-curricular, andat present, cannot be easily placed into the existing curricula for the targeted majors.A number of existing works focus on the encouragement of minority and women students inSTEM 10,12,13 . While this may be considered an additional benefit (Wentworth Institute ofTechnology contains a significant number of underrepresented minority students), it is not theprimary goal of the work reported here.There are a few published works regarding graduate information seminars, as described in thiswork. The primary differences, when separated from the curriculum and scholarship programs asdescribed above, revolve around the ability to integrate an existing cohort of graduate studentsinto the seminars, including graduate student research talks and
Michigan University Edmund Tsang is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Assessment. He received a B.S. with distinction in Mechanical Engineering from University of Nebraska and a Ph.D. in Metallurgy from Iowa State University. Dr. Tsang’s current professional interests include integrating service-learning into engineering, social entrepreneurship, and student success and retention. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 An analysis of factors affecting student performance in a Statics courseAbstractAt Western Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the historical passing rate ofstudents in Statics has been low. It is a
] curriculum. While in public schools some teachers might get away with not finishing the curriculum…they are more lenient than the private schools.He also explained that class sizes could be smaller in private schools, particularly as studentsbegan to take electives in high school. As an example, Titan stated that his smallest class was hisCalculus course, in which only three students (including him) were enrolled. Titan commented that his classes were “really hard” in The Gambia. He remarked abouttaking courses that “prepared [him] really [well] because [he] had more opportunities…and then[he] took international exams, which [he] passed real[ly] [well].” Whereas Ben and Goku didnot feel very challenged or motivated by some of the
enjoyment, greater sense of creativity, greater teamwork skill development, greaterpreparation to their future as an engineering, and preparation for the spring semester projectcompared to those who completed the IR project.IntroductionThe use of games as an instrument of educational instruction is not new. Games have often beenused throughout history as a tool to teach students important skills such as reading, logic, andmathematics; therefore, it logically follows that computer games can be utilized as an effectivetool for teaching students programming skills1. There is evidence that programming computergames as a method to teach programming skills has an integral place within the curriculum. Theuse of game development in programming courses in
Paper ID #19736Keeping Current: An Update on the Structure and Evaluation of a Programfor Graduate Women Interested in Engineering AcademiaMs. Nicole D. Jackson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nicole D. Jackson is a third-year PhD student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and is a member of Megan Konar’s group. Her research focuses on applying big data to understand the food-water nexus to promote food security. Also, she is currently a co-coordinator for the Illinois Female Engineers in Academia Training program as well as the
Paper ID #19498What is the Relationship between Mindset and Engineering Identity for FirstYear Male and Female Students? An Exploratory Longitudinal StudyMs. Heather Lysbeth Henderson, West Virginia University With a background in English, philosophy, science, and all levels of education, Heather is currently a doc- toral student in curriculum and instruction and educational psychology. She is interested in psychological barriers affecting retention and success for students. Having been raised by an engineer, this project is close to her heart.Dr. Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, West Virginia University Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez
developed for primary school, junior high schooland high school, respectively. In 2008, France implemented new science education standard“the new curriculum for primary school”[10], including discovery-oriented curriculum forprimary students, experiment-oriented for junior high students, and integration-orientedcurriculum for senior-high students. Japan's recent education reform was in 2008, with afocus on emphasizing scientific inquiry methods and life-related problem solving activities.At the 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference, Finland, Australia, New Zealand andother countries have participated to discuss science education for new era. Along with scienceeducation reform, original meaning of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering
opportunities to work on teams. The literaturemostly deals with specific instances of teams in a course or curriculum. The literature tends tofocus on how to assess teams with little consensus on the method to accomplish assessment or itseffectiveness.16-19 A comprehensive approach to teams and team training throughout thecurriculum was not readily apparent in the literature. Sheppard et al. have proposed developingteamwork through a core design thread starting in the freshman year and continuing through thesenior year.20 An assessment is done at each level to document student progress. While theirdesign thread was not completely implemented at the time their paper was published, this doesspeak to the need for integrating teamwork throughout the
Work in Progress: Living With The Lab: A New Implementation of the Project-Based First-Year Engineering Curriculum at Campbell UniversityIntroductionThe Living With The Lab (LWTL) curriculum developed at Louisiana Tech offers an extensiveset of first-year engineering projects integrating student hands-on tool use with engineeringcontent, and has been the subject of numerous previous reports (Crittenden, Hall, & Brackin,2010; Cronk, Hall, & Nelson, 2009; Hall, Barker, & Nelson, 2008; Hall, Cronk, Brackin, Barker,& Crittenden, 2008). Campbell University is now in the process of implementing the LivingWith The Lab curriculum in their new engineering program’s first year of study in collaborationwith Louisiana Tech University
, content is available to help remediate skills when the player is struggling. The playcomponent involves the player engaging in game play to practice their mathematics and scienceskills. Finally, players are assessed to monitor their progress. While this was done separately inMAVEN, CAPTIVATE ties each question to an in-game action so that the player can beassessed as they play.Reemploying Modular FrameworkOne of the key challenges addressed during the development of MAVEN was the lack ofavailable research on integrating serious game design and instructional design to create a gamethat was not only fun, but also effective in helping students learn content. As MAVEN wasdeveloped, a modular framework was designed that includes a model and a process
Educator Award.Dr. Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Edward Berger is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, joining Purdue in August 2014. He has been teaching mechanics for nearly 20 years, and has worked extensively on the integration and assessment of specific technology interventions in mechanics classes. He was one of the co-leaders in 2013-2014 of the ASEE Virtual Community of Practice (VCP) for mechanics educators across the country. His current research focuses on student problem-solving pro- cesses and use of worked examples, change models and evidence-based teaching practices in engineering curricula, and the
reports via rubric. Rubric evaluation of student reports revealed that students’performance in senior design projects is primarily driven by their instructor’s expectations; ifsustainability is not a major deliverable, then students are less likely to integrate sustainabilityconcepts that they learned from prior classes in their reports. To make sustainability a priority,senior design project requirements should be updated to explicitly require holistic sustainabil-ity applications. Instructors could approach raising sustainability expectations by engaging asustainability expert as an advisor to the senior design course and/or utilizing a sustainabilityexpert as project mentor, as demonstrated in the success of one senior design project at
along the line representing short segments into which the line is subdivided. With such an integration (superposition) procedure, this MATLAB program may be applicable, with minor modifications, to many similar and more complex charge distributions, where the analytical expression for electric field components is not available or is difficult to find. Output from the MATLAB code is shown in Fig. 2.2 Repeat the previous MATLAB exercise but for three equal point charges Q residing at vertices of an equilateral triangle
Paper ID #18998Longitudinal Effects of the Foundation Coalition Curriculum on Chemicaland Petroleum Engineering Student PerformanceDr. So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University So Yoon Yoon, Ph.D., is an assistant research scientist at the Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation (IEEI) within the College of Engineering, Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M Engi- neering Experiment Station (TEES). She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with specialties in Gifted Education and her M.S.Ed. in Educational Psychology with specialties in Research Methods and Measurement both from Purdue University
) analog circuit design (ECEn 340), 2) digital signal processing (ECEn 380), and 3)embedded programming (ECEn 330). During winter semester students practice the conceptslearned during these earlier core courses by constructing an advanced laser-tag system(alternatively referred to as the junior project). Laser-tag is an excellent target because it providesan engaging way to integrate the concepts and practices from very different areas of electrical andcomputer engineering.The goals of this PBL curriculum are to: 1) increase student confidence, 2) provide students witha fun engineering experience, 3) provide opportunities for application of concepts from priorjunior courses 2 , and 4) administer the PBL curriculum so that, in the long term, TA and
