have also offered a summer section of this course to newly admittedengineering students who wanted to make a head start in their studies.Summary of Project Results:Mathematics Enrichment SessionsThe performance of students who opted to register for the ES sections are compared to those whochose the non-ES sections. Non-ES sections have either the traditional recitation sessions orcomputer laboratories that use the software Mathematica. Graduate teaching assistants conductboth of these options. The results from the initial implementation of ES are presented in [5].To gauge the effectiveness of the ES approach, the ES group and the non-ES group werecompared relative to two measures: proportion of students who passed Calculus I, that isproportion
] theorized that development evolves out of processes (e.g.,interactions) occurring in context. The overall RED project that this study is a part of is aninvestigation of the interactions between students and instructors, as well as between studentsand “objects and symbols” (e.g., course curriculum), within students’ microsystems (e.g.,classroom, laboratory, pro), as they matriculate through the program [29]. These processes havethe potential to powerfully influence student development [30]. The curricular changes thatincorporate needs finding and design across all four years of the curriculum are a direct effort tointervene in these processes and interactions between students, faculty, and the objects andsymbols within their immediate learning
smart sensors formulti-scale monitoring and control of civil infrastructure. Journal of Civil Structural HealthMonitoring, 6(1), 17-41.[35] Yoon, H., and Spencer Jr, B. F. (2016). Enabling smart city resilience: Post-disaster responseand structural health monitoring. Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory. University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign.
post-doctoral fellowship at Lawrence National Laboratory focusing on developing a modern computational framework for the nonlinear seismic analysis of Department of Energy nuclear facilities and systems. This work seeks to expand the under- standing of soil structure interaction for these structures and the means of modeling this behavior both theoretically and experimentally. In addition to her research experience, Dr. Wong also has worked for the public and private engineering sectors in the areas of water infrastructure, transportation, data systems, and project management. She joined San Francisco State University in 2014 as lecturer and is currently an assistant professor of Civil Engineering in the School of
opportunities education majors have to practicediscourse development prior to their student teaching practicum. Discourse simulation activitiesat universities prior to student teaching and internships are often insufficient to prepare teachersfor engaging in discourse with students throughout an entire school day.Traditional Methods of Discourse DevelopmentTraditionally, discourse development begins with pre-service teachers’ own understanding ofmath and science based upon how they were taught when they were first learning the material.Most education programs require pre-service teachers to take at least one laboratory-basedscience course and to complete mathematics courses. Once the students have a foundation inmath and science, they then take courses
X X X various aspects of a construction project 3. utilize computer methods, including X X X Excel, to carry out estimation. 4. prepare a complete bid submission for a X X X X typical construction project ABET program outcomes (a) utilize techniques that are appropriate to administer and evaluate construction contracts, documents, and codes; (b) estimate costs, estimate quantities, and evaluate materials for construction projects; (c) utilize measuring methods, hardware, and software that are appropriate for field, laboratory, and office processes related to construction; (d) apply
. Ramachandran received the B. Eng degree (with great distinction) from Concordia University in 1984, the M. Eng degree from McGill University in 1986 and the Ph.D. degree from McGill University in 1990. From October 1990 to December 1992, he worked at the Speech Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. From January 1993 to August 1997, he was a Research Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. He was also a Senior Speech Scientist at T-Netix from July 1996 to August 1997. Since September 1997, he is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rowan University where he has been a Professor since September 2006. He has served as a consultant to T-Netix, Avenir Inc., Motorola and Focalcool. From
. Showing potential workplaces and career role models intheir study field will help scholars to stay motivated, connect academic work to real worldprofessions, and concretize their career vision. Scholars will visit local industry, national labs,infrastructures, public utilities, other research universities, professional workshops,conferences, and engineering construction projects. In Spring 2019, the program provided thefirst field trip to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to the scholar cohort group.3.3 Program Impact on Scholars and MentorsAfter the Fall 2018 semester, the program conducted two focus group meetings (Mentee FocusGroup and Mentor Focus Group) to discover impact on scholars and Mentor+ advisors. 1) Mentee Focus GroupEight
