engineers must juxtapose conflicting criteria (e.g., choosing betweenprioritizing greater safety or higher production) [1]–[10]. Although educators have built processsafety content into the undergraduate engineering curriculum [11], [12], not much is knownabout how engineers will reconcile their learned safety-conscious values from process safetycourses with their actual judgments in real-life industrial contexts. To evaluate how chemicalengineering students may approach process safety judgements upon entering industry, this studylooks at students’ espoused beliefs and compares them to their simulated behaviors. While ourbeliefs can act as a predictor of our future behaviors [13] contextual factors, such as socialpressures, can result in behaviors
changes to requirements of accreditation [19] andprofessional formation development [20].Giacomin [16] citing Von Hippel [21], discusses the economic benefits of human-centreddesigning, however, Niles et al. [22], [23], have found that engineering students seem tostruggle with and resist social context and engagement with public welfare concerns andsocial consciousness in engineering– which are factors relevant to their engagement withhuman-centred designing.This paper stands with these ongoing calls for the engagement and integration of such notionsin a civil engineering curriculum, and so we propose a psychology-informed approach. Thisis to facilitate these integrations, but with the intention of bypassing the possible resistance –by
Engineering Education, 2014 Viewing student engineering through the lens of "engineering moments":An interpretive case study of 7th grade students with language-based learning disabilities (Research-to-Practice, Engineering Across K-12 Curriculum)AbstractThough there is a growing consensus that engineering instruction should be incorporated intoUnited States K-12 classrooms,1,2,3,4 little research has focused on what student engineeringlooks like in these classroom setting. Topics for investigation include how students understandengineering tasks, which behaviors can be viewed as age-appropriate engineering, and howstudents may coordinate these behaviors to create a coherent engineering process. In
Education • Applicable curriculum and teaching methods should ultimately become learning-style based and personalized to address and respect diversity.The practice of incorporating some or all of the elements listed above in an “engineering” coursein which one is already faced with the problem of too much material in too short a time isdaunting. But the challenge is exciting to any instructor who wishes to “humanize” the teaching(and learning) process, and reconcile within himself/herself that: he/she is teaching studentsrather than “unloading” teaching material in accordance with a time schedule.Examining the Literature on Meanings and Substance of Active Learning:It is difficult to come to grip with all the cited definitions and
7 Yearly Subtotals 9 14 23 21 24 TOTAL 91 or this particular conference paper, we are focusing on a subset of these 91 interviews comingFfrom 36 students– only engineering-based and non-STEM based interdisciplinary graduate students in the IDR program. Specifically, we focused on the 62 interviews coming from 26 interdisciplinary students whose home disciplines include civil engineering (CEE), mechanical engineering (ME), computer science (CS), industrial and systems engineering (ISE), as well as non-STEM fields including urban affairs and planning (UAP) and sociology
. Page 24.882.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Management and Assessment of a Successful Peer Mentor Program for Increasing Freshman Retention1.0 AbstractThere is no single magic bullet for the retention of freshman engineering students upon entranceinto a rigorous course of study required of today’s engineering curriculum. Rather it is a multi-faceted approach of strategies each designed to aid the transition from an often-times easy highschool experience to one in which a student is overwhelmed with the difficulty andresponsibilities of a full-time student.One such strategy that has been implemented at LeTourneau University is a peer mentoringprogram which pairs
” [49,p. 136], all accessible to students via their computer screens. Sharon Beaudry, a businessprofessor at Oregon Institute of Technology, explains that the simulation allowed for more non-conventional teaching methodology, such as a student-centered, flipped classroom [50].Although effective, the Harvard simulation is limited to two areas, group dynamics andleadership, and focuses on a single event. Interpersonal problem solving and decision makingare, perhaps, more important in a business management curriculum than in engineering, whereproblem solving tends to focus more on solutions to technical problems. Communication is, ofcourse, essential but more subservient to technical ends.Everest pollution would fit conveniently as an embedded
Paper ID #34332Thinking as Argument: A Theoretical Framework for Studying how FacultyArrive at Their Deeply-held Beliefs About Inequity in EngineeringJeremy Grifski, Ohio State University Jeremy Grifski is a Graduate Research Associate in the department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. Previously, he completed an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and went on to work for General Electric Transportation as a part of their Edison Engineering Development Program. Recently, Jeremy completed a Master’s in Computer Science and Engineering under Dr. Atiq and is
projects over a five-yearperiod from 2002 to 2006 in an early mechanical engineering design course. All ten,semester-long team projects are hands-on and require the design, fabrication and testingof an artifact. Of the six individual projects described: two are experimental; onerequires reverse engineering; one is hands-on; and two are related to design evaluationand the design process. Example results are given for two of the team projects and twoof the individual projects. Student surveys indicate that engineering students enjoyworking on these projects and learn from the experience.IntroductionEarly, hands-on, design experiences in the BSME curriculum have become morecommon recently even though providing “hands-on” experiences in an