PBLis an appropriate strategy for teaching students to engage in complex problem solving, andindeed may be one of the only effective methods for doing so (Shepherd and Cosgrif, 1998,Tomkinson et al., 2008). The vertically-integrated problem-based learning (PBL) frameworkdeveloped in the course of this TUES project provides undergraduate students with bothknowledge and tools needed to address urban sustainability issues in their future careers, whetherin industry or academe. This framework is replicable and can thus be deployed acrossuniversities as part of the CCEM curriculum. In this TUES project, the researchers develop a problem-based learning framework that (1)introduces sustainability earlier in the undergraduate curriculum, and (2
Paper ID #20166Using Lean Start-Up Approach to Integrate Engineering Education with En-trepreneurship Practices at Middle SchoolsDr. Jidong Huang, California State University, Fullerton Dr. Jidong Huang is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at California State University, Fullerton. His research had been supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and multiple private companies. Currently, his research interests are focused on innovative approches for STEM learning; robotics; the design of high-precision, integrated navigation sys- tem with high integrity; and their
Engineering Ethics, 19(4), 1455–1468.Bagdasarov, Z., Thiel, C. E., Johnson, J. F., Connelly, S., Harkrider, L. N., Devenport, L. D., & Mumford, M. (2013). (2013). Case-based Ethics Instruction: The Influence of Contextual and Individual Factors in Case Content on Ethical Decision-Making. Science and Engineering Ethics, 19(3), 1305–1322.Chung, C. A., & Alfred, M. (2009). Design, development, and evaluation of an interactive simulator for engineering ethics education (SEEE). Science and Engineering Ethics, 15(2), 189–199.Haws, D. R. (2002). Using the web to integrate ethics in the engineering curriculum. Proceedings of the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, S4F:7-12.Herkert, J. (2000). Engineering
Paper ID #19478A Workshop for Integration of Internet of Things into Green Energy Manu-facturingDr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Dr. Richard Chiou is Associate Professor within the Engineering Technology Department at Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. 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
an integral part of product design, manufacturing, and use. Today, mostcompanies sell their products in different global markets and this requires consideration ofcustomer needs and ergonomics of users from these different markets. Moreover, productdesigners should consider ergonomics to enhance sustainability and maintainability of products.Recent advancements in computer technology in the last two decades have contributed to thedevelopment of computer simulations for ergonomics. Such simulations are known as DigitalHuman Modeling (DHM) and are used to assess the performance of human operators in theworkplace. DHM can also be integrated with Computer Aided Design (CAD) to evaluate theergonomics of product designs.2. Related LiteratureIn the
background drove the identification of an infraredand software systems development process. During (IR) proximity sensor (i.e., λ = 870 ±70 nm).the early stage of the project, students defined Electrical engineering knowledge is utilized torequirements to accurately indicate the vehicle’s design and implement a system using the Raspberrylocation relative to any in path obstacles, whether Pi 2B single board computer, the I/O ports and itsstatic or dynamic and their position relative to integrate functional capability within two remote-fabricated road, lane markers, and edge boundaries. controlled (RC) vehicles. Upon incorporating designStudents pressed forward to present and validate
Paper ID #19558Use of a Vertically Integrated Project Team to Develop Hands-On LearningModulesProf. Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology Al Ferri received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University in 1981 and his PhD degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1985. Since 1985, he has been a faculty member in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he now serves as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies. His research areas are in the fields of dynamics, controls, vibrations, and acoustics. He is also active in course and curriculum
Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a DR K-12 research project, and an ITEST re- search project, all funded by NSF. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests include K-12 STEM education, mechatronics, robotics, and con- trol system technology. Under a Research Experience for Teachers Site, a DR K-12 project, and GK-12 Fellows programs, funded by NSF, and the Central Brooklyn STEM Initiative (CBSI), funded by six phil- anthropic foundations, he has conducted significant K-12 education, training, mentoring, and outreach activities to integrate engineering concepts in science classrooms and labs of dozens of New York
