highly motivating: instructorenthusiasm, demonstrated relevance through examples, instructor organization,appropriateness of difficulty level, active student participation, variety of instructionalmethods, instructor interest in students and their learning, and the use of real, concreteexamples23. Alternatively, McKeachie suggests guiding students toward developingspecific learning goals for a given course and requiring that they track their progresstoward these goals as a means of motivation24. By remaining mindful of these relativelystraightforward ways in which students may be motivated, instructors can be betterequipped to promote positive efficacy.ConclusionsBoth first-year engineering students enrolled in an honors program and those not
theoretical review and clarification. Br J Educ Psychol,. 63(Pt 1): p. 3-19. 14. Prosser, M. and K. Trigwell, (1999) Understanding Learning and Teaching: The Experience in Higher Education. 15. Felder and Brent (2005) Understanding Student differences Journal of Engineering Education 94(1), p.57-72 16. Wilson, V., Harris, M. (2004) Review of Effective Teaching and Learning of Design and Technology. International Journal of Technology and Design Education 223-241 17. Pink, D., (2005). A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future the Berkely Publishing Group, Published by the Penguin Group. New York
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” emphasizes that accreditation is a process of improvement. If there is not a process in place, or if weaknesses in the process exist, don’t try to cover it up.9. Be really nice to your reviewers The reviewers are there to help. Cooperate in every way with requests for information. Don’t use faculty interviews to air personal grievances about department policies or politics. A professional detachment should be maintained at all times. Always keep in mind that it is the job of the department as a whole to insure that the reviewers have access to all of the information that they need to make a good decision on accreditation of a program. Making life harder for the reviewers
students. To help address this problem, a graduate course titled “Theory and Methods of Research”has been developed and is now required for all chemical engineering graduate students. The goalof this course is to systematically present to the students many of the common situations thatmake up the graduate school experience. This includes communication skills such as outlines,abstracts, proposals, journal articles, and oral presentations. Research oriented topics includediscussion of the scientific method, research methods and instruments, and critical reviews ofjournal articles. Professional ethics as a student and researcher are also discussed. Otherinformative lectures cover subjects such as copyright, patents, and research notebooks
AC 2012-2949: ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING USING FLEMING & MILLS’VARK LEARNING STYLESDr. Mysore Narayanan, Miami University Mysore Narayanan obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of electrical and electronic engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several ency- clopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional, national, and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized, and chaired several conferences for Miami University and conference sessions for a variety of organizations. He is a
the path that I have been working towards. • Having mentors close to me and being exposed to like-minded people and hearing their testimonies and experiences was definitely encouraging for me and did have an impact in my confidence level to just keep moving forward. • Being in SUSTAIN really gave me hope that I could be finding different avenues toward pursuing a career that could benefit my community.This program taught valuable engineering technology skills to groups of students from allmajors. These groups gained confidence that they could be involved in the creation of atechnological solution, even though most they were not pursuing an engineering career. Studentswith a focus in engineering technology, of
Paper ID #42727The Thurman Botanical Tapestry: Integrating Engineering Design, BotanicalAesthetics, Scientific Innovation, and Pedagogical EnrichmentDr. Pavel Navitski, Oral Roberts University Dr. Pavel Navitski is Associate Professor at Oral Roberts University from 01/2020 after a stint as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Oklahoma State University, where he was researching drift detecting using sensor systems for field spraying and guest lecturing. He is originally from Belarus, where he was the head of the department of agricultural machines at the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy. The Belarusian State Agricultural
means of assessing performance of transportation Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationsystems. While these metrics are familiar to planners, engineers, policy makers and evencitizens, many of them were developed more than 50 years ago, do not necessarily reflect localconditions and are not extensively validated. The use of these simple qualitative (A-F) measuresbegan in response to the lack of data available to create “actual” quantitative metrics.It has been said that “if you cannot tell how your system performed yesterday, you cannot hopeto manage your system today.”1 With this in mind
assessment techniques that can probably be utilized in any modernacademic environment. (Narayanan, 2004). These twelve techniques, combinedwith the twenty principles of Total Quality Management guide the instructors withseveral paths that can be chosen according to their discipline. Page 10.231.1“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”IntroductionOne can draw from the principles of Total Quality Management to successfullyincorporate technology in developing assessment techniques. President Reaganawarded the National Medal of Technology to Dr
phenomenon to describe the tinkering, hacking, re-making, andcreating of technical artifacts, often done without prior expertise. Making comes from animaginative, creative mind-space, done outside the confines of established engineering educationcurricular activities. Making has a do-it-yourself ethos and is historically rooted in efforts likePopular Mechanics magazine who demystified everyday stuff for hobbyists and the Whole Earth Page 24.903.2Catalog: Access to Tools1 who surveyed everyday tools for the counterculture movement of the1960s. Additional real-world touchstones are the growth of Radio Shack stores and the 1980stelevision program
