infall 2004 into a systems engineering concentration. Engineering management and bio processengineering were added in 2005, with biomedical engineering in 2006. Page 13.990.3The new program faced several challenges. The region’s ability to maintain economicmomentum and grow technology driven businesses is, in large part, dependent on attracting andretaining engineering expertise. However, local, national and global firms often have difficultyattracting and retaining engineers in a region that is primarily comprised of rural towns and smallcities. The ability to grow local engineering and technology talent, with family roots in theregion, was
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Impact of faculty development workshops on instructional faculty at Hispanic-serving institutionsAbstractThis research paper will examine the experiences of instructional, non-tenure line (non-tenure-track/tenured) faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) during and after participation in amulti-institutional faculty development workshop series. As engineering programs increase insize, the demand for instructional, non-tenure track faculty increases. These instructional facultyrepresent a large percentage, from 25% to over 50%, of the faculty members at both two andfour-year institutions. Given their high number of contact hours with engineering students
research is in freshman programs and educational assessment. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Table 4. Intercepts- and Slopes-as-Outcomes Model Fixed Effect Estimate SE df t p-value School CGPA Mean Base, γ00 2.5459 .009137 5 278.63 .0001 Rural, γ01 .15290 .004774 5 32.02 .0001 Suburban, γ02 -.07266 .004716 5 15.41 .0001 Research, γ03 .21120 .005667 5
facilitated faculty development initiatives, communi- ties and events in online course design, formative assessment, narrative techniques and 3-D technologies in undergraduate education. Since Fall 2016, in partnership with the College of Engineering and the LIFE team, Gemma designed and supported faculty development workshops in active learning pedago- gies, provided regular consultations and also joined the UM team at Olin College’s 2017 Collaboratory Summer Institute. Gemma is a recent graduate from the MSc Digital Education program at the University of Edinburgh.Dr. Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas, El Paso An Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at El Paso, Dr. Meagan R. Kendall is helping develop
. Small Engineering Project Week 16 15.0% Evaluation of the Implementations Students’ learning and satisfaction for both PBL implementations were evaluated andcompared. A shortened version of the NCEES FE exam, the CATME survey, and reflectiveassignments were utilized. A shortened version of the NCEES FE exam Students completed the FE exam during the first week and then again during the lastweek of the semester for the purpose of assessing students’ growth in fluid mechanicsknowledge. The 16 questions can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/shortenedFE. Students'scores from the FE exam were analyzed using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) to test forpotential differences
becomequalified candidates to work with faculty members who conduct research in the field ofturbomachinery. Senior Design ProjectFor students entering their senior year, it is common among engineering programs in the nationand worldwide to participate in senior design group activities. These activities are prominentelements of engineering degree programs and are critical to the development and assessment ofstudents’ professional skills for their earned degrees. They provide a unique opportunity forstudents to work together on a hands-on project in a timely fashion and develop their engineeringskills by solidifying much of what is learned in the classroom. Additionally, executing a seniordesign project improves their technical knowledge, as well as their
. This step is important in helping studentsassess their creativity and learn to acknowledge both strengths and weaknesses in their efforts.Introduction to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming: This particular topicconsisted of several different lab exercises, intending to explain basic VBA language elementsand then using VBA programming within Excel to perform basic functions and decision making.Although there are a number of preliminary tasks associated with understanding how to interpretand write VBA programming constructs (in other words, teaching fundamental VBAprogramming), the final task allows the students to exercise their creativity in utilizing theirfreshly acquired skills in writing a small computer program to explore
NSF-funded projects that are advancing entrepreneurship education in STEM fields, including Epicenter and I-Corps(tm). She and her team are currently examining the experiences of innovators commercializing and scaling-up new technologies, products, and services, and are developing ways to assess the venture and product develop- ment status of innovation teams. She received her B.A. from Williams College, an Ed.M. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology from Boston College.Dr. Thema Monroe-White, SageFox Consulting Group Thema Monroe-White is a senior evaluator at SageFox Consulting Group, specializing on driving organi- zational and program performance through
