cohorts of NSF-RET participants. All cohort one(2011) and cohort two (2012) participants created and presented STEM curriculum designs at theconclusion of the program as described above. During the follow-up year, the external evaluatorconducted classroom observations and teacher interviews which provided specific examples ofthe transfer of summer activities to classroom activities. Participants named new knowledge andSTEM interest regarding spatial visualization skills, decision making matrix, engineering designprocess, awareness of ethics and engineering, conservation methods, green technology, andengineering design process, to name a few. The program was also successful at enhancing theparticipants’ understanding of the social relevance and
Page 23.771.11building space during its fabrication. Figure 4. Initial Full-Scale Prototype of Dance Vehicle (Fall 2011)The capstone team consisted of five mechanical engineering students who partnered with fourarchitecture students and six dancers on the project, creating a very large multidisciplinary team.This created considerable barriers: class schedules, learning styles, formalities between studentand “teacher” in various departments, shared vocabularies with very different meanings andimplications, and different work ethics and expectations. The end result was that there wheremany times during the project where the engineering students had to work outside their comfortzone. They spent a considerable amount of time working in
practices. Johnson (2006)9 adopted Anderson’s (1996)10conceptual framework concerning three dimensions of barriers (technical, political, and cultural)and discussed each barrier that science teachers faced when applying reformed instructionalpractices in their classrooms. Here, the technical barriers include teachers’ content knowledge,pedagogical knowledge, as well as teachers’ ability to implement new instructional strategies andteach constructively. The political barriers, which are hard for teachers to control, include thelack of local leadership and support. The cultural barriers referred to teachers’ beliefs concerningteaching and their preparation ethic. In other words, it means teachers’ feeling of their obligationin transmitting content
idea of possible selvesand identity play to examine this process.Interactive Response and InteractionsFrom our early observations of the students’ use of the portfolios, we could see that identitywork and play occur in a variety of contexts, mediated by individual reflections as well as theresponses and interactions of other individuals. These observations informed our categorizationof “Interactive Response” (IR) as a site of learning mediated by diverse interactions with bothpeople (instructors, peers, friends/family, clients) and symbolic artifacts (e.g., professional codesof ethics). In this conception of IR, we pick up on Hattie and Timperley’s broader notion offeedback as provided by multiple “agent[s]”[8] in response to a particular
having an element of peril; takes chances unconcerned with danger.”17 • Low Scorer Risk-Taking: “Cautious about unpredictable situations; unlikely to bet; avoids situations of personal risk, even those with great rewards; does not take chances regardless of whether the risks are physical, social, monetary or ethical.”17Like Kirton’s KAI, the Jackson Personality Index2 as a whole is a measure of attributes, or innatepersonality characteristics. All four descriptions shown above focus mainly on the cognitive styleconstruct (preference for structure), although there appears to be some confounding withcognitive level (i.e., implying that one type of thinking is “better” than another). There are alsosome slight indicators of
, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability with the mindset of using nature as a design inspiration The ability to function on multidisciplinary teams by using resources and references from biology, life sciences, and multiple engineering disciplines The ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems by using nature as a mentor for design concepts The ability to communicate
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semesters, students with MSAT scores below 500 wereretained at a rate of approximately 50% while the retention rate increased to approximately 75%for students with MSAT scores above 750.Retention of Minority Students: As discussed earlier, Table 5 shows that non-Caucasian students(predominantly Hispanic) are retained at a consistently higher rate than Caucasian students in theSOE. Even though their average MSAT score is lower than that of the Caucasian students(average MSAT for non-Caucasian 565, average MSAT for Caucasian 601), it is proposed thatsince many of these minority students are familiar with hardship and struggle in their home life,they succeed due to a relatively strong work ethic and relentless determination.Retention of Female
world’s nationaleconomies based on a global competitiveness index (GCI). The GCI is structured around twelvepillars covering the three themes of Basic Requirements, Efficiency Enhancers and Innovationand Sophistication factors. Basic Requirements include measures such as ethics, crime, laws,infrastructure, health, etc. Efficiency Enhancers include higher education and training andtechnological readiness. Innovation and Sophistication factors include innovation as a significantset of measures. This comprises capacity for innovation, quality of scientific researchinstitutions, company spending on R&D, university-industry collaboration in R&D, governmentprocurement of advanced technology products, availability of scientists and engineers
engineering education from Purdue University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and has 10 years of professional experience. Barry’s areas of research include applied professional ethics, identity development, non-verbal communication, and education policy. Page 25.873.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Kicking out the Crutch: The Impact of Formula Sheets on Student Performance and LearningAbstractThis paper reports the results of a study of the impact of examination reference materials onstudent performance and
scenario the course looks similar to traditional coursesbut there is a significant difference where the course is driven by the project itself. This modelmakes it easier to engage communities and problems that might not be local to the educationalinstitution, such as global or international development (Bielefeldt, Swan & Paterson, 2010;Swan, Bielefeldt & Paterson, 2010)4, 5. In addition to disciplinary engineering faculty, manyscholars from the science and technology studies and engineering studies have also started toengage with service-learning approaches to examine the ethical and pragmatic difficulties facedin engaging with these projects (Nieusma & Riley, 2010)6. Irrespective of the model adopted,service-learning has become an
learning style. An interesting question is: How does the way youlearn influence the way you teach? It is equally important to contemplate different Page 25.996.6approaches to accommodate different learners, particularly after having learned aboutone’s own learning style. An instructor with some understanding of differences inlearning styles is well on his/her way in making his/her teaching more effective (19).A viable learning style model must be grounded in research, periodically evaluated, andadapted to reflect the developing knowledge base (11).Implementation of learning stylepractices must conform to accepted standards of ethics, and be carried out
