described the least number of issues related to the transition to and from remoteor hybrid learning. For example, one freshman stated, “COVID-19 hasn't affected my college life.”(Freshman, EE, SBCOMP=3.0). and another stated that their experience “[…]stayed the same”(Freshman, CS, SBCOMP=3.5). Qualitatively, Sophomores and Juniors described similar experienceswith difficulties adjusting academically and socially. These students were more concerned with howtheir professional future will be impacted. For example, one student stated, “My experience feelswasted in a sense because of the pandemic. My lack of ability to get hands on experience within alab in school has drastically impacted my possibilities of getting an internship. […] [This] makes
is also interested in student and faculty development. Elizabeth received a B.S. in civil engineering from Clemson University (Clemson, SC).Dr. Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida Denise R. Simmons, Ph.D., PE, PMP, LEED-AP is the Associate Dean for Workforce Development in the Wertheim College of Engineering and a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research answers national calls for construction and civil engineering professionals to develop new competencies to navigate the changes of evolving work- force demographics, technology, and organizational structures. As director of the Simmons Research Lab, she researches
socialand physical structures. --Oosterlaken (p. 8)1 Introducing a technology may create process efficiencies and in turn eliminate jobs. It canlower the cost of goods while promoting waste and consumerism. In playing an essential rolein the process of economic and social development, introducing a new technology mayproduce undesirable and unintended social transformations, involving moral issues such aschild labor, women’s economic participation outside the home, and democracy. --Nichols and Dong (p. 190)2 AbstractDesign for technology, which prevails in engineering design courses, addresses constraintssuch as budget, time and functionality established by a client. Meanwhile, human-centereddesign (HCD) emphasizes users' needs
served by the respective programs. The OMEP is a targeted program,but not restricted as to whom it serves as demonstrated by the 13.5% non-minority studentsutilizing OMEP services. In fact, ethnicity is not a factor for admission to the ASU or CEAS.While the ABOR has not removed this issue from their agenda, they have reduced their effortson doing away with all such minority support programs at this point in time.Other educational institutions have felt similar concerns. Barbara Taliaferro, assistant to thepresident for human diversity at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, stated that “when theydownsize, they look first to student affairs, where they often find the minority staff on whitecampuses.”6.External ChallengesArizona Governor
slowly adopted in the CEM curriculum and thechallenges in implementing BIM technology to support the teaching-learning process. Based onthe previous studies, the main obstacles preventing BIM implementation are identified and listedas follows: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Faculty members’ unwillingness to change the existing curriculum Lack of resources o Number of experts who can teach BIM o Faculty time required to make course changes for BIM incorporation o Faculty support from colleagues and/or administrators o Number of courses which students are required to take for graduation o Lack of educational materials Level of knowledge required to teach BIM Complexity of relatively new
education, non- verbal communication in the classroom, and learning through historical engineering accomplishments. He has authored and co-authored a significant number of journal articles and book chapters on these topics.Dr. Audra N. Morse P.E., Michigan Technological University Dr. Audra Morse, P.E., is a Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan Technological University. Her professional experience is focused on water and wastewater treatment, specifically water reclamation systems, membrane filtration and the fate of personal products in treatment systems. However, she has a passion to tackle diversity and inclusion issues for students and faculty in
(2001): 65-‐75. 9 Al-‐Turki, Umar, and Salih Duffuaa. "Performance measures for academic departments." International Journal of Educational Management 17.7 (2003): 330-‐338. 10 Pounder, JS., Is student evaluation of teaching worthwhile?: An analytical framework for answering the question, Quality Assurance in Education, Vol. 15 Iss: 2, pp.178 – 191, 2007 11 Nasser, F., Fresko, B., Faculty Views of Student Evaluation of College Teaching. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education Volume 27, Issue 2, May 2002. 12 Woods, Donald R., Richard M. Felder, Armando Rugarcia, and James E. Stice. "The future of engineering education III. Developing
two simpleports. The paper includes details on the experiments, a description of the student reportingrequirements, and feedback from students and engineering faculty on the course. Page 5.30.1I. Introduction and context Western New England College (WNEC) is a small private institution in Springfield,Massachusetts. The engineering school offers four programs: Biomedical, Electrical, Industrial,and Mechanical Engineering. The overall full-time enrollment in engineering is approximately270 students. The primary objective of the engineering school is to offer quality undergraduateprograms that lead to successful engineering
