, and its capacity to combine expertise andcompetencies from various disciplines, including computer science, electrical engineering,mechanical engineering, and mathematics. Robotics covers a wide range of fields and promotesthe development of critical thinking skills such as problem solving, systematic reasoning,abstraction and generalization, as well as collaboration and communication [1, 2]. This growinginterest in robotics has been accompanied by the development of accessible open-sourceplatforms, such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi, which enable both novice and expert users to createelectronic projects, from simple LED displays to complex robotic systems. This has resulted inthe creation of several commercially available educational robotic
Engineering Teachers’ Literacy InstructionPeople enter and exit science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) pathwaysat different points in their educational trajectories (Cannady, Greenwald, & Harris, 2014;Maltese, Melki, & Wiebke, 2014), but middle school is an especially critical juncture forcapturing and maintaining youths’ interest in STEM fields. From fifth to eighth grade,adolescents’ interest in STEM often declines (Gonzales et al., 2008; Osborne, Simon, &Collins, 2003), and many develop a negative sense of self-efficacy regarding their potentialto succeed in future STEM courses (Chen & Usher, 2013). Though many people exit STEMpathways before they enter high school, this problem is especially pronounced
learning and being actively engaged with the topic with the help of learning ma-terial [1]–[3]. Freeman’s analysis of student performance in undergraduate STEM disciplinesshowed that students are 1.5 times more likely to fail when they are only exposed to verbal lec-turing [3]. The focus of learning is slowly shifting towards more student-centered learning andaway from instructor-centered learning as pedagogies broaden.Several important unit operations covered in the chemical engineering curriculum involvepacked or fluidized beds where surface interactions of solids and fluids are very important. Flu-idized beds are commonly used in industrial applications such as surface coating, catalytic crack-ing, heat transfer, adsorption, and combustion [4
Paper ID #10850Best Practices in Classroom Management for Today’s University Environ-mentDr. Jumoke Oluwakemi Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University Dr. J. ’Kemi Ladeji-Osias is Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the De- partment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan State University in Baltimore. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in computer engineering. Dr. Ladeji-Osias earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Rutgers University. Dr. Ladeji-Osias’ involvement in engineering
Curriculum Focused on Technology System Integration,” Proceedings of the 119th ASEE Conference and Exposition (2012).14. PVCC, “PVCC – Programs of Study,” retrieved on December 23, 2012, from http://www.pvcc.edu/programs_study/ (n.d.).15. Andrews, A.C. and Fonseca, J.W., “Community Colleges in the United States: A Geographical Perspective,” retrieved on January 2, 2013 from http://www.zanesville.ohiou.edu/geography/communitycollege/default.htm (1998).16. Wigal, C.M. and McGhee, T., “Providing and Ensuring an Effective Community College Transfer Pre- Engineering Program,” Proceedings of the 118th ASEE Conference and Exposition (2011).17. Tennessee Transfer Pathway, “Electrical Engineering | Programs | Tennessee
first-year undergraduate females in STEM. Her research interests include pre-service science teacher education, curriculum development, STEM identity, and K-12 outdoor science education. She is currently working on research projects focused on diversity in engineering and the retention of women in STEM.Mr. Hector Enrique Rodriguez-Simmonds, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Raised in South Florida, born in Mexico. Half Colombian and half Mexican; proud Mexilombian. H´ector acquired an MS in Computer Engineering and is currently pursuing a PhD in Engineering Education, both from Purdue University. His research interests are in investigating the experiences of LGBTQ+ students in engineering
AC 2011-2776: DO STUDENTS GATHER INFORMATION TO INFORMDESIGN DECISIONS? ASSESSMENT WITH AN AUTHENTIC DESIGNTASK IN FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERINGRuth E. H. Wertz, Purdue University, West Lafayette Ruth E. H. Wertz is a graduate student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is a Profes- sional Engineer in the State of Indiana, and holds BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering from Trine University and Purdue University.Meagan C Ross, Purdue University, West Lafayette Meagan Ross is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She re- ceived a B.S. in Computer Science from Texas Woman’s University, and a M.S. in Electrical Engineer- ing from Texas Tech University. Prior to beginning
