the opportunity to experience interaction with real live ”customers.” Dr. Kleinke is currently the Director of the Graduate Engineering Professional Programs, emphasizing Systems Engineering and Graduate Product Development programs. In addition to academic work, Dr Kleinke continues his involvement in industry as he conducts seminars on innovation which are tailored to the needs of industrial product companies. Dr Kleinke’s work with the Detroit-based technology hub, Automation Alley, is engaging academia in the dissemination of Industry 4.0 knowledge to support the regional industrial ecosystem.Dr. David Pistrui, University of Detroit Mercy David Pistrui, Ph.D., is an executive, entrepreneur, and educator with
working to make curricular reforms, course re-design, course design andcourse evaluations.Acknowledgements The authors want to acknowledge the hard work and dedicated effort put forth by the eightundergraduates involved in this research specifically, Mary Boyd Crosier Geoffrey Keating, AllyLee, David Moran, Lauren Nalley, Catherine Pollack, Mary-Michael Robertson, and PriyaShankar, as well as the instructors and graduate teaching assistants. This research was madepossible through funding from the Education Innovation Award program at the University ofVirginia. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect neither the views of the University
pollution, other combustion- related topics, and engineering education pedagogy. He is the author of three student-centered textbooks in combustion and thermal-sciences. He is a Fellow of the ASME and was the recipient of ASEE’s Mechanical Engineering Division Ralph Coats Roe Award in 2009.Peggy Noel Van Meter, Pennsyvlania State University Dr. Van Meter is an Association Professor in the Educational Psychology program at the Pennsylvania State University. She teaches graduate courses on Learning Theory as well as Concept Learning and Prob- lem Solving. Her program of research focuses on students’ learning and problem solving with tasks that involve multiple nonverbal representations and text. She has recently
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media can support the IT methods associated with goodm-learning such as high retention graphics, video and animation with voiceovers; and it does thisat the same time as it maintains the ubiquity of SMS-based text-only dissemination. That is,continuing education materials can be pushed out to the cell/smart phones of PEs’ registered forcourse(s) without their intervention (e.g., no browsing for information) regardless of the phonemodel, calling plan, or wireless service provider they own.In particular, this paper will discuss the following topics: 1. Existing models of university-company collaboration so as to introduce an atypical university-company collaboration in which the partnering company is a start-up which owns a
five-member research team.Broadly, we hoped to interview educators who taught a range of ethics-related topics using avariety of pedagogical and assessment strategies in different disciplinary and instructionalsettings. For the first wave of interview invitations, all five members of the research teamwere invited to review the survey responses and choose four or five individuals that theywere interested in interviewing. During a team Skype meeting, everyone proposed theirsuggestions, generating a list of 19 names that were then contacted. After 16 interviewswere conducted in the first wave, the process was repeated and the research team reachedconsensus on 15 more names. After this second solicitation, 10 more interviews werecompleted. The
). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Using Undergraduate Mentors to Scale the Teaching of Engineering Writing Many engineering colleges have standalone courses to teach writing to engineeringundergraduates. Often, these courses reside in departments of English. For example, such acourse with multiple instructors teaching several sections each semester can be found in theEnglish Department at Rose-Hulman [1]. In other colleges, the standalone courses reside in thecollege of engineering itself with a prominent example being at the University of Wisconsin–Madison [2]. Still, in other colleges, the courses reside in the engineering departments. Anexample here would be
whichcapitalize on the cutting-edge research made possible by crossing traditional disciplinaryboundaries. In the Fulton Schools of Engineering, both Bioengineering and Sustainability areexcellent examples of how interdisciplinary work is fostered. A new school focused on growthin urban areas combines faculty from Civil and Construction Engineering and offers bothundergraduate and graduate degrees. “The School of Sustainable Engineering and the BuiltEnvironment (SSEBE) was created in July 2009 to provide a nexus within the Fulton Schools ofEngineering for education and research addressing the critical infrastructure needs of our societyin an environmentally sound manner . . .” [30].The ASU Polytechnic Campus has developed specific general engineering
