development process and assess the educational impact of the resulting STEM toolsupon the K-12 students, as well as the impact of participating in a STEMi design project uponthe UAH students.IntroductionUS citizens born post-World War II, roughly from 1946-1964, are often referred to as the “BabyBoom” generation. This demographic is reaching a peak in retirement numbers and thedetrimental effects are being felt within numerous US sectors. Of great concern is the exodus ofworkers in critical scientific communities such as NASA, the DoD, major aerospace entities, andother technological centers. In 2015, The Space Foundation reported that the US civilian spaceworkforce experienced a 14% decline in employees from 2006-2013 and approximately 17.6
various courses in Mechanical Engineering, primarily in the mechanics area. His pedagogical research areas include standards-based assessment and curriculum design, the later currently focused on incorporating entrepreneurial thinking into the engineering curriculum.Dr. John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University Dr. John K Estell is Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio Northern Uni- versity, providing instruction primarily in the areas of introductory computer programming and first-year engineering. He has been on the faculty of the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department since 2001, and served as department chair from 2001-2010. He received a B.S.C.S.E. degree
deployment of emerging technologies to redefine the classroom, mentoring and excellence through student interaction.Hector Erick Lugo Nevarez, University of Texas, El Paso Mr. Hector Lugo works as a Student Technology Success Coordinator at The University of Texas at El Paso. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He is currently enrolled as a Master of Science with a Major in Electrical Engineering. His motivation and passion pushes him into research in wireless commu- nication, especially in Bluetooth Low Energy and Near Field Communication as well as building projects and fostering innovation with faculty and staff members. As part of the Learning Environments division, the idea to develop, oversee and assess
Paper ID #14704Graduate Summer Bridge Program: Building Community and Preparednessfor Success among Engineering Graduate StudentsDr. Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech Dr. Amelink is Director of Graduate Programs and Assessment in the College of Engineering, Virginia Tech. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Departments of Engineering Education and Educa- tional Leadership and Policy Studies at Virginia Tech.Mr. Benjamin David Lutz, Virginia Tech Ben Lutz is a PhD student in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. His research interests include design teaching and learning, mentoring in
0 Team Awesome Ride, Sally 0 TOTAL HOURS: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Peer Feedback. Peer feedback is a well-established practice in senior design classes [4]. AtFlorida Tech, 20% of the Aerospace senior design grade comes directly from four peer feedbacksurveys each semester administered through the Comprehensive Assessment of Team MemberEffectiveness (CATME) online peer feedback system [8, 9]. The system allows students toanonymously rate their team members. Once the instructor reviews and releases the data, theCATME system sends qualitative feedback directly to the
PEGS21 program.2. Graduate Student Comparison Group: all incoming graduate students were invited toparticipate in the study in the comparison group.Data were collected through online surveys using the following validated instruments that havebeen used in prior research examining the recruitment and retention of graduate students. Inaddition to these instruments, we collected data on students’ demographics and prior academicachievement.The following three instruments were combined into one survey that is available as supplementalmaterial.Graduate Education Self-Efficacy Scale (GESES; [6]). Assesses the program’s impact onstudents’ self-efficacy related to graduate school including their: 1) Academic Self-Efficacy, 2)Research Self-Efficacy, and 3
fall of 2014 semester, correlationanalyses were performed between exam 1 scores and the following items: grades in a pre-requisite math course, scores on an in-class quiz that required use of a conceptual understandingof the derivative and integral in solving circuits-related topics covered in the first days of class, amodeling exercise within the second lab emphasizing conceptual understanding of a digitalmultimeter’s impact on a circuit, the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ),and the DIRECT 1.0 (Determining and Interpreting Resistive Electric Circuits Concepts Test) [7]– a twenty-nine question, multiple-choice test developed for assessing students’ conceptualunderstanding of DC circuits and uncovering their misconceptions
Paper ID #12100Video Resources and Peer Collaboration in Engineering Mechanics: Impactand Usage Across Learning OutcomesDr. Edward J. Berger, Purdue University Edward Berger is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, joining Purdue in August 2014. He has been teaching mechanics for nearly 20 years, and has worked extensively on the integration and assessment of specific technology interventions in mechanics classes. He was one of the co-leaders in 2013-2014 of the ASEE Virtual Community of Practice (VCP) for mechanics educators across the country.Dr. Edward A Pan
