knowledge about a particular system in an exploratory way, often withthe goal of getting some product/idea to produce desired behavior.1-5 Tinkering thus contrastswith more deliberate activity towards conceptual understanding of how some phenomenon worksor more pre-planned approaches to design. Some researchers have argued that tinkering is anunproductive process because it does not always lead to progress and/or conceptual learning.4,5Others view it as productive for students’ learning and for generation of novel solutions.1-3 In thispaper, we do a fine-timescale analysis of the process of tinkering to speak to this tension aboutthe productivity (or unproductivity) of tinkering for novice designers and programmers. Weclaim that tinkering, or ad
engineers. Our contact at the smaller organization distributed the survey toall engineers working across provincial locations, while our contact at the larger organizationdistributed it to a sample of (primarily junior) engineers working at the central office. Accordingto our records, 288 employees opened the survey and 175 completed at least the first foursections.Please see table 1 for sample survey questions. Part one of the survey solicited backgroundinformation about the age, sex, discipline, department and leadership roles held by individualparticipants. Parts two to four asked participants to respond to Likert style questions about theirtechnical, collaborative and strategic planning tendencies across time (student, junior engineer,senior
Paper ID #12110The Path from Industry Professional to Assistant ProfessorDr. Mark Angolia, East Carolina University Mark Angolia, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator for the Industrial Distribution and Logistics degree program in the College of Engineering and Technology at East Carolina University (ECU). Prior to entering academia in 2005, he held industrial positions in engineering, manufacturing, quality, materials, and operations management for manufacturing companies within the automotive sup- ply chain. Dr. Angolia’s teaching focuses on Enterprise Resource Planning with SAP software, Distributor
Facilities-Based and Hands-On Teaching ApproachAbstractThis paper presents an overview of and the latest outcomes from an NSF TransformingUndergraduate Education in STEM (TUES) funded project, “Building Sustainability into ControlSystems Courses.” The new teaching strategy leverages an energy efficient academic building toexpose students to modern heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) and sustainablebuilding concepts. Students perform new process control laboratory experiments, are taken ontours of the building’s HVAC mechanical rooms, and are shown the Building ManagementSystem. A formative assessment plan is guiding the development of new curriculum materialsand assignments. Direct and indirect assessment results
graduate school7. Undergraduates who participate insummer or semester-long research experiences report positive effects such as: “thinking andworking like a scientist”, clarification/confirmation of career plans (including graduate school),and enhanced career/graduate preparation5.Despite these benefits, however, becoming involved with research early in their undergraduateprogram can be difficult for students8. One study suggests that compared to upperclassmen, a muchlower percentage of first-year students consider themselves to be engineers, and the discrepancybetween males and females who consider themselves engineers is the largest among first-years9.In addition, faculty members are reluctant to include new undergraduates in their
discovering the path to success, rather than on predicting howto succeed. In addition, they emphasize departure from pre-established goals or means [55],effectively embracing what in the management sciences is termed an emergent strategy [42], ascritical information is gathered through experiments or trials. Rather than implementing solutionsat full scale, these entrepreneurial approaches emphasize a stepwise scaling of solutions to learnwhat will and will not work, by planning to learn [54] and proactively pursuing “smart” failure[57, 58]. Similar approaches could be useful in engineering and engineering education researchand practice, where often times plans from deviate from originally envisioned paths.BehaviorsAnother component of the framework
devices.Mentoring: The participants interacted with college student mentors, local technologyentrepreneurs and corporate leaders, minority inventors, and other speakers, to encourage self-efficacy. The National Cares Mentoring Network provided training to program staff on thementoring needs of African-American boys.Middle School Teachers: Each of the universities integrated middle school teachers into programactivities. Teacher involvement ranged from being embedded with students who were learningthe new skills, to having teachers develop lesson plans to use for instruction in their schools.Morgan State University hosted a week-long 3D modeling workshop where teachers developedfour transdisciplinary lesson plans based on 3D modeling that could be
