external evaluation plan was prepared and implemented. The evaluators readily identified the students as “engaged in creative problem solving”.Group assignments and tests can also be used to promote cooperative activities in the classroom.For example, inquiry-based learning activities (IBLA) consist of presenting teams of studentswith a physical situation and asking them to predict what will happen. Self et al. developed oneof the first Inquiry-based learning activities (IBLA) for a Dynamics course, which involves thedirection of friction and motion for a rolling object and assigning quizzes the day before theactivity/experiment [11]. They encouraged students to think about the situation before coming toclass, and to make predictions about
break thetraditional lecture dominant pattern when cooperative learning protocols are deployed. Thepaper will illustrate how cooperative learning can advance academic success, quality ofrelationships, psychological adjustments, and attitudes toward the college experience. Whatneeds to be done to move the process forward? What are the key components of successfuldeployment of active learning in general and cooperative learning in particular? How tofoster and expand the community of engineering faculty who use cooperative learning?What plans, efforts, and resources need to be mobilized to institutionalize pedagogies ofengagement including cooperative learning at the department or college level?Next, it identifies barriers to reformation in
because they tend to distract instructors from their main functions, i.e., theirteaching, research and service to the department and the college. On-campus facilitiesand institutional arrangements such as consulting and enterprise incubators should beinvestigated by appealing to other professional models, i.e., medicine, law, veterinarymedicine, etc. Some of these activities are at the very least self-supporting, but could,if properly planned, shed funds that could be used to support other academicendeavors.I believe there are feasible action plans that should be adopted to pave the way forpotential collaboration between industry and academe. These would include:i) First, seeding and propagating the idea, that: gaining practical experience
, involve many different types of data, not onlyengineering (technical) data but also relevant economic, social, cultural, geographic, historicand other data. This highly integrated set of technical and cultural experiences provided an authenticcontext in which the students could develop observational, analytical and interpretive skills thatwent beyond that feasible in a conventional laboratory setting.Learning GoalsThe overarching goal of this accelerated, seven day field course was to produce authenticengineering experiences and artefacts integrated with the development of cultural awareness.Through participation in it, the goal was for students to develop their ability to: • Plan & execute an open-ended engineering investigation in an
novices and experts navi- gate between macroscopic, symbolic, and small particle representations, and how pre-service elementary teachers translate an understanding of energy concepts from physics to other disciplines.Mr. Kordel J. Clarks, Student Representative - Whatcom Community College Kordel Clarks is an Engineering Student who plans to graduate from Whatcom Community College in June of 2018 and plans to transfer to the University of Washington. He is pursuing a degree in aeronau- tical engineering. He is also a recipient of WCC’s SEECRS (STEM Excellence through Engagement in Collaboration, Research and Scholarship) program and a member of Washington’s All-Academic Team. c American
forcingstudents to answer questions during discussion”). Other students responded positively to thecourse content (i.e., “I learned a lot of practical environmental health information that I plan touse in practice”). Future work should: 1) follow-up with students to identify the value of thecourse in their professional practice after graduation; 2) assess changes in student attitudes andbeliefs from before and after the course; and 3) replicate the course at other institutions toevaluate the effectiveness of the course content and delivery approach independent of thepersonality of the instructor and with a variety of student types.IntroductionThe field today known as “environmental engineering” emerged formally with the creation oftwo organizations
object-orientedprogramming practices. The students enrolled in these courses are primarily computerengineering and computer science majors.The second set of participants are the project clients. Over the four years covered by this study,four different sets of clients were used. In 2014, the clients were engineering education studentsdeveloping materials in support of educational outreach activities. The software applicationswere designed to augment lesson plans developed as part of a series of teacher workshops thatthe students helped to deliver in the Dominican Republic. Due to the departure of the instructorleading the then-annual trips, in 2015 the focus shifted to having ASEE student chapter membersserve as clients in support of their
