University. This evaluation was conducted as away to provide participant feedback to the Innovations Process faculty in order to benchmark thecourse. As a unique course funded by a USDA Higher Education Challenge grant this projectallowed the faculty of the interdisciplinary course to reflect on the first year of the project anduse feedback from the students of that year to make changes for future years.Student participants in the Innovations Process course are placed in interdisciplinary teams andchallenged to solve a real-world problem in partnership with a local (Oklahoma) sponsorcompany. The participants combine engineering, business and communications skills to developa prototype, budget analysis and a comprehensive communications plan with
Education Research Council . ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Perception Study of an Online Electricity and Magnetism Course for Working StudentsAbstractTeaching basic sciences to engineering students online, specifically for "working students,"presents a unique challenge. It is contentious whether the conventional method ofinstruction employed in traditional daytime undergraduate programs is the most suitable forsuch a diverse group of students. Working students have limited time and energy due towork and family commitments, weak mathematical and conceptual foundations, and, formost of them, no plans for postgraduate studies or scientific research. This study
following is a discussion of the plan to measure student learning by measuring and comparing what TABLE I students know and can do at a minimum of two points in time. FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEMS STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES For this project, baseline surveys are implemented at the 1 Students will be able to characterize the proportional, integral, and beginning of the ESC161 course, an interim survey at the end derivative terms in a controller and tune controller parameters to of the ESC161 course, and a final survey at the end of ME151. improve the performance or stability of systems. 2 Students will be able to
that they did not possess any prior research experience (76.2%or 16 students), while three students reported possessing a prior research experience in thesummer (14.3%), 1 student reported prior research experience during a previous academicsemester (4.8%), and another student reported having prior research experience throughoutmultiple academic semesters. At pre-program, students reported their future plans that involvedpost-undergraduate education in a science-related field. Almost all students reported plans forpursuing post-graduate education (95.2%). Specifically, 42.9% reported master degree, 33.3%reported doctoral degree, 19.0% medical degree. At post-program, there were no discerniblechanges to future plans.Table 1 displays mean and
445students in varying math courses including: Math 6, Math 7, Algebra 1, and Geometry. Theselessons not only demonstrate to the students the benefit of using carbon nanotube composites forcar chassis, they also teach students important math concepts based on the mathematicalcommon core standards9 as shown in Table 1.The lesson plans and supporting material for these activities, along with lesson plans from otherfellows, can be found at the IMPACT LA NSF GK-12 website10. The descriptions of theactivities below are based on the content of the lesson plans which are written for middle schoolteachers and their students. To assist the teachers and students, the lesson plans have keyworddefinitions to define important and perhaps unfamiliar terminology
experience at UC Davis is situated at the first academic term of the thirdyear within a 4-year study plan in biomedical engineering. A typical student in our program hasfinished first-year design, mass and energy balance, computer-assisted design, and circuits togain eligibility for our program. Through our clinical immersion program, we aim to preparestudents to 1) identify unmet needs in clinical settings and contemporary surgery ORs and 2)propose innovative bioengineering solutions, ranging from the engineering of biomaterials tobiomedical devices, to address these needs. The deliverables of our clinical immersionexperience include a final presentation and report about a student’s original solution to an unmetclinical need they identified. The
asmentoring partnerships and scholarships—while others may focus more on providing communitysupport, such as diversity workshops and social activities. These differences are products of eachsite’s context and driven by local students’ needs and goals.One component of the leadership structure of Access is the Core Organizer (CO) Team. The COteam is responsible for supporting communication, mentorship, and self-reflection in thenetwork. The CO team meets on a regular basis to coordinate mentorship of student leaders,grant and funding applications, and future plans for the network. The team originated from thevarious site leaders that came together initially to write the grant that funded the creation ofAccess. This team has changed and expanded as
