assessment of student learning, academic policies, and strategic planning.Prof. Dimitris Korakakis, West Virginia University Dimitris Korakakis, Professor in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering has been involved with Senior Capstone projects in the department for more than 10 years. He has been the lead faculty for the Lane Experience in Applied Design, the research track of the department’s capstone project and for the Nanosystems minor established in 2010 through an NSF funded NUE. He is also the PI for the Solar Decathlon awards, in 2013, 2015 and recently 2017, from the Department of Energy, advising students from a variety of disciplines across the university and many of these student
learning strategy, called PeerInstruction, in an undergraduate electric circuit analysis course offered at a large publicuniversity in Colombia. Peer Instruction is an instructional approach that fosters students’collaboration to increase conceptual understanding. Data was collected from three sectionsof the course mentioned above. In two sections, students attended a traditional class format(51 students) while another section (15 students) implemented the Peer Instructionmethodology. The research question driving this project was whether Peer Instructionwould produce significantly higher learning gains than the traditional blackboard and chalkapproach. A difference was determined using a quasi-experimental study comparing thelearning gains of the
of class tointroduce entanglement. After the publication of Mermin’s original paper in 1981 he developedother variants of his device [7], [8] that are not discussed in the class. The other thoughtexperiments that Mermin subsequently developed are more appropriate for an advancedaudience; the devices he describes do not require perfectly correlated particles. The concept ofentanglement is fundamental to quantum mechanics and was first introduced by Schrödinger in1935. However, as Schroeder [9] points out, the word has been virtually absent from publicationuntil the 1980’s. Various aspects of quantum computation are revisited throughout the course asMATLAB projects. These projects escalate in complexity and are used to reinforce the value
setting, rather than in the context of projects or research reports. Technicalexperimental report writing varies from other types of technical writing as all studentsparticipated in the experiment and there is little research involved in the writing. The thermo-fluids lab course (ME 342W) has a pre-requisite, Heat Transfer, which hasits own pre-requisites including Fluid Mechanics. The lab course that typically precedes ME342W by a year is a Mechanical Engineering Materials and Laboratory course (ME 213W). Thetypical structure of ME 342W is that there is a lecture each week and a lab each week, with eachgroup performing a lab experiment once every two weeks, and having the remainder of the twoweeks to produce a completed lab report
, and educational psychology, as well as a co-PI, an external evaluator or advisory board member on several NSF-funded projects (CA- REER, iCorps, REU, RIEF, etc.). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Impact of a Research Experience Program in Aerospace Engineering on Undergraduate Students: Year TwoAbstractThis work-in-progress study is to report results from the second-year implementation of researchexperiences for undergraduates (REU) program funded by the National Science Foundation(NSF) in aerospace engineering at a Southwestern public research university. A total of 25students, who are citizens or permanent residents selected across the United States
development programs that are typical in industry[6-10]. Many of the workshops focus on developing skills within the coreengineering leadership competencies (FIGURE 1) [6-7]. Workshop topicsincluded: resume / interview skills, speaking to management, negotiation, elevatorspeeches, diversity, project management, delivering presentations, networking,creating a personal brand, and Emergenetics, a personal assessment tool thathighlights an individual’s genetic predispositions for thinking preferences andbehavioral preferences [11].Table 1: Workshop topics for CLA (Note: All 2018-2019 workshops have not yetoccurred) Engineering Leadership Core Competency
critical thinking activities. LCs first cameto our institution, City Tech, through a Title V Grant in 2000 and were adopted by the college in2005. The academic performance of students participating in LCs at City Tech reflects nationaltrends. When compared to the general population at the College, students in LC earn higherGPAs, have higher retention rates, and demonstrate greater satisfaction.In order to complement the community-building efforts within learning community classrooms,we, a cohort of faculty leaders and administrators of City Tech’s First Year LearningCommunities, a program offered through the college’s Office of First Year Programs, developed“Our Stories” digital writing project which extends the student’s network beyond the
