-progress paper focuses onhow a learning experience in augmented reality can help students gain the required skills neededfor industry.To date, academia has tried to help students develop strong technical skills by incorporatingdifferent analytical and problem-solving skills into the curriculum. As a result, academia hasintroduced different learning techniques to better prepare students for work after graduation. Onesuch technique is authentic learning with the use of augmented reality. Augmented reality (AR)is a technology that blends computer-generated elements with live video in real-time [1]. Virtual(computer-generated) objects appear to coexist in the same space as the real world are producedby the AR system. While many academics go beyond
reported in 2020 [4]. Despite increased tracking and abatementof software vulnerabilities, Gueye and Mell [5] report that the most prevalent software errors havenot changed much since vulnerabilities were first cataloged. Indeed, MITRE [6] lists the top threesoftware vulnerabilities as: 1. Improper Neutralization of Input on Webpage Generation (cross-site scripting) 2. Out-of-bounds write (buffer overflow) 3. Improper input validationThe prevalence of software vulnerabilities can be reduced when developers use principles ofsecure programming. It is vital that future developers are taught principles of cybersecurity andsecure programming, and that students understand the consequences of buffer overflow attacks.Review of Stack Buffer
). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017AbstractThis evidence-based practice presentation discusses the teaching of an infographics assignmentto first-year technology majors at a large research institution. Infographics can be powerful andsuccessful methods of presenting large, complex data sets to general audiences, and the growingimportance of visual communication has been documented. With a goal of improving ourinstruction and assessment of visual communication skills, we compare infographics designedand produced by freshman students during Fall 2015 with those produced by Fall 2016 freshmanstudents in the same introductory design course, and investigate whether freshman students’abilities to communicate graphically change or
written-oralcommunication were also the key components of that experience.In general, the transformation took three school years, starting from 2013 to 2016. Inthe 3 transformation rounds, it has established a practical framework to share withengineering educators. The goal of this case study is to illustrate how initial plan ofcapstone transformation containing only partial perspective has been challenged.Through various self-improvement mechanisms (illustrated in Figure 1), challengeshave been overcome and the capstone course gradually evolved towardcomprehension and optimization from 2013 to 2016.Figure 1: The evolution process (rounds 0-3) in Dynamic Control System capstone transformation from2013 to 2016 in the current case study. The
observation of a class session and the post-session discussion benefits the instructoras it is comprehensive feedback on tactical (short term intervention) and strategic (long termprogress) levels. This comprehensive feedback supports improvement of teaching and informswhich steps should be taken for the improvement (Table 1). In this study, the data consists offeedback to the new faculty member from the experienced peer and department head observerover four semesters of classroom observations.The triangulated observation approach supports the core principles of continuous improvement:validated processes (faculty self-reflection and observer’s feedback), identification and reductionof waste (inefficient usage of class time, instructor’s effort
information collected from theinterviews and survey as well as their own observations to begin to draw workflow diagrams tocreate visual representations based on all the data. After meeting with the Dean of Libraries andvisiting the similar-sized Technical Services area in another university to gain even more insightinto possible problems and solutions, the team members generated a Systematic Layout Planning(SLP) chart to start the process of creating detailed design options for the area. Architecturaldrawings were rendered using AutoCAD though the library also asked the engineering team tocreate 3D illustrations which were created in Sketchup. These illustrations were later automatedto show how the workflows would move through the new physical areas
Score (most recently evaluated by the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT)), extracurricular activities and community involvement, and their on-campus OML their junior year, and their ranking at Cadet Summer Training. The most heavily weighted are the on-campus OML and CST ranking (Figure 1). Research to refine the OML at the national level is conducted at the United States Army Corps of Cadets (USACC) Headquarters located at Fort Knox, Kentucky. There is an Operations Research unit that has years of data collected and is constantly analyzing separate variables at the national level following the guidance of assigned Major General (2 star). While the weights themselves for the OML are available the
