tools based on systematically collecteddata. Embedded in a system where students, teaching assistants and instructors use a common Page 15.1085.4rubric to generate iterations of peer assessment, TA feedback, and final evaluation for a grade.The rubric for every MEA addresses: (1) the appropriateness of the model generated, explainedor modified, (2) the generalizability of the model so it can be used in similar situations or readilyadapted to slightly different situations, and the (3) share-ability of the model so that itcommunicates readily with the intended client. By developing clear definitions of each of thesecharacteristics of a good
. Toearn credit as an implementer, each teacher must reflect on lessons learned in the classroom andshare with peers. Some teachers report that this is the most valuable step in learning to use IEI—taking the time for meaningful reflection, and developing conclusions from their own teachingthat represent value to other teachers pursuing inquiry learning techniques: “Overall, this course has become much more beneficial to me as a teaching practitionerover the past few days in reflection than I would have imagined. The workshop was hands-onand informative, the presentations and feedback sessions brought more “realness” to theapplication and the learning process of the inquiry activities, and the reflections especially, haveforced me to dig
MATLAB17, VASP18, ABAQUS19, LAMMPS20, OVITO21, OpenGL22, Xmgrace23 and others5 Online model Discuss Intuitive user interface for using Calibration Models, such as the calibration Plasticity-Damage model24 , MultiStage Fatigue model25 , and tools Thermoplastic model26. Microstructure Image Analyzer for Material Charaterization8.6 Basic Discuss Basic Unix/Linux commands. Working with the PBSworks27 computation software job resource manager for submitting jobs to cluster environments skills (HPC systems). Compiling and writing shell scripts, Examples :interactive jobs, batch jobsIn the beginning of the module (see Table 2
October-November-December Substantive/Progressive Learning Tasks (SMART goals – Specific, Measureable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely) In this unit: Students will listen, read, and write about how their actions can help others by using grade level standards for writing. Students will apply Cornell three column note taking. Students will develop an understanding of S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) by using mathematics and technology. Students will apply creative computing and Scratch, through sample projects and hands-on experiences Students will explore the arts by creating projects that include elements of music, design, drawing
weekly instructor meetings, peer evaluations, pre-post skill evaluationsurveys, and university required course evaluations. Actual assessments used were not providedin description.A Model for a Biomedical Engineering Senior Design Capstone Course, with Assessment Toolsto Satisfy ABET “Soft Skills” – Stevens Institute of TechnologyHazelwood, Valdevit, & Ritter (2010) described a two semester course sequence at StevensInstitute of Technology that enabled students to work with a physician to address real worldclinical unmet needs and develop basic product development and project management skillswhile working in small teams of 3 or 4. Students were guided through exercises to assessclinical and market needs, technical feasibility, the
Paper ID #8959Design Heuristics: An Evidence-Based tool to improve innovationDr. 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, creative processes, and cross-disciplinary design team dynamics. She is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. She also serves on review, advisory, and scientific boards of various journals and conferences. Her current research focuses on identifying
, construction management,and structures. This group of professional engineers has been donating their time and efforts to help in thecapstone design courses and help the program in aspects such as the response to the support survey for theProgram Educational Objectives. As well, this group of people serves for guidance and as evaluators forthe final work.The capstone design experience lasts a full year. The project commences with a meeting betweenstudents, practicing engineers and the instructors and a site visit. The project ends with a report and oralpresentation. This provides students with a proposal writing experience and clarifies the project for thestudent team and the client.Progress reports are due over the semester. These reports include
integrated in various ways: reflection journals, portfolio reflection, endof course meta-learning, peer assisted learning session, online reflections, and team reflections.While the authors note the dedication to reflective activities, they also note opportunities to moresystematically incorporate reflection into undergraduate engineering education.In earlier work on reflection in engineering, Turns, Newstetter, Allen, and Mistree report on thedesign of the “Reflective Learner”: an electronic system to support students in the writing oflearning essays.35 They argued that “learning essays can help students expand and enhancelessons that they are learning from design experiences” (p. 1).35 The learning essays aredescribed as short and structured with
