includes a briefintroduction to the relevant aspects of solar radiation, including transmissivity, reflectivity,extraterrestrial normal radiation, and the like; additionally, a component of the requiredengineering thermodynamics prerequisite covers a basic introduction to all three modes of heat Page 22.1310.5transfer (convection, conduction, and radiation). An introduction to the various analogies whichcan be drawn between heat transfer and the flow of electricity in an electric circuit is required:heat transfer rate ~ electric current, thermal resistance ~ electrical resistance, and temperaturedifference ~ potential difference. In conjunction
program’s Wind Power capstone design team faculty advisors are adopting thesame approach towards their team’s design. Results are pending at the end of this semester.AcknowledgmentsThe views expressed herein are those of the author and do not purport to reflect the position ofthe United States Military Academy, the Department of the Army, or the Department of Defense.Bibliography1. ABET Board of Directors, “2006-2007 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,” EngineeringAccreditation Commission, ABET, Inc., Baltimore, MD, Oct. 2005.2. From http://psychology.about.com/od/sindex/g/def_schema.htm, accessed on 2 January 2011.3. Felder, R.M., “How Students Learn: Adapting Teaching Styles to Learning Styles,” Frontiers in EducationConference
projects will reflect that.ConclusionsBased on a study of student results in recent years, the authors believe that the topics learned bystudents in the required Vibrations course in the undergraduate Mechanical Engineering programcan have a beneficial effect on student learning in the Dynamic Systems and Control course. Thisimplies that Vibrations should be made a pre- or co-requisite to the DCS course. The secondoption appeared the most effective based on the present study. The study will continue for acouple more years to gain enough confidence in making the associated change in the schedule. Page 22.1152.7References1. S.K. Sweeney, D.H
of the instruction in self-regulated learning and hopefully, the effectiveness of using robotics. Freshmen completing theUniversity Success course during the same semester will be used as a control for evaluating theeffectiveness of laboratory experiment. This evaluation will require approximately 5 years sincethis is close to the current average time in which engineering students are completing theirundergraduate degrees at the institution.AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank the National Science Foundation (under grant DUE-0837395)for its support of this project. Any opinions, findings, or conclusions or recommentationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of NSF
research. The CS department has a two semester capstone inwhich the first semester earns 0-credits and is intended to be used for project selection. Thesecond semester earns 4-credits and is for implementation. This sequence was also sub-optimaldue to the credits being earned not reflecting the amount of work at each stage of the project.3. Design ApproachEach of the departmental teams were responsible for a sub-system of the final robot. Thesesubsystems corresponded to the deliverables for their respective department’s capstonerequirements. The three main sub-systems were: A) Mechanical System (Propulsion, Digging, Dumping) B) Electrical System (Propulsion, Power Delivery Motor control electronics) C) Control System (Wireless
in REU’s, or living in the ERC. Theresponses are presented in Table 4. In general, the peer mentors are active in studentprofessional and academic programs that are encouraged and supported through the STEPfreshmen programs; especially significant is the percentage of students active in their studentchapter of their professional society and the fact that they had formed study groups with otherengineering students. Approximately half of the peer mentors are past participants of either the E2 bridge campor the ENGR 1050 class. The survey asked the previous campers to reflect on their freshmenyear and comment on their preparedness for classes and whether they participate in university orcollege activities and programs, (Table 5). Overall
single project, these barriers can beminimized, allowing students who were formerly segregated by classes to work together as acohesive unit to solve a problem.During the 2009-2010 academic year, students from the Electrical Engineering program workedwith a Civil Engineering Capstone Design team on the latter’s senior project. During the yearlong project, team meetings were held, requiring the students from each discipline to worktogether, share information, understand what the others were doing, and ultimately complete theproject successfully. Upon completion, students were asked to reflect on their experience andwhat they gained from it. This paper presents the project the students were engaged in, theassessment of the outcomes, and some of
