-learning communities for engineeringundergraduates at Virginia Tech. These living-learning communities were created to providesocial and academic support for first-year female and male engineering students. Combined,these learning communities now support over 600 students, the majority of whom are enrolled intheir first-year of college. This also includes a large support team of upperclassmen students (i.e.,sophomores, juniors, and seniors) who serve as mentors and committee members.PurposeThe work presented here is part of a multi-year plan to impact every student involved in either ofthe living-learning communities. In this paper, we describe the work to date, which includes ourcollaboration with faculty in the field of sociology to develop the
obtained through focus groups and surveys. These findings are noteworthybecause scholarship students in this program are graduated at a 95% rate and 50% of themcontinue right on to graduate school. These rates are much higher than the usual 70% graduaterate for upper division transfer students and the less than 15% who go right on to graduateschool.Sustainability is also addressed, including how the academic and professional developmentcourse is now offered to all transfer students through the Dean’s Office. Future plans for theprogram as the grant monies come to a close are addressed.IntroductionIn 2002, Arizona State University (ASU) was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) S-STEM scholarship award (# 0123146) for upper division
event, werecritical to its design and implementation. A one-credit, pass/fail course withapproximately 40 students from a wide variety of majors focused on the design andconstruction of the musical instruments. Students in this class were also required todevelop lesson plans for the small group sessions. Students in a senior-level ElectricalEngineering audio technology course developed, together with the faculty member, aseries of demonstrations for the museum-like portion of the event.There is currently a growing interest in K-12 programs that integrate STEM educationwith the Arts, commonly known by the acronym STEAM.1, 2, 6, 9, 10 Even as the nationadvocates for advances in K-12 STEM education to spur greater employment andeconomic
course offerings, physics-major requirements, and electives offered from twomajor categories of institution: national universities without graduate programs in physics andnational liberal arts colleges.The reorientation in the program included modifying and extending course offerings, and addinga new “track” for students, allowing them to choose a concentration within the physics majorbased on their future plans. These changes were designed to provide students with increasedknowledge of physics and technical, scientific, and academic skills required to achieve success inlater academic programs or in technical fields in the workforce. The skills targeted were selectedbased on national trends in employment of physics degree recipients.We present
. This is assuming only 1 in 10 students wish to pursue a BS degree online. All indicationsare that there is a much higher percentage of adult students who are planning to pursue a B.S.degree. Further, addressing this market contributes to supporting a technology-based workforcesought by the State. That goal is to provide a continued path for developing an increasinglycompetent and highly trained technology-based workforce. Page 12.416.4 When considering a fluctuation rate of 8% in undergraduate distance education semestercredit hours, the projected expected growth pattern ranges from a 27% to 48% increase in SCHwithin the next consecutive
individuals to be successful in their profession, they must ‘fit’ well within the framework oftheir chosen organizations. Such a fit requires an analysis of self. This course opens with such ananalysis. Students are first introduced to the concept that their view of themselves is not,necessarily, the same as the view of others toward them. There are always three distinct, butpossibly differing views: who we are, who we think we are, and who others think we are. Afterconsiderable discussion, students are asked to categorize themselves as Changers, Doers,Floaters, or Non-Doers as members of the global society that they plan to serve. These categoriesare not prioritized and are discussed in a forum related to the overall needs of society and are
interests are unsteady hydrodynamics and aerodynamics, vortex dynamics, bio-fluid mechanics, and pulsed-jet propulsion.Alice Kendrick, Southern Methodist University Alice Kendrick is professor of advertising in the Temerlin Advertising Institute at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Her research in advertising account planning, message content, and educational issues has appeared in journals including Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Services Marketing, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Advertising Education and Southwest Mass Communication Review. Her commentary and results of her work have also been featured in The Wall Street Journal
