which various answers are shared among students to fosterdiscussion. By exposing students to different types of answers and different viewpoints, studentsmay deeply understand the dependency of engineering solutions to individual systems ofpreferences and ethical principles and values.RubricAssessment is divided in three components: 1) The quality of the technical effort to solve the traditional part of the assignment. 2) The identification and awareness of the ethical conflict in the solution. 3) The quality of the resolution or discussion of the ethical conflict.In this paper, we do not address the rubric for the first component, since it is independent of theethical conflict.We suggest that the second component, that is, the
)composed of academic and industry leaders, leaders from ABET and the EngineeringAccreditation Commission (EAC) was chartered to advise on how to increase flexibility in theengineering accreditation criteria while maintaining a strong emphasis on educational qualityand to recommend ways to facilitate recruitment of outstanding engineers from industry andeducation to lead the ABET accreditation process. The committee identified three major barriersto change: 1) excessively long, prescriptive and detailed accreditation criteria, 2) a complicatedand user-unfriendly evaluation system, and 3) difficulty attracting technically active mid-careerprofessionals. ABET with support from the National Science Foundation convened consensus-building workshops
given 20 – 25 minutes to explaintheir chosen characterization technique's technical aspects and applications. The third assignmentinvolved a one-on-one podcast session experience, where each student, acting as a guest, discussedwith the instructor—the host—a material of interest along with its chemical behavior and structure-property relationships.To support the research process, an engineering librarian provided guidance on effective strategiesfor searching technical content through the UD library resources and databases. Brief surveys wereadministered to assess student perceptions of this learning method, and the results are discussed inthis study. Ultimately, this study shows an alternative approach to enhancing student engagementand
Collaborative Learning, pp. 556-567. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021.[23] B. Ozfidan, and M.A. de Miranda, "K12 teacher credentialing containing engineering content in the USA." Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 3-13, 2017[24] M. Gharib, T. Katbeh, B. Cieslinski, and B. Creel B. “ A Novel Trilogy of E-STEM Programs”. In ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE2021), November 15-18, Virtual, Paper No. IMECE2021-69012, 2021.[25] N. Alyafei, A. Shaikh, M. Gharib, and A. Retnanto “ The Role of Pre-College STEM Education in Student Enrollment in Petroleum Engineering”. In SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, September 21
science,technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, then we turn to the notion of culturalmodels, which will be a frame through which to examine the beliefs students have about theadmission process at UWest.In the last 30-40 years, attempts have been made to increase the number of women who go intothe field of engineering. Accompanied by these attempts has grown a large body of researchinvestigating factors contributing to the disparity between the numbers of men and women whomajor in STEM.3-19. These attempts can largely be categorized in two major ways: One categoryof research identifies or prescribes a remedy for a presumptively inherent difference betweenwomen and men that prevents women from entering STEM fields in numbers equal
Education, 2018IntroductionIn 2013, the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan launched the CommonReading Experience (Edington, Holmes Jr., & Reinke, 2015). This program was developed forincoming first-year engineering students with three goals in mind: 1. Students build and develop a sense of community (including a sense of belonging and engineering student identity) 2. Students broaden their thinking about the skills (both technical and non-technical) that they need to be a successful engineer in the 21st century 3. Model intellectual engagementThroughout the history of the Common Reading Experience (CRE), program evaluations havebeen compiled annually. However, to determine if the program was meeting its
Figure 3 was used by the researcher togive an example for each expression of leadership. The researcher then determined from theinterviews when a Maker expressed one of the leadership roles.In their Making, this person:___ 1. Listens to the problems of team members/subordinates. (Mentor)___ 2. Reviews and/or reflects upon project achievements. (Monitor)___ 3. Influences decisions made at higher levels. (Broker)___ 4. Does problem solving in creative, clever ways. (Innovator)___ 5. Clearly defines areas of responsibility for team members/subordinates. (Director)___ 6. Displays a wholehearted commitment to the job/project. (Producer)___ 7. Facilitates consensus building in work-group sessions. (Facilitator)___ 8. Protects continuity in day-to-day
