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were expected to attend at least 2 sessions of the Iowa State Conference on Race andEthnicity, which is held on campus every spring. Table 1: Schedule of topics covered during the semester long course. Week Topic(s) 1-2 Introduction to Broader Impacts 3 Explaining the impact of your work 4-5 K-12 engagement 6-7 Broadening Participation 8 Engaging the public 10 Promoting teaching, training and learning 11 Assessment of activities 12-15 Course Project: Objectives and Scope; Project details; Assessment plan and results if piloted
knowledge.” [19]We hypothesize that, like obtaining surface knowledge before engaging in problem-basedlearning, developing early student competencies in the skills underpinning engineering designwill lead to improvements in design projects in the later years of engineering students’ education.These underpinning skills ought not be restricted to mathematics and computation, but alsoinclude fabrication. We assert that these skills are best gained through overt training rather than“as needed” in the context of a project-based class.Literature Cited[1] K. T. Ulrich and S. D. Eppinger, Product design and development. Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2000.[2] M. D. Murphy, K. L. Wood, K. Otto, J. Bezdek, and D. Jensen, “Building Better Mousetrap Builders: Courses
(45%).Most of the sailors were males (17 of 20). Based on the data provided by the sailors through theQualtrics online survey, six sailors of 20 were not aware of the CNO / OPNAV 41's “Print theFleet Initiative” within the U.S. Navy before the workshop. They expressed that there is a gap inthe current expertise within their organization to utilize additive manufacturing for naval purposes.The majority of sailors agreed that their overall knowledge on 3D printing and reverse engineeringsignificantly improved as a result of this workshop. They also noted that they would like to attendan extended version of the workshop, or even have it as a part of their regular naval training (a C-school for electronics technicians). Most of the workshop
evaluated through the course evaluation and surveyquestionnaire. The specific survey questions are as follows:Q-1 Green Concrete project helped you in understanding sustainability concepts.Q-2 Hands-on-activities through Green Concrete project increased student participation andimproved student learning in this course.Q-3 In the future, this course should continue Green Concrete project.Q-4 Green Concrete project presentation and report improved your learning in this course.Q-5 I am able to accurately define what is meant by sustainable design practice in constructionprojects.Q-6 The lessons in this course provided me with an awareness of sustainable design practices.Q-7 I tried to relate material covered in lecture(s) to group project assignment.Q
court case related to a report written by the student apprentice on the degradation and in servicefailure of a manufactured material. The overarching question to answer for the court and jurywas why the material degraded and eventually failed. The written report and expert testimonyprovided was based on evidentiary analytical data which supported the apprentice’sconclusion(s) in this PBL scenario.Identified background: Students were to search the scientific literature to find a publishedprocedure suitable for the analysis of the desired components of the sample(s). Students wererequired to be able to accomplish the procedure with four (4) of the instruments that wereavailable in the instrumental analysis laboratory. Students needed at least two
workshops and curriculum guides can support the integration of technology and careerlearning into classroom science instruction. Encounters with working engineers, whether byvideo or in-person, provide the expertise and real world context necessary for raising engineeringcareer awareness in students and teachers. Overall, this pilot study supports conclusions thatvideo instruction can be beneficial and time effective ways for engineers to communicate theirwork for broader impacts in elementary school settings (Colston et al., 2017; Laursen &Brickley, 2011).ReferencesBrophy, S., Klein, S., Portsmore, M., & Rogers, C. (2008). “Advancing engineering education in P-12 classrooms.” Journal of Engineering Education, 97(3), 369–387. 10.1002/j
Materials in particular. A web based app that does not requireinstallation and could be reached from any device seems to be a convenient option.AcknowledgmentThis research is supported by the Center for Educational Research and Teaching Innovation(CERTI) at Missouri university of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T). The author thanksDiane Hagni, Angie Hammons, and Razmus Kerwin for their support in conducting this research.The author would like to thank Iman Mehdipour, a graduate student at Missouri S&T for hisvaluable contribution in analyzing the collected raw data as well as Jesse Serrano III, anundergraduate student at Missouri S&T for his help on developing instructional documents.Special thanks goes for Dr. Tim Philpot and Dr
Mechanical Engineers(ME 335) at a moderate sized research university in the Midwest U.S. ME students take this coursein their sophomore year. In spring 2017, students in this course have been given a couple ofintroductory lectures on modeling and simulation techniques using ADAMS software. Thissoftware is used in many industries for multi-body dynamics, crash and safety and othersimulations and is freely available for students. ADAMS based semester long projects weredesigned to accommodate ME 335 course contents and that outside of the students’ major(s) toinvolve real product operation cycles and to promote undergraduate research in engineering (URE)and self-directed learning readiness (SDLR). A dynamic rubric is also designed to empowerlearners to
. Surveyresponse data was converted to a 100-point scale such that a response of all 3’s would yield anormalized score of 100% and a response of all 1’s would yield a normalized score of 0% asfollows: 𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑦𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒 − 1 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑦𝑆𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 = (100%) 2 100% KS0 KS1 Exam 1 KS2 Exam 2 90% 80% 70%Score (Percent) 60% 50% 40
: 1. Problem identification: ability to articulate problem/s based on information provided in the scenario 2. Information needs: ability to identify additional information needed to address the problem/s identified 3. Stakeholder awareness: ability to identify and include groups needed for decision- making 4. Goals: ability to identify short- and long-term goals towards addressing the problem/s identified 5. Unintended consequences: ability to identify possible limitations and unintended consequences of a potential solution 6. Implementation challenges: ability to identify expected barriers to their crafted response to the problem scenario 7. Alignment: degree to which the respondent
