10-15 minutes per student. For a small group ofstudents (like the group in this pilot study) this was not an overwhelming time commitment. Forlarger groups of students, we would evaluate a representative sample of the portfolios to keep thefaculty time commitment at a reasonable level.Here is an example of a student reflection for a report presented in the portfolio to demonstrateachievement of outcome k: This project demonstrates my ability to use statistical analysis and laboratory techniques to solving engineering issues that arise in the mill environment. The Page 22.253.12 report presents a logical method of studying
. 10 The U.S. occupation authorities actually jump-‐started the whole process by allowing small and medium-‐sized enterprises to trade in their existing machinery for equipment that had been seized in the reparations program. This continued after independence in 1952 with prefectural governments and cooperative organizations playing the key role of matching the needs of local firms with available machinery. Prefectures also supported small local laboratories for improving production practices in industries of local interest (Morris-‐Suzuki 1994). There was no master plan. Rather a multitude of overlapping ministries competed with one another to
AC 2011-2517: CONSIDERATION OF HAPPENSTANCE THEORY IN MA-JOR SELECTION AND MIGRATION IN A LARGE ENGINEERING PRO-GRAMOdis Hayden Griffin, Jr., East Carolina University O. Hayden Griffin, Jr. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He has over 35 years experience in industrial and government laboratories and academia.Sandie J. Griffin, Sandie J. Griffin is an academic advisor with over 15 years of university experience. She holds a BA in elementary education from Virginia Tech and an MS in academic advising from Kansas State University. Page 22.376.1
cognitive connections needed19 (Stark &Lattuca, 1997).Purpose The researcher was motivated to conduct the research study as a result of her work withhigher order thinking skills (HOTS) 25 years ago at a regional educational laboratory in Chicago,Illinois. The purpose of this research study was to examine whether a critical thinkingintervention would increase students’ critical thinking skills. This study was conducted over athree-year period as a mixed methods, quasi–experimental design examining STEM students’critical thinking skills at a Historically Black College and University (HBCU). A standardizedcritical thinking test, the Cornell Critical Thinking Test, was administered to students enteringthe Pre-Freshmen Accelerated Curriculum
development for many years and decided to approach thisaugmentation of engineering education from within the technical domain we are most familiarwith. The ‘laboratory’ for this endeavor has been a graduate level engineering design course thatis offered at Georgia Institute of Technology every spring, namely, ME6102 Designing OpenEngineering Systems. We have jointly orchestrated this course for many years. In the followingsections, an overview of this course, its context and content, the way it is structured andorchestrated, and in particular the fashion in which it serves as a vehicle and example for re-designing engineering education are presented
-on project activities. Outside of class time, students make extensive useof computer labs for their CAD work, and the college machine shop (Learning Factory) for theirprototyping tasks. A perennial problem that still has not been adequately solved is providingspace where students can store their projects in-process. The course budget for equipment andsupplies is $10,000 per year, and comes from student laboratory fees.IV. Results4.1 Assessment ToolsFormative and summative assessment tools were used to gather student feedback for continuousimprovement of course content and delivery. Four assessment tools were used: a. Best/Worst Design Essays b. Ranking of 23 Design Activities c. Design Survey d. Student Self-assessment of course
Konseyi(MDK). The journal focuses exclusively on scholarly educational research in engineering Page 15.656.3education. We offer a large international readership and a highly cited archive. Its articles covera wide range of subjects including what knowledge and competencies engineers must possessand how they are learned and assessed, how educational methods, materials, infrastructure, andfaculty affect learning, and how to attract, engage, and retain diverse human talent to engineeringDr. Susan Lord directs the Optoelectronics Laboratory at USD. Her research interests are in theareas of optoelectronics and materials. She has worked as a Research
follow: Core Curriculum: The university has a core curriculum requirement which includes 6 semester credit hours of freshman composition (FC), 6 credit hours of “writing within the curriculum” in 300- and 400-level courses (W), 9 credit hours of humanities, literature, and fine arts (HU/L/FA), 9 credit hours of history and social and behavioral sciences (HI/SB), a 6 credit-hour depth (or sequence) study in a discipline in either HU/L/FA or HI/SB, 12 credit hours of natural science (NS) and mathematics (MA) to include 2 credit hours of laboratory (mathematics must be at the calculus I level or higher), and either 6 credit hours of foreign language (FL) or computer (C) in addition to the HU/L/FA requirement (FL courses can count
