[3-5] with research conducted in Scotland and Australia serving as our primaryreferences, and examples from Canada. For instance, the General Teaching Council for Scotland[6] underlines the importance of reflection by providing opportunities for future teachers toreflect on and act to improve their own professional practice. In addition, the Australian Instituteof Teacher and School Leadership [7] requires all ITE programs to implement a teachingperformance assessment that includes a reflection of classroom teaching practice including theelements of planning, teaching, assessing, and reflecting. In Canada, the Association of CanadianDeans of Education’s General Accord [8] strongly emphasizes the importance of reflection inITE programs
University, lshamir@ksu.edu Ella Carlson, Kansas State University, ellacarlson23@ksu.edu Joshua Levi Weese, Kansas State University, weeser@ksu.edu Abstract The field of data science education research faces a notable gap in assessment methodologies, leading to uncertainty and unexplored avenues for enhancing learning experiences. Effective assessment is crucial for educators to tailor teaching strategies and support student confidence in data science skills. We address this gap by developing a data science self-efficacy survey aimed to empower educators by identifying areas where students lack confidence, enabling the design of targeted plans to bolster data science education
project management experience,or capstone sequence, for the Department of Civil Engineering (Department) at LawrenceTechnological University occurs over two terms: ECE4021 CE Design Project 1 (CE Project 1), a one-credit course offered in the fall, and ECE4033 CE Design Project 2 (CE Project 2), a three-credit course offered in the spring.Students form their own teams of three to five members and develop a project where theygenerate a conceptual design and project management plan. The capstone represents theculmination of the students’ undergraduate education, providing them an opportunity to integratevarious curricular components in preparation for careers as civil engineers.Neither course has an instructor in the traditional sense
framework for internationalization uniformly spanning all engineering, math and natural science disciplines at NAU.Dr. Harvey Charles, Northern Arizona University Dr. Harvey Charles is Vice Provost for International Education at Northern Arizona University. He pro- vides institutional leadership on strategic planning around global education, helps to facilitate global learning opportunities for students, supports faculty development opportunities through international teaching and research, and consults with colleges and universities on curriculum and campus interna- tionalization Page 21.29.1
University 5 Morgan State University 6 / New Jersey Institute of Technology 7 Rochester Institute of Technology AbstractThis is the third of three papers prepared for a special panel session of the National Collaborative TaskForce on Engineering Graduate Education Reform that addresses reform of faculty reward systems toadvance professional engineering education for creative engineering practice and technology leadership.This paper presents a roadmap for planned reform in defining a model template for professionallyoriented faculty reward systems that supports professional scholarship, teaching, and engagement inadvanced engineering practice for the
is used to facilitate partnerships and relationshipswith the community. We address these objectives using multiple data sources and observations todefine the case study activities. We then consider the impact of the camp on students byqualitatively assessing student camp surveys. Qualitative assessment of community data sources(i.e. reflections and surveys) guided the grant partners in evaluating the application of the CBPRmethodology for building community relationships. These reflections are summarized as lessonslearned and include plans for modifying the research approach to strengthen the partnership andsupport tribal youth.Background
quantitative data.Concurrently, qualitative data was thematically analyzed to gain insights into usage andperceptions surrounding AI.Results: The study revealed a growing trend among project management professionals inleveraging AI tools for a variety of tasks, including project planning, task assignment, tracking,and crafting emails, reports, and presentations. A strong correlation was observed betweenfamiliarity with ChatGPT and its likely usage in project management tasks. While someparticipants found AI tools convenient and efficient, they were frustrated with potentialinaccuracies and the need for specific input prompts. Overall, industry professionalsdemonstrated the usage of AI in project management, with a notable emphasis on taskautomation
leveraging technology to enhance learning experiences and broaden access to engineering education. He has experience as a practicing engineer and has taught at the university and community-college levels. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work-in Progress: Aligning an Engineering Hands-On Learning Program to College Strategy: Reducing Implementation Barriers to Support Faculty, Students, and Their SuccessAbstractThis Work in Progress addresses two of ELOS’ requested foci: pedagogy and best practices oflaboratory courses and hands-on laboratory instruction. We describe a redesign plan in theIntegrated Teaching and Learning Program (ITLP) at University of Colorado Boulder
