2006-488: GIRLS ARE IT--A WORKSHOP FOR RECRUITING GIRLS INTOINFORMATION TECHNOLOGYAnn Beheler, Collin County Community College Ann Beheler is Dean/Executive Director of the Engineering and Emerging Technology Division of Collin County Community College and is a Ph.D. student at Walden University. She is responsible for continuing education and credit engineering and technology programs on all campuses as well as Distance Education and the Teaching and Learning Center for the district. Additionally, she manages a $2.46 million National Science Foundation grant for a Regional Center in Convergence Technology that focuses on furthering careers in the emerging career area of convergence
, have been placed ina junior level Software Engineering course that is required for all majors and commonly taken byminors. The prerequisite courses are Data Structures and an Object Oriented Design course thatincludes a large semester long project. This course widely covers the software design life-cycle(SDLC) including requirements, project management, design methods, integration, qualityassurance, testing, maintenance, and tools. It is also a key course used for ABET assessment. Ourapproach to software engineering is to teach the agile process using Scrum. Agile is a verygeneral set of guidelines encouraging iterative software development, and Scrum is a variant ofagile that aims to be lightweight and is therefore appropriate in the context
Session 3530 Measuring Continuous Improvement In Engineering Education Programs: A Graphical Approach* Graciela de L. Perez, Larry Shuman, Harvey Wolfe and Mary Besterfield-Sacre University of PittsburghAbstractThis paper presents a method for developing assessment metrics that can be used to efficientlyreduce survey data to a format that facilitates quick and accurate faculty feedback as part of anEC 2000 continuous improvement process. Our methodology, the Pitt-SW Analysis, is anadaptation of the competitive strategy principle of SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunities
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Assessment of K-12 outreach group project highlighting multidisciplinary approaches in the oil and energy industryAbstract A need exists to inspire female high school students to study engineering, and one approachis to expose students to the different engineering disciplines and highlight current technologicalproblems that require multidisciplinary approaches. The objective of a week-long residentialsummer program was to introduce high school females to six engineering disciplines andmultidisciplinary approaches through interactive topic lessons, a real-world group project andprofessional development sessions to excite female students about current
," "Electronics," and "Signals and Systems" have evolved into asequence of three "Fundamentals" courses in which material from each of the three priorsegments is taught each semester at increasing levels of depth. "Embedded Computing" is also ina studio format and is taught from the perspective of how it is a component of an overall system."E&M Fields" is in a studio format and is largely based on experimental techniques learned in"Fundamentals" and "Embedded Computing." Traditional lecture and laboratory courses are stilltaught in upper-level elective courses, i.e. "Communications" and "Linear Controls."Such sweeping changes also necessitate a reevaluation of how we assess student learning andconcept retention. There are well-known concept inventory
AC 2011-2655: ANALYZING SUBJECT-PRODUCED DRAWINGS: THEUSE OF THE DRAW AN ENGINEER ASSESSMENT IN CONTEXTTirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh is Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. He has bachelors and masters degrees in Computer Science and Engineering and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction. His research interests include educational research methods, communication of research, and k-16+ engineering education. Ganesh’s research is largely focused on studying k-12 curricula, and teaching-learning processes in both the formal and informal settings. He is principal investigator of the Information Technology
been to implement assessment in the frantic pace of meeting the needs ofrapid program growth. The first set of graduates came quickly, and our first graduating classconsisted of eight students. The exit surveys were a small sample but critical to benchmarkingthe program. The surveys pretty consistently mentioned the new program issues, but most of theearly students were understanding of the start-up issues in the program. Ultimately, it isimportant to implement something to benchmark from, even if the assessment process is laterrefined.School versus department administration and communication issuesAddressing the administrative issues in coordinating a school level program within anadministrative structure formerly focused on the departmental
