security. This trend is expected to increasenationwide, as there is already a government strategic refocus on space.While some universities are well positioned in the manufacturing side of these small satellites,there is an opportunity for students and faculty, at MSU of Denver, to engage in themultidisciplinary testing aspects of these vehicles. Stakeholders from such collaboration includethe university, the industry, the faculty and the students as well as the community.In this paper, we describe the steps taken by the Metropolitan State University of Denver toengage the stakeholder’s community, the testing system breakdown into subsystems, and theoverall testing environment for small satellites. The paper discusses the basic concepts
students to become excited by their learning of the cognitive contentof their course. This perspective manifests in a variety of forms. Students may lack motivation tostudy because the presentation of ideas is dull and boring, even though the ideas themselves,when genuinely appreciated, may be profoundly exciting, because the manner of presentation orthe communication of value of the study does not engage the affect [18, 19]. This issue arisesbecause educators spend much effort investigating how students learn in the cognitive domainbut little in considering how to achieve affective engagement [20, 21]. The problem ofgenerational change in the expectation of students with respect to the manner in which they aretaught and learn has been seen with
-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
University of Dayton and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research characterizes front-end design practices across the student to practitioner continuum and studies the impact of developed front-end design tools on design success.Dr. Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan Lisa Lattuca, Professor of Higher Education and member of the Core Faculty in the Engineering Education Research Program at the University of Michigan. She studies curriculum, teaching, and learning in college and university settings, particularly how faculty attitudes, beliefs, and cultures influence curricular and instructional practices and how these in turn affect student learning. American
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
internships during students’ 2nd and 3rd years. These paidinternships will be a minimum of 320 hours each (8 full-time weeks) and are designed to providepractice-based, professional/community service beyond the classroom experience. Students willbe actively coached and mentored by employers, who are closely associated with the LEprogram. Students will learn to adjust to work environments, which empasize accountability andincreased responsibility. The summer internships will be overseen by LE clinical faculty, whowill ensure that interns are properly supervised, monitored, and given significant tasks andresponsibilities. Professional Practice II builds on Professional Practice I by offering studentsincreased responsibility. Professional Practice II
? 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
ethical responsibility. (g) An ability to communicate effectively. (h) The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context. (i) A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning. (j) A knowledge of contemporary issues.Capstone Design Projects Recently UndertakenIn 2015, there were 12 students enrolled in SYEN 4386 who were assigned to 6 project teamsbased on their areas of interest and backgrounds. The project titles, in random order, consistedof: 1. Myoelectric Hand 2. Universal Zero-Turn Mower Utility Attachment 3. Motorcycle Interactive Lighting System 4. Accident Detection and Notification System 5. 8” 600
their mistakes. The current homework grading system does not provide sufficient interaction between professors and students. Though the professors have office hours available to answer the students’ questions, but the students may not be utilizing these hours because of their full-time or part-time work schedules or other engagements. Failure to maintain an open communication activities, the students repeats the similar mistakes in the examinations as they did in the homework. Such failures in exams and homework drive struggling students to drop the class before completion. Literature review Page
homework on math,science, English and history test scores for eighth grade students in the United States and foundfind that math homework has a large and statistically meaningful effect on math test scores.PytlikZillig et al.25 examined two frequently-used discussion protocols that were as part of aprogram to implement teaching cases in undergraduate that involved synchronous face-to-face(FTF) and asynchronous computer-mediated (CM) discussion taking place outside of class. Theyfound both CM and FTF discussion related to higher cognitive-affective engagement with thecases than the control condition and the CM discussion condition was associated with highercognitive-affective engagement than FTF discussion. In contrast, FTF discussion, but not
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
for students to engage in a hands-on, real-world,multidisciplinary design experience that lends itself to the application of systems engineeringprinciples.Systems engineering principles are presented and discussed in class, and the students areperiodically examined over this material. However, most of the students’ time and effort is spentoutside of class, applying this information as they develop the prototype in the engineeringlaboratory. An industrial setting is simulated by breaking the students into subsystemdevelopment teams that must work together to not only successfully develop their ownsubsystems, but ultimately integrate these subsystems into the final complex system that meetsall the requirements. Formal documentation and
. 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
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
Convergence technology 20 Figure 5 Active Student Participation in Demonstrations and Experiments. Learning modules at the network level have been offered in a new senior elective course inSpring 2012 in the CET program, with emphasis on WSN system design. Figure 6 shows thesurvey results from students in the senior elective course regarding the effectiveness of thesemodules and hands-on experiments in facilitating their learning of the WSN and nurturing theirsystem-level critical thinking skills. Students in the course were generally positive about the impact of the modules, particularlyregarding the hands-on experiments. This aligns with our original goal, since hands-onexperiences are designed to be more engaging for students
twointroductory engineering courses during their freshman year before formally declaring a major atthe beginning of the sophomore year. The introductory mechanical engineering course is thesecond largest at CMU, with a class size between 120 and 150 students. Like other universitiesworldwide, the fall 2020 semester was taught in a “hybrid” mode at CMU, with studentsattending lecture remotely and recitations sections in-person. There were 127 students enrolled inthe fall 2020 offering of the course.The course content focuses on fundamentals in various branches of mechanical engineering alongwith development of students’ practical engineering skills (CAD and fabrication) and professionalskills (teamwork and communication). The specific learning outcomes
, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability • ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams. • understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. • ability to communicate effectively. • broad education necessary to understand the impact of solutions in a global and societal context. • recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning. • knowledge of contemporary issues. • ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern scientific and technical tools necessary for professional practice. Page 23.44.11 • approach to core knowledgeChapter 3 of the GRCSE
multi-disciplinary teams of audiencese) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve 4) an ability to recognize ethical and professional engineering problems responsibilities in engineering situations and makef) an understanding of professional and ethical informed judgments, which must consider the responsibilities of systems engineers impact of engineering solutions in global, economic,g) an ability to communicate effectively environmental, and societal contexts.h) the broad education necessary to understand the 5) an ability to function effectively on a team whose impact of engineering solutions in a global
is very important for the mentors to emphasize the value of communication to each team constantly. One of the teams was superior in communication which showed in their success. The other team which did not communicate as effectively had difficulties to bring the end product together. ● Time management: Students often misjudge the amount of time necessary for building a realization of their project, resulting in insufficient time being allocated for testing and revision of the design concept to satisfy original requirements. Deadlines for hardware demonstration should be included that force the students to schedule their build to allow time for verification testing.References [1] Our Common Future, Report of
the results of the systems engineering paperscores with the performance of the lunabots in the challenge. Finally, the paper discusses theperspective of the paper judges, all practicing systems engineers, on common studentmisunderstandings about systems engineering and the plans to refine the scoring rubric for futurecompetitions. By demonstrating the application of systems engineering to the Lunabotics designchallenge, this paper makes the case for inclusion of systems engineering into university-levelcapstone curricula to improve engineering design.Background on the Lunabotics mining competitionNASA’s annual Lunabotics Mining Competition is an international, university-level competitiondesigned to engage and retain students in science
engineering baccalaureate programSustainable development requires engineering engagement in the assessment and identificationof potential issues. The development and improvement of science and technology has deeplyinfluenced our daily lives. While the technology has led to a better, easier and more comfortablelife for people, it also has had a profound impact on the global environment. Sustainabledevelopment necessitates a systemic methodology which utilizes fundamental engineering skillscoupled with a holistic problem solving approach. Sustainable development requiresidentification, assessment and analysis of the issues for a potential development project. The lackof information and knowledge of our impact on the environment has been widely
matter effects and the community of inquiry (CoI) framework: An exploratory study. The Internet and Higher Education, 13(1), 37-44.19. Neumann, R., Parry, S., & Becher, T. (2002). Teaching and learning in their disciplinary contexts: A conceptual analysis. Studies in higher education, 27(4), 405-417.20. Francescucci, A., & Foster, M. (2013). The VIRI (virtual, interactive, real-time, instructor-led) classroom: The impact of blended synchronous online courses on student performance, engagement, and satisfaction. The Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 43(3), 78.21. Row, M. B. (1974). Wait‐time and rewards as instructional variables, their influence on language, logic, and fate control: Part one‐wait‐time
homeworkassignments grading system for the instructors and to provide an interactive learningenvironment outside the lecture period for the students. Using ViTAS, students will be able tosubmit the homework assignments online, to engage in anonymous homework review, and todiscuss with their peers. The idea of students grading the homework assignments of their peers isvery beneficial, because during the process of grading other’s homework, the students get theopportunity to learn/review their own work/mistakes. Also, the instructors finalize all grades andpost them on the website to confirm the students’ learning activities. In particular, this projectfocuses on the Agile software development process, which is a group of software developmentmethodologies
Learning Courses using Crowd SignalsProject-based learning (PBL) is a growing component of engineering education in the UnitedStates. Its perceived educational value is exemplified by its explicit mention in ABET’sCriterion 5, which requires engineering programs to provide a culminating design experience thatincorporates engineering standards and multiple constraints. Capstone courses and design-build-test projects allow students to synthesize and apply engineering knowledge, skills, and tools toopen-ended design problems. Students work and communicate in teams to complete tasks likegenerating requirements, and testing and integrating equipment. There appears to be widespreadconsensus that project-based learning is
. This includes a demonstration of the ability to comprehend and apply a codified body of knowledge at the forefront of the practicing community. 2. 25-30 credits of capstone projects in which they undertake research, rather than investigative projects. 3. 5-15 credits in which a range of contextual skills include for example, working with other disciplines, ethical reasoning, impact of engineering on the community and a possible component based in industry1.To rationalise and introduce new papers, the offering of management papers was reviewed.AUT has for some time included engineering planning, ethics and sustainability in itsprogrammes. However the decision was made in 2011 to review the management papers inthe
interwoven Rich with student design-build-test projects Integrating learning of professional skills such as teamwork and communication Featuring active and experiential learning Constantly improved through quality assurance process with higher aims than accreditationEach of the SE of CPS courses is described below.5.1 conception of CPS: deciding what to build and whyThis first course focuses on the conceptual design portion of the lifecycle of CPS. Criticalelements include the ideas of systems and design thinking, and elegant design. An Ideationprocess, as pioneered by the likes of IDEO and other prominent design firms is used to spark thecreative process. Ideation is the creative process of generating, developing, and
a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE). Alice received the Stevens Institute of Technology Provost’s Online Teaching Excellence Award in 2007. Page 22.1277.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 SE Capstone: A Pilot Study of 14 Universities to Explore SE Learning and Career Interest through DoD ProblemsAbstractThis paper describes a research study whose goal is to understand the impact on student learningof and career interest in Systems Engineering (SE) through a set of diverse pilot SE
projects. For example, the projects help students investigate themarket and assess policy and regulatory issues.The authors of this paper attended an “Innovating Curriculum with Entrepreneurial (ICE)”Workshop on 9-12 August 2017 in Denver, CO. The workshop was held in collaboration withthe Kern Family Foundation and Lawrence Technological University. The main goal of theworkshop is to promote student engagement in “the three Cs: Curiosity, Connections, andCreating Value” [26]. Kern Engineering Entrepreneurship Network (KEEN) published theframework at their website as shown in Figure 1. The entrepreneurial mindset plus engineeringskillset has been used to develop educational outcomes for several engineering courses [1] [2].Figure 1. KEEN the