underserved groups (p. 3). The survey conducted seeks to furtheradd to the literature on university makerspace promising practices, and gain more information onthe specific university-level (student retention, diversity and access) and student-centered(student performance, engagement, and grades) impacts that university makerspaces have onengineering and engineering technology education.MethodologyIn the spring of 2016, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) distributed anonline survey (see Appendix) to engineering deans (ED) and engineering technology deans anddepartment chairs (ETDC). The survey was designed by ASEE’s Assessment, Evaluation andInstitutional Research (AEIR) department. The survey consisted primarily of a series of
colleges at GVSU to support student success as they move through the general education courses and into the professional programs. She is the PI of a NSF-STEM award to provide scholarships and high impact practices, like faculty mentoring and undergraduate experiences, that have increased student retention, graduation rates, and admission to graduate schools. Page 22.618.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Enhancing Graduation Rates Through High Impact Activities: Experiential Learning, Engagement, Mentoring, and Scholarships Paul D
a meaningful job while going to school and testing degree interests in real-world situations. Co-op students frequently qualify for higher starting salaries after graduation because of their experience. Many organizations participate in the co-op program to develop future employees, offering permanent positions to numerous former co-op students after graduation. Fellowships are typically a merit-based scholarship, or form of academic financial aid. They may provide students and scholars with support to pursue independent or guided research projects of value to the granting agency.Rational for a Graduation RequirementNetworkingOne of the most powerful networking tools available for engineering
and the Deans Award for Teaching Excellence twice. Since 1994 her research has centred around engineering education, resulting in significant publications and grants. A major outcome of early grants was the evidence to introduce PBL initially as a philosophy, and then as the basis for the University's Carrick Award winning engineering programs. Since then she has been involved in research in the area of Safe Design and the transdisciplinary teaching of safe design. Research areas now include the development of identity and how this can impact on student learning. Page 14.970.1© American Society
isassumed that finding the optimal way to give useful feedback will take trial and error. Researchof best practices for assessing experiential learning is underway; however there is an opportunityto access several sources of funding to conduct a distinctive research project on this topic.The assessment methods we choose will have the most significant impact on the cost ofdelivering the curriculum. This means that we cannot make any projections on the economicviability of the curriculum until we have identified at least a preliminary method to use. It isanticipated that the majority of the expenses will have to be offset by increased coop fees andfortunately the current fee has been on the low end of the national scale for a long time. But thismeans
AC 2011-563: ACADEMIC PREPARATION IN A CO-OP PROGRAM AS ACAREER ENHANCEMENT TOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL ENGINEER-ING GRADUATESSandra Ingram, University of Manitoba Sandra Ingram, Ph.D., is an associate professor in Design Engineering and adjunct professor in Biosys- tems Engineering at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. Dr. Ingram is responsible for teaching an integrated approach to technical communication in Biosystems Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her research interests include mentorship and networking within engineer- ing, integrated approaches to technical communication and post-graduate training of engineers, . Address: E2-262 Engineering and Technology Complex, University of
. This is the case at Alverno College. Faculty at Alverno College Page 12.1124.3have developed a curriculum designed to help each student develop to his/her fullpotential and will not allow any student to graduate who has not demonstratedeffectiveness in eight specified abilities. Even before assessment was widelyunderstood and practiced in higher education, the faculty at Alverno College wasassessing their graduates as a pre-requisite for graduation. An independent Officeof Research and Evaluation validates these performance assessment techniquesdesigned by the faculty in addition to investigating how curricular elements causelearning, how college learning
and adaptive Beamforming c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Engaging COEUR Principles to Achieve Higher Impact in Student Learning through a Campus- Community Partnership with the Air Force Institute of TechnologyAbstract This work presents a preliminary thematic analysis of student benefits and student outcomesthat are achieved in a summer undergraduate research program following the implementationof the Council of Undergraduate Research Characteristics of Excellence in UndergraduateResearch (COEUR) principles in a campus-community partnership. Our partnership betweenthe Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and Southwestern Ohio Council for HigherEducation (SOCHE) engages