basic engineering concepts.The collected feedback and suggestions from participating students enabled us to enumerateseveral adjustments to be incorporated in future implementations, including: 1. Increase the number of hours and tutors per session and upgrade the meeting facility to a larger room. 2. Assign a faculty member to oversee the tutoring center and conduct unannounced visits throughout the semester. 3. Collaborate with instructors to promote the center in their classes.In the long run, the tutoring center is perceived to improve the success rate as it continues to helpstudents in lower division engineering classes. Our preliminary evaluation showed that studentswho visited the center in regular bases passed their
. She has also developed and ran 9 faculty-led, international programs to Brazil focused on Sustainable Energy. She has won several teaching awards including ChE Sioui Award for Excellence in Teaching, COE Essigmann Outstanding Teaching Award, and AIChE Innovation in ChE Education Award. She also won best paper at the Annual ASEE conference in both Design in Engineering Education Division and the Professional Interest Council 5 (PIC V) for her research in Inclusive Team-based learning. In 2023, she won the Northeastern Inaugural Global Educator Award for her impactful work developing and running international educational programs.Dr. Susan M Lord, University of San Diego Susan Lord is Professor and Chair of
by the CfAO. Several interns wereinvited to present their research in a student session at the AMOS Technical Conference. TheAMOS Technical Conference brings individual researchers and research teams from around theworld to present application briefs representing selected cutting edge research efforts utilizingthe assets of the Maui High Performance Computing Center during the prior year. The studentpresentations were enthusiastically received not only by supercomputing end-users, but also byseveral four-star generals. Akamai Summer Interns were also invited to present at the Societyfor the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science National Student Conferencein Austin, Texas in October 2003.Program ResultsThe CfAO Akamai Summer
. Due to the different topicscovered in this class: Data Analysis in Excel, Programming in MATLAB and Software DesignProject, mentoring sessions have been categorized respectively. Category 1: Assistance withExcel concepts and graphing techniques. Category 2: Assistance with MATLAB programming.Category 3: Assistance with the software design project. Due to the small class sizes at theregional campus, there is some flexibility in scheduling mentoring sessions, however, studentavailability pose to be a constraint. Most of the students find it difficult to attend mentoringsessions due to heavy course load in the first semester and lack of time management. This couldserve as a factor to impact the performance and might require further study on
semesters of the coursescan be found in Table 1.Table 1: Course Outcomes for Chemical Product Design Sequence [11,12]. Numbers shown inparenthesis correspond to ABET student outcomes [8] Chemical Product Design I Chemical Product Design II Research and analyze technical and business- Research and analyze technical and business-related related information (1,7) information (1,7) Write, edit, revise, and critique technical Write, edit, revise, and critique technical memos and memos and formal written reports (3) formal written reports (3) Prepare and present effective oral reports (3) Prepare and present effective oral reports (3) Work as a member of a team (5
provided the same theoretical information as covered in the in-personlecture course. During Fall quarter, students watched an average 3-4 modules on a weekly basis.These lecture videos covered the technical content during the first seven weeks. During Winterquarter, students watched 2-3 video modules on a weekly basis during a seven-week period. Inaddition, guest speakers including faculty from each department within the School ofEngineering and industry leaders were recorded from the in-person class, and posted on thecourse website within the same week for students enrolled online.Canvas was used as the web platform to host the website for the online course, where weeklymodules were posted including all necessary information such as lecture
Paper ID #13727Developing a New Generation of Leadership at the University of CalgaryCase Study on the Maier Student Leadership ProgramDr. Lynne Cowe Falls, University of Calgary Lynne Cowe Falls, PhD, P. Eng., FCAE, FCSCE, is an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at the Schulich School of Engineering, the University of Calgary. She is a co-author of over 30 technical papers and several books in the area of pavement and infrastructure management and most recently of Current Pavement Management. With over 20 years in industry prior to joining the University of Calgary, she is a Vice-President and Board Member of the
manufacturingindustry careers. At this stage, the important conclusions and lessons learned are: (1) Identification and recruitment of applicants that fit our intended profile requires extensive time and additional advertising efforts; (2) Curriculum must be flexible and infused with project based, active learning components to ensure that students remain interested and receive hands on experience; (3) Employers must also be informed about the skills TRANSFORM students are gaining in the classroom; (4) Employers should be encouraged to share best practices in mentoring ours and other student interns; (5) Lessons learned can be applied to other technical fields of study and other
