development begins with a goodstart in attending a training workshop or seminar but end up with little or no further interestbecause there is no continuous support. Sometimes it may simply be there is no one to talk towhen there is a “glitch” in the technology or a technical problem. Even when technical support isavailable, there are times where the support person does not understand or care about academicissues and concerns. Often assistance that may be provided is not applicable or beyond thefaculty capability to resolve the problem or issue. However, an effective LMS can provide thecapability to address and resolve many issues and problems. Suggestions and solutions can beposted to the LMS and shared and updated through links to other faculty that
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sought each other’s help in brainstorming and interpreting the meaning of thosefailures. This collaboration was not predetermined or anticipated and was emergent in their day-to-day problem solving and learning practices. As a consequence, the sociomateriality of thistechnology infrastructure is centered around needs that are local, emergent, and situated in nature(Suchman, 1985) as each technological piece plays a role above and beyond its own functionalityin shaping collaborative work practices. However, we argue that exploring the sociotechnicalnature of these collaborations through the material functionality of technology infrastructures isincomplete unless the idiosyncrasy of such collaborations is fully understood. For example, lab
engineeringcourse mostly taken by students completing their senior year. The course introduces students tothe concept of concurrent engineering; and through a series of case studies, investigates howdifferent management, product, process, and service decisions impact company success. Studentteams are made up of 4-5 students per team. Each team works on a semester-long project focusedon investigating the engineering and management decisions that lead to a particular designsolution, and how concurrent engineering concepts could have yielded more successful designs.The project has both virtual (e.g., digital design tools) and tactile (e.g., product dissection)components, hereby serving as a suitable data collection context, similar to the Introduction
students earn theirfirst undergraduate degree; and 2) different intersectional groups. We focused specifically onstudents from CIP6 11, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services. Our analysisof MIDFIELD illustrated that many intersectional populations of students who transferred intocomputing came from another engineering field. However, several racial and ethnic groups ofwomen primarily entered through non-STEM fields. Among these women, those who identifiedas Black and those who identified as Hispanic or Latinx most often switched from a Businessmajor, at 31.5% and 29.4%, respectively. Meanwhile, women classified as International and thosewho identified as White most often transferred from the Liberal Arts/Humanities, at 41.7
robustcommunications among all stakeholders, from K-12 education through post-secondary educationto industry, and among the professional and government organizations whose responsibility it isto strengthen the manufacturing sector and manufacturing education that supports it. An obviousnecessary requirement to achieve alignment and communication is to build alliances among allof these entities. As a standalone discipline, manufacturing engineering is relatively young with only one Page 25.1299.9program being accredited in the 1970’s, 5 programs being accredited in the 1980’s, and 8programs each being accredited in the 1990’s and following the year 2000. A
Educationsituations, the revisions in standards, updates in regulations and progress in research indicate aneed to go beyond what most engineers can collect or know. In addition, the increasinginterdisciplinary nature of engineering and science necessitates breadth and depth of informationresources. These needs can best be met with judicial use of the library and the library componentmust be totally integrated into the course, a seamless component rather than an evident add-on.Any obvious add-on assignment is seen as busy-work which forces the student to use the librarywith no evident relationship between the activity and the class.Like all disciplines, engineering must face the new information environment. Skills that are crucialinclude recognition of the
. Page 14.808.2Semester research projects culminated in updating WikiBooks pages to share the students' new-found knowledge in a particular robotics topic. Students were encouraged to apply their semesterpractical projects to various Missouri S&T robotics competition entries such as the IEEERobotics Competition and the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. Continuing in this open-source philosophy, all course documents, including lecture slides, reading material, sourcereferences and robot kit hardware and software were posted online. This enables the educationaland hobby community to contribute and develop the course-ware beyond the duration of classsessions, creating a 'living course' that continues to evolve and improve, increasing its
sustainability beyond the external funding period because it increases the advocacy base. • Extensive interaction is required to unearth all idiosyncrasies of each institution’s operations, e.g., requirements related to timing of the awarded degrees and counting a particular course towards fulfillment of two different degrees. • Approval of the final concurrent MS degree plan of study through each institution’s normal approval mechanisms is critical. • A jealously guarded aspect of institutional governance was the admission process as Figure 2 documents for Purdue students. Despite the avowed goal of creating an Page 22.402.5 integrated admission
that inspiration of creative thinking fits naturally in therobotic course. Particularly, the lab sessions provide an opportunity for instructors to include and encouragecreative thinking practices. Over years, project-based learning [6, 7, 10] has been adopted and students areasked to perform three projects in the lab session. The first two projects are used to guide students throughfundamental and commonly-addressed algorithms. Inquiry-based learning [11, 12], a highly self-directedapproach of learning and discovering through experiments or observation, is used in the final project, wherestudents apply acquired skills to solve some open-ended questions independently (with the least amount ofhelp from the instructor). The combination of
