The course is/will be helpful to you in your anticipated career. 4.1 3.4 3.7 What percentage of the reading/writing assignments did you 4.3 4.3 4.2 complete? (5=100%) On average, how many hours per week (outside of class) did you 1.7 2.9 2.7 spend on this course? (4=>10) Outcome 1 - Apply the balance principle ..... 4.0 4.3 Outcome 2 - Develop models ..... 3.8 4.1 Outcome 3 - Understand and apply the modeling process 3.8 4.6 Outcome 4 - Model problems involving mass conservation .... 3.8 4.2 Outcome 5 - Model resistive
manager, technical staff, and six mid-career facultymembers with industry experience, who will work alongside six current faculty members to staffthe three labs. In order to infuse NYIT’s academic programs with practical applications, faculty willhave the opportunity to have summer residencies in industry and conversely, industry practitionerswill have the opportunity to spend time in shared-use collaborative work spaces at the Center. Onepartnership with IBM is leading to the integration of Enterprise Systems computing in thecurriculum and the participation of faculty in several workshops and conferences on EnterpriseSystems. Another alliance with Juniper Networks will result in innovations in NYIT’s MS inNetwork Security curriculum.Every year
and requirements of especially the Masters-Level programsshould be examined, along with the needs and expectations of structural engineering practice,with input from both academics and the profession. The reported study was designed to obtainsignificant critical information on the expected preparation of the young engineer in structuralengineering practice using a survey based modified Delphi method. This paper discusses a methodology for determining the expectations of the structuralengineering profession for the preparation of the young engineer achieved through graduate workand early-career experience, along with the results of this study. For structural engineering thequestion of expected competencies may be examined for at least
review, 51 journal articles, and 100 confer- ence papers. He has mentored four doctoral students, eleven masters students, 25 undergraduate research students, and 11 undergraduate senior design project teams; over 300 K-12 teachers and 95 high school student researchers; and eighteen undergraduate GK-12 Fellows and 53 graduate GK-12 Fellows. More- over, he directs K-12 education, training, mentoring, and outreach programs that currently enrich the STEM education of over 2,000 students annually.Dr. Magued G. Iskander P.E., Polytechnic Institute of New York University Dr. Magued Iskander is a professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at NYU-Poly. Dr. Iskander is a recip- ient of NSF CAREER award, Chi Epsilon (Civil
academic background in biology and the environment, as well as computer science andengineering experience. The project included both graduate and undergraduate students so thatall could benefit at an early stage in their careers. The photo (Fig. 2) shows participants at anearly stage of the project gathered at the inventor’s residence for early experimentation. Figure 2. Early project participants Academic vs. Business Environment Michael Levine brings his entrepreneurial background to the project. As such, he isaccustomed to being surrounded by people devoting their full attention to his projects. In anacademic environment such single-mindedness is unrealistic to expect. Student participants
. Page 23.643.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Global Confidence: U.S. Student Outcomes from an International Capstone Design ExperienceAbstractThe Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)-Sustainable Energyand Aeronautical Engineering Program (SEAEP) brings together a consortium of fouruniversities: Florida State University (FSU), the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt),Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI) and Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) totrain post-secondary engineering students for global engineering careers. A key aspect ofthis program is using design courses as a vehicle for student and faculty collaboration—both U.S. and Brazilian
technologists various advancedskills that can be used in their careers. Overall, many different fields of engineering can benefitfrom this application, enabling the development of skill and knowledge in many differentengineering aspects and processes. As this capstone design project provides opportunities forstudents to design & manufacture, it stimulates the students’ interest in real-world productrealization. As manufacturing laboratories are very expensive to develop, this project can also beadapted at other institutions that have limited funding to improve manufacturing processfacilities.Background In Drexel University’s School of Technology and Professional Studies, many courses relatedto robotics, design, and materials are offered to the
