students in the universities of science andtechnology is a crucial issue for engineering education in Taiwan. In the present study, a modified Delphi method was used for establishing the importanceindex of chemistry competence in terms of occupation domain. Additionally, a number ofsemi-structured interviews with experts were conducted in order to investigate the experts’views about chemistry education. The findings of this study might be implied in theassessment of current curriculum design and teaching contents of chemistry in the universitiesof science and technology in Taiwan. By the same token, the findings could be further utilizedin an Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA
and subjects. The curriculum is partitioned into separate courses and the learningis controlled by means of individual written tests. This has led to a fragmentation of thecontent, the work of people involved, and their use of time.Most of the content presented is based on the model world e.g. textbooks and theories. Thisseparates the learning from the real world (e.g. work of the engineer). The emphasis of thepresent EE is on quantity, aiming at including and presenting everything an EE student needsduring his/her career. This way of doing things has led to overloading and incoherence andthe lack of the ability to combine knowledge into functioning wholes in the real world5.It is important to realize that the situation is not due to the
crucial aspects of its implementation to improve its organization andexecution in future iterations. The primary goal of this curriculum is to provide a pathway forunderrepresented minority (URM) students to gain experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI)and Programming topics, equipping them with relevant knowledge and inspiring them to pursuefuture careers in the industry.Owing to the potential of AI systems to reduce workloads and expand the capacity of variouspublic services, AI is being integrated in an increasing number of industries, ranging fromhealthcare, law enforcement, department stores, to aspects of the judicial system [1,2]. Theseservices are an integral part of citizens’ lives, and the outcome of these AI algorithms can
knowledge stocks, and why these behaviors result in different opportunityrecognition and exploitation abilities.” Li et al2 used Innovative Learning Solutions, Inc,The Web Marketplace, as an integral part of their MBA Marketing Curriculum andobserved that “the current generation of business students, growing up in a socialenvironment that is progressively interactive and communication intensive, expects amore stimulating educational experience to maintain interest, concentration level, andmotivation.”. Their experience with the marketing simulation program parallels ourexperience in that the students, regardless of their age, love the dynamics of taking acompany from the creation of a global industry inception through a growth phase whilemanaging
how an instructor can potentially modify existing assignments foruse with CPR. The results of a “practice CPR” assignment are used to highlight which areas ofthe CPR assignment preparation need to be given close attention in order to achieve meaningfulreviews.KeywordsWriting Assignments, Calibrated Peer Review, undergraduate laboratory in electricalengineering, memo writingIntroductionWriting exercises have been included in the upper division electrical engineering laboratorycourses since the beginning of our program, typically in the traditional form of the weeklylaboratory report. In the late 1990’s, influenced by an increasing exposure to the concepts ofWriting Across the Curriculum (WAC), Write to Learn (WTL), and Writing in the
). Assessment of STEM e- Learning in an immersive virtual reality (VR) environment. American Society for Engineering Education. [53] Lopez, C. E., Ashour, O. M., & Tucker, C. (2019, June). An Introduction to the CLICK Approach: Leveraging Virtual Reality to Integrate the Industrial Engineering Curriculum. In ASEE annual conference & exposition. [54] Carruth, D. W. (2017, October). Virtual reality for education and workforce training. In 2017 15th International Conference on Emerging eLearning Technologies and Applications (ICETA) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.[55] Salah, B., Abidi, M. H., Mian, S. H., Krid, M., Alkhalefah, H., & Abdo, A. (2019). Virtual reality- based engineering education to enhance manufacturing
-level engineers when encountering electromagnetics material. Thispreliminary study focuses on electrostatics content in a junior level electromagnetism course inan Electrical Engineering (EE) program. Students find electromagnetism to be one of the mostdifficult courses in the upper-level EE curriculum. Electromagnetics is difficult for students tolearn due to the required competency with vector calculus. Topics are especially challenging toteach without tangible applications [3].The authors created an active learning environment within a junior-level Electromagneticscourse by utilizing in-class tutorials with an electronic response system. The intent was toincrease student’s ability and confidence in performing vector calculus required to
