.pdf4. Citris, “A Scalable Enabling IT Infrastructure for Developing Regions (ICT4B)”, NSF ITR Proposal: ICT4B,http://www.citris-uc.org/research/projects/.5. A. Ghani, “Kabul University Proposed IT Enabled Infrastructure,” Concept Paper, June 2005.6. Hall, Robert E., Jones, Charles, I. “Why Do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output per Worker thanOthers?” March 11, 1998.7. J. Hebenstreit, “Computers in Education in Developing Countries.” 19848. R. Jones. “Engineering Capacity Building in Developing Countries,” American Society for EngineeringEducation, 2007.9. L. Osin, “Computers in Education in Developing Countries: Why and How”10. M. Potashnik, D, Adkins, “Cost Analysis of Information Technology Projects in Education: Experiences
-course graduate module focused on problem solving leadership and is currently investigating the impact of cognitive style on invention and design.Danielle DeCristoforo, Lockheed-Martin Danielle DeCristoforo is a Proposal Manager at Lockheed Martin TSS (Transportation & Security Solutions) on the MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) Program in New York City. Prior to this position, Danielle worked as a Systems Engineer at LMTSS (since 2002), where she was also a member of the Engineering Leadership Development Program (ELDP) and acted as Deputy Program Manager for a final group project. Danielle received her Master's degree in Systems Engineering from the Great Valley School
AC 2008-150: FOSTERING ENGINEERING ETHICS PROBLEM SOLVINGTHROUGH COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY HYPERTEXT: AN APPLICATION OFMULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES, MAKING CONNECTIONS AND CRISSCROSSINGRose Marra, University of Missouri ROSE M. MARRA is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri. She is PI of the NSF-funded Assessing Women and Men in Engineering (AWE) and Assessing Women In Student Environments (AWISE) projects. Her research interests include gender equity issues, the epistemological development of college students, and promoting meaningful learning in web-based environments.Demei Shen, University of Missouri DEMEI SHEN is a doctoral
other supporting resources). ‚ Materials that illustrate course content. (e.g., assignments, projects, exams, presentations). ‚ Materials that assess student performance and learning outcomes (e.g., samples of student work, student evaluations, student interviews).A fourth category can be related to the efforts to improve teaching: ‚ Materials that illustrate contributions to curriculum development. (e.g., workshops, seminars, courses, publications, description of teaching innovations, teaching awards). Page 13.577.7C. Who Should Evaluate?An important consideration in selecting a
, structured approach is a great benefit to the development of complexsystems, both for large aerospace contractors and student projects. Systems engineeringdisciplines help provide the order necessary to the design and production processes. Common tothe aerospace industry, systems engineering processes are often discussed in engineeringcurriculum, but opportunities to participate in these processes are rare. Capstone engineeringcourses, such as the FalconLAUNCH courses, are perhaps the best way to provide a meaningfulexperience in these important disciplines.One of the important systems engineering disciplines is configuration control and managingchanges during the design and manufacturing processes. An example of this is the engineeringchange
. The instructor end-of-course evaluation isadministered at the end of each chemical engineering course by the instructor. The evaluationassesses student proficiency (on a 0-5 scale) in course competencies and links the proficiencyrating to direct evidence from exams, homework, projects, or other measures of performance.For example, a given rating may come directly from the average score on a combination ofproblems from midterm exams, quizzes, and the final exam that deal specifically with that Page 12.1481.4competency. This specific information is included in the evaluation form. Since instructorsfocus on specific competencies when preparing
. Page 12.1562.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Using Simple Experiments to Teach Core Concepts in the Thermal and Fluid SciencesIntroductionThis paper documents the start of a research project involving laboratory exercises for coreundergraduate classes in the thermal and fluid sciences. Students perform experiments oneveryday technology such as a hair dryer, a bicycle pump, a blender, a computer power supply,and a toaster, or very simple hardware such as a tank of water with a hole in it, or a pipe sectionwith a change of area. The equipment is chosen because it is familiar to students, or at least thatthe physical principles of operation are easy to understand. The laboratory
provide some anecdotes to give the flavor of unexpected challenges thatinevitably arose during contest operations and how the contest’s design allowed them to be met.The overarching goal of the WPBDC is to increase awareness of and interest in engineeringamong a large, diverse population of middle and high school students. As described in our earlierwork,2 its motivation is to attract young students of the United States to careers in engineering,math, and science in order to mitigate projected national shortfalls in the future. This leads tomore specific goals, which are that each contestant should: • Learn about engineering through a realistic, hands-on problem-solving experience. • Learn about the engineering design process—the application