of twenty-two African American women engineering faculty was held to discuss the challenges andbarriers that affect the tenure and promotion process. The discussion led to the identification ofsix significant factors affecting successful attainment of tenure for Black women faculty inparticular. The most important factor identified by the senior faculty within the group waseffective mentoring. Other factors included support of the home department, community support,and existing laboratory infrastructure. While there were no real surprises from this survey, thelack of resources to follow-up with the group to effect change caused this initiative to go intohibernation. (It should be noted that Dr. Mead was a member of the Leadership Task Force
learning. Page 22.81.5Table 2. Kolb's Model of Experiential Learning with Suggested Learning Strategies.Kolb's Stage of Example Learning/Teaching StrategyExperiential LearningConcrete Experience Simulation, Case Study, Field trip, Real Experience, DemonstrationsObserve and Reflect Discussion, Small Groups, Buzz Groups, Designated ObserversAbstract Conceptualization Sharing ContentActive Experimentation Laboratory Experiences, On-the-Job Experience, Internships, Practice sessionsKolb went a step
scientific and professional meetings, including several invited papers. To date Dr. Schonberg has received over 35 contract and grants from a variety of federal, state, local, and private funding agencies, including the U.S. DoT, NASA, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office, Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. Army Missile Command and the Engineering Foundation. In 1995 Dr. Schonberg received the AIAA’s Lawrence Sperry Award for his work on the design of spacecraft protection systems. In 1998, Dr. Schon- berg was promoted to the membership rank of Associate Fellow in the AIAA and in 2000 was selected to receive the Charles Beecher Prize for one of his recent papers on orbital debris
, is particularly urgent in Texas becauseof a 2006 legislative decision requiring all high school students, beginning with those 15.1277.9who entered ninth grade in 2007, to complete four years of science to graduate under thestate’s default degree plan. This fourth year of science, which must be laboratory-based,may be selected from existing courses in anatomy/physiology, astronomy, advancedbiology, chemistry and physics, environmental systems and research/design, or may be anew course in space science or a new course in engineering. In schools offering anengineering option, this new initiative will put enormous pressure on secondary
-Hill, Inc., New York, NY.Hagen, K. D., “Heat Transfer with Applications” Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1999.Rolle, K. C., “Heat and Mass Transfer” Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2000.Leinhard and Leinhard, “A Heat Transfer Textbook, 3rd ed.” free on-line athttp://web.mit.edu/lienhard/www/ahtt.htmlInstructional Laboratory Supervisor Paul B. Golter: 5-9634; email: pgolter@wsu.eduLecturer Baba Abdul: e-mail: davab@wsu.edu, 5-9625Course Details Page 15.1062.17Grading: Project 60% (Group); Case study 10% (Group), Homework 20% (Individual), Final DesignAnalysis (10%). The part of your grade arising from group work will be
the creative entrepreneur. However, many Page 21.40.11companies typically do not have the resources ( e.g. talent, facilities, money, etc.) to carry oncritical research and development independently. On the other hand many universities are in aposition to produce sophisticated research, thereby adding to the knowledge base and enablingdevelopment of commercial products, leading to investments and job creation. Development ofuniversity-based Research Parks would ease the transfer of technology from laboratory to themarketplace. Such parks could be a key factor in the promotion of economic development andcompetitiveness. In the evolving
(Entrepreneur, etc.) 5 (50%) 44 (33%) Government (Politician, Science Policy Advocate, etc.) 3 (30%) 16 (12%) Industry (Engineer/Research Scientist) 10 (100%) 114 (84%) Research Laboratory (Engineer/Research Scientist) 7 (70%) 67 (50%) Other (please specify) 0 (0%) 3 (2%) *Responses obtained from a survey sent to the 272 GSIs in the College of Engineering in Fall 2009 (~50% response rate)Since EGSMs are advanced doctoral students (many of whom have reached candidacy), whoalso have in-depth training and experience related to effective college teaching, consulting
Educationlearning. If a professor desires to conduct in-class small group exercises, an auditorium probablyis not the best choice. Either individual student desks or large tables with multiple chairs may bemore suitable. The equipment in the room to include the amount of black board space,projection systems, etc. may limit how course material is presented. Is the classroom close to alaboratory or is there classroom space in the laboratory if experiments are part of the lessonobjectives? Is there space in the classroom for large models or demonstrations? Is the coursecovering design or is it a seminar?33 All of these (and many more) issues affect the learningenvironment for the course. Do not forget things like climate control, external noise or built
