goal is a multifaceted goal that requires students to understand both the Page 14.1171.2various components of the physical environment and the way these components relate toand react with one another in space and over time. Technology adds one more dimensionof complexity to the design problem due to its engaging but very often distracting power.There are many human interface design guidelines to guide the development of atechnological platform as well as a considerably large number of instructional strategiesthat support active learning. However, there has been no consolidated literature thatassembles these bodies of knowledge into an operational
intercultural communication case studies, amongother activities students evaluated how well project engineers engaged the above E4SJ criteria.For instance, one case involved U.S.-based civil engineers with clear sustainability objectivesengaging community members in rural India. Although the India-based nongovernmentorganization they partnered with informed them that locals in Sika Dhari desired a water andsanitation system, when the team of civil engineers arrived, having learned some Hindi andresearched diverse possible sanitation systems, the locals mostly spoke a tribal language and theyindicated they wanted an electricity-generating windmill. Communication was further hamperedby the presence of an Indian engineer who had moved to Sika Dhari and
; Engineering (Scientific Literacy). A number of integrated assessments were used in theHyFlex course: exams, a three day diary, and quiz. The results shows that the HyFlex model wasvery successful with ever increasing enrollment [10]. Prior research in HyFlex teaching suggests that approach is a promising model becausestudents like the flexibility and study results shows that the choice of mode attendance had nosignificant negative impact on students’ performance [1, 7, 8, 9]. While the above research documented positive results on HyFlex teaching approach there isno evidence that shows the use of HyFlex in a highly intensive interactive group course couplewith its impact on students’ learning during a disruptive period in higher education. The
focused on digital learning innovations that can be developed and refined through rapid prototyping and then promoted throughout the university to maximize collective impact on student success at scale. With over twenty years of experience in both instructional design and teaching, her current research is focused on blended learning, collaborative online learning and internationalizing the curriculum through technology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Adapting Mixed-Mode Instructional Delivery To Thrive Within STEM Curricula Ronald F. DeMara1, Tian Tian2, Shadi Sheikhfaal1 and Wendy Howard3 { Department of Electrical and
-temperature metallic materials for power plants and jet engine has been focused.Prof. Mutsuko Hatano, Tokyo Institute of TechnologyProf. Akira Yamada, Tokyo Tech c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Energy Science and Engineering Graduate Education at Tokyo TechGiven the importance of energy and electrical power generation worldwide and its impact on theenvironment, greater numbers of students are choosing to study energy science and engineeringas a major. For example, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) established an integrateddoctoral degree program, Academy for Co-creative Education of Environment and EnergyScience (ACEEES), in 2012 with a 7 year grant awarded by the Japan Society for Promotion
part. The students overall gave astrong endorsement of the pilot with 95% indicating that they would recommend it. Concerns were largely with the degree of communication between the design course and theSenior Innovation course instructors, and with the coordination of these courses. The criticismswere most explicit about some elements being disconnected or too late to be of value to theproject. Some students did not understand the value of some deliverables to their project.Working in a multidisciplinary team and project was a concern for some students due to theadditional challenges they experienced compared to their perception of those they would havefaced on a disciplinary project and team
Research Experience in a bioengineering laboratory at a major researchuniversity can enhance the knowledge of a high school pre-engineering or science teacher,making it possible to more effectively convey the nature of the scientific process inbioengineering to his or her students. In combination with guided instruction in Common CoreState Standards and Next Generation Science Standards-aligned curricula design, the laboratoryresearch is more effectively translated and applied in high school science classrooms. TheBioengineering Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is ideally positioned toimplement such a combined experience for local high school teachers, which in turn will have adramatic impact on one of the most diverse
