students for this problem as18.4 points. Next, we calculated the instructor average rating score as follows: (18.4/20)*5=4.6,which is listed below O6 on the third row in Table 3. As we mentioned before, grading thestudent’s projects yielded the instructor average rating score for outcome 8 (O8). The instructoraverage rating scores for assessing the rest of course learning outcomes are included in Table 3.The average rating scores from both the student survey and the instructor assessment can serveas a reference for the faculty to improve the course. For example, any course learning outcomeachieving an average rating score below 3.5 will raise a concern and require an action plan to fixthe issue
preferences for visual, active, orhands-on learning. Use of toys and demonstrations, when well-planned, practiced, andintroduced in support of class content, can liven up the classroom, engage and challengestudents, and help them visualize concepts that may otherwise be outside the realm of theirexperience.The literature on use of toys in education is indeed rich. Articles can be found in publicationssuch as American Journal of Physics, The Physics Teacher, the European journal PhysicsEducation, Prism and the Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education. Severalsuppliers including PASCO and Educational Innovations, Inc. have developed their businessesaround supplying the types of toys used in support of science and engineering education
in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals (EF), they may teach a section of a first-year engineering course. The practice of the Engineering Fundamentals department is to pair agraduate student with a faculty mentor to assist them with things such as lesson planning, studentethics, and grading policies. Recently, this program has been evaluated in order to betterunderstand the impact and future directions of EF graduate student mentoring. Additionally, theapproach of the EF mentoring program has been compared to its contemporaries at otheruniversities.Some universities have graduate courses specifically aimed at teaching techniques in highereducation for STEM fields. The University of Washington has developed a 2 credit graduatelevel
and pressure. The paper presents the design, testing and implementationof such EH system, supplying power to a WSN node, and the lessen learned during this project. 3. Low-Coast Energy Harvester for a Costal Monitoring Wireless Sensor NodeThis project is an underway project for MET 421/422/423 (Senior Project Design), preformed bya team of four students, two electrical and two mechanical seniors. MET 421/422/423 is asequence of three-quarter capstone project design courses required for all the BSET majors. Thecourse focuses on planning, development, and implementation of an engineering design project,which includes formal report writing, project documentation, group presentations, and projectdemonstrations. The goal of these courses is to
mentor) acts as arole model and guide for a less experienced person (a protégé) specifically advising he or she inacademic, personal, and/or professional aspects of their lives 14-16. The term “mentor” comesfrom the Greek poet Homer, in which Odysseus in The Odyssey selected “a trusted friend,Mentor, to educate, tutor, protect, and guide his son” (p. 66) 17. Professional mentoringoriginates in teaching, medical, and clinical practices 18,19. The meaning of the word “mentor”can have multiple contextual meanings such as “teacher”, “counselor”, or “advisor” relative tocorporate and educational environments. In general, mentors provide feedback regarding career plans and interpersonaldevelopment and are committed to helping protégés succeed in
faculty who coordinate the course according to acurriculum plan developed by the SDL Committee. Individual student design teams of 4-8students are managed by Faculty Advisors who are coordinated by the Course Faculty. Inaddition, each design team is assigned one or more Technical Consultants from the schoolfaculty to provide in depth technical guidance during their project. In addition, projects with asignificant Human Centered Design element are also assigned a Social Context Consultant toassist the team in developing their project in concert with the sponsoring community. Each teamis assigned to a client sponsored project. Project clients are extremely diverse, and includecompanies, on-campus organizations, governmental organizations, non
record, the TAs, the SupplementalInstructors (SIs), and the students looking for evidence to support our conclusions. The review ofthese data provided us with lessons that would allow us to improve the teaching and learningpractices for this specific environment while we were planning and building the infrastructure toshare and support online classes in three different institutions in New Mexico. The paper isorganized as follows. In Section II we introduce the main features of our model for cross-institutional collaboration including a brief description of the mechanisms for course sharing andcourse design improvement, as well as the description of the main personnel involved in theproject and the courses implemented online. In Section III, we