Paper ID #8808Investigating impacts on the ideation flexibility of engineersDr. Seda Yilmaz, Iowa State University is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Design who teaches design studios and lecture courses on devel- oping 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 proceedings. She also serves on review, advisory, and scientific boards of various journals and conferences. Her
criteria are phrased in terms of Intents andStandards as expressed in the self-study questionnaire. There is, at this time of this writing, noapproved self-study questionnaire for IT but the self- study questionnaires for CS5, IS and CE allreflect the same structure. Intents and standards bear considerable similarity to objectives andcriteria but the standards reflect more of a model curriculum approach. The intents and standardsapproach will probably continue to evolve as CAC continues to adapt. In the meanwhileprograms need to look at both as they prepare for accreditation.2.2 Model CurriculumAnother significant input to the process, which is specific to computing accreditation, is themodel curriculum6 mentioned earlier. Although this document
“Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning”focused on proof-writing during the second quarter of the capstone project. Most of the studentsalso commented that their engineering courses also contained mathematics material, and twostudents also reported learning some mathematics in their physics courses.Data Analysis This study yielded data in the forms of interview and observation notes, audiorecordings of the interviews and observations, and copies of students’ work. We approached dataanalysis using a methodology similar to Chi’s Verbal Analysis” 23. A key distinction between theerbal Protocol Analysis and Verbal Analysis methodologies is that the data for verbal protocolanalysis consists of “think-aloud” protocols and the data for verbal analysis
third map focused on the same question atthe end of the spring semester, a time coinciding with their presentation of their designproject and the composition of a final paper. At this time, we asked students to reflect onand summarize, in writing, how their final map compared to their initial map.Data analyses and results for studentsAnalyses are identical to those described for expert mappings. Two raters counted thenumber of concepts and lines, and calculated a density ratio (i.e., number of lines pernode). Raters were blind to the identity of the map author and the time point at which themap was constructed. Inter-rater reliability on these metrics was acceptable (r = .83,range = 0-1). Table 2 summarizes descriptive statistics for these
, whereapplicable, operating and maintenance documentation.B. Course OutcomesAt the end of the year, the engineering student should be able to demonstrate proficiency in: a. Design and prototyping of a complex mechanical artifact, involving both mechanical and thermal stems. b. The application of scientific and mathematical concepts to their design. c. Their knowledge and application of socio-economic and ethical issues relative to their design task. d. Functioning as a member and/or a leader of an engineering design team. e. Communicating with fellow-engineers, peers and ‘customers’ both orally and in writing.C. Course AssessmentsOver the last six years we have and are improving the forms we
from emulating being part of a start-up to actuallystarting up a company to take its senior design “product” to market? Florida Tech is prepared tosupport this type of activity, and as of this writing, seven current projects are in some stage ofbeing productized for commercialization. Available to support this aspect of senior design isFlorida TechStart, the university business accelerator for high tech ventures.Florida TechStart was opened in October, 2003, as a joint venture of the College of Engineeringand the School of Management, and is housed in the engineering building. Student teamsinterested in an entrepreneurial path work directly with Florida TechStart staff to make thenecessary connections to help make their dreams a reality.An
exchangers, and refrigeration system. Each team reviewed their previousexperimental results, studied the experimental set-up, and found possible causes of the problems.Then, they proposed a new experiment, modified the system, conducted a new experiment,analyzed the data for much better results, and presented their findings to their peers orally andalso in written reports to the instructor. A brief description of each project and summary of thefindings are presented.1. Heat ConductionThis experiment uses Scott Thermal Conduction Systems, Model 9051, to determine the thermalconductivity of copper, steel, aluminum, and magnesium using the Fourier’s law. qx = -k A (dT/dx) where the rate of heat transfer, qx, is evaluated by (dm/dt) cp (To –Ti
