analysis for a pilotof the SUCCESS survey (Studying Underlying Characteristics for Computing and EngineeringStudent Success). This survey was developed to measure underlying factors that may influencestudent success including personality, community, grit, thriving, identity, mindset, motivation,perceptions of faculty caring, stress, gratitude, self-control, mindfulness, and belongingness. Wemeasure these underlying factors because each engineering and computing student admitted to auniversity has clear potential for academic and personal success in their undergraduatecurriculum from admissions criteria, however, while some thrive academically, others flounder.In this project, we ask, “Why is it that highly credentialed and previously successful
nation’seconomy. The exponential growth of engineering education in India has affected the qualityof engineering graduates in terms of their employability. The National Board of Accreditation(NBA) accredits engineering programs using the Outcome-Based Education (OBE)framework. This framework has twelve graduate attributes of the ‘Washington Accord’aligned with program outcomes. This paper proposes a systems approach which consists ofinput, transformation and output towards achieving employable skills in engineers. Theprogram outcomes consisting of technical and professional skills are derived from thecompetencies required for the target roles in the industry and the graduates’ attributes.Keeping this in mind, a structured outcome-based curriculum was
Paper ID #9667Understanding Students’ Process for Solving Engineering Problems UsingEye Gaze DataYouyi Bi, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University Youyi Bi is a doctoral student in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University. He obtained his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Aerospace Manufacturing Engineering both from Beihang University, China. His research interest include decision-making and optimization in mechanical design, ergonomics and computer graphics.Tahira N Reid, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Tahira N. Reid is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of
AC 2007-972: USING TECHNOLOGY TO PROMOTE ACTIVE LEARNING INBIOMEDICAL ENGINEERINGPilar Pazos, Northwestern University Pilar Pazos is a Research Associate at the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University. She is also a researcher at VaNTH Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies. Her main areas of interest are engineering education, group decision making and applied statistics.Robert Linsenmeier, Biomedical Engineering Department and Department of Neurobiology andPhysiology, Northwestern University Robert A. Linsenmeier has a joint appointment in Biomedical Engineering in the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and in Neurobiology
Paper ID #19124Laying the Foundations of a Learning Platform for Humanitarian Engineer-ing: Methodological Approach and ResultsDr. Andrea Mazzurco, University of Queensland Andrea Mazzurco is currently an Educational Researcher at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He is part of the Enhancing Student Experience team and, in this role, is tasked to work with the engineering, architecture, and IT faculty to enhance learning and teaching in classroom and across programs. He earned his PhD at Purdue University in Engineering Education and also has a M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Paper ID #12468Sharing the Full Range of Leadership in Student Teams: Developing an In-strumentLt. Col. Brian J. Novoselich, Virginia Tech Brian Novoselich is an active duty Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army and currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. His is a former assistant profes- sor at the United States Military Academy. His research interests include capstone design teaching and assessment, undergraduate engineering student leadership development, and social network analysis.Dr. David B Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education David Knight
Paper ID #7784The Reflective Engineering Advisor: A Paradigm for Learning-Centered Stu-dent AdvisingDr. Emily L. Allen, San Jose State University Dr. Emily Allen is Associate Dean of the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering at San Jose State University. Her portfolio includes undergraduate programs and accreditation, student success programs, personnel and infrastructure, and K-14 outreach. She has been on the faculty at SJSU since earning her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 1992.Mr. Francisco Castillo, College of Engineering, San Jose State University Mr. Francisco Castillo has a
important for engineering educators torecognize students’ limited abilities to perform or recognize the need for critical evaluation.Curricula should be designed with this framework in mind to scaffold learning so that studentsare encouraged to progress through these stages of personal epistemology and so that studentsare explicitly taught the criteria for evaluation of knowledge that are used in their engineeringdisciplines.Future Research Based on these findings, it appears that that engineering students’ personalepistemologies will continue to evolve in major ways throughout their pursuit of an engineeringdegree. This is consistent with previous researchers’ theories of personal epistemologydevelopment in students1, 2, 3. These results
Paper ID #25271Board 46: Multiple intelligences and undergraduate engineering educationDr. William E. Lee III P.E., University of South Florida Dr. Lee is a professor in the Dept. of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering and has a strong interest in philosophy of mind and epistemology and how these influence engineering education. Recent research has included investigations of problem solving, the creative process, and how engineering/science education can be informed by the visual and performing arts. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Multiple Intelligences and
solve problems similarlyto engineers, but their goal is usually to explain, model or understand how the world worksaround them. Engineers, on the other hand, may solve problems with a pragmatic picture inmind. Their perceived value of discovery and information is encoded in the systems they buildrather than in scientific laws or facts.21 Engineering students frequently solve large systems withthe “big picture” in mind. Many young students in science deal with small-scale, detailedexperiments and may not be able to translate their findings into a solution with far-reachingimplications. Or, these science students may be more skeptical of what science can do for theworld than their engineering peers. These ideas may explain our measurement that
Nuclear Science and Engineering. Each individual research project is overseenby a faculty member within their lab, often with direct mentorship from a graduate student orpost-doctoral fellow. Several communication deliverables - a proposal, a conference poster, ajournal article and an oral presentation - are required throughout the year, based on eachstudent’s research.We have two principal challenges. First, our students’ numerous and varied engineeringdisciplines each possess their own underlying and often tacit reasoning patterns, habits of mind,and foundational assumptions2, see also 3-6 - all of which must be taken into account as studentscommunicate their research. Second, the tacit quality of these assumptions and mental processescreates
. Questions were reviewedand refined through a peer review process to ensure that question wording was clear. The intentof each question was described to the peer reviewers and further refinements were made. The sixquestions that were used for the protocol are: 1. Close your eyes. In your mind, picture an engineer. Picture what this engineer looks like, what they like to do, how they interact with people. 2. Can you describe this image that you pictured in your head? 3. What experiences or sources have influenced this picture? Think of all of the different influences that contributed this picture and describe them. a. If they do mention media sources… You mentioned _______(media source)...can you tell me a little
. Furthermore, engineers value habits of mind, such as persistence, that are alsoincorporated into the Criterion 3 outcomes. The differences between the characteristics thatengineers associate with tinkering and technical activities and the Criterion 3 learning outcomessuggest that the ABET criteria may need to be reviewed, discussed, or debated in light ofchanges in the profession in the innovation-driven global economy. Page 12.561.2IntroductionThe ABET Criterion 3 a-k learning outcomes have been used for a decade and have had a majorinfluence on the structuring and evaluation of engineering curricula. Consequently, we shouldexpect that the
probably a really good experience.” 2. Joining extracurricular activities. One participant described it as follows: “And then completely not engineering related, there’s a dance club that I’m doing which is nice to keep up with. So I’m not just focusing everything on engineering but be able to balance it out…I keep all my interests in mind.” 3. Having good and enjoyable classes. For example: “I just love that [engineering design] class. My teacher has been great. I’ve learned a lot, really…I really like the fact that we’re working on real projects, not just some made up. But it’s a real company that’s come in and asked us to design this new process for them, so I think that’s really cool.” 4. Meeting
, industrialengineering, and aeronautic/aerospace engineering. The participants had taken an average of4.58 (S = 2.83) college level science courses and 4.42 (S = 2.40) college level mathematicscourses.MeasuresThe overarching question of our research was “why do students want to be engineers?” We Page 24.1379.5developed a brief demographics and engineering focused survey to gather information that wefelt was necessary to answer our research question. As a team we created an initial list of items,keeping in mind the desire for the survey to be completed in about 10 minutes. After severalrounds of item development, we vetted the survey with a dean and a coordinator
conventions (“Summa cans are not suitable forSVOCs, PAHs, PCBs, microbials, radon and particulates”), were addressed through additionalresearch and the addition of new material that was more specific both in method and goals. Itwas presented with a different audience in mind, a knowledgeable client who would make ajudgment on the quality of the content, the reliability and validity of the claims (including budgetnumbers) rather than just a display of knowledge.It is possible to see Téa in the interim proposal meeting putting on the role of professionalconsulting engineer, specifically the team role she identified for herself. She sits up straight, penin hand, eyes focused on the presenter and then the clients, making notes and nodding as shelistens
) educational technology, (3) the student’s rolein the engineering college, and (4) the professor’s role in the engineering college. Theparticipants were instructed to write 10 words or phrases that come to their mind when they thinkabout each of the questions and rank their answers in the order of importance. Following theindividual questions, ten questions were discussed in a focus group. The results of the studyshowed that when it comes to evaluation of education and teaching methods, students would liketo see more opportunities to give input in the system and be more involved as part of the creationin all levels and steps. Current literature on Excellence in Engineering Education stresses theimportance of skills and knowledge but leaves out two
Paper ID #7111From Freshman Engineering Students to Practicing Professionals: Changesin Beliefs about Important Skills over TimeDr. Katherine E Winters, Virginia Tech Katherine Winters earned her PhD in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech studying the career goals and actions of early career engineering graduates. She also has BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering from BYU.Dr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia TechMs. Samantha Brunhaver, Stanford University Samantha Brunhaver is a fifth year graduate student at Stanford University. She is currently working on her PhD in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in
becoming smart.” maleOther students reflect on their experiences with peers at MT and the sort of students theyencounter on the campus. “Oh there’s just not that big of a variety of people here, and that’s just what it comes down to….It’s not that big of a deal….You could say that the kids who go here, their minds are logic based, and other people’s aren’t.” male “Sometimes in a place like this it’s harder [to have right-brained interests] because you meet a lot of left-brained people.” female “There aren’t any non-engineering students. Well there’s a couple but they’re mostly upperclassmen and it’s kinda hard, you know because they’re not where
recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References1. Borkowski, J. G., Carr, M., & Pressley, M. (1987). “Spontaneous” strategy use: Perspectives from metacognitive theory. Intelligence, 11(1), 61-75.2. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A., & Cocking, R. (1999). How people learn: Mind, brain, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Research Council.3. Chopra, S. K., Shankar, P. R., & Kummamuru, S. (2013, August). MAKE: A framework to enhance metacognitive skills of engineering students. In Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 612-617). IEEE.4. Cross, D. R., &
2006-2042: REPRESENTATION ISSUES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION:ENGINEERING ISSUES AND PARALLELS FROM THE VISUAL &PERFORMING ARTSWilliam Lee, University of South Florida Bill Lee is a Professor of Chemical Engineering with a significant interest in the practical and philosophical aspects of the educational process. He currently has several projects with faculty in the Visual and Performing Arts, exploring issues in the educational process, problem solving, and creativity.Mernet Larson, University of South Florida Mernet Larson is a Professor of Art History who has written and taught in the areas of art history, art theory, art criticism, and educational aspects of art. She is also a professional
”; applying heuristics developed from experience, “It’s a series of thin strands and thinstrands to me means small…1 mm is a good starting point I would think”; and incorporatingreal-world constraints, “In my mind I see that big, see a steel cable that big, it’s not going to beexceptionally large”.For both conceptualizing and solving the problem, Michael emphasized the importance ofviewing the problem within a real-world engineering context,Generally you have probably an expected value of what would compare it to and what I’velearned is to be reasonable…if you look at a bridge and it says its’ going to be 9 feet by 9 feet noone’s going to believe that. If you don’t compare your answers you’re probably going to get itwrong to what you know in real
both basic sciences and engineering disciplines. Participant 5 “…I think a good tissue engineer is not purely an engineer and not purely a basic scientist. It's someone who straddles both fields or straddles multiple fields. Whether there's a camp of people that are developmental in training but see value in engineering approaches to either answering developmental questions or trying to harness developmental programs for tissue repair applications. I think that's a great example of people who care and are invested in biology but are also thinking about modulating or controlling those biologies for something translational. In my mind, people who can do that, who see value in both sides and can speak the speak of both sides
experience as an essential component when developing expertisedespite differences in perceptions of whether intuition can be learned. Participants also describedimprovements in their judgement, including the speed and accuracy of decision making, throughexperience. Terms such as “gut-feeling” were used to describe how their current judgement anddecision-making compares to their earlier career selves. These results are well-aligned with theliterature on expertise and decision making, which can be used to identify the role of engineeringintuition in future interviews. Our work going forward will be sure to keep in mind alternateexplanations to our existing and future data and seek to understand the definition and context-specificity of engineering
across the learning cycle.Because of the more balanced profile of the engineering technology students, this population isexpected to have a greater awareness of and appreciation for diversity in approaches to learningand problem solving. One implication is that a team of engineering technology students workingon a project is more likely than a team of engineering students to identify multiple approaches toa task or problem. Given the profile of the engineering students, they are more likely to be like-minded in problem solving and learning. There is a growing body of literature (see for exampleLeonard and Strauss14) that suggests organizations benefit when individuals are comfortable andcompetent at working with diversity in problem solving
Paper ID #24665Smartness in Engineering Culture: An Interdisciplinary DialogueDr. Emily Dringenberg, Ohio State University Dr. Dringenberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Ohio State Uni- versity. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Kansas State ’08), a M.S. in Industrial Engineering (Purdue ’14) and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education (Purdue ’15). Her team, Beliefs in Engineering Re- search Group (BERG) utilizes qualitative methods to explore beliefs in engineering. Her research has an overarching goal of leveraging engineering education research to shift the culture of
Paper ID #15716Abstraction Thresholds in Undergraduate Electrical Engineering CurriculaDr. Lance C. Perez, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Dr. Lance C. P´erez received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he directs the Perceptual Systems Research Group. His research interests include information, video and signal processing, engineered healthcare and engineering education.Dr. Presentacion Rivera-Reyes
shouldalso encourage students to participate in co-ops, internships, and research opportunities thatprovide both mastery and vicarious experiences. Exposure to engineers and what engineers dohelps students to envision and realize their capabilities as future engineers. Recognizing theinfluence of social messages, instructors could be more mindful in providing feedback and/orcomments regarding students’ work and abilities. Further examination of the sources ofengineering self-efficacy is recommended to understand how students’ perceptions of their Page 26.1386.14experiences relate to their achievement and retention in engineering
student uses an understanding of constantsupplied power to the heater system to assume constant energy transfer into the process fluid.The student reasons through the physical system in his/her mind, a useful tool for practicingengineers. Engineering world codes tended to persist longer in the broader dialogue as it callsupon a deep understanding of processes. The school world example stands in contrast to thisphysical system reasoning. Representativeness resulted in students forming an idea of what thesolution should look like early in the problem-solving process. The example in Table 1 mentionsΔT log mean, a common solution to undergraduate heat transfer problems. School world codestended to be short and require less dialogue. Hybrid world
Paper ID #12114Connections between Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Problem SolvingStrategies and Perceptions of Engineering ProblemsCatherine D. McGough, Clemson University Catherine McGough is currently a graduate research assistant in Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University. She obtained her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University in 2014. Her research interests are in undergraduate engineering student motivations and undergraduate engineer- ing problem solving skill development and strategies.Adam Kirn, Univeristy of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Assistant Professor of Engineering