highest ethical and professional standards towards employers and community during their professional career; recognize the need and engage in life-long learning activities through the pursuit of further studies, on-job training and certification; and reach professional success through working and communicating effectively within multidisciplinary team, solving real-world problems, and assuming leadership roles with integrity and high responsibility in their organizations.Common Theme of ExcellenceAll the institutions had some common approaches to accreditations. These are in spite of widedifferences in educational and cultural backgrounds of the students and faculty. Even betweenthe two institutions in the
, Virginia as a ”Teacher In Residence” in 2009. She served on conference planning committees for VTEEA and TSA locally over a period of time. She also worked with the Division’s Career Academy Team for Hampton City Schools in 2010. Mrs. Oaks-Garcia has proudly served a community of learners in the Hampton City School District in various capacities for the past fifteen (15) years. For her teaching strategy, Mrs. Oaks-Garcia incorporates real world learning into the classroom to promote and enhance student’s critical thinking and problem solving skills. In September 2001, her Future Engineering Team consisting of 11th and 12th grade stu- dents of Hampton High School tackled a real-life engineering challenge following the
student’slife, where STEM classes traditionally teach sets of scientific and engineering principles andconcepts with little course time devoted to exploring the application of principles and concepts inreal-world context or technology implications.11 Additionally, scientific principles are typicallytaught in scientific discipline silos, without real-world application that can span more than onescientific discipline.Responding to the challenges identified in the PCAST report, UC Berkeley created a researchexperience program for community college faculty, called RET in Engineering and ComputerScience Site: UC Berkeley's Context-Based Research Experience for Community CollegeFaculty (also referenced as the UCB Context-Based RET Site in this article) that
project results in learning analytics tools for practice-basedSTEM learning that are appropriate for real-world learning environments.IntroductionThe PELARS1 project is intended as a testing ground and generator of 21st-Century STEMknowledge and skills. The project generates, analyses, uses and provides feedback for analyticsderived from hands-on, project-based and experiential learning scenarios. These scenarios are: 1. European High School level STEM classrooms. 2. Postsecondary Science and Engineering practical environments. 3. The more open-form studio environments of the Interaction Design Schools (which form the basis and inspiration for many of the project’s orientations).The project serves to help better understand learners' knowledge
an ever greater degree, teaching institutions are moving towards a virtual world wherehands-on experience of equipment and artefacts are being replaced by e-learning paradigms;YouTube video and screen presentations of engineering and associated concepts. Thebenefits of making a comparison and evaluation of aeronautical engineering learningoutcomes using an airborne flight laboratory and a flight simulator laboratory is that it mayinform further development of teaching practices in a laboratory environment to better reflecta real world experience and improve learning outcomes.For instance, the human-machine-interfaces (HMI) of many modern aircraft and unmannedaircraft systems (UAS) are rapidly evolving. Touch screens and other input devices
language is of great importance. Future specialists are expected to work ininternational environment and be acquainted with the most modern world achievements incomputer science. Some disciplines of professional cycle are taught in English as well.The benefits of the program are the following:1. Combination of theoretical training with practical work experience in companies.We have partner relations with more than 60 leading domestic (Yandex, Kaspersky Lab, etc.)and international (IBM, Microsoft, etc.) companies. It gives our students the opportunity toget knowledge in a wide range of real IT-projects during educational and technologicalinternship, professionally oriented and graduation practices. Among the lecturers there arerepresentatives of
conferences, workbooks and monographs.Dr. Phillip Albert Sanger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Sanger is a professor in the School of Engineering Technology in the College of Technology of Purdue University. His focus and passion is real world, industry based, senior capstone experiences both domes- tically and internationally. He has successfully developed this area at Purdue and at Western Carolina University. Prior to his career in academia, Dr. Sanger had a successful 30 year career working in and with industry managing and participating in broad range technology development and commercialization.Dr. Petr Osipov c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Best Practices of
knowledge about our world. TheSchool of Engineering of the University of Bridgeport provides comprehensive educationand research opportunities to a diverse community in engineering, sciences, and theapplication and management of technology. The School prepares students for leadership andtechnology positions in industry, government, and academia and significantly contributes tothe profession and community locally, nationally, and globally. The School offers adistinctive education in fundamental and emerging disciplines through its faculty andinstitutional partners. The education features an application-oriented approach tointerdisciplinary issues and opportunities that balances theory with real world state-of-the-artpractices. As of Spring 2016, the
laboratories based onsimulations are called Virtual Laboratories [1-5]. On the other hand, hands-on/physicalexperiments require equipment. With the traditional approach of performing experimentdirectly with equipment, the need for equipment grows proportionally to the increase ofthe number of students, often resulting in considerable expenses. Following hands-onapproach, the only way for universities to share the same equipment is if the students of aother universities are moving physically to a given university to perform their laboratorysessions. We all now know that one way to overcome this drawback is the use of remotelaboratories [6-14]. Remote laboratories allow students to access and manipulate realequipment located anywhere in the world
-knowledge-based content. However the students found difficulties in applying thistheoretical knowledge to practical problems. For example, on the exam there was a question on how toselect a material for a bicycle frame. Ninety percent of the students did not give a correct answer. Inorder to improve student understanding of the application of theory to real-world problems, in the futuremore practical case studies will be introduced.From the survey results, about 82% of students agreed that the group-based practical activities were mosthelpful towards achieving the learning goals. The project/design-based learning activities have enhancedstudents learning capability of understanding practical/theoretical prospects in this course. Most of thestudents
