teach allthe “tool” subjects without hopelessly overloading the curriculum it will be necessary toprovide some form of integration. The possibility of understanding the principle ofmutual relations would seem to be better in an integrated program than in a traditionalsubject based curriculum. The key to creating that understanding and developingreflective practice will be in the techniques of assessment that are used and the backwasheffect they have on teaching as well as learning. The model shown in exhibit 2 isintended to illustrate this fact and also to show what is possible in a short period of time.It is based on part of course that was developed for the Engineer in Society examinationof the Council of Engineering Institutions in the UK
AC 2012-5074: PROMOTING SECOND-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS’EPISTEMIC BELIEFS AND REAL-WORLD PROBLEM-SOLVING ABIL-ITIES THROUGH CASE-BASED E-LEARNING RESOURCESDr. Ikseon Choi, University of Georgia Ikseon (Ike) Choi is an Associate Professor of learning, design, and technology in the Department of Edu- cational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia, where he teaches learning theories, learning environments design, and program evaluation courses. Since receiving his Ph.D. at Penn State University, he has been leading a series of research and development projects for case-based e-learning environments and real-world problem solving in both higher education and corporate settings. Through
Engineering Education” Page 8.6.1Keywords: appropriate technology, energy conservation, climate responsive architecture,environmental educationI. IntroductionWe teach at a small, primarily undergraduate college located in a large city, Hyderabad, in thesouth-central region of India. Except for the winter months of December and January, when theaverage maximum temperature is 28 0C and the average minimum, 14 0C, the day temperaturesin the remaining months are usually uncomfortably high. The monsoon season runs from June toAugust, with spells of rain every three or four days. The rest of the months are very dry. Summerhighs are over 40 0C and remain
relation to environments, technologies, and human lives.Dr. Breanne Przestrzelski, University of San Diego Bre Przestrzelski, PhD, is a post-doctoral research associate in the General Engineering department in the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, where she seeks to innovatively integrate social justice, humani- tarian advancement, and peace into the traditional engineering canon. Before joining USD in August 2017, Bre spent 9 years at Clemson University, where she was a three-time graduate of the bioengineering program (BS, MS, and PhD), founder of The Design & Entrepreneurship Network (DEN), and Division I rower. In her spare time, Bre teaches design thinking workshops for higher education faculty
25.1318.5prototypical tools, the first of which has been recently tested several times in theclassrooms of our Design Team members. We will continue to augment, evaluate, andfine-tune our software, and soon we will recruit more teachers to gain access to a greatervariety of classrooms. Our Design Team plays a crucial role in our project. The members—three fromMassachusetts, two from New Hampshire—come from myriad school settings, in termsof size and ethnic, socioeconomic makeup, and possess varying levels ofscience/engineering teaching experience. They include Grant, who has nineteen years’experience and works at a small private school in Boston; Kraig, who has six years’experience and works at a large public school in Somerville, Massachusetts
projects also expose undergraduates to both theenvironmental engineering profession (collaboration with practicing engineers) and largerresearch universities.1.3 ObjectivesThe objectives of this paper are to:• Describe the implementation of an externally-funded research program at an undergraduate- only engineering college.• Explain the organization of the research program in terms of contracting and effective utilization of undergraduates (with information related to the demand for and the solicitation of these contracts).• Describe how this program has focused on water and wastewater treatability studies (applied research) through small-scope contracts with local utilities, industries, and consultants that provide a valuable service to
researchuniversities seeking federal funding often led to RCR education being housed in legal orcompliance divisions, such as ethics and compliance offices, research divisions, such as grantdevelopment offices, or STEM academic units, such as schools of engineering or medicine(Geller, Boyce, Ford, & Sugarman, 2010). As Resnick (2014) argues, this institutionalbifurcation between the traditional teaching of ethics in the humanities to instill understandingand promote critical reflection, and the emphasis within the sciences to govern behaviors viaresearch conduct and professional codes creates problems when assessing ethics education.The emphasis on institutional factors in ethics education in this paper can be seen as a responseto a small but consistent
