profession leaving them at a disadvantage [1] [2][3]. They argue that what is needed is the ability to design and function in a diverse, globalenvironment and that many are graduating with skills that are often in conflict with workplacerequirements leaving them ill-equipped to be a fully functioning contributor.As an example, we teach students to research the problem during the engineering design process,before developing potential solutions. This research typically consists of only those elementswhich relate to the engineering specifications of the problem and the subsequent requirementsand constraints developed are measured via engineering equipment or tools. On the other hand,the practice of engineering can be considered a web of socio-technical
minority engineering workforces.The objectives of this study are to: (1) identify the factors influencing AEC students’ perceptionstowards learning Safe-to-Fail; and (2) investigate students’ pedagogical preferences toincorporate the Safe-to-Fail concept in AEC curricula. To achieve these objectives, the studydeveloped a framework including a comprehensive lecture on Safe-to-Fail and its applicationsfollowed by an interactive discussion session and a survey to capture students’ experiences,expectations, and perceptions. The framework was implemented in a cross-listed SustainableApproach to Construction course in an educational institution located in a hurricane-prone state.55 AEC students who were registered in the course participated in the
] discuss risks and risk management in a graduate level SoftwareEngineering project course. Design issues, technical knowledge gaps, COTS issues, and time andbudget constraints had the highest frequency of occurrence.Vanhanen and Lehtinen [1] studied 11 capstone projects to understand the types of problems thatoccurred. The top failures were that the teams fell short of their goals (both in features andquality), communications broke down, and students didn’t “take responsibility.” In thediscussion, the authors referred to poor quality estimation, high learning needs, and poormotivation. Student motivation becomes a problem when heroic effort is the only option forsuccess.More recently, Makiaho and Poranen [4] compared the risks identified up front
kids becameresponsible for selecting and forming their own assignments. Each group had differentengineering problems they need to solve, making the learning experience varied from one groupto another. Observations were taken and interviews were conducted to give qualitativeinformation on how the students approach the overall problem, and how they felt about thesystems engineering practices they used. In our study we provided the mechanisms through aplanning board with set tasks, pacing, and teams. In six 45-minutes sessions, the students wereable to build a city with semi-autonomous cars, a train that moves across the city, interactivepower plants with motorized wind turbines, buildings that light up when the train comes by, cityroads that are
optimization, aritificial intelligence, and engineering education. His email is ebisa.wollega@csupueblo.edu and his web page is https://www.csupueblo.edu/profile/ebisa- wollega/index.html. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 HyFlex, Hybrid, and Virtual Synchronous Teaching in the Engineering Classroom: An Autoethnographic Approach Lisa B. Bosman1 (lbosman@purdue.edu), Ebisa Wollega2 (ebisa.wollega@csupueblo.edu), and Usman Naeem3 (u.naeem@qmul.ac.uk) 1 Purdue University, 610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN, USA 47907 2 Colorado State University Pueblo, 2200 Bonforte
-trades shortage in the United States. Prior to joining the CMT department at Purdue, Anthony worked in the construction industry for over twenty years. He started as a journeyman electrician in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Work- ers quickly ascending to Project Foreman and Superintendent. As an electrician, he was tasked with supervising complex building automation and control system installations, scheduling, coordination, pro- curement, and estimating for projects across many building sectors including industrial, commercial, K- 12, and higher education. Then, he moved into Project Management working for a mid-size General Contractor/Construction Management Company based in Lansing, Michigan. In this
solutions that make hybrid classes beneficial for both instructors and learners.Finally, we found that additional efforts are necessary to provide technical support to instructorsfor improved hybrid teaching. Particularly, some of the participants in our study reporteddifficulties utilizing features of online technologies (e.g., Zoom) for interactive Q&A sessions,small group breakout sessions, and proctoring exams. To mitigate such difficulties in futurehybrid classes, sufficient support should be provided to instructors such as specialized trainingon existing and emerging technical tools and programs for dual-mode class management, onlineproctoring, and student engagement.Several limitations of the current study are noteworthy. First, this
