being taught (say, duringthe summer or between semesters) for more thorough maintenance. The new faculty member isencouraged to develop a lab plan for their facility, similar to what ABET requires for theprogram’s laboratories. This plan should include a maintenance budget and schedule, a budgetand schedule for equipment replacement, staffing needs, safety rules and enforcement, spacerequirements and specifications, and sources of funding.Staffing the LaboratoryAt undergraduate institutions, lab sessions are staffed by the instructor of the course who may beresponsible for up to three other courses during the given semester. This requires a considerablecommitment of time, but allows for significant interaction with the students. To enhance
closely with the RESRAD team within the Environmental Science Division. His area of expertise includes: nuclear and radiological engineering; signal processing; emergency planning; and computer code development and testing. His accomplishments include: development and implementation of national nuclear emergency plans and technical procedures; contribution to methodology for dose assessment following a potential RDD event; signal reconstruction through wavelet-based signal de-noising; stochastic and deterministic process modeling; uncertainty analysis and statistical applications for improving fault detection and on-line monitoring.Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati Eugene Rutz is
evolved into during the pilot phase. By describing in detail ourprocess, we aim to provide a flexible guide by which other units might adapt and develop similarprograms to help faculty enhance their teaching. We show that program success—as far as wecan see it in these early stages—is characterized by a focus on understanding stakeholder—especially instructor—needs around teaching, embracing a process that distributes power andleadership throughout planning and decision-making, investing organizational support throughtime and money, and assessing progress and goals regularly.To do this, we first situate our peer review of teaching program within the broader context of ourdepartment’s formation and existing models for evaluation of teaching. We
issues is to offer an online course. The number of onlinecourses offered in the US is increasing and US students generally find the learning experience tobe commensurate with traditional courses (US News, 2016; Babson, 2013). However, based onour interactions and planning for this program, Chinese students and universities do not have afavorable opinion of online courses. They generally view the courses as inferior to traditionalcourses.ENGR 5110 Effectiveness in Technical Organizations is a course that is only taught in an onlineformat at UC and it has been taught in an online format since 2008. This course was one ofseveral that fit in the curriculum as a technical elective for the program of study for students inthe program. Because faculty
Department of Education rules for federal financial aid • fill out an application that includes, but is not limited to, the following: name, contact information, classification, major, unofficial transcript (with GPA information), one faculty recommendation letter, and three essays written by the applicant addressing: how the SPURS scholarship will benefit his/her academic career, why the applicant should be considered for this program, and what is his/her 5 year plan including academic studies and professional career.Applications are reviewed using a review matrix by a committee in the College of Engineering.Students who accept the SPURS scholarship must graduate from their respective degree programwithin 3
science) cross-curricular scenarios are being developed. However, for the pilot study and instrumentassessment, the scenario of building a spaceport is the focus. As students progress acrosscourses, we plan to collect longitudinal data to measure improvement in student problem-framing skills across semesters or even years.MethodsThe research team developed an initial rubric for the NIC based upon four different levels:beginner, emerging, developing, and informed designer for each of the four sub-categories in theNIC (stakeholders, stakeholder needs, needs statement, and information gathering). Onedelimitation is that we believe these levels represent problem-framing skills at the interval, if notratio level so that the assigned values of 1, 2, 3
togenerate coherent explanations of natural phenomena; they understand how claims are justified;how to represent their thinking to others; critique one another’s ideas; and revise their ideas inresponse to evidence and argument. The hallmark of this pedagogy is its adaptiveness tostudents’ needs and thinking, and examples of this approach have set new standards for rigor andequity in practice across several subject matter areas [6] - [9].Windschitl, Thompson, Braaten, and Stroupe [2] define four high-leverage practices for scienceteaching that make up what they refer to as “the core repertoire of ambitious teaching” (p. 880).These practices include constructing big ideas (planning of a science lesson); eliciting andinterpreting students’ ideas
