develop:1) mentorship and leadership skills, 2) skills and strategies for facilitating and monitoringgroup/team processes, 3) skills in planning, implementation and assessment, and 4) thebackground and specialty skills necessary for participation in the regional and national FIRSTcompetitions. The engineering students’ skills are actualized through field based applications inthe high-school robotics laboratory.Focusing and then building on others’ strengths and talents (both peer undergraduate studentsand the high-school students that they are working with) is the central responsibility of goodleadership and contributes to building positive, constructive and long-lasting relationships thatchange people and their institutions in positive
of the BMES-idea national student design competition and writes a quarterly column on senior design for IEEE-Pulse magazine. In 2012 he received the National Society of Professional Engineers Engineering Education Excellence Award for linking professional practice to engineering education.David B. Rank, Root Cause Consortium, LLC David has more than 28 years in the workforce with 19 of those working for Harley-Davidson, Inc.. The majority of his Harley-Davidson R experience was as their Softail R Platform Director, developing and caring for that family of motorcycles with his management team. Over the years, he has participated in international assembly bench-marking studies, manufacturing capability assessments and
meetcertain criteria. To do so, there is a formal assessment procedure. ≠ All senior projects in the College of Engineering are presented in a public forum during the Spring semester of each year. ≠ The students prepare and present the results of their projects. ≠ The audience consists of students (peers), faculty, members of the College and Departmental industrial advisory boards, and any other interested parties. ≠ After the formal presentation and question and answer period, the attendees are requested to complete an assessment form for each project. The form includes questions on content, visual aids, the presenter’s delivery, the presentation mechanism, responses to
ProcessThe literature of capstone TDR describes variations on a generally applied industry approachusing TDRs associated with design gates or phases as described above. Industry approaches aredescribed in various standards (e.g., IEEE Std. 1028-1997) appropriate for the designapplication. The TDR process is a peer evaluation of a design as it is developed and/or before itis deployed for development, fabrication or production. Peer reviewers are acquired fromindependent pools in order to provide experienced, unbiased, and objective design oversight19. Similar to spaced TDRs in industry, Wilson, Cambron, and McIntyre20 describe a capstoneTDR process that requires reviews throughout the year where students are used as independentreviewers (see also, 4
are exiting concrete operational stages andapproaching formal operations of cognitive development. Thus the design taxonomy is structuredas a workbook-style ‘skill-set’ portfolio and ‘Viewpoints’ (Figure 3). The skill-set portfolio actsas a discovery and development tool, capturing the development of the student as they progressthrough the design ‘skill-set’ portfolio. The portfolio allows students to record their progress andalso as a reference for future activities such as the ‘Viewpoints’. The design skill-set portfolioalso provides students with constructive critical feedback from self, their peers and their teacher.On completion of the skill-set portfolio students will holistically apply the skill-set to a designissue through the
National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). He is currently the President of the Southern Association of Colleges and Employers (SoACE) having presented preconference workshops and sessions during the SoACE conference each year since 2006. In his spare time Eric has authored two books; ”Ryan’s Stories: God’s Perfect Child” (self-published),”A Common Sense approach to Leadership,” is currently writing bedtime stories, and is preparing to start a murder mystery novel. Page 22.882.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Innovative Senior Project Program Partnering
technical but criticalfor the pursuit of a successful engineering career. These needed skills include: team-orientedmentality, problem solving, project planning and control, project management and writing skills,etc. The purpose of the Senior Design Project is to pull them all together and apply them towardsthe design and implementation of a project and to afford the students an opportunity to experienceteam-based design under conditions that closely resemble those that will be encountered in realworld. Students working in teams will develop and sharpen skills in team organization, timemanagement, self-discipline, and technical writing, in order to be successful in this course. Animportant goal of this course is to expose students to “hands-on
