their knowledge and using a rubric or grading system toevaluate the students’ knowledge. Students can be asked to develop a concept map with paperand pencil or by using specialized software, and scoring can be holistic, relational, structural, orby methods specific to a particular application6. Stoddart et al.7 provide an overview of the useof concept maps to assess student learning in science, and Carey8 was one of the first researchersto compare concept maps produced by students over time as a means to understand howstudents’ knowledge develops.In engineering education, concept maps have been used to assess knowledge integration acrossan engineering program9, conceptual understanding in a engineering dynamics course10, andstudent
introduce computer algebra and symbolic manipulation software intothe early undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum. This paper discusses onecomponent of the exploratory project that focuses specifically on how the timing of introducingMathCAD affects student attitudes and performance in a sophomore-level numerical methodscourse at the University of South Carolina. An experiment was conducted in the Fall semester of2006 with a class of sixty students. The class was divided into two groups that receiveddifferentiated instruction at four times during the semester. The experimental group completed acomputer assignment before going to lecture; the control group heard the lecture and thencompleted the computer assignment. Qualitative data was
higher education, or community service program, and with the community; and (iii) helps foster civic responsibility; and(B) that- (i) is integrated into and enhances the academic curriculum of the students, or the educational components of the community service program in which the participants are enrolled; and (ii) provides structured time for the students or participants to reflect on the service experience.Service Learning thus embodies teaching and learning strategies that integrate communityservice with instruction and reflection to enlighten the learning experience, teach civicresponsibility, and strengthen communities. The National Service Learning Clearinghouse [11]provides a timeline for the development of Service
Through An Integrated Multicourse Model Rocketry Project,”Proceedings of the 120th American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference andExposition, Atlanta, GA, June 23-26, 2013.[8] M. J. Traum, V. C. Prantil, W. C. Farrow, H. L. Weiss, “New Capabilities and DiscoveredInterconnectivities for a Curriculum-Integrated Multicourse Model Rocketry Project,”Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Wisconsin Space Conference, Milwaukee, WI, August 15-16,2013.[9] Social Development Commission, “Poverty In Milwaukee – 2012,” accessed 1/5/2014, URL: Page 24.626.10http://www.cr- sdc.org/DefaultFilePile/PolicyandResearch/POVERTYFACTSHEET201210-10-12.pdf
effectively ona team, integrate information from multiple sources, communicate with written and visualmaterial, and make connections across disciplines 18 .PBL is not inherently transdisciplinary or convergent, but PBL can be used to teach and addressconvergent problems. While PBL is not the only way to learn convergence methodologies, it canbe an efficient “means” to the “end” which is understanding and implementing convergencemethodologies. It emphasizes the process of question identification and framing as much asproblem solving, encouraging students to iterate and seek feedback, and to reflect on theirapproach and proposed solution. Additionally, outcomes of PBL are similar to the skills neededfor the future of convergence research in industry
learners across globalcontexts, further work is needed to explore the implementation and adaptation of AL acrossglobal contexts (Mtika and Gates), particularly from the firsthand perspective of educatorsleading curricular transformation.To contribute to this gap in literature, our purpose is to describe the curricular design andimplementation of a bidirectional faculty development workshop, designed to support Malawianfaculty in integrating AL approaches into engineering courses. The faculty developmentworkshop was collaboratively led by Malawi-trained engineering faculty and United States-trained engineering faculty, providing an example of bidirectional knowledge-sharing on theimplementation of AL approaches across global contexts. Specifically
levels of thought. He has secured com- petitive funds to support his teaching efforts – from university, industry, and federal sources – and for his efforts has received departmental, college, and national teaching honors including the Farrall Young Edu- cator Award (2004) and the Massey-Ferguson Gold Medal Teaching Award (2016) given by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. He has also been an invited participant in the National Academy of Engineering’s 2013 Frontiers in Engineering Education Conference. Raman chairs the ABE Engineering Curriculum Committee and in that role oversaw the successful 2012 ABET accreditation visit for both the Agricultural Engineering (AE) and Biological Systems Engineering
include a small number of time points, a lack of a control group, minimalcollection of open-ended data, and software limitations.IntroductionThe addition of both engineering design and practices in the Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS) [1] has provided an opportunity for the development of curricula and new instructionalframeworks that integrates engineering into science classrooms. The development of suchcurricula and frameworks has been the call of many K-12 science education panels andcommittees [2], [3], including the Teachers Advisory Council, who proposed five benefits ofadding engineering in K-12 classrooms: 1) an increased learning in math and science, 2) anawareness of the work of engineers, 3) the ability to engage in engineering
broad sense of professional responsibility… and engineering ethics is not usually taughtwith this kind of scope.” 13 p. 330Case study: Professional Issues CourseThe ASCE Body of Knowledge (BOK) presents aspirational vision for the education of civilengineering students.4 It articulates 24 outcomes and levels of achievement for each, detailingwhich should be achieved as part of an accredited civil engineering Bachelor’s degree. The civilengineering curriculum at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) was lacking in some of theseBOK areas, such as sustainability and historical issues. Further, some members of the curriculumcommittee felt that robust direct assessment evidence of students’ knowledge of current eventsand contemporary issues (ABET
2021 and spring 2023. In the NRTCapstone course, trainees built upon the systems thinking framework taught in the IntegratedFEW Systems course. The NRT Capstone integrated theory and practice. Students worked ininterdisciplinary teams and learned how to integrate research across disciplines. For a finalproduct, students completed an original interdisciplinary research paper in one of the NRT threeresearch themes: innovations for soil, water and microbial systems in the face of drought;hydrologic science and water conservation systems for efficient food production; and anaerobicbioreactors to transform animal waste into usable energy, water, and/or fertilizer.NRT students could also work towards a graduate certificate on Innovations at the
efforts, outcomes, and student responses received by introducing ML tofirst-year engineering students in ENES100.PilotDuring the spring 2023 semester, a machine learning curriculum was piloted to three sections,totaling 120 students in ENES100. The goal was to determine the most effective way toimplement ML in ENES100. The team decided that the integration of hands-on, interactivemachine learning projects would be the most beneficial approach. Huang used a project basedlearning (PBL) paradigm when designing a machine learning module for first-year students atLoyola Marymount University because PBL has been shown to positively impact studentengagement, motivation, and self-efficacy [2]. Since ENES100 already follows a project basedapproach
be reduced solely to the question of how much development, butrather the more challenging question of how much of what kind of development could beoccurring.Impetus for developing the assessment instrumentThis paper describes the process by which we developed an assessment instrument to measurestudents’ interpretive understanding of engineering design concepts as nascent indication ofdeveloping expertise in the middle school engineering education context. We had multipleinterrelated goals for this project. In part, we realized the need to create a new alternativeassessment as one of several means by which we might evaluate student learning outcomesrelated to a narratively-based engineering curriculum aligned to the Next Generation
education.At the beginning of the 2023-2024 academic year, two professors, Professor A and B, decided topilot a new STEM Ed version of the course. Three engineering education students, Students A,B, and C, enrolled in the seminar course. A description of each is provided in Table 1. Table 1. Description of each participant in the STEM Ed seminar course. Participant Description Professor A Professor A is a tenured faculty member who is the engineering education Ph.D. program coordinator and director of the Integrated STEM Education Research Center (ISERC). Professor B Professor B is an early-career, tenure-track faculty member who completed the STEM education Ph.D. program at Louisiana Tech University in
of a “reduce, reuse and recycle”philosophy in construction and constructed facilities are clear imperatives. Our contention is thatconstruction management students must be fully cognizant of these imperatives. However ethicseducation for most construction management students currently lacks global and sustainabilitycomponents, and, further, curricula only require “micro-inserts” of ethics teaching without anysystematic or standalone course for professional education. This is contrast to engineeringprograms, such as civil, environmental, and computer engineering. This paper discusses thenature of the construction industry, globalized trends, sustainable development and confirms thenecessity for integrating ethics education into the curriculum
approach to design teaching wasimplemented in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Imperial College London. DesignWeek was created to provide an experiential and immersive learning experience for students.It is an assessed, group-based exercise which is the sole focus of students for an entire weekand embedded into the curriculum. This project occurs in the second year of a four-yearundergraduate integrated Master’s program in Mechanical Engineering (typical ofengineering degree programs in the UK). The structure of this integrated Master’s course isprescriptive in the first two years, with more flexible options for students to choose in theirthird and fourth years.The Design and Manufacturing (DMF) pathway in the Department of
program and their current use of PM skills?Literature ReviewProject management is valued by employers [7], specifically in STEM [3]. Research focused onthe development and implementation of PM training suggests that integrating PM training intothe undergraduate curriculum can be beneficial for prepping their future career [8], [9], [10],[11], [12]. Specifically, some studies highlighted their curriculum designs in helpingundergraduate students to gain PM experiences [8], [9], [10], and assess and understand students’learning experiences with PM knowledge [9], [11]. However, there’s a lack of studies that werefocused on STEM (e.g., software engineering [9], chemical and biological engineering [10]).Castañón–Puga et al. [9] assessed students' user
evaluations since both groups expressed high level ofinvolvement in and satisfaction with the hand-on activities. Both groups also displayed highlevel of motivation as anticipated from the backward design aimed at motivating learning.Based on these results, it argued that the CBI and lab curriculum developed helped the studentsto see the relevance of their studies to the real world which is an important factor for studentattraction, engagement, and retention. However, the pretest/posttest results provide evidence thatstudents that exposed to CBI developed a better ability to apply the knowledge that they learnedin a different context (i.e. adaptive expertise).ConclusionsThis paper describes the CBI curriculum development and its implementation
his engineeringclasses. I gave him suggestions and recommendations, such as the use of Socratic Questioningtechniques when asking students questions. I also revised tests and quizzes to include questionsthat required students to explain in detail their methods and logic for solving problems andequations. During conversations with Dr. Smith, I shared materials and information about theFoundation on Critical Thinking’s Intellectual Standards. Questions for Dr. Smith were based onhis thoughts about critical thinking; integrating critical thinking into an engineering curriculum; abrief comparison between students attending HBCU’s and majority schools; and his perceivedchanges in his teaching style. Asking more questions in class
and Morace [13] built a interdisciplinary teaching and research principle atthe Ecole Superieure de Commerce, Bretagne Brest, and the Telecom Bretagne in Brittany,France proposing a combination of “integrity” and a “third place” for language and interculturallearning [7,17] using a diversity approach[28]. In this study they set up an intercultural,international team of lecturers-researchers from differing disciplines, such as linguistics andmanagement, using different languages and in different countries with an overall objective ofdeveloping the intercultural competencies of multicultural classes for each aforementioneduniversity. They concluded that intercultural groups of students and lecturers combined with themanagement and communication
Paper ID #9863Innovation Center: Preparing High School Students for the 21st CenturyEconomy by Providing Resources and Opportunities to Create Genuine Projectswith Industry Partners (work in progress)Mr. John Steckel, St. Vrain Valley School DistrictMs. Patty Ann Quinones, St. Vrain Valley School District Patty Quinones new Executive Director of Innovation for the St. Vrain School District will direct the Race to the Top grant (16.6 mil). Her leadership will be critical to execute the STEM Initiatives in this grant. Her lead in the areas of K-12 programming, integrating STEM curriculum in cores, developing teacher
Laborary in Pasadena, CA. He has a B.S. in Physics from Seattle Pacfic University and an MSEE from the University of Washington. Don is an IEEE senior member and member of the ASEE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Survey of the State of the Power Engineering Profession in the Pacific Northwest and What Working Professionals are Defining as Priorities for Preparing Students to Fill Present and Near- Future VacanciesAbstractWhat is the state of the power engineering profession today and what advice can workingprofessionals give to academia on what is important for an introductory course? These twofundamental questions were asked of 73
using a hardware-in-the-loop system with MATLAB’s real-time windows targetsystem to assess the performance of their controller. The entire process was started and complet-ed in one three hour lab period. The goals of the exercise were to give students the chance tocomplete an entire control system design cycle from modeling to hardware testing in one sitting,incorporate as many of the course concepts as possible and give the students a practical under-standing of the application of the theory. Assessment was conducted using pre and post onlinequizzes testing conceptual understanding of the major topics such as linearization, frequency re-sponse, and the effect of proportional, integral and derivative control. The assessment indicate
majors at the University ofArizona. The project illustrates the entire control systems design cycle from systemidentification, through analysis and design of dynamic compensators in classical (transferfunction based) and modern (state space based) control theory. Advanced topics such as systemidentification tool box of Matlab, design and testing of an observer/controller pair is alsoillustrated in an intuitive way suitable for undergraduate students. A summary of the mainlearning gains is also presented.The workshop will conclude with a question and answer session as well as individualizedexperimentation with the portable hardware.IntroductionHands-on laboratories are an essential part of the engineering curriculum since its inception.Their
. His educational background is in manufacturing with an emphasis on mechatronics. In addition to his many years of industrial experience, he has taught many different engineering and technology courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. His tremendous re- search experience in manufacturing includes environmentally conscious manufacturing, Internet based robotics, and Web based quality. In the past years, he has been involved in sustainable manufacturing for maximizing energy and material recovery while minimizing environmental impact.Prof. Lucian Ionel Cioca, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu Lucian Ionel CIOCA received the M.Sc. in Machine Tools (1993) and B.Sc. in Occupational Safety, Health and Work Relations
Aerospace Engineering in 2009, both from Texas A&M University. He currently holds an Assistant Professor position at Texas A&M in his home department, and his work bridges the topics of advanced multifunctional material systems and their integration into aerospace platforms. After over three years as a Research Assistant Professor at Texas A&M, Dr. Hartl accepted joint appointments working at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate and Aerospace Systems Directorate. At Texas A&M, Dr. Hartl maintains a large and active research team consisting of graduate, undergraduate, and postdoctoral researchers. Darren has over 17 years of experience working with shape
Maker - Workshop Structure and SpecificsThe curriculum covering the topics of computer aided design, reverse engineering, 3D printing,and layering effects on 3D printed parts, as well as the hands-on activities that take place duringa two-day workshop are described in detail elsewhere [7], [8]. Briefly, the workshop is dividedinto six modules, each with an associated hands-on activity. Table 1 shows the schedule for thetwo-day workshop with the topics covered and the hands-on activity for each module. The mainequipment used during the workshop includes: i) a fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printer(InventorCloud, Youngstown, OH), which was developed for the MENTOR2 program,sponsored by DARPA [9], and ii) a 3D scanner sensor for mobile
for the future to see at what pointone becomes an expert in the design process.Next Steps and Future WorkFrom the research that has been complete, new questions were raised that need answers. Theteam would like to continue to look at education curriculum at [university] and see the designprocess from the eyes of a second- and third-year student to compare to that of the freshman andsenior to see at what points all the pieces of the design process come together. We would alsolike to look at the instructors/professors version of the design process to see how that affects theirstudents’ design processes.Faculty, as well, have (more developed) models for engineering design activity. In addition,textbooks can capture and reflect yet another set of
Paper ID #34046Low-Income, High-Achieving Students and Their Engineering IdentityDevelopment After One Year of Engineering SchoolJanet Aderemi Omitoyin, The University of Illinois at Chicago Janet Omitoyin is a PHD student in the Department of Curriculum and Instructions, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). An astute scholar, Janet’s quest for a solution to the problems of mathematics learning based on her experience as a student and later as a teacher is at the root of her enrollment for a PHD program at UIC with a view to be part of the solution to the systemic problems emanating from inadequa- cies in the
explored like the Zone of Proximal which was concerned withengagement [1] [9].[12] proposes that the integration of Computational Thinking with collaborative problem-basedlearning can cultivate learners how to learn and work on an authentic problem solving byincorporating concepts from computer science. Another study by [6] presents an overview of thechanges proposed to transform the teaching of computing to engineering students. The studyestablished that most of the time the beneficial problem-solving techniques and ComputationalThinking skills are lost through traditional programming courses. traditional programmingcourses are ineffective in transferring usable knowledge to students. This lose is partly due to thedisconnect between introductory
promotion track, which limits the possibility of being able to drawconclusions from the analysis. In addition, the “other” category did not have enough samples toobserve patterns properly. However, it is essential to note that the “other” category includedgraduate students and post-doctoral researchers, showing that younger educators are engagingwith the community. This engagement means that these students and researchers are preparingfor teaching in their future careers. An additional and exciting note is that all faculty rankspossessed a type of administrative role (e.g., program directors, chairs, or program coordinators).This shows how the Share and Learn events can impact participants and add value to programsand curriculums through potential