Paper ID #24562Connecting with first-year engineering students’ interest in social responsi-bility issues through ethics lessonsMs. Kathryn Waugaman, University of Colorado Boulder Katie is an undergraduate student researcher at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is interested in why students choose to study engineering and what retention methods are successful for universities, particularly in underrepresented communities. She is a Senior in Mechanical Engineering and plans to work in renewable energy when she graduates in December.Dr. Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder Janet Y. Tsai is a researcher
Technol- ogy and Infrastructure for the NSF Center for e-Design at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Yousef developed a strategic plan for information technology for the center. Dr. Yousef authored several refereed publications including book chapters, journal papers, and conference papers. He was also either the PI or the Co-PI in many research projects related to Cost Engineering, Cost and Quality Effectiveness, Cost Modeling, System of Systems Interoperability, Supply Chain Management, Decision Support Systems, Knowledgebase Systems, and Database Management. During his career Dr. Yousef earned the award of Excellent Service from the department of Industrial En- gineering and Management Systems in 2006, and
questions: Likert scale, 6 2. Exam contribution to organizing research items ranging from strongly 3. Exam aiding to acquire information for research project disagree (1) to strongly 4. Exam broadening student knowledge agree (6) 5. Exam components well integrated with one another 6. Exam helping with PhD research plan 7. Exam instructions easy to follow 8. Exam being a worthwhile process Open-ended Your thoughts on the purpose of exam? Questions: Your suggestions for areas of improvement with the exam?Results and DiscussionA total of 56 doctoral candidates participated in
registered for the competition under a fictitious general contracting firm name. All thebidding documentation, addenda, and request for information (RFI) for a construction project, of$5-50M size, was managed through electronic Plan Rooms. Once registered, the bid committeeissued the Instructions to Bidders document to the teams, specifying all the biddingrequirements. Teams downloaded the documentation, from the Plan Room (web portal),including drawings, specifications, and contact documentation. Teams worked collaboratively toperform the quantity takeoffs for the project. To bring in the component of experiential learning,students were required to use Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (CIQS) standards. Theywere also encouraged to use tools
to gather it, and substantial reflection on bothexpected and unexpected results. These problem-solving decisions are similar to the overarchingthemes identified by Polya: understanding the problem, devising a plan, carrying out the plan andlooking back [8]. The results also agree with work on design problem solving by Jonassen,which emphasizes the importance of determining design requirements and creating constraints[9]. A detailed analysis of the interviews with unified terminology across the fields for the expertproblem-solving decisions is currently being developed and will be published elsewhere.The rest of this work described here focuses on the specific optics black box assessment, whichwas created based on common problem-solving
doing, thereby increasing students’ interest in the field andconfidence in their own abilities. The university and community college partners work togetherto plan, execute and assess events that further students’ knowledge, skills and capabilities.Students interact closely with their peers, faculty, and industry partners at each event. The overallgoal of the project is to increase the number of well-educated STEM graduates for the benefit oflocal and global economy. One of the primary obstacles students face in degree attainment is lackof engagement with peers, faculty, campus services and career opportunities1, 2. This is addressedthrough team-building and project-based activities that involve students from all four campuses.Technology is the
facilitator from the parent 3DS organization coaches a student team.Pre-Event Activities After on-campus promotion for the event students applied to take part in the program.In addition to providing motivation for applying to the program, students submitted initialbusiness/innovation ideas. These applications were reviewed by the on-campuscommittee and applicants were selected. A total of 49 applications were received for theprogram at Western New England University. In other 3DS programs, personalinterviews were held, however this was not done at the Western New England program.In retrospect the planning committee feels that conducting personal interviews wouldhave been beneficial in setting
Paper ID #17396Chair of the Department of Economics and Management in Nizhnekamsk Chemical Engineering Institutein 2002-2012. She supervised several projects for Tatarstan chemical and petrochemical companies inthe years 2002-2007 and headed the Department of Macroeconomic Research in Advanced EconomicResearch Center in the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan in the years 2007-2010. Hercontribution to the projects was the supervision of their economic sections (including setting of researchobjectives, project supervision, economic assessment, report writing, presentations, and publishing of re-search discoveries). She was personally involved in the strategic planning of economic development at aregional level. All these research
, improvements to reflect updates to industry-academic curriculumrecommendations subsequently published by IEEE Computer Society, INCOSE (International Council onSystems Engineering), and others as well as improvements to better address faculty and student inputssuch as a richer treatment of Bayesian, and future plans to embrace industry advisory board inputs suchas treatment of Big Data Analytics.In the BeginningBoeing approached us in 2002 with the observation that the US defense and aerospace industry wouldbe experiencing a large number of retirements of systems engineers in the very near future and thatAcademia needed to step up to the challenge and provide the education needed by their replacements.Conversations were held then with representatives
embedded system by systematically flowing requirements down from system specifications. Create plans for addressing power, timing and live-ness (concurrency) of the system. Create plans for addressing system-level constraints including performance, reliability, safety, security and evolve-ability. Develop a trade-space analysis for one or more key system element (possibly CPU or other hardware selection, operating system selection, OTS software, etc.)The syllabus from the initial course offering is shown below in Table 2.Table 2: Design of CPS Course Syllabus Topic(s) Class exercises (Optional) Module 1 CPS Engineering Processes Module 2 Prioritizing and Allocating
Engineering programs; however, itwas unknown as to whether such a topic is being covered in the form of a course in EngineeringTechnology programs at graduate level specifically. Discrete Simulation models may be used aspart of other courses (i.e. Production Planning, Design of Experiments, etc.) however, if studentsare expected to develop their own models, at least a whole course for a full semester would benecessary. The authors believe that it is crucial to teach modeling and simulation in engineeringtechnology particularly, at graduate level. The main reason is that the majority of graduatesassume managerial/supervisory positions as they grow in their field and modeling and simulationis a useful technique that helps them make better decision when
Page 26.738.2business are likely to result in efforts toward acting upon those intentions.3 In this study we investigated to what degree entrepreneurial intentions held by engineering alumni result in actualentrepreneurial activity. Intentions are a critical predictor of any planned behavior, includingentrepreneurship6. Intentions can explain and predict how alumni see opportunities that may leadto business ideas that may eventually be brought to market. Entrepreneurial intention, incombination with both situational and individual variables, possibly can explain and predictentrepreneurial patterns among engineering alumni. In the current study, intentions were used toidentify which characteristics of engineering alumni might predict future
have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The research on nontraditional students has been published and presented at two academicconference proceedings. American Society for Engineering Educators in 2014 at Indianapolis,Indiana called “Nontraditional Student Access and Success in Engineering” and Frontiers inEducation in 2014 at Madrid, Spain called “Getting Better With Age: Older Students AchieveHigher Grades and Graduation Rates”. Page 26.636.7What do we plan to do during the next year to accomplish the goals?The researchers plan on investigating the relationship between economic status andnontraditional students to see
retention.Their longitudinal study revealed that those engineering students that participated inentrepreneurship education were more likely to be retained (70% vs. 51%) and claimed theywere more confident in their decision to pursue an engineering degree.1 Some of theentrepreneurship programs reviewed as part of their research revealed that while the programsdiffered, they also shared several features. Programs were generally available to seniors and wereproject based. Programs incorporated teams of students, sometimes across disciplines, workingon projects supplied by industry or by the students themselves. Project outcomes typicallyincluded working prototypes and business plans. Industry, practitioners, and experiencedentrepreneurs were often
Transfer Alliance Project (TAP)which will provide continued support and advice on putting together a competitive transferapplication for the university of their choice. The students are also offered a stipend of $1000 intravel funds in order to present their research project at a national conference. The TTE REUprogram is described in greater detail by Artis2,3.Data Collection MethodsThe evaluation of the TTE program examines the overall success of the REU Site. Formativeevaluation for each cohort of participants is conducted to ensure that the program is progressingas planned. The formative evaluation measures include a survey conducted midway, examinationof weekly research journal entries, and one-on-one progress meetings. The
