participants described: The problem I have seen with UMKC … is the rapidity with which UMKC makes changes. They do not give us [MCC faculty] much time to react when there is a new curriculum. Sometimes it's happening beyond the scope of the engineering department, like ‘Oh, UMKC has decided they're going to do Gen Ed differently’ That was a relatively recent change that messed up not just engineering transfer from MCC, but other majors, and that lack of consideration for transfer students. It takes us [at MCC] a year to make a curriculum change and get it all approved and find a teacher and redo the schedule. Anything less than a year is almost impossible if you are making major rewrites of the
studiesarticulate how to motivate engineering faculty to interact across engineering disciplines, letalone, with non-engineering faculty such as educational experts. Therefore, the research teamsought to understand, how can we develop a culture of collaboration among STEM facultyaround the issue of implementing teaching innovation including RBIS’s? The specific guidingresearch question for the current study is how do faculty in STEM describe their experienceparticipating in the Strategic Instructional Innovations Program (SIIP) – a program designed topromote and support the implementation of teaching innovation?This qualitative study employs an exploratory phenomenological approach, using semi-structured interviews with 12 STEM faculty across academic
addition,several practitioners within the domains of physics and engineering education have noted theimportance of teaching with learning styles in mind 16 - 23. Furthermore, attention to learning stylesand learner diversity has been shown to increase student motivation to learn.This paper addresses the critical role that a learning style approach can play in terms of physicsand engineering education. Two different student populations have been selected for discussionin this paper: non-science majors taking introductory physics at American University and at-riskfreshman engineering students at Purdue University.An overview of the learning style models used by the authors will be provided. Introductoryphysics students at American University are
specified approach but with the materials and resources thatcan be used to find the answer independently. In the context of a laboratory setting, discoverylearning takes place when a challenge is posed and the experimental resources are available formore open-ended investigation, without a 'follow-the-recipe' type manual or detailed instruction.In solving the challenge the student is actively engaged in an investigation that draws on priorexperience and knowledge as well as new knowledge. By interacting with, exploring, and manip-ulating physical components and systems, the student wrestles with the challenge and performsthe necessary experiments to gain insight and understanding. Discovery learning methods havebeen studied in detail and their
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AC 2009-1913: A PARADIGM FOR COMPREHENSIVE CONCEPT MAP-BASEDMODELING OF STUDENT KNOWLEDGERicky Castles, Virginia Tech Ricky T. Castles is a computer engineering PhD student. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering in 2003, earning Summa Cum Laude honors. He earned a Masters of Science degree in Computer Engineering in 2006 and a Masters of Science degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering - human factors option in 2008. He anticipates completion of his PhD in 2009. His research interests include knowledge representation, physiological data modeling, mechatronics, and artificial intelligence.Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech VINOD K. LOHANI is an associate professor in
Paper ID #26809Assessment of Project-Based Learning Courses Using Crowd SignalsMr. Georgios Georgalis, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Georgios is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue Univer- sity and has completed his undergraduate degree at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). His research concentrates on a new approach to project risk assessment that is human-centric and allows for prediction of upcoming failures, which gives practitioners the opportunity to prevent them.Dr. Karen Marais, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dr. Karen Marais’ educational research focuses on improving
problem set [3], [4]. Drawn from models of professionaltraining in medicine, and touted as a student-centered learning strategy, project-based, orproblem-based learning (PBL) has become a popular model to integrate specific challenges ofprofessional engineering into the learning process by incorporating the complexities of humanand site-based work into engineering curriculum [5], [6]. While pointing out the overly-broadrange of instructional methods justified under this title, critics agree that the active andcollaborative processes have value for student learning in engineering [7], [8], [5].For civil and environmental engineers, whose work is often connected to construction, land, andwater issues on specific sites, and whose work heavily
of the curriculum."III. Description of case studyThe subject of this case study is the Third Creek Repump Area in Knoxville Utilities Board’s(KUB) water system. The area is small enough for the students to analyze, but large andcomplex enough to require the students to grapple with real engineering design issues. TheThird Creek Repump area serves about 30,000 people and is connected to the rest of the KUBsystem through a pump station. The area is about 7 miles long and 5 miles wide. BecauseKnoxville is in the valley and ridge province of east Tennessee, elevations in the area vary fromabout 900 to 1300 feet. Peak day flow is about 4,750,000 gallons/day. Distribution systemmodeling is normally performed on a skeletonized version of the system
employed hardware-based solutions in order to provide a hands-on approach to in-lablearning. 1,3,4,5,6,7 These hardware-based signal processing laboratories have had marked success inproviding hands-on, realistic lab experiences to undergraduate students in an Electrical andComputer Engineering (ECE) curriculum. 1,7 The development of such laboratories for a requiredintroductory signal processing course has demonstrated that application-based exercisesillustrating the fundamental signal processing concepts using a DSP hardware platform have beenwell received. 7 A secondary advantage of using this hardware is that it introduces students totools that they will be able to use in senior design courses and after graduation. However, with theadvent of
