andanalysis, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, business, economics, political science,sociology, psychology – hence incorporating a broad spectrum of student areas of study andinterests, leading to engagement and motivated learning. Problem-based and project-basedlearning strategies integrate real-world case studies (including
%) had no mention of the author's’institutional affiliation. Moreover, 502 (84.5%) publications lacked controlled vocabulary, 485(81.6%) did not include uncontrolled vocabulary, and 489 (82.2%) missed classification codes.Additionally, none of the publications has incorporated citations. Acknowledging that thesenumbers greatly influence the accuracy of the planned analyses, the authors accepted the fact thatno citation analysis was possible and decided to carry on the authorship and affiliation analyses asinitially planned, but continue with the other planned investigations as a proof of concept only.First, the collaborations between the ELD members were investigated by developing the co-authorship network based on the co-occurrence of author's
to share these developed skill sets within their tribal and urban communities.Activities and presentations the IOU-NA students participate in include 1) Native NationsInstitute: Workshop on Tribal Governance, 2) Laser Radiation Safety Training, 3) Chemical LabSafety Training, 4) Research Ethics Training, 5) Optics Research Workshop, 6) Sloan ScholarSpeaker Series, 7) Research Plan and Lab Notebook Training, 8) Kathryn Kellner PresentationSkill Lecture, 9) Dr. Julius Yellowhair, Sandia National Labs Presentation, 10) Joshua John,Raytheon Presentation, 11) GRE Preparation Course, 12) GRE Tutoring Sessions 13) GRE FinalReview, 14) Graduate School Symposium, 15) Don Asher’s “Getting into Grad School”Seminar, 16) Performing Research on