avenues and identify problems thatsatisfy their curiosity. In this way, they come up with the information they want to gain on theirown and process that information as the means for solving their problem. To put this theory tothe test, the researchers designed a study that measured students’ ability to recall andspontaneously use information that they had just recently acquired. Two test groups wereformed, comprised of 5th and 6th graders who were at least one year behind their peers in mathachievements. The first group was introduced to the concept of “planning a trip” by viewing thefirst ten minutes of Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Indiana is shown retrieving anidol from ancient ruins in the South American jungle. The class
moreaccurately assess whether the online sketching questions are indeed measuring what we intendthem to measure.As noted previously, the first five weeks of the semester in EGT 120 are devoted solely to handsketching, before introducing CAD work, and the sketching activities continue throughout thesemester. Considerable time is spent in class providing formative and summative feedback withthese conventional sketching practices. Because of the importance of sketching in developingvisualization abilities, even with the success of the format change on exams, there are no plans toreplace current lecture and lab sketching activities with items and exercises similar to those beingused on exams.References[1] N.L. Veurink, A.J. Hamlin, J. C. M. Kampe, S. A
university-industry collaboration happens among researchers, there is a growing trendof universities inviting industry panels to participate in curriculum design to make thecollaboration more impactful for students. [8] explored the program advisory boards (PAB) forengineering degrees through interviews with heads of programs at one technical university inSweden. Although the main expectations of this type of university-industry collaboration areon planning, content, implementation, and assessment, programs expressed varying opinionsabout the contribution PAB brought. The needs, wishes, and suggestions of the industry areconsidered, however, the extent of collaboration was confined by university regulations andquality assurance systems. [9] took a
UTSA and only about one-thirdat UTSA. Calculus I is a major predictor of future success in science and engineering programs,hence it is critical that students master the course material [1]-[2]. The future success of transferstudents is essential to a 4-year University like UTSA which has many transfer students. It isreported that transfer students often experience difficulty feeling part of the student communityand this can negatively impact their future academic achievements [3]. UTSA, like many 4-yearuniversity engineering programs work with local community colleges to create a detailedsemester-by-semester course plans for eventual transfer [4], some social and academicintegration activities [5] as well as cohort activities for transfer
networking might include topics ofthe OSI model, strategy, planning, technologies, topologies, infrastructure, and security, but doesnot include cloud, IoT, data center, and virtualization. Additional readings should be given tohelp students gain increased exposure to the subject by providing a more comprehensive studywithin the context of a course.Hence, reading articles were posted on the Canvas learning management system for oneundergraduate course (ICTN 4520 Wireless Communication) and two graduate courses (ICTN6810 Communication Technology and ICTN 6873 Network Intrusion Detection and IncidentResponse) in fall 2022. All the articles were related to course contents and all were either journalarticles, conference proceedings, white papers, or
Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Annual ConferenceLocal LimitationsDuring Fall 2022, Statics in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NC State Universitybegan implementing weekly quizzes. Because cheating is also endemic, the team decided that thequestions should use randomly generated inputs.9 Mastery learning with empathy requires givingstudents multiple attempts to show that mastery. Initially the plan had been to create multiplequizzes, deliver them in Moodle (our learning management system on campus), and grade smallsections by hand.NC State University implemented Moodle 4.0 for Fall 2022 on campus. At that time, theCalculated question type which would allow us to code the questions for the students was
flipped model I had been using forthese lessons.So, what was I to do with the class time? Another idea that I had gleaned from conversationswith students was that they didn’t remember much from their computer science Introduction toComputing courses because it seemed impractical. “Hello, world” and other programs they hadbeen asked to write were not related to what they saw as their future career. My goal, therefore,was to demonstrate relevance to my students. Thus, each problem they were asked to solveneeded to relate to chemical engineering. This was made more challenging by the fact that thestudents had very limited knowledge of what chemical engineering was at the time they weretaking this course. My plan was to demonstrate a variety of
