lecture course. “Unit Operations Lab” or “Junior / Senior Lab” are common examples of this type of course. This survey is primarily focused on courses of this type. Clinic An integrative experiential hands-on-course that serves as the experimental lab for all other courses taken that semester. This survey is not focused on experiences of this type. Lab / Bench / The definition of what constitutes “pilot” scale varies by industry and type of Pilot Scale product. For the purposes of this survey, we will define “pilot” scale as one with working volumes significantly in excess of those one would typically encounter in a chemistry
academic quality. • Demonstrate accountability. • Encourage, where appropriate, self-scrutiny and planning for change and needed improve- ment. • Employ appropriate and fair procedures in decision making. • Demonstrate ongoing review of accreditation practice. • Possess sufficient resources.This clarifies ABET’s role as one of accrediting programs through a focus on continuous im-provement, curriculum, student outcomes, skilled faculty, and adequately resourced programs.The accreditation criteria discussed above makes that clear. While compliance with federal lawsis important, it is not regarded as an indication of a commitment to continuous improvement andexcellence in education. Furthermore, since ABET accredits programs
engineering. Then we provide a background on the way we integratetechnical content into knowledge integration activities and how we plan to integrate ethics intothat framework. Finally we talk about a method to assess the effectiveness of our study.Ethics Education in EngineeringOne of the major thrusts in engineering education is to develop students’ professional skills thatgo beyond the traditional technical curriculum [3]. Ethics education is a very important part ofany engineering program. ABET requires that all programs seeking accreditation mustdemonstrate that their graduates have an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility[4].Integrating professional skills into the technical content of engineering curriculum has alwaysbeen a
applications. Several EE professors had agreedupon a System Engineering curriculum scheme (See Figure 2). At the yearend of2013, the capstone DCS then was renamed as“Dynamic System Simulation andImplementation (DSSI).”DSSI aimed to help students synthesize and integrate skillsand knowledge acquired throughout the SE course.Figure 2: An illustration (at round 0) of System Engineering curriculum scheme that categorizes 100-300 courses into cornerstone, keystone and capstone, respectively.Self-improvement from round 0 to round 1From round 0 to round 1, the DCS professor decided to do self-reflection on previousSC syllabus and examination of System Engineering course structure. Figure 3 listsfour standard steps in system engineering design shown in
inherently safer design. 4. Understand how to control and mitigate hazards to prevent accidents. 5. Be familiar with the major regulations that impact the safety of chemical plants. 6. Understand the consequences of chemical plant incidents due to acute and chronic chemical releases and exposures. 7. Be reasonably proficient with at least one hazard identification procedure. 8. Have an introduction to the process of hazard evaluation and risk assessment. While these eight outcomes specify what needs to be covered, they do not specify where theseoutcomes should be covered in the curriculum. In 1999, Anton Pintar (Michigan TechnicalUniversity) discussed whether to integrate chemical process safety into the
whose students took these international assessments. Nationally, this achievementgap is mirrored in the lower performance of African-Americans and Hispanics students incomparison to White students as seen in both the PISA Report2 and national assessments3. Thereare several reasons cited in literature4-6 for this achievement gap. Some of these reasons are socio-economic status, strength of curriculum and disparity between school districts. In addition to thesestructural challenges, student engagement and motivation play an important role in learning. Thepedagogical approach in the classroom has a strong impact on students’ engagement with thelearning materials. Students’ cognitive engagement with the learning materials increases if theyrecognize
Paper ID #22097Engagement in Practice: the Student Engagement Continuum (SEC) – Op-portunities and Challenges for a Sustainable Pipeline Enhancement Model atan Urban InstitutionDr. Gregory E. Triplett, Virginia Commonwealth University Triplett is a Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Triplett oversees all aspects of graduate engineering programs including curriculum de- velopment, student recruitment and matriculation, strategic planning, student funding, graduate research, and online education. Prior to being Associate Dean, Triplett was Director of
Paper ID #21094Economic and Pedagogical Analysis of an Alternative Model of EngineeringEducationDr. R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University Alan Cheville studied optoelectronics and ultrafast optics at Rice University, followed by 14 years as a faculty member at Oklahoma State University working on ultrafast optoelectronics and engineering edu- cation. While at Oklahoma State, he led a major curriculum reform initiative. After serving for two and a half years as a program director in engineering education at the National Science Foundation, he took a chair position in electrical engineering at Bucknell University. He is
