capability.”During the final interview with Team 1, another student stated: “I mean, there was some stuff that [the lab] kind of thought of late, [features] that they sort of thought about and they wanted added in… they didn't really tell us about [the features] until way into the designing process.”These thoughts were reflected in the students’ post-course surveys. For example, one Team 1student added a caveat to their pre-course response about how stakeholders should have aprominent role during design: “Stakeholders should have a large role but they also need to understand the entire design process and know what kind of limitations there are.”The same Team 1 student also changed their pre-course response to Question 4
have not chosen a career in IT were invited to participate ina focus group for one-to-one interviews, where young women reflected on the reasonsbehind their decision not to continue in IT. Here we present qualitative results of thesurvey.MethodologyFor the follow up survey we utilized the database of clients who enrolled inextracurricular courses in IT from Unium. We have been provided with data going backto 2007. From the broad range of educational courses offered by Unium we have focusedonly on those that are IT-related, namely: Web-design, computer flash graphics, andprogramming in C/C++. We limited the selection pool to over 900 pupils satisfying thosecriteria, including 142 girls.We aimed to form a group of 8-10 young women for a focus
better than satisfactory ratings, respectively. Having limited number of offcampus bus services at SIUE was reflected on the survey as poor. The program coordinator atSIUE brought the issue to the attention of student affairs office to remedy the situation. The localmunicipality now offers improved services, especially on Sundays. Table I - Service component survey results1-not important, 2-important, 3-very important, 1-not satisfied, 2-satisfied, 3-very satisfied Rank Aspect Importance Satisfaction 1 Friendliness and helpfulness of the program coordinator at ITU 2.88 1.63 2 Friendliness and helpfulness of the program
would be attempting to search the ocean floor simultaneously on the same Page 26.774.8track, and they would not travel at the same speed or even at the same direction. The Boe-Botswere equipped with a secondary, forward-looking SONAR to detect the proximity of other Boe-Bots. The students designed and developed the software for proximity detection and collisionavoidance reaction of the Boe-Bots. Through experimenting with the SONAR sensors, studentswere exposed to the concepts of range measurement, resolution and noise. They learned toimprove the SONAR signals via mechanical adjustments, such as increasing the reflection area,and also some
do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation. Bibliographic Information Page 26.850.141. Klein, C., DeRouin, R. E., & Salas, E. (2006). Uncovering workplace interpersonal skills: A review, framework, and research agenda. In G. P. Hodgkinson & J. K. Ford (Eds.), International review of industrial and organizational psychology (Vol. 21, pp. 80-126). New York: WIley & Sons, Ltd.2. National Research Council. (2012). Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.3. National Association
majorengineering firm.I’m a people person […] My last internship was with [very large, well known, globalengineering firm], in California, but they didn’t have anything for me to do […] It was horriblyboring, horribly sucky […] I can usually click with everybody, just clown and have fun, but thatwas the first time with a group where I couldn’t really catch, like, a groove, a group of people toclown with. I couldn’t have fun with a subset of them, and of course, you have to be serious whenyou’re working, but I always want to clown and have fun, […] I like to get work done but I liketo also have fun with it.We believe this reflects how many of the traditional engineering firms come across as stodgy andunfriendly to this generation of students, and
10 ways to engage underrepresentedstudents in computing. Retrieved from http://www.ncwit.org/resources/top-10-ways-engage-underrepresented-students-computing/top-10-ways-engage-underrepresented23 DO-IT. (2014). Checklist for making science labs accessible to students with disabilities. Retrieved fromhttp://www.uw.edu/doit/checklist-making-science-labs-accessible-students-disabilitiesAcknowledgementThis material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant #EEC-1444961. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
