Session 2330 ABET’s Eleven Student Learning Outcomes (a-k): Have We Considered The Implications?* Jack McGourty, Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Larry Shuman, Columbia University/University of Texas – El Paso/University of PittsburghI. IntroductionThere has been a great deal of intellectual and emotional debate regarding the AccreditationBoard of Engineering and Technology’s (ABET) minimum set of eleven student learningoutcomes that are a major part of EC-2000 [1]. The issues range from serious questions as to thegenesis of these outcomes, general concern regarding validity, and
Universities and Compatibility with K-12 Outreach “The mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduatestudents, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adultscommitted to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; toprepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service byproviding excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledgeand contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectualenvironment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, curedisease, and promote health, through sophisticated
AC 2008-2625: ENGINEERING OUTREACH: CONNECTING BIOMIMETICRESEARCH TO URBAN K-12 CLASSROOMSGisele Ragusa, University of Southern CaliforniaMichael Khoo, University of Southern CaliforniaEllis Meng, University of Southern CaliforniaJoseph Cocozza, University of Southern California Page 13.517.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Engineering Outreach: Connecting Biomimetic Research to Urban K-12 ClassroomsAbstract In 2003, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a large private researchuniversity with funds to create a Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems EngineeringResearch Center (BMES ERC)- a center dedicated to the
standards[10], theme and magnet schools[11], and teacher professional development[12,13], excitement and engagement are improving, but there are still challenges with assessment.As students matriculate through the K-12 system and into college, they are currently assessed viaprojects, rubrics, and traditional tests. These assessments are shallow in that they do not reflectPellegrino’s priorities of cognition, observation, interpretation, comprehensiveness, coherence,and continuity[14-16]. However, there is potential for innovative assessments that can capturenot only content, but skills, and behaviors that are desired in the dynamic, interdisciplinaryengineering and design space. There is still a need for an assessment tool that accomplishes
ofindividual units that use a project-based inquiry approach to teach science to middle schoolstudents. Real-world design challenges are provided for students to develop and present solutionsto their teacher and peers[11]. TeachEngineering.org is an NSF-funded collaboration betweenfive universities and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). TheTeachEngineering.org website offers a collection of K-12 engineering curricula aligned withstandards that are free for teachers to download and use in their classrooms [12]. Engineering is Elementary (EiE) is a curriculum developed through the Museum ofScience Boston for grades 1-5[13]. EiE has simplified the process of engineering design into afive-steps to provide early education
andcareers in STEM fields. This is accomplished through remote education and hosting outreachevents. The outreach program compiles and distributes resources for teaching students in K-12 tocreate robots, sensor systems, and automated devices via collaboration with college engineeringstudents. These high quality educational resources are designed to be low-cost and accessible tolearners from both rural and urban backgrounds while increasing diversity amongst participants.These resources teach students how to build robots for a competition, bringing togetherkindergarten to college students, teachers, and industry professionals.Outreach EffortsMechE MayhemSince 2020, NMT has hosted an annual robotics tournament for K-12 and college students fromacross
theperiod from the years 1990 to 2000, but 12th grade scores, after rising from 1990 to 1996, fellbetween 1996 and 2000. The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)results show a significant difference in performance of students in affluent schools compared tostudents in poorer neighborhoods, showing that we have yet to democratize education. 2Another troubling aspect of current science and mathematics education is that too large a fractionof K-12 students are “turned off” by science sometime in the middle grades (4th through 9th ).This loss of interest is particularly severe in female students and students from underrepresentedsegments of the population. 1 As documented by 3 , the curriculum reform movement thatfollowed
skill and experience for strengthening NSF proposals. 5. A well-run and intensive K-12 outreach program will reward the University in terms of regional public relations and increased interest in the region’s children in applying for enrollment.AcknowledgementsThe STEM Partnership is funded primarily through a Math Science Partnership grantadministered through the New York State Education Department. Additional financial supportfor the Energy Institute that is highlighted here was received from the National ScienceFoundation DTS (DUE-0428127) and GK-12 (DGE-0338216) programs.References1 National Science Board, Preparing Our Children: Math and Science Education in the National Interest, Report NSB 99-31, Washington DC