environments [35], [37], [38] to peer interactions and working onteams [28], [39], [40]. For example, belongingness has been linked to extroversion on teams,suggesting that speaking up and trying to fully participate on a team can increase sense ofbelonging [28]. Yet this can be challenging if the team is not a psychologically safe one,suggesting that psychological safety may be an antecedent for sense of belonging on teams.2.3 Psychological safety and engineering teamsPsychological safety is an emergent characteristic of teams that is of interest when discussingsense of belonging in engineering education. Edmondson defines psychological safety as a“shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking” [5, p. 354]. An individualworking on
artifact that may not behaveexactly as they predicted on paper. Due to their effectiveness, hands-on design projects areimplemented in numerous design courses across the world [3].Using 3D printing as an option allows students a technical method to prototype that is moreadvanced than simple low-fidelity models, but also safer and more accessible than constructingprototypes in a machine shop. As a result, 3D printing is used in a variety of design coursesincluding high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels of STEM education [4-6].Incorporating 3D printing into a course allows students to build upon critical thinking andproblem solving, as well as increasing writing and speaking skills [4]. However, as with mostnew technologies, teaching
need to get some basic organization details out of the way. We need to store ALL of our files in one place, and this should be the ONLY place these files are located. This will be very important as we amass more important files. This way we do not have 5 copies of the different revision levels of the same file floating about. This will mean that you should download the file before you start working on it and re- upload and over write it as soon as you finish working on it. Do not store any files that others will need on your computer always keep them in netfiles. I have seen the hassle that this can save especially when we get to
, water,materials). They were asked to put this information into a table using Excel and to write aparagraph discussing which alternative was chosen as their preferred alternative and why. These Page 24.811.7homework assignments given in conjunction with lectures on the engineering design cycleprovided the students with the implementation of the engineering design cycle throughout thecourse and helped guide them in designing their sustainable home project.The ResultsSurvey Assessment 1: PRE and POST learningAt the beginning and end of the second year of offering this thematic approach to EngineeringDesign, students were assessed with a short survey
scienceeducation. Using the search terms “active learning,” “teaching, ” “learning,” and “team-based learning” in any field, the searched was focused on articles published in peer-reviewed journals between January 1993 and December 2013. A 20-year period wasselected intentionally in order to include relevant work related to cooperative learning donein the late 90´s, and to achieve saturation. In the initial search 49 articles were found.Analyzing the full text of every article refined the search. The final articles were chosen fordemonstrating all the following selection criteria: 1. The research must have used a type of active learning in the theoretical framework. 2. The research was focused on improving student learning in the engineering
werefound in the frequency that some ethical topics were taught among individuals in differentdisciplines, as summarized in Table 4. Overall, civil engineering capstone design instructorsreported a higher number of ethics topics as compared to peers in electrical or mechanicalengineering. This may indicate a greater overall focus on ethics in civil engineering capstonedesign courses.Table 4. Percentage of senior capstone design instructors who teach different ethics topics Ethics-Related Topic Civil Mechanical Electrical Chi test p value Sustainability 78 43 35 <0.0001 Ethical failures/disaster 73 51 41 0.01
boards or course newsletters can be used tocelebrate school athletic victories, student achievement and other times to cheer collectively as aclass. The instructor of a flipped classroom needs to respond to student questions bycommunicating clearly and respectfully with them. Community building is further enhancedwhen instructors actively participate in student discussions and regularly reach out to those whoneed additional support, guidance, and encouragement.Instructors should also develop group activities that foster an online community and allowstudents to engage their peers. Setting up small groups of three to five students early in thesemester allows them to assume responsibility for supportive mentoring and for summarizingkey points of a
level of academicachievement (Strimel et al., 2018). The purpose of these programs can often be viewed asproviding students with the information necessary to ensure the proper selection of anengineering discipline-specific major and the knowledge and skills necessary for success in theirselected major. The first-year engineering curriculum is often designed to reinforce basic scienceand mathematics concepts while developing a student’s engineering design capabilities.According to Strimel et al. (2018), the typical core requirements during a student’s first yearincludes physics, chemistry, multiple levels of calculus, and writing/composition as well as anengineering orientation seminar and multiple engineering courses focused on design
