function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives [6]Programs necessarily define points within the curriculum where these outcomes are included incoursework. In some cases, these are included in coursework in ways where there may not be anatural fit in a typical lecture or lecture/laboratory course, or that appear to be contrived.Teamwork may consist of students put into groups based on proximity, with minimal instructionin how to effectively operate as a team; while this is indeed working within a group, it isarguably not effective teamwork [7]-[9]. Effective communication often consists of in-classpresentations
quickly changing fromeducating students in-person to online. Demonstrable psychological [38] and educationaloutcome [39] impacts on students have been documented.North Dakota was one of the later U.S. states impacted by the pandemic and NDSU initiallyplanned to close for only two weeks after spring break, in 2020, for pandemic adaptation and toprevent the spread of the disease by students who may have contracted it during the break. Inactuality, the campus remained largely closed for the remainder of the semester, excepting a fewlimited activities. The summer started with a similar approach: planning initially focused on apartial cancellation of activities and the cancellation period increased until most activities werecancelled for the entire
presentation component, butis most evident during research, writing, and presentation aspects of a graduate student’seducation.In the following section, we introduce our online MSME program, and show how these threetheories ground our vision and decisions, yielding success in growing a thriving online MSMEprogram.II. Program planning and design: Grounding the program theoreticallyThe early vision for this program was grounded in foundational theories that permeated everydepartmental level of decision-making and program management while balancing pragmatic andfinancial considerations. Here, we introduce the pragmatic requirements of the program; in therest of the paper we describe features of the program that demonstrate how our three primarytheories
worked on his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Wayne State University, graduating in 1993. Following his long-term plan first seeded during his undergraduate years, Dr. Smith left Ford Motor Company in order to pursue a Ph.D. in En- gineering Mechanics at Michigan State University. After completing all required course work by 1996, Dr. Smith accepted a sheet metal formability analyst position at General Motors Corporation. While at General Motors, Dr. Smith completed his dissertation entitled ”Solid Finite Elements for Sheet Metal Forming Simulation” and graduated in 1999, earning his Ph.D. In early 2000, Dr. Smith joined Oxford Automotive in Troy, MI where he continued to refine his skills as a sheet metal
, &Azevedo, 2007). Pintrich (2000) provides an overview of the common themes of models of self-regulation, where models can be organized along two dimensions: (1) phases of regulation, which includeforethought (planning or activation); monitoring; control; and reaction (reflection); and (2) areas ofregulation, which include cognition; motivation; behavior; and context.4.3 Proposed model to study faculty adaptability as self-regulationOur revised self-regulation model in adaptability is shown in Figure 2 below. It is inspired by the cyclicalmodel proposed by Zimmerman (2000); however, it is modified to include a willingness aspect for eachphase of the cycle. A similar modification has already been proposed by Zimmerman & Moylan (2009)who
, research suggests that preserviceteachers do not feel academically prepared and confident enough to teach engineering-relatedtopics.This interdisciplinary project provided engineering students with an opportunity to developinterprofessional skills as well as to reinforce their technical knowledge, while preserviceteachers had the opportunity to be exposed to engineering content, more specifically coding, anddevelop competence for their future teaching careers. Undergraduate engineering studentsenrolled in a computational methods course and preservice teachers enrolled in an educationaltechnology course partnered to plan and deliver robotics lessons to fifth and sixth graders. Thispaper reports on the effects of this collaboration on twenty
offering. The two instructors heavily involved students inshaping the design of the course both in the planning process prior to the start of the semester, aswell as through detailed feedback activities during the semester. This paper will explain the goalsof the course and will offer an analysis of student responses to the learning experience--whichwere overwhelmingly positive--based on various feedback mechanisms. Drawing upon theanalysis of these data and on the experience of co-creating and co-teaching this course, we havealso compiled lessons learned about how to design such a course and the most successfultechniques used to achieve desired student outcomes. We conclude with next steps for revisingand expanding these learning experiences
