· Teaching via the case method · Designing for experiential learningIn addition, journal articles will be highlighted to support educators with how, and why, to usevarious technologies to design unique learning experiences in the entrepreneurship classroom.Such examples include: · Online collaboration tools · Creating a classroom community online · Real-time case writing through teleconferencing · Cross-university collaboration · E-mentors: Transcending geographical barriers to provide real-world contentd. The CommunityIndividual comments regarding the challenges faced by entrepreneurship educators indicated thatmany faculty lack the time to review resources, and miss having a peer group with whom toshare
Learning Block Reading & Writing RLC 110 Page 6.612.2 Figure 1 – Freshman Year (First Semester)Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationShared Outcomes of First Semester FIGThe faculty of ES141 and RLC110 worked as a team to identify the shared outcomes betweenthe two courses. Then, they worked on identifying the activities, the technology to support
University; the New Jersey Institute of Technology; and the University ofPuerto Rico, Mayagüez, and it is funded by the National Science Foundation. The goal of theCenter is to become a national focal point for developing structured organic particulate systemsused in pharmaceuticals and their manufacturing processes. XX University has partnered as anoutreach/education member institution to expand the impact of the Center through SMETeducation and outreach.This paper describes problem sets for introductory chemical engineering courses such as materialand energy balances. The problems emphasize concepts of unit conversions, engineeringcalculations, estimations, writing a process flow diagram, mass balances, safety, heat offormation, and looking up
projects include the blog STEMequity.com, and a study, with sociologist Mary Ebeling, of economic equity in nanotechnology training and employment. She is also writing on distributions of blame between workers and materials for failures in contemporary building technologies, as economies of scale and automation continue their long incursion on the labor of commercial construction. Page 22.1061.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Metrics of Marginality: How Studies of Minority Self-Efficacy Hide Structural InequitiesAbstractIn ongoing
traction with a race and “sumo” competition at the end ofthe semester. Each team was required to perform a full motion analysis of one “foot” of theirwalker using the techniques developed in class. This proved to be more difficult than expectedfor some: many teams used an eight-bar linkage similar to the “Strandbeest” of Theo Jansen. Page 22.1603.5 Figure 3: Student team with winning walkerConclusions and Lessons LearnedFirst, it must be stated that, in terms of student learning and satisfaction, the course was asuccess. The first-year students performed nearly as well as their third-year peers onexaminations and homework
method12.The dataobtained from faculty interviews and student focus groups were treated as independent groups.Therefore, for each institution, the faculty interviews were analyzed as one unit and the studentfocus groups were analyzed as a separate unit of data.The research team met as a group to analyze the data from the first two institutions. The teamfollowed this procedure to identify strong categories for the initial themes and to utilize peer Page 22.1499.3debriefing concurrently. The interviews for these particular institutions were transcribed andindividual units of data were placed on note cards. The note cards, particularly for the
, where he has served since 1987. He is currently the Pope Professor of chemical engineering at BYU and an Adjunct Research Professor in the Bioengineering Department of the University of Utah. During his 24 years at BYU, his teaching has been in the areas of materials, polymers, and transport phenomena. His research has spanned many disciplines ranging from biomedical material surfaces and composite materials to his current work in controlled drug and gene delivery. With colleagues and students at BYU and other institutions, he has more than 110 peer-reviewed journal publications.Prof. Morris D. Argyle, Brigham Young University
pricing calculation• Understand key technologies in distribution systems that enable smart grid• Understand key technologies in transmission systems that enable smart grid 2.3 Pedagogical methodThis course intends to be delivered through classroom lectures. Both traditional blackboardmethod and power point presentation methods are utilized. Students are required to present someof their project results in the class, from which students can also learn from their peers’ work.We utilize various software packages in the class including Matlab simpowersystem andoptimization toolboxes, and IBM ILOG optimization suite. Students will further enforce whatthey learned by independently completing assigned projects described in Section 3 utilizing theirown
