(2014): 51-67; Douglas, Kerrie Anna et al. “A Comparison ofBeginning and Advanced Engineering Students’ Description of Information Skills.” Evidence Based Library andInformation Practice 10, no. 2 (2015): 127-143; Nackerud, Shane, Jan Fransen, Kate Peterson, and Kristen Mastel.“Analyzing Demographics: Assessing Library Use Across the Institution.” portal: Libraries and the Academy 13, no. 2(April 2013): 131-145; Whitmire, Ethelene. “Disciplinary Differences and Undergraduates’ Information-SeekingBehavior.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 53, no. 8 (2002): 631-638.17 Leckie. “Information Literacy in Science.” 11.18 DaCosta, Jacqui Weetman. “Is There an Information Literacy Skills Gap to Be Bridged? An
mathematics from Harding University. His primary research interest is in how to use machine learning in fully online and hybrid educational environments to understand students and improve their learning.Dr. Kerrie A. Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Douglas is an Assistant Professor in the Purdue School of Engineering Education. Her research is focused on methods of assessment for large-scale learning environments.Mr. Tarun Yellamraju, Purdue University, West Lafayette Tarun Yellamraju is currently a PhD student in the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He received his Bachelor of Technology with Honors degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology
developed commitment to socialresponsibility, as well as students’ general impression of the first-year course. This provides aframework for analyzing meaningful post-survey responses and educational outcomes of theEthics lessons.A post-survey will be administered to analyze the Triggered-Feeling effects of the lesson toformulate projections on effects on the students’ persistence in engineering. This survey selvesinto content of the Ethics lessons and students’ main takeaways from the lessons.Teaching Dimensions Observation Protocol [8] observations of the 50-minute class period willhelp connect student engagement to particular methods and events in the lesson. Categoriesinclude engagement assessments every two minutes during a
," Practical assessment, research & evaluation, vol. 7, no. 17, pp. 137-146, 2001[18] J. Saldaña, The coding manual for qualitative researchers. Sage publication, 2015. Appendix. Interview protocol1. Introduction and thanks for participation.2. A little bit about yourself.3. Please describe your understanding of the role of a learning assistant.4. Where does your understanding of this role come from?5. How did you hear about the LA position?6. What course(s) are you in as a learning assistant?7. Why did you want to be an LA in this course? (motivation)8. What (classroom) activities did you participate in? What were your roles in those activities?9. Describe the ways you were
capstone course used for assessment of the program. The shiftstresses going from extensive technical detail to the design and development process using asystems engineering approach [1]. The program provides a mix of in-depth technical electricalengineering courses with holistic systems engineering approach to bring their systems into being.Students will have taken two systems engineering courses before registering for the capstonecourse.Using the systems engineering approach led to the Auto-Fetch Dog System as proposed by onestudent. Description of weekly deliverables are presented in another paper to help studentspractice the systems engineering process [1]. The structure of the capstone course revolvedaround the Vee Model found in systems
robotics learning environment: what Mindstorms and DARPA urban challenge have in common.", ASEE Computers in Education Journal 1.3 (2010): 32-39.[12] Weinberg, Jerry B., et al. "A multidisciplinary model for using robotics in engineering education." Proceedings of the 2001 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 24-27, 2001.[13] Weinberg, Jerry B., and Xudong Yu. "Robotics in education: Low-cost platforms for teaching integrated systems." IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 10.2 (2003): 4-6.[14] White, W., et al. "Assessing an interdisciplinary robotics course." Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and
lab tour provides a much-needed tutorial on acurrent VNA. Student learning is assessed by answering a 15-question quiz on what they learned.In summary, ADS is a resource that can be used as a partner with well-known Microwave I texts.It can solidify student learning and foster an environment for further exploration of devices andsystems (by trial and error.) We specifically avoid the use of optimization as the goal is to buildintuition for checking accuracy, practical issues in design, and larger pre-manufacturing studies.Course reviews consistently request more and more training for RF industry-readiness.University of Notre Dame - Dr. Jonathan Chisum, Assistant Professor, Department of ElectricalEngineering, University of Notre DameThe
