, SC, April, 2001.5 Wigal, C., Bailey, R., Goulet, R., “Senior Design”, ASEE Southeastern Meeting, Charleston, SC, April, 2001 .6 The Power of Problem-Based Learning A Practical "How To" for Teaching Undergraduate Courses in AnyDiscipline Edited by Barbara J Duch, Susan E Groh, Deborah E Allen, Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2001.7 Claxton, C. and P. Murrell. Learning Styles: Implications for Improving Educational Practices. ASHE-ERICHigher Education Report No. 4., Washington, D.C.,1987.8 Mourtos, N.J., “The Nuts and Bolts of Cooperative Learning in Engineering”, Journal of Engineering Education,ASEE, January 1997, pp. 35-37.RON GOULET, assistant professor mechanical engineering, joined the UTC engineering faculty in 1998 with over20 years of
focused on students whoare underrepresented in engineering related majors. The TECT workshop will make use of thesummer camps as a time to conduct concurrent teacher and counselor in-service education andpromote best practices that reach across the diversity of student learning styles and interests. Inthe TECT workshops the teachers and counselors will be observers of students, learners of newengineering and pedagogical content and participants in teaching the summer camp activities.As the project is currently on-going, empirical data concerning the effectiveness of the approachis not available. Rather, this paper focuses on some of the lessons-learned by the project teamduring the development of the materials for the workshop. The paper first
translated into the high schoolclassroom. In this paper, we first present a summary of the high school teachers’ researchresults. Then we describe an outline of the lessons they developed and implemented and theevaluations conducted.Introduction The Research Experience for Teachers (RET) is a six week-program sponsored by theNational Science Foundation (NSF). A group of twelve science and mathematics teachers werechosen to spend the summer working on current civil engineering research topics. During theirsummer, they learned about engineering, and developed skills necessary to implement a researchproject. They also collaborated with faculty and graduate students, acquiring a betterunderstanding about which skills their students need to have
year engineering, research methods, and graduate engineering education courses. Her research interests include student-centered active learning in undergraduate engineering, assessment of motivation, and how motivation affects student learning. She is also involved in projects that utilize Tablet PCs to enhance student learning. Her education includes a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of Vermont, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Bioengineering from Clemson University. Page 14.520.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Effectiveness of Shared Tablet PC
the context of research, the American system of graduate education has set the world standard for preparing scientists and engineers for research careers in academe, government, and industry.” 21.4 Changing the Context of U.S. Graduate Education for EngineersAlthough the U.S. system of graduate education for research has proven to be a world leader, “and is one of thenation's strengths in carrying out graduate education where a large portion of the nation’s best research is done”, it isnow evident that a change is required.2 The change that is required is not a change in the graduate education of thenation’s scientists and engineers for academic research. Rather it is a change in the advanced professional educationof the nation’s
2010 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston, 7 – 8 May, 2010 Implementation of Delphi methodology for designing engineering syllabus according to the industry’s needs Ali Alshubbak 1, Saeid Moslehpour 2, Eugenio Pellicer 3, Joaquín Catalá 4Construction and civil engineering are multidisciplinary professions where students areacquiring a career that is based on the durable knowledge; practical abilities andindustry’s needs. Other studies, such as mathematics or physics are pure science basedon theoretical knowledge. But a question persists: is the knowledge acquired
materials, production process design of a new range of products for certain enterprise (forexample, students works from the "Start" enterprise named after Procenko M.V.), etc.Participation in the implementation of vocational training programs for engineering staff in theframework of the general educational university programs contributes to the professionaldevelopment of teachers, allows them to study best practices in the world's leading research andeducational centers, at the leading industry enterprises, and improve educational technologies.University teachers developed lectures and workshops prepared for the Program participants basedon the updated teaching methods with a variety of distance-learning technologies.However, the experience of
, technical seminars, and workshops for wholesale distribution professionals. Pradip assists wholesaler-distributors with best practices implementation, business decisions, education, and technical support on a wide array of supply-chain management topics, including customer stratification, pricing optimization, distributor profitability, sales and marketing, growth and business development, inventory management, warehouse management/layout design, and global business decisions. He works with dis- tributors from small and medium enterprises to large, global corporations. He has more than 10 years of industry experience, managing more than 90 projects. Pradip holds a Masters Degree in industrial engi- neering from Texas A
