Strategic Plan: Goal 1: Transform lives through meaningful learning experiences Goal 2: Inspire, nurture and empower scholarship, creativity, discovery, innovation and entrepreneurial initiatives.The Project CollaborationOne challenge faced in the first year of the project collaboration was that the art and engineeringclasses met on different days. This meant that aside from one scheduled meeting outside of classtimes, the students were strongly requested to meet several times over the length of the projectoutside of class times. This did not work as hoped. While some teams did meet, othersencountered difficulty finding times to meet as a full team or reported a breakdown incommunication. There was a general sense of frustration
, resulting in harmful lead levels. The problem was fixed in 2004, but thousands ofchildren suffered permanent damage [6].With the less land intensive rapid sand filter in place, the 25 acre fenced and closed McMillanpark was sold to the government of DC. In 2021, this space remains chained off and idle, withthe neighborhoods continuing to protest the city’s development plan [7]. This provides andexample to discuss difficulties and failures in government attempts to redevelop public land.McMillan WTP satellite view, Google Earth [8]Curated case studies are used widely in the teaching of engineering ethics [9]. The efficacy ofusing case methods in civil engineering is established. The benefits of using this approach are improved retention of
85 PC/ABS (Polycarbonate/acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) (Industrial 15-55 plastic) PS (Polystyrene) 15-55Table 2. Data collection table with example Disassembly time Recycle Part Material(s) Mass (lbs.) Recyclable (Y/N) (mins and secs) Fraction Ex. Steel Screw Steel 0.11 Y 11 secs 75-85 Total Mass Total TimeConclusionsWhile this class is still under development, the initial offering was well received by students andwe plan to continue offering the course. An informal survey of
underrepresentedstudents by serving as an integral part of a student’s development. Planning and professionalengagement with a mentor can help students to be successful in completing a degree in STEM and thepursuing a graduate degree in STEM. Mentoring can be especially essential for underrepresentedundergraduate students pursuing STEM degrees. Mentoring relationships provide students with apositive environment that can lead to networking opportunities and career opportunities after graduation,but only recently has research been conducted to fully understand the best practices of mentoringrelationships.Based on previous studies conducted, 82.4% reported positive outcomes for mentees.6 Students whohad a mentoring relationship usually had higher retention rates and
academic plan. Courses that provide a self-pacedcomponent along with in-class contextual math applications may be a solution. Further researchinto these student groups will be conducted as population sizes allow. ReferencesAdams, Carolyn D., "Development of the Self-Advocacy Measure for Youth: Initial Validation Study with Caregivers of Elementary Students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder" (2015). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5445Alarcon, G. M., & Edwards, J. M. (2012). Ability and Motivation: Assessing Individual Factors That Contribute to University Retention. Journal of Educational Psychology, 105(1), 129- 137Ayotola, A., Adedeji, T. (2009
Students'Motivational Values. Matusovich, Holly M, Streveler, Ruth A and Miller, Ronald L. 2010, Journalof Engineering Education, pp. 289-303.12. Empowering Undergraduate Engineering Students to Connect Laboratory Experiences withIndustry Applications through Fictional Clients. Keshwani, Jennifer and Curtis, Evan. Orlando, FL :American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2016.13. Cresswell, John W. Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitativeand Qualitative Research, 3rd Edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Prentice Hall, 2007.14. The "Threads" of Biosystems Engineering. Briassoulis, Demetres, et al., et al. 2014,Transactions of ASABE, pp. 307-330.
(strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree). The engineering identity scalehad acceptable internal consistency (α = .78).To measure fixed and growth mindsets, the implicit person theory scale (Dweck & Leggett,1988) was divided into two scales measuring growth items such as “No matter who you are,you can significantly change your intelligence level” and fixed items such as “The kind ofperson someone is says something basic about them, and it can’t be changed very much.”Responses ranged from a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 6 (strongly agree). The fixed mindsetscale had internal consistency of α = .63. The growth mindset scale had internal consistency ofα = .74.Plan of AnalysisDescriptive statistics were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 24
pretest (n=130, unpaired t-test, p<0.0001, 35+11 vs26+12). There was no significant difference between any of the exam grades or final coursegrade (77+8 vs 75+7, p>0.2) for students who had completed AP biology versus students whohad not had AP biology.Figure 3b: The combination of individual learning and classroom activities benefited everystudent such that they all achieved the course learning objectives prior to each of the exams.Molecules and Cells is a required four-credit course in the Johns Hopkins University ABETaccredited BME program. Students are told on the first day of the course that they should plan tospend ten to twelve hours on the course each week between attending the three lectures andThursday section, completing the
Kanti Prasad Ph.D., P.E., F.ASEE Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Founding Director Microelectronics/VLSI Technology, University of Massachusetts Lowell During my teaching of the State-of –Art courses for the last 30+ years, I have realized that thefoundation of any Hi-tech course lies in the fundamentals. The fundamentals are derived from Physics,Chemistry and Mathematics. Nevertheless, Physics plays a crucial role in Engineering. I plan to depictthis role in all my state-of-art courses. I am teaching at the moment i.e., 1) EECE 5020 VLSI Design, 2)EECE 5040 VLSI Fabrication, 3) EECE 5170 MMIC Design and Fabrication through detailed examples.In addition, I also reiterate the
reducing the complexity for end users.In the next phase of this project, we plan to conduct a usability study with current practitioners todetermine whether the tablet interface is useful to a practitioner during a therapy session. Basedon this feedback, we will modify the tablet interface, and add more behaviors to the NAO and tothe app to broaden its applicability to more patients.References[1] SoftBank Robotics, "Discover Nao, the little humanoid robot from Aldebaran | Aldebaran," [Online]. Available: https://www.ald.softbankrobotics.com/en/cool-robots/nao. [Accessed 5 July 2016].[2] SoftBank Robotics, "Choregraphe User Guide," [Online]. Available: http://doc.aldebaran.com/2-1/software/choregraphe/index.html. [Accessed 5 July 2016].[3
understanding of student experiences in these classes will provideguidance on creating and sustaining a welcoming environment for all students.Overall, the differences in perceived abilities and learning environment between women and menwere not as large as we had feared at the beginning of this study. This may indicate that ourefforts to combat implicit bias were partially successful, although since we do not havepre-implicit bias activity data, we cannot be certain. While there is definite room for improvementin our classes, it is encouraging to note that the women’s responses are somewhat similar to themen’s responses.Going forward, we plan to: • Continue to administer the surveys and use results to guide future course development and other
of traditional, competitive, and contemporary design priorities and features that are valued by stakeholders - the contemporary items include environmental, social, and sustainable design priorities, ● The Feature/Design view clearly identify comparative feature attainment for multiple candidate designs, ● The views use the same feature set for both designing the system and selecting a final design from a set of candidates.Future WorkSeveral future activities are planned to continue this work. These views will be incorporatedwithin capstone design courses that have currently adopted the approach outlined in Simoni et al.This will provide an opportunity to gauge their effectiveness at improving design
University, this is a two credit class, taught at the 400 level, and taken primarily byseniors at the same time as senior design. For their senior projects, students are required toestimate costs, and plan and track progress, so there are some connections. It has been veryhelpful to enrich the course through short assigned readings, in class topics and a research paper.The goal is to give students a broader perspective on economic activity and the business side ofengineering. These assignments and lectures address the non-quantitative side of practicingengineering and business that is quite real, and can easily overshadow the quantitative variablestreated in most textbooks.ReadingsThe readings are taken from business and investing publications
con- sumer driven businesses over a 25-year career with The Procter & Gamble Company. In 2005, he joined Intuit, Inc. as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer and initiated a number of consumer package goods marketing best practices, introduced the use of competitive response modeling and ”on- the-fly” A|B testing program to qualify software improvements. Mark is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of One Page Solutions, a consulting firm that uses the OGSP R process to help technology and branded product clients develop better strategic plans. Mark is a member of The Band of Angels, Silicon Valley’s oldest organization dedicated exclusively to funding seed stage start-ups. In addition, he