materials online makesthem equally accessible to both groups. Students submit most of their homework via anelectronic system. Distance-ed students prefer to scan in handwritten homework rather thansnailmail it to the DE office. My lecture notes have been online since the mid-1990s. By2009, the only element of my courses that was not online was the exams. An accreditationvisit was coming up, and I knew that online exams would make it easier to tie specificquestions to specific learning objectives and show how well the objectives were being met.Inspired by a favorable report [1] from a moderately large study, I decided to experimentwith online exams.I had used the online testing system WebAssign for quizzing in my online Ethics inComputing course for
eachprogram offers opportunities and experiences in real-world situations that enhance thepreparation of graduates.Results from this study have already been incorporated into courses that include: ProblemAnalysis and Design; Machine Tool; Computer-Aided Design; Project Management; QualityAssurance; Engineering Economics; Environmental Engineering; Engineering Ethics, Contracts,and Patents; Industrial Safety Engineering; Computing Systems; and Technology in WorldCivilization. These courses offer real-world exposure to the field of engineering managementalong with the skills necessary for graduates to be successful in their chosen career field. Thematerial derived from this study has also been successfully utilized in the Senior EngineeringCapstone
skills acquired in earlier course work and incorporating engineering standards and realistic constraints that include most of the following considerations: economic; environmental; sustainability; manufacturability; ethical; health and safety; social; and political.6In the traditional senior design project course, students complete assignments that includea project description, requirements specification, design drawings, technical specificationand standards, task list and timeline, interface specifications, design review, test plan,status reports, and final presentation and demonstration. The STEP Fellows wererequired to complete these assignments along with additional assignments related to theirspecific STEP activities
academic achievements as males.Studies of why students migrate out of engineering have identified several factors at work. Theyinclude both “push” factors out of engineering (including poor academic performance,inadequate preparation, unwillingness to work) and “pull” factors attracting students into anothermajor (summarized in Seymour & Hewitt21). However, of more relevance to the present project,some of the reasons for switching out of engineering pertain to the very pedagogy with whichengineering is traditionally taught: hard “weeding out” classes rather than a nurturingenvironment; a lack of social and ethical context surrounding the academic work; a strongemphasis on individual competition; lack of warm and close interpersonal
few has long been a concern in most academic and professionaldisciplines. Copyright laws, patent laws, academic honor codes, and professional ethics codes allgive evidence of the historic need to protect intellectual property (IP). In the public orcommercial arena, the victim of IP theft usually has the burden of detecting, proving, and suingor pressing charges against the violator. In the classroom or instructional laboratory, the victimsof IP theft (students) are not generally in a position to detect, prove, or prosecute the perpetrator.Academic honesty codes or honesty contracts encourage most students to fulfill their ethicalobligations, but the codes do not guarantee complete compliance, nor do they provide a means ofdetection or proof
[15]. The group established learning objectives for engineeringlaboratories. That group identified 13 objectives that fell into the following categories:instrumentation, models, experiment, data analysis, design, learn from failure, creativity,psychomotor, safety, communication, teamwork, ethics in the lab, and sensory awareness. Inaddition, the National Research Council, in their document BIO2010: TransformingUndergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists highlights the importance ofinterdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary laboratory courses [16].Evaluation of Laboratory Courses Using Core Teaching ObjectivesGiven this set of 20 core teaching objectives, team members evaluated their laboratory coursesfor emphasis of each of the
. Finally, freight transportation was added as a 15th topic; as statedearlier, the movement of goods is embedded within the definition of transport. The Handy et al.respondents listed “professional ethics” and “urban design” as full-course needs; since thesesubjects are not specific to transportation, the author chose not to include them in the list.SettingThis study considered transportation engineering and planning education at four-year collegesand universities in the mountain states, including all states and portions thereof lying within theMountain Time zone. The study did not cover a larger area to retain a manageable scope ofwork. As of 2003, a total of 123 public and independent four-year institutions in the mountainstates offered
4.40 Wheel Chair Lab presentation 3.88 4.38 4.17 4.36 Professionalism and Ethics 3.73 4.50 4.52 4.08 Panel of Engineers 3.58 4.25 4.26 4.24Table 8 shows a summary of average student ratings of the usefulness of the workshops. Notethat not all of the workshops were offered during each of the years. With only a few exceptions,student ratings for most of the workshops have improved significantly from 2009. Studentratings of the field trips have shown steady improvements of the years, and have become some ofthe most highly rated activities in the institute, with the exception of the 2013 when the
ERCregarding the resulting intellectual property and its distribution.ASTDForumThe ASTD Forum[16] helps senior learning and development professionals and theirorganizations to connect, collaborate, and share their training, learning, and performanceimprovement processes, practices—including cooperative benchmarking and strategicnetworking. To promote the open and equal exchange of information and practices, members Page 24.622.12Version 1.4 March 13, 2014 Page 11DraftBusinessPlan:EngineeringtheEngineersagree to abide by ethical principles regarding confidentiality and exchange of
demonstrate non-technical student outcomes, including those pertaining to ethics,global issues, economics, and understanding of environmental and societal contexts.2When the objective is to improve student writing skills (“learning to write”), an integrated, orwriting across the curriculum (WAC) approach to teaching technical writing is consideredfavorable over the alternative of isolated, stand-alone communication courses that oftendecontextualize writing.3-4 In the integrated approach, communication instruction and practice isdistributed throughout the curriculum and embedded in technical courses, well beyond thestandard inclusion of laboratory reports in laboratory classes. Such an approach also maximallyleverages the writing process towards the