computer science is attainable, understandable and useful. 8PCM provides a way to frame the curriculum of each course in a major or minor. Instructors usethe parallels to determine the primary and secondary priorities which are then reflected in theevaluation and instructional activity design. Identifying priorities allows the instructor to beflexible and make changes “on the fly” if students lack assumed abilities or if they learn therequired concepts quickly and can handle more challenges.2.2 Objectives: Employment, Desire, FoundationPCM language clarifies the educational value of projects in a computer science curriculum withrespect to the objectives. The ability to work on projects develops employability becausestudents use, practice
there will always be positions for them. Thus, engineering education will also bechanging, with more emphasis on graduate education, as outlined in a recently released series ofreports by the National Academy of Engineering [30]. Educators recognize that undergraduateresearch motivates students to apply for graduate school, and underrepresented groups mustbecome an integral part of such a technical workforce. However, underrepresented collegestudents do not reflect their numbers in the U.S. population (51% women, 12.1% AfricanAmericans, and 12.5% Hispanics [27, 28, 31]). A recent National Academies report [32]recommends: “Increasing participation of underrepresented minorities is critical to ensuring ahigh quality supply of scientists and
. With thisin mind, it becomes clear that disciplinary content mastery can not and should not be divorcedfrom mastery of the discipline’s rhetoric. Thus, “interactive socialization” is crucial in helpinggraduate assistants construct the agency that is important for them to become innovativeresearchers and more “reflective, confident and self-directed” as adult learners.68, 69So, while students and faculty of science and engineering with differing native languages havethe ability to converse in highly constrained mathematical and technical languages, they alsoneed to have the ability to describe their inspirations and intuitions, as well as explainconnections they might have to other experiences in their unique pasts. When the participants insuch
, Institutionalization and Outreach, and Social Activities) meet asfrequently as needed. The name of a committee reflects the responsibilities assigned to each oneof the committees.The EXCEL program has two Directors (Dr. Georgiopoulos from the School of ElectricalEngineering and Computer Science, and Dr. Young from the Department of Mathematics).Furthermore, the EXCEL program has four program Coordinators: Dr. Hagen fromCivil/Environmental Engineering, Dr. Geiger from Chemistry Department, Dr. Islas from theMath Department, and Dr Parkinson from the Department of Biology. The Directors of the Page 14.985.9EXCEL program supervise and coordinate all of the
looking beyond, for example, thenumbers of female faculty in a particular program, such as engineering, and looking beyondmere compensation figures. An over-representation of women in the lowest faculty ranks mayindicate some form of discrimination in the promotion and tenure process, or it may simplyreflect recently stepped-up efforts to increase the representation of women on an engineeringfaculty by hiring larger numbers of new Ph.D. recipients.37 Similarly, a salary differentialbetween male and female faculty members of apparently similar rank and responsibility mayresult from some form of discrimination in the compensation process, or it may reflect someother intangible factors not readily apparent from reviewing a salary spreadsheet.12,37
Page 11.236.4completing the entire curriculum became more of a judgment call. There may be ten courses thatcontribute to attainment of recognition and understanding is finally achieved through a Capstonedesign course. A numerical manipulation of averages was not helpful in making this assessment.After considerable discussion, the attainment of each BOK outcome was assessed from thecombined contribution of courses and other activities in the student’s four-year experience. Theresults are shown in Figure 2 where the ratings reflect, for example, that the USMA CE majorsupon graduation are fully able to attain recognition and understanding competency in the designof a system and are about 20% of the way to ability which entails being able to
disastrous results and stated that a small elite group of people with special intellectualabilities are the only ones that should be trusted with knowledge. “I do not, however, think the attempt to tell mankind of these matters a good thing except in the case of some few who are capable of discovering the truth for themselves with a little guidance. In the case of the rest to do so would excite in some in a thoroughly offensive fashion, in others certain lofty and vain hopes as if they had acquired some awesome lore.” Plato Letter VII, 341d- 342aPlato’s assertions here reflect the supercilious attitude as he seems to indicate that “the commonperson cannot assimilate sensational information without fear or being given to
sign test wasperformed. However, before this test was conducted, the 92 participant observations were refinedto those that had a non-zero delta between their pre- and post-survey responses. While a zerodelta reflects no change for that participant on that item, a non-zero delta indicates a change inthe participant’s response from pre- to post-survey. A sign test was then performed using thenon-zero delta observations to identify any statistically significant differences for each surveyquestion. The test results revealed that there was a statistically significant change in participants’consideration of a manufacturing career, belief of job availability, view of the education levelneeded for these jobs, and perception of cleanliness. The
style: Sufficiency of Originality, Efficiency, and Rule/GroupConformity. These sub-factors are also normally distributed within the following theoreticalranges: SO (13–65), E (7–35), and R/G (12–60) [26, 27]. Sufficiency of Originality (SO)highlights differences between individuals in their preferred ways of generating and choosingideas. The more adaptive tend to generate more highly detailed ideas that remain more closelyconnected to the original constraints of a problem, while more innovative individuals tend togenerate ideas that challenge the problem definition and constraints. Efficiency (E) reflects anindividual’s preferred methods for managing and organizing ideas as they solve problems. Themore adaptive prefer to define problems and
