Use of libraries and built in codes Digital input and output procedure with Arduino How to effectively interfaces with analog systems and devices using Arduino Programming Understanding about interrupts How to use and test external interrupts What are pin change and timer interruptsOnce the students began working on their senior project they used the internet resources,tutorials on their own and in few months they developed the expertise far beyond what isexpected for the above certification exam. Students demonstrated that Arduino offered a friendlyenvironment to perform certain tasks and conceptual roles that refer to using a more conceptualframework when organizing the ideas
future in which engineering faculty are more comfortableteaching and evaluating student writing.Frank K. Webb Program in Professional CommunicationWoodruff School of Mechanical EngineeringBackgroundGeorgia Tech’s Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering is home to roughly 1300undergraduate and 700 graduate students. In the most recent year for which data is available, theSchool granted 276 undergraduate degrees and 200 graduate degrees. The Woodruff School firstmoved to develop a writing program in 1990, when a composition professional was hired toaddress the needs of graduate students and their advisors through a combination of seminars andindividual instruction. An alumnus contacted the School with an offer to fund this program afterreading a
civilinfrastructure workforce (either through a university or from any other educational background);and 2) the perception and base knowledge of civil infrastructure within the public at large. Thispaper summarizes these videos while accomplishing the following objectives: 1) assessing theireffectiveness relative to the two potential impact categories; and 2) describing ongoing videoplans that make use of the assessment’s findings.An abbreviated review of literature, with associated author commentary, related to the use ofvideos in education is provided in the next section. Thereafter, the videos themselves aredescribed before presenting the assessments. These assessments were in the form of fourquestionnaires/surveys given over a few year period beginning
program is being conducted, additional assessments may involve determining what typeof instruction is used, how frequently it is conducted, or at what point the trainee must completethe program in their career. Evaluations beyond this may focus on how well the program actuallyworks or if it is effective in eliciting behavior change2. A common evaluation of effectiveness isto determine how trainees react to the training experience, the content of the program, or theinstructor delivery1,3,5. It is difficult and rare to evaluate how well ethics training actuallydevelops a trainee’s ethical reasoning or behavior change1. However, evaluating trainingprograms can help provide useful information which can be used to help make decisions aboutthe training
literature9-18,as shown in Figure 3. These elements of significance describe the changes in economics,environment, health, and culture that can be affected by innovations. At the individual level, forinstance, an innovation can affect quality of life through improvements in physical, social, andemotional health, the ability to control its environment, shift consumption patterns as a result ofincome changes, and impact the nature of work through the creation of new opportunities forentrepreneurs. At the group level, an innovation can, for example, create new knowledge thatresults in new products and services, thus affecting a group’s relative role and positioning invalue networks and the way such groups are organized and interact both internally
, through the ExCEEd Teaching Workshops of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Essential Teaching Seminars of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the US National Science Foundation-sponsored SUCCEED Coalition. He has received several awards for his work, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the Ralph Teetor Education Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers, being named a University of Florida Distinguished Teaching Scholar, and being named the University of Florida Teacher of the Year for 2003-04. He is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, the Amer- ican Educational Research Association, and the American Chemical Society
). Emotional, social, and academic adjustment of college students: A longitudinal study of retention. Journal of Counseling & Development, 281-288.Habley, W. (2004). The Status of Academic Advising: Findings from the ACT Sixth National Survey. (Monograph No. 10). Manhattan, KS: NACADA.Hester, E. (2008). Student evaluations of advising: Moving beyond the mean. College Teaching, 35-38.Marcus, J. (2012). High dropout rates prompt engineering schools to change approach.Marra, R., Rodgers, K., Shen, D., & Bogue, B. (2012). Leaving engineering: A multi-year single institution study. Journal of Engineering Education, 6-27.Meyer, M. a. (2014). Engineering dropouts: A qualitative examination of why undergraduates leave engineering