is co-producing Vision Venture, a co-curricular interactive video series exploring USC en- gineering students’ identities, agency, and purpose after graduation. In pursuit of her strong interest in bridging the conversational gaps between humans, technology and the natural world through multimedia, Elaine is aspiring to become a cultural critic of the modern condition. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Beyond the Vanishing Point: Using Future Self Theory and Student-Alumni Interviews to Expand Student Perspectives on Engineering Education and Engineering WorkAbstractThis paper discusses a co-curricular video project, Vision
AC 2007-2384: USING SERVICE-LEARNING TO DEVELOP A K-12 STEMSERVICE AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING SITERebecca Blust, University of DaytonMargaret Pinnell, University of Dayton Page 12.1561.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Using Service-Learning to Develop a K-12 STEM Service and Experiential Learning Website Site Rebecca P. Blust, Margaret Pinnell Ph.D. University of DaytonAbstractThis paper will discuss a National Science Foundation grant project that has beendesigned to provide a mechanism to inform a significant group of science, technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM) educators of
, orExemplary. The rubrics are carefully worded to clearly describe the competencies expected foreach of these ratings. These descriptions make the expectations of our program very clear andhelp ensure consistency among the faculty when rating students. The rubrics are not tied to thespecific content in a course and can therefore be used in multiple courses throughout thecurriculum. Using the same rubric from freshmen to senior year allows us to measure studentdevelopment as they progress through the curriculum. Each rubric is also designed to measureseveral of the ABET “a-k” educational outcomes with each performance criterion in a rubricclearly tied to one or more of these outcomes.In addition to course assessment by faculty, the department uses two
Paper ID #34756A Model for Conducting K-12 STEM Summer Outreach Programs DuringtheCOVID-19 PandemicDr. William A. Kitch, Angelo State University Dr. Kitch is Professor and Chair of the David L. Hirschfeld Department of Engineering at Angelo State University. Before starting his academic career he spent 24 years as a practicing engineer in both the public and private sector. He is a registered professional engineer in Colorado, California and TexasMs. Andrea L. Robledo, Angelo State University Dr. Andrea Robledo received her PhD in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Indiana University. Dr. Robledo currently serves as
to bring those concepts back to their students.SummaryWhile there are many methods for engineers to reach out to K-12 students, an advantage ofprofessional development is that resources are spent on training teachers who can reach studentsyear after year. The LRC, a model for professional development presented here, engagessecondary school science teachers with scientists, mathematicians, engineers, science education Page 10.1173.10researchers, and their graduate students to improve science teaching and learning through the use Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &
. This process including the creation of logic models foreach program and the developing a set of common survey instruments that measured outcomegoals for the programs. The collaboration of the MISO project and the Engineering Placeoutreach program is used to demonstrate this work.IntroductionMISO (Maximizing the Impact of STEM Outreach through Data-driven Decision-Making) is acampus-wide project, funded by the Nation Science Foundation, at North Carolina SateUniversity (NCSU). This project seeks to both better understand and support the collectiveimpact of K-12 STEM outreach efforts of the university. The project arose out of a campus-widead-hoc committee organized by the office of extension and engagement. Work by the committeepointed to a
ProgramOutcomes of the 2003 revised TC2K criteria. One step beyond this at the course level,course objectives were created which support the program educational objectives. Theseobjectives can then be assessed by using both subjective input from students as well asobjective input obtained through traditional tests, assignments, projects, etc. A specificexample of the documented assessment results for course MET461, Computer IntegratedDesign & Manufacturing is shown in Table 2. This table is the standard format that theMETS department instructors have adopted in order to standardize their documentationmethod for displaying their student learning assessment. Standardization such as this is anecessity for continuous improvement. This is part of a larger
