as for getting the necessary insight forthose who would like to pursue graduate degrees and get involved in research associated withthese degrees. How students get hands-on experience varies widely among colleges, programs,and individuals. A lot of programs make efforts to introduce hands-on approaches in their coursesthrough labs and project-based courses. The senior (capstone) projects are for most of theengineering programs the most comprehensive projects, asking the students to go from statingthe problem to formulating and designing a solution and to actually build and test the proposedsolution. Often, the senior projects are initiated from industry collaborations. Another way togain practical experience is to encourage and support
engineeringgraduates and professional competence. These agreements govern mutual recognition ofengineering qualifications. For example, the Washington, Sydney and Dublin accords forengineering, technologist, and technician graduate respectively3,4. In addition, there are threeagreements that aim to address the recognition of equivalence at the practicing engineer level,where individual evaluation of experience and expertise (not qualifications) are seen to meetthe benchmark standard. That is, a person recognized in one country as reaching the agreedinternational standard of competence should be able to obtain registration in another countrythat is party to the agreement with minimal assessment3,4.These accords and agreements have allowed increased mobility of
of engineering disciplines and subdisciplines, diversemethods for learning engineering have been developed encompassing both theoretical andpractical aspects.The call for engineering education reform seems to be continuous [1-9]. On the one hand,engineering curricula are slow to change, but on the other hand the target keeps moving. In the1990’s there was a sense that engineering education was out of touch with the actual practice ofengineering. In response, design has become a more prominent part of most engineeringcurricula. In recent years, globalization and the commoditization of many engineering functionshas lent an air of uncertainty to the direction that engineering education should go. While entirecurricula will likely undergo some
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. Her current research interests include the effect of instructional technology on student learning and performance, effective teaching strategies for new graduate student instructors, and the impact of GSI mentoring programs on the mentors and mentees.Chris Groscurth , University of Michigan Christopher R. Groscurth is an instructional consultant in the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) at the University of Michigan. At CRLT Chris promotes excellence in teaching and learning through individual consultation, professional development programs, and applied research. He has a Ph.D. from the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia, and his research
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 A Long-Term Study of Software Product and Process Metrics in an Embedded Systems Design CourseIn response to input from advisory employers, market demands, and academic studies [1], manycomputer engineering programs have increased focus on embedded computer systems.Embedded systems form a rich application through which computer engineering education canbe made relevant. Embedded computer systems are a timely subject that is immediately useful tostudents in their senior capstone design projects. Furthermore, a large number of our computerengineering graduates currently use or design embedded computer systems in their jobs.A team-based progressive embedded systems
tools available to students. Therehas been a tremendous amount of work on best practices for instruction in college courses, andresearchers have identified the value of formative assessments to help students and instructorsidentify strengths and weaknesses and adjust instruction. We add to this discussion byundertaking a psychometric analysis of classroom tests. In particular, we will focus on themeasurement precision when tests are analyzed using Item Response Theory (IRT), a non-linearlatent variable model that evaluates the student’s probability of responding to items correctlyconditional on ability level. A useful byproduct of IRT analysis is that measurement uncertaintyis quantified conditional on ability level, and it often reveals that
philosophy is supported by studies which havelooked cross-culturally at the contexts in which literacy is practiced. These include Akinnaso[30],Besnier[31, 32], Hornberger[33], McLaughlin[34, 35], and Reder and Green[36].Perhaps the most important aspect of a social perspective on literacy is that it requires one tolook not only at the set of skills associated with literacy, but more importantly the enactment ofthe literary event, that is, the larger social and cultural events and relationships that result from it.In terms of engineering education, this means, for example, being cognizant of who is writing ajournal paper, who has funded the research, and what the purpose of the research is. Suchaspects are especially vital when looking at the impact
. 0.23 0.89 Articulate design goals of sub-problems and frame them in terms impact on overall design goals. 1.44 1.66 Value and leverage the skills of a members of a team to achieve a design goal. 1.11 1.33 Use information from inside and outside of a team to make design decisions. 1 1.33 Generate multiple alternatives for a given design goal with real world constraints and limited information. 1.33 1.44 Systematically evaluate and select the best solution based real world constraints and limited information. 1.12
: MethodologyThe flipped class format can be used as a more engaging and effective teaching method;however, flipped classes typically require a large amount of materials to be developed. Thesematerials can require a significant upfront time commitment, which can be a barrier for adoption.This can be especially true for a faculty member that has spent years developing a traditionallecture style course.Dr. Anna Howard at NC State has several years experience teaching a flipped statics course.Through some trial and error, best practices were identified for the types of materials to use,including: short three to five minute videos summarizing the lectures key topics29, pencastivideos of example problems, skeleton course notes for students to complete on their