and 4 seek to build intuition and curiosity in the students by providing a broadoverview of EE and CpE. These three goals work together to pique the students’ interest enoughto continue in the major. Conversations with advanced students in the major indicate that a fewwere frustrated by the lack of detail in the first course. Their comments indicate a hunger thatwill be fed as they move through the rest of the major.Another strong motivator for students choosing engineering as a career path is self-efficacy orthe belief in one’s ability to perform a task within a specific domain. If a student believes she orhe will succeed, then success is more likely. Jones and others [7] have shown there is a stronglink between self-efficacy and persistence
Clemson University. Dr. Caldwell is a member of ASME and Pi Tau Sigma.Dr. Colleen M Halupa, LeTourneau University Dr. Colleen Halupa is currently the Director of Curriculum Design and Technology at LeTourneau Uni- versity. She has an A.S. in medical laboratory technology, a B.S. in healthcare management, an M.S. in health administration, and an Ed.D. in curriculum and instruction with a concentration in educational lead- ership, and management. Prior to her career in academia, Dr. Halupa was a biomedical sciences officer in the United States Air Force. Prior to her retirement from the military, she held varying positions in health administration and education and served as the program director for all of the Air Force
including prevalence[11, 12, 13, and 14]; motivations [15]; personal characteristics and attitudes of perpetrators [12,16, and 17]; detection [14]; deterrence [15, and 18] and the correlation between academicdishonesty and the students’ ethical behaviors going forward into their careers [19]. Many ofthese studies [11, 15, 16 and 17] have used surveys of students and/or faculty as the main sourceof data. Anyanwu [20] provides case studies that indicate that plagiarism may often be a result ofstudents’ failure to understand the rules of proper citation. Others concentrate on academicdishonesty in laboratory setting [13] or in test taking [11, 16, and 17] or consider a wide range offorms of academic dishonesty in the aggregate [15].Some studies [15
- sity of Washington, Seattle, in 1982, 1987, and 1995, respectively. Dr. Schimpf began his academic career in 1998, and is currently Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, WA, USA. His research interests include numerical methods for forward and inverse solutions to partial differential equations, with biomedical applications. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Schimpf was employed as a Senior Principal Design Engineer in the electronics industry, where he enjoyed 13 years of experience developing parallel embedded signal and image processing systems.Dr. Chuan-Chiang Chen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Chuan-Chiang Chen is a Professor in the Mechanical
introducethe engineering process as the foundation for all future coursework and career practices. Thispaper discusses an implementation of a freshman engineering design course that embodies thisbelief.The Introduction to Aerospace Engineering course, AERO 101, develops the fundamentalcontext and importance of the aerospace engineering major and profession. While it is not arequired course in the curriculum, it can be completed either in the first or second semester of thestudents’ college career and has substantial influence over the students’ opinions and enthusiasmabout aerospace engineering. Students enter the course with little or no engineering experiencebut anticipate using the information in the course to assist in making a decision on choice
, citizenship through leadership, including a solid theoretical and management, decision-making and practical foundation problem solving abilities Sustainable Success: Graduates who have sustainable career success and participate in leadership roles through lifelong learning, effective communication, multidisciplinary teams, and broad-based perspective of engineering and societal needs 22 DEPARTMENT PROGRAM OUTCOMES: Aligned with curriculum and extracurricular activities (10 program outcomes connected to leadership
joining the LSU faculty in 1988. As associate dean, he has acquired funding from NSF to support the development of several initiatives aimed at improving student retention and graduation rates as well as supporting faculty with development with effective learning and teaching pedagogies.Prof. Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State UniversityMr. Warren R Hull Sr. P.E., Louisiana State University Warren R. Hull, Sr. is the Engineering Communication Studio Manager at Louisiana State University. He earned a B.S. from Louisiana State University and an M.S. from Harvard University. He is a licensed professional engineer whose engineering career spans over 40 years. Prior to joining LSU, Hull was a senior partner with an
. This is notsurprising given the potential rewards of a successful entrepreneurial career both with respect toallowing entrepreneurs the freedom to pursue their own ideas and visions as well as with respect tothe potential for large material rewards. But how do we nurture students to become successful en-trepreneurs? In this paper, we report on an innovative program at the authors’ institution, designedto nurture students to become IT entrepreneurs. While the program builds on the experiences ofother programs, it includes a number of novel components that are integrated together in an un-usual manner to interlock and complement each other.1. IntroductionIt is widely accepted that entrepreneurship is the engine that drives the American economy
