institutionsEntrepreneurial team projects are an increasingly popular component of universityengineering programs. Providing students with realistic experiences is a common goal, butthe projects vary in their purposes and outcomes, organization, participants, and length.Some projects emerge from programs that encourage engineering students to becomeentrepreneurs, for example, Pennsylvania State2. Others, like the University of Maryland3, area part of incubator-like environments where prospective entrepreneurs live and study together.Some universities take the process a step further by facilitating start-up ventures: FloridaInstitute of Technology4 and Stanford University5.For some projects, a business plan is the significant outcome, and a business plan
be one that wasdeveloped for or is closely related to one developed for an EPICS project partner. The focus ofthe EEI is thus not on the traditional business or financial plan development − it is product-focused and engineering-focused and is thus well within the scope of engineering students’developing expertise.The Laboratory Facilities for the EPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative consist of two rooms. One isthe Software Development Laboratory, which provides servers and desktop machines for EPICSteams with EPICS I2P® entries that are software intensive, client-server systems. It also containsa Digital Publishing Center that includes the latest in high-color, color printers in for formatsranging from 8.5x11 through 50” wide plotters. The
Page 11.820.3air pollution in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union Address included the Clear Skies Act inthe administration’s plan. Compared to the Clean Air Act, the Clear Skies Act is not the bestchoice for sustainability. It is reputable for its considerable weakness in environmentalregulation, and it allows for industries to release even more pollution into the air (See Figure-2).3These figures do not serve to merely condemn the administration’s plan for inadequateenvironmental regulation, but rather to exemplify evidence supporting a critical need for actionto be taken through educational research in engineering technology. Figure-1. Major Air Pollutants from Power Plants Administration Plan
missionof Ponaganset High School’s Fuel Cell Education Initiative is to further the understanding andimplementation of fuel cell technology and to make a contribution towards a more rapid andwide-scale use of fuel cells in society. Education through demonstration is our way of leadingby example, and the initiative strives to demonstrate in a clear and exciting manner that fuel celltechnology is here, now, and it works. The students of today are the leaders of tomorrow; byclearly showing our students the means for a better future, we can make this vision a reality andenable it to become a reality sooner. This report includes the means and methods undertaken byPonaganset High School to achieve the mission, including future plans and goals.Background
school into teaching, would feelmost comfortable implementing the same techniques and tools in their classrooms(Chachra, 2016). McManus (2001) specifically discusses how most new facultymembers were taught by instructors who used the Teacher-Centered paradigm asopposed to the Learning-Centered paradigm and therefore they likewise use it oncethey enter academia. This professor, who transitioned from a working professional inthe engineering and aerospace industry to teaching in higher education, self-imposedthe challenge of going digital at the beginning of the transition. His game plan consistedof creating and adopting a paperless curriculum framework (see Figure 1). Figure 1. Going Digital FrameworkAs a first year
support the fledgling startups http://business.fullerton.edu/centers/cfe/StartupIncubator.htm Jackson is co-principal investigator for a National Science Foundation Grant called I-TEST; this $1,000,000 grant has created an after-school program at Anaheim middle schools which encourages STEM ed- ucation and entrepreneurship. http://bizblogs.fullerton.edu/blog/2014/09/23/mihaylo-entrepreneurship- collaborates-to-win-1-million-nsf-grant/ As Center Director, Jackson conducts two all-college events: The Business Plan Competition and The CSUF Fast Pitch. Both events reach across the campus to engage students from all disciplines to idea- generate new business concepts, test feasibility, and pitch to a panel of real investors
diversifying theuniversity population and to developing educational, structural, and policy measures to ensure itsongoing health and prosperity. In 1998, a University Diversity Action Plan was written; theposition of assistant provost for diversity was created to oversee the implementation of the actionplan; and a unique and highly successful African American, Latino American, and NativeAmerican (AALANA) faculty recruitment program was developed. As a result, the percentage ofAALANA tenured and tenure-track (T/TT) faculty grew to 9.8%[1]. In 2007, the university’s newpresident introduced two gender-related performance commitments to support strategic goalsfocused on increasing both the percentage of entering undergraduate women and the percentageof
in established lab groups at the university.Using the Qualtrics online survey software, we conducted pre-experience and post-experiencesurveys of the participants to assess the effects of participating in this summer research program.At the beginning of the summer, all participants provided their definition of technical researchand described what they hoped to get out of their research experience, and the undergraduatestudents described their future career and educational plans. At the conclusion of the summer, apost-experience survey presented participants’ with their answers from the beginning of thesummer and asked them to reflect on how their understanding of research and future plansinvolving research changed over the course of the
a four-year data sciencebachelor’s degree program that will include a data science decision-theater center and acurriculum that will utilize an active learning approach in most classes where students will workin teams with a faculty or mentor on real and relevant data science problems. Data science is anarea that utilizes competencies in computer science, statistics, research methods, and otherdomain focus areas (e.g., engineering, environment, and health) [11], [12]. Central to datascience is being able to work with and handle any forms of data (i.e., small, big, clean, messy,simple, and complex) using a lifecycle process of planning, collecting, processing, analyzing,preserving, sharing, and determining the course [13]–[18]. Because of
first months of the program, fellows are required to designate a faculty mentor. Thefellows must then meet with their mentor to develop a professional development plan (PDP) thatfocuses on areas of teaching, research, and/or outreach that have been identified as needingimprovement. As a part of their plan, fellows can interview faculty, shadow administrators,participate in faculty meetings, present a paper at a conference, or participate in predefinedactivities designed to teach them about the professoriate. Fellows submit a monthly report ofactivities completed as a part of the program. At the conclusion of the program, each fellow willhave completed an electronic portfolio detailing his or her work, developed separate teaching andresearch
North Dakota State University. Her research interests are innovation-based-learning, educational data mining, and K-12 Out- reach. She works for the NDSU College of Engineering as the K-12 Outreach Coordinator where she plans and organizes outreach activities and camps for students in the Fargo-Moorhead area.Ryan Striker P.E., North Dakota State University Ryan Striker is a life-long learner. Ryan has over a decade of professional experience designing embed- ded electronic hardware for industrial, military, medical, and automotive applications. Ryan is currently pursuing a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Dakota State University. He previously earned his MS in Systems Engineering from the
semester of 2017, an official partnership between the RCSC and theEngineering and Science Projects in Community Service (EPICS@mines) program at the SouthDakota School of Mines and Technology (SD Mines) was formed to help the RCSC meet thisgoal. The EPICS@mines program allows students to earn course credits for partnering with thecommittee to investigate, monitor, and plan an initiative for improving the energy efficiency ofcity buildings to meet Energy Star Building Certification. The creation of the student designteam has had a positive impact on students and the community and it has led to the developmentof unanticipated partnerships in the community.IntroductionTown and gown relations have long been considered important to the success of a
,this program is engineering discipline specific, open only to incoming students enrolled in thefall semester, and it is closely tied to the first engineering course offered at the university. Bootcamps at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and University of Washington (UW)are similar, but they focus on Math and Writing or Science and Math respectively [15], [16],which means that students will not necessarily meet others in their major.All incoming freshmen engineering students are encouraged to apply to E-FIT, which is designedto suit students of all ability levels. Currently, there is space for 132 students (approximately20% of incoming engineering students) to participate, but the program plans to be available to allincoming
shifts from pure modeling to that of an understanding of the organizational principles andsystems, having a specific behavior. The first project makes use of an SDC Publications textbook[1]. This also enables students to learn the tools of the software, become familiar witharchitectural and construction methods, and understand details employed in the design andconstruction of residential buildings. The first project is in the format of a tutorial where studentswork on constructing a single family residence which comprises of a basement, first floor, andsecond floor. Students are also to interior design the kitchen, bathroom, and office on the secondfloor. The second project consists of the plan and design of a single floor for a single
, proceeds through feasibility andprototyping courses and culminates in a business plan preparation course. There are also threepracticum courses included in the minor that provide focused experiences for students in relatedthemed areas.The program has graduated over 100 students and continues to see a robust enrollment of about12% of the engineering students and is the largest subscribed minor in the College ofEngineering. After a decade of offering the engineering entrepreneurship minor, the program wasevaluated to identify its strengths and determine if any modifications needed to be made.The program evaluation was based on the collection and analysis of several forms of dataincluding course syllabi, focus groups with current students, and
