student improvetheir 3D modeling skills, students complete bi-weekly labs, weekly homework assignments,three projects, and take the Certified SOLIDWORKS Associates (CSWA) exam. The bi-weeklylabs require students to produce a 3D CAD model of a part or assembly based on an engineeringdrawing. Labs generally take students less than 30 minutes to complete. The weekly homeworkassignments require the completion of tutorials and/or modeling parts or assemblies from thetextbook [2]. Weekly homework assignments consistent of 3-5 parts or assemblies that thestudent must create in the CAD software.Although assigning extensive opportunities to model helps with mastering 3D CAD software,efficiently grading the work is challenging. In the spring 2018 semester
. Framing is the set ofexpectations one has about a situation [21, 22]. In our study, some students framed their solutionas meeting the expectations of the instructor, while in other instances students discussed theirsolution as if they were analyzing a bridge that would be built in the real world. Similarly,Koretsky and Nolen found students discussing their projects either in the “school world” or the“engineering world” when examining chemical engineering middle year studio and senior designteams [23, 24], and McNeill et al. found similar results where students distinguished between“classroom problems” and workplace problems” [25]. Gainsburg also found different ways thatstudents framed mathematics in engineering courses: from believing that every
projected average salary to be statistically different betweenthose who were formerly postdocs and those who did not obtain postdocs. The opportunity costof postdoc training in terms of salary also appears to vary across employment sectors, with thestakes particularly high for those eventually employed in industry. For PhDs who remain inacademia, time as a postdoc may improve early career earnings. Therefore, from the perspectiveof financial returns to doctoral training, it is important for engineering PhDs to consider the long-term career prospects in different sectors. For engineering PhDs with career interests in non-academic employer sectors, awareness of the potential delay in salary growth associated with thelow payment during postdoc
computational engineering courses, such as thetraditional lecture and the flipped classroom, and have aspects of a hybrid approach of these twotechniques.In a traditional engineering lecture, the instructor typically transfers written notes to a physicalsurface (whiteboard), or projects them on a screen using physical transparencies or a tabletcomputer. This method of content delivery is generally characterized by limited interactionbetween the lecturer and the students; the content tends to be presented in a linear andchronological manner. Students typically do not practice the art of note-taking, as they would fora history or literature course, which requires active listening and the ability to synthesizeinformation and identify major topics and
Education. He was named NETI Fac- ulty Fellow for 2013-2014, and the Herbert F. Alter Chair of Engineering (Ohio Northern University) in 2010. His research interests include success in first-year engineering, engineering in K-12, introducing entrepreneurship into engineering, and international service and engineering. He has written two texts in Digital Electronics, including the text used by Project Lead the Way. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Depression and Its Impact on Students’ Success and Academic RetentionAbstractIn the U.S., major depressive disorder affects approximately 14.8 million American adults.Furthermore
- project management, 17 - business and public administration, and 18 -leadership.Given the background related to individuals’ needs for autonomy and the importance thatengineers possess both technical and non-technical skills, the following research questionsmotivated this study:(1) To what extent do top-ranked environmental engineering programs allow students to make choices in their courses (such as free electives and technical electives)? a. How do choice opportunities in EnvE compare to chemical and civil engineering degrees? b. How do choice opportunities in EnvE compare to non-engineering degrees in chemistry, math, and physics?(2) What is the balance of required technical and non-technical courses in top
AssessmentMany of the activities presented in this MOOC were directed at students’ personal growth,while others focused on the mastery of core principles. As a result, a strong emphasis wasplaced on students’ personal learning paths and on building meaningful insights through theexercises and projects rather than accumulating “right or wrong” answers. A task list wasdefined for those students interested in earning a course Statement of Accomplishment thatincluded the completion of 5 of the 6 weekly assignments. To complete a Statement ofAccomplishment with Distinction, students had to fulfill all these requirements and alsocomplete at least 2 peer reviews of other students’ work for each submitted assignment.2.6 Weekly AssignmentsThe six creative