. • Each student is required to participate in the research symposium once a week prior to the end of the program. • Students not living in close proximity to the University must live on campus. On campus housing will not be provided for students living close to the University, unless there are extenuating circumstances 5 . The program is divided into two phases is shown in Table 3. The first phase, which lasts 1-2 weeks, includes a series of lectures on research methodology, technical writing (e.g. proposals, reports and papers), keeping research records in journals and effective communications. Each student presents a proposal of his/her research project
mathematics of theprevious academic quarters. Working in teams of three or four, the students are required todemonstrate and present the results of their efforts by submitting progress reports, participatingin performance reviews, writing a formal project report, and making an oral presentation abouttheir project. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 9.589.2 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe controller currently used for this robot design project is the Handy Board controllerdeveloped at the MIT Media Lab by Fred G. Martin
science teachers treat girls andboys differently in the classroom, including making more eye contact with the boys, paying moreattention to the boys, and challenging boys to find the right answer, while girls get sympathy 1.Astin and Astin found, as have other studies, that boys tend to operate the equipment while thegirls record data and write reports. They saw that a loss in self-confidence from differentialtreatment appears to begin around the seventh grade and continue through high school 1. Themost striking differences between boys and girls are not in achievement or opportunities to learn,but in their attitudes toward science and mathematics 2. Research has continually shown thatwomen are significantly less confident than men in their math
detail.Cultural-Historical TheoryMost key ideas within cultural-historical learning theory have been attributed to Lev Vygotsky.His writings are evidence that he was deeply concerned about the relationship between the socialexperiences of children and how they learn 2. Cultural-historical theory is concerned about howone’s individual developmental history interacts with political and social relations. Theseinteractions with social environments influence both how we think as well as the development ofour language. As one develops more complex cognitive structures, one is able to express thoughtsas cognitive wholes. As one moves toward mastery, higher order structures are created andreplace previous structures. These higher order structures allow
nation’s STEM workforce.10 In the fall of 1992, two-year colleges accounted for 41% of allundergraduate STEM courses offered for credit, and 34% of all undergraduate STEM courseenrollments.4 Students in STEM at two-year colleges are more likely than their non-STEM peersto be enrolled full-time and have higher academic aspirations than their peers.1One of the more important roles of two-year colleges in STEM education is as a bridge betweenhigh school and four-year colleges for students who need additional academic skills or who findtwo-year colleges an inexpensive means of completing the first two years of their collegeeducation. 3, 5, 10 There are no national statistics that specifically address the transfer rates of two-year college students to
responses in categories that would help identify the differentlevels of student responses. After students’ responses are sorted, the teacher writes very specificreasons why each of the responses was put in the respective category. Then, for each category,the teacher writes a specific student-centered description of the expected response at that level.These descriptions constitute the scoring rubric to grade new responses.The two methods (analytic and holistic) are not interchangeable, and the clear advantage of theanalytic rubric, compared to the holistic rubric, is that it provides a more objective way ofassessing students’ strengths and weaknesses. Also, the analytic rubric can give teachers aclearer picture of the areas where students have more
and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationDiscussion: This problem was rather difficult for this level. However, many students did do wellon the problem by asking me appropriate questions. I was always very supportive on theseproblems, which were very challenging for many of the students, strongly encouraging studentsto ask questions and to get help from me or peer tutors. We used Blackboard heavily for thiscourse and these problems were frequent topics on the discussion board. Depending upon thequestion, I would reply to questions privately or post the question and answer on Blackboard.Chapter 8 discusses electrostatic forces:Do the experiment “Moving Water Without Touching It” found at
lot of effort into the plans. While the teams made incredible strides from last fall, to me, the ending results do not really read like business plans. The problems range from writing skills to content and organization. Since I would ultimately like to have outside experts review the plans and provide feedback, I am reflecting on ways we can improve the Page 9.191.8 finalized business plans." “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education To make the plans more
