experimental results to analytical or simulatedpredictions, satisfying a major learning objective. The higher sampling rate of the MuddLog16had the effect of allowing students to be less-attentive to the potential of aliasing; future versionsof the course should examine means to ensure students acquire and understand aliased data.IntroductionExperimental Engineering at Harvey Mudd College is an intense multi-faceted sophomore-level,semester-long course. The stated learning objectives for the course are: 1. Demonstrate hardware and equipment skills: a. Demonstrate the safe and proper use of basic laboratory equipment: e.g., digital multimeter (DMM), signal generator, oscilloscope, breadboard, and analog transducers
the instructors exited the classroom and trained staff from UVA’s Teaching ResourceCenter elicited feedback from students about their learning in the course in a confidential andinteractive way. We found that LAWA increased understanding and development of independentlearning skills, and generated more interest and excitement about nanomedicine among thestudents.Course OrganizationWhile many university classes aim to teach a large amount of information each semester, wedecided to scale-down the amount of information we covered in order to allow for more time tocover each topic. Overlearning has been shown to be less dominant (yet helpful) in long-termretention, but essential to achieving a certain level of mastery.1 Therefore, we
and was co-editor of the reports Tech Tally: Approaches to Assessing Technological Literacy (2006) and Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need to Know More About Technology (2002). In the late 1990s, Greg oversaw NAE and National Research Council reviews of technology education content stan- dards developed by the International Technology Education Association. He has degrees in biology and journalism.Mr. David R. Heil, David Heil & Associates, Inc. DAVID R. HEIL, President of David Heil & Associates, Inc. (DHA), and founder of the Foundation for Family Science & Engineering, is well known as an innovative educator, author, and host of the Emmy Award winning PBS family science program Newton’s
all positiveadjectives in each pair to the right side of the scale, to avoid participant misinterpretation. Thesecond modification was to change the adjective used to anchor the scale from “mundane” to“uninteresting” in order to eliminate any reading comprehension issues for our participants. As a technical point, FIDES scores are calculated by: 1) first calculating the mean scalescore for each indicator, and then 2) averaging a sum of scores from all indicators on the surveyto produce scores on the 1 to 7 Likert scale equivalent. FIDES scores here do not representordinal phases in the FPMID, as is often done in research using this model. We are presenting ascale score for the interest as a measured construct. To avoid confusion
suite of expensive test andmeasurement equipment. While lecture instruction can be delivered at a distance using on-lineand other technologies, it is difficult, if not impossible, to reproduce the hands-on experience ofan electronics laboratory over the Internet. Nevertheless, an electronic engineering technologyprogram delivered on-line must include concurrent laboratory experiences.In recent years, a number of computer-aided simulation programs have become availablecommercially. Researchers have compared the effectiveness of some of these programs to theeffectiveness of traditional hands-on laboratory exercises 1-3. Most of these research effortsinvestigated the use of computer-aided software as a method to enhance, enrich, or
-classfootball captains, who received intensive leadership coaching, and the group of freshmen footballplayers who received more general training as part of the First Year Seminar course.With regard to the engineering captains, all of them retook the KGI and MBTI instruments inpreseason to obtain fresh results with which to work. This built upon the previous first-yeartraining. In the current situation, they had the experience of selecting new skills, practicing theseskills, and self-reflecting on the skill development process at a deeper level.During the football season, the captains received one-on-one coaching sessions with theKGI/MBTI model at three intervals: in pre-season, at mid-season, and toward the end of theseason. The sessions ran from 60-75
to make adjustments as necessary.(1)The purpose of the Delphi study was to define the important concepts that define engineeringgraphics. Page 26.627.2ProcessAn initial brainstorming session with a small group of faculty leaders in graphics education washeld in conjunction with the 66th Engineering Design Graphics MidYear Conference inGalveston, Texas. Topics in graphics education were listed and put into categories with noattempt to distinguish between “topics” and “fundamental concepts.” The idea was to be asinclusive as possible with “weeding out” to be conducted in later stages of the Delphi study.(2)These brainstorming activities resulted
• Faculty, grad students and staff to guide the activities • Food for breakfast and lunch • T-shirts for studentsFigure 2 – Middle School Students after they received their certificateAs stated, our goal is to introduce fundamental sustainability concepts to the students. In orderto assess the effectiveness this program, we developed a short quiz given to the students onthe first day of the program and again on the last. The quiz is titled “So What Do You Knowabout Sustainability?” and the results are compared to gauge how well students learned theconcepts presented (see Table 1). If students do poorly on a specific concept, that isreinforced in subsequent sessions. We also assess the engagement and input of the middleschool students during
. Table 1. Types of representations and definitions Type Description Photographs, diagrams, schematics, and other images used to illustrate a concept or Images depict a design choice. Images do not include data. Plots, charts, graphs, and phase diagrams used to depict/explain pre-existing or Plots student-generated quantitative data. Tables Formatted tables used to organize parameters, results, and other project information. General equations (i.e. without values) used to relate relevant design parameters and Equations quantities to each other. Solved equations (i.e. with
2002, and has worked on many assessment, research, and evalu- ation projects, including the measurement of student learning outcomes in general education, longitudi- nal research on the effects of undergraduate engineering research experiences on minority enrollment in graduate school, and the evaluation of the Georgia Tech International and Research Plans. He is currently working on an upcoming evaluation of service learning and sustainability project as part of Georgia Tech’s Quality Enhancement Plan.Dr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research In- stitute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge
identified a well-defined nation-wide engineeringdesign competition event as the first joint project to initiate the collaboration. A two-year planhas been drafted to ensure that student teams will not be overwhelmed by multi-tasks tocomplete all technical requirements, while mastering skills needed to organize a functionalvirtual team. This paper will discuss the challenges of executing such a project and how can wetransform the pilot program into a sustained collaborative team learning experience beneficial toboth programs.I. IntroductionOne of the primary outcomes for the engineering education is to train students for conductingengineering design and be a better fit for the industrial needs1, 2. The accelerating pace of theglobalization of
successful interactions and learning outcomes.1-3 One important challenge centers onthe interactions between students from groups negatively stereotyped as poor performers inengineering (e.g., women and under-represented racial minorities) and others. A body of researchin psychology indicates that students from these marginalized groups may have qualitativelydifferent group work experiences compared to others, which may contribute to their self-selection from engineering and thus their group’s under-representation in engineering fields.Recent research suggests that the negative experiences of people from marginalized groups onengineering student design teams can influence many factors that contribute to persistence andsuccess, such as development of
proposed in this paper, a side by side comparison was conductedbetween students who had experienced the active learning classroom versus students coveringthe same course content with a lecture-based style. Students from the active learning classroomsachieved A’s in their subsequent computer science course 1.5-2.5 times more often than studentsfrom the traditional lecture-based classroom.1 IntroductionComputer Science skills are of great importance in today’s workforce. The majority of jobstoday require some level of interaction with a computer. Given that computer science skills areso important, it is vital that we prepare the next generation in the best way possible. The firstyear of exposure to computer science is critical and an improper
(Another UnionFS) toprovide layered stack of filesystems, which reduces and simplifies the space and management offilesystem [25]. Since it uses overlaying technique to provide the system environment forindividual container based on a single OS image, it typically consumes relatively less resourcesin disk space and I/O. !4 Experimental setupIn this session, we compare the hypervisor-based and container-based virtual machine usingVirutalBox and Docker, which are freely available. VirutalBox is general-purpose virtualizationtool developed by ORACLE and compatibly runs on many types of OS, Windows, Mac OS X,Linux, and etc. [26]. VirtualBox allows user to select the guest OS resource allocation but itrequires minimum memory and disk space. For each
