Page 14.629.3contain language that suggests that Energy should address the findings of the GAO report andconduct two Title IX reviews annually, but it neither mandates nor funds such reviews. And noother agency, institute or department received either direct or indirect orders to conduct Title IXreviews, nor the funding to enable the reviews. Nevertheless, all federal funding agencies arerequired by the plain language of the statute to do whatever is necessary to enforce the law.5Reports ReviewedThis paper focuses on the results of Title IX reviews completed by the end of 2008. The authorsubmitted Freedom of Information Act requests to NASA, Energy and NSF for copies of therelevant reports.As of this writing in early 2009, NASA has completed
specialized topics such as techniques basedon fuzzy clustering, robust clustering and evidence collection (such as Hough transforms) were also considered.These techniques were considered specifically with an objective of detection of shapes such as circles andellipses, since in many particle technology experiments, one must detect particles which are usually spherical.The course required that the students write a complete set of computer codes for binary image analysis forcomputing geometric as well as topological properties of binary images. They were also introduced to PC basedcommercial image analysis packages such as VISILOG (by Noesis Corporation) and OPTIMAS (by OptimasCorporation). Comments about the Image-Analysis Course Grading of
PresentationsBasic robotics education available online is very lacking. WikiBooks is an online community forcreating a free library of textbooks that anyone can edit.A Robotics WikiBook (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Robotics) has been started, but work on itseems to have stalled; several basic sections are still unwritten. Each student picked oneunwritten section and wrote a comprehensive study on the topic. Each student joined a group of3-4 other students to form a peer editing group. Students also presented their topic to the classand then submitted their work to the instructors after revisions. Students were expected to followWikiBooks' policies while contributing their work to the WikiBook.This project generated over 20 new pages on the Robotics
fabricate tools, then we cannot afford to leave thisimportant human activity to a select group. Music is also an important element of our humanidentity, as Robert Fulghum noted: "Never forget that music is too important to be left entirelyin the hands of professionals." As it is for music, so it is for technology. To be fully human is toindulge the creative spirit, not only in art such as music, but also in engineering and design.Abraham Maslow, in describing his hierarchy of human needs, notes that human self-actualization requires that one act out one’s identity: "A musician must make music, an artistmust paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be,he must be."7To illustrate use norms, I will
peers, and staff from RowanUniversity Facilities. The purpose of the second presentation is to describe theoperational and design recommendations their team made, justify the recommendations,and describe the economic benefits of the recommendations. Design teams also submitwritten reports, which reinforce lessons from the previous semester. The ultimate goal ofthe presentation and final report is to convince Rowan University Facilities to followthrough with the teams recommendations. Each team member is expected to participatein developing both design presentation, and to actively speak in at least one of the designpresentations. Communication faculty often watch these presentations as well. Each ofthe design presentations has aspects of
were 5-6 hrs drive from home, and grant writing threw me off balance many a times. I was on the verge of giving up so many times. I used to think of (and still do) giving up my job and concentrating on my family. But the thought that I probably will fail myself and so many other women who look up to successful women professionals kept me going. Also, I knew that I would disappoint my mother and sisters who did so much for my education.Advising and mentoring. Respondents were asked a number of questions about mentoring andadvising. Forty-seven percent of respondents were mentored as graduate students, usually bytheir major advisors or other departmental faculty, though most stated that the mentoring wasinformal
tasks, and has held various teaching, research and administrative positions at Colorado State University, Stanford University and University of Colorado. Dr. Morgan has taught methods and applied statistics to graduate students in education at Colorado State University. In addition to writing textbooks on SPSS and research methods, he currently advises students on their dissertation.William M. Timpson, Colorado State University Dr. William M. Timpson, Professor in the School of Education, is also serving as Director for the Center for Teaching and Learning at Colorado State University. After receiving his Bachelor's degree in American History from Harvard University, Bill went on to teach
