Page 24.696.5Six different levels of assessment [6] took place throughout the semester: 1. During lecture, instructor engaged the students in thinking process of why a specific step of a solution methodology was done and what impacts it had on further steps and consequences of not following the prescribed step. 2. During practice presentation, the preparedness of the student and his/her understanding of concepts and procedures were evaluated. This interview type setting with student making the presentation and the instructor listening, asking questions and making suggestions was the most important step of the whole process. 3. During the homework submission stage, readiness of the student to solve a larger
Paper ID #19473Influencing Student Motivation Through Scaffolded Assignments in a Qual-ity Analysis Course and Its Impact on LearningDr. Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven Nadiye O. Erdil, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering and engineering and oper- ations management at the University of New Haven. She has over eleven years of experience in higher education and has held several academic positions including administrative appointments. She has ex- perience in teaching at the undergraduate and the graduate level. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Erdil worked as an engineer in sheet metal
time helping to fill a community need. Service-learning combinescommunity engagement, critical reflection, reciprocity, and public dissemination in an effort tocreate effective partnerships2-3.Studies have shown that service-learning is a high-impact practice that increase student effort ina course through the process of solving real-world problems4-6. The application of service-learning to the classroom allows for students to participate in “active, challenging, learningexperiences, experience diversity, interact with faculty and peers about substantive matters,receive more frequent feedback, and discover the relevance of their learning through real-worldexperiences.”2 Additional benefits of service-learning have been found related to
an initial investigation of the impact the ConnectedLearning and Integrated Course Knowledge (CLICK) approach has had on students’ motivation,engineering identity, and learning outcomes. CLICK is an approach that leverages VirtualReality (VR) technology to provide an integrative learning experience in the IndustrialEngineering (IE) curriculum. To achieve this integration, the approach aims to leverage VRlearning modules to simulate a variety of systems. The VR learning modules offer an immersiveexperience and provide the context for real-life applications. The virtual simulated systemrepresents a theme to transfer the system concepts and knowledge across multiple IE courses aswell as connect the experience with real-world applications. The
-on laboratory approachinto the Industrial Engineering (IE) undergraduate curriculum allows the student population toget a new and innovative type of training and preparation for the engineering workforce, and tostrengthen it through increased awareness in learning how to use robotic-related software tomodel systems. In addition, students can determine solutions for various manufacturing andservice scenarios and engage in realistic applications of manufacturing systems through the newlab modules.Overall, the CCLI project has had a significant and broad impact as the engineering studentshave participated in these courses and the results show that the students have gained much fromthem. Due to the interest in taking these new elective courses
instructorswondered how it was impacting student exam performance.Literature ReviewHomework has long been thought to aid students in preparing for exams. Instructors assign andgrade homework to help students learn the material for better overall exam performance. This isthe conventional belief in most of the academic community. It is only logical to think thatpractice improves performance in academic studies as it does in many other endeavors.In 2002, Peters et al.1 studied the correlation between homework and exam performance in anOperations Management course. The study was designed with two treatments: one treatment wasassigned homework and it was collected while the other treatment was assigned the samehomework but it was not collected. This study
students pursue IE as a career option.Recent engineering enrollment data from Iowa State University provides empirical evidence ofthis lack of awareness. As illustrated in Figure 1, the percentage of undeclared engineeringstudents choosing to major in IE after arriving on campus is much higher than those choosing IEdirectly upon arrival on campus. In contrast, the values of these two metrics tend to be similar formore familiar disciplines, such as mechanical and electrical engineering.Figure 1: Percentage of high school graduates’ vs undeclared freshmen choosing to major in IE.Previous research has shown that K-12 students’ awareness of a STEM discipline impacts theireventual selection of that discipline as a career option [2]. Existing literature
