these incentivesmay be enticing, it is apparent that most coaches truly enjoy working with the student teams andcontributing to the development of these emerging young engineers. The management style ofthe coaches ranges from hands-off, to equal-among-peers, to autocratic.Each year brings new projects, new students, and many new challenges (logistical, managerial,technical, and financial) for the coaches to deal with. Further, coaches for student teams inmultidisciplinary capstone design courses frequently lack teaching paradigms that can be calledupon to serve as a guide when making pedagogical and team-management decisions. In otherwords, few faculty experienced multidisciplinary capstone courses in their own education andsimply do not have
. However, improving the soft skills of Page 15.997.5students through education is a challenging task. Students’ soft skills can be improved through aset of methods, such as boosted confidence in group discussion, public presentation skills,reviewing experiences and writing capability14, 15.Another focus of the project based education is active involvement of students. All the teammembers are required to evaluate information sources, to integrate subject matter learned duringthe project period, and to applying their previous knowledge into the current project. Students areresponsible for the design of the detailed steps to carry out the project
, grading policy and related information, technicalreport format and writing guide, sample report, information on working effectively in small Page 10.571.2groups, and small group peer evaluation forms. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationDouglas Grouws, Mathematics Education, University of Missouri, is the external independentevaluator in charge of the assessments. He is assisted by Leslie Keiser, a graduate student at TU.At this stage, we have mainly anecdotal observations and students’ comments
evaluations of each oral presentation was a great motivation. In the fallsemester of 2004, the evaluation of the written reports was modified to includeanonymous written feedback of each written report from two peer classmates. Not onlydid the assessment indicate that the students perceived the course was more effectivein improving writing skills, the TA’s noted that there was a noticeable improvement inthe overall quality in the second submitted written reports over the ones submitted thefirst time. Co-author Weese will e-mail copies of the evaluation instruments for thewritten reports and oral presentations as well as the assessment instrument to anyoneinterested.Retention and Graduation Data for Texas A&M University and the Dwight Look
the College lake in minimal time; the Spring 2004 project was similar – the design andconstruction of a solar-powered endurance vehicle (i.e., solar go-kart). I believe that thesefuture engineers benefit from experiencing all facets of a project at an early stage – design, 3-Dmodeling, competitive presentation, project management, ordering, construction, testing,completion, and final write-up. These projects were both very successful with the teams comingtogether to complete the projects, as well as frustrating to some peer professors relating toperceived declining performance of students in other courses. In this paper, I will relate myexperiences in assigning challenging, time-consuming projects to first year students.In both projects
) taught by Mechanical Engineering faculty and introductionto computer science taught by Computer Science faculty. Math prep courses reviewedconcepts that students struggle with in pre-calculus and calculus. The program included amini-course in writing as well as introductions to campus support programs such as thewriting center. Students also received an orientation on how to access their studentrecords and email accounts on-line. Additional work sessions included information aboutthe campus library, financial aid personnel, study skills including note-taking, time andstress management, test anxiety, and financial management. Campus support programpersonnel provided programming and information on how to access their servicesthroughout the year
incollege, the students usually work alone: in class, taking notes, doing homework, studying forand taking tests, writing papers, giving presentations, and managing their own time. Typically,in the laboratory the student will partner with another student. However, the dynamics of a teamof two does not at all compare to that of a larger group. Hence, while this overall approach istraditional and works well for the individual in an academic setting, it can be a shock when thestudent needs to work in a larger team in industry. Considerable time is spent in the first-quarterEE-407 course on team building, and this continues throughout the year.2. Understand the difference between a problem and a solution. This is one of the more poorlyunderstood
Integrated(VIVID) Storytelling, that makes use of educational comics for teaching humanistic subjectmatters to engineering students. Over the past two years, we have applied this pedagogy tothe teaching of visual thinking, storytelling, ethics, teamwork, motivation, and otherhumanistic topics in various curricular and co-curricular settings in two universities, includingtwo courses taken by all engineering students, a peer mentorship program attended by allfirst-year engineering students, two bridge-programs for students entering university, aworkshop for graduate researchers, and a STEAM program for female high school students.Our initial experience applying this pedagogy shows that by combining the engagingness ofvisual storytelling with the
