a full-scale prefabricated lattice structure as a part of a two-day course on design and construction of spatial structures organised by ArchiVision Company in Shiraz, Iran 1.2. IntroductionDesign of structures, in general, and that of spatial structures, in particular, can be consideredas an integrated process involving the following main steps: Arrangement of the main structural components to satisfy the needs of a structural project referred to as the ‘Conceptual Design’, which
indicated a number of opportunities and considerations for curriculum planningspecifically pertaining to outcome (i). Within the proposed ABET changes to student outcomes,it would appear that the proposed outcome 6, stated as “an ability to recognize the ongoing needfor additional knowledge and locate, evaluate, integrate, and apply this knowledgeappropriately,” attempts to capture some components of outcome (i). While this element ofinformation literacy was identified in the Abilities dimension of our findings, this is only oneaspect of how programs are currently addressing outcome (i). Our findings highlight the multipleways programs are thinking about outcome (i) that likely add value to students’ learning anddevelopment. We urge educators to
systems, and other topics. The projects give students an opportunity to design, analyze,build, integrate, and test unmanned aerial systems, both in simulation and flights. The projectsalso give students experience working with faculty member(s) and help well prepare them intheir oral and written communication skills. Lack of strong written and oral communications hasbeen identified as deficiency in STEM education, resulting in poor success rate. The studentsfrom several departments including Aerospace Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering,and Computer Science Departments work on these projects in an interdisciplinary environment.The goal is to involve the students in these projects for an extended period of time, starting withthe
validate understanding of the conceptsthey have learned during the course of their studies and for instructors to measure theachievement of established learning goals. As with many computer engineering programs,students of the computer engineering program at Utah Valley University complete their degreeprograms with a semester long capstone design experience. The intent is for students to utilizecompetencies developed in the first three years of the curriculum in the solution of an embeddeddesign problem.Embedded SystemsAn Embedded system is any mechanical or electrical system that is controlled by a computerworking as part of an overall system6. Embedded systems is one of the most dynamic and fastgrowing areas in industry. These systems continue
some job candidates have a basicknowledge of lean manufacturing techniques, few realize how environmental wastes andpollution prevention relate to lean initiatives. Based on a request from an automotivemanufacturing partner, Tennessee Technological University is taking a lead in filling thisknowledge gap and meeting these demands by incorporating manufacturing sustainabilityconcepts into the classroom. Meeting manufacturing sustainability goals requires acommitment to incorporate green manufacturing knowledge in the day-to-day activities of allmanufacturing professionals, not just executives, managers, or process engineers. Integratingthese course materials into the proposed PSM-Manufacturing Sustainability curriculum willhelp build our state
profession. The challenge for many engineering education programs ishow to include this global dimension in the curriculum. The most common and traditionalapproach is study abroad programs, however, a limited number of students can afford themdue to financial and other reasons. Thus, universities try to find other opportunities for the so-called ‘internationalization at home’3 e.g. cross-cultural communication trainings2. Acomparative analysis of the engineering curricula at the US and Russian leading researchuniversities shows that only few of them succeed in developing a global mindset of theirgraduates. This process requires a new generation of faculty who are globally engagedthemselves13.An approach described in our previous paper16 focuses of
Paper ID #14832Development and Implementation of Problem-based Chemistry Experimentsfor Engineering Students in a Multi-disciplinary CourseDr. Tiffany L. Hesser, University of New Haven Tiffany Hesser is a Senior Lecturer in the Engineering and Applied Science Education Department and the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Department at the University of New Haven. With an M.S. in science education and an Ed.D. in educational leadership, her research efforts have been concentrated on technology integration, student learning with a strong focus on under-prepared student populations, and classroom design. She is the course
applications and cre- ates techno-economic models for emerging energy technologies.Steffi A Renninger, George Washington University Steffi Renninger is currently a doctoral candidate in Applied Social Psychology at George Washington University. Steffi’s general research interests are in examining how health communications influence or promote health behaviors, particularly physical activity and vaccination uptake.Prof. Ekundayo Shittu, George Washington University Ekundayo (Dayo) Shittu is an assistant professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at George Washington University. Professor Shittu conducts basic and applied research that take a systems approach to address the different dimensions of decision
