serving as the Director of Student Learning and Assessment in her Department and is charged with overseeing multiple programs that target student success and retention. Due to her strong passion for teaching and her current responsibilities in her Department, Dr. Warren is now pursuing educational research and programmatic improvement funding opportunities. Dr. Warren has been awarded the UNC Charlotte College of Engineering teaching award for her dedication and excellence in teaching.Meagan Padro, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Meagan Padro earned her M.A. in Psychology with concentrations in Cognitive Science and Quantitative Analysis at UNC Charlotte in May 2019. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in
program undergoes a review by “economic evaluators”with backgrounds in business. These evaluators specifically look at a project’s potential forcommercial success, its potential for producing job growth and its ability to generate revenue.Bender suggests a number of factors universities should consider when engaging in partnership,including the location of the business, its size and profitability, whether alumni are involved, andspecifically what types of degreed positions the company hires [5].Overall, however, very little literature exists that details specific metrics or standards universitiescan use to assess collaborations with industry. However, a significant amount of literature existsacross disciplines that details both how the changing
example, priorresearch has described an array of change strategies [9], [10], different change theories leveragedin change-making efforts [11], and the role of social relationships [12] and leadership [13] indetermining change-making success. Since individual academic units, no matter how large, areonly a small part of the overall HE system, further investigation is needed regarding howinstitutional context and cultures impact change efforts [14], [15].In this paper, we examine how departmental and disciplinary culture, and the broader institutionof higher education, influence change efforts in HEIs. In this study, we make comparisons acrossacademic change teams who receive the same National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, andthus share
questions in a particularconceptual domain, with common misconceptions presented as “distracters.” CIs are instrumentsof choice for in-depth and large-scale assessments of student conceptual knowledge. Thefeasibility of administering this kind of instrument on a large scale, as well as the relative ease ofdata analysis, makes CIs a valuable tool for both researchers and instructors.In this paper we present results from administering the Determining and Interpreting ResistiveElectric Circuit Concepts Test (DIRECT) concept inventory to first-year engineering (FYE)honors students (n≈150). The FYE course is offered as a two-semester course on engineeringproblem solving and provides an introduction to a number of different engineering disciplines. Aone
. Industry for its part, has been lobbyingengineering schools, state legislatures, ABET and whoever else would listen, trying to getuniversities to prepare more fully engineering students for the day to day teaming,communication, and real world design tasks that the students will face upon graduation.The culmination of this lobbying effort has been the Boyer report 1, as well as a strongcomponent of increased design, teaming, communications and exposure to real world topics,such as ethics, Design for Environment, etc. in the ABET 2000 Program OutcomesRequirements2. Most engineering schools are now actively looking for ways to rework theircurricula to include more design, teaming, and communications skills as well as assessment
hazardous waste treatment facilities, it follows that environmental engineeringstudents must be acutely aware of critical factors influencing the efficacy of this environmentalprocess in a variety of biological systems. Moreover, environmental engineering students arecharged to learn not only how these biological systems function, but also how they can beengineered and controlled to benefit society.This study explains how the beer brewing experience can be utilized to link a variety ofclassroom fundamentals and activities with common environmental engineering practices.Historical assessment and evaluation of how well this experiential learning laboratory supportscourse objectives and ABET Student Outcomes and Program Criteria are discussed in
necessary code and stackmanipulation within a wider scope of the source code would help to increase the challenge forstudent reverse engineers.Spring 2021As for the Spring 2021 group project, it is planned that a small ASCII-based dungeon crawlerwill be created in C. This game will be more complex than the previous calculator program usedfor the Fall 2020 project. Through this, more subtle malicious elements will be added. Ratherthan outright crashing and loudly spawning new processes, small malicious elements will bemixed within the game code. Examples of a small malicious element might be a tiny bomb thatopens a couple processes, or some file spawning code that silently spawns 5 files in a directoryon the user’s computer. This will drive students
