feedback is necessary to help students further develop these skills and ithas been suggested such feedback is best when situated in the context of authentic engineeringtasks 3. We hypothesize that in such a context, students are more likely to take up feedback onprofessional skills because these skills will be viewed as an integral part of what an engineerdoes. There are two parts to providing students with feedback on these skills: (a) we first musthave a firm understanding of what it means to have professional skills in engineering, and (b) weneed to know how to effectively provide students with feedback on these skills.The case study described in this paper focuses on discourse as students receive feedback whilethey engage in an industrially
students), then integrate that advice into an action plan. • Students in a difficult circumstance are not always good at integrating and acting on advice. The UGO staff discovered that students often did not follow up with ODOS (which was always part of our advice), or if they did, subsequent follow-up with the UGO or ODOS was lacking. Students struggled to manage and act on the on-going conversations across the UGO and ODOS offices, especially when they are in a Page 26.1049.4 compromised state due to their circumstances. • ODOS was not near the engineering precinct. The ODOS offices are centrally located on
is not way off-base.The homework assignments contained some formal and usual engineering exercises, suchas calculating the pressure at a specific sea depth, but also some personal writing. Thewriting was of their personal reactions to the books and an account of interviews theywere required to initiate and sustain throughout the semester with students of mechanicaland aerospace engineering in the three years ahead of them as well as with facultymembers in the department. These interviews were designed to help the students get toknow the people in the department, perhaps to find mentors, and to familiarizethemselves with the curriculum that lies ahead for them. The interviews help to dispelfears by breaking down barriers of the unknown.The
University of Arkansas (U of A). Prior to Spring2022, there were no courses within the chemical engineering curriculum that counted toward theuniversity-level minor in Sustainability at the U of A. This meant that students minoring inSustainability were required to take additional courses outside the chemical engineeringdepartment and potentially add to their required degree credit hours.Once it was determined that a sustainability course would be developed, an initial review ofchemical engineering programs revealed that that there were not many broad-based Introductionto Sustainability courses that presented the principles of sustainability across all three pillars—environmental, social, and economic—in a chemical engineering context. In addition
secondary science teachers the tools to design and implement learning experiences for their students that are effective and authentic to the discipline. Much of this work has been centered on model-based inquiry and the integration of scientific practices in a supportive and structured way. He has been funded by NSF and other agencies to conduct research on preservice teacher education, undergraduate engineering education, and community partnerships in secondary education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Examining interventions to increase classroom community and relevancy in an early career engineering courseAbstractThe current NSF-funded project was
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College,2016. Report. [Online]. Available: https://www.hmc.edu [Accessed January 30, 2018].[14] “Program Educational Objectives,” 2018. [Online]. Available:http://www.hmc.edu/engineering/curriculum/program-educational-objectives/ [Accessed January30, 2018].[15] R. E. Sturm, S. N. Taylor, and L. E. Atwater, “Leader Self-Awareness: An Examination andImplications of Women's Under-Prediction,” Journal of Organizational Behavior, vol. 35, no. 5,pp. 657–677, Dec. 2013. [Online] Available: Wiley Online Library, www.wiley.com. [AccessedMar. 9, 2018].[16] J. E. Froyd, P. C. Wankat, and K. A. Smith, “Five Major Shifts in 100 Years of EngineeringEducation,” in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 100, no. Special Centennial Issue, pp. 1344-1360,May 2012.[17] L
coaster project allows students to investigate and creatively apply their analytic skillsto an ambiguous, real-world problem that they are highly motivated to explore. It both reinforcesthe underlying curriculum and also helps students develop intellectually, as the project isdesigned to teach that dynamics isn’t so much about looking for the “right answer” as it is aboutchoices and simplifications made in modeling reality.Although roller coaster design projects have been used as the basis for entire undergraduatecourses and also in STEM activities for pre-college students, the author is unaware of a similarproject being included as part of a first course in dynamics. For this project, students in teams ofthree were tasked with designing
