learning in engineering students. She is the founder and Director of Project ENspire, an engineering outreach event for 4th and 5th grade girls now in its eighth year. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference Improving Engineering Student Professional Communication through Mini-Laboratory Reports Amy Holdegraver and Morgan Green Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State UniversityAbstractA junior/senior-level course in the mechanical engineering department at a regional universityhas a laboratory component, and a portion of the curriculum
Comparing learning outcomes and student experiences in Engineering Mathusing virtual and physical robotsDaniel GodrickDan Godrick, P.E., is a Teaching Assistant Professor with the Integrated Design Engineering program atthe University of Colorado, Boulder. He brings a wealth of experience to his teaching, including timespent as a buisness consutant, project manager, and as a engineering consultant in private practice.He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering (BS Duke University, MS CU) and in Civil Engineering(MS George Washington University). He is a licensed P.E. in Colorado.Angela BielefeldtDr. Bielefeldt, P.E., is a Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) in the Departmentof Civil, Environmental, &
Research Experience program that supports entering students in research andinnovation clusters during their first three semesters of college [3]. This program invitesparticipants from the middle-tier of the entering class. The students have a semester of learningbasic research skills and about different multidisciplinary research streams (topic areas), beforeselecting one of those streams. In the stream, they work in teams to define a research question orhypothesis and begin the work. Some students may be awarded summer internships and/orcontinue the projects into their third semester.When a new dean was hired in 2020, the new leadership team and others in the college beganrevising the most recent strategic plan and developing action plans for
Multifunctional Materials Laboratory, Shell Office Complex, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria 7 School of Science, Atlantic Technological University, Ash Lane, Ballytivnan, Sligo, Ireland8 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana Corresponding author: David O. Obada (doobada@abu.edu.ng)ABSTRACTGroup project forms an integral part of engineering education because creatingconnections between the course modules and its applications can be a difficult task.Therefore, team dynamics/cooperative learning can play a major role in determining thesuccess rate of learners, with new pedagogies and think-pair
ADAPT project team conducted a contemporary review of the literatureconcerning AE in order to assess the current state of the art. This work is described in [13] and indicatesthat while, as discussed, several definitions of Adaptive Expertise exist in the literature, few validatedtools for the measurement of AE have been developed. A paucity of data concerning levels of AEdisplayed by various populations was also observed. Fortunately, a survey instrument [14], originallydeveloped in 2001, was found to still be in use as a tool for measuring AE, and various studies hadindicated its reliability [9], [15]. Based on this review of the literature, the definition of AdaptiveExpertise and the survey for its measurement put forward by Fisher and
scores for the Top 5 most relevant features in the data setby using the specified sklearn library. In addition to the task description, students were alsoprovided assistance, such as a reference to the corresponding lecture slide, sample code, and anexplanation of the code. The complete assignment may be found here 1 . Beyond the guides in theassignment, students were also taught how to write the code through in-class demos, where theinstructor wrote the code together with the students for a similar task, but with a different dataset.DSLP AssignmentsIn the DSLP Assignments, students were asked to perform data science tasks using a web-basedData Science Learning Platform (DSLP). The platform was developed as a deliverable for ourNSF project 8
studies, forearthquake preparedness [16]–[18], disaster impact mitigation [19], [20], flooding policies [21],territorial risk management [22], and construction projects [23].Learning Goal and TopicsThe goal of the proposed game is to familiarize players with the community resilience-basedmulti-criteria decision-making process and its fundamental concepts including equity. The gameis designed as a cooperative board game to emphasize the feature of multi-criteria decision-making by facilitating discussion among players who would have different weights on theconsidered criteria. The multi-criteria nature can demonstrate all the different facets a structuralengineer will need to consider as they design infrastructure for communities and work to