the instructor and students and lessengagement in the classroom. The requirement for EPs that would help keep student attentionwith the lecture was obviously needed. This paper discusses some EPs that were used in largeclassrooms to gain students’ attention and engage them through the lecture.Students learn from many ways, they can learn from their senses, model making, reflection, andthey can also learn from games. It is important but extremely hard for a teacher to adopt ateaching style that is compatible with all these different learning approaches. Felder andSilverman (1988) pointed out the mismatch of teaching and learning styles has significantinfluence on the learning outcome and thus individualized teaching style is
improving the STEM educa- tional experiences for Native American students. Dr. Cadwell is a member of the grant leadership team with expertise in STEM content, curriculum development, and technology education. The team is using an interdisciplinary framework to reach under-served populations. The BTTE project delivers a culturally relevant and content rich STEM summer and after-school program for students in grades four through six on the Coeur d’Alene and Spokane reservations. Dr. Cadwell coordinates and oversees the development and implementation of the engineering activities for the program curriculum.Mrs. Laura Laumatia LaumatiaDr. Fritz Fiedler, University of Idaho, Moscow Dr. Fritz Fiedler obtained his B.S. and M.S
).9. Heller, P., and Hollabaugh, M. “Teaching problem solving through cooperative grouping. Part 2: Designingproblems and structuring groups.” Am. J. Phys. 60(7), 637-644 (1992).10. Feichtner, S.B. and Davis, E.A. “Why some groups fail: A survey of students' experiences with learninggroups.” The Organizational Behavior Teaching Review, 9(4), 75-88 (1991).11. Smith, K.A., “Cooperative Learning: Effective Teamwork for Engineering Classrooms,” Frontiers In EducationConference Proceedings. Atlanta, GA (1995).12. Johnson, D. W., Johnson, R. T., and Smith, K. A. 1991. Cooperative learning: Increasing college faculty Page
disasters and relocatedrefugees to safe havens.One of the most notable examples of aircraft utilization for humanitarian relief was the Berlinairlift operation immediately following the end of World War II. The city of Berlin and itsFrench, U.S. and U.K. sectors were isolated within Soviet occupied East Germany. A politicalblockade prevented food and supplies transportation by rail or road to the Allied sections ofBerlin. To sustain these areas, France, U.S. and U.K. circumvented the blockade through“Operation Vittles” an air transportation program that delivered more than 2.3 million tons offood, fuel and supplies to the residents of West Berlin. More than 278,000 airdrops were madeby American aircrews, accounting for about 189,000 flights, and
innovative approach towards student learning of experimental design demonstrated in the Virtual CVD laboratory also applies to the Virtual Bioreactor laboratory. Use both the Virtual CVD and the Virtual Bioreactor laboratories in the same class to assess the extent to which practice effects influence the approach taken by students (i.e., will they perform in a different manner the second time they go through the design process). C. Assess the implementation of the Virtual CVD laboratory at the High school and community college levels. 5. Disseminate results and materials to the professional community, including continued development of a web site
theirchoice of study. In addition, several studies investigate why first-generation andunderrepresented students drop out of college; some have found that it is due to an unclearpurpose for college, adjustment issues to the college environment, and feelings of isolation. Theperspectives of first-generation Latina engineering students are captured through conductingeight qualitative in-depth interviews and through analyzing their narratives. This researchelucidates some of the reasons why Latinas choose engineering in college and why they continuein engineering using Achievement Goal Theory (AGT) as the theoretical framework. This theoryposits that goals are cognitive accounts of what a person tries to accomplish and one’s purposesor reasons for doing
acquisition, manipulation of the acquired data, and the display of the data results.Figure 1 shows images of ENGR 111 students working on Project 1, and examples of therespective windmill systems are visible.Figure 1: Project 1: Windmill System Cornerstone images with students finalizing their cornerstone systems for demonstration.Project 1 requires the students to measure the rotational speed of the bench-scale windmillpowered by a fan to simulate wind. The rotational speed is measured by the students using aproximity sensor. The proximity sensor is read by the Arduino, and the Arduino is used tocalculate the timing of the windmill blades passing through the proximity sensor. There is a smallDC motor
EE 1 Page 14.587.6For AY 2009-10 and beyond, we have several strategies to recruit transfer students. Last Fall,over twenty different engineering technology faculty members recruited at eighteen differentcommunity colleges in the region. Our Office of Admissions has two open house events eachyear for transfer students in January and March. The engineering technology departments sendpersonal invitations for the transfer open houses to each student that faculty meet at a communitycollege during the Fall recruiting sessions. In addition, each year the College of Engineeringencourages groups of students and faculty from select community
