in-depth discussionduring the in-class time.IV. Reflection and future directionThroughout the different phases of this project, we were not able to find previous studies underthe search of “flipped review” or “flipped class” + “prerequisite review”. We invite futurestudies, esp. senior level classes to try out the flipped review process and add to the flippedclassroom literature.We also recommend instructors who plan to adopt the flipped review approach build a learningoutcome measurement that can be used consistently in the classroom-review and flipped-reviewclasses so that the differences in learning would be more visible. In our project, ME 491 hasevolved a lot over the past years. As a result, we do not have a consistent measure to see
. This must happen during the first two weeks of class.After the groups are formed, the students research project topics they would like to work on.Due to the fact that the class is required for nearly all engineering majors, many of the groups aremultidisciplinary, which increases the diversity in the projects since every member looks at aproblem from a different perspective. Once the group agrees on one (or several) ideas, they mustdiscuss and obtain approval from the IDEAS Showcase Coordinator (the class professor in thiscase) by presenting a proposal which briefly describes the topic of study and how they plan toachieve it (Figure 3 a). A template for the proposal and several examples are provided to thestudents
., Eng., & Math. (STEM) Health Science Transportation, Distribution & LogisticsThe selection of career cluster is non-binding, but allows for systematic development ofindividualized graduation plans (IGPs) based on career interests. The IGPs primarily affectrecommendations for course electives; all sixteen career clusters have identical recommendationsfor the four-year sequence of mathematics courses, as shown in Table 2. Table 2 Mathematics course recommendations for high school graduation in South Carolina. Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Algebra 1 Geometry Algebra 2 Precalculus or
observation [18].Zull notes the necessity of these steps for learning to occur, where learning is buildingphysiological connections in the brain [18]. Connections made via reflection play a role in thedevelopment and practice of self-regulated learning [19]. Zimmerman’s cyclical model of self-regulated learning includes a self-reflection phase that captures the appraisal of learningexperiences in the immediate or distant past (performances) and connects the interpretations andlessons to planning (forethought) for future learning experiences. These self-reflections includeself-judgements and self-reactions. Self-judgements include evaluation of one’s performanceagainst some standard (e.g., class average or some prior performance) and attribution of
an awesome experience.” • “Going to the movies and definitely going to the George Bush museum.” • “The movie nights were also a blast.”When students were asked about their career plans “as a result of participating in the Lab Ratsprogram,” seven out of nine (78%) participants reported that they are “definitely more likely” topursue a STEM career, one participant (11%) responded “probably more likely,” and only oneparticipant responded “neutral” (Figure 1). Definitely MORE likely to pursue a STEM 7 career Probably MORE likely to pursue a STEM 1 career
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hamper sustainable communitydevelopment efforts. Guest speakers came from industry, from consulting firms that focus oncommunity engagement, and from academia. For their final essays, students synthesized thesemester’s reading to critically analyze the potential for CSR to deliver shared social,environmental, and economic value to stakeholders. In groups, they gave presentations on thearticles, lead one class discussion, and created a stakeholder engagement plan for a real worldengineering project. The course focused primarily on the community engagement dimensions ofCSR, with gestures to the role played by engineers and engineering.Spring 2017 Indigenous Peoples and Natural Resource DevelopmentThis is an upper division elective humanities and
plan to beginaddressing some of the changes requested by the students, such as more online video tutorialsand online written notes and perhaps a course manual/textbook as a reference for the entire set ofcourses.References[1] M. Lord, “Seeing and Doing: Revamped curricula show freshmen what it means to be anengineer,” ASEE Prism, vol. 21, p. 34, September 2011.[2] D. W. Knight, L. E. Carlson, and J. F. Sullivan, “Staying in Engineering: Impact of a Hands-On, Team-Based, First-Year Projects Course on Student Retention,” in Proceedings of the 2003American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2003.[3] M. Hoit and M. Ohland, “The Impact of a Discipline-Based Introduction to EngineeringCourse on Improving Retention
