protocol or strategyused in the lab. Students summarize their findings in a 1-2 pages long NABC report, in whichstudents identify the important need the routing protocol addresses, the approach to address thatneed, and compare the benefits per cost ratio to competing strategies. This practice of using NABCmotivates them to focus on value creation, which is the core of EML.1. IntroductionEntrepreneurially Minded Learning (EML) is an innovative pedagogical approach designed toinstill entrepreneurial mindsets in students. In addition, EML prepares students to deal with real-world technical and innovation challenges with creativity and strategic thinking [1]. Moreover,this EML approach enhances students’ technical capabilities as well as develops
-week term (half of one semester).In support of these project goals, WPI has developed a network of domestic and global projectcenters. These centers have traditionally been sites for IQP project activities, focusing on problemsassociated with the social-technological interface such as environmental concerns, legislation andregulatory issues, use of technology by non-technological agencies, etc. At these project centers,students work for a term of seven weeks on site with sponsoring organizations, companies andgovernment agencies under the guidance of WPI faculty. WPI’s first domestic IQP project centeropened in Washington DC in 1976, followed by the first global site in London in 1978. Based onthe success of the IQP project centers, several
experience the college was able to providestudents with training and development during their first year of higher education.Through key programing efforts and well-developed partnerships with corporate theme partnersConsumers Energy, Bosch Corporation, General Electric, Tenneco, college faculty and staff,allowed students during their first year on campus to take part in activities that centered on theirsuccess and development. This paper will highlight co-curricular integrative approaches tostudent success and development through an engineering living and learning program called theCoRe Experience.Co-Curricular ProgrammingAs students enter MSU they have well-established goals for their engineering academic pursuitsin the College of Engineering
Page 13.402.3experience that contributed to the student’s growth.”5 Yet, somehow faculty do not realize 2that the teaching methods they use in the classroom, which they expect and hope willculminate in the development of outstanding professionals, are the same methods that theycould use to expand the effectiveness of academic advising and increase students’ life skills.Faculty have the expectation in the classroom that students will learn material mosteffectively if it is introduced at the appropriate time and in the right context. They expectjunior level students to exhibit greater problem solving skills than freshmen and for juniors tohave the
student chapter. The topics of these workshops include cooperative learning, diversity inthe classroom, and classroom assessment techniques. These workshops offer a means ofcontinual improvement for all of the educators in the university, both faculty and GSIs. Thesecond component is the "Departmental Training Programs Workshop," which was held in Julybefore the start of the Fall semester. During this workshop, trained members of University ofMichigan’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) helped faculty and graduatecoordinators from 8 of the 11 departments in the College develop a step-by-step GSI trainingprogram, which could then be implemented in their respective departments. There were alsoexperienced GSIs from each department
. Thomas J. Hacker, Purdue University, West Lafayette Thomas J. Hacker is an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue Univer- sity in West Lafayette, Indiana. His research interests include cyberinfrastructure systems, high perfor- mance computing, and the reliability of large-scale supercomputing systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a member of IEEE, the ACM, and ASEE.Prof. Raymond A Hansen, Purdue University Prof. Raymond Hansen is a faculty member in the Department of Computer & Information Technology at Purdue University. He has over five years of experience in developing international partnerships.Ms. Natasha N
strategies in their classrooms.Results indicated that collaborative learning and problem-based learning were two most commonly usedactive learning strategies, while 1-minute paper and peer instruction were the least commonly usedstrategies. Participants agreed that active learning improved student learning outcomes, and motivatedstudents to participate in the class, but required an increased workload during the development ofactivities. The results of this study may inform future faculty development efforts on adoption of activelearning strategies in classrooms that were proven to improve student learning and retention inengineering education.IntroductionActive learning approach has gained increasing popularity in engineering education. The
education between U.S. institutions and international counterparts. • Provide international research experiences for U.S. students and faculty to prepare them to work effectively in the global research community. • Engage resources within and across institutions to build strong international partnerships. • Develop new replicable models for international collaborative research and education. • Raise the profile and increase the importance of international collaborative research and education within the U.S. research and education community.To respond to this opportunity we brought together a group of environmental engineers andscientists who are motivated by the vexing global problem of access to safe water supplies
students interested in teaching college-levelcourses. This paper will focus on the latter case where graduate students are mentored bydepartmental faculty to learn teaching skills and to implement change within the department.The mentoring program at our university is informal and involves pairing a graduate student witha faculty member who is teaching the same course. The faculty and graduate student workclosely together to develop learning materials, design exercises, and exams. Typically, thegraduate student offers new ideas and learning exercises for the classroom that add new energyto the course. The faculty member provides guidance regarding the design of exam materials andwhat works well in the classroom.IntroductionMichigan Tech
Engineering faculty at Tennessee Tech University. In mostcases, two teachers worked with one technical mentor. A Mathematics Educator also assisted theteachers in navigating the “engineering terrain” and by serving as a “translator” between theengineering faculty and the teachers. A faculty member from Nursing used her expertise to coachthe teachers in instructional design specific to the development of a Legacy Cycle (curriculummodule). The expectations of the RET experience were high, but teachers had ample support toaccomplish the goals in the timeframe allotted.Two applications of the Legacy Cycle were integral to the teachers’ RET experience: (1) theLegacy Cycle was used by engineering faculty as a vehicle to train the teachers to be researchers
Session 2566 ABET EC 2000: Developing Assessment Tools for Continuous Improvement Francine Battaglia, Robert C. Brown, Donald R. Flugrad Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State UniversityAbstractMechanical Engineering Department faculty and staff at Iowa State University have introducedsignificant curriculum changes over the past few years. In addition, they have introduced acomprehensive program for the assessment of program outcomes. Desired program outcomeswere defined, course objectives were outlined and aligned with specific outcomes, assessmenttools were developed, and
2006-869: USING PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN TO DEVELOP A CAPSTONECOURSEAlan Dutson, Brigham Young University-Idaho Alan Dutson has been a faculty member of the department of mechanical engineering at BYU-Idaho since January of 2003. His areas of interest include engineering design, scale models, and active learning in engineering education. Page 11.1401.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Using Principles of Design to Develop a Capstone CourseAbstractDeveloping a senior-level capstone course is well-suited to the application of a structured designmethodology. Specific “customer needs
, and the opportunity to co-op with fluid power industry and subsequent employment.• The faculty by providing an opportunity to engage in cutting edge industrial research• The programs by providing a strong foundation to develop a successful grant research program, and to participate in the cross-disciplinary research project.• The College by contributing to the enrollment growth and enhancing the prestige. Page 9.428.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”I. Background
underemployed. A new goal of 150% capacity intwo years was set. A formalized five-step process was implemented to systematically developmore co-op employer-partners on an on-going basis. This process leverages the use of faculty“contacts”. Developing additional companies that accept engineering co-ops from UofL SpeedSchool of Engineering translates directly into more choices and a better fit for the student. Thesteps in this employer development process are straightforward:Step 1: Initial contact. Create an account with profile in the Career Services Managementsystem (Symplicity).Step 2: Meeting; share program information, confirm they are interested.Step 3: Create job posting in SymplcityStep 4: Send resume book of candidates.Step 5: Company
training in sound pedagogical practices, ashortage of training in the effective use of educational technology, short supply of requiredresources and time to produce completed and tested works, and a lack of emphasis on improvedteaching in the university faculty rewards systems are the major obstacles to materialsdevelopment. To remedy this situation, this project endeavors to create an active, engaged, andsustained virtual community of engineering educators who energetically contribute to and sharematerials from a common collection of courseware.The virtual community will take form as an incubator in which faculty are trained in soundpedagogical practices e.g., developing learning goals and assessment techniques. Next,participants will be schooled
