the scope and methodology of these programsdiffer in order to address different populations of students, collaboration and the sharing ofavailable resources between the programs may lead to the development of useful activities whichmay be more effective at encouraging interest3. This paper discusses a collaborative attemptbetween two programs currently being implemented at Drexel University, and an evaluation ofthe portability of activities from one program to the other.Additionally, this study focuses on the importance of integrating the arts in STEM education.One longitudinal study found that at-risk K-12 students who participate in an arts-richcurriculum outperform those with little or no arts exposure in terms of overall GPA, reading
program was not sufficient [19]. This reflects differences in the extent that the formalcurriculum integrates ethical and societal issues (e.g., some programs require a full course onengineering ethics, others have an ethics-across-the curriculum approach, others only include asingle small ethics integration in capstone design) [20, 21]. In addition, some educators believethat ethics education should be grounded in theory versus others taking a more ‘practical’approach [20]. There are also important differences among engineering disciplines. For example,the extent that macroethical issues such as sustainability are taught varies by discipline andvaries within the professional codes across different disciplines [22].Given the interdisciplinary
engineering science courses.This paper is a discussion of assessment measures that are employed by the GeneralEngineering Department at UW-P and raises questions about what more could be done.Assessment is an integral part of the academic process. It requires and reflects a long-termcommitment to the program and its constituencies, viz., the students, alumni and industrypartners. Like most engineering programs, we have had a long history of self-assessment and 2improvement. However, we have had little documentation of processes already in place.Although we are in the middle of an ABET accredited cycle, there has been significant pressurefrom the campus administration to document
Paper ID #32896Teachers Navigating Educational Systems: Reflections on the Value ofFunds of Knowledge (Fundamental)Dr. Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego Dr. Joel Alejandro (Alex) Mejia is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrated Engineering at the University of San Diego. His research has contributed to the integration of critical theoretical frame- works and Chicano Cultural Studies to investigate and analyze existing deficit models in engineering education. Dr. Mejia’s work also examines how asset-based models impact the validation and recognition of students and communities of color as holders
have not practiced.Even given this troubling backdrop of faculty perspective, an encompassing view of studentneeds includes several areas that compete for their slice of the instructional pie: Page 7.290.3 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Education ¾ fundamental knowledge of computing, programming and computers ¾ awareness of and preparation in emerging aspects of computing ¾ computing requirements in the other courses of their curriculum ¾ knowledge and skills required by engineers in their
asynchronous formats is underway. Until now samplesfrom these distinct modes of deliver are statistically limited and more experiments areneeded to prove how viable these options of learning are. We believe the jury is still outon the effectiveness each individual mode of delivery. We present an alternativeexperiment that builds on the strength found in each of the synchronous andasynchronous modes.Introduction NJIT has a strong distance learning program that is being active for the past tenyears. Within the program there are a number of developments under way including thevirtual classroom, computer mediated learning, and the multimedia interactive lab-courseware. The focus of the project being presented is the integration of both
Session 2553 A Freshman Module to Teach Instrumentation Methods Jagdish Gajjar Union CollegeAbstractEvolution of modern electronic devices has reached a level where a black-box approachto designing and building systems is within the capabilities of beginning laboratoryexperiments. This facilitates the introduction of modern instrumentation methods tofreshmen in an engineering curriculum. The paper describes a freshmen moduledesigned to provide an exposure to transducers, signal conditioning, computerinterfacing and signal processing. The module consists of a coordinated set of
% in 2018) [4] in a subject that is critical to the nation’s economic andsecurity health.There is now unprecedented support from business, nonprofit, and community leaders advocatingfor CS education. In July 2022, a letter encouraging governors and education leaders to make CSpart of the standard K-12 curriculum across the U.S. was released with more than 800 signatories(a full list can be found at www.CEOsforCS.com). An excerpt of the letter follows: The undersigned commit our support by collectively creating employment opportunities for CS students in every city in the USA, and in every sector, from manufacturing to banking, from agriculture to healthcare. Many of us offer internships to help these students find their
need to research and implement innovative interventions for retention andcareer readiness of underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM) [1,2]. In 2017, a four-year curriculum was developed to elevate an existingsupport program for undergraduate women in STEM into an academic honors program. Thisrenewed Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) Honors program at Stony BrookUniversity (SBU), a public research institution, recruited its first new cohort in 2018. Thepurpose of this paper is to present formative findings of the research and evaluation plans thatexamined the effectiveness of one of the new courses, WSE 381: Service Learning in STEM.Theoretical FoundationHigh-impact practices, the educational
October 15, 2013].5. C.D. Troy, R.R. Essig, et al., “Writing to Learn Engineering: Identifying Effective Techniques for the Integration of Written Communication into Engineering Classes and Curricula,” 121st ASEE Annual Conference, Indianapolis, 2014, Paper #10122. http://www.asee.org/public/conferences/32/papers/10122/download [Accessed December 31,2014].6. D. Russell, “American origins of the writing-across-the-curriculum movement,” In C. Bazerman, & D. Russell, Landmark essays on writing across the curriculum, pp. 3-22. Davis: Hermagoras Press. 1992.7. J. Bean, Engaging ideas: The professor's guide to integrating writing, critical thinking,and active learning in the classroom. San Francisco: Jossey
