.59 .27 .033a INI-1: Experimenting (All) 168 4.23 .72 61 4.41 .56 .18 .132b INI-2: Pitching (Paired) 41 3.15 1.20 41 3.23 1.13 .09 .569a INI-2: Pitching (All) 168 3.26 1.08 61 3.39 1.08 .13 .385b INI-3: Resourcing (Paired) 41 4.17 .70 41 3.89 .79 -.28 .061a INI-4: Planning (Paired) 41 3.68 .91 41 3.62 1.09 -.06 .842a INI-4: Planning (All) 167 3.55 .98 61 3.75
practice systems thinking by completing a project that focuses on acurrent issue or need requiring an engineering solution.The course deliverables listed in Table 1 includes: Project Plan and Journal (22.5%),Communication Skills (47.5%) and Technical Merit (30%). Students must take an ill-definedproblem and use a systems engineering approach to implement a proof-of-concept solution. Adetailed description of the weekly deliverables is given elsewhere and will not be described heredue to space limitations [1]. The Critical Design Review (CDR) rubric was also developed tobalance the course weighting between system-level thinking fostered by weekly deliverables andacquired technical skillsets from the MSEE program. The weekly deliverables are guided
outside professionals 3D printers to physically grasp design solutions Interactive smart touch technology to manipulate and interact with media If consideration and careful planning is given to a steel course’s structuring, it is possible tomix these two groups of technology together for engineering education practices. The first area to startwith is what topics in structural steel educations lends itself to nicely technology. Here, behavior anddesign can be simulated on software programs alongside hand calculations. Additionally, designs canbe documented and coordinated with other disciplines (within a building) to look at the larger contextof structures. Potential theorized
is presented first. Following this,approach and methods undertaken to design and develop product-based learning throughout theundergraduate curriculum are presented. Examples of course activities and the flow andintegration across the curriculum are provided. Preliminary results and lessons learned areincluded in the discussion of courses that have been reengineered to date. Other critical elementsto success, such as the project team and infrastructure needs, are also discussed. Finally, asummary is provided along with plans for future work.Related LiteratureA problem-based learning pedagogy of engagement provides a strong foundation for curriculumredesign. Smith, et al. [2], citing additional studies indicating the importance of engagement
, the instructors, and the client involved in theinnovation [9]. Additionally, rather than focusing solely on the technical content that isprevalent in many other required engineering courses, capstone faculty reported the followingtop six content areas: Written communication (87%), Oral Communication (83%), EngineeringEthics (76%), Project Planning and Scheduling (72%), Decision-Making (68%), andTeambuilding (66%) [8].Entrepreneurial Mindset in EngineeringThe unique structure, design, and topics addressed in capstone courses provide ampleopportunities for embedding innovative instructional best practices as well as complementaryskill sets such as sustainability, soft skills, and the entrepreneurial mindset (EM). It has becomeincreasingly
industri-al electronics’ concepts of sensing, counting and process control; 3) have them participate as ateam in a de novo real-world design of a large and complex process of humanitarian interest; and4) teach students about cost-accounting and sequential manufacturing planning as a precursor todeveloping a business plan. Its design goals were to 1) implement a method to prevent overpay-ing customers at intake and to improve the accuracy of the count when the recyclables werereturned to the various vendors; 2) use commercial electronics and design-for-manufacturingconcepts so that the products would be reliable and field-maintainable by the host’s staff; and 3)prepare and assemble detailed product manuals for use by maintenance
ready for an aerial survey ofthe disaster area in order to gain as much information as possible to plan a potential rescue/aidresponse for a town named ‘Disasterville.’Disasterville: Aerial survey of a disaster areaOur UAV curriculum includes a capstone challenge titled “Aerial Survey of a Disaster Area”. Tocomplete the challenge, students must conduct an aerial survey, using their UAVs with theircameras, of a model town that has been damaged by a natural disaster. The model town, dubbed“Disasterville”, includes buildings made of blocks, toy cars, and figurines of people. Studentscannot directly see the town; Disasterville is hidden from them by an intervening “mountainrange” (a plastic tarp over some chairs). Students must fly their UAV over
areas an incomingfreshman would most likely 1) be interested in, and 2) find useful. The focus of this preliminarymodule would be a quick introduction to guides and services. It would be composed of twosections: Welcome to Dibner Library (a filmed welcoming video featuring the InstructionalLibrarian) and Access and Services (library space, hours, where students could go and whatthey could do within the library system). An additional section was later added because theteam came to believe that it would be nice to end on a note of fun and professionaldevelopment: Learning and Events which highlights the weekly engagement activities and thesemester schedule of library workshops. Workshops enabled the library to publicize itspre-planned workshop
Paper ID #15375An Academic Library’s Role in Improving Accessibility to 3-D PrintingMr. Daniel P Zuberbier, East Carolina University Dan Zuberbier is the Education & Instructional Technology Librarian at East Carolina University (ECU). He planned for, launched, and currently manages the J.Y. Joyner Library 3D printing service which makes 3D printing accessible to all students, faculty and staff at ECU, and is currently developing a course on 3D printing for the North Carolina Summer Ventures in Math & Science Program. He previously worked as a high school Social Studies teacher in Arizona and Michigan, and holds
, Engineering, and EntrepreneurshipAbstractCreative minds often times have innovative ideas for designing products and services that maylead to successful businesses but these potential entrepreneurs often need an outside perspectivefrom practitioners trained in business and engineering that can analyze potential ideas, performengineering economic analyses, and help construct business plans to help entrepreneurs proceedin a fiscally responsible and systematic manner. Engineering economy is at the center of eachand every business decision made in today’s fast paced business world. Whether it be a rate ofreturn analysis, payback analysis, net present worth analysis or a host of other engineeringeconomic analyses, the ultimate
and Creative ThinkingAbstract:This work in progress study describes a strategic university initiative (TH!NK) that is aimed atimproving critical and creative thinking throughout the undergraduate curricula. The TH!NKinitiative is part of the North Carolina State University's five year Quality Enhancement Plan(QEP). This initiative is designed to train faculty to utilize strategies that cultivate students’ criticaland creative thinking in the classroom. TH!NK provides a comprehensive framework forimplementing strategies that support higher-order thinking skills through faculty training,mentoring, and formal assessment of student learning outcomes. In TH!NK courses, students areintroduced to and given opportunities to evaluate their own work
takes onfamiliar plots/themes), and pedagogical objectives (e.g., exposing or re-framing via adocumentary) are completely different. Hollywood Movie TED Talk Veritasium Khan Academy Production Massive, Well-organized, Low-budget single- Tablet-style, low- professional, well- rehearsed, and camera shoots and budget procedural funded endeavor planned interviews videos presentations Purpose Entertainment Engaging product Pose intriguing Detailed product guaranteeing
performance mea- surement, decision-making & optimization, service-learning and community engagement. Dr. Luo is a LEED AP BD+C and a CM-BIM holder.Dr. Wei Wu, California State University - Fresno Dr. Wei Wu, LEED AP, CM-BIM, A.M.ASCE, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Construc- tion Management of the Lyles College of Engineering at California State University, Fresno. He received the Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering with a focus on Built Environment from Hunan Univer- sity in China, the Master of Science in Environmental Change and Management at University of Oxford in the UK, and the Doctor of Philosophy in Design, Construction and Planning at University of Florida. He is an associate
have responded to the needs of themarket by offering degrees ranging from associates to masters, as well as certifications inspecific topics such as planning, scheduling, and safety management.There are many benefits to the online classroom environment; it is not limited by geography, aslong as reliable internet access is available. The flexible nature of online instruction allowsstudents of any age or level of experience to enroll in courses of their choosing at times that aremost convenient to them. Depending on the flexibility of the respective institution students maywork full-time and pursue an advanced education in the comfort of their own homes. In addition,students are able to work at their own pace, gradually transition to their new
Pontificia Universidad Católica (UC), themost prestigious and oldest engineering schools in the country. A key difference between thesetwo institutions’ proposals is that UCH developed its own strategic plan, while UC created aconsortium with Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM), another prestigiousinstitution within the region. By comparing both strategies, this investigation seeks to understandcurricular and organizational change in selective institutions after the first years of the designingand implementation of the program. As a conceptual framework, we ground our work in the richliterature of change in engineering education, in particular the branch that studies national effortsand coalitions for change. Our data set consists of