identityWith the evolution and expansion of the chemical industry, the gap between academia andindustry is broadened. The skills that the workforce expected from practicing engineers are nottaught in the typical chemical engineering undergraduate core curriculum. Students become lessengaged and less motivated by not seeing the applications of course content in their courses.Therefore, they struggle to identify with the field and develop skills necessary for the workplace.This NSF PFE: RIEF project aims to bridge the gap by implementing industry-relevantcontemporary problems into a sophomore chemical engineering course.The project’s main goal is to understand how the implementation impacts students’ engineeringidentity and self-efficacy development. We
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participants with cohort building activities, professional networkingopportunities, and knowledge that builds their navigational capital, such as tips for applying tostudy abroad and graduate school. Furthermore, engineering program advisors invitedparticipants to join Engage ME, a college of engineering program designed to successfullyrecruit, retain and graduate multicultural students with degrees in engineering by connectingthem with diverse mentors and social networking opportunities. Throughout the year,participants were invited to engage as a cohort with professional engineers, visit internship sites,and observe field studies of active engineering projects in the community. The year concludedwith a highly attended networking dinner, featuring
are repeatedly referred to as “attentive”, as having provided a “meaningful (and well-planned) research experience”, as “focused on student learning goals”, as having developedstrong connections with their research students, and having developed a supportive researchstructure through their labs and research groups. Further, in their comments, the REUparticipants highlight “a very strong coordinator and program staff”, valuable preparationworkshops for graduate studies and applying to graduate school, fun social activities whichhelped build connections among participants and with project staff, and a helpful orientationprogram and final symposium. All these features allow the program to build strong positiveexperiences (despite the unavoidable
available through the Undergraduate Research (URE)Subgroup and the Work-based Experiences (WBE) subgroup. Also with two co-leads, the URESubgroup has undergraduate research networks and program managers as partners. Anundergraduate research project coordinator is helping to maintain and coordinate ALRISE URESubgroup efforts, such as identifying CURES Program Coordinators interested in becomingpartners of the URE Subgroup, and identifying faculty who are looking to diversify theirResearch Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs). The WBE Subgroup is creating externshipsand other work-based experiences and is co-led by the CEO of one of the Technology Councilsthat serve as partners and are located in areas where our current ALRISE institutions
. Between sequences (i.e., heat transfer to design), Team Teaching Experiences students Do integrated projects, undergraduate research should have experiences, design-build-test every year, in class team activities, transition to workplace/career planning Assessments Lower stakes assessments, equitable grading, emphasis on mastery not performance, motivational grading-motivate students to
for comparison. For the purposes of ourqualitative and exploratory research project, the numbers of participants were deemed sufficient.(Discussions of the appropriateness of small numbers of participants is covered by others in thefield such as Pawley & Slayton [5, 6]. The instructor and students interviewed are listed below inTable 3, indicated with a numeric identifier for anonymity. Table 3: Study Participants Participant Field/Major Year in University (teaching/learning) Instructor 1 Mathematics 17 Instructor 2 Mechanical Engineering 8 Instructor 3 Mechanical Engineering
can sometimes overlook nuance. In this work-in-progresspaper, the quantitative analysis is the first step of a larger project. Future work will includequalitative data collection to explore details not revealed by quantitative methods. One limitationof using survey and quantitative methods in this context is the potential for self-report bias(Critchfield, 1994), which can lead to inaccurate data if participants do not accurately report theirexperiences. Another limitation is the Weidman Socialization of Doctoral Students survey, whichwas developed in 1989 and may not accurately reflect the current experiences of engineeringPh.D. students. Additionally, the survey primarily covers socialization factors and milestones,potentially missing other
, culturally sustaining and responsive pedagogies, design for additive man- ufacturing, project management, and process improvement. Lisa recently designed a framework for the implementation of design for additive manufacturing in the engineering curriculum. She is passionate about engineering education and enjoys working with students both as an instructor and as a role model to help prepare them for careers in industry.Dr. Andrea T. Kwaczala, Western New England University Andrea Kwaczala is an assistant professor at Western New England University in the biomedical engi- neering department. She teaches Biomechanics, Product Development and Innovation, Senior Design and Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices. She focuses on hands