Session 2756Within the realm of educational studies, LEGO® bricks have been used at all ages. The literaturedescribes many uses for K-12 enrichment programs which are not within the scope of this paper(e.g., [2-5]). Restricting the literature review to tertiary education reveals that bothprogrammable and non-programmable bricks have been used to teach engineering principles(e.g., [6, 7]). Further focusing on studies dealing the use of the RCX programmable brick revealsmany papers describing a wide variety of projects and courses ranging from robot competitions(e.g., [8, 9]) to computer programming (e.g., [10]) to project based learning (e.g., [11-17]).What is obvious from the literature is that the RCX can be used in a variety of ways to
.19 George et al describe a successful effort tointegrate a hands-on project in a technological literacy course for non-majors.20 These activitiescan be fun as well as informative, adding to the appeal of the course. This would be relativelyeasy to incorporate in the classroom, but more of a challenge with web-based courses. Page 12.963.9It is also highly desirable to link the class activities with current events. These can be the basisfor case studies or can add to existing case studies. The author makes use of articles fromnewspapers on a range of topics. The northeast power failure of 2003 served to highlight anumber of issues, including
undergraduate engineering curriculum will give students a broad technicalbackground in their major of choice. With the limited time faculty have with the students todevelop technical skills it is not uncommon for many non-technical aspects of engineering to begiven limited coverage. This can have potential unintended consequences for how students viewthe role of an engineer and what skills will help them to thrive when working in industry. Onesuch skill is the ability to think empathically – specifically in an engineering role. This paperdetails a study in which student beliefs on engineering roles and undergraduate engineeringprogram emphases are compared between first-year and upper-level undergraduates. Responsesto survey questions show a decay with
at Zane State College in Zanesville, Ohio, where he developed and taught courses that included CAD, solid modeling, statics, strength of materials, machine design, and statistical process control. He is currently active in curriculum development and education research focused on design.Dr. Clifford A Whitfield, Ohio State University Clifford Whitfield currently functions as an Assistant Professor of Practice for the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and Engineering Education Innovation Center at Ohio State University, and se- nior engineer for Whitfield Aerospace LLC. He received his doctorate in aeronautical and astronautical engineering, and teaches aerospace engineering courses, and teaches and
industry- or client-sponsored project.History and Background—Why the Modules Were Designed and ImplementedBecause of the importance of the course EDSGN 100 as a cornerstone design course within theCollege of Engineering, the engineering design program continually innovates the curriculum inthis course. In the past, this has involved developing custom textbooks, new design projects, newmethods of teaching topics, and other changes. Faculty teaching the course at the largest campusmeet weekly to discuss the course as well as to share teaching innovations. Bi-annually, facultyteaching the course at all campuses meet during a larger meeting to provide updates on the courseand to share innovations. A need was identified to codify many of the
Railway Lightweighting Water Containers and Plastic Waste The Built Environment Material Properties and Structural Sections Electric Cars—Sustainability and Eco DesignFigure 6: The Five Step Method developed by Professor Ashby and coworkers [25]1. Unpacking the proposal—identifying timeline, objectives, and other key project objectives2. Stakeholder analysis—Identifying stakeholders and their influence on the project outcomes3. Fact finding—researching project and stakeholder needs4. Forming a judgement—analyzing impacts of facts on the three capitals of sustainability5. Reflection—looking at the outcome of fact analysis and determining if objectives
@bridgeport.edu jpallis@bridgeport.eduvpande@bridgeport.edu Abstract—The CubeSat A.K.A DiscoSat Satellite is an This educational mission will also engage and educate in K- educational satellite scheduled to be launch in late 2015. Its 8 science curriculum for 460 students, 70% of whom are main focus is to be a research unit for researchers as well as a from urban and underrepresented populations, at Discovery learning model for young school graders. It will enable one to learn the in and out of running a real time satellite operations Magnet School; educational partner institution to Discovery and communication. The primary goal of the project
], expectations must be aligned, and communication and technical barriers complicatepartnerships. Thus, long-term continuity with community partners is particularly important tocontribute to ongoing project sustainability and make a genuine difference in developingcommunities [11].Next, humanitarian trips are one form of service-learning projects that incorporate domestic orinternational travel for mutually beneficial experiences between students and communitypartners. Further narrowing the scope, an international humanitarian trip has many definitions butis collectively described as a program allowing individuals to work to improve lives indeveloping communities. Note this is not limited to students, but when tied to curriculum, it is aform of service