typical first-yearcourse. Students encounter no exams, self- and peer-reflections (i.e., writing!) are assigned, andcollaborating with fellow classmates is expected. A problem-based learning (PBL), activeapproach is used to guide the learning experiences of these students. After the formation ofsemester-long teams, students take on challenging, open-ended projects in diverse topics such asassistive technology, Rube Goldberg, sustainable technology, science concept demonstrations,recreating existing devices and robotics challenges. Along the way, students must developsufficient proficiency in technical drawing, testing, machining, electronics, and/or
directly.Using Physical MEAs to Help with Self-AssessmentFor many MEAs, providing a means for students to “check” the validity of their models can bequite difficult. Strategies can include providing fictitious data from the client, referring studentsto peer-reviewed literature, and depending on student experiences to help them determine when asolution “seems” correct. We have found that one of the most powerful ways to provide self-assessment is in the form of actual laboratory or physical activities. Examples of this include theCatapult MEA and the Force Transducer MEA.Catapult MEAThe Petersborough Museum in England hosts a Medieval Exhibition each year, and plans to holda catapult launch competition. As part of the competition they want to award a
) Page 25.1105.4and suspension (HL-60) cell lines were selected based on available body of work in peer-reviewed literature, ease of culture, and flexibility in the type of projects for better studentengagement students.Facilitators in the revised lab course were encouraged to actively allow students to maketechnical but not strategic mistakes. For example, students were required to have proper positiveand negative controls in their experiments but allowed to err during a western blot as long astheir controls gave them clues about where the error might have occurred. Report discussiongrades were weighted heavily in the final grading to encourage a revisit of procedures andmethodologies that might have resulted in errors or limitations for the
department faculty. Use of a wide audience gives the students anopportunity to receive feedback from diverse viewpoints including their peers. The final defenseoccurs at the end of the semester. Students are required to write a detailed report and give aformal presentation to department faculty, students, sponsors and family. Juniors are encouragedto attend all presentations so that they can get a better idea of what will be expected of them.Where practical, support of senior project activities is embedded in senior level courses. Forexample, those that take Finite Element Analysis are required to do a final project for the courseand are encouraged to do a project related to their senior project activities.II. Recent Civil Engineering
& Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2630During the spring of 2000, the three graduate students from EGR 686 were vertically integratedas project managers into NAU’s junior-level multidisciplinary project-driven design class that iscalled EGR 386 Engineering Design III. This integration, the practicum component of EGR 686,was combined with traditional class time, reflective writings, and mentoring to provide a balanceof theory with structured practice and guided reflection.The vertical integration was accomplished by structuring EGR 386 as a lightweight matrixorganization that
secondary students were evaluated for appropriateness. Strengths andlimitations of a variety of teaching methods were considered. These methods and practices werethen modeled and assessed through the conduct of the course in classroom, laboratory, and in-service experiences. Methodologies included lecture, small group activities, whole groupactivities, individual participation, reflective writing, alternative assessments, cooperativelearning, demonstrations, and technology-based assignments.3. Course Objectives The objectives of our course included:• Discussing the importance of teaching problem solving in today’s elementary/secondary schools.• Enabling our students to display an increased capacity for solving problems
., reading, discussing, writing). • Greater emphasis is placed on students’ exploration of their own attitudes and values.Each of the strategies listed above is aimed at the motivation needs of students. While theseneeds are very important (and active learning is an approach that we fully believe in), thehygiene needs of students should not be ignored. Attention to both hygiene and motivationfactors will best serve the needs of the students and increase our chances of retaining them in Page 6.677.2engineering by decreasing their dissatisfaction and increasing their satisfaction.Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education
