neutral levels of agreement on all items in this portion of thesurvey. The exception being Q16 asking about students’ plans for taking technical electives inRF/microwave engineering with which they agreed more strongly. Figure 1. Project Connect participants had significant gains on most post-program survey questions as compared to pre-program survey responses. Each question asked about a different aspect of the primary goals of the Project Connect program. Stars next to a question number indicate a statistically significant gain as measured by a paired t-test (* indicates p<0.05, ** indicates p<0.01, *** indicates p<0.001). Q1 - I am interested in pursuing a career in the RF/microwave engineering field/industry Q2 - I am aware of career
Course and Lab Projects Development Director at Stanford, where he brings his 25-year industry experience to the role. He is responsible for the ongoing strategy, design, curriculum plan and instruction plans for capstone courses in the Mechanical Engineering Department, as part of a broad effort to redesign the curriculum requirements for the undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering. Jeff has over twenty years’ product development and manufacturing experience bringing medical and consumer products to market, through the course of my career journey with Apple, SGI, Nektar, Boston Scientific and Amazon/Lab126. In addition to working with and training engineers in industry, his 9+ years coaching and teaching
theequilibrium equations and subsequently a decision is made on whether to keep or discard eachreaction couple with the help of an equations/unknown table. We provide three examples to showthe application of this universal approach to different types of problems that involve bearingsupports. We have found assessing the effectiveness of this approach difficult in a Statics class,but plan on implementing an assessment in Capstone Design.Introduction and MotivationThe fundamental purpose of a Statics course is to initiate and encourage the development of astudent’s engineering judgment, at least with regards to mechanics, by employing the free-bodydiagram (FBD) as a tool. In a standard undergraduate civil or mechanical engineering curriculum,students build
her publications, research, teaching, service, and mentoring. More at http://srl.tamu.edu and http://ieei.tamu.edu.Dr. Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University Dr. Thomas is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineer- ing at Texas A&M University. She is a member of the Engineering Education Faculty in the Institute for Engineering Education & Innovation at Texas A&M. She enjoys project-based learning and incorporat- ing active learning techniques in all her courses. She received her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 2010, focusing on developing robotic motion planning algorithms and applying them to computational biology problems including protein folding
plants include mixed integer linear consists of experts in: (1) interpretable AI, big data analytics,programming, supply chain management methodologies and process analytics, design of experiments, computerdecision-support tool and queuing network theory; these have simulation, cyber-physical system learning, risk management,been used to analyze resource planning, scheduling, and and automation for biomanufacturing and supply chain; (2)material consumption costs, without including detailed biotechnology, regulation and drug quality; (3) biomechanicsbiological/physical/chemical phenomena. Overall, existing and mechanobiology
plants include mixed integer linear consists of experts in: (1) interpretable AI, big data analytics,programming, supply chain management methodologies and process analytics, design of experiments, computerdecision-support tool and queuing network theory; these have simulation, cyber-physical system learning, risk management,been used to analyze resource planning, scheduling, and and automation for biomanufacturing and supply chain; (2)material consumption costs, without including detailed biotechnology, regulation and drug quality; (3) biomechanicsbiological/physical/chemical phenomena. Overall, existing and mechanobiology
plants include mixed integer linear consists of experts in: (1) interpretable AI, big data analytics,programming, supply chain management methodologies and process analytics, design of experiments, computerdecision-support tool and queuing network theory; these have simulation, cyber-physical system learning, risk management,been used to analyze resource planning, scheduling, and and automation for biomanufacturing and supply chain; (2)material consumption costs, without including detailed biotechnology, regulation and drug quality; (3) biomechanicsbiological/physical/chemical phenomena. Overall, existing and mechanobiology