Postdoc Biomedical Engineering 2 2 Chemical Engineering 2 0 Civil Engineering 6 3 Computer Engineering 1 0 Computer Science 1 0 Electrical Engineering 0 0 Materials Science and Engineering 2 0 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 2 1 Systems Engineering 2 0 TOTAL 19 6The teaching fellowship program is offered twice a year through calls for applications, once eachin the fall and spring
design learning in middle school students and to support entrepreneurship at primarily undergraduate institutions. Her background is in civil engineering with a focus on structural materials. She holds a B.S.E. degree from Princeton, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell.Ms. Sophia L Poulos, Smith College Sophia Poulos is an engineering student at Smith College. She is interested in structural engineering and has worked on earthquake engineering projects through NEES activities at UCLA. She is a research assistant on the CDHub 2.0 initiative.Dr. R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida Keith Stanfill holds the academic rank of Engineer and serves as the Director of the Integrated Product and Process
, and Interdisciplinarities. University Press of Virginia.27. Öberg, G. (2009). Facilitating interdisciplinary work: using quality assessment to create common ground. Journal of Higher Education, 57(4), 405–415.28. Abramson, J. S., & Mizrahi, T. (1996). When social workers and physicians collaborate: positive and negative interdisciplinary experiences. Social Work, 41(3), 270.29. Connor, S. R., Egan, K. A., Kwilosz, D. M., Larson, D. G., & Reese, D. J. (2002). Interdisciplinary approaches to assisting with end-of-life care and decision making. American Behavioral Scientist, 46(3), 340.30. Liedtka, J. M., & Whitten, E. (1998). Enhancing care delivery through cross-disciplinary collaboration: a case study. Journal of
companies by effectively connecting some of theimportant links in the pathway. The following diagram in Figure 1 shows the left-to-rightprogression of a student from high school (K-12 outreach activities), through their localcommunity college (intro to engineering), to an Engineering Transfer Student Orientation atASU, and finally as a student in the Fulton School of Engineering where there is a METS Centerfor their support. Throughout this process, Arizona’s industry is supportive, varying their Figure 1. Strategic Engineering-student Supply-chain for Arizonaactivity along the pathway: they donate their time to talk to high school and community collegestudents about engineering, share information about their internships to
and Ethical Issues in a Freshman Engineering Design Course through Collaborative Design Projects. 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.12. Fergus, J.W. 2013. Materials engineering as a catalyst for sustainability education. 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.13. Frey, W.J., C. Papadopoulos, M. Castro-Sitiriche, F. Zevallos, D. Echevarria. 2012. On integrating appropriate technology responsive to community capabilities: A case study from Haiti. 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Explosition.14. Galambosi, A. and E. Ozelkan. 2011. Integrating sustainability into systems engineering curriculum. 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.15. Gardner, K., Ahmed, Z., Bashir, F., & Rana, M
exploration and design project began in Fall 2018 and features cross-disciplinarycollaboration between engineering, math, psychology, and math education faculty to developlearning activities with 3D-printed models for integral calculus and engineering statics. We areexploring how such models can scaffold spatial abilities and support learners’ development ofconceptual understanding and representational competence. The project is addressing thesequestions through parallel work piloting model-based learning activities in the classroom and byinvestigating specific attributes of the activities in lab studies and focus groups. To date we havedeveloped and piloted a mature suite of activities covering a variety of topics for both calculusand statics.After
Foundation projectexamining the first two years of undergraduate engineering students’ experiences through self-reports of their affect and engineering identity.Keywords: identity, affect, emotion, undergraduate engineeringIntroductionStudents’ development of their engineering identity is known to play an important role in theirdecision to persist within the major [1], [2]. The first two years of students’ experiences areparticularly critical, as most students who persist beyond this point will likely continue on toreceive an engineering degree. While identity has been explored from many differentperspectives, the influence of students’ affect on identity development has not been addressed.Existing models of affect and engineering identity suggest
AC 2008-1204: TEACHING MATHEMATICS TO ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGYSTUDENTS: MOVING MATH INSTRUCTION INTO THE DEPARTMENTAbu SARWAR, Austin Peay State University Biographical Information Abu K. Sarwar is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN. He started at the university in 1984 as one of the founding faculty members in the Engineering Technology Department. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering, his M.S. from Carleton University, and his Ph.D. from Louisiana Tech, and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Tennessee.John Blake, Austin Peay State University Biographical
