semester, meaning that most of the students who left without a degree had committed atleast eight semesters of time and tuition to their chosen degree program.Continuing WorkThe continuing evolution of this project (both in scope and size) will next involve the use ofmore recent data to determine which findings hold true. Additionally, the pool of variables willbe expanded to include specific course outcomes and other semester variables (e.g. number ofhours attempted, number of hours completed). The goal of understanding these students is to beable to identify them early and help them make strategic decisions about defining and reachingtheir goals. The strategic pathways will be identified by studying students with similar indicatorsthat adapted
practitioners areeducated for their new professions”4(p52). According to Shulman, signature pedagogies have threestructural dimensions – surface (operational acts of teaching and learning), deep (assumptionsabout how best to impart knowledge) and explicit (moral dimension that comprises a set ofbelieves about professional attitudes, values and dispositions). Signature pedagogies inprofessional disciplines also have three temporal patterns: an initial pedagogy that frames andprefigures professional preparation, capstone apprenticeships and a sequenced and balancedportfolio4. Engineering, with its mix of analysis courses, laboratories and design studios, ischaracterized by the latter. Shulman also notes that a signature pedagogy can also be illustratedby
Singapore, in Singapore. He has also done biomedical research during post doctorate research positions at the Uni- versity of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan), and Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). He has taught classes for and been an advisor on capstone senior design projects for Wentworth students in the programs of electrical engineering, computer engineering, electromechanical engineering, and biomedical engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Using Telecommunication Instructional Modelling System (TIMS) in Communications Systems CourseAbstract:Conventional courses in communications systems use lecture and readings to explain
master a wider set of skills to succeed in theworkplace. They must be able to communicate effectively, lead and work with interdisciplinaryteams, and design unique and creative solutions for open-ended problems, while consideringethical standards and global implications. In response to these growing expectations, engineeringprograms are evolving to better prepare their students for the workplace. One way thatengineering curricula are addressing this is by the inclusion of design-based courses or projects,that give students a chance to work in a more industrially-situated context to develop bothtechnical expertise and non-technical skills.Recently, entrepreneurship education has emerged as a means of supporting engineeringprofessional development
young professionals – in herrole at Texas A&M University. She is the Director of the College of Engineering’s, Zachry LeadershipProgram and a Professor of Engineering Practice. At Texas A&M University, she has taught Capstone Se-nior Design and Foundations of Engineering courses, but now teaches Engineering Leadership Develop-ment courses. She has also taught Project Management and Risk Management courses for the Universityof Phoenix.Dr. Wickliff has been honored with University of Houston’s Distinguished Young Engineering AlumniAward, the Black Engineer of the Year Career Achievement Award for New Emerging Leaders and fea-tured in several publications. She has presented keynote addresses, facilitated workshops and given moti-vational
is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology in Mechanical Engineering Technology Program. She holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University in Mechanical Engineering Technol- ogy, focus on Digital Manufacturing. Her research is focused on mechatronics, digital manufacturing, digital thread, cyber physical systems, broadening participation, and engineering education. She is a Co-Director of Mechatronics and Digital Manufacturing Lab at ODU and a lead of Area of Specializa- tion Mechatronics Systems Design. She worked as a Visiting Researcher at Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing in Disputanta, VA on projects focusing on digital thread and cyber security of manufacturing systems. She has funded research
increased awareness ofparticipants’ own lives and actions, and have the potential to “disrupt the everyday practices ofparticipants through enforcing an awareness and visibility of action previously absent” (p. 35)39.MethodsIn this section, we describe the Articulating a Succinct Description method. While we provide abrief overview of the initial ethnographic research that launched the ACC project, for thepurposes of this paper we will be focusing on the participants, data analysis, case study creation,and cultural probe intervention from the preliminary study that was conducted in Fall 2016.ParticipantsOver 565 students have been involved with the Advancing Cultural Change (ACC) projectthrough assignments in an introductory cultural anthropology
Information Technology (NCWIT). His past experiences include having been a middle school science teacher, Director of Academic and Instructional Support for the Arizona Department of Education, a research scientist for the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship between educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co- developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 1800 times and his
, brainstorming of alternatives, definition of criteria for evaluatingalternatives, analysis, prototyping, and iteration. The specific assessment tool is shown below: Assessment tool: Evaluation of final project reports, May 2016. Specifically looking for evidence of: — need-finding or other description of the needs of the project — clear description of design goals — brainstorming or listing of various conceptual ideas to solve a problem — criteria for decision, and analysis based on those criteria (decision matrix) — iteration, perhaps following a prototype — consideration of a variety of types of constraintsScoring Rubric:Excellent: (1) Project report shows clear design goals and clear evidence of consideration ofthe needs
were also working to complete their capstone designprojects, and many of them were traveling for interviews. However, the advantage of catchingthem at this position in the departmental study plan is that the students were also more aware ofthe potential benefit of the course on their career, and the concept of adding this course project totheir resume was very attractive. In spite of catching the students at the end of their collegeexperience, the classroom demographics were favorable. When making decisions on the applicability of any set of techniques or approaches toteaching a course, several factors must be balanced. The position of the course within thedepartmental curriculum could affect the course load and the ability of the
Col- leges; ”Building Learning Communities to Improve Student Achievement: Albany City School District” , and ”Educational Leadership Program Enhancement Project at Syracuse University” Teacher Leadership Quality Program. She is also the PI on both ”Syracuse City School District Title II B Mathematics and Science Partnership: Science Project and Mathematics MSP Grant initiatives.Dr. Ali Reza Osareh, North Carlina A&T State University Ali Osareh received his PhD from Virginia tech in 1994. He has worked in the industry including wireless design before joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina Agricul- tural and Technical State University in 2000. He is specializing in Energy
Communication Studies at James Madison University and has published research using qualitative interviewing, ethnographic and rhetorical methods to examine communication in diverse contexts ranging from aging families to university campus cultures. She has advised undergraduate and graduate students in ethnographic and qualitative interview projects on a wide-range of topics, has taught research methods at the introductory, advanced, and graduate levels, and has trained research assistants in diverse forms of data collection and analysis. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Negotiating Tensions of Independence and Connection in Makerspace Cultures: A Qualitative
, service andcommunity based learning, internships, and capstone projects, to name a few. These practices aresaid to be “high impact” because they facilitate engagement and improve retention in college.Whereas research on the efficacy of HIPs in promoting retention and degree attainment incollege is extensive, few have studied the value of these practices in promoting long-term, post-graduation outcomes, such as professional retention.7 Thus, the purpose of this study was toinvestigate the relationship between participation in several high impact educational practiceswhile in college and engineering students’ professional trajectories after graduation in thespecific context of the engineering industry, an industry that suffers considerable
was an Associate Professor at the University of Georgia, where she was co-director of the interdisciplinary engineering education research Collaborative Lounge for Un- derstanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER). In her research, she is interested in understanding how engineering students develop their professional identity, the role of emo- tion in student learning, and synergistic learning. A recent research project uncovers the narratives of exemplary engineering faculty who have successfully transitioned to student-centered teaching strategies. She co-designed the environmental engineering synthesis and design studios and the design spine for the mechanical engineering program at
well as for quality control undergraduate and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also, she introduced the first experiential activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Dr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Dr. Richard Chiou is Associate Professor within the Engineering Technology Department at Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His educational background is in manufacturing with an emphasis on mechatronics. In addition to his many years of industrial experience, he has taught many different
-ended questionspossibly pushing them further along in their cognitive development. The junior year is also keyin the transition from novice to expert when students receive the last of their technicalpreparations before their senior capstone design courses. The use of common industry simulationsoftware also increases course diversity and helps to push students into higher levels ofdevelopment such as early or higher multiplicity. In Perry’s theory of development, this refers towhen students admit that multiple answers are possible and instructors might not know theanswer (a common experience in capstone design courses).25Previous work done in the Fall of 2015 on the orbital mechanics class found that students whoperform better on questions
skills in their schooling and future positions. Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2016, pp. 757-760. [15] Zheng, G., Zhang, C., & Li, L. “Practicing and evaluating soft skills in IT capstone projects”, In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education September, 2015, ACKNOWLEDGMENT ,pp. 109-113.The authors would like to acknowledge the students that [16] Fisher, D. R., & Bagiati, A
track toreach their goals, or to fulfill requirements of their course. If they are in difficulty, theiradvisor may help them think about what might be the most effective ways to improvetheir learning.Self-assessment is often used in medical schools as a way of improving students’ clinicalskills. Nursing education, like teacher education, emphasizes becoming a reflectivepractitioner. Thinking about how current material relates to material learned in othercourses can benefit anyone in a degree program. Capstone courses serve to encourageself-assessment by requiring students to apply previously-learned skills to new contexts.The e-portfolio movement is another practice that encourages self-assessment. Studentsput together work that they have
classes to native English speakers, he has also taught special introductory engineering classes for foreign students who do not have English as their primary language.Mr. Jamison Taylor Bair , Colorado State University Jamison Bair is a Graduate Student pursuing a Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University. He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University in May 2016. Jamison is one of the GTAs for MECH-468, the senior design capstone class at CSU. He is also the Project Manager for the CSU Vehicle Innovation Team competing in the intercollegiate automotive engineering competition EcoCAR3 and the President of the CSU Student Chapter of the Society for the
are invited to stay on campus for the live filming of the InVenture Prize, andsometimes K-12 students are featured in the broadcast. In addition, some schools come foradditional field trips to see the Capstone Expo for senior design projects. For more details on theIC offerings, see Moore et al., 201710.MethodsResearch Design: This research utilizes a mixed methods approach employing both qualitativeand quantitative sources (i.e., surveys, interviews, and a focus group) to determine the nature ofteachers’ experiences with InVenture Challenge and teachers’ perceptions of the program’simpact on students.Participants: This study is being conducted with teachers who implemented the InVentureChallenge (IC) in their schools during the 2015-2016
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois where he has been since 2001. His group website may be found at http://optics.beckman.illinois.edu. Carney teaches the ECE senior capstone course and a rotation of three advanced graduate courses in optics. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Paper ID #19835 He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Rochester (1999) and was a post-doc at Washington University (1999-2001). He is a theorist with research interests in inverse problems, imaging, coherence theory, and other branches of optical physics
Stanford University. Subsequently, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, also at Stanford University. He has been with the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Illinois since 2006, where he now serves as Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs. He holds an affiliate appointment in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, where he leads a research group that works on a diverse set of projects (http://bretl.csl.illinois.edu/). Dr. Bretl received the National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award in 2010. He has also received numerous awards for undergraduate teaching in the area of dynamics and control, including all three teaching awards given by the College of Engineering at
, 2017 An Assessment Framework for First- Year Introduction to Engineering Courses AbstractIn this evidence-based practice paper, we describe an assessment framework that applies to first-year introductory engineering courses. First-year engineering courses cover a variety of learningobjectives that address both technical and professional outcomes outlined in ABET. Thesecourses also often involve open-ended design and modeling projects. The assessment of multiplecompetencies along with open-ended design can be a challenging task for educators. In thispaper, we describe a framework that guides instructional processes for effective assessment forstudent learning
Aidan O Dwyer, “Learning Styles of First Year Level 7 Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Students at DIT,” in International Symposium for Engineering Education ISEE- 08 (Dublin City University, 2008), 69–74.13 Mary Baker, Michael O’Boyle, and Rachna Mutreja, “Learning Styles and Retention Rates in Engineering Students,” in On Being an Engineer: Cognitive Underpinnings of Engineering Education (Lubbock, TX, 2008).14 James Bluman and J. Ledlie Klosky, “Jump-Starting a Senior-Level Capstone Project through Hands-on Laboratory Exercises,” in 41st ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (Rapid City, SD, 2011), 1–6, doi:10.1109/FIE.2011.6142810.15 Robert P Hesketh, Stephanie Farrell, and C S Slater, “The Role of
different levels of emphasis on experiential learning. Those schoolswith less experiential learning courses tended to feature more courses where students learnedconcepts and demonstrated competence through traditional exercises like problem sets andexams. Engineering educators have steadily incorporated problem-based learning exercises,projects and capstone experiences into undergraduate engineering education. Problem-basedLearning (PBL) has been one technique introduced in order to bring ‘real life’ problems into theclassroom. Those educational exercises, particularly PBL, emphasize information-seeking as askill that will be developed through participation in the exercise. What we may see in these datais the payoff of those activities, but as one
the curriculum with social context Architectural Civil Environmental Mechanical First year First-year projects: some sections S-L, some community context, some little/no social context AR/CV Intro (2-cr) EV Intro (1-cr) Second year Engineering Geology* Fund Environmental Eng Professional Sustainability Principles Issues Third year Intro to Fund Environmental Eng Env Microbiology Construction Intro to Construction Air Pollution Control Fourth year Capstone
the UIC Innovation Center. Prior to joining the faculty at UIC, she worked in new product development for medical devices, telecommunications and consumer products. She co-teaches both bioengineering capstone design courses, including the longstanding core senior design sequence and the recently launched interdisciplinary medical product development course. She also serves as co-Director of the Freshman Engineering Success Program, and is actively involved in engineering outreach for global health. Miiri received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.S. in General Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.Dr
therelationships between industrial and ecological systems.17,18,19 This paper focuses on the secondpart of the two-course sustainability sequence that is a problem-based course based onquantifiable life cycle analysis using multi-parameter sustainability tools, including footprintanalysis, GREET LCA software and Sima Pro LCA software. The expected outcomes associatedwith the course, which address ABET student outcome criteria a, c, e, h, i, j, and k that are listedin Table 1. The topics covered in the course are mapped to the expected course outcomes inFigure 1.This paper discusses the implementation of a semester-long deep-learning project designed forstudents to engage with and compare GREET and SimaPro LCA platforms for analyzing theenvironmental
as exploring students’ conceptions of diversity and its importance within engineering fields.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co-directs the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of
infrastructure projects, sustainability education, and increasing diversity in STEM fields.Dr. Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., Virginia Tech Denise R. Simmons, Ph.D., PE, LEED-AP, is an assistant professor in the Myers-Lawson School of Construction and in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, and an affiliate faculty of the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in civil engineering and a graduate certificate in engineering education – all from Clemson University. She is the 2016 recipient of Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Assistant Professor and the Black Graduate Student