differently than any other story. Fundamentals of episodic memory, empathy, andcollaboration were components of the students’ experience and the core part of a final interactiveexhibit visited by more than one hundred people. Results demonstrate broad applicability: 1)fostering communication among engineering and design students with their teams and theirusers, and 2) introducing a generative storytelling approach in an interaction design class.Introduction and BackgroundToday, the need for storytelling1 is perhaps one of the most vibrant, yet misunderstood andunderappreciated qualities of any business. Without coherent, considered storytelling, it isimpossible to craft the kind of subtle brand messaging which separates winning organizationsfrom also
Page 26.1621.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Understanding Curricular Approaches to Communication as a Global Competency: A Study of the Teaching and Learning of Communication Skills at Three UniversitiesIntroductionAs society grows more global and interconnected, the challenges that must be addressed by thenext generation of engineers are becoming more complex [1-2]. Engineers need deep technicalexpertise, of course, but they also need what have typically been called 21st-century skills, forexample, critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork, and communication. Technicalknowledge and “soft” skills are
from engineering majors1. Data from our local site indicate that 82% of engineeringstudents return for the second year, while only about 69% continue into the third year, whilethere is a much smaller attrition rate between the third and fourth years2 (see Figure 1). Nationaldata on engineering student retention is typically reported for students persisting until the eighthsemester, and has been shown to range from 38% to 52% across a range of institutions3.Consequently, direct comparisons between the local site and national averages are not possible. Page 26.1021.2 Leave 1st year
The Ohio State University Abstract – This paper introduces the development process of a unique course, History of AncientEngineering, which blends numerous areas of science and technology. Development of such a course thatintegrates two different major subjects, i.e., history and engineering, and the inclusion of pertinent areas suchas agriculture, archeology, architecture, arts, chemistry, civil, geography, geology, hydrology, metallurgy, andphysics. While the historical aspects focus on the when, where, who, and what, the engineering aspects wouldendeavor to solve the why, how, made from-what, and occasionally, what-if questions associated with ancienttechnology. The goal of this course is to increase the student’s technical literacy by
Texas A&M University at Qatar AbstractThe current rapid rise of mobile computing, cloud computing, and social and collaborativelearning is transforming education. In particular engineering education has and will continuebenefiting from this trend by leading this transformation. To stimulate the innovative use oftechnology for a better teaching and learning experience, the Educational Technology andAcademic Affairs offices have jointly developed and introduced an annual competition to furtherencourage faculty and technical staff to use the digital technologies in the classrooms. Thisannual competition provides a collaborative opportunity to prototype and assess the impact ofemerging learning
communicate effectively (p. 3)These skills should be acquired through the duration of a student’s undergraduate experience andprograms are required to “identify, collect, and prepare data to evaluate the attainment” of theseoutcomes (p. 2). Literature building on these criteria has reiterated that engineers will work ininterdisciplinary teams and be required to communicate effectively as the world becomes moreglobalized.3 Generally, “scholars are recognizing that teamwork is among the most essentiallearning outcomes for college students in all disciplines, both because it facilitates other learningand because employers in most fields value teamwork.”4Empirical evidence from employers supports claims that teamwork is a valued skill.1 A 2013report on
prototype to solve the design problem. Therewas a set of general requirements that applied to all the three problems, for example, all designsneeded to be creative, aesthetically pleasing, well crafted, and the total cost should be as little aspossible and it should not exceed $100. Each problem had some specific requirements inaddition to the general requirements: in the first design problem, students were provided with asolar set-up, shown in Figure 1, which has a light bulb, simulating the “sun” that travels from“east” to “west” during a “day” at a constant rate. A solar power plant needed to be designed sothat consistent and maximum power be generated throughout the day. Only two types of solarcells could be used and all of them must be placed