Remarks d. Forward Work and Evaluator Conclusions 4. Conclusion 5. References 6. Appendix 1 Listing of Student Research Abstracts 7. Appendix 2 Program Evaluation Survey InstrumentsThe West Houston Science and Engineering Center The West Houston Center for Science & Engineering (WHC) is part of the HoustonCommunity College District (HCC), a designated Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), with anannual enrolment of 114,000, across a 630 square mile district service area [1]. For fall 2016,58% of the students were female, and the racial and ethnic demographics reflected 15% Asian,30% Black, 37% Hispanic and 14% White. In general, about 10% of the semester credit hourstudent population is
Paper ID #14486The History of the Engineering Libraries Division, Part 1 - 1893 to 1960Mr. Michael J White, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The History of the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education, Part 1: 1893-19601. IntroductionThe Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) of the American Society for Engineering Education(ASEE) will mark its fiftieth anniversary as a division in 2017. This important milestone is anappropriate time to reflect on the role and impact of librarians within ASEE and in engineeringeducation
quarter for theAdvocates and Allies group, targeting male faculty) may impact the latter, however. Meetingonce a quarter is beneficial in that it provides time to reflect on issues between meetings, but itmeans that participants will be exposed to new material at a slower pace (particularly given thatthe related workshops and distinguished lectures will likely cease with the end of this academicyear with the expiration of the grant). It is anticipated that project leaders will have to providemore assistance to the Advocates and Allies group until they develop a stronger understanding ofissues, resources, and potential projects.A mixture of quantitative and qualitative measures have been used to assess and evaluate theprogram, including an annual
also a driver of innovation13.As Bower and colleagues have suggested, strategy is often decided in a bottom-up fashion,reflected in the ways lower-level managers choose to allocate resources13. It is imperative that Page 26.1211.10managers at all levels are willing to make resource investments in technologies that develop intothe next disruptive discovery, staying true to the strategic goals of the research organization. As we have shown, several key themes have emerged over the years as scholars havesought to better understand innovation management. In the next section we describe OrganizedInnovation in detail as an overarching
participate reflected the demographic of the Faculty, a purelyserendipitous occurrence. Of the 22 participants there were five students who were not visibleminorities in engineering, nine students who appeared to be English dominant and seven whowere female. None of the teams investigated in this paper consist of all monolingual Englishspeakers, and only one team, Team 4, consisted of all domestic students. The language diversityof the teams was representative of the University’s (and in particular the Faculty’s) linguisticdiversity. Given the demographics of the teams and the student population in this course, theprobability of having teams volunteer that did not have similar diversity to the student body wasminimal. The students’ motivations for
. Additionally, it was found thatstudents did not want an easy course; they were aware of the challenges that lay ahead them asengineers. However, they did enjoy the excitement that the course added to their curriculum,while preparing them for their future career. The feedback reflected student’s interest in thecourse and reinforced the strong and positive elements of the course’s structure.Improving math skills, Providing community-based support system: Weatherton et al.30 tried toincrease retention by providing freshman students with academic support services in calculus andbasic mathematics. They studied the retention and performance of incoming freshmen that wereinvolved in one of four freshman interest groups (FIG), called FORCES (Focus on
15 10 5 0 Excel PYTHON MATLAB Excel and MATLAB Figure 7. Student submittal typesExample student realizations / spread sheet formThe students were instructed to keep the standard notation for four bar linkages shown in thelecture notes. Figure 8 shows the numbering conventions for a typical linkage, shown in the openposition [12]. A crossed or closed configuration would be realized with all links remaining at thesame lengths shown in Figure 6, with link 4 reflected across the horizontal axis with link 3 stillconnecting the ends of links 2 and 4. Figure 8. Link, angle
was always marked for grammatical errors, though grammar factored intogrades differently for each assignment. Students were graded for content and mechanics in paper1, whereas paper 2 was graded for content, persuasiveness, and a group’s ability to express itsideas clearly. In this way, Practical English departed from GE 3513, in which students’ gradesalways reflect their documents’ content, grammar, mechanics, and style.Minimizing grammar instruction was always my intent for Practical English. Students takingPractical English (similarly to those taking GE 3513) were expected to enter the class with basicgrammar and mechanics mastered; the purpose of this class was to teach students to applypreviously learned writing and grammar skills to
is surprisingly great – boys expressed a much higherexpectation of success, and girls continued to express uncertainty in their abilities, even afterscoring high on a test. Karp and Shakeshaft32 (1997) found that males dominate classroomconversation and are generally more confident in the classroom setting. This issue ofconfidence is a serious one, as confidence is often found to be precursor to achievement.The second theme that emerged from the interview results reflects issues of confidence andprogram choice. The interview subjects made interesting comments about why females arechoosing not to pursue engineering:“I was really worried about it in high school. I was good in english…I had good marks in