-routine. Facing these unprecedentedchanges, instructors are challenged by growing complexity in knowledge domains. Furthermore,they need to prepare their students with specific skills relevant to an uncertain future affected bythe advent of advanced AI and societal shifts. A signature paradigm for higher education that canprepare students for the uncertain labor market of the future, according to Bass [2, 3], should bedriven by inclusive excellence and integrative learning, which are the two innovative drivers ofhigher education.Having its roots in John Dewey’s philosophical thought [4], project-based learning (PBL) hasproven to be a beneficial student-centered pedagogy over the years. Long-lasting and deeplearning outcomes, improved
“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 2109and concepts become more densely networked.12, 13, 14Concept maps have been used as a learning strategy, an instructional strategy, a strategyfor curriculum planning, and a means of student assessment.15 In this study, we usedconcept mapping as: (1) a form of student assessment (i.e., a measure of students’conceptual understanding of the design process); (2) a learning strategy (i.e., studentscreated maps as a study guide for their final exam and summarized course readings inconcept map
worked with a group to develop focus control for an OCT system. Currently Dr. Himmer is the facility manager at the Montana Mircofabrication Facility and he continues to research novel materials, actuators and optics that may be used in the development of optical systems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Work in Progress - Group Laboratory Experiment during Lecture in an Undergraduate Fluid Dynamics Class: Increasing Student Learning and Communication SkillsAbstract: Laboratory classes in engineering often occur toward the end of curriculum, excludingtheir benefits from the core class while it is being taught. Instead of a full laboratory,presentations and in
both areas. By introducing both kinds of student to each other the aim was to develop a greater awareness of design amongst them all. For example, Fine Arts students understand how components in any media through their interaction can assemble into a design greater than the sum of its parts. During the collaboration they gained appreciation of the practical problem-solving Engineering students in Computer Design face in real-world situations: fast turn-around deadlines, parameters of memory storage capacity, constraints on robotic behavior capabilities. In turn, students from Engineering & Computer Systems came to realize that art design is an integrative process that increases the appeal of the product in the
University in 1992 and has been on the ECE faculty at Duke University since 1993. In addition to his K-12 outreach work, his research interests include microwave imaging and electrical impedance tomography.Lee Anne Cox, Duke University Lee Anne Cox, B.S., is a second year graduate student in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. She was awarded an NSF funded GK-12 Engineering Teaching Fellowship through the MUSIC Program (Math Understanding through Science Integrated with Curriculum) at Duke. For the past two years, in partnership with K-8 classroom teachers, she has taught hands-on, engaging science and engineering lessons to grades 3, 5, and 6 at Bethel Hill Charter School in
Session 1566 Capstone Design Experience in a Thermal-Fluid Applications Course, and Development of an in-house Refrigeration Recovery System. Ganesh Kudav, Aaron Cain Youngstown State University, Youngstown - OhioAbstract The Mechanical Engineering curriculum at Youngstown State University (YSU)integrates design and computer aspects throughout the freshmen, junior, sophomore, andsenior years. However, some senior year courses have much more intensive capstone designrequirements. Thermal-Fluids Applications, ME – 726, is a late junior/early senior level
first joined UW-Madison’s faculty in 1989 as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where he co-founded the Construction Engineering and Management Pro- gram and developed the construction curriculum. In addition, he has authored and co-authored papers on the subject of educating civil engineers. His body of work demonstrates his commitment to using emerging technology in the classroom to prepare the next generation of engineers and other students for the challenges of the future. Jeff was honored in 2014 with an Outstanding Projects and Leaders Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Society of Civil Engineers. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from
professional development of formal and informal science educators, learning through citizen science for adults and youth, and pre-service elementary teaching in informal science learning environments. Dr. Swanson received her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction in Science Education from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a BA in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to graduate school, she was an elementary science educator for a small children’s science center in California. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 “I understand their frustrations a little bit better.” – Elementary teachers’ perceptions of the impact of
