. The minor, which had been previously housed in theCollege of Engineering, had transitioned to a university-wide minor in the fall of 2013. As a partof the evaluation plan of the newly defined minor, all students enrolled in the core courses wereasked to complete a survey. The survey included an open-ended prompt which asked students todefine entrepreneurship. The survey was distributed during the first two weeks of the semesterto ensure that the students’ responses would not be influenced by the course content. Thesurvey was administered online using Qualtrics, a commercially available software tool. Data was also collected from instructors through the use of an online survey. The datawas collected as part of a larger study on faculty
workplace readiness, the design faculty will continue the current practice of asking apanel of local engineers to evaluate the students’ final presentations in the second senior designclass. To plan this project, the ECE design team and the CAC coordinator met twice during thesummer of 2011 to develop a standardized analytic rubric for use during the study. We thentested the rubric during a senior design presentation in October 2011 and revised it to improve itsusability.The impact goal of the proposed project was the creation of new pedagogy that is moreeffective in imparting oral communication skills to electrical engineering students in order toprepare graduates for oral presentations required for employability and professionaladvancement. The
. Figure 1 shows the timeline of a typical freshman engineering program at VillanovaUniversity’s College of Engineering. In the first semester, this freshman engineering coursebegins with a seven-week core lesson plan incorporating engineering fundamentals alongsidedynamic hands-on group micro-projects that bring classroom lessons to life. Following the corelesson plan, students are presented with the opportunity to select two of six interdisciplinary, 7-week hands-on mini projects. These mini projects that span the second half of the first semesterand the first half of the second semester have been designed to expose students to a minimum oftwo different engineering disciplines. By mid second semester, students select their preferredengineering
process arisesorganically from experience rather than a typical textbook approach.Hands-on Design-Build-Test-RefineEngineering design cannot be divorced from physical realization. There are few (if any) virtualexercises that can replace a fabricated prototype to reveal implications of design decisions whilealso increasing student investment when compared to a paper design. Physical prototyping exposesovercomplexity, conceptual blindspots, and deficient planning. From a more positive perspective,students learn to communicate and think through prototyping to prove out concepts, principles, andform. Students learn the imperative of design details and the difference between a viable virtualprototype and model that simply cannot be built. Much of
academic experience, they have total autonomywith their social activities. A student-elected executive board plans monthly community-buildingevents. The events range from study breaks to tailgates. Recently, an effort has been made by the Page 24.872.3executive board to formalize a mentoring relationship between the first and second year students.The participation of Maryland in the Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE) offers aunique opportunity to combine quantitative and qualitative data to understand the effectivenessof a LLC intervention. Taking a mixed methods approach, this paper delves into the kinds ofimpacts Flexus has had on
likely to enroll in community colleges than seniors who score highly on standardizedmath tests and take coursework more advanced than algebra II10.Although practitioners and researchers have considerable knowledge and understanding of theexperiences and achievements of community college students generally11,12,13, there has beenlittle research on community colleges as a pathway specifically to the bachelor’s degree inengineering. Our analyses consider the academic preparations and personal experiences thatcharacterize students who begin the path to an engineering degree in a community college andwho plan to transfer to a four-year engineering program. We compare these students with twoother groups: 1) community college students who successfully
project director of a National Science Foundation GK-12 grant, Liz developed a highly effective tiered mentoring model for graduate and undergraduate engineering and education teams as well as a popu- lar Family STEM event offering for both elementary and middle school communities. Current projects include providing comprehensive professional development, coaching and program consulting for K-8 integrated STEM using engineering schools in several states and serving as a Professional Development partner for the Engineering is Elementary program. She is also a Co-PI on two NSF DR-K-12 grants focused on practice and research in K-8 engineering education and the chair of the ASEE Long Range Planning Committee on K-12
