were already accounting. So, say their modelfocused on mean to rank the shipping companies; then they might be creating new data sets withmeans that are different and ignoring other data characteristics. This can only be verified bylooking at the teams’ Draft 2 models and the responses to this assignment in combination. This isbeyond the scope of this paper, but is a planned next step.It is encouraging that a few students kept the context of the problem in mind when developingtheir data sets. Students had individually explored some JIT manufacturing concepts during acontext setting step in the MEA sequence. While only two students explained that they includednegative values in their new data sets because the practice of JIT includes the
. Chen, P.-c. Lin, and S.-S. Chang, “Integrating library instruction into a problem-based learning curriculum,” Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives, vol. 63, no. 5, pp. 517 – 532, 2011. Design/methodology/approach;External environments;Information literacy;Information seeking;Instructional materials;Learning organizations;Library instruc- tion;Library user education;Library users;Medical curriculum;Medical libraries;Medical schools;Medical students;Non-traditional;Plan libraries;Problem based learning;Research limitations;Small groups;.[41] R. Belu and A. Belu, “Development of a web-based learning and instruction support system for renewable energy sources/hybrid power systems courses,” (Chicago, IL
required core courses and one energy elective. EGR540: Economics and Public Policy EGR542: Power Generation Technologies EGR546: Electric Power System Fundamentals EGR649: Energy Experiences Power and Energy Elective Page 25.76.4 Figure 2: Structure of the Graduate Certificate The program design is ambitious. The plan was to make it possible to complete the certificatewithin one academic year by meshing certificate course
, hence would be suitable for a 50-minute lecture. The difference is that the machine shownin Figure 4 uses a 3-input OR gate while the example circuit and the alternative machines useonly 2-input OR gates. This added complication of the 3-input OR gate is harder for somestudents than others to comprehend; hence the large variation in completion time.Assessment and DiscussionThe State Machine Module was developed for courses that cover digital logic, which is taught byseveral different instructors. Early in the implementation phase, an assessment plan wasdeveloped that specified on-going evaluation in ECE 2030 Introduction to ComputerEngineering courses during the first three years of implementation. Data has been collected from11 classes over
fullyimplemented in all of our ABET accredited bachelor’s degree courses in computer science. At this point in our ABET assessmentprocess aligned with outcomes a-k, we have simply employed this new cross-course alignment and score normalization with a-koutcome alignment. As a consequence, we now have direct assessment of each ABET outcome rather than simply a measurement ofstudents’ perception of whether they have been exposed to each outcome. We have yet to assess whether our process is working fromthe standpoint of faculty who teach the computer sciences courses. Accordingly, we plan to convene focus groups with faculty in thecoming semesters to determine if the new system is effective as a means of offering continuous improvement to faculty courses
and science courses taken in high school. This approach toan introduction to engineering technology course contributes to students’ preparedness forsubsequent science, math, and engineering technology courses. Several introductory coursesreported in the literature1-3 were taken into consideration while planning the content of the coursepresented herein. The issues of remedial math preparation4 and its impact on engineeringtechnology student retention5 were considered as well. After a careful review of the need of ourstudents and the review of relevant literature, it was decided to focus on engineering problemsolving early in the course by integrating concepts of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, andvectors. Optimization of single-variable
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sections of the course, do not force the GTAs/faculty tobe talking heads by requiring that everyone use the exact same slides. Discuss prepared Page 25.135.10presentation slides with faculty/GTAs at weekly meetings. Keep an open mind. Encouragecomments and incorporate good suggestions. Make sure the topic objectives are clearly stated toall faculty/GTAs so they know what is expected for that material. Identify key points that mustbe communicated and activities that must be done for each workshop. While instructionalsupport materials are provided for the activities as planned, allow GTAs/faculty to modify thepresentation as long as the key points
