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AC 2012-5064: ART FOR THE SAKE OF IMPROVING ATTITUDES TO-WARD ENGINEERINGProf. Jean Hertzberg, University of Colorado, Boulder Jean Hertzberg is currently Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at CU, Boulder. Her research centers around pulsatile, vortex dominated flows with applications in both combustion, and bio-fluid dy- namics. She is also interested in a variety of flow field measurement techniques, and has recently begun work in engineering education research. Hertzberg teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in mea- surement techniques, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, design, and computer tools. She has pioneered a spectacular new course on flow visualization, co-taught to
engineeringeducation. Contrasting research results regarding the importance of “social engagement” in theacademic success and retention of freshman engineering students suggest the way researchershave conceptualized and measured the construct in current research literature may beproblematic.Statement of Research Purpose This paper provides a critical analysis of the existing literature related to the construct of“social engagement,” which has been studied as an important predictor of engineering studentretention and academic success. For the purpose of this paper, we include both behavioral andaffective dimensions of social engagement and conceptualize the construct as having threecategories, a) Participation in co-curricular activities, b
; Yu, S. L. (2008, December). Diversity within diversity. ASEE Prism, p. 51.6 Niemann, Y.F. (2001). Stereotypes about Chicanas and Chicanos. Coun Psych 29, 55-90.7 Gloria, A. M. & Robinson Kurpius, S. E. (1996). The validation of the Cultural Congruity Scale and the University Environment Scale with Chicano(a) students. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 18, 533-549.8 Schunk, D. H., & Pajares, F. (2002). The development of academic self-efficacy. In Development of achievement motivation (pp. 15-31). San Diego: Academic Press.9 Rittmayer, M.A. & Beier, M.E. (2009). Self-Efficacy in STEM. In B. Bogue & E. Cady (Eds.). Applying Research to Practice (ARP) Resources.10 American
divisioncourses in which they need those skills.The objective of this paper is to discuss the current utilization of electronic technologies forteaching and grading student materials for two courses, in lieu of recent increased enrollments inthe program. Also, discussed are some of the issues of implementation and student feedback.The two required courses that were taught with electronic assisted teaching technologies are:“Engineering Properties of Biological Materials (sophomore level)”, and “Instrumentation andControls (senior level)” (Meyer, et al, 2008). The ABET outlines for these courses are shown inAppendices A and B, respectively.Classroom DesignAll AGEN/BSEN engineering classes and laboratory sections are taught on the lower two levelsof Chase
-scada-systems-hacked-by-anonymous/19. Charette, Robert, “Stuxnet Successor Looking for New Cyber Targets?” IEEE Spectrum, Risk factor, October 2011, http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/telecom/security/stuxnet-successor-looking-for-new-cyber-targets Accessed March 201220. Nakashima, Ellen, “Water-pump failure in Illinois wasn’t cyberattack after all,” Washington Post November 25, 2011.21. Criteria for Accrediting Computing Programs: Effective for Evaluations During the 2011-2012 Accreditation Cycle (2010).22. Lunt , B. M., Ekstrom, J. J., Gorka, S., Hislop, G., Kamali, R., Lawson, E. A., et al. (2008). Information Technology 2008: Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information
-517 2005 [3] Eric Peterson, Thomas Stahovich, Eric Doi, Christine Alvarado, Grouping Strokes into Shapes in Hand-Drawn Diagrams Proc. of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10), 2010, pp. 974-979 [4] Patel, R.; Plimmer, B.; Grundy, J.; and Ihaka, R. 2007. Ink features for diagram recognition. In Proc. of SBIM. [5] Bhat, A., and Hammond, T. 2009. Using entropy to identify shape and text in hand-drawn diagrams. In IJCAI. Page 25.243.10 [6] Bishop, C. M.; Svensen, M.; and Hinton, G. E. 2004. Distinguishing text from graphics in on-line handwritten ink. In Proc. of the Int. Workshop on FHR, 142
