why many engineering students do not recall much of the important items in theirclasses in the following term after taking the class [7,8].As faculty we need to ask how we can facilitate students’ engagement and their retention of thefundamentals that are connected throughout classes, and curriculum, as well as their practice.So, the challenge is how to help students’ to know beyond the basics, the fundamentals, andthe essential points and dominant ideas. They need to remember the connections that maketheir knowledge more coherent and integrated to learn new things on their own. We need toeducate and empower students’ to become lifelong learners. This starts by asking goodquestions, being able to read, digest, take notes, and face new facts
, and his B.S. in Engineering Science from Northern Arizona University. His educational research interests include freshmen STEM programs and the development of Scientific Reasoning in students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work In Progress: Mastery-Based Grading in an Introduction to Circuits ClassIntroductionCircuits is often the first required course in an electrical engineering curriculum that demandsapplication of multiple concepts from prerequisite math and physics courses. This integration ofknowledge can be a challenge for many students. Effective teaching methods can enhance theoverall learning experience, increase program retention, and
, Operations Research, high performance computing, and visualization in improving educational systems and students’ learning. Dr. Darabi’s research has been funded by federal and corporate sponsors including the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety.Dr. Jennifer R Amos, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Dr Jenny Amos is a Teaching Professor in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is an AIMBE Fellow, BMES Fellow, ABET Commissioner and Executive Committee Member, two-time Fulbright Specialist in engineering education. Amos has over a decade’s worth of experience leading curriculum reform implementing robust assessment strategies at
risk management topics in the presented curriculumto future engineering management graduates. Based on this analysis, they will then makerecommendations on how to incorporate risk management aspects, in an integrated way, into thecurriculum of various courses in their EM program. The goal of conducting this study is to providea systemic or holistic perspective on risk management to engineering management graduates,which will more effectively prepare them to serve in scientific and engineering communities andindustries.IntroductionWith increasing complexity of engineering projects, the focus on risk and risk management is notonly increasing but it is also changing considerably. Risk management in engineering firms thatdeal with large complex
Paper ID #33178The Hidden Curriculum and the Professional Formation of ResponsibleEngineers: A Review of Relevant Literature in ASEE Conference Proceed-ingsDr. Stephen Campbell Rea, Colorado School of Mines Dr. Stephen C. Rea is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the implications of digital technologies and automated decision-making for labor and finance. He works as an Adjunct Instruc- tor/Research Assistant Professor at the Colorado School of Mines.Kylee Shiekh, Colorado School of MinesDr. Qin Zhu, Colorado School of Mines Dr. Zhu is Assistant Professor of Ethics and Engineering Education in the Department of
22.814.3on anecdotal evidence from teacher feedback to improve students’ understanding of fundamentalengineering concepts8,9,10. The Integrated Teaching and Learning (ITL) Program at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder developed a Creative Engineering course for students at anearby high school. This course focused on hands-on design based engineering in conjunctionwith the high school curriculum and demonstrated that students had increased confidence in theuse of engineering methods to solve problems11.Research on learning styles reflects the positive impact of integrating kinesthetic learningenvironments with traditional learning structures. A recent study showed that learning is aconglomeration of a variety of interactions12. The results
AC 2007-1390: COMMUNITY COLLEGE - INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP TODEVELOP AN AUTOMATED TRAINING PLATFORMMarilyn Barger, University of South Florida MARILYN BARGER is the Executive Director of FL-ATE, the Florida Regional Center for Manufacturing Education funded by NSF and housed at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa Florida. She earned a B.A. in Chemistry at Agnes Scott College, and both a B.S. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of South Florida. She has over 20 years of experience in developing curriculum in engineering and engineering technology for elementary, middle, high school and post secondary institutions. She is a registered professional