Paper ID #22624Using Lean Principles to Improve an Engineering Technology AssessmentProcessProf. Kevin R. Cook, Montana State University Kevin Cook is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Montana State University with primary teaching responsibilities supporting the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) program. He also serves as the Curriculum Coordinator of the Mechanical and Indus- trial Engineering Department, supporting curricular activities of the MET, Mechanical Engineering and Industrial and Management Systems Engineering programs. Mr. Cook holds a B.S. degree in
collaborationand begin to situate the experience of the student-instructor in STEM outreach as an important,but largely unexplored, area of pedagogical interest.Undergraduate engineering students from the State University of New York at Binghamton spentsummers with the Engineering Outreach Office at the University of Toronto to gain insight andexperience into the processes and operations of a long-standing outreach program. Uponreturning to their home institution, the students deployed this knowledge by developing anddelivering curriculum locally. We outline the progress to date and discuss the elements of this‘apprenticeship model’ aimed at developing new outreach programs focused on STEM literacyand engagement. Logistics associated with the
focus of all programs arebased on the goal of increasing within graduating students, job specific skills and improvedindustry awareness, which will make the students better suited to fill the present workforce gapmore quickly upon hire. The pilot program was focused in three main areas: slightly enhancedcourses from the engineering technology curriculum, a company and industry specificminimester course and an internship program. The paper also describes a unique industry-university partnership example that includes industry-site course offerings to develop jobspecific skills that expand to the project management level workforce. In an industry centric andcompany specialized minimester course, the students stay at a state-of-the-art, remote
students that are effective and authentic to the discipline. Much of this work has been centered on model-based inquiry and the integration of scientific practices in a supportive and structured way. He has been funded by NSF and other agencies to conduct research on preservice teacher education, undergraduate engineering education, and community partnerships in secondary education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018The Challenges and Affordances of Engineering Identity as an Analytic LensAbstractIn this theory paper, we seek to review recent scholarship on the construct of engineering identityto help identify the challenges and affordances of its use in engineering education research
these codes were written [4, 5]. Yarmus [18] and Russell [17] articulate the first line ofthinking. While there are differences in the tones of their arguments, both argue that engineers’ professional societies should use their members’ technical integrity and exemplary ethics as ameans of raising the status and stature of the profession. Unfortunately, by framing engineers’professional integrity as an unwavering platform upon which enhanced occupational statusshould be advocated, they leave little space for critique or improvement in this realm.Hill et al. and Andrews adopt the second line of reasoning. In contrast to Yarmus and Russell,these authors accept that engineers have room for improvement when it comes to ethicalconduct, but by
. Therefore, 10 universities (two more than those in 2015) fromChina were selected, proving the outstanding general power of China’s engineeringdisciplines.Main Issues in the Higher Engineering EducationIn terms of the cultivation concept, science and education has not been integrated yet and thephenomenon of “non-engineering” teachers still remains serious. Currently, the faculty teamof China is lacking in “double-qualified” teachers who have both an abundant engineeringbackground and a high academic level [4]. Under the influence of the competitive scientificresearch mechanism and the strategy of promoting the universities to transform the scientificand technological fruits, some universities, including especially those engineeringuniversities and
around engineering activities, engineering education in informal settings, and STEM integration within engineering contexts. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Title: Examining Children’s Engineering Practices during an Engineering Activity in a Designed Learning Setting: A Focus on Troubleshooting AbstractChildren spend most of their time in out-of-school settings. As a result, informal learning settingscan play a significant role in children’s learning development. Museums and science centers areinformal settings that are intentionally designed to promote learning and interest development.Studies show that these settings are where
