growing need for help with GIS support, the University Library set out to develop a structurefor the support of Spatial Literacy on campus.Engineering support in the library has traditionally remained firmly text based, supporting theacademic side of Engineering research, but leaving much data development and practice in thedomain of the laboratory. In fact, there has been little demand from instructors for libraryinstruction in Engineering classes. In contrast to this trend, the Initiative for Spatial Literacy waslaunched by the libraries, by the hiring of an adjunct faculty member from the School ofEngineering who spearheads the program, collaborating with the university’s EngineeringLibrarian. This article will explain what spatial literacy is
interdisci- plinary emphasis in Public Policy and Administration from Boise State University. Her thesis was entitled, ”Nanomanufacturing Outside of the Lab: An Academic-Industry Partnership Case Study.” She also re- ceived her B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering from Boise State in 2014. In the Spring of 2016, Ann was recognized as part of the first cohort of University Innovation Fellows at Boise State, and has worked as a Fellow to collect and incorporate student feedback into future plans for makerspaces on the Boise State campus. As an undergraduate and graduate student, she has been involved with the Society of Women Engineers, and also taught a materials science laboratory course as a graduate teaching
. Graduateor advanced undergraduate students assist the team leader with the preparation andexecution of the hands-on activities.Each year, about 40-42 students are selected from a competitive application process, opento continuing students and incoming transfer students. To be eligible, students must havecompleted at least one semester of calculus, one laboratory science course, and oneadditional course in their majors. The first priority is given to the target population ofstudents transitioning between the sophomore-level and junior-level coursework. Thesecond priority is given to freshmen transitioning to sophomores and early-stagesophomores. Once the candidates are chosen, selection aims to optimize the diversity ofthe cohort within the groups
instruction for the experimental groups consisted of online videosdeveloped from the material content of the interactive pdf files of the control group. Again, thehomework assignments were administered on the LMS Blackboard with the same error boundsas the control group [11]. The homework assignments for all three classes were similar and allassignments within a single class were identical. The class time for all three SoM offerings wereused to answer and work on homework questions, work one on one with instructor assistance, orto work in groups on laboratories associated with the learning content. The distribution of thegrades for the classes is shown in Table 1. The number beside the lab reports and homeworkindicates the total number of those types
goggles or headgear). As a result, allactivities on the screen are also captured in addition to the screens solely devoted to the writingprocess: If a participant checks email, searches for literature, changes music, or instant messagesa friend, all those activities are also recorded. Though the resulting data is messy, we argue thatthe “messiness” is actually demonstrative of an authentic writing process, which does not happenin a laboratory setting. In real life, the “writing” process of experts might require significant timesearching for literature or checking manuscript/task requirements to comply with the evaluationcriteria. The video data recorded offers a wealth of data to analyze. In our past work, we providea literature-based commentary
State University Dr. David Hurwitz is an Associate Professor of Transportation Engineering in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University and is the Director of the OSU Driving and Bicycling Simulator Laboratory. Dr. Hurwitz conducts research in transportation engineering, in the areas of traffic operations and safety, and in engineering education, in the areas of conceptual assessment and curriculum adoption.Mr. Masoud Ghodrat Abadi, Oregon State University Masoud Ghodrat Abadi is a PhD candidate and a graduate research assistant in school of Civil and Con- struction Engineering at Oregon State University. He received his MSc degree in Transportation Engi- neering from Sharif
from multiple disciplines work in parallel, it can be difficult to overcome languagebarriers, inherent biases, and even coming up with a common problem statement [10] due todisagreements.The course employed instruction delivery approaches found in professional programs’ studio andlab courses where theory and technology intersect. In technology and engineering curriculumintegration of theory and technology happens in laboratory courses and in the arts and design it isin studios. In addition, professional programs often use a project-based, learner-centeredapproach. The common element in these integrative courses is the introduction of a team-basedproject with a set of learning objectives and outcomes focusing on ethical professional
