profession, yet it israrely included in sophomore and junior level courses. Reflecting on our own prior efforts todevelop writing assignments for such courses, we became curious about the extent to which themost popular engineering textbooks include writing prompts and related writing activities. Thisquestion seemed particularly important given that textbooks often play critical roles inengineering curricula and courses. Textbooks often influence how courses are structured, andreading assignments and homework problems are frequently assigned directly from textbooks.In this project, we systematically searched for and analyzed writing-based problems in sixpopular fluid mechanics textbooks, with a focus on chapters with similar technical content
://search.asee.org/search/fetch?url=file%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2FE%3A%2Fsearch%2Fconference%2F28 %2FAC%25202004Paper998.pdf&index=conference_papers&space=129746797203605791716676178&type= application%2Fpdf&charset= Retrieved on June 02, 2015[8] Hertzberg, J., Leppek, B., Gray, K., “Art for the Sake of Improving Attitudes Toward Engineering”, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2012, 119th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 10-13, 2012. [Online]. Available: http://www.asee.org/public/conferences/8/papers/5064/view. Retrieved April 25, 2015 [9] Sochacka, N., Guyotte K., Walther, J., Kellam, N., “Faculty reflections on a STEAM-inspired interdisciplinary studio course,” ASEE Annual
address the complex problems faced by civilization today. It requires looking atthe world’s problems in a more holistic way and being able to interact with a wide range oftechnical and non-technical stakeholders from various disciplines and walks-of-life, rather thanremaining in traditional silos of technical expertise and schools of thought. This newepistemology of engineering education also promotes reflective and adaptive practice, systemthinking, engagement, and fieldwork. Finally, it promotes a humanization of the engineeringprofession and emphasizes that engineering is above all - and has always been - about people.Analyzing the integrated nature of the SDGsIntegrating the SDGs in engineering education requires developing a curriculum with
into their teaching.3Reverse engineering is simply taking an object apart and analyzing its “inner workings,” in orderto understand the secrets behind its operation. However, some researchers use a broader term,Disassemble/Analyze/Assemble (DAA), for these activities.4A study comparing the results of such activities to the more traditional laboratory approachconcludes that DAA activities have the potential to increase student motivation and promotetransfer.5 Transfer refers to the ability to apply or adapt knowledge when seeking a novelsolution to a problem. New courses are being developed that make use of reverse engineeringprojects to help students observe actual designs during “incremental concrete experiences,”allowing them to reflect on
using two stages to refine our scoring system. In eachstage, individuals first provide comments on the individual skills in the scoring system. Then wesummarize the feedback from all the individuals and ask the individuals to reflect upon thesummary to see if their opinions have changed. At the end of the feedback for each of the twostages, we synthesize the overall responses and use the results to modify the scoring system. Wehave completed the first stage and are now in the second stage shown below.Delphi Method Stage 1 (this study) 1. Part one: conduct small focus groups and surveys to collect information and comments from our stakeholders 2. Part two: distribute summary to each of the stakeholders for reactions 3. Use part one
primary interest of scientists reflects just the motive of understandingthe world. Snow himself characterized the reaction of pure scientists towards applied scienceand engineering as being “dimwitted” and criticized them for failing to recognize that appliedquestions could require first-rate intellectual efforts.Scientists are intelligent people and we should take them at their word when they give primacy tothe understanding of the natural world in their definition of their domain of activity. Here wewill choose to separate engineering from science and explore the consequences of this differencein motive. That does not mean though that there isn’t an overlap or similarity between scienceand engineering that needs exploration. We will use Kagan’s
are readily found in textbooks, newspapers, speeches and policy documents across the 20thcentury) reflect this enduring framing of technical enterprise as invariably a welcomecontribution to general human welfare. In 1923, a journalist's profile of General Electricpresident Gerard Swope noted that the American engineer promises "industrial well-being, ofcreating greater happiness through the wider distribution of nature's gifts and resources, andthrough a general furtherance of the march of civilization."9 Prominent civil engineer WilliamBarclay Parsons, then supervisor of subway construction in New York City, told an audience atColumbia University in 1927, that "should our civilization perish, its ruins, if excavated, willdisclose that it
exit interview rubric can be found inAttachment B.Next StepsThe curriculum, pedagogy and assessment strategies reflect several months of research onteaming as well as lessons that the authors have learned over many years of participating in andleading teams. The next step is to determine if the curriculum does, in fact improve students‟knowledge of teaming and their performance within teams. Beginning in Spring 2011 theteaming curriculum will be integrated into a number of project-based Engineering Technologycourses and piloted over several semesters. Assessment data collected from these pilot groupswill then be compared to similar assessment data collected from other student groups who didnot have the benefit of deliberate instruction in
