pretending to be robots, (3) a hands-on station to plan and test routes through the maze, (4) panels with detailed information about different branches of engineering, and (5) an interactive coding video game that a robot should be coded. In this field trip children only interacted with the station number 2 and 5. Puppy Playground is an engineering design activity that 5- to 7-year old children are asked to design a puppy playground for Eva’s puppy. They use the giant foam blocks in the science center to build their playground. To analyze the video recordings, we utilized a coding scheme based on our CT framework. To gain a deep understanding of the competencies, we collectively watched several videos of K-2 aged children engaging in STEM+CT
test sensing and measurement instrumentation circuits that use resistors,capacitors, op-amps, and sensors.Specifically, by the end of the course, the student will be able to:● Use a voltage divider to create a sensing circuit;● Produce a Bode plot and explain the frequency response of a circuit;● Design low-pass, high-pass, and band-pass filters/amplifiers;● Analyze data and transform measured data;● Troubleshoot a circuit.The equipment needed to conduct that labs and some of the p-sets include a computer, an AnalogDiscovery 2 (Digilent, https://store.digilentinc.com/), and 5V power supply circuit board,powered by a USB port of students’ laptop computers. The power supply was designed byBradley Minch (plans and materials list found at https
funded by the National Science Foundation Award # 1744006. The authors aregrateful to the help provided by the following research students at Angelo State University: JesseLee, Maria Ochoa, Austin Poole, Nicholas Manrique and Timmons (TJ) Spies.References[1] ODPM, 2004. The Egan Review: skills for sustainable communities. London: Office of theDeputy Prime Minister.[2] AlWaer, H., R. Bickerton, and R. D. Kirk. 2014. Examining the Components Required forAssessing the Sustainability of Communities in the UK. J Archit Plann Res. 31 (1): 1–26.[3] Male, S. A. 2010. Generic Engineering Competencies: A Review and Modelling Approach.Education Research and Perspectives, 37(1), 25-51.[4] Ritchie, H., Sheppard, A., Croft, N., Peel, D. 2017. Planning
program early, designing a program structure that facilitatesthese planned research goals, and considering participation of undergraduate versus graduatestudents.IntroductionAlthough developing global competence is important for engineering students to be successful inthe globally connected workforce, many students find it challenging to participate in traditionalstudy abroad programs for financial or scheduling reasons [1]. One type of programming thataddresses these concerns is international research experiences, which not only support thedevelopment of students’ global competencies and technical engineering skills [2], but alsoprovide benefits and opportunities for faculty members who coordinate these experiences. Whileresearch has focused on
this step, teams brainstorm andexplore different approaches to dispensing frosting onto the cookie (i.e. knife, frosting bag,frosting syringe, etc.). A prototype, written procedures, and safe food handling plan is thendeveloped to be used for creating cookie sandwiches. The teams are then provided a smallquantity of cookies and frosting in order to perform a test.Prior to the two volunteers performing the assembly test, teams are given ten minutes to train thevolunteers however they see fit. The purpose of utilizing volunteers during the assembly test is tohelp students determine if the procedures are clear, if any assumptions have been made, and ifthey effectively communicated with the volunteers. Oftentimes, teams quickly realized that
understand that only their imagination limits them to using this flexible toolto develop scenarios to test the worthiness of the design project. Stress over and over again thepurpose is not to make a Financial Operational Model to get a value for the Internal Rate of Return,Net Present Value, and Payback time in years. It is to develop scenarios to test the project’sviability, to see potential weaknesses that must be studied further before moving ahead with theproject, and to plan for success. And that is not all. A good Financial Operational Model is a livingdocument. Once the design is built and put in practice, it still has use. It can be modified todetermine upgrades to potential equipment, changes to feed stocks, issues with labor wages
preliminary results attempting to define theconstruct of “engineering intuition,” specifically focusing on the establishment of our interviewprotocol. Semi-structured interviews with practicing engineers, nurses, and business managerswere conducted using: 1) implicit discussion around intuition informed by literature, and 2)critical incident technique [1], i.e., explicit discussion around the concept of intuition. Eachinterview sought to identify practitioner decision-making and problem-solving processes on thejob. The combined dataset and supporting literature are planned to be used as the basis of ourfuture work, which ultimately aims to develop a psychometrically tested instrument capable ofaccurately measuring engineering intuition. Dissemination
