Delson, Ph.D. is an Associated Teaching Professor at the University of California at San Diego. He received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and his interests include robotics, biomedical devices, product design, and engineering education. He was a co-founder and past president of Coactive Drive Corporation (currently General Vibration Corp.), a company that provides haptics and force feed- back solutions. He is currently co-founder of eGrove Education Inc. which develops educational software for spatial visualization. He teaches hands-on design and entrepreneurship courses. His interests in engi- neering education include increasing student motivation, teamwork, and integration of theory into design
. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Physics at Franklin W. Olin College of En- gineering. She earned her B.S. degree in Physics from Yale University in 1995 and her Ph. D. degree in Biological Physics from MIT in 2001. Dr. Zastavker’s research interests lie in the field of STEM educa- tion with specific emphasis on innovative pedagogical and curricular practices at the intersection with the issues of gender and diversity. Dr. Zastavker is currently working with Dr. Stolk on an NSF-supported project to understand students’ motivational attitudes in a variety of educational environments with the goal of improving learning opportunities for students
society, the profession of engineering as a whole andperhaps most difficult, their own places in both their discipline and their profession. As acommunity, we need to develop innovative pedagogies to support all of these aspects of studentdevelopment and to understand the impacts of such pedagogies.In our work, we are exploring student construction of professional portfolios as one suchpedagogical intervention1-2. In these portfolios, students describe their preparedness forengineering practice and provide evidence of their preparedness by drawing on experiences fromacross their curriculum. These portfolios include an overarching professional statement, artifactsillustrating their engineering skills and abilities (e.g. circuit design) and
Engineering Alliance (IEA), Washington Accord [1], European Commission,Bologna Process [2] , Accreditation Board of Engineering Technology (ABET) [3], Middle StatesCommission of Higher Education (MSCHE) [4] and National Commission of AcademicAccreditation and Assessment (NCAAA) [5] are based on an Outcome-Based Education (OBE)model and require higher education institutions and engineering programs to show studentachievement in terms of established learning outcomes. It is clearly stated in multiple researchpapers published by the National Institute of Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) [25,26] andothers [6,28,29] that in many higher education institutions, actual Continual Quality Improvement(CQI) and accreditation efforts are minimally integrated
undergraduate program with little designexperience in between.In recent years, as conceptions of engineering design thinking have broadened and become morecomplex [3], the capstone-cornerstone curriculum model has been shown to be inadequate [12].Consequently, there are now programs that are taking an integrated design approach wheredesign experiences are incorporated throughout the curriculum [13], [14]. This gives students amore holistic engineering design experience, allows time for design thinking to develop, andexposes students to various design scenarios. For example, the biomedical engineeringdepartment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison requires that students enroll in six semestersof design courses. Students work in teams to solve a real
in undergraduate classes (problem based learning, games and simulations, etc.) as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering as well as broader engineering curriculum. In addition, she is actively engaged in the development of a variety of informal science education approaches with the goal of exciting and teaching K-12 students about regenerative medicine and its potential. Page 26.250.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Assessing the Impact of Game-Based Pedagogy on the Development
AC 2008-2814: ASSESSMENT OF A BLENDED PRODUCT LIFECYCLEMANAGEMENT COURSE UTILIZING ONLINE AND FACE-TO-FACEDELIVERY MECHANISMSDaniel Wittenborn, Purdue University Daniel Wittenborn is doctoral student in the College of Technology at Purdue University. He received a B.S. in Industrial Technology from Southeast Missouri State University and an M.S. in Computer Graphics Technology from Purdue University. While at Purdue, he has received the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award and Schroff Award. He was also named a recipient of the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship in 2007. Currently, his research interests include engineering education related to computer-aided design, manufacturing, and
