grew students not only grasped the course materials but also know how to apply their knowledge in practical applications which is the most exciting parts of being an instructor. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WIP: Assessing Student Performance and Perceptions in a “Flipped” Statics and Mechanics Engineering CourseIntroductionThe “flipped” classroom (also known as the inverted classroom) model has been a point ofdiscussion among many academic circles for the past couple of decades. With the emergence ofeducational technology and online-learning, flipped classrooms have become more common.Though there may be many different methods that are used to generate a flipped
Washington State University (2013-2014) and George Mason University (2014-2017). Throughout his career, his primary responsibility as a faculty member has been teaching students, for which he aspires to provide them with a quality and enjoyable experience. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Using Themes and Pop Culture References to Make Introductory Civil Engineering Courses More EngagingAbstractWith the widespread availability of online streaming services, students can easily binge-watchshows or videos for hours. Yet, the same students seem to struggle to maintain their attentioninside engineering classrooms. It is proposed that employing the use of themes and stories
st 1 year 64% 61% 85 + 42 = 127 2nd year 23% 25% 31 + 17 = 48 rd 3 year 8% 9% 10 + 6 = 16 4th year 5% 5% 7 + 4 = 11 During the first week of the semester, students self-enrolled in teams of 6 or 7 for an out-of-class design project using the self-sign-up group feature of Canvas (Instructure, Salt Lake CityUT); these same teams were also used for all in-class learning activities. Class periods devoted toactive learning where indicated as such on the course syllabus and schedule. On these scheduled
focuses on evaluating the impact of the criticalreflection of mathematics instructors in the learning environment of engineering students. Forthis, the reflection of the professors involved in the project focusses on the followingdimensions: 1) level of achievement of learning objectives; 2) coherence between competencies,learning objectives and contents; and 3) teaching and evaluation strategies, which includelearning activities, resources, assessment methods and the coherence among them, as well as thefeedback given to students.3. Case study: The Algebra and Functions course 3.1 MethodologyAs shown in Figure 1, this case study began with a review and analysis at the micro-curriculumlevel of the Algebra and Functions syllabus, followed by
Paper ID #24998Engaging in STEM education equity work through a course: studying race,class and gender theory in engineering educationMs. Tikyna M. Dandridge, Purdue University Tikyna is a doctoral student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University.Mr. Hassan Ali Al Yagoub, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Hassan Al Yagoub is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research in- terests include diversity & inclusion, advising and mentoring, students’ persistence, engineering career pathways, and school-to-work transition of new engineers. He
with “who to contact” if there areproblems or questions.Blackboard is the learning management system and is shown. The workshop shows how to add ateaching assistant and/or grader to the learning management system. Adding a TA or grader hasbeen a problem in the past.Bluebook is where instructors are required to upload their syllabus so it is publically available.Often new instructors confuse Blackboard with Bluebook since they should upload to both.Automated Student Access Program (ASAP) is a system used by the University for students toaccess registration information, class schedule, and final class grades. Instructors also obtain thelist of students enrolled in their course from ASAP and submit grades at the end of semester inASAP.The
examples from students’extended network (i.e.: alumni, student interns, senior design teams) isn’t lost in translation.Research MethodsResearch methods included: (1) a comprehensive inventory of course materials; (2) interviewswith students, alumni, and faculty; and (3) observation of five courses.The primary research method was an inventory of course materials drawn from across thecurriculum in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder.The majority of those materials were collected as part of the department’s ABET accreditationprocess during Spring 2017. The accreditation process required that faculty collect a syllabus,homework, and exams from every core undergraduate course [9]. Approximately half (7 out
buffet of optional summative assessments used to assign a final grade, it isessential to include a course module to introduce these concepts13. The author prefers tointroduce these concepts to students using “Happy Saint Syllabus Day” as the title for theinaugural course meeting. The author distributes a hard copy of the detailed syllabus to all of thestudents, and then proceeds to deliver a “traditional” didactic lecture introducing the details ofthe syllabus through a series of hand written notes on a white board. This in the one-and-only“traditional” lecture delivered during the entire semester. Between the first and second meetingsof the course, students are instructed to complete a series of online activities delivered using aLearning
