Paper ID #26064Work in Progress: Designing Modeling-based Learning Experiences Withina Capstone Engineering CourseMr. Joseph A. Lyon, Purdue University, West Lafayette Joseph A. Lyon is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education and a M.S. student in the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. He earned a B.S. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Purdue University. His research interests include models and modeling, computational thinking, and computation in engineering education.Dr. Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alejandra Magana is an Associate Professor in the
innovative approaches to teaching linear algebra, including:(i) active learning is significantly integrated into each class through in-class group worksheetsthat incorporate MATLAB to solve more complex problems. (ii)instructors utilize MATLABlive scripts to visualize abstract concepts and foster an interactive learning environmentwhen teaching, (iii) students are tasked with coding core linear algebra concepts, providingthem with a different perspective and deepening their understanding of the material, (iv)application projects are added to demonstrate to students the interesting and applicable 4nature of linear algebra, and (v) MATLAB Autograder is adapted to grade students’ work,providing immediate
Paper ID #20127A Computer-Based Interactive Activity for Visualizing Crystal Structuresin Introductory Materials Science CoursesDr. Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis Dr. Susan P. Gentry is a Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment in the Materials Science and Engineering department at the University of California, Davis. In her current position at UC Davis, she is integrating computational modules into the undergraduate and graduate materials curriculum. She is specifically interested in students’ computational literacy and life-long learning of computational materi- als science tools.Dr. Tanya
Masters in Educational Leadership and Principal Certificate from Northern Arizona University in 2007. She is currently working on her EdD at Arizona State University. Mia is highly qualified to teach middle grades math, science, and language arts. Mia has taught middle school science in the Alhambra Elementary School District for nine years where she also leads after-school engineering clubs. Mia has been directly involved with district-wide initiatives including technology integration, Just In Time Assessments, curriculum pacing guides, and implementation of a research based, hands-on science and engineering curriculum. Mia has also worked closely with FOSS as a professional development facilitator. She also worked
oftenintegrated into the curriculum. In the effort to encourage students to take the FE exam and prepare for a professional careerin civil engineering, many measures, programs, and policies are frequently taken by CEEdepartments including explicitly requiring students to take the FE to graduate, hiring licensedprofessional faculty, and offering an optional or required formal FE review course [3]. Numerousuniversities have operated FE review courses as an effective tool to improve exam participation[4], [8], [9]. While review courses are only one of the many ways to improve FE examperformance, they have also been proven to improve student confidence in course material [10].To further encourage and support FE exam preparation, departments have
’ individual learning needs more universally. Traditional assessments andpiecemeal curricular design have been barriers to diversity in learning. Tailored learning is oftenseen as impossible to integrate without compromising the complexities of an accredited program.The combination of heavy workloads and traditional learning approaches, where timetables donot allocate appropriate time for learning, exacerbate the barriers for students seeking alternatelearning environments.This paper presents an approach to create a fundamentally different engineering education, toshow what can be. The redesign has largely been inspired by three theoretical frameworksKnowles’ andragogical approaches to learning [1] ensures the rationale for learning about
Paper ID #45191Exploring Gender Dynamics in Intercultural Competence Development througha Study Abroad ProgramDr. Aparajita Jaiswal, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI) Aparajita Jaiswal is an Intercultural Research Specialist with CILMAR, Purdue University. Her research endeavors revolve around exploring strategies for seamlessly integrating intercultural learning into both regular curriculum and study abroad programs. Aparajita actively engages in offering guidance in developing research studies, curriculum enhancements, and assessment methods pertaining to integration and cultivation of intercultural competence
curriculum at the University of Pittsburgh asECE 1270 Special Topics. This is an optional one credit course that meets once a month open tojuniors and seniors that is mainly informational and is a precursor to a junior design course thatwill be a prerequisite to senior design. This development of SERC was used as part of the ABETaccreditation for showing continuous improvement in the department and for its support ofundergraduate education [8]. While SERC is not mandatory, it is highly encouraged forundergraduates to participate in by the electrical engineering department.Students are able to participate in SERC in three different ways. The first is through individual orsmall group sessions that allows for a deep dive into a particular topic and
