Paper ID #14943Effect of Contextualization of Content and Concepts on Students’ CourseRelevance and Value in Introductory Materials ClassesProf. Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause is professor in the Materials Science Program in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept
at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect conceptual change and associated impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and per
the course and itscontent; and the remainder seeks to bring out the most innovative and effective approaches toteaching the course in use by instructors. Additionally, a limited historical comparison is madebetween the selected survey results and surveys on the same course conducted in 1972, 1990,and 1999.IntroductionThis survey represents the continuation of a series of surveys of undergraduate curricular topicsbegun in 1957 by the AIChE Education Projects Committee and more recently resumed by theAIChE Education Division. This paper presents the results for the third in the series of surveysconducted by the Education Division.Survey BackgroundThe Material and Energy Balance course (MEB) is the topic of the 2010 survey. Theaforementioned
Dr. Cathy L. Bays is the assessment specialist for the university’s regional reaccreditation Quality Enhancement Plan. In this role she provides leadership across the 8 undergraduate units by demonstrating a broad knowledge of assessment, facilitating unit-specific assessment projects and outcomes, providing faculty development on assessment topics, and supporting the scholarship of assessment. For 15 years she was a faculty member in the School of Nursing at the University of Louisville, serving as Director of the Undergraduate Nursing Program for 5 of those years. Page 15.1022.1© American Society
, Administrative Services was able to absorb much of the impact on campusthus sparing academic programs.The academic areas of the institution began to involve themselves in transforming to thisCQI culture when both regional and program level accreditation requirements began tofocus in this direction. In 2001 PUC was among the first to adopt the North CentralAssociation of Schools and Colleges (NCA) Academic Quality Improvement Program(AQIP) rather than conventional regional accreditation criteria that was still available atthat time. The AQIP model is also patterned after the Malcolm Baldrige National QualityAward criteria. The emphasis with AQIP is on "action projects" showing goals andmeasurable improvements. Two of the quality projects PUC initiated
that the womenwho were leaving SMET majors in university had equal if not higher GPAs than those who didnot leave. They left because they found it dull and intellectually numbing, rewards were lowcompared to the effort, and the teaching was poor 15.Research suggests that a crucial intervention point for encouraging girls to pursue math- andscience-related fields is during middle school. In a middle school with seventh and eighth graderswith computers in their classrooms, Koch found that the girls were not at the computer in math ortechnology class free time 8. The girls worked on their math in the math class free time or helpedother female students with their projects in the technology class free time. The boys, however,were always at the
the environment as a national security interest. Thediscussion of environmental security will be used to emphasize the first theme of broaderapproaches to engineering education. Consider an illustration, working engineers recognize the importance of conductingdesign integration pulling together the individual pieces of a design into one coherent package.They have learned that bringing the mechanical, electrical, civil, etc., together to assemble theindividual pieces into an efficient and workable design is an essential part of any completeengineering project. There is, however, a level above the engineering design integration step.This is where the social, political, economic, and technological components are integrated. Thehypothesis
AC 2012-4817: TEACHING STUDENTS TO BE TECHNOLOGY INNOVA-TORS: EXAMINING APPROACHES AND IDENTIFYING COMPETEN-CIESDr. Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette Nathalie Duval-Couetil is the Director of the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, Associate Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University. She is responsible for the launch and de- velopment of the university’s multidisciplinary undergraduate entrepreneurship program, which has in- volved more than 3,500 students from all majors since 2005. As part of the program, she has established entrepreneurship capstone, global
. Marquart. “Addressing Third World Poverty in First-Year Engineering Capstone Projects: Initial Findings,” Paper AC-2010-197, Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE Conference and Exposition, 2010.7. http://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS. Accessed 1/20118. Coyle, E., L. Jamieson, and W. Oakes. “EPICS: Engineering Projects in Community Service,” International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2005.9. Gonzalez, E., E. Heisman, and G. Lucko. “Student-Centered Learning Environment for Disaster-Mitigating Engineering Design and Deployment in Developing Regions,” International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Vol. 5, No.1, pp. 189-209, 2010.10. Loendorf, W., D. Richeter, and D. Teachman. “Results from
