elected not to return tocampus. Despite the potential with a hybrid semester, the research team was hesitant for acomplete transition to project-based assessment and the elimination of all exams. Thisreluctance was primarily based on the desire to ensure assessment of mathematical approachesand derivations of novel problems, which were not always well integrated into students’ projectsand could potentially limit their creativity in being able to showcase and communicate theirunderstanding.In response to the hybrid learning plan, and in order to ensure that students had means todemonstrate their understanding in case an exam was too stressful and restricted their ability toapply their knowledge, curriculum projects were implemented into the
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program lack problem solving skill requiring integration ofknowledge gained in various high school mathematics courses (e.g., algebra, geometry, andtrigonometry). And for many of them, lack of maturity in mathematics is the root cause ofacademic problems encountered in math, science, and engineering technology courses. In orderto alleviate this weakness, students are introduced to engineering problem solving strategy earlyon in this course. A couple of classes are used to review the key concepts of algebra, geometry,and trigonometry. It is followed by engineering-oriented problem solving including optimizationof single-variable design without using calculus concepts. An example single-variable designoptimization problem7, considered difficult by
. Organizational Research Methods, 6, 465-481.[50] Lindlof, T. R. & Taylor, BC (2002). Qualitative communication research methods.[51] Wasserman, S., & Faust, K. (1994) Social Network Analysis: Methods and applications. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.[52] Zhu, Q., Zoltowski, C. B., Feister, M. K., Buzzanell, P. M., Oakes, W. C. & Mead, A. D. (2014). The development of an instrument for assessing individual ethical decisionmaking in project-based design teams: Integrating quantitative and qualitative methods. To appear in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN.[53] Hatch, J. A. (2002). Doing qualitative research in education settings
students. Although persistence is valuable,being blindly persistent can be counterproductive. In ART, if the candidate traceability linksgenerated by the automated tool do not look promising, the students should learn to revisit theproblem definition or to re-prioritize the requirements (clusters) to be traced. Essentially, thisstrategy is analogous to engineering design, in which constructing and reasoning about a de-sign model, rather than building the full-fledged system, can help assure quality and minimizere-work. Despite the teaching of the shorten-the-feedback-loop principle in most curriculums,students should learn to apply the idea in a more flexible and dynamic way.3. Developing an enriched vocabulary. Using an enriched vocabulary to
students’ perceptions of Equity in Developing Infrastructure ResilienceAbstractRecent years have seen a substantial shift in the field of civil engineering (CE) and constructionmanagement (CM) education and workforce development, with an increased emphasis onsustainability and resilience. Sustainability considers economic, ecological, and social aspectswhile addressing problems pertaining to human welfare, the environment, and communityimpact. Resilient infrastructure maintains both structural and functional integrity whilesupporting interdependent social, transportation, water, and energy systems, even aftercatastrophic disasters. Although many civil engineering programs address sustainability,resiliency is
shaking a light wood frame in an earthquakesimulation or exposing roofing tiles to alternating rain and sun in an accelerated weathering test,an experiential learning environment allows students to experience materials, means andmethods that solidify their understanding of construction assemblies and processes.Experience Learning Model at the Pacific Northwest Center for Construction Researchand EducationIn order to effectively and efficiently incorporate experiential learning into the constructionengineering and management curriculum at the University of Washington, a model has beendeveloped by the writers to take advantage of the new research and education facilities whilebuilding upon the body of knowledge in experiential learning in
Paper ID #37592Process Control Final Projects Inspired By Real UnitOperations Laboratory ModulesLucas James Landherr (Teaching Professor) Chemical engineering teaching professor at Northeastern University, conducting research on comics and videos as visual learning toolsCourtney Pfluger (Teaching Professor) Dr. Courtney Pfluger took a position in Fall 2011 as an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University as a part of the First Year Engineering Faculty and affiliated Faculty in the Chemical Engineering Department. Dr. Pfluger redesigned and piloted the first-year curriculum which included engineering
