concerns. The Writing Across the Curriculum movement has focussed on making writing apart of every classroom. Writing Centers have taken the role of guides to writers who need an additionalaudience for their texts. Freshman composition courses have tried to get students involved with writing asthey enter colleges and universities. And writing-intensive courses have been designated by an individualdepartment to handle the writing experience for the department’s students. There is never a loss to find someone to say something about communication, from broadgeneralizations about speech patterns to highly specialized notions of exactly which word to use in atechnical document. One of the most important realizations that we can ever make is that
development of engineering community relate to the educational process.21 Others,such as race, gender, and interest in other fields depend on a particular student.22,23,24Engineering identity and self-efficacy are the factors that are influenced both by an individualstudent and the educational process.24,13 The first year curriculum is where many universitiesstart tackling all of these retention-related factors.4,25,26,27 Developing experiences in the first yearthat actively engage the student in learning, such as an integrated curriculum, updated teachingmethods, or a cornerstone course, can be used to counteract attrition by improving theeducational process and addressing issues related to student specific variables.28,29,30,31,32Educational
Missouri-Rolla. Michelle is co-leading an Undergraduate Research Community to support students learning through research, efforts to integrate open-ended problems throughout students’ curricula, research to remove stormwater pollu- tants via engineered treatment wetlands, and development of appropriate technology courses and research with strong emphasis on social sustainability.Dr. Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Jennifer Mueller, PhD, PE, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental En- gineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She obtained her BS in Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University, and she earned her MS and PhD in Civil Engineering
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.Ms. Rebecca Hooper Rebecca Hooper is currently working as the Science Department Chair at Laurel High School in Laurel, MS. She holds a M.A. in Curriculum & Instruction from University of Texas at Arlington and a B.S. in Biochemistry from California Polytechnic State
knowledge and enthusiasm whichhas also helped shape the library presentation.The very first library workshop in 2001 was given in a classroom, with a combination oflecture and hands-on activity. The librarian demonstrated how researching a topic wasdifferent based on whether students used the UBC catalogue, journal indexes or theInternet. She included a process to help the students start their research with an academicpaper, and discussed the differences between primary and secondary sources. Shefocused on how to find information on topics gleaned from the course curriculum, suchas tsunamis, volcanoes, supernovae, and glaciers and demonstrated how to find thesetopics in encyclopedias and handbooks as well as how to find videorecordings, books
project and similar projects provides the student a unique opportunity to designand integrate the knowledge and skills acquired through number of different courses.The paper expounds in detail, the features from user’s perspectives and software designmethodology. The system uses the HTML language as the GUI interface for users. All the data ispassed using CGI forms and the Perl scripting language[1,2,3,5]. All necessary data is kept in onedatabase with 5 tables within that database that holds information on the users, lessons, grades andstudents. For the interaction between the HTML forms and database, the SQL[6] programminglanguage is used with an Open Database Connection (ODBC).I. INTRODUCTIONThis paper describes a project to write a program
comprehensive inquiry-based lesson plans much earlier thisacademic year (within one month of classroom placement). Mid-year fellow surveys alsoreinforced the value of the hands-on demonstrations early in fellows’ training as well as the highpriority fellows placed on continuing to share and brainstorm lesson plans with other fellowsafforded by the supervised structure of the bi-weekly training meetings, suggesting theimportance of ongoing, year-long training.SummaryInquiry-based instruction has been found to be an important instructional modality for successfulteaching of technology, science and math integrated into all areas of curriculum sincedemonstrated impacts include reductions in gaps between advantaged and disadvantagedstudents in math and
aligned curriculum from teachengineering.org as well as other curriculum providers.Ms. Dua Chaker, University of Colorado Boulder ”Dua Chaker is the Project Engineer for the TeachEngineering Digital Library in the Integrated Teach- ing and Learning Program, College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Born and raised in Boulder, CO she received her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with a Structural emphasis from the University of Colorado Boulder summa cum laude in 2013. She has been working for the TeachEngineering digital library for the past 7 years supporting K-12 Engineering curriculum development and dissemination.”Ms. Andrea Marks, Oregon State University Andrea