build a remote laboratory for engineering students to test their circuitry knowledge in a virtual environment to them, yet their designs are carried out in real time on a remote server connected to actual hardware systems in Norway.One of the topics that was regularly mentioned was that participating in international experienceshelp the students to see that there are issues that need attention, which might be unrelated tothose from their own country. This revelation was one of the highlights of participation instudent forums, in both LACCEI and WEEF conferences that utilized the SDG framework forprojects hosted by SPEED.Discussion and RecommendationsFeedback from undergraduate and graduate students at both LACCEI and WEEF
in the fall. The course serves as a way for students to become familiar with theexpectations of college classes and to give them an idea of what mechanical engineering studentsdo. Students work in a team environment once a week on laboratory projects and open-endedmini-design projects where they incorporate elementary engineering design methodologies todesign some device within certain constraints. Once students begin working on their final designprojects, they meet outside of class to brainstorm ideas, build and test prototypes, and refine theirfinal designs. The final project typically lasts five weeks. Due to budgetary constraints, studentsconstruct their project out of common scrap/recycled materials. The final projects vary bysemester
. (2005). A Method to Demonstrate the Importance of Homework, Innovations in Engineering Education, Mechanical Engineering Department Heads, v. 2005Phelps, A., Sliger, L., Degracia, S., and Ganzerli, S. (2008). “Integration of New Teaching Methodologies into a Laboratory Based Course.” 18th Analysis and Computation Specialty Conference, 1-11.Prince, M. Does active learning work? A review of the research. J. Eng. Educ. 93, 3, 223–231 (2004).Rafiq, Y. (2010). “A Radical Rethink in Educating Engineering Students”, 19th Analysis & Computation Specialty Conference, 366-376.Savin-Baden, M. (2003). Facilitating Problem
classroom as a laboratory forlearning together. Teachers may want to consider how their classrooms can become moreinteractive, and what opportunities exist for students to teach each other some of the content(e.g., pairing students so the stronger students share what they’re learning, and they learnto say it in new ways).Reduce distance. Break down the distance between student and teacher by making surethat career mentoring and personal advising are available and your students know whereand how. Encourage students to take risks and see failure as a step toward success.Explicitly discuss the importance of finding mentors in the profession as well as how toidentify possible mentors and how to establish and cultivate relationships with them.Consider
Engineers for over 24 years including eleven years on the faculty at the United States Military Academy.Dr. Anand K. Gramopadhye, Clemson University Dr. Anand K. Gramopadhye’s research focuses on solving human-machine systems design problems and modeling human performance in technologically complex systems such as health care, aviation and manufacturing. He has more than 200 publications in these areas, and his research has been funded by NIH, NASA, NSF, FAA, DOE, and private companies. Currently, he and his students at the Advanced Technology Systems Laboratory are pursuing cutting-edge research on the role of visualization and virtual reality in aviation maintenance, hybrid inspection and job-aiding, technology to
environment, science, technology, and health (ESTH). Oerther earned his B.A. in biological sciences and his B.S. in environmental health engineering from Northwestern University (1995), and he earned his M.S. (1998) in environmental health engineering and his Ph.D. (2002) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has completed postgraduate coursework in Microbial Ecology from the Marine Biology Laboratory, Environmental Health from the University of Cincinnati, Public Health from The Johns Hopkins University, and Public Administration from Indiana University, Bloomington. Oerther is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE, DC, MO, and OH), Board Certified in Environmental Engineering (BCEE) by the American Academy
Committee. Inthe course, phase behavior, density, viscosity, interfacial tension, and composition of oil, gas,and brine systems are discussed. Course curriculum includes laboratory measurements,interpretation of lab data for engineering applications, flash calculations with k-values andequation of state and an introduction to fluid property software. CSR had previously not beentaught in the course, as it focused on the technical curriculum. In Fall 2016, CSR was introducedto the class through one assignment in which students watched a video about Chevron’s AlderGas Field Project and answered questions about Chevron’s Health, Safety, Security,Environment and Social Responsibility (HSSE-SR) and Sustainable Development practices.Fall 2016 Senior
Educational Research Association (AERA), Association of Black Psycholo- gist (ABPsi), National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME), American Society of Engineer Education (ASEE) Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), and National Association of Black School Educators (NABSE).Dr. Michael P.J. Benfield, University of Alabama, Huntsville Dr. Michael P.J. Benfield is currently the lead of the STEM Projects Advancing Relevance and Confidence in the Classroom (SPARCC) Laboratory and a Principal Research Engineer within the Systems Manage- ment and Production (SMAP) Research Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, a
thermodynamicsand transport laboratory courses require junior-level students to use MATLAB for all of theirdata analyses. Similar courses exist in many of the other engineering undergraduate programs atUC Davis.To address gaps in transfer student preparation, a one-unit “Transfer Success Seminar” course isoffered in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh to assist thesuccessful transition of transfer students [8]. Bayles identified MATLAB programming as abarrier to the success of transfer students in her major as many of the assignments required theuse of MATLAB programming. The author found that transfer students who took the transfersuccess course received ABC grades in similar percentages to the students who entered as
Maryland, Balti- more County. Andrew worked with a number of colleagues in NASA, the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), USDA, NIST, and the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). He is an ASME and IEEE member, and a Professional Engineer. Andrew was an Associate Editor for the Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineers and is a reviewer for a number of ASME and IEEE jour- nals and international conferences. Andrew is a 2018 Ontario Early Researcher (ERA) award winner (on intelligent condition monitoring strategies), and has been nominated for the 2018 University of Guelph Faculty Association (UGFA) Teaching Award.Dr. Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania Stephen
service at their university. Instruction style can vary as well with seminars, workshopsand stand-alone courses being used to teach RDM skills. Who teaches RDM can vary just asmuch as the audience: librarians teaching alone or in teams, librarian and faculty combinations,librarian and IT professionals, and any combination of the above including guest speakers. Often,there is preparatory work that may include interviews, laboratory reviews, surveys or other toolsthat aid in getting informative information to facilitate the work toward RDM instruction. Inorder to illustrate the benefits of the team approach to RDM instruction and the trend towardcredit classes, Table 1 compares the course type, date, instructor method, preparatory work andthe
. DesJardins is an associate professor in Bioengineering at Clemson University and the director of the Frank H. Stelling and C. Dayton Riddle Orthopaedic Education and Research Laboratory at CUBEInC. He has coauthored over 200 peer-reviewed conference or journal publications in the areas of biomechan- ics, biomaterials tribology, engineering education and implant design. He is active in many professional societies and review panels, including BMES, NCIIA, ORS, NIH and NSF. He is or has been the PI or co-PI on many multi-disciplinary research teams funded through NASA, DoT, NIH, DoD, NSF, the Gates Foundation, and numerous biomedical industry grants and contracts. He was a guest editor with the Annals of Biomedical
, construction, and laboratory testing experience was implemented for students to gain adeeper knowledge related to the bending and shear capacity of reinforced concrete beams. Thisexperience was part of the course homework grade. A design project was completed over thecourse of the semester, which contributed to 10% of the final grade. The grading style at University B focused on the problem solving process rather than thenumerical result. A scoring rubric was made for each problem prior to grading each examquestion. Partial credit was given for providing the correct thought process and writing down thecorrect steps in solving the problem. Deductions made for mistakes were not carried through theproblem. Points were taken off for math errors or
College was 48% (an increase of 2% abs. year-over-year) and for the WCOB was 45%(a decrease of more than 3% abs. year-over-year) [7]. One of the most effective means ofimproving retention is to provide authentic STEM experiences involving “…hypothesis-driven, hands-on experimentation in which the outcome is unknown, peer-to-peer support, faculty-student interactions, and academic support…. Classroom-based strategies that engage students in authentic STEM experiences are in line with evidence-based instructional strategies that require moving away from lectures and recipe-based laboratory exercises toward more open-ended and student-driven STEM experiences…. Undergraduate research programs and internships
be the most useful or effective as part of the integratedapproach described previously.Survey DemographicThe survey was administered to the Vantage College APSC students taking a mandatory first-year physical chemistry course covering the basics of material science and thermodynamics(APSC 182), and its associated language course (VANT 140). The language course providedinstruction primarily in the context of writing lab reports as the main communication-relateddeliverable of the program. Over two terms, students perform 10 laboratory experiments inAPSC 182 and must write lab reports for each one. The different tasks assigned to students inVANT 140 were designed to help them develop both general technical communication skills andgenre-specific
