review gave six major recommendations and also provided comprehensivedata on many aspects of engineering education which support the claim on the strengths andweakness in our current system. The recommendations, responsible organisation andstakeholder groups are summarised in Table 3. This illustrates the close liaison within thepartnership in identifying strategies to keep engineering education in Australian at theforefront of innovations.Engineering GraduationsEngineering attracts a relatively small proportion of higher education students at theundergraduate level with only approximately 6%of commencing students starting inengineering programs. This combined with are high attrition rates (48% for men and 40% forwomen) means Australia only
.● Because families wonder why the students spend a large amount of their free time at theMESA Center, Family Night was implemented to share some of the projects in a fun, engagingand interactive environment. This is an excellent opportunity to expand the reach of ourtechnology literacy efforts outside of our school environment. On average 15 to 30 familiesparticipate in this event.● Core4STEM Program [9] is a three-day celebration of education and career opportunities in“STEM” organized by the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Since its inception, tenyears ago, its mission is to stimulate students’ interest in the sciences and lead them todiscoveries about their own potential in these areas and provides immersion in the excitement,surprise
in experiential education assists instudent success through: • Providing greater insight into career paths • Greater engagement with both faculty and career professionals • Enhancing student motivation toward academic and career success • Students who participate in compensated co-op or internship programs substantially reduce the “stepping out to finance my education” behaviorExample Enhancement / Expansion Element – S-STEM ProgramAs discussed earlier, GVSU attracts a very talented pool of students. A very large portion ofthese students major in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields.A substantial concern of the authors; the Dean of Engineering & Computing, and the AssociateDean
: For the next experiment, the learners build a Legogear system to slow the movement of a gear by a large factor. Forexample, in the system shown in Fig. 6 the gear ratio for singlestage is 5, and if 10 stages are used the slowest gear is moving at aspeed that is approximately 107 times slower that the fastest gear.This means that if the tooth of the fastest gear moves through 1mm the tooth of the slowest gear moves through 10-7 mm or 10-4 Fig. 6 A gear combination to slowµm or 10-1 nm or 100 pm. The motor driving the fastest gear can down motion.be programmed by a Lego robot to run at different speeds. Whilethe learner can measure the speed of fastest gear using a rotation sensor attached the gear andinterfaced with the robot, a microscope can
: For the next experiment, the learners build a Legogear system to slow the movement of a gear by a large factor. Forexample, in the system shown in Fig. 6 the gear ratio for singlestage is 5, and if 10 stages are used the slowest gear is moving at aspeed that is approximately 107 times slower that the fastest gear.This means that if the tooth of the fastest gear moves through 1mm the tooth of the slowest gear moves through 10-7 mm or 10-4 Fig. 6 A gear combination to slowµm or 10-1 nm or 100 pm. The motor driving the fastest gear can down motion.be programmed by a Lego robot to run at different speeds. Whilethe learner can measure the speed of fastest gear using a rotation sensor attached the gear andinterfaced with the robot, a microscope can
credit for it, and no one beingheld individually accountable for any of the material covered. The chemical engineering laboratory course sequence at North Carolina State Universityis currently being restructured to conform more closely to principles of effective pedagogy. Thefollowing features of the new sequence constitute the principal departures from the traditionalinstructional model:1. The students design and run a small number of experiments to accomplish broadly stated objectives, rather than following prescriptive instructions for a large number of predesigned experiments. At the beginning of the semester, the students are told that for each experiment they will be given an apparatus description, safety precautions
Works and Instructables, to help campers research thescience behind their inventions and discover how to build their prototypes. With less lectureoverall, a worksheet was added, Figure 2, to guide campers through the process of searching forsimilar inventions using Google Patents. In the new session, a large part of the program was stillactive learning time for campers to search on their own, or with assistance from librarians andcamp instructors and counselors, and create budgets for their prototypes.The library session has not been formally assessed, but it was possible to informally observewhat the campers did during their active learning time, what they wrote on their early designsketches, and what they provided to the camp instructor