with paper-and-pencil homework assigned. Students are not aware of the software which is available and commonly used to analyze data.Data sets are small and generally provided to the students without explanation of therequirements of how such data should be collected.B. Curriculum DevelopmentThe motivations for better integrating statistics concepts into the ECE curricula through an early,required laboratory include: • Providing experience with the application of statistical concepts to ECE problems, • Strengthening laboratory skills regarding data analysis and manipulation, • Adding laboratory content that requires use of computer tools, • Providing additional mechanisms to assess the undergraduate programs (with regard to
adjust themental model itself.The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) inspired researches to create concept inventories in arange of different fields. In recent years concept inventories have been developed fortopics such as dynamics 3, strength of materials 4, and thermodynamics 5. The focus ofthis research has been to demonstrate the inventories’ statistical validity and reliability.This process most often involves administering the inventory to similar groups ofstudents, verifying responses with interviews and student and faculty review proceduressuch as attitude-assessment interviews or surveys.While concept inventories are a necessary tool in assessing individual’s and group’smisconceptions, they can only collect data in one dimension. If every
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while implementingnew curriculum programs or analyzing the community in a classroom using an inquiry-basedinstructional program. It would also be beneficial to continue studying the teachers at thisparticular sight to assess if the change in instructional practice continues over an extended periodof time. One important insight that developed as a result of this study was the amount ofmathematics content misconceptions teachers in this setting displayed. Lack of contentknowledge among elementary teachers has been a common theme in the literature relating toeducational research26,27,28,29. In fact, many of the federal programs designated to improve thequality of STEM education are related to increasing teacher content knowledge at the
teachers, students and parents[http://www.engineering12.org]. The establishment of the K-12 and Pre-College EngineeringDivision of ASEE in 2004 was a significant event in the development of engineering as a subjectfor K-12.For engineering to emerge as a recognized primary and secondary school subject, a number ofquestions must be addressed, including: ‚ What are the most important engineering concepts and skills that students of differing interests and aptitudes should master? ‚ What instructional practices are necessary for effective teaching of engineering to diverse student populations? ‚ What are the most effective practices for assessing student understanding and skills? ‚ What teacher professional development and
equivalent academic experience, academic rigor, remote teaching tools(GoToMeeting and DyKnow) used with TabletPCs and their effectiveness, study center versusfull immersion model, and more. Through careful assessment, it was shown that the pilotsemester abroad opportunity was successful in all aspects. The students in France performed aswell as the students on the Grove City campus in the two concurrent courses. In addition, thestudents in France perceived no difficulty receiving the lectures remotely, and were encouragedto submit graded assignments electronically using their TabletPCs which greatly facilitated thetransfer of documents between Grove City and France. An unexpected finding of the assessmentwas that some students who studied abroad
discussion [12]. But are students prepared to be engaged in this way? As recent asten years ago, course learning resources available to students were usually limited to an outlinethat organized the course knowledge domain into a hierarchical tree of topics, a schedule fortopic coverage, a textbook or two, a series of lectures, activities for processing input intoknowledge such as assigned problem sets or research papers, and assessment activities such asexams. Compare that simple environment to one a student encounters today where she is offeredinteraction with a wide range of learning resources including books, teacher-created resourcessuch as slide presentations and quizzes, and textual and multimedia resources available via bothanonymous and
me want to be an engineer.”This paper will present the overall curriculum of the MSTI camp with specific emphasis onactivities that could be implemented at other institutions. In addition, detailed assessment resultsof each activity will be presented to help institutions interested in implementing similar camps tochoose activities which appear to be of most benefit to the students.Introduction and OverviewThe Center for Science, Mathematics and Technology (CSMT) and the Bagley College ofEngineering (BCoE) at Mississippi State University were recently awarded a contract by theMississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration(FWHA) to develop and conduct a three-week residential summer institute for rising
