Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT.Dr. Zhuoxuan Li, Stanford University I am currently a postdoc in Management Science and Engineering department. My research interests include education system design, education policy and education entrepreneurshipDr. Yan Wei, Southern University of Science and Technology Teaching Associate Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology, research interests focus on engineering educationProf. Yiming Rong, Southern University of Science & Tech Professor Rong is the founding chair of mechanical and energy engineering department at Souhtern Uni- versity of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. He has worked as a professor
materials award program has also beenlaunched that allows participating faculty to write a short application and receive up to $1200 inlab materials to help implement new hands-on lab activities at their school. In the upcomingyear, CREATE will further examine the intersection of Solar PV and energy storage with electricvehicle technology, and we hope to report on additional faculty programming in thisinterdisciplinary area in the near future.AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation Department of UndergraduateEducation Award #s 1600934, and 2000714. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions orrecommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarilyreflect the views of the National
provide some anecdotes to give the flavor of unexpected challenges thatinevitably arose during contest operations and how the contest’s design allowed them to be met.The overarching goal of the WPBDC is to increase awareness of and interest in engineeringamong a large, diverse population of middle and high school students. As described in our earlierwork,2 its motivation is to attract young students of the United States to careers in engineering,math, and science in order to mitigate projected national shortfalls in the future. This leads tomore specific goals, which are that each contestant should: • Learn about engineering through a realistic, hands-on problem-solving experience. • Learn about the engineering design process—the application
those soft skillsthat are really valuable.”In their discussion of the effective features of SDL, students often explicitly connected cognitiveand metacognitive factors with motivational or behavioral development. Students report thatself-directed learning “helps one learn the material better as well as more enjoyably,” and allowsstudents to see why they need to learn what they’re learning.” One senior noted, “it takes longerto learn a certain amount of information, but students learn it more deeply.” Another commentedthat SDL “creates personal investment in knowledge gained, causing more productivity, higherretention, and deeper exploration.” Of course, the engineering students’ building of connectionsbetween intrinsic motivation and cognitions
should alsobe noted that since the 1870s ICE had been publishing abstracts of foreign and technicaljournals in its Minutes of Proceedings.In the twentieth century a number of factors combined to change the ICE’s primacy. The riseof more specialist engineering societies, modelled on ICE, with their own libraries, and an Page 22.326.2increasing focus of civil engineering on engineering of the infrastructure / construction, led toa more restricted collections policy, relying on other engineering bodies for other disciplines.Beyond that the work of Bradford at the Science Museum before the Second World War, andUrquhart’s establishment of the Lending
; Pedagogical strategies for first-year learning objectives, ABET accreditation Assessment requirements, assessment; Curriculum Design, reform, evaluation, and classification of first-year engineering curriculum; Integrated experiential learning curricula & global/societal problems including service, Experiential research, and entrepreneurship for the first year; Projects Project-based, activity-based, and hands-on learning in the first year; Design Teaching and practicing the engineering design process in the first year; Creative, open-ended problem-solving courses and/or related teaching activities in first
implementation are presented. Laboratorymodules, their associated learning outcomes, and the use of MATLAB/Simulink and SDRhardware are described. The paper concludes with lessons learned and future improvementsbased on the initial offering of the course. The complete course materials, including allMATLAB and Simulink software and laboratory guides, are freely available.I. IntroductionAdvances in software-defined radio (SDR) systems has made this technology widely available tothe engineering community. Electrical and computer engineering programs have been thebeneficiary of reduced hardware costs and rapidly maturing software support tools, thus greatlyreducing barriers to using SDR in the undergraduate classroom. Several textbooks aimed atteaching and
courses, being interesting (an emotional engagementindicator, sub-theme 1.1) for biology-focused courses, and interpersonal interactions (abehavioural engagement indicator, sub-theme 1.1) for humanities courses. . I think there's kind of like a split in my university experience one from very ... so the first two years of engineering science are very, I think, math based. And then I kind of feel like I restarted everything in third year when I went into biomed because there's a lot of different ... like everything is different. It's very, I guess, memory focused, biology focused. … I think my idea of learning effectiveness was probably changed as well. I think one went from how effective professors were able to
company involved. Thefirst phase of the project execution has taught us a great deal. Several lessons aresummarized here. Page 11.554.9Project Management. Coordinating people, tasks and materials proved to be complex,and a good project management is crucial. In this project where different parts orcomponents have to be use by various teams to perform different reverse engineering taskor activities is critical, since one depend the others.Teamwork Skills. Our students have developed teamwork skills thru all the curriculum,leadership, abilities to organize their teamwork from the start to the end, time andresource management, team roles and organization. All these
tutorials around learn or be taught a community-based development project, where the local community was developing as an asset the capacity to operate the project after they left. “we… create nice little teaching videos and hand that over to the community…” Deficit/Weakness Lacks information 22 “I think there’s a mix of people. There are people who really understand what about engineering engineering is, what engineers do, and then there [are] people who have no idea what we do…” Lacks information 21 “I think one of the problems with the public is they have no idea what’s going on, I generally mean, I used, and this isn’t to think I’m a genius
