Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. She is a member of Purdue’s Teaching Academy. Since 1999, she has been a faculty member within the First- Year Engineering Program, teaching and guiding the design of one of the required first-year engineering courses that engages students in open-ended problem solving and design. Her research focuses on the de- velopment, implementation, and assessment of modeling and design activities with authentic engineering contexts. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Characterization of Techniques used in Industry: The Practice of Complex Problem Solving in EngineeringAbstractThere is a gap between academia
of the electrical laboratories, they offered aconvenient storage location for these old technologies. Faculty members frequently open thedisplay cases and bring them into the laboratory to demonstrate how they were used perhapsmany decades ago. Then their modern versions are demonstrated and the differences incapabilities discussed. As a result, the students experience a hands-on opportunity to utilizetechnologies from the past. It presents an involvement for students to use old technologies in thelaboratory that they otherwise may never have had expanding their knowledge.Assessment of Student LearningLearning is assessed by performance or how students apply what they have learned. The CourseLearning Outcomes (CLOs) are clearly stated in the
Powered by www.slayte.com An Empirical Study of Programming Languages Specified in Engineering Job PostingsAbstractAdvancements in information technology have driven a demand for computer literacy and agrowing need for engineers to develop computer programming skills. Given the shift in demandfor these skills in engineering, educators must assess the learning outcomes of current curriculaand the selection of programming language utilized to develop students’ foundational knowledgeof programming in order to prepare students for their future careers. One way to approach thiscourse content decision is to teach based on industry needs. The purpose of this study was toidentify the programming languages desired by
sharing results andsupports researchers with a cyber-infrastructure thatprovides access to simulation resources,collaboration tools, and centralized data storage andarchived data sets. While a valid EOT model, thisfocus on research proficiency misses a number ofopportunities as it does not acknowledge thatgraduate students will require mentoring andteaching skills in addition to research proficiency intheir future careers. This model also misses theopportunity to engage undergraduate students, Figure 1: Model of education and outreachwho are eager to explore opportunities to inform focused on training and developing graduatetheir decisions about their future workplace or student and post-doctoral researchers.graduate school.The K
and Information Technology, mentoring is “a relationshipwhere one person invests time and effort in enhancing another person’s growth, knowledge, andskills” so that they may reach “greater productivity or achievement in the future” 12. Mentorshipis an exceptionally effective method that is important for both the mentor and the mentee aslearning usually occurs on both ends. The CSRL implements mentorship by consistently providing equal opportunities forinvolvement regardless of the amount of experience an individual may have, or which genderthey might be. New students meet regularly with a faculty mentor, but are also encouraged toseek peer mentors. Almost immediately, mentees are given opportunities to work with theirmentors in helping
other science, technology, andmathematics disciplines, graduates of engineering programs typically enter a work environmentthat immediately requires team and interpersonal process skills. From the perspective ofeducation, positive team project experiences can motivate students to perform at higher levels.Well-functioning teams have been shown to improve learning and retention in non-engineeringfields, especially for members of underrepresented groups3,4,5,6,7.Previous research suggests that while most engineering faculty are committed to using projectteams in their classrooms, they have little or no formal training on how to work with studentteams or how to teach team members to work well together8. Focused on their discipline and onpedagogy
who are not studyingengineering, our majors also need to be considered. For students preparing for careers inengineering, stories can show the human side of engineering and technology along with elementsof engineering practice. They can be used to cover important elements of engineering that do notcome across in courses that emphasize engineering analysis or practical experience with a giventechnology. Stories that can be used to tell non-majors about engineering and technology canalso be used to show our majors why their course material is important and how it can be used.These accounts can be used to put the material in the larger systems context.In a traditional classroom setting, stories are often told in lectures. Faculty are currently
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 FACTORS INFLUENCING STUDENTS’ CHOICE OF ENGINEERING MAJOR, CASE STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVENAbstractThis research focuses upon evaluating decisions made by engineering students to choose orchange their field of engineering study in order to determine influences and mechanisms thatdrive their choice of engineering major at the University of New Haven (UNH). Socializers(parents, peers, and faculty), self-identified competence, and media sources were studied for theirlevel of influence and effect upon the selection of an engineering field. This research alsoinvestigates students’ perceptions of different engineering majors at the
, chemistry, biology and environmental science. RMU's focuson communication and business skills gives graduates an advantage in the job market. Allof our students enjoy small class sizes and personal attention that make RMU a specialplace to learn.It is this interdisciplinary background and strong vocational emphasis, along withPittsburgh's status as a future energy capital that makes RMU the ideal environment fortraining our future workforce for careers in the alternative energy sectors, and providinglocal employees with science and business graduates with a strong background inenvironmental issues and sustainability.On a recent visit to Pittsburgh, President Obama outlined the importance of energy [1]:“The time has come, once and for all, for this
-learning project that would keep students engaged. TheEngineering Leadership Program objectives were to: • Provide monthly exposure to successful women in engineering, including practicing engineers, engineering alumni, and engineering faculty members whose presentations featured their latest research, experiences, and personal journeys with students • Utilize an individual and group-mentoring model designed to match sophomore- engineering majors with junior and senior engineering majors to specifically target feelings of isolation in engineering. This adapted a mentoring program for all STEM students at Douglass that was already being planned for the 2013-2014 year to target engineering students
know this was engineering” • “Selection of variables is every thing” • “This is how they design good cars” • “Computers have real uses”Students have written personal notes to the MEP director explaining the value of the SEAprogram in helping them to become engineers. A female student wrote that she wanted tobecome a fighter pilot as a result of attending the SEA program. She wrote: “I would like tothank you very much for helping me to get in to the Summer Engineering camp. This Camp wasvery helpful in my decision to become an Engineer. Everyday I met someone new, that wasinterested in the same great field; Engineering. I really enjoyed the lectures that we attendedalmost every morning. I loved going to computer lab to apply
Paper ID #32486Evaluation on a New Virtual Program Format: How Does an EngineeringSummer Program Evolve and Adapt to Meet the Needs of an IncreasinglyDiverse Student Population During a Pandemic? (Evaluation, Diversity)Mrs. Maria Manzano, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Maria Manzano is the Director of Engineering Special Programs and EPIC program where she works to develop programs to reach out to pre-college students to encourage them to pursue engineering in college. She is involved with a variety of diversity and inclusion efforts in the college of Engineering ranging from student support programs
the exploration and development of knowledge domains and skills that are consistentwith, and complementary to, the learning outcomes associated with the students’ major programsof study. A diverse team was assembled to evaluate three crucial aspects of general education,namely, its design, delivery and reception. The collaboration began with examination of course-taking patterns and framing of the University Faculty Senate’s expressed objectives for generaleducation in the context of the program goals and learning outcomes for selected technical andnon-technical majors. Focused interviews with students and information solicited from courseinstructors were then used to gain an understanding for how these stakeholders actually viewtheir
Leadership Program, Fish Aides, Horizons Consulting Guild, and Engineering Honors. Upon graduation, Kiersten hopes to use her internship, study abroad, and organization experience to pursue a career in the energy sector. Having grown up abroad, she hopes to live internationally again sometime in the future.Jiacheng LuLori L. Moore, Texas A&M University Dr. Lori Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications at Texas A&M University. Dr. Moore teaches introductory leadership, leadership the- ory, adult education, and methods of teaching courses and supervises students completing their supervised American
geometric design educationfrom being an almost mechanical implementation of design standards to assessing how AV im-pact human decision-making and safety. This, in turn, trains civil engineering students to be moreconscious of the needs of their clients and the community in their careers. This paper discusses how AVs were integrated into a geometric design class for upperclassmenand graduate students in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois througha Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach. The aim of the study is to discuss both changesto existing standards recommended by them as well as the reasoning behind it. Additionally, theeffectiveness of implementing this approach by building multi-disciplinary teams will be
AC 2011-1485: DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN IN-TERMEDIATE DESIGN COURSE USING ACTIVE LEARNINGJohn S. Lamancusa, Pennsylvania State University, University Park John S. Lamancusa is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Founding Director of the Learning Factory at Penn State. Before coming to Penn State in 1984, he was employed at AT&T Bell Labora- tories where his technical experience included electronic packaging, product design and acoustic design of telecommunications equipment. At Penn State, he teaches courses in design, vibrations, noise control, product dissection and mechatronics, and supervises senior design projects. He is the faculty advisor for Penn State’s student chapter of Engineers
the discussion, the facilitator asked if thefacial jewelry led to certain assumptions by the students. It is important to keep a sense of humorin this discussion and the facilitator to be comfortable with hearing untrue or unfair stereotypesbased on their appearance. By keeping it light and laughing or agreeing with the assumptions,students feel able to be more honest in their biases about the facilitator. This kind of discussionmay be more difficult for students to have with an authority figure and so faculty may need to bemindful of this as they are preparing for such a discussion. Similarly, this discussion may bedifficult for faculty members whose career is subject to students’ evaluations. Future study couldexplore the effect of having a
given field, and their level of attainment defines how well-prepared they are to meet jobdemands and excel in the future [16-17]. The general (meta) competencies are skill sets that enable themto function globally, such as to work with others, function in systems and meet organizational demands,and transfer task-specific skills to new challenges or tasks they have not encountered before [18-19].Thus, our goal is to revolutionize our learning community to develop an intentional culture of reflection,wherein members (both students and faculty) develop dispositions of metacognition and self-regulation.The competencies required by future engineers vary from industry sectors and even companies in thesame sector. In addition, recent graduates will
Engineering Department (1988-96) and a tenured associate professor and chair of the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department (1996-98) at Tulane University. In 2002 he joined the University of Houston as professor & chair of the Department of Engineering Technology. He served as associate dean for research & graduate studies for the College of Technology (2009-10) and returned to full-time faculty in fall 2010. His teaching and research interests are in Systems Control Technology area. He is a member of ASEE, a senior member of IEEE, and a member of the Executive Council of the Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center
topics with their advisorswith much higher rates for personal topics.B. Faculty Students had similar experiences with faculty members with 16% of women agreeingfaculty had spoken inappropriately to them (Table 1). Nearly a quarter of women agreed facultyhad spoken down to them with 18% of marginalized students agreeing. More than 13% of studentsacross groups reported faculty do not treat students from different backgrounds the same (Table2). While about 10% across groups reported faculty do not respect students from differentbackgrounds (Table 3). Lower rates of students reported unfair treatment from faculty in the lab,except marginalized women (10%).C. Peers Women reported their peers tried to exert authority over them
with the faculty members supervising their projects, graduatestudents, and one or two industrial mentors. Students also take part in other activities such asindustrial research lab and facilities tours, weekly group meetings, meetings with workingengineers and automotive researchers, an SAE conference, and seminars. The summer researchexperience is then capped with students giving oral and/or poster presentations of their researchprojects both at OU and at research conferences.Students participating in the REU program receive a stipend, free on-campus housing, as well asa small meal allowance and membership to the campus recreational facilities. Travel expenses toOU are reimbursed and if students get a conference paper accepted, funds are
context. This study is part of a larger body of work, the AcademicPathways Study (APS), conducted by the NSF-funded Center for Advancement of EngineeringEducation (CAEE).Introduction Which students persist in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields?Looking for ways to increase persistence rates, we frequently research the characteristics thatdifferentiate persisters and non-persisters. However, the choice to persist may not be as binaryas these two terms would imply. The research reported here begins to unravel the complexitiesof persistence by looking at the choice to be an engineer as a process extending over time andinvolving continually motivated decisions. By taking the perspective of students who persist inearning