Paper ID #21943Industry experience: Consulting; since 1987; Had major or partial role in: I) performing research forindustry, DOE and NSF, and II) in several oil industry or government (DOE, DOD, and NSF) proposals.Performed various consulting tasks from USA for several oil companies (Jawaby Oil Service Co., WAHAOil and Oasis Co., London, England). The responsibilities included production planning, forecastingand reservoir maintenance. This production planning and forecasting consisted of history matching andprediction based on selected drilling. The reservoir maintenance included: water/gas injection and gas liftfor selected wells to optimize reservoir production plateau and prolonging well’s economic life.Terra Tek, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT
- versity. She has a Ph.D. in Experimental Social Psychology from Saint Louis University and has been involved in academic assessment for over 20 years.Dr. Sarah L. Strout, Worcester State University Dr. Sarah Strout is the Assistant Vice President for Assessment and Planning at Worcester State University and was the Associate Director of Assessment at Radford University.Dr. Prem Uppuluri, Radford University Prem Uppuluri is a Professor of Computer Science at Radford University. His primary interests are in cyber security and computer science education. Dr. Uppuluri’s work is supported by grants from NSF and NSA. He is the PI of the NSF S-STEM project titled RU-Nextgen (2014-18) c American
formed a partnership to host a 12-day travel study program. CSU had originallyoffered the program in the Caribbean in 2009; the following year it was offered in partnershipwith the University of Costa Rica. Most recently, the latest iteration of the course is based on anew partnership with EARTH University. This paper provides context about the organizationalchallenges and lessons learned from this partnership. First, this paper describes a brief overviewof the study abroad program including the content, structure, and assignments. Second, the paperprovides a discussion of the challenges related to planning and executing this course. Finally,lessons learned by the faculty leaders and support staff provide insights about what to expectwhen
our Catholic university, we are infusing ourcurriculum with a humanistic approach to engineering by orienting the core of our departmentaround social justice. We plan to educate engineers that are able to integrate the appropriateperspective -- be it global, local, environmental, or social -- into the engineering decision-makingprocess. In this paper, we describe the founding of our new department and describe theinstitutional context that made it possible. We also lay out our proposed curricular structure anddiscuss several courses currently under development.IntroductionAt an alumni panel for first year engineering students in Fall 2016, we listened as recentgraduates reported working in engineering jobs where they “did not use” their
. For example, the tool cabinet facing the pod that houses teams 1-4, hasfour distinct shelves labeled for each team; the shelve reserved for team 1 is shared amongstteam 1 members across all six classes, and so on for each additional team within each class.Some of the items supplied within these tool cabinets include hand tools, non-consumablesupplies for experimentation, and binders containing hard copies of lesson plans. Also locatedwithin the EG makerspace are team cabinets that store individual team totes. Team cabinets aresupplementary to the tool cabinets and respective totes store items that are not conducive tosharing amongst other teams, such as individual safety glasses, electronics components, and partsused to construct individual
career in information technology to developadditional cybersecurity skills to use in their current position or to prepare them for advancementinto a new position. Alternately, it could serve as a way to demonstrate the knowledge andexperience required to allow someone to switch from a career in a completely different field intoinformation technology and cybersecurity.The suggested completion plan for the certificate is: • CSCI 603 – Defensive Network Security • CSCI 604 – Ethical Hacking • CSCI 609 – Cybersecurity Law and Policy • One additional courseThere are a number of options for the final course. These include, at NDSU: • CSCI 610 – Computer Crime and Forensics • CSCI 669 – Network Security • A computer science
some even leavefor opportunities outside of school all together. As the field of engineering education researchgrows, more opportunities arise to examine what happens between the declaration of a major andthe planned graduation date that prompts so many students to exit the field. Much researchdiscusses how and why students initially choose a major (e.g., [1],[6]), but further discussion ofwhat happens between major declaration and planned graduation date is lacking in the existingliterature.Major selection is the focus of a large body of research involving higher education (e.g. [1], [2],[7], [8]). Research looking into major selection has been pursued from a variety of perspectives.Some research has focused on a broad range of college majors