curriculum and holds HU core designation. The importance of the humanities to the practice of civil engineering is discussed in several courses, including the concept of form and function – that is consideration of civil works as both art and engineering – within the context of design. The program outcome, however, requires students to “explain” versus “demonstrate.” How one “demonstrates the importance” was a concern of the faculty, but “explaining the importance” seemed more assessable. While many students may be able to “demonstrate” the importance through, for example, integration with certain design projects, most may not be exposed to such a broad experience
integration of engineering and education.Bradley Jenkins, Saint Petersburg College BRADLEY JENKINS, is the Director of the Engineering Technology program at St. Petersburg College. He has developed engineering technology related curriculum and course content for the last twenty years and is the director of the Engineering Technology Forum for the State of Florida. He holds a B.S. Degree in Engineering Technology from the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF) and the M. Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction, also from USF. He is the state of Florida course numbering coordinator for the enginering technology curriculum. He is a Co-Principal Investigator for the NSF-ATE
tools include: • A common survey administered to student participants and a control group on expectations of an undergraduate curriculum in engineering. • Surveys administered to student participants and a control group comparing expectation versus experience in their undergraduate curriculum. • Student evaluations of their experience. • Statistics on the gender mix of applicants and participants in each model. • Post-graduation activities (or planned post-graduation activities).The use of surveys follows on the common practice of the use of surveys as assessmentinstruments4,10,11.For the LTR, we added a number of model-specific questions to the student evaluation. Further,we evaluated ongoing student interest in the
in order to assess and organize an overall approach to Smart Manufacturing training" [17]• Knowledge transfer on cybersecurity threats o "Overall, the paper and the proposed curriculum hold the promise of contributing to the ongoing effort to bridge the knowledge/skill gap by educating the future engineering and security workforce on protecting the ICS and CI from cybersecurity threats and attacks" [23]• Project management o "A key feature to the Artemis ground operations at KSC is the deployment of Artemis and the Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) teams working together to ensure that assembly and integration handoffs are well defined and coordinated. This
blurring between industry and academia and that we as educators need to make deeperconnections and a commitment to integration [13]. While the boundary between disciplines stillexists, they tend to overlap more when it comes to the workplace.Our goal as engineering educators should be to balance the breadth of cross-disciplinaryknowledge and practices in next-generation engineering curricula while integratinginterdisciplinary learning and discipline-specific competencies [14]. We need to educate studentsto solve problems in a cross-disciplinary environment. Thus, modern curricula must focus moreon cultivating diverse team working skills while nurturing individual values, knowledge, andskills [15]. Critical thinking plays an ever-increasing
from the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan.Prof. Rashaunda M. Henderson, The University of Texas at Dallas Rashaunda Henderson received the B.S.E.E. degree from Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, in 1992, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The University of Michigan, Ann Ar- bor, MI, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. From 1999 to 2007, she worked as a R&D device engineer at Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector). Since Fall 2007, she has been researching novel passive components and integration techniques for millimeter-wave circuits and systems at UT Dallas in Richardson, TX. As an Associate Professor she advises
school webpage administrator, TIVA Board Member, e2it3 Presi- dent, robotics/engineering club head sponsor, Gay Straight Alliance sponsor and SkillsUSA Texas District 7 Director. Currently working on an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at Texas A&M University in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture in College Station, TX. Plans are to pursue furthering a career in education at the district or university level as well as increasing experience in public and motivational speaking.Dr. Sheng-Jen ”Tony” Hsieh, Texas A&M University Dr. Sheng-Jen (”Tony”) Hsieh is a Professor in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of
Michigan State University. She was part of a research team studying bestpractices in Science, Math, Engineering and Technology Undergraduate Reform for SRI and NSF, and policyevaluator for an NSF Rural Systemic Reform project on math and science curriculum reform in the Navajo Nation.Taner Eskil is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan StateUniversity. Mr. Eskil holds a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and will soon complete his Ph.D. research in the areaof internet agent support for electronic commerce. Mr. Eskil has been instrumental in developments in the College ofEngineering freshman gateway course in computational tools.Timothy Hinds is an academic specialist in the MSU Department of Mechanical
consistentlyshow that students are very concerned about cheating. So as a consequence of our Program’sadoption, assessment, and evaluation of performance-indicator SO-4.a, (i) academic honesty isnow a topic in the required curriculum, and (ii) a regular assessment of student attitudesconcerning academic misconduct is carried out every year.The fourth observation is that sole function of a given performance indicator is to facilitatestudent attainment in its SO. Programs evolve, and so does a SO committee’s view for how bestto integrate the SO within the curriculum. For both reasons, a SO committee may wish to modifya performance indicator and this is a good thing, because it means the committee appreciates thatperformance indicators are utilitarian
in a college, we will generate views of the organization that integrate both structuralresources, needs and constraints on capacity, and grassroots efforts, resources, needs andconstraints on capacity. The social and the technical subsystems in an organization areinterdependent – that is, one does not have a purpose without the other, so both will need to beexamined and designed jointly.To this end, we present the Systems Engineering Initiative for Student Success (SEISS)framework we are developing for enabling educational organizations to scan, evaluate andtransform their operations to achieve their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals in studentrecruitment, retention, and graduation. Our SEISS framework which views a college or a
Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcontinuous improvement of the teaching strategies and methodologies used are integrated intothe activities of a year’s cycle. Both departments share responsibility for conducting summerworkshops for in-service teacher training. The partnership between the two departments iseffective because of the close match between the goals of the C&I department and the projectgoals. The education program at ISU has an emphasis on involving pre-service teachers witheducational technology as a tool for learning and as a tool for promoting the development ofinquiry skills. Pre-service teachers take a course on educational
Matthew W. Ohland is Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by over $14.5 million from the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his team received Best Paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008 and 2011 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011. Dr. Ohland is Chair of the IEEE Curriculum and Pedagogy Committee and an ABET Program Evaluator for ASEE. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau
companies, with student activities, team projects and senior projects as the primary vehicle.The existing manufacturing facilities, including the metal removal, casting, rapid prototyping andelectronics manufacturing laboratories of Cal Poly, provide the "real" factory hardwareenvironment. A Production Planning and Control Center is being developed to provide thedecision making and communication functions required in the modern factory. These two systemswill function as an integrated whole by utilizing state of the art communication networks. TheTeaching Factory will not eliminate traditional lessons, but rather will supplement them byproviding an integrative framework to link courses throughout the curriculum. Furthermore, andwhenever necessary
department. Having no room in the curriculum for a formal laboratory, the centraltheme is to combine theory, simulation and hardware within the existing classroom/study timeallotments. Teams of 5 or 6 students construct experiments “at home” and submit their circuitsas homework for grading. PSPICE simulations are used to support both the lecture material andthe hardware experience. Additional reading materials and tutorials have been created for betterutilization of both in-class lecture and out-of-class study time. Lecture style has been modifiedto incorporate class time for introduction to hardware and digital simulation with PSPICEwithout sacrificing course content. This approach has proven to be an effective tool inintroducing students to
usinghydrogen fuel, quantifying the economic opportunities in the Carbon Market. Sophomores inresearch Special Problems were tasked with extending the freshman experience to supersonicairliners, as part of a team including senior students. These students explored radical concepts forsuch airliners. An upper level aerodynamics course was used to develop technical figures ofmerit for supersonic hydrogen airliners from basic aerodynamics knowledge. The processidentified numerous gaps in the comprehension of the students from their courses. Theintegration challenge of this project enabled iterative refinement of their understanding. Theconcepts and analysis approaches taught at each level are seen to have become useful only whensubjected to integrated use
interesting to note that participants requested that the Chautauqua events be held at thetechnical colleges around the state rather than at other possible meeting sites. Faculty quicklyrealized that visiting different institutions broadens their sense of community and gives them anopportunity to pick up ideas from their peers. Also, ATE campus teams invariably experience anew level of “buy in” to the project when they host a Chautauqua workshop on their campus.(B) Special Summer Activities and Fall RetreatsDuring the first summer of the project, SC ATE Exemplary Faculty were allowed to choose oneof three types of summer activities: an integrated curriculum exploration classroom/laboratoryproject, a conference/train-the-trainer professional
productive, as it fostersadaptability while ensuring structure. However, for undergraduate students transitioning from astructured K-12 system to an open academic setting, a structured pathway to student successbecomes essential. Without clear guidance, excessive freedom may lead to distractions,impacting learning and retention. By integrating flexible learning pathways, education canmaintain academic rigor while allowing adaptive approaches that support student success acrossvaried learning needs [4].Figure 1: Challenges in Conventional Education (Courtesy: National Center for Education Statistics -2022)The pie chart titled "Challenges in Conventional Education in the USA" illustrates four keyissues that impact traditional educational models: 1
curriculum for teaching an introductory course on data science in flipped classroom format. An earlier grant dealt with designing the aforementioned visualization software. He has taught various courses in the computer science curriculum, including one that he developed and im- plemented called ”Databases for Many Majors.” c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Formative Self-Assessment for Customizable Database Visualizations: Checkpoints for LearningAbstractA formative self-assessment opportunity has been added to database visualizations, which aredesigned to introduce students of many majors to fundamental database concepts. Instructors cancustomize the example and
Session 2265 Mathematics for Scientists and Engineers II at the Colorado School of Mines Barbara Blake Bath, Robert Underwood, Loren Douglas Poole Colorado School of Mines (CSM) is in the process of a major curriculum revision asa response to the changing world for today’s science, mathematics, and engineeringgraduates. An integral part of that revision is the development of new mathematicscourses to better prepare students for their studies in science and engineering.Mathematics for Science and Engineering II is a four hour course which addresses theconcerns of faculty from other disciplines who comment that students
performed,students then begin to learn about important principles in reinforced concrete design, principlesthat will be expanded upon in classes later in the curriculum. It has been a great way for studentsto gain experience and to receive an introduction to the interaction between the reinforcing steeland the concrete. When the students later take a reinforced concrete design course, they canrelate back to their experience at FERL. Seeing a concrete beam physically fail also highlightsthe professional and ethical responsibility they will bear as designers of structures used by apublic trusting in their technical competence.In addition to the concrete beam, the other FERL activities are integrated both with FERL andinto the academic classroom. For
specific content knowledge to teach engineering [6]. There is a need for bothengaging engineering curricula for primary and secondary students, as well as for well-trainedteachers who are prepared to teach engineering. In order to address the need for high-quality secondary school engineering educationopportunities, the HYPOTHEKids (Hk) Maker Lab has implemented a curriculum developmenteffort based around the engineering design process (EDP). We emphasize engineering designbecause the open-ended nature of the EDP gives students greater accountability and ownershipover their learning and it has been demonstrated to be an effective method for improving studentknowledge of STEM content areas [7]. The goals of this effort are to (1) introduce
: Experiencing Engineering Design Through Community Service Projects,” Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, ST. Louis MO, June 2000.[4]W.C. Oakes, E.J. Coyle and L.H. Jamieson, “EPICS: A Model of Service Learning in an Engineering Curriculum,” Proceedings of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference, ST. Louis MO, June 2000.[5]E.J. Coyle and L.H. Jamieson, “EPICS: Service Learning by Design,” Appeared in Projects that Matter: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Engineering, E. Tsang, editor, American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), 2000, pp. 59-74.[6]L.H. Jamieson, E.J. Coyle, M.P. Harper, E.J. Delp and P.N. Davies, “Integrating Engineering Design, Signal Processing, and Community Service in the EPICS Program,” Proceedings