testing model usinglotion and toothpaste is shown in Figure 9. The extrusion system worked well, and currently thetwo major problems of this projects are (1) the hydrogel for the stem cell research is not readyand it depends on the work schedule of the medical school; (2) The two needles on the syringesare not usually level in height, so the lower one could scratch the printed material. The reason isthe needle mounting position to the syringe is not fixed. We are planning to use a screw or knobto solve this problem. 8 Figure 8. The modified DIW extrusion system on a RepRap Prusa i3. Figure 9. The printed testing model. Time Work
plan in 20129 and begin implementation during 2013-2017 under the National UniversityReform Plan10. At Tokyo Tech, the education reform effort took several years and wasimplemented for the benefit of the students to allow greater freedom in directing their education,opportunities to study-abroad and to promote greater study in the liberal arts. During the 2016academic year (April – March) the following changes were made • Academic calendar (April – March) changed from two 15 week semesters to four 8 week quarters • integrated undergraduate and graduate education programs into new schools • reduced the number of undergraduate departments by half • created an institute for liberal arts and require all students to take
problems, as listed in Rittel & Webber4 1. There is no definitive formulation of a wicked problem 2. Wicked problems have no stopping rule 3. Solutions to wicked problems are not true-or-false, but good-or-bad 4. There is no immediate and no ultimate test of a solution to a wicked problem 5. Every solution to a wicked problem is a "one-shot operation"; because there is no opportunity to learn by trial-and-error, every attempt counts significantly 6. Wicked problems do not have an enumerable (or an exhaustively describable) set of potential solutions, nor is there a well-described set of permissible operations that may be incorporated into the plan 7. Every wicked
ability to apply my knowledge of science to solve engineering problems.C. I have the ability to design a system, component or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints as an engineer.D. I have the ability to function well on multidisciplinary teams as an engineer.E. I have the ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems.F. I have a good understanding of my professional and ethical responsibility as an engineer.G. I have the ability to communicate effectively (oral and written) as an engineer.H. I have the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental and societal context.I. I recognize the need for and plan to engage in life-long learning as
concern for young, probationary faculty. Another challenge is using the flipped approach in large-lecture classrooms. Manygateway STEM courses are larger lectures, which opposes some of the core tenets of the flippedclassroom. Faculty teaching larger STEM courses have reported difficulties in maintaining activelearning with 80 or more students (that it creates a chaotic learning environment). Althoughresearch has shown effective use of the flipped approach in larger classrooms, greater discussionwithin the FLCs is planned to delineate more effective in-class activities for larger class formats. A third challenge is maintaining communication in the discipline-specific FLCs. Thefaculty who teach these gateway STEM courses are feeling
STEP Grant– Funded InitiativesIntro / AbstractThe NSF STEP grant program was initiated by the US Congress with the goal of implementingbest practices that would lead to an increase in the number of students obtaining STEM degreesat institutions with baccalaureate degree programs. Our university’s Colleges of Science andEngineering were fortunate to receive a STEP grant in 2009 to improve freshmen retention andgraduation rates by working on notoriously high-loss courses in chemistry and mathematics andfacilitating undergraduate research opportunities in science and engineering. This paperdescribes the path taken in the implementation of these plans, and a major shift wheninstitutional priorities necessitated a change in focus. After developing
specific designs and selections made.Capstone I projectsCapstone One Design Practicum is the capstone course for Engineering Technology students andthe first of a two semester sequence for all engineering students. Student teams create computerdesigns of a machine, system, or product. Additionally the course requirements includemanufacturing process planning, economic justification, and design for manufacturing rationale.Many YALI Fellows need improved manufacturing processes to increase production and qualityin their companies, all within tight budget and technology constraints. These make naturalprojects for the Capstone One courses.Jocylene Agbo of Abidjan, Nigeria invented and patented Jo-Jo laundry detergent, designed towork well hand washing
