build a nationally recognized firm in affiliate marketing, if not a globalpowerhouse. While the vision was a bold one for a 21 year-old undergraduate student, success ofother Hinman CEOs and alumni provided precedence and support. This vision and commitmentto growth parallels the literature review. The importance of planning is evident with Anik.Contrary to the literature, the relationships with other firms have not played a role in AffiliateClassroom’s growth thus far. Page 11.289.8 7 Table 2. Comparisons and contrasts of firm attributes Our
and saying “Fellas’ I am the truth, I’ll tell you what you are doingright and I’ll tell you when you’re making mistakes. Every team member knows right up frontthat not only will I tell them the truth-but I will do so as soon as possible,”(Krzyzewski &Phillips, 2000, p.75). This straight forward approach eliminates possible excuses or negativeadjustments. This can be is a valuable approach, because now your staff members know exactlywhere you stand-always with the truth. As simple as it may seem, the problem may fall back onthe manager (librarian or coach) because it only works as long as they are consistent and fair.The test occurs when a project sequence (library) or game plan (coach) goes wrong (assumingthe task is executed correctly
, ground station, andsupporting infrastructure; 2) comprehend the complex interaction and interdependencies of UASsubsystems; 3) understand mission operational planning considerations such as flight planningand data requirements planning; and 4) demonstrate the ability to clearly and conciselycommunicate a UAS mission analysis in both written and oral form. In addition, due to studentfeedback from its inaugural offering, this second offering of the course included the design,construction, and flight of an actual UAS in support of a selected remote sensing mission.While this 1-semester course was originally intended as a graduate class, its overwhelmingpopularity has resulted in it also being offered to seniors at UAF and now via video link to
that there werethree main curricular activities within engineering that had the potential to encourage EBR in theclassroom: the report to the client at the end of the unit, the types of questions the teacher askedof the students (i.e., asking students to further explain the “why” or “how” of their answers), andstudent discussions. However, this research did not address actual implementation of thecurricula. Mathis et al.18 explored students’ use of EBR during solution generation of anengineering design challenge in a seventh-grade classroom. The study found that students usedEBR most while planning a design idea and evaluating the tested design solution; also, instancesof EBR were found in student worksheets and group discussions. Both the
among Underrepresented Scholars through Engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals in Global ContextsIntroductionOpportunities to participate in international engagement experiences broaden students’perspectives and perceptions of real world problems [1]. A strong sense of “global engineeringidentity” can emerge when students are part of international teams that consider solutions tohumanitarian challenges [2], [3]. To encourage retention in engineering among undergraduateand graduate students from underrepresented groups, a multi-campus team of faculty andadministrators developed a plan to expose students to humanitarian engineering perspectiveswithin global contexts. Through the University System
and with number of engineers leaving theworkforce, which is particularly truer in the power industry1-4. Indeed too few engineeringstudents are studying or planning to study power engineering, further compounding to theproblem of power engineers’ shortages1-5. Preparing students for these career opportunities is achallenging task, further complicated because it must be accomplished using often limitedresources and within very stringent time constraints of the already crowded curriculum1, 5-8.Moreover, there also are new challenges due to the grid transition to the future smart grids and tothe increased use of renewable energy. Development and operation of the smart grids requireengineers to have not only a solid power engineering background
) award focusing on Predictive Plant Phenomics (P3). Our program aims toincrease agronomic output as highlighted by the National Plant Genome Initiative’s current five-year plan [NST, 2014]. Ph.D. training production levels and types are not always a good fit foraddressing complex technical and societal problems such as these. To train these scientists, theP3 NRT is using the T-training model proposed by the American Society of Plant Biology(ASPB) and described in “Unleashing a Decade of Innovation in Plant Science: A Vision for2015-2025”. This approach requires that students get broader exposure to multiple disciplines,work with industry and develop effective communication and collaboration skills withoutincreasing the time to graduation. This
