AwarenessAbstractTwo regional universities have completed the first round of a three-year collaborative NSFResearch Experience for Teachers grant focused on human-centered design and appropriatetechnology for developing countries. In this transformative research experience, teachers travelto global community partner sites to engage in learning projects aimed to enhance theirunderstanding of engineering and intercultural awareness. Upon return from their immersionexperience, the teachers complete an intensive, two-week curriculum development workshop.The teachers then pilot the resulting lesson(s) in their classroom, make revisions as necessary,and share their finalized curriculum with other STEM educators via the TeachEngineeringwebsite. Throughout the
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, interviewees associated the ability to apply ethical codeswith ethical training activities such as case discussions. This is aligned to what has beendocumented in literature9. Furthermore, quantitative results revealed that this is an aspect to beimproved within the research site. Most respondents were aware of the existence of ethical codesbut they did not know how to apply them. Faculty should collaborate with school authorities inorder to explore how to integrate the teaching of ethical codes in the core curriculum courses17.This also applies to the reinforcement of codes of conduct. Although respondents were able torecognize potential ethical issues in engineering education, there was a high percentage ofstudents’ misconducts observed such as free
-structuredness. The integration of ethics is also an ill-structured aspect of the problem, especiallysince meeting the 20% weight reduction is a stretch goal, which the instructor is aware of but thestudents are not. In resolving ill-structured aspects present and emergent in the problem, studentsnecessarily participate in actions that constitute problem framing.Like the previous problem, resolving complexity is reflected in actions of decomposing the pedal-crank system into individual components that can be analyzed as part of the redesign process.Eventually, complexity is further resolved in synthesizing changes to individual components tounderstand the impact at the system level. Procedural and structural knowledge are necessarilydeveloped and
Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his team received Best Paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008 and 2011 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011 and 2015. Dr. Ohland is Chair of the IEEE Curriculum and Pedagogy Committee and an ABET Program Evaluator for ASEE. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi and is a Fellow of the ASEE, IEEE, and AAAS.Dr. Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Monica E. Cardella is the Director of the INSPIRE
Systems Engineering, and many years of experience teaching and developing curriculum in various learning environments. She has taught technology integration and teacher training to undergraduate and graduate students at Arizona State University, students at the K-12 level locally and abroad, and various workshops and modules in business and industry. Dr. Larson is experienced in the application of instructional design, delivery, evaluation, and specializes in eLearning technologies for training and development. Her research focuses on the efficient and effective transfer of knowledge and learning techniques, innovative and interdisciplinary collaboration, and strengthening the bridge between K-12 learning and higher
industrial engineering,engineering quality management, project management, concurrent / simultaneous greenproduct / process design, visual lean factory management, and continuous professionaleducation. 557IntroductionMillennial generation students are interested in an integrated, simultaneously analytical,computational, interactive, as well as practical, real-world-focused, customized education.They expect a large number of choices, because they understand the power of simulation.They are very visually focused, because this is the video gaming generation. They wantpersonalized, customized products, processes and service, and their education process isnot an exception. They look for technical details, and want
of this project was toconfirm early on the career choice of these students by putting them close to the reality of theprofession and making them work on projects involving design and analysis abilities,autonomous learning, teamwork, communication skills and social considerations. We alsowanted to create a stimulating and motivating learning environment, with a reasonable workloadthat favored the integration and the application of the engineering knowledge and skills.To accomplish this goal, we were looking for a project that could integrate these ideas indifferent courses with appropriate complexity, and also provide open challenges that push furtherthe creativity and the ingenuity of the students. With that in mind, we developed an
2008 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Pittsburg, PA.13. Hanus, J. P., Russell, J. S., (2007). “Integrating the Development of Teamwork, Diversity, Leadership, and Communication Skills into a Capstone Design Course.” Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Honolulu, HI.14. Meyer, F., Conley, C., Hanus, J., Klosky, L. (2008). “A Global Curriculum to Support Civil Engineering in Developing Nations.” Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Pittsburg, PA.15. Williams, K. and Pender, G. (2006). “Problem-Based Learning Approach to Construction
Engineering Disciplines into a Common First Year Engineering Program,” in 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2003, pp. 1–19.[14] K. Reid and D. Reeping, “A Classification Scheme for ‘Introduction to Engineering’ Courses: Defining First-Year Courses Based on Descriptions, Outcomes and Assessment,” in 121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2014, pp. 1–11.[15] B. M. Olds and R. L. Miller, “The effect of a first‐year integrated engineering curriculum on graduation rates and student satisfaction: A longitudinal study,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 23–35, 2004.[16] C. Brozina and K. Meyers, “Engineering Major Discernment: A Model for Informing Students and Offering Choice,” in 126th Annual