equipping students with relevant skills, an overviewof professional engagement, and a major project. The major project for the course involvedteams of 3-4 students working to design one of two civil engineering challenges: either a 20-footcantilevered wooden bridge or a 25-foot diameter wooden tripod. There were two fundamentalpurposes to the course: students were to learn more about their specific discipline so as toestablish realistic goals and motivations for their education and career, and students were tocomplete a major project in order to develop teamwork skills, integrate into the program, andbuild confidence in their ability to overcome intimidating challenges. These initiatives wereintended to improve student engagement with the course
Paper ID #31012Assessing Impact of an REU program on Students’ Intellectual Growth andInterest in Graduate School in CybermanufacturingMr. Pavan Kumar Moturu, Texas A&M UniversityDr. Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University Dr. Bimal Nepal is a Professor and Associate Director of Industrial Distribution Program at Texas A&M University. His research interests include integration of supply chain management with new product development decisions, distributor service portfolio optimization, pricing optimization, supply chain risk analysis, lean and six sigma, large scale optimization, and engineering education. He has
differences and strengths of the two institutions.Project and PartnersThe overall goal of Project COMPLETE was to expand instrumentation workforce pathways forhigh school students in Louisiana. The project included many “moving parts,” which made theaddition of an external project manager necessary because no one internal faculty or staffmember had the time, experience, and relationships to manage the full project. Please see Figure1 for an overview of Project COMPLETE’s partners.The Project COMPLETE team along with these partners developed an Arduino-based highschool curriculum for basic electrical and instrumentation, integrated industry-based certificationoptions, created dual enrollment and articulation agreements, developed and built hands
isexcluded from the curriculum for piloting. All students also take a Phraseology course in thefirst semester and the General Radio Telephone Certificate for Aeronautical Services in the Page 14.1003.3second semester. These courses use Aviation English phraseology but are excluded from thecore English language module and taught by external lecturers with an active flight-operational record. The 2-year Master programme is split into an Aeronautical Engineeringand Aviation Management branch from the beginning, which includes the English languagecourse Professional Meetings in the second semester. The language of instruction in thecomplete Master programme
Paper ID #38503Developing a Global Competency Mindset in an International, Faculty-ledProgram in Brazil Focused on Sustainable EnergyDr. Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University Dr. Courtney Pfluger took a position in Fall 2011 as an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University as a part of the First Year Engineering Faculty and affiliated Faculty in the Chemical Engineer- ing Department. Dr. Pfluger redesigned and piloted the first-year curriculum which included engineering design and computational problem solving using the Engineering Grand Challenges as real-world appli- cations of global issues. She
resources.Project Integration into CourseIn Marshall University’s “Hydrologic Engineering” course (enrollment = 12), students learned ofthe course project on the first day of the course, when the basic principles of combined sewers,wet-weather flows, and rainfall-runoff relationships were also introduced in an introductory andqualitative way. The problem of combined sewer backups was used as a conceptual outline forthe course, highlighting different aspects of what contributes to the problem and how each can bequantified or understood. In a single 50-minute lecture, students were exposed to ideas such astemporal distribution of precipitation, time of concentration, degree of imperviousness of landcover, variation in infiltration capacity of soil, and
Paper ID #49763Mindset Matters: Exploring Grit and Attitudes in Engineering and CS Undergradsin an NSF S-STEM funded programDr. Tina Johnson Cartwright, Marshall University Dr. Tina Cartwright is a professor of science education at Marshall University. She collaborates with colleagues across both the Colleges of Science and Engineering and Computer Science to support student success in STEM.Julie Lynn Snyder-Yuly, Marshall University Julie Snyder-Yuly, Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies, Marshall University (Ph.D. University of Utah, 2017). Dr. Snyder-Yuly’s research engages qualitative and
/mentee relationships “in whichunderserved and underrepresented students from low-income backgrounds are portrayed as ‘highrisk’, ‘high maintenance’, ‘underprepared’, or ‘culturally deprived’” [19]. Gallup’sCliftonStrengths for Students (formerly called StrengthsQuest) is a commonly adopted assets-based approach. Gallup indicates that the organization is currently working with over 600colleges and universities. Research by Gallup and others shows that the integration ofCliftonStrengths has a demonstrated correlation with student retention and well-being [22].Rooted in positive psychology [23, 24], CliftonStrengths for Students is an online assessmentthat identifies individuals’ top five themes of talent, or Signature Strengths. These patterns
Paper ID #8962Using Case Study Research as an Active Learning Tool for Demonstrating theAbility to Function on Multidisciplinary TeamsDr. Wayne Lu, University of Portland Wayne Lu received his B.S.E.E. degree from Chung-Cheng Institute of Technology, Tauyuan, Taiwan in 1973 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma in 1981 and 1989, respectively. He is a member of IEEE and ASEE. He has been a faculty at the University of Portland since 1988 and currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. His areas of interest include embedded systems design, digital
again.25-27 Thisknowledge reinforces the decision to administer peer evaluation in a formative way, allowingstudents to repeatedly receive feedback and try again within their groups. With each new attemptin using teamwork knowledge and skills, students receive peer feedback that can identify areasfor improvement and motivate future effort. This framework also presents a clear opportunity forrenewal if team members struggled due to conflict or free riding. Fourth, assessment should beintegrated into the curriculum and be perceived as a learning opportunity. According to Brew28: Assessment and learning must increasingly be viewed as one and the same activity; assessment must become an integral part of the learning process
Way curriculum. Gateway is the introductory course to the PLTW program andis offered in seventh grade in Brownsburg’s two middle schools.There were 120 total students in the Gateway course in the fall 2006 semester at East MiddleSchool, 60 of which were in a section of the class implementing the tsunami activity. TheGateway course was an elective for seventh grade students. The sections that participated were67% male, 33% female. Students were placed in teams of 5-6 students per team around largetables, a typical arrangement for most projects in the class.This initial implementation involved incorporating the entire MEA in the Gateway course; a trueinterdisciplinary model of the project across social studies, science and Gateway has
grammar, punctuation,and spelling in primary and secondary schools, but once they reach university, they are nottaught as explicitly the approaches to writing within their discipline or how to write forprofessional purposes. Teaching this within an engineering curriculum could improve students’confidence in their ability to write in the professional world, addressing audiences with differentneeds and interests.We believe the same problem regarding lack of explicit instruction may exist for teamworkskills. Anecdotally, we know students are often asked to work in teams without being providedguidelines for how effective teams function. We can help students learn teamwork by discussingsuch simple things as how to develop an agenda for a meeting to
; and the ASME C. D. Mote Jr., Early Career Award. In 2014 Dr. Rhoads was included in ASEE Prism Magazine’s 20 Under 40.Dr. Edward J. Berger, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Edward Berger is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, joining Purdue in August 2014. He has been teaching mechanics for over 20 years, and has worked extensively on the integration and assessment of specific technology interventions in mechanics classes. He was one of the co-leaders in 2013-2014 of the ASEE Virtual Community of Practice (VCP) for mechanics educators across the country. His current research focuses on student problem-solving pro
engagement and address theneeds of kinesthetic learners [1, 2]. Perceived benefits from robot integration in introductoryprogramming courses include an increase in programming skills, peer learning, and studentmotivation [3]. It has been observed that along with fostering creativity, using robotics in thesecourses increases student success [4, 5]. In general, introductory engineering courses haveincorporated robots with a goal to increase problem solving skills [6] and overall programretention [7]. However, robots are often a source of frustration to students. McGill observed thatto gain benefits in student motivation in an introductory programming course, hardware andsoftware implementations need to be better investigated and developed to
ideasuniversity students develop and teach the curriculum. 4. Give reasons for your ideasThis study took place in a socioeconomically, racially, 5. Discuss many different ideasand linguistically diverse fourth-grade classroom. Of the20 participating students, 11 were female, 9 were male, Figure 1. Groupwork norms.11 were White, and 9 were People of Color. Thecurriculum was designed by two researchers to scaffold collaborative groupwork and decisionmaking. The instruction was provided by an undergraduate Data Science major and the firstauthor, a graduate student in engineering education. The scaffolds include a set of groupworknorms (Figure 1), adapted from Morris [16] and a decision matrix (Figure 2) developed by theauthors.Figure