and constructionproject. Service learning has been widely adopted within higher education nationally in manydisciplines and offers an enabling environment to integrate desirable experiential skills thatstudents will need when they enter the work place (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1994,Dahir, 1993, Martin and Haque, 2001) into traditional engineering and construction programs Page 14.1242.2and courses. Service learning has been shown to be an effective means of addressing the needs ofengineering and construction curricula (Duffy et al, 2001). The Princess Anne Athletic Centerwas a partnership between the University of Maryland Eastern
the learner.4,5 This not only can improve learning, but students are more Page 24.1377.2likely to take an interest in a subject matter they understand. The educational community refersto these familiar ideas as “everyday examples”.The use of everyday examples has become common in textbooks, at least according to thepublishers. A cursory review of the marketing descriptions of science and engineering textbookswill undoubtedly find that many describe the use everyday examples to make the content moreaccessible to students.6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 While not every textbook is truly using examples that relateto the everyday experience of college students
comparisons in STEM education.Miriam Marie Sanders, Texas A&M University Miriam Sanders is a PhD student studying Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Mathematics Education at Texas A&M University. Through her research she seeks to address issues of equity and diversity in STEM education with a focus in mathematicsAaron E. Kidd, Texas A&M University Aaron Kidd is a doctoral candidate at Texas A&M University and the Program Coordinator for an NSF grant-funded program in the Department of Integrative Biology at Oklahoma State University. His re- search interests revolve around teacher-specific behaviors that drive science instruction and the prepara- tion of new science teachers to integrate such
, or it will erode over time. When an existing composite needs an addition of composite,there is no oxygen inhibited layer to provide adherence, and the composite addition will be lessthan integral with the existing restoration. Wetting Repair Resins is designed to restore theoxygen inhibited layer prior to the addition of new composite to an existing restoration. Thisresearch project compares the flexure strength of composites to that of their repaired samples,with and without the Repair resin applied.Experimental ProcedureIn this research seven different composites are tested. The experiments are conducted in ninesteps, starting from making the composite specimen till the break of the repaired compositespecimen as shown in Figure 1
complexity of sophomore-level design projects. The integration of Arduino into aconventional sophomore design course enables the study of interacting subsystems, and has theadditional benefit of bringing continuity in programming education to the curriculum atSDSM&T. Students have generally responded positively to this change, with high levels ofsatisfaction with the course materials and self-efficacy in basic mechatronics projects. Theseresults are based on an initial survey population of 25 students; the results are suggestive, butcertainly not conclusive with such a small sample size.Future work will improve the confidence in the results through additional polling. It will alsocollect control data from similar design courses without the
. Matthew A Verleger, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach Dr. Matthew Verleger is an assistant professor in Freshman Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He has a B.S. in Computer Engineering, a M.S. in Agricultural & Biological Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue University. Prior to joining the Embry-Riddle faculty, he spent two years as an assistant professor of Engineering Education at Utah State University. His research interests include Model-Eliciting Activities, online learning, and the development of software tools to facilitate student learning
engineering and the other from electrical engineering. Bothinstructors had significant interest in the course content, including research projects involvingdesigns for low-resource environments. The course was offered as an Integrated Liberal andProfessional (ILP) course at Western New England University (WNE). Each student at WNE isrequired to complete one ILP course as part of their graduation requirements, thus the coursecounts toward the degree for engineering students as well as other majors.Throughout the semester, students attended lectures on a variety of global health topics including Page 25.728.3major diseases and the collection of data
framework will be integrated within an existing course curriculum, itis essential that the motivating examples and learning product requirements be relevant to the Page 10.181.6course content. In the case of the graduate course, applications will have a hydrologic focus. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationMore flexibility is available for the undergraduate course, which may include students from allcivil engineering specialty areas. Within the current working implementation plan, there are