convergence captureshow different domains of expertise contribute to solving a problem, but also the value of thenetwork of connections between areas of knowledge that is built in undertaking such activities.While most existing efforts at convergence focus at the graduate and post-graduate levels, thisproject supports student development of capabilities to address convergent problems in anundergraduate disciplinary-based degree program in electrical and computer engineering. Thisposter discusses some of the challenges faced in implementing such learning including how todecouple engineering topics from societal concerns in ways that are relevant to undergraduatestudents yet retain aspects of convergence, negotiations between faculty on ways to
. Their study found that studentsleave STEM fields due to their frustration with the quality of teaching, advising, andcurriculum.9 In the wake of Seymour and Hewitt’s seminal work and on-going national concern,the push for pedagogical and curricular reform has intensified due to its dual impact on theproduction of STEM graduates and quality of undergraduate education. The Center for theIntegration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) is one such reform effort, which seeksto improve undergraduate STEM education by targeting the professional development ofgraduate students. CIRTL aims to influence the knowledge, attitudes and behavior of these futurecollege instructors. The pipeline of future STEM faculty through graduate education at
and the support services offered by libraries (Carlson, et al,2011; Borgman et al, 2015). This changing knowledge creation environment presents librarieswith an opportunity to become more integrally involved in the research workflow and scholarlycommunication lifecycle (Tenopir, et al, 2015).A number of instructional and training programs for engineering faculty and researchers havebeen developed and implemented (Carlson et al, 2011; Johnston and Jeffrys, 2014). Many ofthese programs are built around data management plan assistance (Samuels at al, 2015; Wangand Fong, 2015; Nelson, 2015). Zilinski et al (2014) have developed a program directed atundergraduate STEM students. Many libraries have established research data services and
AC 2009-2195: DEVELOPING A STANDARD STUDENT INTERFACE FORONLINE COURSES THROUGH USABILITY STUDIESRenee Butler, Southern Polytechnic State UniversityChristina Scherrer, Southern Polytechnic State University Page 14.445.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Developing a Standard Student Interface for Online Courses through Usability StudiesAbstract – In recent years there has been significant growth in the popularity and offering ofonline education. Due to limited availability of instructional designers and developmentresources, faculty are often called upon to develop the content, learning strategies, and userinterface for online
communities of practice to oversee theimplementation of curricular changes that develop and reinforce a range of non-technical skillsto better equip our graduates for the discipline.The end result will be that each skill is taught and reinforced at each level of the curriculum(Figure 1). This change been motivated by the changing expectations of faculty, alumni, and theprofession at large. Faculty need graduate students with stronger communication andcomputational skills. Alumni desire clearer communication, a greater understanding of theprofession, and more system-level design experience. In addition, alumni have indicated a desirefor entrepreneurial thinking as engineering becomes more cross-disciplinary. Finally, governing,professional
Paper #1108 Session 2793 Developing and Implementing an Innovative First Year Program for 1000 Students Audeen W. Fentiman, John T. Demel, Richard J. Freuler, Robert J. Gustafson, and John A. Merrill College of Engineering, The Ohio State UniversityAbstractIn the past decade, learning experiences for first year engineering students at Ohio State haveevolved. This article provides an overview of that evolution with emphasis on the studentexperience in 2000. It will cover course topics, teaching staff, facilities, faculty development,assessment and feedback methodologies, and
studies has beensomewhat limited in engineering and technology education, particularly in two-year technicalcolleges. The SEATEC grant is funded by NSF is for the purpose of promoting case studies as ateaching tool in engineering and technology education. To accomplish this, the followingSEATEC goals have been established:1. To provide national leadership for the development and implementation of case-based instruction in technology and engineering education.2. To provide opportunities for continuous and appropriate professional development of participating faculty.3. To assess the effectiveness of the case study approach in teaching technology-related curriculum.4. To nationally disseminate information related to SEATEC activities
was a one-credit course that met once a weekfor a 52-minute period. From Fall 2004 until Spring 2009, the enrollment for GE 1000 averaged507 students for the fall semester and 40 students for the spring semester. The enrollment for GE1030 averaged 343 students for the spring semester and 91students for the fall semester.(Typically, all new freshmen take GE1000 in the fall semester and GE1030 in the springsemester while transfer students and students who failed the courses take the courses in thealternate semesters.) The old course was designed to use four interdisciplinary modules throughout thesemester. The hope was to keep the class size around 32. Each module was jointly developed bytwo or more faculty from two or more departments
