-part classroom observation protocol, an instructor interview protocol,two instructor surveys, and a student survey.We have collected data from nine courses taught in one of ten flexible classrooms at theUniversity of Michigan during the Fall 2018 semester. Two of these courses were first-yearintroduction to engineering courses co-taught by two instructors, and the other seven courseswere sophomore- and junior-level core technical courses taught by one instructor. Fiveinstructors participated in a faculty learning community that met three times during the semesterto discuss active learning, to learn how to make the best use of the flexible classroomaffordances, and to plan activities to implement in their courses. In each course we gathered
experience was as expected, impacted their career plans, and impactedtheir ability to further their educational goals. Over sixty percent presented their research results.Students self image and employment plans are presented in Figure 6. Half of the students indicated thatthe experience changed how they envisioned themselves as scientists. Seventy-five percent indicatedplans to seek employment in industry prior to the summer experience, while only twenty-five percentremained with those plans after the summer experience. Responses moved to going to graduate school,other plans, and unsure. Figure 7 shows fifty percent of respondents indicated a 5 out of 5 overall ratingof the experience with nearly 40 percent of respondents indicating a 4 out of 5
1993/94 academic year saw the creation of seven outcomes specific to the academic missionof USAFA and an initial plan for assessment of these outcomes. Over the next several years asthe institution wrestled with the proper assessment of these seven outcomes two concerns arose.First, the academic arm of the institution did not create, or maintain an integrated assessmentplan with centralized control and avenues for full-circle feedback. Second, no position at theinstitution was wholly responsible for creation and coordination of assessment efforts.The assessment issues identified above led to the creation of a Director of Academic Assessmentposition in the summer 2000 and eventually to the development of a 10-year plan titled “Plan toAssess the
at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Kyle’s primary teaching duties include courses in geotechnical engineering and construction materials. His research interests include behavior and monitoring of in-place foundations and retaining structures. In addition to his teaching and research duties, Kyle is involved in geotechnical consulting and Engineers Without Borders.Dr. Matthew D. Lovell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Matthew Lovell is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and he currently serves as the Interim Senior Director of Institutional Research, Plan- ning, and Assessment office. He is also serving as the director of the Making Academic
. Jacob has focus on autonomous robotics spending time researching and competing in robotics. He plans on graduating in 2020 Jacob is currently the chair of the Autonomous Robotics Club (ARC). ARC annually compete in au- tonomous robotics competitions in the US. ARC also has focuses on educational robotics and volunteers or host events geared towards teaching robotics to grade schoolers. Please email janovosa@gmail.com to contact me.Mr. Huan Phan-Van, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Huan Phan-Van received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, in 2013. He is currently a graduate student in Me- chanical Engineering
. Lopez Roshwalb), who had extensive experience (and was concurrently) teaching within the engineering design course. In our second iteration of the pedagogy seminar for engineering design LAs, we conceptualized the course as having three primary conceptual themes: (1) Theories and strategies for teaching and learning, (2) Design thinking in engineering, and (3) Equity (see the Appendix for a list of weekly readings and links to lesson plans). As mentioned above, all LAs enrolled in this seminar were concurrently working within the same introduction to engineering design course. As a consequence all students were able to bring in concrete “problems of practice” (Horn
instruction wall is a physical play structure.Children can enter the structure and climb between three levels, delivering colored balls to tubeslabeled with each of the three animals. Robot costumes allow children to be further immersed inthe role of a robot. The children are meant to weigh the benefits of different paths through the maze-likestructure, eventually choosing and “delivering the medicine” to the three animals along theoptimal route. On a station separated from the rest of the exhibit, labeled “Plan It!” on one sideand “Test It!” on the reverse, two-dimensional maps of the play structure can be used to plan andtest a route before physically entering the structure. To the right of the play structure, the exhibitfeatures a wall of
times they were meetingduring the week, how their tasks were being split up, and how they were planning for eachdesign phase. Appendix A provides the questions for each interview. Interviews were transcribedand analyzed by the primary author of this study.Results & DiscussionResults of the pre-survey are summarized as follows. Teams in group A were mechanicalengineering students who identified as makers and had taken a traditional engineering designcourse. One of the students in team A2 (which belonged to group A teams) had prior experiencewith the faculty’s design competition teams that were similar to his team’s capstone project.Teams in group B were students who identified as makers and participated in engineering designcourses that had
Commercialization 5X 2X 4. Project Management 1X 6X 5. Legal, Regulatory Issues, IP, and 5X 2X Important and need to Ethics be aware of it but isn’t generally a focus point 6. Strategic Planning 1X 3X 3X 7. Team Management 2X 5X 8. Professional Communications 1X 6X (written/verbal) 9. Entrepreneurship 4X 1X 2X This can be good or
disorders, chronic pain, Include accessibility statement on Real-time information Missing class means compromised immune system, syllabus with plan for missed classes; dissemination, missing critical temporary illness or injury, PTSD, develop resources to supplement feedback, team work information traumatic brain injury, digestive in-class time disorders, pulmonary disease
courses can be integrated into the curricula ofcomputer science, engineering, and related programs to address future workforce developmentissues. A multifaceted strategy for boosting enrollment, retention and successful graduation inquantum computing is proposed in order to address workforce development issues because weneed to succeed in the tough competition we are facing from other countries.INTRODUCTIONA well-designed workforce development plan supports all aspects of an educational system andpropels the economy forward by providing learners with skills that are in increasing demand [1].New technology based economies with emerging engineering and computing tasks need adiversified work force with innovative problem solving skills. The
Systems Engineering Failures Finding(s) Causal Action Discussion/Explanation The mine operator Pike River Mine explosion: “The original mine plan specified decided to change an two main fans located on the mountainside next to a ventilation aspect of the ventilation shaft. Two planning changes were made. Pike decided to relocate system design
course. Not every individual on the team needed to possess all skills but theteam required at least one individual who possessed strength in each skill. Student teamswere approved following completion of a composite skill matrix, and an adequate plan toaddress areas of team weakness.Between 2010 and 2013 team and leadership development activities were instituted andelaborated. In 2014 funding was provided by the Provost’s Office for a majorredevelopment of the capstone course for blended learning delivery. During the transition,course level learning outcomes were examined and mapped to the twelve CanadianEngineering Accreditation Board Graduate Attributes (CEAB GA) and the results wereincluded in the course syllabus (Jamieson, 2015; 2016; Ivey
real world solutions based on a research design. Often the capstone courserequires seniors to identify a problem, plan an approach, plan an approach, propose creativesolutions, analyze the solutions, produce or implement the solutions, and communicate theminternally or externally (Hotaling, Burks Fasse, Bost, Hermann, and Forest, 2012). Designing aresearch based capstone has value, especially for STEM students who will progress to graduateprograms and follow a more traditional academic track to the STEM professoriate. However, notall STEM students will complete this traditional track.As universities attempt to respond to the growing call for creating “work ready” students in abooming economy, the concept of capstone experiences is being
managingtheir time. These students described struggling with scheduling time for work relating degreeprogress, balancing multiple responsibilities such as teaching or service, and planning theiractivities adequately for progress success. The fourth category was students that experiencedsocial isolation within their program and/or their institution. These students expressed in theirapplication struggling with specifically with being an ethnic and/or racial minority in adominantly white space.Year 3: As we plan for year three, we intend to continue having participants and advisors self-diagnose struggles as this approach has provided us with valuable information for tailoring theDI to incoming participants. Such information has allowed us to have a
-teachers who worked on planning and implementing lessonscollaboratively. Both co-teachers participated in the summer PD. This class met with the teachersevery school day of the week.Classroom B: 6th grade ProgrammingClassroom B with 21 students (12 male and 9 female) was an ICT class. It was allotted a doubleperiod (90 minutes) and was taught by a lead teacher who participated in the summer PD. He wasassisted by a co-teacher during the second half of the class. As the class was primarily roboticsbased, the lead teacher planed and implemented the lessons while the co-teacher assisted inmaintaining discipline and providing students with one-on-one support. This was also an Englishas Second Language (ESL) classroom, and all written instructions were