, engagement and knowledge retention. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Inculcating the Entrepreneurial Mindset Using a STEAM-based Approach in a Biomedical Engineering Physiology Course Abstract The United States has fallen behind in innovation compared to countries across the world. Despite the presence of promising K-12 programs focused on teaching students innovation andentrepreneurially-minded skills, not enough is being done at the university level. Lack of fundingand trained personnel are plausible reasons. STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics) programs have shown promise in improved student learning and skills associated with
Paper ID #36419Building Learning FrameworksDeborah Besser (CE Chair and Engineering Education Director) Civil Engineering, ChairAnna Roiger Civil Engineering Undergrad StudentNick E PawlakEmma Sullivan I am a second year student studying civil engineering at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Building Learning FrameworksAbstractThe aim of this research is to explore lessons, strategies, and assessment to develop andstrengthen students
, F. C., & Voltmer, D. (2005, October). Incorporating student peer-review into an introduction to engineering design course. In Proceedings Frontiers in Education 35th Annual Conference (pp. F2C-20). IEEE.9. National Research Council. (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school: Expanded edition. National Academies Press.10. Mattucci, S., Sibley, J., Nakane, J., & Ostafichuk, P. (2017). A Model to Develop Peer Feedback Skills in First-Year Engineering Students. Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA).11. Ferrando-Rocher, M. & Marini, S. (2021). Promoting Students' Soft Skills in a Telecommunication Engineering Course with an Elevator Pitch Activity. International
Paper ID #39732How to Address Sustainability in a Mechanical Engineering Program —Implementation and ChallengesProf. Sayyad Zahid Qamar, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Dr Zahid Qamar, Sayyad is currently working as a Professor at the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Muscat, Oman. Recipient of several research and teaching awards, he has over 25 years of academic and reseaOmar S. Al Abri, Sultan Qaboos University, OmanMoosa Salim Al KharusiMr. Sayyad Basim Qamar, Texas A&M University Sayyad Basim Qamar is a PhD student at the Materials Science & Engineering department at
in Table 4,twenty-three (23) participants from the first and second Bridge iterations transferred to topengineering programs within two (2) years. More importantly, eleven (11) First Bridge participantsare on track for bachelor’s degree completion within four (4) years. Without the ContextualizedBridge strategies, it is unlikely that these students could have successfully navigated the rigor andexpectations of the demanding engineering curriculum, especially within the four-year timeframe.Without receiving equity minded academic interventions through Bridge participation, their lowinitial math placement would most likely have prevented them from accessing selectiveengineering schools upon transfer, and they would not be completing their
Paper ID #36947Personhood at the ExtremesDr. Suzanne Keilson, Loyola University, Maryland Suzanne Keilson is a faculty member at Loyola University Maryland. Her background and degrees are in Applied Physics and her research interests include signal processing, biomedical and materials engineer- ing, design, STEM education and assistive technologies.. She has served in the Mid-Atlantic section of ASEE for a number of years and is active in ASME and IEEE activities. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Personhood at the ExtremesAbstractThis paper investigates
Paper ID #16895Developing a Questionnaire and Evaluation Methods for a High School RocketProgramMr. Ibrahim Halil Yeter, Texas Tech University Ibrahim H. Yeter is currently a PhD candidate in the Curriculum and Instruction program at the College of Education, and at the same time, he is pursuing his Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University. He is highly interested in conducting research within the Engineering Education frame- work. Mr. Yeter plans to graduate in December 2016 with both degrees and is looking forward to securing a teaching position within a research university and continuing his
school and high school girls topromote computer science and robotics. 11 His Arts and bots is a combination of crafting andcommon robotics programming that promotes collaborative “expression-focused robots”rather than competition based robotics.12In our work, co-robots are introduced as pedagogical tools to utilize engineering design as amotivator to teach Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics through practicalhands-on activities to students. Engineering education assists development of engineering“habits of mind” including systems thinking, creativity, optimism, collaboration, effectivecommunication, and ethical considerations.13 This paper reports on the first year of a multi-year project to engage middle and high school students
&M University Dr. Malini Natarajarathinam is an Associate professor with Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution. She teaches classes on strategic relationships for industrial distribution, distribu- tion information systems and new directions in Industrial Distribution. She is also the founding faculty and advisor for the Society of Women in Industrial Distribution (SWID). She works on many service learning projects with her students where they work with many local community agencies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016Women in Industrial Distribution: emerging opportunities and challenges for female college
invite diverse practices into the work in acollaborative and distributed process of imagining solutions for all.Taken together, these ideas suggest that learning engineering requires acquiring more than thetechnical knowledge (and we argue that it requires a distributed process), and that practicingjustice-centered engineering design requires incorporation of both technical and broader socialconsideration in all aspects of the work.Conceptual frameworkSociocultural theories of learning from the learning sciencesWhat is learning? If we look at popular media, we see that learning is portrayed as a faculty ofthe human mind divorced from interaction with other factors [11]. However, scholarship in thelearning sciences understands learning as a
Paper ID #18112Online Delivery of Electrical Engineering Courses Using the Online FlippedClassroom ApproachProf. John M. Santiago Jr, Colorado Technical University Professor John Santiago has been a technical engineer, manager, and executive with more than 26 years of leadership positions in technical program management, acquisition development and operation research support while in the United States Air Force. He currently has over 16 years of teaching experience at the university level and taught over 40 different graduate and undergraduate courses in electrical engineer- ing, systems engineering, physics and
allowed forclear product performance goals and a focus on technical problem solving. As Summer noted: I mean in order to innovate something new I feel like you have to have some type of goal in mind, I mean there has to be a purpose to everything to meet at least. Otherwise it’s not like a solution to anything, and I think that engineers try to solve problems usually. And if you don’t have a goal in mind why are you doing the project, you know?... And then also to see if it’s an actual possible thing we can do. I mean I think goals pretty much go hand in hand with innovation.While these students more thoroughly experienced the process of innovation, and to a lesserextent other-oriented elements of innovation
of the sites of this inquiry that are themselves theoretically important: theinstitutions‟ (1) approach to engineering education and (2) commitment to gender parity. Inengineering education, the pedagogical debate revolves around the sequencing of “learning” and“doing” engineering and is succinctly articulated in MIT‟s emblematic motto: mens et manus,mind and hands.iv Pedagogical models focus on the sequence of training minds and hands.Engineering education at MIT and UMass begins with the premise that one must learn (science)before one can do (engineering), “learn then do.” Smith and Olin, by contrast, begin with thepremise that it is best to “do and learn” (science and engineering) at the same time.v Althoughboth MIT and UMass have long
. Sociotechnical thinking inengineering is discussed using a range of lenses and approaches within engineering education, andI will attempt to synthesize some of the cutting-edge research.One major effort has been out of the Colorado School of Mines. Here, researchers explored a widerange of factors related to sociotechnical thinking in undergraduate engineering programs. Theyexamined the perceptions and experiences of both students and faculty regarding sociotechnicalintegration and its impact on sociotechnical habits of mind [2], [12]–[14]. This work wasconducted across a range of engineering curricular settings which included design as well asengineering science courses. One of their major research projects entails exploring student andfaculty
contribute to developingnuanced intellectual tools appropriate to a trend of ASEE scholarship identified by Neeley et al.in which engineering educators engage STS for projects related to “embedded sociotechnicalsystems thinking” undertaken by educators and scholars with diverse training [7].We hope thatour work in this paper will help us and other educators and scholars articulate goals for ourclassrooms and identify thoughtful strategies to achieve them.Many engineering educators may already be engaged in working through concepts that weoutline here, but they may not often reflect explicitly on how it includes and exceeds the scope ofwhat we might understand as “sociotechnical engineering”. With this in mind, this paper is notso much a critique of
students noted the importance of collaboration, connecting collaboration to a successfullearning environment and for their future as an engineer. Some student quotes in this areaincluded "I think that the concepts we were taught in the growth mindset are good for making mea better person and teammate, which is important in the collaborative environment ofengineering.” and "At a macro level, I understand now the power of teams, collaboration, andfeedback in creating a successful learning environment."Overall, these reflection results illustrate that having assignments related to teamwork keeps theteamwork topic on students’ minds as they progress through their coursework. Althoughteamwork was not specifically requested as a target of this
(highest upcoming percentage of young minds in the world), thereare several other challenges such as administrative set-up, overcentralized academic power, andrigid regulations that may hinder innovative academic practices and student learning [9].We realize that methods that work in context of the engineering education system and culture ofthe US may not address different cultural and educational needs in other countries. To extend thebest educational practices for engineering outside the US, there is a high need to identify thebarriers to teaching and learning engineering effectively in a specific country’s cultural andsocietal settings and address them through that specific cultural lens. As the third largest countryproducing the world’s
Paper ID #28127Board 19: New Engineering Educators Division: Lowman’s Model GoesBack to the MoviesDr. David A Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth David Saftner is an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He received a BS in Civil Engineering from the United States Military Academy and MS and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #22911Lowman’s Model Goes Back to the MoviesDr. Clifton B. Farnsworth
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.” Page 26.911.15 One concept that was wrapped into any course that it worked with was that of the engineeringdesign process. There were even several posters of The Works museum’s version of theengineering design process in many of the classrooms. Here we see that the class worked toincorporate not only varying topics of STEM and engineering but also the overarching hope thatthe girls would take away habits of mind that lead to successful engineers.Selected “What I want to know [about engineering and engineering design process]"responses: “I want to know why my LED bracelet didn’t light up. I sewed everything on correctly. I think it might be the way the