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of the curriculum and teaching from the instructor’s perspective. Seldin11focuses on assessing plan, procedures, preconditions, and products as elements of teachingevaluation. Stevenson and Kokkinn12 propose a method of evaluation of teaching using lists ofevaluative statements. Ramsden and Dodds13 recommend the use of generalized questions inevaluation of content (what should be conveyed to the student) and structure (teaching methods).Recognizing that “[c]ommunication and collaboration with faculty are increasingly important inthe development of both curriculum-integrated and stand-alone “just in time” library tutorials,”Appelt and Pendell14 employ faculty feedback on tutorial structure, discipline-specific content,and content integration
(Lockheed Martin), he conducted research for Naval Reactors. He currently serves as the Walter L. Robb director of Engineering Lead- ership and as an instructor in Engineering Science at Penn State. Erdman has chaired the local Jaycees, Department of Social Services Advisory Council, GE Share Board, and Curling Club; and served on the Human Services Planning Council, United Way, Chamber of Commerce, and Capital Fund Drive Boards of Directors. Erdman has also lectured on leadership topics at Penn State and RPI. He returned to campus frequently as a recruiter (25 years) for GE and Lockheed Martin, serving on the Penn State College of Engineering Advisory Council, helped establish an Alumni Advisory Board, and currently
% Unknown… 7% International 13% 0% 20% 40% 60% Figure 2: Race/Ethnicity of the Institution’s Students 4Data Collection and Analysis. The primary method for data collection consisted of open-endedsurvey items via the EGR_Math course management system. Survey items were developed in theform of one-minute papers, exam wrappers and midterm feedback (Angelo & Cross, 1993;Eberly Center, 2019a). Students were encouraged to complete electronic one-minute papersduring the final few minutes of each class and lab to help instructors plan for the following
final product was evaluated by peer teams at The Citadel. • Getting Started: Provides learner content and primers in how to use site resources, creating a profile, and registering student teams. Example successful project proposals are detailed, and students are asked to complete a resource checklist and then send all proposals to iFixit. • Milestone 1: Provides resources for the creation of a troubleshooting wiki for each device, with planned repair guides linked under appropriate sections. Troubleshooting wikis provide general device information, and require students to research known common repairs as well as anticipate repairs that are likely to be needed due to the normal wear of moving
Entrepreneurial Mindset (ICE) - KEEN ICE Award and joined a KEEN Innovative Teaching (KIT) faculty member and become part of a unique cohort of faculty who are commit- ted to improving engineering education. The overall goal of her Ph.D. research is to improve healthcare operations through systems engineering and optimization while focusing on operations and health out- come metrics. Going forward, she plans to continue and broaden this research in support of two overall goals: maximizing the long-run average daily net profit of a medical system from business perspective as well as quality of life from human being aspect. She believes teaching is a very challenging and promising effort. At the end of each class, instructors
bydesigning smart systems and processes that will improve human welfare. One’s ability tomeaningfully contribute to this field requires her/him to acquire an interdisciplinary knowledgeof mechanical, electrical, computer, software, and systems engineering to oversee the entiredesign and development process of emerging MRE systems. There have been many educationalefforts around MRE, including courses, minors, and degree programs, but they have not beenwell integrated or widely adopted. Now is the time for MRE to coalesce as a distinct andidentifiable engineering discipline. To this end, and with support from the National ScienceFoundation, the authors have planned three workshops, the first of which has concluded, on thefuture of MRE education at the
outcomes into a framework that provides teachable content in a first-yearengineering design course, a rubric was devised to help faculty plan modules that incorporateEM goals by categorizing the 17 behaviors into eight Topic Areas. This rubric is designed for afirst-year, project-based design course only and may not be suitable for upper level technicalcourses. The eight topic areas include; Opportunity Identification, Customer Discovery,Evaluating Solutions, Ideation, Rapid Prototyping, Design Iteration, Potential Value Evaluation,and Market Factors. Table 2: EM Topic Area to Behavioral Outcome Correlation EM Topic Area EM Behavioral Outcome Problem Identification