enhancements [9, 10,14]. Scholarships canalso determine the level of engagement a student has in the educational experience. It candetermine if a student partakes of additional educational opportunities, such as studying abroador attending national conferences.While scholarships are awarded at the college level, family income also dictates several pre-college factors which determine the level of math preparation students receive that would enablethem to be successful in a STEM field [15,16,17,18]. These factors include tutoring, SATpreparation, and computer access. U.S. public schools are funded through the local tax base;therefore, poorer communities have fewer resources available for school infrastructure, whilewealthier communities have more to
possibly inaccurate? His quest for answers to the key question are anchored in three projects, namely, Integrated Realization of Robust, Resilient and Flexible Networks Integrated Realization of Engineered Materials and Products Managing Organized and Disorganized Complexity: Exploration of the Solution Space His current education focus is on creating and implementing, in partnership with industry, a curriculum for educating strategic engineers—those who have developed the competencies to create value through the realization of complex engineered systems. Email URL http://www.ou.edu/content/coe/ame/people/amefaculty/mistree.html LinkedIN http://www.linkedin.com/pub/farrokh-mistree/9/838/8baProf. Zahed Siddique
(STEM). Given the need, universities and colleges must meet the Page 11.1107.2growing challenge to identify and enroll students in these areas1. The September 2000 Report ofthe Congressional Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science,Engineering and Technology Development (CAWMSET), entitled Land of Plenty; Diversity asAmerica’s Competitive Edge in Science, Engineering and Technology, states that “Unless theSET (science, engineering, and technology) workforce becomes more representative of thegeneral U.S. workforce, the nation may likely face severe shortages in SET workers, such asthose already seen in many computer
Paper ID #7234Empowering Engineering Students to Learn How To LearnProf. Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma Farrokh Mistree holds the L.A. Comp chair and is the director of the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. Mistree’s current research focus is on learning to manage uncertainty in multi-scale design (from molecular to reduced order models) to facilitate the integrated design of materials, product and design process chains. His current education focus is on creating and implementing, in partnership with industry, a curriculum for educating strategic
always implicated in ruling, at least in contemporary societies. Think of how prevalent paper, computers, and information systems are in our own everyday worlds. Texts carry the Page 24.633.4 determinations of many of our actions. […] However, ruling relations are more than an imposition of rules. They rely on people knowing how to take them up and act in an appropriate manner.” (pp. 31, 32, 33, emphasis in original).So, for example, we might consider the ruling relations around an educational institution. Everyday, thousands of people know to drive, walk, or take the bus (on predefined routes
students in their third (i.e., junior) year. The project was sponsored by an officefurniture company looking to bring a new line of “impromptu” seating options to market.Students worked individually on their designs and met informally with the instructor (Gary)during a 6-hour studio session each week. Students could also use a fabrication laboratory tobuild prototypes. Most design reviews occurred in the student workspace – a busy classroomspace with two back-to-back rows of tables with multiple computer displays and workspace foreach student (often cluttered with sketches, foam models, and other objects). There were fivedesign reviews: (1) a one-on-one review at the front of the room where students laid outpreliminary concept sketches to discuss
were required to focus on bestpapers from two highly respected conferences--the ACM sponsored CHI conference (ComputerHuman Interaction) and the ACM sponsored Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)conference. During the fall of 2017, students were each told to identify five papers. Insubsequent assignments, students were directed to explore a specific issue in reference to one ortwo of these readings. For example, the students were later asked to analyze how citations hadbeen used in a reading of their choosing and subsequently to contrast how implications forpractice were handled in two of their readings. Students "submitted" their choices by addingpages to a visual bibliography (implemented as a shared google slide deck
were also invited to sharetexts, awards, pictures and other items that they identified as visual illustrations of their role asallies.Data Analysis Interview data was transcribed and imported into Atlas.ti, a computer assisted qualitativedata analysis software tool, to facilitate the coding process [49], [51]. Data analysis wasconducted using both inductive and deductive coding [49]. Inductive coding allows patterns andthemes to emerge with no previously established theory or hypothesis, enabling the data to guidethe researcher as it is gathered directly from participants [49]. I also created a predetermined setof codes based on previous literature on gender in engineering and allyship. Examples of thesecodes include privilege, formal