different professors taught sections EngineeringStatics in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with no common syllabus or commonassignments. Drop, withdraw, fail (DWF) rates varied from 2% to 78% – students picked theircourse section based on grade expectation. Over the years between 2005 and 2013, I taught moreand more of the offered sections, effectively reducing course drift and enforcing a common set oflearning objectives.Figure 1. Total Enrollment in Statics Total as taughtinby Enrollment Howard Statics, Fall and Spring Author's sections, Other faculty's
underpinning, which aims to make them useful for as many as possible. But it doesn’t override the need to address individual student needs. It is important to note that even a course or experienced designer with a UD approach will not necessarily be appropriate for all students. For example, individuals are very different, even students with the same diagnosis. Students will still need accommodations on an individual basis. ● Thus, while using a UD approach to course design tends to make the course accessible for more students by accounting for variety, it does not account for everything.Acknowledging a Diverse Student Population● Increasing recognition of diversity ○ Including students with non-visible
students to not ask questions that are covered on the syllabus?PurposeA syllabus has multiple functions that should be considered while creating the document. (1) Plan the course (for example, lay out the schedule and the assessments) (2) Communicate the objectives of the course (for elective courses, help students decide whether they truly want to take the course or not) (3) Serve as a “contract” or at least a “reference guide” for course policies (how to contact the instructor/s, coursework policies, etc)ContentAt a minimum, your syllabus should include the following information. Beneath each “main item”on this list are questions to consider as you decide what to include and how.• Course number, title, semester, section(s
in real time during the lab sessions, itbecame clear to me that in most cases the major deficiencies resided in post-lab work and in theirability to submit a coherent, well written final report. Trying to dissect the source and location ofthe deficiencies, I decided to keep track of the performance of the various lab classes with themetric of these parameters. The hope was to be able to characterize with some quantitativemeasures (a) the progress of the class, if any, within the same semester/lab and (b) the progressof the class along the sequence of the four lab courses described above.Accordingly, while all the reports were graded following the syllabus description, I also kept arecord for myself with the marks assigned in each one of the
analysisactivities including:1. Content analysis of AM course syllabi will be used to develop lists of skills gained by students who successfully complete AM coursework. The unit of analysis is a syllabus from an individual course. All occupational completion points, student performance outcomes, or standards and/or certifications covered in the material will be analyzed through an iterative process using the codebook derived from relevant national, state, and professional standards and industry certifications. Researchers will also use established instruments to measure the extent to which the new professionals report entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial intentions [28-30]. In addition to qualitatively deriving areas of strong and weak
major, students must take and pass a two-course series:Thermo-Fluid Dynamics I (MECH 310) and Thermo-Fluids II (MECH 311). This coursesequence is taken during the junior year. The same faculty member taught both courses, and inMECH 310, the course used a traditional, single turn-in homework method. Homework washanded out and a hard copy was collected and graded by the professor. The following semesterin MECH 311, the same group of students used the dual-submission, innovative homeworkmethod. For the dual-submission, the students scanned in or took a picture of the completedhomework. For the first attempt, it is only submitted online. The difficulty level of the homeworkand exams are comparable for both classes. The number of the problems in
on the project, including graded assessment and student satisfaction;and IV) Discussion and Conclusions about this work in progress with ideas for future efforts.II. MethodsThe Fall 2018 course syllabus for EMAG at Messiah College introduced students to the IMDproject at the beginning of the semester, with details on Canvas, our Learning ManagementSystem, and deadlines established in the course schedule. A syllabus statement designatedGroup Lab/Project served as an overview of this project worth 20% of students’ course grade: For the group project, students will construct and experiment with a given metal detector prototype version (see Canvas for details) by working collaboratively with group members. Students will also
