results and their interpretations of these your model or solution? results How could [big idea] explain your results? Optimization How will you improve your solution? What are the results from your retest? Which solution best addressed the problem? How could what you know about [big idea] explain what happened?Context of the studyThis study is part of a larger project entitled, Science Learning through Engineering DesignPartnership and is situated within a multi-year, school and university, math and sciencepartnership located in the Midwest region of the U.S. The
connectionbetween parts one and two.The quantum dot data collection went very smoothly, and all three students were able tobuild a spreadsheet with their data and results without issues. It is possible that afreshman or sophomore may experience more difficulties when reading the theory andcollecting data due to less experience in a laboratory setting.6 AcknowledgementsThis project is supported by the National Science Foundation through the ATE program,Award No. ATE 1700695. Any opinions, findings, and recommendations expressed in thispaper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References [1] Klaus D. Sattler, Ed., Handbook of Nanophysics: Nanoparticles and Quantum Dots - Google Books. Boca
difficult2 – Not very difficult3 – Somewhat difficult4 – Moderately difficult5 – Very difficult To develop the skill-set of researchers involved in this project who were new toqualitative methodology and to identify features of our presentation that facilitated or hinderedthe experts understanding the exam questions and coming to a consensus, we decided to conducta beta version of the focus group. In the course of the beta focus group and upon reflection, we decided to make thefollowing changes to our procedure for the official focus group: 1. Because the experts often ranked questions as being between two levels of difficulty, e.g. between a “2” and a “3,” we determined that a scale of 1 - 10 would be more useful for
Paper ID #21972The Challenges and Affordances of Engineering Identity as an Analytic LensMs. Christine Allison Gray, Northern Arizona University Christine Allison Gray is a doctoral student in the College of Education at Northern Arizona University. She also serves as a graduate assistant on the Reshaping Norms project in the College of Engineering, Forestry and Natural Sciences.Dr. Robin Tuchscherer P.E., Northern Arizona University Dr. Tuchscherer currently serves as an Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University where he has taught since 2011. Prior to academia, he accumulated eight years of professional
(NYU), NY, USA. During his period at NYU, Dr. Rahman served as the lead robotics instructor for the Center for K-12 STEM education, and leaded the implementation of a large NSF-funded project entitled “DR K-12: Teaching STEM with Robotics: Design, Development, and Testing of a Research-based Professional Development Program for Teachers”. During that time, Dr. Rahman received license from the New York City Department of Education to conduct robot-based K- 12 STEM education research in different public schools across New York City, trained about 100 public school math and science teachers for robot-based K-12 STEM education, and reached more than 1000 K-12 students across New York City. He then worked as an assistant
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