because we can tell what the next step canbe. For example, viral antigens may mutate, initiating a new sequence, making it more Page 26.224.5difficult to make accurate predictions.Education: In some cases, we recommend an action to change the sequenceintentionally. Consider a case when a student fails the first quiz and misses submitting thefirst project. The instructor can predict that this student will more likely have problemswith other assignments, quizzes, exams and so on. The instructor may even guess thatthis student will be one of those who may fail the course. This is an example of anundesirable sequence. The instructor may take
including I.C. design, MEMS and semiconductor technology and its application in sensor development, finite element and analytical modeling of semiconductor devices and sensors, and electronic instrumenta- tion and measurement. He can be reached at guvench@usm.maine.edu.Mr. Mao Ye, University of Southern Maine Mao Ye is an electrical engineering student at the University of Southern Maine, and an equipment engi- neering intern at Texas Instrument, South Portland, Maine. He also worked at Iberdrola Energy Project as a project assessment engineering intern. Prior to attending the University of Southern Maine, he served in the United States Marine Corps as communications chief. His area of interests are microelectronics
of International Programs in the Shiley School of Engineering. In that role he has developed and directed study abroad programs as well as international research and service learning projects for the School of Engineering.Dr. Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Portland Sharon Jones is the Dean of the Shiley School of Engineering at the University of Portland. She is a licensed civil engineer with degrees from Columbia University, the University of Florida, and Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests focus on applying decision-making methods to evaluate sustain- ability policies with emphases on infrastructure, developing economies, and particular industrial sectors. She is also interested in
(Hong, Xuan & Zhang, 2010; Song & Lu, 2008). In the pastdecade, around 37 leading universities have tried organizing different formats ofsummer programs (Liu, 2012). These programs usually adopt advanced methods, suchas problem-based/project-based learning, focus on team work and student-facultyinteractions, etc. In addition, the international dimension of summer programs areoften exhibited in the participations of renowned faculty members from differentcountries or in the implementation of curriculum with a global element. However,students’ learning experience from the programs/courses in China has so far rarelybeen assessed in an empirical manner. This report focuses on understanding students’learning experiences through the assessing
ill prepared to be teachers. If our engineering educators areineffective, they are not helping build a strong foundation for new engineers.This paper identifies four programs; ExCEEd, organized by ASCE; project Catalyst at BucknellUniversity; the National Effective Teaching Institutes (NETI) program, and the NSF SUCCEEDprogram. All of these have an underlying mission of providing additional training to develop andretain new engineering professors and help them become effective teachers. This paper providesan overview of these programs, and reflections of the authors’ experiences as ExCEEd graduates.KeywordsNew Faculty; Effective Teaching; ExCEEd Model, Project Catalyst 1. IntroductionAccording to Brent and Felder (2003)1 “ College
Reflective Learning in First Year Engineering DesignAbstractThe current generation of college students is on a quest for meaningful knowledge and relevancein learning, and educators are continually challenged to meet these needs. Students will no longeraccept the necessity of learning copious amounts of technical and scientific information “justbecause.” Faculty often attempt to provide relevance by presenting real-world examples, buteven these are not “real” to a student who fails to identify the connection or usefulness of thesubject.During the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 academic years, we implemented a simple, weeklyreflective journal assignment in our first year, project-based engineering design course, whichconsists of three
schools, and its use inundergraduate programs in engineering, sciences and humanities has been growing1-3. Unlikeother active learning strategies, TBL involves a prescribed sequence of individual work, groupwork, immediate feedback and applications. This paper will discuss in particular the experience,evaluation and lessons learned from implementing team-based learning in a freshmanintroduction to engineering course at Arizona State University. The introduction to engineeringcourse is a 15-week 2-credit hour course structured as a 50-minute lecture and 2-hour and 50-minute lab per week. The course introduces students to engineering design process, engineeringmodel and drawing, MATLAB, teamwork, technical communication and project management.Basic
ASU to Associate Professor. Dr. Husman serves as the Director of Education for the Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Tech- nology Center - an NSF funded Engineering Research Center. Dr. Husman is an assistant editor of the Journal of Engineering Education, has been a guest editor of Educational Psychology Review, served on editorial board for top educational research journals, and currently sits on the editorial board of Learn- ing and Instruction. In 2006 she was awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER grant award and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the President of the United States. She has conducted and advised on educational research projects and
and complexity. The key question he is investigating is what are the principles underlying rapid and robust concept exploration when the analysis models are incomplete and possibly inaccurate? His quest for answers to the key question are anchored in three projects, namely, Integrated Realization of Robust, Resilient and Flexible Networks Integrated Realization of Engineered Materials and Products Managing Organized and Disorganized Complexity: Exploration of the Solution Space His current education focus is on creating and implementing, in partnership with industry, a curriculum for educating strategic engineers—those who have developed the competencies to create value through the realization of complex
