was only relevant to certain students or was catered forthe mechanical engineering students. These complaints have reduced after implementing the newcontent with plans to continue improving the curriculum in the future.3 CHARACTERIZING THE CURRENT PROGRAMMost capstone programs enroll students in a two-semester fall-to-spring course sequence thatprepares them for their STEM careers by focusing on real-world problems provided by industrysponsors. Over 90% of capstone projects come from industry partners, with approximately 60%being multidisciplinary. For students seeking a December graduation, there is a special section ofthe course informally known as "Concurrent Capstone." This 6-credit hour option allowsstudents to enroll in both Capstone 1
processes [2]. For this reason, it isalso important to carefully design hands-on activities to promote a positive interest andmotivation in students to perform the activity and hence to learn from it [3] [4]. Teachingmodules can be created to increase student learning in STEM concepts, using activities thatstudents can enjoy while learning mathematical reasoning [5], suggesting that this can be used topromote conceptual learning and retention. Moreover, well-planned workshops can also helpimprove scientific skills, promoting a better understanding of STEM concepts [6]. This workhypothesizes that teaching modules that include hands-on activities can enhance conceptretention in the BME field, by allowing students to learn and retain the concepts to
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concentratedpresentation. This raises important questions about how publication venues might need to evolve toaccommodate different types of RtD work.The contrast between Shroyer's planned RtD approach and Coppola and Turns’ retrospectiveapplication demonstrates RtD's versatility. While Shroyer explicitly embraced RtD during her designefforts, Coppola and Turns retrospectively applied RtD frameworks to understand existing practice.This suggests RtD's value not just for new design work but for making sense of establishededucational practices. Despite these different approaches, both studies culminated in frameworks -Shroyer's framework for configuring a seeing-across-projects experience and Coppola's temporalframework - showing a specific way that RtD can create
, this is not always thecase for design classes, where assessments typically involve creating reports orgenerating numerical data, tasks that can be easily verified. In the context ofmechanical design, the focus is on producing a feasible design plan and often afunctional prototype, tasks that require creativity and problem-solving rather thansimple replication.While many students show strong interest in mechanical design, they oftenstruggle to acquire the necessary knowledge to achieve their design goals. Theadvanced capabilities of artificial intelligence, such as organizing ideas andgenerating concepts, can help overcome these challenges, especially during theconceptual phase. Additionally, AI features like grammar correction and
and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Dr. Feldman developed informatics metrics to quantify performance of clinicians when using digital diagnostic tools. He has published in Radiology, Academic Radiology, IS&T, SPIE, and RESNA. As a Latino and native Spanish speaker, born in Peru, Dr. Feldman has created markets and commercialized innovative telemedicine products in Latin America for medical device companies, including Orex Computed Radiography, Kodak Health Group, and ICRco. Dr. Feldman also served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program where he led the strategic planning and migration to EPIC Electronic Health Records system and novel meaningful use implementations through
also posed challenges. One student noted “procrastination kicksin without the strict deadlines.” They managed to submit all the work, “but was under lots ofstress towards the end.”. By the end of the semester, all students completed every assignment, andthe quality of their work remained consistent throughout. Survey results showed 61% of studentsfavored flexible deadlines to allow more time for planning and revisions, while 41% preferredstrict deadlines to avoid procrastination. Additionally, 49% wanted reminder emails frominstructors to monitor progress. (Students were allowed to select more than one option for thisquestion, resulting in a sum of all response rates of over 100 percent.)Self team formation for collaborative project: In ME 417
momentum we have built. The relationships, practices, and creativeapproaches fostered through GATHER have generated significant value that will continuebeyond the formal project timeline.We plan to maintain connection through periodic virtual gatherings, including continuing RadicalHope Circles as an informal space for reflection, mutual support, and learning. Communitymembers have expressed strong interest in sustaining collaborative networks, sharing resources,and leveraging the arts-based activities and storycrafting practices developed during the grantperiod. Additionally, project resources—including facilitation guides, arts-based activitytemplates, and community-building protocols—have been made openly accessible, supportingreplication and