exam, Ioften wind up with a low score (meaning, a B, instead of an A; or the rare C). So, I’m alittle nervous.My exam is now in my hands – both parts. I can’t see a score readily visible; there aretwo stapled sections, each with multiple problems, each problem with a score. I startadding them up to see my total. My professor has a very interesting model for givingmath exams. Because our class periods are only 50 minutes in duration, he allots twodays for each exam, so that we have enough time to answer the problems. He gives theexam in two parts. Part 1 was given on Wednesday, in the fifth week of classes, and wasworth 80% of the possible points. We read on the professor’s website3 that part 1 isdesigned with a strategy of being a combination
AC 2012-4615: MAPPING THE BEHAVIORS, MOTIVES, AND PROFES-SIONAL COMPETENCIES OF ENTREPRENEURIALLY MINDED EN-GINEERS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGA-TIONDr. David Pistrui, Acumen Dynamics, LLC David Pistrui serves as the Managing Director of Acumen Dynamics, LLC, a strategy-based education, training, and research firm that focuses on practical knowledge and skills that help organizations align vi- sion and strategy with execution and performance. Working as an independent scholar, thought leader and advisor to corporations, family foundations, academic institutions, government agencies and global think tanks, Pistrui’s activities include strategy development, business succession, assessment modeling, tech
Engineering Department at ONU.16 The former arelisted in the appendix, while the latter closely align with the eleven ABET engineeringaccreditation criteria17 (also in the appendix).The tasks and requirements described for the Baja competition, for example, represent explicitfulfillment of five of the ABET criteria (a, c, e, g, k). The design competition additionallypresents opportunities to fulfill four other criteria (b, d, f, i), such as an understanding ofprofessional and ethical responsibility and an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams.Sirinterlikci and Kerzmann cite specific ways in which all eleven criteria were satisfied in theirschool’s Baja experience.18All four of the Program Educational Objectives are clearly supported by each
AC 2012-2965: EMBEDDING LEADERSHIP TOPICS IN THE ENGINEER-ING CURRICULUMDr. Gene Dixon, East Carolina University Gene Dixon teaches aspiring engineers at the undergraduate level at East Carolina University. He has held positions in industry with Union Carbide, Chicago Bridge & Iron, E.I. DuPont & deNemours, West- inghouse Electric, CBS, Viacom, and Washington Group. He has spoken to more than 25,000 people as a corporate trainer, a teacher, and a motivational speaker. He received a Ph.D. in industrial and sys- tems engineering and engineering management from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a master’s of business administration from Nova Southeastern University, and a bachelor’s of science in
examination and providing proof of graduation shall be licensed as a professional engineer, if otherwise qualified: (1) An engineer intern who satisfies one of the following education and experience requirements: (a) Following the bachelor’s degree, an acceptable amount of coursework resulting in a master’s degree in engineering from an institution that offers EAC/ABET accredited programs, or the equivalent, and with a specific record of 3 years or more of progressive experience on engineering projects of a grade and a character which indicate to the board that the applicant may be competent to practice engineering (b) Following a master’s degree in engineering from an EAC/M-ABET-accredited
all the trainings were provided with a basic kit of turbine materials andcurricular materials. CREATE also co-sponsors Kid wind Regional Competitions forstudents thoughout the year which lead to Kid wind finals at the AWEA nationalconvention. This year it will be in Atlanta, GA and CREATE will have teams there. Section Four: Outreach activities: Conferences & Presentations Alfano, Ph.D., K. Board, L., Collins, B., Galisky, J., Karnes, V. (May 22 -‐ 25, 2011). Co-‐Sponsor. AWEA WindPower 2011 Conference & Exhibition and KidWind Finals Competition. Anaheim, CA. Alfano, Ph.D., K. (June 25 -‐ 30, 2011). Poster
sections focusing onthe engineering design process, engineering content, gender differences, science content,reflective and active learning, students’ level of frustration, and the amount of direct supportfrom the teacher (see Table 2) for sample items.Table 2. Sample Items from SEcLO (Pilot Version)Category Sample Items1) Engineering design a) Students identified a problemprocess b) Students shared and developed a plan c) Students created and tested their chosen design d) Students communicated results of their design and testing e) Students improved their design f) Students retested their design2
