patents. Currently the Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Ibadan, Professor Coker is also the Executive Director of the Nigeria Network for Awareness and Action for Environmental Health – an NGO devoted to Environmental Sustainability. The academic goal of Professor Coker is to provide exemplary leadership and mentoring to colleagues and to make a real difference in the Environmental Health Sector. Hence his research has focussed on biomedical engineering, health and safety, public health, water resources management, waste audit, waste recycling, waste management, environmental impact assessment and remediation studies. He has participated in many local projects such as Fadama
interests include multimedia learning, design education and empathic design. Address: Virginia Tech Engineering Education (MC 0218) 345 Goodwin Hall, 635 Prices Fork Rd, Blacksburg, VA 24061.Dr. Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Tech Diana Bairaktarova is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech and the Director of the Abilities, Creativity, and Ethics in Design [ACE(D)] Lab.Prof. Tamara Knott, Virginia Tech Tamara Knott is Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Her primary responsibil- ity centers on teaching in the First Year Program. Her interests include assessment and pedagogy. Within ASEE, she is a member of the First-year Programs Division, the Women
interviewed, only 4 students (16% of respondents) reportedthat the DYL activities did not have an impact. Conversely, 17 of the 25 students (68%)indicated that the activities influenced their career decisions, either influencing them tochange or confirming their existing career plan.Hypothesis 2Our second hypothesis was that some DYL activities were more useful than others. Thedata suggest that this is true.Overall, students’ mean assessments of the importance of the DYL activities in helpingthem choose a career varied, on scale of 1 to 7, from a low of 3.09 (mind-mapping) to ahigh of 4.96 (odyssey plan), as shown in Figure 1.The aggregate data tend to mask large differences in ratings from different students.Every DYL activity was rated as 6 or 7 by
toreal-world STEM career applications. For example, the Fall 2017 Cohort attended local techcompany visits, Women in STEM Conference, TEDx, UC Berkeley Engineering CommunityCollege Visit Day, Resume Workshops, and participated in a 2-day AutoCAD and SolidWorkstraining camp led by Skyline College engineering faculty to build fundamental CAD skills andmanufacturing experience. During the course of the year, students are prepared for applicationand placement into summer internship sites. Selected students are placed into paid summerinternships through partnerships with Workforce Development and industry partners such asNASA, Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, Zoox, and more.3. Results and EvaluationIn order to assess the
discipline-based hands-on projects are simple, but challenging. Students get theopportunity to work collaboratively on the projects. The course is designed to include twoimportant high impact practices [11] – a) collaborative assignments and projects, and b) first yearexperiences. The college tracks the progress of these cohort students to assess the effectivenessof the course in student success, specifically in increasing retention rate and reducing time tograduation.Student Retention and Graduation RatesAmong the undeclared engineering majors, 66%, 83%, 73%, 76%, and 84%, on average, wereenrolled in EGGN 100 in 2011, 2012, 2013. 2014 and 2015, respectively. There were morestudents in EGGN 100 in 2016 and 2017, mainly due to students who declared
preparation affected their persistence in engineering based on theirperformance in barrier courses. The author found that the “single most important factor thatplayed a role in persistence was student determination to succeed, and to not quit when theyencountered difficulties” [15]. This was true regardless of how students performed. While theresult was not attributed to students’ mindsets, it clearly points to having a growth mindset asbeing a very important factor in persistence, more so even than measures such as high schoolGPA. The importance of a growth mindset in engineering students’ success has recently beenhighlighted in the Washington State STARS program [16]. The rubric designed to assess theSTARS program explicitly considers the state of
utilized at thisstage for providing a visual feedback to distance students while their programs are run on theactual system. The web-camera is also equipped with a pan & tilt system. If desired, the distancestudents can remotely move the camera, pan, tilt and adjust their view angles as needed.4. Evaluation of Usability and Learning ExperienceIn order to assess the distance learning students’ experiences with the proposed virtualsimulation system, we are currently implementing a feedback survey, which has been designedas a questionnaire to measure the proposed VR system’s usability, and the students’ generalexperience with the virtual laboratory.For designing the feedback survey, we have utilized the five subscales of the SUMI
