among structural engineeringsoftware and offers an opportunity for students to develop an appreciation for having a workingknowledge of a variety of software programs to use in the engineering design process.As part of a course culmination engineering design project (EDP), students were required todesign a floor truss, build it, and test it to failure. The students were limited to 8-ft long 2x4s,plywood, and common nails. Therefore, connections would require plywood gusset plates nailedto the 2x4 structural components. Part of the design process required RSA simulations toquantify internal forces throughout the structure and required the students to decide if modelingthe connections as perfect pins was a reasonable assumption. Figure 9 provides
work/project. It includes completing your portion of the work in a timely fashion. • Interacting (I) with teammates refers to the various ways individuals communicate with and show respect for their teammates. Encouraging every team member to give their opinion and ensuring their voice is heard are part of this. • Keeping (K) refers to alerting the team to conditions that could affect the team’s success. • Expecting (E) quality is about both expressing the belief that the team can do a good job and encouraging the team to do its best.Since each of these five dimensions is equally important to the success of the team, these formthe basis for the peer reviews [16].This paper is meant to address how much
find most of their class content withintheir assigned texts and are mostly involved with problem solving and learning textbook theory,supplemented by additional reading provided by the professor. The denseness of requiredcurricula for these undergraduate engineering majors often results in more traditional forms oflibrary-based research papers being waived in favor of weekly problem sets and classroomdiscussion. The other author has experienced a different situation at her university, whereengineering students regularly produce papers and other research products requiring skills inlibrary research. Biomedical engineering students, for example, incorporate the current journalliterature into their project or problem-based courses beginning with
several projects that address questions of academic pedagogy with a community and contemplative focus. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Fregados pero no Jodidos: A Case Study of Latinx RasquachismoAbstractVery little research has examined the ways that Latinx adolescents might use rasquache forms ofexpression to empower them in their engineering design activities. Even less research has beenconducted on how the assets of Latinx students contribute to the diversification of engineeringepistemologies and to form critically conscious engineers. In this paper, we present whatinvolves Rasquache forms of expression and how it can contribute to a more asset-basedapproach to the teaching
groundsdoes the accumulation of some threshold number of points constitute mastery of the topic athand? Is such a numerical marker valuable to a learner in reflecting on their progress andaccumulated knowledge? The broad answer to such questions is that points are largely arbitrary,varying wildly in meaning across institutions, courses, or even across assignments.Trends in pedagogy have shifted strongly in the direction of more experiential, authentic learningactivities such as project-based and active learning. As the nature of the classroom activity haschanged, important questions have been raised about the efficacy of traditional grading schemes.Separation has been observed between course objectives and assessment practices, and theability of the
Electrical engineering. He is currently finishing up his Master’s thesis and works at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division. He can be contacted at: james.kollmer@temple.eduDr. Saroj K Biswas, Temple University Saroj Biswas is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Temple University specializing in electrical machines and power systems, multimedia tutoring, and control and optimization of dynamic systems. He has been the principle investigator of a project for the development of an intelligent tutoring shell that allows instructors create their own web-based tutoring system. His current research focuses on security of cyber-physical systems based on multiagent framework with applications to the
numerical heat transfer, fluids, and magnetohydrodynamic simulations and facilitating undergraduate students to engage in similar projects. He is also focused on the implementation of engineering freshman design experiences. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 A Study of Voluntary Problem Sets on Student Interest, Motivation, and PerformanceAbstractVarious types of course assignments are often structured with different learning goals in mind.Homework assignments are designed to provide students with the necessary practice to honeskills, quizzes are designed to make sure students stay current with course topics, and exams aredesigned to allow students to