communicating information, (3) planning and carrying out investigations, (4)analyzing and interpreting data, (5) engaging in argument from evidence, (6) developing andusing models, (7) using mathematics and computational thinking, (8) constructing explanationsand designing solutions.The first engineering epistemic practice is that engineering is a social field and requires real-world context [11], [12]. Engineers work directly with clients to develop a set of criteria andconstraints (time, money, resources, etc.) and to define the problem [8], [11]. Before any projectcan begin, engineers must see the problem in context [11]. Therefore, every EiE lesson beginswith a narrative which allows students to gain interest in the topic, understand the need
proceed andlessons learned compound to make change agents’ relationship to theory more complex, theoriesbeing used must often be adapted and morphed. Another panel contributor (Harris, 2019)experienced such a need in their transition to a new learning management system (LMS) at alarge, public university. They used Kotter’s leading change model (Kotter, 2014) to manage thechange project’s guiding philosophy and initial plans, particularly with respect to forming cross-disciplinary partnerships that would facilitate widespread adoption of the new system. However,while in the field, some of these philosophies and plans needed to be changed as the changeagents learned new lessons.Sometimes, the realities of a change project require change agents to
theircapabilities to exercise control over events that affect their lives” [21, p. 1175]. An individual’spersonal agency operates within social systems; agentic actions are therefore produce and areproduct of social systems [22]. Personal agency is achieved through the following capabilitiesintentional actions, forethoughtful perspective, self-reactive a form of self-regulation, andreflectivity [11]. Forethought in personal agency goes beyond future-directed plans because futureplans “cannot be a cause of current behavior,” and, “through cognitive representation, visualizedfutures are brought into the present as current guides and motivators of behavior” [11, p. 164],[16]. For a behavior to count as agentic, the individual must take intentional actions
extensive con- struction projects, organic farming, and currently works as a mechanical engineering technician designing and building automated production equipment at Smith and Vandiver. He plans to transfer to UC Davis after completing his studies at Cabrillo College. Upon receiving his BSME degree, Brandon would like to work designing machines and processes that address issues such as renewable energy, potable water systems, bio-remediation, and sustainable agriculture.Sarah E. Kalman, Cabrillo College Sarah Kalman is a civil engineering student at Cabrillo College. During the 2014-15 academic year she was selected to be part of Cabrillo College’s first Engineering Abroad Program. After the abroad experi- ence
sophomores and one first-year student.Administered via Qualtrics® Research Suite online survey software, the full survey consisted of14 items, including multiple choice (e.g., yes/no) and text entry (see all 14 questions inAppendix A). Three survey questions queried strengths of the CU Teach Engineering programand career plans, while five questions probed perceived differences between engineering andeducation programs and barriers to simultaneously navigating both disciplines. Other questionsasked students to briefly describe the use of engineering skills in education courses, as well asthe use of teaching skills from education courses in undergraduate engineering courses.To supplement the quantitative findings with a qualitative perspective
in Higher Education in China Feifei Zhong1 and Gene Hou2 1 Department of Engineering English, School of Foreign Languages Southwest Jiaotong University Chengdu, China, 611756 zhongfeifei@163.com 2 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529 ghou@odu.eduAbstract: This study aims to develop an effective curriculum plan to improve
economic, technological, and military goals, the Programs Economic Growth ModelChinese government relies on various state-directed plans. Military ModernizationThese plans provide insight into the kinds of knowledge, re-search, intellectual property, and trade secrets the countrytargets and seeks to acquire from foreign sources. At present, Academic Front CollaborationsChina’s government has as many as 100 plans guiding China’s Companiesforeign acquisition, and their scale and influence are impres-sive
student was required to evaluate the proposed design and plan to meet at least one of theUN Sustainable Development Goals. This resulted in each design team working to address atleast one of these goals. These goals will be incorporated into the proposed design which willalso consider the Envision rating system. Students expanded their focus beyond the design toconsider the overall plan, construction, maintenance and life cycle of the project. Theincorporation of both criteria helped to guide student decisions, evaluate the environmentalimpact of their designs and address the benefits the proposed design had on their respectivecommunities. Students were encouraged to be creative and think outside of the box whendeveloping their design