educationalopportunities. The area of T-shaped education, that touches several of the key competency areas,will be used as an example.Collaborative ProcessFigure 1 illustrates the four schools that came together as a “dense network”3. The process tochoose these schools was the result of an exercise at the 2011 annual winter meeting of KEENthat challenged the group to seek dense networks of schools with synergistic opportunities.Baylor, University of Dayton, University of Detroit Mercy and Villanova recognized that eachengaged with industry in varying and complementary ways. The University of Dayton had anextensive industry sponsored project system tapping local industry in the Ohio area; theUniversity of Detroit Mercy had extensive co-op and industry-sponsored
research in novel musical interfaces and machine learning applications in music information retrieval.Mr. David S Rosen, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) David Rosen is a doctoral student in Drexel University’s Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences program. He has an M.S degree in Teaching and Instruction and several years of experience as a public school edu- cator. Working in the Music and Entertainment Technology (MET-Lab) and Creativity Research Lab, his interdisciplinary research explores the underlying cognitive mechanisms and factors of creativity, expres- sion, insight, and flow, specifically within the domain of music performance and improvisation. He has also worked on several research projects which
Department Head for Graduate Programs in Vir- ginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies. Matusovich has authored a book chapter, 10 journal
them to engage confidently.The question is how can this reflective thinking be used in the engineering classes? Thetechnological literacy classes do not delve deeply into many concepts yet students seemed tohave better connectivity between major concepts. They also demonstrated a special passion tofollow up their learning and take actions based on advancing their knowledge in their researchand creating their projects in upper level classes. This is interesting, in particular when onethinks about how they clearly did not like the subject to begin with. With all this in mind, wedecided to see how we could bring the same concepts and use of reflective thinking into theengineering classes. There were challenges, but the effort showed successful
- technic School of Engineering. He was a summer researcher at the Mechatronics and Controls Laboratory in 2014. Aatif was involved in the development of a cost effective version of the classic Chua’s Circuit.Dr. Vikram Kapila, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering (SoE), where he directs a Mechatronics and Control Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a GK-12 Fellows project, and a DR K-12 research project, all funded by NSF. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests include K-12 STEM education, mechatronics
able to determine what type of students we had relative to intelligence belief6,we focused on the results of Kunh and Rundle-Thiel11 to assure our various course sectionsconformed as much as possible to the concept of constructive alignment. Consequently, thecourse material was organized based on identification of a set of common learning objectives Page 26.378.3contained in Table 1 and a common set of test questions, coupled with a shared student survey.A common rubric and project assignment was used to evaluate the first objective. Objectives 2-8had an exam question which was assessed using a common 1-4 point rubric / scoring system
students’ development of effectivecommunication skills along with technical skill development. The senior capstone report oftenplays an instrumental role in this development, since it comprises both the final assessment ofstudent communication performance and also students’ most significant opportunity for activelearning of in-discipline communication skills. Peer review has been proposed as an ideal meansto provide students with much-needed feedback toward this communication learning. Peerreview also has the potential to increase students’ interpersonal communication skills andmetacognition, provided that the review activity is structured to encourage constructivecontributions and reflection[1]. The goal of this work-in-progress project is to
social responsibility of engineering (Harris Jr.,2008; Zandvoort et al., 2013). Many have championed a new paradigm for engineeringeducation that integrates strong, technical knowledge with real-world economic, ethical, social,and environmental concerns (Harris Jr., 2008;Volkwein, Lattuca, Terenzini, Strauss, &Sukhbaatar, 2004). Team-based projects and multidisciplinary applications that requirecollaboration with non-engineering students were also recommended (Volkwein et al., 2004).As engineering education moves to engage with the social context of engineering and the socialresponsibilities of engineers, it must focus on the way that students understand engineering ethicsand on whether and how engineering ethics will influence their
neural engineering be applied to develop solutions to issues that result from traumaticbrain injury?” This essential question guides the curriculum unit. Using the Project-BasedLearning model, students assume the role of neurologists, neural engineers, and journalists inorder to produce a special investigative report that will inform their audience about peopleaffected by traumatic brain injuries and the technologies that are being designed to improve theirlives. The seven lesson plans apply a neural networking approach to understanding interactionswithin the brain on both a macroscopic and microscopic level. During the unit, students engagein web quests, research projects, hands-on investigations, lab work, video production, andpresentations
Page 26.820.3previous years have completed study-tours in China, India and Taiwan. This year, 21 GTI*participants were the first to participate in an intensive three-week workshop at CYCU in Jungli,Taiwan. The International Innovation and Entrepreneur Leadership workshop offers theopportunity for engineering students to create an innovative product and then develop a businessmodel to market it. The SJSU students worked in teams with students from other countries.Participants created a project presentation and a report, which was presented and evaluated by amixed team consisting of professors and business owners.3. Description of the New ProgramThe new program varies from the old one significantly. In the previous years, the studentstravelled