various materials to stock sizes. 11. Use hand tools for final assembly of parts. 12. Distinguish the capabilities and best applications for a CNC mill. 13. Distinguish the capabilities and best applications for FDM printing.Details of scaffold curriculum developmentMoving forward, in the Fall of 2018, the course received a major revamp to address the need forstudents to create better drawing packages and also an industry need from the department’sIndustrial Advisory board to incorporate more GD&T and quality control. The development ofthe course transitioned into a scaffold approach, where students would learn about all coreconcepts at once, learning how they are related to one another. As the semester progressed,concepts would get
, and Nadia C. de la Garza, " Serving Youth in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math at TAMIU (SYSTEM)," Grant-Award # P031C110118, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D. C. 20006, Duration: September 30, 2013–October 30, 2016, Fund amount: $450,000.00[4]. R. Freeman, A. Fuentes, H. Vasquez, S. Crown, C. Villalobos, R. Wrinkle, O. Ramirez, M. Gonzalez, “Increasing Student Access, Retention, and Graduation Through an Integrated STEM Pathways Support Initiative for the Rio South Texas Region – Year One Activities and Results,” the Proceedings of 117th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2010.[5]. D.S. Cordray, T. Harris, S. Klein, “A Research Synthesis of the Effectiveness, Replicability, and
requirement of an effective experiential learning experience oncampus, this was a valuable addition of this program.Other outcomes of the program that were not directly related to the experiential learning is anexpansion of sustainability-based curriculum. The creation of the courses, Renewable EnergySystem and Fundamentals of Sustainability led to the creation of a Minor in Sustainability. Thesecourses are open to all students at the University of Houston-Downtown, but the RenewableEnergy Systems has recently been added as a degree plan option in Engineering Technologydegrees. Creation of undergraduate curriculum triggered conversations about creating a graduatecertificate in sustainability.Program AssessmentAs part of the SUSTAIN program students
AC 2011-2205: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INSTRUCTIONAL AND AS-SESSMENT TOOL FROM STUDENT WORK ON A MODEL-ELICITINGACTIVITYMicah S Stohlmann, University of Minnesota Micah Stohlmann is a Math Education doctoral student in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota where he also received his M.Ed in Math Education. He also is minoring in statistics education. Previously he taught high school math in California and Minnesota. His research interests include STEM integration, cooperative learning, elementary education, and the effective use of technology.Tamara J. Moore, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Tamara J. Moore is the co-director of the University of Minnesota’s STEM Education Center and an
distributed cognitive tasks involved in negotiating the course contentonline.Value of Digital Concept Maps to e-LearningToday, e-Learning opportunities often offer students very complex learning environmentsdelivered via a learning management system such as the open source Moodle,Desire2Learn, or Blackboard/WebCT. Furthermore, information and communicationstechnologies have advanced together enabling true resource-based learning. A resource-based learning environment (RBLE) is described as “an integrated set of strategies topromote student-centered learning in a mass education context, through a combination ofspecially designed learning resources and interactive media and technologies” 14. In acomplex RBLE, a student is offered interaction with books
AC 2009-2275: RUNNING LINUX IN A WINDOWS COMPUTER LABEd Crowley, University of Houston Page 14.1039.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Running Linux in a Windows Computer LabAbstractIn many courses, the effective use of Linux, or other open source software, can expandand enhance active learning opportunities for students. Since many institutions havestandardized on Windows Computer Laboratories, implementing Linux based learningexperiences may initially seem problematic. However, with a Live Linux CD, you canquickly and easily run Linux, and related open source tools, in an existing WindowsComputer Lab.In this paper, we will explain how Linux Live CDs
AC 2011-332: FIRST YEAR WOMEN ON THE ENGINEERING PATH-WAY: RESEARCH STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT RETENTIONDaniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder DANIEL W. KNIGHT is the engineering assessment specialist at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program (ITLL) and the Broadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) Center in CU’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds a B.A. in psychology from the Louisiana State University, and an M.S. degree in industrial/organizational psychology and a Ph.D. degree in coun- seling psychology, both from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Knight’s research interests are in the areas of retention, program evaluation and teamwork practices in engineering
people with whom a person iscentrally learning a practice, constrains and affords different trajectories, or pathways, towardsand away from more expert practice. For example, in Margolis and Fisher‘s study of computerscience at Carnegie Mellon University, the authors found professors, who were predominantlymale, had a myopic view of what a ―good computer scientist‖ said and did.11 These stereotypicalimages of qualified, talented students have real consequences for students, as they shape whobecome identified by peers, professors, and staff as ―strong engineers.‖Therefore, we consider how an institutional context of a computing department, its programleaders‘ views on the gender problem in science, and the program‘s curriculum are key
AC 2012-3600: MIND LINKS 2012: RESOURCES TO MOTIVATE MI-NORITIES TO STUDY AND STAY IN ENGINEERINGDr. Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic UniversityDr. Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University Ivan E. Esparragoza is an Associate Professor of engineering at Penn State, Brandywine. His interests are in engineering design education, innovative design, global design, and global engineering education. He has introduced multinational design projects in a freshman introductory engineering design course in collaboration with institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean as part of his effort to contribute to the formation of world class engineers for the Americas. He is actively involved in the International
research in the area of technology-based curriculum development, distance education, and VLSI design for testability. Dr. Gloster has taught courses on digital system design, ASIC design, microprocessor system applica- tions, FPGA-based system design, and VLSI design for testability (using VHDL/Verilog). He has served on the program committee and as session chair for several international conferences. He received best paper and presentation awards for a paper presented at the International Conference on Computer Design c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Paper ID #15782 and has
testing to become a Certified Construction Manager through theirtesting agency, Construction Manager Certification Institute. The basis of sitting for the CCMexam designation is meeting the requirements of graduation from an accredited university and 48months of Responsible-in-Charge project experience or no degree but 12 years of generaldesign/construction experience. Both organizations require member’s adherence to their code ofethics and both organizations require continuing education of their members to maintain theircertifications. Having either designation provides ample proof of the constructor’s commitmentto the industry and their integrity as a construction professional.The civil engineering constructor will be expected to lead
Paper ID #16935Crowdsourcing an Outline for a Model Introductory Infrastructure CourseUsing a Modified Delphi ProcessDr. Philip J. Parker P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville Philip Parker, Ph.D., P.E., is Program Coordinator for the Environmental Engineering program at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin-Platteville. He is co-author of the textbook ”Introduction to Infrastructure” published in 2012 by Wiley. He has helped lead the recent efforts by the UW-Platteville Civil and Environmental Engineering department to revitalize their curriculum by adding a sophomore-level infrastructure course and integrating
industry simulation. Students wereorganized into teams or “companies” that had to develop a proposal to win a contract from“NASA” for development of a colony on Mars. Lectures were given by interdisciplinary facultyfrom throughout the university, industry, and the NASA community on the engineeringdisciplines needed to develop their subsystems and the engineering management and proposalskills needed to design, integrate, and draft a proposal to win an engineering contract. Thiscourse allowed students to use innovative design principles to solve complex problems andstrengthen this with engineering management and business skills. The Team DeveloperTMshowed a positive impact of the course on the student’s behavior and activities in the four areasof
effective way of enhancingcomprehension and retention of lessons1,2,3 in the undergraduate curriculum. Coyle4 discusses avertically integrated curricular experience in electrical engineering, constructed from a projectrunning through a sequence of courses. Ohland5 discusses multiple approaches tomultidisciplinary design experiences in the undergraduate curriculum. Devgan6 discusses how Page 23.1037.2research experiences are used to meet ABET EC2000 criteria. Pionke7 describes using a NASAstudent competition as an intense multidisciplinary project experience. While the experiencediscussed in this paper was not designed as a curricular experience, it
different approach to collaboration. The team relied more heavily onfeedback from industry partners during the summer. They proceeded with the first day of thatprofessional development workshop, which was a virtual session with industry representatives. Inan email, the lead professional development facilitator succinctly articulated the rationale forpreceding with the meeting. With his consent, this quote is included below:“[O]ur DeSIRE model is based on an industry-driven course curriculum and lesson plan input.My vote is to maintain our time-line planner and work with the Industry-leaders to complete theplanning of the curriculum and lesson plan "as a draft." This way we begin to forge ourrelationship and be prepared to launch in the fall with
