Paper ID #15527Development of PBL Students as Self-Directed LearnersMr. Ronald R. Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering Ron Ulseth directs and instructs in the Iron Range Engineering program in Virginia, Minnesota and he teaches in the Itasca Community College engineering program in Grand Rapids, MN. He was instrumental in growing the Itasca program from 10 students in 1992 to 160 students in 2010. In 2009, he worked with a national development team of engineering educators to develop the 100% PBL curriculum used in the Iron Range model. He has successfully acquired and managed over $10 million in educational grants including
realization that asignificant overhaul of their curriculum was needed. It was time to replace drafting tables withCAD, it was time to integrate electrical engineering into machine elements in the form ofmechatronics, and it was time to introduce teamwork into the curriculum. The old GermanDiplom Ingenieur degree program was in need of renovation. As was the norm across Germany,this five-year program started with a two-year of science fundamentals taught by otherdepartments. Students were disengaged and could not see how this material was related to theirfuture careers, and the dropout rate routinely exceeded 50% during that phase. If they survivedthese first two years, they faced a sequence of three annual individual efforts: a 200+ hour designpaper
engineers who are environmentallysensitive, the “caring” aspect of environmental learning is increasing in importance [25]. Tochange engineering students’ mindsets from technologically-oriented to contextually approaches,Kastenberg et al. suggest that engineering students need to possess the goals of embodying thevalues of a new integrated culture of engineering, as well as enhancing self-awareness ofcontemporary issues [20]. Manion also suggested that engineering faculty members need notonly to increase students’ contextual awareness but also to complement this awareness byassisting them to transform their attitudes, values, and philosophies to match the engineer of the21st century [26]. Developing the students’ attitude of having an open mind to
, the length of the testscan be reduced and the precision of measurement improved. Computerized adaptive tests (CAT)have gained wide acceptance in high-stakes applications, including major admissions tests suchas the GMAT, the GRE, and the MCAT, and in vertically integrated assessment of studentproficiency in mathematics and reading, as in the MAP assessment widely used in K12 educationsettings. Computer adaptive testing is also a central component of many of the designs for thenew common core assessments.In a typical CAT, an examinee’s estimated ability is updated after each item response by takingeither the mode of the likelihood, or the posterior mean or mode. After ˆ k has been estimated(for the student after answering item k), the next
will help guide thisoverview. Firstly, aerospace engineers are often engaged in the design of large scale complexengineered systems, and design involves an individual’s technical competency integrated into ateam of specialists and generalists. For example, a team of propulsion engineers in an enginecompany may coordinate and communicate with a team of propulsion integration engineers in anairframe company, and those integration engineers are simultaneously coordinating with aircraftperformance engineers and the flight test team. Secondly, because of complexity of the systemsand specialty of the engineer, an engineer’s experience is unique. For example, a propulsionengineer in a propulsion company may have a very different experience from a
potential area of involvement. The findings of this studymay not only demonstrate how limited and inaccessible these instruments currently are due to alack of widespread attention and development, but also outline what the major areas of concernare when designing these instruments. Inclusion of adapted instruments in the breadth ofengineering education curriculums and research can not only improve the experience ofphysically disabled musicians but also enable engineering students to develop a broaderunderstanding of how engineering can be used to close gaps in equity.Upon reviewing the survey of adaptive instruments, we were able to identify 9 major categoriesof design characteristics that appear to most contribute to an adapted instrument's
work on academicand undergraduate research projects. Over the years, the activities have outgrown the space. Thecenter and the rest of the building it is housed in will undergo a major renovation through a $450 millionbond package for the Alamo Colleges District. Of that, $83 million will make capital improvements at SanAntonio College.Establishing a college-going culture and promoting STEM was an integral part of MSEIP, which fundedthe Early Development of General Engineering (EDGE) from 2011 to 2015. The summer camp programtaught mathematics, engineering and robotics to high school students. It started with an NSF discretionarygrant in 2003 [50] and served over 300 students with a steady participation of underrepresented minorities,including