learning gathered from student evaluation of teaching surveys.AbstractAssessment and evaluation of student learning are important considerations for EngineeringTechnology programs. ABET-TAC standards require that educational objectives and outcomesbe chosen by the program and its constituents, measured by various means, and that the resultsbe used to improve the program. The data that is collected should be triangulated in somefashion for the results to be considered valid. A large part of our program’s data assessmentmethods can be classified as direct assessment, that is, using tests, papers, homework, and labexercises that measure the student’s learning or achievement of Criterion 3 a-k student outcomes.We collect data all through the
through K-12 [3].Purpose of Study This study reviewed 40 lessons from a reputable and high-trafficked website. Thiswebsite provides over one thousand free activities and is funded by NSF. The website’s foundingpartners consist of more than five well-respected institutions and is one of the only websites thatprovides complete curricular units, as opposed to stand-alone activities, at completely no cost.Thus, this website was chosen as the data source of our SEP analysis. Methodology This research study uses a summative approach to qualitative content analysis [15]. Thistype of analysis involves identifying certain content that will be the focus of the research prior toanalysis, in this case
Session #_____ The TeachEngineering Digital Library: Engineering Comes Alive for K-12 Youth Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, Martha N. Cyr, Michael A. Mooney, René F. Reitsma, Nancy C. Shaw, Malinda Schaefer Zarske and Paul A. Klenk University of Colorado at Boulder, CO / Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA / Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO / Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR / Duke University, Durham, NC / University of Colorado at Boulder, CO / Duke University, Durham, NCAbstractDo you believe that technological literacy
. IntroductionAccording to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, “Digital skills, likecoding and understanding how to use new technologies to solve real world problems havebecome increasingly vital across all sectors of the global economy” [1]. The importance ofdigital skills extends beyond the borders of one country and encompasses the whole world [2].Engineers are key to building the future societies and economies. Hence, the impact of digitalskills training in engineering education is of utmost importance. In this paper, a systematicliterature review of digital skills programs in global K-12 education is performed.First, we define the term ‘digital skills.’ The use of the term ‘digital skills’ has soared since thelate 1990s as the Internet
believed that the comments inthis section should be valuable to all engineering programs, regardless of their size or focus.Of course, grants are one source of income for laboratory- or field-based instructional programs.Equipment grants related to both research and education are available through the NationalScience Foundation, the Department of Defense, and various foundations and institutions. Adiscussion of these funding sources and their available funding programs is beyond the scope ofthis paper. A great deal of information is available through the Web or through a universitygrants development office. It should be emphasized, however, that these agencies fund capitalimprovement projects. Rarely can funds be solicited specifically for
, engineering design-based approaches, context-richproblem solving strategies, and real-world applications. All of the foci were ideally suited forhelping K-12 students learn the interdisciplinary integrated STEM concepts now called for in theK-12 standards (e.g. Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards - NGSS). Althoughnot traditionally used in STEM subjects (or explored in this paper), astronomy concepts such asblack holes, distances to other stars, and planets in star systems beyond our own, are inspirationalto K-12 students while being explainable at a technical and quantitative level. Quantitativeassessment methods for the LASSI PD included an external evaluator who asked daily surveyquestions of the participants in the yearlong PD
AC 2007-1857: SUPPORTING MATH AND SCIENCE THROUGH ELEMENTARYENGINEERING IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATIONCharles Parsons, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School CHARLES PARSONS is the Science Coach at Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School Center for Mathematics and Engineering. He earned a B.A. in Elementary Education from the University of South Florida. His experiences include over 30 years teaching in Kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms and 1 ½ years as a resource teacher. Chuck has curriculum writing experience and has presented at various state and national venues.Debbie O'Hare, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School DEBORAH O'HARE is a 4th and 5th grade teacher at Douglas L
the responsibility and the ability to go out and find the information that they need. That's a skill that is handy everywhere in high school and beyond, so I think that's a big learning goal of that. [Spring 2017] Understanding of Science Teachers noted that students’ experiences in IC taught them about the process ofscience, including the role of iteration, working through adversity and failure, theinterdisciplinary nature of science, and the need for practicing rather than memorizing. They saw that too, like I should have changed this and I should have changed this, and they get to see what errors have occurred and what they should have changed. Oh, I need to redo my prototype, so they get to see
