Force on Engineering Graduate Education Reform strongly reaffirms alearner-centered teaching approach and engagement theory reflected by Haworth and Conrad [seminalwork for the Council of Graduate Schools] as the foundational philosophy for teaching in high-qualityprofessional graduate programs for all levels of teaching from assistant professor, associate professor,through full professor. 12 At the advanced professional level of teaching, the assessment of teaching isvery different from that of teacher assessment of traditional undergraduate engineering education becausethe approach to professional graduate education for experienced practitioners is quite different. The teaching philosophy is founded upon “our definition of high-quality
Paper ID #18704The Influence of Perceived Identity Fit on Engineering Doctoral Student Mo-tivation and PerformanceBlanca Miller, University of Nevada, Reno Blanca Miller is a Computer Science & Engineering Graduate Student at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research focus lies in engineering education across P-24. Her projects involve investigations of un- plugged computer science lessons in K-12, identifying how machine learning can facilitate formative assessment, and understanding the motivation and identities of engineering students. Her education in- cludes a minor in Mechanical Engineering, a B.S. in
NSF Advance-PLAN projectdesigned to address gender equity through policy change on a statewide level. The project isbased on the model of change that identifies effective change as a top-down policy drivenapproach through a central authority, in this case, a statewide board of regents that oversees allpublic universities. The model for top-down change is particularly suited to a small, rural statewhere a) n-values for gender related statistics at any institution may not be statisticallysignificant b) institutional relations allow for cross-state cooperation and c) size of theinstitutions allows for timely implementation and assessment of policies. In addition,intercollegiate cooperation allows for provosts of all six institutions to serve as
role, but not an exclusive role, in participant’schoice to earn an engineering degree; and that the four categories are not mutually exclusive. Insummary, the researchers found that participants can be categorized with high or lowengineering-related attainment values. Participants with high attainment values have low costvalues, moderate to high interest values, and moderate utility values. Participants with lowattainment values tend to have moderate or high cost values, low or moderate interest values, andmoderate or high utility values. The one (female) student who left the engineering program andopted for the teaching profession had low attainment value. Though the study is inconclusive onpersistence (due to the small sample size), the
ers newly developed scale regionally or STEM camps and nationally outreach A logic map for evaluation of the project is presented in Table 1. Formative evaluation will be con- 27ducted using an assessment plan based on the rubrics developed by Newell et al. [ ] will be developed tomap student work directly to the individual learning outcomes. The learning outcomes specifically ad-dress ABET Criteria, AIChE and program-specific goals. Several instruments will be evaluated by fac-ulty, including team laboratory reports, individual in-class quizzes, oral
with limited expense. Another university had experienced significant growth and then reached a plateau. Theirclassrooms and laboratory space showed well to any visitor. However, their project space wasovercrowded and did not look safe. Projects were sitting outside in driveway and parking areas.The university recognized that this situation was hindering further growth and recruiting.Subsequent to my visit a new 8,800 square foot project building has been constructed to housethis key program feature. As stated earlier, the University of Tulsa sells undergraduate research. A facility tourrevealed numerous well-equipped but small laboratories. Most of these labs were dedicated to a "Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section
options--a major incentive for academic scientists to participate in the technology transferprocess--declined.18 The Space Coast Innovation Outreach Network (SCION) Partnership, aninformal, synergistic partnership between three colleges of the Florida Institute of Technology(aka FIT or Florida Tech), University of Central Florida (Brevard Campus), Florida Solar EnergyCenter (FSEC), Technological Research and Development Authority (TRDA) of the State ofFlorida, FNBIC (Florida NASA Business Incubation Center), SATOP (Space AllianceTechnology Outreach Program), Small Business Development Center (SBDC), EconomicDevelopment Commission of the Space Coast, NASA Office of Technology Commercializationat KSC, and other local partners, neighboring
technologicalliteracy of all students, with particular emphasis on underrepresented minorities and women.Arizona State University has had several programs aimed at in-service training of teachers,counselors, and administrators to better understand DET and to teach to the standards,particularly those standards that involve DET concepts. However, the institution currently offersno pre-service or graduate courses for education majors that address DET concepts andprocesses. This project is intended to remedy that situation, using the knowledge and interest offaculty in both the College of Engineering and the College of Education. To facilitate thetransition to sustainability, we have 1) conducted a needs assessment so that what is developedwill meet the needs of
