notlegitimized by the institution. Driven by worries that he will “get kicked out of theengineering school,” Peter designed and patented a “high-end upgrade for 3-D printers,”which he is currently selling online. This involved not only the design and production ofthe device itself, but also the assembly of heterogeneous elements into a viable business,including business plans, financial backers, patent lawyers and governmentalinfrastructure. We don’t yet know whether Peter will eventually receive an engineeringdegree; we do know that he is actively seeking other forms of legitimacy that might notrequire one.MaryMary is a white female student. Like Peter, Mary’s experience in the Access program hasbeen shaped by mathematics. She came into the program
Baccalaureate university. Approximately 30 responses indicated a breadth ofcourses where faculty infused a wide variety of macroethical topics. It also revealed thechallenges associated with encouraging faculty to respond to surveys. A handful of facultyparticipated in follow-up interviews, giving feedback to help improve the surveys. The surveyswere revised, with national dissemination in spring 2016. The dissemination plan includes ASEElist serves and a targeted list of individuals who have publications and have received grantsrelated to macroethics education. Some national survey results should be available in time for theposter in June 2016.IntroductionThe broad vision of this research project is to transform the knowledge and attitudes
the high school level. With the extra instructional time, high school ENGR 102students enhance their learning through multiple authentic and carefully planned projects.Towards the end of the school year, high school ENGR 102 students prepare the solar ovenproject in much the same way as their undergraduate counterparts.The design and delivery of an introduction to engineering curriculum is important as it is the firstcontact with the field of engineering for many students. Pre-college, engineering programs havebeen shown to attract students to engineering and other STEM careers (Crisp, Amaury &Taggart, 2009; Delci, 2002; Yelamarthi & Mawasha, 2008). Our goal is for our teachers to offervaried, hands-on projects in their engineering
theories for four sections of asenior-level course that includes engineering ethics. We assessed about 120 students, allmajoring in engineering. Two sections’ lesson plans included cartoons, which the instructorexplicitly led a discussion about and linked to the ethical theories. The other two sections did notsee or discuss cartoons. At the end of the class, all the students anonymously took a shortmultiple-choice assessment (see Appendix). Neeley then revealed and discussed the answers tothe assessment with her classes; Wylie did not reveal or discuss the answers. Then all the classesspent seven weeks studying other topics and did not discuss engineering ethics. In March 2016
,reported, and given information on getting assistance, students did not seek out the assistanceand the weaker students tried to avoid it, even when referred. Often those referred studentswould set up appointments then not show, and simply did not reschedule or answer followups.[10]The author believes that well planned, multiple interventions will have an impact on plagiarismwith an international graduate student population. It also makes sense, as formerly cited researchsuggested, that academic integrity is clearly something that “cannot be imposed on students; itmust be accepted by them.”[21] The question then remains how to best accomplish thisacceptance. There seems to be two distinct approaches shown to have a positive effect onacademic
, theystrongly manifest their appreciation of the freedom of thought that open-ended designproblems provide. Thus the successful completion of a series of challenging projects hasserved as mastery experiences for the students, which is a primary building block of self-efficacy 44.Due to the single data point collected in this work-in-progress, it is not possible yet toascertain specific reasons for the ineffectiveness of the interventions in this form towardsdeveloping SV skills, however the insights gained during this first iteration will be usedto refine the implementation, and continue the assessment with the help of a controlgroup. Specific planned actions include: • Increasing the number and reducing the scope of geometric design exercises
school board was impressed. ‘Oh, that foundation in New York thinks we should do something different, so let’s do it.’… They listened to us because we were from the outside… The Sloan Foundation had leverage.”Pierre did go on to stress, however, that the reputation and leverage needed to be coupled withsound planning: “It’s not just the name [of the foundation]. You had to design the school with theright curriculum. You had to place it…within an existing high school that had a principal whoreally supported it and solved every problem they had.”DiscussionThe engineering education pioneers described many different ways in which they helpedfacilitate others’ success. We next examine their accounts in terms of Lave and Wenger’s threedimensions
implications. Indeed, in their talk the students seemed toprivilege either consideration to the exclusion of the other. Additionally, the nature of the interactions with the project affected students’ orientationtoward their design work, Sebastian (Class B) excluded his project from ethical considerationbecause in his words, this phase was just an initial test to see if the product worked. He describedhis take on his team’s product: This is basically just going to one teacher, and I don’t see much of a[n ethical concern] with it because we’re sending it to him and it’s going to be just a lesson plan for a few weeks, and if it’s effective, then great, and if not, it’s just an experiment then and we can just narrow it down
to experience a phenomenon inaerospace engineering, let’s look at the experience of uncertainty in design, where uncertainty isthe phenomenon, decision-making in design is the task, and the aerospace engineering industry isthe context. The aerospace industry is risk-averse and seeks to reduce risk and cost by reducinguncertainty [29]. Lately, the aerospace business has taken a systems-of-systems approach todesign [30-33] in order to decompose the design space and to integrate the solutions withawareness of and planning for uncertainty resolution. Uncertainty plays a significant role indesign and every participant in the design process may have a slightly different understanding,where their understanding may not fall into a “right”, “wrong
