opportunitiesguaranteeing stimulating lifelong career-development opportunities. These benchmarks forsuccess include: “an ability to learn how to learn, an ability to form learning communities,and an ability to collaborate in distributed corporate settings, across countries, continents andcultures”[3].Universities attempt to capture the demand for the new skillset by revising and extending theexistent intended learning outcomes (ILOs) to include references to the meta-competencies.Biggs and Tang[5] note that the most effective ILOs will challenge students to go further than‘solve’ or ‘explain’, asking instead to ‘apply to professional practice’, ‘hypothesise’,‘reflect’, even ‘relate to principles’, in short to demonstrate the so-called higher-orderthinking skills
3.35 0.12 dimension of engineering as a consequence of this course. As a consequence of this class, I feel more 99 3.35 0.12 empowered to make a positive difference in the world. Table 1: Student responses.Finally, the students were asked if the class changed their perspective/goals/behavior in any way.For the 55 students that answered affirmative to this question (equivalent to 65% of the studentsthat answered the question), their responses can be divided into four main categories: 1)Increased self-awareness, 2) Redefined role of engineers, 3) Broadened career options as anengineer, and 4) Motivated drive to make a difference. For the first category, we talked in lectureextensively
UNICAMP in the area of solid state device processing and semiconductor devices design. In 1995, he began a career as a consultant. In 2006, he founded the BiLab-Business and Innovation Lab at UNIFACS, Salvador-BA, Brazil. Recently, Dr. Mons˜ao has been involved in nationwide science and technology outreach projects using a Robotic Musical Instrument he and a colleague have developed. His current research interests are in the areas of engineering education, robotics, mechatronics, automation, electronic instrumentation and innovation. He has now a Post Doc position in the Graduate Program of Mechatronics at the Federal University of Bahia, UFBA.Dr. Jes Fiais Cerqueira P.E., Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) J´es de
1st-year course in electrical and computerengineering recently developed and implemented at DigiPen Institute of Technology. Theprimary objective of the course is to engage students in authentic engineering work early in theiracademic careers. Previous studies have shown that student engagement often leads to increasedstudent retention rates in engineering programs. Moreover, including engineering work in the 1styear of a program often better prepares students for their subsequent and more advancedengineering courses.The project currently implemented consists of sensor and telemetry systems for high-altitudeballoons. Students are required to use the cricketsat design approach, which involves an electriccircuit with an output that changes
assigned the editor role to someone who lacked writing skills thatthey did not know about until they received the first draft of the paper.The few teams that reported the project plan did not support planning also acknowledged in theinterviews a lack of initiative (19%) as a barrier:There was a lot of ambiguity about who's gonna take over the leadership role. I felt like somefolks require, they wanted to have meetings every week when I didn't feel like it was necessaryand I felt like the path has been clearly laid out. I guess just in general I would say it kind ofreminded me of taking a step back from where I am in my career to being on that level where youare subject to everybody's wants and needs a lot more than I am now. To be honest with you
0.46-0.48: ‘describe calculation methods’, ‘estimate uncertainties in results’, and ‘explain routine data processing such as calibration corrections’. Weak positive correlations were seen with ‘justifying adjustments or corrections’ and ‘examining data for consistency’. An interesting result is that there was almost no effect for the behaviors ‘anticipate results from theory’ and ‘compare data to previous work or literature’. This may point to either a weakness in the curriculum in reinforcing these behaviors, or a lack of maturity and understanding on the part of the students at this point in their academic careers. One lab that stands out is Lab 6. This had a very low positive correlation for the total number
DTRA Grant HDTRA1-11-1-0016, DTRACNIMS Contract HDTRA1-11-D-0016-0001, and NSF NetSE Grant CNS-1011769.References [1] W. K. LeBold, R. Delauretis, and K. D. Shell. The purdue interest questionnaire: An interest inventory to assist engineer students in planning their career. annual Frontiers in Education Conference, 1977. [2] John P. Bean. Dropouts and turnover: The synthesis and test of a causal model of student attrition. Research in higher education, 12(2):155–187, 1980. [3] James A. Beane and Richard P. Lipka. Self-concept, self-esteem, and the curriculum. Columbia University, Teachers College, 1986. [4] Malene Rode Larsen, Hanna Bjornoy Sommersel, and Michael Søgaard Larsen. Evidence on Dropout Phenomena at Universities
