conducted a needs assessment of the faculty, staff, and students. In this study,we investigate current course offerings and ask: 1) What did the lecturers expect students to learn, and what did the students actually learn? 2) How much of current climate related classes are overlaps of previous material as a) listed in the syllabus and b) perceived by students? 3) What do instructors self-report as being needed to manage these topics better?MethodsIn Fall 2014, we interviewed nine faculty members from five departments and two academicadvisors who participated in teaching or recruiting for climate related courses in engineering,architecture, policy, and social sciences. The faculty members ranged from mature lecturers(taught the class
AC 2011-673: WORK IN PROGRESS: RECRUITING COMPUTING STU-DENTS THROUGH IN-COMMAND CS-0: AN INTRODUCTION TO COM-PUTING THROUGH MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENTMiguel Alonso Jr., Miami Dade College Dr. Miguel Alonso Jr. has been a faculty member in the Department of Engineering and Engineering Technology at the Miami Dade College School of Computer and Engineering Technologies since August of 2007. He is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering and prior to his appointment at MDC, Dr. Alonso worked as a Researcher at the Digital Signal Processing Lab at Florida International Uni- versity, a Software Engineer in Algorithm Research and Development for Beckman Coulter, Inc., and as a the lead Computer Engineer at CPS
. Page 22.1386.5References [1] Abraham, J.A.; Saad, D.G.; “Tutorial T4A: Formal Verification Techniques and Tools for Complex Designs,” International Conference on VLSI Design (2007). [2] “SystemVerilog 31a. Language Reference Manual (LRM),” Accellera (2004). [3] “Open Verification Methodology (OVM) Reference Manual,” Ver. 2.1, Mentor Graphics (2008). [4] Bergeron, J.; Cerny, E.; Hunter, A.; Nightingale, A; “Verification Methodology Manual for SystemVerilog,” Springer (2006). [5] Spear, Chris; “SystemVerilog for Verification: A Guide to Learning the Tetstbench Language Features,” Second Edition, Springer Publishin (2008). [6] Vijayaraghavan, Srikanth; Ramanthan, Meyyappan ; “SystemVerilog Assertions: A Practical
and political significance of risk perception, measurement, andcommunication; and (3) understand and explain different competing views about human andenvironmental risks posed by engineering plants.Industry experiences: The P3 program strongly encourages students to participate in industrialinternships as part of their education. Ideally, the internship will occur during the summer of thestudent’s second year of the program so the students can apply their learned T-training skillsduring their internship. Before and after, each internship, the student will be assessed on theirattitudes and expectations of working in industry; they will also meet with their research mentorto facilitate a smooth transition to and from the intern
, 2019 Teaching STEM undergraduates discipline-specific writing skills: A data-driven learning approachOur research is funded by the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education and seeks to improvethe quality of technical writing instruction for undergraduate STEM students. Specifically, wepropose a data-driven learning approach for teaching STEM students writing patterns specific totheir respective disciplines.In this paper, we summarize the basic tenants of data-driven learning (or DDL) and then describethe development of six instructional DDL units, the deployment of these units in a senior-levelfish ecology course, participants’ perceptions of the DDL, and our current work in this areainvolving 140 participants in
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the students were, forexample, the technical design of low-tech tools for the material supply of biogas plants (countryof application: Tanzania) or the optimization of emergency shelters after strong earthquakes(country of application: Nepal). Based on the Australian model, the Challenge, at RWTHAachen university, follows six phases (cf. fig. 1): 1. Engineers Without Borders (EWB) and the project team identifies relevant topics 2. EWB and the project team composes info material for students and lecturers 3. Lecturers integrate the topics into their lectures 4. In teamwork, students develop ideas and create solution concepts and afterwards write reports 5. Students present their concepts in front of a jury 6. EWB and the
design and development of technical systems for humanuse.2 In order to provide a usable web-based system, academic- and industry-establisheduser-centered design practices were incorporated in the development of the repositorysystem. This included an in-depth needs assessment phase where system stakeholders (e.g.,professors who would use the system) were interviewed about their own educationalmaterials-sharing practices. Iterative prototyping and usability testing was built on the datagathered from the needs assessment phase.The purpose of this usability testing was to gain knowledge to develop a sustainable plan fora web-based dissemination repository of best practices and materials, as well as determinehow that repository can be developed to
to the growing database. Asrequired by the university, the data was anonymized by assigning each student a code. Becausethe database is extensive and spans multiple courses taught by multiple instructors, theresearchers have the ability to track an individual student from their first course as a freshmanuntil that student graduates.This paper is based on the data from 2,836 students, who were enrolled either in non-math ormath intensive classes. The detailed demographics are summarized in Tables 1 to 3. The onlystudents not included in the following data are those who dropped out of the courses and thosewho arranged to receive an incomplete. At the time of this paper, there was not enough data toreport on the performance of students who
