running each of “our” two experiments. During these pre-lab meetingswe make sure the students have prepared well for their lab day focusing on 1) safety, 2) theefficacy of their experimental approach (which they design based on some minimumexperimental objectives, increasing in number and complexity as the weeks go on), and 3) theiranalysis plan. These pre-lab meetings are run in a Socratic manner where we ask questions toguide rather than give answers. We read and provide feedback on two drafts on Monday, go overthose commented drafts in meetings with students on Tuesday, then comment the Group B draftsthat same day for the Wednesday draft reviews. On top of this, professors attend two oralpresentations on Tuesday and two on Wednesday, providing
variables that can be used for robot navigation.Neural network training can be regarded as function approximation (see an example in Fig. 2). (A) (B) Fig. 2 Illustration of a function approximation (A) The unknown underlying function; (B) Random samples with function approximate (redrawn from Stalph, 2014)2 Back Propagation Neural Networks ModelIn this well-prepared project, we teach students back propagation (BP) neural network algorithmand its applications in function approximation through a sequence of milestone-driven sub-projectsby the divide-and-conquer learning scheme. BP neural networks are often utilized for
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key key part modelsCAD tool to but 3D component components components withcreate 3D printed geometries or and assembly and assembly illustrativepart and part is drawings shown but lack shown with assemblyassembly shown shown dimensions (3) some model shownmodels (1) (2) dimensions (5) (4)3D partmodels c 2 1 1 1 2 3.0drawn a. Observation of students during tests b. Homework assignments c. Final project
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also or alternativelyemploy non-tenure track instructors for their capstones. 67% of the programs indicated that thecourse also utilized some form of industry for an instructional teaching role.It is common to have support beyond the course instructor(s) such as teaching assistants, graders,industry professionals, and/or dedicated staff. Figure 2b shows that industry providessupplementary support to capstone courses in 80% of the programs, with graders and teachingassistants also utilized in 14 - 40% of the courses. The “Other” category indicated in Figure 2bincludes those AE programs that utilize lecturers from outside the program. a) Who Teaches in the Capstone b) Course Support in the Capstone
has been difficult to characterize on a classby class or year by year basis due to challenges in defining success. In one study of businessstudents, the “five key student themes identified in support of team-based learning included thefollowing: (a) better deliverables, (b) increased ideas, (c) improved learning experience, (d)reduced workload, and (e) collective security” [13]. In conclusion the study found teams allowedstudents to build upon each other’s ideas with a final solution which would not have beenproduced solely by a single student. The study also found that students who prefer working alonestated their reasons including, “(a) grade reciprocity, (b) social loafing, (c) schedule challenges,and (d) work and school team
K-5 schools through MakerSpace Use: A Multi- site early success case study,” Ph.D. dissertation, College of Edu., Univ. Calif. Los Angeles, 2017.[3] K. Sheridan, E. R. Halverson, B. Litts, L. Brahms, L. Jacobs-Preibe, and T. Owens, “Learning in the making; A comparative case study of three makerspaces,” Harvard Educational Review, vol. 84, no. 4, pp. 505-531, 2014.[4] V. Wilczynski, “Academic maker spaces and engineering design,” presented at 122nd Ann. conf. and expo. American Society Engineering Education, Seattle WA, USA, June 14-17, 2015, 2004, pp. 26.138.2-26.138.19.[5] A. Wong and H. Partridge, “Making as learning: Makerspaces in universities,” Australian Academic and Research Libraries
in the next year.References[1] P. Dickrell and L. Virguez, Engineering Design & Society: A First-Year Student-CenteredCourse Teaching Human-Centered Design, WEEF-GEDC World Engineering Education Forum– Global Engineering Deans Council, Conference of Peace Engineering, November 12-16, 2018,New Mexico, USA[2] C. B. Zoltowski,, W. C. Oakes, and M. E. Cardella,, “Students' ways of experiencing human-centered design” in Journal of Engineering Education, 101(1), 2012, pp.28-59.[3] Martin, Lee (2015) "The Promise of the Maker Movement for Education," Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER): Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 4.[4] Knight, D. W., Carlson, L. E., & Sullivan, J. (2007, June). Improving engineering studentretention
Appendix B. Toeliminate acquiescence bias, where a respondent may be inclined to agree with statements aswritten, framing of the statements was done in both the affirmative and the negative. Followingconvention, a five point Likert scale was used, where possible responses were: StronglyDisagree, Disagree, Neither Agree nor Disagree, Agree, and Strongly Agree. Additionalquestions were included in the survey to collect information about a respondent’s gender,declared major, and year in school.To gain a more in depth understanding of faculty perspectives and to reduce the possibility ofsocial desirability bias, where a person tends to put their organization in a favorable light, one-on-one interviews were conducted with several faculty members. In
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laptop, desktop, or any other mobile device. This tool enablesthe collaboration between students and faculty across the university within individual classes anddisciplines. Table 2: Intervention LayoutThe online section was broken into two groups, Online Section LabA and B, with two different intervention Group A Group Bstrategies used to assist students. During the Intro Face to Faceface-to-face sections, each student had access to 1 Discussion Blogthe TA to seek
the students taken from adifferent source [11] other than the course textbook and manually entered into the software;similarly, own questions can also be created. Randomized numerical values for the samequestion are underlined in (a) and (b); each student gets the same question with varyingnumerical values.The students work on solving each online homework question, but only enter the final answer, asshown in Fig. 1. The solution steps are not submitted to the instructor and each assigned questionis graded automatically by the software, thus resulting in either full score (if correct) or no points(if incorrect) for that question. Such an exercise may raise concern on grading, correcting andproviding feedback on the problem solving steps to the
other was based on assessing the impact of VARK learning styles.Data Display The grading data obtained was tabulated using a Likert Scale. Likert Scale is shown in Appendix A. As mentioned earlier, grading was administered using Washington State University’s Rubric. This is shown Appendix B. Grading was holistic and qualitative. No quantitative grade points or percentages were recorded. Grading was recorded based on student’s perception, grasp and depth of understanding of the topic. Several “Primary Traits” or “Characteristics” were identified and assessed. EXCEL Spreadsheet data summary and a sample of
through collaboratively on the board. The configurationdifference between the original and modified design results in a significant change to the internalforces in Nut/Washer B. This difference is highlighted on the board. During the problemsolving, students are not given any further context as to why the change in the design was madeor information about the Hyatt Regency disaster.In the second stage of the lesson, students conduct a hands-on demonstration that models theirown calculations to destructive failure. A schematic of the demonstration is shown in Figure 2with a picture of students loading the demonstration shown in Figure 3. In the demonstration, theskywalk cross-beams are modeled with Styrofoam and the skywalk decks are thin planks
, responsibility (Healey et al., 2017, CookSather et al., 2014), and empathy (CookSather, 2015) based on other benefits of studentfaculty partnerships seen in the literature. We assessed faculty and student perspectives on these partnerships through a survey administered at the end of the semester. Appendix B contains the survey questions posed to both students and faculty. All responses were deidentified after survey completion. The value being assessed by a given question as defined in the original works cited above is also included in Appendix B although these were not communicated to the survey participants. Additionally, respondents were also asked to identify areas for future improvement. Results and Discussion Ten out of 17
those directions to the micro:bot, which then moved accordingly. Initially, students were given base-code to help them understand how Micro:Bits communicate witheach other through radio signals. The base-code for this lab consisted of two code files, one for thecontroller and the other for the Micro:Bot. The base-code set radio channels such that when buttonA was pressed, the radio group was decremented by 1 and when B was pressed, the radio group wasincremented by 1. When buttons A and B are pressed together, the radio channel was locked in andthe students could start transmitting instructions/directions to their bot. Further, the base-code forthe controller was set up such that if the user presses button A, the message ”left” was
students and instructor it breaks down communication walls improving facultyto student relationships which allow faculty to follow up truant students easier than itwas before. Students are able to communicate with their peers about some of thechallenges they are facing and their peers, in turn, confidentially inform the instructorthe reasoning behind a particular students absenteeism.REFERENCES:Bailey, T., Jeong, D. W., & Cho, S.-W. (2010). Referral, enrollment, and completion indevelopmental education sequences in community colleges. Economics of EducationReview, 29 (2), 255-270Hoang, H., Huang, M., Sulcer, B., & Yesilyurt, S. (2018). Carnegie Math Pathways™2016-2017 impact report: A six-year review. Retrieved from Carnegie Foundation for
machine learning, the creation of content at the overlapof these two areas offers several opportunities for education and research. Machine learning [1]promises to solve several problems in solar energy generation including a) fault detection [2,3,4,5],b) shading prediction [6], and c) topology optimization [7,8,9]. Preparing students early in their plansof study to tackle these problems requires: a) training in machine learning, b) exposition to solarenergy systems simulation [10], c) skill building in terms of developing or using software to integratemachine learning to obtain solar system analytics and control the overall system [11]. In this paper, we describe an educational program developed to bring to undergraduate classes[12,13] select
networking classes, and by default has computer systems connected through unmanaged switches. In the network hardware devices course students will transition from these unmanaged devices to managed routers and switches as the semester progresses. Students set up Ethernet cabling between network devices. Remembering whether the specific network cable is a straight-through or crossover is typically difficult to recall. A visual and rather appetizing cue in the form of a “burger” is suggested, as shown in Figure 2(b), with the router and network interface card (NIC) on the host computer serving as the slices of the sandwich. The hub serves as the protein of choice, and switch the topping. Network devices are arranged
ofengineering education that benefit from makerspace projects. As we continue to survey studentsin makerspaces, we hypothesize that our results will adjust to give us a richer view of the impactmakerspace use has on individual’s education throughout their undergraduate studies.References 1. American Society for Engineering Education. (2016). Envisioning the Future of the Maker Movement: Summit Report. Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education. 2. Barrett, T. W., & Pizzico, M. C., & Levy, B., & Nagel, R. L., & Linsey, J. S., & Talley, K. G., & Forest, C. R., & Newstetter, W. C. (2015, June). A Review of University Maker Spaces. Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference &
curriculum unit. Even though all 5 first-grade teachers participated in the larger project, the goal of thisstudy was to look at first grade students decision making while engaged in a specific engineeringdesign challenge as part of the larger STEM+C curriculum unit and therefore it was important tohave students engaged in similar tasks and approaches within the same curriculum.Consequently, this led to a focusing on three of the five teachers and their focus students, due tothe extent to which the three selected teachers adhered closely to the curriculum and resulting inmore consistency across the classrooms.The three teachers were Miriam in classroom A, Moirain classroom B, and Kristen in Classroom C. The focus students from each the three
Paper ID #24615Scalable and Practical Interventions Faculty Can Deploy to Increase StudentSuccessMr. Byron Hempel, University of Arizona Byron Hempel is a PhD Candidate at the University of Arizona, having received his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Kentucky and Masters in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Arizona. Working under Dr. Paul Blowers, Byron is focusing on improving the classroom environment in higher education by working in the flipped classroom. He is a University Fellow, a Mindful Ambassador, and Chair of the Graduate Student Working Group for the ASEE Chapter
gradeis based off of two criteria: a) students identifying mistakes in their original submission andmaking corrections, and b) a metacognitive response to each problem where students outlinetheir solution process, identify points of misconception and think critically about their ownunderstanding of the material. As long as a student engages honestly and critically in themetacognitive response, they again receive full credit for their resubmission.At no point on either submission are students graded based on the correctness of their answers,removing one of the main incentives for turning to solution manuals. Instead, the student isrewarded for timely effort (initial submission) and for reflecting on what they learned from eachexercise
inunderstanding and generating complex information and ideas. ReferencesBritner, S. L., & Pajares, F. (2006). Sources of science self-efficacy beliefs of middleschool students. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 43, 485-499.Cannady, M. A., Greenwald, E., & Harris, K. N. (2014). Problematizing the STEMpipeline metaphor: Is the STEM pipeline metaphor serving our students and the STEMworkforce? Science Education, 98, 443-460.Cervetti, G. N., Barber, J., Dorph, R., Pearson, P. D., & Goldschmidt, P. G. (2012). Theimpact of an integrated approach to science and literacy in elementary school classrooms.Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 49, 631-658.Chen, Y.-C., Hand, B., & McDowell, L. (2013
systems / control volumes 7. Analyze and predict performance of engines, power plants, heat pumps, refrigerators, and air conditioners based on thermodynamic principles 8. Design a thermodynamic device that provides value to a range of usersThis design project was most aligned with the last outcome, but individual assignments assessedstudent attainment of outcomes number 1, 3, and 7 as well as 8.Thermodynamics PBL assignments. This project included six modules with six associatedstudent deliverables spread over one semester: • Concept map assignment exploring connections between energy and (a.) poverty, (b.) food production, processing, and distribution, or (c.) the environment (group assignment, each group picks one of
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Conference, Crystal City, Virginia, 2018: American Society for Engineering Education.[2] L. Barker and J. McGrath Cohoon, "Key Practices for Retaining Undergraduates in Computing," in Strategic, 2009, pp. 1-4.[3] J. C. Carver, L. Henderson, L. H. L. He, J. Hodges, and D. Reese, "Increased Retention of Early Computer Science and Software Engineering Students Using Pair Programming," in 20th Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training (CSEET'07), ed, 2007.[4] B. Hanks, S. Fitzgerald, R. Mccauley, L. Murphy, and C. Zander, "Pair Programming in Education: A Literature Review," Computer Science Education, vol. 21, pp. 135-173, 2011.[5] C.-w. Ho, K. Slaten, L. Williams, and S. Berenson
not place an unwarranted level of faith in the results of software simulations.In Part B, students were asked to design a distributed-element commensurate-line low-pass filterin microstrip starting with a normalized 3rd-order low-pass filter prototype. The assigned -3 dBcutoff frequencies of these filters ranged from 1 GHz to 1.75 GHz. Students were also asked toperform a PCB board layout that would be used to generate a physical prototype on which theywould then solder SMA connectors and use a VNA to verify its performance. This extension intophysical prototyping and measurement was intended to give students experience in using RFlaboratory equipment and enable them to correlate theoretical and experimental results.Student Learning
ratio from 1. Calculation of the attribute score issummarized in equation 1, with option a used when heterogeneity within a team is preferred forthis attribute and option b used when homogeneity is preferred instead. 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 , (𝑎) 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 = (1) 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 {1 − 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑙𝑙