discusses the following topics: • A graduate course titled, “Health Innovation and Design”, which addresses the challenge of delivering quality healthcare in a resource-limited setting. Through the use of innovation one may, in theory, drive down the cost of medical devices and solutions. • The design process used in the course including an overview of design thinking as well as an introduction to the Phillips Co-Create Four-Phase Model: 1) Discover; 2) Frame; 3) Ideate; 4) Build. • Assessment of student learning in the course. • Reflections on students’ experiences taking the course.Description of Major Grant Deliverables – Medical DevicesMedical Device #1 - Infant WarmerWhat’s the problem?Surgical
therefore two-force. This simplification could be a source of error, particularly if the PASCOconnectors were tightened to restrict small rotations. Two class-periods have been used for grouppeer review and revision of draft sections before final submission.Figure 2: Sample validation data from Roof Truss Experiment showing measured vs. predictedmember forces. Error bars reflect a ±1N measurement error from the load cell. Some measure-ments are (nearly) outside the load cell error. An equal number of points below and above thepredicted=measured line shows no evidence of systemic (or bias) errors.The second part of the module involves the design of a truss to meet a specific set of constraints,and the presentation of this design through a written
and the speed of sound in air, adistance to the nearest object is determined [9]. Figure 11. Vernier Motion DetectorThe sensitivity of the echo detection circuitry automatically increases, in steps, every fewmilliseconds as the ultrasound travels out and back. This is to allow for echoes being weakerfrom distant objects. The motion detector is capable of measuring objects as close as 0.15 m andas far away as 6 m. The short minimum target distance allows objects to get close to the detector;this reduces stray reflections. The MD has a pivoting head which helps the user aim the sensoraccurately. The MD also has a sensitivity switch which is located under the pivoting motiondetector head. The VI requires two
ii) having manyconversations, formal and informal interviews, and other interactions with business leaders,companies’ CEOs and CTOs, other Data Scientists working in the private sector, as well as manyhigh-tech, financial sector and other recruiters (those from individual companies’ HRs as well asexternal “head hunters”) searching for the data analytics talent. Some disclaimers are in orderhere. Thoughts that follow are personal observations and insights based on personal experience(from working in and interacting with industry), and need not reflect an official position orprevalent attitudes towards how to best educate and train the next generation of Data Scientistseither of the author’s most recent prior employer, Washington State
because of thescholarships, there is opportunity for greater promotion of student performance and recognitionas S-STEM scholars.References[1] Gates, A. Q., Thiry, H., & Hug, S. (2016). Reflections: The Computing Alliance of Hispanic- Serving Institutions. ACM Inroads, 7(4), 69-73.[2] Dennis, J. M., Phinney, J. S., & Chuateco, L. I. (2005). The role of motivation, parental support, and peer support in the academic success of ethnic minority first-generation college students. Journal of college student development, 46(3), 223-236.[3] Eagan Jr, M. K., Hurtado, S., Chang, M. J., Garcia, G. A., Herrera, F. A., & Garibay, J. C. (2013). Making a difference in science education: the impact of undergraduate research
, and this would not be reflected in the evaluation.Part III of the final project included the analyses of data collected as part of a full scaleinstrumentation program at an excavation site for a new 10 story hotel in downtown ColoradoSprings, CO. The data was obtained from a colleague specializing in excavation support andmicropile installation. The project involved a retention wall (soil nail wall) and foundationsupport for two buildings adjacent to the excavation. The owners of the property agreed toinstrument the excavation and support structures to ensure the adjacent buildings did not movemore than tolerable limits during the excavation. Students were given all pertinent informationfor the site and instrumentation plans as well as the
, undergraduate engineering students complete a two-semester interdisciplinarysenior design capstone project[1] – EGR 485 (winter term, 1 credit, design phase) andEGR 486 (summer term, 2 credits, build phase). This capstone experience reflects the“gold-standard” in that our students typically work on industry-sponsored projects thatinclude design and build phases, resulting in a working prototype and requiring sponsorsignoff approval prior to completion (and, hence, graduation). Most projects areinterdisciplinary in nature, requiring various combinations of students from our computer,electrical, mechanical and manufacturing degree programs (typically teams of 5-6students), to develop products that incorporate an assorted range of mechanical,electrical