determine whether the evidence supported the student’s recommendation aboutredesigning the parachute and how strong the evidence was. If this task was to be administeredas part of a large scale assessment, automated scoring would be a likely approach. In that case,we would expect the effort related to scoring would be opposite what we observed here; that is,the scaffolded version would require fewer resources because it would not involve scoring textresponses. A logic model would be created and programmed that could easily score theresponses in the scaffolded version. A draft version of that model was created in conjunctionwith discussions related to this study. By contrast, colleagues with expertise in automatedscoring of constructed-response
recently taught in the classroom. Therefore solvers are notrequired to demonstrate the metacognitive processes involved in recognizing, recalling, andselecting discipline-specific content knowledge related to the problem. Within Tech-EDclassrooms, students are assessed using competencies defined in the Career and TechnicalEducation curriculum framework which typically do not focus on assessing students in solvingauthentic problems.In this paper, the design, methods, analysis of data, and results of a research study to evaluate theperformance of high school pre-engineering students (completing their fourth and final year inthe program) in solving an authentic engineering design-based problem outside the context of aclassroom are described
teaching duties combined: lecturing,lecture preparation, tutorials, etc. In the author’s own department, for a year-two course of200 students, the lecturer’s time was allocated 65% to assessment and 35% to lecturepreparation and delivery. For a year-one course of 600 students, the corresponding figureswere 78%and 22%. As course sizes grow, it is clear that the area of assessment provides thebest opportunity for workload reduction. However, reduced assessment is likely to bematched by reduced student effort: assessment largely determines how students approachtheir learning, what they focus on, and how much effort they make 6-8. Reduced assessmentalso entails less feedback, and less-timely feedback, to students. Yet prompt feedback is ofcritical
Session 1630 A Repeated Measures Design for Assessment of Critical Team Skills in Multidisciplinary Teams Robert S. Thompson Colorado School of MinesIntroductionTeamwork education has become increasingly important over the last decade. In 1996, theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), the sole agency responsible forthe accreditation of engineering programs, approved new standards for accreditation reviews.The new standards, Engineering Criteria 2000, require programs to demonstrate specific skills.One specific criterion is the need to demonstrate
management systems and its abilityto seamlessly manage embedded assessments 37–40 . Figure 1 shows an example image from one ofthe OLI modules discussed in this paper.This paper assesses the effectiveness of teaching ST / SE concepts in a first-year mechanicalengineering course via OLI modules 23 . Data are presented from three partner institutions,including a small private institution (Carnegie Mellon University), a small public technicaluniversity (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology), and a large public university (TexasState University). The paper is organized as follows. Firstly, the introductory mechanicalengineering courses at the three collaborating institutions are described, followed by a discussionFigure 1: Snapshot of OLI content
the effectswere small. For the entire group of students, GPA and the self-assessment score for drawingFBDs correlated with all three areas. The correlations with GPA and performance on the finalexam were the strongest (p < 0.001 in all three cases). The correlation with FBD self-assessmentand performance varied, with the p < 0.001 for FBD performance, p < 0.005 for writingequilibrium equations performance, and p < 0.10 for solving equilibrium equations performance.In none of these cases, however, was the effect large. For FBD performance adj. R2 < 0.35, andit was smaller for the other two regressions. Figures 1 and 2 show the distributions for GPA andFBD self-assessment for FBD performance respectively. It is easy to see from
= , , (𝜎%&'()* − 𝜎%&'(), )/2where Group 1 for this case are the experimental groups of 2016 data or 2015 data, and Group 2are the 2014 control group data. As a metric, a size effect of 0.8 is considered large, and thusrepresents a significant change (one that could be observed with the naked eye). Size effects<0.2 are considered small, and thus the differences can only be observed through detailed study.Size effects between 0.2 and 0.8 are considered medium26. In addition, a null-hypothesis singlesided t-test is applied with a significance value of 𝛼 =0.01.In addition to quantitative assessment means, the resulting data are plotted in a diverging stackedbar chart, which is shown to be the preferred method for visualizing the results
the one hand, theypresented their results to the entire class at the end of the semester, focusing on thefunctionality of the computer programs developed, and on the other hand, the group membersassessed their respective performance in the team. The project supervisors also took thequality of the reports into account for the overall assessment. An assessment of the learningbenefits in the context of a comparative study, however, proves difficult. The student sampleper project topic is too small, and there are no reference groups that do not participate in theseprojects. Nevertheless, the benefits of this learning format are evident, as our students arehighly successful in international, competitive, and team-oriented formats in higher
preparation for oral examinations on more equal footing.Despite the common use of oral qualifying (preliminary) examinations to assess students’ abilityto succeed and continue in engineering PhD programs, the communication skills needed to besuccessful in such settings are not always explicitly taught in courses students take to prepare. Wegive a brief overview of historical and current qualifying exam practices, discuss the benefits andpotential inequities of oral qualifying exams specifically, and finally, present one resourceeducators may use to address the gap in students’ preparedness for this particular examformat.During this department’s oral qualifying exams, students entering their second year solvetechnical problems on the blackboard while
AC 2010-878: SPECIAL SESSION: ASSESSING MORALITY, IDENTITY, ANDMOTIVATION IN A FIRST-YEAR MATERIALS ENGINEERING SERVICELEARNING COURSETrevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University Trevor Harding, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of Materials Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, where he teaches courses in engineering design from a materials perspective. His research is focused on the educational outcomes associated with service learning and project-based learning with a particular focus on ethics education. He is also PI on several projects investigating the degradation of biomedical materials in physiological environments. Dr. Harding serves as Associate Editor of the
educators section 2 Rural Area 2.63 2.49 Small Urban Cluster 2.32 2.34 Large Urban Cluster 2.43 2.40 Urbanized area 2.20 2.34 All responses 2.33 2.37 Table 1 - The perceived benefit of having access to expert teachers in engineering by demographic category compared with the average benefit perceived for all items included in section two. Benefit is assessed on a three-point scale from one to three.In the third section
ofelementary and middle school students in increasingly popular robotics competitions such asFIRST® LEGO® League (FLL). Typical grade-school-level competitions like FLL involve thebuilding and programming of small robots to solve a specific design challenge using robotplatforms such as the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT. A challenge usually consists of a series ofmissions that involve pushing, retrieving, picking up, and placing objects. Each mission isdesignated a point value and the object is to earn as many points as possible in a limited time,usually a few minutes. The challenges vary from competition to competition and change everyyear, but teams are generally given months to design their solutions.The focus of the present study was a small, local-level
2016, women’s jail in the fall of 2017, and the men’s jail in the winter of 2018. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: first, we discuss our in-custody-studentpopulation, followed by a description of the jail teaching environment. Next we describe thestructure of our program, the materials that we cover, and the inclusion of undergraduates indelivery of the course course. Finally, we cover assessment against expected outcomes as well asfuture directions. From this point forward, we refer to students-in-custody simply as “students”and our Cal Poly undergraduate teaching assistants as “teaching assistants”.2 Related WorkTwo documented successful large-scale programs exist to teach programming and other computerskills to
marketplace and, byextension, to improve the client base senior design project products.This paper presents the development and implementation of this unique integration with apreliminary assessment of the results.Introduction:During the summer of 2003, discussions were held between the School of Engineering,Computing and Construction Management (SECCM) at Roger Williams University and theRhode Island Center for Performance Excellence (RICPE) regarding the possibility ofengineering students working with regional companies that were involved with the BaldrigeNational Quality Program. The RICPE had previously recruited students from other regionalinstitutions to participate in this program but, heretofore, these students had been undergraduateor
course offerings, SCL hasbeen taken to another new higher level, thus empowering students like never before. Different types of SCL techniques have been successfully implemented in MS SustainabilityManagement, MS Engineering Management and MS Environmental Engineering programs.Graduate level applied engineering programs are offered through onsite live classes and onlineclasses. The specific SCL techniques used include: - Knowledge-centric SCL promoting development of critical thinking by applying learned outcomes to real world problem-solving - Learner-centric SCL promoting students to be more creative and use of prior knowledge - Assessment-centric SCL promoting opportunities for feedback and improvement - Community-centric
