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exploring the current state of translational work and Page 24.313.3describing the rhetorical foundations for the procedure we developed.Translational workA main purpose of graduate education is to prepare scholars to be effective producers andconsumers of research. A significant component of this preparation is scaffolding graduatestudents as they learn to make and articulate connections from research to action. As called forby Nyquist and Woodford, graduate students must have the capacity to connect their research toother research as well as to practice: “Leaders in business and industry argue that Ph.Ds. lackcollaborative ways of thinking
Paper ID #8586Advanced Student-Centric Learning Practices in Applied Engineering Pro-gramsProf. Ben D Radhakrishnan, National University Prof. Ben Radhakrishnan is currently a full time Faculty in the School of Engineering, Technology and Media (SETM), National University, San Diego, California, USA. He is the Lead Faculty for MS Sus- tainability Management Program. He develops and teaches Engineering Management and Sustainability Management graduate level courses. Ben has taught Sustainability workshops in Los Angeles (Army) and San Diego (SDGE). His special interests and research include teaching methods (specifically
Paper ID #10737Critical Thinking, Reflective Practice, and Adaptive Expertise in EngineeringNathan Hicks, University of Florida Current graduate student in materials science and engineering at the University of Florida. Spent three years teaching high school math and science before returning to graduate school for an advanced degree.Amy Elizabeth Bumbaco, University of FloridaDr. Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida Elliot P. Douglas is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Dean’s Fellow for Engi- neering Education, and Distinguished Teaching Scholar at the University of Florida. He conducts research
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Embedding video-based learning modules for library research methods in an online graduate engineering degree programAbstractAt the University of California, Berkeley, the College of Engineering has launched a fully onlineMaster's degree program in integrated circuits. As part of this program, students are required tocomplete a comprehensive capstone project requiring access to the research literature andtraining on its use.The Library plays an important role in providing the information resources and instruction tohelp students succeed in their capstone. In response to student need, we designed an onlineinstruction environment that supports common information challenges, uses
Paper ID #8489Interdisciplinary Capstone ProjectsDr. Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University Arif Sirinterlikci is the Interim Department Head of Engineering for Robert Morris University, and a University Professor. He has been involved in ASEE and SME organizations in the fields of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. He has conducted research in Rapid Prototyping and Reverse Engineering, Biomedical Device Design and Manufacturing, Automation and Robotics, and CAE in Manufacturing. Page 24.799.1
Faculty Early Career (CAREER) and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recipient.Ms. Cyndi Lynch, Purdue University, West Lafayette Cyndi Lynch is the Director of Fellowships and Graduate Student Professional Development for the Pur- due Graduate School. Ms. Lynch is a registered veterinary technician, focusing on animal behavior. Her research focuses on doctoral student engagement and assessment of doctoral student learning outcomes in identified best practices, including mentoring, developing effective writing strategies, recruitment, reten- tion, and transition courses, and doctoral student professional development. Ms. Lynch instructs Purdue’s Preparing Future Faculty course and the
engineering fields (e.g. mechanical, environmental, orelectrical) through design challenges targeted for specific grade levels, contextualized in aparticular country (e.g. India, USA, or El Salvador), and set in a elementary aged child’s story13.Some researchers are analyzing the impact of these resources for integrating engineering intoelementary curricula16-18. For example, Karatas and colleagues19 performed a phenomenographic Page 24.270.4study with 20 sixth-grade students to understand elementary students’ views about engineeringand its differences compared to science. For this, researchers collected student interviews anddrawings of engineer(s
University of Applied Sciences, HS-Ulm in Ulm Germany working with their design programs and finalizing a dual degree graduate program between UAS and Rose-Hulman. His current research interests include engi- neering design methodologies, student learning styles, active/cooperative education and the integration of entrepreneurial concepts and practices throughout the curriculum. He was the 2001 – 2003 chair of the Educational Research Methods (ERM) division of ASEE, is a senior member of IEEE, and an ABET program evaluator. He was FIE program co-chair for FIE 98, 01, and 04 and served two terms on the FIE steering committee. He is an associate editor of the on-line Journal of Advances in Engineering Education (AEE
questions regarding their working relationship with their mentor and time spentengaged in research. Again, responses varied; some reported mostly “fair” to “excellent”experiences. “Poor” ratings (a frequency of 3) were only observed for the last item regardingadvice given about careers or graduate school. As with the WREP, the program recognizes thecritical role of faculty mentors in the experience students receive and steps may need to be taken toprovide faculty mentors with best practice mentoring techniques that the “outstanding mentors”use. Average responses are presented in Table 9. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for
through a switch (e.g., puff and sip or joystick). The students completedone week on campus, then traveled to the camp for children with disabilities for a week. Duringthis week, the students ate meals and attended various activities with the campers and met withvarious stakeholders. They also involved the campers in the design of the tree house. After Page 24.690.2spending a week at camp, the students returned to campus to continue work on the designs.This paper briefly describes the immersive learning experience and examines the impact that animmersive community engagement experience has had on student learning of design, addressingthe research
work has been trying to under- stand the bidirectional impacts that occur when students attempt to coordinate ideas and practices from the more basic disciplines of Science and Mathematics with related ideas and practices from the more applied disciplines of Technology and Engineering. This focus includes investigating how students learn to use the engineering design process as a tool for improving their understanding of situations along with their ability to design solutions for those situations.Dr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Assistant Research Scientist and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the College of Engi- neering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering
hadgraduated and did not provide post-graduation contact information. Finally, the paper providesrecommendations for future longitudinal studies. Page 24.501.32.0 MotivationFor the purposes of this work, community engagement (CE) is taken as an amalgamation ofvarious pedagogical methods, including service learning, community-service, and project-basedlearning, among others. The distinguishing aspect of CE in engineering education is theintentional design of the effort to incorporate service as a means to meet academic learningobjectives. Previous work has shown that CE has the potential for student development on thecognitive 16, 17, 43, 49, social
Paper ID #9815Translational Engineering Skills Program (TESP): Training innovative, adap-tive, and competitive graduate students for the 21st century work forceDr. Elena Nicolescu Veety, North Carolina State University Elena Veety received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, in 2011. Her research focused on liquid crystal polarization gratings for tunable optical filters and telecommunications applications. Since 2011, she has been a Teaching Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Currently, she is the Assistant
Program. Approximately 2300 students annually takecourses in fundamentals designed to ensure student success through rigorous academics in a team-basedenvironment. His responsibilities include operations, faculty recruiting, curriculum management, studentretention, and program assessment. Dr. Merrill received his PhD in Instructional Design and Technologyfrom The Ohio State University in 1985, and has an extensive background in public education, corporatetraining, and contract research. He has made presentations at conferences held by the American Societyfor Engineering Education (ASEE) and its affiliate conference, Frontiers in Education (FIE). Dr. Merrillcurrently serves as an advisor for Engineers for Community Service (ECOS), a student-run
,discoveries, and products is crucial for ethical practice. It contends that listening canfacilitate transformational engagement between engineers and the public by a)challenging stereotypes on both sides, b) foregrounding the technical and ethicalrelevance of diverse knowledges, c) exposing relationships of structural inequality thatprivilege technical expertise, and d) replacing such relationships with partnerships oftrust that generate meaningful and effective solutions.Transformational listening lies at the heart of a graduate engineering ethics course atVirginia Tech and future online teaching modules, funded by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF). The goal is for students to experience the cognitive leap thatethnographic research methods can
and 12 manufacturing of vehicles and explore new innovative trends. One example of a PhD research project, which was incorporated into a DO vehicle, includes doctoral work examining the design analysis for origami folded sheet metal [8], which was implemented in the third DO vehicle.6. Deep Orange Project OutcomesTo date, 5 Deep Orange projects have been initiated: DO1 “Future Electric Mobility” (completed in 2010, BMW Sponsored). DO1 focused on the integration of powertrain, energy storage, seating concept, and infotainment elements in one vehicle [9]. A baseline vehicle was converted into a range-extended, plug-in hybrid-electric vehicle with a unique seat attachment
expertise from programs at a variety of institutions to best address the career and professional development needs of students.Best PracticesOver the short years of operation, a spectrum of ideas were considered and implemented in aneffort to improve and grow the MSPM degree program and its TPM and SEM graduatecertificates. Some ideas did not produce the desired results and were quickly discarded. Forexample, advertising in narrowly read trade publication and using stock photos were notconsidered beneficial. The ideas that were beneficial survived and constitute a body of bestpractices. Some of these best practices are summarized below: A graduation dinner is held each May and December for the MSPM, TPM, and SEM graduates. The dinner
offer courses on Eclipse-based MBD of embedded system, only the graduate school in Chinese Science Academy hasopened a research course recently as far as best knowledge.5. ConclusionMBD is cost effective for developing complex and reliable-critical embedded systems. Thispaper presents our teaching experiences of integrating this new MBD paradigm into a system-level Programming Tools course for CE and EE students. It mainly describes two new topicsintegrated to this PT course: MBD concepts and eclipse-based software tools supporting MBD,from the course materials preparation and instruction approaches two aspects. In the future,students and our teachers will together create and gather more capstone projects related to MBDby means of eclipse-based
Obj 2: Provide a forum for hands-on training and practice Obj 3: Emphasize best practice teaching techniquesGOAL III: Enhance Professional development opportunities Obj 1: Create an open mentoring environment between Fellows and Faculty Obj 2: Encourage self-efficacy and self-confidence of TF’s in public-presentation environment Obj 3: Provide the opportunity for TFs to review basic knowledge Obj 4: Reinforce critical thinking skills through public dialogMethodsThere are eight TFs who participated in the training program, six men and two women. Theywere all new BS graduates from this university in one of the four following disciplines:Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Computer