week theseteachers were engaged with research experiments supervised by the graduate students andmentored by three Co-PIs.4. Curriculum Development: The instructors participated in a comprehensive series of sixworkshops as part of the RET program. Given that a majority of the participants held master'sdegrees in education, the primary goal of these workshops was to refresh their knowledge ofselected curriculum design models and enhance their proficiency in evidence-based teachingtechniques. These workshops encompassed a wide range of educational topics, incorporatingtheories of blended learning, formative assessment strategies, active learning methods, and theeffective integration of technology into teaching practices. Teachers had the
Vecitis Lab, and anundergraduate from Poli-USP also came for 6 months. This collaboration has resulted in anumber of co-authored manuscripts and a U.S. patent application. Additionally, they havecontinued to strengthen their collaboration through researcher exchange. A SEAS graduate from2012 is currently spending one year in Professor Mierzwa's lab at Poli-USP as a research fellow.She is working closely with a doctoral student that is beginning his dissertation research andplans to spend time in the Vecitis Lab at Harvard in the future. Figure 2. Students overwhelmingly reported that they expect the 2013 Collaborative Field Course will have an impact on their future academic and professional plans.The course has opened
design, facilitation and evaluation. Dr. Bodnar’s research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques in undergraduate classes (problem based learning, games and simulations, etc.) as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering as well as broader engineering curricu- lum. In addition, she is actively engaged in the development of a variety of informal science education approaches with the goal of exciting and teaching K-12 students about regenerative medicine and its potential.Dr. Renee M Clark, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Renee Clark serves as the Director of Assessment for the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of
needs. • We should help our students to prepare themselves to be makers, discoverers or along this spectrum, and we should teach engineering fundamentals as a foundation for careers both in research and in practice. • We should build our education around the way our students best learn, engaging them in their learning, and implementing pilots to understand the desirable balance of classroom, project and digital education. • In view of the speed of scientific and technological development, we should teach students the NEET Ways of Thinking, how to think, and how to learn more effectively by themselves.We should be prepared to embark on a bold change, with widespread impact at MIT andpotentially
reports a study that exclusively focuses on internal thrivingcompetencies. Data for this study were collected during the first phase of a three-phase datacollection process as part of a larger project to create a model of engineering thriving bygathering consensus from engineering experts [2]. We acknowledge that thriving for engineeringstudents includes a breadth of interactions between the students and their environment within thelarger engineering culture and system. From a research perspective, best practices whenconducting rank-order research caution against asking participants to rank a list of 147 factorsbecause “distinctions between individual elements become difficult for the person making theranking to maintain meaning” [5]. To scope
, primary champion, Lemelson has played the 2023 ASEE National Conferenceprimary role of the backbone organization in collaboration with VentureWell. Over time, otherstakeholders have started to take on aspects of that role. VentureWell collaborated on gatheringearly stakeholder input, developing the EOP Framework and served as the facilitator andevaluation partner on the EOP Pilot Grantee Program and was the primary designer, participantrecruiter, and facilitator for the Scaling for Impact Workshop. ASEE served the role of granteerecruiter, grant administrator, mentor recruiter, and community of practice facilitator in theASEE EOP MGP. Lemelson also funded and recruited a manager for the EOP Network and
Mass Communica- tions from the University of South Florida and her B.S. in Global Strategic Communications from FIU. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Virtual Interview Training: Perceptions and Performance using Digital Hiring ManagersAbstractInterviewing for a job can be an intimidating experience for students and recent graduates. Manyindividuals may feel unprepared for their first interview and uncertain about what they could beasked. Having confidence and strong interview skills is very important for professionaldevelopment and career attainment. In this work, we describe a web-based platform designed toprovide experiential learning and interview practice for
