ResultsThe author has been developing and introducing some of the laboratory experiences describedabove for several years. It has not been until recently that he decided to formalize the process bydeveloping a comprehensive assessment plan to evaluate student perceptions of this approachand their engagement in the program. This assessment protocol was approved by the InstitutionalReview Board of Penn State as listed at the end of this paper. The first formal assessmentoccurred after the Fall 2019 term and was focused on comparing a subset of traditional and newexperiments. A second focus of this assessment was to better understand student perceptions onthe Microcontroller and EMG system. The author had planned to continue and expand theassessment
majors. Projects ranged from printed circuit board designs for amission control panel for a local children’s museum to developing/running a virtual poster sessionplatform for Bucknell University’s annual River Symposium. In each instance, the senior ECE consultantwas charged with meeting with their clients to identify their technical needs and then to negotiate areasonable scope of work (given the 20/40 hour engineering time constraint). After agreeing on projectscope they were charged with creating a project plan, list of deliverables/milestones and a Gantt chartschedule. Clients ranged from professors and staff of the university to community partners. It was animportant aspect of the project that students would begin to take stock of what
-time event that thegroup created on their own to teach some probability theory and then provide a fun game toreinforce that learning. This was the ‘probability jeopardy’ event.Probability JeopardyThe event was planned completely by the students engaged with the service-learning option.The community partner provided some guidance from their experience about what would beengaging to their students and were also able to provide money for a small prize. The author hadinitially thought to engage parents and others in the event that would perhaps be longer and overmultiple days and would include discussion of the idea of expected value and how that impactspeople’s everyday understanding of decisions they make, such as buying a Lottery
. Additional units will be built in the future although there is no plan for 8 units, ourtarget for most labs.Students must address the scale interface in this lab. The scale accuracy, update speed and PLCresponse are all integral in the accuracy of a weight. Also, the interface of the scale to anoperator and automated process is important. Here the use of a specification is extremelyimportant, namely SP 88, the ISA batching specification. While the specification may not befollowed in all aspects, its use in the design of the batching application is a good starting pointfor any PLC batch program. To use a specification in the application of programming is veryimportant, especially one developed over many years by experts in the field. Collection of
Study. Proceedings of the EDU-COM 2008 International Conference, 19-21 November 2008. Retrieved from: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ceducom/7 3 EdSurge. “Revisiting Blended Learning Principles, With School Plans in Limbo.” 2020. Retrieved from: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-07-20-revisiting-blended-learning-principles-with-school-plans-in- limbo 4 eLearning Industry. “The History of Blended Learning.” 2018. Retrieved from: https://elearningindustry.com/history-of-blended-learning 5 Friesen, Norm. "Report: Defining Blended Learning". 2012. Retrieved from: http://learningspaces.org/papers/Defining_Blended_Learning_NF.pdf 6 Hartman, J., Dziuban, C., and Moskal, P. “Strategic initiatives in
; how to methodically break down a problem they have never seen before; and othersuch activities. The goal of these activities was to increase students’ study skills to help thembecome more effective not only for this course but their subsequent courses. We were not able toindividually assess the effectiveness of these activities versus the problem solving activities. Theassessment plan to be able to delineate these activities is planned to be the focus of a future work.Problem Solving ActivitiesThe faculty for the course develops a weekly packet of problems that the PLTL leader facilitates intheir sessions and guides the leaders through the material. The focus is on the process of solving theproblem and the conceptual understanding acquired
).UNM is a four-year public institution which is also classified as Minority Institution (MI) and aHispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). For ME512, the author was supposed to teach it as a hybridcourse (about half the students in-person with the teacher, and about half remote or liveonline). However, one week before the semester started, the University switched all studentsto a pure online modality.With this sudden change in plans, the teacher and the student had to adapt to somethingdifferent. More importantly, the teacher had to quickly switch his course offering and itsmaterials to suit an online modality. Others in the meantime, had since the Spring 2020 2semester to adapt to such modality
%of the total yearly energy consumption by the MGH is used for heating and cooling of the facility.By implementing the plan outlined in this paper, the MGH facility would see up to 60% savingsin heating and cooling costs annually, resulting in a savings of $1,218,626 per year.KeywordsGeothermal Energy, Heating and Coooling Systems, Renewable Energy, Vertical Closed LoopSystemI. Introduction and BackgroundGeothermal SystemsA growing source of renewable energy is geothermal heating and cooling. Geothermal power isbased from the heat energy stored underneath the ground, which means that it is 100% renewableenergy. This procedure is considered clean because it works without the burning of any fossil fuelsand only requires the extraction and
2017 AAAS Science & Diplomacy Leadership Workshop.Dr. Linda R ShawDr. Marla A Franco, University of Arizona Marla A. Franco, Ph.D., serves as the Director of Assessment and Research for the Division of Student Affairs, Enrollment Management, Academic Initiatives, and Student Success at the University of Arizona, where she leads the design and implementation of research, assessment, and evaluation plans across 45 units and departments to support a data rich environment for improved student learning and strategic de- cision making. Dr. Franco has close to 20 years of experience in higher education, which has brought her countless opportunities to assess, research, and inform educational practice, particularly in
) together for the three quarters of their firstyear. The students were notified of their placement in the cohort and encouraged to studytogether, but there was no enforcement or expectation to do so. Surveys are planned to gaugemarkers like GPA, change of major, sense of belonging, how much they connected with orcollaborated with their cohort. It is hoped that since this cohort requires minimal intervention orstaff support, this might be a low-cost retention tool. Figure 3 shows the design of courses thesestudents are taking together.Figure 3. A schematic of the degree program cohort scheduling pilot for 3 different majors forfirst year engineering students.Impacting other engineering students with Engineering Success CoursesBy virtue of the NSF
first survey statements. The full assessment of activitiesand the control cohort's post assessment will be completed by June 2018.Results and DiscussionLessons learned from recruitingThe project was officially awarded July 1 2017, and the first summer professional developmenttraining was offered July 24 through August 3, 2017. Although PI team starting advertising atthe beginning of June when they heard from the program director that the project was beingrecommended for funding, the turn-around was still too quick. Several potential participantswho were interested indicated that the short notice kept them from applying as they already hadprior travel plans or scheduled experiments. Similarly, some potential students could notparticipate as his
are conducted by phone and the committee meets in person once a year to pairthe next cohort of mentors and mentees and to plan the year’s orientation and core workshopevents. The approximate time commitment to serve on the Executive Committee is 25 hoursannually for members and about 50 hours annually for the Chair.Matching Mentoring PairsOne of the primary duties of the Executive Committee is to match the mentoring pairs. Afterlearning from several cohorts, it has worked best to gather applications using SurveyMonkeyduring the month of May, as faculty have some breathing room after finishing their springsemester. The application process has evolved from a lengthy multi-page pencil and papersolicitation to a simple 20-minute online survey
lines, one student said it was important to make personal connectionsand eliminate the isolation created by high engagement with social media, computers and videogames. It is necessary to be social in order to manage the high level of stress. It it is important toget out, explore campus opportunities, and engage in professional organization activities. Severalstudents emphasized that it is important to use time management to plan study, class and relaxationtime in order to maintain yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally. Some students encourageexpanding your horizon beyond your major to learn about other areas and talking to a wide arrayof people across campus. One student encouraged finding a study group with a mixture of peers,not
in 3 or fewer grammatically correct sentences.5. What do you like about the professor’s field of engineering? (A bullet point list is acceptable.)6. What do you dislike or what concerns you about the professor’s field of engineering? (Abullet point list is acceptable.)7. Please print out the flowchart for the major (and concentration, if applicable) you’re interestedin pursuing. Circle a 300 level or higher course (excluding senior project) that you’re interestedin taking (you may need to write in the course if it’s an elective). Write your name and sectionnumber on the printout and staple it to the rest of this assignment.8. For the 300 level or higher course you circled in question 7, please fill out the table belowshowing when you plan to
). “Cultivating diversity and competency inSTEM: Challenges and remedies for removing virtual barriers to constructing diverse highereducation communities of success,” Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, vol. 11no. 1, p. A44. [Online] Oct. 15, 2012.[10] B. L. Yoder, “Engineering by the numbers,” Amer. Assoc. Engr. Ed., 2016.[11] A. Kezar and C. Sam, “Special issue: Understanding the new majority of non-tenure-trackfaculty in higher eudcation--demographics, experiences, and plan of action,” ASHE Higher Ed.Report, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 1-133, 2010.[12] National Education Association, “Update: Full-time non-tenure-track faculty,” (September1996). Available: National Education Association, http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/HE/v2no5.pdf[13] P. M
