years. The modal point on the distribution curve displaying length of employment against probability of making a useful contribution occurs at between seven and nine years of employment. Clearly, if the professional turn-over rate exceeds 10% to 15% per year, it will be most unlikely that the peak performance of the laboratory will ever be achieved.” 19 Thus, it is the sense of the National Collaborative Task Force that the experience and retention factors are critical in rebuilding the nation’s future strength in engineering for innovation. The experienced engineer-leaders who are about to retire in the workforce are a vital national engineering asset and corporate memory of U.S. technology. These retired
school courses. Thesecollaborative projects provided a venue for continued dialogue between the partners. In addition,these long term projects produced instructional materials, laboratory activities, pre and post-testassessment data, and allowed for the university students to work directly with the secondaryschool students by functioning as the teacher within the engineering classes. To date, curricularunits have been developed, implemented and refined in the areas of flight, robotics, digitalcircuitry, general design activities, and renewable energy. In addition, the university students Page 14.275.26have been guest lecturers in our classes and
property protection” is better understood by engineers andtechnologists who have created novel products or technologies in the laboratory and desire tocommercialize their innovations, as opposed to, say, business students who are eager to establisha restaurant or nightclub. The latter is not likely to be centered on “resources” as much as“opportunity” or “speed to market”. It would be a stretch to conceive of these latter sources ofcompetitive advantage as “resources”.A resource becomes valuable as a result of its attraction to a particular market. While this mayseem like a highly intuitive and even obvious statement, to many technology or engineeringoriented entrepreneurs it can be a revelation. They simply have not been trained to view
projects could be replaced with two lectures and two homeworkassignments, with a lower teaching load but different learning outcomes.In addition to the time requirements, there is a significant increase in stress and apparentworkload from the expectations from the client and the larger community that the SL projects Page 11.879.13will be a success. For all these reasons, the instructor reports feeling “burnt out” after thecompletion of the projects. Possible reductions in workload may be achieved through theaddition of the engineering workshop and technical laboratory instructor, additional training andearlier recruitment of teaching assistants to
differences between BEand MAE groups. First, the BE groups’ flows suggest an increase of reported engagement nearthe end the project. We suspect that this increase is due to the impending deadlines. The BEexperts commented that they usually saw a similar pattern among the undergraduate students intheir laboratory. Second, the MAE groups’ design process flow pattern suggests an incrementalreported engagement from the problem definition phase to the conceptual design phase and thento the preliminary design phase. A similar trend was not found in the BE groups’ flows. Oneinterpretation of this pattern is that the MAE groups’ design process was design-phase-drivenwhile the BE groups were design-activity-driven [13]. We suspect the discipline principles
incollaborative research settings, especially at the graduate level. Graduate engineering studentsare immediately expected to assimilate into a laboratory group, usually an interdependent team,with varying degrees of guidance by faculty members. The group dynamics and the role of trustas graduate students learn to conduct collaborative research is underexplored, but may haveramifications for the way in which graduate programs are structured or in how graduate studentsare matched with potential research advisors.Other theories and research also seek to understand mechanisms by which experts innovate inprofessional settings, and many of these have been applied to engineering education. Theories ofdistributed cognition 20 have been employed to understand
in Nigeria. His research focuses on studying the various processes by which societies select, adopt and implement large technological systems with an emphasis on digital telecommunication technologies, particularly mobile telephony systems and the Internet. At the University of Virginia, Tolu heads the Digital Privacy Research Laboratory. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Whole as the Sum of More Than the Parts: Developing Qualitative Assessment Tools to Track the Contribution of the Humanities and Social Sciences to an Engineering CurriculumAbstractAs over sixteen years of experience have demonstrated, outcomes-based assessment under theEC2000 criteria has
their tasks, as well asshared their contact information with the other teams, leading to a better communication structureamong the student teams. Specifically, the students used an online communication messagingplatform to maintain constant updates across the teams.Towards the end of the semester, RRT eBikes’s CEO made frequent stops at the laboratory,observing demonstrations, asking questions, and ensuring the work was being done properly andon time.The co-op student, employed by RRT eBikes, served as a centerpiece to much of the progress inthe semester. The student was part manager and part engineer, and without this student, it is likelylittle would have been accomplished. Faculty and students alike relied on the co-op, as wasreflected in
. Sharing known skills- Students who possess certain knowledge or skills (examples: computer skills, laboratory skills, data reduction skills, presentation skills) should be willing to pass it on, and/or share it with their group members. Collaborative Skills- Groups cannot function effectively if members do not have (be willing to learn) or use some needed social skills. These skills include leadership, decision making, trust building, and conflict management. Monitoring Progress- Groups need to discuss amongst themselves whether they are achieving their set goals; they also need to prioritize the scheduled activities, introduce changes if need be, solicit advice and
College. His research group, the Music & Entertainment Technology Laboratory (MET-lab), focuses on the ma- chine understanding of audio, particularly for music information retrieval. Honored as a member of the Apple Distinguished Educator class of 2013 and the recipient of Drexel’s 2012 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, Youngmoo also has extensive experience in music per- formance, including eight years as a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Festival Chorus. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017STEAM Education through Music Technology (Evaluation)IntroductionFor the past 10 years, the Music Entertainment Technology Lab (MET
throughout the United States. All CIS undergraduates are required to take 120 credit hours of course which includes 58 credit hours in the CIS department. Most CIS courses are offered as lecture classes with 4 contact hours each week. There are several classes which also require attendance in closed laboratory sessions. The emphasis in CECS is on small class sizes (30:1 student to faculty ratio) and offering hands on experiences through class assignments, course projects, internships, and a two semester (8 month) capstone design project course (4 credits total). The CIS capstone project experience involves students working as part of a four person team under the mentorship of a senior CIS professor to
calculate the optimal size of each system for a given budget and campus location,and minimize the payback time on the investment. The tool was created using HTML, CSS, andJavaScript/jQuery web languages and runs within all major web browsers. This tool wasdeveloped within a local directory and can only be used if the root folder of the project isprovided to the user. However, provided that the files can be hosted on a server, the tool can beeasily configured to be viewed online. Weather data was queried from the National RenewableEnergy Laboratory (NREL) using a public API [1]. The following sections go into detail on whatequations were used to generate fiscal models for each source of energy.Web-based Decision ToolNREL APIThe weather data required
one of three laboratory courses), offer choice within a singlediscipline (such as a civil engineering elective among about 30 junior/senior level courses), orwide choices (such as technical electives or humanities &/or social science electives from among100 to 300 courses across an array of majors, or completely free electives). Technical/non-technical balance separated the curriculum requirements into these two general pools.Engineering, math, computing, and natural science courses were considered technical; socialscience and humanities courses were considered non-technical. Further, the three engineeringmajors for cohorts 3 and 4 were participating in ABET assessment that included student ratingsof the extent to which they believed that
initially associatesvalue with a behavior, and then begins to engage in that behavior, until becoming fully motivatedto act out the behavior in everyday life16.Existing Motivation Assessments. A number of established assessment instruments exist withconstructs related to motivation. The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ),developed to measure learning strategies and academic motivation used by college students,identifies motivation constructs for extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, self-efficacy, taskvalue, and control expectancy20The Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI), a multidimensional measurement to assess students’subjective experience in laboratory experiments, includes constructs for attainment, utility
2015 and againin 2016. The facility now offers a number of different rapid prototyping and fabrication servicesto students, professors, support employees, and members of the community with a focus on 3Dscanning and printing, internet of things technology, wearables, and virtual reality. A teachingarm of the Makerspace, the MakerLab, was opened in 2016 to allow professors to make use ofthe uOttawa Makerspace resources for course-related laboratories and projects.An innovative ‘spin-off’ of the Makerspace, the uOttawa Makermobile, was put in place at thebeginning of the 2015 – 2016 academic year (re.http://engineering.uottawa.ca/Maker%20Mobile). Used for general education, outreach,promotion, and student recruitment purposes, the uOttawa
inquiry possible in light of accountability? : A quantitative comparison of the relative effectiveness of guided inquiry and verification laboratory instruction. Science Education, 94(4), 577-616. Brophy, S., Klein, S., Portsmore, M., & Rogers, C. (2008). Advancing engineering education in P-12 classrooms. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(3), 369-387. doi:10.1002/j.2168-9830.2008.tb00985.x Burkhardt, H. (2012). Engineering good math tests. Education Week, 32(06), November 3, 2016-23. The College Board. (2015). AP calculus AB. Retrieved from http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-course-overviews/ap-calculus-ab-course- overview.pdf Katzmann, J.M. (2007). The influences of implementing state
Associate Dean of Research at Temple University and a K-12 school-teacher. In the past 20 years she has been the Principal Investigator on over 35 research grants totaling over 30 million dollars. Dr. Hammrich has published more than 150 articles, 5 science laboratory manuals for college level biology courses, 26 science curriculum manuals, 6 chapters in books, edited 14 articles, written 75 government and technical reports, cited in the media over 100 times, and made over 500 national and international presentations. Dr. Hammrich’s research has been nationally recognized over the years by such organizations as the American Association of University Women, Association of Science Teacher Education, National Science
at least”. In the interview, she first described the technical components ofher ideal career, to do research that would include field work and laboratory analysis. I: how about an ideal engineering career, what does that look like for you? T: Right now, it would be more like research and development. So it would be basically in a lab and doing research in going on to the field and collecting samples and getting data….Then, the interviewer phrased the question a little differently, which seemed to access anotherimportant component: I: What else about that an ideal job, what else is there from the day to day or more broad understanding of the values of the job? T: I would like a job that is flexible
preliminary study on supporting writing transfer in an introductory engineering laboratory course,” in 2016 Proc. ASEE.21. D. Brent, “Crossing boundaries: Co-op students relearning to write,” CCC, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 558-592, June 2012.22. M.N. Cleary, “Flowing and freestyling: Learning from adult students about process knowledge transfer,” CCC, vol. 64, no. 4, June 2013.23. S. Conrad, et al., “Students writing for professional practice: A model for collaboration among faculty, practitioners and writing specialists,” in 2015 Proc. ASEE.24. J. A. Donnell, et al., “Why industry says that engineering graduates have poor communication skills: What the literature says,” in 2011 Proc. ASEE.25. A. Devitt, “Teaching critical genre awareness
. Student recruitment c. The modification, construction, or furnishing of laboratories or other buildings d. Curriculum revisions14. What guidance does NSF-ATE provide for including references in a proposal? a. References should be explained in the project description and are also required to be listed separately. b. References may be embedded and explained in the project description but do not need to be listed separately. c. References are optional for NSF-ATE proposals. d. References are not to be included in the project description, but should be listed separately.15. In preparing the required Budget and a Budget Justification for a proposal, NSF-ATE provides direction on all but which
datagathering process; Tiffany Sealy for her assistance in sourcing much needed components tocomplete the model and Marsha Gaye Wright for providing feedback on the quality of thedrawings, renderings and assistance with relearning the skills needed to operate AdobePhotoshop. Special thanks to The Caribbean School of Architecture and the Water RecourseAgency of Jamaica for their expertise and special contributions. Finally, we would like to thankthe cohort of the Construction Laboratory for Automation and System Simulation (CLASS),Shilun Hao, Melissa Hrivnak, Adrian Tan, Fei Yang, Jin Yang and others unnamed who haveprovided valuable feedback to the paper. Q c American Society for Engineering
theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Radiation Laboratory, and many other researchinstitutions. In the mid-1940s, the library was also designated as a depository for the Army MapServices. In 1950, the Georgia Tech Library was made a Depository for the Atomic EnergyCommission (AEC), together with fifty or so other research libraries. Reports from AEC weremade available to engineers, scientists, industrialist and others to help foster scientific researchand industrial development in Georgia and the southeast region. Under Crosland’s direction, theLibrary also added reports from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), theOffice of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), which was superseded by the NationalDefense Research
oversaw research projects for INDOT in the areas of highway structures, materials, and construction. He then served two years as the Director of Site Operations for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) at Purdue University; a network of 14 university-based earthquake and tsunami research laboratories sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Newbolds began teaching at Benedictine College in 2012. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Indiana.Dr. Patrick F. O’Malley, Benedictine College Patrick O’Malley teaches in the Mechanical Engineering program at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS.Meredith Stoops, Benedictine College Meredith Stoops is the Coordinator of Service
Institute. His research, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, aims to develop a treatment for the millions of Americans suffering from myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular diseases. In May of 2012, he co-founded a company based on some of the pioneering technology developed in his laboratory. Prof. Gaudette also teaches biomedical engineering design and innovation, biomechanics and physiology. He promotes the development of the entrepreneurial mindset in his students through support provided by the Kern Family Foundation. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017
. Her technical studies focus on digital circuits and computer engineering. Her prior research experience includes internships at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. She is pas- sionate about intersectionality and advocacy of underrepresented groups in STEM and has participated in research of sociotechnical thinking in undergraduate engineering curriculum.Dr. Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines Stephanie Claussen’s experience spans both engineering and education research. She obtained her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005. Her Ph.D. work at Stan- ford University focused on optoelectronics, and she
design processes.Dr. Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan Kathleen H. Sienko is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan (UM). She earned her Ph.D. in 2007 in Medical Engineering and Bioastro- nautics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, and holds an S.M. in Aero- nautics & Astronautics from MIT and a B.S. in Materials Engineering from the University of Kentucky. She co-founded the UM Center for Socially Engaged Design and directs both the UM Global Health De- sign Initiative (GHDI) and the Sienko Research Group. The Sienko Research Group is a multidisciplinary laboratory developing novel methodologies to create
, and design - field team interaction.Mariana Watanabe, Purdue University Mariana Watanabe is an undergraduate in Civil Engineering specializing in Architectural Engineering at Purdue University, main Campus. During her time at Purdue, she has done research in the Applied Energy Laboratory for the ”Biowall for Improved Indoor Air Quality” project, has participated as team captain in two DOE Net-Zero Energy Building Design Competitions (Race to Zero Competition), and was elected president of the ASHRAE Purdue Student Branch in 2017. Mariana’s interests span the fields of sustainable engineering, high performance buildings and STEM outreach for girls. c American Society for Engineering