underdevelopedarea of design research (Goldschmidt et al., 2014). Here, ‘coaching’ refer to the process ofadvice-giving in a design review, and coaches refer to the individuals participating in the advice-giving situation (e.g., teachers, experts, stakeholders, and peers). Goldschmidt et al. (2010) notethat the coaching that occurs during a design review is an understudied “black box” representinga coach’s personal style and accumulated wisdom. Much of the existing work is based onarchitecture design crits although recent work supported a global and cross-disciplinarycollaboration to “analyze design reviews across disciplines” (Adams & Siddiqui, 2016).1.1 Three aspects of design coaching - functions, contributions, and rolesFigure 1 summarizes prior
and methods; MEMS synthesis and computer-aided design; artificial intelligence and decision and expert systems; and gender/ethnic equity. Dr. Agogino has authored over two hundred peer-reviewed publications in these subject areas. She is a member of AAAI, AAAS, ASEE, ASME, AWIS, NAE and SWE and served as Chair of the AAAS section on Engineering (2001-2002). She serves on the editorial board of three professional journals and has provided service on a number of governmental, professional, and industry advisory committees, including the NSF Advisory Committee for Engineering, Engineering Directorate, (1991-96, Chair 1996-97); Guidance Committee of the ”Removing Barriers to Collaborative Research” project of the
engineering projects course at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder, Knight et al. found that students who took the coursedemonstrated increased retention when compared with their peers who did not take the course [3].When Knight et al. discussed possible explanations for this increased retention, they attributed itto “the impact of active hands-on pedagogy, creation of student learning communities, an earlyexperience on the human side of engineering, self-directed acquisition of knowledge by students,instructor mentoring, and the success orientation of the course” [3]. It has been shown that ifstudents have a strong, positive conviction about their knowledge in engineering, then they aremore likely to succeed academically in the specific subject, as
method of addressing the issue of variance reduction due to group evaluation inthis type of projects course is well treated by Earle and Wood12. To determine individual gradesfrom group efforts, they use a nomograph in conjunction with (a) student assigned values ofpercent contribution for each member of their own group, and (b) an overall team grade assignedby the instructor. This assumes, of course, that the students provide an honest assessment oftheir peers, and on the whole this would seem to be a reasonable assumption if it is done “in theblind”. To evaluate the initial project proposals, we used a similar concept but did not use thesame approach. We had the students rank the project proposal presentations and the instructorprovided his
which we may develop innovativeeducational approaches to capturing, archiving, and projecting pivotal concepts in support of and incollaboration with teaching faculty. A Concept Vignette may be embodied through video media, but italso may be embodied in many other forms, such as artistic renderings, poetic verse, writings, etc. Figure2d illustrates the fourth dimension of the 4D Big-D pedagogy. The fourth dimension cannot be readilyvisualized, but instead embodies the extra-curricular and outside the classroom activities that arestrategically developed and coordinated to enrich design in the students’ experiences.II.2 Pedagogical UnderpinningsEngineering education continues to change as we encounter more interdisciplinary learning and
changes to the document to indicate the newer version of a tool now being used. I had no clue who he was, but he was completely self-sufficient.The original developer of this artifact intended it to be a static personal archive, yet it supportedsocial engagement between engineers and eventually produced a powerful tool for his peers. Itwas adopted by many software engineers at the company, and it is now common practice forpeople to create their own similar documents when starting a project.Workflow Management Software. Cizus uses a workflow management software package,Athena, to assign work to individuals, track the progress of projects, and store processdocumentation. Athena is used by employees at every level of the startup as a crux
driven by the following research questions: 1. How does extant literature in management characterize intuition? 2. How does extant literature in management portray the value of intuition?Method & CodingTo answer our research questions, we conducted a systematic review utilizing recommendationsfrom PRISMA (2018) to guide our methodological decisions. The method and exclusion criteriawe used are summarized in Figure 1. To establish a reasonable scope for this project, we limitedour database searching to ERIC and PsycINFO. ERIC is a widely-used database for full-texteducation literature and resources, which is well aligned with our research in engineeringeducation. PsycINFO was also searched because of its vast coverage of peer
Paper ID #27458Beyond Trial & Error: Iteration-to-Learn using Computational Paper Craftsin a STEAM Camp for GirlsColin Dixon, Concord Consortium Colin Dixon holds a Ph.D. in Learning & Mind Sciences from the University of California, Davis. He researches the development of STEM practices and agency among young people creating things to use and share with the world. He writes about equity and identity in making and engineering, the role of community in science learning, and how youth leverage interests and experiences within STEM education.Dr. Corey T. Schimpf, The Concord Consoritum Corey Schimpf is a Learning
products arebeing developed through such principles. Examples include open-source 3D printers [15],electronics prototyping platforms [16], cell phones [17], cars [18], prosthetics [19], machinetools, robots, and other socially relevant design projects [20].As alluded to before, in the era of Globalization 3, new organizational structures based on self-organizing communities are emerging to complement traditional hierarchies. According toTapscott and Williams [8], the new principles for success in Globalization 3 are a) openness toexternal ideas, b) individuals as peers, c) sharing of intellectual property, and d) global action. Insuch emerging organizations, individual success is defined by the recognition gained throughcontributions towards a
. thoroughlydescribes graphical communication of parts, but does not mention verbal descriptions.2 TheMechanical Design Process by Ullman briefly mentions that parts can be described semanticallyand that teams must communicate to collaborate, but does not elaborate on semanticrepresentations.3 Verbal descriptions of parts seem to lie outside the typical curricular materialsfor engineering.In a previous study we identified that students had difficulty communicating design ideas withtheir peers on design teams.4 This difficulty occurred during sketching and verbal descriptions ofparts and assemblies. Students’ difficulties with verbal communication directly interfered withtheir ability to work productively together.In this study we examine the verbal aspect of
Preliminary programming of a new analysis tool o Preliminary implementation of a new process/tool • Compose a report of project progress and develop a proposal for further implementation Design of principal design solution documentation • Present project progress and proposal to peers • Write reflective learning essayThrough the implementation of this projects, the students were able to gain first-hand experiencein dealing with real (not speculative) customers, defining project objectives and constraints,generating design alternatives, and performing a systematic selection to identify the designalternative which best fit the community partner’s needs
other concepts.As a last step in the study, each participant was asked to group their concepts into categories ofsimilar designs. The intent was for the individuals to assess the commonalities emerging from theirconcepts over their entire set. A survey question asked students: Consider your set of concepts again. Some concepts may seem related, while others are one of a kind. How many different KINDS of concepts are in your set? Write down each group of similar concepts in your set. Add a label to describe why you put them together. Make sure every concept is listed either in a group or by itself.The complete session lasted 75 minutes.Data AnalysisAll of the students completed the exercise within the time frame of the
differential equations, statistics) • Communications GPA (public speaking, English composition, technical writing) • Humanities & social sciences GPA (e.g., economics, music, philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, art, geography, foreign languages, political science, film, anthropology) • Individual course grades in o General biology (if taken) o General chemistry 1 o General physics 1 o Statics o Dynamics o Calculus 1 o Introduction to engineering o Freshmen composition • Completion of an associate degree (AA, AS, AAS) or not • Fulfilment of Minnesota Transfer Curriculum or notThe pre-engineering
Paper ID #31275Challenges in a Freshman General Education ClassDr. Michelle Maher , University of Missouri-Kansas City Dr. Michelle Maher explores student research, teaching, and disciplinary writing skill development and higher education access and equity issues.Miss Kathleen O’Shea, University of Missouri - Kansas CityDr. Jacob M Marszalek, University of Missouri-Kansas City Education: Dr. Marszalek received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, Statistics and Measurement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. Teaching: Dr. Marszalek teaches undergraduate quantitative statistics and graduate courses in
, not including travel expenses or voluntary shoptime. The total publications for the project include five peer-reviewed journalpublications [7-11] and two doctoral dissertations.Project 1 Timeline6/2012 project start7/2012 spec9/2012 prelim design1/2013 final design5/2013 build complete testing begins, iteration through 1/20144/2014 project finishedProject 2Project 2, a long-range UAV, was Design/Build/Fly project for tracking African WildDogs in Zimbabwe. Cost constraints were critical – the non-profit who approached theSchool of MME—Washington State University capstone design program, known as theIndustrial Design Clinic (IDC), had minimal money to support the project, and thecapstone clinic funded parts and materials from residual monies
meeting and write an agenda on the white board.Accepting that is up to the FA.If you would like to complete a record of each meeting, a Meeting Log Sheet is provided in the Appendixof this handbook [Available from the author by request]. If you elect to use the Meeting Log Sheet, youmight consider sharing the sheet with the team. You could also keep copies to help in your team memberperformance evaluations during the semester. Page 26.323.9Appendix ACapstone ContentClass time is scheduled each Tuesday of the semester. First Semester Capstone content covers designmethods and some professionalism materials. The latter seeks to prepare
. Now a Professor of Biology and Biomedical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech- nology, she served as the founding Director of the Rose-Hulman Center for the Practice and Scholarship of Education, and is currently the Associate Dean of Learning & Technology. Dr. Dee has given more than 60 presentations, seminars, or workshops on teaching and learning, and is a founding member of the team that gives Rose-Hulman’s ’Making Academic Change Happen’ workshop. She is an author of many peer-reviewed publications in the areas of engineering education, biomaterials, and tissue engineering. Her teaching portfolio includes courses on tissue-biomaterial interactions; fun- damental engineering analysis; capstone
Assistant in the Product Design & Development Lab at Texas Tech University. He has published multiple peer-reviewed publications and conference proceedings addressing the topics of Communication in Design, Creativity and Innovation, and Engineering Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Exploring the Relationship among Gender Composition, Activity Structure, and Brainstorming Novelty AbstractIdeation is a critical stage in the engineering design process and has substantial impacts ondownstream decision making. As a result, a better understanding of the factors that positivelycontribute to
verification and testing. To address the misunderstanding aboutprototypes and to teach the students how to get the most out of a prototype, we added a newlecture, given in Engineering Design II, that covers the general purpose of and detailed aspects ofprototyping. Students are provided sample prompts of various design problems, and are asked toselect the best sub-systems to prototype to solve the design problem.Student Performance EvaluationsStudent performance evaluations include peer- and self-evaluations of team participation andproject management. Each student is asked to write the top three contributions for each teammember, including himself or herself, and to rate each team member’s contributions using a 5-point Likert scale. The ratings are
Department of Mechanical Engineering. Ekwaro-Osire’s research interests are engineering design, wind energy, vibrations, and orthopedic biomechanics. He has supervised more than 29 doctoral and master’s students. Ekwaro-Osire was recently a Fulbright Scholar. As a Summer Faculty Fellow, he has conducted research at NASA and the Air Force Research Lab. He has published, from his research efforts, more than 150 peer-reviewed technical papers, among which 44 of these in archival journals. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the state of Texas, and industry. He is a member of Texas Tech University’s Teaching Academy, which promotes and recognizes teaching excellence at
, develop, and use cognitive tools in authentic domain activity” (p.39);that is, using tools increases cognitive activity and ability. Salomon writes of his disagreementwith Brown (above), and argues that the interaction between a human being and an intelligenttool (computer) results in a favorable “cognitive residue” (p.5) that does not result from theinteraction between a tool user and a non-intelligent tool (“situated”).7 The “cognitive residue”that results in these situations is that the use of intelligent tools may result in thinking skills beingtransferred to other dissimilar, or at least similar, situations (but the author notes that too littleresearch has been done in this area).Vygotsky’s notion that understanding is social in origin,8
to real-world expertise and mentoring from professionals in academia andindustry. HSE teams write business plans, solve real-world problems, perform testing andanalyses, build prototypes, manufacture parts, operate within budgets, and manage their projects.Each spring, HSE teams showcase their work alongside college students at the University’sUndergraduate Expo. At the conclusion of their HSE experiences, it is expected that the studentswill demonstrate proficiency in applied workforce skills, they will be more disposed to enterSTEM careers, and they will be prepared to undertake the training and education needed to enterthose careers.HSE is modeled after Michigan Technological University’s highly successful and nationallyacclaimed
