develop a ”Biorobotics”facility that provides practical, hands-on experiences to students focused around the topics of sensing,perception, and control in next generation robotics. He has published 32 peer-reviewed journal articlesand was an invited speaker at the IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in Sport inMonte Carlo, Monaco. Dr. Meyer is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering,European Society of Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering Society, and Tau Beta Pi. Page 24.288.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Combining Discipline-specific
new ideas than other members of a system”(p. 22). Based on their innovativeness, individuals can be classified into five adopter categories:innovators (2.5%), who are risk-takers willing to try new things and prepared for associateduncertainty; early adopters (13.5%), who are role models assuming leadership in furthering theadoption of the innovation; early majority (34%), who are individuals deliberately adopting aninnovation before the other half of their peers; late majority (34%), who are suspicious ofinnovations and wait until it is perceived as safe to adopt them; and laggards (16%), who are moresuspicious of innovations than the late majority and adopt innovations last.Rogers’s diffusion of innovation model provides us with both a
elementary and early childhood science methods courses, and has developed engineering education courses for middle school pre-service teachers and practicing ele- mentary teachers. She has provided science and engineering professional development to multiple schools and school systems in Maryland, and has significantly contributed to the writing of many integrated STEM units of instruction used by teachers and school systems. Her research has examined factors that support and those that hinder elementary teachers as they learn to teach engineering, and currently focuses on how children learn to engineer and in the process, learn to fail and productively persist. She is the Director of the Integrated STEM Instructional
, etc.) arerelevant to a broad range of sectors and organizational forms.2.1 Reporting in CompaniesReporting to managers, who themselves report to more senior managers, takes place within aformal, bureaucratic structure of work. Summarizing social theorist Max Weber’s classicconcepts of bureaucratic organizations, Gorman and Mosseri [2] write: In the prototypical bureaucratic organization, work is divided into well‐defined, nonoverlapping jobs that remain fixed for substantial periods of time. The performance of work is governed by written rules specifying the appropriate way to handle different categories of situations, so that workers' individual discretion is limited. Each role reports to a superior one in a
Science.Dr. Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines Jon A. Leydens is Professor of Engineering Education Research in the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines, USA. Dr. Leydens’ research and teaching interests are in engineering education, communication, and social justice. Dr. Leydens is author or co-author of 40 peer-reviewed papers, co-author of Engineering and Sustainable Community Development (Morgan and Claypool, 2010), and editor of Sociotechnical Communication in Engineering (Routledge, 2014). In 2016, Dr. Leydens won the Exemplar in Engineering Ethics Education Award from the National Academy of Engineering, along with CSM colleagues Juan C. Lucena and Kathryn Johnson
. Consequences/impacts on others c. Sacrifice of self for others 3. Specific norms and traits a. Norms b. TraitsAs additional framing for the write-up that follows, it is worth starting with a more generalobservation about the ability of students to distinguish ethics from morality. On the one hand, itis notable that at least one interviewee was able to provide a fairly nuanced comparison of thetwo concepts, describing morality as “more of a personal thing” and ethics as “more of a codifiedstandard.” On the other hand, only a few students even attempted this delineation, and those whodid typically fell short of a satisfactory response. The results that follow should
who pioneered thefunds of knowledge approach is nearly absent in our review because a large portion of their workwas conducted on elementary students. Thus, we consider primary sources, sources that helpanswer our research questions. A detail explanation of the types of sources that we excluded fromthis study are outlined in the next sub-section.4. Finding and cataloging sourcesIn the fall of 2015, papers indexed in the following five electronic databases were searched 1)Engineering Village, 2) Scopus, 3) Academic Search (EBSCO), 4) Educational Full Text (EBSCO)and 5) the ASEE PEER database. Table 2 outlines the exact search strings that were used in allfive of the electronic databases. For each database, we indicated that the search string
context.While one participant was walking through the user story of their partner’s concept, the otherparticipant was given Post-It notes to write down issues or questions that arose. These wereexplained to the participant as “parts of the concept that were confusing or strange, that somehowseemed inappropriate to the user, or didn’t work correctly.”2. Listing and grouping concernsAfter the user story, the concerns that were noted were shared with the other participant, and anyadditional concerns were added onto new Post-It notes. The participants were then asked to sortthese concerns as they applied to the five properties of a concept, identified above (i.e., form,function, temporal, use/user, and system). A brief definition of each property (Table 2
to gain insight into the motivations andconceptions of the authors and their audiences, but most of the evidence produced so far by our 2 analysis is quantitative.Although advocates of the T-shaped ideal often mention global competitiveness as a motivationfor developing T-shaped professions, it is not clear to what extent the discussion is aninternational versus a distinctively American phenomenon. To get some sense of the scope of theconversation, we compared publications on the topic in English and in German, the languages inwhich we write, read, and publish. To get a sense of the distribution of national affiliationswithin the ASEE corpus
