student success rates (as reflected by criterion referenced testing) in science and math, including the disaggregated performance of underrepresented minority children within the classes of the participating teachers. 4. To help narrow the typical 15-25% gap in middle school student success rates between African American, Hispanic, and Native American students and their Caucasian classmates in the classes of the participating teachers.The SPIRIT Initiative’s MethodologyFrom 2006 through 2008, math and science middle school teachers were recruited from theOmaha Public School (OPS) systems, and several other Omaha-based school districts (to a lesserextent) to participate in the SPIRIT project. OPS served as a strong K-12
. Page 14.583.7 The 94% strong agreement with the networking statements, whether student or faculty, indicate that students felt that these elements had strongly influenced their success in the first semester. In addition, 94% of the students felt that the industry visits helped them to understand engineering. Perhaps most significantly, 88% of the students felt that ESCape had provided them the motivation to succeed in engineering. The survey had three open-ended questions: 1- List all the ways ESCape helped or positively impacted you that you can think of, 2-What was the best thing about ESCape, 3-What would you change for ESCape next year? Some of the answers to these are reflected in the statement/response questions
the opportunity to engage seasoned entrepreneurs.In the reflection of the faculty mentor and advisor, he believes this type of learning must beintegrated into building an entrepreneurial mindset. Students in engineering entrepreneurialprograms must be involved in activities which take them outside the classroom. These activitiesprovide an opportunity to learn from real world problem solving. Creativity, innovation,leadership, and group dynamics are important skills that are necessary for success as anentrepreneur or as a corporate entrepreneur.It was recommended that faculty engagement is requirement for our students and we encourage Page
. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.If you would like more information, contact:Michael K. Swanbom, Ph.D.P.O. Box 10348Ruston, LA 71272-0046mswanbom@latech.eduOffice (318) 257-3908FAX (318) 257-4630References1. Splitt, F.G., “Systemic Engineering Education Reform: A Grand Challenge.” The Bent of Tau Beta Pi, Spring 2003.2. Sheppard, S. and Jenison, R., “Examples of Freshman Design Education.” International Journal of Engineering Education, 13 (4), 1997, 248-261. Page 14.56.163
measuring changes in student achievement based on thesethree elements. The weightings of the original metric were refined to reflect the linearcombination that maximally separated two groups of biomechanics students based on their levelsof adaptive expertise15.The resulting metric (AE = 0.14F – 0.36C + 1.27T) is a starting point for quantifying adaptiveexpertise in physiology in this study. However, there are limitations in quantifying a concept likeadaptive expertise. The qualitative data collected in this study will allow examination of theweighted elements of the metric as well as other factors that might contribute to adaptiveexpertise in physiology. The collaborative, challenge-based activities in this study provideopportunities for
it integrated into undergraduate curriculum, longer times incountry, and the provision of similar type projects for Bolivian students in the US.The graduate student feedback implied that students 1) learned how to mentorundergraduate students in research projects, 2) better understood how to partner withscientists and engineers located outside the U.S. after participating in the program,and 3) saw how to integrate international experience into graduate level research afterparticipating in the program. Some reflections of the influence of the researchexperience on their professional goals after graduation are:“Before participating in this project, it was hard to imagine how this kind of researchcould be organized and conducted, given
controllersomewhere. This challenge required students to think deeper and more creatively. They had todevise their own control architecture and test it conceptually and implement it. Students had todo a lot of tinkering, in a good constructive way. As will be described in a forthcoming article,learning measures related to this exercise were the ones in which we observed mostimprovement.Reflections “Learning is a cycle of probing the world (doing something); reflecting in and on this action and, on this basis, forming a hypothesis; reprobing the world to test this hypothesis; and then accepting or rethinking the hypothesis.”This is one of several fundamental learning principles, proffered by Gee5, for which the mediumof video games may be particularly