deal about teaching and doing engineering with elementary teachers andstudents. Eleven EiE staff have offered over 140 professional development workshops for over2700 teachers in 21 states.Our learning has evolved over time and stems from a variety of sources of feedback. Experiencehas been our biggest teacher. The feedback of workshop participants, both formal and informal,is perhaps the most important has been the most important source of data. Educators aregenerally very honest and articulate about what they found valuable and what they wouldchange. We collect feedback from participants at virtually every professional developmentsession. Our assessment instruments vary depending on the length of the workshop (two hoursessions require
population groups are expected to be more than half (52percent) of the resident college-age (18–24 years old) population of the United States by 2050.Additionally, just about a quarter century ago, the National Science Board’s Commission onPrecollege Education in the Mathematics, Science, and Technology (MST) assessed the state ofUS precollege education in the subject fields and found it seriously lacking to meet the projecteddemand.[1]In the late 1980’s the Task Force of Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Scienceand Technology called for cooperation among schools, colleges, industry and federal and stategovernments to increase the pool of science and engineering talent, particularly forunderrepresented minority groups, through
GroupFigure 3. Summative performance of students in the Introduction to Engineering class. Students had to balance improved uniformity and cost.The assessment of the Virtual CVD Laboratory for this high school pilot was evaluated in aholistic manner towards the effectiveness in meeting the learning objectives. A number ofnoteworthy outcomes, both anticipated and unanticipated, resulted from the implementation ofthe Virtual CVD Laboratory within the Introduction to Engineering class. It was anticipated, forinstance, that these students would have difficulty with the development of an optimizationstrategy and corresponding flow chart. Step #6 (Figure 2) was intended to assist students. Asanticipated several groups struggled to complete their
ice penguin and find the mass of the remaining ice. Students use theideas and suggestions from their peers to re-design their structure with the goal of improving itsperformance. They have multiple opportunities to construct, test, and revise their work inkeeping with the emphasis on dynamic assessment by social constructivists. Students learn aboutheat, temperature, controls and variables in experimental methodology, insulators andconductors, and other material properties as they assemble the dwelling for their penguin icecube.The final design challenge takes place on the sixth and last day of the unit. After having theopportunity to redesign their dwelling, each student group again starts with a 10 gram icepenguin. After 20 minutes in the
responsible for providing vision, direction, planning and implementation regarding the use of technology in instruction of mathematics and science. Mark's research interests are in theories of cognition, how these theories inform the design of instruction, how we might best design instructional technology within those frameworks, and how the research and development of instructional technologies can inform our theories of cognition.Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University Dr. THOMAS F. WOLFF is Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Studies at Michigan State University and a faculty member in Civil and Environmental Engineering. In the fall of 2005, he was a member of the ASCE Levee Assessment
energy.The projects in which EWB chapters participate provide thousands of engineering students withthe opportunity to develop their skills and experience the global impact they can make throughtheir service. As noted, the effect that EWB programs have on partnering communities has beenwell-established and documented. In contrast, very little assessment has been undertaken toconsider whether the experience of generating sustainable engineering solutions for developingcommunities has an equally significant effect on many of the participating engineering studentsas well.A survey instrument was developed at Northeastern University and administered to EWB chaptermembers to quantify the student-centered impact of involvement in the organization’s
obtainedadministrative approval for the program, implemented, and is continuously assessing and fine-tuning this novel concentration. The endeavor was very much faculty driven. The facultyexercised care so that the addition of the new concentration did not alter or weaken the structure Page 14.691.2of the existing electromechanical engineering program but rather strengthened it, and providedgreater opportunities for the graduates. The choice of elective courses from the life sciences,co-op employment in the biomedical field, and design projects with life-science applicationsmade the implementation of this concentration possible. The graduates continue to receive
