support the collaborative teamwork during the week at theNB.Compared with their peers, significantly fewer veterans under the age of 30 have completed anassociate’s degree or higher, arguably in part due to the military occupations in lieu of collegeexperiences. While this gap in college degrees decreases between veterans and non-veterans ofolder cohorts, the observed spike in unemployment for veterans underscores the importance ofproviding programs and services that support a successful transition to post-military careers(Dayton, 2016; Rothwell, 2014). Exploration throughout the course of the NWP may shed morelight on this observed finding, clarifying if other factors, besides the obvious choice differencesin post-high school directions, may
theirprototypes and prepare and present a detailed progress report as well as a final engineering reportand present their work in a seminar-type venue.As Student Learning Outcomes the following are pertinent to our sequence: 1) Students gain experience and expertise in solving real-world design problems and communicating their results in a professional format, in both written reports and presentations. 2) Significantly improve students’ skills in the areas of system analysis and design, technical writing, public speaking, teamwork, project and time management.Senior design course sequence is a part of our core curriculum since the inception of thisprogram (2002) and ever since the following schedule has been followed:Deliverables
models of a solution is the only constrainton a Maker’s design process. Work is done across the active and abstractive dimensions, and asuccessful solution is generated by the adaptive expert navigating between these axes.Prototyping as an early stage of the design process, and rapid prototyping as a design skill haveMakers gaining experience and expertise in the adaptive dimension in a way and at a rate thattraditional classroom learning cannot hope to match. Neeley specifically identifies agility as partof the adaptive dimension, and writes, “it is this agility and fluidity of mind that compels andinnervates business, excites students, motivates practitioners and defines the field” [10]. Usingthe skills and methods of both the active and
international conference on interaction design and children (pp. 613-616). ACM.Bowen, G. A. (2009). Document analysis as a qualitative research method. Qualitative Research Journal, 9(2), 27-40.Brahms, L., & Crowley, K. (2016). Making Sense of Making: Defining Learning Practices in MAKE Magazine1. Makeology: Makers as Learners, 2, 13-28.Buechley, L. (2013). Closing Keynote: FabLearn 2013. October, 2013. Stanford University: Palo Alto, CA.Capobianco, B. M. (2007). Science teachers' attempts at integrating feminist pedagogy through collaborative action research. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 44(1), 1-32.Emerson, R. M., Fretz, R. I., & Shaw, L. L. (2011). Writing ethnographic fieldnotes. University
3.2 No experience with OERs 2 6.5 No response 9 29.0One instructor commented that many faculty members are already using OERs without knowingit, as they have replaced textbooks with web content. Another respondent spoke to the formatand characteristics of OERs themselves, noting that OERs facilitate inclusion of more practiceproblems, interactive problem-solving, updated materials, and peer support for fellow students.Another respondent indicated that OERs solve an all-important access problem for students.This respondent noted: There should be essentially no barriers to accessing the course material. All students
. Students from the previous year indicated difficultiesworking with peers with conflicting personalities. To mitigate this issue, a teamwork buildingworkshop was established this year, teaching students how to recognize and respect differencesin personality traits and how to capitalize on the inherit benefits of each. Further, a preliminarydesign report submission was incorporated this year to allow for intermittent feedback, allowingfor support to students where the instructor felt necessary.1.0 IntroductionStudents in the University of Waterloo’s (UW’s) Civil Engineering program are exposed to open-ended design projects in their first and final years of study. The gap between these years needs tobe filled to continuously stimulate creativity
: “1. Learning appropriate goals, 2. Scaffoldsthat support both student and teacher learning, 3. Frequent opportunities for formative self-assessment and revision, and 4. Social organizations that promote participation and result in asense of agency” (p. 273). When successfully implemented, PBL is reported to increasestudents’ interest in and motivation for studying content (Blumenfeld et al., 1991) in addition topromoting collaboration with peers, providing experiences in which students engage in authenticdiscipline-specific practice, and offering students latitude to develop their own models andrepresentations of content (Krajcik & Shin, 2014).Given the aforementioned benefits of the open-ended, student-centered nature of PBL, PBL
