Paper ID #6008Integrating professionalism in a project-based engineering curriculumDr. Mohammad Habibi, Minnesota State University, Mankato Dr. Habibi is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrated Engineering at the Minnesota State University-Mankato. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering. Fol- lowing his postdoctoral appointments at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he joined the Iron Range Engineering (IRE) Program in August 2011. The IRE is an innovative, 100% project-based, upper division engineering program located in Virginia-Minnesota which promotes learning
& Alaei, Motahareh and Lillesve, Androw. “Integrating professionalism in a project-based engineering curriculum” Proceedings 2013 ASEE Annual Conference10. Habibi, Mohammad and Ulseth, Ronald. “Time allocation Scaffolding in Project-Based Learning,” Proceedings 2012 ASEE Annual Conference, AC 2012-418011. Ewart Dan et al. “Entrepreneurship in the Iron Range Engineering (IRE) Model,” Proceedings 2011 ASEE Annual Conference, AC 2011-974 Page 24.979.9
Historically Black College and University(HBCU), with a specific goal to increase students’ achievement in multiple STEM disciplines, thepandemic challenges provided opportunities to effectively achieve the project objectives. TheAdapting an Experiment-centric Teaching Approach to Increase Student Achievement in MultipleSTEM Disciplines (ETA-STEM) project aims to implement an evidence-based, experiment-focused teaching approach called Experimental Centric Pedagogy (ECP) in multiple STEMdisciplines. The ECP has been shown to motivate students and increase the academic success ofminority students in electrical engineering in various institutions. During the Summer of 2020, theETA-STEM Trainees engaged in research activities to develop three instruments
, he and colleagues at Project Zero have been working on the design ofperformance-based assessments, education for understanding, and the use of multipleintelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction, and assessment.(http://www.pz.harvard.edu/PIs/HG.htm)Principles of Good PracticeGardner’s seven principles help in developing Intellectual Curiosity in any given group ofindividuals. It is important to recognize that some learners may be curious to learn whenthey ‘see’ something interesting (Narayanan, 2007). Some others may be inclined todevelop curiosity when the ‘read’ about a new subject matter. Gardner suggests thatone should consider all the types of ‘intelligence’ if one wants to observe an individual’spotential
best todevelop, implement, and assess a fully accredited online undergraduate engineering program. Ofparticular importance is to identify and address critical elements of such a program, including:potential student populations, faculty requirements, curriculum requirements, admissions criteria,accreditation requirements, implementation resources (faculty, technical equipment, financial),collaboration with other institutions, and laboratory requirements.Successful development of such a program will enable access to superior engineering educationby under-represented populations, students in remote locations, and students who are otherwiseconstrained with regard to traditional undergraduate engineering programs due to family oremployment
theyseemed to be the most logical candidates for recruitment. However, many students were notacademically prepared to enroll in college STEM courses without remediation, often becauseprevious curriculum choices resulted in limited exposure to math and science in these students’programs of study. Other obstacles include students’ lack of awareness of engineering as apossible career because of unfamiliarity with the profession.1 One natural extension, then, wasto focus projects at the middle school level, where timely interventions would ideally lead toenrollment in classes that would better prepare students for the rigors of college STEM studies.Research, however, is increasingly indicating that that intervention efforts must begin as early
writing, working with projects, media,e-learning, and computer aided technologies and an elective module from additional topics.The basic curriculum comprises of a minimum of 204 sessions covering the following subjects: ‚ Engineering education (36 sessions) ‚ Engineering education practice (36 sessions) ‚ Educational technology (at least 12 sessions) ‚ Laboratory didactics (at least 12 sessions) ‚ Comprehensible text creation (at least 16 sessions) ‚ Rhetoric (at least 12 sessions) ‚ Communication and discussion training (at least 32 sessions) Page 13.96.9 ‚ Selected principles of psychology (at least 16 sessions) ‚ Selected