University17. The fundamentalobjective of the ISI Envision partnership is to aide multi-discipline professionals, from bothpublic and private sectors, in creating infrastructure plans using sustainability metrics as aguiding principle. ISI Envision uses a life-cycle assessment approach to measure thesustainability of each project. This includes evaluating the project for its environmental impacts,life-cycle costs, and socio-economic influences and priorities. Specifically, the rating system isdivided into the following five categories: Quality of Life, Leadership, Resource Allocation,Natural World, and Climate and Risk17. Each ISI Envision category has a list of criteria wheresustainability credits are accumulated if applicable to a specific
Paper ID #9827Utilizing Think-Aloud Protocols to Assess the Usability of a Test for EthicalSensitivity in ConstructionMr. Kenneth Stafford Sands II, Virginia Tech Kenneth S. Sands II is a doctoral candidate and graduate assistant in Environmental Design and Planning at Virginia Tech. His research focus is on professional ethics and its pedagogy.Dr. Denise Rutledge Simmons, Virginia Tech Denise R. Simmons, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Myers-Lawson School of Construction & Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in civil
10 Motive 5 Approach Process Questionnaire (R- Strategy 5 5 Surface Learning SPQ-2F) by Biggs, Kember, 2 10 Memorization 3 Approach & Leung (2001)14 Studying 7 6 Problem Solving Modified from the 4 20 Awareness 5 Approach State Metacognitive Cognitive Strategy 5 Inventory by O’Neil & Abedi, Planning 5 (1996)15
issues raised anddiscussed. A number of these are discussed below.In focusing on the influences impacting girls’ perceptions of engineering and applied sciencethe analysis identified two major underpinning factors: Educational; and Socio-Professional.Each one of these is now discussed in turn. - Educational FactorsIn planning how the interviews should be conducted the two teenage researchers reflectedupon their personal experiences of making the transition from Primary to SecondaryEducation. In particular, it was apparent that the way in which the girls were taught mathsand science at Primary School differed significantly to the learning and teaching approachesthey were later exposed to during High School. In keeping with the participatory
the retention quiz illustrate thatthis E3 did not link students to actual previous knowledge and may have caused some confusionas the number of students who accurately answered the combined loading concept questiondropped by nine percent.These results would indicate the bicycle E3; the only one developed by the author, should eitherbe reviewed and revised or discontinued. Considering the time and effort involved in developingthis activity and in building the models, it appears it would have been a more efficient use offaculty time to first implement the proven E3s provided on the ENGAGE website14, includingthose described in Patterson’s17 booklets. Many of those E3’s also come with lesson plans,including concept development, additional
orientation to learning: they expect tests to measure whatthey have learned and internalize the messages of failure that these low grades appear to suggest.Many of the engineering faculty we interviewed agreed with students that tests should reflect amastery of the material: I can’t imagine why anybody would think that that was a good plan for giving tests. I teach statistics. How can a 30 be representative of the knowledge that you’re supposed to learn? (Female White faculty) I don’t know why it exists. I disagree with it because even a smart student who does well with a 50, I just think it’s—there’s no feeling of satisfaction that you’ve learned something. (Male White faculty) You don’t want to see that everybody doesn’t know half the
and Management Figure 1. Program OrganizationMonthly meetings are held which include the PI’s from CSUN as well as representatives fromthe community college partners. These meetings are used to plan special events for students inthe program, share best practices, and discuss matters related to articulation. Several additionalcourses at the two community colleges have been articulated with our institution since thisprogram began, which has helped to meet the third objective of the grant. Faculty mentors fromCSUN have also made visits to the community college campuses to discuss our institution’sacademic programs and design projects, in order to
] Keller, J. M. (2000). How to integrate learner motivation planning into lesson planning: The ARCS model approach. Paper presented as VII Seminar, Santiago, Cuba[19] Keller, J. M., & Litchfield, B. C. (2002). Motivation and performance. In R. A. Reiser, & J. V. Dempsey (Eds.), Trends and issues in instructional design and technology. New Jersey, Merill Prenctice Hall.[20] Keller, J. M. (2008). Learning Theories in Plain English. Retrieved from http://www.learning- theories.com/kellers-arcs-model-of-motivational-design.html[21] Kirova, S., Petkovska, B., & Koceva, D. (2012). Investigation of Motivation and Anxiety in Macedonia While Learning English as a Second/Foreign Language. Procedia - Social and
teachers indicated they ‘might’ implement the curriculum in their classrooms. Inone case, an 8th grade math teacher reported the curriculum would have to be used with anadvanced class and only after completing the required standards. In a second case, anelementary teacher reported uncertainty about whether the curriculum would be appropriate for5th and 6th grade students. In a third case, an 8th grade math teacher provided positive feedbackabout the curriculum but reported that she would share it with the science teacher at her school,implying she did not plan to implement the curriculum with her math students. In total, anoverwhelmingly large number of teachers who responded to the survey question (117 out of 120,or 97.5%) indicated their
L. Meriam Service Award, and the 2010 ASEE Mid- west Section Outstanding Service Award. Rencis is a fellow of ASEE and ASME. He received a B.S. from Milwaukee School of Engineering in 1980, a M.S. from Northwestern University in 1982, and a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1985.Ella R. Sargent, University of the PacificMr. Brock U Dunlap, University of Texas, Austin Brock Dunlap is currently a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin studying active learning and prototyping methodology. He plans to graduate in May 2014 with a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in design and manufacturing. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young
American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Developing Creativity Competency of EngineersAbstract The complete agreement of all stakeholders on the importance of developing the creativitycompetency of engineering graduates motivated us to undertake this study. We chose asenior-level course in Software Testing and Quality Assurance which offered an excellentplatform for the experiment as both testing and quality assurance activities can be executedusing either routine or mechanical methods or highly creative ones. The earlier attemptsreported in literature to develop the creativity competency do not appear to be systematic i.e.they do not follow the measurement ->action plan ->measurement cycle. The measurements
involved with heating the polymer network from themagnetic particles. The objectives of this focus area are to teach students to i) identify howstimuli-responsive delivery systems work and their potential applications, ii) build a remotelycontrolled drug delivery system using magnetic particles and an alternating magnetic current, iii)use the system as a test-bed for the application of fundamental mass and heat transfer principles.4. EVALUATION PLAN Summative and formative project evaluation will be carried out according to therecommended practices of the National Science Foundation 64. The following instruments willbe used as a formative assessment of whether the project is meeting its goals.• Pre and post-tests: The questions (written and
12 and colleagues performed a multi-institute study of self-efficacy in women engineering students, finding thatself-efficacy is indeed related to women students' plans to continue in the traditionally male-dominated field of engineering. Similar observations have been found for minority students.With over 30% of the current freshmen at the authors’ institution being from minoritybackgrounds (African American, Hispanic, Native American and/or Pacific Islander) and 16%first generation college students, methods for increasing self-efficacy through our teaching willbe important to support and successfully educate a diverse student body in engineering. With regard to self-efficacy in mechanics, Montfort 14 studied conceptual understanding
conceptions of and preparations for their specific careers; 2) identify the educational andworkplace factors, or combinations of these factors, that most influence the development ofengineering students into successful ECPs; and 3) illuminate the pathways of early ECPs interms of planning and preparing to meet future career goals and overcome challenges4. Page 24.580.3MethodologyThe PEARS instrument was an online survey administered to engineering graduates four yearsafter earning their engineering bachelor’s degrees in 2007. The graduates came from four U.S.research universities that graduated 2,520 engineering alumni in 2007. Of the 1,801 alumni
