the field of computer engineering by: • increasing the retention rate of students in the program, and • increasing the number of women and minorities entering the program.Currently, freshmen engineering students have no direct exposure to their major area of study untilthe sophomore year. Project SUCCESS provides an opportunity for students to begin the processof networking and interacting with peers and computer engineering faculty during the first year.Students work on team projects related to the field of computer engineering and their subsequentcourses. Analysis of departmental data supports the belief that few students change majors fromcomputer engineering once they begin taking computer engineering courses during the sophomoreyear
or five to design and manufacture an engineering product over thesemester given a set of specifications and constraints. The course introduces freshmanstudents to the field of engineering and the engineering design process that forms thebackbone of real world engineering practice. The class lectures and design integrationdraws knowledge from several different courses/fields the students will be undertaking insubsequent years thereby avoiding compartmentalization of knowledge by rigidsubject/disciplinary boundaries. The students learn project management, teamwork,engineering drawing, project presentation, data analysis, writing technical reports, andfundamentals of engineering science related to the design project assigned.UMES student
-based educational software systemdeveloped at the University of Illinois. It allows instructors to create on-line lecture notes thatinclude equations, animations, and graphics that can be reviewed by students any time from anylocation. It also includes on-line interactive homework problems, Network TA that enablesstudents to communicate with their peers, on-line teaching assistants and instructor via web aswell as web-based bulletin board system and on-line grade book to record student grades.CypberProf enables students to review lecture notes all day, complete homework problems onthe web and receive immediate feedback on their work, and review their grades any time byposting question to their instructor, teaching assistant, and peers using
Society for Engineering Education• Introduction to cooperative learning and peer evaluation.• Understanding of ethical issues in technology from multiple professional perspectives.• Examination of the assumptions, impact, and implications of technological decisions.• Exploration and research of ethical issues in application of technology. To provide the reader with a better understanding of the way the course has beendeveloped and integrated into the multidisciplinary student collective, course assignmentsamples are provided below. It is important to emphasize that students are divided into teamsthat work collaboratively to define, research, and communicate the position(s) of the stakeholdergroups each represents. The communication
betterthe very thing that is being studied while a main purpose of a general research study is to expandthe general understanding of knowledge about the topic and ultimately to inform practice. It isimportant to determine if a particular program is effective early in order to minimize theopportunity cost of missed improvements to the program. There is a broad array of optionsavailable to foster entrepreneurship and economic development, and not incidentally, educatestudents who aspire to become entrepreneurs [6].The second problem is attributed to the nature of the hierarchical, or nested, data structures of theentrepreneurship education program. Students in educational settings exist within a hierarchicalsocial structure that includes peer group
Session 0455 Training Graduate Student Instructors Effectively: The University of Michigan Model Trevor S. Harding Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136IntroductionMost of todays graduate student instructors (GSIs, a.k.a. "the TA") were undergraduatesthemselves a mere semester or two before. Can we say with confidence that theseindividuals are adequately prepared to teach their former peers and perhaps some-daytake the place of their professors? We must look not only at how GSI training programsmight improve
accommodating six very different facultymembers advising six very different projects, while providing some much-needed structure forthe students.Oral presentations have always been considered outstanding in this course. The structuralchanges have noticeably improved report writing and seem to have decreased the time spent inthe initial stages of the projects. Due to this new structure, both faculty and students have theopportunity to recognize problems earlier in the design cycle, and, administering the course is abit less like ‘herding’ cats!BackgroundTrinity University is a primarily undergraduate institution in San Antonio of approximately 2400students. Trinity is a well-regarded liberal arts and sciences institution, and incorporates
concepts of statics, both the studentand faculty member know the issue lies in the current topic, not the prerequisite course!Second, engineering faculty members need an instrument for formative use in assessingimplementation of new course design strategies and instructional practices intended to increasestudent learning. For example, such a tool may be used to compare the performance ofexperimental and control groups by recording pre- and post-instruction performance. Eric Mazurin his Peer Instruction guide (Mazur, 1997) used the Force Concept Inventory to assess studentlearning in his introductory physics for both experimental and control group settings byrecording pre- and post-instruction performance. His powerful data showing the value of
statement, and the goals and objectives of theDepartment of Construction Technology were developed through a very participative processinvolving the three Industrial Advisory Boards for all programs, students, and faculty, takingcare to ensure conformity of these with the School and University missions. For sake of brevitythese have not been included here.The second step was establishing the Specific Educational Objectives in conformity with theobjectives by the University (IUPUI) in terms of what is called Principles of UndergraduateLearning (PUL) and the ABET objectives, a-k, as our accrediting body. The PUL objectives aremainly: · Core Communication and Quantitative skills (such as writing, reading, speaking, listening
organization was similar to EWB-USA,participants were directly asked if they were involved with an organization or program similar toEWB-USA and if so, to write in the name of the program or organization. The authors readthrough individuals’ responses, and those who listed humanitarian engineering serviceorganizations or educational programs with a humanitarian engineering focus (e.g. Engineers fora Sustainable World, Bridges to Prosperity) were added to the EWB-like group.In order to check whether or not increased learning gains were due to active participation in aprofessional engineering organization rather than humanitarian engineering participation, we rantwo additional tests of comparison. The first test compared only EWB-like respondents
, process consulting and verification and validation. He has headed the corporate product and technology innovations and quality and delivery innovation departments. Pradeep was on the apex senior management group before proceeding on to pursue his academic, research and social interests. Before Patni, he has worked at IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, SGGS College of Engineering and Crompton Greaves R & D Electronics in different research and academic positions. Pradeep Waychal has also published papers in peer reviewed journals, presented keynote / invited talks in many high profile international conferences and I involved in a few copyrights / patents. His teams have won a range of awards in Six Sigma and Knowledge
Peer Sharing WorkshopsFigure 1. Conceptual Framework for ENE Laboratory Module Reform This semester this course was taught the CIEN 311 Environmental Laboratory course hadan enrollment of eighteen students. The students were junior, Civil Engineering majors. Thedemographics consisted of fourteen males, two females, and was 56% minority (i.e. AfricanAmerican, African, Hispanic). The course was divided in to modules to help “repackage” the labactivities.Modules and AssessmentsModule 1: Sustainable Engineering and Green Design Sustainability is one of the newest paradigm shifts for engineering design. There are anumber of new “green” buildings currently
. Students were also required to evaluate thepodcasts, as part of the listening assignment.After producing their own podcasts, students in MENG221 were then required to listen to fourother podcasts from their own cohort and provide an evaluation. Previous studies have shownthat students gain pedagogical value from listening to their peers’ podcasts [3]. The two topranked podcasts from the semester were submitted to the ASM podcast contest [2].The reason that the MENG221 podcast project is a Rich Learning Experience, according to Fink,is that it involves Learning How to Learn, Caring, Foundational Knowledge and Applicationtypes of learning. Traditional projects in materials courses, such as writing a research paper,may also be considered as a Rich
senior undergraduate and graduate Hispanic students in thedesign, fabrication, and testing of microelectronic devices. Specifically, this grant has sponsoredthe research efforts of 3 graduate and 5 undergraduate students, but also outreach efforts haveimpacted around 70 high school students from the public education system. Additionally, 7senior undergraduate students have been indirectly impacted through a special topic course, fromwhich 2 of the participating students were able to publish and participate in a peer-reviewconference. The overall objective of the second project is to initiate a research program tobroaden participation and increase opportunities of Hispanic engineering students so that theycan become engaged in research as
research for this Chinese Information Technology Bachelor’s program believes that one ofsolutions to achieve all the educational objectives and sustain student knowledge for a long termis to develop learning experiences to meet student's educational and professional needs byencouraging student intentionality, discussion and involvement through lab demonstration,discussion, presentation, document co-creation, micro-sharing, peer critique, and evaluation.This belief helps determine the goal of this research is to identify and test new teaching andlearning methods to effectively improve and sustain student learning outcomes. The fundamentalchange in this research is to shift students from passive learners to be their own masters in labdesign
