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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
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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
courses.While LA programs were initially developed for science and math courses, many LA programssupport LAs in a wide range of disciplines. This paper describes a pilot adaptation of the LAprogram for engineering design courses that we have developed at the University of Maryland,College Park Campus. All LAs assist in 14 separate sections of University of Maryland’sengineering design course for first-year undergraduate students. Our seminar integrates topicsfrom the discipline-general LA pedagogy seminar (cognitive science of learning, facilitation ofclassroom discourse, collaboration, metacognition) with topics especially relevant to engineeringdesign (design reviews, design thinking, expert-novice practices in engineering design,engineering
recordedstudent activity; they coded the qualitative data, including detailing how they developed thecoding scheme and how reliable their coders were. For instance, one study found that studentsspent more time engaged in mathematical and graphical modeling than physical modeling, incontrast to previous research findings, but seldom used mathematical modeling to inform theirdesigns, echoing findings in the previous section about the challenges to integrating engineeringand mathematics content successfully [72]. In a study of high school students who hadcompleted engineering courses, student design process was compared to expert design process,finding that the students spent significantly less time gathering information, making decisions,and evaluating the
of technologists downstream from the designer. (Further relevant aspects,primarily trade-offs, of this are discussed in the section on concurrent development.)Perseverance, likewise, is also an essential characteristic of engineers as well as artists. Forartists, the very process of nurturing a vision from conception to execution is often a matter ofperseverance. Obstacles include the financial difficulty of obtaining materials. This may rangefrom the metal sculptor’s purchase of raw materials and tools to the musician’s purchase ofappropriate gear or rental of studio space. Once those resources are present, for the lone artist,there is the challenge of mastering all the techniques and tools necessary to realize a vision, andfor the artist