(“Engineering Student Engagement(ESEPs) were hired at the beginning of the 2016-17 Partners”, or “ESEPs”) were hired at the beginning of theacademic year to help maximize first-year student success 2016-17 academic year to help maximize first-year studentand to involve junior students in curriculum development success, engagement and motivation; and to increase Engfor first-year engineering courses. ESEPs support One students’ sense of belonging to an engineeringstudents by attending lectures, providing tutoring, community. The ESEP program was also initiated to involvedirecting students to support services, and hosting “online junior students in curriculum development for the four Engrooms
become a primary focus at the University of economic backgrounds, and prior knowledge among studentsTexas at Arlington (UTA). UTA conducted a study that at UTA, ENGR 1300 utilizes the Student-Centered Activefound students were ill-equipped in the areas of problem Learning Environment with Upside-down Pedagogiessolving, professional writing, and computer (SCALE-UP) method. This method, developed at NC Stateprogramming. Therefore, UTA has recently created a University [1] and now utilized in many universities [2],new first year engineering course focused on improving focuses on creating a highly active and collaborativethese specific skill areas using the Student-Centered
lab implement the math theory covered in class. For example, aexperiments, and ability to complete a team project. MATLAB simulation of a robot arm uses trigonometry.However, students were much less confident in their ability While it is too early to assess the impact of these new labs,to solve engineering problems. Among seven different class we feel it is a promising approach. We are also exploring theactivities, students ranked labs, project and homework as idea of two tracks in ECE 102. One would be at the same pacemost helpful in their learning. The last one is puzzling as the current course, but we would offer a second trackbecause we do not emphasize homework in this course
Paper ID #20913Instilling Entrepreneurial Mindset by Vertical Integration of Engineering ProjectsShankar Ramakrishnan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Dr. Shankar Ramakrishnan received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University. He is currently part of the engineering education team in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Currently he designs the curriculum for the freshman engineering program at the Polytechnic campus of the Arizona State University. He also designs and teaches engineering design courses in the first and sophomore years at ASU. His interests
year.Dr. Steffen Peuker, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. Steffen Peuker holds the James L. Bartlett, Jr. Assistant Professor position in the Mechanical Engi- neering Department at the California State University in San Luis Obispo. He is teaching courses, includ- ing laboratories, in the HVAC concentration and mechanical engineering including first-year courses. Dr. Peuker’s educational research focuses on increasing student retention and success in engineering through implementation of a student success focused approach in introduction to engineering courses. In addi- tion, his work in engineering education focuses on collaborative learning, student-industry cooperation, and developing
Paper ID #20953A Project Based Approach To Introduction To EngineeringDr. Rouzbeh Tehrani, Temple University Rouzbeh Tehrani is the graduate coordinator of the civil and environmental engineering department and an assistant professor at Temple University. He also serves as the co-chair of AEESP education committee. He has been involved in teaching and developing labs and teaching materials for several courses such as Introduction to Engineering, science GenEds, Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology, and Water Quality and Treatment since 2013.Dr. Mohammad F. Kiani, Temple UniversityDr. Evangelia Bellas , Temple
Campbell University’s School of Engineering is in thedevelopment of engineering identity. As part of the first- unique position of developing a new engineering programyear experience, methods employed to foster community within a liberal arts context. In addition to providing high-and identity development included four main avenues quality engineering coursework, the faculty are workingalong with three cross-cutting themes. The four main together to provide consistent messaging and intentionalavenues for development were the first-year engineering departmental norms and practices across an integrated(FYE) design course sequence, an FYE seminar, engineering curriculum. In the 2016
grade) was on a group project to make the course fun, soresearch to the students. Based on their availability, that the students coming with diverse backgrounds in termsmechanical engineers from local industry were invited as of science and math, do not face an overwhelming schoolguest speakers to talk to the students about “a day in an work load in their first year of engineering experience.engineer’s life.” These approaches have had various The course was set up so that in addition to coveringoutcomes and instructors have varied methods to meet some fundamentals by the course instructor, one session wasthe needs of students. In the new approach, in addition to devoted to another faculty member to
interested inrecognized as an effective active learning tool in their education and professional life. Consequently, aengineering education. The College of Engineering at different methodology has been introduced to assist studentsColorado State University has developed a new program staying passionate about their studies. Service learning is oneentitled the Graduate Teaching Fellowship for ten of them. Service Learning (SL) is defined as: “course-based,graduate students to provide additional assistance in First credit-bearing educational experience in which students (a)Year Engineering courses and to do research about participate in an organized service activity that meetsretention
Paper ID #20874A competency-based flipped classroom for a first year hands-on engineeringdesign courseShankar Ramakrishnan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Dr. Shankar Ramakrishnan received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University. He is part of the engineering education team in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Currently he designs the curriculum for the freshman engineering program. He also designs and teaches engineering design courses in the first and sophomore years. His interests include active teaching methods and pedagogies for increased student
to both the lecture and laboratory componentsand the focus of the new course is on improving of the course. We modified the lectures to focus on thestudents’ performance and retention in calculus, we mathematics topics emphasized in the Wright Stateevaluated the effectiveness of the new course by curriculum, including trigonometry, vectors, solvinglongitudinally tracking students’ success and persistence systems of equations, and derivatives and integrals. We alsoin subsequent engineering mathematics courses. The incorporated using Matlab, with an emphasis on using it as aresults of these analyses show that students’ tool to solve engineering mathematics problems
Statics Project for a First-Year Mechanical Engineering Course Dani Fadda, Ph.D., P.E. and Oziel Rios, Ph.D. The University of Texas at Dallas fadda@utdallas.edu and oziel.rios@utdallas.eduAbstract - A project, presented in this paper, is designed awaken the passions of freshman students who expect to befor a freshman-level class to introduce the mechanical the new innovators. Goodrich and McWilliams [6] used twoengineering subject of statics in four weeks. The project projects: a Lego Robotics project and a flotation platformis designed to be suitable for a small or medium sized
classes [11]. COMPETENT ENGINEER Engineers Without Borders-Australia founded the EWB Challenge in 2007. Today the EWB Challenge is aSKILLS & ATTRIBUTES sophisticated program embedded into the curriculum at 52OF THE GLOBALLY ALLERT PARKINSON GREGG HUNTLEYCOMPETENT ENGINEER [8] [7] [9] [10] universities in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malaysia, and Dubai, reaching over 10,000
Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, M.A. Education in Curriculum and Instruction, and Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. His research has focused on mentoring as pedagogy for project-based courses and understanding the adult learning characteristics of undergraduate students.Dr. Leroy L. Long III, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach Dr. Leroy L. Long III is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Fundamentals at Embry-Riddle Aeronau- tical University in Daytona Beach, FL. He earned his PhD in STEM Education with a focus on Engineer- ing Education within the Department of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University (OSU). He
an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Baylor Univer- sity. 2017 FYEE Conference: Daytona Beach, Florida Aug 6 Session T2C First-year Redesign: LabVIEW, myRIO, EML, and More John Miller and Carolyn Skurla Baylor University, John_Miller1@baylor.edu, Carolyn_Skurla@baylor.eduAbstract - Over the past year, faculty at Baylor previously published [1]. One of the qualifying requirementsimplemented a new curriculum in a pilot course for first- is that
Paper ID #20916Adopting Evidence-based Instruction through Video-Annotated Peer ReviewDr. James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach James J. Pembridge is an Assistant Professor in the Freshman Engineering Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, M.A. Education in Curriculum and Instruction, and Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. His research has focused on mentoring as pedagogy for project-based courses and understanding the adult learning characteristics of undergraduate students.Ms. Lisa K Davids, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ
sections of EGG 101 Introduction to Engineering to satisfymultimedia content to learners, managing discussions, the requirement. EGG 101 introduces students to engineeringorganizing collaborative and problem-based learning and the UNLV engineering curriculum while developingactivities, and conducting assessments. This project skills essential for academic success. The course currentlyutilized a LMS to provide digital content to students in a consists of a 1 semester-hour lecture portion and a 1 semesterface-to-face lecture course and improve the efficacy of hour laboratory component with smaller sessions. This studyearly warnings to struggling