Paper ID #12357Communication Class Size and Professional IdentityDr. Corey Owen, University of Saskatchewan Corey Owen received his PhD in English from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 2007. Since then, he has been teaching in the Ron and Jane Graham School of Professional Development in the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Engineering. His research focuses on issues of rhetoric, identity, and learning theory, as well as medieval ethics and literature.Prof. Debora Rolfes, University of Saskatchewan Debora Rolfes is an assistant professor in the Ron and Jane Graham School of Professional
active learning work? A review of the research,” Journal of Engineering Education, 93(3), 223-231.7. Felder, R.M. and Brent, R. (2009) "Active Learning: An Introduction." ASQ Higher Education Brief, 2(4), August 2009.8. Aglan, H.A. and Ali, S.F. (1996) “Hands-on experiences: An integral part of engineering curriculum reform,” J. of Engineering Education, 85(4), 327-330.9. Dutson, A.J., Todd, R.H., Magleby, S.P., and Sorensen, C.D. (1997) “A review of literature on teaching engineering design through project-oriented capstone courses,” J. Engineering Education, 86(1), 17-28.10. Hotaling, N., Burks Fasse, B., Bost, L.F., Hermann, C.D., and Forest, C.R. (2012) “A quantitative analysis of the effects of a
comparative judgment, integrated STEM learning, Technology & Engineering Design learning, and self-directed learning. I have taught at the middle-school, high school, and collegiate levels and am dedicated to strengthening Technology & Engineering Education.Mr. Andrew Jackson, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Andrew Jackson is currently pursuing a PhD in Technology through Purdue’s Polytechnic Institute, with an emphasis on Engineering and Technology Teacher Education. His research interests are engineering self-efficacy, motivation, and decision making. Andrew is the recipient of a 2015 Ross Fellowship from Purdue University and has been recognized as a 21st Century Fellow by the International Technology and
AC 2012-4295: HOW AWARD WINNING COURSEWARE IS IMPACTINGENGINEERING EDUCATIONDr. Flora P. McMartin, Broad-based Knowledge, LLC Flora P. McMartin is the Founder of Broad-based Knowledge, LLC (BbK) , a consulting firm focused on assisting educators in their evaluation of the use and deployment of technology assisted teaching and learning. Throughout her career, she as served as an External Evaluator for a number of CCLI/TUES and NSDL-funded projects associated with community building, peer review of learning materials, faculty development, and dissemination of educational innovation. She is PI for the project ”Where have We Come From and Where are We Going? Learning Lessons and Practices from the Projects of the NDSL
Program at the University of Maryland, Dr. Eagle’s current work is on the integration of diverse perspectives to discover unique engineering de- sign spaces and on the development of multi-disciplinary courses that bring together students of multiple colleges and/or universities. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Preliminary Results of the Conceptual Fluency Approach for Introductory Thermodynamics1. IntroductionThis work-in-progress (WIP) paper presents an overview and initial results of a novel assessmentmethod for Thermodynamics that was recently adopted at the University of Maryland, labeled the
Engineering Education & Practice. 1995;121(2).3. Berthouex P.M. Honing the writing skills of engineers. Journal of Professional Issues inEngineering Education & Practice. 1996; 122(3).4. Bransford J. How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. National Academy Press;2000.5. Yalvac B, Smith H.D., Troy J.B. Promoting advanced writing skills in an upper-levelengineering class. Journal of Engineering Education (Washington, D.C.). 2007; 96(2).6. Carvill C, Smith S, Watt A, Williams J. Integrating writing into technical courses: Stepstoward incorporating communication into the engineering classroom. Proceedings of the 2002American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition
organize our discussion of the criteria that students apply to their decision making around the3 focal fields: engineering, science, and mathematics. We conclude by examining whether andhow participant decision-making exhibits ways of thinking that are common across these threedomains.Engineering CommitmentsBecause the lessons observed were a part of an engineering design curriculum, it is not surprisingthat engineering commitments were used the most often in the participants’ work. In particular,three of the common engineering commitments emerged as most relevant and useful for theseparticipants: attention to design requirements and constraints; attention to user needs; anddeveloping a practical solution. We saw little evidence of the remaining
University of Pittsburgh. She is a Professor in the Mathematical and Computer Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines. Her research interests include student assessment, K-12 outreach and equity issues. In 2000, she received a New Faculty Fellowship at the Frontiers in Education Conference and in 2006, she received the William Elgin Wickenden Award with her colleagues, Barbara Olds and Ronald Miller. Dr. Moskal is currently an associate editor for the Journal of Engineering Education.Alka Harriger, Purdue University Alka R. Harriger (harrigea@purdue.edu) joined the faculty of the Computer and Information Technology Department (CIT) at Purdue University in 1982 and is currently a Professor of
world incountries (e.g., Ethiopia, the Philippines). Key aspects of the Mobile Studio are its low cost, size,and flexibility in how it can be integrated into a course. Link: http://mobilestudio.rpi.edu/Molecular Workbench is an online environment for making models based on interactions ofmolecules and photons, and is useful for teaching and learning. Although it is hard to know thefull extent of Molecular Workbench’s impact, the developers do know it has been downloadedover 800,000 times. Ensuring that the science concepts were right is one of the key aspects ofthis resource. Link: http://mw.concord.org/modeler/On the Cutting Edge combines real and virtual professional development for geosciencefaculty, and allows them to learn the state-of-the
Education in 2016. She is a facilitator in the College Development Educators Program for new faculty at the six colleges in South-western Ontario, and contributes regularly to engineering education initiatives in Canada.Dr. Robert William Brennan, University of Calgary Robert W. Brennan has been actively involved in a wide range of national and international design ed- ucation initiatives over the past 12 years. He has served on the Canadian Design Engineering Network (CDEN) steering committee, chaired the organizing committee for the second CDEN conference (2004), chaired the Schulich School of Engineering’s first Engineering Education Summit (2007), served as an or- ganizing committee member for the CIRP International
students in Portugal found that while CSR curriculadid affect student views, there was a strong need for more coherence in how social responsibilitywas integrated into the curriculum in order to effectively put social responsibility andsustainability in the center of the college graduate’s radar screen [17].Still other studies have focused on curricular strategies to increase social responsibility and otherglobal citizenship measures. For instance, Tarrant et al. [18] found that shifting the focus of acourse to a critical social issue (sustainability) did not in and of itself guarantee an increase insocial responsibility. However, offering sustainability-focused courses abroad did produce asignificant increase in attention to social responsibility
excited about the UX design processand develop a deeper understanding about user-centered design and its value in softwaredevelopment. Considering the significance of appreciating the value of learning tasks inincreasing motivation and consequently engagement in learning [30], we emphasizeadditional life-long skills like communication, collaboration, and creative thinking. Ourultimate learning goal is to create the type of significant learning [35] that produces creativeproblem solvers that can think in integrative ways for solving real-world challenges, workingeffectively in teams and applying HCI skills in a variety of contexts. An array of differentactive learning tasks, inside and outside of classroom, were designed to achieve the
papers that assert (or sought) determination of an educational outcome as a result of adefined intervention. This paper thus presents the results of the scholarship of synthesis ratherthan the results of the scholarship of discovery. Indeed, the articles we analyze and the metricswe have developed are based on a synthesis of characteristics.The PR2OVE-IT database is intended to be a tool for translating education research results intopractical classroom use by engineering faculty who are not engaged in educational research. Assuch, the website divided into five major categories for searching and viewing information aboutarticles: interventions (instructional practices), subject/content area (content or context of thelearning environment), study
– 2008, we collected KAI scores for a total of 363 students enrolledin a core course within our Systems Engineering curriculum*. As mentioned earlier, this course isalso an elective for students in other engineering degree programs, as well as students enrolled innon-engineering degree programs, such as Management, Leadership Development, andEducation (e.g., Instructional Design). Of the total sample we analyzed, 327 students wereregistered in one of three engineering degree programs (Systems Engineering, SoftwareEngineering, or Information Science), 12 were registered in a Leadership Development degreeprogram (offered by the Management Division), and 24 had undeclared majors at the time of theKAI administration. While these last two sub-groups
stereotypical images about engineers compared to the Arizonasample. The differences found between the two studies may be attributed to the fact that theparticipants of our study were voluntary attendees of an engineering workshop, whichshowed their interest and initiative in integrating DET into elementary classrooms. Thissuggests that teachers with motivation to learn about engineering are more likely to projectengineering as a profession involving multi-faceted skills.We found significant differences based on teachers’ teaching experience, which were notevident in the Arizona sample. Teachers with more full time teaching and science teachingexperience were more likely to think that DET is important than teachers with limited ormoderate experience
