better sense of what an engineer does during their education and as acareer (20% increase for Question 7), and almost all students plan to join an engineering studentorganization while at the university (4.35% increase for Question 16). Questions 11, 12, 14, and 15 focused on assessing student confidence in their individualability to succeed as an engineer at the university level. Students started at a lower level ofconfidence in their current study habits or routines but saw a 6.45% increase between surveys.However, it was interesting that despite already starting at a very high level of studentconfidence in being able to succeed and graduate from the school of engineering, there was still asignificant increase in student confidence between
continuing education areas.Mr. Douglas A. Fertuck, Macomb Community College Doug Fertuck is the Assistant Director for Automotive and Energy Programs at Macomb Community College. He is currently focusing on managing grant programs involving future automotive propulsion systems. One of several such grants is from the National Science Foundation for the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology. During his 35 year career with General Motors, he held a number of executive positions in Global En- gineering, North America Truck Engineering, Purchasing, and Product Planning. As an independent business adviser and counselor, he has helped many companies refocus their efforts on their core compe- tencies using simplified and
advantages of reference desk mergers atCalifornia State University, Sacramento.19 Dodd gives good advice on strategic planning witharchitects and administrators.20 Popescu gives a detailed report of the result of student focusgroups and their input for library spaces.21Cornell has 3,051 undergraduates, 1,426 graduates, 236 faculty, and 217 staff in the College ofEngineering, which has 12 schools. There are 2.5 engineering librarians, down from 9.5 FTEstaff when this author started work 25 years ago. Administrative consolidation had already takenplace with the Engineering, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences Libraries cluster, who sharestaff and expertise. The director of the Mathematics Library also became the director of theEngineering Library. In
synopsis was rewritten to emphasize transformation, transferability, dissemination,and adaptation: This solicitation especially encourages projects that have the potential to transform undergraduate STEM education, for example, by bringing about widespread adoption of classroom practices that embody understanding of how students learn most effectively. Thus transferability and dissemination are critical aspects for projects developing instructional materials and methods and should be considered throughout the project's lifetime. More advanced projects should involve efforts to facilitate adaptation at other sites.22Additional review criteria were also added: “Are the plans for institutionalizing the
.- Analytical Geometry: Vectors; Lineal dependence; Bases; Product to climb; Vectorial product;Cartesian coordinates; Translation and rotation; Straight line and plans; Distance and angle;Polar, cylindrical and spherical coordinates; Conical; Reduced equations of the quadraticsurfaces; Vectors; Plans, straight line and spheres in the and 3; Vectorial spaces andtransformations of coordinates; Head offices, decisive, and lineal equations; Transformationsortogonals and rotations in the space of 3 dimensions.- Equations Differential: Introduction; Equations Differentiate Lineal of 1a. Order andapplications; (Equations of Bernoulli and Ricatti); Equations Differentiate Lineal of 2a. Order;Equations Differentiate Lineal of order n; Systems of Equations
AC 2011-275: STUDENT REFLECTION IN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNINGPROJECTSSwaminathan Balachandran, University of Wisconsin - Platteville Bala has more than 35 years of teaching, five years of industrial and about 10,000 hours of consulting experience. He is a fellow of IIE and senior member of SME, ASQ, APICS, HFES, INFORMS, INFOMS, ASEE, and IIE. He is a life member of Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Pi Mu, and SME. He was the chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering at UW Platteville from 1986 to 1995, established the IE laboratory facilities and secured the accreditation of the program by EAC of ABET in 1987 and 1993. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Production Planning and control. He is a
expose students to CAD/CAM technology in thecurriculum. All ET students with the exception of the Electronics program are required to take anintroductory CAD class (ETEC 113) and a manufacturing processes course (ETEC 246). Theseare new additions to the curriculum (246 will be taught for the first time in Fall 2011) replacingthree other courses in an effort to consolidate instruction and reduce resource requirements.Students are introduced to feature-based parametric modeling and generative drafting usingCATIA in ETEC 113. They will receive additional exposure in ETEC 246 where they arerequired to use CATIA in their project to model and generate tool paths to water-jet cut a sheetmetal component. There are also plans in the near future to
