student in the group, or by randomly selecting a group member, or members, to be tested and thus proxy for the group. • 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
tested in authentic environments, or what we refer to as typicalclassrooms, namely those challenging environments that seek to educate students from allsocioeconomic backgrounds. Through each iteration, both the curriculum and the environmentwere changed on the basis of the formative test results as we attempted to align the curriculumwith the realities of the classroom constraints. The successive curriculum redesigns were basedon multiple sources of data and feedback: task analysis and research on science content learning,alpha testing of the activities in the laboratory (without students), curriculum design with ourteachers during professional development workshops, and pilot testing curriculum in authenticcontexts (i.e., with our partner
Course Modification Team, chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee, supervisor of the LTU Thermo-Fluids Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate/Minor in Aeronautical Engineering, and faculty advisor of the LTU SAE Aero Design Team.Dr. Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University Donald D. Carpenter, PhD, PE, LEED AP is Professor of Civil Engineering at Lawrence Technological University where he teaches courses on ethics/professionalism and water resources. Dr. Carpenter has served as the University Director of Assessment and the founding Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning. He conducts funded pedagogical research and development projects, has published numerous engineering education
Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters.Ms. Maggie Varga, Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education Maggie Varga, Chief Operating Officer, Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) Maggie Varga is the COO for the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE). In this capacity, Maggie leads the SOCHEIntern Program, which employs nearly 300 students annually in co- operation with local government and small businesses, as well as the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The program provides high impact experiential learning opportunities for students while generating economic bene- fit and enhancing
thatdiffered in a variety of characteristics, including time in their graduate program, focus withinmaterials science engineering, and level of experience with independent laboratory research.Senior graduate students were responsible for facilitating an interdisciplinary research projectand delegating research work tasks to teams of other students. We present findings from a mixedmethods study which evaluates individual and team successes in collaborative multi-institutionaland interdisciplinary research. Implications of this work include helping programs developcompetencies for their graduate students that include “team science” and collaborative skills.I. IntroductionTo solve complex, ill-structured engineering and science problems in an
kind of laboratory work,” while Rebecca Brentspoke about her involvement with engineering teaching workshops: “I think [my contribution] is pretty much out there in the workshop work. … I think I work with people really well one-on-one. I think I have developed a lot of the materials that we use and brought in a lot of ideas. So I’m more of a behind the scenes person than an out there in front person.”Similarly, Michael Pavelich commented: “I hope [my contribution] is to have documented the importance of these learning taxonomies and to take them seriously and understand them fully, and then models of how to implement that kind of thinking in the classroom, and then finally ways of measurement that make sense or that really speak to
time for laboratory and field research which couldlead to scholarly products in the STEM fields. Prior to AY 2003, the scholarly requirement offaculty was significantly lower than it is at the present time. In addition, the ranks of associateand full professors have minimal female representation; at Gannon, tenure does not presumeadvancement in rank. Just as there has been increasing number of advanced degrees awarded tofemales across STEM disciplines, many of the recent hires affected by the increased emphasis onscholarship at Gannon University were female. Some STEM departments had no senior, femalefaculty to serve as mentors (see Table 7) and most full professors had received promotion whenthe university culture placed the majority of its
Undergraduate Curriculum Com- mittee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone De- sign courses. She is associated with several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning and retention.Victor Law, Program of Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences at University of New Mexico Dr. Victor Law is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico in the
controllers, and successfullypass the class. The observations made on this paper are based on our multiple years ofexperience in teaching the topics as well as several informal discussions with professors in otheruniversities. It appears that some students miss the basic understanding that a controller (whetheranalog or digital) represents a transfer function (in the S-Domain or the Z-Domain) or adifferential/difference equation so that, together with the dynamics of the plant and the rest of thesystem, it allows for desired closed loop behavior.This problem can be partially alleviated during laboratory experiments when students notice thata controller’s transfer function in the S-Domain can be practically implemented using hardware,which includes op
measurements, and optical diagnostics. He has been teaching upper level and graduate subjects in automotive engineering and mechanical engineering laboratory courses, training students on engineering skills and team work through interactive learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 An empirical, comparative approach to engineering ethics (education) in international and cross-cultural contextsA study concerning Chinese engineering students’ knowledge of andviews concerning contents and concepts related to engineering ethicsAn empirical, comparative approach to engineering ethics (education) in international andcross-cultural contexts: A study concerning Chinese engineering students
Engineer, Hindalco Industries, Dahej, India. Shift in-charge of daily smelter operations at primary Copper plant. 2000-2010: Research Assistant, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA. Fabricated and characterized High k dielectrics in semiconductors. 2004-2006: Graduate Teaching Assistant, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA. Taught applied physics lab to first year and second year students. 2010- 2013: Post- doctoral Fellow National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden Colorado, USA. Fabricated and characterized Photovoltaic/Solar cells and mentored graduate students. 2014-2016 (spring): Assistant Professor-College of Engineering and Technology, Northern New Mexico
Paper ID #19231A Framework to Guide the Implementation of Pre-College Service-LearningEngineering CurriculaSneha A. Tharayil, The University of Texas, Austin Sneha Tharayil is currently pursuing her PhD in STEM Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Her past experiences teaching middle school science and language arts as well as her involvement with national STEM teacher professional development initiatives like NASA Spaceward Bound and STEM Teacher and Researcher (STAR) internship with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory inspired Sneha to develop a keen interest in pre-college engineering education. She sees
. (2015). Qualitative Study of First-Generation Latinas: Understanding Motivation for Choosing and Persisting in Engineering (p. 26.1291.1- 26.1291.19). ASEE Conferences. https://doi.org/10.18260/p.24628Whalin, R., Pagán-Trinidad, I., Villanueva, E., & Pittman, D. (2016). A Quarter Century of Resounding Success for a University/Federal Laboratory Partnership. ASEE Conferences. https://doi.org/10.18260/p.26419Yatchmeneff
competitionrequirements. A key challenge to the girls was how to agree on the design, and then how tomeasure and cut the balsa wood to the correct dimension so that it fitted in perfectly in themodel. Also, despite the instructions given on laboratory safety, a few girls could not resisteating the marshmallows to be used for their toothpick and marshmallow earthquake resistantmodels. Their ever sticky hands hindered their progress with their models.During team competitions, the winning teams were rewarded for constructing models with thebest building parameters to include height, footprint, structural load capacity, aesthetics, andART demonstrations. The uniqueness of this program lay in the fact that all of the projects had toincorporate ART and sustainability
across programs [11]. With support from the Davis Educational Foundation, theengineering faculty developed three sets of online instructional resources: one that providesmaterials for a first-year required online course in writing short engineering reports; a secondthat focuses on writing lab reports and is available as an online instructional resource in third-year laboratory courses; and a third that is available to all seniors taking the two-semester longSenior Design Course sequence (see Appendix A). One critical component of PITCH is theintegration of required communication products in designated courses throughout all four yearsof the engineering curriculum, including design proposals, reports, and posters in the SeniorDesign Courses. In
, and health (ESTH). Oerther earned his B.A. in biological sciences and his B.S. in environmental health engineering from Northwestern University (1995), and he earned his M.S. (1998) in environmental health engineering and his Ph.D. (2002) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has completed postgraduate coursework in Microbial Ecology from the Marine Biology Laboratory, Environmental Health from the University of Cincinnati, Public Health from The Johns Hopkins University, and Public Administration from Indiana University, Bloomington. Oerther is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE, DC, MO, and OH), Board Certified in Environmental Engineering (BCEE) by the American Academy of Environmental
Department Head and in 2012 was elected Secretary of the Faculty through 2015. Prof. Sullivan has always maintained a full teaching load. He strongly supports the WPI project-based undergraduate philosophy.Glenn R. Gaudette, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Glenn R. Gaudette, PhD, is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic 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
Education.Hayes, J.R. & Flower, L.S. (1980). Identifying the organization of writing processes. In L.W. Gregg and E.R. Steinberg (Eds.), Cognitive Processes in Writing (pp. 4-30). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.Hunt, K. W. (1965). Grammatical structures written at three grade levels. National Council of Teachers of English Research Report No. 3. Washington, D.C.: Office of Education.Kluwe, R. H. (1982). Cognitive knowledge and executive control: Metacognition. In D. R. Griffin (Ed.), Animal mind -- human mind (pp. 201-224). New York: Springer-Verlag.Koretsky, M. & Kelly, C. (2011). Enhancement of student learning in experimental design using virtual laboratories—Year 3. Paper presented at the Annual Conference and
programs.Meanwhile, there are many lower ranked institutions for whom ABET accreditation isconsidered important, especially to their image and recruiting initiatives. While many admit thatparents rarely ask about accreditation, engineering accreditation is generally viewed as necessaryat all state institutions, and this regardless of rank. Minimum standards also serve a purpose atlower ranked institutions, since they often need to work to meet ABET’s requirements. In thiscontext, a shortcoming—ideally a concern, or at most an initial report of a weakness that can beaddressed before the final decision—can be instrumental for deans and department heads togarnering resources, such as faculty lines and better laboratory facilities, needed to
Military Academy. His current research interests include laboratory and field determination of geotechnical material properties for transportation systems and the use of remote sensing techniques to categorize geohazards. He has published over 85 peer reviewed articles relating to his research and educational activities. Dennis holds BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology), an MBA from Boston University and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas-Austin. He is a registered professional engineer in Arkansas and Colorado.Dr. Decker B Hains P.E., Western Michigan University Dr. Decker B. Hains is a Master Faculty Specialist in the
design formanufacturing and assembly (DFMA). Other examples included the ability to create new stencildesigns and familiarity with schematics and technical drawings. Employees were sought withthe ability to design and implement manufacturing processes, instrumentation and equipmentfrom laboratories through pilot planning and to appropriate manufacturing scales. This includedthe ability to improve designs for product realization, field services, and sales. Job postings alsoindicated the need to create printed circuit board design solutions for embedded computersystems, where skill with high component density, high pin count devices, and high layer countdesigns were the norm, as well as designing for electromagnetic capability (EMC
EngineeringIntroductionGraduate student instructors are essential to the teaching team at many research institutions.They often lead laboratories, discussion sessions, and/or hold office hours; and are the primaryliaison between students and faculty. As such, they not only influence student learning, but theycan also be agents of change and improve student retention [1]. Therefore, the training of studentinstructors is critical to enhancing the student experience as well as the classroom climate.Additionally, meaningful assessment of student instructor professional development is criticalfor ensuring quality of such training.To support their key role in the teaching-learning environment, the College of Engineering (CoE)at the University of Michigan requires training of
exemplars of “Infusing Real WorldExperience into Engineering Education” [14]. An example that includes engineering and software community-engagement is the EPICSProgram that has engaged students at Purdue University for more than two decades. It has grownsignificantly in size and breadth to where it is recognized as an independent academicprogram within the College of Engineering with dedicated laboratories and teaching staff. In theFall semester of 2018, over 700 were enrolled and engaged in more than 150 projects with 57community partners. While the program began within Electrical and Computer Engineeringexclusively, it has become explicitly multidisciplinary with an average of about 40 majorsparticipating in a typical year, and it includes