Paper ID #26832Board 59: Coevolutionary-Aided Teaching: Leveraging the Links BetweenCoevolutionary and Educational DynamicsDr. Alessio Gaspar, University of South Florida Dr. Alessio Gaspar is an Associate Professor with the University of South Florida’s Department of Com- puter Science & Engineering and director of the USF Computing Education Research & Evolutionary Algorithm Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in computer science in 2000 from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis (France). Before joining USF, he worked as visiting professor at the ESSI polytechnic and EIVL engineering schools (France) then as
broader context mean to you? 6. In this course we have included examples that have social relevance such as how can engineering benefit different populations. Do you see this as being relevant to engineering?The focus group data provided a more detailed understanding about the impact of the project onfirst year students. Students commented that they enjoyed working on a “real world” project.They also enjoyed the opportunity to conduct hand on laboratory experiments that required themto collect and analyze data. They indicated that the experiments allowed them to learn aboutlaboratory experiment failure and perseverance. Students noted the value of active participationand expressed confidence in their ability to learn in the course
Electrical Engineering and MS Biomed- ical Engineering degrees from Drexel University, and her PhD Bioengineering degree from the University of Washington. Between her graduate degrees, she worked as a loop transmission systems engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories. She then spent 13 years in the medical device industry conducting medical de- vice research and managing research and product development at several companies. In her last industry position, Dr. Baura was Vice President, Research and Chief Scientist at CardioDynamics. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).Vincent Chen, Loyola University Chicago Dr. Vincent Chen is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical
. StereotypeGender and racial bias which affects how we perceive and treat one another is shaped bycultural stereotypes. Despite a decline in explicit or self-reported bias, implicit or unconsciousbias remains widespread [2]. Babcock and Laschever [3] showed that even women themselveshold stereotypes about women and that women undervalue the work that they perform. A studyfound pervasive gender discrimination among science faculty where faculty were more likely tochoose a male candidate over a female candidate for a student science-laboratory position [4].In this case, both male and female scientists offered a higher salary to a male candidate thanthey did to an identical female candidate. Although this particular study was on faculty biasagainst student
examination question. Students answered individually. Thestudents had prior practice in creating similar system diagrams for other technological systems.Other parts of the course include class activities, laboratories, and homework assignments thatinvolve creating system diagrams. Some of the other technological systems studied include:automotive systems, home appliances, refrigeration systems, and biomedical devices. Thestudents are familiar with this type of question and have had the opportunity to practice makingsystem diagrams in a variety of contexts.To provide some background on this system, the Extended Range Mode for the Chevy Volt is aninteresting mode of operation. The Volt utilizes extended range mode after batteries have beendepleted. In
or science majors—registration of non-electrical engineers is unusual. Theclass is offered in the winter term and for the past three years, the period over which the QMCSinstrument was administered, the enrollment averaged 8 students per term; typically, one of thosestudents was female. The prerequisite for the course is successful completion of one year ofcalculus-based general physics with the associated laboratories. The typical student hascompleted a course in differential equations with linear algebra. Engineering students areintroduced to MATLAB [2] during their freshman year. We leverage this knowledge of theMATLAB environment along with their experience with linear algebra to manipulate vectors andmatrices—the original language of
Research in Higher Education 21.2 (1984): 150-58.Appendix A: Course Evaluation QuestionsPlease rate the questions from 1 to 5, 1 being the lowest, 5 being the highest:1. Rate the quality of your learning in this course.2. The laboratory assignments and course material reinforced one another.3. The workload for this course in relation to other courses of equal credit was4. Overall, how would you rate this course?5. Describe one or more strengths of this course.6. Describe one or more ways this course can be improved.7. The professor used teaching methods which helped me learn.8. The professor was well prepared for class.9. The professor was available for help outside the classroom.10. The professor seemed genuinely interested in teaching this
