, deans, and provosts). In particular, our subjects havedirect involvement and experience with planning, implementation, resource allocation, or consen-sus building in the local and/or national initiatives. This allows us to identify the discourse as wellas the structural conditions or consequences of governance in engineering education. Emergenceof engineering ethics in various contexts or, by the same merit, its absence in numerous others isof interest to us in this paper.The interviews were recorded (with proper informed consent and privacy protection protocols),transcribed, coded and analyzed, first with an exploratory, open coding 25 approach to identifyemerging themes. In the exploratory stage, a salient category that we named “why
articulation of expectations of effort and interactions. Communicate that this also is a learning process for each individual and the group to produce the desired outcomes. • Planning and attention to logistics helped to reduce additional friction points during the working meeting. Examples included developing a detailed agenda based on a clear understanding of the goals and contexts of the group and individual members, as well as ensuring appropriate space, technology, and food were available. • Create a positive and inclusive environment. Setting the tone for positive interpersonal interactions and valuing everyone’s ideas and voices were critical to attaining the goals. Establishing ground
projects and students in a study group practicing solutions to challenging problems. The success of a team usually depends on the leadership, goal setting, task planning and other teamwork skills of its members.Note that these are not steps for engineering problem solving. Rather, they are the maincomponents or ingredients that are required to solve problems. In most problems, many of theSeven C’s will play a role, though perhaps not all of them at once.In addition to providing a framework for organizing new knowledge and skills, the structure andvocabulary of the Seven C’s can be used to identify specific areas of learning strength andweakness. A general statement such as, “I am not good at solving this type of problem” might bereplaced
descriptionof performance indicator achievement and plans for increasing achievement next year will beincluded in the Criterion 4: Continuous Improvement section of our ABET Self-Study Report.The findings in this study are consistent with other research on non-traditional approaches toengineering curricula. For example, in the first planning year of highly regarded Olin College 9 Table 2. Means (M) and standard deviations (SD) for sophomore responses to items from the Student Response to Instructional Practices (StRIP) Instrument by subscale and item pre- and post-activity. Beginning of Post
. However, due to alack of emphasis on Computer Science, current instructors are not adequately equipped to teach suchcourses. Creating engaging lesson plans requires a comprehensive understanding of Computer Sciencetopics. Crucial to the success of legislative efforts like SF29, training K-12 teachers to understand theseconcepts and teach them effectively necessitates appropriate outreach from experienced institutions. Given the widespread use of technology, students have a basic understanding of Computer Science,but need refined programming skills to leverage this technology in their future professions. Waitingfor higher education to expose students to these concepts inhibits their potential and stunts theiracademic growth. Our summer outreach
the assessment plan adopted by the department basedon the following principles: 1. The achievement of each SO is to be demonstrated by a primary course and possibly by a supporting course. Both courses must be from the systems engineering core component that is completed by all students. 2. The achievement of each SOs should include the assessment of all components of that particular SO. 3. The methodology of measurement should be straightforward, measuring directly the achievement of the SO by measuring the achievement of its component parts instead of by indirect means such as measuring the accomplishment of course learning objectives and then mapping the objectives to the SO. 4. Assessment methodology
: Before the semester started, I had simply planned to teach the class based mostly on a very lecture-centered focus. That is, I planned to be talking during most of the lecture time. However, the training made me realize the importance of getting students to participate in the learning process. I was able to brainstorm ideas about how to get the students involved. This led to the creation of worksheets that I used during the latter half of the course.The results of ranking the seven practices indicate that participants shifted priorities among theoptions presented. For instance, one participant responded, “Although I was aware of most ofthese concepts to some extent, I thought reviewing the 7 best practices in teaching was