effort was lost, due in part to unintentionallack of institutional support.Fifteen years later, facing the challenges of financial shifts, changing perspectives aboutuniversities, new competition from for-profit and online universities, and changes in student andparent expectations, Mines organized committees and began a formal strategic planning process.Through this process the faculty and staff agreed that there was a need for greater emphasis onteaching and learning. The plan identified four goals for the university. Explicit within three ofthe four goals was a call for a center to provide the leadership and support to innovate instructionsystemically.Faculty were asked to submit proposals to begin efforts to meet the goals set forth in the
and student-driven curricula. The paper provides an overview and describesthe development of the first and fourth component of the curriculum, i.e. the role of technologyand the content for the course planned until the publication of this paper, and it serves primarilyto document the design and initial development phases of the ongoing project.IntroductionOne of the most pressing topics in educational development has been the need for educationalaccess and equity for diverse students and the potential role of technology to achieve thisinclusion. To achieve this objective, the educational context needs consideration, in particularwith respect to available resources and existing social, political, and cultural structures. Todesign an enriching
from 2010 to 2013; 95% advanced one grade level in mathematics,science, or engineering, while 79% of the participants completed the college level mathematicscourses and 85% completed the college level science courses11,12,14.The ANSEP Summer Bridge component is a ten-week summer experience for recently graduatedhigh school students who are planning to pursue STEM degrees14. Summer Bridge studentscomplete a college level mathematics course and a paid internship within an external engineeringor science organization14. Summer Bridge components vary in size from 20 to 30 participants.Between 1998 and 2013, there have been 250 participants of which 95% have continued on toengineering or science 4-year degree programs after participation in the
. Then faculty were asked todevelop changes that the fictionalized faculty could implement into their classroom—one thatwould be easy to implement and one that would be more significant. The final step of thisactivity was to have faculty identify specific changes that they could make to their own teachingto improve student learning. The end of the workshop concluded with a discussion of the largerRED project and plans for future NEXUS workshops. Faculty notes taken during the activitywere collected to capture the barriers and catalysts that faculty identified and ways that theywould like to make changes to their classrooms.!!In addition to the ASU-based NEXUS activities, two team members also delivered a three-hourworkshop at the University of
individuals different from the faculty memberswho actually taught those courses to be evaluated. The intent is to give unbiased evaluations ofthe evidence collected. Furthermore, a set of rubrics is used for each PI so that the raters employconsistent criteria when an article from the same student is being evaluated. Action itemsgenerated from different raters are then summarized as a report and feedback to the programdirector or chair to take corrective actions for improvement. The program director or chair maythen choose to disseminate or generate sub-action items for faculty to act on or to change thecurriculum as a result. This multi-rater methodology is adopted by BlackBoard® [16].Augmented with the above is the assessment plan. The assessment
. This assessment-centered teaching and learning framework helps connectspecific learning objectives to broader learning goals or competencies and on-going formativefeedback targeting student progression on specific learning objectives. Our plan is to refine theframework using a design-based research approach. Following the description of the model andits development, we present results from the first cycle of implementation. We conclude bydiscussing hybrid ways for combining traditional methods of assessment with the ability tohighlight performance expectations and the appropriate uses of the framework in the classroom. IntroductionAs a gateway to engineering, first-year engineering or introduction to
, suchas proposing alternatives to a product or different assessment plans based on their ownexpertise and experiences. For example: “When we were deciding on the choice of materials in making the intelligent eraser,whether it should be a wet wipe or a dry wipe, I proposed to use the materials in spongemops to prevent dust of chalks, because I used to use the sponge mop to clean theblackboard when I was in high school. Then, we had a try and decided on using thatmaterial to make our product.” ——Lily “I would search online for useful information first about force transducers in themarket. For example, I’d like to know what is this products made of, how big it is
essential skills for becoming an impactful, well-rounded engineer [14], educators arejust beginning to experiment with and share their techniques and frameworks for better educatingstudents in this skill to help fill the gap.Empathy is very much a learnable skill, so the lack of educational frameworks may be due morein part to the newness of the concept, rather than the difficulty in teaching it. In fact, teachingempathy has been a key aspect of educating social workers for many years [15].When specifically looking to implement empathy-building exercises into design and engineeringeducation, Reimer recommends a variety of techniques, including implementing elements ofself- and context-awareness, decision-making and action planning, research and