-generation, Underrepresented groups and Minorities through an Engineering Student Success Course,” 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2016.[27] E. Litzler and C. Samuelson, “How Underrepresented Minority Engineering Students Derive a Sense of Belonging from Engineering,” in 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, ASEE Conferences, 2013, pp. 23.674.1-23.674.20. doi: 10.18260/1-2--19688.[28] A. Rainey, D. Verdín, and J. Smith, “Classroom Practices that Support Minoritized Engineering Students’ Sense of Belonging,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, Jan. 2021.[29] K. L. Tonso, “Engineering Identity,” in Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research
, a midwestern STEM-focusedinstitution, received an internal grant to develop a class in research for undergraduates. Thisclass, which is designed to be offered online either for cohorts or for individual students as anindependent study, contains information and resources on a diverse range of issues such asmotivation for research, research ethics, planning a research project, conducting literaturesearches, experimental procedures, keeping lab documentation for various types of projects, dataanalysis, technical writing, intellectual property, and issues relevant to scoping out one’s ownresearch project.This paper will give the background for the course development, evaluation of the requiredcontent and decisions on structure and format, and
misconceptionswhich can be useful in evaluating instruction. Researchers involved in science education haveused pre- and post- assessments to measure student learning and validate the need for curriculumrevision [1]. Engineering Graphics has been identified as a field in which the use of a CI couldexpose common misconceptions associated with graphic representation, as well as identify thefundamental concepts that contribute to the generation of those graphics. With varying curriculaacross institutions it can be expected that the implementation of engineering graphics will differ.The development of a standardized instrument to assess the understanding of concepts related toengineering graphics could be beneficial in streamlining or standardizing instruction
enhancement or any other topic you may find that will make a change in the future operation, reliability or application of your product choice. Use all sources at your disposal, however no general internet sources will be accepted as a reference for your project, for example “Wikapedia[sic]” may not be used as a source but can be used for your general knowledge purposes… The report must be technically oriented toward the topics of the class and a heavy emphasis should be on the technical expertise that you will need to know to work for or service customers that use FPT components in application8…The professor includes the library guide’s url and the librarian’s contact information in hissyllabus and on the
capacitance.A more sophisticated model of the circuit in Figure 2 would also include a resistor in series withthe inductor. However, this model is adequate to explain and observe parallel LC resonance.The Tenma LCR meter was used to measure the inductance of the coil with the result beingLcoil = 59 µ H . Identical results were obtained at both 100 kHz and 300 kHz settings of theTenma. To determine the resonant frequency of the LC circuit, we connected the waveform generator to the coil via a series 5 pf blocking capacitor and then varied the generator’s frequency to get a peak response on the scope. The 5 pf capacitor 1 was necessary to isolate the generator from the LC circuit and thereby minimize the generator’s effect on the LC circuit’s
immersive simulation game on agriculturalsustainability, Agpocalypse 2050. The simulation game was developed by a research teaminvestigating the nexus of food, energy, and water systems (FEWS). The overarching topic of thegame was to investigate how decisions within one FEW system have rippling effects intoconnected systems, and how this may influence the resiliency of the overall system. The corn,water, ethanol, beef (CWEB) nexus in the Midwest was used as an exemplary model in thegame.2.1. Intervention The intervention consisted of 1 hour and 45 minutes of classroom activities. The session wassplit into introduction (15 min) and gameplay (90 min). During the introduction, students weregiven a brief backstory on the video game, a paper
project-basedlearning (PBL) and hands-on exploration have on student learning across a variety of disciplinesincluding engineering. Recently, the Mechanical Engineering Department at The University ofIowa introduced undergraduate and graduate certificate programs in artificial intelligence,modeling, and simulations (AIMS) that aim to teach students: (1) the importance of uncertaintyquantification, (2) the various types of combinations (e.g., modeling and simulation-assistedmachine learning) and hybrid approaches, and (3) using hybrid models toward the design ofintelligent complex machines. This work-in-progress seeks to understand how extra/co-curricularactivities, as an extension of semester course content, can benefit student learning outcomes
Site in 2017, continuous trainings (courses)are offered to undergraduate and graduate engineering students. During spring, summer and fallsemesters, students are guided to conduct interviews with potential users of their innovations andrefine their entrepreneurship skills. After seven years of successfully impacting students (blindfor review 1 and 2) a team of investigators is looking into aspects of the training that might havebeen unperceived during prior assessments. In this study, we analyze via quantitative andqualitative methods, the answer to the research question: What aspects of the I-Corps Siteprogram experience could be enhanced or modified based on performance and perceptions ofparticipants? To answer this question, we focused on