, additional examples will be presented during theestimating chapter, as this was the area with the least improvement.References 1. Prince, M. and Felder, R. (2007) The Many Faces of Inductive Learning, Journal of College Science Teaching, 2. Thomas, J.W. (2000) A Review of Research on Project-Based Learning, The Autodesk Foundation, San Rafael, CA. 3. Pan, W. and Allison, J. (2010) Exploring Project and Problem Based Learning in Environmental Building Education by Integrating Critical Thinking, International Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 26, No. 3. 4. Overton, T. (2003) Key aspects of teaching and learning in experimental sciences and engineering , In Fry, H., Ketterridge, S. and Marshall
designedto be technically difficult or time consuming for the students. Homework assignments are createdbased on the course objectives and focus on soft-skills that engineering students get minimalexposure to throughout the remainder of their required curricula. Common assignments eachsemester include a Resume Critique, Graduation Plan, and an Engineering Challenges paperwhere students detail the motivations for completing their engineering degree and the challengesthey anticipate in the coming years. Student comments show that the Engineering Challengesassignment in particular really helped give them a “reality check” and exposed shortcomings intheir study habits or their school-work-home balance. Evaluation techniques for the courseinclude
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of AIAA Infotech@Aerospace, Kissimmee, FL, January 5-9, 2015.12. Wagster, J., Bhandari, S., et al., “Obstacle Avoidance System for a Quadrotor UAV,” Proceedings of AIAA Infotech@Aerospace, Garden Grove, CA, June 19-21, 2012.13. Koenig, S. and Likhachev, M., “Fast Replanning for Navigation in Unknown Terrain,” Transactions on Robotics, 21(3), 2005.14. Khatib, O., “Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance for Manipulator and Mobile Robots,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 5(1), 1986.15. Bethke, B., Valenti, M., and How, J., “Cooperative Vision Based Estimation and Tracking using Multiple UAVs,” Conference of Cooperative Control and Optimization, 2007.16. Bhandari, S., Rose, M., et al., “Tracking of Mobile Targets
goals.References: 1. 42 U.S.C.A. 12501 et seq. “National and Community Service Act of 1990” 2. Coyle, Edward J., Leah H. Jamieson, and William C. Oakes. 2005. EPICS: Engineering Projects in Community Service. International Journal of Engineering Education 21 (1): 139–50. 3. Dewey, John. Dewey on Education, edited by Martin Dworkin. New York: Teachers college Press, 1959. 4. Dym, Clive L., and Patrick Little. Engineering design: A project-based introduction. New York: Wiley, 2001. 5. Eyler, Janet & Dwight E. Giles. Where‟s the Learning in Service-Learning? San Francisco, CA: Jossey- Bass, 2007. 6. Gass, Robert. "What is Transformation?" Social Transformation Project. 7. James, William. Talks to
In progressA common concept map idea proposed by Egelhoff and Burns [17] which combined theprinciples of mind maps, concept maps and heuristics is adopted as a main flow to design andconnect different mobile knowledge apps. The common concept map used in the course isshown in Fig. 3. This is also used to help students connect various concepts, giving them anoverall view of the course content. Assumptions Pressure Linearelastic Homogeneous
Displacement from Transportation Investments Room 296/8: Economic Impacts of Transportation Projects12:30 Lunch and Keynote Address by Brian David Johnson, Futurist14:00 Break and Poster Session14:30 Breakout Session 3 Room 296/8: Performance Measures for Livable Communities Room 238: Achieving Vision Zero Room 294: Redesigning Suburbia16:00 Closing Reception18:00 Summit concludes. Dinner together to discuss session topics; location TBD.Day 6, Saturday, September 10 – Astoria to Portland North08:00 Depart University Place Hotel10:00 Old Young’s Bay Bridge (McCullough 1921) Allen p. 17 (A coastal bridge made of wood? Really?) http://bridgehunter.com/or/clatsop/33010500689/ http://loc.gov/pictures/item/or0507/11
discipline. The projected 2024 employment growth rate for civil engineers is 8.4%,which is above the projected growth rate of 4.0% for all engineering disciplines [2]. Includingreplacing retiring engineers, USDOL estimates that there will be 25,900 annual job openings forcivil engineers between 2016 and 2026 [3]. Yet high school teachers and students generally donot understand what engineers do and the public does not know that engineers play a vital role insaving lives [4].Roughly 40% of students who begin in an engineering college program migrate out of theengineering major. While this migration rate is similar to other majors [5], if we can help moreengineering students persist in engineering, it will increase the number of graduating
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including Transportation Research Records, Complexity, and Journal of Enterprise Transformation. He also served as the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Logistics Transportation Research. He founded the logistics & supply chain division within the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) and served as the founding president of that division. He also served as Technical Vice President of IISE for three terms. Currently, Dr. Sarder is leading a student leadership board (SLB) and chairing the Future Faculty Fellows (3F) programs at IISE. He served on the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE) board, the academic committee of the Association of Operations Management
build relationships with people in other cultural communities. 3. Express respect and thoughtful engagement with people across cultures.These outcomes focus on the development of a global learner mindset which is foundational todeveloping a global engineering competence in students.3. Global Engagement InterventionsThe four global engagement interventions were developed and implemented during the spring2023 semester as detailed below. All students in the four interventions took the surveys at thebeginning (pre) and end (post) of the semester.3.1. International Engineering Case Study in a Quantitative Analysis CourseQuantitative Analysis is an undergraduate Engineering Technology course that introducesstudents to the mathematical techniques
