that predict student success, including academic preparedness [25],[26] and the psychological factors of motivation, self-efficacy, and attitude [27]–[30]. Ouruniversity’s school of engineering mirrors that of many engineering schools across the country asefforts of research to improve teaching and learning are made in hopes of retaining engineeringstudents into engineering careers. The longitudinal interdisciplinary research group, GEARS,that initially assembled around the research goal of focusing on first-year engineering studentretention and academic achievement has sustained in their efforts, while expanding theirexploration of first-year student retention through innovative, interdisciplinary viewpoints. Ourgroup is now poised to look at
course in their careers, what they hope to base their finalproject or paper around, etc. This helps turn some of the discussion that ensues back toward thecourse. It is good practice to instruct students to make an initial timely post of their introductionand then return to the Introduce Yourself discussion sometime prior to the end of the first unit ormodule to reply to a couple of their classmates. Although some of this information may be thesame for some working professionals from one course to the next while pursuing a graduatedegree or certificate, it is strongly suggested that each course begin like this to encouragestudents to engage with the instructor and each other and reduce feelings of isolation right fromthe start. Doing so has been
addition. In 2015, CAN bus functionality was added to the2014 specification. The CAN bus is a robust but complex network protocol, and student-reporteddevelopment peaked. Apart from the heavy workload, students reported satisfaction with theexperience as they found the CAN bus interesting and saw the utility of having experience with itfor future courses and their careers. The 2016 design was fundamentally identical to the 2015variation but with the introduction of gap learning. A clear reduction in LoC reported is seen.The 2017 offering was nearly identical to the 2016 version and reported LoC was almostunchanged. The effort in 2019 to reduce student workload by providing more of a completedesign framework and limiting student requirements is
Change 50.68% Decrease 0.00% Decrease a lot 0.00% Unanswered 8.22% Sum of Increase and Increase a 41.10% lot 10Appendix B: End-of-term surveyThis survey designed to measure your confidence, career interest, and attitude toward theARDUINO activities covered in EG 31. Your answers to these questions will not affect your grade andwill not be associated with you personally in any way. This information will be used to help us improvethe class and to share what we have learned from this class with our colleagues at Fairfield
throughout theireducational career in [5]. Similar results were confirmed for fifth graders in a separate study [6],and for learning-disabled students [7]. Another study, [8], showed that first graders learned andretained at a significantly higher rate when imagery was used, and further, the students showedhigher level of creativity with usage of imagery [9], a result that can be exploited in higher-education problem-solving. A more recent study [10] reports the effect of using visual thinkingsoftware to improve writing skills of students with mild disabilities, and another one [11]provides a practical best practice example on how visual thinking is used to enhance studentbackground knowledge.Although, these studies were performed at the level of
. We found that documentation of NetLogo to be helpful but notextensive. The knowledge base for NetLogo was limited, and it took a lot of effort to get a newconcept working with the code.Students are quite motivated to be able to develop the current simulation model and are interestedin keeping working on it. Future work would be to fix the bugs and write a better algorithm foragent collisions. The actual dimensions of the department will be used to build the environment.Instructors will be modeled based on their office hours, and student interaction will be simulated.The application will be expanded to include other building simulation such as interaction inshopping malls and multi interaction areas like career fairs or a
Rover Robot design project include 3D sketching and printing, electronic controls, andcomputer programming, to print and assemble a Robot Rover that can be operated autonomouslyand by remote control operation. This project is intended to promote STEM and STEM-relatedteaching and learning. It is significant to note that the web portal serves as a hub for these virtualcollaborations. Figure 7 - 3D Robot Rover Resource Page at www.ucdistancetraining.org 7 This development material was used in the UNITE summer workshops that were hostedat JSU. These workshops were sponsored by US Army and Verizon. Their purposes are togenerate awareness of STEM studies and career path to local
mammalian cells before switching to teaching. Dr. Hillsley’s primary focus for the past 10 years has been teaching the Unit Operations Lab. Dr. Hillsley is married and has four children.Dr. Xueyi Zhang, Pennsylvania State University Zhang is the John J. and Jean M. Brennan Clean Energy Early Career Assistant Professor of Chemi- cal Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. Zhang’s teaching interests include mass transfer, unit operations, and chemical engineering lab. Zhang’s research interests are porous materials synthe- sis, membrane for separation, and catalysis. Before joining the Pennsylvania State University in 2015, Zhang obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2013 (with Michael Tsapatsis
, she developed a passion for undergraduate education. This passion led her to pursue a career as a lecturer, where she could focus on training undergraduate chemical engineering students. She has been teaching at UK since 2015 and has taught Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Computational Tools and the Unit Operations Laboratory. She is especially interested in teaching scientific communication and integration of process safety into the chemical engineering curriculum.Prof. Samira Azarin Samira Azarin is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. She earned her B.S. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy in 2006 and went
control systems (integration and testing) and the reliability and maintainability of complex systems. He has been selected as both a NASA and an ONR Faculty Fellow. He regularly teaches courses in Ma- rine Engineering and in Maintained Systems. Most recently Dr. Dean was on the Headquarters Staff the American Society of Naval Engineers. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, and a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering Technology, from the Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University. Additionally, Dr. Dean received an MBA from the College of William and Mary. Prior to is academic career Dr. Dean was Director of Operations and Business Development
Technologists) project. Since September 2016, she co-leads the NSF STEM+C project, Curriculum and Assessment Design to Study the Development of Motivation and Computational Thinking for Middle School Students across Three Learning Contexts, that builds on TECHFIT. Professor Harriger’s current interests include outreach to K-12 to interest more students to pursue computing careers, applying IT skills to innovating fitness tools, and wearable computing.Suyash Agrawal, Purdue University Suyash Agrawal is currently pursuing M.S.(2019) in Computer Information Technology from Purdue University. He received his B.S.(2014) in Information Technology from JSSATE, Noida, India and then worked at Nokia as a software developer. His
anawareness of and an appreciation for. Regardless of their chosen field of study and ultimate jobupon graduation, it is almost certain that they will encounter the Internet of Things during theirengineering careers. This paper describes an effort to introduce the Internet of Things to afreshman-level engineering course at Louisiana Tech University that allows the students tounderstand and experience some of the technology involved in this phenomenon. By adding asmall amount of additional hardware to the existing Arduino microcontroller platform already inuse in our year-long engineering course sequence, students are able to apply techniques theyhave already learned to implement a WiFi module and send data to a database. They are alsoable to open a
their development over the course ofthe semester. The purpose of this work-in-progress is to develop a quantitative and qualitativeframework for assessing the effectiveness of ethics interventions in a first-year engineeringcourse at a four year engineering college in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US. This course wasdesigned to introduce students to engineering design principles and the basic skills needed to besuccessful in their future careers as both engineering students and professionals - including theability to recognize and resolve ethical dilemmas (that is, to perform ethical reasoning) insituations relevant to the engineering community. In particular, this study will examine how theethical reasoning of first-year students
classrooms.Dr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor and Associate School Head in the School of Civil and Environmen- tal Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a study to characterize prac- ticing engineers’ understandings of core engineering concepts. He is a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: Measuring Student Cognitive Engagement Using the ICAP Framework In and Outside of the ClassroomAbstractThe following is a
introductory fluidscourses as mathematically onerous, conceptually difficult, and aesthetically uninteresting.Undergraduate courses in fluid mechanics, in fact, have been shown to act as curriculargatekeepers to fluids-related studies and careers [2].In this project we aim to iteratively develop, implement, and assess a low cost, handheld, mobilePIV tool within in high school and undergraduate educational contexts. We anticipate that use ofthis device will excite student interest in fluid mechanics and increase retention withinengineering by supporting conceptual understanding in fluid mechanics courses through hands-on learning.BackgroundLaboratory PIVTraditional Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is a powerful laboratory technique used to measureand
traditional, free, and interactive modifications for an introductory networking course," 2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), El Paso, TX, 2015, pp. 1-4.16. Tudor, T. R. (2018). Fully integrating academic advising with career coaching to increase student retention, graduation rates and future job satisfaction: An industry approach. Industry and Higher Education, 32(2), 73–79.17. N. Aish, P. Asare and E. E. Miskioğlu, "People like me increasing likelihood of success for underrepresented minorities in STEM by providing realistic and relatable role models," 2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Indianapolis, IN, 2017, pp. 1-4.18. A. Amresh, A. R. Carberry and J. Femiani, "Evaluating the effectiveness of
research demonstrates that professional skills, such as teamwork, projectmanagement, cultural awareness, leadership, and interpersonal communication, are still lacking inour graduating students [7, 8], and, in turn, are slowing their career advancement. For this reason,university engineering programs, as well as professional societies in engineering [9, 10], haveidentified the teaching of such professional skills as a goal. Unfortunately, despite this growingand collective interest in professional skills, studies [3, 11] continue to show significant gapsbetween what students are taught in the classroom and what they need to know to succeed inprofessional engineering practice.There is well-established research that professional skills are
Engineering Studies (INES); past chair of the ASEE Liberal Education / Engineering and Society Division; and a former member of the Society for the History of Technology’s (SHOT) Executive Council. Publications include /Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers and Computers during the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research/ (MIT Press, 2006).Dr. Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Donna Riley is Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education and Professor of Engi- neering Education at Purdue University.Dr. Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of
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engineering education throughout my undergraduate career. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Where do we meet? Understanding conference participation in a Department of Engineering EducationAbstractThis research paper focuses on understanding conference participation in a department ofengineering education. The Engineering Education community has developed several spaces inthe United States and internationally to continuously discuss the trends of the field. However, wewanted to explore if people were participating in diverse conferences beyond the traditionalconferences in the field. Nevertheless, engineering educators come from a very broad range ofbackgrounds, including different
obtained itthan ‘real-world project experience.’ Furthermore, the ‘improved chance of being hired indesired field’ had less students seeking and/or obtaining it. This lends to the notion that studentsview the benefits of these competitions as applying to their fields in general and aren’tnecessarily looking for a career in robotics. This is also evident in Figure 3, which has onlytwenty percent of students identifying that a resume item is a reason for joining the project.Although, the graph in Figure 8 provides further details to this and suggests that studentparticipants wouldn’t necessarily be opposed to a job in the robotics field.The data in Figure 4 shows that all the surveyed students associate their participation with anincrease in their
to prove theirunderstanding of the project. They thought this approach was more representative of what happensin industry. Also, they learned that it’s okay to rely on others team members for support and thata little research goes a long way. This is particularly important when cross-disciplinary teamsare attempting to solve complex, real-world problems. Working effectively as team members iscrucial for their professional careers while being able to conduct research helps them in life-longlearning. Some of the students indicated that the senior project pushed them beyond their comfortzone. They took leadership in an aspect of the project and made individual contributions count withthe very limited amount of time they had to complete the
level of engagement with the content outside of class.References1. Landis, R. B. Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career. Discovery Press, 2013.2. Chegg.Com. https://prod.cheggstudy.prod2.cheggnet.com/study. Accessed Nov. 13, 2018.3. McCabe, D.L., It Takes a Village Academic Dishonesty. Liberal Education – Washington D.C. 91(3):26-31, 2005.4. Simkin, M. G., Should you allow your Students to Grade their own Homework? Journal of Information Systems Education, Vol.26(2), 2015.5. Simkin, M., Stiver, D., Self-graded homework: Some empirical tests of efficacy. Journal of Education for Business, 2106.6. Wood, T.W., Batouli, M., Michalaka, D., Brown, K., Book, E. K., Perspectives on an Innovative Homework Policy. American
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education or recruitment. Inthe future, models of all major engineering subdisciplines will be developed, with current plansfor Aerospace and CS/Electrical engineering focused demonstrations. The intention behind theseself-contained demonstrations is to provide comprehensive methods of educating undecidedengineering majors about future career paths and promoting interdisciplinary critical thoughtthrough hands-on interaction.Introduction In the interest of student retention in engineering colleges, numerous programs have adjustedtheir first year engineering courses to include subjects that immediately define the role of themodern professional engineer [1] [2]. This has resulted in the earlier introduction of engineeringdesign principles, in
Paper ID #25712Sustainable Senior Design: MVP EngineDr. Anthony Ferrar, Temple University Tony Ferrar is obsessed with student success. He focuses on preparing students for rewarding careers through pedagogical innovation and incorporating professional development into educational experiences. Anthony received his BS, MS, and PhD in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech, where his research revolved around air-breathing propulsion. As a graduate student he contributed to Virginia Tech’s Gradu- ate Education Development Institute, Faculty Development Institute, and Networked Learning Initiatives. After graduating in
purchase the ADK instead of a textbook during their firstyear enrolled in Electrical Engineering. The device is used throughout the remainder of theiracademic career. Students now have their own laboratory bench that they can use in their dorm,living room, or cafeteria, hence the name “Laboratory Anywhere.” The Analog Discovery hasbeen experimented with in course work with varying degree of success [2], however, the prior“experimentation” that was preformed lacked formal pedagogical basis and concluded withseveral areas that required additional study.Context The second Electronics laboratory course, the focus of this study, is a required course forall electrical and computer engineering majors at the university and is typically taken
future.Although we recognize that many institutions do not have advanced motion capture capabilities,the findings from our work can still be applied to a number of other situations. As mentionedpreviously, inexpensive (or free) video software (Tracker) or MatLab can be used to analyzevideo files. Our projects were all primarily two-dimensional, and only a handful utilized a forceplate or force transducers. Our work also showed some of the benefits of working acrossdepartments. We hope that by involving students in the lab activities earlier in their education,more will be motivated to participate in research studies and to consider biomechanics and/orresearch careers. Finally, we hope to develop more interdisciplinary activities, such as
indicate a clear growth in their understanding of gratitude,meaning, and mindfulness. During the first day of class, nearly every student defined thrivingthrough academic or financial achievements, devoid of any mention of gratitude, meaning, andmindfulness. However, by the last day of class, nearly all students commented on the importanceof gratitude, meaning, and mindfulness. For example, the same student who wrote on the first dayof class “thriving is achieving all my goals,” reflected on the last day of class: I always thought that thriving meant having a lot of success in my career and life as a student. [Now, I know] it is awareness of how I am doing in the present... and knowing how to change or transform based on the
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