the assessment outcomes associated with theimportance index of fundamental chemistry knowledge could be applied in the evaluation of Page 15.1327.2current curriculum design for chemical engineering education as well as in the improvementof lecturers’ instructions by means of the Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) methods. IPA was proposed by Martilla & James (1977). They plotted a two-axis figure with fourquadrants as illustrated as Figure 1. One dimension represents “importance,” another“performance.” The four quadrants are characterized as “Concentrate here” (high importance,low performance), “Keep up the good work” (high importance
were only able to simulate the effects of geographical distribution and the use ofdistance communications tools on student projects. However, groups of geographicallydispersed students enrolled in the same curriculum do in fact exist, and provide an opportunity toevaluate the effects of distributed collaboration on the outcome of a project. One such programis at the University of Kentucky, which recently established an Extended Campus Engineering Page 9.466.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering
observer design, pole placement design using full-order observer, linear-quadratic regulator design, Kalman filter design, linear-quadratic Gaussian design. This designapproach allowed the students to appreciate the application of the state-space theory at a deeperlevel. It is expected that enhancing a course with a wide-range of practical design problems willimprove the teaching evaluation of the course significantly.I. IntroductionOur students consider the undergraduate level state-space theory course as one of the hardestcourses in the undergraduate electrical engineering curriculum. The course covers the basicmethods for control system design and analysis using the state-space theory. Topics includelinear algebra, review of dynamics, state
committees.Dr. Anca L. Sala, Baker College, Flint Anca L. Sala is professor and Dean of engineering and computer technology at Baker College of Flint. In addition to her administrative role, she continues to be involved with development of new engineering curriculum, improving teaching and assessment of student learning, assessment of program outcomes and objectives, and ABET accreditation. She is an active member of ASEE, ASME, and OSA, serving in various capacities. Page 25.229.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING THROUGH HOMEWORK
Technology:With a Focus on Prospective Elementary Teachers, in Reform in Undergraduate Science Teaching for the 21stCentury, D.W. Sunal, E. L. Wright, & J. Bland Day (Eds.), Information Age Publishing Inc., Greenwich, CT, 2004,ISBN 1-930608-85-3, pp. 511-524.2 Jordan, W., Silver, D., and Elmore, B., Using Laboratories to Teach Engineering Skills to Future Teachers,presented at the ASEE annual meeting, Albuquerque, June 2001. In CD based Proceedings (no page numbers).3 Jordan, W., and Elmore, B., Developing an Outreach Program to Introduce Engineering to Non-Engineers,presented at the Gulf Southwest Regional Meeting of A.S.E.E., March 2002. In CD based Proceedings (no pagenumbers).4 Jordan, William, Elmore, Bill, and Silver, Debbie, Creating a Course
surveys are used to collect data from ACE participants. That data is then converted toqualitative data to allow for the analysis of differences in student perception of learningprogression and intuitiveness of creative problem-solving. The surveys were developed using aLikert Scale model, meaning each question offers 5 different responses, ensuring the scale isnon-biased to a particular response. Each option was linked to a value between 1 and 5 to allowfor statistical analysis. Using the Likert scale presents participants with a balanced viewpoint asthey can consider the varying degrees of opinion rather than a binary or neutral response. Beforeperforming any in-depth analysis an anonymized excel sheet was created to store the results ofeach
effective teach- ing decisions, and the application of ideas from complexity science to the challenges of engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 “I came in thinking there was one right practice”: Exploring how to help graduate students learn to read academic researchAbstractIn the fall of 2017, an engineering educator with many years of experience offered a course toincoming doctoral students. The course was focused on helping the students explore approachesto reading published scholarship and develop their own scholarly reading practice. The coursewas taken by a student who documented her experiences in a reflection journal. Against thisbackdrop, this paper uses
Engineering from Purdue University in 2021. Since 2014, she has taught courses in Civil, Materials and First Year Engineering to undergraduates, and mentored undergraduate and graduate students in STEM to foster research and professional development skills. She also has relevant experiences in organizing undergraduate research symposium/conferences, hosting professional development workshops, providing guidance on undergraduate/graduate school application. Currently, she serves as a Teaching Scholar for the K-12 STEM Education Program at Berkeley Lab and is involved with curriculum development of K-12 outreach at LBNL. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A New Normal