/wastewater utilities, understanding therole of mentoring K-12 students, and the impact of the project on their career goals.Conclusions: Efforts such as our WaterWorks project are much needed to develop a muchneeded workforce as the water/wastewater utilities in the USA face worker shortages. Wecontinue to develop some contemporary tools to excite the new generation and preliminaryresults indicate that our activities are exposing STEM and other careers to K-12 students andeducators. Initial response from our pilot highschool workshop are positive.Future Work: Currently site visits to the City of Camden schools are being planned along with ateachers workshop to be held in the Summer of 2023. Our partners at American Water andCCMUA will assist with
. 376-380). Students who have more in-ternal motivation are more likely to succeed in doctoral degree programs, whichtend to require individual work ethic and self-driven goals and research (Sverd-lik et al. 2018, p. 376-377). Internal motivators, such as a desire to succeed inacademia or the desire to better research skills, help graduate students succeedwithin a graduate school environment (Sverdlik et al. 2018, p. 377). Addition-ally, students who already have a strong set of writing skills are likely to be moresuccessful in graduate school than those without (Sverdlik et al. 2018, p. 377-378). Beyond having strong technical writing, students who are able to plan,write, and revise in an organized manner are less anxious and more confident
, the other leader can step up to ease the workload of the other. Co-leadership allows for a level of flexibility as well as division of labor, both of which could positivelyimpact mental health, collective team skillsets, and skill development. One co-leader asserts the efficacyof co-leadership on team outcomes based on “the quality of what we were able to produce, just becausewe had two people behind it rather than the typical [singular leader].” Preliminary data consistentlyshows that co-leaders feel confident in the quality of their work due to the increased bandwidth madepossible by co-leadership.One co-leader focused on the “technical side” of the project while his counterpart focused on the “bigpicture, business plan” side of the project
Students in the Climate Sciences,” Science and Engineering Ethics,19(4), 1491-1504, 2013.[13] H. W. Rittel and M. M. Webber, "Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning." Policysciences, 4(2), 155-169, 1973.[14] D.A. Kolb, Experiential learning: experience as the source of learning and development.Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1984.[15] A. M. Prado, R. Arce, L. E. Lopez, J. García and A. A. Pearson, “Simulations Versus CaseStudies: Effectively Teaching the Premises of Sustainable Development in the Classroom,”Journal of Business Ethics, 161(2), 303-327, 2020.[16] ABET, Criteria for accrediting engineering programs. ABET, Baltimore, MD, 2021.[17] D. Merrill, “First Principles of Instruction,” ETR&D, 50(3), 17, 2002. [Online
: List the stakeholder(s); draw a floor plan using CAD (Computer Aided Design); and research on their own the required documentation, including ASHRAE standards. Calculate the required cooling / or heating loads using previous learned knowledge from a thermodynamics course; this included the cfm per room, and the representation of the cycle on the psychrometric chart. Dimension the duct system based on the cfm and room dimensions and select the appropriate cooling or heating unit. Discuss the costs associated with installation and maintenance, by independent search using credible sources, and provide recommendations for savings to fit the budget. Discuss the societal impact of installing the
from the past year, it is still far from where adoption shouldideally be.4.3. Usage Due to confidentiality, it is unknown if the app is increasing traffic to services available oncampus (ex. counseling). Despite this, the developer portals provided for both iOS and Androidprovide usage statistics. Over the past two years, this app has had an average of twenty-fouractive sessions on iOS per month [8]. This information does not appear to be available forAndroid currently [9]. Despite the lack of data from the Android developer portal, it stands toreason that if students are downloading the app they are potentially seeking mental health relatedservices for themselves or a peer on campus.5.0. Plan Moving Forward and Conclusion While nine
some cases, a single essay is all the evidence an institution canaccess to plan DEI interventions and improve academic programming. Our recommendation foraddressing the STEM pipeline leak is to create a system to track students that fall out of formalSTEM pipelines. The system can assist the student to return to the pipeline if the student desires.The system will support the student to secure employment in the engineering discipline.References[1] L. L. Crumpton-Young, S. Etemadi, G. E. Little, and T. D. Carter, “Supportive practices used with underrepre- sented minority graduate students,” in 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, no. 10.18260/p.25979. New Orleans, Louisiana: ASEE Conferences, June 2016, https://peer.asee.org
asked for comments on the course one student had the following to say: ”The student-led research reports expand the scope of the course dramatically. Virtually every student found a different niche for the applications of spectroscopy. Almost every class has some sort of hands-on activity where we could see the day’s topic in action.”It is worth noting that when the semester began, the student quoted above chose to drop anothercourse in favor of this one for the ”unique educational opportunity” it provides.In addition to that, students have been observed instructing each other on topics and addressingquestions on their own. Each class they develop a plan together to assemble the experiment of theday. At the time of writing
this course, quite afew students had already chosen projects in Lean Ops & Strategy and were actively engaging withme on their projects. They were able to get incredibly superior results on their projects and werevery motivated.Engineering Technology is an exciting field where students can bring theory and practice together.They can also get a flavor of the business world and learn to put themselves on the path of success. Bibliography1. Fred E. Meyers and James Robert Stewart (2001)- Motion and Time Study for Lean Manufacturing2. Stephen N. Chapman (2006) – The fundamentals of production planning and control3. Shigeo Shingo (2007) – Kaizen and the art of creative thinking4. Kiemele, Murrow & Pollock
Engineering, (theundergraduate cybersecurity program in) the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and theSchool of Business. The degree is awarded by the School of Engineering, and requires 30 credithours of graduate course work. The program was first published in the university’s academiccatalog during the 2021-22 academic year. The first iteration of this joint program had four coreareas: Cybersecurity for Business, Cybersecurity Operations, Embedded Computer Systems/IoTwith Cybersecurity, and Software Security. The program required three foundation courses (9hours), four courses from a core area (12 hours) and three elective courses, including thesis orother approved courses (9 hours). Accorning to the initial plan, the Business school would be
that may be affecting our results. In thefuture, we believe this apparatus will provide a significant improvement to our lab, as well asenhance students' understanding of flow fields in general. We are considering examining otherflow fields such as the parabolic distribution for fully developed laminar flow in a round pipe, andpossible flow over external surfaces in our water tunnel.While we plan to only have one or two apparatus for the current setup, there should be considerableopportunity for all students to interact with the system, due to the short duration of the experiment.If we are successful in setting up differing experiments, with varying flow fields, we believe allstudents will be greatly impacted in their understanding of both
’ ability to recall and apply them. To better motivate students to prepare early for a testthat can be replaced, the procedures for replacing the PREMIE test are designed to require non-trivial effort and some level of planning. If a student is not satisfied with their score on a 25-minute 30-point PREMIE test, they can replace the score on the original PREMIE with the scoreon an equivalent section of the midterm, called a PREMIE Redo, if they commit to doing sobefore the midterm and meet with an instructor or assistant to discuss their mistakes on thePREMIE. Meeting with the instructor or an assistant is intended not only to help the studentidentify and understand technical mistakes or misconceptions but also to establish a morepersonal connection
shortage of generation during summer peak load hours. This has resulted in several instances of involuntary load shedding, where multiple load areas (supplying hundreds of customers) have been left de-energized for several hours. Many residents have indicated their frustration during town hall meetings, especially because this summer has been one of the hottest on record. After investigating the matter, a task force formed by the utility concludes that the only viable option is to add generation capacity to the network so that it can operate as a standalone system during summer months. The utility has now issued a request for proposal (RFP) and your company is planning to submit one. Your options include
, as outlinedat the beginning of the semester, in areas such as communication, in-class support, grading,office hours and other instructional support.CommunicationUTAs were expected to communicate with students based on their individual needs related toindividual and team activities, assignments, and any other related class support.Instructional supportUTAs were expected to attend at least one session per week, engage with students in class andduring office hours, support team activities, facilitate class discussions and support otherinstructional activities that foster engagement, inclusion, and a sense of belonging. UTAs wereexpected to attend weekly instructor meetings to plan for upcoming class activities, assignments,presentations
first semester engineering curriculum,” Paper presented at 2020 First-Year Engineering Experience, East Lansing, MI.[5] Structural Engineering, Engagement, and Equity Committee of the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California, “Civil/Structural Engineering Student Experience Survey Challenges and Career Plans Topic Brief”.
