@ucu.edu.uaABSTRACT: The accreditation process in the Higher education system in each country is aboutverifying the compliance with the criteria that a specific governmental institution hasestablished or/and an independent organization is using currently. The Ukrainian CatholicUniversity presented in this paper is a non-profit educational institution. It states in itsmission the goal of “forming leaders to serve with professional excellence in the homecountry and internationally – for the glory of God, the common good, and the dignity of thehuman person.” The university’s internal managerial approach is to support the startupculture. This paper aims to apply the accreditation process as a prerequisite to improving theinternal processes. This background
, there has been much discussion (see for example, [14], [1], [7], [9], [3] and [16]), about Page 24.813.2what a Systems Engineering curriculum should be. Particularly important is the question of howto introduce young or inexperienced students to Systems Engineering concepts (see for example[16], [8], [15], and [2]). The consensus appears to be to introduce students to these conceptsthrough hands-on experience, however, introducing students to these concepts and providinghands on experience in a first course is a tall order. In this paper, we present an overview of aneffort to do just that via the revamping of our Introduction to Systems
recognized that the curriculum changes introduced in the 1960's, asa result of the Grinter Report 1, were in some ways counter-productive. Quoting from Grinter(Appendix): "The Committee considers that scientifically oriented engineering curricula areessential to achieve these ends and recommends the following means of implementation." Thismajor report then recommended ten "means of implementation" (something helpful in achievinga desired end, Merriam-Webster Dictionary) of which the third is interesting in the context of thispaper, it reads: "3. An integrated study of engineering analysis, design, and engineering systems for professional background, planned and carried out to stimulate creative and imagina- tive thinking
this concept in an easier way?”; etcall provide the teacher with an idea of how the class is receiving the material17.Not only is asking questions important, but it is also necessary to ask the correct questions. Onevery famous study that emphasized this were the Dr. Fox experiments conducted by Naftulin andcolleaugues18,19. In these experiments, Naftulin hired an actor to present a lecture to a group ofeducators. They named him Dr. Fox and mandated that he deliver the lecture in a highlyexpressive and entertaining manner. The lecture content had very little substantive content andhad a large number of logical confusions and repetitions. The experimenters also gave theeducators a fictitious Dr. Fox curriculum vita loaded with a number of
existing curriculum and instructional design models, identified as relevant forteachers for enacting design processes are (Huizinga, 2009): (1) Knowledge and skills to formulate a problem statement (2) Idea generation skills (3) Systematic curriculum design skills (4) Formative and summative evaluation skills (5) Curricular decision-making skills (6) Implementation management skillsWe integrate the typical curriculum design concepts to the proposed learner-centered project-oriented approach. In addition, we consider the present/future industry needs, related researchfocus, and related courses (such as prerequisite and follow-up courses) in our proposed approach.To accomplish the course goals, we divide the new
-cultural theory as the framework of this research. We look to the process oflearning, not the product constructed as evidence of authentic practice. There is an emphasis onthe interaction between learners and learning tasks. Since STEM education is currently in thespotlight, gaining insights into Project STEP’s sustainability, using a socio-cultural perspective isimportant. Working with the urban youth in Cincinnati, Roth and Lee’s [1] statement that “aresearcher… does not separate the poverty or culture of urban students’ home lives fromconditions of schooling, consideration of the curriculum, problems of learning, or learning toteach under difficult settings” (p. 218) becomes vitally important. Wertsch [2] also shows therelationship between all
Page 15.956.8includes software written in Visual Basic that allows students to communicate with the board viathe left and right channels of the Line-In port on a computer sound card. The resources on such aboard are restricted when one considers broad use in an EE curriculum. The basic design,however, is consistent with several research and commercial products that use a sound card orUSB-DAQ interface to turn a PC into an oscilloscope.30-34 Other portable data acquisitiondevices exist,35-38 but like the oscilloscope emulators, they do not by themselves meet therequirements for in-home laboratory kits. Two academic collections39, 40 also come close inspirit, but these are not commercially available and do not have the level of integration
2001, American Society for Engineering Education”existing emphasis on disciplinary depth. The overarching goal was to better prepare students tobe effective engineers and life-long learners.To this end, the College of Engineering began efforts to integrate the student-center activities inthose parts of the curriculum where they could provide the greatest benefit. The first majoreffort was to restructure the First Year curriculum for all engineering intents. This included thedevelopment and introduction of a new two-course sequence entitled “Introduction toEngineering Systems” for all students who intend to enter the College of Engineering in theirsecond year. These truly multidisciplinary courses introduce engineering students to the role
pedagogy, but that may be better suited to a student’s cognitive profile1. In thisproject, we developed and tested inquiry-based multimedia lab activities to appeal to severaldifferent intelligences. A variety of research programs have called for reform in the teaching ofmathematics and science to bridge mathematical methods to interests 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. RiceUniversity’s INFINITY project 8, 9, 10 is a pioneering collaboration between schools and industryleaders to establish an engineering curriculum at the high school level that can motivate andattract students. Also previously, multimedia inquiry-labs have been developed 11, 12, 13, 14, butmost have not been designed and administered by university students, and none have beenquantitatively
Haptics and Virtual Reality. His research interests are in the areas of unmanned vehicles particularly flapping flight and frisbees, mechatronics, robotics, MEMS, virtual reality, and haptics, and teaching with technology. He has ongoing research in flapping flight, Frisbee flight dynamics, lift in porous material and brain traumatic injury He is an active member of APS (DFD), ASEE and ASME and reviewer for several ASME, IEEE and ASEE, FIE conferences and journals. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Computer Interfacing to Real world: A Low-Cost ApproachAbstractThis paper is about how to interface the real world to a computer. Using a low
Paper ID #32821To Infinity and Beyond: Boosting URM Students’ Career TrajectoriesThrough Professional ExperiencesDr. Fethiye Ozis P.E., Northern Arizona University Dr. Fethiye ”Faith” Ozis is a senior lecturer in the civil and environmental engineering department at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Ozis holds a B.S. in environmental engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, Los Ange- les. She is a licensed Professional Engineer, Environmental, in Arizona. Dr. Ozis enjoys every dimension of being an engineering educator. She conducts
attitudes toward teaching and research. Establishing experience in industry as animportant criterion in hiring new faculty may be fundamental to changing the existing cultureand to placing greater emphasis on teaching.8 Schools are being asked to enrich the educationof students, and this can be done by increasing the numbers of faculty with relevant industrialexperience. Integral to accomplishing our educational goals is having the participation ofpractitioners in the educational process. It cannot hurt to have faculty with practitionerexperience in the classroom on a daily basis. Engineering education must reflect the conditionsof practice.According to many, the cornerstone of building a strong education curriculum is balancingpractical experience
Colorado State University.Fethiye Ozis (Assistant Teaching Professor) Dr. Fethiye Ozis is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the civil and environmental engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Ozis holds a B.S. in environmental engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California. Dr. Ozis is a licensed Professional Engineer, Environmental, in Arizona. Before joining CMU, Dr. Ozis was a faculty member at Northern Arizona University, and at University of Southern California. Dr. Ozis enjoys every dimension of being an engineering educator. She teaches across the curriculum from freshman introductory level, to graduate
government agencies. In 2010, Dr. Lambrinidou co-conceived the graduate level engineering ethics course ”Engi- neering Ethics and the Public,” which she has been co-teaching to students in engineering and science. She is co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) research and education project developing an ethnographic approach to engineering ethics education. Page 26.322.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Canons against Cannons? Social Justice and the Engineering Ethics ImaginaryAbstractWhat if social
. Page 5.402.1Role of Lectures and Laboratory LessonsThe lectures and laboratory lessons cover the process industry terminology and operationsincluding basic process principles, plant instruments and equipment, quality control,environmental issues, health and safety issues, and plant organization. Lectures are used to offeran overview of the chapter and to describe in detail the operation of the equipment usingschematics and diagrams. Students are expected to read each chapter before coming to class sothat they are prepared to participate in the discussions. They are also expected to be ready todescribe the operation and design of the equipment.In the laboratory, students use the Distillation Expert Trainer (DEXTER), an integrated computer-based
