programming skills. Asa result, they will be more comfortable in learning other features of MATLAB for their future courses.Instructors benefit by having students who have already been exposed to basic MATLAB and hencecan be easily taught the next level of required functionality without allocating class time forintroductions or review. The author will continue using an animation-based project assignment in thisprogramming class. The author plans to gather grading data for several years to see whether anycorrelation exists between how well students performed in the creative portion of the project and thefinal grade point average in their major as seniors. It is reasonable to expect that students who putmore time into this project tend to place more
Measurements, Models, and Comparisons in an Office Environment. IEEE Communications Letters 2021; 25: 3151-3155.[10] Tolstrup M. Indoor radio planning a practical guide for 2G, 3G and 4G. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley, 2008.[11] Wang JH, Mei KK. Theory and analysis of leaky coaxial cables with periodic slots. IEEE transactions on antennas and propagation 2001; 49(12): 1723–1732.BiographiesOTILIA POPESCU is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at Old DominionUniversity in Norfolk, Virginia. She received the Engineering Diploma and MS degree from the PolytechnicInstitute of Bucharest, Romania, and the PhD degree from Rutgers University, all in Electrical and ComputerEngineering. While at Rutgers
1 5 studies or projects that focus on ensuring equity 0.758 - Post and social justice in 3.56 1.105 1 5 resilient infrastructure systems9 - Pre 3.97 0.06 0.999 2 5 Importance of considering social equity in the planning 9 - Post 4.03 1.062 1 5 and implementation of resilient infrastructure projects? 10 - Pre Awareness about the 4.13 0.907 2 5 lack of access
Needs Cade Person1, Christiana Kiesling1, Kristen Cetin1 and George Berghorn2 1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 2 School of Planning, Design and Construction, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MIAbstractMass timber is an emerging construction technology growing in popularity in the United Statesand throughout the world. This is because of the various benefits of mass timber, such asstructural stability, fire performance, ease of construction, low carbon footprint, and biophilicaesthetic. One identified obstacle in the gradual adoption of mass timber construction is thelimited availability of qualified engineers
. Students engage in a step-by-step process of planning, executing, and validating experiments within the virtual environment,allowing them to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying principles. Following the virtualsimulation phase, students transition to the physical power trainers, where they can implement andverify the same experimental methods learned in the virtual setting. This dual-phase approach notonly enhances the students' comprehension of electrical power and machinery concepts but alsoreinforces the connection between theoretical knowledge and real-world applications.In summary, the incorporation of LVSIM-EMS in ENGR 4520 and ET 4640 courses at MTSU hastransformed the traditional experimental methods. By requiring students to
her, however I wish she contributing enough but that is also because started on it earlier so we had time to account I am assigned the bare minimum.” for outside errors. She communicates well with the rest of the team.” Student C to Student A, “Communicates with the team and helps the team with electrical plans. Something she needs to work on is being more efficient in completing her tasks and managing her time more
have proven to be groundbreaking and successful. One of her proudest accomplishments was receiving FIRST Robotics Competition volunteer of the year award for being a judge, judge advisor, and chair of regional and district planning committees for over a decade. This is second only to serving as co-leader of her daughter’s Girl Scout troop and then mentoring those same girls on the Gamer Girlz FIRST Lego League and VEX robotics team. Through her innovative work in engineering education and STEM outreach, she has appeared in several print and digital media including Forbes, Black Enterprise, New York Times, and CBS News. She has also been recognized with several national awards including the American Society of
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mounts for electromagnets.To guide students through this four-phase process, sample structures or devices of each phase(discussed in the Running the Activity section) should also be prepared by the instructor beforethe class. Students will be able to check out these samples at the start of each phase (a tube-manmold, a magnetic silicone tube, electromagnets, etc). This will allow the planned activity to be runin shorter time frames as students will be able to apprehend the ideas quickly or build their designsoff the provided sample structures. Additionally, a sample rubric along with some framing for theproject is provided in Appendix A which should help guide instructors in running the activity.Running the ActivityThe suggested process below is
Strongly Strongly Disagree (2) nor Disagree Agree (4) Disagree (1) Agree (5) (3) I am confident that I could learn advanced computer programming. o o o o o (1) I am willing to take more than the required amount of computer o o o o o programming. (2) I plan to take as much computer programming as I
demonstrate an ability to • (Outcome 5) Function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives. • (Outcome 6) Develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze, and interpret data, and use engineering judgement to draw conclusions.While the course assesses both of these objectives, our mini projects only target one. The miniprojects were completed by each individual student and were not used for assessment ofOutcome 5. For that objective, students additionally completed a substantial group project andafterwards completed a group health assessment survey.1.2: Related WorkTo the best of our knowledge
. 3 by the system indicates a strong alignment between the system'ssuggestions and the users' specified topics. As shown in Figure 4, a significant 80% of surveyparticipants agreed that the first book recommended by TextCraft closely aligned with theirsearch criteria, highlighting the system's adeptness at identifying key resources. However, asmall fraction of dissenting opinions suggest an opportunity to further refine the recommendationalgorithms to ensure top-ranking accuracy. Figure 3: Relevance of Books Recommended by SystemThe survey demonstrated a strong intention for future use among participants, withapproximately 93% indicating their plans to use TextCraft to search course materials. Thisreflects the application's
