program; Section 3 describes the first-year implementation, including recruitment andmentor development, as well as findings through focus group meetings. Section 4 presents theaction plans for the future based on what we learned through the first-semester assessment data.2. Overview of CAPS ProgramFunded by NSF, CAPS is a 5-year project that emphasizes broadening the participation ofunderrepresented minority students including female students, by helping ECST scholarsgraduate faster and with better academic records. The program aims to 1) ensure that 50% ofscholars graduate in 5 years which is 4 times higher than our college’s current graduation rate;and 2) ensure that 90% of scholars retain their scholarships year to year. In addition
model with remedial coursework needed,students may enter ahead of schedule when high schools and two-year community colleges worktogether to provide the skills that students need. Providing a more focused mathematicalfoundation for students who need help at both levels will create an environment that is moreconducive to finish university coursework at the expected or even an accelerated pace (with dualcredit and AP courses). Future recommendations include studying math programs at the highschool and two-year college levels that provide the ability to close achievement gaps, especiallythose experienced by minority students.Our Math Department plans to continue to offer math refresher courses and increase availabletutoring. In the mean time we
role in supporting strategic goals for diversity in American highereducation. American universities have integrated language on diversity and inclusion into theirstrategic plans focusing on hiring and research, thus articulating the importance of diversity ontheir campuses. Academic engineering librarians can consider two strategies to playing this roleeffectively. The first strategy involves three areas of activity: collection development, publicservices, and outreach. All three directly support institutional strategic goals related to researchand diversity. The importance of collection development lies in the selection of educationalresources to support academic programming and faculty/staff development. Public services(reference
alone were a $7.5 billion market in the United States in 2016 (Smithet al. 2017). Traditional herbal medicine is a repository of knowledge regarding natural productswith medicinal properties (Miller and Su 2011). Availability of the required medicinal plants andtheir purity are rapidly becoming issues throughout the world. The looming antibiotic resistancecrisis is an excellent example of the need for MSPC research to produce new antibiotic molecules.A research-based education program, like iREP-4-PACE, to identify new antibiotics frommedicinal plants and then produce them using MSPC affords an excellent platform to train studentsin essential skills that can be applied to their career paths.3. Plan of Operation and MethodologyThe complete
forengineering technology programs, to the best knowledge of the author of this paper.Reference4 uses “focus group interviews and the student perspective in order to investigate studentperceptions of flipped classroom in engineering education in many courses and subjects. Theperceived advantages, strengths, drawbacks, or difficulties, and students’ views on learning withflipped classroom were investigated”. Reference5 presents how a flipped classroom technique wasincorporated into a three-credit electrical engineering course. The paper discusses “student surveyresults, and describes plans to improve the delivery of this and similar courses”. Reference6 focuseson the implementation, development, documentation, analysis, and assessment of the
2015) since the nature of the learning experience, i.e.both quality and quantity of student activity, and methods of assessment vary in two settings. A carefulevaluation of student learning outcomes is necessary to determine the suitability of Mechanical Engineeringcourses for online education ensuring proper alignment of course outcomes with the instructional medium.Researchers have structured teaching roles in online courses into four categories, namely (i) a managerialor organizational roles concerned with planning, leadership, and monitoring the process, (ii) a social roleas the facilitator of discourse and discussion, (iii) an intellectual or pedagogical role sharing scholarlyknowledge, and finally (iv) a technical role providing
. Head & D. Graham Copeland Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of Construction Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. His academic experience includes: transporta- tion infrastructure planning and design, infrastructure resilience, traffic operations, highway safety, and geographic information systems. His research interests include: constructing spatial databases for bet- ter management of transportation infrastructure, improving transportation design, operation, safety and construction, understanding long-term effects of urban development patterns, and advancing active living within the built environment for improved public health. He teaches courses in interchange design, trans- portation