Engineering Education, 2021 Using Quizzes Effectively: Understanding the Effects of Quiz Timing on Student Motivation and Knowledge RetentionAbstractFor many years, teachers have leveraged the positive effects of quizzing and testing on knowledgeretention in classrooms to improve student learning outcomes. Many aspects of quizzing havebeen investigated to further improve its use in the classroom, however, there have not been formalinvestigations to understand the impacts of quiz sequencing on student learning potential. In thisstudy, we investigate the effects of frequent in-class quiz sequence, both pre-lecture andpost-lecture quizzes, on student lesson preparation, participation in class, and knowledgeretention. Utilizing a
300 square foot room with moveable tables is preferred).Simulations take about an hour to set up. Competing simulations often require significantpreparation time on the part of the trainer (for example, those with paper-based materials), or aremore simplistic. The professional presentation (e.g., laminated work instructions that describeeach participant role) engages students in the simulation. In addition, teaching notes andhomework assignments have been developed for the rounds delivered at Site 1, which connectthe simulation to traditional course topics.The simulation scenario is rich enough to support curriculum development and links to a varietyof process design topics. For example, at Site 1, the data collected in the first round of
? 3. Students’ Financial Profile More than 76% of the students at Morgan State University receive some sort of financial aid, scholarship and/or loans without which most of them would not be able to pursue college or higher education. Those who do not receive aid, or receive partial aid, have to work long hours to pay for their education and living expenses. The negative impact of working hours on student performance [4] is well established and documented in educational research. Although the studies are mixed[1] regarding the impact of work on students’ academic performance based on motivation, our experience has indicate that working students demonstrate different levels of
industrial engineers solving operation research problems in specific industrysectors. Thus one of the job related questions asked where industrial engineers work.Then the students were asked which of 4 adjectives described industrial engineers. Theseadjectives focused on personal or professional qualities, not job tasks.46Another paper presented at the 2014 ASEE conference addressed how first yearengineering students’ knowledge of engineering disciplines were impacted by a first yearcourse. The sample size of 72 students was divided between 4 disciplines. The resultswere interesting. The purpose of the longer study was to determine if better studentunderstanding of their chosen discipline helps them stay engaged in the field of study.The fields
contrasted againstwith the varying technological abilities of the older generations. With academic successdependent on the instruction of the generations before Generation Z, the need for clear,consistent, well delivered eLearning services becomes very significant.Limitation. It is worth noting that this study has some limitations. All of the participants are allISE students at University of Florida located in Gainesville, FL. This creates several limitationsfor this study. First, the age range is limited to the older population within Generation Z. Forthis reason, the results of this study are only a reflection of the user acceptance of this age range.Second, all participants are learning in the state of Florida the region could impact a
participate in personal inquiry and a more open classroom style wherestudents challenging material and questioning as they engaged in inquiry was viewed as normal.Resistance to “correctness” and discussion of institutional norms occurred regularly.This was in contrast to many experiences as an engineering undergraduate student, whereinstruction was based on note-taking and examination, homework practice, and feedback that wasgenerally final, among other small but additive experiences. Some of the aspects of flexibility inthe humanities began to appear increasingly attractive, even if the prospective impact of futurework was not as desirable as engineering. The primary author began to wonder how many otherengineering students – particularly minorities
contemporary topic ofbiomimicry to a real-life scenario.BackgroundProblem Based LearningThe term “problem-based learning” (PBL) is used in medical education in the United Kingdom.This method of teaching and learning in small groups has had a positive impact on medicaleducation and is also relevant to engineering education. In PBL, students are tasked with aproblem scenario and must do independent, self-directed study before returning to the group todiscuss and refine their acquired knowledge. Such group learning facilitates not only theacquisition of knowledge but also several other desirable attributes such as communication skills,teamwork, problem solving, independent responsibility for learning, sharing information andrespect for others.4PBL is a
their requiredmajor courses. In the junior year, disciplinary grounding in a student’s major continues whiledisciplinary grounding in the other major (ECE for SYS majors, SYS for ECE majors) tapers off.The tapering is due to an increased focus on integration in the junior year. The focus of thejunior year is two LEP classes (one each term) in which teams work to design and build actualsystems. Finally, in the senior year, students continue to concentrate on integration whilecompleting capstone projects designed specifically for LEP teams.Purpose/need and critical reflection are incorporated into the LEP curricula through the LEPLearning Community. The LEP Learning Community meets every two weeks for one hour withgoals of developing a sense of
results from the in-videoquizzes. This study will provide evidence on the impact that short-length videos have on learningoutcomes based on whether students engage with the videos on-schedule or if they wait untilreviewing for the final exam. Table 1 shows the video lengths for all videos in the study. Theinstructors worked to make sure the sum of the short-length videos in a given section was similarto the video lengths of the medium-length videos from the semester before. A few timediscrepancies exist due to variance in re-recording the lectures. Videos containing a quiz have a Qin the label (e.g. 7.2Q).Table 1: Number of videos, video length, and defined label for each video chapter (Q next to the videos’ label show
StudentsAbstractThe Study Cycle is a set of guidelines rich with self-regulated learning (SRL) techniques thatenables students to plan, prepare, and enact their studying by focusing on five comprehensivesteps: previewing before class, engaging in class, reviewing after class, holding study sessions,and seeking help as a supplement. This paper reports on initial findings of a qualitative study inwhich a workshop on the Study Cycle was taught to a class of second-year IndustrialEngineering students as an intervention, aiming to understand effects of the module onengineering students’ SRL strategy use in an engineering course. Students self-reported SRLstrategy use in a one-minute paper pre-workshop and two sets of post-workshop reflections. Thispaper examines
fluidity and fuller engagement of humandimensions for maximum effectiveness, and 2) Management to provide needed consistency,structure, and synchronization. A variety of leadership and management topics can beintroduced to engineering students by using experiential learning activities during the course ofstudy. Engineering students can explore various areas such as leadership, communication,negotiation process, global awareness, and workforce diversity. “Experiential learning occurs asa person engages in an activity, looks back at the activity critically, abstracts some useful insightfrom the analysis, and puts the result to work in another situation. It is an inductive process,proceeding from observation rather than from a priori “truth”. The
Paper ID #7801Training Industrial Engineering Students as Energy EngineersDr. Masud Salimian, Morgan State University Faculty at Industrial Engineering Department at Morgan State University.Mr. Yaseen Mahmud, Morgan State UniversityMs. Avis L. Ransom, Morgan State University School of Engineering Early career engagement as a systems and logistics engineer by Department of Defense contractors, Avis Ransom, applied a bachelors in chemistry and MBA in the management and development of technology and in the application of engineering to address DoD requirements. Following 15 years of self employ- ment as a business
competencies, such as problem solving, critical thinking, andcollaboration. We have also updated the way the students are being evaluated; therefore, casestudies are graded based on rubrics that clearly communicate our expectations to the students.Finally, to track the progress and evaluate the success of the above innovations, we have createdan attitudes survey (beginning/end of the semester) and an informal early feedback survey(middle of the semester).Based on the feedback we got from the students, as well as their grades in the case studies andexams, the implemented innovations improved our students’ critical thinking and trained them inworking in groups. Furthermore, by having them work in realistic case studies, they gained adeeper understanding
adapted for facilitation in diverse classes. An overview ofthe CITIES instrument and preparatory materials as well as preliminary assessment of theinstrument will be presented.The purpose of this instrument is to develop a student activity that connects classroom work withcontemporary issues and real-world applications. Using a methodology based on expertperformance, students will analyze class concepts through the exposure and acquisition of newinformation from a variety of resources. They will describe to others what they have learned, andassess their own communication skills through a quiz that they develop themselves. Theprinciple student activity is an oral presentation communicating information, applications andcitations, but the real value
the team collectively review the breadth ofother students’ work to evaluate and bring ideas back totheir own teams about what they identified as virtues orpitfalls in other projectsIn our implementations, students have remained on thesame Review Team for the duration of the project, so theyare always reviewing documents from the same Project Table 1: Sample Student TeamsTeam and can see the project progress. Students tend tobecome engaged in the success of the project they review, and this motivates them to give morecritical feedback. An alternate approach would be to assign students to different Review Teamsfor each peer review. A benefit would be that students would gain exposure to more projects.Additionally, if an initial team
