course titled Enhancing Academic Success. This is a one-credit hour (elective) course taught by one of the authors, who is an instructor in the engineering department. The course has been offered every semester since Spring 2017, and was loosely based on the Studying Engineering curriculum developed by Ray Landis.27 While this course was originally designed for students on academic probation, it covers topics of interest to all students, especially those in their first and second years who are interested in learning how to learn engineering concepts, and become successful students. Figure 1 below summarizes the course syllabus. The topics listed have been covered each semester, Proceedings of the 2021 ASEE Gulf
biomedical engineering not seen from the classroom, allowing me to become more aware of the possibilities I may want to pursue in the future.”While most students focus on the positive benefits of the course, few comment on anyapprehension or anticipated challenges. A written assignment completed before clinic rotationsincludes a student reflection on “Fears and Concerns”. Table 5 lists the most common responsesfrom the engineering students. The course syllabus and handbook include topics addressingthese issues and may have influenced the students’ responses.Table 5 - Common answers to “Fears and Concerns” Questions Common Answers • Overwhelmed by
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became evident as the semester progressed that students struggled withthe programming aspect of the course and that more attention to this topic should be addressedearlier in the semester. IV. AssessmentThe students’ perceived value of the course was assessed using an optional online survey thatcan be taken outside of class time. In order to assure data was not biased by students feelingforced to take the survey in class or respond in a positive manner, additional questions wereadded to the standard CoE evaluations given at the end of the semester. Furthermore, truthfulresponses are expected because students are made aware that the evaluations are anonymous andthe collective results are not released to the instructors until after grades are
model”, Engineering Design GraphicsJournal, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 5-14, Fall 1991.[10] Engage. (2009-2019). “Spatial visualization skills,” [Online] Available: Engage,https://www.engageengineering.org . [Accessed Jan 29, 2020].[11] A. Friess, E. L. Martin, I. E. Esparragoza and O. Lawanto, “Improvements in student spatial visualization in anintroductory engineering graphics course using open-ended design projects supported by 3-D printedmanipulatives,” In Proceedings of the 2016 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, NewOrleans, LA, USA, June 26-29, 2016. USA: American Society of Engineering Education, 2016.[12] D. I. Miller and D. F. Halpern, “Spatial thinking in Physics: Longitudinal impacts of 3-D spatial training
presentation.This paper proposes a simple presentation method to document and present the student outcomesin the self-study report. Data from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technologyprograms is used in this paper to illustrate the presentation method.For each course taught, the instructor evaluates each student on a specific Performance Criteria.These Performance Criteria are derived from the course syllabus and are chosen to capture aspecific skill or attribute for a particular student outcome. The faculty member must indicatewhich course evaluation tools were used (e.g. a specific exam problem, lab exercise, etc), howthe data was collected, the threshold used, and the expected level of attainment for that particularPerformance Criteria. This
the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Certified Green Professional (CGP) Designation into University Construction Management ProgramsThe Certified Green Professional (CGP) designation from the National Association of HomeBuilders (NAHB) has been recognized nationally in the residential construction industry forleading the way in green building and enhancing the professionalism of the residentialconstruction industry. From fall 2009 to spring 2014, NAHB has partnered with ten universityconstruction management programs to teach the CGP profession designation. In this timeperiod, nine CM faculty has taught 21 CGP classes, with 329 students participating in the CGPTraining. The addition of the CGP course and
project management experience,or capstone sequence, for the Department of Civil Engineering (Department) at LawrenceTechnological University occurs over two terms: ECE4021 CE Design Project 1 (CE Project 1), a one-credit course offered in the fall, and ECE4033 CE Design Project 2 (CE Project 2), a three-credit course offered in the spring.Students form their own teams of three to five members and develop a project where theygenerate a conceptual design and project management plan. The capstone represents theculmination of the students’ undergraduate education, providing them an opportunity to integratevarious curricular components in preparation for careers as civil engineers.Neither course has an instructor in the traditional sense
thesemester.Table 1. Topics included in Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering course discussed in thispaper. The course substitutes for first-semester chemistry for aerospace, mechanical, electrical andindustrial engineering majors. A chemistry textbook is used. Syllabus (Lecture) Topics Laboratories Atoms and Molecules Determination of Avogadro's Number Atomic bonds Atomic Spectroscopy Gas, liquids and solids Thermal Reduction of Copper Ore to Copper Metal Chemical reactions, equilibrium and kinetics Crystal Structures of Metals Crystals, crystal defects and symmetry Crystal Structures of Ionic Solids Thermodynamics
State. He has forty years experience teaching design related and solid mechanics courses, and has developed expertise in the areas of robotics systems, and micro-robotics. He is an ASEE and ASME member.Timothy G. Southerton, RIT Mechanical Engineering Tim Southerton is currently a fifth year mechanical engineering student at RIT in the BS/MEng Dual Degree program. As a student who enjoyed the Stamp-based Robotics class as an undergraduate, he was very interested in an opportunity to restructure the curriculum for Arduino compatibility. Once involved in the project, he decided to see it through as the teaching assistant for the lab portion of the revamped course, which proved to be an enriching experience. After
approaches to equity. Titled “Power, Equity,and Praxis in Computing,” the course plan is discussed and assessed through three facets: thecourse’s purpose, its content, and its (intended) learning environment. The purpose of the courseis to make space for undergraduate computing students to explore how systems of power arecoproduced with computing so that students can practice making social justice-centeredtransformations as critical participants of their field. The content of the course plan is organizedthrough modules that overview opportunities and considerations for intervention in computing.The learning environment is discussed through commitments to queer and critical racepedagogies, interdisciplinarity, and mixed methods in which teacher
the engineering power industry and education sectors and is known for his thought leadership in capacity building and engineering education.Bolaji Ruth Bamidele, Utah State UniversityAbasiafak Ndifreke Udosen, Purdue University, West Lafayette Abasiafak Udosen is a professional Mechanical Engineer in Nigeria and a doctoral research scholar at ROCkETEd laboratory, Purdue University, United States. He earned a B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering and an M.Eng in Energy and Power Engineering both in Nigeria. Over the years he has had the privilege of teaching courses such as Thermodynamics, Measurement and Instrumentation, Engineering Metallurgy, System Design, and Quantitative research methods at the University of Nigeria
or to answer via an online course system (or e-mail)Questions that require more higher-order thinking: • What is missing from this solution? (e.g., units, direction, formatting) • Why does the problem we solved fall under this topic? • We came up with solution A, but let’s say we came up with solution B, how can we tell right away that it is incorrect? (e.g., use a common mistake for solution B)One example for the last question is to provide solution B that is too high or too low to makesense for the problem. For example, if the problem is solving for reaction forces for simpleloading on a beam, and the student solves for a reaction force an order of
statistically significantly increased across all constructs in our StudentEngagement survey, which included constructs such as computing confidence, computingenjoyment, computing perceived usefulness, motivation to succeed in computing, identity andbelonging in computing, and intention to persist. In addition, students showed statisticallysignificant gains from pre to post testing on a content knowledge assessment targeting computerprogramming (not specific to EarSketch). More results will be included in future publications.Claims about EarSketch and its effectiveness in various capacities will be strengthened as morehigh schools are added to the study over the next two years.MOOC: EarSketch has been offered as part of a massive open online course
pinpoint key resources for the discipline. It might be particularly instructive to obtain a list of peer institutions from library management as checking the guides created at these institutions can be particularly instructive. • When creating class-specific workshops, reading the class description from the university course catalog, or requesting a syllabus from the course professor can be very instructive. Often topics gleaned from such documents can result in meaningful test searches to perform for the classes in question. • A discussion with the professor regarding expectations is also key. Is this library session linked to a particular assignment for the students? Is there an expectation that
is given to about 300students. Two lecturers give the lectures, with each lecturing both streams for about half thesemester. Tutorials are smaller, typically of size 40, and involve several academics. Eachtutorial is managed by one academic and one teaching assistant, normally a postgraduatestudent. In addition to tutorials, informal drop-in clinics are also provided. These take placein a large, open workspace and are staffed by senior students who assist students needing helpin mastering the course. Laboratory exercises provide further learning experiences, as dovarious online resources. While completion of all laboratory exercises is required, there is noattendance requirement for lectures or tutorials. Online assignments2 provide early
know….”. This 10 minute exercise asked students to understand the mission ofa lightweight fighter and then take their previous lists and see which might be applicable for thisspecific application. The idea behind the three exercises was to go from the “big picture” down tothe specific application. The information collected by the teams loosely formed the material inthe course syllabus (which was handed out the second lesson). Homework for this first class wasto write up their answers to these three exercises with no more than three pages. For homework,student teams were encouraged to use outside references, something that was not allowed duringthe first class. Student teams were also asked to select a team name, logo, and mission statementto
and writing studies faculty. The collaboration reinforced workdone in the required writing classes and allowed both parties to leverage their expertise. Thewriting guide currently contains sections detailing reports, figures, tables, equations, references,memos, homework, professional e-mails, and a general grading rubric. The rubric is generalenough so that individual instructors can adapt it for a given assignment, while maintaining aconsistent framework as students move from course to course. Civil engineering faculty used theproposed rubric to evaluate Fall 2014 assignments from a freshman-level introduction to civilengineering course, two required junior-level laboratory courses, and the department’s capstonedesign course; all four
include, among others, experiential learning, internationalizing curriculum, online learning, and educational technology innovations.Prof. Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Yuting W. Chen received the B.S. degree from University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign in 2007, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2009 and 2011, all in Electrical Engineering. Prior to joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a lecturer in 2015, she worked at IBM Systems Group in Poughkeepsie, NY in z Systems Firmware Development. Her current interests include recruitment and retention of under- representative
to the customary teaching evaluations, students were required to submit anassessment essay as part of their course portfolio at the end of the term. Specifically, the studentswere asked to comment on whether or not the course successfully met the course objectives andoutcomes as outlined in the course syllabus. Several themes and conclusions were citedrepeatedly by the students. For the sake of brevity, only a few representative comments are citedfor each theme.• Design Experience: o “The most important aspect of this course was that it gave me a large amount of actual design experience.” o “The course provided a complete understanding of an entire design process. This complete overview has not been provided
observed by Iridescent staff in each session and given feedbackon how to improve their communication. The course syllabus with weekly training details andthe lesson plan template can be accessed from our website (www.IridescentLearning.org), under“Programs” and “Engineer Training”. Page 15.500.6 Page 15.500.7Figure 1: First page of completed sample lesson plan on Animal Locomotion: ViscosityFeedback and SupportThroughout the 16 week training, participating engineers practice teach their lessons in front ofthe rest of the class and elicit feedback. They present
CoursesBelow is a brief description of the four required courses, as well as a description of the virtuallaboratory in which all labs for the three core technical courses are run. Several of the electivesand graduate courses also are implemented in the environment. More details about the coursesincluding a recent syllabus can be found on the Iowa State University Information Assurancewebsite [4]Virtual Laboratory – ISELabThe ISELab virtual laboratory provides a real world networking environment for students. TheISELab provides 120 publicly addressable IP ranges “borrowed” from the Internet. These IPranges are connected to the backbone “Internet” network within the ISELab to allow students towork in or run their own “corporate” network. ISELab is air
(c) reduce stresses on currentcomputer science faculty so they are not also expected to learn new content, while at the same timeensuring that new content and materials are systemically-oriented to the overall goals of the CSP-Hatchery project, with respect to issues of ethics, morality, inclusion, diversity and social justice.4 Test Runs for FacultySince these courses have come online, the first author of this manuscript has also been asked to presentguest lectures to their courses, on issues of ethics, morality, inclusion, diversity and social justice asthey relate to the specific topic of the course. To date, these have been accomplished in ComputerScience courses dedicated to algorithm design, and machine learning, and in courses
