. Mathematics: Mathematics instruction was designed to reduce loss in proficiency during the summer and support the 3D modeling and app development curriculum. Topics included geometry, mathematics tricks and shortcuts, division, exponents, square roots and logic. Entrepreneurship: Participants were introduced to entrepreneurial ventures through topics like marketing, financing, business models and visits from local technology entrepreneurs. Final Project: In the fourth week, participant teams were asked to develop an entrepreneurial venture. The teams brainstormed and refined a concept that integrated an app, a 3D model, business plan and a website or social media page. Ventures ideated were a) Customized key chain with GPS locator, b) Online
efforts that acknowledge learner diversity, and understand their effects in students performance. Isabel received her professional degree in biological engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile and her MA in policy, organizations and leadership studies at Stanford Graduate School of Education.Dr. Constanza Miranda Mendoza, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile Constanza Miranda holds a PhD in design with a focus in anthropology from North Carolina State Uni- versity. While being a Fulbright grantee, Constanza worked as a visiting researcher at the Center for Design Research, Mechanical Engineering Department, at Stanford. Today she is an assistant professor at the P.Universidad Cat´olica de Chile’s
, Gül3, and Lee, Kristen4 1 Penn State Brandywine 2 Penn State Berks 3 Iowa State University 4 University of San FranciscoAbstractThis work presents the results of an assessment instrument designed to assess the progressivelearning of ethics in the engineering curriculum at different stages known as acclimation,competency, and proficiency, and to determine the relation of the development stages with threecomponents that contribute to learning: interest, knowledge and strategic processing. Thequestions in the instrument were defined following the Model of Domain Learning (MDL) tocapture the
can be taught using themost efficient pedagogy to reach expected outcomes.Step 4 - Integration of sub-systems: the groups meet regularly to exchange information so thatthe various aspects can be easily assembled. Steps 2 to 4 are done in loop until the initialspecifications are satisfied.Step 5 - An oral presentation with a real or virtual prototype system closes the project and a finalnote is given to each group.Benefits: students learn by themselves, they acquire research skills, they understand therequirements of working inside a small group but in coherence with the larger group, they faceearly in their study the obligation to design a system that works and they realize the necessity forengineers to efficiently communicate on what they
described above, sketching is an important part of the engineering design process andan integral component in learning spatial reasoning skills. Instructors have struggled in the past tofind a way to provide students with significant sketching practice since it is too cumbersome tomanually grade sketching assignments in such a large class. Recently, in spatial visualization anddesign training, educators have taking advantage of current technology to create apps and offerstudents more flexibility in their development and enhancement of spatial skills. For example, theSpatial Vis App developed by Delson and Van Den Einde (2015) runs on touchscreen Apple andAndroid devices and allows students to mentally rotate 2D and 3D objects and sketch a variety
. A., Sattler, B., Yasuhara, K., Borgford-Parnell, J., & Atman, C., “Integrating reflection into engineering education”, Paper presented at the 121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 201413. Ambrose, S. A., “Undergraduate engineering curriculum: The ultimate design challenge”, The Bridge, 43(2), 16-23, 201314. Landis, R.B., “Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career”, 4th edition, Discovery Press, Los Angeles, California, 201315. Nilson, L., “Creating Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies to Strengthen Students' Self-Awareness and Learning Skills”, Stylus Publishing, 2013.16. Peuker, S., & Schauss, N. A. G., “Improving Student Success and Retention Rates in Engineering: An Innovative
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Adapting Tested Spatial Skills Curriculum to On-Line Format for Community College Instruction: A Critical Link to Retain Technology Students (SKIITS)I. IntroductionSpatial Skills Instruction Impacts Technology Students (SKIITS)1 is developing an online,transportable course that community colleges can use as a resource to offer spatial skills trainingto their students with a nominal investment of institutional resources. The course is based onresearch and materials funded by NSF that have successfully been used in face-to-faceinstruction in four-year universities.SKIITS focuses on three research questions:1. Can effective materials developed through
December 2013, data was gathered from an end of semester survey given to the 55academically at-risk first-year and second-year engineering students. Table 3 describes thesurvey responders and Table 4 summarizes how they responded. Recall that 33 of the 55students voluntarily participated in the retention counseling sessions and the professionalworkshops. These 33 belong to the “Participant” categories shown in Table 3. The other 22comprise the “Non-participant” categories. Furthermore, first-year students who did not placeinto calculus started behind in the curriculum and are in the category “Start Behind”. Second-year students who are behind their cohort by up to two courses are in the “Fall Behind” category.The survey was a formative assessment
development, and fuel cell technology. He was instrumental to the development of hundreds of new inventions and intellectual properties for many local industries and inventors.Daniel Weinman, Farmingdale State College Mechanical Engineering Technology c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Enhancing Freshman Learning Experience in Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD) Through Applied Learning Experiences: Connecting the Dots Gonca Altuger-Genc1, Yue (Jeff) Hung1, Daniel Weinman1 1 Farmingdale State CollegeAbstractEngineering design is an integral part of the freshman learning experience in
class was created to address the need to help educate leaders who understand andare prepared to address the emerging global world environment from an integrated moral,technical, and social perspective. This course effectively encompasses the civil engineeringBOK2 outcomes of leadership, globalization and ethics. In addition, the theory and practice ofteamwork is a major component of the class. The course has been approved by the university tofulfill students’ general education requirements in both social science and global and culturalawareness. Our civil and environmental engineering department now requires all majors tocomplete this class. Since the course is an approved general education class any studentregistered at the university can
mindsets to tackle today’s complexengineering challenges. Some engineering programs have reacted by introducing thefundamentals of systems thinking and systems engineering throughout design courses. However,a stronger approach might be to thread systems thinking / systems engineering skills verticallythroughout the curriculum to build students’ knowledge gradually. This paper considers infusingsuch an introduction into a freshman level introduction to mechanical engineering course.The intervention studied in this paper consisted of two parts: an online learning moduledeveloped using the Online Learning Initiative (OLI) platform that introduces both theengineering design process and the fundamentals of systems thinking, and an in-class
courses will be offeredseparately.This unique background sets the stage of the 5-DOF robotic arm project presented in this paper.The first prototype was developed by a team of three rising Engineering Physics sophomores,mentored by an engineering faculty member, during their 2022 Summer Engineering Internshipexperience. Currently another team of students are continuing the development and transferringthe Arduino-based system to the ROS 2 platform in their Directed Research course with the samefaculty member. Upon the completion of the migration to ROS 2, components of this robotic armsystem will then be integrated into the course projects of multiple courses in the BS-Engineeringand BS-Robotics curricula. Another direction of this project is to
function as apart of an engineering team. Student participation is integral to success in the classroom and success in post-graduation [10]. Students learn better when they have an active participation in their educationand curriculum. This is why the students in the University of North Dakota’s undergraduatebiomedical engineering program include the students in the evaluation of their ABET studentoutcomes. This study employs the involvement of two senior undergraduate students who haveexperienced several IBL courses since the Fall of 2022, all of which used the MOOCIBLplatform and its blockchain-based tokens. The students were tasked with assigning their previousyears tokens to ABET student outcomes at the start of the Fall 2023 semester
semesteras part of the MSOT curriculum. Occupational therapy students are asked to build a prototype ofa custom assistive technology (AT) device and provide a training manual for this original design.An expectation of this assignment is that the occupational therapy students articulate theinspiration for their low technology device and how they envision this will increase ease andindependent participation in an individual’s valued task or activity. The prototypes are expectedto be well-constructed, safe, and easy to use and do what the student says it will do. In creatingtheir prototype, the occupational therapy students focus on universal design, rather than designfor an individual. This assignment was developed as a kinesthetic learning
Paper ID #45031Full Paper - Building on the First-Year Engineering programming experience:Understanding the motivation and self-efficacy of students in a follow-on programmingcourseDr. Joseph A Lyon, University of Notre Dame Joseph A. Lyon is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. His research interests are computational thinking and mathematical modeling.Dr. Mayari I. Serrano, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI) Mayari Serrano Anazco is a visiting clinical assistant professor in the Honors College at Purdue University. She earned her Bachelor’s
Mechanical (SLAAM) Engineering Program.Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University Dr. Villanueva is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Department and an Adjunct Pro- fessor in the Bioengineering Department in Utah State University. Her multiple roles as an engineer, engineering educator, engineering educational researcher, and professional development mentor for un- derrepresented populations has aided her in the design and integration of educational and physiological technologies to research ’best practices’ for student professional development and training. In addition, she is developing methodologies around hidden curriculum, academic emotions and physiology, and en- gineering makerspaces
whileparticipation in a focused STEM program in college further increases this persistence (Ikuma etal., 2019).Self-efficacy and confidence are recognized as important factors in the effective teaching andlearning of math and science, especially for women and minorities (Alhaddab and Alnatheer,2015). As noted by Bandura (Bandura 1977), self-efficacy, “the strength of people's convictionsin their own effectiveness”, is likely to have a significant impact in STEM education (Tärning etal., 2019, Hanifa et al., 2020). Over the years, several methods and technologies have beenutilized to increase the effectiveness of mathematics curriculum including, integrated subject-based methods (Chai et al., 2019), mobile technologies (Menon et al., 2017), computer
facilitators of a student-led learning process [12]. Engineering educators have adapted similar PBL approaches such as capstone designprojects and engineering student design teams to complement the more traditional, basic-sciencebased engineering curriculum. Project-based learning (noted as PBL*) team opportunities arequalitatively different than traditional PBL efforts in one demonstrable way. Engineering projectteams tend to engage more complex design challenges over a longer period of time compared toin class PBL investigations commonly used in medicine[2]. This qualitative difference createstwo organizational challenges unique to engineering project-based learning teams. Student PBL* teams must sustain team motivation throughout a
)Collaboration 2 included computational methods for the first year of the project. In year two ofthe project, mechanical engineering had a curriculum change, and students taking a new class,electromechanical systems, participated in this project. The preservice teachers in collaboration2 were taking an educational technology class. Collaboration 2 met as an after-school club withfifth graders for approximately six weeks to design and build a bioinspired robot (Figure 3a).During the Covid-19 pandemic, this transitioned to zoom (Figure 3b), and returned to an in-person club in the spring of 2022 (Table 1) (a) (b)Figure 3. Students in collaboration 2 during the in-person after-school club (a) andworking
Paper ID #25580Work in Progress: Aligning and Assessing Learning Objectives for a Biomed-ical Engineering Course Sequence Using Standards-based Grading within aLearning Management SystemDr. Casey Jane Ankeny, Northwestern University Casey J. Ankeny, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University. Casey received her bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2006 and her doctorate degree in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University in 2012 where she studied the role of shear stress in aortic valve disease. Currently, she is
edited with the use simple text Page 25.1030.5editing facilities included in the software (i.e. without specialized knowledge or tools). There aredifferent encouraging studies about the use of Wikis in education 15-18 and multiples reports ondiverse uses from undergraduate student learning environments to coordinating curriculumimplementation. Important for the authors, literature shows that the visibility of Wikis’ sharedenvironment and sense of creativity promotes motivation14.Integration of a CBI STEM Wiki website with the faculty development workshop activities hasgrown in usefulness to workshop participants and has proven to be an efficient
an engineering identity early in theirmatriculation can be significant drivers of attrition from technical fields. Previous researchsuggests that project-based learning builds students’ engineering/computing identity by piquingand developing student interest in engineering topics. Literature on the sense of belonging inengineering suggests that experiencing camaraderie within course-based teams, and particularlyhaving a clear purpose or role within the team, can promote that sense of belonging. The currentresearch project sought to implement evidence-based practices to enhance first-year students’identity and sense of belonging in engineering and computing, in the context of a two-semesterintroductory course sequence that integrates students
systematic application of inclusive teaching standards(called I-Standards) in our curriculum. The I- Standards were inspired by the approach andformat of Quality Matters, the certification system for online courses, which is adopted at theuniversity for all online classes and is supported by the university teaching center [6]. Theywere developed by a team of faculty by integrating principles of Universal Design forLearning [7], evidenced-based inclusive teaching practices and a comprehensive suite ofstudent support structures anchored by the strength-based approach. The I-standards are usedas a guide to organize the activities of the I-team, a team of instructors who attend a series ofworkshops and work together to redesign their courses.Research
education and communi- cation, and minoring in higher education administration. Her research focuses on stakeholder (employers and students) evaluation for curriculum development and revision. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WORK IN PROGRESS FROM FACE-TO-FACE TO ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: A Transition to a Learner-Centered ApproachAbstractHaving students in an online environment, either partially or fully, requires the instructor to learnnew knowledge and skills that are crucial to succeed in creating high quality online learningenvironments. In this paper, we (an engineering instructor who is learning how to teach in onlineenvironments and an
of Houston (UH) in Houston, Texas was awarded an NSF ResearchExperience for Preservice Teachers (RE-PST) site grant titled “Industries of the Future ResearchExperience for Preservice Teachers in STEM Settings.” The goal of the project is to host 10 highschool preservice teachers each summer to participate in Industries of the Future (IotF) researchfields and then convert their experience into high school curriculum. In the 2020 report of thePresident’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) to the President of theUSA, PCAST has recommended a set of bold actions to help ensure continued leadership in IotF,comprising artificial intelligence (AI), quantum information science (QIS), advancedmanufacturing, advanced communications
standards while ANSI certifies standards as meeting the criteria to be anAmerican National Standard (ANS). Increasing educational awareness about standardization is one of twelve primaryobjectives of the USSS (1). To that end, over the past several years standards professionals haveconducted studies to determine how professors are incorporating standards into currentcurriculums. In parallel, other attempts have been made to increase students’ awareness ofstandards by imposing minimal requirements for standards use within specific engineering andtechnology ABET requirements. Yet the question of how to adequately implement the practiceand application of standards into curriculums still remains largely unanswered. Among standards
worked for nine years in the manufacturing and service industry as an Industrial Engineer prior to her academic career. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Understanding competencies transfer during internships in undergraduate industrial engineering students: a case study at the [blinded]IntroductionDespite engineering programs designing curriculum with the goal of preparing students forindustry demands, there is still a disconnection between industry expectations of the workforceand the preparation of engineering graduates [1-3]. One way to prepare engineering students tomeet industry expectations is by involving them in real world experiences where they cantransfer some of the knowledge
Engineering Network) framework further influenced therefinement process and integrated entrepreneurial mindset.Fall 2020: The assignment was introduced as an extra credit and connects to a previous assignedproject, namely Assignment #5 (see Appendix 1). The students were asked to brainstorm and toreplace the problem description from Assignment 5 with a story while keeping the same pipelineconfiguration, to brainstorm an application. To help the students get started, the instructorincluded a story beginning as an example: “there is a summer camp, and the camp director plansto use water from a nearby lake for some camp activities. The lake is about 50 ft below the campwater tank.... “.Also, part of the assignment was a peer evaluation, in which all the
] integrated the used of the ESEMAinto a first-year civil engineering curriculum. Their study demonstrates notable improvements inentrepreneurial attitudes among students, particularly in ideation and help-seeking behaviors, asrevealed by the ESEMA survey.Table 1—Engineering Student Entrepreneurial Mindset Assessment Items [1] Factor 1: Ideation (Id) 1. I like to reimagine existing ideas 2. I like to think about ways to improve accepted solutions 3. I typically develop new ideas by improving existing solutions 4. I like to think of wild and crazy ideas 5. I tend to challenge things that are done by the book 6. Other people tell me I am good at thinking outside the box 7. I prefer to challenge adopted solutions rather
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