teaches the College of Engineering’s interdisciplinary, industry sponsored, senior project class as well as course in mechanics and design. He also conducts research in the areas of creative design, machine design, fluid power control, and engineering education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Understanding Context: Propagation and Effectiveness of the Concept Warehouse in Mechanical Engineering at Five Diverse Institutions and Beyond – Results from Year 1AbstractSeveral consensus reports cite a critical need to dramatically increase the number and diversity ofSTEM graduates over the next decade. They conclude that a change
mentors in K-12 schools.These volunteers consisted of associate, bachelor, masters, and doctoral degree students, some ofwhom had recently graduated, who needed training in LEGO Mindstorms prior to beginningtheir mentoring assignments as FLL coaches. Most mentors identified themselves as havingSTEM-related academic background, such as neuroscience, computer science, and engineering.Some mentors indicated prior experience working with youth in afterschool programs. The K-12 teachers were reached through email advertisements about a free trainingworkshop for teachers with no prior experience in robotics. The email advertisement was sent toover 200 teachers, principals, and school district administrators within the NYC area. Itemphasized that
out of a firstsemester introduction to engineering design course succeeded beyond that course because of acombination of project opportunities and student interest generated in that course. Beginning ornurturing community connections is recommended as a means of providing opportunities forexperiential learning for even first-year students. In this case, and many others, local K-12teachers are usually eager for college faculty and students to provide materials and activities tosupport their own teaching. 7, 8 The high school physics teacher involved in this project has nowcome back to Western Michigan’s CEAS requesting further projects. Local Boys’ and Girls’clubs, YMCA and YWCA groups, and not-for-profit organizations such as Goodwill
andmanufacturing, we will refer to families, K-12, and community colleges as"suppliers". Engineering schools are the "product realization" team and ourgraduates are the "product". Those businesses, industries, and governmentalagencies that employ engineering graduates are regarded as "customers".(We realize this analogy is greatly simplified and are aware, for example,that students may be regarded as suppliers, partners, and customers, and thatour customers are, in a sense, partners.)Following this model means that we regard K-14 suppliers and Business-Industry-Government(BIG) customers as part of the product realization team. Communication linkages would becometruly wide-band, barriers would be identified and either dismantled or tunneled through
], so a top-downsystematic design of science innovation education system for K-12 and beyond needs to bedesigned to motivate all stake holdlers and optimize social education resources from alllevels.1.3 STIE in QingdaoQiaodao, also known as "Eastern Switzerland", host city for International Congress on ICT(Information & Communication Technology) in Education twice, is a modern, advanced,international and coastal city. As one of the pilot cities of China’s Ministry of Education,Qingdao pulls full strength to STIE. Recently, the Qingdao government issued “Measures forPrimary and Secondary school management in Qingdao”[15], which is the first localgovernment regulation on school with a focus on building a new ecosystem amonggovernment, schools
AC 2011-2432: LIVING IN A MATERIALS WORLD: MATERIALS SCI-ENCE ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR K-12 ED-UCATORSLouis S. Nadelson, Boise State University Louis S. Nadelson is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at Boise State University. His research agenda is conducted within the context of STEM education and includes aspects of conceptual change, inquiry, and pre-service and in-service teacher education. He has published research ranging from teacher professional development to the impact of inquiry on STEM learning. Dr. Nadelson earned a B.S. degree in Biological and Physics Science from Colorado State University, a B.A. with concentrations in computing, mathematics and physics from The
Paper ID #44352Enabling K-14 Educators in Developing and Deploying Advanced ManufacturingCurriculaDr. MD B. Sarder, Bowling Green State University Dr. Sarder is a professor & director of the School of Engineering at Bowling Green State University (BGSU). Prior to joining BGSU, he worked at the U.S. Air Force Academy as a distinguished research fellow. He served as an associate professor, and graduate director of the logistics, trade, and transportation program at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM). Dr. Sarder has a record of excellence in research, teaching, and services as evidenced by the number of funded