thetraditional engineering education style. The format and different active elements of this hybridcourse was presented at the ASEE Annual Meeting 2018 as a work-in-progress project. Building on that prior work, our objective here is to prove the effectiveness of the hybrid formatintroduced in the course. To that end, two feedback tools were implemented: (1) a pre-coursesurvey was used to gauge the students’ self-reported knowledge on key element of the course. Thesame survey questions were added to the end of semester survey, thus enabling us to quantify theprogress that was made. (2) Student participation was recorded during all class sessions, thusproviding us with information about the effect of the business-school inspired elements on
, therehas been lack of empirical research addressing the relationship between ethics and emotion. Inparticular, it is not known how emotion and intuition actually influence ethical decision-makingof engineering students.In this work-in-progress paper, we present preliminary results of our exploratory investigationabout how emotion and intuition permeate engineering students’ experiences with ethics. Weanalyzed 11 interview transcripts, which had been collected as part of a larger longitudinal,mixed-method research project with engineering students. We conducted an inductive thematicanalysis and found that students experienced a wide range of moral emotions from positive tonegative depending on the situation. We also found evidence of students’ use
raising calls for more interdisciplinary learning andcollaboration.In the most recent MIT report, The Global State of the Art in Engineering Education, RuthGraham highlighted a “focus on rigor in the engineering fundamentals” but also “user-centereddesign, technology-driven entrepreneurship, [and] active project-based learning” [3]. A keychallenge that constrains engineering schools is their “siloed monodisciplinary structure… andfaculty appointment and promotion systems that are not perceived as rewarding teachingachievement” [3]. In the MIT report, Graham anticipates a shift “towards socially-relevant andoutward-facing engineering curricula” in which “curricula emphasize student choice,multidisciplinary learning, and societal impact” through
students an opportunity togrow their skills over the course of their degree program. While engineering mechanics coursesare not always associated with student team projects, these courses provide the opportunity toshow students how teamwork and diversity are relevant to problem solving. And, as mechanics-oriented courses often dominate the sophomore and junior level of many engineering programs,they can be an important venue for providing continuous instruction to students about workingwith others and in teams. This paper introduces and examines the effects of a teamworkintervention in Engineering Mechanics: Statics aimed at teaching students about the importanceof diversity and inclusion in engineering with specific attention on problem solving
for Systems Engineering Research at Mississippi State University and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Parker received his BS in Industrial Engineering from Mississippi State University in 2012 and is currently pursuing a MSc in Industrial Engineering. He primarily develops software for virtual reality research projects and manufacturing simulations. Previ- ously he worked as a Process Engineer at Shaw Industries in Dalton, GA.Mr. David Cole, Mississippi State University David Cole is an Instructor in Petroleum Engineering in the Swalm School of Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University. He teaches a variety of courses including Drilling Engineering covering the topic of directional drilling. Prior to
research to analyze students’ reflections on a designactivity. On-going research to analyze the transcripts provides the early observation discussed.Results: Low-Fidelity Prototypes as Practiced by StudentsIn an attempt to understand students’ approaches to low-fidelity prototyping, we asked studentsto create three different prototypes of “an exercise machine that saves time and space.” The ideabehind the project was to push the students beyond the machine itself, thinking about largercontexts of exercising and healthy living—a readily available machine in a dorm room, forexample, can save time for the students not needing to walk for the gym if it is designed in a waynot to take much space as well. We tried to avoid using terms such as a
Paper ID #27412Investigating Children with Autism’s Engagement in Engineering Practices:Problem Scoping (Fundamental)Ms. Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Hoda is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education, Purdue. She received her B.S. in me- chanical engineering in Iran, and obtained her M.S. in Childhood Education and New York teaching certification from City College of New York (CUNY-CCNY). She is now a graduate research assistant on STEM+C project. Her research interests include designing informal setting for engineering learning, and promoting engineering
