relationships between the dimensions of culture and a) student choice ofmajor, and b) student success with a major? RQ3: How do students change over time in their academic programs with respect to thedimensions of culture? RQ4: What factors affect those changes, e.g., pedagogical practices, curriculum, instructors? RQ5: Do the relationships in RQ1-4 vary with demographic indicators, e.g., race or gender? RQ6: What patterns of pedagogical practice operate within academic disciplines?To address these issues, the grant is being developed in a 4-year study to investigate patterns ofcultural traits in students across disciplines, and to build an actionable theory of engineeringculture that can support pedagogies of inclusive and collaborative
of 20 content topics, and 6 general course learning objectives. B. The course lecture resources should be flexible for use by a variety of instructors (novice and experienced) in a variety of delivery formats (e.g., flipped, online, blended). In particular, although the initial implementation and testing of the curriculum was in a “traditional” flipped format, future implementations were planned in which students from two or more different courses would be simultaneously performing student-centered activities under the guidance of a single instructor. C. As with all of the lab curricula in the CALSTEP project, the lab should aim to achieve the thirteen objectives for engineering educational laboratories
maintaining and enhancing faculty technical currency andfaculty development activities in order to improve the quality of instruction inengineering technology programs. 1. At the personal level: a) Faculty members should do a yearly self-inventory of their technical currency, and should identify areas of technical content improvement, and address them through appropriate studies and co-curricular activities. b) Identify and address instructional technology and classroom management techniques areas to improve teaching effectiveness. 2. At the program/department level: a. Administrators/chairpersons need to allocate appropriate amounts of funds for faculty
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contains a chart that is used in class toteach one of the most challenging topics in the course: combined stresses. The chart illustrates asolid cylindrical member that is subjected to various forces, torques, and moments. The rows ofthe table contain the internal forces/torques/moments and the columns of the table distinguishbetween the state of stress at points A, B, and C. The instructor can work with the students in aninteractive manner to determine which equation is appropriate in each cell in the table, and askchallenging follow-up questions, such as “is point B in flexural tension or compression?” Thedesign of the handout facilitates a variety of pedagogical approaches, including “pair-share.”This format allows the instructor to teach
Paper ID #14642Community Service as a Means of Engineering Inspiration: An Initial Inves-tigation into the Impact of the Toy Adaptation ProgramMs. Molly Y Mollica, The Ohio State University Molly Mollica earned her BS in Biomedical Engineering from Ohio State University in 2014. She is currently a Master’s student in Mechanical Engineering with a research focuses in bionanotechnology, mechanobiology, and engineering education. Molly has been working with the Toy Adaptation Project since its start at OSU in 2013.Dr. Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University Dr. Rachel Louis Kajfez is an Assistant Professor of Practice in
achieve this objective the projects were designed toattain two specific objectives: (a) expose the students to math and sciences while working onprojects. We expected to spark students’ interest in math, physics and chemistry (through theintegration of real life applications to course content). (b) Improve the student self-confidenceby providing them networking opportunities (to work the projects, groups were divided intoteams of 3-4 students). In addition there were seven (three female and four male) mentorjunior engineering students who provided extensive advising to their younger peers.The key phases were:Spring Outreach to Recruit StudentsAll newly enrolled engineering students were contacted during the spring-2015 semester bythe PIs of the
Paper ID #15956Towards a Multidisciplinary Teamwork Training Series for UndergraduateEngineering Students: Development and Assessment of Two First-year Work-shopsDr. Ada Hurst, University of Waterloo Ada Hurst is a Lecturer in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. She has taught and coordinated the capstone design project course for the Management Engineering program since 2011. She also teaches courses in organizational theory, technology, and behaviour. She received her Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering and Master of Applied Science and PhD in Management Sciences, all