results. Competitions should be "against nature" rather than against peers. Finally,for middle school students beginning design projects with a clearly outlined prototype design Page 15.371.3rather than with a "blank slate" improves engagement. Similar considerations are brieflydiscussed in project selection in a college freshman design course8.For capstone design courses (typically taken by college students in their senior year) a number ofpapers have mentioned aspects of successful design projects as part of a summary of theeffectiveness of capstone courses. The factors reported as leading to a successful project include"being viewed as
engineering.This career may vary drastically from their peers in terms of industry, specialization, project scope, orexpectations. The purpose of this study is to analyze the breadth of job responsibilities within a wide range ofmechanical engineering positions in order to gain an understanding of the typical activities a mechanicalengineer is expected to complete in the field.This study analyzed 923 job postings collected through the job search and posting site “Indeed.com”, duringa one-week period in the summer of 2020. The jobs represent various industries, geographic locations, andposition titles. Design activities were used as a guiding framework to develop an ontology of engineeringactivities. This study developed an increased understanding of the
. The main purpose of the reflective writing assignments was to understand studentperceptions of the influence of multidisciplinary collaboration on design, as well as to documenttheir experiences using digital prototyping tools.SurveyThe online survey was conducted during the final exam period, after the final designpresentations. Participation in the survey was optional. The survey consisted of eleven questions,seven of which were multiple choice, while the remaining four were descriptive. We asked theparticipants to rate the usefulness of the 3D CAD software, 3D printing and 3D scanning in themultiple-choice questions. The descriptive questions asked the students to describe theirexperiences using the 3D CAD tools, as well as with
statement challenged students to “Design a way for individuals without lotsof skill and experience skiing or snowboarding to transport themselves on snow.” The Snowproblem was adapted from prior design research.21,22 The problem statement included a shortbackground context, a needs statement, and an ideation goal. The language of the problemstatement was carefully crafted to be neutral in the sense of not encouraging either moreincremental or more radical ideas. The full problem statement is provided in Appendix A, and afuller discussion of the reasoning behind the structure of the problem statement can be found inour prior writing.13 Table 1. The framing strategies Incremental
to mentor students. I love helping them find great answers to challenging problems. (R68)3.3 Challenges in Capstone DesignResponses to the question “What are your biggest challenges regarding capstone design?” grouped intofourteen categories as shown in Table 4. The three most common categories are discussed followingTable 4. Table 4 - Categories and Content Themes Regarding Challenges in Capstone Design Category # Resp. Content Themes (n=364) (in descending order of frequency) time in general; increasing class size; instructor time needed; other student Workload/ commitments; workload; time spent reading, writing
application of remote sensing in agriculture, rangeland, and wetlands. He uses evapo-transpiration estimations from satellite images to predict sugar beet yield and quality, develops remote sensing algorithms to assess rangeland productivity, and writes Geographical Information Systems (GIS) models to map water dynamics in the Missouri Cateau wetlands. Page 11.1103.1George Seielstad, University of North Dakota Dr. George A. Seielstad is Associate Dean for Research and Innovative Projects at the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences of the University of North Dakota. In this position, he
theory.16 Self-efficacy is defined as one’sability to complete a task by taking necessary actions towards that goal.16,17 Self-efficacy haveshown signs of connection between student’s performance and persistence.18 Self-efficacy isfurther described as an amalgamation of these four traits which ultimately lead to completion of atask or a goal:171. Previous performance experiences or achievements2. Past experiences of enjoying the participation or work3. Peer/societal persuasions towards something4. Physiological scenariosThese four traits adds up to define a student’s self-efficacy. The term self-efficacy was introducedin the year of 1997.13 Various non-engineering fields have reported to use self-efficacy foranalyzing social skills, behavior
,marketing, Six Sigma and lean production, and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).The course is scheduled for three meetings times per week. One of those meetings is allocatedfor course instruction, a second is allocated for team/advisor meetings, and a third is allocated forteam meetings. Considering that the allotted instructional time is one hour per week, the goal forthese topics is to provide students a good exposure and some practice (either in the context oftheir capstone design project or a small PBL assignment such as a design challenge). Duringthese full-class instruction periods, students consider and solve unstructured problems related todesign and sustainability through case studies using visualization, writing, and