propose a Fundamental Learning Integration Platform (FLIP) which creates aphysical connection between the conceptual and practical engineering concepts throughout anentire 4-year Mechanical Engineering curriculum [10]. Students were made explicitly aware ofhow each concept from their courses fits into the bigger picture through an end of semesterproject that revolved around a specific aspect of the steam engine. This concept is difficult toapply to Electrical Engineering because of the wide variety of specializations offered within themajor. While connections between areas are plentiful, creating a singular project that faculty ofall specializations will deem sufficiently applicable would be nigh impossible.Alnajjar proposes “Integrative Learning
tutorial files are expected to be good and no furtherreview is done. In this paper, only single parts submitted as exercises were examined — typically6 to 8 exercise files per student per semester. Assemblies, drawings, and individual projects wereexcluded from this study. However, the program has been tested against assembly and drawingfiles and is fully capable of extracting history data from these files.Demonstration of the ProgramA second CAD file was created by copying the file first_student.prt after it was saved in Room150. The file was then renamed in Windows File Explorer to second_student.prt and furthermodified in Room 124 (Figure 2). Somewhat interestingly, the file history does not mention thatboth files were once named
Aspects of Facilities Management and Construction Cost and Bidding. He is a graduate of Purdue School of Engineering and Technology receiving degrees in Construction Technology, Archi- tectural Technology and a Masters in Facility Management. His field experience includes residential and light commercial construction. He has been an architectural designer as well as superintendent for single and multi-family residential construction projects. Mr. Ray worked as an engineering design manager in the Building Components Manufacturing Industry for over fifteen years.Mr. Joe Tabas, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis Joe Tabas is a lecturer of Engineering Technology at the IUPUI school of Engineering Technology
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studied.3 The same study alsoindicated a high satisfaction level with residential life activities.3 Other research results showedthat engineering and computer science living learning communities created an atmosphere wherestudents worked together in groups to study or worked on academic projects resulting in positivepeer relationships that are related to higher student satisfaction.10 The findings higher academicpeer relationships and interaction with faculty and higher satisfaction with living environment forengineering and computer science students.10 Living learning communities can enhance studentsatisfaction but lack of faculty involvement and staff planning can significantly reduce thebenefits of the learning community.3 When faculty and
(2007).8 Beichner, R. J. et al. The student-centered activities for large enrollment undergraduate programs (SCALE- UP) project. Research-based reform of university physics 1, 2-39 (2007).9 McGee Banks, C. A. & Banks, J. A. Equity pedagogy: An essential component of multicultural education. Theory into practice 34, 152-158 (1995).10 Strickland, B. Kierkegaard and Counseling for Individuality. Personnel & Guidance Journal 44 (1966).11 Gneezy, U., Leonard, K. L. & List, J. A. Gender differences in competition: Evidence from a matrilineal and a patriarchal society. Econometrica 77, 1637-1664 (2009).12 Tatum, H. E., Schwartz, B. M., Schimmoeller, P. A. & Perry, N. Classroom participation and
requires mastery and simultaneous applicationof concepts from several earlier courses. To address this educational challenge, based on thisNSF-supported project, we have designed and developed a software tutor to help students in thiscourse by providing a scaffold to translate visual information (circuit diagrams) to writteninformation (equations) and analyze a power electronic converter circuit. The developedweb-based software tool uses scaffolding as an interactive well-established pedagogical approachto improve students’ learning and problem solving skills. Scaffolding provides students with atemplate and dynamic feedback to assist them in their early stages of learning. In our case, thedeveloped software tutor assists students by scaffolding
qualitative research methods, project- based learning, and theoretical foundations of education technology.Dr. Krishna Pakala, Boise State University Krishna Pakala, Ph.D., is an Clinical Assistant Professor at Boise State University, Idaho. His academic research interests include innovative teaching and learning strategies, use of emerging technologies, and mobile teaching and learning strategies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Building an Effective Online Thermodynamics Course for Undergraduate Engineering Students1. BackgroundOnline learning does not appear to be the common option when approaching some core engineeringcourses. However, the growing need for online engineering courses
Richard Huston, University of Cincinnati Dr. Thomas Huston is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Materials Engineering (MME) De- partment within the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Huston has been a member of the engineering faculty at the University of Cincinnati since 1985. He is the Director of the Design Clinic for MME and oversees the capstone design projects for the Senior Me- chanical Engineering students. Dr. Huston also serves as the Deputy Director of the Occupational Safety and Health Engineering program of the NIOSH Education and Research Center (ERC) at the University of Cincinnati. An alumnus of the University of Cincinnati, he completed his
Paper ID #20309Connecting students’ homework to their participation in a course-based so-cial networkDr. A Gavrin, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Andy Gavrin is Associate Professor and Chair of Physics at Indiana University Purdue University In- dianapolis (IUPUI), and a member of IUPUI’s University College faculty. He is a co-developer of the Just-in-Time Teaching method, and an award-winning teacher. He is a member of the Project Kaleido- scope 21st Century Faculty, and of Indiana University’s Faculty Colloquium for Excellence in Teaching. His research is focused on the use of technology in science
in order to ensure a higher response rate. Our combined targetpopulation was approximately 1,609 undergraduate students with a gender breakdown of 53%women and 47% men in a broad range of undergraduate majors. 110 responses were received,including 59 STEM majors, 17 arts majors and 23 students who identified as having a major inneither of those categories. The overall response rate was 9.4%. Due to the limited scope of thisproject and the barriers to human subject access, the feasibility of our sample leaves our studysubject to sampling bias, making it difficult to generalize our results beyond the institutionsampled for this project. Variables This study included four dependent variables representing student interest in STEM
. Lacking diversity on an engineering team, welimit the set of solutions that will be considered and we may not find the best, the elegantsolution.” [6].Related worksRTTD-ID builds on Real-Time Text Display(RTTD) developed by Kushalnagar, et al [11]. forclassroom use. RTTD is a caption display methodwhich tracks a single speaker moving across aclassroom and projects captions transcribed by aC-Print captioner or Automatic SpeechRecognition, above them, allowing deaf viewers tomore closely follow what a speaker is saying. Thesystem is designed to be portable, easy to set-up,and low-cost. It uses a Microsoft Kinect 2 to track Figure 2: RTTD with multiple speakersthe position of the speaker. The
in a real negotiation process with professional and financial stakes. Undoubtedly, welearned many lessons throughout the process, including the need to construct a more concisesurvey instrument, and those lessons will inform our ongoing efforts to study this topic.Furthermore, with the complex nature of gender and negotiation, additional data collectionmethods should be explored to help us better understand what happens during negotiationprocesses and how gender factors into those processes.To that end, we have begun a second phase of the [name removed] project that entails collectionof different qualitative data. This phase began with a storytelling circle and methodologydiscussion held at a conference in January 2018 [17]. Analysis of our
, Boulder Derek Reamon is the Co-director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program (ITLP) and the En- gineering Plus (e+) degree program, and a Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engi- neering. As ITLP co-director, he coordinates 19-22 sections of First-year Engineering Projects, a course that has a proven benefit on retention within engineering and is also a nationally recognized model for freshman design courses. The e+ program has created a flexible engineering degree and a pathway to sec- ondary math and science teaching licensure, to increase the numbers of STEM teachers that have strong c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018
SEC number Dynamics class 1 36.8 17.0 19.8 2 70.1 22.0 48.1 3 46.0 6.0 40.0 Project Goals and Methods: In this study, we investigated whether the reordering of kineticsand kinematics topics in a traditional dynamics course, that is, a course that is not part of a largerintegrated framework, leads to improved student performance on single- and multi-conceptdynamics problems. We hypothesized that the larger conservation and accounting frameworkthat is incorporated at Rose-Hulman is not
. If we assume that the overall score of a course is 100 points, the maximum pointsattainable by any student at the end of the course is clearly 100. However, the maximum pointsattainable by student at week 5 will depend on the number of homework assignments, projects ormidterm exams completed at that stage and their respective weights in computing the overall 100points that the course is based on. For instance, in this statistics course the grading scheme was: • Homework: 30% (5 assignments, 6% each assignment) • Midterm exam: 30% • Final exam: 40%The deadline for dropping this course was the end of week 8 of the semester. By the end of thatweek, the students had finished 3 homework assignments and the midterm exam. The maximumnumber of