management techniques. A total of 18 hours arerequired to complete the minor, including a required course in “Challenges in GlobalEngineering”. The curriculum outline is shown in table 3.The foundation of the minor is the Challenges in Global Engineering course. Upon completionof the course students gain a broader perspective of global challenges facing engineers today,including specifics of managing international engineering projects, engineering standards,economic, legal, and environmental issues. Students have an understanding of the role of culturein engineering design and problem solving and global trends in engineering. They are exposed toengineering work in various countries through projects that focus on real-world casepresentations and case
INTRODUCTION Higher education in the United States (U.S.) is an expansive enterprise,comprised of more than 4,300 colleges and universities and approximately21 million college students enrolled part-time or full-time for study.Countries vary in the size and scope of postsecondary education systems(Altbach, Berdahl, & Gumport, 1999), making the U.S. system the largest inthe world. Women represent the numerical majority on most U.S. collegecampuses and nearly 40% of U.S. college students identify asunderrepresented ethnic minorities (URMs) including Blacks/AfricanAmericans, Hispanics, Asian Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, andbi/multiracial (non-White) students. Despite their growing presence in highereducation, URMs still represent a
National Education Ministry in projects for distance learning and reducing the digital divide. Taught at the university level for over thirty years in electronics, computing, multimedia and learning technologies. Produced three books about Learning Technologies and Engineer- ing Education, one of which was published by Pearson. Authored 5 book chapters and more than 40 technical papers in refereed journals and conferences. (www.cukierman.name)Mrs. Lueny Morell, InnovaHiEd Lueny Morell, MS, PE, Ing.Paed.IGIP is President of Lueny Morell & Associates and Founder & Director of InnovaHiEd, a world-class team of experts with extensive academic and industry experience offering services to help higher education leaders
Delivery Mode Geographical Employment Real-Time 1998 Distance-Hybrid; on campus 2005 Distance-Hybrid; on-site, off-campus 2010 Distance Synchronous Programs 2010 Distance Asynchronous ProgramsFigure 2.0 – Enrollment Limitations by Delivery ModeMethodologyThere was a need to perform a benchmarking study to compare the existing Purdue program andthe programs offered by others throughout the world in order to identify strengths and potentialgaps in the Purdue BIRS Program, specifically associated with global regulatory scienceeducation. A comprehensive literature review yielded an exhaustive list of institutions withgraduate degrees and certifications in fields related to
/Interpersonal more than one media for written and verbal Skills communication. Recognizes simple non-linear causal relationships with real-world variables; graphs behavior over time; Thinking/Mindset understands and uses causal loop diagrams and system Approaches archetypes; identifies system goals and develops more complex pattern recognition.Middle Runs and analyzes case studies; identifies states and state Multiple PerspectivesYears
active learning activities and other small group activities for instructors. Hence,the project was designed as a service not only to students but also to class instructors.In addition to online quizzes, we also introduced industry guest lecturing component forhelping students learn importance of practical aspects of learning chemistry forenvironmental engineering careers. Although engineering academics have expertise inteaching and research, they often are not at the forefront of implementation of state of the artengineering solutions for solving real world problems. As demonstrated by D’Este andPerkmann (2011)21, faculty members benefit from the influx of corporate expertise, andstudents gain knowledge about high-throughput technology and
travel course has never been taught. The Council onInternational Educational Exchange (CIEE) offered an inaugural grant opportunity,especially for a travel course in STEM. In response to that, a proposal was submittedafter discussions among colleagues and administrators. Although the grant proposal wasnot funded, the CIEE offered a large discount for the program and the CIEE programmanager worked tirelessly to accommodate the requests to revise the program. When theinitial abstract of this paper was submitted in January 2016, nine student applications hadbeen received, for travel in May 2016. Unfortunately the class was cancelled after twostudents withdrew reducing the numbers below the required enrollment and budget limits.However, throughout
studentscomplete this course every year. "Workforce Psychology" course is an integrative course that combines the elements oftraditional academic disciplines (psychology, engineering psychology, social psychology,psycho-diagnostics). This course teaches students to recognize and appreciate the uniquepersonality of each team member; it enables students to develop self-awareness and self-management skills that will help them reach their full potential, maintain productiverelationships with other team members, and achieve effective communication. It is found thatthe stage of professional education includes the development of activities from educational-cognitive to training-professional and from it to a real professional13. In this connection, themain
tocompletion in the real world.”Both student teams selected for work in Panama participated in university-standard evaluationactivities, which included both quantitative data (Likert Scale ratings) and qualitative data(responses to open-ended questions) focusing on every aspect of the program. Although thesample set was extremely small (five MQP and five IQP students), that roughly 90% of questionswere answered with a ‘four’ or ‘five’, on a scale of zero to five, indicates broad satisfaction withthe experience. (The other 10%, mostly ratings of ‘three’ received from MQP students, werescattered and did not indicate a clear trend with regards to one particular aspect of the program.)Reaction to the actual project work was mixed – two MQP students rated
. Many ELL are accustomed tospeaking in language acquisition classes and in those settings with circumscribed topics,their language abilities may seem adequate to the normative language level of that group.However, when there is a shift to a language use setting—the real world---, a student mayfind himself unable to perform fluently. Without a significant and readily retrievablevocabulary (perhaps in a specific technical discipline) and a ready command of grammar,the lower proficiency student cannot generate enough language to make meaning in thatspecific context or perhaps he cannot generate it quickly enough. Moreover, his receptiveskills may play a part since oral presentation and interaction usually include listening andthen responding