developed in this project andopen-source training software “RobotRun” will enable three modes of adaptation, which areshown in Table 1. All three modes will allow any institution to teach robotics skills; modes oneand two will also allow for industrial training and certification, which will enable the other newprograms to grow and expand. Table 1: Modes of adaptation by other institutionsYear 1 Project ProgressMichigan Tech and Bay College have actively collaborated during the initial phase (Year 1) ofthis project and achieved significant advancements in the proposed activities. Tables 2 and 3provide details on which activities have already been accomplished or planned to be completedby the end of the fiscal year at the
memo.3) Assignment 3There are required and optional parts for this assignment. The required part is a PowerPointpresentation from each group to present their results in the class at the end of the semester.Grading of this assignment was based on presentation skills and the content. The optional part isfor the students to make extra points. It is an ambitious plan to ask first semester freshmen towrite a formal project report and do a test that they have never done before. For this last part ofthe project, only those students who feel confident and interested to earn extra points would dothis part. A bending test was asked to be performed in the material lab to find the failure load ofthe component, and then to compare the test result with the
product development. Within Renk he was involved in the business of gears boxes, transmissions and test equipment. In 1992 he became CEO of MAN Miller Druckmaschinen GmbH and was responsible for production, logistics, quality, services, personal and factory planning. He also was responsible for a certain product range of the parent company MAN Roland AG. Prof. Dr.-Ing. U. Lindemann succeeded Professor Ehrlenspiel in 1995 as head of the Institute of Product Development at the Technical University of Munich. Within the time since 1995 until today he served as Dean for Study Affairs and as Dean of the Faculty Mechanical Engineering. Today he is a member of the Academic Senate of the Technical University Munich. He is
Planning a project Asking questions Following directions Listening 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 PRE-SELF EFFICACY SCORE POST SELF-EFFICACY SCOREFigure 3. Impact of STEAM ACTIVATED! program on self-efficacy14The apparent losses in self-efficacy were associated with statements associated with ‘includingthe perspectives of others in decision making’ (-6.65%), ‘listening’ (-4.93%), and ‘setting goals’(-3.48%). Prior to participating in the program, the girls had more favorable perceptions abouttheir self-efficacy in relation to
to create a curb cut replacement plan. Engineers designaccessible transportation infrastructure and policymakers implement accessibility policies butoften these roles are performed in isolation. Co-teaching allowed us to put engineering inconversation with policy making. We also strategically assembled student teams so that eachteam was comprised of students from each of the engineering departments 1. This providedstudents the opportunity to engage with members of their cohort whom they may have littlecontact with over the course of their studies as a result of sub-discipline tracking. Importantly,course participants also collaborated with representatives from city and the county agenciescharged with managing the local sewer system and a
total of 4computational thinking competencies: Abstraction, Algorithm and Procedures, PatternRecognition, and Problem Decomposition. Pattern Recognition was the most observed CTcompetency with 5 instances. Sam engaged in Abstraction on 4 occasions when giving buildingblocks representations of real world objects (i.e., a stack of rectangular blocks referenced as awall). The Algorithm and Procedures competency was observed during moments where Samfollowed instructions from his mother to participate in building structures. We observed only 1instance of Problem Decomposition when Sam discussed the plans for building the puppyplayground at the beginning of the task. Case #2: DanDuring the engineering design activity, we observed 9 instances
.Bradley, E. H., Curry, L. A., & Devers, K. J. (2007). Qualitative data analysis for health services research: developing taxonomy, themes, and theory. Health services research, 42(4), 1758-1772.Breuker, J. A., Elshout, J. J., Van Someren, M. W., & Wielings, B. J. (1986). Thinking-aloud and protocol-analysis. Tijdschrift voor Onderewijsresearch, 11, 241-254.Cardella, M. E., Atman, C. J., Turns, J., & Adams, R. (2008). Students with differing design as freshmen: Case studies on change. International Journal of Engineering Education, 24(2), 246-259.Brown, A. L., & DeLoache, J. S. (1987). Skills, plans, and self-regulation. In R. s. Siegel (Ed.), Children’s thinking: What develops? (pp. 3-35
University. His technical research focuses on the intersection of soil-structure interaction and structural/geotechnical data. He encourages students pushing them toward self-directed learning through reading, and inspiring enthusiasm for the fields of structural and geotechnical engineering. Dr. Wood aims to recover the benefits of classical-model, literature-based learning in civil engineering education.Dr. William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel William J. Davis is Dept. Head & D. Graham Copeland Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of Construction Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. His academic experience includes: transporta- tion infrastructure planning and design, infrastructure resilience, traffic
was still a perceived imbalance[24].One account of EC 2000’s origins can be found in an early participant account of EC 2000 andits impacts [25]. In our study, we deploy insights from organizational behavior to offer a morenuanced understanding of change processes, such as the organizational inertia that both limit andchannel institutional responses. To begin with an example outside of ABET—but of anorganization that played a key role in coordinating ABET’s stakeholders—the early responses ofthe National Science Foundation are indicative of this particular phenomenon. Faced with thepurported successes of Japanese industrial policy and planning, NSF, along with other federalagencies, shifted towards more targeted funding strategies [22]. The