) that can be used tocategorize the complexity of the requirements of a design task, and consequently can be usedto plan a trajectory of design projects. The model is presented at a high level of abstraction,and the projects presented in this paper are intended to illustrate examples of particularcharacteristics. They are not provided as an example of a sequence of actual concreteprojects. As a conceptual paper we present abstract principles that can be applied to anydesign project in order to focus student attention on particular knowledge and skills and theirrelations to other knowledge and skills without overwhelming students with a complexcontextually embedded design project with no form of scaffolding or structuring ofexpectations in
feelthat citing financial restrictions is a more acceptable response [7], Other studies indicate thatfinancial constraints are not so much evidence of an active barrier to participation as a retroactivejustification for the decision not to participate [8]. Most studies believe that the apparentfinancial barrier is more of a misinformation barrier. There is often more financial aid availablethan most students are aware and this combined with the possibility that students tend tooverestimate the cost of study abroad in their minds [7].B. Socio-Economic BackgroundWhile the financial barrier is probably over-cited and blown out of proportion, it is important tonote that lower income students are less likely to plan to study abroad than higher
betaking the course. In general, since this knowledge did not come from specific users, insightsapplied to the entire group of students, or the potential variation in the group. Their focus wasinsights in two areas: student preparedness for learning and factors that could affect interest andmotivation. The team sought a general understanding such that they could plan content andactivities that were appropriate and engaging for the entire class.This technique may have stemmed from deep knowledge of prior students that has grown into acomposite image over time, and the assumption that future students will fit into this composite.For example, the instructor’s insights came from having taught the same class several times inthe past. However, since
recruit underrepresented students who plan to major in one of the STEM areas. HCC is one oftwo community colleges in the six-member AMP Alliance. There is a great deal of synergyamong HCC AMP and REEMS objectives and activities. In addition to the required communityservice required of AMP students, HCC AMP students are encouraged to join the REEMSstudent cohorts in university tours, meeting university faculty, advisors, and administrators,participation in student development workshops. The REEMS PI also serves and the HCCprogram director for the HCC AMP program. Both AMP and REEMS students seek commonoutcomes: participation in programs that provide direction, structure, and motivation. Fourteenof the REEMS students from the 2015/2016 and 2016
presentations, videos, sample programs, etc. Each session’slecture was followed by hands-on learning activities that allowed exploration and reinforced thesessions’ material. While few hands-on learning sessions engaged teachers to perform assignedactivities individually, a vast majority of hands-on learning sessions engaged teachers in two-person groups. Group discussions, co-generations, etc., were also conducted. To build teacheragency, they were also engaged in creative activities such as new lesson planning, developing andassessing activity sheets for existing lessons, and developing and testing teaching and learningstrategies using robotics. The project team also conducted a battery of pre-/post-surveys andcollected feedbacks from the
, simple programming and operation, easytroubleshooting, flexibility in assembly, configuration, and reconfiguration, simple power supply, easystorage, and appropriateness of its functions and capabilities in explaining middle school science and mathcontent [1-2,4,6,8,9,16,19].Figure 1: A LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robotic system developed by the teachers to be used in teaching and learning of middle school STEM lessons.4. The Development of Robot-aided STEM LessonsThe project facilitation team and the PD program participants collaborated in different ways to plan anddevelop several robotics-aided STEM lessons for middle school classrooms. The teachers shared a fewexisting middle school science and math concepts that they deemed pedagogically
. Meetingslasted 1–2 hours and featured discussion of the course to be redesigned, negotiation of coursecontent, planning assessments and pedagogy, and collaborative decision-making and artifactbuilding. While not every team member participated in each meeting, at least three teammembers participated in all meetings. We focused on meetings during the month preceding andthe month and a half after the beginning of the semester due the heavier focus on planning anddesign of the course (later meetings tended to discuss logistics of implementation and feedbackon planned activities). In total, we analyzed 15 meeting transcripts from 17.6 hours of audio, plusdetailed notes from an additional 6 meetings that were not audio-recorded. Interviews,reflections, design