Appendix B. We eliminated publications that used T-shaped to Deleted: Eliminatingdescribe an object or junction (rather than an individual or a curriculum); the yielded data Deleted: tshowed a big increase in papers on the topic between 2014 and 2015 and a significant increase in Deleted: that 3 the number of divisions whose programs included papers on the topic between 2014 and 2017.These numbers are discussed in the following section of the paper. Commented [NKA(5]: These additions are intended to
and Associate Provost in Hawaii; a College Director in Abu Dhabi, UAE; an Associate Professor and Assistant Provost in northern California; and an Assistant Professor and Director of Faculty Development in Florida. He has authored a textbook, an an- thology and published over 130 academic articles as well as offered hundreds of academic presentations. He has earned a B.S. in Oceanography from Florida Institute of Technology; an M.S. in Environmen- tal Engineering Sciences and a Ph.D. in Science Education from the University of Florida. Dr. Hargis’ research agenda focuses on how people learn while integrating appropriate, relevant and meaningful in- structional technologies. c American
their help with the writing of this paper.References[1] L. Dee Fink, Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses,Jossey-Bass, 2013.[2] G. Wiggins & J. McTighe, Understanding by Design, Association for Supervision andCurriculum Development, 2005.[3] D. R. Krathwohl, A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy: An Overview, Theory Into Practice, Vol.41, No. 4, pp. 212-218, 2002.[4] Saskatoon Public Schools, Instructional Strategies Online. Available:http://schools.spsd.sk.ca/curriculum/instructionalstrategies/.[5] American Psychological Association, Coalition for Psychology in Schools and Education, Top20 Principles from Psychology for PreK–12 Teaching and Learning. Available:http://www.apa.org/ed
seen asa field that is reserved for those who can endure the tough courses. At the same time, the realitiesand lived experiences of students of color such as around microaggressions and dailydiscrimination are neglected. There is an “unquestioned assumption” that knowledge inengineering is race- and gender- free [57]. There seems to be no recognition of theethnocentricity of the curriculum and the accepted epistemologies. Although students of colorare “holders and creators of knowledge” [68, p. 106] and contribute to the engineering field, thisknowledge differs from the perceived “bourgeois norms” in engineering.Classical engineering education philosophy situates engineering as a field where the ways ofthinking, doing and being are
withthe CSF framework would enhance our ability to mentor students to feel more confident abouttheir ability to contribute to their teams, value the talents of their teammates, and avoiddefaulting to stereotypical roles. For our Engineering students we work to instill anunderstanding of the CSF Strengths as natural talents. From this position of personal strength allstudents develop the required engineering skills, as defined through the lens of the ABET a-klearning outcomes. As each student possesses unique strengths, they will find a unique path tomastering the skills required for engineering practice. Figure 1: Strengths poster displayed in department commons.We were motivated to integrate Strengths into our Curriculum
trying an hour of programming by using their one-hourtutorials. Many projects target middle school including CS Unplugged [24] and some projects arefocused on a specific discipline like integrating math with computing at the K-12 level [26].In [15], a summer camp curriculum was presented where the students were taught appdevelopment using App Inventor and later introduced to Java. However, this camp’s focus was toteach app development (not programming only) in a particular platform to high school studentsonly. Even though they have found the camp to be successful in using APP Inventor andtransitioning to Java, their curriculum followed traditional learning techniques and most of theirstudents already had prior Java experience which played a
) non-diegetic, (b) moderately diegetic, and (c) completelydiegetic ways to present a player with educational elements in a game.Discussion of these levels leads to two approaches for incorporating diegesis in educationalgames. The first is to have goals of gameplay that are inseparable from the goals of the learningtask. In this scenario, the player completes the learning task as they play the game. This iscompletely diegetic and the most immersive and engaging. However, especially whendeveloping STEM educational games, there are a variety of problems that may not have goalsthat are easy to integrate with gameplay goals. In this case, it is necessary to combine diegeticelements with non-diegetic element to create an engaging experience. There
learning and instruction. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Industry-based Case Studies for an Online Graduate Certificate Wind Energy ProgramAbstract— This project involved the addition of practical, real world, experiences for online GraduateCertificate in Wind Energy students via case study based problems developed in cooperation withwind industry partners. Overall, five case studies were developed and integrated across three coursesoffered in Summer 2016, Fall 2016, and Spring 2017. A qualitative study employing focus groupsgathered feedback from the students in these courses. The students reported learning from and beingmotivated by the inclusion of the