Sciences, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 72–87, Oct. 2007, doi: 10.11120/ital.2007.06040072.[14] J. Whalley, A. Settle, and A. Luxton-Reilly, “Novice reflections on debugging,” in SIGCSE 2021 - Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Mar. 2021, pp. 73–79. doi: 10.1145/3408877.3432374.[15] L. M. Cruz Castro, A. J. Magana, K. A. Douglas, and M. Boutin, “Analyzing Students’ Computational Thinking Practices in a First-Year Engineering Course,” IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 33041–33050, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3061277.[16] A. J. Ko and B. A. Myers, “A framework and methodology for studying the causes of software errors in programming systems,” J Vis Lang Comput, vol. 16, no. 1–2, pp. 41
College (1988) and holds a PhD in developmental psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University (1999). American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Observing empathy in informal engineering activities with girls ages 7-14 (RTP, Diversity)BackgroundResearch and policy shifts in engineering education have identified socioemotional skills likeempathy as a fundamental and often neglected part of engineering practice [1]-[2]. This workargues that solving complex engineering challenges with societal and ethical implicationsrequires engineers to empathize with clients and colleagues whose perspectives and needs mightdiffer from their own [1]-[4]. Humanistic
, that the practices are part of a problem-solvingprocess, and that the practices, strategies, and process are part of doing engineering.Figure 1: Diagram of contributions of different forms of knowledge to Engineering Awareness.Adapted from Jideani and Jideani [11].This research explored the premise that exhibits, as educational experiences, can contribute tovisitors’ awareness that they are exercising engineering design practices. The efforts of educatorsto foster awareness of engineering in the general public are intended to support capacity-buildingin communities by helping youth and families recognize that their actions are a part ofengineering, and that engineering is an approach to solving problems in their own lives andcommunities. The
materials, 2017. [Online] Available: https://8020.net/. Retrieved 28 December 2017.[4] eBay, listing for 8-hp Kawasaki FE250D-AS10 engine, 2018. [Online] Available: https://www.ebay.com/itm/8hp-Kawasaki-Engine-Tapered-John-Deere-Generator-FE250D- AS10/130949681843?hash=item1e7d3592b3:g:hc0AAOSwp7FaZiI-, retrieved 03 February 2018.[5] W. B. Ribbens, Understanding Automotive Electronics: An Engineering Perspective, 7th Ed. Waltham, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2013.Appendix 1: Directed Project Proposal Template.Appendix 2: Cart Bill of Materials (Phase 1).Appendix 3: Bill of Materials to Get Engine Running (Phase 2). Phase 2 - Operational EnginePart Name Part Number Manufacturer Vendor Quantity
introductorymechanical engineering design course that involved both lecture (2 credits) and laboratory (1credit) sessions. Learning objectives for the mini-mill experience were to: (1) learn the safetyand controls of a manual milling machine and basic milling operations that included fixed,material scaffolds designed by the course instructor; (3) practice reading and manufacturing fromstandard engineering drawings; and (2) independently apply knowledge of milling machinecontrols and operations to create a basic part with adaptive, pedagogical scaffolding fromteaching assistants and machinists. All deliverables for this exercise were individually completedby students and required a mixture of hands-on activity, written reflection, and online trainingand survey
, students can quickly forget them because we usually do not use them daily inour busy life.However, if the professor or instructor adds some comments that for any soil/rock larger than thelength of his or her foot or 12 inches, the soil/rock is defined as boulder, the students will have alonger and maybe even a lifelong memory of boulder size in the USCS soil classification.Next size boundary is 3 inches length, about one of a person’s figure length, also equal to 1 foot(12 inches) divided by number four (#4 sieve). So any rock/soil larger than 3 inches, a finger’slength, but smaller than 12 inches or one foot is considered as cobbles.The number 4 sieve, roughly 5 mm (4.75mm) is approximately the width of a person’s pinkyfinger nail width.So if the
and high-level universities to promote the intensive development of higher education [14].On February 1, 2019, The General Office of the Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government issued theImplementation Opinions of the General Office of the Provincial Government on Further Adjustingand Optimizing the Structure and Increasing the Benefits of Using Education Funds, stating that itis required to optimize the structure of higher education expenditures, support the Double First-rateInitiative , and implement the high-level university construction project and characteristic Univer-sity construction [15]. Under the guidance of Jiangsu Provincial Committee of CPC and JiangsuProvincial People’s Government, the Working Committee on Education of Jiangsu
department names associated with the Data Science Degree. In these cases, the school name was used.• The departments or school names were examined and ten (10) clusters were created: 1) Business, 2) Computer Science, 3) Data analytics, 4) Data Science, 5) Data Science and Statistics, 6) Engineering, 7) Information Science and Technology, 8) Interdisciplinary, 9) Mathematics/Computer Science, and 10) Mathematics/Statistics.• These department or school clusters were generated for analysis purposes as it is more effective to analyze data based on ten department or school clusters as opposed to over a hundred department or school names. The department or school names were mapped to these clusters as shown in Table 1. Department
likely to beolder, first-generation college students, disabled, African American, or Latino.7 The U.S. Houseof Representatives has recognized the value of the military-to-STEM career pathway with theintroduction of the bipartisan House Bill 748, GI Bill STEM Extension Act of 2015. Introduced inthe 2015-2016 legislative session, this bill would authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs topay up to 9-months of additional Post-9/11 educational assistance to veterans pursuing a STEMdegree.8 According to a representative of Student Veterans of America (SVA), encouragingveterans to pursue STEM degrees represents “another smart investment in education” that wouldresult in significant gains to our economy.9Several programs have been initiated to
be included in a physics class. The quotes in Table 1 illustrate that they areconsidering that question, even when not prompted explicitly. Feedback on in-class activity around representation in STEM 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Semester 1 (N=52) Semester 2 (N=37) Semester 3 (N=22) Negative Neutral PositiveFigure 2. Students’ general reactions to the in-class activity on representation in STEM,provided via the online optional weekly feedback survey. N indicates the number of studentseach semester who provided a response. Total
references from a variety of sources such as technical books, manuals, reports, journal articles, web sites, etc. o Research Tips: Performing a Literature Review (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJsj1fpOFo) • Begin summarizing some of your key research points from each of the references you select. This summary must include at least two Figures or Tables to demonstrate how you will incorporate these items into the development of your research paper. • Include citations in any of the written work you begin to draft and references at the end of the outline. Follow the referencing requirements provided in the course syllabus. Figure 1. Capstone Research Paper
[28]: 1. Getting familiarized with the data (reading transcripts and answers to open-ended questions on their own) 2. Generating initial codes derived from the data (along with conducting peer debriefs to develop an agreed coding scheme) 3. Searching for themes 4. Reviewing themes’ adequacy by extracting quotes from the raw data 5. Naming themes 6. Producing a reportFinally, quantitative and qualitative results were triangulated to deepen our understanding of theflipped classroom implementation. This process consisted of contrasting evidence from thedifferent data sources (survey and discussion group) [23]. Further detailed findings are addressedin the results and discussion section.Results and DiscussionQuantitative
arenecessary. Once the general outreach program mentioned above is implemented, there will be anopportunity to delve deeper into the needs and expectations of this group.1 The library at Texas A&M has been at the forefront of conducting research to assist and improve the experience ofstudent veterans.CONCLUSIONThanks to the many military occupational specialties that focus on technology, electronics, andmechanics, along with the many “soft skills” (such as communication, leadership, and discipline)that are learned along the way, student veterans are excellent candidates for becoming successfulengineers. If academic libraries are better able to understand the needs of this population andsupport these students in their journeys to their degrees
necessary to be competitive whenapplying for positions in academia, and for remaining resilient and competitive in academic andrelated positions. Many researchers investigated different aspects of successful writing [1]-[16].Parker described knowledge-centered writing in undergraduate engineering curriculum thatguided students to turn from novice to expert problem solvers, expanding on their writingcompetencies [1]. This learner-centric writing method focused on writing competencies thatstudents generally struggled with, thus highlighting skills that needed to be honed [1].Bandyopadhyay explored a “writing in the discipline” program for critical writing whereproblem solving is part of technical courses and the writing thereof [2]. The small sample
implications of engineering decisionsThe course topics and structure are organized in such a manner as to achieve the aboveobjectives as outlined in the next section. IV. Organization of Course Learning SessionsThe activities of the course have been divided into two distinct parts: Course lecture andhands-on project:IV.1 Course Lectures and Presentations- Lectures for the course are presented in one session(1.5 hr.) each week based on the following topics as outlined below:(i) Case StudiesThe course presents case studies related to the civil, chemical, electrical, and mechanicalengineering fields in conjunction with numerous sub-disciplines such as aerospace, computer,energy, materials, manufacturing, industrial, automotive, nuclear