globaleconomical changes, we have industrial reorganization. The role of an engineer has beenredefined due to various changes in industries. Integration has gained importance and theconcept of Integrated Product Development (IPD) has become the current industrial practice.The feed back from industrial peers and alumni has helped to reshape or modify the academicpractices and the result is the Integrated Curriculum Design (ICD). The industrial peers caneffectively contribute to the program through Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC). TheIndustrial Advisory Committee has been established for the continuos improvement of theMechanical Engineering program at Parks College of Engineering. The input from the industrialcommittee and alumni are considered as
topic of neural networks application in his or her own field of interest 2. Doing the necessary research 3. Writing and testing the code for running simulation experiments 4. Interpreting the results 5. Writing the report, complete with results, discussion, and citations 6. Presenting the paper to an audience of peers, professors, and some under- graduate students They listened to each other’s papers, asked questions, and evaluated each other on various aspects of the presentation. The above listed items are the immediately apparent positive outcomes. In ad-dition, there are long-term benefits of such interdisciplinary exposure. For example,one undergraduate student
effective learning styles, hearing (what the lecturer says), reading(anything he writes, e.g., on the chalkboard or overhead transparency), and seeing (any figures orProceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2diagrams that might be presented as part of the lecture). Educational research has also shownthat most people learn 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear, 30% of what they see,50% of what they see and hear, 70% of what they discuss with others, 80% of what they use anddo in real life, and 95% of what they teach someone else (peer-instruction). Thus, an obviousavenue toward
best medium option tocommunicate with the target audience. Contemporary engineers are also required tocommunicate globally, since interactions with peers and other audiences located in differentparts of the world are very common in most industrial segments.The communication challenges of engineers in industry include difficulties with public speakingand miscommunication in writing. Expertise in these two communication aspects need to bemore appropriately developed among engineering students in order to prepare them to theindustry demands. Cross-generational communication challenges or difficulties related tocommunication between older and younger generations of engineers were also one of thecommunication challenges revealed in this study
. They have opportunity to work in teams with sharing, respect, and contribution towardsone goal. A project is either selected by the team or assigned by the instructor. The scope ofactivities generally includes design, research, costing, building, testing, demonstration, andpresentation. All teams must have meetings, consultations, proposal writing, project planningand management during the course duration. At each stage student have to make decisionsregarding various aspects of their project. Most of these decisions come from their owndeliberations. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005
. They have opportunity to work in teams with sharing, respect, and contribution towardsone goal. A project is either selected by the team or assigned by the instructor. The scope ofactivities generally includes design, research, costing, building, testing, demonstration, andpresentation. All teams must have meetings, consultations, proposal writing, project planningand management during the course duration. At each stage student have to make decisionsregarding various aspects of their project. Most of these decisions come from their owndeliberations. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005
is offered every third semester at present. This is a laboratory-oriented course in which the students workas a team to design and develop working automated manufacturing cells involving machining and/or assemblytasks. Students are required to design and build the appropriate fixtures, robot grippers, electronic systems,etc. and write the complete protocol and software for the machining/assembly operation. In the early weeks ofthe course, the laboratory work involves primarily “demonstration” experiments to acquaint students with thelarger hardware available in the laboratory. This equipment includes robots, machine tools and programmablecontrollers, as well as the appropriate programming and control software needed to utilize them
framework for critique by our peers so that we can incorporate their feedback duringthe pilot. We also hope to raise awareness of this project to encourage additional colleges toadopt the framework in the future.We define research-based teaching practices as pedagogical strategies that have been tested usingeducational research methods and published in peer-reviewed literature. Future faculty aregraduate students and post-doctoral fellows who aspire to faculty positions that include teachingresponsibilities, however, current faculty will also be invited to participate in the DLCs.The motivation for this NSF-funded project is that research-based teaching practices have beenshown to improve student learning compared to traditional methods like
