abilities required to complete anundergraduate engineering degree at the institution; essential educational experiences; strengthsand weaknesses of the institution in supporting undergraduate education; and what those beinginterviewed perceived as efforts that could be made to promote the recruitment and retention ofwomen in undergraduate engineering majors and into future engineering careers. During thefocus group meetings with undergraduate women in engineering, we asked about theirperception of the university and college environment for women in class and out-of-class, factorsthat had led them to decide to major in engineering, and the careers they planned for themselves.The interviews and focus group discussions were audiotaped with the
impaction. The sections on interactions of particles with turbulence and turbulent depositionare normally taught in the second course. Computational modeling of turbulent flowswas discussed, and classical models of turbulent deposition were described. In additionthe process of aerosol charging and transport under the action of electrical forces and Page 14.942.3turbulence were presented. 2 A number of computational modules were added to make the coursepresentations of the materials more interactive. The plan was to have sufficient numberof calculation modules for the student to experiment with. As a
country. In this way, they should be encouraged to conceive the plan to go abroad themselves at some stage in their studies or for a future employment. This activity may also foster an understanding of potential changes in personal habits that would result from living abroad. It should thus facilitate the perception of international Page 14.1003.7 experience as an enrichment of students’ personal lives and cultural identities. The example of New York City may be replaced by any other city, depending on course
Sketching: An Introduction (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2004) 8. 7. Gabriela Goldschmidt, "The Backtalk of Self-Generated Sketches," Design Issues 19.1 (2003): 88. 8. Steve Garner and Miquel Prats, "Observations on Ambiguity in Design Sketch," Tracey the online journal of contemporary drawing research (2006). 9. Fish and Scrivener, "Amplifying the Mind's Eye: Sketching and Visual Cognition." 10. Jonathan Fish and Stephen Scrivener, "Amplifying the Mind's Eye: Sketching and Visual Cognition," Leonardo 23.1 (1990). 11. Nicolaides, K. The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study. (Houghton Mifflin, Oxfordshire, 1990). 12. Riley, H. Mapping the Domain of Drawing. International Journal
the Construction Engineering Division of ASEE, and is a registered Professional Engineer in Indiana. Prof. Sener was awarded numerous teaching awards including the Indiana University President's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1993,the IUPUI Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1994, Trustees Teaching Award for several years, the William P. Jungclaus Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence for several years, and the Departmental Outstanding Teaching Award.D. Tom Iseley, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Dr. Tom Iseley has over 35 years of experience in the planning, design, and construction of underground infrastructure systems. From 1982 until 1995, he served
subject to sustainability criteriawe developed for student projects. All our students are trained in the use of design tools, bothelectronic programs as well as hand tools and power tools. More specifically, following a general introduction to the foundations of cognitiveprocesses found in psychology, and creative process found in two- and three-dimensional artinstruction, we offer developmental instruction in the following areas: Metacognition and thinking processes—students engage in activities that requirethem to plan, reflect upon, and modify their own thinking processes and strategies, as well asadapt these methodologies to meet the needs of a specific design problem. Structured and unstructured thinking
11.1037.7 o Licensing Committee of CAP^3• The committee regularly updated its draft Accreditation Master Plan to incorporate those changes needed in response to a changing environment. The Accreditation Master Plan lays out in detail how the committee will work to publish approved criteria in the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC)/ABET document titled Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs (effective for evaluations conducted during the 2008-2009 accreditation cycle) that fulfill the formal educational requirements for entry into the professional practice of civil engineering (i.e., licensure) as specified in the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century.• The committee conducted a
