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
, state, local and institutional policies and practice and that result in professional competency in civil and construction engineering.Dr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Lisa D. McNair is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as co-Director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC) and CATALYST Fellow at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces
online survey. Two surveys were developed as partof this study to target the two participant groups: instructors and students. Additional dataconsidered in this study includes a schedule of the first-year engineering course workload(anticipated assignment, quiz, test, project, laboratory due dates) furnished by all first-yearcoordinators.The first survey was distributed to all first-year engineering course coordinators via email(N~10). The survey received a 50% response rate. This survey consisted of a template forcoordinators to provide consistent quantitative information regarding course deliverablesincluding, the topic of the deliverable, the weight of the deliverable in the course, the deliverabledue date, and the estimated time for the
project products yielded similar findings: students who spent more effort onproblem scoping (i.e., gathering and synthesizing information to better understand a problem ordesign idea) tended to score higher in terms of client satisfaction [14]. These findings suggestboth the importance of problem scoping and the need for some focus on problem scoping inundergraduate education.While problem scoping is often associated with the beginning of a design process, problemscoping can occur throughout the design process. Several researchers have described design as aprocess where designer’s problem space (i.e., set of ideas about and understanding of theproblem) and solution space (i.e., the set of possible solutions and details about the possiblesolutions
). In all, we intend from the findings of this study to generate a set of principles thatteachers can consider when they are creating learning environments in which their studentsengage in engineering. Teachers might engage students in socially-situated activities that aresimilar in purpose to those of engineers. Within this context, they can provide their students withdevelopmentally-appropriate genres that are similar to those engineers read; and they can modelfor their students how to evaluate those genres like engineers evaluate texts. On a pragmaticlevel, ultimately, we also intend for this project to result in instructional materials, including setsof texts for students and guiding teachers’ materials (e.g., discussion prompts) that might
Engineering from University of Delaware and are currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Adam’s research interests include access, equity and social justice in engineering.Cynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech Cynthia Hampton is a doctoral candidate in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech.Ms. Ashley R Taylor, Virginia Tech Ashley Taylor is a doctoral candidate in engineering education at Virginia Polytechnic and State Univer- sity, where she also serves as a program assistant for the Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity and an advisor for international senior design projects in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Ash- ley received her MS in Mechanical Engineering, MPH in Public
also based on its perceivedrelevance toward my research topic, as previously discussed. If I’m working on non-disability-related projects, I feel it less salient and relevant to my research and will not disclose. However,in my current research area of exploring identity formation in undergraduate civil engineeringstudents who experience disability, I often feel the need to disclose my disability, particularly asa way to justify my interactions with participants and key themes that I pull from my data. While the decision to disclose may sound straightforward and steadfast, it can be quitecomplex, confusing, and risky. Not only is positionality a statement to orient the reader towardyour research lens, but it also identifies an identity
of their junioryear. The journal can serve as physical evidence that the student can use to keep track of all theactivities, document the history, write notes, and revisit whenever needed. It is also a way to seethe linkage between the courses [39].3.4 Future PlanThe plan of this project is to assess the impact of i) using VR technology to teach IE conceptsand ii) using VR teaching modules to integrate the IE curriculum. The assessment involves twocohorts: control and intervention groups. The authors are currently collecting data for the controlgroup. Once the VR module is fully developed, relevant data will be collected and analyzed withrespect to the control group. The assessment instruments involve self-report surveys andknowledge tests
largelyleft up to the students to make the connection between the levels. Similarly, we think studentswill better understand the dynamics of the macro-level by informally deriving Fick’s lawsthemselves before being shown a formal derivation. Results of this re-design will be reported infuture publication.4.4 Closing RemarksThis study reported on the first iteration of a design-based research project to develop a unit forlearning about diffusion at both the micro and macro levels using computational agent-basedmodeling representations, the traditional differential equation representations (Fick’s laws), andaccompanying graphical representations. Our findings suggest that the agent-basedrepresentation helped students understand the micro-level process
popular trend in the last ten years. Missouri University of Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Virginia Commonwealth University have a dedicated course in leadership, which is a skill that the engineering industry is seeking more from graduates. University of South Carolina has a course in project management, which helps students in capstone senior design classes. CSU Long Beach, University of Texas Arlington, and University at Buffalo have a course to develop academic success skills of students. Seventy-three mechanical engineering programs have a dedicated Introduction to Engineering or Mechanical Engineering (Non-CAD based) course during freshmen year. This course