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Fe, NM: The SAR Press, pp. 117-141.47. Mikic, B. and Grasso, D. (2002). Socially-Relevant Design: The TOY-Tech Project at Smith College. Journal of Engineering Education, 91: 319-326.48. Ellis, G. W., Mikic, B., & Rudnitsky, A. (2003). Getting the "big picture" in engineering: Using narratives and conceptual maps. ASEE Conference Proceedings.49. Riley, D. Employing Liberative Pedagogies in Engineering Education. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 9 (2): 137-158 (2003).50. Howe, S., Moriarty, M.A., and Errabelli, A. (2011). Transfer from Capstone Design: A Model to Facilitate Student Reflection. ASee Conference Proceedings, 2011.51. Cech, E.A. (2010). Trained to Disengage? A Longitudinal Study of
words of the poet AdrienneRich, historians of technology often “fall short of ‘naming the complexity’ involved in theinteraction between technology and the social fabric.” xiiAll of these aspects of complexity (complicatedness, incomprehensibility, in-determinacy andsocial enmeshment) have in common the acknowledgement of interactions. These interactionsare present between and among system sub-components, and also between elements of thesystem and its environment. Engineering design needs to reflect an accurate and robustunderstanding of these interactions in order to successfully predict overall system behavior. Thenext section of this paper will present techniques currently employed to address thesecomplexities in the traditional engineering
worksupported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program underGrant No. DGE-1333468. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation. Page 24.991.11References1. National Academy of Engineering. (2004). The engineer of 2020: Visions of engineering in the new century. Washington DC: National Academies Press.2. National Academy of Engineering. (2009). Engineering in K-12 education: Understanding the status and improving the prosects. Washington, DC: National Academies
an explanation can be found in the published dissertation. Asis traditionally followed in IRT, item fit statistics were obtained. Cut-off criteria for a reasonablefit were SRMR and RMSEA < 0.08, CFI and TLI > 0.90 or 0.95 [43]. Items with |Yen’s Q3| >0.20 (Q3 fit statistic represents the correlation between the residuals for a pair of items) has localdependence and significant item fit values (p < 0.05) revealed misfit items [44]. Finally, itemand test information functions graphically reflected the reliability (1 - [1 / peak information]) ofthe items and the test as a whole in estimating the construct over the entire scale range [45].FIGURE 3. Hypothesized 2-D measurement model for the APT-STEM instrument [12]ResultsThe results
iGens or not. The observations of the authors thus farsuggest that many STEM university students reflect the iGen trends and are no different.Helping iGen Prepare for the Workplace and LifeAs students enter the university, there is an implied requirement to help students mature fromwhere they are to where they need to be upon graduation. Van Treuren and Jordan addressed therole of the university in the formation of student maturity [18]. The university is a communitywhere personal development occurs. A function of the university is embodied in the phrase “inloco parentis.” Legally, it means “in place of a parent” and refers to the obligation of a person ororganization to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent. At any
exploring constructionist learning for a new generation of young people. In after-school and out-of-school settings, educational robotics became uniquely supportive for applyingconstructionism to engineering design education [22]. Similar to the early promotion of Logo,the hands-on engineering design affordances of educational robotics is purported to advance stu-dents’ knowledge and skills by flattening the hierarchy between concrete and formal thinking[23], [24], [25], [15]. As children engage in robotics activities they are given the opportunity to learn-by-doing,a foundation to constructionist design that reflects real world enterprises and encourages the ma-terial exploration of “big ideas” [26], [12], [2], [27]. Robotics kits for out
graduates interviewed as part of thelarger study.Case 1: MarthaThe case of Martha (civil engineering) illustrates a seamless university-to-work transition. Althoughher transition experience was not necessarily typical of the selected graduates, her case reflects onepole along a wide spectrum of experiences. She represents high achieving students with a plethoraof opportunities derived partly from their native abilities and partly from social connections. Marthawas well-prepared for her transition, having started her job search in the summer before graduating.She compiled a list of 25 companies aligned with her interests, and submitted 15 applications thatresulted in ten interviews and eight job offers. But the offer she ultimately accepted was not
-12 educationresearch, neither McDermott nor Kohn have been cited in the Journal of Engineering Education.So engineering education seemingly missed the conversation and the opportunity to reflect onthe value of competition in its pedagogy and culture. Thus exploring the element of engineeringculture as competitive is more challenging to do in a historical review. Competition is somethingmany in engineering education would acknowledge, in many meanings of the word, yet fewwould feel the need to question, problematize, or even document it. Indeed, it seems few have: Ihave not found incisive historical ethnographic accounts of the development of competition orcompetitiveness in educational or professional settings to the same extent as other