committee chair through a successful accreditation visit in Fall 2012. Dr. Matin’s research has been mostly in the areas of Computational Mechanics and Experimental Mechanics with applications in Solid Mechanics, Plasticity and Sheet Metal Forming. Dr. Matin has published more than 25 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Dr. Matin is the recipient of NSF MRI award as a Co-PI. Dr. Matin worked in Automotive industry for Chrysler Corporation from 2005 to 2007. He Joined UMES in August 2007. He is affiliated with ASME and ASEE professional societies c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Designing a Strain Measurement System based on Circle Grid Analysis
Christine Haas brings over ten years of experience working in marketing and communications with a focus on the science and engineering fields. She’s held positions as the director of marketing for Drexel’s College of Engineering and director of operations for Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Engineering. Now, as Principal of Christine Haas Consulting, LLC, Christine travels around the world teaching courses to scientists and engineers on presentations and technical writing. She has taught clients across gov- ernment, industry and higher education, including Texas Instruments, Brookhaven National Laboratory, European Southern Observatory (Chile), Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) and the University of Illinois-Urbana
retention and success has been the subject of many studies. Forexample, Kuh’s multi-phased study identified high-impact practices including first-year seminarsand experiences, common intellectual experiences, learning communities, writing-intensivecourses, collaborative assignments and projects, undergraduate research, diversity/global learning,service learning/community-based learning, internships, and capstone courses and projects.4Another study published by the California State University Chancellor's Office shows that"Participation in high-impact practices has been shown to improve both learning and persistencefor all students, but especially for the historically underserved."5 This study also indicates thatparticipation in more than one high
differential equations, statistics) • Communications GPA (public speaking, English composition, technical writing) • Humanities & social sciences GPA (e.g., economics, music, philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, art, geography, foreign languages, political science, film, anthropology) • Individual course grades in o General biology (if taken) o General chemistry 1 o General physics 1 o Statics o Dynamics o Calculus 1 o Introduction to engineering o Freshmen composition • Completion of an associate degree (AA, AS, AAS) or not • Fulfilment of Minnesota Transfer Curriculum or notThe pre-engineering
collecting information on abilities required tosucceed in startups and entrepreneurial companies.b The advantage of this data gatheringtechnique is that it can be conducted in the interviewee’s natural setting18. Chilean participantswere interviewed face to face, while participants abroad were interviewed through a Skypeconversation. The audios of the conversations were recorded under the consent of theinterviewee. Research assistants transcribed these audios under a confidentiality agreement.Data Analysis Plan We established certain dimensions of analysis to code qualitative information collected inthis study (see Table 2). Two reviewers codified semi-structured interviews transcripts in threerounds, and peer-checking assessed consistency
sciences courses. He has published several peer reviewed journal and conference papers in these areas. His research areas are space systems, robust fault tolerant control, nonlinear control, adaptive control, small spacecraft design, high performance spacecraft components, mechatronics, real-time health monitoring, and diagnostic methodology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Student Activities, Research and Development in High-Power Rocket Propulsion and Systems EngineeringAbstractThe Rocket Propulsion Laboratory at Saint Louis University primarily focuses on student-run,undergraduate research in high-power propulsion system design and development as well asdesign
. URL http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1151869.1151890. [2] Barbara J Ericson, Lauren E Margulieux, and Jochen Rick. Solving parsons problems versus fixing and writing code. In Proceedings of the 17th Koli Calling Conference on Computing Education Research, pages 20–29. ACM, 2017. [3] Juha Helminen, Petri Ihantola, Ville Karavirta, and Lauri Malmi. How do students solve parsons programming problems?: An analysis of interaction traces. In Proceedings of the Ninth Annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research, ICER ’12, pages 119–126, New York, NY, USA, 2012. ACM. ISBN 978-1-4503-1604-0. doi: 10.1145/2361276.2361300. URL http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2361276.2361300. [4] Ville Karavirta, Juha
Paper ID #27333Partners in Professional Development: Initial Results from a CollaborationBetween Universities, Training Programs, and Professional SocietiesDr. Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University Katy Luchini-Colbry is the Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Services at the College of Engineering at Michigan State University, where she completed degrees in political theory and computer science. A recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, she earned Ph.D. and M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed works related to her
serves approximately 9,000 students in grades K-12, 61% of whomare eligible for the National School Lunch Program. About 40% of graduating seniors go on toattend a 4-year institution of higher learning while 42% attend a 2-year college, and 57.6% enterthe workforce. Less than 2% enter the military. As a whole, the district falls well below theeducational standard measured by state testing, performing better than only about 32% ofdistricts statewide. The middle school, and three of the seven area elementary schools areidentified by the U.S. Department of Education as Title I schools requiring additional resourcesto allow students of low socio-economic to meet educational benchmarks at the same rate astheir wealthier peers. 100% of the roughly
students then wrote programs so that the robot would locate a flashlight beamand move towards it, follow the lines printed on poster paper, and navigate through a maze.Tutorials were provided to explain the concepts of a control system and how to program aproportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller for the DC motors of the robots as studentsbegan writing the project code. Several applications of optical sensing, PWM, and PIDcontrollers were described during discussions with the students.On Fridays, student teams demonstrated the projects that they had completed during the week.These were outdoor activities as the campus was closed on Fridays during the summer. Afarewell luncheon with all of the faculty and student mentors was held after the
of CE 4200 was atime period when our CE students’ performance on the NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering(FE) Exam was inexplicably low for certain topics. CE students were responsible for taking a 1-hour FE review course, but NCEES topic-level data [7] at the time indicated that Texas Techstudents were performing surprisingly below students at peer universities on certain subjects forwhich they had received instruction and were expected to know the content. CE 4200 offered anopportunity to provide focused re-learning for these particular topics. Further, CE 4200 provideda natural way to formally introduce the FE Exam to our students at an appropriate time in theirprogram, to explain the CE Department’s philosophy on engineering licensure, and
Paper ID #31275Challenges in a Freshman General Education ClassDr. Michelle Maher , University of Missouri-Kansas City Dr. Michelle Maher explores student research, teaching, and disciplinary writing skill development and higher education access and equity issues.Miss Kathleen O’Shea, University of Missouri - Kansas CityDr. Jacob M Marszalek, University of Missouri-Kansas City Education: Dr. Marszalek received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, Statistics and Measurement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. Teaching: Dr. Marszalek teaches undergraduate quantitative statistics and graduate courses in
over time. We engaged in peer scrutiny of our findings witheach graduate coordinator to ensure trustworthiness in our work [20]. We then propose a modelof STEAM service-learning efforts synthesized from these findings.Part I. Findings from reflective accountsConceptualizing leadershipConsideration. Graduate outreach coordinators held different definitions of their responsibilitiesas an outreach leader. Some viewed the role as strategic and established foundational pieces ofthe program or ways they could extend and grow the program during their leadership tenure. Onthe other end of the spectrum, some graduate coordinators were more executional in theirapproach and focused on the work they would do with undergraduate students and
Summer Research Program 2018During the first year’s REU program, the students were given tasks to find and read relevantliterature and software tutorials, to write scripts in R on machine learning algorithms, and to writea script for basic algorithms in Python to control smart cars.Although not defined formally as designed activities, the students’ projects aimed to developcyber-attack, detection, and mitigation models on transportation networks for connected andautonomous vehicles. Tasks contained methods to be applied such as attack tree modeling(graphical) and the development of traffic and communication simulations. These tasks included: 1. Students used ARC-IT architecture (i.e. connected vehicles, (U.S. DOT, 2018)) to import defined
program and undergo an interview process. Factors considered in theselection of participants include academics, work experience, effective communication, andinvolvement in student or civic organizations. Since its inception, the program has always beenled by either the currently acting dean or a former dean of the College.The course is structured with the following elements:Curricular elements: 1. Leadership literature and leadership from history: Students were regularly assigned articles and books on leadership and leaders. Students then were required to write reflections on these and to discuss these within the class. 2. Learning from leadership journeys of alumni before: Successful alumni of the college were invited to