should be responsive to the needs of the participants andthat this responsiveness should be reflected in both the preparation and enactment. Thus, we workwith participants and local organizers to understand and anticipate needs ahead of each fieldschool to plan a schedule and topics that would be most appropriate for each environment andgroup. Then, during each field school, we make space for discussions and topics that reflect theemerging needs of participants as they engage with the research.Second, not only do we believe that our field school should be responsive, but that research itselfis and should be responsive. We address this fluid and generative nature of research by framingresearch as “play”: an enjoyable process by which we generate
published a number of papers on computer algorithm animation, game development, and engineering education. He is coauthor of a best-selling introductory computer science and software engineering texts. Dr. Maxim has supervised several hundred industry-based software development projects as part of his work at UM-Dearborn.Dr. Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University Acharya joined Robert Morris University in Spring 2005 after serving 15 years in the Software Indus- try. His teaching involvement and research interest are in the area of Software Engineering education, Software Verification & Validation, Data Mining, Neural Networks, and Enterprise Resource Planning. He also has interest in Learning Objectives based
of the curriculardisconnect with first-year students who often did not see any engineering faculty for most oftheir first two years of study” (p. 103). Efforts to re-envision engineering programs and integratecore principles of engineering and design more consistently throughout students’ undergraduatecareers aim to improve and make engineering education more effective overall, but may notalways succeed. Often such efforts are highly demanding in terms of logistical planning,institutional support, and instructor commitment, as Hirsch et al.13 recognized. Combiningresources across colleges or schools provides great opportunities for interdisciplinary, cross-college instruction, but also comes with complexities and potential costs
Paper ID #14447International Collaboration on a Professional Development CourseDr. Glen F Koorey, ViaStrada Ltd. Glen recently rejoined consultancy with ViaStrada Ltd, after 12 years as a Senior Lecturer in Transporta- tion in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury. Prior to joining Canterbury in 2004, he worked for 10 years as a transportation engineer and traffic researcher for Opus International Consultants. Glen’s wide-ranging experience includes considerable research and consulting work on road safety modelling, pedestrian/cycle planning & design, speed
2013. Thegraduate student was selected by the CTT faculty leadership and was a top performing studentwho recently experienced the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum under study. The civilengineering department head invited pre-selected faculty members to participate on theCurriculum Transformation Team (CTT). Some faculty declined the invitation, citingcommitments to other priorities. Thirteen faculty (including the head advisor), three graduatestudents, one undergraduate student, and one educational developer formed the CTT whichconvened in November 2013 for bi-weekly meetings. The CTT leader had an additional timecommitment for planning and follow-up purposes which included meetings on opposite weeks ofthe CTT meetings.Step 2) Gather
tomake a positive impact on both the local and global community. By manufacturing solar panelslocally, Itek creates local jobs and offers access to clean, renewable energy without all the wasteof international shipping.2.1 Partnership DevelopmentFrom the beginning of the development phase of the BTC Clean Energy degree, Itek Energy wasinstrumental in the design and evolution of the program. Itek provided feedback on the draft ofthe degree plan, reviewed new courses, and helped identify projects and topics forcontextualizing the curriculum. Due to their involvement in the development process, ItekEnergy was very familiar with the outcomes of the technical program as well as the abilities ofthe students in the program. As such, Itek was a first
care in particular.Biomedical engineering applied with an early large emphasis on the maintenance, electricalsafety, and electronics aspects of medical equipment. This encouraged the consideration ofbroader safety aspects in health care.Biomedical Engineering Professionals who divides into two main categories: the ClinicalEngineers (CE) or Biomedical Engineers and the Biomedical Engineering (Equipment)Technicians (BMET) required a special training to be qualified to be very trusted technicians.In Saudi Arabia, as a developed country, the Government spends billions dollars annuallyexpenditure on the health sector. The Ministry of Health has finalized plans to establish newhospitals and renovate and expand 324 existing hospitals and 1750 primary
, Page 12.191.5skating robots, building sand diggers for children with disabilities and medical equipment. Themost recent project involved designing multi-functional platforms for small rural communities inGhana. These implements were run from exercise bikes to simulate a ten horse power dieselengine found in Ghanaian villages. This project was moderately successful but the distance ofGhana and the lack of resources for the student researchers making the multi-functional platforma difficult design project. Students felt that their designs would make little difference in a countryso foreign and far away from them and no plans went past the prototype stages. The lack offeedback from the Ghanaian community made measuring the success of student
