(baccalaureate-level general criteria and civil engineering program criteria). Each author identified the change that would be necessary to the CEPC to make it “fully-BOK2- compliant.” Each author assessed whether such compliance was reasonable and attainable given the real world constraints faced by civil engineering programs and drafted a rationale for any recommended change (or no change). In many cases, the “fully–BOK2- compliant” language and outcome report author’s recommendation were very different. The CEPCTC reviewed all 24 outcome reports during the bi-weekly telephone conferences conducted between April 9, 2013 and October 15, 2013. The committee did not attempt to reach consensus at this point
. Schneider graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in chemical engineering in 1999, attended Columbia University Film M.F.A. Program in 2001, and earned his master’s and Ph.D. from Cornell University in mechanical engineering with a concentration in controls & dynamics in 2007. David has taught at both Columbia University, where he was the highest student-rated instructor in the College of Engineering, and at Cornell University where he is now the Director of M.Eng. Studies for Systems Engineering, the largest M.Eng. program at Cornell. As a faculty member in systems engineering, David has focused largely on industry collaborations, ad- vising over 1200 professional M.Eng. students, and over 1000 students
admitted women was held by the Women in the Applied Sciences and Engineering(WISE) Office. Almost all the seminars and workshops were very well received. The paper gives a description andcritique of each session, as well as suggested improvements for next year's program. Publicity for the events isalso discussed.Introduction ASU is a large university, with some 42,000 students; and a commuter school with only 23% ofstudents living within a mile of campus. The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) alone hasover 6,000 students. In Fall ‘95, over 1,000 of the CEAS students were new undergraduates, half first-timefreshmen and half new transfer students. To reduce the attrition rate of the college, and especially that
details good design and implementation practicesfor the evaluation of engineering outreach programs specifically designed to serve communitycollege students with the goal of sharing good practices that were found to be helpful inunderstanding the outcomes of the program for the participants, and the assessment of theefficacy of the program itself.After students are recruited to and participate in engineering outreach programs, it is crucial tocontinuously assess their needs and experiences during the program, as well as to assess theeffectiveness of the program activities designed to address these needs after the program ends.Evaluating how the program’s activities, resources, and materials impact its participants isessential for stakeholders to
to this topic, students at the beginning of this class were provided with a list ofsixteen diverse companies and asked to circle which ones hired chemical engineers. Anecdotally,the average circled was around eight. However, several students (especially the upperclassman),figured out the assignment and realized that all of the companies hired chemical engineers. Atthis point, it was discussed how chemical engineers were used in those industries. Next, profilesfrom chemical engineers provided from the AIChE website were used as small groups of students’analyzed different profiles. A large group share ensued after this to discuss the links amongst thejobs. Finally, the issue of graduate school was discussed while M.S. and Ph. D. positions
white students and 80% of otherracialized students were in academic programs leading to university programs, only 53% ofBlack students were in academic programs. (James, 2017) Robson et al. (2018) conducteda study where they looked at educational pathways with a small cohort of students from theToronto District School Board.The study found that black and latino students were overrepresented in applied streams and had lower marks on, attributed to early lifedisadvantages present in elementary school or earlier that impacts their opportunity forpost-secondary education. (Robson et al., 2018) According to Engineers Canada, 17.9% oflicensed engineers in Canada are women. (Engineers Canada, 2020)In Canada, more than 4.9 percent of the total Canadian
their students are future teachers, notengineers or scientists. This additional educational element is not part of other teacherpreparation programs. This element is similar to, but certainly not the same as, “methods”classes which have beneficial effects.20 Page 15.108.11Simply having substantial T&E content in an undergraduate K-5 program is itself unique butthe question remains of how to assess competency in T&E for MST majors. The fields ofmath and science education have established methods to measure content knowledge (i.e.-PraxisTM tests). However, there is no such evaluation for K-5 teacher T&E contentknowledge.In this paper it is
