Undergraduate LearningAbstractBecause of the efficient treatment processes of wetlands, engineered treatment wetlands areincreasingly being used to treat stormwater and wastewater, and especially combined seweroverflows. Constructed treatment wetlands are low-cost, require minimal maintenance, can beimplemented in a decentralized fashion, and contribute to ecosystem preservation. All of thesereasons have brought treatment wetlands to the forefront for consideration by communitiesworking to reduce combined sewer overflows and improve water quality, especially in small citiesand towns with limited resources.Many of these same reasons motivated us to bring constructed, treatment wetlands into theundergraduate civil and environmental engineering curriculum
both more educationally effective and moreenjoyable than the lecture/discussion format.IntroductionA cooperative group strategy was used to teach a unit on neutron transport and diffusion theoriesin a first-year-graduate level, Reactor theory course taught at the Bettis Atomic PowerLaboratory. The Reactor Theory course is part of an accelerated training program offered at thelaboratory that is similar in level and content to a masters degree program in nuclearengineering. Students complete twelve courses with a total of approximately 700 classroomhours during a 24 week period. Much highly complex, technical material is communicated inthat short time period.Historically, the unit covering transport and diffusion theories has been one of the
thatallowed student interaction between the courses, it was necessary to define the activity. The firstiteration of the activity was an assignment that asked students to have on-line discussions aboutcommon reading assignments. The discussions that students had amongst themselves did nothave great depth, and it was clear that they were not completely engaged in the activity.Afterwards, it was determined that the assignment was viewed as only a small homeworkassignment in a much larger course, and it had little impact. The second version of the assignment required students to present to local organizations(including a museum and an after-school program for high school students). Logisticallimitations required that each class present at
renovated to serve as the home of the entrepreneurial community. It willbe one of two entrepreneurial residential programs in the country. The community includes alive-in entrepreneurship professor and living quarters for visiting industry leaders who willinteract with the students. Weatherford Hall is designed as an inclusive community unitincluding a dining hall, collaborative workspaces for students, a cyber-café, a boardroom and alibrary. The library is envisioned as a reading room of current periodicals relating toentrepreneurship, and may have a small core collection of reference materials and books chosenby visiting scholars, entrepreneurs, and alumni.As a partner in the success of this program, OSU Libraries has been grappling with
an external network that will contribute to the success(and retention) of first year faculty.I. IntroductionSuccess as a graduate student happens in part because of peer support, in the form of labmeetings, interaction in class and other academic settings, and during social activities, whetherformally organized or not. Moving to an academic position can be an isolating experience bothprofessionally and socially, particularly when the position is in a small department or in adepartment with few or no new faculty. While some departments or colleges may have a formalmentoring program or support informal mentoring, mentors are typically tenured faculty orpeople much further along in the tenure process. For a successful transition from student
preliminary educational resultsfrom three faculty members who have thus modified their teaching practices by incorporatingevidenced-based teaching strategies for PBL in their classrooms. For each case, we present adescription of the course under investigation, how the instructor implemented PBL strategies,how each specific problem supported student learning, and a preliminary assessment of thelearning environment and results obtained.Course 1: Graduate Network Engineering Principles of Telecommunications Network Engineering is an elective course in theMaster of Science in Telecommunications program at RIT. The focus of this course is to designand test data networks via simulation and physical implementation. Routing protocols andQuality of
Paper ID #33437Inclusive Writing: Pre- and Post-COVID-19Dr. Teresa L. Larkin, American University Teresa L. Larkin is an Associate Professor of Physics Education and Director and Faculty Liaison to the Combined Plan Dual-degree Engineering Program at American University. Dr. Larkin conducts ed- ucational research and has published widely on topics related to the assessment of student learning in introductory physics and engineering courses. Noteworthy is her work with student writing as a learning and assessment tool in her introductory physics courses for non-majors. One component of her research focuses on the role
students, however, faculty and programsdisagree on the best method for implementation 15-17 or ignore its development.7 A small numberof colleges and universities have developed programs that include leadership in their curriculume.g. 11; 14; 18; in their comparison of the Robe Leadership Institute Model to other leadershipprogram models, Bayless, Mitchell, & Robe 19 identified seven other programs that did so. Theseexamples are only a small fraction of the 300-plus ABET accredited engineering colleges anduniversities across the United States. Small sample qualitative studies of faculty have shownthat faculty perceive leadership development as a by-product of student in-class teamingexperiences, co-curricular activities e.g. 15; 16 or deferred
likelihood of completion.In this paper, we seek to better understand these compounded challenges by investigating howdoctoral computing students from URGs understand what is expected of them and how to do it.3 Research QuestionsRQ1: How do students from URGs form expectations of their CS PhD programs?RQ2: What sources do students from URGs rely on to form expectations of their CS PhD pro- grams?RQ3: How do students from URGs in CS PhD programs learn how to meet these expectations in order to complete their degree?4 MethodsIn order to answer the above research questions, our research team conducted a survey and follow-up interviews with Computer Science doctoral students at a large, Research 1 institution. Partici-pants for the
. Through advanced presentation training andthe messages of Changing the Conversation, the Engineering Ambassadors in this Network aimto inspire the next generation of engineers. This paper discusses how the Engineering Ambassador Network attempts to increaseinterest and diversity in engineering through outreach. Although the Engineering AmbassadorNetwork includes four member programs and seventeen pilot programs, most of the data in thispaper will come from the most established program—the one at Penn State. Because theEngineering Ambassador Network does not follow the middle and high school students withwhom the ambassadors interact, we will evaluate the success of the outreach efforts by othermeans such as assessments by teachers. We will
, conducted outside on a breezy day, was notaccurately modeled by the program. This could certainly have proven detrimental tolearning had the students decided that the program, and hence the theory behind it, wasworthless in predicting flight characteristics. In order to prevent this from happening,wind speed was added to the calculations. By having this small change to the spreadsheetand an anemometer to measure wind speed for subsequent launches, students were able toactively update their flight predictions prior to launch. This change made the modelmuch more accurate and encouraged students to bring their laptops to the launches inorder to more accurately set proper launch angles, air pressure and water volume for thecurrent wind and temperature
AC 2010-565: AN INVESTIGATION OF FIRST YEAR STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONSOF GLOBAL AWARENESSSarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University Sarah E. Zappe, is Research Associate and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support for the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Pennsylvania State University. In her current position, Dr. Zappe is responsible for supporting curricular assessment and developing instructional support programs for faculty and teaching assistants in the College of Engineering. Her work in engineering education focuses on assessment, faculty development, and teaching and learning issues. She can be reached at ser163@psu.edu.Thomas Litzinger, Pennsylvania State
“An Interdisciplinary Laboratory Sequence inElectrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum Design and Assessment Results” IEEETRANSACTIONS IN EDUCATION, VOL 43, 2 MAY 2000.[5] L. Barry, J. Ekstrom, S.Gorka, G. Hislop, R. Kimali, E. Lawson, et al., “CurriculumGuidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Technology”, Association forComputing Machinery (ACM), IEEE Computer Society, Information Technology, 2008.[6] www.acm.org.[7] Shiao-Li Tsao, “A Practical Implementation Course of Operating Systems: Curriculum Designand Teaching Experiences,” Shiao-Li Tsao, 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel andDistributed Systems, 2008.[8] J. Rugelj, J. Marzo, S. Knockaert, R. Van, J Salonen, K Bjorn, K Vaz de Carvalho
Technical Courses: Procedures, Pitfalls, and Payoffs”, Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation Div. of Undergraduate Education, 1994.12 Michaelsen, L. K., Bauman Knight, A., Fink, L. D., Team-Based Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups in College Teaching, Sterling, VA: Sylus, 2004.13 Michaelsen, L. K., “Team based learning in large classes”, in Bouton, C., Garth, R. Y., Learning in groups, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1983.14 Harb, J. N., Hurt, P., Williamson, K., “Teaching through the cycle”, webpage: http://www.et.byu.edu/~terryr/undergraduate_education.html.15 Phipps, M., Phipps, C., Kask, S., Higgins, S. “University students’ perceptions of cooperative learning: implications for administrators and instructors
participants have been very positive, including experience working with healthsystems, learning how IE applies to health care, academic advising and career support, andopportunities to build technical, communication, and teamwork skills. All participantssummarize their experiences, what they gained from the program, and how it has affected theircareer and academic directions. Programs like this need to be developed and nurtured quickly. As Gary Kaplan, et alstated “...[systems engineering] approaches remain generally underutilized in the healthsystem, and their potential for improvement remains largely untapped.”6 The ability forstudents to have interactive experiences in an interdisciplinary field will help foster anunderstanding of the
[4] [7][8]. It emphasizes goal setting as a pivotal step interlinked with information gathering, solutiondevelopment, and evaluation. Educators should integrate explicit goal-setting frameworks intoproblem-scoping instruction to enhance student outcomes.ConclusionThe study provides a detailed, contextualized perspective to assist stakeholders in refiningpractices. The small sample size limits its generalizability [9]. However, we prioritizetransferability, enabling readers to assess whether the findings apply to their own contexts [10].By providing detailed descriptions of our participants, research setting, and coding framework,we aim to generate meaningful insights that others can interpret and build upon. Furthermore, weacknowledge that
67.5% Control 269 163 60.6% Year 2 Treatment 480 380 79.2%Data Analysis: For each year, we ran paired t-tests at α=0.05 in R on pre/post, post/delayed, andpre/delayed matched data sets for the control and treatment groups. We also examined thepractical significance of the results using Cohen’s D effect sizes at the following interpretations:<0.2 "negligible", <0.5 "small", <0.8 "medium", >0.8 "large.” We focused on analyzing datawithin each year and each group because we were only curious about the amount andsignificance of change of perceptions within each group.In addition to statistical analyses, we
Session Number: F2D2 Teaching Mechanical Engineering Undergraduates about Nanomaterials Malur N. Srinivasan and Yavuz S. Tunc Department of Mechanical Engineering Lamar University, Beaumont, TX 77710 ABSTRACTNanomaterials have attracted enormous attention in the recent years. They have small featuresize (crystallite size) in the range of 1-100 nm and are structurally quite distinct from traditionalcrystalline materials whose feature size may extend from several micrometers to severalmillimeters, and traditional amorphous materials, which
24.1068.10This final example is also of a student participating in a 10-week summer research program, butin this case the student had little to no programming, engineering or technical experience (whichis not uncommon when working with younger students). Here is the 3-stage project as describedto the student at the beginning of the summer: Stage 1: Download, install, test and evaluate two existing segmentation tools. Stage 2: Use existing tools and manual tools to segment a small baseline testing dataset, making sure that the resulting foreground and background mask data are easily accessible by other programs (which you will help develop in stage 3). Stage 3: Annotate a variety of larger datasets to prepare for
Paper ID #41757That Was a Blast! Air Cannons as an Introduction to Blast Loading of StructuresDr. Charles Riley, Oregon Institute of Technology ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 That Was a Blast! Air Cannons as an Introduction to Blast Loading of StructuresAbstractBlast loads on structures are exciting! They are big and surprising and set structures in motion.They also pique student interest in the details of transient loading, structural dynamics, anddynamic amplification of loads. Small-scale model demonstrations in structural dynamicscourses are very common, with well
skills were assessed with in-class quizzes and exams. The material was divided into 7units, and each unit was covered in roughly two weeks. A unit quiz was given one week, and a unit exam the nextweek, so that there was a quiz or exam every week. Each of the seven units had 8-11 unit objectives and 15-20homework problems. Homework was collected each week on the day of the quiz or exam.Classes were held in a large auditorium, and DyKnow was used to deliver the basic course notes to students.DyKnow is an interactive classroom management software. In DyKnow, instructors can share content with students(sharing prepared slides and/or writing on tablets during class), and the notes are projected both to the front of theroom as well as onto students
than those recommended [19]. Lowersufficient metrics for RS selection were established, which included a reduced minimum GPAand the successful completion of an AP course or major extra-curricular project. Reliance uponstandard test scores was reduced, as has been recommended and successfully tested in highereducation [20], [21]. Perseverance and grit were evaluated as potential success precursors [22],and the determination of financial need was made by the Division of Financial Aid, according tofederal guidelines. These criteria were applied to a small potential recruitment pool of studentsfrom exploratory studies for each fall. Unfortunately, the university admissions procedureschanged for each year that the RS program was recruiting, which
problems4. Thiskind of academia/corporate collaboration has its own set of challenges. Depending on thecompany and the project, there will be various kinds of risk assumed by the involved parties.Students are typically focused on meeting program requirements and graduation. Faculty may belooking to support scholarship, perform curricular assessments, and to maintain futurecollaborations. Companies are usually focused on resource allocation, time to market, and cost.This work describes an Engineering Technology Capstone project that took place over a two-year period with a team of five undergraduate students, two faculty members and a corporatementor. The industry sponsor was a small two-person company that specializes in the design andassembly of
-Learning in Higher Education: A Multi-Case Study. Dr. Tucker has extensive experience in pro- gram management and evaluation of multiyear, multimillion dollar partnership programs, including the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department Housing and Urban Development. His exper- tise includes assessment in teaching and learning outcomes in k-12 and in higher education, diversity, leadership, community outreach, and curriculum development.Dr. Edward L. Hajduk P.E., University of Massachusetts, Lowell Page 24.70.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014
pervasiveness of capstoneprograms that partner with external sponsors to provide a “real-world” design experience tostudents. In this vein, the industry-sponsored Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship(ENGINE) capstone program was established at the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at a large research university in the US. ENGINE is designed to provide a holisticand professional engineering experience to students in an educational setting, where studentteams work on a six-month long project under the guidance of an industry and a faculty mentor.The program is overseen by a course instructor and teaching assistants who manage the coursestructure and expectations.This study compares student experiences in ENGINE during remote
offering, I solicited and discussed ideas forimprovements and changes to the laboratory format with faculty, staff, and students who hadpreviously taken the class. Because of its small size, our machine shop is too small to allowextensive student training on the equipment; however, the students strongly recommended thatmore hands-on experience with manufacturing methods was needed. They suggestedcomponents of laboratory exercises that could be deleted from the formal exercise and convertedinto self-paced, independent student activities. Our department’s machinist is heavily involvedin working with students in the capstone design courses in the second half of each semester;therefore, the assistance of the staff machinist was incorporated into
curriculum, the typical student hasgrasped a large set of fundamental concepts, and he or she can apply them, more or less adeptly,to the understanding, analysis, and design of processes. Increasingly, such students are madeaware that engineers must assess and be accountable for the environmental impact of theirdesigns. Nevertheless, many graduating chemical engineering students have little more than alayman’s understanding of the workings of the natural world and of the consequences ofhuman/industrial disturbances – even though the same fundamental concepts underlie both thenatural and man-made processes.The objective of this course is to give the students an appreciation, in a technical sense and froma chemical engineering perspective, for the
/1UEM9zxWW8ExgH0qih3nliOGcoWtKovMoiUdc7ooMgoI/edit 7/94/11/2019 A Study of Augmented Reality 2019-Draft for final - Google Docs The most valuable aspect of the app is the value found for females. That is, there was significantly more growth among females who used the app as compared to those in the control group. Given the relatively small sample size and the large variation between sections, as well as the known problems in the app, this finding suggests that something important is happening in support of females who have been reported to do more poorly on spatial reasoning assessments [19]. It is also consistent with the finding of [15
: A case for the assertion-evidence approach,” International Journal of Engineering Education, 29(6), 1564-1579, 2013.[11] L. Reave. “Technical communication instruction in engineering schools: A survey of top- ranked US and Canadian programs.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 18(4), 452-490, 2004.[12] M. Schuurman, M. Alley, M. Marshall, C. Johnstone, “The effect of a targeted speech communication course on the public speaking self efficacy of engineering undergraduates. In Proceedings from the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2008, June. Retrieved from https://peer.asee.org/3210.[13] C. A. Twigg, C. A. “Redefining Community: Small Colleges in
implementation. Surveys were conducted pre-and post-training to assess the effectiveness of individual skill development and determine whatelements of the program should be continued. A final survey was conducted of students andmentors to assess the effectiveness of teamwork development. Participants reported increases indevelopment of individual skill areas over the course of the program. When rating their teamperformance, participants ratings were between somewhat agree and agree on the majority of theaspects of team performance assessed. Overall, participants had a positive view of theirexperience in the program. IntroductionEach generation of new engineering graduates has entered a workplace with roles