chemical engineering instruction begins in the first year of engineeringeducation, whereas at his US home institution, lab instruction typically does not begin until thesecond semester of the third year of the four-year undergraduate plan. In addition, CPE practical lab experience related to the lecture-based class is incorporatedinto each core French chemical engineering class, from transport phenomena and separationprocesses to chemical kinetics and reactors. At US NCSU, on the other hand, these core classesinclude no practical component; instead, all practical experience is received later in twoexclusively lab-based junior/senior courses. With plenty of hands-on instruction and analysis guided by a professor, he found performingthe
college students through project based learningwith focus on difficult principles and concepts identified from first two-year college STEMcourses. Each SRP team consists of one faculty advisor, one student mentor, and 3-6 SRPparticipants. The entire MERIT project design structure is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: MERIT project design structureAs originally planned, the first year of the MERIT project was mainly for project initiation anddevelopment, and the second and third year were designed for fully implementation andcontinuous improvement. Table 1 shows all the bottleneck courses chosen in the MERIT project.In the first year, only three courses were selected as the initial targeted bottleneck courses, whileall of the
population. One school was comprised of 60%Hispanic and 15% ELL. Two of the schools with high Hispanic populations are identified asunder-performing by the state accountability system. One is a high performing school withdistinguished status in reading and mathematics. One consistently performs at just above districtand state averages.Procedures Training & Lesson Planning. Teachers participated in a one-day training session thattargeted specific features of the engineering-centered activities including: (a) a read-aloud of anengineering story book (Engineering Elephants) as the hook to an inductive technology lesson,(b) the use of an Engineering is Elementary (EiE) unit on agricultural engineering, and (c)modeling and guidance of
pedagogy developed. As industry and government sponsors wererecruited with greater success over the following years, interdisciplinary projects began to appearin greater frequency. Biological and Agricultural Engineering joined the program in 2004 andComputer Science joined in 2009. Chemical and Materials Engineering plans to join theprogram in Fall 2017. The current program and an archive of projects appears at the joint coursewebsite6 http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/mindworks/capstone_design.htm .Throughout its nearly two decades, the program has balanced department control while poolingassets for administration and teaching. A majority of the projects are now interdisciplinary.7,8,9,10Mechanical Engineering has always provided overall program
? What would be the factors involved in making this selection (e.g. think of size, cost, safety, packaging, and reliability)? What is the efficiency of a typical battery?Planned Problem AssessmentThis problem provides an ideal opportunity for assessing student comprehension of critical topicslate in the Mass and Energy Balances course. The problem will be given to students in thecurrent spring semester course, with an assessment implemented to evaluate the learning impactof this problem. The format of the assessment will be as follows. First, a general, open-endedproblem statement will be provided to the students as a seed, and the students will be asked toidentify key variables required to perform the calculations and assumptions
Initiative: Charting the Future by Understanding the Path to the Present Accreditation Criteria.” Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, June 2012.8 Ressler, S.J. and Lynch, D.R. (2011) “The Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Accreditation Criteria: A Plan for Long-Term Management of Change.” Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, June 2011.9 Engineering Competency Model. (2016) American Association of Engineering Societies and the U.S. Department of Labor (http://www.aaes.org/model).10 Graduate Attributes and Professional Competencies. (2013) International Engineering Alliance (http
presentations were designed to help students to start visualizing themselvesas engineers or improve their engineering recognition and caring. Fifth, the students were alsoasked to develop cardboard chairs for their final team project. Students work together in teamsto develop the chairs and then present their chair to the class. This project was designed to helpstudents improve their engineering performance/competence, interest, creativity, and designefficacy. Lastly, students were required to complete weekly homework assignments where theypersonally reflect on topics such as their engineering interests, study plan, and any barriers theycan foresee that might prevent them from becoming an engineer. These were designed toimprove their engineering
STEM Curation at Museums Zoology Mathematics: Rules and Reasoning Archaeology Environmental Science Paleoanthropology Entertainment Engineering and Design Chemistry Mechanical Engineering: Solar Energy Radiation Science and Engineering Renewable Energy Forensic Science Civil Engineering: Planning Entertainment Engineering and Design Engineering EntrepreneurshipTable 4. Speaker composition by gender during the four semesters of SISTEM. Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Fall
theseorganizations to offer the recently recommended student interventions.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSFunding for summer internship provided by the UD Office of the Associate Dean for Diversityand Inclusion.REFERENCES1. Yoder BL. Engineering by the Numbers. ASEE 2017.2. Page SE. The difference: How the power of diversity creates better groups, firms, schools, andsocieties. Princeton University Press; 2008.3. Planning Commission for Expanding Minority Opportunities in Engineering. 1974. Minoritiesin Engineering: A Blueprint for Action: Summary and Principal Recommendations. New York,NY: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.4. Ross M, Yates N. Paving the Way: Engagement Strategies for Improving the Success ofUnderrepresented Minority Engineering Students. National Society of
workforce research characterizing, expanding, sus- taining, measuring and training the technical and professional construction workforce in the US. The broader impact of this work lies in achieving and sustaining safe, productive, diverse, and inclusive project organizations composed of engaged, competent and diverse people.Meltem Duva, Michigan State University Meltem Duva is a PhD student and graduate research assistant in the Construction Management Program in the School of Planning Design and Construction at the Michigan State University. She holds a B.S. de- gree in architecture and M.S. degree in construction management. She has worked for several companies and projects prior to starting PhD. Meltem Duva pursues
taught duringthe semester. During the proposal development (2-3 months), participants had a regular meetingwith the principal investigator (PI) to produce ideas and discuss their findings from literaturereviews. They also conducted a brief preliminary test on the ideas which were discussed andfinalized in the laboratory. For each project, a quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC)plan was created and their potential end users and partnerships were identified for theirtechnology applications.Leadership improvementThe engineering education community has begun to focus on leadership abilities ofundergraduate students in engineering fields [5]. Higher education institutions have beencriticized for their lack of success in instilling leadership
undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences (COAS) ofwhich N=1,330 are identified as STEM students. These students will be provided with theinitial 12-question survey. Data analysis will identify student perceptions and will allow forimplementation of programs ranging from faculty mentorship to faculty outreach.To further assess relationships identified, the research team plans to organize focus groups withstudent participants. For example, if lack of awareness is the greatest issue preventing studentsfrom participating in URE, then steps to remediate this can be taken, such as the need forgreater publicizing of campus research opportunities. Once we know more about time usage,we will address time management in terms of studying and
elements. Digitalimage correlation (DIC) techniques have been used in other fields to estimate the straindistribution in materials. DIC uses a random pattern of dots painted in the structure. The goal ofthis project is to determine if other patterns could improve the accuracy of DIC methods inprestressed concrete.One question that is very interesting to the leadership team is if exposing the undergraduatestudents to industrial environment would affect their decision on the future career plan and enterprofessional practice other than graduate school. The results are surprisingly promising. All thepast REU participants in the two years’ program implementation indicated the intention to go tograduate school. As confirmed by the external evaluator
pH of the water. The data should be recordedapproximately every second and should have accuracy of ± 0.9° F (0.5º C), ±1.7*10-6 lb/gal (0.2mg/L), and ±0.2 pH units, respectively. These values correspond to the specifications of theequipment currently used by the scientists.To control the vessel, the Raspberry Pi is designed to use two modes, control via MOOS-IvP andcontrol via a standard ground control station (GCS) such as Qgroundcontrol from Dronecode ona companion computer or smartphone. The GCS option allows unskilled users to plan andexecute missions while the MOOS-IvP option allows complex intelligence tasks to beperformed.ImplementationFor propulsion, the AG-0 utilizes a 1.375” (3.5 mm) propeller, a 4300 KV motor, and a 60 Aelectric
. Confidence values were tabulated as a percentage for eachquestion, and students who self-reported that they attended at least 9 of their years of K-12schooling were flagged for subgroup analysis. This was the only demographic data taken, andnames or other confidential information were not collected. This study complied with theapproved IRB research plan; students’ responses did not affect any grades in the course.Control questionsThe first multiple-choice graphical-literacy question for each session was randomly selectedfrom pool of three control questions. The three control questions were selected from 8th grademathematics questions included in the 2015 and 2016 National Assessment of EducationalProgress (NAEP) multiple-choice question banks [9
Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), the injuries rate in the fireservice is four times greater than in private industry, with almost a third of firefightingpopulation being injured in the line of duty [1]. Due to the combined physiological andpsychological demands of firefighting, firefighters must go through extensive training whichtypically takes place in a physical environment “classroom’’ with the implementation of thestandard operating guidelines taking place during live - fire training scenes [2]. These scenesrequire tremendous efforts and assets including training personnel, specialized training facilitiesand carefully planned live - fire scenes, as well as new training models for each single trainingactivity [2]. There is a claim that the