portion of the student’s college or universitycareer and allowing the progression in complexity of both the academic studies and the workexperiences is fundamental to cooperative education6. Employer and student performanceevaluation data have traditionally been used to reflect on and improve student or employerperformance in an informal way. An emphasis has been placed on developing evaluation criteriathrough learning outcomes that meet the needs of the cooperative education programs and theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) or the Canadian EngineeringAccreditation Board (CEAB).Research on cooperative education and engineering students has shown a positive impact onearnings and grade point averages at the cost of extended
will understand the basics of probability, statistics, uncertainty analysis, regression, and correlation; 8. students will be able to write a technical report; and 9. students will understand and be able to communicate the broader context of the course material.These course learning outcomes reflect the nature of the course in Instrumentation andExperimental design that is meant to teach those broad subjects. However, the ideas of signalconditioning, processing and recording, as well as signal characteristics, are all derived out of theelectrical concepts inventory. These concepts in particular overlap with the course learningoutcomes for the course entitled “Mechatronics” which has the following stated course
highlights the importance of such programs in science,engineering, and mathematics. Effective teamwork is essential for success in URPs, as studentsoften work together to design and conduct experiments, analyze data, and write research papers.Effective teamwork can also help students to learn from each other and to support each otherthrough the challenges of research.Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences of undergraduate studentsregarding teamwork in a collaborative REU program using Tuckman’s Group DevelopmentTheory. The central research question guiding this study is: "How do undergraduate studentsexperience and manage teamwork in collaborative research settings?" The study aims toidentify the strengths and challenges of
made it difficult to understand the primary pathways between ideas and subsequent crosslinks. Future concept map instructions will include guidance to construct the concept maps sequentially, with the main concepts at the top, moving to the smaller, more specific concepts near the bottom. Providing instruction to use a gridded background may help students align their ideas. concern in moving forward is the illusion of positive results through the repetition of the study.AIn repeatedly giving the same set of students the same concept map throughout various parts of the 10-week research process, there is an understood implication of building upon writing what you had written before, therefore resulting in false positive
writing the answer”or socialize instead of work on the assigned problem. These students group reported that theirexpectations were challenged when they were required to ask and answer questions in class forparticipation points. Because the questions were very focused on class sessions, the focus groupsdid not identify any new types of resistance. The participants at Site B reported that some students reacted by verbally communicatingdiscomfort with their peers (soliciting agreement and validation for their perceptions) and bydropping the course, perhaps with the intention of retaking it in another term or with anotherinstructor that did not require as much active participation. It is important to note that askingstudents how others reacted was
Paper ID #41611Board 172: Engineering Electromagnetics Laboratory DevelopmentMiss Narangoo Tumur, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Narangoo Tumur is a senior electrical engineering student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She is the president of IEEE student chapter at SIUE, and the member of ASEE.Dr. Amardeep Kaur, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Dr. Amardeep Kaur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Missouri University of Science and
. Often, each pair in the class was assigned a different chemical. Students were giventime to solve the problem, the professor circulated around the class to give pointers, and aftermost teams were done, each pair reported their answers. Then the class could discuss thesolution approach, the instructor could illustrate common “mishaps”, etc.The course is an elective and as such the students who enroll often differ widely in theirpreparation and motivation. The environmental engineering (EVEN) undergraduates generallyhave good background preparation for the course (such as material and energy balances,Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering, and perhaps including environmental organicchemistry, groundwater, environmental microbiology, etc
expected service loads. This course will be closely integrated with ME 330 (Machine Design), which teaches the analysis of machine elements using traditional methods.It is believed that this repeated exposure to design projects and the gradual developmentof related SKA’s will significantly enhance the effectiveness of the senior design projectexperience for our students, as well as their preparation for jobs with local industry.Finally, the Department has been working in the past two years to design and construct anew Design Center, which was mainly funded by a grant from the Department ofDefense. The Design Center, completed as of the writing of this paper, provides thenecessary industry-like workspaces for the implementation of the new
