powerful sets of instructional principles andillustrating how they can be mapped to educational practice, we will empower these educators totry out new ideas in their own teaching.ApproachWe first introduce the two teaching cases that we will be using. The first case, the squaresactivity, was a class exercise used at the beginning of the term with a class of just under 30undergraduate students. The second case, the journal landscape project, was one of threeprojects assigned in a graduate class of just under 30 students. These two cases arecomplementary in that they vary in the unit of teaching (class activity versus multi-week project)and in terms of student population (undergraduate versus graduate).We did not select these cases because of any
) Brief Brief Scale: 1. Strongly Disagree, 2. Disagree, 3. Neither Average Score Average Score Agree/Disagree, 4. Agree, 5. Strongly Agree (Online Class) (Face-to-Face Class) 1. A creative title for the project/problem- is important in 4.0 4.26 promoting creative problem solving. 2. Background information on the project/problem- is 4.6 4.65 important in promoting creative problem solving. 3. The “Problem as Stated”- is important in promoting creative 3.75 4.18 problem solving. 4. The “Problem as Understood”- is important in promoting 4.15 4.43 creative problem solving. 5. The creative solution (best solution) to the
team development experience which he uses to influence and enrich his involvement with various training and development research based projects purposed to build effective and impactful teams and leaders.Mr. Zachary W Cook, Seattle Pacific University Zachary W. Cook is a master’s student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Seattle Pacific Univer- sity. He is passionate about developing people, and utilizing research based practices in this endeavor.Natalie Goode, Seattle Pacific University Natalie Goode is a Master’s student at Seattle Pacific University studying Industrial-Organizational Psy- chology.Mrs. Caitlin H. Wasilewski, Seattle Pacific University Caitlin H. Wasilewski is an Industrial
workforce. Currently, he investigates the effect of a novel program to increase the retention of first-year undergraduate students enrolled in an engineering college. The program also aims at increas- ing engineering student success, enhancing the sense of community and belonging by the students, and improving the transfer of knowledge in the engineering disciplines. In order to succeed in his research endeavors, Dr. Grau frequently collaborates with social scientists and educators. Prior to his academic career, he worked for more than seven years both leading an engineering department and managing com- plex industrial projects in South and Central America, and Europe. He is a registered Industrial Engineer in Spain and
AC 2012-3702: GRANTSMANSHIP AND THE PROPOSAL DEVELOP-MENT PROCESS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM SEVERAL YEARS OFPROGRAMS FOR JUNIOR FACULTYDr. Laurie S. Garton, Texas Engineering Experiment Station Laurie Garton is a Senior Research Development Associate with the Texas Engineering Experiment Sta- tion Office of Strategic Research Development. She has B.S., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineer- ing (environmental) from Texas A&M University and was an engineering faculty member before joining TEES in 1999 where she started working on technical research project grants related to interdisciplinary environmental themes. Currently, she leads the TEES New Faculty Initiative targeting grants such as the NSF CAREER awards
considering writing a Faculty Early CareerDevelopment (CAREER) proposal for the National Science Foundation. The paper focuses onthree topics that could be considered part of the “hidden curriculum” of successful proposalwriting for this program: situating your project within your vision for your academic career,communicating effectively with program officers, and developing a support network for yourproposal writing. Examples of career visions are included from Engineering Education CAREERawardees. Writing prompts are included to help prospective investigators develop their owncareer visison.Keywords: NSF CAREER, proposal writing, program officer, career visionIntroductionThe Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) competition is a unique program
, 2018 A Review of Electronic Engineering Logbooks Throughout the Electrical Engineering Curriculum Abstract Successful engineers must be well versed in communication skills, particularly with respect to written documentation in engineering logbooks. Such logs provide technical records that facilitate the day-to-day work of individual engineers, as well as enable continuity when projects are transferred to other engineers. Due to changes in technology and patent law, as well as the promise of simple archiving and sharing of technical work, many practicing engineers have moved away from traditional bound paper engineering notebooks and
