question: Are students held to lock-step deadlines or is flexibility built in for illnessesor other absences?The best students we have can easily manage all their time including making up work while notfalling behind on the next material, but many students struggle when timelines are flexible. Inthis present course we decided that it was easier for a great student to succeed even though thetiming was not as flexible as desired so that the C students would be less likely to fall behind andfail.Practical question: Will you use a leaderboard?A common feature of many gamified systems is a list of which students in the class have earnedthe most points for one reason or another. We discussed this at length in the planning meetings.Finally we decided
planning, the adders and counters covered are the simplest ones.We teach students the concepts of full-adders (FA) and carry-ripple adders, as well as the conceptof ripple-counters. In order to train the students’ minds with the parallelism methodology, wedecided to introduce them to the Carry-Lookahead Adders (CLA) and Parallel Counters. Thedevelopment of these modules went through an iterative process. The graduate teaching assistantprepares the initial presentation draft for both modules, which will then be discussed during theweekly course staff meetings for feedback. Faculty members then give their suggestion forimprovement and the graduate teaching assistant will then revise accordingly. Next, when theslide contents are ready, a short video
error detection in patient radiation therapy treatment plans. In his spare time, Dr. Kump works to combine his research with his love of electronic music performance and production by teaching machines the craft of songwriting. With extensive course and curriculum design experience, including Maritime College courses Signals and Systems, Machine Learning, and Programming for Engineers, Dr. Kump is continuously committed to developing an electrical engineering program that best prepares students for the ever-changing demands of industry leaders. Dr. Kump’s teaching interests include alternative methods of content delivery, for example, with online education and classroom flipping. He has been recognized by Open
SequenceWe examined two of the students’ assignments after they mastered core skills in CAD-CAM inTinker-CAD.The first assignment, ‘House’, we examined how ‘Correct Modeling’,‘Correct Camera Use’,and‘Sufficient Transformation of Primitives’ were exhibited by students’ submitted assignments.Figure 6: Example of a TinkerCAD created house produced by a student from the CAD-CAMsequence.The intent of the assignment is for students to use the combined skills noted previously to producethe exterior of a model home using a single-story plan. Students were expected to use theirmodeling skills to appropriately shape construct the visual appearance of a house to motivatestudents to model towards sufficient complexity away from supplied geometric primitives.The
developing a distribution plan forventilators to minimize their cost of delivery to hospitals treating COVID-19. The team arrivedat the idea to combat the current COVID-19 pandemic by trying to minimize inefficiencies in thedelivery of medical equipment. The primary objective was to minimize the cost of distributingventilators with a secondary objective of minimizing delivery timelines of ventilators to allhospitals in New Jersey.The students formulated the problem as a multi-objective mixed-integer non-linear programming(MINLP) model in GAMS. At the start of the project, the team’s objective was to solve theproblem by minimizing the distribution costs to all hospitals in New Jersey; yet, due to equationlimitations of the free version of GAMS the
improving female participation in the labor market. The female activity rate remains well below the OECD average, as in 2014, only 47% of women in Chile held a job, compared to 62% in the OECD area. The Chilean government has taken steps to remedy this situation, for example, extending parental leave for maternity and postnatal birth. However, to attack the roots underlying low female participation in the workforce, the government will need to take other actions. Concerning this topic, propose an action plan, and answer why it is important to implement it, stating any probable impacts stemming from its implementation. C6 Indicate in a detailed and substantiated manner, using organizational management
planned before the pandemic, the changes in oursupport systems and the focus of our team due to the pandemic were necessary items to considerin our research. This led us to include COVID-19 specific interview questions, and the resultsfrom these questions are discussed in their section within the results.4. Participants For this study, we interviewed 8 participants in various academic standings enrolled inengineering programs at a mid-Atlantic US university. The participants comprise 4 female and 4male students who hail from 6 different countries. Table 1 provides information on the studentsinterviewed with their home country, grade, and involvement. TABLE I PARTICIPANT BACKGROUND