, need to have a basic knowledge of environmental issues and how to make designsmore sustainable. In the age of climate change and environmental disasters (e.g., 2019-2020bushfires in Australia, 2011 earthquake in Japan that caused a massive release of radioactivematerial, 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico), it is important for allengineers to be aware of how they can help minimize, avoid, and/or solve these problems.Solving many of today’s environmental problems will require future engineers to be creative,cooperative, and have an entrepreneurial spirit3,4. This starts with learning about and working onsolutions to real-world problems in the classroom.The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) is a group of faculty
toparticipate as of fall 2011 and the programs in which they will be participating in. Someinstitutions are not planning to participate in the agreement at this time, but may choose to do soin the future. SPSU faculty will be working with faculty at those institutions in implementingthe Pre-Engineering Technology program at their schools. The SPSU administration is activelyworking with the Presidents at the TCSG schools to ensure that they are fully committed to theagreement.A major concern in the implementation of the articulation agreement was how to offer therequired laboratory components of the highly technical ET programs to students through distancelearning. It has been decided that initially all laboratory exercises will be conducted at the
possible RDM issues associated with the talk and also and chosen broadly from across campus (physics, chemistry,to consider possible applications and changes to the student’s civil engineering, and chemical engineering). Two of theresearch RDM resulting from the talk. Two of the guest faculty were chosen due to known specific considerationspeakers covered or reinforced topics from the Briney text about their research data while two were chosen based on a(managing sensitive data and data reuse). Three of the guest desire to participate in developing RDM standards for theirspeaker topics reinforced each other and examined the same research laboratories. Each
engineering education will experience “convergence” with other disciplinesto solve difficult issues of 21st century and engineers are likely to be “T-shaped thinker,” deep inone field, but able to work across all field and able to communicate well. She predicted the“convergence” of knowledge in the domains of engineering disciplines [13].Intersection of the Digital, Physical and Biological Domains in IR 4.0As described earlier, there was an urgency in developing different fields of expertise during thefirst two industrial revolutions. During the third industrial revolution, new discoveries inindividual field slowed down, and researchers and industry partners started exploring outsidetheir fields. By the end of the 20th century, project-based work
issues may be caused by a mismatch between academic habitsand the new realities of the work environment. When what worked in the past no longer does,students may be confused and lack the perspective to make sense of why and how things aredifferent. Wiping, which is the process of unlearning old ways and developing newcompetencies, requires students to recognize that old ways of interacting with authority figuresno longer work and they need to develop new approaches. Therefore, the impetus for change isthe need to fit into their new organizational environment. Similarly, deep unlearning may beneeded.Students may experience pressure towards a combination of wiping and deep unlearning as theyadapt to a new environment. Wiping is closely related to
2015, the National Science Foundation awarded SMSE a five-year Revolutionizing EngineeringDepartments (RED) grant titled Developing Changemaking Engineers, which aspires to a socio-technical engineering education that prepares students to practice engineering within the contextsof social justice, peace, humanitarian advancement, and sustainable practices. The grant alsoprovided the vision and motivation for the hiring of a cluster of new faculty members with interestor expertise in engineering and social justice. The RED grant award and the social justice-focusedUSD campus culture provided fertile ground to initiate the ExSJ; there is institution-wide supportfor engineering students to learn to see through the lens of social justice. The ExSJ
new engineering students about the responsibilities, activities, and projects they mayencounter as practicing engineers will have an impact on students’ desire to continue inengineering.15Results found utilizing nonparametric analysis indicate that, on average, exposure to engineeringpractice and research does not statistically increase or decrease students’ desire to remain inengineering, though it does significantly increase students’ familiarity with faculty and research.Within some cohorts, there was a statistically significant decline in interest to remain in thespecific MEE major. While this outcome may indicate that exposure to engineering practitionersdoes not increase retention, it may also infer that exposure serves as a deterrent