Introduction to Mechatronics for which she received thDr. Kimberly Lechasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Dr. Kimberly LeChasseur is a researcher and evaluator with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She holds a dual appointment with the Center for Project-Based Learning and the Morgan Teaching and Learning Center. She holds a PhD in Educational LeadershipJennifer deWinter, Illinois Institute of Technology ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023WIP Toward a Free-Body Diagram MobileApplicationAbstractNo skill is more important for a student of mechanics than the ability to draw a complete andaccurate free-body diagram (FBD). A good FBD facilitates proper accounting of forces whenwriting the
even though the difference is not very large in terms of weighted average. Therefore, onecan state that the impact of COVID was devastating, however the adaptation to the newerapproach was effective and weathered through pandemic time.This study overall describes experience and experiment to adapt and to perfect for the basiccourse with new resources in the critical period. The results presented in the bar plots showedhow classes survived in the pandemic time, and how the pandemic have impacted students’performance.AcknowledgementThe authors like to thank Center for Academic Excellence, CAI—currently CETL— at SaginawValley State University for supporting the project through DOW Professor Award. They also liketo thank Dr. Erik Trump for
semester grade.In-person classThe in-person class followed a typical lecture style for the in-person classroom instruction. Theinstructor primarily taught using a chalkboard and also used PowerPoint slides to project keyconcepts and examples onto the screen. Figure 1 shows the setup for the in-person instruction. Theslides were provided on the university's course management system and students could accessthem in advance. Students attended class two evenings a week, with each class session lasting 75minutes. Weekly quizzes were held during the second class of the week and typically lasted 25minutes. The Minitab quiz was a take-home quiz for students to complete over the weekend. Theexams were 75-minute written exams taken during class time. Both
Paper ID #39388Board 32: Work in Progress: A Laboratory Platform for Learning forChemical EngineeringBenjamin Miles Phillips, Baylor University Ben Phillips is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University, working as a Research Assistant in the Baylor Energy And Renewable Systems (BEARS) Lab. His research interests are in Energy Storage and Renewable Systems, with projects focused in Concentrated Solar Thermal Energy Storage. He aspires to become a lecturer in the field of Chemical or Mechanical Engineering.Dr. Anne Marie Spence, Baylor University Clinical Professor Mechanical
essentialengineering skills while at the same time scaffolding progression towards a comprehensiveCornerstone Project(s) that all students present at the end of the semester. ENGR 111 features ahigh level of faculty interaction with students during class time, with a minimum of fivepersonnel (a combination of faculty and teaching assistants) manning six different coursesections of 60-90 students per section. ENGR 111 exclusively employs various forms of activelearning, including collaborative, cooperative, problem-based, project-based, and discovery-based learning [46-54]. The course includes numerous features that have the potential to increasestudent interest in engineering.1.4 The Current StudyTaken together, we hypothesize that course features studied in
. Even with optimumconditions the power produced was not enough to power a single household. That does not meanthis could not be used as an emergency power supply in the case that standard power productionfrom national grid fails that was seen the kind of damage that caused recently with the recentcold snap in 2021 that caused massive failures in the power grid. Although, the power producedby this method would not fully fulfill the need of people, however there is much that can beexpanded on this method. This work was performed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the project in theModern Methods of Engineering Analysis course at the Engineering Technology (ET)department in the University of Houston – Downtown (UHD). The work was
) C+ E2: Identify common op-amp circuits, find the output voltage (or gain) for several cascaded amplifiers. 1/3 of a B- E3: Find the analytical solution describing the voltage (and current) in a RC grade or RL circuit as a function of time. increase for E4: Use Mesh analysis to find V, I and/or P in complex circuits with multiple B each sources. additional E5: Use source transformation to simplify and then analyze a circuit to find skill passed B+ the V, I, P or a R. A1: Design an op-amp circuit project to transform input signal to meet A- specified output