Paper ID #15727Feasibility of Developing a Sustainable Multidisciplinary Senior CapstoneExperienceDr. Jacqulyn Baughman, Iowa State University Dr. Jacqulyn Baughman Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering Director of Graduate Education (DOGE), BRT Graduate Program Faculty-in-Charge, ADM Biorenewables Education Labs Iowa State UniversityDr. Gretchen A. Mosher, Iowa State University Dr. Gretchen Mosher is an assistant professor in the department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engi- neering at Iowa State University. Teaching responsibilities include undergraduate courses in total quality management and senior capstone
analysis are discussed. Aspects of testing the rubrics forconsistency between different faculty raters are presented, as well as a specific exampleof how inconsistencies were addressed. Finally, a considerat ion of the differencebetween course and programmatic assessment and the applicability of rubric developmentto each type is discussed.IntroductionWith the increased emphasis placed by ABET (1) on assessing learning outcomes, manyfaculty struggle to develop meaningful assessment instruments. In developing theseinstruments, the faculty members in the Chemical Engineering Department at RowanUniversity wanted to ensure that each instrument addressed the three fundamentalprogram tasks as specified by Diamond (2): · The basic competencies for
obtained her certifica- tion as a Training and Development Professional (CTDP) from the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) in 2010, providing her with a solid background in instructional design, facilitation and evaluation. She was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Fron- tiers of Engineering Education Symposium in 2013 and awarded the American Society for Engineering Education Educational Research Methods Faculty Apprentice Award in 2014.Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Alexandra Coso Strong is an assistant professor of systems design and engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Prior to starting a faculty position at
University After earning my B.S. in Engineering Science at Penn State University (2007), I began working as an audio-video engineer/designer. I then made a career transition to teach high school physics. Having sparked my love for education, I went back to school to earn my M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering (2015) and my Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2016). My first faculty job was at Rowan University in southern New Jersey, where I had the honor of helping develop their first-year engineering and B.S. in Engineering Entrepreneurship programs. I’m now blessed to be at CCU contributing to what God’s doing through our Industrial & Systems Engineering program and university.Dr. Ella Lee Ingram, Rose-Hulman
and context.This suggests that in any cooperative education experience multiple modal and contextualassessment methods are needed to evaluate learning as well as learning transfer within andbetween academic knowledge and the skills developed in the work place. Moreover, Bradford etal6 reported “a solid research” finding: To develop competence in an area of inquiry, students must: (a) have a deep foundation of factual knowledge, (b) understand facts and ideas in the context of a conceptual framework, and (c) organize knowledge in ways to facilitate retrieval and application.They further emphasized that “[a]ll new learning involves transfer based on previous learning,”but that this transfer of learning across knowledge domains is
April 4-6, 2018 2. to create a website that provides an interface There were 804 visits to the articles and case studies on the between Texas Tech and foreign students to website. In order to submit a comment on the website, you exchange ideas regarding ethics and ethical must register on the website and be approved by Drs. practices Marcy or Taraban. In Fall 2017, 50 individuals joined the 3. to recruit foreign faculty partners who teach website. Thirty-eight of the website members are students. engineering ethics in order to develop a common Thirty students in ENGR 2392 wrote an analysis for extra
Innovation Skills and Assessing Student Learning at MUSEAbstractThis paper presents the innovation and entrepreneurship education activities of MercerEngineering Entrepreneurship Education Program (MEEEP) developed and implementedthrough Kern Family Foundation grants in 2007. How Mercer University School of Engineering(MUSE) promotes entrepreneurial mindset and develop innovation-related skills amongengineering students are presented in term of curriculum development, entrepreneurship clubactivities, recruiting and involving students and faculty, assessment of entrepreneurship courses,the challenges encountered in implementing/sustaining the program and the lessons learned.The course sequence developed and implemented