SocialResponsibility are captured throughout the PD-3 curriculum, so that students are exposed to theglobal framework for social responsibility for companies large and small. The topics presented inthe course are depicted in the Digraph of Figure 1.The interactive learning approach, in addition to discussions, exams and presentations, isdesigned to promote further development of students’ leadership abilities. By design, PD3 istaken at the same time as the Fourth Year culminating design experience for Engineeringstudents; however, it is not tied specifically to the capstone course, and it represents anindependent educational outcome for our students. The goal is to begin to connect thegraduating student to the workplace (or graduate school or military)—not to
engineers [9-13], the new-found setting of the workplace post-graduationgave rise to both the application and adaption of their school-learning to engineering problems,and the surprise of learning to navigate the social aspects of the workplace.Future Time HorizonStudents have a foreshortened appreciation of what might be further in time as compared to thoseolder than college age. [14] investigated college students’ future time perspective through large-scale quantitative means; [15] examined student motivations over a time scale. [16] asked 1styear student and senior to describe and map their understandings of their undergraduatecurricular / program map; first-year students looked to only mostly the next term whereas seniorshave a much fuller view
). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024An Evaluation of the Impact of a Femalized Architecture, Engineering, and ConstructionKinesthetic Learning Model on the AEC Career Knowledge, Self-efficacy, and OutcomeExpectations of African American Middle School GirlsAbstractEngaging African American middle school girls in out-of-school-time (OST) Architecture,Engineering, and Construction (AEC) programs can significantly boost their knowledge andawareness of these traditionally male-dominated fields. This study adopts Lent’s SocialCognitive Career Theory (SCCT) and Bandura’s self-efficacy theory to assess the impact of afemalized AEC kinesthetic learning model (fAEC-KLM) on the AEC career knowledge, self-efficacy, and outcome expectations (KSO
Engineering and Technology, National University, San Diego, USA. He is a lead faculty for MSc in Database Administration and MSc in Computer Science programs. Dr. Wyne has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, M.Sc. in Engineering and B.Sc., in Electrical Engineering. He has been in academics for 20+ years and supervised over 50 graduate and undergraduate projects. Dr. Wyne is with the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET), USA for more than 8 years and is currently serving as a program evaluator for Computer Science Program and Information Systems Program. In addition, he is a guest editor for a journal, associate editor and serving on editorial boards for four international journals
conclusion of the semester, the teams test their bridges to destruction to determine whichbridge holds the maximum load. A student peer assessment of the project is used and feedback isgiven to each student. The design project reinforces skills taught in the classroom and labs andmotivates the students to pursue engineering as a career.OverviewThe Introduction to Engineering course offered at Baylor University is intended to provide anoverview of the profession of engineering, the engineering educational experience, and theengineering program at Baylor University. It also provides students with some skills and toolsneeded as they progress through the program. The course seeks to accomplish these purposesthrough discussions, demonstrations
a mass online education specificallyfor students and faculty from Tier 2 and Tier 3 colleges. MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course )are online courses which enable large numbers to participate via the web or other technologies.MOOCs have a long history and have primarily been asynchronous so that international studentscan also avail of this. In this article, we delineate how we modified that approach by piloting thissynchronously. The Covid19 situation was an added incentive to offer this course to students whocould not meet in person due to restrictions for in-person classes. Over 350 students from 20different engineering colleges from India were recruited for a pilot program along with the facultyfrom their schools. Each college recruited
. Page 22.1715.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Writing Effective Evaluation and Dissemination Plans for Innovations in Engineering EducationIntroductionThe importance of assessment in engineering education has been on a steep rise for more than adecade because of accreditation requirements for data-driven decisions on improvements incourses and curricula. This increased emphasis on classroom assessment has not, however,resulted in a noticeable improvement in the quality of the evaluation plans in proposals to theNational Science Foundation (NSF) for course and curriculum development or for engineeringeducation research. A large fraction of proposals to NSF still
