orgrandchildren of immigrants, particularly those who grew up speaking the language of theirparents/grandparents may be surprised when they don’t fit in as smoothly and as comfortably asthey had anticipated when studying abroad in the country of their parents/grandparents. Evenstudents who grew up in diverse environments may be confronted by attitudes and beliefs thatthey are not familiar with and do not agree with. Students will not necessarily like every newconcept that presents itself, but they should be aware that there will be differences. In manycases , they will be pleasantly surprised to learn how things are done in other countries.Self-reflection and a good understanding of one’s self along with knowledge of foreign cultureswill allow students
three MIT courses, Unified Engineering, Thermal Energy, and Aerodynamics, we usea peer instruction approach similar to that developed for physics by Mazur. 41 In thisapproach, concept questions are given to students in class with time for individual thoughtand reflection. After a check to see how well students have understood the question,small group discussions are held (if needed) in which student groups attempt to answer thequestion. Afterward, the instructor clarifies misconceptions and leads students in furtherexploration of the concept. In the three courses discussed above, we measured classresponse through various techniques, including hand raising, flash cards, and, mostrecently, PRS, a personal response system. Interactive student
part of the project. The final grade in a course is thus obtained from a combination ofindividual and team evaluation, and reflects the level of competency achieved as compared toterm competency goals.Finally, we take advantage of web-based tools for communicating with the students, forpresenting or archiving class material, and for performing some evaluation activities.3 Example of the first semesterTo illustrate how the curriculum is put together and delivered, the first semester is presented herein more detail. In particular, we examine the vertical integration of course material within theterm, what do integration projects actually look like and how the team teaching concept isimplemented. Figure 3 Graphical
committee set up earlier to develop a policy on licensing and professional practice were approved by the board. The action changes the title of policy statement 465 from ‘First Professional Degree’ to ‘Academic Prerequisites for Licensure and Professional Practice.’ The previous committee said this title more accurately reflects the intent of the policy. The question is not what should be the first professional degree, the committee said in its report to the board, but instead what should be the educational prerequisite for the practice of civil engineering at the professional level.’ New language defines ‘professional level’ as the ‘practice of engineering as a licensed professional
Session 1615 “Powerful Play: Using Toys as Tools in Engineering Education”AbstractAs engineering education has changed to reflect less of a traditional teacher-centered classroomand more of a learner-centered environment, new instructional methodologies have also evolved.Many of these curricular modifications look startlingly different from traditional engineeringeducation at first glance; however, a closer look reveals that some curricular modifications areable to glean the substance of the traditional lecture, mix it up with some learner-based,collaborative, hands-on activities, and integrate the new mandates for technical communicationand
theseconcerns would be to call groups of 2 to 4 students up at once, and allow them to discuss outloud the possible answer to the question. This would allow more students to be “contestants”throughout the semester, and would lend support to less confident students through the presenceof “teammates”.V. EvaluationAn e-mail survey was conducted after the second offering of the game in “Statics and Mechanicsof Materials,” after the semester had ended and the students had received their grade. This wasdone to allow the students to reflect on the entire course experience and outcomes in theirresponses. The response rate of the surveys was approximately 50%. The results from thisquestionnaire are as follows
feedback. IDEO, in particular, has a number ofcorporate mottos that reflect the importance of building and testing early in the process, and wehave adopted those as themes of our course:• Just build it• Test early and test often• Fail often to succeed fasterTo help students develop models and prototypes, we give them instruction in building withfoamcore, using a tutorial—Fabulous Foamcore—that IDEO developed for the company’s in-house training. Students also work through an exercise designed by IDEO, prototyping a boxusing foamcore, X-Acto style knives, and hot glue guns. The effect of the workshop is to helpstudents realize that they can easily make mock-ups throughout the design process to visualizeand test design ideas. A high percentage of