“integral part inengineering baccalaureate degree production in higher education [4].” According to the NationalScience Foundation's report, 42% of recipients of an undergraduate degree in engineeringattended a community college [5].Thus, research is needed on this viable and significant university transfer student population. TheNational Science Foundation commissioned a study that was overseen by the National Academyof Engineering’s Committee on Engineering Education and the Committee on Diversity in theEngineering Workforce as well as the National Research Council's Board on Higher Educationand Workforce the National Academies. This study was, in part, to investigate how "educationalinstitutions could improve pathways to careers in engineering
Material Culture. It presents a configuration andtriangulation of ethnographic methods to reveal concealed relations of design, the designer’sethical and caring thought and practice, and how, if at all, design relationships were valued. Thismethodology was tested throughout three semesters with undergraduate students in acommunity-engaged Architectural Technology course.IntroductionIn August 2015, I began an ethnographic study at a large, urban, Midwestern University on how,if at all, concerns with ethics were expressed within an architectural technology course forinterior design majors. Entitled Commercial Construction, the course utilized community-engaged pedagogy. My research aimed to identify whether and, if so, how ethical thought
assistiant in the Curriculum and Instruction department in the Curry School of Education at University of Virginia. She earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University.Karina Sylvia Sobieraj, Ohio State University I am a third year Biological Engineering Student pursuing a minor in Biomedical Engineering. I am active in many clubs on campus including Make a Wish and the Society of Women Engineers and I am also an undergraduate researcher for en engineering education research group.Teresa Porter, Ohio State UniversityAlessandra St.Germain, Clemson University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019
different CoPs together supporting more than 150faculty across a 2-year time frame, which examines the factors that should be considered in thedesign and facilitation of CoPs, to support faculty in their integration of sustainable design andequity into engineering, (2) components of an evidence-based toolkit, currently underdevelopment, to help guide other practitioners in their adoption and assessment of CoPs forfaculty development, and (3) case studies from CoP participants capturing their first-handexperience and outcomes of being part of a CoP focused on the integration of sustainable design.The participatory evaluation approach, and the toolkit, which utilizes an emergent learningframework, together provide a roadmap for implementation and
AC 2010-2171: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY, AND MATHEMATICS TEACHERSKenneth Hunter, Tennessee Technological University Kenneth Hunter is an Associate Professor in the Basic Engineering Program at Tennessee Technological University, where he received his BSME and MSME. He is active in engineering education outreach and has over thirty-five years of engineering experience, including positions in academia, industry, the United States Army, and his own consulting business. He is a registered engineer in Tennessee.Jessica Matson, Tennessee Technological University Jessica Matson is a Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Tennessee Technological University. She
persistence in academic endeavors.7 Improvements in retention resultingfrom increases in connection to community are fundamentally supported by the higher educationmodel of social integration developed by Tinto, where student goals and commitments formed bypre-college attributes interact with their college experiences to indicate whether students arelikely to complete an academic program.8-10 Community also begets community; students whohave not experienced a strong sense of community (and belonging) in their undergraduateexperience are far less likely, in the long term, to take a critical community leadership role in Page 23.795.3industry. Moving
Northern University and her M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction from University of Cincinnati. Her research area of interest is creating a more equitable learning environment for underrepresented populations of students in the STEM fields.Dr. Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University Dr. Rachel Louis Kajfez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. She earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Ohio State and earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Her research interests focus on the intersection between motivation and identity of undergraduate and graduate students, first-year engineering programs, mixed methods research
interactive video system to link thelaboratory to the classroom in real time. These tools are being integrated into junior and seniorlevel engineering courses, two community college courses and workshops for high schoolscience teachers.IntroductionLow enrollment and poor student performance in academic programs in engineering, science andmathematics support the somber conclusions recently published by The National Academies inRising Above The Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5, an update to itsseminal 2005 publication of similar title [1]. The report raises the specter of an impending talentgap which could severely jeopardize U.S. industrial competitiveness. This is highlighted by thecomparison of the following trends in China