plants include mixed integer linear consists of experts in: (1) interpretable AI, big data analytics,programming, supply chain management methodologies and process analytics, design of experiments, computerdecision-support tool and queuing network theory; these have simulation, cyber-physical system learning, risk management,been used to analyze resource planning, scheduling, and and automation for biomanufacturing and supply chain; (2)material consumption costs, without including detailed biotechnology, regulation and drug quality; (3) biomechanicsbiological/physical/chemical phenomena. Overall, existing and mechanobiology
plants include mixed integer linear consists of experts in: (1) interpretable AI, big data analytics,programming, supply chain management methodologies and process analytics, design of experiments, computerdecision-support tool and queuing network theory; these have simulation, cyber-physical system learning, risk management,been used to analyze resource planning, scheduling, and and automation for biomanufacturing and supply chain; (2)material consumption costs, without including detailed biotechnology, regulation and drug quality; (3) biomechanicsbiological/physical/chemical phenomena. Overall, existing and mechanobiology
month with aprojected survivability of 28 passing through reproduction to reach harvestability during adulthood.A total of 1,992 eggs will be shipped for a two-year deployment of which 996 will be thawed inbatches of 83 eggs per month for the first year. The other 996 eggs remain in cryostasis as part of a Proceedings of the 2021 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Baylor University, Waco, TX Copyright © 2021, American Society for Engineering Education 3contingency plan in the event a batch fails to produce the monthly hatchling requirement or tank dieoff. New hatchlings will be placed in a removable mesh
engineer. Here are some examples ofstudents who have kept in contact: - Shannon C. – was working at a micro power company and is now working as an intern at Sandia National Laboratories while pursuing a Mechanical Engineering degree. - Linda P. – working full time at a micro optical startup MEMS company and is currently completing her two year degree in Manufacturing Technology with a MEMS concentration. Linda was home schooled and now plans to continue her education in engineering with the ultimate goal of joining NASA and participating in future Mars missions. - Brian S. – completing his two year AAS degree and plans to pursue a degree in engineering. - Paul T. – completing a
both from Michigan Tech. Her research program involves using complementary methods (e.g., statistical modeling and analytics, psychological assessment) to evaluate how individual differences are important and impact behaviors at a cultural, social, and behavioral level. She has served as a project evaluator in the multiple NSF funded projects. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 S-STEM Student Reflections and IDP ProcessIntroductionStudent reflections and using individual development plans (IDPs) for mentoring have been anintegral part of an NSF S-STEM project focusing on students pursuing baccalaureate degrees inEngineering
. Beyza Akgun, Georgia Institute of Technology Beyza Akgun is a graduate from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she received a B.S. in Me- chanical Engineering, a minor in Industrial Design, and a concentration in Automotive Engineering in May 2021. During her undergraduate studies, Beyza was involved in Georgia Tech Motorsports, the school’s Formula SAE team, research on prototyping in design, and assistantship in a project-based de- sign course. Following graduation, Beyza accepted a full-time offer at Triumph Integrated Systems in Connecticut as a project engineer, and she plans to further continue her education by pursuing graduate school in the future.Dr. Katherine Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology
to share the teaching load and learn bestpractices from each other such as project design and LMS (online learning management system)usage. This team-teaching model can readily continue even after the pandemic is over.Throughout the course, the instructors met weekly or biweekly to share observations of the classand adjust plans for the next few weeks. Content-wise, the instructors were able to share theirexpertise on different topics in several formats. Besides learning about multiple topics, thestudents conducted two team-projects with typically three students on a team. The first projectwas to build a touchless candy dispenser. We invited community children and their families tovisit the project room, one family at a time, for a safe
). New partners sometimes inquire whether that person could be eliminated from the program to save costs. In short, our answer is a resounding no. This person is the glue that holds the teams and their research together. 3. Team-based research. Projects work best, and the program scales best, when students work in teams. We have found that teams of between 2-4 students maximize the benefits of team-based work, while still making it feasible for students to find time to coordinate and work together. 4. Mentor students on planning their course load while they participate in ERSP. At UCSB, we found that there is a tendency for students to take ERSP as an overload even though they receive elective credit that
