Purdue University in the program of Engineering Education. His research interests include assessing students understanding of difficult concepts as well as the effectiveness of pedagogical approaches.Mr. Juan David Ortega-Alvarez P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette, and Universidad EAFIT, Colombia ´ Juan David Ortega Alvarez is an assistant professor at Universidad EAFIT (Medellin, Colombia). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Process Engineering from EAFIT and an M.S. in Process Engineering and Energy Technology from Hochschule Bremerhaven (Germany). Juan David is currently a doctoral candi- date of the Engineering Education Program at Purdue University. Before his full-time appointment with
Allocation MetricsWith respect to Going Concern, a commonly recommended first-pass for allocating revenueamong academic programs is based on credit-hours produced by the college. The previouslydescribed randomness in small program enrollments and inelasticity of program costs arechallenges to budgeting colleges on credit-hour production in small regional universities. In effect,statistical perturbations are the basis for budgeting.Also, because of the granularity in academic degree programs, resource requirements are fairlyinelastic with respect to enrollment. There are minimum resource requirements for a degreeprogram and incremental resource requirements are fixed cost intervals for faculty and equipment.Adjunct faculty are staffing alternative
Session 1496 An Artificial Intelligence-Based Application for Facilitating Interaction and Learning Assessment in On -line Engineering Courses Dilermando Piva Júnior, Mauro Sérgio Miskulin, Charlotte Nirmalani Gunawardena, Geraldo Gonçalves Júnior, Rosana Giaretta Sguerra Miskulin UNICAMP - Doctorate Program from the College of Electrical Engineering andComputer Engineering and Faculdade Politécnica de Jundiaí / UNICAMP. College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering / UNM - University of NewMexico – Albuquerque / Faculdade Politécnica de Jundiaí / UNICAMP. College of Education (FE) - CEMPEM - LAPEMMEC ABSTRACT
1. writing shorter documents (< 5 pages) that demand that you have an engineering background (minimum of 1-2 years in an engineering program) 2. writing longer documents (> 5 pages) that demand that you have an engineering background 3. writing shorter documents (< 5 pages) for readers who do not have an engineering background 4. writing longer documents (> 5 pages) for readers who do not have an engineering background 5. choosing and preparing textual illustrations 6. giving a speech in front of a large group (> 20) 7. giving a speech in front of a small group (< 20) 8. giving a speech to people you do not know 9. giving a speech to people you do know 10. giving a speech to a mixture of people whom you know and whom you
education needs to be assessed as compared to on-ground (in the classroom) education. To continue growth and experience in e-learning,universities are encouraged to develop online graduate and undergraduate courses andspecialized certificate programs. A large comprehensive state university in New England,Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), created a task force to look closely at theuniversity’s online and hybrid courses to ensure that the university delivers high quality onlineand hybrid instruction. Comprised of educators, administrators and technology experts, the taskforce’s objective is to develop recommendations to ensure that 1) online and hybrid coursestaught at this state university reflect the best practices for online course
the papers of futurevisions of ECE curriculum [1-5] but are actually being provided today in programs thatincorporate clinics or project based learning in a significant way [8-13]. This paper willreview the need for continuously responsive curricula and successful attempts to revise it Page 11.1329.3described in the literature, provide a brief overview of the methods widely believed to bemost effective in engaging and educating today’s engineering students, and close with adiscussion of how various programs (large and small) across the U.S. are using project orclinic based strategies as a pedagogical structure to successfully satisfy the pressing
. Page 23.708.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Implementing First-Year Design Projects with the Power of ChoiceAbstract: This paper presents the re-design of an introduction to engineering lab course at aprivate urban institution in the Midwest. In the lab portion of the course students were providedwith a menu of three design projects, asked to rate their interest in the three projects, and splitinto small teams according to these ratings. In a given semester the three projects centered on atheme such as water balloon launching technology or small vehicle technology. The averageinterest rating for all projects was rated as 3.58-3.65 on a 1-5 Likert scale while the averageinterest rating of
assessment. Her recent research focuses on classroom assessment practices and technical issues related to large-scale assessments. Dr. Hansen c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #21626is an experienced program evaluator and specializes in quantitative research methods and statistical anal-yses. She earned an M.A. (1996) in statistics, and M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2004) degrees in ResearchMethodology from the University of Pittsburgh. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Dissemination of Active Learning Tools for Software V&V Education
differs fromProject SUCCEED in the degree to which specific content are included for analysis. WithinABET the program outcomes (PO’s) set forth in Criterion 34,5 address eleven student objectives,(a) through (k), in which an institution must demonstrate that students have attained success.While ABET requires that there must be an assessment and evaluation process that periodicallydocuments and demonstrates the degree to which the program outcomes are attained, within theABET structure the methods by which these are addressed is up to each department to developand pursue. For example, (a) “an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, andengineering” can be assessed through a single unified assessment across the board (in which caseupper
AC 2012-3821: INTEGRATING PROJECT MANAGEMENT, LEAN-SIXSIGMA, AND ASSESSMENT IN AN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING CAP-STONE COURSEDr. Ana Vila-Parrish, North Carolina State University Ana ”Anita” Vila-Parrish is a Teaching Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.Dr. Dianne Raubenheimer, Meredith College Page 25.803.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Integrating Project Management & Lean-Six Sigma Methodologies in an Industrial Engineering Capstone CourseAbstractThe ability to
improved degree program stu- dent learning outcomes and measures to align to national accreditation standards and state mandates. Dr. Bhati’s research interests include assessment of student learning outcomes, teaching and learning, survey design and research methodology, and research related to human performance.Mrs. Kim A Small, University of Central Florida College of Engineering and Computer Science Kim Small is the Director of Academic Support Services for the College of Engineering and Computer Science. She holds a BS in Business Administration and a MA in Educational Leadership. She joined the University of Central Florida in 1995 and has served in various advising roles for the College of Engineering and
programs? Figure 2: IAB Survey. time-consuming and lacks guidance." • In [15] Sandersen says "The changes to the ABET-CAC assessment criteria are significant, and most programs are going to have to revise their assessment plans before their next visit."A majority of the literature reports on ABET accreditation conclude the beneficial results of theABET process justify the time and difficulty of conducting the process. All of the papers thatconclude thusly are by authors from departments that have successfully gone through theprocess.As noted in Section 2.1 of the paper, there are a large number of computer science degree pro-grams that are not ABET accredited. For
2433 An Assessment of Active and Project Based Learning in Energy Conservation Education for Non-Technical Students Sarma V. Pisupati, Jonathan P. Mathews, David DiBiase, and Alan W. Scaroni Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering Department and John A. Dutton e-Education Institute College of Earth & Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802AbstractA 3-credit general education course on “Energy Conservation and EnvironmentalProtection” was developed for mostly non-science/engineering students
paper assesses theassignment, and reports the results of these student explorations.Specifically, this paper addresses the research questions: 1) Can students identify stakeholderconsiderations in the design of elements of the campus built environment? 2) What designelements of the campus built environment are students most likely to notice and discuss? 3)What human and non-human stakeholder groups are students most likely to notice and discuss?1.2 Course ContextThis assignment was given as part of the two-semester first-year general engineering program atVirginia Tech, which all engineering students must complete before selecting a specific major.This program serves over 2000 students each year, and feeds into 14 discipline majors. In thefirst
University and her Ph.D. in Food Process En- gineering from the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. She is a member of Purdue’s Teaching Academy. Since 1999, she has been a faculty member within the First- Year Engineering Program, teaching and guiding the design of one of the required first-year engineering courses that engages students in open-ended problem solving and design. Her research focuses on the de- velopment, implementation, and assessment of modeling and design activities with authentic engineering contexts. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Grader Consistency Using Standards-Based RubricsIntroductionDifferences