reflect university strategic priorities addressing intercultural understanding, diversityand equity, TA training programs were expected to explore various strategies to prepare TAs towork in culturally and socially diverse classrooms. This mandate is met in the program byintroducing these topics in the discussions and having the trainees approach various scenariosfrom different cultural perspectives other than their own. This tends to lead to discussions aboutthe various cultural and social hurdles that exist in our diverse classrooms. Generally, theseconversations work better during the TA-Student Module. This result is likely due to the traineesbeing able to more readily/easily identify with the issues.At the conclusion of the 2010 Term I TA
later grades.through experiment, and communicative learning,which involves two or more individuals working to [2] Carpenter, R. (1963). A Reading M ethod andreach a consensus of understanding through discourse an Activity M ethod in Elementar y Sciencethat examines the evidence, arguments, and considers I nstr uction.Science Education, April.all points of view. More generally, involvement in A Summary Study of NSF Sponsoredthese types of learning modalities helps students to Elementary Science Programs, the study ofbecome more proficient at critical reflection on the fourth grade students found that an activityassumptions made in consideration of any
. CNS-0939059, CNS-0939088, and CNS-0939028. Any opinions, findings, andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References1. [CRA 2009] Computing Research Association, Computing Degree and Enrollment Trends, Computing Research Association Washington, DC, 2009.2. [NSF 2008] Science and Engineering Degrees: 1966–2006, Detailed Statistical Tables NSF 08-321, National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics, Arlington, VA, 2008.3. [DOL 2010] U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook – Occupational Projections and Training Data, 2010-2011 Edition, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau
supported by the National Science Foundation via grant HRD- 0533520.Opinions expressed by the authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect the policies of theNational Science Foundation. Page 22.1607.8 Bibliography1. Division of Science Resources Statistics. (2008). Science and Engineering Degrees: 1966-2006. (Detailed Statistical Tables NSF 08-321), Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation. Retrieved January 12, 2011, from http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf08321/2. Katehi, L., Pearson, G., & Feder, M. (2009). Engineering in K-12 Education: Understanding the Status and
-technicalmaterial, speaking for a shorter than expected period of time. Although limited in scope, surveyresults show that male students tended to rate their leadership and performance higher whenthere were fewer other men in the group. This research suggests that male students adopt moreactive roles and may have better outcomes than female students in project presentation groups.Introduction and BackgroundAlthough women are well represented among the total undergraduate population at theUniversity of Michigan, female students are outnumbered by male students in the College ofEngineering. In 2009 and 2010, the incoming class in engineering was 23% female, consistentwith national trends and reflective of gender stereotypes depicting engineering as a “male
in hierarchical fashion: research informs faculty practice, facultydetermine the students’ experience, which, if well managed based on research findings, shouldequip students to work in teams. People. People are the groups that will use the proposed system: students, faculty, andresearchers. The hierarchy of people reflects the hierarchy of goals: the work of the research Page 22.1303.3team supports the work of faculty, which in turn supports the work of students and their teams. GOALS OUTCOMES PEOPLE STRATEGIES
under development.DiscussionInitial tests of the portable laboratories show encouraging results. The students completing theprojects demonstrated an increase in content knowledge in areas related to the project materials.Content knowledge increases are significant. The content knowledge average rose from a poorto a fair level of comprehension. The students themselves rate the projects as interesting andeducationally useful. The students are learning and enjoying the process.AcknowledgementThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation under award: DUE-xxx. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science
the university.The teaching portfolio was noted as an appropriate vehicle to document, reflect, and organizeteaching-related activities of faculty. Items in such a portfolio would include: teaching Page 22.1498.8philosophy that is informed by the scholarship of the field; student accomplishments; studentevaluations; documentation of new things tried in the classroom; peer observation programdocumentation; and a description of service on policy committees regarding teaching andlearning.Recommendations and Implications for Policy, Practice, and Future ResearchThere are several recommendations and implications for policy, practice, and future