participating in the workshops. We initially distributed our post-experience survey to a baseline cohort of students who participated in UGR but did not completethe EM-focused workshops. To improve workshop content and better understand studentmotivations, we will collect the corresponding data from workshop participants in the future.This paper describes our project goals, planned workshop content, and baseline survey resultsavailable on undergraduate student attitudes and motivations related to participating in research.Eventually, by piloting workshops and collecting data collaboratively across five institutions thatvary in size and culture, this project will deliver a flexible set of training modules and a menu ofintervention options that other
Academy (CGA), the civil and environmental engineering faculty recognizedthe need to educate the future of our Service and have developed a Coastal Resiliency Coursethat incorporates climate science into engineering practice. Coastal Resiliency provides studentsan exposure to best practices in civil engineering, climate science, community planning andpolicy. At CGA, no one faculty member has expertise in these collective arenas however, as ateam, the combined knowledge of three faculty members, and several guest lecturers, has beenleveraged to annually teach a course that educates future Coast Guard Officers and civilengineers about the challenges ahead for coastal communities. What began as a team-taughtcourse has morphed into a successful
to meet educational goals. It is important to define achievable and reasonable rubrics that thestudents can understand and achieve successfully.The capstone course in the School of Engineering Technology, which is in the Purdue Polytechnic Instituteat Purdue University, is offered over two academic semesters. The needed skills to define, design anddevelop engineering technology solutions are introduced and developed. Planning and designingalternatives that meet cost, performance, and user-interface goals are emphasized while consideringdifferent design approaches. In addition, project planning, scheduling, and management techniques arestudied. Teamwork, global and societal concerns, and professional ethics are integrated into course
Vision, Visualization, and Navigation Toolboxes, for fast algorithm development and testing. The paper presents three projects for autonomous mobile robots on the MATLAB-ROS- Gazebo simulation platform. The first project is on sensing and perception of laser scan data and its post-processing of model-based fitting. The second project is on the path planning of an autonomous mobile robot implementing the Wavefront algorithm. The third project obtains closed-loop control of the robot’s behavior based on visual hints. These three projects cover the fundamental components of controlling an autonomous mobile robot, including sensing, perception, decision-making, and low-level motion control. We believe
the sustainable disposal of food wastes was installed in aK-12 school, and researchers assisted teachers in generating hands-on, engineering-focusedlesson plans based on the digester technology. A pre-/post-assessment was conducted for abiology lesson. Results indicate students improved in their knowledge of sustainability issuesrelated to food waste and aerobic respiration. Students also self-reported learning more aboutsustainability, engineering, and biology concepts through the lesson. Perhaps most importantly,students were excited about the hands-on learning experience provided by the digester andexpressed increased interest in engineering and STEM-related careers.I. IntroductionClimate change is a pressing societal issue and researchers
with a range of audiences • (4) an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts [2].These meaningful documents guide all engineering programs and are more than aspirational.They are strategic and designed to affect change, so implementing action to produce studentswith global awareness and competency starts with the faculty.UniversityThe Pennsylvania State University’s Strategic Plan (2016-2025) spotlighted the need forgraduates to have more global awareness and competence. Its mission statement (abbreviated)below shows global engagement
activities made up two of these assessments, while the final projectwas split into two additional assessments: a lesson plan, and a presentation. The first lab activitywas done in groups of 2 students, while the second one was done in groups of 3 or 4 students.Lastly the final project, both the lesson plan and the presentation, was completed in groups of 3to 5 students. With 275 students, this resulted in a total of 260 submissions across all fourassessments—an abundance of submissions for the course team to assess in time. This raised theneed for the implementation of peer evaluations as 260 submissions to evaluate is a large feat forthe teaching team to tackle. The first lab activity was the same activity for all students, while thesecond allowed
