Session 3630 Building a Digital Learning Community for Faculty on the Internet Jason Puzniak, Flora McMartin and Alice Agogino University of California at BerkeleyAbstractThe exponential growth of the Internet and World Wide Web have led to increased competitionin the quality of Internet services provided. Increasingly sophisticated users are no longersatisfied with dealing with static sets of information alone and expect a broad array of newservices and features on Web sites. In particular, they are expecting more interactivity and wantservices that
Paper ID #8462The Goldilocks Continuum: Making the case for an optimal balance of in-structional strategy in mechanical engineering collaborative learningChristopher E. Larsen, University of Missouri Christopher Larsen is currently a student in the doctoral program at the University of Missouri’s School of Information Science and Learning Technologies. He has worked for many years with the Department of Defense as an instructional systems designer, and has written several technical manuals on leadership and small unit tactics. Christopher’s interests include problem-based learning and leadership development.Rose M Marra Ph.D
High school science class experiments o “To Infinity and Beyond” middle school tethered balloon launch o OSGC LaunchOregon affiliate workshop o Pre-college “Graduation Really Achieves Dreams” (“GRAD”) balloon workshop o “To the Edge of Space” K-12 collaborationThe Journey to the Edge of Space course is an engineering technology course intended for thenon-engineering, non-engineering technology major. It was first offered during spring term2005. Past non-technical majors included management, applied psychology, communications,and others. OIT has a general education (GE) requirement of 12 science/math credits, where atleast 4 of those credits must be in a lab-based science course. This course has been co
examples to study for each class session. The instructor used class timeto lecture on the theory and to work other examples. Students had to supply numericalanswers to the paired problems that corresponded to the assigned worked examples. Thepaired problems were accessible through the university’s course management system(Blackboard). At the end of the course, a rather difficult, 25-question multiple-choicefinal exam was administered. The same exam had been used one year previously whenthe course had been taught with the usual solve-homework-problem approach. Anopinion survey was also administered to the students at the end of the course.Results 1. For the students who had studied worked examples, the mean and median percentage scores on
.) and prepare for nearly a tripling of thecourse throughput, from less than 60 students a year to nearly 200. Prior to 2002 most ofthe industrially provided projects were from the “oil patch” which was appropriate for apredominately mechanical engineering course. However, with 70% of the students nowelectrical or computer engineering majors, there was a need to develop additional sourcesof projects. We were also committed to forming multi-disciplinary teams to work onmulti-disciplinary projects.The general guidelines that we developed are that the projects • Should only be of the highest possible technical quality, • Should be presented (proposals, progress reports, final reports, etc.) using only the highest possible quality written and
Session 2649 Use of Web-Based Testing Software for Problem-Based Learning in Hydraulics and Hydrology Carmine C. Balascio, Ph.D., P.E. Department of Bioresources Engineering University of Delaware Newark, DEAbstractLON-CAPA is web-based course management software supported by Michigan State University.It includes a testing component that allows for coding a variety of sophisticated problems that arecomputer-graded and submitted by students on-line. Each student can be given problems
Session 2004-1793 Virtual Reality Tools for Enhancing Interactive Learning Angran Xiao 1, Kenneth Bryden 1*, David Brigham 2 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50014 2 Iowa BioDevelopment, Indian Hills Community College, Ottumwa, IA 52501AbstractVirtual reality (VR) technology is capable of constructing a user-centered, three-dimensionalenvironment that is familiar to the student onto which abstract and complex information can be imposed.This virtual environment can stimulate interactive learning and comprehension
unique model, the UT TeleCampus spent itsentire first year building student services, digital libraries, conferencing and chat capabilities, andcompiling hundreds of links to education resources that could be utilized by the general public.These links provide educational support for K-16 and beyond, thus creating a backbone ofInternet-based support to the lifelong learner. The goal of the UT TeleCampus in placingprograms online is the creation of collaborative degrees, utilizing the best resources in facultyexpertise from all campuses. Programs currently offered via the UT TeleCampus are listed inTable 1. More information on the UT TeleCampus can be found on their web site 2
teachers Science teachers 8 7 Mean self-efficacy score 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Technical skills Problem solving Technology Related Updating new learning technologies technologies Technological knowledgeFigure 6: Mean self-efficacy scores for the science and math teachers for
was theaddition of a few optional hands-on workshops, including rapid prototyping and machiningtechniques, and fundamental electronics in off-the-shelf assistive devices. These workshops aretypically led by technical staff and graduate students. Page 22.1615.5Table 1 Week Activity Description Prior to Mentor Orientation and Training Workshop informs mentors of activities and program start expectations, summarize the student/mentor survey results, and introduce best practices. Student Orientation informs REU students of the program requirements and expectations, to