class: hands-on experienceAs a part of this course, each student was required to complete a project (Table 3). Depending onthe number of students enrolled in the course, the project work involved working individually orin groups on an experiment and then writing an individual or a group report. At the end of theproject, each individual/group was required to make an oral presentation on his/her/their workcontribution and findings. The individual/group report was 10-15 pages in length with adequatetechnical content and literature survey.Guest Lectures and Laboratory Tours: The special feature of this course was lectures by a limitednumber of guest speakers (maximum two). In Spring 2005, one of the guest speakers (from ourDepartment of Electrical
,but rarely are patent or trademark searches required for projects. This is a disservice toengineering students.Of all the academic disciplines, engineering may encompass most of the patentable technologicalbreakthroughs, yet some engineering students are never exposed to IP education. If taught early,starting in the freshman year, and often, throughout the undergraduate education, IP educationwill be ingrained into the student’s creative thought process. It will also give the undergraduateengineering student other options upon graduation, perhaps to study patent law or technologytransfer.Incorporating IP into an undergraduate engineering curriculum need not replace any ABET(Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.) or any
Cal Poly and applied in PID Controller Design project. The software is easy to pro-gram and easy for the students to understand in the context of linear control theory. In additionthe ability to modify the controller with very little effort enabled a PID design project to be add-ed to the curriculum. The project forces students to apply many of the theoretical topics coveredin the lecture in a single three hour lab setting. It forces students to apply analytical tools to de-sign a controller and then to immediately see the actual performance of the physical system. As-sessment shows that the new project improved student understanding and self confidence in theconcepts of linearization of nonlinear systems and controller design. Furthermore
. Retrieved January 15, 2015, from http://complete2014.org/complete-partners/.25. Rost, J. C. (1991). Leadership for the twenty-first century. New York, NY: Praeger.26. Schuhmann, R. J. , Magarian, J. N., Huttner-Loan, E.(2014). A Method for Assessing Engineering Leadership Content in the Engineering Curriculum: A First Look at Civil Engineering Project Management Page 26.1447.9 Courses. 2014 ASEE Conference, June 2014.27. Schuhmann, R. J. (2010). Engineering Leadership Education -- The Search for Definition and a Curricular Approach. Journal of STEM Education: Innovations & Research, 11(3/4), 61-69.28. Seemiller, C. (2013
capstone course and ensuring better coordination of prerequisites.The second regarded design (synthesis), coordination, and communication as major featuresintegrated into the traditional course structure. The third, and most radical alternative would haveeliminated traditional courses in favor of a design studio sequence, with engineering principleslearned in the context of design project. The faculty opted for the second alternative. Thestructure of the curriculum after the revision is outlined in Table 2.Table 2. The structure of the revised MIT civil and environmental engineering curriculumGeneral and Civil Engineering FundamentalsIntroduction to Computers and Engineering Problem SolvingUncertainty in EngineeringDifferential EquationsProject
. Satterwhite31 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI;2 Department of Computer and Information Graphics Technology, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology,IUPUI;3 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUIAbstractThis paper shows the early research findings of utilizing a virtual reality environment as an educationaltool for the operation of a computerized numerical control (CNC) milling machine. Based off of aprevious work, the Advanced Virtual Machining Lab (AVML), this project features a virtual environmentin which a virtual CNC machine is fully operable, designed to allow STEM students and trainingprofessionals to learn the use of the
. He obtained his MS and Ph.D. degrees from the Rice University in 1997 and 1999, respectively. He currently serves as the Associate Chair for the Mechanical Engineering department at UTRGV. Among his research interests are engineering education, materials, stress and thermal finite element analysis, dynamic response analysis.Dr. Javier Ortega, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Dr. Javier A. Ortega is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). His research interests include Tribology, Lubrication, Biomaterials, Additive Manufacturing, and Engineering Education. Dr. Ortega has been involved in different research projects, including
Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÓ 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”technologies and learners with different backgrounds and needs. There is no doubt that as wecontinue to think through and develop this course, there will be feedback to the Introduction toDigital Design course as well as the possibility of a large secondary audience of junior and seniorhigh school students and teachers.IntroductionIn 1996, ISU and Kirkwood Community College (KCC) began offering a distance-basedBachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (dBSEE). This degree program offeredstudents the opportunity to take foundation and non-technical courses in mathematics, sciences,and social sciences and humanities, as KCC
A. Ba, “Les filles et les filières scientifiques à l’université Gaston Berger deSaint Louis,” Cah. Cerfee 25 St.-Louis Univ. Gaston Berg., 2008, [Online]. Available:https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/10064[5] A. Faye, “Prédominance des séries Littéraires: la peur des sciences au Sénégal,”PRESSAFRIK.COM , L’info dans toute sa diversité (Liberté - Professionnalisme - Crédibilité),Jun. 15, 2020. https://www.pressafrik.com/Predominance-des-series-Litteraires-la-peur-des-sciences-au-Senegal_a222532.html (accessed Jun. 16, 2021).[6] J. Voogt and N. P. Roblin, “A comparative analysis of international frameworks for 21 stcentury competences: Implications for national curriculum policies,” J. Curric. Stud., vol. 44, no.3
difficult but also a good thingto know. We just very barely got it to work by the end of the project when we were supposed topresent it.At the end of my freshman year, I decided to declare my major as electrical engineering. I lookedat the curriculums for each major. I read the descriptions of the classes and I felt pulled toward themore electromagnetism classes, along with courses focused on computer architecture and digitallogic design. I still don’t really know what I want to do as an Electrical Engineer. I have a lot oftime to figure it out and develop that career path, but I really did like working with the hardwarein front of me as I was trying to type out the software. I’m really hoping that my first co-op willgive me sort of more insight
Paper ID #10492The Effect of the Inverted Classroom Teaching Approach on Student/FacultyInteraction and Students’ Self-EfficacyDr. Micah Stickel, University of Toronto Dr. Micah Stickel (ECE) is Chair, First Year, in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering. He is also a Senior Lecturer in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Dr. Stickel first came to the Faculty when he started as an undergraduate in 1993. Since that time, he has completed his BASc (1997), MASc (1999), and a PhD (2006) — all with a focus on electromagnetics and the development of novel devices for high
2017 Mid-Atlantic American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, 2017.[2] D. M. Schutz, D. Dionne, and Y.-Y. Kim, "The Impact of Veterans and Curriculum Heterogeneity on Online Graduate Engineering Program Performance: An Empirical Study," in 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2017, pp. 1-11: American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).[3] S. Wasserman, "The Pros and Cons of Online Engineering Masters Degrees," in ENGINEERING.com, ed. Mississauga, Ontario, Canada: ENGINEERING.com, Inc., 2015.[4] C. A. Cate, "Million Records Project: Research from Student Veterans of America," S. V. o
Metallurgy and her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut. Her educational research interests include freshmen engineering programs, math success, K-12 STEM curriculum, and recruitment and retention in engineering and STEM fields.Yuguang Ban, Boise State University Yuguang Ban is a graduate student working on a Masters in Mathematics with emphases in Statistics and Bioinformatics. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from Lewis-Clark State College earned in 2007.Alison Ahlgren, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Alison M. Ahlgren is the Quantitative Reasoning Coordinator in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana
University, College Station. She completed her Bachelors in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Mathematics from Mississippi State University.Hillary E. Merzdorf, Purdue University, West Lafayette Hillary E. Merzdorf is a PhD student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research interests are in assessment of design skills, educational technology evaluation, and the ethical use of student data in and for assessment.Dr. Blake Williford, Sketch Recognition Lab Blake received a PhD in Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He previously received a M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction and a B.S. in Industrial Design from Georgia Tech, and has worked professionally as an interdisciplinary
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