AC 2012-3680: LEARNING MATLAB IN THE INVERTED CLASSROOMDr. Robert Talbert, Grand Valley State University Robert Talbert is Associate Professor of mathematics at Grand Valley State University. Formerly, he was Associate Professor of mathematics and computing science at Franklin College, where he was also the Director of that school’s 3+2 engineering program with Purdue University. His scholarly interests include cryptography, computer science, and educational technology with a special emphasis on using technology to support active learning environments in the university classroom. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University
project manages the NCSU MAE State Energy Internship and Fellowship Program under the direction of Dr. Stephen Terry. To date, the program has 35 interns under the mentorship of energy engineers in both the private and public sectors. When available, Albers assists with energy assessments for both the program and the Industrial Assessment Center. Page 25.1102.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Recommending Hydrogen Fuel Cell Retrofits for Forklifts in Energy Audit Reports by Industrial Assessment CentersAbstractIndustrial Assessment Centers (IAC) are
Workshop (also given to new faculty) • NCSU Preparing the Professoriate mentorship program • FCTL Graduate Teaching Assistant seminar series 6. Rewards and incentives for effective and innovative teaching • University-sponsored small grants for course and curriculum redesign and other educational projects • Support at the college level for course and curriculum redesign and other projects intended to improve teaching and learning • Support at the department level for attendance at education conferences and workshops • Well-defined plan for assessment and evaluation of teaching and educational scholarship and a policy of incorporating the results in the decision-making
Session: 2220 Technical Aspects of Creating and Assessing a Learning Environment in Digital Electronics for High School Students Adam S. El-Mansouri, Herbert L. Hess, Kevin M. Buck, Timothy Ewers Microelectronics Research and Communications Institute Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Idaho Moscow, IdahoAbstract To develop an interest and an understanding of digital electronics for high schoolstudents, we have created digital electronic projects using a Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGA). The approach is module-based
years, with active research in computer science/AI, and in large scale educational reform in CS and engineering. His work has been supported by NSF, NASA, DARPA, and on the Commerical side by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing), GE Aircraft Engines, and The MathWorks. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Validating Assessment Instruments for Use in Engineering Education: A Primer for Conducting and Interpreting Factor AnalysisIntroductionThis paper aims to be a primer for discipline-based educational research (DBER) where theremay be a desire to become familiar with confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis (FA
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Fun Friday: Assessing the effectiveness of weekly real-world applications in introductory dynamics lecturesAbstractGiven the math-intensive and computational nature of introductory dynamics, many concepts arepresented with simple examples where applications have been abstracted away for the sake ofclarity. While this approach achieves clarity, it lacks connection to the real world and does notcommunicate the true value of the content. In this work, we present the results of a study aimed atimproving students’ impression of the value of the course content by highlighting real-worldapplications of introductory dynamics topics. This study was conducted in a large 2
fourteen courses over the course ofthree academic years and have tracked correlation between student self-assessment andinstructor assigned grades over this period. Because of the small class sizes at our institution,these results should not yet be considered to be statistically significant, but rather as preliminaryindicators. For each class, the instructor calculates the student grades prior to reading the studentself-assessment report. These grades are based on the usual averaging of points earned in thesemester’s assignments using a four point scale (i.e. A = 4.0, B=3.0, etc.). These instructor Page 9.585.2 Proceedings of the 2004
portal that enables physics faculty to upload assessment data and receive instant feedback on their students’ assessment results, including expert recommendations and customized visualizations. Dr. Weese is highly active in several outreach programs, including Kansas STARBASE, USD 383 Summer STEM Institute, Girl Scouts of the USA, and Boy Scouts of America, reaching over 1200 Kansas K-12 students annually. He is also currently serving on the state K-12 Computer Science standards committee, leading to adopted computer science standards for the state of Kansas. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Measuring Awareness of Computational Thinking in