incentive to attract students for meetings. For each group session, a moderator and a recorderwere assigned. No individual names were said during the recording process. Once all groupssessions finished, tapes transcription were made and became the basis for data analysis.Script topics were divided in seven parts. The topics are depicted in Figure 2. Page 12.818.7 1 Opening Questions
22.1519.4in Figure 1 wasgenerated from atheoretical model of anormal engine andarbitrarily sized ontothe graph to allow foran atmospheric intake.This MEA has so farbeen tested in six classsections, three in theSpring quarter andthree in the Summerquarter. This MEA is Figure 1: The graph of an engine cycle presented as the measureddesigned specifically to pressure during a single cycle of the engine.reinforce the students' perceptions of how processes are shaped in a pressure-volume diagram. Thehope is that the students will match the general shape of the provided curve with simplifiedprocesses they have learned in earlier in the course. The students were given one week to developa general model of the engine cycle. Each group was told
issue on relay and cooperative communication in c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Paper ID #19405 2006 and for KICS Journal of Communication and Network (JCN) special issue on cooperative commu- nication in 2007, the general chair of the 2006 Communication Theory Workshop, Dorado, Puerto Rico, the co-technical program chair of 2008 WPMC in Lapland, Finland, and the co-general chair of 2010 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), in Austin, Texas.Dr. Randal T. Abler, Georgia Institute of TechnologyDr. Jan P. Allebach, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of
individualgrades and provide aggregate data on group performance for curriculum evaluation is a bestpractice10.McGourty11 outlines four strategies to integrate assessment into the engineering educationenvironment. These include the following: (1) initiate a structured process to involve faculty andstaff in the ongoing planning, development, and monitoring of the program; (2) offer “just-in-time” educational sessions to develop administrator, faculty and student knowledge and skills inassessment; (3) create an assessment toolbox providing administrators and faculty with templatesthat can be used in and outside the classroom; and (4) identify, review, and modify, as required,key institutional practices to ensure that they are aligned with educational
districts, promoting the integration of engineering design into their curriculum.The primary intent was for teachers to make use of the process as a tool for helping students tobetter learn the current curricula, rather than instruct the students in engineering or engineeringdesign itself.This rural engineering education initiative is a partnership between five Midwestern rural schooldistricts, a local university, and a regional office of education. The project activities are designedto promote and support the integration of engineering design and technology related conceptsinto the rural classrooms associated with the partnership. Specifically, the project goals include: 1. Increasing rural K-12 teachers' understanding of engineering design, the
of Toronto, where he rose to the rank of professor. In 2001, he joined the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta where he holds the NSERC industrial research chair in petroleum thermodynamics. During his career he has developed expertise in the phase behavior, physiochemical and transport prop- erties of hydrocarbon mixtures from coal liquids, heavy oils and condensate rich reservoir fluids to pure compounds. This led to the establishment of an NSERC (like NSF in the USA) Industrial Research Chair in 2001, a rare honour at that time. He has held visiting scientist/professor positions at the Technical Uni- versity of Delft (Delft, The Netherlands), the Institut Francais du
the Global Engineer for the AmericasThe National Science Foundation funded a 20007 LACCEI Workshop on The GlobalEngineering Challenge for the Americas9. This effort was designed to explore existing andpotential projects that involve or could involve Latin America and the Caribbean. More than 80faculty and students participated. The Workshop Manual was created by experts sharing bestpractices in a variety of global education experiences organized into five Sessions: 1. World Class Engineers for the Americas: Competencies, Challenges and Opportunities 2. Entrepreneurship in Engineering Education 3. Engineering Leadership Education 4. Global Service Learning in Engineering 5. Curriculum Development, Research and International
in the semi- conductor industry in software development, application engineering, design, testing and verification of digital integrated circuits. He has taught electrical and general engineering technology classes at Pitt- Johnstown for the last seven years. His research and teaching interests include Semiconductor circuit Testing and Verification, Low Power Design Analysis, Digital and Embedded Systems, Electromagnetic Wave Scattering, and IC Design Au- tomation Software development. He can be reached at maddu@pitt.edu or at 225 Engineering and Science Building University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Johnstown, PA 15904
Session 2530 Assessment Tools based on Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives Nanette Veilleux Boston UniversityAbstractFair and useful assessment of student abilities is often a difficult task. Ideally, evaluationinstruments should assess how well the student has understood material directly presented(knowledge and comprehension), how well the student can apply this information to a newproblem (application), how well a student can distinguish and relate the component parts of atopic or argument (analysis) and how well a student
Session 1608 The Use of Student Portfolios in Biological Engineering Instruction Ann D. Christy, Marybeth Lima The Ohio State University/Louisiana State UniversityAbstractThe creation of individual student portfolios to document and enhance the learning process hasbeen used with success in various teaching venues (e.g. architecture, fine arts and writingclasses). However, the use of portfolios as a learning tool in biological engineering instructionhas not been documented in the literature. Student portfolios were listed as a means ofassessment under the
c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 1 Session XXXXSimulation of Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) using the Discrete Wavelet Multitone Modulation (DWMT) and Performance Comparison Toya Acharya Electrical and Computer Engineering Prairie View A & M University, Prairie View Texas Cajetan M. Akujuobi Center of Excellence for Communication Systems Technology Research (CECSTR) Prairie View A & M University, Prairie View Texas
themselves might offer some intrinsic benefit to studentlearning besides their utility as a communication tool. Others have reported inconclusive resultsas to whether the student learning benefits of a hands-on learning session are materially differentcompared to an instructor demonstration [15]. The transition to remote learning brought on bythe COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity to investigate this question in the context of anonline class implementation. We previously reported on our hasty efforts to adapt the modelingcurriculum from a platform for classroom group learning activities to a take-home kit for eachindividual student [16], [17]. Figure 1 on the next page shows excerpts from the take homeversion of a week 2 activity introducing
article focuses on the continuous improvements made to a cornerstone course. Theseimprovements are related to how to determine work topic, team composition, and teamassessment methods for each semester.Cornerstone courses are engineering design courses that provide first-year students with an earlyintroduction to competences for solving real-world problems [1]. This type of course is usuallytaught using project-based learning (PBL) methodology, which introduces students at earlystages to ill-structured problems. PBL methodology has proven to have several benefits forstudents by enabling them to generate original opinions and express individual standpoints,improve their active participation in self-learning processes, enhance communication skills
, has over 25 technical publications, is co-author of one book, and has done consulting for industry in Mexico and the US. He can be reached at Karim.Muci@sdsmt.edu.Lidvin Kjerengtroen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Lidvin Kjerengtroen is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Engineering Mechanics at the University of Arizona in 1985. He has been employed at SDSM&T since 1990. Prior to his current employment he worked as a principal research engineer at Det norske Veritas in Oslo, Norway. His current research interests and expertise are in the areas of
misconceptions is to understand whatexactly MEAs are and how they differ from standard homework-type problems. In general,model-eliciting activities emphasize applied mathematical activities with the followingcharacteristics: 1) Solutions generally require a small group of students at least 15-60 minutes to construct, and they provide powerful prototypes for dealing with issues that are important to the students. 2) The issues addressed encourage students to engage their personal knowledge, experience, and sense-making abilities. 3) Solution procedures encourage students to use engineering tools and resources, such as computers, reference material, consultants, colleagues, etc. 4) Evaluation procedures
attendance was spotty at some workshop sessions. Students felt that closer attention should be paid to scheduling and workshop structure. Attendance should be required.• All felt that mastery projects should be undertaken by pairs of students, not individuals. The paired approach would promote incentive and responsibility. Pairing experienced students with beginners would improve learning opportunities.• Each workshop should provide a hands-on experience for the attendees.Despite these reservations, students generally felt that (1) they had gained confidence through themastery projects; (2) they took the project seriously; and (3) they felt able to mentor otherstudents in the mastery topic area. Post-semester survey questions also asked students
help new professors streamlinethe process and approach these processes in an efficient and effective manner.I. IntroductionNew professors face many expectations including the ability to be an effective teacher.Accordingly, “university faculty have important responsibilities both for transmitting existingknowledge and for creating new knowledge: for teaching and learning.” 1 Generally there is aplethora of resources on how to teach, but guidance for creating new knowledge on teaching andlearning through educational research approaches are not as readily apparent for beginningengineering faculty. The American Society of Engineering Educator’s division, EducationalResearch and Methods, addresses various aspects of the learning process
approach, the first few class periods were handled by the FM not only to providean overview of the course, but to discuss the role of the CI in the class. Sinceundergraduate students normally have had a specific interaction with a TA, their mindseton the role of a TA is set. Thus, it is important at the earliest stages of the class toemphasize that the CI is not a TA and, in fact, shares in all aspects of running the course.While most students do not appreciate this subtlety immediately, it becomes moreapparent when the CI runs the class for several sessions in a row, generates assignmentsand answers questions in class or during office hours.Since the undergraduate students know a good deal, normally, about the faculty but notmuch about graduate
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