builds a framework for grading based on motivating students to develop thesepractices as their study habits.The method was developed and tested over a 3.5-year period in a Mechanics of Materials course.The results were very promising, with student improvements of at least one standard deviationwhen compared to their peers in traditional courses. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate thatthe method can be applied to more than just the original course. For this study the authors haveadopted and implemented the SMART method for a different course, Introduction to Dynamics.While the course is still part of the engineering mechanics curriculum, it has several importantfeatures that make it worthwhile to demonstrate the versatility of the SMART
college awareness. endeavors. Applicants Skill- set Is dependable and Relates well to reliable/Has good peers/Commun attendance, icates openly punctuality, and with school record. staff Cooperates with school staff
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; Systems Engineering, and Civil Engineering from Ohio University, and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. His re- search interests cover a variety of topics that include engineering education, applied optimization and simulation modeling, social, economic and environmental life cycle assessment, data analytics, engineer- ing education, energy and sustainability, input-output analysis, transportation sustainability and safety. Gokhan has over 50 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious academic journals, books, and conference proceedings related to sustainable development, life cycle assessment, manufacturing system design and control, supply chain management, transportation safety
tosolve math problems, to be creative, to work collaboratively on a team, to understand science,and to perform a few other abilities. For every ability, the average student ranked themselvesabove average relative to peers. Data on incoming student self-efficacy towards general project-related tasks is shown infigure 1a, with results split by self-identified gender (a non-binary gender option was given, butsurveys that selected that response were too few to create a meaningful average). Differencesbetween genders were generally statistically insignificant except for the most general question of a) b) Figure 1. Responses to the (a) pre-class and (b) post-class survey questions on general engineering project self-efficacy, averaged
level of academicachievement (Strimel et al., 2018). The purpose of these programs can often be viewed asproviding students with the information necessary to ensure the proper selection of anengineering discipline-specific major and the knowledge and skills necessary for success in theirselected major. The first-year engineering curriculum is often designed to reinforce basic scienceand mathematics concepts while developing a student’s engineering design capabilities.According to Strimel et al. (2018), the typical core requirements during a student’s first yearincludes physics, chemistry, multiple levels of calculus, and writing/composition as well as anengineering orientation seminar and multiple engineering courses focused on design
Engineering, to the first year engineering students with the aim to increase retention rate and reduce graduation time. Dr. Tiwari is an ABET program evaluator for ASEE.Dr. Pradeep Nair, California State University, Fullerton Pradeep Nair received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2009. His research interests include power/performance tradeoffs in the nanoscale domain, leakage power reduction in digital systems, computer performance analysis and evaluation, low Power FPGAs, and biomedical circuits and systems. He has published several peer-reviewed papers as part of his re- search. At CSUF, Dr. Nair has taught several engineering courses ranging from the freshman level to
Understanding These Four Types of Mistakes Can Help Us Learn’ [21]. Write a short summary of each of the four kinds of mistakes. Which kind(s) do you make most often? Which kind do you think you are most likely to make it MSE 308?” ● As part of their weekly homework in week 9, students were asked, “Review the article ‘Why a Growth Mindset is Essential For Learning’ [22]. Which parts of the article resonate with you? Why? Has you approach to learning evolved in MSE 308 toward more of a growth mindset? Do you have ideas for things to try over the rest of the semester (or in future classes)?” ● As part of their weekly homework in week 13, students were asked, “Read the article ‘Forget Talent’ [23]. Which
) a single college or university within a country or an academic discipline.As our understanding of impactful learning evolves, many instructors are drawn to explorealternative pedagogies such as flipped classrooms, hands-on exploration, problem-based andproject-based approaches, case studies, peer instruction, and more. These and other activepedagogies can improve engineering student learning [2]. Effectively deploying any of theseapproaches entails a shift in curricular culture. Roles, activities, expectations, and artifactschange from one pedagogical approach to another, and so the underlying assumptions facultymembers make about teaching and learning must change as well.Faculty members undertaking such pedagogical modifications sometimes