librarians looking toform cross-disciplinary partnerships.While engineering and business students have different information needs, topics such as patents,manufacturing standards, and industry research are relevant to both areas. Collaboration betweenthe librarians serving these programs is important to best support users. Yet at large universities,these librarians might be working on different teams and even in different buildings. Such wasthe case at one university, where the engineering librarian and the business librarian, and theirrespective collections, were for many years based in libraries on opposite sides of campus.In 2016, a newly hired business librarian was placed in an office in the campus STEM libraryand the engineering librarian was
influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering fos- ter or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering stu- dents’ identity development. She has won several awards for her research including the 2016 American Society of Engineering Education Educational Research
Colorado Boulder.Dr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Environ- mental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living- learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service- learning, sustainable engineering
coordinator was hired to provide aneasier link to community partners for faculty new to S-L. A motto for the faculty has been:“Start small rather than not at all.”An implementation grant from NSF in early fall 2005 allowed the continuation of minigrants,more graduate student assistants, and the hiring of a full-time S-L coordinator (LindaBarrington). Concurrently, the university matched resources to provide course release time forfaculty members who serve as department coordinators as well as a course release for one facultymember in each department to develop significant, high quality S-L projects in a course orcourses. We are presently having biweekly community of practice meetings of faculty with afew invited students and occasional outside
do assigned work. These studentsprioritize studying but are inefficient because they have done few, if any, of the assignments andhave minimal or poor notes from class. The reasons students choose less than optimal learningstrategies were not explored in this study, but cognitive overload, where the capacity of workingmemory is exceeded, may be a factor in whether or not they are able to be effective learners [20].Efforts to reduce cognitive load, such as presenting new concepts in smaller chunks, andmodeling, scaffolding and providing myriad opportunities for practice, may remove some ofthese challenges.The literature shows that students want to be successful in their studies [13] but do not alwaysapply the best practices even when
examined to identify what wasparticularly salient for their persistence and success.Purpose The Transfer-GEMS Program, a grant-funded scholarship and curricular support effort,was developed to increase the number of transfer students graduating with STEM baccalaureatedegrees from the University, and to decrease their time (number of semesters) to graduation. Theprogram was designed to provide opportunities, resources, and financial support for students, inorder to create a holistic solution to any challenges that a STEM transfer student may experience. A program evaluation was conducted to study the implementation and impact of theprogram. Findings showed that students benefitted from a number of program supports, and alarge majority
credit for teachers.A recent international review of research on professional learning for educators by LindaDarling-Hammond and colleagues22 report that strategically designed, intensive, and sustainedprofessional learning can have a powerful influence on teacher skills and knowledge andultimately lead to improvements in student learning. Prevost and colleagues23 examined thePLTW teacher professional development training documents, training activities, teacher projects,and teacher self-assessment and self-reflection items. They described it as localized to a two-week intensive program rich with engineering and math concepts that were often implicitlyembedded in the engineering activities. Little, however, was revealed about the impact
IRB-approved consent forms and wereassured of anonymity. The interviews were conducted according to a semi-structured interview,beginning with standard questions but allowing for follow-up or clarification questions. Theinterview was designed to elicit students’ perceptions of the impact of NSBE on their academicand professional careers. The interviews ranged from 15 to 45 minutes. Interviewees includegraduates from Spring 2015, Fall 2015, and anticipated graduation of Spring 2016; therefore,they capture a recent snapshot of impactful practices according to recent alumni. They took thepseudonyms Johnny, Shan, JT, Brie and Marissa. The interviews were transcribed by-hand, imported into NVivo, and analyzed utilizing acombination of
. Finally, we hope to evaluate the impact of theintervention on students’ perceptions of their responsibility to address these issues as engineers.Site & ParticipationEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University is a private, not-for-profit, PhD-granting university withan emphasis on higher education for the aviation and aerospace industries. Research for thisstudy was completed at the XXXX, residential campus, which is a mid-sized, historically Whitecampus, with a predominantly male student body and an annual tuition costs of over $42,000.Our current study includes a total of eight sections of senior capstone design courses fromdifferent degree programs in the College of Engineering. Four sections were identified as thestudy group (two sections of
relationship has a profound impact on the studentexperience, and that this is particularly important for students from marginalized groups [31]. Inthe case of neurodiverse students, whose marginalized identity is invisible, the advisor-adviseerelationship may take on particular significance in relation to graduate students’ decision-makingprocess related to disclosure of their neurodiversity diagnoses, their working and learningprofiles, and their challenges in the context of their courses and research [32]. Thus,establishment of trust and open communication becomes key for creating an inclusiveenvironment in which students may advocate for themselves without fear of negative perceptionson the part of their advisor, who holds significant power within
, Drexel University Gregory Hislop is a Professor and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University. His scholarly interests span computing education research, information technology for teaching and learning, and software engineering. Prior to coming to Drexel, Dr. Hislop spent 18 years working in government and industry, where his efforts included software development and support, technology planning and evaluation, and development and delivery of technical education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Student Software Engineering Learning in HFOSS ProjectsABSTRACT Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) projects