been involved in collaborative research projects focused on conceptual learning in chemistry, chemical engineering, seismology, and astronomy.Dr. Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in Chemical Engineering. He currently has research activity in areas related engineering education and is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher-level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. His research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate
in ”Enhancing Student Success through a Model Introduction to Engineering Course.” He is currently the PI of TUES project to revamp the sophomore- year experience at the college of engineering (esucceed.calstatela.edu). He has developed an open access, web-based audience response system (educatools.com) and is currently the ABET coordinator for his department.Prof. Adel A Sharif, California State University, Los Angeles After finishing his BS in Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Los Angeles, Adel A. Sharif continued with graduate studies in Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Irvine. He earned his MS and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 1995 and 1998
promotional activities.Each summer the Center for STEM Education for Girls (http://stemefg.org) hosts two weekcamps for local rising high school girls called the STEM Summer Institutes. Our curriculumrevolves around real engineering design projects for the Lwala (Kenya) Community Alliance.The curriculum is truly STEM integrated and is an effective model for school-wide STEM basedprogramming. This workshop will share the research results and curriculum from theseprograms, including the opportunity to participate in one hands-on engineering design project.We will also discuss the specific needs of girls in STEM, based on the literature. Tips forauthentic assessment of this work will be provided and links to standards made
) This project provides apparent benefits of coordinating integrated computation, 1. I. Grinberg, M. Meskin, M. Safiuddin, “Test Bed for a Cyber-Physical System Based onXEPs (XMPP Extensions) to provide link to Object Linking and Embedding for communication, and control into electrical power systems, resulting in real time optimized Integration of Advanced Power Laboratory and eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol”,Process Control Unified Architecture (OPC UA) servers. The use of XMPP demand/response system and outage management; improved system safety and reliability
familiarwith in the United States. In EEE, students are exposed to foundation courses in the discipline:circuits, C programming, digital logic, and microprocessors in Years 1 and 2 and discipline-specificcourses in communications, power systems, microelectronics, embedded systems, fields, andcontrols in Year 3. In Year 4, students may specialise within a particular EEE disciplines throughtheir selection of elective courses and their choice of topic for the Individual Project, a requiredcapstone design course. There is a heavy emphasis on hands-on learning with laboratories andprojects integrated into almost all of the engineering courses as well as two stand-alone coursesthat involve team design projects. There are required mathematics, or maths
by peers and superiors, • anxiety regarding external motivators of grades, pay and future career opportunities, • anxiety regarding criticism of one’s mastery, • acceptance or rejection of critical comments that may improve the project results and team success. The net result of the interacting emotions may be anything from a meltdown of the engineer’s confidence (and concomitant drop in innovation-related competencies) to a team experience that improves the product, learns about the product/customer domain and builds team esprit de corps (and builds innovation-related competencies of individuals). These outcomes depend on many things including the dynamics of the design review and tone and content of
role of emotion in student learning, and synergistic learning. A recent research project uncovers the narratives of exemplar engineering faculty that have successfully transitioned to student-centered teaching strategies. She co-designed the environmental engineering synthesis and design studios and the design spine for the mechanical engineering program at UGA. She is engaged in mentoring early career faculty at her univer- sity and within the PEER National Collaborative. In 2013 she was selected to be a National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education Faculty Member.Karen Sweeney Gerow, University of Georgia Karen Sweeney Gerow is pursuing her PhD in the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University
wireless sensing for aerospace and biomedical ap- plications. Dr. Abedi has several years of industry experience before entering Academia, working as telecom consultant and project manager at TEC and ISC Corporations. He is Co-founder of two startup companies, and author/Co-author of over 80 publications including 4 books and 2 patents. Page 18.14.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL FORM 2015 Annual ASEE K-12 Workshop on Engineering Education “Authentic Engineering: Representing & Emphasizing the E in STEM
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Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and group members are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early career and re- cently tenured faculty and research staff primarily evaluated based on their engineering education research productivity. She can be contacted
variety of engineering undergraduate students (freshman through senior) and has participated in several engineering education research projects, with a focus how faculty can best facilitate student learning.Dr. Nanette M Veilleux, Simmons College Nanette Veilleux is a Professor and Director of the Computer Science and Informatics Program at Sim- mons College, Boston, MA. Her research interests include pedagogy in STEM disciplines, particularly with respect to women students and computational linguistics where she investigates the use of intonation in human speech. Page 26.854.1