other’s classrooms. This program offers a chance to break down thosebarriers and meet aspiring new professors from different departments across the college. Forstudents, they rarely get a chance to interact with faculty in a more personal and collegialsetting. The observation program treats students as junior colleagues and values their input.From the pre-observation meeting through the post-observation discussion, the co-observersare provided an opportunity to help others, as well as learn from colleagues’ different teachingapproaches.It is encouraging to see the co-observers were learning from the observation process itself andtruly enjoyed, and learned from, meeting and discussing teaching issues with the CollinsScholars. We are confident
fundamental altering of matter witch some could take for ‘playing God’.” “Some people may feel that it isn’t right to be able to change things using nanotechnology.”Others have emphasized the socio-economic benefits and disadvantages. For example, twostudents mentioned issues related to improving cost effectiveness of goods (5%) while anotheremphasized the existence of a “nano-divide” arguing that some countries will not have the accessto the technology (2%). “It has the potential to greatly improve society through commercial, industrial, and medical applications. I specifically see nanotechnology as a field in which America could specialize. The incredibly high amount of infrastructure and expertise required to
survey items have been validated andproven reliable for science and math identity through the SaGE study.25 Further, missing dataresponses were dealt with by deleting entire responses for missing pre-‐ or post-‐ results.Future work in this area of study should focus on capturing a larger, more representativepopulation of undergraduate researchers. A longitudinal study would be insightful to follow upthis work in order to see how the identities of science, math, engineering, and research changeand morph over time with each RP’s experiences and beyond, as he/she becomes part of theSTEM community. Future work comparing research experiences of URMs to those of non-URMstudents would add insight regarding the relationship between ethnicity
produced through extrusion. • The bumper reinforcement bar can either be extruded, or made of multiple layers of stamped steel. • The bosses and through holes can be CNC machined after the extrusion process • The front knuckle/ front suspension mounting clevises (pictured above, right), can either be forged and machined/ welded, or if precision is of the utmost importance (which, with it being a Lamborghini - this is most likely the case), then the clevises can be individually CNC machined and then welded onto the frame rails.Cross-Axis Suspension-Mounting Bar • The main rail will most likely be produced by extrusion, with the ends machined off to produce the desired Miter or SAPA joint
canprovide a sense of community and provide help for students beyond just the instructor. However,peer tutors may not always be fully utilized. Many peer tutors have office hours where studentscan informally drop by and get help, or students are asked to formally join a peer tutoringprogram [1]. These programs are voluntary and may be missing the students who need it themost.ICPT may improve access to peer tutors for all students. ICPT involves peer tutors attendingclass sessions where students solve in-class assignments. Because it is during class, all studentsinteract with the peer tutors. ICPT has been used in statics and mechanics of materials [8]-[10],thermodynamics [11], and introductory engineering courses [12], [13] but has been limited
investigateaggressively all complaints of [gender-based discrimination] and respond consistently andmeaningfully when those complaints are found to have merit.”16 For example, when a deanknows that a male professor has engaged in discriminatory conduct (sexual harassment) toward afemale student, the dean may, consistent with Title IX, follow the university’s internaldisciplinary procedures to attempt to put a stop to the professor’s conduct, and need not initiallyresort to the drastic last step of firing the professor to ensure that his misconduct does notcontinue. But, if those disciplinary procedures ultimately prove ineffective, or if the universitythreatens but fails to follow through on stepped-up disciplinary action for successive incidents ofmisconduct
Paper ID #32908Who will Lead Us Out of Climate Crisis? Gender, Race, and Early CareerPathways in Environmental EngineeringDr. Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University Shannon K. Gilmartin, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab and Adjunct Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Her expertise is in education and workforce development in science and engineering fields. She has particular interest in access to and equity in engineering education and practice. She studies the experiences of underrepre- sented students in engineering classrooms
. Thompson, J.J., A Juggling Act, ASEE Prism, pp. 31-32, Feb 2000.18. University of North Texas Policy Manual: Academic Workload, http://www.unt.edu/planning/UNT_Policy/volume3/15_1_9.html19. Verma, Alok K., Meeting Research and Publication Requirements in an Undergraduate ET Program Through Senior Design Projects, ASEE Annual Conference, 200120. Goupil, Jennifer, Examining Professional Licensure, Structural Engineer, pp. 30 – 35, February 2003 Page 8.1162.15 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for