advancedengineering topics.II. MethodologyThis project adapts and takes to the next level the concept of the studio-classroom. Goingfurther, our implementation is innovative, using the studio-classroom model to emphasizethe process of design early in the engineering curriculum. A series of learning moduleswas developed to provide access to the practical, theoretical and experimental knowledgeof fluids, flows, fields and pertinent analogies for engineering students of differentdisciplines.The modules consist of a series of eleven self-contained sets of material that include:TheoryDesign ExamplesDesign homework problemsDesign homework projectsHistorical notesExperiments and demonstrationsReferencesThe theory consists of a brief overview of topics that
. Consequently, when graduates transitioninto the professional construction industry, they are not able to properly understand and solvereal-life problems related to real-world projects. The gap between academic perceptions andindustry expectations has been revealed in many studies 5, 6. Attempts to bridge this gap includethe introduction of presentations and business writing skills into curriculums 7. This has ledaccreditation organizations such as the American Council for Construction Education (ACCE)and the Accreditation Board for Engineering Technology (ABET) to include professional softskills in their accreditation criteria. There is therefore enormous pressure on post-secondaryinstitutions and universities to implement curriculums and create
community colleges.5 This studywarns that there is not just one magic cure for student success but an accumulation of events andexperiences that will affect the success of a student. The 13 promising practices (which arereally not new) fall in the three areas of Planning Success, Initiating Success, and SustainingSuccess.5 Page 25.413.2Many CC students are undecided in their career choice. Of 61 university transfer students in anengineering scholarship program in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona StateUniversity (ASU), 19 (31%) did not know what they wanted to major in and this influenced theirdecision to go to a community college
and in learning the professional skills (communications, teamwork, organization, etc.)necessary for success. While most students opted to follow the suggested schedule, about 15% ofstudents instead chose to delay course participation until later in the semester. This varying paceof participation had an unexpected impact on some of the most dedicated students, who found itdifficult to engage in productive discussions online when not all of their classmates wereworking as quickly through the materials.IntroductionSuccessful engineering programs often integrate experiential learning experiences throughout thecurriculum. Cooperative education or internship programs may be the most familiar approach toexperiential learning in engineering; in these
, teaching is still a great tool to solidify their background in thefield of research and learn how to transfer their technical expertise to people new to the field. The author will pursue a career in academia upon graduation. His PhD research is closelyrelated to flight dynamics, and he had the opportunity to teach AERO 321 – Dynamics ofAerospace Vehicles – for three semesters at Texas A&M University. Teaching this class gave himan insight into the following: how to structure and deliver the course material such that studentslearn effectively and within the stipulated time, enjoy the process and can demonstrate theirlearning. To structure the course, the author made a choice between two general approaches inpedagogy [1]. In the first
engineeringnationally hover around 60%, but dip below 40% when accounting for various underrepresenteddemographics [1], [2]. Notably, these figures often paint an overly optimistic picture, asuniversities typically exclude pre-engineering students or those facing initial obstacles to startingthe engineering curriculum from graduation rate calculations.At Lipscomb University, students are allowed to declare engineering upon admission.Anecdotally, we see that many of these students attrit (to another degree program or leave theuniversity altogether) before beginning their engineering curriculum. This attrition is primarilyattributed to challenges in math remediation and delayed graduation timelines. Consequently, theactual graduation rates for this at-risk
Dayton offers a Project Management course, which theEngineering Technology Department requires of all its majors. The primary goal of thiscourse is to familiarize students with the tools and techniques necessary to manage aproject. The course also seeks to expose students to the real life complexities ofmanaging a large-scale project.Prior to 1999, the Project Management course was the required capstone course forIndustrial Engineering Technology majors. Teams of students worked on a projectduring the semester for a local business. Other majors took the course as a technicalelective. In 1999, during a department curriculum review, the Project Managementcourse was combined with a course in Organization and Management. At the same timeas part of
theirinterdisciplinary backgrounds in engineering, psychology, history, anthropology and sociology,to develop brain-based and constructivist learning/teaching approaches that promote critical,analytical, and expert thinking in students. This STS course introduces students to the influencesof technologies on society and explores the relationships between societies and technologies.There are essentially four objectives to this course: (1) developing a strong understanding oflocal and global forces and issues which affect people and societies, (2) guiding local/globalsocieties to appropriate use of technology, (3) alerting societies to technological risks andfailures, and (4) developing informed and encompassing personal decision-making andleadership and providing
in industry and is now a standard engineering tool for both analysis and design.When FEM first appeared in the 1960’s it was introduced into the engineering curriculum at thegraduate level. As the method and computer technology matured, FEM was introduced at theundergraduate level in engineering and engineering technology programs, even in some two-yearengineering technology programs. Today, FEM is primarily offered as an elective undergraduatecourse in mechanical, civil, and aeronautical engineering programs. Fatigue analysis that in the past was carried out by hand and/or in-house computer programsis now done using commercial FEM software. Fatigue design modules have recently beenintegrated into commercial FEM codes that include ABAQUS
