Matlab was still being used to calculate and visualize results, the new lab activities motivate students to practice a variety of valuable research and communication skills. Regular homework and testing is also important to ensure that students retain theoretical material underlying the physical/virtual experiments. Lab activities are not meant to be a substitute for sample problems in lectures or homework, but rather a supplement. Students find that the analysis practice through calculations in assigned problems is critical to gaining a mastery of course concepts. In implementing physical experiments in a structural dynamics course, time management during lab instruction is critical. The
streamlined brace. The meetingsalso allowed the graduate student and faculty member leading the course to conduct workshops,give tips on design methodology, as well as critique the brace design and suggest changes forfuture designs. This method of meeting encouraged clear communication between the sub-teamsand instructors, a best practice for these non-traditional courses [1].Fabrication of the Orthotic and Design ProcessIn the first semester of the course, students were provided with the previous project informationand work done on the orthotic, including a brace design that was based on an existing opensource orthotic device and various open source prosthetic parts. Each semester, the facultymember will coordinate a planning meeting with the OTs
classroom, mostfollow this simple formula: events that traditionally take place in the classroom such as lecturingand note taking are done outside of the class and are replaced with more practice exercises andindividual and group-based problem solving [1]. Active learning, where students are engaged inthe learning process through activities such as group-based problem solving or hands-onactivities, has been recognized as an effective means to educating students in comparison totraditional lectures with many independent studies showing improvement in student learninggoals [2]. By shifting the dissemination of class notes to a period outside of the designated classtime, the flipped classroom allows for students to have more meaningful interactions
. This commitment emphasizes the goals ofEducating the Engineer of 2020 [5] and reports from PCAST [1] by encouraging greatercollaboration between universities and local K-12 school districts. The Smart Grid summercamp is one of important summer programs that CURENT and RPI host, which also include a 2Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) exchange program and a Research Experiencefor Teachers (RET) program. RPI has a long history of holding ERC related summer programs,including the first one held in 2000 and funded by the Center for Power Electronics Systems.Such experience provides best practices to new camp coordinators and allows the sharing ofmany hands-on activities across multiple
pack more capability into products and make themsmaller, faster, and more capable, so the manufacturing equipment and knowledge must deviseways to keep pace with these advances. This presentation will be covered in two stages, first therewill be presentation describing the state of the art in electronics assembly manufacturing, andcurrent best practices. This creates a base line of knowledge. Building on the first stage, the secondpart of the presentation will discuss current advances in manufacturing processes and equipment,specifically high speed Optical inspection and 3D Computerized Tomography for theprogrammable components. A look into the future will be covered.The presenter is the senior applications engineer, business/development, XXXX
Paper ID #25659Theorizing the Role of Engineering Education for Society: Technological Ac-tivity in Context?Mr. Andrew Doyle, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Andrew Doyle is a Doctoral Student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. His doctoral research focuses on the relationship between curricula and enacted practice in Technology education. He is also interested in the Philosophy of Technology and Engineering, and the role of Technology and Engineering education for society.Dr. Lena B. Gumaelius, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Dr Lena Gumaelius has a background as a researcher in Biotechnology, in
: Do language attitudes represent a factor in the low enrollments in Spanish and other FL courses at UNV? In addition to that question, this pilot research has two objectives: (1) to obtain preliminary insights from the data, and (2) use these insights to improve the initial questionnaire created for this study. Methodology Instrument To design the questionnaire, four dimensions (or constructs) were chosen as basic building blocks: (1) attitudes toward learning Spanish and other L2; (2) instrumental orientation toward Spanish and other L2; (3) integrative orientation toward U.S. Hispanics and Latin American countries; (4) attitudes toward global experiences, at the international level –like studying
; algorithm design and solution implementation. Digital Leadership: To initiate and guide computation-related innovation. In other words, those essential soft skills or ways of thinking for a digital age, including system thinking, interdisciplinary or integration skills, innovation and entrepreneurship, multi-cultural teamwork and collaboration skills. Figure 1. The Framework of CT-ENGIII. Case Study: The Robotics Class of Zhejiang University1. Research Design(1) Research MethodThis research adopts the single case study method. Case study research design is anin-depth practical investigation of a current event in the actual context (Yin, 2009).According to (Siggelkow,2007; Gaya H.J& Smith E.E.,2016), a
University. She teaches the Cornerstone of Engineering courses to first- year students as well as courses within the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. She is a recent recipient of the Outstanding Teacher of First-Year Students Award and is interested in research that compliments and informs her teaching. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Preparing First Year Engineering Students for a Career where Communication Skills MatterAbstractThis complete evidence-based practice paper describes the techniques used in the project basedfirst-year Cornerstone of Engineering courses at Northeastern University to address the need forbuilding communication
Paper ID #27217Student Perspectives on the Use of iPads for Navigating Construction Draw-ings: A Case StudyDr. Tom Michael Leathem, Auburn University Tom Leathem is an Assistant Professor in the McWhorter School of Building Science at Auburn Univer- sity where he teaches courses in Estimating, Construction Documents, Scheduling, and Project Delivery. He has 11 years industry experience in commercial construction management, holds a Ph.D. in Educa- tion, an M.S. in Integrated Design & Construction, and a B.S. in Construction Management. His areas of research include construction education, assessment, accreditation
or more designated areas of potential growth.Students must select one the four RIPE courses below (1 credit):RCEL 410 Engineering Launchpad - ResearchRCEL 410 is one of four RCEL courses intended to jump-start the next steps for aspiringengineering leaders. The other courses deal with industry, alternative pathways, andentrepreneurship, while RCEL 410 is focused on developing an understanding of leadershipprinciples applicable in a research environment. Students will gain insights into managing ethicaldilemmas, developing communication strategies, creating a vision and goals, and projectmanagement in either an undergraduate or graduate student level engineering discipline. Researchin academia, government labs, and industry will be compared
assess impact of good supply chain practices such as coordinated decision making in stochastic supply chains, handling supply chains during times of crisis and optimizing global supply chains on the financial health of a company. She has published her research in Journal of Business Logistics, International Jour- nal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and peer-reviewed proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education.Dr. Michael D. Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and In- dustrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product
personal level to the students and their families, those who attempt afour-year degree program but are unsuccessful have expended their limited resources.Additionally, as technology becomes a larger portion of our modern life, the need for individualswith technical skills grows. Therefore, the inability to retain students who could becomedegreed, practicing engineers has a detrimental impact on society as a whole. Retention ofstudents who are interested in a career in engineering is therefore a way to both reduceexpenditure of resources and while also increasing the supply of skilled workers for tomorrow’sjob market.II. The Challenge of Increasing RetentionStudents leave the difficult path of an engineering education for a variety of reasons
Paper ID #24757Developing a Request for Qualifications Activity to Integrate ConstructionTopics at the Sophomore LevelDr. Luciana Debs, Purdue University Luciana Debs, is an Assistant Professor of Construction Management in the School Construction Manage- ment Technology at Purdue University. She received her PhD from Purdue University Main Campus. Her previous degrees include a MS from the Technical Research Institute of Sao Paulo (IPT-SP), and BArch from the University of S˜ao Paulo (USP), in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Prior to her current position she worked in design coordination in construction and real estate development
desirable, especially where instructors model a correction andrequest that students themselves make the remaining corrections.In addition to asking students to revise based on instructor feedback, engaging in peer review canbe beneficial, especially for the peer-reviewer [6]. Likewise, written and oral feedback from apeer learning facilitator or graduate teaching assistant can help students learn [3], even withdifficult writing tasks such as argumentation and synthesis [23].In the current study, we consider different variants of feedback-and-revision, as implemented bythree different engineering faculty in laboratory courses.MethodologyStudy design & research questionsIn this study, we developed and evaluated the impact of a collaborative
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is supported through National Science Foundation Grant Number 1317651.References[1] National Science Board. The Science and Engineering Workforce: Realizing America’s Potential, Publication NSB 03-69, 2003.[2] Augustine, N. “Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future”, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), 2007.[3] Herzog, S. “Measuring Determinants of Student Return vs. Dropout/Stopout vs. Transfer: A First-to-Second Year Analysis of New Freshmen”, Research in Higher Education, pp. 883-928, December 2005.[4] Krauss, R., Fries, R., Karacal, C. “Evaluating the Impact of a Revised Introductory Engineering Course: Student
Paper ID #26061The Industry Scholars Mentorship Program: a Professional Industry Con-nection Experience for Engineering UndergraduatesDr. Breanne Przestrzelski, University of San Diego Bre Przestrzelski, PhD, is a post-doctoral research associate in the General Engineering department in the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, where she innovatively integrates social justice, humanitarian advancement, and peace into the traditional engineering canon. Before joining USD in August 2017, Bre spent 9 years at Clemson University, where she was a three-time graduate of the bioengineering program (BS, MS, and PhD), founder of
category Inspiration through Leadership. Moreover, he is a recipient c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #25285of 2014-2015 University Distinguished Teaching Award at NYU. His scholarly activities have included3 edited books, 9 chapters in edited books, 1 book review, 62 journal articles, and 154 conference pa-pers. He has mentored 1 B.S., 35 M.S., and 5 Ph.D. thesis students; 58 undergraduate research studentsand 11 undergraduate senior design project teams; over 500 K-12 teachers and 118 high school studentresearchers; and 18 undergraduate GK-12 Fellows and 59 graduate GK-12 Fellows. Moreover, he di
material. They are to determine as best as they can from the testing they perform. This means that a lab session must be reserved for students to perform part testing. • Once the students determine the type of material, they need to defend their decision with sound engineering logic and with the results of their testing. Their testing results are to be compared and matched to material data from matweb.com. Students were also graded on their ability to organize their data. • Students were to describe the type of failure the part underwent: impact, tensile, fatigue, compression, shear, creep, or vibration. Also, students were to determine whether the part suffered a brittle