as the thinning of the herd; students areconvinced to leave engineering programs because they cannot manage the academic workload.Attrition studies have concluded that most students that choose not to remain in engineering aredoing well academically and have GPAs similar to those students who stay in engineeringcourses [2,3]. These studies refer to outdated curriculum and a misunderstanding of howstudents prefer to learn [4, 5, 6].Project-based team learning is an essential practice used to modernize engineering curricula andhas been shown as a decisive factor in retention of students in STEM fields [1]. Working inteams brings along its own set of problems, however, studies by Oakley et al., indicate that thequality of learning is improved
Session 1661 Teaching Technical Communications in an Introductory Design Course through Interventions from the University’s Writing Center Colley Hodges, Cari-Sue Wilmot, Robert Askew, Richard Bannerot University of Houston Writing Center/Dept. of Mechanical EngineeringAbstractThis paper describes the continuing and evolving relationship between the Writing in theDiscipline Program in the University of Houston Writing Center and the Cullen College ofEngineering. This specific project is an intervention into a sophomore design course inmechanical engineering that took place for the first
Paper ID #8129The LowCost Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Project: An exercise in learningacross disciplinesDr. Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology This is a student-led paper guided by Professor Komerath. Dr. Komerath is a professor of aerospace engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, and director of the Micro Renewable Energy Systems Laboratory. He has over 300 publications, over 120 of them peer-reviewed, plus 3 US Patents, and has guided 15 PhDs , 50+ MS and over 160 undergraduate research special problem projects. He is a former Chair of the Aerospace Division.Akshay Milind Pendharkar, Georgia
products at INTEVEP Petroleos de Venezuela (1983-1998). He is a founding member of Universidad Monteavila (Caracas, Venezuela) (1998—2018) and became the Chancellor (2005-2015), and the President of the Center for Higher Studies (2015-2018). After rejoining the University of Pittsburgh, he is teaching Pillar courses on Reactive Process Engineering, Process Control, and Process Design. In addition to technical courses, his service extends over engineering education, curriculum development, outreach programs, global awareness, sustainability, and diversity, equity and inclusion.David V.P. Sanchez (Assistant Professor) David V.P. Sanchez is an Associate Professor in the Swanson School of Engineering’s Civil & Environmental
programmingexperience, a variable which was explored in our study. The ability to increase performance ingroups across all prior programming experiences, especially groups with low prior programmingexperiences is an important step to increasing the graduation rate of underrepresented groupswithin computing majors.Online modality of teachingThe coronavirus pandemic that hit the globe in 2020, required all our first year engineeringcourses in our school to be offered online. Prior to the fall 2020 semester, none of our first yearcourses had online offerings, and none of the instructors teaching first year engineering courseshad any experience with online teaching, or incorporating active learning components into thecourse curriculum. This added another dimension
projects to design and build a […] circuit board and they give us a really tight budget. And so you can't afford all the fancy clips […] so you use hot glue or basically anything so that you can loop around the budget. And then […] lecturer […] takes one look and says 'I don't like this […] because it is not professional'.”In other transcripts, this approach to engineering was manifest in the curriculum structure orindividual assessment pieces and led to negative student perceptions of an instructor as a personwho “has all these little fiddly things he likes to stick to, this nice little protocol he likes.Everything's gotta fit into the box.” (Hasslam)During their time in industry, the students experienced a more flexible and pragmatic
Nature of Thermodynamics Learning ProblemsIt is critical to understand and to correctly frame problems associated with thermodynamicslearning and teaching. It is also essential to identify the root causes of these problems. Doingthis can form a foundation for eradicating these problems, and can guide curriculum and Page 23.1280.11textbook design. It also can inform and positively influence new instructional strategies.Close scrutiny of the literature outlined above reveals that in addition to conceptual difficulties,students have difficulty integrating concepts and principles and recognizing their relevance insolving problems.10,15,22,32,47,66