assessment system is presented by Pierrakos and Watson3. Of courseany assessment plan involves the assessment of faculty effectiveness4, teaching5, and learning6-8.B. The Challenge of High Faculty TurnoverMaintaining a consistent assessment process in order to meet the ABET Criteria, as well asattaining student outcomes, maintaining course continuity and connectivity to other courses andprograms can be especially problematic in programs that have high faculty turnover. Forexample, at the USCGAs Electrical Engineering (EE) program, mandatory re-assignment andpromotion of personnel, we typically call “rotators,” creates an annual faculty turnover of about10%. Note 60% of the program’s instructors are permanent. Similarly, schools that hirednumerous
Paper ID #12495Bringing Lifeline Research to Vertically Integrated Classrooms via a Four-Point Bending Test of a PipeDr. Rupa Purasinghe, California State University, Los Angeles Dr. Purasinghe is a Professor of Civil Engineering at California State University at Los Angeles and coordinates Freshman Civil Engineering Design and Capstone Design courses as well as Computer Aided Structural Analysis/Design and Experimentation Lab. Please note that this paper has several co-authors as well.Mr. John E. Shamma John E. Shamma is the Facility Planning Team Manager for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Classrooms (Curriculum Exchange)AuthorsNicholas Stambach, Graduate Student Manager, nstambac@mines.eduBarbara Moskal, Director, bmoskal@mines.eduProgram Websitehttp://trefny.mines.edu/Program SummaryThe lesson plan that is proposed for presentation here wascreated as part of a larger, kindergarten through twelfth grade(K-12) outreach program. A unique feature of this program is theinclusion of all grade-levels, K-12, within a given district.Additionally, this program is modeled after a National ScienceFoundation GK-12 program, which was originally funded overten years ago. The lesson presented here targets grades 5 through8. Teachers who participate in this program attend a two-weeksummer workshop which is taught by
field of engineeringeducation and their graduate students (2013, n = 9 faculty, n = 8 graduate students; 2014, n = 8faculty, n = 10 graduate students), and ii) three broader participation workshops at national andinternational engineering education conferences (AAEE 2012, n = 16; ASEE 2013, n = 112; FIE2014, n = 18). This paper describes the model of the ongoing collaborative engagement process,summarizes findings and insights concerning research quality, and outlines plans for future work.IntroductionThe long-term goal of the research program initiated by this NSF-funded CAREER project is tocultivate, catalyze, and systemize a much needed theoretical discourse within the engineeringeducation research community around research quality in
Education Administration from George Washington University (Washington, DC). Under Mr. Goss’ direction, thousands of global engineering professionals from various corporate organizations have advanced their companies and employee’s careers with training through executive seminars, certifications, short courses and media distributed graduate degree programs.Dr. Philip Regier, Arizona State University Dr. Philip Regier is University Dean for Educational Initiatives and CEO of EdPlus at ASU. Page 26.307.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Starbucks College Achievement Plan: An Innovative Educational PartnershipOn
hour video conferences which include additional training and reporting on our effortsto develop our plan for spreading the use of our educational ideas (in our case Mobile Hands-OnLearning). Included in the process is a requirement to test out our hypotheses (e.g. our valueproposition, possible income streams …) through a minimum of 100 customer interviews. Theprocess ran throughout January and February and was nearly a full-time effort. After February,we have continued to work on the plan we developed (to create a new division at ASEE to bringsome structure and support to MOHS pedagogy). There was also a one day workshop at ASEE inwhich the 9 pilot groups presented to help educate and recruit the next cohorts. Based on thesuccess of the pilot
workplace competencies (similar to a personality test and DISC assessment combined), and a written reflection on the students’ visit to the engineering career services center. Academic success planning, including making a personalized major map and annotating an ABET student outcomes rubric with information on what parts of his/her college experience would help the student master that outcome. Listening and writing summaries of talks, for each of four faculty presentations and two alumni talks. The faculty presented on their career trajectories and research; the alumni focused on next steps for getting into medical school, and intellectual property law as a career path. In-class written surveys administered during the first and
. Over 60 ETKs have been developed to date; about 20 have been widely distributed and used in schools and summer programs. We have adapted ETKs to both elementary and high school audiences. To learn more, please visit our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/theengineersway/) or contact us at lgr@virginia.edu to gain access to the complete lessons plans. Trash Sliders was