. The dream of an autonomous vehicle has been there for almost acentury. It can be said that the first “autonomous” vehicle was Stanford Cart which was built in1961. The automated car concept was evolved truly in 1980s with Carnegie Melon University’sNavLab and ALV projects which resulted in ALVINN which used a neural network to drive [8].The automotive industries are conducting significant research and development efforts in thearea of autonomous vehicles. The major automotive companies like Toyota, Ford, MercedesBenz, BMW, Volvo have announced their plans for creating an autonomous car. In the racetowards autonomous vehicles, Tesla and Waymo (from Google) are two of the most advancedcompanies. In 2014, Google introduced Google car with camera
classroom • Create the framing plan for the walls and ceiling • Create the electrical planStudents will participate in framing the walls, wiring the electrical, installing the insulation,drywall, classroom counter construction, counter installation and all equipment installation.Participating in this phase will help the students see the practical application of their designs.Conclusion and Future EngagementBeing part of a delegation of educators and students, it was a great opportunity to deliver and installthe labs in the town of Belfante, Honduras. The converted containers were the product of year-long STEM projects completed by four high schools. The four containers were converted into acomputer lab, a welding lab, a woodshop, and an engine
integrated into oneframework.ImplementationIn the fall semester of 2019 and spring semester of 2020, West Virginia University Institute ofTechnology assisted teachers to organize Girls Robotics Clubs in Kanawha County, FayetteCounty, and Lincoln County, which prepare female middle school and high school students for aregional robotics competition. The regional robotics competition will be held in fall 2020, and itwill be West Virginia’s first girls-only VEX robotics competition. Through attending the roboticsclubs and competition, female middle school and high school students are expected to becomemore knowledgeable and interested in STEM disciplines.The specific implementation plan has the following four tasks. The progress of these four tasks is
theirgovernment. Everything in the business trip was going as planned because, being a Bengali by birth, I knewthe local language and the culture very well. On the last day of negotiation, I was supposed to travel toDacca, the country’s capital to sign some final documents. The meeting was scheduled during the earlymorning hours. So my chauffeur and I woke up very early, and started driving before daybreak. Therewere no traffic jams during those early hours and the drive was smooth without any problem. When wereached the outskirt of Dacca I felt very relaxed thinking that we had arrived just in time to sign those veryimportant final papers of the negotiation. At that very moment my chauffeur slowed down the car andneatly parked it at a safe sidewalk. He
thisprocess to finish the workshop with an "Integrated Course Plan" that will best enablestudent learning.The university coordinator for assessment and curriculum design commented aboutleading the course design process: The instructors really wanted to start with lengthy conversations about content and who was going to teach what, when. They struggled to see the reason for backing up and starting off with articulating goals and outcomes. But when they started to see how the goals and outcomes guided their thinking and allowed them to better work together to coordinate the various courses and align student learning they seemed to really embrace the process. I was so impressed with the conversations they had
institutionalizedpathways into engineering offered at a large, public Midwestern university. The three pathwaysincluded the main campus-honors program, the main campus-standard program, and a regionalcampus. We selected only three pathways for the pilot because the main goal of the pilot was torefine the protocol, which we felt could be accomplished using a smaller sample of students andpathways then planned for the full study data collection. Further, we chose these three pathwaysbecause we felt it would provide a representative enough sample for the interview protocolrefinement. We recruited participants through an announcement of the study made during theirintroductory engineering course. A follow up email was then sent to the students with a link to
acritical component to my success in industry and believe that other senior design projects shouldprovide as much opportunity to apply industry practices as possible”.Observations and ConclusionsThe features and outcomes of the two-semester course-based undergraduate research (CURE)and ETAC ABET student outcomes overlap and complement each other.Scholarly literature search resulted in higher quality project proposals as well as projects overalland in several cases lead to reconsidering initial plans proposed by students.Independent work in teams put students in realistic situations and allowed more efficient andcreative work on open-ended design projects. Several in-class and out of class presentations aswell as requirements for written reports and