andenterprises. We should stimulate further the activity of trainings for talents combiningindustries and schools, give full play to the important role of industrial resources in thetraining for talents with engineering technologies, establish and improve the talent trainingsystem integrating both industries and education and promote the comprehensive and deepcollaboration between universities and enterprises in the faculty team, curriculum module,practice base, major projects, key laboratories, etc. Five, continue to optimize and update the resources of engineering talent training andpromote the opening and sharing of high-quality educational resources. We should activelyadapt to the new challenges and new requirements for the development of the
students are faced with solving an open-ended design problem, there may be specific partsof this practice that students either do not understand, do not implement correctly, or do notknow to attempt when solving open-ended design problems. Several studies have investigatedhow first year undergraduate engineering students in particular, approach design problemsolving, and their interpretation and knowledge of engineering design [4-7]. These studies usedvarious methods to evaluate students’ design thinking including pre- and post-tests associatedwith group design projects in a classroom setting [4], pre- and post-essay response critiques oftwo design plans [5], gender differences in students’ attempts to evaluate design factors [6], andshort essay
practiceclasses that allow participants to incorporate the model elements into their own classes, teach,and receive rich feedback. While retaining these key elements was important, the coordinators ofthe OTET workshop quickly discovered that the conduct of the ETW over the years was equallyvaluable, including the use of group seating, 4-person teams, mentors, a dedicated logisticscoordinator, a workshop content coordinator, and dedicated financial support.Development of the workshop involved identifying workshop coordinators, seminar presenters,and group mentors, with only one person who had attended ETW prior. The content andframework for the ETW provided an excellent model that was relatively easily modified. Thechallenges and benefits of this project
, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2004[12] Le, X., & Moazed, A. R., & Duva, A. W., “The Design Projects for the Simulation-Based Design Course,” 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 2016[13] Hagigat, C., “Using Commercially Available Finite Element Software For Fatigue Analysis,” 2005 ASEE Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, June 2005[14] Brown, A.O., Rencis, J.J., Jensen, D.A., Chen, C.C., Ibrahim, E., Labay, V., and Schimpf, P., "Finite Element Learning Modules for Undergraduate Engineering Topics using Commercial Software,” 2008 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2008.[15] Brown, A. O., & Rencis, J. J., & Jensen, D. D., & Schimpf, P. H., &
, and he currently leads an NSF-funded informal science education project exploring digital makerspaces and participatory teaching in international collaborations. Dr. Hamilton is co-PI for an NSF- funded IUSE project based at Tuskegee University, blending digital tools with advances in the learning sciences to improve undergraduate engineering education. He has also led the NSF-funded Distributed Learning and Collaboration symposium series in Shanghai, Singapore and Germany. Dr. Hamilton came to Pepperdine from the US Air Force Academy, where he was a research professor and director of the Cen- ter for Research on Teaching and Learning. Prior to that, he held was a member of the US government’s senior executive
thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. ReferencesAgell, L., Soria, V., & Carrió, M. (2015). Using role play to debate animal testing. Journal of Biological Education, 49, 309-321.Basche, A., Genareo, V., Leshem, A., Kissell, A., & Pauley, J. (2016). Engaging middle school students through locally focused environmental science project-based learning. Natural Sciences Education, 45, 1-10.Borrego, M., Foster, M. J., & Froyd, J. E. (2014). Systematic literature reviews in engineering education and other developing interdisciplinary fields. Journal of Engineering Education, 103, 45-76.Buciarelli, L. L. (1994). Designing
year (153 of the total61,800 women graduating in the class of 2011 nationwide) [25], it’s no surprise that there arecurrently very few jobs available for women engineers in Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless, literaturenot only shows that Saudi women are interested in engineering, but the fact that segregation isenforced in schools can be a reason why women may succeed more in engineering than in theUS or the UK [4], [36]. Some women who have recently earned engineering degrees fromoutside the country via the “Program of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques” for foreignscholarships represent the first generation of women engineers to get hired in different privatesector engineering jobs and projects. Fresh graduate Saudi women engineers
Paper ID #22826Beyond Problem Solving to Creating Value: A Priority for Engineering Edu-catorsDr. William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Bill Kline is Professor of Engineering Management and Associate Dean of Innovation at Rose-Hulman. His teaching and professional interests include systems engineering, quality, manufacturing systems, in- novation, and entrepreneurship. As Associate Dean, he directs the Branam Innovation Center which houses campus competition teams, maker club, and projects. He is currently an associate with IOI Partners, a consulting venture focused on innovation tools and systems