environmentalengineering graduates by preparing students for industry and graduate school and by enablingthem to utilize their class room understanding to solve real world problems. The researchexperience in our undergraduate environmental engineering program offers the students aninvaluable opportunity to work on sophisticated analytical instruments, hands-on experimentaldesign, data analysis and interpretation, and also helps them hone their technical writing skills tomeet the demands of graduate school and future employers. Furthermore, the addition of aresearch experience to a core environmental engineering curriculum provides an excellent meansof not only teaching, but also assessing a large number of environmental engineering criteriaoutlined by the
global workforce, which includes theability to travel to other countries, respect other cultures and understand engineering through theeyes of other cultures. Additionally, the WCOE believes this requirement will improverecruitment of top freshman and transfer students from peer institutions and other high qualityprograms.Historically, the WCOE has had approximately 100 students per year participate in faculty-led oralso referred to as faculty-directed programs. Less than 20 students per year have participated inreciprocal or affiliate programs.The WCOE demographics are as follows. The WCOE has eight different departments providing10 different undergraduate degree programs including chemical engineering, civil engineering,computer engineering
summer bridgeprograms; however, a few studies do show improved retention for summer bridge participants. Page 24.1140.3A study of 617 students who participated in the Georgia Tech summer bridge between 1990 and2000 found that underrepresented minority students who participated in the program were 19%more likely to graduate than their underrepresented minority peers who did not participate in theprogram 5. African American, Hispanic, and Native American student who participated inPurdue’s Academic Boot Camp showed higher retention rates and first semester grade pointaverages14.Institution Overview and Program ObjectiveThe College of Engineering
STEM enthusiasts, particularly those who may not traditionally have had access to such opportunities.Ms. Cynthia Hampton Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Cynthia Hampton (she/her) is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Center for the Enhancement of Engi- neering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Tech. She has done work as a transformational change postdoctoral research associate with the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research and practice spans student intervention programs, faculty agency, evaluation, grant-writing, and facilitation of change initiatives.Dr. Kim Lester, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr.Lester serves as the Coordinator of Pre-College Programs at
Writing Studies from San Diego State Univ., and a MA in English literature from UC Irvine. His current research centers on identifying mental and emotional states generated through human interaction with virtual reality and other virtual artifacts by analyzing physiological data and applying that research to create more effective virtual learning environments. Leveraging this work, he is currently creating a per- sistent and interactive virtual environment for hosting remote learning classes in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Assessment of Student Engagement in Virtual Reality Clinical Immersion Environments
this case provided by the NASA Space Grant.The student is living minority status in three dimensions (3D) as being a woman, a first-generation college student, and a Native American studying engineering.It is fascinating to analyze how one’s environment and experiences influence their resiliency.Data will be collected on her readiness for an academic career along measures including but notlimited to understanding of the research process, skills in academic writing, self-efficacy, andcompetence in oral presentation. The case study will explore her story. What experiences shapedher determination and brought her to this level, and what benefit did she gain from NASA Spacegrant? The goal is that sharing her story will encourage others to believe
communications for the Depart- ment of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in Rhetoric and Writing Studies and an M.A. in English from Montana State University. His research focuses on land management policy in two discrete areas. The first relates to civil infrastructure projects and landscape-scale impacts on habitat, community resilience, and long- term land use planning; the second involves the utilization, conservation, and management of big game wildlife resources. For the past five years he has led various transdisciplinary teaching and research projects examining land and wildlife resource management conflicts vis-`a-vis
