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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Gordon EngineeringInstitute of Leadership program is a well-established co-curricular programTechnology targeting undergraduate students. Students work experientially to(2007) develop hands on leadership skills, building towards a competency model, and a small subset complete a second year as senior fellows, running leadership labs and mentoring younger students to “learn by doing.”Northeastern Northeastern’s Gordon Engineering Leadership program offers aUniversity (2008) customized masters degree or a stand-alone graduate certificate for master’s students. The program offers courses on leadership and
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their search for theright type of practitioners, to enrich the academic process by bringing the practice into the classroom. After Foundation Engineering was over, and the final course grade was out, a“questionnaire” was sent to those who enrolled in the class seeking their opinions, evaluations,and any comment(s) they may wish to offer. Twenty six out of a total of 30 students returned the“questionnaire” on time! The opinions expressed and comments made were, by and large,positive to say the least. After regrouping, and rephrasing to correct the English language; thecomments offered by the ex- students, could be summarized as follows: The adjunct was easy to approach every time and everywhere, and was always helpful, His
thetop.AcknowledgementThe authors gratefully acknowledge the funding that makes this work possible from the NationalScience Foundation's Directorate of Undergraduate Education's STEM Talent ExpansionProgram Grant No. DUE-1068453. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation. References1. Downey, G.L., Lucena, J.C., Moskal, B.M., Parkhurst, R., Bigley, T., Hays, C., Jesiek, B.K., Kelly, L., Miller,J., Ruff, S., Lehr, J.L. and Nichols-Belo, A. "The Globally Competent Engineer: Working Effectively with PeopleWho Define Problems Differently." Journal of Engineering Education. 2006; 95(2): 107-22.2. Hurtado, S., Alvarez, C.L
). Of the state’s 74,000 high schoolgraduates in year 2015, 58,000 applied for Tennessee Promise support to attend one of the 13community colleges or 27 colleges of applied technology. (“Haslam Postsecondary EducationInitiatives Showing Success,” 2015)Higher Education SystemConcepts of reinventing government as a customer driven service began in the 1990’s. Thecommon thread originates from the quality movement proposed by W. Edwards Deming. Heproposed the management of integrated systems as the basis for quality in any productionsystem. Deming formalized the approach into a System of Profound Knowledge (SPK). Thesuccess of Deming’s approach is demonstrated in his work to assist with rebuilding Japan’s postWorld War II economy. (The Deming
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semester grades between classes that usedthe quiz approach and those that did not use it. The survey is presented in Appendix A, and thegrade comparison results are in Appendix B.The study consisted of applying the "in-class quiz" methodology at the undergraduate level overa period of three years. Students from the departments of civil engineering, electricalengineering, and mechanical engineering participated in the pilot study, the details of which arepresented in Table 1. Table 1: Pilot Study Course Description (Engineering) Course Session Year/s Department1 Major2 Number Average of Age
design project “isincorporated into the engineering classroom it allows for a unique blend of creativity andchallenge that is often hard to accommodate in introductory engineering curriculum”. While thefirst implementation of the project was by no means perfect, we look forward to improving andre-implementing the project, both because of the valuable skills it develops in the students andbecause of the enthusiasm, excitement, and engagement that was evident in the students.References1.Jordan, S. & Pereira, N. (2009). Rube Goldbergineering: Lessons in Teaching Engineering Design to FutureEngineers. Paper presented at the American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition2. O’Connor, D. (2003). Application Sharing in K-12
Island International Engineering Program (IEP).3 The Rhode Island IEPseeks to train engineers to be able to operate in the international workplace by earning onedegree in an engineering discipline and one in a foreign language. In a similar, but more focusedway, the Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering uses aprogram called the Joe S. Mundy Global Learning Endowment4 to provide an internationallearning experience for students that may include international research or a summer-long studyabroad. In addition to the significant resources often needed to promote study abroad, there areother curricula actions that affect the perceived ability of institutions to promote globalization-related learning outcomes
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what types ofknowledge, skills or attitudinal sets are needed to become an effective ‘life-long learner.’” (p.105)12 Thus, despite McGourty et al.’s call for operational clarification, 1 outcome (i) still appearsto confound many engineering programs.Our research was guided by the question, “How do engineering programs address ABET studentoutcomes as reported within their program self-study documents?” Our research goal was to helpeducators interpret the breadth and specificity of ABET student outcomes by offering a structuraltechnique to interpret outcomes and to plan, implement, and evaluate curricula. This paperpresents our research process—a curriculum design framework to map the components ofstudent outcomes. To illustrate its
provided strong evidence of validity for the EPRA tool from someof the interview cases examined.AcknowledgementsThis material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant#1158863. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.Bibliography1 ABET, "Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs Effective for Evaluation During the 2015-2016 Accreditation Cycle," ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission, Baltimore, MD, 2014.2 L. J. Shuman, M. Besterfield-Sacre and J. McGourty, "The ABET "Professional Skills" - Can They Be Taught? Can They Be Assessed?," Journal of
see from the above sample card, learning blocks have various states listed. Below is thelist of state and level each block can show: Learning Block states Not Started – Designates that a camper has not yet started any challenges within this block Draft- Camper has submitted a first draft design of a challenge at the specified level Completed (Green Check) – Camper has finished the challenge(s) and has shown mastery of block at the specified level; this status will change to Draft of the next higher level once a new challenge is started and a draft is submitted for it Learning Block Levels Young Explorer – Most basic level deals with demonstrating basic content knowledge
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professional identity development of Chemical Engineering students and a study of meaning-making language and behaviour in student design teams.Dr. Micah Stickel, University of Toronto Dr. Micah Stickel (ECE) is Chair, First Year, in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering. He is also a Senior Lecturer in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Dr. Stickel first came to the Faculty when he started as an undergraduate in 1993. Since that time, he has completed his BASc (1997), MASc (1999), and a PhD (2006) - all with a focus on electromagnetics and the development of novel devices for high-frequency wireless systems. He has a great interest in engineering education and the
affected from FC.These numbers are detailed in Table 7. In this study, effect size was calculated using Cohen’s Dgiven in Equation 1, where x is the mean and s is the pooled standard deviation given inEquation 2, where n is the sample size and s1 and s2 are the variances. For Cohen’s d, 0.2signifies small, 0.5 medium, 0.8 large, and 1.3 very large effect sizes, as offered by Cohen. 𝑥1 − 𝑥2 (1) 𝑑= 𝑠 (2
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through social sciences is as real as how thesocial sciences understand society. Thus engineering education’s framing of issues as problemsmay serve to create an engineering education system that gives rise to, or exacerbates, thoseperceived problems. For example if it is widely believed there is a significant retention problemin engineering a possible solution would be to create a new first year course to better prepare1 In the late 1920’s a group of investigators from Harvard University were able to observe people at work in theWestinghouse Electrical Company’s works in Chicago. It was found that productivity increased among someworkers when the conditions of work had been changed for the worse with the expectation that productivity