Paper ID #39098Data-driven Strategy for Maintaining an Effective Team Collaboration ina First-year Engineering CourseDr. Rui Li, New York University Tandon School of Engineering Dr. Rui Li earned his Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering in 2009 from Imperial College of London and his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2020 from the University of Georgia, College of Engineering. He is currently an industrial assistant professor, who works in General Engineering program at New York University. He taught first-year engineering course as well as vertically integrated project. He has strong interests in
master’s degree in international education from George Washington University.Stephanie Moore Ph.D., University of Virginia Stephanie L. Moore, Ph.D. is Director of Engineering Instructional Design and Lecturer in the Engi- neering & Society Department in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Virginia. She is the instructor of the course, which she redesigned into a live, fully online, interactive environment and co-designed the class’s simulation activity with her German colleague from Technische Universitaet, Dominik May. She is co-PI on an NSF grant (EEC #1136205, PI: John Bean) supporting the development and educational assessment of the integration of the simulation into this and
Paper ID #23672Implementation of an Engineering Summer Camp for Early-Elementary Chil-dren (Work in Progress)Dr. Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University Dr. Laura Bottomley, Teaching Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Elementary Education, is also the Director of Women in Engineering and The Engineering Place at NC State University. She has been working in the field of engineering education for over 20 years. She is dedicated to conveying the joint messages that engineering is a set of fields that can use all types of minds and every person needs to be literate in engineering and technology. She
program evaluation in educational settings with the general objective of understanding and improving the teaching and learning process. His research has a specific focus of evaluating technology integration, assessment policy, and educational practices. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 StudentPerceptionsandAttitudesTowardsaRequiredvs.an OptionalCourseinLeadership AbstractFor almost ten years, the majority of students in the College of Engineering and Technology atBrigham Young University have been required to take a sophomore level leadership foundationscourse focused on leadership principles, ethics, and global issues. The course is part of an
include using the Building Information Modelling (BIM) process as a way of encouraging and fostering Page 19.32.1 collaborative learning. He has presented and published research in both areas.Mrs. Dede M Nelson, North Carolina State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Paper ID #14277As an instructional designer, Dede Nelson, M.Ed., works collaboratively with engineering faculty to helpidentify and facilitate the effective integration of instructional technology and strategies
). Critical examination of the role of STEM in propagating and maintaining race and gender disparities. In L. W. Perna, (Ed.), Higher education: Handbook of theory and research (pp. 39–97). Springer.Castaneda, D. I., & Mejia, J. A. (2018). Culturally relevant pedagogy: An approach to foster critical consciousness in civil engineering. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 144(2). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000361Catalano, G. D. (2016). Integrating compassion into an engineering ethics course. In 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. https://doi.org/10.18260/p.25790Cervantes-Soon, C. G., Dorner, L., Palmer, D., Heiman, D., Schwerdtfeger, R., & Choi, J
School of Theater and Dance (SoTD). After this experience, Dr. Akc¸alı began experimenting with the use of arts-integrated teaching and learning methods in engineering education.Mariana Buraglia, University of Florida Mariana Buraglia has both a master’s and bachelor’s degree from the Department of Industrial and Sys- tems Engineering at the University of Florida (UF). She is passionate about science, technology, en- gineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education and research. Through the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), she led an outreach program to promote STEAM education for elemen- tary to high school students. She also served as a facilitator for a Girls Who Code (GWC) chapter and as
] Wing[14] connects computational thinking to engineering thinking by arguing that computationalthinking is the overlap between engineering thinking and mathematical thinking. As a result ofthe strong connection between these two types of thinking, and the prevalence of CT andprogramming in engineering in professional practice, we believe that exploring CT is animportant aspect of learning about children’s engineering learning.Purpose of the studyThis study is part of an NSF-funded project that integrates computational thinking in STEMactivities and curriculums both in formal and informal settings. The aim of the project is tocharacterize children’s computational thinking in different learning settings. Consistent with theaim of the project, we
AC 2009-717: CHILDREN'S CONCEPTIONS AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS OFTECHNOLOGY BEFORE AND AFTER PARTICIPATING IN AN INFORMALENGINEERING CLUBPamela Lottero-Perdue, Towson State University Dr. Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the Department of Physics, Astronomy & Geosciences at Towson University. She began her career as process engineer, taught high school physics and pre-engineering, wrote curriculum and was a master teacher for Project Lead the Way, and led two Project FIRST robotics teams. As a science teacher educator, she has added engineering content and pedagogy to her science methods courses for prospective elementary teachers. She teaches engineering to
capabilities and integrated with coursework in the sciences, mathand English. Figure 1 provides a graphical depiction of the location of the courses (EAS prefix) Page 11.74.4 Figure 1in the spiral. Ten courses were developed as part of the spiral Spiral curriculum. The specificcourses required in each engineering major varies from a minimum of 5 to a maximum of 10, withmost programs including 9. Course titles and program requirements are summarized in Table 1. Table 1 - Foundation Courses in UNH Engineering ProgramsCourse Engineering Program –> ChE
requires four stages, as shown inclockwise-order in Figure 1: 1. Tangible, concrete learning experience (Do Something) 4. Experimentation and testing 2. Reflection on the learning (Plan and adapt) experience (Think about it) 3. Generalization of the learning to broader applications (Make conclusions) Figure 1 Four stages of Kolb’s experiential learning cycle5.Experiential learners are actively engaged directly with their environment – the industrialengineering workplace in this case. The learner is an integral and
]–[50], sharedexperiences (e.g., enrollment at the same university), and values. In that context, it is important for female students to see successful female STEMentrepreneurs for both symbolic as well as functional reasons [46], [51]. Symbolically, exposureto female STEM entrepreneurs can signal to female students that STEM entrepreneurship is notonly for men and that women can be successful in entrepreneurship. Functionally, femalestudents are likely to pay greater attention to female STEM entrepreneurs and take an interest inhearing about the challenges they have faced and how they have integrated the seeminglyconflicting social roles of being an entrepreneur and a woman. Consequently, we propose thatfemale students who are part of
Special Topics - Physics Education Research, vol. 8, p. 020104, 2012.[16] J. E. Froyd, M. Borrego, S. Cutler, M. Prince, and C. Henderson, "Use of Research-Based Instructional Strategies in core electrical or computer engineering courses," IEEE Transactions on Education, in press.[17] M. J. Prince, M. Borrego, C. Henderson, S. Cutler, and J. Froyd, "Use of Research-Based Instructional Strategies in core chemical engineering courses," Chemical Engineering Education, in press.[18] E. J. Pedhazur and L. P. Schmelkin, Measurements, Design, and Analysis: An Integrated Approach. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991.[19] R. M. Felder and R. Brent, "Active Learning: An Introduction," ASQ Higher Education Brief, vol
physical model, with the latter understanding being referred to herewith the label used in the literature of a mental model [26]. It is important to note in these data that lacking prior knowledge R and T for Problem 1results in failure to solve the problem (S8 and S15), consistent with the emphasis placed on priorknowledge in the Integrated Problem Solving Model.19 Failure to make the required assumptionsabout the reactions at C and D in Problem 2 in the context of a mental model will result in failureto solve the problem, as shown in Table 2 for S8, S11, S13, S14, S15, S16, S21, S22, and S26. Asserting prior knowledge late in the solution process, results in an extensive and inefficientsearch of equations as shown for S10 in Table 1. This
arecontinuously presented with faculty and student populations that lack in diversity creates barriersfor a non-majority student to effectively integrate into the discipline [23]. Computer sciencefaculty influence the maintenance and propitiation of the storyline regarding who belongs incomputer science due to their “membership” status in the professional computing world and theirbelief of what constitutes a computer science professional [22], [24]. These faculty typicallydraw upon their own professional experiences and practices as majority members as arepresentation of “legitimate” work in computer science—including their research, educationalbackground and curriculum. It follows that the faculty intentionally or unintentionally introducenorms and