educational psychology studies argued that the study strategies comprise of thestudents’ behaviors related to learning, such as the ability to organize information, planning,motivation, and so on [9], [10]. Also, Graham & Robin [11] considered study strategies as thespecific processes taken by the students to learn a specific topic.Prior studies have researched the relationship between study strategies with students’ academicachievement. For instance, Sangiry and colleagues [12] have studied the different factorsresponsible for the academic achievement of pharmacy students. They found that timemanagement (prioritizing the content for the exam preparation) and study strategies (whilestudying, ability to guess the important questions for the exam
majors. We estimate about 5-10graduating engineers per year out of approximately 100 students currently qualify (or nearlyqualify) for this designation. It is our plan that by creating and promoting this Scholars Program,we will encourage more students to engage in these activities, potentially up to 25-50 students perclass year. To date we’ve had one cohort of nine scholars graduate with the next cohort expectedto complete their requirements this spring.In the rest of this paper we will discuss the history of the program, as well as our experiences todate in administering the program. We are interested in learning how or if this program deepenscultural competency among participants and if the credentialing aspect of the program
students as Phase I of this project, for which no data willbe collected.In Phase II of this project, which will start in the fall of 2020, we will require student groups toinclude a reference slide as part of their oral presentations. We will plan to compare presentationslides and reference slides from groups that received the ILI intervention against control groupsthat did not receive the ILI intervention. To determine the effectiveness of this intervention inPhase II, student achievement of learning outcomes will be assessed in two ways. We willmeasure student achievement of two learning outcomes by customizing a rubric previouslydeveloped by a team of librarians for evaluating undergraduate research assignments [30]. Thisrubric, inspired by the
different kinds of engineering majors offered by the university,common processes students perform (building a four year plan, adding and dropping classes,etc.), and helps students to transfer successfully into their newly focused studies. Students thatelected to take the survey submitted their major, noted how long they had been attending college-level classes, and completed an engineering identity survey (Godwin, 2016).Nine of the students (less than 3%) in the University 101 class completed the survey. This poorturnout may be due to a lack of incentive to fill out the survey or because of the timing of thesurvey distribution (three weeks before final exams). While the survey only took a few minutesto fill out and the following interview would
originally planned. Forexample, instructional staff provided a cybersecurity card game used to teach key cybersecurityconcepts but had to leave early. A junior counselor was able to fill in and create a new activitythat incorporated the card game in a way that was much more fun for the student campers whileteaching the cybersecurity concepts better.Junior counselors introduced the campers to cybersecurity ‘Capture The Flag’ (CTF)competitions and coached a live cybersecurity CTF event with camper teams. This collaborationbetween the student counselors and cybersecurity campers became a very popular camp activity;the cybersecurity campers asked the student counselors for additional CTF resources and wereinterested in setting up similar competitions in
admissionsrecords. The academic plan (major), semester GPA and cumulative GPA for each semester astudent was enrolled were obtained from College of Engineering records. There are also recordsfor each degree the students were awarded and the year and semester of degreeawarded. Demographic information is coded as reported to the Integrated PostsecondaryEducation Data System (IPEDS).The students are grouped by cohorts of their attendance at ESCape. These cohorts alsocorrespond to the students’ first semester in college. All of the participants were first-time, first-year students. Comparison data comes from the College of Engineering and the Office ofInstitutional Research and Planning. Using these sources, a comparison can be made betweenthe ESCape attendees
. • Internal Failure Costs: Costs associated activities when product or process fail internally (before and product / service has not been experienced by the customer). Examples include scrap, rework, equipment unscheduled downtime, etc. • External Failure Costs: Costs associated with activities resulting from product or service not conforming to requirements after being experienced by to the customer. Examples include processing and replacement of customer returns, warranty charges, etc.The above costs can be divided into conformance (prevention and appraisal) andnonconformance (internal and external failures). The conformance costs are associated withactivities that are normally planned while the failure costs are not
economic factors I learned to look into how prevalent a disease is in another country in order to determine if marketing a device is worth the profit based on the country’s GDP Determine whether or not a new market is possible within other countries What modifications can be made to make new markets possible Learned the 3 key metrics for success of a medical device Learned more on how to build a market analysis plan. Also more about other countries development in medicine The module was engaging. Allowed students to investigate markets I better understand the economics that goes into introducing a product to a new country More of a market side of engineering I think it
