.” All personal demandswere measured on a 5-point Likert-type scale, where 1 = Strongly Disagree and 5 = StronglyAgree. School resources. School resources were measured with three variables comprised of 13total items. The school resources were the frequency with which students used administrative,campus, and people resources. For example, an administrative resource was using the financial aidoffice, a campus resource was using the University’s writing center, and a people resource wasusing peer tutors or faculty mentors. All school resources were measured in terms of utilizationusing a 5-point frequency scale, where 1 = Never and 5 = Frequently if not always. Outcomes. In addition to personal / school demands and resources
Engineer and has authored or co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters. Her expertise area include food and bioprocess engineering, biofuels and chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass, and reaction engineering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Design and Implementation of Collaborative Problem- Based Learning Laboratory Modules for Engineering and Non-Engineering StudentsMotivation and BackgroundProblem-based learning (PBL), which originated in the 1960s for professional training ofphysicians for medical practice, is now extensively practiced in various science, technology
on interpreting the attemptsof students to write something meaningful regarding the approach to solving a problem of thistype.The opposite approach is used in the SMART Assessment model, where the expectation is thatmost students (those earning a grade of C or better) should be capable of earning at least 80% ofthe available points on the exam by solving most of the problems completely and correctly,according to the rubric in Table 1. The other 20% (or so) of the credit can be reserved for whatwe call “challenge problems,” which require a more complicated solution process involvingmultiple steps and multiple concepts. But even for the challenge problems, a complete andcorrect solution is required to receive credit.When the grading rubric is
to ensure that the students watch the videos prior to coming to class, and second, toidentify any conceptual challenges being faced by the students. The in-class activities consisted ofproblem-solving sessions that were based on the concept of the pre-class videos. These problems weredesigned to have a real-life application flavor. The problem-solving sessions were also collaborativeto promote peer learning. In-class quizzes were also administered as a formative assessment tool.Other active-learning opportunities included Jeopardy-style games to engage students. Students werealso asked to share and explain their solution to the word problem on the white board. So, studentshad the opportunity to enhance their communication skills. Exams on
. This site has 115 alumni to date. He also leads an NSF/Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site on interdisciplinary water re- search and have 25 alumni. He also leads an NSF-funded cybersecurity education project and serves as a American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #28454co-PI on two International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) projects funded by the NSF. He haspublished over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Sustaining
Paper ID #35174Doing the impossible in a pandemic: Delivering student-designedfabricated parts to an industry clientDr. David Olawale, R.B. Annis School of Engineering, University of Indianapolis Dr. David Olawale is an Assistant Professor of Engineering (Industrial and Systems) at the R. B. Annis School of Engineering (RBASOE), University of Indianapolis. He has diverse experience in research and development, as well as technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. His research areas include multifunctional composite materials and manufacturing, as well as innovation engineering. He has pub- lished over fifty peer
the many civil engineering concepts that are related to a sitedevelopment project. As currently structured, four class meetings throughout the semester arededicated solely to the Core Project. Two classes are project working sessions where studentteams can collaborate with each other and ask the instructor questions during class time, whilestudent presentations for each part of the project use an additional two class meetings.For this first iteration with a small enrollment of 14 students, there are two groups of five andone group of four. Students chose their own group, work with the same group throughout thesemester, and complete peer evaluations after each project submittal. In future offerings, the goalis still to restrict group size to
-incomebackgrounds were more likely to hold a fixed mindset than their peers from high-incomebackgrounds. They determined that a fixed mindset among students from low-incomebackgrounds is more incapacitating to a student’s academic performance than a fixed mindsetamong students from high-income backgrounds. On the other hand, a growth mindset amongstudents from low-income backgrounds is more empowering to a student’s academicperformance than a growth mindset among students from high-income backgrounds (Claro et al.,2016). This finding is highly relevant to the STARS program since students from low-incomebackgrounds are targeted. Potentially, persistence in engineering could be linked to a student’smindset. Students displaying growth mindset motivated goal
aspects of theprogram that have the most perceived value. Both surveys can be found in Appendix A.Results and DiscussionImpressions Immediately Following the CourseAt the completion of the credentialing course, students were asked to write their reflections ofthe course and their anticipated utilization of the credentials and skills learned. Several of thestudents thought the credentials would help them be more competitive or be used in the course oftheir career. Some excerpts from their comments are below: • “The accreditation will enhance the individual’s military career as well as his or her professional career after he or she is complete with their service to the nation.” • “Earning these professional credentials … makes
education. She has published 20 peer-reviewed publications in these areas, and her research has been funded by the NSF, AFRL, and LA-BOR. She also serves as an Associate Editor for the American Control Conference and the Conference on Decision and Control, two premier conferences in the controls community. She is a member of the IEEE, SIAM, and ASEE.Prof. Dexter Cahoy, Louisiana Tech University Dexter Cahoy is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA. He received his MS in Statistics from University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and his PhD in Statistics from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. As a professor at Louisiana Tech, he taught
