Engineers Canada. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Outcomes-Based Assessment Instrument for Engineering Problem-Solving Skills Bahar Memarian, Susan McCahan Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada bahar.memarian@utoronto.ca, susan.mccahan@utoronto.caAbstractThis poster paper provides an in-depth analysis of the design of a new assessment instrument.The instrument, Constructive Alignment Integrated Rating (CAIR), is a formative feedbackscheme that facilitates the assessment of engineering problem-solving skills. Importantly, thisinstrument is designed to provide
processes were an explicit outcome.Further, faculty wanted to give students the chance to integrate what they had learnedthroughout their various seminars earlier in the course. The target educational goals ofthe project are shown in Table 1.Table 1: ENGR 100 project goals Educational Goal RationaleApply teamwork process Ability to function on a multidisciplinary team is explicit course goalApply engineering design process Application specified process is explicit course goalWork with a real customer Practice communication with a non
particular. It is a follow up to previous work by the author,on viable strategies to improve the classroom environment of engineering colleges in theArab Gulf Region. At the start, the paper provides an overview of relevant benchmarks ofengineering education in the Region. Then, relates author’s preliminary findings onteaching/learning practices in engineering colleges of the Region, sheds light on the pros andcons of the lecture format, and examines the literature on meanings and substance ofdifferent active learning protocols, focusing on cooperative engagement strategies. Thepaper, also, sheds light on: theoretical roots, research support, current practices, andsuggestions for redesigning classes, if need be, to stimulate interaction and help
particular. It is a follow up to previous work by the author,on viable strategies to improve the classroom environment of engineering colleges in theArab Gulf Region. At the start, the paper provides an overview of relevant benchmarks ofengineering education in the Region. Then, relates author’s preliminary findings onteaching/learning practices in engineering colleges of the Region, sheds light on the pros andcons of the lecture format, and examines the literature on meanings and substance ofdifferent active learning protocols focusing on cooperative engagement strategies. Thepaper, also, sheds light on: theoretical roots, research support, current practices, andsuggestions for redesigning classes, if need be, to stimulate interaction and help
learning strategies in particular. It is a follow up to previous work by the author,on viable strategies to improve the classroom environment of engineering colleges in theArab Gulf Region. At the start, the paper provides an overview of relevant benchmarks ofengineering education in the Region. Then, relates author’s preliminary findings onteaching/learning practices in engineering colleges of the Region, sheds light on the pros andcons of the lecture format, and examines the literature on meanings and substance ofdifferent active learning protocols focusing on cooperative engagement strategies. Thepaper, also, sheds light on: theoretical roots, research support, current practices, andsuggestions for redesigning classes, if need be, to stimulate
introduc- tion to engineering course for the Global Freshman Academy. Her Ph.D. research focuses on multi-scale multiphase modeling and numerical analysis of coupled large viscoelastic deformation and fluid transport in swelling porous materials, but she is currently interested in various topics in the field of engineering education, such as innovative teaching pedagogies for increased retention and student motivation; innova- tions in non-traditional delivery methods, incorporation of the Entrepreneurial Mindset in the engineering curriculum and its impact.Dr. David Jacob Taylor, Arizona State UniversityMr. Ian Derk Mr. Ian Derk is an instructor in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts and PhD student in com
and it attracts great venture capital streams to itsindustries, so there ready capital for infrastructure investment and business development. It has ahighly educated population and an international perspective, which make it easy for foreigners towork and establish business relationships. It has great supply of high-tech managementprofessionals who have many years of experience in manufacturing.There is close collaboration between high-tech companies and universities in Taiwan.Universities integrate their curriculum into the high-tech industry needs through the relationshipsof the schools with the high-tech parks. The science-based knowledge and education of theTaiwanese is a good fit with technology and problem-solving innovation. Taiwan’s
Paper ID #7645STEM Students outside the Classroom: The Role of the Institution in Defin-ing Extracurricular ActivityDr. Denise Wilson, University of Washington Denise Wilson received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1988 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989 and 1995, respectively. She also holds an M.Ed. from the University of Washington (2008) and has worked in industry (Applied Materials). She is currently a faculty member with the Electrical Engineering De- partment, University of Washington, Seattle, and she was
mainly focused on the reform strategies of engineering① The Engineers’ Council for Professional Development (ECPD) was founded in 1932 as an engineeringprofessional body dedicated to the education, accreditation, regulation and professional development ofengineering professionals and students in the United States. In 1980, ECPD was renamed the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) to more accurately describe its emphasis on accreditation.http://www.abet.org/about-abet/history/teaching and curriculum from the perspective of curriculum design, students appraisal andclassroom teaching evaluation under ABET accreditation, and impact of ABET upon thedevelopment of engineering disciplines and programs. A few monographs were also
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 with Project WET at the University of Arizona Maricopa County Cooperative Extension as a curriculum developer and professional development faciltator. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Investigating Peer Observers' Perspectives on Middle School Engineering Designers' Communication Challenges (Work in Progress) Author 1, Institution
supported with very littleHDL in-class learning. The revised-course covers HDL in the lecture as well as several laboratorysessions (Table 2). Furthermore, a design project that integrates various components of the coursewas added. To address HDL in-class learning, a new textbook was selected that better supportsthe use of HDL in logic design and emphasizes the relationships between HDL statements and thecorresponding digital hardware. It is also worth noting that, in order to prepare students for thesubsequent laboratory exercises, an introduction to VHDL is covered earlier in the revised course. Table 1: Course Structure before Course Revision in 2014 Lecture Topic / Week
support. From the educator’s point of view,after an initial time-consuming effort, pioneers who use web-based support intensively for theirteaching appreciate being able to: § “Obtain high-quality and well-structured pedagogic material; § Integrate online references that enrich and update their own material; § Facilitate self-learning tasks that help students become actors in their education rather than simple consumers; § Support student collaboration and extended work groups involving foreign students and experts from industry; § Provide ‘learning by doing tools’ such as simulation, virtual laboratories and remote laboratories.” (7)At the international level with open distance learning, each university may
Paper ID #41375Teaching Project Planning and 4D Scheduling in a Project Planning and SchedulingCourseDr. George Okere, University of Cincinnati George is an associate professor educator, and heavy highway chair (endowed position) in the Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management Department in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati (UC). George has over 23 years of construction industry work experience, and 11.5 years of which was with Kiewit, where he worked on various heavy civil projects. He received his PhD in Technology Management from Indiana State
effective way.PurposeArguably, a primary role of the instructor of a first year class is to design and execute the coursecontent in a manner that prepares each individual to be successful in their discipline-specificcourses going forward. Underpinning this goal of preparation for their disciplines, is a tacit,more fundamental goal that students will be have an understanding of what it means to be anengineer, and will grow to have a self-identity belonging within this group. Dym et aldocumented significant increases in second-year retention rates compared with national averageswhen engineering students take an integrated science program with project-based learning intheir first year. [6] Given that project-based cornerstone classes can improve
work) and air in the rigid vessel does not. (Correct answer = d) Table 3: Alpha Version of Question 6.AThe Alpha TestingIn the fall of 2003 we administered an alpha version of the concept inventory consistingof 11 multiple choice questions to 93 students in two classes at the Colorado School ofMines—39 students in a senior-level chemical engineering course in TransportPhenomena and 54 students in a senior-level integrated laboratory course designed forstudents with a specialty in mechanical engineering. The alpha version of the test can befound in Appendix A. All of the students were seniors who had taken at least one coursein thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluids.Several of the questions had two parts (1, 2, 7a
designer to integrate the sick building syndrome in the building design: A number of rules should be developed to integrate expertise from different professional concerned with indoor air quality and sick building syndrome, using a questionnaire and face-to-face interviews. The sick building syndrome is a multidisciplinary problem since the causes of sick building syndrome are multiple, such as, contamination (inside and outside), material used to construct the building (formaldehyde, fiberglass), inadequate ventilation, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, cigarette smoking, humidity, noise and illumination, scabies, and other unknown syndrome. An interprofessional experience in different fields such as
Paper ID #40054Board 434: Work in Progress: Building a Sustainable InstitutionalStructure to Support STEM ScholarsDr. Donald W. Mueller Jr. P.E., Purdue University, Fort Wayne Don Mueller received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Missouri University of Science & Technology and is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at PFW. He served as chair of the IPFW engineering department for four years. Don is interested in engineering education from the first-year to graduate-level. He has taught many courses in the thermal-fluid sciences, including Sustainable Energy Sources and
1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings experience upon which the succeeding courses in the curriculum can build. The large number of experiences in the course each require that the student execute a series of actions (or inactions) that provides the experience. All of these require time and an effort on the part of the student and instructor and result in a relatively high workload. This is especially true because the course must allow students to make some missteps (which are inherent in the design process) and then correct the mistakes and assess how to avoid or more quickly recognize the misstep in the future. Students consistently rate the workload high in course evaluations and it is noteworthy that they suggest an
AC 2012-4144: THE TYRANNY OF OUTCOMES: THE SOCIAL ORIGINSAND IMPACTS OF EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS IN AMERICAN ENGI-NEERINGProf. Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University Amy E. Slaton is a professor of history at Drexel University. She is the author of Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color-Line (Harvard University Press, 2010). She also writes at the website STEMequity.com. Page 25.1348.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Tyranny of Outcomes: The Social Origins and Impacts of Educational Standards in American
bepenalized if they use them.University Programs · Support Programs – women meet to discuss the ways in which the climate could be improved for female scientists. · Changes in curriculum – Stanford University offers a four credit hour class entitled, “Women in Engineering: Perspectives.” The class was designed by female graduate students in the mechanical engineering department and introduces guest speakers to discuss issues such as integrating marriage and family with jobs and how to arranging time off. · Female graduate students in the sciences mentor undergraduate students at The
“ innovative curriculum.”Choosing specific keywords with more semantic meanings can be a double-edged sword. It mighthurt publication’s visibility, as suggested by the STP framework, unless the exact and specificterms are used in the scholarly literature search by the pertinent audience. To investigate this issuein the future, an in-depth nuanced analysis will be necessary and helpful. One approach to furtherthis work is to generate semantic-based clustering keyword lists. We also believe that manuallycoding keywords list into groups with related themes will benefit the nuanced analysis to evaluatefurther and validate the research foci.As to the keywords extraction from the abstracts, similar semantic-based issues remain. The cur-rent results reported
from Virginia Tech, Masters of En- gineering from North Carolina State University, MBA from King University, and PhD in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Dr. Carrico is a certified project management professional (PMP) and licensed professional engineer (P.E.).Dr. Matthew Arnold Boynton PE P.E., Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education Matthew Boynton recently finished his Ph.D in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He also holds a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Tennessee Tech and an Ed.S in Instructional Leadership. Matthew has experience in industry as well as teaching. Previously, Matthew taught Project Lead the Way Engineering courses in two rural high schools in Appalachia. While
treating the end user as a person versus just the end user. I: Okay. R: More than a technical spec. Like more like an actual person.Brittany’s multiplistic understanding of ethics is situated in her focus on the user. That is,focusing on the user forced inclusion of multiple possibilities for the “right” way to proceed indesign. This finding suggests the possible relationship between a human-centered focus andhigher order orientations in ethical development. Furthermore, the context of the service-learningcourse possibly shaped this integrated view of ethics and HCD. The course, in her estimation,provided a view of the user that shifted
you keep in mind that some of the respondents graduated 16 years ago.In order to increase response-rate we took multiple actions that were developed based on pastexperiences and best practices [40]: • The invitations and survey featured clear but appealing design with photos of the course • We ensured concise content without unnecessary details. The content of the three e- mails varied slightly, highlighting various values for the respondent each time: the opportunity to give something back to their alma mater and prospective students by further improving the curriculum; the chance to reflect on their own educational and career goals; and an opportunity to win a prize. • The initial drafts took 20
and Design Engineering and the Blended Learning Unit at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Page 12.317.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Blended learning - enriching the class activity with technologyAbstractBlended learning presents new opportunities. Opportunities to enhance the conventionallecture experience and also stimulate the students outside the lecture theatre. This paperprovides some drivers for learning and indicates some of the influences likely to impact onthe development of a blended learning curriculum. To situate the work an example of blendedlearning from an Engineering Science
of about 170 pages. Auburn team was graded by Auburn teacher and vice versa.The University of Plymouth’s interest in the project Students from Mechanical Engineering and related fields at the University of Plymouth(UP), UK, have for many years done team-based design projects in their final stage (years 3-4)design module in order to: • Develop group working skills ( team sizes are normally 6-8 students) • Gain an understanding of how graduate engineers work and to gain this experience; team chairperson and secretary are elected • Enable students integrate different fields of their undergraduate studies e.g., fluids, manufacturing, business etc. This is a requirement of the British accrediting professional
Center on Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces.Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Richard Goldberg is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is also the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Curriculum in Applied Sciences and Engineering, which houses the undergraduate BME program. He teaches several instrumentation courses. He also teaches a senior design class in a collaborative effort at UNC and Duke University. His primary interest is in rehabilitation engineering and assistive technology for people with disabilities.Kevin Caves, Duke University Kevin Caves is an Instructor in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University and a Clinical
evaluated in order to avoidoverburdening the students.The project introduced in this paper was offered first-year students in their second semester,with the aim to demonstrate to them a typical application of computational methods inengineering and to stimulate their motivation and basic interest in informatics andmathematics. Although fluid mechanics is not part of the curriculum in the first year of study,automotive engineering freshmen naturally show a strong interest in this topic. Concepts likeaerodynamic drag, uplift and downforce are often used in connection with vehicle design, andthe visual perception of the flow around an airfoil or an automobile fosters the students’comprehension of fluid dynamics. Visualization bridges the quantitative
Paper ID #17363Comparison of Spatial Visualization Skills in Two Approaches to Entry-LevelGraphic CoursesDr. Jorge Rodriguez P.E., Western Michigan University Faculty member in the Department of Engineering Design, Manufacturing, and Management Systems (EDMMS) at Western Michigan University’s (WMU). Co-Director of the Center for Integrated Design (CID), and currently the college representative to the President’s University-wide Sustainability Com- mittee at WMU. Received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering-Design from University of Wisconsin- Madison and received an MBA from Rutgers University. His B.S. degree was in
Math and Science from 97-01. Dr. Eways received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin. He Page 12.770.1 received an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering and an M.S. and a B.S. in Electrical Engineer from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Eways is very interested in improving student retention, increased student success and better and more efficient ways to teach science.© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Page 12.770.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 From Tootsie Rolls to Composites: Assessing a