Laboratory in Engineering Technology. ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings. Available: http://www.asee.org/conferences/search/00695_2001.PDF19 Yousuf, A. (2001). Data Acquisition Laboratory. ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings. Available: http://www.asee.org/conferences/search/00194_2001.PDF20 Sheppard, K., Carlucci, D., Carr, R., Corradeschi, T., Messano, A., & Natiello, L. (2003). Teaching electronics and instrumentation through an innovative core design laboratory in sophomore year. Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference. Available: http://www.asee.org/conferences/caps/document/2003-2333_Final.pdf21 Hackworth, J. R., & Stanley, W. D. (2001). An upper-division virtual laboratory in linear electronics
. Hayes, "Bridging the gap: Virginia engineering schools create innovative strategies to address the national engineer shortage," Virginia Business Magazine, 2006, http://www.virginiabusiness.com/magazine/yr2006/jun06/eng1.shtml. Accessed Dec 27, 2006.11. William A. Wulf, "Straight talk: The image of engineering," Issues in Science and Technology, 1998. Accessed Jan 13, 2007.12. Greg Pearson," Collaboration conundrum," Journal of Technology Education, Spring 2004;15(2):66-76.13. H. O. Yurtseven, "How does the image of engineering affect student recruitment and retention? A perspective from the USA," Global J. of Engng. Educ, 2002;6(1):17-23.14. Carol L. Colbeck, "Assessing institutionalization of curricular and
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, assessment studies isolated potential causes of and conditions associated withgraduate student research deficiency. With collected data, students and faculty members in ourprogram are seeking to provide better guidance for graduate students in research. Deficiencieswe discovered are common on the global scale, but sustained student assessment shows promisein being the first step towards definitive solutions.IntroductionGraduates of advanced-degree engineering programs are responsible for the future ofengineering as expert industrial practitioners, researchers who develop innovative technologies,and academic instructors of future engineers. The importance of the engineering graduate degreeis being recognized increasingly. For instance, the National
, characterization of materials, and materials selection and design. He conducts research in innovative education in engineering, including a Materials Concept Inventory, and also in adapting design, engineering and technology concepts to K-12 education.Chell Roberts, Arizona State University Chell A. Roberts is an associate professor and Director of Engineering at Arizona State University Polytechnic. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Virginia Tech in 1991. He has a MS in Industrial Engineering and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Utah. He is a member of the board of directors for the Society for Computer Simulation International and has been
these subjects, one is Page 23.544.4unlikely to succeed in engineering. In order to sustain U.S. capacity for technological innovation,and to attract young people to careers in engineering, the National Academy of Engineeringcommissioned a study (released in 2008) to identify and test positive messages of engineering toimprove the public’s understanding[11]. The study found that the “branding” of engineers mustbe modified to appeal to different audiences, especially teenage girls. By changing theconversation from an emphasis on math and science, to the value engineering, and STEM ingeneral, has on our society, we can attract more
).Clearing a path for success: Deconstructingborders through undergraduate mentoring. The Review of Higher Education, 24(1), 87-102.41. Allen, T. D., McManus, S. E., & Russell, J. E. A. (1999). Newcomer socialization and stress: Formal peerrelationships as a source of support. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 54, 453-470.42. Eby, L.T., & Lockwood, A. (2005). Protégés and mentors’ reactions to participating in formal mentoringprograms: A qualitative investigation. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 67, 441-458.43. Treston, H. (1999). Peer mentoring: Making a difference at James Cook University, Cairns. It’s momentslike these you need mentors. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 36(3), 236-243.44. Rodger, S
Kaitlin Litchfield received her undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering at the University of New Hamp- shire and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering Department focusing in engineering education.Molly Victoria Shea, University of Colorado Molly Shea is a dual degree candidate receiving her Ph.D. from the School of Education, Learning Sci- ences and master’s of business administration. She specializes in studying distributing cognition in out of classroom settings. Her dissertation focuses studying on learning for innovation in sustainable business
and sustainable for typical instructors. As many undergraduatesperform poorly in early engineering science courses that are primarily lecture-based, attention topedagogical innovation may present an opportunity for increased retention. Additionally,surveys, and classroom assessments indicate that many students completing these courses did notreally understand the fundamentals, even if they could apply the 'formulae’. Page 23.591.2The contributors in this project have designed and implemented project experiences in threedifferent ‘gateway’ engineering science courses, based on initial experiences in a course onThermodynamics in the mechanical
Educational Psychology. 2000;92(1):191–201.19. Thomas E, Gillespie D. Weaving Together Undergraduate Research, Mentoring of Junior Faculty, and Assessment: The Case of an Interdisciplinary Program. Innovative Higher Education. 2007 Nov 21;33(1):29– 38.20. Bauer KW, Bennett JS. Alumni Perceptions Used to Assess Undergraduate Research Experience. The Journal of Higher Education. 2003;74(2):210–30.21. Lopatto D. Survey of Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE): First Findings. Cell Biology Education. 2004 Winter;3(4):270 –277. Page 23.599.12 Appendix A: Pre-Experience