the two tables below, we present demographicdata on the students in each engineering major and rates of graduation. All data presented in thefollowing tables can be found on the GT Institutional Research and Planning website,www.irp.gatech.edu. Page 26.860.3 Native American Hawaiian Indian or Black or or Other Two or Alaskan African Hispanic Pacific MoreMajor Gender Native Asian American or Latino
semester-long projects by the end of the term. Formany years, non-completion of projects or personality problems within teams was rare – perhapsone out of a hundred per semester. Recently, more teams have been having trouble, and thecourse has been growing as well. For instance, we had 15 cases of non-completion in Fall 2013and 11 cases in Spring 2014. In our summer 2014 planning meetings, we decided that somethingneeded to be done to address teamwork as a learnable skill because it is such an integral part ofengineering.In our opinion, the higher rate of non-completion was mostly due to current students havingdifficulties with communicating face-to-face; the skill set required to discuss how to jointly dotheir projects is sorely lacking in
performed an initial evaluation ofthe impact of an REU program in bioengineering for students transitioning between theirfirst and second years in college [14]. As this program was targeted towards studentsearly in their collegiate programs, the researchers planned to track the students as theycontinued their studies. Such data can enhance our understanding of the impact of a UREon retention.In addition to these studies, Hathaway et al. considered 291 students involved inundergraduate research at the University of Michigan from a wide range of disciplines.They found that structured programs led to more positive results than unstructured UREs,in terms of pursuing graduate studies and that students with a wide range of abilities canbenefit from a URE
. Simple Communication Radio Controllers.The course activities were then mapped to the desired project lab development and outcomes.Specifically, the process for integrating inquiry techniques into the lab projects, contained thefollowing phases: • Determine faculty goals and objectives; analysis of potential students (students, who take the course are juniors and do not have a prior knowledge in the field of mechanical design and it’s applications); • Determine faculty role in the learning process and develop an instructional plan; • Design lab activities, assignments, and assessments that are congruent with four major desired student outcomes: (a) improved critical thinking, (b) greater capacity for
that the engineering and scientific workforce is still made up of 51%white males2despite continued efforts on the part of academic institutions, professionalorganizations and other stakeholders to address this issue.As part of the ASEE’s “Year of Action on Diversity”, the Chemical Engineering divisionassembled a committee to perform a review of the state of diversity within its division and toidentify opportunities where improvements could be made and a plan for accomplishing thesegoals. The diversity committee performed preliminary analysis of the Chemical Engineeringdivision’s membership information and compared it against diversity data for engineering facultyand the overall engineering workforce. Chemical engineering divisions’ membership
WTP.There were other doctoral students produced by the Department of Transportation and UrbanInfrastructure Studies. Their research projects were related to driving simulation, transit orienteddevelopment and highway safety. After graduation, many of them are working at transportation-consulting firms and state government transportation-related agencies. 6. Outcome Assessment on MSU Graduate Students Participating in NSF S-STEM GrantsAs a premier minority-serving institution, Morgan is transitioning to a doctoral researchuniversity, which is a primary goal promoted in our ten-year strategic plan. To contribute toinstitutional goals, a scholarship program funded through the National Science Foundation wasdeveloped, which aims to significantly
educational objective of the E-Lead degree is to developengineers into leaders with engineering domain knowledge, broad leadership knowledge, and theability to inspire and lead others. But E-Lead goes well beyond being a program, an initiative, ora cluster of classes added to a degree plan. The E-Lead program also develops a culture wherestudents actively contribute to their own education and where individual contributions are valuedand important. E-Lead students strive for excellence because they have a sense of ownership andpower over their own education. Building this new discipline has inherent challenges, especiallywithin a large public university.To help minimize having to “reinvent the wheel” in starting an ambitious student-centereddegree
development (Figure 4). Thecorrected and coded data is analyzed against semi-anonymized demographic data in order todetermine how various identities affect the ways in which students evaluate and are evaluated bytheir peers. Teamwork Professionalism Core Performance Behaves with Integrity &Is an Effective Listener Trust Is a Fast Learner Is effective at TimeMotivates Others Management Demonstrates Creativity Is Action-Oriented &Is Friendly & Approachable Enthusiastic Has Effective Planning Skills
, diplomas and certificates in 201410. Currently, more than 25 public and private schools have Guaranteed Admissions Agreements with the VCCS where approximately 56% of graduating students are in transfer programs planning to pursue a bachelor’s degree10. Figure 2 shows that more than 40% of Virginia Community College System students enrolled in the 2010-‐11 Academic Year transferred to a 4-‐year institution by 2014. Figure 2. Percent o f students enrolled in 2010-‐11 Academic Year
throughimplementation. Data resulting from the pilot projects over a period of two years reveals thevalue of the introduced strategy in motivating faculty to come up with innovative solutions toassist engineering students meet their learning objectives. ApproachExploring the drivers of change and planning accordingly is often seen as key to the futuresuccess or even survival of an organization. In education, the drivers of change have beenthoroughly researched and documented in literature10, 11, 12. Technology is increasingly beingtouted as an innovative cost-effective solution to address the drivers of change in universitiesaround the world13. Employing instructional technologies in conjunction with sound
invited speaker for many technical and non-technical forums. He has mentored over 30 Masters, PhDs and Post Docs. Anshuman works with industry and global organizations and has extensive experience negotiating contracts and executing projects globally such as Pacific Islands, Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Ambika P. Adhikari is Program Manager (Research) at the Office of Knowledge Enterprise and Develop- ment at Arizona State University (ASU). At ASU, he is also a Research Professor (affiliate faculty) at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, and Sr. Sustainability Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. Ambika was Sr. Planner and Impact Fees Administrator at SRPMIC
influence and tell powerful stories. 3. To teach how to be effective team leaders Northwestern has automated the engineering student team performance assessment surveys and computation of 360 degree reviews and planning the work and working the plan to be effective in project teams through PM charters. It was the best example of a breakout session at this conference on engineering leadership training that had data to back its assertions.Community Engagement Programs ResearchThe Community Engagement one was a North American universities 2 day workshop conferenceon service learning in engineering education hosted by Purdue featuring over 80 attendeesassociated with
University. His scholarly interests span computing education research, information technology for teaching and learning, and software engineering. Prior to coming to Drexel, Dr. Hislop spent eighteen years working in government and industry where his efforts included software development and support, technology planning and evaluation, and development and delivery of technical education.Dr. Sarah Monisha Pulimood, The College of New Jersey S. Monisha Pulimood is on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at The College of New Jersey. She has been successfully incorporating immersive learning experiences and multidisciplinary collaborative projects into her courses for several years; has published on undergraduate
post-secondaryattainment may have the ability to significantly impact an individual’s earning ability.25 Creation Page 26.319.7of educational pathways enabling students, veterans, adults and incumbent workers to have bothaccess to and a seamless transition between various types of post-secondary educationalattainment is vital to increasing overall educational attainment throughout the region. Pathwaydevelopment may include stackable certificates, creative ways to address credentials, innovativearticulation programs, increasing industry’s role in curriculum development and communicationand strategic planning across educational and workforce
, professional development, and networking skills. The workshops also included three teambased engineering projects that gave participants an opportunity to work on crosscultural engineering teams. Additionally, a few of the workshops were targeted toward developing and sustaining their local SWE student organization (Liberia Society of Women Engineers, LSWE). Underlying all of these workshops was the desire to provide all students involved with crosscultural leadership experiences. Finally, to assist with the planning of the camp and to encourage crosscultural team building, committees were formed between the LSWE leadership team and the University of Michigan members to plan and carry out different aspects of the camp, namely, logistics, health