support of active learning, current practices of information technology, and suggestions for redesigningclasses. We're trying to solve a number of relevant problems, including: What are the key components ofsuccessful deployment of active learning based on BOPPPS model? How to expand participatory teachingmethods to achieve interaction with students that is necessary for the realization of the engineering educationobjection? What plans and resources need to be mobilized to institutionalize pedagogies of engagementincluding active learning, at the department or college level?Literature Review/Background Before discussing active learning, our efforts have been devoted to distinguishing the different types ofactive learning most frequently
-person observations. The data presented in this paper is a subset of the large data set describedabove. We center our experiences building a coherent group of diverse scholar activists withprior experience in nation-wide social/intellectual movements to broaden participation inacademic science and engineering. Our findings in this paper are based on ethnographic researchactivities aiming at intentionally breaching personal and professional identities and data thatemerged in team meetings as the group planned the two symposia: LATTICE I, for early-careerfemale faculty in EECS and LATTICE II, for early-career URM female faculty in engineering.We collected data in a variety of ways: semi-structured interviews, group interviews, detailedmeeting
with an outcome-oriented mindset.Kern Engineering Entrepreneurship Network (KEEN) lists the following title at their website:“Engineers with an Entrepreneurial Mindset Transform the World”. [5] Engineers equipped withan entrepreneurial mindset will understand the bigger picture, recognize opportunities, evaluatemarkets, and learn from mistakes to create value for themselves, for their employers and forsociety. KEEN is a 33-plus network of universities and colleges and has continued to grow [5].Recently, more universities and faculty are engaged to include an entrepreneurial mindedlearning (EML) into the engineering curriculum. Several universities involved with KEENdeveloped detailed four-year plan to implement EML in their curriculum
into future plans for makerspaces on the Boise State campus. As an undergraduate and graduate student, she has been involved with the Society of Women Engineers, and also taught a materials science laboratory course as a graduate teaching assis- tant. She has volunteered at numerous STEM outreach activities on and off of the Boise State campus throughout her time as a student and is passionate about increasing diversity in STEM and helping girls and women to recognize that STEM is a path that is open to them if they want to take it.Ms. Katherine Christine Tetrick, Washington State University Katherine directs the Washington STate Academic RedShirt (STARS) program at Washington State Uni- versity. She holds a Master
: need in the RFP, they may be very exciting to the company. An (1) enables quick response time; ongoing relationship encourages the faculty to propose that idea (2) provides meeting space with infrastructure; to the company, while regular communication and sharing of (3) fosters trust through personal relationships; RFPs builds awareness of industrial research needs and helps faculty develop ideas with a greater chance of success. (4) facilitates valuable research with ideas and project plans developed jointly
completion of their plans of study, and act to ensure intellectual health ofthe student (Noy & Ray, 2012). Solem, Lee, and Schlemper (2013), in a study of graduatestudents in a geography program, found that students reported the need for faculty advisors to aidthem with the “publish or perish” culture and climate evident in graduate education.Additionally, Cress (2008) found that, especially for underrepresented minority graduatestudents, the faculty-student relationship plays an important role in mitigating the negativeeffects of a poor campus climate. Beyond the roles and responsibilities of a faculty advisor, the interactions andrelationship between the student and advisor impacts students’ perceptions of climate andsuccess in their
education to communities who lack access to higher education.Vincent Vu Thanh Tran, San Jose State University Vincent Tran is currently a junior at San Jose State University pursuing a Bachelors in Mechanical Engi- neering. His research interest include mechatronics and biomedical technology.Mr. Moises Arturo Vieyra, Canada College I am an undergraduate student at Canada College ready to transfer to a 4 year University. My future plan is to get my bachelors degree in civil engineering and work my way to creating my own company.Mr. Alec William Maxwell, San Francisco State University Alec Maxwell is currently a graduate student in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State Uni- versity (SFSU). Besides actively
class. Figure 3. Classroom A set up for (a) small groups using double tables, (b) small groups using single tables, (c) lecture, (d) project demonstrations, and (e) project presentations. Each yellow rectangle represents 1 table that can seat 3 students per side. Figure 4. Panoramic photo of Classroom B arranged for lecture.We are planning to follow five instructors as they teach the same (or a similar) second- or third-year engineering science course during two consecutive academic years. These instructors willbe recruited from among those teaching large, introductory engineering courses based on: 1)their willingness to learn more about the flexible classroom, 2) their