Phenomenology and the Political (Rowman and Ziˇ Littlefield International, 2016).Prof. Kristen Billiar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Kris Billiar is Professor and Head of Biomedical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell and an M.S.E. and Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. His current research interests are soft tissue mechanics and mechanobiology. Dr. Billiar is a Fellow of both ASME and AIMBE and a member of ASEE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Teaching Ethics in Engineering: A “Blended” Approach of Theory and PracticeIntroduction Though accrediting boards such as the
the curriculum, computer engineering-related electives, and senior design, his focus in the classroom is to ignite passion in his students for engineering and design through his own enthusiasm, open-ended student-selected projects, and connecting engineering to the world around them. He spends a great deal of time looking for ways to break out of the traditional engineering mold and to make engineering more broadly accessible to students. His research interest is the application of mobile computing to interesting, human-focused problems. He holds three degrees in computer engineering including graduate degrees from Virginia Tech and an undergraduate degree from NC State University. c
student survey.IntroductionExperimental demonstrations of heat transfer are an important part of the undergraduateMechanical Engineering curriculum. Students at Grove City College entering their junior yearhave little experience with advanced data acquisition systems and comparing the data theycollect to theories learned in class. Mechanical Engineering students take a laboratory course (1credit, MECE 352) in the spring term of the junior year in thermal/fluid sciences. Althougheducational laboratory equipment and experiments built by companies such as P.A. Hilton andTurbine Technologies LTD are great additions to this course they can be very expensive.Building heat transfer experiments in-house can result in considerable savings. A number
must build and demonstrate an SDR that addresses the problem(s) defined by the WirelessInnovation Forum and supporting the target waveform(s). The SDR domains provides a methodto tie together many of the subjects in a typical electrical engineering and computer science andengineering undergraduate’s curriculum. Although student teams may choose to use whateverdevelopment environment they wish, we have had success with the GNU Radio developmentenvironment as well as the MATLAB Simulink environment. Simulink allows a model-baseddesign approach, which allows students to take a systems approach to designing the overall SDRtransceiver, which provides them with exposure to this important aspect of project development.In this paper, we discuss the
population. • The Center for Effective Teaching and Learning (CETaL) It is a faculty development center that promotes scholarly teaching and educational research across campus. • The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program It is a major component of an effort to track talented undergraduates into graduate school by encouraging them to pursue research opportunities and professional internships. • SMET Curriculum Reform It is an effort that encourages faculty to adopt active learning strategies in the classroom, and revamp course content and student performance assessment techniques.The MIE program is evaluated continuously to determine if the project’s goals, objectives, andinnovative activities are
than the traditionalcounterparts, mostly due to the necessity of the delivery of the curriculum online. Meanwhiletraditional classes, and even institutions, may be operating their LMS at a much lowerperformance level due to former practices that circumvent the system.MethodThis study was guided by three main questions: 1. What can we do as university administrators and educators to ensure our students are fully engaged in regards to course instruction within a learning management system? 2. How do we enhance a student’s academic experience and provide a sense of community to them – online in a learning management system? 3. What elements need to be present in an online learning management system to benefit students within
carlacaten@gmail.com fernanda_boer@hotmail.com Istefani Carísio de Paula (Co-author) Professor of the Graduate Program in Industrial Engineering Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Brazil istefani@producao.ufrgs.br Abstract—Perceiving the need for an innovative and propose solutions for
University’s undergraduate engineering program has been significantly modifiedduring the past several years. Emphasis has been placed on creating an integrated (college-wide)program for freshmen and sophomores. A key part of this program is a three-course sequence inthe freshman year that largely deals with engineering problem solving.It is our belief that part of the problem with K-12 science education is that teachers do not knowhow to relate the science they are teaching to real world experiences. To deal with that issue, weincorporated what we have learned in developing our freshman engineering course sequence as abasis to create a new three-hour course in engineering problem solving. This course isspecifically designed for education majors. They
Education", Science and Engineering Ethics Vol. 10, 2004, pp. 343-351.[2] Herkert, J.R., "Ethical Responsibility and Societal Context: Integrating Ethics and Public Policy Considerations in the Engineering Curriculum", 30th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Kansas City, MO: American Society of Engineering Education, 2000, pp. S1F-5.[3] Thom, D.," Engineering Education and the New Industrial Revolution", International Journal of Engineering Education Vol. 14, No. 4, 1998, pp. 89-94.[4] Ashford, N.A.," Major Challenges to Engineering Education for Sustainable Development", International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education Vol. 5, No. 3, 2004, pp. 239-250.[5] Devon, R., and J. Liu," Global
build students’ interest and competence in the subject becausetheir futures (both the student and the methods) may include solutions to grand problems in NDM.In noting the above conclusion, I must mention one caveat that was discussed by Hoole et al. [15].The authors, while agreeing with this discussion, did pose the question to readers: where will thiscurriculum fit? While I, in the position of an up-and-coming engineering educator, can think ofsome opportunities, in the interest of space, and due to the subject’s overall irrelevance to thispaper, I will not describe them. However, I do agree with Hoole et al. [15] that this is a valuablequestion worth discussing in the future, especially in light of the tight curriculum of engineeringthat
partnership included six urbandistricts in northern N.J., a science center, teacher education institution, and an engineering college.Teachers received 124 hours of continuous professional development including a two week summerinstitute, one hour monthly classroom support visits (coaching, modeling, curriculum alignment, andplanning), and three professional development days during the school year. The project is now in itsthird year.The partnership goals are to (1) increase teachers’ content knowledge in specific science topics andengineering, (2) improve the teachers’ notions of scientific inquiry, (3) increase participating teachers’preparedness in creating, adapting, and delivering inquiry-based science and engineering lessons, and(4) increase
were able to be done remotely.Semester scheduleThe first week was online so students could get organized using MS Teams. The first week has alot of organization. EPICS allows students to take the course multiple semesters so somestudents are returning to their project and others are new to the team or to EPICS. The firstmeeting includes integrating the new students onto the project. Each division has a differentenrollment and different number of projects. A task for each team was to develop a schedulewhen students could physically be in the meeting room with the limited the meeting roomcapacities. The schedule was left to the individual instructors working with their team leaders.Some teams started with an overall meeting with some joining
Paper ID #29608The role of the co-curricular spaces in Engagement and success ofminority studentsDr. Hamidreza Sharifan, Texas A&M University He is a postdoctoral researcher, working on the source tracking of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) chemicals in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State Univer- sity. He received his Ph.D. in Biological and Agricultural Engineering from Texas A and M University, College Station.Dr. Janie M Moore, Texas A&M University Dr. Janie McClurkin Moore is an Assistant Professor in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at
ofuse, and in the case of the drives, portability between host computers. Other comparisons suchas weight and cost are readily apparent, but were evaluated according to their importance to thestudents. The study found that portable hard drives are an effective compromise between cost,flexible lab use, and performance.IntroductionEducating future Information Technology (IT) practitioners can be a very costly endeavor for auniversity due to the expense of obtaining, updating and maintaining computer hardware forstudent practicum. Typical IT laboratory curriculum includes networking, web programming,database development, information assurance and security, and system administration, all ofwhich may have unique system and configuration requirements
biomedical engineering curricula", Frontiers in Education Conference, 2001. 31st Annual: IEEE, 2001, pp. F3E-16-21 vol. 12.[16] Linsenmeier, R.A., T. Harris, and S. Olds, "The VaNTH bioengineering curriculum project", Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint: IEEE, 2002, pp. 2644-2645.[17] Linsenmeier, R.A., and D.W. Gatchell, "Core elements of an undergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum–State of the art and recommendations", 9th International Conference on Engineering Education, 2006.[18] Martin, T., S.D. Rivale, and K.R. Diller
meetings toprovide well defined tasks are an important element of the structure. This modelwill continue to be used by the authors. Future research plans includeenhancements of the flight simulation environment to incorporate visual andaudio cues for enhancing the performance of the ‘novice pilots’ based on flighttechniques of experienced pilots for realistic self-instruction. In addition, theauthors are exploring the integration of interdisciplinary research experiences aspart of the standard curriculum for both aerospace engineering majors andpsychology majors.Acknowledgement The study was supported by NASA DFRC grant NAG4 226. Page 9.1365.7References1
CMTprogram builds mutual benefit with access to extended resources often not available in universitybudgets.Our program has an active and supportive industrial advisory committee. Participating membershelp in curriculum development and monitor the progress as the program expands. They providementoring opportunities, summer employment, and classroom assistance to enhance the learningenvironment. Many contractors open their active project sites to student groups to allow directobservation of the industry. We encourage professional networking and the industry encouragesstudent participation in the monthly trade meetings to give students greater understanding of theissues surrounding construction. This paper presents the structure of the industrial
of Texas at Austin, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California and B.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from India. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: Examining the KEEN 3Cs Framework using content analysis and expert reviewAbstractThe KEEN 3Cs (Curiosity, Connections, and Creating Value) framework for entrepreneurialmindset (EM) was developed by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) toguide curriculum development, faculty professional development, and student-related initiativeswhen seeking to integrate EM into engineering education. The framework has seen growingpopularity and acceptance
Page 12.1500.8such programs as the GT2C due to the lack of appropriate educational training 1, 2 found in thetraditional engineering doctoral curriculum. An example of such benefits is provided inAppendix 2, which highlights the work of a Mechanical Engineering graduate teaching assistantwho developed a simulation-based lesson to help students better understand the complexities ofPID controllers and the parameters affecting system performance.Bibliography1. Wankat, P. C., “Educating Engineering Professors in Education”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol.88,no.4, 1999, pp.471-475.2. Torvi, D. A., “Engineering Graduate Teaching Assistant Instructional Programs: Training Tomorrow’s FacultyMembers”, Journal of Engineering Education, 1994, pp
AC 2008-955: ENHANCING DIVERSITY IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY:PHASE 2 OF NORTH CAROLINA JUNIOR ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGYSOCIETY (NCJETS)Patricia Tolley, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Patricia Tolley is Assistant Dean in the Lee College of Engineering. She provides leadership for the development and continuous improvement of curriculum and programs related to the freshman year experience including recruiting, freshman orientation and advising, scholarships, the introduction to engineering and engineering technology courses, and three nationally recognized programs: the residential freshman learning community, the MAPS (Maximizing Academic and Professional Success) Program, and the
and system integration and risk management. He is the director of the Dynamics Environment Simulation (DES) Laboratory and the Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) Laboratory. He is the supervisor of the capstone senior design project team on the Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) which has competed in the international competition in the last three years. During his tenure, he has the privilege of developing 3 new undergraduate and 6 new graduate courses in the areas related to computational methods and design.Xiaoxiao Hu, Old Dominion University Xiaoxiao Hu is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Old Dominion University. She received her PhD in Industrial/Organizational psychology from George Mason
, 2000, and 2007 respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor of in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. He received the Croucher Innovation Award in 2013 for his work in power-efficient high- performance heterogeneous computing system. He was also awarded the University Outstanding Teaching Award (Team) in 2012, as well as the Faculty Best Teacher Award in 2011.Ms. Nyein Thwe Khaing, Dagon University Ms. Nyein Thwe Khaing (Myanmar) is now a lecturer of English Department, Dagon University, Myan- mar. She has been teaching at the university for 12 years. She received a bachelor’s degree in English from Dagon University. She completed a master’s degree in Arts