editorial board for Chemical Engineering Education and serves a Director of the Chemical Engineering Division of ASEE. She will be a co-author, along with Dr. Richard Felder and Dr. Ronald Rousseau, of the 4th edition of Chemical Process Principles. Dr. Bullard’s research interests lie in the area of educational scholarship, including teaching and advising effectiveness, academic integrity, process design instruction, and the integration of writing, speaking, and computing within the curriculum.Dr. Anita R. Vila-Parrish, North Carolina State University Dr. Anita Vila-Parrish is the Director of Undergraduate Programs and Teaching Assistant Professor in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
different ways of working (with peers, attending office hours, seeking help on the internet, etc.) and asked students how often they did each of them, how often they felt each was necessary to complete the homework, and how effective the methods are for their learning process. Page 24.1133.4 IMAGE CAPTURE OF SECTION 2, PART B OF SURVEY Figure 1. Section 2 part b question visual, where students were asked to rate the nine categories.This analysis will be taking a mixed methods approach where we will combine findings from bothquantitative and qualitative data to draw
identity; her research focuses specifically on creativity, interdisciplinarity, and the role of emotion in cognition. She created the synthesis and design studios in the environmental engineering program and is currently developing the professional and design spines for the upcoming mechanical engineering program. She is also interested in faculty development and recently co-organized the NSF-sponsored PEER workshop for tenure-track engineering education research faculty. Page 23.1145.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Teaching Journeys of Engineering Faculty
-institution) funded program built on the theoretical framework oflegitimate peripheral participation [3] with an emphasis on inclusivity, community, and belonging[4]. To date, the Program has increased Scholar retention, academic performance, and engagementwith student support services relative to peers [5].As part of the Program, an annual faculty workshop was designed to catalyze and sustaincollaborations between NCC and HU STEM faculty. The workshop consisted of interactivemodules to facilitate directed discussions and produce deliverables. We will share the lessonslearned, obstacles overcome, and the outcomes of the collaborative process of hosting this type ofworkshop. The paper documents the process used to identify workshop outcomes and
351Figure 1. Active-engagement vs. traditional instruction for improving students’ conceptualunderstanding of basic physics concepts (taken from Laws et al.,1).Although the exact definition of inquiry-based instruction varies somewhat between differentinvestigators, we will use the defining features offered by Laws et al.1 and highlighted by Princeand Vigeant5.Table 1: Elements of Inquiry-Based Activity Modules (a) Use peer instruction and collaborative work (b) Use activity-based guided-inquiry curricular materials (c) Use a learning cycle beginning with predictions (d) Emphasize conceptual understanding (e) Let the physical world be the authority (f) Evaluate student
prepare and deliver a twenty minutepresentation describing their laboratory planning, experience, and results on the day followingthe laboratory work day. Students are expected to participate equally in oral report delivery, bothin presentation of the team’s work and in answering questions from the audience (one or moreinstructors and at least one other student team). Draft written reports are submitted five calendardays, including a weekend, after the experiment is completed. The draft versions of the writtenreports are reviewed by both the experimental supervisor and a technical communicationspecialist. Draft review meetings with individual student teams provide feedback and suggestedcorrections to writing quality and technical content before a
simulation result in ADAMS software. Whereas, thespecific application of the mechanism were left open for the student to research and choose.Preparing Guidance and Assessment Methods: The semester-long projects are assigned to thestudents in the second week of the semester. The projects have had three deliverables. A separaterubric was designed for each deliverable to guide students and to specify the expected tasks.Rubric I: a month was given to review the most recent and related articles and conference papersregarding the given project, and discuss their findings and come-up with a five page report. It wasobserved that the majority of students were not familiar with standard procedures and rules thatshould be considered in writing a technical