, whereas computing sciences have focused primarily on software design. Withthe introduction of robotic systems, it became possible to provide students with hands-onlaboratory experiences to construct interdisciplinary and more complex systems. As roboticsystems have evolved in research and commercial applications, the number and complexity ofthese systems has also increased. A significant portion of the design process must now focus onthe integration of hardware and software. However, most senior design courses still emphasizejust on the software writing or the hardware construction parts. In order to address both softwareand hardware issues, it becomes essential to apply a team-based approach.Applications of robotic systems usually involve a
other concepts.As a last step in the study, each participant was asked to group their concepts into categories ofsimilar designs. The intent was for the individuals to assess the commonalities emerging from theirconcepts over their entire set. A survey question asked students: Consider your set of concepts again. Some concepts may seem related, while others are one of a kind. How many different KINDS of concepts are in your set? Write down each group of similar concepts in your set. Add a label to describe why you put them together. Make sure every concept is listed either in a group or by itself.The complete session lasted 75 minutes.Data AnalysisAll of the students completed the exercise within the time frame of the
support the collaborative teamwork during the week at theNB.Compared with their peers, significantly fewer veterans under the age of 30 have completed anassociate’s degree or higher, arguably in part due to the military occupations in lieu of collegeexperiences. While this gap in college degrees decreases between veterans and non-veterans ofolder cohorts, the observed spike in unemployment for veterans underscores the importance ofproviding programs and services that support a successful transition to post-military careers(Dayton, 2016; Rothwell, 2014). Exploration throughout the course of the NWP may shed morelight on this observed finding, clarifying if other factors, besides the obvious choice differencesin post-high school directions, may
theirprototypes and prepare and present a detailed progress report as well as a final engineering reportand present their work in a seminar-type venue.As Student Learning Outcomes the following are pertinent to our sequence: 1) Students gain experience and expertise in solving real-world design problems and communicating their results in a professional format, in both written reports and presentations. 2) Significantly improve students’ skills in the areas of system analysis and design, technical writing, public speaking, teamwork, project and time management.Senior design course sequence is a part of our core curriculum since the inception of thisprogram (2002) and ever since the following schedule has been followed:Deliverables
models of a solution is the only constrainton a Maker’s design process. Work is done across the active and abstractive dimensions, and asuccessful solution is generated by the adaptive expert navigating between these axes.Prototyping as an early stage of the design process, and rapid prototyping as a design skill haveMakers gaining experience and expertise in the adaptive dimension in a way and at a rate thattraditional classroom learning cannot hope to match. Neeley specifically identifies agility as partof the adaptive dimension, and writes, “it is this agility and fluidity of mind that compels andinnervates business, excites students, motivates practitioners and defines the field” [10]. Usingthe skills and methods of both the active and
international conference on interaction design and children (pp. 613-616). ACM.Bowen, G. A. (2009). Document analysis as a qualitative research method. Qualitative Research Journal, 9(2), 27-40.Brahms, L., & Crowley, K. (2016). Making Sense of Making: Defining Learning Practices in MAKE Magazine1. Makeology: Makers as Learners, 2, 13-28.Buechley, L. (2013). Closing Keynote: FabLearn 2013. October, 2013. Stanford University: Palo Alto, CA.Capobianco, B. M. (2007). Science teachers' attempts at integrating feminist pedagogy through collaborative action research. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 44(1), 1-32.Emerson, R. M., Fretz, R. I., & Shaw, L. L. (2011). Writing ethnographic fieldnotes. University
3.2 No experience with OERs 2 6.5 No response 9 29.0One instructor commented that many faculty members are already using OERs without knowingit, as they have replaced textbooks with web content. Another respondent spoke to the formatand characteristics of OERs themselves, noting that OERs facilitate inclusion of more practiceproblems, interactive problem-solving, updated materials, and peer support for fellow students.Another respondent indicated that OERs solve an all-important access problem for students.This respondent noted: There should be essentially no barriers to accessing the course material. All students
. Students from the previous year indicated difficultiesworking with peers with conflicting personalities. To mitigate this issue, a teamwork buildingworkshop was established this year, teaching students how to recognize and respect differencesin personality traits and how to capitalize on the inherit benefits of each. Further, a preliminarydesign report submission was incorporated this year to allow for intermittent feedback, allowingfor support to students where the instructor felt necessary.1.0 IntroductionStudents in the University of Waterloo’s (UW’s) Civil Engineering program are exposed to open-ended design projects in their first and final years of study. The gap between these years needs tobe filled to continuously stimulate creativity
: “1. Learning appropriate goals, 2. Scaffoldsthat support both student and teacher learning, 3. Frequent opportunities for formative self-assessment and revision, and 4. Social organizations that promote participation and result in asense of agency” (p. 273). When successfully implemented, PBL is reported to increasestudents’ interest in and motivation for studying content (Blumenfeld et al., 1991) in addition topromoting collaboration with peers, providing experiences in which students engage in authenticdiscipline-specific practice, and offering students latitude to develop their own models andrepresentations of content (Krajcik & Shin, 2014).Given the aforementioned benefits of the open-ended, student-centered nature of PBL, PBL
committee chair through a successful accreditation visit in Fall 2012. Dr. Matin’s research has been mostly in the areas of Computational Mechanics and Experimental Mechanics with applications in Solid Mechanics, Plasticity and Sheet Metal Forming. Dr. Matin has published more than 25 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Dr. Matin is the recipient of NSF MRI award as a Co-PI. Dr. Matin worked in Automotive industry for Chrysler Corporation from 2005 to 2007. He Joined UMES in August 2007. He is affiliated with ASME and ASEE professional societies c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Designing a Strain Measurement System based on Circle Grid Analysis
Christine Haas brings over ten years of experience working in marketing and communications with a focus on the science and engineering fields. She’s held positions as the director of marketing for Drexel’s College of Engineering and director of operations for Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Engineering. Now, as Principal of Christine Haas Consulting, LLC, Christine travels around the world teaching courses to scientists and engineers on presentations and technical writing. She has taught clients across gov- ernment, industry and higher education, including Texas Instruments, Brookhaven National Laboratory, European Southern Observatory (Chile), Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) and the University of Illinois-Urbana
retention and success has been the subject of many studies. Forexample, Kuh’s multi-phased study identified high-impact practices including first-year seminarsand experiences, common intellectual experiences, learning communities, writing-intensivecourses, collaborative assignments and projects, undergraduate research, diversity/global learning,service learning/community-based learning, internships, and capstone courses and projects.4Another study published by the California State University Chancellor's Office shows that"Participation in high-impact practices has been shown to improve both learning and persistencefor all students, but especially for the historically underserved."5 This study also indicates thatparticipation in more than one high
differential equations, statistics) • Communications GPA (public speaking, English composition, technical writing) • Humanities & social sciences GPA (e.g., economics, music, philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, art, geography, foreign languages, political science, film, anthropology) • Individual course grades in o General biology (if taken) o General chemistry 1 o General physics 1 o Statics o Dynamics o Calculus 1 o Introduction to engineering o Freshmen composition • Completion of an associate degree (AA, AS, AAS) or not • Fulfilment of Minnesota Transfer Curriculum or notThe pre-engineering
collecting information on abilities required tosucceed in startups and entrepreneurial companies.b The advantage of this data gatheringtechnique is that it can be conducted in the interviewee’s natural setting18. Chilean participantswere interviewed face to face, while participants abroad were interviewed through a Skypeconversation. The audios of the conversations were recorded under the consent of theinterviewee. Research assistants transcribed these audios under a confidentiality agreement.Data Analysis Plan We established certain dimensions of analysis to code qualitative information collected inthis study (see Table 2). Two reviewers codified semi-structured interviews transcripts in threerounds, and peer-checking assessed consistency
sciences courses. He has published several peer reviewed journal and conference papers in these areas. His research areas are space systems, robust fault tolerant control, nonlinear control, adaptive control, small spacecraft design, high performance spacecraft components, mechatronics, real-time health monitoring, and diagnostic methodology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Student Activities, Research and Development in High-Power Rocket Propulsion and Systems EngineeringAbstractThe Rocket Propulsion Laboratory at Saint Louis University primarily focuses on student-run,undergraduate research in high-power propulsion system design and development as well asdesign
. URL http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1151869.1151890. [2] Barbara J Ericson, Lauren E Margulieux, and Jochen Rick. Solving parsons problems versus fixing and writing code. In Proceedings of the 17th Koli Calling Conference on Computing Education Research, pages 20–29. ACM, 2017. [3] Juha Helminen, Petri Ihantola, Ville Karavirta, and Lauri Malmi. How do students solve parsons programming problems?: An analysis of interaction traces. In Proceedings of the Ninth Annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research, ICER ’12, pages 119–126, New York, NY, USA, 2012. ACM. ISBN 978-1-4503-1604-0. doi: 10.1145/2361276.2361300. URL http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2361276.2361300. [4] Ville Karavirta, Juha
Paper ID #27333Partners in Professional Development: Initial Results from a CollaborationBetween Universities, Training Programs, and Professional SocietiesDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Services at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her
serves approximately 9,000 students in grades K-12, 61% of whomare eligible for the National School Lunch Program. About 40% of graduating seniors go on toattend a 4-year institution of higher learning while 42% attend a 2-year college, and 57.6% enterthe workforce. Less than 2% enter the military. As a whole, the district falls well below theeducational standard measured by state testing, performing better than only about 32% ofdistricts statewide. The middle school, and three of the seven area elementary schools areidentified by the U.S. Department of Education as Title I schools requiring additional resourcesto allow students of low socio-economic to meet educational benchmarks at the same rate astheir wealthier peers. 100% of the roughly
students then wrote programs so that the robot would locate a flashlight beamand move towards it, follow the lines printed on poster paper, and navigate through a maze.Tutorials were provided to explain the concepts of a control system and how to program aproportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller for the DC motors of the robots as studentsbegan writing the project code. Several applications of optical sensing, PWM, and PIDcontrollers were described during discussions with the students.On Fridays, student teams demonstrated the projects that they had completed during the week.These were outdoor activities as the campus was closed on Fridays during the summer. Afarewell luncheon with all of the faculty and student mentors was held after the
of CE 4200 was atime period when our CE students’ performance on the NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering(FE) Exam was inexplicably low for certain topics. CE students were responsible for taking a 1-hour FE review course, but NCEES topic-level data [7] at the time indicated that Texas Techstudents were performing surprisingly below students at peer universities on certain subjects forwhich they had received instruction and were expected to know the content. CE 4200 offered anopportunity to provide focused re-learning for these particular topics. Further, CE 4200 provideda natural way to formally introduce the FE Exam to our students at an appropriate time in theirprogram, to explain the CE Department’s philosophy on engineering licensure, and
Paper ID #31275Challenges in a Freshman General Education ClassDr. Michelle Maher , University of Missouri-Kansas City Dr. Michelle Maher explores student research, teaching, and disciplinary writing skill development and higher education access and equity issues.Miss Kathleen O’Shea, University of Missouri - Kansas CityDr. Jacob M Marszalek, University of Missouri-Kansas City Education: Dr. Marszalek received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, Statistics and Measurement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. Teaching: Dr. Marszalek teaches undergraduate quantitative statistics and graduate courses in
over time. We engaged in peer scrutiny of our findings witheach graduate coordinator to ensure trustworthiness in our work [20]. We then propose a modelof STEAM service-learning efforts synthesized from these findings.Part I. Findings from reflective accountsConceptualizing leadershipConsideration. Graduate outreach coordinators held different definitions of their responsibilitiesas an outreach leader. Some viewed the role as strategic and established foundational pieces ofthe program or ways they could extend and grow the program during their leadership tenure. Onthe other end of the spectrum, some graduate coordinators were more executional in theirapproach and focused on the work they would do with undergraduate students and
Summer Research Program 2018During the first year’s REU program, the students were given tasks to find and read relevantliterature and software tutorials, to write scripts in R on machine learning algorithms, and to writea script for basic algorithms in Python to control smart cars.Although not defined formally as designed activities, the students’ projects aimed to developcyber-attack, detection, and mitigation models on transportation networks for connected andautonomous vehicles. Tasks contained methods to be applied such as attack tree modeling(graphical) and the development of traffic and communication simulations. These tasks included: 1. Students used ARC-IT architecture (i.e. connected vehicles, (U.S. DOT, 2018)) to import defined