particularand engineering curriculum in general than just for CTSS courses. Determining more effectiveways to help students to take a more conceptual approach to learning concepts taught at a higheracademic level will impact a wide range of studies even beyond engineering.VI. References[1] S. So, "Refined ‘Chalk-and-Talk’of Lecture Content: Teaching Signals and Systems at the Griffith School of Engineering," in AAEE 2012, 2012.[2] D. C. Hanselman, "Signals and linear systems: a teaching approach based on learning styles concepts," Education, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 35, pp. 383-386, 1992.[3] J. H. McClellan, R. W. Schafer, and M. A. Yoder, "Experiences in teaching DSP first in the ECE curriculum," in Acoustics, Speech, and
ABET Best Practices: Results from Interviews with 27 Peer Institutions Terry S. Mayes, John K. Bennett College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractABET2000 criteria permit a variety of approaches to assessment. While this flexibility allowseach institution the freedom to develop practices best suited to its particular circumstances, suchflexibility can also create doubt whether the assessment practices employed will be found to besatisfactory by ABET evaluators. As the College of Engineering & Applied Science at CU-Boulder prepares for a fall 2005 ABET General
visual and animation tools. These tools will be accessed through The University ofTexas at Arlington (UTA)’s Web site for use in classrooms globally. The three major steps inachieving this research goal were: (1) accepting data from the user; (2) running a pre-definedexecutable on the input data, which produces “Web-friendly” output file(s); and (3) redirectingthe browser to the output file. This study was successfully completed by using ActiveX controlsthat accept data from the user, transfer and run the FORTRAN executable files, redirect thebrowser to the result files and perform checks before displaying resulting diagrams or tables. Theuniqueness of these tools is that the executables are transferred to the client machine and run onit
). Most of the strain will be on research universities who educate only 19% ofcollege students but account for 42% of the B.S. and 52% of the M.S. degrees in S&E. A keychallenge to undergraduate education will be producing enough qualified K-12 math and scienceteachers to meet the increase in not only student population but in retirement of experiencedteachers. This is a topic that UNM and DP is much concerned about. UNM’s ENLACE Program,through funding by the Kellogg Foundation, has created a Hispanic Teachers Pipeline that seeksto produce more Hispanic teachers by various methods, including mentoring high school andmiddle school students by champion teachers.There is some mixed news in minority engineering graduate education. It increased
classmates for the first time through a computer screen. Inaddition to this element of stress for students, they were expected to learn numerous newsoftware for their courses that semester. Most students also had never experienced auniversity level in-person studio design course, and they were expected to engage in anonline version of this course. Additionally, the remote nature of the event meant that manystudents were living in various time zones. Due to these concerns, Design Days wasrequired to: ● Introduce the students to remote learning and the online tools to be used for the upcoming semester; ● Connect students with their cohort, faculty, graduate students, and second-year architectural engineering students to encourage
support for learners to set their own learning goals,manage their own learning in terms of both content and process, as well as communicate withothers in the process of learning and thereby achieve their learning goals3. Therefore, our PLE iscomposed of the different tools we use in our daily life to learn, including formal and informallearning environments from our individual experiences4. Through the PLEs we can recognize theprocesses of learning, reflection, and identity that individuals develop in a context, mediated ornot by technology. However, nowadays technology is a necessary tool widely used byindividuals who are part of a formal learning community. Thus, a PLE usually involves using acombination of electronic devices, applications, and
and MetricsAbstract “The traditional (or Alexandrian) model of the library is based upon the mistakenintuition that to be good a library must be vast and always growing.”1 Weeding of librarycollections, whether printed or electronic, whether by choice or compulsory, createsopportunities for criticism and growth. Where the literature suggests that starting a weedingproject is close to last on a librarian’s list, events beyond a librarian’s control can force aweeding action. Space reallocations, time constraints, or e-provider policies imposes risks thatthreaten the attempt to maintain a viable collection. Sometimes the choice is voluntary; but if notexplicitly defined as part of a formal collection policy, the rationale used can vary
wall on the hook was not simply a single downward force. Rather, I explained, a simple model would be to assume that the wall contacted the hook at two places, on adjacent faces, without friction, rendering the hook a 3-force body, obliquely oriented (see Figure 1). Figure 1. Sketches of hook lifting wall, and suggested Free Body Diagrams. Beyond these points, we discussed that the static analysis was only a prerequisite to their project. The students readily agreed they needed to analyze the stresses, and suggested that they could apply ideas from Strength of Materials, such as the theories for axial bars and beams. I commended them for appealing to this line of reasoning, but I cautioned that these approaches
work on the earth and serve people by helping provide them with safe solutions to their most fundamental needs. Dr. Dittenber also has a passion for providing engaging teaching experiences, tackling unique and creative projects, and mentoring students through college and what follows. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Measuring Academic Integrity Perceptions and the Correlation with Ethical ReasoningAbstractHere we share findings of student and faculty perceptions of academic integrity practices at twoinstitutions, gaps between these perceptions, and how these perceptions may
Recognizing the importance of certain areas in the physiology curriculum, and thepaucity of quantitative problems, we have initiated a project to create problems that can be doneby students electronically and independent of a particular textbook. This project uses thepowerful Courseware Authoring and Packaging Environment (CAPE) and ExperimentalLearning Management System (eLMS) that has been developed by the VaNTH ERC 8.CAPE/eLMS problems have many features which differentiate them from problems madeavailable through other learning management systems such as Blackboard. In a CAPE/eLMSproblem, the student interacts continuously with the computer. When a student enters the answerto a problem, he or she receives feedback immediately on whether he or she
?The following is a list of online teaching methods analyzed here: • Asynchronous Online Teaching: None of the course activities (including lectures, office hours and student presentations) are delivered live in real time. Lectures are posted either as Lecture notes, presentation slides or pre-recorded presentations with audio and/or video. Interactions take place only online through e-mails, and discussion groups. • Synchronous Online Teaching: Lectures/presentations are delivered live in real time on the web. Online live lectures are scheduled every week similar to a traditional on-campus class. The lecture is interactive where students can ask questions in real time. The instructor and the
University Press, 2020). He is dedicated to engi- neering pedagogy and enriching students’ learning experiences through teaching innovations, curriculum design, and support of undergraduate student research.Dr. Alex M. Phan, University of California San Diego Dr. Phan received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California San Diego with a specialization in medical devices. He is currently an instructor for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering focusing on hands-on education.Aidan Daniel CarriggKarthik SrinivasanJosephine Relaford-Doyle, University of California, San Diego ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Effect of automated instantaneous
relevance ofstudent engagement to the desired outcomes of educational institutions. However, all of thisresearch has been directed at civilian institutions, generally within one or both of the objectivesof academic performance and persistence. This study uses a convergent parallel mixed methodsapproach to examine engagement by cadets at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) todetermine whether the mediators of student engagement developed by researchers are applicableto a military academy that has identified specific outcomes other than performance andpersistence as developmental objectives for graduates who will go on to become officers in theAir Force. Specifically, the objectives of the Air Force Academy go beyond the commonuniversity
'better' than their peers, and hence Khan Academyserves a supplemental purpose to learning as well. Khan Academy videos are notrecommended for people experienced with the subject at hand, as Khan gives thebasics only. However, if students wish to refresh their skills, Khan Academy is agreat place to go to, due to its exercises and videos. Khan Academy is a greatplace to learn, as Khan rewards you for learning more. A small improvementwould be the 'review' system- after a student has completed a set of exercises,after a while, Khan Academy marks the exercise as needing review. Students haveto go through the entire set of exercises again to get rid of the review marker.Another MOOC which is rapidly gaining traction in their course offerings
setting fordoctoral dissertation, most master-level graduate students are required to make a professionalpresentation on the research proposal in Research Project I. After the proposal is approved, the Page 26.604.4student will spend one more semester or even more than one year to conduct the research, andthen the student will be required to make a professional presentation on his or her completedresearch project to summarize the research findings. These presentations are open to public andthe students are interrogated by challenging questions from faculty, industrial sponsors andcolleague students. Through this process, the graduate students can
performance and persistence, especially that of underrepresentedstudents [10], [11]. Women who persevere through a STEM discipline may have to rely onvarious resources and different types of capital, resources and information provided by networksof institutionalized relationships [69], to offset messages about their assumed abilities andgendered stereotypes that they can experience both in interactions with professors and thosewhich are rooted in disciplinary practices [18] - [21]. However, institutions of higher educationhave the capacity to challenge and shift STEM cultures so that they do not center men andmasculinity, as it further disadvantages women [4], [22]. Relationships with STEM faculty arejust one piece of a larger puzzle that comprise a
Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. Todd, R., Magleby, S., Sorensen, D., Swan, B., and Anthony, D. (1995). “A Survey of Capstone Engineering Courses in North America”, Journal of Engineering Education, 84 (2): 165-174.2. Dutson, A., Todd, R., Magleby, S., and Sorensen, C. (1997). “A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses”, Journal of Engineering Education, 86 (1): 57-64.3. Davis, D., Beyerlein, S., Trevisan, M., McKenzie, L., and Gentili, K. (2002). “Innovations in Design Education Catalyzed by Outcomes-Based Accreditation”, ABET Conference on
completetheir degrees more rapidly and advance on to careers in the workforce, or pursue graduatestudies. Providing a channel through the STEM Scholars for degree completion changed theoutcomes for fifty new graduates.References [1] Adkins, R. C. (2012). America desperately needs more STEM students. Here’s how to get them. Forbes (Online). Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2012/07/09/america-desperately- needs-more-stem-students-heres-how-to-get-them/#733175dc28ea [2] Cook, L. (2014). Beyond the headline: US census study on STEM graduates: STEM graduates use problem-solving, analytics and data skills in a variety of fields. US News and World
.,their main disciplinary expertise and its related areas), pedagogical knowledge (i.e.,how students learn, effective pedagogies in achieving learning goals), andpedagogical content knowledge (e.g., how best to demonstrate procedures, relateconcepts, and correct students’ misconceptions within given constraints) (8) .However,expertise in any domain is usually developed over time through determination,personal effort, and years of practice, and teaching is no different! It is a skill that canbe acquired and improved with the right information, practice, and correctivemeasures through proper feedback (9, 10) . An increasing number of engineeringeducators are sharing valuable approaches, strategies, and techniques on teaching andlearning
% or beyond 62,680 Table 5. Retention and Graduation Rates Table 6 shows the student composition by year and number of graduates of the cohortfrom year one through year five. The estimated Program Cost is shown in Table 7 using theintake numbers in Table 3 for a 10% increase in engineer graduates and the retention andgraduation rates in Table 5. The yearly tuition scholarship is estimated at $7,400 per student peryear based on an average tuition for 2012 for 25 public universities in the southeastern UnitedStates. An inflation rate of 3% per year was used based on experience at one university. Yearlybook scholarships of $800/student were used. It was assumed half the cohort graduated in
is multifaceted. The basic premise atthe inception of the program in 2004 was that the effort would be provided without expense tothe university main campus or to the college of engineering beyond reasonable faculty and stafftime commitments. Basically, the decision to phase out was based on a lack of self-sustainingfunding and insufficient enrollment revenues exacerbated by under-enrolled classes, agingtelebroadcast equipment, and the fact that the effort was outside the university service area. Thesustainability of the venture was further challenged by multiple changes in leadership at theDean’s level at the college of engineering and at the extension between 2004 and the summer of2007. The recent economic downturn has severely impacted
constraints ofthe typical mechanical engineering curriculum. In order to meet this challenge, the VCUMechanical Engineering Department has begun development of an NSF-sponsored “ExperientialEngineering Library” that will provide an easily accessible environment for hands-on learningexperiences beyond the traditional Mechanical Engineering curriculum. The library will fostercritical thinking by encouraging students to apply fundamental mechanical engineeringprinciples to interdisciplinary research in emerging fields such as microelectromechanicalsystems (MEMS), bioengineering, and nanotechnology. The present article describes the libraryconcept, elaborates on its contents, and describes its impact on student interest and performancein a pilot course