. As is always the case, numerous unanticipated events and activities occurred requiringadditional time and effort.The preparation of new courses is both an exciting and time consuming process. It requireswriting syllabuses, lecture notes, projects or homework assignments, and examinations. This caneasily become an overwhelming task for the new professor. However, by utilizing the lessonslearned from the previous years experience [1] and referring to the many excellent books andpapers written on effective teaching techniques and practices including those by Gupta [2],Wankat [3], Laurillard [4], Ramsden [5], Knight [6], and Yelon [7] the task became manageable.Appointments to department and university committees were an entirely different
buthad trouble with traditional assessments in school. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Student BStudent B provides another example of a student with a borderline learning problem. Thisstudent was not a star in the mechanical engineering technology classes, receiving C’s in bothFluid Dynamics and Metrology. However in the Senior Project course this individual becamethe team leader and was responsible for keeping everyone on schedule, communicating with theteam, dealing with the customer, and producing the final product. This student handled all thetasks far better than expected and was a
. Indeed, Project 2061, which initiated the currentround of reform with Science for All Americans 8 and pushed for the establishment of nationalscience content standards, specifically addresses the importance of understanding The DesignedWorld. 9 Furthermore, the national technology standards developed by the International Societyfor Technology in Education have strong connections to engineering. 10Indeed, an engineering curriculum may be the best way for students to understand technologicaldesign or to distinguish between man-made and natural objects (Science and Technologystandard). Understanding risks and benefits or natural hazards (Science in Personal and SocialPerspectives standard) also has strong connections to engineering. Furthermore
conducted. In the first study students enrolled in experimental lab sections hadthe benefit of physical models, fifty in all, of varying levels of difficulty, as an aid tovisualization while engaged in the study of orthographic projections. The associated controlgroup used traditional teaching methods, without the benefit of the physical models.The second study was designed specifically to help students identified as having poorvisualization skills. The Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Rotations (PSVT:R) was used asboth a pre and post-test for all students enrolled in the graphics course. The PSVT:R pre-testresults were used to select students for the second study. Half of the students identified ashaving scored poorly on the PSVT:R were invited
/learningcommunities model, the pilot program sought to provide support and guidance for doctoralstudents whose progress on their dissertations had stalled. In this paper, I present an overview ofthe program; some preliminary outcome data; a discussion of the program’s effectiveness,foregrounding the voices of the participants; and some projections for the future.IntroductionStories about doctoral students who fail to complete their programs abound. Certainly PurdueUniversity was no exception in 1998 when I received my doctorate. We had our "urbanlegends;" someone knew someone who knew someone else. I remember noticing that a womanwho had been part of my statistics study group was not in any of my classes one semester. WhenI asked about her, one of my
Page 7.543.6 and photocell as a transducer Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe final hands-on experience for this course incorporates a project-oriented lab towards the endof the semester that uses all of the circuit components introduced in class. Typically, fourconsecutive 50-minute classes are used for the successful implementation and testing of aphotoelectric counter. The design is broken into four sections as shown in Figure 6. Studentsstart designing and building circuits from the back-end. During the first class
3.2 3.2 3.4 Problem Definition 3.0 2.9 3.0 Equipment Design 2.6 2.8 2.5 Technical Writing 3.4 3.6 3.3 Technical Presentations 3.5 3.5 3.5 Experimental Design 2.7 2.7 2.7 Process Design and Analysis 3.1 3.0 2.8Non-technical engineering skills such as decision making, ethics, teamwork, societal impactawareness, project management, public interaction, global awareness, diversity, entrepreneurism, andcontinuous
Transformation for the Advancement of Women Faculty.” TheAdvocates and Allies (A&A) project at RIT is based on an innovative approach designed byNorth Dakota State University to involve faculty men intentionally in the transformation of Proceedings of the 2022 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2022, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 335departmental cultures and practices [6]. The approach is specifically designed for academicsettings to support men faculty, in consultation with women faculty, in gender-equity efforts andincludes two essential components:• Recognize the implicit and
, sustainability, cybersecurity, facilities design, green logis- tics, production management, and predictive analytics. He has been a principal investigator in sponsored projects from the National Science Foundation, the National Security Agency, the U.S. Department of Labor, and Venture Well. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Decoding Challenges in Organizing Innovation Competitions and Programs: A Thematic Analysis of Interviews with OrganizersAbstractEducational programs like innovation competitions and programs (ICPs) play a pivotal role inentrepreneurial development among student participants. Students focusing on science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields tend
comprehensive learning experience,accommodating the student's needs while maintaining the course's rigorous standards.The objective of the project is to provide the student with an intimate understanding of thecapabilities and limitations of computer-aided design, as well as the ease or difficulty ofexecuting certain tasks using this type of software. Ultimately, CAD software is not well-designed for visually impaired users, and this project will not necessarily provide the studentwith the ability to utilize the software directly. Instead, it is expected that the developed coursematerials and assignments will prepare the student to confidently and effectively collaborate withother professionals in environments where CAD tools are employed.Existing
