bydigital means 1. However the potential of AR as a motivation-stimulated factor in languagelearning and vocabulary learning remains unexplored. The purpose of this study was to explorehow AR might affect student motivation for vocabulary learning.An exploratory pilot study of a freely available augmented reality English vocabulary learningapplication was conducted to assess AR’s influence on students’ learning motivation. Semi-structured interviews were used for gathering assessment data. By analyzing the gatheredqualitative data within the framework of the ARCS Model, our results suggest that AR may helpwith student motivation toward the beginning of the application session, but tended to decreasetoward the end of the session. Several potential
testing approach described in the introduction, we created an online quizsystem called Point Barter. It allows students to take an exam using a web browser. Questionsare presented sequentially and the interface is similar to most online testing environments.However, for each question, a barter button is available and is labeled with a predetermined pointvalue (figure 1.). Figure 1. Screenshots before bartering and after bartering.The student can choose to answer the question with or without using the barter feature. If he does Page 24.1159.4not use the barter feature, the test proceeds like other online tests. However, if he
. In 2010 Perry was named Distinguished Professor of the Year by the President’s Council of Universities in the State of Michigan. Page 24.1181.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Testing a Prototype System for Mining of Student Notes and Questions to Create Study GuidesThe IssueIn the foreseeable future it will be technically possible for instructors, advisors and otherdelegated representatives of a college or university to access student participation andperformance data in near-real time. One potential benefit of this increased data flow
and in some cases also Calculus II; b) cutting,removing or combining some general engineering courses (such as combining Statics andDynamics into one 3 to 4 SCH course); c) treating Physics II and Electrical Circuits asessentially equivalent and requiring only one; d) eliminating or turning Numerical Methods andFinite Difference/Element courses into electives; and e) eliminating numerical methods topicsfrom curricula due to the inclusion of industry standard software (ISS) packages such asMODFLOW (groundwater modeling), ANSYS (for structural analysis) and HEC-HMS (forhydrologic routing)3,4,5,6.Due to the curriculum reduction approaches described, the potential impacts on the knowledgeand skills students learn and develop during their college
the possibility of requesting some sort ofaudience feedback or evaluation forms to be gathered as visitors to the poster session exited.Comments or scoring on individual presentations and interaction could provide helpful feedbackto student presenters.The requirement of communicating “technical accomplishments and design lessons learned” wasfound to be generally unifying among most types of engineering-related student projects, but didpresent a challenge to some excellent engineering-education oriented posters which had thepurpose of improving engineering outreach to young people rather than presenting a technicalapplication or development. These clearly presented engineering education-relevantmethodology and documented results and would have
. Page 24.1051.2Our students construct a model for electric current and use their model to predict the behavior ofsimple circuits containing lantern batteries, flashlight bulbs, light bulb sockets, connecting wireand switches. They develop operational definitions for all technical terms. Students use theirobservations to construct rules for the behavior they observe. The exercises guide the students toformulate Kirchoff’s Current and Voltage Laws. Other laboratory activities give students theopportunity to measure the resistance of a lamp and to determine if the lamp obeys Ohm’s Law.They are generally surprised to find that the graph is nonlinear and that the resistance of the bulbis a function of the current through it. A simple extension of
campus and post-graduation.ContextPracticing engineers and technical professionals have design experience that goes beyondtechnical design that include6: design priorities including proper design tools and methods;economic analysis; importance of non-technical issues involving marketability, legal issues,codes and standards, product safety, environmental issues, etc.; and, design reviews. Designreviews are recognized to have two objectives, 1) identify deficiencies or problems with thepresented design, and 2) improve the design6. Page 24.1178.2 In industry, design reviews are used to avoid expensive change-orders by having sponsors,champions or
degree in four-year colleges. Research indicatesthat the majority of engineering students come from at least a middle-classbackground. Thus, for first-generation and economically disadvantagedstudents class is an obstacle because they lack the middle-class culturalcapital needed to succeed academically. The research question for this study is the following: What is therole of problem-oriented pedagogical strategies in developing theprofessional identity and technical capital among community collegestudents in advanced technological education? In this paper, we argue thatlack of cultural capital can be mitigated by helping community collegestudents acquire a professional identity. Furthermore, in addition to culturalcapital, we argue that
