Paper ID #18091Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes and ABET Accreditation: A Pi-lot Study of Fourth-Year Engineering Students using Longitudinal ConceptMapsDr. Sean Ferguson, University of Virginia Sean Ferguson is a Lecturer in the Department of Engineering and Society at UVA since 2014. He specializes in sustainable technology and policy making from a background in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, working on energy and environmental policy in New York State, and a former life in cellular biology.Dr. Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia Dr. Rider W. Foley is an assistant
these guidelines as it becomes a sub discipline of engineering education. Thenascent state of engineering entrepreneurship provides a fruitful opportunity for significantquestions to be answered empirically through data collection from the start or early stages ofmany of these programs. One of the most significant challenges posed to engineeringentrepreneurship faculty interested in rigorous research is linking research to relevant theory.While many engineering entrepreneurship faculty recognize the need to perform high qualityrigorous research, faculty launching new programs in real time may not have the opportunity tometiculously review academic literature to identify relevant theories with respect toentrepreneurship and determine which
available cultural development instruments. Below, in the course case studydescription, these instruments are described.Literature Summary of Cultural Competence Needs of EngineersClearly, the need for trained faculty to provide intercultural coaching in study abroad programshas been made. Most important to this study, is the need for intervention in instructor-led short-term study abroad programs. Anderson et al (2016) have demonstrated that positive studentintercultural gains can be made in short-term study abroad courses. Concerning is theintercultural knowledge regression that students experience in short-term programs whereintervention is not incorporated into the course construction. Without structured reflectionstudents project stereotypes
, the students reached so far have beendeveloping a systems approach in problem solving, and increasing the likelihood of long-range Page 26.282.3improvements in the multitude of aspects encompassed in the "sustainability" issue. The primarygoal of the BEAT program aligns with the overarching vision to expand the familiarity andknowledge of university faculty, in-service (middle, and high schools) as well as pre-serviceSTEAM (science, technology, engineering, agriculture, and mathematics) teachers participatingin the program with the complex topics of sustainable bio-energy and bio-products through asystems perspective. By training educators
economic globalization necessitates dynamic and meaningfulcollaboration between engineers, designers and executives transcending political and culturalboundaries3. Traditional design theory has been expanded and adapted to include collaboration4,and this adapted collaborative design involves accessing shared data across borders and sharingboth engineering and design knowledge5. A variety of technologies are being used in new wayto aid collaboration. The use of the World Wide Web “…has found wide applications in productdesign and manufacture”6. While such collaboration can potentially accentuate the individualefforts of the discrete groups involved, significant obstacles inherently accompany such efforts.However, once the obstacles are overcome
is based on conceptual work in two areas. First, the coreconceptual model of the work involves hypothesizing students as having reactions and variousfactors that contribute to the reaction. Second, the team developed a collection of potentialfactors, drawing on prior publications and theory. At a high level, the idea is that a reaction maybe based on issues or factors such as effort, preferences about how to work, concerns aboutprivacy, personal mindsets related to reflection ability, concerns about self-preservation,perceptions of the usefulness of the activity, situational characteristics, epistemologicalconsiderations related to reflection, issues of power when educators have students to reflection,and cultural norms related to reflection
c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Priming Civil Engineers into Human-Centred Designing (and its unexpected consequences)AbstractThere are many ongoing calls for the integration of public welfare concerns into engineeringcurricula, for example promoting social consciousness, human-centred design, and othersocially-related frameworks. However, some engineering students still seem to devalue orresist these initiatives. This paper explores a new methodology to facilitate such integrations,with the intention of bypassing the possible resistance to considering non-technical, socially-orientated aspects, by exploiting a psychology-informed approach of priming.As priming holds the potential of inducing
experiments, for example, learners cannot only build walls, slabs and finishes, but also can test these assemblies for their performance requirements. In this environment, learners gain respect for the trades who perform the labor in the field, appreciation for productivity and coordination issues, as well as awareness of quality, safety, and management concerns. ‚ Understand Factors Affecting Labor Productivity – By performing construction activities under different conditions or constraints, learners and researchers will experiment with a variety of factors known to affect productivity values, providing a deeper understanding about labor productivity. ‚ Broaden Understanding of Environmental Health
. One underlyingweaknesses of the engineering ethics instructional approaches may derive from overlooking theill-structuredness of ethical problems. Ill-structuredness means that various concepts areinterrelated and these interconnection patterns may vary in each case or each problem situation8,which causes complexity for learning and poses challenges for transfer to new situations.According to existing research7, ignoring the complexity of ethical issues is one of the essentialweaknesses. Therefore this study implemented a learning environments (called E.Y.E. Engineer YourEthics) to facilitate ethics problem solving at a large eastern university and investigate the effects
expected that the ELN format might improve students’written communication, given students more practice in submitting polished writing, rather thanthe hasty scribbling we sometimes see in the PLNs. We thought the electronic format wouldresult in increased use of images and videos to document lab set-ups and operation. We werecurious to see if the students would submit their spreadsheet files as documents reporting rawdata and the processing of such data. These spreadsheets could be dropped into the “Resources”folder of the Sakai course management system, but this option was not suggested to the students.There were faculty concerns about students losing the ability to quickly sketch a schematic,although some instructors argued that the clever
