function in the course and the function of their teams. There were in-class writing exerciseson independent learning and ethics, and these exercises provided further opportunities forreflection and self-awareness. In the independent learning module, students wrote narrativesabout their career and personal plans, their experiences in the class, and independent learningthat they needed to do to meet their long-term goals. In the ethics module they were asked toreflect on ethical and professional behavior and how that behavior influenced their capstoneexperience.Similar to the “assess and adjust” exercise, as mentioned previously, the first author conductedmid-term evaluations where she asked students about problems in their teams and in the course
before starting a career teaching engineering. Here industry experience includes field support for Navy Nuclear refueling with Westing- house, analysis and programming of pipeline flow solutions with Stoner Associates, and design of elevator structures and drive components with Schindler Elevator. Since 2002, Eileen has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at California Polytechnic State University. Her teaching experience includes Basic and Intermediate Fluids, Basic and Intermediate Dy- namics, Statics, Machine Design, and Thermal Measurements.Sarah Harding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Sarah Harding is a member of the Mechanical Engineering faculty at California Polytechnic
instructor, it is also important to understand that there can be many factors playing a role into why someone is walking in late. Being a student is hard and not everyone starts on the same level. And the more flexible and accepting a professor is of minor things, the more it makes students feel welcomed and excited about a class and also willing to approach the professor with academic, career, or even life questions.An instructor with a harsh response to a late student often alienates other students by projecting anunwelcoming attitude toward students.Some students commented on habitual tardiness. This is where some action by the instructor isjustified. Here is one such comment: Inappropriate student behavior involves
].While YouTube pedagogy possess the potential to engage students and improve problem solvingabilities, more research is needed. For example, many researchers have indicated that teacherattitudes and effort required in a course influence students’ attitude [31-34]. The importance ofattitudes has been increasingly recognized in recent years; several studies show how positiveattitudes toward science lead students to pursue science careers [35]. Learning attitudes have asignificant positive correlation with academic achievement and self-directed learning ability [36,37]. Furthermore, teaching strategy can influence students’ attitudes which consequently affectslearning gains or outcomes [38]. Since study have shown that integration of technology
Research Group is a multidisciplinary laboratory developing novel methodologies to create technological solutions that address pressing societal needs at the intersection of health care and engineering. Dr. Sienko is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and several teaching awards including the ASME Engineering Education Donald N. Zwiep Innova- tion in Education Award, UM Teaching Innovation Prize, UM Undergraduate Teaching Award, and UM Distinguished Professor Award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Student Practices Developing Needs Statements for Design ProblemsAbstractNeeds statements are concise articulations of design problems that indicate what changes arenecessary
,process, or system. 1. Develop a plan of study for your undergraduate career 2. Articulate holistic issues that impact engineering solutions 3. Solve problems using systematic engineering approaches and tools 4. Model an engineering system 5. Synthesize information from several sources 6. Communicate information effectively 7. Contribute effectively to an engineering teamThe second course is a project-based course. Student teams are formed, and each section has a specifiedproject. Student teams progress through an engineering design process to design and prototype a deviceaccording to their section. Foundations of Engineering (2) (ENGE 1216) course objectives are as follows:Foundations of Engineering (2): As a
students’identity development and subsequent interest in STEM courses and careers (Morgan et al.,2016). Yet elementary teachers often have little preparation or background to teach engineeringand need support to be able to integrate engineering design into elementary science classroomsettings. Thus, research must examine the ways that elementary teachers verbally supportengineering practices. This paper explores how elementary teachers verbally support students’engagement in engineering practices in an NGSS-aligned unit. In particular, this paper comparesthe same teachers implementing the same curriculum across two class sections with differentstudent populations. By exploring teacher talk across two different student contexts, we aim tohelp the field
departments, despite being considerably smaller than most andlacking its own degree program. Faculty in CES participate in the administrative operation of theuniversity just as faculty from other departments do. Their position between engineering and thehumanities and social sciences has also enabled CES members to easily interact with colleaguesfrom across the university, to take on administrative roles that have normally been reserved forsenior faculty, and to consistently advance up the career ladder. Finally, CES has been able tofacilitate frequent interdisciplinary discussions and initiatives within the university.Accreditation The Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) specifies 12 attributes whichgraduates of accredited