experimental designs, with randomization (SeeCordray, Harris and Gilbert4). The other (60%) comparative studies used quasi-experimental methods (with non-random assignment) to assess the effectiveness ofmodules and course augmentations. Although an experimental approach to improving engineering education isdemanding, it provides the only path to deriving unbiased estimates of the effects oflearning on students. On the other hand, practical and ethical issues must be addressed. Page 12.13.3One particularly difficult practical constraint in using true experiments in assessing 2VaNTH materials entailed small class
advantage of this opportunity, our research proposes to make use of a featureof engineering programs that, as far as we have been able to discover, is largely overlooked inefforts to develop ethical engineers and meet the ABET ethics requirements: student internships.Our research builds on what little is known about the impact of ethics training on studentdevelopment of a professional engineer identity by conceptualizing, measuring, and analyzing thedevelopment of an ethical dimension to this identity.Enhanced Engineering InternshipsWe employ and assess a novel pedagogy that merges professional STEM ethics training with co-curricular STEM internships. Our pedagogical innovation, which we call an enhanced internship,includes the provision of ethics
-hand how the students interacted with the object.Usability feedback obtained from the participants brought us immediate benefits in our goal ofcreating a user-friendly and valuable learning object. The comments from volunteers regardingthe usability of the object have already been implemented. Quantitative data analysis presentedhere completed the first, preliminary stage of the study. In the second stage, the authors willfurther analyze the visual data obtained from the taping of the sessions using qualitative analysis,which may yield further helpful insights. The authors are planning to follow this small study witha large scale longitudinal analysis of learning styles and teaching strategies across severalengineering disciplines
educators provided. Given thenumber of HSIs in the regions of interest, the sample sizes in this study are small. However, this studywas exploratory and sought to optimize the depth of interactions with a diverse set of institution andeducator types over having a large sample size. Future studies should include additional participants andother stakeholders beyond educators, such as students or employers. In addition, 50% of participants atthe Texas workshop and 44% of participants at the Florida workshop were from the respective hostinstitutions. Therefore, the over-sampling of faculty from the host institutions may have biased the resultstowards the dominant perspectives at the host institutions. To minimize the impact of oversampling,results are
Paper ID #27353Retrospective Multi-year Analysis of Team Composition Dynamics and Per-formance within a Yearlong Integrative BME Laboratory SequenceDr. Timothy E. Allen, University of Virginia Dr. Timothy E. Allen is an Associate Professor and Interim Undergraduate Program Director in the De- partment of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He received a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Bioengineering at the University of Cal- ifornia, San Diego. Dr. Allen’s teaching activities include coordinating the core undergraduate teaching labs and the Capstone Design
). Effect of Differing PowerPoint Slide Design on Multiple- Choice Test Scores for Assessment of Knowledge and Retention in a Theriogenology Course. Journal of Veterinary Medicine Education, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 312-317.8. Joanna K. Garner and Michael Alley (2016). Slide structure can influence the presenter’s understanding of the presentation’s content. International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 32, no. 1(A), pp. 39-54.9. Melissa Marshall, Michael Alley, Sarah Zappe, Karen Thole, Mary Frecker, and Renata Engel (2010 October). Ambassador Program for Recruiting Girls into Engineering. 2010 Frontiers in Education Conference (IEEE: Washington, DC).10. Christine Haas, Michael Alley, and Joanna Garner (2016 June). Engineering
. Two cohorts of EIF participantswere hosted at a HSI local to them, in the fall of 2022 and 2023. Upon application andacceptance to the program, these engineering instructional faculty were recognized as fellows ofthe project, awarded a stipend, and guided through scoping a project focused on educationalchange to work on throughout the rest of the program. This paper focuses explicitly on the groupcoaching model, with the framework for this institute outlined in prior work [10].The case study research and the subsequent curriculum design for the group coaching modelwere guided by theoretical frameworks of self-efficacy [11] and agency [12]. These frameworksprovide a foundation for understanding the influences on an individual's decision to
