learned and demonstrate critical thinking and where instructors assessedstudent responses using a critical thinking rubric.The purpose of this paper is to describe a recently developed and implemented application of theEFFECTs methodology, explaining key aspects of the pedagogical rationale with specificlearning activities and student outcomes. The materials that were provided to students areprovided in this paper, along with descriptions and discussion of observed benefits andchallenges associated with implementing an EFFECTs-oriented design project in a first yearintroductory engineering course, so that engineering educators can evaluate the suitability ofimplementing EFFECTs in their own courses.IntroductionBig class sizes, students with
22.1353.6engineer. This One Minute Engineer presentation is designed to give students an opportunity toshow what they are interested in and to get used to speaking in front of a class. Students eachyear are given a design project and a research paper. The design project has always been a groupproject to enforce the importance of teamwork in engineering and give students a chance to workin groups. Topics of the design project have been unique each year, with topics ranging fromdesigning a racing team’s garage, to designing a “green” home system, to designing a solution tocleaning up the BP oil spill. The research paper has been a group paper based on the designproject, except for 2010 when the paper was changed to a different topic and made an
doctoral degrees in Civil En- gineering from North Carolina State University in the USA. Her disciplinary research interests lie in the area of sustainability in asphalt pavements using material considerations, green technologies, and efficient pavement preservation techniques. Her doctoral work focused on improving the performance of recycled asphalt pavements using warm mix asphalt additives. As a postdoctoral scholar at North Carolina State University, she worked on several NCDOT sponsored research projects including developing specifica- tions for crack sealant application and performing field measurements of asphalt emulsion application in tack coats and chip seals. Her undergraduate teaching experience includes
. Page 22.1609.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Using Arduino as a Platform for Programming, Design and Measurement in a Freshman Engineering CourseAbstract Arduino is a compact, inexpensive, open-source electronics prototyping platform builtaround an Atmel AVR microcontroller. The features, cost, and small size makes Arduino apotent tool teaching as well as practical device use in engineering projects. This paper reports onadapting the Living with the Lab (LWTL) curriculum to the Arduino platform. LWTL wasdeveloped with the Boe-Bot mobile robotics platform and the Basic Stamp microcontroller. TheArduino is more modern and has better technical capabilities, but
. Studentsurveys conducted at two different institutions show why students select to become engineers andtheir preference for the different course components.Introduction “Introduction to Engineering” is a core course given to freshmen students of all engineeringdisciplines. The course aims to familiarize students with the engineering profession, the differentengineering disciplines, the design process for exploratory projects, the work in interdisciplinaryteams, the ethics and professional behavior, the lifelong learning, the written and oral presentationof technical concepts, and problem solving. As curriculum often changes, an online research wasconducted on the most current catalogs (2018-2019) of 182 higher education institutions offeringdegrees in
as continuing to trackstudent outcomes over multiple years (as few studies include information beyond the first-year ofengineering study). The project studies how students perceive, select, and utilize academicopportunities and experiences (during their initial years of engineering study) with respect totheir long-term career goals through the major selection process. The primary research objectiveswere to: 1. Identify specific parameters (e.g., FYE course content, technical engineering electives, inside and outside the classroom major exploration opportunities) that influence major discernment using both quantitative and open-ended qualitative data. 2. Monitor major changes of students through the completion of sophomore year
through a summer program at thecompletion of their freshman year with one-on-one mentoring with faculty members for thatsummer, their sophomore year, and the summer after their sophomore year. The first offering ofthis program occurred during summer of 2009 with three engineering faculty members selectedto provide guidance to four freshmen. The students had the opportunity to not only work on theirprojects, but also to learn about projects that other students and faculty were doing in the basicsciences. This paper will present the early results of this program, both for the summer portionand the on-going mentoring relationships. Assessment methods include student performance intheir sophomore classes and qualitative assessment of student
holistic “cradle to grave” approach Do things right, having decided the right thing to do Beware cost reduction masquerading as value engineering Practice what you preachThe third lecture builds on Egan Review Skills for Sustainable Communities7. This is included tostimulate student thinking about their skills development, the other professions who they may beworking with in the future and to support their year-long first year design project which is Page 14.800.5looking at conceptual design of an eco-town for 20 000 people.The Egan Review presents seven components that are core to realising a sustainable community.They are
management, humanitarian and healthcare logistics, healthcare/medical in- formatics, and data standards. He has directed several projects funded by the National Science Foundation, Air Force Research Lab, and Wal-Mart Stores.Ms. Julia Leeds Page 26.1008.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Interactive Simulation for Introducing Industrial EngineeringAbstractThis study represents a simulation-based Industrial Engineering (IE) challenge activity in anintroduction-to-engineering course. The course is developed for incoming freshman students toraise their understanding of IE
Engineering Manager for Hewlett-Packard Company. She earned a bachelor’s of science degree from the University of Notre Dame, her Ph.D. from Baylor College of Medicine, and a master’s in business administration from Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. Zerda repre- sents the University of Houston on the board of the Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering (TAME) and serves as current Board Chair.Diana G. de la Rosa-Pohl, University of Houston Diana de la Rosa-Pohl has been a lecturer in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Hous- ton since 2003. She has worked with the PROMES program to develop project-based learning courses for the first-year curriculum. Currently, she is developing and
combinations of certain strengths succeed and others don't. Teamsfor a final project (design, construction, and race of solar powered cars) were formed based uponan understanding of conative strengths and team synergy gained from the interim project. Resultsfrom peer evaluations of teamwork and teammate satisfaction on the solar car project show thatstudents were highly satisfied with the conative approach.IntroductionABET outcome Criterion 3 (d) requires that universities teach students to function productivelyas part of a multidisciplinary team. This study analyzes the effectiveness of teaching students tounderstand their instinctive behavioral strengths in regards to teamwork activities with the hopethat this understanding leads to increased team
administration and human resource development from Texas A&M University. Her research interests include underrepresented populations in higher education, cultural practices and teaching and their impact on education for Hispanic students, women and minorities in engineering.Miss Rocio Chavez-Telleria, Universidad Panamericana Special Projects and Planning Specialist at the Center for Innovation in Education at Universidad Panamer- icana. Responsible for enhancing teaching talent and innovation among faculty through advisory for in- novation projects design and implementation at different levels: one-on-one with professors, academies, schools and campus. Education advisor for Qualitas of Life Foundation, a non-profit
and the overallgrade of the student which serves as a factor to determine student’s success in a classroom.First year engineering curriculum includes two semester course sequence: Fundamentals ofEngineering I (offered in the first semester) and Fundamentals of Engineering II (offered in thesecond semester). Data is presented from the first semester course offered at the regional campusof a large, research institution. Fundamentals of Engineering I course include the followingsections as three main components of the coursework. a) Introduction to data analysis tool suchas Microsoft Excel, b) Computer programming in MATLAB, and c) Design project. Teamworkand collaboration are heavily weighted for the assessment of student performance in the
the examination of the failure of theskywalk at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City. This failure is beneficial for incomingstudents because the technical reason for the failure is straightforward and easily understood.However, understanding how the deficient walkway supports were allowed to be constructed andinstalled is challenging. Since most incoming students have little knowledge of the complexrelationship of the design, fabrication, and construction steps in projects, some instruction in theroles and responsibilities of each entity is presented and discussed with the students at thebeginning of this work.In prior use of this case study in the Introduction to Engineering course, students were asked toread published papers reporting on
andcomponent level studies. After the second year of study, analog and digital systems were startedto be covered and eventually students were doing a senior design project to practice theirknowledge by creating an applicable Electrical Engineering system. While the old approach wasconsistent with most of the other regional EE programs and it has a logical stackable development,it is postponing the engaging courses and practices of EE program to upper-division courses.Because of this, the lower division EE program was less interesting and ultimately lowered theretention rate. In a survey conducted among engineering programs at the California StateUniversity San Marcos, before implementing the new courses in this study, the EE students had20% less sense
- sign course, he has taught courses in mechatronics, controls, vibrations, dynamics and robotics as well as senior design. Page 24.150.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 An Analysis of First Year Students’ Changing Perceptions of Engineering Design and PracticeIntroductionA vast body of literature is available to guide freshman engineering introductory courses. Thispaper builds on three key pillars within the literature that focus on 1) project-oriented learning, 2)team-based learning, and 3) freshman design experiences. Design experiences at
in project-based courses.Dr. Merredith D Portsmore, Tufts University Dr. Merredith Portsmore is the Associate Director for Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Out- reach (www.ceeo.tufts.edu). Merredith received all four of her degrees from Tufts (B.A. English, B.S. Mechanical Engineering, M.A. Education, PhD in Engineering Education). Her research interests focus on how children engage in designing and constructing solutions to engineering design problems and eval- uating students’ design artifacts. Her outreach work focuses on creating resources for K-12 educators to support engineering education in the classroom. She is also the founder of STOMP (stompnetwork.org), and LEGOengineering.com
, there has been noshop training provided to the students to teach them safe and effective fabrication skills eventhough the projects require a wide range of fabrication techniques. Around 320 students areenrolled in the fall semester, 2007. These students are distributed into different lab sections. Eachof the labs consists of 30 students divided up into two different design teams of 15 studentsrespectively. Each lab is run by an instructor with the help of two undergraduate studentassistants (SAs). During the spring and fall semesters of 2007, a hands-on fabrication shop andspecialized training program was developed and implemented by the undergraduate teachingstaff. They applied the Total Quality Management (TQM) approach from business to
degree at University of Florida in Environmental Engineer- ing. She has over 8 years of experience developing international and national research experiences for STEM majors, as well as project management.Mr. Yin Huang, Vanderbilt University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work-in-Progress: An Evaluation of a First Year Chemical Engineering Module on Students’ Curiosity & ConnectivityAbstractThis project is a work in progress. This project will focus on a Chemical Engineering moduleof Introduction to Engineering. In the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Dept., two sectionsof the course have been offered previously. The style of the
. Diandra J. Prescod , Pennsylvania State UniversityMr. Christopher T. Belser, University of Central Florida Christopher T. Belser is a doctoral student in Counselor Education and Supervision at the University of Central Florida. He serves as a Graduate Teaching Associate for an NSF-funded project with the goal of recruiting and retaining undergraduates into STEM fields. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Recruiting Undecided Admits to Pursue a STEM DegreeAbstractThis paper details the use of evidence based practices in a strategic effort to recruit, and thenretain, undecided admits into a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)learning community designed to
scheduled for one lecture session and two two-hour lab/workshops per week for a total of threecredits. Consistent with many “freshman support” programs at other universities, the goals ofthe course are to introduce the midshipmen to the “big picture” of the major for context; tointroduce the midshipmen to each other and develop a mutual support network; and, to provide“tools” for success in follow-on courses. These tools include technical writing, critical thinking,design process, project management, computer programming and software, and engineeringdrafting skills. There is a significant project-based learning (PBL) component to the course. Theassignments include both individual and team submittals. The double “lab” schedule allowsmuch of the
sustainability. Prior to joining the JMU Engineering faculty in 2012, Dr. Barrella was at Georgia Tech completing her Ph.D. research as part of the Infrastructure Research Group (IRG). She also completed a teaching certificate and was actively involved with the Center for the En- hancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Georgia Tech. Her academic interests focus on two primary areas of sustainable transportation: (1) community-based design and planning and (2) strategic planning and policy development. Dr. Barrella is also interested in investigating how to best integrate these research interests into classroom and project experiences for her students
plotting.An overarching idea behind the SLC is to help students realize that the topics of Calculus I,Physics I, and Programming are most effective when used together in engineering. Theseconcepts in engineering applications are not siloed and nor should the coursework be. Thereforeto address this conceptual misalignment, all three faculty developed mini-projects, or specificassignments incorporating concepts from each of the three disciplines. All three facultycollaboratively developed the real-world application problems that required leveragingknowledge horizontally across all three courses.The bold faced common themes were then mapped to provide a framework in the developmentof the interdisciplinary mini-projects. It was critical to ensure the
extrinsicmotivations and self-efficacy in learning programming [11]. Duckworth has reviewed the role ofgrit and self-control [12]. Data was collected in this study related to these topics, retention, andachievement of learning outcomes and is currently being analyzed for future papers.Project Approach & Experimental MethodsOverall Project StructureThe study started as part of an internal grant from the NSF-funded grant initiative at ourinstitution to increase evidence-based teaching practices in STEM courses. It implementedseveral active learning strategies to improve student satisfaction and engagement in an entry-level MATLAB programming course. The tools were implemented in all sections of the course,each taught by a different instructor. Materials
programming portion of the course.Statistical analysis revealed no significant difference in overall homework scores between thetwo years, but there was a significant increase in scores on programming projects, which were aset of more challenging problems at the end of Chapters 2-5 homework assignments. Averagenumber of attempts per problem and number of problems completed did not change significantlybetween the two years. Results of the survey show that students generally perceived a lowerworkload and felt that the programming material was more valuable to them with in-classlectures and team activities.Future direction based on this study indicate the potential need for more in-class instruction,either in the form of more team activities or lectures
Deviation 2008 Participants Deviation Participants The type of project was 4.4 0.9 4.4 0.9 appropriate for the class Level of difficulty was 4.1 0.9 3.8 1.1 appropriate for the class Amount of given time was 3.9 1.2 3.5 1.1 adequate Project encouraged to 3.6 1.1 3.9 1.0 continue as ME major Percentage of the grade corresponds to work put 3.6 1.2 3.5 1.1 into it Project
year and has continued to grow and develop.One of the key components of the program is team projects. Students are placed into fourto six member teams and given various projects throughout the course of the year. Theteams are formed based on several different factors. First, personality type is considered,as identified by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, so that each team has members withvarious personality types. Next, ACT scores and gender are considered. Historically,higher ACT scores were grouped together and lower ACT scores were grouped together.Teams were arranged so that those teams with female members had at least two femalesin the group.The team projects correspond with the concepts and skills students are learning in theirclasses
the course are: 1. Understand and practice the human-centered engineering design process for a societal based project 2. Learn techniques to solve open-ended engineering challenges 3. Promote a culture of making by introducing solid modeling, programming, sensors, data acquisition, 3D printing, and other maker tools 4. Build teamwork and cooperative learning skills through participation in multidisciplinary teams and active engineering project management 5. Build professional skills in background research and written, pictorial, and oral communication methods 6. Raise awareness of ethics and contemporary issues in engineering design related to a global society 7. Introduce engineering students to the
Paper ID #9492The Use Of Peer Evaluations In A Non-Traditional First Year System DesignClassMr. Joseph Pow, Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, RIT Joe Pow is the Associate Director of the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He was the designer and first instructor of a new non-traditional project-based course for incoming Imaging Science freshmen which has had a transformational impact on the Cen- ter. Prior to his arrival at RIT, he was a project manager for the Department of Defense, where he was responsible for the development and production of a wide
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). Her research interests include traffic flow modeling, statistical methods for transportation data analysis, and sustainable transportation planning. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journal publications and conference papers, and presented at numerous academic conferences. Dr. Reina has also served as an advisor of undergraduate research and applied projects such as those conducted by the student chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and awardees of the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship. American c Society