group at Dominion Energyin exploring the ongoing research projects and observing how the power system was planned,designed, procured and operated, broadening the faculty’s view on research and educationaltopics. Furthermore, the faculty networked with prominent professionals at Dominion Energy,and later recruited them to develop and teach the power engineering curriculum to strengthenweaker connections. Industry professionals have the opportunity to educate future powerengineers or the future employees of the company through classroom teaching, research andclass project collaborations as well as guest lectures.The collaboration did not end after the faculty completed the summer internship at DominionEnergy. The faculty continued providing
Institutional Review Board (IRB) requirements and survey and interview protocolsin Fall 2022 via an Honors business core course that uses service-learning projects with local oron-campus partners on event planning, research, procedures and policy updates, and social mediacampaigns to achieve student learning and comprehension of business concepts. Facultydesigned an IRB-approved research study and guided a business student team to design surveyand interview protocols and distribute the survey as course project tasks. A former AcES studentreceived a NASA fellowship to further the research in Spring 2023. A research faculty memberfrom the Center for Excellence in STEM Education that aims to break the cycle of poverty inWV through equitable STEM education
Paper ID #36498A climate case study for understanding inclusion, equity, access, anddiversity for broadening participation and reducing systemic barriersDr. Gregory E Triplett Jr., Virginia Commonwealth University Experience involves strategic planning, resource management, consensus building, program development with a focus on continuous improvement. Research activities include biophotonics, semiconductor device modeling and fabrication, sensor net- works, andMrs. Rachel Levena Wasilewski ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A climate case study for understanding inclusion, equity
Francisco de Quito USFQ MiguelAndr´es is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Uni- versidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, an M.Sc. in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University as a Fulbright Scholar, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, and two Graduate Certificates from Virginia Tech in Engi- neering Education and Future Professoriate. MiguelAndr´es’s research includes sustainable infrastructure design and planning, smart and resilient cities, and the development of engineers who not only have strong technical and practical knowledge but the social awareness and agency to address global
, whichallowed us to remove or redistribute the aforementioned didactics and paired assessments fromthe class. With this revision to SD, we more aggressively pursued the remainder of the designprocess. Namely, the prototyping phase of SD, which was historically in the second semester ofthe sequence, was accelerated into the first. This allowed, for the first time in our program,elevated prototype fidelity along with the inclusion of both verification and validation during thesecond semester of the SD sequence. Notably, solicitation of non-CIP projects was also updatedso all SD projects started at the same point in our design process. We also planned for the IMEDstudents from CIP to serve as clinical liaisons for teams working on projects from CIP
communication systems [18], but askedstudents to develop their own framing. Students completed the Wrong Theory Protocol (WTP),an ideation activity in which designers first propose harmful and humiliating ideas, beforegenerating beneficial ideas, a method that jointly supports creativity and empathy [19] beforeindividually planning their design solution [20].Figure 1. Design of the Radio Crafters CampWe collected video recordings, interviews, and artifacts of participants in a week-long camp. Forthe current study, we selected focal students as a way to highlight variability (N=4).In order to bring together inferences about how agency is displayed in discourse with human-material agency relationships, we used two forms of qualitative analysis
Paper ID #38438Board 369: Reimagining International Research for Students in a VirtualWorldDr. David B Knight, Virginia Tech David Knight is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He also serves as Special Assistant to the Dean for Strategic Plan Implementation and Director of Research of the Academy of Global Engineering. His research tends to be at the macro-scale, focused on a systems- level perspective of how engineering education can become more effective, efficient, and inclusive, and considers the intersection between policy and organizational contexts.Dr. Kirsten A
aligned with the high expectations that the students expressed for each question inthe post-course survey. The questions in the educational experience category gauged students'understanding of product development, implementation, viability and scalability. Many of thestudents commented on learning about the financial and business models for productdevelopment as an important component of the course, indicating the usefulness of thiscomponent in helping students better develop low-cost sustainable solutions with potential forbroad impact across diverse populations. In the future, we plan on engaging with non-governmental organizations like ‘Physicians for Peace’ to provide valuable insights andperspectives on real-world challenges that are