engineering curriculum, a foundationwill be formed upon which a system for improved communication skill in engineering can bebuilt.Initial InvestigationsThere has been for a long time a concerted effort by a number of practitioners across the countryto develop programs that will help students understand the need to communicate in a manner thatwill benefit careers outside of the English world. The Writing Across the Curriculum movementhas done much to support the need to make faculty and students more conscious of theimportance of communication in life and in the workplace. The Northwest Inland Writing Projectat the University of Idaho, the National Writing Project, and the Red Mountain Writing ProjectScholarly Writing Retreat for University Faculty
Paper ID #5953Applying Decoding the Disciplines in a Construction Engineering MechanicsCourse: A description of the Decoding InterviewDr. John Tingerthal, Northern Arizona University John joined the Construction Management faculty at Northern Arizona University as an assistant professor in 2007. His engineering career spans a wide variety of design and forensic engineering experiences. He spent the first eight years of his career performing structural consulting engineering in Chicago. This work culminated with design work on the Minneapolis Public Library and the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison Wisconsin. He was
/30 & E” model, and any requirements will incorporate maximum flexibility, including distance-learning delivery of courses. v We believe that practical on-the-job experience and life- long learning are not important. The committees firmly believe in the importance of experience and life-long learning to develop the body of knowledge over a career. As such, the committees advocate Page 8.235.5 mandatory experience as part of licensure. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering
sound welldefined, but the ways in which WIE programs work to accomplish these outcomes varytremendously.Recruitment happens at multiple phases and levels. In the community of scholars and practitionersthat address women in engineering, there exists a high level of awareness and research that showsthe importance of starting recruitment efforts at an early age. WIE programs with Girl Scouts, forexample, are designed to help maintain an interest in math and science and raise awareness ofengineering as a career path for these girls4,5. Recruitment efforts for older students include "openhouse" days held on college and university campuses and summer engineering camps. Suchprograms involve significant follow-up with participants as directors work to
” that negatively affects theperformance of students[2] and effectively bars them from entering careers that require a firmknowledge of mathematics. To counter this anxiety and improve student achievement, AlanGreenspan encourages “a deeper interaction with numbers and their manipulation to a point atwhich students are confident and proud of their level of skills.”[3]To emphasize the interrelated nature of STEM concepts, the National Council of Teachers ofMathematics calls for a “shift in emphasis from a curriculum dominated by memorization of Page 8.683.1isolated facts and procedures and by proficiency with paper-and-pencils skills to one
ramp up the partner school’s instructional staff’sknowledge of telecommunications technology. The team concept also seemed to be successfulwith many career and guidance counselors attending the workshop to gain first hand knowledgeabout the fast growing telecommunications industry. The intern program was again held duringthe summer and again proved to be highly successful. The Co-PIs continued work on thedevelopment of a 2+2+2 telecommunications curriculum, easily replicable low cost laboratoryexperiences, distance-learning technologies, and an accompanying on-line competency profile forthe developing telecommunications curriculum.Year three of the grant (1999-2000) was again similar to the first two years of the grant withrespect to partner
provide a working knowledge of nanotechnology in generaland the physics and chemistry employed in nanofiber production specifically.Additionally several modes of assessment were used through out the activity. Inparticular, an attitudes inventory was administered pre and post activity to evaluatechange in perceptions about pursuing STEM careers. Summative assessments were usedto gage student’s learning and performance based assessments were used to enhancestudent’s internalization of the subject matter. The students demonstrated an improvedunderstanding of nanotechnology across the board and girls performed better than theboys on the summative assessment. As a capstone on the project the students producedposters to communicate their findings to
“accelerated” (a.k.a., 5-year masters, 4+1, etc.)masters programs allow seniors to take graduate-level courses that apply toward their Master’sdegree while still classified as undergraduates. Economies of scale provide opportunities forconcurrent offerings of upper division technical elective and graduate courses to fulfill the needsof both groups for students. The needs of the profession demand graduate degrees ofengineering practitioners at some point in their careers and five-year BS/MS programs addressthis need at the entry level.IntroductionEngineering is defined as the profession “that applies knowledge of the mathematical and naturalsciences gained by study, experience, and practice to develop ways to economically utilize thematerials and