, shared progress on frugal engineeringmethodology towards the solution, and plan for execution. Figure 2: Social innovation case studies presentation rubric.2.1 Social innovation case studiesThe social innovation case studies for the class were chosen to represent a variety of frugal, inclusive,and accessible approaches taken to address community-specific problems at hand. Following are suchcase studies across the world integrating social innovations with effective social entrepreneurship: (1) Food storage: Zeer, pot-in-pot (innovator entrepreneur- Mohammed Bah Abba), (2) Ice Stupa: efficient water irrigation in Himalayas (innovator entrepreneur- Sonam Wangchuk), (3) Household entrepreneurs: Grameen Bank (innovator
the Makerspace incompliance with state, federal, and NJIT regulations. The protocols put in place were directlyinfluenced by both the CDC guidelines [3-4] at the time of writing (August 2020), as well asNJIT’s COVID protocols for students, faculty, and staff in laboratory spaces [5]. In the creationof this protocol, the floor plan of the space and the user experience at each “station” wasconsidered. General behavioral rules were put into place for all individuals in the space that wereinformed by both CDC COVID-19 guidelines and NJIT’s COVID-19 protocols. The entirety ofthe NJIT Makerspace COVID protocol was determined via a sequential, hierarchical process,where: • The NJIT campus and laboratory-wide protocol and the CDC guidelines were
riskier or more time-intensive or expensive experimental situations.We certainly see value in the rich interactions that can occur in face-to-face experiments, and ourresults suggest future studies could investigate combinations of simulations and experiments. Forinstance, in future versions, we plan to study whether the simulations are more helpful as pre-labor post-lab activities that deliberately complement and extend the face-to-face experiments byexpanding the opportunity structure, providing them with greater agency to make decisions thatare consequential to their experimentation and interpretation, and attendant learning.Our study extends prior work on framing agency [17], suggesting that it is not bound only toengineering design settings
ofminterms (1-producing input terms) and maxterms (0-producing input terms). PETGUI providesa view of the minterms and maxterms of the function in a traditional KMAP view, howeverreduction steps of the KMAP are not integrated directly into the interface currently (planned forfuture work). Figure 3 shows the KMAP of the circuit function in Figure 1 as an example andillustrates how the minterm information (010, 100, 101) could be reduced into smaller forms(prime and essential prime implicants) with don’t care conditions (010, 10X). In practice,students could use the KMAP view as a basis to apply reductions and then check work usingessential prime implicants. Through third-party tool integration such as ABC and Espresso,PETGUI can also produce several
affiliatedwith National Public Radio.The report’s preface states that the intent of the document “centers on an effort to envision thefuture and to use that knowledge to attempt to predict the roles that engineers will play in thefuture.” The charge presented to the committee by the National Academy of Engineering’sCommittee on Engineering Education reads as follows:“1. Development of a vision for engineering and the work of the engineer in 2020.2. Examine engineering education and ask, ‘what it needs to do to prepare engineers for thefuture.’”The committee hosted a workshop during the fall of 2002. A strategic planning consultantmoderated the workshop and guided the 35 participants through four detailed scenarios. Thescenario-based discussion was used
objective of this course is to provide project-based learning (PBL) andintroduce these students to major projects in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, and ComputerEngineering projects so that they can make an informed decision about their major. The PBL is anactive learning method that aims to engage students in acquiring knowledge and skills throughreal-world experiences and well-planned project activities in engineering disciplines. The coursecomprises four team-based unique projects related to Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, and ComputerEngineering. The project involves using a variety of engineering tools like AutoCAD, Multisim,and Arduino platforms. For the first time, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the hands-on project-based EGGN-100 course was
systematic research based on carefully designed survey questions for theexperimental and control groups are desired and planned for the future work. This sectionprovides more discussions and suggestions for future work.The initial development requires a major investment for successful implementation. The creationof accessible material and pre-recorded videos require considerable time and effort of theinstructor. An organized online course webpage is desirable to function as a course hub,accessible to instructors, TAs, and students. In the end, the whole re-design procedure took oneyear; planning meeting and workshop in Spring 2020, actual courseware preparation in Summer2020, and course administration in Fall 2020. This procedure was a group effort
make these projects seem more real andpurposeful to students.2 Despite struggling and expressing frustration with the open nature of theseprojects3,4, students involved in these open-ended projects reported greater enjoyment, increasedinterest, and increased learning through the open-ended projects4-9. In contrast, students who chosefrom a few strictly planned (predefined) projects expressed more dissatisfaction with their projectchoice than those completing open-ended projects8. This increased level of interest may havelongitudinal benefits, as students participating in open-ended projects have been shown to expressgreater interest in participating in new projects in the future8.First-year open ended design projects often include some form of