from 52% to 73%. The study showed how impactful Universityprograms can be to support women in engineering and increase retention for first year femaleengineering students. Although mentoring in general appears to have a successful impact, one study showedthat pairing a female student with a female mentor had a greater impact than pairing a femalestudent with a male mentor [1]. Mentoring was explored to establish if it would produce anybenefits for retention rates for women in engineering. The study was conducted over severalyears to investigate if peer mentoring would increase the success of women in engineering. Thestudy included 150 female students with 50 students assigned a female mentor, 50 studentsassigned a male mentor, and 50
networking questions and personal connectivity.For example, questions about where in the world students were logging in from, languages theyspeak, their career intentions, hopes for the coming year, as well as some silliness to keep thingslight, with questions about pajamas, things they do for fun, and what their desired superpowerwould be. Following a break, the formal program on Day 1 was a session with the Division ofInformation Technology, which was intentionally scheduled for the first day to ensure that studentsknew about the resources and technology available for Orientation as well as their upcomingvirtual semester. Day Two was dedicated to the academic departments, each of which was free to designtheir own agenda to share
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and delayed assessments of content retention. It isfelt that the best use of interactive systems would be to complement traditional instruction rather thanreplace it. The interactive system can be embedded in a course as either pre-work or homework. Thispaper introduces an interactive system to model the construction of the Dayanta and provides an exampleof a possible assignment related to it.Key Words: 3D pagoda construction, ancient pagoda, Chinese pagoda, Dayanta, Giant Wild GoosePagoda, pagoda construction simulation1. Introduction The Chinese pagoda or ta is a multi-story religious structure built commonly for Buddhistworshippers, and is generally accompanied by a temple or si. Arguably, the term pagodaoriginated from Indian’s
the content, drive conclusions and suggest solutions as part of their education.After all, “the four-year degree is not to provide industrial training for technicians” (Moran, 2016).Nonetheless, content-based classes, where students are expected to learn skills including readingfact-based texts, participating in discussions, and writing reflective pieces about the content areslim, and generally in the freshmen year of the progression, where students become disenchantedand drop out before they even get a chance to take heavy math and science oriented engineeringcourses (Bernold, 2005).When faculty are teaching content based classes, it is imperative that they rely on the Chickeringand Gamson’s (1987) seven principles for good practice in
and structural designer, he has worked on a range of projects that included houses, hospitals, recreation centers, institutional buildings, and conservation of historic buildings/monuments. Professor Sudarshan serves on the Working Group-6: Tensile and Membrane Structures of the Inter- national Association of Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS), the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Aerospace Division’s Space Engineering and Construction Technical Committee, and the ASCE/ACI- 421 Technical Committee on the Design of Reinforced Concrete Slabs. He is the Program Chair of the Architectural Engineering Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). He is also a member of the Structural
feedback. Solutions to address thebottlenecks included providing applications and real-world examples, providing step-by-stepcookbooks, color coding circuit nodes, organizing the circuit design equations into a circuitanalysis toolbox, using a deck of cards representing the functional design of a system, andcreating a library of in class demos. These improvements, along with the use of a flippedclassroom and incorporation of a National Instruments myDAQ device, resulted in an increase inthe pass rate of the class.I. IntroductionStudents in an introductory circuits course have a variety of challenges. Some of these arise fromthe course content. Bottlenecks or threshhold concepts [1] are basic concepts that arefundamental to more advanced
-economic/socio-political landscape over the past several years has impacted theseprograms and will offer revised best practices and recommendations on expandingAS/BE programs.IntroductionTwo-year schools are attractive to many students who are identified as a member of anunderrepresented group (e.g., women, Black, Latino, Native American) in science,technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers because they offer lower tuition costs,regularly scheduled remedial courses, an array of support services, supplementalinstruction and are generally located near the student’s home [1-2]. Many of thesestudents seek to continue their education, aspiring to attain a bachelor degree at a four-year institution and some ultimately seek to earn a graduate