Educational Planning, Developing Research Report, and Understanding School Culture. Mr. Beigpourian currently works in the CATME project, which is NSF funding project, on optimizing teamwork skills and assessing the quality of Peer Evaluations.Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Matthew W. Ohland is Associate Head and Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by the National Science
reconnect with their children in a positive way upon their release. We have some pre-planned assignments, such as a moon weight calculator which asks for auser’s weight on earth and calculates his or her weight on the moon. We also build flexibilityinto the curriculum, incorporating student ideas whenever possible. For example, after workingon the moon weight calculator program, a student said “I wonder if we could use the same ideato come up with a sentencing calculator?”. The sentencing calculator involved accepting as input(a) an initial sentence duaration, (b) eligibility for “half time” and (c) if you were good and gotyour 10% “kick”. This program was exciting to create because we hadn’t yet discussed “if”statements. We had to work around
and interviews to generatedata testing the hypothesis that connecting physics applications to scenarios derived from thestudents’ life experiences enhances girls’ understanding of the social benefits attainable throughengineering design. The resulting teaching paradigm uses team-based, project-based learningtechniques that create knowledge using processes directly applicable to engineering. Thefindings demonstrate trends indicating that male students may also increase in self-efficacy usingthis paradigm. This paper outlines the generalizable lesson plan and teaching techniques, andexamines the unexpected outcomes citing numerous relevant peer-reviewed studies and reports.IntroductionEngineering persists as a female-deficient profession in
the “corerelationship” of learning. When instructors and students come from different culturalbackgrounds, planned efforts to cross social borders and develop caring, respectful relationshipsare essential. From the very first day of school, teachers can set the tone by greeting students atthe door with a smile and a warm, welcoming comment. Greeting second language learners witha phrase in their native language can be especially affirming. Teachers can also forge positiverelationships with students by sharing stories about their lives outside of school, learning aboutstudents’ interests and activities, inviting them to make choices and decisions about classactivities, and listening to their concerns and opinions.In addition to establishing
). Bridging the research-to-practice gap: Designing an institutional change plan using local evidence. Journal of Engineering Education, 103(2), 331-361. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jee.20042Fraser, J. M., Timan, A. L., Miller, K., Dowd, J. E., Tucker, L., & Mazur, E. (2014). Teaching and physics education research: Bridging the gap. Reports on Progress in Physics, 77(3), 032401.Fredricks, J. A., Blumenfeld, P. C., & Paris, A. H. (2004). School engagement: Potential of the concept, state of the evidence. Review of educational research, 74(1), 59-109.Friedrich, K., Sellers, S., & Burstyn, J. (2007). Thawing the chilly climate: Inclusive teaching resources for science, technology, engineering, and math. To
printing concept in order to accomplish a project goalDiscussion & Conclusion This paper portrays a proposed training plan on the basics of 3D/4D printing andfabrication of piezoelectric nanocomposites for pressure sensor application that would be useful,practical, and achievable for college students who are pursuing bachelor in materials, mechanical,and manufacturing engineering. Equipment for the class can be inexpensive because high qualityand accuracy of 3D printed pressure sensor are not required for educational purposes. The increasein the use of 3D/4D printing technology and smart material in industry implies that companies willbe looking for engineers with the interdisciplinary skills and knowledge
comprehensive 0.5788 Yes Degree declared (biology, chemistry, engineering) 0.4614 Yes Gender 0.4381 Yes ACT Math 0.3211 Yes ACT Reading 0.1205 Yes Plan to work while attending college -0.1104 No ACT English -0.1493 No Age
with anapplication of such design controls as verification, validation, and review of the process [5]. Designprocess consists of identifying user needs (Figure 1), translating these needs into productrequirements, design process, design outputs, verification of the initial product requirements,modification of the design process and outputs if necessary, and final device manufacturing.Design Plan: Identification of users and their requirements, needs, and wants: observation, surveys, and data collection from potential users (clinical professionals such as nurses, physicians, trained clinical professionals at point of care and other clinical or non-clinical settings, and people infected with HIV virus
of King Saud University – Engineering Sciences. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jksues.2014.09.0018. Verma, A. K., Adams, S. G., Lin, C. Y., Escobales, N., & Flory, I. L. (2017). Institutionalizing continuous improvement plan in an engineering technology department - Closing the loop. 2017 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Columbus, Ohio.
regression analysis to further assess variables for predictabilitypurposes for persistence in STEM majors. The researchers also intend to continue datacollection. Data collection from more HBCUs across the nation will provide a morecomprehensive understanding of student experiences in STEM programs, such as engineering.The researchers plan to collaborate further with leaders across STEM departments to developmore data collection sites. Further research is warranted from these findings to assess linksbetween high school preparation and STEM performance at the university level. Demographicinformation, such as first-generation college experiences would also be helpful data to assessstudent experiences regarding persistence. Gathering data regarding
sources: Institute endof quarter evaluations, a focus group conducted by Institutional Research, Planning, andAssessment, and informal plus/delta surveys. In plus/delta surveys, students are asked to listthings that they like about the class and things that they feel can be improved.Students were excited about the projects and the hands-on nature of the course. They expressedpride in the experiences that they had that were different from the upper level BE students;however, as they began to compare their experiences to the rest of the freshmen on campus, theyfelt that they were working too hard. The studios give students a lot of freedom in decidingwhen to complete which activities. This lack of structure caused some students to fall behindand to
hypothesis is that if students strengthenspatial skills and earn a higher grade in their credit-bearing course this will subsequently lead togreater persistence and degree completion. The final spatial skills course was delivered in fall2017, a semester longer than originally planned. This no-cost extension allowed the project togather an additional semester’s worth of student course and persistence data. The communitycollege partners are currently collecting data about student enrollment since the semester inwhich they completed the PSVT:R pre assessment, grades, and graduation status to allow for thisanalysis.Another area the study is currently examining is the impact of using the iPad for sketchingpractice on student outcomes. As of fall 2017
assessment of the deliverables by the jury 10In the very near future, SAP University Alliances/Next-Gen plans to organize further hackathons ondifferent topics to help young talents enrich their theoretical education with practical experience.5. References: [1] Welz, B., Rosenberg, A. (2018): SAP Next-Gen. Springer [in press] [2] Brown, T. (2008): Design Thinking. Harvard Business Review, 84-92 [3] Mabogunje, A., Sonalkar, N., Leifer, L. (2016): Design Thinking: A New Foundational Science for Engineering. In International Journal of Engineering Education. 32 (3): 1540-1556 [4] United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. UN
positions them to meet play an importantrole. MEM programs recognize these factors and tailor course offerings, assignments and otheractivities to support these interests among students. When courses are offered, what courses arerequired, part-time versus full-time classes and other options seek to appeal to this professional-minded student. International students approach a U.S. program differently. To move to the U.S. to attend anMEM program, international students must put their careers on hold. Some make this move tobecome marketable to U.S. employers, while others plan to return home with a powerfuldifferentiator among their peers in their domestic job market.How They Choose What encourages students, both U.S. and International, to
Behavioral Sciences, vol. 134, pp. 125-133, 2014.[17] M. S. Rasul, R. A. A. Rauf, A. N. Mansor, R. M. Yasin and Z. Mahamod, "Graduate Employability For Manufacturing Industry," Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 102, pp. 242-250, 2013.[18] H. P. Jensen, "Strategic Planning for the Education Process in the Next Century," Global Journal of Engineering Education , vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 35-42, 2000.[19] M. J. Riemer, "Communication Skills for the 21st Century Engineer," Global Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 89-100, 2007.[20] J. D. Ford and L. A. Riley, "Integrating Communication and Engineering Education: A Look at Curricula, Courses, and Support Systems," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 92
graduated in 2019 with a BA in Education and a minor in Psychology and plans to go to graduate school to obtain a Masters in Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Computer Simulations versus Physical Experiments: A Gender Comparison of Implementation Methods for Inquiry-Based Heat Transfer ActivitiesAbstract Fundamental concepts in chemical engineering such as rate versus the amount of heattransferred and thermal radiation, can be difficult for students to understand. While priorresearch has found that one way to facilitate conceptual understanding and alter misconceptionsis with inquiry-based activities, there may be differing outcomes based on their method ofimplementation. This
less or differently in group conversation [8], [9] and on project teamsoverall [10]. Gender isolation has been shown to negatively impact student retention and overallsatisfaction [11]. As gender impacts how students interact on teams and how power plays out inface-to-face conversations, it seems possible that speaker gender and group gender balance maycomplicate whether and how teams express disagreement, and computer-supported interactionmay mediate such effects.MethodsThe data used for this study was collected as part of a dissertation [2]. First year engineeringstudents in an “Introduction to Engineering” course between Fall 2011 and Winter 2013 at a largepublic research university were required to have a small-group planning conversation
. Atthis point in their undergraduate career, students began to identify as engineers and recognizethat they would persist in their engineering degree.In their final year, tensions and negative emotions reappeared as students began to make post-graduation plans. Participants struggled with their decisions to continue as an engineerprofessionally or academically, by pursuing graduate school. Participants described relationshipswith faculty members as mentors as one of the reason for deciding to attend graduate school.How do student identities develop as they experience an engineering program?24In this work, we constructed narratives for each participant, did a thematic analysis of eachnarrative, and compared across the individual stories to find
equipments are intended to use forteaching purpose of the instructors who taught off campus, particularly for future plannedprograms including the Master of Construction management and EngineeringTechnology program, which is planned to start in Fall 2017.The class is equipped with the distance learning facilities. The online and recordingcapability is arranged, controlled, and supported by the university InformationTechnology Services office.The room smart podium is controlled via Cisco based computer and controlling system. Itincludes the system managing smart software, a video projector, a front camera, a rearcamera, and two TV monitors, one is in front of the students and behind the instructor,and another one can be seen by the instructor. The
-cultural psychology, 35(3), 283-303.22. Tuckman, B.W. (1965). Developmental sequences in small groups. Psychological Bulletin, 63, 384-399.23. Milliken, F. J., Bartel, C. A., & Kurtzberg, T. R. (2003). Diversity and creativity in work groups: A dynamic perspective on the affective and cognitive processes that link diversity and performance. Group creativity: Innovation through collaboration, 32-62.24. Institute of International Education. (2014). Open Doors 2014 Report. http://www.iie.org/en/Research-and-Publications/Open-Doors25. (Engineering) Purdue University College of Engineering. (2014). Extraordinary People, Global Impact: Strategic Plan Update. Retrieved October 10, 2014, from https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr
: Implement the Solution • Apply a simple action plan. Step 7: Prevent Errors From Occurring Again • Test the solution; make sure the solutions work. • Is the solution is robust or does it need to be simplified? Step 8: Congratulate the TeamWe held a Kaizen event, including the students and teaching assistants, aimed at improvingstudent performance when building circuits and collecting voltage and current data.Experimental procedureAlthough the faculty have been aware that students struggle in lab, no data had been collectedthat would identify and quantify the types of student mistakes associated with this assignment.Therefore, an experienced lab instructor listed typical
Organization 13 Event planning/project management Table 2: The items above represent the competency-based, sub-questions listed on the SEEK Mentor post-program survey for questions number 30 and 32 focused on the performance of the site director and assistant site director.For likert style questions representing number 30, each mentor had the option of selectingExceptional, Very Good, Satisfactory, Marginal, Poor or Did not observe for each competencyarea. This same question was asked for number 32 but it was for the assistant site director:Please rate your assistant site director in the following competency areas. The next phase of thedata analysis consisted of comparing the responses from questions