conducted throughconsultation and collaboration with these industry partners contributes significantly in thefollowing activities: ● Critically review and identify knowledge gaps in SV&V courseware, ● Assist in developing course modules, ● Deliver expert lecture sessions to undergraduate students at partner universities if requested, ● Deliver training programs to industry practitioners, ● Assess student/trainee learning.RMU is also collaborating with two categories of academic partners: Development AcademicPartners (assist in developing course modules – they are Virginia State University, andMilwaukee School of Engineering) and Implementation Academic Partners (assist in
efforts to help students develop effective mentornetworks [23] and the correlation of this activity with undergraduate retention in a STEMdiscipline [24] have been provided. Climate was also recognized as being a vital element of a meaningful collegiate experience[21]. The administration of the Purdue Rising Scholars program worked diligently to replicatethe comfortable, community feeling proven to be advantageous in advocacy organizations [25][26] [27] and small engineering departments [28]. Many of these elements are combined toproduce a high-touch environment that indicates to the students that they are supported.Activities, such as an academic bootcamp, annual seminars, dinners, programs, and group events,create kinship and foster
entering this market, such as MicrosoftWindows Messenger in Windows XP or IBM's Lotus Sametime and Quickplace, as well as smallfirms such as Collabworx Virtual Classroom, NexPrise Program Manager [4] and others. Thesesystems bring together audio and video conferencing, file and application sharing, messageboards, chat, whiteboard sketching, document repositories and other features. At the time that this project was initiated, an assessment was made that the commerciallyavailable software packages were insufficient to meet our needs for the classroom interactionsand the associated research on collaboration and distributed learning. For this reason, we workedwith Collabworx to develop the AIDE. A screen shot from an on-line meeting using the AIDE
overseas issues. Although they are easy to plan, manage, require less funding, andrequire less curriculum changes to incorporate, they have low educational impacts. By increasingthe time that students are involved, and requiring them to engage in different stages of the projectsuch as data acquiring, design, and assessment of alternative solutions, they can create deeperimpacts [7]. Students require time to absorb important components of their service learning.Therefore, longer exposure and involvement helps them acquire more aspects of the designprocess.Another factor in designing an international service learning program is to determine if studentsare going to be required to travel to the site project or can they stay connected remotely too
2W1, Canada This paper presents an engineering capstone design project that is community or service-based. By and large, most students in the school’s capstone program design and build a car forcompetition in the Baja or Formula collegiate program. However, there are several other growingoptions that students are exploring. In 2019-20, one of the options was for students to design andbuild a star tracking mechanism for a 4.5-meter radio telescope. This paper presents the ongoingtelescope work and, where appropriate, contrasts that with the traditional capstone projects likeBaja. In particular, a series 8345 Prime focus radio telescope is to be modified to track stars. Thismeans that we could use the 8345-dish, but little else. Nearly
environmental. Images fromdrones can help determine a flat tire or clogged sprinkler on a pivot irrigation system [7]. Dronescan also collect data to monitor soil quality, planting, crop spraying, crop health assessment, pestinfestation, wildfire detection, and observe water usage [8]. More commonly, drone technologyhelps monitor large fields with aerial views. Farmers and crop analysts have recently startedusing aerial images from drones to analyze various stresses and resulting crop health [7, 9].After deciding to focus on a project in the agriculture sector, a connection was made with afarmer from Harrison Farm to help determine current issues in agriculture. The farmer identifiedtopics that would help the overall productivity of the farm. Solutions
the courses andafter-school activities offered at each school.When selling the instrumentation career to all of our target market groups, the team’s initialstrategy used tag lines such as “pays well,” “high-tech,” and “saves money.” However, thesephrases were too vague to audiences completely unfamiliar with automation or engineeringtechnology. The BPSTIL group shared that people need stories with which to connect.Therefore, the grant team began using different language in introducing the program, includingspecific stories and examples such as: using computers to cut a large log into various size pieces,controlling the temperature of water in a chemical plant, and using sensors in a self-driving car todecide when to stop. The group also
