are expected to serve as a practical reference for engineering faculties toapply new technologies in their instruction. Conversely, a well-designed learning activity willmotivate students to learn with higher interest and better master both engineering andprofessional skills. Lastly, an equal engineering class environment will contribute to the solutionof students’ retention in the engineering disciplines and promote a diversity of work force in theengineering field of the United States [8].Literature ReviewCollaborative learning “Collaborative learning” is an umbrella term for a variety of educational approaches (e.g.,discussion groups, peer teaching, learning community), which emphasize the joint effort of teammembers for a mutual
Session ETD 475verification. When data is supplied to the blockchain, it becomes almost impossible to tamperwith because the transactions are monitored by the members of the blockchain network andeveryone has a copy of the recorded transactions. Furthermore, a blockchain can “be defined as aconsensus oriented secured distributed public/private ledger which stored data over a peer to peernetwork” [2], reiterating the point that a blockchain is a type of distributed ledger.A distributed ledger can be intuitively thought of as a data structure, much like the commonlyused linked list, where the “blocks” are in a chain, and each block refers to the block prior tothem, functioning much like a reversed linked list. The blockchain is a type of
students couldstudy and reflect on their role as a citizen of the increasingly interconnected world.The expanded themes of global economy, sustainable development, and responsible globalcitizenships guided the lesson plans for the 2005 and 2006 GTI Study Programs. In addition,studies on the cultural, political, and economic issues that deepen students’ understanding ofChina and Taiwan were included in the study program.2.2. Study Program Student SelectionIn selecting student participants, preference was given to student leaders with strong academicrecords, with the expectation that these students would more readily disseminate what they hadlearned from the study program and, consequently, influence their peers. As for the class ofparticipants
comparison of our findings withthe findings of Atman et al.1 showed that the student team’s approaches to the design problemwere different than the Atman data (see Figure 2b). Our data indicate that students working inteams spend more time gathering information than students working individually. Although theseare preliminary findings, it appears, in fact, that novices act more like experts in terms ofinformation gathering20 when they work in teams. This finding is supported by research oncollaborative learning situations where group interactions and peer argumentation result in bettersolutions compared to individual problem solving21. It is also an observation comparing ourstudent team profiles to those from the Atman data representing freshmen
college life, alook at career opportunities, and a chance to meet professional engineers as well asengineering faculty. Students work on several projects, attend lectures, write reports,code programs, give presentations, and do problem solving and design. The IEPcounselors assist the students in their projects during the sessions in the EngineeringLearning Center, and help enforce the rules in the residence halls.Seven of the nine IEP counselors were engineering students at Notre Dame (the other twowere a pre-med student and a business student), and eight of them had either previouslyattended the camp back when they were in high school, or had worked as IEP counselors
help help help help1. Class activities for each week Page 12.1043.132. How parts of the classwork, labs, reading, orassignments related to each other 123. The grading system for the class A little Moderate Much Very muchH. Individual support as a learner NA No help help help help help1. The quality of contact with the teacher2. The quality of contact with the TAs3. Working with peers outside of
automatically created when the students login with their clickers. If desired, points can be assigned for attendance and sent to a CSV file thatcan be read by a spreadsheet.Review QuestionsOne of the strongest uses of the clickers in my opinion is for review questions during lectures.By asking questions and viewing the results, the instructor can gauge how well the students areunderstanding a concept. Just as importantly, students can see how well they are doing withrespect to their peers, because if the instructor desires, the CPS software will display bar charts ofthe results after the question has been completed. Figure 3 shows a series of questions that wereasked of students during the next class period after complex power was covered. The bar
graduatecurriculum. The class is intended primarily for aerospace engineering students, but mechanicaland electrical engineers along with engineering physics majors have taken the class. The oneprerequisite for the class is senior standing. Students are graded on the quality of their Phase Aspacecraft proposal, along with their formal presentation of the design at the end of the semester.The student’s individual grade comprises their individual contribution to the proposal, the overallquality of the completed proposal itself, and peer evaluations from their team. Ten years agothere was a homework component to the class, and each lecture had an assignment pertaining tothe lecture, but not related to the proposal effort. That homework has been removed in
relationships,communications, and English proficiency regarding reading, writing, and speech. Projectmanagement, planning, team work, time and budget management are integrated intoprojects in American engineering curricula. Such an approach obviously makes goodsense to address issues like lack of training on problem solving skills, ability to deal withconflicts, team organization, and engineering way to organization, project development,finance awareness, and software for project management through a variety of academicactivities.The main goal of this enhancement is to help Chinese students to broaden their viewsfrom narrowly designed technical background, develop their critical thinking skills inproblem solving and prepare them for their future growth