Apply it Problem posed Experience Testing implications Observation and of concepts in Reflections Learn it new situations Identify what we need to know Formulation of abstract concepts and generalizations Subject-Based Learning START Given problem to
were 25 more inspired or motivated to learn in this course because of the website. 20 Figure 6 indicates that the Computer 15 Aided Design course website was 10 much more successful in this area also. The most likely reason for this 5 is that the website is a reflection of 0
strategies embedded in the PEARLS program, offer renovated alternatives to positively impact the level of success achieved by students in their paths to complete degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Acknowledgment This research was supported by the National Science Foundation under Award DUE 1833869. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. References[1] Rogers, J. J., & Rogers, A. A., & Baygents, J. C. (2020, June), Effects of High School Dual-Credit Introduction to Engineering Course on First-year Engineering Student Self-efficacy and the Freshman
educators when considering leadership competency development. Theseresearchers found some educators believe their students exclusively develop leadership skillsoutside of the classroom while participating in extra-curricular activities and internships. Theseauthors utilized a self-reflective survey of faculty members to raise awareness of entrustingleadership development of undergraduate engineering students to extra- and co-curriculum asan inefficient method of developing leadership skills for undergraduate engineers. Righter et al. (2020) found engineering educators rely solely on teamwork indeveloping leadership competency in students. These authors investigated the frequency ofinteraction between faculty and engineering student teams and
College and our current collaborators,Leah Dodson and Eun-Suk Seo at the University of Maryland, College Park. Support for thiswork was provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration MUREP CurriculumAward Program (2023) 80NSSC23M0194 and the MUREP Innovations in Space TechnologyCurriculum Program (2018) 80NSSC18M0126. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, orrecommendations found in this work are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect theviews of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.References[1] J.J. Giesey and B. Manhire.“An analysis of BSEE degree completion time at OhioUniversity.” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 92(3), pp.275-280 (2003). Accessed athttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002
. The post-project presentation allowed me to reflect on both what went well and what didn’t in the entire process. Overall, the course was very enjoyable for me.” • “The hands on projects that we did contributed most to my learning because we were able to learn how beams and strain gages worked. It kept us engaged and forced us to really think about what we wanted.” • “Watching the lectures prior to class and then seeing what we learned applied in a physical way was very effective and helped my learning experience.” • “The course was very interesting in that we actually got to build and create things with our own hands, something I think some other mini-projects missed out on. Because the
effect ofvarying the primary problem image to reflect different levels of abstraction on studentperformance is unknown.This study explores the question of whether the ability of students to draw FBDs is affected bythe level of abstraction of the primary image shown in the problem description. Two studentpopulations were surveyed: first-year students who had just learned to draw rigid body FBDs,and third-year students in their first dynamics course. Students were asked to draw FBDs forproblems with accompanying figures at different levels of abstraction, and the FBDs wereanalyzed for errors.MethodsThree problems were selected for inclusion in this study; students were asked to draw an FBDfor the box of a dump truck, a lawn mower on a slope, and
Copyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering Education 3VLOOKUP and MAX function in Excel and formulated for each of the 720 sequences for eachproblem. S. No Variable Description 1. F* = Total Sum of the six job flowtimes for the sequence chosen by following flowtime the heuristic. yielded by using the heuristic 2. Prob (F≤ F*) Probability that F, the total flowtime for any of the sequences will be less than on equal to F*. Lower probabilities will reflect a result closer to the minimum flowtime job permutation in the population. 3. Rank of