oflearning theory lessons which were folded into civil engineering coursework. Sample lessonsincluded topics on metacognition, growth mindset, productive struggle, neuroplasticity,entrepreneurial mindset, novice to expert development, motivation monitoring, Lesh transitionmodel and Bloom’s hierarchical cognitive, affective, psychomotor taxonomies. These shortlessons, which are referred to as micro-lessons, were coupled with discussion, reflection, andfeedback on motivation. The end aim was to build student understanding of their agency inbuilding new knowledge.Central to the aim of student engagement in learning was assessment. Two vetted metrics wereprovided every other week throughout the semester in four discrete civil engineering
. Teachers reported that anasynchronous threaded discussion forums were a ”great” opportunity to engage in groupdiscussions and to enhance the development of community amongst all teachers across theschools. This online discussion forum enabled teachers to talk critically about their pedagogywhich could lead to utilizing Robotics in the classroom.Course Impact On Professional Development The teacher participants used the discussion board primarily to turn in their assignmentsand post questions. However, the way the questions were asked by the instructors gave way toopen communication between the students. Students also commented extensively on oneanother’s assignments, offering suggestions to each other as well as gaining insights on how
down to the new generation of industrial workers [9]. When information and knowledgeare communicated effectively, this can lead to “efficiency, quality, minimizing waste, andcreating a common understanding between individuals” [8].This paper presents the development of an app with the goal of using AR to promote successfulknowledge transfer through the construction of an aluminum flashlight.2. Pedagogy and BackgroundThe AR app was developed based on the pedagogy of an introductory course, “MechanicalEngineering Tools,” at MIT. The course consists of twelve hours of work time split over threedays. The course was created to give engineering students a baseline understanding of how to usethe basic machine shop tools related to mechanical
and alignment A. Survey Questions: 1. Understanding the Course Structure: To evaluate whether students grasp the overall organization. o On a scale of 1 to 5, how clearly does the unit-based structure help you understand the course roadmap? o Do you find the breakdown of the course into units and lessons helpful for understanding the material? (Yes/No, with optional open-text explanation) 2. Learning Experience: o How effectively do the assignments in each unit reinforce your understanding of the lessons? o What aspects of the unit-based approach have most contributed to your learning? (Open-ended) 3. Engagement: o
develop a better understanding of the technical content, societal andeconomic impact of the proposed solution, while supporting the students’ preparedness andreadiness for the workforce.IntroductionThere are numerous recent scholarly works examined the way in which the Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN)’s mindset is enhancing the students’ engagement and skills invarious engineering courses, like Material Science [1], or Mechanical Design or StructuralAnalysis [2, 3, 4], or Fluid Mechanics [5, 6, 7, 8] or across engineering curriculum [9, 10, 11, 12,13].In all instances, the authors found that the inclusion of an entrepreneurship education, aspromoted by KEEN, and further support the engineering students’ readiness for the
. Afterwards, the students were asked to blindpeer review and to grade all the designs except their own. The second exercise asked students todraft a paper about creativity in the HVAC industry, and a third exercise involved the design andanalysis of a class II pipeline system. The students were also asked to analyze the economicaland societal impact of their design based on the selection of three materials for their pipelinesystems.Preliminary assessment results support the continued use of these PBL and the integration ofentrepreneurial mindset learning content. The evidence shows students developed anunderstanding of technical content while developing an entrepreneurial mindset. These outcomessatisfy the latest ABET student learning outcomes and
system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability; d) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams; e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems; f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility; g) an ability to communicate effectively; h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context; i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning j) a knowledge of contemporary issues; k) an ability to use the
currently being expanded to reach morestudents, as described below.Figure 1: Florida State University's High-Performance Materials Institute in the Materials Research BuildingThe Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) Department at the Florida Agricultural andMechanical University – Florida State University (FAMU-FSU) College of Engineering andHPMI support dozens of undergraduate research assistants (RAs) each semester, from FAMU,FSU, and Tallahassee Community College (TCC). These students work on cutting edge researchin materials and industrial engineering, often working with their graduate student and facultymentors to publish peer-reviewed journal articles about their work. Many RAs earn Honors inthe
