Paper ID #36660Socially Distant Active Learning and Student Engagement inSoftware Engineering CoursesBruce R Maxim (Professor) Bruce Maxim has worked as a software engineer, project manager, professor, author, and consultant for more than 40 years. His research interests include software engineering, user experience design, game development, AR/VR/XR, social media, artificial intelligence, and software engineering education. Bruce Maxim is professor of computer and information science and collegiate professor of engineering at the University of Michigan – Dearborn. He established the GAME Lab in the College
Cultural Wealth framework, to analyze and characterize the ties thatmarginalized students made between their family and childhood community and their HEaspirations. To better understand these pathways and how familial support systems and culturalfunds of knowledge influenced student career paths, we conducted interviews of 47 HE students,across seven programs, of whom 28 were from dominant communities and 19 were frommarginalized communities. We found testimony that students' experience with a well-supportedand valued stepping stone - field-based infrastructure projects - is mediated by theirsociopolitical status and their membership in historically marginalized groups. Whencircumnavigating this potentially gatekept stepping stone, some
conducted, theresearch training provided to the students, an overview of the projects completed by the students,the procedures used to evaluate the impact of the programs, the process used to track thestudents, and the outcomes of the programs. This paper will help others plan similar researchexperiences for engineering undergraduate students.IntroductionThe engineering schools in the U.S. now face internal and external challenges, impacting themarketability of our students. From 1985 to 2005, high school graduates went up 20.7%1 whileengineering bachelor degrees went down 5.7%2. The number of students indicating interest inengineering has dropped from 11% in 1985 to 7.2% in 20052. As we face this internal challenge,expanding global economy has
Curtis Yes sir.19 [00:04:45] Will Credit… Credit is due where it belongs.In this exchange, a mentorship interaction emerges without notice from an unexpected prompt.Although he is sitting two feet from Curtis, Will is unaware of what Curtis is working on until anoise draws his attention. Then he is surprised by Curtis’s project and expresses some incredulitytowards Curtis’ role on the project. After prompting from Curtis, Will forms an ad hoc purposefor applying some mentorship and gives Curtis mild feedback, followed by light praise and workadvice about taking credit where credit is due. This final piece of advice could be seen asattempting to provide a more experienced perspective on how one might navigate
extracurricular learning opportunities and hands-on supplements to traditional courseinstruction. The following paper describes the integration of a Formula SAE (FSAE) teamproject into a junior-level mechanical engineering experimentation course; it represents one ofnine projects in this course.The first half of the course is divided into modules that, for all students, progressively address: 1)the measurement chain and laboratory best practices using pre-existing experiments, 2) sensordesign, selection, and calibration, 3) statistical data analysis and uncertainty limits, and 4)technical communication skills. The second half tasks student teams to propose, design, build,and carry out an original experiment to an engineering problem they perceive can
how people are accessing, understanding and disseminating information.Dr. Andrea Jonahs, University of Waterloo Andrea Jonahs, Ph.D., MFA, is a lecturer at the University of Waterloo. She teaches professional commu- nication to students in STEM fields.Dr. Heather A Love, University of Waterloo Heather Love is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), where she conducts interdisciplinary research on topics related to engineering, technology, literature, and culture. Her current book project argues that early twentieth-century experimental literature is an important part of the ”cultural pre-history” of mid- and later-century cybernetics work. She teaches first-year communi
AC 2011-1348: GLOBAL INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE AMONG FIRST-YEAR CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTSAngela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt, PhD, PE, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, & Ar- chitectural Engineering at the University of Colorado - Boulder (CU). She is affiliated with the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities at CU. She has taught the first-year Introduction to Civil Engineering course 13 times, starting in 1997. She also teaches a senior capstone Environmental En- gineering Design course, which included international water and sanitation projects in 2001, 2002, 2006, and 2010. Her research interests include ceramic water