authentic engineering situations. The first case study, “The Pendergrass Circuits E-mail,” is a one-page story that literally puts students into the narrative as a character, requiringthem to read, analyze, discuss, and reflect on the story’s details before deciding what sorts ofactions and written documentation are necessary. The second case study involves close analysisof the space shuttle Challenger disaster, in particular the written and oral communication thattook place prior to the disaster itself. As this paper shows, using case studies as described herecan provide students with valuable exposure to the types of decisions they might have to make intheir professional careers while also providing engineering programs with a sound method
participants to see the studentpopulation.The housing for the participants, the reception, and banquet was arranged in theProximity Hotel in Greensboro, NC. This hotel is currently one the top five Americangreen buildings and was built to get the US Green Building Council (USGBC)Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum rating. This hotel waschosen to reflect the futuristic vision for research partnerships that this workshop soughtto provide. Page 14.290.2 1 PROGRAMThe final program largely resembled the program outlined in the proposal to the NationalScience
conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect theviews of the National Science Foundation. References1. National Academy of Engineering, Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering. 2008, Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press.2. Pearson, G. and A.T. Young, eds. Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need to Know More About Technology. 2002, National Academy of Engineering.3. International Technology Education Association, Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology. 2000, Reston, VA: Author.4. National Center for
werecomputed for the time period of spring 2004 to spring 2008 inclusive (9 semesters total). Werecognize that this data does not actually reflect the size of courses taught during the time thatthe winners received an award; however, this is the only data available from the Registrar. Thus,only general trends and patterns can be considered.Table 1 shows that 8 of the 28 unique winners are from Science and Engineering but that none ofthem are women. For winners, the average number of undergraduate students taught by thewinners was 343 + 254 (mean + standard deviation) during the 9 semester period and the averagenumber of undergraduate students taught per semester by the winners was 56 + 44. Eighty-eight(88) non-winners were selected at random from the
know points areassociated with sketch preparation and quality. Many students will take pride in their work andmake an effort to prepare quality sketches. A few students will consistently put minimal effortinto their course work and their sketches will usually be poor, reflecting their poor attitude Page 14.717.14toward their studies. The author also believes that providing examples of good (and maybe bad)sketches helps students understand assignment requirements and instructor expectations.Conclusions and RecommendationsFor many practicing civil engineers, hand-drawn sketches are still an important part of theengineering analysis and
process. Initial observations of the students who took the network security class using the described 10 laboratory exercises, support the same result. Linux-based security tools are freely available in the Internet and they can be easily installed in many of the Linux distributions. So, there is a minimal cost in terms of software related items. With the tools-oriented labs, students have a chance to learn how theoretical lecture topics (e.g., asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, etc) are reflected and utilized in real world applications. Students have a chance to configure certain files in order to accomplish some of the tasks required in the labs. This experiential learning
can be downloaded at the project website Page 14.600.20www.me.ua.edu/ExcelinME.Acknowledgement This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE-0633330. The authors gratefully acknowledge support from this NSF award.DisclaimerAny opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are thoseof the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.ReferencesASHRAE, (2005), Handbook of Fundamentals, http://www.ashrae.org/Chappell, J., Taylor, R. P., and Woodbury, K. A. (2008) “Introducing Excel-based Steam
author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Bibliography1. Huguet, Jesse and Keith Woodbury. Development of Steam and Ideal Gas Property Functions for Use in Thermodynamics Curriculum, Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. June 2008, Pittsburgh, PA.2. Woodbury, K. A., Taylor, R. P., Huguet, J., Chappell, J., Dent, T., and Mahan, K., “Vertical Integration of Thermal Mechanical Curriculum using Excel,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, October 31 – November 6, 2008, Boston, MA3. Excel in M.E. Project Website.2009. University of Alabama. January 23 2009 from: .4. Microsoft Developer Network. 2009. Microsoft HTML Help
