program at Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, Ohio, USA). • Three years of experience working as Biomedical instructor at Owens Community College.Mr. Mikhail Shilov, Bowling Green State University Mikhail Shilov is the instructor of Engineering Technology at Bowling Green State University who is interested in improving teaching techniques as well as mentoring and motivating students for higher achievements. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Impact of pre-lab videos on improving students’ learning outcomesAbstract:In Engineering Technology courses that involve lab activities, we observed a knowledge gapamong 10-30% of students that increases as the semester
Paper ID #8095ARM Developer Day: Engaging Engineering Students through Targeted Hands-On WorkshopsDr. Antonio Francisco Mondragon, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST) Antonio F. Mondragon-Torres received the B.Sc. degree with honors from Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico, the M.Sc. degree from Universidad Nacional Aut´onoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, and the Ph.D. degree (as a Fullbright-CONACYT scholarship recipient) from Texas A&M Uni- versity, College Station; all degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1990, 1996, and 2002, respectively. From 1988 to 1995, he worked in a telecommunications
, distance or compressed (Feldhaus & Fox, 2004).5 Andfinally, based on a study by Davies & Graff (2005) students who failed their online coursesinteracted less frequently than their counterparts.6MethodWith all of this in mind, researchers desired to explore student engagement in one ethicaldecision-making engineering and technology course in the School of Engineering andTechnology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) during a two yearperiod. Of particular interest was how the students’ final course grades were impacted by theiroverall site usage, chat and message activity. Researchers were also curious to learn both thestudents’ and instructors’ perspectives on communication, tools, chats and activity within
have significant early positive impact on their freshmen studentsthat lasts beyond their college years.IntroductionET programs offer a variety of entry level courses aimed at preparing freshmen students for thechallenges they are expected to face in their college years and perhaps beyond. Such courses mayor may not be offered for a credit. Many of these course are developed to satisfy the Criteria forAccrediting Engineering Technology Programs1, especially Criterion 3: Students Outcomes (h, I,j and k) that state: h. an understanding of the need for and an ability to engage in self-directed continuing professional development; i. an understanding of and a commitment to address professional and ethical
detailed developed.Participants’ Feedback to the WorkshopsThe workshops were very well received by all the participants, as they were engaged andenthusiastic about the activities. The strong positive feedback received about the workshops isreflected by the post-workshop survey results presented in Figures 12-17 and Tables 2-4: Figure 12: Percentage of students that selected one of the options on a Likert scale for question “How will you rate the workshop overall?” Figure 13: Percentage of students that selected one of the options on a Likert scale for question “To what extend was attending this workshop worth your time?”Figure 14: Percentage of students that selected one of the options on a Likert scale for
EffortAbstractMore than twenty years after the enactment of Title IX, women continue to be underrepresentedin numerous career fields grounded in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM). Design competitions offer one approach to increasing interest in technology andengineering. Faculty, university students, industry supporters, and community representativeshave joined together for several years to encourage student teams from a Midwestern middleschool to participate in ToyChallenge™, a relatively low-cost, “girl-friendly” design competitionorganized by SallyRideScience™.The paper discusses the motivating factors that led engineering technology faculty, universitystudents, and middle school teachers to take on responsibility for coaching
. Survey to Assess Student’s Knowledge about Shipbuilding & Repair A survey was designed to assess the impact of the simulation activities on the student’sknowledge about shipbuilding and repair. This survey contains questions about shipscomponents, ship design and physics principles like buoyancy. Student responses are aggregatedand average score is obtained on a scale of 1-10. Students are assessed using the same instrumentafter they have gone through the four simulation sessions. The difference in the score betweenthe pre and post survey provides a measure of change in the knowledge base of the students. Acopy of the survey is attached in Appendix A.V. Delivery Method The course is instructor-led classroom training combined