and technology educational continuum was formalized in a 1955 report of theCommittee on Evaluation of Engineering Education as part of the American Society ofEngineering Education by then chair Linton Grinter. In the report there was the recognition of adual, yet highly integrated educational continuum spanning the engineering-technologyundergraduate and graduate curriculums.Based on this report, most college and universities went on to associate under a single college orschool the disciplines of engineering and technology. The curriculums were evolved with asingular focus. As time passed, theoretical instruction became more prominent and some ofthese colleges and schools pushed the technology portion of the curriculum to the peripheral
environment [11]. Onan increasing basis, STEM plus Arts (STEAM) is gaining significant interest as some K–84schools have begun to place emphasis on Arts in their curriculums [12]. Future research toidentify the diverse contributions and mutual benefits of STEAM collaborations is encouraged[11].(2) Vicarious experience: Vicarious experiences, also known as modeling, is believed to be thesecond most effective source of self-efficacy; and it has an effect on self-efficacy through asocial comparison where people relate their capabilities to others [5][7]. Others may includepeers, parents, teachers, family members, and virtually anyone else [4]. Observing a similarindividual successfully master a situation helps people learn, and makes them feel that they
graduate students to select and pursue a major in an Engineering or STEM discipline, and find scholarships to fund their studies • faculty to survive the tenure process and thrive in an academic environment • academic administrators to get training in academic administration • professionals to thrive and stay viable, competitive and current in their professional life • researchers who want to study, publish and get funding for research in pedagogy and diversityBy collecting links in one place that are helpful throughout the lifetime of a minority or womeninterested in a career in engineering, it is hoped that this gives the reader a lifelong perspective ofconsidering the entire career and short and long term opportunities
of RWTH Aachen University. Her research focuses on innovations in engineering education as well as learning organizations.Dr. Frank Hees, Cybernetics Lab IMA & IfUProf. Ingrid Isenhardt c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Effects of Collaborative Augmented Reality on Communication and Interaction in Learning Contexts – Results of a Qualitative Pre-StudyAbstractModern digital technologies like Augmented Reality (AR) are assumed to foster the learningprocess due to their hands-on nature. AR has the advantage of visualising processes, objectsor data and information that would under regular circumstances not be visible or perceptiblefor the user, since it integrates virtual objects into
most programs. The entry point for scholars within an S-STEMprogram can vary depending on the institution. Some programs focus on transfer and communitycollege students [2] - [4], while others provide support during the student’s sophomore year [5].However, because the first year is a critical juncture for retention [6] - [7], many S-STEMprograms provide support for students beginning their first year in a science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) program [8] - [12]. Programs that focus on first-yearstudents are often built with Tinto’s Model of Integration in mind. This model places significantimportance on academic and social integration to first-year success [13].Engineering students in their first year must adjust to a new
browser of the learner. For that reason, the LMS provides information on theuser to the SCO, and the SCO returns information on the learning success back to the LMS.Most SCOs are not very spectacular: Text files, possibly some embedded images and simplemultiple-choice questionnaires make up most of the content seen by the authors. Trulyinteractive applets are rarely seen, and if so, the interactivity is often limited. If compared to lab-based interactive hands-on experiments as found in the curriculum of engineering or scientificstudies, this type of learning material has little to offer and goes only little beyond an interactivebook. By that, the LMS is degraded to a content management system for web-based data.Here we present the concept of
Paper ID #26639Using Natural Language Processing Tools on Individual Stories from FirstYear Students to Summarize Emotions, Sentiments and Concerns of Transi-tion from High School to CollegeDr. Ashwin Satyanarayana, New York City College of Technology Dr. Ashwin Satyanarayana is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Systems Technology, New York City College of Technology (CUNY). Prior to this, Dr. Satyanarayana was a Re- search Scientist at Microsoft in Seattle from 2006 to 2012, where he worked on several Big Data problems including Query Reformulation on Microsoft’s search engine Bing. He holds