forcing you to come up with a creative solution” while asecond student commented that, “The material was learned in class, but it was understood throughthe assigned projects. The projects were a great way to visualize and understand thematerial.” There were also students that mentioned that the projects were time consuming but veryhelpful in learning the material. Overall, the students had fun with the class while learning robotfundamentals. One student also noted that, “…Also enjoyed showing off somethings to my friends,to be honest.”4 ConclusionThis paper describes the pedagogical process used in a junior/senior level mechanical engineeringcourse at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) to make teaching the fundamentals ofrobotic theory
andexciting and hands-on way. We selected the Scratch tool [10], developed at the MIT Media Lab,and incorporated elements of the Computer Science Unplugged (CS Unplugged) project [3] toteach computational concepts and computational thinking [11]. When the E&O programme startedin 2007, Scratch had just been released that summer and comprehensive teaching materials werenot available. Therefore, we decided to develop teaching materials, in conjunction with highschool schoolteachers.Since its launch, Scratch has become a very popular tool for outreach programmes. Meerbaum-Salant et al. [12] have shown that Scratch is a useful way to learn computer science concepts. At theundergraduate level, Scratch is being used successfully to attract more students
* 1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering 2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina, Columbia SCIntroductionArguably, the post secondary educational system is currently going through a major transition.On one end, the demand on Universities and colleges is growing while budgets are beingreduced1. On the other hand, open access initiatives are making available a considerable amountof material to students and instructors2,3. This translates to higher demands on instructors withlimited resources. This is of particular importance in a time when the cost of higher educationhas risen much faster than the average
AC 2012-3771: DEVELOPING A SMALL-FOOTPRINT BIOENGINEER-ING PROGRAMDr. Alisha L Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Alisha Sarang-Sieminski is an Assistant Professor of bioengineering at Franklin W. Olin College of En- gineering. Her research interests include how cells respond to and influence chemical and mechanical aspects of their surroundings and how people respond to and influence the schemas and power dynamics in their surroundings.Prof. Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Debbie Chachra is an Associate Professor of materials science at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engi- neering. Her engineering education research currently focuses on self-efficacy in first-year
Page 24.99.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A Review of Nuclear-Pumped Lasers and Applications (Asteroid Deflection) Mark A. Prelas, Matthew L. Wattermann, Denis A. Wisniewski, Janese A. Neher, Charles L. Weaver III, Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia MO Abstract A graduate course focused on bringing cutting edge research into the classroom, titledNuclear Pumped Lasers and applications, was taught at the University of Missouri in 1991 as atopics course; due to renewed interests in high power/high energy lasers for civilian applications,the course has been updated with new research and is being offered in the spring of
practices in technician education, with a particular emphasis on faculty development in problem-based learning, the first year of study for success in engineering and technology majors, and mentoring educators nationally.Caroline VanIngen-Dunn, Science Foundation Arizona Center for STEM at Arizona State University Caroline VanIngen-Dunn is Director of the Science Foundation Arizona Center for STEM at Arizona State University, providing services for Maximizing the Educational and Economic Impact of STEM. Ms. VanIngen-Dunn is the inspiration behind the programs and resources designed to assist community colleges, particularly rural and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), through a rigorous process leading to improvements
instruction into the laboratorysections of a first-year engineering design course. It aims to improve student performance onactivity-based team projects and address strategies for adding innovative flipped classroomapproaches into hands-on courses. Video instruction has the potential to combine multiplelearning styles in pre-class preparation material. This video teaching methodology for laboratoryinstructions and assignments provides needed information to students before they attempt thelabs or use equipment to expedite the learning process. A first-year engineering programinitiative to incorporate more flipped classroom resources began this last summer with the helpof an on-campus support center for teaching and learning. This paper will focus on
feel engaged in the engineering program, or are they more likely to use primary sources infuture research, such as capstone projects? While our study cannot answer these larger questions,it shows that these interventions can be integrated into an STS course without being “tacked on,”and that engineering students who are exposed to methodologies of liberal education, such asarchival research, feel more confident about engaging with primary source materials in thefuture.ConclusionThe archival interventions in this Science and Technology Studies course related to current andproposed ABET student outcomes. Students were exposed to a different type of raw data thanthey might normally encounter in engineering classrooms. The raw data of the
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Associate Research Professor at Portland State University and is also Co-Principal Investigator on two NSF grants: Science in the Learning Gardens at Portland StateUniversity, and Engineering for All, at Hofstra University. Dr. Sneider also serves as aConsultant on STEM Education for the Noyce Foundation, the Stephen D. Bechtel Jr.Foundation, and on several advisory boards. He is the Chair of the LinkEngineering committee. WORKSHOP INFORMATIONProposed Title:Introduction to LinkEngineeringAbstract: Please provide a concise description that includes the workshop’s learning objectives(maximum 750 characters). The abstract is used on the ASEE website, program materials, andotherK-12 Workshop promotional activities.The
