. Journal of Science Education and Technology 2008, 17, (5), 454-465.12. ABET ABET 2009 Requirements. http://www.abet.org/Linked DocumentsUPDATE/Criteria and PP/E001 09-10 EAC Criteria 12-01-08.pdf13. Asunda, P. A.; Hill, R. B., Critical features of engineering design in technology education. Journal of Industrial Teacher Education 2007, 44, (1), 25-48.14. Creswell, J. W., Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five approaches. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, 2012.15. Yang, M. C., Concept generation and sketching: Correlations with design outcome. In ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference 2003, American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Chicago, IL, 2003; pp 1-6.16. Lammi, M.; Branoff, T., High
, together with innovative design practices, need to be an essential part of thelearning experience in undergraduate engineering technology programs. The proposed integratedapproach teaches the basic theoretical knowledge and hands-on practices of the aforementionedsubjects embedding modules in a sequence of courses across the curriculum. The mainobjectives are: (a) introduce the entrepreneurial process and practice in a multidisciplinaryenvironment, (b) emphasize energy efficiency, environmental friendliness, and long-termsustainability in fundamental engineering courses, and (c) apply the proposed approach in thecontext of human-powered transportation systems, a topic that has great interest and potential inunderdeveloped countries. The work
implemented with a computer equipped with DAQ board. Data obtained from DAQboard are pre-processed and sent to the upper levels of the application by a software componentdeveloped in LabVIEW, MATLAB and Interactive Data Language (IDL). The access to systemis through our university course management website, via proper identification. The access isopen to all students or users enrolled in the renewable energy and sustainability courses. Page 23.602.8Figure 1 Architecture of the systemAn important part of the system is represented by software development. Software developmentis based on: a) data acquisition and conditioning; b) data storage and
Paper ID #5946Impact of Attending a Research Experience for Teachers Program with In-ternational and Societally Relevant ComponentsZornitsa Georgieva, West Virginia UniversityProf. Reagan Curtis, West Virginia University Reagan Curtis, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and director of the Program Eval- uation and Research Center at West Virginia University. He pursues a diverse research agenda including areas of interest in (a) the development of mathematical and scientific knowledge across the lifespan, (b) online delivery methods and pedagogical approaches to university instruction, and (c) research
, mentors,and scholars.References1. Donnelly-Smith, L., “Global Learning through Short-Term Study Abroad,” Peer Review, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Fall 2009.2. Barnhart, B., T. Ricks and P. Spier, “Faculty Roles,” NAFSA’s Guide to Education Abroad for Advisers and Administrators, Hoffa and Pearson eds., 2nd Edition, 1997.3. Mello, N.A., “Preparing Faculty for a Global Experience,” Proceedings of the 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 2005.4. Vaz, R., and C. Demetry, “Recruitment, Mentoring, and Development of STEM Faculty to Lead International Programs,” Proceedings of the 40th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 2010
Paper ID #7820Work-in-progress: A novel approach to collaborative learning in engineeringprogramsDr. Neelam Soundarajan, Ohio State University Dr. Soundarajan is an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Ohio State. His interests include software engineering and engineering education. Page 23.1391.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Work-in-Progress: A Novel Approach to Collaborative Learning in Engineering
., and Public Policy; Policy and Global Affairs; National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine (2010). Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads. Washington, D.C., The National Academies Press. Retrieved, November 15, 2012 from http://www.cossa.org/diversity/reports/Expanding_Underrepresented_Minority_Participation.pdf4. Obama, B. (September 2009). A Strategy for American Innovation: Driving Towards Sustainable Growth and Quality Jobs. Retrieved November 4, 2012, from http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/nec/StrategyforAmericanInnovation/5. Obama, B. (November 4, 2012). A Strategy
: 0.01 b. Calculate the probability that a wax block will either crumble away OR melt too fast when it is put to use. c. You have been told that a particular wax block was not Usable, but not the reason that it was unusable. Calculate the (conditional) probability that the wax block melted too fast (given that it was unusable). d. Calculate the following three probabilities: the probability that a wax block will Page 23.93.6 crumble away given that it was made by shift one, the probability that a wax block will melt too fast given that it was made by
students, and (3) a more advanced version of the latter two workshops would be usefulfor the senior graduate students (and possibly, the post-doctoral researchers). (a) (b)Figure 1. Professional development: (a) workshop on library skills and (b) resume/vitae writingworkshop.Improvement of communication skills involved three programs. First, the weekly presentationsby individual graduate students were continued in 2010-2011. Second, a new focus onimproving general writing skills was addressed by the hiring of three “wordsmiths,” seniorEnglish majors who acted as writing tutors to the group. The Graduate Student Council leadersand the wordsmiths worked together, creating a curriculum