and or professional development activities. Establish a lifelong learning plan to support one's Self-Directed own professional development. 4 – Organize Resume evidence of sustained continuing education or professional development hours. 5 – Internalize Advocate for lifelong learning in the practice of civil engineering.Table 10. Demonstrated Abilities for CEBOK3 Outcome 19 - Professional Attitudes Affective Domain Fulfilled Level of Demonstrated Ability/Evidence of Achievement
technology nowadays,writing on a Tablet with a quality stylus could feel akin to their paper-and-pen counterpart. Formost problem-based STEM content, high quality screencast videos perceived as most useful bystudents depended not only on thorough planning of the recorded content, but upon careful post-editing with callouts. Of course, any awkward pauses, misspoken words, or other unwantedportions should be removed to craft a focused video that uses students’ time efficiently andsustains their retention. Furthermore, it is important to stress that rich annotations created byinstructors during pre- and post-editing can help grab students’ attention, significantly enhancevideo quality, result in deep impact, and make it a more fun experience. As shown
academic quality. • Demonstrate accountability. • Encourage, where appropriate, self-scrutiny and planning for change and needed improve- ment. • Employ appropriate and fair procedures in decision making. • Demonstrate ongoing review of accreditation practice. • Possess sufficient resources.This clarifies ABET’s role as one of accrediting programs through a focus on continuous im-provement, curriculum, student outcomes, skilled faculty, and adequately resourced programs.The accreditation criteria discussed above makes that clear. While compliance with federal lawsis important, it is not regarded as an indication of a commitment to continuous improvement andexcellence in education. Furthermore, since ABET accredits programs
, planning, and implementing design solutions. Theauthors found that students who participated in the creative lab demonstrated a higher confidencein continuing in engineering coursework than those who did not. As the study states, “Creativityis an important attribute for engineers practicing their profession in a global society” [12].Although students struggled with the open-ended nature of the design problems, they enjoyed thecourse and saw the value in the addition to their curriculum. Illustrating the importance of incorporating real-world engineering design problems, Odehet al. write, “Nowadays, engineering education needs to meet the requirements and needs ofbusiness and industry. This can be achieved by collaborating with the local
educator and the industry professional field those questions. In practice, theprofessional fields questions about project implementation, while the educator fields questionsabout project requirements. When students are happy with their project, they upload their WARfile to the server and the educator grades it (project grading is not automated).Live, online Q&A sessions are held one evening per week and only last about an hour.Attendance is not mandatory, but we do require students to view the recording if they cannotattend. Even though they are called Q&A sessions, we almost always have something planned. Acommon occurrence is that the educator will share his screen and will begin going through theproject on his computer. The industry
15 ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION Influence of End Customer Exposure on Product Design within an Epistemic Game Environment 4.Are you willing to spend over $100 on a hemodialysis membrane? 4.1. It doesn’t matter to me how much it costs. Medicare and my secondary insurance pay for all of it. COST 5.How often do you plan to specifically purchase membranes for your dialyzer? 5.1. My center just supplies them to me. But, membranes that don’t work properly definitely cost me time and effort. RELIABILITY 6.Are you
) Velocity yꞌ(t) 3) Acceleration yꞌꞌ(t)I plan to extend these relationships between two variables in a 2-dimensional space to equationsin three variables and their 3-dimensional representations.Considering three variables and three dimensional spaceIn considering the geometry of three dimensions, we will be studying surfaces and curves.Surfaces in 3-dimensional x-y-z space can be described with a single equation which in implicitform is F(x, y, z) = 0. In explicit form, the equation of a surface is z = f(x, y). The explicit formrequires the values of the two variables x and y in order to compute the value of z and locate thepoint, P(x, y, z). The explicit functional form treats the
10 codes related to theproject’s overarching research questions around identity formation, makerspaces andunderrepresented students. The codes included “experiences that shape identity,” “road of trialsin engineering,” “stories of values, knowledge, skills, practices and norms in engineering,”“stories of bias, prejudice and stereotype,” “recommendations for makerspaces,” “pathways toengineering” and “aspirations, goals, desires or plans.” These deductive codes developed as aprovisional “start list” served as the first-cycle coding [39].Though all of the codes proved useful in establishing meaning, two of the codes became thefocal points for understanding unique aspects of these students’ experiences in makerspaces:stories of values
program administration view, where Black women recruitment and retentionadministrators in STEM face marginalization and silencing, leading to limitations in decisionmaking and funding decisions at the college and university level [22]. It is common withinworking groups or meetings that relatively privileged groups take up more space inconversations and the voices of minoritized groups are not heard or represented. Onemanifestation of this aspect is the communication of viewpoints by white cisgender womenleaders, who believe they represent all diversity but only represent the experiences of whitecisgender women. It can also occur in male-dominant environments in which co-curricularprogram planning occurs (e.g., a minority engineering program). The