engineer and a political scientist.Edward Wilson who is an entomologist of Harvard took a step further and discussed consilience,which is the “convergence of knowledge across once-separate fields”2. Another term inexpressing consilience is interdisciplinarity, which an individual understands both theengineering and the policy aspects. In light of these examples, public policy is an increasinglyimportant topic in the engineering and technology curriculum as it is recognized by a communityof experts, National Research Council of the National Academies (NRCNA), AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET), American Association for the Advancement ofScience (AAAS), and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).The nature of public policy
Regents Math and Physics instruction special projects NoneExams, c) High School Graduation 7-8 Math 46% 46% 8%Rates, and d) Likert-scaled pre-post 9-12 Math 60% 35% 5%activity teacher surveys. Other 7-8 Science 25% 75% 25%quantitative instruments were also used 9-12 Science 54% 38% 8%including rubrics to evaluatecomputational artifacts (such as lesson plans, curriculum modules and student projects) andprotocols to evaluate classroom observations – these are covered in other publications.Sample: Students from 13 urban (Rochester City School District, RCSD) and 2
research papers that have been published at various top conferences and journals. He currently serves as the Chairperson of the Electrical Engineering department at ITU. He was awarded the HEC Best University Teacher Award, the highest national teaching award in Pakistan, in 2012. He is a senior member of IEEE. He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker for a three-year term starting 2020 and an ACM Senior Member.Dr. Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University Abd-Elhamid M. Taha is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering At Alfaisal University. His research spans radio resource management, Internet of Things (IoT) services, and modeling in networked cyber-physical systems. Abd-Elhamid is a senior member of the IEEE, and
industry, that are capable of working at a resolution of a few microns or below.Virginia Tech is also building such a facility. However, because we were under severe pressureto reduce our required undergraduate curriculum by about eight credit hours, we also sought toreplace our standard six credit hours of courses in solid state physics and semiconductorprocessing that were required of all computer engineering (CpE), electrical engineering (EE),and materials science and engineering (MSE) students with something that was both lessintensive but also more interesting and relevant to this wide range of students. We determinedthat a required entry level laboratory course in which students would build simple devices, andperhaps even elementary circuits
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particularrelevance to this project, we are guided by a critically important literature34-38 noting thescientific and engineering training of women in home economics programs, where, were contextnot considered, the content and skills would have been considered “engineering.” But context isindeed relevant: these women were redesigning electrical circuits for toasters, not industrialheaters, they were designing ventilation systems for ovens, not power plants, they were planningthe layout of kitchens, not auto assembly lines. Using Shaffer and colleagues’ framework, wemight say that these women had skills, knowledge, values, and epistemologies of engineers, butlacked identities as engineers, both in how they identified themselves and how others
research effort, this study utilizes a community of practice framework toimplement research-to-practice and share our project results. Wenger et al. (2002) define acommunity of practice as a group of people who share an interest and practice in a particulardomain.20 In our context, the community is comprised of key stakeholders at each of our partnerinstitutions (e.g., heads of career services, associate deans of engineering), the domain is thecareer preparation of engineering students, and the practice is using results from our researchcomponent to strengthen career services and advising. Findings from the research will be sharedwith this community regularly, both to inform its practice and collect feedback. We expect thatthe community will help
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course is a critical component in the undergraduate computer scienceand engineering curriculum. In an era of mobile and ubiquitous computing, almost everyembedded device can connect online to make full use of its potentials and accommodate taskneeds. Hence, a good understanding of computer networking opens doors for many high-techjobs for computer science and engineering majors. Traditionally, computer networking coursesutilize switches and routers in the laboratory environment to give students hands-on projects toenhance their learning experience. However, due to the pandemic situation, many institutionshave switched to online learning. The computer networking class is not allowed to access thephysical networking equipment in the laboratories
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Paper ID #36987Using Six Sigma to Improve Student Teamwork Experienceand Academic Performance in Circuits Analysis CourseAdel W. Al Weshah (Lecturer) Dr. Al Weshah is a lecturer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. He is also affiliated with the Engineering Education Transformational Institute (EETI). His engineering educational research interests include remote labs and developing innovative instructional materials and techniques.Ruba Alamad Limited-term Assistant Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Kennesaw State
]. Acknowledging and overcoming these fundamental barriers can sometimes bemore easily accomplished through more informal STEM education settings, such as summercamps, than in traditional classroom settings [7].Research has also shown that women and underrepresented minorities respond better to STEMeducation in settings where the task are contextualized, the projects that are socially-relevant,and when activities are multi-media and hands-on [6], [8], [9]. Studies have shown that womenare typically more attracted to projects that seek to improve society and consider this factor whenchoosing their college majors [10]. Several schools with engineering programs devoted toimproving society have large majorities of women enrolled in these programs, which