Paper ID #37566HORIZONTAL PROPULSION USING MODEL ROCKETENGINES (PART B)Huseyin Sarper (Master Lecturer) HUSEYIN SARPER, P.E. is a master lecturer with a joint appointment in the Engineering Fundamentals Division and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Old Dominion University. Earlier, he was a professor of engineering and the graduate program director at Colorado State University – Pueblo between 1988 and 2014. He was also a regional director of Colorado’s NASA Space Grant Consortium. His degrees, all in industrial engineering and operations research, are from the Pennsylvania State University (BS
-efficacy andbehaviors of innovators and entrepreneurs, though some scholars have brought them together incomparative studies (e.g., how are entrepreneurs different from or similar to innovators) (e.g.,[43], [44]). Even recent education-related writing is based on a difference-model [45] argue forgreater demarcation between entrepreneurship and innovation. Their perspective is framedaround formal education related to learning to be entrepreneurial or innovative, arguing thatuniversities and colleges are “missing the boat” if they only focus on or prioritize entrepreneurialeducation (which according to these authors depends on strong innovative ideas, so thereforeshould follow more intense education on developing strong technical and innovation
. student at the Georgia Institute of Technology con- ducting research on design theory and engineering education. He received an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in creative writing from the University of South Florida. Alexander is excited to have received an NSF GRFP Fellowship for research in STEM Education and Learning Sci- ence. His research has focused on functional modeling and mental models in order to understand how engineering students develop systems thinking skills. He is also a musician and teaches marching per- cussion (specifically the marimba and vibraphone) to high school students. After completing his graduate degree, he wants to become academic faculty and start a business as
video game’, building on the approach used in online games like Worldof Warcraft to promote enquiry-based learning are some innovative approaches being explored(Waldrop, 2013). While these present exciting alternatives to create remote & virtual labs, manyconcerns exist about how effective these approaches really are and whether they can substitutefor the ‘real’ experience. Also, none of these are yet used in manufacturing engineering courses.One of the goals of this project is to explore these emerging ideas to study how these approachescan be incorporated in MFS online courses. Other alternatives through custom, in-house softwareplatforms are being used by some schools to present fundamental engineering concepts online(e.g.: Virtual
to society and from era to era; so there is no absolute definition of literacy.12, quoting E.D. Hirsh, Jr., 1988Hirsh’s fluid definition of cultural literacy contends that, even in its barest sense, literacy cannotbe sufficiently defined by the possession of a limited set of factual knowledge. Given thelimitations of knowledge, per se, literacy becomes not only a way of knowing, but also a way ofbeing – curious, objective, and capable of assessing and applying information and skills to makesound decisions and actions. Literacy implies not only the understanding of a particular, relevantbody of knowledge and set of relationships, but moreover, the ability and willingness to use thatknowledge in a functional manner – to read and write
AC 2010-158: INTEGRATING SELF-REGULATED LEARNING INSTRUCTION INA DIGITAL LOGIC COURSEHuiRu Shih, Jackson State University Dr. HuiRu (H.R.) Shih is a Professor of Technology at Jackson State University (JSU). He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri. Dr. Shih is a registered professional engineer and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).Wei Zheng, Jackson State University Dr. Wei Zheng is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Jackson State University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison and has over 10-year industrial experience.Tzusheng Pei , Jackson State
AC 2010-1741: EXAMINING STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OFINTERDISCIPLINARITY BASED ON GENDER AND DISCIPLINARYAFFILIATIONAlexandra Coso, University of Virginia ALEXANDRA COSO is a graduate student pursuing an M.S. in Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia. She received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT. Her current research focuses on interdisciplinary engineering education and students' perceptions of the different dimensions of interdisciplinary engineering projects.Reid Bailey, University of Virginia REID BAILEY is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia. His research interests focus on studying how students