S 3.54 3. The reviews I received helped F 3.49 F 3.72 me understand what I needed to S 3.77 S 3.51 change about my work. 4. I trust the feedback I received. F 3.53 F 3.65 S 3.63 S 3.37 5.I plan to change (or already F 3.75 F 3.77 changed) my work based on the S 3.91 S 3.71 review process. 6. I felt comfortable giving F 3.84 F 3.70 feedback to my peers. S 4.02 S 3.88 7. I felt
States, such as California, face population growth, urbanization,vulnerability to climate change, and water supply challenges.1 These stressors have led the Stateof California to enact an integrated plan to address climate change, which seeks to reducegreenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) by 40% (compared to 1990 levels) by the year 2030.2 Asclimate change concerns continue to grow, universities throughout California have taken thelead to further integrate sustainability into the curriculum to prepare the next generation ofengineers. In fall of 2016, the Civil Engineering Department at California State University,Chico (Chico State) launched a new green engineering design course to emphasize sustainabledecision-making. This course aims to better
Indian, PacificIslander, Black and Hispanic students represent 35% of the total student population with Whitesrepresenting 52% of the student population.The creation, implementation, and assessment of the new project module is grounded on theGrand Challenges DELI (Discover, Explore, Learn, Imagine) Project (Hunter and Baygents,2012) and CGCC’s institutional pedagogy. The Grand Challenges DELI model originated after a2011 strategic planning process that began with a strength, weakness, opportunities and threats(SWOT) analysis of the current first year engineering experience. The SWOT results were usedto identify short and long term goals for a next generation first year engineering experience.Those goals embraced student-directed learning through
for the middle school and high school competitions are provided on theproject website. The teams were selected through a selective application process.Teachers were made aware of the program through project presentations at variousconferences and individual schools. The project has expanded to Maryland and plans toinvolve more states in the future. Figure 3 Undergraduate Research Scholars Volunteer at the Competition 2016Middle School Competition The purpose of the middle school competition is to allow students to work as partof a team to demonstrate their knowledge of alternative transportation systems by testing,modifying, and demonstrating a functional model electric car and solar charging station.For the competition
agenda Session 3 Report Out and Participants shared the highlights of their group’s Workshop Evaluation discussions and were then asked to complete online surveys about their experiences in the workshop. Workshop organizers closed the workshop with a discussion about the insights and ideas participants had shared during the event and plans for dissemination.Description of Preliminary Research AgendaResults from the first day of sessions yielded a wealth of data related to each of the three themes. Thisdata was further analyzed
Paper ID #17895The Role of High School Math and Science Course Access in Student CollegeEngineering Major Choice and Degree AttainmentDr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Joyce B. Main is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Dr. Rajeev Darolia, University of Missouri Rajeev Darolia is Assistant Professor and Director of Research of the Institute of Public Policy at the
Paper ID #17915Diversity across Engineering Disciplines: Factors that Influence Student En-gineering Major ChoiceDr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Joyce B. Main is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Dr. Amanda L Griffith, Wake Forest UniversityXinrui (Rose) Xu, Purdue University Xinrui (Rose) Xu is a currently a doctoral student in the School of Engineering
pleasedto note that many lively conversations occurred in planned breaks and social events we hadincluded on the program, with shifting perspectives and new collaborations emerging for manyof the participants along the way. In this paper, we report only on the formally structured aspectsof the event. We developed five threads (themes); all components of the conference schedule(including pre-conference communication and during-conference activities) were aligned withthese threads. The five threads were informed by the theory-methods-research questions triangle(figure 1) along with Booth, Colomb, and Williams’s (2008) innovation cycle of educationalresearch and practice (figure 2).Conference threads: 1. What theories inform your work? 2. What
participants who received the scholarship in all three majors weremore diverse in their typological preference. In other words, the participants were moreentrepreneurial, highly detailed, empathetic engineers, a goal of the Engineer of 2020. Resultsfrom the focus groups showed that the professional activities were valued, but social activitieswere valued more. These findings became clearer in the focus group sessions where studentsindicated that the social activities allowed time for scholars to make social connections acrossacademic disciplines. While much has been learned through approaching gender and intellectualdiversity, much work remains before sustainable progress is made. Plans are now being developedto strengthen the program by incorporating