the explanation? The authority of the teacher? Something else entirely? We allprobably have an innate idea that idea acceptance involves one or more of these things, buthow often do we consciously think about these elements in our teaching? As passionateeducators, we typically want to make our teaching more engaging for our students, but thiscan often leave us puzzled when some of our students are still not learning our content.This paper attempts to help address this problem by providing an Idea Acceptance Model thatcan be applied in the teaching of Engineering. The model is inspired by the FeedbackLiteracy Model which breaks feedback literacy down into “Appreciating Feedback”,“Making Judgements” and “Managing Affect” and proposes a similar
project.) Improve the intellectual engagement of graduate students. Engage graduate students in utilizing the state-of-the-art geospatial technologies in their research, and class projects. Educate the community on the importance of green power generationGeospatial TechnologyGeospatial technology refers to technology used for visualization, measurement, andanalysis of features or phenomena that occur on the earth3. It consists of spatial softwaresuch as ArcGIS and analytical methods with terrestrial or geographic datasets. In general,geospatial technology may be divided into four categories: Geographic Informationsystems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Remote Sensing (RS), andGeovisualization (Gvis).Remote
OTET Game-a-Thon T-Shirts Figure 7. Suggestions for staying engaged after the workshopCreating a Culture and Framework for Teaching ExcellenceAs previously noted, the impact of the workshop on a quickly growing number of the universityfaculty is having a transformative effect by creating a community of practice focused on teachingexcellence and with a shared teaching model and vocabulary. The obvious next steps that areoften described at the ETW is to ensure that the criteria for student course evaluations areconsistent with the teaching model in the workshop. Indeed, the assessment seminar wasmodified with an activity in which participants compared the IDEA Center learning objectives
, she has used a variety of evaluation methods, ranging from multi-level evaluation plans designed to assess pro- gram impact to monitoring plans designed to facilitate program improvement. Dr. Alemdar’s leadership evaluation work includes serving as lead evaluator on NASA’s electronic Professional Development Net- work (ePDN), a new initiative dedicated to preparing teachers to engage their students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields through the use of NASA-developed learning materials and resources. She also serves as the lead evaluator on several NSF funded Noyce Scholarship programs. She has direct experience leading evaluation of STEM programs and has contributed to evaluations of
Level an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility an ability to communicate effectively the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal
of its kind within the Faculty of Applied Science to be offered across both campuses.This paper gives an overview of the undergraduate Manufacturing Engineering program,including benefits and challenges to being multi-campus. It discusses courses that are taughtacross both campuses, a fourth (final) year option to pursue one of two specialties on eithercampus, and efforts made to build student connections and community across campuses. 1. IntroductionIn pursuit of greater opportunities for students, higher education institutes are increasinglyexpanding their physical presence to become multi-campus institutions. One such institution isthe University of British Columbia (UBC), with campuses in Vancouver, B.C., Canada andKelowna, B.C
of what was going on.A key part of keeping the “army” engaged was the project philosophy of transparency. Unlessthere was a clear and critical reason not to, information was communicated, and feedback wasrequested, even if it was difficult, or even undesirable. This created a trust that the projectleadership was not hiding any “gotchas” but also created opportunities for people to problemsolve and make a difference.Enable action by removing barriersThe biggest barrier involved in this project was time and capacity. Faculty largely did not careabout moving to a new LMS, so minimizing the amount of time they had to spend was a key toproject success. This was done with a cadre of full-time staff and students who migrated contentfrom one LMS to
international issues, and engagewith global issues on campus. Within the School of Engineering at UD, students can engage inETHOS programs that often culminate with an international experience applying engineeringconcepts to implement improvement in a developing country.None of those broader programs, however, is specific to the students in Engineering Technology,and none of them can replace the outcomes specific to Engineering Technology. The articulationpartnership presented here is not only specific to the department, but is even program-specific aswell. Engineering Technology students, whether or not they have elected to participate in anextra-curricular activity or study abroad for example, are still likely to work on an internationalteam in our
for their efforts to really have animpact. As one other staff member mentioned,“I think it (the budget) is adequate for what our current activities are, but I don’t think ourcurrent activities are adequate if that makes sense.”For this participant she had some funding to do outreach work to recruit students, but in order totruly increase the number of URM students and retain them, more money would likely be neededto fund additional programs.We also heard respondents discuss the need for additional employees to help with the work. Forexample, a staff member who was actively working on student engagement with URM studentsin the college explained the need to have more people work on diversity initiatives. As sheexplained,“As you said, money
are participating and learning throughout each phase of the PBL. Remember PBL may be as new to your students as it is to you. It will likely not be a partof their schema for learning; so let them know up front that feeling a little uncomfortable withthis new approach is normal. Keep in mind that group size impacts student engagement, Groupsthat are too large may end up with students on the periphery, doing little other than watchingtheir peers learn. Groups that are too small may leave the members feeling overwhelmed with thescope of the project. The ideal group size is 3; any more and you risk a significant drop inengagement. Individual reflections, while increasing individual engagement are also a keycomponent of any successful PBL
prerequisite for one requiredcourse (Thermodynamics), while Diff Eq is a prerequisite for four required courses. In turn,these required courses then serve as prerequisites for the next level of technical coursework,eventually leading towards degree completion (see Figure 2). Consequently, difficulty or failurein either Calc 3 or Diff Eq can severely impact a student’s ability to progress into subsequentcourses within their major, causing a compounding effect for students navigating the inflexiblecurriculum, opening the door to thoughts of attrition. In other words, the engineering curriculum Page 26.1021.3is a rigid network that can only be traversed
-Learning for the Social Entrepreneurship Institute in the College of Busi- ness. She has taught service-learning courses in various disciplines and has collaborated on, and traveled abroad with students participating in, international service-learning projects in engineering. Her profes- sional and research interests are in (international) service-learning, social entrepreneurship, humanitarian engineering, community-engaged scholarship, instructor training and professional development, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.Dr. Laura D Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Laura Hahn holds a PhD in Educational Psychology and Second Language Acquisition from the Univer- sity of Illinois at Urbana
-technical work and lose the opportunity to gaintechnical skills.9 Second, marginalization can occur when the contributions of underrepresentedteam members are overlooked by instructors or peers. Third, students might feel marginalizedwhen their ideas and input are only accepted when they are proposed or validated by a senior ordominant member from the team.10 Fourth, students from non-dominant groups may experiencemarginalization when projects are not relevant to their culture, community, or lived experiences.Several strategies were proposed to improve the experiences of marginalized students on teams,including changing personal beliefs by recognizing biases and how an individual’s experience isshaped by factors such as ethnicity, gender and socio
and then collectively for themes related to ABET Criterion 3 learningoutcomes (d), (g), and (h)20.21.22. Only results where both coders agreed were analyzed, whichmay underestimate the magnitude of the prevalence of such responses. In reporting the results,we looked at the percent of participants that mentioned issues related to: • ABET learning outcome (d): the ability to function on multidisciplinary teams. • ABET learning outcome (g): the ability to communicate effectively. • ABET learning outcome (h): the ability to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context.ResultsThis section summarizes the responses on the student pre- and post-surveys (Figure 1 and Figure2) as well as provides
rShiny works and how they can use it to engage with the data set. Basedupon this, we conclude that the communicative and technological skills required in the internshipaligned with our micro-credential goals.CONCLUSION AND LIMITATIONSThis program is in its infancy: we’ve only just now begun the second cohort, and the pandemicgreatly impacted our ability to secure students. Nonetheless, we think reporting out on thisproject is worthwhile for a number of reasons. First, data science is an increasingly importantpart of STEM education, but its locale within academic programs is inconsistent and notnecessarily within engineering programs’ footprints. We hope this program offers a blueprint forhow interdisciplinary and engineering programs might