thediscipline. The data card is a tool used to develop a search plan and then inform recruitment anddevelopment of a hiring strategy to yield the best pool of candidates that includes minorityprospective faculty. This proactive approach can lead to collaborative work between searchcommittees and administrators. However, blaming search committees alone for not presenting adiverse pool of candidates for hiring decisions to be made up the chain is insincere if committeemembers are not included early on in the development of faculty search plans, do not have aproactive voice in the recruitment strategy, and are not given direct resources to be innovative inthe areas of non-traditional advertising that may be required to reach out to minority faculty
various constituencies for the purpose of enhancing support for the University. He was the director of all major fund raising activities and led the successful $275 million Campaign for Polytechnic - Fulfilling the American Dream, which raised $100 million in addition to the extraordinary Othmer gifts of $175 million. Dr. Thorsen led Polytechnic’s development of its Strategic Plan for 2004-2007, Securing the Future and had responsibility for its implementation. He also led the University’s brand marketing initiative which led to PolyThinking R and The Power of PolyThinking R and became the foundation of our recent branding and marketing initiative. He led the University’s year long sesquicentennial celebration in 2004
is necessary for learning. Further,metacognition entails reflecting on one’s thinking, knowing about one’s knowing, and directingone’s own learning. Regular reflection plays a critical role in the construction of metacognitiveknowledge and self-regulatory skills, or planning, monitoring, and evaluating one’s own learningand knowledge. Metacognition is important because it supports the development of lifelonglearning skills needed to excel in the workforce. It provides students with strategies for whennew tasks arise, as they must be able to navigate independently after college by directing theirown learning. The literature has highlighted a lack of frequent, structured reflection andmetacognition in the engineering curriculum as well as the
Paper ID #30005Board Game Development as a Pedagogical Approach to TeachingUndergraduate Students in an Interdisciplinary Course that AddressesContemporary Societal IssuesMichael N. Littrell, Tennessee Technological University Michael Littrell is a graduate research and teaching assistant at Tennessee Tech University. He is pursuing a PhD in Exceptional Learning with an Emphasis in Program Planning and Evaluation. He is interested in quantitative research methodology in education, student assessment, and applied statistics. Michael Littrell has conducted research and evaluation of a wide range of education and non-education
to meetwith an academic advisor to prepare a degree plan for the new major.Around 2014, multiple schools including the School of Engineering and Computer Science andthe School of Management enforced the 2.0 GPA threshold more and more strictly. By 2016,approvals for change of majors to these Schools for students that did not meet the thresholdwere very rare. This extended to change of major requests from one major to another withinthe School of Engineering and Computer Science as well. In the 2017 catalog multiple Schoolssought more control over the process for a variety of reasons, mostly over concerns about theability of the School to accommodate demand for its majors and allocation of resources tomatch growth. The 2017 academic catalog
theme that emerged involved the impact of training on presentation and communicationtechniques. This theme included reflections on how the participants changed their presentation orhow they communicated with the public. Some examples of this theme included participantstalking about how they planned their presentation or how their presentations andcommunications were received by the public. “I was thinking about a slide presentation. But after Monday’s training I realized that’s probably not a good idea.” – Alena “I definitely was trying to think about how to engage in a way that makes people think about their personal lives, and examples, and pull in some of those pieces.” – Kacey “So I decided to put up 4 pictures
client, design experience, and CAD. One student wrote, “I gained realworking experience, both with a group and with a client. This project stressed the importance ofactually providing our client with a piece that could be functional, as it had a chance to be createdand was worth more than just a grade.” The students enjoyed the design process, being introducedto the creative side of engineering and working with a real client. When asked what they woulddo different, students’ most common answer was along the lines of planning better, using atimeline, and following a more detailed design strategy.Community Partner FeedbackThe stakeholders in this project were the four partners: Metro Deaf School, Minnesota Children’sMuseum, the University of St
competitive, which can ultimately help them in the competitive engineering world.The aim of this project is to create a miniature racing car that will provide students with the abilityto apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specific needs with consideration ofmultiple factors. Ultimately, having the ability to function effectively on a team whose memberstogether provide leadership, create a collaborative environment, establish goals, plan tasks, andmeet objectives is crucial to completing a project efficiently.A significant part of this project is to examine how every mechanical change that can be done fromrace to race can be implemented to the miniature racing car in order to make it powerful enoughto successfully finish the
