undergraduate engineering courses, such as a fluid mechanics course [2], a first-year introductory engineering course [3], a hybrid thermodynamics course [4], and project-baseddesign courses [5]. Best practices [1] have been established by educators from severaluniversities.Continuous-time signals and systems (CTSS) is a fundamental electrical and computerengineering course in which students are introduced to mathematical models for commonengineering signals and systems. The CTSS course is typically prerequisite to other ECEcourses, such as digital signal processing, control systems, and communication systems. Theconcepts found in a CTSS course are among the most conceptually difficult [7-8] in a typicalECE curriculum. To that end, many attempts have
serve as enhancement or replacement toconventional instruction. Hennessy et al. [13] concluded that instructors prefer computer-based technologies since they allow not only to replicate the real experiments, but also toexplore "what-if" scenarios. To that end, many scholars investigated the use of simulation-based instructional materials. For example, Montevechi et al. [14] examined the use ofdiscrete event simulation and how it can be used to increase students' understanding of thereal systems in conceptual models, where Lego Mindstorms' robot application was used asan example for the project. Skoogh et al. [8] examined ways to include simulation as partof learning objectives by including objectives to learn discrete event simulation.This
practice and reflection doing normal activities such as eating, moving, and journaling.MethodsOur participants in this study were undergraduate engineering students—mostly first- and second-year and from various demographic backgrounds—who took the course on engineering thrivingduring 2018. We examined changes in students’ scores on gratitude, meaning, and mindfulness atthree time-intervals: a pretest the first day of class (n = 12), a post-test the last day of class (n =12), and a follow-up six months later (n = 5). Part of a larger project (NSF #1626287), we measuredthese competencies using a previously validated survey [26] that examined the impact of variousnon-cognitive and affective factors on engineering student success. For gratitude
program includes up to 40 participants, rising juniors or seniors at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), who have interest in pursu- ing STEM disciplines at the graduate-level. Annually, Dean Vaughan supervises direction of the 4-week FAME/UD Summer Residential Program for 30-35 high school students, the RISE Summer Enrichment Program for incoming engineering freshmen and, in the past, the HEARD (Higher Education Awareness Response in Delaware) Project, a college awareness program, funded by the Department of Education through Philadelphia GEAR UP for College Network. Globally in the College, he manages academic programs and policies that impact the careers of all engineering students at both the
M.S. in operations research in 1973 and his Ph.D. in IE in 1975 from Stanford University, and his MCE from UAA in 1999.Dr. Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University Jerome P. Lavelle is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of engineering economic analysis, decision analysis, project management, leadership, engineering management and engineering education.Dr. Neal A. Lewis, Fairfield University NEAL A. LEWIS, CPEM, received his Ph.D. in engineering management in 2004 and B.S. in chemical engineering in 1974 from the University of Missouri–Rolla and his MBA in 2000 from the University of New
as well as intrapersonalskills. The new millennium also needs an enlightened workforce that possesses written and oralcommunication skills in addition to acquiring in–depth knowledge in their chosen discipline. Leading scholars in the area of Cognitive Science and Educational Methodologies haveconcluded that it is essential that students need to be taught in a creative learning environment.Educators who utilize the Discovery Approach help students acquire much needed real–worldproblem–solving skills. In this paper the author outlines how interactive projects can help theinstructor in promoting a problem–based learning environment. Furthermore, he also providesinitial results of his assessment data.Introduction Educators
Goni, Juli´an is an educational psychologist from the Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile, with academic certification in Economy. He is an instructor and researcher at DILAB UC (School of Engineering UC). He has collaborated in diverse innovation projects with the National Innovation Council (CNID), the Center for Studies of Argumentation and Reasoning (CEAR UDP) and ChileCreativo. In DILAB UC he researches on tipics such as Engineering Education, Public Innovation and Teamwork. He is interested in research, theory and application of interdisciplinary social sciences, with emphasis on the intersection of psychology, innovation, education, philosophy and engineering. c American
collection of all of these instantiations, along with the secondary quantitativeanalyses mentioned previously, will allow for the final step of the FRAM: identification ofpossible control mechanisms. Through this process, common trends will be explored to identifywhich functions lead to the most variability in the system and the outcome. This analysis shouldgive indications of design decisions that can be made to reduce the corresponding variability.For instance, if variability originating in an assignment function leads to large variability ofoutcome, that can inform aspects of assignment design. While many of the specific aspects ofthis project are rooted in the context of the study, the final recommendations will be stated asgenerally as the
softwareassociated with it has become cheaper, faster, and easier to use, both in the consumer market aswell as for research purposes. As devices get more affordable, the market is filled with new anddifferent types of games to utilize the hardware. From education to training and therapy, manyapplications were not possible to this extent previously. In this project, the use of VR is dedicatedto creating a richer and more immersive learning environment for the participants involved in theproject. Researchers have been using video games in educational settings for the purpose oflearning and training [6,7]. This fast-growing trend is aided by the vast improvement in hardwarecapable of rendering increasingly realistic and high definition virtual
the growth of the Internet is nolonger in question. In fact, the last remnants of the global IPv4 address pools are already dryingup. As Table 1 shows, four of the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) have exhausted theirIPv4 address pools and are operating under exhaustion policies that restrict IPv4 addressallocations. Only the RIR for Africa, AFRINIC, has yet to reach full exhaustion. At the time ofwriting AFRINIC is allocating from its final /8 and has a projected exhaustion date of 09November 2019 [1].Table 1. Regional Internet Registry Last /8 Allocation Information. Last /8 Assignment RIR Description
Paper ID #26152Learning Outcomes for Engineering Education ProgramsDr. Kseniya Zaitseva, Tomsk Polytechnic University/ Association for Engineering Education of Russia Associate professor at Tomsk Polytechnic University faculty member, Accreditation Center director in As- sociation for Engineering Education of Russia. PhD in Pedagogical Sciences, graduate degree in ”Math- ematical Methods in Economics”. Also holds a Management degree. Her research focus is in Quality Assurance, active learning and international academic mobility. Has experience in coordinating several TEMPUS, Erasmus+ projects as well as organizing joint
Dynamical Systems. He previously worked on projects related to dynamic routing of emergency vehicles, modeling consumer sensitivity for product de- sign and perceived usability, dynamic control charts in statistical process control, application of evolving self-organizing maps, etc. His current research interests include prediction of nonlinear chaotic system involving human emotion in social media, difference in muscular exertion in different ethnic workers in automobile industries, simulation, and advanced application of statistical techniques. Dr. Sapkota is a Certified Six Sigma Green Belt.Ms. Laurie D. Morrow, Central Louisiana Technical Community College LAURIE MORROW Laurie Morrow currently serves as the campus
Paper ID #27933PathTech LIFE: Overview of Findings from a National Survey of TechnicianEducation StudentsDr. Will Tyson, University of South Florida Will Tyson is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida. Dr. Tyson’s re- search examines STEM educational and career pathways with a focus on student- and institutional-level influences on high school and college science and math course taking and STEM degree attainment. Dr. Tyson was the Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded project ”Successful Academic and Employment Pathways in Advanced Technologies” or PathTech (4 years, $1.2 million
toward STEMcourses and majors. Only time will tell if these changes can increase success in these impor-tant math courses and thus increase retention in STEM majors. R ESEARCH P ROPOSALThe IssueThe College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Houston took on aproject in the Summer of 2018 to help correct what they believed was a major issue for stu-dent success in calculus: placement. In their solution, they assigned a team of instructionalprofessors in the math department to re-write the placement exams for both precalculus andcalculus 1. As part of this project, this team also developed video lessons and quiz modulesfor remediation needs to help students overcome areas where the students
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Preparing Ethical Leaders in Engineering Research and Practice: Designing an Ethical Leadership ModuleAbstractRecent occurrences of high-profile ethical scandals in industry and the academy attest to the needfor strong leadership in upholding ethical standards and cultures in business and academicorganizations. Many engineering graduate students become leaders of research groups orindustry projects after finishing their education. While many institutions train their graduatestudents in research and professional ethics, such training tends to focus on students’ individualconduct. To date, few programs have explicitly sought to improve graduate engineering
-care provider. The walk-in setup, as opposed to outpatientappointment scheduling, gives multiple challenging potentials to develop what-if scenarios forstudents to further develop their simulation project even after their targeted lab assignment. Thegoal is to inspire students’ creativity and engage them in their learning experience. By providinguser friendly tools that support changing the model, students learn to deal with changing andexploiting scenarios in the case.We use a simple conceptual model with a few nurses, doctors, and staff to represent the clinic.Simplicity and real-world familiarity of this concept provides students with a jumpstart to takeownership of their simulation study. Soon, students realize the complexity of this case
research interests include numerical heat transfer, fluids, and magnetohydrodynamic simulations and facilitating undergraduate students to engage in similar projects. He is also focused in the implementation of engineering freshman design experiences.Mr. Joshua Rudaitis, University of Florida Mr. Joshua Rudaitis is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Florida. He is pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering and is expected to graduate in December of 2020. He is performing undergraduate research at his University, focusing on Networking and Remote Systems. His main areas of professional interest within the field of Software Engineering include Embedded Systems, Networking, and Application Development
literature review process Booth (2016), a set ofselected databases were queried using a nearly identical search string in order to capturearticles that would plausibly address the research question. Three databases were selectedfor this project: Education Source, ERIC, and Scopus. Education Source and ERIC aredatabases that contain sources related to education. These databases were selected toalign with the goal of the project to look into literature which is focused on engineeringmassive open online courses and their role in student learning, participation, andengagement. The final database, Scopus, is the largest source of peer-reviewed literature.Such a broad reach is important to address the overarching research goal because of thefield-spanning
systems from inception through design, development, and production. His skills are included but not limited to operations research, analytical/statistical analysis, trade studies, new product introduction including gates and design reviews processes, risk and oppor- tunity management, reliability, availability & maintainability, and safety analysis, and complex project managementDr. Ghazal Barari, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Ghazal Barari received her PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Central Florida. Her re- search was focused on combustion modeling of promising biofuels in order to find a suitable substitute for fossil fuels. She started her career as a tenure track assistant professor in
algorithmthat allows the rubric to expand from having two columns to having six – two columns arebetween A and C-, which represent being closer to the A description than the C- or being closerto the C- description than the A, and two columns are on the other side of the C-, whichrepresents an attempt that is below the minimum standard or no attempt at all. Rubric use followsthe same general algorithm: the student work is first compared against the highest quality level,then if necessary the lower level, and finally if necessary the work is determined to be closer toone of these levels or the other.The final element of this project involves the training of our teaching assistants to obtainconsistent evaluation of student work across all students in the
Paper ID #28882Assessment of Learning Effectiveness in Online and Face-to-Face LearningEnvironment for Engineering EducationDr. Prabodh Panindre, New York University Prabodh’s scholarly focus includes fire science and firefighter safety research, online learning, heat trans- fer, nanotechnology, and microfluidics. His research group has received several grants (more than $6 million) from U.S. Department of Homeland Security for fire prevention and safety research. He led a team of NYU researchers on the ”Wind-Driven High-Rise Fires” project with Fire Department of New York (FDNY) and National Institute of Standards
% Final Project 7.5% 7.5% Lab Final Exam 20.0% 25.0% Lecture Final Exam 30.0% 45.0% Table 1: Weightings for quiz and no-quiz options.Each of the ten quizzes had a similar format. The first page was a hardware-based or an assemblylanguage problem while the second page contained three short-answer questions. The quizzesmatched the format of both the lab reports and the two final examinations in that the first pagewas a design-type problem (similar to the lecture final) and the second page had short answerquestions (similar to the lab final). The quizzes were closed notes, but students could use aninstructor provided cheatsheet. Students were given
Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) test bed project. He has given over 75 presentations in the area of computer security and has testified in front of the U.S. Senate committee of the Judiciary on security issues associated with peer-to-peer networking. He has served as an ABET program evaluator representing IEEE for 10 years. He is a Fellow of IEEE and received the IEEE Educational Activities Board Major Educational Innovation Award in 2012 for his work in teaching information assurance to students of all ages.Dr. Lisa M. Larson Ph.D., Iowa State University Dr. Larson is a professor in the department of psychology. She has examined Self Determination Theory as a framework to explain how the environment impacts
, basic circuits, 3D printing, subtractive approaches to prototyping, and digitalimage analysis. The course culminated in a closed-ended team-based design project with aphysical prototype due at the end.Both explicit and implicit measures were delivered through Qualtrics online survey software.This survey was delivered before the second class session of the semester, and again in the weekof final exams. The survey included: 1. The ability dimension of the engineering design self-efficacy instrument, described in [5]. This measures whether students believe they will be: a. Able, and b. Motivated to engage in engineering design tasks, whether they feel they will be c. Successful in doing so, and how
their senior capstone projects. His current projects include indus- try integration in the curriculum, undergraduate professional development, and entrepreneurial minded learning in the classroom.Dr. Nathan Hyungsok Choe, The Ohio State University Dr. Nathan (Hyungsok) Choe is a research assistant professor in department of engineering education at the Ohio State University. He obtained his PhD in STEM education at UT Austin. His research focuses on the development of engineering identity in graduate school and underrepresented group. Dr. Choe holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering from Illinois Tech. He also worked as an engineer at LG electronics mobile communication company.Amena Shermadou
SLLO implementation is presented toshow the capabilities of this architecture.1. Context of Online LaboratoriesThis section presents some works that are part of the state of the art for online laboratories used ineducation, including virtual, remote and hybrid laboratory implementations.The Virtual Instruments Systems In Reality (VISIR) project [1] develops online laboratoriesspecifically in areas of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, including hands-on, virtual, andremote experiments. The VISIR experiments include: protoboards, sources, signal generators,meters, oscilloscopes and components (resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes etc). All theexperiments can be remotely operated through the Internet. This characteristic allows
to determine the effectiveness of the workshops. The workshoptopics were focused on research and communication skills development as elements ofprofessional skills. The Engineer of 2020 Project centers on an effort to envision the future andto use that knowledge to attempt to predict the roles that engineers will play in the future[3][4][5]. The current study included engineering standards, lifelong learning in addition toresearch and communication skills as these are considered important professional developmentskills. Frankel described the discrepancy between how some criteria, like “an ability to identify,formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering,science, and mathematics”, receive most of the
. Specifically, this project isdesigned to address the following research questions: 1) What do students from differentinstitutionalized pathways into engineering believe about smartness and engineering? 2) How dothese students express their personal identities related to being smart and being an engineer?In order to answer our research questions over the scope of the full, three-year project, we willcollect and analyze a series of three interviews with 30 participants across six different first-yearinstitutionalized pathways into engineering: main campus-honors program, main campus-residential cohorts, main campus-standard program, main campus-alternative math starting point,regional campuses, and community college. The first interview is to establish
for Engineering Education, 2020 Development of an Academic Dashboard for Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-MakersAbstractThis paper provides a summary of activities and accomplishments of an NSF CAREER project,“Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-Makers.” We discuss our progress on (1)identifying indicators of poor academic fit in engineering majors; (2) examining relationshipsbetween the measures of theoretical constructs (Decision-Making Competency Inventory,DMCI) with the real-world, academic behaviors (major choice and major change); (3) revisionsto the DMCI; and (4) development of the Academic Dashboard for putting students in thedriver’s seat of their education. A prototype of the