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to each week’s course material was usually throughshort videos, simulations, and animations. A sample week is illustrated in Fig 2. Figure 2: Sample week depicting the variety of teaching methods for enzymesSpring 2016 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 8-9, 2016 GWUFor example, during the module on Enzymes, students view short videos, read sections of thetextbooks, and/or practice using simulations to gain an introduction to enzyme kinetics,competitive and non-competitive inhibition, and allosteric modification. Lecture time is used toderive equations and graph data with various inhibitors and activators, while incorporating theuse of clicker questions. Lectures include clinical case discussions which engage students inactive
Paper ID #19961A Pipeline of High Achievers to STEM ProgramDr. Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University Ravi Shankar has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madi- son, WI, and an MBA from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL. He is currently a senior professor with the Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Florida Atlantic Uni- versity. His current research interests are on K-12 education, engineering learning theories, and education data mining. He has been well funded by the high tech industry over the years. He has 7 US patents
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Work In Progress: The Design of a First-Year Engineering Programming CourseAbstractThis work in progress study concerns the design and implementation of a first-year programming coursefor engineering students at a large public university in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Mid-AtlanticUniversity (MAU) accepts approximately 800 first-year engineering students annually, and has anenrollment of approximately 1200 students in its fall and spring Introductory Programming Class (IPC),taught in MATLAB. The IPC is currently under redesign through the process of Backward Design[1].The research around this redesign attempts to answer the following question: How can theimplementation of non-traditional
and evaluation. DBR parallels principles of design as we teach them in our technologyand engineering classes: “Design has its own distinct ‘things to know, ways of knowing them,and ways of finding out about them’” so it investigates “the man-made world” through“modelling, pattern-formation, [and] synthesis” toward values of “practicality, ingenuity,empathy, and a concern for ‘appropriateness’” (p. 221-222)11. DBR leverages the complexity ofeducational environments; opportunities for iteration in different contexts (to see what works,when); and product-based nature of curriculum design. We have partnered with EngineeringbyDesign (EbD), a K12 engineering curriculum provider, and seven high-school teachers in ruraland suburban Mid-Atlantic
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, simulations refer to using software to solve problems where the real-life process isdifficult to recreate in a classroom.The studied classes are from two small private universities, one in the mid-atlantic and the otherin the west. At both institutions, the examined courses are required junior-level engineeringclasses that incorporate simulations into the classroom. The class from the mid-atlanticuniversity was a chemical engineering course on separations with a total of 21 students, and thecourse from the western university was an aerospace engineering course on orbital mechanicswith 31 students. We chose required junior-level courses because at this stage students havebasic disciplinary knowledge and have had a few opportunities to work on open
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mid-1990s was followed by another cluster appearing about ten years later, for example, Clough, 2004 and 2005 and Galloway, 2007. 8 As mentioned earlier, this shift in values needs consideration in engineering education andrequires adaptation in curricula. The next section of this paper provides examples of the kinds ofcontent that might be included in engineering curricula to make appropriate adaptations. 34. Specific Content that Might Be Included in Engineering Curricula to Better Prepare Engineers for Socially Responsible and Financially Successful InnovationDiscussions of changing engineering curricula to better prepare engineers tend
Education: Innovations andResearch, Public Knowledge, Vol. 15, No 3, 2014, 14-20.[6] C. Marin C., M. Mosleh, “Stimulation of Scientific Interest and Higher Confidence Throughthe Engineering Ambassador Programs Experience”, ASEE Mid-Atlantic Conference, Ney YorkNY, October 21-22, 2016.[7] H.A. Aglan, and S.F. Ali, “Hands-On Experiences: An Integral Part of EngineeringCurriculum Reform”, Journal of Engineering Education, 1996 - Wiley Online Library[8] D.W. Knight, L.E. Carlson, J.F. Sullivan, “Improving Engineering Student Retention throughHands-On, Team Based, First-Year Design Projects”, 31st International Conference on Researchin Engineering Education, June 22 – 24, 2007, Honolulu, HI[9]- Ailes, C. P., Coward, H. R., McCollough, J., Roessner, J. D
member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at MSU since August 1994 and currently serves as the Interim Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the School of Engineering. Dr. Astatke is the winner of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) ”National Outstanding Teaching Award,” and the 2012 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Region ”Distinguished Teacher” Award. He teaches courses in both analog and digital electronic circuit design and instrumentation, with a fo- cus on wireless communication. He has more than 15 years experience in the development and delivery of synchronous and asynchronous web-based course supplements for electrical engineering courses. Dr. Astatke played a leading
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committee member for IEEE Globecom, ICC, ICCCN and VTC conferences, and a reviewer for several international journals and conferences.Dr. Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University Agnieszka Miguel received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2001 from the University of Wash- ington, and MSEE and BSEE from Florida Atlantic University in 1996 and 1994. Dr. Miguel’s profes- sional interests involve image processing, machine learning, and engineering education especially active learning, diversity, retention, and recruitment. Her teaching interests include MATLAB, circuits, linear systems, and digital image processing. She is a member of the IEEE, ASEE, SWE, and Tau Beta Pi. Cur- rently, Dr. Miguel is the Chair of the ASEE
Education, 2017 Benefits and Challenges of Transitioning to Community Service Multidisciplinary Capstone ProjectsAbstractSignificant research has shown the positive benefit of service and community-based learning onstudent diversity, engagement, and retention. Elements of service-learning have beenincorporated across disciplines into traditional classes as well as capstone experiences. Whileproviding significant benefits, challenges also exist in managing relationships with externalclients, finding administrative support for these experiences, and engaging students in moreopen-ended projects.Recognizing these benefits, new capstone projects have been introduced at our mid-sized mid-Atlantic college over the last two
Life.IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, Vol. 9, No. 1, January-March, pp. 18-30.Avanzato, R. (2013) Collaborative Design Using Virtual World Technology, Proceedings of the Spring2013 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education, Brooklyn,New York, April 27, 2013Callaghan, MJ. (2009) Integrating Virtual Worlds & Virtual Learning Environments for OnlineEducation, CE-GIC 2009 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Conference Games Innovation, pp. 54-63.Considine, C. L., & Seek, M. W., & Lester, J. (2014, June), Strategies for Effective Online CourseDevelopment Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.https://peer.asee.org/23038Kinney, L., & Liu, M
to enable diversecontexts to ease comparison and contrasts across participant views (Morelock, Matusovich,Cunningham, & Hermundstad, 2016). The first research site (PubU) was a large, public,research-focused university in the Mid-Atlantic United States (PubU). The second research site(PriU) was a small, private not-for-profit, teaching-focused university in the Midwestern UnitedStates. The student population at PriU was less than 5000 (approximated at the time of theinterview), while that for PubU was larger at approximately 35,000. A comparative descriptionof the sites is available from Morelock et al. (2016) to provide an overview of the differencesbetween the two sites. Table 1: Comparison of
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, otheruniversities can adopt and adapt these activities to use in their programs.1. IntroductionChoosing a major is a daunting task for many first-year college students, especially if the choicesspan fields with which students have little exposure and experience. It is estimated that 20 – 50%of first-year college students enter college as “undecided” about their major[7]. In order toprovide first-year engineering students time to discern, a set of resources and course activitieswere created and assessed in an introduction to engineering course. The results of two studies arepresented in this paper.The structure of the remainder of the paper is as follows. The next section describes theeducational theory relevant to this study, models of introduction to
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The study was implemented in tandem at two different universities (denoted Univ 1 andUniv 2 in the data comparison tables). University 1 is a small, public, undergraduate onlybaccalaureate university with an art and sciences focus in a rural area of the Mid-Atlantic region.University 2 is a midsized, public, master's university in a medium density city in the West NorthCentral Region. The same semester-long project was assigned in a steel design class at university1 and a reinforced concrete design course at university 2. The background of the students wassimilar at both schools; the students had completed statics, mechanics of materials, and structuralanalysis courses. Most students at university 1 had already completed a reinforced
Design and Perform an experiment and 4 collect data (test the hypothesis) 6 Idea evaluation 5 Analyze the data 6 Interpret the data and draw conclusions 7 Implementation Planning 7 Publish results 8 Monitoring 8 RetestContext of Study: The CREATE REUThe first year of this NSF funded Biomedical Engineering REU program was held over 10 weeksduring the summer of 2016 at a large Mid-Atlantic
Outstanding Teaching Award,” and the 2012 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Region ”Distinguished Teacher” Award. He teaches courses in both analog and digital electronic circuit design and instrumentation, with a fo- cus on wireless communication. He has more than 15 years experience in the development and delivery of synchronous and asynchronous web-based course supplements for electrical engineering courses. Dr. Astatke played a leading role in the development and implementation of the first completely online un- dergraduate ECE program in the State of Maryland. He has published over 50 papers and presented his research work at regional, national and international conferences. He also runs several exciting summer camps geared towards
operations.An initial assumption was that interested students might already have some extent of spaceoperations knowledge taken from a U.S. perspective, so looking at the industry from theEuropean side of the Atlantic, seemed to be a good way to provide additional perspective.The use of the Handbook of Space Technology proved to be both bad and good. It was bad fromthe perspective that since the sections of the book were provided by so many differentcontributing authors, the focus, continuity of level of detail, and style were not sufficientlyconstant for the interested neophyte beginning study in this discipline. Additionally, manycontributing authors provided an inconsistent of presentation of formula variables and theirdefinitions. The book was good
approach in their projects and promot-ing it to smaller entities [5] [3]. On the other hand, academic institutions and researchers, mostoften in collaboration with industries, investigate new paths to teaching SE. They are typicallyinterested in defining competencies which best characterize a system engineer, in order to de-sign an efficient pedagogical model and an appropriate learning environment. In addition tothese questions, the present paper particulary focuses on SE standards and on how they can andshould be used for SE learning purposes.The next section of this paper presents a state of the art introducing a number of significantworks related to SE education. The following sections convey our own vision of teaching SE,together with a