; Vaughan, 1992; Lipman, 1991; National Research Council, 1996).2 Blumenfeld, P. C., Marx, R. W., Patrick, H., Krajcik, J. S., & Soloway, E. (1997). Teaching for understanding. In B. J. Biddle, T. L. Good & I. F. Goodson (Eds.), International handbook of teachers and teaching (pp. 819-878). The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.3 Lipman, M. (1991). Thinking in education.New York: Cambridge University Press.4 CTGV. (1992). The jasper series as an example of anchored instruction: Theory, program description, and assessment data. Educational Psychologist, 27(3), 291-315.5 Krajcik, J. S., Blumenfeld, P. C., Marx, R. W., Bass, K. M., Fredricks, J., & Soloway, E. (1998). Inquiry in project- based science classrooms: Initial
men could also be discussed at the end of the course to show what topicsstudents could expect to see in an upper level course. Another way to incorporate this material issimply to have a “Dynamics throughout history” mini-lecture or slide at the beginning of eachweek or even each lecture. As students are entering the classroom some piece of historicalinformation or trivia could be projected on a screen for students to read as they prepare for theday’s lecture.When using history and trivia in dynamics, I typically include it on a PowerPoint slide that isbeing projected as students enter the classroom. Students were surveyed near the end of thequarter about this use of history and trivia. Specifically, the students were asked the followingtwo
was on sabbatical from University ofWyoming in fall 2004. He worked at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Kanpur campus) inIndia. IITs in India are known for graduating the best and the brightest engineers and scientistsin India and have been a prominent source of excellent quality graduate students and researchscholars in American, European and Australian universities. I spent some time on doingrecruiting for our graduate programs (for most part I was interacting with the engineering facultyon research projects). I gave seminars and conducted interviews with students focused on therecruitment of graduate students for the Engineering College. I also had interviews withadministrators, professors, and research scholars with a focus on the
effectiveness of suchmethods in improving the teaching in different engineering disciplines2. The authorsrightfully count the integration of major components, such as learning tools, learningactivities, and learning evaluation, of the course as one of the major aspects of effectiveteaching. They conclude that by a proper combination of these major components one canimprove the students’ learning. Freuler et al. reported on their effort in the College ofEngineering at the Ohio State University where they redeveloped the freshmanengineering casses to a combined course with hands-on laboratory elements3. Teamwork,project management, report writing, and oral presentations were the main parts of thisprogram.Recently, in their research, Smith et al. focused
observations extrapolated from the findings of on a two-yearresearch project that the author feels have general applicability. The author suggests thatalthough faculty members see many variables dealing with student behavior as unalterable, mostare probably not. Common behaviors that are accepted include: coming to class unprepared, notdoing the reading, not engaging in classroom discussion, not answering questions, turning insloppy work, and turning in late assignments, to name but a few. The author does not accept thepremise that such behaviors are unalterable. In the case of the specific research project theauthor conducted, the problem observed was that students seemed to regard their homeworksubmissions as simply a product to be handed in, and
the signal which is being received fromthe RF coil. Even though low power consumption is not of primary concern inthis project, this microprocessor was chosen since its performance is sufficient forthe system, and it is relatively simple to use. It allows programming in C, C++or Assembler. The code used in this apparatus is written in C++. An evaluationboard is available from TI which includes a JTAG port and the appropriate cableto connect it to the USB port of a computer. It has a flash program memory of60 kB, a RAM size of 2048 bytes and 48 I/O pins. It includes a 12-bit SARA/D converter and two 12-bit D/A converters. Furthermore, it allows the use oftwo SPI or UART channels for serial communication. It also provides two 16-bittimers and a
. 5. Choice in content and method is also beneficial for the deep learner. 6. Apathetic or inconsiderate teaching discourages deep learning and is more suited to developing a ‘surface’ approach. 7. An excessive workload will only serve to encourage ‘surface’ learning even for the ‘deep’ students. 8. Previous educational experience that discourages ‘deep’ learning will further discourage a ‘deep’ approach.Use of a problem-based or project-based learning environment will motivate students tolearn on a deeper level6,7.A student-centered approach to learning which focuses onactive and cooperative learning found a positive correlation between the instrumentalmethod and the students’ engagement of a ‘deep’ learning approach