that are required for this renewable energy-powered transition are asfollows: 1. Renewable power—wind and solar 2. Power transmission—short-distance DC links 3. Energy storage—batteries and hydrogen 4. Power conversion—electric and hydrogen-powered motorsBased on the matrix presented in Table 2, the proposed Wentworth plan will be to design teachingmaterials, including presentations and homework or project assignments, which could beintegrated into these existing courses. These materials will be given to the various coursecoordinators in an effort to have them introduced into their course materials. As these materialsare integrated into existing courses, students’ interest will be increased, and their ability to tacklea more
writing assignments and the CEFR level of the lecture material itself, but it was very small –Answer to RQ3.The results demonstrated in item 1 and 2 above offer several benefits. Firstly, understandingstudents’ English proficiency allows educators to tailor their instruction to meet the diverseneeds of the class. It may also lead to an effective lesson planning. Additionally, it allows forthoughtful grouping in discussion activities. As indicated in item 3, students in the ‘lower’group displayed a greater increase in CEFR-J levels than students in ‘top group.’ This may bebecause grades for the earliest assignments were made known to students halfway throughthe course. It seems plausible that awareness of their poor performance led the ‘lower
building strong survey instruments with good questions [19].ConclusionThe sorting experiment was planned as a single round procedure to identify appropriate surveystatements for the sub-constructs of engineering self-concept. But the confounded interpretationsof perceived competence and self-efficacy among the SMEs resulted in a re-sort with a subset ofthe initial sample of survey statements. Strong agreement was found for academic self-description, engineering intrinsic value, belonging, and perceived competence through theexperiment, helping the researchers to establish survey statements for those respective sub-constructs. However, only a single statement for self-efficacy was identified within the currentsample.Future DirectionsFuture
systematic procedures. Itrequires cultivating ethical values, honing creative skills in engineering, working collaborativelyand iteratively, and solving complex problems in a multidisciplinary environment. TheAccreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) formally acknowledged theimportance of these notions in their most recent requirements - (students’ outcome 5): “an abilityto function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create acollaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.”Project-based teamwork is particularly crucial in a first-year engineering design course. Anexperiential learning environment promotes acquiring essential skills and abilities that will beused
assignments.I was confident that our team produced acceptable solutions to course assignments. PotencyThis team helped me accomplish my individual goals for this course. Goal SettingMy team used clear, long-term goals to complete tasks. Goal SettingMy team reflected upon its goals in order to plan for future work. Goal SettingMy team made use of incremental goals (i.e., we set short-term goals) in order to complete Goal Settingcourse assignments on time.My team made use of incremental goals (i.e., we set short-term goals) in order to complete Goal Settingcourse assignments on time.Our team did not function well as a team; we
district and is in the process of creating a mentorship program to help high school students transition to university. His research interests include first-year university students’ experience, high school students’ transition to university, peer-to-peer mentorship, and student support networks.Ms. Sarah Huizar, University of Texas at El Paso Sarah Huizar is a Program Manager for UTEP’s Center for Research in Engineering and Technology Education (CREATE). She develops, implements, and manages a wide range of activities through the center’s STEMShine grant. She specializes in mentorship, essential skills building for freshman engineering students, project planning, community building through eSports, writing and design.Dr
couldindicate a lack of persistence, strategic planning, or confidence among the students.The results suggest a decline in proactive study behaviors, self-regulated learning strategies, andoverall student motivation. Further investigation of the underlying reasons for these changes andconsideration of interventions to support students in improving their study habits and motivationlevels would be essential.Active learningFigure 2 presents the results of those items categorized as “Active learning,” which coversactivities in which students participate in their own learning.Figure 2. The results of those items are in the Active Learning category.Results in this category were mixed. On the one hand, some items showed positive changes. Thisincluded item 2
begun [16].Further, regarding infrastructure resilience to disruption, the American Society of CivilEngineers (ASCE) [16] recommends enhancing the use of standards to mitigate risks related toclimate events and prioritizing projects that “improve the safety and security of systems andcommunities.”Communities that access this funding and organizations that perform work on their behalf willneed knowledgeable and skilled engineering, EHS, construction management, computer science,and cybersecurity professionals. In addition to technical knowledge, this work requires practicalskills in integrating standards for resilient and secure infrastructure, including applied skillsrelated to planning, design, development, and operation. The future workforce
) onsiders pre-math-ready engineering students' outlook on their place in engineering C Transition Self related to their perceived identity and sense of belonging in engineering as they into transition into the major (ex: plans for their future career) Engineering efers to the help that pre-math-ready engineering students receive in engineering R (identity) Support related to identity formation as they transition into the major (ex: affinity groups) Describes the strategies pre-math-ready engineering students use to develop their
�tu�ons with these neurodivergentiden��es, a history of individual educa�on plans (IEP), and self-awareness of their own differences,strengths, and weaknesses (Na�onal Center for Educa�on Sta�s�cs., 2023). The trend is that au�sm,ADHD, and other cogni�ve differences are being recognized as not only prevalent among the humanpopula�on but also that this popula�on is highly varied and individualized (Woods et al., 2018). Inresponse, the medical and clinical community con�nue to adapt their criteria of evalua�on and diagnosisas more understanding is gained about the variety of ways humans manifest physiologically (Samadi etal., 2022). Higher educa�on and the workforce must con�nue to adapt as well.Background on Neurodiversity, Language, and
engineering methodologies (e.g., iterativevs. plan-based) and specific techniques for software design, implementation, validation,deployment, and maintenance. Pertinent to this study, one learning outcome relates tocybersecurity analysis.The course uses a project-based learning approach to teach these outcomes. Students work inteams (groups of 3 to 4 individuals) on a semester-long software engineering project. Teamsmust provide weekly updates, but these are intended to help course staff assist struggling teamsrather than as assessment instruments. The primary assessable assignments are the majormilestones of the project – deliveries in week 4, week ~8, and week 16. The project requirementshave been similar in all offerings of the course (Fall 2021
ethical followershipmerits exploration and to distinguish it from ethical voice. The literature shows that voice is oneof several followership behaviors that may be used to promote ethical behavior or inhibitunethical behavior at work. Uhl-Bien et al. (2014) frame voice as one of many proactivebehaviors that “assess the creative and deliberate ways that employees plan and act on theirenvironment to influence, change, and alter it in ways they see fit” (p. 93). Uhl-Bien et al. (2014)also refer to other followership behaviors like obedience, resistance, dissent, and feedbackseeking.Research Questions and Methods In response to the leader-centric view represented in ethical leadership literature, andgiven limited research available on ethical
, China, Vietnam,Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Pakistan), two are in North America (Mexico andCanada), with the remaining country being Russia (identifies as both Asian and European)marking a substantial proportion of foreign-born workers within STEM hailing from Asian orWhite backgrounds [13-14]. Immigrant STEM workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher aremore prevalent than those without [13]. Moreover, the expected stay rates of noncitizen STEMdoctorate recipients planning to remain in the U.S. after graduation remained consistently high,especially among students from China and India [13].In 2021, approximately 3% of the total workforce identified as having at least one disability,encompassing both physical and cognitive disabilities
Marshall Plan scholarship.From 2008 to present, 32 students have participated in research at KTH in Sweden. In theNetherlands, from 2010-2019, 21 students were hosted at the Maastricht University. During theperiod, a total of seventy-four students participated from 2008 to 2018 in programs based inSweden, the Netherlands and Austria, twenty-five in Brazil based programs [44], and overtwenty in Morocco. All programs were modeled after the REU programs funded by the NSF.Toyohashi, Japan - At Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT) research projects for studentswill include areas such as Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, BiomedicalScience/Engineering, Material Science and Nanotechnology.Beijing, China - A partnership with the
settings it is possible to determine the overflow period, this being thevalue of the controllers' sampling time of 10 ms. And the last part within the MCC is choosing and configuring the pins used,these are those of the peripherals such as the UART and PWM, the digital outputs forthe H bridge (outputs) and the input pins (Input) for the encoder, which must beconfigured to have interrupt on the rising edge, IOC (Interrupt On Changing). Figure 9 — Datasheet PIC16F18877 At this moment, the microcontroller has the capacity to do what was planned,however, to facilitate the development of the program, some functions were developedfollowing the logic diagram: Figure 10 — Microcontroller
there is a course management challenge, and it is incumbent upon the instructor to ensurethat there are support mechanisms for students who may be struggling with the course materials.In addition to the training of peer tutors and TAs, in my case this has meant ensuring that wheneverI am teaching CS 1, I have accounted for extra time needed for the course. In the CS 1 course studentsare required to meet with me 1-on-1 which helps me assess student progress as well as strategize,often with student agency, how to help each student succeed. Active learning and peer learningtechniques are also critical to ensuring there is a greater opportunity for students to learn from eachother and form a learning community. In the future, I also plan to
severaliterations take place before reaching the final solution. Each iteration is improved upon based onfeedback from the previous iteration.”“Iterative design is characterized by a process in which the design is refined and improved througha series of multiple iterations. Each iteration, the design is improved incrementally based onfeedback and testing from previous iterations.”“More specifically, the iterative design methodology begins with an initial planning step, whereinthe engineering requirements for a new device are developed and enumerated.”“Essentially, each subsequent stage of the iteration process only occurs after the current stagehas been made successful. This leads to much more efficient development of technologies andensures the final
that encouraged participants to express their thoughts andexperiences freely and openly.The structure of the interview was meticulously designed to evaluate four critical constructs thatare pivotal in understanding students' engagement with data science within the chemicalengineering curriculum [20]. These constructs are: 1. Interest: Participants' enthusiasm and curiosity about data science. 2. Career Aspirations: How participants see data science fitting into their future professional plans. 3. Perceived Value: The importance participants attribute to data science skills in the context of their education and future career in chemical engineering. 4. Self-Efficacy: Participants' confidence in their ability to learn and apply