Understanding Student and Faculty Attitudes With Respect to Service Learning: Lessons from the Humanitarian Engineering Program E. Heidi Bauer, Barbara Moskal, Joan Gosink, Juan Lucena, David Muñoz Colorado School of Mines, Golden, ColoradoAbstractNow entering its second year, the Humanitarian Engineering Program, which is sponsored by theHewlett Foundation, at the Colorado School of Mines is creating curriculum that will supportengineering students in developing an understanding of their responsibility for solvinghumanitarian problems that exist throughout the world. As part of this effort, baseline data hasbeen collected on both the faculty and student
environments through the development and implementation of strategies geared towards increasing student sense of belonging.John Misasi PhD, Western Washington University Dr. John Misasi is an Associate Professor of Polymer Materials Engineering at Western Washington University. He currently focuses his teaching and research on the relationships between the structures, processing, and properties of industrially-relevant polymers and composites. His passion is in educating next-generation engineers and scientists about materials and manufacturing through hands-on curriculum and meaningful research experiences. This philosophy has led to successful collaborations with plastics and composites industry partners ranging from
follows. • Alternative credentials: micro-credentials, digital badges, and other industry-recognized certificates. • Digital open badge: use of digital technologies to represent competencies and various learning achievements; electronic badges include standard metadata on the evidence of learning and link back to sponsoring institution and evaluation criteria. An open badge has specific technical standards, as dictated by IMS Global. • Certificate: a credential issued by an institution in recognition of the completion of a curriculum that usually represents a smaller domain of knowledge than established degrees. Noncredit certificates need no external approval and must be identified as such
students decided to take part in the challenge of building a human poweredsubmarine. Together, both groups of students needed to obtain SCUBA training, create andinstall the safety systems, integrate all of the components, test, and repair the submarine. Theteam completed a functioning wet submarine in 9 months and competed in the InternationalSubmarine Races (ISR). This paper outlines the teaming successes and pitfalls of the project.The International Submarine Races (ISR) involves human powered submarines that are designed andbuilt by various students, including large universities, community colleges, private companies, andindividuals. It provides an opportunity for students to take what they have learned in the classroomand apply it to a real
Paper ID #44217Identifying the Skills and Student Activities that Influence Career Pathwaysfor Black vs. non- Black Engineering GraduatesD’andre Jermaine Wilson-Ihejirika P.Eng., University of Toronto D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto within the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education & Practice (ISTEP). Prior to that she worked for many years as an engineer and project manager in the Oil & Gas industry. She is originally from Nassau, Bahamas, and completed her B.Eng in Chemical Engineering at McGill University and her MASc. from the Centre
in codes of conduct, liability and responsibility, property rights, anda variety of perspectives including customers, colleagues, government, and the general public. Itis, therefore, no surprise that by the 90s, courses related to engineering ethics have increaseddramatically.III. Existing Approaches to Teach Engineering EthicsMaking engineering ethics an integral part of engineering education has not made teaching iteasier. Much of the rationale for the implementation of engineering ethics courses has been onnew methods of teaching. Most courses have moved away from abstract ethical theory to a case-based approach. Engineering ethics books are filled with popular moral theories, notorious realcases, prepackaged ethical dilemmas, and ethics
) which addresses this needthrough the integration of both wireless communication system test methods and devicecharacterization techniques into its curriculum. In its first year, this program, enabled by a NSFCCLI A&I award, developed infrastructure and adapted experiments from the University ofSouth Florida into a senior-level laboratory course1. Now in its second year, new experimentshave been developed and have been integrated into a junior-level introductory communicationsystems course and two senior/graduate-level courses in digital and wireless communicationsystems. Herein, we discuss the new experiments, enabling infrastructure, and longitudinalassessment data.Laboratory Enhancements Our motivation for integrating laboratory
. Gordon Kingsley is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Gordon is the project evaluator for the STEP NSF grant, and PI on the Alternative Approaches to Evaluating STEM Education Partnerships NSF grant. His area of research interests are the interactions of public-private partnerships to harness developments in science and technology, and the nature and assessment of educational partnerships.Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Marion C. Usselman is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Marion received her Ph.D. in