Paper ID #21837Measuring Broader Impact of NSF-funded Project on Software EngineeringEducationDr. Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University Sushil Acharya, D.Eng. (Asian Institute of Technology) is the Assistant Provost for Research and Gradu- ate Studies. A Professor of Software Engineering, Dr. Acharya joined Robert Morris University in Spring 2005 after serving 15 years in the Software Industry. His teaching involvement and research interest are in the area of Software Engineering education, Software Verification & Validation, Software Security, Data Mining, Neural Networks, and Enterprise Resource Planning. He also
course, but to enable in-class activitiesvarious examples and specific details were often omitted from lecture in favor of focusing timeon underlying concepts. With two class meetings per week, all or some of one class wasdedicated to an in-class lab, while the remaining class was largely a traditional lecture format. Tokeep the direct instruction portion of the class engaging various demonstrations and visuals werepresented, discussion was encouraged, and think-pair-share opportunities were provided. Think-pair-share discussion was utilized on the first day of class and the first lab was completed in thesecond week of the semester. This was planned intentionally, to set the tone that MASC 310would be an active learning experience and provide
logistical needs of managingthe program.Assignments in the 1-credit course UGTA preparation course included two reading assignmentswith follow-up online discussion forum posts relating the article content to their role as a UGTAand an implementation plan to introduce the reading outcomes for their specific class. Otherassignments included a focus on academic integrity, creation of a resume, and a reflectionsummary. Student feedback of the UGTAs who participated in this formal program revealed thata majority of students felt that their UGTA was prepared for in-class activities, helped tounderstand course material, provided help outside of the classroom, helped them succeed, andencouraged collaboration. However, feedback also suggested that there was
ethics module in Ethics Seminar course by assessing theimpact of the integrated e-learning module on: 1. knowledge of code(s) of ethics 2. using code(s) of ethics for ethical reasoning 3. conducting ethical reasoning 4. FE exam ethics section preparedness 5. ethical behavioral growthOnline Ethics ModuleThe University of New Haven developed a series of 18 online learning modules as part of their effort todevelop the entrepreneurial mindset of their engineering and computer science students [18]. Theuniversity’s plan is to integrate the modules into core engineering, and applied science courses and doesnot plan to use the modules outside off core classes. Content experts developed the modules with an onlineeducation
, duration of the project, instruction onteaming, feedback on teaming, methods of dealing with team dysfunction, and impact onindividual grades. In the data it is apparent that there is a large lapse of time between consecutiveexperiences, gaps in teamwork instruction, and lack of scaffolding of teaming. The results of thisbenchmarking process will be used to focus departmental deliberations and cast a shared visionof how to effectively scaffold instruction and development of each student’s teamwork skills. Aswe focus on the intentional design of a coordinated plan for teaming across our curriculum, wealso share our process for this curriculum revision through building shared vision so that otherscould leverage beneficial elements for their contexts
Tokamak at Columbia University, and created a full-scale model of NASA’s Mars Rover for Honeybee Robotics. He is especially interested in design elements and the mechanics of failure. Prof. Rodas is currently planning a workshop course in universal design for disability. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Teaching Hands-On Racecar Design in a Summer Pre-College ProgramAbstractCompetitive motorsports at the undergraduate level has become an increasingly popular extra-and co-curricular activity at universities throughout the world. The importance of theseexperiential, industry-centered projects has long been understood by serving as a true provingground for students while giving
advocating ashift from a sole focus on student outcomes, we call attention to outcomes 4 and 5, which reflectsystem-level abilities, “An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities inengineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact ofengineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts; An ability tofunction effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborativeand inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.” Transdisciplinarylearning mirrors an authentic setting of “real world” engineering practice.Table 1. New Accreditation Board on Engineering and Technology (ABET) student outcomes. An ability
, taking courses that are taught by both CQUPT and NAU faculties. In their fourth year,qualified students transfer to NAU campus in Flagstaff, Arizona. Successful students receive twoBachelor’s degrees: one from NAU in EE or CE and the other from CQUPT in ElectronicInformation Engineering. As of Spring 2018, 27 students from the first cohort who went to NAUin their senior year have successfully graduated, and another 29 students from the second cohortare studying in NAU right now. In this paper, the current state of this joint program is presented,including course setup & planning, student transfer data, student performance during the senioryear at NAU, differences in teaching methodologies, and student learning styles. The successesas well as
, a software component, and several workbook pages. The modules are asfollows: • Surfaces and Solids of Revolution • Combining Solids • Isometric Drawings and Coded Plans* • Orthographic Drawings* • Folding Flat Patterns • Rotation of Objects about One Axis* • Rotation of Objects about Two or More Axes* • Reflections and Symmetry • Cross-sections of SolidsOf the nine modules listed above, there are four sketching intensive modules (marked with anasterisk) that involve the use of manipulatives (snap cubes). Sketching modules require studentsto build an indicated shape and sketch it from a different perspective. Research suggests that thisprocess of sketching and handling physical objects is important to
develops through iterations, it becomes a full proposal orbusiness plan, which can include cost, staffing, deliverables, a timetable, etc. [10, 11]. TheBenefits of the approach to the specific stakeholders must be highlighted and should demonstratea favorable benefit to cost ratio. What are the client benefits of our approach? Each approach toa client’s need results in unique client benefits, such as low cost, high performance, or quickresponse. Success requires that the benefits be quantitative and substantially better - not justdifferent [10, 11]. Finally, the Competition should be analyzed to show how the idea improvesupon the competing solutions [10, 11]. Why are our benefits significantly better than thecompetition? Everyone has alternatives. We
more comfortable participating in computing activities beyond the classroom. Thetechnical practice was immediately useful for some students as described below: It has shown me how to use python and wireshark and even do some web dev. I plan to make my own website using some of this knowledge. I also appreciate learning so much material that I never even knew, now CS is not as intimidating Learned python and got experience using libraries that are crazy, and it helped refamiliarize me with git & git bash. I actually contributed to a GitHub repository because I felt somewhat confident. Been a few weeks now and there aren’t any comments bashing it! :D I have joined more CS activities like the Web
agreed that it increased their interest in the field ofneuroscience. Furthermore, 87.5% of the students reported that the program increased theirinterest in pursuing scientific research as a career, and 91.67% of the students reported that itincreased their interest in obtaining a graduate degree.With advancements in hardware and open source software, the authors were able to develop anovel low-cost approach for introducing neuroscience, BME, and BCIs to high school students.Future work will expand the program to other BCI applications and developing online lecturemodules that complement the laboratory portion of the program. In addition, the authors plan tointroduce the program to other summer programs to assess its scalability and efficacy
VR activities to enhance the learning of the students. The course not only focused onimplementing such technology for the students to use as a learning tool but also engaged thestudents in developing new technology-based activities as part of their semester project.Thesecourses leaned heavily on tools available in the Visualization and Immersion Classroom and theExperiential Reality Laboratory at the university and community college that were developed tosupport this course work. The authors present the learned lessons to support other instructors thatare planning on implementing innovative technology in their courses.1. Introduction In higher education, the growing adoption of innovative pedagogy, such as active andexperiential
between informal and formallearning; changing our methods for teaching, evaluation, and assessment; developing diversity,accessibility, and inclusion; and leading to new technologies and innovations (American Societyfor Engineering Education [ASEE], 2016). These facilities are full of potential for variouspedagogical practices to be implemented, but thus far there is a gap in makerspace literatureexploring the pedagogy from a faculty perspective within the makerspace, specifically thedecisions instructors make when planning and implementing class projects in the makerspaces.The popularity of makerspaces is confounded by the lack of clarity in describing what constitutesthe actual act of making which has been intentionally left vague (Tomko
professionalpractice module.Ethics at the InstitutionEnhancing skills related to ethical decision making has been recognized as one of the mostpressing needs in society today and Ethics in Action is the focus of The Citadel’s QualityEnhancement Plan (QEP). A QEP is a course of action for institutional improvement thataddresses issues contributing to progress in student learning [6]. The learning outcomes based onEthical Reasoning are aligned with The Citadel’s strategic plan and mission to educate anddevelop our students to become principled leaders in all walks of life by instilling the core valuesof The Citadel in a disciplined and intellectually challenging environment. The process ofselecting and developing the Ethics in Action program involved a