2women had graduated from CEAS by Fall 1995 and 35.8% of the men had graduated .Understanding the Retention ProblemA study on the retention of minority and non-minority students was conducted by the NationalAction Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. (NACME)5. The retention in engineeringinstitutions was examined relative to five characteristics: (1) institutional control (public versusprivate); ( 2) college cost; (3) selectivity; (4) number of accredited engineering programs; and(5) number of student support programs. Selectivity was found to be the most importantpredictor of degree attainment for both minority and non-minority engineering students.Selectivity ratings are self assessments made by each college based on three criteria
years. In addition to some of the normal assessment measurements that are taken bythe SE program, it was decided that the design and introduction of rubrics for key deliverables,the final group oral presentation and the final SRS, was needed. This brings us to our currentprocess, which is explained in more detail in the following section.III. Methods, Results, and DiscussionEach of 10 key methods used to execute and evaluate the course and collaborative experience ispresented and discussed in the following sections. Results are presented when appropriate.A. BE Introduction to RequirementsDuring the first week of the quarter, the SE requirements faculty give a presentation to the BEstudents. This includes a discussion with the students about how
; Assessments program and an adjunct instructor at the University of New Haven. Henkel Corporation is a division of Henkel KgAA, which manufactures soaps, detergents, cosmetics and adhesives for a wide variety of industries and consumers throughout the world. As Head of SHE Audits & Assessments, Peter is responsible for developing and implementing an auditing program for all Adhesives manufacturing, warehouse and lab- oratory sites throughout the world. The program is focused on compliance with corporate, business unit and regional SHE requirements. Peter has taught the Chemical Process Safety course at the University of New Haven since its re-introduction in 2011. Prior to that, he was the adjunct instructor for the
-compliance-articulated robot arm, or SCARA, for a pick-and-place operation. Workingin groups, students were tasked to write a program to move small parts from one location into acommon bin for all parts. During the robotics laboratory session, students were allowed to asktheir group and the instructor as many questions as needed to complete the task. At thecompletion of the robotics laboratory session, students were asked how effective theirinteractions were with the instructor in enhancing their learning in this laboratory session.All LaboratoriesAll of the surveys employed in this study were on a 5-point Likert scale. The sample size for thisstudy was 19. Weighted averages were calculated to evaluate the student experience in theselaboratory
research at the Population Association of America, the Southern Demographic Association, and the Latin American Association of Sociology. Lomel´ı-Carrillo has an MSc in Population Studies and a BA in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.Dr. Mingxia Zhi, Northside Independent School District Mingxia Zhi is a Program Evaluator at the Northside Independent School District. Prior to joining North- side ISD, Zhi served as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she received her doctoral degree. Zhi’s major research interests include program evaluation, college access and success, diversity and ac- culturation, language assessment, and quantitative, qualitative
attention in efforts to solvethese problems have been the curriculum (what we teach) and teaching methods (how we teach).Although there are some exceptions, most engineering programs are similar to the model inFigure 1. In this traditional model students receive a heavy dose of math and science in the first2 years, largely unconnected to engineering. Some introductory overview of engineering isusually present in the first year, along with a quantitative course in computer programming andpossibly an introductory course in the engineering discipline. The sophomore year usuallyincludes fundamental courses from a few specific disciplines (eg., statics or electric circuits).These are taught from the perspective of one discipline and progress from
experiments, data analysis,and engineering design. An assessment plan will measure student mastery of learning outcomesspecific to the field of biomaterials science and those set forth by ABET for undergraduatechemical engineering programs.Keywords: pH Responsive Hydrogels, Oral Insulin Delivery, Diabetes, Controlled Drug DeliveryINTRODUCTIONDiabetes is a disease which affects millions of people around the world. It is classified into twomajor types. Type 1 Diabetes is an auto-immune disease in which, insulin-producing beta-cellswithin the pancreas are destroyed, resulting in insufficient insulin production by this organ. Withtype 2 diabetes, the body has developed a rejection to insulin and that glucose uptake cannot beregulated within a
Software Engineer at ArtinSoft in San Jose, Costa Rica. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida in 2007, her M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida in 2006, and her B.S. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Costa Rica in 2000. She also received a scholarship to study in the Pre- Doctoral Program in Computer Science at the Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne, in Switzerland, from 2001 to 2002.Prof. Marcelo Jenkins, University of Costa Rica Page 26.453.1 c American Society for Engineering Education