AC 2012-5126: AN EXERCISE FOR IMPROVING THE MODELING ABIL-ITIES OF STUDENTS IN AN OPERATIONS RESEARCH COURSEDr. Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, Pueblo Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering at Colorado State University, Pueblo. He received his M.Sc. in system engineering and his Ph.D. in engineering manage- ment from the National University of Colombia and Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va, respectively. His research interests include scheduling, operations research, and modeling and simulation in health care and energy planning. He has participated in several funded projects through various sources such as NASA, the Department of Homeland Security
Hispanicpopulation are being considered. Future marketing plans are being discussed and can be foundunder “Future Steps” section of this manuscript.4.2 Access to Spanish Language ExpertiseA greater challenge facing the developers was to acquire Spanish language expertise fortranslating articles from Go!. The developers realized such expertise existed within the universitycommunity through Latino student clubs and the Spanish language academic program. On Page 25.182.6further exploration and discussions with faculty members, a tentative partnership was struck witha faculty member from the Spanish program, who is one of the authors of this paper. Thefollowing
perceive learn-ing more in a class that uses technology. In summary, the use of the iPad maintained student’s aca-demic performance at the same level for the most part and there was a highly positive impact ofstudent’s perceived value of using an iPad in the classroom, which positively affected the class-room environment.FUTURE WORK Future work planned for year three of this ongoing research should expand to following areas:development of applications for the iPad on the more complex engineering topics to increase class-room performance as shown from the Exam II results. Other aspects are the digitalization of thecourse textbook and implementation on the iPad platform, which could greatly impact the studyhabits of the students. An adjustment to
engineers.Traditional teaching methods are used to teach sustainability and examples have included,problem solving, case studies, and thinking and reasoning challenges6. The Rose-HulmanInstitute of Technology implemented aspects of sustainable design into classes in which studentshad to pay attention to the sustainability aspects of designs as they created prototypes andcomputer models4. One program made a large commitment to sustainable design and offered agreat time commitment to the lesson plan. In a fundamentals of engineering course theinstructors adopted two hours of lecture and four hours of lab use to concentrate on ideas ofglobal climate change instead of traditional engineering curriculum. The instructors use the AlGore book An Inconvenient Truth10as
curriculum.Planned future work involves the expanded use of Turnitin.com in additional undergraduatecourses requiring writing assignments as well as graduate courses, such as the graduateproposition course. The authors plan to develop standard “scripts” for discussion of the use ofTurnitin.com as well as examples illustrating the judicious use of the software tool. Page 25.195.9Bibliographic Information1. T. Batane. “Turning to Turnitin to fight plagiarism among university students.” Educational Technology & Society 13 (2), 1-12 (2010).2. P. Scanlon. “Student online plagiarism: How do we respond?” College Lecturing 5 (4), 161-165 (2003).3. D. Carpenter
followed by brief, illustrative experiments to test the validity of the models.We welcome feedback on the course development plan we have presented. As laboratories aredeveloped, we will add them to our course development webpage. Please contact us if you haveany questions or would like to use our materials in your own course. We hope to present resultsof our assessments at a future ASEE conference.AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to the University of St. Thomas Department of Physics, the University of St.Thomas Faculty Development Center, and MathWorks Inc. for supporting this project. Page 25.198.11APPENDIX A: Diagram showing how Applications of
. These portfolios are gauged, graded, evaluated and assessed using avariety of rubrics and assessment tools. The author has previously presented some ofthese results in a form at the 114th ASEE Annual Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. The author plans to generate and utilize a similar rubric for purposes ofassessment. Furthermore, it should be recognized that each topic or subject matter may bedifferent and the difference may be huge and significant. Each instructor’s delivery styleis different and one may even arrive at two different sets of data for the same subject andtopic when two different instructors are involved (Narayanan, 2007). The principles of VARK as outlined by Fleming and Mills could also be used todocument