work, such as problem-based lecture, discussion, round table,brain storming, searching method, research method, individual studies, and teamwork ofstudents, which allows ensuring the active efforts of students in identifying, analyzing andsearching for addressing problem-based situations?Inviting globally acknowledged professionals to Russian universities also allows applying theworld’s best practices to teaching students and training/retraining teaching staff.Recently, the project-based learning is increasingly used at Kazan National ResearchTechnological University (KNRTU), Russia, as a method that enhances the studyingmotivation of its students. Implementation of the method into the teaching/learning processesin the University is largely
University at Qatar has been recognized as one of the leading institutions offering engineering degrees in the region. The campus has attracted over 85 full-‐time faculty members representing some of the best minds in engineering education and scholarship. STEM Education The State of Qatar has long acknowledged the intrinsic value of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) for empowering upcoming Qatari talent and to transform this fast-‐growing country into a world-‐class research and discovery icon in the region. Further, Qatar’s efforts to nationalize its energy workforce and reduce dependence on foreign workers creates an
thatwhat you see is a description for a book that we have in our library?” This led to a briefdiscussion of online and/or card catalogs available to them at their school libraries. Afew indicated that they still used card catalogs to find books. Despite the best intentionsof the librarians in planning the lecture, realistically, the SEE students were not going tobegin researching their topics by using the most appropriate subject headings.Introducing the databaseThe University Libraries subscribe to the online encyclopedia, AccessScience. Thischoice was more appropriate for locating background information. In hindsight, anonline encyclopedia may have been a better starting point than an online catalog. Thisresource features easy to locate subject
, 2016, 2014, 2011 and also 2010 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Summer Faculty Fel- low at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. For over 36 years, he has supported the professional development of over 300 graduate Manufacturing Engineers and over 600 CSU STEM and non-STEM student graduates who are now serving as Plant Managers, Senior Executives, Supervisors, Quality Control Engineers, etc., these graduates are all supporting Manufacturing and allied industries and businesses in the U. S and across the World. He was an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Summer 2013 Faculty Fellow at the Eglin Air Force Base in Eglin, Florida and a Summer 2018 AFIT/WPAFB Research Faculty. He
lesson development by providing ideasfor creating assignments (for both before and after class), discussion points, activities, and otherlesson materials to teach undergraduate and graduate students about the effects of infrastructureinequities and how to mitigate negative effects. The framework will provide a solid foundationfor faculty to take a case study or historical example and create lesson objectives, design studentexercises to be used before, during, or after a class session, and create materials to supportstudent learning. The CIT-E community of practice is also applying this framework to createseveral lessons using case studies that are currently under development and will be available foruse by any faculty member in the
thecourse of a semester.MethodParticipantsSeniors from the disciplines of geology and geological engineering (GE), geophysicalengineering (GP), and petroleum engineering (PE) at the Colorado School of Mines wereselected for the study. The participants are students in a senior capstone design class that isrequired for all undergraduate students in the Petroleum Engineering Department. The course isan elective for undergraduate students from the Geology and Geological Engineering andGeophysics Departments. A course objective is development of team skills and critical problem-solving skills in multidisciplinary teams. There were 41 students in the class (33 males and 8females). Participation in the research was voluntary and students were given the
repetitive tasks, visualize important trends,analyze large data sets, perform parametric sensitivity studies to support design decisions, andstudents cultivate a logical problem-solving process. Furthermore, as the industrial landscapecontinues to rapidly advance with increasing penetration of automation and big data analysis,students will need to graduate ready to utilize modern tools in their engineering practice. Inmechanical engineering courses, computer-based assignments have significant potential toincrease experiential learning for students. For instance, in thermodynamics, instead of a studentanalyzing a Brayton cycle at a fixed set of conditions to generate one set of values for the poweroutput and efficiency, they can repeat the analysis
at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Professor Binowski has dedicated her career to expanding the reach of computing to women and other under-served groups and to engaging her students in industry practices and experiences which can make the world a better place.Dr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants Catherine E. Brawner is President of Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She received her Ph.D.in Educational Research and Policy Analysis from NC State University in 1996. She also has an MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. Dr. Brawner served as an Extension Services Consultant for NCWIT from the program’s inception in 2008 until
research spans education and practice, working on the in- tegration of community research into project based learning. Her work overlaps areas of GIS mapping, global sustainable urbanism, design and creativity. She undertook a Fulbright in Valpara´ıso, Chile, to investigate, and map, devices of landscape as inspirations for the orders of community space. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Mapping as Design-Thinking: Can GIS Help Engineering Students Approach Design?AbstractSpatial site design, accessed through GIS mapping, teaches three-dimensional data analysis skillsinvaluable for the contemporary engineering student. Integrating design-thinking
helped bridge the gap between students and faculty, encouragedcommunity, and facilitated an incredibly successful program in helping underrepresentedminority students succeed in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.V. References1. A.L. Zydney, J.S. Bennett, A. Shahid, and K.W. Bauer, “Impact of Undergraduate Research Experience in Engineering,” J. Engineering Education, 91: 151-157. (2002)2. R.S. Hathaway, B.A. Nagda, and S.R Gregerman, “The Relationship of Undergraduate Research Participation to Graduate and Professional Education Pursuit: An Empirical Study,” J. College Student Development. 43: 614-631. (2002)3. May, G. S. and Chubin, D. E., A Retrospective on Undergraduate Engineering Success for Underrepresented Minority
university-industry collaboration. Through workshop sessions and mentoring, faculty are guided through the assessment process to meet program educational objectives and achieve best practices following ABET’s Engineering Criteria 2000. As a consultant, she has contributed to the University of Florida’s MAE program by conducting numerous assessments and comparative gap analyses, based on the Department’s database as well as ratings and data from the ”US News & World Report,” American Society for Engineering Education and the Aerospace Department Chair’s Association. She has also conducted a faculty mentoring program with the objectives of supporting and validating an instructor’s effort to enhance teaching methods
Chemical Engineering. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Tennessee. He has nineteen years of industrial experience in industrial process and product development in the detergent, paper, and packaging industries. He teaches capstone design, value engineering and engineering economy at the undergraduate level, and technical innovation and advanced engineering economy in the graduate Engineering Management program. His research interests include product development, technical innovation, entrepreneurship, and design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Comprehensive Approach to Power Sector Workforce DevelopmentAbstractThe University
Paper ID #45077Full Paper: Supporting Students’ Educational Robotics Experiences throughGenerative AI ChatbotsDr. Ethan E Danahy, Tufts University Dr. Ethan Danahy is a Research Associate Professor at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) with secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science within the School of Engineering at Tufts University. Having received his graduate degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Tufts University, he continues research in the design, implementation, and evaluation of different educational technologies. With particular attention to engaging
represented the experiences of a small number (N < 6) of undergraduates andgraduate students within the context of this program.In this paper, we will first describe the background for this project. Secondly, we will provide anoverview of the undergraduate Engineering Teaching Portfolio Program (ETPP) which includesa description of the context in which we piloted this newly developed undergraduate version ofthe ETPP curriculum and the process we used to adapt the curriculum materials that wepreviously developed for an advanced graduate student audience to the undergraduate level.Third, we will present the design of the research study linked with this pilot offering and discussthe results and their implications of the formative evaluation of the
early career engineers. In particular, risk awareness resulted fromperceptions of crisis triggers the needs of career resilience; internal and external resources ofsupport help boost resilience; and positive adaption signals the completion of resilience for earlycareer engineers. This study extends understandings of resilience for early career engineers inbroader cultural contexts. The paper also discusses implications of the research findings foruniversities to create a more congenial environment for the development of career resilience andsuccessful transition of engineering graduates to the workplace.Keywords: career resilience; early career engineers; career adaption1. IntroductionFor early career engineers, the transition from university