, however multiple-choice options could not be devised to retrieve the datasought [19].Collection Methods. Since this project required human subjects, the researchers sought andobtained IRB (Institutional Review Board) approval. Following this, a link to the survey wasdistributed to professional educator organizations, school districts, and personal networks tospread the survey over as wide an area as possible. Subjects were made aware of the intent of theproject. Records were kept of all contacts and an attempt to equally cover science, technology,engineering, and math educators was made.Data Analysis Methodology. Responses to 17 questions were gathered using an online Qualtricssurvey. The survey received 211 “hits” during the five weeks it was
from course evaluations, andrecommendations for instructors seeking to implement similar projects in their courses.IntroductionIn recent years, inquiry and problem-based learning within engineering education has gainedmomentum and has proliferated across many engineering programs. A literature review revealednumerous examples of development and implantation of these techniques into classrooms [2, 4-6]. Kolb[7] has written extensively on the model of experiential learning and how this technique enhanceslearning and mastery of engineering concepts. Experiential or laboratory based learning fits within theactive learning dimension within their index of learning styles (ILS) described by Felder and Silverman [7-8]. The basis of ILS is that
Graduate Teaching Associate for the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors program, he is heavily involved with developing and teaching laboratory content, leading the maintenance of the in-house robotics controller, and managing the devel- opment of the robotics project. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Technology’s Role in Student Understanding of Mathematics in Modern Undergraduate Engineering CoursesAbstractThis paper seeks to identify important implications on the use of technology in the teaching ofmathematics in modern undergraduate engineering courses. These are used to create a big pictureof the current situation of engineering mathematics teaching
operational amplifier design yet can be analyzed usingtraditional nodal analysis techniques. At the University of Virginia it is also a central element inthe design project for the 3rd course in our Fundamentals sequence, an ECG system with digitalsignal processing for filtering and analysis.Instrumentation amplifier experiments are a staple of many undergraduate laboratoryexperiments in electrical and computer engineering, biomedical engineering, and physics, and wehave surveyed the types of experiments that are presented. In some cases, these experimentsdiscuss the circuit within applications based around a Wheatstone bridge [7]. In most otherscenarios, an amplifier is constructed, and signals are applied at one input while grounding theother and
project?" "What artifacts in theroom might also connect?" When students discuss a shared, recent experience, theirobservations were richer and more relevant. In either event, introducing the crosscutting conceptsformally made the future group and individual conversations related to the concepts moremeaningful. Allowing for wait time for students to look at the list of concepts and also betweenconversations surrounding ideas was crucial in helping students process this new academiclanguage. As students referred to the same concepts in multiple engineering challengesthroughout the day, they were doing more than solving a specific problem. They were knowinglylooking for cause and effect, asking what structure might best serve a function, even trying
integrity of the discipline itself. Of course, nearlyhalf a century of science and technology studies scholarship has demonstrated that engineeringwork is always cultural and political: humans make decisions about what projects to pursue andwhat design factors to prioritize amid a complex set of social, political, and cultural demands[e.g., 15-17].Prior research has speculated a possible connection between the prevalence of this ideology andinequality in engineering. Specifically, depoliticization justifies an unequal status quo in theprofession by prescribing broad avoidance of engagement with concerns like inequality within“real” engineering work. This scholarship argues that depoliticization functions as a mechanismsof inequality reproduction at
exploration, sys- tem of systems, virtual reality and complex systems, systems simulation, risk, reliability, and vulnerability in critical infrastructures with applications to diverse fields ranging from the military to industry. His pub- lications appeared in several ranking journals including the IEEE Systems Journal, and the Computers & Industrial Engineering Journal. His total awarded projects exceed $ 4.2 M including National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Defense (DOD), Industry, and other Research Laboratories.Dr. Lesley Strawderman, Mississippi State University Lesley Strawderman received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 2005. She has also received a M.S.I.E
