Grant and has received IRB approval fromCarnegie Mellon University.References [1] J. Hope and M. Witmore. “The hundredth Psalm to the tune of ‘Green Sleeves’: Digital approaches to Shakespeare’s language of genre.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 357-390, 2010. [2] J. Hope and M. Witmore. “The very large textual object: A prosthetic reading of Shakespeare.” Early Modern Literary Studies, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1-36, 2004. [3] D. Kaufer, C. Geisler, P. Vlachos and S. Ishizaki, S., “Mining textual knowledge for writing education and research,” in Writing and Digital Media, L. v. Waes, M. Leijten, and C. Neuwirth, Eds. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science, 2006, pp. 115-130. [4] D. Kaufer, S
Calculus Females (Actual and Normal) 60 Algebra Males 50 Algebra Females 40 Calculus-Males m = 15.8 s = 4.8 30 Calculus-Females
%), withdisciplines having an average of 26.3% women undergraduates at the schools examined.Table 1: Summary of schools included in analysis. All ASEE data (enrollment, disciplinecategories) from 2016 except for New Mexico Tech (2015) (ASEE 2015, 2016). Reg = Region(C = Central, E = Eastern, NE = Northeastern, S = Southern, SC = South Central, SW =Southwestern, MW = Midwestern, W = Western); No. ASEE Disc Cat = number of disciplinecategories (including “Other Engineering”) listed in the profile; FT = Full-time, PT = Part-time,UG = undergraduate, Fem = Female. No. ASEE Pub/ % FT % PTSchool
, MATH 1348 Analytical Geometry,Year-2 PHYS 2425/2426 Physics I/II, CHEM 1311 Inorganic Chemistry I MATH 1316 Trigonometry, MATH 1348 Analytical Geometry, MATH 3320Year-3 Differential Equations, PHYS 2425 Physics I, CHEM 1311 Inorganic Chemistry I Identify Concept(s) to be Develop Draft Module Identify Bottleneck Covered Each Week including Sample Problems/ Concepts According to Teaching Examples and Solutions (Course Instructor) Schedule
or other dataacquisition tools and analyzed.The technical objectives are achieved as follows:Experimentally, determine stress in a part by measuring strain (understand relationship betweenstress and strain in linear elastic materials): A laboratory handout was developed to allowstudents to calculate the bending stress in the beams based on an applied load (most of thestudents have not yet completed strength of materials course). Students put various loads on the 3beam (50g, 100g, 200g, 500g) and record the corresponding strain values. They calculate stressbased on beam bending theory (s=Mc/I) and compare that with the experimentally determinedvalue from the strain measurements (s=Ee).Be able to
in the field studies reported here. Any opinions,findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of theauthor(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References1. Arnold, A. (1999). Retention and persistence in postsecondary education: A summation of research studies. Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation, 5.2. Chang, M. J., Sharkness, J., Hurtado, S., & Newman, C. B. (2014). What matters in college for retaining aspiring scientists and engineers from underrepresented racial groups. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 51(5), 555-580.3. Hayes, R. Q., Whalen, S. K., & Cannon, B. (2009). Csrde stem retention report, 2008–2009. Center for
the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1148806. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References[1] C. A. Wolters, “Self-regulated learning and college students’ regulation of motivation.,” J. Educ. Psychol., vol. 90, no. 2, pp. 224–235, 1998.[2] J. H. Flavell, “Metacognition and cognitive monitoring: A new area of cognitive– developmental inquiry,” Am. Psychol., vol. 34, no. 10, pp. 906–911, 1979.[3] P. Pintrich, “The role of metacognitive knowledge in learning, teaching, and assessing,” Theory Pract., vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 231–236, 2002.[4] O. Lawanto, “Students
affords us thechance to change our curriculum, making improvements based on teacher and student feedback;we will continue to do so, analyzing forthcoming results to gauge the success of the curriculumin changing student perceptions. The continuation of the project presents further opportunities toimmerse ourselves in student design experiences and uncover features that are influential forchanging student perceptions about engineering.AcknowledgementsThis materials is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNo. 1513175-DRL.References1. McGrath, E., Sayres, J., Lowes, S., & Lin, P. (2008, October). Underwater lego robotics as the vehicle to engage students in STEM: The build it project's first year of
in relation toengineering-specific domains of thinking, such as Testing and Design Requirements (criteria andconstraints). Future studies can expand this assessment instrument by testing it in other middleschool classrooms, and they can validate later iterations of this instrument. References[1] Manz, E. (2015). Representing student argumentation as functionally emergent from scientific activity. Reviewof Educational Research, 85(4), 553-590.[2] Sampson, V., & Blanchard, M. R. (2012). Science teachers and scientific argumentation: Trends in views andpractice. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 49(9), 1122-1148.[3] Ryu, S., & Sandoval, W. A. (2012). Improvement to elementary