]. Available: http://www.comsoc.org/blog/breaking- newstelecommunication-engineering-now-official-accreditation-criteria. [Accessed 30 January 2016].[12] K. Pretz, "Telecommunications Engineering Is Now a Distinct Education Discipline," 21 November 2014. [Online]. Available: http://theinstitute.ieee.org/career-and-education/university-education/telecommunications- engineering-is-now-a-distinct-education-discipline.[13] G. P. Wiggins and J. McTighe, "What is backward design?," in Understanding by design, NJ, Merill Prentice Hall, 2001, pp. 7-19.[14] L. W. Anderson and D. R. Krathwohl, A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: A revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives., New York: Longman, 2001.[15] T. Litzinger
students opportunities for acquiring 21st century knowledge and skills required to compete with a technology-rich workforce environment. The second c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Paper ID #15360 grant aims at providing educational and administrative support to undergraduate student in areas of career and financial management planning. He has been selected as Research Fellow at the Educational Test- ing Service at Princeton for two consecutive summer terms. He has been program chair and president of the regional association (Southwest Educational Research Association) and presently
Head of Pillar, Engineering and Product Development(EPD), and Co-Director of the SUTD-MIT International Design Center (IDC) at the Singapore Universityof Technology and Design (SUTD). Dr. Wood completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Divisionof Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology, where he was an AT&TBell Laboratories Ph.D. Scholar. Dr. Wood joined the faculty at the University of Texas in September1989 and established a computational and experimental laboratory for research in engineering design andmanufacturing, in addition to a teaching laboratory for prototyping, reverse engineering measurements,and testing. During his academic career, Dr. Wood was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the
medical processes, with a focus on detecting human errors before harm is done and preventing such errors. He has used software engineering techniques to formally represent and analyze models of complex HIPs and industrial engineering techniques to elicit and validate models of such processes. He is also interested in human-computer interaction techniques for presenting information to assist process performers during an ongoing process. Stefan Christov holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Dr. Mark Hoffman, Quinnipiac University Mark Hoffman is a professor of computer science at Quinnipiac University. He joined the University in 2001 following a career in industry and has taught
game.Coaches make their players practice both in pieces and putting it all together. Routine problemscan be seen as analogous to a layup and complex real-world problems analogous to a scrimmage.In a previous study one student highlighted this difference when he asked, “you mean you wantme to solve this like a real problem in the lab or something, not like homework or a problem onan exam.” Our students have learned how to “play school” well, but we need to make schoolmore applicable to the careers we are preparing them to enter. Students need more practicesolving complex real-world problems. It seems unnecessary to make students wait to start thispractice only after they have mastered basic math and science concepts. As Schwartz et al.(2005) propose
engagement in engineering design. Onceteachers can notice disciplinary aspects of students’ engineering design, they can actively workto promote these in class. This will give elementary students experience with the open-endedproblems of the engineering profession and the actual strategies that engineers use to solve theseproblems. Students gain an appreciation for engineering as rigorous, informed problem solving,rather than simply arts and crafts or the application of mathematics and science. Framingengineering this way may interest more students in engineering as a future career, particularlythose who are interested in problem solving but do not believe they are good at mathematics andscience. Furthermore, when elementary students are exposed to
mentor Extreme 10 no coordinate strategy; anything and everythingEvents-based 7 demo day or project day; attend career day; conferencesOver half of responses (n=173) utilized external contacts as a source of finding projects. Of those, about athird of respondents (n=50) mentioned local and regional industries: “Keep sponsors located within a 90mile radius.” (R71) and “Contact local clients/foundations/clinics/centers.” (R389)A comparable number of comments (n=49) remarked that alumni were a significant source of projects: Advisory board provides some, but most successful is former students. Best sponsors are those that have been out of school for 4-5 years. Senior-level sponsors of projects are often