supportthat finding. At the same time and again consistent with a large body of literature in the sciences, it hasbeen shown that the use of inquiry-based activities can significantly increase student performance onmeasures of conceptual understanding, even in those cases that are resistant to change throughconventional instruction. Again, the significantly improved student performance, both in the aggregateand for each of the targeted concept areas of the HECI, supports this assertion. Taken as a whole, thiswork contributes to our understanding by adding to what is at present a small data-base of the
, improvisation, bricolage, network bricolage,hustle, bootstrapping and resource seeking. [17] In other words, it parallels many of the sameskills and approaches required to start a truly new program in an existing, established company.A review of the literature over the past ten years for the topic of this paper – integrating a multi-college interdisciplinary innovation concentration into curricula – yielded an interesting set oftrends: 1. Most articles fell into one of the following categories: Engineering-only, Capstone- or Large Project-only, or general concepts and considerations – mostly engineering-only. 2. The terms “multidisciplinary”, “interdisciplinary”, “cross-disciplinary”, and “trans- disciplinary” were used nearly
-Champaign. His interests include computational complexity theory, professional ethics, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He serves as Executive Editor of College Teaching, and as a member of the editorial board of Accountability in Research. He is a Carnegie Scholar and an IEEE Fellow. Loui was Associate Dean of the Graduate College at Illinois from 1996 to 2000. He directed the theory of computing program at the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 1991. He earned the Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. Page 25.712.1 c American Society for
realization by both public and private organizations, including national and localgovernments, international and local community organizations, corporations andenvironmental interest groups, has led to increased interest in technologies and practices thatwill reduce the global impact of large urban centers, without sacrificing the economic progressthat is usually associated with cities. Large urban centers handle creating pollution and adverseclimate effects impacting far distances from their location, imposing burdens on people livingelsewhere who do not receive any of the benefits of living within the city environment [1].Small Island Developing States, for example, are faced with expenditure for recovery from thedevastating impacts of climate
Virtual and Collaborative Project-Based Learning Keith M. Gardiner1Abstract – Project-Based Learning (PBL) methods have been used together with a digitized course managementsystem to enable small numbers of first year engineering students to collaborate, communicate, organize and work ingroups to plan, research and develop information for two-page status reports on a wide range of local, national, andglobal societal and technological issues. A large class comprising 331 first year engineering students wasadministered, managed and successfully guided through a whole semester of practical ‘hands-on’ laboratoryactivities culminating in student presentations to explain their practical lab
Paper ID #11690A Cross-Sectional Study of Engineering Student Perceptions and ExperiencesRelated to Global ReadinessDr. Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Associate and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement and testing. In her position, Sarah is responsible for developing instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and projects, and working
Representational Competence with Vectors (Davishahl et al., 2019)According to its authors, the TRCV is intended to act as a physics and vector analysis conceptinventory, but its coverage of vectors is largely undertaken in a Statics context. The questionsfocused on relating vectors and vector additions to static objects, often which integratingcompatible concepts like moments, types of supports, and multi-member pin-jointed structures.This is an example of a concept inventory focused on a small subset of concepts within a largercurricular framework, assessing a narrow range of misconceptions specific to the vector-basedmodeling of static systems.As can be seen in Davishahl et al. [17], TRCV coincides with a spatial visualization courseintervention that
, "2019-2020 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs," ABET, Baltimore, MD2018, Available: https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accrediting- engineering-programs-2019-2020/, Accessed on: 25 January 2021.[8] D. Davis, S. Beyerlein, O. Harrison, P. Thompson, M. S. Trevisan, and B. Mount, "A Conceptual Model for Capstone Engineering Design Performance and Assessment," in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Chicago, IL, 2006, p. Session 1237.[9] D. C. Davis, K. Gentili, M. S. Trevisan, R. K. Christianson, and J. F. McCauley, "Measuring Learing Outcomes for Engineering Design Education," in American Society for
, but instead with a mobiledevice such as a tablet the professor can matriculate through the classroom and interact with thestudents. VIA, the software application utilized in the space, has had mixed responses fromstudents thus far, mostly due to the learning curve that comes with new technology. The softwareallows for both faculty and students to share information in large and small groupssimultaneously.Increasing student engagement was and is still one of the major on-going initiatives at IUPUI,and this new space is helping to do that. Interestingly, many of our studio workspaces for theInterior Design and Architectural Technology students are located in parts of the building thatdon’t have windows. This new collaborative classroom has one