undergraduate research experiences[10].In a 2004 three-year study, researchers interviewed 76 students, mostly rising seniors in eightscience disciplines across four small private STEM-serving institutions [11]. They conductedthree interviews: two before graduation and the third post-graduation. For students who hadcompleted an undergraduate research experience, 91% of them reported gains after graduating.Gains were based on a checklist of possible faculty-defined benefits derived from literature.There were seven different kinds of gains including: personal/professional, thinking and workinglike a scientist, and gains in various skills. Seventy-four percent of the comments in thepersonal/professional gains category referenced increase in confidence
mustpractice divergent thinking to explore the entire design space, which is an immensely importantskill for developing creative and effective solutions. Learning design via a team-based designproject promotes cognitive skills, social skills, management skills, and positive personal traits.Design and development of an open ended design project is discussed. The team-based projectprogresses over approximately ten weeks in an elementary strength of materials course. Thisprovides a significant design experience for engineering students that helps bridge the gapbetween the first-year engineering design course and the capstone design project that engineeringstudents typically do in their senior year. The project requires student teams to: work together
?” Answering this question wouldallow educators to make more informed decisions about how to encourage learning.There is an extensive history of pedagogical research on student engagement, much of which hasmade progress on defining the concept of engagement. There are many different aspects ofstudent engagement in university courses as engagement stands at the crossroads of interest,involvement, excitement, choice, attitude, behavior, and opportunity. Pace used the term qualityof effort and, in his view, “quality of effort describes voluntary behavior. It reflects initiative. Itdescribes the strength and the scope of personal investment that students are making for theirown higher education.”[3] Astin used the term involvement and considered the
electrical engineering at Texas A&M University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #31171Miss Samantha Asbell, Texas A&M University Samantha Asbell is a graduate student at Texas A&M University currently pursuing her Masters of Science in Business. She received her undergraduate degree in Communication at Texas A&M. Following a research internship with the department of communication, Samantha applied for a role with the College of Engineering as an assistant for the I-Corps Site program. Samantha has a continuing interest in research as well as digital and
about a class.! radical change in the person. These events are unplanned, unanticipated and uncontrolled” 6, p. 77. Critical events can be:! 1) ‘Extrinsic,’ produced by events external to the faculty member, such as the merger of Poly with Fulton,! 2) ‘Intrinsic,’ events that occur within the individual and happen in the natural progression of a faculty member’s career, such as working towards tenure or a mid-career move, and! 3) ‘Personal,’ events that happen in an individual’s personal life, such as having a baby or an illness.!Teaching Discussion of teaching
qualitatively answer theresearch question: What student value beliefs and expectations influence their decision of whichengineering major to pursue? The answer to this research question can provide in-depth insightsinto student’s expectancy values, particularly exploring relations between students’ expectationsand the type of resources they prefer to use.4. Research DesignTheoretical frameworkWe used the Eccles’ expectancy-value theory as a lens to analyze the findings of this study.According to Eccles’, an individual's’ choice to perform a task is motivated by two factors: 1)their belief that they can perform a task, and 2) their desire to undertake a task8,9. Eccles definesfour categories of subjective task values (STV): 1) attainment, 2) intrinsic
described in [11] is a single semester course with two main phases. The firstphase consists of defining the project and selecting a few possible design concepts, while thesecond phase is for students to build and test prototypes to meet the project requirements. Thereis only one design review, which takes place in between these design phases. The review is heldbetween the team, an advisory committee (consisting of two faculty members, a non-facultymember, and possibly a graduate student), and the client. Details of this review were notelaborated upon, but it was noted that there were weekly meetings with the advisory committeeto discuss progress and deliver feedback. Similarly, a two-semester, industry-sponsoredmechanical engineering capstone
Session 1358 The Design of Material World, an Internet-Based Educational Environment Jed S. Lyons and Stephen R. McNeill Department of Mechanical Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 292081. ABSTRACTEngineers need a solid understanding of the relationships between material processing, propertiesand structures to make informed material selection decisions for design applications. Hands-onlaboratories help students develop this understanding. However, time constraints, equipment costsand safety concerns severely