aninstructor-provided problem statement and problem illustration. The student had specific placeson the page to: a) gather information, b) organize their approach, c) sketch the system, d) analyzethe problem symbolically, e) solve the problem with numbers, f) report final numerical answers,and g) reflect on the answer. Parts a, b, and c together were worth 2/10 points. Part d was worth4/10 points, part e was worth 3.5/10 points, and part g was worth 0.5/10 points. To create theproblems, graduate research assistants browsed several dynamics books to understand the typicaltypes of problems used, and then created problems similar in scope and content. The homeworksolution template was designed to force students to utilize the problem-solving approach
Paper ID #22579When the Master Becomes the Student: Adviser Development through Grad-uate AdvisingAlison J Kerr, University of Tulsa Alison Kerr is a graduate student at The University of Tulsa. She is pursuing a doctoral degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. Her research interests include training development and evaluation as explored across a variety of academic disciplines and organizational settings. She is currently assist- ing on a number of training projects aimed at developing engineering students on relevant non-technical professional skills including ethical practice and presentation.Dr. Bradley J
researchers and journal editors in their field; 2. Students learn to read articles for content, text structure, and language use; 3. Students will develop grammatical accuracy and stylistic variety through contextualized review of problematic areas of grammar; 4. Students will identify and document conventions of publications in their fields; 5. Students will develop familiarity with the established forms and writing conventions of journals in which they will publish their a. Thesis or dissertation results, and b. Future research.Course MaterialsThe required materials for the course include a student-developed corpus of 10-15 publishedresearch articles from their discipline and research specialty for
) Students’ interpretation ofinquiry results; and (4) Actions in conducting projects. Additionally, creative thinkingand product design were also plotted into four instructional steps: (A) Activating priorknowledge; (B) Practices of creative ideas; (C) Selection of the proper one frommultiple creative actions; and (D) Task review to confirm creativity achievement.Finally, a final presentation has been held for a panel of experts to evaluate projectoutcomes.The outcome evaluation of curricular renewal is manageable, but the process ofevaluation is often very challenging. Process evaluation is commonly conducted bytechniques such as observation, interview, or case study that are often criticized forusing a small sample size and may result in findings
Paper ID #22785Citizen Scientists Engagement in Air Quality MeasurementsProf. Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah Anthony Butterfield is an Assistant Professor (Lecturing) in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Utah. He received his B. S. and Ph. D. from the University of Utah and a M. S. from the University of California, San Diego. His teaching responsibilities include the senior unit operations laboratory and freshman design laboratory. His research interests focus on undergraduate education, targeted drug delivery, photobioreactor design, and instrumentation.Katrina My Quyen Le, AMES High School
formally begin a procurement process through the Letter of Request, or "LOR". The LOR is a document generated by an end user and submitted through the logistics channels. It can be either a request for the purchase of defense items or services, or it can request rough-estimate Price and Availability (P&A) data to help the government decide whether or not to pursue a purchase further. LOR's are sometimes known as requests for proposal (RFPs).b. Personal biography for promotion boards or higher positions - Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors, and Marines seeking advancement must prepare a short military resume, often known as a biography. A biography should inform the board members of past experience and responsibilities that lead up to
following research question: How does the NE STEM 4Uprogram influence the (a) excitement, (b) curiosity/inquiry, and (c) understanding of STEMconcepts of elementary school participants? From this study, and the quantitative Dimensions ofSucess data, it was observed that the NE STEM 4U program within elementary schools was mosteffective in Space Utilization, Relationships, Materials, Organization, and Youth Voice (averagescores greater than 3.5). Scores were high (greater than 3) across most categories. The weakestobservation category was Relevance, though it still received an overall average score of 2.7.These results emphasize that NE STEM 4U is a highly effective STEM learning model for 2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Spring Conference, April 6-7, 2018
Paper ID #240942018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29Quantitative Analysis of Barriers to Completion of Engineering Degrees forFemale-Identifying and Under-Represented Minority StudentsNancy Mariano, Seattle University Nancy Mariano is a first generation college student, of Pacific Islander heritage, attending Seattle Uni- versity. She is currently majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Mathematics and is scheduled to graduate in June 2018. Upon graduation her plans are to spend two years gaining industry experience as a software engineer
for an application. Additionally, several other deans felt that entrepreneurial thinking enables students to bebecome more innovative and forward-thinking. Dean A also remarked, “The people with thatentrepreneurial mindset will be out in the lead and will be steering the needle where we'reheaded, versus just always catching up and playing catch up”. Several deans described thatexposure to entrepreneurial thinking enables students to more readily adapt to changes and cansupport their problem-solving abilities. Dean B chose to expand on how entrepreneurial thinkingcan reframe the idea of failure from being a bad thing to a necessary part of the design process.Dean B (from a primarily undergraduate-focused institution) comments: I
and refining their ability to talk about it (Quinn,Lee and Valdés, 2012).Design In order to answer the question, what is the role of language when students engagein an engineering task with a monolingual, one language only, or a translanguagingapproach to language, two or more languages?, the study draws on data collected from20 bilingual participants, ages 7 through 12 years old, who attended an engineeringmultilingual program for Hispanic/Latinx students at Stanford University in 2017.Students engaged in an engineering task with three linguistic contexts: (a) English only,(b) Spanish only, and (c) Translanguaging. They were encouraged by the teachers tocommunicate in the three language conditions with signs around the room
Paper ID #22451Teaching Genomics and Genomic Technologies to Biomedical Engineers: Build-ing Skills for the Genomics WorldDr. Karen R. Thickman, University of Washington Karen R. Thickman is a lecturer in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington. She received an A.B. in biophysical chemistry from Dartmouth College, and a Ph.D. in molecular bio- physics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She was an assistant teaching professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Computational Biology Department for five years before transitioning to the University of Washington. Thickman’s teaching
deliveryof the EE110 content compares with some guidelines offered by CLT.The CLT suggests evidence-based teachings for designing and delivering the instructionaccounts for the limited capacity of working memory [6] [7]. The CLT also models the student’scognitive learning process and architecture for efficient learning. The paper summarizes CLT’skey principles and guidelines. Key principles are illustrated with examples from EE110.Appendix A provides several tables of student feedback and Appendix B lists abbreviations andacronyms used in this paper.CoE’s Adult Learners and Teaching Experience of Full-Time FacultyThe student body in the CoE consists mostly of adult learners who have family and are workingfull-time. To meet student and employer needs
receiveddiscount on tuition fees, free tutoring, meals (breakfast and lunch) and various opportunities toparticipate in activities designed to increase their interest in and enthusiasm for engineering.Analysis of the performance of students is presented in tables 3, 4, 5 and figure 5 below. Ingeneral, students did quite well and most of them were able to reach one mathematics coursehigher than their original placement.Table 3: MATH108 and MATH110 Grades Breakdown 2015-2017 2015 2016 2017 Pass (A/B/C) 37 28 24 Not Passing (D/F) 7 2 10 Total Students 44 30
the use of designtools, mathematical modeling, and creative engineering problem-solving and (b) practicingstudio learning through peer critique and reflection. The art instructor engaged undergraduatestudents from an origami class to provide an opportunity for collaborative learning experiencesbetween the engineering and art students. This art course involved a capstone project ofinstalling an origami-inspired structure on the premises of a church. Based on initial designpresentations by the art students to their engineering counterparts, six out of 24 engineeringstudents were chosen to collaborate with the art students in the final design and physicalinstallation of the origami-based structure. All other engineering students were required
Paper ID #21821Providing Student Feedback from Motivation Assessments in Capstone CoursesDr. Peter Rogers, Ohio State University Dr. Peter Rogers is a Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. He joined the university in October 2008 bringing with him 35 years of industrial experience. His career includes senior leadership roles in engineering, sales, and manufacturing developing products using multidisciplinary teams to convert customer needs to commercially viable products and services. Rogers co-led the development of an ABET-approved year-long Capstone design
video was created in 2013 thatsimply and easily performed the functions so challenging in Taskstream. While it is unfortunatethat a better solution was discovered after so much effort had been put into a less than effectivetool, without the ePortfolio grant the researchers might not have worked so diligently to identifya more seamless process to collect and aggregate assessment data.References:[1] D Cambridge, E-portfolios for lifelong learning and assessment. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2010.[2] C B Whelan, “Helping First-Year Students Help Themselves,” Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 57(33), p. A56, 2011.[3] B Christe, “Persistence factors associated with first-year engineering technology learners,” Journal of College Student
persistence in Engineering.The experience is powerful, and demand for the courses from students outside of Engineering .The decision was made to develop DTD- Design, Thinking and Doing, a non-engineeringversion of DTC. This decision was made partially to respond to demand from students in otherschools who wanted to take DTC, and partially to spread the design experience across theuniversity. DTD is not unique, as Virginia Tech launched a similar course in CitizenEngineering.19BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Hirsch, P, Colgate, E, Anderson, J, Olson, G, Kelso, D, Shwon, B, Engineering Design and Communication: Jump Starting the Engineering Curriculum, ASEE Conference 1998. 2. Hirsch, Penny, Colgate, Edward, Kelso, David, Yarnoff, Charles, Shwon, Barbara
possible combinations of component settings. If theclass is small enough, then teams of 2-6 students can be turned loose to repeat the simpleexperiments as illustrated by the instructor. This introduces some hands-on “fun” to the math-oriented engineering statistics course.Figure 3. (a)Image of a Statapult and its Components; (b) How it is Used to Launch a BallRotate among Delivery Methods To the disdain of many college instructors, Millennials have ashorter attention span than students from earlier decades. They want variety—in fact, surveyshave shown they lose interest unless the delivery method changes every 10 minutes! So, in atypical 50-minute lecture, one should consider an appropriate rotation sequence among lecture(knowledge transfer
majority of these metrics,we see the desired increase in scores over the course of the intervention. However, Figure 3b alsopresents an unexpected progression of scores for two of these metrics: education on DET and useof DET in the classroom.Figure 3. Beliefs About DET. (A) Pre-service teachers’ interest in learning and applying DETmethodology. (B) Pre-service teachers’ confidence in their knowledge and use of DET. It appears from these results that pre-service teachers entered with the beliefs that theywere fairly well educated in DET and capable of applying it in the classroom. At some pointduring the program, the scores dropped below their initial values before returning to a final valuehigher than the starting value. This progression
the preliminary findings reported onhere to improve and expand the approaches to collect more substantial data and to triangulate.In this paper, we focus on the findings from two sets of semi-structured interviews from thesenior project course: a preliminary interview that asked background questions about eachparticipant’s experiences with collaborative work and writing (see Appendix A for specificquestions), and a final interview that focused on the collaboration in the senior project course(see Appendix B for specific questions). A second round of interviews will be completed at theend of the Spring 2018 semester. While seven students initially signed up to participate, twostudents, both women, completed both interviews. Both women are
engineering disciplines that suffer from low W-URM participation. AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the members of the ECEDHA Diversity Committee, ECEDHAstaff, and the participants in the iREDEFINE workshop. We acknowledge the support of theNational Science Foundation (NSF) through grant 1663249. We also thank Mr. John Scafidi, ITspecialist at Rutgers University for assistance with the surveys.References [1] B. L. Yoder, “Engineering by the numbers,” American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), 2015.[2] S. M. Lord, R. A. Layton, and M. W. Ohland, “A Multi-institution study of student
propagation.Preparing faculty to implement rubricsA series of workshop modules were designed to provide participant-centered professionaldevelopment on assessing process skills, including the use of the rubrics. The goals of theworkshop are to introduce instructors to the concept of eliciting and assessing process skills andenable them to use the rubrics along with the implementation guide developed by the project.Workshops generally begin with an introductory module designed to help participants exploreprocess skills before employing the rubrics. The components of the Introduction to Process Skillsmodule allow participants to: (a) explore different process skills, (b) determine how to elicitprocess skills with various classroom facilitation strategies, and (c
Paper ID #21420Faculty Perceptions of the Most Effective Settings and Approaches for Edu-cating Engineering and Computing Students About Ethics and Societal Im-pactsMs. Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder Madeline Polmear is a PhD student in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engi- neering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research interests include ethics education and the societal impacts of engineering and technology.Dr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil
solar cells as images and two-dimensional maps, and briefly discussed the wealth of information that is accessible to studentsusing inexpensive and easy-to-operate systems. Solar cells provide a convenient and informativeobject of study for imaging, laser scanning, and thermography due to the variety ofmicrostructures and their impact on readily measured performance parameters.References[1] “Snapshot of Global Photovoltaic Markets 2017” (http://www/ieas.pvps.org).[2] T. Strauch, M. Demant, P. Krenckel, S. Riepe and S. Rein, "Analysis of grain structureevolution via image processing based on optical measurements of mc Si wafers," 2016 IEEE 43rdPhotovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), Portland, OR, 2016[3] B. C. Chakravarty, N. K. Arora, S. N
. For this reason, we argue that theELCOT can serve an important role in helping the field of Engineering Education take “a morenuanced approach to active learning” (Streveler & Menekse, 2017, p. 189). ReferencesFreeman, S., Eddy, S. L., McDonough, M., Smith, M. K., Okoroafor, N., Jordt, H., & Wenderoth, M. P. (2014). Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(23), 8410-8415.Prince, M. (2004). Does active learning work? A review of the research. Journal of Engineering Education, 93(3), 223-231.Resnick, L. B. (1999, June 16). Making America smarter. Education Week Century
boneand bone locking plate systems were availablefor in-class demonstration. Afterwards, students (a)revisited their design with new knowledge fromthe surgical procedure to investigate thepossibility of design improvements. If therewas any need for change, students modified thedesign and then re-evaluated it to determine ifthe new design worked better with the surgicalprocedure/tools while still addressing theoriginal needs.Figure 3 shows an example of design changes (b)before and after the introduction of the surgicalprocedure. A group designed the plate for Figure 3. Design of clavicle fracture plate beforeclavicle fracture based on anatomy, fracture
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theirresidence halls on a Sunday evening and the program starts with a welcome breakfast onMonday morning. The key features of the week include: (a) work sessions and seminars gearedtoward introducing students to campus resources and helping students develop academic,professional and personal success skills; (b) a hands-on engineering design project competition;(c) participation in activities exploring the science and engineering behind select sports (e.g.bowling, biking) and systems (campus monorail system); (d) meet-and-greet from theuniversity’s president and engineering college deans; (e) daily social events that include ateam-building challenge course run and an evening campfire cookout. An overview of theweek’s activities is shown in Table 1 below
representations of “the public” across all documents. Emergingcodes were broadly categorized into six themes: a) characterizations of “the public,” b)professional duties related to “the public,” c) relationship between engineers and “the public,” d)societal problems in need of engineering solutions, e) engineers’ “social footprint” over time,and f) vision or mission statements. In LTS documents, the three most prevalent codes all fellunder the third theme, “relationship between engineers and ‘the public.’” They were thatengineers a) benefit “the public,” b) relate to “the public” in a collaborative way, and c) have asignificant impact on the work of professionals outside engineering. The first of these threecodes – that engineers benefit “the public
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