impacts of their work as professional engineers. The design challenges arestructured to take advantage of the large class size through project management trainingand multi-faceted project outcomes.The Capstone project for the 2009/2010 academic year is a collaboration with TheMustardSeed (hereafter MS), a non-profit outreach group that runs shelters, food andclothing banks and education and retraining programs for the homeless. The partnershipis aimed at assisting the MS’s educational division with GED studies and life skills. Asmany of the clients of the MS have difficulties with focus and with understanding andrelating to material, the students’ challenge will be to use their engineering knowledge todevelop physical or computer-based aids
language (English),and a large practical component. Neither the industry nor the alumni expected thatBachelor’s degree graduates would be able to operate in research and development.Instead, they would act as assistants, laboratory or test bed supervisors, ordesigners; to be responsible for technical documentation or customer care. Only aMaster’s degree would qualify them to become fully fledged engineers who couldbear project responsibility and work autonomously on new technological researchand development.Two further questions were also significant in the design of the new curricula: How important and useful was the knowledge gained in a diploma degree of study for the graduates when starting their career? How important and useful was the
experience: Factoring in pre-work academic performance,” Journal of Engineering Education,97(2), 207-212.14 Fiori, C. and Pearce, A. (2009). Improving the Internship Experience: Creating a Win-Win for Students, Industryand Faculty. Construction Research Congress 2009: pp. 1398-1408.15 Tener, R.K. (1996). “Industry-University Partnerships for Construction Engineering Education.” Journal ofProfessional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 122(4), 156-162.16 Fiori, C. and Pearce, A. (2009), op cit.17 Venkatesh, M., Small. R.V., and Marsden, J. (2003). Learning in Community, Reflections on Practice, KluwerAcademic Publishers, Dordrecht: The Netherlands.18 Venkatesh, M., Small. R.V., and Marsden, J. (2003). op cit.19 Venkatesh, M
dependent upon local departmental ‘buy-in’. Therefore,following an initial collection of background material by the Director of ProfessionalPractice and a presentation to the Professional Practice faculty governing committee, anad hoc committee consisting of several Associate Heads for Undergraduate Education, anAssistant Director for the College of Engineering’s Women in Engineering Program, andthe Director was formed. Additionally, the Directors of EPICS (Purdue’s servicelearning organization) and SURF (Purdue’s summer undergraduate research learningorganization) were consulted, along with some of the smaller departments’ accreditationcommittees and several Associate and Assistant Deans of the College of Engineering.This group reviewed the
higher education in the region.Background and overview of prior workOver 40 students participate annually and perform research in all six engineering departments atthe AFIT Graduate School of Engineering and Management. First, starting in summer 2012, aformal assessment tool is now distributed to students to measure the impact of the researchexperience. Second, starting in summer 2013, students are now provided with four careerbroadening programs that are informed by student survey results in 2012. These programs aremade possible through a partnership among AFIT, the LEADER (Launching Equity in theAcademy across the Dayton Entrepreneurial Region) Consortium, and the Southwestern OhioConsortium for Higher Education (SOCHE). The partnership
university-wide demographics) represented in STEM majors. Next, the research project focused on retention theories to guide the design of interventionmeasures. While several theories of retention have emerged over the last few decades, two havedominated the theory and practice of retention: 1. Tinto’s academic and social integration model 8, 9, 10 and 2. Astin’s involvement model 11, 12In a nutshell, Tinto and Astin suggest that retention and persistence to graduation occurs whenstudents successfully integrate into the institution academically and socially and when students areinvolved and connected. Involvement refers to both formal academic or intellectual pursuits aswell as co-curricular activities. Additionally, Bandura 13 ties the
students,especially those with disabilities. Through a well-established experiential learning initiative, theQoLT Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, we have transformed studentsfrom dependent to independent thinkers, given them a sense of accomplishment and exposure topotential end-users, and provided experience on a project that has a genuine fit to an ongoingERC project. The benefits of this program have resulted in personal gains of participants, anincreased number of underrepresented students in STEM graduate school programs, and thecreation of a new program designed to transition veteran students with disabilities in to STEMeducation, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Experiential Learning for Veterans