session (construction and Professional Skills engr) Field trip/ mentoring session (humanitarian engr) Professional Skills Field trip/ mentoring session (project Professional Skills management) Field trip/ mentoring session (environmental Professional Skills engr) Academic competition at student conference Learning CommunityWithin the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the EXCEL-SC program ispiloting a number of activities that will be expanded to larger groups of student participants onceprocedures are modified for wide-scale implementation including: professional
explored faculty adoption of research-based instructional strategies in the statics classroom. Currently, Dr. Cutler works as an assessment and instructional support specialist with the Leonhard Center for the Enhance- ment of Engineering Education at Penn State. She aids in the educational assessment of faculty-led projects while also supporting instructors to improve their teaching in the classroom. Previously, Dr. Cutler worked as the research specialist with the Rothwell Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence Worldwide Campus (CTLE - W) for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Talking “faculty development” with engineering educators
lessexpensive goods (that more people can afford) at the expense of loss of jobs.During the fall 2014 semester, it was clear that students easily grasped the connection betweencontrol system design and safety, with a large portion of the team-based final projects using asafety-related concept to drive one or more of their selected design specifications. In classdiscussion and individual conversations, it was also clear that students could see thephilosophical connection between the bigger picture engineering decisions (e.g., moving towardindustrial automation) and social justice, though they clearly perceived a disconnect betweenthese more philosophical concepts and the details of the classroom activities.Since the fall 2014 semester was the first
Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program (ANSEP) Deputy Direc- tor and managed its Summer Bridge, Academies of Engineering, and University Success components. I earned a BS in Civil Engineering from University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) in 2005 and a MS in En- gineering Management from UAA in 2009. I have taught the Introduction to Engineering course at UAA 5 times. I have more than five years of construction and engineering professional experience in Alaska. I specialized in water and sewer projects in remote Alaskan villages. My responsibilities have included design assistance, technical report and permit writing, feasibility studies, and business plan preparations. Previous work includes conceptual design of
(p20)between the two groups16.As stated, the goal of this study was to make a first step in developing a derivative instrument fortracking student growth, beginning with first-year students. The authors attempted to minimizemodifications to the EAO component of the instrument to test the underlying assumptions,structures, and constructs as faithfully as possible. However, it was necessary to makemodifications to some instrument items to better align them to the experiences of students. Themodifications generally re-situated items away from business and professionally drivenexperiences to project and academic focused experiences and situations. This does present somerisk in aligning results from the original EAO instrument with the modified
Spinoza’s call for caution. Reason became a tool in the grip of evil. Here in the United States, President Truman either was unaware or ignored the pleas of O.C.Brewster, a talented engineer, who as a condition for working on the Manhattan Project hadreceived written assurance from Franklin Roosevelt that a demonstration nuclear bomb would bedropped first—as a warning—before actual use against a city. A petition18 from Leo Szilard,physicist, signed by 70 colleagues, had recommended a hold on atomic weaponry, but this wasignored by Secretary of War Henry Stimson, who said: “I think the bomb instead constitutesmerely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary anddangerous to fit into old concepts.” In fact
provided essentially free of charge, with most students paying only fortransportation to and from the program. In 2014, for the first time, the program provided transportationassistance to needed students who could not have attended otherwise. The academy was again conductedin the Center Padre Zegrí , a Catholic School, in Nigua, where it moved in 2009.. MACILE will move toits own location in 2016.In addition to learning about engineering and technology, the DR students received instruction inmathematics and language (Spanish). A project-based chemistry component for students in Group 4 waspiloted in summer 2013 and integrated as part of the science curriculum in 2014. The goal is to include ascience curriculum at all the levels by 2016.MACILE’s
possibilities availableduring concept evaluation and selection7,8. This, in turn, increases the potential for generating adesign solution that best meets a problem’s given constraints.The importance of ideation within the engineering design process is recognized equally in bothacademic and industrial settings9. The collaborative nature of engineering design is also well-established,9 with individuals of different personalities, technical backgrounds, and levels ofexperience coming together to meet shared design objectives. Following this real-world practice,engineering educators routinely put students in design teams to complete both simple andcomplex projects. However, in many cases, they do not consider the cognitive diversity amongthe students in