. First, we conducted anexhaustive review of the literature on Millennial students, and identified three strikingcharacteristics of Millennial students (i.e., their preferences for collaborating with peers,connecting with one another, and creating for social change). Second, we followed up thisliterature review by reporting survey and focus group data collected from the select sample ofengineering graduate students. Specifically, the survey includes demographic information aboutthe cohort including birth year, gender, race/ethnicity, and semesters of teaching experience. In Page 15.948.2addition, we asked participants in the study to reflect on
AC 2012-4192: SCAFFOLDING AND ASSESSING PROFESSIONAL DE-SIGN SKILLS USING AN ACTIVE-LEARNING STUDIO-STYLE CLASS-ROOMJamie Lynn Brugnano, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University Jamie Brugnano is a Ph.D candidate in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue Uni- versity. Her doctoral research is focused on intracellular drug delivery of peptide-based therapeutics for inflammatory applications. She earned her B.S. in biology from Harvey Mudd College. Her research inter- ests include tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, drug delivery, and effective techniques to improve biomedical engineering education. She has six peer-reviewed publications and is committed to mentoring and
Paper ID #38213Focus Study of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)Engineering ProjectsMs. Meredith Blumthal, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Meredith Blumthal has been in the field of international education for 15 years. As the Director for In- ternational Programs in Engineering (IPENG) at the University of Illinois, she leads the study abroad initiatives and programming for the college. Ms. Blumthal’s team includes three study abroad advisors, a receptionist and peer advisors. Together the IPENG office provides study abroad advising, expertise, inter- national exchanges, and cultural
)Victoria ThomsenReed Jeffrey Forrest (Student Researcher)Jillian Seniuk Cicek (Assistant Professor)© American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comDefining Engineering Education Research: The Elevator PitchAbstractWe are a group of Engineering Education Research (EER) graduate students in Canada, whereEER is a relatively nascent field of study. As such, we often find ourselves explaining the natureof the discipline to non-EER individuals or organizations. A key issue is that the audienceusually includes peers in engineering or granting agencies associated with engineering who maylack an understanding of the lexicon and epistemological approaches used within EER. If wewant their support, we need their
full of variety with the salient point being a passion for teaching and helping all individuals overcome common communication challenges.Mr. Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University Michael Alley is a professor of teaching for engineering communications at Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Writing (Springer, 2018) and The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer-Verlag, 2013). He is also founder of the popular websites Writing as an Engineer or Scientist (www.craftofscientificwriting.com) and the Assertion-Evidence Approach (www.assertion- evidence.com).Lori B. Miraldi, Pennsylvania State University Director of the Engineering Ambassadors Program College of
’ organizations such as oSTEM and LGBQTies(a student-developed queer organization). The form collected students' contact information andwas used to gauge overall interest. We also had the students write a few sentences describing theirinterest in the group to select for a reasonable pilot group size. We offered the reading group to allengineering students as an independent study class for credit. Faculty allies in each departmentagreed to sign off credit. In the pilot reading group, we had one student pursue this option.We received 13 total responses, 5 graduate students and 8 undergraduate students all LGBTQIA+identifying (even though the call for participants was open to all identities). We invited all 13students to participate; however, some were not
Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Services at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate education through hands-on learning. Luchini-Colbry is also the Director of the Engineering Futures Program of Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, which provides interactive seminars on interpersonal communications and problem solving skills for engineering
, students in the senior Biochemical Engineering elective course were assigned thetask of creating problems suitable for the BioEMB website. The problem creation was generatedfrom information in research papers on bioprocesses. Coupled with a rubric for the problemdevelopment and some mentoring by the faculty, students have learned about process design,along with the peer review and publishing aspect of having their problems posted on the website.The project has shown that students can learn about applying material balance concepts to thescale-up of published data and information to develop a process design strategy. In turn, theproblems were "beta-tested" in the undergraduate chemical engineering core course. Assessmentof this project by means of