(baseline models) that are in current formats A project where variety of systems could be feasible Available local codes from municipalities Available utilities plans and rates for the area Structural 60’≥ high above grade or some unique configuration to force complex loadings Available geotechnical reports Lighting/Electrical Variety in the types of spaces for different lighting conditions Opportunity for daylighting Mechanical Opportunity for energy savings Construction A semi-realistic to real project budget/final price A
.” Mechanical Not a BOK “better equip mechanical engineering graduates… not only [9] with a solid technical foundation, but also with creativity, strong professional skills, and leadership within engineering and society.” (p. 15) Software 15 knowledge areas Professional practice. 2. Group dynamics and psychology. Engineering {leadership not explicitly identified as a skill} [10] Civil Engineering 16: 6 foundational, 12. Leadership. Plan, organize, and direct the efforts of a Technologist 3 technical, 7 group and self
higher education encounter barriers due to traditional cultureand structural norms that tend to discourage or do not promote possible productive activity orresearch. To combat these barriers, a paradigm shift is necessary to help provideinterdisciplinary research and pedagogy. The Consortium of National Arts EducationAssociations [14] suggests eight conditions for higher education leaders to facilitate to enable aninterdisciplinary environment. Among the conditions they suggest are: a common planning timeor sufficient opportunities to meet other faculty, flexible scheduling, appropriate resources, aswell as community and administrative support and involvement. Nancarrow et al. [10] offerssuggestions in the form of ten key characteristics
. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Dr. Ebony Omotola McGee, Vanderbilt University Ebony McGee, associate professor of diversity and STEM education at Vanderbilt Universityˆa C™s Peabody College, investigates what it means to be racially marginalized in the context of learning and achieving in STEM higher education and industry. In partic ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Development of the Persistence of Engineers in the Academy Survey (PEAS)AbstractThis paper reports the
human behaviors and incorporating that knowledge within the scope of engineering.Caroline Clay, James Madison University Caroline Clay is an undergraduate student at James Madison University in the Engineering Department. She is a student researcher studying how engineering students learn in informal learning environments and makerspaces, with an emphasis on how students learn in structured and unstructured settings. After participating in the University Innovation Fellows program Caroline is pursuing an honors thesis study- ing how students learn to become changemakers. Following graduation, Caroline plans to work in the intersection between entrepreneurship, engineering, and agriculture. c
disciplinary migration.MethodologyThis investigation was carried out through a mixed method study, utilizing a survey administeredover the web using Qualtrics and a follow-up interview. The dataset originated from an earlierstudy that explored differences between Direct-Pathway and Returner graduate students [24, 25].This survey contained sections on demographics, academic information and experience,confidence, alignment of the master’s degree with work, academic advising, and choice ofschool, future plans, and motivation for graduate study.ParticipantsParticipants for the survey were recruited by rolling recruitment over a period of four months. Inaccordance with the IRB-approved protocol, all survey data was anonymized and confidential. Atotal of
purposes of this paper,we work from the perspective that learning is at the core of institutions of higher education.As we began our efforts to systemically advance innovations in teaching across campus, we(teaching and learning center staff) learned from preliminary interactions that faculty werestruggling to make sense of what we meant by various educational terms. Additionally, mostfaculty had no pedagogical training and little to no understanding of cognition and how to1 In an earlier paper the theoretical perspectives that inform our work is described in greater detail [6].2 We did take into account external factors in the design and planning of the interventions, but that was a secondlevel consideration and will not be addressed in this
Learning, by Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel6, has recently made this ideapopular as a guide in improving both teaching and learning practices. There are many tactics forshattering this illusion and enabling more permanent learning, many of which can be summed upby the three “big ideas” put forth by Make It Stick: 1. Learning works by getting it out, not getting it in. 2. Difficulty is desirable. 3. A growth mindset motivates.In this paper, an engineering course is examined for symptoms of illusions of learning, andimprovements to the curriculum and teaching methods are incorporated and reviewed. Thecourse of interest is MFG 480: Manufacturing Process Planning and System Design, a 3-creditengineering course for seniors that has been taught for