; some haverequirements that are more stringent. For example,Bioengineering has a requirement of a 3.0 to ensure Figure 1. GE curriculum listed in 2017- 2018 Undergraduate Announcements.students who enter this major can successfully matriculate to graduate school, as most graduatesin this field continue to pursue an advanced degree. GPR restrictions ensure student successboth in the major and upon graduation.In the first term, students who do not have AdvancedPlacement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), DualEnrollment (DE) or transfer credit for Calculus I areplaced into a math course based on their Clemson MathPlacement Test (CMPT) score, shown in Figure 2
eachcategory, student confidence in course related skills had the greatest changes. Within the broadcategory of course related skills, confidence in algorithm creation increased from an average of1.78 to 3.69 on a scale from 1 to 5. Confidence in computer programming and debugging alsoincreased by more than 1.5 from the beginning to the end of the course.Figure 2. Comparison of the average rating of grouped skills before and after the course. Boldcategories (course and technical skill and course self) have a statistically significant changefrom before to after the course.Comparisons were made based on gender and first-generation status to see if the before and aftercourse changes differed by group. As seen in Figure 3, both male and female
externally sourced through industry. The culminatingdesign experience in the USAFA civil engineering program had been a project that was nestedwithin a single semester construction management course. The project had a real-worldcustomer and was thus linked to industry, similar to what Howe and Wilbarger2 described.Although the project met all the requirements for a culminating design experience, thedepartment made the decision to transition to a year-long culminating major engineering designexperience. The decision was made as part of the continuous improvement process and tookinput from students, internal program assessments, and what other programs around the nationare doing. Using a real-world project is not unique to the USAFA, as others have
between Spring 2023 and Spring 2024 across two coursesections. As shown in Figure 6, the analysis focused on two parts of Exam 3 where Part 1covering reinforced concrete concepts (treatment) and Part 2 covering wood structures (control).The error bars represent the standard errors. Each section was taught by different instructors,with Session 1 maintaining the same instructor across both years while Session 2 experienced aninstructor change. A two-sample t-test was used to compare the mean scores between the twocohorts and to evaluate whether the observed differences were statistically significant.In Session 1, where instructor consistency was maintained, the implementation of the hands-onlab was associated with a statistically significant
strongleaders and strong engineers.T ABLE 1 : S AMPLE S URVEY Q UESTIONS Survey Sample Question Focus CodesectionPart 1: Age: 20-29; 30-39; 40-49; 50-59; 60+ Self Demographics (AgeDemographics Category)Part 2: As a student, when dreaming about my future, I Self Time (student)Student imagined doing technically complex work. Situationexperiences (1 never, 2 rarely, 3 occasionally, 4 frequently, 5 (aspiration/satisfaction
memorandum of understanding was obtained from each institution acknowledgingtheir participation in the TAMUK’s STEP project. The project’s internal evaluator collects andprocesses the TAMUK transfer data for the partnering institutions, assesses project data, andprepares reports for the project’s sponsor and for dissemination.Purpose There are three main objectives that the STEP program addresses. Objective 1 targets thenumber of community college SEM transfers. Objective 2 focuses on the enhancement ofstudent success. Objective 3 concentrates on improving persistence to degree completion for thepredominantly first generation and Hispanic students of South Texas. While all three objectivesare vital to the project, this paper discusses only
). • Knowledge of WebCT. • Knowledge of Centra Symposium. • Knowledge of computer resources at NC State.In addition to these data, North Carolina State University faculty also have access to datacollected from the distance education group on campus for each Centra Symposium session.During the summer 2005 and 2006 semesters, 10 community college instructors from the firstcohort and 13 from the second cohort were enrolled in Instructional Design for Technical andTechnology Education. Figures 3 and 4 present data regarding where and how studentsconnected to these sessions. The community college instructors typically connected from eitherhome or work (Figure 3) using a high bandwidth connection (Figure 4). Figure 3. Location From
challenges ranging from student reaction to equipment issues. • Dependability (-9%): For Cohort 2, faculty emphasized a higher involvement in workshop preparation by all mentors during internal development sessions. While observing an increase in collaborative efforts between mentors, this shared responsibility and interdependence created less individual accountability. To further analyze the self-evaluation scores to compare between the two mentor groups,the overall results in Figure 3 were separated into two score sets for engineering mentors andeducation mentors. Figure 4 shows the bar chart for the two cohorts of engineering mentors.Gauging the general outcome between the two cohorts of engineering mentors
Mixed Reality Modules. Inputs Edibon AFT-B Proof of Concept Mixed Reality Digital Twin Fluids @ 20⁰C 1 count – water 2 count – water, 10 count – water, mercury, mercury blood, ethylene glycol, ethanol, acetic acid, benzene, toluene, diesel, carbon tetrachloride Pipe internal diameter 4 count 2 count Variable (3 – 102 mm) Pipe length 1 count 2 count
bulging in the protected area (near the toe of the protected slope) becomes more severe,while the crest experiences significant settlement. As failure progresses, the bulging in theprotected area becomes increasingly severe and widespread, while the crest undergoessignificant settlement. Eventually, a failure plane develops, linking the cracks at the crest to thebulging area at the toe. This results in a breach with rotational sliding, where water initially flowsclear but soon turns turbid as sediment is transported through the failed section. Figure 2: Slope instability by shear failure progression in the virtual environment.Internal Erosion by UnderpipingFigure 3 shows the progression of internal erosion caused by underpiping failure within
been taught for morethan 15 years as a two-course sequence in two 10-week quarters.In the first quarter, a 2-credit 400-level civil engineering course is co-taught with a 3-credit 400-level communication course with course outcomes in written and spoken communication as wellas effective team performance. Multiple civil engineering instructors and a single instructor fromthe Technical Communication Department comprise a faculty team to deliver the course. As iscommon in most senior design courses, student teams are coached through a process of teamformation to deliver multiple written and verbal presentations of their qualifications, projectunderstanding, response to a request for proposal, and, by the end of the term, a 30%(conceptual) design
, see list below.The following technical problems were encountered: Page 11.43.61) T1 connecting hardware was lost from a power surge (1 time);2) Video control on the remote end of the video conference system malfunctioned preventing view of the remote audience (2 consecutive class sessions);3) Audio transmission could not be established (2 times);4) Video stream became choppy due to sudden, unpredictable decreases in the data rate (more than 10 occurrences at different times and of variable duration);5) Conference connection suddenly dropped (2 times); and6) Student PC had to be rebooted to reestablish
posture and actions whilemuted. The lecture was roughly structured with an active recitation (15-25 minutes) and activeproblem solving (60-70 minutes). Frequent stretch breaks and screen breaks are used about every10 - 15 minutes throughout the class – based on the course flow, and a one-time 3-minutetransition break was used between concept recitation and problem solving during onlinemeetings. In addition to this, students had opportunities to reflect on their efforts andperformance in class using self-reflection surveys (after two midterm exams). Smaller studenttutor sessions were provided for under-performing students based on their choices. Table 1. UD Principles and Implementation in the Statics course [14] UD Principles
-Reality-Its-Impact-on-Education,” International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, vol. 12, p. 5, Dec. 2021.[3] X. Guo, Y. Guo, and Y. Liu, “The Development of Extended Reality in Education: Inspiration from the Research Literature,” Sustainability, vol. 13, no. 24, Art. no. 24, Jan. 2021, doi: 10.3390/su132413776.[4] A. Alnagrat, R. C. Ismail, S. Z. S. Idrus, and R. M. A. Alfaqi, “A Review of Extended Reality (XR) Technologies in the Future of Human Education: Current Trend and Future Opportunity,” Journal of Human Centered Technology, vol. 1, no. 2, Art. no. 2, Aug. 2022, doi: 10.11113/humentech.v1n2.27.[5] A. Çöltekin et al., “Extended Reality in Spatial Sciences: A Review of Research Challenges and Future
are based on a201 student sample from Engineering Technology Division at Wayne State University. It would be202 interesting to further validate the effectiveness of BIM education for improving students’203 communication skills in other engineering disciplines, programs, or institutions.204205 References206 [1] S. Bhattacharya and G. Pant, “Digital transformation in AECO industry: impending207 dilemma in the Indian context,” J. Organ. Change Manag., 2023.208 [2] B. Bradley, “Global BIM Survey: U.S. market is maturing as advances wake imaginations.”209 Accessed: Feb. 03, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://agacad.com/blog/global-bim-survey-u-210 s-market-is-maturing-as-advances-wake-imaginations211 [3] J. Du, D