. Page 24.240.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 BUILDING A STUDENT- STUDENT-GENERATED INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO LIBRARY FOR THERMODYNAMICSAbstract Current college students are accustomed to documenting and sharingtheir experiences through text, photo, and video, thanks to the ready availabilityof all of these through personal portable devices. The democratization of videoproduction and access has led to the possibility to both teach and learn with videoas never before. This work seeks to capitalize on student expectations and thecurrent technological environment to bring the benefits of both teaching andlearning with video into core technical undergraduate engineering
with bus schedules, real-time bus location and delayinformation so they can plan trips accordingly, and to provide useful information to thetransportation center for management purpose. The developed system has been tested anddemonstrated successfully.IntroductionThe presented work is the outcome of an undergraduate capstone project. Students in theComputer Engineering Technology (CET) major at Central Connecticut State University arerequired to finish a capstone project in their senior year study. The capstone project isaccomplished by successful taking two consecutive courses, Capstone Project I and CapstoneProject II. The Capstone Project I course is 1-credit in which students research, propose andfinalize project ideas. The Capstone
observe the issues caused by FPA and learn aboutways to address them. Different colors are used to highlight the differences between the firstthree solutions so that students can easily notice where the differences are.Figure 1 is a screenshot of Roots, where 𝑎 = 1, 𝑏 = 10000 and 𝑐 = 1, which is the case where𝑏 2 ≫ 4𝑎𝑐. With the visual aid of colors, the differences appearing in √𝑏 2 − 4𝑎𝑐 are highlighted,where the naive solution with double-precision is more accurate than the first two. Between thefirst two, the cancellation solution generates a more accurate result. After calculating the largeroot, the naive approach with single floating-point format gets a zero while the second approachgets a result close to the ground-truth
contribute to the industry.1. Background and RationaleSoftware quality is a crucial issue in software engineering. As software has becomeubiquitous, software products have become critical. This poses a problem in the softwareindustry, as there is generally a lack of knowledge of Software Verification and Validation(V&V) benefits and a shortage of adequately trained V&V practitioners. This project, funded bythe National Science Foundation –Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (NSF-TUES) grant, has objectives to transform arequired course in Software V&V offered to Software Engineering students at Author’sUniversity and disseminate it to the academic and professional communities. Existing
found MIT AppInventor to be very accessible and quickly learned how to develop their own apps. MIT AppInventor can allow students without any background in information technology to see computingconcepts in a context that is of great interest to them.INTRODUCTIONThe trend of declining student interest in computer-related fields [1-3], combined with increaseddemand from the industry, challenges instructors to come up with new methodologies to attractstudents. Furthermore, with the diffusion of information technologies into almost all disciplinesof study, introductory computer courses need to have new approaches that can motivate studentsfrom all majors to feel comfortable with the computing concepts and tools.Emergencies often occur with little
constrainedfor the technical level of its constituency.Design Project OverviewThe hydroelectric power generation project with associated power monitoring was inspired by anoverseas aid project involving the construction of a permanent magnet generator used with asmall wind turbine3. The hydroelectric application of a PMG was originally selected because itprovides a platform that introduces students to electrical, computer, mechanical, civil, andenvironmental engineering concepts. The initial instantiation of this design project waspreviously reported at the 2013 ASEE Annual Conference—where the electromechanical aspectsand associated model equations for the generator are described in full detail4. A briefpresentation of the necessary attributes is
Engineering Education, 2014 Delivery of Hands-on Technical Courses through Real-Time Distance LearningAbstract It is generally believed that it is too challenging to deliver technical laboratory coursesusing distance learning technologies. The focus of this research was to develop strategies thatmay be used to address these challenges. A research team composed of faculty from severaluniversities and community colleges explored what might be needed to make these types oftechnical laboratory course instruction possible using distance learning technologies. The teamexplored delivering a microcontroller embedded systems design course through audio-visualdistance learning technologies. The team’s research and
policies that can increase the U.S.electric generation share to 25 percent renewable content by 2025, would stimulate enoughdemand for the component parts needed to make wind turbines, solar panels and other cleanenergy technologies to create 850,000 jobs in existing U.S. manufacturing firms across thecountry.Due to the aforementioned needs in knowledge and skill relevant to Green EnergyManufacturing (GEM), the authors have developed the leadership workshop series to supportminority engineering students through the Systems Engineering (SE) Day (see Figure 1) atUniversity of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in Spring, 2013. On April 25, and 26, 2013, the generaland technical leadership workshop series (see Figure 2) has been carried over. Information of
increasedcollaboration between faculty in both disciplines. In survey research conducted in the earlyyears of ABET Engineering Criteria implementation, House et al (2007) gathered responsesfrom engineering faculty in a variety of institutional settings and academic disciplines regardingtheir willingness to incorporate communication into their technical courses. They were generallyinterested in such a curricular change (or in some cases, were already engaged in these changes),but many lacked good models for such incorporation.1 Subsequent research along similar linesreflected increasing practices among engineers that blended technical communication andengineering.2-4 Dyke and Riley, for example, provide insight into the strategies engineeringfaculty use to blend
of many elements of the capstone experience andfostering greater interaction with students and faculty in other departments3,4,5.Capstone Project Scope and MilestonesThe department solicits project proposals prior to mid-April of the junior year. A number ofprojects are sponsored and/or provided by external industrial clients, whereas other projects areproposed by faculty members of the department. Proposals are generally in the form of a one- ortwo-paragraph statement that identifies an opportunity or a need and puts forth a concept that canaddress that opportunity or need. All submitted project proposals are first reviewed in adepartment faculty meeting to ensure that they have an appropriate technical level of complexity.The approved
sequence3. It is generally regarded as more difficult to incorporate student outcomesrelated to the entrepreneurial mindset in sophomore and junior-level courses due to the balanceof breadth and depth of technical content and a perceived tradeoff of core material for business-related content4,5. However, through project-based learning techniques it has been shown thattechnical skills do not suffer, but rather, if framed properly, project-based learning techniquescan improve technical skills while infusing real-world problem solving into our core courses6.Hence, project-based learning is a promising paradigm for introducing content supporting anentrepreneurial mindset into the core courses of engineering curricula.One of the core courses in the
solutionsmay include facilities layouts, database schemas with user-friendly interfaces, productdevelopment of medical devices, methods for reducing queue times, and other IE outcomes asappropriate. The solution is expected to be verified by real world testing and/or simulation. Twoupdate presentations and reports are required during the course of the second term. In addition, afive-page executive summary is due two weeks prior to the end of the course which provides asnapshot of the completeness of the project at that point. The final presentation consists of anoral presentation and a poster session judged by an alumni jury. The final grade is determined bythe advisor, course coordinator, and technical writing consultant based on
-neutral application • Utilize warm colors • Use accessible, inviting graphics • Use general symbols that appeal to everyone4. THE COMPUTER SCIENCE CARAVAN4.1 ParticipantsIn the fall of 2013, we ran two CSC outreach programs for elementary school students to evaluate the Page 24.950.5effectiveness of our new tablet methods and Codester. Participants were selected on a first-come-first-serve basis through an after school program at a local suburban elementary school in New York. Theworkshops were divided into students in grades 1-3 and students in grades 4-6. Prior questioningreflected that almost none of the students had
general elective. Here it should also be noted that someengineering departments and advisors at Purdue are relatively open about what courses can countas technical electives, while others are much more restrictive. Still another constraint centered onour attempt at a “2+1” model for the course, which required students to enroll in 2 credits for thecourse itself and another 1 credit of service learning or undergraduate research, which weimagined as a way to relate the course content to other kinds of learning. But this provedproblematic since it meant the course did not fit into the mold of a typical 3-credit elective.After cancellation of the course in Fall 2012, pursuing a permanent course number seemed like agood – and perhaps overdue
Figure 1. Page 24.752.6Any new design is generated through these four operations. The C-K theory proves that thenecessary condition for a design process to be creative is to have C-expansion and K-expansion.That is, new logic must be discovered or utilized in order to validate a new concept, while a newconcept may be born out of new knowledge in order to have a creative design. Figure 1. The Concept and the Knowledge Spaces in the C-K TheoryAccording to the C-K theory, the availability of new concept and new knowledge are thenecessary conditions to generate a creative design. Divergent thinking is indeed an importantattribute to