Paper ID #23329The Industry Scholars Program: An Immersive Professional Experience forUndergraduatesDr. 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 &
University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas and a Certified Profes- sional Ergonomist. He has published over 40 journal articles, textbook chapters, conference proceedings, and industrial technical papers as well as presented in numerous national research conferences. He has been involved in 26 (22 as PI) industry and governmental supported research projects totaling over $1.5M, mostly in the maritime industry. Dr. Craig is the Director for the Mariner Safety Research Initiative at Lamar, the Associate Director for the Center for Advances in Port Management, and a University Scholar.Dr. Hsing-wei Chu P.E., Lamar University Hsing-wei Chu is Piper and University Professor and Chairman of
environment) to an active, individually accountable learner. Students are presented witha wide variety of tools to access content and practice skills, complemented with a wealth of on-demand online and “human” support. Instructional design strategies and resources will bediscussed in more detail further in this paper. Most students accepted the message that they canbe successful and will receive the help they need to do so. A general shift in the attitudes aboutclassroom seat time has also occurred, possibly due in part to the course design. Since the pilotoffering, the percentage of enrolled students electing to attend live classroom sessions hasprogressively decreased. The reasons for this shift are likely numerous and complex, but the endresult is
24 Number 2 P234-53Kurti, R. S; Kurti, D.; Fleming, L (2014). Teacher Librarian. Vol. 42 Issue 1, P. 8-12Drucker, P. F (1985). Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles. New York:Harper and RowMarken, T. N., Lewis, L. (2013). Dual credit and exam-based courses in U.S. public high schools:2010-11. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved fromhttp://nces.ed.gov/pubs2013/2013001.pdfTownsend 18Wang, Xueli, Chan, Hsun-yu, Phelps, L. Allen, Washbon, Janet I., (2015). Fuel for Success:Academic Momentum as a Mediator Between Dual Enrollment and Educational Outcomes ofTwo-Year Technical College Students. Community
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and the benefit annuity series have different values andsigns, the RATE function cannot be used to find the IRR. GOAL SEEK can be applied to morecomplex combinations of engineering economy functions. It is used to solve Equation 1 bychanging the interest rate cell to make the FW67 cell have a value of 0. Equation 2 states this inmore general terms. FW67 total = FV(i, 45, −10453) + PV(i, 17, 46188) (1) FW67 total = FV(i, Nwork, −.062*Annual Taxable Income) + PV(i, Nretired, Annual Benefit) (2)While cash flow tables can be built, we recommend analysis using these simple equations withspreadsheet annuity functions. It is much easier for students to follow the engineering economyprinciple that all
. Theoretical FoundationInformed Career PlanningCareer decision making can be either informed or uninformed. Uninformed career planning isfairly passive and dictated by chance or circumstance, while informed decision making requiresindividuals to take an active role in the process of selecting a future occupation [1]. Withinformed career planning, individuals consciously explore their personal characteristics, therewards that they may accrue through their occupation, and the environmental variables that mayinfluence their experience in the workplace [1].Theory of Value-based Career Decision MakingThe Theory of Value-based Career Decision Making is an approach to informed career planning.This theory states that each person has a unique set of core
discipline's coreprinciples suggest providing educational fundamentals that help students understand sustainable,safe, comfortable, productive, resilient, and economically feasible buildings [1]. Due to theseeducational fundamentals, the discipline unites the interdisciplinary expertise of structural,mechanical, electrical, acoustic, and construction engineering, which helps in conceptualization,design, construction, operation, and maintenance using creativity and education. However, todevelop sustainable practices and design buildings that prioritize human conditions and society’swell-being, other competencies exist alongside technical expertise.These competencies, on one end, align with the requirements in national policy documents[2][3][4], ABET