Envision online scoresheets introduce 64sustainability and resilience credits which the design teams used to assess the sustainability ofthe proposed designs. The emphasis on sustainability by incorporating both the UN SDG’s andEnvision expanded the focus of the design to consider the overall plan, construction,maintenance and life cycle of the projects. The incorporation of both criteria helped to guidestudent decisions, evaluate the environmental impact of the designs and address the benefits theproposed design had on their respective communities. The exposure to both the UNSDGs andthe Envision Rating System was supported by the professional mentors. One company evenprovided funding to support students to complete the Envision training and
network with all thechairs of engineering departments as well as promoting a shared vision for change with CEdepartments nationally.The Clemson civil engineering curriculum transformation fosters interactions andinterdependencies among heterogeneous teams of students and faculty creating a ripeenvironment for innovation. This is facilitated by creating a curricular scaffold that weavescoursework both vertically and horizontally through carefully designed, socially relevant,practically meaningful problem statements. The first problems students are exposed to are in theSpringer course sequence.Pilot Springer 1 Learning Objectives and Course FormatThe RED curriculum plan calls for the Springer sequence to be team-taught by multiple facultyfrom civil
experience their first-year program experience?To answer the research question, we took a qualitative approach and conducted a focus group withsenior engineering students from 9 different engineering disciplines. In the following sections wepresent the framework that informed our research, our methods, our findings, and discussion andfuture work that includes recommendations for people involved in multidisciplinary first-yearengineering programs.Theoretical FrameworkThe idea of taking a holistic approach to problem evaluation of our first-year program wasinformed by Lattuca and Stark’s [8] theory on the academic plan model. The authors developedthe model as a way to provide context and a tool to define academic curriculum due to the lack ofa
audience. Past student teams have presented to a variety of audiencesranging from college level liberal arts classes to middle and high school science, math, andtechnology classes.This paper includes an overview of both projects in their current forms; results of projectassessment, including samples of student feedback, which have been collected and analyzed overthe past five years; the strategy used during department-level assessment to support outcomesrelated to life-long learning, communication, and team work abilities; experience gained throughtranslation of projects to other courses; and future plans for project refinement.I. IntroductionRochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has one of the oldest cooperative education programs inthe country
, thestudents initially do a test plan written report and presentation early in the course to get thenecessary background for the project. This enables the students to purchase required materialsand begin fabrication, if necessary, for the final project. The course ends with a final projectreport and a formal final briefing. While the workload on the part of the professor is demanding,the course was highly praised during the last two ABET accreditation visits. Student feedbackfrom industry also confirms the usefulness of such a course. The assessment tools used in thiscourse will be discussed in the context of the three ABET outcomes to be measured.IntroductionAssessment is an important process that must be accomplished for all mechanical
intellectual property, digital rights, and digital assets 21. Faculty experienced inteaching in face-to-face environments are accustomed to owning their own course material, butin the distance education environment, the courses are typically “owned” by the university 9, 26.Some take the approach that ownership is shared—faculty owns the courseware and theuniversity owns the instructional design aspects 25.In addition to course development, workloads also increase as faculty respond to students ingroups and on a one-to-one basis online, and interact with other departments involved in thecourse 26, 25. Workload issues can be addressed by setting standards, providing guidance, using acomputer-based classroom management system, planning courses with the
related activities using digital fabrication impacted (1) preservice elementaryteachers' efficacy beliefs about teaching science, and (2) their attitudes and understandingof effective approaches to integrating technology and digital fabrication into teachingscience. The research compared two intervention sections integrating digital fabricationactivities, with a third section without digital fabrication activities. Data collected foranalysis included the Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument and the preserviceelementary teachers' answers to open-response questions about technologies they plan touse in their subsequent teaching. The results indicated the importance of: (1) additionalcollaboration from educators interested in creating more