, “Mentoring in Cooperative Education and Internships: Preparing Protégés for STEM Professions,” Journal of STEM Education: Innovations & Research, Vol. 11, No.1, pp. 17-26.12. Brunhaver, S. R., Korte, R. F., Barley, S. R., Sheppard, S. D., 2017, “Bridging the gaps between engineering education and practice,” In US Engineering in a Global Economy, University of Chicago Press, pp. 129-163.13. Rodriguez, R., Imperial J. M., Montefalcon M. D., Padilla J. R., Trillanes A., Abisado M., 2023, “Comparative Thematic Analysis of Reflections from Physical and Virtual Internship Experiences of Computing Undergraduates Students,” Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET
of these concepts within the hierarchies of non-DEI concepts than anothercolleges. As the majority (n = 17) of maps did not feature interlinks, the percentage of DEIJconcepts per map was also included in the analysis in order to better compare the presence ofDEIJ concepts across the maps.LimitationsWhile the findings of this study, discussed below, do provide unique insights into individualfaculty members’ conceptualizations of their programs of study, there are several limitations.First, this exploratory study is limited to one institution, and does not inherently reflect the stateof DEIJ implementation in Colleges of Education or Colleges of Engineering broadly. Inaddition, the design of the study inherently led to limitations on the data
to pinpoint significant safetyissues in line with OSHA standards. Notably, 9 students (about 75% of the total students)suggested practical safety measures, reflecting their proactive approach to safety. Furthermore, 8students (about 67%) were able to identify other varieties of near-miss incidents, indicating theircomprehensive understanding of potential hazards in construction. These results suggest that VRwalkthroughs are a highly effective tool for improving safety awareness and the ability to detectand respond to near-miss incidents in construction environments. 100 92 90
. Various ethical considerations of using ChatGPT include bias in thetraining data, the potential to spread misinformation, job displacement, loss of privacy andsecurity, and many others. In the limited test group of this lesson plan, the students wereresponsive, receptive, and inquisitive about this technology and the applications of generative AI.Not only did the students want to test the limits of ChatGPT, but they wanted to discuss otherethical implications of generative AI, like the ethics of AI generated artwork. One theme that isconstant for the engineer of the twenty-first century is the question of responsibility. Whatresponsibility does the engineer have in the creation and implementation of generative AI? Thisconcluding reflection leaves
and met weekly to discuss thecourse. Although there is a possibility that the instructor’s own teaching style may have influencedstudent performance, it was assumed to be insignificant. As part of this study involved studentparticipation via survey, it is possible that student response was not accurate. In addition, due toits voluntary nature, participation may not reflect the full population of students enrolled in thecourse for a given semester. There are also other factors that can affect a student’s performancesuch as course load, personal work schedule, participation in a sport or other activity, or a student’s 4
Publishing Limited, 2012.[13] E. Blosser, “An examination of Black women’s experiences in undergraduate engineering on a primarily white campus: Considering institutional strategies for change,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 109, no. 1, pp. 52–71, 2020.[14] S. Leath and T. Chavous, “Black women’s experiences of campus racial climate and stigma at predominantly white institutions: Insights from a comparative and within-group approach for STEM and non-STEM majors,” J. Negro Educ., vol. 87, no. 2, pp. 125–139, 2018.[15] L. C. Brown, B. M. Williams, and Q. S. Williams, “Melanin messages: Black college women’s experiences and reflections on navigating colorism.,” J. Divers. High. Educ., 2021.[16] V. Borum and E. Walker, “What makes the
led to sustainable LTS efforts by engineering faculty.AcknowledgementsThe EFELTS effort, and the workshop material presented in this paper, is supported by the Page 23.1401.10National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 1022927, 1022883, 1022738, 1023022, and1022831. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.The authors would like to thank the participants of the 2012 EFELTS workshops and lookforward to their continued support and pursuits in applying LTS in engineering education.Bibliography 1. ABET
online modules are the same as those used for lecture videos. Thefirst step in creating a module is to create problem statements and feedback scenarios based onthe course materials. The problem statements and feedback scenarios are well-defined problemsthat the students solve that reflect the material being taught in the class. The reason there aremultiple scenarios is because Lectora has function that will generate random scenarios. This iseffective for the online modules because each student will have a different scenario of a givenproblem. The tools used for this step can be very basic. In this study the information was kept ina word file or excel file. After the information is developed in Word or Excel, it is important thatit is reviewed
Paper ID #10334Workshops on Fundamental Engineering Skills: A Graduate Student-LedTeaching InitiativeJustin M. Foley, Applied Physics Program, University of Michigan Justin is a doctoral candidate in the Applied Physics Program at the University of Michigan. His disser- tation research involves spectral manipulation, including broadband reflectance and narrowband filtering, using subwavelength dielectric gratings. He is currently the president of the student chapter of ASEE at the University of Michigan. In addition to his research and education interests, Justin holds a position with the Office of Technology Transfer
meta-analysis study reveals that sleep duration and sleepiness have asignificant negative relation to school performance 13. Another review study also concludes thatstudents’ sleep duration and quality is related to students’ academic performance and learningcapacity 14.Chronotype, a biological attribute of human beings, reflecting the time of the day their functionsare active or reach a certain level and its relationship to preferred time to wake up, study, retire,etc. is well studied 15. Individuals vary from extremely early types to extremely late types 16, 17.Early chronotype individuals tend to get up early in the morning and have difficulty staying uplate at night. On the contrary, late chronotype individuals tend to get up late in the
importance and benefit of additional leadership development, but some studentsfeel they already have enough leadership experience or that leadership is not necessary forstudents graduating in engineering and technology. This sentiment is also reflected in a smallportion of the faculty who have been passive or resistant to the college-wide effort of leadershipdevelopment. Mitigating of these perceptions is still an on-going challenge in implementation.Developing capable instructors for the Foundations course has been a key aspect of the courseimplementation. To get started the college sought our faculty with some passion for leadershipthat would be willing to invest in course development. By sharing with each other and studyingindividual aspects of
group selected ananswer that reflected more than the number of missing necessary dimensions than students in thecontrol group.Table 4: Identification of missing dimensions on the final exam by group Experimental Group Control Group n=51 n=98Correctly identified the number of missing dimensions on 15.7% 18.4%object one (Selected four missing dimensions as their n=8 n=18answer.)Identified the number of missing dimensions on object one 39.2% 29.6%as one less than those necessary (Selected three missing n=20 n
choosethat particular combination. Note that these values reflect the expected and actual number ofbrackets picking the seed combination in each round, regardless of which specific No. 1, 2, 3, 4,or 9 seeded team advanced. The probability computed from the geometric distribution model Page 24.930.8shows that an Elite Eight combination of {1,2,2,3,3,4,4,9} seeds is not likely to occur often. Thisis also the case for the smaller set of four seeds {1,4,4,9} appearing in the Final Four.Consequently, the expected number of the 143 school brackets submitted to have chosen thesecombinations is practically zero – exactly what was observed. For the
No.DUE-TUES-0941035. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References[1] Gurocak, H., “Mechatronics course with a two-tiered project approach,” 2007 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.[2] Giurgiutiu, V. and Mouzon, B., “Functional Modules for Teaching Mechatronics to non-EE Engineering Students,” 2005 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.[3] Pourboghrat, F., et. Al., “Enhancing mechatronics education using model- based techniques and Mathworks tools,” 2011 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.[4] Rogers, J., Rabb, R., Korpela, C. and Ebel, R. “Learning mechatronics
to assess the impact of case-based instruction on conceptual understanding andtheir attitudes towards case studies.VI. Acknowledgements This research is funded by the National Science Foundation (Grant # DUE 1140109.Statements made in this paper are the opinions of the authors and may or may not reflect theviews of the National Science Foundation. We would also like to thank our graduate students,Verrol McLeary and Niya King, for their assistance during the lab courses.VII. References1. Howe, N. and W. Strauss, Millennials Rising: The Next Generation. 2000, New York: Vintage Books.2. Elam, C.L., T.D. Stratton, and D.D. Gibson, Welcoming a New Generation To College: The Millennial Students. Journal of College