when something in the implementation of an experiment doesn’t go as planned, andthere is no obvious logical reason [13]. The hardware, software, and implementation procedureall need to be robust enough that when things inevitable do go wrong, there is an obvious logicalreason, and instructors can work with students to get them past such setbacks. This is one areawhere the COTS systems shine.2.8 SafetyThe level of safety required is relative to the number of support staff available to administer agiven experiment. In the extreme case of portable or take-home labs, the experiments must besafe for unsupervised use [4].2.9 ExposureFrom the perspective of industry, exposure to multiple control systems is more useful than aslightly more in-depth
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Paper ID #17343Industry experience: Consulting; since 1987; Had major or partial role in: I) performing research forindustry, DOE and NSF, and II) in several oil industry or government (DOE, DOD, and NSF) proposals.Performed various consulting tasks from USA for several oil companies (Jawaby Oil Service Co., WAHAOil and Oasis Co., London, England). The responsibilities included production planning, forecastingand reservoir maintenance. This production planning and forecasting consisted of history matching andprediction based on selected drilling. The reservoir maintenance included: water/gas
the camp was well received by the participating girls and their parents. The idea of having agirl only camp was also well received. As an example, one girl said she had originally planned toattend a co-ed STEM Camp, but changed her mind when she heard about this camp for girls. “Inengineering and science fields you’re always going to be outnumbered by guys, so I liked how itfocused more on the impact that women can have and the job opportunities women have,” shecommented. In the post workshop survey we asked the participants the following question “I think whatwe are studying about science and math in STEM Girls camp is useful for me to know” withfollowing seven answer options (a) Strongly Disagree, (b) Disagree, (c) Somewhat Disagree, (d
innovation, study control engineering and technology in national development strategies.Topic3: Science and Technology Focus on the learning about the development trendDevelopment Strategies in and application of the engineering leadership of theengineering leadership world, the development history, policies and strategic planning of China’s science and technology, understand the focus of innovation and research in engineering leadership fields.Subject Three: Courses on ManagementTopic1: Practice and Thinking on Learn and communicate about the cross
beviewed as somewhat prescriptive. The ABET evaluation process is a peer-review process fromthe disciplinary viewpoint. Thus in an ABET evaluation, an evaluator from a relevant technicalsociety will be sent to assess the program.In comparison, AUN-QA seeks to create viable internal quality assurance (IQA) systems withinASEAN universities. The primary focus of AUN-QA assessment at the program level (there areinitial efforts underway towards doing institutional level evaluations) is for the purpose ofimproving the effectiveness of the quality assurance system. AUN-QA has adopted the Plan -Do – Check - Act (PDCA) approach for improving QA practices, as shown in figure 2.8 Thus,AUN-QA accreditation is more system and process–oriented. Student
-engineering oriented assignment on the left side (GuideBase) and the replacement assignment on the right side (support bracket for a solar water heater),an environmental engineering assignment. In both assignments, the students are to draw threeorthographic views of the part and add dimensions. According to the survey, 79% of the studentspreferred the environmental engineering assignment. Guide Base Solar Water Heater Figure 2: Guide base and support bracket assignments.Figure 3 shows one of the last assignments in the 2D portion of the course. The problem on theleft is a plan-view of a building and the layout of structural steel columns with details. Thisproblem is
circuit schematics in thelab report. The hardware lab attendance is verified for face-to-face students through an in-labstamp, while the online students have to include in their lab report pictures of theirbreadboard/circuit set up as evidence of their lab completion. For hardware lab 4, the designproject, face-to-face students have to demonstrate their project in front of a teaching assistant,while online students only submit the lab report with pictures of circuit set up, but with detailedtest plan and test results as their proof of task completion.Only one exam is implemented in the online version due to the condensed schedule. The regularweekly schedule of quizzes eliminates the need for a midterm exam, which in the face-to-faceclass serves
dirty water. Again, supplies were given andtime for brainstorming was given; teams were formed and a competition was constructed to seewhose filter could clean the water the best. The following Table 3 outlines each engineeringchallenge along with its supplies and objective defined in our lesson plan for that day.Table 3: Supplies and Engineering Challenge Objective Defined in Lesson Plans Engineering Challenge Supplies Given Objective Paper To relay the scientific concept of air Tissue Paper Parachute Design Challenge