(such as branch statements and functions) will beintroduced in similarly slow and step-by-step fashion, and early on during the curriculum.Students will still learn about binary representations of numbers and characters; but rather thanfront-loading the curriculum with these topics, they will be introduced in places where they canpresent an “aha” moment. For example, once students have experienced the results of integerdivision, the binary representation of integers will be introduced in order to explain theunexpected observed behavior. Once students have seen that counting (integers) up by 1’s willeventually yield a negative number, the binary 2’s complement will be introduced. And oncethey have experienced round-off errors with decimal
must deliver upper-level microcontroller/microprocessor curriculum content have reliedon producing component level skills and aptitudes in the students. It matches well with the subjectmatter and presentation of knowledge in textbooks. Reliance on developing electronics and computercomponent level knowledge to the exclusion of other knowledge has its critics [1].Broadly said, this work addresses, in part, the program's electronics and computing faculty concern thatthe program must make room for "timely content" in our semester lengthmicrocontroller/microprocessor curriculum. It must reach for a theme that could not be reached bysimply gluing component skills together. It must exercise “integrating skills” helpful to success insenior projects
exposure to ROS tostudents who possess the requisite Linux, Python and/or C++ skillset. In order to integrate ROSmore fully into the curriculum, and across engineering disciplines, another approach is needed.In 2015, MATLAB released the Robotics System Toolbox which provides a ROS interface andassociated robotics algorithms and tools. This MATLAB product enables engineering students,especially in an introductory course, to more easily communicate with any ROS-enabled robotsfrom standard Windows OS and/or Mac OS workstations running MATLAB. The advantage ofthis MATLAB solution is to provide students with a more intuitive and interactive programmingenvironment, visualization tools, and easy integration of other MATLAB toolboxes such ascomputer
CoE see theirstudents after three to five years beyond graduation? To better address this question for anotherABET visit in six years, CoE intends to enrich its program curriculum and equip students withadditional skills by incorporating an entrepreneurial mindset.In September 2017, the College of Engineering (CoE) decided to embed entrepreneurial skills inengineering learning activities for a number of courses throughout the program curriculum,requiring an efficient and integrated process. By incorporating EML in different coursesequences such as circuits, electronic design, and communications systems, students will havethe opportunity to develop and build up their entrepreneurial mindset.The CoE already offers elements of systems thinking
NSF INCLUDES Mississippi Alliance for Women in Computing (MSAWC), partnering with stakeholders throughout the southern US to leverage, strengthen, and create awareness of existing programs and create new programs for young women in computing. Sarah holds a BS in Business Administration and Computer Information Systems from the Mississippi University for Women and a master’s degree in computer science from MSU. She earned her PhD in computer science from the University of Memphis.Ms. Litany H Lineberry, Mississippi State UniversityDr. Jessica Ivy, Mississippi State Universitt Dr. Jessica Ivy is an Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at Mississippi State University. Her research focuses on the integration
Paper ID #24082Establishing an Engineering Core – What Does Every Engineer Need to Know,Particularly About Systems Engineering?Dr. Devanandham Henry, Regent University Dr. Devanandham (Deva) Henry is an assistant professor at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia where he leads the systems engineering program. Previously, he was a research engineer with the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) at Stevens Institute of Technology. He has supported the develop- ment of Systems Readiness Levels, Graduate Software Engineering Reference Curriculum, the GUide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK), and
University for five years. In 2010, she was hired as an external evaluator to conduct research on community/university partnership relations at the University of Cincinnati. She has received several awards including the: 1) UW College of Education outstanding research award (2015); 2) UW College of Education outstanding service award (2016); and 3) Honored College of Education Faculty at Fall Convocation (2017). Her research interests include partnerships within pre-service and in-service teachers in STEM Education with a focus on engineering education and integrated STEM. An active mem- ber of AERA, ASEE, ASTE, NARST, and NSTA, Dr. Burrows has presented at numerous conferences, published in ranked journals (e.g. Journal