Education through the Experience-based learning.AbstractPrevious studies show that ~50% of engineering students withdraw or change to other majorsmainly due to the poor teaching and advising; the difficulty of the engineering curriculum; andmore importantly - the lack of “belonging” within engineering. Few studies link this problem tonon-engineering courses since most of their first-year courses are demanding and focusing ontopics other than engineering, such as chemistry, mathematics, and physics. To tackle suchissues, the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology (CEAT) at Oklahoma StateUniversity (OSU) is in the process of a multiyear plan to transform undergraduate education. TheENDEAVOR is the centerpiece of a
“how function and aesthetic form can contributeto the improvement of an engineered object.” The students did not create art as part of thiscourse, but they explored various engineering themes through the study of art. Beams, et al. [8]describe an experimental course that replaced (temporarily) a “Design Methodology” course forelectrical engineering majors, dubbed the “Leonardo Project.” The intent was that “engineerswould experience the design process through direct participation in the arts as artists in multiplefields of artistic expression.” Individual students worked directly with arts faculty mentors tocreate an artistic product. Students were required to prepare project plans in a way thatemphasized parallels between engineering design
and result in the collaborativeconstruction of infrastructural projects such as borehole wells, water distribution systems, schoolbuildings, and health clinics. In order to fulfill a partnership, these chapters are responsible forcompleting the documentation, designs, calculations and construction plans for each infrastructureproject in addition to 95% of project and travel fundraising needs. These tasks must be completedin collaboration with the chapter’s partner community, who is in turn responsible for participatingin the design process, mobilizing community members for project construction, ensuring long-term maintenance is completed, and raising 5% of the project’s funding requirements. Chapterstypically complete the majority of their
and a paraphrased description of each: Strong analytical skills. These core skills include principals of science, mathematics, and areas of design and research for a practical application, which can include complex biological systems. They also include knowledge of the engineering design process, including planning, establishing processes, evaluating, and a focus on pragmatic outcomes. The report notes that even though the subject matter will evolve and technology will change, these core skills will remain. Practical ingenuity. Engineers identify problems and find solutions, with skills in planning, iterating, and adapting for a practical application. Creativity. Innovation and
satisfaction.” These are elements that one would need to give up if theywere to leave to pursue higher education. Because the cost of higher education is significant,many rural potential students become work-bound as well while saving for school. In Burnell’sstudy of 26 college-able, work-bound rural students, 0 of 26 planned to attend college rightaway. However, they shared the characteristic of “goal-directedness”, and those with long-termcollege plans were either working to raise money for college or doing a vocational sequence witha long-term college goal in that industry.A similar cause for being place-bound exists amongst metropolitan area populations. Themajority of the engineering education deserts in metropolitan areas are located in areas
reduce attritionrates, facilitate student advising, monitor or measure student progress, enhance teaching and helpstudents plan their own pathways [24, 26].Patterns in Current Development Literature suggests three key patterns in the current development of analytics inpostsecondary education. Firstly, data analytics is an emerging and rapidly evolving field ofresearch and practice; secondly, professionals within the field tend to work in silos; and thirdly,there is significant variation in the type of data analysis performed within institutions. Data analytics in education emerged as a field that is separate from educational datamining and academic analytics, with the first international Conference on Learning Analyticsand
development Skills presented were 0 8 0 0 0 0 31 8 30 69 84 70 practical for future career plans Material was presented in 0 8 0 0 4 4 31 8 52 69 84 44 understandable way Presenters were engaging 0 8 0 0 0 4 20 8 52 80 84 44 Pacing of sessions was 0 8 0 8 15 35 46 31 48 46 46 17 appropriate Opportunities to network 0 8 0 0 0 9 31 23 30 69 69 61 with peers were providedThe impact of the Fellow’s knowledge and skills was also measured using a Likert scaleperception of knowledge survey, open ended questions about topics learned and focus groupinterviews. Fellows were asked to rate their perceived change in knowledge before participatingin the program using the