Paper ID #15297The ASCE BOK, ABET Accreditation Criteria, and NCEES FE Exam - AreThey Appropriately Aligned?Dr. Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama Kenneth J. Fridley is the Senior Associate Dean for Administration at the University of Alabama. Prior to his current appointment, Fridley served as Head of the Department of Civil, Construction and Environ- mental Engineering at the University of Alabama for 12 years. Dr. Fridley has been recognized as a ded- icated educator throughout his career and has received several awards for his teaching efforts, including the ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education
design, innovation and sustainability; synthesizing the influence of societal and individual worldviews on decision-making; assessing STEM students’ learning in the spaces of design, ethics, and sustainability; and exploring the impact of pre-engineering curriculum on students’ abilities and career trajectories.Dr. Lorraine G. Kisselburgh, Purdue University Lorraine Kisselburgh (Ph.D., Purdue University) examines organizing and communicative practices in sociotechnical contexts, particularly collaboration in engineering design teams, spatial and material in- fluences on organizing, and gendered practices in technological settings. She has backgrounds in com- munication, human performance, and computer science, and
participants walked in they started talking impromptu about things on the top oftheir mind. Simon (all participant names are pseudonyms, conforming to the participants’ genderas presented during meetings and later reported on a survey administered after the final focusgroup meeting) was the first to show up and Ayush and Simon talked for a few minutes aboutSimon’s participation in the Engineering without Borders program that has played a pivotal rolein Simon’s career trajectory. James, Robbie, and Simon engaged in a brief discussion aboutLEED certification of buildings (James had worked as a professional civil engineer beforejoining graduate school) and on metrics for sustainability. After a few minutes, Ayush asked thegroup to summarize the video as
State Polytechnic University - Pomona Todd Coburn is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering at California State Poly- technic University Pomona, an FAA DER, and a stress/structures consultant. He joined Cal Poly Pomona in September of 2012 after a 25 year career at the Boeing Company and restarted his consulting work around that time. His work at Boeing included the structural analysis of aircraft and rockets. His last seven years at Boeing he managed the large and expanding commercial aircraft strength analysis team in Long Beach, California. He holds a PhD in Engineering & Applied Industrial Mathematics from Clare- mont Graduate University, MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and
created only via the concerted effort of many actors in a culture which imbuesmeaning on the problem; any problems which are able to be discussed must have been noticed,measured, compared to a norm, reported, discussed, and accorded a shared meaning andimportance. Applying McDermott’s framework, we can see new dimensions to many commonapproaches in studying the problem of struggling students in STEM. In quintessential retentionresearch, the powers that be define the terms of success and failure (e.g., persisting in a certainmajor, institution, or career, achieving a certain GPA, stating a sense of disciplinary identity andefficacy), and find the aspects of students which contribute most to success or failure (e.g.,gender, race
sustainability are dependent uponone’s ability to change intentionally. Such growth may be difficult for some, and the challengesto individual development may be hindered by personal, career, family, and psychological issues,as well as a dysfunctional relationship with time or technology.2 Some psychologists, likeMaslow3 and Rogers,4 as well as engineers Adams5 and Petroski,6 suggest that barriers to growthare related to a variety of personal limitations or insecurities. Bigda-Peyton7 suggests that“humans have inherent [psychological] tendencies to destroy and use up” and that “harmfuloverconsumption occurs when psychic structures dominated by destructive instincts succeed inoverpowering life-sustaining impulses” (p. 264). Academia often deemphasizes
program director. During her career, Dr. Ososanya has worked for private industry as a circuit development engineer and as a software engineer, in addition to her aca- demic activities. She received her education in the United Kingdom, where she achieved her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bradford in 1985, and was a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. She was a Visiting Professor at Michigan Technological University for five years, and an Associate professor at Tennessee Technological University for 7 years prior to arriv- ing at the University of the District of Columbia in the Fall of 2001. Dr. Ososanya’s research interests include new applications for VLSI ASIC
all aspects of their lives in college. Also, if they perform well in an Honors contract, the mentor could write a strong recommendation letter, more substantial than the one from a regular instructor of a course, to help them advance in their careers. - Most faculty members (89%) think that the students will gain more self-confidence after they finish their Honors contracts, but very few students (only 30%) feel this way. This is alarming. To carry out an Honors contract, the students will be required to go beyond the regular scope of the course, but the mentors have detailed instructions and often arrange weekly meeting with the Honors contracts students to help them along the way. We do
Paper ID #16805Personal Learning Environments: Analysis of Learning Processes, Reflection,and Identity in an Academic ContextMiss Judith Virginia Gutierrez, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) PhD. Science, Engineering and Technology Education. Postdoctoral Fellow at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.Dr. Frida Diaz Barriga, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) The Mexican researcher and teacher Frida D´ıaz Barriga Arceo serves at the Faculty of Psychology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her academic career includes a degree in Psychology, Mas- ter’s degree in Educational
courses on Product Family Design, Concurrent Engineering, Mechanical Systems Design, and Product Dissection, and he serves as the Director of the Product Realization Minor in the College of Engineering. He is a recipient of the ASEE Fred Merryfield Design Award and a NSF Career Award. He has received several awards for outstanding research and teaching at Penn State, including the 2007 Penn State University President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Integration. He is a Fellow in ASME and an Associate Fellow in AIAA. He currently serves on the ASME Design Education Division Executive Committee and is former Chair of both the ASME Design Automation Executive Committee and the AIAA MDO Technical Committee. He is
plan, conduct, and assess a class session. Pedagogical expertise in thiscontext includes such aspects as supporting the psychological and emotional well-being of thestudents, engaging students in the learning process, and adapting to meet the needs of individuallearners. Individuals are located within the framework based on the relative importance theyassign to each of these types of expertise.Figure 2: Beijaard, Verloop, and Vermunt’s model of teacher identity through a personal knowl- edge perspective.Early career secondary mathematics teachers typically cluster along the pedagogical/didacticalaxis, with experienced secondary teachers moving towards the center of the triangle 5 .Mathematics graduate programs traditionally take the
. M. (August 13, 2015). STEM degrees are not earned by math alone. Diverse Education, p. 28.[33] Ramsey, K. and Baethe, B. (2013). The keys to future STEM careers: Basic skills, critical thinking, and ethics. Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin, 80(1), pp. 26-33.[34] http://www.blackboard.com/, accessed 01.31.16.[35] Larkin, T. L. (2014). The student conference: A model of authentic assessment. International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), 4(Special Issue 2), pp. 36 – 46. Kassel University Press GmbH, Kassel, Germany. eISSN: 2192-4880. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v4i2.3445.
, employees must haveknowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) that empower them to communicate and coordinate withtheir colleagues2. The ability to act as an effective team member and leader is critical forengineering graduates entering industry, business or other career paths. Accordingly, theCanadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) has designated teamwork as one of thetwelve attributes engineering students must possess upon graduation3. Similarly, ABET hasincluded the “ability to function on multi-disciplinary skills” in its set of professional skills4.In our experience as engineering educators, based on observations as well as employer andstudent exit surveys, the traditional academic setting cannot give sufficient experiences forreasonable
did increase: an important consideration at the start of theengineering education career.5,6,7Five of the “flipped” learning modules extended this approach by using the flipped-flippedclassroom model. In this variation on the inverted classroom, students initially experience aconcept by completing an in-class, hands-on activity that demonstrates a theory’s behaviorwithout any theoretical explanation. This is followed by the typical flipped approach withhomework to view a video explaining the theory and solve related problems and additional in-class, problem solving in the next class meeting. Early research indicates the flipped-flippedmethodology improves learning, retention and engagement.8Finally, three hands-on activities were developed to
Paper ID #14596Improvements in Student Spatial Visualization in an Introductory Engineer-ing Graphics Course using Open-ended Design Projects Supported by 3-DPrinted ManipulativesDr. Alex Friess, University of Maine Dr. Friess holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering and a B.Sc. in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1997), and currently is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering with the University of Maine (since 2012). Previously he has spent 5 years in Dubai as inaugural faculty of RIT Dubai and Dubai Aerospace Enterprise University. Dr. Friess’ industrial and academic career spans a variety of consulting