[43, 47]: Page 11.288.10• Long term effort,• Technical assistance, as well as support networks,• Collegial atmosphere in which teachers share views and experiences,• Opportunities for reflection on one’s own practice,• Focus on teaching for understanding through personal learning experiences, and• Professional development grounded in classroom practice.The teaching of science should be centered on inquiry-based strategies that incorporate thesolution of real world problems. The integrative nature of science and engineering lies in thefact that engineering and design also provides a systematic approach to problem solving in a realworld
learningcapabilities for the student and may be able to find new research opportunities. Communitymembers learn about engineering capabilities and better understand the university. Service isprovided to the underserved or for the common good of the community and benefits the students,faculty, the department, the local community, the institution, and the private sector15. Note thatone important fact about service learning is the reflection component done by the student. It hasbeen shown that over 65% of the students recognize the civic engagement portion of service-learning as a critical part of their education12.Today engineering curriculum lags behind other disciplines in offering service learningprograms12. This is unfortunate, because it is an effective
have existed degrees of biases due to the lackof privacy felt by respondents by having a relatively small student population.Unlike the study performed by Puerzer and Rooney7, this study did not have the advantage ofrespondents with a normalized perspective as that of alumni. This study involved sensitive Page 11.130.6topics current to the respondent, so it was considered possible that the respondent might be morebiased without the advantage of reflective perspective. For instance, a respondent in the secondyear-of-study may have believed he/she was prepared for research, but that respondent wouldperhaps believe that he/she was not prepared at
anincreasingly essential skill for engineers. This requires not only knowledge of statisticalconcepts related to DOE, but also the ability to integrate this methodology with fundamentalengineering principles toward designing and understanding experiments. However, currentengineering curriculums have not fully adapted to this need in the engineering industry. In the1970s and 1980s, the absence of sound statistical methods in the engineering work place led to acrisis in US industry where a large percentage of the market share went overseas. This crisis wasfirst reflected in the manufacture of automobiles and then in the process-oriented manufacture ofintegrated circuits.1,2 Only with the industrial investment towards quality, largely through the
, http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/cpr/toc.html.6. Galileo Galilei , "Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences" (1638) ,translated by Henry Crew & Alfonso de Salvio, William Andrew Publ., Norwich, New York, U.S.A., http://www.williamandrew.com/pdf/TwoSciences.pdf7. von Glasersfeld Ernst, "A constructivist approach to experiential foundations of mathematical concepts", (In S.Hills, ed.), History and philosophy of science in science education. Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 1992, 551-571.8. Dubinsky Ed. "Reflective abstraction in advanced mathematical thinking," In (D. Tall, ed.), Advanced Page 11.1263.15
competition is added to the simulation with significantrewards for the top competitors.Pre-packaged simulation curricula for use in the technology entrepreneurship classroom come ina wide range of options. In some ways, they reflect the variety of approaches to teachingentrepreneurship discussed in this paper. That is, some simulations use the business plan as thecenterpiece, requiring students use live data to gather, collate, and present information aboutmarkets, industries, and customers within the context of a business plan. Other simulations focuson small business settings, where students are required actually to make decisions aboutmerchandise mix, pricing, cost allocation, and other core business decisions.Some of the leading technology
02-03 07-08 12-13Figure 1. TAMUS URM STEM Enrollment from Fall 1992-2016. Data taken from NSF WebAMP survey.As with the URM STEM enrollment data, the URM STEM BS degree data in Figure 2 are alsocyclic as a reflection of the student pool of eligible majors. With few exceptions, growth hascontinued as enrollment has continued to increase. The degree data appear to have more dipssince the time to degree completion varies according to how quickly the students move throughtheir degree plans. Some students may postpone their studies for a year or two and then return tocomplete their degrees once they experience the benefit of a degree in the workforce. TAMUS URM STEM Bachelor Degrees 1,400 1,200 1,000
research accommodation and support from allthe organizations involved. Students from the author’s Engineering Geology, Rock Mechanics,Soil Mechanics I and II, Soil Engineering, Foundation Engineering classes, in particular James,Hannah, Bradley, Jaden, Jacob and Sung are all gratefully appreciated for providing their coursefeedback on a memorable learning, discussions and invaluable teaching experience. The findings,opinions expressed in this article does not reflect any organization’s endorsement. It purelycomes from the author’s motivation to better help teach and learn soil mechanics and engineeringwith intuition, insight, personal observations and experience, some remote and maybe evenremotely wild connections and/or cognitive