Instruments and MethodologyWe conducted pre- and post-experience surveys of undergraduate researchers participating insummer research programs at Michigan State University during Summer 2012. The pre-experience survey was deployed in the first week of the 10-week summer program, and gatheredinformation about students’ background, preparation for research, and their expectations of whatthe summer experience would involve. The pre-experience survey included a self-assessment ofstudents’ skills and strengths and asked about students’ reasons for participating inundergraduate research, the nature of their early communications with their research mentor, andtheir post-graduation plans (graduate school, career, etc.). Appendix A lists all of the
causes. By breaking this process down intoindividual tasks and performing each of them more efficiently, the entire production flow can bestreamlined.Many theoretical scheduling methods exist including manufacturing resource planning (MRP)(Stevenson, Hendry, & Kingsman26, 2005), theory of constraints (TOC) (Mabin & Balderstone20,2003), longest path problem (LPP) (Choi & Yang9, 2005), disruptive (Alvarez & Diaz1, 2004),dynamic (Choi & You8, 2006), and parallel work flow (Artigues, Billaut, & Esswein2, 2005).Other methods include utilizing buffers (Litchfield18, 1995), batches (Toba29, 2005), fuzzyalgorithms (Celano, Costa, & Fichera7, 2003), and response time (Thiagarajan & Rajendran28,2005). Additional methods
scholars.This paper describes the process for creating and implementing the WISE Village, theassessment results from the first year of operation of the program and plans for the future.IntroductionThe challenges of recruiting and retaining females in engineering colleges are well known.Colleges of science and mathematics face these same challenges, although the pipeline in someof these fields may not become as leaky until graduate school. For nearly ten years, thepercentage of women in engineering colleges in the U.S. has persisted near the 20% level,although during the past several years some engineering colleges have begun to see a drop. AtNorth Carolina State University (NC State) the percentage of women entering engineering asfreshmen has dropped
Planning Process Group includes, among other things, estimatingcosts, scope management, risk management, and procurement management. Page 24.325.4Figure 2: Adapted from the PMBOK5 Project Management Process Groups graphicTo utilize the PMBOK5 for a profession such as civil engineering, or an industry such asconstruction, interpretation is necessary, and, indeed, expected. The language of PMBOK5 issufficiently flexible and applicable for use in an engineering design project or a constructionproject.Another aspect of the PMBOK5 is that a management team can select which components toemploy. For example, it is not usual practice for a civil engineering
between reading level and written content.It is difficult for traditional, mainstream classroom approaches (e.g., lectures) to utilize morethan a few of these at any time. A benefit of the experiential, laboratory-based approach is that itenables the use of more of these principles than can be incorporated into a typical classroomsetting.(iii) PDCA Method: The problem solving methodology employed in this work was Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA), an approach that has been widely adopted by industry and popularized byToyota. PDCA is a legacy from quality guru W. Edwards Deming decades ago. The componentsof an A3 problem solving report are: 1. Identify the Problem [Plan] 2. Document the Current State
research within the College of Engineering & College of Veterinary Medicine • Medical Engineering Department formed in Radiology at Wake Forest University School of MedicineSpring, 2001 • Virginia Tech administrators define a need for collaborative relationship with a medical college • Several Virginia Tech administrations began discussions with Wake Forest University School of Medicine • Executive Summary presented to Dr. Dean and President Steger • Plans begin for establishing the schoolSummer, 2001 • Virginia Tech
155 course, 5 students noted that ADT saved them a lot of time. Eight othersnoted that it saved them a little time. Thus 13 students, or over 76% of the class, felt that ADTsaved them some time with completing their project.6.4 Drawing Type Most Used In the ART 222 course, elevations were the most popular drawing type produced by ADTwith 10 of 14 students or 71% of the class using ADT to produce their elevations (two elevationswere required). In ART 155, 10 out of 17 students (59%) noted that they used ADT the most toproduce their elevations. In the Commercial Course building sections were the next most populardrawing type, with plans being the second most popular in the ART 155 course.6.5 Greater Use of the Software In both
entrepreneurship focus [Ref 10]. In 2001in conjunction with Lehigh’s Global Village, the Lehigh team from the Iacocca Instituteand the College of Education was awarded a grant for a Pennsylvania Governor’s Schoolfor Global Entrepreneurship. This eight-week residential program brings over 80 highlyqualified high school students to campus and combines them with 60+ entrepreneursfrom Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. Finally, with considerable input fromLehigh’s IPD program, the Community of Agile Partners in Education (CAPE), aBethlehem PA based consortium of over 200 schools, received a Pennsylvania grant todevelop a network of entrepreneurship educators at the high school, community collegeand university levels. This planning grant focuses on