outcome is closely related to the qualityof an individual’s performance (Lent, 2013).Personal goals are described as one’s intention to engage in a particular activity or produce aparticular outcome (Bandura, 1986). SCCT describes two types of personal goals referred to aschoice goals (the type of activity or career one wishes to pursue) and performance goals (thequality of performance one plans to achieve within a given task; Lent, 2013). SCCT suggests thatboth choice and performance goals are affected by an individual’s self-efficacy and outcomeexpectations.Interest and choice models of the SCCT frameworkWhile SCCT consists of four conceptually distinct, yet overlapping models, the researchersdecided to focus building an instrument around the
report 4.03 write a scientific report 3.97 ask good questions related to the scientific process 3.97 set up a scientific experiment 3.56 work with others to plan and conduct scientific experiments 4.09 talk to professors about science 4.00 think like a scientist 4.03 * = statistically significantResult of the pre- and post-program surveys on student perceptions of their skills and knowledgeneeded for research and academic success are shown in Table 3. Of the 21 items in the survey,statistically significant gains
. Construction by Contour Crafting BuildingHouses for Everyone. Urban Initiative policy Brief. USC-University of Southern California.[9] Balinski, B. (2014). Chinese company 3D prints 10 houses in a day from recycled material.Architecture & Design; 22 April, 2014.[10] Zhang, J., & Khoshnevis, B. (2013). Optimal machine operation planning for constructionby Contour Crafting. Automation in Construction, 29(0), 50-67.[11] Buswell, R. A., Gibb, A. G., Soar, R., & Thorpe, A. (2007). Freeform construction:Megascale rapid manufacturing for construction. Automation in Construction, 16(2), 224-231.[12] Cesaretti, G., Dini, E., De Kestelier, X., Colla, V., & Pambaguian, L. (2014). Buildingcomponents for an outpost on the lunar soil by means of a
counting terms when the student is on professional internship or co-opemployment; terms when students studied abroad are included. The outlined MEcurriculum at Georgia Tech institution suggests that a student should graduate with 129credit hours in 8 terms, or 4 years. The average time to graduation was 9.8 terms, whichis roughly 5 years. As seen in the figure, time to graduation tends to increase as the gradethat they received in these foundational classes decreases. For all courses, ‘A’ studentsgraduated on average in 9.4 terms, which is more than a term longer than Georgia Tech’sME curriculum plan. In general, ‘F’ students graduate on average two terms (1 year) laterthan ‘A’ students- however, due to small sample sizes and high variances, there
student explained: “They are always willing to answer any questionsthat we might have and give us ideas on how to solve problems. They sit down with us and reallycontribute to our discussion and planning.” Another student noted: “They are engineers like us,and so it helps when we don’t know the answer to something.” BME/AIS: Peer-Assisted Learning (N=35) 40% 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% Very useful Useful Somewhat Not useful UsefulFigure 2. BME/AIS student survey: Peer-Assisted Learning.Peer mentors. The majority of students (68%) found peer mentors to be convenient,knowledgeable, and useful for learning BME/AIS material (Fig. 3). According to one BME/AISstudent
effects on students the authors seek tocontinue to map student self-efficacy on a broader scale. In order to do this, they plan toconstruct an instrument to quantify the self-efficacy of undergraduate engineering studentstoward their future employment in engineering. This research will then be used to improvementoring and undergraduate research opportunities to aid more students in the development ofself-efficacy. Findings from this and previous work will enable us to find relevant and pertinentconstructs to target with a self-efficacy instrument for engineering professional practice. Sinceaccording to Bandura, “there is no all-purpose measure of self-efficacy [13],” it is important thatthe instrument be tailored specifically to one area of self
can promote multiple engineeringprograms, add relevance, and connect industry to academia. Connecting industry partners to theinstitution has helped in organizations meeting their community service project goals, fillingboth internship and full-time employment needs, adding academic expertise to solve sometechnical problems, and can be an effective part of a college recruiting plan. Students benefitfrom seeing the relevance of their academic work to real world problems, exposure to industryprofessionals and employment opportunities, and exposure to equipment the institution does nothave. The industry benefits from access to the pipeline of future employees and great marketing.This paper presents how one university develops and uses industry
all of those aero classes on top of each other.Miguel goes on to describe how financial obligations forced him to work during undergradinstead of getting recommended volunteer experience in his field: Once I determined that it was going to be my major I knew what classes I needed to take, I knew what courses I needed to pass and what grades I needed to get to graduate really – that was the plan. The only kind of confusion that I had which I am currently figuring out now is the route of medical school versus graduate school. That’s the big decision as an undergrad I didn’t make right away and after I graduated I worked for a couple of years, now I’m back deciding really what I want to do for the rest of my
Benedictine College and 33 students and 4 faculty from The CatholicUniversity of America. In 2018, this paper reports on the 96 responses gathered to date: 59students and 6 faculty responded from East Carolina University, and 25 students responded fromBenedictine College. (Note that administrative delays have impacted distribution of theinstrument at all planned locations for the 2017-2018 academic year.)Method: Participating InstitutionsEast Carolina University is a public institution with a population of 29,000 students and has noformal university or department honor code. This university is in a city of about 100,000residents. The facility offers an undergraduate degree in general engineering, and the engineeringprogram has a faculty of 30 and
the community, includingfaculty and peers, was welcoming and supportive, which helped them deal with the difficulty ofthe curriculum and the program workload. In contrast, several negative responses from women,people of color, and/or international students about the social climate demonstrated that there isstill work to be done to make the community in the program more inclusive to traditionallyunderrepresented students. This is in line with the finding in the quantitative analysis that womenrated their peer relations somewhat lower than men; those that rated their peer groups moresupportive were more likely to report identification with engineering and plans to persist.Peer relationships was the largest sub-category within the community
allocative efficiency [42]. And yet, aprimary reason we have taken this conversation up in the first place is that the proverbial cat isalready out of the bag; implicit market assumptions, whether helpful or unhelpful, accurate orinaccurate, are already informing everyday decision-making and long-term planning in highereducation and engineering education worldwide. On a basic level, some type of market treatment may be correct in that a financialtransaction (or series of transactions) occurs between the student and the university at the end ofwhich the student usually receives a diploma indicating their qualifications. On the other hand,one might easily argue that this simplified, unidimensional analysis falters in at least two ways.First
critical component to successfully managing a design.Malcolm explained this more broadly by saying “We have to have a structure in place to makesure that ultimately we fully meet these requirements that we signed up to deliver.” Describingan important design decision that needed to be made, Malcolm said “We ended up workingclosely with my [company3] team… we sat down with my team… We developed a plan ofrecovery”.Ronald explained a noteworthy design experience where he worked with “…a relatively smallgroup… with a few design engineers familiar with that area.” Ronald also said that in hisexperience with his company he was part of “an integrated team,” with individuals havingvarious responsibilities within the team, “you’d have one person that was
describe the relevant background and literature that informed survey itemdevelopment. Next, we provide an overview of the Spring 2017 distribution, statistical analyses,and measurement issues identified by the research team as a result of that distribution andanalysis. Finally, we present the revised version of the instrument and explicate implementedchanges as well as outline plans for the next round of survey distribution.Because we describe the development and validation of a research instrument, and the not theresults of an existing or valid instrument, the format for this particular paper differs slightly fromthat of a traditional research paper. Here, our methods are presented as the process of instrumentdevelopment, while the results are
for graduates planning towork in industry in biomedical design and innovation. At the University of Virginia we offer anadvanced design elective in Biomedical Engineering in which students focus on observation andneeds identification, followed by the development of initial concepts and prototypes. For the pasttwo years, we taught two different versions of the course: a spring semester clinic-focusedoffering in which students identified needs based on immersion within one of the divisions of ouracademic medical center, and an accelerated “January term” patient-focused version in whichstudent teams worked directly with specific patients and their healthcare teams to identify needsand develop concepts. The primary learning objective for this
