collaboration using a 1-5 scale. This question from the survey ispresented in Fig. 2.The second question is given in Fig. 3. This question identifies the specific skills that studentsfeel have improved the most through their experiences with pair programming and reflections.The question format allows students to select multiple areas, such as problem-solving, debugging,communication, and adaptability to new coding challenges.These two questions provide a high-level perspective on students’ growth over the semester.Section 2 - General Pair Programming Questions:Section 2 comprises general pair programming questions, covering Question 3 to Question 10.This section evaluates the impact of pair programming sessions on students’ problem-solvingabilities
engineer) and situations (task, team, aspiration/satisfaction). Parts five through seven ofthe survey invited individuals to identify and evaluate the skills and traits of three colleagues intheir organization who exemplified each of the three leadership orientations—technical mastery,collaborative optimization and organizational innovation. We derived our list of skills from thetwelve graduate attributes named by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (similar toABET) [48, 49], and the core engineering competencies against which internationally trainedengineers are evaluated, as defined by Engineers Canada [50]. We were less systematic about ourtrait selection. The research team generated 20 traits we believed to be characteristic of
." • "The VR-based learning increased my motivation and enthusiasm for the subject." • "I feel more engaged during VR learning sessions compared to traditional classes." • "Using VR improved my ability to retain and recall course material." • "I experienced discomfort or technical issues (e.g., motion sickness, graphics quality) during the VR sessions." • "Overall, I am satisfied with my VR learning experience (rated on a scale of 1–10)."In addition to surveys and statistical analysis, practical skill assessment is crucial to confirming the efficacyof VR learning spaces: a. Conceptual Quizzes (Pre/Post Testing): Assess student understanding prior to and after VR sessions to measure
, where students must present their project goalsand requirements, expand solution space, present tradeoff analysis, and present a preliminaryplan with the potential to fulfill the requirements. Based on the authors’ observations,understanding and thus representing a project holistically during these reviews can bechallenging for engineering students for several reasons. The following are based on the authors'observations and supported by the literature on engineering education.1) Presenting complex systems while balancing technical depth and accessibility: Engineeringdesigns often involve complex systems with many components interacting in different ways.Representing and communicating this complexity in a clear and understandable way is a
in terms of mandatedmaximum units in an undergraduate program and additional requirements imposed by a stategovernment or a university. Conversely, the ABET accreditation criteria (general plus program)define the minimum requirements for a program to receive accreditation. There will naturally bea gap between those two standards.For the cycle of change to be successful, the insights and lessons learned from the developmentof the CEPC should be communicated with the BOKTC and vice versa. This paper attempts todo that. The paper will define the gap between (1) the BOK2 and (2) EAC/ABET accreditationcriteria (General Criteria plus proposed CEPC as well as newly revised General Criteria plusproposed CEPC) and make recommendations for closing the
, stimulate their curiosity, and engage them in hands-on activities that are notlimited to the laboratory 1. This paper proposes the integration of an activity-based learning approach in the EEcurriculum with the use of Analog Discovery Boards (ADB) by Digilent Inc. This enhancementallows students to build, analyze and visualize circuits using the USB-powered AnalogDiscovery platform, a personal computer, and a basic analog parts kit. This opens the door for avariety of learning activities that include in-class experimentation, take-home exercises, groupactivity sessions, and design-and-learn projects among many others. Our work aims to create anenvironment for a student that is conducive to innovation and creative thinking; while providingan
skills in: 1. Making reasonable simplifying assumptions. 2. Analyzing the causes of heat generation. 3. Identifying and determining the modes of heat transfer (which ones are dominant, which ones are negligible). 4. Determining different and effective methods of heat removal. 5. Reporting the solution to a customer. Page 26.1174.11 Table 3. Survey results assessing technical skills in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer. EME 3123 Fluid Mechanics EME 4013 Heat Transfer Question # Standard Standard Mean
session. Students are allowed torevise and resubmit work if they receive less than perfect scores on the assignments.From the first day of the course, students are told that each and every graph, flow chart, andMATLAB program submitted via Blackboard must include a text box with names of members ofthe team and date on which the submitted item was created.EXCEL is used during the first three weeks to construct charts and graphs for various sets ofdata. In the second week, students generate data by taking measurements of current and voltagein simple DC electric circuits involving a single resistor or a single incandescent light bulb. Inthe third week, EXCEL plus an oscilloscope is used to determine the velocity of sound from a40k-Hz ultrasound
andEydgahi (n.d.) approach this issue as it relates to curricula, by recognizing that non-STEM fields such as Social Sciences andHumanities “emphasize more on ‘soft skills’ and ‘social service’ and as such have naturally embraced ‘service-learning’” (p. 1). As aresult, integrating academic fields with “service-learning” that emphasizes, “‘technical’ and ‘scientific’ skills such asEngineering…[is] rare”33. Another difference in the definition of service learning provided through an evaluation of Jacoby (1996), who defines servicelearning as a “form of experiential education in which students engage in activities that address human and community needs togetherwith structured opportunities intentionally designed to promote student learning and
asynchronously before attending one-hour “live” in-person virtual Zoom sessions. The approach was intended to build interculturalleadership skills by giving the GIGEL participants access to several different theoretical frameworksso that they could build a language for thinking about intercultural issues in the context of being aglobal energy leader. Here is the introductory summary of each week in Table 1 to illustrate. Table 1: General Topics Explored for Each Week Week General Topics 1 Exploring motivations for learning about intercultural issues and how it affects your thoughts about the future of energy and the research that you do. 2 Learning about different
developmentcourses. Courses that polish skills such as design, innovation, communication, teamwork, andleadership skills could be counted towards degree requirements. A more specific idea is to teachstudents persuasive communication skills for pitching ideas to different audiences.Building off the need for professional development within the BME master’s programs,participants suggested that the broader BME community could help with this endeavor. Forexample, BMES may gather and post a curated list of professional short-course offerings thatinclude both technical skills and professional skills. These could be sessions that are alreadyavailable or generated by the BMES community. Similarly, BMES could also sponsor a YouTubechannel as a home for these
careers. After couple years of employment, constructiongraduates realize that they need more than technical knowledge for their advancement. Theyare expected to lead diverse group of people in every single project including owners,architects, engineers, subcontractors, suppliers and many more. Their conduct throughout theproject cultivates relationships and generates potential business opportunities with existingclients. In addition to that, there is a need for structured effort to identify and contact potentialclients in every organization. Construction project management is a profession where Page 26.413.2professionals are busy with
activities. Feedback from students is used tomake recommendations for enhancing the activities, with the goal of increasing interest inpursuing careers or further education in the ECE field.WorkshopA precollege program was hosted by our university for high school students during the summer.In this program, rising juniors and rising seniors participate in a residential two-week sessionwhich introduces the students to our school’ majors and campus life. Participants attend lectures,labs, hands-on modules, and field trips similar to those done by our school’s Year 1 students. Thestructure of the program is as follows. Each day, Monday through Friday, students attend amorning session from 9:00am to 12 noon and an afternoon session from 1:00pm to 4
Session ETD 315 Earn and Learn: Best Practices of a True Apprenticeship Nabin Sapkota and Laurie Morrow Engineering Technology Department, Northwestern State University of Louisiana/Central Louisiana Technical Community College AbstractNorthwestern State University (NSU) of Louisiana and Central Louisiana TechnicalCommunity College (CLTCC) joined hands in a work/study program in collaboration withlocal and regional manufacturers to offer the Advanced Manufacturing Technician (AMT)program. AMT program provides the opportunity for a learn/earn
Copyright ©2019, American Society for Engineering Education Session ETD 5451) Biweekly reports: constituted 15% of the final GPA. These reports summarized the work of the previous two weeks. Each report was recorded on a log-book that included minutes of meetings, weekly list of achieved and pending goals, notes from outside research, calculations, sketches and drawings, test plans, collected data, and analyses. Each of the biweekly reports had a general theme as follows: Report 1 Proposal Report 2 Conceptual Design Report 3 Preliminary Design Report 4 Critical
constraints on the schedules of external speakers and industrial and cultural visits. Adescription of the experiments including a bill of materials is provided in Table I. An Table I: Description of Experiments and the Bill of MaterialsExperiment Activities Bill of Materials 1. Construct a circuit to power an Arbitrary function generator LED in pulsed operation and a DC voltage supply second circuit to detect output of Oscilloscope an integrated photodetector- 2 solderless breadboards (400 tie) amplifier. 1 each: red LED with 2 θ1/2 = 15o 2
been chosen as the teaching medium. Three main aspects of theteaching methods include: 1) In-class teaching of lecture material (i.e., casting processes) 2)Hands-on sand casting laboratory where students are engaged in conducting and assisting invarious steps of sand casting process (i.e., premixing, mold preparation, actual casting process,trimming sprues, runners, gates etc.) 3) Numerical and graphical analysis of the casting processthrough simulation. The integrated methodology would be comprised of classroom and labactivities, in which two sessions are conducted in the classroom environment, and one session isconducted in the casting lab. The first classroom lecture incorporates describing the variousaspects of the casting processes such
. Table 1summarizes the demographics among the participants.Table 1. Demographics among the participants Major GenderClass Delivery Mode Levels CE EE CM Male FemaleProject Planning & Regulations (Session 1) In-Person Undergraduate 34 3 29 8Project Planning & Regulations (Session 2) In-Person Undergraduate 25 8 24 9Comprehensive Estimating Asynchronous Online Graduate 8 5 3Figure 2 provides a summary of the study methodology. The process begins
technical content delivery is done primarily by nine Ph.D.-holding, tenure-track faculty members. They are supported by seven additional faculty memberswho are either part-time, adjunct, or teaching staff on a non-tenure track. For the sake of thisstudy, we will refer to this category generally as “faculty” or “professors”. Faculty teachtechnical competencies (e.g., Fluid Mechanics, Electronics, Engineering Economics, etc.) in 1-credit blocks each semester. These technical competencies include both core and elective coursesthat are necessary for the completion of the general engineering degree. Additionally, the facultyhelp deliver professionalism and design learning through workshops, seminars, assessments,feedback, etc. Faculty are responsible
4 Discipline Biomedical 2 Discipline Systems 2 Discipline Computer 2 Discipline Electrical 2 Discipline Mechatronics 1 Discipline It is a general engineering capstone course 1 Years of 16 or more 9 Teaching Experience Years of 6- 10 years 7 Teaching Experience Years of 11- 15 years 6
system structure might influence behavior.12 Additionally,qualitative system dynamics modeling is often most appropriate when model variables cannot beaccurately quantified, as is often the case for exploratory modeling, similar to what was done inthis study.The general goal of qualitative SD modeling is to develop a causal loop diagram (CLD) whichdescribes the causal structure hypothesized to drive the dynamic behavior of a system. Thisdynamic behavior is hypothesized to emerge through the formation of feedback loops. Anexample feedback loop could be: an increase in population causes an increase in people beingborn, which causes an increase in population, and so on (see Figure 1). CLDs are created bysystematically identifying the polarity of
from our college’s “Power Up” bootcamp for students [24] and fromthe General Engineering Self-Efficacy Scale [25].Focus group Interviews. During the semester, participants who attend the seminar at least onetime are invited to participate in a focus group interview. Focus group questions build onquestions and responses from the post-seminar survey and meeting notes taken throughout thesemester. Focus groups’ audio are recorded using ZOOM’s recording function.Preliminary FindingsWhile only the first iteration of the developmental phase is complete, data collected fromseminar sessions and surveys provide insight into how the seminar can be redesigned to build aCoP for military and post-traditional students. The initial findings have been
course(taught by an engineering subject matter expert). We will also discuss how practicing engineers canuse this book and accompanying online workflow materials as they develop their own workplaceprojects.Bibliography[1] D. Kmiec, B. Longo and J. M. Williams, "Extended abstract: Using project workflow to teach engineeringcommunication," Professional Communication Conference (IPCC), 2015 IEEE International, Limerick, 2015, pp. 1-2.[2] D. Winsor. Writing Like An Engineer: A Rhetorical Education. New York: Routledge, 1996.[3] R. Spilka. “Orality and Literacy in the Workplace: Process- and Text-Based Strategies for Multiple-AudienceAdaptation,” Journal of Business and Technical Communication 4 (1990), pp. 44-67.[4] C. Spinuzzi. Tracing Genres