by the Department of Education (DoE) through the MinorityScience and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP). This program aims to strengthencommunity college students’ foundation in the academic fields of science, technology,engineering and mathematics. Five community college students participated in this program in2017 and performed research in the earthquake-engineering field. The internship experienceenabled the interns to realize how trained civil engineers in the field will have to collaborate withother members on their team. Trained civil engineers will need to make weekly meetings withtheir supervisor to discuss their progress on their design and provide feedback on what they canimprove. They will need to make a detailed plan that
solve.Yardley Ordonez, Canada College Yardley Ordonez is currently a sophomore at Canada College working on transferring to a four year university. His plan is to become a Robotics Engineer and have his own consulting business in the future.Mr. Edgar Sanchez, Canada CollegeMr. Andres Lee, San Francisco State University Recipient of a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis in Robotics and Control Systems from San Francisco State University.Dr. Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College Amelito Enriquez is a professor of Engineering and Mathematics at Ca˜nada College in Redwood City, CA. He received a BS in Geodetic Engineering from the University of the Philippines, his MS in Geode- tic Science from the Ohio
learningare collaborative learning, co-operative learning, and problem-based learning. Various studies,from using interactive, hands-on lessons and activities designed to teach research process toundergraduate engineering students 1 , to preparing manufacturing engineering students throughcompetitions, projects sponsored by industry, capstone projects, laboratory exercises or projectssimulating real-life scenarios 2 , have shown that active learning increases student performance inSTEM subjects.Critical thinking, identified by The U. S. Department of Labor as the raw material of a number ofkey workplace skills such as problem solving, decision making, organizational planning, and riskmanagement, is highly coveted by employers of engineering graduates
concerns. Students may have learned to recognize “A” levelmastery of the subject matter, and have a good idea of how long it will take to achieve it, but stillhave their plans interrupted by externally imposed changes in work schedules, by sick children(especially in single parent households) or other non-academic factors. These constraints are lesssevere with traditional student populations where traditionally many institutions of highereducation are founded. Going forward, our institution will need to consider that divergentconstraints are greater for the non-traditional student populations that now form the new majorityin higher education [7].According to the 2014 US Census Report, people with bachelor’s degrees in science, technology
a discussion about uniting the two-course sequence in EET with a possibleparallel path for EECS students. There are no present discussions on this topic.Course content continues to be enhanced. The next lab experience being planned is apaper-winding machine using toilet paper. It should be an excellent study of motioncoupled with PID control. There is a prototype of this machine being built at present.Also, a discussion of safety programming has been planned and may be taught thissemester. Hopefully the software will work properly.These courses continue to mature and produce qualified students looking for good jobs inindustrial automation. When tested in the real world, they are believed to be betterprepared after having taken these PLC
for assessing learning are not readilyavailable for many curriculum areas. Since instructors are naturally more willing to put theirefforts into evidence-based teaching practices it is critical that we are able to measure whetherlearning increases have occurred as a result of new practices.Concept inventories (CIs) are available for such engineering topics as statics and dynamics, heatand energy, signals and systems as well as statistics, however there are no proven valid, reliableCIs available for engineering economy. Thus we are interested in developing such a tool. In thispaper we will discuss the development of the Engineering Economy Concept Inventory (EECI),results from assessment of its validity, and plans for further study and
in his mental health. He was immediately dispatched to see amedic and a student counsellor saw him that day; the decision was made almost immediatelyto grant him a year long absence. His parents were contacted and plans made for him to flyhome, which he did within three days of responding to the call to come in and talk about hisproblems. Another two British students, both from Asian communities were also experiencingacute mental health problems. Both had seen the campus medic or counselling services, butboth were unwilling to talk to their families due to the stigma attached to such problems withinBritish Asian (and wider British) culture. Additional support was put into place for suchstudents who were also advised to take a leave of