effectivein helping them develop a clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities pertaining to theclassroom-based Action Research component of the grant project (93%).b) Action Research: The following quantitative data represents case studies by 2017 summerteachers who took part in Action Research during spring 2018. To compute differences betweengroups and within groups, a t-test statistic has been applied because of the small sample sizes(n<30). The p values have been computed within Excel using the TTEST function.Biology/Living Environment: 7th Grade (Topic: Punnett squares, Research Design: Table 1): The average score of 4 daily assignments conducted in the same week (March 27, 28, 29, and April 2, 2018) for Group A
inclusive, engaged, and socially just. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education Group whose diverse projects and group members are described at pawleyresearch.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She has received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early
skills. Inparticular, her study revealed that out of 24 outcomes the participants viewed the following eightas the most important to engineering: problem-solving, teamwork, communication, ethics,design, project management, technical specialization, and leadership. Although leadership wasthe eighth most frequently cited outcome, it aligned closely with four higher-rated outcomes:teamwork, communication, ethics, and project management.Studies that examine the perceived importance of technical and professional skills among recentengineering graduates produce similar findings to those of Bielefeldt (2018): while graduatesvalue technical skills, they consider some professional skills more important than technical skills.For instance, in his study of
projects, and teaching imageprocessing and two-dimensional filters in a social media theme are examples of numerousapproaches that would engage students and lead into their deep learning.AcknowledgmentThe author would like to acknowledge the Doctoral Teaching Program in College of Engineering atThe University of Akron for providing teaching fellowships for S. Cyrus Rezvanifar.References[1] Pea, R. D., & Kurland, D. M. (1984). On the cognitive effects of learning computerprogramming. New ideas in psychology, 2(2), 137-168.[2] Feurzeig, W., et al. (1981). Microcomputers in education. National Institute of Education.Venezuela Departmentof Health, Education and Welfare.[3] Robins, Anthony, et al. (2003). Learning and teaching programming: A review
curriculum design project that students deliver both as a written document and as aposter presentation.Two major challenges have arisen in converting this course for an online audience. Onechallenge lies with the content itself and the second challenge lies in a core aspect of the teachingphilosophy.What about the content is challenging to convey online? The essence of ENE 506 is the abilityto align various aspects of curricular design into one unified whole. The goal is for students tosee how aspects of what is learned (content) map to how to measure learning (assessment) andhow students practice that learning (pedagogy). This process, which is at the heart of the course,is a very holistic, integrated, iterative process. However, the learning
/ethnic identities, class, and languagepreference. While we know that first-generation college students are more likely to be Latino/aand/or African American [8], [12], [29], and socioeconomic status varies among this population,it was important to consider culture not as a bounded system commensurate with bounded socialgroups, but as a “process of everyday life, in the form of daily activities” [22, p. 237].We used ethnographic and interview data of engineering students, collected during two separateresearch projects, to generate broad themes. Using our two qualitative datasets, we were able togenerate six themes that captured aspects of students’ funds of knowledge. The six themes wegenerated were: connecting experiences, tinkering knowledge
mounting evidence in support for collaborativeapproaches like problem-based or project-based learning. In thinking about creating classroomenvironments that encourage collaboration and critical thinking, types of assessments should becarefully considered.Using Assessments to Promote LearningHow instructors measure student success influences course outcomes. Course assessments are akey tenant of course design and determine the metrics of measurement for student proficiency incourse learning outcomes (Wiggens & McTighe, 1995). Traditional assessments, like multiplechoice tests and problem-sets, are prevalent in engineering education (Claris & Riley, 2012;Nicol, 2007). While the literature includes some benefits of these types of assessments
marketing [7], andpedagogical improvements [8]. Our project focuses on a relatively unique area, i.e., curiositydetection in text. This paper presents preliminary, yet promising, results of empirically miningwords that demonstrate a curious disposition (of the students) in text data produced by studentsin response to thought-provoking and critical-thinking exercises. The success of our projectcould positively impact efforts to assess both curiosity and its impact on educational outcomes.For many decades, psychologists have wrestled with understanding the nature of curiosity.Recent work by Grossnickle [9] has provided a framework for understanding facets, factors anddimensions of the construct of curiosity that are relevant to the education audience