courses, while stillproviding students with the opportunity to learn the FE modeling and analysis skills needed to besuccessful in subsequent courses and in design project work. The change also increased theexposure students have to computational engineering tools, which is a stated desire of ABET andour departmental external advisory boards.This project studied the effectiveness of the approach taken to integrate FE modeling andanalysis content into four sections of Strength of Materials. The sections had studentenrollments of 20, 22, 30 and 18 and were taught by two different faculty members. The addedcontent was constructed with the following objectives: a) improve the student’s understanding ofspecific stress, strain and deformation topics
faculty of The Asset-Based Community Development Institute hosted by DePaul University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engagement in practice: Socio-technical project-based learning model in freshman engineering design courseOverview and paper organizationThis paper presents ongoing activities that bring social justice and sustainability into theengineering classroom through socio-technical project-based learning. Specifically, thediscussion here details activities in a freshman engineering design course supported by arelatively new Georgia Tech initiative with the theme of “creating sustainablecommunities.” The activities in the course pertain particularly to the
recognition to the course department A unique course Life fulfillment & Hobby development enrichment Industry support Lifelong activities Additional incomeThe prospect of addressing environmental issues, in particular electronic waste and recycling, isquite appealing. There are numerous concerns about electronic waste, and warnings are echoedby leaders in the field. “Electronic waste is the most rapidly growing waste problem in theworld," according to Leslie Byster, communications director for the Silicon Valley ToxicsCoalition.1Figure 1 shows E-waste in San Jose
Paper ID #7754Sophomore-Level Curriculum Innovation in Electrical and Computer Engi-neeringDr. Cordelia M Brown, Purdue University, West Lafayette Cordelia M. Brown is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt Univer- sity, her M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Tuskegee University. Her research interests include assessment of instructional methods, laboratory design, collaborative learning, and retention and recruitment issues in
of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, Jan. 2010.[11] R. A. Rahman, Y. M. Yusof, Z. Ismail, H. Kashefi, and S. Firouzian, “A New Direction inEngineering Mathematics: Integrating Mathematical Thinking and Engineering Thinking,” 2013.[Online]. Available: https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:59988400[12] D. Jonassen, “Supporting Problem Solving in PBL” in Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning, 2011. [Online] Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.7771/1541- 5015.1256[13] J.W. Thomas, “A Review of Research on Project-Based Learning” Review, The AutodeFoundation, 111 McInnis Parkway, 2000. [Online]. Available:https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:9414703[14] M.D. Merrill, “First principles of instruction. Education Technology
Session 1566 A Visual Software Concept for the Thermo-Fluids Discipline Patrick A. Tebbe Department of Engineering The College of New Jersey Ewing, NJ 08628 tebbe@tcnj.edu Christa Weisbrook Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211IntroductionThis paper gives an overview and preliminary results of a project to design
institution requires we gain approval from the certifying body for theuniversity's state. All institutions in the state must evaluate the effectiveness of their UCC atregular intervals. Our teaching methods and content has evolved such that the institution's componentcourses and pedagogies of Team Teaching are vital to achieving the desired outcomes. Ourmodel is an "all in" team endeavor; our instructional team meets with all classes, and such is anenterprising dynamic, engaging faculty, staff, and near-peer teachers, working together. Modeling teamwork is a core attribution of our approach. Research-to-practice becomespractice-to-research as we learn new ways to help our students succeed while growing theirpreparedness for future success
evidence is limited, we can be confident that employers are concerned at the lowlevels of understanding by graduates of the engineering process and engineering practice.If one accepts the results of the research reported in this paper, then it is clear that one of thekeys to understanding engineering practice is the understanding of human behavior aroundtechnical issues. Understanding the language and concepts of engineering practice is alsoessential. Here it should be noted that the language of engineering is itself a significantbarrier to understanding. Engineers use common English words to convey concepts whicheither mean little to non-engineers, or can even convey the opposite to the common meaning.For example, “sign-off” usually means to
, using programcommenting to explain the rules (see figure 2). The instructor ensures all teams begin and then“disappears” to the end location (usually their office or a favorite place to hold office hours). Ifan instructor is concerned that students might “cheat” or get lost, it is helpful to recruitcolleagues to provide check-in points/stations with a selection of interactive questions to earn theclues. Additionally, this allows students to interact positively with faculty outside of theirinstructor. These positive engagements and associations with faculty are beneficial for first-yearstudents and potentially enable the students to meet future instructors. Finally, the variety oflocations allows first-year students to become familiar with the
course material was repetitive. To address this valid concern, the first year engineeringprogram was modified to include ENG1100. With this new structure, students covered theENG1101 material at a slower pace in two courses: ENG1001 and ENG1100. With this newstructure, ENG1001 material retained the course coordination with Pre-Calculus and focused onengineering analysis. ENG1100 was developed to focus on problem solving skills.When ENG1001 went from an elective to a required course, the class environment changed.Many factors contributed to this change. Students no longer self-selected to enroll in the course.When students are required to take a class, rather than are encouraged to take a class, somestudents bring a negative attitude to the