98% Leadership meetings—electronic Weekly --on-site retreat for planning Year One, Three --conferences (i.e., ASEE, NSF, Department Heads) Annually Materials and Resources: Number of sites contributing 100% Google portal curriculum units 80% On-site demonstrations/Posters of Use at on-site
paper describes the embodiment of these goals byhighlighting several key features of the seminar. We conduct quantitative and qualitative analysisof several data sources (surveys, instructor reflections, field notes, and coursework) to assess theextent to which the embodiment of our values helped us meet our goals. Finally, we describechallenges and identify areas where we were not meeting our goals and describe some of theaspects of the seminar that we plan to revise in the next iteration.IntroductionEngineering education research has increasingly focused on the learning and teaching ofdesign,1-7 including design thinking and associated “soft” skills such as communication andteamwork. Another trend is the growing number of schools of
develop an updated CEBOK, the Second Edition ofthe Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (CEBOK2), which was published in 2008. In thesubsequent years, ASCE developed a plan for the long-term management of CEBOK on aneight-year cycle which led to the formation of the CEBOK3TC which began work in October2016. This paper concludes with a discussion on the update from CEBOK2 to CEBOK3.Why is this historical review and summary important to the civil engineering profession? Tomaintain the momentum of the educational and professional reform activities initiated by ASCEin the mid-1990’s (called the Raise the Bar Initiative), the successful processes of the past andthe associated “lessons learned” must be clearly communicated to future leaders and
joint interaction.21 It demands that attention be equally paid toways in which these various relationships both shape and are shaped by one another. Sometimesthis plays out in the construction of a shared understanding, a plan of action or tensions. In orderto respect the nature of the meaning-making process however, it is imperative to look at theseinteractions in the context of the activity they constitute and are constituted by. Radford and Rothhave termed this as togethering,21 a concept we have adopted. We have chosen these twoconcepts over the idea of intersubjectivity because although intersubjectivity does focus on thedialogue and non-verbal interaction, it does not include the interaction with material mediationalmeans nor does it
interests include the use of machine learning in general and deep learning in particular in support of the data-driven and self-driven management of large-scale deployments of IoT and smart city infrastruc- ture and services, Wireless Vehicular Networks (VANETs), cooperation and spectrum access etiquette in cognitive radio networks, and management and planning of software defined networks (SDN). He is an ABET Program Evaluator (PEV) with the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC). He served on many academic program design, review and planning efforts. He serves on editorial boards of multiple journals including IEEE Communications Letter and IEEE Network Magazine. He also served as chair, co-chair, and technical
Professorships, two national ASEE teaching awards, and is internationally recognized in his primary research field.Ms. Kristen Strominger, University of Cincinnati - School of Energy, Environmental, Biological and MedicalEngineering Kristen Strominger is the STEM Program Coordinator working under Anant Kukreti on the NSF Type 1 STEP Project in the School of Energy, Environmental, Biological and Medical Engineering at the Uni- versity of Cincinnati (UC). Kristen completed her master’s degree in Higher Education, Student Affairs at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida previous to beginning her position at UC in July 2012. She plans, designs, evaluates and modifies programs supported by the NSF Type 1 STEP Grant in the
students aboutdesign decisions; group discussions and interactions (e.g., during the planning, creation, orimprovement phases of the engineering design process); and the testing process. The mostsignificant challenge regarding the cameras was that it was often difficult for teachers to recordwith the camera and manage the other responsibilities of teaching simultaneously. Before andafter teaching with the cameras, teachers were largely positive about their and their students’comfort with the cameras, and identified multiple instructional benefits of the cameras.Instruction was enhanced most especially by the ability that the cameras afforded to encouragestudents to provide good explanations and use evidence-based reasoning. The use of
AC 2012-5037: LOCATION OF AN ENGINEERING FACULTY IN SRI LANKA:THE UNUSUAL CRITERIA, LESSONS LEARNT, AND ETHICS ISSUESProf. Samuel Ratnajeevan Herbert Hoole P.E., Michigan State University S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich. His research interests focus on computational methods, especially computing electromagnetic fields by the finite element method. His ongoing research is in shape optimization in coupled problems, determining the location and shape of objects so as to accomplish design objects in electrothermal problems in electric machinery, eco-friendly buildings, hyperthermia treatment planning in oncology, etc. This