system (Author 2018). The pioneering engineering educators atTsinghua emulated the engineering curriculum and instructional methods from the US. Thoughthe teaching was conducted in Chinese, major textbooks and reading materials provided to thestudents were written in English. Programs like electrical engineering and aviation engineeringadapted relevant teaching plans from MIT –including a 4-year Bachelor’s program and the use ofa credit system. For the aircraft program, the general courses and most fundamental professionalcourses of aviation program were almost the same as the mechanical program. Of course, there arealso a wide range of professional bases and less professional courses.(Cao 1999).Based on the Sino-US agreement, Tsinghua started
that also motivated this study. Swivl robot-facilitated classes, as wellas continuous improvement checks, have been well documented in the literature as a means tosupport and promote instructor reflection and development. Initially designed to capturepresentations, the Swivl is a robotic mount for a smart device and remote controlled with adevice called a marker. The Swivl tracks and records the person holding the marker [3].What follows are guiding self-study questions that ultimately facilitate an institutionalcontinuous improvement plan, leveraged with the same formative motivations as the QualityMatters framework. (1) Can course quality be most effectively impacted through a full QM, 43-criterion review or can a subset of QM
change following participation in an integrated learningexperience?Below we describe the intervention, the integrated math, science, and engineering unit, followedby discussing our research methods. Finally, we conclude by examining our findings within thecontext of the literature.Integrated Math, Science, and Engineering UnitThe engineering design process anchored mathematics and science learning throughout ourintegrated unit. Students engaged in lessons to explore science, engineering, and mathematicsinterconnections and designed solutions for a water quality problem. Table 1 provides anoverview of the key topics addressed in the unit. Appendix A displays a lesson plan used to teacha key topic, conservation of mass and operations and algebraic
) learned that construction engineers will focus on “Business,Management & Contracts” (68%), and construction engineering students (ConE) provided “Cost& Budget” (76%) as the most prominent theme described. These themes tie directly to the riskand reward scenarios of different contract types that are presented in lecture, and then practicedin the game. Other themes included: “Planning” (41% CivE, 24% ConE), “Owner/CivilCommunication Coordination” (32% CivE, 35% ConE), “Construction and Execution” (19%CivE, 12% ConE), and “Risks” (14% CivE, 6% ConE). 46% of the CivE responses (n=37) and41% of the ConE responses (n=17) were coded to multiple themes. Most coded categories aresimilar in the percentage of civil and construction engineering
%.It becomes more crucial than ever to study how students perform and behave in classroomenvironments. A deeper understanding of student behavior, motivation, and interest are necessarybefore implementing changes in the curriculum. Student motivation has proven to be an efficient and reliable precursor to measure studentsuccess and persistence in STEM. Motivation is regarded as one of the most influential aspects ofsuccess [20], alongside sound technical knowledge in engineering. Across all disciplines,educators and practitioners have noted the importance of student motivation in producing anengaging learning environment [21]. The impact of student motivation is studied for decades andresearchers have suggested various intervention plans to
Figure 3. Faculty Mentor Goals andmentoring map worksheet was to provide an Expectations of Mentee Worksheetopportunity for mentoring to become a visualexercise, with mentors and mentees co-developing the map that documents career goals,development plans, professional networks to engage with, and identification of resources.Documentation of aspirations, strategies, and resources for goal achievement is an importantaspect of the mentoring process. Mapping these items help mentees and mentors create visualconnections and associate related characteristics and can advance mentoring conversations fromsuperficial to strategic [32], [33].Mentors were additionally provided with a meeting log worksheet to document meetings withmentees
students (n = 46, 23%). In terms of students’ residency, there were moreinternational students (n = 119, 60%) than domestic students (n = 79, 40%). For educationlevel, a similar number of students participated at the master’s level (n = 100, 51%) andthe doctoral level (n = 98, 49%). These representation patterns were similar both in thecomparison and treatment groups.InstrumentWe administered a modified version of the Skills Perception Inventory which was originallydeveloped by Alpay and Walsh 19 . Alpay and Walsh’s inventory was initially developed tomeasure engineering graduate students’ confidence levels after attending three-day work-shops to enhance transferable skills in four areas: 1) communication, 2) group work, 3)project planning and
Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education. His re- search interests includes diversity, equity, and inclusion and empathy within the engineering pedagogy.Dr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette Joyce B. Main is Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. degree in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University. Dr. Main examines student academic pathways and transitions to the workforce in science and engineering. She was a recipi- ent of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Educational Research and Methods Division
your hand, near your wrist. Watch likely to meet the criteria and Stretch out your arm with your palm as the water droplet rolls off of your constraints of the problem. down and try to balance a pencil on hand, paying attention to which 3-5-ETS1-3. Plan and carry out fair the back of your hand. Which way direction it travels. As you repeat tests in which variables are controlled does the pencil fall? Repeat the
stress will help us to develop strategies to reduce it as many colleges are planning toimplement the HyFlex model during Spring 2021. In this study, we have two goals: (1) identify the sources of stress for sophomore andjunior level undergraduate students during the Fall 2020 semester and (2) investigate the efficacyof HyFlex instructional tools used in both classes in regard to students’ learning and reducingstress levels during the Fall semester.Class Information and StructureEngineering Physics Engineering Physics - Electricity and Magnetism, is a 5-credit sophomore level calculus-based physics course and is required for most engineering majors. There were a total of 103students enrolled under 5 lab sections during the Fall
practice within engineeringeducation coursework. Activities were related to two 25-minute, video-recorded and transcribeddiscussions facilitated by two veteran teachers. These discussions were facilitated after studentstested their initial designs and before they formally planned their second designs. These post-testing discussions were products of a prior study in which each teacher facilitated a small groupdiscussion with five student avatars to support the students in working collaboratively to critiqueand revise each team’s initial ideas about design performance and improvement.We focus on three features of these discussions, i.e., how teachers encourage students to: (1)engage with other teams about their designs, (2) talk about constraints
widelyacknowledged that graduating engineers require a lot more skills that simply doing workedexamples about a single component of an entire engineering system, such as leadership,teamwork, and communication skills [17,18].Well-planned and well-conceived assessments can provide the opportunity to expand anddevelop these required soft skills at the same time as maintaining the ability to assess courseeffectiveness against ABET student learning outcomes and provide a ranking system of studentsfor future employers. Writing Across the Curriculum [19] is one example of this, where writingand communication exercises are incorporated into all aspects of the curriculum including thetechnical subjects that are often assessed only through worked problems. The
meetsoftware engineering requirements. Rogers suggested several frameworks for guiding learnersthrough reflection. One of these frameworks uses a set of structured questions about a particularexperience, and is the one we use in our study. The work of Schon, Dewey, Moon, and Rogersform our theoretical foundation and we used their ideas as a lens to interpret student reflections.Prior WorkVandegrift et. al. [11] describe an instrument used with an introductory Computer Science coursewith five programming assignments. After the second and third programming assignments theyprompt students to “Write down at least one SPECIFIC plan that you can implement to improveyour software development process”. They found that a majority of students could recognize
workflow, and describesupport for targeted feedback and analysis for the instructors. We present our plans to evaluatethe system, and discuss the results of a preliminary usability study.1. IntroductionRecent studies show problem-solving ability is being increasingly prioritized as a core aspect ofengineering curriculum and a fundamental competency demanded by employers. However, notonly are problem-solving activities time consuming for students, they are also often difficult toassess beyond simply checking for correctness of the final answer. In addition, it is difficult in aclassroom setting to deliver useful feedback [1]. While popular online tutoring frameworks exist[2], [3] that support structures for mathematical problem solving and some
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