survey results demonstrate a promising positive student perception ofIntegrated Project outcomes, indicating the success of the collaborative and interdisciplinaryapproach in addressing complex engineering challenges. While a small percentage of studentsexpressed neutral or negative perceptions, these findings serve as valuable input to refine andoptimize future Integrated Projects. Continued analysis of qualitative data and conducting furtherinvestigations will provide a comprehensive understanding of students' perspectives andcontribute to the ongoing enhancement of Integrated Project effectiveness and impact.4.0 DISCUSSION4.1 Interpretation of Results The interpretation of results obtained from a survey assessing stakeholder
Paper ID #40893Utilizing art exhibits as a low-stakes activity to improve teamworkexperiencesDr. Amy Borello Gruss, Kennesaw State University Amy Borello Gruss is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Gruss graduated with her PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Florida studying aqueous mercury removal from industrial wastewaters using photochemical processes on an NSF Grad- uate Research Fellowship Program grant. Dr. Gruss gained experience in the consulting field working on water projects such as novel disinfection processes within water resource
assessments that measure students’ thought processesand level comprehension of class material1, 9-10.Questions J through N: Instructor Approachability, Passion, and FairnessA large-scale study by Austin (1993) discovered that the interaction between faculty and studentswas one of the most predictive factors of beneficial change in students’ academic advancement,personal growth, and satisfaction14,16. Another study by Atman et. al, “Enabling engineeringstudent successes,” found that senior students’ behavioral motivation, psychological motivation,motivation from a mentor, and motivation to do social good were related to how often studentsinteracted with instructors and how satisfied students were with instructors14. Clearly, studentand instructor
with three or more students, 59% are advised by 1-2 faculty [19].Assessing the efficacy of capstone projects in preparing students for their post-graduation careersrequires understanding the most important skills for professional practice, and the challenges anew engineer faces. [14] point out that problem solving, communication, and teamwork arecritically important for professional practice across disciplines and work contexts - furtherevidenced by findings a recent survey of employers [20]. Capstone design experiences can teachthese skills. In a large multi-case study, [21] found that participants drew on capstone designexperiences to address workplace challenges with self-directed learning (85% of participants),teamwork and communications
[16]. Lastly, there are unique challenges that face underrepresentedminority (URM) students in completing their STEM education, particularly around “staying engagedin large lecture-style courses with limited opportunities for interaction with professors” [17].Traditional, lecture-focused methods of engineering education have been shown to be largelyineffective at addressing the needs of the modern engineering student as we venture into the 21stCentury; “existing teaching and learning strategies or culture in engineering programs is outdated andneeds to become more student centered” [18].There is no overlooking the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on education over the past12 months. Not only have schools at all levels been forced to
education. For example, Alpers et al. adapted this framework tosuggest guidelines for developing mathematical curricula in different engineering programs [12].Tague et al. used this framework to study faculty perceptions engineering students’ mathreadiness. Faulkner and colleagues explored faculty perceptions on what constitutesmathematical maturity for engineering students [5], [6].3. Methods3.1 Research sitesThis study is being conducted at two universities: one private R2 and one public M1 university(based on Carnegie Classification), both located in the mid-Atlantic region of the USA. Theprivate R2 university (referred to as “Large Private University” in the paper) offers, throughdifferent colleges, undergraduate degrees in both engineering and
automated engines on blog posts that supportposting of comments. In another work, Vuotto (2015) used TF-IDF for semantic analysis of acollection of documents related to Psychology program to detect the level of professional ethicspresent in each document in their corpus. Finally, Ying (2015) used a variant TF-IDF approachto classify songs into different genres using the song lyrics as an input to their intelligentclassification algorithm. We believe a TF-IDF approach serves as a check of manual coding butalso offers a potentially faster way to code responses that could be useful for large classes inparticular. The TF-IDF was computed by determining the relative frequency of words in aspecific document, compared to the inverse proportion of that
course in engineering foundationsand engineering applications. Based on these learning outcomes and objectives, each facultycreated syllabi appropriate for their campuses depending on class size, demography of theirstudents, and availability of laboratory resources. At the author’ campus, the size of theengineering technology program was rather size small compare to other campuses; the programhad about 35 students with a mission to reach out to students, who for genuine reasons cannot geta college or a university engineering technology education in a large campus environment. Mostof these full-time students commute to classes daily. The new freshman engineering courseconsists of a lecture-recitation component titled “Engineering Foundations
instructionalexpectations and students’ learning outcomes. 1, 2 To address this issue, engineering educatorsand educational researchers have been working together seeking innovative approaches thatengage students in meaningful learning. 3-10 “Flipping classrooms” is one of the emerginginstructional approaches that attempt to replace traditional lectures in an effort to engage studentsin active learning. Educational research shows that when students passively receive contentknowledge from instructors in large lecture halls, meaningful learning seldom happens. On thecontrary, rote learning is the result of such traditional teachings. Learning in classroomsdominated by instructors’ lectures often leads to knowledge retention in the short term, but failsto prepare
understanding and assessing CPS,including the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2 , and the ATC21 7 ,frameworks, we decided to base our lessons on the PISA framework as it has been widelyleveraged by others to assess CPS and provides a comprehensive list of skills. PISA emphasizesskills such as understanding roles in solving problems, negotiation, and coordination as vital tosuccess 8,9 . Using the PISA framework, we have built and tested a module in a Data Science classon how to understand the capacity of one’s team and a module on scoping projects. Our studyexamines whether introducing students to best practices in team formation, team assessment, andproject scoping can enhance their CPS skills 10,11 . The results suggest that the
, which can be implemented in othercourses, especially prerequisite courses and other courses closely related to structures, materialsand failure mechanics.Aerospace Engineering Failure is planned to be offered every two or three semesters, and theconcept inventory exam will become a permanent part of this course. However, the prerequisitecourse, Aerospace Structures I, is a required course for aerospace engineering degree studentsand provided to a fairly large number of students each semester (between 40 and 75 or so), andthe concept inventory exam might be used here each semester, to better modify and otherwisefine-tune it as an assessment tool.Availability of concept inventory examThe authors are happy to provide any educator with the latest
user.After being trained as a facilitator for “Entering Mentoring,” the DEF began to offer this trainingto Engineering graduate students at Michigan State University. With permission from CIMER,the DEF also made the “Entering Mentoring” curriculum available as part of the EngineeringFutures program of Tau Beta Pi. Collegiate chapters of TBP are typically focused onundergraduate students, although graduate students are also eligible for membership. Adding the“Entering Mentoring” training to the EF catalog created a new opportunity to serve graduatestudents in engineering with materials uniquely relevant to their experiences in graduate researchand training. Yet the overall reach of the “Entering Mentoring” module within Tau Beta Pi hasremained small
, have field experience labs as part of the curriculumthroughout the United States. This is a useful skill for Environmental Engineers going into theconsulting or research industries.Two field sampling experiments were incorporated into an environmental engineering class heldin the Spring 2012 semester. The lecture material discussed different sampling techniques andthe lab portion had the students learn “hands-on” proper sampling methods. The remainder ofthe lab time was spent learning field equipment for water and air quality analysis. A mainlearning objective in the class was for the student to be able to determine the most appropriatesampling technique for a specified situation. To assess student learning a practical exam wastaken by all of
, crab, or bear) and they applied theirlearning to program the servo-motors that were controlling the legs of their robots. This part ofthe workshop raised the most enthusiasm, as the participants got really excited to watch theirrobots walk, and to change their walking style by modifying the programming code. Simplechanges of parameters or different sequences of delays were translated in new walking styles,and the participants were really engaged in trying all sorts of patterns.Table 1. Monarch Maker Workshop Schedule Day 1 Activities Duration 8:00– 9:00 am Pre-workshop Assessment Surveys 1 hr. Bio-Inspired Robotics