the instructor making them aware of the iterations that took place during their design process. Reviewing case studies of strategic design thinking “can help students realize the power and utility of iterative design.”1 Reflection in various contexts can be very helpful as well32. 4. Risk-taking and iteration: Offering students with lessons about learning from failures, approaching and accepting them, can be very effective in allowing students to appreciate iteration and take more risks while designing. “Instruction and scaffolding for systematic design” was selected as an appropriate teachingstrategy to illustrate the role of iteration in spacecraft design with respect to cost and schedulingissues. In particular
that contains a thermistor, a few resistors, andan operational amplifier. In general, the bridge circuit is used to detect small changes in theresistance of any of the resistors, which is reflected as a change in the output voltage. Thestudents are asked to derive the expression of the output voltage, Vo, as a function of the inputvoltage and the Wheatstone bridge resistive network, which contains the thermistor. The studentsare encouraged to refine their expression into the fewest terms possible to make MATLABprogramming and downstream design much easier to handle. The students are then required towrite a MATLAB script to simulate the thermistor and the Wheatstone bridge circuit. They are touse the thermistor formula (Equation 1) and the Vo(T
sessions, PAL Leaders are required to attend weekly staffmeetings with the PAL Coordinator. The staff meetings provide a venue for PALs to share theirobservations and experiences from classes and tutoring sessions, learn new skills, and assessareas for improvement. Administrative tasks are also discussed, including program advertisingand human resource issues. In order for students to experience the benefits of PAL, they mustfirst attend the tutoring sessions. The program must rigorously publicize the positive, uniqueattributes of the sessions to ensure that session nonattendance reflects a student’s consciouschoice rather than an unknowing one. It is the responsibility of PAL leaders to advertise through
Page 22.1470.7their value to the teacher/classroom/students.Fellows’ Journals. All SLIDER Fellows were required to journal throughout their participationin the program. This started during the summer training program when they were asked toreflect about the effectiveness of the summer training and how prepared they felt to enter theclassrooms at the start of the school year. Throughout the fall semester, the fellows wereinstructed to post a weekly journal entry on our online collaborative platform (T-Square, basedon the sakai program) about their experiences at the school and their reflections about whatsuccesses they were having and the areas in which they hoped to improve. Fellows were alsoencouraged to read each others’ posts and to comment
the foundations course Digital Electronics ™ asimplemented in an urban high school. The lessons observed covered two project areas:programming a basic stamp robot (3 hours) and the creation and troubleshooting ofcircuits using the computer program Multisims and breadboards (4 hours).First, the videotapes were digitized and entered into Transana21(see www.transana.org), acomputer application for discourse analysis that integrates the video, transcript text andcodes. Classroom sessions were segmented into clips, and clips were coded to reflect thepoints of interest noted in our research questions, in a manner similar to Nathan et al.,200922.Coding FrameworkOur coding framework delineates four different dimensions: A. Instruction time codes
3 5 45.5% n/a n/a n/a 45.5%Dean'sOfficesTotal 32 86 95 22.8% 26.6% 31.3% 23.7% 15.6%Women (36/115) (35/148) (24/154)STEMFaculty1 Represents Teaching (as opposed to Research) Faculty2 [2] Table F-2, http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/tables.cfm NSF, Women, Minorities, and Persons withDisabilities in Science and Engineering, S&E doctoral degrees awarded to women, by field: 2000–08. Values listedin Table 1 were adjusted to reflect RIT S & E disciplines and necessary weighting based on discipline faculty count3 Data listed is for a subset of
. Am. Ed. Res. Jour., 38: 915-945.8. Jeanpierre, B., Oberhauser, K., & Freeman, C., 2005. Characteristics of professional development that effect changed in secondary science teachers’ classroom practices, J. of Res. in Sci. Teaching, 42: 668-690.9. Supovitz, J.A. & Turner, H.M., 2000. The effects of professional development on science teaching practices in the professions, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA.10. Geddis, A.N.., 1993. Transforming subject-matter knowledge: the role of pedagogical content knowledge in learning to reflect on teaching. Intnl. J. of Sci. Ed. 15: 673-683.11. Keys, C. & Bryan, L.A., 2001. Co-constructing inquiry-based science with teachers: Essential research for lasting reform, J