peer feedback) andtechnological (e.g., mobile device access) needs of the distance learners in their program. Infuture work, they plan to supplement personas with contextual scenarios that reflect the distancestudents’ approaches to learning. Turns, Borgford-Parnell, and Ferro [10] examined the effects ofdisseminating engineering student personas to (a) engineering curriculum stakeholders and (b)graduate students preparing to teach an undergraduate chemical engineering course. Theirfindings revealed personas to be flexible tools that were useful for prompting diverse audiences(e.g., teachers and students) to unpack biases and assumptions and reflect upon personalpractices related to learning and teaching. Turns, et al. [10] also reported that
purpose is for the research team to obtain feedback on the modification process prior toimplementing the measure to approximately 1800 students across 11 middle schools in duringthe third and final year of the larger study. The purpose of the ECA-M8 will be used as oneindicator of intervention impact on student learning along with a performance assessment ofunderstanding of engineering design, forces and motion concept assessment, and assessments ofmotivational outcomes including interest and self-efficacy in STEM. Another purpose of theECA-M8 is for educators to use students’ scores to inform instructional planning, as well asgrowth in understanding.While there are established assessments for students’ motivation in STEM5,6 and
emphasized were those directly useful for engineers in aprofessional/industry environment and included: - Focus on the Customer - Communicate with the customer, understand the customer’s needs, and negotiate achievable needs, conduct interim demonstrations, collaborate with the customer, and deliver the product on-time. - “Do what you say you will do” – Teamwork, division of labor, project planning, task execution, leadership, and responsibility. - Engineering Prototyping – Idea generation, start simple then improve, face high-risk problems first, think through each step in-detail to reduce risk - Grit and Determination – Anything that can go wrong will go wrong – push through
-learning skills. Neutral respondents make up the remaining 10%. We further investigated onhow the programme helps our students to become good lifelong learners by inviting them toshare their biggest learning gain in this regard. Students mentioned that they have learnt todesign an efficient study plan under a tight time constraint. (e.g., “Dealing with the variousdeadlines, preparing run-downs and drafts as well as gearing up for the challenges that layahead constituted a unique experience.”; and “My time and resource management skills weretested and polished during this stage of our expedition.”). Students also became aware thatfinding the right experts and asking the right questions are essential in the learning process.(e.g., “I tried my best
ongoing or planned projects – Including recruiting campaigns 29 30 Enabling student-driven entrepreneurship• In most institutions, research initiatives and entrepreneurship were the domain of faculty and graduate students – New research initiatives often required high-level institutional support• The maker culture and availability of Makerspaces encourage initiation of research by student groups – A bottom-up approach sometimes coupled with availability of nearby incubators 303131
. Pose a research hypothesis 5. Break down a problem into sub-problems 6. Apply math and science skills to solve a research problem 7. Formulate a research plan, design experimental setup or numerical simulation 8. Conduct research, draw conclusions, and document results (figures, tables, plots, images) 9. Ability to learn from past mistakes and avoid future ones 10. Challenging/correcting mentor/peer who may have made a mistake 11. Communicate results to a diverse audience (mentor/peers/family members) 12. Report results in a written report/technical paperConsultation with research mentors as well as consideration of students’ secondary schooleducation level led to the elimination of four items (1, 3, 4, 10) and
identified? By appropriate means? Prob Descrip. Is the design plan comprehensive and well-conceived? EDS Do the engineering design specifications ensure the design will meet requirements? Ideation Are the alternatives reasonable and comprehensive? Are necessary design inputs for interfacing equipment, facilities, utilities and/or Parametric Dsgn organizations specified? Have suitable materials, parts, processes, and inspection and testing criteria been Parametric Dsgn specified? Dsgn Analysis Appropriate design methods and computer programs used? Were
from the University of Arizona. He teaches courses on supply chain management, lean systems, decision analysis, designed experimentation, and systems design and optimization. His current research interests include on the education side development of simulations and cases for active learning, and on the modeling side supply chains and logistics management, and production systems planning and optimization, and applications in different industries.Dr. Agnes Galambosi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Agnes Galambosi earned her PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering from the University of Arizona in Tucson. She also holds two MS degrees: one in Systems Engineering from the University of Arizona in