survey and weeklyactivity logs.The pre-project survey was used to assess demographics, personality, their confidence incompleting their degree, and their commitment to completing their degree. The students wereasked to rate their engineering confidence on a Likert scale using two instruments: 1. The academic self-confidence instrument 19,20 focuses on confidence in three areas: a. Open-ended problem-solving b. Math and science skills c. Professional and interpersonal skills 2. The self-efficacy instrument21 investigates students’ engineering and tinkering (hands-on) self-efficacy.The post-course survey was administered to determine if outgoing levels of academic self-confidence and self-efficacy changed from
theRaspberry Pi board. There are a host of accessories available to be used with the Uno and thereare more powerful Arduino boards (like the Zero) that utilize a 32 microcontroller, however it isroughly twice as expensive as the Uno. A search of Amazon.com yields a selection of over onethousand Arduino products with various “starter kits” and accessories. Figure 1 – Microcontroller Platform – Arduino UnoThe other hardware platform used in the course is the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B starter kit. Thisdevice has a basic cost of approximately $50 and essentially is a full blown PC on a board. Oneneeds to provide a monitor and keyboard and you are good to go. The Raspberry Pi 2 platformshown below in Figure 2 is the second generation
of sustainability projects passed on campus: 1 was given to the route if it passed by 0 - 1 projects, 2 for 2 - 4 projects, and 3 for greater than 4 projects. The last factor, quality of indoor and outdoor sitting areas, was a subjective evaluation based on group members’ opinions of the route and its atmosphere. The first two factors were weighted twice as much as the third as they were more important to the theme. From this scoring system, the optimal route between every two waypoints was determined.This team labeled their four waypoints as A, B, C, and D, and performed a force field analysis onthe routes between each waypoint, according to Table 1, with higher scores being better.Table 1 Student Sample – Force
. 5 We adopted categories used by the National Survey of Student Engagement to define our ethno-‐cultural identity variable. 6The blue box in one of the activity types is for the review process only. We have temporarily removed the name ofour leadership program. 8 F IGURE 1 : P ARTICIPATION R ATES B Y A CTIVITY T YPE 7 40.0 35.0 % of sample 30.0
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PreTest 40 PostTest 20 0 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P StudentFigure 4. Pre- and Post-Test Scores for each volunteer.The volunteers had an average gain of 0.31 out of 1.0 possible. Graduate students gained anaverage of 0.37 and undergraduates gained 0.26. The graduate students had a higher increase ingains, but the average increase in score was lower. Graduate student scores increased an averageof 2.8 points whereas undergraduate scores increased an average of 5.1 points. Because graduatestudents had higher pre-test scores, the
either uploading a photo or pdf file of their paper assignment or workperformed on the iPad using a utility such as Notability. Examples of work turned in as a pdf filefrom Notability are shown in Figures 4a and 4b. (a) (b) Figure 4. (a) Assignment turned in as a pdf file and (b) assignment turned in using Notability. All whiteboard work performed by the instructor was photographed and added to the
integration. “One of the biggest educational challenges for K-12 STEM education is that few general guidelines or models exist for teachers to followregarding how to teach using STEM integration approaches in their classroom4” (p. 32). This project explored how five elementary classroom teachers integrated scienceand engineering in their classrooms while piloting engineering curriculum. Our specificresearch questions were:1. How do teachers integrate science units with engineering design units? a. What aspects of the curriculum or content do they struggle with? b. What do teachers feel most influenced their implementation in terms of their instructional goals or learning outcomes?2. How does the instructional sequence
requirement that, “…Theplayhouse modules must be primarily built from cardboard available in the classroom or fromclean, recycled cardboard retrieved from elsewhere.” Further, they were apprised of the fact thatall playhouse modules were to be judged according to the following rubric: Table 3. Rubric Provided to Pre-Service Elementary Teachers for Evaluating Playhouse Modules (where Most Points Wins!*) 5 4 3 2 1 a) Ability to Motivate b) Attractiveness c) Creativity d) Motor Skills (fine skills) e) Motor Skills (gross skills) f) Technical Correctness
