. Four of the six give direct measures based on student work (SW, CP,SD, FE) and two are indirect measures based on surveys (SS and AS).The courses are reviewed to ensure coverage of all of the Student Outcomes which each graduateof the program is expected to know and be able to do by the time of graduation. These skills,knowledge and behaviors are acquired as they progress through the program and differentcourses emphasize different outcomes. For example, the laboratory courses emphasize (b)experimental skills and the numerical methods class emphasize (k) computer skills. Syllabi arereviewed by the Assessment Committee which provides feedback to the instructor. Each syllabiis consistent with the overall expectations of SOs for the program
Paper ID #14457Redesigning Computer Engineering Gateway Courses Using a Novel Reme-diation HierarchyProf. Ronald F. DeMara, University of Central Florida Ronald F. DeMara is a Professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) with 23 years of university-level faculty experience in Electrical and Computer Engineering disciplines. He has completed 180+ technical and educational publications, 34 funded projects as PI/Co-I, and established two research laboratories. He serves as the Computer Engineering Program Coordinator, the founding Director of the Evaluation and Proficiency Center (EPC) in CECS, and
review for difficult concepts; he highlighted cognitiveload theory and related it to problem-based learning [9]. In this work, he highlights thatmeasurement variation, which uses probability and statistics, is the difficult concept targeted in Page 26.840.9his research. He argued the effectiveness of scaffolding with worksheets in a laboratory settingover lectures and textbooks in problem-based learning in order to teach difficult engineeringconcepts.Other researchers, in proving the usefulness of simulations for teaching, highlighted typicalproblems that students encounter. In broad categories, students have difficulty with generatinghypotheses
running was manageable and could be completed by one or two trained technicians who spent about two to five hours each week maintaining or servicing the laboratory equipment. The most common problem is for the extruder to jam in some way, which could either be a blockage in the drive gear or a blockage in the nozzle. The first can usually be fixed quickly by disassembling the extruder, removing the blockage, and reassembling. In order to fix a nozzle jam, the nozzle has to be cleared out with a 0.4 millimeter drill bit, removed and cleaned with a propane torch, or replaced entirely. The next most common failure is that the filament cooling fan duct hits a part that has warped and breaks off. In this case, the duct can easily be replaced by one
other is on the factors that promote persistence and success in retention of undergraduate students in engineering. He was a coauthor for best paper award in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2013.Dr. Nancy Ruzycki, University of Florida Director of Undergraduate Laboratories, Faculty Lecturer, Department of Materials Science and Engi- neeringDr. Amber L. Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham Dr. Amber Genau is an assistant professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She received her BS and MS from Iowa State University and PhD from Northwestern University, all in materials engineering. Before coming to UAB, Dr. Genau spent two years as a
fourdomains are the foundation blocks of the DFC model and each component of the modeldeliberately addresses the individual factors through a series of engineering, financial andoperational strategies that are combined in a comprehensive systems approach.Design for Commercialization (DFC)Many people think of commercialization as the final stage of a neat, linear process of innovation.They think in terms of someone with an idea in a laboratory, and imagine that, step by step, theidea matures into a product, service or process that enters the marketplace (Expert Panel onCommercialization, 2006)4.Commercialization is a complex, integrated system anchored in the world of business. It hasmany components that come together in different ways. Each
Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The program provides high impact experiential learning opportunities for students while generating economic benefit and enhancing community sustainability. Her work improves the efficiency of programs that support member institutions and increase the success of more than 120,000 students in southwest Ohio. Maggie has also provided guidance and leadership in the creation and evolution of regional initiatives such as the Dayton Water Roundtable, Ohio’s Great Corridor Association, and the University of Dayton Rivers Institute. Prior to her position at SOCHE, Maggie worked for the Fitz Center for
withlittle or no high quality laboratory experience in K-12, lack of experience building thingsduring childhood and adolescence, lack of understanding about how mechanical thingswork and a lack of experience measuring and hypothesizing have little background thatwould lead them to know about or to choose a STEM course of study without making aconnection to something they care about.The culture of inquiry and freedom from required content promoted questioning and whatwould be considered “off topic” discussions sometimes arose. Encouraging these questionscan increase student engagement when the facilitators are able to provide appropriatecontext for the student’s question rather than dismissing it.3. Community Service and Service LearningBeing part of