InstitutionsTable 2 presents the mean responses for each scale (community, enjoyment, and value) at eachinstitution; possible values ranging from 0-4. For each scale, a 0 response would indicate theabsence of that scale, e.g. a score of 0 for Enjoyment would indicate that students found noenjoyment in their capstone projects. Similarly, a score of 4 for Community would reflect abelief that community service is extremely important. Scales that showed statistical differencebetween institutions are indicated with a **.Table 2: Overall response for Enjoyment, Value, and Community scales by institution Scale YCP Score Valparaiso Score Community** (p<0.001) M = 2.80±0.78
than women in various areas ofthe industry, academia and business [1, 2]. The female computerscience students make less than 20% of the total undergraduatestudent population [1]. When it comes to graduate school only afraction of these undergraduates is pursuing graduate schoolleading to fewer female students in graduate school are researchingin computer science. This phenomenon is reflected in othercomputer science related fields such as computer engineering aswell [2]. For example only 30% of women are employed incomputer science. The ripple effect can be observed in making thesituation even worst by creating a very small pool of positivefemale role models for women in CS [3, 4, 12]. This results inmaking it harder for women in CS to succeed
even further.AcknowledgementsThis material was supported by the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience forUndergraduate Education (REU) Program (Award no. 1263293). Any opinions, findings, andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Bibliography[1] https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13542/nsf13542.pdf[2] Brownell, J.E., and Swaner, L.E.. Five High-Impact Practices: Research on Learning, Outcomes, Completion, and Quality; Chapter 4: "Undergraduate Research." Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2010.[3] Crowe, M., and Brakke, D. "Assessing the Impact of Undergraduate-Research
usabilityassessment method 21. The subscales are defined in SUMI are namely; Efficiency: reflects thedegree to which the software helps the user accomplish their task. Affect: measures theemotional response of the user to the software. Helpfulness: indicates whether system isrelatively self-explanatory, and for which the help system and documentation are good or not.Control: shows the degree to which users feel in control of the software, rather than beingcontrolled by the software. Learn ability: measures how quickly and easily the users felt theycould master the software or a new feature of the software. According to these scales, a systemthat achieves a score in the range of 40-60 is comparable in usability to most of successfulcommercial software
skills. Students also learn to use Excel/Matlab for data analyses, plotting andstatistical methods.3.9 Ethics, Social and Environmental InjusticesOne of highlights of the project is the inclusion of progressive humanities and qualitative socialsciences. Students in teams are required to watch movies and documentaries that reflect onsocial/environmental injustices, breach of ethics along with gender biases in STEM fields, andsocial prejudices. Students also participate in debates that focus on public policy and arerequired to study the discussions and decisions of the Whitehouse Office of Science andTechnology Policy.3.10 WebsiteA website has been created for the Algae Grows the Future project to promote outreach andmake the project’s resource
improvement.AcknowledgementThis material is supported by the National Science Foundation under DUE Grant Numbers 1501952and 1501938. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations presented are those of theauthors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] Wang, J., Fang, A. & Johnson, M., (2008). Enhancing and assessing life long learning skills through capstone projects. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. Pittsburgh, PA, 2008-324.[2] Shuman, L.J., Besterfield-Sacre, M. & Mcgourty, J., (2005). The abet "professional skills" — can they be taught? Can they be assessed? Journal of Engineering Education, 94 (1), 41-55.[3] Earnest, J., (2005). Abet
or agreed that they had the chance toupdate the writing instructional materials for their courses during this workshop. This feelingwas reflected in Figure 2(a) which shows the response to the statement “I had the chance toupdate the writing instructional materials for my courses during today’s sessions”. “I learned how to generate dimensions for my rubric” “I had the chance to update the materials for my own course” Engineering Engineering English English (a) Generating rubric dimensions (b) Updating
modelmanufacturing. In week six, sustainability is introduced with the three dimensions: economy,environment, and society. The product life-cycle perspective is introduced. Furthermore,pollutants, embodied energy, and impacts on workers are discussed. Embodied energy describesthe energy necessary to produce material and products including losses due to materialextraction, manufacturing, transport, process inefficiencies, electricity generation, and more. Theaccompanying homework assignment will have the students calculate material and labor costs ina given scenario and reflect on additional costs and sustainability factors.In the seventh week, product quality is reviewed in detail with regard to part dimension.Measurement frequency varies from 100% control