can be processed inonly one of two ways (addition and subtraction) at the most fundamental level, regardless ofthe device that processes it, be it electronic or biological. If so, we can infer that no matterhow a computing device processes information structurally, the duality in basic computationwill most likely manifest itself at higher-level device-dependent processes as well. Anotherreason for similarities may be that the design and use of electronic computing devices areimposed by biological computing agents that control them. As a result, the mind’s use ofelectronic computing devices should reflect how it does its own computing. This may be whymodeling is common to both electronic and biological computing because the thinkingprocess
Plan Review and Annual Business Forum Committees. In addition, she has served on the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council and as a founding Director for the Business Growth Network. She also served on the board of the Division of Professional Affairs Advisory Council for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Known for her candor and high ethical standards, positive energy and astute people skills, she has become a valued resource for business incubator programs throughout Virginia and her success as a business consultant is reflected in the successful outcomes of her clients. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Social Mechanisms of Supporting
graduates interviewed as part of thelarger study.Case 1: MarthaThe case of Martha (civil engineering) illustrates a seamless university-to-work transition. Althoughher transition experience was not necessarily typical of the selected graduates, her case reflects onepole along a wide spectrum of experiences. She represents high achieving students with a plethoraof opportunities derived partly from their native abilities and partly from social connections. Marthawas well-prepared for her transition, having started her job search in the summer before graduating.She compiled a list of 25 companies aligned with her interests, and submitted 15 applications thatresulted in ten interviews and eight job offers. But the offer she ultimately accepted was not
make sure that my next quarter goes a lot better. The biggest thing is learning from your mistakes. I did that a lot, a lot of reflecting and seeing how I can improve as a student and how to improve as a male in general and making the best out of the situation. I made sure I was active here [in college] in organizations and stuff and that kind of helped me a lot with my major and I just didn’t want to have my experience here be that I really just was here just for classes and not much else. I think a lot of times students come in and get tied up in school and the time goes by so fast then you don’t really have much else to look on besides the work in the classroom and not saying there’s nothing
active learning interventions and the prevalence of flipped classrooms have increasedin recent years (Koretsky et al. 2015). While still not universally accepted, some studies suggestthat both active learning interventions and flipped class approaches can increase student learningand performance (Freeman et al. 2014; O’Flaherty and Phillips 2015). Active learninginterventions can be generally defined as any instructional method that engages students in thelearning process (Prince 2004). Several core elements of active learning include student activity,student participation in the learning process, student reflection on ideas presented in the coursecurriculum, and regular assessment by students concerning their degree of understanding andhandling
andStarbucks applications. Most of the interviewees touted the efficiency of these mobile paymentapplications, as well as the targeting of deals and customer rewards as attractive features, butwhen asked why they do not use these applications their answers ranged from inconvenience,uncertainty regarding the benefits of the payment platform, and mistrust of the platformregarding privacy of their personal information. It is noteworthy, that the privacy of personalinformation is a factor that encourages adoption in the NFC platform, but discourages adoptionof online mobile payment platforms. This is reflected in Figure 5 which shows that adopters ofNFC payment and cash payments are more sensitive towards disclosure of PII with a scoresignificantly above
provided a way to reflect and improve the program. Ourwork developed similar conclusions. In a survey done to characterize programs collaborating withindustry partners across the country, it was noted that in most cases these collaborations lead tosuccess, but warrant further discussion and investigation 3 . Industry-academia collaborations alsofind a place in accreditation guidelines which makes it even more attractive to both academic andindustry partners 4 . Similar observations and experiences have been discussed in additional priorwork as well 5,6,7,8 , echoing many of the conclusions reached in our present work.Many of the academia-industry collaborations revolve around the senior design or capstoneproject experience, where an industry