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instruction. In this section, wesummarize previous efforts to teach ethics in chemical engineering community with a focus onthree domains of teaching – content (what to teach), pedagogy (how to teach), and curriculummodels (where to teach).Content. Chemical engineering educators have touched on various topics related to ethics in theirclassroom. Ethical issues in engineering have included microethical issues, which involve issuesin individual engineers’ daily practice such as conflict of interest, and macroethical issues, whichinvolve issues beyond the scope of an individual or an organization such as societal impact oftechnology [6]. Chemical engineering ethics education, like engineering ethics education ingeneral, has primarily focused on teaching
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University Dr. Edwige F. Songong is a fervent advocate for STEM education, driving innovation and excellence. She obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and her MS from Pittsburg State University. Dr. Songong has an extensive educational background in Mathematics, Physics, and Technology Management. Her multifaceted expertise extends beyond academia, with a profound dedication to nurturing the next generation of STEM professionals. As a native of Cameroon, her international perspective on the problem of females Gen Z gives a unique fresh outlook regarding life, career, and social issues. Through her leadership and mentorship, she empowers students to explore, innovate, and excel
Administration in Quantitative Analysis and her Doctorate of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering/Engineering Education. In her role as Assistant Dean, Dr. Gaskins has revamped the summer bridge program to increase student support and retention as well as developed and strengthened partnerships in with local area school districts to aid in the high school to college path- way. In 2009, she founded The Gaskins Foundation, a non-profit organization, whose mission is to educate and empower the African American community. Her foundation recently launched the Cincinnati STEM- ulates year round K-12 program, which is a free of charge program that will introduce more students to Math and Science. She was named the 2017 K12 Champion
process is an iterative process during which the problems isunderstood, information is gathered, ideas are generation, screened and selected and the solutionis modeled, evaluated and communicated [10].Pre-College design learning experiences and beyondFirst-year engineering students are exposed to different engineering design learning experiencesprior to entry in to college engineering programs [1]. At the K-12 education level, there is nouniform method by which students learn engineering, especially considering the formal andinformal contexts within which engineering can be learned [11]. Therefore, each student’sdifferent engineering design learning experience might also have a unique engineering designprocess or approach associated with it. Some
., Cunningham, K, and Sathyamoorthy, M., "A Manufacturing Engineering Experiential Learning Program," Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, St. Louis, MO, June 18- 21, 2000.2. Dennis, N. D., "Experiential Learning Exercised Through Project Based Instruction," Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Albuquerque, NM, June 24 - 27, 2001.3. Tener, R. K., Winstead, M. T., and Smaglik, E. J., "Experiential Learning from Internships in Construction Engineering," Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Albuquerque, NM, June 24 - 27, 2001.4. Kolb, D. A., Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development, Prentice-Hall, Englewood
International Society for Optics and Photonics as a conference chair, editor, and author. She is the President of the Optical Society of America, Columbia Section, and works to forge strong connections between industry and academic research.Gail Verdi Dr. Gail Verdi is Executive Director of Kean University's School of Curriculum and Teaching, Associate Professor in the Department of Elementary, Middle, and Secondary Education, and Coordinator of Kean's Graduate TESOL Program. She currently serves on NABE’s Research and Assessment SIG as an Executive Board member; and is a member of the Advisory Board for a 2021-2022 NSF Grant: "Embedding Equitable Design through Undergraduate Computing Curriculum" awarded to Dr. Patricia
exercise without endangering themselves. For example, if a patient had aheart-attack prior to engaging in a rehabilitation regiment, the pulse-meter would track their heartrate. If the pulse rose over a specified threshold, the bike would increase the power delivered tothe motor, decreasing the exertion by the patient. The same could be done for patients sufferingfrom knee-injuries through the use of torque and pressure sensors. In the end, the type of injuryand rehabilitation could be paired with a particular sensor or group of sensors. The bike’scontroller would ensure patients are doing the appropriate level and amount of exercise for theirindividual needs, while limiting the risk of further injury as a result of over exertion.In this work, we
]. Additionally, this strong interest inbiomaterials is reflected economically. In 2019, the global market for biomaterials was estimatedto be worth $106.5 billion, and revenues from biomaterials are projected to increase to $348.4billion by 2027 [5]. To ensure these societal and economic demands for novel biomaterials aremet, we must prioritize educating diverse students about designing, engineering, and testingbiomaterials [6], [7].One way to meet this goal is through K-12 outreach. Outreach is an important activity forincreasing the number of students studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM) at the university level [8], [9]. This is especially important for increasing therepresentation of individuals who are traditionally
