such as costeffectiveness, ease of installation, modularity of assembly/disassembly, simplicity, andeffectiveness of design. During the second half of the term, the teams of students work ondifferent aspects of the implementation of the chosen design proposal.Community-based Engineering Design ProjectPrior to assigning the project to the students in the course, the following issues related to projectidentification were addressed and presented to the students as part of Phase 1 of the ServiceLearning Project. • Perform an assessment of the need (if the need is not already defined) • Identify stakeholders (customer, users, person(s) maintaining the project, etc.) • Understand the Social Context • Define basic stakeholder requirements
). Engle and Tinto11 address various obstacles to college success for low-income students.They state that “After six years, only 11 percent of low-income, first-generation students hadearned bachelor‟s degrees compared to 55 percent of their more advantaged peers.” One of theirrecommendations includes cohort development. Furthermore, the learning community modelimproves the persistence of the low-income and the first generation students12.A learning community is an environment that encourages student-student, and faculty-studentinteraction. At Colorado State University - Pueblo, a pilot learning community was initiated inthe Department of Engineering in fall 2009. Two first-year courses were linked with shared
cultivate, as itis a fundamental element of a successful engineering career.60,61 Lastly, engineers mustdemonstrate their depth of knowledge by communicating their ideas and design decisions to theirrelative audience.Communication of ideas and professional skilldevelopment: The philosophies of EngineeringEducation began to grow and drasticallytransform in the mid 1990’s, valuing a morewholesome engineer. Surely the focus continuesto include the traditional solidly rooted STEMskills, but also includes professionaldevelopment skills such as: communication,teamwork, global and ethical awareness, andskills for life-long learning.12 In addition tolearning the foundations of design, helping futureengineers master such professional skills as teamwork
) design and b) control dimensions of first-year engineering education References[1] R. M. Marra, B. Palmer and T. A. Litzinger, "The effects of a first‐year engineering design course on student intellectual development as measured by the Perry scheme," J Eng Educ, vol. 89, (1), pp. 39-45, 2000.[2] F. Ö Karataş, G. M. Bodner and S. Unal, "First-year engineering students' views of the nature of engineering: implications for engineering programmes," European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 41, (1), pp. 1-22, 2016.[3] M. J. A. Brey, M. D. Mizzy and R. Goldberg, "A maker-in-residence program to build a community of makers," in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2017.[4] *E
growth. By developing an assessment framework thathelps administrators clearly understand and develop a path to assess both student-learning andstudent-growth objectives greater benefits will come from first-year engineering programs.ReferencesBates, J. S. (2014, June), A First-Year Course Based on Conceptual Design Paper presented at2014 ASEE Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana.Brawner, C., Camacho, M., Long, R., Lord, S., Ohland, M., and Wasburn, M. (2009) Work inProgress – The Effect of Engineering Matriculation Status on Major Selection. ASEE / IEEEFrontiers in Education Conference, San Antonio, TX.Brozina, C. (2018). Measuring commuter student support and success through academicintegration. In 2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE
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the Co-PI of an NSF Funded Step 1B program called COMPASS, a Co-PI of the NSF-funded S-STEM program at UCF entitled the ”Young Entrepreneur and Scholar(YES) Scholarship Program” as well as the NSF-funded STEP program entitled ”EXCEL:UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence.” Dr. Young’s interests are in improving student learning in mathematics and increasing success in STEM education.Dr. Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida Michael Georgiopoulos received the Diploma in EE from the National Technical University in Athens, his MS degree and Ph.D. degree in EE from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, in 1981, 1983 and 1986, respectively. He is currently a Professor in the
dt Tj m s m s in i i out e e Sgen with Sgen 0 j Figure 2 -- Fundamental Conservation & Accounting EquationsOne of the advantages of using the accounting framework is that it lends itself to a commonproblem-solving approach regardless of the problem. When a
Paper ID #9711A Longitudinal Study of the Impact of a First-Year Honors Engineering Pro-gramDr. Kathleen A Harper, The Ohio State University Kathleen A. Harper is a faculty lecturer in the Engineering Education Innovation Center at The Ohio State University. She received her M. S. in physics and B. S. in electrical engineering and applied physics from Case Western Reserve University, and her Ph. D. in physics from The Ohio State University. She has been on the staff of Ohio State’s University Center for the Advancement of Teaching, in addition to teaching in both the physics department and college of engineering. Her
as a team. For this project, two teams wereformed to address the same design problem. This paper examines the lessons learned during thiscollaboration and offers some insight into what challenges similar freshman engineering designcourses may encounter.Design Course Project ReviewThe Freshman Engineering Design Course at UMES has continued to operate in the samefashion since 2006. The engineering professor facilitates the course and introduces aspiringengineers to the knowledge, skills and abilities requisite for completing a design project. Jointly,Aviation Sciences faculties participate in the course by serving the role of both the client(s) andthe users who provides the students with the aim, scope and constraints of the project
sought. Robotic applications seemed a logical choice in programming, andhave become a popular educational vehicle in recent years. So a low cost robotic applicationwas sought for a pilot course taught in the summer of 2012.Robots have been used in education for some time. Penn State began using robots of its owndesign in its freshman program in the mid-1990’s. Typical sub-group size was kept about threestudents with good success.7 Northeastern University also uses project base learning, andincorporates semi-custom kits to teach programming and electronics. The hands-on approachwas met with a high degree of student approbation.4Louisiana State University uses project based freshman courses that include programmablecontrollers and small robots.2
, 5 2005, http://notes.cc.sunysb.edu/Pres/boyer.nsf [2] Robert P. Hesketh, Stephanie Farrell, and C. S. Slater, AN INDUCTIVE APPROACH TO TEACHING COURSES IN ENGINEERING, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Session 2003- 2531; pgs 8.197.1 – 8.197.19. [3] Leonhard D. Bernold, Preparedness of Engineering Freshman to Inquiry-Based Learning, J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract., 2007, 133(2): 99-106. [4] Deslauriers, L., McCarthy L.S., Miller K., Callaghan, Kestin G., Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom, Proceedings of the National Academy of