associations were used as thebasis for sending survey solicitations, including: members of the American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE) ethics, community engagement, liberal education/engineering &society, and educational research & methods divisions; authors of papers from peer-reviewedjournals and the ASEE conference with ‘ethics’ as a keyword, principle investigators of NSFfunded grants related to ethics; faculty advisors for student professional, honors and servicesocieties (e.g., Society for Women Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, TauBeta Pi, Engineers Without Borders); and faculty mentors of NSF funded Research Experiencefor Undergraduate sites.In total there were 1448 responses combined from both the curricular
. Our community college partnersmay accept students into their schools even if the student is not skills proficient inreading and/or writing and/or math; these students then take remedial or developmentalcourses so that they can become skills proficient in reading and/or writing and/or math.At the senior college, all of the students who enter into the school of engineering asfreshmen are skills proficient. Once a student is accepted into the school of engineering,s/he is classified as an engineering major and once s/he begins as a first-time, full-timestudent, the student is part of the cohort that is tracked and reported for retention andgraduation data analysis.In order for information to be consistent, the cohort of students in a program has
online solutions and peers when completinghomework problems [7].The problem of students copying from online sources is pervasive [7] and not just an issue forstandard problems from popular textbooks. In 2016 one of the authors created an all-new staticsproblem on aircraft center of gravity using an adapted image from an FAA website, and within aweek the solution was available online for copying. The instructor was alerted to this factbecause the online solution included a calculation error that appeared on 5 of 50 student papers,even though the syllabus prohibited the use of online resources to complete homework.Experiences like this make one question if customized paper homework is worth the significanteffort involved.Online homework reduces
missing flavor packets, but there werestill a few hundred complaints for this defect per year. An agreement was made in to assign anIUPUI undergraduate student team to develop a system that would significantly reduce thenumber of missing flavor packets in NK Hurst soup mix packages.Consumer ComplaintsDirect consumer complaints of product defects are an incomplete indicator of overall quality.According to research [2] performed by the Technical Assistance Research Program (TARP) atHarvard University, only 3% of customers complained directly to manufacturers regardingdefective low-cost products. TARP’s studies found that for packaged goods similar to the beansoup mixes made by Hurst, only one person in fifty writes a letter to the manufacturer when
is based on student's formal project report and the employer’s evaluationsurvey. The minor co-op employer evaluates the students’ performance based on the followingcriteria:1- Evaluation of Student Performance Expectations ● Specialized Knowledge ○ Basic knowledge and understanding of the theoretical aspects ○ Basic knowledge & understanding of the technical aspects ● Broad and Integrative Learning ○ Ability to explore concepts and questions that bridge different areas of learning ○ Ability to write effectively ○ Ability to communicate effectively ○ Ability to critically and creatively
, textbooks, and peers [2, 4, 6]. Situatedcognition theory offers a theoretical framework for studying this education-practice gap inengineering. Situated cognition theory proposes that the social and material contexts whereinknowledge is learned and applied influences our ability to apply similar knowledge in newcontexts [7]. Engineering education often focuses on transmitting conceptual knowledge tostudents in abstract formats with the intent of providing students a fundamental understanding ofconcepts so that they can apply these concepts to unique situations in their future coursework orengineering careers [5, 8]. Situated cognition challenges this ubiquitous notion of concepts andour ability to apply conceptual knowledge within novel
leaders of relevant organizations, providing students withengineering faculty as mentors, and finally, introducing them to the design process, working inteams, technical writing, and oral presentation.More specifically, cognitive stimulation was supplied by introducing the concept of engineeringdesign to the students early in their academic career. In some sections of the experimental US1100classes, a design project was completed after design theory was taught. Introducing students todesign early on in their academic careers has been shown to help students develop crucial skillsthat they would need throughout the remainder of their education and well into their career, suchas critical thinking, working effectively in teams, and technical