whenplaced within the context that considers the professor’s specific objectives, the complexity ofthe subject matter, the physical setting of the classroom, and the capabilities of the learners.The challenge is to choose a suitable method at the appropriate time. Understanding the prosand cons of the lecture method is a helpful starting point.Lectures have a number of characteristics that does make them, for the right subject matter,desirable in the classroom (14) .It does, to a great extent, depend on the abilities andexperience of the lecturer. An able and committed lecturer can accomplish the following: 1. Relate the material proficiently and effectively, in a manner that reflects lecturer’s personal conviction and grasp of the subject
verification, andengaging with customers. Initially, Zach was excited about generating ideas, and he enjoyedbeing part of the entire product design process. Then the company displaced manufacturing toChina, and Zach had to tackle non-engineering related issues. Zach began to reflect on his workand subsequently determined he should either seek a new position or enroll in graduate school.Zach realized most of his time was spent working with CAD software for tasks that did notrequire an engineering degree. He felt the medical device company’s other divisions(orthopedics) were doing more important work. Zach considered leaving the medical devicecompany when his wife relocated for a medical residency position. At that point, he had twooptions: find a test
the use of documentationin industry and education: How might we foster the use of documentation in engineering projects that encourages iteration and reflection but does not take away from the quality of the project itself?StatusArtifacts that disseminate status inform the audience about the state of an activity. When theseartifacts are successful, they enable the author to report the progress of a project accurately andhonestly. Most successful status documents seen across sites are living documents that fosterdiscussion and many of these artifacts were adaptations of existing artifacts, most originatingexternal to the companies. They were originally adopted to fill a need and were updated andoptimized over time to fit their
-12 educationresearch, neither McDermott nor Kohn have been cited in the Journal of Engineering Education.So engineering education seemingly missed the conversation and the opportunity to reflect onthe value of competition in its pedagogy and culture. Thus exploring the element of engineeringculture as competitive is more challenging to do in a historical review. Competition is somethingmany in engineering education would acknowledge, in many meanings of the word, yet fewwould feel the need to question, problematize, or even document it. Indeed, it seems few have: Ihave not found incisive historical ethnographic accounts of the development of competition orcompetitiveness in educational or professional settings to the same extent as other
higher education. Although Texas is improving at increasing college completions for students from groups that traditionally have not earned certificates or degrees in large numbers, the state has not improved quickly or broadly enough to keep up with the changes in demographics. Completions in Higher education must reflect the population as a whole. (THECB, 2015)The report continues to state that: While continuing to pursue increased knowledge and higher standards of excellence in teaching, research and innovation, two- and four-year colleges in Texas will need to consider more explicitly the primary reason most students attend college: to get a better job and achieve a better life
, misunderstandings were common because of differences in their disciplinary languages,tools, physical models, and skill sets, and also in terms of mental models of other disciplines andstereotyping. Reflecting on this experience, we have been able to develop procedures and toolsthat have reduced some of the uncertainty and friction. One example of a tool is a semantic webtool to help team members to get informed about each other’s roles and disciplines (Donate et al.2015).Current Course Offering:Thirty three engineering students from computer engineering, computer science, and electricalengineering enrolled in this elective course on app development. They were recruited with clearindication that they will be working with students from nursing and arts, and
, including high ceilingswith hard, reflective floors creating a flutter echo, a long hallway or stairwell that producesreverberations with a gradual decay, and finally an anechoic sound recording booth.Following the walk, students return to the main classroom and attempt to recreate the differentenvironments they explored using a multi-tap delay effect built into AudioWorks. Three othereffects in AudioWorks are also briefly introduced: harmonic distortion, low and high-pass filters,and amplitude modulation. For this activity, students are encouraged to bring their own electricinstruments and use the iPad running AudioWorks as an effects processor, which provides aunique opportunity to visually relate the sound of various effects to how they modify
the necessary runtime information for a givencomponent (such as I2C bus, resistor pull-up/pull-down configuration, pin number, etc.) isincluded. A major design goal for this system was configurability, along with reusability. Allnetworking information is present in the XML document as well, so should any networkingparameters change, those changes can be reflected in the XML document and no changes need tobe made to the software itself. Therefore, this system facilitates the development of innovativeand creative tasks in the future without any barriers.Robot Positioning SystemIn addition to the core software and hardware that allows students operate and test on thecourses, there is also the Robot Positioning System (RPS). The RPS is a system