significant number of journal articles and book chapters on these topics.Dr. Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College Dr. Kristen Sanford Bernhardt is chair of the Engineering Studies program and associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lafayette College. Her expertise is in sustainable civil infrastructure management and transportation systems. She teaches a variety of courses including sustainability of built systems, transportation systems, transportation planning, civil infrastructure management, and Lafayette’s introductory first year engineering course. Dr. Sanford Bernhardt serves on the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Committees on Education and Faculty Development and the
team member contribution or guidance from a facilitator. Overt activities include: connect or link, reflect and self-monitor, planning, predicting outcomes, and generating hypotheses [20]. Collaborative Students’ dialogue substantively on the same self-constructed idea vocalized to the team. They engagement can accept the ideas presented to the team, little conflict is caused, and dialogue serves to continue the current course of discussion. Or, ideas are questioned or misunderstood, disequilibrium leads to students trying to bring the course of discussion to their understanding. Overt activities include: building on a team member’s contribution, argue, defend
the usefulness of these cartoons was an afterthought, so an important lesson learnedwas to plan out a way to evaluate the benefits before the semester ended and the studentsdispersed. The end-of-course survey could have been modified to include questions about thecartoons which would have provided more student feedback data.The author changed universities in Fall of 2017 and as of the writing of this article is midwaythrough teaching Dynamics at the new school. Newtdog and Wormy are featured prominently,and a renewed focus on using the cartoons as catalysts for discussion has led to improvedengagement, especially helpful with a new faculty member. There has been more cartoondiscussion at the introduction of each new topic, and images such as
used for department wide planning and improvement activities. Thismethod engages the learners and the teachers in a cycle that allows real and sustainable labimprovement to be made.References[1] Feisel, L. D., & Rosa, A. J. “The role of the laboratory in undergraduate engineeringeducation.”, Journal of Engineering Education, 94(1), 2005, pp 121-130.[2] Domin, D. S., “A review of laboratory instruction styles.” Journal of Chemical Education,76(4), 1999, pp 543-547.[3] Abdulwahed, Mahmoud, and Zoltan K. Nagy. "Applying Kolb's experiential learning cyclefor laboratory education." Journal of engineering education, 98.3, 2009, pp 283-294.[4] Wankat, P. C., & Oreovicz, F. S. Teaching engineering. Purdue University Press, 1993, 99292-294[5
should be given, and equations should be applied consistently using the convention indicated in your diagram. All symbols need to be defined, including those given as initial conditions in the problem statement or new ones that are needed for the problem solution. A free body diagram will be included when appropriate. You may need more than a single figure for more complicated problems.5) Algebraic solution. Start by stating the general equations you plan to use for the solution, which should also clearly relate to your stated known and unknown variables listed from your problem statement and diagrams. An algebraic solution of the problem (i.e. in symbolic format, no numbers plugged in) should be given
keep the focus of the changes on students’backgrounds and desires. The new program structure consists of a base of six courses for allstudents in the program, followed by primary and secondary concentrations (seven courses andthree courses respectively) from a variety of technical specialties in ECE. Students will also havethe option defining their own secondary concentrations rather than choosing one of the definedsecondary concentrations. At the time of this writing (January 2018), the new program structurehas been approved by the faculty, the paperwork for university approval of the structure is beingprepared, and planning is underway for implementing the changes in the fall semester of 2018.More information about this project is available
yourself make you like an engineer? and, (4) What characteristics ofyourself make you unlike an engineer? These questions were developed to explore students’feelings of belongingness within the field of engineering and how they conceptualized theiralignment with the role of an engineer in their communities of practice. Due to the semi-structured nature of the interviews, the order of presentation varied and each of these fourbelongingness questions were not asked in every interview. For this analysis, only the directresponses to these four belongingness questions were investigated. Table 1—Participant Information Institution Pseudonym Gender Race/Ethnicity Planned major at time