://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc1/lectures.html [2002, June 24]. Page 12.288.1615. Halsall, P. (Ed.) (1999). Chinese Culture. Brooklyn, NY: CUNY. Available: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/index.html [2002, June 24].16. Halsall, P. (Ed.) (1998). Internet History Sourcebooks Project. New York: Fordham University. Available: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ [2002, June 24]. There are three Internet sourcebooks: Internet Ancient History Sourcebook, the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, and the Internet Modern History Sourcebook17. Gans, P. J. (1999). The Medieval Technology Pages. New York: New York University
experience the topic provides a level of information absorption that simple reading cannot achieve. Students take much more agency about circuits when they actually build one and hold it in their hands, as opposed to just reading about it. I would love to use this technique and idea for many different topics and technologies.Likewise recognizing the value of hands-on activities, Participant B talked aboutengagement and students experiencing fun during digital fabrication science activities.But Participant B focused on how digital fabrication supports visualization andengagement in students’ learning process: In my science curriculum, I would most definitely replicate the windmill and speaker project we
Paper ID #6192Entering the Performance Zone: a Practical Pre-Lecture Guide for New Fac-ultyDr. Tomas Enrique Estrada, Elizabethtown College Page 23.542.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Entering the Performance Zone: a Practical Pre-Lecture Guide for New FacultyIntroductionWhile, in recent decades, undergraduate engineering curricula have been strengthened throughan increased emphasis on projects and hands-on learning, the need to provide students witheffective lectures remains a key
whowere NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recipients and PROMISE peermentors while pursuing their doctorates co-developed and continue to facilitate the fundingworkshops.The workshops, which began as a two-hour seminar conducted on one day in the fall semester,have expanded to include a range of formats: a three day (2-hours per day) workshop series, aone day (3-5 hour) workshop, and short panel presentations with other participants who providefinancial information from their particular departments or organizations. In addition toencouraging the students to utilize advice from their faculty research mentors and peers, theworkshop facilitators in our project served as experienced graduate fellowship recipients andreviewed students
currently teaches Engineering Statics, Mechanics of Solids, and Civil Engineering Materials. Page 23.600.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013First Encounters: Statics as the Gateway to Engineering CultureThis paper describes ongoing efforts at Syracuse University to re-engineer the traditionalstatics course. This course forms part of a larger NSF funded project aimed at increasinginnovation and creativity in engineering curricula. The principal aim of the overallproject is to find strategies to foster and reward creativity in engineering students.At Syracuse University, as at many
learning is not only knowledgeacquisition or participation in a social community but also about knowledge creation as in thecase of project based learning. Similarly the new developments in electronic media are leading toenormous challenges for teachers in regards to the role digital devices can and should play in thelearning process. For some educators, the view is that technology should only be utilized as atool to help facilitate student understanding and mastery of the current curriculum. Whereas forother educators, technology is as fundamental to learning as reading and writing and thereforemust become an integral segment of the school curriculum. The paper also discusses new trendsand teaching methodologies to help improve the state of
. Due to the hands-on nature of educational strategy, the laboratorycomponent is an integral part of any course offered in the SoT, and the EM course is noexception. Every week, the course enrolled students have an opportunity to apply the knowledgethey gain in the classroom to the industrial equipment. By the end of the course, students have atleast 33 hours of hands-on activities. The knowledge gained via theoretical and practicalexercises is reinforced by the computer projects utilizing MATLAB simulation software.In 2009, the first attempt at converting the existing traditional model of the EM course into theblended version has been made. Utilizing the hybrid methodology, several lectures wereconverted into the online format and gradually