].For the first time the academic credits are the unit of measurement of academic work to expressall the activities that are part of the curriculum that must be met by students. An academic creditis defined as a 48-hour academic work that includes the hours with direct accompaniment of theprofessor and the hours of independent work that the student must dedicate to the realization ofstudy activities, practices or other tasks that are necessary to achieve the learning goals.Although this law was designed for facilitating the national and international mobility of studentsand graduates, and curricular flexibility, among other aspects, also the academic activitiesassociated with research training that may be developed in contents or options of
assignment follows best-practices for Inquiry-Based- Learning, providing a structured opportunity for students to build the scaffolding of their own knowledge of the subject [12] [13]. Particularly, the addition of reports and briefings where the students presented ideas and recommendations that they had generated, researched and refined through direct observation gave the students a sense of professional practice and real buy-in. • Projects which activate the students directly as agents of their own knowledge creation, in a sense pulling data to them according to self-defined needs rather than acting as passive receivers, provides considerable franchise and satisfaction to students. There is
trips, 12 workshops, and 12 hands-on exercises over three weeks. Withdetailed description of the pedagogical approach, assessment methods, and learning outcomes, thispaper aims to systematically review the successful implementation of the NSTI program at CPP and thelessons learned. The following section provides a more detailed description about the NSTI-CPP program’sdevelopment process, the scope, and the implementation.2. Program Pedagogical ApproachTime Frame and Target Group. FHWA sent out the request for proposal via Caltrans. Over the course ofthree months, numerous discussions were held among PI/Co-PIs, instructors, guest speakers and field triphosts to ensure a well-designed program. The PI also worked with the Office of Research, bus
assistant professor in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Dayton. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in children’s literature, literacy methods, and literacy intervention. Her research interests include diversity in children’s literature, struggling readers, and pro- fessional development in literacy.Prof. Todd Bennett Smith, The University of Dayton Assoc. Prof. of Physics c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Using Engineering Design to Increase Literacy and STEM Interest Among Third Graders (Work in Progress)ABSTRACTLiteracy is the key to a student’s success as it is a critical skill required for learning all othersubjects, including science
Education 2016 Annual Conference and Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, 25–28 June 2017.[20] T. Reed-Rhoads, and P.K. Imbrie, “Concept inventories in engineering education,” School of EngineeringEducation, Purdue University.[21] A. Madsen, S.B. McKagan, and E.C. Sayre, “Best practices for administering concept inventories,” The PhysicsTeacher, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 530-536, 2017.[22] M. Delucchi, “Measuring student learning in social statistics: A pretest-posttest study of knowledge gain,”Teaching Sociology, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 231-239, 2014.[23] R.C. Borresen, “Success in Introductory Statistics with Small Groups.” College Teaching 38(1):26–28, 1990.[24] M. Delucchi, “Assessing the Impact of Group Projects on Examination Performance in Social Statistics
students who have been in the program for at least one year (i.e. sophomores, juniors, seniors, and transfer students who have been in residence at least one year). We would like to have an even distribution of students among our four academic programs: Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. We realize that each of these groups will still include a variety of intersecting identities, and in some cases some aspects of a student’s identity may not be emphasized in the conversations that ensue. Due to practical limitations on the number of students expected to be available for focus groups, these six groups were chosen as the best option to capture the population
has potential to improve the teaching and learning of lower divisionengineering courses. While some educators are optimistic about the potential impact that flippedclassroom teaching might provide, there are still many challenges to overcome duringimplementation. One of the major challenges faced by course developers, especially first-timedevelopers, is to manage the heavy workload needed to design an effective practice that issuitable for their unique student body. This paper presents an iterative framework to help easethe adoption and continuous improvement of flipped classroom teaching, so that students’learning experience can be optimized over time. The framework is composed of two phases – theinitial design phase and the iterative tuning
, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the Associate Chair for Under- graduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. She was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program at CU, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is currently the chair of ASEE’s Community Engagement Division and a member of the AAAS Committee on Sci- entific Freedom and Responsibility.She is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and
unique local foundation to distinguishthemselves from competitors. Indeed, unified by the statewide curriculum frameworks andnational industry models and directives, program leaders have an opportunity to work togetheron a cohesive core curriculum, and concentrate on differentiating content in response to localneeds. Likewise, program leaders can collaborate to share strategies for working closely withindustry, attracting full time students, maintaining state-of-the-art facilities, and addressingserious faculty shortage issues—all challenges common to regional programs.Next steps for this research involve translating the findings for a number of practical audiences.For example, our works here suggest that that we should investigate best
, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect conceptual change and associated impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and per- sistence. The other is on the factors that promote persistence and success in retention of