designing a streamlined, manageable, and assessable curriculum that allows instructors Page 11.1316.3to honor their content expertise while serving a diverse student population. By separatingknowledge of a professional into four main curriculums or parallels, the PCM helps frame theinstructional strategies so instructors can select the most appropriate ones for the objectives. Byaligning the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of the engineering professional across four maincurriculums or parallels, PCM helps the instructor to identify and select essential curricularcomponents to design and plan a comprehensive curriculum.Section 2 grounds the
deposition bydiffusion, interception and impaction. The sections on interaction of particles with turbulence and turbulent depositionthat are normally taught in the second course. Computational modeling of turbulentflows was discussed, and classical models of turbulent deposition were described. Inaddition the process of aerosol charging and transport under the action of electrical forcesand turbulence were discussed. We have added a number of computational modules to make the coursepresentations of the materials more interactive. The plan is to have sufficient number ofcalculation modules for the student to experiment with. As a result the student willdevelop a physical understanding of some of the more complex concepts.Module II
they do generate healthy profits for the company.Your team has been asked to prepare a 3-5 page white paper presenting the relevant backgroundand issues from the perspective of your functional group. In addition, your team shouldsummarize relevant strategy and planning issues related to the given scenario. Each team willmake a 10 minute presentation to the CEO and to the other Vice-Presidents on March 17th, 2005.You can (and should) communicate with the other functional teams to ensure consistency and toshare information.In a subsequent offering of CHE 395, the students were allowed to select their own technicaltopic and prepare a 15-page paper and 15-minute oral presentation on their topic.Connecting in the Senior Year: CHE 450 CHE 450
Libraries for LightWater Reactor Calculations (PANTEX) Page 11.1318.5MCNP Critical Benchmarks for Mixed Oxide Lattices of the Saxton Plutonium Program(PANTEX)ConclusionThrough careful planning, recruitment and pursuing funding opportunities we have beenable to attract well qualified students who have worked at interns at the national labsand/or have secured employment, while employees at the national labs have been able topursue advanced degrees through our distance learning program.Biographic InformationDr. Steven Biegalski is an Assistant Professor in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program. Hespecializes in the fields of nuclear instrumentation, neutron
factor analysis and confirmatory factor on a large survey sample to reduce theinstrument and identify the factor structure are in press elsewhere.1 Our earlier published workdescribed the importance of assessing teamwork in the engineering classroom and the challengesit represents and laid out the ambitious assessment plan that would help develop an instrumentthat is easy to use and yet meaningful for both faculty and students, 2 described and demonstratedthe benefit of a behaviorally anchored rating system,3 detailed the process of creating a newbehaviorally anchored rating scale to simplify administration, data analysis, and reporting, andmake feedback more understandable.4 This paper shows how the behaviorally anchored ratingscales are
, including designing and starting up aresearch program and getting it funded, attracting and managing graduate students, finding andworking with appropriate faculty or industrial collaborators, planning courses and deliveringthem effectively, writing assignments and tests that are both rigorous and fair, dealing withclassroom management problems and cheating and students with a bewildering assortment ofacademic and personal problems, doing what it takes to learn about and integrate into the campusculture, and finding the time to do all that and still have a life. Figuring out how to do all these things is not trivial. Robert Boice studied the careerdevelopment of new faculty members and found that most of them take between four and fiveyears
. Dokon, L. E. 2001. The Alcohol Fuel Handbook. Infinity Publishing. Klass, D.L. 1998. Biomass for Renewable Energy, Fuels, and Chemicals. Academy Press. New York, NY. Pahl, G. 2005. Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy. Chelsea Green Publishing Company. Sorensen, B. 2004. Renewable Energy. Academic Press. Wyman, C. 1996. Handbook on Bioethanol: Production and Utilization. Taylor & Francis.Online Publications A Vision for Bioenergy: Growing an Integrated Industry Growing an Industry: Overview of DOE’s Bioenergy Activities and Proposed Plan of Action. http://www.eren.doe.gov/bioenergy_initiative/page3.html Biobased Industrial Products: Research and Commercialization Priorities. 1999. http://books.nap.edu
-semester first year engineering students from a publicmidwestern technical university were asked open ended questions about their definitions ofvarious engineering disciplines. Qualitative analysis of results involved coding for emergentthemes [1] by two undergraduate researchers and one faculty member to discover themes instudents’ understanding of the various engineering disciplines. This paper focuses on the resultsfrom a subset of 53 students, who were surveyed about their definition of systems engineering.All first-year engineering students complete a common first year course plan at this universitywhich includes engineering explorations to learn about the various disciplines. The selection ofan engineering major is a fundamental focus of
