much longer than any set of written lab safety rules. However it is obviously notpractical to deliberately stage lab accidents merely to drive home the importance of followingproper lab safety procedures. Virtual reality, on the other hand, offers the opportunity to createrealistic first-person simulations of lab accidents that will have a much stronger impact on theuser than any set of written rules ( although obviously not as strong an impact as real accidents. )Virtual reality is an emerging computer interface technology designed to make the user believe,as much as possible, that what they are experiencing is "real". While no system currentlyavailable has attained that goal completely, there are many high-end systems that can suspendusers
standards. Teaching COMM, DSP andVLSI from the point of view of multimedia forms an excellent vehicle to bring the three coursestogether. There have been great advances in a number of information technologies like (1)compression of speech, audio, image and video for efficient storage and transmission, (2) highspeed data communication based on packet switching and (3) implementation of algorithms ofgreat complexity on high speed, low area and low power VLSI architectures. The concept ofmultimedia processing seeks to integrate these technologies into networked information systemsto achieve synergistic benefits to the human user [12][13]. The importance of learningmultimedia through the eyes of COMM, DSP and VLSI can only be repetitively emphasized
section at Grand Valley StateUniversity and how two different service projects (in two different semesters) weresuccessfully integrated into a senior level heat transfer class. Finally the author willdiscuss how to approach service work within the context of overly busy faculty andstudent schedules.“The habit of apprehending a technology in its completeness: this is the essence oftechnological humanism, and this is what we should expect education in highertechnology to achieve. I believe it could be achieved by making specialist studies thecore around which are grouped liberal studies which are relevant to those specialiststudies. But they must be relevant; the path to culture should be through a man’sspecialism, not by-passing it…A student who
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Session 2160 On Reform of Engineering Education in the Arab Gulf States: A Focus on Pre-Engineering “Prep-Program” By W. Akili Professor of Civil Engineering (retired)Introduction:Engineering education in the Arab Gulf States (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, United ArabEmirates, Qatar, and Sultanate of Oman) faces many challenges today. Changes in the externalenvironment (e.g. reduced funding, increased costs, demands by industry for well-seasonedgraduates, and rapid advances in technology) coupled with the
2016 CIT CIT, ECET, EE C++ Programming Senior Design Spring 2016 CIT CIT Project1: This refers to the department within the school of engineering and technology that offered theconcerned course2: This refers to the major of the students that participated in the study by enrolling in the offeredcourse3:CIT is an abbreviation for computer and information technology4 ECET is an abbreviation for electrical and computer engineering technology5 EE is an abbreviation for electrical engineeringThe process followed in organizing the pilot study began by contacting the assistant vicechancellor of marketing at our university to whom we described the pilot study
-applications-could-have-11- trillion-impact, July, 2015.5. D. Drinkwater, “IoT skills gap drives growing demand for freelancers,” https://www.controleng.com/articles/iot-skills-gap-drives-growing-demand-for-freelancers/, August, 2016.6. Wireless Estimator, “Serious workforce shortage has the wireless industry and FCC pulling together to solve it,” http://wirelessestimator.com/articles/2019/serious-workforce-shortage-has-the-wireless-industry-and-fcc- pulling-together-to-solve-it/, April 20197. S. Al-Sarawi, M. Anbar, K. Alieyan, and M. Alzubaidi, “Internet of Things (IoT) communication protocols: Review,” in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Information Technology, May 2017, Amman, Jordan.8. E. Hossain and M. Hasan, “5G Cellular
by students, Growth Sector, backboneorganization for the National Science Foundation INCLUDES Alliance for STEM Core Expansion(#1834628), developed paid internships to provide skills, mentorship and career exposure forcommunity college STEM students nationally. NSF, recognizing the impact of work experience,continues to emphasize paid internships as a tool for broadening participation in engineeringthrough multiple programs including the new Experiential Learning for Emerging and NovelTechnologies (EXLENT) program which invested $18.8 million in the program’s inaugural cohort,(NSF Invests $18.8M in Inaugural Cohort of ExLENT Projects, n.d.) To this end, during summer2023, Growth Sector worked with industry partners and educational
study.Underrepresented groups in engineering programs, and the profession, include women andspecific minority populations. ASEE categorizes the latter as “Black/African, Hispanic/Latino,and Native/Pacific Islander Americans” (American Society of Engineering Education, 2011).BackgroundThe aim of a rather broad study is to determine the effects of S-L on students, faculty,community, and the academic institution. One of the results of the study was the discovery thatfemale students are responding much more positively to S-L than males. These differences inattitudes toward S-L are the focus of the part of the study reported here. In the remainder of thispaper, brief background information is given on the effects of S-L and on other factors affectingunderrepresented
andmore likely to take advanced biology and chemistry. Although the pool of female students isstronger and they now have easier access to most engineering schools, there is a lingeringreluctance for women to choose education in engineering and technology related fields (Loftus,2007). Recruiting women into engineering is a crucial issue if we want to increase the numbersof women in technical fields. However, the story does not end with recruitment. Nationwideretention rates show that out of the very few women who enroll in engineering programs incollege, 22.7% dropout after completing only threshold courses in engineering; and 35.4%withdraw after taking engineering courses beyond threshold, but before getting a degree. Only41.9 percent of women
