was a traditional instructor.After stating, “I have to turn in my lesson plans on a weekly basis at the beginning of the week,”she expressed her belief that following the lesson plans enabled her to think about different partsof the lesson and provided a beginning and an ending of the lesson to give it closure. Thisstatement provided evidence of how she viewed her role as a curriculum planner for her students.After attending the long-term professional development, she demonstrated a major change in herbeliefs about her role as facilitator of group discussions. She stated, “[Students] do a lot of worktogether with their group, so I just monitor them and give them expectations, guidelines, andassignments.” This comment demonstrated that she was
a now-defunct water agency, some of the types ofprocess wastes deposited there may be identified. With this information, scientists candevelop a sampling and analytical plan to locate and identify residual chemicals from thehistoric operation and to compare them to the contamination problem at hand.5. History of environmental regulationsIn 1899 Congress passed the Rivers and Harbors Act (RHA). The RHA prohibits thedischarge of refuse matter “of any kind or description whatever” into the navigablewaters of the United States without a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.However, the RHA was difficult to police and, therefore, rarely used for enforcement.The following lists the major environmental regulations enacted in the United
report they planned to change their major than students with low engineeringidentification. They also found that engineering identification was the best predictor of the likelihood that studentswould change majors, even more so for women than for men.Engineering utility. Engineering utility is a measure of the perceived usefulness of engineering for an individual’sshort- or long-term goals.14 The utility value construct is commonly studied in the context of the expectancy-valuemodel of motivation.16 Expectancy-value theory suggests that an individual’s attitude, choice, and performance canbe explained by their competence and value beliefs. Jones et al. [14] found that engineering utility was one of themost significant predictors of first-year
34 conference 35 Model Facilities and/or Instructional Laboratory Design Specifications and Plans 32At the same time, when the survey respondents were asked to weight which renewabletechnologies they most sought professional development, solar photovoltaics clearly stood out asthe strongest preference with a weighted score more than twice as high of many other renewabletechnologies (see Table 3). Table 3) Faculty survey topic prioritiesSolar Photovoltaic Institute Weighted priority forIn attempt to build solar career pathways, professional development in Weighted
enrollment by hiring networks of graduateand undergraduate teaching assistants and graders. This approach brings additionalorganizational and cost burdens into large-scale teaching. Students in the classroom must bealigned with the mission of the course for both inclusiveness and quality of education, specificcontent taught, expectations of students both behaviorally and academically, plans forassessment, problem and classroom management, and the course instructional structure28.These considerations have significant hours and costs for hiring, training, and replacingteaching assistants on a regular basis.The issues facing engineering education at scale have implications for student success. At theheart of the matter is meeting demands for higher
fabrication, algorithm development). These projects have included Robotics Platforms, Planning, Monitoring and Control algorithms, Sensor Interface, User Inter- faces, Wireless communication, Signal Processing etc. All of this involves direction and teaching teams how to use the required tools and apply engineering skills to transform a concept into a product. She also manages interdisciplinary senior design projects in collaboration with other engineering departments such as Textiles Engineering, Mechanical engineering, etc. Beyond senior design, she has also created and teaches undergraduate as well as graduate level classes in ECE (Python in Engineering, Algorithms in ECE, Practical Engineering Prototyping (PrEP)). She
culminates in site specific sessions which provide a view into eachcamp’s agenda for the summer.Our one-day pre-camp preparation workshop follows the teacher training workshop and focuseson the specific activities for the specific camp. This training includes all levels of staff, theteachers, along with the engineering undergraduate counselors and the high school assistantcounselors. The agenda begins with a team builder activity and presentation on campus safety forminor participants. Teachers are split up into their specific camps where they review theiragendas with the help of the counselors that have been working the previous week in establishingtest protocols, test fixtures and change management communication plans. All activities arereviewed