: built into the key program features were evaluation criteriathat efforts be “radically, suddenly, or completely new; producing fundamental, structuralchange; or going outside of or beyond existing norms and principles” [6]. With an innovativedepartment head or dean at the helm, change had to be rooted in engineering education research,a social science understanding of organizations, and a theoretical change framework that couldmove research to practice, with team composition reflecting this varied expertise. Facultydevelopment efforts, incorporation of professional practice, and a plan for scalability thatcountered anticipated obstacles had to be baked in to the original vision and project plan.With NSF investing relatively large amounts of
available lesson plans, such as those available atteachengineering.org to include specific constraints and performance measures, as well as toensure multiple points of entry, depending on a student’s prior knowledge. (Task lesson plansand supporting materials are available upon request.) The tasks were also aligned to the relevantstate curriculum standards for high school biology. Quantitative surveys, including measures ofgroup psychological safety, were administered to all participating students (n=185) in a total of51 groups. The affective component of the problem-solving space was measured using Edmondson’s(1999) Psychological Safety scale, while controlling for perceptions of the cognitive dimension, measuredwith the Group Interaction
2 Practices for Conducting Engineering Research Student Presentations: Research 5 3 Topic and Plan of Work Special Topics in Mechanical 7 4 Engineering: Acoustics (Guest Lecture) My Experiences in Graduate 9 5 School (Guest Lecture) How to Create a Research Poster 11 6
intentionally ¾ female, ¼ male.When reviewing statistics such as those stated above, men hold positions in engineering andcomputer science at rates much higher than women. Therefore, instructors felt that it was crucialto portray participants (male or female) with role models in engineering while at camp.2016 Logistics/ScheduleWith the change of camp from one continuous week to a single day, it was crucial that theschedule and structure of the single day be well planned to optimize for substantial connectionswith students. Therefore, students were randomly divided into two groups at the beginning of theday (to minimize transition time throughout the day) using pairs of playing cards. Each day,camp began around 8:30 am, concluding with a ceremony ending
Team and Initial organization description: Establishing a team with a diverse set of skills advice: • Bring a social scientist onto the team as early as possible • Create sub-teams, assign tasks, and define roles that play to team members’ strengths.Project Management and Maintaining Flexibility description: Defining a workflow and establishing deadlines for accountability, while also maintaining flexibility to deal with internal and external changes. advice: • Do not underestimate the time different elements of the project, like assessment, will take. • Have a plan and start early. • Respond
mechanical engineering machine shop). This was due to anadmitted level of unfamiliarity with the subtleties of the new wave of low-cost commercialtechnology, being concerned about operation of such equipment in uncontrolled andunsupervised environments, being concerned about unattended operation and earthquake safety,etc. Since that time, the Maker Lab remains the single deployment point for the School ofEngineering (apart from more controlled shops); however, other entities in the University aremaking plans for small scale maker-like labs in their areas.Apart from these initial start-up and safety-related issues, it is interesting to note the potential tohave centralized vs. decentralized maker spaces. As maker technologies become even
mathematics learning creatively while working within a friendly team structure.Some participants were surprised that these projects were related to bigger projects that involveengineers in the real world and reported considering career options along these lines. Self-efficacy. Many of the participants mentioned that they were confident in their mathematics andscience abilities. The following is an example stated confidently by a sixth grader: “I’m great atmath, and I like it!” Others expressed the desire to take advanced math classes as this eighth grade 16participant stated, “I already do [take advanced math classes], so I was planning on it, to still dothat.” While their sense of