analysis because all the reports required a discussion of the results(In some labs, students were not required to include all the report sections). Moreover, scores onthe discussion section were deemed likely to reflect students’ understanding of content Tables 6 and 7 provide comparison of students’ lab report scores on three lab reportsections (i.e., abstract, results, and discussion) in the junior and senior level courses, respectively.In the junior course, four lab reports were required (as shown in Table 6); other laboratoryactivities required only informal writing, such as lab notebooks, and so they were not included inthe analysis of technical writing skills. In the senior course, lab reports were required for all fivelabs
student participants. Our researchquestions were threefold: (1) How do components of individuals’ role identities align to inform the motivation tobecome an engineering ambassador? (2) How does the training crystallize students’ role identities as professionals andambassadors for the field of engineering? (3) Which features of the workshop emerge as the most powerful experiences fortriggering the formulation of an engineering ambassador role identity?MethodParticipants. A diverse sub-set of participants was selected, reflecting differences in gender(n=3 male, n=3 female); ethnicity (Hispanic/Latino = 1, African American = 1, Caucasian = 4)school type (large northeastern state universities = 3, mid-size eastern state
on a Google sheet that the instructor manages.Tasks include grading daily quizzes, running critique workshops of three to six students, gradingmajor assignments, and special assignments, such as creating a format template in MicrosoftWord for the proposal.Background: Rather than having students bring drafts to class for on-the-spot critiquing,the course runs more formal critiquing based on the Iowa Writers Workshop One feature that distinguishes the course is the course’s peer critiquing, which follows theIowa Writers’ Workshop for creative writing [11]. In this approach, the students submit theirassignment excerpts at least two days before the workshop so that the peers and often a mentorhave the chance to read, reflect, edit, and
group ofAmbassadors. In reflecting on the collaboration among the four universities, Al Brockettacknowledges the strategic benefits from establishing what he good-humoredly describes as a“forced marriage;” however, what grew out of this powerful union is a true sense of community,a partnership, and a genuine desire to collaborate. Each school quickly realized the benefit ofhaving three other institutions with programs at various levels of development. The partnershipwas essential to building successful programs because it allowed the four partner universities to: Page 23.496.2 Exchange best practices, from day-to-day operations to long-term
free-thinking and reflection.9Types of incidental writing include, but are not limited to, activities such as personal journal orportfolio writing, “think pieces”, blog entries, and lab books or notebooks. An example ofincidental writing includes assigning students to write daily journals discussing their experiencesand challenges with homework assignments. The instructor can then choose to review the entriesin order to answer questions or clarify confusing information, or the journals can remain strictlyfor the personal use of the student.9 Most examples of journaling found in research appear to besuccessful utilizations with minimum additional work needed from instructors.5The term “think pieces” is a general term encompassing any short
reflective behaviour thatis at the heart of the liberal endeavour. But they also illustrate how complex thebehaviour of groups, let alone individuals is. It is consoling, therefore, to find that manyyears after these relatively simple pieces of qualitative and quantitative (survey) research,(with the odd bit of psychometrics thrown in), and all its limitations, the researchpublished since 1990 particularly in the US persuaded Pascarella and Terenzini “morethan ever that students’ in- and out-of-class lives are interconnected in complex ways weare only beginning to understan.”[40, p 603].Notes and references[1] The description given here is simplified
rate varied by institution. Most institutions have dedicated a significant amount ofresources to recruiting and retaining their female students and students from underrepresentedgroups.Seymour and Hewitt identified several reasons why students leave science, math, andengineering majors.5 Reasons related to competence, confidence, persistence, assertiveness,interest in the discipline, interest in the career, and a support system. As summarized byMatusovich, Steveler, and Miller,6 “…choices to leave SME fields tend to reflect the reasonsthey originally chose SME fields. Persisters were more likely to have chosen engineering based Page 25.1442.3on
logical structure orprogression to the sections. Vague or poorly ordered section headings can obscure thedocument’s narrative or mislead the reader about the content of the paper, thus weakening theoverall argument.With this in mind, the Macro-organization quiz includes a question that presents students with asample Table of Contents for a feasibility analysis, then asks them to decide the best location inthe document for the actual analysis (Figure 4). The answers are more than just a list of possiblelocations, however; instead, they propose different locations and a reason for suggesting thatlocation. These reasons reflect some of the common thought processes we have seen as wediscuss drafts with our students; often, creating a logical scaffold
necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.References 1. Assessing Performance: Designing, Scoring, and Validating Performance Tasks, Robert Johnson, James Penny, and Belita Gordon, The Guilford Press, New York, NY, 2009. 2. Zhang M., Ater Kranov A., Pedrow P., Beyerlein S., McCormack J., and Schmeckpeper E. “A Direct Method for Teaching and Measuring Engineering Professional Skills: A Validity Study for the National Science Foundation’s Research in Evaluation of Engineering and Science Education”, Proceedings of the 2011 American Society for Engineering Education Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 26-29, 2011. 3. McCormack, J., Ater Kranov, A., Beyerlein, S., Pedrow, P., Schmeckpeper, E., “Methods