asked to share how they worked together to complete all Page 23.601.2aspects of the competition and to validate that students completed work with adult mentorsproviding only guidance. Competition awards are given in areas such as programming,mechanical design, and innovation and strategy (subcategories of the Robot Design category)and other areas in the remaining two components of the challenge. In addition, the best overallteam receives the Champion’s Award.The FLL schedule constrains the time in which teams can operate by releasing information atparticular times of the year and restricting the completion date of state tournaments to allow
sufficiently conversant in MATLAB to succeed at the four-year colleges to which they transfer.ConclusionsCourse Completion Rates and Student Success Rates remain high for this course.The Engineering Science faculty members remain enthusiastic about the course as do thestudents and the NECC Advising Center.The project-based nature of this course and the emphasis on MATLAB programming applied toreal science and technology projects are strengths and will be continued. Page 23.606.19Bibliography1. Phase 1 Report, Creating a Culture for Scholarly and Systemic Innovation in Engineering Education.Washington, D.C.: American Society for Engineering Education
IBM Eclipse Innovation Award.Seung Hyun Kim, Michigan Technological University Page 23.609.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 FlowVisual: Design and Evaluation of a Visualization Tool for Teaching 2D Flow Field ConceptsAbstractVisible as well as invisible fluids exist everywhere in nature and many scientific fields. Mostfluids (air, water, etc.) are transparent, thus their flow patterns are invisible to us. Flowvisualization is used to make the flow patterns visible so that desired insights can be gleaned.There exist various software tools to perform different
engineering education. Samantha completed a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University in 2008 and a MS in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Design for Manufacturing from Stanford in 2010.Dr. Helen L. Chen, Stanford University Helen L. Chen is a researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the director of ePortfolio initiatives in the Office of the Registrar at Stanford University. Helen’s research interests are focused in three areas: academic and professional persistence in engineering education, the use of ePortfolios for teaching, learning, and assessment; documenting and evaluating pedagogical innovations in technology- augmented learning spaces. Helen and her colleagues Tracy Penny
Contributors, “Gorillas (video game),” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game), 2012.5 Bradley Marques, Stephen Levitt, and Ken Nixon, “Video Games as a Medium for Software Education,”Proceedings of the IEEE International Games Innovation Conference, 2012.6 Kathlyn Doss, Valerie Juarez, Daniel Vincent, Peggy Doerschuk, and Jiangjiang Liu, “Work in Progress – ASurvey of Popular Game Creation Platforms Used for Computing Education,” Proceedings of the ASEE/IEEEFrontiers in Education Conference, 2011.7 Marc Herniter and David Scott, “Teaching Programming Skills with MATLAB,” Proceedings of the ASEE AnnualConference and Exposition, 2001.8 Asad Azemi and Laura Pauley, “Teaching the Introductory Computer Programming Course for Engineers UsingMatlab
No 61 53 Organizational and 1 0 Leadership Supervision Sustainability, Innovation, 0 1 and Technology Not specified 2 0 Other 2 0 Communications 1 0 Undecided 1 0 * First-year engineering students are not accepted into one of Purdue’s engineering degree programs until their second semester of study. Some first-year engineering students may have responded by indicating their intended major rather than
, Albuquerque, NM.10. Jamieson, L. H., & Lohmann, J. R. (2009). Creating a culture for scholarly and systematic innovation in engineering education: Ensuring U.S. engineering has the right people with the right talent for a global society. American Society for Engineering Education. Washington, D.C.: American Society for Engineering Education.11. Nyquist, J. D., & Sprague, J. (1998). Thinking developmentally about TAs. In M. Marincovich, J. Prostko, & F. Stout (Eds.), The professional development of graduate teaching assistants, (pp. 61-88). Bolton, MA: Anker.12. Nyquist, J. D., & Wulff, D. H. (1996). Preparing teaching assistants for special challenges in teaching. In Working effectively with graduate
health physics and toxicology from Purdue University and held leadership positions in the energy and software industries for thirteen years. She founded and leads CU’s extensive K-12 engineering initiative and the BOLD Center, and spearheaded the Engineering GoldShirt Program. She led the founding of the ASEE K-12 Division in 2004, was awarded ASEE’s 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award, and was conferred as an ASEE fellow member in 2011. She was awarded NAE’s 2008 Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. Page 23.689.1 c American Society for Engineering
improve their skills using assessed workfrom their professional courses. Students must take samples of their work and refine themprior to submission as a portfolio item. Students are supported with comprehensive writtenguidance, workshops, and one-on-one tutorials. Students must pass a 0 credit, pass/failCommunications Portfolio course before proceeding to communication-intensive courses inYear 4. Students who fail can either wait a year and resubmit, or pass a non-universitysummer course in technical writing at their own cost.The focus of this paper is on the development of writing skills within the broaderCommunication Skills Portfolio course. The motivation for this innovative approach isdescribed in this paper, along with the structure
