, since the impact of the policy changes in this preliminarystudy differed based on student group. The initial results of this study provide some insight intoinstructional policies that have a positive impact on reducing DFW proportions for Calculus I.These findings support the larger effort of addressing issues causing introductory calculus to be abarrier to success for many STEM majors.ReferencesBeichner, R. J., Saul, J. M., Abbott, D. S., Morse, J. J., Deardorff, D., Allain, R. J., … Risley, J. S. (2007). The student-centered activities for large enrollment undergraduate programs (SCALE-UP) project. Research-Based Reform of University Physics, 1(1), 2–39.Benson, L., Moss, W., Biggers, S., Schiff, S. D., Orr, M. K., & Ohland, M. W
really well in classes in the junior and senior levels, especiallywhere industry-generated projects are in question. For sophomore level classes, a semester-longindustry project may not be viable as the student preparation and knowledge base may not besufficient to substantiate and justify such a project. However, that doesn’t preclude thepossibility of trying out such a measure.References:Albanese, M. A., & Mitchell, S. (1993). Problem-based learning: A review of literature on its outcomesand implementation issues. Academic Medicine, 68, 52–81. © American Society of Engineering Education, 2017 2017 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceBarrows, H. S. & Tamblyn, R. M. (1980) Problem-based
Accreditation and Learning Outcomes in Engineering Technology: Student-Centered Assessment Virginia R. Charter, PE Oklahoma State UniversityAbstract Engineering Technology programs are accredited through ABET. This accreditationincludes eleven general criteria for student learning outcomes. The criteria’s main purpose is toensure students are learning more than the technical skills typically taught in engineeringtechnology. Many of these learning outcomes required are then applied in a culminatingexperience, or capstone course, during a student’s final semester(s) in a bachelor’s degreeprogram. This study aims to understand the student’s
-learning version of a course s/he had taught previously in a face-to-faceformat. Notably, the distance-learning version also included active learning components (e.g.,questions embedded in lecture videos).Despite the integral role the GTAs played in undergraduate teaching, these students noted thatthey did not receive extensive preparation to serve as GTAs. Some of them completed a trainingat the beginning of their program, while others did not, as department-level training was notprovided on a regular basis. In addition, the GTAs reported that, before joining the SIMPLEgroup, they did not often have opportunities to interact with fellow GTAs and faculty membersto talk about teaching. Some of the courses they were teaching had weekly meetings with
, 24(8), 681-695.Aud, S., Fox, M. A., & KewalRamani, A. (2010). Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups. NCES 2010-015. National Center for Education Statistics.Avery, C., & Kane, T. J. (2004). Student perceptions of college opportunities. The Boston COACH program. In College choices: The economics of where to go, when to go, and how to pay for it (pp. 355-394). University of Chicago Press.Bailey, T. (2009). Challenge and opportunity: Rethinking the role and function of developmental education in community college. New Directions for Community Colleges, 2009(145), 11-30.Bailey, T., Jeong, D. W., & Cho, S. W. (2010). Referral, enrollment, and completion in
Definition M Empowerment How in control a student feels about his or her own learning experience. U Usefulness How useful a student thinks course material is to them. S Success The student’s belief in their ability to do well in the course. I Interest How fun or interesting course material is to the student. C Caring Whether the student feels that course instructors are empathetic towards how they experience the courseThe constructs of the MUSIC model are geared towards course-level motivation. Collectively, they helpto tell a story about how
Software: Evolution and Process.Dr. James D Kiper, Miami University James Kiper is Chair and Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Miami University. He teaches a variety of courses across the CS and SE curricula. His research is in the areas of software testing, software risk assessment, design rationale, and computer science and software engineering teaching and learning.Dr. Gursimran Singh Walia Gursimran S. Walia is an associate professor of Computer Science at North Dakota State University. His main research interests include empirical software engineering, software engineering education, human factors in software engineering, and software quality. He is a member of the IEEE