-know-you index cards; or Use an online survey. 35Classroom Inclusion Tips Be visible as a supporter. Highlight contributions of LGBTQ+ engineers. Always assume there is an LGBTQ+ student in the class. 36Campus Resources Dean of students Wellness center LGBTQ+ Resource Center An out faculty member Campus Title IX officer (for now) 37Ally Strategies Display a Safe Zone sticker on your office door. Include a Diversity/Safe Zone statement on your syllabus. Ask for pronouns. Include your pronouns in your email signature. Use inclusive
end of the semester. The book is a traditional digitalThis has resulted in a discussion about prerequisites and systems book, and the course is complemented withstratification based on the qualifications of the student online resources, and professor notes. In some casespopulation being served. Furthermore, Figure 5 shows the books related to VHDL are marked as supplementalnumber of institutions using these two pedagogies broken materials.down by the type of institution. Table 2. List of development boards used to teach digital3.2 Textbooks systems
on thetopic. Five institutions (24%) estimated between 4 and 14 student contact hours on the topic andonly two respondents expected students to spend more than 14 hours on accessibility topics atthe graduate level. Overall, few differences were observed between the undergraduate andgraduate levels in expected student coursework exposure to accessibility topics.The survey requested information on the course number and title for departmental coursesoffering content related to accessibility and/or the ADA. Twelve civil engineering programsentered course information for 23 different courses containing ADA/accessibility content.Researchers located online course descriptions for twenty-two of the courses and obtained syllabifor ten of the courses
the successful completion of a project. Future plans include incorporating the gameinto the syllabus during the next course offering with some modifications based on students’suggestions.In the second case study, the author shares how his risk taking pedagogical approach was appliedin converting a traditionally lecture-based microprocessors course into a studio-based coursewith great success.Case Two – University of New HampshireBackgroundOne of the most common courses in a Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) program is acourse in Microprocessors or Microcontrollers. Typically these courses focus heavily on teachingstudents how to program in assembly language and/or machine code. This makes the lessonmaterial look very much like a
includes the course syllabus. The changes introduced in the second year arehighlighted in the blue and the changes that introduced in the third year are highlighted in thered. The instructor information and the names are blacked out.5. ResultsThe end of semester survey and students final grades are used to evaluate the effectiveness of thenew introduced teaching methodology. Table 1 Provides statistics on student enrollment at eachyear. One student dropped the course during the second year due to family issues and anotherstudent dropped the course during the third year due to financial issues.Figure 2 shows samples of students’ work during the second and third year. It was interesting forus to see students’ ability to come up with different
uniformity across sections, and set ofguidelines was created. This helped faculty to better communicate with students and to handleany occurrences. The following list of strategies was identified based on the literature:Addressing MotiveA common method for addressing motive is the make any gain unworthy of the risk, becausewhen consequences are severe, students are more likely to conclude that it’s not worth the risk tocheat. The syllabus of the first semester engineering course was modified. The AcademicIntegrity section of the syllabus originally had a standard one-paragraph university-widestatement with a link to that part of the university academic catalog. This was maintained in theupdated version, but supplementary information was added to the
quantitative results yet, the benefits of usingvLabs were capture by an external evaluator who conducted focus group interviews with students.This section summarizes information during the focus group with eight students, enrolled atNNMC. Participants were interviewed by the project evaluator using a focus group strategy. Aftera brief summary of the purpose of the focus group, participants introduced themselves andprovided their year in college. Six students were seniors, one student was a fifth year senior, andone student was a junior. The group included seven males and one female. The evaluator used thecourse syllabus to guide the discussion related to course content. Students agreed the coursecontent was relevant to their needs, met or exceeded
evolved since 2009 and this paper will discuss anew approach to using UGTAs throughout a large scale, multi-disciplinary, multiple campusengineering program. This approach was created from the foundation of the KernEntrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN) entrepreneurial mindset focusing on the 3 C’s;curiosity, connections, and creating value [1]. While many programs utilize UGTAs inengineering or other curriculums, few have done so at an entire college scale spanning both on-campus and online courses or focused on the growth and mentorship of the UGTAs themselves.The goal of the Fulton UGTA program is to provide UGTAs with the motivation to create newvalue in the classroom that wouldn’t otherwise be available and promote the
(we have a wide selection of online courses through our Engineering for Professionals programas well as onsite classes if the student resides near campus) or through independent study(directed by the advisor who suggests book chapters and papers to read).At the beginning of the second semester, the student stands for an oral examination—thePreliminary Examination—based on the syllabus developed during the Diagnostic Interview.During the second semester, the student—who has been working on the research programalready—may have preliminary results and can start to refine their proposed research. Workingwith their advisors, they write a more robust research proposal grounded on the ideas in theirapplication and focused through discussions with
(four teams of fourwith one team of five). The teams remained the samethroughout the semester and sat together in the classroomto do Think-Pair-Share exercises [7, 8] or exampleproblems. Table 1, at the end of this paper, displays anabbreviated syllabus showing where in the course “SKYBEAR is committed to providing safe,assessment activities occurred and when they were due. clean, and cost-effective air travel for all nations of the world by designing
the course instructor, eachaddressing a specific detail in using a single concept such as loops (Fig.1). For each program, thestudents were given a few minutes to write down their responses, with the course instructor andteaching assistants walking around the class and helping those who were struggling with theproblem. Figure 1. Example of a "programming without computer" problem. Students were required to write down the output of this program as an in-class exercise in less than 5 minutes.The same approach was also incorporated in short quizzes in the beginning of each session. Foreach quiz, a free game-based online learning platform (http://kahoot.com) was used to displaythree multiple-choice questions on the screen for all students
, Morgan State University Dr. J. ’Kemi Ladeji-Osias is Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the De- partment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan State University in Baltimore. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in computer engineering. Dr. Ladeji-Osias earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Rutgers University. She is the Principal Investigator for Doctoral Scholars in Engineering. Dr. Ladeji-Osias’ involvement in engineering curricular innovations includes outcomes-based articulation and online delivery of undergraduate engineering degrees. In addition to conducting research on
,problems, etc.) prior to class. The students receive productive feedback through the processingactivities that occur during class, reducing the need for the instructor to provide extensive writtenfeedback on the students’ work. Walvoord and Anderson describe examples of how thisapproach has been implemented in history, physics, and biology classes, suggesting its broadapplicability (Berrett D, 2012).Flipping of Construction Management CourseConstruction Management course can be flipped in different ways. In the following sectionsthree different case studies are analyzed.Case Study 1A graduate level course was designed having the Building Information Modeling (BIM) as thecore of the syllabus. BIM was used in this course to integrate project
in the Kabul Basin, Afghanistan which he has completed in 2018. In addition, Hamidullah Waizy was employed as demonstrator and lecturer on the casual basis at University of Brighton while he was conducting his research and he was teaching courses such as mineralogy, petrography and economic geology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Capacity building of the Afghan universities in geology and minerals educationAbstractCapacity building of engineering institutions, particularly in subject disciplines related to geologyand natural resources is a major challenge for the present government in Afghanistan to tackle. Itis crucial to prioritize and plan the growth of higher education
department of computer science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His interests include (but are not limited to) joyful teaching, empirically-sound educational research, campus and online courses, computer science, engag- ing underrepresented students, improving accessibility and creating novel methods to create, adapt and enhance learning opportunities and learning communities.Mr. Yuren Xie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I am a senior Computer Science and Statistics and Mathematics student studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I really appreciate that I can live in a world where science and technology have been being used to make the world better, and it is my honor