in execution time offered by reconfigurable computers over typical desktop computers. Dr. Gloster has also conducted research in the area of technology-based curriculum development, distance education, and VLSI design for testability. Dr. Gloster has taught courses on digital system design, ASIC design, microprocessor system applica- tions, FPGA-based system design, and VLSI design for testability (using VHDL/Verilog). He has served on the program committee and as session chair for several international conferences. He received best paper and presentation awards for a paper presented at the International Conference on Computer Design and has received numerous fellowships and distinguished awards. Dr. Gloster holds
Paper ID #9747Analysis of a Short-Term STEM Intervention Targeting Middle School Girlsand Their Parents (Research to Practice)Ms. Christina ”Chris” Deckard, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific Christina Deckard is a native San Diegan and enjoys the beach and the Southern California weather. Ms. Deckard graduated top of her class in Physics from San Diego State University in 1983. She enjoyed learning so much that she kept going back for more and received a Master’s in Physics and a Master’s in Mathematics. Ms. Deckard has been working at SPAWAR Systems Center for over 30 years. She has worked in the areas of acoustics, lasers
acknowledgingthe value of journaling, there exists an opportunity to examine what can be done to increasethe effectiveness of this reflective practice as a tool for student development and assessment.Construction of Reflective Prompts Using Boud’s stages of experiential learning, the researcher intended to construct thereflective prompts to target those three stages. Journals can be given a structure to reflect howthey are progressing. A collection of reflective prompts for a GDT student would at first get atideas that are concerned about what expectations they have about their involvement, then thebulk of the journal would be concerned about the progress and obstacles being faced as thestudents delve into their design and finally the journal would
, and research practices in science.Dr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa D. McNair is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Assistant Department Head of Graduate Programs and co-Director of the VT Engineering Com- munication Center (VTECC). She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in English from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include interdisciplinary collabora- tion, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics
supervisors, this might be a limiting factor in otheruniversity climates.RecommendationsThe following sections will discuss recommendations for future courses or programssimilar to the practicum experience, as well as a model for how this experience could beimplemented for other graduate teaching experiences.General RecommendationsThe effectiveness of this engineering education practicum course indicates that it haspotential as a useful approach to GTA training and future engineering faculty training.Ground the course in relevant literature establishes the importance of constructingteaching strategies around established research and proven practices. This sentiment isechoed by the Innovations with Impact report published by ASEE as an important
design process was included during the second class period (75minutes) of the semester and detailed divergent-convergent thinking10 and included nuancesfrom other best practice articles.12,13 Based on their declared engineering majors, students werethen divided into multidisciplinary teams for the semester, supporting ABET Criterion 3,outcome d.14 The teams in each section completed projects in each of three engineeringdisciplines: civil, electrical and mechanical; albeit in different orders depending on the section.The projects were rotated through each section so that all student teams were assigned eachproject. The projects included the design, construction, and testing of: A wind turbine where students predicted the current produced
professor in the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department. He co- ordinates the occupational safety option of the industrial technology degree program and the occupational safety certificate program for the department. His research interests are in agricultural and workplace safety and the scholarship of teaching and learning associated with safety, engineering, and technology curricula.Prof. Mack Shelley, Iowa State University Mack Shelley is a Full Professor with joint appointment in the Departments of Statistics and Political Science. He holds the title of University Professor [”The University Professorship recognizes faculty members who have had a significant impact on their department(s) and the university
demonstratedthe importance of research experiences for the preparation of eventual graduate students. At thepre-graduate level, themes related to network access and the role of the institution in facilitatingintellectual experiences were important for the study participants. At the graduate level, identity-trajectory reiterated the need for careful design of the research laboratory, and the importance ofnetworks for graduate student success.Overview of literatureIdentity-trajectory, introduced by McAlpine 8,10 is a theoretical framework used to understand theprofessional development of graduate students and early career academics through threestrands11: network, intellectual and institution. Network focuses on the relationships andresponsibilities that
Page 24.1087.6 process in science and engineering research. While the Independent Research module focuses on scientific preparedness, the Best Practices in Teaching and Learning module offers the trainees a window into how they, and others, learn, and how research can guide the design of teaching and learning environments. This module provides trainees scaffolding for the annual redesign and assessment of the IGERT curriculum. Trainees read and discuss relevant literature, guided by an engineering education professor and trainees under her mentorship. The application of educational frameworks such as Backwards Design33 and How People Learn5 are used to help guide trainees consideration of
. Nanette M. Veilleux, Simmons CollegeMrs. Caitlin Hawkinson Wasilewski, Seattle Pacific University Page 24.977.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 People Matter: The Role of Faculty and Peers in Students’ Academic EngagementAbstractThis paper presents findings from an engineering education study whose results lead tosuggestions for best practices to improve the teaching and learning experience in engineeringclassrooms.Over the past four years we have been exploring the role of a student’s connection to communityon his/her engagement with