engineering graduate students on their needs for library instruction. Thesurvey differentiated between students who are writing theses and those who are not. By lookingat students who are doing research and those who are not as two separate populations, the surveymay identify needs for instruction that go beyond common library instruction topics such asliterature reviews and the library had not previously considered. This paper will summarize theresults of the survey and discuss plans for implementation of an instruction program ofinformation literacy topics.BackgroundIn fall semester 2017, a group of graduate students in the College of Engineering (CoE) at theUniversity of Michigan (U-M) were awarded a community grant from the U-M Rackhamgraduate
support from A Scholarship Program to Increase Retention in Engineering (ASPIRE):Improving Work-Study-Life Balance. The goal of the program was to increase retention ofsophomore and junior engineering students who show academic promise but are at risk of notcompleting their studies due to financial concerns and/or life-work-study balance issues. Inaddition to financial support, ASPIRE provided scholarship recipients with opportunities toparticipate in activities that contribute to persistence such as tutoring, faculty mentoring,conferences, presentations and career planning workshops. Sixty-one students have beenawarded scholarships in this five-year period.This paper examines the effectiveness of ASPIRE to help students alleviate financial
decision was made to implementthe changes proposed by the USMA faculty at the 2017 ASEE conference, with assistance fromWest Point. The question this paper strives to answer is: can a similar course redesign producesimilar results at another institution, that in many respects is very different from the US MilitaryAcademy? Essentially, is the West Point redesign reproducible and the results replicable and ifso, under what conditions? It is also an aim of this paper to present the challenges, issues, andsuccesses of implementing this plan with the objective of aiding other programs who might wantto incorporate the ideas originally detailed by faculty from the US Military Academy in theirengineering mechanics sequence redesign.The motivation
feedback. Changes in theseconstructs were measured using paired samples t-tests. Additionally, the same statisticaltechnique was applied to measure the change in current and planned future use of each of thethree strategies, which was reported as a single item question on a four-point Likert scale fromthe participants. These changes were then calculated as percentage changes for ease ofinterpretation. As shown in Figure 5, there were statistically significant increases in expectancy(or faculty expectations of successful implementation) and value with respect to implementingreal-world applications in the classroom as well as statistically significant decrease in the costrelated when comparing responses prior to and after faculty development
surgery planning. Since July 2011, he has been employed as assistant professor in Old Dominion University’s Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering. His research interests include medical simulation, medical image analysis, therapy planning, all three with an emphasis on neuro- and orthopedic surgery, as well as other clinical applications of musculoskeletal modeling, in addition to imaging and simulation applications for military well-being.Dr. Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University Dr. Vukica Jovanovic is an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology in Mechanical Engineering Technology Program. She holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University in Mechanical Engineering Technology, focus
; a review ofTable 1. Schedule for class and laboratory. Week Class Lecture/Lab Section 1 1 1 Syllabus, Review of Mechanics 2 2 Circuits / Ohms law 3 Data acquisition / Signals and sampling 3 4 Planning a Monitoring program / Uncertainty / Accuracy 5 Strain Sensors / Vibrating wire gages 4 6 Foil Gages, theory and installation Section 2 7 Foil Gages, selection and voltage 5 8 Fiber optics / Load cells 9 Piezometers / Linear deformation
products. The second week concludes with brief student presentations and awardof certificates. Students normally comment on their favorite learning experience during theworkshop and how what they learned might impact their future career plans. Table 1 shows the2017 workshop schedule.The following paragraphs provide brief descriptions of the 2017workshop sessions.Biology – The biology workshop included four topics crime scene investigation, food color,robotics and nanotechnology. During the crime scene investigation topic students learned howbiology helps in solving crimes and identifying suspects using DNA and enzymes. The secondtopic discussed was food coloring and the advantages/disadvantages of naturally occurringversus artificially created