sponsored by National Science Foundation Page 24.621.2(DUE-0942932). As the robotics curriculum and its educational structure as well as effectivenesswere previously covered16,17, this study presents the NSF-sponsored robotics curriculum impactas well as linkage on the engineering design process and describes an open-ended autonomousforestry robot design and construction perspective to retrieve simulated soil samples during theIEEE 2013 Region-5 robotics competition that simulated a forest fire region filled with differenttypes of obstacles and required autonomous robot navigation and effective path planning. Therobotics curriculum focuses on
. Page 24.625.6 Figure 2. Introduction to Chemical, Food, and Environmental Engineering Design course structure“Concepts” introduce students to the engineering design process, problem-solving techniques,working in teams, engineering as a profession, and planning for success that students then applyin “Laboratory” on two actual design projects. Students were organized into multidisciplinaryteams of three to four members; the group had a total of thirty-eight students (15 male).The “Concepts” section uses quizzes given in nearly every session to ascertain whether studentshave understood the material in their pre-class reading assignments. In addition, we encouragestudents to write brief reflective journal entries to further solidify and
127 346 144 418 146 430 Total 473 562 576 Page 24.629.3 27% 30% 26% 28% 25% 28% Female Minority Female Minority Female MinorityAlthough students are allowed to design a personalized plan of study, the MSOM degreerequirements ensure that graduates receive both a breadth and depth of knowledge within theoperations management field by requiring courses within four core competency areas andelectives. The current course library
seeking employmentoutside of the STEM fields [6]. 1In addition to these workforce challenges, there is also a growing skills gap [7, 8, 9] which alongwith high attrition rates (45% of young professionals plan on leaving their current employer inthe next five years [1]) presents a perfect storm for employers such as Boeing. In 2011 forexample, Boeing spent $27 Million on STEM programs [5] to inspire the next generation ofinnovators at all levels of the education system to pursue a STEM career.The AerosPACE course builds on two multi-university capstone projects carried out during the2011 – 2012 and 2012 – 2013 academic years. The 2011 – 2012 project
in evolving program updatesand changes on a coordinated, consensus basis. Annual renewal of the transfer agreementsinspires frequent conversations between faculty members and counters curricular drift.15DiscussionThe AAS-EET to BSEE Transfer Track was launched in the Fall 2013 term when 25 AAS-EETstudents transferred into the BSEE program. As of the second term, 23 of these studentscontinued on track (one student continued off-track and one plans to return in the spring term).The most significant issue identified for this transfer group was students taking on heavycomposite workplace/academic overloads, despite strong academic advising to the contrary.Earlier and more aggressive academic advising in this regard is planned for future transfer
-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States during most of the past decade.1 Page 24.239.2In 2012 over two thirds of postsecondary institution chief academic officers stated that onlinelearning is critical to their institution’s long-term strategy, up from about 50% in 2002.1 At thesame time, just 30% of institutions offering online courses (but no online degree programs) and60% of institutions offering online courses and degree programs include online education as partof their strategic plan. Additionally, while awareness of and interest in online postsecondaryeducation is high, many in higher education are wary of the medium and cite
a change from a design challenge based on chemical engineering toone based on agricultural engineering. For grade 4, this was a change from a design challengebased on package engineering to one based on geotechnical engineering.Students received an average of 14 hours of engineering instruction (SD = 8 hours) during theyear. This instruction, based on hands-on and collaborative learning, included preparatorylessons focused on what is technology, engineering, and engineering design process;brainstorming about technology; new critical vocabulary (e.g. design, plan, test); and sometimesa model-eliciting activity15. After preparation, teachers taught the four lessons in the grade-levelselected EiE unit (The Best of Bugs: Designing Hand
concept, for example, in the computer science context, it would be developing a program to run the telescope, focusing on the program development cycle, with writing (editing) the code, compiling, executing, and debugging it experiment – this activity relies on enforcing the essential concept of scientific inquiry, which in the context of computer science would be testing the software developed for a telescope, with outlining test plans, conducting actual testing, and showing the test results project – this activity is typical to a full-fledged engineering process, that is, developing software in four stages, with formal (a) requirements, (b) design, (c) implementation, and (d