Paper ID #10003Preparing Your Teaching PortfolioDr. Kay C Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Kay C Dee received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After completing her graduate work, Kay C joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. She later joined the faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She served as the founding Director of the Rose-Hulman Center for the Practice and Scholarship of Education, and is currently the
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Paper ID #8815Career Self-efficacy of the Black Engineer in the U.S. Government WorkplaceMr. Scott Hofacker PE, US Army Dr. Hofacker is a recent graduate of The George Washington University’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development. His research area is the career self-efficacy of racially underrepresented mi- norities in the engineering workplace. Dr. Hofacker is also the Concept Design and Assessment Focus Area Lead for the US Army’s Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. He is responsible for the strategic planning of science and technology efforts
students’ motivational orientations and feltneeds in a course, particularly in contrast with the needs provided by their general learningcontext. This type of research can better inform teaching practice and its consideration ofcontextually-dependent principles versus more globally applicable ones. Page 24.551.8AcknowledgementsThe Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation (NSF DUE-1140554) provided financial support for this work. We would like to thank the instructors ofComputer Engineering I for allowing us to try our autonomy-supportive course design in theircourse and study their students. We would also like to thank
the Systematic Characterization of Inquiry Instruction inEarly LearNing Classroom Environments, or SCIIENCE instrument, to measure the efficacy ofour professional development and to improve pedagogical practices in PK-3 classrooms.The SCIIENCE instrument was designed to objectively capture the presence of specific bestpractices outlined in the NRC Framework as they occur within a science lesson and focuses onteacher behaviors. The goals of the SCIIENCE instrument are (a) to provide a standardized toolbased on the NRC Framework for assessing the quality of science and engineering instruction inPK-3 classrooms; (b) to capture the instructional practices that engage students in their scienceand engineering lessons, promote scientific and
one labexperience that focuses on the engineering fundamentals for project controls and projecttracking. We propose to evaluate the impact on student learning by incorporating COINS intothe lab portion of the introductory engineering course.By embedding the use of COINS in introductory courses, we anticipate that the research willshow that core engineering fundamentals that students need in order to be successful insubsequent courses are reinforced. In a typical introductory course, fundamentals are oftenintroduced without students being able to understand how these concepts can and will be appliedin practice. Many students lose interest early on in their engineering education due to this fact.By having COINS embedded in introductory courses
number of community engagement efforts increase, it is important to understand theimpact of these experiences to inform best practices and to ensure that the efforts are positivelybenefitting all of the stakeholders. Although our program, EPICS, is well-established and hasintentionally focused on long-term partnerships, research suggests that immersive experiencescan help develop more comprehensive ways of understanding of the community partners. Thispast summer, our service-learning design program offered a local immersive design experienceto a group of 13 students from a variety of majors in a camp for children with disabilities. Thispaper describes the immersive experience and examines its impact on student learning throughanalyses of the
Engineering from Old Dominion University and a Masters Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College. His research interests include optimization using agent-based modeling techniques, response surface methodology utilizing generalized polynomial chaos, design process methodology, and engineering education pedagogy. He is currently serving as the Director of the Center for Innovation and Engineering.Dr. Luksa Luznik, United States Naval Academy Page 24.960.1Capt. Wesly AndersonDr. Steven J. Condly, United States Military Academy c American Society for
Paper ID #10163Informal Pathways to Engineering: Preliminary FindingsDr. Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette Monica E. Cardella is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University and the Director of Informal Learning Environments Research for INSPIRE (the Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning). She has a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Puget Sound and an MS and PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Washington. Her research focuses on: par- ents’ roles in engineering education; engineering learning in informal environments; engineering design
observation and personalized directed learning. Programs andAccording to Kolb, et al., learning as defined by experiential schools responded with processes for accreditation, best-learning theory is the “process whereby knowledge is created practices in curriculum design, and development ofthrough the transformation of experience. Knowledge results independent learning processes within the contact offrom the combination of grasping and transforming structured curricula – primarily internships and researchexperience.”[1] Kolb describes experiential learning as a experiences. While these have clearly helped inholistic process – joining the traditional concept of cognition complementing classroom based
24.341.7thinking is the CAT© developed by researchers at Tennessee Technical University5,6. The CAT©consists of fifteen short answer essays and takes approximately one hour to complete6. It isideally suited for test retest evaluation of interventions and according to the developers sensitiveenough to detect differences in critical thinking ability between freshman and seniors and theimpact of a single course that emphasizes critical thinking with high reliability. The range ofscores is from zero to forty, and the CAT© is administered to all students entering the CEprogram and graduating senior CE students. While students are encouraged to do their best onthe test, there is no direct grade consequences associated with taking it. Therefore, theparticipation
University of Technology and Design (SUTD). In addition to her particpation in higher education professional activities, Dara has worked in several science policy roles in Washington, DC, including at the National Research Council and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Dara’s undergraduate degree is from the University of Michigan, where she studied Earth Systems Science Engineering with a focus on science and space policy issues. During her time at Michigan, Dara served as student body president of the Michigan College of Engineering.Dr. Aikaterini Bagiati, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Aikaterini (Katerina) Bagiati, Ph.D.: After graduating with a Diploma in Electrical and Computers Engi
.................................................................................................................................................................................... 10High Impact Learning Practice through Group Research on Thermoelectric Energy ConversionNanomaterials ....................................................................................................................................................................... 11Improving Student Learning of Basic Electric Circuits Concepts Using Current Technology ................ 17Teaching and Learning of Database Concepts Using Multimode Teaching Methodologies .................... 24Translating Best Practices for Student Engagement to Online STEAM Courses ......................................... 32Teaching Pattern Recognition: A Multidisciplinary Experience ........................................................................ 44Research and
the faculty communities to ensure eligibility offuture funding, but the messaging for this mandate builds on our faculty’s own best practices fortheir research. Our faculty view weekly research group meetings as normative and maybe evencritical for the success of their research programs. More importantly, faculty do not find theseweekly meetings to infringe on their academic freedom, because these weekly meetings flow outof their common communal interest. By establishing faculty community first, these weekly Page 24.1329.7meetings should align with the academic freedom of the faculty and build on their beliefs of whatpractices support good
, she has been involved in research projects to develop, refine, and apply innovative assessment tools for characterizing student knowledge of sustainability. Her ultimate goal is to use this assessment data to guide the design and evaluation of educational interventions to improve undergraduate sustainability education. In the area of bioprocessing, Dr. Watson has experience using bacteria and algae to convert waste materials into high-value products, such as biofuels.Joshua Pelkey, AirWatch Joshua Pelkey is currently a product manager at AirWatch in Atlanta, GA. He completed his MS in Elec- trical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech and his BS in Computer Engineering from Clemson University. He has
sufficient condition for an engineeringteacher. A good research scholar can be a good researcher, but he may not be a good teacher.Neither regulatory bodies nor the engineering colleges’ leadership requires teachers having anyexposure to theory and practices of education domain. This impacts performance of faculty andoverall college education, and perhaps results in mushrooming of private tuition classes that haveshort term focus and examination orientation. It is estimated that the overall private tuitionmarket’s annual turnover is double than the budget for education in the ongoing five year plan.All this is resulting in stooping down of the estimated employability of graduate engineers toonly 25% 3.Meantime the global demands from engineering
-tenure period, when they likely have a greater set of outsidecommitments than younger new faculty members; and leveraging their skills developed inindustry for success in the classroom and research. This article explores the experience of twofaculty members who each made the move after over fifteen years in industry, one who is nowearly in that transition and the second moving toward full retirement. These experiences are usedto outline not only ideas on best practices for being successful in the transition, but pitfalls andtraps to avoid.IntroductionThe motivation of this article is to explore the transition from industry to teaching from both aspecific and general viewpoint. The specific context explores the perspectives on theexperiences of
other educators who are interested in adopting CPBL-beyond-Classroom to redesign their courses based on the learning needs of their own students. A. IntroductionThe ability to solve real-world problems and design systems or components under realisticconstraints are essential to engineering and computer science graduates, as both mandated byABET and highly valued in professional practice. To help students develop such valuable skills,project-based learning (PBL) has been considered as a useful pedagogy by many engineering/CSeducators. However, it is also recognized that PBL may not always function if not designed andintegrated in the curriculum appropriately [1-4]. This challenge magnifies at commuter campuseswhere students having difficulty
. Based on a research survey, we analyze whether studentsprefer ebooks or print editions. Comparisons are done across disciplines, level of the student(freshman to graduate), whether the student owns a laptop / desktop / tablet, student workcommitments, financial needs, and age; among other factors. Some professors give the option ofusing the ebooks, while others do not. Students may or may not know about the availability ofebooks for their courses and this may impact their decision to choose either option. Students maymake decisions to purchase ebooks or print edition based on cost, readability, availability, andability to take notes, impact on the environment, ease of use, logistics and the level of the usageof the book in a given course
, Ruud de Moor Centrum, Open University of the Netherlands.21. Wessner C.W., & Wolff, A.W. (Ed.). (2012). Rising to the Challenge: U.S. Innovation Policy for Global Economy. National Academies - Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century. Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council.22. Wilson, Z.S., Holmes, L., deGravelles, K., Sylvain, M.R., Batiste, L., Johnson, M., McGuire, S.Y., Pang, S.S., & Warner, I.M. (2011). Hierarchical mentoring: A transformative strategy for improving diversity and retention in undergraduate STEM disciplines. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 21(1), 148-156.23
more. Finally,the project will develop industry, K-12 and university partnerships to facilitate pathways tocareers in the exciting field of reconfigurable electronics for first-generation, minority and otherunder-served populations, including veterans. In summary, this project will provide the trainingand educational resources and promote best practices for community college, university, andhigh school instructors to enable them to teach new hardware technologies to a broad range ofstudents, including those who have not previously had access to this level of training and careerchoice. This paper will address first year project activities including the Faculty ProfessionalDevelopment workshop on VHDL and FPGA design, the assessment results and
undergraduate and graduate versions of the SoftwareTesting course are very similar in their core contents and objectives, since one is not pre-requisite for the other.The main goal of the courses is to guide the students in the learning of the theoretical foun-dations and necessary skills for understanding and applying software testing processes, tech-niques, and activities within the context of software quality assurance.After completing the course, students are expected to be able to: • Understand and explain the fundamental concepts of software testing. • Identify best practices for software testing and quality. • Compare and apply different techniques, levels, and types of software testing. • Plan, manage and implement a software
is a professor of computer science. She taught for twenty-two years, was department chair for four of those years, and graduate program advisor for three. She is currently serving as special assistant to the provost. Page 24.1222.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 The iCollaborate MSE Project: Progress Update 2014AbstractThe iCollaborate Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) project is a multiyear,multifaceted research project designed to understand how student learning outcomes,student engagement, and successful
has been involved in research projects to develop, refine, and apply innovative assessment tools for characterizing student knowledge of sustainability. Her ultimate goal is to use this assessment data to guide the design and evaluation of educational interventions to improve undergraduate sustainability education. In the area of bioprocessing, Dr. Watson has experience using bacteria and algae to convert waste materials into high-value products, such as biofuels.Mr. Joshua Pelkey, AirWatch Joshua Pelkey is currently a product manager at AirWatch in Atlanta, GA. He completed his MS in Elec- trical and Computer Engineering at GT and his BS in Computer Engineering from Clemson University. He has conducted
numberof opportunities for which students can be considered.Scholar Programming and ActivitiesAdditional research has shown that a combination of financial support and academic support leadto higher retention rates than focusing on only one alone. While this may seem obvious, it isfurther evidence that simply providing financial aid to students is not sufficient to ensureretention and graduation; additional personal support is needed to maximize the impact of theinvestment. Many of the programs we develop directly or indirectly tie to high-impacteducational practices shown to have true impact in student retention.This frames our overall philosophy and support framework for our scholarship programs. Weare investing financial resources in our
complexity comes in two forms: essential and accidentaltaxonomy of educational objectives to the domain of computersecurity. Finally, it describes the educational experiences which [9]. The latter results from design decisions, and thus designwill maximally benefit computer security engineers and scientists decisions aid or hinder understanding.at the undergraduate level. For an example of a wise design decision, consider the choice to move array bounds checking from individual pro- I. I NTRODUCTION grams into a programming language’s type system. This de
industryfeatures that are continually advancing. This paper presentsmodification of the current engineering economics core coursethat is offered to junior-level civil and environmental engineeringstudents and its corresponding impact on students’ performance. I. INTRODUCTIONE NGINEERING economics represents a branch of economics applied by engineers to achieve the optimalproject design and ultimately the optimal decision makingthrough various alternative analyses. At the same time, thereare several aspects of engineering economics that depend oncutting-edge technology because it is an area that integratesfundamental economic knowledge and various industryfeatures that are continually advancing. Thus, the onus is on
practice engineeringdesign and to facilitate the integration of what students have learned throughout theircurriculum”5 ,“to better prepare graduates for engineering practice”6, and “to demonstrate theirabilities to potential employers”7.Shuman et al., broke down the ABET Student Outcomes a-k into the categories of hard skills andprofessional skills. The Student Outcomes that represent professional, or ‘soft’, skills were an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility an ability to communicate effectively the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context a
, M.Phil. in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, and M.S. in Civil Engi- neering from Stanford University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (Alaska), LEED Accredited Professional, and Envision Sustainability Professional. His research interests include sustainable design, construction, infrastructure, and engineering education.Major Berndt Spittka P.E., U.S. Military AcademyDr. Seamus F Freyne P.E., Mississippi State University Page 24.762.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Inspiring Student Engagement through Two-Minute FolliesAbstractShort, in