course by linkingit to the Blackboard Course Management System or creating specific stand-alone URLs. Theoverall design goal for CAPE/eLMS was to provide a learning technology platform that wasconsistent with principles of the “How People Learn” framework 3. The CAPE/eLMS platformcould be used for many types of on-line education. In bioengineering it has largely been used todate to deliver practice on difficult concepts such as vector analysis 4, 5, and to deliver homework Page 22.1336.2with more frequent, timely and useful feedback to students than is often provided on traditionalhomework 6-8. At the same time, the system was designed to
to provide real-life problems. The PBL materials for the measurements coursewill be tested at four other universities. We believe that other educators should also considertesting the PBL method of instruction in different engineering subjects, and the assessmentapproach used in this paper can easily be applied to study its impact on enhancing studentlearning in their course(s).AcknowledgementsThis work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant No. DUE-0126671. The proposal, "Developing and Assessing Impact of Problem-Based LearningMaterials " is funded by the Division of the Undergraduate Education (DUE) at the NSF undertheir Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program and the
toencourage design work under the constraining pressures of time and stakeholder expectations.This paper first details the design of the RPDC activity, and then examines the administrationand logistics, assessment, student engagement and learning, and student response to this highlyaccelerated product design cycle. The examination of the activity pays specific attention to thechallenges posed by a high frequency of cognitive disruptions (3 different design tasks in 5weeks) compounded by the requirement of working in small teams.1. Design Context – IntroductionA core premise of Praxis is that the perspectives, terminology, and tools of “engineering design”are transdisciplinary. In keeping with this premise, this engineering education paper has
First-Year Curriculum AbstractThe purpose of this research paper is to investigate the changes in motivational constructs for First-Yearengineering students based on the revision of one of the introductory courses in the first year program ina large, public university. The course was revised as part of the assessment of the first year curriculum,with specific goals that include more effectively supporting student motivation to enhance studentretention. Two versions of the course, classic and revised, were offered during one semester to studentswithin the same cohort. A survey was implemented at the beginning and at the end of the semester inboth courses including four constructs of motivation
t-test, the related-samples Wilcoxon signed-rank test, was run to corroborate the results of the t-test given the smaller samplesizes [27]. Glass’ Delta effect sizes were calculated to determine the practical significance of thedifferences, with values below 0.50 considered small and values of 0.80 or above large [28], [29]. Glass’Delta is often used in the case of paired samples [30].3.2 Methods: Assessment of Student PerspectivesStudent perspectives on the use of simple active learning and flipped instruction were obtained in eachcourse by conducting individual, semi-structured student interviews during class time. Participation in theinterviews was voluntary. Human subjects’ approval (PRO18060710) was secured for these various formsof
the lecture in which it waspresented, but it seems that most students were able to become comfortable enough with thatconcept that it did not confuse them in further lectures.4.1 Student Response to Lecture ModificationsThe data presented in Table 3 indicate that the revisions to the course materials for the Spring2007 offering of ES100 were largely successful. Nearly 58% of all comments were positivefeedback, indicating that over half of the students in any given lecture did not have difficultieswith the material presented in that lecture. Many of the other topics shown in Table 3 receivedfewer than 1% of all responses, implying that these were issues that either affected a smallnumber of students or only affected students for a very small
Spring semester of 2010. The kitswere comprised of inexpensive, highly functional –and in many cases reusable– components combinedfor the purposes of demonstrating the capabilities of programming to generate tangible and observableresults from programs created by the students. This was supplemented by online tutorials, instructions,and projects provided by Machine Science Inc. to guide the learning process. The success and lessons ofthe pilot study resulted in a full rollout to all first-year engineering students enrolled in the programmingcourse in the following spring.To assess this initiative, students were surveyed prior to implementation of the full iteration of the‘machine science’ module to provide a baseline of their impressions of what