Session 2166 Senior ME Capstone Laboratory Course Kevin Schmaltz, Chris Byrne, Robert Choate, Joel Lenoir Western Kentucky UniversityAbstractThe Mechanical Engineering faculty at Western Kentucky University have developed andimplemented a Design of Experiments Plan to assure that graduates of the program haveacquired the skills necessary to design and conduct experiments and analyze experimentalresults. Instruction is integrated throughout the ME curriculum, with students finallydemonstrating the ability to both define and analyze experimental problems in a capstone class.In its
proactive approach, acting beyond what was required.BBI is a technique used by companies across nearly all industries, and engineering in particular.Anecdotal evidence suggests that over 80% of the companies interviewing Iowa State studentsfor engineering positions use BBI to some degree. Helping students prepare for BBI experiencesis not so widespread. Certainly, career services across the country try to assist students in theBBI process. If you google “behavioral based interviewing,” you will find a number of careersites, at colleges and private companies, that offer BBI information and strategies. Little hasbeen done to incorporate BBI and STARs into engineering curricula to help students prepare forthe hiring process, the culmination of their
matter experts or SMEs (pronounced “smees”) who possessthe most current hi-tech knowledge and skills. These experts are familiar with the recentadvances in technology, new processes, equipment, and industry “best practices.” To maintaincurrency with technology and produce work-ready graduates, SMEs are needed to help createand maintain curriculum that addresses key technologies and emerging industry trends. Topromote greater breadth of student learning, SMEs are needed to help integrate specific technicaltopics within core college curriculum—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.Teaming SMEs with faculty developers, instructional designers/developers (IDs) produces aneffective blend of unique abilities for scoping, structuring, and
engineering (BME), which is still a young field relative to the more“traditional” engineering disciplines, has been responsible for many high-impact biomedicaladvances (both clinically and in basic research) over the past 50-60 years1. However, over thelast decade the field of BME has been significantly transformed by far-reaching new scientificand technological developments. The human genome has been sequenced2,3, the field ofbioinformatics has generated powerful data annotation and database management tools4,diagnostic and imaging approaches are evolving at a rapid pace due to advances in molecularnanotechnology5, and computational power and capabilities are increasing exponentially everyyear. But the faster the pace of biomedical discovery, the
American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Developing Power Cycles Simulations for an Applied Thermodynamics CourseAbstractAs part of the rigorous curriculum for the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) students,laboratory courses supply a critical part of the engineering education through hands-onobservation, measurement, data acquisition, data analysis and interpretation, technical reporting,teamwork, and others. When the access to hands-on laboratory activities was abruptly interrupteddue to COVID-19, there was an immediate need 1) to find practical computer simulations, and/or2) to develop new simulations, both in support of the theory discussed during
(QJLQHHULQJ (GXFDWLRQ curriculum. Our students need to appreciate what skilled hands can do, what an innovativelyunique design can achieve in the market place as well as the factory floor. The inspirationalaspect of do-it-yourself (DIY) for engineering student can’t be over emphasized.AssessmentTo assess whether the new course strategy has had a positive impact on student learning and anincrease in their interest in manufacturing, a survey was conducted. This survey [6] includedinstructions and background information for the respondents outlining the reason the survey, andhow its outcome may impact new course delivery methods.Table 1 represents the
Paper ID #30316The Benefits of Discipline-based Communities for Faculty TeachingDevelopmentDr. Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University Margret Hjalmarson is a Professor in the School of Education at George Mason University. Her research interests include engineering education, mathematics education, faculty development and mathematics teacher leadership.Prof. Jill K Nelson, George Mason University Jill Nelson is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University. She earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Rice Uni- versity in 1998
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Paper ID #39744A democratized open-source platform for medical device troubleshootingDr. Sabia Zehra Abidi, Rice University Sabia Abidi is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the bioengineering department at Rice University and teaches courses in Systems Physiology, Troubleshooting of Clinical Lab Equipment, and Senior Design. Abidi has a doctorate in biomedical engineering from the University of Texas, Austin and completed post- doctoral research at NYU School of Medicine and MIT. Her research interests include experimentation of new classroom methods to encourage student curiosity, engagement and knowledge retention.Victor
Session 1658 Development of a Web-Based Environmental Impact, Monitoring and Assessment Course Randall Guensler, Paul Chinowsky, Christopher Conklin School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of TechnologyThe information revolution has had a dramatic effect on engineering education in the 1990’s.Educators and students alike have witnessed a dramatic shift from traditional teaching methodsand tools to a new, innovative, interactive approach. What began as the simple use of computersand information technology for student projects has developed into the large scale use ofcomputer
PhD from U.C. Berkeley.Dr. Hadas Ritz, Cornell University Hadas Ritz is a senior lecturer in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and a Faculty Teaching Fellow at the James McCormick Family Teaching Excellence Institute (MTEI) at Cornell University, where she received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2008. Since then she has taught required and elective courses covering a wide range of topics in the undergraduate Mechanical Engineering curriculum. In her work with MTEI she co-leads teaching workshops for new faculty and assists with other teaching excellence initiatives. Her main teaching interests include solid mechanics and engineering mathematics. Among other teaching awards, she received the 2020 ASEE St