Page 22.1563.4students who listed a given skill as “Least Important” before and after the course. Of all the skills, only “Brainstorming” (before= 0%; after= 16%) had a statistically significant difference inpercentages (p=0.0033). Communicating Understanding Problem Brainstorming Prototyping Goal Setting Iterating Creativity Understanding POV Synthesizing Visualizing SeekingInfo Testing TradeOffs Planning Evaluating Identifying Constraints Decisions
implement reflects themany ways engineer take designs from ideas to reality. Many engineers do build designs using abroad array of techniques. Perhaps one of the biggest differences between engineeringdisciplines is the specialized methods and technologies they use to implement designs. Howeversome engineers implement ideas through manipulation of information, such as designingcomputer software or producing plans. Here the real value is the information in the blueprint orcode, not the medium (paper or magnetic disk) that contains the information. Another option forimplementing a design is to contract another company to build it. In this case the engineer workswith the company to ensure the work is done properly.The fourth step of the engineering
includesstages of project definition, planning, execution, and completion, would require that existingcompeting products are examined and potential market discriminators for the new productclearly identified. For the research based project this stage would focus on more generalapplications of the technology and describing the limitations of existing technologies. At aPreliminary Design Review (PDR) gate, while a fabrication process would be identified for aproduct development process, methods and a plan for the research effort would be laid out. Theshape of the stages and gates for new product development do not fit well and must be adapted tofit the project management needs of research oriented projects.The paper reports on the challenge of adapting
, communications, methods, materials, systems, equipment, planning, scheduling,safety, cost control, and management. ACCE makes a more definitive statement in favor ofintegrating demolition and reconstruction requirements into the curriculum. In the generalrequirements of the accreditation criteria for construction education programs, the ACCE statesthat “the curriculum should be designed to accommodate continually expanding requirements ofthe profession, advancements in knowledge, and the contributions of related disciplines”10.Demolition and Reconstruction Course DevelopmentPurdue University has, since the fall of 2005, offered two elective courses in demolition andreconstruction management. These courses use the demolition process to introduce students
universities located in the U.S., China, India, Canada, and ChineseTaipei. Development challenges confronted by the leadership team pertained to planning andlogistical issues and technology issues. Students gained tremendous knowledge aboutconstruction practices and issues in other countries and got a taste of what it will be like whenthey work in the real world and are faced with communication issues on multi-national teams.The significance of this paper is to provide lessons learned to help others better understand thechallenges of developing a successful partnership among multiple international universities.IntroductionAs in many other industries, globalization is having a significant impact on engineeringeducation and the construction industry
were the ones anticipated by the program organizers, thestudents’ perceptions are useful to the planning and marketing of future international serviceprograms. By applying the evaluation and critique of this round of program participants topromoting future trips, the organizers will be able to better encourage engineering students toengage in international experiences during their college career. Summary statements arepresented regarding the perceptions of this batch of students. Finally, conclusions incorporateplanning choices made based on student input.Introduction An international service club (ISC) was established at The University of North Carolinaat Charlotte (UNCC) in 2009 with the intention of providing opportunities for
hidden from all concerned, except as they are experienced bythe students” 8.What is curriculum?Descriptions of the term curriculum abound: a curriculum can be described as ‘a list of subjects’,a ‘set of courses’, the ‘entire course content’, ‘a set of planned learning experiences’, the ‘writtenplan of action’ as opposed to what is actually done in the classroom or even a ‘decision makingprocess’ for determining educational purposes and how they are to be achieved or somecombination of these concepts. The literature also provides a variety of conceptions of curriculumwhich essentially center on deciding what should be included (content or subject matter), what arethe most appropriate processes and conditions for learning (structure/organization
, rehabilitation, restoration, andreconstruction. Primavera Project PlannerÒ is used to plan and manage the adobe SocorroMission Preservation Project currently underway in Socorro, Texas. Constructed in 1843, thisremarkable National Register of Historic Places site exhibits Native American, Spanish Colonial,and European influences. The introduction of cement-based products in the mid 1920s hastenedstructural deterioration through moisture entrapment. The return to traditional materials andtechniques, including on-site brick making, and the application of lime plastering, presentsunique scheduling and training challenges. This paper details the benefits of using PrimaveraProject PlannerÒ as a powerful project delivery tool for this historic structure