performance and attitude changes as a result of innovation. They are also required to write a short paper in order to disseminate their experiences. These will be also posted on the PR-LSAMP website.V. Specific Examples & Outcomes of Curricular Innovations A. Cooperative Learning. One of the most successful strategies to reduce the attrition rate in SMET courses across the Alliance has been cooperative learning5,6. Many faculty have participated over the years in workshops and seminars, and success stories in reducing student attrition rates have been documented. For example, Figure 2 shows a comparison of improvement in the grade
, in agreement with what the Provost of the university has suggested. Such a number is also consistent with the results of a survey of the numbers of hours to graduation for aerospace programs at peer universities.• No student should be enrolled in more than 4 courses total in any quarter.• The senior year should allow students to explore their own interests through a set of electives.III. The Structure of the New CurriculumUltimately, we came to the structure shown graphically in Figure 1, with a tabular listing ofcourses in Table 1. Much of the first year and part of the second are taken up with science andmathematics, with some specific engineering core material on statics, dynamics, materials andstrength of materials in the
, Vancouver Dr. Dave Kim is Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. His teaching and research have been in the areas of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, and manufacturing processes. In particular, he has been very active in pedagogical research in the area of writing pedagogy in engineering laboratory courses. Dr. Kim and his collaborators attracted close to $1M in research grants to study writing transfer of engineering undergraduates. For technical research, he has a long-standing involvement in research concerned with the manufacturing of advanced composite materials (CFRP/titanium stack, GFRP
online,and instructors have the option to utilize a series of handouts to supplement learning. The videocontent was primarily developed, filmed, and acted out by four, typical college-aged, engineeringstudents to ensure the story plots were amusing and would interest their peers. Once created, thevideos were reviewed by a number of other instructors and steel engineers to verify accuracy ofthe technical content.The paper provides instructors with more background on the process of creating engagingengineering videos, highlighting some of the difficulties in filming as well as editing the content.The theoretical basis for some of the videos will be discussed. In particular, the paper will focuson techniques used to intentionally attract students
. B. Yancey, Reflection In The Writing Classroom. University Press of Colorado, 1998.[4] P. Groißböck, “E-portfolios in teacher education: ‘Teaching e-portfolios’ in mentoring processes or peer-learning in higher education,” 2012, doi: 10.1109/ICL.2012.6402153.[5] B. Eynon and L. M. Gambino, High-Impact ePortfolio Practice: A Catalyst for Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Taylor & Francis, 2023.[6] H. C. Barrett and N. Garrett, “Online personal learning environments: Structuring electronic portfolios for lifelong and life-wide learning,” Horiz., vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 142– 152, 2009, doi: 10.1108/10748120910965511.[7] S. Rubín and M. Rümler, “E-PORTFOLIO: A METACOGNITIVE ACTIVITY TO
to be meritorious and significant by a rigorous peer review process.This list developed by Diamond is a good guide for faculty interested in preparing a paper forpublication in any engineering education research journal and especially for JEE. Anotherperspective on conducting research in education is the National Research Council (NRC) reportScientific Research in Education [3]. 1. Question—Pose significant questions that can be investigated empirically. 2. Theory—Link research to relevant theory. 3. Methods—Use methods that permit direct investigation of the question. 4. Reasoning—Provide a coherent, explicit chain of reasoning. 5. Replicate and generalize across studies. 6. Disclose research to encourage
2010-2011 Not Transferred 3.00EGT 320 Robotic Systems and Material Handling 2010-2011 Not Transferred 3.00EGT 340 Applied Dynamics 2010-2011 Not Transferred 3.00ENGD080 Writing Lab 2010-2011 Not Transferred 1.00ENGD090 Writing Workshop 2010-2011 Not Transferred 3.00PHI 194 Global Ethical Viewpoints 2010-2011 Not Transferred 3.00AELP000 Non-Credit/American English Lang 2010-2011 Not Transferred 0.00CHE 120 General Chemistry I 2010-2011 D Transferred 3.00CHE 120L General Chemistry I Lab
seminar in thePsychology Department.A major objective of the course is for students to understand and adopt the cognitiveprocesses that guided the creation and interpretation of great inventors, in this caseusing a module based on the invention of the telephone7. Students try to improve onBell’s original telephone design and patent, using similar materials. The purpose of thismodule is to teach students how to invent: how to keep a notebook, conduct systematicexperiments, work in teams, draft a patent application and create a prototype thatdemonstrates proof-of-concept. As the course evolved, more-and-more scaffolding wasadded, in the form of additional materials on patents, on writing notebooks, and on otheraspects of the invention process. The
