changes in teaching and learning have transformed the foundationof education. Over time, the role of the teacher has evolved, from the transmitter of knowledge(traditional education) to facilitator [1]–[3]. Dewey [4] argued that people learn by doing,students should be exposed to experiential activities that promote reflection. Students are nowplaced in the center playing the main role as they are the ones who actively construct their ownknowledge through the tools that the teacher provides and social interactions [5].Active learning has been defined in different ways, Bonwell & Eison [6] provided a practicaldefinition as "any activity that involves students doing things and thinking about what they aredoing." It has been documented that
of your workshop colleagues (partners will be paired up in the workshop) • A “guided practice” document for the lesson, again revised according to collegial feedback (note that there will be some overlap between the lesson plan and the guided practice. The lesson plan is for your use; guided plan is for student’s use.) • A brief reflection about what, if anything, you plan to do for flipping a class in Fall 20XX. Note you don’t actually have to flip anything, but we hope you do! Comment on the time, energy, etc and if you are planning to flip, describe how you plan to get those resources.Lessons LearnedDuring the course of this flipped learning initiative, it was
-aided design (CAD) package to engage inadvanced design-manufacturing analysis which is valued in industry.Introduction and Background Instructors are always trying to find a passionate way to teach their courses to supportstudent’s success efficiently and effectively. Also, the continuous increase in the needs for newtechnical and nontechnical skills in the modern work environment represents another pressurefactor on the universities to update student's learning outcomes to meet the demand of thecontemporary industry and business to up-to-date qualified workers. Thus, teaching style needs tobe updated continuously to reflect the direct and indirect changes in the learning and workenvironment. In general, during the past decades, education
previous section, focusing onenvironmental, economic and societal dimensions. Moreover, indirect and systemic effects arenot explicitly addressed in the rubrics.Conducted experienceSustainability postureThe conducted experience reflects a posture around both sustainability and the engineeringdesign fostering it. It is defined as follows. ● There is not a unique or general set of features allowing to declare as sustainable a software product in all scenarios and circumstances. Consequently, during an iterative decision-making process, the goal is analyzing, comparing and choosing by stakeholders, among the different alternatives based on the inherent sustainability trade-offs associated with each engineering solution ● A
arc termination.The assessment in Welding Technology for Manufacturing and Agriculture/Welding Engineeringconsists of five homework assignments, two exams, and one seminar work. Results fromexperimental work in the laboratory are included as part of homework assignments and comparedwith theoretical calculations with reflection on trends observed. It should be noted that theagreement between experiments and theory is not required, but what matters is insight inexplaining the differences. Exams are problem-based, open-ended, and students are given 24 hoursto complete it. Seminar work includes an in-depth analysis of a topic of their choice, whichconcludes with the written report and informal presentation with open discussion during the
thatstudents’ self-assessments are not accurate, often reflecting over-confidence (e.g., Kruger &Dunning, 1999 [27]).One challenge in data analysis was that fewer students completed the post-test (16) than the pre-test (36), likely because the participation in the survey was voluntary and the post-test came at atime when students were finishing high-stakes final projects. So, in addition to enhancing thecase study materials and refining the STSS instrument, future work will also include exploringways to better incentivize students to complete both the pre- and post-test.Finally, it is possible that the STSS results could be somewhat skewed by the fact that, unlikemost other universities, students at CMU have two capstone experiences to choose
experientiallearning opportunities, including coaching other students and participating in an internship.Finally, they will learn the basic tools of project management. The following steps describe thedetermined flow of the curriculum: Building self-awareness through assessments and personal reflection Developing self-mastery through improved personal behavior modification to prioritize activities and set personal goals as well as building supportive communication skills Growing followership and teamwork skills by working in small teams Growing larger team leadership, innovation and organizational skills Developing a sound understanding of the principles and practices of project
coincidewith the thermodynamics course. The opportunity to see it applied in another course may havepiqued their interest. User's Survey (n = 92) 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 -0.5 -1 -1.5 -2 EASY-TO-USE HOMEWORK NOZZLES HANDOUT ENGINEERING Questions from user's perspective Excel LabView MatLab SciLab Web PageFigure 9: Survey results related to user experience (evaluation of other groups)The survey gave students the opportunity to add additional comments about the project. Arepresentative sample of the feedback is listed in Table 2. The comments reflect many of thesame results already
difficult to adequately evaluate these programs. In order to evaluate andassess new experiments and projects, prior to introducing them in our curriculum, we use summerprograms with different students to develop content and test learning objectives. We introduce thenew topics to a cohort of students of diverse cultural background from local and internationalstudents. Our methodology is similar for the curricular development of each program (Figure 1)and consists of four main and distinct stages: (1) planning and administrative preparation, (2)content development and small-scale testing, (3) deployment and daily student assessment, (4)reflections, modifications and adjustments for a final course implementation. [6
Approachreaction leading to reduced crop losses and an increase food security. Tsubsection presents the main idea that PHL technologies are not continually implemented due toa misalignment of resources, needs, and cultural norms. Here, cases found in the backgroundsection possible solutions are discussed.Figure 4. Solution section for volunteer module designed to be adaptable.Solution: This section discusses the process through which the issue will be addressed as shownin Fig. 4. The results from the background and household sections will be presented in anAudience subsection. Under Tools, volunteers will be asked to reflect on this module and discussthe teaching strategies used to engage with the audience and increase memory retention. Anyother
) providing energy for the future, (2) restoring andimproving urban infrastructure, (3) improving the environment, (4) improving healthcare, (5)improving education through personalized learning, and (6) securing personal and organizationalinformation more so than when they began the course (tables 3 and 4). However, significantdifferences between time points were not observed given our small sample size. Tables 1 and 2are broken up by gender to show the comparison of men and women’s interest in topics withinaerospace, while tables 3 and 4 reflect the knowledge all students of both genders felt they hadbefore and after the class.Table 1: Women’s reported interest in application of aerospace engineering at Time 1. Note: N=3 Provide en
informed videos, as well as comparingevaluations between evaluator categories. Faculty were generally of the opinion that studentwork that included TRAC input performed worse in the Analysis category (p<0.05). Graduatestudent evaluators agreed that the TRAC-informed videos were of a higher quality in thecommunication and visual aid categories (p<0.05), which may reflect a generational gap in theexpectations of audio-visual content. Faculty evaluations also exhibit a wider spread than that ofthe graduate student evaluations. A general trend (although not statistically significant, p>0.1)can be seen with faculty evaluations decreasing with higher Bloom’s Achievement levels. This issomewhat expected, as faculty are frequently subject to
of Danish and American students. This understanding fact made the first contacts very formal and reflected by writing long, very formal e-mails. This turned out to have a negative effect on the efficiency of communication and project progress. It should later turn out, that this assumption of having to stay formal was false and the visit of DTU students at PURDUE changed totally the students’ assumptions of cultural differences between the teams. As the project progressed, the cultural differences did seem to merge into a “universal culture”, with the aim of succeeding with the
to learn more about ground level air quality 4.32 ±0.77 This demo activity was a good use of class time 4.71 ±0.57 I benefited from this demo activity 4.57 ±0.66The remaining two questions asked students their perspective on the impact and quality of thedemonstration. Students provided ranked responses, No Impact (1) to High Impact (5), to thequestion on “What impact has this activity had on your understanding of inversion in theatmosphere,” resulting with an average and standard deviation of 4.23±0.75. Six of the 31 studentsdid respond “Neutral (3)” for this question, reflecting that they were not influenced in eitherdirection. For the
projects was also unable to provide the necessary time andfocus.Therefore at the end of academic year 2015, to better manage these increasingly large and diverseprojects, the discipline-specific course directors proposed several changes that resulted in theformation of XE401/402 from CS, EE, and IT 401/402. The development of the XE401/402sequence included several changes, including development of a hybrid “agile-waterfall” designprocess, a focus on reflection within the design process, and these faculty and stakeholder roles.This paper focuses on the implementation of the roles.Faculty model influences role assignmentThe faculty model at West Point includes a relatively large proportion of transient members.Approximately half our faculty consists
required for reproducible measurements,some students expressed frustration about the amount physical labor required to collect enoughwater to pump through the wetland, as well as the time required to measure water quality tests intriplicate on top of operating a wetland with a six to twelve hour retention time. The students whowere working solo on the project wished that they had a teammate to help with the physical laborand/or the measuring of the many water samples. They also reflected that a teammate would havebeen helpful when making decisions by acting as a sounding board. Students also wished for moredocumentation on procedures and practices.The summer students suggested that the extra programs such as journal club or university
methodologies. Upon further investigation, it also became clear that ourtenure and promotion guidelines varied significantly from one academic unit to another; somevaluing the quantity of work at the expense of quality, and others valuing grants received overthe impact of the scholarship. This structural variability was reflected also by the thoughtvariance among our senior leadership. The consequence was friction, misinformation, andfrustration at many levels of the university. In response, we read and then discussed ErnestBoyer’s model of scholarship [5]—the scholarships of discovery, application, integration, andteaching—with each group (i.e. organizational “top” and organizational “bottom”) individually.Outcomes to date include more open
Belonged More in this Whole Engineering Group:’ Achieving Individual Diversity,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 96, no. 2, pp. 103–115, 2007.[5] D. M. Masters, A. S., & McNair, L. D., & Riley, “Identifying Practices of Inclusion in Maker and Hacker Spaces with Diverse Participation,” in 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.[6] V. Wilczynski, “Academic Maker Spaces and Engineering Design,” in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2015.[7] J. Walther, N. Sochacka, and N. Kellam, “Quality in interpretive engineering education research: Reflections on an example study,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 102, no. 4, pp. 626–659, 2013.[8] N. Kellam and A. Cirell, “Quality Considerations in Qualitative Inquiry
workas a reflection of themselves. For example, Wynita, a third-year robotics engineering student,described how the makerspace allows her to create. In the makerspace environment, I don’t feel like I’m being pushed to do something. I’m working on this. I’m going to do it my way. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. This is going to be me. This is going to be my own work.It appeared that more time in the makerspace for these participants to create their own projectsfostered more autonomy and confidence. The makerspace also represented an environmentwhere there was some flexibility for trial and error. Although Winnie noted that female makers,including herself, felt self-imposed pressure to maintain perfection, she also acknowledged
around, battling robots), without a human-centeredresearch narrative to show engineers serving humanity [6-11]. By integrating the open endedhuman-centered story, a wider diversity of students can be engaged about how engineers can usetheir skills to create items to help society. A second major outcome/deliverable are studentscreating fully documented engineering design reports covering background research, human-centered design, societal needs, technical specifications of their design, costs analysis, solidmodel drawings, and reflection on their functional prototypes. The third majoroutcome/deliverable is students have to give a 15 minute presentation on their final functionalprototype, with all students in the team contributing in the
reflects both the traditionalmechanism analysis and synthesis methods together with the best industry practices, e.g.,Rockwell Automation, Procter & Gamble. The mechatronic mechanism design process was implemented, and a slider crank wasbuilt to accomplish a prescribed task. This process was used in Mechanical Engineering SeniorCapstone Design during the fall 2018 semester. Seven design teams, with four students in eachteam, created four-bar mechanism applications using this mechatronic process, first creating aMatLab Simulink virtual prototype of the complete system, and then building a workingprototype with LabVIEW and the NI myRIO. The 7 four-bar mechanisms were: robot gripper,quick return, pick and place, windshield wiper, landing
Explanation Essays and Analysis (3 weeks) The third essay written by the student reflects student’s selection and causal explanationof a pattern in a brief essay. After that, the essays are being divided in groups of ten anddistributed to students.Comprehensive Moon Phases Assessment - Revised (CMPA-R) The Comprehensive Moon Phases Assessment - Revised (CMPA-R) post assessmentincludes 31 questions with a multiple-choice format, available free for students in the project. Itis an online assessment that takes up around 30 minutes to be completed. It can be takenoptionally, but it is suggested for teachers to take both pre- and post-test. Also, students areadvised to take the pretest so that teachers can see their weak areas and progress