is an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student at Cal State LA. Joseph is an undergraduate research assistant, the Vice President of CSULA’s Robosub team, and he recently began an internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Outside of engineering education, his research interests are in the field of trajectory planning and control for potential future Mars exploration aircraft.Mr. Jorge Diego Santillan, California State University, Los Angeles AUV Mr. J.Diego Santillan is an Electrical Engineer employed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, cur- rently pursuing his Master’s in Computer Engineering. Diego acted as the President for the Robosub team as well as the senior design team lead for the same project in
Paper ID #25424Developing and Assessing Authentic Problem-Solving Skills in High SchoolPre-Engineering StudentsDr. Susheela Shanta, Governor’s STEM Academy @ the Burton Center for Arts and Technology - Center forEngineering Susheela Shanta earned her bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from India, a Master of Urban Plan- ning degree from the SUNY at Buffalo, NY and more recently, a doctoral degree in Curriculum and Instruction: I-STEM Ed from Virginia Tech. With ten years of experience in municipal planning in Philadelphia, PA, and Harrisburg, PA, and ten years in community development, planning, financing and
students enrolled in the After School STEM Practicum Course duringthe Spring 2018 semester participated in this study. All participants were enrolled asundergraduates in a large public university in the Western region of the United States, but variedin their academic year (2 sophomores, 4 juniors, and 11 seniors). Participants were primarilyfemale (16 female, 1 male) and liberal studies majors (16 liberal studies majors; 1 engineeringmajor). A majority of the students (11) stated on the first day of the semester that they hadalready planned to apply to a multiple subject (elementary) teaching credential program aftergraduation and the rest reported that they were considering teaching as a career.The course was taught during this semester by one of
andadequately planned for. Students’ performance data on this assignment and its learning objectivesare collected and used to assess learning based on the latest ABET-EAC Student Outcomes (2)and (4). Using the collected data and a set of associated rubrics, the instructor evaluates andgrades students’ performance and learning. Data also indicate that because of this exercise, amongothers, a number of students in the course choose hands-on electric vehicle-related design projectsfor their Senior Design I and Senior Design II course sequence in the following fall and springsemesters, respectively. The authors plan to publish the details of the senior design projects onelectric vehicles in future publications. Keywords—electric vehicles, V2G, G2V
value beliefs better predict plans to continue into an engineering career. Afterthe first year of engineering school, both expectancy and value beliefs decreased. The decreasein expectancy belief was expected since during the first year of college, students are transitioningfrom high school to harder college-level courses. The decrease in value belief was not easy toexplain. The paper notes (bold added): “What is more difficult to explain, however, is the finding that at the end of the year, students reported enjoying engineering less and viewed it as less important and useful than they did at the beginning of the year. One explanation may be that freshmen are idealistic at the beginning of their college careers and that
acrossinstitutions and with industry partners, these collaborations are not without their challenges. Oneresearcher at U of T discussed how government partners have very high expectations about thedeliverables that will result from the research partnership. While the expectation in academia isoften to publish research, the expectation in industry is typically to implement this research intoactionable plans. This dichotomy can lead to a disconnect with industry partners in terms oftimelines, aims, and research outcomes. Interviewees also noted that collaborating with partnersoutside academia can be a challenge in terms of gathering and sharing data. Both industry andacademia have a strong focus on protecting anonymity, which can make it challenging
course, but to enable in-class activitiesvarious examples and specific details were often omitted from lecture in favor of focusing timeon underlying concepts. With two class meetings per week, all or some of one class wasdedicated to an in-class lab, while the remaining class was largely a traditional lecture format. Tokeep the direct instruction portion of the class engaging various demonstrations and visuals werepresented, discussion was encouraged, and think-pair-share opportunities were provided. Think-pair-share discussion was utilized on the first day of class and the first lab was completed in thesecond week of the semester. This was planned intentionally, to set the tone that MASC 310would be an active learning experience and provide
