thinking part). Forengineering students, this will be followed by reflection on engineering solutions to improve thecase-study framework (the doing part), and making a presentation on their alternate solution(s) toa group of professional engineers (the knowing part). It is hoped that these students, when theyeventually choose a capstone design project in their senior year, will build a relevant engineeringsolution (the making part). By monitoring these various stages with rubrics, we will be able toput the process on a firmer footing to learn from and improve.Assessment Strategy:Bransford et al. (2000), a National Research Council sponsored committee on developments inthe science of learning, recommend conducting research on formative assessment
et al.’s discussion of naming, setting thecontext, and reflecting to better fit the age of our participants and their instructional context.MethodsThis study explores if evidence exists to show that K-2 students can engage in meaningfulproblem scoping while participating in introductory problem scoping activities from a STEM+Cintegration curricula.ParticipantsUsing purposeful sampling, data from six different classrooms out of 17 were selected to beanalyzed. These six classrooms (two kindergarten, two first grade, and two second grade) wereidentified based on how well the educator followed the curriculum and the amount of interactions(students to teacher and student to student) captured. All of the teachers participated in a
. 5Table I. Pavlis Curriculum and Reflections Curriculum Component Number/Frequency of Reflection(s) Feedback - G (graded) C (comments) D (debriefed w/ mentor) Seminar I (HON2150) Weekly G, C Academic Enhancement Proposal with justification (before) C Immersion Experience Proposal with pre-reflection (before), 5 C, D reflections over the course of the experience Seminar II (HON3150) Weekly
No solution or Simple Detailed solution solution(s) to the problem very vague solution solutionResponsibility Describes who is responsible for or To For With should be involved in the solution, (Government (The (Farmer or with reference to the With / For / To needs to fix the designers community framework problem) know best) member involvement in
with professional development and not knowing how to support thegraduate students in their pursuits. This study’s comprehensive examination of an activeadvisor’s experience with supporting graduate student development proves to be informative anduseful in determining potential next steps in the formative development of a program aimed atgraduate student professional development.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNumber 1545211.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are thoseof the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect
Institute of Technology. In 2012, he completed his PhD at the University of Rochester. He now focuses his efforts to further the areas of computer architecture, digital systems, cybersecurity, and computer engineering education.Dr. Joan Giblin, Wentworth Institute of TechnologyDr. Mehmet Ergezer, Wentworth Institute of Technology Mehmet Ergezer (S’06) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, USA, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He received the D.Eng. degree in artificial intelligence from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA, in May 2014. From 2003 to 2005, following his
, a Corporate Professional, and a College Student - and displayedthe information in three distinct formats. The team decided on the three titles collectivelythrough brain storming and then individually or in pairs compiled the content. The studentdesign team deliberately chose not to include a name(s), age(s), gender(s), or a head-shotpicture(s) for each abbreviated persona. The individuals/pairs presented the abbreviatedpersonas to the student design team who decided on the final form of each of the threeabbreviated personas. All three abbreviated personas were printed on A1 posters (~24”x33”) andaffixed to the wall. A sample of the posters are in Figure 1 and full-page versions are inAppendix A.The CA Couple persona includes two prose
way inthis efforts, including the first-year advising team, the EG10111 course staff (instructors andstudent assistants), and the members of the Kaneb Center.References [1] P. Murtaugh, L. Burns, and J. Schuster, “Predicting the retention of university students,” Research in Higher Education, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 355–371, 1999. [2] K. E. Arnold and M. D. Pistilii, “Course signals at purdue: Using learning analytics to increase student success,” Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, May 2012. [3] S. Moon, “High-impact educational practices as promoting student retention and success,” 2013. [4] J. Wolff, Z. Zdrahal, A. Nikolov, and M. Pantucek, “Improving retention: Predicting at
Directors is empowered to accept the withdrawal, and the Board of Delegates shall be notified of the Board of Director’s decision at the next regularly scheduled meeting [6].In the 88-year history of the organization, eight Member Societies have withdrawn from ABETor its predecessor, ECPD [8].‡Background: ABET CriteriaEach ABET Commission develops, publishes, and implements accreditation criteria in two broadcategories—General Criteria, which are applicable to all programs accredited by the associatedCommission, and Program Criteria, which are applicable only to programs with a specifiedprogram name [9].Each set of Program Criteria must include two elements: • an applicability clause, which specifies the specific program name(s) to
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United States according to the annual ASEE 2018 By the Numbersreport. We operationalized “students seeing ethics in a course” by looking at whether an electiveor required course mentioned in a program’s graduation requirements had the word ethics (or avariant) in either the course title or course description. We acknowledge two potential flaws interms of false positives and false negatives - just because a course has ethics somewhere in itsdescription or title does not necessarily send a strong signal about how that was translated intothe classroom (i.e., an instance of a false positive in the data). Likewise, a course description ortitle not having ethics in the title does not necessarily translate to students not learning aboutsome aspect(s