report describes our objectives, rationale, implementations,and assessment plans in developing a practical robotic ultrasonic welding process as aneducational hands-on project and laboratory exercises for undergraduate STEM students, andparticularly Engineering Technology majors. The project combines ultrasonic welding ofplastics, robotics, force sensors, rapid prototyping, thermal imaging and image processing in apractical demonstration of an industrially-important automated plastics manufacturingtechnology. An ultrasonic horn attached to the end of a robotic arm can be programmed to spotweld or seam weld acrylic parts. The process is monitored and optimized using a thermalimaging camera and a force sensor.Introduction and Background
semester.Participants In Phase I of the study, all students who were enrolled in the university’s Introduction toEngineering course (ENGR 1201 or ETGR 1201) during the Fall 2017 semester were invited toparticipate. In all, there were 576 students enrolled in these courses and 10 individuals elected toparticipate with a 1.7% response rate, much lower than desired and anticipated. Because thenumber of participants was lower than desired in Phase I, the recruitment plan for Spring 2018was revised to include participation incentives - $5.00 restaurant gift cards to a nearby fast foodrestaurant offered to all individuals who agree to participate as well as a chance to win one of six$25 gift cards to the campus bookstore. In Phase I, the 10 study
report of a three-year study of engineering education led by Leah Jamieson andJack Lohman [2], one of the seven recommendations was: Expand collaborations andpartnerships between engineering programs and a) other disciplinary programs germane to theeducation of engineers as well as b) other parts of the educational system that support the pre-professional, professional and continuing education of engineers. The 3D frameworkaddressed these recommendations.This is a process that aligns the attributes of graduates with their post-graduate plans in a waythat is customized for each student in the program. In the first dimension, the academicfoundation, core courses required of all students have been converted into course bricks thatinclude
-founder and VP Business Development for the design and manufacturing company EG-Gilero. Andrew worked for Alaris Medical Systems (now BD’s CareFusion) as a design engineer and project manager. He is Business Advisor and Speaker for the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, an advisor to the NIH C3i Program, Director of Duke NeuroInnovations, and on the planning team for BME IDEA. He holds a BS in Physics, English Literature, and Secondary Education from UNC Charlotte, an MS in BME from UNC Chapel Hill’s Medical School, and a Ph.D. from the UNC/NCSU BME Department.Mr. James McCall, NCSU James McCall is currently a BME PhD student at North Carolina State University.Dr. Hatice O. Ozturk, North Carolina State University Dr
challenges in civil engineeringeducation and proposing educational reforms and initiatives to address these challenges. At the1995 Civil Engineering Education Conference, 235 participants considered a wide range ofissues and collectively identified four major areas for focused action by ASCE: (1) facultydevelopment, (2) an integrated curriculum, (3) practitioner involvement in education, and (4) thefirst professional degree.1Following the 1995 conference, the ASCE Educational Activities Committee (EdAC) assumedresponsibility for the faculty development issue area. EdAC proposed to the ASCE Board ofDirection that a standing Committee on Faculty Development be established and provided withfunding to plan and implement a teaching effectiveness workshop
linked to goal-setting, self-regulation,and success in engineering programs [2], [6], [10]–[13]. In this paper, domain-general(Connectedness, Value), domain-specific (Perceptions of the Future, Present on Future, Futureon Present), and context-specific constructs (Perceived Instrumentality) were considered. Ingeneral, Value, often termed valence, is the “anticipated subjective value”[14] (p. 567) of futuregoals for a person; thus students may place a higher value or hold one goal in higher regard thananother goal. The second domain-general FTP construct, Connectedness, is “general feeling ofconnectedness to and planfulness about the future” [15] (p. 116). Perceived Instrumentality (PI)[15]–[17] is a context-specific variation of connectedness
this by establishing ahypothetical model of a design division and used the model for the specifiedcompany. The feedbacks from students suggest that the case study method showedthem how to use the knowledge acquired through the taught courses in solving real-life problems.1 IntroductionInvestigating what is typically involved in the Engineering Management (EM)master’s degrees as offered by the larger programs, Peterson and Humble [1]identified 28 topics or courses. Since all 28 topics cannot be included in any singleprogram the universities choose the topics in accordance to the requirements of theirconstituencies. Engineering Management is the process of planning, organising,staffing, leading and influencing people, and controlling activities
hour. The three major sections of theworkshop consisted of the following: (1) the content and structure of the GRE; (2) what a good score is for each portion of the exam; and (3) how to prepare for the test including study plans and materials.The first section gave a brief overview of how the GRE is organized, discussing briefly each ofthe three sections: analytical reasoning, verbal reasoning, and the writing portion. If the studentsdo not understand what the GRE consists of, then the rest of the workshop will not provideadditional benefit for the student. The type of students who attended the first workshop rangedfrom freshman to graduate students, so some students had never previously heard of the GRE,other than that it is
findings of this study?Methodological approachWe conducted initial phenomenological interviews during students’ first year (2014-2015),follow-up interviews with the sub-set of women from the Middle East (spring 2017), andfinal-year interviews with Irish-based participants (2017-2018). The Irish-basedparticipants joined our DT066 common core Bachelor of Engineering program together, inSeptember 2014.We conducted initial analysis, using interpretive phenomenology, to summarize eachparticipant’s first interview and help shape the direction of the study and the plan forfollow-up interviews. Starting in the third year, we used NVivo software to code allinterviews collected. As per Table 2, this included first-year interviews (n=7), the second
, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts 5) an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives 6) an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions 7) an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.The EC2000 criteria were initiated in August 1994. 58 invited guests, including guests from theABET Engineering Accreditation Commission board, several of the professional
- Step 2: Sketch and drawing of the architectural designThe second part of this project started in the beginning of the spring 2017. During this periodstudents sketched a first draft of the architectural design based on the dimension and the size ofthe location. The sketch was designed based on different norms. First, the total rectangular areaof the course was accurately measured and divided to twelve equal rectangles. Second, thedistribution of the holes as well as the difficulties and obstacles were located depending onrandom criterions. Third, the degree of challenges was gradually increased from the beginning tothe end of the course and the part for the disabled people was planned with all the requiredfacilities and included in the middle
work together in practice groups (Community of Practice).There are typically 2 to 4 practice groups in each section of the course. During the first half ofthe semester, the leaders participate in case clinics [10] where each week one member of thepractice group poses a real situation or question from their sessions to the group for discussion(Practice-based Activities). Another member of the group documents the discussion and adds itto a folder accessible by all leaders in the class. The presenter then reflects on the conversationand writes a short summary of the discussion and how the leader plans to handle a similarsituation in the future (Documented Deep Learning). These case clinics continue each week untilevery leader has presented a case
complex work of design for the first time,knowing how to plan and carry out a design project specific to their discipline, how to documentthe process, and how to make their invisible design thinking processes visible in a blank bookcan be a challenging task. Moore et al. reported on some of the challenges that students andinstructors encounter when using blank engineering notebooks, including confusion about whatshould go in the notebook, uncertainty about the purpose for keeping a design notebook, notseeing the value in careful documentation of design work, and a reluctance to engage inreflection of their design process [5]. The structured engineering design notebook described inthis paper can help support students as they build expertise in
engineeringperception does not quite rate as highly. It is important to remember that we only did theperceptions of engineering as a post-survey. There may have been movement up or down in anyof these over the course of the 3-week SEEK camps, which would be more telling for what theprogram really impacts. Pre- and post- administration for the survey is planned for the 2018camps. The figures presented below break things down by gender. Female and Male Personal Interests 3.00 2.90 2.80 2.70 2.60 2.50 2.40 2.30
school students and motivatethem to choose engineering/technology career paths as they enter their undergraduate degreeprograms. This paper presents an overview of and results from the two-week workshop hostedduring summer 2017. Included in this overview will be an outline of the buildingautomation/energy management experiential learning that was undertaken and how IoT wasintegrated into this important technology discipline. Examples of edge devices, sensors, wirelesscommunications, and IoT processes such as publishing, subscribing, and building sensor/actuatordashboards for IoT-based building monitoring and control systems will be provided. Evaluationdata, teacher feedback and anecdotal information will also be presented. In addition to plans
owndeveloped system. Sargison et al.4 in 2005 presented the results of the first trial of introducingsome form of ePortfolio to 1st year engineering students as part of an initiative of University ofTasmania. It was used for the students to track their development skills and to help them in theircareer planning. Unfortunately, in all those cases, they just described the initial implementationand nothing on how they dealt with any issues that might have raised during the implementation. There has been also some implementation initiative in specific engineering programs.Christy and Fasina5 compared the eP implementation in two undergraduate biosystems/biologicalengineering programs, one from Ohio State University and another one from Auburn
