students listed in Table 1). All 49 students’ data was recorded for Fluids.e) Data for Statics was already presented in [7], but is reproduced here to facilitate comparison.Pre-class videos were hosted on UGA’s media storage and streaming system (Kaltura) thatrequired students to log in with their UGA MyID to access them. Pre-class problems wereassigned on online assessment systems that accompanied the respective textbooks ([9]-[11]). In-class problems were usually chosen from the respective textbooks, and an online discussionforum (Piazza) and daily instructor office hours were available for all three courses.Data and Analysis MethodologyViewing information for the pre-class videos assigned in the three flipped courses forms theprimary data of
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own groups as a way to minimize the negative perceptions of studentswith regard to teamwork. Future research will be needed to assess whether such an extensiveredesign of the course can also have a positive impact on students’ learning and motivation.References[1] S. Roeser, “Emotional Engineers: Toward Morally Responsible Design,” Sci. Eng. Ethics,vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 103–115, Mar. 2012.[2] R. M. Felder and R. Brent, “Understanding Student Differences,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 94,no. 1, pp. 57–72, 2005.[3] R. Bekkers and G. Bombaerts, “Introducing Broad Skills in Higher EngineeringEducation: The Patents and Standards Courses at Eindhoven University of Technology,”Technol. Innov., vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 493–507, 2017.[4] G. J. T. Bombaerts, K. I
enactments of howthe world might be otherwise. From the perspective of pedagogical shifts, we take from bellhooks engaged pedagogies [17] that highlight the importance of relational learning, engagedpractice, and dynamics of discomfort to move through understandings of difference. We aim tohighlight importance of the everyday doing and what might be seen as routine tasks asreflections of theory towards change-making.Finally, for this paper project and research we engage feminist technoscience theorizations on thepolitics of care [18], [19], and the manifestation of power dynamics, comforts, discomforts,inclusions, and exclusions that come to light when assessing care practices enacted betweenhuman as well as non-human actors, particularly in
potential members at those schools. However, the school size may impactthe involvement of the faculty advisor and counselor, as well as the section size; students atlarger schools could require more guidance in navigating university policies and procedures.V. Conclusion and ImplicationsAs discussed in the existing literature, collegiate organizations such as professional societies canbe valuable to students. Involved and active advisors contribute to the success of student section.This paper provided an assessment of the involvement of SWE advisors and counselors and anoverview of their roles. It also explored what aspects of the advising role are perceived as mostimportant by faculty advisors and counselors for collegiate sections of SWE, as
Paper ID #26018Human Rights as a Lens for Engineering Ethics?Dr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Environ- mental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living- learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice sustainability
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their course meeting on the university campus.For the remaining nine weeks of the semester, the undergraduate students met on the universitycampus with the course instructor on Thursdays to continue to engage in and learn about theSTEM activities they would be teaching to their students and debrief the lessons they had alreadytaught. Time was also spent in class learning about STEM itself and its role in education as wellas introductory material about strategies for managing student discourse, assessment, and co-teaching strategies.During these last nine weeks, the undergraduate students in the course taught STEM activities onTuesday afternoons 3:30 – 4:30pm to their assigned classes. STEM activities were bundled intothree 3-week-long “units
the flowgraphs discussed in this paper. We briefly present an assessment surveyregarding student preferences for working with SDR systems. Finally, we conclude with asummary of our findings and recommendations for other communication experiments.PreliminariesRecommended Hardware and Development EnvironmentThere is a wide selection of SDR hardware available, with many good choices for the purposespresented herein10. Given the requirements of the projects, the recommended choice is theHackRF One open-source SDR, along with ANT500 antenna11. The HackRF One offers half-duplex transceiver capability, sampling rates up to 20 MSPS, operating frequency of 1 MHz to 6GHz, USB powered connection, SMA RF connection with programmable gain, and
) 4.1 (0.9) 4.0 (1.1) Instructor Quality 4.31 (0.82) 4.5 (0.7) 4.4 (0.8) 4.2 (1.0)Starting in Fall 2018, several items were added to the end of semester evaluations for moredetailed assessment of the impact of FYE on first-year students and across each degree program.A 4-point Likert scale was used for these items to eliminate the “neither disagree or agree”option and encourage students to respond one way or the other. One set of questions was addedto the FYE courses to determine whether the courses are having the intended impacts on choiceof major, developing problem-solving skills, practicing teamwork, establishing a peer group andpreparing for future coursework. Another set of questions was added to a select
different across varying types ofindustries?Interview Questions • Tell me about the specific communication requirements in your role in this industry. • In your experience, how different are the communication requirements of your current role compared to other industries? • Are your communication skills assessed in performance evaluations? If yes, please explain.
Annual Conference & Exposition, https://peer.asee.org/18808, Vancouver, BC: ASEE Conferences, Jun. 2011.[13] A. Popescu, “Gaining intellectual control over technical reports and grey literature collections”, in 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, https://peer.asee.org/18014, Vancouver, BC: ASEE Conferences, Jun. 2011.[14] P. P. Frank and R. L. Bothmann, “Assessing undergraduate interlibrary loan use”, Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 33–48, 2008. DOI: 10.1300/J474v18n01\_05. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1300/J474v18n01_05.[15] M. Strom, “Taking off the training wheels: The migration from print journals to ejournals at the University
students need to excel and enjoy STEM subjects.However for the last decade, American students have consistently performed near the average oninternational science assessments and below average on the corresponding math exams [3].Many blame teachers for the general lackluster student performance, yet many teachers areunderqualified to be teaching STEM subjects. There is a dire shortage of quality STEMeducators across the country, but especially in public school districts that primarily serveunderrepresented minority students [4]. Thus, those teachers that are in the frontline of ourclassrooms need more support as we also seek more ways to encourage the development offuture STEM teachers. One area of positive growth in STEM education has been
Paper ID #16199A Laboratory Study of Student Usage of Worked-example Videos to SupportProblem SolvingDr. Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Edward Berger is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, joining Purdue in August 2014. He has been teaching mechanics for nearly 20 years, and has worked extensively on the integration and assessment of specific technology interventions in mechanics classes. He was one of the co-leaders in 2013-2014 of the ASEE Virtual Community of Practice (VCP) for mechanics educators across the country.Prof. Michael Wilson
improved based on the analysis of the Cronbach’s alpha of thepilot. In addition, to ensure validity, the survey was critiqued by the four authors of the project,who discussed every item in detail. In addition, an assessment expert evaluated the survey andmade suggestions. Face validity and content validity were established with consensus of theresearchers. The instrument, as mentioned before, has been proven to measure the theorydeveloped by Hofstede. Our IRB-approved survey was delivered online using Qualtrics to astratified sample of undergraduate students at research 6 different partner institutions. Table 1presents information about the sample size, and majors by semester obtained in each institution inthe first 3 years.Table 1. Sample sizes
servo mixing for the inverted V-Tail.The project will continue under a new group of 7 ME students, and 2 EE students, withthe same mentor support network. Key issues moving forward are a reliability analysisand redesign, as well as a candid assessment of the feasibility of operating a gasoline-powered UAV in Zimbabwe. Though the client desires the range, the realities ofoperation in a Developing World country may proscribe some of the operationaldemands.The total cost of the project to date is ~ $6K, not including travel expenses for mentorsfor the students. This is the first publication that reviews this project’s performance.Project 2 Timeline1/2015 project start2/2015 spec4/2015 prelim design5/2015 final design6/2016 build complete, testing
. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2016-17 Edition, Civil Engineers, on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/civil- engineers.htm (visited January 28, 2016).3. Employment Projections. (n.d.). Retrieved January 10, 2016, from http://data.bls.gov/projections/occupationProj .4. Yoder, B.L. (2014), “Engineering by the numbers”, (https://www.asee.org/papers-and- publications/publications/14_11-47.pdf)5. Brown, Duane, ed. Career choice and development. John Wiley & Sons, 2002.6. Holland, J. L. (1997), Making vocational choices: A theory of vocational personalities and work environments. Psychological Assessment Resources.7
thorough review of candidates’ qualifications and experience is necessary, but may not besufficient in insuring quality of instruction. Candidate’s ability to deliver a lecture properlyshould be put to the test through his/ her presentation of a seminar attended and evaluated byfaculty members and students. Presentation of a technical seminar, though stressful for somecandidates, is an invaluable means for assessing candidate’s teaching skills. A scheduledpresentation is also an opportunity for regular faculty to meet adjunct candidates, before andafter the seminar, to get to know the candidate and discuss matters of mutual interest, includingpotential future collaboration. (1)Some of the adjunct faculty-particularly those who are seniors in
. Researching the Educational Benefits of Diversity. New York: Publications, C.B.; 2005 ContractNo.: 2005-4.16. Brown, R.D., Clarke, B., Gortmaker, V. and Robinson-Keilig, R. "Assessing the Campus Climate for Gay,Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (Glbt) Students Using a Multiple Perspectives Approach." Journal of CollegeStudent Development. 2004; 45(1): 8-26.17. Cech, E.A. The Veiling of Queerness: Depoliticization and the Experiences of Lgbt Engineers. ASEE AnnualConference & Exposition; 2013; Atlanta, GA: American Society for Engineering Education.18. Cross, K.J. and Paretti, M.C. The Impact of Personal Interactions on the Experience of African AmericanMales on Multiracial Student Teams. ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition; 2015; Seattle, WA
-efficacy towards a task may instead have increased anxiety towards it, it may beimportant for instructors to look for related issues through project assessment earlier and scaffoldlater projects towards individual gains in those areas. By working to increase student design self-efficacy through ways such as project-based learning, we may be able to further develop studentengineering skills necessary for the engineer of 2020 to complete future engineering grandchallenges.Future work will look to see whether other methods of active learning, such as problem-basedlearning7, show similar increases of student design self-efficacy and will seek to understand furtherhow active learning environments increase student development of design self-efficacy and