practical andunfamiliar environment. The workshops taught me not only about basic humanitarianengineering principles, but also about the Cambodian culture. Participating in the trip haslet me meet a wide range of people, both peers and professionals, who I would not have thechance to meet usually. I hope to continue applying what I learned on the trip throughout mystudies and professional career.Both these students went on to enrol and complete the EfaHC course in June/July 2015, oneachieving the highest mark in the class. Both are now currently volunteering with the localchapter of EWB-A. For these students, completing the EfaHC course after the Summitallowed them to use the Summit as a base for some of their assessment items and allowedthem to
more time consuming than a multiple choice test, an instructor canclearly determine what skills were used in the creation of an artifact through a semi-structuredinterview with the student. The authors plan to delve more deeply into artifact elicitation as anevaluative method in further work.This is not to suggest that Making takes the place of rigorous engineering training. As the datapresented in this paper shows, there would be a clear need for the purposeful integration ofhigher level math into project based making. Making alone does not appear to teach the mathskills needed for today’s engineer. The integration of higher mathematics into Making couldcome in the form of post-prototype write-ups. Engineering students could, as often occurs
. thoroughlydescribes graphical communication of parts, but does not mention verbal descriptions.2 TheMechanical Design Process by Ullman briefly mentions that parts can be described semanticallyand that teams must communicate to collaborate, but does not elaborate on semanticrepresentations.3 Verbal descriptions of parts seem to lie outside the typical curricular materialsfor engineering.In a previous study we identified that students had difficulty communicating design ideas withtheir peers on design teams.4 This difficulty occurred during sketching and verbal descriptions ofparts and assemblies. Students’ difficulties with verbal communication directly interfered withtheir ability to work productively together.In this study we examine the verbal aspect of
informationnetwork helpful for dealing with coursework and internships. He writes: “The impacts of this network on self-efficacy, and intentions found their origins in the Maine experience, and that the other side of this new network is that it helps the students to feel supported as they leave their old lives behind and begin to assume new roles in society. Prior to Suffolk, they had no engineering network at all. The contrast in the students' personal networks pre- and post-Maine was sharp. Although these students were provided with support during the year such as faculty availability, small class sizes, study groups, and weekly pizza parties, the Maine experience was both effective and essential for
College Academic PerformanceCohort 2 is in their second semester of college as of this writing. Thus, there is limited collegeacademic performance and retention data for them. However, we examined several objectiveindicators that were available: fall semester math course grades, fall semester grade pointaverage, and spring semester enrollment at the University. The data are shown in Table 2 for thebridges combined and in Tables 5a and 5b for the programs separately. Math course letter gradeswere converted to a numeric grade point equivalent using a standard scale (e.g., A = 4.0, F =0.0). Students who participated in the math-intensive summer bridge programs earnedstatistically higher grades, by half a letter grade, in their first college math
STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co- developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 2200 times and he has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Dr. Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University Keith D. Hjelmstad is Professor of Civil Engineering in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University.Prof. James A. Middleton, Arizona State University James A. Middleton is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and
practices prevalent in high school and introductory university physics and math courses, and developing recommendations to increase gender diversity in engineering education and the engineering profession. Kathy is an elected Councillor for APEGBC (the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia), has served on several educational and governance committees at Camosun College, and is a qualified restorative justice facilitator, peer coach and liturgical musician. Page 26.1734.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Where are the women
first research strand concentrates on the relationship between educational policy and STEM education. This provides policymakers and the educational community an improved understanding of how changes in educational policies impact STEM teaching and learning. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co-developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 1200 times and his publications have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Dr. Ying-Chih Chen, Arizona State University Ying-Chih Chen is an
in, they soon discover that the field is vast, asare available resources. This paper offers suggestions, from the perspective of what studentsreally need to know as they begin their professional careers, for technical instructors new to thefield of ethics, focusing on the following: resources, approaches, and case methodology.ContextWhile many colleges and universities offer ethics classes through specialized departments, thispaper advocates an “ethics across the curriculum” (EAC) approach. Similar to the writing acrossthe curriculum movement of years past, EAC proponents integrate the study of ethics intocourses in the major, rather than farming it out to a philosophy department. As Cruz and Frey,University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, note
21 Credits (Choice from 1-3 cores) General education courses to meet requirements of the appropriate college.The Innovation Core is 27 Credits, geared toward innovation and entrepreneurship; a keycomponent is the multi-disciplinary, long-term team activities over the sophomore, junior andsenior years. Teams are expected to include students from all years, possibly including graduatestudents. The teams will have dynamic membership and the roles of team members will changeon a regular basis. The innovation core also includes an overview course of innovation, acourse on entrepreneurship, a variation on the technical writing course focused on proposalpreparation, a course