andorigin of categories, common traits exist in the learning style identified for the majority ofengineering faculty. This learning style is then reflected in the teaching style of the faculty andleads to predominance of a single teaching style for much of engineering curricula. In thisregard, engineering is generally taught using exclusively technical and mathematical modes.However, student learning occurs using a broad variety of learning styles.Educational research indicates that active student participation in the classroom experience isbeneficial to learning effectiveness. Novel use of technology has been demonstrated to be highly Page
accumulate the results over time so that the statisticalanalysis of the results will become better reflective of the sample space, the student population atSanta Clara University.Finally, we have used the results to recommend alternate pedagogical methods for presenting thematerial in the Linear Systems course.In future work, we will analyze the SSCI DT Test results and compare with those of the SSCICT Tests in prior course. We will also track the performance of the students from the CT courseto the DT course.In summary, we met the goals of our study:(1) To determine how much conceptual understanding the students have developed by the end ofthe class (compared to the beginning of the class).(2) To correlate the performance on the end-of-term exam
respectively directed at performance of single and multiple hulls and at the development of improved propulsion systems. • FAU/UT/UCB Faculty / CISD personnel campus visits and seminar programsSpecific emphasis of the program has evolved to reflect the thrust at CISD. For example, for2004 – 06, ship systems specific to development of the Seabasing concept and associatedtechnologies were considered. The Seabase is envisioned as a collection of mobile Navy ships atsea conducting operations that enable forces to mobilize ashore without a large logisticsfootprint. A Seabase has strategic advantages that include unconstrained maneuvering andreconfiguration, scalability to match operations, rapid deployment, reduced vulnerability toattack, local
student surveys show that this courseis more versatile than physical implementation type courses because it permits architecturalstudies for optimized implementations, performance and delay analyses, and hardware andsoftware partitioning easily.AcknowledgementThis work supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Directorate for Educationand Human Resources (EHR), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) under GrantNumber CCLI-0737530. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theational Science Foundation. Fig. 10: Virtual prototyping through VHDL code – part 2
, calculus students felt they had learned more than the precalculus students as reflected in theadjusted least square means (ALS means) of 4.6 and 4.2, respectively. They were more likely to think that theamount of study time on campus was just right, (ALS means = 3.6 and 2.6); they spent less than half as muchtime studying off campus, (ALS means = 3.2 and 7.2); and they expected to receive much higher grades (ALSmeans = 3.6 and 2.9). The only statistically significant change that occurred over time was in the grade thestudent expected to receive. It dropped from an ALS mean of 3.5 at time 1 to 3.1 at time 2.Evaluation of Afternoon Activities All afternoon activities were evaluated on a daily basis by program participants. Evaluation forms
searchproblem. The strings are converted to decimal equivalents of a candidate solution to a control problem. Thefitness of each candidate is tested in the environment and evaluated through an appropriate measure. Thealgorithm is driven towards maximizing this fitness measure. If a termination condition is not met, three geneticoperations of reproduction, crossover, and mutation are invoked to create a new population. In reproduction, aportion of the new population of strings are generated that reflect the fitness of the previous generation’s fitcharacteristics. In crossover, two strings are selected from the population at random and a random position inthe strings is replaced. In mutation, a random string is selected and a random bit position changed
student evaluations. As indicated, a few studentsresented having a "GTA" teach part of the class. We believe that in classes where the intern's role and theteaching program were well-explained at the beginning of the course, the students were receptive to the Page 1.176.6 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Session 3630intern and looked upon his/her presence as a benefit. This is reflected by student comments which refer tothe teaching intern as a "TA", obviously, the role of the intern was not fully
(technology-based or otherwise), it must be able to accommo-date (or, better yet, be able to adapt to) a wide variety of learning styles:2 for active learners, allow self-motivated pursuit of information. for reflective learners, provide the opportunity to investigate and understand inter-relationships of material. for sequential learners, provide the opportunity to review the flow of lecture material. for global learners, allow navigation of complete course material under individual direction, but present a coherent association of previous, current, related, and future material. Convincing arguments have also been made for increased use of visual media in engineering educa- 3,4tion. Since print dominates our environment and