of a design problem.Figure 1. Framework describing the potential influence of students’ learning of entrepreneurialmindset on their cognitive operations for problem framing and finally on their mentalrepresentations of a design problem. First, to investigate high school students’ mental representations of design problems, wewill collect the data through participant interviews with a design scenario getting them engagedin problem framing and then analyze the data according to the work described by Bjorklund(2012). For the participant interviews, the given design brief will describe a complex andambiguous design scenario. To evoke participants’ entrepreneurial mindset, the design scenariowill be developed in the way asking them to plan
project, we examined the impact of micro-interventions aimedsolely at increasing the students’ sense of community in the early career course. These included,for example, a focus on classroom norms, strategies to increase peer-to-peer interactions, andpeer testimonials to enable discussions of the challenges faced by first-year engineering students,among others. For the third and final iteration of the project, we examined the impact ofinterventions aimed at both classroom community and relevancy.Based on the findings of this study and considering the context of the research plan, we have thefollowing concluding observations. There were important instructional differences seen betweenthe two courses as shown by the COPUS observational data
thispaper, the authors also share their evaluation strategy and results of assessing the effectiveness of the games-based course modules via a comprehensive evaluation plan.The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In section 2, the authors describe the project’s goals andobjectives, followed by a brief introduction to their module-based educational game framework and theGUI-based game creator. Section 3 describes the pilot project introduced to apply the developed gameframework in digital forensics courses through a sequence of entertaining and engaging forensic gamemodules for first-year college students. In section 4, the authors share their evaluation strategy andcomprehensive evaluation plans. The results of assessing the effectiveness
, intentional faculty mentormatching and regular meeting, peer mentoring, annual leadership development retreat, andresearch and service experience, among other approaches.In summary, we believe that to successfully secure S-STEM award and implement the project oncampus, a flexible but comprehensive plan is not only necessary but also crucial in the success ofthe project. Such a multi-facet project needs to be monitored and evaluated from each and everyperspective: project management, student support activities and programs, scholars, faculty, andsupporting staff. On the other hand, the project plan needs to be flexible enough so that certainaspects of the project implementation can be adjusted to best serve our students. A flexiblemindset is necessary
that attendingthe REU site increased their interest in research (M= 5.50, SD= .71) and in pursuing graduatestudies in engineering (M= 5.70, SD= .48). That the REU site experience had a significant impacton these intentions is also reflected in participants’ responses to the open-ended questions on thesurvey: “Before contact with the CCIS REU, my plan consisted of: Graduate with a somewhat reasonable GPA and try to find a job with a BSEE without even considering a MS or PhD in any major. This REU has forced me to reevaluate those plans.” (REU site participant, Male, open-ended survey response) “I entered into the program after nearly failing out of college. I didn't have any confidence that I would be able to
ofagency, they are acting on their self-reflections, goals, and motivations to impact their future.Program design to embed early-staged internships into the degree plan enables students to buildupon their preliminary studies with real-world experience that they then bring back to theiracademic environment and enhances their goal pursuit and academic experience.At Texas State University, students majoring in engineering technology must complete a 400-hour, sophomore-level summer internship as a degree requirement. The grading component ofthe course requires first-, fifth-, and tenth-week evaluations from both the student and industrysupervisor with the student’s evaluations consisting of open-ended questions about theirexposure to and development
art facilities.One of the more effective ways to increase knowledge about science, technology, engineering,and math (STEM) careers is to increase the knowledge of teachers. As part of a National ScienceFoundation Advanced Technological Education project, a group of high school teachers wasoffered the opportunity to work in advanced manufacturing labs with engineering faculty. Theseprojects included additive manufacturing (AM) of ceramics, surface characterization of AMmetal parts, and surface alteration. The teachers were tasked with developing lesson plans whichincorporated the advanced manufacturing concepts that they had learned.As part of the assessment of the program, teachers were given pre- and post- research experiencesurveys