the 1980s, and has since been adopted for use in commercial and academicapplications14. The model is depicted as having two separate prongs, which can be referred to asthe “decomposition and definition” stream and the “integration and verification” stream. Thisapproach is comprised of a variety of phases which include: defining user requirements,generating system concepts and validation plans, developing performance specifications andverification plans, subsystem and component decomposition, subsystem assembly andverification, system validation, and system operation and maintenance planning. Although thevee model was not developed to be entirely iterative, each of the steps present within thedecomposition and definition stream need to cross
math that doesnot relate directly to the topic at hand. Use undergraduate students, family members, otherfaculty and staff, or anyone that you can find to test and discuss your plans. Students especiallycan provide a perspective to help with the streamlining process. A good example of streamliningis provided with the activity in section 4.g. Implementing the activityAt this point, it is time to implement the activity as it has been developed. Make sure to haveextensions or additional activities ready in case the project takes less time than expected. Thefirst time an activity is implemented, it is nearly impossible to predict exactly how it will go. Beprepared for things to go wrong and have as many backup plans as possible. The amount
work versus engineering work amongengineering students soon to graduate, there may be fewer differentiators betweenstudents with engineering-focused plans and those with more unsettled plans. This meansthat there are many contingencies to investigate in terms of how students ultimately landin their first and subsequent jobs within the first few years of graduating. Providing somegranularity to the picture, Brunhaver’s study of recent engineering graduates indicatesthat while the majority of graduates were working in engineering-focused positions fouryears after graduation, about 20% of graduates were working in non-engineering focusedpositions.6 We note that although demographic factors did not seem to differentiatepathways at this stage, co
from three administrations of ATI-22. As mentionedbefore, ATI-22 was administered to all participants to the Teaching Workshop before itstarted (PRE). In the first administration, CFTP members were included. Then, there was asecond administration of the ATI-22 as a post-test (POST-1) at the end of the TeacherWorkshop, in which all participants (including CFTP members) took part. In this case,participants were asked to fill out the ATI-22 thinking about what they planned to do thefollowing semester. We wanted to see whether there was a change due to the workshop.There was a semester-long training program, only for CFTP members, which ended with theadministration of the ATI-22 as a post-test (POST-2). The following subsection of resultspresents
for STEM majors.A recent report of the NAE and the NRC confirms the major endeavor: “Today, several dozendifferent engineering programs and curricula are offered in school districts around the country,and thousands of teachers have attended professional development sessions to teach engineering-related coursework” (NAE & NRC, 2009, p. 1). Numerous programs are developing curriculafocused on engineering to address future workforce need. Some of the more notable programsare A World in Motion (AWIM), Engineering is Elementary (EiE), Project Lead the Way(PLTW), and Full Option Science System (FOSS).Overview of A World in MotionAWIM was initially developed as a collection of teacher lesson plans and has expanded intotoday’s program which is a
interface displays the vector of each sensor in real-time. This tool will be utilized bystudents the next time the Electromagnetic Fields course is offered. The author plans to have thislab repeated with the improved tool to assess the next class of students and determine if the labimproves their level of understanding over this recent class using multiple assessment tools (suchas pre and post lab student surveys), and to test the hypothesis that reducing the gap between datacollection and analysis for the multipoint experiment will improve student understanding ofdivergence, curl, and gradient as reflected in the student lab reports.References[1] I. W. Wait, A. P. Nichols and W. A. Zatar, "Comparison of Learning Styles for International and
project-based learning curriculum integrated into math or science courses (Table 1). Students must conduct laboratory and simulated experiments, carry out analysis, and develop a hands-on model based on their results. Laboratory experiments are described in Table 2. Each lesson consists of PowerPoint presentations and laboratory handouts with student worksheets. It should be noted that the CorrSim II program used in the module is a free software available at (http://corrdefense.nace.org/corrdefense_Spring2014/tech4.asp). Instructor professional development materials are also included, consisting of lesson plans, PBL Learning Experience Design (LED) template, student success rubrics, and instructional material on the laboratory and simulation
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