this lead-time must be considered in planning. We also spoke with students and parents if necessary to explain the program.• Administering the classes and blending our processes with existing university systems – the University has well-structured processes for application and bill paying and these were constraints on the program. We went into each class to ensure that students filled out the applications appropriately. For billing, the COE rebated tuition in order to make the class affordable and competitive with community college tuition rates.• Community building – besides the teacher training, we held community building events for teachers and administrators. One of our strategies to help improve teacher
through November 6, 2010. Whilevisiting three Chinese cities, Beijing, Xi’an, and Shanghai, the delegates visited four Chineseuniversities with strong engineering and engineering technician programs. A separate meetingwas held at the start of the trip with five representatives of the Chinese Society for EngineeringEducation who provided useful information on the status, plans, and larger issues facingengineering education in China. This paper provides a summary of that trip and offersobservations that may be useful to engineering educators in the United States and other parts ofNorth America. It was found that, in the last decade, the number of students in engineering andtechnician education programs in China has grown dramatically
collapse of compulsory student unionism in Australia in 2006 there are fewer social orsporting activities available to students on our suburban campus and less opportunity to formfriendships.To help commencing engineering students transition smoothly into university life; a space wascreated at the Mawson Lakes Campus for them to study, do group work, and develop peernetworks. It was conceived as a space that would enhance students’ social and learningengagement by giving them a sense of community and belonging. The space became operationalin 2009 and is called the Experience 1 Studio. This space is open plan with a flexible layout.Apart from individual or group study and project work students use the space in a variety ofways, for example, to
, anddemonstrated deeper understanding of subject matter. They found that service-learning is moreeffective over four years and that the messiness inherent in helping solve real community-basedproblems enhances the positive effects (Eyler & Giles, 1999).Astin et al. found with longitudinal data of 22,000 students that service-learning had significantpositive effects on 11 outcome measures: academic performance (GPA, writing skills, criticalthinking skills), values (commitment to activism and to promoting racial understanding), self-efficacy, leadership (leadership activities, self-rated leadership ability, interpersonal skills),choice of a service career, and plans to participate in service after college. In all measures exceptself-efficacy
experience and context, by design, demands that students actuallyapply the science content knowledge and skills they learn in class.In PBIL, students identify what they know, what they need to learn more about, plan how theywill learn more, conduct research, and deliberate over the findings all together in an attempt tomove through and solve the problem. Working together in groups allows students to shareknowledge and to build off the ideas and knowledge of others. Through the nature of thiscollaborative setting, students often are in the position where they need to engage in articulation,justification, and explanation behaviors. PBIL promotes content learning and skills developmentbecause it focuses on the exchange of ideas and provides intrinsic
have the necessary knowledge on how toextract the three different types of contaminants. The new teams were instructed to work throughthe following steps of the engineering design process to meet the challenge: identify the problem,gather information, imagine, plan, build, and test. Teams then presented their completed waterfiltration device, described their design, and reported their test results.Materials. The following materials were provided to each team of three students: aluminum foil,plastic wrap, paper towels, scissors, rubber bands, metric rulers, three or four 12 or 16 oz clean Page 22.442.6plastic drinking bottles (e.g., water, Coke
) program at Tennessee TechUniversity during the summer of 2009. The program provided the teachers with the opportunityto experience the full cycle of research from formulating a research question and a research plan,to carrying out the research plan along side mentors who acted as consultants to the teachers.The two of the participants were a high school math teacher and a pre-service high schoolchemistry teacher. Although the two participants worked in the same fuel cell laboratory andshared to some extent the same mentor, the focus of their research and how they would take backtheir experience to class was completely different. The math teacher focused on research aimedat trying to identify patterns in the response of a PEM fuel cell under