different types of belonging and different supports of belonging, in classroom and out-of-school learning spaces, can serve to foster STEM- related identities and career aspirations in Black youth. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 The Double Bind of Constructionism: A Case Study on the Barriers for Con- structionist Learning in Pre-college Engineering EducationIntroduction In the United States, constructionist learning theory (i.e. constructionism) has been one ofthe dominant paradigms underpinning pre-college engineering education both out-of-school andin-school. Historically grounded in mathematician Seymour Papert’s research with the educa
Disagree Neutral Agree Disagree Agree Thinking of what to sketch encouraged me to think more deeply about the lesson 4.8% 33.3% 14.3% 38.1% 9.5% material. The napkin sketch exercise helped me generate methods to remember the 4.8% 23.8% 28.6% 38.1% 4.8% engineering concepts. The napkin sketch activity encouraged me to think about the lesson material in a 4.8% 14.3% 4.8% 61.9% 14.3% different manner. Sketching ability is important to my career. 0.0% 14.3% 28.6% 52.4% 4.8
Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two-strand research program fo- cused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Luke Kachelmeier, University of New Mexico Luke Kachelmeier finished his bachelor’s degree from the University of New Mexico in May 2019. He completed a double major degree in applied math and psychology. His interests are in human factors
, motivations, and career goals of undergraduate students initially pursuing engineering degrees. Dissertation. University of Colorado Boulder.[20] Holbrook, A.L., M.C. Green, J.A. Krosnick. 2003. Telephone vs. face-to-face interviewing of national probability samples with long questionnaires: comparisons of respondent satisficing and social desirability response bias. Public Opinion Quarterly, 67 (1), 79-125.[21] Canney, N.E., A.R. Bielefeldt. 2015. Volunteerism in engineering students and its relation to social responsibility. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Paper ID #12231, 12 pp.[22] Simmons, D.R., Y. Ye, M.W. Ohland, K. Garahan. 2017. Understanding students’ incentives for and
engineering education and has taught a vast array of under- graduate and graduate courses in applied mechanics. Apart from her academic experience she has worked in numerous industries as an Engineering Consultant. Finally, since the beginning of her career, Dr. Singh has been very active in K-12 outreach and in promoting Women in Science and Engineering. Dr. Singh is a registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in the province of Alberta. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Using Assessments to Improve Student Outcomes in Engineering DynamicsAbstractEngineering Dynamics has historically been one of the most challenging courses in theengineering
courses for engineering students,especially senior undergraduate students to help them develop their competencies for futurecareers as junior engineers when they graduate. At the University of Oklahoma(OU), AME4163:Principles of Engineering Design, a course for preparing senior undergraduate students for theirfuture career in engineering through experiential learning [2]. Our goal in AME4163: Principlesof Engineering Design (POED) is to offer Junior Engineers the opportunity to learn by reflectingon doing in an immersive authentic environment. We hypothesize that by having engineeringstudents reflect on an experience related to a principle of engineering design and articulate a lessonlearned that they will develop the ability to continue identify
the genderdemographic).Situating the researchersVanasupa: I am a white-looking female engineering professor who identifies as male. My whitetransgender state has come with unearned benefits and disadvantages during my engineeringeducation journey. While often the only female in my courses of white males, I honestly did notquestion whether I belonged since I felt like “one of the guys.” Over the course of my career, Iinternalized the cultural narrative that I was “less than” my male peers. I often encounter themasculine norms above in the culture of engineering education – in what is valued (or notvalued); in the language, habits, and ways of interacting that are accepted as “normal,” in theworkplace behaviors that are deemed “unprofessional
. Targeting these types of activities may be effective atreducing student loneliness. Diehl et al. conclude their study with the following: Universities are a perfect setting for conducting interventions to support students in attaining a healthy lifestyle (e.g., by offering sport courses) and also for giving them the opportunity to start their professional career being healthy. Giving support at this stage of life is important in preventing lonely students from “being trapped in loneliness as they age”Moving forwards, the authors are planning improvements for the 2020 fall break intervention.Speaking with students who remained on campus, there is clearly appetite to increase the numberand variety of social activities running during the week
important consideration in course structure. Although these skills are critical for a successful career in engineering, they are often not explicitly included in lecture based course outcomes. Student ability and learning in these areas is also not typically assessed, likely due to the lack of metrics available to evaluate this type of learning. We have therefore introduced a weekly reflection, including both multiple choice and free response questions, into the course structure. The importance of reflection on teaching and learning has been well documented (Boud, Keogh, & Walker; Brookfield, 1990; Dewey, 1993, King & Kitchener, 1994; Schön, 1983). Providing students with opportunities to reflect on their learning helps them
