model with pressuretaps and other accessories that may be manufactured. Manufacturing an orifice plate and itsparaphernalia is not part of this course in FEM.They are required to report their results as an “extended abstract” as per ASME conferenceguidelines. Most students have not experience writing scientific articles at this juncture in theircareer and the organized nature and conciseness of the “ASME extend abstract” format is a goodfoil for them to practice their scientific communication skills. To recount, the multi-fold nature ofthe project is as follows: • Use of Hypermesh to preprocess/set-up the problem, its boundary conditions, loading conditions, solution and post-processing of results. • Solution (with the use of
be used by teachers and students in the classroom, but it is primarily designedwith the long-term goal of large-scale web-based dissemination, targeting those who prefer self-paced and self-learning friendly environments. Examples of Statics concepts that the author andhis team plan to develop and integrate into the learning experience include: (a) games, (b)puzzles and teasers, (c) animations, (d) visual and intuitive daily-experiences-based examples,(e) movies and short video clips, (f) demonstrations, (g) hands-on activities (including thosebased on virtual reality and augmented reality), (h) team and communication exercises, (i) small-scale inquiry-based research, (j) presentations and peer-based teaching/learning, (k) visual click-based
shall at all times strive to servethe public interest,” and “shall be guided in all their relations by the highest standards of honestyand integrity” [1]. Design challenges push students to pay attention to the public interests anddifferent perspectives of community members, government officials, etc., as they work tounderstand and solve design problems. In addition, design challenges require both teamwork andindividual participation. This allows students to practice working with peers, similar to workingwithin a community of professionals. This can aid students in understanding the values andfunctions of their fields as well as the required knowledge they need.BackgroundPast research has demonstrated the benefits of early design experiences
having all learning be teacher-directed.The newer, and/or more professionally isolated teachers expressed gratitude that they had achance to observe expert teachers during the first PD session. All the teachers appreciatedtalking with peers across disciplines about teaching and being given a successful methodologyfor integrating app development into their curriculum. Five teachers reported that their teachingwill be forever changed by what they learned and observed in the PD. Some representativequotes include: • “I learned how to be organized especially when teaching something completely foreign. Also to look at all the different learners and tailor my approach. There was something in it for each level of computing knowledge. I
body responsible for accrediting all specialty andsubspecialty programs for physicians in the United States. The ACGME was founded in 1981 asa federation of several key medical organizations to include ABMS, American MedicalAssociation (AMA), Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), American OsteopathicAssociation (AOA), American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM), andthe Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS)— each of which appoints members to theACGME's board of directors. Accreditation is achieved through a peer-review process overseenby volunteer physicians on 30 review committees [55].To accomplish its annual reviews of residency programs, the ACGME publishes institutionalrequirements [56], common
voluntarily joined the course. While in the training, they also had theopportunity to ask questions and create a community with other peers and faculty. This furthermotivated them to practice outside of class. Informed consent forms were collected on day oneand, after the students completed their final assessment and exit survey, a gift card and t-shirtwere issued to those with no more than two absences at the end of the course. The finalassessment was the PSVT-R [7] also. In Fall 2016, the authors invested in the videos created bySorby [5] which discussed the workbook chapter’s content. The videos were presented at thebeginning of each chapter and the authors learned from the students that this material facilitatedthe understanding of the modules to
hybrid continuous-episodic chapter management, growth and successprogram. The NRP programmatic structure serves as robust system to prepare Hispanics STEMprofessionals for the STEM workforce and ensure organizational mission fulfillment.Additionally, this study serves as an example of best practices for other peer chapter-based nationalengineering diversity organizations. The experience report is organized as follows. In Section 2,SHPE’s decade-long chapter continuous programming chronology is detailed from the EOYR toNRP version 3. The program’s strategic approach and corresponding required components arediscussed. Participation outcomes and lessons learned from the different iterations of the programsare discussed in Section 3. An outlook on