. Thework was supervised by manufacturing and computer faculty and implemented in Visual C++.The paper will demonstrate this approach where the students developed process visualizationtools as part of their manufacturing engineering curriculum.2. Ingot Casting SystemProduction planning is known to be an extremely difficult task due to rapidly changing marketneeds, a high degree of complex logistics involved, and therefore the use of the right tool willmake the job easier and may result in higher efficiency and higher profits [8]. The productionplanning problem of metal ingots casting is addressed in the system presented in the presentwork. The solution strategy is based on an analysis of the bottle neck of the assembly line [9],where the melting
introduction of computerintroduced in the first segment, all while being attentive to the programming (i.e., in the K-12 years) without good softwaregood software engineering practices acquired in the second engineering practice (including a focus on requirements,segment. In addition to presenting the course curriculum, the design, testing, etc.) risks developing a generation of nearlypaper also discusses a first offering of the course in a three- capable students who are familiar with
program.Ms. Mia Ko, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Mia is a 4th year undergraduate student studying Bioengineering with a minor in Material Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. On campus, she actively participates as an Engineering Ambassador: encouraging younger students’ interest in STEM related fields while changing the definition and conversation of what it means to be an engineer. Her research interests include motivation and STEM curriculum development and evaluation. She is very excited to be a part of this community and hopes to spark the interest of engineering education research within her peer groups and to return to education after industry experience.Balsam
program curriculum consisting of day and nightclasses in electrical engineering and computer engineering. These programs are designed for theworking adult and are eleven weeks long. The curriculum program provides a flexible scheduleallowing students to successfully complete an ABET-accredited degree in either BSEE or BSCE.However, engineering courses for obtaining an MSEE and MSCE degree are only offered in theevening.The classes are usually 2-3 hours long meeting twice a week. In these face-to-face classrooms,the College of Engineering uses an active learning approach1-3 to encourage higher-levels ofthinking. Short 5-15 minute presentations followed by student-centered problem-solvingactivities replaced long lectures.To provide additional
https://peer.asee.org/10826. 7. Goldberg, J.R. (2007). Capstone design courses: Producing industry-ready biomedical engineers. doi:10.2200/S00097ED1V01Y200709BME0158. Fosmire, M. (2012). Information literacy and engineering design: Developing an integrated conceptual model. International Federation of Library Association and Institutions, 38(1), 47-52. doi: 10.1177/03400352114350719. Tourino, G., & King, M. W. (2013). Engineering librarians as partners of faculty in teaching scholarly inquiry to undergraduate students through curriculum integration: The biotextiles product development course blog. 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 1-9. Retrieved from https://peer.asee.org/19529.10. Denick, D
ethical responsibilities.Goal 2 - Objective 2: The Civil EngineeringProgram at Rowan University will producegraduates who demonstrate an ability to design Outcome 1: Studentsa system, component, or process to meet will design a system, Concrete mixturedesired needs (ABET C) and are able to perform y 2 component, or process designcivil engineering design by means of design to meet desired needs.experiences integrated throughout theprofessional component of the curriculum(ABET O
and Ethics of Technology). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019The influence of learning context on engineering students’ basic needs, and motivationResearch PaperAbstractIntroduction: Learning context plays an important role in students’ motivation to learn.Intrinsic motivation is important in order to foster students’ deep learning, better performanceand overall well- being. According to Self Determination Theory (SDT) of motivation, threebasic needs should be satisfied for students to achieve intrinsic motivation: the need forautonomy, the need for competence and the need for relatedness. However, less attention hasbeen given to what influences those basic needs
and acommunity college, we identify students’ funds of knowledge, or the knowledge gained fromstudents’ family and cultural backgrounds, that is crucial to engineering innovation but neglectedin the curriculum they encounter in college. These funds of knowledge include defining andsolving problems in the midst of financial and material scarcity; building, fixing, and adaptingtechnical artifacts and systems; and empathizing with marginalized groups and communities. Wesuggest that these knowledges position LIFGs as effective innovators of engineering design forcommunity development, though few pursue this path because of financial constraints. Finally,we identify future pathways of this exploratory research, including a) an
place. Engineering curricula, however, are primarilyfocused on teaching content knowledge, often resulting in a gap between what is taught and whatis learned. We propose that shifting some of the focus onto the process of learning that occurswithin the student and leveraging multiple known connections from educational psychology canresult in more effective engineering education. Here we define “effective” engineering educationas that which leads to greater retention of knowledge, accelerated skills development, andenhanced motivation for life-long learning. We have developed a curriculum design tool tofacilitate this shift. It is a diagram that makes explicit the connections between properties of the"learning environment" or "cognitive activity
improving themselves via self-directed lifelong learning; it highlights theengineering program graduates’ lack of knowledge on how to self-learn. To address this lack ofknowledge, ABET criteria requires undergraduate engineering programs to provide students atraining that will help them engaged in lifelong learning; making it an integral part ofengineering education. 3 The efforts of incorporating lifelong self-directed learning intoengineering education resulted in development of tools and techniques. As an example, SDLRSis developed to measure students’ readiness to self-directed learning. 4 A lifelong learning systemis presented to meet the needs of individuals as they progress towards their goals. 5 As theeducators developed tools and
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Coast Guard Academy. He holds a B.S.E.E.from the Academy and an M.S.E.E. from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He has servedaboard the Coast Guard Cutters VIGILANT and ORCAS, and commanded the Coast Guard Loran-C transmittingstation in Kargaburun, Turkey. He enjoys teaching and has taught the Introduction to Engineering Design course fivetimes in the last 3 years. His current research interest is integrated radionavigation systems. He can be reached atdbruckner@exmail.uscga.edu.HERBERT HOLLANDHerbert H. Holland, Jr., is a Lecturer in the Department of Engineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Mr. Hol-land received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Stanford University in
decisions, believing that thoseconsiderations are in someone else’s purview.”34,35 Stephen Petrina36 suggests this is due to thelack of an integrated understanding of how closely building is related to its socio-political andecological consequences. “When we design, and teach design and technological problem solving,however, we invariably neglect the interconnectedness of products, streams, and wakes.”36Vanderburg and Khan37 observe that in the formal undergraduate engineering curriculum,“Technological development is primarily guided by values and measures such as efficiency,productivity, cost-effectiveness and profitability. These measure how much output can be derivedfrom certain inputs, but they tell us nothing about how any technological
://peer.asee.org/vertical-integration-of-the-liberal-arts-in- engineering-education[6] K. L. S. Bernhardt and J. S. Rossmann, “An Integrative Education in Engineering and the Liberal Arts: An Institutional Case Study,” presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2019. Accessed: Oct. 18, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/an-integrative-education-in-engineering-and-the-liberal-arts-an- institutional-case-study[7] V. K. Arora, “Integration Of Liberal Arts, Management, And Technical Skills For Professional Development,” presented at the 1998 Annual Conference, Jun. 1998, p. 3.361.1-3.361.4. Accessed: Oct. 18, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/integration-of-liberal-arts
institution where he introduced aspacecraft-mission design course in spring 1984. The early course was basically a clone of the Page 25.97.2USAFA design course with space-related topics. With USAFA approval, the instructor evenused the USAF “boilerplate documents” Request for Proposal (RFP). Beginning in fall 1984, theaerospace engineering curriculum was revised to allow the students to choose one of two sevensemester-credit-hour technical areas (atmospheric flight or space flight) as the culmination oftheir degree program. All students were require to take an aircraft flight dynamics course and abasic space flight dynamics (orbital mechanics) course
developassignments that require an on-line response or chat room discussion. Another method is torequire each student to find a hosting firm and develop a case study (relating to the content ofthe course) that is presented to the class. One more strategy for maximizing outside of classbehavior relates to the time consuming activity of viewing audio visual materials such asDVDs. Require the students to view the materials on their own time and write a threeparagraph “executive summary” that is collected and serves as discussion points during class.Active Learning Technique Number 5 - Preparing to TeachDoyle in Integrating Learning Strategies into Teaching suggests that we give thought toenhancing student learning, by asking and answering the following seven