Biomedical Engi- neering.Mr. Francisco Cima, Old Dominion University Francisco Cima is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at Old Dominion University. He obtained his Masters in Business Planning and Regional Development from the Techno- logical Institute of Merida. His areas of interest are innovation practices in organizations, communication technology in organizations, knowledge management, and team processes.Dr. Orlando M Ayala, Old Dominion University Dr. Ayala received his BS in Mechanical Engineering with honors (Cum Laude) from Universidad de Ori- ente (Venezuela) in 1995, MS in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2005, both from University of
, examples of prompts of elicit student ideas consisted of short phrases that theteachers used to better understand the students’ ideas. For example, Ms. Lane asked “What doyou mean?” and “So what is this?” when students were working on their plans. In otherexamples, when his students were testing their ideas, Mr. Smith asked, “What’s your solution?”,when Ms. Allen was trying to understand her students’ plan for their redesign, she asked “So thisis a flat mirror [drawn on the plan]?”, and Mr. Smith said “Just tell me your solution, if you hadto give the elevator pitch, you have 15 seconds here.” Although short, phrases such as these gavestudents opportunities to explain their ideas and to be responsible for explaining those ideas.They also helped
be delivered as a discipline-specific or as a universal cross-disciplinary version.For this study, students were assessed with Likert-based survey questions about how they felt the classprepared them or engaged them for a career in engineering and if they planned to remain in their program.The survey was given at the end of the semester they took their respective Introduction to Engineeringcourse. Statistical p-values were calculated from the Likert scores with respect to the discipline area of thestudent, the instructor, the semester, and the demographics of the student class population. The coursewas delivered in one semester as a generalized mechanical-engineering focused design approach and thenin a second semester as the three
is an evaluator for the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET.Dr. Marcia F Williams, North Carolina A&T State University Marcia F. Williams is the director of Special Academic Programs in the College of Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T). Marcia has more than 30 years of expe- rience in organizational development, strategic planning, proposal development, and grants implementa- tion and administration. Her experience with NSF programs include former co-principal investigator and statewide project director for the North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NC- LSAMP) program, co-principal investigator and administrative manager for
maintenance in software development.• Understand the ISO/IEC 12207 Software Life-cycle Processes w.r.t software evolution.• Perform a structured analysis and design small project.• Plan, analyze, design, implement, and test modifications to an existing software project.• Understand the issues of a software system port.• Understand the issues of software reengineering.• Understand the issues related to outsourcing software projects.• Work effectively in a team on a software maintenance or reengineering project.• Become familiar with reverse engineering strategies.This course is required and taken by the CSSE majors in their junior or senior years. Softwareengineering students take this course in their junior or senior year
likely always result in failure. People at all levels of the organization need to becomfortable with the emphasis on quality and accept as well as understand the anticipatedbenefits from its employment. The challenge then is to get everybody on the quality bandwagonworking together to reach the organization’s TQM expectations, objectives, and goals.Reinventing OrganizationsThe process of reinventing organizations has become more than just a buzzword. The quest fornew and improved methods, strategic planning, and results oriented performance measurementsare on the rise. The implementation of Total Quality Management is one of these reforms. In
- 12/University Partnership to Create an Engineering Magnet Elementary School This paper will describe the genesis of a new engineering themed magnet school in New Hanover County, North Carolina. A parent choice school assignment plan was adopted by the school system two years ago, immediately creating several extremely high needs schools in the downtown area. One of these schools, Rachel Freeman Elementary, gets the majority of its students from a nearby subsidized housing project. This year, the school is over 85% African American and over 75% of the students qualify for the federal free and reduced price lunch program. Rachel Freeman administrators made the decision to convert the school to an engineering magnet
Automation. His research interests include manufacturing systems modeling, simulation and optimization, intelligent scheduling and planning, artificial intelligence, predictive maintenance, e-manufacturing, and lean manufacturing. He is member of IIE, INFORMS, SME and IEEE. Page 14.1228.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 The Innovation Chase and Quest - A Case in Experiential Learning in Entrepreneurial CompetitionsAbstractThis paper describes experiences in participating in the competitions of the ChicagoEntrepreneurial Quest and Milwaukee Innovation Chase. Both