Page 24.1126.3Semi-structured interviews were conducted with each student three to six weeks after they hadcompleted the design ethnography immersion experience. The interview protocol guidedstudents through a discussion of the design ethnography techniques they used (i.e., observations,interviews, surveys, etc.) and the front-end design phases they had completed (e.g., need finding,down selection, and development of user requirements and engineering specifications). Follow-up questions allowed for further exploration when students described challenges they facedduring the design ethnography immersion experience. Interviews lasted approximately one hour.Table 1 lists some of the interview questions.Table 1: Example Questions from the Interview
Newark high schools in future academic years.) 5. Disseminate a series of case studies to which can be applied the problem solving methodology used in C++ instruction. The project provided a yearlong instructional and mentoring program in problemsolving, programming and composition to 37 students in grades nine through twelve.High school teachers from each of the four schools were selected to act as on-goingcoordinators for the project at their respective schools. A training program for the highschool teachers in problem solving and programming was provided to prepare them forthe implementation of the project, as well as for its continuation beyond the period offunding. Two NJIT instructors were involved in the delivery
received the SME Outstanding Young Engineer Award.Mary Ann Sheline, Grand Valley State University Mary Ann Sheline is Director of the Regional Math and Science Center at Grand Valley State University and has been involved with K-12 science education for 45 years as an elementary, middle and secondary science teacher, college instructor, and administrator. She has taught biology, chemistry and earth science at a variety of grade levels. She has experience developing curriculum and administering collaborative programs such as the National Science Foundation’s Teacher in Industry Program, National Science Olympiad Tournament and is presently Co PI of a Mathematics and Science Partnership Grant. Mrs
sufficientsupport to hire a controls lab developer that assists with research deployment19. This very uniqueand successful approach requires interdepartmental coordination at a level beyond the feasibleeffort level of an individual faculty member, especially one just starting at a new institution. Page 12.1051.2This article presents a methodology employed at Penn State University starting in 2004 andcontinuing to the present employed to integrate research, graduate education, and undergraduateeducation. The situation at the start of the project was that the author, as a new faculty hire, wasfaced with the simultaneous challenge of developing a research
topics that have a related wikipage or course notes on the wiki, links can be made simply by surrounding the text with[[double square brackets]].The wiki interface provides a convenient way to update and modify information, as theediting can be performed directly from a web browser with no need for specialized orexternal software. The wiki can be updated from any computer with internet access andhas many convenient built-in features (e.g., tables, equations, etc.). The “preview” featureallows the author to see her changes before submitting them formally on the wiki. Fromthe student perspective, information dissemination from the instructor through the wiki isthe same as it would be on a regular web page, except that students may also subscribe
engineering students.Most of the work in rural engineering education centers around K-12 outreach and recruitment ofstudents into the STEM field. However, if we do not dig deeper into understanding theexperiences of these students while pursuing their engineering education, we will not understandthe unique challenges they face and will not be equipped to support their college transition, thusour efforts in recruitment may be in vain.MethodsSettingThis study was conducted at a large public research university in the Midwest. The campus islocated in a mid-sized city with a population of 115,000 and is 40 miles from a large urbancenter. The engineering college has an undergraduate population of 7,000 students and offersseventeen different engineering
better way than the traditional lecturemethod that could get through to more students and keep students engaged with the material.Something of an epiphany occurred while talking with a Computer Science colleague about theinability to keep students engaged in class. The colleague asked, “have you heard aboutPOGIL?” “What’s POGIL?”, was the natural reply.POGIL stands for Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning. The POGIL Project, a non-profitorganization dedicated to widening the use of POGIL, describes this pedagogy as “a student-centered, group-learning instructional strategy and philosophy developed through research onhow students learn best” [3]. The key element in POGIL is the use of worksheets, or “guidedinquiries” that students work