(e.g. group vs individual) and whether the interactionswere tailored to specific student needs. Overall, 92% of students rated the experience as“excellent” or “good”, but 8% of students did identify the mentoring experience as “lacking” or“poor”. The students were not provided with information on what a good mentoring relationshipmeans. Instead they were expected to reflect on their own expectations. In regards to thenegative experience one student commented: “My mentor seemed to push off all mentorship work to her PhD students. I felt guiltyasking questions because she would hand all the questions over to her extremely busy students.The students took a lot of time out of their day to meet and discuss with me and I thank them forthat
480 0.206 0.405 0-1 Ethnicity 476 0.264 0.441 0-1 Family/Friends Engineers. 561 0.597 0.491 0-1 First Interest in Aerospace 551 0.080 0.271 0-1 Co-op Internship 520 0.325 0.469 0-1 Page 26.114.6 Table 2 shows the means and standard deviations for the variables used in this study.Since all respondents did not answer all items, the number of responses for each item varies andthe statistics reflect those varying sample sizes
activities (unassociatedwith courses or engineering student clubs).11 Rarely is the facility used to support curriculum orresearch activities. Given its purpose to support student design interests, this facility perhapsqualifies to be called an academic makerspace but that title may not be appropriate due to aunique attribute of the facility. The MITERS workshop operates nearly independent from MIT,with the student members directing all aspects of its operation. This organizational structure ismore reflective of that found in community-based makerspaces outside of the academicenvironment.What is striking in these two examples from the same institution is their very different
point Chemical and Mechanical Engineering are the only two coreengineering discipline divisions that have committed to a diversity effort. It is our hope that thiswill change during the ‘year of action on diversity’.To quantify the prevalence of diversity-related efforts in engineering education, we did akeyword search for articles that appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE) and inthe European Journal of Engineering Education (EJEE). The number of relevant articles in thesejournals will reflect the diversity-related efforts happening in the United States (JEE) and Europe(EJEE). The keywords ‘diversity’, ‘women’, ‘minority’, and ‘gender’ were used as search termsfor homologous hits in article titles. Two other keywords commonly
Page 26.555.14described as avoiding dealing with racial issues. Working at a more liberal university, onedirector observed that the institution was “mute” when it came to crucial discussions about race.Despite this backdrop of often discouraging institutional climates, multiple program directorsevidenced a determination to act as forces of change, promoting diversity within engineering andrelated disciplines. Perspectives of Black Faculty in Engineering. Presented in this section are preliminaryfindings of 26 pre and post tenure Black engineering faculty, along with reflections of facultyrepresented by 3 Black engineering deans who participated in private interviews. In theinterviews with current Black faculty in engineering, we
waseither the same or even better compared to traditional and hybrid models. This fact almost lookslike a negative correlation between the students' feedback and their actual performance in theclass. During 2013 class offering there was more time devoted to the interactive activitiesbetween the faculty-students and students-students. This means that even less time was devotedto the theoretical material normally presented in the traditional lectures and students were"forced" to spend even more time studying. The reflection of this is the best students'performance - 83% average and 10% standard deviation in the final exam. The grade distributiondemonstrates that the number of A and AB students is increased, and the number of C, CD, andF grades is
, and Mathematics (S-STEM) through awards number 0965942 and1259493. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation. The student research project in industrial and systems engineering is also supportedin part by Maryland Space Grant Consortium. The authors would also like to thank thereviewer’s constructive reviews and comments. References1) Morgan State University, Ten-Year Strategic Plan, (available at www.morgan.edu), 2014.2) Bailey, D.; Kohler, M.A.; Cole-Rhodes, A., “Using an ordinal ranking rule to find the top-performing Gaussian mixture models for language recognition
the reflective markers and combinethe images to read the 3D positions of the markers at a 100 Hz frame rate. This information isrecorded and used to reconstruct the skeleton of the participant, or can be used as raw data inpoint-cloud form.Figure 9. Motion capture laboratory with cameras and motion-capture suit. Page 26.630.8Painting/DrawingPainting and drawing utilize several different media, such as charcoal, oil paint, andwatercolor. However, the typical drawing surface is two-dimensional in nature. Our goal in thiseffort was to allow students to “draw” and “paint” in three dimensions, using the capture volumeas a canvas. Additionally
courses depends on minor.) • A focused area of study such as Pre-med, Pre-law, or preparation towards a Peace Corp assignment. Page 26.635.3 Figure 1: Track Options for the Bachelor of Science in Engineering LeadershipUTEP is uniquely poised to craft the first undergraduate program around this new discipline.With a motto of “Access and Excellence”, UTEP strives to attract a student demographic notwell represented in engineering today and arm them with the skills, mindset, and experience thatallows them to make a positive impact in the communities in which they live and work. UTEP’sstudent population is 80% hispanic and reflects
author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.Bibliography1. Leaning, J. & Guha-Sapir, D. Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Public Health. N. Engl. J. Med. 369, 1836–1842 (2013).2. Garriga, E. & Melé, D. Corporate social responsibility theories: mapping the territory. J. Bus. Ethics 53, 51–71 (2004).3. National Society of Professional Engineers. NSPE Code of Ethics for Engineers. (2007).4. Herkert, J. R. in Social, ethical, and policy implications of engineering: selected readings 45–73 (IEEE Press, 2000).5. Hess, J. L. et al. Empathy and caring as conceptualized inside and outside of engineering: Extensive literature review and faculty focus group analyses. in
military veterans in STEM fields. This reflects thelocations of Fort Leavenworth, Fort Riley, and McConnell Air Force Base in the state and highenrollments of military-associated individuals and veterans at all partner institutions.New programmatic offerings created as part of the project include a Math Boot Camp, STEMAlternative Spring Break, a Writing Lab, specific-by-major Transfer Advising Guides, a groupvisit to complement the Admissions Office’s Transfer Student Visit Day, and a summer researchexperience program, Research Immersion: Pathways to STEM (RIPS). Since the partnerinstitutions are two-year colleges, the emphasis of this project is on the transitions between highschool and community college and community college and four-year
findings relating to these questions in a framework ofimplications for further research and for instructional practice in continuing engineeringeducation.Learner PreferencesTwo aspects of learner preferences are considered next: learning strategy preference and verbal-visual preference.Learning Strategy PreferenceOne way to address individual differences in how students learn and to personalize learningoptions is through the concept of learning style. Learning style (also referred to as psychologicaltype6,8) refers to how students preferentially perceive (e.g., sensory vs. intuitive and verbally vs.visually), organize (e.g., inductive vs. deductive), process (e.g., actively vs. reflectively), andprogressively understand (e.g., sequentially vs
the use of co-curricular support to improve the institutionalexperience of undergraduate engineering students. Page 26.1157.11AcknowledgementsThe authors thank Cynthia Hampton for contributing to the validity of this study. Additionally,this material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) GraduateResearch Fellowship Program (GRFP). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions in this materialare those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.References1. C. Morrison and L. E. Williams, Minority Engineering Programs: A Case for Institutional Support, NACME Research Newsletter, 4(1
transfers to the University of Virginia’s SEAS has increased 30% over the last few years. Despite this growth in applicants, the total number of students matriculating into the program has remained largely unchanged. These numbers reflect transfer applicants and enrollments across the university and not exclusively engineering. Page 26.1458.8
, engineering marketing, business development and proposal submittal. 6. Understanding of ethical and legal aspects of engineering. 7. Demonstration of management techniques, decision economics, engineering organization, and business accounting methods. 8. Understanding of value engineering and total quality management concepts.Eight CIVL 411 course goals are mapped to CEE Department outcomes and shown withaccompanying levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy as indicated in Table 7. The focus of the class isgenerally on lower levels of Bloom’s, even though this is a senior course. Higher levels ofBloom’s Taxonomy are used for course instruction and student assignments, even thoughassessment mapping has not been adjusted to reflect this more rigorous