. Page 25.800.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Integrating Innovative Pedagogies into Engineering Economics CoursesAbstractIn this paper, we make a case for incorporating high-impact practices into the engineeringeconomics classroom as a way to increase student engagement, learning and performance.Wherever possible, we tie proposals to our own experiences. In some cases, the practices werefer to are extant in the education literature, but not ones that we have tried as yet; however, weplan to examine them in upcoming semesters and, possibly, incorporate them into our ownclassrooms. We also indicate how several of these practices help meet the requirements ofagencies that accredit engineering
-Marcos School ofEngineering at the University of San Diego is working to produce and disseminate a model forredefining the engineering education canon with the goal of developing “ChangemakingEngineers.” One of the strategies for achieving this goal is to infuse traditional engineeringclasses with new materials that address this changemaking theme. The goal is for students todevelop the same fundamental skills that they currently acquire, but to see better how these skillscan be applied to problems and situations that don’t appear in traditional textbooks. This greaterperspective will encourage some students to pursue non-traditional career paths, and other topractice with greater awareness of the impact of engineering on society.In Fall 2017
students and for harnessing their curiosity towards potentiallyfinding new solutions – to offer undergraduate courses that allow them to engage with complex,contemporary problems.This paper describes the development and implementation of a novel course, Introduction toEngineering Systems, offered on a pre-pilot basis by the Engineering Systems Division (ESD) atthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during the spring semester of 2011. Intendedfor first and second year students, the course has been designed to engage and challenge a newgeneration of students who are passionate and more involved than ever before in understandingand solving current, large-scale, real-world problems.2. Motivation and BackgroundThe motivation for developing and
discovery approach. In particular, the techniques usedshould specifically study the impact of the discovery approach on the learning environment. It isimportant to conduct separate assessment of all the above-mentioned five. Once the five sets ofdata are analyzed, examined and placed in their appropriate context, one can judge the impact ofstudent learning based on the discovery approach as a whole (Narayanan, 2007 & 2008). Page 25.225.4Discovery Approach Methodology Discovery approach encourages the students to learn the facts, develop the skills andacquire the knowledge by actively working with the information gathered. The
education requirements, typically in the social sciences, humanities,history, and English.Canada is similar to the US. The CEAB (Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board, acommittee of the CCPE, Canadian Council of Professional Engineers) requires programsto include “complementary students that deal with central issues methodologies andthought processes of the humanities and social sciences.”3 The purpose of such courses isto support “understanding of the impact of engineering on society”.3While most nonUS degrees in IE that we identified include study of communication skills(in the native language and in English), many lacked the other components of general
practices and pedagogical approaches in engineeringprograms is imperative to take advantage of technological resources and createenvironments that enable the development of autonomy and self-direction of students.Likewise, it is important to innovate in more interesting scientific experiences to keepstudents motivated 10 .Felder suggests some instructional methods that address the SOc , and one is to usestructured CL if designs are to be done by teams5 .One goal of the CL is to enhance students' learning and to develop students' social skillslike decision making, conflict management, and communication. To achieve these goals, itis necessary to form small groups of students working together in a structured process tosolve an academic task11
in multidisciplinaryenvironments (outcome d) and communicate effectively (outcome g). Since these interactionswill expose them to different perspectives and expertise, the cognate should also improve studentability to assess the impact of their work in a larger context (outcome h). Finally, since studentsmust take ownership of the development and execution of their cognate, the system should betterprepared them to engage in life-long learning (outcome i). Page 24.808.5 Table 1 - Example Cognates Developed by Faculty Manufacturing Design ETME 217
. The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context environmental, and societal contest 2. The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a business context, both locally and globallyi. A recognition of the need for, and an ability 1. An understanding of the live nature of to engage in