into theireducation and assessments [1-3]. Team-based learning can be implemented using various smalland large teams of learners who work together to accomplish their tasks. Extensive research hasshown that team-based learning significantly impacts learners' educational outcomes, academicprogress, knowledge acquisition, sense of participation, collaboration, and overall engagement [4].Anwar and colleagues (2012) conducted a study on the influence of team-based learning onstudents' academic performance and found that approximately 88% of students perceived apositive impact on their final grades, with a noticeable decrease in the number of failing grades[5]. Furthermore, teamwork learning has also shown positive effects on students
Electric Tool. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee (1986, 1992) and her B.A. in political science from Wright State University (1981).Dr. Cynthia Wise Barnicki, Milwaukee School of Engineering Cindy Barnicki is a professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Ohio State University. Cindy teaches courses in materials, manufacturing processes, and engineering design and is currently the program director for the Bachelor of Science in Engineering program. In addition to her teaching experience, she has industrial experience in quality management and production problem solving at Martin
other is an engineering graduate course. A set of fivetechnical testbeds is described. Strategies for formative and summative assessment arediscussed through student and instructor experience across these efforts. IntroductionThere is a strong commonality of sizing considerations between technologies intended forextraterrestrial in situ resource utilization in the Space program, and terrestrial mass-marketmicro renewable power generation. The former enjoy the best of technical resources butsuffer from lack access to a mass market, thus making them too expensive, while the lattersuffer from lack of technical sophistication to meet their complex challenges, and hence fail topenetrate the mass market. Yet
uncertainty that was not worth the time and effort. Within the department,innovation was previously viewed as a process that needed to be large and resultantlyoverwhelming. Within these post-implementation interviews, however, participants noted thatthe RED grant demonstrated that it is possible to make small pedagogical changes and assesstheir impact and effectiveness. Participants spoke of an increased willingness to try new things;one participant spoke of their recent use of electronic versions of assessment and grading tools,which enabled them to retain data more efficiently for student outcome comparisons betweensemesters and address grading concerns in an easier and more equitable manner for theirstudents. The opportunity to view
frame the scope of sustainability in engineering in their courses, or as theyassess learning about sustainability in order to address ABET guidelines or disciplinary societystatements, the choice of focus between the different contexts of sustainability potentiallybecomes important.3. Sustainability-related courses in engineeringIn order to assess the extent of consistency between courses on sustainability offered byengineering programs at major US universities and the published sets of sustainability principles,we performed a text search of course titles and descriptions for engineering courses at arepresentative set of large US universities. Text-based analysis of these course descriptions canprovide insight to the general approach taken to
courses are often performed in small groups and introduce concepts and/orexperiences from the major discipline. Many FYE courses of this type discuss the engineeringdesign process3 or a Human Centered Design Thinking process3. These programs, despite theirpedagogy and design process of choice focus on hands-on experiences to highlight the disciplineand engage students.1 Perry Hall 322, 1 University Ave., Lowell, MA, 02155, david_willis@uml.edu 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceTo contrast this, several engineering programs
Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. In this role, he is an instructor for several engineering courses (from freshman to senior level) that involve ethics instruction. Dr. Carpenter earned a B.S.E. degree in Civil Engineering from Purdue University (1993), an M.S.E. degree in Ocean Engineering from Oregon State University (1996), and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan (2001). Dr. Carpenter’s institutional service includes Coordinator of the Civil Engineering Assessment Program and Chair (and co-Founder) of LTU’s Educational Innovation Collaborative (EIC). As Chair of the EIC, he is responsible for facilitating faculty development and coordinating
simulation and healthcare information technology to support clinical decision-making, including advances in under- standing wearable analytics for human performance assessment. He is active in developing experiential and co-curricular activities for students, the development of standards modules for design classes, and collaborative projects that address patient need. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Moot Court Cases: Bringing Standards to Life Matthew R. Williams, PhD Department of Biomedical Engineering Case Western Reserve University