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was awarded NAE’s 2008 Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education.Ms. Beth A Myers, University of Colorado Boulder Beth A. Myers is the engineering assessment specialist for the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a BA in biochemistry, ME in engineering management and is currently a PhD candidate studying engineering education at the College of Engineering and Ap- plied Science. She has worked for the University of Colorado in various capacities for 17 years, including as a program manager for a small medical research center and most recently as Director of Access and Recruiting for the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Her
also beensuccessfully utilized in an upper-division digital signal processing course. As part of the course,students design, implement, and test digital filters running on real-time DSP hardware. Duringtesting, students are asked to assess the characteristics and performance of their implementationcompared to theoretical predictions and simulations. Prior to using the Analog Discoveryboards, students had access to one immobile, legacy instrument-grade network analyzer formaking measurements and debugging their implementations. Due to improved access via theAnalog Discovery, instructors have increased the overall usage of the network analyzer withinthe course. We believe this additional exposure has led to deeper student learning of
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devices such as piezoresistive and piezoelectricactuators, microfluidics and metamaterials. This course also includes COMSOL modelingproject and a review of systems engineering principles. This course includes a lab component inwhich the students work on a team of 3 to 4 students to fabricate a MEMS device. They arerequired to develop a process flow, design masks, fabricate and test their device by the end of thequarter. Their progress is assessed via a mid-project design review and a final demo andpresentation.Figure 11 A mask masking apparatus designed and developed by EP students during theEP411 class.The EP students also take a course in sensing at RHIT. This course covers the fundamentals ofsensing and sensing systems including: sensor
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district. The lack of this importantresource results in rural students being ill prepared for college level math and science courses ata greater rate than metropolitan students. This lack of academic resources is reflective of thesocioeconomic disparity between regions. This is not surprising since URM primary and middle grade math scores are much lower thantheir White and Asian peers. North Carolina students’ average National Assessment ofEducational Progress (NAEP) math score for fourth graders was four points higher than thenational average of 240 in 2015. URMs average score was 232, eight points lower than thenational average and 21 points lower than White students. Eighth graders’ scores for all NorthCarolina students was equal to the
Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the Director for the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering, and serves as a Center Associate for the Learning Research and Development Center. Her principal research is in engineering education assessment, which has been funded by the NSF, Department of Ed, Sloan, EIF, and NCIIA. Dr. Sacre’s current research focuses on three distinct but highly correlated areas – innovative design and entrepreneurship, engineering modeling, and global competency in engineering. She is currently associate editor for the AEE Journal.Dr. Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University Dr. Carpenter is founding Dean of Engineering at Campbell University. She is
taught a year-long, design-based engineering course for seniors. Forbes earned her PhD in civil engineering, with an engineering education research focus.Dr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado - Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She serves as the ABET assessment coordinator for the department. Professor Bielefeldt is the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Aca- demic Program, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering
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along with his Master’s of Science and Bachelor of Science from Purdue’s School of Civil Engineering. Justin is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the STEM Education Research Institute at IUPUI. Justin’s research interests include developing pedagogical strategies to improve STEM students’ ethical reasoning skills; exploring the role of empathy within design, innovation and sustainability; synthesizing the influence of societal and individual worldviews on decision-making; assessing STEM students’ learning in the spaces of design, ethics, and sustainability; and exploring the impact of pre-engineering curriculum on students’ abilities and career trajectories. c American Society for
considered to be one of the most challenging courses at the University ofCalgary. For the past 10 years, the failure rate has hovered around 15-20%. This rate has seriousimplications on student retention for the approximately 400 students each year that requireengineering dynamics as prerequisite for several other core courses. An initial failure ofEngineering dynamics results in a minimum of a half a year extension to a student’s degreeprogram. Furthermore, a second failure of this course requires the student to withdraw from theEngineering school.The course is offered in multiple sections, taught by several instructors using uniform teachingand assessment methods. Teaching evaluations vary across sections from very poor to those thatresult in
.17 Similarly, Jones, et al., offered six reasons why mobile learning is motivating.These were a) control over goals, b) ownership, c) fun, d) communication, e) learning-in-context,and f) continuity between contexts.20 By 2010, Nordin, et al., were prepared to present both a listof crucial factors for the development of a theory of mobile learning and a framework for mobilelearning. Their crucial factors included: a) an underlying assumption that learners are on themove, b) understanding that learning takes place outside the classroom, c) belief that mobilelearning must be learner centered, knowledge centered, assessment centered, and communitycentered; and d) consideration of the use of ubiquitous technology and how learning responds tothat