learned. In an online environment that is asynchronous, learnersdo not have the constraints of time and place. By leveraging online technologies, studentlearning should be designed with transfer of same information to all learners. For the freshmanstudent, online learning is most suitable for factual type learning or less challenging learningactivities [12].F2F would be recommended for intensively challenging, high-benefit learning activities. Forexample, the hands-on laboratory experiments in EE110 solidify key concepts learned from themultimedia content: online videos, text readings, assigned homework and frequent onlinequizzes. Through peer collaboration, students can help each other work through the labs as wellas learning how to troubleshoot
• Report writing • Good design requires a cost estimating • Oral presentation mastery of chemical engineering sciencesThe profession has nearly unanimous agreement that these learning goals are important andshould be achieved by performing a project within the undergraduate chemical engineeringcurriculum. Examples of design projects are available in many textbooks and from CACHE2. Page 12.1366.32.2 Learning Goals for Operability This paper presents an argument for an enhancement in the curriculum by providingadditional operability topics to achieve the following learning goals
lessons, students improve their recall ability, apply their existing knowledge, constructnew ideas, and formulate their own questions. Moreover, by engaging in group-work, studentsare afforded opportunities to share their discoveries and explanations with their peers, thusconcretizing their understanding of newly learned concepts. We posit that linking robotics-basedlessons with Bloom’s cognitive domains can allow students to draw connections between diverseSTEM concepts, apply their learning to new situations, and control their own learning. The example lessons address typical educational objectives of K-12 STEM disciplinesand strengthen students’ ability to learn the subject material. Three lessons, based on LEGOMindstorms robotics, are
the purposeof the project and the specific research and writing strategies one selects. Adams and colleagues,for example, examine “storytelling in engineering education” with the explicit goal of betterunderstanding the emergence of an “engineering education research community.” Their focus is,in other words, accounting for an observed convergence and possibly contributing further to it.They invited eight scholars, including three co-authors, to prepare “story poster” presentations atthe national Frontiers in Education conference (supported by the IEEE). The organizers askedpresenters to respond to a structured set of questions designed to evoke “insider knowledge”pertaining to “driving passions and goals, processes such as getting started
Education”the card they were holding to stand up as I went through the questions. This way the students were notreporting their own answers. The results were quite revealing. Of 54 students in the class: ! 42 said they would report ethical misconduct where they were employed ! 52 admitted to downloading music and not buying the CD ! 40 admitted to downloading movies ! 29 admitted to cheating on an exam or quiz ! 19 said they would report someone they knew was cheating on an examThe class was concluded with a short “quiz.” I asked each student to reflect and write down the twomore important things they learned from the discussion in class. A number of students were surprisedat how wide spread the
, were most likely to report changes in their emphasis onteamwork (52%), technical writing (39%) and verbal communication (34%). Nearly a thirdreported some or significant increases in their emphasis on professional responsibility and ethics.Faculty also reported moderate changes in attention to contemporary issues (43%), global andsocial contexts in engineering (41%), professional responsibility (37%), and professional ethics Page 22.1711.4(34%). Attention to topics that would promote interdisciplinary connections appeared to be onthe rise after EC2000.Although these curricular changes are positive, because this study measured change in
]. Thus, understanding the challenges that women face in the engineering workforce,including but not limited to sexual harassment, is critical to bringing the benefits of this diversityof thought into engineering and reducing the large numbers of women engineers who begin acareer in engineering and later decide to leave [8]. The peer reviewed literature provides insightinto which women are leaving engineering and why, but gaps remain in workplace studies toprovide a sufficiently comprehensive understanding of what’s going on so that major stepsforward are possible.Women in the WorkplacePre-Twentieth Century: The assumption that women have not contributed to institutional worksettings or the incomes of their families prior to the twentieth century
and found that it engendered positive attitudes toward their chosen fieldof study.The Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) at Purdue University is a well-knownexample of service learning in engineering education. The program was established in Fall 1995and continues as of the writing of this paper in Spring 2022. A report from 2001[4] reflected onthe program to that point. Project partners who are service agencies that work with student teamscomposed of freshman through senior level undergraduate engineering students in a wide varietyof engineering disciplines. Design solutions are created, implemented, and supported by thestudents. Assessment was thorough, including student awareness of how their projects impactedtheir clients.A
. They leverage industry tradeshows and conferences inspecific industries, giving research teams the opportunity to introduce themselves, pitchideas to technology decision makers, arrange follow-on meetings to get feedback on thebest paths forward, and identify key milestones.Workshops: These focus on topics such as writing effective Small Business InnovationResearch (SBIR) proposals to participating national funding agencies. They familiarizeparticipants with funding opportunities and offer best practices for applications.Evaluating Large Scale Education and Training ProgramsLarge scale education and training programs require an evaluation component tounderstand impact, which can include changes in student learning over time or othermeasures of