than technicalproblem-solving targeting efficiency or other technical metrics. The discipline seeks tounderstand stakeholders as complete beings with socio-emotional needs, rather than as purelyrational actors, abstract problem-solvers, or technical components. Scholars such as Boyemphasize that HCE is rooted in principles of Human-Centered Design but applied withinspecific engineering contexts [1].Although closely related, HCE and Human-Centered Design (HCD) differ in scope andapplication. HCD is both a discipline and a methodology focused on research, problem-solving,and experimentation, while HCE embeds human-centered principles throughout engineeringpractice and may leverage HCD to do so. While HCD informs HCE, the demands of
crafts from leaf blowers and other basic suppliesWelding Lab Introduced students to welding 1 wkIn addition, three weeks of the course were consumed by lectures covering the policies of theMechanical Engineering department and the university in general. Surveys of students from thecourse showed a strong preference of students that remained in mechanical engineering aftertheir freshman year, for the labs involving design projects such as the Hover Craft and the LegoClock, as opposed to more procedural labs like the rocket lab or engine lab23. The influence ofthese early experiences in mechanical design can be seen clearly as students progress through theME curriculum
, withSession 1 maintaining instructor consistency across both years while Session 2 experienced aninstructor change. Student feedback was collected through both quantitative surveys andqualitative open-ended questions to provide a comprehensive understanding of the lab's impacton student learning and engagement. Additionally, student lab reports and summary videos werealso collected and reviewed as supplementary evidence of learning outcomes.Results and DiscussionNeeds AssessmentFigure 2 presents the results of a student survey conducted at the end of Spring 2023. Studentswere asked to respond to the following question: "This class has been used to assess the StudentLearning Outcome 'Understand the basic principles of structural behavior' required by
programs or other industry training.In order to exam the feasibility and usefulness of such program, MSU Denver conducted a seriesof survey. Survey responses would only be used internally at MSU Denver to direct curriculumdevelopment and potentially market the new degree. In this paper we use secondary survey data.The first survey aimed to understand the interests in such degree from employers’ point of view.1Distributed with the help of the Presidents of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the AssociatedBuilders and Contractors and the Associated General Contractors of Colorado, the result of thesurvey indicated strong support for the type of degree proposed, referring to Figure 1. Surveyresponse: importance of a pathway to a 4 year BA degree in
ofthat data to the player. The subsections below explain the approach and considerations fortheoretical technical solutions that address each step. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2019, American Society for Engineering Education Session ETD 475 Figure 1. ASMB Model3.1. Continuous Data CollectionIt was important to first understand that the data referred to in this section, and sections tofollow, are collected from specified data points that were deemed necessary in measuringlearning objectives. For example, the data point for
©2019, American Society for Engineering Education Session ETD 415As a result of the need for high quality assessment of student learning and the expectation fromaccrediting bodies for programs to show what students know and are able to do, more recentlyuniversities have adopted the integrative learning model for assessment of student outcomes.According to Budwig and Jessen-Marshall (2018), integrative learning for the college studentcomprises 1) the useful blending of knowledge and skills from different disciplinary areas, 2)putting theory into practice, 3) considering multiple perspectives to advance collaborativeproblem solving, 4) adapting the skills
coherence. The revised curriculum will incorporate expert lectures duringkey energy sessions, schedule site visits to coincide with relevant theoretical content, and integrateenhanced technical workshops during project development phases. This structured approachensures that new content enhances rather than disrupts the existing learning framework.To facilitate smooth implementation, we propose a phased introduction of new elements. The firstphase, beginning in Fall 2025, will introduce expert lectures and enhanced case studies. The secondphase will incorporate site visits and technical workshops, allowing time for logisticalarrangements and partnership development with local industry professionals.RecommendationsTimelineThe implementation strategy