is currently pursuing a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Perez has been teaching the Basic Engineering (BE) – BE 1301 course for over 8 years. Lead the design for the development of the new Basic Engineering course (now UNIV 1301) for engineering at UTEP: Engineering, Science and University Colleges. Developed over 5 new courses, including UTEP tech- nology & society core curriculum classes specifically for incoming freshman with a STEM background. Prof. Perez was awarded the 2014 ”University of Texas at El Paso award for Outstanding Teaching”. Prof. Perez has over thirteen years of professional experience working as an Electrical and Computer Engineer providing technical support to faculty
sustainable and resilient urban water infrastructure systems, including water supply, stormwater management, flood control, and wastewater collection. Dr. Burian currently serves as the Director of the USAID-sponsored U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Water and an Associate Director of the Global Change and Sustainability Center at the University of Utah. During his career, Dr. Burian has been involved with several engineering education endeavors including serving as the Co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development at the University of Utah, an Assistant Mentor and Mentor for the ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Workshop, the Secretary/Treasurer for the ASEE Civil Engineering Division, and a frequent collaborator on
Paper ID #14739Problem-based Learning in a Supply Chain Management CourseDr. Ekaterina Koromyslova, South Dakota State University Ekaterina Koromyslova is an Assistant Professor in Operations Management at South Dakota State Uni- versity. She holds PhD in Economics and two MS degrees in Business Economics and Operations Man- agement. She has over five years of college teaching work experience in Operations Management and Supply Chain Management fields. Her industry experience is an analyst-consultant in business processes improvement area for manufacturing companies and a deputy head of a customer service department in a
social import can have a profound effect on recruitment and retention. Even easier, there are many resources from the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT), for instance, that discuss how to include more relevant assignments into introductory curricu- lum to encourage the participation of women and minorities [Citation: https://www.ncwit.org/resources/customcatalog/engage-students-meaningful- curriculum]. These sorts of efforts don’t require more resources than those already being expended to teach an introductory course. • Encouragement goes a long way. Again, NCWIT has wonderful re- sources related to this [CITATION: https://www.ncwit.org/resources/top- 10-ways-retain-students-computing
be integrated into existing lecture material, and the type of informal questions that will encourage student observations/learning. This will allow consistency between different educators teaching a single course and to leverage a model to its full potential. To further improve teaching effectiveness of a physical model one should develop formal guided questions or activities that students can complete in teams. This would motivate students to engage with and examine the model more fully, which in turn would likely lead to greater learning gains in the topic areas the particular model is trying to address. It is also an approach to make small, detailed models accessible to all students (see earlier point). There
used to achieve suchobjectives. Currently, instructors are employing multiple laboratory methods to integrate handson learning into engineering courses. One of the methods commonly used involves preparing alab manual, also known as a “cookbook”, which includes step-by-step instructions for students tofollow. The cookbook method reduces the time required to perform an experiment and istypically less demanding. As a result, students are able to perform more experiments over thecourse of a semester. On the other hand, the cookbook method lacks self-directed learningopportunities as the problems students face in this method are not open-ended. A more stimulating option often preferred by instructors is the design-based approach.This
Science and Engineering Program at BSU and served as the first chair. In February 2011, she became Dean of the College of Engineering. Her research interests include microelectronic packaging, particularly 3-D integration and ceramic MEMS devices.Mrs. Catherine Rose Bates, Institute for STEM & Diversity Initiatives c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The Impact of Volunteering at a Girls Outreach Activity on Community FormationAbstractThis paper is focused on exploring the motivation for volunteering at an engineering outreachactivity. The outreach activity itself involved a two day, overnight experience for 9th and 10thgrade girls that started in