Page 26.802.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 From Disciplinary to Multidisciplinary Programs: Educational Outcomes, BOK’s, and AccreditationAbstractOver the last several decades, and in response to a variety of drivers, departments of civilengineering at universities across the United States have expanded and many now supportmultiple degrees. Over the same time period, ABET’s Engineering Criteria 2000 introducedoutcomes-based assessment to the accreditation process for engineering degree programs1. Intoday’s environment, many departments of civil engineering face the challenges of: (a)supporting multiple, interdisciplinary degree programs, (b) updating and
programs teach traditionalacademic research skills, they must also provide opportunities for students to collaborativelyengage in research to address authentic STEM problems. Despite the fact that many universitiesare actively pursuing various ideas in their attempt to transform graduate education, federalscience agency programs continuously report that even the best research-based Master’s and PhDprograms that exist in the U.S. today are not fully prepared to provide the kind of support that theSTEM workforce needs [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13]. It becomes even more relevant when itcomes to the Big Data and Data Analytics (BDA) field, which incorporates professionals fromacross the STEM fields [14].Though there is a large body of research that
-Prescott faculty involvement was, in part, accomplished usingDistance Learning Technology (DLT) between our two campuses. In this way allinvolved had opportunities to learn how to use this technology, in addition to thefocus technologies of the program, and to assess how it may be employedbetween our student groups for interactive design projects or in offering morecourses via DLT in the future. This experience also proved helpful in identifyingfuture improvements for our engineering laboratories on the two campuses toinclude DLT capabilities.A second workshop was conducted in August to review each module developed.Participants provided comments and constructive feedback. During the Augustmeeting each participant was asked to show, in written
providing additional space for larger vacuum chambers and an air bearing. Previousstudent satellites were limited in size to approximately three feet in diameter based on what themachine shops and fabrication rooms could comfortably support. The latest student satellite waseight feet long which is now large enough for planned additions of computer processors,momentum wheels and other student payloads.A second outcome addressed by the new facilities is the ability for students to demonstrateproficiency in core topics inside of the program. 2 This is facilitated by having sufficient spacefor students to work more independently and spread out with fewer constraints placed on theirsatellite designs due to limitations other than their own
Page 10.544.8steps for high tech entrepreneurial success such as Requirements Engineering, Competitive Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAnalysis, Systems Modeling and Simulation, Product Development Process Engineering, ProjectEngineering, Decision and Risk Analysis, Systems Integration, Performance Assessment, SystemLaunch Considerations, System Life-Cycle Costing, Quality Engineering, etc.The influence of Systems Engineering (SE) thinking on entrepreneurship has often beenoverlooked in business-school based technological entrepreneurship programs. The innovationprocess is significantly
, and that innovation leads tosignificant financial returns. Large and small companies alike are acutely aware of therapidly changing global economy and the pressures it creates. Outsourcing jobs to lowcost providers around the world, increasing demands for energy in emerging nations suchas China and India, and electronic technologies that have linked people, capital, andinformation into a single global nervous system are only a few of the factors that aredriving the rush to innovate.7Global strategists have identified innovation as a leading factor in the new “comparativeadvantage”. The famous economic concept developed by David Ricardo averred thatnations compete most efficiently on a global scale by focusing their developmentinitiatives on
program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute is to engage younger generations in theSTEM fields and make the engineering study seem more accessible and exciting, meanwhile stillgarnering leadership, presentation, and project management skills of their own.10 This paper presents an overview of the Engineering Ambassador Network. Connectedwith this overview paper are four more specific papers that provide analysis about specificaspects of the Network. One such paper focuses on the outreach done by EngineeringAmbassadors,14 a second paper focuses on the leadership development of the EngineeringAmbassadors,15 a third focuses on the establishment of Engineering Ambassador programs atthree additional schools,16 and the fourth assesses the
curriculum evaluation and academic and educational advising at Delft University of Technology and large scale educational research at Twente University. Before coming to City College, she was a Research Associate in IBM research, performing organizational, and usability studies. Page 25.1207.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Success of Joint Programs between Junior and Senior Colleges Page 25.1207.2AbstractWhile the demand for highly skilled engineers is greatly increasing, minorities and women arenot well represented in the