, student- centered online learning environments for educators.Dr. Gillian Roehrig, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Dr. Roehrig is a professor of STEM Education at the University of Minnesota. Her research explores issues of professional development for K-12 science teachers, with a focus on beginning teachers and implementation of integrated STEM learning environments. She has received over $30 million in federal and state grants and published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She is a former board member of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching and past president of the Association for Science Teacher Education.Dr. Elizabeth A. Ring-Whalen, St. Catherine University
. I’m nervous that they’re gonna be like,man, she doesn’t know anything. But otherwise, no, [I’m not nervous]. I think just because it'shands-on, I feel prepared for it, you know, like as far as my technical writing skills and my teamwork skills and my people skills and that kind of stuff.[Now that I’ve been at work for 3 months] Mostly my responsibilities are just doing whateveranybody tells me to do, so that can range anywhere from working on [specific softwarepackage], which is something that I actually know how to do personally … or working on areport or attaching wires or testing some sort of a component. I’m not having to learn a whole lotyet, but for the stuff that I’m doing, I feel completely prepared for it. [...] I read up on
experience focused only on membrane electrode assembly (MEA) components and performance. Good hands-on experience. Want to eventually work at TARDEC.B-27) Any other comments about your participation in the LTU-TARDEC Fuel Cellresearch group?: Not only did I learn about Fuel Cells while working on this project, but I also got to learn about design and implementation of experiments, was involved in test stand development and about interaction with peers, superiors and clients. The progress and involvement in the LTU-TARDEC research group nearly eliminated the learning curve that I would have required to become fully successful at an engineering company. There is no doubt in my mind that the knowledge I
specific as using a new design tool or performing aspecific task (e.g., a weighted decision matrix); documenting and/or considering a new criterion,constraint, or focus area (e.g., users, marketability); or adhering to new project managementstructure (e.g., a set of milestones/deadlines).In some cases, these approaches were restrictive initially. For example, Hannah felt that thedocumentation aspect detracted from her technical design work, which was where she believedinnovation was occurring. We have this big design document... It's a 15 or 16 page document that we had to write about the project partner… So, obviously, we wanted to record what went on. Each failure, why it went wrong, things like that. But a lot of it was like
]. Given thelimited time of the survey, we used a short ten-item measure for the BFPT. The BFPT wereapplied successfully multiple times in Entrepreneurship Research [6]. The operationalizationof the BFPT as well as the other SCCT constructs are described in the following.Despite its shortness the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) from Gosling et al. [1] hasproven its validity many times. Gosling suggests using the TIPI, if a very short measure isneeded due to time constraints or if you “can tolerate the somewhat diminished psychometricproperties associated with very brief measures” [1]. Also, Gosling found that TIPI has “(a)convergence with widely used Big-Five measures in self, observer, and peer reports, (b) test–retest reliability, (c
the design process and 15% on the performance of theprototype (performance specifications and design constraints are provided to each team as is therubric that will be used to evaluate the performance). Each student completes a confidential peerevaluation of the team members at the end of the project. Individual student grades are acombination of the team grade (75%) and an individual grade based on the logbook (5%) and theconfidential peer evaluations (20%). The design project task is necessarily simple as there is nolab component of the course and students complete the project primarily outside of class.“Real-world” examplesAs noted, one of the objectives of the course design is to enable first year engineering students tobecome engaged
competitions. We found differences between the teams in recruiting,team structure and organization, student leadership, faculty advisors, expectations forcommitment, integration into academic structure (capstone), and focus on competition success.In spite of the differences in team organization and goals, both teams missed opportunities forstudents to acquire and practice important professional skills. Neither team providedopportunities for formal learning about leadership and management, nor experience andmentorship for working with a diverse group of peers (e.g. diversity from race, gender, socio-economic status, or major discipline). The most egregious missed opportunity within these teamswas, and is for many teams, the vast number of students who
Page 26.1211.21partnership involving Georgia Tech and Emory University. In 2012, U.S. News & World Reportranked the department’s undergraduate and graduate programs second in the nation inbiomedical engineering. Finally, research leaders who purposely cultivate relationships between universities andgovernment entities may realize more innovation success. Partnerships with government officialsresponsible for writing funding solicitations may inform the direction of solicitations andincrease chances of winning the funding. University and industry leaders can alert governmentofficials of the most pressing needs for research, beyond selfish political lobbying. Researchleaders can also benefit from fostering a university‒government