academic quarters (22 weeks). The MSD experience is a studio course in that it adopts ageneral approach to student interaction that is hands-on, instructor facilitated, and student-centered [1]. Refer to companion paper by Walter et al, 2007 [2]for more details on the overallMSD program at RIT. Like its peer institutions, RIT strives to continuously improve curriculumstructure, integration, and assessment. The MSD course sequence is particularly crucial to thisongoing improvement due to its culminating nature. Accordingly, the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) Criterion 3 Program Outcomes and Assessment states thatengineering programs must demonstrate that their students attain the following set of attributesupon graduation
institution or documents in the public domain.” [18]Nonetheless, a limited number of institutions with engineering degree programs publish theirself-study reports. The author conducted a web search in 2019-2020 and identified twentyengineering degree programs with publicly available information. (Note A) The material write-up in criterion four- continuous improvement would demonstrate how each program met ABETexpectations. As one BSCE program put it: “There is a continuing effort to make assessments more standardized and quantitative … so that year-to-year trends can be identified and evaluated in a systematic manner.” (2015 ABET self-study report for BSCE program)This same program noted that its portfolio of assessment
ME department objectives and outcomes, as summarized in Table 2 • Topics covered in the course • Evaluation methods (homework assignments, quizzes, exams, projects, reports, etc.) • Performance criteria (evaluation methods used to assess student performance for each of the course learning objectives) • Course content (Engineering Science, design, etc.)Each course portfolio is peer reviewed by a set of faculty in the area related to the course toensure adequate coverage of topics. The reviewing faculty group will provide feedback on topiccoverage and on whether the course objectives are being met. The course portfolio audit is ashort-cycle assessment tool that provides diagnostic feedback each semester
theme that changes each year. Individual students write a paper of findings, which is evaluated by a judging committee. Top performers are invited to present their work in a conference format to their parents, teachers, peers and the general public. Page 13.23.4 3. A poster session competition that provides an additional forum for student teams to address the same open-ended problem as the career exploration contest. 4. A civil engineering related project which has included a bridge building contest in which student teams design, analyze and construct bridges to given specifications and then test the
-preserveinterpretive center provides laboratory space for K-12 education via camps and enrichmentactivities for nearby students. Our demonstration wind turbine and solar photovoltaic systemshave generated significant interest from nearby high school science teachers who want to exposeyoung students to the benefits and challenges of alternative and renewable energy technologies. Intentional living and learning communitiesAt the time of this writing, Calvin College is evaluating options for an intentional living andlearning community to be housed on one floor of a new dormitory whose heating and coolingloads may be partially offset by a geothermal system. It is envisioned that the geothermal systemand other innovative energy systems in the dormitory will
ManufacturingEducation Conference, scheduled for June 2009 in Austin, Texas. At the time of writing Page 14.1036.15of this paper in September 2008, the recommendations from the SME team include thefollowing as the key components of the manufacturing degree programs:a. Technological Competencies - Product Realization Process- Engineering Materials- Engineering Mechanics and Design- Manufacturing Processes- Manufacturing Systems Design, Analysis, and Control- Control of Machines- Quality Systems- Computer Systems- Electrical Circuits and Electronicsb. Professional Competencies- Communication- Global Multiculturalism- Teamwork- Ethics- Creativity and Innovation- Enterprise
simply writing on boards orlecturing to include visual opportunities for their students to learn.Teachers have successfully brought in pictures, videos and demonstrations to improve studentlearning. A three year study from 2000 to 2002 was conducted in the Mechanics of Materialscourse in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at West Point. In the first year,very few physical models and demonstrations were used in the classroom. In the two subsequentyears, several props and demonstrations were added to the course. Despite virtually no change incourse content, the instructors saw a significant improvement in their course end feedback thefinal two years. Students noted the instructors’ use of effective teaching techniques, their
would ideally lead to good grades (positive feedback) which in turn leads to increased motivation and ultimately more learning.5. At a local scale, complex systems are in a constant state of flux Within complex systems, the local relationships among agents are constantly changing and agents themselves are changing their roles or moving into or out of the system in short periods of time. In other words, there is considerable, varied activity at a local scale. Within engineering education there is much happening at a local scale within a single day or even an hour. There are students in class listening to lectures, working on homework, conducting research on a topic for a project, working in the computer lab, writing papers
understanding of how DET affects society. 4.53 1.28 My motivation for teaching science is to help students develop an understanding of the technical world. 4.50 1.10 I would like to be able to teach my students to understand the process of communicating technical information. 4.47 0.94 My motivation for teaching science is to prepare young people for the world of work. 4.44 1.15 I am interested in learning more about DET through college courses. 4.12 1.69 I am interested in learning more about DET through peer training
Preliminary programming of a new analysis tool o Preliminary implementation of a new process/tool • Compose a report of project progress and develop a proposal for further implementation Design of principal design solution documentation • Present project progress and proposal to peers • Write reflective learning essayThrough the implementation of this projects, the students were able to gain first-hand experiencein dealing with real (not speculative) customers, defining project objectives and constraints,generating design alternatives, and performing a systematic selection to identify the designalternative which best fit the community partner’s needs