. Carrico and C. Tendhar, "The use of the social cognitive career theory to predict engineering students’ motivation in the produced program," in 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, TX, 2012.[18] H. Wickham and G. Grolemund. (2017). R for data science : Import, tidy, transform, visualize, and model data. Available: http://r4ds.had.co.nz/[19] A. Jackson, N. Mentzer, R. Kramer, and J. Zhang, "Maker: Taking soft robotics from the laboratory to the classroom," in Make It! Event during the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, OH, 2017.[20] A. Jackson, J. Zhang, R. Kramer, and N. Mentzer, "Design-based research and soft robotics to broaden the STEM pipeline (work in
Ingenieros sin Fronteras Colombia since 2012, and he had worked on several engineering projects with social impact. In addition, he has collaborated with researchers of the Laboratory of Cognition at Universidad de los Andes, particularly in decision-making processes and teamwork. He is co-founder of INTERACT, a research group on complex adaptive systems and social network analysis. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Introducing Changemaking Engineering into an Operations Research Course: Some Unexpected ResultsAbstractWith funding from a National Science Foundation (NSF) IUSE/PFE REvolutionizingengineering and computer science Departments (RED) grant, the Shiley
for Georesources and Pollution Research, Ayres Associates Inc., and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He earned his BS (High Honors) and MS in Civil Engineering and his PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin where he conducted research within the Small Scale Waste Management Project. Prof. Siegrist is an internationally recognized expert in decentralized water reclamation and in situ remediation of contami- nated land. During his 40-year career he has published over 300 technical papers and 3 books and was awarded 2 patents. His new textbook, Decentralized Water Reclamation Engineering, was just published by Springer (www.springer.com/us/book/9783319404714). He has given invited keynote
, established within the College of Education in Fall 2014, and the UW 3-DArtScience and STEM Maker Laboratory, established in the Department of Art and Art Historyin Fall 2015.To help maintain this momentum, the SIC planning committee agreed that an intermediate andmore centrally located facility might assist with broader campus goals, build anticipation for thenew facility, and launch a network of makerspaces on campus to maximize impact and use.Committee meeting discussions took into consideration guidance and advice learned fromopening the other spaces, including an absolute need for a facility to be easily accessible andvisible to students.When innovation and maker labs are not directly in the flow of typical student traffic, theybecome
deeper learning regardless of theprefered learning style (type) of the learner. Laboratory experiments and other experientiallearning activities [4-6] are well recognized parts of Kolb’s learning cycle.Creating products is the primary function of any manufacturing establishment. Product realization-based learning seems to be a natural model for learning manufacturing engineering [7]. Theproduct realization-based learning can be understood as a part of the project-based learning (PBL)pedagogy which is well accepted in education [8, 9]. PBL is also emphasized as one of the priorityeducational methods in manufacturing engineering [10] and industrial engineering education [11].PBL pedagogy is already successfully implemented in some manufacturing
engineering, at least 38have graduated with an associate’s degree in engineering and at least 64 have transferredinto engineering-related four-year programs. Of the transfers, at least 32 have graduatedwith bachelor’s degrees, seven are attending or have completed graduate school and about29 are already employed successfully in engineering careers. During the last seven years over 25 of my mentees were accepted for researchinternships at the University of Texas at San Antonio, the University of Texas at El Paso,NASA, Lawrence Livermore, Sandia National Laboratories and H-E-B. Since 2010 to of mystudents received Intern of the Year awards from NASA's Johnson Space Center.Tracking data of those mentored, including success rates, graduation rates
BME Students to the Patient Experience.” Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio. https://peer.asee.org/28185, 2017.11. Cezeaux, J., Haffner, E., Kaboray, A., & Hasenjager, C. “Design For The Disabled As An Interdisciplinary Laboratory Project.” Paper presented at 2007 Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, Hawaii. https://peer.asee.org/2199, 2007.12. Hefzy, M. S., Pourazady, M., & Afjeh, A. A. “Engineering Senior Design Projects To Aid Individuals With Disabilities.” Paper presented at 2008 Annual Conference & Exposition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. https://peer.asee.org/3598, 2008.13. Wang, Y., Ault, C., Nakra, T. M., Salgian, A., & Stone, M. K. “The Outcomes of