Figure 1, the main goal of the Product Planning activity that precedes thebeginning of the actual product development effort is to identify the portfolio of products to bedeveloped by the organization and the timing of their introduction to the market. In general, theoutput of the product planning phase includes the Mission Statement (sometimes also referred toas a charter, a design brief, or a product direction letter) for each one of the PD projects that acompany plans to purse in the near future. The main purpose of the mission statement is to definethe general scope of the product development effort. It is used by the firm to specify a particular
of its absence can be illustratedby citing the experience of General Paul van Ripper‟s as described by Malcolm Gladwell in hisbook, Blink.15 General van Ripper was assigned as the commander of a force as part of a wargame simulation. Van Ripper, a seasoned veteran, was to command a group that was to oppose afictitious army where he was to encounter the entire might of the U.S. Navy and Marines. At theconclusion of the simulation, General van Ripper had in essences sunk an aircraft carrier, twocruisers, and a destroyer and prevented the Marines from conducting a planned assault. Gladwelldid actually interview the General and asked how the he had managed this feat. Van Rippercited several things but said the biggest advantage he had and the
“writing within the curriculum” in 300- and 400-level courses, 9 hours of humanities, literature,and fine arts, 9 hours of history and social and behavioral sciences, and 12 hours of naturalscience and mathematics to include 2 hours of laboratory.The curriculum was designed to adhere to the constraints and have its graduates fulfill theoutcomes. One of the features of the new curricular design was creating a total of 18 semesterhours of senior “plan of study” electives the curriculum. Of the 18 hours, a minimum of 6 hoursmust be civil engineering “design-designated” electives and a maximum of 6 hours may be“professional practice” electives. The department maintains a listing of approved design-designated courses (which include a significant design
engineering-focused teacher practitioner articles, chapters, and research articles, and presents her research regularly through the ASEE Pre-College Engineering Education Division, a division she has chaired. Her current research includes investigating how children plan, fail, and productively persist; how mixed-reality simulated classroom environments can be used to help pre-service and in-service teachers practice facilitating challenging discussions in science and engineering; and how undergraduate engineering design teaching assistants address (and may be able to practice addressing) team conflict within similar simulated environments. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024
). Addressing these challenges requiresstrategic planning, leadership, ongoing training, ethical decision making, and a genuine effort tocreate an inclusive culture. The purpose of this paper is to highlight some of the strategies usedin building Wake Forest Engineering and what has now become one of the most diverseacademic units on the Wake Forest University (WFU) campus and the highest ranked (US NewsReport 2023) academic unit on campus. Despite WFU being a predominantly white institution,Wake Forest Engineering as one of the newest academic units on campus adopted hiringpractices that enabled the hiring of a very diverse engineering faculty team – over 50% femalefaculty, 25% racial and ethnic diversity, engineering disciplinary diversity, etc
outcomes, assessments, and examples of student work [3]. Theprogram with a micro-credential will not only attract a higher level of interest from the studentsbut also reward the students in the form of a competitive edge in the job market for completingthe curriculum. For SUNY, the micro-credential is recorded in the student’s transcript. Themicro-credential can also be an attractive outcome for potential part-time students when the RFcurriculum is a track in a professional development program for even wider participation in theRF curriculum.Curriculum Implementation Plan – EET Department at SUNY Farmingdale State College 1. Course Map The course map in Figure 1 illustrates the planned sequence of courses in the RF engineering curriculum at
. As a team we planned a three day game design workshop for middle school students that: ● fosters interest in computer science careers by exposing students to basic programming concepts; ● encourages the development of ethical decision-making capacities by designing games that address contemporary challenges in adolescents’ lives; and ● harnesses the motivational affordances of games to encourage students to engage in interest driven learning.Game Jam workshops are potentially well suited to achieving the goals we note above because of their open-ended nature [3]. Game jams build on the affordances of games, offering youth a playful and agenticperspective on design and problem solving, while exposing them to basic