homework questions.Timeline of RedesignFigures 1, 2, and 3 depict the current timeline for the curriculum redesign and plan for fullimplementation. Figure 1. Redesign timeline for ENGR 120, the first course in the LWTL series. Figure 2. Redesign timeline for ENGR 121, the second course in the LWTL series. Figure 3. Redesign timeline for ENGR 122, the third course in the LWTL series.Note in Figure 1, the quarter of the initial ENGR 120 curriculum redesign there was one sectionof the course that was experiencing the redesigned content as it was being created while twosections were experiencing the course without the redesigned content. Similarly, as seen inFigure 2, in the Fall of 2017 one section of ENGR 121
her tenure as an AAAS fellow, she served as a science advisor to the US EPA in the National Center for Environmental Assessment and in the Immediate Office of the Assistant Administrator of the Office of Research and Development.Dr. Michelle Marks, George Mason University Dr. Michelle Marks is the Vice President for Academic Innovation & New Ventures at George Mason University. In this capacity she is responsible for identifying, launching, and sustaining educational ini- tiatives that fulfill Mason’s strategic plan and generate financial resources to support students, faculty, and the educational mission. Charged with creating accessible student pathways and bringing learning science innovations to campus, Dr
- versity of Miami. Prior to joining the University of Miami in 2014, she worked as an adjunct professor at Columbia University and the Cooper Union in New York City. She received her PhD from Columbia University in 2006. Since 2015 Dr. Basalo has been actively involved in the University of Miami College of Engineering’s ”Redefining Engineering Education” strategic plan on educational innovation.Gemma Henderson, University of Miami Gemma Henderson is a Senior Instructional Designer for the LIFE (Learning, Innovation and Faculty En- gagement) team in Academic Technologies at the University of Miami (UM). Gemma partners with fac- ulty members, academic units, and other university stakeholders to create innovative, effective
training. Furthermore, the EngineeringGoldShirt Program collaborated with several other diversity serving summer bridge programs oncampus to design and implement a full day workshop which reinforced the principles that theseprograms foster and to build connections with other programs’ mentors.During the two week summer bridge program, the mentors served both as residence advisors(RA’s) in the residence halls and teaching assistants (TA’s) in the classroom for the summerbridge classes. This duality allowed the mentors to recognize and encourage students where theyneeded it most on an individual basis. Mentors planned social and group identity buildingactivities for the protégé’s. As a result of a demanding schedule and workload during summerbridge
. Specification and implementation of advanced data structures. CSC/ART 350 Computing for Interactive Arts Capstone I: Definition and specification of a teambased creative collaboration on a digital interactive art project (e.g. animation, video game, interactive media display, etc). Research and techniques, project planning and project team organization, prototype creation. CSC/ART 450 Computing for Interactive Arts Capstone II: Teambased design, construction and deployment of a collaborative interactive computational art project typically found in the fields of animation, game design, and interactive media. Management of interdisciplinary teams, documentation
coursetaught as a general education requirement and required for all students [16]. In the article,‘Planning for Computer Literacy’, Roger W. Haigh [10] discusses how colleges and universitieswould need to decide what computer literacy skills students would need for their careers andpersonal lives. Since then, universities have offered a variety of general education courses incomputer literacy and programming. Some existing courses that are part of the core focus onhighly technical skills, while others are aimed at educating students more generally. Recently,there has been a call for an expansion of computer literacy to include cyber literacy, safety, andsecurity [21, 22, 24]. Universities have begun to offer courses in cybersecurity
measures of engineering task self-efficacy (ETSE), followed by their female counterparts. These results add evidence to theassertion that women often possess lower self-efficacy compared to their male peers [16-20],with concrete professional implications. Awareness of these results is important for engineeringeducators and administrators when interacting with diverse students in the classroom, inmentoring scenarios, and in planning support activities. Drawing from Bandura’s sources of self-efficacy [4], engineering educators can be intentional about designing mastery experiences,providing explicit social encouragement, and creating environments that foster a positiveinterpretation of somatic and emotional responses, particularly for URM and women