. They are strongly interested in getting the best education they can.The main challenge in the coming years will be to cope with the area of conflict – deliveringconsistently high quality, while experiencing worsening conditions and rising costs.From our point of view the next steps should be a re-design of our degree program with aview to reducing the students’ workload and clearing outdated content out. We also aim toestablish optimum conditions for efficient project-based-learning. In addition, we need tocomplete our research into the reasons behind the high drop-out rate and implementcountermeasures. Finally, further harmonization of assessment criteria of external and internallecturers is also essential.AcknowledgmentsOur special thanks go
one disciplinary domain and the academic discipline is viewed as the other domain. In thiscontext, the issue is one of determining how best to align academic disciplinary learning with therelated work place practices for the student to adequately and sufficiently integrate theory withpractice, being mindful of the limits of any possible integration. That is, theory learnt may haveno current practical application or it may have several practical applications depending on itscontextual interpretation. Similarly, the practical application may have no sound theory or it maybe fully or partially described by a theory. Page 15.83.3Myers and
AC 2009-468: ENGINEERING INTERNSHIPS FOR FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERINGAND UNDECLARED MAJORSRobert Rabb, United States Military AcademyMargaret Nowicki, United States Military AcademyElizabeth Bristow, United States Military Academy Page 14.557.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Impacts of an Early Research Experience on Recruiting and Retention in EngineeringAbstractOne of the premier events in an engineering curriculum is participation in a summer internshipprogram. The United States Military Academy (USMA) has developed a program to promoteacademic activities beyond the basic engineering requirements. This program has
., “Cooperative Education Impact on Enhancing Mechanical Engineering Curriculum,” ASEE Annual Conference, 2012. 5. Noyes, C.R., and Gordon, J., “The Academic Effects of Cooperative Education Epxeriences: Does Co-op Make a Difference in Engineering Coursework?,” ASEE Annual Conference, 2011. 6. Shuman, L.J., Besterfield-Sacre, M., and McGourty, J., “The ABET Professional Skills: Can they be Taught? Can they be Assessed?,” Journal of Engineering Education, 2005, pp. 41 – 56.7. Garrison, T., “Use of Experiential Learning for Outcomes Assessment,” ABET Best Assessment Practices Symposium X, April, 2008.8. El-Sayed, J., “The Role of Co-op Experience in Achieving Engineering Educational Outcomes,” ASEE Annual
participate annually and performresearch in all six engineering departments at the AFIT Graduate School of Engineering andManagement. These are the departments of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Electrical andComputer Engineering, Engineering Physics, Mathematics and Statistics, Operational Sciences,and Systems Engineering and Management.First, starting in summer 2012, a formal assessment tool is now distributed to students tomeasure the impact of the research experience. Second, starting in summer 2013, students arenow provided with four career broadening programs that are informed by student survey resultsin 2012. These programs are made possible through a partnership among AFIT, the LEADER(Launching Equity in the Academy across the Dayton
engineering coursework Engineering undergraduate students are well prepared technically, but lack broadersuccess skills when they graduate. Evidence of this imbalance follows. These “Major ResearchFindings” are evidence of the importance of business success skills as a supplement to standardengineering coursework. Major research and findings are taken from a National Society of Professional Engineerspublication entitled Engineering Education Issues: Report on Surveys of Opinions byEngineering Deans and Employers of Engineering Graduates on the First Professional Degree.1 “Preparedness for Practice: Engineering deans and employer respondents were asked torate new engineers’ preparedness for practice in eight areas and then indicate
AC 2008-154: THE ACADEMIC VALUE OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATION: ALITERATURE REVIEWTylisha Baber, Michigan State University At the time this paper was written, Dr. Tylisha Baber was serving as a National Academies Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow. She earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Michigan State University. Tylisha’s dissertation focused on the design and implementation of a biomass conversion process for improving the fuel properties of biodiesel. She is currently an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering at North Carolina A&T
