, because student conversation revolvesaround each group members ideas, and because they are helping one another not only withediting but also with idea generation and revision, the studios make visible the social natureof knowledge creation that results in a written product.Researchers do have some evidence from the session notes and from the surveys that thewriting process was made more visible for the students, and that they valued this visibility.For example, after one session, the studio facilitator wrote: “We all noticed [the groupmember’s] paper was focused on his own research, that he was doing on his off-grid solarsystem and not about current and future advancements of a specific material related to thesolar field. We came to the
Director of the undergraduate Interdisciplinary Engineering Studies and Multidisciplinary Engineering program. She also is an instructor in executive and global MBA programs. With over 20 years of industrial work experience, and supportive of her academic roles, Mary actively leads academic outreach to industrial firms to develop in-classroom, project-based, active learning through identification of ”real life”, in-context problem scenarios. Pilotte’s research interests involve understanding generation- based engineering culture, identity, and communication in the context of professional engineering prac- tice. Expanded interests include understanding student benefits associated with in-context active learning, and the
Paper ID #23008New Course Development and Assessment Tools in Automotive Lightweight-ing TechnologiesProf. Raghu Echempati P.E., Kettering University Professor Echempati is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University, (Flint, Mich.). He is a member of ASME, ASEE, and SAE. He has published over 180 technical articles in various peer- reviewed journals and conference publications of repute. He taught at various universities world-wide as a Fulbright scholar, Erskine fellow, or as a visiting professor. He won several academic and technical awards and grants. c American Society for
consultants, some are venture capitalists, and some are from our entrepreneurs-in-residence program. In this course, students work in groups of four, with a maximum enrollmentof 28, so typically seven groups per section. This course is unique as all sections are on Fridaysand it is only offered at two times. A morning session from 10 am to 11:50 am and an afternoonsection from 1 pm to 2:50 pm. Each adjunct typically teaches two sections on Friday and thenattends an after-action review meeting from 3 to 4pm. In this meeting, there is a debrief of howthe course went that day, and then a content review for the coming week.The course uses the lean-startup method and design thinking to provide a framework for studentsto solve a market need. Students come
out-of-school programs have received both private and federal support toimprove the educational and career development of diverse individuals to work in STEM fields(Educate to Innovate, n. d.). Academic institutions and other organizations, such as the NationalSociety of Black Engineers (NSBE), point to outreach programs as a critical component to raiseSTEM interest (Jeffers, Safferman, & Safferman, 2004). Many of these summer STEM programsreflect the general principles for K-12 engineering education (Committee on K-12 EngineeringEducation in the United States, 2009) to include an emphasis on engineering design, STEMknowledge, and teamwork skills. Project-based learning (PBL) strategies implemented in STEMoutreach programs promote
engineering project management taughtby the same instructor in Fall 2019. Each section had 48 civil and environmental engineeringstudents. One section was considered the “control” and the other was the “subject”. Both sectionswere scheduled in the same classroom that followed the SCALE-UP (student-centered activelearning environment for undergraduate programs) model and had two sessions per week onTuesdays and Thursdays. Each session lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes, including a 15-minutebreak. The control section started at 8:00 am while the subject section started at 1:00 pm. Thecourse content consisted of three parts: (i) project management concepts and cost estimating; (ii)project financial evaluation or engineering economy; and (iii) project
multiple entrepreneurial situations including idea generation, problemsolving, and opportunity recognition. While educators are still working on the best method ofdeveloping and measuring creativity, it is possible to gauge an individual’s creative self-efficacy,which Tierney and Farmer defined as ‘the belief that one has the ability to produce creativeoutcomes’ (p . 1138)7. For this study, permission was granted to use Tierney & Farmer’s Creative Self-EfficacyMeasure7. The measure contains three items (with a Cronbach’s alpha, internal consistencyreliability, coefficient of α=.574) on a 7 point Likert scale (1= very strongly disagree through 7=very strongly agree). The scale has been used in numerous research studies and
analyzed thereported data using multiple metrics described in Section 3.2 to minimize the impact ofmisreporting on the results.References [1] L. Williams and R. L. Upchurch, “In support of student pair-programming,” in Proceedings of the Thirty-Second SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, ser. SIGCSE ’01. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2001, p. 327–331. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/364447.364614 [2] C. McDowell, B. Hanks, and L. Werner, “Experimenting with pair programming in the classroom,” SIGCSE Bull., vol. 35, no. 3, p. 60–64, jun 2003. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/961290.961531 [3] S. Faja, “Evaluating effectiveness of pair programming as a