electronics.1. Introduction The merits of involving engineering undergraduates in research have been widelydiscussed in engineering journals. It has been suggested that such an initiative may help thestudent become more passionate about the subject, create appreciation for research processand practice, improve problem-solving skills or even serve as motivation for furthereducation in graduate school1-3. Furthermore, it allows advanced students an opportunity tobe exposed to challenging and realistic engineering problems they may encounter in postgraduation work. In some cases, the students participate directly in a funded research thatholds significant benefit to all participants – students, faculty, and the university4. Thegrowing recognition
Engineering Alliance (IEA), Washington Accord [1], European Commission,Bologna Process [2] , Accreditation Board of Engineering Technology (ABET) [3], Middle StatesCommission of Higher Education (MSCHE) [4] and National Commission of AcademicAccreditation and Assessment (NCAAA) [5] are based on an Outcome-Based Education (OBE)model and require higher education institutions and engineering programs to show studentachievement in terms of established learning outcomes. It is clearly stated in multiple researchpapers published by the National Institute of Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) [25,26] andothers [6,28,29] that in many higher education institutions, actual Continual Quality Improvement(CQI) and accreditation efforts are minimally integrated
has been theimaginative integration of design activities throughout the educational pathways of our students– including the K – 14 pipeline. Programmatic themes are “Learning by Design”, “Our Role inthe K – 14 Community”, and “Student and Faculty Development.”2Morgan State UniversityMorgan State University is an historically black institution with the unique designation asMaryland’s public urban university. Morgan’s programs reflect the commitment of theuniversity to have major impact on the underrepresentation of blacks and other minorities in theprofessional labor force within the city, state, and nation.3 Morgan State University’s variouspre-college and outreach programs reinforce this commitment. Thus, the ECSEL “Learning byDesign”, “Our
Introductory Digital Logic Design and Bluespec XingYing Cheng1, Daren Wilcox2AbstractMost digital logic courses in engineering curriculums introduce hardware design using VHDL.The three primary levels of abstraction in VHDL taught in the introductory course follow closelyto the traditional steps of Boolean logic, namely structure, data flow, and behavior. However,presenting the introductory material at a higher level of abstraction might just be as beneficial.Recently, a new electronic design automation tool, Bluespec, has emerged that promises a highlevel of abstraction for digital hardware design. In this paper, Bluespec will be introduced inrelation to current VHDL design concepts
Introductory Digital Logic Design and Bluespec XingYing Cheng1, Daren Wilcox2AbstractMost digital logic courses in engineering curriculums introduce hardware design using VHDL.The three primary levels of abstraction in VHDL taught in the introductory course follow closelyto the traditional steps of Boolean logic, namely structure, data flow, and behavior. However,presenting the introductory material at a higher level of abstraction might just be as beneficial.Recently, a new electronic design automation tool, Bluespec, has emerged that promises a highlevel of abstraction for digital hardware design. In this paper, Bluespec will be introduced inrelation to current VHDL design concepts
of STEM doctoral learning. Bancroft [10] developed the concept ofCritical Capital Theory describing it as an “integration of critical race theory, forms of capital,and fictive kinship” which speaks to the “shifted but enduring nature of racism within the U.S.”.Forms of capital that are valued and honored often reify the status quo and support whitesupremacist ideology which is decidedly anti-Black.Bancroft’s [10] theorized that the low rate of STEM doctoral graduates and professionals was afunction of Critical Capital Theory, suggesting that the low rate “was not an aberration, butrather a product of a system of oppression designed to advantage the economic needs of Whiteelites in the U.S.”. Race is a stable predicator in this formulation in
curriculum was not givenbefore or after gameplay to ensure all findings could be linked back to the game content.2.2. Sample Youth were recruited from a rural school district with a K-12 population of 160 students.Total sample size was four students consisting of three boys grades 7 – 8 and one girl grade 9 –12. All students were white Caucasian and grew up with an agricultural background (directfamily ties to ranching or farming). The activity took place during an optional school day wherestudents were offered a variety of hands-on activities. Students had to get parental consent totake part in the study. The study was given exemption status by University of Nebraska –LincolnInstitutional Review Board (IRB #: 20181018564EP). The