in Fig 1), ECD projectshave been motivated by faculty and students desire to help, personal and career goals, desires tostudy and work abroad, and desires to solve problems and to gain hands on experience onimpactful work [1][2]. Since then, some scholars have called our attention to how the focus ofwell-intentioned ECD projects on technological fixes and deliverables tend to leave out criticalreflections of engineers’ motivations to be in these projects, and of the processes required tobuild trust and determine communities’ priorities and desires [3][4]. Unfortunately, these calls tocritical reflection in the ECD space are often overshadowed by the continued emergence ofmilestones and challenges (e.g., UN Sustainable Development Goals, NAE
manufacturing and the supporting use of CAx technologies can be quitelimited in their degree work. Those who transfer to a MFGE career after graduation acquire theskills through appropriate supplemental training and practice. Both MEs and MFGEs getexposed to authoring content in their CAD and analysis (e.g. FEA) classes. MFGEs get exposureto authoring CAM content in courses related to CNC programming and robotics. These are oftenoptional for MEs depending on their specialization through technical electives.A manufacturing engineer needs to be able to engage at any point in a product developmentcycle. They must bring to bear a vast reservoir of knowhow about how products can be feasiblyand cost effectively manufactured with quality and how this impacts
. colleagues and clients) and their awareness of their obligations to, for example, provideassistance and be honest [6], [27], [28]. Individuals tend to orient themselves to the people in theirenvironment; that is, they tend to be able to imagine themselves in the positions of people withwhom they come into contact [6]. The alignment of engineering students is significantly associatedwith the majors and careers they choose to pursue [6]. Therefore, when facing ambiguous ethical 8dilemmas, orientation to others in their environment is likely to predict microethical understanding[6].Bairaktarova and Woodcock (2015) also found that differences in individual
Paper ID #28954Creating a Community of Practice for Operations Research by Co-creatinga High Impact Executive Education Program in IndiaDr. Venugopalan Kovaichelvan, TVS Institute for Quality and Leadership, TVS Motor Company Ltd Dr. V. KOVAICHELVAN is the Director of TVS Institute for Quality and Leadership, the Corporate University of TVS Motor Company Limited, India. The Institute focus on holistic development of talent through career lifecycle of the employees with focus on functional & professional skills, cultural capabil- ities, collective capabilities, support business strategy and Corporate Social
Company it was a significant learning opportunity to manage people related toa field in which they themselves did not have expertise in: Since I'm relatively new in my career, I've learned how to lead a group of people without necessarily knowing all the answers, if that makes sense. … So, being able to lead the students and direct them in the right way, even though I don't know where they're going to go and I don't know what the answers are going to be, that's something that's been my biggest learning.3.2 Project outcomesThe value of gaining new ideas, products, services and concepts was explicitly and frequentlymentioned in all of the five cases in the first round of interviews. As the projects developedand the later
Paper ID #31009Design Course in a Mechanical Engineering CurriculumDr. Jamie Szwalek, University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. Jamie Szwalek is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.Dr. Yeow Siow, The University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. Yeow Siow has over fifteen years of combined experience as an engineering educator and practi- tioner. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Michigan Technological University where he began his teaching career. He then joined Navistar’s thermal-fluids system group as a senior engineer, and later brought
studentengagement and creativity. The ideas students came up with were often trivial andunimaginative; they were frequently oriented toward individual use and addressed problems ofno greater significance than that of minor inconvenience. For example, each semester wouldyield various designs for collapsible backpack umbrellas, automated erasers for dry-erase boards,and novel charging methods for personal electronic devices. Equally problematic was thatstudents struggled to see the value of the patent application assignment to engineering practice.On course evaluations they frequently voiced that it was difficult to appreciate the project’srelevance to a career in engineering especially as they were unlikely to become inventors orpatent attorneys. Further
category are alternative businessmodels, economies of disadvantaged groups or areas and providing certain services orproducts for less. For example, one of the student reports mentioned business opportunitiesand the need of international standards to pursue them: “The IoT plays a key role in sustainable cities and communities. Successful and safe IoT technology will create more career and business opportunities. Our research shows that the most effective, and maybe also only global, solution for data security issues are laws, standards and contracts.” (group E, first report)All student groups were concerned about the economy in some manner in the initial reports.Some took it from a global point of view, where the
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