amount of ambiguity, necessary collaboration, sociotechnical complexity, andpersuasion needed: Many [of the interviewed engineers] felt frustrated because they did not think that their jobs provided them with enough technical challenges. Others felt frustrated because they thought that a different career choice might have led to a job that would enable them to make more use of the advanced technical subjects they had studied in their university courses. Many of them were actually planning to leave their career in engineering. In our research, we found that more experienced engineers, those who had stuck with it for a decade or more, had mostly realized that the real intellectual challenges in engineering
Education from Tufts University.Ms. Kristin Marie Kibling, Texas State University Ms. Kristin Kibling is a graduate student, completing her Masters of Science in Technology Management with a concentration in Construction Management at Texas State University. She is a full time professional in the construction industry with over 15 years’ experience in the private and public sector of commercial preconstruction, marketing, business development and project management. Kristin currently holds a position in Texas State University’s Facilities Planning, Design and Construction department where she is responsible for planning, estimating, directing, scheduling, inspecting and coordinating construction activities for campus
ispresented at 12 lectures, 13 lessons and 2 labs. The course also includes a relatively large projectwork (approximately 40% of the course/the student workload is dedicated to the project). Theproject is carried out in groups of 5 students and focus on the compressor cycle. One aim is todetermine the efficiency (coefficient of performance) for a traditional kitchen refrigerator. Amethod to carry out this is proposed to the students, but they need to plan, carry out, analyze andpresent all measurements and calculations by themselves. There is continuous supervision, butonly when the students ask for it. Care is taken to let the students be in charge of their ownwork.Apart from the engineering thermodynamics objectives, the project aims to give the
design teams and professional engineering societies, has been shown topromote engineering identity development, graduate school intentions, and plans to pursueengineering careers after graduation.In this work we posit that it is not simply differences in SES that separate highly involved,successful students in engineering from their less involved, less successful counterparts. Insteadwe postulate that such differences inform students’ socialization into engineering and, as a result,their patterns of co-curricular participation. Weidman defines socialization as “the process bywhich individuals acquire the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that make them more or lesseffective members of their society” [5]. In this study, we hypothesize that an
of studies, and course content. Since performance of students in previous examination decides their ability tounderstand topics in current classes, we requested the teachers to study details of the pastperformances of their students (high school courses and performances, therein, performancesat other competitive examinations) and plan their courses accordingly. They introduced teststo assess students’ understanding of pre-requisite topics and developed course plans includingthe use of appropriate pedagogical methods. For each class, the same teacher was responsiblefor both lectures and tutorials, which facilitated more contact time with the students resultingin better academic integration. The teachers prioritized learning (as
, Electrical, Environmental, Mechanical, Manu-facturing, Bioengineering, Material Science), and as Faculty in the engineering department for the pasttwenty seven years.Industry experience: Consulting; since 1987; Had major or partial role in: I) performing research forindustry, DOE and NSF, and II) in several oil industry or government (DOE, DOD, and NSF) proposals.Performed various consulting tasks from USA for several oil companies (Jawaby Oil Service Co., WAHAOil and Oasis Co., London, England). The responsibilities included production planning, forecastingand reservoir maintenance. This production planning and forecasting consisted of history matching andprediction based on selected drilling. The reservoir maintenance included: water/gas injection
discussing class-specific modifications, plans to make the toolpublicly available and to scale the use of DEFT in large numbers of engineering designcourses.1. IntroductionThis poster presents preliminary results from a project aimed at providing a betterunderstanding of how engineering design is taught and learned. The overall aim of the projectis to develop a pedagogical framework to guide the development, evaluation, andimprovement of learning environments for project-based engineering design courses.Project-based design classes are increasingly common in undergraduate engineeringprograms, serving as experiential learning activities. They allow students to apply theirtheoretical knowledge to solve open-ended, ill-structured design problems [1, 2