significant misconceptions as reflected by the observation that only 37% of the studentscorrectly categorized the relevant keywords. Although not as pronounced, students also seem tostruggle with micro-scale structure concepts with only 50% of the students correctly categorizingthe relevant keywords.(a) (b)(c) (d)(e) (f)Figure 5. Analyses of student responses to the solid mechanics related keywords questions.Since the second given question had multiple correct answers, the students’ answers showed theirin-depth understanding and the connection between mechanics, materials, and processing. Allstudents who participated
and organize focus group interviews withunderrepresented students conducting undergraduate research in general. The objective is to assessthe process of attaining their research position. In this regard, focus group interviews will beutilized to facilitate collective reflection and dialogue by providing students opportunities toopenly discuss their learning experiences with fellow peers.Resultantly, Phase 3 of this long-term project involves developing communication channels withfaculty in the school of engineering who have underrepresented minorities conducting researchunder their supervision in order to assist each other in identifying and recruiting more students.REFERENCES[1] Russell, S. H. (2006). Evaluation of NSF support for
International Conference on Web and Open Access to Learning (ICWOAL), 2014.[3] E. D. Lindsay and J. R. Morgan, “Passing our students while we fail upwards: Reflections on the inaugural year of CSU Engineering,” in 45th Annual SEFI Conference, Terceira, Portugal, 2017.[4] J. R. Morgan, E. D. Lindsay and K. Sevilla, “A "MetroGnome" as a tool for supporting self- directed learning,” in 2017 Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2017.[5] M. van den Bogaard, C. Howlin, E. Lindsay and J. Morgan, “Patterns Of Student's Curriculum Engagement In An On-demand Online Curriculum,” in 46th SEFI Conference, Copenhagen, 2018.
severaldays, the power generation curve from the solar panels under smoggy conditions remained“smooth”.Table 7 lists the peak and average power output for each converter type, as well as the total dailyenergy generated under smoggy conditions. From the data, it is evident that the smog diddecrease the power generated from the solar panels but not to the same extent as that of shadingthe panels. This is because even with the smog, diffuse and reflected irradiance were able toreach the solar panels. Table 7: Power and energy output with smoggy conditions Converter Weather Avg. temp (°C) Peak power (W) Avg. power (W) Total energy (J) AP Systems Smog 17 2083 1127
the EPA pollutionprevention website [6].The delivery of P2 and E3 engineering extension services has made adoption of manyoperational aspects of the program achievable for businesses of varied size. These programs helpincrease awareness of the local environment and help businesses understand how running a moreenvironmentally sustainable business can save them money. Through the programs offered byENMRN, businesses have become more open to adopting other Best Practices (e.g. Lean), andalso serve as strong referral to their peers, reflecting the grassroots impact these programs canhave on the environment.P2 and E3 programENMRN is focused on assisting small and medium-sized businesses to adopt operationalprocesses that are both economical and
solving problems that do not requirelibrary use [2]. Even though most colleges require humanities and language arts courses forundergraduates in science and engineering programs, these students typically seek helpdifferently than those in liberal arts majors. They typically don’t use the library beyond itstraditional purpose of a place to study. They may be unaware of library services and resourcesand are not known to ask for help in using library resources or completing research assignments[2]. Their confidence and competence in being technologically savvy makes them morereluctant to fully utilize library services [3].Carroll, et. al. [4] hypothesized that engineering and science students low usage of the librarydoesn’t reflect on their lack of
. Over the course of this semester, the fellowwill participate in activities that prepare him or her for teaching the following semester, such asmeeting regularly with the teaching mentor, completing structured reflections on theobservations, developing course materials (homework assignments or exams), grading, orholding office hours, etc. In the second semester, the fellow teaches or co-teaches anundergraduate course, taking on significant instructional responsibility for the course. A formalobservation and critique of the fellow’s teaching by the teaching mentor and a PFMF peer isrequired.3) Evidence-Based Professional Development3A. Core Competency ModelThe PFMF program incorporates a professional development model built on core competencies
the video lectures wererecorded in the media lab at the University’s Center for Teaching and Learning and were uploadedto the Panopto platform. The links to the videos were then posted on the class website.At the end of each experimental module in ECE-1212 and regardless of the teaching style used,each group was asked to share their design and performance analysis. All responses were collectedin one shared document such that each team could view other teams’ designs and results. I thenled a reflective debriefing class session to highlight the differences between the different designs,the discrepancies between results, and the factors that may have affected circuit behavior.ECE-1563 Given the feedback from ECE-1212 on the flipped classroom, I