AC 2008-2566: THE STRUCTURE OF HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMIC ANDPRE-ENGINEERING CURRICULA: MATHEMATICSMitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin - MadisonNatalie Tran, University of Wisconsin - MadisonAllen Phelps, University of Wisconsin - MadisonAmy Prevost, University of Wisconsin - Madison Page 13.1268.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 The Structure of High School Academic and Pre-engineering Curricula: MathematicsAbstractOur curriculum content analysis examines how the pre-engineering curriculum Project Lead TheWay as compared to the academic curricula focus high school students’ understanding ofmathematics that would prepare them for
concepts to existing curriculum and standard course of study 5. Set a week long goal of having a robot “Fair” to show off to each other the capstone projects, selected by the teachers working in small groups. 6. At the end of the day, hold a brief feedback session including daily +/- feedback to the instructors on weaknesses, frustration, and strengths for quick adjustments to the curriculum. 7. Provide opportunity for role reversal for participants to be “students”, showing off to “teachers” who were real middle school students.As part of the senior engineering technology students’ project, they were required to prepare afive day curriculum6 for teaching the elements of robotics, data collection, analysis, and
projects to basic research activities. At thesame time, the previously independent K-12 outreach arm of the school was added tooutreach segment of the center. In the last decade, the K-12 outreach arm has beenoperating by offering teacher and student workshops, organizing conferences andcompetitions as well as summer camps. Events organized by the school have includedExpanding Your Horizons (EYH) Conference, MathCounts and First Tech Challenge(FTC) Competitions, and summer camps in Animatronics, CSI/Forensics, AlternativeEnergy/Sustainability, and Ecology. In addition, the outreach arm has been activelyengaged in the local exhibitions and fairs including Carnegie Science Center events.A new initiative has been developed to present research
Teachers (TECT) professional developmentworkshop is being developed by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to strengthen theway in which high school teachers and counselors approach the integration of engineering basedmaterials into their courses and counseling. It is believed this improved pedagogy will convincea broader, more diverse range of students to pursue engineering and technology careers.The TECT workshop, a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded proof-of-concept project,incorporates the well-established STEM model that hands-on activities improve student learningand comprehension. To reinforce this approach, the project builds upon a successful existingNSF sponsored project that funds high school clubs and summer camps
MSOE’s TRIO Student Support Services program. He is developing a liquid-nitrogen-fueled vehicle with a group of fellow undergraduates for his capstone senior design project, and he is co-founder of Milwaukee Cryonetic Motors, Inc. a sustainable transportation start-up company working to commercialize this novel vehicle technology.Mr. Justin Matthew Collins, Milwaukee School of Engineering Justin Collins is a junior in the mechanical engineering program at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He has distinguished himself both as a scholar and as a member of the student community through his classroom performance and involvement in extracurricular activities. Justin has been on the Dean’s List with High Honors
timeconstraints of the summer program as well as the students’ knowledge base, PBL is applied onlythrough the capstone projects and some hands-on activities. Regardless, the components of theprogram that are based within PBL concepts show high effectiveness in helping the students tosynthesize information and formulate knowledge of geophysics and earthquake engineering.4. Curriculum Context within National Science and Mathematics StandardsThe curriculum for the summer program, though including some advanced topics, is developedwithin the framework of national standards for both science and mathematics education for 9ththrough 12th grade students. The development of a hands-on curriculum helps to fulfill many ofthe Content Standards for science, including
and university engineering curricula in the US have been following similartrajectories for some time. In the early 1900’s, engineering was treated more as a ‘trade’ at theuniversity level, and high schools encouraged vocational studies, including auto repair, woodshop, metalworking, cosmetology and other ‘trades’ to the non-college bound. Between 1935and 1965, most university engineering curriculum moved away from a trade-school curriculumto a more theoretical, mathematically-intensive one, delaying any hands-on design projects untilthe senior or ‘capstone’ design course 11.Similarly, the nation’s high schools tried to erase the division between the trades and the college-preparatory tracks to prepare anyone who might be inclined to attend a