the change and technology. The market will demandindividuals with these skills, competencies, and personal convictions to create the changesnecessary to achieve an environmentally sustainable future.Industrial designers apply specific problem-solving processes to develop ideas. Classmates andcolleagues inexperienced with design are unfamiliar with this style of development, such assketching ideas, making mock-ups, producing engineering and illustrative graphics, creatingmodels of a project, and problem solving methodologies applied. A specific area of difficultyexperienced by many students in this environment is honest verbal and written critique of ideasfor fear of criticism. The critique process is particularly challenging, as students from
the fundingthey seek. The perspectives provided are from one person’s experiences and not officiallyendorsed by any funding agency. The goal is to provide encouraging and tangible advice on hownew faculty can approach writing their first proposals and get them funded.The Top Ten Do’s & Don’ts to Earn Competitive Funding as a New Professor#1: Do over prepare the project idea and proposalPreparation is essential. Do an extensive literature search and include it in the proposal. Thisdemonstrates your command of the field and allows you to contextualize your own new, novelidea within the field. It is important to directly state how your proposed idea will contribute tothe knowledge in the field. Write frequently on the proposal, revise what
project management; and 12) Life-long learning,where every one of them can be measured as introduced (I), developed (D), or applied (A) [6].The school of engineering currently requires the instructor of every course to map the courseoutline learning outcomes to the graduate attributes. This can be a one-to-one or many-to-one,but not many-to-many relationship. Also, every learning outcome is ideally evaluated in two ormore assessment items (e.g., quiz or exam questions, laboratory assignments) or other learningand teaching activities. Basically, evaluating students’ performance for a specific learningoutcome is used for measuring their achievement level for the corresponding graduate attribute.If, for a particular graduate attribute, a certain
beyond the scope of the typical graduate student training.Consider these excerpts from job postings in the Chronicle of Higher Education (all listed underengineering, January 2015): “The responsibilities of the [Engineering Capstone Design] Facilitator include: identifying and recruiting appropriate design projects (summer support available), supporting the project sponsors and technical mentors, monitoring student group budget management, coordinating engineering design course content, and identi- fying and facilitating opportunities and forums for publication/presentation of stu- dent project success.” The candidate must have the “ability to coordinate the engineering operations management
sectors as an engineer and/or project manager. A registered professional engineer and certified project manager (PMP), Dr. Banik has more than 40 refereed publications in the area of civil engineering and construction management. He has presented his research in several well-known and peer-reviewed conferences, such as ASEE, ASCE, ASC, WEFTEC and CIB, and published articles in those conference proceedings. He presented his research all over the world, including the United States, Canada, Greece, Italy, Brazil, and the Philippines. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Strategies and Techniques for Tenure-Track Faculty to Become Successful in AcademiaAlthough engineering and
Paper ID #17668The Paperless First Year ProfessorDr. Rustin Deane Webster, Purdue University, New Albany Dr. Rustin Webster is an assistant professor at Purdue University. He teaches within the Purdue Poly- technic Institute and the department of engineering technology. He specializes in mechanical engineering and computer graphics technology. Prior to joining Purdue, Dr. Webster worked in the Department of Defense field as an engineer, project manager, and researcher. His specialization was in mechanical de- sign, research and development, and business development. He studied at Murray State University and the
jointly. These concepts areinterrelated and will be discussed to expound on the concepts as they were developed in ourdiscussion.Co-authorship Entitlement – There is no entitlement to co-authorship just because someone ispart of the untenured team (UFAST in our case). Each paper, research project or grant proposalwould have an initiator or team of initiators. Others who want to participate would need tocommunicate what they can contribute to the project and the initiators had the full right tograciously refuse the offer of help. There are many reasons why help might be refused. Amongpersonal reasons is the potential participant; 1) does not know the subject well enough, 2) doesnot follow through on commitments, and 3) does not “play well with
with graduate students.General Tips for Working with Graduate StudentsBe selective but not picky in selecting your studentsMany times, new faculty members start looking for the ideal graduate student – who had a 4.0GPA from a top 10 engineering program, with exceptional oral and written communication skillsand experience doing undergraduate research. They will then pass up very strong students whohave a significant amount of desire, but may not possess all of the desired characteristics.Clearly, there are some basic level skills that graduate students will need to do a particularresearch project, but a significant number of these skills can be made up for by hard work andenthusiasm for a research project.Treat the graduate students as a junior