, when people areinattentive to their own moral standards (are mindless of them) their actions are not evaluatedrelative to their standards, their self-concept is less likely to be updated, and therefore, theirbehavior is likely to diverge from their standards.” In experiments where people were givenclues to cause them to be more mindful of their ethical standards (mentioning the TenCommandments or a school Honor Code) they confirmed their hypotheses and saw a reductionin cheating or dishonest behavior.[14]As a result of our research and emerging best practices regarding academic integrity, we made aconscious decision to check for and enforce all University policies concerning academic integrityviolations involving plagiarism violations. We
earned a Master's degree in International Communication from American University's School of International Service in Washington, DC. Her focus and research was on international education, leadership, and cross-cultural communication.Debbie Pearson, Georgia Institute of Technology Debbie Pearson, Assistant Director in the Division of Professional Practice at the Georgia Institute of Technology for the past eight years, works with cooperative education students in the aerospace and mechanical engineering fields. Her responsibilities include counseling students, developing jobs, and assessing the effectiveness of co-op assignments. Having traveled to various countries, Debbie is interested in
some effortshave been capstone projects while others were solely volunteer projects of the AIAA Page 25.624.5professional society chapter.ASME Human-Powered Vehicle ChallengeThe American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) supports a number of designcompetitions which tend to focus on sustainability- or humanitarian-oriented projects. One ofthese, the Human-Powered Vehicle Challenge, “provides an opportunity for students todemonstrate the application of sound engineering design principles in the development ofsustainable and practical transportation alternatives.” 11Students design, build, and race what are essentially recumbent bicycles, though
graduation rates.We use the data collected on a survey of students enrolled in the capstone senior design classes,placement data from the internship program and academic performance data to form a fairlycomplete map of the work-study question. We document that the majority of student jobplacements do not directly involve the university services dedicated to support such activitiesand that holds even if we only consider placements that are related to Engineering andComputing. The senior design survey gathered work histories of about 80% of the enrollment inthese classes which we contrast with academic performance.We consider issues arising from attempting to actively manage the total workload for students.We look at the role of industry who desires
, thus he brings a unique perspective to NASA education programs. He has successfully managed major advances in enhancing the nation’s STEM workforce through experiential education. Zippay has implemented and designed new approaches to education program strategy among NASA projects through the use of new multimedia applications and web based tools for the purposes of student outreach and public engagement within NASA opportunities and professional development experiences. Zippay has a passion for research both in marketing and edu- cation and is dedicated to finding unique solutions that solve problems and have true and positive impact within the STEM education pipeline
standard co-op plan.)3) Administer post-assessment to student cohort.Phase 51) Administer pre-assessment to student cohort.2) Provide student test group with a specific classroom activity subsequent to their co-opterm.3) Perform final assessment of co-op and classroom learning for student cohort (bothgroups).4) Determine research results and disseminate.Pilot study impact and outcomesThe outcomes of the pilot study would include one thread of this overall integration, byfocusing on a subset of selected learning outcomes and designing one corresponding set Page 14.753.6of templates and best practices for co op companies, and a complementary set ofclassroom
thinking to broader audiences, having a greater impact on student retention and graduation rates. Dr. Donawa has travelled extensively throughout the US and West Africa where she has trained corporate and government personnel. She feels honored to have presented her research on critical thinking for ASEE in Chicago (2005) and Hawaii (2008). Page 22.403.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 THE IMPACT OF CRITICAL THINKING INSTRUCTION ON MINORITY ENGINEERING STUDENTS AT A PUBLIC URBAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONIntroduction Students attend
helped champion the cooperative education learning outcomes initiative. She also authored international conference presentations on best practices in cooperative education and has co-created a vocational rehabilitation-training program for professionals in the United Kingdom. She is currently the Executive Director of AUTO21, a Network of Centres of Excellence for automotive-related research.Derek Northwood, University of Windsor Professor Northwood has over thirty years experience in the field of Engineering Education. He occupies the posts of Research Leadership Chair and Professor of Engineering Materials. He was Deputy Chairman of the International Liaison Group-Engineering