creates things [6]. With such a lack ofbasic understanding then, it is not difficult to imagine why so few students start down roads thatwould lead them toward careers within engineering disciplines. Furthermore, other sciencessuch as biology, chemistry, and physics are taught as subjects in elementary through high schoolwhereas engineering traditionally is not [3]. This only erodes engineering’s pull even more.Survey of StudentsFollowing up on the research noted above, it was decided to evaluate the specific population ofstudents at the school being studied in these outreach efforts. The results of this survey havefurther informed the introductory engineering activities planned for the students. In the fall of2017, a brief survey was completed
its diversestudent body. Through the project, it has developed an institutionalized collaboration withacademic departments, student support services, and CCC administration to enhance theframework. The academic departments participate in planning and offering courses for cohorts,and provide supportive faculty while maintaining the quality of their curriculum. The Wrightstudent support services (admissions including testing and recruiting; advising, transferresources, the tutoring center, the financial aid office, disability center, and other student supportservices) coordinate with the project to make the student experience a smooth process. WrightCollege administration provides a physical space for students to network as well as
programsoffered by individual degree-granting universities.Keywords: technology management; TM; management of technology; technologyconcentrations; graduate programs; Ph.D.IntroductionThe National Research Council [1] described the technology management as “a process, whichincludes planning, directing, control and coordination of the development and implementation oftechnological capabilities to shape and accomplish the strategic and operational objectives of anorganization.’’ McKirahan and Cheney [2] noted Gaynor reporting technology managementlinks the disciples of engineering, science, and management to plan, develop, and implementtechnological capabilities for shaping and accomplishing an organization’s strategic andoperational objectives. On the
, including a foundational course required forall students. During an EEE faculty retreat in May 2015, the faculty converged on a plan to leveragecollaborative teaching to launch the EEE graduate program. The faculty agreed on two importantfoundations: a core topics list (which included input and ranking by all faculty at the retreat), anda structure for a foundational graduate course. The core topics list is included as Appendix B. Inorder to catalyze the effort, maximize initial impact, and distribute the invested time widelyacross EEE faculty, a collaborative teaching model was agreed upon. Collectively, the facultywould teach six 1-credit modules in series; three starting in Spring 2016 and three in Fall 2016.Each 1-credit module (five
electronics recycling facilities and advanced electronicsmanufacturing research sites, technical demonstrations, and they interacted with representativesof electronics companies, through an Industrial Advisory Board. At the end of the program, teachers presented their technical results and plans forstandards-based high school curricula. The new curricula were integrated into existing classcontent for chemistry, physics, environmental science, and biology, among other science classes.Many of the teachers taught at high schools with high percentages of underserved students.Teachers also continued their own professional development after the summer, by co-authoringresearch publications with their faculty mentors or presenting results at
easily anticipate the implications of their present activities for the moredistant future and elaborate longer behavioral plans or projects. Our finding may haveimplications for how engineering students may be supported in developing motivations thatincrease intentions to persist in their degree to career pathway. Again, as these results show,different NCA factors are related to different outcomes. For a more comprehensive description ofthis study see [19].Research Question 2In addition to the above work surrounding how NCA factors relate to students pursuingengineering careers, we have done a range of work to support answering RQ2—exploring howNCA factors relate to academic performance and how NCA factors mediate responses toacademic or
notification, and potentiallyinfluence the decision.Initial Planned OfferingsInitially three certificate and professional development courses are planned to be offered. Theseprograms are those indicated in the brown shaded box on Figure 5. The programs, which arecontained in the white paper entitled “Public-Private Training for Cybersecurity Professionals”[9] are: Cybersecurity Specialist/Technician Upon successful completion of this program, the student will have demonstrated skills necessary to immediately enter the workplace and perform in an entry level cybersecurity specialist/technician position. During the program students will earn appropriate national certifications. This program is anticipated to be a one
current curricula and state standards. Carroll et. al [19]highlighted the best practices and lessons learned for planning new programs and discussed howone such STEM initiative evolved over time to focus on the teachers. A partnership with SaintLouis University (SLU) led to the creation of several experiential learning modules, which hassince spread to other GEAR UP programs (e.g. Oregon GEAR UP). The Oregon GEAR UP Program’s primary goal is to increase the number of low-incomestudents who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary programs. The programsupports rural Oregon middle and high schools in their efforts to set high academic expectations,promote early awareness of college opportunities, and engage students in college and
]. Assuch, having students in the makerspace more often for class periods, class-homework, and non-class related activities may help students feel comfortable asking for help if they feel lost onwhat step to take next.Faculty reflections on scaffolding student makerspace projects for successReflecting on the process of leading the new makerspace-infused lesson plans and project, bothfaculty members thought students seemed engaged throughout the project. As students enteruniversity with more varied technology backgrounds, offering students the option to pursue whattechnology they can use in a project rather than limiting it to a subset allows students to continuegaining new skills even if they have prior experiences. Often, the Arduino technology
= * E cos(F ) 4. Click the button for the horizontal equation, then click start. Observe the motion of the robot arm. 5. Record your observations. Did the robot arm move as you expected? 6. Does your equation work for other angles? Develop a plan and test your equation to see if it works in a variety of cases. Explain why you chose the values that you did.Equation 2 is VERTICAL MOTION. 7. Repeat your experiments with vertical motion, but enter values for A-F corresponding to the following equation: dθ2 * * A sin(B) + C sin(D) dt = * E sin(F ) 8. Record your process and observations.PART 4
our graduating students satisfy some minimum requirement for each ofthese attributes. The primary thing the CEAB seeks when they visit is a “continual improvement” plan. Seebelow:So, our Dean set up a task force in charge of overseeing the collection of the data, the analysis of the data, andthen the curriculum improvement plans that result from this analysis. These curriculum improvement planswere the primary deliverable for our CEAB visit. The faculty of ENCS needed to demonstrate not only that wehave a system in place to collect this data, but that we have a robust feedback loop in place that results indemonstrable changes (improvements hopefully) to actual curricula. This was our deliverable.6 The reader will have already noticed
engineering module - use of a 3D scanner toscan small and large objects by fixed and hand-held scanning methods, edit, scale, and print theparts in a FDM printer and compare the parts for dimensional accuracy.In addition, these laboratory learning modules are designed to fully/partially satisfy some of theABET's student learning outcomes (1-7) that include:2. An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors;5. An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and
main steps followed in this study for the development of the 360-videos andthe contribution from each discipline. The surveying faculty and students were involved in allstages of the project, such as planning and executing the lab tasks and in general providing inputto ensure that correct educational information is conveyed. Communications students provideduseful input in video planning and filming such as keeping video length short, positioning ofcamera and surveying instruments, and planning for lighting conditions. In addition, theyoversaw video editing with contributions from the surveying students and faculty. The civilengineering faculty and students helped with filming and narration; in addition, they filmedadditional videos tailored
how thesetimelines might inform future design activities, students articulate intentions in line withmetacognitive awareness [10]. This research analyzed the use of the Design Timelines within aclassroom seminar to explore students’ understanding of design and metacognition e.g planning,monitoring, and evaluative qualities of design from a worksheet of an in-class activity. A mainfinding in this paper shows student instances of metacognitive monitoring, defined as “one’sperformance selectively for signs of progress. Self-monitoring like self-observation, refers toone’s cognitive tracking of personal functioning” [11].The behavior of monitoring as it relates to metacognition, has similar parallels to DonaldSchön’s idea of reflection-in-action
solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors. 3. An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences. 4. An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgements, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and social contexts. 5. An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives. 6. An ability to develop and conduct appropriate