Education, 2020 Improving Student Learning Through Required Exposure to Other Student Code Via Discussion BoardsAbstract:In a typical lower-division programming course, students rarely see other students’ code outsideof a paired programming exercise. This limits their exposure to the potentially powerful learningexperience of seeing examples from other programmers. In this work, we explore the result ofhaving required code sharing via discussion posts to increase a student’s exposure to codingsolutions, styles and practices (both good and bad). For each module in a Data Structures andAlgorithms course, students post a small section of code, typically a single method or function,and also get to see the code posted
. Kuratko, G. Fisher, and D. B. Audretsch, "Unraveling the entrepreneurial mindset," Small Business Economics, vol. 57, pp. 1681-1691, 2021.[3] R. J. Pidduck, D. R. Clark, and G. Lumpkin, "Entrepreneurial mindset: Dispositional beliefs, opportunity beliefs, and entrepreneurial behavior," Journal of Small Business Management, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 45-79, 2023.[4] R. D. Ireland, M. A. Hitt, and D. G. Sirmon, "A model of strategic entrepreneurship: The construct and its dimensions," Journal of management, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 963-989, 2003.[5] S. E. Zappe, "Avoiding Construct Confusion: An Attribute-Focused Approach to Assessing Entrepreneurial Mindset," Advances in Engineering Education, vol
.22 American Council Boys 358 .14 Education Analogies Girls 146 .15 Total 504 .12 *Cases from only four large Buffalo high schools over a six year period. The rank in class as presented here cannot be compared with all r's presented in this table since the small high schools with their more variable student populations are not included. **Inasmuch as time did not permit the calculation of all possible interrelations, tha less likely ones have been omitted
the School of Visual and Built Environments (SVBE) at Eastern Michigan University (EMU). He has more than 25 years of extensive teaching experience in transportation engineering systems and construction engineer- ing and management. Dr. Ashur chaired and served on several graduate students’ thesis and dissertation committees. He served as the Director of SVBE and the Interim Director of the School of Information Security and Applied Computing at EMU. He was the founder and the Coordinator of the Civil Engineer- ing Program and served as the University Director of Assessment for two years at Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW). He successfully led the ABET accreditation for several programs at EMU and PFW. Dr
Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Can Oral Exams Increase Student Performance and Motivation?AbstractThis is a Research paper. A large number of students never raise their hand during lectures or goto office hours. This is especially the case for large undergraduate classes. It is hypothesized thatmany students would benefit from more interaction with an instructor or teaching assistant. Thisstudy is part of a larger project of implementing oral exams in undergraduate engineering courseswith potential benefits including improved assessment and reduction in academic integrityconcerns. In addition to these benefits, this study paper explores whether oral exams can increasestudent motivation to learn and performance
through individual and small groupexercises (affinity mapping and brain writing exercise) and refined through large groupdiscussion. The outcome of this roundtable included several specific ideas that ASEE leadershipand members can consider for implementation at local and national levels. To facilitate change, itis important that the discussion from the roundtable not stay only in the minds of the participants;this paper serves to share the output with a broad population. Through the support effortsdescribed, ASEE can work better with veterans, and veterans can work better with ASEE,fostering an environment where ASEE contributes to the support of student veterans inengineering, and veterans engage with ASEE to grow and better engineering
students who aspired to work inSTEM ended up earning a STEM baccalaureate degree, and these students were 3.4 times morelikely to have earned a degree in physics or engineering than students who were not interested ina STEM career [11]. These findings illustrate how the career aspirations of young students cangreatly impact their choice of college major and future career. Although some programs targeting middle school students outside of the classroom havenot been shown to make large leaps in student interest in STEM [12], many other university-sponsored middle activities including a 90-minute engineering week program and an after-schoolrobotics program have reported impressive successes in increasing middle school interest inengineering
of community engagement and provideinstruments for those involved in the development of communities to evaluate their ownsuccesses.IntroductionThe value of off-campus community engagement in engineering learning is becoming moreapparent. The number of service learning, engineering without borders, internationalexperiences, and other community engagement programs is increasing, while the impact of suchprograms ranges from local communities to international experiences. The proliferation ofinvestment into these off-campus communities raises questions about how the value of theseprograms can be assessed in terms of student learning and related academic outcomes. Thisresource paper provides a toolbox of methods useful for assessing the impact
