, and batch reactors. The students are alsoevaluated on team work, and written and oral explanation of technical concepts.Discussions revealed the potential for coordinated problems between Reactor Design, HeatTransfer, and Mass Transfer in order to reinforce concepts in student’s minds. The faculty teammade plans to meet separately to formulate a problem or two on reactant conversion in a packetcatalyst bed and / or conversion dependence on heat transfer into a reactor’s jacketed reservoir.ChE 4134 Process and Plant DesignThis two semester capstone design sequence is designed to further integrate student knowledgefrom the sophomore and junior level chemical engineering courses into a knowledge base thatcan be used effectively in analysis
. Page 14.528.15 Figure 3. Drop tube instrument to measure the gravitational constant [reprinted from 11].F. Coursework Development by Student EngineersEngineering departments are often faced with the need to update laboratory exercises andequipment without adequate funds to do so. This is especially prevalent in an EmbeddedSystems based curriculum where processor technology and programming tools are rapidlychanging. We have made a conscious effort to base new course developments on emergingtechnology and plan for a 5-6 year classroom lifetime [Adapted from 16].Another challenge faced by departments is satisfying Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) criteria for a major
National Science Foundation's Directorate ofUndergraduate Education's STEM Talent Expansion Program Grant No. DUE-0431642. Anyopinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those ofthe authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.The authors wish to acknowledge the other team members instrumental in planning andexecuting the data collection and processing: Susan E. Walden, Jeanette Davidson, DeborahTrytten, Teri J. Murphy, and Teri Reed-Rhoads; current and former senior personnel - RosaCintron, Paul Rocha, Francey Freeman, Lisa Schmidt, Kimberly Rutland, Tony Lee, MayraOlivares, and Claudia Morales; current and former graduate and undergraduate students - TiffanyDavis
classroom examinations fromdeveloping the course test plan, writing objective test items, administering the exam, to assigningthe grades. Stevens and Levi12 discuss rubrics, stressing the time savings resulting from the useof rubrics. The book provides detailed explanation about the purpose of rubrics and guidance onhow to construct them. It also gives suggestions on how to effectively use rubrics for grading.3. Grading Exam ProblemsProblems with numerical answers are one of the most common types of exam questionsencountered in engineering courses. In this section, we provide an insight on how to optimize thetime spent on grading such problems while still getting an accurate assessment of how studentsare learning.Tip 1: Design exams with grading in
critical paths “slipped” their schedules, it had a cascading effect, leading to disruptions in the overall schedule for the development of the system and an extensive re-planning effort. Another related issue was the sheer number of inquiries from remote team members to the central team, overloading them with questions of clarification. The central team became a bottleneck, affecting productivity and, in turn, delaying the schedule. The remote teams sought clarification even when work packages delivered to them by the central team consisted of well-written specifications. The purpose of many inquiries turned out not to be an issue of clarification, but rather, an attempt by the remote team members to
analysis of motivation constructs with first-year engineering students: Relationships among expectancies, values, achievement, and career plans. Journal of Engineering Education, 99(4), 319-336. doi:10.1002/j.2168- 9830.2010.tb01066.xLempert, L. B. (2007). Asking Questions of the Data. In A. Bryant & K. Charmaz (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory. Thousand Oaks; London: SAGE Publications, Limited.Leydens, J. A., Moskal, B. M., & Pavelich, M. (2004). Qualitative methods used in the assessment of engineering education. Journal of Engineering Education, 93(1), 65-72.Leydens, J. A., Moskal, B. M., & Pavelich, M. (2004). Qualitative methods used in the assessment of engineering education. Journal of Engineering
transmit a certain concept, previously determined, organized sequentially. It is a process, which must be planned to deliver information and / or knowledge on a subject, and which should facilitate the development of new knowledge. It is the delivery of knowledge, rules and contents that can be applied to everyday situations, and to deliver experiences and concrete applications related to the contents seen in classes. It is a competence that allows the transmission of conceptual and procedural skills and attitudes that allow students to improve their skills, both attitudinal and procedural
, professional 2, personal 1, etc. The nine questions are shownin Table 1.Table 1. Survey questions. Each statement was a completion to the stem, “This reflectionactivity helped me to.” Respondents were given a set of five options: “strongly disagree,”“disagree,” “neither agree nor disagree,” “agree,” and “strongly agree.” Column 1 contains thequestion identifiers that are used in the results and discussion below. Identifier Question Professional 1 . . . learn something related to the key ideas in this [context]. Professional 2 . . . learn something relevant to my major (or planned major). Professional 3 . . . learn something but not something related to this [context] or my major. Personal 1 . . . fit into the campus community