STEM disciplines. Her other interests include, Native American Self-Determination, Native Peoples, and Native Americans and Higher Education. Ms. Swimmer is a member of the Navajo Nation.Karen Jarratt-Ziemski, Ft. Lewis College Karen Jarratt-Ziemski received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northern Arizona University. She is currently a visiting faculty member of the American Indian Studies Program at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Dr. Jarratt-Ziemski is also the advisor to the Fort Lewis Chapter of AISES, and writes and works on many American Indian issues, including American Indian Self-Determination and Environmental Justice and Native Peoples. Dr. Jarratt-Ziemski is also
into causing particular classes to be a part of degreerequirements or lead to inclusion of topics in a course’s content goals. On the micro level,instructors’ plans are influenced by the decisions at the macro level, but they still make thechoices of specific lesson plans, contents of daily/weekly/monthly instructional objectives,activities for students, methods of instruction, and forms of evaluating students.4 In analyzingcurriculum planning, Colin J. Marsh and George Willis write Teachers are, of course, the final planners, and, in practice, many daily lesson plans are not written out but remain in the heads of experienced teachers. In fact, many of the numerous decisions made daily by classroom teachers are the
the general education program Ø A student body that values altruism and social activismFactors Negatively Associated with Positive Student Outcomes Ø Hours spent watching television Ø Institutional size Ø Use of teaching assistants Ø Full-time employment Ø Lack of community among students Ø Living at home and commuting Ø Participating in inter-collegiate athletics Ø Peers oriented toward materialismIn short, Astin4,5 said it appeared that how students approach their general education and how thefaculty actually deliver the curriculum are far more important that the formal curricular structure.More specifically, the findings strongly support a growing body of research suggesting that oneof the crucial factors in the
Page 12.1469.15student is so engaged in a course that they spontaneously do a mini-research project. Sevenstudents have volunteered to work on undergraduate research projects in this area. Ten to fifteenpercent of the students in the class write about some aspect of materials and music for theirrequired research papers. This is only a three percentage points lower than the students whowrite about materials used in cars. The approach described here seems to reach out to a differentand wider student population.Perhaps the most surprising outcome of the active and conceptual learning modifications to thecourse was that the students are able to successfully complete a much more difficult designproblem on the second mid-term and on the final exam
to students who did not take dual credit.” The study also examined studentperformance in subsequent courses in a sequence in writing, mathematics, and Spanish: “Whendual credit students who take the prerequisite in high school and the final course in college arecompared to their college classmates who take the entire sequence in college, it turns out thatthey pass the final course in proportions that are substantially equivalent to those of their college-prepared classmates”.A more recent trend is the development of early college high schools. With the first schoolsopening in 2003, in 2011 there were more than 230 high schools based on early college designs,serving 50,000 students in 28 states and the District of Columbia. In 2009, about
the above, educational and experimental materials are createdvirtually which are free of cost to both educators and students as opposed to real-life learningenvironments. Initially, educators should learn how to build, design and write scripts in for aspecific virtual learning system, which can be difficult and time consuming process. The virtualclassrooms, virtual labs, virtual campus and virtual communities play an essential role inbuilding the virtual educational environment. However, the progress of such technology does not Page 23.602.6fundamentally change the effect of teaching and learning. The main reason is that they are only amapping
‖ portion of the survey presents a series of resources related toengineering academic and career decisions at each time point. This resource focused technique,elicits weaker ties, as the resources are not necessarily provided by the list of people theparticipant named in the ―name generator‖ portion. If the participant indicated that they hadaccess to a resource (e.g. ―writes you a reference letter,‖ ―helps you find internships, jobs orscholarships,‖ ―introduced you to people in their professional network‖), then they are asked toselect from a list indicating who provided the resource. Examples of people providing resourcesinclude ―college/university professor,‖ ―employer or coworker, ―college/university personnelsuch as academic advisors or
(e.g. student, nonprofit, clinical, professional, and Page 23.403.3 industry networks); 5) an academic and research community that facilitates interdisciplinary undergraduate research and undergraduate publication in peer-reviewed research journals; and 6) a social unity and alignment among student and faculty researchers (e.g. volunteer outreach activities, community projects) Few studies, if any, have looked at the effectiveness of undergraduate-based researchprograms to initiate
projectsassociated with the real world problems such as air pollution, nanoparticles, desalination. Theirstudy findings demonstrated that the offered activities were a means for students to developcritical thinking, teamwork, writing and leadership skills. As the students gained real-worldexperiences, they developed positive attitudes toward engineering fields.Inspiring students to pursue STEM related careers at the early ages is crucial. Outreach programsfor middle school students were designed by a group of researchers through the use of the LEGO Page 23.98.5MINDSTORM NXT robotics kits29. The outreach program consisted of lessons and competitiveevents
,marketing, Six Sigma and lean production, and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).The course is scheduled for three meetings times per week. One of those meetings is allocatedfor course instruction, a second is allocated for team/advisor meetings, and a third is allocated forteam meetings. Considering that the allotted instructional time is one hour per week, the goal forthese topics is to provide students a good exposure and some practice (either in the context oftheir capstone design project or a small PBL assignment such as a design challenge). Duringthese full-class instruction periods, students consider and solve unstructured problems related todesign and sustainability through case studies using visualization, writing, and
project that is selected by the team and thecoach (a STEM teacher at the high school), and that has local significance for the students andtheir community. The project continues from one academic year to the next, with moststudents continuing as well. In the course of their HSE experience, the students solve authenticSTEM problems, perform testing and analyses, build prototypes, manufacture parts, staywithin budgets, write business plans, and manage their own project. HSE teams also haveprogram-facilitated access to expertise and mentoring from faculty and students in highereducation and from professionals in industry. Figure 1 contains a model of the team supportoffered by the HSE program. Most HSE teams operate as afterschool activities, but we
Electrical Engineering Laboratory CoursesAbstract This paper presents our experiences and results in developing and delivering newlaboratory experiments for the sophomore level Electric Circuits Lab, and Introduction to DigitalLogic design courses completely online. The paper will clearly outline how we utilized a newpedagogy to re-write our laboratory experiments so that they can be completed by face-to-faceand/or online students using new portable laboratory instrumentation devices, such as the MobileStudioTM board. We also present detailed descriptions on how we used the Adobe ConnectTMsoftware to allow the students to demonstrate their design and laboratory experiment circuits tothe course instructor from a remote location. We have
student must understand someof the interrelated concepts from geometry, physics and measurement, among otherthings. Often the math skills are captured in the NCTM’s 22 process standards.Table 4: Skill CodesCode DescriptionMathematics: Organize and consolidate mathematical thinking through coherent and clearCommunication communication to peers, teachers, and others; Analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others; Use the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely.Mathematics: Recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas; Understand howConnections mathematical ideas build on one another to produce a
their own classroom, most of the grant funds targeted forworkshop equipment and supplies at the teachers’ individual discretion. Interestingly, only eightteachers have ordered equipment as of this writing. Teacher equipment purchases to date consistof the following: ≠ Roller coaster kits ≠ “Building Homes of Our Own” software (residential architecture) ≠ Air compressor (for rocket launches) ≠ Lego catapult kits ≠ Lego Maglev Vehicle kits (three teachers, three individual orders) ≠ Assorted DVD’s and books; miscellaneous equipment such as scales, stopwatches, analog multimeter
Architec-ture students can provide. It is this synergy that results from each discipline contributing to thesuccess of the other that makes for a better overall product that is both a unique architecturalpresentation and a visually exciting and engaging game design.Current Status and Future Plans As of this writing, we are entering the last weeks of fall semester 2013 and planning forthe “pitch” in spring 2014. Although the plans for the pitch are still fluid, the concept of the col-laborative will continue to acknowledge the synergy from our unique perspectives and to contin-ue to emphasize the importance of a team-approach in the design and production of the architec-tural product and game design product. We are faced with the challenge
surveys as the primary source of data. We argue thatpersonal epistemologies develop within complex social systems and are subject to individual’sexperiences and perceptions and that surveys do not allow an in-depth look into thesecomplexities. This study attempts to fill this gap by investigating students’ personalepistemologies in a specific and rich context: their views of learning in a particular course. The Page 24.684.3study was done using a qualitative approach by analyzing written student short-answer responsesto a writing prompt, capturing a large group of students that might not otherwise be possible withmost in-depth interview
example visually, in physical form,and in writing—can facilitate learning, research shows.43 But integration can also impedelearning because it can place excessive demands on resource-limited cognitive processes, such asattention and working memory.44,45,46While fundamental to all learning experiences, social and cultural experiences such as thosewhich require students to work with each other and actively engage in discussion, joint decisionmaking, and collaborative problem solving may be particularly important in integrated learning.Some social processes can support learning through deliberate efforts to convey knowledge andstrategies to children. Techniques such as scaffolding47 and peer collaboration can help studentsbe successful with
] transmitted in writing from father to son” (p. 195). Thisfurther shrank women’s role in cultivation. Conflicts, which escalated into warfare duringpopulation growth, provided men with another role that solidified and institutionalized their“powerbase within the society” (p. 195). Likewise, herbal medicine, which was originated andfirst practiced by women, became men’s domain when medicine became a subject to be learnedat the university run by male-dominated Church and professionally practiced with a licenseand/or by male priests instead of female healers whose work was associated with an olderreligion. A combination of the professionalization of medicine and religious fervor of the Churchfurther caused the technological takeover and led to the
development organization. First, PSP training courses provide insight into theprocess performance of individual software engineers, before and after learning the PSPmethods. The “before” data reflects the existing processes of these practitioners, while the“after” data suggests the type of improvement that the PSP can produce. Second, TSP teamsgather data on their own performance as part of their normal development process, and some ofthis data has been published in summary form2.As outlined in Humphrey’s original text6, students in a traditional PSP training course write tenrelatively small programs, while using a series of defined software processes that buildincrementally up to the full PSP. Data on size and development time by program, for a
lasting three hours. Each session wasfocused around a main design challenge. The sessions began with a brief lecture describing thebuilding and programming concepts that would be useful for that day’s challenge. Then thechallenge was be introduced and discussed by the group. When the group felt comfortable withthe objectives, the participants would break off into pairs or individually to begin their design.The participants were given full control over the design and how they wished to make their finalproject. They had access to extra LEGO pieces, computers, the internet, and were encouraged toask questions to their peers or the instructor. At the end of each session there was a design circlewere the participants presented and discussed their
? What will be their nature? What percentage of the grade will depend on exams? How will other indicators (homework, participation, attendance, projects, etc.)be counted towards the grade? It is equally important that the instructor provides periodic assessment of students’ performance during the semester. The intent is: (1) to alert those that have fallen behind, and at the same time, (2) motivate “achievers” to stay the course.4) A “Back up” Plan to Assist Slow Learners and/or Potential Switchers: Many students are in engineering for a variety of reasons. Some are in because of peer pressure, or for other known or unknown reasons. They are not sure of their capabilities, having negative perception of the “class environment” and
to all members ofthe cohort (such as management of shared office space). Other working groups may be formed bythe cohort students (or even between cohorts) to focus multiple talents on a particularly difficultresearch problem element. Both of these types of ad-hoc groups emulate situations routinelyfound in industrial technology groups, and give the students experience in peer group leadership insupport of group goals.While this operational model is a simple concept, it provides the framework that allows thestudents to know each other well enough that they accept responsibility for each other’seducational success. It also provides a framework to assign management responsibility for groupneeds to different students to organize and execute