scores, credit hours taken, workexperience, future career plans (e.g., industry, grad school), etc.This study shows that students are reasonably good at correctly assessing their answers, butfuture studies should evaluate how this method affects their learning and understanding of thematerial. Whether or not they learn the material better, this method provides them additionalopportunities to practice assessing their own abilities, which is a practical skill that is oftenoverlooked in engineering education.AcknowledgmentsThe author thanks Gigi Yuen-Reed, Ismet Handzic, and Samuel McAmis for their insights andfeedback.References1. Bandura, A. (1977), 'Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.', Psychological review 84(2
φ∗ created by the solar tracking algorithm, respectively, for a given time.The output of this reference generator are the reference coordinates of β ∗ and φ∗ mapped onto twoseparate Cartesian plans for tracking of the sun. The resulting reference coordinates take the formr = [w1 w2 w3 w4 ] , where w1 and w2 are the coordinates for the zenith angle β and w3 andw4 are the coordinates for the azimuth angle φ, for the system to track. Several issues have to be addressed during the design of the controller. The controller has todecide the most efficient path to reach the target angles and switch direction when needed. How-ever, the system is susceptible to becoming trapped in decision conflict regions when perturbationsare introduced, thus
but also because each studentis prepared for the discussion. The students are clearly connecting the content to a social learningenvironment, and as a result, they are better able to recall and reason about course material.18Many teachers spend a significant amount of class time going over the correct responses to anexam, or worry that they cannot take the time to do this without losing content coverage. Ratherthan spend the same amount of time going over the exam, a team test allows students to discover,justify and own the answers. By having students spend time working through the exam with eachother, the students become teachers, participating in reciprocal learning.For planning teacher-to-classroom feedback, the group exams give a better
. Incontrast, ‘Enquiry’ was implemented at Michigan Tech as a means of developing spatialvisualization skills and to help students understand conventional methods of representingobjects.The collaboration across two international universities proved very beneficial in terms ofmodifying and improving the apparatus used in the activity but it also provided a means ofcritiquing and refining the courses in which they were implemented. The recommendationsfrom ‘Phase 2’ indicate that careful consideration should be given to the timing andapplication of ‘Enquiry’ within modules of study. This planning should take learningoutcomes and students’ prerequisite knowledge into account. For example, it may bebeneficial to facilitate experiential learning of various
cast as sources of feedback to optimize instruction.10,11The subtlety with which such planned, standards-focused pedagogy limits critical reflection(about both the pedagogy and the discipline writ large) is striking.There is a circularity inherent at many points in the process. For example, in makingrecommendations for how engineering departments might effectively enact ABET criteria, onepair of chemical engineering instructors (sharing their findings in a journal for engineeringeducators), writes that, "...the measurement of student achievements in the courses shouldprovide considerable information on the curricular effectiveness of an academic program."9 Alsovery common is the idea that a failing student should repeat the failed class, a
animated presentations, tutorial videos, and video demonstrations help engage studentsand enhance retention of material.2 Planning content structure and pre-recording materialsoutside of normal lecture gives course instructors time to refine presentations improving theirquality. Once recorded, the material can be delivered repeatedly and uniformly every time thecourse is offered. Developing a library of multimedia content for courses expands instructor Page 25.1362.2time since students can review course materials repeatedly whenever and where ever they need.Students are free to interact with the content in a way that best suits their individual
previous knowledgebase concerning architectural systems than MEP systems. A surprising finding was that studentsbelieved the Architectural BIM was more effective in learning architectural systems than MEPBIM was in learning MEP systems. This finding, though tentative, is subject to many differentinterpretations. One possible interpretation is that students learn more from BIM-basedinstruction when they possess additional prior knowledge about the subject material. If thisinterpretation is true, it provides strong support for the argument that BIM should be taught as asenior level course (maybe a technical elective) versus as an introductory class [15, 16].The authors plan to continue to conduct this research on larger scale in order to gain