mentoring program infostering Juli’s teaching skills is reflected in the results of the comprehensive teaching summary compiled bythe college from student course evaluations. On a scale from 1 to 5 Juli was given an overall rating of 4.34,compared to a college-wide average of 4.12. Another important, and unexpected, benefit to the mentoring program is the growth experienced by thementor. By helping another think through the process of teaching, of effectively presenting the material, andof assessing the student’s understanding, the mentor’s skills in these areas can also be improved. Additionally,enthusiasm is contagious, and interacting with young, energetic instructors can also help rejuvenate theattitudes of the mentor. In addition
identified as reflecting the profile of a first-year engineering student who will besuccessful in a college career8.IMPLEMENTAION PLAN Activities for ME125, "Introduction to Mechanical Engineering," aim toward achieving the followingobjectives for students:• Demonstrate the elements of a successful design• Identify with the engineering profession• Design an instructional module/workbook1. Role of Teacher Participants Recruitment and selection of teacher participants was carried out in October and November by theTeacher Coordinator of SECME (Southeastern Consortium for Minorities in Engineering) from the MobileCounty Public School Systems (MCPSS). Two-teacher teams from ten schools were selected with half theteacher teams serving as
of technology x x x xgreen design xdesign for manufacture/assembly x x x xergonomics x x x xbusiness concerns, marketing x x xdesign process x x xcompetitive analysis x x x x2.5 Assessment of Student PerformanceStudent performance is measured by a variety of metrics including:• Dissection journals - a detailed record kept by each student of their dissection activities, sketches, reflections
their descriptions, we lecture on the invention of clocks in late Medieval Europe andon how contemporary engineers can analyze the clock timer mechanism in terms of forces and torques.’7$ Wecover the second lecture topic not because we expect first-year students to be able to perform this sort of dynamicanalysis but rather to help them link the clock project to what they are learning in their engineering courses.Students find it quite stimulating at this point to reflect on how Medieval craftsmen were able to invent clockmechanisms and to compare a craft understanding of clocks with the mathematical analysis of modern engineers.Having struggled to build their own clock, the students become quite interested in how inventors and engineerssolved
-.. .._ ?@zg> 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘.JmlyL,’methQd~~or evaluating uncertainty and risk are typically relegated to one or two chapters at the end of theirbooks. Why has this been the case? We postulate three kcy reasons. First, as Lavelle8 notes, this approachconditions students to accept input data as given so that solution methodologies -- rather than data modelingtechniques -- can be emphasized. While such an approach is cer@inly expedient, it does not reflect reality.Second, engineering curricula have only recently included the tools for modeling and analyzing uncertainty (i.e.,probability and statistics) in their core courses; thus, an Engineering Economy course could not until
, Inc. [10]. Java hasbeen tailored specifically for networked computing, such as that which takes place on the Internet. Languagessuch as C++, Pascal, and FORTRAN require extensive libraries and experienced programmers to achieve thesame degree of networked functionality. Any program that is written in Java can run on any computer as long asthe “Java Virtual Machine” is inside. The Java Virtual Machine is real standard for an imaginary machine. Thestandard reflects the basic capability of all computer platforms (all CPUS as well as all operating systems). WithJava, a programmer no longer writes code for a particular real platform but instead for this imaginary computer
the vision of a multidisciplinary engineering study. The course modeldescribed in this report can be emulated elsewhere to pave partnerships between variousengineering departments and disciplines. Nevertheless, teaching an interdisciplinary courserequires a committed, motivated faculty who are creative and willing to change. Cultivating amultidisciplinary course such as Dynamic Modeling and Control is a growing experience for thefaculty as well as the students, but the rewards are worth the additional time required to make itinteresting and relevant to the students.AcknowledgementThe views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not purport to reflect the position ofthe USMA.Bibliography