Connect after school program with the entire PreK-workforce talent pipeline Provide opportunities for industry and higher education mentoring and role models Include flexibility, variety, scalability and connectivity among various grade levels Deliver an inquiry-based, technology-rich program with a capstone projectAdditionally, the partners agreed on the following: Modules must intrigue youngsters by engaging them in inquiry Modules must guarantee student success by building in both reinforcement for students weak in skills and further explorations for students wanting to go on Plan for modules to run 6 to 8 weeks, and expect 2 to 3 meetings per week of approximately 45 minutes each (16-20 hours of total
AC 2010-828: SYSTEMS DESIGN OF A HYDRO-KINETIC TECHNOLOGY FORRURAL AREAS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIESJoshua Baumgartner, LeTourneau University Joshua Baumgartner is a senior mechanical engineering student at LeTourneau University. A National Merit Finalist and member of LeTourneau’s Honors Program, he advanced to the 2008 ASME Student Design Contest International Finals with his sophomore design team. Joshua plans to return to his hometown of San Antonio to work in building design and become a professional engineer. His other career interests include teaching engineering and designing for people with disabilities.Timothy Hewitt, LeTourneau University Tim Hewitt is currently studying for his
negotiate with teammates concerning favored concepts. Theyhad to adopt strategies to insure complete communication. They had to set boundaries when Page 15.1120.6working with their companion team on the final project.Question 3: What new habits did you learn in the design class?The students identified three design habits they learned. The first habit was to “be a conceptdoubter.” Don’t believe that a concept will work until proven. Second, they developed a habitof understanding the design as a whole while decomposing it into “little functions.” Third, thedeveloped the team habit of planning all communication.Question 4: Did you learn anything
consistent with theCity's vision, as laid out in its various planning documents) as well as environmental issues(since the 6.5 acre site includes steep slopes, protected vegetation, and a seasonal creek thatdrains into a major regional river). Each student team was required to create a specific designproposal that, at a minimum, addressed each of the issues enumerated below. In developing theproject scope, we worked closely with local practitioners already involved with this project. Welearned through multiple offerings of the course to spend considerable time developing theproject scope so that the students had adequate time to complete their projects. General: Site design including an improvement plan showing the location of all dwellings
Methods Engineering & IE 478 Facilities Planning. IE 316 introduces participants tomethods engineering and work measurement fostering the development of critical thinking, self-assessment, and team work; IE 478 trains the students in the art and science of facility design andplanning. Rounding-up the curriculum of these classes, this educational experience complementsthe student’s professional profile by adding the necessary cultural competency required toproduce a global engineer. The model consists of five components: identification and selection ofindustry partners and potential projects; attendance to in-class mini-lectures & assignment ofpertinent readings supporting the selected project; student’s training previous to
description of what is completed and what they plan to complete next; and (3) Whether the presentation was well-organized and easy to understand. After the general meeting, one student manager is responsible for averaging the grades, assigning Page 24.1165.7 the grades to the team-members in the gradebook, and giving the comments from the forms to the team leader. All members of a team typically receive the same grade. • 30% of the grade is based on documentation. Every student is expected to use a source code management system (SVN) and to use a issue tracking system (Redmine). Students are expected to create tickets in
that is planned for the 2014-2015 school years.There is still some variation in the use and definition of term such as "blended" and "hybrid" inrelated research. To be clear, in this study the term “hybrid” is used to describe courses whichhave live, face-to-face meetings in a physical classroom each week and include a significantamount of additional materials as well as technical and procedural innovations available from thecourse website. This includes “flipping” the classroom in which lectures are recorded butstudents still attend live class for discussion of the material and other active learning activities.Students Use of TechnologyThe debate over the nature of how students may or may not be learning differently continues.However, there
Indian/AlaskaNatives 0.3%, multi-racial 9.5%, unknown 4.9%.6At Cañada College, the discrepancy in the levels of preparation among different ethnicities ismanifested in student persistence. During a recent planning initiative led by the College President,a cohort study of newly enrolling students at Cañada was performed. Table 1 shows a summaryof one-year and two-year persistence rates of students by ethnicity. Among Hispanic students theone-year persistence rate was 59.4%, and the two-year persistence rate was 28.8%. The one-yearpersistence rate of African American students was 46.7%, and the two-year rate 20%, significantlylower than those of white students whose one-year and two-year persistence rates were 72.5% and54.4%, respectively. Given
Paper ID #7284Public Works Projects as Vehicles for Engineering Education and OutreachMs. Shannon Weiss, David Heil & Associate, Inc. Shannon Weiss is a project coordinator and specializes in the design and implementation of evaluation and market research projects related to DHA’s core areas of emphasis in science, engineering, health, and environmental education; and institutional strategic and business planning. Her work serves a range of academic institutions, government agencies, corporations and non-profit enterprises including projects funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of
Page 23.1107.5is easily assimilated by beginners with no previous programming experience. Despite itssimplicity and speed of use in the classroom, this language is sophisticated enough for studentsto use it to take readings from D-to-A converters, encode the equations of calibration curvesusing math blocks, write wireless communications programs using Bluetooth, and write data-logging programs to store sequences of time-stamped sensor readings in files (see Figure 2).D. Professional Development Experiences for EducatorsThe professional development model for the teachers planning to teach the SENSE ITcurriculum adopts the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework,which sees content knowledge, technology, and pedagogy not in
mentoring or a mentored role.Key factors in the simultaneous development of team skills and team member skillsA thoughtful and well planned approach to team development and support is needed to counterthe challenges presented by time pressures, to help change previously learned habits associatedwith working in teams, to convince students that development of team skills is a requiredoutcome of the course on a level similar to project completion, and to help teams harness thebenefits of diversity rather than allowing non-constructive conflict to hamper team effectiveness.Key factors that have proven to support the simultaneous development of team skills and teammember skills in the context of the mechanical engineering capstone design project at Ohio
planning to flip acourse for the first time should heed:Get Buy in from Students. The faculty should carefully explain the benefits of the flippedapproach to the class so that the students buy into the method. Without some salesmanship,students are likely to reject the approach just because it is different.Do Not Over-Flip. A flipped classroom is more a time management strategy than a pedagogicalapproach. The improved time management facilitates better pedagogy, but be mindful of thedifferences. Specifically, note that it is not essential for everything in the course to be “flipped.”It does not mean that you cannot ever deliver a traditional lecture or assign traditionalhomework. If the subject content or the mentality of the students demands a
multimedia exercises, 3D software and othertechnologies used in graphic engineering3,16,17,18,19.Researchers like P. Connolly20 suggested a need to develop spatial abilities in GraphicEngineering subjects. Barr21 analysed future academic engineering plans with modern trends inmind and highlighted that the most important subject that should be included in a programmeshould be the development of spatial skills. Historically there has been a great deal of interest inthe methods of instruction and technologies that could potentially increase the spatial skills of itsusers22, 23, 24. Currently, the rise of virtual reality (be it augmented, desktop or immersive) hasfuelled the renewed research about the development of spatial ability.Over the last few
Service Ribbon, Expert Marksmanship Qualification Badge with Grenade Bar, and Marksman Marksmanship Qualification Badge with Rifle Bar. Work Experience: Utah State University, Jan. 2010 to present, instructor for ETE 1020 energy, power, transportation systems control technology exploration of the concepts and processes relating to the control and automation (both hard and programmable) of technical systems in the areas of energy and power, transportation, and agricultural and related biotech- nologies. California University of PA, Jan. 2008 to May 2009, Teaching Assistant. Assisted the professor in class preparation, lesson plans, and distribution of materials Also gain teaching experience by lecturing the class
and university clients. Heil is a co-author of Family Engineering: An Activity and Event Planning Guide, and serves as a member-at-large on the Executive Committee of ASEE’s K-12 Division.Mr. Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering Greg Pearson is a senior program officer with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in Washing- ton, D.C. Pearson currently serves as the responsible staff officer for the public and private-sector funded study ”Integrated STEM Education: Developing a Research Agenda.” He is also study director for the NSF-funded project ”Changing the Conversation: From Research to Action” and the project ”Changing the Conversation: Building the Community,” supported by the United engineering
Knowledge [17][18][19] [10][20] Communication Skills [17][18][19] [10][21][20] Team Leadership [22][23][24][25][17][18][19][10][21][20] © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Problem Solving [24][17][18] [21] Decision Making [22][17][18] Taking Initiative [26][22][19] Conflict Resolution [17][18] Emotional Intelligence [27] Self-Control [26] [25][10] Planning and Scheduling [22
, if students engage with the ETD activities at each level, by the timethey graduate, they will be able to... 1. Leverage their knowledge, skills, strengths, and diversity and those of their teammates to develop innovative and inclusive approaches to global challenges. 2. Deploy effective communication strategies to manage collaboration and conflict within their team. 3 3. Devise a plan that manages team dynamics towards completing tasks that includes workload, responsibilities, quality of work, and timeline. 4. Observe and assess personal behaviors that contribute to team challenges, successes, and failures and
students’ self-efficacy and research identity. Surveyquestions ask students to evaluate aspects such as, how active their role was in planning theproject, sense of responsibility for project progress, sense of belonging to a community ofresearchers, and intention to persist in a research experience. Results will be used to scale thisopportunity and create similar communication fellowships for other Grand Challenges anddisciplinary programs at the university.1.0. Introduction and Background1.1. Undergraduate Student Engagement in Research Participation in transdisciplinary research enriches the undergraduate experience bytaking educational content out of the classroom and materializing it in a real-world, professionalsetting. Early
? 3.92 ± 0.62 76.92% Were the objectives clear? 3.85 ± 0.77 76.92% Was the course content organized and well planned? 3.77 ± 0.8 69.23% * question with” yes” or “no” answer (discrete variable). 74.1. Does a gamified flipped classroom help students to be engaged and motivated to study before the classes?As recommended by Kim et al. [15], Abeysekera and Dawson [5], Mojtahedi et al. [6], andLing and Gan [12] inverting in-class and out-of-class work, adding post-class activities andadaptations to the class materials are necessary when flipping a traditional classroom.However, these actions alone did not
metacognition having diverse disciplinarybackgrounds to foster a better understanding of the complex concepts of metacognition The ideabehind doing that was to encourage metacognition among engineering students. Suchinterventions have the potential to help students utilize metacognitive techniques that maycontribute to their professional and personal development. Time management interventions typically involve training sessions and workshopsfocused on goal setting, prioritization, and task scheduling. For instance, [18] developed a timemanagement training program and concluded that the students who actively utilize timemanagement tools like planning, setting goals, and priorities achieve higher academicperformance and demonstrate lower stress
recognizes thelimitations of change efforts that solely target individuals as the nexus of change. For example,instructors seeking to improve student outcomes in critical STEM courses or majors can applyresearch-based instructional strategies shown to lead to stronger learning and persistence [4], [5].Yet, while professional development programs can help individual instructors to plan andimplement significant changes to their teaching (e.g., [6]), the changes these instructors canmake may be limited by systemic factors, such as scheduling, classroom spaces, and collegialexpectations for content “coverage” [7], [8]. Moreover, when such changes are made byindividuals acting on their own, the population of students benefitting from such changes
mode.13. Project Formulate documents to be incorporated into the Analysis (4)Management project plan.14. Business and Analyze and solve well-defined engineering Analysis (4)Public Administration problems in at least four technical areas appropriate to civil engineering.15. Technical Evaluate the design of a complex system or process, Evaluation (6)Specialization or evaluate the validity of newly created knowledge or technologies in a traditional or emerging advanced specialized technical area appropriate to civil engineering