grant project teams in planning and development, through external eval- uation, and as publication support. Most of his work is on STEM education and advancement projects and completed for Minority-Serving Institutions. He also conducts research regarding higher education focused on the needs and interests of underserved populations and advancing understanding of Minority- Serving Institutions.Dr. Breanna Michelle Weir Bailey P.E., Texas A&M University - Kingsville I am a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. I have been employed at Texas A&M University-Kingsville since 2006. I currently serve as Chair of the Department of Civil and Architec- tural Engineering.Dr. David Hicks, Texas A&M
and Ph.D. in civil engineering from UF. During her studies, she became passionate about issues of equity, access, and inclusion in engineering and computing and worked to develop programs and activities that supported diverse students in these disciplines. Today, Dr. Waisome is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education where she conducts research on broadening participation in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computing (STEM+C). She is particularly interested in understanding how formalized mentoring programs impact student trajectories and self-efficacy. In her teaching, she utilizes the learner-centered approach to instruction.Lilianny Virguez (Lecturer
traditional course offerings. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 31629Lecture Videos & PPTsThe instructor chose to develop online content using familiar software to focus on contentdelivery. The instructor also wanted the ability to make quick modifications to online contentfrom any computer at any time. Adopting familiar software also ensured that students were ableto access course content with ease.Lecture videos were created using the Record Presentation function in Microsoft PowerPoint.Research suggests that online lectures should be limited to 6-15 minutes in length to maintainstudent attention and support effective learning. 25 lecture
Paper ID #217592018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29Beliefs and behaviors of first-generation and low-income students in early en-gineering coursesDr. Jennifer Blue, Miami University Jennifer Blue is an Associate Professor of Physics at Miami University. She works to give more people access to physics. Sometimes that’s reforming the curriculum for introductory classes, sometimes it’s working with K-12 science teachers, and sometimes it’s advocating for traditionally excluded populations, including women in STEM. Her website can be found here
relatively large margin.Master’s students are given the choice of pursuing a coursework, a special-research-project, or athesis curriculum. Most on-campus master’s students pursue a research-oriented curriculum.There is a fairly uniform distribution of tenure consisting of first-year, second-year, third-year,fourth-year, and fifth-plus-year students. There exists a variance in home country amongstudents, but the majority of students originate from the United States, South Korea, or Turkey. Page 11.130.3This program also has students from varied backgrounds; student undergraduate majors includeenvironmental engineering, chemical engineering, civil
and techniques ofvisualization should begin early; consequently, the idea for a summer research experience forundergraduates in visualization was born. The goal of the research site is consistent with the goalof the NSF-REU program: to provide promising undergraduate students with a complete,mentored research experience, to better prepare these students for graduate school orprofessional pursuits and encourage them to pursue a career in science [15]. The impact ofundergraduate research experiences have been well documented [16], [17], [18], [19]. Facultymembers generally agree that there are significant educational benefits to the undergraduateresearch experience [20], [21]. Students are thought to develop expertise in a specific area
statement of work(SOW) and given constraints. The main advantages of the competition-driven projects isstudents’ self-motivation and interest in working in a competitive environment. A majority ofthese projects require expertise from multiple disciplines leading to interdisciplinary projects.To introduce state-of-the-art autonomous vehicle technology to ET students, the EET and theMET programs at Oklahoma State University (OSU), Stillwater, OK revised the curriculum tointroduce competition-based interdisciplinary senior design projects. The pilot project wasintroduced in spring 2018 as a one-semester project. The design teams were tasked to build anautonomous vehicle using a commercial remote control (RC) car that can autonomously navigatea
TheoryA nanotechnology curriculum must be presented to a student in a way that builds a solidfoundation that prepares them for a future in nanotechnology. These topics may include anintroduction to atomic structure, unique properties of materials on the nano scale, usingthose properties to fabricate materials, and putting those new products to work inindustry. Even though it appears these topics cover a vast number of disciplines, studyingthe structure of materials on the atomic level and how their size and scale give themunique characteristics is one of the foremost principles of nanotechnology.The laboratory experiment that was developed is a three-part experiment that teaches sizeand scale and introduces a few of the unique characteristics
often have a positive impact on student veterans’ educationalexperiences and outcomes [14], [15]. Persky and Oliver’s [16] study of student veteransattending community colleges identified characteristics of successful programs: (a) creditstreamlining; (b) streamlining of programs and services; and (c) faculty, advisor, and counselortraining (p. 113). Caton’s [17] study of student veterans services at a community college found ittakes an average of six years to fully develop student veteran programs; those programs thatbecame a part of the fabric of the institution had support from the highest level of universityadministration and leadership, and the most successful programs used a student-centeredapproach, focusing on student veteran
gathered andanalyzed since at least the 1970s regarding factors that affect academic retention and attainment.These data can be used to develop and inform social behavior models that can be used insimulations. Second, simulations resolve behaviors in time. This is often critical forunderstanding causality and how local agent behaviors give rise to population-level outcomes.This is fundamentally different from performing statistical analyses using final outcomes 24 .Third, simulations on appropriately labeled agents that compromise a population (e.g., in the formof social networks) can produce disaggregated results. Validated models can also be used in othersettings (e.g. for different academic institutions), and can be exercised to explore
persistence of various groups ofstudents in civil engineering education and careers, this paper describes findings from a surveytaken by 223 undergraduate (165) and graduate students (58) in civil engineering. The surveyaims to address the following questions:• What are the factors that affect why women and minorities choose to pursue education in civil engineering?• What aspects of the civil engineering curriculum and course work do students find particularly motivating and interesting? Do students feel that they have a mentor? What kind of work experience and internships have students had? Are they members of student/professional engineering organizations? Do the answers to this question depend on the gender or ethnic/racial
genders, a lack of belonging is the primary non-academic reasonwhy students choose to leave engineering.13 Thus, in addition to the inherent educational benefitsof successful teamwork, students working in these teams may also gain one of few opportunitiesto develop the level of community necessary to both engage and stay in the major.Yet, there remain some inherent conflicts for many engineering students between working ingroups and working alone. For example, engineers are significantly less extraverted than mostother professional groups14 and are therefore more prone to working alone.15 Some studies evensupport studying alone as a pathway to greater performance than working in groups.16 However,the challenging and grueling nature of many
University. She received her BS in Chemical Engineer- ing in 2014 and was involved in the Connections Chemistry Review program for over 5 years. Kristen is currently pursuing her Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, while working full time as an engineer in the Edison Engineering Development Program at GE Power & Water.Dr. Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University Paul A. DiMilla is an Associate Academic Specialist in Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Chemi- cal Engineering at Northeastern University. During his academic career at Carnegie Mellon University, Boston University, and Olin College he has been the recipient of the first Whitaker Young Investigator Award from the BMES, a Searle
Chair of the Informa- tion Technology program from 2007-2013. His research interests include network and systems manage- ment, distributed computing, system modeling and architecture, system development, Cyber security and IT curriculum development. Page 26.1233.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Practical Data Mining and Analysis for System AdministrationAbstractModern networks are both complex and important, requiring excellent and vigilant systemadministration. System administrators employ many tools to aid them in their work, but stillsecurity
technology in materials science withethics and social responsibility (10) (11) (12). 1This integration of social context into the traditional engineering curriculum is also a focus at theUniversity of San Diego, and is a subset of a project funded by the National Science Foundation(NSF) under the Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments (RED)program. It is the larger goal of this work to empower student engineering changemakers throughrefinement of the engineering canon. It is also a goal of this work to develop content useful forother faculty so that incorporation into another's classroom, whether in part or in full, is not suchan
