empirical evidence of the effectiveness of games as learning environments[7-9], and thelack of literature on how to design, develop, and implement effective games for learning. In2006, NSF organized a National Summit on Educational Games with the specific objective ofdiscussing “ways to accelerate the development, commercialization, and deployment of newgeneration games for learning” [9]. Among reasons cited for the U.S. need to focus on digitalgames for learning, is that video games “require players to master skills in demand by today’semployers” (p. 4) – strategic and analytical thinking, problem solving, planning and execution,decision-making, and adaptation to rapid change. They also identified several attributes of videogames that are
abstraction across different objects to recognize that they fit into categories (abstraction). As students are sorting these items, they are learning about physical properties and deepening their understanding of what it means if all of the items in a pile are red or soft or strong (EDP – learn). After students have learned about these physical properties, they do an activity where they ask a series of yes or no questions about the properties of an object in a mystery bag until they are able to identify that mystery object (algorithms and procedures). Lesson 4 STEM+C – Test Materials & Plan Design: Students prepare for the design challenge by thinking like engineers while they test the materials that they will be using in their toy box organizer
viewpoints of the device that include product dissection, competitive analysis, intellectual property, financial forecasting, marketing, sales, distribution, industry standards, project planning and sociocultural impacts. The canvas is then used again in a forward pass, where students project forward alternative future value propositions for the device and then make a recommendation to the company on the best direction to take with the product. Creative Systems Design The Creative Systems Design course blends entrepreneuriallyminded topics such as creativity, ideation, and value with mechatronic systems design. Students gain practical familiarity with microcontrollers, sensors, and actuators while learning systematic ideation techniques to
meet the recommendation for MET capstone experienceis the project should ideally be multidisciplinary in nature, must be project based and includeformal design, implementation and test processes. Because of the program curriculum plans, theEET students were involved in the project for two semesters. The MET students had a onesemester project course; this enabled one group of MET students to design the mechanicalsystem, document their work, and pass it on to a second team for implementation. This wasconsidered a positive based on what is typical in industry, where engineering groups areconstantly interfacing. The project management skills and Design for Six-sigma methodologyrequired to coordinate three different semester syllabi (two MET
hypothesis 1D. Develop a research plan 2. Collect information 2A. Gather existing background information on the topic from literature and other relevant sources 2B. Synthesize existing information 2C. Perform a critical review of a research paper or article 3. Define a research methodology 3A. Identify protocols, strategies or methods for investigation 3B. Select and combine appropriate research methodologies 3C. Construct and describe a research methodology 3D. Identify necessary resources to carry out the methodology 3E. Identify assumptions of the research methodology 3F. State the limitations of the research methodology 4. Follow a research methodology
large K-12 professional networks. LinkedIn ismonitored by AltMetric and Kudos, so the altmetric tools available were identified at the sametime as the dissemination plan was developed. The faculty member was signed up for a Kudosaccount, and was shown the altMetric badge. The altmetric badge works for the universityrepository because individual deposits are assigned a DOI. Therefore, the faculty member hadmultiple altmetric tools to monitor the impact of the educational materials she was marketing viaLinkedIn to the K-12 networks.With a plan in mind, the faculty member was able to focus on crafting short messages forLinkedIn to catch the eyes of K-12 faculty members and direct them to either MERLOT or theuniversity repository. If someone were
challenges surrounding providing potable water.The instructor plans to repeat this activity with a heavier emphasis on reflections and have thestudents report on their drinking water technology in a more formalized fashion. Also, theinstructor plans to require students to research common contaminants as another bridge to thewater quality portion of the course. Additional plans include some different drinking watertreatment methods such as the addition of alum as a coagulant and possible integration of thethree-pot water treatment method.As an alternative, this activity could be used in the first week of class a way of introducingcourse content or prior to a water unit in an Environmental Engineering class. It also could beadapted for an outreach
