pedagogy for problem based courses. He created and co-teaches a multi-year integrated system design (ISD) project for mechanical engineering students. He is a mentor to mechanical engineering graduate teaching fellows and actively champions the adoption and use of teaching technologies.Dr. Michele J. Grimm, Michigan State University Michele J. Grimm is the Wielenga Creative Engineering Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering. In addition to her scientific research, Dr. Grimm has spent a large part of her career focused on curriculum development and enhancement of student learning in engineering. She served on the faculty of Wayne State University for 25 years, where she developed and implemented both undergraduate
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, Agree, 12.93% 6.80% 4.31% Neither Agree nor Disagree, 33.56% Agree , 42.40% Figure 6: Student responses on the impact ENGR 111 had on their sense of belonging in this engineering school.Conclusions and Future WorkAt the SSoE, first-year students are taught the fundamentals of engineering through a two-coursesequence. The second of these courses, ENGR 111, is predominantly based in active learningpedagogy to help students gain insight into the field of engineering early in their academic career,as well as improve student desire to continue pursuing an engineering degree. Survey results fromthe Spring 2019 iteration of the
that student appreciation formaterials science will be enhanced when working on an independent project that is intimatelyrelated to their broader career interest. In addition, the value of different mentoring approaches(peer-peer, expert-student) to the learning outcomes of the project will be examined. The courseis a 106-student course that is offered to all engineering majors, and is generally composed ofstudents from bioengineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, chemicalengineering and is the first course for materials science and engineering students. Students wereasked to select a topic related to their professional interest. A Wiki-style article was assigned thatasked students to deconstruct the life cycle of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, SOLIDWORKS, and the Project Management Institute. His research interests include engineering technology outreach and design education with focus areas in CAD and project-based learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Evaluating Student Conceptions of Technology Majors: Development of Assessment Keyword TablesAbstractThis paper presents the continuation of research on student conceptions related to technologymajors (TMs) and careers using the Aspirations, Interests, and Confidence (AIC) survey. Forfour years, first-semester students at Purdue New Albany, a statewide location for the PurduePolytechnic, were surveyed
participants recognized integrating engineering into their science classrooms asbeing important for their students and cited the desire to give their students engineeringexperiences as their motivation for attending the PD. A participant described integratingengineering as being “essential for our students to get a grasp of [a] huge career field anddevelop the skills that engineers employ on a daily basis.” While this may be compellingmotivation for some, other participants discussed direct personal benefits, such as college credit,money, and teaching support, as being what motivates teachers to join engineering PD. Thesemotivating factors described by the participants will be used to aid our recruitment for the nextiteration of our PD. We will
high levels of academicmotivation despite the academic stresses they encounter [4].The students of certain disciplines (e.g., nursing and engineering career) are more susceptible toencountering very high levels of academic stress that daunts their resolution to persist in degreeprograms [5, 6]. Such academic stress may be due to the demanding nature of the learning tasksthat students are required to complete within such disciplines. For example, some first-yearengineering students need the ability to negotiate and overcome the initial setbacks they encounterin foundational engineering courses if they hope to endure and complete their undergraduatedegree programs. Despite the importance of resilience in academic environments [7] andengineering
2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded MIDFIELD research project on engineering education; she has served as a Co-PI on three research projects, including one on transfer students and another on student veterans in engineering.Dr. Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University Marisa K. Orr is an Assistant Professor in Engineering and Science Education with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. Her research interests include student persistence and pathways in engineering, gender equity, diversity, and academic policy. Dr. Orr is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award for her research entitled, ”Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-Makers.”Dr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research
feedback given orally during thewalkthrough was sufficient for the instructor and student to agree on the assessment ofcompetency for more than 90% of students completing the walkthrough. This reduction ingrading time and improved feedback was tremendous.summary and conclusions While quantitative data were not collected, the faculty for all three courses found that thenew grading schemes decreased their time spent on grading and provided a more authenticassessment of student performance. Both students and faculty viewed these grading approachesas more representative of the way they will be evaluated in their future careers. Thespecifications grading approach also allowed students to better keep track of their currentstanding in the course
communication technologies (ICTs) in learning and teaching [14]-[16]. It hasbeen argued that the use of ICT as didactive tools has the potential of enhancing the learning experienceand outcomes by taking advantages of the ICT characteristics of flexibility, accessibility, affordability, andwithout temporal or spatial limitations [14], such is the case of podcasting. There is no doubt about theimportance of TEL for the education of the 21st century. Therefore, it is important to develop studies thatdevelops a documentation of the results of the implementation of TEL. 2.2. Development of soft skills in engineering studentsSoft skills are personal traits that have the potential of enhancing engineer students’ interactions, jobperformance, and career
Chair and Co-Chair for 12 international conferences. For recognition of my research activities, I have been invited to a number of international conferences as Invited Speaker, chaired panel discussions and numerous international conference sessions. I have served on more than 200 international conference program committees. Furthermore, I have published number of articles in peer- reviewed international journals and conferences. I am also an active member of ACM, ASEE, ASEE/PSW and CSAB.Mrs. Catrina Ann ShanasMs. Ashley Pratt, National University Ashley Pratt was born in Fontana, California and from an early age she had high expectations for herself. One of her first career aspirations was to be an astronaut, she
in perceptions of female facultybetween students who attended gender-segregated schools, which are common amongst the localpopulation, and those who graduated from international schools. Finally, religion is expected toinfluence student perceptions because of certain rules and regulations in Islam – the most popularreligion in the Middle East – that restrict mixed-gender interactions.The results may shed light on the potential impact of female faculty on engineering students,especially female students. Based on the results, universities in the region may rethink theirfaculty model to better cater to the needs of students. The study may also encourage females inthe region to pursue a teaching career in Science, Technology, Engineering, or
logic elements.While many engineering programs have already implemented PLC courses in their curricula,instruction remains lacking in many others. Since engineering students with some PLC trainingmay have better career opportunities than those who do not, this may represent an area forimprovement for some programs.Introduction to Projects and Tools is a freshman level course offered to electrical engineeringstudents at [XXX University]. This one-credit laboratory course serves to provide students withhands-on experience with a variety of projects such as the implementation of 555 timers, basiclogic circuits, and measurements of electrical quantities.A two-week PLC module was developed and implemented in the Introduction to Projects andTools
, Behrend College Stephen Strom is a lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology department of Penn State Behrend, and holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. His career includes over thirty years experience in designing and programming embedded systems and has multiple patents for both hardware designs and software algorithms c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Programmable System-On-Chip (PSoC) Usage in Embedded Programming CoursesAbstractPart of the requirements for an Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) programincludes the ability for students to design and implement
, such as mechanical and electricalengineering, recruitment events resulting in high ROI could not be more challenging.PMTM 2.0 as described above and in [4] was a significant amount of effort before, during, andafter for faculty and staff, and the data above shows that the ROI for PPNA will most likely below. PMTM 2.0’s purpose was to inspire students to eventually choose either CGT, EET, MET,ET, or MHET at PPNA; however, if students’ interest in the majors are remaining unchanged, itis anticipated that enrollments will not grow as an indirect and/or direct result of participating inPMTM.AcknowledgmentPMTM 2.0 made possible by a Career and Technical Education Summer Expansion Grant #18A-4700-2400 by the Indiana Department of Education under the
as is his B.S. degree. He holds an M.S. in MBE, also from Ohio State. He was the director of the BME program at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) from 2009 to 2017. He has been teaching at MSOE since 1990. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Work in Progress: Redesigning a Biomedical Engineering Capstone Design Sequence toEnhance Student EngagementThe Accreditation Board for Engineering Technology Criterion 5 states that an accreditedundergraduate engineering curriculum must include a capstone design process to better prepareits graduates for careers in engineering [1]. One common pedagogical approach to teachingdesign focuses on problem-based learning and includes clinical
school year.The current LUSE approach to engineering education consists of a traditional lecture/laboratoryresidential-based program conducted at the campus of LU in Lynchburg, Virginia. Students in theprogram have the option of taking their general education courses through LU Online to help provideflexibility in their scheduling. Continuing with the LU founder's vision, LUSE is committed to an ethicalbased philosophy producing men and women with the values, knowledge, and skills necessary to impacttomorrow's technology-related disciplines. Students have access to modern facilities and technology andqualified faculty seek to know their students personally and to provide them with opportunities foreducation, research, and a professional career
youth to gain exposure, interest, and skill-building in high-growth technologyskills [1, 2, 3, 4]. Research has shown that maker-based programs can engage underrepresentedaudiences, including minorities and females, in technology career pathways [5, 6, 7]. Makereducation principles and approaches have transformative potential across both formal learningenvironments (i.e., in the classroom [1]), and informal learning environments (i.e., designedsettings and experiences outside of the classroom [2, 3]). The flexibility of informal learningenvironments like afterschool programs, make them especially amenable to the iterative,experimental, ethos of making and provide the needed flexibility to experiment with systemicchanges to youth-centered
Calculus pro-grams across the United States the MAA concluded that the Calculus student’s attitude to-wards mathematics is critical since this can impact career choices. They found that on aver-age, student attitudes toward mathematics declined from beginning to end of their first collegeCalculus course and that the students’ confidence in their mathematical abilities dropped al-most a half of a point on a six-point scale. Even “enjoyment and desire to persist in studyingmathematics also changed in the negative direction from beginning of term to end of term[1].” If we can find out more about students’ perception of their own academic capabilitiesand what influences their attitudes towards mathematics, maybe we can help more students tofinish
; application of personal contributions; and overallresearch experience.On the whole, they did a good job of expressing themselves, indicating that they gave a lot ofthought and consideration to what they had done and how best to describe it. Due to the largevolume of their responses, below is a sampling of what they said. ● The engineering process is all about being flexible, being a critical thinker, and being a problem solver. ● [We]had to find a way to make this project connect with [our] chosen field. For example, I am a civil engineering student. One of the things I found particularly useful to my career path was the practice I got using AutoCAD, which is a program that most civil engineers use for creating designs. In
undergraduate research scholarly events − Evaluate community service as a parallel activity in research − Integrate service learning in the process − Integrate interdisciplinary collaborationConclusionsScholar activities in a bi-national collaborative learning environment provide an opportunity toexperiment a new perspective on the approach to solve a complex problem. It enhances adiversity of skills that students will find essential during their professional careers. To name theimportance of communication and collaboration skills, which go beyond only teamworkexperience; as well as important features such as respect for diversity, and tolerance, amongothers.It has been found that making the rest of the team aware of each profession's
paper, we will be focusing on three resource categories: (i)real-world inspired case studies, (ii) the Five Step Method for advanced design problems, andour newest resource, (iii) Introductory Materials Science Teaching Packages. These resourceshave been designed with increased student engagement in mind.Case Studies are among one of the resources categories that we have developed. These resourcesallow students to see what goes into the design and assessment of real-world products. This real-world connection is critical; it connects to previous understanding for improved learningpotential and can motivate learning of technical concepts (such as mathematics [24]) by showingtheir practical use, relevant to students’ careers. To address this need
instudents’ college careers can be particularly impactful, as students’ first year, and to a lesserextent their second year, is when they make crucial academic decisions, including their choice ofmajor [4].STEM bridge programs are a type of early (pre-college) STEM intervention. They are residentialprograms that take place the summer before matriculating STEM students begin college and aredesigned for students who have been identified as relatively underprepared for STEMcoursework, often female and/or underrepresented minority students in particular [5]. A primarygoal of STEM bridge programs is to increase the number of students who have access to a strongSTEM foundation by increasing students’ STEM knowledge and exposure to STEM content [6].Bridge
council has16 members. Members include the president of the Hilltop University,president of the local community college, superintendents of the three regional independentschool districts, and representatives of the business, workforce, and economic development inthe region [4]. Membership is intended to cover the spectrum of education for the workforce andeconomic development. The council’s mission is to promote and support innovative educationand to provide pathways for students to be able to pursue careers and aspirations. Before theinitiation of this collaboration, it was found that the majority of college students in the HilltopUniversity region did not represent the local population which was predominantly Hispanic.Most of the region’s
chat application for responding to RFIs. Asshown in figures 4.1 and 4.2, the construction process has been shared via live videoconferencing and received immediate design feedback from the students. The complicationswith the construction process provided very useful insight for their future career, and this hands-on learning experience had a profound impact on how they view the construction process.Figure 4.1 & 4.2 construction process shared via video conferencingResultsThe author interviewed with two participating students to ask about their learning experience.Also, to obtain a more in-depth understanding, the author required them to submit a report. Thestudents responded that their representation and design skills improved during this
on the current course, andprovides a slow path to improvement. This study presents a student-centered assessment modelthat provides timely actionable feedback allowing optimization of course instruction during thesemester with the objective of maximizing student learning and the overall student satisfaction.The proposed model uses a simple structured approach that incorporates questions requiringnumerical scores and open-ended questions to solicit student feedback.This model includes four surveys administered over the semester. The first survey is given on thefirst week of classes to familiarize the instructor with the background and career goals of eachstudent and their course expectations. Based on the findings of this survey, the
engineering students in order to promote collaborative problem solving and provide experience relevant to authentic work in industry.Ms. Esmee VernooijCatherine LaBore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Catherine LaBore is a sociocultural anthropologist and media production professional. She has had a long career producing educational media. As an ethnographer and media/content producer, she spent nine years supporting engineering research with colleagues developing intelligent systems for education. She’s worked on problems of user experience and design and higher-level content development (e.g. expert ontology and schemata) for systems designed to teach language skills, cross-cultural social interaction
Paper ID #29709A Study of the Effectiveness of Using Hands-On Active Learning Exercisesin a Production Operations Management CourseMajor Steven Hoak, United States Military Academy Major Steven Hoak currently serves as an instructor at the United States Military Academy in the Depart- ment of Systems Engineering, focusing on engineering management. He is a career Army Aviation and Acquisition Officer. He holds a Master degree in Nuclear Engineering (Air Force Institute of Technol- ogy), a Master of Business Management (Mississippi State University) as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the United
theentrepreneurial journey to designing programs that allow students to have founder experiencesand launch their own business ventures. The intention of these programs is for engineeringstudents to gain a skillset and orientation towards being more innovative and entrepreneurial intheir careers once they leave the university, whether they choose to try to immediately start acompany or not.Many of the activities that are designed into entrepreneurship programs, however, result instudents experiencing varying degrees of failure with the most extreme case being student-launched ventures that fail. While entrepreneurship programs typically talk about embracingfailure and learning to fail fast, it’s unclear what impact these failure experiences have
PBSL efforts may offer two additionaladvantages. First, since students are addressing concrete needs in an interprofessional workingenvironment, the interprofessional PBSL experience may help foster mature attitudes towardsprofessional practice. Second, the array of challenges, joys, and rewards associated with servingthe community in an interprofessional team may promote career readiness and confidence inone’s training and aptitude.The need for interprofessional education and collaborative practice is not unique to engineering.Training programs for pre-service professionals in allied health specialties, such as clinicalexercise physiology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and athletic training, benefit frominterprofessional experiences