and thought-provoking curriculums for the engineering department at UC San Diego. My master’s degree background is aimed towards the field of medical technology, where I am able to work in a design laboratory that specializes in researching and developing medical devices. I plan to continue my education to obtain a Ph.D., directing my impact on engineering education and translational research at UC San Diego.Mr. Edward I Lan, University of California, San Diego Edward Lan earned his B.S in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 2017. He moved on to work in the aerospace industry at Applied Composites San Diego (Formerly San Diego Composite) directly after graduating, developing new
) early accessto research in the field, (ii) active learning in the classroom to conduct scientific thinking withtheir peers, and (iii) participating in learning communities [6] / study groups to benefit from peerlearning and community building.Lichtenstein et al. [7] found that when students find the learning environment to be academicallysupportive and encouraging, they are more likely to respond with a stronger commitment to theiracademic pursuit and degree completion. Wilson et al. [8] include “academic advising,interventions, and individualized development plans” from faculty advisors as one of the keyfactors that helps students in STEM fields build confidence and stay in the major. Cromley etal. [9] discuss similar themes in their work on
researchers on the REDPAR team; in the third year of their RED grant, each teamis invited to participate in a follow-up focus group. Focus group discussions are conducted viavideo conference and/or telephone call and last for approximately 60 minutes each. This paperutilizes data from the second and third cohorts of RED teams’ baseline focus group discussions(n=12) and follow-up focus groups (n=13). The focus groups ranged in size from 2 to 10participants, with an average of 5 participants. Baseline focus groups were designed to gatherinformation on the initial stages of their change projects while follow-up focus groups discussedimplementation of their plans, adaptations that were made, and the skills utilized to createchange.Focus group transcripts
and undergraduate research experiences inform and influence college students’ career decisions and future plans. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, June 24-27.44. Trenor, J. M., Yu, S. L., Waight, C. L., Zerda, K. S., & Sha, T. L. (2008). The relations of ethnicity to female engineering students' educational experiences and college and career plans in an ethnically diverse learning environment. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(4), 449-465.45. Herkert, J. R. (2005). Ways of thinking about and teaching ethical problem solving: Microethics and macroethics in engineering. Science and Engineering Ethics, 11(3), 373-385.46. Cameron, K. S., &
specifically in search of courseimprovements. In that sense, whether a student preferred or learned more from the online orhands-on versions is not really a relevant question. In a very real sense, the results were that weran the course at all, especially during Spring 2020 when we were forced online halfway throughthe semester. Success! Given that, what are the lessons learned that we are sharing with thecommunity? Here is a summary of our qualitative recommendations as takeaways gleaned fromthis design intervention:1. Plan for pandemics. The first is obvious, but must be said. Given insufficient notice, takingany course online will be difficult, but the challenges with a hands-on design lab are particularlycomplex. It is possible that other
, sustainable infrastructure development, and material model development. He had been actively involved in planning, designing, supervising, and constructing many civil engineering projects, such as roads, storm drain systems, a $70 million water supply scheme which is comprised of treatment works, hydraulic mains, access roads, and auxiliary civil works. He had developed and opti- mized many highway design schemes and models. For example, his portfolio includes a cost-effective pavement design procedure based on a mechanistic approach, in contrast to popular empirical procedures. In addition, he had been equally engaged in the study of capacity loss and maintenance implications of local and state roads (a World Bank
immersive virtual reality approach can be used in caseswhere students need to experience surveying practices in higher detail and higher degree offidelity (e.g., complex terrains and city environments). Hopefully, further development of virtualreality hardware can reduce their cost, making accessible to wider audience. In other hand,enhanced 3D semantic virtual world information in the game-based tool will have promisingresult.Future work will focus on further developing the two software to include additional surveyingscenarios, functions, instruments, and environments. In addition, we plan in implementing bothsoftware to the same group of students, which will allow us to gain additional insights in thesynergies between game-based and immersive
valued in this story was… Willingness to Experiment, Grit and Perseverance, Planning and Efficiency Internal alignment/ Alignment with The experience I shared influenced my Confidence, Purpose, Belonging others sense of… Openness/ Reflectiveness Any decisions that were made in this Intuition, Self-Reflection, Feedback from story were influenced by… others Flexibility Thinking about the future, this story Embrace risk, Be willing to adapt, Rely on encourages me to… familiar ways of
, they lack control.[19] A high score in this index means that people feelthreatened by ambiguous or unknown conditions, while a low score shows that people do not getaltered by uncertainty and are not averse to taking risks. VSM comprehensive scores for the USMainland and PR are 46 and 38, respectively, with a mean score of 91.67.[19] Therefore, bothcountries show tendencies of pragmatic societies, where people can make their plans but do notget altered or anxious if their plans change. Furthermore, community members do not averse totake risks and embrace change and new ideas without problems.Our study showed a score of 43.09 for MSU versus a score of 0.17 for UPRM. Therefore, bothstudent populations are very pragmatic; thus, they can embrace
their eventual job choice and the process that lead them to that choice. The JobSearch Survey, distributed to Fellows 3-6 months after graduation, is focused on collecting datarelated to the following: a) how Fellow’s experience in their doctoral program influenced theircareer plans and decisions; b) how their experience as a Fellow in the H-AGEP program influencetheir career plans and decisions; c) what career options did they initially consider, did their careergoals change over time and if so, what factors influenced changes to those career decisions; andd) were academic careers at community colleges a consideration in those decisions. Three Fellowshave completed this survey so far, and we anticipate providing a richer analysis of the data
sizesbetween the different treatment groups. However, we still anticipate a slightly higher intent toremain in engineering for students in the improv intervention condition than students in either ofthe other two conditions.3.3.5 Retention in engineeringThe final outcome of interest is retention in engineering. We do not plan on measuring long-termretention in engineering. However, given the preceding outcomes and their connections to self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and interest in engineering, we expect that a student’s decision toremain in the field of engineering will be influenced indirectly by psychological safety and senseof belonging and directly by expectations of success and intent to remain in engineering.3.4 Potential moderating and
, because I'm not like a full-fledged engineer or anything. I did collect some dataand organize it for them. I also did a lot of plan production where the project was alreadydesigned but I would label it, set up the sheets, do the cross sections for the roads and other taskssimilar to that. I could tell the work I was doing actually mattered, it was not just assigned to meto occupy my time. My internship definitely improved my performance in engineering abilitiesjust because it really kind of helped show me the level of work that engineering has to be at -likethe level of detail and precision, how carefully everything gets done. I also learned a lot aboutengineering in general, the process of how a project develops and the quality of work that
key role in economic development on Long Island and in Stony Brook’s role as a co-manager of Brookhaven National Laboratory. McInnis most recently served as the executive vice president and provost for the University of Texas at Austin, a top public research university serving more than 50,000 students, where she acted as chief academic officer, led strategic planning for the university’s academic mission, and made significant advancements in equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives. Prior to that, she American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID
laboratory, includingrenewable energy, environment, and manufacturing. The approach draws from studies of scientificcollaboration, student learning outcomes, and social network analysis. The lessons learned fromthis round of assessments will be used to improve the collaborative project.IntroductionThe primary aim of this paper is to present an online learning community for improvingcompetitiveness in the global green energy manufacturing environment, and for educating andtraining students who will form the future work force in the US manufacturing industry.“Globalization” is one of the main trends contemporary business organizations. Globallydistributed design, analysis, planning, manufacturing, and quality assurance facilities providecompetitive
. [16].Recommendations The variables that impact a project's complexity and successful prototype completionchange throughout the development life cycle. Complexity is an important issue at the beginningof the project when establishing features and requirements but becomes less prominent as theproject progresses. Complexity only becomes a constant problem when subjects do not clearlystate an appropriate work plan. Motivation and mindset are team-independent variables to assessbefore forming a team. These are variables inherent to an individual. Management should assessthese individual aspects before forming teams and determine the needs of each individual tomaintain a high level of motivation and an appropriate mindset throughout the