result of the innovation43.Still, other researchers have characterized innovation on the basis of locus and type of change inexisting systems, differentiating “core” from “peripheral”44, “generational” from“architectural”45, 46, and “interdependent” from “modular”47. These constructs emerge from thebusiness literature that has analyzed technical systems and were developed to describe the basisof changes to existing systems and historically dominant designs. A dominant design is definedas a set of core design concepts that correspond to the major functions or features embodied incomponents (of a system) and an architecture that defines ways in which these components arelinked in an artifact48. These concepts are typically not revised in
, materialsengineering, mechanical engineering, and general/other engineering. Business majors includedaccounting, business administration, finance, international business, marketing, management,and other business.i Computer science students were classified as engineering majors if the departments in whichthey were enrolled were housed within engineering schools. They were classified as science Page 24.295.4majors (and excluded from the present sample) if the departments were housed within non-engineering schools.The self-reported demographics of the participants are summarized in Table 1. About 42 percentand 51 percent of engineering and business participants were
may actually turn out to be better for their society than for those of previousgenerations.Objectives for This StudySince we know that engineers are obligated, through the ABET Code of Ethics and similarengineering-based codes, to work for the benefit of public welfare,4 and that future engineers willnot escape this responsibility, we conducted this study to address the following questions:1. How well do first year students develop a basic understanding of ethical responsibility in theengineering profession, given the cultural orientation of the millennial generation?2. Is a one-session workshop sufficient to develop a basic understanding of engineering ethics?Research MethodologyDuring each of the Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 semesters, a total
initiativesthroughout the country and to the growing technical demand of the country’s workforce.High School Initiatives and Inadequacy of the Common CoreMany states are looking closely at the specific learning outcomes of high school courses and anengineering economics course in college general education integrates well with these efforts.For example, Virginia has a policy for all public high school students to pass a Financial Literacycourse prior to high school graduation33. The topical coverage of this course links directly to acollege course in engineering economics due to an emphasis on decision making with the timevalue of money concept for individual decisions (e.g., obtaining a loan, developing a personalbudget, implications of a simple contract). The
: either make a major investment in developing attractive but costly direct engineering-oriented partnerships, or simply promote access to generic third-party providers and hope for thebest. With a few notable exceptions, the vast majority of U.S. institutions have opted for thelatter option – again, a significant reason that internationalization statistics in engineering lag sofar behind other disciplines [1]. The consortia described in this paper represent attractive, newoptions on this spectrum, a hybrid between direct partnerships and large third-party providers.The advantages of such arrangements have been discussed above.In essence, the consortium concept offers many of the advantages of direct partnerships, butavoids the enormous “cost-of
technology can provide a strong basis formotivating student interest in a course. Such a course, if based on military applications oftechnology, can also impart beneficial background to graduates who pursue careers in thedefense industry. Moreover, many of the topics are generally applicable, so even students whonever enter the defense sector can profit substantially from the experience.Electronic warfare (EW) is an activity the military uses in virtually all military operations. EWis using the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum for advantage, preserving its use for friendly forces, Page 24.176.2and preventing the enemy from doing the same.1 The
interventions for this type of a learning issue which will have positive impact onfuture technical work of students with these issues. There is considerable value of the two-wayformative process feedback MP reflections for both instructors and students.We will now consider the nature of the general term of SLIMs or Student Learning Issues andMisconceptions. There are a variety of resources available for assessing student work in order tocomprehend the nature and origin of misconceptions and learning issues. These can includeMuddiest Point reflection responses, homework, quizzes, tests, and classroom discussion,dialogue, problem solving, etc.. Although there are always sets of specific issues andmisconceptions associated with given topical content, it