among university engineering faculty,practicing engineers, and the schools is necessary; it is important to demonstrate to youngpotential STEM professionals the relevance of STEM activities [6]. In addition to interactingwith practicing professionals, authentic experiential learning activities can promote STEMcareers. Experiential learning attempts to rectify what Kolb characterized as the “rejection” ofthe “real-world” by the educational establishment [7]. The key to experiential learning is thecreation of knowledge “through the transformation of experience” [7]. In this project, thisexperience will be the development of connected devices aimed at building automationapplications. This will allow students to experience, reflect, think, and act
through a flipped classroom approach. This result is seeminglycounterintuitive, especially given that the first-year faculty member had no prior exposure toflipped classroom model. Below we suggest a few possible explanations that could explain ourresults.In the faculty member’s reflection of the flipped classroom experience, it was noted that thispedagogical model more resembled that of a lab similar to one where a first year faculty memberhas just emerged from a multi-year research project. In many research labs it is common forsenior students to mentor and train the junior lab members. In that sense, working with smallergroups during instruction time did not seem foreign to the faculty member and put both thefaculty and students more at
(outer layer) and rubble (inner core) at the same time.The proposed construction sequence was also based on the assumption that it was a whollynew construction. Renovation or reconstruction would have different sequences, such asintegrating the old wall into the new wall. In addition, evidence of the key-in feature was onlyshown in eastern Jinshanling; this may or may not apply to all sections of the wall inJinshanling. If evidence is presented that the key-in was not used, the authors will update thedesign to reflect this.There was also an inaccuracy in Google Earth’s satellite images of the terrain and locationsof the Great Wall. When a placemark in Google Earth is placed in the center of the toweraccording to Google’s 2013 satellite image
form. Thequestions are also re-designed in order to attempt to maximize activation related to cryptographyconcepts by maximizing the effort subjects exert to answer the question. We expect that thesechanges to the fMRI methods will add to our understanding of where cryptography concepts areprocessed in the brain.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1500046. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.ReferencesAlvarez, J. A., & Emory, E. (2006). Executive function and the frontal lobes: a meta-analyticreview. Neuropsychology
presented is based upon work supported by the National Science FoundationDivision of Research on Learning under Grant No. DRL 1543175. Any opinions, findings andconclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation References[1] Wing, J. M. (2006). Computational thinking. Communications of the ACM, 49(3), 33-35.[2] Ginsburg, H. P., Inoue, N., & Seo, K. H. (1999). Young children doing mathematics: Observations of everyday activities. Mathematics in the early years, 1, 88-99.[3] Hutchinson, E., & Pournara, C. (2014). Pre-school children's performance on repeat- pattern tasks
, and reflection. The collaboration between theEngineering Technology Center and the Creative Space enhances services offered by bothentities to ensure that students can fully explore all aspects of innovation by providingopportunities to tinker, explore, brainstorm, and create.AcknowledgmentsThank you to the Engineering Technology Center for all their support through this wholeprocess, including John Kostman, Matt McLaughlin, Tom Barnhart, Doug Eltoft, ChristopherFomon, Daniel Mentzer, and Danny Tang.Thank you to all those at the University of Minnesota (LATIS [Liberal Arts Technologies andInnovation Services], Medical Device Center, Walter Engineering Library, and DigiFabLab[College of Design]), University of Wisconsin – Madison (Wendt
Hispanic – 43%. Over 55% of LaGuardia’s students receivedfinancial aid in 2015 and over 55% of its students who were living with their parentsbelonged to homes with a family income of less than $25,000 while over 75 % of itsstudents who were living away from their parents belong to homes with a family incomeof less than $25,000. The lofty goal of joint/dual degrees is to bridge the gap that dividesthe number of students from underrepresented and underserved populations who canaccess and earn an engineering degree so that more engineering degrees can be earned tobetter reflect the nation's diversity.In the AS/BE program, the student spends two years at the community college, and uponreceiving an AS degree, enters our engineering program as a 3rd
audience time only masked the significance of the usability data with an activity thatdid not reflect usability, but merely represented passive reception. All tasks were re-analyzed and certainprocedures were modified to focus on activities that indicated differences in usability. The testing timeoverall has been reduced from the initial design of several hours per user (four platforms, nine tests) toabout 20 minutes per platform or about 45 minutes for a complete single user experience (two platforms,three tests). It would have been difficult and expensive to recruit a statistically significant number ofusers to complete a set of tasks lasting several hours per user.One of the difficulties of measuring cross-platform occurs when the app
carriedout in order to obtain refined velocity profiles to confirm the flow quality in the contraction andtest section. Furthermore, velocity profiles should be measured in different locations through thesection length and with different water levels to verify the flow quality along the channel is asdesired. Subsequently, the flow quality can be improved by screen mesh density and correctionsin the diffuser. The end tank will be also modified to avoid any flow reflection from the end wall.Despite the students spent a lot of time and effort on this project and they were very committedto its completion, they were not able to finish the construction in time. It was originally expectedthat the project could not be finished in two semesters because it
terminology and the breadth of skills that may be included. A rigorous andstructured literature review is provided which identifies the range of terms used to describe thenon-technical skill set. Consistent with the practices of ASEE/LEES, and for the purposes of thispaper, the authors adopt the term professional skills as it is encompassing of a wide range ofcompetencies - but still has its weaknesses. The study uniquely used a structured review of the engineering education literature togather a first of its kind list of competencies not previously gathered. This list reflects theinconsistency in the terms used to describe the competencies. A content analysis of a sample ofengineering job advertisements did support that a large portion of the
administered at theend of the semester. Two of the statements in the course evaluation pertained specifically toprojects: • Exams, assignments, or projects accurately reflected course content. • Assignments or projects helped me learn the material.The mean course evaluation score from the Spring of 2016 and from the Spring of 2017 werecompared for these two statements to determine if implementation of the vein finder deviceproject had an effect on perceived student learning. A two-sided t-test was used to compare themean scores from the two years. Student feedback from the surveys was also valuable inevaluating student learning and potential areas of improvement. A few of the survey questionsare listed below: • What did
behavior.AcknowledgementThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNos. 1463873 and 1463809. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation."References Ahmed S. (2001). Understanding the use and reuse of experience in engineering design. PhD Thesis, Cambridge University, UK Ahmed, S, Wallace, K and Blessing L (2003). Understanding the differences between how novice and experienced designers approach design tasks, Research in Engineering Design14: 1–11 Atman, C.J., Kilgore, D., and McKenna, A. (2008). Characterizing Design Learning: A Mixed Methods Study of Engineering
students have reported the greatestgrowths and appreciations for the opportunity. A number of success stories, as recounted by thescholars themselves, are reflected below:The NSF S-STEM Scholarship has been an unfamiliar, yet amazing opportunity and experiencelast semester. I say unfamiliar because I never imagined being part of scholarship program atsome point in my college life. The many workshops provided like graduate school speeches andspeeches from New York City College of Technology alumni were very inspiring. These speakersprovided me with an abundance of information about graduate school and in a way encouragedme to make the most out of my undergraduate studies by taking the opportunities that areoffered. Mandatory meetings and advisement
designpractices in their civil engineering careers.AcknowledgmentsThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation (DUE Grant #1612405). Anyopinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation.References[1] F. S. Crofton, “Educating for sustainability: opportunities in undergraduate engineering,” J. Clean. Prod., vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 397–405, 2000.[2] American Society of Civil Engineers, Ed., Civil engineering body of knowledge for the 21st century: preparing the civil engineer for the future, 2nd ed. Reston, Va: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008.[3] “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2018 – 2019 | ABET.” [Online]. Available: http://www.abet.org
risk of theft andvandalism of materials, and protect the materials from weather damage [2].The research presented herein takes the form of hands-on service-learning. The National Societyfor Experiential Education has defined service-learning as “any carefully monitored serviceexperience in which a student has intentional learning goals and reflects actively on what he orshe is learning throughout the experience” [5]. Service based, hands-on research has proveneffective in university level construction programs. One particular study [6] describes thedevelopment of an undergraduate construction management course at California PolytechnicState University intended to incorporate service-learning goals and objectives into a hands-onconstruction