point of contact for the UAH students regarding product requirements,ergonomics, safety, and curriculum requirements, to name a few. In addition, numerous otherwomen provide supporting roles via WID fundraising, and acting as CDC design reviewers andmentors.BackgroundIn 2009, the WID TVC decided to take an active role in supporting primary and secondaryeducational needs via the donation of STEM tools to K-12 schools. Since WID is a US defenseaffiliated organization, the effort was specifically targeted towards encouraging young people topursue careers in US national defense and national security in order to, eventually, replace theaging DoD workforce. WID TVC realized that the aging technical workforce in the Huntsville,Alabama (AL) area
machine shop training was valuable, the hands-on assembly of components wasenjoyable, and developing and running experiments was enjoyable. Nearly fifty percent of theclass experienced an increased interest in green energy generation. Over ninety percent of theteam-based respondents indicated that the opportunity to work on a team was valuable.IntroductionIn April 2014, graduating seniors at the University of Rochester requested a meeting with thechemical engineering department chair and professors, and the Dean and Asst. Dean of theHajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to review and critique the chemicalengineering curriculum. One of their requests was for the creation of a lab or hands-on project inthe freshman introductory chemical
to retain the content knowledge acquired, compared to traditional lecture-basedtechniques (Dargham, 2015). In fact, over the past decade and a half, millions of K12 studentshave experienced engineering education integrated into the regular school curriculum (Dori,2009, 2009) including numerous studies on integrating PBL into engineering education (Fink,1999, Frank, 2003, Martinez-Mones, 2005, Macias-Guarasa, 2006, Eskrootchi, 2010, Kumar,2013, Dargham, 2015). This motivated us to develop a corrosion engineering module in order toengage students in the development of their problem-solving skills by applying engineering,science, math and technology to solve an ill-defined problem. Through the use of an engineeringmodule, students are exposed
program meetings, department faculty meetings and shared with the IAB members.Each program director prepares an assessment report of their program and submit it to thechair. The entire continuous improvement process is accomplished by various tasksscheduled throughout the year as shown in Figure 4.VI. Use of Assessment Data and Role of Faculty The curriculum committee of each program meets at least once a month to discussthe issues related to curriculum, laboratory facilities, assessment information andaccreditation. The meeting is coordinated by the Program Director. Additional meetingsboth formal and informal may be held as needed. In addition, the department facultymeetings are held each month. In addition to the formal meeting
Graded Homework and Hello to Homework QuizzesAbstractIn higher education, an ongoing issue is assessment of student learning. We wonder how toassess, how often to assess, why we are assessing, and even how are we, as faculty, going tohandle all the grading and management of assessment. Engineering students are frequentlyassessed on homework, quizzes, projects, and exams, but given today’s connected world,students may be copying or sharing homework solutions. Often, they do not realize how workingproblems is integral to their success in a class as well as to their understanding of engineering. Inaddition, across the disciplines we are more aware of how students study and that they often donot select the most productive
Assistant Professor in the Departments of Educational and Organizational Leadership and Development and Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University and Faculty Director for Clemson University Center for Workforce Development (CUCWD) and the National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education Center for Aviation and Automotive Technological Education using Virtual E-Schools (CA2VES). Her research and experiences include implementation of digital learning solutions, development of career pathways including educator professional development, and analysis of economic development factors impacting education and workforce development. Kris earned an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction in Education
were expected to implement yellow lights as well as double-red states,and they were given the opportunity to integrate car presence sensors, a pedestrian crossing, anda mode in which a traffic officer could seize control of the indicator and advance the statesmanually. The cost of all materials needed for a single station for this lab was approximately$2,200.Figure 1: (Left) PLC Trainer Board, (Right) NI myDAQ & Pitsco myVTOLThe third experiment again used bang-bang or on-off control only, but this time to control thetemperature of the water in a cheap electric teakettle. Each team was assigned a different type oftea with a different optimal brewing temperature. Then, the students used an Arduino Unomicrocontroller, a temperature sensor