academic institutions, engineering employers, researchers, and ABET’sEngineering Criteria 2000, which requires that engineering programs demonstrate that theirgraduates have an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (Bekir, Cable,Hashimoto, & Katz, 2001; Herkert, 2000; Hissey, 2000; Passino, 1998; Stephan, 2002; Stern, &Pimmel, 2002). The importance of incorporating ethical education in engineering programs lieson the need of properly preparing engineering graduates for their careers. As Stern and Pimmel(2002) stated, An engineer’s work can have significant impact on society; therefore the practice of engineering carries certain obligations and responsibilities. Engineers need to assess both positive
to programming and computer science. Leveraging project based learning (PBL)pedagogies, weekly challenges have students working in small groups (from partner-pairs tolarger groups depending on scope of particular assignments) not only implementing the technicalcontent in the form of their robotic designs, but learning to negotiate team dynamics, developpresentation skills, and apply iterative analysis and reconstruction to their creations.While the projects vary for any particular year, they fall into a few similar categories each timethe course is taught: from “competition” style formats (soccer, maze solvers), to less “score-based” evaluations but with emphasis on problem-solving and system analysis (robotic bubbleblower, interactive video
Paper ID #22676Development and Assessment of Three Envision Case Study Modules Con-necting Behavioral Decision Science to Sustainable InfrastructureMr. Nathan McWhirter, Virginia Tech Nathan McWhirter is an M.S. student in the Civil Infrastructure Engineering program at Virginia Tech.Dr. Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech Tripp Shealy is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Development and Assessment of Three Envision Case Study Modules Connecting Behavioral Decision Science to Sustainable
Paper ID #27017Supporting Freshman Design with an Extracurricular ResourceAsma Idries, North Carolina State UniversityAkira Angel Romero-Berube, North Carolina State University Akira Romero-Berube attended NC State University for her Bachelor’s degree in Biological Engineering. She has held a position for five years working as a student with The Engineering Place, a preK-College Engineering education outreach program. Her experience at NC State has left her with a love for the theoretical, technical, and educational facets of engineering and she hopes to pursue a master’s or PhD in engineering education so she can pass
to fully staff for their cybersecurityteaching needs. The ability to use peer learning to augment (or in some cases replace)instructional staff represents a potentially significant way to increase educational efficiency andprogram scalability.This study considered only student-led peer learning activities. Instructor-directed or initiatedactivities would be required for the use of the technique as part of a formal educational (degree)program. Assessing the efficacy of peer learning in this environment remains a key area for andplanned topic of future work.References[1] K. Evans and F. Reeder, A Human Capital Crisis in Cybersecurity: Technical Proficiency Matters. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic & International Studies, 2010
is to build andprogram an alternative energy vehicle (AEV) to run on a monorail track. The AEV standardcourse project was developed to be a smaller version of this honors robotics project in that thereis much less designing and programming involved.Although this honors robotics design project is unique and large-scale now, it has certainly beenthe product of much advancement, especially in the last ten years3. For example, the laser cuttingand 3D printing student capabilities were not implemented until a few years ago when thosetechnologies became more commonplace. Years ago, students used the MIT Handy Board as thecontroller for the robot and programmed in Interactive C. This controller became difficult tomaintain due to its age, and so, a
respectively and the outcomes from these classes arethe basis of this paper. Most of the students were registered for a Technology program butacademic distinctions between engineering and technology are largely artificial in the systemscontext and when the subject and its applications are evolving rapidly.This paper represents the outcome of a multi-faceted review of progress. The authors are: 1. A student from the Fall 2007 class. 2. A student from the Fall 2006 class 3. The graduate assistant for both classes (preparation and assignments) 4. The responsible faculty member.Each author brings a different perspective of background experience to the shared experience ofthe course. However, the stimulus for the paper came from a
Paper ID #26291Board 31: Assessing the Impact of Embedding Nursing Students in Bio-engineering Senior Design Projects: Student Perceptions of InterprofessionalTeam Benefits and ChallengesDr. April A Dukes, University of Pittsburgh April Dukes (aprila@pitt.edu) is the Faculty and Future Faculty Program Director for the Engineering Educational Research Center (EERC) and the Institutional Co-leader for Pitt-CIRTL (Center for the Inte- gration of Research, Teaching, and Learning) at the University of Pittsburgh. April studied at Winthrop University, earning a BS degree in Chemistry and a BA degree in Psychology in 2000. She then