., & Sketo, B. (2008). Building Information Modeling (BIM): Benefits, Risks andChallenges. Proceedings of the International 44th Annual Conference Associated Schools of Construction. April 2-53. Azhar, S., Sattineni, A., & Hein, M. (2010). BIM Undergraduate Capstone Thesis: Student Perceptions andLessons Learned. Proceedings of the 46th ASC Annual Conference, Boston, MA.4. Barham, W., Meadati, P., & Irizary, J. (2011). Enhancing Student Learning in Structures Courses with BuildingInformation Modeling. Proceedings of the 2011 ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering,Miami, FL., pp. 850-8575. Barison, M. B. & Santos, E. T. (2010). An Overview of BIM Specialists. Proceedings of the InternationalConference on
produce graduates that will ultimatelyachieve our Program Educational Objectives is an EGMU score of 1.5 for each Page 25.778.10ABET student outcome. This score of 1.5 was chosen by the departmentbecause in the EGMU scoring it falls midway between the Minimal and Goodindicators and therefore represents what a student would need in order to satisfythe requirements for graduation. (If each of the EGMU scores is adjusted tocorrespond to the grade points associated with A, B, C, D, a 1.5 is a C.) While many courses may satisfy a particular ABET outcome, the assessment committee has picked a subset of these courses that it finds most appropriate to
Some College 0 Two year college degree 0 Four year college degree 4 Master's degree 3 Doctoral degree 1 Professional degree (MD or JD) 1 Current Enrollment <12 hours 1 12 – 15 hours 7 > 15 hours 3Table 2. Student Performance Exceptional Effective Acceptable Unsatisfactory Component (A) (B) (C) (D-F) Sampling
and information used are further outlined in an Assessment Matrix(see Table 1).(a) Indirect Assessment-Group DiscussionA portion of the lab each week will be dedicated to meeting with the mentor and mentoredgroups separately. The meeting will be a group discussion format in which there will be a time todiscuss aspects that are working well and problems that have emerged. The group will take timeto brainstorm how the challenges can be overcome, when necessary. This information will begiven back to other groups when appropriate, such that a closed-loop feedback system isestablished.(b) Indirect Assessment-Subjective QuestionnairesQuestionnaires specific to the mentor/mentored group will be developed. The questionnaire willaddress student
SoftwareEngineering. IEEE-CS/ACM. http://sites.computer.org/ccse/SE2004Volume.pdf 2004.Accessed 1/4/12.2. Computing Curricula 2005: Computer Science. The Overview Report. IEEE-CS/ACM. 2005.http://sites.computer.org/ccse/SE2004Volume.pdf Accessed 1/4/12.3. Association Board for Engineering and Technology, 2012. “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,Effective for Reviews During the 2012-2013 AccreditationCycle,”http://www.abet.org/uploadedFiles/Accreditation/Accreditation_Process/Accreditation_Documents/Current/eac-criteria-2012-2013.pdf Accessed 1/4/12.4. Begel, A. and Simon, B., “Struggles of new college graduates in their first software development job,”Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, (2008), pp
will be designed based upon socialconstructionist theories using communicative prospective 11, which will reveal how femalestudents create, negotiate and shift their identities while selecting, studying and practicing inSTEM field. Research questions include: a) what do they think about graduate education; b)what does pursuing career in STEM field mean to female?; c) what messages are enunciate aboutSTEM discipline, and how does these messages differ at different points in a female’s life?; d)what were the initial factor(s) compelling females to choose STEM as field of study?; e) whatfeatures of STEM discipline seems enticing or dispiriting to females from pursuing educationand practice in these area?; f) what kind of guidance, mentoring, and
instructionalapproaches where participant motivation may be as important as content. Although ourIWBWs were offered independently, the series that we have offered contained the samematerial as our daylong, face-to-face ASEE workshop with several segments distributedin time. Thus we believe that longer programs can be presented virtually through a seriesof short sessions in a cost-effective efficient way without geographical limitations andthere is evidence that faulty will participate. 4, 5, 16,24References 1. Anderson, W., U. Banerjee, C. Drennan, S. Elgin, I. Epstein, J. Handelsman, F. Hatfull, R. Losick, D. O’Dowd, B. Olivera, S. Strobel, C. Walker and I. Warner (2011). Changing the culture of science