Professional Engineer in North Carolina. Page 22.1448.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 The Effect of Project-Based Learning (PBL) on Improving Student Learning Outcomes in Transportation EngineeringABSTRACT This paper discusses the results of an ongoing study on the effect of project-basedlearning (PBL) on students’ learning outcomes in Transportation Engineering, a required juniorlevel course in the Civil Engineering curriculum. The course was taught in 2008, 2009, and2010 by the same instructor. The course was transformed from a lecture-based course to aproject
AC 2012-3801: ENGINEERING SERVICE LEARNING: CASE STUDY ONPREPARING STUDENTS FOR THE GLOBAL COMMUNITYDr. Shoba Krishnan, Santa Clara University Shoba Krishnan received her B. ech. degree from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India, in 1987, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Michigan State University, East Lansing, in 1990 and 1993, re- spectively. From 1995 to 1999, she was with the Mixed-Signal Design Group at LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, Calif., where she worked on high-speed data communication IC design and testing. She is an As- sociate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Calif. Her research interests include analog and mixed-signal integrated
Page 10.834.1satisfy the University Studies Program, the college of engineering adopted the University Studies “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society of Engineering Education”Requirements into an integrated first year program. This allowed an opportunity to introduceglobal problem solving skills and introduce design early in the curriculum while meeting theuniversity requirements.Each fall the college of engineering offers 12 to 14 sections of ES 1000, Introduction toEngineering. Each section has 20-22 students and is taught by faculty members that are selectedfor superior teaching skills and an interest in first year
Education at Virginia Tech. He currently teaches graduate courses in STEM education foundations and contemporary issues in Integrative STEM Education. He is also a Fellow of the Institute for Creativity Arts and Technology at Virginia Tech. Jeremy specializes in research focused on dynamic intervention means for STEM education students categorized as at-risk of dropping out of school. He also has curriculum research and development experiences in technology, engineering, and design education.Mr. Kevin Gregory Sutton, North Carolina State University Kevin Sutton is a graduate teaching assistant and doctoral student in the Technology, Engineering, and Design Education program at North Carolina State University. He teaches
interesting them in specific sub-fields ofengineering.Project Description: The project is motivated by the following problem: How to increase theretention rate of engineering majors by increasing engineering related knowledge and projectsinto their first two years curriculum courses.Retention of students in colleges of engineering is an issue of current concern, since engineeringgraduates provide a high percentage of tomorrow’s technical workforce. Some argue thatretention is so important it should be used as a college outcomes assessment parameter and that itbe considered a measure of our abilities as faculty and professional engineers to design programsof study that meet market and customer expectations [5]. Historically, engineering enrollmenthas
,whether that be in industry, academia, or clinical settings7,10,11.We propose to connect student learning to engineering practice by interweaving a grandchallenge problem throughout multiple courses and experiences in the curriculum. Byinterweaving the problem throughout the undergraduate curriculum beginning freshman year, wetreat student engagement and retention as a process instead of an event4. To implement thisconcept, we developed the Cancer Scholars Program (CSP), a challenge-inspired experiencefocused on an overarching societal problem: cancer. Traditionally, students learn engineeringskills in isolated coursework without a connection to real-world problems, facilitating loss ofinterest. Additionally, students are rarely exposed to co
earned her BS in Engineering Mechanics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and her Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University, with a focus on computational solid mechanics. Dr. Zhu is an Associate Teaching Professor of the freshman engineering education team in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). In this role, she focuses on designing the curriculum and teaching in the freshman engineering program and the mechanical engineering program. She is also the Co-Director of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) at ASU. In this role, she focuses on student support and tracking, curriculum, program requirements, as well as programming for current students