metacognitive regulation, there is most agreement surrounding four specific actions:planning, monitoring, control, and evaluation. Planning involves actions taken to help the learnerplan out their learning and cognitive tasks. Planning encompasses everything from gatheringappropriate resources to creating a time schedule for learning to the selection of a specificenvironment used for learning. Monitoring involves all actions that are used to determine if thecognitive task engaged in is on track to meet the intended goal. Monitoring can involve (but isnot limited to) checking progress on a particular task, checking understanding on a particularconcept, and checking that the procedure currently being used will reach the intended outcome.When a monitoring
. During ourpresentations at ASEE—both in conference sessions and in the NSF poster sessions—we offerthe tipsheets to attendees who express interest. We have also begun to use the tipsheets as thebasis for workshops and presentations. For example, at the American Association of Collegesand Universities STEM conference in November 2018, we presented a workshop on the topic ofshared vision for change projects. The interactive workshop was developed with the tipsheet asthe source of content, and the tipsheet served as a resource for attendees to take away for use ontheir home campuses.ConclusionAs of this writing, we have plans for additional tipsheets on topics that have emerged from whatwe are learning about the work of the RED teams. For example
follows upon an NSF-WIDER(Widening Implementation & Demonstration of Evidence-Based Reforms) planning grant.University of South Florida (USF) has a student population of approximately 31,000undergraduate and 11,000 graduate students. About 35% of the undergraduate students major ina STEM discipline (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math, Geosciences, or Engineering).Approximately half of the undergraduate students have transferred from another institution andabout half of these have come from one of the five primary campuses of HillsboroughCommunity College (HCC).The leadership team for the project consists of twelve to fifteen people (some members rotate inand out) and includes deans, department chairs, faculty, professionals from the office of
the USA. To add to theconfusion, there is not consistency across the UK, as again the separation of governance inEngland and Scotland has led to different systems. During a 2015 Fulbright Visiting ScholarExchange, the author had the opportunity to teach at an English University and visit threecolleges in Scotland. Figure 1 shows the general flow of the four-year curriculum which led tothe awarding of degrees of Bachelors in Engineering (BEng) and Masters in Engineering (MEng)at an English university.5 This plan appears to be fairly typical of engineering programs inEngland. However, Figure 2 displays one example of a four-year program at a Scottishuniversity. It should be noted, that while this program lasts four years, like the English
, 95% 107, 88% Yes No Yes No Figure 5: Student Self-Assessment of Project UnderstandingThe response to the second and third questions on the exit survey assessed student interest andconfidence in their ability to major in science or engineering. The percentage of students whoresponded that they plan to study science or engineering, if they go to college, was highest in theMakerspace class. This is shown in Figure 6, and responses for the other courses ranged from59% – 93%. However, the next question on the survey (“did summer change their mind”)impacts the interpretation of those responses and is shown in Figure 7. A
Paper ID #16129Engineering Students’ Self-Concept Differentiation: Investigation of Identity,Personality, and Authenticity with Implications for Program RetentionMs. Kylie Denise Stoup, James Madison University Kylie Stoup is a senior honors engineering student at James Madison University. Ms. Kylie Stoup grad- uates with a BS in Engineering in May 2016. She is in the second year of her 2-year-long engineering capstone project so far, involving the design and implementation of a greenway system in Harrisonburg. Her career interests include transportation infrastructure and city planning with a focus in social equity, as
research group members, the amount of time spent with researchmentors, and the advice given about graduate school. Improvement was suggested for theelement of amount of time spent doing meaningful research. REU program participants indicatedanticipated completion of a presentation, talk, or poster at a professional conference (25%) andinvolvement in co-writing a paper for either an academic journal or an undergraduate researchjournal (33%). Approximately 58% of participants indicated plans for some level of graduateschool at program completion.Interviews of program participants corroborated the indication of research-based gains andprovided a more in-depth understanding of impact of the program. Specifically, interviewsprovided information about
Value Delivery 30 Start Innovating 30 Challenge Plan 60 Closure 15 Figure 1: Workshop framework Architecture - The central trunk provides the core contents of workshops. The branches are optional and all the timings (given in diamonds) are indicative.We then move on to case studies that are mainly drawn from