. noted in their work, these process based, cognitive theory approaches were derived either adhoc or through controlled experiments that use simple tasks. The suitability of these models fordesign problems that are much more complex has never been investigated. This lack ofinvestigation and difficulties met in process based measurements of ideation effectiveness ledShah et al. to consider outcome based metrics for their study of engineering design [7]. As such,Shah et al. developed a framework to measure ideation effectiveness in simple and complexdesign situations.Shah et al.’s framework includes metrics that measure the effectiveness of formal ideageneration methods. The framework addresses that engineering design must be novel – unusualand
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the literature about thechallenges of advancing innovations from the interest or awareness phase into actualimplementation. When developing professional development programs, people should considerthis challenge. Further, they should include dedicated and structured time for programparticipants to discuss about the particular innovation that the program is focused on, in order tohelp facilitate change of practices.AcknowledgmentThe authors gratefully acknowledge support of this work by the National Science Foundationunder Grant No. 1524527.References 1. Felder, R. M., & Brent, R. (1996). Navigating the bumpy road to student-centered instruction. College teaching, 44(2), 43-47. 2. Freeman, S., Eddy, S. L., McDonough, M
, Stanhope, & Wiebe, 2015).IV. Selecting and Designing Instruments for AssessmentSelection and design of instruments for assessment was directly aligned with research questionsand assessment objectives. The primary research questions examining the curriculum's impacton early elementary through middle school students specifically in areas of student (1)application of engineering design as an engineering approach in STEM education and (2)knowledge of and attitudes towards STEM- related fields, careers, and educational opportunities.To answer these questions, the team will utilize mixed methods in a pre-post with comparisongroup framework. The research instruments being utilized are (1) the are the Student AttitudeToward STEM (S-STEM) Survey
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survey were brought to the attention ofthe faculty including the survey’s skip function when particular questions were answerednegatively and items requiring free response. The format of the interview followed that ofcognitive interviewing in which faculty were encouraged to explain their understanding of eachitem. Cognitive interviewing is an important step in survey development as this type ofinterviewing helps researchers to evaluate participants’ interpretation of the quality of surveyitems and their ability to measure the intended construct(s). In keeping with the sensemakingframework, this phase of interviewing was aimed at validating the items on the survey from theperspective of faculty who would be future implementers of the instrument
interested in STEM majors atTAMU and community college representatives interested in building relationships for theirstudents to transfer into STEM majors at TAMU. The STEM Conference program includedresource roundtables for students and one-on-one sessions with faculty and staff forrepresentatives.Other activities such as the NSF Scholarship in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (S-STEM) were used as both recruitment and retention strategies. The S-STEMsprovided community college transfer students research opportunities, academic and professionaldevelopment seminars, scholarship money to assist in funding students’ education without themhaving work commitments, and establishment of cohorts and the resulting social community tohelp
, measures, number of participants, teamsize(s), methods of data collection (survey, interview, etc.), methods of analysis (descriptivestatistics, regression, structural equation modeling, etc.), and conclusions with respect to trust.Conclusions related to the relationship of trust and team success were sorted into “trustdescendant conclusions” and “trust antecedent conclusions.” Descendants of trust are defined asvariables or aspects of teamwork and success directly affected by trust. Antecedents of trust arethose variables or aspects of teamwork and success that directly affect trust within a team.Study SelectionAs shown in Figure 1, the initial search generated 140 studies. The 140 studies initially includedwere reviewed first by their title and
understanding this community. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Quantifying and Assessing Trends on National Science Foundation’s Broader Impact Criterion The American Innovation and Competitiveness Act (S.3084) reapproved the NationalScience Foundation’s (NSF) merit review criteria i.e. Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts,called for an update of the policy guidelines for NSF staff members and merit review processparticipants, and emphasized the importance of transparency and accountability. EvaluatingProject Summaries based on Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts has been the standard ofmaintaining excellence and accountability since 1997. Intellectual
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SolidWorks. This portion of the activity was future MECH courses.”removed from the project because the use of SolidWorks is In the survey, the students were also asked to respond toalready incorporated in another segment of this freshman specific statements related to their perception of the project’scourse. Finite element modeling was also removed and impact on learning.reserved for more advanced engineering classes. • Spring 2016 (S’16) was the semester where the previous Upon completion of the SolidWorks drawings, the version of the project was used and a balsa wood bridgegraduate teaching assistant collected all the models, was built. It included
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factors relating to student attrition in engineering &applied science are debated within the literature [23,24] studies which suggest that ‘ActiveLearning’ has a positive impact on the student experience within the engineering field areperhaps the most optimistic; with evidence suggesting that hands-on, relevant active learningexperiences can do much to promote a positive student experience [25,26].2.1 The Case Study OrganisationGosta University is located in the central region of the United Kingdom. A university since the1960’s, Gosta is one of the UK’s most diverse universities, with over 60% of its studentpopulation originating from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) backgrounds. In terms of ‘addedvalue’ and the promotion of social mobility
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