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/mutual respect is important for success in 4.7 my career and/or life?Conclusions from the Mandala and Semester Project AssignmentsThe author assessed the integration of civility into his course using student responses to selectedquestions from the two assignments (Mandala and Semester Project Assignments). The authorhas been using the assignments for years, modifying them as needed. After each assignment, theauthor further explained what civility is and why it’s important for students to understand andpractice it. The author has noted that integrating civility into his course assignments does notrequire any major modifications to the course.The Components of Civility, summarized in Table 3, were incorporated into the Mandala
Environments division, the idea to develop, oversee and assess engaging students to expand their knowledge and creativity by innovating new technologies application for Engineering Education is currently under way to engage the university and the community. Concluding, Mr. Lugo’s ambition is to encourage students to focus in science, technology and engineer abilities in order to expand their professional potential.Mr. Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso Mike Pitcher is the Director of Academic Technologies at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has had experience in learning in both a traditional university program as well as the new online learning model, which he utilizes in his current position
variability in the data14. However, this instrument did notinclude several characteristics of the FTP cone types identified in our subsequent qualitativework. The study described in this paper attempts to further refine our survey instrument bycreating items that quantitatively capture latent constructs reflected in our qualitative findings .MethodsUsing an instrument in research that does not assess what the researchers are presuming tomeasure can lead to incorrect results and wrong decisions18. In refining the MAE survey, carewas taken in the process of choosing factors, developing items, and testing for validity andreliability.Developing ItemsFactors were chosen based on the results from our previous qualitative research. Code categoriesthat were
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. For example, the programming (courses, workshops, training, socialactivities, project support, and mentorship) at large makerspaces may indicate elements that can beimplemented by smaller spaces while acknowledging the reduced scale of the smaller spaces preventsadopting all programming aspects of a larger facility. Similarly, assessment practices at a collection oflarger makerspace may produce a series of best practices that are in fact applicable to all comparableprograms within a specific class of makerspaces.It is noted that the proposed classification system, including the presented indices, is an initial step.Additional indices can be added over time to extend the system’s value in other domains. For example,adding indices for funding
part-time students who were in no hurry to graduate, the Capstone Experience dragged on for up to five quarters.As part of our ongoing ABET assessment process and after several teams completed theprogram, we made some significant changes and these changes represent the CapstoneExperience as currently implemented. Three key changes were implemented: 1. The Capstone course was extended to two quarters. Capstone I is a two-credit course in which the students research the project and create a formal specification that must be approved by their industry mentor. Capstone II is a three-credit course in which the students actually build, debug and validate their design. Capstone II ends with a report, a
of academic ethics that this workaims to investigate 2 . In the intervening eight decades, a wide variety of assessments have beenused to study indicators (social club membership, gender, personality traits) and motivatingfactors (GPA, perceived pressure, perceived severity of penalty) and these different angles havebeen investigated from sociological, psychological, and other contextual perspectives 3–10 . Thetopic of academic dishonesty has had all of this careful attention, yet daily, educators in thetrenches face this pervasive, elusive enemy.About thirty years after the work of C. O. Mathews and the Atkins sisters was the work ofBowers 11 and another thirty years after that was the work of McCabe and Trevino 12 . Those twostudies have
classical utilitarian theory is an effort to avoid some of the moreunwelcome and counterintuitive requirements imposed by the principle of utility, such as,say, being morally obligated to sacrifice one’s personal relationships, or harm one personto increase the welfare of millions. Rather than evaluating each action according to thenet good or harm that will come from it, rule utilitarianism assesses and adopts rulesaccording to their overall net benefit. Adopting rules that tend to promote the greatestutility affords a place for personal relationships and special duties that classicalutilitarianism cannot, better coheres with our general moral beliefs, and also minimizesthe amount of calculation required for each action. By adopting a set
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ends, shows it quickly deviates and comes off of the inclinebefore the end. The viewer/reader is asked to come up with explanations of the matter based onwhat they have seen in the throughout video.AssessmentThe video has received very encouraging feedback from students and professors. It has also beenbroadcasted throughout the university to all electrical and computer engineering students. Withinthe first week of sharing the video it received over 200 views and very many “likes.” Due to thenature of this medium, traditional assessment methods cannot be used. Rather, it is based oncrowd-based feedback received, i.e., number of video views and “likes.” It should be noted thatstatements from some engineering professors such as “I wish I had
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has worked in the areas of construction of infrastructures and buildings, failure assessment of buildings and bridges, construction accident investigations, forensic engineering, ancient buildings, ancient bridges, and the ancient history of science and engineering for over 40 years. The tools he uses include fault tree analysis, fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality.Dr. Michael Parke, The Ohio State University Dr. Parke has over twenty years experience in satellite based earth science research. He has been teaching first year engineering for the past seventeen years, with emphasis on computer aided design, computer programming, and project design and documentation.Dr. Tarunjit Singh Butalia, The
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