Paper ID #281032018 Best PIC V Paper: Continuing Professional Development Division: IsThere a Connection Between Classroom Practices and Attitudes TowardsStudent-Centered Learning in Engineering?Lydia Ross, Arizona State University Lydia Ross is a doctoral candidate and graduate research assistant at Arizona State University. She is a third year student in the Educational Policy and Evaluation program. Her research interests focus on higher education equity and access, particularly within STEM. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019
outcome assessment of students’ ability to comprehend, analyze, andresolve ethical dilemmas through case studies have been proposed in the context of engineering7-8. Finally, Davis and Feinerman5 proposed a questionnaire to assess ethics based on the contentof the material taught, the discipline and students’ class standing. However, none of the assessment Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berksinstruments and approaches described above is able to fully show the progressive developmentfrom personal moral values students have when they start their engineering education to theprofessional ethical behavior required at graduation, and the correlation that exists between thelearning stages and the learning
retrospective reflections regardingthe impact participating in our program had on their education and career choices.Alumni tracking for the three comparison environmental engineering REU Programs found thatover 60% of participants of the Clarkson REU attended graduate or professional school [9],approximately 60% of the CU-Boulder Program’s participants continued on to graduate studies,and nearly 50% of participants of the Water REU at Virginia Tech were attending or hadattended graduate school [10]. Thus, our outcomes for students attending graduate school aresimilar to single-campus REUs in the same discipline.Challenges and opportunitiesOperating an REU Site across multiple campuses presents a number of logistical challenges, asothers have described
Cybersecurity with a Self-Learning KitAbstractThere is an exponential growth in the number of cyber-attack incidents resulting in significantfinancial loss and national security concerns. Secure cyberspace has been designated as one ofthe National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenges in engineering. Broadly, thesecurity threats are targeted on software programs, operating system and network with theintention to launch confidentiality, integrity and availability violations. Existing undergraduateand graduate-level cybersecurity education curriculum rely primarily on didactic teachingmethods with little focus on student centered, inquiry-based teaching, known to improve studentlearning. With growing number of security incidents taking place, it
strategies, reading apprenticeship in STEM, and the development of novel instructional equipment and curricula for enhancing academic suc- cess in science and engineering.Dr. Tracy Huang, Canada College Tracy Huang is an educational researcher in STEM at Ca˜nada College. Her research interests include understanding how students become involved, stayed involved, and complete their major in engineering and STEM majors in general, particularly for students in underrepresented populations. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Strengthening Community College Engineering Programs through Alternative Learning Strategies: Developing an Online
students to transfer what they have learned in the classroom to new settings, somethingthat is arguably among the most significant goals of an engineering education. While there is little disagreement about the importance of conceptual learning, a wealth ofevidence drawn from decades of research in the sciences (Lightman et al., 1993; Laws et al., 1999; Chi etal., 2005; Reiner et al., 2008) and a growing literature in engineering (Prince et al., 2010; Prince et al., inreview; Krause et al., 2003; Steif et al., 2005; Miller et al., 2006; and Streveler et al., 2008) demonstratesthat students generally enter our classrooms with misconceptions and that traditional instruction is oftenineffective for promoting sizeable conceptual change
may be a labor shortage in the near future as these engineersbegin to retire [Wright, 2014]. Retiring systems engineers, specifically, are a major concern in thedefense industry [SERC, 2013; Charette, 2008] as well as at NASA [Bagg et al., 2003]. Oneobvious solution is to train more undergraduates in systems engineering skills. However, there isa pervasive belief that successful systems engineers can only be made through experience [e.g.Armstrong & Wade, 2015; Squires et al., 2011; Davidz et al., 2005]. This belief may partially bedue to the previous generation of systems engineers not receiving much systems engineering-specific training in their university engineering education, as noted by Armstrong & Wade [2015]in their interview