studentswrote in the triggering phase (Wang & Chen, 2008). This includes doing further research on atopic in order to support an argument being made against another student’s post or exploringother research because a student’s attention was brought to another aspect of the topic byanother student’s initial post. The final phase is the most important and is when a studentintegrates what s/he learned from discussion with other students (Wang & Chen, 2008). Thiswould typically be seen in a post later in the discussion after there has been enough discussionfor students to process the new perspectives and assimilate them to their understanding. Theguidelines that the online learning coordinator provides to encourage meaningful participationin the
2.5 psi (0.17 atm) reduction inpressure. The experiment ended when the tank reached a pressure of 7.5 psig (1.5 atm absolute).Safety ConcernsProper safety equipment for this experiment includes the wearing of safety goggles, long pantsand protective gloves. Prior to tank venting, the orifice must be free of obstruction, and thepath of the pressurized air must be clear to avoid damage to students and the surroundings.Experimental DataTable 1 presents the experimental data, collected as the time required to reach 5 psi, and later,2.5 psi pressure changes in the tank. Table 1. Experimental Data - Tank Pressure versus Time Time (s) Tank Pressure (psig) 0
this research; 1. All students from the three cultures, China, India, and the United States, are found to very smart and hardworking. 2. The male to female ratio of classes in the three cultures currently is 60:40 in China, 75:25 in India, and 85:15 in the United States. 3. The students from China, India, and the United States need to be careful in homework and exams. Academic Dishonesty and Academic Integrity are taken very seriously in American classrooms. These items are published in a class syllabus and advertised time to time in the class.References1 Song, S., “Personal Communication,” China, Jan 2017.2 Kumar, S., “Personal Communication,” India, Feb 2017.3 Gee, B., “Personal
requirements of industrial jobs15. The key point is thatengineering students should develop these skills while pursuing engineering curriculum.However, it is important that they should also have a belief (self-efficacy) that they can use theseskills under various circumstances7.Purpose of the StudyWe introduce an approach for measuring personal perception of students' self-efficacy inengineering modeling and design courses. An instrument is proposed that can be used byeducators in engineering modeling and design courses to assess student perception of self-efficacy. Bandura, A. , " Self-efficacy", In V. S. Ramachaudran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of humanbehavior ,Vol. 4, Academic Press, New York, 1994, 77-81. that Accreditation Board forEngineering and
concept has grown since the late 1950’s. Krupczak andBlake (Blake & Krupczak Jr., 2014) have charted development of the concept, lookingparticularly at the intersection of technological literacy with engineering literacy. It shouldbe noted that the term “technological literacy” is more commonly used in the United Statesthan other nations. A sense of how technological literacy has become more prevalent inconversations on education can be seen by looking at the word frequency of the term usingthe Ngram viewing tool (Google, 2010). While this tool has significant biases and limitations(Pechenick, Danforth, & Dodds, 2015) the relatively high representation of scientific andtechnical literature in the corpus and the fact that “technological
-world issues,and consistent iteration helps both “mitigate design fixation” and “reinforce[s]...adaptive andcreative thinking” (p. 2). University makerspaces serve as a central location for students topractice knowledge learned in the classroom, and hone their design skills.Antonucci-Durgan, et. al (2014), Dukart (2016), and Whitmer (2014) acknowledge academicmakerspaces as spaces where experiential education occurs. Two examples of experientiallearning opportunities are internships and cooperative learning (co-op) programs. Whileinternships and co-op programs are encouraged in engineering education settings, there are fewestablished opportunities of such opportunities at university makerspaces. There is evidence ofseveral university makerspace
verbal (V) ability, in the middle is spatial (S) and math (M) is on the right. STEMstudents, to the right of Figure 1, have an ‘I’ shaped ability profile (i.e. M > S > V), incontrast to the ‘V’ shaped profile (i.e. M ≥ V > S) of the HSS students. Clearly, the ‘I’shaped profile, developed by high school, was a predictor of a STEM education path anddistance travelled on this path. Given that this predictor contains not just math ability butspatial ability also, STEM educators have reason to treat spatial ability in the same way asmath ability: assess incoming students for the ability and provide resources to address anyshortcomings in it. While it is now common to find math learning support centers co-existingbeside engineering schools
hybrid water supply systems in the context of urban water management: challenges and opportunities. Water, 7: 153‐174. 5 Gran, S. B., Saphores, J., Feldman, Hamilton, A. j., Fletcher, T. D., Cook, P. L. M., Stewardson, M., Sanders, B. F., Levin, L. A., Ambrose, R. F., Deletic, A., Brown, R., Jiang, S. C., Rosso, D., Cooper, W. J., and Marusic, I. (2012) Taking the “Waste” out of “Wastewater” for human water security and ecosystem sustainability. Science, 337(6095): 681‐686. 6 Rahman, S., Khan, M.T.R., Akib, S., Din, N. B. C., Biswas, S. K., and Shirazi, S. M. (2014) Sustainability of rainwater harvesting system in terms of water quality. The Scientific World Journal, 2014. 7 Jhansi, S. C. and
(S&T) wasusing two different learning management systems (LMS) to organize administration,documentation, tracking, reporting, and delivery of students’ academic information(Lonn and Teasley, 2009). Blackboard is the existing LMS in use; however, Canvas iscurrently undergoing a trial on campus. Three students in undergraduate courses onQuality and Human Factors worked with their course instructors and members of thecampus educational technology department to evaluate the two learning managementsystems. This project was part of their undergraduate research. The goal of theresearch was to collect user data, analyze performance, and develop conclusionsregarding the two LMS for the campus. Based on the analysis, recommendations weremade for
process and the actual capstone course(s) can occur in many forms [20].Some universities have an initial course in design methods [1, 26, 11, 27], followed by either aone or two semester capstone course. Integration of the instruction in design methods orprocesses could also occur in the one or two semester capstone experience [28]. Although manycurriculums have some small design content inserted into their early major’s courses, thecapstone experience may be the first time that students have been exposed to a formal, completedesign process.If the capstone project is the students’ first experience with implementation of the formal designprocess, students are likely to have difficulty understanding the motivation behind the designprocess [17
those who are simply prohibited from the use ofcomputers in the classroom.IntroductionInternet usage in the educational arena has grown enormously over the past three decades.Back in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, burgeoning Intranets were popping up oncollege campuses. Internet accessibility outside of the classroom and in dormitories, etc.soon followed. Today, access to WiFi is something college campuses must have as theyare “graded on” it in many cases: the more Internet availability and better student access,the better the grades.2,3 Given the expansion of Internet accessibility and usage ofelectronic wireless devices, the natural progression is the use of such technology in theenhancement of education over those same decades.In the
. Consumerproducts that depend on deep learning, products like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home, are thetip of a new wave of innovation that will change the way consumers interact with products.Scientists and engineers with expertise in deep learning are already in short supply.Deep learning is based on an old technology — neural networks. In fact, some argue that deeplearning is simply a re-branding of neural networks, a technology that has been through several“hype-cycles 3 .” Neural networks date to as far back as the 1940’s and 1950’s. In 1957, FrankRosenblatt introduced the Perceptron, the forerunner of today’s modern neural networks. What isnew today is the availability of big data sets to train large and deep neural networks and theavailability of the
- Flexible Manufacturing (Grouping 06) by Country (YTD DECEMBER 2015) - Monthly and Cumulative Data (in Millions US $). Available online at: http://www.census.gov/foreign- trade/statistics/product/atp/2015/12/atpctry/atpg06.html (last accessed in July 2016).[2] U.S. Census Bureau. U.S. Trade in Advanced Technology Products - Flexible Manufacturing (Grouping 06) by Country (YTD DECEMBER 2014) - Monthly and Cumulative Data (in Millions US $). Available online at: http://www.census.gov/foreign- trade/statistics/product/atp/2014/12/atpctry/atpg06.html (last accessed in July 2016).[3] Hsieh, S. "Skill Sets Needed for Industrial Automation Careers" 2016 ASEE Annual Conference, June 26-29, New Orleans, LA.[4] Ren C. Luo, Wei
will be presented to high school students as part of Siant LouisUniversity engineering summer camps in June and July 2017.BibliographyDeWalt, K. M., & DeWalt, B. R. (2011). Participant observation: A guide for fieldworkers. Rowman Altamira.Elam, M. E., Fonseca, D. J., & Lindly, J. K. (2011). Transportation Systems Curriculum for High Schools. Retrieved February 2, 2011.Islam, S., & Brown, S. (2013). Transportation-OPOLY: An Innovative Tool to Promote Transportation Engineering. International Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, 2(3), 31–36.Luken, B., & Mumbower, S. (2010). Poster: Engaging Transportation Engineering Activities for Middle School and High School Students. Louisville, Kentucky
groups,studied and analyzed options available to them, developed sustainability projects to be proposed,presented their ideas in front of their colleagues (in ENG 573) for critical feedback, consulted withpersonnel at university’s facilities and services (F and S) and other departments, prepared the proposals,and then submitted them before the deadline. This paper is also a part of the exercise, written primarilyby the students in class. It was a valuable experience. Based on lessons learned, this class will be offeredagain in this format in coming semesters.INTRODUCTIONUniversity of Illinois has an Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE, [2]). College ofEngineering at the University of Illinois has been offering a graduate
that shading can not only inhibit the performance of the array, butcan cause power to be absorbed into shaded panels from non-shaded panels. The phenomenontermed hot-spot can occur when an imperfection in materials, flaws in fabrication, partial shadingor some form of damage to the panel(s) has occurred (Pandian, 2016).An important factor in the absorption of irradiance by PV panels is the state in which the solarfaced glass surface is maintained. Regular cleaning intervals are recommended and are usuallydetermined by both physical and geographic location of the array. Partial shading of PV panelsby foliage may exacerbate poorer performance due to organic material adhering to the glass suchas leaf debris, sap, or pollen. Airborne contaminants
reason to believe thatprefrontal cortex is not fully developed until at least age 25, calling further into question thevalue of undergraduate classroom assignments aimed at improving ethical judgments (e.g.,Aamodt & Wang 2008).25 In general there is reason for hope, as some assessment instrumentshave shown growth from educational interventions. We turn to this topic of assessment next.In terms of assessing how students perceive ethical and moral situations, one of the mostwidely-used instruments for measuring students’ ethical or moral reasoning is the DefiningIssues Test 2 (DIT-2),26,27 that was developed in the 1970’s and takes as its basis Kohlberg’sMoral Development Theory.28 The DIT-2 is administered by evaluating participant
79 16 M Private R2 INTRO 140 17 F Private M1 INTRO 123* Carnegie classifications: R1 = Doctoral Universities: Highest Research Activity; R2 = Doctoral Universities: Higher Research Activity; M1 = Master's Colleges and Universities: Larger Programs; M3 = Master's Colleges and Universities: Smaller Programs; B-A/S = Baccalaureate Colleges: Arts & Sciences Focus; and B-DIV = Baccalaureate Colleges: Diverse Fields** Course disciplines: CBME = Chemical/Biomedical Engineering; CIVIL = Civil and Environmental Engineering; DESIGN = Design; EECS = Electrical Engineering/Computer
Paper ID #19425Professional Licensure: The Core of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowl-edgeDr. Matthew Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute Matthew (Matt) Swenty obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering from Missouri S&T, worked as a bridge designer at the Missouri Department of Transportation, then returned to school to obtain his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech. He worked at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center in McClean, Virginia on accelerated bridge and concrete bridge research before coming to the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). He teaches engineering mechanics
larger mixed methods study that will inform policies for women faculty in engineering. Acknowledgement This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundationunder Grant Numbers 1535456 and 1712618. 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. References1. Bilimoria, D., Joy, S. & Liang, X. Breaking barriers and creating inclusiveness: Lessons of organizational transformation to advance women faculty in academic science and engineering. Hum. Resour. Manage. 47, 423–441 (2008
-cost setup of an FMS educational platform has the potential of achieving variousobjectives, which include teaching the fundamental concepts and applications of roboticsand automation in FMS, enabling students to participate in hands-on innovative laboratoryexercises, and exposing students to the innovative methodologies in FMS.7 References[1] Hu, S. J., Ko, J., Weyand, L., ElMaraghy, H. A., Lien, T. K., Koren, Y., Bley, H., Chryssolouris, G., Nasr, N. and Shpitalni, M., 2011. “Assembly System Design and Operations for Product Variety.” CIRP Annals-Manufacturing Technology, 60(2), 15-733.[2] Makris, S., Michalos, G., Eytan, A., and Chryssolouris, G. 2012. “Cooperating Robots for Reconfigurable Assembly Operations