also the Director of University Entrepreneurial Initiatives. Page 14.1219.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 The I5 Program: the Challenges of Implementing a Project-Based Summer Study Abroad Program that Integrates Technology and Entrepreneurship in ChinaAbstractLeveraging the seemingly conflicted constraints of inflexible degree plans, high-hourdegree requirements, and the increasing costs of higher education in the United States,the I5 program (Immersion Into International Interdisciplinary Innovation) has built asummer program in China adeptly able to provide to undergraduate engineering
the department/school culture.The School of Engineering’s six year strategic plan (LEAD 2018) includes objectives inretention and graduation numbers. The team established the following goals (which were asubset from the institution’s strategic plan) that established the foundation for creating newinitiatives to address the most pressing issues: 1) enhance student retention, 2) expandengineering student enrollment, 3) enhance the non-traditional student experience bytransforming the delivery of student services, 4) expand veteran, reservists, and active dutyenrollments, 5) expand diversity, and 6) recruit and retain a diverse faculty and staff. Armed withthe new strategic plan, the leadership team began developing new programs and setting
to $2500 foronly one research presentation, and up to $2500 for only one faculty developmentopportunity (workshop, conference attendance) per year and only with a detailedprofessional development plan established with the department head prior to the currentyear of funding. Additionally, new assistant professors could apply for one grant in eacharea, associate professors on track to achieving full professor could apply for two out of thethree grants and full professors and long-term associate professors could only apply for oneout of the three faculty development grants.Initially the full and long-term associate professors expressed concern at the loss of anexpected college-wide benefit. However, further research into benefit use noted that
B.S. in ME, and both M.S. and Ph.D. in IE. He is a member of ASEE, INFORMS, ASEM, and a senior member of IIE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 An Advanced Technological Education Project for High Value Manufacturing: Lessons LearnedAbstractProjects rarely go according to plan, but this is especially true of those that involve multipleinstitutions and have a significant degree of complexity associated with them. This work relatesthe experiences an Advanced Technological Education (ATE) project around high valuemanufacturing. The project was a collaboration with a Texas A&M University and HoustonCommunity College. The project comprised three main aspects
ECMs is followed by areal industrial case study where the measure is implemented, and the annual energy savings wasrealized. Author also provides a discussion around the peak demand reduction, how it relates tothe energy savings that may be achieved due to installation of the ECMs.Finally, author recommends a field trip to help students visualize what they learned in theEngineering Thermodynamics course. This field trip would be visiting an on-site central utilityplant which most universities have to meet their heating and cooling loads. A step-by-stepprocedure is included at the end of this paper which streamlines the field trip planning processand helps the instructors to set and evaluate the goals of the trip. A paper-based
is presented on how they effectively plan and execute field trips ofconstruction sites as part of a senior level design class. The focus of the paper is on structural andgeotechnical components of construction, though the recommendations are applicable to a widertour scope of topics and classes. Clearly defining the purpose and goals of the field trip,coordinating with construction managers and others involved in the project throughout theplanning and tour, and organizing the activity are all important to providing a meaningfulexperience that addresses the class learning objectives. A range of examples are presented oftours that have been conducted to demonstrate specific learning opportunities available atconstruction sites. Photos are
, process monitoring/control, data science, cyber-physical systems, and cloudcomputing to drive manufacturing operational excellence. The convergence of IT and OT iscritical to allow interaction across the four layers of automation, within the automation pyramidstandardized by the International Society of Automation (ISA) in 2010 [7], where, Level-0:Sensors/actuators (field-level); Level-1: Real-time control systems (control-level); Level-2: Datamanagement, modeling, learning (supervisory-level); Level-3: Manufacturing operationsmanagement (plant-level); Level-4: Business planning and logistics (enterprise-level).Application areas span equipment health and status updates provided to consumers of machineryand HVAC systems, mobility avenues (e.g