over 4500 students from all majors since 2005. She has established entrepreneurship capstone, global en- trepreneurship, and women and leadership courses and initiatives at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to her work in academia, Nathalie spent several years in the field of market research and business strategy consulting in Europe and the United States with Booz Allen and Hamilton and Data and Strategies Group. She received a BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an MBA from Babson College, and MS and PhD degrees from Purdue University. She currently serves on the board of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship in the role of Vice President for Research
flagship first-year engineering design and Prototyping and Fabrication course. This practical hands-on course increases student proficiency in the development of prototypes using low fi- delity prototyping, iterative design, and advanced manufacturing tools. Dr. Wettergreen’s efforts to scaf- fold prototyping into all of the OEDK’s design courses were recognized with Rice’s Teaching Award for Excellence in Inquiry-Based Learning. In 2017, four faculty members, including Wettergreen, combined the engineering design courses at the OEDK to create the first engineering design minor in the US, cre- dentialing students for a course of study in engineering design, teamwork, prototyping, and client-based projects
participating on those teams associatewith leaders and leadership. Team members strongly associated five categories of behavior withleadership: Ideal Behavior, Individual Consideration, Project Management, TechnicalCompetence, and Communication. Other leadership behaviors, including Collaboration, Training& Mentoring, Problem-Solving, Motivating Others, Delegation, and Boundary-Spanning, wereless consistently recognized, and some behaviors were valued more highly within one team thanthe other. When asked to define leadership, most team members ascribed to a mainstream view.A few team members revealed a more mature understanding of the nonpositional andcollectivistic aspects of leadership.BackgroundThe Jets and the Sharks are the largest engineering
610prototyping in the engineering design process . The introduction of inexpensive and functional 3D printing technologies into the marketplace has permitted the adoption of this technology by 1112many colleges and universities . The addition of 3D printers to engineering design spaces provides students with an authentic, industrylike opportunity to rapidly realize product concepts. The inclusion of 3D printing technology appears particularly useful in firstyear cornerstone and 1317senioryear capstone design courses . The remainder of this paper describes an approach for introducing 3D printers in a large introduction to engineering
University of Cincinnati Evaluation Sevices Center and the Arlitt Child & Family Research & Education Center. She has a BS in Chemical Engineering and an EdD in Educational Studies with a concentration in the cognitive and social aspects of instructional practices. Dr. Maltbie has evaluated STEM educational projects and programs since 2000.Ms. Julie Steimle, University of Cincinnati Julie Steimle is the Project Director for the Cincinnati Engineering Enhanced Math and Science Pro- gram (CEEMS). Prior to that, she ran an outreach tutoring program for K-12 students at the University of Cincinnati. Before joining UC, Ms. Steimle served as the Director of Development and Children’s Services at the Literacy Network of
additive manufacturing makerspace (AMM) into two separate rooms calledbasic and advance 3D printing makerspaces, as shown in Figure 2. Basic 3D printings are mostlyfor the freshman and sophomore engineering students who are just learning 3D printing. Whileadvance 3D printing makerspace are dedicated to more serious 3D printing projects of junior andsenior engineering students for making functional parts and prototypes of advance materials(composites, ceramics, metals) for their industry led capstone project or upper division classprojects. The AMM houses various types of AM technologies such as fused deposition modeling(FDM) aka fused filament fabrication (FFF) for polymers and composites, Continuous FilamentFabrication (CFF) for composites
, specifically in Process Control [3], but the implementation of labexperiences in process control courses have been largely constrained in many higher-educationinstitutions by several factors like lack of equipment and technical support [4]. Several initiativeshave been reported to compensate for this deficiency including classroom lab kits [3], remotelabs [4], [5], [6], virtual lab simulators [6], [7], [8], [9], and the use of data from unit operationexperimental modules [10] among others.Our chemical engineering curriculum includes a capstone senior course on Process Control, 5credit units, with a companion laboratory course (1 credit hour). The lab includes six fullyautomated experimental setups, three for liquid level control and three for
Advancement of Teaching Faculty Fellow for Service-Learning for Political Engagement. She currently oversees two multidisciplinary service-learning programs: the Access by Design project that has capstone students design devices for people with disabilities to participate in adapted physical activity and Organic Twittering that merges social media with sustainability.Nina Truch, California Polytechnic State University Nina Truch is a lecturer in the Communication Studies and Materials Engineering departments at Cal Poly State University. She received the Cal Poly President's Community Service Award in 2005 for work pertaining to the Tsunami Relief Project
Paper ID #9569Social Responsibility Attitudes of First Year Engineering Students and theImpact of CoursesDr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt, Ph.D., P.E., is a Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, & Architec- tural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has been on the faculty since 1996. She serves as the ABET Assessment Coordinator for the Department. Professor Bielefeldt teaches introduc- tory courses for first year engineering students, senior capstone design, and environmental engineering specialty courses. She conducts engineering education
istaught by RUB professors and the students take the course alongside students enrolled at RUB,typically with one RUB student in each lab group. The program is 8 weeks long. Outside of thecourse, the students also work on a research project with RUB graduate students. There is noexplicit cultural learning in the course.The technical University of Denmark (DTU) is a public technical university. It offers the UO labcourse to multiple U.S. institutions in the summer. Virginia Tech students have been enrollingsince 2007. It is the leading technological university of Denmark with internationally knownresearch [16]. DTU is in a distant suburb of Copenhagen and the university has about 7,000undergraduate students. The program runs for four weeks and is
.4.3.272[34] J. W. Osborne, "What is rotating in exploratory factor analysis?," Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 2, 2015, doi: 10.7275/hb2g-m060.[35] J. W. Osborne, A. B. Costello, and J. T. Kellow, "Best practices in exploratory factor analysis," Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 1-9, 2008, doi: 10.7275/hb2g-m060[36] M. Tavakol and R. Dennick, "Making sense of Cronbach's alpha," International Journal of Medical Education, vol. 2, p. 53, 2011, doi: 10.5116/ijme.4dfb.8dfd.[37] G. Guanes, L. Wang, D. A. Delaine, and E. Dringenberg, "Empathic approaches in engineering capstone design projects: student beliefs and reported behaviour," European
need to infuse fundamental systems engineering topics / conceptsthroughout conventional engineering curricula.Teaching systems engineering to undergraduate students is difficult for several reasons, amongthem students’ lack of experience in interacting with diverse stakeholders and preference for thewell-defined problems common in engineering curricula 1,2 . In the mechanical engineeringdiscipline there have been efforts to incorporate systems thinking activities in courses rangingfrom the freshman level 3 to the senior capstone course 4 , including several by the authors 5,6,7,8 .The work in this paper targets freshman students, and hence is most closely related to 7,8,3 . Itdiffers from prior efforts by taking a flipped classroom approach
. Presentation of fundamentals of instrumentation, calibration techniques, data analysis, and report writing in the context of laboratory experiments.A brief literature review will now be presented on mechanical engineering laboratories. Schmaltzet al.1 reported on the senior mechanical engineering capstone laboratory at Western KentuckyUniversity that focuses on students undertaking mechanical, materials, and thermal/fluidexperiments. Important activities are the definition of requirements, design of methods andequipment, execution of test plan, analysis of results, and reporting. To ensure topical coverage,a design of experiments plan was created to implement, assess, and adjust the laboratoryexperience. Layton et al.2 discussed the need to identify
theflipped classroom model. Using graded online quizzes encourages students to go over thematerial before class and holds them accountable for their learning. The online quiz allowsstudents multiple attempts until they get the correct answer along with direct feedback. This hasbeen proven to increase students’ retention and acts as a motivation for them to learn (M. L.Epstein et.al.,2002; R. E. Dihoff et al.,2003; J.D. Tune et al, 2013; J. Bergman and A. Sams,2014). Another method to hold students accountable for their learning and preparation for theclass in a flipped classroom design is team-based learning as proposed by OP McCubbins et al.,2014. This leads to students coming prepared to their capstone course and being engaged in theclassroom. C