objectives within the curriculum. They recommend BIMfind its way into multiple courses in the construction curriculum. Since this study was local toAuburn, the authors recommended expanding the study’s geographic scope and including moreindustry influence. This study did not identify the specific skills and competencies required forthis integration, a limiting factor for a school planning to implement BIM.Implementation of BIM into university curriculum requires understanding of industryexpectations of CM’s in the field BIM. Without knowing what the desired outcomes are fromindustry, academia cannot properly prepare students in this area. A method of curriculum andcourse development uses an instructional design (ID) process. The first phase of ID is
STEM and coaches a robotics team comprised of girls from 22 high schools. Shoshanah holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford, an MA in Technology Strategy from Boston University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.Mr. Jeff Wood, Stanford University Goal: Make a difference in the world, through development and training of engineers to solve the most pressing problems facing the world today. ME Capstone Course and Lab Project Development Director Jeff is the ME Capstone Course and Lab Projects Development Director at Stanford, where he brings his 25-year industry experience to the role. He is responsible for the ongoing strategy, design, curriculum plan and instruction plans for capstone courses
Email Address Abstract: Many high schools nation-wide recognize the need, and are showing interest in engineering education, however, only a small percentage of those schools have been able to fully integrate an engineering component into their curriculum. The reasons for this are: lack of infrastructure, lack of training, lack of appropriate and sustainable curriculum, and lack of student interest. Paradoxically, many schools have maintained or increased the teaching of programming in their schools (Dewar, 2008). Strangely there has been little effort to correlate these two activities. Prensky (2008) stated that one of the stated core skills today’s engineer need is: an understanding of
-design courses with instructor-centered approaches. This suggests a disconnectbetween planned, enacted, and experienced elements of curriculum and lifelong learningoutcomes [7]. More research is needed to understand how or why current and recent students’perceptions of the effectiveness of their programs and courses sometimes contradict purportedbest practices, and the implications for lifelong learning motivations and strategies.Marra et al. [30] also explored how the nature of an undergraduate engineering programimpacted alumni lifelong learning, focusing on the program’s emphasis on metacognition andreflection often facilitated through team projects. The researchers interviewed 15 recentgraduates (3-4 years post-graduation) in the United
], expansive learning is a theory of organizational learning thatemphasizes horizontal expertise which is “capacity to move between activity contexts and toengage in the exchange and mixing of domain-specific expertise”. In order to operationalize thehorizontal expertise development in the CTE course, a de-scaffolding approach will be used. De-scaffolding approach involves students developing expertise on a ‘in-focus’ topic while other‘out-of-focus’ topics are scaffolded, and over time ‘out-of-focus’ topic incrementally startcoming into focus as the previously ‘in-focus’ topic is scaffolded [4].2. ObjectiveThe broad objective of developing and implementing a horizontal CTE curriculum is tounderstand how an integrated horizontal learning approach in
develop an integrated program of mid-level writing instruction in the technical disciplines. A multi-faceted program emerged:collaboration among writing faculty and technical faculty; development of interdisciplinarywriting instruction in mid-level technical courses; the utilization of grading rubrics to enhancethe importance of writing and communication skills in technical courses; the formation of adiscourse community; and the creation of e-portfolios to enhance reflection and illuminateconnections among the students’ technical and Humanities courses.IntroductionThis paper describes how the College of Applied Science writing faculty joined forces withengineering technology faculty to research innovative practices in the teaching of writing in
,designprojects, and individual development. Accordingly, engineering curriculum is changing from disparatecourses reform and update to integrated curriculum design, which is facilitating collaboration acrossmajors,disciplines,anddepartmentsinconcertwithstudents’technicalandnontechnicalskillstoidentifyanddesigninnovativesolutionstosocietalproblemsandchallenges.2.2.RecentengineeringeducationinitiativesinChinaSignificantmilestonesofengineeringeducationinChinaoverthepasttwodecadesincludelaunchingthePlanforEducatingandTrainingOutstandingEngineers(PETOT)since2010,becomingsignatorymemberoftheWashingtonAccordin2016,theNEEinitiativewhichisconsideredasupgradedversionofPETOTin 2017, the SFT initiative and College of Modern Industry (CMI) initiative in 2021, and
the process of integration of Engineering and Technology in cthe urriculumframeworks.Data CollectionParticipants were contacted via e-mail with a request to schedule an interview. Interview timesvaried, ranging from 30 to 60 minutes. Variations were primarily a result of some participantsgiving brief answers, focused primarily on their direct involvement with the process, and someparticipants giving more detailed explanations providing a broader overview of the standardsdevelopment and inclusion in the curriculum frameworks. Due to their work schedules, two outof five participants preferred to have an interview via phone. The other three participants agreedto meet at their work places. Interviews were audiotaped and subsequently transcribed