Page 26.1092.2pedagogical workshops, attending a theater performance focusing on inclusive teachingstrategies, and presenting a short lesson to a small group of their peers. The GSIs choose theworkshops based on their teaching responsibilities with topics including: teaching discussionsand laboratory sections, managing office hours, grading, and teaching problem solving skills.The theater performance allows GSIs to observe a novice instructor in a STEM classroom,identify strategies to improve the overall class environment, and reflect on how their suggestedstrategies improve the overall class environment upon a second performance of the sketch.10During the practice teaching or microteaching session, GSIs develop a short 5-min lesson,present it
can work on their engineering designprojects, to provide enhance opportunities for students to work on real-world design challenges,and to enrich design projects with practical training in topics such as entrepreneurship. Surveyresults indicate that freshman students felt it helped them develop skills in engineering designand prototyping.Finally, in its ‘Living with the Lab’ initiative to support over 400 first-year students, LouisianaTech’s classroom / laboratory / shop facility was designed to support 40 students at a time(working in teams of 2 to 4) and is equipped with 11 tables for project work, note taking, andgroup interaction.17 The walls of the laboratory are lined with 86 linear feet of cabinets withstainless steel counter tops. The
innovative solutions.30,31Experimenting has historically been core to engineering and engineering education, as is evidentby ABET’s learning outcome specifying that students should be able to “design and conductexperiments”.32 As a result, laboratory instruction has long been a staple of engineeringeducation. In Crismond and Adams’ (2012) Informed Design Teaching and Learning matrix, theability to conduct valid experiments was identified as a key design ability.33 From theperspective of engineering students, experimenting has been depicted as supplemental to andreinforcing of the general theory learned from lecture or a textbook.34 Therefore, the connectionbetween experimenting and innovation within engineering seems direct and pervasive.The
classroom or laboratory – but with an unfamiliarlevel of control over their decision-making, operational, creative, and communication processes.Douglas et al. describe how the formation of a self-directed work team “alters the structure ofrelationships by redefining the traditional roles of both managers and employees”19.Accordingly, faculty must adjust to the situation as well, relinquishing certain powers for thesake of student empowerment.In terms of team communication, members in a SDWT undergo an experience of rhetoricaldiscovery, a generative process of determining how to communicate effectively within or in frontof an unfamiliar audience in a new context and genre. A member may seek to figure out how sheherself should communicate and perform
, Brookhaven National Laboratory, European Southern Observatory (Chile), Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) and the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. Christine works closely with Penn State University faculty Michael Alley (The Craft of Scientific Presentations and The Craft of Scientific Writing) and Melissa Marshall (TED, ”Talk Nerdy to Me”) on these courses. Christine is also the director of the Engineering Ambassadors Network, a start-up organization at 25 plus universities worldwide that teaches presentation skills to undergraduate engineering students, particularly women and underrepresented groups in engineering. These Engineering Ambassadors develop valuable leadership and communication skills, which
learning can take on many forms – from traditional tests and quizzes towritten laboratory reports, research papers, projects, etc. The focus of this paper will be toprovide a discussion about ways to incorporate writing into the curriculum as well as to providesome examples of how writing-based tools can be used to assess student learning. To this end,the use of rubrics can be very worthwhile for both the students and the instructor. As Spurlin hasindicated and modeled, the use of carefully crafted rubrics can be a useful way to demonstratethat students have met the criterion whether the communication is through either written or oralform3. In addition, the use of a carefully crafted rubric can help reduce the overall time neededto grade a
Paper ID #18703A Symbiotic Solution for Facilitating Faculty Transitions in Engineering AcademiaDr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research In- stitute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research includes modeling steady state and transient behavior of advanced energy systems, inclusive of their thermal management, and the characterization and optimization of novel cycles. He has advised graduate and undergradu- ate research assistants and has received multi-agency funding for
Engineering, NY, USA. His research and teaching interests include robotics, mechatronics, control systems, electro-mechanical design, human factors/ergonomics, engineer- ing psychology, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, computer vision, biomimetics and biomechanics with applications to industrial manipulation and manufacturing, healthcare and rehabilitation, social services, autonomous unmanned services and STEM education.Dr. Vikram Kapila, New York University Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a DR K
) evaluation, enhancement or design of worksystems following ergonomic principles. The course is a core 4 credit course (75 contacthours) with guided laboratory activities and a required design project. Typically, the courseproject is defined by the course instructor and can vary between a case study, classroomprojects or projects in service or manufacturing industry (Pomales-Garcia & Cortes, 2014). Inthis particular scenario, the project weight was 17% of the final course grade and required aproposal, a final written report and an oral presentation using a poster format. Courseactivities incorporated the use of rubrics for evaluation purposes (see Appendix A-C).MethodologyIn 2015, a group of 45 Industrial Engineering undergraduate students (22