the word is key.For our own efforts, we plan to continue using these surveys to build more knowledge about ourstudents and inform how we can support them best. For self-efficacy, we plan to calculate thechange in response (e.g. from neutral (3) to agree (4)) and do a mixed mode ANOVA on theseresults to see whether there are large or small increases/decreases in self-efficacy. Forintimidation by programming, we plan to identify those students (men and women) who havetaken both Course 1 and Course 2 and analyze their responses at the four times (beginning andend of each term) to gain a clearer understanding of how students progress through thisprogramming sequence. For inclusion, we plan to move away from gender differences and beginto look at
instructor in Engineering Science at Penn State. Erdman has chaired the local Jaycees, Department of Social Services Advisory Council, GE Share Board, and Curling Club; and served on the Human Services Planning Council, United Way, Chamber of Commerce, and Capital Fund Drive Boards of Directors. Erdman has also lectured on leadership topics at Penn State and RPI. He returned to campus frequently as a recruiter (25 years) for GE and Lockheed Martin, serving on the Penn State College of Engineering Advisory Council, helped establish an Alumni Advisory Board, and served as the President of the College of Engineering Alumni Society. Affiliations include the Penn State Alumni Association, Centre County Chapter Board of
)”Workshop on 9-12 August 2017 in Denver, CO. The workshop was held in collaboration withthe Kern Family Foundation and Lawrence Technological University. The main goal of theworkshop is to promote student engagement in “the three Cs: Curiosity, Connections, andCreating Value” [3]. Kern Engineering Entrepreneurship Network (KEEN) published theframework at their website as shown in figure 1. The entrepreneurial mindset plus engineeringskillset has been used to develop educational outcomes for several engineering courses.Following the experience from the ICE workshop, the authors began to embed their proposedEML modules in several courses for strategic planning purposes starting in September 2017 forthe fall 2017 quarter. EE375 Electronic Design I is
Paper ID #22128Integrating Systems Thinking in Interdisciplinary Education Programs: ASystems Integration ApproachDr. Adedeji B. Badiru P.E., Air Force Institute of Technology Prof. Badiru is Dean and senior academic officer for the Graduate School of Engineering and Management at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). He has oversight for planning, directing, and controlling operations related to granting doctoral and master’s degrees, professional continuing cyber education, and research and development programs. He was previously Professor and Head of Systems Engineering and Management at the AFIT, Professor and
inability to demonstrate a significant change to the limited sample size of the cohort.Furthermore, the wide range of program participant backgrounds (nearly 50% of studentsindicated they had previous experience in early concept generation) contributes to the largerstandard deviation of these data, further obfuscating a significance in trend.Future Plans: We plan to make several modifications for the 2018 Clinical Immersion Program. First,considering the feedback regarding Monday working sessions, we plan to modify Mondayworkshops. We will scale didactic lectures and activities to three hours and dedicate theremainder of the workshop time to team collaboration. This time will be punctuated by facultymeeting with the teams to provide
time are required in an evolving ratio during the startup phase and beyond. Luckily,many universities have programs that enable access to both at least in small amounts. Even alean startup will likely need some funds to travel for customer discovery work, attendconferences, host a website, and pay fees associated with registering a company. Here are somethings to look for in and around your campus.Funding your ventureThe first type of funding is non-dilutive grant funding, a.k.a. free money. Pitch competitions andbusiness plan competitions are common and can serve as an early source of funding. On-campusprograms like NSF I-Corps Sites offer a small amount of money ($3,000 as of now) to get startedwith customer discovery work that can lead to a
in Making (e.g. basic electronics, 3Dmodeling and printing, and computer programming) and basic industrial engineering concerns(e.g., industrial distribution, materials acquisition, process planning, and quality assurance). It isbelieved that high school students involved in this distance apprenticeship program will developcareer and college-preparation skills.In this paper, we pose the following research question concerning our M3 model: “How may theM3 model be actualized in a low resource community?”. We aim to illustrate the following.First, we want to outline our model for motivating STEM participation, this being our ‘Making-through-Micro Manufacturing’(M3) model. We believe that through participation in our model,students will develop
Stress [kPa] 100 50 0 0 5 10 15 Strain [%]ENGRD 2020 Discussion Activity —2—Uniaxial Tension Test Group Members:A1. Spend a few minutes brainstorming with your partner about what data you will need to collect. Use the space below to plan your experiments. For example, you may want to make an empty table which lists all the data you plan on collecting.A2. Get approval from your TA of your experimental plan before proceeding.ENGRD 2020 Discussion
