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of this task has been a stepin the right direction toward engaging students in mathematics used to help solve criticalproblems in applications of interest. Additional tasks are currently under development.For additional information on the Greater Birmingham Mathematics Partnership, please visit:http://www.math.uab.edu/GBMP/.For additional information on the Mathematics Education Collaborative (MEC), please visit:http://mec-math.org/.References[1] Greater Birmingham Mathematics Partnership, Five-Year Strategic Plan. July 2006.[2] Blue, C. E., Blevins, L. G., Carriere, P., Gabriele, G., Kemnitzer, S. (Group Leader), Rao, V., and Ulsoy, G., “The Engineering Workforce: Current State, Issues, and Recommendations”. Final Report to the
of engineering students at the varying academic levels. The five main questions guiding this effort were: 1) What are the learning outcomes for these students during this experience? 2) Did this intervention aid in recruiting and retaining engineering students? 3) Did this intervention influence the engineering students to apply and get involved in undergraduate research? 4) Has this intervention influenced the career path of the students (i.e. graduate school or other research position)? 5) Is the intervention more effective at specific academic level(s)? In this effort, we have placed particular emphasis on transferring research to groups under-represented in
depending on the category. Bothpositive and negative student comments were given if both sets of comments existed in thecategory. Some student comments were found to fall into more than one category. If thisoccurred, the comment was coded in both categories.Table 2. Descriptions and examples of categories Category Description Example Statement(s) • [Kind-of interested in the Easy-Stir because] “I’m an artist and I know it had to do with paint and stuff, so…something that I do outside of Chemistry class, Items are
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(p<0.05) relative to lecture formatfirst PBL unit and with learning overall was generally supported in the student interviews (Table3), although it was also clear that students had difficulty discriminating between student-directedlearning and simply being asked to work in groups. Two of the four students interviewed at the endof the first PBL unit believed the unit was “lecture-based”. Some engineers reported feelingoverwhelmed by the biology course content at the end of the first two units, but it is also possibletheir assessment was colored by a certain temptation to default to the biology student(s) rather thanassume responsibility for the new content. Quiz scores at the end of the second unit did notindicate that the majority of
sixyears of data. Nevertheless, this system must continue to evolve, with the understanding that“All assessment is a perpetual work in progress.”17The author wishes to thank his colleagues in the Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartment for their assistance in utilizing this assessment scheme over the years. The authoralso wishes to thank the reviewers of this paper for their insight and constructive suggestions.Bibliography1. Angelo, T.A., Ewell, P.T., and Lopez, C., “Assessment at the Millennium: Now What?”, Assessment to Promote Deep Learning - Insight from AAHE’s 2000 and 1999 Assessment Conferences.2. Sarin, S., “A Plan for Addressing ABET Criteria 2000 Requirements”, Proceedings of the 1998 ASEE Annual Conference.3
such equipment as exists is not or cannot beinstrumented extensively enough. A possible exception is fluid handling equipment – fans,compressors, and, especially, pumps. Experience with a student “engineered” pump test usingPTC 8.2 Centrifugal Pumps will be described later in this paper.Having the students read and report on a PTC (or a few sections of a PTC) is simple toimplement and allows for a wide range of flexibility. The topic of the course allows theinstructor to pick the appropriate PTC(s) to be read and reported. For example, if the course isFluid Mechanics, PTC 19.5, Flow Measurement would be an obvious choice. The exerciseworks particularly well in a laboratory course where the students can extend and strengthentopics and practices
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it’s something that requires a lot more, it’s just because maybe it requires a lot more time, it just, it’s a, it, you know, it becomes a bigger part of you than a major might for a non-engineering person. (Walt, University of Coleman, sophomore year) Eleanor: I think that engineering students are stressed. And they are, they have a lot of work to do they, I-, s-, [inaudible] myself and my roommate, like I’m a engineering student this last semester, this semester, and she’s a, a communications major, and she, I never see her do any work. And she’ll always ask me, “Why you have so much work to do?” She always see me, uh, do homework, sitting at the computer, and I always see her on the phone
students (instead of smaller teams, like many other CS courses have)MC Different teams working on different project ideas (as opposed to working on the same project)MC The project idea that your team developedMC The shared project space of your team (e.g., wiki pages, repositories, etc.)MC The official course website: announcements, course schedule (with slides and videos) resources, milestone submissionsFF Which portion(s) of the course website were most useful to you?MC The class mailing listMC Your team’s mailing list (or other electronic communication medium you used)MC Your team’s project scheduleMC Your team’s project specificationMC Your team’s architecture and design documentsMC Your team’s test
(s). ItSubmitted to 2007 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition (New Engineering Educators Division), June 24-27, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.is a common practice for the faculty in the US, to mention the text book page numbers thathave been covered for a specific class. Course end student evaluation: Course end student evaluation is also a part ofinternal quality assurance measures in the UK. These evaluation outcomes are notconsidered that seriously to assess the teaching quality. However, in the US, in theabsence of any other continuous monitoring mechanisms, student evaluation is a majorfactor towards measuring one’s teaching quality. Sometimes, these evaluations areidentified as one of the reasons for grade
MT’s smallsize, some departments only offer courses once a year; if a student falls out of sequence for anyreason, s/he must wait an entire year to make up lost credits.At MT, as at Coleman, fundamental courses were often seen by students as something to getthrough before they could begin to engage in their “real work” as engineering students. The tworequired semesters of physics, an ethics and technical writing class, and an earth science classwere widely described as something to be survived before students could get to the Holy Grail:courses in their majors. Nevertheless, as with Coleman, required courses also introducedstudents to non-engineering majors and faculty. This was particularly the case among studentswho had been considering a
these programs have been far-reaching.Multiple studies have proven that a country’s gross domestic product can be directly tied to thelevel of sophistication of its infrastructure. The IRF, through its education and training activitieshas allowed countries around the world to expand the sophistication of their infrastructures usingstate-of-the-art technologies, and it continues to do so today. While the original focus of theorganization in the 1940’s was to help rebuild Europe after the war, today it is focusing itstechnology transfer efforts on emerging countries in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East andAfrica. These countries want to grow, and they understand that with better roads the citizens willenjoy better lives. The study of roadway
requirements -15% f The project contributed to my ability to use modern 74 engineering tools and techniques 24% k 80 The project had significant practitioner involvement 18% d,kThe strong survey increases are supported by further examining the student responses to eachcriterion since integration of the ABET criterion is evaluated by each student throughout theexperience, both for the in-country and on-campus design experience. While on-site, studentsmaintain a learning log. For each entry or experience, the ABET requirement(s) that apply to theproject task, experience or lesson are to be documented. A summary report of how