thesucceeding six years. Three of the tools, the department skills test and the senior exit surveys andinterviews, were implemented for the first time in 1999. This paper will discuss the results of ourassessments, focusing on 1999-2001, and how the department is using those results to improveinstruction.The eight tools of the MTU Chemical Engineering Assessment Program are the following: skills test,analysis of design reports, senior exit interview, alumni survey, writing portfolio, oral presentationskills, safety program, and performance on fundamentals of engineering exam.Tool #1–Skills TestTool #1 in the department’s assessment plan is “department designed skills test to be given to thestudents in the Spring Quarter in the Unit Operations
search for grant money from different sources. All these methods wereincorporated into a new course “Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship” for Engineeringstudents that was offered in our department for the first time in the spring 2013 semester.This course consisted of a mixture of graduate and undergraduate multidisciplinary studentsworking on five projects; each project was unique, formed out of student or faculty ideas. Threeout of the five teams projects continued working on the assigned project during their capstonesenior design courses for the fall 2013-spring 2014 with a strong plan for commercialization oftheir product. These students were motivated, self-driven and excited about their projects and thepossibility of launching a
research. Some examples of the contexts usedfor mathematical modeling include: Consumer Science – college planning, auto insurance risk, cell phone plan selection Logistics – routing and planning, deployment of government emergency services Page 23.1006.2 Health Care – patient scheduling, nutritional optimization, and epidemiologyThese mathematical models are both deterministic and probabilistic. Additionally, technology isused to further provide the real world context of decision-making using mathematically-basedcritical thinking. The basis of this course is the NSF-sponsored Mathematics INstruction usingDecision Science and
to address poorlyventilated spaces. Guided by weekly lesson plans, students constructed and tested the 20” C-Rboxes using the "Physics Toolbox Sensor Suite" app to record g-Force data to discern vibrationvariations across different fan speeds and measured noise levels at various distances from the fanusing sound meter. Finally, students graphed the results to illustrate sound intensity overdistance. They engaged with real-world experimental data, using Excel to graph aerosolconcentrations with and without the C-R boxes to understand their efficacy in reducingparticulate matter in the air. We donated the C-R boxes from the first two years to local schoolsand community settings. During the third year of the project (Spring 2024), students
cover more ofactivity development in a later section.ASME met weekly and a group of four to five members would spend twenty minutes during themeeting to discuss activities and how to best engage middle school girls and non-binary studentsin those activities. Some weeks, there would be no time remaining for outreach planning afterASME business was discussed. It became clear to the outreach team that there was a need formore dedicated preparation time to have a successful program. After meeting with CSU’s studentleadership office, three of the ASME Outreach members began the process of creating a newregistered student organization (RSO). The minimum requirements for a new RSO were to writea Constitution for the organization, have a Faculty
among instructors [13]. These challengesnecessitate thoughtful planning, coordinated execution, and frequent assessment of studentoutcomes to ensure that team teaching remains effective.In engineering education, team teaching takes on additional layers of complexity. The technicalrigor required in engineering courses demands a blend of expert knowledge and pedagogicalunderstanding. However, teaching teams may find it challenging to coordinate professionalinteraction among skilled instructors and ensure that all perspectives are integrated seamlesslyinto the course content [14]. In addition, engineering educators may seem reluctant to share aclassroom with peers or even uncomfortable at being assessed by students and peers alike [15].Looking
the act of reflecting in a two-semester engineering design course. Reviewing an end-of-year survey on the act of reflecting aswell as the reflections themselves, this study presents student perceptions of reflections andwhether the reflections changed throughout the design process. We found that 55% ofparticipants describe reflections as useful, and 78% of participants describe the reflections asimpacting their design project, team dynamics, or personal development. Seven themes aredocumented about student perceptions of reflections, including: expansive thinking, examiningthe project more deeply, team dynamics, goal-setting, looking back at progress, planning nextsteps, and functional critiques. We also found that the number of words for
Texas A&M UniversityAbstractThis paper presents the progress made in the first two years of a five-year NSF ER2 (Ethical andResponsible Research) project on ethical and responsible research and practices in science andengineering undertaken at a large public university in the southwestern United States. Overallobjectives of the project include: 1) conduct a survey of incoming freshmen college students toassess their ethical research competency and self-efficacy at the beginning of their tertiaryeducation and during their senior-level capstone course; 2) evaluate the ethical researchcompetency and self-efficacy of university students and identify any significantly contributingfactors to develop an intervention plan to improve their ethical
educational experiences that meet the needs of all learners.Self-reflection is an often-cited yet underutilized reflective practice. This is due, in large part, tothe challenges inherent to making “reflection from within” a regular part of the teaching practice.For some, self-reflection is the first method to be abandoned when planning, instruction, andassessment tasks demand increasing time and effort to move the course forward. After all, thenext lesson, activity, exam cannot be delayed while an instructor stops to think about theiridentity, goals, and interactions with students. But then again, can any of these experiences befully realized as effective and impactful learning opportunities for all students in the absenceself-reflection?Another
high ethical standards and some ethical standards and standards and responsibility. responsibility. responsibility.Student Outcome 5: an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provideleadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meetobjectives. Performance Indicator Excellent Average Below Average Contributes significantly
background information on a variety of SWEPT andRET programs around the country, including a discussion of their evaluation plans, introduceliterature and research that supports the effectiveness of SWEPT and RET programs as a teacherprofessional development model, and discuss the issues surrounding the development ofevaluation tools to assess teacher and student impacts of these programs. The GIFT program andits current evaluation plan will then be discussed as a case study. This case study evaluationincludes 1) the results of a multi-site SWEPT study in which GIFT participated, 2) a recentalumni survey sent to all current and former program participants, and 3) Pre & Post Summer,School Year Follow and Mentor Surveys administered during the
, needs-driven, and systematic practice for the deliberate creation (invention / design), development, andinnovation of new, improved, and breakthrough technology to meet the hopes, wants, and needs ofsociety … for the advancement and betterment of human welfare (See Appendix B).As Sanders and Brown pointed out in 1966: 10 “The great discovery of our age is that technological innovation need not be haphazard. Industry and Page 12.600.7 government have developed a new concept of planned an systematized innovation, founded on vastly expanded scientific and engineering efforts. These institutions are now making regular provision
approaches to equity. Titled “Power, Equity,and Praxis in Computing,” the course plan is discussed and assessed through three facets: thecourse’s purpose, its content, and its (intended) learning environment. The purpose of the courseis to make space for undergraduate computing students to explore how systems of power arecoproduced with computing so that students can practice making social justice-centeredtransformations as critical participants of their field. The content of the course plan is organizedthrough modules that overview opportunities and considerations for intervention in computing.The learning environment is discussed through commitments to queer and critical racepedagogies, interdisciplinarity, and mixed methods in which teacher
, visioning and decision-making.The content that students explore within these themes is intended to encourage the developmentof self-authorship, a critical foundation to decision-making for first-year students [2]. At the endof the course, students design a Personal Action Plan for their educational experience at theUniversity of Michigan.The structure of the course has been substantially revised to align with these themes as part ofthe Foundational Course Initiative. The course includes two primary structural elements:synchronous, weekly discussion sections and asynchronous, self-paced online modules. Thisformat is designed to provide choice within a well-defined structure and to support the courselearning goals, particularly those related to self
Paper ID #19933Work in Progress: A Strategy for Assessing Learning Through Reflecting onDoingMr. Jackson Lyall Autrey, University of Oklahoma Jackson L. Autrey is a Master of Science student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ok- lahoma from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and currently is involved with research into design-based engineering education. After completion of his Master’s degree, Jackson plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering.Prof. Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma Zahed Siddique is a Professor of Mechanical