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level. For twosemesters, the Microprocessors course at East Carolina University (ECU) has been taught in aflipped classroom format allowing students to watch online lectures before attending each lectureperiod and to allow students more opportunities to ask questions and complete learning activitiesin class. During the scheduled lecture period students are encouraged to work with each other tocomplete hands-on in-class exercises allowing them to evaluate their understanding of thematerial presented in the online lecture and the assigned reading. Such in-class exercises mayinvolve answering conceptual questions, writing code, or building circuits. It was observed bythe instructor in previous semesters that some students who had a good grasp of
occurredoutside of the scheduled Friday classroom sessions. These activities included recorded lecturesand instructional videos that could be viewed at a time of the student’s choosing. They alsoincluded participation in specific campus events that were integral to success in the course.Students were generally expected to complete the distributed learning activities before the nextFriday class session.A syllabus for the course that details learning outcomes, and lists all learning activities andassignments, is provided in the Appendix to this paper. A style of problem-based learningpedagogy was utilized consistently throughout the course, in that content and pacing were drivenby the twenty-one (21) assignments listed on the syllabus. These consisted
Leadership Program (GEL) is to “create an elite cadre ofengineering leaders with exceptional abilities to lead engineering teams by providing purpose,direction and motivation to influence others to achieve collective goals.”In prior papersi an overview of the complete structure of GEL has been described, including theassessment of industry’s need for improvement in engineering leadership and the current impactand consequences of poorly led engineering projects. A representative syllabus and approach tothe engineering, product development, technical and scientific content was also presented.Further, the global risk to the competitiveness of companies if this need is not addressed waspresented in 2012ii.The following sections describe themes that the
IntroductionAs a series of assignments in a graduate program run by the Gordon Institute of EngineeringLeadership at Northeastern University, students develop and improve their online social mediaprofiles, meet with subject matter experts within their industry, sign up for newsletters, attendevents and seminars in their discipline and identify other ways to improve their personal andprofessional networks.The objective is to increase awareness of and practice several key skills essential for emergingand successful leaders in the areas of Taking Initiative, Connecting Across Disciplines,Communication and Advocacy, Interpersonal Skills and Inquiry. Assessment, using 360-degreefeedback taken before and after participating in the program, indicates average