includes a series of five courses8.1.2 Description of workshop seriesAt the University of Waterloo, students have limited opportunities for acquiring formal trainingin working and communicating in teams. As part of the curriculum, students participate in aminimum of five four-month co-operative (co-op) work terms in industry. While on co-op,students may choose to take an elective professional development course on teamwork; however,we have found that actual student enrollment in this course has been very limited. Duringacademic terms, students have the option of enrolling in a student leadership program15 (thatencompasses teamwork skills), but, again, only a small portion of engineering students choose todo so. For a majority of students, a
are often more difficult.Furthermore, continuous improvement efforts as a result of assessment, whether or not thedefined criteria for success have been met, often involve very detailed and specific adjustmentsto the curriculum and instructional delivery. However, several elements of an assessmentmethodology can be employed that are helpful in measuring student learning according to presetbenchmarks, when student learning is demonstrated in such environments. Important assessmentelements include a sound understanding of the relevant competencies to be gained, theformulation of descriptive outcome statements, the setting of realistic benchmarks, and theimplementation of repeatable measurement techniques. A feedback mechanism, for the purposeof
able to quickly learn how to use new instruments with capabilities designed to meet thespecific needs of an Environmental Engineering laboratory and only a small amount of class timewas spent explaining how to use the Virtual Instruments. In another study, to reinforce thelecture portion of the course and address the concerns over reflective experiences in cooperativeeducation opportunities in a mechanical engineering curriculum, Peters et al18 introducedmathworks® simulation exercises. The redesigned lab experiments provided a positiveexperience for the students while meeting the course objectives. This type of platform may behelpful to meet the objectives of distance education programs remotely which seems to be arecent trend with increasing
arestarting to believe the causality of outcomes is slightly internal (18). Integrated regulation, theclosest to intrinsic motivation and therefore a highly self-directed type of extrinsic motivation(18) , refers to appreciating a goal or activity as important but still being motivated by externalreasons. In an educational setting, students high in integrated regulation would select and valuecourses related to their major but view them as a means to achieve a degree in a specificdiscipline or to acquire a particular job.In addition to a sense of autonomy and competence, students need to be interested in coursecontent and the problems they are trying to solve. Interest is another factor believed to facilitatelearning (13, 17). It has been broadly
, environmental, and societal contexts. 6. An ability to recognize the ongoing need for additional knowledge and locate, evaluate, integrate, and apply this knowledge appropriately. 7. An ability to function effectively on teams that establish goals, plan tasks, meet deadlines, and analyze risk and uncertainty. 16Responses to Proposed EAC Revisions• National Academy of Engineering and ASEE Forums• Concerns about proposed Criterion 3 • Removal of broad education, and multidisciplinary teams • Elimination of health, safety, and sustainability • Number of words about the same as in current Criterion 3 • Lumping items for
criticized fornot focusing enough on creativity and even sometimes eroding it. Patterns of diminishing interestin engineering throughout secondary education suggest that further work needs to be done tounderstand the impact design activities might have on student attitudes. This is important even asyoung as middle school when students are forming self-perceptual beliefs and career interest.Purpose/Hypothesis: The purpose of this correlational study was to examine middle schoolstudent design thinking and creative thinking changes following engagement in an engineeringdesign curriculum. Student self-efficacy, “beliefs in one’s capabilities to organize and executethe courses of action required to produce given attainments” is a necessary prerequisite
required sequence of laboratory courses, wherethey compose lab reports, usually evaluated by graduate teaching assistants (GTAs), many ofwhom speak English as a second language. Historically, engineering GTAs have not beentrained in evaluating student writing using formative assessment to help students improve theirtechnical communication skills.This paper provides an overview of a comprehensive research study of a GTA training programimplemented in the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at MichiganTechnological University, with more than 1300 undergraduate students enrolled in the major.Situated within the field of Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines, theprogram was developed to meet the unique needs
being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Dr. Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State UniversityDr. Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington Professor of Learning Sciences & Human DevelopmentDr. Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University Dr. Montfort is an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engi- neering at Oregon State UniversityProf. James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University James D. Sweeney is Professor and Head of the School of