observation is the succeed/fail nature of these projects created a strong desire toaccomplish the tasks at hand resulting in the necessary adoption of project managementtechniques such as detailed scheduling and organization and utilizing multiple resources toaccomplish several tasks at once by the student researcher.Along with the mentioned project management experiences, the project also provided valuabletechnical experiences. The student researcher had completed in the semester prior to project startour Instrumentation and Experimentation course. Expectations were high on performance onexperimental planning, instrumentation uncertainty prediction and selection and the studentresearcher performed in an exemplary manner. Present throughout the
essential that education techniques stay ahead ofthe curve. As a result this study set out to implement project based learning (PBL) techniquesin order to grab students’ attention and teach critical issues within engineering - energy andsustainability.As sustainability becomes an increasingly vital component in all fields of engineering, it hasbecome increasingly important to implement it into engineering curricula. Furthermore, currentresearch shows that education methods that address the affective domain of students proves tobe more effective than methods that otherwise do not [2].With this knowledge, the research team planned to implement and assess a curriculum thatconsists of engineering design projects to teach sustainability and energy all
. National Findings on Science Education from Speak Up 2007 Author Kim Farris-Berg.19. Steif, P.S. and Dollar, A. (2012). Relating usage of web-based learning materials to learning progress. In: Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, San Antonio, TX.20. Tai, R. H., Liu, C. Q., Maltese, A. V., Fan, X. (2006). Planning early for careers in science. Science, 312(26).21. Talbert, R. (2012). Learning MATLAB in the inverted classroom. In: Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, San Antonio, TX.22. Thomas, J. S. and Philpot, T. A. (2012). An inverted teaching model for a mechanics of materials course. In: Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education, San Antonio
out group-specific activities on each level.The remote office is to analyze the progress of a university and make decisions on theinitiation of respective internationalization activities according to the networking level.The more detailed description of levels is provided below.Level 1: intentions (application of the “declarative” approach). A university declares itsintentions to internationalize with its potential partners abroad. Meetings and negotiations arecarried out and networking counterparts send their delegations. Plans and roadmaps areagreed as the outcomes of the stage one. The remote office is opened with an “easy partner”motivated to cooperate.Fig. 2. Proposed networking model for of engineering university
Actions Objects Actions Structures Bridges Build Roads Cities Buildings Plan Infrastructure People, Design Civilians Community, Civilization Don’t know: 11 (20%) Don’t know: 3 (11.5%)Although a larger proportion of 2014 students reported not knowing what electrical andcomputer engineering is, the language used by the 2014 students displayed a more sophisticatedunderstanding of electrical and computer engineering. Both years of students used action-oriented words such as “work with” and “build”, but the 2014 students also used words such as“design” and
activities from the pilot program to be leveraged across multiple K-12 age ranges as part of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) outreach activities. To date, this program has been in place for three academic sessions of each course. Thework presented here will cover results and observations to-date, preliminary evaluations ofeffectiveness relative to standard (non-pilot) program instances, and plans for future work. Gradedistribution, pass/fail percentage, and anonymous student feedback surveys are utilized asmetrics to evaluate the impact of the pilot program’s changes for each of these courses.Description of Program The pilot program utilizes experiential learning tools in the form of hands-on projects,classroom
Education, Research and Faculty CollaborationABSTRACTIt has been long recognized that one of the most important aspect of delivering high qualitySTEM education is to provide the students with an educational experience that includes a widerange of knowledge including not only engineering, science, and mathematics but also liberalarts education such as ergonomics (operation, safety, usability), business (economics, marketing,management, planning, corporate identity), aesthetics (form, visualization, style), and social,environmental, and cultural issues. In response to this need, the School of Engineering,Mathematics and Science (SEMS) at Robert Morris University (RMU) formed a Research andOutreach Center (ROC) in the year 2010. The center activities
review of theresponses indicated that 26.89 percent (n=82 of 305) answered a usable portion of the survey.The second question was “What research metrics services does your library offer?” The questionis further nuanced by asking respondents to indicate if the service is formal, informal, planning aformal service, investigating or none. Detailed results are given in Figure 1 with 26.89 percent(n=82 of 305) answering parts of the question. With the exception of “One-on-oneconsultations” 56.10 percent (n=46 of 82), only a small number of engineering librariansindicated the existence of a formal service for the list of services posed. Other responsesindicating formal services in existence ranged from low of 3.70 percent (n= 3 of 81) to 7.50percent