, many ‘traditional’ engineering students will enter careers where their work intersectswith military interests. Lucena describes how engineering education has consistently beeninfluenced by the defense needs of the United States since World War II [29]. Students mayactively seek military-related jobs, or more likely, will find themselves in them. A recentNational Academy of Engineering (NAE) report analyzed STEM workforce concerns of the U.S.Department of Defense (DOD), in terms of the ‘defense industrial base’ and DOD civilian andmilitary employees [30]. Many new technologies are developed with military funding orpotential military applications in mind, as acknowledged in a recent NAE report [31].Military issues in relation to engineering have
Page 4.68.9program was a definite period of adjustment for both students and faculty, with 27 studentselecting to switch out of the program. In order to understand more fully what the students werethinking and experiencing, we also conducted personal interviews with 13 of the students, 8 whowere continuing and 5 who were switching out. The following is a summary of student responsesto these formative evaluation concerns organized by quarter.Quarter 1 - MH 181 and EGR 181For MH 181 the most commonly reported strengths were the teaching staff (available,knowledgeable, and encouraging) and the emphasis on application of calculus in the field ofengineering. Reported weaknesses were the text, the fast pace of instruction which precludedenough time
Page 4.68.9program was a definite period of adjustment for both students and faculty, with 27 studentselecting to switch out of the program. In order to understand more fully what the students werethinking and experiencing, we also conducted personal interviews with 13 of the students, 8 whowere continuing and 5 who were switching out. The following is a summary of student responsesto these formative evaluation concerns organized by quarter.Quarter 1 - MH 181 and EGR 181For MH 181 the most commonly reported strengths were the teaching staff (available,knowledgeable, and encouraging) and the emphasis on application of calculus in the field ofengineering. Reported weaknesses were the text, the fast pace of instruction which precludedenough time
and standard for theregional campus Pre-Engineering program. With the advent of the regional campus system, wewelcome in a new, non-traditional student body. As ‘one university’, it is our charter to educate,advise, and mentor the regional student body to the same standard and with the same rigor as isdone in Logan. As faculty of the Pre-Engineering program, we take this charter seriously. We work closely withLogan campus faculty and administrators to insure regional campus classes provide the samefocus of content and require the same level of achievement as do counterpart classes in Logan.After all, we are preparing regional students to join the larger university engineering cohort intheir junior year and transition to academic life in
is important that theyintegrate these learning experiences with their other courses and share the information withcolleagues. Then, there is a broader reach to ensure that the “time, money, and energy” spentduring the experience are not wasted [16].Lastly, international humanitarian trips can be considered a form of volunteer tourism, which ischaracterized as an individual who vacations while also working to reduce poverty, help theenvironment, or perform research [17]. Though volunteer tourism can occur domestically, often itis an international experience in a developing country to support disaster relief or humanitarian,environmental, or social issues [16]. Voluntourism, which is the act of a volunteer tourist, hasbeen criticized as a new
autoethnography practices of this study, we can ensure that the stories being shared are trulythose of the program and not another’s perception of the program’s stories. It also demonstrates that theknowledge and results are being co-created by all of us together. Notes, memos, and/or recordings ofverbal conversations of analysis will also be completed to ensure validity of the analysis.ᎯᎠ ᎤᏕᎶᏆᎥ “This is What We Learned”Already through the process of developing this program and research surrounding the program, we havelearned a lot, particularly the challenges that we are facing. This program was set up as a one-yearprogram with new faculty at the university both teaching and leading the program. As stated previously,relationship-building and
agencies.II. Project SelectionThe AIAD process begins with a department representative from USMA contacting potentialproject sponsors. Some AIAD sponsors have participated in the program for several years andknow exactly what to do. We try to expand the AIAD program by informing different agencieswe contact on routine business, using alumni contacts in industry, faculty contacts at universities,and coordinating with other departments at USMA. This process is necessary when someprojects are completed and new ones are needed to fill the voids and when a project sponsordecides not to participate anymore. Not all potential AIAD sponsors have military or defenserelated projects. Through personal or family contacts, some cadets initiate projects with