questions asking if the student anticipated adhering to academicintegrity rules (Q13), if they felt that others would not adhere to academic integrity rules (Q14),and if the student felt that they were skilled enough in computer literacy to succeed in an onlineenvironment (Q15) or if there would be technical problems due to the online environment (Q16).ResultsPopulation CharacteristicsAs summarized in Table 2 the paired data population included four disciplines, namely CivilEngineering (CE), Chemical Engineering (ChemE), Electrical Engineering (EE) and MechanicalEngineering (ME). Of the four disciplines the majority was ME at 61% and CE at 36%. 84% ofthe students identified as male, 15% female, and 1% identified as agender. Fourth-year studentsmade
Paper ID #16361NUE: The Freshman Experience and Nanotechnology Solutions to Engineer-ing Grand ChallengesDr. Edward W. Davis, Auburn University Edward W. Davis received his PhD from the University of Akron in 1996. He worked in the commercial plastics industry for 11 years, including positions with Shell Chemicals in Louvain-la-Nueve Belgium and EVALCA in Houston TX. He joined the faculty at Auburn University in the fall of 2007. In 2014 he was promoted to Senior Lecturer. He has regularly taught courses in three different engineering departments. In 2015 he began his current position as an Assistant Professor in the
5semester for their final design.I recommend explicitly communicating that a team’s design does not necessarily have to work atevery possible temperature. This may result in multiple solutions which dovetail together to moreeffectively meet the range of cooling needs at the mobile food bank. For instance, one team maydesign a system which works well up to 100 degrees, and another team may have generated asolution which is only appropriate for 100 degrees or higher. These two systems would likelyintegrate nicely.It would be interesting to integrate this design project into the capstone curriculum in some way.For example, one of the teams could be eligible to continue their design the following year astheir capstone project. This could serve as an
. The problem is that design projects by definition are generally things that integrate knowledge. How much knowledge does a student have in the first year? So obviously the level and the sophistication of the design project will improve, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be doing projects from day 1. DL [With design project] the other thing I used to do with them, is allow them to go up blind alleys. Not too often, or they’d never get there. Going up a few blind alleys, they learn an awful lot, recognise early signs about what’s going on. If they only ever do it right, they don’t know what the warning signs
) research. We firstsurveyed seven students then administered an anonymous online survey with 67 responses. Inthis paper we describe the program and conferences, the results of both our interviews andsurveys, and our recommendations for both these programs and similar efforts to introducestudents to public policy debates through high quality legally oriented conferences.2. IntroductionThe Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado educatesmaster’s students in a mixture of engineering, business, economics, and law; about half theprogram’s students are engineers. For the last four years, as part of the curriculum, students havebeen required to attend a year’s worth of conferences from the Silicon
related to this implementation include studentscollecting their own environmental data via a simple software-controlled sensor application andanalyzing this data using mathematical software scripts. Thus, this case study implementationand the planned subsequent activities provide an authentic learning experience that meets severalof the stated learning outcomes of the course. Additionally, the two-year curriculum does notcontain any environmental engineering courses, and the integration of this environmentalengineering case study into the first-semester course exposes students to the field ofenvironmental engineering.2. Theoretical Framework: Case StudiesCase-based instruction has a long history of applications in different fields including
points for benchmark assessments with continuousimprovement being the natural follow-on activity to improve ones performance. The tenureprocess works if it is (in itself) an assessment to develop competent faculty to carryout themission of the university. The evidence submitted must demonstrate a record of quality andcontinuous productivity.5A recent example at PUC of a continuous improvement effort that supported excellence inteaching was the development and initiation of a “Curriculum update form.” This form wasdeveloped by faculty of the METS department as an on-line computer form. The form allows alldepartment members access to it at any time with the intention of it being filled out at the end ofeach semester to document any improvements
., Fischer, G., Michalson, W.R., Cobb, E.C., “Implementation of an Undergraduate Robotics Engineering Curriculum”. Computers in Education Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3, July/Sept, 2010, pp. 92-101. 17 Proceedings of 2015 St. Lawrence Section of the American Society for Engineering Education13. Berry, C.A., “Mobile Robotics: A Tool for Application-Based Integration of Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Concepts and Research”. Computers in Education Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3, July/Sept, 2010, pp. 67-80.14. Cappelleri, D.J., “A Novel Lab and Project-Based Learning Introductory Robotics Course”. Computers in Education Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3, July/Sept, 2010, pp. 81-91.15. Chang, D
, organizations, policy, initiatives) of change and documenting the good, hard work required across disciplinary boundaries to achieve meaningful change in STEM ed- ucation.Ann Sitomer, Oregon State University Ann earned a PhD in mathematics education from Portland State University in 2014. Her dissertation examined the informal ways of reasoning about ratio, rate and proportion that adult returning students bring to an arithmetic review class and how these ways of thinking interacted with the curriculum. Other research interests include teachers’ professional noticing of learners’ mathematical thinking and orga- nizational change. Ann works on both the implementation and research sides of the ESTEME@OSU project.Dr
6-year traditional collegepreparatory school with a diverse student population. The course is nearly identical to theIntroduction to Engineering sequence required of beginning engineering students at The OhioState University, but has been modified to be taught over an entire school year instead of two10-week quarters. Fifty-nine students are enrolled. A math teacher and a science teacher atWalnut Hills High School are team teaching the course during the 2001-02 school year withsupport from OSU faculty and staff. A grant from General Electric provided the funds topurchase laboratory equipment, textbooks, and software for the course. In addition, the grantsupported the high school instructors’ preparation to teach the course.This paper was
have been experimental offerings of a first-year engineering coursethat incorporated a very extensive design-build-test-compete (DBTC) pedagogy. This course wasspecifically positioned to exercise core-engineering competencies, communication skills, andcreativity. The course is intense in that it involves two Aerospace Engineering team projects,integrated technical communications and technical content, teamwork, and individual scientificand fabrication laboratories. The projects involve design, build, test, and compete cycles withballoons and then with radio-controlled blimps. The students entering this DBTC course andother first-year courses were studied with respect to typical admissions criteria including highschool grades and test scores
persuasive thesis proposal Writing and defending a compelling thesis Preparing an academic curriculum vitaeStudents are expected to read 400 pages in an assigned text. The course recently began using thetext [1] Scientific Writing and Communication: Papers, Proposals, and Presentations, byAngelika H. Hofmann, Oxford University Press, after the previous text [2] by Perelman went outof print. The Hofmann text covers such basic writing mechanics as word choice and wordlocation, sentence structure, and paragraph organization before moving into citations, figures andtables, and manuscript and proposal planning and organizational strategies. Guidance forcomposing scientific documents and presentations then follows. Other materials are provided bythe
, innovative and novel graduate education experiences, global learning, and preparation of engineering graduate students for future careers. Her dissertation research focuses on studying the writing and argumentation patterns of engineering graduate students.Dr. Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette Monica F. Cox, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity and is the Inaugural Director of the Engineering Leadership Minor. She obtained a B.S. in mathemat- ics from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests
Paper ID #32797Types of Models Identified by First-Year Engineering StudentsDr. Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach Kelsey Rodgers is an assistant professor in the Engineering Fundamentals Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. She teaches a MATLAB programming course to mostly first-year engineering students. She primarily investigates how students develop mathematical models and simulations and ef- fective feedback. She graduated from the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University with a doctorate in engineering education. She previous conducted research in Purdue
of open-ended lab experiences and contributes to thegrowing conversation on innovative engineering education strategies by demonstrating the valueof experiential learning approaches, particularly the integration of entrepreneurial mindsetlearning (EML) into laboratory experiences.Why open-ended labs?The decision to introduce open-ended labs into our curriculum was inspired by the insightsgained from the Summer 2024 Engineering Mechanics in Lab and Design workshop series,hosted by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and supported by the Kern FamilyFoundation. During this workshop, we had the opportunity to explore in more depth the conceptof open-ended labs, engaging with experts and educators who have successfully implementedsuch
on the responses, three of the researchers selected the participants to balance a number offactors: • number of teachers vs number of researchers • experience with educational research as a participant or part of research team (teachers) • research topic focus (researchers) • gender diversity of participants • school diversity (public vs private, large vs small, urban vs rural, geography within the US)Once the potential workshop participants accepted their invitation, we examined participants’areas of interest with respect to CS education and topics of CS education research and found twodistinct areas: curriculum specific (e.g., CS integration, curriculum alignment, anddevelopmentally appropriate practices in CS) and
of experienced, skilled workers and therecognition of the lengthy time needed for an individual to develop this technical skill setcontributes to increased hiring needs1.This paper will: Introduce Vacuum Technology curriculum development efforts in the Western NY area; Describe the motivations of SUNY Erie in pursuing partnerships in developing the curriculum; Discuss the logistics and policies required to form a partnership across institutions and state educational systems to teach Vacuum Technology courses; Describe the successful teaching modalities for vacuum technology courses; and, Analyze the results of the partnership and discuss future plans for the partnership.2.0 Motivation for Developing a
e e x p e c t e d t o p a t t e r n themselves after existing requirements, in order to satisfy the argument of the type “please accept new course X in lieu of current Y“. A new example from our NCSU College of Engineering is an integrated version of mathematics, physics, and chemistry, known as IMPEC and described in the preceding paper (l); here the challenge is largely curricular integration to give physics or chemistry a “just-in- time” mathematics component, all spiced with design examples from Page 1.435.1---- {iiii’) 1996 ASEE Annual Conference
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resigned to take a new position as Director of the Department of Research, Education, and Curriculum at the Digital Bridge Institute (DBI) and later the Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs. His research interests are wireless communications technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence. Before joining SHU, he was an Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at the Uni- versity of Mount Union, Alliance, OH. While at the UA, he supervised twelve (12) Master’s degree Thesis and four (4) Ph.D. dissertations. Dr. Ugweje has published and presented over 100 articles in Journals and Conference proceedings worldwide and authored three book chapters. Dr. Ugweje is married with three