(ABET). In a project-based learning environment where students are highly motivated, professionalism can be easilyintegrated into the curriculum. Iron Range Engineering, a newly established project-basedprogram, has given considerable attention to professionalism and has incorporatedprofessionalism in the curriculum as a course series. In this paper, we discuss the Iron RangeEngineering program, professionalism activities, ABET outcomes associated withprofessionalism and the integration of professionalism in the curriculum.1- IntroductionSince the publication of Engineer 20201 (and before) and the modification on accreditationcriteria made by ABET, professionalism has been an important subject in the engineeringeducation2,3. The expectations of
education credit hours, certificate programs offered by a number of content providers,and professional certification through organizations that offer industry-recognized standards inareas related to Systems Engineering.6Many of the courses in the distributed curriculum have an option of being taken for graduatecredit; our guidelines stress, however, that it is extremely unlikely that a series of courses takenfrom different providers can be integrated together into a graduate degree granted by anacademic institution. If a student has a goal of obtaining a Master’s degree in SystemsEngineering or a related field, one or two courses may be transferable into a formal Mastersprogram
Paper ID #17613Educational Support through the Career Life-Span of Professional WorkingAdult Learners: An Integrative Theoretical and Experiential Reflection fromthe Learner’s PerspectiveDr. Mitchell L Springer PMP, SPHR, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Mitchell L. Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP Dr. Springer currently serves as an Executive Director for Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute lo- cated in West Lafayette, Indiana. He has over 35 years of theoretical and Defense industry-based practical experience from four disciplines: Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Program Management
withthe Master program. An online program allows nontraditional students to take classes at theirconvenience while retaining their full-time jobs and maintaining their commitments to familyand community. Among a set of courses required by curriculum, construction estimating was oneof the most challenging courses for online delivery due to its complexity, hands-on approach oflearning, and group work requirements. This paper reports the process, results, and lessons Page 14.453.2learned from developing and delivering an online construction estimating course during summerand fall semesters in 2008.StartupDuring the 2008 spring semester, the Department
that the studentstake. (B) In an interdiscuplaniary approach, science and technology is overlapped with businesspractices and innovation skills. Enviromental issues, ethical consideration and an understandingof public policies are also integrated withn the curriculum to provide students with a broaderperspective. Page 25.1288.3Program Curriculum:Our Bachelor’s Degree Completion program is a two-year completion program. We acceptstudents who have an associate’s degree from a community college or have completed 60 credithours of course work at an accredited institution of higher education. In the first year of theprogram, students enroll in a
currently consults with faculty and teaching assistants. She earned her Ph.D. in educational administration at UW-Madison. She is PI for the ”Aligning Educational Experiences with Ways of Knowing Engineering (AWAKEN): How People Learn” project. As a member of the man- agement team for the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), she is collaboratively responsible for a course about teaching science and engineering.Ms. Moira Lafayette, University of Wisconsin, Madison Page 22.817.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Implementing an Effective
program in an alternate non-traditional format, or, alternatively, cannotholistically change an existing curriculum without full ICHE Committee approval.Preparing for Future Growth –Subsequent to February 9, 2009, on approval of the College of Technology Academic Center forProfessional Studies in Technology and Applied Research (ProSTAR), an effort was afoot tocreate an underlying infrastructure which would promote the current and future growth ofprofessional studies. The intent was to organize facilities, human capital, processes, practicesand methodologies in support of this anticipated growth. Additionally, a new and moreadvanced budgeting capability was required
start with an early morning breakfast, often preceded by organized exercisesessions and conclude late in the night as teams work feverishly to complete challenges andrequirements to design the most functional and innovative machines out of simple supplies likewooden dowels, plastic wheels, rubber bands and LEGOs.Participants are expected to maintain full engagement, share personal experiences with othersand work through common goals during challenges, case studies, community service, design-to-build competitions and feedback sessions. These activities occur between 6:00 P.M. onThursday and 11:00 A.M. on Sunday morning. Few hours are wasted on sleep and relaxation asthe participants become fully integrated into their team responsibilities and
on: • Topical overview • Audience members • Positives of the talk • Elements to work on for future talks • Outcomes of the talk • Next steps for personal presentation improvementThis structure allows students to not only perform a careful analysis of their ownperformance, but also to compare and contrast others’ experiences with audience andpurpose during the presentations of their peers, all of whom present technical topics in avariety of engineering organizations. In this way, students are able to norm theirexperience with benchmark professionals in their own and other industries. In studentself-reports, this norming process plays an integral role in helping them feel morecomfortable with presenting and more confident in
the changing engineering and engineering technology curriculum,there has also been a long-standing call to strengthen engineering and technology educators’capabilities and preparation to perform the task of educating students. This latter call, however,had remained virtually unanswered for more than a century. A recent response to this call isSPEED: Strengthening the Performance of Engineering and Engineering Technology Educatorsacross the Disciplines. SPEED is a concept for a formal, nationally recognized continuingeducation program for engineering and technology educators being developed with the supportof the ASEE. In the introductory part of this paper, the authors briefly present an overview ofprevious work which has led to the