CSCL-tool are considered. However, participants differ in theirinterindividual tool usage, e.g., webcam usage, due to personal or technical reasons. In result, aCSCL-session planned on a web-conferencing platform can unintentionally turn into a session ona spectrum from videoconferencing (all participants use their webcam and microphone) overaudioconferencing (participants refusing webcam usage) to synchronous text-chat (webcam- andmicrophone-refusal). In worst case this can cause misleading conclusions about the didacticmatch between tool and task with negative effect on teaching and learning. To consider theusers’ interindividual tool usage, we conducted an online experiment with 45 undergraduatestudents building 15 three-student groups
presented a reflexive model of an identity-based approach toengineering leadership instruction. Moreover, the model may be applied in a wide variety ofengineering classes, given the central role that leadership plays in training for the profession.That said, in a lower-division setting, the lower-division lesson plan may provide an introductionand contextualization of leadership in the engineering profession. Therefore, it might be mostappropriate for an engineering survey course, as students are introduced to various aspects of theengineering profession.The upper-division lesson plan can provide richer insight into how engineering leadership ispracticed, as well as practical scaffolding for students’ pursuing their own professionaldevelopment
participants already know their education and career intentions before theyparticipate in the program. In that case, the impact of the program on those intentions is usually amatter of reinforcing, rather than redirecting, the paths that students are already on. Results fromthe comprehensive survey appear to confirm this. 89% of WIL participants agreed or stronglyagreed that, after the WIL program, they plan to work in their field of study – a small increasefrom the 85% who agreed or strongly agreed prior to the program. The proportion who “stronglyagreed” rose from 49 to 56%. Among “high-intensity” WIL participants, 88% agreed or stronglyagreed – which marked an increase of five percentage points from the 83% who agreed orstrongly agreed prior to the
through an interface software between AD2 and printed circuit board.Instructors can supervise and instruct students to complete the laboratory activity remotely. OurEE program has 25 sets of AD2 for instructional laboratory usage. We plan to apply the AD2devices to electronic printing laboratory remote activities. Figure 2. Experimental Setup for Remote Activity (Circuit Testing)Research designWe obtained the Institutional Review Board’s (IRB) approval for this research project. Currently,we are in the process of completing this study. We are recruiting participants from students whocompleted or currently enrolled in the EPL course. We plan to have 10 students who completedthe EPL in the traditional in-person condition and 10
- of top academic and vested in their sistent connection to research laboratories success the university in line with national UARC modelCareer Student goals are re- Guidance to stu- Provide proven, skilledEmpowerment fined and dreams are dents in bridging candidates to intern 4 connected to action- undergraduate expe- and full-time hiring able plans riences to careers pipelinesin a STEM career, (2) commitment to succeeding in the program, and (3) need. Need is broad
strategic interventions that may combat observed trends. The intellectual merit of thisresearch project is that it will provide a greater understanding of the disparity between minoritystudents and Caucasian students, as it relates to engineering colleges’ dropout rates, and will helpcollege administrators devise a comprehensive research-based plan that could enhance thepersistence and retention rates of underrepresented minorities within their institutions. The broaderimpact of this research is three-fold: it will (1) strengthen working communities and the nation’sworkforce, (2) advance racial equity and justice, and (3) lead to the building of an economy forall.IntroductionIn the U.S., the social and political climate of the 1970s, including the
students withmathematical concepts necessary to learning spatial transformations and allied mathematicalrepresentations. The project will also provide the foundation for planned further research addinga language-processing component to an AI for high school students, which would be trained on alarge dataset of common high school math topics and language used by students. To ensurerigorous evaluation of the project, the research team will anticipate confounding factors so as tominimize their effects, and two learning conditions (AI-powered and non-AI) will be employedand compared with the same essential visualization and functional manipulation, thus advancinginstruction that applies across multiple STEM disciplines. The project will create a
(50 to 100 mins) Assignments Week PM - Project Initiation, Integration and Change Management – 1 fundamental management Understanding and incorporating steps Stakeholder needs analysis, etc Week PM - Managing Systems and Trends and Benefits in Project Management HW -1 PM 2 IT Projects – Less rework and Improved productivity through defined roles and responsibilities and resource management Week PM – Strategic Planning, Project Life Cycles – Improved Project Cost HW 2 - PM 3 Project