simulations.AcknowledgementsThe authors gratefully acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation under thegrant TUES 1245482. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References 1. Bowen, A. S., Reid, D. R., & Koretsky, M. D. (2015). Development of Interactive Virtual Laboratories to Help Students Learn Difficult Concepts in Thermodynamics. Chemical Engineering Education 49(4), 229- 238. 2. Meyer, J. H. F., & Land, R.. (2003). Enhancing teaching-learning environments in undergraduate courses. Occasional Report, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Assessment, The University of Edinburgh
Francisco with his wife and two kids.Prof. Steven C. Currall, Southern Methodist University Steven C. Currall is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Southern Methodist University. As Provost, he oversees the university’s academic activity including seven academic units: Cox School of Business, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Dedman School of Law, Meadows School of the Arts, Lyle School of Engineering, Perkins School of Theology, and Simmons School of Education and Human Development. He is also responsible for additional units that include the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Central University Libraries, satellite Campuses in Plano, Texas and at Taos, New Mexico, the Office of Assessment
overcome barriers in both emotional andcognitive capabilities.Research MethodsResearch questions The study comes out of a design-based research paradigm and assesses instruction design anddelivery in flipped classrooms.17 It investigates three research questions pertaining to ways ofproblematizing content knowledge and their influence on learning outcomes: (1) What are thefeatures of content problematizing, which engage learning as intended, or hinder learningresulting in gaps between teaching and learning? (2) What are the techniques needed for contentproblematizing to mend gaps between teaching and learning? (3) Are there any disparities inlearning outcomes under problem-centered learning, and if so, how do we diminish theinconsistency?Research
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to more accurately determine theeffectiveness of the supervised homework sessions for different groups of students, such aswomen.References1 M. C. Loui, B. A. Robbins, E. C. Johnson and N. Venkatesan, "Assessment of Peer-led Team Learning in an Engineering Course for Freshmen," International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 1440- 1455, 2013.2 L. T. Tien, V. Roth and J. A. Kampmeier, "Implementation of a Peer-Led Team Learning Instructional Approach in an Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Course," Journal of Research in Science Teaching, vol. 39, no. 7, pp. 606-632, 2002. 3 W. K. Born, W. Revelle and L. H. Pinto, "Improving Biology
). Strength in numbers: Collaborative learning in secondary mathematics. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.26. Ohland, M. W., Loughry, M. L., Carter, R. L., Bullard, L. G., Felder, R. M., Finelli, C. J., ... & Schmucker, D. G. (2006, June). The comprehensive assessment of team member effectiveness (catme): A new peer evaluation instrument. In Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference.27. Harvey, W. B. (1991). Faculty responsibility and tolerance. Thought and Action,7, 115-136.28. Wong (Lau), K. (2012). Improving Climates for Women of Color in the Academy. On Campus With Women, Association of American Colleges and Universities, 41(1).29. Nasir, N. S., & Hand, V. (2008). From the Court to the Classroom
technological development. Given the current results, no specific areas forimprovement in optimisation can be identified. Future questionnaires may be based on alarger scale (eg.- a 7 or 9-point scale) to assess more minute differences between participants.During the analysis, additional factors that deserve attention in future evaluations gainprominence – pre-knowledge and previous interest in this field of robotics for example. Anextension of the questionnaire might also be an option in order to evaluate the trends shown inthis experiment (a link between theoretical amount and evaluation of female and respectivelymale participants, or conversely costs and evaluation). A longitudinal evaluation study over alonger time period would also be interesting
, paper-basedhomework and exams are the optimized choice as the main practice and assessment approach.Homework was optional, but was counted as extra credits up to 30 points (totally 450 points forthe class, including 3 midterms and 1 final exam). Homework was assigned weekly, andcollected in class one week later. Students were allowed to work in a team or attend office hourto discuss the homework problems. But all turned in solutions should be completed individually.All problems are representative and carefully designed by the third author, who has richexperiences in teaching junior level EM fields class. Generally, ECE 311 homework problemswere basic questions, including short answers, multiple choices, and computational questions.The
information was gathered such as Type, Size and Location, preliminarybridge design and a copy of the final detailed bridge drawings to assess what design serviceswere provided for each project. It also consisted in interviews with the design staff that helpedthe research team to quickly grasp the main aspects of the preconstruction activities involved.In stage 2, the research team developed a WBS that could be used by both of the bridge designprojects to prove that standardization could be achieved even though different design approacheswere employed. One staff member completed work effort hour estimates for each project. Table1 demonstrates the work effort hours estimated and the actual hours for both projects. Table 1