mechanization and post-harvest maize production in Wang’uru, Kenya and Iganga, Uganda. She also served for four years in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Sacramento (AOE-1) as an Interior Communications Electrician.Dr. Melissa Vosen Callens, Melissa Vosen Callens is currently an assistant professor of practice in instructional design and commu- nication at North Dakota State University, Fargo. Her areas of research and teaching interest include Popular Culture and Online Education. Her writing can be found in The Ultimate Walking Dead and Phi- losophy, English Journal, Communication Teacher, Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History, and A Sense of Community: Essays on the Television Series and Its Fandom
environment. The ultimategoal of the program is to prepare each of the students for a professional construction position.Each student is monitored and assessed frequently. Individual accountability is promoted bykeeping the teams small, by rotating the roles of the team members, and by giving short quizzes atthe end of every session. To promote positive interdependence, individual quiz grades areaveraged or summed to obtain a grade for the team that eventually affects every member of theteam.Peer AssessmentPeer evaluation and assessment is a part of the United States higher education for a long time.However, using peer evaluation or students are quite uncommon. At Farmingdale constructionstudents are able to evaluate their peers in terms of their
procedure, and conditions used to run the experiment, together with atimeline (or project schedule and management plan). Project plans are evaluated bythe instructor and discussed with each team during lab. In the Fluid Mechanics course,students also give a preliminary oral presentation approximately four weeks after theproject is assigned. Each team presents the experiment to the class, discussingobjectives, set-up, theory, and presenting progress to date. Questions, comments, andconstructive peer critiques are highly encouraged; students often help their peers tobetter define the project and provide suggestions for overcoming obstacles. In
the instructor for their design and write several progress reportsthat precede the final report. Expectations for using Trello as a kanban board are also raised, withassessments being tightly focused on weekly progress and individual participation. At themidpoint and the end of the project, students are asked to perform a peer evaluation usingCATME, which provides the instructor and the team members feedback on team dynamics andindividual contributions.The ECE 103 course offers a set of labs that contain a mix of general C programming exercisesand hardware interfacing. Teaching staff are on hand during the lab to provide immediatefeedback and guidance, especially when they introduce the ESP32 microcontroller to students.The ESP32 is a low
teamingabilities at the end of the semester, students writing more varied sections of laboratory reports,and more students taking on a leadership role at least once during the semester compared to theTreatment B framework. The Treatment A framework produced no reduction in free riders orincrease in laboratory report quality, as observed or evaluated by students. While the submissionof two draft reports does not appear to have significantly reduced free riding, in combinationwith online peer evaluation it may reduce team conflict.Some of the differences observed between the three Treatment A sections and all thirteenTreatment B sections disappeared when only comparing Professors Morgan and Mallouk’s Aand B-1 sections. This indicates that some of the
- Work in-Progress9 Instructor/team Mtg Fabrication Peer Review Debrief10 Writing Design Reports Instructor/team Mtg Assembly11 Instructor/team Mtg Assembly12 Wikipage Review Instructor/team Mtg Testing13 Instructor/team Mtg Testing Logbook Review14 Expectations for Instructor/team Mtg Report Writing Design Expo Logbook Debrief15 Design Expo Day Instructor/team Mtg Prep for Booth Display Report Review Design Expo Technical Talk16
identifies four main areas whichunder-represented minority students in engineering described as helpful to their development of asense of community and belonging: co-curricular/extracurricular involvement, peer support,faculty and department support, and residence programs. The study demonstrates that under-represented minority engineering students were able to derive a sense of integration, communityand belonging using multiple means, and that the support mechanisms they used changed a bitover time. By understanding the different ways that under-represented minorities are able tointegrate into their college campuses and ultimately find a sense of community and belonging,engineering programs can work to develop strategies to better support under
Award. Her dissertation proposal was selected as part of the top 3 in the 2018 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division D In-Progress Research Gala. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Negotiating Belongingness: A Longitudinal Narrative Inquiry of a Latina, First-GenerationCollege Student’s Experience in the Engineering CultureAbstractResearch studies have long argued that a sense of belonging is essential for minoritized students’continued engineering persistence. Common factors that have been found to promote a sense ofbelonging include campus diversity, institution’s culture, perceived class comfort, facultyinteractions, and peer support. Yet
a common time slot suitable for collaborativeleaning in a traditional face-to-face manner. This paper is to introduce findings from availablecognitive research on supporting effective collaborative learning and present a new instructionalframework for scaffolding collaborative learning for engineering students through cyber-enabledonline discussion. Within this framework, students are assigned with a shared learning task andrequired to co-construct their understanding of the course-related learning concepts and co-solvethe assigned learning problems with their peers through online discussion. The scaffolding fromboth social and cognitive perspectives is presented to students to provide a structure of effectivecollaborative knowledge
conducted research into heavy metals concentrations in plants and soils on Pine Ridge Reservation and ethnographic research on Rosebud Reservation. That reservation research is part of an ongoing National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored Pre-Engineering Education Collabora- tive led by Oglala Lakota College (a tribal college) in cooperation with South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and SDSU. She has recently served as a principal investigator for a South Dakota Space Grant Consortium project designed to create interest in STEM education and careers among high school girls at Flandreau Indian School. She has publications in peer-reviewed regional conference proceedings and international journals and has recently
usedthroughout the entire sequence for feedback and assessment. This rubric is provided to thestudents before they begin writing the first draft. This rubric is currently being examined forreliability and validity.After students receive feedback on their first draft from the teaching assistant, they makerevisions to their procedure and submit a second draft that enters a calibrated double-blind peerreview. Each team receives three or four critiques. Teams then utilize these critiques to finalizetheir procedure which is submitted for grading to the teaching assistant. Page 13.689.4In the five years since MEAs were first implemented in the first-year
discipline-specific context. Our review ofliterature revealed that research focusing on how writing supports engineering learning is largelynonexistent. However, as a corollary body of work, much research has been done to examine thevalue of writing as discourse in science education and to scientific literacy3,4.In science, writing is a key method for building and distributing knowledge. The use ofnotebooks and other written inscriptions throughout the process of scientific investigation lead tofurther written documentation that become objects of discussion and peer review5. This is whyNorris and Phillips differentiate how to write and read in science, what they call the fundamentalsense of scientific literacy, from the knowledge of science (the
requiring a video term-paper project to address thedesired educational goals of increasing student ownership of learning, learning course-relatedconcepts, and providing evidence of communication skills and media literacy skills. Studyparticipants came from convenience samples drawn from a computer networking course andfrom a general education writing course offered on a small branch campus of a large researchuniversity. The participants were college students having varying levels of familiarity with theskills examined.The study design used mixed methodologies, including a quasi-experimental, two-groupcontrol/intervention, student surveys, and qualitative interviews. The quasi-experiment consistedof pre- and post-test measurements of media literacy
• Enhanced educational and mentoring experience for graduate studentsThe faculty mentor plays a key role in the process. New faculty especially need to make sure that the effort theyput into mentoring a student in this worthwhile program has a return on its investment. In other words, theparticipant’s project should lead to at least a presentation or poster at a professional meeting, but more ideally, itshould provide a substantial contribution to a paper prepared for peer-review. ENABLING MEANINGFUL RESEARCH EXPERIENCESThe primary goal of a summer research experience is to offer an informative, positive immersion in research so thatparticipants can make an informed decision as to whether they would like to pursue an
: 1) Mid-term presentation to the project manager and other faculty members associated with the project 2) Final presentation to the faculty members in the department and to the sponsorsIn addition, clinic students with or without the assistance of graduate students may writequarterly reports, visit the sponsor and make presentations, and write peer reviewed conferenceproceedings and journal papers. The overall objectives of the clinic and the grading guidelinesare shown below. These objectives and the grading guidelines were developed by a committeeof faculty members and are applicable to all engineering clinics. The author has adopted theseobjectives and grading guidelines. In addition to the overall clinic objectives, project
changed through actively assimilating knowledge—self-explaining, writing, interacting with others and with other ideas. The implications forteaching practices are enormous. In constructivist learning, students interact with each other andconnect what they are learning to their own experiences and knowledge, thus making theirlearning conceptually coherent and personally meaningful. The key teaching practices requireopportunities to reformulate and articulate newly found meanings. This activity is critical tosuccessful learning.Associated with the constructivist approach is a focus on helping students become aware of theirlearning and learning processes. This entails helping students develop a sense of how they knowwhat they know as well as what
AC 2008-277: CUSTOMER BASED COURSE DEVELOPMENT – CREATING AFIRST YEAR PROGRAMMING COURSE FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTSPatrick Jarvis, University of St. Thomas Patrick L. Jarvis received his J.D. in Law and Ph.D. in Computer Science both at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He has broad industry and consulting experience in the design and development of procedural and object-oriented systems, relational database systems, peer-to-peer and client-server systems, as well as the management of high technology employees. His law practice focuses on arbitration and mediation of high technology disputes. He joined the Computer and Information Sciences faculty of the University of St
institutions will be presented.IntroductionVirtual mentoring is not a new practice, it has been in existence for over 20 years [5], [6] [7], [8],[9]. The online setting can seamlessly connect undergraduate students across the country withmentors, and the GradTrack program was initially started in 2021 during the COVID-19pandemic. Virtual mentoring has also been shown to increase sense of community, STEMachievement, career self-efficacy, and drive to persist in mentors and mentees [10].The GradTrack mentoring structure is a scalable group and peer mentoring model, with 2graduate student mentors from Purdue with 5-7 URM undergraduate student mentees fromacross the United States and Puerto Rico joined in a mentoring circle. The second iteration of
studentleaders on how to deal with management issues within their team, and to introduce team timecards in conjunction with an instructor evaluation and peer feedback to increase individualaccountability. Our goals were to improve the capstone design experience for the aerospaceengineering students, and to better understand the evolution of students as individuals and intheir team relationships.Changes to the Aerospace Capstone Design Course during the 2016-2017 Program.Increased Student Choice in Topic Selection.Marin et.al. identified student ownership as one part of designing an optimal experience forcapstone design [1], and we hypothesized that if students were allowed a chance to researchpossible topic areas, propose projects to their peers, and
responsibility fortheir learning building up to structured problem-solving through their interests and involvementwith the issue they are solving as engineers. Often these problems are multi-disciplinary requiringknowledge in different fields such as materials, environment, acoustics, air quality, chemicalreactions, and business. This paradigm aims to impact students in multiple learning environmentsand extend their knowledge beyond classroom and technical knowledge.ImpactThe projects developed by the students not only broaden their understanding of their specificproject but also learn and get educated on other topics from their peers in different areas and topics.Students have demonstrated engagement and critical thinking in engineering problems
[18]. The report assignment counts for 20 percent of the final grade and is holisticallygraded with guidance from a 27-item grading checklist divided into four categories: content,organization, design, and style/grammar/punctuation (see Appendix A for this checklist). Thischecklist guides students while writing their reports, teams during peer reviews, and instructorsduring grading. For grading, instructors lean on the checklist and give about 25% of the gradingweight to each of the four categories. Students, teaching assistants, and instructors haveappreciated the detailed guidance provided by the checklist—assignments that meet all itemsreceive a 100% grade. Across and within the categories, individual instructors may weight whatthey deem
in engineering, and engineering careers.Young MakersYoung Makers at flagship Maker Faires demonstrate engineering thinking and doing inabundance. Children as young as 10 are designing, programming, and manufacturing suchartifacts as smart watches for their peers. The engagement and excitement is remarkable for theirage. A common theme amongst these Young Makers is that they have no formal education in, orknowledge of what is they are actually doing, from their K-12 schooling. And this is what makesit so fascinating. The Maker Mindset has much in common with ABET's student learningoutcomes for engineering students 8, 9 but is not rooted in similar standards and expectations atthe K-12 level. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) itself