all-inclusive studentprograms occurred after girls are becoming disinterested in STEM whereas programs thatspecifically targeted girls made career influence a priority and targeted girls at an age when girlsscience and math scores begin to lag behind boys’ scores. This review of literature demonstratesthe needs to focus all-inclusive programs on career choice at a time that is most advantageous forgirls’ pursuit of engineering as a career option. References1. National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, National Survey of College Graduates, 20152. Beede, D., Julian, T., Langdon, D., McKittrick, G., Khan, B., & Doms, M. (2011). Women in STEM: A Gender
Assessing Students' Entrepreneurial Skills and Mind‐Set." Journal of Engineering Education 94.2 (2005): 233-243. 2. Ochs, John B., Todd A. Watkins, and Berrisford W. Boothe. "Creating a truly multidisciplinary entrepreneurial educational environment." Journal of Engineering Education 90.4 (2001): 577-583. 3. Vickers, Ken, et al. "Creation of an entrepreneurial university culture, the University of Arkansas as a case study." Journal of Engineering Education 90.4 (2001): 617. 4. Erdil, N. O., & Harichandran, R. S., & Nocito-Gobel, J., & Carnasciali, M., & Li, C. Q. (2016, June), Integrating e-Learning Modules into Engineering Courses to Develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Students Paper presented
Paper ID #18346Mapping Engineering Outcomes to the Lean Launch Curriculum in the Con-text of DesignDr. Laura Hirshfield, University of Michigan Laura Hirshfield is a lecturer and research fellow at the University of Michigan. She received her B.S. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from Purdue University, both in chemical engineering. She then transitioned into the engineering education field, focusing on the areas of design and entrepreneurship.Dr. Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan Aileen is faculty in Engineering Education and Biomedical Engineering. Previously, Aileen was the Associate Director for
, asmall biogeotechnics demonstration was suggested to help freshman students realize what abiogeotechnical engineer can do.Although this work is specific to biogeotechincs, we believe a few elements from this work werevaluable in achieving the desired goals of increasing student interest and motivation. Theseaspects include a) building a team of engineers and educators to create the module b) following asystematic process of instructional design, c) spending ample time on graphics to strike thebalance between what the SMEs wanted to convey and what the students will be able tounderstand, d) making connection with the natural world of students through real images andnews stories, and e) conducting multiple formative evaluations to engage in an
Paper ID #20380Incorporating Polymer Engineering in the ClassroomProf. Sarah E Morgan, University of Southern Mississippi Dr. Sarah Morgan is a Professor in the School of Polymers and High Performance Materials at The University of Southern Mississippi. She joined The University in November of 2002 after a fourteen year career in industrial R&D in engineering thermoplastics, at GE Plastics locations around the world. Morgan’s current research focuses on polymer surfaces and interfaces, including composites, nanocom- posites, and bioinspired materials. She was named a POLY Fellow by the Polymer Chemistry Division of
2-year budget agreement is due to expire, restoring the sequestration hammer.• BCA caps would reduce discretionary spending.• Defense hawks, Democrats favor lifting caps. GOP Priorities• Repeal of Affordable Care Act• Senate confirmation of Supreme Court nominee• Tax reform• Infrastructure• Increase in defense spending• Care Act. White House BudgetOMB Director, Mick Mulvaney,Republican Study Committee& House Freedom Caucus:both targeted discretionaryspending.A deficit hawk, not a defense hawk. Key Appropriators - HouseRodney Frelinghuysen, Nita Lowey, N.Y., Kay Granger, N.J. Chair Ranking Democrat Texas, Defense John Culberson, Mike Simpson
made apparent duringthe interview. These characteristics were the focus of the initial participant background phase ofthe interview, but also arose throughout the interview. Because these codes arose from a singleinterview, they certainly do not comprehensively describe all characteristics of the participants.However, they do indicate aspects the participants felt salient to discuss in the context of aninterview focused on their experiences with innovation and in response to questions about (a)their personal and academic interests and background, (b) their experiences with innovation, and(c) their general conceptions of innovation.Project characteristics included any aspect of an innovation project a participant discussed. Theseincluded but
Paper ID #17888Maintaining Student Engagement in an Evening, Three-hour-long Air Pollu-tion Course: Integrating Active Learning Exercises and Flipped ClassesMajor Andrew Ross Pfluger P.E., Colorado School of Mines Major Andrew Pfluger, U.S. Army, is a PhD Candidate at the Colorado School Mines studying anaerobic treatment of domestic wastewater. He previously earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from USMA and a M.S. and Engineer Degree in Environmental Engineering and Science from Stanford University. He is a licensed PE in the state of Delaware. Major Pfluger served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography
focus on the impact that engineeringwork can have on society, to place these topics in multiple existing courses, or to have focusedcourses designated solely to ethics and broader impact issues.AcknowledgementThis material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants#1540348, #1540341, and #1540308. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions orrecommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarilyreflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Bibliography1 D. R. Haws, "Ethics instruction in engineering education: A (mini) meta-analysis," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 2, pp. 223-229, 2001.2 B. Newberry, "The Dilemma of Ethics in Engineering Education
Paper ID #18763Middle School Math and Science Teachers Engaged in STEM and Literacythrough Engineering Design (Evaluation)Prof. Reagan Curtis, West Virginia University Reagan Curtis, Ph.D., is Professor of Educational Psychology and chair of the Department of Learning Sciences and Human Development at West Virginia University. He pursues a diverse research agenda in- cluding areas of interest in (a) the development of mathematical and scientific knowledge across the lifes- pan, (b) online delivery methods and pedagogical approaches to university instruction, and (c) research methodology, program evaluation, and data
Description df χ2 p CFI IFI SRMR CAIC Hypothesized Models 1. Direct Effects Only 21 1000.43 < .001 .176 .181 .403 1098.78 2. Indirect Effects Only 12 349.63 < .001 .716 .720 .178 506.99 3. Both Direct & Indirect Effects 6 339.23 < .001 .720 .725 .177 535.94 Additional Bidirectional Paths Correlated Errors A. Among Mediators 9 61.51 < .001 .956 .957 .035 238.54 B. Among Outcomes 9 297.79 < .001 .757 .761 .171 474.82 C. Among Mediators & Outcomes 6
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appreciate; it boosted my grade and moral, and built my academic confidence. This scholarship boosted my grade noticeably. Although, I never fall class before, it was a concerning issue to eliminate lower letter of C+ from my grade in every semester. Fortunately, right after I was awarded with the ESI scholarship, B” was the lowest grade I had on that semester. Moreover, I used to struggle with twelve to fifteen credits per TABLE II. AWARDS MADE UNDER THIS PROJECT Awards Awards Year Total Females Total Average 2014 5
board, but other people feel afraid and unsure about what that might mean for them.Finally, the scale of the institution itself can be a barrier to broadening participation in therevolution: [B]ecause of the size of [the institution] and how many things are going on, there are a lot of initiatives, a lot of projects people are working on, which is fantastic but it also kind of overwhelms people in the sense that it's hard to really find momentum in something unless it keeps going, because there's always another initiative that's springing up that people latch on to. So it's a little bit of a challenge to keep people focused on something and follow through.The main idea described here is ‘initiative
Conclusion A Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes B No No No No No C Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes D No No No Yes No E No No No No No To summarize all those interviews, surveys and samples, it is found that although LOCsproblems existing in Chinese international students and scholars at different stages of theiracademic career paths, HOCs have long been their weakness in their technical writing.V. Proposals for Improvement Since China adopted its open
developing a problem statement prior to beginning work on anydesigned solution. This included a statement that described the problem their team soughtto address and provided an explanation and data demonstrating a) what the problem is(i.e., how do we know it exists in the place you are studying?) What peer-reviewedsources and credible news accounts give evidence of this problem); b) the impacts of theproblem; c) the cause or causes of the problem. In each case, we challenged students toprovide not only a claim, but also data (peer-reviewed sources and credible newsaccounts giving evidence that the claim is true), followed by a warrant or explanationthat logically connected the data to the claim.When students arrived at the design phase (in the
-Saffih_Fall2016[10] http://bit.ly/Fundamental_of_Microelectronics_by_Dr_Faycal-Saffih_Spring2017[11] Fayçal Saffih, W. A. T. Wan Abdullah, Z. A. Ibrahim, A. Iftekhar, "Parallel Learning-Processing for Artificial Neural Networks Implementation" Scientific International, 10 (3), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at ISO 98, 7-9 May, 1998.[12] http://bit.ly/Dr_Faycal-Saffih_Research_Driven_Teaching_Philosophy[13] B. Kosko, "Bidirectional associative memories," in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 49-60, Jan/Feb 1988.[14] http://bit.ly/Mathematical_Proof[15] http://bit.ly/Experimental_Proof[16] http://bit.ly/Special_Diodes_Class-Dr_FaycalS[17] http://bit.ly/Special_Diodes_Lab-Dr_FaycalS[18] http://bit.ly/off
). 3. Gumaelius L, Almqvist M, Árnadóttir A, Axelsson A, Conejero JA, et al. 2016. Outreach initiatives operated by universities for increasing interest in science and technology. European Journal of Engineering Education 41:589-622. DOI: 10.1080/03043797.2015.1121468 4. Ruggs E, Hebl M. (2012) Diversity Inclusion and Cultural Awareness for Classroom and Outreach Education. In B. Bogue & E. Cady (Eds). Apply Research to Practice (ARP) Resources Retrieved 02/17/2017 from http://www.engr.psu.edu/AWE/ARPResources.aspx 5. Anthony AB, Greene H, Post PE, Parkhurst A, Zhan X. 2016. Preparing university students to lead K-12 engineering outreach programmes: a design experiment. European Journal of
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, medicine, and arts were favored less than social sciences by male students. Environmentalscience, defense, and business studies are favored by male students as compared to performing arts as well asdefense studies was favored as compared to medicine. Environment science, defense and business studies are alsofavored by male students over arts.Academic performanceTable 5 provides cumulative grade point averages (CGPA) of students by areas. The college follows 10-pointgrading system with A, B, C, D, F grades, which are equivalent to 10,8,6,4,0 points, respectively. Since thestandard deviation can be considered equal (the ratio between the highest and the lowest deviation is less than 2),we ran ANOVA with Dunnett comparison with the null hypothesis
. identify potential future students and to guide and mentor them in exploring their career options and opportunities, b. elevate the educational gaps between the high school and the first year university for a potential candidate by introducing intermediate topics that can bridge the gaps, and c. provide a campus environment in which the middle school students and high school students can experience their independence and learn responsible decision making as growing adultsThe recruitment avenues include summer or weekend camps for the targeted students and areascience fairs, and feeder school visits (Barger et. al, 2104). Among them, summer camps withspecific themes for the middle and high school students are one of the
Paper ID #17883Exploring the Appeal of Customizable Computing Programs to Undergradu-ate WomenDr. Marissa H. Forbes, University of Colorado Boulder Marissa Forbes is a research associate in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the Univer- sity of Colorado Boulder and lead editor of the TeachEngineering digital library. She previously taught middle school science and engineering and wrote K-12 STEM curricula while an NSF GK-12 graduate engineering fellow at CU. With a master’s degree in civil engineering she went on to teach advanced placement and algebra-based physics for the Denver School of Science and
Resistance Alzheimer’s Disease Strengthen/sustain the biomedical research workforce High-risk/high-reward programs through Common Fund Diversity programsSource: https://www.nih.gov/sites/default/files/about-nih/nih-director/testimonies/fy17-budget-rollout-slides-20160209.pdf How Does NIH Solicit Applications? Federal Opportunity Announcements (FOA) published through - the NIH Guide (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/) - grants.gov Parent Announcements cover basic activity codes - investigator-initiated applications• Special Opportunities to fill gaps • Requests for Applications (RFA), a one-time call with set
this research; 1. All students from the three cultures, China, India, and the United States, are found to very smart and hardworking. 2. The male to female ratio of classes in the three cultures currently is 60:40 in China, 75:25 in India, and 85:15 in the United States. 3. The students from China, India, and the United States need to be careful in homework and exams. Academic Dishonesty and Academic Integrity are taken very seriously in American classrooms. These items are published in a class syllabus and advertised time to time in the class.References1 Song, S., “Personal Communication,” China, Jan 2017.2 Kumar, S., “Personal Communication,” India, Feb 2017.3 Gee, B., “Personal
generalized causal inference, thenotion that A reliably causes B and that such a relationship is reasonably stable across contexts[3]. In aiming towards causal inference, researchers control and manipulate independentvariables through experimental design in order to study effects on target dependent variables(e.g, the presentation of a tone causing dogs to salivate because of previous pairing with meat inPavlov’s classical conditioning experiments [4]). In a strict interpretation of studying humanbehavior, we cannot study cognition directly, instead we can only observe the products of anindividual’s thinking (e.g., actions taken, answers given to a test, artifacts created). Keepingthese limitations in mind, the emergence of techniques to collect data
Class Academic Year Freshmen Sophomores Juniors Seniors Total 2012-13 2 1 1 4 2013-14 8 3a 1 1 13 2014-15 6 6b 2c 1 15 2015-16 6d 5e 2f 13 2016-17 7g 4g 11 a An existing student was added as a sophomore after changing major into engineering. b One of the 2013-14
significant ways. The number of outcomeswas expanded from 15 to 24, divided into three categories, Foundational, Technical, andProfessional. The BOK2 also mapped each outcome to a level of achievement based on Bloom’staxonomy. The levels of achievement, 1 through 6, are defined as Knowledge, Comprehension,Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation.The BOK2 was intended to be fulfilled at the point of licensure as a Professional Engineer. Inagreement with the Raise the Bar initiative, this includes the bachelor’s degree (B), a master’sdegree or equivalent (M/30, defined as approximately 30 semester credit hours of acceptableupper level or graduate courses in technical or professional topics), and prelicensure experience(E). This is shown in
). Exploring AEC education through collaborative learning. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 21(5), 532–550. https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-04-2013-0036[2] Cheung, S. O., Yiu, T. W., & Lam, M. C. (2013). Interweaving Trust and Communication with Project Performance. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 139(10), 941–950. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000681.[3] Dave, B., & Koskela, L. (2009). Collaborative knowledge management—A construction case study. Automation in Construction, 18(7), 894–902. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2009.03.015[4] Holley, P. & Emig, E., (2010) “Changing the Culture of Design and Construction Education in the U.S.” In: Architecture
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