Student Experience Survey - HIP Course CONSIDERABLE TIME AND EFFORT 1.11 How many hours, in a typical 7-day week, do you spend preparing for this course? Less than 1 hour 1-5 hours 6-10 hours More than 10 hours To what extent do you agree with the following statements: 1.12 I had to spend a lot of time and effort in order to do well in this course. 1.13 This course challenged me to reach higher academic or personal goals than I thought I could. REFLECTIVE AND INTEGRATED LEARNING 1.14 How many times, over the entirety of the course, have you worked on an assignment or project that required integrating ideas or information from
] and some images are from [4-5].Toy Project at the University of North Florida areworking to engage students and community members by teaching toy adaptation adapting anddonating accessible toys. Toy adaptation involves modifying electronic toys to make them moreaccessible to children with diverse abilities. This includes deconstructing a toy and soldering auniversal activation port within the toy’s circuitry, such that a variety of alternative switches canbe used for toy activation (Fig. 1).Previous studies from other groups have found that toy adaptation is effective in enhancing first-year engineering students’ understanding of the field of engineering, and the connection betweenengineering and society [6-8]. Additionally, our previous work
with the hope that students would also: Develop educational materials and hands-on STEM activities as a service to the community Develop project/time management, organizational, and leadership skills. Develop effective listening/collaboration skills while working with community partners. Recognize and understand ethical responsibilities of engineers.Course History:This course was created in 2014 and was, initially, a two-unit course that served as a vehicle forthe outreach, discussions with partner liaisons, and assignments. Soon after, one to two “lunch andlearns” were included each quarter to provide a more convenient avenue for guest speakers anddiscussions. In 2015, the course took on its current three-unit format with a lecture and a
education. He is the author of numerous research and pedagogical articles in his areas of expertise and has obtained several externally funded projects in the fields of computing and engineering.Dr. Xiangyan Zeng, Fort Valley State University Xiangyan Zeng received her Ph.D. in computer science from University of the Ryukyus, Japan. She is currently a professor of computer science at Fort Valley State University. Her research interests include image processing, pattern recognition and machine learning.Dr. Chunhua Dong, Fort Valley State University She received the B.E. degree in 2010 from Quanzhou Normal University, China, the M.E. degree in 2012 from Hainan University, Hainan, China, and the D.E. degree in 2016 from
,situation awareness, anxiety, stress, and emotion in real aircraft and flight simulators [1, 3, 6-16].A few studies have used pilot performances to correlate and understand the psychologicalaspects of pilots [7, 10, 17, 18]. The present project seeks to extend this research by using highfidelity experiments to explore neural functions carried out in a realistic training environmentand focusing on the physiological evolution related to student pilots’ training and educationprocess.METHODOLOGYParticipants and Procedures A total of five participants were recruited from a four-year undergraduate professionalpilot degree program. Each participant completed five sessions. The EEG of Participant D failedto be recorded in one session. Therefore, a
pedagogical digital twins in theeducation of automation engineers.Role of digital twin in MBSEModel Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) augments traditional systemsengineering by focusing on the creation and exploitation of domain models as theauthoritative sources of truth and the primary means for information exchangeamong engineering and project management personnel. However, MBSE, whichbegan with an initial focus on upfront engineering, is gradually working its way tospanning the full system life cycle. In particular, MBSE is currently addressingchallenges associated with verification and testing of the system model. This iswhere digital twin technology can play a key role. When incorporated into MBSE,digital twins can greatly enhance verification
project is to identify how wemight cultivate inclusive engineering cultures in the absence of critical masses of peopletraditionally underrepresented in engineering. Stated another way, this challenges us to considerhow we might actualize more diverse and inclusive engineering environments starting with thosealready present in large numbers. This suggests as opposed to waiting until we have largenumbers of individuals from diverse groups to address the issues impacting them, we start withincreasing the awareness of those from majority groups to the marginalized experiences ofpeople from underrepresented groups as they navigate heteronormative engineering cultures.One potentially transformative way of doing this is by shifting the mindsets of