FEA method through lecturing, examples, and homework assignments.The modified MECH625 was mainly focused on using SolidWorks Simulation andimplementing it for design projects. The main contents or skills in SolidWorks Simulation aregeneration / pre-processing of 3D models, assignment of materials, setting boundary conditions,creating appropriate meshing, defining contact conditions, post-processing, including applyingthe appropriate failure criterion, convergence iterations and interpretation of results [4]. Theweekly plan of the modified MECH625 is provided in Table 1.Most homework assignments in the modified MECH625 were focused on developing somespecific skills of FEA simulation. Successful completion of homework usually developednecessary
plan toconduct similar studies in which we investigate the role of class level (i.e., freshman andsophomore classes versus junior and senior), major, and historically underrepresented groups,such as women and minorities. This preliminary study resulted in the development of a resourcethat instructors can hand out or show their students on the first day. Ultimately, in a field oftendriven by numbers, there is great power in showing engineering students that, mathematically,their academic success depends on consistent class attendance, diligent note-taking, and keepingup with the instructor during class.References1. Hall, C. W., Kauffmann, P. J, Wuensch, K. L., Swart, W. E., DeUrquidi, K. A., Griffin, O. H., & Duncan, C. S
engage in academic work using a variety of self-regulating strategies: planning, monitoring, evaluating, and adjusting approaches to learning. Seventh, students’ use of cognitive strategies is situated in the context of cycles of dynamic, iterative, self-regulating activities. Eighth, as part of the monitoring effort and in an ongoing way, students compare outcomes that emerge through their activity with internal or external standards.Overview of the REU Site ProgramThis REU Site program aims to motivate and retain talented undergraduates in STEM careers,particularly careers in teaching and STEM education research. Each year over a three-yearproject period, eight undergraduate students from across the nation are recruited to
each week. Feedback was provided each week onthe journal assignments. At the end of the semester, the students were asked to write a 7-8 pagefinal reflection titled “Design Your Process For Becoming a World Class Engineering Student.”The Design Your Process project is a nationally implemented project that asks students toprovide a plan for how they will be successful in the rest of their academic engineering career.Students are asked to synthesize all they have learned in their academic success course, choosethe skills that they believe are most relevant to their success, and make a specific plan they willfollow to reach their goal of graduating with an engineering degree. In order to recruit students to participate in FYS 101-eng, the
Engineering, the group leadersdescribed a cycle of semesters in which the ongoing support played a role. In the firstsemester of meeting, instructors might plan changes they could make to their teaching. Inthe next semester, they might implement and test the strategy. Subsequent semesterscould then be used to continue to refine and develop a teaching strategy. Such a scenariotook place in several groups of SIMPLE STEM during the first year cycle. These groupsdedicated the first semester to learning about new interactive teaching strategies ofinterest, and in the second semester group members tried these strategies in theirclassrooms. In a previous paper about SIMPLE Engineering 12, we reported on theexperience of one of our participants who spent two
about oneself as a learner and about what factors can influence one's performance15. • Procedural knowledge: refers to knowledge about doing things15. • Conditional knowledge: refers to knowing when and why to use declarative and procedural knowledge16, 17. 2. Metacognitive regulation or "regulation of cognition" contains three skills that are essential14, 15. • Planning: the appropriate selection of strategies and the correct allocation of resources that affect task performance. • Monitoring: one's awareness of comprehension & task performance • Predicting the consequences of an action or event18, • Evaluating: appraising the final product of a task and
come to love both offensive and defensive cyber security and is currently planning on pursuing a Masters degree emphasizing Cyber Security.Dr. Dale C. Rowe, Brigham Young University Dr. Rowe has worked for nearly two decades in security and network architecture with a variety of in- dustries in international companies. He has provided secure enterprise architecture on both military and commercial satellite communications systems. He has also advised and trained both national and interna- tional governments on cyber-security. Since joining Brigham Young University in 2010, he has designed a variety of courses on Information Assurance, Cyber Security, Penetration Testing, Cyber Forensics and Systems Administration and