faculty member can actually enable learning by supporting the students’ non-academic needs, which in turn enables the students’ academic engagement. Another means to accommodate external Page 24.977.11 commitments is for faculty to avoid short time frames for completing assignments. This allows the student to plan around external time pressures while still completing their school work. ii. Our results also suggest that faculty should be explicit in discussing extracurricular activities with students, informing them of the potential benefits of
effective undergraduate research project requires significant effort and planning onthe part of the faculty. Challenges include selecting appropriate research projects, developing theresearch skills of the students, and finding the time to adequately advise and mentor theundergraduate researchers. This paper reports on our initial attempts to organize a course duringthe Spring 2013 semester that promotes undergraduate research at the University of Texas atTyler. While opportunities already exist for undergraduate students to do research with facultythrough an independent study elective, past results have been mixed and their organization hasbeen rather ad hoc. With this in mind, an undergraduate research elective was formed withspecific course
built to maintain environmental conditionsto aid the growth of plants. A greenhouse is built with covering materials such as glass or plasticto allow light and heat to enter inside and trap them to enhance plant growth. Though heat andlight are the key elements for plant growth, there are still other factors like watering plants andcirculating air and moisture that play an equal vital role in plant growth. Figure 4: Greenhouse prototype and automated systemGlass covering allows heat to be trapped inside but during extreme weathers such as duringsummer seasons, this might hinder the growth of plans by overheating the greenhouse. Thusthere is always the need for human assistance to monitor the conditions inside the green
scale. Thus,the students are introduced to systems-level thinking with a special emphasis placed on workingwith the customer.In the 452 HESE course, the projects in HE for community development are a continuation ofthe previous course. In this specific course, students are still working across disciplines but now Page 24.1034.13the students are required to assess the engineering of their business plan. They are utilizing HCDand other “design for X” type of methodologies. Broken into two separate sections, one groupfocuses in the international applicability while the other focuses on the American context so as tocover both the national and
necessity use preprocessing electronics to be compatible with that type of signal.The original purpose of interlaced video was to conserve bandwidth for a signal intended for over-the-air broadcast. However, interlaced video standards such as NTSC became so widespread, and compatibleequipment became so readily available and inexpensive, that such standards are often used even if the signalis never intended for broadcast. Interestingly, digital video cameras (such as those using CCD or CMOSfocal plan array sensors) do not capture an image as a raster scan (neither progressive nor interlaced), butfor compatibility reasons often covert the image to a signal format such as NTSC. Thus while moderncameras and displays don’t “need” to employ either type
resources varying from iron-nickel to silicates and possibly subterranean water ice [1].Planning landing sites for future missions to the Moon and beyond will require balancing anumber of competing objectives, such as available water ice, proximity to interesting surfacefeatures, hazard to landing craft, rovers, habitats, etc. Image data mining of extraterrestrial datasets will help automate the discovery of geological formations important for missions to theMoon, Mars, and other planetary bodies. Page 24.1065.2Planets and other bodies in the solar system share a number of visual features that provideimportant information on their formation and
Page 24.1067.9 Figure 6: UNP Mechanical design process UNP review deliverables include required documentation. Deliverables for the FlightCompetition Review (FCR) include: ● Assembly Procedures ● Personnel Budget ● Block Diagrams ● Power Budget ● CAD of Spacecraft ● Press Related Information ● Concept of Operations ● Pressure Profile ● Data Budget ● Proof of Licensing ● Document Tree ● Protection Plan ● EMC/EMI Mitigation Design ● Quad Chart ● Experiment Plan ● Radiation
Page 24.1074.5courses. In fact, it was the outcomes assessment results from the School of Engineering thatmotivated the proposal that landed this grant. The SFIP is a response to the students’suggestions that more practical problems should be included in the curriculum to provide contextto the theory presented in the classroom. Also, the institution itself, as a norm, sponsors innovation and the pursuit of excellence sothat the SFIP is conducted within a social system in which the upper echelons of leadershipsupport it. This is fortunate as, regarding this point, Everett Rogers starts his book [4,page 1]with the following quote by Niccolo Machiavelli from The Prince (1513): “There is nothingmore difficult to plan, more doubtful of
Research module provides a framework to acquaint students with research in IGERT-MNM’s interdisciplinary content areas, and to expose them to the processes researchers use to plan scientific investigations. The challenge of preparing research proposals marks the transition from the dependent to the independent stage in graduate students’ education. This transition is critical and prompts the development of a set of new skills and behaviors necessary for the successful completion of the doctoral degree and future professional career. This module offers instructional scaffolding to promote students’ mastery of the skills and thinking patterns associated with the creative
is planned: Lecturing and doing examples. Yeah, like they’ll lecture for a little bit and then they’ll do an example problems, lecture to us a little bit, like do just the concept, and then they’ll Page 24.1120.6 put the concept into an example and then they’ll do like an example or two. Then they’ll go back to another concept and just keep building on that, day in and day out. So, it’s very true about half the class doing other things, because I know a lot of people that are [thinking], ‘oh, I don’t learn in this class, I don’t do this, there’s no point in paying attention.’ The question wording
a period of 6 years (including the planned changes for the upcoming offering). The FCI assessment test was administered each year (pre-‐ and post-‐class) as the changes were incorporated. The FCI test consists of 30 multiple choice questions that examine conceptual knowledge of mechanics (i.e. there are no quantitative questions). According to Hake14 who has studied application of the FCI test in over six thousand students, the best metric for presenting the results is the normalized gain given by !"#$ !"#$$ !"#$!%# !(!"# !"!"" !"#$!%#) 𝐺
the results can be analyzed on a program by program basis rather thanbeing pooled.Representatives from the eight schools involved in this study have now attended threeworkshops, each held just prior to the annual ASEE meetings. The first of these, held on June 25– 26, 2011 in Vancouver served to introduce the participants to ChemProV, the IRBrequirements for the study, and the intended plans for the study. The second workshop, held onJune 9 – 10, 2012 in San Antonio, was used to introduce the participants to the SBL approach,work on assessement activities, and receive feedback about the prior year. The third workshop,held on June 22 – 23, 2013 in Atlanta, GA, provided the opportunity to review theimplementation of the SBL at the lead
defining characteristics. Mooreet al. [6] have defined engineering through twelve key indicators of quality K-12 engineering.Together these indicators provide a framework for characteristics of engineering that could beassessed. In the following sections, we will highlight some of the background literature relevantto the indicators that presented themselves in this study: (1) Engineering Design, (2) EngineeringThinking (with an emphasis on Creativity), (3) Engineering Tools, Techniques, and Processes,and (4) Teamwork.Engineering DesignEngineering design is at the heart of engineering practice. It involves iterations on the steps:define the problem, research the background knowledge on the problem, plan a solution,implement the plan, test the
engineering or engineering technology students with limited or not previousknowledge in the areas of renewable energy systems. HOMER optimization software packagecan be used for design, model and analysis to determine the optimal architecture, structure, sizeand control strategy of the hybrid power system. It can perform comparative economic andmodeling analysis on a distributed generation power system in order to get the best solution interms of cost, performances, size and structure. Several educational modules were developed, arein process or planned to be developed. The first developed module is about how to use, interactand understand with HOMER software package. Other modules are focusing on how design,analyze and optimize hybrid power systems
FrenchAcademy of Sciences (French/Russian) and the specialized technical school system.In this system, majors and other institutions in schools were carefully designed torespond to social needs. Both of the particular domestic and international situation ,and the implementation of the first Five-year Plan (1953-1957), promoted asignificant expansion of engineering colleges in a short time.In his first report to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, JiangNanxiang as the president of Tsinghua University wrote, one of the most fundamentalissues that must be addressed by Tsinghua University in the next five years is to gainpractical experience in training a large number of new engineers equipped with hightechnology and political quality
in lastyear’s survey. The average Likert score improved significantly from 1.28 of last year to 2.29 ofthis year. This validated our initial belief and intention that upgrading the software to Xilinx13.2, a much more stable version, improved students’ overall experience with the CAD tool.In the rest of the paper we present topics related to: 1) CAD software upgrade to Xilinx ISE 13.2and tutorial expansion; 2) hardware upgrade with the new 3.3V-compatible CPLD module andour new trainer; 3) new lab contents that integrated the concept of hierarchy in progressive steps.We close with an outline of our future plans. Appendix A provides a summary of the studentquestionnaire results and Appendix B outlines all the labs performed.Xilinx ISE CAD
transfer of knowledge. While community members wereengaged with the material, there was lower enthusiasm in the group than with less-structuredconversation. After this presentation, the community moved on to a different topic.The final meeting of the semester was spent exploring how to generate higher response rates onstudent evaluations. The response rate was important at this institution since it affected facultytenure and promotion. The community also explored how to effectively help “needy” orstruggling students with homework. During both of these discussions, practical troubleshootingoccurred. Finally, the community planned to discuss their own teaching evaluations at the firstmeeting in the spring semester. Although this suggestion
the last year. The challenges that remain and future plans are also discussed.I. IntroductionThe need for more engineers in the United States has been known for several years. This needdrew more public attention in June 2001 when President Obama put out the call and set a goalfor at least 10,000 more engineers to be graduated each year in the US.1 At the end of August2011, President Barack Obama’s Jobs and Competitiveness council made an announcement tohelp this short-term goal: more than 40 major companies agreed to double the number ofengineering internships to help universities improve their retention rate of engineering students.2The National Science Foundation joined this effort in September of 2012 by announcing acooperative effort with
Senior Executive organization. Demonstrates a high degree of Service creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in GS-15 planning organizing, and guiding extensive (20+ years) programs and activities of major consequences Uses creativity, foresight, and mature
role socialization on girls’ choice topursue STEM careers has been alluded to in the literature [28]. The impact of sociocognitiveinfluences on girls’ interest in STEM careers will be further considered in this study, as well theinfluences of K-16 education and early to mid-career experiences in the workplace.Data Collection Plan Page 23.966.4Based on the review of the literature, an in-depth interview protocol [25] was developed for thepilot study. For the pilot study, the researchers conducted two interviews spaced about a weekapart following an brief introductory conversation to introduce the study to participants. The firstinterview lasted
framework.A Framework for Thinking about Public Communication of EngineeringThe three dimensions of S&E communication discussed above are related to the goals organizershave for any given event or program. Figure 2 presents a framework that combines theseelements. Figures 3 and 4 show that these dimensions influence the type of forum that is selectedfor a communication event. The framework can be used to help engineering educators andstudents reflect upon and plan their own communication initiatives, ideally working to overcomelimitations or problems that are created when relying solely on DM communication. We intendthe framework to help engineering educators and future engineers think through dimensions oftheir communication projects and
educational process has been limited. Forexample, Mitchell, Hunsader and Parker 23 propose a simulation of a futures market togive students a grasp of how to value futures. They establish a lesson plan and even go sofar as to define the class size and time required to complete the simulation. Similarly,Hull, Kwak and Walker15 develop a simulation-based lesson to teach the intricacies ofIPO management and establish all the same metrics. Stretcher and McLain30 flip theprocess by developing a lesson wherein the students themselves must program asimulation to calculate net present value. Observably, there exist a number of singular simulation proposals for individualtopics in relatively introductory finance. However, none go so far as to simulate
lifecycle stages -- fromdevelopment to plan new activities to well-established programs in need of some revision. Forexample, Kisaalita’s international, interdisciplinary SL capstone design course at the Universityof Georgia has been running yearly since 2003.35 By comparison, Catalano’s redesigned seniorcapstone design course in bioengineering at Binghamton University was first offered with a SLmodel in the 2011/2012 academic year. Meanwhile, the integration of SL into a required year-long first year introduction to engineering course sequence at Walla Walla University wasproposed. Page 23.1080.5Prior to the workshop, participants read various