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. Electrical New York 1 EngineerProgressiveMachine and Controls New YorkDesign Hardware 1 EngineerBechtel MarinePropulsion Electrical New York 1Corporation Designer ConclusionThe Bachelor of Engineering Technology degree curriculum withminor in mathematics prepares student with mathematicscompetency for him or her to continue in Engineering Graduateprogram in Electrical Engineering. Figure (B) above shows that agraduate from the Bachelor of Engineering Technology programwith minor in mathematics has either the same level or moremathematics than a graduate from the Engineering program in anyof the four
failed to engage intended learning.Case I: Problems that fail to engage learningFig. 1. (a): Problem for the group exercise; (b) Problem in the second midterm.2 In this study, features of problems that fail to engage students in learning as intendedwere revealed. Fig. 1(a) shows one such problem with perceived “normal and standard”representations that drive students to rush through problem-solving processes habitually withoutbeing watchful of important concepts and principles in the domain knowledge. Detailed analysesof two group discussions, Groups WA and FL, while working on the problem disclosed suchbehaviors. Table III shows the representative talks from one group, Group FL. Line numbers inthe table indicate an uninterrupted
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ideation? Why can person A in agiven situation generate a potential innovation while person B, perhaps even with a substantiallysimilar background, cannot? Consideration of the concepts/principles presented in Figure 4provides engineering and technology education researchers a framework for raising questionsthat might lead to fruitful investigations. The ten speculations listed below are initial examples ofsuch research questions. Perhaps the innovator(’s):1. knowledge representation is more holistic, i.e., established as a system as contrasted to hundreds/thousands of discrete individual facts/ideas?2. has a better memory and a larger/wider store of information to work with , or perhaps the innovator just has a better/quicker way of
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valuable and least valuable lessons; • To suggest at least one improvement for the course; • To rate and comment on their team project experience; and • To rate the usefulness of what they learned in the course to (a) their current responsibilities or job, and (b) their future responsibilities/positions.Within the Master of Engineering Management program, faculty place great weight on studentfeedback on the usefulness of what they learn in each course. Recall that these students are allpracticing professionals, with an average of ten years’ professional practice. Accordingly, thejudgment of these students is grounded in substantial workplace experience. They have returnedto graduate studies to fill gaps that their preceding
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type of savings plan theywill use. The students are also encouraged to have a Plan B in case the top choice does not workout. This assignment has been described by students as their most creative of any of theirassignments to a very difficult task. Obviously as the students look at the plan each year theymay be surprised to learn that they are exactly on their same plan, while others may see that theynow need to make several major revisionsThe next three items, catching up, 8 hours of sleep, and study groups are strictly out of the 4.0Plan. The high ranking of the “catching up activity” is surprising. Another surprise is that theBullet Point Reading is ranked 20th out of 24. Even reading the text without bullet points is onlyranked 18th. For
cooling channels, and combining multi-part assembliesinto a single printed component are just some of the benefits known to additive manufacturing.However, there are challenges in understanding the design and reliability of the material, and theprocess of additive manufacturing. A designer for AM needs sophisticated tools that integratematerial information with geometry, simulation tools, topology optimization, materials databases,and tools for manufacturing process selection, manufacturability analysis and manufacturingsimulation. (a) (b) 6 Figure 2 (a) Parts from GE 3D Printing Challenge , (b) Organic Shaped Brake Disc.Creating a
educators on social and economic pillars, itdoes not provide sufficient insight into where to begin this shift toward a more balancedperspective on sustainability. In this study, we endeavor to address this gap in the literature firstby both (a) exposing which topics and challenges in the environment are neglected byengineering students in speaking to environmental sustainability, and (b) which social andeconomic aspects of sustainability do indeed make it onto the radar screen forstudents. Knowing (a) provides implicates for what needs to be added to existing stand-aloneand integrated models of sustainability in the engineering curriculum; knowing (b) gives someinsight into an appropriate starting point to connect to student interests in social
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