Components: During the six-week summer experience, RET participants work on manufacturingresearch projects in collaboration with undergraduate and graduate students and under the mentorship of facultymembers. Below are three sample projects:Physical Manufacturing Simulation: This project involves developing hands-on simulation activities for thedifferent manufacturing paradigms (craft production, mass production, mass customization, and personalizedproduction). Teachers develop the instructions for the simulations, run the simulation with participants during thesummer and refine the simulation based on feedback from the participants, and then take back these lesson plans totheir classrooms. Figure 1 shows sample visual instructions from the craft
Agile methods represent a paradigm shift from rigid, plan-drivendevelopment to a more flexible and iterative approach.The dynamic and complex nature of the IoT systems results in frequent changes in the softwarecomponent, which makes Agile development particularly effective. Specifically, an IoTapplication often involves hardware, software, networks and cloud infrastructure. Agile supportsiterative integration of these diverse components, therefore it can ensure that hardware andsoftware are working together seamlessly at every stage. By accommodating rapidly changingrequirements, and supporting continuous improvement, Agile enables teams to deliver reliable,scalable, and user-centric IoT solutions efficiently. Therefore, in our new IoT course
professor at the Department of Computer Science at Central Connecticut State University. He earned his PhD from the Center for Advanced Computer Studies of the University of Louisiana in 1999. Results of his doctoral research have been applied to network planning and industrial simulation. Dr. Kurkovsky served and continues to serve as a PI on a number of NSF-sponsored projects, including four S-STEM grants, three IUSE grants, and an REU Site grant. He also received funding from NIH, NSA, and ACM. He has an established record of over 100 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of software engineering, mobile computing, and computer science education.Nathan Sommer, Xavier University Nathan Sommer has taught software
they cited several barriers to making desiredchanges, including lack of time for making and implementing course revisions, drastically variedcourse types, and challenging student characteristics, such as disengagement, absenteeism, andprioritizing grades over learning. Thus, some faculty cited examples of having been forced tokeep their instructional practices the same, though they planned to improve them in the future.Min stated, I want to ask students for each topic how well they know, like you need to know how much you know […] I think it's one of the teachings in the workshop, is recognize how much you know already. And then you know how to put the effort in, I think. So basically, now you have all the concept map
at University of Wisconsin – Platteville. He received his Ph.D. in Systems and Engineering Management from Texas Tech University. Gana’s research interests are in engineering education, learning analytics, and novel use of data analytics in decision making.Ingrid Scheel, Oregon State University Ingrid Scheel is a Project Instructor at Oregon State University. She works to teach from an integrated sociotechnical perspective in engineering science and design courses. Her focus is systems engineering and program management. Scheel has experience in small business strategic planning and risk assessment, designing and deploying fiber optic sensors and sensing systems, prototype development, instrumentation, data
? and/or research? academic year?University ofNotre Dame Yes No 0 Yes 1 Yes 1 YesUniversity ofLouisville Yes Yes 7 Yes 3 Yes 2 YesYoungstown Application in Courses planned, but notState University process Yes 1 Yes 1 No. 0 yet offeredTable 2 Institutional CapacityTwo of the
about what DEI meansDEI: What does this mean to Neighbor) to them personally and to theiryou? group. They also discuss intersectionality and personal backgrounds.Week 3: How to keep your Chapter 3 (Talk about It) In groups, students share careercareer in orbit and Chapter 5 (Expand your plans/goals, and create role-recognizing/responding to Comfort Zone) plays about recognizing andmicroaggressions responding to microaggressions.Week 4
and opportunities have arisen in recent years. The general engineeringprogram has encountered significant and ongoing enrollment growth, more than doubling in sizewhile continuing to use the same room dedicated almost 30 years ago. New universitydevelopment plans are expected to increase enrollment further, and necessitate changes inpreparation for a new planned dedicated space. The home department actively and continuouslyseeks to improve the first-year curriculum, and the leadership of the space must engage in thosediscussions and be able to adapt. Additionally, the challenges associated with COVID-19 andsubsequent ongoing supply chain issues have created the need for multiple process adjustments.In response to these challenges and