Department of Electrical Engineering at University of South Florida’s RevolutionizingEngineering Departments grant support radical change in the training of undergraduateengineering students and help them establish identities as professional engineers with thenecessary technical and professional skills needed to solve the complex problems facing societytoday. At the department, the RED program consists of many changes to the departmentincluding new Professional Formation of Engineers (PFE) classes, the Take Responsibility toUnderstand Engineering (TRUE) Lecture series, Track-Focused advisory boards for differentelectrical engineering tracks, and the industry-focused, TRUE-Outreach Capstone Projects. ThePFE classes focus on preparation for
into practice. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 WIP -Exploring and Expanding Support for International Students in Engineering: Faculty Reflections Beyond Academic BoundariesAbstractExpanding on our previous work [1], this research delves into self-reflection among engineeringfaculty members who were international students. Our primary objective is to extend learningfrom using an autoethnographic lens to understand the experiences of faculty members who wereonce international students themselves, towards the development of a research study tounderstand how (if at all) faculty members in the United States address the unique needs of theinternational student community.The Challenge and
Education Review an International Journal. ¨Michael M. Malschutzky, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany Michael M. Malsch¨utzky is a Research Associate at the Centre for Teaching Development and Innovation (ZIEL) as well as Affiliate Faculty at the Department of Management Sciences at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, University of Applied Sciences (H-BRS), Germany. He received his Diplom-Ingenieur (FH) in Mechanical Engineering from H-BRS in 2005. After working as Test & Validation Engineer (TIER-1) and Program Management Engineer (OEM) in the automotive industry, he returned to academia in 2013, receiving his BSc (2017) and MSc (2023) in Business Psychology from H-BRS
' Excellence in an Engineering Calculus Course1. IntroductionIt is well known that a significant number of freshmen engineering students often face a lack ofmotivation while studying calculus due to different factors that can be discouraging and affecttheir performance not only in this course but also in their overall university experience. A limitedmathematical background coupled with the theoretical and abstract nature of calculus may leadsome students to feel overwhelmed and demotivated [1]. Furthermore, most first-yearengineering students aim to solve real-world problems from their first days of class; however,they find themselves loaded with theoretical courses that seem distant from engineeringapplications at the early stage of their academic
inclusiveteaching.The Student feedback form was developed by the TFELTTask force by first coding the alignment of the existing 26item student evaluation of teaching form (SET) as well asthe 32 item IDEA Center Diagnostic Feedback Instrumentby Anthology/Campus Labs [15] to the four dimensions ofeffective and inclusive teaching. They found the relevantand engaging and structured and intentional dimensionswell represented, however lacking on the other twodimensions. Furthermore, the current SET instrumentincluded a rating on global teaching effectiveness whichwas generally used as the only data point reported in Figure 1 –Inclusive and Effectiveteaching evaluations. Therefore, the task force elected to Teaching (TFELT 2021)develop new survey items
Engineering, to increaseenrollment but also student persistence, retention and graduation, and highlights the role theMSU Libraries will play in supporting those needs: Engineering students have for about two decades had inexpensive access to the Mitchell Memorial Library’s Digital Media Center [1]. This facility provides spaces for collaboration, concept creation and 3D printing, all within the scope and theme of innovation and creation. In the advent of additive manufacturing, demand for these resources is at an all-time high. The Center for Entrepreneurship and Outreach is primarily housed in the College of Business, offering support to students wanting to explore intellectual property and patent development. With
ring is colored blue. The different colors create a contrastingcolor palette that will emphasize the picking point, even if the ground color is similar to one of therings or if the user is color-blind. WARP follows multiple steps to deliver the desired warehouseexperience to a user.The flowchart in Figure 4 summarizes user interaction and the step-by-step program response,which can be summarized as follows: 1. When opening the web page, users are prompted to log in with their ID. Alternatively, users can sign in as a guest. 2. The user is redirected to the application page, and they can start their AR session. 3. If a user logs in with their ID, the application receives an ARD file (XML document) containing the layout of their