implementing distributed scaffolding: helping students learn science from design. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 42, (2), 185-217.31 Linn, M. C. (1995). Designing computer learning environments for engineering and computer science: The scaffolded knowledge integration framework. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 4,(2), 103-26.32 Rubin, J. (1994). Handbook of usability testing: How to plan, design, and conduct effective tests. New York: Wiley.33 Corry, M. D., Frick, T. W., & Hansen, L. (1997). User-centered design and usability testing of a web site: An illustrative case study. Educational Technology Research and Development, 45(4), 65-76
and confirms the notion that thereare negative consequences.Procrastination in the literatureMany researchers have spent considerable resources identifying the cause of (and cures for)procrastination. Dietz et.al.9 associated procrastination with individual values and learningroutines, asserting that people who plan their daily activities procrastinate less than those who donot. Akinsola et.al.10 observed a positive correlation between procrastination and achievement inmathematics, but went on to conclude that varying levels of procrastination (low, moderate andhigh) have no significant impact on overall academic accomplishment and that gender played norole in procrastination-related behavior. Senecal et.al.11 attempted to correlate
threedifferent lectures, all in the area of mechanics. Although I typically teach undergraduatedynamics, my assignments at HM included a graduate level multi-body systems (MBS) courseand two undergraduate courses with considerable content in vibrations. I would have to say thatmy primary workload issues revolved around trying to re-learn the MBS and vibrations material,and trying to develop good example problems for each class. Although I have numerousproblems and real-world examples for sophomore level dynamics, the same cannot be said forMBS and vibrations.It was also challenging to plan a 90 minute lecture, when I am used to 50 minute classes. One ofthe courses only met once a week, and the other two had a 90 minute lecture and a 90 minutecomputer
product volume? a. Has there been any new equipment purchase to support any of these goals? b. Have these new equipment purchases reduced the amount of machinery necessary to make that product? 3. Has your company in recent time made any new equipment purchases? a. Has the acquisition of new machinery affected the need for more skilled workers? 4. Is a future goal of your company to obtain more highly skilled workers that can run new robotic machinery? 5. Are you using planning models to help you schedule production operations
, along with graduation data, to quantify theimprovement in retention and graduation rates realized from the SEEP program. We fully intendto keep the program at its current level or higher until we accomplish quantifying the SEEP valueand if results justify institutionalization of the program (as expected), we plan to make that areality. Page 25.1169.6 Figure 4. 1-year and 2-year Retention Rate for Engineering First-Time-Freshman with ACT Math 17-25 The historical graduation data for first time freshman in Engineering is illustrated inFigure 5. It shows the number of first time freshman
) Environmental Communication WeekEvery spring semester, Tarleton State University sponsors Environmental Communication Week(ECW) which provides environmental education and awareness opportunities for students,faculty and staff, and the surrounding community. The ECW is facilitated through the generoussponsorship of the Communication Studies Department, Library, Environmental AdvisoryCouncil, and the Staff Council at Tarleton State University.Daily three to four virtual workshops of 45-50 minutes duration each and 16 face-to-faceworkshops were provided. The ECW planning board and interns worked together to offer dailyactivities through social media tools (i.e. - Twitter and Facebook) and several excitingenvironmental education themed workshops such as
designedproject.The concept of detecting abnormal behavior of computer users was first introduced by Andersonin 19801. He published a paper, Computer Security Threat Monitoring and Surveillance, anddefined that an attack was a specific formulation or execution of a plan to carry out a threat. Heclassified a threat as a deliberate unauthorized attempt to access information, manipulateinformation, or render a system unreliable or unusable. Since then, a variety of taxonomyschemes on grouping attacks into categories have been proposed. For example, in 1987 Denning2classified abnormal patterns of system usage into eight categories: attempted break-in,masquerading or successful break-in, penetration by legitimate user, leakage by legitimate user,inference by
F J P Logical Empathetic Systematic Casual Reasonable Compassionate Planful Open-Ended Questioning Accommodating Early Starting Pressure-Prompted Critical Accepting Scheduled Spontaneous Tough Tender Methodical Emergent Language through reading and reflectionWeekly reflections were based on a set of 15 articles and 14 videos. These were chosen