Environment (XSEDE) Conference in Atlanta,Georgia. The 2015 cohort participated in the student program at XSEDE15 Conference, in St.Louis, Missouri, in the 2015 NC/SC REU Site Mini-Symposium in Charleston, South Carolina,and presented their research projects to incoming freshmen to encourage them to consider addinga research experience to their academic plans. These opportunities took place as part of theVisREU Experience, rather than after completion of the program—another unique feature of the2014/2015 VisREU Experience.Survey Research Instrument The A La Carte Student Survey Toolkit [27] is used to collect and report evaluation datafrom the VisREU Site. Survey instrument scales correspond to recommended indicators found tobe common among
welcome modification and would help them stay engaged. Whilesome group activities were included in the course, there was no deliberate plan for integratingactive learning interventions or flipped classes during the first year the course was taught.4. Active Learning Interventions and Flipped ClassesActive learning interventions and flipped classes were developed such that students experiencedat least one intervention per week (i.e. per three-hour class period). Students enrolled in the airpollution course attended 14 three-hour class sessions (over 17 weeks), which were divided bytopic area. The following paragraphs briefly introduce the active learning interventions andflipped classes integrated into the 14-session course curriculum. Table 2
the course. The objectives of thisapproach included accommodating diverse learning styles and pacing as students approached thiscourse as a ‘point of entry’ for studying environmental engineering or as a ‘survey’ to supportstudies in civil engineering or architectural engineering. If planned with care, the effectivemapping of the course learning objectives to the content of the Body of Knowledge (BoK),coupled with the modified mastery grading approach developed for this course, allows aninstructor to confirm that all students in the course have demonstrated proficiency at a masterylevel.Comparisons among course offerings. In the Spring of 2011, the instructor offered the course toa single section to approximately 60 students using an 8am
Emphasis on Depth of Design Process Contentthe engineering design process,” and “more relevant expertise in using the design tools (based onhaving used them correctly).” Also of interest is that hypotheses of certain possibledisadvantages were not realized: students did not show “reduced team forming due to less projectwork time,” nor “reduced familiarity with the laboratory and prototyping techniques.” Otherhypotheses were inconclusive at this time. In summary, the designette continues to be a valuableapproach to supporting the learning styles and cycles most relevant to engineering education atthe capstone level. In the future, we plan to work toward development of assessment techniquesthat will provide statistically significant correlations
DC motor ports. These ports canbe used to operate sensors, servo-controlled robot arms, and drivetrains. The large number ofavailable ports encourages the use of many components and the need to plan how thesecomponents will interact with the robot and the Proteus. Also, the Proteus receives RPS datathrough an XBee wireless module, and it has a 320 by 240 pixel color LCD for text output andprogram debugging. This allows students to fully engage with the test, validate, and redesigncycle. These main features are highlighted in Figure 4 below.In addition, more advanced features have been developed for the Proteus in the last two years.First, an on-board accelerometer has been implemented to allow students to determine theorientation of their
on the project, asthere were very few actual “low performers.” A revised grading rubric for more closely assessingstudents’ planning of the solution, as well as their discussion, validation, and interpretation oftheir results would improve the richness of data from future implementations of the project.AcknowledgementsResearch reported in this paper was supported in part by the National Science Foundation underCAREER awards #EEC 1449238 and #CMMI 1254864, and GOALI award #CMMI 1538898.The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent theofficial views of the National Science Foundation. Help from the Purdue University IMPACTprogram for course redesign is also acknowledged.References1. Brown, S. A
see that some students are not very comfortable with preparinggood cheat sheets. Some may even do not appreciate how useful a cheat sheet is to answer testquestions better and faster, or they may not realize how cheat-sheet preparation by itself providesstudents with a deeper understanding of the concepts. A couple of students may occasionallyforget to prepare and bring one. Writing a good cheat sheet is a skill, and we plan on spendingsome time to help students improve this skill. We believe that cheat sheet preparation is thecounterpart of what we do in professional ASIC design: When we decide to develop a code, wedo not normally do it from scratch; we look at the codes that we have already designed andtested, and then choose the closest
globally focused career with the need to work withpeople from a variety of technical and diverse backgrounds. This trend has been reflected inengineering pedagogy with a rise in teaming experiences in first-year and capstone designcourses of engineering curriculum in the U.S.1 Additionally the ABET EAC Student Outcomescurrently require students to have “(d) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams”2. Evenwith recently proposed changes to the following criterion, “(7) An ability to function effectivelyas a member or leader of a team that establishes goals, plans tasks, meets deadlines, and creates acollaborative and inclusive environment,” ABET Student Outcomes still emphasize the need forengineering students to be able to work in diverse
included writing code,designing software architecture, and teaching corporate education. His writing in industryincluded design documentation, test plans, proposals, standards documents, process documents,user documentation, and some business documentation. His audience for these documents wasgenerally his peers, and the documentation was intended to be informative, used for training andoccasionally for decision-making. He said that in his industry experience, “everyone assumesyou must already know how to write” because of being a university graduate. He also mentionedthat he modified his writing based on the audience, including their preferences for format, anddiscussed the issue of length and level of detail. In his experience, design documents
, J. C. & Kim, S. Better understanding through writing: Investigating calibrated peer review. ASEE 2004 Annu. Conf. Expo. "Engineering Res. New Height. June 20, 2004 - June 23, 2004 1159–1164 (2004).22. Cintas, P. Peer review: From recognition to improved practices. FEMS Microbiology Letters 363, 1–4 (2016).23. Pulford, S. Useful but not interesting: Illuminating student task values surrounding engineering writing classes. in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings 2016–June, (2016).24. Lee, E. & Hannafin, M. J. A design framework for enhancing engagement in student-centered learning: own it, learn it, and share it. Educ. Technol. Res. Dev. 64, 707–734 (2016).25. How to Plan And Guide
Page Solutions, a consulting firm that uses the OGSP R process to help technology and branded product clients develop better strategic plans. Mark is a member of The Band of Angels, Silicon Valley’s oldest organization dedicated exclusively to funding seed stage start-ups. In addition, he serves on the board of several technology start-up companies.Dr. Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University Shannon K. Gilmartin, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scholar at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research and Adjunct Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She is also Managing Director of SKG Analysis, a research consulting firm. Her expertise and interests focus on education and
, and what we hoped they would reveal aboutthe lived working experiences of engineering interns. Third, we consider what the reflectionsmade visible (and not), including a high-level overview of findings related to boundary spanningand other emergent themes. Fourth, we describe differences observed in comparing the twoparticipants’ responses to one another, and also in comparing the reflection and interview data.We conclude by discussing implications and directions for future research, including further dataanalysis efforts and plans for integrating the reflection and interview data. We expect that thispaper will primarily appeal to engineering education researchers seeking innovative methods forstudying practice in the engineering workplace
theindividual and social level and created both individually and socially and to find creative ways ofmerging data collection and analysis approaches. We plan to pursue this interdisciplinaryresearch agenda in future collaborations. References Cited[1] C. Cunningham, C. Lachapelle, and A. Lindgren-Streicher, "Assessing elementary school students’ conceptions of engineering and technology," in American Society of Engineering Education, Portland, OR, 2005.[2] C. Cunningham and C. Lachapelle, "Designing engineering experiences to engage all students," in Engineering in pre-college settings: Synthesizing research, policy, and
versusassumption of whether an engineer should be responsible, and plan pedagogical approaches forthe classroom.Theme 4a) Spectrum from technical-social dualism to sociotechnical integrationTechnical-social dualism is the left half of the horizontal axis in Figure 5, encompassing studentresponses in the second and third quadrants. This perspective includes student responses thatcleanly divide social dimensions of engineering problems from technical dimensions ofengineering problems, and/or students who state or imply that a clean divide is always possible.In addition to the characteristic quotes above, student quotes displaying a dualistic perspectiveinclude: “Technical considerations are the most important, than (sic) comes non technical” -F18
emerges from a completely external reward system. As one ofthe mentors pointed out to us, “Of course, you know college students they need money” (Mentor3, F18). That same mentor also explained that he would describe the afterschool program toother potential mentors as a way to give back to the community and added that “a plus is you geta little bit of money.” (Mentor 3, F18) Another mentor joked that he joined in part because thedirector of the program had told him the funding for the afterschool program would last fouryears. He quipped, I told [the director], as long as the money keeps coming in, you keep gettingthis grant, I’m going to be here. [Laughter] He told me, I remember he said in the intro, he waslike, “We’re planning for this to be
related engineering discipline, generally equivalent to one year of full time study.ME = Mentored Experience - early‐career experience under the mentorship of a civil engineer practicing at the professional level, which progresses in both complexity and level of responsibility.In response to the latter directive, the ASCE Raise the Bar Committee established and organizedthe Task Committee on Credentialing to Raise the Bar (TCCRTB), which was given thefollowing charge: “Develop a plan identifying how ASCE can best utilize an internalcredentialing program to validate fulfillment of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (CE-BOK)… [9].”Three aspects of this charge statement are worthy of special note: • Use of the term “internal credentialing
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