University of Science & Technology in Ghana in 1997 and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. His research activities include repair and strengthening of buildings and bridges using Advanced Composite Materials, laboratory and field testing of structures and the fatigue behavior of concrete bridges.Prof. James H. Hanson P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. James Hanson is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His teaching emphasis is structural analysis and design. Over the last thirteen years he has conducted research on teaching students how to evaluate the reasonableness of their results. He is the recipient of several best paper awards and teaching
techniques are provided in [4].Kinesthetic learning is becoming common in K-12 classrooms as evidenced by the action-basedlearning lab [12] and learning readiness physical education program [13]. However at the collegeand university level, most classes are still in the traditional lecture format and kinesthetic learningis in the form of tactile, hands-on learning through experimentation in laboratories or projectwork. Some creative examples of movement used in higher education classrooms includedemonstrating how neurons propagate in a neural signals and systems class [14] and teachingsymmetry in a mineralogy course through dance [15]. Other kinesthetic teaching strategies foradult learners can be found in [16].One area to incorporate movement in is
provide nice mealsand accommodations so the teachers look forward to attending each summer. The college doesnot pay high school teachers to deliver ENGR 102 HS since it is a dual credit offering in theirhigh school, however, a modest stipend is paid for workshop attendance and travel expenses arecovered. Faculty who teach the ENGR 102 course on campus spend time training the high schoolteachers. The high school and university ENGR 102 teaching teams bond in the retreat-likeatmosphere of the workshop and natural mentoring relationships form.The first two days of the workshop are for teachers new to the program and day one begins oncampus with tours of the UA College of Engineering laboratories and competition of paperwork.Teachers review the
total frequency. Therefore, the majority of the classrooms across sitesrepresented community-centered and assessment-centered instruction, meaning that studentsconnected with each other in class and engaged in active feedback with their instructor and witheach other. This baseline data highlights that EML classrooms differ from traditional lecture-based courses and are quite interactive. Future research may use the G-RATE to determine ifsimilar interactive activities are occurring in new or partially-infused EML courses or tohighlight differences in EML-based instruction by course type (e.g., laboratory or lecture).Observation data may also be analyzed over time to note how changes in pedagogy orcurriculum influence a classroom and student
Paper ID #27192On Transfer Student Success: Exploring the Academic Trajectories of BlackTransfer Engineering Students from Community CollegesDr. Bruk T. Berhane, University of Maryland, College Park Dr. Bruk T. Berhane received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Mary- land in 2003. He then completed a master’s degree in engineering management at George Washington University in 2007. In 2016, he earned a Ph.D. in the Minority and Urban Education Unit of the Col- lege of Education at the University of Maryland. Bruk worked at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where
Paper ID #27039Proven Professional Development Strategies: Data from an ENG ASAP Trans-fer Student ProgramDr. Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University Prior to joining the ASU Electrical Engineering faculty in 1990, Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez worked at MIT, IBM, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Raytheon Missile Systems. He has also consulted for Eglin Air Force Base, Boeing Defense and Space Systems, Honeywell and NASA. He has published over 200 tech- nical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings – over 60 with students. He has authored three engineering texts on classical controls, linear systems, and
parallel with this project-based design course. In the theoreticalcourse, students learn the technical concepts about sensors, actuators and communicationprotocols using an embedded platform and C programming.Since students must make use of the laboratory facilities and fabrication tools (Appendix E), bythe time they have been enrolled in this course, they already have attended some lectures aboutlaboratory safety procedures and standards in previous courses.Course methodology and promoted skillsAs mentioned before, it is important for the students to be already familiarized with electroniccircuits, some tools and programming in such a way that allows them to have the lead in aproject of their own. For this course, sessions are a mix between
promote integration of robotics in middle school science and math education. For her doctoral research, she conducts mechatronics and robotics research in the Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory at NYU.Dr. Sheila Borges Rajguru, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Dr. Sheila Borges Rajguru is the Assistant Director of the Center for K-12 STEM Education, NYU Tan- don School of Engineering. As the Center’s STEAM educator and researcher she works with engineers and faculty to provide professional development to K-12 STEM teachers with a focus on social justice. She is currently Co-Principal Investigator on two NSF-grants that provide robotics/mechatronics PD to science, math, and technology teachers. In addition
of locating, discovering, and studying local, state, and federal regulations/codes. The curriculum is integrated with laboratory exercises that emphasize blueprint reading, quantity takeoff and learning software packages used in cost estimating and project scheduling and controls.”Table 1 summarizes major course parameters that may affect student engagement and learningfor falls 2017 and 2018. Except not using poll (2017) and using poll (2018), both semesters weresimilar for most of the parameters. The course content consisted of three parts: (i) projectmanagement concepts and cost estimating; (ii) project financial evaluation; and (iii) projectscheduling and controls. As the summative assessments of these three parts, three
enrolled in a two-semester sequence of advanced materialsscience and engineering (MSE) project-based courses (MSE 380 and 381) at Boise StateUniversity. In MSE 380 and 381, the projects and writing assignments are designed to preparethem to succeed in the workplace. By the junior year, they have taken first-year writing (orearned credit) and two or more freshman and sophomore-level MSE courses with some technicaland nontechnical writing components. However, they are not required to take the sophomore-level, introductory technical communication course offered by the English department, unlikeother engineering majors. MSE students find the laboratory writing assignments are significantlymore complex and rigorous than any they have experienced to
-based grading feedback,” in Proc. 48th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, San Jose, CA, 2018.[7] R. J. Marzano, Formative Assessment and Standards-Based Grading. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Research Laboratory, 2010.[8] P. L. Scriffiny, “Seven reasons for Standards-Based Grading,” Educational Leadership, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 70-74, 2008.[9] S. L. Post, “Standards-based grading in a fluid mechanics course,” in Proc. American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, 2014.[10] S. Atwood, M. Siniawski, and A. Carberry, “Using standards-based grading to effectively assess project-based design courses,” in Proc. American Society for Engineering Education
and Aerospace Engineering department and the Assistant Director of the Center for Building Energy Efficiency. She has previously taught courses such as Thermodynamics, Thermal Fluids Laboratory, and Guided Missiles Systems, as well as serving as a Senior Design Project Advisor for Mechanical Engineering Students. Her research interests include energy and thermodynamic related topics. Since 2007 she has been actively involved in recruiting and outreach for the Statler College, as part of this involvement Dr. Morris frequently makes presentations to groups of K-12 students, as well as perspective WVU students and their families. Dr. Morris was selected as a Statler College Outstanding Teacher for 2012, the WVU Honors
University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, where he taught both in Dutch and in English. During this time his primary teaching and course develop- ment responsibilities were wide-ranging, but included running the Unit Operations laboratory, introducing Aspen Plus software to the curriculum, and developing a course for a new M.S. program on Renewable Energy (EUREC). In conjunction with his teaching appointment, he supervised dozens of internships (a part of the curriculum at the Hanze), and a number of undergraduate research projects with the Energy Knowledge Center (EKC) as well as a master’s thesis. In 2016, Dr. Barankin returned to the US to teach at the Colorado School of Mines. His primary teaching and course
. Design, Build, & Fly Design, manufacture, and successfully fly a remote-controlled aircraft in the annual AIAA DBF competition Virtual Reality Hip Removal VR reality of the hip replacement surgery procedure Formula Electric Design, build test and drive a battery powered vehicle Piezoelectric Roadside Energy Developing a laboratory setup in which piezoelectric harvesting units Harvesting would harvest and store energy from road vibrations. Digital Design: “Simon Says” Creating “Simon Says” game using digital design process. Augmented Reality for Navy Creating an Augmented
land and marine environ- ments and ship design for the U.S. Navy.Dr. Stephanie Sheffield, University of Michigan Dr. Sheffield is a Lecturer in Technical Communication in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan.Mr. Magel P. Su, California Institute of Technology Magel P. Su is a PhD student in the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology. He earned a B.S.E in materials science and engineering and a minor in chemistry from the University of Michigan. At Michigan, he was a member of the Ultrafast Laser - Material Interac- tion Laboratory and the Engineering Honors Program. He also served as an instructor for several courses including