solving approaches employed by students, academics and practicing professionals in anattempt to determine if students are developing the necessary skills to tackle ill-structuredproblems. To accomplish this, an ill-structured problem is developed, which will later be used todetermine, based on analysis of oral and written responses of participants in semi-structuredinterviews, attributes of the gap between student, faculty, and professional approaches to ill-structured problem solving. Based on the results of this analysis, we will identify what pedagogicalapproaches may limit and help students’ abilities to develop fully-formed solutions to ill-structuredproblems.This project is currently ongoing. This work-in-progress paper will present the
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Paper ID #23664Comparison of Game-based Learning and Traditional Lecture Approachesto Improve Student Engagement and Knowledge Transfer in STEM Educa-tionNathan C. Rice, University of Nebraska, Lincoln I am a masters student at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln majoring in Biological Systems Engineer- ing. My assistantship project focuses on developing an educational immersive simulation game to educate youth on the corn-water-energy-beef nexus and systems thinking.Dr. Ashu Guru, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Dr. Guru is a computer scientist and educational researcher who focuses on curriculum development in both
learning.IntroductionIt has long been recognized that engineers need strong communication skills in addition to strongtechnical skills.1, 2 Engineers typically take a sequence of composition and rhetoric courses dur-ing the freshmen year. These courses are followed by other writing experiences more technical innature, including formal reports in laboratory courses and writing associated with the capstone de-sign experience. Many creative attempts have been made to improve writing frequency and qualityin academic programs. One example is the PITCH (Project to Integrate Technical Communica-tion Habits) initiative at the University of New Haven.3 The goal is to develop communicationskills (written, oral, and visual) and professional habits in engineering students
Leadership program covering engineering designand engineering entrepreneurship [1]. These are junior-level, project-based courses withLean Launchpad [2], [3] and I-Corps [4] as principal inspirations for their curriculum anddelivery. But while our students learned a great deal about product-market fit, design, andbusiness models, the course lacked content that provided direct learning about thestudents’ aspirations, professional growth, career planning.We realized that it might be possible to fill this gap by applying the courses’lessons ofdesign and entrepreneurship to each student’s own professional self. In a sense, eachstudent would be her or his own people group. To this end, we integrated design thinkingabout the students’ own lives into the
think is going to beespecially difficult because they don’t think that their hard work will help them succeed. Incontrast, students with a growth mindset might appreciate the learning opportunities that awell-structured but difficult class offers.The purpose of this project was to first determine the mindset of MSE 308 students and then todetermine if their mindsets can be shifted away from a fixed mindset and toward a growthmindset. There were two research questions this project sought to address based on the plannedinterventions, (1) will those students with a more fixed mindset adopt more of a growth mindset?and (2) will students’ attitudes about their own abilities in what are perceived to be difficultclasses change?Method
, the class wasrestructured using the backward design approach7,9. The curriculum was developed to includeinstruction on the interpretation and development of both hand drawing and the use of CADprograms. This included drawing in 2D, and Isometric (see Figure 1a) by hand using tools suchas grid paper and straight edges. This coursework occupied the majority of the first five weeks ofthe course. The remainder of the course focused on computer-generated methods and includedtwo projects requiring the use of a CAD program: one of a 2D schematic and one of a 3Dmodel7. For the remainder of the paper, this version of the class will be referred to as the“Traditional” version, as it is built off of topics traditionally taught in engineering graphics
the quality of help provided to them by librarians during those consultations,and what they found useful about face-to-face consultations despite there being online helpavailable to them6. They found that students desired consultations for several different reasons,ranging from a lack of knowledge of how to begin their research to ensuring they have optimizedthe use of the available resources. Their projects ranged from very simple to multidimensional andcomplex. Prior to the consultations, several students had encountered hurdles while attempting toindependently perform their research. Some of them were frustrated that their searches wereinaccurate and they could not find relevant materials.Students were helped in selecting databases
participants have already completed approximately 20 internships andsummer research projects, most of them paid. Students interned with organizations such as theU.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, and theMystic Aquarium. Most of the research experiences were with RWU faculty, supported by avariety of grants. Several students have presented their work at academic conferences.Program assessment is conducted by the PIs and focuses on: academic performance (GPA),retention in a STEM major, progress through the major (credits accumulated), graduation, post-graduate outcomes (STEM careers or graduate study), and impact on underrepresented studentenrollments in STEM majors at RWU. Secondary metrics used for
other STEM courses using active and/or technology-enhancedapproaches. In the following sections, we will discuss our course design and delivery, datacollection and analysis methods, and the results.2. Methods – Course Delivery & Data Collection/AnalysisThe delivery of the course was by design very similar across the schools. The blended versioninvolved in-class clicker quizzes, lecture, post-class online auto-graded quizzes, problem sets,and programming projects. The Piazza online discussion board was available 24×7 for quickfeedback (Piazza, 2015). In the flipped version, students prepared for class in advance withvideos or readings, auto-graded quizzes, and an essay question about difficult or interestingconcepts. The Piazza discussion
workindividually or in self-selected pairs on a directed active learning assignment as faculty and labassistants employ a “teaching by walking around (TBWA)” philosophy. By implementingTBWA, faculty can interact with every student in the class in an informal manner as each student/ student-pair work at their own pace. Students receive individual attention and can receiveimmediate feedback as they work.During the ECE-322 annual continuous improvement cycle, it was suggested that the existingmixed-mode format and TBWA style could easily be adapted into a MOOC [6]. In turn, theMOOC could serve as an interactive textbook that integrates many components such as readings,video lectures, homework assignments, self-assessments, quizzes, laboratory projects, and
engineering coursework and the design process of undergraduate students in project-based courses.Dr. Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University Kristen Wendell is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Ed- ucation at Tufts University. Her research efforts at at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach focus on supporting discourse and design practices during K-12, teacher education, and college-level en- gineering learning experiences, and increasing access to engineering in the elementary school experience, especially in under-resourced schools. In 2016 she was a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). http
Paper ID #19774Computer Simulations Developed to Improve Understanding of Thermody-namic PrinciplesDr. David G Alexander, California State University, Chico Dr. Alexander’s research interests and areas of expertise are in teaching pedagogy, capstone design, renewable energy systems, thermal sciences, vehicle system modeling and simulation, heat transfer, new product development, entrepreneurship, and technology transfer. He is PI and adviser of the Department of Energy Collegiate Wind Competition 2016. He is also working on an undergraduate research project modeling solar cells using a thermodynamics approach and analyzing
Assistant Dean of Academic Initiatives at The Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY). One of her major projects was the development and roll out of City College’s master’s program in trans- lational medicine. In addition to her leadership role at CCNY, Dr. Brown has found time to reach out to the non-technical communities and share her passion for science and engineering education. She had an academic enrichment business for middle and high school students specializing in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and was a teacher at the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, Geor- gia. She has provided research mentorship and training to scores of undergraduate and graduate students
video resolution, a minimumlevel of production quality is necessary in online education videos because without adequatevideo resolution or audio quality the viewer can be easily distracted from the learning objectivesor the video content may not be accessible to the learner.VIDEO TUTORIAL RECOMMENDATIONSCreating online engineering video tutorials is analogous to the film making process, which ischaracterized by three distinct stages as shown in Figure 3. First is the pre-production orplanning stage followed by the production stage or recording, and finishing with the post-production stage, which involves editing and sharing. Implementing these stages in videoproduction or any project is not new and often requires a team of specialists in each