, simultaneous linear equations, regression, and integration.Not available in Smart Sparrow were lessons for topics of scientific computing, differentiation,interpolation, and ordinary differential equations.In designing the assessment plan for this study, we adapted the approach used in our prior NSF-funded research on comparing blended versus flipped classrooms for numerical methods (Clarket al., 2016; Clark et al., 2018). In particular, we used a mixed-methods approach consisting ofsurveys, student focus groups, instructor interviews, and final exam comparisons. Our surveys,which enabled indirect assessment of learning and student perspectives, consisted of the Collegeand University Classroom Environment Inventory (CUCEI) (Fraser & Treagust, 1986
Paper ID #21673Normative and Non-Normative Engineering Student Experiences in Navigat-ing the Cultures of EngineeringMr. Derrick James Satterfield, University of Nevada, Reno Derrick Satterfield is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education and Chemical Engineering at the Uni- versity of Nevada, Reno. He graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in May 2017, and plans to pursue a career in academia in the future. His research interests are in graduate student attrition rates within academia, engineering identity development and the factors that influence decision making on persistence.Ms. Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Purdue
and outcome assessment. Formative assessment, or implementation evaluation,analyzed the activities delivered, participation in activities, and participant satisfaction. Outcomeassessment, or impact evaluation, analyzed changes in participants’ knowledge, perceptions, andskills as a result of the summer program.1.1 RecruitmentThe REU plan for recruitment that was stated in our proposal was executed. Electronic formswere uploaded on our REU web site and on the NSF web site. Although our grant was approvedin late January of 2017, we had more than 80 applicants. In our evaluations, we have focused onpast performance, statement of purpose documents, providing research opportunities tocommunity college students, and we emphasize diversity. Our
vs. project schedule, design/prototyping/testing updates, and problemtracking. Students are encouraged throughout the course sequence to focus on the connectionbetween these deliverables: How is risk management driving design decisions? How is theprototype progress affecting your schedule? How are design decisions affecting the identifiedrisks?Prior to the instructor’s EAC participation, students completed an in-class workshop on riskmanagement that included an exercise where students observed an activity and identified ways inwhich the planning team practiced risk management, with a heavy focus on technical andresource risks. These risks are the ones that could prevent the team from completing theirproject, but they have little bearing on
exam and the D-F-W rate dropped. Thebiggest continuing challenge is getting instructors that are supportive of active learning activitiesduring lecture.To prepare for lecture, students currently have a choice of watching a video or reading through aset of PowerPoint slides. For those students who prefer a hands-on approach to learning, analternative is being developed. It is an interactive MATLAB GUI with lessons on the topics Page 26.1698.11covered in the videos. The GUI is modeled on the interactive lessons offered by Codeacademy12for various programming languages. The plan is to make this GUI available to students inEngineering Models I
sequence of the raised floor platform of the Hall of Central Harmony (ca.24-m by 24-m): (I) Compact earth for floor base; (II) Erect floor-base perimeter and stairs/stepsfrom stone blocks: (III) Install column-base blocks inside this perimeter; (IV) Place strip masonryfoundations (grade beams) between column bases; (V) Place and compact soil in layers up to floorelevation level; and (VI) Place marble floor slabs. Page 26.1708.9 Fig. 6. Top view of temple floor plan of the Hall of Central Harmony (ca. 24-m by 24-m)III. Walls and Columns Walls and columns are central to the establishment of a Chinese temple. Despite thenumerous variations of the construction materials, in general
hour rule”. There was no significant difference in these findings whenlooking at subsets such as engineering only vs. non-engineering students or female vs. malestudents with a slight exception in regards to what seems to be a polarization of computer sciencestudents’ involvement. From the service-learning and student outcome questions we can clearly see that skills utilizedextend beyond just what we would consider normal classroom/course objectives. There are a largenumber of students who indicated that they used a professional skill such as time management,process planning, task delegation, construction, power tools, and/or developed a new skill and/orexpanded upon a current skill. Again, based on the findings, this was neither major
with better features.”“I have learned a great deal of things from the contest: technical, mathematical, and theexperience of the contest itself, the presentation of our work in front of such an exclusiveaudience”.“I learned a lot about complex system’s planning and verification”.Several students’ comments refer to the job offers or scholarships that they received afterparticipating in this competition and meeting industry representatives:“It helped me get a job in the embedded design”.“For me, the 4th edition of the Diligent Design Contest was a career-changer... literally... At theend of my 3rd year at TUCN, I was looking for a job... and I found it thanks to the DesignContest”.“The fact that I won a prestigious European contest contributed