’ devices does not dictate accessibility.A total of eight mobile apps as listed in Table 1 are planned for the course. Six apps, Bending,Deflection, Stress, Torsion, Axial, and Pressure Vessels, will provide students the opportunity toset up their own practice problems and get instant feedback on the solutions. These apps allowstudents to explore and master the concepts covered in the course by giving them ampleopportunity to practice outside the classroom. Table 1: List of Mobile Learning Apps App Concept Covered
). Not valid if referring to engineering labs.Aspirations, goals, This is related to future goals after These goals must be This does not include a studentdesires, or plans graduation, short term goals, such as described in the future from describing an experience prior to making more and developing more the moment of the interview the interview and a future goal; for skills, or more aspirational goals such forward. Can include future example, “In third grade I wanted as helping people or pushing coursework or
understandingof what design entails and how to translate this propositional knowledge into practice. As aresult, students in the teachers’ classrooms learned how to engage in engineering practices,gradually developing knowledge of how to identify essential features of a design problem, gatherinformation that informs the problem, plan, construct, test, evaluate, and optimize a designsolution. In this manner, teachers and students, over time, became active, legitimate participantsof the community of practice, generating new knowledge of both science and engineering coreideas, crosscutting concepts, and related skills.Context of the StudyThe context of this study was a large, multi-year university school partnership that included theparticipation of over
shown to increase the fun elements and also acts as a motivation factor forstudents to become more active in learning. In future, we plan to conduct systematic literaturereview on the effect of gamification beyond just CS/SE by expanding it to STEM baseddiscipline. Additionally, we plan to continually improve the design and usability of SEP-CyLEby using most influential game elements. While there are some studies underway, we plan toreport the results and conduct additional studies guided to builder a larger body of evidence onusefulness of gamification in CS/SE education.7. Acknowledgements:This work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants DUE-1225742and DUE-1525112. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or
abid for a souvenir supply contract with the university. Just like with most project-based learningmodules (PBLs), following was the hook statement – “Your university is planning to celebrateits 150 years of existence in few years. They are planning to sell souvenirs to market the brandand cover the cost of celebrations. Your startup company is bidding for the supply contract.”Student groups were required to select materials and manufacturing process for those articles. Inaddition, they were to compare the selected manufacturing process with other manufacturingprocess. Student teams were required to meet with the customer to find out type and number ofsouvenirs required. The customer in this case was instructor. Deliverables included
. After incorporation ofthe course modifications that have been identified by following the methodology, studentsatisfaction evaluation scores doubled.IntroductionIn established courses in long-running programs, courses may be stable for a long time, whichcan produce to consistency, but also may lead to staleness of the educational delivery.Community colleges are often more prescriptive where the outcomes and lesson plans aresupplied to the instructor by the administration. At a typical four-year university there is agreater level of academic freedom to innovate courses and bring in new material. This can leadto content drift. There are, however, collegiate programs that have regulatory constraints. Thisarticle seeks to document a process to
Paper ID #21075A Hands-on Project for Avionics Systems Course in Aviation EngineeringTechnology ProgramDr. Chenyu Huang, Purdue University Chenyu Huang is currently a Post-doc Researcher in the School of Aviation and Transportation Technol- ogy at Purdue University with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Masters’ Degrees in Air Traffic Planning and Management, and Aerospace and Aviation Management, Ph.D. degree focused on Aviation Data Analytics, Avionics, and Aviation Safety Support Systems from Purdue University. Chenyu is an FAA
the same as the previous “Return” buttons.After reviewing above tabs, students have learned construction information of a sluice gate fromperspective of construction materials, masonry work, earthwork and foundation. In the followingtabs, students will experience the construction process of a sluice gate by virtually building asluice gate by themselves. The Construction Process Simulation tab is unique to the previoustabs. There are seven sub-tabs under this tab, which are Start, Construction Plan, Foundation,Bottom Layer, Middle Layer, Top Layer, and Finish, working as a step-to-step process to build asluice gate. Figure 8 shows the Start tab and Construction Plan tab. Figure 8: MUSSN Construction Process Simulation Tab and Construction Plan