programs because of their leadership experience in the military. However,participants also found that their military experienced helped them to be effective in teammember roles as well. In a similar vein, Stringer and McFarland [16] used Mumford’s Model ofLeadership Characteristics [44] to understand the success of a Capstone project when a veteranwas placed in a leadership position. Using the tenets of Veteran Critical Theory [45], Mobleyand colleagues were able to collect the narratives and counter-narratives of military students inengineering education, anchoring their research process in an asset-based approach [27]. Hoodand colleagues [24] created and validated the survey used in their study based on theProfessional Social Responsibility
aseither an undergraduate or graduate student, and asked respondents to rate their experiences on ascale of 1 to 4, where 1 indicates a “poor experience, decreased my overall confidence ofsucceeding in structural engineering” and 4 indicates a “great experience, increased my overallconfidence of succeeding in engineering”. The most popular courses (as reported in Table 8)among the survey respondents were structural analysis and earthquake engineering. Senior(capstone/integrated) design, finite element analysis and foundation engineering were given thelowest ratings. The finding that capstone design was unpopular was somewhat surprising, but thesurvey questions did not allow us to uncover reasons behind these responses.Table 8. Respondents’ ratings
. Without a primary focus on generic capabilities, it is especially difficult to holdstudents to the expectation that as they advance in a laboratory program the quality of their workshould advance as well.Many interdisciplinary capstone design courses in engineering implicitly emphasize genericcapabilities. Generic capabilities such as teamwork, communication, critical thinking andmaturity, together with content-specific knowledge, are important to a design group’s success [3-4]. To facilitate this type of interdisciplinary learning environment, students from differentdepartments may be grouped to work on capstone design or laboratory projects [5-8]. Studentsmay also be required to work on projects or experiments requiring knowledge across
report an increasing writtencommunication workload over time.33 If supervised properly, Wheeler and McDonald reportthat writing allows students to develop and use critical thinking skills.34 While engineeringprograms typically incorporate ill-defined problems for capstone projects—another recognized Page 24.674.4tool for developing critical thinking, writing for reflection will also help develop skills forproblem identification, analysis, metacognition and the formation of value judgements.30,35Snyder & Snyder suggest essay questions rather than simple recall to encourage criticalthinking.25In addition to promoting the development of
Virginia Tech Engineering Communication Center. Her research includes interdisciplinary collaboration, commu- nication studies, identity theory, and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foun- dation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design, writing across the curriculum in statics courses, and a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her teaching emphasizes the roles of engineers as communicators and educators, the foundations and evolution of the engineering education discipline, assessment methods, and evaluating communication in engineering.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is
should be strong problemsolvers at this point in their academic careers.The concept map shown later was originally constructed by the author the first time they werethe instructor for this course. In many institutions, the equilibrium thermodynamics coursebecomes a repository of topics that may not fit together into a coherent whole and the authorstruggled to synthesize the connections between the seemingly disparate topics. With the corerelationships worked out, it then became possible to connect all of the material rationally whilealso building an end of the semester project that required students to use the interconnectionsbetween course content. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest
programs. This line of research also seeks to understand the nuances and complexities of participation and persistence in these fields and develop new models for explaining such phenomena. Her secondary research strand focuses on the participation and achievement of Black students and professionals in higher education. She is the PI or co-PI on several grant-funded research projects including the national Black Doctoral Women Study (BDWS), the Women in Engineering Study (WIES), and Bulls-Engineering Youth Experience for Promoting Relationships, Identity Development, & Empowerment (Bulls-EYE PRIDE).Dr. Johnny C. Woods Jr., Virginia Tech Johnny C. Woods, Jr. is a Postdoctoral Associate in the School of Education at
involvement offaculty from environmental engineering, University extension, and nursing to provide bothbreadth in how to engage with communities for design (i.e., from a nursing perspective) as wellas depth in how to understand and consider local food systems (i.e., from a University extensionperspective).IntroductionHistorically, the use of a traditional lecture-discussion pedagogical format augmented withextended homework assignments and a semester-long design project was employed to teach thedesign of wastewater treatment plants and other environmental cleanup technologies toapproximately 25 seniors in the final year of pursuing a baccalaureate degree in environmentalengineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, a state
Engineering Education and the National Society of Professional Engineers.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity
project objectives targeted at specific levelswithin the domains.In addition to expectations of institutional and department mission statements, the authorsbelieve that the engineering education profession is setting an expectation for studentdevelopment in both the cognitive and affective domains as evidenced in the American Societyof Civil Engineers (ASCE) Body of Knowledge 2 (BOK2) 7. Additionally, the departmentmission statement emphasizes design and innovation and the authors agreed that thedevelopment of the requisite skills must begin at the beginning of the curriculum and be taught inconjunction with technical content. This paper focuses on recent innovations primarily intendedto more effectively address program outcomes #2 and #8 early
undertake more open-ended inquiry. With each step in thisprogression, the student is given increasing amounts of autonomy in making decisions about howto conduct the investigation, and eventually what to investigate and why. This aligns with thedevelopmental assumption underlying the Thirteen Objectives; these were always intended to becumulative and apply over the entire undergraduate program and not be the outcome of any onelaboratory experience [6]. With the possible exception of a capstone research project, arguablyfew undergraduate students get to experience a level 3 lab.Several of the Thirteen Fundamental Objectives of Engineering Instructional Laboratories [4]point to a broader conception of what might be encompassed by lab. For instance
projects (course related and capstone), student designcompetitions, and internships. Durham, S. A., & Marshall, W. E.16 advocate “that studentorganizations are shown to have benefits realized though student leadership within theseorganizations and organizational activities.” They note that there are “opportunities for students,who fill the leadership roles, to learn non-technical skills such as people, time management, andmost importantly, people management.” Yu, R., & Simmons, D. R.17 reported that “studentinvolvement in out-of-class activities promoted the development of leadership skills, groupskills, and engagement.” Fisher, D. R., & Bagiati, A., & Sarma, S. 18 posed a “student skilldevelopment framework”, which included
society.As a practical consideration, there is a high likelihood that in many institutions, the newlyproposed Student Outcomes 4, 5, and 7 (addressing communication, ethics/social context, andteaming/project management, respectively) will all be relegated to capstone courses, perhapswith a cursory introduction in the first year, but with little or no emphasis in the middle years.Our community knows this is a “worst practice,” as many scholars have been building ethicsacross the curriculum, communication across the curriculum, and design across the curriculumefforts for decades.54, 55, 56 The ways in which these disparate skills are lumped together (whyelse would you put teaming, risk assessment, uncertainty analysis, and project managementtogether
multidisciplinary research? What are they? How can a mentor’s reaction to the unexpected motivate or influence a mentee to make good or bad ethical choices? What is the issue or point of conflict?In the case study titled “Plagarism,” participants are asked to imagine what they would do as onemember of a team of students working on a capstone project that has been assigned to develop abackground report about the current state-of-the-art. The day of the deadline, another membersends their background section with what appears to be a large, plagiarized section of text (basedon a quick internet search); the assignment is due today and the author can’t be reached. Thiscase study asks participants to consider what they would do, how they
AC 2012-5271: MULTI-DISCIPLINARY HANDS-ON DESKTOP LEARN-ING MODULES AND MODERN PEDAGOGIESProf. Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University Bernard Van Wie has been teaching for 29 years, first as a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma and then as a professor at Washington State University. Over the past 14 years, he has devoted himself to developing novel teaching approaches that include components of cooperative/collaborative, hands-on, active, and problem/project-based learning (CHAPL) environments.David B. Thiessen, Washington State UniversityDr. Marc Compere, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach FL Dr. Compere’s research in renewable and sustainable technology includes water purification for
included where resources are most readily available:firstly, in freshman engineering, and again four years later, during a senior capstone course. Thisapproach, unfortunately, leaves discipline-specific technical courses in the second and third yearslargely absent of writing, leaving a gaping hole where writing would be most contextual, andreinforcing students’ notion that writing and engineering are separate and unrelated, and eventhat writing is less or even not important.The pilot work presented herein is part of our larger effort to develop, refine, and disseminateinstructor-friendly writing exercises that can be adopted in a wide range of technical courses,including large lecture format courses where writing is rarely included because of the
Page 24.147.7been followed by the development teams. These are waterfall model, rational unified process,“Vee” process model, spiral model, agile development, etc. Nowadays, the typical systemdevelopment industries have not been so great while they have to deliver the working systemapplication in time and within the budget. It is widely reported that among 80% of all systemdevelopment projects fail because of lack of end-user involvement, poor requirement analysis,unrealistic schedules, lack of change management, testing and inflexible and bloated processes[Cohn[7], Martin[24]]. In agile system development process addresses these issues that makesystem development processes more successful. Also, in the agile development process, aminimal
entitled Improving Learning for Undergraduate Engineering Programs using Finite Element Learning Modules. This is a joint collaboration award with the University of Texas, in Austin. He has authored approxi- mately 50 papers with over 20 using finite element learning modules in undergraduate engineering. He was the PI for the initial four year, NSF CCI grant entitled The Finite Element Method Exercises for Use in Undergraduate Engineering Programs.Dr. Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin Dr. Richard H. Crawford is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and is the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow No. 3. He is also Director of the Design Projects program in
during one of two Saturday “labs.” This experience buildscamaraderie and trust among class members.The second section of the course focuses on Interpersonal Development, and we use severalinteractive activities that help students to identify their tendencies and characteristics in relatingto others. A key focus of this section of the course is empathy, as we believe that empathy is afoundational component of emotional intelligence. Students complete an empathetic listeningactivity and reflect on their strengths and weaknesses in this area. Students also organize andimplement a Service Project as part of the second experiential “lab.” Working in teams, theyselect and plan a Service Project, often with the help of the UIUC Office of Volunteer
ensure accuracy ofthis particular result.Overall, we believe that the project provided a solid foundation in terms of development ofcontent and assessment strategies. Significantly more work needs to be done in order to obtainmodules and assessment results which have been definitively shown to enhance studentslearning. Continuation of this work is planned. Others are welcome to use our modules orassessment results in any way they feel is appropriate. To obtain these resources, simply contactone of the authors. Page 4.186.18This work has been partly sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and by NSFunder contract DUE-9751315
. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1981) and The Johns Hopkins University (1988). She worked in industry for 11 years with a defense contractor (HRB Systems/Raytheon), and then co-founded and worked for five years with a high-tech startup (Paragon Technology), which developed digital video add-in cards/modules for laptop and rugged portable computers. Since joining Penn State in 1999, Liz has taught design courses in the Mechanical, Electrical, and Civil and Environmental Engineering Departments, and in SEDTAPP. In 2001, she became director of the Problem-Based Learning in Entrepreneurship project (underwritten by the GE Fund), and in 2002 was named Director of the
-determined “bundles” of assignments [18].The last several years have seen an increase in the use of specifications grading in highereducation courses in STEM, including examples in chemistry [19], biology [20], physics [21],mathematics [22], first-year engineering [23], [24], engineering computer applications [25],engineering mechanics [26], thermodynamics [27], fluid mechanics [28], biomedical engineeringstatistics [24], a chemical engineering laboratory [29], a biomedical engineering elective course[30], and capstone design [24].This paper will describe the implementation of specifications grading in two offerings of anundergraduate fluid mechanics course, one with lecture and laboratory components and a lecture-only course the following year
student’s final grade consists of in-class assignments that areworth 15%, quizzes that are worth 55% (11 quizzes, 5% per quiz), and the final exam, worth 10%.Lab assignments are intended to challenge students the most on content knowledge compared toother course components, but they are lower stakes as seen by the grade percentage. Studentswrite code in Verilog, MIPS assembly, and C. These labs are mini-capstone exercises, wherestudents complete a multi-component or multi-function coding task in stages. For most labs,students may work alone or in groups up to three students (three labs are to be completedindividually). The lab assignment is made available at the start of the week and is split into twoparts. Part one (usually one module or function
Program: Students’ PerspectivesAbstractEffective advising ensures students take the proper classes to stay on track for their graduation.For example, in an engineering curriculum, it is crucial that students maintain the propersequence of courses that results in the culmination of the program's required capstone designcourse(s). Any human error during the advising process can risk the disruption of the smoothprogression through the program for a student. Thus, a computerized web-based advising toolcan be highly useful to eliminate such human errors in identifying the most needed coursesduring an advising session. Currently, many advising tools are available through commercialbusinesses or developed by those working in the field of education. In
learning environments of interdisciplinarysettings, which focused on collaboration and equipment malfunctions [20]. In another, a clinicalimmersion program for biomedical engineering students, where participants evaluated clinicalneeds to address in a capstone project, was effectively pivoted to a remote format [21]. Largelyout of necessity, these studies have focused more on the adaptation process than the systematicmeasurement of reciprocal outcomes or virtual internship designs While the immediate needs forvirtual internship opportunities, caused by COVID-19, may be dwindling, these modalities willlikely have a role in addressing access and equity in both the workforce and higher education inthe near future [13], [18].Equity and AccessThere is
escape rooms have teams solve a problem using puzzles, clues, and hints ina limited amount of time. Two escape rooms were developed for seniors in our environmentalengineering program. The first escape room was centered on a hazardous waste incinerationproblem that included, the Ideal Gas Law, gaussian dispersion, and risk assessment. This escaperoom was used in our Solid and Hazardous Waste course to help our seniors prepare for theFundamentals of Engineering Exam. It was also piloted with two faculty teams during a summerteaching seminar. The second escape room was built around an engineering ethics case study inour capstone design course, which will be discussed in the companion paper. Assessment andevaluation of these exercises revealed that
spawned both a series of Global GrandChallenges Summits occurring biannually and a Grand Challenges Scholars program atnumerous universities [2]. Further, research in engineering education to best integrate some or allof these challenges into undergraduate engineering curricula and also promote studentengagement became a topic of interest [3] - [5]. Innovative ideas such as Chapman University’sfour-year team-based capstone model [6] have been put forth to best represent a ‘GrandChallenge’ curriculum. However, approaches to assess how an undergraduate engineeringcurriculum prepares students to address the Grand Challenges have, to date, been rarelydiscussed in literature. In 2019, the National Academics of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
been replaced by β0 and xβ. The coefficients by β0 and β are notknown, and they must be estimated based on the available training data using a technique knownas Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE). In logistics regression, β0 is known as the interceptand xβ is known as the coefficient. Figure 6. Flipping the Logit curve into Sigmoid curve.In this project module you will discover how to use basic statistics and begin to prepareyour data for machine learning in Python using Numpy and SciPy.Both NumPy and SciPy are Python libraries used for used mathematical and numerical analysis.NumPy contains array data and basic operations such as sorting, indexing, etc. whereas, SciPyconsists of all the numerical code. SciPy has a number of sub-packages for
Context 11 Capstone, Internship, Senior Project, courses in disciplines such as physics, biology, chemistry, the humanities, or other areas Math and Statistics Calculus, discrete structures, probability theory, elementary statistics, advanced topics in statistics, and linear algebra. Table 3: Mapping of 7 competencies to 11 ACM Data Science Task Force Competencies3.5 Data Analysis Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient Analysis was conducted. Pearson correlationcoefficient
andprofessional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments,” 1 thecourse is also used to assess both outcome 3, “an ability to communicate effectively with a rangeof audiences,” 1 and outcome 7, “an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, usingappropriate learning strategies.”1 Further, the class includes a team-based project on a topicrelated to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and so can also be used to demonstrate outcome 5, “ anability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create acollaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives,” 1 andto address expected changes to Criterion 5 for the 2023-24 accreditation cycle: “a