undergraduate students who hadpreviously taken an upper-division mechanical design course. Preliminary results from thedesign survey highlight generally high student engagement with multiple stages of the designprocess but suggest limited participation in both user-oriented design and analysis. Initial resultsfrom the fabrication survey suggest wide variation in the extents to which availability, advising,design decisions, and project management influence fabrication decisions. This decision processshould be explored further through qualitative follow-up questions in future work. Additionalfuture work includes (1) refining survey instruments, (2) survey deployment to faculty, machineshop / makerspace staff, and broader student study participants, and
and the AnalogDiscovery have been included from a “Day-One” Electrical Circuits laboratory assignment.The Electronics Engineering Technology programs at Some State Universities are in the processof restructuring their curriculum grid and changing the name of the program to ElectricalEngineering Technology. Faculty executives at Some State Universities are even taking theinitiative of creating and offering Electrical Circuit I in the first year to increase freshmanretention. The rationale for creating this course developed based on student feedback andcomments provided by many graduating seniors during their exit interviews. A growing numberof students have expressed their concerns regarding how late the “Electronics EngineeringTechnology
the CELT instrument was poor, with a KR-20 of 0.39 andvarying levels of item difficulty (p=.16 to .91) and discrimination indices (d= -.05 to .18). Thiswas not surprising given the range of information literacy skills targeted and the small number ofitems. To address the poor reliability, a second scenario was added to the assessment in the formof a letter to the editor regarding the public health and environmental concerns with the use ofgenetically engineered salmon versus traditional farm-raised salmon, and expanding the potentialaudience to the larger STEM community. The new scenario was accompanied by eight newselected response items, which included six multiple choice items and two select all that applyitems
established time limit of 20minutes for their presentations.Student EvaluationThe success of the course was reflected by the student evaluation ratings. The course instructor evaluation by theundergrad students was 4.76/5, which is very much above the department average. The course rating was 4.69,which again is much above the average. Similar excellent ratings were also given by the graduate students (4.76/5and 4.51/5, respectively). The only other concern expressed by a few was that there was too much material for a 3credit one semester long course.ConclusionThe idea of using an interdisciplinary team to teach the topic of fuel cells has been very successful at ASU. Theexperience has been very rewarding for both students and faculty, and is a
second one in technology includingtechnology education for K-12 teachers. The students can complete credit certificates as well astwo-year Associate Degrees that articulate seamlessly with the schools of engineering andtechnology in six universities and colleges. Our stakeholders, administrators, directors,technology faculty members, and site coordinators can quickly respond to the changing needs oflocal industry by creating, approving and implementing new, industry-driven curriculum within amatter of months.The COT has received several National Science Foundation Advanced Technology Education(ATE) grants that have developed innovative curriculum, provided faculty developmentincluding industry externships and provided student scholarships
associated challenges [4], [10], [11]. This literature review isby no means comprehensive, but it highlights the importance placed on the first-year experiencesin many engineering programs.There are several factors that can make these introductory courses challenging to design anddeliver. Besides the fact that most students in these courses have just started college and arebeginning to get acclimated to the new college environment, they are often placed in a class witha population that is considerably larger than those they previously experienced in high school.Large sections are usually inevitable due to faculty constraints and increasing enrollments. Inmany cases, the laboratory spaces cannot accommodate a large number of students. Coupledwith
TransformationThe National Science Foundation’s funded ($625,179) SPIRIT: Scholarship Program Initiativevia Recruitment, Innovation, and Transformation at Western Carolina University creates a newapproach to the recruitment, retention, education, and placement of academically talented andfinancially needy engineering and engineering technology students. Twenty-Seven new andcontinuing students were recruited into horizontally and vertically integrated cohorts that will benurtured and developed in a Project Based Learning (PBL) community characterized byextensive faculty mentoring, fundamental and applied undergraduate research, hands-on designprojects, and industry engagement. Our horizontal integration method creates sub-cohorts withsame-year students from
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