problems involving the engineering design process, criticaland creative thinking, and technology applications (such as JMP, Pspice, TI Calculator software,CAS) are planned for inclusion.The textbook offers an authentic opportunity to tie content to the Next Generation ScienceStandards and Common Core standards in Mathematics. Authentic examples provide a realisticcontext in, for example, "Defining and Delimiting Engineering Problems" (NGSS) and "Modelwith mathematics," from the Standards of Mathematical Practice in the Common Core,Mathematics standards 3,4.Reflection on Mathematics Textbooks Before DevelopmentTextbooks have been the common tools for communicating mathematics to students alongsidethe demonstration of practice problems on the board
representations at three levels, analyzing the same itemseveral times, in different contexts and for different purposes5, 21. At this second stage students Page 24.40.5went through every step of problem solving; based on their ideas, made decisions as a group,performed a logical planning process, evaluated materials to represent the material balance inoral, written, graphical, and symbolic ways (ideas representation)16. During this process studentsdeveloped a video of their chosen process and conducted a photographic sequence of the massbalance to document the process in a dossier (graphical representation). The students prepared aposter that included a
determine ifthere is one ideal solution that optimized costs. In academic year 2013-2014, the cost ofsuccessful student plans was rather close. Surprisingly two teams submitted the same lowest bid,but arrived at the dollar value with different solutions. Unsuccessful projects generally did notcomplete math computations correctly prior to entering data into ArcGIS, and therefore came upwith faulty solutions. To remedy this problem in the future, one student suggested that eachteam validate their computations with the instructor prior to entering data into the ArcGISapplication during Part D of the project. Project assessment data comes from a survey given to the students pre-project and post-project. The pre-project survey consisted of two
., Simon P. Jones P., Humphreys S., and Sentence A. (2013), “Bringing computer science back into schools: Lessons from the UK,” presented at ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Denver, Colorado, March.5. http://cs.columbusstate.edu/documents/SITE_Paper.pdf6. Prusaczyk J. and Baker P. (2011), “Improving teacher quality in Southern Illinois: Rural access to mathematics professional development,” Planning and Changing, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 101-119.7. Moskal B. and Skokan C. (2011), “Outreach programs and professional development activities at the Colorado School of Mines,” Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 53-75, 2011.8. http://articles.philly.com/2014-01-06
reflections collected at planned times throughout the semester, and ongoing labobservations. Peer evaluations, first using an in-house tool and then moving to CATME[22], werealso used as a source of information for the classroom and for data collection purposes.Table 1: Data collection. The table shows the data collection type and timing over the course of thisproject (crossing multiple semesters). Term Course Pre-Post Student Focus Pre-Post Wiki Video Student Number Quiz Reflections Group Mindsets of Lab Peer Evals S 2010 ECEN 4243 X X S 2011 ECEN 4243 X X X X
activities. The first two workshops wereoffered during the summer of 2012 and 2013. The next one will be offered in the summer of2014. For the first two workshops the students received a stipend of $1000.00 to attend. Thestudents worked in small groups to acquire many skills related to their success in the STEMfields and engineering, in particular. Skills they learned include teamwork, research,procurement of materials, problem solving and career planning. While working on mathematicsand engineering related projects they also got familiar with TAMIU’s faculty, students,equipment and other resources available to them. The workshops were enhanced by thesupervision, guidance and mentoring by our engineering and mathematics faculty. Each teamwas
StudentFigure 17c) Score distribution for fluid mechanics friction factor in pipe flow labFinally, the author learned from supervising the design project and working with studentsthe importance of a clear and concise plan of attack, project report assignments, final goaland expectations be given and stated in the beginning of the semester. Moreover, it isimportant to give students sufficient time to work on the project and to give them achance to compile all the necessary data for the project report.ConclusionsThis paper has shown a swirling pipe flow project by undergraduate students. It wasinitiated as a project in the manufacturing processes and finite element method coursesand has been used for friction factor pipe flow measurements in the fluid
) National Incident Management Systems, An Introduction; (2) National Response Plan, An Introduction; (3) Introduction to the Incident Command System; (4) ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Response; and (5) Intermediate Incident Command Systems. As Director of Research and Business Development, Dr. Barnes oversees all proposal development and re- search design. He coordinates all needs assessment and benchmarking studies. Dr. Barnes is the former Assistant Economic Development Director for Technology for the City of Harrisonburg, and is currently Professor of Integrated Science and Technology at James Madison University. He has worked in the science and technology field for over thirty-five years. Dr. Barnes is