Chemistry. They have a chance to work on some real-world projects during theirsenior year in capstone/senior design courses. Before students get a chance to work on their real-world projects, which typically happen in capstone/senior projects, some of the students wouldhave made the decision to transfer out of engineering school. Based on the feedback fromindustry, even students who finished their engineering degree need more experience with real-world product development experience.To enhance the educational experience for students, TAMU made significant amount ofinvestment in seven activities. The majority of the investment went to Activity 1 with a goal ofenhancing the students’ preparation for the workplace and society through high impact
Graphics, the Engineering Technology, and the New Engineering Educators Divisions and their education and instructional agendas. Page 26.749.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Facilitating Additive Manufacturing Engagement and OutreachIntroductionIn addition to delivering instruction to students on the technical dimensions of additivemanufacturing, engineering technology can and some suggest must play a role in deliveringinstruction on additive manufacturing’s role in stimulating economic development, regionaltransformation, and domestic competitiveness. That is, the
Factors Impacting First Year Persistence in Computer Graphics Technology Abstract The retention of students is a goal that all universities strive to achieve. With more and more emphasis placed on degree completion, retaining students becomes even more important. University faculty and staff continually try to identify what possible factors affect a student’s decision to remain in their chosen field of study. Faculty in the Computer Graphics Technology (CGT) program are concerned with what factors, if any, affect the persistence of students in the CGT program. The
. Inaddition to better incentivizing students to participate and try their best, additional data will becollected to expand the sample population. These additional data will allow for the moreparticipants with strong or moderate preferences to be analyzed. This would improve the findingsand help determine the role of learning style preference on the impact of experiential learningactivities. Additional statistical analyses will also attempt to better examine the interaction ofexperiential learning exercise timing and learning style. Given the growing interest in the widerengineering education community for experiential learning and the ET community’s long historywith this topic, this will likely be an interesting and fruitful future research
Learning Officer. January. 2. Petherbridge, D, Chapman, D. (2007) Upgrading or Replacing Your Learning Management System: Implications for Student Support. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, X(I). 3. Bomia, L., Beluzo, L., Demeester, D., Elander, K., Johnson, M., & Sheldon, B. (1997). The impact of teaching strategies on intrinsic motivation. 294. Champaign, IL: ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education. 4. Brett, C. (2004). Off-line factors contributing to online engagement. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 13(1), 83–95. 5. Coates, H. (2005). Leveraging LMSs to enhance campus-based student engagement. Educause Quarterly, 28(1
performance or behavior. As will bediscussed in the warning signs section below, such students often can be classified by attitudinal,physical, or behavioral demonstrations that are outside the norm of the larger comparison group.The degree to which such issues pose a nuisance or risk to peers, professors, or others willnecessitate a range of interventions on the part of the institution1,2.Students who are troubled, emotionally-challenged, and difficult are important for severalreasons. First, the simple reality is that these students are members of the institution andfrequently interact with others. For this reason alone, the relationship-jeopardizing behaviorsthat troubled, emotionally-challenged, and difficult students engage in should give
components: motivational beliefs and the use of self-regulationstrategies. The proposed model is based on the assumption that motivational beliefs promote andsustain different aspects of SRL18. Research shows that the motivational beliefs and the use ofself-regulation strategies can influence academic achievement19. Studies also revealed that highefficacious students, who believe that their course work is important, interesting and useful andadopt a mastery goal orientation, are more likely to engage in various cognitive and meta-cognitive activities in order to improve their learning and comprehension20. In addition, in thecontext of learning and teaching, self-regulation strategies can influence the development ofpositive motivational beliefs and
, all of whom wereunfamiliar with the technical course content, resulted in both a clearer understanding of theinstructor’s expectations and a greater commitment to positive outcomes for the students.IntroductionEffective writing is a lifelong skill. Although students in certain disciplines, such as engineering,focus more of their energies on problem solving and comprehension of technical material, theability to persuasively convey one’s ideas and theories is necessary in all fields of advancedstudy. As restated by Jason Swarts and Lee Odell, “effective communication generally, andeffective technical writing specifically is essential to success…because it conventionalizes
. McIntyre has served on the ASEE Board of Directors and is an ASEE Fellow.Ms. Terri L. Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis Terri Talbert-Hatch, Ed.D. Associate Dean for Recruitment, Retention, and Student Services Purdue School of Engineering & Technology, IUPUI Dr. Talbert-Hatch oversees the Student Services Office with responsibilities for undergraduate student re- cruitment and engagement, K-12 programming, career services, residential-based learning communities, scholarships, and student government for the School of Engineering and Technology. She works very closely with current students. She is responsible for the Commitment to Engineering Excellence program which is a
engineering and technology ethical decision making coursedemonstrated very few significant differences in regard to online engagement and gender, or oneither’s impact on final course grades. Analysis was conducted to determine if there was arelationship between gender and the students’ final grade (independent samples t test); if therewas any relationship between gender and total site visits with the students’ final grade (factorialANOVA); if there was a dependence between gender and LMS functions (independent samples ttest); and if there was a difference between how each gender utilized the LMS functions (chi-square test of independence). The only significant credible result was related to total site visitfrequency and course grade. Not surprisingly
, Entourage or Outlook via Citrix for Mac OS, and the onlineWebOutlook interface provide the most functionality and seem to be the most popular.The final section of this paper is centered around online courses and their impact on engineeringand technology education. With the consistent growth of laptop usage, both from laptopprograms adopted by various schools and individual student purchases. The development of aflexible twenty four hour-a-day, seven day-a-week learning environment is an inevitable trendfor today’s educational institutions. It was estimated that in 2004 at least two million highereducation students in the U.S. were engaged in distance education (Hiltz & Turoff, 20054).These classes range from totally online virtual classrooms to
requirements and assessment should be considered. For example, the instructor had planned on giving a total number of 10 assignments during the semester with a final exam that was only for undergraduate students. However, since both of the groups needed extra time to do a work measurement study and collect input data for their model, the instructor had to reduce the number of assignments and cancelled the final exam to accommodate the students. Since it was the first time that such projects were brought to the classroom, both the instructor and students were eager to do a satisfactorily job that would encourage the company for future collaboration and would promote community engagement through the
Figure 1 - Sample distribution of students in ENTC 315. Page 14.140.3In order to keep both engineering and non-engineering majors motivated and engaged in thelectures and labs, classes such as ENTC 315 need to be constantly updated. But one might ask:why voice over IP and not other new technology? First, from a teacher’s perspective, our effortsare to modernize the telecommunications classes to teach packet-based communications(including real-time voice and video) (Figure 2). Internet Protocol (IP)-based communicationshas had great penetration in the telecommunication markets. There is a need in the industry forstudents, and recent
instructor (M = 4.80) were viewed by the students as goodto extremely good. It is unknown how each instructional activity (i.e., readings, homeworkassignments, group discussions, self-assessments, and team project) over the 16-weeksspecifically affected each students’ learning and skill gains. However, the instructor believes theteam project made the largest impact on the ET students’ engineering design, problem-solving,communication, and group skills. Students’ comments about the project were generally positiveother than a few requesting that it be introduced earlier in the semester and that manufacturinglab space and equipment availability was limited. The project cannot be introduced any earlierthan the first day of class; however, the instructor
AC 2008-276: ACHIEVING COMPELLING STUDENT COMPREHENSION OFCOMPLEX INFORMATION STRUCTURES FOR BOTH ON-SITE AND ON-LINECOURSESRonald Uhlig, National University Dr. Ronald P. Uhlig is Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, School of Engineering and Technology, National University. He also serves as Lead Faculty for Wireless Communications for the Master of Science in Wireless Communications program. He teaches and carries out research in wireless systems, computer security, and applications of advanced technology in education. He also teaches global business. As Principal Investigator for a Hewlett-Packard Technology for Teaching – Higher Education – Grant
students take less computerscience and engineering courses in high school with more males enrolling in thesecourses than females. There are multiple reasons that STEM career pathways may be lacking in K-12education in the United States and contributing to a shortage of workforce inSTEM. Most significant is that students need a strong foundation in science and math inorder to prepare to train for STEM professions. Science and technology courses are fewand students may not have access to take courses in STEM areas contingent on theavailability of teachers and courses (US Congress Joint Economic Committee, 2012). Itis important to provide the K-12 community with ample opportunities in STEM and to beable to apply STEM in real world environments
focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to assess impact of good supply chain practices such as coordinated decision making in stochastic supply chains, handling supply chains during times of crisis and optimizing global supply chains on the financial health of a company. She has published her research in Journal of Business Logistics, International Jour- nal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and peer-reviewed proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education.Dr. Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University Bugrahan Yalvac is an associate
area of STEM recruiting. For example, FIRST reports that55% of their alumni will major in science or engineering as opposed to 28% of a matched controlgroup.8 BEST reports that 58% of participants are likely to pursue STEM careers.7 Thus, bothBEST and FIRST are very good indicators of the impact that programs using robotics as aplatform to develop middle school and high school students’ interest in STEM careers can have.Based on this, the Electronics and Telecom Engineering Technology (EET/TET) programs atTexas A&M University began looking at robotic programs as a recruiting and outreach toolabout two years ago. However, while large-scale programs such as BEST and FIRST wereinitially considered, they were found not to be optimal based on
Paper ID #18635Toward Understanding the Impacts, Whys, and Whats Behind Mechatronic-based Projects and Student MotivationMr. John R. Haughery, Iowa State University Mr. John Haughery is currently a PhD graduate and lecturer in the department of Agriculture and Biosys- tems Engineering at Iowa State University pursuing a degree in Industrial and Agricultural Technology. His technical experience and interests include electrical power systems, industrial controls, and mecha- tronics. His research focuses on the integration of mechatronic-based projects into freshman engineering and technology curricula with the intent of
Relations Policy Matters: A Higher Education Policy Brief, January 2014. 4. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, ―Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics,‖ [Executive Report], 2012. www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-engage-to-excel- final_2-25-12.pdf. Accessed September 2013. Page 26.299.15 5. Hawes, Julia. ―Educators engineer programs to excite students about science,‖ Medill Reports, March 5, 2009.6. Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), Office of
of completingassignments and homework. Passive learners had characteristics of viewing coursecontent, but they expressed limited participation on course forum and assignmentcompletion. Community contributors also actively participated in course, but theirinterest was more inclined towards forum discussions.Chang (2015) focused on student learning styles. They found out that students who wereless interested in using technology were afraid of learning in technology environmentsand were at risk of discontinuing their involvement in the course. They named thesestudents low reflective learners and suggested to engage these students in group activitiesto enhance their participation in the course.The second emergent theme was factors which affect
project database? -Does attending the first class have any correlation with the final grade?We will evaluate these and other aspects related to attendance and student success in the future.We add data from the courses to the project database with each passing quarter and the databasewill continue to grow. The project team will publish results from future studies in hopes ofestablishing a useful dialogue in higher education on the aspects of attendance.Bibliography1. Allen, J.S. Attendance, retention, and funding: a community college case study in Mississippi. University of Mississippi, 2009. (Dissertation)2. Boss, S.K. (2008). Impact of Student Attendance on Student Learning in An Introductory Geology Course. Proceedings
their own learning. This, in turn, implies that teaching practices mustbe re-conceptualized as learning processes. In addition, educational goals must be re-conceptualized to meet the needs of individual and professional goals. Each of these changeshas impacts how institutions will find, keep, and engage faculty, including those in theengineering/technology disciplines, and will be discussed below in the section on implicationsand considerations.Issues and Trends in Engineering and Technology Faculty Recruitment, Roles, and Rewards In general, engineering/technology faculty are attracted to the institution throughadvertisements placed in specialized trade publications. Other ways faculty are recruited includeemployee referrals, college