, Initial Implementation data, Research Project Plan-intermediate and final submissions; Reviews, Presentations, Grading Figure 1; EM Capstone Project’s Two Courses and their OutputsThe output of the first capstone course is a detailed project plan addressing all aspects of projectimplementation including data collection, modeling, risk mitigation, schedule and financial plan. Theproject is implemented during the second course
Department of Mining Engineering. He served as the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering from 1998 to 2006. He was appointed Dean of the School of Engineering at SIU Edwardsville in August 2006. He retired in 2016. Until 2000, most of Dr. Sevim’s publications were in mine systems optimization and open pit mine production planning. After 2000, in parallel with his administrative appointments, he mostly published in the area of engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Avoiding the Pitfalls in International Collaborations – A case study Hasan Sevim and S. Cem Karacal hsevim@siue.edu and skaraca@siue.edu
and UShealth-care sector planned to use data and analytics to improve their services and reduce errors.As on today, only 10 to 20 percent of the opportunities planned in 2011 have been realized byboth the sectors due to the shortage of technical talent. [7]In recent years, employment for mathematics related occupations increased by almost 4 percent,yet over the same period of time, the number of degrees conferred in math, statistics, andengineering declined by 2 percent [3]. A recent survey from Harvard Business Review indicatedthat big data initiatives are underway in 85 percent of the companies they surveyed. Theseorganizations also indicated that they planned to fill 91 percent of their data science jobs withnew graduates [6]. Though the
writing instruction across thecurriculum. Writing activities include impromptu writing assignments, peer review, outliningand planning exercises. The overall approach to improving students’ skills was: “group-basedtechnical writing development”. Assessment tools include instructor-written observations,student surveys, and in-class analysis of short writing samples by peer evaluation. The courseitself, which focuses on experimental methods in fluid mechanics and heat transfer, stressesexperimental techniques, results presentation, and technical report writing. Experiences in thiscourse have also provided opportunities for honors work, and research opportunities forundergraduate engineering students.Motivation As writing in engineering
planned for each of the fourproject areas.DisseminationBroad dissemination across geographically, academically, and culturally diverse universities iscritical for accurate evaluation of the overall effectiveness of LC-DLM cartridges and theirability to promote learning gains. To facilitate effective dissemination to a large number ofinstitutions, a unique hub-based system has been devised. Dissemination of the LC-DLMmodules is focused around seven national hubs, all of which have faculty members experiencedwith LC-DLM technology and implementation. To date, 46 universities and programsrepresented by 48 faculty members, excluding the project PIs, have been recruited to participatein the LC-DLM dissemination effort. This includes one two-year
doing, like 'How is your PhD going? When are you going to be done?" No. It's like, "Oh, okay. You're here. Are you planning to have kids? They're the ones asking where my relationship situation is, [what] I'm planning moving forward. If I'm planning to have kids, because that's what they care more than if I'm happy. Several participants also described the "Why do you need to do this?" phenomenon wherethey are bombarded with comments that question their decision to pursue their doctorate. Jessicashared: Yeah, the whole idea of, "Why do you need to do this?"… my family, my mom's like, "People who graduate from Cal Tech make a lot of money, so why don't you just do that and live with [your
, and revising of all required documentation, • Submitting drawing packages, test plans, test reports, and other supplementary documentation to the capstone professors, • Submitting the final project report to the capstone professors, • Leading the final formal presentation, including the question/answer sessions, and • Serving as liaison between the capstone professors, corporate sponsor, support staff (e.g., college budget manager, machine shop manager, lab technicians), and the design team.Teams may also have an Assistant Team Lead (ATL) or a Chief Engineer (CE). The selectionprocess is up to the capstone professors’ discretion, and many teams do not have an ATL or CE.Teams that do have an ATL or CE select these members by
Ruiz , ASPIRES Program Julissa Rico Ruiz is first generation student pursuing a Civil Engineering major, planning on specializ- ing on Structural Engineering. Having taken several foundational Engineering courses, she was able to integrate what she learned on this research.Karina ReynaMr. 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. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Integrating Collapse Simulation of Building Structures into Internship Experiences for Community College