makerspaces for education, Martin identifies three elements essential to considerin determining potential affordances: 1) digital tools, including rapid prototyping and low-costmicrocontrollers; 2) community infrastructure, including events; and 3) the maker mindset,aesthetic principles, a failure-positive approach, collaboration and habits of mind [9]. Wilczynskiidentified best practices for those planning new campus spaces: the importance of user training,the need for a clear definition of its mission, proper staffing, promoting collaboration, alignmentwith student work schedules, and attention to creating a maker community on campus [10].While not focused exclusively on makerspaces, a study of collaborative co-working spaces foundthat a student
3 conflict pool or competition tank; starting large arguments between teams over small problems Whispering to Whispering and emphatically staring or pointing at another 2 exclude student Theme 3– Changing Levels of Interest in Engineering Excited about Expressing physical (clapping, grinning, jumping up and 9 using engineering down) or verbal excitement about using a tool to build (e.g. tools soldering iron, digital multimeter) Talking about the Talking to each other about their experience within the 6 EAP EAP; positive or negative Discussing plans Talking about plans for college or their next year of high 5 for future
preferred study spaces. Study Climate and Controlled Study Environmentswere still of utmost importance and commented upon most frequently. The code frequencyreached nearly 30% for each of these themes. Technology was next with 14% of code frequencyfor undergraduates and 11% for graduates. Comfort, Study Materials & Accessories, Proximityto Amenities, Access to Help, and Safety ranged from 5% to 10% of the code frequency each,reflected between undergraduates and graduates. The researchers discuss how these preliminary code themes from the College ofArchitecture can be utilized as evidence of desired study spaces and how these studentpreferences can be incorporated into library space planning and renovations.Discussion After
theory. Thequestionnaire covered foundational concepts of the environmental, economic, and social domainswithin the topic of sustainability, and it presented an initial effort to quantify knowledge of thebroad and abstract concept of sustainability by assessing the sustainability knowledge of anundergraduate population. This work was not however targeted specifically to undergraduateengineering population. They plan to continue refining these questions to better differentiatebetween students with higher levels of knowledge and to replace those with answers that maychange over time.A. L. Carew and C. A. Mitchell [4] set a comparison point with the Institution of Engineers inAustralia. The authors mentioned that engineering professionals in
, have planned orientations, started periodic“check-in” meetings with the first-year students, created expectation documents for first-yearstudents to review with their advisors, and organized peer-mentor programs.The objective of this paper is to explore the impact of various initiatives developed by the LeadTA and the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder. Our primaryresearch question is: “Do approaches to increasing communication avenues between first-yeardoctorate students, faculty and department administration positively impact the first-yearexperience at our university?” Overall, our goal is to foster a supportive environment andprovide the tools first-year doctorate students need to succeed throughout their
instructional method was an exploratory studio journey of discovery with a graphicalemphasis. The student outcomes included spatial organizations (floor plans), visualizations(elevations), and basic detailing (sections). One observation was that BIM provided a logicalapplication to an otherwise unscientific design journey. The studio assessments werequalitative. This created some apprehension as the grading appeared subjective. The assessmentwas based on a qualitative relative grading system [27, pp. 434-435]. The course contributed todemonstrating the ABET performance criteria of “ability to design a system . . . within realisticconstraints;” (2) “ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessaryfor engineering practice
. Therefore, it is recommended that suchtransitions are planned over the summer to allow time for development. Instructors must beaware that a substantial amount of content must be prepared for the online course compared to aface-to-face delivery [17].The following is a list of content that was transitioned and the decisions made to create a highimpact online student experience for the Nanotechnology course. Aspects of each were refinedduring the face-to-face offering of the course. Later this list was used to develop guidingprinciples for transition.Lectures. Since the lecture slides had been revised several times during the previous sixofferings it was easy to envision converting this content into lecture videos. Lecture slides wereconverted to
department as an instructor in 2018, and was promoted to Associate Professor of Practice in August 2019. Dr. Gray is primarily focused on pedagogy of first-year engineering students, but maintains an undergraduate research group with interests in automotive systems, communications, computing, and non-destructive inspection.Dr. Benjamin D Chambers, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education Benjamin Chambers is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with three degrees from Virginia Tech, including an MS Civil Infrastructure Engineering, MS Entomology, and a PhD in Environmental Design and Planning. Ben also has professional
