, prioritizing, and documenting the feature requests, the team reviewed theirrequests through the lenses of the three theoretical frameworks discussed earlier in this paper:Contextualized Framework, CoI, and UDL. This was to ensure that each of the requestedfeatures was necessary to support evidence-based teaching and learning in an online professionaldevelopment environment. Table 1 illustrates which frameworks connect most directly to each ofthe general sets of features the team requested. Unsurprisingly, the team found that the first-tierpriority requests, or those most elemental to an LMS, connected most strongly to the CoI andUDL frameworks as they are both very much concerned with the design and curriculum aspectsof a learning experience. It
—rather than investigating systemic or “watershed”-type hazards [13]-[15]. Someapproaches that aim toward broadening faculty teaching strategies rather than protecting studentsfrom them include integrating relevant applications of STEM content; emphasizing the societalcontext and social justice implications of engineering work [16]; and using project-basedlearning to engage students in real-world applications and collaborative work [17].Moreover, engineering’s tendency to cling to an idea of itself as “apolitical” and “neutral,” ratherthan acknowledging its social construction and baked-in centering of white masculinity, has beenshown to be correlated with the marginalization of under-represented participants in engineeringculture [18],[19]. The
academic needs ofa regional, place-bound population. Our students are also non-traditional from the perspectivethat the majority are ethnic minorities, first in their families to attend college, and balance theiracademic lives with required part-time, and sometimes, full-time employment. With so manyactivities, our students tend to minimize their time on campus, and unfortunately, minimizing theutilization of academic support activities.Research findings support the fact that efforts to foster academic and social integration areespecially important for commuter students [3] . A sense of community plays an important role inretention. Campus integration can be achieved by providing students with an academic andsocial environment that enhances
production rule systems, and an ITS could switchmethods depending on what will best serve the student. For example, using rules to generateexplanations and cases to generate illustrations. In this research we are in the process ofdeveloping a CBR system. The CBR experience will help determine the utility of integrating theseapproaches in the future and, if so, the most effective way to do this.CBR is not merely a computational method, but a general approach to knowledge representationand problem solving. An important point is that it could be implemented by human instructors aswell as via an ITS. Existing research suggests a number of CBR enhancements. For example,students face three phases of problem solution, moving back and forth as they reach
Environ-mental Engineering Division program at the ASEE Annual Conference, June 18, 1997, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Available on-line at http://mse.engineer.gvsu.edu/environment/Environment_Resources.html.PAUL D. JOHNSONPaul D. Johnson is Associate Professor of Engineering in the Padnos School of Engineering at Grand Valley StateUniversity. Although a materials engineer, he has been active in the development of the computer engineering pro-gram and the integration of web resources into the engineering curriculum. He received his BA from Houghton Page 4.605.5College (NY) and his MS and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. Email
universities have a set of affiliated colleges in designated regions and areresponsible for overseeing functioning of the colleges including accreditation, andmanagement of diverse academic activities such as initiation of education programs,enforcement of present curriculum, and supervision of examinations. AICTE (All IndiaCouncil of Technical Education) governs the technical education system in India, which in2016-17 had 3,291 institutes with an intake of 15,56,360 students, but enrolment of 7,78,813students [10]. The employability of these students upon graduation, though, was abysmallylow at 18% [11].Figure 1: Box plot of scoring pattern, at the entrance examinations, from 2012 to 2015, at our collegeMethod
integratingexperience-based system simulation modules into a series of vehicle dynamics courses. We alsopresent experiential modules to integrate the motion simulation system into a required junior-level mechanical engineering course and in a required senior-level flight dynamics aerospaceengineering course. This paper reports on work done under National Science Foundation grantDUE-0633596 in the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program.1 Background and Motivation: Cyber-enhanced EducationIn engineering education, relating theoretical and analytical results to real-world phenomena isone of the most difficult tasks. While text, equations, diagrams, and graphs are an efficientmeans of presenting large amounts of information, such