AC 2011-2916: GENDER SCHEMAS, PRIVILEGE, MICRO-MESSAGING,AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION: PRACTICAL LESSONS FROM THE-ORYYevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Yevgeniya V. Zastavker is an Associate Professor of Physics at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Her research interests lie at the intersection of project-based learning and gender studies with specific emphasis on the curricula and pedagogies implemented in the first-year engineering programs.Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Debbie Chachra is an Associate Professor of Materials Science at Olin College, where she has been in- volved in the development and evolution of the engineering curriculum since she joined the
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 interests are in quantitative and qualitative research and data analysis.Kevin O’Connor, University of Colorado Boulder Kevin O’Connor is assistant professor of Educational Psychology and Learning Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. His scholarship focuses on human action, communication, and learning as socio- culturally organized phenomena. A major strand of his research explores the varied trajectories taken by students as they attempt to enter professional disciplines such as engineering, and focuses on the dilem- mas encountered by
limitations, our risk classification system wasburdensome and of out of sync with the reality of running hands-on experiential engineeringdesign courses. This often lead to conflicting applications and interpretations of how differentlearning spaces on campus acquire tools, rate them for risk, determine access, trainingrequirements and materials usage policies. The goal of the new risk assessment framework is tounify safety and risk management across several learning spaces in order to consistentlycommunicate pathways for the community to acquire, access training and use tools.The new risk assessment tool separates risk to the tool (and replacement cost), risk to theenvironment, and risk to the user and bystanders. This allows dynamic and flexible
retention, program evaluation and teamwork practices in engineering educa- tion. His current duties include assessment, team development and education research for DC Colorado’s hands-on initiatives.Prof. Michael Hannigan Michael P. Hannigan is an Associate Professor in CU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Southern Methodist University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Science from Caltech. Dr. Hannigan’s research group has been actively engaging in the development and validation of low cost air quality monitoring tools with the goal of developing spatial pollutant measurement datasets that will drive a new wave of understanding of pollutant sources
organization focuses on how more female students can be encouraged and retained in theirprograms. The integrative approach to training should work well, not only for female students, but for allstudents. This training is designed to engage many traditional players in the engineering community and towork within existing structures to increase gender equity in a variety of current programs. The training methodsand results will be disseminated by a variety of Web-based tools. The Gender Equity Extension Service isunusual in that it brings expertise in both gender studies and research on science and engineering education tobear on the academic preparation of students from middle school to the sophomore year of college. The project
premium on education related to math,science, and often an introductory engineering course involving elements of design, analysis, andprogramming. While the opportunity for first-year students to gain hands-on experience isincreasing, these experiences typically focus on design-related activities, while experiences withmanufacturing skills and processes are limited. Yet with the “maker movement” in full swing,today’s students have a strong desire for engineering experiences where they learnmanufacturing skills and build things that complement the design skills they are learning in first-year classes and beyond. This paper explores the details of how a 1-credit seminar course isbeing used at a large Midwestern university to provide an innovative
Engineering and is affiliated with the NYU Civil and Urban Engineering department.Ms. Yona Jean-Pierre, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering Yona Jean-Pierre is the Director of Faculty Innovations for Teaching and Learning (FITL) at NYU Tan- don School of Engineering. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Rochester and her Master of Science in Mathematics from NYU Tandon School of Engi- neering (Formerly known as Polytechnic University). She manages the FITL Center, which encourages and promotes innovative teaching strategies and technologies for learning. The Center provides faculty with training on new classroom technologies, access to technologies and
ofthese and other experiences I concluded the fundamentals of SE should be learned by allengineers as a part of their undergraduate education. A similar conclusion had been reached bymy spacecraft design education colleagues who had, with NASA support, already introduced SEinto their capstone program4. So our aircraft design course followed suit but with an objective ofintegrating SE into the syllabus as a hands-on principle of design, not as separate subject. Our capstone course concept was unique so no texts or course materials were available. Sothe author and Dr. Mark approached the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Researchand Engineering (ASD/RE) seeking support for development of the two-semester SE Designcapstone course
Innovation at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and is affiliated with the Department of Management and Organizations at NYU Stern Business School. Her research interests involve commu- nication, collaboration, culture and space, with a focus on interactions, particularly those between people and technology. Her work has been published in several leading journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Information System Research, Organization Science and Organization Studies. She is also the co-author of a book on The Power of Writing in Organizations. She holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the Ecole des Hautes-Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), an M. Phil. in Cognitive Science from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris
instructional material for an NSF funded project on ”Visualization and Manipulation of Nanoscale Components using Atomic Force Microscopy. During his tenure at SUNYIT, he was chairman of the EET department, coordinator of photonics program and Director of the Master of Science program in advanced technology, which he helped to develop. Page 26.337.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Challenges and Potential of Teaching Engineering Students in Developing Countries Using New Trends and MethodologiesAbstract:The purpose of our paper is to review the challenges and