and design a virtual experiential learning experience through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). Speaking in general, UniCen is a network for U.S. and Central Asian universities to: • Navigate the challenging global international education environment; • Test innovative methods for virtual exchanges; • Adapt policies, practices, and administrative structures for online teaching and learning; • Integrate technology solutions; • Co-create curriculum for virtual faculty and student exchanges. • Strengthen institutional capacity to support long-term partnerships between U.S. and Central Asian universities with economic-based outcomes. The suggested research topics in 2022
from instances like the Toilet Challenge. To put trained andqualified engineers out into the world, it is necessary to supplement engineering education withculturally aware project-based curriculum. In ensuring global impact, meshing together thetechnical, social and cultural aspects of an engineer’s humanitarian effort is crucial.However, this is not frequently seen in the context of engineering projects with the internationalcommunity. The need for these specific skills and research is even more integral in the study ofstigmatized, or taboo, topics that engineers may find themselves addressing in their projects,where the approach can be key to the success of an intervention. Taboo issues consist of acts thatare considered to be forbidden
EngineeringProf. Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rebecca A. Bates received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington. She also received the M.T.S. degree from Harvard Divinity School. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Integrated Engineering program at Minnesota State University, Mankato, home of the Iron Range, Twin Cities and Bell Engineering programs.Dr. Emilie A Siverling, Minnesota State University, Mankato Dr. Emilie A. Siverling is an Assistant Professor of Integrated Engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and is also a faculty member in Iron Range Engineering’s Bell Program. She has a Ph.D. in Engineering Education and an M.S.Ed
information technology used throughout any Page 10.1384.3given semester. Further, each student is exposed to a different faculty member (typically not thefaculty member giving the lectures) in the learning center portion of each project. Finally, course “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”assessments / surveys are currently administered only at the end of a semester, such that studentresponses are integrated over an entire semester’s experience. The
constitutes as falling under the umbrella of STEM/STEAM. The loomingquestion remains: is STEM/STEAM education the representation of a vision whereindividuals can comprehend the how all STEM/STEAM subjects intertwine and thereforeshould there be more emphasis on integrating these subjects when taught?Looking to the New Generation Science Standards, it is possible to visualize efforts made toconnect the four or five core subjects. Still, curriculum today is based in the learning ofdiscrete areas, making the cross-disciplinary approach a challenge for current educators. Onthe other hand, according to the Federal Inventory of STEM education, 2011 [2], “Agenciesused different criteria for what to list as a “STEM education program.” Some agencies
network. There are a number of courses on personalskills such as technical communications, project scheduling, and supervision. Most importantly,the extra two years in the 4-year BMET curriculum at ETSU allows the student to spend twosemesters as an intern at a medical facility.Some of the graduates of the 4-year programs will compete with graduates of the 2-yearprograms for the BMET I, BMET II, and BMET III jobs. At ETSU, we expect that most of ourgraduates will be vying for the BMET specialist, BMET supervisor, and clinical engineeringpositions. We also expect that some of our graduates will make significant and noteworthycontributions to field of medical instrumentation.ConclusionsNowhere are technological advances more apparent than in the
designs.Materials Development The development of the materials produced for this project was part of a larger multi-university project, the VaNTH Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering EducationalTechnologies (VaNTH ERC). The VaNTH ERC is a multi-year, multi-institutional programwith the aim “… to integrate learning science, learning technologies, and the domains ofbioengineering in order to develop effective educational resources to prepare for the future ofbioengineering.” An overall description of the VaNTH ERC may be found at its website(www.vanth.org). The National Science Foundation funds supplementary grants to NSF grantees that wantto involve classroom teachers in their research through the Research Experiences for Teachers(RET