personality, experiences, skills and values. This frame can provide insight into the ways that adult engineering students build their sense of professional identity through multiple modes. Successful development of an engineering identity is reflected by professional persistence. Work by Lichtenstein et al found that a minority percentage (42%) of seniors definitively planned on 12pursuing an engineering related career following graduation. Undergraduate engineering programs must try to do better to foster engineering identity development so that professional persistence is improved and the workforce is provided a steady stream of capable degreed engineers from a variety of
importance of testing activity and are aware that testers are responsible andaccountable for the product quality. The percentage of such students is 17% as against theprofessionals 50%. We can apprise students of the complete product life cycle through real-life projects and exposure to industry processes.The major issue is on the con side. The students are aware that the profession is relegated tosecond-class citizenship and vote that as the most critical issue. However, only 36% of thestudents believe so, as against 73% of the professionals. If students are exposed to this reality,many more may get distracted from the testing profession. The industry has to take care ofthis issue. While they may not have planned for this situation to occur, they
comparing alternative solutions can learn more than those instructed by the singlesolution. Osakue [12] published an instructional method on teaching solid modeling skills withAutoCAD. The method proposes that, at a planning stage, decomposing complex solid modelsinto segments and sketching each segment isometrically helps students learn the extrusion opera-tion concept of CAD software, as well as Boolean operations. The feedback from students showsbreaking down complex solids into segments helps students understand solid modeling principlesand such principles will be helpful in the use of other CAD software. However, there are few ITSsthat are developed to teach students solid modeling skills. There are also few empirical studies inthe literature
districts, we do not have a complete picture of the data todescribe our results.Bridge to Calculus – the Small-Scale InterventionTypically, more than half of first-year students majoring in engineering and computer science areplaced into courses below Calculus. A fifth to a quarter of the students begin their studies inCollege Algebra. This places these students significantly behind in an engineering or computerscience degree plan, and contributes to difficulties with retention in the majors and successfulcompletion of the major. Students electing majors in mathematics and science are similarly © American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 2016 ASEE National Conferenceaffected. We find
implemented in the future if a similar design opportunityarises: 1. Have each group submit a schedule with milestones of what they would accomplish, and submit a plan to catch up if they fall behind. 2. Have each student report actual accomplishment in addition to time spent on a topic. 3. Conduct more frequent design reviews.Students in the Systems Engineering course also shared some insights that they gained fromparticipating in the project. The following comments are illustrative, and were received as part oftheir final written project reports for the course, about seven weeks before the final competitionat the SpaceX facility in California.“The journey from the start of the semester until now has been very exciting, daunting
yearimplementation of the TDGs, group discussion focused on group leader planning and progress,the role of the group leaders, and successes with the group and concerns about the group. Forexample in September, the discussion focused on the nature of the meetings. One group leaderstated, “we plan to meet once a month.” Later in the semester, group leaders discussed the natureof their interactive teaching changes. One group leader, “I ask questions… on notecards… [thestudents] have a choice: to ask me a question or being asked a question. And they getmicrophones and I call like 30 cards a session. So, it is part of the whole lecture experience.” Inthe second semester, discussion focused on the progress of teaching development groupmembers toward making
games arefound useful to engage students, enhance information literacy skills, and increasepositive attitudes toward the library and its staff [10]. The IEEE team in China alsoemphasizes the role of interactive games in user engagement and has explored variousways of using social media to design interactive games and online competitions.The author believes that the best library activities should be planned and led byend-users themselves. The ACRL 2017 report encourages collaborative instructionalactivities and suggests libraries working with other campus units such as writingcenter and tutoring services to promote student learning [10]. As an internationalengineering membership society, IEEE has established thousands of student groups intop
. Thetechnologies considered were a flush system versus ascraper system (which could be operated to collectwhole slurry or separate liquids and solids) for wastecollection, an existing lagoon for waste storage, acovered lagoon for waste treatment and an ammoniastripping column for nitrogen recovery. In addition tobuilding upon their previous course knowledge (wastetreatment, nutrient management, economic andenvironmental modeling, and technologies for resourcerecovery) the students were provided with a technicalreport which contained site-specific farm dataincluding soil maps/plots, a nutrient management plan,waste characteristics for different scenarios, andbudget sheets. It was important that all informationnecessary to complete the game was either
paper introduces a framework for displaying engineering research artifacts in an artmuseum to efficiently facilitate expanded outreach opportunities. Education of the public aboutnew technologies and scientific discoveries is key to the technological growth of a society. AU.S. National Science Foundation Strategic Plan summarizes this verity: “Effective integrationof research and education at all levels infuses learning with the excitement of discovery andassures that the findings and methods of research are quickly and effectively communicated in abroader context and to a larger audience.” [1] When a new technology is understood by a varietyof individuals and groups, it can be accessed and used in diverse ways to benefit others andimprove
role in supporting strategic goals for diversity in American highereducation. American universities have integrated language on diversity and inclusion into theirstrategic plans focusing on hiring and research, thus articulating the importance of diversity ontheir campuses. Academic engineering librarians can consider two strategies to playing this roleeffectively. The first strategy involves three areas of activity: collection development, publicservices, and outreach. All three directly support institutional strategic goals related to researchand diversity. The importance of collection development lies in the selection of educationalresources to support academic programming and faculty/staff development. Public services(reference
alone were a $7.5 billion market in the United States in 2016 (Smithet al. 2017). Traditional herbal medicine is a repository of knowledge regarding natural productswith medicinal properties (Miller and Su 2011). Availability of the required medicinal plants andtheir purity are rapidly becoming issues throughout the world. The looming antibiotic resistancecrisis is an excellent example of the need for MSPC research to produce new antibiotic molecules.A research-based education program, like iREP-4-PACE, to identify new antibiotics frommedicinal plants and then produce them using MSPC affords an excellent platform to train studentsin essential skills that can be applied to their career paths.3. Plan of Operation and MethodologyThe complete
forengineering technology programs, to the best knowledge of the author of this paper.Reference4 uses “focus group interviews and the student perspective in order to investigate studentperceptions of flipped classroom in engineering education in many courses and subjects. Theperceived advantages, strengths, drawbacks, or difficulties, and students’ views on learning withflipped classroom were investigated”. Reference5 presents how a flipped classroom technique wasincorporated into a three-credit electrical engineering course. The paper discusses “student surveyresults, and describes plans to improve the delivery of this and similar courses”. Reference6 focuseson the implementation, development, documentation, analysis, and assessment of the
2015) since the nature of the learning experience, i.e.both quality and quantity of student activity, and methods of assessment vary in two settings. A carefulevaluation of student learning outcomes is necessary to determine the suitability of Mechanical Engineeringcourses for online education ensuring proper alignment of course outcomes with the instructional medium.Researchers have structured teaching roles in online courses into four categories, namely (i) a managerialor organizational roles concerned with planning, leadership, and monitoring the process, (ii) a social roleas the facilitator of discourse and discussion, (iii) an intellectual or pedagogical role sharing scholarlyknowledge, and finally (iv) a technical role providing
. Head & D. Graham Copeland Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of Construction Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. His academic experience includes: transporta- tion infrastructure planning and design, infrastructure resilience, traffic operations, highway safety, and geographic information systems. His research interests include: constructing spatial databases for bet- ter management of transportation infrastructure, improving transportation design, operation, safety and construction, understanding long-term effects of urban development patterns, and advancing active living within the built environment for improved public health. He teaches courses in interchange design, trans- portation
, Initial Implementation data, Research Project Plan-intermediate and final submissions; Reviews, Presentations, Grading Figure 1; EM Capstone Project’s Two Courses and their OutputsThe output of the first capstone course is a detailed project plan addressing all aspects of projectimplementation including data collection, modeling, risk mitigation, schedule and financial plan. Theproject is implemented during the second course
Department of Mining Engineering. He served as the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering from 1998 to 2006. He was appointed Dean of the School of Engineering at SIU Edwardsville in August 2006. He retired in 2016. Until 2000, most of Dr. Sevim’s publications were in mine systems optimization and open pit mine production planning. After 2000, in parallel with his administrative appointments, he mostly published in the area of engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Avoiding the Pitfalls in International Collaborations – A case study Hasan Sevim and S. Cem Karacal hsevim@siue.edu and skaraca@siue.edu
and UShealth-care sector planned to use data and analytics to improve their services and reduce errors.As on today, only 10 to 20 percent of the opportunities planned in 2011 have been realized byboth the sectors due to the shortage of technical talent. [7]In recent years, employment for mathematics related occupations increased by almost 4 percent,yet over the same period of time, the number of degrees conferred in math, statistics, andengineering declined by 2 percent [3]. A recent survey from Harvard Business Review indicatedthat big data initiatives are underway in 85 percent of the companies they surveyed. Theseorganizations also indicated that they planned to fill 91 percent of their data science jobs withnew graduates [6]. Though the
writing instruction across thecurriculum. Writing activities include impromptu writing assignments, peer review, outliningand planning exercises. The overall approach to improving students’ skills was: “group-basedtechnical writing development”. Assessment tools include instructor-written observations,student surveys, and in-class analysis of short writing samples by peer evaluation. The courseitself, which focuses on experimental methods in fluid mechanics and heat transfer, stressesexperimental techniques, results presentation, and technical report writing. Experiences in thiscourse have also provided opportunities for honors work, and research opportunities forundergraduate engineering students.Motivation As writing in engineering
planned for each of the fourproject areas.DisseminationBroad dissemination across geographically, academically, and culturally diverse universities iscritical for accurate evaluation of the overall effectiveness of LC-DLM cartridges and theirability to promote learning gains. To facilitate effective dissemination to a large number ofinstitutions, a unique hub-based system has been devised. Dissemination of the LC-DLMmodules is focused around seven national hubs, all of which have faculty members experiencedwith LC-DLM technology and implementation. To date, 46 universities and programsrepresented by 48 faculty members, excluding the project PIs, have been recruited to participatein the LC-DLM dissemination effort. This includes one two-year
spent 18 years working in government and industry, where his efforts included software development and support, technology planning and evaluation, and development and delivery of technical education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 The Use of HFOSS Projects in the Open Source Day at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in ComputingAbstractThe Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is the world’s largest meeting forwomen in technology. The Open Source Day, a hackathon using humanitarian free and opensource software (HFOSS) projects, has been held in conjunction with the conference for the pastseven years. Open Source Day provides an unusal opportunity to
“First you draw out your plans, then you collect your supplies, then you build his body, then you code it on this. You can keep going around again if you have enough time, so you could maybe attach an arm here and make it move like this.” Mina (pseudonym), Middle School studentThese excerpts were captured in video-recorded interviews of elementary and middle schoolstudents who participated in girls’ engineering afterschool programs in Seattle and Washington,DC. Researchers used artifact elicitation interviews to assess girls’ understanding of the cyclicalnature of the engineering design process. In the first interview excerpt, Samara offered a succinctexplanation. She explained the engineering design process as a cycle, saying
John Washuta, The Citadel Dr. Nathan Washuta is an Instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. He received both his B.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Maryland – College Park. His primary research interests include Hydrodynamics, Turbulence, and Experimental Methods.Coleman D. Floyd Coleman Floyd is a senior Mechanical Engineering student at The Citadel. From Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, he is an active student in a variety of student organizations to include the SAE Mini-Baja and Student Chapter of ASME. He plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering upon graduation. c American Society for Engineering
, wind turbine aeroelasticity, and engineering education.Mr. Billy L. Clark, The Citadel Billy Clark is a Mechanical Engineering senior at the Citadel Military College of South Carolina. Orig- inally from Simpsonville, South Carolina, he is an active member in a variety of student activities at the Citadel such as the water tunnel design team as well as a member of the AIAA. He plans to graduate in May with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Aerospace engineering.Mr. Robert Hudson Imhoff IV Robert Imhoff is senior at The Citadel set to graduate in May 2018 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Robert plans to commission in the United States Marine Corps as