resource access. The university counseling center is the primary place students can seekhelp from experienced mental health professionals through individual or group counseling,assessment and referral options, and information about prevention or coping strategies.Services are developmental, proactive, and outreach-oriented. The center is fully accredited bythe International Association of Counseling Services and meets the standards set forth by theAmerican Psychological Association and the American Counseling Association.The university recreation center offers health and wellness programming each semester on awide range of topics. The introductory classes cover different aspects of wellness such as sexualhealth, cooking and meal planning, party
impatient. 27 It seems as if little is being accomplished with the project’s goals. 29 Although we are not fully sure of the project’s goals, we are excited and proud to be on the team. Items for the Storming Stage: 2 We are quick to get on with the task on hand and do not spend too much time in the planning stage. 7 The team leader tries to keep order and contributes to the task at hand. 9 We have lots of ideas but don’t use many as we don’t listen but reject before understanding them. 16 Many team members have their own ideas about the process and personal agendas are rampant. 20 The tasks are very different from what we imagined and seem very difficult to accomplish
managing of concrete on construction projects.This study may not be the most innovative approach to delivering a concrete lab. What must beconsidered with this study is the documentation on the organization of the lab to for successfulimplementation to achieve student success and satisfaction. Across many strict civil engineeringprograms, the concepts of making, curing, and testing concrete are very well grounded withintheir engineering discipline. However, professional construction managers often need to possessknowledge in estimating, scheduling, planning, quality management, safety planning,engineering, and business management. As for civil engineers, much of the educational approachfor civil engineering is to focus on the engineering
project preference ranking. The students that form aproject group are made to be as diverse as possible. Three to four students are assigned to aproject and work as a group. Working in groups can help improve understanding through sharingof information and concepts.3.3. Theory of ChangeTOC is used to link long-term goals to interventions or activities. It is an essential tool forprogram planning, monitoring, and evaluation. It helps to identify the key components of aprogram, the desired outcomes, and the pathways by which those outcomes are expected to beachieved. The original pilot, the Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem, from which the C-EEEM program was distilled, had a TOC that outlined the need for long-term communityoutcomes in addition to
using all hardware store supplies for under $100 andis shown in Figure 2a. This tool may be used to demonstrate the most important concepts such aspressure drop in packed bed and fluidized beds, the minimum fluidization point, and pressuredrop when the bed is repacked at the top of the column above a certain superficial velocity. Weare planning implementation strategies for the classroom for the first time in the Spring 2023semester. Data assessment will be performed in a similar fashion as to what we have done forother LCDLMs, i.e., the use of a student consent form, a pre-test prior to LCDLM use, a posttestafter the implementation, a classroom worksheet to be sued during implementation and amotivational survey to understand student the impact
Professor of Clarkson University, application engineer of General Electric Energy Management, and research engineer of IBM Research Lab. Her research lies in the planning, operation, and control of power systems, with particular interests in the modeling and optimization of large-scale electricity transmission and distribution systems with a deeper penetration of distributed energy resources, flexible demand-side assets, electric vehicle charging stations, and micro- grids. She is also an advocator for enhancing power engineering education for the Nation’s smart grid mission. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Power Engineering Education and Learning for Next-generation
foundations,” plus two attention-check items.These are care-harm, fairness-cheating, loyalty-betrayal, authority-subversion, and sanctity-denigration, where caring for others is good and harming others is bad, behaving fairly is goodand cheating is bad, and so on. MFT is a social intuitionist theory of ethical reasoning. On thisview, ethical judgments result from intuitions, closer in nature to emotions than reflectivethought [39]. Different intuitions correspond to each of the foundations. Moral foundations resultfrom biological evolution and aim at human survival [40]. The relative preference given todifferent moral foundations is a result of cultural evolution, affected by environments and history[38].2.2.4 Hypotheses and planned analyses1. It was
Paper ID #39690Character-Based Engineering VirtuesDr. Kenneth McDonald, United States Military Academy, Department of Systems Engineering Dr. Kenneth McDonald is a Professor of Engineering Management, Department of Systems Engineering, West Point. His academic focus is on capacity development, planning, and consequence management. He also studies engineering ethics and how it applies in today’s complex world. Dr. McDonald has au- thored and co-authored over 50 technical publications to include book chapters and refereed publications on infrastructure, capacity development, geotechnical engineering, engineering management
fostering the growth oftheir cooperation, communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills. Overall, the surveyresults indicated that the students who participated in competitions consistently rated themselveshigher for all the different skills measured in the survey than non-participating students. Severalideas regarding enhancing the participation of students in the competition was also received.Houston [2] incorporated concrete canoe and steel bridge planning into a constructionmanagement course. Students were divided into two competition teams, namely, Concrete Canoeand Steel Bridge, based on their area of interest. Then, two teams were asked to formulate a planthroughout 15-week term working project. It was reported that students who
the traditional faculty advising role. These staffmembers provide guidance on study plans, pre-requisites, and other logistical degreerequirements to help facilitate graduation, but often do not develop deep human relationshipswith students the way a faculty-advisor relationship can develop [18]. A recent study by Gauleand Piacentini [19] found that female Ph.D. students in chemistry paired with female advisorswere both more productive and more likely to become faculty themselves. This seems to be aninteresting strategy to combat the under-representation of women in science and engineering andbreak the cycle of attrition of female students. The researcher has plans to pilot the genderpairing of advisors for the Fall 2023 cohort of
distribution of problem-solving scores on the final projects across the two offerings. Dashedlines show median scores.Students in the intervention offering were given low-stakes opportunities to practice both theactual skills (e.g., prototyping focused on answering a driver question with a plan to test and 9report findings based on pre-determined metrics for success) and the skill of documenting theirprocess and representing their findings.For example, in the first week of the house project, the midterm project of the interventionoffering, students were asked to document their process when prototyping laser-cut, friction-fitwalls as part of their
people who make slow decisions. Thinkers enjoy the mental activity, intellectual discussions, and spending time alone thinking.Thinker They find it hard to work in teams where acting before thinking is the norm. Nothing excites Time Keeper more than meeting the deadline. They enjoy setting up processes,Time Keeper timelines, and plans. Time Keepers get confused in chaos where neither outcomes nor ways to achieve them are clear. Winners can turn any mundane task into a game or challenge because the feeling ofWinner competition is essential for them. They feel lost in environments with no defined measure of success.Appendix B: Jung Typology Test
. Students in the program take three courses before the beginning of their secondyear. One of these three courses is the Professional Planning with Spatial Visualization coursewhich implements the Sorby’s Developing Spatial Thinking curriculum. This paper addresses thequestion: What are the effects of the spatial thinking curriculum on the spatial abilities of low-income sophomore summer scholars?Students take the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Visualization of Rotations (PSVT:R) and theRevised Minnesota Paper Form Board Test (RMPFBT) as a pre- and post-assessment for thisprogram. The PSVT:R is traditionally administered as a pre/post assessment of spatialvisualization in engineering majors. In this work, it was chosen to assess knowledge
8- RightsThe tool is designed to provide examples and suggestions that can be used by instructors to addeach of the three pieces of each dimension to their classroom practice. Translating the ethicaldimensions to questions allows instructors to more easily think through the tool, since the timeinvolved in course planning is often a limiting factor to whether an instructor successfullyintegrates new ideas into their classroom practice.Using the toolIn the course of either creating or revising a course, an instructor can work through the eightdimensions, considering the questions and the examples provided to find ideas for their owncourses. Not every course will incorporate all eight dimensions. An initial goal of one or twochanges is a