students inquire into connections between engineers andscientists. The second group of assignments allows students to demonstrate their understandingof the relationship between science and engineering through inclusion of theory, design, andexplanatory text in written and oral reports on a design project. The final exam, as earlierassignments, includes an essay focusing on the relationship between science and engineering.Focusing on the theme of science and engineering throughout the course helps studentsappreciate the heavy emphasis on science and math in the engineering curriculum, as well as theimportance of interdisciplinary collaboration in engineering projects. In addition, using acommon theme for assignments throughout the semester aids in
included if empathy development was amajor component examined or considered in the research. Many that integrated empathy did notdirectly explore its growth or development, it was more of a component considered or as part ofthe curriculum rather than the goal of the research. For example, McDonald and Pan (2020)presented feedback from graduate students on ethical considerations for artificial intelligence[49]. While this work elicited insight into prompting consideration of bias and fairness, fosteringempathy was more of an indirect outcome than the phenomena of focus. Alternatively studiesconducted in other countries were excluded since the interpretation and assessment of empathymay vary by culture depending on the societal norms and preferences
Paper ID #28792A Design Thinking Approach to Increasing Student Efficacy in theInternship Search ProcessDr. Katherine McConnell, University of Colorado Boulder Katherine McConnell is a Senior Professional Development Advisor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her work focuses on the integration of experiential learning, industry connections, and career-oriented education across the curriculum. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 A Design Thinking Approach to Increasing Student Efficacy in the
, is tainted by prevalent acts that are considered unethical,” adding that it is “tainted byillegal acts”2.As a part of the effort to curb unethical behavior, the mandate of construction related accreditingbodies have instituted requirements for literacy of ethics in the curriculum. The AmericanCouncil for Construction Education (ACCE) requires ethics integration in constructioncurriculum (at least 1 semester hour). The ACCE also states: In addition, oral presentation, business writing, and ethics must be integrated throughout the construction-specific curriculum. Example courses in this division include: Human relations, psychology, sociology, social science, literature, history, philosophy, art, language, political
. Given the shift in thenature of problems and solutions, there is an opportunity within Systems Engineering fortransforming into a transdisciplinary discipline [1], [2]. Sillitto et al. [55] describes SystemsEngineering as a “transdisciplinary and integrative approach to enable the successfulrealization, use, and retirement of engineered systems, using systems principles and concepts,and scientific, technological, and management methods”. According to Rousseau [3],transdisciplinarity can be used as a powerful problem-solving technique that brings in patternsand perspectives by crossing disciplinary boundaries and creating a holistic approach. Extendingthis definition, transdisciplinarity in systems engineering would mean going beyond
styles are an integral concept in modern educational theory and practice, encapsulatingthe diverse and individualized ways in which people absorb, process, and retain information. Theextensive body of academic literature, particularly in the realms of e-learning and adaptivelearning systems, provides a nuanced understanding of learning styles, especially when viewedthrough the lens of advanced techniques like machine learning and deep learning. Lester et al. [5]highlight the importance of analytics in education, emphasizing how understanding learningbehaviors and wants, which are pivotal elements of learning styles, can be enhanced through dataanalysis. This approach empowers educators to customize their teaching methods to align withvarious
will show how East Carolina adapted to the challenge of teaching thesevarious types of students in an online classroom and the techniques that were used in our IDIS3790 Technical Presentation course.About East Carolina University:Chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly on March 8, 1907, East Carolina Universityhas moved in a rapid but orderly transition from its beginnings as a two-year normal school to aDoctoral/Research-Intensive level comprehensive university whose outreach now transcends itsregional origins. On October 5, 1909, East Carolina Teachers Training School began its firstregular session; during that year 174 men and women students were enrolled. The first class tograduate from the two-year normal curriculum received its
Design Center (DC) Colorado in CU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds a B.A. in psychology from Louisiana State University, an M.S. degree in industrial/organizational psychology and a Ph.D. degree in education, both from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Knight’s research interests are in the areas of retention, program evaluation and teamwork practices in engineering educa- tion. His current duties include assessment, team development and education research for DC Colorado’s hands-on initiatives.Dr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi