for Engineering Education, 2011 Keeping the Conversation Alive: Maintaining Students' Research Skills Throughout Their College CareersAbstractAt Drexel University the library teaches engineering students information research skills in theirfirst and senior years. These students would benefit from a refresher in their middle college yearsto enhance their abilities in using library databases. Such an opportunity exists in the junior yearwhen all engineering students are required to take “Technology in Historical Perspective” (HIST285) a course offered by the Department of History and Politics in the College of Arts andSciences. This course examines the interrelationship between technology and its economic,social
. The Mechanical Engineering System Design I and II courses (MAE 480 and 481) are probably the students’ last opportunity to be taught about IL. In order to integrate IL to Mechanical Engineering System Design I and II, the following learning objectives have been added to the course syllabus: Learning Outcome Related to the Information Literacy 1. Search online information using the tools and techniques learned in the class. 2. Locate more traditional technical and engineering resources. 3. Evaluate the validity of resources. 4. Apply critical thinking to choose relevant sources to use in the project. 5. Use the information legally. 6. Cite the used information ethically. 7. Apply the
DifferentialEquations. They were the ideal SI Leader candidates to facilitate the SI sessions and once theywere recruited, the plan was finalized and ready for implementation in the spring of 2009.The SI SectionThe curriculum for the SI version of College Algebra & Trigonometry was identical to thetraditional sections of the course. A sample of the course syllabus is provided in the appendix.The only difference between the SI section and the traditional sections was the additional two-hour Friday SI session to be held at the same hours as the Monday and Wednesday sessions andin the same classroom as on Monday and Wednesday. The Monday and Wednesday sessionswere facilitated by the instructor. The additional session on Friday was facilitated by the two
. Page 26.1655.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Using an Article in a Sophomore Engineering Science Class to Boost Lifelong Learning ConfidenceAbstractSophomore-level engineering classes often do not require students to find properties or processesin the literature, as advanced engineering courses do. Using the literature to find information isoften considered part of fulfilling ABET outcome i: a recognition of the need for, and an abilityto engage in, lifelong learning. The design project in a sophomore-level course was based on anarticle in Chemical Engineering Progress, and students were surveyed about confidence inability to understand similar articles before
. Student responses to the teamwork reflection were encouraging,if not the grounds for statistically significant evidence that reflection supported progress throughTCs.There are a number of opportunities to improve this work as we continue. First, increasing theprominence of the TC in the syllabus/course and the grading weight of the assignment mightreduce the number of non-respondents on the reflections. Currently, the reflection is a smallportion of a much larger holistic grade, so there’s little apparent penalty for not putting effortinto completing it. Second, based on student misconceptions about what prototyping means, andthe lack of insight in the reflections, the prompt in support of the “a team can learn a lot from aprototype” TC needs to
expanded into a parametric factor evaluation (PFE) form which has now beenused for a number of years. A copy illustrating this is provided in Table 1 PFE Factors forCourse Related Research Projects. A quick inspection will show that these are commonsensecharacteristics but still allow a wide latitude in choice of projects.Experience showed that there were some additional characteristics which affected the usefulnessof a project for course purposes. Although the course title and syllabus provided some guidance,some students still would choose projects which were interesting and potentially good researchcandidates but which weren't helpful in this course. The first, and most obvious, additionalcharacteristic was that the project should require
share what was working.The first semester there was a low success rate (55.1%) relative to regular statistics (73.6%)classes. Granted, this was in Spring 2021 during the second fully online semester due to theCovid-19 pandemic. Upon reflection, we made a number of pedagogical and curricular changesthe following semester to improve student success and retention. In preparation for Fall 2021,both the new, second faculty cohort and the original cohort met almost daily during the monthleading up to the start of the semester to work on common curriculum and syllabus. As a result,a Canvas shell with the core curriculum was made available for new and existing faculty to copy.Additions to the course included more time and activities designed to help