States Navy working on aircraft and surface ships. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Competencies Related to Marine Mechatronics Education Abstract With the needs of the military changing in recent years, the U.S. Navy has been requiredto spend more time out to sea. Longer deployments limit the ability for the Navy to perform shipmaintenance and to train their technicians. Recent trends also include reduced numbers of sailors,who typically aid with more efficient naval operations. This leads to the demand for sailors withmultidisciplinary skills, in this case, electrical technician and mechanical technician skills.Mechatronics has long been an occupation that integrates
and mentors from otheruniversities. It is hoped that descriptions of lessons learned and anecdotal evidence of successesmay benefit other institutions attempting to more closely integrate entrepreneurial concepts withengineering education.IntroductionThere is an increasing interest and demand from students across the country for entrepreneurshipeducation. As highlighted in a recent New York Times article1, the number of college courses inentrepreneurship has risen from only about 250 in 1985 to so many that more than 400,000students were enrolled in such courses by 20132. According to the Chronicle for HigherEducation, “Colleges are responding to this interest, and fueling it, by offering moreundergraduate courses, programs, and
participants. She served as one of thefounding faculty of Coconino Community College, building an academic organization from the groundup, including development of institutional policy, organizational structure, curriculum and assessment,and establishing community and institutional relationships. She served as co-chair, editor, and contribut-ing author of the self study for accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission.Dr. Kathy Wigal holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership (Ed.D), a Masters in Business Administra-tion (MBA), and a Masters in Community College Education (M.Ed) from Northern Arizona University.She has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in educational administration and educationalpedagogy, as well as courses in
entrepreneurial need for engagementIntroduction Someone recently asked me, “What do you do in your class? I mean, I walk intoyour classroom, sit down, then what happens?” Ok, I thought, I know how to answer thisquestion: I wanted to enthusiastically explain the structure of the class as a theoreticalblend of psychology, engineering design methods and art; discuss the intentional purposeof building the curriculum iteratively and differently every term, based on the uniquedeveloping social dynamics 13, 41 of every class. Something stopped me and I resisted responding. In that moment, I rememberfeeling the need to shift from an automatic theoretical response 48 to some other,hopefully novel approach, that would underline how I teach; clarify
control. Prof. West is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award and is a University of Illinois Distinguished Teacher-Scholar and College of Engineering Education Innovation Fellow.Dr. Mariana Silva, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mariana Silva is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Curriculum Development Coordinator in the Me- chanical Science and Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her BSME and MSME from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and earned her Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009. Besides her teaching activities, Mariana serves as an academic advisor in the Mechanical
ensure that students understand the impact of engineering projects on society aswell as the social contexts within which they operate, to develop confidence in the students’ability to solve problems, to help the students function successfully and comfortably in aprofessional engineering environment, and to understand and appreciate what it means to be aprofessional engineerService learning has been shown to do this while also providing an experience that is bothfulfilling and enlightening [1-2]. Many engineering students are overwhelmed by the workloadof the engineering curriculum, and are not stimulated by the course materials. Some studentslack the maturity or experience to understand how the engineering curriculum will be of value tothem in
mentors grad- uate and undergraduate engineering Fellows who teach in local K-12 classrooms through the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program’s TEAMS initiative, is on the development team for the TeachEngineer- ing digital library, and is faculty advisor for CU-Boulder’s Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Her primary research interests include the impacts of project-based service-learning on student identity, path- ways and retention to and through K-12 and undergraduate engineering, teacher education and curriculum development.Maia Lisa Vadeen, University of Colorado - Boulder Maia Vadeen is a Discovery Learning Apprentice at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engi- neering and Applied Science. She