Emerging Opportunities and Pro- fessor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her research areas include technical commu- nication, assessment, accreditation, and the development of change management strategies for faculty and staff. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education, International Journal of En- gineering Education, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and Technical Communication Quarterly, among others. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Learning to Make Change by Revolutionizing Departments: Initial Team ExperiencesAbstractThe launch of NSF’s program “Revolutionizing Engineering and
, J, K, L, M, N, O)Standard Students will develop the abilities to assess the impact of products and 13 systems (F, G, H, I, J, K, L)Standard Students will develop an understanding of and be able to select and use 16 energy and power technologies (E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N)Standard Students will develop an understanding of and be able to select and use 17 information and communication technologies (H, I, K, M, N, O, P)Standard Students will develop an understanding of and be able to select and use 18 transportation technologies (F, G, H, L, M)Science Standards (AAAS, 1993/2009)6 Grade Competency Goal 1: The learner will design and conduct investigations to th demonstrate an understanding of
learning. The students maintain an online portfolio of their work. The microcontrollerbased system designed in the laboratory to perform a specific task is the core measurement of thelearning outcome of the course. The laboratory exercises are performed in teams of two students.This mode provides a platform for horizontal learning through active and engaged discourse anddiscussion. Students are empowered to charter their learning and feed their curiosity. The courseculminates in a Final Project using AVR microcontrollers to make closed-loop control systems,and demonstrate knowledge learned in the course. These projects are assessed based upon itscomprehensiveness and originality. Students are required to master the soft skills ofcomprehensive
/or contribute to the resulting research agenda.Participant Assessment of The ConferenceIn this paper we have presented a model for engaging the research community to leverage theircollective knowledge and experience in the development of a national research agenda through aworkshop or conference. We now demonstrate the participants’ perceptions of the effectivenessof this model by offering an overview of the feedback we collected from our participants afterthe event.A key dimension of this model is intentional reflection and evaluation on the part of theorganizers as well as the participants. Internal and external evaluation was interwoven into eachstage of our event, particularly while choices were made about the focus, structure, and
”. Conclusion One of the objectives of the study was to attract high school students to STEM disciplinesvia a 3D modeling and printing activity. At the end of the project, all high school studentparticipants submitted application to various engineering programs within the university,indicating a strong link between the workshop and its expected outreach impact. Anotherobjective of this study was to investigate whether the mixed group activity in learning 3Dmodeling and 3D printing would improve the learning, experience, motivation, and mentorshipskills of students in high school and college levels. The assessment comments illustrate that thehigh school participants were excited about the allocated group members, which included
help educators and instructors gain deeper understanding ofengineering education data sets for the purpose of assessment or to understand studentvocabulary (for e.g., Magliano and Graesser (2012), Variawa et al. (2013)). Using NLPtechniques in conjunction with the predictive capabilities of machine learning, Robinson,Yeomans, Reich, Hulleman, and Gehlbach (2016) presented a model which learned from studentresponses and predicted course completion. In another research, extending computationallinguistics through use of NLP for engineering education classrooms, Variawa et al. (2013)presented an automated method to develop course-specific vocabulary. Variawa et al. (2013)describe how their model successfully identified domain-specific terms on
spectral irradiance. Figure 4: Solar and white LED spectral distribution7. Student Feedback and Assessment MethodThe following survey questions were given to students and the results are shown below eachquestion. A five-point Likert scale was used (1: Strongly Disagree, 2: Disagree, 3: Neutral, 4:Agree, 5: Strongly Agree). Students were asked to assess how well the outcomes were met. Thetotal number of students who completed the survey was 21. Learning Outcomes: By the end of the lab, students should be able to: 1) Understand that a solar panel can produce an output voltage and current (or energy) when facing a light source. 1: S. D. 2: D 3: N 4: A 5: S. A. Avg. Avg
engineer? Identifying cross-national engineering student profiles according to perceived importance of skills," International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 698-713, 2013.[16] S. Park and G. Cha, "A study on the assessment of key competencies for automotive engineering technology education in Korea," International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 1192-1198, 2013.[17] A. Sucena, J. Falcao Carneiro, F. Gomes De Almeida and F. Viana, "Screening reading abilities: A comparison between engineering, education, health and psychology in Portuguese college students," International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 151-161, 2017.[18] Y.-L. Liu, H.-P. Yueh, T.-L. Chen