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figure 1. 2. Research directed to the establishing and expanding the body of knowledge for enterprise-based approaches to poverty reduction should be guided by the principles as outlined in the strategy of GlobalResolve or similarly rigorous methodology. a. Both applied and fundamental research directed to the solution of problems should be continuously reviewed and critically evaluated by team members to assess the broad impact and applicability of new technologies and procedures. b. The entire team benefits greatly from an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the fundamental research and from each other. 3. Academic institutions educate and grant credentials
this system, and students with the smartphone app can quicklyread the codes off a given item and see what it is, by going to its description on the web-basedinventory. This addresses the issue of new students having difficulty identifying items whentrying to do inventory, or just searching for an item. (Postscript, April 2013: the buddy of therising senior suddenly took his website off the web, leaving the rising senior with no backup, thentried to extract money to bring the site back up. As a result we are re-doing the inventory with amore reliable website- ours. Lessons (a) Back up computer files on reliable systems and (b)reduce reliance on external suppliers of unproven reliability. )Determining the inertia of the fan/shaft and gear
structure of the enduring understanding and important to know content(Figure 3).I used the revised Bloom's taxonomy3 to generate and organize learning objectives for theFSMFE course. I used a matrix of the cognitive domain versus the knowledge domain as a visualtool to display weekly learning objectives. The purpose of this tool was to make the alignmentbetween the learning objectives and curricular priorities explicit. For example, I reviewed thematrix of weekly learning objectives to ensure that a) the number of objectives was appropriateand represented a reasonable workload for students (e.g., typically 5-8 objectives each week);and b) learning objectives relating to enduring understanding and important to know content
improvement was not what would be expected based on our knowledge of their CTCimplementation). Based on these descriptions, group 1 will be referred to as High Action, HighResults, group 2 will be referred to as Low Action, Low Results and group 3 will be referred toas Unexpected Relationships.Table 1. Categorization of PACE schools with respect to CTC implementation and improvedstudent perceptions of engineering Number of Items with Improvement Level of CTC All Female URM School Implementation Students Students Students Group School A 2 8 5 1 1 School B 4 5 1
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of the NSF.References1. Zhang, G. L., Anderson, T. J., Ohland, M. W. & Thorndyke, B. R. Identifying factors influencing engineering student graduation: A longitudinal and cross-institutional study. Journal of Engineering Education 93, 313– 320 (2004).2. Mendez, G., Buskirk, T. D., Lohr, S. & Haag, S. Factors Associated With Persistence in Science and Engineering Majors: An Exploratory Study Using Classification Trees and Random Forests. Journal of Engineering Education 97, 57–70 (2008).3. Besterfield-Sacre, M., Altman, C. J. & Shuman, L. J. Characteristics of Freshman Engineering Students: Models for Determining Student Attrition in Engineering. Journal of Engineering Education 86, 139–149
formal interivews Semi-structured Group 1 Individual interivew Students (5 in total): A, B, C, D, E; Academic staff (2 in total): K, L Interviews Group 2 Individual interivew Students (5 in total): F, G, H, I, J; Academic staff (2 in total): M, N Additional Data Check list for observation Selective Observation occasions checklist Chekclist for seeing and hearing Researcher’s relfection Observation ☐Group formualtion ☐Conflicts (what) ☐ What’s new today? ☐Group meeting ☐Facilitation (who) ☐ Students’ change on behaviors ☐Supervison meeting ☐Facilitation (How
system had four stages: a) Low speed/subsonic performance of the carrier aircraft b) Transonic cruise/ climb of the carrier aircraft c) Mach 4 climb of the supersonic UCAVs from the carrier, up to 100,000 feet. d) Mach 8 climb of the hypersonic missiles from the UCAV.In the first weeks, students had to do conceptual design to size the 3 types of aircraft involved.They then went about calculating the aerodynamics of each stage, using the class of methodsappropriate to each. Thus this assignment took students through the entire fluids/gas dynamics/aerodynamics curriculum, and reviewed a considerable part of their knowledge in VehiclePerformance, and in some cases jet propulsion.ResultsTable 2 below, from Ref (11), summarizes the
. Page 21.42.11 Methods of giving feedback. Assessment methods/tools. Developing rubrics.The next two modules are proposed as electives. A COMPLEETE participant would choose atleast one of these two modules to attain level 1 in the COMPLEETE curriculum. Some, but notall, existing curricula address these modules in a significant way.A. Elective Module A – Instructional Technology:Outcome: Making effective use of technology.Narrative: An introduction to available tools and the effective use of technology to promotelearning, including principles of e-learning. E-learning. Virtual Learning Environments.B. Elective Module B – Reflecting on learning and teaching:Outcome: Engaging in reflective practice and continuous
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interpersonal skills, 3) ability to function effectively in one or more of thetechnology disciplines, 4) ability to function on multidisciplinary teams, and 4) ability tocontinue in a PhD program in technology or related field. The admission requirements for unconditional admission is an earned baccalaureatedegree in an accredited (recognized standing) college or university with a B or better average inundergraduate major. Although the program encourages admitting students from Science,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related fields, students with otherbackgrounds have been admitted to the program as well. These students are industryprofessionals and have been working in a technical environment for several years and aspire tobe in
students naturally use three-dimensionalreasoning as a technique for problem solving. When dyslexic students encounter a problemsolving situation, they naturally change their three-dimensional perspective and examine theproblem from various angles without shifting their observation point. Many dyslexic studentsspin an object mentally without needing to alter how they are viewing that object. This skill ofshifting perspectives is useful and effective in physical science; however, in two-dimensionallanguage, changing a three dimensional perspective can result in a “b” looking like a “d”, “p” or“q”, depending on the angle at which the object is viewed. It is possible that the reasoning skillthat results in language challenges for the dyslexic student
Education, Vol. 8, pp.55-78, 2009.[12] A. Conklin, “Cyber Defense Competitions and Information Security Education: An Active Learning Solution for a Capstone Course,” Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii international Conference on System Sciences, Washington D.C., Vol. 9, pp. 220b, January 4-7, 2006.[13] C. Meyers and B. T. Jones, Promoting Active Learning: Strategies for the College Classroom, Jossey-Bass Inc., CA, 1991.[14] P. Ramsden, “A performance indicator of teaching quality in higher education: The Course Experience Questionnaire,” Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 16, No.2, pp. 129- 150, 1991.[15] K. L. Wilson, et al. (ed.), “The development, validation and application of the Course Experience
instructional use with a wide variety of problem types and Page 23.987.7contexts.AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to thank Dr. Pat Gerard for his assistance with the statistical analysis, and theNSF for funding this project (EEC award # EEC – 0935163). We also wish to acknowledgeZahra Baratian-Ghorghi, Courtney Faber, Eliza Gallagher, Allison Godwin, Adam Kirn,Catherine McGough, and Narcrisha Norman for their assistance with the development of theassessment tool.References1. Perry W, Broers A, El-Baz F, Harris W, Healy B, Hillis WD. Grand Challenges for Engineering. In: NationalAcademy of Engineering. Washington, DC; 2008.2. Scheer A-W, Ferri
questionssome of their basic assumptions, while on the contrary, individuals who believe that knowledgeis complex, uncertain and constantly evolving may be willing to open up the grammatical spaceand allow new paradigms or theories to be seriously entertained 7." In assigning equilibrium theepistemic framework of a model, there are two assumptions that should be brought to light: "(a)people interpret their experiences using models; and (b) these models consist of conceptualsystems that are expressed using a variety of interacting media (concrete materials, writtensymbols, spoken language) for constructing, describing, explaining, manipulating, predicting orcontrolling systems that occur in the world 19." Although not often explicitly addressed
2012 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, June 10-13, San Antonio, TX6. American Society for Engineering Education, 1994. Engineering Education for a Changing Word: A Joint Report of the Engineering Deans’ Council and the Corporate Roundtable of the American Society for Engineering Education.7. The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century, 2004. National Academy of Engineering, The National Academies Press.8. Jacoby, B., and Associates, editors. 1996. Service-Learning in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Page 23.1066.99
was a surprise to theauthor on his first co-op. Employers have expressed a concern over the lack of clarity,confidence, and sometimes professionalism shown by new hires. Through discussions withpracticing engineers, it has become clear that for some engineers the informal oral presentationof information is a common occurrence in day to day activities. Some examples include (a)informing operators of new procedures after emergency modifications or changes to machinesand operating procedures (b) giving supervisors a quick explanation of current project status and(c) being brought into a meeting to give the engineering perspective.Preparing students for these “you got a minute” moments is often not addressed in theundergraduate curriculum. Either
Paper ID #6359Video Recording vs. Class Visits: A Comparison of Two Faculty DevelopmentToolsCapt. Michael J. Richards, U.S. Air Force Academy Michael J. Richards is an instructor in the department of engineering mechanics at the United States Air Force Academy. He directs a course in Statics and Strength of Materials. He received his MS in Nuclear Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in Dayton Ohio and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University in Provo Utah.Dr. Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy Dr. Dan Jensen is a Professor of Engineering Mechanics at the U.S. Air Force Academy where
for Engineering Education Reference1. Marra, R.M, K.A. Rodgers, D. Shen, B. Bogue, 2012, “Leaving Engineering: A Multi-Year Single Institution Study”, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 101:1, pp6-27, 2012. MATTHEW RIVERA Matthew Rivera is an undergraduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is currently in his senior year, and has served as a research assistant for one semester. VLADIMIR SANTALOV Vladimir Santalov is an undergraduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio. ANDRES DELAGARZA Andres Delagarza is an undergraduate student in
? Page 23.252.10 a. How are teaching innovations best measured? b. How do the current policies in COEN impact innovative teaching practices at BSU?6 How do the current policies at BSU impact innovative teaching practices in engineering? a. How much do you see faculty in COEN taking advantage of the CTL’s professional development (“10 for Tenure”) program? b. Virginia Tech has had a program for at least the past number of years called the “Faculty Development Institute,” where every three (maybe four) years, faculty can earn a new computer after they participate in 12 hours (or so) of technology or pedagogical training. Would you foresee this ever happening at BSU?7 Should