in Tyler, TX, with his wife Terra and their dog Ollie.Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Ross Ph.D., University of Texas - Tyler PhD. University of Texas at Austin, 1998 Associate Professor of English, University of Texas as Tyler 1998 to the present c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 SEEKING NEW PERSPECTIVES: ENGINEERS EXPERIENCING DESIGN THROUGH CREATIVE ARTSAbstractThe engineering curriculum of necessity focuses heavily on technical subjects—mathematics,chemistry, physics, and the large body of discipline-specific material. The arts are frequentlypresent only in vestigial form and are regarded as tangential at best to the real engineeringcurriculum. However, an
with many local community agencies.Dr. Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University Dr. Bimal Nepal is an Associate Professor in the Industrial Distribution Program at Texas A&M Univer- sity. His research interests include integration of supply chain management with new product development decisions, distributor service portfolio optimization, pricing optimization, supply chain risk analysis, lean and six sigma, and large scale optimization. He has authored 30 refereed articles in leading supply chain and operations management journals, and 40 peer reviewed conference proceedings articles in these areas. He has B.S. in ME, and both M.S. and Ph.D. in IE. He is a member of ASEE, INFORMS, and a senior member of IIE.Dr
suggested by a noted entrepreneur and author.6By 2010/11, developments by engineering students in the engineering project curriculum had ledto WERCware 2.0. This version consisted of an audio headset on which a stabilized camera wasalso mounted, both connected to a portable, pocket-sized FitPC. Previously separate client-sideelements were now integrated, allowing the use of Wi-Fi from the FitPC as the wireless link, tosupport a Skype connection in both directions between client and coach. During these years, thefaculty team was expanded to include a business faculty and another engineering faculty withprior experience managing larger budgets. Two attempts were made by the expanded team tosecure a Federal grant through the Institute of Educational
coursethat ought to be part of the core curriculum at a liberal arts college, or at a comprehensiveuniversity? Many aspects of this course suggest a potential for success in such a role. Thecourse presents a variety of topics that attempt to integrate perspectives from multipledisciplines, which is a common charge for many core curricula. An increase in the diversity (byacademic discipline) of students enrolled in the course would also likely help to better integratethe course perspectives. As such, the next challenge in course development may be to take thecourse to a broader audience to see if results similar to those described in this paper can beachieved.Another possible area of study for the course outcomes is to break the students down by
Paper ID #16507How We Know They’re Learning: Comparing Approaches to LongitudinalAssessment of Transferable Learning OutcomesDr. Brian M. Frank, Queen’s University Brian Frank is the DuPont Canada Chair in Engineering Education Research and Development, and the Director of Program Development in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Queen’s Uni- versity where he works on engineering curriculum development, program assessment, and developing educational technology. He is also an associate professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering.Ms. Natalie Simper, Queen’s University Natalie Simper coordinates a Queen’s
improvement withinthe laboratory curriculum. While 69% of respondents agreed that lab exercises rated either as“Very Effective” or as “Effective” for active learning, the average rating for “the overall qualityand frequency of active learning” in laboratory courses was only 2.4 on a scale of 0 to 4. 51% ofrespondents asserted that the frequency of active learning in lab classes should be increased. Inresponse to what topics they felt exposure to was valuable in a mechanical engineeringcurriculum, 73% responded with advanced analytical software (e.g. MATLAB), 71% withcomputer control & data acquisition, 51% with integrated PLC control, and 47% withmicroprocessors.The second survey prompted participants to rank the labs they had participated in on
: Circuit TracerIn the hardware section, VOLTA provides assistance for tracing circuit connections. Fig. 4shows the circuit tracer page for an experiment. The troubleshooting guide starts with thecomponent integrity test. A video instruction is provided to check whether the components aredamaged. Secondly, another video instruction shows how to do the continuity test to checkwhether there are any loose connections. A brief description of circuit node and componentconnectivity is given for the desired circuit. This description is generated from a previously-loaded Multsim netlist of the circuit.The Results section contains a guideline for the contents of report. At the end of the lab, thestudents take a laboratory-test which is a post-test in the
has held these dual responsibilities since 2011. Jeff is currently leading a campus-wide strategic planning process focused on creating more transforma- tive educational experiences for lifelong learners. Jeff first joined UW-Madison’s faculty in 1989 as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where he co-founded the Construction Engineering and Management Pro- gram and developed the construction curriculum. In addition, he has authored and co-authored papers on the subject of educating civil engineers. His body of work demonstrates his commitment to using emerging technology in the classroom to prepare the next generation of engineers and other students for the