verbally-oriented curriculum and assessment structure, and the fact that they could succeed in this structure, as evidenced by the conceptual understanding they demonstrated in oral exams and informal dialogues, meant that the course as a whole had succeeded” (p. 309).39This passage also ties into the idea of sharing authority with students, a process that may benegotiated when using the funds of knowledge approach. Similarly, an article by Tan andCalabrese Barton40 explored teaching science for social justice, which takes “an anti-deficit stancetowards students;” in this study they also expanded the “roles [students] play[ed] in scienceclassrooms by providing ample opportunities for them to negotiate their participation and
to better preparestudents to meet the challenges they will face in the global economy. Service-learning combinesservice to a community with academic curriculum; students apply their discipline-specificknowledge to community problems, thus engaging in problem-based learning (PBL) whileproviding needed services to underserved populations.20 In service-learning courses, studentshave an opportunity to solve an ill-defined real-world problems with teams of students, oftenacross multiple disciplines, which helps to broaden their “lateral” or non-technical skillsets,better equipping them for the workplace. The programmatic benefits of service-learning include:enhancement of classroom learning,21 increased student retention,22 and increased
the University of Denver, West Virginia University, and Virginia Tech. She is currently the director of the University of Glasgow-University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Electronics and Electrical Engineering programme. While at Virginia Tech, she collaborated with Dr. Robert W. Hen- dricks, with assistance of a number of undergraduate students, to develop an instructional platform known as Lab-in-a-Box, which is used in a number of courses within the Virginia Tech B.S.E.E. program. She continues to be actively involved in the development of mobile hands-on pedagogy as well as research on other topics in STEM education, the synthesis and characterization of nanoscale optical materials, and
. Inrenewable energy courses, active learning can be achieved through a variety of activities whichinclude lab and project experiments with hands-on projects and hands-on laboratory experiments[14-17].There are recent RE-related projects that have been created to focus on student learning andpromotion of clean energy sources. According to a recent project report, an integrated electricpower system was designed and installed in the Taylor Wilderness Research Station in centralIdaho by a team of undergraduate and graduate students under the supervision of faculty.Projects included establishment of a hydroelectric generator, a photovoltaic array, a fossil fuelgenerator, and control units. The results of this project and previous attempts were shared
Paper ID #15594Analytic Framework for Students’ Cognitive Mistakes in Studying Electro-magnetic FieldsMs. Yu Gong, Purdue University, West Lafayette Yu Gong is a graduate student in the School of Engineering Education and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Her researches focus on cognitive difficulties in engineering study, model-based inquiry learning, nanotechnology education, and global engineering education.Prof. N. Sanjay Rebello, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Sanjay Rebello is Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Purdue University
an articulated “communitycollege to university success program” (CUSP) located at Hartnell’s newly constructed“Advanced Technology” campus, which among other advantages, functions as a livinglaboratory for research on micro-grid control and integration. The program’s holistic approachto workforce development integrates design of sustainability curriculum, student internships,professional training, hands-on technology usage and its implementation; incorporatingexperiential learning with real world consequence into the classroom. CUSP primarily servesstudents from the community college and neighboring high schools in the Salinas Valley, andstrives to give these students, who may otherwise have minimal access to technological resourcesand
Paper ID #17197Evaluation of Techniques for Eliciting Online Interaction in Systems Engi-neering CoursesDr. Thomas H. Bradley, Colorado State University Thomas H. Bradley is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Associate Director of the Systems Engineering Program in the College of Engineering at Colorado State University. Bradley teaches and conducts research in system engineering, automotive engineering, and sustainable energy systems. In 2013, Bradley was awarded the Ralph R. Teetor Award for Excellence in Engineering Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016
. Student confidence inmaking important decisions such as design selection may increase when discussed among andvalidated by a team.A better understanding of students’ self-efficacy maturation during the senior design experiencewill allow for development of an improved senior design course, and closer inspection ofprerequisite courses may allow for development of a more integrated and effective curriculum.Overview of Work and MethodsAt our institution, senior design is a one-semester course consisting of three projects: twoindividual and one team. This enables a unique opportunity to track student self-efficacy,described as belief in their own individual capability,1-5 and the potential influence of teamdynamics on that self-efficacy. That is, do
