Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.Dr. Paul Hummel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Paul Hummel is a lecturer in the Electrical Engineering department at California Polytechnic State Uni- versity. He has a BS in Engineering with a Computer concentration from LeTourneau University and a PhD in Engineering with an emphasis on Microelectronics from Louisiana Tech University. His current activities focus on project based learning and online student assessment. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Perceived Benefits and Drawbacks of Group Assignment Methods Bridget
Paper ID #35269A methodological approach for researching online teacher professionaldevelopmentDr. Matthew M Johnson, Penn State University Matt is an Assistant Professor with the Center for Science and the Schools in the College of Education at Penn State University. His research interests focus on how teachers learn about epistemic practices of en- gineers through in-service teacher professional development programs and how they provide opportunities for students to engage in them to learn disciplinary content.Mrs. Tiffany M. Lewis, Penn State Center for Science and the Schools Tiffany is a STEM Education Outreach
-scale design projects,such as off-grid photovoltaic systems, to improve the students’ hands-on skills. The study onlycovers a small sample size, which may not fully capture the course’s effectiveness. Despite these innovative strategies mentioned above, a notable gap persists in pedagogicalapproaches, particularly in integrating practical, industry-relevant skills and knowledge. Inresponse to this gap, some programs have immensely embedded cutting-edge technologies andconcepts relevant to renewable energy [6, 15], while others appear to lag, which indicates theneed for continuous curriculum development and updates. A study in 2006 highlighted the importance of incorporating renewable energy topics inengineering and technology courses at a
traditional classroom. Having formativeevaluations throughout the course can help you troubleshoot problems before they become issueson your end-of-the-course student evaluations. I always end my semester with an anonymousstudent survey (they turn it in and sign a separate sheet to get credit and a treat). I make it veryclear that I use their feedback to improve the next iteration of the course, and I offer examples ofhow I have made changes based on previous feedback.Anna – I’ll second the benefits of mid-semester feedback from students. Your CTL may be ableto help you gather information from students. Ask for a SGID (Small Group InstructionalDiagnosis), QCD (Quick Course Diagnosis) or CLASSI (CLassroom ASsessment by StudentInterview). You can also
network modeling, simulation and analysisfeatures. It has also been widely used for research and professional network design because ithas the ability to provide a virtual network environment that models the behaviors of small scaleto large scale networks (e.g., from a small office-based local area network to the global Internet).By working in the virtual network environment, IT managers, engineers and systems plannersand operation staff are empowered with knowledge to more effectively analyze the systemsperformance, diagnose difficulty problems, and validate changes before they are implementedand plan for future scenarios including growth and failure [4].Therefore, I will be using both Ethereal and OPNET IT GURU in my laboratory class to
CBE to develop this unique and successfulprogram to crosstrain engineers and scientists were provided by the ERC program of the EngineeringDirectorate of NSF. A very large part of our annual grant is dedicated to graduate student support and to thedevelopment of our unique education program. But this high funding threshold should not in any way limitthe proliferation of similar cross training programs in American universities. Page 1.22.3 ?@fii’ } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘..+,~ylll’: . Any Vice
found that a significant portion of theeast coast was very suitable for offshore wind. This is because the depth to foundation wasapproximately less than 30 meters. The south east and windier coast was less suitable havingonly a small amount of offshore space less than 100 meters to foundation. The north east coastclosely matched the west coast being much more suitable for offshore wind generation. Georgiahaving comparable wind-speeds and depths to foundations had only a fraction of the squarekilometers that Pennsylvania does and had an estimate of between 20-30 GW of capacity [6].The conflicting ideas of how to implement wind energy in Pennsylvania is largely based on pointof demand and transmission as well as projected energy consumption
average value ranged between 5.2 and 6.7%, which wasconsidered relatively small. Page 14.437.5The air miles traveled by students and not paid by the university (ie, study abroad and foreignstudent travel) are not included in the accounting data we used (and not addressed in this paper),but can be accounted for in a separate category in Scope 3 emissions in the CA-CP calculator. Inthis case the miles traveled are determined not by accounting data but by individual studenttravel event origination and destination distances. This mileage data should be determinedthrough the program offices for study abroad and foreign student programs. The student