have suggested theimportance of students working together with the intention of creating new knowledge andengaging with the material while building a community of learners [1]. The classroom design, asstipulated by the active learning approach, would involve the use of small learning groups,whether formal or informal, in which each student’s opinion is treated as equally important. Inthis model of active learning, classroom activities are aimed at problem solving under the socialinterdependence theory. According to this theoretical approach, the group operates as whole inwhich the action of each individual determines the overall outcome of the group as well as itsability to achieve the preset goals. Ultimately, active learning in this space
interviews.These interviews start with general questions about attitudes, asking students which careerpathways they are and are not interested in. We then ask about specific career types, askingstudents about their desire (or lack thereof) to 1) work for a small aerospace startup vs. a large,well-established aerospace company; 2) work for a company that has defense contracts; and 3)work for a defense contractor on aerospace projects that are not military-focused. We also askhow important workplace conditions and employee treatment are when selecting a company.Finally, we ask students what ethical dilemmas and macroethical concerns they feel they mightencounter in their future work, and how they feel their aerospace engineering educationinfluenced their
(measured by credit-hours completed). Students’ programming backgrounds vary from none to paid programmers. • Lab equipment is limited. The class is large enough to require 15 identical lab stations. Therefore the system had to be designed so that the cost, multiplied by 15, was reasonable. Even with 15 stations students work in pairs, and two or three lab sections are required.Measurement of effectiveness of the student experienceIn line with the research goals of the lab experience measurements will be made of: 1. Students’ understanding of CPS 2. Students’ understanding of the pillars of IT relevant to this experience. 3. Students’ evaluation (opinion) of the relationship between CPS and IT.These
and instructors assessment of student work and coursecomprehension. The net effect of these certifications is not only earned degrees, but employerability to validate prospective employee skill and knowledge outside of an academicenvironment.This paper presents the approach followed in developing in-depth, project-based learningopportunities using cutting-edge technology for the new academic pathway in cloud literacy andthe program outcomes. A discussion on the best practices and lessons learned whileimplementing the first year of the program is included.IntroductionThere is a significant shortage of experienced cloud professionals with 63% of U.S. organizationsexpecting this gap to widen in the next two years [1]. Cloud migration has
from a sharedmemory location (i.e., the implementation of lock and unlock instructions to give the ability toatomically read and modify a memory location). For reconfigurable processors, there are threemethods proposed for communication between processors4. The first is direct connection, knownas point-to-point. This method is the simplest and most effective for a small number ofconnections but is not area efficient when a large number of processors communicate with eachother. Second is the traditional shared-bus approach which is used in uni-processor designs. It isinefficient for large systems since only one processor can use the bus at a time. A third optionhas been introduced recently, the idea of implementing a network-on-chip (NoC
with year in college [4]. Situational factors such asperceived heavy work load, highly competitive academic environment and class size have amoderate to small correlation with a student’s decision to cheat [4]. Most engineering undergradswould describe their undergraduate program as one of the most rigorous on campus. The rigorsof engineering course studies may contribute to the high percentages of cheating self-reported byengineering majors.The PACE-1 SurveyOne of the most recent cheating studies involved a survey of 643 undergraduate engineering andpre-engineering students at eleven institutions, ranging from community colleges to largeresearch universities, called the PACE-1 Study. This study attempted to determine what isstudent cheating
-prepared activities are applied in subsequent courses through the undergraduate curriculum.2 Regardless, the authors of some of these media are standout professionals or rising-stars in computer science and related fields. 4 CoNECD ASEE Conference April 29-May 1, 2018Team contributions in each Social Contract Building Blocks assignment are assessed in a peer-wiserating using the template provided in Appendix D.In addition to scores from Social Contract Building Blocks assignments, and peer ratings, an ongoingseries of interviews with students over their experiences in the Computer Science program is beingconducted in order to