each year to meet global collaborators, competitors, and leaders through an intensely immersive learning experience that goes beyond classroom studies. Other programs reflecting Wei’s international reach include the college’s Poverty Alleviation/Service-Learning program and Engineers Without Borders. This global perspective is rooted in a vision of SJSU as a preeminent producer of forward-thinking problem-solvers. With this goal in mind, Wei has established the Silicon Valley Engineering Scholarship, a program that provides $5,000 of annual support for high-achieving students to pursue engineering careers. Wei is also a Principal Contributor to CSU (California State University) Engineering Academies, a statewide
seen a “C” student become leader of the winning team and go on tointernships and careers with the corporate partner. We have seen lasting friendships form amongprevious strangers, both for students, corporate team members, and faculty team members. Ingeneral, students tend to leave the challenge with greater passion for defining and pursuing theirfuture careers. They gain confidence, they are exposed to new ways of thinking, and theydevelop new relationships. It is amazing that by the end of the competition a freshmen studentcan stand up in front of the CEO of a global organization, a panel of professionals, and a liveaudience, present a unique idea, field challenging questions, and not even look at the experienceas unique. After weeks of
obstacles and disincentivize them to continue to be interested in andwant to study in this area. Therefore, the IASG club was started as a retention tool. The IASGwas one answer to keeping students who want careers in information assurance andcomputer/network security engaged during their undergraduate coursework.Second, one of the authors of this paper is the Director of the Information Assurance Center andhis research area focuses on information assurance and computer/network security. In the earlyyears of Iowa State University opening the Information Assurance graduate education program,he had a steady stream of undergraduate students coming through his office looking to work onresearch projects focused on information assurance and computer
incurriculum design and course instruction [5]. In their study of what skills employers are lookingfor in undergraduates, Crawford et al. (2011) identified seven soft skill clusters associated withright brain thinking: 1. Experiences 2. Team Skills 3. Communication Skills 4. Leadership Skills 5. Decision Making/Problem Solving Skills 6. Self-Management Skills 7. Professionalism SkillsThis comprehensive study based on 31 US universities and 282 employers representing all 50states found that employers and alum ranked soft skills as the most important in terms of jobeffectiveness and career development [6].The uncertainty and complexity in today’s global marketplace are dramatically changing theworld of work
programs, where she coordinated student courses as well as parent information sessions. Her research interests include students' perceptions of their learning experience as and how to promote students' learning who show giftedness in the Engineering and Technology areas. Page 15.423.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Development of Parents’ Engineering Awareness Survey (PEAS) According to the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior FrameworkAbstractWith increased interest in promoting engineering as a field of study and career pathway to bothcollege and pre-college student, it is important to
AC 2010-1242: IMPACT OF CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY EXPERIENCES ONCULTURAL SENSITIVITY DEVELOPMENTLarry Bland, John Brown University Larry Bland is currently Chair, Division of Engineering and Construction Management and Associate Professor of Engineering at John Brown University. Dr. Bland has been at John Brown since 2002. Prior to his academic career, he spent over 30 years in industry. His industrial career moved from engineering to executive management with significant international experience. Since joining John Brown, Dr. Bland has been active in expanding undergraduate research opportunities for students and assessing university study abroad programs
education through graduate study in engineering. This educationalmodel would be similar to that followed by those preparing for careers in law, medicine, andbusiness. In contrast, ABET’s EC2000 accreditation criteria allow a more moderate approachthat places greater emphasis on liberal education in the undergraduate engineering program.NAE’s E2020 reports occupy a middle ground, advocating for even greater curricular breadthand liberal education than ABET’s EC2000 accreditation criteria require but stopping short of acomplete restructuring of undergraduate engineering education. The Engineer of 2020, inparticular, presents the engineering education of the future as liberal education, stressing theroles of interdisciplinarity, communication