confidence, motivation, expectancy, andanxiety). A confidence interval was derived by bootstrapping the data since normality wasrejected. The PI (Project Impact) items in the survey shown in Table 2, were also averaged andbootstrapped.Table 2. Survey administered to a) senior students upon completion of the capstone project,and b) recent graduates Item Statement/Question Rate how the project affected your ability to (1-No Impact; 3-Moderate Impact 5-High Impact): PIa Apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering PIc Design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability
offered during the spring semester of the sophomore year. As can be observed from Figure 1A, the performance of students in the MEB course follows a general bell curve; however the Figure 1. Sophomore course statistics. Grade distributions for percentage of students with a students enrolled in the (A) Material & Energy Balance course and failing grade or a grade of W (B
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Function Software Component Hardware Component Port Data processing – the 1,2,3,4, brainis Mindstorms NXT brick which is core A,B,C of LEGO robots. All the programs can be downloaded into NXT’s memory during operations whether it is autonomous or controlled by human operators.Note: the hardware devices must match with their respective ports on the NXT Brick. (Refer tothe LEGO NXT instruction manuals). For remote control by smart phone, an appropriate NXTRemote Control app must be first downloaded and installed on the cell phone before makingconnection via
in four main categories –system level design for the mobile platform (Android);API level security analysis (PID recognition); reverse engineering based security analysisincluding both static and dynamic analysis; traffic engineering. Table I. shows the overall list ofcurrent mobile computing labs and security analysis labs related to mobile and pervasivecomputing in the past two years. Each lab will be introduced in the following subsections. Eachlab contains the objectives, description, steps, and some sample code segments. Some labs had Figure 2. Snapshots for the information collection (a) and phone make lab (b)been updated based on past implementation.Information Collection Android AppThis is an Android app
. b. Demonstrate the safe and proper use of computer-based and embedded-processor- based data acquisition systems. c. Demonstrate proper techniques for debugging/troubleshooting an experimental setup. d. Design, build, and fly a custom set of transducers to make engineering and/or scientific measurements. 2. Demonstrate experimental and analytical skills: a. Demonstrate the design/planning and completion of safe experiments to answer open-ended questions. b. Demonstrate manipulation and presentation of experimentally-obtained data to answer open-ended questions. c. Analyze and compare the results of mathematical and computer modeling of an
students' thinking during instruction. Educational Psychologist , 23 (2), 167-180.5. Dym, C., Agogino, A. M., Eris, O., Frey, D. D., & Leifer, L. J. (2005). Engineering design thinking, teaching, and learning. Journal of Engineering Education , 94 (1), 103-120.6. Jonassen, D., Strobel, J., & Lee, C. B. (2006). Everyday problem solving in engineering: Lessons for engineering educators. Journal of engineering education , 95 (2), 139-151.7. Koen, B. V. (2003). Discussion of the method: Conducting the engineer's approach to problem solving (Vol. 198). New York: Oxford University Press.8. Mills, J. E., & Treagust, D. F. (2003). Engineering education—Is problem-based or project-based learning the answer? Australasian Journal
Paper ID #15817Changing Student Behavior through the Use of Reflective Teaching Practicesin an Introduction to Engineering Course at a Two-Year CollegeMr. Richard Brown Bankhead III, Highline College Richard B Bankhead III is the engineering department coordinator at Highline College. At Highline Colleg,e Richard is committed to developing the behaviors of successful engineering students in transfer students as well as preparing them academically for the challenges of junior level engineering courses. Richard has taught at Highline since 2004 and was awarded the Faculty of the Year Award at Highline Col- lege for the 2009
misunderstandings, feedback and ideas as teams require such.Below is a small sample of a Do-It Challenge phase within a single learning block. Please note forbrevity we have selected to list only one possible challenge at each level within a block. Onaverage, blocks consist of 6-12 possible challenges. Smart Home Challenge Set (for example purposes listing only 1 challenge at each level): Level 1 - Using your kit and Legos create a house that has at least one of the following items A) A room that has a working light in it, B) A door that can open and close using the servo, C) A room that can detect sound Level 2- Add a garage onto your house that can detect when a car is parked in it (you must also build a Lego car to demonstrate functionality
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teaching awards, two Professorships, two national ASEE teaching awards, and is internationally recognized in his primary research field. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Promoting Research and Entrepreneurship Skills in Freshman Engineering Students: A Strategy to Enhance Participation in Graduate and Enrichment ProgramsAbstractThis paper describes the structure, implementation strategy, and early results of an undergraduateNSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) Programaimed at: (a) increasing the number of graduating engineers with research and entrepreneurshipexperience, (b) preparing students for the future needs
. 7For the past 19 years we have posed a set of similar problems to all incoming engineering andscience students taking introductory physics. The problems involve the analysis of velocity as afunction of time graphs, v(t), for the one dimensional motion of six identical objects. Theseproblems are based upon the work of Arons found in Ref.1. Using graphs of velocity as afunction of time allows us to ask questions regarding information that can be directly obtainedfrom the graph, as well as what can be gleaned from the derivative and integral of the graph. Asan example we show below in Fig. 2 the graphs given to students during the winter term of 2015. A B
democratic reforms. In Western culture, management styles tend toemphasize performance [13]. For individualists, priorities are set based on individual andimmediate family considerations [6]. Islam influences family relations and orientation, hierarchical distance, and collectivismresulting in dominant paternalism. For collectivists, the needs of the group far outweigh needs ofa few individuals [6]. Ali [3] stated Islam can play an influential role and can contribute toshaping the mindset of individual and group behavior among Arabs. Islam governs all aspects oflife within Arab society and Ali ascribed certain behavioral characteristics to its members: (a) adeep sense of family honor, (b) pay more respect to elderlies and (c) respect for
professor and company founder alike - to figureout the passion and iteration on the product, the new creation, and who the audience is.References: 1. ABET, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2015-2016 Accreditation Cycle, Engineering Accreditation Commission, 2014 2. Atman C. J. et al. “Enabling Engineering Student Success: The Final Report for the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education. San Rafael, CA: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2010. 3. Ambrose, Susan; Lazarus, B; Nair, I. “No universal constructs: Journeys of Women in Engineering.” FIE conference proceedings, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997. 4. Anderson, C. “Reflections on Coaching Best Ted Talks.” HBR, 2013. 5. Berglund, A “Two facets of Innovation in
, “Learning and understanding key concepts of electricity,” in Connecting research in physics education with teacher education, A. Tiberghien, L. Jossem, and J. Barojas, Eds. 1998.[2] A. H. Johnstone, “Why is science difficult to learn? Things are seldom what they seem,” J. Comput. Assist. Learn., vol. 7, pp. 75–83, 1991.[3] P. Licht, “Teaching electrical energy, voltage and current: An alternative approach,” Phys. Educ., vol. 26, pp. 272–277, Sep. 1991.[4] G. Biswas, D. Schwartz, B. Bhuva, S. Brophy, T. Balac, and T. Katzlberger, “Analysis of student understanding of basic AC concepts,” 1998.[5] G. Biswas, D. L. Schwartz, B. Bhuva, J. Bransford, D. Holton, A. Verma, and J. Pfaffman, “Assessing problem
cable. This is to access myRIO pins without running individual jumperwires directly to each pin. Figure 3, shows the breakout board and the 34-pin connectors on theNI myRIO. To power the experimental platform, one battery is used for the motors while theother battery is used to power the breakout board and the myRIO. A 5V, 2.5 step down regulatoris added to the breakout board to provide on-board power for all sensors connected to the board. (a) (b) Figure 3: (a) PCB breakout board, (b) 34-pin connectors on NI myRIO. Figure 4: Mobile robot base configuration used in Section III Case Study 1 and 3.As mentioned earlier, one of the objectives for designing this
and I want people to think highly of me. I care what people think about me a lot, so I…just want – I just want to fit in and I think that would help me fit in.” UrsaAt the end of the interview, Ursa expressed this when I asked her if she had any parting thoughts.She is speaking directly to me, the PI. “I don’t want you to think of me as a person that – that’s lazy. I want you to think highly of me. Not too highly but I want to be just like the same level as everybody else.” UrsaUrsa is concerned with what I think of her based on our short time together for the interview.THEME IV: “If plan a and b don’t work, there’s plan c, plan d, all the way to z.”This theme relates to help-seeking behavior as a learned action or skill
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