University; at Texas A&M since 2006. Prior employment experience includes: Oceanographer for US Naval Research Laboratory (1995-2006), Post- Doctoral Fellow at US Naval Research Laboratory (1994-1995), Hydraulic Engineer at US Waterways Experiment Station, US Army Corps of Engineers (1987-1989). Ph.D. from University of Delaware (1994), M.S. from University of California, Berkeley (1987), B.S. from California State Polytechnic University (1986), all in Civil Engineering. Research interests include theory and modeling of ocean wave dynamics, beach erosion, coastal engineering, nearshore circulation, and ocean wave generation by wind.Miss Veronica S. Rodriguez Chavarria Veronica S. Rodriguez Chavarria is a graduate
. at Friedrich- Schiller-University in Jena, Germany for his theoretical work on transparent conducting oxides. Before he started at UIUC he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on a project that aimed at a description of non-adiabatic electron ion dynamics. His research revolves around excited electronic states and their dynamics in various materials using accurate computational methods and making use of modern super computers in order to understand, for instance, how light is absorbed in photo-voltaic materials. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Measuring Student Learning of Crystal Structures
engaging incritical thinking and metacognition.Perceived teaching approaches. The second theme describes how students perceive facultyteaching approaches within their departments, again with two emergent dimensions: traditionalversus contemporary and prescribed versus open-ended. The traditional versus contemporarydimension focuses on the pedagogical practices used in non-laboratory and laboratory courses.Traditional approaches are those considered prototypical of engineering. For example, studentsdescribing traditional approaches talk about classes dominated by lectures in which students arerequired to take notes or read PowerPoint ® slides, and course assessments consist mostly ofindividual assignments and quizzes. Similarly, students in
measurements of muonium hyperfine structure at Los Alamos National Laboratory and of the muon anomalous magnetic moment (g-2) at Brookhaven National Labora- tory (BNL). He was a research scientist at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, from 1998 to 1999 and then through 2007 a Fellow at the joint Japanese-American RIKEN-BNL Research Center (RBRC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He joined the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois in 2002. At RBRC and Illinois Professor Grosse Perdekamp has studied the physics of the strong interaction and the spin-structure of its bound states through high energy scattering experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL on Long Island, NY
Engineering Educator Award from IEEE.Dr. Tian Tian, University of Central Florida Tian Tian is an Associate Lecturer of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the UCF, which she joined in 2013. She has been frequently teaching undergraduate lecture and laboratory components of Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics. Her educational research interests focus on project- based learning, online learning, and the digitization of STEM assessments. She received the Teaching Incentive Award, Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, the Dean’s Advisory Board Faculty Fel- low Award, Professor of the Year Award and Advisor of the Year Award.Ms. Shadi Sheikhfaal, University of Central Florida Shadi Sheikhfaal received
NSF funded research project: Academic Career Success in Science and Engineering-Related Fields for Female Faculty at Public Two-Year Institutions. She is co-author of The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era.Dr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research In- stitute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research includes modeling steady state and transient behavior of advanced energy systems, inclusive of their thermal management, and the characterization and optimization of novel cycles. He has advised graduate and undergradu- ate research
the program. There must be a suf- ficient number of faculty and they must have sufficient responsibility and authority to improve and implement the program.7. Facilities All facilities (classrooms, offices, laboratories, and associated equipment) must be adequate to support the attainment of the student outcomes. Modern tools, equip- ment and resources must be available to the students, and they must be systemati- cally maintained and upgraded.8. Institutional Institutional support and leadership must be adequate to ensure the continuity of the Support program. Institutional resources provided to the program must be
language such as MATLAB, and a few on full-semester, client-baseddesign projects, all seek to increase retention and improve understanding of engineering conceptsat an early stage. Below, a few of many quality program are described; these were selected becausethey highlight and assess topics of interest to our program, including creativity, real-world designchallenges, and development of technical skills and self-confidence. With the intention of exhibiting that engineering is a creative process and increasinginterest in electrical and computer engineering (ECE), The University of Alabama developed adesign laboratory freshmen course for ECE students [12]. In this course, the creative process forthe students’ designs included brainstorming