department had some ideas of what could be done with thespace, the decision was made to work with ISE senior design capstone students. After meetingwith the professor in the class and meeting with some of the students who were interested indoing a project, five students decided that this was a project they wanted to tackle.At the first weekly meeting with the students, a timeline was set for what would be completedand when. It was decided that the first semester would be spent collecting information on howthe library functions, what the Technical Services staff were responsible for, and to outline thebasic needs of the area. Included in the planning was the design of a survey which would begiven to all Technical Services staff. The survey included
wood screws. The teams are then tasked with building beams using their chosenmembers to span a given distance and fit within designated height parameters. Once the beamsare constructed, they are load tested using a hydraulic ram. The team whose beam has the highestcapacity to weight ratio receives a bonus on the assignment. Each group submits a reportoutlining their thought process for design, experience in construction and testing, and the lessonslearned. The project not only stimulates critical thinking about wood behavior, but requirescareful planning ahead to meet the design goals with different possible combinations ofmembers. It also provides hands-on experience hammering in nails and installing screws,something which many students have
staff also encourages Flexus first-yearand second-year students to attend events with one another. This facilitates cross-cohortrelationship development and provides first-year students with exposure to the experiences ofsecond-year students, while also allowing second-year students to take on mentorship roles(Tinto, 2003). Another important aspect of Flexus is the opportunity it provides for leadershipdevelopment. Students within the program elect an executive board (including a President, VicePresident, and a few committee leaders) who plan and implement various social activitiesthroughout the semester. The shared residence hall and student lounge are common gatheringspaces for Flexus events, which makes attending the events together easy and
development of theparticipants include competency rubrics, individual development plan, and ePortfolio. Twelvecompetency rubrics assist in the assessment of program learning outcomes encompassing theproposed professional and technical skills, , including 1) interdisciplinary knowledge generation,2) collaboration, 3) conflict resolution, 4) oral communication, 5) written communication, 6)self-reflection, 7) ethics, 8) interdisciplinary research, 9) multidisciplinary skills, 10) materialsscience engineering, 11) informatics, and 12) design. The rubrics were adapted from theliterature and feedback from the project faculty customized them to the interdisciplinarymaterials science, informatics and design program (example in Appendix A). An
(wisdom synthesis).Share: The framework includes the phase to share learning with cluster peers and to evaluate students’performances. The framework has presentation templates for both mid-semester and end-semester examinations.Clusters are free to seek written reports, demonstration of live performances, or allow use of native languages forsharing. The framework also identifies attributes of great learners such as questioning, networking, self-belief,and expects students to assess themselves on those attributes, and prepare and execute plans to become greatlearners.ExecutionAt the outset, the program director presented the framework to all faculty members and pursued them to enroll asmentors to different areas. The director explained the program
Paper ID #18528Application of Indirect and Direct Measures for Student Teamwork OutcomeAssessment within an Undergraduate Civil Engineering CurriculumDr. William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel William J. Davis is a professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from Georgia Tech and is a registered professional engineer. His research interests focus on infrastructure resiliency, transportation facility planning and design, highway safety, and active living by design. He teaches courses in capstone sengineeirgn design, engineering management
Fellows” (UGTF) program. The UGTF program is an adaptation ofexisting peer mentoring models (Gafney and Varma-Nelson 2008, Otero, Pollock et al. 2010)and is primarily aimed at supporting in-class activities, such as team-based learning,demonstrations, and student problem-solving. This program started with four UGTFs embeddedin two classes in Spring 2015, and has since grown to 28 UGTFs supporting active learningactivities in 13 classes across the SOE in Spring 2017. Faculty may apply for UGTF supporteach semester they plan to utilize active learning.There is a great deal of evidence that shows that active learning provides several benefits tostudents over traditional teaching styles. However, there is less research analyzing students'attitudes
: - Focus on the Customer - Communicate with the customer, understand, and negotiate the customer’s needs, conduct interim demonstrations, and deliver on-time. - “Do what you say you will do” – Teamwork, division of labor, project planning, task execution, leadership, and responsibility. - Engineering Prototyping – Idea generation, start simple then improve, face high-risk problems first, think through each step in-detail to reduce risk - Grit– Never ever give up, ever.Voice-of-the-CustomerThe Authentic Engineering Experience Team of three engineering and one computer sciencestudent Sophomores was not informed of any of the details of the project until they sat in front ofthe Customer to learn
Helmsley Foundation with a number of interventions that focused onthese success variables. FYrE@ECST interventions included (i) a redesigned introduction toengineering course with focus on design and hands-on learning (Tufenkjian et al., 2017); (ii)Mathemagics (Sharif, Menezes, Schlemer, & Won, 2016), a series of workshops integratingphysical processes and phenomena to math; (iii) a new comprehensive advisement tool calledGolden-Eagle Flight Plan (GEFP) (Sun, Won, Allen, & Gadhia, 2016); and (iv) SupplementInstruction (SI) workshops for physics and calculus for a freshman cohort. This paper reports onthe implementation and assessment results of the Supplemental Instruction workshops as part ofthe FYrE@ECST program in a student population
an invaluable skill within engineering and everyday life. Writing up the assignment to submit 4.00 In terms of the assignment, we plan to incorporate class time to discuss assessing the validity of information Students were also asked to describe the easiest and online and the reasonableness of an answer. We also plan tomost challenging aspect of the assignment in an open-ended make this assignment required for all students in the course.format. Both writing up the assignment and identifying the We will continue to collect data to gain a better understandingphenomenon had
STEM design project. The lessons included a reading andwriting component based on the science concept. This component required instructors to preparea reading and writing lesson not only based on the science concept aligned to the challenge butalso tailored to the ability level of each reading group. Students were frequently tasked withusing manipulatives during this time to encourage them to find evidence to support what theyread in the text and to also encourage them to read the text carefully and to ask and answerquestions on the topic.On the second day of the activity, the students engaged in a guided research activity focused onOhio Revised Science Standards for online research of the science concept. This plan wasformulated to ensure
theworkforce in building-related fields. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on challenges ofconducting this project for the first year as well as lessons learned in overcoming these challenges.The course was implemented for the first time in Fall 2016 in a minority serving university.Three core components of the project are (a) establishing a building energy efficiency laboratory;(b) developing and implementing a new elective course curriculum; and (c) developing partnershipwith local building-related industry.All three core components that were slated to happen as part of the initial planning anddevelopment phase were completed.The major challenge that inevitably altered the project timeline was with the logistics of the labestablishment
and several other community colleges by more than 150 freshmen in CyberSecurity 101 courses. A majority of the players considered IPAR cases/modules more interestingthan other regular lab assignments. Comparing these unconventional game-based exercises withother regular lab assignments, 80% students felt the game-based labs as more interesting andengaging. 20% students liked the idea but felt some modules are not as challenging as regular labs,since they were given too much help. We plan to build some higher-difficulty level games in thenear future to meet these students’ needs.In addition, we presented (or will present) our game and modules to communities via conferencessuch as NICE, ATE PI, CISSE, SIGITE, and SIGCSE. As of now, sixty-one
sooner would allow them more timeto plan their curriculum for implementing their innovations. They also expressed not wanting anin-class worksheet attached with each demonstration because it often took up too much classtime for what they originally intended when creating the demonstration. Another major request atthe 2015 workshop was for enough hands-on demonstrations to put in the hands of each of theirstudents to follow along with during class lectures and use during interacting learning activities.9These concerns were addressed and accounted for in the following year.Activity 4: Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) Assessment of Adoption EffortsAudio data was collected during the 2014, ‘15, and ‘16 workshops while participants were intheir