. The development of new products and services in the 21st century demandsunprecedented interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork. Engineers are actively involvedfrom the concept design stage which requires more involvement in product safety andenvironmental issues that have impact not only on workplace but also society at large7.Ethics is an important subject and should be an integral aspect of every engineer’s actions.However, very few teachers include ethics as a significant part of graduate programs. Over thepast several years, engineering colleges have been formulating and implementing assessment andfeedback processes for improving their curricula as required by the ABET accreditation criteria.Through these processes, many departments
prepare them to act responsibly with alcohol, and feels that is one aspect of the BOK’sAttitudes outcome, an outcome we are required to fulfill. If we accept the premise that this is anappropriate challenge, the question becomes how do we accomplish it? At West Point allstudents receive a couple hours worth of classes on proper social behavior and responsible use ofalcohol, usually taught to small groups based on a some common plan of instruction, in additionto many formal and informal “reminders” to use alcohol responsibly. This approach is commonthoroughout many universities and colleges. “Unfortunately, few interventions have adocumented positive impact in changing college drinking behavior. In particular, commonlyoffered educational programs
complete, the faculty would vote to accept the revised strawman as the approved curricular plan to be submitted in January.The plan was sound but there were some mistakes in the execution. First of all, there was notenough time allotted to this task during the retreat. The retreat agenda include other items suchas the annual program assessment, a presentation on a student trip to Ecuador, and an extendedlunch where part-time faculty were included. The entire day should have been devoted to thisprocess. As a result, the faculty teams did not have enough time to fully develop their motionsand of the 14 motions developed, only five were fully discussed and voted on. Also, the facultyteams phrased their thoughts in bullet points rather than
C and MATLAB, and Apply a systematic procedure to solve complex engineering problems. Page 24.300.4The objectives are accomplished through a series lectures/discussions coupled with handouts onspecific aspects of programming syntax and format. The lectures utilize small group activitiesfollowed with a short discussion to ensure that students stay actively involved. Theselectures/discussions are followed by hands-on programming exercises where students applyconcepts learned in lecture to solve engineering problems.ENGR 201The objective of this course is to produce students that can: Create accurate free body diagrams
an engineering disciplineand a second language and spend their senior year abroad studying and interning as a mandatorypart of their program, then return to campus as part of their 5th and final year where they takecapstone courses in their respective engineering disciplines and the highest sequence of secondlanguage, culture, and literature courses.Research question 1: Which changes in students’ intercultural development were measured bythe IDI assessment?Research question 2: Which individual factors impacted changes in professional, personal andlife skills development during a year of studying and interning abroad?Literature review In previous influential scholarship, Byram [1], Deardorff [2] and Bennett [3] haveoutlined conceptual
the built environment support the idea that student should experience and learnabout the general overarching fundamentals of research applicable to a diversity of challenges inthe built environment1. Small programs can rely on the individual mentorship of students or onstudent opportunities to serve as research assistants, but as student populations grow, a moreformalized approach is needed to support education in a variety of research methodologies asgraduate students complete their thesis or dissertation obligations. This paper describes theexperience of a CM program at a large Midwest research university during the first four years ofa course in ‘Construction Research Fundamentals’ created to support student thesis anddissertation research
ceiling of the classroom monitors, captures, and transmits the instructor’s video tothe central control room. The video is then fed to the computer that records the presentation. Theexact materials captured by Elmo, Cintiq tablet, or Mimio are also projected on large screens in eachclassroom as they are presented to in-class students in real-time. This allows for both in-class andoff-campus students to see and hear exactly the same material presented in the classrooms.The heart of the designed system at UND is the ScreenWatch8 software program that resides on thecomputers in each of the classrooms and in the control room. The ScreenWatch program allows forremote recording of captured audio, video, and presentation materials and their
Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Educational Computer Program for Simulating Behavior of Structures under Dynamic Loads Mohammed-Noor N. Al-Maghrabi and Ahmed A. Abdou El- Abbasy Engineering. In 1934 Professor Lydik Jacobsen and his Abstract— Saudi Arabia has constructed many universities in student, John Blume, developed the first field instrument forthe last decade. Civil, mechanical, and mining engineering strong shaking of structures and investigated the performancedepartments have courses deal
outreach.There is a large body of literature on the impact of undergraduate research experiences on theirparticipants. There is strong evidence for improvements in retention as well as in the percentageof students who pursue graduate degrees. For example, a large study of nearly 15,000undergraduates funded by the National Science Foundation5 found that undergraduate studentswho participate in hands-on research are more likely to pursue advanced degrees in STEM fields.In a study of factors that promote student retention and success, Nagda et al.6 have shown thatundergraduate research increases retention rates in science and engineering programs,particularly for African-Americans and sophomores. Lopatto7 surveyed more than 1,100 scienceundergraduate
+), which cultivates gender equity across all of the activities of STEM profes- sional societies; the ADVANCE and INCLUDES I-Corps Inclusion Collective, which aims to create more equitable and inclusive I-Corps programs; the New Jersey Equity in Commercialization Collective, which works with technology transfer offices and investors across the state of New Jersey to build a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive commercialization ecosystem; and the Commemorating 20 Years of ADVANCE: Design Thinking Sessions for a Digital Exhibit and Archive project. She is also PI for the WEPAN Accel- erator, an entrepreneurship accelerator program for women in engineering funded by the Small Business Administration. Prior to joining
17 years and it istaught at least twice per year, so there is a large statistical database on student performance on astandardized exam which did not use these videos. This will be compared to the first semester inwhich the videos were used. The limitation will be due to small sample size, since only oneclass using the videos (Spring 2017) will be compared to the performance of many classes thatdid not use them.References1. Lindstrøm, Christine, “Using Khan Academy to support students’ mathematical skill development in a physics course,” Paper ID #13123, 122nd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA, 14-17 June 2015.2. Krueger, R. A., & Casey, M. A., “Focus groups: A practical guide for applied research,” Sage
statutory body which has successfullyaccredited and evolved an effective system for assessing quality of engineering programs.5 Thereis currently one or more university of engineering and technology in all the four provinces ofPakistan and Azad Jamu Kashmir. These universities were upgraded from engineering collegesand offer undergraduate and graduate courses at several locations as listed below: University of Engineering & Technology at Lahore was established in 1921 and is the oldest engineering educational institution of Pakistan, which was affiliated in 1932 with the University of the Punjab for award of a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering. UET Lahore has campuses in other cities of Panjab such as Kala Shah Kaku, Faisalabad, and
misunderstandings and lack of motivation to participate. Page 14.1339.13 So it is very important to help overcome misunderstandings and ensure that learners have a shared approach to communicating online, make sure we devote some time and support to encouraging a common use of language.- The composition of the student group plays very important role in electronic communication similar to face-to-face one. Many factors, such as ability of the group members, group size define the efficiency of our common work. “Too large group may lead to free-riding or ‘lurking’, and too small group may suffer from the lack of different views or particularly in an
received her Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from Cornell University. Currently she focuses on the freshmen engineering program, as well as designing and teaching mechanical engineering courses. Page 26.1426.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Student Reflection, Self-Assessment and Categorization of Errors on Exam Questions as a Tool to Guide Self-Repair and Profile Student Strengths and Weaknesses in a CourseIntroductionOne significant challenge in higher education involves working with students to repair gaps intheir knowledge and understanding. Scores of
Outcomes Assessment Of A Project-Abroad Program in South Africa: Toward “A Better Engineer In The Real World””, AC 2009-577, in Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Annual Conference, Austin, TX, June 14-17, 2009. 6. Leslie Furlow, “Job Profiling: Building a Winning Team Using Behavioral Assessment”, http://www.achievementors.com/doc/job_profiling.pdf. 8. Mustafa, M., Alva, R. Yousuf, A., “Multidisciplinary Project and Collaborative Teams”, AC 2009-557, in Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Annual Conference, Austin, TX, June 14-17, 2009. 9. An, E., Manhar, D., “A Project-Oriented, Team-Based Learning Approach”, AC 2009-971, in Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Annual Conference, Austin, TX, June 14-17, 2009. 10