UniversityEngineers must work within multinational and multicultural environments, butincorporating international experiences into a packed undergraduate curriculum in ameaningful and scalable manner is difficult. This paper addresses the need to betterunderstand how course instructors can effectively internationalize their learningmaterials in a domestic engineering classroom. The course used as a qualitative casestudy in this paper is an Introduction to Engineering course at a large public university inthe United States. We highlight a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning case study of onecourse’s efforts to provide international experiences in a domestic classroom.Introduction and RationaleEngineers must work within multinational and multicultural
, content is available to help remediate skills when the player is struggling. The playcomponent involves the player engaging in game play to practice their mathematics and scienceskills. Finally, players are assessed to monitor their progress. While this was done separately inMAVEN, CAPTIVATE ties each question to an in-game action so that the player can beassessed as they play.Reemploying Modular FrameworkOne of the key challenges addressed during the development of MAVEN was the lack ofavailable research on integrating serious game design and instructional design to create a gamethat was not only fun, but also effective in helping students learn content. As MAVEN wasdeveloped, a modular framework was designed that includes a model and a process
curriculum.A key finding from our causal analysis indicates that an increase in program complexity by 20points is correlated with a decrease of 3. 74% in the likelihood of graduating within four years.Moreover, our counterfactual scenarios demonstrate that for students with specific demographicprofiles, such as males with a certain HSGPA not receiving Pell Grants, an increase in complexitycould inversely affect their graduation prospects. These nuanced discoveries underscore the impor-tance of curriculum design in alignment with student demographics and preparation, challengingeducators to balance academic rigor with the facilitation of student success. The breadth and scaleof our dataset significantly enrich the quality of our conclusions, providing
, only 19 % of tenthgrade students retain interest in engineering after the second ICE-HS program course, raisingconcerns about efficacy [10].Programs such as the year-long ENGR 102 HS program developed by the University of Arizonahave successfully increased students’ interest in becoming an engineer and their confidence intheir ability to succeed in university-level engineering courses [7]. However, the ENGR 102 HSprogram cost additional tuition and require students to be a junior or senior and enrolled in pre-Calculus or higher math.In this work in progress paper we report on a developing Differentiated Engineering Curriculum(DEC), which was created to expose students of varying knowledge backgrounds and interests toengineering while providing
infusion to high schools was to adopt the university-developed research course template for high school research activities14. A summer researchexperience camp involved junior and senior high school students for only science disciplines butoffered a chance to earn one semester hour of college credit and reported to establish a studentpipeline for many undergraduate programs nationwide15. Another activity offered a six-weekresidential summer research camp only for sophomores and juniors in high schools, focused onbiological, agricultural, environmental, and natural sciences and required a fee and anexpectation of a scientific report16. Also, a no-fee summer camp offered a variety of engineeringresearch topics in an eight-week session but the camp
Instruments, Dallas, between 2011 and 2012. He was a Member of Technical Staff, IC Design at Maxim Integrated, San Diego, CA, between 2012 and 2016, and a Staff Engineer at Qualcomm, Tempe, AZ, between 2016 and 2019. In 2019, he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University, where he is currently an assistant professor and Jack H. Graham Endowed Fellow of Engineering. His research interests include power management IC design, hardware security, and energy-efficient computing. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 What Does it Take to Implement a Semiconductor Curriculum in High School? True Challenges and The Teachers
curriculumsuitable for high school physics classrooms. This paper gives an overview of a curricularintervention, mixed methods research study, and analysis of a four-day soft robotics curriculumthat introduces the field, technical concepts, and allows for student experimentation and design.We employed a mixed methods research design to understand how the curriculum broadenedstudents’ understanding of engineering, their STEM identities, and career interest. Data analysisaims to uncover what students learned about the discipline of soft robotics, and how theycontextualize the lesson within their understanding of career paths in robotics, and their owninterests. Results to date demonstrate that integrating a soft robotics curriculum in high schoolsmay provide