) arrangements. PLC s are used in several industries like petrochemical, biomedical, cement manufacturing, oil and gas sector etc. Because of PLC advantages is using in many applications such: Reliability. Flexibility in programming and reprogramming. Cost effective for controlling complex systems. } Small physical size, shorter project time. High speed of operation. Ability to communicate with computer systems in the plant. Ease of maintenance /troubleshooting. Reduced space. Energy saving. c. Basic PCL wiring Students will understand the main components of PLC and the connections between these components as a big pictures. The PLC main components is shown Figure 3
Paper ID #26467Designing an Undergraduate Engineering Mentoring Program to EnhanceGender Diversity through Application of Lean Six Sigma Methods and ToolsEmily Kloos, University of Dayton Emily Kloos is a Graduate Assistant at the University of Dayton in the Department of Engineering Man- agement, Systems & Technology where she performs research in order to develop a STEM mentoring program for the University of Dayton. She has experience working as an engineer at various companies with a demonstrated history of working in the food production and manufacturing industries. Skilled in project management, customer service
Purdue University. She also holds a M.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a B.S. in Astronomy and Meteorology both from Kyungpook National University in South Korea. Her work centers on engineer- ing education research, as a psychometrician, program evaluator, and institutional data analyst. She has research interests on spatial ability, creativity, gifted education, STEM education, and meta-analyses. She has authored/co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings and served as a journal reviewer in engineering education, STEM education, and educational psychology, as well as a co-PI, an external evaluator or advisory board member on several NSF-funded projects (CA- REER, iCorps
Engineering Lab at Montana State.Emma Annand, Montana State University Emma Annand is striving for a B.S. in Industrial and Management System Engineering at Montana State University – Bozeman. Emma is a research assistant for MSU’s NSF supported engineering leadership identity development project. She is also the fundraising team lead for MSU’s chapter of Engineers With- out Borders (EWB@MSU). Over the summer of 2018, Emma traveled with EWB@MSU to Khwisero, Kenya to implement a borehole well at a primary school there. During the summer of 2019, Emma will once again travel to Khwisero – this time to assess for a structure at a secondary school.Monika Kwapisz, Montana State University Monika Blue Kwapisz (they/them) is an
added to the additive manufacturing or material science courses in sophomore orjunior levels.Keywords: 3D printing, Additive manufacturing, Mechanical properties, Surface propertiesIntroduction Low-cost 3D printers have made it possible for schools across the nation to have additivemanufacturing implemented in their labs and curriculum. AM machines are used widely bystudents [1]. The ease of prototype manufacturing in 3D printing encourages students to preferAM machines to conventional manufacturing machines in building their projects. One majorquestion remaining unanswered is that how well the AM manufactured parts will perform underload and pressure in an industrial application. Providing the students with hands-on experiences
effects of AR in collaborativesettings. It also gives first insights into the fit of the design of the empirical survey forconfirming or rejecting the hypotheses.3. Method3.1. Role-playIn order to investigate the effect of AR on the communication and interaction in acollaborative setting in higher education, a role-play was developed and implemented into anexemplary lecture on Agile Management in Technology and Organisation at the RWTHAachen University. The lecture mainly addresses students of Mechanical Engineering whohave hardly or not had contact with agile project management during their studies before.Thus, this way of organizing tasks is a completely new, mostly uncommon and often abstractway of working to them. For fostering the conception
Engineering (EE) from the Virginia Military Institute, Master’s Degree in EE from the George Washington University, and Ph.D. from the University of Louisville in Computer Engineering. He is also a graduate of the Signal Officer Basic Course, Signal Captain’s Career Course, and the Army Command and General Staff College. At West Point, LTC Lowrance also serves as a senior researcher in the Robotics Research Center. He has led multiple research projects related to robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. His research has led to over 25 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, several of which have won best paper awards.Major Eric M. Sturzinger, United States Military Academy MAJ Eric Sturzinger is a
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