logistical needs of managingthe program.Assignments in the 1-credit course UGTA preparation course included two reading assignmentswith follow-up online discussion forum posts relating the article content to their role as a UGTAand an implementation plan to introduce the reading outcomes for their specific class. Otherassignments included a focus on academic integrity, creation of a resume, and a reflectionsummary. Student feedback of the UGTAs who participated in this formal program revealed thata majority of students felt that their UGTA was prepared for in-class activities, helped tounderstand course material, provided help outside of the classroom, helped them succeed, andencouraged collaboration. However, feedback also suggested that there was
ethics module in Ethics Seminar course by assessing theimpact of the integrated e-learning module on: 1. knowledge of code(s) of ethics 2. using code(s) of ethics for ethical reasoning 3. conducting ethical reasoning 4. FE exam ethics section preparedness 5. ethical behavioral growthOnline Ethics ModuleThe University of New Haven developed a series of 18 online learning modules as part of their effort todevelop the entrepreneurial mindset of their engineering and computer science students [18]. Theuniversity’s plan is to integrate the modules into core engineering, and applied science courses and doesnot plan to use the modules outside off core classes. Content experts developed the modules with an onlineeducation
, duration of the project, instruction onteaming, feedback on teaming, methods of dealing with team dysfunction, and impact onindividual grades. In the data it is apparent that there is a large lapse of time between consecutiveexperiences, gaps in teamwork instruction, and lack of scaffolding of teaming. The results of thisbenchmarking process will be used to focus departmental deliberations and cast a shared visionof how to effectively scaffold instruction and development of each student’s teamwork skills. Aswe focus on the intentional design of a coordinated plan for teaming across our curriculum, wealso share our process for this curriculum revision through building shared vision so that otherscould leverage beneficial elements for their contexts
Tokamak at Columbia University, and created a full-scale model of NASA’s Mars Rover for Honeybee Robotics. He is especially interested in design elements and the mechanics of failure. Prof. Rodas is currently planning a workshop course in universal design for disability. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Teaching Hands-On Racecar Design in a Summer Pre-College ProgramAbstractCompetitive motorsports at the undergraduate level has become an increasingly popular extra-and co-curricular activity at universities throughout the world. The importance of theseexperiential, industry-centered projects has long been understood by serving as a true provingground for students while giving
, taking courses that are taught by both CQUPT and NAU faculties. In their fourth year,qualified students transfer to NAU campus in Flagstaff, Arizona. Successful students receive twoBachelor’s degrees: one from NAU in EE or CE and the other from CQUPT in ElectronicInformation Engineering. As of Spring 2018, 27 students from the first cohort who went to NAUin their senior year have successfully graduated, and another 29 students from the second cohortare studying in NAU right now. In this paper, the current state of this joint program is presented,including course setup & planning, student transfer data, student performance during the senioryear at NAU, differences in teaching methodologies, and student learning styles. The successesas well as
of experienced, skilled workers and therecognition of the lengthy time needed for an individual to develop this technical skill setcontributes to increased hiring needs1.This paper will: Introduce Vacuum Technology curriculum development efforts in the Western NY area; Describe the motivations of SUNY Erie in pursuing partnerships in developing the curriculum; Discuss the logistics and policies required to form a partnership across institutions and state educational systems to teach Vacuum Technology courses; Describe the successful teaching modalities for vacuum technology courses; and, Analyze the results of the partnership and discuss future plans for the partnership.2.0 Motivation for Developing a
develop an updated CEBOK, the Second Edition ofthe Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (CEBOK2), which was published in 2008. In thesubsequent years, ASCE developed a plan for the long-term management of CEBOK on aneight-year cycle which led to the formation of the CEBOK3TC which began work in October2016. This paper concludes with a discussion on the update from CEBOK2 to CEBOK3.Why is this historical review and summary important to the civil engineering profession? Tomaintain the momentum of the educational and professional reform activities initiated by ASCEin the mid-1990’s (called the Raise the Bar Initiative), the successful processes of the past andthe associated “lessons learned” must be clearly communicated to future leaders and