deep approach to learning. Each DIB is specifically for-mulated for a given DUT; therefore the number of devices used in the lab are limited. However, inhomework, the students obtain a wider experience of testing other devices through the use ofdatasheets.A datasheet is a published test plan for a given device. Therefore, it is a perfect resource for thestudents to experience a multitude of testing methods. However, datasheets are terse and there isnot a standard for them. As a result, students are required to look at multiple specifications acrossthe datasheet to understand the testing conditions of a different specification. For example, a com-mon-mode-rejection-ratio test (testA) may not indicate the necessary input range for the
videotaped for future study and assessment.ConclusionThe authors plan to continue to develop and evaluate new expert witness role play scenarios andformats to maximize the potential benefits of this pedagogy within the specific needs andconstraints of different educational environments. The formative assessment of the expertwitness role play approach appears promising, but it did not capture learning outcomes orcomparisons with other approaches to teaching engineering education. Creative professorsshould be able to adopt this technique to teach engineering ethics within a realistic, engaging,and involving way.Bibliography1. Brummel, B. J., Gunsalus, C. K., Anderson, K. L., & Loui, M. C. (2010). Development of role-play scenarios forteaching
. Six sections were offered in 2014 in order to limit the number of students in eachsection to no more than 12. Each lab section was scheduled for 1 hour and 20 minutes in 2012.This amount of time was found to be too short to complete all of the activities planned for eachlab, so the lab times were increased to 1 hour and 50 minutes in 2013.Students receive a handout at the start of each laboratory which guides them through the variousactivities they must perform. Each laboratory session includes three activities, and the studentsrotate through them in groups of 3-4 students. As they work through each activity, they must fillin sections of the handout with measurements, calculations, drawings, short answers, andcomments. The completed handouts
5 6 Question 4 3 5 1 9 7 Question 5 3 8 9 5A general comment section was also provided for the students. From this section it wasobvious from the various comments, that the virtual experiment was a new experience formost of the students, the experience was however a good one as most of them are lookingforward to it being a full part of their curriculum. While this initial assessment looks ratherpositive, it is inconclusive due to the few number of students involved and the fact that thework is still ongoing.It is planned to include these experiments as part of the laboratory coursework for thestudents
students. The experience suggests that anin-lab support person is important and the ability for that individual to communicate with theremote student groups via an audio-visual interface can enhance the student experience. Inaddition to the above, future development of this project includes provision of a means to controlthe PTZ camera, adding an audio feed to give students additional feedback when useful (e.g.fluid flow labs) and developing pre-labs for students to better understand the equipment beingused. We are also considering various means to allow students to conference among separatelocations in and out of lab. Our plan is to refine the remote setups and redeploy for the comingyear and also develop/adapt laboratory experiences in our other
purposes becausethey are too complex and very costly. The development of a Biomedical Instrumentation Lab forthe undergraduate program requires thoughtful planning especially for most teaching institutionsoffering BS-BMET program; it has limited budget for acquiring specialized instrument andequipment to be used for conducting experiments mainly for educational purposes. Developing asingle platform that is flexible enough to perform most undergraduate physiological experimentin lab become possible with the Biomedical Workbench developed by National Instrument. Thisplatform allows students to develop their own test system with the latest measurementtechnologies while providing an environment for developing an application in the capstoneproject
participants, likewise, receive college credit for the Microcomputer Applications course.The adult learners are encouraged to continue their studies in postsecondary STEM programsupon completion of their summer experience.Enrollment ServicesA new enrollment services management function has been developed utilizing software andsuccessful practices of colleges and universities with similar population demographics, wherepersistence, retention, and completion issues of first-generation and minority students preventthese students from completion their educational plans. This new function incorporates theStarfish student retention tracking software to expedite the identification of needs forintervention, streamline the communication among faculty members