principally designed for a learner-centered e-based environment, making it ready for largescale dissemination. Examples of calculus concepts that the author and his team plan to developand integrate include: (a) games, (b) puzzles and teasers, (c) animations, (d) visual and intuitivedaily-experiences-based examples, (e) movies and short video clips, (f) demonstrations, (g)hands-on activities (including those based on virtual reality and augmented reality), (h) teamingand communication exercises, (i) small-scale inquiry-based research, (j) presentations, and peer-based teaching/learning, (k) visual click-based e-book, (l) community and social engagement,and (m) challenges beyond the basics.2 Calculus ExamplesThe following is a set of examples for
1 Argument from presented. Evidence Distinguish among facts, reasoned judgment based on research findings, 0 and speculation in an explanation. Respectfully provide and receive critiques from peers about a proposed 0 procedure, explanation, or model by citing relevant evidence and posing specific questions. Construct and/or support an argument with evidence, data, and/or a 0 model. Use data to evaluate claims about cause and effect. 1 Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a
write what aspect of their experience was included in ASEE and an Ally workshop based on findings from the North Dakota State University ADVANCE project [20] were added. This year, ASEE was the full sponsor for the diversity booth, indicating the strong commitment of the society to diversity and inclusion. 8) Columbus 2017: A significant addition to Committee programming was a call for papers and special sessions, developed in 2016, that resulted in a conference program that included Safe Zone workshops and Ally workshops as in previous programs, but also workshops for facuty and advisors, peer-reviewed papers responding to the call, and a session of best diversity papers from across the conference
The degree of connectedness students experience with peers, teachers and facultyIt stands to reason then, that admissions criteria that seek out these elements (high achievement,quantitiave skills), retention supports that encourage these behaviours, skills and attitudes (i.e.study habits, confidence in quantitative skills, self-awareness and goal setting), can help bridgethe gaps that students may experience (i.e. with respect to connection to their instiution, financialneed, family support or social activity) when embarking on their post-secondary studies.Additionally, pedagogical efforts have been made to engage students in active-learningexperiences throughout their degree. It is
countermeasures. Professor Nelson has published over 80 scientific peer reviewed papers and has been the principal investigator on over $40 million in research grants and contracts on issues of importance such as computer-enhanced transportation systems, manufacturing, design optimization and bioinformatics. These projects have been funded by organizations such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Department of Transportation and Motorola. In 1994-95, his laboratory, sponsored by the Illinois Department of Transportation, developed the first real-time traffic congestion map on the World Wide Web, which now c American
taught by a peer. In thecourses, students are required to use ADS to finish a practical design of a microwave device for acourse project. The main purpose is to show students how to verify their paper designs throughsimulation and to introduce students to practical matters they may see in industry. This includesexploring the impact of microstrip bend and tee artifacts in order to make a practical deviceconform to specific ports on a fixture. Students can adjust their designs to re tune their deviceswhen these practical matters are added. Students also use ADS to explore concepts such asvariability in device dimensions or reverse engineering an existing layout given mask dimensionsand measured S parameters. The ADS projects are easily implemented
product. 4. Analyze the operation or functional performance of a complete system. 5. Troubleshoot a failure of a technical component or system.Undergraduate Research and Internship ExperiencesIn 2008 George Kuh identified ten “high impact practices” in higher education literature found toincrease student engagement and learning outcomes [8]. These ten practices are: first-yearexperiences, common intellectual experiences, learning communities, writing intensive courses,collaborative assignments, experiencing different worldviews, community-based learning,capstone experiences, undergraduate research, and internships. In particular, undergraduateresearch and internships are relevant to engineering education but are not utilized by
, we are committed to broadening the definition of engineering.Instead of perpetuating a false division between technical and social aspects of problems, weseek to explicitly recognize engineering as a socio-technical discipline. As Erin Cech writes,“Prioritizing certain ‘technical’ features (faster, smaller, cheaper vs. quality or sustainability) overothers is a social and political choice at its core. Thus, the notion that engineering work cansomehow be separated from the social world is itself a cultural frame for understanding whatengineering is [13].” We envision an innovative engineering culture that is inherentlyinterdisciplinary, engaging faculty across engineering departments and across campus toprovide students with an engineering