impression of "shrinking" the size of these large classes.Live WorkshopsWe are also teaming up together and with our library’s successful workshop program to pilotnew stand-alone library classes. The Science & Engineering Library’s promotional strategy forworkshops includes posters in the library and in the academic departments we serve (shown inFigure 7), a blog that feeds the sidebar on the library’s home page, and regular emails from theliaison librarians to the faculty and students in their departments. Occasionally our workshopscatch the attention of those who put together UM Brief, a weekly University-wide email thathighlights campus news, attracting staff in addition to students. Certain classes are cross-promoted with other University
, it would be of value, moving forward, to develop direct assessment measures to identify ifthe objectives of this STEM outreach program are being met. Such measures could includeprospective and current student, alumni, parent, Mason STEM-outreach program participant, andfaculty surveys to identify if the podcast played a role in naval STEM outreach programparticipation, career pathway decisions, or influenced the pursuit of internship or fundingopportunities. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section ConferenceAcknowledgementsThis work has been supported by the Office of Naval Research under grant N00014-18-1-2587 overseen by Anisur Rahman and
assignments that develop oral and writtencommunication skills are distributed throughout the curriculum and are components of thecapstone professional practice and design experience in the fourth year.Graduating students are required to take the Fundamentals of Engineering exam administered by Page 15.651.5the Montana Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors as the first step toward 4professional registration. ENGR 499 (Engineering Program Assessment), a zero-credit course, isused to administer the exam. Students are encouraged to take the
Analysis from Stanford Uni- versity. His dissertation will focus on how student’s connections of social responsibility and engineering change throughout college as well as how engineering service is valued in employment and supported in the workplace.Dr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She serves as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt is the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community
group activities during classtime [5]. Research about the use of informal learning spaces has also been conducted [2], but thatwork was used to inform design decisions rather than assess the impact of the design .This study examines the decision a large public research university in the Midwest made toconvert multiple spaces to flexible classrooms to support active learning and other student-centered pedagogies. We have previously studied the in-class usage of the flexible classrooms[8], and here we expand the original study to understand how flexible classrooms are used bystudents out of class.Creation of the Flexible ClassroomThe room we explore is in a laboratory building and was originally configured as a computer labto teach Mechanical
Training Civil Engineers to Communicate Effectively: Teaching Technical Communication in a Student’s First Engineering CourseAbstractABET requires that graduates of accredited institutions have “an ability to communicateeffectively.” The importance of effective communication of technical information is alsoaddressed in the ASCE Body of Knowledge. How schools meet this outcome varies byinstitution but about half of the schools surveyed for this paper require a specific course on thesubject. Constraints at the United States Military Academy (programs can not extend beyondfour years and a very large core curriculum) make it impractical to require a technicalcommunications course
analyzed for scholars who are part of the STEM Ambassador program versus those whoare not. Results indicate positive trends for students participating in the STEM Ambassadorprogram in all the areas assessed as shown in Table 11 below. Scholars who are also part of theSTEM Ambassador program are retained at higher frequency in the program, in their originalmajor, and in a STEM major than the Scholar-Only cohort. These results, while promising,require further study to better understand the role the Ambassador program plays in buildingcommunity and student success and differences that may exist between the population that self-selected into the Ambassador program versus those that did not.Table 11. Urban STEM Scholars: Comparison of Scholar-STEM
faculty members make after participating in the Page 26.767.3 workshop? 3. What are the faculty members’ perceived challenges and barriers when incorporating academic integrity in their teaching?MethodsContext and ParticipantsThis research was embedded in the context of a new initiative at a large Mid-Atlantic Universitythat aims to enhance engineering students’ understanding of academic integrity and professionalethics. As part of this initiative, a professional development workshop was provided to faculty indifferent engineering programs. The two-day workshop took place in the summer of 2013, whereseven faculty participants (3
in teaching programming to undergraduate and post-graduate students. She was awarded the Monash Vice Chancellor’s Award for Team-based Educational Development (2002) and School of Com- puter Science and Software Engineering Excellence Awards (2002 and 2003). Page 25.855.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Investigating Teacher’s Approaches to their Teaching Practice Abstract This report develops and analyses the reliability and validity of a Swedish transla- tion of the Trigwell and Prosser Approaches to Teaching
-design year embracing the unique opportunity tobuild the undergraduate program by designing the curriculum, cultivating a culture of inquiry,developing a sense of place, and experimenting with innovative pedagogy together. In this, wefound the co-design approach to curriculum development, intimately involving students in thedesign of culture and curriculum at the institution, to be uniquely empowering.Use of User-Centered Design & Scrum MethodologiesAnother important aspect of the co-design year was the use of user-centered design and scrummethodologies both in course design and as content students were exposed to.Over the summer, faculty initially worked in small teams to develop the core courses which werethen subsequently tested and
theimplementation of a peer mentoring program (Pascarella and Terenzini, 2005). A large studyinvestigating the effects of a PLTL program across 16 universities found that the percentage ofstudents scoring an A, B, or C in a course increased by up to 20% compared to a non-PLTLimplementation of the same course (Gafney and Varma-Nelson, 2008). In one of the 16universities studied, standardized test scores (American Chemical Society Organic Chemistrystandardized exams) improved from the 36-43 percentile nationally prior to the use of PLTL to the83 percentile nationally after the introduction of PLTL (Gafney and Varma-Nelson 2008). In theLA model context, significant improvements in learning gains have been documented acrossscience disciplines. Significantly
[6, 9-11].The objectives of this study are (1) to assess the perceptions of undergraduate researchers at TheCitadel about the role and characteristics of a good mentor, (2) to detail practices used by currentundergraduate research mentors, and (3) to hypothesize generalized best practices for facultyengaging in undergraduate research.Institutional Context-SURE ProgramThe Citadel’s Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program had its inauguralyear in the summer of 2017. The program allows students from all disciplines across campus toparticipate in a funded 10-week research experience based on the preference of the student andfaculty pair.The SURE Program strives to improve student skills integral to performing research
at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Center for Neuroregeneration and Department of Neurosurgery at the Houston Methodist Research Institute. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Mobile Bioengineering Lab: A Hands-On Workshop Series to Bring Experiments to 8th Grade Science ClassesAbstractThis Complete Research paper describes the Mobile Bioengineering Lab, a program designed toprovide hands-on learning experiences in life sciences and bioengineering to underservedstudents within the community. We aimed to introduce accessible and exciting aspects ofbioengineering to students who have had limited exposure
futurecommunication. This assessment step is a key part of the communication skill set.Given the recognized need to improve communication skills by the engineering educationcommunity as well as curriculum assessments of our industrial engineering (IE) program(described by Potter, et al.19), we have developed an innovative communication course to addressthe skills gap. In this paper, we describe the new course and present assessment results from thefirst offering of this course during the Fall 2007 semester, including skill assessment, self-efficacy data, and qualitative feedback from students. Examples of student work and assessmentprocesses are included. Finally, we describe short term changes to the course and long termimpact expectations.Course content
design, Martinez et al. [4] found no significant differencesin students’ attitudes about environmental ethics after an environmental science course; Dexteret al. [5] found no significant difference after a computer/information technology ethics course.And, in 2015, using the Engineering Professional Responsibility Assessment tool in a surveyconducted at seventeen US universities, Canney et al. [6] found that 44 percent of students(n=2200) reported no specific courses in their undergraduate engineering programs influencedtheir ways of thinking about social justice and engineering. Moreover, students reported designwork, projects, and service learning were effective, while pedagogical techniques such as casestudies were not cited at all as
online video tutorials thatstudents can access anytime from anywhere. Students can refer to these tutorials and learn howto find information using these virtual tutorials. Librarians also provide face-to-face instructionalsessions to several students in a class or individual and small group consultations. In brief,Libraries provide number of services to help students working on their projects relevant to theweServe initiative. Ultimately, it enhances the quality of student learning, and students cancomplete weServe projects successfully from wherever they are.This is particularly useful when developing distance-learning programs for our internationalpartners. On-going and continuous support can be provided remotely as and when needed
transportationengineering. In addition, minors in business administration, mathematics, foreign language andother areas are commonly pursued. When pursuing a minor outside the department, often theallowed two professional-practice electives are used towards the minor.The University of Alabama BSCE program outcomes have evolved over time, largely inresponse to the ASCE BOK1 and BOK2 reports. Accordingly, curricular and course-contentchanges have been made to support the new and revised program outcomes. So too has changesbeen made to the assessment program. All outcomes are linked to at least two courses (more formost outcomes) within the curriculum. Within each civil engineering course, students arerequired to submit a “course outcome portfolio” wherein the
semester, the program was opened to all faculty at the EEdepartment (total of 25 faculty). No faculty opted out, which allowed more course options forstudents to choose from.4-Pedagogy Training of Student Observers: Volunteering students were enrolled in a learningmodule on teaching and learning best practices on the Canvas learning management system,covering topics such as backward design and assessment, observation practices, and givingconstructive feedback. All handouts and training materials were provided within that Canvasmodule. The students were required to attend a one-hour training session on how to observe andevaluate teaching effectiveness and how to provide constructive feedback to faculty members.The training session was offered
. students with pedagogical knowledge2. In additionto formal training programs, it has been proposed that faculty mentoring of graduate students canbe an effective way to provide graduate students with feedback about their teaching3. Althoughfaculty mentoring can be an invaluable resource for graduate students, this can be logisticallydifficult to implement for all graduate students that will be teaching in the classroom orlaboratory. The logistics problem of organizing faculty to formally mentor GSIs at thedepartment or college level is circumvented at the University of Michigan College ofEngineering (CoE) by providing GSIs with mentoring services from a small pool of seniorgraduate students that have teaching experience and are interested in the
issueor understanding. Thus while there is a core belief that everyone should know more abouttechnology and engineering, and progress has been made in defining objectives, developingcurriculum materials, and instructional programs, methods of assessment of the level oftechnological and engineering literacy, there still needs to be continuing movement to movethese literacies into contexts and areas in a manner where they will do the most good, and tohave some assessment mechanism to ascertain the progress towards achieving this objective [9].From this starting point, the definition of technological literacy and engineering literacy began tochange, and they began to meld. The need to distinguish between levels of literacy, as well as towhere these
Compatibility Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2009. DOI: 10.1002/9780470508510.[14] M. Taher and A. Khan, “Comparison of simulation-based and hands-on teaching methodologies on students’ learning in an engineering technology program,” QScience Proceedings, vol. 2015, no. 4, p. 58, Jun. 2015. DOI: 10.5339/qproc.2015.elc2014.58.[15] T. Angelo, K. Cross, “Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers”, San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass, 1993.[16] N. Hunsu, D. R. Simmons, S. A. Brown, and O. Adesope, “Developing an Instrument of Classroom Social Engagement,” 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, Jun. 23, 2018. DOI: 10.18260/1-2--30298.
development of integrated microsystems powered by energy scavenging for biomedical and environmental devices and radiation effects on devices.Mr. Mahamadou Tembely, Prairie View A&M University Mahamadou Tembely is a Ph.D student at Prairie View A&M University, Texas. He received the 2014 Outstanding MS Graduated Student award for the department of electrical and computer engineering. He is the author of several papers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Engaging Electrical and Computer Engineering Freshman Students with Electrical Engineering PracticumABSTRACT: A large percentage of students in engineering programs switch their majors in the first twoyears