also heavily involved in a similar program with Purdue University. Dr. Wittenborn earned his Ph.D. from the College of Technology at Purdue University where he was also selected as a Bilsland Dissertation Fellow. His doctoral research focused on distance and engineering education, as well as evaluation and assessment. He also has a M.S. from Purdue University in Computer Graphics Technology, focusing on Virtual Product Integration. He earned his B.S. from Southeast Missouri State University in Technical Computer Graphics.Michael Richey, Boeing Company Michael Richey is Associate Technical Fellow currently assigned to support Workforce development and Learning Science research
connected them together into a larger multi-module machine for demonstration in the lastclass. The first class consisted of an introduction to the idea of Rube Goldberg machines, a briefpre-assessment, and an interest inventory. Students were then introduced to basic mechanicsconcepts, followed by brainstorming activities to facilitate group cohesion and camaraderie.Students spent the remainder of the class beginning to apply an engineering design process(brainstorm, design, build, and test) to the first modules of their machines. During classes 2 and3, students completed designs of their first modules and proceeded to build and test them. Briefintroductions to electricity, magnetism, and fluid mechanics were given, and brainstorming anddesign work
possible changes that could affect a system during its life, creating systems that measure when, where, what, and how much adaptation is needed to respond to a change, measuring system agility, integrating components and architectures that permit agility, and assessing trade-offs of building agility into systems.After completing numerous short design case studies during their junior year, students are readyto synthesize their knowledge of multiscale, agile systems in their senior year. The two-semestercapstone project will be run through the existing capstone program in Systems and InformationEngineering. Technology Leader capstone teams will work on projects sponsored by aTechnology Leaders industrial partner. Teams will be
the facilitator, with the aim of solving those problems and improvethe group's functioning. The result at the time of presenting this work is that two of the groupshave passed the course easily once their problems were solved, while the members of the thirdhave been unable to take their exams, since their situation kept them from finishing their work ontime. They are now implementing that work in order to present it at a future date.In the case of Aalborg, to validate the results obtained by the questionnaire, the process analysis(self-assessment) written by the groups detected to be in trouble has been consulted. All groupsreported that they had problems, although none indicated a crisis which they could not overcomethemselves.4.2. Results
WinterSemester this system serves approximately six hundred students.Success of this teaching effort is assessed by student questionnaires about the EMIL operations,scores of student’s Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam, student course evaluations, anddepartment exit interviews. Student questionnaires indicate that 79% of the students regularlyuse the EMIL and that 97% of the students rate the quality of the tutorial service either good orexcellent. Students from our program pass the FE exam at a rate higher than the national averageand student course evaluations and data from exit interviews indicate that understandingengineering fundamentals (i.e. engineering mechanics) is among the highest rated aspects of ourprogram.Key Words: Mechanics
valves so that they are able to configure the column in a variety of ways. Inorder to assess protein concentration in bench scale experiments, students also have access to anEvolution 300 UV-Vis from Thermo Scientific. To measure sample composition in solutionscontaining multiple proteins, the teams use size exclusion chromatography (SEC). The column,Bio-Basic Sec 300, from Thermo Scientific is connected into a Hitachi L-6200 Intelligent Pumpand a L-4200 UV-Vis detector. The analytical tools available to measure the concentration ofproteins and the composition of the solutions are available thanks to collaboration withdepartmental faculty. These tools are available to the engineering teams if they opt to use them intheir experiment and they are
will also find themselves on academic probation at the end of asemester and will need to formally meet with an advisor to come up with a plan to return to asuccessful trajectory. Motivational tools in cases like these are to discuss other students whohave found themselves in academic distress who then went on to become successful in theirendeavors. Exploratory activities may include finding the right expertise on campus to helpstudents move past problems include seeing a psychological counselor, meeting with legal staff,or seeing evaluators for assessment of learning disabilities that may have emerged over time. Page 14.854.8Advising