includes:Engineering Graphics (2-credit laboratory), Engineering Seminar (1 credit), and Engineering De-sign Laboratory I (1-credit laboratory).The major goal of these activities in the first semester is to provide the students an early bondingwith engineering and its style and task orientation as distinguished from science. They are aimedat initiating development of competencies that will build through subsequent design experiences:1. Ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs2. Ability to function effectively on multidisciplinary teams3. Ability to identify, formulate and assess alternative technical and economic solutions to en- gineering problems.4. Ability to communicate effectively and persuasively, both in writing and
responsible for. When theprogress reports are turned in, a signature sheet is required with all their signatures, certifyingthat they have put in the number of hours shown for them on the progress report. Also, at theend of the semester, peer reviews are conducted wherein each person in the class evaluates themembers of their team. Each person is “given” $8,000 with which to “pay” the 4 members oftheir team, and asked to distribute the money based on each member’s contribution. Ideally, themoney would be evenly distributed among the team. The class is informed at the beginning ofthe semester that it is possible for team members to make different grades on the same project,and this gives the instructor the ability to do this if large disparities in
math from sixth to twelfth grade [1]. Students report that mathbecomes more difficult, that they receive less support from parents, teachers and peers forstudying math, and that math becomes more anxiety provoking over time. Female studentsreported that math was more difficult than did male students, and females rated themselves asmore anxious in quantitative situations than males, even though their mathematical ability wasapproximately equal [2]. In fact, as early as the seventh grade, boys plan to study more maththan girls do [3]. High school girls perceive math to be less useful than boys do [4], and valuemath less than boys do [5]. Research supports the idea that the factors that keep minorities fromentering these fields are largely the
the head of department and, in consultation with the dean, a short list compiled according to qualifications, industrial and other experience and referees’ reports.C Informal interviews are subsequently held in the department concerned to expose applicants to their potential future working environment.C All applicants on the short list are then to lecture to a peer group of staff as well as experts from the Technikon’s Teaching Development Unit, who evaluate the applicant’s performance.C Subsequently a battery of psychometric tests is used to determine whether the applicant is a stable person capable of managing conflict, caring about others, etc
memory as illustrated in Figure 4. However, different cache-tagging schemes havevaried hardware complexities and hit rates under different applications. Also, different cachereplacement policies and cache write-policies fit better in different situations.Memory Management Unit (MMU): MMU has a key role in virtual memory implementation.MMU takes care of the page table and the logical-to-physical address translation process. Pagereplacement policies applied to the page table updating comprise of various algorithms. Recentlyaccessed frame numbers can be stored in a cache called Translation Look-aside Buffer (TLB).This ensures fast access to the recently used pages
evidence that the inculcation of gender stereotypes begins at a young age and that youngstudents quickly learn which fields are “appropriate” for them13. Obviously, the “problem” ofwomen in engineering is not simply one of recruitment. The “leaky pipeline” remains a major Page 15.451.2issue, as women entrants are lost disproportionately and often get overtaken by men peers intheir careers4.Images shape the way individuals view the world3, thus, eliciting and understanding the imageMexican teachers have of engineers and engineering is extremely important in order to developprograms and curricula that encourage engineering learning at the P-12 school
consciously and actively fosters and rewards creativity. Architecture studentsprioritize innovation and continuously engage in creative thinking while keeping an eyeon the big picture: the cultural significance and ultimate aims of the “program” inrelationship to the cultural and environmental context of the project. Students areexposed to the best examples of creative endeavor and cutting-edge design practice andtaught the history of their field. Throughout their education, students are exposed to arange of approaches and methodologies for problem-solving design, helping to providethe understanding the no one approach is paramount. Architecture students however,often lack the technical skills and expertise of their engineering peers because they