these materials were investigated. During the concluding ceremony of theSAMS program, a mini-symposium-style final project presentation gave students the opportunityto share their results and educate their peers about their insights on the role of sustainableengineering in their respective domain.IntroductionThe development of pipelines for students to introduce them to STEM careers before college andto increase their confidence in STEM-related skills is the key for the students’ success [1-5]. In2001, the Summer Academy for Math and Science (SAMS) program at Carnegie MellonUniversity was established to provide opportunities for rising high school seniors fromunderrepresented communities (i.e., students that belong to one or more of the
. Page 14.9.4According to “Transferable Skills Survey”, published by Knowledge Management Center atUniversity of Minnesota,4 over the years a student develops many skills from coursework,extracurricular activities, and his/her general life experiences. A student uses these skills whileresearching, writing, editing, and presenting papers for various classes. More importantly, thisset of skills is not limited to any academic discipline, knowledge area, or college study, but isbuilt up and applied to professional career. A prospective employer expects a graduate to be ableto apply all the skills that he/she has learned in college to the work environment. This survey hasbecome the foundation for identifying and selecting needed knowledge and human
stood out as something coloring. Length of the system isworth investigating as an additional outcome. Our two feet.external evaluator has at multiple times over the roughlysix months of the project, as of the time of writing this,expressed pleasant surprise at how well we are working together. It is apparently very common,according to her, for collaborations between 2 and 4 year institutions to break down veryquickly. The question then is how have we managed to foster this collaboration? What pitfalls orhurdles have we avoided? One possibility is that institutional and program cultures, expectations,and emphasis are different enough that they can be difficult to get past in order to make thecollaboration work. In this paper
course I feel confident in my ability to write a lab/design report I pulled my fair share of work Comradery: *My groupmate(s) were a distraction or to completing the assignments I got to know other people in my class *I felt ostracized by my lab group I felt a kinship toward other students in my class I felt heard and respected by my peers *I would have preferred to work by myself If I did not understand why a solution worked, I asked my group member to explain it to me *Questions where a disagreeing response is considered positive Figure 1. Survey Questions for Group Assignment StudyThe survey also asked students whether they would have preferred a different
minute.Dr. Hui Ma, University of Virginia Hui Ma received her Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2012. In her current role as an APMA faculty member at UVA, she teaches applied math courses to engineering students. Her goals in teaching are to help students develop the confidence in their own ability to do mathematics and to make mathematics a joyful and successful experience.Prof. Bernard Fulgham, University of Virginia Bernard Fulgham received his PhD in Mathematics in 2002, writing his thesis in the field of non-associative algebras with advisor Kevin McCrimmon. He began teaching Applied Mathematics at the University of Virginia in August 2004 and became an assistant
-disciplinary class at Auburn University. Thegoals of the project were 1) To create awareness about the NAE grand challenges among thefuture engineering and business students and 2) To explore the feasible solutions for the chosengrand challenges and put it in simple way that a general audience can also understand thetechnology behind these potential solutions. The students were divided in six teams (4-5 studentsin each team) to make six two-minute educational videos. Each team was divided based on theDiSC personality assessment test and had a good mix of engineering and business students. Theproject involved aspects like researching potential solutions for the grand challenges,storytelling, script writing, and video production, editing and marketing
Independent Study Presentations Solve equilibrium problems and Peer Review based on friction forcesLectureClass was held two times per week for 110 minutes each period. Lectures, in general,covered about 20 minutes of class and were planned with a minimalistic approach,focusing on the essential points. The remainder of class period was designed for in-classactivities, including problem-solving as well as hands-on lab experiments.In-Class ActivityIn-class activities were based on active-learning strategy, in which students worked on aproblem posed by the instructor –at times individually and other times in pairs or ingroups, before participating in a class-wide discussion. The motivation of