everything in human society has a pedagogical intention and theneed to share what we know with those who do not know it is part of our nature. So, teachingand learning are what we do the most, perhaps not always efficiently. However, there is nowa different student and a different economic scenario; it is not important who or what comesfirst. As a consequence, a new teacher capable of adjusting the learning process accordinglyis becoming more and more necessary. It has been stressed in literature that nowadaysstudents need to know more about collaborative work, self learning, must have good readingand writing skills, computer literacy and so on. Therefore, teachers have to grasp a deeperunderstanding on such pedagogic topics and also on how people
and passing judgment on a possible or planned solution to theproblem. Evaluation (EVAL): Comparing and contrasting two (or more) solutions to theproblem on a particular dimension (or set of dimensions) such as strength or cost. Decision(DEC): Selecting one idea or solution to the problem (or parts of the problem) from among thoseconsidered. Communication (COM): The participants’ communicating elements of the designin writing, or with oral reports, to parties such as contractors and the community. Other: None ofthe above codes apply. See table 1.Table 1Coding Scheme and Description Code Description of Code Problem Definition (PD) Define what the problem really is, identify constraints
retains full responsibility for all academic aspects ofthe course: planning and writing the syllabus, developing the assignments and examinations, andassigning grades. The practicing professional joins the faculty member in the classroom orremotely via electronic communication on a regular basis, interacts directly with the students,and provides feedback on a sample of the student work. Targeted courses are those tied closelyto professional practice. In these courses, students produce tangible representations of authenticpractice, which serve to mediate the interaction between students, the teacher, and the practicingprofessional.Instantiating the modelI have instantiated Industry Fellows three times with three different industry fellows in
seminal work left unread by engineers dabbling in phenomenology and existentialism.(20) Aswith some great works, the actual writings of Husserl on philosophy are as revealing as how heoutlines previous philosophies to differentiate himself. Husserl argues that there are fourimportant revolutions in history of thought: Socratic/Platonic arguments based on logos and itssubsequent development into scientific thought; the Cartesian revolution; the transcendentalrevolution of Kant, whereby the only source of necessity is subjectivity and thus followsknowledge; and finally, the phenomenological revolution, which incorporates the form of andcontent of acts of knowing into a subjective framework. Descartes, according to Husserl’s history, believes
theirpersistence from one semester to the next. Table 8 is a comparison of the persistence rates ofCañada students and 2009 Math Jam participants. Over the last several years, a study of firsttime fall semester Cañada students shows persistence rates of 55% for the following springsemester, 38% for the fall of the following year and 32% for the spring semester of the secondyear. For the 2009 Math Jam participants, the corresponding persistence rates were 93% forspring 2010, and 76% for fall 2010. At the time of writing this paper, the spring 2011enrollments had not been completed. With much higher persistence rates, the degree-completion and transfer rates for these students are expected to be much higher as well.Two important variables that are commonly
“StudentOrganizations and Leadership Development” (SOLD) office and the “Student Success Center”(SSC) that are each available to all GU students having the desire to partake of the servicesoffered. The SEECS seminar utilizes SOLD and the various resources of the SSC in order toprovide content that job- and graduate education-seeking students may need, as well as needededucation in skills required to succeed at Gannon.The SSC houses the university Math Center and the Writing Center, each of which provides freetutoring for students choosing to use those resources. In addition, the SSC fosters ExperientialEducation and general career development activities. SEECS makes great use of these latterresources. In particular, we have utilized the SSC staff to provide
Pocomoke City, Md.Dr. Payam Matin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Payam Matin is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES). Matin has received his Ph.D. in mechanical en- gineering from Oakland University, Rochester, Mich., in May 2005. He has taught a number of courses in the areas of mechanical engineering and aerospace at UMES. Matin’s research has been mostly in the areas of computational mechanics and experimental mechanics. Matin has published more than 20 peer- reviewed journal and conference papers. Matin worked in Auto-industry for Chrysler Corporation from 2005 to 2007.Dr. Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan