response, but then added something quitesurprising: ―Well, first of all, like some Chinese improvement, like [a] little Chineseimprovement. Actually, my English got a little better in Shanghai, [a] little better because I hadsome interactions with American friends, like more than in Purdue.‖ At Purdue, the participant Page 22.749.9explained, international students tend to be isolated from their American peers. The participants in the GEARE program exhibited relatively few attitudinal outcomes.However, some attitudinal outcomes stood out for certain individuals. Two of the participantsspoke at length about developing flexibility, or
-engineering own knowledge and to seek advice, reflect on their own capabilities, Engineers Nova Scotia's continuing learning and development, and importance of being part of a knowledge and skills to assist in and/or undertake research, to invite peer review, benchmark Learning professional excellence commitment to undertake
Gives the students a real world experience of solving a problem or addressing a situation and then being able to test and redesign. The hands on aspect of design. Students can immediately test their designs, re-design and retest. It is an engaging, interactive class. They liked the freedom to learn and design an open- ended solution, enthusiastically entering into the room and getting busy with their work instead of sitting and listening. Each mini lesson was given when it was needed. After the class was over, the students said the presentation and learning to write technical documentation would help them in college. Teaching students to take a complex problem and break it down into
experiencededucators looking for fresh ways to engage students. As a result of the authors’ experiences andreflection, a collection of tips for success in implementing specific teaching strategies is provided. Page 22.1415.2IntroductionThe requirements on a new engineering educator’s time are many and varied. In addition toproviding a fantastic learning environment for future engineers, the instructor may be asked todefine a scholarship avenue, write grants, and serve various entities within and outside theuniversity all the while with tenure looming. With all these demands on the new instructor, timeoutside of work is extremely limited. Clearly, time
, writing the programs, and testing the robotsthat students gained a deeper understanding of the concepts.ModelModels were used to illustrate the robotics concepts and design challenges throughout thecurriculum, especially during the building and testing phases. It was important for instructors todemonstrate what the robots were supposed to do because the challenges typically involved therobot interacting with an environment, such as following a line, avoiding obstacles, or picking upan object. It may also involve pushing other robots around. Since these environments are Page 25.404.9dynamic in nature, it makes the challenge more complicated. So
survey consisted of five sections. These included some general background informationabout the respondent, why the respondent joined the Lawrence Tech Formula HybridTMcompetition team, their experiences while being part of the hybrid team, other comments, andinformation related to if the respondent had left the team. Many of these questions are related tointernal use by the author and advisor of the team for the college of engineering at LawrenceTech, so not every question or its responses are included in this paper. There are, however, someresponses worth noting. At the time of this writing only about 17% of the voluntary responseshad been received (n = 8). But enough responses had been received to be of some use and thedata do shed light on
responded to these challenges with enthusiasm, enjoying their collaborations withthose from the other side of the divide, and demonstrating mastery of much of the technical content provided inthe course. In two other respects, outcomes from the course have far exceeded expectations. First, the range ofphysics demonstrated and the quality of images have been worthy of awards and archival publication 2–5. Second,and certainly more importantly, students report that their perception of the world around them has beenbroadened to include fluid physics, in a way that no other course has done. Students write to the instructor yearslater, enthusing about seeing mixing in a liquid soap dispenser, or vortexes in an unusual cloud. This neverhappens with
we had originally planned to prohibit quarter-and three-quarter length joints between deltas, allowing only full side or half joints, to make calculationseasier, but this was too limiting in the creation of successful designs. We also consideredincreasing the internal area requirement from 100 quarter-deltas to 150. However, a larger areawould require more deltas and thus make it difficult for the entire class of twenty teams to play atonce, resource-wise.Writing New InstructionsThe last change we made to the game was writing a new set of instructions (see Appendix) thatincorporated all of the changes that we made. We divided these instructions into three parts: theDesign Task, instructions for the Project Manager, and instructions for the
environment for ME 338 and EM 470 instruction, evolving the purely analytical focusin the past.” Supporting goals for this need include the following: develop activities wherestudents manipulate the components they are studying, especially in everyday devices thestudents are familiar with; add design components in the course, both machine layout andanalysis; add team assignments (without going to level of pure design courses), where studentslearn actively through peer interaction and questioning; and implement a systems approach forstudying machine design, where elements are not studied in isolation. The remainder of thispaper addresses the goals for our curriculum
consistent with values of society.✔ Generating and evaluating alternatives.✔ Communicating ideas to peers and public-at-large.✔ Using resources effectively (enhancing production capability PC) and efficiently (enhancing production P). PC/P balance is a must to derive optimal benefits.In the next section, we discuss how a human brain can turn into an entrepreneurship savvy oneby following a model proposed by Ned Hermann and extensively discussed by Lumsdaines.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.1.9 Copyright©2001, American Society for Engineering
wasn’t given the opportunity.Carroll mentions a “type of expertise” that is required for communicating with the men on herteam to understand where they “click.” The type of expertise she refers to is the understanding ofthe ways in which peers with shared identities operate socially and in a cohesive manner (wherethey “click”). This is the process of examining the hidden epistemologies that drive the socialinteractions she has with her team. Because of the historically white male majority inengineering and Carroll’s positionality as the only African American female on her team, sheacknowledges silently the potential her gender and race play in her exclusion from socialinteractions with others on her team.Carroll learns of the necessity of
just and safe space for all and uses writing, speaking, and research to address each of these important aspects of her academic career. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Exploratory Literature Review of Education Theories Guiding Engineering and Physics OutreachAbstractDue to the increasing demand for a diverse, STEM-competent workforce, many universities areparticipating in engineering and physics outreach activities for K-12 students. Despite theproliferation of these outreach programs, the fundamental learning and social theories that guidedevelopment of high-impact outreach experiences can be unclear, hindering their transferability.The purpose of this
summer session, as the instructor was notassigned to teach the spring session. The sources for alumni are reported in Table 1, alsoreporting several alumni (7) who have confirmed their interest in participating in the project butwho have not been assigned any student yet (labeled as “pending”). In total, 99 alumni have beenlisted in the project, with 82 considered active as they have not canceled their participation andhave replied to emails in the last two years. As it can be noted, most of the alumni nominated asa “family relative” do not remain active after helping with their first assignment. In addition,most of the alumni nominated by students as “friend” are generally older peers, graduating one tothree years before. These alumni have
, demonstrating an impressive grasp ofcontext and the ability to craft responses that are both creative and logically coherent. In thehealthcare sector, AI’s role is increasingly pivotal, aiding in the early diagnosis of diseases andeven preempting potential health crises. The field of autonomous driving has witnessed AIsuccessfully tackle the intricacies of real-world traffic scenarios, a feat once believed to beexclusive to human cognition. In the creative arts, AI’s footprint extends to composing music,generating art, and writing stories, illustrating its burgeoning creative capabilities.Despite these groundbreaking advancements, a critical aspect where AI still lags is inunderstanding and interpreting human emotions and the subtleties of social
mindset that adds to the way we as a team approachideas. From my perspective, the additional perspective of technology and engineering adds adifferent lens for problem-solving and innovation. This lens has been used for writing papers,adding ideas to conversations, and a different way to look at data. All the ideas, being welcomedby the research team, and getting constructive feedback to improve the ideas to reflect the greatergoals of the M3 project."Rebecca"One of my greatest strengths I believe as an anthropologist is my keen ability to observe andhighlight nuances often overlooked in research inquiries or projects. Anthropology, with itsdiverse range of skills, theories, and focuses, equips me, particularly as a cultural anthropologist,to be
challenge §1: evidence that boundary layers exist Create a physical demonstration to be conducted by the student themselves to see first-hand the existence of boundary layers.When the existence of boundary layers is clear, they can be analysed, which requiresapproximation of the equations of motion. It is convention to write the equations of motion andstate the order of magnitude of each term to highlight which can be neglected. A summary of theanalysis is in Appendix B.The ‘order of magnitude’ analysis lacks meaning to the uninitiated learner. Further, the commonassumption δ /L ≪ 1, where δ is the boundary layer thickness and L is its characteristic length, isnot always true and it is not clear to the student that this assumption is
for KU, which is a small, private, nonprofit, primarilyundergraduate teaching institution with limited ME department funds.1.1.3 Repeated Use of Assignments with Little ModificationPerennially, the simulation laboratory assignments of MECH-431 are reused, sometimesterm-to-term with no changes. Usually, there are numbers that are changed in the assignmentsfrom one school term to the next. However, these changes are largely insignificant. This leads toan academic dishonesty problem with the students. Each term students are caught cheating byre-using laboratory assignments that were submitted by their peers in previous school terms, eventhough they are told explicitly that they are not allowed to do so. Unauthorized use of materialsfrom previous
the idea that, “an engineer should be able to write welland speak effectively, that he should be able to win friends and influence people”; and againstsuperficial definitions that amounted to a “finishing school” concept of general education inwhich engineers were given “a cultural veneer designed to make the engineer acceptable in politesociety.” It also warned against overly ambitious statements that expressed the “faith that a fewcourses in the humanities and social sciences can provide health and emotional adjustment,personal and social success, clarity of thought, moral integrity, civic responsibility, aestheticsensitivity, professional vision, and in general a kind of serenity and wisdom we had thoughtreserved for Providence alone.”24
. Page 22.1537.4 Different suggested teaching strategies for each pattern in the Matrix of Informed Design arealso discussed as examples of ways to move design students from being beginning designers tobeing informed designers1. For Pattern H, these include: 1. Design storyboards: Students are asked to document how challenges have been overcome over time through sketches or digital snapshots accompanied by short verbal descriptions. 2. Project and time management: Students develop a timeline with special milestones where feedback and peer evaluations on prototypes or presentations are provided. 3. Instruction and scaffolding for systematic design: Students can be asked to simply read a book on design process as well as
work. Like I put in a lotmore time this semester but her tests are a lot harder. Like there’s no multiple choice. It’s allessay, like it’s all writing and concepts and large mathematical problems and I’m likeintegrating them. So it’s a lot harder to do really, really exceptionally well because if I don’t get,like there’s no way to check myself so if I don’t know something it’s like completely up in the air. Page 22.1329.9So her tests are definitely harder. But walking away from it if I know 80% of what I wassupposed to learn from this class it’s really well compared to like the 90% of like glossing overthe chemistry that I got from the first
an individual’s level ofunderstanding that do not depend on the individual producing code in a specific language.Currently, most assessment occurs by requiring students to write code in a specific language17.This significantly limits the ability to compare the effects of different languages and pedagogicaltechniques on student learning, such as algorithm visualizations which may be tied directly to aspecific language, because the assessment is tied directly to the language taught and assessed.The development of language-independent instruments that focus on the understanding offundamental concepts are essential for research exploring these new tools and languages.Research into the different ways individuals understand the various concepts
with a BS in Logic and Computation from Carnegie Mellon University, and is now engaged in the research and development of STEM curricula using classroom robotics technologies and game-like systems.Christian D Schunn, University of Pittsburgh Christian D. Schunn is an Associate Professor of Professor of Psychology, Intelligent Systems, and Learn- ing Sciences and Policy at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his PhD in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon in 1995. His research ranges from cognitive / social psychology studies of science/engineering and connections to classroom science instruction to studies of peer feedback in science and instruction
into the Montessori curriculum. Theyinclude preliminary results from teacher competence, confidence and comfort with the materialas they include engineering in their classroom. Section 6 draws some conclusions and discussesthe next steps in the elementary engineering professional development process.2 The Development ProcessTo prepare for the summer course the Montessori expert and content area expert spent a yearprevious to the course in collaborative dialogues and writing. The phases of this processincluded: 1. Learning about each other: As a first step, the Montessori expert gave the engineering expert readings while the engineering expert had the Montessori expert go through introduction to engineering exercises. This gave the
AC 2011-32: FAMILIARIZING THE UNKNOWN: THREE UNUSUAL EN-GINEERING CASESMarilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology Marilyn Dyrud is a full professor in the Communication Department at Oregon Institute of Technology and regularly teaches classes in business and technical writing, public speaking, rhetoric, and ethics; she is part of the faculty team for the Civil Engineering Department’s integrated senior project. She is active in ASEE as a regular presenter, moderator, and paper reviewer; she has also served as her campus’ representative for 17 years, as chair of the Pacific Northwest Section, and as section newsletter editor. She was named an ASEE Fellow in 2008 and received the James H. McGraw Award in 2010
engineers, chemists, and physicists.Furthermore, from a pedagogical perspective, it is optimal if General Chemistry providesstudents with an experience in which they are enabled to function similarly to practicing teams ofscientists and engineers. Simply put, we want to produce students who have had practiceworking in interdisciplinary teams and solving interesting problems related to chemistry andtheir chosen discipline.One way to accomplish these goals is by a re-invented laboratory driven General Chemistrycourse. Such a course would have the following attributes: broad appeal across the disciplines,open-ended projects requiring students to apply General Chemistry concepts in order to solve theproblem, collaborative exercises with peers and
dense low altitude air. In addition to maintaining the flight planparameters the test pilot, Boone Guyton, also read and recorded 18 cylinder head and 18 cylinderbase temperatures along with a few others. He would check outside conditions, then duck hishead down to read the cylinder temperatures on three cylinders, come up and look around andthen write the data on his knee pad. This was dangerous business at best even, though he hadcarefully trimmed the controls. In this case he flew past East Hartford and never saw it. Next, hesaw only unfamiliar territory so he finally landed at the first airport he saw which was in Haver-hill, Mass., some 100 miles too far!As a result of this flight, and other inadequate measurement situations, we soon
thermodynamics with political, social, and economic factors. He has authored or coauthored over 90 peer-reviewed publications and over 200 publications in total.Hossein Salehfar, University of North Dakota Hossein Salehfar received his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and his Master of Science (M.S.) and Doctorate (Ph.D.) degrees in electrical engineering from the Texas A&M University in College Station. He was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Clarkson University in New York during 1990-1995. Since 1995 he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of North Dakota, Grand Forks
TAKEN TAKEN TAKEN PRIOR TAKEN CONCURRENTLY · PHYSICS I & II · MECHANICS OF MECH. · TECH. WRITING MATERIALS LAB. · STATICS · MATERIAL SCIENCE I 2 2 · COMPUTER · PROBABILITY PROGRAMMING · DYNAMICS · DIFF. EQS. · THERMO. I · THERMO. II MECH. · NUMERICAL · FLUID MECHANICS LAB. 3 2 ANALYSIS