Engineering courses. His work in engineering education focuses on hands-on undergraduate engineering education in the HVAC&R area, student-industry cooperation, and developing innovative ways of merging engineering fundamentals and engineering in practice and research. Dr. Peuker’s educational research also focuses on increasing student retention and success in engineering through a student success focused introduction to engineering course. He is an active member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers and can be reached at steffen.peuker@gmail.com. Page 23.727.1
account of the work environments and lifestyles in the industry. Allteams were able to complete the project successfully and the top three winners (among all the CS and SEprojects, ranging from 18 to 25 from semester to semester) received cash prizes and award certificates.Industry sponsors enjoyed the deliverables to the extent that many were directly deployed to theiroperational environments to improve productivity. Thus, the benefits of such an endeavor have beenmulti-fold and have benefited all participants.We are currently in the process of establishing a UTDesign Studio – a place with more than 10,000square feet of dedicated space, where students and sponsors can create, innovate, design, and build theirsenior design projects (including
demographic group throughout the US and are projected tocomprise 29% of the population by 2050, as compared with 15% in 2007.13 Unfortunately, thisexpected growth in population does not align with a similar expected growth in theirrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.14 In spite oflong and concerted efforts to recruit and graduate Latinos and other underrepresented minoritiesinto these fields, their numbers are still low. Given this expected increase in population, STEMeducators, administrators, and policy makers continue to search for innovative ways to engagethese populations in STEM career paths. One promising method for increasing student interestand retention in engineering appears to be an early
deep learning and increasedstudent engagement, but that can also be realistically implemented in regular schools by regularteachers. Page 23.775.4Research Methods: Design ExperimentsThe term design experiments (alternately referred to as design-based research, designexperimentation, and design-research) refers to an educational research approach that aims todevelop and test, within the operational environment, educational innovations (or interventions)that successfully embody, advance, and refine educational theories by elucidating the contextualconstraints, moderating factors, and mediating variables that constrain or shape how theintervention
is that it is not trial-and-errorgadgeteering. Engineers create design solutions that are intentional and knowledge based. Theyuse their knowledge of science and engineering science to understand what is happeningphysically, their use of mathematics to create models that may be analyzed, and theirunderstanding of prior technological solutions so they can innovate. This is in contrast to theprocess used by inventors who typically gadgeteer along with trial and error to arrive at aworkable solution that they can patent or manufacture. This use of modeling, with its inherentpredictive analysis, is one of the significant differences between engineering and technologyeducation, and engineering and art. Engineering design and the design
project and interdisciplinary collaboration.“We think that collaborating is beneficial and will allow us to pave a way forward to providing a feasiblesolution…”“It would be great if I could figure out how to do more projects that count for two classes!”“The project can be applied to everyday [student] life. It is the most applicable and innovative project I have everdone.”“I like the project because the concept of improving the environment here and now - it makes me feel like I can beproductive - be a 'mover'”“It gave us a unique perspective on an environmental issue that was relevant to us...”“I did not feel like my time spent on my project was a waste of time”“Project that allows students to be ambitious as they search for ways to help the
. Page 23.809.15[19] Hjalmarson, M., Diefes-Dux, H. A., Bowman, K., & Zawojewski, J. S. (2006). Quantifying aluminum crystal size part 2: The model development sequence. Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 7(1/2), 64-73.[20] Hjalmarson, M. A, Diefes-Dux, H.A., & Moore, T. J. (2008). Designing modeling activities for engineering. In J. S. Zawojewski, H. A. Diefes-Dux, & K. J. Bowman (Eds.), Models and modeling in engineering education: Designing experiences for all students (pp. 37-54). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.[21] Doerr, H. M., Arleback, J., & O'Neil, A. H. (2012). An integrated modeling approach to a summer bridge course. In American Society for
Large Scale Integration (VLSI) circuits. For over fourdecades, the microelectronics industry has continued to increase the number of devices that canbe fabricated on a single silicon-based substrate known as an integrated circuit (IC). Continuedadvances in processing technology have allowed transistors to be fabricated with feature sizes inthe nanometer scale. However, upcoming limitations in traditional fabrication methods combinedwith the quantum limitations on device operation threaten to put an end to the continuedshrinkage of device geometries. Innovations in nanotechnology-based fabrication methodspromise to allow future advances in device performance in the coming years. Thus, it is essentialto introduce our students to the new paradigm
Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy, West Point J. Ledlie Klosky, P.E., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at West Point, where he also serves as the Deputy Director of the Center for Innovation and Engineering. Led is the 2010 winner of the National Outstanding Teaching Medal from the society, and, in addition to traditional engineering pursuits such as infrastructure modeling, he works in communication in education, course design, and the interface between engineering and other disciplines.Dr. Bobby G Crawford, U.S. Military Academy Colonel Grant Crawford is currently the Director of the Mechanical Engineering Program at the United States Military Academy, West