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Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society For Engineering Education NUMBER OF CREDIT SUBJECT COURSES HOURS Freshman Year Chemistry 2 6 Information Technology 1 3 English 2 6 History 2 6
courses given in the senior and graduateyears. The most recent by Abraham describes possibly the only pollution prevention course thatis required for all seniors. 4 For example, Grant et al.5 describes a senior/graduate elective taughtat North Carolina State University that focuses on environmental management, while Simpsonand Budd6 describe a similar course developed at Washington State University. These coursesare designed to provide a select set of students that are interested in the environment, anexcellent set of tools to tackle problems in pollution prevention. When pollution prevention istaught as an elective course, the majority of students will pass through the curriculum without theknowledge regarding the impact of chemical technology
international research team, I had the opportunity to work with senior leaders at Nazerbayev Univer- sity, KIMEP University and Kasipkor, a holding company establishing 2 new colleges (Astana) and 4 interregional centers (Atyrau, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Ekibstuz and Shymkent). My research team Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) focused on examining the technical education system that is seen as a catalyst for the country’s ambition to be an international leader in the emerging green economy. My doctoral research explores the similarities and differences of physical and virtual place making, and the extent to which the approach may impact the learning experience for students and/or the shape of online learning spaces in
for important information in pursuit of helping them construct their ownknowledge. Computer technology provides an additional mechanism to help teachers with theinstructional process necessary to sustain a generative learning environment in a classroom.Learning Objectives for the First-Year CourseIn order to meet the needs of today's freshmen, a paradigm shift based on engineering design andproblem solving is being considered for the freshmen year. It is believed that a focus on definingvarious types of problems and the problem solving process will provide a better foundation for anengineering education than a course that focuses on how to use computing tools to solveproblems. The main difference between the modalities is in the way content
data than traditionalstatistical analysis techniques. Differences and trends among all four demographic variables(gender, family income, race, country of origin) emerged, showing that students from somedemographic groups seem more susceptible to remaining less engaged in courses than othergroups.IntroductionEngineering is a highly stratified field marked by a number of disparities among gender, race,income, and other variables. With regard to gender, between 1984 and 2004, while womenpursuing degrees in biology and life sciences grew to a majority percentage of 60.1%, the gainswere much smaller in physics (from 15% to 22%) and engineering (10.1% to 20.5%) [1]. Duringthe late 1990s, female degrees in computer science actually declined from 37
motivation and self-regulated learning, with a particular interest in female and ethnic minority students in STEM. She serves on the standing review board for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association Division C Section 6 (Cognitive, Social, and Motivational Processes).Denise Grant, Clemson University Denise Simmons Grant is a doctoral student in Civil Engineering at Clemson University. She is currently on leave from her position as assistant professor of Civil Engineering Technology at South Carolina State University. Ms. Grant, a registered professional engineer, is conducting her dissertation research on increasing the participation of underrepresented minorities in
student learning outcomes and proficiencies, rather than specific coursecontent.To begin the curriculum redesign process, a retreat was held in December of 2019 to gather inputfrom faculty and staff of the department, with a focus on the question, “What do we want ourstudents to be able to do, know, and care about after successfully completing the ME program?”The output of this retreat was six guiding “areas” that would guide a department committee in(eventually) redesigning the curriculum: Problem Solving; Communication; Professional Identityand Ethics; Teamwork, Leadership, and Inclusivity; Information Literacy, Judgement, andCritical Thinking; Character Traits and Self-Directed Learning.As all readers will know, the Covid-19 pandemic caused
in technology. Engineers can no longer expect alinear environment, but rather a “network, web, or system.” 2 No longer are the “number ofvariables … severely constrained, and … problems reduced to quantitative dimensions,” butsystems are complex and “so heterogeneous that interdisciplinary interactive groups sharingperspectives and information are needed to create and control them.”2 In other words, theprofessional engineer cannot continue to be a “disengaged problem solver” and, likewise, themethods used to educate new engineers cannot consist of disengaged students working throughlinear, constrained, quantitative problems with single answers. A more complex, inter-connectedworld is emerging and science and engineering jobs are adapting
the other hand, students with only STRIDE instruction tended to focuson identifying and mitigating component-level threats and discounted system-level threats. Ourwork contributes to the engineering education community by: (1) describing a new rubric forassessing threat modeling based on systems thinking; (2) identifying trends and blindspots instudents' threat modeling approach; and (3) envisioning the benefits of integrating systemsthinking in threat modeling teaching and assessment.IntroductionWith rapid developments in computer science and growing dependence on informationtechnology, cybersecurity threats are evolving at a rapid rate [1], [2]. Cybersecurity is defined asthe combination of technologies, resources, structure, and culture
Engineering, KLE Technologi- cal University, India. He is a certified IUCEE International Engineering Educator. He was awarded the ’Ing.Paed.IGIP’ title at ICTIEE, 2018.Dr. Brooke Charae Coley, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Brooke Coley, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Dr. Coley is Principal Investigator of the Shifting Perceptions, Attitudes and Cultures in Engineering (SPACE) Lab that aspires to elevate the experiences of marginalized populations, dismantle systematic injustices, and transform the way inclusion is culti- vated in engineering through the implementation of novel technologies and
does motivation surface in the themes and images of storyline expectations for theengineer/founder who decided to step down from their CEO position of their founded company?2) How will preliminary findings inform the development of a research method to study theconception of emotion in an engineering student mind-set and experience of innovation inleadership?III. MethodsParticipants Eighty-three students from three universities were participants in the study. Thecurrent analysis includes the stories of seventy-seven of those participants and the affect scalereports of seventy-two of the participants after discarding four incomplete story responses,two participants with non-binary responses (self-identified as “other” rather than male
al., [11]) is Pulakos et al.’s taxonomy, which includes: solving problemscreatively; dealing with uncertain or unpredictable work situations; learning new worktasks/technology/procedures; interpersonal adaptability; cultural adaptability; physically-orientedadaptability; handling workplace stress; and handling emergencies/crisis situations [34]. There isno published instrument associated with this taxonomy; those authors taking it up have createdprocedures and instruments based on their own operationalization of the dimensions. Notably,this taxonomy focuses explicitly on observed behaviors, rather than on the metacognitive orcognitive skills and abilities identified in the rest of the literature, as being central to adaptiveexpertise, making
engineers in the U.S. over the long-term.” Research showsthat women and minorities may exit the pipeline early because of lack of financial resources,information about various career paths, and faculty mentorship and encouragement [33].Companies hire ethnic candidates not only because of government regulations but also becauseof the growing diversity of their client bases. In short, having a diverse workforce is now anessential part of doing business [34]. The Congressional Commission on the Advancement ofWomen and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development also notes it nolonger is appropriate to consider under-representation as merely a social problem or a moralimperative [35]. Rather, it is now an economic problem and a
. McKenna is chair and associate professor in the Department of Engineering in the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University (ASU). Prior to joining ASU she served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Undergraduate Education and was on the faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Segal Design Institute at Northwestern University. Dr. McKenna received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. McKenna also serves as a senior associate editor for the Journal of Engineering Education.Dr. Norman L. Fortenberry, American Society for Engineering Education Dr
Paper ID #38010Optimal Faculty Staffing Using Depth-First SearchDr. Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National University Dr. Mudasser Wyne holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, an M.Sc. in Engineering, and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. He currently serves as a Professor of Computer Science at the National University in San Diego, USA, where he has also held the position of Chair for the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems in the School of Engineering and Computing. In addition, he serves as the Academic Program Director for the MS in Computer Science program. Dr. Wyne has extensive experience in academic
MercyAbstractSignificant research exists demonstrating the benefits of active and inquiry-based instruction forstudent engagement, learning, and knowledge retention. The emergence of ever improvingsoftware tools provide instructors valuable resources for developing virtual activities to be usedwithin lecture courses, or in place of physical laboratory experiments. This paper describes theuse of the MATLAB Live Editor for creating interactive live scripts. These live scripts combinecode, formatted text, graphics, and live controls such as numeric sliders, buttons, and drop-downlists, for the creation of lectures and virtual activities that illustrate complex topics throughinteractive figures and animations. When deployed as in-class activities for students and
undergraduate engineering studies.Koen [4] claims engineering design is a repertoire of behaviors that may take time and repetitionto develop in undergraduate engineering students. Dym [5] advocates for project-based learningcourses as the venue by which design is most effectively taught while acknowledging the in-efficiency of these types of courses in terms of time and faculty effort. Atman et al. [1] identifiedthat senior-level engineering students produced higher quality designs when compared to first-year engineering students. Seniors gathered more information, considered more alternatives,transitioned more frequently between design steps, and progressed further down the designprocess than their first-year counterparts. Lulay et al. [4] explain
States to define the processesnecessary for software development. CMM evaluates the maturity level of the processes of anorganization on a one to five scale. It’s based on knowledge obtained from the evaluation ofsoftware processes and feedback from industrial organizations.In 2000, COBIT emerges as a framework for managing IT processes with a strong focus oncontrol7. During this time, the model was designed based on CMM, but with the addition ofan extra level (level zero) where the focus on processes is not applied.Compared to CMMI, COBIT is an approach to strategic level, focused on IT managementprocesses. Later on, a range of generic maturity attributes was developed, a total of six basedon experience and feedback.Both cases the maturity
of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His re- search focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and their learning experiences. His projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers, their problem solving processes, and cultural fit. His education includes a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Bioengineering and Ph.D. in Engineer- ing and Science Education from Clemson University.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of