that logic and reasoning principles are the foundationsof sound problem solving skills. When first encountering the type of reasoning problemscovered in this course, many of the students assume that special innate skills are required. Theyeventually come to realize that once the basic rules of logic are understood, significantimprovements in reasoning skills can be achieved through training and practice.In the first half of the semester students learn the fundamental techniques of argument analysisand evaluation. Through lectures, discussions, and the use of a special software program,ProtoThinker, the students acquire an understanding of the principles of categorical logic andpropositional logic, and develop skill in assessing arguments and
these, from the instructor’s perspective, is building a simple back-end of a compiler, butmany students gravitate to this badge due to their skillset which includes programming.5 DiscussionOur previous work for this space proposed the badge-based course for computer architecturepresented the structure of the course and a small experiment to test how the new course modalitycompared gradewize to the previous lecture-based course [1]. Now, having run the course in thenew modality for ten years, we will discuss what we have experienced and learned.The first question other instructors have when we discuss this course modality is how scalable isit. The largest number of students we have had for this course was 29 students completing thecourse (2
individual students, they are thenasked to discuss their answers in small groups (peer instruction) and given the opportunity tochange their answer. Then the answers from the entire class are displayed on the projectionscreen, usually in the form of a histogram. Based on the results, the instructor can appropriatelymodify instruction to reinforce learning or address misconceptions, and, thereby, guide studentswhere to direct their learning efforts.Alternatively, experience with development and implementation of an interactive, web-basedtechnology will be presented. Like clickers, the Web-based Interactive Science and Engineering(WISE) Learning Tool facilitates active learning in the classroom and metacognition and allowsformative assessment of
not without design considerations. A common problem with thecurrent model is that the overall system of curriculum transmission, local facilitation, and studentparticipation is not in full membership with the academic community. In addition, the impact ofuser interface design and a new consideration representing modes of assessment all are new anddetermining factors applied to the distance education process. This presentation will discusscurrent practices and make recommendations associated with the administrative and instructionaland facilitative design parameters. It is believed that distance learning programs are a viable andalternative learning environment that may be used to achieve college level learning available tojuniors, seniors
Unlimited Engineer’s license, the engineering programs must meet the internationalStandards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW). The STCW standards ensurethat graduates met the minimum standards of competence required for seagoing personnel. Toobtain STCW compliant licenses and certificates, the graduates must meet knowledge,understanding and performance (KUP) based assessments and earn required sea service. Thetraining that is offered to satisfy the STCW mandates bridges the gap between practical andacademic knowledge, ensuring the cultivation of experiential learning. In this paper we look atvarious curricular activities conducted to address STCW requirements ranging from thefreshman to the senior curriculum. These include but are
inFigure 2. An “industrial waste” mixture is made of a 2L ammonia : 13 L water solution with asmall amount of magnesium sulfate mixed in to create flocculants; in addition, a very small amountof physical contaminant represented by large Styrofoam pieces may be added. A “sewage waste”mixture is made of a 2L vinegar : 13L water solution with 1/3 of a can of coffee grinds added toinduce a dark color, along with 300-400 mL of ground-up Styrofoam particles pieces, beads, andother small debris to represent physical contamination. The contents of these solutions are neverprovided to the groups, nor is the objective to determine what the pollution precisely is. Instead,the different waste types require significantly different treatment systems, and
concepts throughout theircollege career. Indeed, as their studies delve deeper into upper division courses, matters evolvefrom conceptually straightforward (i.e., statics) to more sophisticated (deformable) andpotentially abstract (thermodynamics). Challenges can arise correcting mistaken preconceptions,and linking perceptually-abstract mathematical formulas to real-world examples. Indeed, studies[1], [2] show that students value real life applications of the material covered, and that suchapplications contribute to a deep conceptual knowledge.Western Kentucky University offers programs in civil, electrical and mechanical engineering,presented with a focus on project-based learning. The institution further maintain activerelationships with the