for theElectrical Engineering (EE), Mechanical Engineering (ME) and Civil Engineering (CE) programs,the Faculty of Engineering has observed that ABET SOs exhibit relevance and coverage of therevised Bloom’s learning domains as shown in Table 1. In Table 1, ‘H’ High; ‘M’: Medium; or‘L”: Low; refers to the degree of relevance and coverage of an ABET SO for a learning domain,which is estimated by the type, number of activities and assessments processed in different coursesof a program in a given term for the measurement of PIs related to this learning domain. Hence itis important to note that Table 1 is hypothetically generated without actual outcomes measurementby using assessments and their counts information from various courses, but rather
order to optimize the classification effort while attempting toinform us of feedback activity nature and level. For example, we recognize the importance ofneed analysis and the emphasis that experts place on this stage verses novices, and so theimportant coding classifications of problem identification, representation and communication areprominent in our model. Additionally, the verification classification is available at each stage, asthis reflects best design practice. Figure 1. A generalized engineering design process model with coding classifications Initiating Planning
the head coordinator of a multi-section undergraduate course. Each undergraduate track in the CVEN degree plan wasrepresented (i.e., general, construction engineering and management, environmental, structures,water resources, transportation, geotechnical, costal and ocean). Participants were sent an email 3informing them about the study, and faculty willing to participate in the study self-selectedthrough an email response. A date and time was then set to conduct a one-on-one interviewbetween the participant and a graduate student research assistant. Four interview questionsguided the semi-structured interviews.Interview Questions: 1. How did prior expertise and experiences impact
field of engineering.The model is depicted as a pyramid consisting of several tiers. The arrangement of thetiers in this shape is not meant to be hierarchical, or to imply that competencies at thetop are at a higher level of skill. Instead, the model’s tapered shape represents theincreasing specialization and specificity of proficiencies covered. Its tiers are furtherdivided into blocks that represent competency areas (i.e., groups of knowledge, skills,and abilities), which are defined using critical work functions and technical contentareas.Foundational Competencies Competency – A cluster ofTiers 1 through 3 represent the “soft skills” and work related knowledge
generation and design-by-analogy. Her research seeks to understand designers’ cognitive processes with the goal of creating better tools and approaches to enhance engineering design. She has authored over 100 technical publications including twenty-three journal papers, five book chapters, and she holds two patents.Dr. Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University Dr. Robert Nagel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. Dr. Nagel joined the James Madison University after completing his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Oregon State University. He has a B.S. from Trine University and a M.S. from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, both in mechanical engineering
seat, also served to help theMavericks redefine leadership, gain a better understanding of leadership, and increase theirleadership skills (4.5, STDV 0.55; 4.67, STDV 0.52; 4.67, STDV 0.52; based on an ordinal scalewith 1 being strongly disagree and 5 being strongly agree). The experience also helped themincrease their Character, Competence, and Capacity (4.67, STDV 0.52; 4.33, STDV 0.82; 4.92,STDV 0.20). The Mavericks also agreed that the experience helped them increase theirinnovative problem solving and thinking skills (4.17, STD 0.41) and develop their identity (4.25,STDV 0.76). Overall, this research demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of allowing
*Kennesaw State University (Southern Polytechnic School of Engineering & Engineering Technology) 1000 S. Marietta Parkway Marietta, GA 30060 cokhio@kennesaw.eduAbstractExperiments show that Georgia Kudu contains about a 50/1 carbon/nitrogen ratio. The generally acceptedand in-use carbon to nitrogen ratio is around 30/1 and this can usually be achieved through wellunderstood fermentation and distillation technologies as described here. These processes are thetechniques through which Ethanol is extracted form sugar cane and corn. This research effort shows thatKudzu Plant (a wild growing weed/plant in the state of
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of the editorial boards for 7 interna- tional journals, and served as the Chair and Co-Chair for 12 international conferences. For recognition of my research activities, I have been invited to a number of international conferences as Invited Speaker, chaired panel discussions and numerous international conference sessions. I have served on more than 150 international conference program committees. Furthermore, I have published number of articles in peer- reviewed international journals and conferences. I am also an active member of ACM, ASEE, ASEE/PSW and CSAB.Dr. Jodi Reeves, National University Dr. Jodi Reeves is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Engineering at National Uni- versity in San