learning. [14]As our preliminary results agree with earlier literature, we recommend that instructors outlinecourse content to minimize the number of clicks students require to achieve their goals. As manyLMSs provide at least some statistics on how often links are accessed, instructors can useanalytics approach to plan appropriately.Use Clear Label on Folders and for Document NameOur survey indicated that poorly named items affect them. This seems a reasonable insight asambiguous label may affect the findability of course materials [15] that can demotivate studentsto navigate further. [16] Labels should be short, self-explanatory and clearly describe the contentusers will access. [17] We also suggest instructors use labels that match student
Portfolium reflections that I completed were very useful in monitoring my research and learning progress. Particularly during my training with Typhoon HIL, I was able to document specific stages in my skills development with the software. Also, other tours and visits helped me connect those experiences to research and learning objectives."Additionally, students learned how to create a marketable LinkedIn page; therefore, with ashowcase purpose, students were able to support their LinkedIn skills with specific skills listed.Another student stated, “I feel that the Portfolium reflections that I completed as an REU were a great way to expose and market myself to the engineering industry.”The program plans to continue
allows studentsto directly apply their theoretical knowledge to understand and conduct experiments inbiomedical nanotechnology. Participation in the lab course is optional, and all students in the labcourse were also enrolled in the traditional style course.Materials and Methods: Students carry out hands-on experiments to synthesize, modify, andapply gold nanoparticles to solve problems in a biomedical context. They are required to writehypotheses, develop aspects of the experimental plans, analyze data, and draw conclusions fromthe data.Assessment of learning was primarily evaluated based on the pre-defined learning objectivesrelated to each of the three lab sequences and student performance on a final exam in the lecturecourse. The
rather than asking their own questions. a. Do what they are told vs. plan and execute on their own. b. See the role of small tasks in the bigger picture.These challenges were not un-expected and were used as teaching moments to discussprofessional skills. To improve communication, students were allowed to determine the meansof communication that they felt most comfortable using and they settled on a free program calledSlack. The instructors focused on teaching students to write messages with specific objectivesand questions, providing a timeline for a response, directing the question to a person rather than agroup, and following up in a kind but timely manner.To improve individual ownership for tasks, team sizes were reduce to 2
/code-ethics/history-code-ethics- engineersAppendix A – Index of BER Cases from 1970-1998Case No. Subject70-1 Promotional Distribution of Planning Report70-2 Operation of Related Business for Nonprofessional Services70-3 Unauthorized Use of Drawings of Other Firm70-5 Dispute Between Engineers in Public Service71-1 Credit for Engineering Work - Cover Sheet and Advertisement for Bids71-2 Brokerage of Engineering Services71-4 Expert Testimony Report and Redesign by Another Engineer71-8 Advertising-Recruiting72-1 Advertising - Bold Face in Telephone Directory72-2 Conflict of Interest - Use of "Free Engineering" from Manufacturer72-4 Supplanting Another Engineer - Employee
information accurately. Uses citations appropriately. 4 Establishes goals, plans tasks and assigns responsibility to individual Teamwork (T) team members, meets deadlines, and communicates effectively 7These standards align well with the traditional sections of a lab report or a journal article andsolely comprise the grading rubrics for lab reports related to four modules. Detailed rubricsbased on these standards are tailored to each lab module and shared with the students.Communication carries throughout the entire report. Teamwork is assessed through weeklydiscussions between instructors/teaching assistants and student lab-groups.Implementation of SBG in Canvas’s
forcestudents to develop nonobvious solutions, which in this case was a boat. Furthermore, weare interested in testing different engineering disciplines and comparing their self-assessedand judged scores. This research effort continues, and we plan to elaborate by presentingfirst-year and senior-year students with more open-ended problems multiple timesthroughout a semester. Additionally, our panel of experts are still judging the students’solutions for creativity and validity. In the future, we may expand our judging panel toinclude engineers from industry as their perception of creativity may or may not bedifferent. The small sample size of judges may lead to variance in scoring, but we hope thatfuture studies include more judges to decrease possible
only some students. One step toward achieving this objectiveis the development of a prototype course available to undergraduates enrolled in educationprograms. During the first phase of our current project, the research team developed thisprototype course, called the CALC course herein. This course is based on our initial ideas of howcollective argumentation can be used to teach students how to code. This course was offered topracticing teachers during the 2018 spring semester, and the aim was to determine how theseteachers would use collective argumentation to learn how to code and what lesson plans theywould develop to teach their students how to code. This paper discusses the initial phase of thecourse and the knowledge, either existing or