education that is situated in a realistic and comparable environment commonly seenin project-based learning (PBL) courses. A common example of these types of learningenvironments is represented in design courses, both at the first-year and senior levels. Thesetypes of courses require students to exhibit a high level of motivation and advanced cognitivedevelopment, representative of an adult learner, in order to successfully meet the requirements ofthe course.Studies have acknowledged that in order to develop critical thinkers and capable problemsolvers, teachers must understand the needs of today’s engineering student and design instructionto meet those needs. The development of students in undergraduate curriculum varies widely asundergraduates
is an Assistant Professor of Computer Graphics Technology and Computer and Information Technology. Dr. Whittinghill’ s research focuses on simulation, gaming and computer pro- gramming and how these technologies can more effectively address outstanding issues in health, educa- tion, and society in general. Dr. Whittinghill leads projects in pediatric physical therapy, sustainable energy simulation, phobia treat- ment, cancer care simulation, and games as a tool for improving educational outcomes. Dr. Whittinghill is the director of GamesTherapy.org. Prior to joining Purdue he was a senior software engineer in the research industry focused upon the fields of visualization, games, agent-based modeling, digital
of the classroom from mere teaching and learning topromoting a learning environment where students are able to develop the relevant metacognitiveskills necessary to become independent and critical thinkers.In a study conducted in a science class with the use of personal response systems, commonlycalled “clickers”, it was reported that students’ conceptual understanding of the conceptspresented in the class increased after they were allowed to have discussions with their peers [26].In the classroom students were presented with a question and required to use the “clicker” toindicate their answer choice. A histogram was used to the project the responses to the class.Following the projection of response, the students were allowed to discuss in
engineering (Software Engineering concentration), and has been accreditedsince 2002. At RMU the emphasis is on small class sizes (10:1 student to faculty ratio) andhands-on experiences through class assignments, course projects, internships (150 hoursmandatory), and an interdisciplinary capstone project (3 credits). Graduates at RMU receive twotypes of transcripts: academic and engagement. The academic transcript depicts student degreeprogress and grades obtained. The engagement transcript records, by description and hours,student activities outside of the classroom. The institution believes that students must be able tobalance academic and extra-circular activities. Software engineering students are members of theAssociation of Computing Machinery
Transaction, Journal of Manufacturing Systems and others. He has been serving as a principle investigator of many research projects, funded by NSF, NASA, DoEd, and KSEF. He is currently serving as an editor of Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces.Dr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng.)Dr. Paras Mandal, University of Texas, El PasoMr. Carlos Alejandro GarciaNatalia V Espino, UTEPMr. Zhonghua HuMr. David Ricardo RomoMs. Monica I. Corella, University of Texas, El Paso Page 23.361.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Cyber Based Layer Manufacturing with an On
experience and could influencetheir decision to stay enrolled in the program. These findings are consistent with the principles ofthe field of andragogy, or adult education, which is grounded in the idea that the education ofadult students can and should look different than education for younger students, due to adults’different preferences and motivations for learning17.Because returners have different educational needs than direct-pathway students and yet such Page 23.377.3little research exists on returners, we began to collect data, starting with a pilot project in whichwe interviewed ten returners. The participants included six men and four
) Intentional (mastery/performance- approach/performance- Conceptual Change avoidance) Learning Strategies (cognitive, metacognitive) Figure 2: Framework for Intentional Conceptual ChangeResearch Questions Consistent with our framework and overall project design, this study is guided by threeresearch questions: 1) what aspects of existing motivation and learning strategies survey itemsshould be included in a survey designed to measure motivation, learning strategies andconceptual understanding in thermodynamics courses? 2
individual. This does not allow educators to see howtheir instruction changes a student’s ability to innovate. In order to meet the needs of theInnovation Bootcamp and other innovation educators, a test that measures an individual’s abilityto do activities across a greater part of the innovation process is needed.Purpose Statement The purpose of this project was to develop an innovation test instrument and perform aninitial validation. The test needed to cover a broader range of innovation skills defined by theInnovation Bootcamp curriculum and needed to evaluate individual students’ abilities atperforming each of the tasks outlined therein. This paper describes the development of the test,including analysis of the content domain