make adaptations to suit students with less flexibleschedules, especially engineering students, reflected a commitment by faculty and administratorsto be entrepreneurial in seizing opportunities to develop the program.Engineering ChangesAs entrepreneurship activities proceeded in the Business Department, in the Engineeringdivision, a first-year introductory course intended to familiarize students with computerapplications for engineers was modified in 2013 to follow a new paradigm wherein coursecontent was presented paralleling a real-world engineering consulting project. Topic-specificlectures focused on requisite computer application, analysis and writing skills were paced withperiodic “business meetings.” Those meetings were related to a
balancing of four core anduniversal ethical principles: beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, and respect for autonomy,9through an ethical reasoning process that Beever and Brightman described as reflexiveprinciplism.10 Our focus is on the range of stakeholders impacted, the allocation of risk whennovel technologies emerge, and the specification and balancing of core ethical principles in lightof numerous, diverse, and sometimes conflicting stakeholder perspectives. As a final goal for thiscase study, students collaborate on a group case report to reason through the ethicality of deeperand riskier oil drilling within the Gulf of Mexico. In writing their group case report, students mayjustify their responses by referring to issues not directly
institutions have some distance learning offerings as of 20143.Our large, public, research university (Arizona State University) has started to offer its ABETaccredited undergraduate program in a fully online format beginning fall 2013, with the goal ofproviding online students the same high quality educational experience as the on-site students4.At the time of this writing, our degree program is one of the only two ABET accredited BSelectrical engineering programs in the nation offered in a 100% online format5.Digital Design Fundamentals is the first electrical engineering course on this online bachelordegree program major map. An online version of the course was designed to deliver equivalentcontent and assessment comparable to the face-to-face
testhypotheses, and rebuild or reprogram accordingly--students learn to see errors as opportunities,not failures); communication (as mentioned above students are asked to present at school-wideor parent events. In addition, they write about their progress and challenges in a blog or on-lineworksheet.) A key aspect of this program is to engage parents substantively. Working with the schools,LSA prepares events which guide parents to understand education and career paths for theirchildren in STEM and STEM-related professions. LSA does this with the hope that in additionto being better able to advocate for their children, parents (many of whom are young themselvesand un- or under-employed) will see STEM in their own education or career path. While
staff advisors. Each advisor meets with two teams over a one hour“cohort” meeting once per week to discuss progress of the project. The teams come preparedwith a short slide deck (1-5 slides) detailing the progress made in the past week. Lectures areonce per week and serve the purpose of reinforcing the design process by introducing techniquesfor project management, research, design process management, sketching, ideation, prototypeplanning, photography and videography skills, effective presentations and writing skills.The Electrical Engineering capstone course consisted of 6 projects. Five of these projects weresponsored and defined by industrial partners, and 1 was industry sponsored but competitiondefined (SpaceX Hyperloop Pod). The course
education.12 In literature, themost popular way of integrating real-world problem solving, especially in multidisciplinaryteams, seems to be through capstone design courses. As of 2005, roughly 35% of undergraduatecapstone design projects were conducted in multidisciplinary teams of students (an increase from21% in 1994).6 Evidence has shown, both qualitatively and quantitatively, that students benefitgreatly from working in multidisciplinary settings. Survey results show that engineeringprofessionals associate interdisciplinary thinking with creativity in their peers and ratemultidisciplinary work as very important in preparation for industry.7 Similarly, students whoparticipated in a multidisciplinary capstone course identified functioning in a
, SketchUp). To train students in using modern prototyping equipment (low cost 3d printing, vinyl cutting, vacuum forming) and tools. To require that students work in teams, give presentations, and write reports, thus developing both their oral and written communication skills.In order to design content that provided these educational objectives, the Project ExecutionTeam, along with the content experts in each of the three primary threads met multiple times toprovide an initial layout of the project content. The team followed the DESIGN model, proposedby one of the Project Execution Team members. This is a model that builds upon previoussuccessful projects, but is a new iteration that was piloted for STEM-Discovery. DESIGN