available to students a written details should be 2. Having a syllabus, contract description of each course before conveyed to students 3. Clarity/transparency in policies student registration Professors... primary It is essential to the university's mis- 3. New and revised responsibility to their sub- sion to discover, produce, and com
, whichallowed all students to identify and reflect on physics ideas and their applications. Thesuccessful aspects together with possible improvements of the teaching procedures arereported.1. IntroductionThe use of Blackboard system [1] is widespread now and is recommended over regularcourse websites [2], as it is significantly more versatile for course management andinteraction with students. The system is most effective for distance courses [3] as onlinecourses [4] can be delivered in a consistent meaningful manner even if recent works showthat there are some challenges associated with distance learning [5]. The system has greatbuilt in flexibility and allows instructors to use their imagination in designing the course[6], interacting with students
strong mathematical background, a basic understanding of industrialapplications, and effective problem-solving skills. At California State Polytechnic University,Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona), Vector Dynamics is a bottleneck course due to a high number offailures and repeats, hindering many students from advancing in their engineering curricula andresulting in a high attrition rate.Based on past teaching experience, students often have difficulty visualizing the abstractconcepts discussed in Vector Dynamics. Students also struggle with relating those abstractconcepts to familiar situations, leading to failure in understanding the underlying physicalprinciples taught in the subject. Compounding these issues is the ambitious syllabus for VectorDynamics
havethe opportunity to earn academic credit for their engineering design work. A key difference in thisframework as compared to other typical capstone designs, independent studies, or research creditcourses is that undergraduate TAs and project managers within the project teams are responsiblefor developing many of the assignments distributed to those students enrolled the course as theproject progresses. The methods of student assessment within this framework include: individualor small-group weekly assignments, design notebook checks, peer and self-evaluations,participation, summative technical reports, and the Humanitarian Library. Additionally, unlikemany traditional problem set or laboratory courses, student skills are developed through
thisexamination. The afternoon session is a discipline specific examination where five disciplineschemical, electrical, industrial, mechanical and civil are covered. A general exam is alsoincluded for those students who do not fall in the five categories.5, 6 Most topics in the afternoonexam cover the third and fourth year of the engineering curriculum in that specific discipline.The initial phase of the FE online review project was concerned with developing web-basedsystem for the general morning exam session. The second phase of the project, which ispresented in this paper, deals with the continuation of the project and covers the afternoonsession for Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. There are numerous booksmanuals and video courses
scientists and entrepreneurs. The Chicago Tribune. 3. Walters, W. (2005). Nanoscience Education. Retrieved February 12, 2008, from http://www.nanoscience.com/education/profiles/Wilbur_W/WW-1.htmlAppendix A:Sample Course syllabus of Nanotechnology modeling, fabrication/rapid prototyping.Course number: ITMF 420Course Title: Nanotechnology Modeling, Fabrication/Rapid PrototypingCourse Description: A developmental analysis of nanotechnology fabrication developmentswith a focus on nanoparticles modeling, nanoscale devices, production techniques, rapidprototyping, and their interdisciplinary applications in various industrial fields such as materialscience, manufacturing, physical sciences, and electronic
project management space to ask questions ofany of the TEL project team. This created a repository of new learning abouteCOW2/Moodle and project documentation so all of the courses were developed withthe shared knowledge of the entire TEL team.Based upon the needs of the faculty, different development strategies were adopted todesign a sample course implementing eCOW2/Moodle technologies. For example,some faculty wanted to see all of the features of eCOW2 and determine if they wereeffective teaching and learning tools for their courses. Others who had exploredeCOW2 previously and had used the CMS as an online syllabus were now interestedin seeing some of the more advanced features. When the course ideas were in placeand ready to show to the