Paper ID #19322Research Needs Statements for Project Topic Selection: A Pilot Study in anUndergraduate Civil Engineering Transportation CourseDr. V. Dimitra Pyrialakou, West Virginia University Dr. V. Dimitra Pyrialakou joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at West Virginia University as an Assistant Professor in August 2016. She received her Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 2011 and in 2016 she earned a Ph.D. in Civil En- gineering from Purdue University. Dr. Pyrialakou has worked on several projects involving public (mass) transportation
course, focusing on technical report genres, either before or concurrently with earlyengineering lab courses. In contrast, the private university does not incorporate an FYC course ora technical writing course into its engineering curriculum. Instead, their general educationwriting-embedded course (ENG 112: Thinking Through Literature) is literature-oriented anddesigned to introduce literary genres and criticism through writing about literature.2.2 Student lab report sample collectionWe recruited student volunteers (n=3 for each site) in the three sophomore-level civil andelectrical engineering courses at three different universities in the academic years of 2020-2021and 2021-2022. The course delivery modes were a mix of in-person and online
., Riley, D. R., Pulaski, M. H., and Leyenberger, C. (2004). “Lean and green: Integrating sustainability and lean construction” CIB World Building Congress, May 2–7, Toronto, International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction CIB, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 11. Sev, A. (2009). “How can the construction industry contribute to sustainable development? A conceptual framework” Sustainable Development Volume 17(3), pages 161–173. 12. Baušytė-Petrauskienė, Asta, Lepaitė, Daiva, (2007). “Competence Structure of Sustainable Development Project Stakeholders’ in the Changing Project Management Paradigm” SOCIAL SCIENCES / SOCIALINIAI MOKSLAI. 2007. No.4 (58). 13. Molenaar, K., Sobin, N
between the mentor and mentee during pair programming was helpful to both parties. • There was regular communication between the corporation liaison and the grant team. Student interview sessions with the grant team in the middle of the internship were utilized to gauge progress from the students perspective. General feedback to the company not directly tied to the student interview contents was provided back to the corporate liaison. • The interns met regularly with their engineer and the liaison.There was an intake process where interns rotated from engineer to engineer until they developeda strong connection with someone and their specific task. One exceptional intern was allowed tocode, rather than shadow their
development; control of semiconductor, (hypersonic) aerospace, robotic, and low power electronic systems. Recently, he has worked closely with NASA researchers on the design of scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicles. Dr. Rodriguez’ honors include: AT&T Bell Lab- oratories Fellowship; Boeing A.D. Welliver Fellowship; ASU Engineering Teaching Excellence Award; IEEE International Outstanding Advisor Award; White House Presidential Excellence Award for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring; Ralf Yorque Memorial Best Paper Prize. Dr. Rodriguez has also served on various national technical committees and panels. He is currently serving on the following National Academies panels: Survivability and Lethality Analysis
Innovation Center of the Reed College of Media at West Virginia University. She specializes in public interest communication, particularly crisis, emergency, and risk communication science. In those realms, she has worked on grants and contracts through CDC, DARPA, DHS, NIH, and NSF. Dr. Fraustino’s work has been recognized with top research paper awards at national/international conferences yearly from 2013-present. Additionally, she was named a national 2017-2018 AEJMC Emerging Scholar, earned the 2018 Doug Newsom Award for Research in Global Ethics and Diversity from the AEJMC PR Division, was the 2017 Reed College of Media Faculty Re- search Award recipient, was a 2016 national Frank Public Interest Communications
participants, as one noted saying thatleadership coaching, “Relatively independent, but improved me in general, including [within theprogram].” Value of leadership coaching sessions Experience visiting the classroom Classroom supply ordering Lunch food Quality of other teams' practice presentations Feedback from your practice presentation Communcation from your teacher Communication from your partner/s 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Excellent Good Okay Below average PoorFigure 3. Participants’ ratings of components of the program, N=34. The 15
key role mentors play in INSET’s success, care is taken to both recruit motivatedmentors as well as provide support for the mentors during the 8-week program. During theacademic year prior to the program we recruit mentors through email announcements andthrough a workshop discussing the benefits of mentoring. In preparation for the program we holda mandatory workshop training session for all mentors where we facilitate discussions aboutproject design and management, intern goals and strategies for effective mentor-interncommunication. In addition to the education staff, previous mentors attend and act as facilitatorswho guide newcomers through this preparation and further develop their own mentoring skills.Key to ensuring adequate support for
nature and implications of expertise. 1993, Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company.27. Radcliffe, D.F., Innovation as a meta graduate attribute for engineers. International Journal of Engineering Education, 2005. 21(2): p. 194-199.28. Wulf, W.A. and G.M.C. Fisher, A makeover for engineering education. Science and Technology, 2002. 18(3): p. 35.29. Kolb, D.A., Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. 1984, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.30. Doolittle, P.E. and W.G. Camp, Constructivism: The Career and Technical Education Perspective. Journal of Vocational and Technical Education, 1999. 16(1): p. 12-46.