provides an element that cannot besimulated in lectures and homework assignments. Projects must be actionable, messy, andmeaningful to really provide learning. The course template shown in the paper would serve is amethod that other professors teaching a project management course could adopt.References:[1] B. Van der Horn and C Killen, “Stop sanitizing project management education: EmbracingDesirable Difficulties to enhance practice-relevant online learning,” Project Leadership andSociety, 2021.[2] U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Earned DegreesConferred, 1949-50 and 1959-60 through 1969-70; Higher Education General InformationSurvey (HEGIS), "Degrees and Other Formal Awards Conferred" surveys, 1970-71
offering a new product type that fits mass-customization markets ona global scale (e.g., has potential to be offered on multiple national markets). The team’s keytasks are to: 1. Develop initial product idea and its design, including possible product variations, 2. Outline the manufacturing processes and a system necessary to make the product, and 3. Prepare a business plan elements, which cover delivery, organization and cost issues. The course in its current form is designed to run on 12-week semester schedule typical inCanadian universities. The class meets three times a week: twice for 80-minutes lecture periodand for one 110-minutes tutorial session. The content of the course is outlined in Table 1.Figure 2 Integration of
mentoring practicesAbstractThis full research paper discusses the experiences of five Latiné/x faculty in engineering andwhat motivated them towards developing equity-minded educational practices for theirundergraduate students. The five faculty participants provided written reflections on how theirlife and professional experiences have informed said practices. From a social constructionismparadigm and using narrative inquiry methodology, a combination of in vivo and descriptivecoding (first cycle) followed by emergent and focused coding (second cycle) were used by thefirst three authors to generate a codebook. The theoretical frameworks of Community CulturalWealth, LatCrit, and Hidden Curriculum guided the data analysis and interpretation
students at a large R1 university in the Mid-Atlantic region enrolled in Calculus 1 during their second semester. After receiving approval from the IRB, we collaborated with the General Engineering Advising Coordinator at the university to contact all first-year engineering students enrolled in Calculus 1 during the spring semester. If students were interested in being interviewed, they were asked to fill out a screening questionnaire to gather background information. Students needed to be a pre-math-ready engineering major and in high school during the peak pandemic school years to be eligible to participate. Students who filled out the screening questionnaire and met the eligibility criteria
) is due to the historical and demographic foundations that are not inclusive to womenand people of color that these fields were built upon. In their research, Lee et al. [1] andBlackwell et al. [2] both discuss how these factors continue to contribute to theunderrepresentation of women and people of color in the STEM industry. This is attributed to the“leaky pipeline” phenomenon where women lose interest in engineering as their careerprogresses due to continuous barriers such discrimination, inequitable resources andopportunities [2]. This further contributes to the loss of interest in STEM as young women andpeople of color achieve new milestones in their careers. Fixing the “leaks” in this pipeline,starting with addressing the dysfunctions
TechnologyAccreditation Commission (ETAC) requires baccalaureate engineering technology programs toinclude a capstone project. Capstone project courses are designed to develop the student’s abilityto integrate technical and non-technical skills [1]. Technical skills are developed in the normalsequence of required coursework. The non-technical skills such as communication, timemanagement, project management, and interpersonal skills such as teamwork are developedthroughout the capstone course. The University of New Hampshire at Manchester (UNHM) usesa two-course, one academic year capstone project (fall and spring terms). The course combinesboth Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology (MET-EET) program students.An ideal capstone project involves an open
unable to initially interact withprofessors who are experts in the major of study they have chosen. In many programs, studentstake general education and prerequisite courses in their first few years before taking coursestaught by professors in the program major of their choice. This can potentially lead to studentsfeeling isolated and left questioning whether their choice of study was the correct decision. Withretention being an important issue in every higher education program, if interaction with expertsin a students’ field of study could happen earlier in the program, this interaction might foster anincrease in retention, providing students with a fuller educational experience.For Architectural Engineering students in a program with both
system is necessary. The authors have used several 6-hourtable-top simulations to teach process improvement and engineering courses at Northeastern,George Washington, and Loyola Marymount universities. The pandemic forced a naturalexperiment. On-line versions of the simulations were created in commercially available softwarewhich recreated the experience of the in-person simulations directly, with almost all actions,lessons, discussion and planning sessions preserved. More than 120 students participated in theon-line simulations in 2020 and 2021. Before and after the pandemic (and during it, in hybridclasses), a large “control” group of students participated in the in-person simulations. Extensivedata was collected including self-reported