engineeringprograms, especially between the freshman and sophomore levels. A semester-long research anddevelopment experience can aid undergraduate mechanical engineering students in gaining andreinforcing skills critical to success in their programs. The research opportunity presented to twofirst-year mechanical engineering students at the University of Wyoming introduced them toengineering concepts such as coding, and project management as well as reinforcing conceptslike physical production. The student-researchers were given firm deadlines to design andproduce a wearable badge for a “GenCyber” summer camp sponsored by the NSA. The badgeneeded to harbor a programmable micro-controller in the form of a Microbit, an exchangeablenametag, and a functioning
and researcher of the Universidad Andr´es Bello (UNAB). She graduated as physics teacher (for middle and high school), physics (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. in Physics at Universidad Nacional de C´ordoba, Argentina. In 2013 she obtained a three-year postdoctoral position at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her focus is set on educational research, physics education, problem-solving, design of instructional material and teacher training. She teaches undergraduate courses related to environmental management, energy and fundamentals of industrial processes at the School of Engineering, UNAB. She currently is coordinating the Educational and Academic Innovation Unit at the School of Engineering (UNAB) that is engaged with
, 70% thought the provided content wasvery important and 26% thought it was important for their learning. Those preliminary resultsare interesting and call for more research as they can allow instructors to get the most impact oftheir effort when implementing all nine of the protocols may not be practical or possible.Table 2, Percentage of students attributing the positive impact of the KACIE intervention to its respectiveelements: First is the most significant and Fourth is the least. Significance Element of KACIE implementation First Second Third Fourth presenting the material as a collection of concepts 21.1
, Karanjaindicated, was a possible issue with the development of information security best practices. If theCOO fails to understand or is not aware of security issues, the proper resources may not beallocated to the security of the information assets. CIO reporting is also a concern. By ensuringthe CIO reports to the CEO, the CEO is more likely to be provided a clear picture of thealignment of the technical and business aspects of the organization but miss security concerns.As mentioned, CEOs are concerned with the overall success of the organization and must rely onthe other C-Suite staff for input to assist with organization decisions. Conflict, then,can occurwhen security governance and corporate governance do not align. As continued adoption of
Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering, and serves as a Center Associate for the Learning Research and Development Center. Her principal research is in engineering education assessment, which has been funded by the NSF, Department of Ed, Sloan, EIF, and NCIIA. Dr. Sacre’s current research focuses on three distinct but highly correlated areas – innovative design and entrepreneurship, engineering modeling, and global competency in engineering. She is currently associate editor for the AEE Journal.Dr. Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California Gisele Ragusa is a Professor of Engineering Education at the University of Southern California. She conducts research on college
designed to provide global competency to students so that claimsabout the success of educational practices might be evaluated [1] in [11]. This study contributesto the body of knowledge on how to and what prepares engineering students to be ready for theglobal job market and society they will face once they graduate by understanding how studentscome to appreciate cultural differences to interact effectively with different others in the contextof a global engineering course. This research supports the lifelong learning concept and ways todevelop the five competencies rated most important by the industry, which includes appreciatingand respecting cultural differences, collaborating and working on a multicultural team, using
team the advantages and disadvantages of using Java for this particularproject. These techniques reduce cognitive bias by moderating the cognitive impact of previousexperiences, which cognition tends to bring to mind first, even though the previous experiencemay be irrelevant or invalid in the current situation.Group cognition is a coordinated, distributed cognitive process, the objective of which is tocreate a shared, distributed understanding of a problem at a team level20. Though the importanceof this area of research is increasing, information technologies are frequently not designed withthe requirements of such teams in mind and they suffer accordingly. Nosek calls the cognitiveactions and interchanges that occur during collaborative
solve theproblems as a consulting firm would. While students were busy putting geotechnical engineeringtheory into practice, their efforts were supported by a course designed as a problem-based,flipped-classroom, with just-in-time-teaching, thereby combining and putting modernpedagogical theory into practice. This paper presents the evidence-based practice study ofinterleaving and putting the pedagogical theories of problem-based learning, flipped classrooms,and just-in-time-teaching into practice. It captures the intricacies of the course design, documentsthe student and professor experience, and provides analysis and recommendations forengineering educators aimed at supporting the jump from theory to practice for these educationalmethods
University of Vermont, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Clemson University.Dr. Jennifer Harper Ogle, Clemson University Dr. Jennifer Ogle is a Professor in the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University and a 2005 graduate of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on transportation infrastructure design, safety, accessibility, and management. She also works on research with faculty in engineering education as the facilitator for the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments (RED) grant at Clemson. As a first-generation student and the first tenured female in her department, Dr. Ogle is an advocate for justice, equity, and