) can be used tocapture 3D information and create such environments. Therefore, this research utilizes suchtechnology to create realistic environments that will be digital recreations of real ones. Thefollowing table (Table 1) illustrates a four-year plan that was developed for this research. Theproject is segmented into three main components: (i) 3D data collection and modeling, (ii)software development and laboratories, and (iii) Laboratory implementation and assessment.Table 1. Project timeline including data collection, software development, and lab implementations. Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Fall Spring Fall Spring
. Theintroduction of hands-on activities has always been a mechanism to increase student interest andengagement. 2.2 Action planIn a recent project we have developed and implemented some hands-on activities in “Women inSTEM LLC”. We have planned five hands-on activities (Table 1) based on statics concepts andimplemented one activity of how to visualize two forces and three forces in equilibrium using the“Parallelogram Law” into this project.Using the kits acquired students will work with a set of experiments in a small group with 5 or 6students. These activities will relate to the Statics course students are going to study later. Table 1: Hands-on activities Activity Description 1 Hooke’s Law
College Council serves as the studentgoverning body of the living-learning program. This opportunity is granted to a number of first-year students each year, and provides these students with immediate leadership opportunities inaddition to informal mentoring from the upper-division College Council members. CollegeCouncil members plan and facilitate a calendar of holistic programming as well as addressconcerns brought forth by residents. By engaging first-year students in these meaningfulleadership experiences, Teal is able to enhance opportunities for connection between theacademic experience and the extracurricular lives of its students.Future ImplicationsContinual evaluation and assessment of aspects of the Teal community and opportunities
person and is related toSTEM makers club, which combines Northwestern State the change and growth of that person. However KolbUniversity (NSU) and The Louisiana School for Math, (1984) thinks that experiential learning is like a four-stageScience, and the Arts (LSMSA). The main objective of this process. The four-stages of experiential learning is:Makers Club is to make students excited about STEM and Concrete Experience (Doing), Reflection (Observing),to increase the number of students who are interested in Abstract Conceptualization (Thinking), and ActiveSTEM related careers. The newly founded club (NSU- Experiment (Planning). Some of the key principles ofLSMSA Makers Club) emphasizes
transportation system solutions. exams in Fall 2016 with the hybrid style as compared to 4. Explain uniform traffic control devices including student performance in Fall 2014. The average grades of traffic signs, markings, signal, and warrants. the first midterm exam for the hybrid class and the 5. Analyze freeway and highway capacity including conventional face-to-face teaching style were 86 and 80.7, the unsignalized and signalized intersection respectively. In addition, the maximum grade was 97 for capacity, arterial planning and design, identify the hybrid class compared to 92 for the face-to-face operational problems and carry out traffic
of the Project Management and Quality Research Group, and member of the Organisation, Quality and Environment Cooperation Group at the same University. Her current research fields of interest are competencies and professional skills applied to Project Management in multicultural contexts and for international development projects and qual- ity management. Currently she has a management position as Associate Vice Rector for Academic and International planning at UPM.Dr. Luis Ballesteros-S´anchez, Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid Luis Ballesteros-Sanchez is an industrial engineer and PhD from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, and holds a Master’s degree in the psychology of human behavior. He is Assistant
that students can connectMaterials knowledge to Products from everyday life and how they are made.This paper will outline plans, database structures, content and associated resources, and ifavailable by June, a link to a prototype. This is for the purpose of getting feedback from theASEE Materials community.IntroductionMaterials science and engineering (MSE) is a highly interdisciplinary field, yet still largelyunknown in high schools. Thanks to the effort of those doing engineering outreach, this is slowlychanging. Outreach serves to increase both awareness and interest for engineering. MSE is oftenthe discipline of choice because of its diverse and tangible nature. For outreach to be successful,it needs to be accessible. Outreach