improvement plan for a specific professional skill. We propose that this is anauthentic way to demonstrate achievement of the ABET professional skills outcomes.Literature SearchTraditional methods of educating engineers have come under considerable criticism in the pasttwo decades. Studies have found shortcomings in what was once the standard engineeringcurriculum. In 1994, a report released by the American Society for Engineering Education(ASEE) explained that, in addition to engineering fundamentals, an “understanding of thesocietal context of engineering” should be taught to students1. Explaining the role of engineeringas an “integral process of societal change” had been put forward previously in a paper thatencouraged educators to create an
engineering lesson plans to support theirclassroom interactions and for eventual onlinepublication and dissemination.During 2007-2008, the graduate TEAMS Fellows atCU-Boulder impacted students weekly in 58 classroomsin four elementary schools (827 students), one middle A K-12 engineering Fellowschool (600 students), and one high school (210 “in action” at a Colorado elementary school.students). The Fellows’ STEM expertise and engaginghands-on activities have become an integral teachingcomponent for partner teachers and a highlight for the students.Who are the Fellows?Since 1999, 68 Fellows have taught in the TEAMS Program. Currently, in the ninth
, Opportunity Scanning, to identify projects during the semester before the January start Page 14.250.5of the year long project. Students teams of approximately six students from engineering, businessand design arts work on step 2, Concept Design and Product Planning and step 3, the parallel andintegrated development of the product, its manufacturing system that produces it and themarketing plan. In general the sponsoring companies are responsible for the resource-intensivesteps 4 and 5 of product and market launch and service and support. Project and Process Management
the designprocess. Selected topics include customer requirements and specifications, conceptual design,decision making, project management, cost estimating, budgets, documentation and formalreports. Each project group is required to give three oral presentations during the semester. Thepresentation topics are project proposal, midterm review, and final design. The semesterconcludes with submission of a comprehensive design report.The spring semester includes less time in the classroom and more spent building and testing thedesigns. Students are required to develop a comprehensive test plan to prove the specificationsdeveloped in the fall semester. They then fabricate and test the design, and in most cases,proceed directly to redesign
choose to use in their tasks.6. Reduces uncertainty, surprise, and frustration so that students maximize their learning.7. Delivers efficiency in the learning process by helping students to focus on their work.8. Creates momentum in the learning process by allowing new ideas and experiences to flow.From the mentioned characteristics of scaffolding, it is easy to infer that instructional scaffoldinginvolves developing instructional plans that build on students’ existing knowledge to result in adeeper understanding of new information. The instructional plans must be implemented and theparticipating students must be supported during the learning process for the scaffolding to benefitstudents10. The types of instructional and support plans that have
degreeholders in science, engineering, business and technology a direct path to industry. This programis attractive to students because it prepares them for work in a variety of cutting-edge fields andyields a highly marketable degree after just two years of postgraduate study. The faculty andstudents at Farmingdale State College of the State University of New York are excited abouttheir newly proposed PSM program that is strongly supported by the College’s administrationand intend its implementation as soon as funding is allocated. The College also is planning torigorously evaluate and constantly improve its PSM program and disseminates the findings of itsstrength and weakness regionally and nationally to eventually work collaboratively as a mentorto
theindustry.Back in the late 1980’s, the BCM faculty began planning for a construction management mastersdegree. At that time only the Industrial Technology (IT) Department had a master’s degreeprogram in the CoT. Also, at this time the former BCM department head went on a six monthsabbatical and interviewed BCM alumni around the country on the topic of the BCM masters Page 14.654.2degree. Beginning with the Spring 1990 semester one construction management course wastaught each semester. These courses were taught through the IT department. The courses weretaught one evening per week and the students consisted mainly of non-degree part time
through totalprogram integration while avoiding some major drawbacks of such schemes, such as significant changes inprogram administration.We propose a model different from the total integration model, which has dominated curriculum reformresearch. In our model, course and department frameworks remain intact. Instead, we are changing the wayfaculty teach and the way students' time is structured to increase learning efficiency. We have 100 studentsenrolled in the program and plan to work with them for two years. Special sections of Calc I and Chemistry Iwere taught in the Fall semester of 1995. Sections of Calculus II, Chemistry II and Physics I are in progressduring Spring 1996. These special sections are reducing the dependence on lecture and