jobsequence to minimize various performance measures including total or mean flowtimes,makespan, tardiness, and lateness, among others. In a flowshop, jobs must follow the samesequence from one machine to the next.In the present research project, 102 six-job, four-machine permutation flowshop schedulingproblem were examined to assess the performance of heuristic algorithm in terms of total flowtime.The randomly generated job processing times on each machine were drawn from a discrete uniformdistribution in the range [1,100].The job completion time matrix was randomly structured; each completion time was modeledusing an integer uniform distribution in the interval [1,100] using Excel’s RANDBETWEENfunction. With the goal of evaluating the performance
three independent coders followed bydiscussion to resolve disagreements. Table 1 displays the list of codes and subcodes. Code Acronym & Subcode Acronyms & Names Name OP: Overall OP0: No subcode OP3: Fellowship requirements OP7: Workload program OP1: Acceptance OP4: Bureaucratic and administrative OP8: TA/RA/GTPA OP2: Matriculation (bureaucratic issues after first class & academic issues before first OP5: New – Starting the Program class) OP6: Cohort PA: Projects and PA0: No subcode
Hiroshima • 80 students, 3 TAs, 4 co-instructors from one US institution • Classes in Tokyo held at a Japanese university • Class format: primarily project-based learning • Reflection assignments • 2 pages each • 1 at the beginning of class, 2 during, 1 at end • Prior to the last reflection due date: class about CCW 10 INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS IMPLICATIONS & CONCLUSIONS● The class was taught by one member of the author team at the home institution for students at that US-based institution● Students earned 3 credit hours (engineering elective) towards
Paper ID #40893Utilizing art exhibits as a low-stakes activity to improve teamworkexperiencesDr. Amy Borello Gruss, Kennesaw State University Amy Borello Gruss is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Gruss graduated with her PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Florida studying aqueous mercury removal from industrial wastewaters using photochemical processes on an NSF Grad- uate Research Fellowship Program grant. Dr. Gruss gained experience in the consulting field working on water projects such as novel disinfection processes within water resource
BalanceWork-life balance is crucial for women engineers, as it pertains to finding a balance betweentheir professional responsibilities as engineers and personal commitments outside of work. Itinvolves effectively managing their time, energy, and priorities to ensure they find fulfillmentboth in their careers and personal lives. To achieve this balance, they need to be able to pursuetheir career aspirations, meet job demands, and engage in meaningful projects while alsofulfilling their family responsibilities, personal interests, and self-care routines.The ability to achieve work-life balance enables women engineers to thrive in their careers whilemaintaining overall well-being and satisfaction in their personal lives. They can achieve this
develop and debug programs by performingthe class exercises along with individual and group programming projects. Outcomes areassessed using completed class exercises and projects along with quizzes and exams. Feedbackfrom class exercises is immediate. Projects are assigned approximately every week and a half Page 23.1395.3and ideally returned within a week. This type of instruction requires students to be prepared forclass, hence encouraging student ownership and participation in their learning outcomes (a ASEE 2013 Annual Conferencemetacognitive approach 10). In addition, with the incorporation of
academic programs and the needs ofthe graduates and industry. The academic programs are heavily oriented towards control theory,board-level electronics, interfacing and microprocessors supplemented with laboratoryequipment, such as the inverted pendulum, and projects, such as Lego robots5-7. But industrialapplications require mechanical engineers to design machines with multiple axes that executecomplex, high speed, high precision coordinated motion using sophisticated motion controllers.In this paper, we present overview of a new course and its laboratory developed in partnershipwith industry. The course aims to teach “the fundamentals” while focusing on industrial motioncontrol technology and multi-axis machines. The course was offered for the
backgrounds.Workforce studies have shown that the number of students being educated in STEM (science,technology, engineering, and math) cannot meet projected demands [1]. Also, the currentenrollments in engineering are not diverse, especially among women, blacks, and Hispanics [2].On a related issue, a recent survey of engineers in industry indicates a compelling need forengineers to have strong communication skills [3]. To address these challenges, Pennsylvania State University created the EngineeringAmbassador Program: a professional development program for undergraduate engineeringstudents with an outreach mission to middle and high schools. The development mission is toenrich the communication and leadership skills of engineering undergraduates
meetings: student leadership meetings, sub-team meetings, and the independent studymeeting. In addition to the observations, some archival data from both research sites wascollected to further supplement the interview data. Specifically, information packets, brochures,DVDs, and summary reports regarding the lab were collected. This information was used tobetter familiarize and contextualize the type of environment that the lab creates for students.The learning site was investigated through two phases of analysis. The first phase of dataanalysis employed an open-coding procedure on interview transcriptions to allow emergingthemes to take precedence. After discovering student autonomy (e.g. project ownership,intentional self-education, self
actively involved in the entrepreneurial process of establishing new companies. Since arriving at Charlotte I co-founded and I am the Chairman of the Board for PiES, Project for innovation, Energy and Sustainability, a non-profit green business incubator that incubated seven companies. I am a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), Institute of Physics (FInstP), and the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Page 24.1142.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 2014 ASEE Annual Conference