Cleaner Production, 108, 916–923. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.06.134Brncich, A., Shane, J. S., Strong, K. C., & Passe, U. (2011). Using integrated student teams to advance education in sustainable design and construction. International Journal of Construction Education and Research, 7(1), 22–40. http://doi.org/10.1080/15578771.2010.512034Ceulemans, K., Molderez, I., & Van Liedekerke, L. (2015). Sustainability reporting in higher education: A comprehensive review of the recent literature and paths for further research. Journal of Cleaner Production, 106, 127–143. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.09.052Dobson, H. E., & Tomkinson, C. B. (2012). Creating sustainable development change agents through
industry, and the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA)outlined a set of seven challenges they believe will cause construction markets to changedirection in the near future. The first challenge outlined indicated that “Aging infrastructure innearly every market segment is at or beyond its current useful life…represent(ing) trillions ofdollars in necessary spending over the next 10 to 20 years to upgrade and replace these assets”1.The demolition industry through the National Demolition Association (NDA) has also expresseda desire to attract a college educated workforce and to advance professionalism within thedemolition industry. It is believed that many misconceptions about the activities of demolitioncontractors are held by the
written communication: Lab Reports,Software Documentation, PowerPoint Presentations, and a Proposal. Each of these assignments isintended to provide students with a sample of the type of written work that is required oftechnical professionals. By introducing four different writing assignments, one combined with an oral presentation,each student is encouraged to be flexible in their mastery of written communication skills.Competence is achieved through repetition. At the conclusion of the course, the freshman areprepared to advance with a fundamental understanding of the methods employed in effectivetechnical communication.Introduction: EG 1004, Introduction to Engineering and Design, was created as a survey course forfreshmen
Orevits1 note, “Laboratory experiments appear to be most effective when the solutionis not known ahead of time.” However if there is too much separation between the studentsworking on an unknown problem and them finding a solution, it can lead to frustration. Alaboratory in the classroom allows students to see a problem and be quickly led toward a solution.In many cases instructors begin to bring the laboratory into the classroom through demonstrationsor maybe a trip to the laboratory.2, 3 The use of a clinic approach brings the classroom into thelaboratory. At Lafayette College, we have begun experimenting with self-contained laboratorykits to make hands on laboratory experience a part of lecture. We are finding this approachparticularly helpful
-23 school year,through all three semesters or all four quarters of the academic year. In total, 35 differentchemical engineering programs were assessed. Of these programs, 29 are the top ranked nationalchemical engineering programs according to US News & World Report [9]; 6 additional stateschools from the PAC-12 represent the remainder. Using the assembled database, this workexamines departments' 4-year undergraduate curriculums, master programs, and the teachingload and composition of faculty members within the department. While there are limitations inrelying on some of these data sources, our work may serve to provide a snapshot of chemicalengineering curricula in the United States, to aid departments in comparing how their
any data, the study proposal was reviewed by the university IRB. Since wewere primarily looking to establish a baseline understanding specific to our university, it wasdeemed not meeting the definition of human subject research.Participating faculty were asked to indicate which platforms they used to communicate withstudents, how often they used them, if the platforms (PCPs) were used for whole class, group orindividual communication, and their objectives for using their preferred communicationplatforms. The survey was administered through Qualtrics, an online survey platform. Thanks togenerous support from the Dean’s Office, all faculty participants received a $10 Amazon e-giftcard for completing the survey.Because retention is critical in
Hispanic and international students to enroll in the combined programs. With that said, thesecond stage of the study will include a qualitative method, which is comprised of interviews andfocus groups. Interviews will be held with currently active 4+1 students, while focus groups willtarget eligible students that meet the program’s admission criteria but who have not applied tothe program. Findings from both stages of this research study will allow administration atacademic institutions to more effectively plan out how to promote such programs as well asfoster initiatives to better attract students and support their success through these combinedprograms.References[1] M. ElZomor, C. Mann, K. D. Snitker, K. Parish and M. Chester, “Leveraging
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with EPCC that focuses on achieving the next generation of engagedand professional students.Our studies at EPCC and at UTEP (both notably Hispanic-serving institutions) are enabling us tolearn of the outcomes when science and engineering students are provided access and support forbuilding positive habits through the use technology-based tools of engagement. Testing theimpact of mentoring strategies helps us to further guide our efforts, and provide accessible andresponsive coaching and mentoring that is self-paced and reaches beyond the classroom.Through this partnered project, we share the results of implementation on multiple sections ofentering and first-year student courses, and the initial conclusions of the work provide a basis
relevant problem, andguided them through the steps of the problem-solving process.PBL originated four decades ago in the medical field when educators tried to find a better meansof preparing physicians for practice [1]. They incorporated a practice of life-long learning andteam skills by having students solve typical problems encountered in professional practice. PBLis now widely practiced in medical schools and we believe that PBL can be effectivelyimplemented in engineering curricula. One of the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) required outcomes attained by engineering graduates [2] is: ability to engagein life-long learning; ability to work in multidisciplinary teams; ability to identify, formulate andsolve engineering