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growing multinational organizations. 8 • An increasing presence of multinational R&D facilities is in countries like China and India. 8 • The level of R&D in the India and China is growing. 8,9,10 • Of the growing trained workforce in the emerging economic environments, a large number of them would prefer to stay home and work for a multinational firm than move overseas. 11 • Even those who are already in the developed economies may move back home because of the changing work environments. 11,12 • The global competition for S&E workforce is growing. Countries like the UK, Ireland, Germany and Australia are actively in the pursuit of trained workforce from the developing economies
, recommends, wemust “ensure that the United States is the premier place in the world to innovate.” 32.1 Statement of the ProblemBut a disturbing reality is now apparent that must be corrected. Over the last several decades, 1960’s,70’s, 80’s, 90’s, the nation has invested wisely, because of 1945 U.S. science policy in fostering worldpreeminence of research-oriented graduate education for the U.S. Scientific Workforce for basic researchand ‘discovery’ at the universities, and must continue to do so.4 But it has not made a parallel investmentand balanced educational emphasis during this same time period in fostering professionally-orientedgraduate education, beyond entry level engineering, that supports the further development of the U.S.Engineering
innocent, rich, majority, male students who of course never whine,and whose rich parents never try to bully the teacher. Basically, if non-merit considerations gointo grade decisions, the process is corrupt and indefensible, so there is no need to micro-analyzethe corruption further. The teacher(s) and administrative grade-fixer(s) should be fired. As myfirst boss told me bluntly when I asked him 3 weeks into my first (sophomore) class, what to doabout an intransigent Army Major who was heading for an F, “You gotta be objective! If you losethat, you have nothing!” Elementary thought would also confirm experience that if there is anydifference between the expectation levels of students based on affluence, then in today’sgeneration, it is the more
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tocollege rather than because of a specific interest in this subject matter. Considering this to be thecase, perhaps this course and other similar freshmen-level experiences should be designed toprimarily prepare the student for the rigor of university-level work rather than be an indepthanalysis of a specific topic. For the next offering of this class, I plan on reevaluating its contentto make sure that the content appeals to more students.Bibliography1 Lau, A. S., Pangborn, R. N., Wise, J. C., & Marra, (2001) R. M. Student assessments of engineering first-yearseminars. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.Session 2793.2 Hasenberg, C., Natter, B., & Sukhwant, J. (2005
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State University Kyungsuk Park is a researcher in College of Education at Kyungpook National University in S. Korea. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in technology education from the Ohio State University.Ms. Shaobo Huang, Utah State University - Engineering Education Page 25.691.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 High School Student Engineering Design Thinking and PerformanceAbstractOur vision is to improve the STEM learning and teaching environment for high school studentsthrough their understanding of engineering design. Engineering employs principles ofmathematics and
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AC 2010-1351: STUDENTS AS THE KEY TO UNLEASHING STUDENTENGAGEMENT: THE THEORY, DESIGN, & LAUNCH OF A SCALABLE,STUDENT-RUN LEARNING COMMUNITY AT XXRussell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Russell Korte is an assistant professor in Human Resource Education and a Fellow with the iFoundry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.David Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana David E. Goldberg is Jerry S. Dobrovolny Distinguished Professor in Entrepreneurial Engineering and Co-Director of the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education. He is author of Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning (Addision-Wesley, 1989) and The
this type of analysisduring their future careers. The QFD matrix is set up with critical customer requirements listed in acolumn with their associated priority ranking (1-5 with 1’s being low; 5’s high). Potential designsolutions or aspects that could assist with meeting the requirements are listed in a row that isperpendicular to the requirements. Relationship matrix points are assigned to each of the cells that linka requirement to a solution (0,1,3,9 with 0’s being low; 9’s high), in order to determine if a potentialdesign solution can address multiple requirements. A technical difficulty rating is assigned based onthe ease of implementation (1-5 with 1 being easy), and objective targets are established as benchmarkgoals. In keeping with
trained in thehumanities and social sciences, and most are familiar with Western culture and values. It maybring an impression to ethics instructors that the government has “endorsed” the instruction ofWestern professionalism, and this type of professionalism is acceptable to include in engineeringcurricula – although it is worth noting that there is not yet an accepted national ethics curricula inChina. Further, most Western engineering ethics textbooks that have been translated into Chinesereflect a strong professional tradition (e.g., Charles E. Harris et al.’s Engineering Ethics:Concepts and Cases29 and Mike W. Martin and Ronald Schinzinger’s Ethics in Engineering30).Yet these same ethics instructors must also often teach ideological courses
involved in that project. Also, generally, one or more faculty adviser(s)from each department that is participating on a given project will be appointed to help advise thestudent team on matters relating to that department’s engineering discipline, although levels ofinvolvement in project advising tend to vary greatly between different faculty members. Mostprojects have a single main faculty advisor from the project’s lead department, who is largelyresponsible (albeit with help from course coordinators) for spearheading the project and steering Page 24.566.7it to best meet the needs of the particular sponsor/client (or competition effort); although