you recall?RP 2: Maybe two or three months…Actually I'm working on a project, I learned programming in my private work. In one year ortwo years maybe... I learned Matlab not by step by step, I just have a problem and I just looked up the help document and find thefunction. I just plug in and then meet another problem, I just google it to see how to solve the problem. I didn't learn it step by step.How to define the variable, how to deal with matrix…I just directly go to the help document to solve the problem. Not so systematicI think.…Interviewer: …Did you learn it at the university or did you learn it before the university?RP 3: …Some of the stuff before. We were required to have one for calculus in high school. But most of my calculator
engineering classes.Thus, the goal of this project was to complete preliminary steps for creation of a civilengineering fluid mechanics concept inventory.Using an expert panel and student input, concept inventory items were systematically evaluatedfor applicability in civil engineering courses. The expert panel reviewed items using a modifiedDelphi-process, while student input and performance on the existing concept inventory wereused to validate outcomes from the expert panel. Results generally concurred that topics relatedto fluid statics, pressure measurement, conservation of mass, Bernoulli’s equation, andconservation of momentum were important for civil engineers. In contrast, compressible flowand boundary effects were generally classified as
learning contexts.Dr. Tanya Faltens, Purdue University, West Lafayette Tanya Faltens is the Educational Content Creation Manager for the Network for Computational Nanotech- nology (NCN) which created the open access nanoHUB.org cyber-platform. Her technical background is in Materials Science and Engineering (Ph.D. UCLA 2002), and she has several years’ experience in hands-on informal science education, including working at the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley. While at Cal Poly Pomona, she taught the first year engineering course, mentored student capstone re- search projects, and introduced nanoHUB simulation tools into the undergraduate curriculum in materials science and engineering and electrical engineering
. This is the researcher’s next planned step in the data review process. Lastly, futureinvestigations should provide a more in-depth analysis of the reflective comments presentedfrom the reviewer to gauge the ability of the reviewer to provide feedback to fellow students inorder to ascertain levels of equivalence of review. These are planned future projects ofinvestigation for follow-up. References1. Søndergaard, H., & Mulder, R. A. (2012). Collaborative learning through formative peer review: Pedagogy, programs and potential. Computer Science Education, 22(4), 343-367. doi:10.1080/08993408.2012.7280412. Keengwe, J., Onchwari, G., & Agamba, J. (2014). Promoting effective e-learning
learning can take on many forms – from traditional tests and quizzes towritten laboratory reports, research papers, projects, etc. The focus of this paper will be toprovide a discussion about ways to incorporate writing into the curriculum as well as to providesome examples of how writing-based tools can be used to assess student learning. To this end,the use of rubrics can be very worthwhile for both the students and the instructor. As Spurlin hasindicated and modeled, the use of carefully crafted rubrics can be a useful way to demonstratethat students have met the criterion whether the communication is through either written or oralform3. In addition, the use of a carefully crafted rubric can help reduce the overall time neededto grade a
tocommunicate complex and relatively open-ended meanings.Before class began, Wylie would project a PowerPoint slide of 2-4 cartoons relevant to the day’stopic, much as Cheesman (2006) describes.5 As students arrived, they would read the slide andoften react, with a smile or a groan or a look of confusion. To start class, Wylie would ask theclass about each comic, “What is this author’s message?”, “How do you know?”, “Why is itfunny? Or why is it not funny?”. She was surprised at the variety of interpretations, whichthankfully made for interesting discussions and even debates about a cartoon’s meaning. Forexample, Wylie showed this image on the first day of the large introductory class, to introducethe idea of the interactions between science
Paper ID #15001Using Transnational Online Learning Experiences for Building InternationalStudent Working Groups and Developing Intercultural CompetencesMr. Dominik May, TU Dortmund University Dominik May holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from TU Dortmund University (Germany). Cur- rently he is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Center for Higher Education at TU Dort- mund University in the area of engineering education research. In his position he is managing several research and development projects on engineering education and technical training. Furthermore he of- fers workshops on professional