acceptance to normalization.26, 46 We suggested that the origins of the World Trade Center towers were in the engineer’slab; the architect of such structures as the WTC must be, and in this instance was, primarily anengineer.8 A modern engineering research laboratory or commercial firm is also a system,composed of individuals (employees and customers) and the technology on which they dependand with which they interact. Complex systems are typically formed from interacting elements, which themselves are increasingly “intelligent” and partially autonomous. A complex system cannot be managed in the head of a single person, but it is always essential to see such systems as a single entity, and at different levels of detail.39
. Journal of Adolescence, 17, 341-355.13. Giles, D.E., & Eyler, J. (1994). The impact of a college community service laboratory on students’ personal,social, and cognitive outcomes. Journal of Adolescence, 17, 327-339.14. Astin, A.W., & L.J. Sax. (1998). How undergraduates are affected by serviceparticipation. Journal of CollegeStudent Development, 39, 251-263.15. Kesner, L., & Eyring, E.M. (1999). General chemistry: lead paint analyses. Journal of Chemical Education, 76,920-923.16. Skeers, M.H., & Aragon, E. (2002). Combining active learning with service-learning: a student-drivendemonstration project. Journal of Chemical Education, 79, 462-46417. Tsang, E., editor (2000). Projects That Matter: Concepts and Models for Service
theIncubator. However, typically an M.S. graduate student will concentrate on coursework duringthe first year, and on a thesis project during the second year. Also, knowledge gained from thefirst-year coursework and familiarity with facilities, equipment and laboratory procedures may beimportant to the success in research areas. Contrary to this normal flow, a first-year graduatestudent that commits to work with an Innovation Incubator client may be required to begin worksoon after arriving at the University. Since the standard commitment between the Incubator and aClient is for 12 months, then effectively the research work is front-loaded for the student. This is acultural change that carries with it both positive and negative consequences. An
tutorial takes a visual, step-by-step approach indemonstrating how to create a Win32, console-mode application as well as covering introductoryprogramming concepts such as the “edit, compile, link, and run” process and useful proceduressuch as printing source-code and program output. The tutorial is thorough and complete enoughto be given as a lab or homework exercise or as a class exercise done in a laboratory setting. Page 7.861.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationI. Introduction The
population. Equally importantly, the dimensions of the model can be directly related tothe instructional design of hypermedia materials. Synchronous and asynchronous hypermedia canthus be better used to lessen the reliance on lecturing 30, to increase student participation, tosupport visualization and laboratory experimentation31, and to encourage reflection32, allnecessary ingredients of the learning process.Learning Styles in Engineering and their ImplicationsPersonality traits and learning styles are distributed differently among practising professionals andstudents in different fields. A possible explanation for the differences is that learners who exhibitcertain preferences are drawn to a particular field. Engineering students tend to have a
81.7 Concrete design project 15.2 / 20 76.0 Practicals (laboratories) 5.9 / 10 59.3 Steel exam component 9.6 / 20 48.1 Concrete exam component 14.9 / 30 49.7 Overall 61.9 / 100 61.9These marks indicate that students generally achieved much better marks in the design projectsthan in the examinations. This raises the long-standing debate about the value of examinationsversus continuous assessment in evaluating learning outcomes, with supporters of examinationsbelieving that if students can’t produce correct solutions under pressure then they can’t havelearnt the material, while supporters of continuous assessment methods such as projects arguethat
, American Society for Engineering EducationV. Conclusions and Future WorkThe course in which the study was located, used a student-centered approach with emphasis onactive, experiential, problem-based learning, and had a significant design project where teamworkand communication skills were important. The project required a tight coordination of the course.All students functioned in the same computer-assisted learning environment (access to computernetwork, simulation software, computer-controlled laboratory setup). Progressive approach,project orientation and coordination ensured that the instructional design of the course remainedthe same regardless of the instructional media used in the lectures. As discussed, treatment groupswere
astandardization filter to our datasets after selecting an optimal feature subset improves results,likely due to implicit weighting of features with large ranges.Study LimitationsData was collected in a semi-naturalistic setting, as participants were asked to perform swimmingstrokes but were not obligated to do them in any order. But this study is still a laboratory study, asresearchers were required to be present to perform labelling and facilitate data collection.Another limitation is in the usage of smartwatches. Data was collected at a sampling rate of 25Hz, but due to smartwatch sensor limitations, any window with a sampling rate not between ±10% of the sampling rate (22.5 - 27.5 Hz) was excluded from data analysis.Being limited to data collection