experience, and one engineer from at an airconditioning manufacturing company with two years of experience. The four applicationengineers all have 15 or more years of system integration experience and are considered to beexperts by their peers. The latter two engineers work with automated manufacturing systems, buthave little system design experience; we consider them to be novices for the purposes of thisinvestigation.Procedure. The interviews were conducted as follows. The interviewer would:1. Introduce himself and describe the purpose of the interview (to gain a better understanding of system integration)2. Show the engineer a cell phone assembly consisting of eight parts (see Figure 1).3. Ask the engineer to think aloud about
Harvard University and B.S. from Rice University. He is a Chairman of Physics Department at Suffolk University. His research interests include neural networks, wireless motes, and ellipsometry. He has a strong commitment to teaching and integrating innovative technology to better reach his students, from streaming video and electronic writing tables for distance learning to using wireless mesh-networking devices in undergraduate research projects. His academic awards include C.W. Heaps Prize in Physics and Phi Beta Kappa from Rice University, Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Harvard University, and Carnegie Foundation Massachusetts Professor of the Year in 2005.Chris Rogers, Tufts University
- intrinsic: natural curiosity or interest in the activity itself - social: please the professor or peers - achievement: enhance position relative to others - instrumental: gain rewards beyond the activity itselfStudents motivated by intrinsic and social drivers will naturally engage in their education.Positive competition has been used in lecture settings to appeal to students motivated byachievement or instrumental drivers.13In the case of the protein production challenge: - In order to foster an inductive environment that mimics an “undergraduate research” experience, the project was given an open-ended structure in which students were challenged to develop their own optimized experimental procedure
. Fontecchio is the recipient of a NASA New Investigator award, the International Liquid Crystal Society Multimedia Prize, and the Drexel ECE Outstanding Research Award. He has authored over 35 peer-review publications on Electro-Optics and Condensed Matter Physics. His current research projects include developing liquid crystal polymer technology for optical film applications including electro-optic virtual focusing optics, reflective displays, flexible displays, power generating MEMS arrays, and photonic crystal structures with tunable defects. Page 13.798.1Eli Fromm, Drexel University Eli Fromm is
course requires students to instrument and test drive vehicles on open roads.Because of this, each team is given opportunities to setup and use the equipment duringscheduled times outside of class hours. Typically, a week is dedicated for each laboratoryexercise. In order to facilitate this process and to provide additional responsibility, each teammust host one of the exercises. The requirements of a host team include:• Assembling the equipment• Testing equipment, including working with the professor to set up the test• Taking data (a data set must be taken and analyzed at least one week before the lab date). This data must be submitted to the Professor along with the lab write-up corrections so copies can be made at the copy center
Design Project. In addition to the change in themethod of data collection, there also may have been an element of peer pressure associated withthese findings; other group members were seen working in the background of the videotapes.The interview for group member six, though, was filmed in a different location and he was fairlystrong in his negative feedback. This would seem to discount the slight rise in positive commentsfrom 2/6 to 3/6 between the high stress and retrospective data points. Regardless, similar tocharacteristic two, there was a significant drop from the introduction data point for characteristicthree. Page 14.936.10TABLE #4
processes culminate in tangible, created products; and writing, music, dance, andart courses offer similar production of created works. Contributing to the idea that design coursesare the place for creativity is the growing body of educational research on students’ creative skilldevelopment in design settings. Design courses often serve as the focal piece for engineering Page 14.918.6studies of creativity, and engineering instructors have achieved good success with a variety ofapproaches to creativity. Lewis suggests that design projects are “ideal for exposing [students] tothe creative process”, and he emphasizes that techniques for flexible and
learning. There were also some secondaryobjectives of this effort: 1) Updating equipment and experiments, 2) Providing enoughequipment for six laboratory groups to simultaneously conduct the same laboratory, and3) Improving technical report writing skills as well the students’ presentation skills.These experiments and projects, as detailed in the next section support the followingspecific goals of our approach in teaching undergraduate power electronics course:1. To provide the students with an opportunity to gain design experience through thecompletion of the project. The project has five components to it: an analytic design, acomputer simulation of circuit operation using LabVIEW package, experimentalimplementation of the circuit, a written
, etc. Algebraic and other Algebraic and in a finite system; they functions that describe other math calculate the needed functions that changes to conserve sustainable buildings describe resources and preserve traditional various eco-systems buildingsLanguage Read, write, research Traditional Students embrace the Page 14.1108.8Arts listen to non-fiction curricular language of
were found that quantifyprocrastination in a PSI course. These metrics would give researchers additional insights intostudent behavior and their response to self-guided teaching strategies.Proposed Procrastination MetricsHere we focus on three candidate metrics that give physical insight into the levels ofprocrastination that occurs in PSI courses.Margin of Safety Metric (MoS) - The MoS metric is the simplest metric. It is the ratio of thesuccessful final unit (R4 above) submission date and the last class day and is motivated by the Page 14.589.5scenario of a student who, for example, writes an assigned paper several weeks before it is due
professional ethical dilemmas as distant and unlikely, they are intimately familiarwith cheating in an academic setting. Therefore, studying students’ perceptions of andengagement in cheating in academia is important. A number of studies have explored theseideas. Hall9 had senior civil engineering students review and write an essay on the ASCE codeof ethics, followed by an assignment to develop a similar code for undergraduate students. Hefound that students’ appreciation for ethics was improved by the exercise of linking futureprofessional standards to current conduct expectations for students. Harding10 found thatcheating behavior was self-reported more frequently by engineering students than humanitiesstudents and noted: “Differences between
forsustainable development that is a global partnership, students will learn to understandhow to integrate and transfer the best and most appropriate knowledge,methodologies, techniques, and practices between the developed and developingworlds to ensure a sustainable future.” Examples of their answers are below: Page 14.913.6 4“Working, learning, and being with peers who focus on similar subjects allowspartnerships to be created easily, even on an international level. There were manyaspects of the project that were new for me; host family, working with such a diverseteam, field
space. with their laptop computers to write lab reports and papers. Figure 6. Collaboration A portion of the room is utilized as student project space. Students in area whiteboarding space. the courses that require access to hardware are assigned resources in the data center laboratory, as well as a set of commodity desktopcomputer systems for their use to complete class projects and research projects. Each studentstation consists of a cart (on wheels), a small gigabit Ethernet switch, monitor, keyboard, mouse,and four Dell Optiplex 260 computers. These project stations are on wheels, and students canwheel them out
and professional development opportunities • Emphasizing intern/mentor relationshipsMentors assigned to the projects supervise students as needed and monitor progress whichincludes a mid-term project review. During the internship, the students interact with studentsfrom other schools and are exposed to a number of design tools that significantly enhances theirhands-on education. In particular, participating students have undergone training in the use ofvarious industry-based software including one or more of the following: Advanced Surface ShipEvaluation Tool (ASSET), Ship Motion Program (SMP), Seaway Evaluation Program (SEP),Rhinoceros 3D Modeling Program, Bryce 3D Animation Program. Further, the students arerequired to write a technical
in the programreinforced their desire to pursue a career in academia. When asked if there were any drawbacks to participating in the program, all of the respondentscommented that the program was time-consuming. The time required for participation was, in some cases,an additional stress during a time when dissertation research and writing was nearing completion. However,balancing teaching and research commitments as a student provides good exposure to the expectations thatall new faculty face. Page 1.176.4 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings
Outcome 4 (k)] 4. Design and conduct experiments to collect, analyze, and interpret data with modern 4 engineering tools and techniques. [ABET Criterion 3 Outcomes (b) and (k)] 5. Communicate solutions clearly, both orally and in writing. [ABET Criterion 3 4 Outcome (g)] 6. Work effectively in diverse teams. [ABET Criterion 3 Outcome (d)] 3 7. Apply professional and ethical considerations to engineering problems. [ABET
Systems, E-Systems, Raytheon Systems and Stephen Meyers & Associates. He is a member of ASEE, Institute of Industrial Engineers and senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.Sukwon Kim, Texas A&M University, Commerce Sukwon Kim is an assistant professor of Industrial Engineering in the department of Industrial Engineering and Technology at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He has taught various courses in Industrial Engineering program and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in Ergonomics and Biomechanics Journals. He is a subject matter expert in Human Factors and Ergonomics. He is a member of the HFES, ISOES, and IIE.Bob Wilkins, Texas A&M
reliability and device testing. Special emphasis was placed on reviewingFDA protocols and applications for prosthetic heart valves and artificial hearts. A series oflectures were also presented on the artificial organ (medical device) industry. These lecturesincluded topics on careers in artificial organs in academia and industry, grant writing, andfunding streams.The remaining lecture portion of the course described different examples of artificial organs,drawing heavily on the concepts introduced previously. These artificial organs includedcirculatory support devices, drug delivery systems, artificial lungs and oxygenators, artificialkidney, pacemakers, neural prostheses, prosthetic heart valves, orthopedic implants, bioartificialorgans (tissue
first is get studentsexcited about E&M. The second objective is to develop a flow/flux based understanding of the Page 11.72.5vector calculus as applied to E&M and fluid mechanics. The third objective is to develop theapplicable theory of several E&M topics enough so that laboratory measurement responses canbe understood. The fourth objective is to develop an order-of-magnitude understanding of the ofthe appropriate field quantities in each module.As the details of the metrology-based modular-pedagogy were formalized and distributed forpreliminary peer review, an interesting observation was made by a colleague whom teachesgraduate
, open to different cultural perspectives, sensitive andable to adapt to difference. Given the new and highly rigorous emphasis on engineering andscience education in the rapidly emerging economies of nations such as China and India, wherework can be done at a fraction of the cost and where a great deal of attention is paid to dealingculturally and linguistically with others, American students must be prepared to understand,work and communicate with their peers abroad. It is therefore critical that engineers be educatedas global citizens, trained to work in global teams, and prepared to develop and manufacture fora global market. Without these skills, they will fail and their work will be handed off to peersfrom other parts of the world where
2006-1015: ENGINEERING ETHICS AND MORAL THEORIES: A STUDENTPERSPECTIVEWilliam Jordan, Baylor University WILLIAM JORDAN is Professor and Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He has an M.A. degree in Theology from Denver Seminary. His Ph.D. was in mechanics and materials engineering from Texas A & M University. He teaches materials oriented courses and his main research area deals with the mechanical behavior of composite materials. He also writes and does research in the areas of engineering ethics and engineering education. He is a registered metallurgical