smallclassroom size and the data compares between fall 2016 and fall 2017. Hence, scientifically weaware that these results should have some flaws and limitations, but, the data collected from thisstudy may be useful for instructors who teaches the same course or for educational researchers,working closely with freshmen students. 2. Teaching MethodologyThere are no prerequisites for the Engineering Physics I course outside of admittance into anengineering program. The co requisites courses include: MATH1750, Engineering Calculus I orMATH1775, Integrated Engineering Calculus I. The text book adopted for this course was“Young and Freedman, University Physics 14th Edition with online Mastering Physics,published by Pearson.EP 1 is a four-credit course
(FGCU). Success in this course is critical to success in follow-up mechanics coursesand upper-level engineering courses. Data has been collected on students’ performance onhomework, quizzes and exams, and also on the students’ thoughts on learning and coursedelivery. Thus far, we have concluded that the use of traditional hand-written homework,frequent assessment via quizzes [1], or the Pearson Mastering Engineering [2] software forformative assessment did not have a significant impact on students’ performance on exams. Itwas also observed that neither traditional nor online homework scores correlated well with examscores; however, in-class quizzes did correlate with final exam scores. Most recently, using theMastering Engineering Online system
reading.Defining Multidisciplinary Project ScopesAfter 17 years of successful projects, QUEST began offering an elective course to involvestudents in the process of defining project scopes. In this course, students learn about bestpractices for written and verbal communication and practice having conversations about QUESTand sponsorship opportunities with program faculty and staff, each other, and alumni volunteers.Following this training, students are assigned to companies and manage the process of outreachand defining project scopes. They base ideas for project topics on past QUEST projects and casestudies provided through journals and online articles.Course deliverables include sample emails, scheduling and participating in site visits to clients,and
learning communities engaging in ablended online and classroom approach will promote learning of professional skills such asproject and time management in thesis research activities. The purpose of this session is toestablish the connection between project management and thesis research, and demonstrate thebeginning progress of the GAPS program towards.Methodology/approach. The following progress is being made to establish GAPS learningcommunities through which to teach and practice professional skills. A website has beendeveloped to introduce the program, recruit participants, provide information on the onlinemodules, and survey results of participants’ current levels of knowledge and skills related toproject management. A new course
. For more advanced skills, such asSolidWorks, the students were required to review selected online materials and tutorials beforethe lab period. Students were tested on these materials through online quizzes before coming tolab.C. Design ProjectOne of the aims of the course is to integrate the various skills acquired in the lab portion of thecourse into an open-ended guided design project thus combining the professional and technicaldesign skills taught in the course. The students were divided in groups of 6-8 students, and all thestudent groups worked to solve the same design problem. We devised a multidisciplinary projectthat utilized all the skills taught in lab covering to some extent all five BME tracks: 1. MedicalInstrumentation, 2
Computing in Engineering is a course required for all 200 engineering students ata research university in Massachusetts. In the last few years, the course underwent a transitionfrom a large, lecture-based course taught by one professor to several smaller sections taught bydifferent professors, each using their own instructional technique. In the spring of 2019, fourprofessors taught the Introduction to Computing Course using three different instructionalmethods. All courses had the same syllabus goals, outlined in Table 1 below. Table 1. Course Goals (as defined in the 2019 syllabi) Overall Goal Key ComponentsFluency in a Master basic Know common Use good code Plan
institutions require a syllabus or acontract between the student and faculty supervisor with the contract required to specifydeliverables. The student must understand the expectations of what the faculty supervisor willprovide and what they will need to develop. Before the start of the project, the faculty supervisormust also determine if the student has the appropriate training and experience to carry out theproject. Common assessments include weekly report out meetings and interim or final reports.Unlike in a regular course, there is no one to compare the student with and it is tough to predictwhat the outcome will be, and thus grading tends to be arbitrary.At York College of Pennsylvania an independent study can be between 1-6 credits and has
, thestudents reported more negative experiences with their classes after the move to remote learningas compared to positive experiences with 32 of the 39 students reporting at least one negativeexperience. The students had many comments related to course content including project work inthe Spring 2020 semester (28 students), online tests and exams (27 students), lab issues (23students) and PowerPoint use and issues (13 students). Also, approximately one-third of thestudents responded that their instructors did not respond to emails from students. Most studentsshowed appreciation for the efforts that faculty made in the quick transition to remote learning.However, the students expressed concerns about the organization of the classes (13 students
Rutherford, University of DelawareAustin Cory Bart ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work-in-progress: Exploring the computer science curriculum from undergraduate students’ perspectives Abstract—With large attrition rates among computer science (CS) majors, it is clearthat CS undergraduates face challenges completing their degrees. Although much researchhas tested various teaching strategies and how course outcomes are associated with drop-out rate, little attention has been paid to using a bottom-up, student-centered, qualitativeapproach with a large sample to understand how to improve required CS courses andcurricula. In the present study, we investigated CS college students
. His research focus is on biology education including the use of inquiry and tech- nology in the teaching introductory biology lecture and laboratories. He has published articles on the impact of teaching in reformed courses on graduate students.YoonJung Cho, Oklahoma State University Assistant professor in the School of Applied Health and Educational Psychology at Oklahoma State Uni- versity. Her research is focused on students’ achievement motivation and self-regulated learning process as well as teachers’ motivation and its impact on instructional practices, both in traditional classroom setting and online instruction. She published articles on graduate teaching assistants’ professional devel- opment as well as
addresses a S/CC issue while incorporating C2C principles.The course description provided in the syllabus is: This course will explore the concept of social entrepreneurship through the lens of sustainability and the context of complex or “wicked” problems. An introduction will provide a foundation in sustainability and social entrepreneurship while exploring methods for analyzing wicked problems. The course project will provide students with an opportunity to work with a team to design a business plan targeting a specific challenge. The course will focus on core concepts and interdisciplinary approaches to create a foundation for students to become agents of change.The course objectives, as listed in the
taught in engineering/business colleges today.We present a roadmap for teaching such a course. We also detail the certification process by SAVEInternational (formerly Society of American Value Engineers). A sample ABET based syllabus, along witha detailed class schedule is also be discussed. After completion of the course, students are eligible totake the Value Methodology Associate (VMA) exam to be certified as VMAs (Value MethodologyAssociates). This certification will be compared to a Lean/Six Sigma certification that is popular withstudents today.BACKGROUNDDesign and Analysis of process, products, and projects are core competencies of business analysts andengineers. In order to develop these competencies, most engineering curricula in
", in Python, Java, and C++,intended for use in college-level CS1 and CS2 courses. The books were authored for the web andthus primarily exist online only (they can be printed, but are not optimized for paper). Each bookwas written in a similar style in terms of organization, coverage, depth, and style. The books usean interactive approach in which each topic is taught using minimal text, animations, andlearning questions. The key observation we make here is that, although some variability existsamong the three books, that variability is substantially less than for nearly any other collection oftop-selling books in those three languages.In addition to the core material, these textbooks each include integrated coding homeworkproblems. In these
o Table 6-2. Faculty Analysis • ABET Course Notebook Contents Page 15.1271.6 o Sample Course Syllabus o Course Assessment Form o Record of Course Updates o Sample 1 - Course Update Rubric o Sample 2 - Course Changes • Program Assessment Materials o Program Educational Objectives o Curriculum Grid o Program Outcomes o Documentation Responsibilities o Program Outcome-based Assessment Plans • Assessment Forms & Tools o Outcome-Based Assessment Forms & Rubrics o Numerical Grade Distribution o Team Skills
TAC ABET criteria encouraged technical writing faculty/librarians to instructdatabase use beyond the offerings in Engineering Compendex and IEEE. Students wereshown how to place technology issues in a broader social and industrial context, forexample, by utilizing peer-reviewed journals in academic, business and industry fields inExpanded Academic Index or Business and Industry indexes. The technical writingfaculty incorporated IL outcomes into her syllabus in the fall of 2002. (Other colleges,for example Arizona State University-East, have also experienced successful integrationsof IL into a polytechnic curriculum by focusing on course outcomes in a technical writingcourse, where partnerships between technical communication and the library
.2 Information Transfer and Student InteractionDuring the Fall 1999 and Fall 2000 offerings of the course, eleven (11) different modes ofinformation transfer and interaction were used, however, not all modes were used both years.The modes and their period of use were: • a course website that contained the syllabus, course and university policies, schedules of assignments, class contact lists, biographical sketches of students and instructors with pictures, example papers, copies of prepared papers, copies of all slides used in lecture and discussion sessions (1999, 2000), • the videostreaming website that contained the streamed lectures and discussion sessions (1999, 2000), • e-mail for individual questions
which dynamic loads are simplified to their static equivalents without anydetailed discussion of the dynamics to statics conversion process. Dynamic response ofstructures is excluded altogether. Structural dynamics is taught at graduate-level often with arefresher portion on fundamentals of vibratory systems.The main curriculum challenge was to develop a syllabus that would allow rapid development ofa common minimum-level of understanding of dynamic processes involved so that the studentswith their wide range of engineering background could participate in the learning process at theirrespective levels at all times. The topics covered in the course are listed in Table 1.Table 1. Outline of class lectures, in chronological order
Course and Module DevelopmentIn Years 1 and 2, we developed three stand-alone sustainability courses that can be adapted fordifferent levels of undergraduate curriculum: a course on green buildings and sustainableconstruction practices (GB), a course on life cycle assessment (LCA), and a SustainabilityTopics course (Topics). Development of these courses included design of instructor materials forquick adoption and implementation, including: syllabus with ABET outcomes, sample courseschedule, description and instructions for conducting experiential learning activities, lectureslides, homework assignments, sample course projects, exams, and pre- and post- courseassessments. The courses and sample experiential learning activities conducted in each
, industrialengineering, operations management, art and design and others11.Curriculum of VET collegesThere are several types of Austrian VET colleges12. The reformed curriculum of 2011 includessubject courses with a total of 100 to 110 hours, depending on the engineering program13. It hasto be mentioned, that in the Austrian education system for everyone at a VET college about 15hours of mathematics and applied mathematics and 10 hours of physics and science arecompulsory, in addition to the engineering program. In total, 175 hours are basis of the reformedengineering syllabus. Page 21.41.3Not all discipline have their syllabus reformed at present, some have
designing it to be suitable for online instruction. The course was designedin a modular construction, with each unit paired with an experiment focusing on a set ofexperimental design concepts, enabling the course to be studied online and asynchronously. Eachof the four modules focuses on learning objectives grouped around a subset of key experimentaldesign concepts, shown in Table 2.Table 2: Example of Mechanical Engineering SEEF work to support active learning in ME2 Learning Objective Experimental Problem Experiment Connection Solving Concept FocusUnderstand frameworks and systemicapproaches to the design and Goal, Hypothesis, Variables, All
will be presented infuture publications.During the two workdays, faculty members are given time and resources to develop coursecontent for one of their STEM courses. The initial implementation is a single lecture using theCBI methods built on the Legacy Cycle. The CBI lecture content exposes the faculty andstudents to CBI and provides data to the faculty on the effectiveness and efficiency of thepedagogical method. Several CBI examples were presented to faculty from former participantswho served as mentors during the workdays. The workdays were scheduled in a computer lab onthe UTPA campus where the faculty members were provided with training and access to anumber of online tools helpful in the development of CBI content and delivery. The CBI
?Like all educational institutions across the world, the California State University MaritimeAcademy (CSUM), has the same questions and concerns, especially in the context of its EPO-125 (Introduction to Marine Engineering course). While EPO-125 is paramount for aspiringmarine engineers, it’s fundamentally rich in academic and technical content, while also requiringpractical hands-on application to cement course material. Unfortunately, compared to chemistryor mathematics, Marine engineering is not a popular subject, resulting in a lack of relevant andcurrent textbooks. Traditionally, in lieu of textbooks the students utilized online resources suchas Google and YouTube. According to informal student surveys and discussions, ChatGPT isnow the de
, on-ground classes resumed with masking and socialdistancing. On Monday April 4, 2022, masking was no longer required, and class mode waspretty much back to normal.This study examines three pre-pandemic semesters of data (Spring 2018, Fall 2018, and Fall2019), one semester that was interrupted by the switch to online learning (Spring 2020), twosemesters of online-only learning (Fall 2020 and Spring 2021), and two semesters of on-groundteaching (Fall 2021 and Spring 2022). These are semesters where adequate record keeping hadbeen maintained, allowing the tracking of student exercise scores through multiple submittals. Ituses student data for all those students who stayed in the course through the final exam. Itexamines the effect of feedback