ethics typical of engineering societies. In ASC 1000, a presentation onacademic integrity was given to all students. Later that same day, students participated in amock internship hiring activity where their personal opinions and views on ethical behaviors,specifically engineering students actions towards obtaining an internship, were explored,discussed and challenged by the instructors of both classes. After the in-class activity, where thestudents were broken into groups in order to act as a hiring team for an engineering firm,students were given one week to submit an individual essay. The essay asked them to reflect ontheir initial opinions about the four hypothetical student resumes. The students were also askedto discuss their group’s
the existing toolsand techniques used for systems thinking in educational settings. Bloom et al. developed ataxonomy that classifies the outcomes of students’ learning process (i.e. test items).4 Andersonand Krathwohl revised Bloom’s taxonomy by suggesting more learning process objectives.5Along the same vein, Hopper and Stave developed an assessment framework for systems thinkingintervention in educational settings based on a conceptual systems thinking taxonomy andBloom’s et al. taxonomy of educational objectives.6, 7 The framework is designed for K-12classrooms with a primary emphasis on teachers teaching systems thinking in the classroom.Frank supports the inclusion of systems thinking in curriculum stating “the capacity forengineering
, Natural Resources, B.S., 1991 University of California, Davis, Plant Protection & Pest Management, M.S., 1997 Northern Arizona University, Curriculum & Instruction, Ed.D., 2015 Evaluation Coordinator, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 2007-Present.Mr. Alexander R Ollerton, Northern Arizona University Central Arizona College, AA 2011 Central Arizona College, AS 2011 Northern Arizona University, Ad- vanced Chemistry, B.S. - in progress Northern Arizona University, Undergraduate research assistant, 2015-present Northern Arizona University, FYLI TA, 2015-present Aspiring Grdauate StudentDr. Derek L Sonderegger, Northern Arizona University Derek Sonderegger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
arithmetic review class and how these ways of thinking interacted with the curriculum. Other research interests include teachers’ professional noticing of learners’ mathematical thinking and orga- nizational change. Ann works on both the implementation and research sides of the ESTEME@OSU project.Mr. John Ivanovitch, Oregon State University I am a third year doctoral student studying organizational change and science education at the collegiate level. My education includes a BA in cell and molecular Biology and a MSc. in integrated biochem- istry/microbiology. Prior to entering the Doctoral program at Oregon State University I worked for over a decade as a biomedical researcher, with projects ranging from biochemistry to
programming and video processing require SDK, a system that manages the buildprocess in an operating system, and supporting library integration knowledge. This requirescomputer science skills and a timeline that is beyond the scope of middle school curriculum. Thedevelopment of the vision portion of robot perception research should be implemented at seniorhigh school or college level. This process requires more than 6 weeks of research work in a K-12classroom scenario.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the Research Experiences for Teachers Programunder National Science Foundation Grant No. 1300779. Any opinions, finding, and conclusionsor recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not
, 19Engineering graduates are expected to work in team-based projects.30, 31 Multidisciplinarycapstone courses provide a unique opportunity for students to work with their peers from otherdisciplines, mirroring the experiences they will confront in the workplace.32Definitions in the literature exist for terms such as multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary,transdisciplinary, and interdisciplinary; 21, 3 Lattuca, Knight, and Bergom34 define“Multidisciplinary” as an effort to bring together the tools, viewpoints and understandings oftwo or more disciplines to explain or solve a problem while separating the thoughts of eachdiscipline. This differs from an interdisciplinary approach, which integrates knowledge frommultiple disciplines, with the goal of
engineeringIntroductionUndergraduate engineering programs in the United States require an engineering designexperience, often described as, ‘senior design’, as part of the ABET (the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology) accreditation process. The ABET Definition of Design is, “Engineering design is the process of devising a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. …... The engineering design component of a curriculum must include most of the following features: development of student creativity, use of open-ended problems, development and use of modern design theory and methodology, formulation of design problem statements and specification, consideration of alternative solutions, feasibility considerations