grants in both the public and private sectors, and served as an external reviewer for doctoral dissertations outside the U.S. She publishes regularly in peer-reviewed journals and books. Dr. Husman was a founding member and first President of the Southwest Consortium for Innovative Psychology in Education and has held both elected and appointed offices in the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Motivation Special Interest Group of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction. Page 26.50.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 A group
Coll Univ. 2013.5. Brownell JE, Swaner LE. High-Impact Practices: Applying the Learning Outcomes Literature to the Development of Successful Campus Programs. PEER Rev. 2009.6. Kuh GD. High-Impact Educational Practices: What they are, who has access to them, and why they matter. Assoc Am Coll Univ. 2008.7. Wenzel T. Definition of Undergraduate Research. Counc Undergrad Res Q. 1997;17.8. Laursen S, Hunter A, Seymour E, Thiry H, Melton G. What is Known About the Student Outcomes of Undergraduate Research? In: Undergraduate Research in the Sciences: Engaging Students in Real Science. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2010.9. Pajares F. Self-efficacy beliefs, motivation, and achievement in writing: A
Ph.D. in Me- chanical Engineering (Design Thinking) from Stanford University. Dr. Lande is the PI on the NSF-funded project ”Should Makers Be the Engineers of the Future” and a co-PI on the NSF-funded project ”Might Young Makers Be the Engineers of the Future?”Ms. Amy Elizabeth Bumbaco, University of Florida Amy Bumbaco is a PhD candidate in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at University of Florida, USA. She is working on engineering education research as her focus. Her current research interests include first year engineering education, critical thinking, qualitative methodologies, and peer review. She received her BS in Materials Science and Engineering at Virginia Tech. She founded an
modeling and simula- tion, dynamic modeling of physical systems, and STEM education. She has published 20 peer-reviewed publications in these areas, and her research has been funded by the NSF, AFRL, and LA-BOR. She also serves as an Associate Editor for the American Control Conference and the Conference on Decision and Control, two premier conferences in the controls community. She is a member of the IEEE, SIAM, and ASEE.Dr. Paul Hummel, Louisiana Tech University Paul Hummel is a lecturer in the Electrical Engineering department at Louisiana Tech University. He has a BS in Engineering with a Computer concentration from LeTourneau University and a PhD in Engineering with an emphasis on Microelectronics from
. Amelink et al. (5), innovative thinking skills include: a)critical thinking and effective generation of new ideas, b) application and integrationof science/engineering content knowledge, c) ability to organize newinformation/ideas/products articulately, d) ability to communicate ideas to peers andothers, effective use of technology/tool selection in design process, e) complex Page 26.261.2thinking process that transforms a creative idea into useful services/products,potential for prototyping/commercialization. The program discussed here has beendeveloped to promote innovation with focus on the following learning outcomes:Understanding of Design (a thru e
andmagnets to illustrate applications of different interest factors, One Minute paper, Muddiest Pointpaper, think-pair-share, individual and group problem solving, assigned reading, daily individualand team quizzes, daily assignment, daily presentations of homework by the peers, exams linkedto the learning objectives and a number of other techniques. Many of these ideas are derivedfrom best practices presented as part of a Mini-ExCEEd Teaching Workshop at our institutionconducted by our Dean for new faculty3,4. Page 26.377.3After the course learning objectives were articulated and assessment questions regarding thelearning objectives were devised5
front of peers, instructors,industrial advisers, and faculty guests. This was a practice learned from architecture studios atLawrence Tech. These milestone reviews occur at the Project Pitch, Concept Selection, Pre-build, and Working Prototype stages within the design process. The final review will be done inan expo format with faculty and industrial advisors. At the expo, students will present a posterand demonstrate their working prototypes. Less formal reviews occur throughout the semesterand other summative assessments include reading quizzes, frequent update meetings withinstructors, a project binder that documents the entire development process, and an e-portfolio onInnovation Portal (www.innovationportal.org). Of course, given the studio