, why it is important, and major mistakes that had been made in theprevious stage. The intent of these lectures was to bring all students back to the same startingplace for the next stage and get them to reflect on how their work differed from what anexperienced modeler might have done. The students in BME09 did not receive these lectures.However, the BME09 students did receive one short lecture between activities 2 and 3 to clearup their misconceptions about light and to provide a mathematical description for the light Page 22.236.5distribution on a surface coming from a single LED. A modified version of this lecture was
professional engineering environment.This is critical, given the nature of the instrument, as we posit that high scores on the EPS Rubricwill suggest high performance in engineering professional skills in the workplace.Table 9. Questions to Examine Validity Evidence (adapted from Moskal & Leyden25) Content Construct Criterion • Do the scoring rubric’s • Are all of the • How do the scoring rubric’s criteria criteria address any important facets of reflect competencies that suggest extraneous content? the intended construct success on related or future • Do the scoring rubric’s evaluated through the performances
Inventory(IDI). While this tool is widely used and robust, the major disadvantage is its proprietarynature: the institution needs to pay a fee each time the instrument is administered. One otherdrawback in using this tool is that it may not give the full picture about the learningexperiences of our students while abroad.Given this review, we assert that assessment of study abroad programs in a comprehensiveway is necessary but has not been done to a sufficient degree. Assessment tools exist oncultural sensitivity (e.g., IDI), however, results on these alone do not reflect the growth inknowledge our engineering students need to have, and show to justify the expense directedinto these programs. To fill this void, we develop an assessment instrument
author(s) and donot necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Page 22.208.2This paper has materials that will appear in: Ganesh, T. G. (in press). Children-produced drawings: aninterpretive and analytic tool for researchers. In E. Margolis & L. Pauwels, (Eds.). The Sage Handbook ofVisual Research Methods. London, UK: Sage. The author thanks Sage for the use of these materials.Review of the LiteratureThe use of children-produced drawings in research is not new. Margaret Mead used subject-produced drawings as contemporary responses by the public to events that represented rapidtechnological change after
-engineering own knowledge and to seek advice, reflect on their own capabilities, Engineers Nova Scotia's continuing learning and development, and importance of being part of a knowledge and skills to assist in and/or undertake research, to invite peer review, benchmark Learning professional excellence commitment to undertake
22.814.3on anecdotal evidence from teacher feedback to improve students’ understanding of fundamentalengineering concepts8,9,10. The Integrated Teaching and Learning (ITL) Program at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder developed a Creative Engineering course for students at anearby high school. This course focused on hands-on design based engineering in conjunctionwith the high school curriculum and demonstrated that students had increased confidence in theuse of engineering methods to solve problems11.Research on learning styles reflects the positive impact of integrating kinesthetic learningenvironments with traditional learning structures. A recent study showed that learning is aconglomeration of a variety of interactions12. The results
was never presentedas strictly a classroom course and the faculty have always utilized a portion of classroom time fordiscussion, student presentations, workshop activities and laboratory research. In 2006 it wasofficially changed to 2 cr hr “lecture” plus 1 cr hr “laboratory,” mostly for administrativepurposes and because it better reflects the distribution of what actually takes place.The course content has been detailed elsewhere 13, but is summarized here. There are five majorelements of the course: 1. Faculty led presentations – The course is not a “materials science” class and so does not cover classical material science topics such as the structure of matter. Rather, it is focused on processing and characterization of
approximately ten months later, this paperdiscusses the participants‟ reflections on their experiences at the initial workshop andexpectations about their own institution‟s future curriculum reform efforts.The Curriculum Development for Student Learning WorkshopFor over thirty years, hundreds of educators from around the world have attended the ConnectingStudent Learning Outcomes to Teaching, Assessment, and Curriculum workshop at AlvernoCollege in Wisconsin. The workshop highlights successful curriculum design and assessmentpractices that focus on student-centered learning. Educators learn about its innovative, evidence-based and externally validated curriculum during an intense three-day experience. Using thetools and information gained from the