Paper ID #18098The RED Teams as Institutional Mentors: Advice from the First Year of the”Revolution”Dr. Jeremi S. London, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Dr. Jeremi London is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue Uni- versity. Prior to her PhD, she worked in quality assurance and logistics roles at Anheuser-Busch and GE Healthcare, where she was responsible for ensuring consistency across processes and compliance with federal regulations. For four consecutive summers
Engineering Design (EI-100) is a first-semester 3 credit required course for everyengineering program of Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP). Course content andclassroom activities are divided into three, two-hour sessions (Modeling, Concepts, andLaboratory) per week. Students have six different EI-100 facilitators (an instructor and teachingassistant for each session). UDLAP’s engineering students have in EI-100 a great opportunity fora multidisciplinary collaborative experience. EI-100 is a team-taught course that uses active,collaborative and cooperative learning, which has been a major player in UDLAP’s efforts ofengineering education reform since 2001. However, EI-100 could be improved taking intoaccount technological advances and recent
AC 2009-611: CAREER MOTIVATIONS OF FRESHMAN ENGINEERING ANDNON-ENGINEERING STUDENTS: A GENDER STUDYMarisa Orr, Clemson University Marisa K. Orr is a doctoral candidate at Clemson University. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson in 2005. She has been an Endowed Teaching Fellow and is currently chair of the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Advisory Committee. In her research, she is studying the way that students progress through a Mechanical Engineering curriculum and terramechanics.Zahra Hazari, Clemson University Zahra Hazari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering & Science Education and the Department of Mathematical Sciences at
22.1156.6Category 7: Human-centered design is Empathic Design, basing design on knowledgeEmpathic Design gained through a connection with end users, not on preconceived ideas and assumptions. A very broad understanding of stakeholders is developed beyond scope of project by interacting with users informally and in social situations. (William, Maddie, Greg, and David)The seven categories of description resulting from the study formed an outcome space that wastwo-dimensional with distinct, but not independent, axes: “Understanding of the Users” and“Design Process and Integration” as shown in Figure 1. The axes depict complex constructs andhave scales that were derived from the categories themselves and are
and testing a Computational Capabilities Theoretical Framework.It was our intention that the emerging theoretical framework and the research results from thisproject be used for further research, curriculum decision making and classroom change. This isreflected in the schematic diagram below, where research results have informed both classroominterventions, as well as the design of subsequent stages of the research process.Figure 1: Schematic showing the overall approach to data collection and analysis. Page 15.302.42.1 Initial Industry Panel and Computational Capabilities Instructional ModelWith the goal of defining an initial set of
Paper ID #22223Influences on Variability of Perceptions of Behavior on Student EngineeringProject TeamsEmily Miller, University of Virginia Emily Miller is a graduate student in Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia. She has previously worked for the National Integrated Cyber Education and Research Center and as a researcher at the University of Virginia, Olin College of Engineering and Ohio State. Her research interests include motivation, expertise recognition, and teamwork.Prof. Reid Bailey, University of Virginia Reid Bailey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Systems and
Paper ID #6639”Learning from small numbers” of underrepresented students’ stories: Dis-cussing a method to learn about institutional structure through narrativeDr. Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alice L. Pawley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program and the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. She has a B.Eng. in chemical engineering from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering with a Ph.D. minor in women’s studies from the Uni- versity
AC 2011-2178: DEFINING ”SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING”: A COM-PARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PUBLISHED SUSTAINABILITY PRINCIPLESAND EXISTING COURSESStephen R Hoffmann, Purdue University, West Lafayette Stephen R. Hoffmann is the Assistant Head of the Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. He brings to this position a background in chemistry, and a PhD in Environmen- tal Chemistry and Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Current research involves sustainability in the curriculum: definitions, material development, and mechanisms and assessment of integration of sustainability ideals into all Engineering curricula.Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University Dr. Alice L. Pawley is an