training may influence reaction to somatic and emotional states. For thisresearch, we posit that undergraduate research and internship experiences may provide moreopportunities for these four sources of self-efficacy, particularly for URM women.Measuring Engineering Task Self-EfficacyEngineering task self-efficacy (ETSE) was assessed with a 5-item self-report measure for anETSE Instrument which is defined as an individual’s belief in their ability to successfullyperform technical engineering tasks. The technical engineering tasks probed by the survey weremotivated by engineering and career outcomes in previous work [5]. The process of adapting theitems and selecting a representative five-item set from a more exhaustive list using factoranalysis is
, urban school districts with research experiences and shared activities designed to increase their understanding of the challenges and demands of nanotechnology, collaborative research, and college/career opportunities in STEM fields. Lead participants in the creation of 15 hands-on, inquiry-based teaching modules (5 per year) which integrate multiple STEM disciplines, convey scientific-process skills, and align with Indiana State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Introduce teaching modules and classroom assessment strategies into targeted school districts in an effort to cultivate a positive image of, and greater interest in, STEM fields among urban secondary students, many of whom are from underrepresented
experience begins. Can onedeliver results by following ethical practices? Will that performance, satisfy the leaders of theorganization? Is it practicable, to strictly adhere to the principles of ethical behaviour in allthe situations? That’s the key question.To understand the situation, we (Business Ethics Foundation in India) initiated a project tocarry out a ‘survey based study to assess and analyse the status of business ethics today andpredictions for tomorrow’. It implied the status by the year 2015 and prediction by year 2020.We decided to conduct semi-structured interviews of CEO’s in the business world as theyplay vital role, in steering profitable business. The CEO’s were from manufacturing, services,IT industries and a few from research
mathematics recognized a strong need to completely overhaul the instructionof Calculus at Boise State University (BSU). This need resulted from rapid growth in STEMenrollment that occurred which exacerbated underlying weaknesses in the calculus sequence.These weaknesses included first, a lack of alignment of content, despite the presence of a guidingmaster syllabus and common textbook; second, a lack of alignment concerning assessment,resulting in wide variations in pass rate between instructors of different sections of the samecourse (Bullock, 2015) and third, very low pass rates – for example, the average pass rate in2005-6 was 51% (Callahan, 2009).Transformational curriculum change requires a wide degree of faculty buy-in. The record of howour
include more computers, furniture, and group study rooms. She conceptualized the service desk to include both reference and circulation, and emphasized outreach and evaluation of services. Starting her Cornell career in Mann Library, Zsuzsa went on to become Director of Assessment and Communication.51 Steven Rockey, Director 2009-2014 Figure 35. Steve became Director of the Mathematics Library in 1972. Becoming director of the Engineering and Physical
easily assess the efficiency of their curricula, and to analyze possible changes toprograms.The Complexity of Curricular Design PatternsWe have previously used graph-theoretic concepts to study the complexity of curricula, and it isstraightforward to apply these concepts to curricular design patterns.12, 13 A given curricular patternis represented as a directed acyclic graph by creating a node for each course in the pattern, and byplacing a directed edge between two nodes if there is a pre- or co-requisite relationships betweenthe courses the nodes represent. The curricular design pattern shown in Figure 1 is represented asa directed acyclic graph. More formally, we model a curricular pattern C consisting of n coursesas a directed graph GC = (V
," InternationalJournal of Engineering Education, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 248-261, July 1997.[11] G. Wight, R.D. Friend, J. Beneat, and W. Barry, W., "Ac 2008-1608: Project-basedintroduction to engineering for freshman students," in Proceedings of the 2008 American Societyfor Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.,June 22-25, 2008, pp. 13.1009.1-13.1009.15.[12] (2018). Undergraduate Catalog. Available: http://catalog.umaine.edu/.[13] R.J. Rabb, J. Howison, and K. Skenes, K., "Assessing and developing a first yearintroduction to mechanical engineering course," in Proceedings of the 2015 American Society forEngineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., June 14-17, 2015, pp
totallydifferent engineering degree to pursue. Quite often, students are not even aware of all of thedifferent types of engineering degrees available. This is even after they have covered the variousengineering degrees via their textbook readings and assessment. It seems that doing research ontheir own solidifies the information. Another critical outcome is that some students realize thatan engineering degree might not be for them or may not be a realistic goal. It is common forstudents to be surprised that "an engineering degree is a very complicated goal to achieve."Along with the requirements of different engineering programs, students learn about varioustuition and enrollment statistics for both public and private institutions. As a result of
certification is offered by three different professional organizations, using different standards. Board certification is not available in all civil engineering specialty areas.Specialization in the Medical ProfessionIn assessing the significance of these issues, it is useful to compare the ill-defined system ofspecialization in civil engineering with the highly structured system of specialization in themedical profession.*All medical specialty areas are clearly and authoritatively defined by the American Board ofMedical Specialties (ABMS). Established in 1933, the ABMS is a non-profit organizationcomprised of 24 certifying boards that develop and implement professional standards for thecertification of physicians in their declared
including standards, assessments, and curricula[27]. The curricular unit used in this study was designed and developed with guidance from boththe STEM integration framework [24] and The Framework for Quality K-12 EngineeringEducation [27]. The latter framework identifies nine key characteristics of quality pre-collegeengineering; the first of these characteristics, the Process of Design (POD), is most pertinent tothis study. POD has six sub-indicators which represent the fundamental characteristics of designprocesses: problem, background, plan, implement, test, and evaluate. POD can be broken intotwo stages: problem scoping and solution generation. The problem scoping stage is composed ofidentifying the problem, criteria, and constraints and
the first day of the class. In thisproject, students design a solution to a real-world problem (typically related to a research projectthat the instructor is working on) in small, randomly assigned groups. Students are assessed onlikelihood of success of their design solution, the quality of a representative CAD model, andtheir ability to communicate the results through a short presentation and a short design report.This project is meant to excite the students for the rest of the course and to help them understandwhy learning design methods, team-working skills, and prototyping skills are important.The next section of the course shows students the design process through a series of interactiveclass discussions and in-class exercises ending
discussed below, the German students rarely come to office hours, so I did not get to knowthem as well as my students at Cal Poly.General Class StructureCourses at the HSKA generally run for 90 minutes; the course taught by Prof America inGermany was 5 units, so met five times every two weeks. This is longer than the typical coursestaught at Cal Poly, so some adjustments had to be made. Prof America typically teaches usingactive learning and interactive methods, so he gave plenty of time for the students to talk to oneanother while they were working problems in groups or answering concept questions.A major difference in the educational systems is the assessment methods. In Germany, coursegrades are typically assigned solely on the basis of a 120
students best at framing problems had rated their ownpre-college knowledge and confidence in engineering lower. The larger research effort entaileddesigning and refining an accessible tool to reveal assets diverse students bring as they enterengineering, ascertain if those assets vary by demographic, determine if the assets explainvariance in performance, and illustrate the connection from the assets to engineering practice andidentities. The products of this work include a well-vetted survey to assess assets,communication of the nonlinearity of design and importance of a value system, and mostimportantly turns on its head assumptions about skills viewed as deficiencies versus assets indiverse student populations and how this can be leveraged to
more closely aligned to that civil engineeringvision. The problems associated with risk can be based in data, knowledge, or choice anduncertainties can be related to design, construction or project management. While it should beagain noted that engineering students can take risk assessment and risk management instructionin any number of non-engineering environments, the BOK3 draft outcome and explanationrecognizes that it is important for civil engineering education programs to ensure that allgraduates acquire a particular base of knowledge in risk management for solving civilengineering problems encountered in delivering civil infrastructure unique to civil engineering.Engineering EconomicsEvery entity, public or private, is confronted with