computer skills training classes for older adults inthe community. By conducting the class, students would benefit from learning how to design a trainingprogram for a user group different from their peers while also serving older individuals in thecommunity. Within the course of a quarter (10 weeks), students recruited participants, designed thetraining, and conducted the training. The five one-hour classes were: introduction to computers,introduction to the internet, introduction to Microsoft Word, images and videos and Facebook.Participants completed weekly evaluations which were then used to improve future sessions. Feedbackfrom the sessions indicated that teaching environment and pace of learning were among the most notedparticipant concerns
course to teach writing and a public speaking course to complement the secondclinic. All teams in a specific Clinic will be given the same well defined problem statement that isthe subject of the entire semester. The individual student’s grade will be based on theirperformance in both team and individual presentations or writings. At the end of this yearstudents should understand that an engineer maybe called to act as project interpreter andadvocate. So their ability to accurately convey knowledge with many different audiences may bedirectly correlated to their later career success. It is also at this stage that students work in theirfirst inter-disciplinary team, a hallmark of the Rowan Clinic Experience.Junior and Senior Engineering Clinics
entire faculty. Doing this supports an integrated curriculum. In “Fabulous Fridays”6, Susan Lord writes about what she incorporated into an optoelectronicscourse to measure the lifelong learning outcome. She had students explore areas in depth “by conductingliterature research including a paper and a presentation on a topic of their choice.” For a semester, Lordheld the last fifteen minutes of each Friday class open for students to lead discussions on an article theydistributed to the class on Monday. Lord also states that these ideas can be incorporated into any classthat must reach the lifelong learning objective.requirements When coming up with ideas, I had to meet certain criteria other than measuring the objective.One
students residing in or attending high schools in Newark, NJ. Asin the other programs, chemical engineering is only a part of the program and is alecture/ laboratory integrated experience. The lecture topics cover the theory ofexperimentation, statistics, units, dimensions, graphics, data collection andanalysis, oral presentation and report writing. The course also has a homework 3assignment component. The laboratory experience consists of experiments on thechemical engineering pilot plant size equipment. One aspect of the programinvolves the assignment of students to an intensive independent research projectin addition to their regular assignment. Students mentored by the authorsundertook intensive, six
Institution-Name of School]’s Introduction to Management,MGMT-1100. This course is designated as one half of the Institute’s communication requirement, and, assuch, awards performance. “The course, by design, makes you “think” by exposing you to managementand business situations, calling upon you to decide “what to do.” This requires both individual andteam performance criteria promoting a participative and active learning environment. The four broadareas of evaluation are (1) class participation and attendance, (2) case write-ups and presentations, (3)final executive presentation and (4) special assignments1.” This paper outlines a nearly eleven-yearchronology of the student’s improved performance as I, the instructor, journeyed into the
pedagogies (e.g. traditional chalkboard writing, presentations, field trips,labs, etc.) to appeal to different student learning preferences and create a more inclusive learningenvironment. Utilizing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, instructors focused on the first twodichotomies, Extroversion vs. Introversion and Sensing vs. Intuition. With an innovativeapproach towards CE Materials, the goal of stimulating independent thinkers and assistingstudents with the retention of core course material is being achieved across a range of studentlearning preferences. By teaching the course in a way that encompasses all learning preferences,a greater breadth of students can succeed in and enjoy a civil engineering curriculum.IntroductionTypical civil engineering
department of Chemical Engineering for the past 13years. The theme for the workshop is “ How to Engineer Engineering Education” and the targetgroup is engineering and science faculty, and graduate students. The workshop is designed to 4 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conferenceenhance the teaching expertise of participants by receiving instructions on the followingactivities in an engaging and interactive group environment11. a. Writing clear instructional objectives at appropriate cognitive levels b. Using active, cooperative, & problem-based
concentration in social statistics from the University of Washington. Erin also holds an MA and BA in Russian and Eastern European studies, and an AA in liberal arts and sciences.Kam H Yee, University of WashingtonBrenda N Martinez, University of Washington ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025Abstract:Sometimes projects settle into a status quo of doing the same things because that iswhat has always been done. In this presentation, we’ll talk about the process oftransitioning a NASA-funded WA Space Grant to develop more meaningfulactivities/interventions for students and to improve the evaluation of the project. Theproject is writing a renewal grant now and has been collaborating with an evaluator