, primarily in the upper division level. This was done since it was decidedto only admit two-year transfers into the programs the first few years so that graduates would beavailable in just two years allowing for application of an initial ABET visit. First year studentswould then be admitted after the initial cohorts, which has since occurred in 2023.Once the mapping was complete, faculty could design their specific courses to include thestudent outcomes agreed upon earlier. Then it could be guaranteed that each graduate would beexposed to learning directed toward each of the required ABET criteria as they work toward eachof the SO’s distributed across the curriculum. Furthermore, if exercises and assessments couldthen be designed to test each SO
designer in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. She works with faculty to design and redesign courses while following best practices in technology integration. Her research interests include learning aptitudes and facilitating class- room communication. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 An Interdisciplinary Project-Based Service Learning and Action Research Project with Mechanical Engineering and Speech-Language Pathology StudentsAbstractThe current paper addresses an imminent need for an action research study to systematicallyinvestigate the effectiveness of an interprofessional project-based service
for increasing synthesis and design in the engineering curriculum, for greater emphasison deep inquiry, and for a general reversal of the compartmentalization of engineering content inthe classroom. The ability to integrate knowledge is a key trait of the modern engineer, andtraditional engineering curricula often struggle to instill this trait. The Engineering Genome, oncefully realized, will address this critical need by building a cross-curricular tool that describes theincredible richness of relationships between pieces of “content”, and therefore promotes studentunderstanding and integration of knowledge. Page 23.753.3Methods
students thatprovides a tutorial via video segments on each project step, an illustration of applications througha virtual plant tour and background information. The CD-ROM will serve as a companion toteachers implementing the lessons in their classrooms, reducing the anxiety associated withintroducing new concepts and materials into the classroom setting. In addition, teachers thatimplement components of the project have the support of the research team. Using the resourcesand training received through professional development workshops, teachers implement KEEP Page 11.912.2activities in their classrooms, embedding it within their curriculum – in
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. (2003).”Epistemological Development: An Implicit Entailment of Constructivist Learning Environments”. In Seel, N.M., & Dijkstra, S. (Eds.), Curriculum, Plans and Processes of Instructional Design: International Perspectives (pp. 75-88). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.42. Davis, E. A., & Linn, M. (2000). Scaffolding students’ knowledge integration: Prompts for reflection in KIE. International Journal of Science Education, 22(8), 819–837AcknowledgementThe authors would like to acknowledge the National Science Foundation Grant #DUE-0618459that provided funding for this project. Page 13.622.17 Appendix A. Perry’s scheme of
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reported that thecourse with this new format was exciting and motivating. Page 2.150.65. References:[1] Maher E. Rizkalla, Carol L. O’Loughlin, Charles F. Yokomoto, and Gary Burkart, “A New Electronic Manufacturing Course for the Electrical Engineering Curriculum,” IEEE Transaction on Education, November 1996.[2] Maher E. Rizkalla, Carol L. O’Loughlin, Charles F. Yokomoto, and Gary Burkart, “An Innovative Model for Senior Level Undergraduate Engineering education in Electronic Manufacturing,” Accepted for Publication in the International Journal of Applied Engineering Education.6. AcknowledgmentWe
. Individual help from theappropriate subject librarian is also offered.It had always been difficult to integrate information literacy into the third year programme. Onlyone paper was common, and compulsory, for all 550 third year students. This is EngGen303 whichcovers “An introduction to modern theory and practice of management, including project, qualityand financial management appropriate to the engineering profession”. When there was a change ofdirection in the course, the new teaching staff were receptive to the idea of library collaboration.They realised that the students need to find and use information that is not necessarily strictly‘engineering’, and need to know how to do this quickly and efficiently.Subject librarians and faculty
are an integral part of many engineering curricula due to theopportunity to provide hands-on experiences for students to learn how to collect and analyzedata. While laboratory experiences diverge from a formal classroom lecture to allow students toconduct experiments related to real-world disciplinary concepts, many engineering laboratoriesuse a “cookbook” and procedural based structure. These traditional laboratories, however, havebeen proven to only address the lower levels of knowledge and comprehension of BloomsTaxonomy as opposed to reaching the higher levels of application, analysis, synthesis, andevaluation.1-3 Therefore, even though students are engaged in hands-on activities during labinstruction, educators can question several key
support service,for instance, making appointments with instructor in a feedback meeting. Levey [10] developed anoble hands-on learning exercise on fluid mechanics in a large-scale undergraduate classroom with90 students. The experiment is about demonstrating the velocity profile of a falling object inviscous fluids and accessing the drag force from Stokes’ law. The set-up is very simple and hasbeen reported to be very cost-effective, offering multiple learning outcomes such as buildingteamwork, polishing technical skills, applying theory to practice.Like other engineering pedagogy, an undergraduate level fluid mechanics course demands aneffective PBL curriculum that involves processes of investigation and inquiry, which extendsbeyond a lecture
and appurtenancesmust be underpinned and supported in place to avoid damages. Additionally, on heavy civilprojects requiring heavy construction equipment, there is always the need for trestles andequipment bridges used as temporary access. What is unique about these topical areas is that theyfall under the subject area called temporary structures, which happens to fall outside the requiredcurriculum of the CM (construction management) and ConE or CEM (construction engineeringor construction engineering management) programs in the US. The objective of this paper istwofold. The first is to make the case for including temporary structures as a required part of theCM, ConE or CEM curriculum, and secondly, to recommend an instructional design
-12 schools, students might consider their failure in math and science as a means to beingaccepted—in other words, failure is perceived to be the social norm.5 Well thought-out, engagingengineering activities, presented as extension opportunities for K-12 students, could do doubletime: help students who are interested in engineering stay on track and interest other studentsearly on about the possibilities of an engineering future. K–12 engineering education is linkedwith the improvement of student learning and achievement in mathematics and science.6 Imaginethe outcomes if our nation’s schools pervasively integrated effective engineering education intotheir curriculum on a regular basis; the impact could have a staggering effect on our
resulting in unique situation-specific solutions. This rigid approach is nowbeing challenged as the undergraduate curricula go through restructuring to accommodate open-endedproblems for students to solve using flexibility and creativity. ABET also has adopted an integrated approachtoward design with more flexible definitions. The author examines the subject matters relating to mechanics inthe context of recent developments in the field of design teaching. Professional design practice has becomeinterdisciplinary with an emphasis on a team approach leading to Integrated Product Development (IPD). Thisapproach offers a competitive edge in the global market place in terms of cost, quality, and reduced lead time inbringing forth a new product
. problems. programs for adults.Figure 4. Overall average change in response for questions 4, 5, 6, and 7 regardingenvironmental attitudes. No change in attitude is represented by a score of 0.00, a negative scorerepresents a negative change in attitude toward the environmental, and a positive score representsa positive change in attitude toward the environment. There were 85 responses for each questionfrom all demographics.When considering question seven, none of the students to whom the survey was administeredselected engineering as their field of study. However, as a function of curriculum requirements,all students must take an engineering sequence as previously mentioned. Arguably, this questionimpacts the students on a personal
Paper ID #11165A cross-sectional study of engineering students’ creative self-concepts: An ex-ploration of creative self-efficacy, personal identity, and expectationsDr. Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Associate and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement and testing. In her position, Sarah is responsible for developing instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support
and partnerinstitutions will be discussed, with an emphasis on updating the Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) curriculum in an environment in which change is oftendifficult. Page 23.161.3 3 Introduction History dictates that in geotechnical engineering undergraduate classes, saturated soilmaterial is the focal point of the learning content in foundations technology (Fredlund, Rahardjo,& Fredlund, 2012). This has been the case because of the introduction of the single
Capobianco et al.’s [23] andFralick et al.’s [22] studies. In that time, there has been significant growth in the profile of engineering inpre-college education, which may have resulted in these participants having more exposure to diverseengineers than the participants had in previous studies. For example, the Next Generation ScienceStandards (NGSS) were released in 2013 [6]. These standards seek to integrate engineering into thescience curriculum across grade levels. While not all states adopted NGSS, by 2018, 70% of states hadeither adopted NGSS itself or developed state-specific standards based upon NGSS, including Ohio,where this study occurred [39]. Additionally, toys which seek to market STEM to specifically to girls,such as GoldieBlox [11
. Science Education, 100(1), 153-178.[7] Lee, J., & Shute, V. (2010). Personal and social-contextual factors in K-12 academic performance: An integrative perspective on student learning. Educational Psychologist, 45, 185 –202.[8] Nugent, G., Barker, B., Welch, G., Grandgenett, N., Wu, C., & Nelson, C. (2015). A model of factors contributing to STEM learning and career orientation. International Journal of Science Education, 37(7), 1067-1088.[9] Blanchard, M., Gutierrez, K., Habig, B., Gupta, P., & Adams, J. (2020). Informal STEM program learning. In Handbook of Research on STEM Education (pp. 138-151). Routledge.[10] Young, J., Young, J., & Witherspoon, T. (2019). Informing informal STEM learning: implications
Paper ID #43635WIP: Traditional Engineering Assessments Challenged by ChatGPT: An Evaluationof its Performance on a Fundamental Competencies ExamTrini Balart, Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile Trinidad Balart is a PhD student at Texas A&M University. She completed her Bachelors of Science in Computer Science engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Multidisciplinary Engineering with a focus in engineering education and the impact of AI on education. Her main research interests include Improving engineering students’ learning, innovative ways of