) Coalition building Q136_4 Investigating and securing resources needed to implement new Coalition building & Idea ideas. (Secure resources) realization Q136_5 Developing adequate plans and schedules for the Idea realization & implementation of new ideas. (Develop plans) Transfer/diffusion Q136_6 Selling a product or service in the marketplace. (Sell product) Transfer/diffusionIndividual innovative behavior: Individual innovative behavior is the central variable inthis research study. As described earlier, individual innovative behavior is summarized as allindividual actions that contribute to
approaches for data-guided decision-making in theirexisting business operations; a recent survey indicates that the majority (~85%) of large businessesare in the midst of AI implementation plans [20].Given the greater focus on AI to support decision making, there is a need for industrial engineeringstudents to be prepared to understand and use AI tools in a business context. Yet, at this stage,there is a dearth of educational resources on AI or related technologies that are tailored for thisstudent population [21]. Emerging programs to integrate AI education into industrial engineeringcurriculum include the development of Industry 4.0 themed labs, both physical [22, 23] and virtual[24]. To date, these efforts tend to be technology-focused with an
how can they accommodate for demand in warmer seasons? D Where are the most popular destinations that people arrive at using city bikes? E What is the most popular station? Why that station is so popular? Will changing the pricing plan for Capital Bikeshare for casual riders to a demand- F based price per minute model increase their revenue compared to their current model? G What the busiest stations are, when are they the busiest, and who uses them the most? What hub is the most common station in Washington D.C. and how can the H company optimize that location? Which bicycle stations are most popular throughout the course of 2017? In other J
undergraduate education and the development of a professional development continuing education program to support industry professionals with profes- sional development needs. 2009. Industry Experience: • Strategic business analyst conducted international and domestic market research in the energy production and manufacturing markets and wrote a strategic business plan to serve the pump package system demand for domestic and international markets. FMC Technologies, Houston, Tx. • As- sistant Plant Manager/Welding Engineer, product development and manufacturing engineer in the Fluid Power Industry assessing production inefficiencies to implement new equipment and processes. Texas Hydraulics, Temple Tx. • Welding engineer
SCCT predictors contributedsignificant variance in satisfaction and persistence outcomes, with self-efficacy and supportsserving as reliable predictors [4]. We found nonsignificant, single-group differences inassociations within the model (i.e., Latinxs vs. Whites); however, intersectional differences werefound. Specifically, we found contextual differences for Latinx engineering students (i.e.,differences between Latinxs attending HSIs and PWIs). These results suggest that interventionsaimed at broadening Latinxs’ participation in engineering need to be tailored for Latinx studentsubgroups.IntroductionThe National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Strategic Plan identifies developing a diverse STEMworkforce as a key objective [5]. Despite this, slow
, metal scraps,etc.). We want to provide students with choice over which prototyping method might best applygiven their selected design, but still require that some part of the toy be 3D printed.Phase V: Working on Communicative DeliverablesThe UD project represented 20% of students’ final grades in the course. There are three majordeliverables associated with this project. First, students submit a 3-page memo halfway throughthe project detailing the progress they have made and their plans for completing their design.This memo allows the instructor to provide timely feedback on each group's direction and allowsstudents to learn through failure that will help improve the overall final design. Students willsubmit a final report and make a final
throughout the 14-week semester, with a projectproposal due three weeks into the semester, a project update due eight weeks into the semester,and the final project due twelve weeks into the semester. The intermediate deadlines wereestablished to help ensure that students would develop a schedule plan to guide their progressthroughout the semester, and to allow for the instructor to provide constructive feedback as needed. Grading expectations were defined at the beginning of the semester when the project wasassigned. Students were reassured that artistic quality was not a priority for any of the visually-inclined projects, as long as sufficient effort was put in. Examples of insufficient effort wouldinclude developing stick figure comics, or
efforts of the curriculum. Annual assessment doesn’t need to be a burden if it’s organically rooted in a course. • EAMU provides a more robust system that is more than just a pass/fail criteria, leading to better assessment. • Currently, the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Program is relying largely on analytic, in-class data for assessment. An additional layer that will be conducted through a capstone audience survey is planned to be implemented this year as a more holistic, qualitative approach, but the survey will be in the form of a rubric to overlay on the EAMU vector.ConclusionWhen programs adopt the new ABET Criterion 3 Student Outcomes, it is important to recognize that a robustassessment
. Elizabeth gave all of her materials to Tania. Elizabeth had every week planned outand prepared lecture slides that could be modified for the next year. But the transfer of materialswas not seamless because Tania decided to take a different approach than Elizabeth with respectto the kinds of schools, they visited during the outreach efforts. In trying to adapt Elizabeth’smaterials, Tania realized that she did not need slides for every week, given her approach toleading the seminar in a more activity-based setting. Tania reflected that although valuable as astarting point, the materials were not as easy to adapt to the specific school context and differenttimeline. For the first couple of weeks, Tania did use the lecture slides to start off, but as
would be interested in listening tomore episodes in the future.The students were allowed to select the two episodes for the assignment. Table 3 shows abouthalf of the students listened to episodes on being an early career engineer (Episode 1), civilengineering (Episode 2), and mechanical engineering (Episode 4). One-third of the studentslistened to the episode on being a senior-level engineering student (Episode 5), while less than10% listened to the episode on being an engineering instructor (Episode 3). The students seemedto select topics that are most relevant to their current situation and future plans since the twomost common majors in the study were civil engineering and mechanical engineering, moststudents would become seniors in a few
earlyCS exposure also positively impacted math majors: many minored in CS or took more CScourses than required; many opted for a BS in Applied Math or chose upper-division electiveswith a computational or applied focus. Our hypothesis is that early CS exposure improves theexperience of math majors by expanding their awareness of career options and by developingskills that enhance their conceptual understanding and problem-solving capabilities.RecruitmentOur recruitment plan has three stages.First, we invite students to apply to the CS/M Scholars Program. The invitees have alreadyapplied to our university, have demonstrated an interest in majoring in computer science ormathematics and have shown academic potential. We determine a student’s
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areas of strength, such as creativity and risk-taking, while acknowledging challenges, participants build self-esteem and realize they are not alone. The following parent quote shows the value of this approach: “I’m so glad [he] was engaged throughout the week. I so appreciate the opportunity given to him and the other students. Having an ADHD diagnosis made him feel different (in a negative way) from his peers and I believe affects his confidence at times. The experience at the camp the other week somehow “normalized” the diagnosis allowing him to embrace it rather than hide it.”• Participant-centered planning- Observations from the high school program showed that in order to
deliver fully functional, sustainable systems. The way I achieve this is by taking an approach that is methodologically flexible and people- focused. Education innovation is as much about the solution as it is about managing change. So no matter how cutting-edge technology, my process incorporates strategic planning, instructional design best prac- tices, and stakeholder involvement. I’m deliberate about tapping into community know-how and creating collaborative optimal solutions that take into account the often-intangible but always-essential human el- ement. Got my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering at the Universidad Sim´on Bol´ıvar, Caracas- Venezuela, M.Sc. in Instructional Technologies and
its diversestudent body. Through the project, it has developed an institutionalized collaboration withacademic departments, student support services, and CCC administration to enhance theframework. The academic departments participate in planning and offering courses for cohorts,and provide supportive faculty while maintaining the quality of their curriculum. The Wrightstudent support services (admissions including testing and recruiting; advising, transferresources, the tutoring center, the financial aid office, disability center, and other student supportservices) coordinate with the project to make the student experience a smooth process. WrightCollege administration provides a physical space for students to network as well as