. However, resources are limited for assessing students’ abilitiesto consider design from a broad perspective and to account for a design’s impact on itsstakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a rubric to assess how students perceiveand integrate stakeholders into the design of a complex system. Following a description of therubric and its development, this paper describes results from the initial application and evaluationof the rubric by a panel of faculty, graduate students, and research scientists, as they used therubric to assess aircraft design projects. This initial evaluation demonstrated the strengths of therubric (particularly with regards to validity) and how the reliability of the ratings among raterswas sensitive to the
military retirement. At Baylor University since 1998, he teaches courses in fluid mechanics, energy systems, propulsion systems, heat transfer, and aeronautics. Research interests include renewable energy, small wind turbine aerodynamics, and noise generation as it applies to the urban environment. Currently, he designs small Unmanned Aerial System propellers, reducing noise and power requirements.Cynthia Fry CYNTHIA C. FRY is a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science at Baylor University. She has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University, and a M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She worked at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as a Project engineer
tt ti projects and laboratory reports. In doing so, some BME students were limited in their ability to implement learned communica on skills throughout their major design deliverables (e.g., team presenta ons fall semester senior year). BME
). Following his graduation in 2016, he joined a leading real estate corporation in Nepal as a site engineer working on a multi-million project. He later joined a research firm based in London where he worked as an Engineering Graduate Researcher. Piyush is currently a Graduate Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at the Moss School of Construction, Sustainability, and Infrastructure at FIU where he focuses on multidisciplinary research that harmonizes sustainability in construction. His other research interests include Sustainable Construction, Robotics, and AI-based Construction, Engineering Education, Green Buildings, Sustainable Infrastructure, Resilient and Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction, and Circular
Scheduling.Dr. Fernanda L. Leite, The University of Texas at Austin Dr. Fernanda Leite is an Associate Professor in the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds the Mrs. Pearlie Dashiell Henderson Centen- nial Fellowship in Engineering. She has a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, from Carnegie Mellon University. Her technical interests include building and civil information modeling, and collabora- tion and coordination technologies. Dr. Leite teaches courses on Building Information Modeling, Project Management and Economics, and Sustainable Systems Engineering. Her funded research projects have focused on building and civil information modeling
.Leslie Light, Colorado School of Mines Leslie Light is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Engineering, Design, and Society Division at the Colorado School of Mines, and the Director of the Cornerstone Design@Mines program. She received a B.S. in General Engineering, Product Design from Stanford University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Entrepreneurial Management. Prior to joining Mines she spent 20 years as a designer, project manager, and portfolio manager in Fortune 500 companies and smaller firms in the Silicon Valley and abroad. She is passionate about bringing the user-centered de- sign principles she learned at Stanford and in her career to Mines’ open
time, many previously underdeveloped countries took advantage of thatsituation and quickly implemented the most recent, more reliable and significantly improvedgeneration of technical systems. That same kind of opportunity was before us, when we startedour project.2. “The Engineer of 2020” – aspirations, attributes, findings, and recommendationsIn 2001 the National Academy of Engineering established a steering committee to develop avision for engineering and the role of engineers in the modern society of the future. From thebeginning, the committee was charged with revising current engineering education according totheir predictions of how the discipline will need to evolve to face the challenges of the futuretechnological revolution of the
School System in suburban Detroit to develop a pre-college engineering technology course that will be a model for the state. He has presented papers on engineering education at many ASEE and FIE conferences. Before coming to Michigan Tech, Mr. Oppliger taught math and science at the secondary level for 11 years. Before that, he worked for 5 years as a project engineer in the marine construction industry.Shawn Oppliger, Copper Country Intermediate School District Ms. Shawn Oppliger (M.S.) is director of the Western Upper Peninsula Center for Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education and science and mathematics consultant at Copper Country Intermediate School District. The Western UP Center
Teachers (TECT) professional developmentworkshop is being developed by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to strengthen theway in which high school teachers and counselors approach the integration of engineering basedmaterials into their courses and counseling. It is believed this improved pedagogy will convincea broader, more diverse range of students to pursue engineering and technology careers.The TECT workshop, a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded proof-of-concept project,incorporates the well-established STEM model that hands-on activities improve student learningand comprehension. To reinforce this approach, the project builds upon a successful existingNSF sponsored project that funds high school clubs and summer camps
Education, 2008 A Structured Assessment Framework for TeamworkAbstractAnecdotal evidence from students shows that ACU undergraduates have difficulty managingtheir time due to various commitments and responsibility outside university. As such, this paperproposes a cooperative learning model which endeavors to help students utilize their timeoptimally in a first year programming course in MATLAB. Included in this model is a structuredassessment framework, as well as teamwork training to facilitate effective teamwork strategy.This model also places emphasis on strong alignment of curriculum objectives to progressiveassessment tasks.To deploy this framework, a MATLAB programming project is designed to be just large enoughfor a group of 3
apply their knowledge of ship structures andto practice design, the student design teams are tasked to design and build a barge from sheetaluminum with the goal to carry 120 pounds of weight. The weight is restricted to a 9 inch by 12inch hopper to create a more or less concentrated load. The students must carefully plan the useof their limited material just as any ship builder does, and they must also apply their knowledgeof ship hydrostatics and stability. The barges are tested in a tank of water and the studentsreceive credit for the amount of weight they are able to carry without structural failure, sinking,or capsizing. For the past two years, corresponding to their senior project to design anicebreaker, the students have also been tasked
contribute to students' intellectual development and progress ? 4. How does the instructor respond to students' learning difficulties ? Does the teacher revise the teaching strategies to address such problems ? 5. What impact does this type of teaching have on students' life-long learning attitudes ? Are they able to “learn, how to learn.” Page 11.811.3 2A Ten-step ProcessOver the past several years, the Senior Design Project Course has evolved into avery powerful and productive component in the
&S IT-Consulting Christian Steinmann has an engineer degree in mathematics from the Technical University Graz, where he focused on software quality and software development process assessment and improvement. He is man- ager of HM&S IT-Consulting and provides services for SPiCE/ISO 15504 and CMMI for development as a SEI-certified instructor. He performed more than 100 process assessments in software development de- partments for different companies in the finance, insurance, research, automotive, and automation sector. Currently, his main occupation is a consulting project for process improvement for safety related embed- ded software development for an automobile manufacturer. On Fridays, he is teaching
senior member of the IEEE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Development of a Printed Circuit Board Design Laboratory CourseWith the increasing focus on more sophisticated design projects in electrical and computerengineering (ECE) curricula, the number, quality and complexity of projects that studentscomplete by the time they graduate has been growing. Aside from culminating design projectsusually completed during their senior year, many undergraduate programs have beenincorporating design experiences throughout the curriculum, even starting as early as thefreshman year. The emphasis of many institutions on entrepreneurial activities as well as
process prior to their capstoneexperience. Over the years, the one course grew to two courses- spreading components of thedesign process over two quarters, and giving the students more responsibility in the second.The courses have a 50-minute lecture and two 80-minute studio sessions weekly. Studentsregister a lecture and a studio section. The studio sections consist of up to 16 students andinclude two instructors: one engineering and one communication faculty. Additionally, studentsform groups of four and are paired with an external client who poses the problem statement.For the first course, there is one project per studio section. For the second course, the majorityof the sections have up to four projects- one for each four-student team.These
University (2003, Summa Cum Laude and University Hon- ors Scholar), the MSCE from the University of California, Berkeley (2004), and the Ph.D in Civil Engi- neering from Vanderbilt University (2008). As a researcher, he has published over 40 research papers in archival journals and in conference proceedings in the areas of probabilistic methods in engineering, de- sign optimization, transportation engineering, structural engineering, and multidisciplinary analysis and optimization applications for civil systems with a focus on optimization of hydropower generation. As an educator he has taught a wide variety of courses in structural and transportation engineering and men- tored numerous student projects, including the
undergraduates interested in studying naval and marine engineering, norhave those industries actively recruited bachelors degree graduates. Therefore, it is particularlyimportant to the vitality of the certificate that students achieve depth in the fundamentals toensure transferability and thus mitigate risk in students’ career planning. It is also necessary toprovide students with this comprehensive background through existing and new elective coursesusing limited faculty resources. We leverage faculty effort by designing new project-intensivecourses, that naturally support learning communities, and provide an online bulletin board tofacilitate student communication.The positive impact of learning-community participation on student success in
to serve as teaching assistants. Teaching assistants at Dartmouth are typicallyundergraduate students themselves who have done well in the courses for which they serve asteaching assistants. Responsibilities of the teaching assistants include running problem sessions(optional evening help sessions), grading problem sets, and helping to set up and rundemonstrations and laboratories. Teaching assistants are not responsible for grading quizzes,exams or projects. As shown in Figure 4, the percentage of women serving as teaching assistantsin undergraduate engineering courses for the past six terms has been quite high, ranging from47% to 55%. 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Fall 2017 Spring 2017 Winter 2017
study cycles in Textitle Engineering and Engi- neering and Industrial Management, in the 1st cycle course of Design and Fashion Marketing, and also in the 2nd cycle courses of Fashion Design and Communication, Textile Chemistry, Advanced Textiles and Design and Marketing. Head research and research member of several R&D projects, has presented as main author or co-author many dozens of scientific journal papers and communications in international conferences. President of the Pedagogical Council of the School of Engineering since 2011 and Vice-Dean of School of EngineeringVictor F. A. Barros, University of Minho Victor F. A. Barros, Ing.-Paed IGIP (ORCID 0000-0002-7318-8257) is Researcher Fellow at Algoritmi
excellence. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Making Inspired by Nature: Engaging Preservice Elementary Teachers and Children in Maker-centered Learning and BiomimicryIntroductionMakerspaces, innovation labs, and creativity spaces are gaining traction in K-12 schools andcommunity centers. This exploratory project, Making Inspired by Nature , brings together the artof making, the disciplined practices of design thinking, and the creative practices of biomimicryto engage preservice teachers and children in building innovative solutions to real worldproblems. To achieve this, this project is (a) building and evaluating digital resources andhands-on activities for engaging elementary children in
-regulated learning. After abrief description of Butler and Cartier’s model of self-regulated learning, which lays a theoreticalfoundation for this REU Site program, this paper provides an overview of the program anddetails of student recruitment and selection. The paper describes a variety of activities cateredand designed for students, including orientation, seminar series, and the final symposium. Alsodescribed are four new REU research projects that share a common intellectual focus: self-regulated learning in engineering education. Each REU research project included two REUstudents, a graduate student mentor, and a faculty mentor. The lessons learned in our Summer2014 program were applied in Summer 2015 to continuously improve the quality of
of the So- ciety for Health Systems. He serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards, has received 12 research, teaching, and service awards, and has been principal investigator or co-director in seven research centers totaling over $32 million in funding.Mr. Corey Balint, Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute at Northeastern University Corey Balint, holds both a BS and MS in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University and cur- rently is a staff healthcare system engineer in the HSyE institute. Current responsibilities include: serving as day-to-day project manager of our AHRQ patient safety center, leading a portfolio of roughly 10 projects at any time, and assisting with senior team projects
developing grant projects. Over the past five years, Dr. Reutter has secured more than $20 million in grant funds for the college. Previously, he served as Dean of Instruction for two Alabama community colleges and also taught com- puter science classes for over 28 years at various colleges and universities in California and Alabama. He is a Senior Fellow of the IEEE Society and the founder of two Silicon Valley software companies. Page 26.549.1 Dr. Reutter began employment at Drake State in 2006 as Dean of Instruction and assisted the President in spearheading the campus efforts to achieve regional