specifically on implementing, evaluating, conducting outreach for and promoting the sustainability of education digital libraries. Prior to establishing a consulting practice, Giersch worked in the private sector conducting market analyses and assessments related to deploying technology in higher education. She received a M.S.L.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Dr. Flora P McMartin, Broad-based Knowledge, LLC Flora P. McMartin is the Founder of Broad-based Knowledge, LLC (BbK) , a consulting rm focused on the evaluation of the use and deployment of technology assisted teaching and learning. Throughout her career, she as served as an External Evaluator for a number of NSF-funded projects associated with
evaluate Cycle tion. Transformation 1: Connecting faculty in a Community of Practice community of practice. Figure 1: The “Pyramid of Change”, showing the three levels of transformation that form the objectives of this project; each layer supports the transformations above.ineffective in promoting the adoption of evidence-based practices 1;8 , long-term strategies thatfocus on changing faculty beliefs, motivation, and institutional culture have proven effective 1;8
renewable and alternative power generation processescontinue to be explored, coal is expected to remain a primary solution for electricity needs fordecades to come. Figure 1 illustrates the projected growth of coal consumption by Organisationfor Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)2 member nations as well as non-OECDnations.3 China and India are among the prime drivers for the increase in coal consumption bynon-OECD nations as their large populations and growing standard of living fuel the demand forcheap electricity.Figure 1 – World coal consumption by region, 1980-2040.3 Page 24.1219.2 The increase in coal power in other nations and
variety of settings in spacecraft design and survivability and reliability. He has led programs in experi- mentation, modeling, and simulation of radiation effects in electronic systems. He has been involved with six separate space-based radiation effects experiments over the last 20 years: 1) RadFx-1,-2,-3: A series of CubeSat Based Radiation Effects Testbeds (PI), 2) Microelectronic and Photonics Test Bed (Instrument Card PI), and 3) Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (Investigator), 4) Living With a Star – Space Environment Testbed (mission definition and requirements). As a NASA civil servant, Robert was the lead radiation effects systems engineer for several NASA spaceflight projects, including the
presented in this paper are those of theauthors and do not necessarily represent those of the NSF.References[1] Lovell, M. D., Brophy, S. P., and Li, S. (2013). “Challenge-Based Instruction for a Civil Engineering DynamicsCourse,” Proceedings, 2013 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, June 23-26, 2013.[2] CTGV, Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt (1997). The Jasper project: Lessons in curriculum, Page 24.1273.10instruction, assessment, and professional development, Mahwah, NJ, Erlbaum[3] R. J. Roselli and S. P. Brophy, “Effectiveness of challenge-based instruction in biomechanics,” J. Eng. Educ.,vol. 93, no. 4, pp
facilitator then guides students through the creation of amind map of the ASSIST center. Students work together to understand and graphically depictthe entire ASSIST system including the numerous connections between the center’s researchthrusts, individual research projects, industry partners, test beds, and how all of these fit into themission and vision of the center. Some outcomes of this activity are: • Knowledge and Skills: Systems level understanding of the center. Experience with mind mapping as a systems visualization tool. Mind mapping software skills. (Xmind). • Products: Systems level mind map of the ASSIST center showing relevant connections between projects, thrusts, test-beds, industry, etc. • Ideas: Potential
, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USAI. Introduction Students and hobbyists today are met with a plethora of electronics projects that can be easilycompleted with the wide variety of online resources and extensive documentation. Many of theseprojects include the use of high level embedded systems that serve as a “black box” for electroniccontrol of sensors, actuators, motors, wireless communication, and other complex systems [1-6].Recently, a trend has emerged in which these development platforms have become smaller, easier to use,open source, and affordable. This trend has enabled interesting projects that aim to introduce newtechnologies, inspire technological direction, provide capabilities to the underprivileged, and also
Research Center for 8 years. She worked on several technology development projects in the area of X-ray CT for medical and industrial imaging. She is a named inventor on 9 patents. She has been active in the recruitment and retention of women and minorities in engineering and currently PI for an NSF-STEM grant to improve diversity at Rose-Hulman. Page 23.1051.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 ROSE-BUD (Rose Building Undergraduate Diversity) MAPS (Mentoring and Professional Skills)AbstractThis paper will discuss a program developed in
Paper ID #7562Studying Factors that Influence Scholar Retention in Engineering EducationResearchHanjun Xian, Purdue University, West Lafayette Hanjun Xian is a PhD candidate in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and started to pursue his doctoral degree in engi- neering education in 2009. He is currently working as the student team leader with Dr. Madhavan on the Deep Insights Anytime, Anywhere (DIA2) project, where he develops data mining algorithms and visual- izations to allow interactive navigation of large-scale bibliographic data in
-selected groups of two to three to solve a series of example problems. Thegraded activities for students remained the same as in previous semesters: homeworkassignments that were primarily quantitative; a team project related to remediation that requiredtwo written reports and two oral presentations based on a site risk assessment and a remedialdesign feasibility evaluation; and a midterm and final exam. Assessment methods used todetermine the effectiveness of the revised course model included: student logs showing videoresource use from the Blackboard software; student feedback on an informal in-class survey andthe final course evaluations; a comparison of student knowledge from the traditional class modeland inverted model based on performance