discuss trends in grade distributions, especially in the context of learning andmastery of the course material. Obviously, a good knowledge of the fundamental conceptscovered in Thermodynamics-I prepares students to succeed in Thermodynamics-II.At this institution all required mathematic, science, and engineering courses must be completedwith a grade of ‘C” or higher. Therefore, the successful attempt rate is defined as the percentageof students enrolled in the class who complete the course with a grade of either “A”, or “B” or“C”. Grades of “D,” “F” or “W” (withdraw from the class) are considered unsuccessfulattempts. A simple metric is the percentage of students receiving grades of D, F, or W (DFWpercentage).Between fall semester 1994 and
AC 2012-3984: HIGHLY RELEVANT AND PRODUCTIVE COLLABORA-TIONS BETWEEN INDUSTRIES AND UNIVERSITIESDr. Mahesh C. Aggarwal, Gannon University Mahesh Aggarwal has been a faculty member at Gannon University since 1978. He graduated from Marquette University with a M.S. and University of Michigan with Ph.D. in thermal science area. He has worked for numerous companies and is currently working with GE Transportation in Erie, Penn. At GE, he is the coordinator of GE/Gannon MS Program. He has seven patents with GE Transportation over the last 10 years. He is an active member of the ASME, serving as Chair to numerous groups. He served as Vice President for Region V (District B now) and is actively involved in precollege
. Making each member responsible and dependent on all others b. Choosing an optimum group size (typically about 6-7 members per group) c. Ensuring group size that actively and easily involves all b) Group Task a. Creating group tasks that require interdependence b. Ensuring fair division of labor within the group c. Setting up competitions among groups or using an alternative strategy if groups are not working well d. Devising strategies such that group succeeds only if each member contributes c) Group Performance Evaluation a. Awarding prizes/ incentives helps keeping the group spirit high b. Adhering to democratic mechanisms to deal with uncooperative
0.4711 b-score and post-test 0.5597Nonetheless, it was encouraging that the students in Section 1 (where conceptual-understandingbased instruction was implemented) rated the module higher. However, there was no significantcorrelation between student rating of the instructional module and their performance on the test,as indicated by the ρ (rho) = -0.112/0.1127 value, as presented in Table 7.As would be expected, there is a slightly more significant relationship between studentperformance and their background as indicated by ρ (rho) = 0.4711/0.5597 in Table 7. Studentswho were concurrently enrolled in introductory circuits course offered by ECE department orwho had completed an electronics course in high school
of the typical semester time which turns out that this approach did not giveenough time to fully test the influence of the interventions. Here, we focus on the most promisingintervention out of the three tested, which at the same time has the main theoretical basis for theintervention. The motivation of students to thoroughly complete their homework was measuredthrough a survey instrument shown in Appendix A. The learning outcome was measured in twoways. Firstly, a learning survey instrument was used (See Appendix B). Secondly, a standardassessment based on examination results for the control and the experimental samples were used.The exams consisted of the same problems for both samples and were graded by the same graderwith the same style
-value of 0.10. Which of the following must be correct? a) The test statistic fell within the rejection region at the α = 0.05 significance level b) The power of the test statistic used was 90% c) Assuming H0 is true, there is a 10% possibility that the observed value is due to chance d) The probability that the null hypothesis is not true is 0.10 Page 25.1196.20
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. Page 25.1129.3Figure 1: Example ResidenceFigure 1 depicts a sample residence. The door must be oriented such that the residents fall intothe house. The points “A” and “B” mark the two chosen anchor points, used in the structuralengineer’s calculations. Complete details of the original game can be found in [3].The original Delta Design game has been implemented successfully in several academic settings.The Industrial Engineering department at the University of Pittsburg incorporated the DeltaDesign game in an introductory sophomore-level class that teaches students how to model aswell as solve open-ended problems and work in teams. The addition of the game receivedpositive feedback from the students [5]. The game was also used in a study on the