. Function and communicate effectively within multidisciplinary teams. 6. Interact with other students, faculty and practicing professionals on professional and ethical responsibility issues. Page 8.1265.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education 7. Recognize the need for, and develop an ability to engage in, perpetual learning by working both individually and within multidisciplinary teams on projects for which they have no prior experience. 8. Use statistical techniques to
exercises or discussion of current events from the literature.The course will be co-instructed by a faculty from the Department of Industrial Engineering andfrom the Katz Graduate School of Business. This should significantly enhance the coursedelivery as each faculty member will not only bring forth different experience, but also willpresent the information from a somewhat different perspective. It should be noted that this typeof mutual collaboration is somewhat new at an institution such as the University of Pittsburgh,and is a sign of cooperation and the breaking down of "curriculum ownership walls." It is alsobelieved that the students will benefit by working together with students from perhaps slightlydifferent backgrounds than their own.3.3
currently the director of the Cultural Competence in Computing (3C) Fellows program and the NSF-funded Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education (AiiCE). She also serves as senior personnel for the NSF-funded Athena Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Her career in higher education began at Howard University as the first Black female faculty member in the Department of Computer Science. Her professional experience also includes Winthrop University, The Aerospace Corporation, and IBM. She is a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University (B.S., ’00) and North Carolina State University (M.S., ’02; Ph.D., ’05), becoming the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science at the university and 2019
In an educational environment that pressures new faculty to become effective anddynamic teachers there is a tendency to overuse and perhaps misuse the new cadre ofinformation transfer tools as well as the lecture. In undergraduate engineering education lecturesare commonly used to promulgate two levels of proficiency: Those that deal with basic skills andthose that deal with synthesis of knowledge. These two learning levels are similar in that theymust maintain the integrity of the lecture structure, but different in their content, complexity, andcommission. Student success in skill-developing courses is absolutely critical if the metamorphosisfrom engineering student to the engineering intern is to occur. It is impossible to
presentingpreliminary data. Through this approach we could help students improve skills for professionalreadiness, including project management, teamwork, and communication, while alleviatingsupervisor concerns about course work that might distract students from research productivity.The course combines activity-based instruction and consistent peer-to-peer discussion andfeedback, emphasizing the value of communicating about one’s research as central to refiningand improving one’s research goals and approach.While our course development was informed by significant stakeholder engagement, includinggraduate student focus groups, review of data from alumni surveys and discussion with graduatesupervisors from across the department, continued community involvement
. Additionally,researchers have also noted that many institutional gaps and equity related issues are persistentand troublesome facets that further exacerbate the academic gaps in STEM education. It is withinthis context, that students attending top tier universities will likely have remarkedly vast academicexperiences in terms of level of rigor and quality of education when compared to their counterpartsenrolled in minority serving institutions. In this study, a mechanical engineering faculty previouslyemployed at a tier-one private research institution, taught a Rigid Body Dynamics course in aminority-serving institution with the same rigor but with a different pedagogical approach. Theobjective was to implement equity teaching and expose
Annual Conference of the ASEE St. Louis, MO, 18 - 21 June , 2000. Stephanie Farrell is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. She received herB.S. in 1986 from the University of Pennsylvania, her MS in 1992 from Stevens Institute of Technology, and herPh.D. in 1996 from New Jersey Institute of Technology. After receiving her Bachelor’s degree, she worked on thedesign of a needleless injector to be used by the World Health Organization in a worldwide measles eradicationproject. She also spent six months working at British Gas in London before returning to graduate school. Prior tojoining Rowan in September, 1998, she was a faculty member in Chemical Engineering at Louisiana TechUniversity. Stephanie’s has
larger-scale and longer-term projects than a single semester or year wouldpermit, allowing faculty to take on more ambitious projects. Some projects are extensions ofexisting research efforts, such as the Gravitational Wave Astrophysics team, which supports alarge research effort in the School of Physics. Other projects support the development anddeployment of otherwise lab-based research efforts, such as the Stadium-IoPT team, whichdevelops and deploys a distributed internet of people and things system in Bobby Dodd Stadiumat Georgia Tech. Other teams provide a space in which faculty can test new research ideas in alow-risk setting, such as the Humor Genome project led by a professor from Mathematics and aprofessor from Chemical and
Engineering Entrepreneurship, ASEE Special Issue, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 39-54.7. Dietrich, S. (2012). A Critical Examination of the Construct Validity of the TTI Performance DNA Survey for the Purpose of Differentiating the Entrepreneurially-Minded Engineer. Doctoral Dissertation, College of Technology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.8. Pistrui, D., Bonnstetter, R., Bonnstetter, B. and Fry, C. (2011). Creating, Educating and Assessing a New Class of Entrepreneurial Minded Engineers. The Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship, Vol. 2, No 2, Special Issue, pp. 1-14.9. Maechler M, Rousseeuw P, Struyf A, Hubert M, Hornik K (2021). cluster: Cluster Analysis Basics and Extensions. R package version 2.1.1 — For new features
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