AEC major. An Architecture RP, “I'm excitedto start this semester and get into architecture theory and start learning three-dimension designand perspective. I'm nervous cause I've never been good at drawing in any style other than two-dimensional. There is an architecture exclusive library with computers free to use with anydrafting and modeling program we could need… I am taking an architecture theory/intro designclass this semester. It’s lecture style and encourages us to free draw and come up with buildingdesigns in our free time and bring them to the class to be peer-reviewed in small groups.” RPsunderstood that overcoming these weaknesses were critical for the academic and professionalsuccess. As long as RPs feel that resources and
Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy graduate program at Michigan State University in 2010. Her current research focuses on three key areas: (1) de- signing, developing, and conducting validation studies on assessments of content knowledge for teaching (CKT) science; (2) examining and understanding validity issues associated with measures designed to assess science teachers’ instructional quality, including observational measures, value-added measures, student surveys, and performance-based tasks; and (3) extending and studying the use of these knowl- edge and instructional practices measures of science teaching quality as summative assessment tools for licensure purposes and as formative assessment tools
, Nanjing Forestry University Dr. Yan is an assistant professor of Foreign Language Institute at Nanjing Forestry University, and she got her Ph.D. degree in Jackson State University with a constant interest in developing and implementing best practices in STEM education and language acquisition.Dr. Justin R. Allison Justin Allison, Ph. D. is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Jackson State University. His research interests include instructional design, educational technology, educational psychology, and distance education.Dr. Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University Jianjun Yin, Ph.D, is Professor of Education in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Educa- tion
) Biomaterials Science: AnIntroduction to Materials in Medicine and Dowling’s Mechanics of Materials books wereespecially useful references 28,29. Callister’s Fundamentals of Materials Science andEngineering text also contains a web based supplemental chapter 30 that is helpful as is theUniversity of Cambridge’s on-line Teaching and Learning Package (TLP) on the structure ofbone and implant materials 31. In fact, having the students complete this well-developed andinteractive TLP as a homework assignment or in-class project (if computers are available) is anexcellent way to introduce your students to biomedical materials and design. Dr. Pruitt’s Page
Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder TANYA D. ENNIS is the current Engineering GoldShirt Program Director at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. She received her M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her career in the telecommunications industry included positions in software and systems engineering and technical project management. Tanya most recently taught mathematics at the Denver School of Science and Technology, the highest performing high school in Denver Public Schools. Tanya is currently a PhD candidate in the School of
theyinvestigated the incorporation of the 24 CEBOK2 outcomes into civil engineering curricula.Specifically, they were charged with (1) fostering the creation of a learning community ofscholars interested in engineering educational reform, (2) reviewing the work products of theBody of Knowledge Committee and providing feedback, and (3) documenting how programs canincorporate the Body of Knowledge into their curriculum [14].The BOK Experiential Fulfillment Committee (BOKExFC) was formed in spring 2009 toaddress the CEBOK2 outcomes requiring pre-licensure experience. They were charged withdeveloping a stand-alone “Guidelines Document” using the 15 outcomes in the CEBOK2 withexperiential expectations as a basis to be used by civil engineering interns and
computer, and the Internet.Suggested reasons for this success include an ambitious immigrant population, effective lawsand policies (e.g., effective patent and bankruptcy systems), well-funded corporate research labs,and venture capital availability35,39,65. So far in the twenty-first century, American companies andresearchers have maintained their lead in many areas, including in new fields like socialnetworking, gene therapy, and big data analytics. But recent statistics warn this lead may bewavering. America has gone from first to fourth among countries known for nurturing Page 26.1211.4innovation30. For the first time, the majority of
resultshave direct implications for engineering curriculum design and teaching practices; in short, it iscritical that students are given reasonably difficult tasks that incorporate physical testing, aregiven time for multiple iteration cycles, and are supported as they design.IntroductionEngineering educators seek to engage learners in authentic engineering practices, includingtesting and iterating on designs (NAE and NRC, 2009). Failure is an integral part of the iterationcycle in the engineering design process; designs often fail, that is, do not meet all criteria andconstraints, and a central disciplinary practice in engineering is interpreting this failure asfeedback on those designs (Lottero-Perdue & Parry, 2014; Cunningham & Carlsen
willprovide analyses for other engineering disciplines.Table 2. Student-reported outcomes scales used in this investigation as variables tooperationalize E2020 outcomes.FUNDAMENTAL SKILLS1 (alpha = .71); Please rate your ability to:Applying Math & Science to: The physical sciences to engineering problemsApplying Math & Science to: Math to engineering problemsApplying Math & Science to: Computer tools and applications to engineering problemsDESIGN SKILLS1 (alpha = .92); Please rate your ability to:Evaluate design solutions based on a specified set of criteria.Generate and prioritize criteria for evaluating the quality of a solution.Producing a product (prototype, program, simulation, etc.).Apply systems thinking in developing solutions to