Outstanding Teaching Award.Todd Haskell, Western Washington University Todd Haskell is a cognitive scientist interested in learning and the development of expertise, especially in STEM fields. He is currently Associate Professor of Psychology at Western Washington University. In previous projects Dr. Haskell has worked on understanding how chemistry novices and experts navi- gate between macroscopic, symbolic, and small particle representations, and how pre-service elementary teachers translate an understanding of energy concepts from physics to other disciplines.Dr. Lee W. Singleton, Whatcom Community College Lee Singleton is a professor at Whatcom Community College, in Bellingham, WA. He holds a BS in mathematics from
to be graded manually, we didnot provide immediate feedback to the students.5.1 General InformationThe in-class group performed the study as the students took the Data Visualization course at the University of NotreDame, while the PhD group received the learning materials via email. The students used their laptops to accessGraphVisual via their preferred web browser. The in-class group students were informed that this is a pilot project andthat the quiz would only count towards their participation grade of the class, while the PhD group students receivedmonetary compensation ($30 each) for their time. We did this to avoid having the students not paying close attentionto their answers. The in-class group students include 7 computer science
must come from another source, such as a survey.The Study of Faculty Worklife at UW-Madison survey14,15 was conceived of in 2001, as anelement of the proposed ADVANCE project at UW-Madison. Development of the surveyinstrument began in 2002 with in-depth interviews of 26 women faculty in the biologicaland physical sciences. Their comments formed the basis of an instrument designed toinvestigate gender differences in workplace experiences of men and women faculty inbiological and physical sciences. In late 2003, just before the instrument was to befielded, the Office of the Provost requested that the survey be sent to all faculty in alldivisions, and funded the additional costs associated with the expansion of the survey.This survey was
mathematics for 3 years. She has worked on diverse projects about learning, including research about discourse, reading, statistics, algebra, and now Statics. Her primary research focus remains improving the quality of mathematics teaching. She can be contacted at kjh262@psu.edu.Christine B. Masters, Pennsylvania State University Christine B. Masters is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at The Pennsylvania State University. She earned a PhD from Penn State in 1992. In addition to raising four children with her husband of 20 years, she has been teaching introductory mechanics courses for more than 10 years, training the department graduate teaching assistants for
Projects,” Proceedings of the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, paper 2006-853, Chicago, IL, June 2006.6. M. Oakleaf, “Using Rubrics to Collect Evidence for Decision-Making: What do Librarians Need to Learn?”, 4th International Evidence Based Library & Information Practice Conference, Chapel-Hill, NC, May 2007. Online: http://www.eblip4.unc.edu/papers/Oakleaf.pdf. Page 13.518.16Appendix A.Notes on Oral Presentation EvaluationsThis class utilizes a rubric that measures a portion of the RSVP specification criteria for evaluating oral presentationsdeveloped by Jessica Renaud of
) and 12 ut (t)] are identical. S67: Right.Participant S66 similarly reasoned about the problem when asked to deduce the step response ofthe system, however, he arrived at a different answer. He concluded the step response, gs (t), to be Page 12.1317.9This response can be also ascribed to the invocation of the interval matching readout strategy.However, participant S66 appealed to the notion of extrapolation not in the sense of an extensionbut as a projection or replication of a given pattern. He argued that because the step function canbe obtained by extrapolating the scaled version of the input function 12 ut (t) as defined over0 ≤ t
expected contributors. Then, the other author along with afaculty member and two graduate students not involved in the research project categorized eachresponse independently. The results were compiled by one of the authors and any differingresponses (fewer than 20%) were discussed until all were in agreement on the categorization.The first four categories were created based upon Eccles’ Expectancy Value Theory: Interest,Importance (Utility Value), Relative Cost and Attainment. Six of 15 of the respondents indicatedinterest in a particular engineering field as a principle reason for selecting their major. This wasthe category with the largest number of motivators. Student 1 stated interest in performingcertain tasks (programming) that led to the
a leader in internation- alization of Engineering at NAU since arriving in 1999, expanding this initiative to the Natural Sciences starting in 2005. Significant milestones in this area include the development of an effective model of re- ciprocal ”exploratory trips” to motivate international study in engineering; the International Engineering and Natural Sciences certificate program; and the Global Engineering College project, an NSF-funded exploration of a comprehensively internationalized curricular model for engineering education. These efforts culminated in 2010 with the creation of the Global Science and Engineering Program (GSEP), an innovative initiative to establish a comprehensive framework for
larger.HA1b: There is a negative correlation between student grades and the number of misconceptions. If the grade is higher, the number of misconceptions is smaller.H02: There is no difference in numbers of misconceptions of novices and seniors.HA2: Seniors have fewer misconceptions than freshmen.ParticipantsThere were 20 novices (the freshmen and first-semester sophomores enrolled in the introductorylevel course “Digital Fundamentals”), and 22 senior students (enrolled in the senior final project-design course) in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology program at PurdueUniversity, Indiana.Methods and Research DesignConcept InventoryDespite the variety of accepted methods to detect and diagnose students’ misconceptions,Concept