success, where a team cannot experience overall success unless each individualmember on the team experiences success. We expand upon this concept by making explicit therelationship between facilitating individual success and valuing each team member, where astudent can experience more success when s/he is valued. Arguably, creating opportunities forstudents to engage in robust teamwork can be facilitated when educators increase students’awareness about the benefits of valuing all team members, a construct that is often implied butnot explicitly discussed in teamwork literature.Creating an environment free of discrimination and bias is the second construct we address in theInclusive Behaviors scale. According to Cooper (2009), teams function
retake the quiz The grade should be greater than Second attempt or equal 80% (B), If not, the 0.80*grade student should retake the quiz Third attempt N/A 0.65*gradeEach mastery quiz involves 10-14 multiple choice questions. The quizzes are administeredonline using a learning management system – Canvas in this case. The students are given a 48-hour window to take each quiz but once the student starts the quiz, s/he will have a limited timeto finish it (between 1 and 1.5hours). The quizzes are not administered in a classroom and theycan be taken anywhere, anytime within the 48-hour
university students’ academic performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychol Bull. 2012. http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/bul/138/2/353/. Accessed February 1, 2017.5. Conley D. Redefining College Readiness. Educ Policy Improv Cent. 2007. http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED539251. Accessed February 1, 2017.6. Geiser S, Santelices M. Validity of High-School Grades in Predicting Student Success beyond the Freshman Year: High-School Record vs. Standardized Tests as Indicators of Four-Year. Cent Stud High Educ. 2007. http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED502858. Accessed February 1, 2017.7. DesJardins S, Ahlburg D, McCall B. The effects of interrupted enrollment on graduation from college: Racial, income, and ability
laboratory motivation,documentation and technical communication skills. We are currently analyzing preliminaryresults from an anonymous online survey (Qualtrics) administered to all current junior andsenior-level BME students who were enrolled in one or more domain laboratory courses duringthe 2015-2016 academic year when paper-based notebooks were required, and/or during 2016-2017 academic year when ELNs were introduced. The survey responses placed the students intoone of two sub-categories, those who 1) had completed at least one domain lab course usingpaper-based notebooks and at least one domain lab course using electronic-based notebookkeeping methods; and 2) had completed domain lab course(s) with electronic-based notebookkeeping methods only
WSU STARS faculty and staff want to thank the University of Colorado Boulder’sAssociate Dean of Inclusive Excellence Jacquelyn Sullivan and GoldShirt Program DirectorTanya Ennis for their guidance and encouragement throughout the development of theWashington STARS in Engineering Program.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate 10K+STEP Grant under Grant No. 1317246 and 1317349.Any opinion, finding, and conclusion or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.ReferencesAndrade, H. G. (2000). Using Rubrics to Promote Thinking and Learning. Educational Leadership, 57(5), 13-18.Arter, J. A. (2007
: • Heterogeneously grouped students excitedly discussing how to make an earthquake resistant building • s out of spaghetti and marshmallows. • A girl using persuasive rhetoric to convince group members that her idea for a landing pad is the best to keep an egg from breaking. • A boy who hardly rarely participates, drawing his plan for a second iteration of a design and explaining to his group the benefits of his plan.You can hear conversations with a purpose, focused on the task at hand.I lament the lack of time that the elementary curriculum allows to such practical, worthwhile,inquiry-based learning. Neurodiversity and ADHD exist in all classrooms. Elementary students,regardless of their exceptionalities, need to feel that they can
Science Foundation CAREER grantunder Grant No. 1150874. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation.References 1. Golish, B. L., Besterfield-Sacre, M. E., & Shuman, L. J. (2008). Comparing academic and corporate technology development processes. Journal of Product Innovation Mangagement, 25, 47–62. 2. Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1999). 16 implications of a systems perspective for the study of creativity. Handbook of Creativity, 313. 3. Fila, N. D., Purzer, Ş., & Mathis, P. D. (2014). I’m not the creative type: Barriers to creativity in student engineering innovation projects
that create innovations and/or improvements in care, educational activities, and manuscript production. It will be the responsibility of the faculty member to solicit and submit to the Promotion and Tenure Committee letters documenting collaborative activity from colleagues, relevant division chief(s), and department chair(s) to support their promotion and tenure requests.”11 3/6/2017 What to train?12 3/6/201713 Borrowed from L. Michelle Bennett, 2015 3/6/2017 Building Teams and Fostering Trust • Identifying collaborators ‒ Traditional methods ‒ Commercial tools (Elsevier, Digital Sciences) ‒ Institutional Team
, 2007.[2] M. C. Yang, “Observations on concept generation and sketching in engineering design,” Res. Eng. Des., vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 1–11, Mar. 2009.[3] M. Tovey, S. Porter, and R. Newman, “Sketching, concept development and automotive design,” Des. Stud., vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 135–153, Mar. 2003.[4] A. Johri and V. K. Lohani, “Framework for improving engineering representational literacy by using pen-based computing,” Int. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 27, no. 5, p. 958, 2011.[5] J. Ravishankar, J. Epps, F. Ladouceur, R. Eaton, and E. Ambikairajah, “Using iPads/Tablets as a Teaching Tool: Strategies for an Electrical Engineering Classroom,” presented at the International Conference of Teaching, Assessment and Learning, Wellington, New
land in an“unrelated” occupation. Moreover, these data do not give a sense of how many suchgraduates may have been eyeing different (engineering and non-engineering) possibilitiesfrom the get-go.Sheppard et al.’s work on career decision-making among prospective engineeringgraduates suggests that in fact the majority of students are unsure and/or consideringoptions that span engineering and non-engineering work on the “eve” of graduation.4,5About one-third of students were exclusively focused on engineering options, and a muchsmaller fraction of students were exclusively focused on non-engineering work and/orgraduate study options. And while there may be reliable set of characteristics that predictthe likelihood of targeting non-engineering
middle school mathematics teacher’s practical knowledge using personal experiential research methods.Mr. Murat Akarsu, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Mineral Mayhem: Using Engineering to Teach Middle School Earth Science (Resource Exchange) Target Grade Level: 6th-8th grade E n g rT E AM SEngineering to Transform the Education of Analysis, Measurement, & Science Authors and Contact Information: Holly Miller1 Tamara J. Moore2 Aran W. Glancy3 Emilie A. Siverling2 S. Selcen Guzey2 hmiller@hse.in.us tamara@purdue.edu aran@umn.edu esiverli
your REU student(s)? 2. Do you feel that the REU’s emphasis of the creative process impacted the REU student’s experiences? 3. Did the REU’s emphasis of the creative process impact your personal view of the research process?ProceduresThe pre-survey was administered to the students the week prior to the start of the REU, and thepost-survey was administered at the conclusion of the program. Surveys were administeredonline using the Qualtrics program.Student interviews were held within the span of one week towards the end of the program.Interviews of the faculty took place over a two-week period of time following the conclusion ofthe REU. Each interview lasted no longer than one hour. The interviews were conducted by
1) improve individual learning, 2) improve team performance, and 3) would mostbenefit individual members within teams performing at a high level. To explore these hypotheseswe compared student performance across two semesters, one that utilized cooperative groups andthe second that utilized TBL.MethodsThis research was approved by the University of Kansas Human Research Protection Program.In Fall 2014, 59 students enrolled in the course which was taught in a flipped format (Beichner,2008) in an active-learning classroom and utilized cooperative groups. Each class meetingconsisted of: 1) a reading quiz, 2) lecture highlights, 3) example problem(s), and 4) group work.The instructional team consisted of the professor, two graduate teaching
manufacturing and assembly processes used inproduction to facilitate cost, productivity, and environmental performance assessment during earlyproduct design. In the Sustainable Product Architecture and Supplier Selection (S-PASS) module,relationships between sustainable design requirements and their associated functions andarchitectural modules can be identified and evaluated against existing products. S-PASS assistsdetermining whether the functions and requirements are satisfied in available product modules.Possible product architectures can be configured to create an initial product architecture set. Final1 DUE-1431481, DUE-1432774, and DUE-1431739product architecture candidates and their suppliers are selected by evaluating the
the knowledge and skills that student veterans bring to higher education and toengineering education.23Following Minnis and Wang’s research on military veterans’ career decisions17 and Musgrove’sinvestigation of career planning of military veterans enrolled in college,24 our study draws onSampson et al.’s Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) approach to career intentions anddecision making.25 This theoretical framework has been used to better understand veterans’transitions into the workforce.20 Our student interviews highlight how two elements of thisapproach, Developing Self-Knowledge and Building Occupational Knowledge, may apply toSVE’s decision to enter the engineering education pathway. As a foundational step, developingself-knowledge
image or images comes to mind when you think of engineers or engineering? 4. In your view, what is science? What is its purpose? 5. Do you agree with the statement “engineering is applied science? Why, or why not? 6. In what way are science and engineering similar? 7. What are the differences between science and engineering? 8. If two engineering firms are given the same job (to design a new cell phone), would the product be more or less the same? Why, or why not? 9. Please answer the following three questions based on the statement here. Imagine that another bridge is going to be built over the Colorado River. a. What do engineers need to consider in the process in planning this? b. What component(s) of this task will be
found allthree cost subscales were significantly and negatively related with students’ intentions to persistin science, with the effort subscale having the strongest negative relationship with persistence.Informed by Perez et al.’s evidence of potential multidimensionality of the cost construct, Flakeet al.21 developed a new cost scale intended for broader use in an academic context. Similar tothe scale developed by Perez and colleagues, Flake et al.’s scale included task effort, loss ofvalued alternatives cost, and emotional cost. Flake et al. also suggested a new dimension, thecost of outside efforts, related to other demands on an individuals’ time and energy that mayincrease the cost associated with a particular task. Their preliminary
Advances in Engineering Education FALL 2017Large Lecture Transformation: Improving StudentEngagement and Performance through In-class Practice in an Electrical Circuits CourseJAE-EUN RUSSELLANDMARK S. ANDERSLANDUniversity of IowaIowa City, IASAM VAN HORNEUniversity of DelawareNewark, DEJOHN GIKONYOANDLOGAN SLOANUniversity of IowaIowa City, IA ABSTRACT Post-secondary educators are increasingly experimenting with the possibility of blending orreplacing traditional lecture-based instruction with student-centered instruction. Although somestudies have been completed, much remains to be learned about when and why student-centeredinstruction
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attention to such detail inEnvironmental is listed as one of the “Elite Eight” realistic the engineering design projects in future years? Theconstraints, but its listing within the CSM draws the authors hypothesize that the early introduction of thesefollowing distinctions based on the source, where “T-4” is the concepts will have a lasting affect throughout thecode for the technically-sourced attribute, and “S-3” is the remaining years of the student’s engineering program.code for the societally-sourced attribute:• [T-4. Environmental] Can the operational environment REFERENCES negatively impact the product through normal use? [1] ABET
a secondoffering is planned for 2017 albeit with a more accessible project.References1. Goldman, S., & Carroll, M., & Zielezinski, M. B., & Loh, A., & Ng, E. S., & Bachas- Daunert, S. (2014, June), Dive In! An Integrated Design Thinking/STEM Curriculum Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.2. Biggers, M., & Haefner, L. A., & Bell, J. (2016, June), Engineering First: How Engineering Design Thinking Affects Science Learning Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.3. Menold, J., & Jablokow, K. W., & Kisenwether, E. C., & Zappe, S. E. (2015, June), Exploring the Impact of Cognitive Preferences on
and do not necessarily reflect the views of the federal government.References[1] Oakes, W., Duffy, J., Jacobius, T., Linos, P., Lord, S., Schultz, W. W., & Smith, A. (2002). Service-learning inengineering. In Frontiers in Education, 2002. FIE 2002. 32nd Annual (Vol. 2, pp. F3A-F3A). IEEE.[2] Duffy, J., Tsang, E., & Lord, S. Service-learning in engineering: What why and how? ASEE Annual Conference 2000.[3] Eyler, J., & Giles Jr, D. E. (1999). Where's the Learning in Service-Learning? Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult EducationSeries.[4] Sax, L. J., Astin, A. W., & Avalos, J. (1999). Long-term effects of volunteerism during the undergraduate years. Thereview of higher education, 22(2), 187-202.[5] National Academy of Engineering
Paper ID #19181MAKER: iTutor - Intelligent Tennis TutorDr. Hugh Jack P.E., Western Carolina University Dr. Jack is not the author. The abstract has been submitted on behalf of Kaviarasu P, Gokul Kannan, Kesava Mani, M H Ashik , Navin S - Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017iTutor - Intelligent Tennis TutorAuthors: Kaviarasu P, Gokul Kannan, Kesava Mani, M H Ashik , Navin SKumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, IndiaAbstractTennis has been always been a sport of choice for many around the world. In India, it wasintroduced by the British in