information is then used to generate a Memorandum of Understanding between EPIC and the MEP regions. Throughout the application process EPIC is in constant communication with MEP directors to assess the progress of their recruitment of students and completion of the application process. Due to the nature of frequent relocation of the MEP population it is difficult for the MEP coordinators to meet established application deadlines. Therefore, it is important to be in constant communication and allow some flexibility on the deadlines.2. Awareness & education about MEP We put together an information sheet explaining MEP and EPIC’s collaboration. It included background info on MEP and
license isrequired for transmitting in VHF and UHF. As long as the transmitting is done under theinstructor’s direct supervision, students can legally operate under the instructor’s license ifdesired. No license is required to receive amateur-radio transmissions.AssessmentThis new SDR-centric version of Wireless Communications has only been offered once so far,and it only had seven students, all of which were EE seniors. So they all had already takencommunications theory and DSP. A more thorough assessment will be taken next offering, whenthe student enrollment will be a mix of EE seniors and juniors, as well as Computer Engineeringseniors and juniors. The anecdotal comments from this offering were very positive; all found it tobe a practical
engineering design challenge and were primarily focused on reviewing for andcompleting a summative assessment, therefore, Mr. Evans had only a small amount ofengineering talk, and none that was focused on problem scoping. Throughout the process, asstudents were introduced to the problem, learned background science knowledge, and workedthrough the later stages of the engineering design process, Mr. Evans talked about problemscoping. Figure 1. Teacher talk time spend on each aspects of problem scoping throughout theunit. Numbers represent number of lines of transcript of Mr. Evans' teacher talk. The most common way Mr. Evans talked about problem scoping in the unit was bytalking about the problem and the client’s needs generally as a way
. "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education.” From The American Association for Higher Education Bulletin , March 1987." (2011).[2] Ponton, M. (2002). "Motivating Students by Building SelfEfficacy." J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract. , 10.1061/ (ASCE)10523928 (2002)128:2(54), 5457.[3] Dabbagh, N. (2007) “The online learner: characteristics and pedagogical implications”, Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education , vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 217–226.[4] Kuh, George D. "Assessing what really matters to student learning inside the national survey of student engagement." Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 33.3 (2001): 1017.[5] Howard, A. K. T., “Enhancing Student Engagement in Engineering Statics with
scenario was a unique scenario that involved an explicit ethical issue. Jimknowingly has coded a quiz that is deceiving and there is a chance that a big consequence suchas a death has happened due to his action. A glance at the ACM code of ethics shows that Jimhas acted against several imperatives listed under the section 1 of this document: An essential aim of computing professionals is to minimize negative consequences of computing systems, including threats to health and safety. (under 1.1 Contribute to society and human well-being, Acm.org, 2018) … it is often necessary to assess the social consequences of systems to project the likelihood of any serious harm to others. If system features are misrepresented to
group also composed a list of proposed program outcomes, which will be later assessed, theresults of which will be later presented: (1) Students will be able to describe and discuss expected engineering professional and leadership skills. (2) Students will demonstrate increased ability in professional and leadership skills. (3) Students will be able to describe and discuss a variety of engineering related industries and employment types within those industries. (4) Students will expand their network of industry connections. (5) Students will have an experience that enhances their resumes and increases their capacity for future employment
situation was the introduction of ascientific diving course. This is an area which will need more attention, creativity, andrefinement.An important aspect of any program is continued assessment and improvement. Student outcomeassessments are based on class field trip reports: one of which is accomplished as a group andone of which is conducted individually and co-op employer evaluations. Midterm and finalexams are used to quantify and evaluate student progress and learning objectives attained. TheMC minor program is assessed via an annual review by the Engineering Department Chair,program coordinator, involved faculty, and other stakeholders (industry partners, etc.) As thefirst group of students are scheduled to graduate in June 2019, a survey of