and student outcomes. Also of interest wasthe degree to which various learning tools are used and their relative use based on learningstyles. The ultimate goal was continuous improvement with plans to share findings of interest tothe engineering economy and hybrid on-line class communities. Another desire was to be able torecommend learning tool strategies based on actual student experience.An initial study was conducted using data collected Spring 2002, Fall 2002, and Winter 2003.Spring 2002 was taught using the traditional face-to-face format. Fall 2002 was a transitionquarter, and Winter 2003 was taught in a hybrid on-line format. Throughout the paper this isreferred to as the 2003 study period8. Subsequently, data was collected for nine
defined by a setof attributes that characterize study abroad programs. We use these attributes to strategicallydevelop additional opportunities for our students. We believe the broader and more diverse theportfolio, the better chance we have of getting students to participate.In planning our expansion of programs available to students in the BCoE, we consider thefollowing program attributes from a college of engineering perspective. These attributes becameapparent as we researched other programs to look for ideas and partners. 1. ownership: who has direct responsibility for the program in terms of content, recruiting, logistics, etc. a. internal: college of engineering or department b. external: another unit on campus
criteria were developed for this outcome.For each performance criteria, detailed guide for assessing the performance criteria were alsoprovided. The five performance criteria developed for this outcome, are based on1. Ability to define the problem This performance criterion is assessed by determining if students are able to (i) identify the customer and the needs, (ii) identify and list the design objectives, and (iii) identify the design constraints.2. Ability to plan the project This performance criterion is also assessed by determining if students are able to (i) define the design strategy and methodology, (ii) identify and break down work into tasks and subtasks, and identify the personnel and deliverables for each, (iii) develop a
with “The Engineer of 2020”vision. In our proposed recruitment plan, at least 60% of the REU participants will bestudents who belong to under-represented groups in the academia and those from smallercolleges/universities with who have few research opportunities at their home institutions.We were successful in meeting this target in our first year of implementation.2. Proposal Submission and ReviewsThe authors submitted the original proposal in 2004 and resubmitted in 2005 and 2006.The 2006 submission was successful. This section documents panel summary andindividual reviewer’s comments on our successful (final submission) and unsuccessfulproposals. Major evaluation criteria include proposal intellectual merits and broaderimpacts. Unedited
development wasgrounded in a common set of standards and showed teachers how to connect their work tothe specific standards for student performance. Sixth, reform strategies for schoolimprovement must be connected to other aspects of school change.Loucks-Horsley, Love, Stiles, Mundry and Hewson13 present a professional developmentmodel specifically designed for mathematics and science. The core of the model consists of aseries of components including commitment to a vision and standards, analysis of studentlearning and other data, goal setting, planning, implementation and evaluation. Secondedition augmentations include major sections on knowledge and belief systems (e.g., learnersand learning, teachers and teaching, the nature of the disciplines
in university BME laboratories, with teachers directly immersedin NSF-sponsored research activities, collaborating with faculty members and Ph.D.students on appropriate aspects of their investigations. The teachers, faculty and Ph.D.student mentors met weekly to review, network, compare experiences, address issues,and plan. The lab experiences that the teachers experienced included the followingresearch areas:Lab # 1-Fundamental Research in Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) gradually destroys the macula, the part of theretina most important for central vision. In advanced stages AMD can result in theinability to read all but very large print, legal blindness with the consequent loss ofdriving
transfers, and plans to attend graduate school.Before we look at the results of the study, we look at literature to understand what types ofresearch have been done on community college transfer students.II. Literature Review on Engineering and Computer Science Community College TransferStudentsIn this section we look at the literature on the case for community colleges, curriculum,articulation, resource sharing, special programming for new transfer students, challenges, andmany-faceted programs with community colleges. We then look at studies on gender issues andthe community college.The Case for Community Colleges: There are many reasons that 45% of all first-time freshmenchoose to begin their college education at a community college.1 Students
related to the failure of New Orleans levees in hurricane Katrina. As Associate Dean, he oversees curriculum, advising, career planning, study abroad, early engineering and other related initiatives.Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University NEERAJ BUCH is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University. He is also the Director of Cornerstone Engineering and Residential Experience program at Michigan State University. He earned his M.S. degree in pavement engineering in 1988 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and his Ph.D. in pavement and materials engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, in 1995. Dr. Buch began his
on the design of a proposed program. From this we describe and evaluatepotential proposals for an EM program at NCSU.1. Engineering Management TodayDefining Engineering Management: Engineering Management as a discipline is not tightlydefined, as demonstrated by a relatively wide variance among academic EM programs. Thediscipline is often grouped with Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Management ofTechnology. Although very few EM definitions exist, current discipline trends are representedby the following: Engineering Management is the art and science of planning, organizing, allocating resources, and directing and controlling activities which have a technological component.2 Engineering Management is
Students, Time Management for Engineering andApplied Science Students, Accessing the Library and CEAS Student Leaders and Involvement. These topicsnot only met the deficiencies expressed by our students, but also had been taught, tested and found helpful tostudents in a two semester-hour course, “ASE 100 College Adjustment and Survival,” which is taken by at-riskstudents. As we were planning this expanded orientation program, it came to our attention that the FallOrientation Program conducted at the university level was being reevaluated and expanded. In discussionswith the University personnel planning the expanded program, it became clear that we had similar goals andthat our CEAS Orientation could become part of the University
asked for) support in the form ofready to use lessons and documents (e.g. additional activities) along with leader presence tosupport them in trying their self-created plans situated within the NGSS standards. The actualityof working with NetLogo (and changing functions and code) to present STEM concepts/topicswas both invigorating (it was new for the K12 teachers) and frustrating (it was often hard for theK12 teachers to see connections to content) as teachers moved through expectations andactuality. Implications include planning for structured K12 teacher academic year support inimplementing CS topics for sustainability in classrooms. Keywords: Computer Science Education, Computer Science, STEM, K12 Teachers, Pre-Service Teacher Education
plan toeducate scientists and engineers with a strong and vital humanities and arts component.The WPI Plan reasoned that the humanities and arts would place engineering in an ethicaland humane context, graduating young men and women to develop technology with aneye toward the greater good. More than forty years later, the humanistic values that haveremained so important to WPI’s general education of engineers have been embraced byschools of business and by engineering programs seeking to develop entrepreneurialengineers. Two of the attributes of an entrepreneurial engineer, as defined by the KernFamily Foundation’s Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), are essentiallythe qualities found in a well-educated humanist: First, curiosity
detailed figure; second, provide assumptions, a plan and an estimateand, finally, submit step-by-step solution of the problem with a brief discussion at the end. Withthis layout students identify the problem, create a methodology to solve the problem, apply themethodology to the problem and evaluate the result by considering its limitations, howreasonable it is, and the dimensions and units of the answer. The engineering physics courses are 5-credit and the E&M course has lecture and labhours separated. There were two sections of this course in the Fall 2016 with about 35 students ineach section. Since the number of students are high relative to other classes (18-20 students), twoinstructors were present during lectures. While one
Paper ID #19492Design of Classlab and Supporting Spaces to Enable a Multidisciplinary Hands-on First-Year Engineering Design CurriculumDr. Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University Dr. Carpenter is Founding Dean of Engineering at Campbell University. She is Chair of the ASEE Long-Rangge Planning Committee and the ASEE Strategic Doing Governance Team. She is a past Vice President of Professional Interest Councils for ASEE and past President of WEPAN. Currently Chair of the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge Scholars Program Steering Committee and an ASEE PEV for General Engineering, Dr. Carpenter regularly speaks
inentrepreneurial endeavors. First, this article presents a theoretical framework about competenciesin engineering education, followed by a description of the study objectives, the sample, the datagathering technique and the data analysis plan. We adopted a qualitative design to interviewentrepreneurship stakeholders from Chile, Colombia, Spain, the U.S. and the U.K. Theinterviewees were entrepreneurship instructors, researchers on entrepreneurship education, andleaders from startup accelerators and business incubators. From their perspectives, we shared adefinition of entrepreneurship, we explored the roles that engineers play in startups andentrepreneurial companies, and we identified critical competencies. Finally, we discuss theimplications of these