working in special education; however, no experience with the spatial skillscurriculum. The instructor was supported by the researchers and a team of three pre-serviceteachers and two graduate students in various fields of studies (e.g., communication science andpsychology). DST instruction for this course was also two 90-minute sessions each week. Themultiple-choice workbook problems and sketches were completed during class. Since no workwas completed outside of the classroom instruction, only four modules were covered during thissecond pilot study. Pre and post assessments involved several instruments to assess 3-D spatial skill levels andstudent interests. Skill at Mental Rotation (MR) has been identified as a key skill for STEMsuccess
introduced its Criteria 20002, we strove to build ethical considerations into the curriculumfrom the beginning rather than tack them on at a later time. With a small faculty recruited in partbecause we shared this vision for the program, integrating ethics across the curriculum ispossible in ways it might not be at other institutions.Pedagogically, Smith is oriented toward a learner-centered approach.3 The teaching of ethics atSmith is directed toward a spirit of lifelong learning and toward the reflective action (praxis) thatis an outcome of liberative pedagogies.4,5 The goal of teaching ethics at Smith College, then, iswell captured in humanist Algernon Black’s statement of the unifying goal of ethics: “to movepeople from apathy, from an
electrons were flowing to the left.”Predictability Does not understand how a small “… if they are not placed in exactlyChange or large change to the system the same starting position, then they Page 26.558.7 could manifest. will have a completely different movement pattern as the forces that they feel from the different directions will be slightly different.” Predictable Does not understand how a small
tools carts and are cataloged for check-outat the library service desk. Promotion for the new tool library included in-library displays,featuring on the library’s homepage, printed book marks, and articles in the universitynewspaper. LibGuides were developed to provide instructions, safety protocols, and links tohow-to videos and other instructional online resources and hands-on demonstrations wereoffered throughout the semester. A preliminary assessment of tool check-outs was conducted,the results of which identified the strengths of the tool-library forum, as well as opportunities forimprovement. This paper accompanies a poster presented at the 2019 American Society forEngineering Education conference in Tampa, Florida and provides a
Page 22.375.13graduate students come into a program with different strengths and weaknesses, and it quicklybecomes apparent that some sort of formalized data management assessment and instruction isneeded.Access to these students may come in the form of classroom based activities (a graduateseminar) or through individual professors who open their research groups for instruction.Research is needed on best practices for presenting these skills to students. At this point, a list ofcore competencies in data information literacy has been presented, but not yet validated.28Librarians and information scientists will continue to hone educational objectives for teachingdata information literacy. Traditional one hour lectures will not be sufficient for
theirFYEPs, but they do indicate that training is provided through other venues at the universitywhich helps them improve their teaching.IntroductionGraduate teaching assistants (GTAs) are a vital component to engineering courses includingmany first-year engineering programs (FYEPs). FYEPs tend to be large in size, having multiplesections of the same class requiring the use of GTAs whose roles vary across institutions frominstructional staff to lab supervisors to graders.1-4 Despite the widespread use of GTAs inengineering, especially in FYEPs, little is known about GTA’s experiences from the perspectiveof the GTA. While there are studies that describe and evaluate preparation courses for GTAs,evaluations tend to be short-term (e.g., right after the
PowerPoint lesson slides are largely complete as of this writing, andwill be followed by sample exam/quiz questions. The web site URL ishttp://web.ics.purdue.edu/~glhardin/jitter.Finally, a follow-up paper is planned that will assess how well students grasp the introductorymaterial on jitter analysis, and whether the instructional material should be modified to improvestudent comprehension.1 Harding, G. L. (2005). A Jitter Education: Finding a Place for Jitter Analysis in the EET Curriculum [CD-ROM].2005 Annual Conference Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education.2 Tektronix, Inc. (2003, October) Understanding and Characterizing Timing Jitter (Primer #55W-16146-1).3 Kurpis, G., Booth, C., et. al. (1993). The New IEEE Standard
Paper ID #42855Re-Envisioning Materials Science Education Through Atomic-Level ComputationalModelingMr. Jacob Kelter, Northwestern University Jacob Kelter is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University in the joint program between computer science and learning sciences. His research focuses on using agent-based modeling for science education and computational social science research, both relatedProf. Jonathan Daniel Emery, Northwestern Univeristy Jonathan Emery is an Associate Professor of Instruction in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. ©American Society for
is to generate transferable tools which can be used to teach andevaluate undergraduate engineering students’ metacognitive skills in the context of anengineering classroom. To accomplish this, we are working through a three-phase project inwhich we pilot a metacognitive intervention in one context, translate the intervention to a newcontext, and share the intervention and provide training on how to use it. This paper reports onthe outcomes from Phase 1, which is focused on the development and pilot implementation of ametacognitive intervention for a sophomore engineering course at a small undergraduate-focusedengineering school and assessing student’s metacognitive development. The intervention ismade up of six modules containing paired
ofknowledge” [6]. Engineering educators may no longer assume their students are trained in howto learn or have internalized “such knowledge as may be useful in gaining other knowledge, …the love of learning, [or] … the habits of independent study” [6]. Rather, a growing number ofincoming engineering students lack basic math and science literacy and the skills required tolearn new content as expected and required for success in engineering programs. At the sametime, established practitioners, engineering societies and accrediting bodies demand engineers belifelong, self-directed learners [7], [8]. This places engineering educators in a difficult position:taking under-prepared incoming students and creating self-directed lifelong learners capable
-Champaign I am currently the Associate Director of Assessment and Research team at the Siebel Center for Design (SCD) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I work with a group of wonderful and talented people at SCD’s Assessment and Research Laboratory to conduct research that informs and evaluates our practice of teaching and learning human-centered design in formal and informal learning environments. My Research focuses on studying students’ collaborative problem solving processes and the role of the teacher in facilitating these processes in STEM classrooms.Nicholas Robert PozzaDr. Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dr. Blake Everett Johnson is a Teaching Assistant Professor
integratingtechnologies into their teaching. The FIC works with faculty to create a videopresentation or a media-rich Web site. Whether putting an entire course online or simplyenhancing the classroom experience, working with the FIC requires minimal technicalexpertise on the part of the faculty member.The FIC inspires instructional innovation and excellence. By providing technical andinstructional expertise, the FIC allows faculty to stay focused on their area of expertise –engineering.The PossibilitiesGone are the days when faculty could go to their classes, shut the door and teach.Today’s faculty are expected to be aware of new developments in learning theory,assessment and instructional technologies. “Since a professor's time is limited, if he is lefton his
. Page 14.1132.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Teaching Emerging Technologies Using a Socio-Technological Development Model Weapons and Systems Engineering United States Naval AcademyIntroductionThe Systems Engineering department at the United States Naval Academy (USNA) offers anABET-accredited degree program that focuses on feedback control and mechatronics, includingaspects of mechanical and electrical systems design. Several years ago, an effort was beguntoward developing an engineering management elective track to supplement the existingspecialization courses in robotics, control theory, information systems and embedded
Paper ID #26018Human Rights as a Lens for Engineering Ethics?Dr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Environ- mental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living- learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice sustainability
technical level, this scenario is different from thefirst example, as this is a single, large file which is downloaded via one connection. Web pagesare built of multiple small files that are downloaded in parallel such as scripts and pictures.As above, 95% confidence intervals and the NBN target bandwidth of 12 Mbit/s are shown. Theresults for 3G and Satellite indicate longer download times than expected due to the linkcapacity. This is due to the nature of the wireless channel, throughput fluctuates with channelinterference. There is also an indication that at higher speeds, a server bottle neck is beingreached. It is expected with the wide availability of NBN access that server infrastructure will beadapted to provide adequate service. Most users
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