SetupAs briefly mentioned above, a major contribution to the success of the setup is a simple webserver whose IP address lies outside of the allowed IP scope for attacking. The web serverprovides a scoring engine to students and teachers. Students that are able to compromisevulnerable machines can submit flags obtained for points on this engine. This naturally creates aleaderboard where teachers can gauge the progress of students. Students are provided withfeedback on their progress and a means of comparison with peers. To facilitate this, the CSRLteam used a free scoreboard engine that was previously used as a hacking CTF (Capture TheFlag) scoreboard.This web server can also be used by students to submit write-ups of their solutions that
confidence andknowledge about the research process. These are two areas where interns made significant,substantial self-reported gains. Ability to conduct research in terms of understanding the processof research and how to find information that is unknown were skills interns felt they gained.They also indicated that they developed additional communication skills such as presentationskills and the ability to write technical papers.Comparison of Short Term Impacts on Research Skills Among TTE REU Students (N=43) Please rate yourself in comparison to peers in the Pre Std. Post following areas: (Rating scale of 1=Well Below Mean Deviation Mean Std. Average to 5=Well Above Average) (SD
which paired medical implants with design considerations, forexample, “total hip replacement/wear” or “heart valve/fatigue”. These medical implant/designconsideration pairings were developed so that each engineering concept would be taught with arelevant application, as shown in Table 2. Another element of successful group work is having a highly structured project7,12. Tothis end, various benchmarks were described which assisted students in developing their projectover the course of the semester. These were: - A write-up which included the history of the device and the current state-of-the-art configuration - A lesson plan in a specified format - A two-minute “elevator speech” demonstration for their peers, teachers and
test sections seem to beperforming the same as or slightly above their peers in the standard sections.Introduction General chemistry is an important foundational course for engineering studies.This is particularly true for chemical, environmental, and mechanical engineering, but alldisciplines rely on general chemistry to varying degrees. Certainly, all four-yearengineering programs begin with general chemistry in the freshman year. An importantarea of study within general chemistry focuses on the concept of chemical equilibrium.Weak aqueous acids and bases, precipitation equilibria, and gas-phase equilibria arestandard topics. Students are taught to calculate equilibrium concentrations given totalconcentrations and equilibrium
. Aproject management tool, Basecamp, is used to manage everyday planning and communication.A knowledge management tool, WSU Wiki, is used for long-term knowledge sharing beyond thecourse of a single semester.2. BackgroundThe Design Clinic, as it is called by participants, is a project-based, ABET-certified program.Students work on industry-sponsored projects for one semester. They are responsible for everyaspect of project management, from specification writing to product delivery. In the fallsemester of 2005, two new technologies were made available to students, one for projectmanagement (PM) and the other for long-term knowledge sharing, or knowledge management(KM). From the beginning, students participated in a research project that analyzes
basic interpretive research strategies, with a strong flavorof grounded theory. The purpose of the study was to understand how high school students makesense of engineering design as an educational activity. Hence, we employed a process informedby constant comparative techniques – the simultaneous collection and analysis of data. Wedeviated from grounded theory by not making the production of a substantive-level theory arequisite to the study. Rather, themes and findings in high school engineering design werederived and explained. Peer debriefing became an ongoing process following the analyses. Inaddition to peer debriefing, the credibility of this study was established through triangulation ofthe themes and findings from the design challenge
Paper ID #8842Experimental Nanomaterials and Nanoscience - An Interdisciplinary Labo-ratory CourseProf. Hong Huang, Wright State University Dr. Huang is an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Wright State University. She has over 15 years of research experience in nano-structured materials for electro- chemical energy conversion systems covering lithium ion batteries, supercapacitors, and thin film solid oxide fuel cells. She is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed research publications and invited book chap- ters. She received her PhD at Delft University of Technology, The
Engineers, Gainesville Student branch and supported by the Dean ofGraduate Studies in the College of Engineering. The first offering of ETP-UF took place duringthe last half of the Fall 2004 semester, and a second offering is advertised for Spring 2005.IntroductionThe general objectives of the Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program (ETP), as well as theoutcomes of the first offering were presented at the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference 1 by itsdesigners at the NSF-funded Center for Advancement of Engineering Education at University ofWashington. In short the program strives to better prepare graduate students in engineering forthe teaching component of an academic career, by offering an eight week, step-by-step approachto writing a teaching statement