vision wand. Regardlessof the project student teams created a plan, an engineering notebook, parallel prototypes, finalreport with market research, and a presentation.The University of Iowa developed a dedicated space to support first-year project development.Upon investigating other university makerspaces their library found that three areas were mostcommon for integration of coursework and makerspaces. Almost all makerspaces rely onprototyping tools including 3D scanning, 3D modeling, and 3D printing. Many makerspaceswere also using virtual reality as a tool for students to explore new technology. In order forstudents to implement their ideas they need to have resources for computer programming andcircuit building [7].At Portland State
trends.Lifecycle Assessment, Planning, DesignStudents were also introduced to the concepts of Biomimicry and Lifecycle Assessment (LCA)in this course. Life Cycle Assessment, as defined by SETAC, is “a process to evaluate the environmental burdens associated with a product, process, or activity by identifying and quantifying energy and materials used and wastes released to the environment; to assess the impact of those energy and material uses and releases to the environment; and to identify and evaluate opportunities to effect environmental improvements'' [7, 8]. …. Its main advantage over other, site-specific, methods for environmental analysis, such as Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) or Environmental Audit
West campus, the Downtown campusand the Polytechnic campus. None of these is a main campus and none of these is asatellite campus. The Polytechnic campus is located in Mesa and the enrollment there isprojected to grow from 5,000 to 15,000 over the next decade1. As part of this plan, a newengineering program has been created at the Polytechnic campus. In order to avoidduplication of degrees already taught in engineering at the Tempe campus, the newprogram will accredit through ABET as a general engineering program. An overalldescription of this “clean slate” opportunity to rethink engineering education has beendescribed elsewhere2. Here our focus will be on the development of an electricalengineering systems concentration within this multi
minutes, was to allow students to hear the varying views oftheir classmates.The Departments of Biological Systems Engineering and Engineering Education are onlybeginning to implement this ethics training through a spiral themed curriculum so it is essentialto orchestrate an assessment plan for future evaluation. The assessment tool utilized for thisexercise was a survey which students spent ten minutes filling out after the class discussion. Forquestions 2.1 through 2.5, students were to circle the best response where: Page 12.854.6 1 is strongly disagree 2 is disagree 3 is no opinion 4 is agree 5 is strongly agree2.1
criteria: engineering knowledge, general knowledge,continuous learning, quality orientation, initiative, innovation, cultural adaptability, analysis andjudgment, planning, communication, teamwork, integrity, professional impact, and customerfocus. They mapped these fourteen competencies to each of the ABET abilities in a matrix.13Each ABET ability was mapped to more than one underlying competency. Approximately fiveitems were developed to measure each competency. For our study, we were particularlyinterested in the communication competency items.Around the same time, another group developed a framework to assess ABET criteria 3a-3kstudent outcome criteria based on Bloom’s taxonomy.17, 18 This project was supported in part byNSF funding,19 and the
of. They all reside on campus inresidence halls during their stay, one for men and one for women. The counselors alsolive in the dorms (along with a hall manager and two assistant hall managers), enforcingcurfew and maintaining general order. They also organize activities on evenings andweekends, and often hold nighttime discussions about what it is like to be an engineeringstudent. IEP students also are also provided with meal plans, which allows them to usethe dining hall and Notre Dame’s food services facilities.Daily WorkEach student is required to write a one-page report for each of the morning lectures, aswell as for each field trip. The report details the lecture topic, and the student is alsoasked to provide his/her opinion on the
Mechanical Workshop 11−13 Manufacturing 45 8The overall course objectives, from the desired student outcomes, were to know and understandengineering concepts, by means of an integrated historical vision, to organize and plan all thedifferent activities that the graduation requires, applying time management and study techniques,to approach different research methods, to be able to perform bibliographic research, handing insmall assignments under the supervision of the Engineering graduations and, finally, to actuallymanufacture simple parts or assembled devices using the department’s mechanical workshopfacilities, measurement equipment, machinery and hardware. The experiments and