circuits from scratch throughprototyping, soldering surface mount electronic components, testing and troubleshooting, calibration andanalyzing error in measurement and propagation of uncertainty. In addition, students will utilize dataacquisition and analog to digital conversion techniques with Arduino microcontrollers and custom shieldsto read and save data collected during the trip to an SD card. Among many other skills, students will learnand practice teamwork skills, project management, planning, cost analysis, risk management, failureanalysis, project documentation, as well as professional reporting and presentation. Along with theselearning outcomes, students will analyze the collected data and compare results to theoretical values,when
, and veteran barriers. We willbreak audience members up and give them 20 minutes to read, discuss and form an action plan basedon their institutional resources. They will report back an example of how a student facing these barrierswould get support at their institution, imagine if a growing population of engineering first yearsexperienced the barrier and how their institution might respond, and think through whose expertisethey could include within their school to systemically address that barrier. We will provide examples ofhow our team typically triage these case studies to demonstrate the value of our partnership and weeklymeetings.Important Logistical and Financial ConsiderationsOur model has required us to financially invest in people
literature review provides detail of the ENE recommended practices that the author81 used in the CEM Capstone course redesign. Each recommended practice blended to82 ground and inform the author so the course redesign would align with the call for reform.8384 Accreditation for Construction Education: Felder & Brent (2003) identified that85 engineering educational programs are required for accreditation to meet ABET Criteria86 relative to curriculum and instruction. Their paper outlined the challenge in doing this but87 was guided by subscribing to three principles: (1) planning, (2) instruction, and (3)88 assessment. Planning is merely defining the content and what objectives will be89 measured. Instruction is simply the pedagogy
degreesacross engineering disciplines at Penn State. Students will receive 2-year scholarships andparticipate in programming designed to impact academic and social success. Project activities willinclude intentional strategies to increase interest, applications, and enrollment in engineeringmaster’s programs. In addition, retention activities such as mentoring (group and individual), andprofessional development programming will be offered for the two years of the scholars’ programsof study. Finally, the project plans to build skills in inclusive mentoring for 54 faculty membersthat will have an impact beyond the duration of this project.A primary goal for the first years of funding has been to further develop intra- and inter-institutional partnerships
the author developedand implemented a plan to improve the ME senior seminar based on the course evaluation results.About ME Senior SeminarThe ME senior seminar is a highly focused and topical course. Its purpose is to acquaint studentswith a sufficiently broad spectrum of policies, practices, procedures, and ethics in mechanicalengineering. It is a one credit course so a 50-min session per week is devoted to lectures, but twoto three hours of outside classwork per week are required. The author joined SDSU in July 2021and started to teach this class in the fall semester. It is worth mentioning that the author had nevertaught such a class before.Based on the ultimate goal of senior seminars and industry expectations for mechanicalengineering
- Incubating Student Startups in GhanaAbstractThis paper describes the Palm GreenLab and its first GreenLab Startup Weekend to encourageand support entrepreneurial student teams. Palm Institute is a 10-year-old liberal artsuniversity-college in Ghana, whose mission is to educate ethical and excellent leaders in Africa.The Palm GreenLab is an innovation and incubation lab that seeks to “unearth and supporttalents that solve wicked problems with creative ideas, and to nurture and scale the growth ofambitious entrepreneurial projects”. The GreenLab plans to provide an array of offerings andsupport for student entrepreneurship. In Fall 2022, the GreenLab ran its first Startup Weekend -a two day intensive experience in which students pitched and evaluated
appreciated. The third-year and fourth-year courseswere taught in the second and third years as there were several students in the first cohort whohad transferred from other majors and we accelerated introducing the courses to make a “6-semester plan” feasible for them to be able to graduate in either 4 or 5 years from when theybegan at the university.At the same time as we have been applying continuous improvement, the program has beengrowing significantly and that has fueled evolution and expansion, which are discussed in thenext section.Evolution and Expansion of the ProgramAs is to be expected in any new degree program, we have evolved, expanded, and grown, andwill necessarily need to evolve again as we go into our fourth year in the Fall of 2023
Engineering/Industrial Management CIP, 1980 – 1999 [4]14. Engineering 14.30 Engineering/Industrial Management 14.3001 Engineering/Industrial Management. An instructional program that describes the application of engineering principles to the planning and operational management of enterprises and organizations, including budgeting, costing, quality control, efficient resource allocation and utilization, product production and distribution, human resource management, systems and plant maintenance, scheduling, storage and security, organization planning, acquisitions, and logistics.Exhibit 2. Description of Engineering/Industrial Management CIP, 2000 – 2010 [6]15. Engineering Technologies/Technicians 15.15
becomes very important. In the paper, we will present:• The list of certifications that were carefully selected and the fields they cover: o Promoting vendor neutral certifications o Allowing customized certifications for experienced students.• The complete degree plan with the embedded certification: o When to take the certification o What SLOs should be covered in courses leading to the certification• The course developments for these certifications and how they are delivered: o Department-wide course template and resources• Resources available to the students: o Internal and external o A live and ever-expanding compiled set of resources• Practical and mock exams• Compilation of ads
Good Neighbor Environmental Board (GNEB) that advises the President and Congress of the United States on good neighbor practices along the U.S. border with Mexico. Dr. Santiago’s history of service started in Puerto Rico as Director of the Water Quality Area of the PR Environmental Quality Board, in charge of Compliance, Permit, and Planning Bureau, that included Industrial and Non-Industrial permits, Leaking Underground Storage Tanks (LUSTs), and watershed restoration activities. As Director, she implemented the first Beach Monitoring program in coordination with the PR Tourism Office and the Blue Flag pro- gram (A world renowned eco-label) and implemented the first Total Maximum Daily Load Program in PR
support new business models.Additionally, the ESDN user community is constantly submitting requests for new functionality thusgenerating a running list of innovation topics. The topics selected for Phase 1 of this case study areproblems resolved for ESDN users by the CIEI group while the topics planned for Phase 2 are newrequests that have not yet been addressed.The role of ESDN is to define, document and prepare the tasks the students will complete for the raceand the environment to test the results.Dedicated equipment was purchased to support this project. The list included multiple sensor types,breadboards, cables, and the components of a LoRa end node [12]. The equipment supports ten distinctprojects, and the cost of the equipment was $77
equipment certifications as well as in Microsoft Word® and Excel®. Selected upper-level engineering technology courses also count as technical electives for some of theengineering discipline majors, so future engineers also will be able to gain practical hands-onexperience.Finally, the engineering technology program supports the university’s land grant mission byproviding access and opportunity for students, preparing a highly qualified workforce which willsupport economic prosperity and job creation, engage industry partners, and assist in the positivetransformation of the manufacturing and industrial landscape of the state.2.0 Planning ProcessBeginning with the end in mind, the program was structured using the ABET accreditationcriteria [2] as a
engineering departments to advertise tothe potential students who may be interested and has experience related to the topic of interest.Undergraduate students can register for a particular project in the form of research credits, but idlimited to a maximum of 3 credits per semester so that the effort is commensurate with the timeand effort expended. Based on individual departmental regulations, these credits may be used astechnical elective credits, capstone design credits, or research credits that count toward theirdegree plans. For high-performing honors students that are above a certain cutoff GPA, thesecredits are also eligible to be used as part of an honors section. Such flexibility allows for thisAggiE-Challenge program to conveniently
planning area in Texas, the Canadian – Upper RedRiver Basin Regional Flood Planning Area, or Region 1. The student participants interviewedrural residents in portions of Western and Central Texas, using both phone and in-personinterviews. The survey provided data that defined the nature of observed flooding in rural areasand needed mitigation efforts for future flooding risks. The students who conducted the publicoutreach study were from several different majors (Geoscience, Environmental Science, andEngineering) and cultural backgrounds.The students who conducted the flood research interview were surveyed for a post-studyassessment using two research instruments – a Qualtrics survey and personal interviews. Alleighteen students were solicited for
. Theformative feedback included short surveys after each session and a plus/delta (+/Δ) activityduring the last session. During this activity participants were asked to list positive aspects of theprogram (+) and suggested changes (Δ). All feedback was anonymous. Additionally, theorganizers met weekly to discuss how each session went and plan future sessions whileincorporating any feedback received.In the spring of 2023, we asked an evaluator to follow up with the participants of the pilotprogram to determine how their job search had progressed since completing the program and getfeedback on the program after having participated in a faculty job search. This survey wasadministered in Qualtrics by the program evaluator. The quantitative data was
, [6] found that during atransition from quarters to semesters, students faced increased anxiety levels about graduating ontime, new degree requirements, and credit conversions. As another example, there is fear ofadditional faculty workload under the new system [7].Initial curriculum development We approached the curriculum design using a backward design approach [8], [9]. Thisapproach has three stages: 1. Identify design results, 2. Determine acceptable evidence, and 3.Plan learning experiences and instruction. It includes establishing curricular priorities ofknowledge and skills of enduring understanding, important to know and do, and worth beingfamiliar with. The design results that we identified were the goals of the curriculum
. technical memos h. technical reports4. Do you have any general comments about our writing for introduction to engineering project? (i.e., additional topics, ideas, etc.)Questions 1, 2, and 4 were ‘text-entry’ used to gather open-ended feedback from respondents.Question 3 was ‘rank order’ and was used to determine each respondent’s order of preference forthe list of items. 2Review of Writing AssignmentsIn EGR 110, there are four writing assignments – the Research Paper, the Project Plan, DesignReport 1, and Design Report 2. The intention is that the Research Paper and Project Plan becomethe first two major sections in Design Report 1, and
balancing as well asgenerating and receiving the UART communication. Once the base BMS kit had been selected,the next step is to select components to integrate wireless communication. Initial Designs includea plan to establish a wireless network. To do this an ESP32 board was chosen to both translatethe UART signal from the BMS as well as establish a wireless mesh network for communication.Each BMS pack coupled the TLE9012AQU BMS board with its own ESP32. The BMS boardscan power themselves through the pack directly, however the ESP32 will not work as well with sucha large range of voltage. In this case, a buck converter will be connected to power each ESP32with a stable voltage despite any changes in pack voltage. Each battery pack will then
engineering studentsdevelop a specific way of thinking and approaching problem-solving that is characterized by curiosity,connections and a focus on creating value [5]. By cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset, engineeringstudents can learn to be more creative, adaptable, and resilient in their professional and personal livesregardless of whether they choose to become entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs. Because of the seeminglynatural overlap between makerspace skill development and EML, faculty development efforts that mergethe two frameworks have been created. B-FAB, or the Bucknell Fabrication workshop, was a 3-dayexperience for faculty and staff to introduce makerspace equipment, discuss pedagogy, and plan forclassroom implementation [6]. The Kern
engineering, non-engineering, and engineering adjacentactivities, and finally, elicit their understanding of how their goals are connected (or not connected)to the activities they participate in.Data Collection Plans – We are presently recruiting engineering students to participate in 45-60minute semi-structured interviews. These students are being recruited through institutionallistservs. After a saturation recruitment of 15-20 students, we will purposefully sample a subset of8-12 students that capture as many academic years and engineering disciplines as possible.Participants will be interviewed by the research team using our protocol. These interviews will betranscribed using the Otter AI platform. Our sample size is appropriate for deductive
developed to date, classroom implementation plans,assessment strategy, a preliminary analysis of student learning gains and which will be furtheranalyzed by the time of the ASEE Work-In-Progress presentation, and future directions for con-tinuous improvement.Fluidized Bed LCDLMDesign, Development and Testing of the Fluidized Bed LCDLMThe FB DLM is designed to help student conceptual learning as well as promote active learningof packed bed and fluidized bed theory in a normal classroom. This new module has been con-structed from mostly off-the-shelf hardware. Construction of the FB DLM requires minimum ad-ditional modifications to the purchased hardware such as drilling holes in the PVC piping, cut-ting and inserting a mesh, filling the column with
represent the interests and perspectives of a wider range of stakeholders. Findings fromFreeman and Huang (2015) suggest that diversity in inputs, as indicated by author location,ethnicity, and references, results in higher contributions to research, as indicated by citations andimpact factors. Research has also shown that networks that prioritize DEI are more likely toattract and retain talented individuals from underrepresented groups, which can enhance thenetwork's overall expertise and impact, as well creativity in work output (Lee et al., 2022;Hundschell et al., 2022). That said, there is little research that documents the planning,implementation, and evaluation of DEI principles in research networks.In 2021, the National Science Foundation
courses. The modules were developedwith the support of an instructional designer from our institution’s University Center forAssessment, Teaching, and Technology. We used a “backward design” approach with threegeneral steps: identify the desired results of the modules (i.e., what will students be able to doafter engaging with the module), determine acceptable evidence (i.e., how can we assess studentunderstanding), and plan learning activities (i.e., plan the activities students will engage in in themodules) [8]. Using this approach, we focused on defining student learning outcomes for eachmodule before choosing the content and assessments in each module.We also used guidance from the instructional designer to make our content suitable for
career goal is to do lab employment: Students’ Engineer.” research.” career plans Competencies and “Combined with the strong set knowledge: Identify “I designed a project with of communication and competencies and knowledge another intern, which helped me leadership skills I have built, I gained related to career learn team work skills.” know I will be successful in preparation getting a Ph.D. position.” Personal and professional
this, we examine methods for promoting an individual team member’s skilldevelopment, confidence, and goal attainment while contributing positively to their team’scohesion and product. We include three data sources: timely surveys of students’ goals, progresstowards those goals, and how they align with their perceived contributions to the team; teamchecklists and manufacturing plans updated in real time to include specific tasks, ownership,status, and any assistance required; and students’ reflective documentation of shared knowledge,skills, and mental models. These data are complemented by peer assessments occurring at majorproject milestones [11]. Combined, these instruments are used to track student and team growthin the context of team
slow its inclusion into this field of study. This paper proposes the Dataying framework to teach data science concepts to young children ages 4–7 years old. The framework development included identifying K–12 data science elements and then validating element suitability for young students. Six cycled steps were identified: identifying a problem, questioning, imagining and planning, collecting, analyzing, and story sharing. This paper also presents examples of data decision problems and demonstrates use of a proposed Insight- Detective method with a plan worksheet for Dataying.IntroductionThe expected growth of data science careers worldwide over the next ten years means thatstudents of all ages
Science and Engineering Society (AISES), and local and national funding agencies such as NSF, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and others.Objective #4: Plan, implement, assess, and scale the Implementation Project. This fourth objective focuses on each Fellow developing a plan for an Implementation Project that they propose to their own leadership and subsequently launch at their own institution. Examples of these projects include Summer Bridge, Living Learning Communities, mentoring programs, tutoring programs, and transfer pathways of community college students to 4-year programs and undergraduates to graduate school. While these types of programs are not new, the goal has always been for Fellows to scale up their
to answer important questions such as: “Why is thesuccess rate of transfer students low?” and “Why do some transfer students persist to graduation,whereas many others do not?” According to the literature, transfer students fall into two categoriesthat need different kinds of guidance to succeed in a new institution [11], [12]. The first categoryof transfer students includes those who pre-plan the transfer before getting admission into a com-munity college [13], [14], [15], [16]. This category often includes students who choose to takegeneral education courses or earn an associate degree at a community college before transferringto a 4-year institution (often because of the lower cost of tuition). The second category includesstudents who do
them with the training, support, and resources they need toincorporate technology effectively into their lesson plans. One key benefit of empoweringteachers with technological tools is that it can help level the playing field regardingeducational access.Technology can provide new opportunities for students who may need access to specificresources or information. It facilitates students to attend online lectures/webinars and otherlearning resources from any experts (national/international), thus providing learning beyondboundaries. Another benefit is that technology can make learning more engaging andinteractive for students since they are digital natives [Otto and Strimel, 2022]. The effectiveuse of technological tools helps them to stay
inconsultation with their tech demo committee. The tech demo committee was a consistent groupof 4-5 faculty who established requirements for the tech demo and evaluated the team’sperformance during the technical demonstration. The first tech demo helps ensure that studentsorder parts and start assembly (of at least the critical sub-components) of the end product. Onepractical benefit is that delays from out-of-stock parts, inappropriate designs and flawedprocesses are addressed earlier, and thus less likely to delay the project. In addition, new andreplacement parts with long shipping times can often be ordered over winter break, improvingoverall time management. The tech demo emphasizes to students that planning out a design onpaper, and implementing