AC 2010-1016: THE CONSTRUCTIVIST-BASED WORKSHOP: AN EFFECTIVEMODEL FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING ACTIVITIESSusan Donohue, The College of New Jersey Susan Donohue is an assistant professor of Technological Studies in the School of Engineering at the College of New Jersey.Christine Schnittka, University of Kentucky Christine Schnittka is an assistant professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education at the University of Kentucky.Larry Richards, University of Virginia Larry Richards is a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia
and technology educational continuum was formalized in a 1955 report of theCommittee on Evaluation of Engineering Education as part of the American Society ofEngineering Education by then chair Linton Grinter. In the report there was the recognition of adual, yet highly integrated educational continuum spanning the engineering-technologyundergraduate and graduate curriculums.Based on this report, most college and universities went on to associate under a single college orschool the disciplines of engineering and technology. The curriculums were evolved with asingular focus. As time passed, theoretical instruction became more prominent and some ofthese colleges and schools pushed the technology portion of the curriculum to the peripheral
the interests of the overarching online organization. The success of the profit/lossorganization has an impact on everyone in the profit/loss organizational unit; in this instantiationthe colleges. To this end, the colleges should want to maintain an administrative hardline to theirrespective leads. Failure to do so, places the colleges themselves in a subservient role to thedirection of the online organization lead; which may not be in the college’s best interest for long-term growth or sustainment, or, may run counter to branding integrity of the individual colleges.Being a part of a matrix also requires each function have identified a well-defined process,depicting the many activities of the process as well as the attendant outputs of each
freshmen engineering programs, math success, K-12 STEM curriculum and accreditation, and retention and recruitment of STEM majors. Page 25.1087.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Promoting STEM Faculty Members’ Reflection on their Teaching PracticeAs part of an institutional focus on STEM student success, a group of eight STEM faculty fromacross the STEM disciplines participated in a year-long faculty learning community (FLC). Thefacilitated experience was designed to support the professional development of faculty throughexploration and
teammembers. Second, considering that updates could be needed as the requirements, legislation,standards, and audiences change, we were looking for a tool that would allow us to easily changecontent, potentially by subject matter experts with limited computer knowledge. Given thissecond objective, our hope was to find an integrated tool that would provide both contentcreation/editing capabilities and the ability to export this content to the appropriate standard. Page 25.1284.9Based on possible deployment options, there are two categories of tools to consider: desktopapplications and web-based tools. With the majority of the web-based tools still in
curriculum that is rooted in the discipline in which the course if being offered; Page 15.152.4 2. The course contains a set of organized community-based learning activities through which students directly service a constituency as a means to address an identified community need; 3. The course provides structured opportunities for students to formally connect their service activities to the course curriculum and to broader social issues through reflective methods. ≠ Faculty scholarship associated with curricular engagement is scholarly activity that faculty produce in
. Her multiple roles as an engineer, engineering educator, engineering educational researcher, and professional development mentor for un- derrepresented populations has aided her in the design and integration of educational and physiological technologies to research ’best practices’ for student professional development and training. In addition, she is developing methodologies around affective management of curriculum and instruction in engineer- ing students.Dr. Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University Dr. Oenardi Lawanto is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University, USA. He received his B.S.E.E. from Iowa State University, his M.S.E.E. from the University of
AC 2010-1511: IMPLEMENTING TABLET PCS IN A DISTANCE LEARNINGENVIRONMENTGlenda Scales, Virginia Tech Dr. Glenda R. Scales serves as both Associate Dean for International Programs and Information Technology and Director of the Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program (CGEP) in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. Dr. Scales also provides leadership for international programs, research computing and academic computing within the College of Engineering. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in Instructional Technology from Virginia Tech, an M.S. in Applied Behavioral Science from Johns Hopkins and a B.S. in Computer Science from Old Dominion
(CALS), and theICBE components of a collaborative 2009-2010 TEL project. Briefly, the ICBEcomponent was to build upon the Feedback Manager module developed under theprevious ICBE TEL grant with the desired outcomes of further adoption anddevelopment of the tool, continued faculty input, and assessment of the impact of thetool. The TEL CoE/CALS component focused on scaling up the use of Moodleknown as Engineering Courses on the Web version 2 (eCOW2) within the CoE andCALS at an enterprise level with a surge of faculty support and technical assistance tofurther adopt the available tools in Moodle and integrate effective instructional designand delivery principles to positively affect student learning. Discussion of the twoimplementation
have already developed the basic understanding of construction methods, materials, and estimating. • Compared with other courses in the construction curriculum, it is less computational. • The department has previously used web-based pedagogy for this course.Tools InvolvedMany tools are available for developing an on-line course. The main tool is the WebCT that isavailable to all faculty at Missouri Western. It has also been the tool for faculty training and hasbeen evaluated to meet the following criteria: Page 11.847.3 • Ability of integration with current registration system and ease of use. • Possibility
their needs, NC State pursued the development of a bachelor of science inengineering distance-based degree program in partnership with UNC Asheville. The programwould be based at UNC Asheville, but the degree would be an engineering degree from NC StateUniversity.Based on input from the Asheville community and the faculty at NC State University, it wasdecided that the most relevant focus for the degree program would be in mechatronics. Acurriculum was developed and approval received from NC State, the University of NorthCarolina Office of the President and SACS to deliver this distance-based degree. The first twoyears of the degree program were built on the 2+2 curriculum already in existence. Theremaining two years were composed primarily of
Paper ID #8136”The Bottom 3” – A New Revolution in Leadership DevelopmentMr. Eric Paul Pearson, Northrop Grumman, Electronic Systems Eric Pearson is the Director of Cross-Sector Program Initiatives for Northrop Grumman Corporation. His has responsibilities for relationship building and cross culture leadership development. Eric has a BS in Education from Bowie State University and an MS In Technical Management form the Johns Hopkins, Whiting School of Engineering. Eric is best known for his development and leadership of the Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems New Graduate Engineering Rotation Program and the Recent
Paper ID #12194Accessibility, Usability, and Universal Design in Online Engineering Educa-tionSheng-peng Wu, University of Wisconsin at Madison Sheng-peng (Hank) Wu is an Instructional Support Project Assistant in Department of Engineering Pro- fessional Development, and also a PhD candidate in Digital Media program in Department of Curriculum and Instruction, UW-Madison. Wu’s current projects focus on dynamic web design, qualitative and quan- titative data analysis, computer language acquisition, and gamified learning management systems
Dominican curriculum. However, while the workshops did generatesignificant teacher interest in engineering, the students who devoted one week each summer todevelop, run and assist with the workshops were largely required to pay their own way. After theinitial enthusiasm of performing such an outreach wore off, it was determined that this model isfinancially unsustainable. Given the great desire on the part of the Dominican teachers to haveaccess to continuing education, it was determined that methods of bringing content to theteachers through online modules would be investigated, as it has a great potential to make a largeimpact without incurring considerable expenditures.Distance Education--Assessing the Scale and GoalsArger recites the promise of
- sistence. The other is on the factors that promote persistence and success in retention of undergraduate students in engineering. He was a coauthor for best paper award in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2013.Mrs. Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University Lindy Hamilton Mayled is a PhD candidate at Grand Canyon University. She is pursuing her PhD in Psychology of Learning, Education, and Technology. Her background in in K-12 education where she has served as a high school science teacher, Instructional and Curriculum Coach, and Assistant Principal. Her research and areas of interest are in improving STEM educational outcomes for Low-SES students through the integration of active learning and technology
, representing an overall decline of 13% since 2000 3. Thebreakdown of these SET courses paints a bleaker picture with a more worryingdecline in acceptance to engineering and computing programmes. The rise inconstruction courses due the success of the building boom helps to mask the seriousdecline in the uptake of STEM courses. This has lead to a 10 % decline inEngineering and Technology graduates between 2005 and 2006 3. Page 15.273.4 Figure 3History of Technology educationTechnology was introduced into the second-level curriculum at Junior Cycle (12-15yrs – pre leaving Certificate) as a standalone subject in 1989 to equip
CyberAmbassadors project(Award #1730137), which seeks to provide training in communications, teamwork, andleadership skills in order to advance multidisciplinary, computationally-intensive research inscience and engineering.The CyberAmbassadors project received 3 years of funding from the National ScienceFoundation to pursue the following objectives: Objective 1: Develop Curriculum. New training materials will be developed with a focus on professional skills (communications, teamwork, leadership) within the context of large scale, multi-disciplinary, computational research across science and engineering. The curriculum will be developed in consultation with an External Advisory Board of CI Professionals and domain experts
University Keith D. Hjelmstad is Professor of Civil Engineering in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University.Mrs. Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University Lindy Hamilton Mayled is a PhD candidate at Grand Canyon University. She is pursuing her PhD in Psychology of Learning, Education, and Technology. Her background in in K-12 education where she has served as a high school science teacher, Instructional and Curriculum Coach, and Assistant Principal. Her research and areas of interest are in improving STEM educational outcomes for Low-SES students through the integration of active learning and technology-enabled frequent feedback. She currently works as the
of / deploying / improving / problems facing / limitations to / works done in / understanding / relationships between / roles of / expanding.7) An extra criterion was included for gray literature because we found evidence that most professional development workshops in sub-Saharan Africa are posted on websites and not on peer-reviewed articles. 4Table 1. Search string keywords, synonyms, and justificationsKeywords Synonyms JustificationPROFESSIONAL Training, Workshop, These synonyms were suggested by experts in the field as well as educators who haveDEVELOPMENT Curriculum, Project undergone one or
allowed for more formal training in onlinepedagogy, but there is still area for growth in the quality of course design. As the push foronline educational opportunities continues to grow and the demand for quality increases, WPIhas invested in instructional design resources to help develop online courses through acollaborative design model, moving away from instructors developing their coursesautonomously and in seclusion. Adopting a collaborative course design model requires a culturalshift for faculty in how they approach their course design and facilitation processes. Instructorswho have participated in the quality design in online courses pilot program have been targeted towork one-on-one with an instructional designer to work in collaborative