. Some institutions have banned AI for intelligent systems could foster intellectual sluggishness,homework, while others debate integrating it into discouraging independent thinking and problem-solvinglessons, prompting calls for stricter regulations on skills. A clear example is the growing reliance onacademic misconduct. Another concern is that over- calculators, with many individuals struggling to performreliance on AI may weaken students' writing and critical even basic mathematical operations withoutthinking skills, potentially affecting education quality technological assistance. With the advancement of AIand learning outcomes. Some universities have classified
. Guided App Projects help students build an app in Xcode with step-by-step instructions whileallowing students try out parts of code with without having to build an entire app from the beginning toaccelerate their coding Swift skills. Xcode Playgrounds helps students learn key programming concepts asthey write Swift code in playgrounds—an interactive coding environment that lets them experiment withcode and see the results immediately.Unit Summary: Unit 1: Getting Started with App Development Unit 2: Introduction to UIKit Unit 3: Navigation and Workflows Unit 4: Tables and Persistence Unit 5: Working with the Web Unit 6: Prototyping and Project Planning
, as well as industrial representatives, military leaders, and corporate consultants.Dr. Seda Yilmaz, Iowa State University Dr. Yilmaz is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Design who teaches design studios and lecture courses on developing creativity and research skills. For her research, she investigates design approaches and ideation, ethnography in design, foundations of innovation, creative processes, and cross-disciplinary design team dynamics. She is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed journals and conference proceed- ings. She also serves on review, advisory, and scientific boards of various journals and conferences. Her current research focuses on identifying impacts of different factors on ideation of
’ institution as it has with manyother institutions across the US.As a Jesuit Catholic university committed to “the ideals of liberal education and the developmentof the whole person,”[11] LUM operates primarily as an undergraduate institution withconsiderable liberal arts requirements. Students who pursue LUM’s ABET-accredited bachelor’sof science in engineering must select one of four concentrations in electrical, computer,mechanical, or materials engineering. At the same time, all students are required to completecourses in the natural sciences and mathematics, as well as in the humanities and social scienceswherein reading, writing, and critical thinking skills are heavily emphasized [12]. The LUMCore Values Statement “calls upon the curriculum to
Computer Engineering [20] andare broken down 135 knowledge units, further divided into a total of 908 learning outcomes.This question helped the TF define important knowledge that students should master beforegraduating in order to prepare them for their future careers in Industry 5.0.At the time of this writing, we received seven responses from our survey, a very small numberthat is hard to draw a lot of firm conclusions from. Nonetheless, we plan to expand the number ofrespondents to be statistically more significant and include a larger variety of companies andrepresentative positions within the same. The responses are from engineers from severalcompanies, including Apple, The MathWorks, Verizon, Toast, Randstad Technologies, andAltaeros. The
Paper ID #37237An Evaluation of an Implementation of High School GirlsSummer Outreach Camp Converted to an Online Format(Evaluation)Carol Geary Carol Geary is a doctoral candidate in the Engineering Education program at Virginia Tech. While at Virginia Tech Carol has directed peer mentoring programs and high school STEM outreach camps. Her research interests include co-curricular support, student success, and persistence. Carol received her B.S. in Aerospace engineering from Virginia Tech.Tawni Paradise (Graduate Student)Hannah GlissonKim Lester (Director Pre-college Programs) © American
,participants are guided by faculty experts while working in teams to accomplish data gatheringand analysis for research projects. In these endeavors, the undergraduate researchers gainexperience collaborating with peers specializing in biology and engineering [6].The only Belize trip involving LSAMP-sponsored participants was completed in 2019. Therewere no LSAMP evaluation surveys administered to student participants for that trip.Now, TAMUCC LSAMP and faculty leaders explored potential domestic research sites for the2022 summer research experience in consideration of COVID-19 pandemic travel restrictions.However, leaders received approval to host the summer 2022 research experience in Belize. Pre-and post-participation evaluations are planned for