, construction, experimentation,and data analysis skills. Student feedback collected for each course offering indicated thatstudents had a better visual and physical understanding of various steel LFRS systems byundergoing the complete cycle of design, fabrication, testing, and analysis. As a result, studentswere able to more fully comprehend consequences of their design decisions, lessons which theywill hopefully draw on in their future structural engineering career focusing on seismic design.IntroductionAn undergraduate course in structural steel design is typical in the civil (structures focus) andarchitectural engineering degree track. Common curriculum for this course is the analysis anddesign of: (i) steel and composite members subject to
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.Mr. Matthew Stephen Barner, Oregon State University M.S. student at Oregon State University working under Dr. Shane Brown. Research interests include: engineering education, diffusions of innovation, concerns-based adoption model, conceptual change theory, and earthquake engineering.Dr. Masoud Ghodrat
when possible. Encourage students to attend relevant extracurricular activities. Encourage teamwork, group projects, etc. Highlight relevant news or current events relevant to the course. Relate course material to familiar phenomenon and problems that students may be called upon to solve in their intended careers. ○ Get to class early and post something on the screen (the NASA picture of the day or equivalent, quote, physical object on document camera, etc.) and ask students: what do you notice? What do you wonder? Spend the first few minutes of class talking about it. -- from Chapter 7 in [5] ○ Resources: i) Everyday Engineering Examples - blog
abstract learning and higher order thinking ability. Authors found that therewere no significant gender differences in CS skills, and the activity encouraged both men andwomen and can potentially solve the problem of underrepresentation of female students incomputer science. Authors also reported that females scored much better on higher-order thinkingskills in comparison to men.Similarly, using a mix-method design, Cakir et al. (2017) developed and evaluated a game-designworkshop in order to improve young girls’ abilities of programming and consequently enhancetheir views of the CS career. Changing young girls’ attitude help them develop their identity as acomputer scientist. Analysis of surveys, interviews and game content indicated that the
strategies in their classroom, andprepare them to value effective teaching as part of their career aspirations [5]. Furthermore,Eddy, Converse, and Wenderoth [8] discuss how these strategies developed to encourage activelearning need to acknowledge the day-to-day life of faculty as well as potential barriers describedin the literature, such as the limited effort to train faculty members on teaching methods. At theindividual level, faculty may not recognize that their teaching strategies are not as effective asother strategies; professors can lack clarity of what active learning is, or how to engage studentsin active learning strategies, and finally, they doubt about the implementation of the teachingtechniques [10], [11], [12]. Moreover, literature
general, free response question about the course saw 19% (N =99) of the students mention the escape room projects. Of those comments, 68% were positive.The following are examples of these responses: “The strength of this course is giving students projects to work on and then letting them run with it and make their own creative solution” “I was very proud of the outcome of our project this semester.” “It may be the only time in your engineering career where your homework is to make an Escape Room, so get into it! It will be more enjoyable if you actually try.” “He makes the class fun and interesting, and his puzzle theme is engaging! ” “The long term team project really puts all
University in 2015.Dr. Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Indiana-Purdue University Soheil FatehiBoroujeni received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Merced in 2018. As a postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University, School of Engineering Education, Soheil is working on a multi-institutional project characterizing governance processes related to change in engineering education, and pursuing other research interests in epistemology and design, among other philosophical topics in engineering education.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 industrial
Paper ID #25395Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge in the Affective DomainDr. Norman D. Dennis Jr. P.E., University of Arkansas Norman D. Dennis, Jr., is a University Professor of Civil Engineering serving as the Senior Associate Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Before joining the U of A faculty in 1996, he served in the US Army as an engineer officer for 24 years. During his military career Dennis had the unique opportunity to build roads, airfields and other facilities on five different continents and spend over 11 years as a member of the faculty at the US
, 2012.[7] T. T. Hissey, "Education and careers 2000. Enhanced skills for engineers," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 88, no 8, August 2000, pp. 1367-1370.[8] S. Freeman, S. L. Eddy, M. McDonough, M. K. Smith, N. Okoroafor, H. Jordt, et al., "Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 111, pp. 8410-8415, 2014.[9] E. Masie, "The blended learning imperative," The Handbook of Blended Learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs, pp. 22-26, 2006.[10] A. Nath, A. Karmakar, and T. Karmakar, " MOOCs Impact in higher education institution: A pilot study In Indian context," International Journal of Engineering Research and
“...they come to office hours with more than just classps with and investments student instructors material questions. One student who’s a junior askedstudents developed towards their students many more questions about career as an engineer than actual class material. I think she was looking for moreSubcode Explanation Sample quote than just—she was looking for a mentor as well—those unspoken needs that different people in different walks of life have different needs, and
focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teaching practices in design education, the effects of differing design pedagogies on retention and motivation, the dynamics of cross-disciplinary collaboration in both academic and industry design
slide presentations can serve as useful tools to a certain point in theclassroom, but without augmenting this classroom learning with experience through application,much of what is gained by students in the classroom may not endure throughout a student’ssubsequent career. In our ever more complex and dramatically changing world, futureenvironmental dilemmas will require innovative solutions from our rising engineers. Thisinnovation demands mastery in both understanding and applying science and engineeringfundamentals – skill sets that are gained through deliberate and effective experiential, pragmaticlearning opportunities.References[1] M. A. Butkus, M. C. Johnson, and J. C. Lynch, Linking Courses and Essential Experiences inan Undergraduate
Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Fundamental)IntroductionIn spite of efforts to diversify the engineering workforce, the profession remains largelydominated by White, male engineers [1]. Better approaches are needed to attract and retainunderrepresented groups to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers,such as engineering.One literacy-based approach that has been shown to provide effective instruction for K-12students generally, and students from underrepresented groups specifically, is DisciplinaryLiteracy Instruction (DLI). DLI utilizes knowledge of the ways advanced practitioners read,interpret, and generate discipline-specific content in their professional environment to apprenticestudents
the author of several technical publications, including 17 journal papers and two book chapters. She received an NSF CAREER award in 2014. Dr. Marais has worked in engineering for two decades, first in industry and then in academia. She holds a B. Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Stellenbosch, a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of South Africa, and an S.M and Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT.Hanxi Sun, Purdue University Hanxi Sun is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Statistics of Purdue University. Her research focuses on nonparametric Bayesian statistics and applied statistics. Hanxi received a master degree in Statistics at