degree programs (i.e., architectural plus civilengineering). Approximately 35% of the total student population is female. Approximately 20%of the student population is the first-generation in their family to attend college.‘Traditional’ course format. An ‘introduction to environmental engineering’ course worth threesemester credit hours was offered in each semester as two, identical parallel sections that eachincluded, either: 1) a 50 minute class meeting at 8am on Monday and Wednesday; or 2) a 50minute class meeting at 11am on Monday and Wednesday. Students were also required to enrollin a 125-minute laboratory at 1pm on either Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday afternoons. Thetextbook, Principles of Environmental Engineering and Science by Davis
American,and Pacific Islander engineering graduates remain significantly underrepresented in engineering[1]. Progress in increasing the retention and persistence of underrepresented populations inengineering degree programs and the engineering workforce has been slow [2]. Furthermore,even less progress has been made in diversifying the engineering workforce, with marginalchange in the proportion of underrepresented minority engineers in the workforce in recentdecades [3], [4]. To address problems of diversification and retention in the STEM workforce,we must explore potential mechanisms to support these aims.The transition from college to the workforce is a critical period for retaining a diverse STEMworkforce. Early retention in STEM careers is
purpose, follow certain rules, andinteract with each other and with their surrounding environment.” A more general “handbook”defining the discipline and practice of “systems engineering”, available from the InternationalCouncil on Systems Engineering8, has been used to train engineers in a variety of topics,including: 1) technical processes (i.e., business mission, stakeholder needs, system requirements,design definition operation, maintenance, and disposal); 2) technical management processes (i.e.,project planning, risk management, and quality assurance); 3) agreement processes (i.e.,acquisition and supply); and 4) organizational project-enabling processes (i.e., life cyclemanagement, human resource management, and knowledge management). These
grouplaboratory. Typically the classroom experience is comprised of lectures and it is fairly commonfor the laboratory and lecture to be administered by different individuals.While this structure may be effective at processing students through the science courses, studieshave shown that it has some significant educational disadvantages. Over the past severaldecades, physics education research has shown that students were not learning the conceptsand/or were not engaged by the methods used in “traditional” physics education.1-4 Those andother studies have motivated a significant amount of research on physics education and muchprogress has been made. A significant body of physics education research has focused ondeveloping and incorporating classroom
integration, i.e., the CLICK approach, will transform how the IE curriculum isdelivered. The following section introduces the CLICK approach. The goals of this approach areto 1) provide the needed connection between courses, therefore improve students’ learning andsatisfaction, and 2) provide the needed linkage between theory and practice through a realisticrepresentation of systems, therefore improve engineering identity and generate work-readygraduates. As a first step toward achieving these goals, a usability test is performed on one of theVR modules developed. The results from the test are analyzed with the objective of improvingthe design of the VR modules.3. The CLICK ApproachTo achieve the goals of curriculum integration, the authors are
workforce.Socialization into academia is a continuous process that is catalyzed during graduate school [5].As a result, there is recent focus on STEM graduate education [1], [6], and this work hasemphasized that the ideal STEM graduate education would provide opportunities to explorediverse career paths, develop broad competencies, and communicate clearly with faculty.However, current challenges in graduate education have called into question the degree to whichdoctoral programs prepare students beyond technical research skills [6]. Students are thusstarting jobs after graduation without the necessary competencies and a clear understanding ofwhat is expected of them in their new faculty roles.For this study, we employed a collaborative autoethnographic approach
development offered to POGIL instructors andauthors. Section 3 provides details on our participants and interventions. The results arepresented in Section 4, while Section 5 delves into the insights garnered, along with anylimitations encountered. Finally, Section 6 concludes with some final insights.2. BackgroundActive, evidence-based approaches to teaching and learning can improve all student outcomesand reduce achievement gaps for students from underrepresented populations (e.g., [1], [3], [4]).A variety of faculty development programs and other incentives have been used to help facultychange their pedagogy, primarily at the precollege level. In general, the most effective facultydevelopment models focus on subject matter knowledge and student