a professor and head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University. He is a fellow of IEEE. A complete vita is available at: http://www.engr.colostate.edu/ ˜aam.Ms. Andrea M. Leland, Colorado State University With nearly twenty years combined experience in higher education and private industry, Andrea Leland has distinguished herself as a dynamic communicator and tireless ambassador of engineering education and research. For the past twelve years she has worked in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University to advance its mission through well-planned communication strategies and relationship building. Leland has played an integral role
• Deliverables: o Product—Min: 20 units plus group members o Business plan & FULL product build & tooling data o Individual: End of semester paper (The Goal) Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2018 American Society for Engineering Education Session ETD 325 ENTC 4357—CIM Apps Capstone Class• Multi-step Process: o Student teams determine, design, & prototype product ideas for competition o Students/Faculty vote & product teams realigned o Product refinement o Tooling design
environment, taken from a roundtable discussion at the 29th Annual IEEE/ASEEFrontiers in Engineering Conference. These suggestions for improvement, categorized assuggestions for planning the course and suggestions for conducting the course, are summarizedin Table 3. Along these same lines, Smith et al. (2005) outlined the pedagogies of successfulclassroom engagement, particularly for cooperative and problem-based learning. Finally, Gall etal. (2003) noted the importance of instructor accessibility to the classroom environment and, as abonus, as an important factor in obtaining good instructor ratings by the students. Table 3. Suggestions for Improving the Classroom Environment (from Finelli et al. 2001
which students are asked to departments. Students also select two advanced science andall classes since 1951. White Hall also houses offices for 2012 50 37 address open-ended problems and plan their investigations. four chemical engineering electives. The curriculum flexibil-13 full-time chemical engineering faculty with a broad The unit operations lab reinforces concepts on distillation, ity enables students to tailor their educational experiences
students focused on their project: due to theirinexperience, some students cannot visualize their final product and become overwhelmed withproject uncertainties, while some students find critical thinking difficult, such as ‘how do I apply 2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Spring Conference, April 6-7, 2018 – University of the District of Columbiawhat I know to the customer needs?’ To help students overcome pre-program hurdles, recruitmentstrategies should include: introducing yourself and your program at student organizations, onlineand on-campus classes, and study abroad fairs. During these sessions, PBL program objectives,extracurricular and academic activities, should be discussed along with, how this course fits intotheir graduation plan. Faculty can
Building using Fiber Composite Jacketing Yasser S. Salem1 and Felipe J. Perez2 1 Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Cal Poly Pomona 2 Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Cal Poly PomonaAbstractAs a senior capstone project, students worked on the vulnerability assessment and seismic retrofitof a six-story non-ductile reinforced concrete dual system building comprised of perimeter non-ductile reinforced concrete moment frames and non-ductile core shear walls. Students were giventhe as-built plans and specification of an existing building in Southern California that is consideredto be at risk, from an earthquake resistant standpoint. Students performed
Shear Wall Building Felipe J. Perez1, Yasser S. Salem1, Brittany J. Myers1, Cristian Aguilar1, Garrett Jones1, Daniella Ginocchio1, Edwin Medina1, and Kevin Chin1 1 California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAbstractThis paper presents results of a capstone senior project at California State Polytechnic University,Pomona. Students conducted a vulnerability assessment of a five-story building constructed inSouthern California. The structure has non-ductile concrete shear walls at the core and gravityframes at the perimeter. Partial infilled walls exist within the perimeter frames, creating captivecolumns. Students studied as-built plans for the structure and conducted an assessment of
course is introductory, no room in the curriculumpresently exists for a sequence allowing further advanced specialization. Further, the course hasno official lab component assigned with it, meaning that any hands-on lab or project activity mustbe planned within the limits of expected student time spent outside of class and/or compensatedby reduced lecture time in-class. Besides these constraints for coms, the instructor has other upperdivisional EE courses to teach, including undergraduate project supervision, and typicalrequirements regarding educational scholarship and institutional service.As a unique solution satisfying these constraints, and a work in progress, this paper reports on atelemetry/SDR project implemented in an introductory coms
