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
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berevised thereafter to reflect any changes incorporated in the new solicitation. Please read andreview the rules, regulations, and stipulations in the applicable solicitation for the date of yourproposal submission. Read it early and revisit it often for improved chances of success with yourgrant proposal development and submission. 1. What is the maximum amount of funding that can be requested in the “Small Grants for Institutions New to ATE” category? a. $2,000 b. $2,000,000 c. $200,000 d. $20,000 2. First-time applicants to NSF-ATE are encouraged to consider which type of ATE funding? a. Planning grant b. Small Grants for Institutions New to the ATE Program c. Regional
Asking participants to reflect on how the following factors may have impacted their work: § Team size and composition; § Leader structure (single leader vs. co-leader); § External circumstances.Category Description ExampleCourses Efforts to either design a new Re-organizing an introductory course or to substantially engineering course around a set of revise an existing offering real-life scenarios and the use of design thinkingCredentials Efforts to introduce a new A major, minor or certificate in program of study available to innovation
was discussed and adjusted. To compensate for a lack of an item describing“associational thinking” in the original Dyer scale, two additional statements were developed todescribe this construct.Finally, to convert the modified behavioral statements from an agree-disagree scale into a self-efficacy measure, the scale instructions were adjusted to reflect a self-efficacy intent (“Pleasethink about how confident you are in your ability to do these activities”). A comparison of theoriginal Dyer et al. IBS behavioral items and the restated ISE.5 self-efficacy items is shown inAppendix A.4.0 MethodsThe validity and reliability of the ISE.5 measure was confirmed through three studies. Study 1outlines the process of evolving the Dyer et al. scale
,unvalidated version of the MFQ, such that the results do not support their claims.[69] Althoughthe authors of this paper find those responses convincing, as Owen Flanagan has recently andrightly noted, not all characteristics of MFT proposed by its creators/advocates logically entaileach other, such that trouble for one or some does not necessarily entail trouble for all.[70]The chief interest in MFT for the present study is as a pluralist, social intuitionist theory of morality– in other words, that, first, morality is about many things rather than only one; second, the contentsof moral judgments are socially oriented and culturally variable; third, moral judgments are closerto/result from feelings than rational reflection. As mentioned above, this
such as CATIA. Most classes in all three majors, especiallyupper division classes, included laboratories, so students gained familiarity with much of theequipment through exposure in multiple classes.The model for the three engineering technology programs was effective. Over most of the yearsof the programs’ existence until the late 2000s they each graduated 10-20 students per year. In thelate 2000s interest in the degrees began to increase, starting with the PET program and then fol-lowing with the MET program and to a lesser degree the EET program. In the period from 2009to 2015, the average graduating class sizes were approximately 17 for EET, 25 for MET, and 31for PET. That EET was the smallest program was a reflection of the additional
-Related Opportunities.The increase of aerospace-related courses and opportunities at UAF and resulting interest bycurrent and prospective students has (not surprisingly) also been reflected in increasedparticipation in the AIAA student chapter, the aerospace minor, and other aerospace-relatedcourses. These, in turn, generate a higher target population and more awareness of and interest inall of the above. For a small school such as UAF, this impact has been significant.Career options. Beyond the university realm, students participating in aerospace courses andactivities have had good success in transitioning directly into an aerospace job, whether in spacesystems or in aeronautics. UAF has a strong record of supplying its graduates to NASA, the
this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation. The authors also wish to thank Dr. Rebecca Bates, Dr. TamaraFloyd-Smith, Dr. Melani Plett, and Dr. Nanette Veilleux for their help in recruiting interviewparticipants for this project.References[1] S. Fayer, A. Lacey, and A. Watson, “Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations: past, present, and future : Spotlight on Statistics: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,” U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, Jan. 2017.[2] D. J. Nelson and C. J. Brammer, “A national analysis of minorities in science and engineering faculties at research universities,” Oklahoma University, Norman, Oklahoma, Jan
of the ecosystem: howchanges in the natural world specifically affect our species [61]. More recent theorists, however,are exploring the concept of “deep ecology,” that is, “nature as a whole has moral value” [62, p.97], irrespective of interplay with the human population. Viewing the natural world as having anintrinsic worth is, indeed, one of the major challenges facing environmental philosophers [63].Ocean gyres, particularly the GPGP, are a topic ripe for ethical reflection in engineering classesfor a number of reasons. First, it involves public safety, which engineers in all fields pledge touphold as professionals in their respective areas. Second, it involves establishing and maintaininga sustainable environment, which engineering
analysis because all the reports required a discussion of the results(In some labs, students were not required to include all the report sections). Moreover, scores onthe discussion section were deemed likely to reflect students’ understanding of content Tables 6 and 7 provide comparison of students’ lab report scores on three lab reportsections (i.e., abstract, results, and discussion) in the junior and senior level courses, respectively.In the junior course, four lab reports were required (as shown in Table 6); other laboratoryactivities required only informal writing, such as lab notebooks, and so they were not included inthe analysis of technical writing skills. In the senior course, lab reports were required for all fivelabs
terms of performance, we did not find a significant effect of the quiz mode on studentscores, when the quiz was administered in class. The only exception was when the quiz wastaken at home (b), in which case the mean score (Mquiz=7.41/8) was significantly higher thanall other modes (F=23.78, p<0.001). Although the quiz was open-notes, open-book in everycase, we believe there is an apparent effect of stress when the quiz is taken in a classroomenvironment that immediately affects student performance. However, we do not claim thatthe higher score reflects greater learning gains and more investigation is needed for a safeconclusion. Nonetheless, the evaluation results indicated that the specific design of movingtesting time right after lecture
. Purposivesampling of students who remained on campus was used for the interviews to ensure theirperspective was captured by the researchers.Results show a significant number of students, regardless of where they spent the break, studiedinefficiently during the break from school, which is reflected in their academic performance; andstudents who remained on campus while most of their peers left, found the time lonely andlargely unproductive.IntroductionAlthough a fall break has become the norm for many universities in Canada, little research hasbeen conducted to determine the impact of fall breaks on students, whether it is an evaluation asto whether the stated goals of the break – which typically focus on stress and mental health [1] –are being met, or
92% with a standard deviation of 5% (shown in Figure 4). Thestudents’ grades demonstrated that the students effectively applied the systems engineering toolsand methods to model the food justice system. An example of the instructor’s grading rubricsfor the first two phases are provided in tables 6 and 7. The instructor assessed how well that the students learned the material by grading thephase reports. The average grade across all teams and phases was 92% with an average standarddeviation of 5%, as shown in Figure 4. The instructor was pleased with the learning.Additionally the students completed a reflection on the food challenge experience
began toorganize around what seemed to be a natural division of physics into its constituent parts –electronics, mechanics, chemical, etc. While engineering became specialized in theorganizational structure of a technical business, schools reflected this specialization as well bycreating majors and even specifying different types of engineering degrees – e.g., mechanical,electrical, industrial. Companies hired based on these degrees. “We need to hire 4 electricalengineers, 6 mechanical engineers and 5 industrial engineers.” Departments were created tomanage these areas of engineering specialization – grouping engineers of similar training – andthe organization pyramid began to form. Each department has group leaders, section heads anddepartment