, professional standards, and engineering organizations.Administrative systems are gendered and tied to the legal foundations of a gender binary [34].These administrative systems socially and structurally enforce a binary and limit the spaceswhere nonbinary and gender nonconforming individuals can exist or be recognized.Administrative systems include college enrollment records, social security records, driver’slicenses, and birth certificates. Expanding the gender options in administrative systems offers theability to assess needs and acknowledging existence. Collecting organizational demographicsmay use data collection strategies presented prior from the HRC, or simply present nonbinary asa third option. Collecting broader gender demographics of a
, Apr. 2004.[10] S. J. Poole, J. L. DeGrazia, and J. F. Sullivan, “Assessing K-12 Pre-Engineering Outreach Programs*,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 43–48, Jan. 2001.[11] C. M. Cunningham and G. J. Kelly, “Epistemic Practices of Engineering for Education,” Sci. Educ., vol. 101, no. 3, pp. 486–505, May 2017.[12] C. M. Cunningham and C. P. Lachapelle, “Designing Engineering Experiences to Engage All Students,” Educ. Des., vol. 3, no. 9, 2016.[13] C. P. Lachapelle, Y. Oh, and C. M. Cunningham, “Effectiveness of an Engineering Curriculum Intervention for Elementary School: Moderating Roles of Student Background Characteristics,” Am. Educ. Res. Assoc., 2017.[14] G. J. Kelly, C. M. Cunningham, and A
degrees of emotive response. The techniques are the mostcommonly used today. Furthermore, sentiment analysis lexicons may also contain sentimentvalues along other emotive “dimensions”, such as joy, anger, sadness, arousal, and so forth.A popular and high-performing sentiment analysis method is “Valence Aware Dictionary andsEntiment Reasoner” (VADER). VADER is a lexicon and rule-based sentiment analysis tool thatwas specifically developed for assessing sentiment expressed in social media [Hut2014].VADER assigns each lexical feature (word) a classification, where each word is labeled as beingvarying degrees of positive or negative. VADER also accounts for punctuation modifiers.Exclamation points increase the positivity or negativity of the
during the first and second sessions,respectively.Of the 77 students who were originally enrolled, 18 were English Language Learners, 23 werepreviously enrolled in bilingual education programs but had been reclassified as Englishproficient, 62 were eligible for free or reduced lunch, and 5 were in special education. Theiraverage Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) math achievement score in 4th gradewas 2506 (21 points above the proficiency level 3-standard met). Their average SBAC EnglishLanguage Arts achievement score in 4th grade was 2511 (38 points above the proficiency level3-standard met). Before the beginning of the summer program, all the pod leaders received atwo-week training where they learned about the STEM summer enrichment
SchoolDistrict actually visit the schools (Washington Elementary or Gardner Academy) with the BUGCoordinator. This exercise is meant to illuminate project parameters defined by the actual spaceand aid in determining critical customers for their project. For the BUG hub schools, projectscompleted are often aimed for K-5 children and can be used as part of curriculum for theteachers to enrich learning. This activity, along with reflective assessments geared towardunderstanding the social and civic realities of the targeted community, help the student designtoward community needs. By the end of the term, students will have designed and built a projectconforming to project specifications determined through this community partner/studentcollaboration, which
forvehicles to navigate roadways, but before even reaching that point in development, there is animminent issue to address first: keeping the vehicle from harming itself by its physicalsurroundings. Street lights, speed limit signs, crosswalks, these are all important informationpieces that drivers must read and understand at any given time, but before software is designed toread and comprehend this, it is equally useful to protect the car and driver from stationarytelephone poles, ditches, and so on. Basic risk assessment isn't limited to public road waysthough; vehicles for freight movement, construction, even immobility-assistance devices canutilize this technology for safer travel. Defensive movement may not be the end all to driver
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). Over the summer of 2018, Emma traveled with EWB@MSU to Khwisero, Kenya to implement a borehole well at a primary school there. During the summer of 2019, Emma will once again travel to Khwisero – this time to assess for a structure at a secondary school.Romy M. Beigel, Montana State University Romy Beigel is a senior at Montana State University pursuing a B.S. in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering and a B.A. in Honor’s Liberal Studies. Romy is a member of IISE, Alpha Pi Mu, and the Montana State Women in Engineering Advisory Board. Her previous professional experience includes an internship with The Boeing Company and undergraduate research work with the Space Science and Engineering Lab at Montana