embedding of assessment into a course is benefitting both the students andthe instructors.1. IntroductionAn introductory course on Solid Mechanics was recently redeveloped with a focus on activelearning. The course is taught to 80-90 students per quarter and is a required fundamental coursefor several engineering majors. The authors have recently initiated an engineering educationresearch project with this course as the platform. The focus of the research is on the use ofonline activities and how they may enhance student learning to improve self-efficacy andachievement, thereby boosting self-confidence of Engineering majors, and further serving toreduce drop out rates 4,10,24. Different types of online activities to be investigated
from ASSIST (Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer)website assist.org.5in the required courses in mathematics and physics for both CSU and UC schools, the samecannot be said regarding engineering courses. Graphics and Surveying tend to be required byCSUs but not the UCs. There is not a single engineering course that is required or recommendedby all the institutions. Even the requirement for Statics, which is fundamental in the study ofCivil Engineering, has deviations in two of the institutions: UC Berkeley combines it with
intensive advisement. The ASU plan followsthe recipe for success determined by others in the recent report: “A Matter of Degrees: PromisingPractices for Community College Student Success”.1 The same practices which work well at theCC work well for the transfer student, especially in their first year of transfer. According to thereport the fundamentals of a good success program include the following: a strong start; clear,coherent pathways; integrated support; high expectations and high support; intensive studentengagement; design for scale; and professional development.1A requirement of the NSF scholarships is that the students attend a one-semester creditAcademic Success Class each semester. The course content changes each semester
Paper ID #19844How Well Do They Match? Does High Confidence in Selection of MajorTranslate to High Graduation Rates in a Major?Ms. Norma L Veurink, Michigan Technological University Norma Veurink is a Senior Lecturer in the Engineering Fundamentals Department at Michigan Techno- logical University where she teaches introductory engineering courses and a spatial visualization course designed for engineering students with poorly developed spatial visualization skills. Ms. Veurink man- ages several summer programs that introduce middle and high school students to engineering. She is active in the Engineering Design Graphics
) writing and using instructional objectives, (b)adopting active learning strategies, and (c) effective use of diagnostic, formative, and summativeassessments. Pre and post assessment of participants’ conception of teaching was captured by a20 question multiple-choice instrument that included demographic material (pre) and courseevaluation (post) as appropriate. Item categories on the instrument were drawn from Bransford’sHow People Learn (HPL) framework 1, a framework that is acknowledged as a practical way oforganizing what we know about teaching and learning today. Participant responses wereaggregated into four categories that derive from this framework (learner, knowledge, assessment,and community) and investigate how teaching methods
; • scripting dialogue, song parodies, or simple puns to relate to the engineering material; • developing a physical model to demonstrate the engineering concept, often related to the theme; • when possible, adding props or pictures to enhance the classroom atmosphere; and • making references to the theme within the note handouts.Themed ClassesThe author managed to develop a curriculum plan with different individual themes for an entiresemester of Mechanics of Materials. The following ideas represent some of the more memorablethemes developed; a full listing is given in Table 1.First Day Rap BattleOn the first day of the course, students are asked to write eight lines of an engineering rap. Theinstructor gives them a list of terms from both
skills that are aprerequisite for a college preparatory mathematics sequence in high school and therefore for fullcitizenship in today’s technological society[10]. According to Dr. Moses, “Because the newtechnologies give rise to computers and an ever-widening use of symbol systems andquantitative data, we concluded that the schools and curricula we had to struggle to design mustput mathematical and scientific literacy on a par with reading and writing literacy.”[11] Thecontention of the current authors is that the field of engineering provides the type of examplesthat can appeal to all students and that can help provide them with the rationale of whymathematics is important. Hands-on engineering activities also provide the means by
Page 15.1284.5manufacturing processes.11 These challenges have implications for both workforce developmentand nanomanufacturing training opportunities at two-year colleges. The production of carbonnanotubes, for instance, a material fundamental to much research and development in nanotech,requires synthesis in a laboratory setting, utilizing a variety of methods such as laser ablation, arcdischarge or chemical vapor deposition to produce quantities that are measured in grams.Considering these constraining material conditions, it is difficult to see that nanomanufacturingwill reach any of the nanotech job-creation projection claims for 2015 made by the PaNMT. Themeanings of "nano-related labor" are themselves somewhat difficult to pin down in