not for profit in Kansas City, in the late 90’s. She earned her M.S. in Youth Development from the University of Nebraska and her B.S. in Family Studies at Kansas State University.Dr. Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Walter Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education and the Assistant Di- rector for Research in the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED), both at Virginia Tech. His research interests include co-curricular support, student success and retention, and diversity in STEM. Lee received his Ph.D in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech, his M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, and his B.S. in
Director of Freshman Engineering and Director of the Engineering Dual Degree Program at IUPUI. She received her B.A. in Microbiology from Indiana University in 1969. In 1983, she received her B.S., in Interdisciplinary Engineering at Purdue University at Indianapolis and received her Purdue M.S.E. degree from IUPUI in 1989. Nancy advises beginning students and transfer students when first entering engineering programs. She has been teaching freshman engineering courses and advising freshman engineering students for over twenty years.Joshua Smith, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis Joshua S. Smith, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at Indiana University
preferences with which theyare comfortable but also routinely asks them to “go against the grain” and develop otheraspects of their personalities.In the early 1980’s, a consortium of eight engineering schools was formed that gatheredMBTI data for 3718 engineering students6. This database confirmed that engineeringstudents are dominated by thinking and judging types and are more introverted than othercollege students. There were substantial differences between the schools, but the overalltrends remained the same. Several effects of learning style were first raised by this study.Female engineering students were observed to be more extraverted and more feeling thanmale engineering students and some significant differences were noted for minoritystudents
-nanotechnology, space elevators and microchips. While most considered nanotechnology tobe a huge area for scientific research and predicted development in medical sciences, some alsoraised critical opinions about ethical negative aspects of such powerful technologies, withimaginations drawn from “nano-babies” using DNA interactions to producing “nano-weapons”using novel high energy physics applications. Table 2: Students’ example responses during in-class Q/A session List two eng in eering Su ppos e yo u are inv ited to you r ap plica tion s o f nano tech nolog y high sc hoo l to g iv e a sh ort t alk
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. Thereflective comprehensive report challenges students to evaluate themselves against a benchmarkstudent—referred to as a "world-class" engineering student—based on the following objectives:1. Goal setting a. Setting your goal(s) i.e., major, time to graduation, GPA b. Strengthening and clarifying your commitment to your goal(s) c. Setting up a ‘Road Map’ – a plan to guide you over the next years to graduation d. Understanding the essence of engineering2. Community building a. Building relationships, and making effective use of your peers (help-seeking) b. Participating in co-curricular activities3. Academic development a. Navigating the university system, resources, and academic advising b
was jointly supported by the CollegeNow City University of New York program and NSF ATE Project #1601636 - Chemical andBioEnergy Technology for Sustainability (CBETS). Thank you to Ms. Susana Rivera forproviding the demographic information for the program and for her support of the College Nowprogram at BCC.References[1] J. C. Chang, "Women and minorities in the science, mathematics and engineering pipeline," ERIC Digest, p. ED467855, 2002.[2] J. Jones, A. Williams, S. Whitaker, S. Yingling, K. Inkelas, and J. Gates, "Call to action: Data, diversity, and STEM education," Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 40-47, 2018/03/04 2018.[3] "Federal science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
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re-writing their goals using the technique. Some of these pre andpost goals were written on the board and as a class, the instructors, peer mentors, and studentsgot to discuss whether they thought the post-goals were better and why. This was effective athelping students to better define and enhance their own individual goals in practical ways, and inconsideration of academic excellence, and the upcoming year(s) in general, as appropriate. Thetentative assignment was to use the “S.M.A.R.T.” technique to form goal(s) for the semester andyear. Further, students were to continue to update their BP notebooks and complete select G4.0activities.Weeks 4 -5 By week 4, upon conferring with the instructors and Peer Mentors, it was decided
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attributesof the students entering the LLC and experiences within the LLC during the first semester. Theimpact of the LLC appears to be retained, via personal connections gained through studentinteractions within an engineering/computer-science focused dorm, through the remainder of theundergraduate years.Introduction Page 26.345.2Living-Learning Communities (LLCs) have been studied by a number of authors under a numberof conditions since at least the early 1990’s.1,2,3 As documented by multiple authors, a widerange of LLCs exist,3,4,5 including both LLCs focused on specific disciplines and residentiallybased LLCs. Within the realm of LLCs, a wide
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pageshows the assignments and deliverables with draft deadlines, as well as when they areincorporated into the course structure throughout the semester. Table 2: Nanotechnology project assignment and deliverable semester schedule. Week of Class Assignment(s) Assigned Assignment(s) Due Semester Day 3 F Journal Club M Project Website, Journal Article - Final, W 4 Grant Proposal - Final CNTOTD #1, CNTOTD #2, Grant Journal Club F Proposal Annotated Bibliography 5 Journal Article Design Stage 1, Grant M Proposal Design Stage 1
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students.AcknowledgmentThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantsNo. 0624738, 0953698, and 0939128. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions orrecommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarilyreflect the views of the National Science Foundation. We would like to express our gratitude tothe students who have participated in the Gender and Engineering Co-Curricular Activity. Wewould also like to thank our colleagues for intense conversations on the subject and support inthe formation of this manuscript.References:1. National Academy of Engineering (2002). Diversity in Engineering: Managing the Workforce of the Future, Washington, DC: National Academy Press2. National