introduce students to local engineers who areinterested in sharing their experience and providing advice to the students. Some mentors specifyveterans, especially if they are veterans themselves. Some will use the event to recruit interns fortheir temporary needs in their organizations.Capstone Leadership. One of the easily observed and experienced aspects of veteran studentswithin the classroom is their performance within these high stress teams both as members andleaders. The Citadel has documented previously the anecdotal impact of the veterans withincapstone teams [10], but last year the faculty began to assess leadership of each team member,especially the assigned leader during each grading period, of the capstone team as part of theleadership
only did the students benefit from ourcollaboration, I learned much from the experience.Lastly, my involvement with our senior capstone design course is as part of a faculty team. I havethe ability to unpack and discuss design decisions with my more experienced, licensed colleagues.This co-teaching experience provides not only a rich learning experience for the students; I againlearn much from the process. Little do the students know how much homework I do. Senior designpushes me beyond what I know every year. Even a colleague with consulting experience reflectedthat this is the case for him as well. With a mentor (academic and/or practitioner) to vet approachesand assumptions, I think each capstone project is the ultimate learning experience
applicationof the momentum theory as well as the buoyancy theory in the real life and to increase thestudents’ interest on fluid mechanics, a physical jet boat laboratory exercise was created. A jetboat is a boat propelled by a jet of water ejected from the back of the craft.The Jet Flow laboratory setup presented herein was first developed two years ago, in spring 2017,as a Capstone project entitled “Fluid Forces Test Bench” (see Figure 2) by four MET students,and later improved by including a force sensor instead of a digital force meter. The jet boatmodel was 3D printed using a polymer material and assembled with a nozzle at bottom pointingto the left of Figs. 2, 3, and 5. The water is pumped in through a plastic tube mounted on the topof the boat
senior capstone design course. Oncecollected, each outcome for each student was evaluated on a five point Likert scale, providingcritical primary assessment data. When this process was first implemented, the graduationportfolios were assessed by two faculty members and two advisory board members each. Thereview effort was significant for both faculty and advisory board members; however, portfolioreview data constituted a very large part of the department’s data collection activity. In the2006/2007 academic year 50 students graduated with a BS degree, meaning 20 studentsgenerated graduation portfolios in the fall and 30 in the spring. With sixteen faculty and a dozenboard members in attendance, reviews of the graduation portfolio at the end of
mission of the Astronautics Department is to produce the world’s finest Air Force officerswho live our core values of integrity, service, and excellence and understand space. In keepingwith this mission, the Department has created the Space Systems Research Center (SSRC) andthe FalconSAT program1. Our philosophy of “Learning Space by Doing Space” is carried outthrough the SSRC. This center provides a facility in which our astronautics majors can design,assemble, test, and operate small, scientifically relevant satellites. FalconGold, FalconSAT-1,and FalconSAT-2 were the first spacecraft in a series of projects created by cadets. In recentyears, the program has expanded to include select management, physics, computer science, andelectrical
AC 2011-1950: IMPLEMENTING PEER-REVIEWS IN CIVIL ENGINEER-ING LABORATORIESKatherine Kuder, Seattle University Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Seattle University, specializing in mechan- ics, structural engineering and cement-based materials.Nirmala Gnanapragasam, Seattle University Nirmala Gnanapragasam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engi- neering at Seattle University and is the design coordinator of the senior capstone program for the depart- ment. She is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Washington. Her interests include the professional practice of geotechnical engineering and engineering education research
University of Texas at Austin. His past research has focused on membrane science, adsorption, and ion exchange. He currently serves as the Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Program Director at UC and teaches the capstone process design sequence. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio.Dr. Bruce K Vaughen P.E., American Institute of Chemical Engineers Bruce K. Vaughen, Ph.D., P.E., CCPSC, (brucv@aiche.org) is the Lead Process Safety Subject Matter Expert at the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), a Technology Alliance in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). He has more than two decades of industrial experience, has authored or co-authored five books on Process Safety, co-chaired