institution wide efforts being made to positively impact the entire engineering collegeand university. As the grant enters its final years, the poster will also discuss plans on engagingthe broader engineering academic community in order to establish best practices forimplementing diversity and inclusion initiatives in other programs.IntroductionRowan University’s Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department was awarded theNational Science Foundation’s Revolutionizing Engineering and computer science Departments(RED) grant back in 2016. The purpose of the grant is to change the department’s ability to serveunderrepresented minorities (URMs) and underserved groups over the course of the next fiveyears. The grant provides funding over those
on effective interventions that will promote studentlearning and positive grade outcomes in first year engineering courses. This historically difficultcourse (EE 306) has warranted multiple forms of academic support, including undergraduate TAoffice hours, tutoring and Supplemental Instruction (SI). Careful attention has been paid toindividualize these programs to emphasize the content and study skills students need to besuccessful in these specific courses. Encouraged by Shew et al’s findings [2], we wanted toimplement the collaborative mock exam reviews as a new and innovative option to assiststudents in their planning, preparation and overall actual exam performance.Limitations of StudyLimitations of assessing correlations between grade
the MET 4100 curriculum. The subject of this newly developed project is todesign (start-to-finish) an HVAC system to satisfy the heating load requirements for the twoMET laboratories in the ET Department. This course is a senior level course, and at this level,the students already have prior general knowledge of technical drawing and drafting, heattransfer, psychometric chart, and duct design. To better facilitate the access to the technicalinformation, a lesson plan discussing the benefits of using the University’s library resources andan online LibGuide webpage (https://libguides.utoledo.edu/MET4100) were created and added tothe course’s Blackboard platform. The webpage lists some of the resources required for theHVAC design project, like e
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Dakota State University. He previously earned his MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Saint Thomas and his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.Ms. Lauren Singelmann, North Dakota State University Lauren Singelmann is a Masters Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Dakota State University. Her research interests are innovation-based-learning, educational data mining, and K-12 Out- reach. She works for the NDSU College of Engineering as the K-12 Outreach Coordinator where she plans and organizes outreach activities and camps for students in the Fargo-Moorhead area.Mary Pearson, North Dakota State University
, whois a senior faculty member, this mentoring program has been evolved and expanded over many years upto a point where it has become a very effective and helpful system for both the incoming and the outgoingundergraduate students [7].School of Engineering, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR), Puerto RicoSeven (7) fulltime faculty members offer mentoring. Each mentor is assigned certain number of studentsand receives compensation for up to two (2) credit hours per semester. Students with eighty (80) or moreapproved credit hours are assigned a mentor for discussing their career plans, progress in the academicprograms, optimal or alternative choices for course selection, and so on [8]. In addition, the office ofStudent Development and
initialimplementation in an IEG has been discussed and is shared at our course websitehttps://hub.wsu.edu/me-116/pdm/ to promote further implementation across academic institutionsand provide reasonable insight into implementation.Our university will be sharing our implementation with a club shortly, and we also plan to utilizethe data mining capabilities associated with SWPDMS in future educational research.References[1] E. Wiebe, "Impact of Product Data Management (PDM) trends on Engineering Graphics Instruction," 1998.[2] D. S. Kelley, "Product Lifecycle Management Philosophies Within a Computer-Aided Design Program of Study," 2003.[3] R. T. Frame, C. Pezeshki, and M. Grant Norton, "Integrating PLM Methods into the Undergraduate
example, the emergent of industrial 4.0 or smart factory comes with a very complicatedinformation flow and man-machine system [2]. This necessitates to rethink the way of educatingengineers for the future. Considering this fact, this paper investigates an approach of integratingthe simulation-based activities in the classroom to bring changes in the learning outcomes ofmanufacturing course.Over the last few decades, traditional manufacturing/production engineering educational programshave long depended on curricula based on concurrent engineering methodologies covering productand process designs, functional design development, concept selection for product design,materials and process selection, process planning including assembly analysis, etc