course.They were split into four teams of two students each working on separate projects. The generaltopics were pulley systems, vibrations, alternative energy and thermoelectric devices. Some ofthe projects were more successful than others, as might be expected. The overall outcome was asuccess and resulted in several hands-on activities that have been used for students in grades 1-12.This paper begins with a brief overview of the outreach programs in the School of Engineering.The main topic of the paper is the independent study course. The course goals and generalproject requirements are included. Each of the four projects are discussed with an emphasis onthe project goals, activities that were developed, success levels, and ongoing efforts to
issues in teacher education, including assessment, gender and multicultural issues in science education.Gail Hardinge, College of William and Mary GAIL B. HARDINGE -- Dr. Hardinge is an educational psychologist who currently works with the Va. Department of Education's Training and Technical Assistance Centers, at the College of William and Mary, providing professional development programs for teachers. She has worked in public education for twenty-two years and is an adjunct Assistant Professor at William and Mary, teaching courses in collaborative consultation and assessment, as well serving as the college's VDP Project Coordinator.John A. McLaughlin, McLauglin Associates
. Cheryl Farmer, UTeachEngineering Cheryl Farmer is the founding Program Manager and Project Director of UTeachEngineering. Funded through a five-year, $12.5 million Math and Science Partnership grant from the National Science Foun- dation, UTeachEngineering offers a well-designed, well-rounded, design-based high school engineering course that can be implemented at low cost in virtually any setting, as well as a variety of professional de- velopment programs for pre-service and in-service teachers who want to add engineering to their teaching portfolio. Prior to co-founding UTeachEngineering, Farmer spent several years managing programs for both K-12 and higher education. Before entering higher education, Farmer
Design of medicine delivery device, per kit student guide booklet. Research and reports5th Six Weeks Sports materials unit using kit —NSF funded Material Worlds Module Design project of improving a game6th Six weeks Capstone project, possibly Lego Robotics Table 2: 10th grade Syllabus for the Da Vinci Engineering CourseWeek Course work1st Six Weeks • Intro to Engineering • Informal survey of Engineering and show videos, pictures, stories, etc, that will motivate students to learn about Engineering • Review of to
. By the end of 2013, nearly 16,000 users had createdaccounts on the Innovation Portal (Figure 2), thereby generating a large repository of studentdesign work from which research team members are endeavoring to solicit materials forassessment as part of the rubric refinement, validation, and reliability verification process.Figure 2 Distribution of users of the Innovation Portal e-portfolio system. Most of the accounts have been created by high school seniors, reflecting use of the portal as a host site for capstone design projects undertaken by Project Lead the Way students.Refining, validating, and preparing the EDPPSR for useSince the fall of 2011, the research team has drawn together a set of institutional review
AC 2011-1098: USING THE PRINCIPLES OF MANUAL TRAINING TOPERFORM S.T.E.M. OUTREACH FOR URBAN YOUTHGreg Murray, Pittsburg State University Greg Murray is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department of Pitts- burg State University in Pittsburg, KS. He received his BSET in 1993, and his MST in 1995 from Pittsburg State University, and his MBA in 2002 from Wake Forest University. Professor Murray worked in indus- try for over 11 years in various product development, process engineering and management roles. He currently teaches subjects based in Engineering Graphics, Computer-Aided Design, Capstone, and Fluid Mechanics.Prof. Randy Winzer, Pittsburg State University Randy Winzer is an
excellent models of using field and lab work to teach science.Students frequently comment that multiple campus field and lab courses provide the best Page 15.745.4 2experience so they are encouraged to spend as much time on campus as possible. The MSSEteachers are welcome to take as many campus courses as they wish.All graduates complete and present a science education capstone project in their final year forwhich they receive guidance and advice from a three-person graduate committee consisting of atleast one science education advisor and one
project, severalstudents were very interested in the opportunity to be involved in a community outreachproject aimed towards researching and developing effective and appropriatedemonstrations of sound wave phenomena to 5th graders. The entire class was given oneresearch and writing assignment to search for helpful resources related to this Page 26.1713.6effort. When final projects were selected by the twelve enrolled in the course, two seniorfemale electrical engineering students chose to devote their entire capstone project ondeveloping outreach materials and demonstrations, and they became involved in ongoingmeetings held by the WAVES project
introductory materials engineering classes. Most recently, he has been working on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for a courses on Connecting Mathematics with Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design.Veronica Burrows, Arizona State University Veronica Burrows is Associate Director of the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology and Associate professor in the Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering at Arizona State University. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton
; Page 25.533.8 7. A senior-level undergraduate Space Systems Engineering11 course; 8. Discipline-based capstone design courses offered at The University of Texas; 9. ABET criteria1; and 10. The professional practice of team members. N.B., bolded sources were consulted during the development of the learning objectives; the others were consulted for comparison after the objectives had been developed. Figure 3 – Sources supporting student learning objectives related to Engineering Skills and Habits of Mind.Establishing Research- and Practice-Based Course Design PrinciplesAs is common in the design of high school engineering materials, the Engineer Your World teamagreed on a project-based approach in which students are
all grade levels. At the national level, the International TechnologyEducation Association (ITEA) standards have led to curriculum materials to introduceengineering in middle and high schools (http://www.iteaconnect.org/). Our ETKs aredesigned to meet state and national standards in science and/or math, and whenappropriate to also meet the Massachusetts and ITEA standards. Each ETK includes a listof the specific standards addressed.The ETK Design ProcessThe ETKs are developed by teams of fourth year Mechanical Engineering students in ayear long capstone design class. For the last five years, this experimental class has beenoffered as one of several options for meeting the capstone design requirement. During ourlast ABET visit, the examiners
need to increase theinformation about engineering careers that school counselors give high school students.Moreover, the engineering topics and profession need to be presented in a socially relevantcontext [2, 3, 4].In order to reinforce the concepts presented, the TECT workshops have been integrated withengineering focused student summer camps currently being hosted by UNC-Charlotte as part ofa separate NSF project. The summer camps are used as a vehicle to allow the TECT participantsthe opportunity to experience the diversity of students within the engineering camps, observe thehands-on activities and classroom techniques used during the camps, and to practice skillslearned in the TECT workshop. The capstone practicum for the TECT workshop
courseof study) (at least 8 units at the 300- or 400-level); 24 units of additional coursework in a liberalarts specialization; and at least 4 upper-level LSE courses: two on project-based learning, asenior project course, and a capstone. Students must also either study or intern abroad, orcomplete 2 additional upper-level courses in global studies.As of Fall 2014, 55 students have graduated with a B.A. in LSE at CPSU, and 55 additionalstudents are currently active in the program (48 as LAES majors and 7 currently on a one- ortwo-quarter individualized change of major agreement). (Two other students were denied theirdegree in Spring 2012, 3 students discontinued the program, and 1 student has completed all of
students thoroughly digest the material at hand and create newmeans of presenting the subject matter and then to act as teachers in a classroom setting withchildren. We also found motivation from the study of Elton et al.2 who sought to demonstrate“some interesting and mysterious, but explainable experiments” to a K-12 audience. The keymotivator here was the term “explainable,” we really did not want anything to come across asrandom or inexplicable. The overall structure of our research project, and its credence as asenior capstone project focused on research questions that were similar to Moskal et al.3, namely“how are children impacted by an outreach program”?, and “how are the college students andfaculty impacted by the outreach program”?. We
Award in 2006. Dr Johnson is Co-PI on the NSF-EMAP project described in this paper and also co-founder and faculty adviser of the University of Alabama Chapter of Engineers without Borders.Karen Boykin, University of Alabama Dr. is the Assistant Director of the University of Alabama's Environmental Institute and a Research Engineer. She has broad experiences in environmental engineering and science. Dr. Boykin's personal research interests involve the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from both anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic sources. Prior work included modification of EPA landfill emission model to include applications for soil amendments to cover systems. Efforts have also
discipline on the lives of others in the wider world, examine the ethics and philosophy characteristics of the discipline and their implications, and project themselves into the discipline while developing a sense of pride and humility related to both the self and the discipline. 24 Although it not always explicitly addressed, most engineering programs aim to have engineering have a strong identity as an engineer. Capstone and senior design projects are ways that traditional engineering programs develop identity, but providing opportunities earlier in the academic career may help to develop this earlier. Service learning and mentoring programs are strategies used recently, especially with
virtual design space and test them against the force of gravity. The purpose of theSodaConstructor computational environment is to emulate one particular aspect of engineeringdesign, the design-build-test (DBT) cycle[10]. DBT is an iterative process through whichengineers develop and evaluate design alternatives[11]. In each iteration of the cycle, engineersdesign a solution to a specified problem, build a prototype of the proposed design, and then test Page 13.499.3the prototype to determine its potential effectiveness. The DBT concept has been used inundergraduate engineering laboratories and in capstone senior design projects [12, 13]. Based
, and (3)manufacturing of plastic pellets using the creation of pixel cookies as a hands-on classroom activity.The undergraduate mentors leverage their industrial and academic experiences to create the lessons andact as role models for college and professional success. Evaluation of the activities includes a mappingto academic content standards, student interest surveys, and mentors’ reflections on their experiences.1. IntroductionThe Computer Science Investigations (CSI: Cincinnati) project brings undergraduates in engineeringand computing-related fields into urban STEM classrooms to interact with and teach high schoolstudents. CSI: Cincinnati is funded under the National Science Foundation’s Broadening Participation inComputing program and
and at the Center on Education and Work. He uses experimental and discourse-based research methods to understand the cognitive, social and embodied nature of STEM learning and instruction. He is currently co-principal investigator of the AWAKEN project in engineering education, along with Professors Sandra Shaw Courter and L. Allen Phelps.Benjamin Stein, University of Wisconsin Benjamin Stein is a graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, where his work is in hyperspectral laser design. Before returning to school, he worked as a math instructor at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University and an electronics design engineer at ASML. These experiences as an
school, not a full network of schools (20,21, Page 24.518.522) .Project Lead the Way (PLTW) is national program that offers high school engineering. PLTW(23) , is a well-received, four year program that starts with a high school freshman leveldesign/drawing course and finishes with a senior year, capstone experience. The PLTWcurriculum is a complete, well-tested program that includes teacher training as part of thepackage. PLTW coursework is accepted for college credit in many engineering technologyprograms and some university engineering programs. However, looking back to our goals forENGR 102 HS, we see this four year approach to high
addressed.Course 5: Engineering Solutions to the Challenges of Energy and Global Change:This capstone course examines both the issues of energy production/consumption and globalclimate change from an engineering and innovation point of view. Using a case study approach,discussions focus on methods being investigated to move to a more sustainable world includingthe development of solar power, wind power and sustainable agriculture, as well as engineeringsolutions to reduce the effects of global climate change. Page 25.260.20Appendix C Energy Production and Consumption: Course 3 Project Presentation Page 25.260.21Appendix D
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Multidisciplinary Design 16-Week Multidisciplinary Design Project—Composition & Rhetoric Project—Public Speaking Junior Product/Process Development or Product/Process Development or Research Research Senior Multidisciplinary Capstone Design/Research ProjectFreshman Clinics expose students to basic engineering skills including problem solving,teamwork fundamentals, engineering measurements and entrepreneurship. Students areintroduced to a variety of activities relevant to engineering measurements5. This is followed inthe second semester by intense study of engineering design through reverse engineering(“dissection”) and