within their coreengineering courses [6].In Engineering Justice, Leydens and Lucena [3] present criteria to be used “to guide educators[to render] SJ visible within the engineering sciences without compromising valuable coursecontent” and pedagogical tools designed to integrate SJ and engineering in the curriculum. Wewere intrigued by the “Problem Re-write Assignment” in which students are guided to write asocial context for decontextualized engineering problems by specifying how “a system...mightaffect humans using it, including how it might enhance or curtail SJ criteria as opportunities andresources or the distribution of risks and harms” [3]. Lucena conducts this exercise in“Engineering and Social Justice,” an upper level course required of
provide scholarships for teachers from underserved public and charter schools to attend. Additionally, the Think Tank and Conference aims to provide the opportunity for K-12, university, and corporate leaders to exchange ideas and knowledge on what works best for women and what keeps them in the STEM “pipeline”. • Develop a replicable summer STEM Institute for Girls that will offer intensive experiences in STEM fields for young women entering ninth and tenth grades in schools in the greater Nashville area. The first annual STEM Institute for Girls will take place June 18-29, 2012. The Institute is a two-week summer program with an integrated curriculum focusing on one or two challenge problems that
aspects of information technology in construction, it failed to provide a hands ontraining environment exposing students to the realities of working in a complex and diverseconstruction project environment. Extensive course load limited the students from actuallystepping out of the classroom for long periods to experience construction reality. For this the sitehad to be brought into the reach of the students and this was possible through an intitiative suchas Construction Communications Simulation through Virtual Set-Up Environment andInformation Technology (CCSTVSUEIT). Virtual sceanarios were created to simulate real lifeconstruction activities and to engage the students into the dynamics of decision making throughinformation exchange and
and associated responses included in thesurvey” [5]. These interviews were conducted face-to-face by researchers at each participatinginstitution, transcribed by a third-party service, checked for accuracy by a member of theresearch team, and finally edited to remove all identifying information. This paper reports morespecifically on a smaller subset (n=66) of the same first phase interviews. While these interviewswere chosen at random, in previous work [5] we reported evidence showing that the first 29 ofthese same 66 subjects were roughly representative of the larger study population. We stronglysuspect that all 66 interviews analyzed here follow this same trend.Jesiek et al. [5] coded the interview data using an integrated inductive
authority responsibly to influence others behavior. Often when thestudents are in a co-op role they believe they have very little power or influence upon the businessor co-workers and this exercise explores ways, even as a co-op, they can practice effective use toachieve their goals. To learn this, students participate in an exercise using role-play scenarios wherethey are asked to think about effective methods to use power and influence on others. We ask thatthey take into account the different bases of power including coercive, legitimate, expert, reward,referent, informational and connection. This exercise gives students the confidence they need toemploy this new skill in their co-op experience.The last element of the curriculum covered is
down barriers for students that workremotely.Similarity of the TQM Paradigm to Other Educational ModelsAs an educational framework, the Total Quality Management paradigm can be compared andcontrasted with other models, such as Learning for Mastery (LFM), pioneered by Benjamin Bloom[20, 21] and the Keller Plan, a Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) [22]. In these models, as inother initiatives in competency-based education, a student moves through the curriculum essentiallyat their own pace. Once they have demonstrated mastery of a topic, say by performance on a test orother assessment device, they are free to move on to the next topic. Students who do not demonstratethis mastery are given reinforcement, before being assessed again. The
Paper ID #19009Professional development workshop to promote writing transfer between first-year composition and introductory engineering laboratory coursesDr. Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver Dr. Dave Kim is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. He has 15 years of ex- perience in engineering materials and manufacturing. His research area includes materials processing, structural integrity improvement, and hybrid composite manufacturing. He has been very active in ped- agogical research and
. Cornejo, California State University-Chico Dr. Pablo K. Cornejo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at California State University, Chico. Dr. Cornejo received his Ph.D. and Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of South Florida (USF) and B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Col- orado at Boulder. His research focused on the sustainability of water, wastewater, and integrated resource recovery systems; water and sanitation issues in the developing world; and sustainability in engineer- ing education. Pablo is passionate about teaching and increasing the participation of underrepresented students in STEM.Dr. Chris Fosen, California State University
Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) showed facultyof color are less likely to remain in their employment long term. The curriculum for training RIC,included several retention initiatives. Onboarding is important in making newly hired faculty membersfeel welcome and at home, and integrated into the community. New faculty have varying degrees ofexperience with local multicultural issues (Wunsch and Chattergy, 1991). This is why New FacultyOrientation (NFO) has gained grounds at VCU. At the beginning of the school year, the different unitsin the division of faculty affairs meet with new faculty to familiarize them with local campus policies,regulations, processes and procedures of the university. Other units such as Technology
teachers and local industry.Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University ERIC N. WIEBE, Ph.D. Dr. Wiebe is an Associate Professor in the Graphic Communications Program at NC State University. He has authored or co-authored four texts on technical graphics and has been involved in Computer-Aided Design (CAD)/3-D modeling development and use since 1986. He has also worked on the integration of scientific visualization concepts and techniques into both secondary and post-secondary education. Dr. Wiebe is past editor of the Engineering Design Graphics Journal and has been a member of the EDG Division of ASEE since 1989.Jeremy V Ernst, North Carolina State University Jeremy V. Ernst is an Assistant Professor in the
those classes, I got a lot from those discussions. It solidified some things that I wasn’t quite sure about. Now I understand the frequency domain . . . .” (KC:EE) “I can get straight A’s in my classes without using a lot of creativity because that is the way the engineering curriculum is set up. They want to make sure we can follow a process. But in order to be a good engineer, we will have to break from the established lines of thought. Although this is something important to my greater success as an engineer, it has not explicitly been taught or developed in my engineering training. I have had some teachers say that in order to be really good you are going to have to do something more than
engineering and technology faculty to facilitate andassess student learning and performance? Are engineering educators and educational researchersfinding and properly using evaluation instruments to effectively improve and properly judge theimpacts of educational innovations? What voids in evaluation instruments are preventing properevaluation of innovations and merit further research and development investments? These andrelated questions drive the work reported in this paper.In 2009, a team of engineering education and evaluation scholars began addressing questions ofengineering educator evaluation capacity under an exploratory grant from the National ScienceFoundation’s Course and Curriculum Development (CCLI) program24. The team
wide information literacy instruction and collaborator’sprofessional development. The collaborators’ regular meetings to discuss, evaluate, and reflectthe information literacy themed projects have produced campus-wide information literacyperception assessment, inter-institutional grant activities to promote information literacy acrossthe curriculum and seamless integration of information literacy instruction into the course viacourse assignments. For example, the project process and progress of University GeneralEducation general chemistry course information literacy assignment for engineering technologystudents have been shared in various professional communities.5,6,7 In this paper, the authorsexamine their journey to create the successful
Paper ID #26684Does Student Satisfaction Equal Learning? A Differentiated Design Strategyfor Course Improvement: Lessons Learned from Learning Outcomes andGrade DistributionDr. J. Martin Chernosky, Texas A&M University J.Martin Chernosky is the Learning Architect for the Studio of Advanced Instruction and Learning for the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He earned a B.A. in Education, an M.Ed. in Adult Learning and Technology from Western Governors University, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from the American College of Education. With over 25 years in dynamic adult education settings ranging
actually presenting enough distinct processing options as well as providing enoughopportunity to actual practice making decisions. Current options for ethics training arenoticeably limited in these areas.Approaches to Ethics InstructionThere are multiple methods of ethics training currently in use. When determining what should beincluded in ethics training, there are aspects of both the delivery and the content to consider.Delivery methods are often separated based on whether instruction is disseminated as part ofstand-alone ethics course focused on either general or more field specific ethics or if it isdelivered in an ethics-across-the-curriculum method which is essentially an integration of ethicscontent in otherwise technical skills courses. 4
H Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology After 14 years in the middle and high school math and engineering classroom where Mr. Rosen was working on the integration of engineering and robotics into the teaching of the core curricula classrooms. He has now been at Georgia Tech’s CEISMC for the past 8 years working on curriculum development and research on authentic STEM instruction and directing the state’s FIRST LEGO League competi- tion program. Mr. Rosen has authored or co-authored papers and book chapters that address issues of underrepresented populations participation in engineering programs and the integration of robotics and engineering into classroom instruction.Dr. Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of
these countries underthe umbrella of international accreditation. Companies which are out sourcing jobs to thosecountries are paying the price for not having the international accreditation in their curriculum.The end result will provide a mutual recognition between ABET and the accreditation boards ofthose countries who are still not an active participant in the international accreditation process. Itwill definitely have a positive and long lasting impact on the overall health of the economy andthe society.IntroductionHigh quality engineering and technology education is a necessary requirement for developingcountries to enhance their human, institutional and infrastructure capacity. Improvement in thequality of engineering and technology
in sharing information and ‘best practice’ expertise in project management,curriculum development and project evaluation.During the first quarter 2008, key academic management and program directors from Penn Statevisited the European campuses of their collaborators.From the outset, the four partners also established and integrated the use of 21st centurycommunications technologies into their engagement processes. For instance, following the ‘face-to-face’ kickoff meetings, a suite of meetings undertaken using collaborative web-conferencingand on-line collaboration (enabled by the Adobe Connect Product) between all four partner siteshave continued every four to six weeks to monitor and ensure clarity on progress
of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Morgan State University. Mrs. Partlow currently serves as the Program Director of the Verizon Innovative Learning Program, which focuses on provid- ing minority middle school boys with hands-on learning experiences using advanced technology, app development software, 3-D design techniques, and entrepreneurship skills. She has also served as an on- line course development specialist responsible for the creation, organization, and delivery of several web based Electrical Engineering courses offered at Morgan State University. Her technical expertise includes, web-based learning, online course development, information management, systems integration, and 3-D simulation
way that can make them better problem solvers for life” so that “when studentsgraduate, they will be confident in their abilities, well integrated into the industry and have theskills to excel” [2]. Drawing from ABET intended outcomes and the needs of early careerengineers, this qualitative study explores how undergraduate students apply what they learn inthe EML course in curricular (i.e., senior design projects and other significant universityprojects) and non-curricular ways.Literature Review Evaluating the effectiveness of university engineering programs has been critical to thedevelopment of global engineering education in the last 30 years. Engineering Criteria 2000(EC2000) is an accreditation criterion introduced by ABET in 1996
Paper ID #14248Expanding Applicability of Senior Projects: Portable EGCC for GreenhousesDr. Jorge Rodriguez P.E., Western Michigan UniversityDr. Alamgir A. Choudhury, Western Michigan University Alamgir A. Choudhury is an Associate Professor of Engineering Design, Manufacturing and Management Systems at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. His MS and PhD are in mechanical en- gineering from NMSU (Las Cruces) and BS in mechanical engineering from BUET (Dhaka). His interest includes computer applications in curriculum, MCAE, mechanics, fluid power, and instrumentation & control. He is a Registered Professional
outcomes based approach to integrating information literacy badges within disciplinary curriculum,” Reference Services Rev., vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 31–44, Jan. 2015, doi: 10.1108/RSR-07-2014-0026.[2] A. R. Rodgers and M. Puterbaugh, “Digital badges and library instructional programs: Academic library case study,” J. of Electron. Resour. Librarianship, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 236– 244, Oct. 2017, doi: 10.1080/1941126X.2017.1378542.[3] E. Rimland and V. Raish, “Design principles for digital badges used in libraries,” J. of Electron. Resour. Librarianship, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 211–220, Oct. 2017, doi: 10.1080/1941126X.2017.1378540.[4] V. Raish and E. Rimland, “Employer Perceptions of Critical Information Literacy Skills and Digital
De- partment of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, cognitive task analysis, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano manufacturing. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 MAKER: A Study of Multi-Robot Systems Recreated for High School StudentsAbstractThis paper describes the engineering design approach to be applied in an