developedindependently by distinct instructors, each is founded upon the same five core elements: Largely Traditional Lectures; Hybrid Textbooks/Lecture Notes; Extensive Multimedia Content; Course Blogs; and Refined Student Assessment ToolsThese elements are briefly described below. Page 24.1241.2Key components of the PMFC experience are the hybrid textbook/lecture notes sets1,2, dubbed“Lecturebooks”. These hybrid texts, used in place of a traditional textbook, are designed topresent the students with pertinent background information in a concise fashion, highlightfundamental engineering principles and optimal problem solving
classroom methodology in juxtaposition to the traditional method of delivery. Theimplemented changes have streamlined course contents and noticeably improved studentunderstanding of the covered material. The pilot course is a three credit, 200 level engineeringclass which aims to teach students the tools for problem solving, graphing and analyzingengineering data, programming of formulae, and procedures. This class uses Excel and Matlab asthe software to implement these tools, and approximately twenty chapters are covered within twodifferent textbooks. The following changes have been implemented in this software-based course:First, the structure of the class was modified. Initially, Excel was taught at the beginning of thesemester and Matlab in the
formentoring a successful team. In addition to providing information specific to the robotic miningcompetition, the paper will also provide more generic solutions to common problems that can beused in any multidisciplinary student competition.BackgroundThere is a belief that systems engineering is best taught by providing students with a hands-onexperience5,6. Providing students with a multidisciplinary systems engineering experience can bedifficult because it requires professors from multiple departments to work together with arelatively small group of students4. One of the easiest places to insert such an experience is thesenior capstone course. Several institutions have used their capstone courses to teach theirstudents about systems
failures around for the rest of the semester. The system alsorequires many assessments (generally seven in a fifteen-week semester plus a final exam that hasmultiple, usually four, opportunities). Hence, the pressure that students feel on any given assessment isrelatively small, and significant hope of mastery remains right up to the end of the course.Each student’s progress toward mastery is tracked and fed back to them periodically throughout thesemester in the form of a dashboard. The dashboard for a student at the end of the semester is shown inFig. 1. There are several aspects to the dashboard, but the part associated with mastery of the objectives isin the lower right corner. This figure is an example of a student who earned a grade of A in
material sciencesengineers, and 2 were systems engineers. Among the engineers, mean number of yearsexperience in the field was 19 (range 7-32 years). Eight of the engineers had master’s degrees ina subfield of engineering, and an additional 4 had Ph.D.s. Fourteen of the engineers were whitemales, 3 were Asian / Pacific Islander males, and 2 were white females. The landscape architectwas a white male with 13 years experience in the field and an undergraduate degree in landscapearchitecture. The greatest portion of participants (9 of the 19 engineers) were currently employedin large corporations with over 10,000 employees, but others were from small to medium-sizedfirms and as a group had previously worked as engineers, on average, at two other
may include the difficulty of the subject matter, the high workloads, and anincreased presence of competition in their courses, but not all research supports theseconclusions [4], [5], [6]. Across all studies, however, it appears that the quantity of engineeringstudents who participate in at least some form of academic dishonesty while in college may be ashigh as around 95% [7], [8], [9].Factors in Cheating BehaviorBesides the program of study, other demographic, situational, and psychological factors havebeen examined to assess their correlation with cheating behaviors. In most studies, it does notappear that demographics, such as gender or ethnicity, play an important role [3], [6]. As onepossible exception, however, international students
questionreceived a large number of “Total guess” ratings, it could be considered too difficult or confusingfor students to answer. In both Survey 1 and Survey 2 results, the majority of questions receivedeither one or zero guesses among all student responses. The questions with the most guessesincluded Q5a (7 guesses on Survey 1 and 3 guesses on Survey 2) and Q7a (5 guesses on Survey1 and 5 on Survey 2). This level of guessing was not deemed to be so large as to skew theanalysis of the results or to consider the removal of a question from the analysis. While assessing the student confidence ratings, it was noted that there were somedistinctions between the ratings among the female and male students. Table 8 includes abreakdown of the confidence
interest and role inASEE and the educational and accreditation processes from whose output they recruit.Multidisciplinary Engineering ProgramsThe data presented in this paper are drawn from the current ABET website,1 as accessed onMarch 2, 2010. That site maintains a list of all accredited engineering programs under a set ofdrop-down menu titles, one of which is “Engineering, Engineering Physics & EngineeringScience.” This list currently comprises programs with one of those three titles, plus GeneralEngineering and a small number (three) of uniquely distinct titles that ABET has assigned to theASEE set. The most recent roster assigned to ASEE for program accreditation includes 68institutions offering 69 accredited multidisciplinary engineering
finally, faculty should avail themselves of institutionalsupport for improving teaching.1. IntroductionIn most engineering schools, except for research, teaching is the most important factor on whichreappointment, promotion, and tenure are based. And teaching is most often evaluated usingstudent course evaluations. This places faculty in a delicate position, a reciprocal relationshipbetween their students and them, in which each party is assessing the other and influencing theirsubsequent advancement. For this reason, student course evaluation is one of the mostcontentious issues [1] in all kinds of academic departments and all kinds of institutions.Instructors rightly point out that other factors should be considered when determining theefficacy
program achieves its academicgoals. The basic philosophy that initiated the Academy’s small satellite program in thefirst place was a belief that students learn far more by building, testing and doing than bylecturing and exams. While it’s always difficult to assess the long-term efficiency of anycurriculum changes, initial student feedback is extremely positive. Students haveresponded very well to a class based on real-world problems. In fact, their primaryfrustrations have been those that all engineers must face after graduation. One concern ofgoing to purely design-based classes as opposed to additional lectures was that therewould be a de-emphasis on depth in favor of breadth. However, this has not been thecase. Each student has a particular
datasets, and conducted community-driven research with indigenous communities in Nicaragua. As a social scientist, she was tenured faculty at The Citadel – Military College of South Carolina and served for 8 years in advisory accreditation and evaluation roles at the pleasure of the Provost. Her research and teaching background focus on program assessment, STEM technical communication, industry-informed curricula, and educational outcomes for Veteran and active duty students.Dr. Robert J. Rabb P.E., Pennsylvania State University Robert Rabb is the associate dean for education in the College of Engineering at Penn State. He previously served as a professor and the Mechanical Engineering Department Chair at The Citadel. He
projects that leverage robotic agriculture andFarmBots to address the specific needs of communities. Initiatives such as community-led urbanfarming projects, training programs, and cooperative models are being considered to enhance thesecollaborations and empower communities at large.1.D. ObjectivesThe following educational objectives for the students participating in the experiential learninginclude: a) To foster a comprehensive understanding of the interconnectedness of agriculture and broader societal issues through experiential learning by weaving together the scientific exploration of crops with the historical and social context, b) To gain insight into the integration of technology within farming/agriculture, including the
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Papadopoulos has diverse interests in structural mechanics, sustainable construction materials (with emphasis in bamboo), engineering ethics, and engineering education. He is co-author of Lying by Approximation: The Truth about Finite Element Analysis, and after many years, he has finally (maybe) learned how to teach Statics, using an experiential and peer-based learning ”studio” model. As part of the UPRM Sustainability Engineering initiative to develop a new bachelor’s degree and curricular sequence, Papadopoulos is PI of A New Paradigm for Sustainability Engineering: A Transdisciplinary, Learner-Centered, and Diversity-Focused Approach, funded by the NSF HSI program, and he is also a
CD help students successfullyengage in innovation tasks. This study was conducted within a BME program with an IBL framework. Theparticipants included undergraduate and graduate students who completed surveys at thebeginning and end of the semester to capture changes in CD and ISE. The CD survey wasadapted from a validated scale to reflect IBL-specific scenarios, assessing students' psychologicaldiscomfort when confronting conflicting ideas or ambiguous challenges. ISE was measuredusing an established scale, which evaluates confidence in completing innovation-related taskssuch as generating creative solutions and addressing complex problems. Data collection wasfacilitated through the MOOCIBL platform (a custom LMS) to ensure
professor in the Materials Science Program in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include faculty development and evaluating con- ceptual knowledge and strategies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for mate- rials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback and internet tool use affect conceptual change and impact on students’ attitude, achievement