Paper ID #21908Measuring Student Learning of Crystal Structures Using Computer-basedVisualizationsDr. Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis Dr. Susan P. Gentry is a Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment in the Materials Science and Engineering department at the University of California, Davis. In her current position at UC Davis, she is integrating computational modules into the undergraduate and graduate materials curriculum. She is specifically interested in students’ computational literacy and life-long learning of computational materi- als science tools.Dr. Tanya Faltens, Purdue University, West
is the 2018 recipient of the American Concrete Institute’s Walter P. Moore, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award. He was awarded Teacher of the Year for the Illinois Indiana section of ASEE in 2017. Also, he was awarded the Daniel V. Terrell Outstanding Paper Award from ASCE. Matt is highly active in ASEE, currently serving as the ASEE CE Division’s Freshman Director. In 2014, Matt received the ASEE CE Division Gerald R. Seeley Award for a paper highlighting a portion of his work regarding the development of a Master’s Degree at Rose-Hulman.Dr. Kyle Kershaw P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Kyle Kershaw is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Kyle’s primary
AC 2007-3100: INNOVATIVE USE OF A RESEARCH REACTOR FORINTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING EDUCATIONJohn White, University of Massachusetts-LowellLeo Bobek, University of Massachusetts- Lowell Page 12.900.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Innovative Use of a Research Reactor for Interdisciplinary Engineering EducationIntroductionOver the last few years, the research reactor facility at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell(UMLRR) has developed capability to perform live experiments and deliver archived reactoroperations data via a web-based interface to remote users.1-3 Access to this capability isavailable through the nuclear101
learning approach utilizing math, science andtechnology principles, their web site includes teacher resources, and they publish the Journal ofTechnology Education6. NASA provides many activities for K-12 education7. The AAASprovides a ScienceNetLink8 web site that provides lessons, tools, resources, benchmarks. MCIFoundation supports the MarcoPolo9 website that focuses on K-12 education and technology andprovides teacher resources, professional development and a network. SECME, formerly knownas the Southeastern Consortium for Minorities in Engineering, offers profession development forteachers, principals and superintendents and provides many programs for K-12 students,including Early College/High School (ECHS), Empowering Parents Program (EP2
@uah.edu.Dr. Paul J. Componation, University of Alabama, Huntsville Paul J. Componation is the Systems Engineering Program Coordinator and a professor of industrial and management systems at the University of Alabama, Huntsville (UAHuntsville). Prior to joining UAHuntsville, Componation was a Resident Associate with the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and Development at West Virginia University and served as an engineering officer with the U.S. Air Force. He has also supported NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as their Systems Engineering Resident Re- searcher. Componation received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from West Virginia University in 1995. He also earned a M.S. in management from Troy State University
boxes used, most common databases, e-book resources, patents resources, technicalreports resources, reference resources and others. Further, LibGuides are analyzed in twoaspects: quality of technical design quality and quality of pedagogical design.IntroductionContent analysis is used extensively in the social sciences, with the development of Web 2.0technology it is used for analysis of web-based content. Examples of work done in this activearea of internet research are: Kim and Kuljis2 that studied the cultural differences in the design ofblogs that have been produced in South Korea and the United Kingdom; Bauer and Scharl3proposed methodologies for the automated evaluation of Web sites; and Adams andMcCorkindale4 studied the use of Twitter
University prior to beginning his faculty career in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he co-founded Automated Cell, Inc. He has been a Visiting Professor of Bioengineering at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering as well as a Visiting Scholar in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He also has led R&D teams at Organogenesis Inc. and Polymerix Corporation developing tissue-engineered medical products and drug- generating biodegradable polymers, respectively. He is the inventor on ten issued US patents. He has been the recipient of the first Whitaker Young Investigator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society, a Searle Scholar Award, and an Early Career