(Please specify)).Utility, intrinsic, and attainment values were grouped and only cost STV was presented as anindependent entry in the survey. The results of the study focused on the cost STV and suggestedstrategies to reduce it. Factor analysis of the responses supports Eccles’ EVT as a consistentframework for studying and analyzing motivation in a graduate context. 2MethodsThis study consisted of a think-aloud protocol that was conducted with 6 engineering doctoralstudents at a research intensive university in the mid-Atlantic region. The aim is not to transferthe findings at this early stage of the project, but to get a better understanding of
Paper ID #37881Strategies Promoting Undergraduate Retention (SPUR): IdentifyingStrategies to Help Students Reach Graduation through a Student-DrivenApproachArielle Marie Rainey, Colorado School of Mines Arielle Rainey graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in May 2020 with a Bachelor’s in Environ- mental Engineering and in May 2022 with a Master’s in Humanitarian Engineering. She is still currently at Colorado School of Mines, working on the Diversity, Inclusion & Access team participating in various projects to impact the student experience for underrepresented groups in engineering.Heather Renee Houlton, Colorado
otherclassifications.Security AnalysisSince 2010, there have been numerous significant changes within the discipline. The debut of theiPhone in 2007 and the Android operating system in 2008 changed the domain for many softwaredevelopments projects. 2009 saw the birth of DevOps practices with the famous presentation 10+Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr [17]. Improvements in technology led to increasingvirtualization being employed in software engineering, and cloud technology has become moreubiquitous within software architectural design.The period since 2010 has been marked by a significant increase in security related concerns, as isshown in Figure 10. While security has always been a part of software engineering, the growth invulnerabilities has
disagree, 4 = Somewhat agree, 5 = Strongly agree). After students recordedtheir answers to survey questions individually, we asked them to discuss their responses aloud, aswell as explain their choices and rationales.Second, to examine students’ enacted epistemologies we used a set of engineering vignettes. Ineach vignette, an engineer is responding to a design dilemma—whether to implement tires orcontinuous tracks in robotics design project (Figure 1). We asked students to evaluate therationales of five different engineers in written commentary by responding to three questions: (a)Do you think the engineer provided appropriate support for their opinion? Why or why not? (b)Were there any parts of their rationale that you thought were particularly
were able to use the software in the class room and were able to practice the Fallsimulations using the VR (Virtual Reality) headset/sunglass by their own. The PICO Neo-2 VRHeadset with Controller was used to visualize, direct, move etc. purposes inside the virtualworld. The Miracast Dongle wifi adapter was used as the software had projection capability fromclassroom computer using overhead projector to show the students in the classroom how thingswere inside the VR world for instruction purposes.4. Descriptions of the Overview of Learning and Training Sequences: The learning objectives from this software were: identify major Fall hazards, describe typesof Fall hazards, protect everyone from these Fall hazards, recognize employer
Paper ID #39954Using Directional Graphs to Explore the Engineering Co-curricularNavigation Profiles of Student GroupsDr. Bahar Memarian, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Dr. Bahar Memarian is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator with more than 10 years of research and teaching experience at the intersection of applied and social sciences. She has designed and executed research projects as both a team leader and a member. She has also developed and delivered learning modules and courses in the areas of STEM, design, and engineering education at the secondary and undergraduate levels.Dr
, Montana State University - Bozeman Rebekah Hammack is an Assistant Professor of K-8 Science Education at Montana State University. Prior to joining the faculty at MSU, she served as an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow in the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and InfoDr. Ibrahim H. Yeter, Nanyang Technological University Ibrahim H. Yeter, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education (NIE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He is an affiliated faculty member of the NTU Centre for Research and Development in Learning (CRADLE) and the NTU Institute for Science and Technology for Humanity (NISTH). Additionally, he is the Director of the World MOON Project