liberal arts specialization;and at least 4 LSE courses: two on project-based learning, a senior project course, and acapstone.As of Fall 2014, over 34.5% of the 55 LSE total graduates are women. Eighteen of these 55alumni graduated with an engineering concentration that included at least 4 quarters of theintroductory computer science sequence (CSC 123, 101, 102, and 103) – and thus, for thepurposes of this paper, function as a comparison group to the computing disciplines at CPSU andnationally. Of these eighteen LSE-computing disciplines alumni, seven, or 38.9%, are women. Page 26.1095.2Why this difference? One explanation is that LSE is a small
theproposal. To illustrate, sometimes an idea stews for a good while in the form of an initial concepton which a team of colleagues continues to ponder and explore a direction for a particular topic andthe viability of the project. Conversations through collaborative interaction, among team members,are critical in bringing the most effective articulation of proposal pieces, and the multitude of pointsof views, from a collaborating team, enable a powerful array of avenues in building to the mostcompetitive proposal: in short, a group genius approach is far more productive than a solo centeredmodel. For example, the working group may have continual conversations, read, try things in thelab, ponder and pilot aspects of the work, etc., before even
. Richard Millman is the Director of the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC) and Professor of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in Mathematics. He was the President of Knox College (Galesburg, IL), Provost of Whittier College (Whittier, CA) and the founding Provost for California State University, San Marcos. He has twice served 2-year terms as a Program Officer at NSF, was interim chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Kentucky, and is the Principal Investigator and Project Director of ALGEBRA CUBED
for incoming freshmen students to get themengaged and connected to the College of Engineering. The main freshmen components are the E2 - Encounter Engineering Bridge campand the ENGR 1050, Introduction to Engineering freshmen class. Based on student,instructor and industry feedback, activities have continuously been adapted andimplemented to improve the quality of the program. For example, development andgrowth of a strong peer-mentoring component has helped support scaling the project forlarger numbers of students. Additional adjustments to staffing and funding have beennecessary through the years to accommodate the changing enrollment. In addition, theinformation presented as been updated and revised to best meet the needs of the
program is targeted to improving the recruitment and success offemale faculty members in science and engineering through program initiatives designed toimprove departmental and university climate. As part of the research and assessment componentof this project at Virginia Tech, a research project was launched to conduct yearly interviewswith the cohort of faculty entering faculty positions in engineering in the fall of 2003. A time ofsevere budget restraints, the cohort was unusually small, with only 12 new faculty members (5women; 7 men) hired in engineering. Each member of the cohort was contacted once a year toparticipate in an interview and to discuss the priorities, challenges, and support that were uniqueto that year.PurposeIt is rare to
options. Projects, commonly used in upper-level electivesand senior design courses, permit students to explore a particular topic in great depth. Grading aproject may involve reviewing deliverables such as proposals, design documents, posters,presentations, and final reports. Since team work is an important part of projects, assessmentmay also include factors such as individual effort, team communication, and projectmanagement.In compiling the list of tips presented in this paper, we not only relied on our experience as newfaculty members but also received advice from more experienced faculty. We interviewedseveral faculty members from different disciplines of engineering and computer science on howthey graded various course activities. Our first
Black Engineers (NSBE), andAmerican Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES). Finally there are theorganizations that focus on build projects that include concrete canoe, steel bridge,formula SAE, SAE Baja and challenge X competition teams. Many of theaforementioned organizations can fall into this final category, making advising two-fold: Page 13.163.2focusing on the tenets of the organization as well as an involved design and build. All ofthese organizations have an advisor or counselor, though in recent years there has been amove away from “faculty” advisors. ASME now calls their advisors “student sectionadvisors” and allow for ASME
parking spaces, where such new spaces or parking lots could be located and the financing ofsuch construction. Unfortunately, transportation studies and parking lot layout and design werenot in the faculty member’s area of expertise. If they had been, the committee experiences mighthave been easily incorporated into the classroom leading to interesting class design projects withreal world application. This could have been documented in a paper resulting in a scholarlypublication.Service on curriculum committees can provide opportunities for publications. Curriculumdevelopment and revision often involves reviewing the literature to see what other institutionsare doing in a given area, determining what modifications are needed to suit one’s own
AC 2007-2062: DISTINGUISHING THE ART FROM THE SCIENCE OFTEACHING WITHIN RESEARCH-BASED CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENTWendy James, Oklahoma State University Wendy James is a PhD student in the College of Education at Oklahoma State University. Currently she has a fellowship promoting collaboration between the College of Education and OSU's Electrical and Computer Engineering department on an NSF funded curriculum reform project called Engineering Students for the 21st Century. She has her M.S. in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership from OSU, and her B.B.S. in Mathematics Education from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. She has taught math and math education classes at both the high
undergraduate students (freshman through senior) and has participated in several engineering education research projects, with a focus how faculty can best facilitate student learning.Dr. Nanette M Veilleux, Simmons College Nanette Veilleux is a Professor and Director of the Computer Science and Informatics Program at Sim- mons College, Boston, MA. Her research interests include pedagogy in STEM disciplines, particularly with respect to women students and computational linguistics where she investigates the use of intonation in human speech.Ms. Mee Joo Kim, University of Washington- Seattle MJ Kim is a Ph.D. student in Educational Leadership, Policy & Organizations Studies (Higher Educa- tion) at the
day-to-day operations ofengineering projects effectively supplements the traditional engineering curricula.” Based on mypersonal experience as a practicing engineer and engineering educator this belief has a lot ofmerit, because:(1) most students want to identify themselves with practicing engineers,(2) academic environment is all too often defined by faculty with solid scientific background butmarginal, if any, engineering field experience,(3) engineering practice tends to find simplest (mathematical) tools to complete a task,(4) full time faculty insist on use of advanced scientific techniques in solving a problem. Page 14.374.3That said
learning environment. Instructional methods used in undergraduatecivil engineering courses at The Citadel are presented and discussed. Active learning techniquesand student enrichment activities include: clicker quizzes, in-class group activities, classexamples, application of technology, hands-on field experiences, community service projects,and professional skills development. Student performance data and results from semester-longactive learning applications are tabulated and analyzed to explore effectiveness and applicationinsights. In addition, use of structured student enrichment activities are reviewed and tabulatedwith regard to purpose, use, relevance, and outcomes.Vision for Civil Engineering GraduatesAn emerging vision for the civil
Page 23.898.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Mentoring Programs Supporting Junior FacultyAbstract In this paper we discuss the junior faculty cohort mentoring program we developed aspart of our National Science Foundation funded ADVANCE project. We first providebackground on our ADVANCE project and review the mentoring literature that helped shape ourmentoring program. Then, we describe our program, and discuss the benefits received by theparticipants: mentees and mentors.Introduction North Dakota State University (NDSU), a progressive, public, land grant university in theupper great plains, has been undergoing transformation since the late nineties. The
– Mechanical Engineering Analysis ME 412 – Heat Transfer Reading, thinking, and teamwork Design Project Documentation: Tools: Matlab Formal Report (1 @ 10 pp. + App., Individual) Memo Reports ( X @ 2 - 5 pages App., Individual) Page 22.1263.5
third year it became apparent that six ofthese skills were the most significant and as a result have been classified as the Six Ps. Theseskills include: planning, project management, problem solving, presentation, patience, andpersistence. Each of these skills is noteworthy in their own right, but collectively they areessential for success as an engineering educator.Planning. Perhaps planning is the first and most critical of the skills. It is the initial phase ofpreparation for any project. Most jobs and assignments can be considered as a project that needsto be managed including teaching a course, running a committee, or preparing curriculum.Planning involves every aspect of developing a project including a schedule or timetable right upuntil