literature. In many courses, students areexpected to critically read and discuss journal articles provided by the instructor, as well as tofind their own articles for presentation or use in projects. The ability to fully utilize the primaryliterature is a skill that is not typically taught until graduate school, if at all. By providing ourstudents with these tools, they are equipped with the tools to learn new technical material ontheir own.Finally, communication skills are extensively developed through seminar-style discussion,formal and informal presentations and writing assignments, and poster presentations. Technicalpapers, such as literature reviews or a project reports, are common deliverables in BioE courses.A key component of teaching
that theevents and experiences had on them as graduate students and as faculty in their teaching careerswill be discussed.UM-ASEE Student Chapter EventsThe UM-ASEE Student Chapter provides a variety of avenues for meeting the purpose of theorganization. Since its inception, the main events hosted by UM-ASEE Student Chapter arepanel discussions and brown-bag lunches on topics related to academic careers. Topics that havefueled panel discussions that are pertinent to the graduate students are: finding an academic job,curriculum vitas, grant proposal writing, interviewing, starting a research program, the state ofteaching at various types of universities and patents and intellectual property. The format for
Paper ID #41379Engagement in Practice: Innovating a Project-Based, Community EngagedCourse for Engineering Students that Fosters Ethical ThinkingProf. Tucker Krone, Washington University in St. Louis Tucker Krone joined the faculty in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. He teaches statistics, ethics, publication writing, communication, and community engaged courses. Tucker emphasizes engineering and statistics as forces for equity and social justice. Tucker Krone’s current passion focuses on integrating community engagement, social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion into
, Credible, Emotion, Structure) and the OCAR structure (Opening, Challenge, Action, Resolution) form Writing Science. ● Draft your story: The majority of the workshop was used as time for the undergraduates to create drafts of their stories. They were reminded to think about their audience -- who do you want to tell your story to? And reminded that they could choose to tell a story about their experience working on the institutional change project, another story about their undergraduate experience, or a story about experiences that led them to choose to study a STEM field for their major. ● Peer feedback: Students read their stories aloud, and gave each other feedback (in some cases, they asked each other questions
delivered in an asynchronous format (video recordings).At the end of each unit, student teams submitted deliverables using templates modeled aftercompany forms: Product Initiation Request form, Design Inputs table, Design Details form, andFailure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) table. The deliverables, mapped to the learning goals(Appendix A), included writing a need statement based on the VoC; examining regulatory, ethics,and impacts of engineered solutions; creating design inputs; summarizing design details andrecreating a CAD model of an existing product; and identifying potential failure modes of anexisting product. Additional assessments tied to learning goals included maintaining a designhistory file (DHF), team norms, peer evaluations
develop a community withpeers in the same field.Two faculty members, who are active STEM education researchers, have instituted a newseminar series specifically for these students that is designed to realign the course withengineering education topics, continuously improve the Ph.D. curriculum, and assist students ontheir Ph.D. paths. The group of faculty and students began meeting every other week to discusstopics specifically related to STEM education and the needs of graduate school in lieu ofattending the general engineering seminars. This new seminar series covers multiple topicsapplicable to students in STEM education, including developing a plan of study, writing andpresenting a proposal for a dissertation, and on-campus graduate
—specifically a K-12 school teacher—toprovide authoritative source(s) of the STATEMENT, what was envisioned as a simple search andproof would ultimately reveal a lack of evidence for the cited statistics. The STATEMENT beingreferred to here is that people (or students) learn (or recall/remember): • 10% of what they read • 20% of what they hear • 30% of what they see • 50% of what they hear and see • 70% of what they say (and write) • 90% of what they say as they do a thingThere are various forms and permutations of the STATEMENT found in published literature. Thispaper details the results of the quest to find support for the STATEMENT. This is not the firstinvestigation into the source of these numbers, as our literature search
solve a problem as required in networkprogramming. The methodology we present includes a process for breaking down the problem,developing state diagrams and then implementing state machines in C. This methodologyconsists of a number of modules that walk the students through this process. Our observationsare that this approach has improved the completion rate and quality of the student programmingassignment. We present the results of a student survey that indicates that this process is veryhelpful in implementing their final programming solution.KeywordsComputer Networks, State Machines, Socket ProgrammingIntroductionThis paper addresses an issue experienced with teaching students to write client-server basedcomputer networking programs. While
Instructional ActivitiesThe application of visual/spatial intelligence Language Arts - By reading (metaphors and analogies), writing, understanding charts and graphs, developing a good sense of direction, manipulating images, constructing models, designing practical objects and interpreting visual images.To increase the girls verbal/linguistic intelligence Speech - Cultivate public speaking skills (oral presentation of
taken of theprimary production database.The primary database is configured to ship redo data to the standby using Data Guard LGWR ASYNCtransport services. LGWR ASYNC ships redo data to the standby server as it is committed using anasynchronous process. The standby database receives the redo data and writes it to standby redo logs(SRLs). Then following a log switch on the primary, Data Guard archives the SRL and completes theprocess of applying the redo data to the standby database.Note that the process used by Data Guard to maintain the standby copy of the production database issignificantly different from that used by remote mirroring solutions such as SRDF. SRDF must replicate
Differential Equations • Sciences - Chemistry I with lab, Calculus-based Physics with lab (Both I and II) • Computer Programming - Fortran or C (C++) depending on the specialty IAI General Education Requirements (9 to 18 credit hours - recommended) • Communications - two-course writing sequence and one-course in oral communications • Humanities and Fine arts - Select one course in each area and one additional from either area. • Social and Behavioral Sciences - Select 3 courses from at least 2 different disciplines as specified Mechanical Engineering Specialty Courses (7 to 16 credit hours) • Engineering Graphics/CAD • Engineering Statics • Engineering Dynamics • Strength of Materials/Mechanics of Solids
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthe Army, specifically. Civilian faculty members also learn military rank insignia, basic Armycommand structure, and how the Military Academy is different from other universities.Teaching programs typically discuss the courses offered in their program, standard teachingloads, job appraisals, vacation policies, additional duties (outside of teaching), scheduledmeetings, and other related topics.The Academy, department, and teaching program information is extremely useful, but themajority of time during the summer teaching workshops is spent on developing and practicingteaching skills. New faculty members learn how to prepare lesson plans, write course objectives,create a course syllabus
exercise was conducted in the second semester of the freshman year. The exercise wasnot implemented during the first term in order for students to obtain an understanding of what isexpected of them in a college atmosphere.The exercise, conducted in the context of student teams consisting of three (3) freshmanEngineering Technology students, begins with a simple statement of personal academicaspiration of each student for the semester. Students are given the freedom to write anyscholastic goal that they have. The process of formulating and writing a goal often is a benefit inand of itself. The student will be far more aware of it. The specific goal itself is not important tothe process. The goals will vary per the individual; one student may be
discussed the need for using formal design methods in engineering courses.However, simply using such methods do not particularly facilitate students buying into acomplex problem. Experience has shown that it is not uncommon for students to misinterpret anassignment, to solve the wrong problem, to write programs that contain errors and give theincorrect answers, and then blame everything and everyone other than themselves for themistakes.This condition is not unique to the education environment. Numerous examples could be givenof lengthy product development projects that yielded defective products; products that didn'tmeet the customer need, and worse yet, programs that performed a miscalculation and causeddamage to equipment, and resulted in human
who will record the answer, put all names on the paper, andopen the floor for discussion among the groups. Groups may ask questions of me or other nearbygroups. Rather than stopping the work at a certain time, I will typically wait a few minutes then,while the groups are still working, I’ll begin to write the correct solution on the board. Groupswho are progressing well can continue and check their answer at the end, while groups that arestuck resort to what they would have done in the first place: getting the solution from the board.The quizzes may be turned in or left with the students. If turned in, I choose to give allparticipants full credit for the quiz rather than grading their answer, since the answer was availablebefore they were