ratechanges may be detected by focusing an extremely high frequency beam of submillimeter waveenergy on the palm of a human hand – most of these techniques look at the parameter known asthe “reflection coefficient” of human skin to detect subtle changes in the heart beat of a humansubject.The health issues related to an aging population are very complex. For people over the age of 65,one of the most serious health care risks is falling. This is the leading cause of death for this agegroup! For those that survive a fall, many will suffer hip fractures. Even with successful surgery,about 40% of those hospitalized for a hip fracture cannot return to independent living, and,amazingly enough, about 20% will die within a year! Using sensors like radar and
multiple-choice and 13 sketching) 4 - Orthographic Projection (20 multiple-choice and 11 sketching) 5 – Inclined and Curved Surfaces (26 multiple-choice and 15 sketching) 6 - Flat Patterns (36 multiple-choice and 0 sketching) 7 - Rotation of Objects about 1 Axis (28 multiple-choice and 18 sketching) 8 - Rotation of Objects about 2 Axes (25 multiple-choice and 7 sketching) 9 - Object Reflections and Symmetry (24 multiple-choice and 17 sketching) 10 - Cutting Plane (26 multiple-choice and 0 sketching)During Lessons 3 and 4, a few mistakes were identified in the programmed sketching solutions,which led to incorrect grading of sketches. This led to a bit of student frustration, but by Lesson5 these mistakes
Learning,” Palo Alto, CA: Davies-black Publishing11. Dale, E. (1969), “Audiovisual Methods in Teaching,” (3rd ed.), New York: Dryden Press.12. Wankat, P.H. (1999), “Reflective Analysis of Student Learning in a Sophomore Engineering Course,” Journal ofEngineering Education, Vol.88, (no.2), 195 -203.13. Finelli, C., Klinger, A., & Budny, D.D. (2001), “Strategies for Improving the Classroom Environment,” Journalof Engineering Education, Vol 90, (no.4), pp. 491-497.14. Smith, K.A., Sheppard, A.D., Johnson, D.W. & Johnson, R.T. (2005), “Pedagogies of Engagement: Classroom-Based Practices,” Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 94 (no.1), pp. 87-101
. Therefore, after segmentation, these features were extracted by the featureextractor. Then, these features were input into the classifier. Basically, the classifier can recognizethese 3 objects with very high accuracy (89.1% for the digital scale, 91.3% for the pump and98.4% for the Xplorer GLX. The relatively low accuracy of the recognition is attributable to theKinect’s inability to cope with reflective surfaces which reduces the scanning accuracy. (a) (b) Figure 9: Step motor (a) photograph of physical step motor; (b) model in GBVL Page
in general pleased with the performance on thesein-class active learning assignments. In an open-ended question about the benefits of flippedinstruction, the students identified the ability to re-watch videos (2 students), problem solvingduring class (2 students), flexibility (1 student), and reinforcement of concepts (1 student). In asecond open-ended question about drawbacks and suggestions relative to the flipped classroom,two students expressed dislike of the flipped classroom, and three provided suggestions about theuse of in-class time, including more worked example problems during class (2 students).Instructor Reflections Page
Helen L. Chen is a research scientist in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of ePortfolio Initiatives in the Office of the Registrar at Stanford University. She is also a member of the research team in the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter). Helen earned her undergraduate degree from UCLA and her PhD in Communication with a minor in Psychology from Stanford University in 1998. Her current research interests include: 1) engineering and entrepreneurship education; 2) the pedagogy of ePortfolios and reflective practice in higher education; and 3) reimagining the traditional academic transcript.Dr. Mark Schar, Stanford University Mark
recommend this workshop to others. Moreover, the resultsclearly show that the workshop was very well received by the participants. In addition, theaverage of all the survey questions from all respondents was 4.34 out of 5.0. The studentcomments on the survey reflected that: 1) speakers should come from different engineeringbackgrounds as opposed to all from civil engineering; 2) students indicated their desire to spendmore time working on the projects; 3) students liked the motivated speakers; 4) students wantedto have more field trips to engineering firms; and 5) students like to know about all the projectsinvolved in the workshop.The overall feedback question is presented in Appendix A. From the data collected it is obviousthat the workshop was