and 4).These same results are not seen in other courses taught by the author (Figure 5). In adepartment full of outstanding teachers effectively using the ExCEEd Teaching Model,could it be the “just in time learning” that is making the difference? MENG 3306 Multi-Year Assessment College/Dept Level Scale (1-5) 3.0 3.2 3.4 3.6 3.8 4.0 4.2 4.4 4.6 4.8 5.0 B1. My instructor served as professional role model. B2. Instructor demonstrated depth of knowledge. B3. My instructor demonstrated enthusiasm. B4. My instructor had a structure or plan. B5
. Day 8: Travel to Quarry Bank Mill via rail system: walking tours of the water powered cotton milling facilities, the Apprentice House where child laborers were kept, and museum tours with commentary on the labor rebellion. Day 9-10: Return trip to Brookings.The group of students and faculty traveled well together for the duration of the trip (seeFigures 2 and 3). During the first couple of days, the students did not venture out afterreturning to the hotel – fatigue may have been a factor as we were walking 5-10 miles eachday. After meeting peers at MMU on Day 4, the students began exploring more on their ownduring the evening. On Day 7, a remarkable change in the students was observed. The daywas originally planned to be an
, as well asseveral observations made by instructors, indicate that significant improvements could be madefor next year.As the camps were being planned, the project director asked several faculty to develop a full dayof activities for the campers. The project director suggested that each day contain sometheoretical information as well as several hands-on activities. The faculty developers did a greatjob, as evidenced by the results of the questionnaires, but lectured too long on several days.Because we want the campers to enjoy the week, next year the lectures will be shortened andspaced better throughout the day. However, we feel that it is vitally important that relevantmaterial be presented to expose students to some of the rigors involved
, from 21 in1999 to 20.9 in 2004 2,3,4. In the last few years several state-sponsored programs have beenestablished to prepare students for the ACT. For example, the LA GEAR UP Program (fundedby the U.S. Department of Education) aids teachers in the analysis of student performance onstandardized tests developed by the American College Testing Program, such as the ACT,Explore, and Plan tests (administered in the 12th, 10th, and 8th grades respectively) to determinehow they can help their students better prepare for these tests. With so much focus being placedon these types of high-stakes standardized tests, it is clear that providing novel, interactivemethods for preparing students is necessary.The Louisiana Tech GK-12 ACT Prep CourseSupported by
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concept that counts, and even rudimentary drawing techniquescan convey the narrative flow of a given production.” 5 The premise of the problem was that a Page 10.693.2group of students had won a reality show contest to accompany a contemporary rock band, TheWrens, to London. The Wrens were planning to shoot a music video highlighting the history and Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationtechnology of St. Paul’s Cathedral within the cathedral itself. The students’ problem was tocreate a set of
biomechanical engineering covered the same topics as the much broader anddiverse field of biomedical engineering. Throughout the course, students learned and becameinterested in the field themselves, with several suddenly planning to go on to graduate school tospecialize in biomechanical engineering.At the start of the semester, students were given the service learning outreach assignment. Theassignment first laid out the problem: “There is a general lack of awareness of engineeringcareers, especially those non-traditional types of engineering – such as biomechanicalengineering.” The service-learning assignment to address this problem required each student toparticipate in engineering outreach by teaching someone else, under the age of 18, about the
engineers should demonstrate proficiencies in …… materials and processes: understanding the behavior and properties of materials as they are altered and influenced by processing in manufacture;… process, assembly and product engineering: understanding the design of products and the equipment, tooling and environment necessary for their manufacture;… manufacturing competitiveness: understanding the creation of competitive advantage through manufacturing planning, strategy and control; Page 15.92.9… manufacturing systems design: understanding the analysis , synthesis and control of manufacturing operations using statistical and calculus
2002 Workshop.[7] The C2002 proceedingsbecame the first volume in the landmark series, Manufacturing Education for the 21st Century,that eventually included an international compendium of manufacturing engineering educationmodels, proceedings of two international conferences and the first edition of the ManufacturingEducation Plan, that was to drive the agenda for the Manufacturing Engineering EducationFoundation for the next decade.[7,8,9,10,11] Manufacturing Engineering Manufacturing Technology Engineering Associate Bachelor Bachelor
sunny.Without being able to plan some flexibility into the schedule this project would have beena large gamble as it is weather dependent. That being said, it was rewarding to see thateven late in the afternoon in November enough solar radiation is available to boil waterusing a solar cooker.In the future, students would benefit by being able to test their design multiple times so asto iteratively improve their design. This could be facilitated by improving their access tothe materials outside of lab and by scheduling more days of testing. Alternatively, theproject could be simplified by perhaps removing the user manual and Solid Worksportions to allow greater focus on the design and testing.From the assessments used it seems that the structure of the
literature that point to the lack of understanding of theuser, or an understanding of the way in which the product would be used, that contributed to itsfailure8,9,10. ”Without effective user involvement in all stages of planning and design theorganization is simply storing up problems for the future. When the problems emerge post-implementation they are likely to be serious and more intractable because system changesbecome more expensive as the design progresses and ‘hardens.’”8 Effectively teaching human-centered design can pose challenges within the undergraduate curriculum as it requires access tousers and stakeholders. Service-learning, a growing pedagogy within engineering, offers manysynergistic opportunities to create a human-centered design
monitorthese numbers.Independent surveys:Three independent sets of survey data have been collected that serve as abaseline set and will continue to provide evidence of impact in the future. A member of theADVANCE PI team is also the Associate Director of the Office of Institutional Research, whichgreatly facilitates the tracking and reporting of indicator data. The first data set is an ISUgenerated survey on University life – assessing a 2005 strategic plan goal of ‘Making ISU agreat place to learn and work.”19 This survey was administered in 2007 and 2009. This survey islimited in scope, but specifically seeks to determine to what extent faculty are satisfied with thework environment at ISU. The second data set is the AAUDE (Association of
messages may not give the students the information needed to fix the code. The Semantic level (as adapted to the programming domain) deals with the semantics of individual statements. The Schematic level, through the use of programming plans, allows multiple statements to be grouped into semantically meaningful knowledge units. The Conceptual level deals with definable functions within the problem domain of the Page 15.112.4 application being programmed.A Combined ModelThe van Hiele model asserts that the learner moves sequentially through five levels ofunderstanding. The Cognitive Theory finds a more natural way to
it16. Second, as noted by Tilli and Trevelyan there are few longitudinal studies of engineeringgraduates17. They are conducting one such study. In their study they plan to look at the work ofengineering graduates who went into other fields and what they say about that work. But,because they are in the early stages, they do not yet have published details on those findings. Aspart of their study, they reviewed other longitudinal studies that have been done of engineeringgraduates; none of these other studies looked at how individuals that are not engineers are usingtheir engineering background. Therefore, with this understanding of engineering thinking and work, we endeavor to fillthis gap in the literature and look at what non
”management, and is renowned for advocating that organizational leaders need to reevaluate howthey approach problem solving and innovation.Ackoff received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1947.He was a member and former Chairman of the Social Systems Sciences Department and theBusch Center, which specializes in systems planning, research, and design - both within theWharton School Center for Advanced Systems Practices at the University of Pennsylvania(2000). His work in research, consulting, and education has involved more than 350corporations and 75 government agencies in the United States and abroad.Ackoff is the author and co-author of twenty-five books, including Redesigning the Future, TheArt of Problem
and educators are often concerned with performance skills (i.e.,interpersonal, communication, and teaming). Lewis et al. [14] correctly observed that ifstudents are to develop effective teaming skills, then teaming must be an explicit focus ofthe project. A metacognitive approach would encourage students to become conscious oftheir team skills. Thus, metacognition may be valuable for improving an individual’srelationship not only to their own learning processes, but also to the learning processes ofothers and to the collaborative learning process in general. At the 2003 ASEE Conference, we presented a plan [15] intended to promotemetacognition in teams working on engineering clinic projects. This paper presentsresults from the Fall 2003
, and common expectations in the workplace.Program Description - Student SelectionCandidates were initially screened in collaboration with the Director of UndergraduateRecruiting and Retention in the Lyle School of Engineering. The screening process consisted ofthree phases: initial review, admissions file review, and interview. The initial review began withthe program directors reviewing the pool of admitted students who were US citizens, met theminimum financial need based on their FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)application, and were planning to enroll in the Lyle School of Engineering. The programdirectors also reviewed the academic potential of the candidates. The academic potential of acandidate was determined by their
Did you trust the results of the pulley lab? pulley demo at the front • Yes - 75% of the room would be just • A bit skeptical - 18.75%, with responses: as effective as the group -“Due to masses hitting each other” activity: - “Race result seemed to close to call” 3.0 / 5.0 • Not there - 6.25%For future work, the authors plan to continue with more videotaping of individual studentsperforming the IBLA to gain better insight into common student misconceptions. Changes andimprovements to the IBLA will be informed by this information. Of particular interest is howstudent understanding changes over time and is transferable to new situations. Finally, Table 2indicates a widespread need
application in the professional developmentmodules, the learning objectives of the course are presented at the beginning of themodule, and by planning the questions and responses (which are formative feedbacksources for the researchers), the instructor is forced to think about the alignment of theDemonstrate (summative assessment) component with the other aspects. After thequestions are formed, content is easily distributed within the framework to help studentsachieve the desired learning objectives of the module.The objective of this work was to develop an online learning tool that provides industrylearning experiences for highly trained technical people (engineering Ph.D. students) andformat the modules such that they complement the working culture
brief review of literature provides the theoretical foundation for the researchmethods, which are explained for the most interested readers. Finally, a plan is outlined forfuture studies.Main findings and conclusionsFigure 1 shows some results of our midterm survey, which was given to students after ~2 monthsin a standard 14-week semester.Figure 1.The midterm survey results reveal high student satisfaction and interest in the course material.The class includes engineering students from several departments (see the details in Coursedemographics below), some of which require the EE course as pre-requisite for their majorcourses, while others merely list it as a graduation requirement or elective. Therefore, diversityof the student responses to
methods. During the evaluationprocess, the following questions shall be considered: 1) What are the fundamental topics that need to be taught explicitly via direct instruction? 2) What are the topics/learning outcomes that can be more effectively achieved by project- based learning? 3) What are the topics that can be implicitly covered by class activities (including projects, discussions, inquiry-based activities, homework)? 4) Which topics shall be reinforced by extra scaffolding tools such as video tutorials, video lectures, online learning tools? The answers to the above questions allow the instructor to better arrange the teaching schedule and plan for essential instructional activities to achieve the
accreditation. Agile is based on iterative andincremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaborationbetween self-organizing and cross-functional teams. Agile promotes adaptive planning,evolutionary development and delivery, and encourages rapid and flexible response to change.Integrated projects across all the ECE courses and delivered through the centralized engineeringproject platform incorporate continuous improvement within the ECE program. The centralizedengineering project platform stresses collaboration and team work, thereby breaking down thebarriers created by faculty in confined office spaces. Scrum is the software 16development method for managing projects and product or application
societal and professional constraints. 3. Establish Team Relationships for Quality Students establish relationships and Performance implement practices with team members, advisors, and clients that support high performance and continuous improvement. 4. Manage Project Schedule and Resources Students plan, monitor, and manage project schedule, resources, and work assignments to ensure timely and within-budget completion. 5. Apply Knowledge, Research and Students utilize prior knowledge, independent Creativity
multiple approaches to problems by discussing our problem solving methods with others.Electronic ExaminationsPart of the planned course evolution was the introduction of electronic examinations. In the Fall2012 offering, the final examination was conducted electronically using Moodle as the deliveryvehicle. Starting in Spring 2013, all examinations (two midterm and the final) were conductedelectronically. Most exam questions use randomized parameter values to minimize the potentialfor copying. Furthermore, during exams the WisCEL space is converted from a collaborativeenvironment into a proctored electronic exam environment by using inexpensive cardboardcarrels to visually separate each student’s table space from the others’. The carrels
difficult to see, surprising drivers and damaging their vehicles; lawsuits have been filed due to this 6 The force on the vehicle can make a driver hit their head on the roof, spill drinks and/or food, and can damage a fragile item being transported Lifting of the front end of on-coming vehicles at night causes temporary blindness Fast drivers are not affected or do not care; slow, obedient drivers are punished Patients inside an ambulance can be injured Likewise, roundabouts have their share 7: Large area to modify, take several days/weeks to plan and build, and require partial/complete intersection closure for construction Unfamiliar drivers can be confused and enter/exit incorrectly
effectiveness ofonline education for the rapid manufacturing related courses which include the use ofvirtual facility embedded with tutor system?” These discoveries will open new avenues inhow to radically improve engineering curriculum with information technology. Sharing labresources with clearly defined educational methodologies and assessment formats will becomefeasible if the project is successfully completed. In this project, the goals of the proposededucational plan are as follows: (1) Cultivate and train undergraduate students participating inthe proposed education/research activities; (2) Incorporate applied research themes in rapidmanufacturing and technology goals into lecture and laboratory classes to engage students asactive participants
) technique combined with a multinationalexperience. PBL is based on the idea that a problem or a question, guide learning activities forthe construction of a particular device in a real context7. In this process, students seek solutionsto open problems by formulating research questions, plan design, collection, analysis andintegration of information, explanations and building models, and creating artifacts or productsof their understanding. Students also have the opportunity to control the learning process,making decisions about the pace, sequence and content of learning, and evaluating the results oftheir efforts and their learning strategies. This learning context involves both vertical learning(referring to the accumulation of knowledge of the
patterns of activities, students come to understand that responses to questions from the instructor for example will occur within a certain timeframe. Patterns in assignments and submission dates soon become evident so students can plan and dedicate the time to a task accordingly. 4. “Plan for the Unplanned”. Short and long term communication strategies should be thought through in the event that the course is interrupted by extenuating or unforeseen circumstances and the strategies should be made clear to students. 5. “Response Requested and Expected”. Students should be made aware that responses from the instructor will be provided within a “reasonable” time period. Class size, content
Energy and Micro Manufacturing. His current research interests include Robotics, CIM, Sustainable Manufacturing, Micro Machining and Engineering & Technology Ed- ucation. He has published several papers, in these areas, in various national & international conferences and journals. He has worked in heavy and light manufacturing industries manufacturing pumps, motors, and CNC machine tools in the areas of system design, production planning and control and manufactur- ing. Edinbarough also served in paramilitary forces and in the Air Force. He is a Life Member of the ISTE, a senior life member of the IE (India), a member of the ASEE & SME, and a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the state of Texas.Dr
” in order to addressa measure we refer to as curricular efficiency. We then demonstrate how curricular efficiencycorrelates to student academic success—in particular, the effect it has on improved graduationrates, and the number of credit hours accumulated while pursing a degree. In this work, the degreeplan for a curriculum is represented as a directed acylic graph. Graph-theoretic metrics related toefficiency are then developed and applied to engineering degree plans obtained from a number ofpublic four-year institutions. In addition, student success data at the class level is adapted to createa weighted directed graph from which a cumulative curricular efficiency metric is obtained. Oneuse for this metric is to provide a tool for