slightly. Many of the students that did not watch the videos indicated that theyreviewed the PowerPoint slides instead so they were still coming to lecture prepared.Some of the videos were a half hour long and clearly need to be shortened by cutting some of thematerial and breaking them up into shorter videos. It will be interesting to see if our studentsreally are willing to watch three short videos in place of one longer video. Page 24.451.12In order to address the needs of students that are not auditory learners, we are planning ondeveloping an interactive learning environment similar perhaps to Code Academy10 wherestudents will be able to
. Third, the instructors asserted that having the students view the contest presentations hashelped the students select topics that are more focused. Often students (and professionals) try tocover too broad of a scope in their presentations. Doing so prevents them from achieving a depththat satisfies the audience [18]. The instructors contended that viewing the contest presentationsgave students a better idea for what type of topic could achieve depth in a 10-minutepresentation. Moreover, students who viewed the contest presentations were more willing toadopt strategies to limit the scope (such as defining limitations or making assumptions).Conclusion and Plans for DisseminationOverall, having students in a technical presentations course view the
liberal arts. Thus, the renzi kuichou school systemprescribed in general that “university should teach advanced scholarship, cultivate excellenttalents, serve the country”, and yet a growing divide between the disciplines meant that theseobjectives might be that much more difficult to achieve.The concept of “xueshu erfen” (“learning and technique were separated”) was also applied to theengineering discipline planning in both the renzi kuichou and renxu school systems. Thisreflected Cai Yuanpei’s educational philosophy of “xue wei jiben, shu wei zhigan” (“learning asthe trunk and technique as the branch”). For instance, it was argued that “agriculture, engineering,medicine, pharmacy, law, business, and other applied sciences are based on liberal
experts and the TF-IDF program are in agreement for high-ranked and low-ranked words, for most of the datacollected so far. Currently, 11 studies have been completed, and 4 remain; the data so farsuggest that the program works as the correlations are comparable across all of these courses.When data is compiled from courses which may have less technical vocabulary, like designcourses for example, an initial examination suggests that the correlations between subject-matterexpert and the TF-IDF program are lower. In planning the survey, the experimenter predictivelyassigned three subject-matter experts to score the exact same design-heavy course. Though thedata is currently being compiled, initial observations show that the correlation
baseline for comparison to subsequent results. We used structural equation modeling toevaluate whether the EGC framework influenced desired outcomes through effects on studentmotivation; we found such a result for upper-level courses, but not for lower-level courses. Weinterpret our results to indicate that the EGC framework increases motivation for a subset ofengineering students, and we are now exploring ways of engaging a larger set of students and ofidentifying those students who would be most likely to benefit from this framework.Future plans include the implementation of the framework in two additional courses in theSpring 2014 semester (in Civil and Environmental Engineering), one a required upper-levelcourse, the other an interdisciplinary
beexpected from the students, making the Capstone experience much more relevant, challenging,and interesting. The plan is to require teams to finish their background research, initial design,and order their parts during the winter quarter, so that during the spring quarter, the students havea very clear idea of what needs to be done and have most if not all parts available. By giving thestudents twenty instead of ten weeks, not only will the quantity of work increase but also thequality.We are conducting the ME/MET Capstone course over the winter and spring quarters of 2014.As part of this transition, we have formalized many aspects of the early research anddevelopment effort. In addition to the project proposal required previously, the teams will
Paper ID #9524Expert Innovators and Innovation Education: Mental Models in PracticeDr. Eden Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University Eden Fisher is Director of the Masters Program in Engineering & Technology Innovation Management (E&TIM) and Professor of the Practice at Carnegie Mellon University. She earned an A.B. in Chemistry from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Her experience includes over twenty years in industrial technology planning and innovation management.Dr. Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon University Indira Nair retired from Carnegie Mellon