construction process. 11. Understand construction accounting and cost control. 12. Understand construction quality assurance and control. 13. Understand construction project control processes. 14. Understand the legal implications of contract, common, and regulatory law to manage a construction project. 15. Understand the basic principles of sustainable construction. 16. Understand the basic principles of structural behavior. 17. Understand the basic principles of HVAC, electrical and plumbing systems.The purpose of this study is to shed some light on what it means to have an understanding of thebasic principles of structural behavior and provide some ideas for how to best introduce therelated topics and concepts to construction
conclusionof each module, which asked students about their perceptions around the content and delivery ofthe modules12. École Polytechnique Montreal offers a core course to their MechanicalEngineering students (MEC1201 – Travail en équipe et leadership) with specific instruction andassessment of teamwork and leadership skills13,14. This course is taught in the first year of theprogram, and is intended to set up the future project work that students will perform. Anothermodel has been that of creating professional skills and teamwork training programs that sitseparate from the engineering curriculum. At the University of Tennessee, for example,communication, leadership and teamwork skills are taught to engineering students through aspecial minor that
,Lent applied SCCT to examine the social cognitive factors of Black engineering students atHBCUs23. This study examined certain variables including social support and social barriersthat, according to SCCT, should predict the academic and career goals and interests of Blackengineering students. Lent et al.‘s23 application of SCCT makes a case for the current studyexamining the perceived value and receipt of social support from peers, family and faculty.Social Support and Barriers Cobb7 defines social support as belonging to one of three cases: ―1) Information leadingthe subject to believe that he is cared for and loved; 2) Information leading the subject tobelieve that he is esteemed and valued; and 3) Information leading the subject to
Paper ID #21024Development of a Survey Instrument to Evaluate Student Systems Engineer-ing AbilityDiane Constance Aloisio, Purdue University Diane Aloisio is a PhD candidate in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. Her research concentrates on taking a systems approach to finding the common causes of systems engineering accidents and project failures. Diane received a dual BS degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from University at Buffalo in New York.Dr. Karen Marais, Purdue University Dr. Karen Marais’ educational research focuses on improving systems engineering education. She is
number of items was aggressivelyminimized by primarily focusing on the motivational constructs. The motivational subscales onthe MSLQ were deemed more important than learning strategies for supporting the goals of thebroader curriculum development project. Only two learning strategy subscales were used.Peer-learning was chosen because of its potential importance to planned curricular interventionsinvolving team projects and small-group work. Metacognitive self-regulation was chosen becauseof the relatively high correlation with final grade reported by Pintrich, et. al. [19] and theimportance of metacognition in active-learning settings. The metacognitive self-regulationsubscale was further shortened from the original twelve questions to six, as
Paper ID #16232Engineering Competency ModelMs. Catherine Leslie, Engineers Without Borders - USA Ms. Leslie is a licensed Civil Engineer in Colorado with over 20 years of experience in the design and management of civil engineering projects. After ten years as Civil Engineering Manager at Tetra Tech, Inc., she assumed the role of Executive Director of Engineers Without Borders–USA, a position she held on a volunteer basis for six years. Ms. Leslie began her work in developing countries as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Stationed in Nepal, she developed solutions related to drinking water and sanitation projects. During the
and molecular biology approaches to the study of the skeletal response to mechanical loading. As a Mechanical Engineer, she worked on facility design projects involving mechanical systems that included heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and energy conservation systems, as well as R&D of air conditioning equipment for Navy ships. Additional research interests have included the investigation of relationships among components of the indoor environment, occupants, and energy usage. Specifically, the effects of the indoor environment on occupant health and well-being and in parallel, how socially-mediated energy-saving strategies can increase awareness of energy use and/or in- crease energy saving behaviors. Dr
Paper ID #7656When Engineering Students Write about Waste Electronics: Trends in howthey Think of Global ImpactsDr. Denise M Wilson, University of Washington Denise Wilson received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1988 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989 and 1995, respectively. She also holds an M.Ed. from the University of Washington (2008) and has worked in industry (Applied Materials). She is currently a faculty member with the Electrical Engineering De- partment, University of Washington, Seattle, and she was
ofgroups collected under this label [5-7, 9, 20-25]. Also, there are many other dimensions ofdifference through which students or engineers are subjected to marginalization because they areperceived as Other within the norms of engineering [26-28].Owning exclusionThe language of "underrepresented minority" masks the responsibilities of the engineeringeducational system to correct exclusion manifested through culturally accepted practices andstructural policies prescribed by the dominant culture. We offer a limited set of many availableexamples from our research and that of others to demonstrate how common practices andpolicies are exclusionary. Historically, the concept of a challenging curriculum to “weed-out”students not suited for the
. Journal of Engineering Education 96(4): 321-334.7 Kilgore, D., Yasuhara, K., Saleem, J.J., & Atman, C.J. (2006). What Brings Women to the Table? Female and Male Students' Perceptions of Ways of Thinking in Engineering Study and Practice. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, San Diego, California.8 Goodman, I.F. et al. (2002). Final report of the Women's Experiences in College Engineering (WECE) Project. Goodman Research Group, Inc.9 Kilgore, D., Chachra, D., Loshbaugh, H., McCain, J., Jones, M., & Yasuhara, K. (2007). Creative, Contextual, and Engaged: Are Women the Engineers of 2020? In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference
the general shift in studentattitudes is positive, and dovetails with many broad goals of curriculum reform by integratingactive learning principles, the shape of how learning occurs is not separable from the content ofwhat gets learned. Indeed, as Lancaster, et al. point out, “[m]aterials and information from theInternet…may also be undisciplined, often misleading and inaccurate, and potentiallycounterproductive for both faculty and student research.” They also mention that students,because they often lack a firm foundation in the research literature of their field, are “particularlyvulnerable to unwise source selection from the Internet.” [10] Teaching students effectiveresearch habits is hardly a new requirement in the university. Whether
— — — — 45.5% Audio+Visual — — — 0.8% — Visual+Text — — 4.6% — —In terms of the reliability of information found in publications, other disciplines have performedstudies on the accuracy of citations within published literature in their field. A similar search ofscientific literature in the engineering fields found no such studies (although there may be).Several evaluations of citation and/or quotation accuracy have appeared in medical relatedjournals. For example, in a study of 199 randomly selected references in three anatomy journals,Lukić et al. found errors in 19% (52 of 272) of the quotations, and 94% of the errors
Education at Arizona State University, and Director of the Division of Curriculum and Instruction. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992, where he also served in the National Center for Research on Mathematical Sciences Education as a postdoctoral scholar.Prof. Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause is professor in the Materials Science Program in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He
education curriculum. This line ofinquiry is relevant to issues of representation in engineering schools: the socio-technical divideimpacts undergraduate engineering retention, especially students from historicallyunderrepresented groups in engineering (e.g. women, students of color, LGBTQIA, indigenous1people, and low-income) [5]. A recurring justification for upholding the socio-technical divide(that we have heard voiced during discussions about engineering curricula and that we want tointerrogate) is that technical content would have to be sacrificed in order to accommodate socialjustice issues. Therefore, a project in which students add context to traditional engineeringscience problems has the transformative potential of reaching students
engineering disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, and chemicalengineering. Biology, in particular, is a distinct discipline separate from engineering, whichposes challenges in instructing biomedical engineers [3][4]. A recent qualitative study ofundergraduate perceptions of BME highlighted the broad interpretation of BME by students [5].Additionally, different institutions structure and classify BME departments differently, withmany departments partnering with medical schools. Diverse interpretations of BME by students, programs, and those who ultimately hire BMEshas the potential to negatively impact students pursing BME degrees. Some BME studentsreport that potential employers do not hire BME graduates due to an uncertainty of what
Course; accepted for publication in PRIMUS, invited paper presented in the NSF session at ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference. 6/92.21. Ecker J. G. and Boyce W. E.: The Computer Oriented Calculus Course at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; in The College Mathematics Journal 6/94.22. Redish E. F., Wilson J. M. and McDaniel C. K.: The CUPLE Project: A Hyper- and Multimedia Approach to Restructuring Physics Education; In Proceedings of the MIT Conference on Hypermedia in Education, MIT Press 1992.23. Palmer M. A., Sandgren E., Heinz R. A., Chatterji A., Haas T. W.: A Novel Approach for Teaching Statics 1998 FIE Conference Proceedings24. Woods, Donald R. et al.: Developing Problem Solving
American Institute of Aeronautics andAstronautics (AIAA), the Concrete Canoe and Student Steel Bridge Competitions sponsored bythe American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Chem-E-Car competition sponsored by theAmerican Institute of Chemical Engineers. Some competitions include a hundred or more teamsand represent a significant collaboration between colleges and industry. Many students, people inindustry and academia see broad benefits from SELECT.2-5This collaboration between industry and academia is beneficial to students, colleges, and Page 26.936.2industry. Students gain engineering design experience beyond what is offered in the curriculum
testing educational materials and learning spaces that stimulate serious play. Page 13.280.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Case Study: A Space Designed for Cooperative Learning with Multiple ProcessesAbstractThe importance of cooperative and active approaches to classroom learning has long beenrecognized. However most of our resources, textbooks, curriculum structures and learningspaces are not designed with these pedagogies in mind. Many instructors have developed theirown materials and figured out how to conduct an engaged, active and cooperative class in