] 1 • Multidisciplinary projects [12] • Including both technical design as well as the team and professional aspects of industry [13] These decisions to re-design a capstone experience focus on what to add, remove and/or modifywithin a current capstone are significant and should engage both the internal and external stakeholders toensure the best learning experience for students. In multi-disciplinary programs, the diverse stakeholderopinions often will have competing interests and perspectives [12]. As part of the ABET requirements,programs are expected to seek input from their stakeholders which add to this list of necessary perspectivesthat need to be considered and addressed. However, the process and effort needed to
managementskills. Finally, the validation and reliability assessment of the instrument was performed followedby multiple group statistical analysis.Keywords: Management Skills; Engineering Education; Systems Engineering; Undergraduate Students.1. IntroductionRecent years have seen the tremendous development of management as a science. The scientificproperties of management have been distinctively strengthened by the contribution of managementscientists. They have developed many mathematical models for making effective decisions.Management principles are rigidly based on empirical phenomena, systematic classification, anddata analysis. These principles are applied to real-life situations and help practitioners to analyzeand solve problems and forecast
: Interdisci- plinary course design,” in 2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). IEEE, 2018, pp. 1–5. [3] J. Zalewski, I. Buckley, and F. Gonzalez, “Integration of senior software project courses in an undergraduate software engineering program,” in Integrating Research and Practice in Software Engineering. Springer, 2020, pp. 237–256. [4] A. Van Deursen, M. Aniche, J. Aué, R. Slag, M. De Jong, A. Nederlof, and E. Bouwers, “A collaborative approach to teaching software architecture,” in Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2017, pp. 591–596. [5] S. Senbel, “Different approaches to teaching a database course to graduate and undergradu- ate students,” in Proceedings
challenges of creating resilient food, energy, and water (FEW) systems in ruralcommunities. Resilience/sustainability problems are complex and often require professionals withdifferent expertise and backgrounds to work as a team to generate an emergent solution; thus, aninterdisciplinary curriculum provides students with the skills needed to work in an interdisciplinaryenvironment.The NRT Capstone Course is a project-based, cross-listed course that has been developed and co-taught by faculty from the Colleges of Engineering, Agriculture, and Arts and Sciences at ouruniversity. The NRT Capstone curriculum builds on knowledge students gained from aprerequisite interdisciplinary course about system thinking, called Integrated FEW Systems. In
). For AY17-2 through AY20-1 there were five course objectives that tied into five programobjectives. The service-learning/community outreach project was introduced in AY19-1. The course was redefined in AY21-1 with sevencourse objectives nested in the original five program objectives. The figure demonstrates the progressive advance in cognitive functionwithin Bloom's hierarchy.state, the course has a constructivist design that seeks to maximize experiential learning andactive learning opportunities using field sampling, labs, outdoor educational experiences, and aservice-learning/community outreach event. These methods meet several of Jonassen’s [1],[2]general characteristics for a constructivist learning environment in that they emphasize
students’ learning in entrepreneurship. Through a quasi-experimental study, weassume that students who participate in SRL activities will improve their entrepreneurial skillsetand mindset and demonstrate improved learning outcomes in an entrepreneurship course.Research has suggested that SRL is beneficial for students to develop entrepreneurial skills [1].In other words, effective entrepreneurs regulate their cognition, metacognition, and motivation toadapt to new environments and unexpected challenges, make appropriate decisions, andovercome obstacles, which overlap with the essential elements in SRL [2], [3]. SRL describes aphase-like learning model that includes students’ goal setting and planning before a task,strategic actions and monitoring
deductively for behavioral, cognitive, and emotional adaptability to experiences, as perMartin’s et al. [1] adaptability theory.Behavioral adaptability was displayed via narrative maps for interpretative purposes. Narrativemaps were built to display the challenges, behaviors, and successes that one engineering facultyfaced while teaching during the pandemic. Tables with descriptive quotes from the interviewdata are used to elaborate on what is depicted in the maps. It was found that when the facultymember tried to adapt a behavior to better address a challenge, they frequently found success.Understanding the ways instructors adapted their courses during the pandemic can provideinsight into how changes are best implemented. This case study helps to