course. It also brings together alumni abroad and industry stateside, withfaculty and students to develop a program for global experienceThere are multiple goals to the RSAP program: spark interest in future international experiencessuch as an internship or studying abroad for a semester; expose engineering students to differentcultures and customs in the workplace, school and daily life; attract and retain women byproviding interesting social, cultural and art related experiences; attract culturally disadvantagedstudents, raise them up and level the playing field for them; and broaden the student engineers’horizons to better prepare them for being productive employees in the global workplace.This paper will review the steps in planning and
mathematical programming, statistics and queuing theory, corporate planning, quality engineering, information systems, software development and the development of microprocessor and digital signal processor based hardware and software. He was a recipient of the NATO System Science Prize. Page 14.778.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Integration of Software Engineering Graduate Education and Continuing Professional Development ProgramsAbstractMonmouth University offers a thirty-six credit graduate program in software engineering. Insupport of the US Army’s Software Engineering Center
the manipulation of variables, creating aresearch design, measurement procedures, the use of interviews and questionnaires, and thestatistical analysis of data. For decades quantitative studies involving an experimental approachwith the researcher having control over variables that may or may not influence the subjects wasthe common approach. That trend, however, has not continued for many studies now employmixed methods and in fact some contend that “multi-method research is now discussed, planned,and conducted as a routine matter, part and parcel of normal social science.” 6Despite efforts to produce rigorous educational research, education and other social sciences tendnot to have the same scientific status given to natural sciences
approach was to first identify critical areas for graduate student development. Aninitial list was created that grouped potential competencies in three areas, shown inTable 1. Competencies in this list were drawn from work on developmental assessment centersfor managers [2, 3], with input from the faculties in the different engineering disciplines at theUniversity of Tulsa, as well as their Industrial Advisory Boards.Table 1. Initial set of professional competencies. Technical Communication Cultural Information Seeking Oral Communication Cultural Adaptability Planning and Organizing Leadership Teamwork Problem Solving
to produce sample curricula that show how students can incorporate afall or spring semester abroad in a standard four-year, eight-semester graduation plan. Suchplans are constructed so as to not require additional summer study or application of AdvancedPlacement or International Baccalaureate credits.The process of creating these sample curricula is labor-intensive. Starting with the curricularrequirements at our institution for a specific major, noting prerequisite streams and limitations onwhen specific courses are offered, we then investigate the course offerings in that discipline aswell as in mathematics in one of the study abroad programs. Note is made of the general levelof each course and semester(s) offered. Courses that appear to
Paper ID #19543Student Interns Work to Activate First Floor SpacesProf. Charlie Setterfield, Sinclair Community College Charlie Setterfield is a Professor of Architectural Technology at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. With more than 20 years experience in the architectural and construction industries, including responsibilities in all aspects of architectural project delivery and construction management, Setterfield brings real-world experience to the classroom. Setterfield’s courses focus on BIM, IPD, materials and means of construction, ”green building”, professional practice and building codes. As a Plans
explore knowledge gaps. 1f View problems with an open mindset and explore opportunities with passion. 4c Provide and accept constructive criticism, including self-evaluation. 4f Manage informal communications.The single-point rubric format was explicitly chosen for its abilities to clearly state performanceexpectations and solicit qualitative feedback. The rubric layout was divided into a set ofcategories that roughly follow the timeline of a typical client interaction: preparatory activities,status reporting, planned questions, and follow-up questions. Two additional categories, mindsetand professionalism, were also included to capture traits that should be present throughout theinteraction. For
solutions for small-scale gold miningcommunities), Vietnam (low-cost prosthetics), South Korea (technical training of North Koreanrefugees), Kenya (drinking water), and Madagascar (drinking water and sanitation).As part of their partnership agreement, MUSE and WFP have collaborated through UNHRDLAB in: designing and developing relief items and logistics solutions for the supply chain,focusing on cost-effective green technologies and on reducing packaging waste (thus enhancingefforts in emergency preparedness planning and response operations); and sharing knowledgeand building capacities.The Mercer Partnership with UNHRDThe unique partnership between MUSE and UNHRD has grown since late-2014, as describedbelow by academic calendar year.2014-2015. The
their projects (e.g., What is themotivation of your project? What is the research question? How do you plan to solve it? Can youmake significant contributions to publish the work? Do you have enough support?); and (3)during weekly research seminars, we invited PhD students to talk about why they decided to goto graduate school, how they picked their topic, and what their future work plans were (e.g.,industry, national labs, or university).Semester Research Project.The semester project is available for students with background in Mechanical and Manufacturingengineering technology. Students work as a group of two or three. Students work on the projectas the lecture and labs progress throughout the semester. The project allows them to
expertiseand skill to coordinate the project might require intentionally allocated resources.As an extended example of re-negotiation, one team described how the success to date of theirproject has emerged, in part, from the alignment of the project goals with the strategic planninghappening on campus and with campus-wide activities relating to their philosophical focus. Ateam member detailed: The buzz is big, that’s what I want to say. CoE [College of Engineering], in our strategic planning, for the first time they put in a goal around inclusion and diversity. The dean is putting in resources around seeing this come to fruition. Our dean was quoted last week in Chronicle of Higher Education on recruiting a more diverse
understanding of ethical theories and concepts; 2)introducing ethical issues related with engineering research, especially with the handlingof research data; 3) sharing and demonstrating instructional methods for leadingdiscussion-based ethical analysis. Feedback from the workshop participants and their subsequent presentations of ethicsteaching plans indicate that our user-oriented approach successfully engaged a cohort ofethics educators in graduate engineering programs. We conclude this paper by reflectingon the lessons we learned from the workshop design and reporting our plans for refiningthe workshop in the future.Keywords: Graduate Ethics Education, Faculty Development, Engineering Ethics1. IntroductionThe current ABET Engineering
semester-long data collectionand analysis project which included a fun laboratory experiment to motivate students. Mini-companies of two students each were asked to treat the project as if they had been hired toperform a consulting job for a customer – their professor. The project provided context for theproduction of a series of typical engineering consulting documents: a formal introductory email,a follow-up cover letter, a meeting summary memo, a project specification document includingan estimate/quote, project planning documentation, an interim technical progress report andfinancial summary, and a final technical report were woven through the fabric of the course.Three iterations later, with minor continuous improvement modification based on
-term. You can set goals for your personal andprofessional life. Your goals can have varying complexity and time frames as well. Take sometime to think about your professional and personal goals; they will serve as a guide throughoutyour time in graduate school. Tracy 1 provides seven steps that are helpful for setting andachieving goals: 1. “Decide exactly what you want” 2. “Write it down” 3. “Set a deadline on your goal; set subdeadlines if necessary” 4. “Make a list of everything that you can think of that you are going to have to do to achieve your goal” 5. “Organize the list into a plan” 6. “Take action on your plan immediately” 7. “Resolve to do something every single day that moves you toward your major goal”As an
course credit recognition, resolvinginstitutional and federal travel risk issues, recruitment and selection of students, travel andhousing logistics, local contacts involved in community projects, and follow up of the projectsafter program completion.1. IntroductionBackgroundThe objective of this paper is to provide useful recommendations for planning and executingfaculty-led study abroad programs based on the authors’ experience. In the summer of 2015,UTEP and CETYS conducted a study abroad program funded by the 100,000 Strong in theAmericas Innovation Fund. The program was a real success, but the planning and executionpresented continuous challenges that required quick thinking and adaptability from theorganizers. These lessons are captured in
aspecific lesson plan. Each of these projects can be modified to suit various age groups,audiences, and time limits.2. FrameworkTackling the invention of an outreach event can seem daunting. Younger students are painfullyhonest, and it is important to foster and maintain a good reputation with the community for high-quality, effective recruiting. Professors and students have a great source of inspiration for K-12activities: the classroom.Adapting college-level lessons for use with younger students requires an understanding of theobjective of the exercise and the capabilities of the audience. The following framework, basedon the development and implementation of many outreach projects, outlines a simplemethodology for activity adaptation