/processing options than other groups. This information was used by the student in theconcept selection stage of the project and enabled the group to make a better founded selectionthan other groups in the class. Page 24.590.18The extensive use of the software did however not help the students in improving their overallunderstanding of and ability in planning, execution and presentation of a development projectwhen compared to other students in the class.4. Summary and conclusionsIf we summarize the various capabilities of the software in a teaching context, we find: extensiveaccess to data on properties of all material families; polymers, ceramics
again without knowing it or hewould have come to office hours more often or the quiz reflections were more in depth than justmemorizing or he would make things a lot harder simply because he would not get that chance todiscover what he did wrong. We are planning to conduct a finer-grained analysis of students’responses to investigate the impact of the intervention on students’ problem solving skills. Theanalysis of the intervention impact on students’ scientific attitude is in progress as well. Moredata analysis and research will be done on how students categorize their mistakes and howdifferent professors would have categorized instead.The article titled “Formative assessment and self-regulated learning: a model and sevenprinciples of good
submission of the Muddiest/Most Interesting Points is difficult. 12. The flipped class allows me to prepare my questions before coming to class. 13. The flipped classroom is more effective than the traditional class setting. 14. The homeworks assigned are NOT helpful when completing the in-class assignments. 15. The design project helps me apply the material covered in the pencast lectures and in- class activities. 16. I think learning statistical software (SPSS) during class activities will assist in my career/future educational plans. 17. Working in groups for the design project does NOT facilitate my understanding of statistics.Please comment below on the usefulness of this class. Would you recommend a flip class
properties. 3. Problem Solving: solve engineering problems using framework; sketch, define scope; propose model, incl. variables/ constants/ assumptions/ sensitivities. 4. Modelling: Produce model/ simulation flow chart; use Matlab to solve developed model; verify model; validate simulation results; use Creo to design and develop structural model; create CNC tool path; produce 2D working drawings. 5. Design: Use design thinking/ reflexive practice to plan/ implement/ design engineering solution. 6. Manufacturing: Use knowledge of manufacturing/ materials to build prototype. 7. Communication: build on ENGG1100 lessons
bebeneficial when they are coupled with audio narration and mostly aid learners that are novices17.Videos have been quite varied in their design and application to learning environments22. Thedesign of rich media for classrooms should be carefully planned to optimize the learning processin the construction management curriculum.Benefits and LimitationsRich media and videos have the potential, if properly utilized, to optimize both instructors’ andstudents’ valuable time and resources. For students, using videos allows them to access thematerial on-demand, moderate the controls (start, stop, and speed of videos), and can be watchedoutside of the classroom environment1. This type of executive control and autonomous learninghas shown to be more impactful
important skill forstudents to develop. Students who are familiar with typical orthographic details will be betteradapted to the information presented to them in professional practice. While 3-dimensionalmodeling of structures, such as work done in Revit, is becoming more common, it is still theindustry standard to deliver 2-dimensional plans for purposes of construction. As such, it will beincumbent upon students to understand information presented in this way. Figure 5 – The blueprint of steel connection shown in Figure 4Field ExamplesPrior to the development of a physical sculpture, and the virtual sculpture, the only wayinstructors could effectively show the assembly of steel connections was through examples inactual practice
higher quality education where failure of any student may be consideredas a defect in the process. Due to variability in the process such as different type of instructionby different professors, a variation of quality exists. Variations of quality may be due to lack ofunderstanding of how students learn and adapting to different learning styles of students. Afteridentification of the issues and defining the problems, a solution can be developed using sixsigma approaches and models presented in this paper. A control chart can be used with UCL andLCL along with a continuous improvement plan to improve the higher education process. Thiswill result in higher quality and sustainable process in the institution with higher levels of studentsatisfaction
education research. His work has been funded by federal organizations Page 24.195.1 including National Science Foundation and Army Office of Research and medical device manufacturing industry. He has taught courses in the areas of systems modeling and performance analysis, information systems design, production planning, facilities design, and systems simulation. He co-authored the 2006 Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year textbook, Design of Industrial Information Systems, Elsevier. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014