theterm, all instructors frequently refer back to this project. This allows the students reflection inboth writing the paper and seeing others’ successes and failures. They are also then able toconsider their own work, in comparison to others and with increased theoretical knowledge, afterthe initial rush of the construction has subsided. As discussed previously, the opportunity ispresent to engage all other learning styles with this project, which means we would expect thisproject to be popular with a majority of students since they have essentially all been addressed.Another High/High cluster is Viewing & Discussing Engineering Disasters movie clips in class.In addition to viewing movies, which is, –of itself– popular, the students get
become engineers who have ability, courage, andleadership, and can solve the problems” in international development projects. Its extensivecurriculum combining engineering and international development includes courses such as“Science and Society: Writing and Analytical Skills” and “Principles of International Co-existence,” which focuses on differences in culture, climate, and legal systems. But there is noevidence the program includes the ethical dimensions of international development work(http://www.ide.titech.ac.jp/index.html).Related curricular efforts in the U.S. include Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS,Purdue University), Engineering for Developing Communities (EDC, University of Colorado-Boulder), and Humanitarian
make the engineeringenvironment more malleable. However, there exists immense rigidity in educational systemsthat try, generally, to employ one-size-fits-all approaches to education, largely ignoring (or evennever asking) how the system fits or does not fit within the individual and what the leaders of thesystem can do to foster a better personal-professional identity alignment, when such alignmentdoes not already exist. This paper explores the question of personal-professional identity alignment and, byextension, individual fit within “the system,” through an autoethnography. Autoethnography is aqualitative research and writing technique that combines traditional autobiographical andethnographic methods to examine personal experiences
Engineering classes should be introduced earlier in the curriculum.The final set of multiple choice questions ask you to consider the relationship betweenprogramming assignments and problem-solving skills.Please indicate how representative each statement is of yourself from “Strongly Agree” to“Strongly Disagree”. For each question, you may also select “Decline to answer”.[Answers (4 point Likert scale): Strongly Disagree, Somewhat Disagree, Somewhat Agree,Strongly Agree, Decline to answer] 11. Completing programming assignments has improved my ability to troubleshoot problems, even if these problems don’t require computer programming. 12. Completing programming assignments made me think systematically about how to write
than a retrospective analysis in terms of absolutes.This is the same in our case, where students are introduced to professional ethics in readings andassignments in a course required in their first or second year of undergraduate engineeringeducation. This course is an application overview that uses case studies that uses what could beconsidered obvious cases of professional misconduct and breach of due-diligence expectations.Students review one or more of the cases (often one of those listed above) and write a brief essaydescribing the professional ethical breaches demonstrated in that case. One faculty memberdescribed that this exercise “...is really pretty easy… the case study gives a long view that makesthe overall problems apparent even
dominate most curriculums. However, with Internetand ultra high-speed communication and with the world so interconnected, we believe it is timeto change that thinking. That is why we at WPI have been focusing on global and oninterdisciplinary project based learning.In a recent article in The New York Times, it was stated "The world has been utterly transformedin recent years, globalization is sweeping old models aside, technology is bringing U.S. togetherfaster and more furiously than ever before…"1The old thinking used to be that universities should be teaching the fundamentals and thatindustry would teach the applications. The problem with that model is that industry no longerhas the time to teach the applications and expects when our students
, professionalism, initiative, dependability and reliability, adaptability and flexibility, and lifelong learning. 2) Tier 2 includes Academic Competencies which focus on reading, writing, math, science, communication, critical and analytical thinking, and basic computer skills. 3) Tier 3 includes Workplace Competencies such as business fundamentals, teamwork, customer focus, scheduling and coordinating, creative thinking and problem solving, recording or examining information, working with tools and technology, personal health and safety, and sustainable practices that meet the needs of future generations. 4) Tier 4 are Industry-Wide Technical Competencies and include manufacturing process design and development