Paper ID #15547Writing in STEM: A Synthesis of Two Adaptive ApproachesDr. Teresa L. Larkin, American University Teresa L. Larkin is an Associate Professor of Physics Education and Faculty Liaison to the Pre-engineering Program at American University. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with emphasis in Physics and Science Education from Kansas State University. Dr. Larkin is involved with Physics Education Research (PER) and has published widely on topics related to the assessment of student learn- ing in introductory physics and engineering courses. Noteworthy is her work with student writing as a
initial ABET accreditation. He is also a champion of industry-academia partnerships in senior design projects and has been instru- mental in bringing full industry sponsorship to the majority of the senior design projects in the program he teaches in.Prof. Serdar Ozturk, MSOE Dr.Serdar Ozturk is an assistant professor in Biomolecular Engineering program at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). This unique program is a hybrid program of molecular biology and chemical engineering and successfully went through the initial ABET accreditation. As a chemical engineer in the program, he developed and modified many core chemical engineering courses (Reactor Design, Thermo- dynamics I and II, etc.), albeit with a focus on
background in English, philosophy, science, and all levels of education, Heather is currently a doc- toral student in curriculum and instruction and educational psychology. She is interested in psychological barriers affecting retention and success for students. Having been raised by an engineer, this project is close to her heart. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Promoting Inclusive Engineering Identities in First-Year Engineering CoursesIntroductionIn order to cultivate a diverse and inclusive engineering student population, engineeringprograms must purposefully teach engineering students to identify as engineers, appreciatediversity, and work
course’ learning outcome, an exit survey was carried out. Importancethat students assigned to the course learning outcomes was assessed in a scale from 1: “none” to5: “a lot”, while the progress achieved by them regarding course learning outcomes was assessedin a scale from 1: “none” to 5: “a lot”) according to their own perception. Students consider thatstudied course’s learning outcomes are very important (mean of 4.93) and felt very confidentwith their progress in achieving assessed course outcomes (mean of 4.31).Final remarksTested creative experiences and course final projects allowed enhancement of creativity in foodengineering students; however, it is necessary to implement many more of such experiencesthroughout the curriculum because as
an array of active learning approaches that pique their interest and spark excitement about the possible outcomes for their students. After initial exposure to new activities, contextual questions naturally arise for educators, and a clear understanding of the essential features for successfully implementing a teaching strategy becomes necessary. Reflection activities represent one approach for active learning that educators reasonably have questions about before adopting the approach. Reflection is a topic that can have various meanings. For this project, reflection was conceptualized with the following definition: looking back on the past experience(s), to interpret and make meaning of those experiences in order to plan for the future [1
- matics education exploring the connection between high school ACT mathematics scores and freshmen mathematic/engineering class grades.Dr. Marisa K. Orr, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Orr is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Associate Director of the Integrated STEM Education Research Center (ISERC) at Louisiana Tech University. She completed her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, as well as a Certificate of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University. Her research interests include student persistence and pathways in engineering, gender equity, diversity, and academic policy. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Predicting Success
Research Center at Northwestern University for three years. Yalvac’s research is in STEM education, 21st century skills, and design and evaluation of learning environments informed by the How People Learn framework.Dr. Deniz Eseryel, North Carolina State University Deniz Eseryel joined North Carolina State University as a Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program clus- ter hire in the Digital Transformation of Education. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Counselor Education specializing in Digital Learning and Teaching. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. The important but little understood question that has motivated her