(Outcome K). Each project is involved in design a system, prototype,components or a process to address an engineering problem (Outcome C). The projects aremostly multidisciplinary (occasionally single-discipline) and the students with differentbackgrounds form a team to work on their project (Outcome D).The first phase of each project is to understand, formulate the problem and the second phase is topropose solutions. All IRE students are required to complete these two phases (Outcome E). Abig portion of project deliverables is three to four presentations and final technical report. Aftereach presentation, the students are given feedback from all faculty and peers regarding bothpresentation and technical writing skills. Each section of their final
including the presentation and discussion (10%) • The final paper based on the writing, figures, references and appendices (20%) • The technical evaluation based on the content of the final paper (20%) • The prototype / proof of concept based on its purpose, method, and results (10%). Page 25.11.3Approximately half of the deliverable grades focus on the design process and outcomes of thestudent projects while the other half focus on the students’ abilities to communicate and discusstheir ideas. The grading juries assign these scores. Homework assignments, attendance, classparticipation, and peer review scores determine the last 20% of the
males. The second offering, which occurred September to December of 2013, enrolled fivestudents, including three females and two males.Given the range of course experience and potentially non-academic design experience that waspossible in a course like this, the materials and activities were designed to be meaningful andrelevant to all students, and thus to be useful while navigating both college and professionalexperiences. Students who participated in the research groups developed a representation of theirown design process based on the activities described below, and had the opportunity to reflect onhow these activities could be integrated into a personal vision of design both individually and viainteractions with their peers in the research
ask the studentsto reflect on their own experiences on the engineering teams and teams in other classes. We alsoask students to assess and rank at various stages of the training program: What they think of their individual communication skills overall, which we define as the ability to write, speak and present. What’s most important for their team to succeed on the project: overall communication skills, overall engineering capabilities, or the ability to meet deadlines. What’s most important to them as a team member: succeeding, having open communication, or getting along with their team members. What role they expect of their team leader and fellow members.The student responses allow us to assess the
observe 21. Students are told to write down their observations and share their thoughts withthe class. Because no wrong answer exists, all plausible observations are respected. However,students are encouraged to critique the observations of their peers and propose alternativesolutions based on the class discussion. The professor does not lecture on the topic. Instead, thestudents are the main contributors to learning while the professor gently guides the investigativeclass discussion following a prepared script. A lesson script example can be seen in 21. Asstudents begin to ask more questions, a more detailed analysis is achieved. While this particularexample is focused on biology, the inquiry-based learning module can be modified to address
’ notebook supported the students’learning by making their problem solving processes explicit and visible. In addition,Jensen and Harris14 demonstrated that students in a college communication class believedthat notebooks—that included information such as daily journal entries, preliminaryspeech ideas, peer feedback, outlines of speeches, etc.—supported their learning byhelping them identify key concepts in class and relate the course material to daily life.Methods In order to explore the breadth of ways in which students and teachers use and interpretengineering notebooks, we examined the use of engineering notebooks in 3 high-schoolengineering classes. Students in each class were expected to maintain an engineeringnotebook. Each class was taught
AC 2009-136: A COMMON STANDARD FOR ALL: USING ABUSINESS-ORIENTED APPROACH TO CAPSTONE DESIGNJohn K. Estell, Ohio Northern University John K. Estell is Chair of the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department, and Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, at Ohio Northern University. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His areas of research include simplifying the outcomes assessment process, first-year engineering instruction, and the pedagogical aspects of writing computer games. Dr. Estell is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ACM, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon.Juliet
what is important or relevant rather than just going through theengineering Learners motions and having [to write] answers to questions or preciselydesign define bullet points to hit.”courses Project /throughout “They allow us to take time to self evaluate and instill change for Design /your future projects.” Assignmentcurriculum? “Instructors would know what their students are thinking about [for] Class / the course or project. They could improve some points for the next Educator project
). Page 15.1292.6Power is supplied by a 6V battery to power the controller and their logic Ics. An active sensor will be ~ 6V(including logic “1”) and an inactive sensor will be ~0V (indicating “0”). The controller circuit is constructedon a breadboard and connected to the elevator using a ribbon cable with a specified writing pin configuration. Figure 4 Design of a model elevator controller project (a) paper design (not to scale) (b) actual designEgg Mover ProjectThe requirement of this project to design build, and demonstrate a device that will pick up, move and place araw grade “A” large egg. To start the test, the egg is placed on a spot 2.4 m from a 2 x 6 (38mm x 140mm)that is on edge. The engineering object is to pick up the egg, move it
ability to external sources. The mastery goal isvery fluid, as it can change from task to task.23 Research has suggested that adolescent femalesexhibit higher mastery goals, while males typically exhibit higher performance goals.22,23 This canbe detrimental for males if their focus shifts too heavily toward maintaining their public imagerather than learning the material.22 Females focus more heavily on mastery of the material toincrease their self-efficacy perception over time.22,24 However, females are also inherently exposedto a “stereotype threat”. Stereotype threats are the feeling of judgement by peers based on societalstereotypes.16,25 This phenomena causes students to fear doing poorly for the fact that they feelthey may be thereafter
senior design requirement. However, evaluating these documents posesdifficulty for faculty and other reviewers due to the variability in the types, nature andcomplexity of projects and the reviewers’ own style of writing and reviewing documents.Developing tools to limit how these variables affect document assessments is difficult, especiallywhile trying to retain flexibility to address a wide variety of project types. Page 26.1747.2Capstone projects have been the focus of many studies. Studies focused on assessment ofcapstone projects have looked at teamwork, peer evaluations, presentations, reports, andtechnical competency2. Assessment
Paper ID #34313Work in Progress: Using Cost-effective Educational Robotics Kits inEngineering EducationMs. Caroline Grace Sawatzki, Saginaw Valley State University Caroline Sawatzki is a senior in the Electrical & Computer Engineering program at Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU), and has adopted a double minor in Mathematics and Japanese. Caroline expresses her love for helping her peers succeed academically through her employment at the SVSU Writing Center, where she assists students in the development of their professional and research writing skills. During her undergraduate education, Caroline has visited
provide an environment where social modeling can take place. Similarly, the effectsof social persuasion may be attenuated in a remote setting where the connection betweenstudents and instructor is more difficult to forge; and where it is more difficult to connectstudents with their peers. Lastly, the transition to remote instruction meant a significant portionof the student body were not co-located on the university campus; many remained at home withtheir parents. While this means some have the support of their parents during the academic term,not all home environments are the same, and students who are not on campus have little access toall the supports that have been put in place to help students succeed at university. Clearly then,remote
, Thames & Phelps, 2008; Gess-Newsome, 1999; Grossman, 1990). The educator’s ability to explainand show should not be tacit knowledge. According to Shulman (1986; 1987) an effective educatorshould be “held responsible for explaining what they do and why they do it, to their students, theircommunities, and their peers” (Shulman, 1987, p. 12). In design education, this involves the transitioningof the design educators from grasping the subject matter themselves so that they can elucidate it from thestudents “in new ways, reorganize and partition it, cloth it in activities and emotions, in metaphors andexercises, and in examples and demonstrations” (p. 13).The emphasis in the development of the PCK framework is on transformative comprehension
, incorporating design work, self-assessmentand reflection, prototyping and creation, all with supervision and support. Another corecomponent is empowered peer-to-peer mentoring: PRL course assistants (CAs) are graduatestudents who have themselves been burnished in the cauldron of the PRL. They understand theelation of success and the opportunity within failure – and know how to turn both into learningmoments for students. The PRL CAs are guided by four faculty, and these groups collectivelyform a community of practice with mixed levels of experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.Students learn from faculty, CAs, and peers; CAs learn from faculty, students, and other CAs;and faculty learn from students, CAs, and each other. This forms a rich fabric