regulationthat protects people with disabilities from discriminatory employment practices (OFCCP). Theupdated compliance measures dictate that companies adopt new employment practices such ascreating plans to have a workforce where all job groups have at least 7% representation of peoplewith disabilities, documenting and updating the number of people with disabilities who haveapplied for jobs, and inviting employees to self-identify as people with disabilities (OFCCP).There have been instances when the OFCCP has been involved in legal actions to enforce thenew Section 503 mandate, demonstrating the importance of the new regulation in creatingdiversity in the workplace. For instance, in March 2017, American Ordnance was fined 50,000USD for failure to
about the experience at the event center: “Disney in our town… The guy was really cool who met Presidents, and rocks stars, not a stereotypical engineer.” “Interesting to learn more about the (event center) and to be able to use engineering with planning. It shows me that we can use our degree for more than just engineering.” “I would love that job - Take away. Gave me a new side to what my degree can do.” “It is a new experience to consider. Yes! It allowed me to experience more in an engineering career field so I would know what I would potentially be doing.” When classes began, student availability was more limited, which posed some challenges. The next tour was a short walk by the students to the
students determine the best way to set up their experiment. The students planned marker placement, orientation oftheir object in the calibrated space, and recorded any other information such as mass or dimensions of their object beforestarting the trials. Allowing the students to plan marker placement helped them understand the dynamic problem they choseto analyze since they had to decide what kinematic information was important for their analysis. Students usually spent 12minutes on planning, 7 minutes on recording data and the rest of the time was spent showing the students how their data waspost-processed using the Cortex 7.0 system along with the final output of their kinematic data. Any remaining time wasallocated to talking about research
first three semesters (see Fig 1). Since plans forinstitutionalization was a requirement of the STEP funding, efforts were made to make theAURAS classes less costly, so that they could be sustained in the institution only by the fundsgenerated from tuition of students retained. However, it became apparent at the beginning of year3 that major revisions were needed with a focus on sustainability if the promise of the grantfunding was to be attained. Three initiatives were initiated: mathematics course redesign,institution of an engineering problem-solving class, and further development of research methodscomponents. Each of these initiatives was successfully completed and fully institutionalized.Now, at the conclusion of the AURAS project, the
, practice problems,individualized study plans, weekly quizzes, unit exams, and a final exam. Based on the NCATemporium model (http://www.thencat.org/R2R/AcadPrac/CM/MathEmpFAQ.htm), weekly classmeetings consisted of group activities led by instructors and teaching assistants. There were notraditional lectures. Practice problems, study plans, and quizzes were assigned using Pearson’sMyMathLab® online software. At the end of each unit, students were given an in-class exam,and at the end of the semester, students were given a cumulative final exam.ProcedureWe manipulated the number and distribution of weekly quiz questions that covered specificcourse objectives. Four objectives (e.g., Simplifying Exponential Expressions Involving RationalExponents
that was not taught in the program). Very little content in second-semester introductory chemistry is directly covered in RESP. As such, we examine only overallexam performance for the second semester of introductory chemistry.For the second analyses, we compared the number of students who achieved a B- (whichcorresponds to a GPA of 2.67) or higher in both first and second-semester chemistry with thosewho received a C+ or lower.Course grades were based on Rice University's GPA scale, which uses the plus/minus gradingsystem and assigns GPAs from 0 for an F, 0.67 for a D-, and up to 4.33 for an A+.Statistical Methods. In the first analysis, one-way between-subjects ANOVAs were conducted inSPSS. Two planned contrasts were used to differentiate
alignment with the goals of thegreater change initiative. In summer of 2017, all studio instructors were invited to participate in aweek long intensive workshop that was facilitated by two learning scientists with deepknowledge in instructional design for ambitious, equitable instruction. Instructors from eightstudio courses were able to attend. Work centered around building understanding of pedagogicalpractice and on leaving the workshop with at least one Studio 2.0 course activity for 2017-18.To help faculty develop activities that incorporate meaningful aspects of practice, we developeda material tool for planning and explaining, shown in Figure 1. This “quad design tool” askedinstructors to identify the context and engineer’s role in