/s11948-005-0006-3.[6] N. A. Andrade and D. Tomblin, “Engineering and Sustainability: The Challenge of Integrating Social and Ethical Issues into a Technical Course,” 2018.[7] A. Benham et al., “Developing and Implementing an Aerospace Macroethics Lesson in a Required Sophomore Course,” in 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2021, pp. 1–9. doi: 10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637172.[8] A. Gupta, “A Practitioner Account of Integrating Macro-ethics Discussion in an Engineering Design Class,” Jul. 2017. doi: 10.18260/1-2–27498.[9] B. Jimerson, E. Park, V. Lohani, and S. Culver, “Enhancing Engineering Ethics Curriculum by Analyzing Students’ Perception,” Jun. 2013, p. 23.530.1-23.530.15. doi: 10.18260/1-2–19544.[10] Palmer
, bisni.f@uaeu.ac.ae, 201180954@uaeu.ac.ae} † The University of Arizona ‡ The University of New Mexico • United Arab Emirates UniversityAbstractCurriculum structure and prerequisite complexity significantly influence student progression andgraduation rates. Thus, efforts to find suitable measures to reduce curriculum complexity have re-cently been employed to the utmost. Most of these efforts use the services of domain experts, suchas faculty and student affairs staff. However, it is tedious for a domain expert to study and analyzea full curriculum in an attempt to
Page 24.1324.2the class an experiment that demonstrates the course capabilities. There is not a set of specificinstructions to follow that lead to a predicted result as with many laboratory courses. Rather eachstudent or student team must first determine what they would like to accomplish utilizing theexisting resources. The first opportunity for this in our curriculum is in our 3D ParametricModeling course where the students must develop a model for a complex part using the skillsthey have developed during the course. The next major opportunity is in the Robotics andAutomation class where they first determine the project goal, then determine the type/number ofsensors, the type of feeding system, and finally the end-of arm tooling needed to
CurriculumAbstractEnrollment figures for the construction program at Texas State University indicate an imbalancein the ratio between pre-majors and matriculated majors. The pre-major program is designed totake three semesters but contains two-thirds of the majors in the construction program. Thispaper reports on the work in progress self-study to determine the stumbling points for studentsin this pre-major program. Institutional research data will be used to identify courses in the pre-construction curriculum with the highest rates of students receiving unsatisfactory grades (D, F,or W) for credit in order to identify any courses creating an unintended gate to matriculation. Inaddition to the examination of course grades, student enrollment and retention data will
Paper ID #40688Faculty Perceptions of Key Concepts in Degree Curriculum: Identifyingthe Role of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and JusticeApril Townson, Rowan UniversityDr. Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University Dr. Bodnar is an Associate Professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department at Rowan University. Her research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques such as game- based learning in undergraduate classes as well as innovation and entrepreneurship.Dr. Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University Kaitlin Mallouk is an Associate Professor of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University
onthe types of support and professional development needed to adequately prepare teachers todeliver the new curriculum. The SLIDER Fellows are an integral part of this professionaldevelopment, spending one day each week in a classroom with the SLIDER teacher, and so it isessential to determine the Fellows’ impact on curriculum implementation and teacherdevelopment. Our purpose in studying factors such as power distribution, ways teachers andFellows interact, and interdependence is to discover ways to leverage positive aspects of theteacher-Fellow relationship and identify and improve any difficulties so Fellows will have thegreatest impact possible in the classroom, both in their interactions with students and withteachers.Fellows Programs
thatincluded comments such as: “I really wish there was more structure in this course,” and “…itseemed too open ended at times.” These comments seem to address the larger challenge ofcapstone projects; helping students transition from discrete problem-solving to open-ended,integrated solutions to larger scale design challenges.In addition to the end-of-semester SLE, students participated in a course-end reflection exercise.A sample of student responses are included here. Many indicate a positive response to theinteraction with community stakeholders on real life engineering problems.“One thing I will remember from this course in 10 years is that this is the first major project I’veever designed. It was really cool to be able to work on an actual
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