professionals ill-structured problem-solving skillswas to see if any group was inclined to use certain process more than the others. Processes such asidea generation, idea expansion, idea comparison, feasibility assessment, hypothetical process,and using outside knowledge were identified from previous literature and refined through theiterative coding process in the codebook.Most qualitative analysis software calculates the real text coverage obtained from coding verbatimtranscripts. From Table 1 we see that the information provided differs from the real time coverageobtained from multiple sources. This implies that coding only the text-based transcripts have biasassociated with them. For example, if a participant is inclined and comfortable with
Paper ID #25500Constituent Input in the Process of Developing the Third Edition of the CivilEngineering Body of Knowledge (CEBOK3)Dr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, En- vironmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the Associate Chair for Under- graduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where
instead of the content [3, 4]. Studentsatisfaction was important since the quality and outcomes of a course were linked to theseessential considerations [4]. The degree of student satisfaction directly correlated to the quality and effectiveness oflearning measured in the outcomes of the course [6, 7]. Additional research demonstrated coursedesign had the greatest impact on student satisfaction [3, 6, 8]. Courses should be structured withclarity, relevance, and student-centered elements [6, 9]. When using formative assessment forhigher-level, critical inquiry decisions, such as exercises, navigation menus, and design; studentsshould be part of the course evaluation process [4]. Recognizing Engineering as a field driven byresults, finding
softwaredevelopment team (a private company with no connection to the university) in accordance withthe study. The data generated was mainly based on student’s activity on the site such as –number of questions asked, number of questions answered, number of up votes received, andstudent’s reputation points assigned by the software company algorithm.Assessment parameters:Two assessment parameters were identified to measure the student’s engagement on the platformand how well they collaborated with each other. These parameters were as follows- Level of activity (measured using questions student asked and answered) Level of engagement (measured using “up” votes received)The students were instructed to ask questions related to the subject as much as
, Kakinada, India in 2002 and master’s degree from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India in 2004. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2008 from the University of Texas at Arlington. After his Ph.D. he worked at Parsons Brinckerhoff, a well renowned civil engineering design firm, in their Dallas office. Dr. Chittoori joined as Assistant Professor in Geotechnical Engineering area of the Civil Engi- neering Department of Boise State University in the fall of 2013.; His research interests are clay mineral quantification, sustainability assessment, advanced soil testing and interpretation, soil stabilization, soil reinforcement, pavement materials characterization along with finite element modeling of soil
Engineering Technology for State of Indiana’s Transfer Single Articulation legislation. She is also a Senior IDEAL Scholar with ABET, which means that she presents assessment workshops with other Senior IDEAL Scholars.Liza Ann Russell, Purdue University Liza Russell is an Undergraduate Researcher working under Dr. Lucietto. She is a student at Purdue University, pursuing a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering. She began working under Dr. Lucietto in the summer of 2017 as a part of Purdue’s Summer Stay Scholars program and has thus far continued her work. In addition to her Mechanical Engineering coursework, Liza is pursuing minors in Physics and Anthropology. Outside of class, she serves as Treasurer of
initiatives at an interdisciplinary research institute called the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) at Virginia Tech. He is the founding director of an interdisciplinary lab called Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS) at VT. He received a Ph.D. in civil engineering from VT. His research interests are in the areas of computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrology, engineering education, and international collaboration. He has served as a PI or co-PI on 16 projects, funded by the National Science Foundation, with a $6.4 million research funding participation from external sources. He has been directing/co-directing an NSF/Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU
should be experienced as “real.” 3. Students make their work public by sharing it not only with the teacher but also with other students. 4. Students should work in collaboration. 5. Students should manage their project and time. 6. Students should learn to assess the quality of their work.The Framework based on the above criteria is the accumulated experience of manyresearchers/educators who have shared their ideas and critiques [11].This study presents a teaching methodology based on high quality PBL developed through a 3-year-long iterative-study to promote essential 21st century skills between students. These skillsdirectly fulfill industry’s and ABET’s requirement to train engineers who can handle theambiguous design problems