assignmentsthat require an on-line response or chat room discussion. Another method is to require eachstudent to find a hosting firm and develop a case study (relating to the content of the course) thatis presented to the class. One more strategy for maximizing outside of class behavior relates tothe time consuming activity of viewing audio visual materials such as DVDs. Require thestudents to view the materials on their own time and write a three paragraph “executivesummary” that is collected and serves as discussion points during class.Learning Technique Number 5 - Preparing to TeachDoyle in Integrating Learning Strategies into Teaching suggests that we give thought toenhancing student learning, by asking and answering the following seven questions
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, the experiences of underrepresented undergraduate engineering students and engineering educators. In addition to teaching undergraduate engineering courses and a graduate course on entrepreneurship, she also enjoys teaching qualitative research methods in engineering education in the Engineering Education Systems and Design PhD program at ASU. She is deputy editor of the Journal of Engineering Education.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical and Biological Engineer- ing Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA
individual student and the institution. At the institutional level it is understoodas a mechanism that contributes to reducing attrition rates and enhancing recruitment plans butthere is a scarcity of empirical research related to PhD programs to understand this phenomenon.Contemporarily, Di Pierro [15] conceptualized doctoral mentoring as part of an institution’spragmatic retention plan to counter economic losses, potential loss in Carnegie classification, andvoids in research. Thus, mentoring should not be thought of as a disjointed obscure process, butone that is integrated and benchmarked as part of an institution’s best practices particularly forunderrepresented populations. For individual students mentoring often times is described as akey
early sciencefiction that cautions against misguided and unethical science and engineering. As such, the novelshould be poised to help engineering undergraduates cultivate moral imagination and acommitment to socially responsible techno-science. However, despite recent critical editions ofthe novel that highlight its relevance for scientists and engineers, some instructors have faceddifficulties successfully integrating the novel into an undergraduate engineering curriculum, andstudents have struggled to appreciate its value to their ethical formation as engineeringprofessionals. Nevertheless, the novel’s potential to address ethical aspects of engineeringpractice calls for further attempts at integrating it into engineering education. In
Paper ID #18098The RED Teams as Institutional Mentors: Advice from the First Year of the”Revolution”Dr. Jeremi S. London, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Dr. Jeremi London is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue Uni- versity. Prior to her PhD, she worked in quality assurance and logistics roles at Anheuser-Busch and GE Healthcare, where she was responsible for ensuring consistency across processes and compliance with federal regulations. For four consecutive summers
Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Learning ANOVA Concepts Using Simulation Leslie Chandrakantha Abstract: Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is an City University of New York, New York, NY 10019, USA. (phone:important topic in introductory statistics. Many students 212-237-8835,email:lchandra@jjay.cuny.edu).struggle to understand the ANOVA concepts. Statistical Their evaluation of the simulation suggests that it provided anconcepts are important in engineering education. In this effective supplement to book and lecture based methods ofpaper, we describe
Engineering Design (EI-100) is a first-semester 3 credit required course for everyengineering program of Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP). Course content andclassroom activities are divided into three, two-hour sessions (Modeling, Concepts, andLaboratory) per week. Students have six different EI-100 facilitators (an instructor and teachingassistant for each session). UDLAP’s engineering students have in EI-100 a great opportunity fora multidisciplinary collaborative experience. EI-100 is a team-taught course that uses active,collaborative and cooperative learning, which has been a major player in UDLAP’s efforts ofengineering education reform since 2001. However, EI-100 could be improved taking intoaccount technological advances and recent
manufacturing engineering and technology students. This projectinvolved devising real time data acquisition using National Instruments (NI) LabView and dataacquisition (DAQ) tools, and developing animation and simulation examples using Authorware/Flashand Pspice.Presently, we utilized the results from the NSF-CG CBI development as background and extend thedevelopment to enhance an existing senior level “Electric Machines and Power’ course (EET 3500) in Page 6.446.1WSU’s DET-EET program. The division has been awarded a NSF CCLI grant to carryout this work. In this paper, we describe the objective, planing steps and development procedures ofthis on
AC 2007-2123: THE REMOTE CLASSROOM – ASYNCHRONOUS DELIVERY OFENGINEERING COURSES TO A WIDELY DISPERSED STUDENT BODYJames Klosky, U.S. Military Academy Led Klosky is an Associate Professor and Director of the Mechanics Group in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Maryland. Dr. Klosky received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1987 and 1988, respectively. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997. il7354@usma.eduStephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy Colonel Stephen J. Ressler
students What the curriculum is trying to teach How to integrate math into science and technology The role of the faculty team members How to use this information in your classroom What will be expected of you next year Figure 4 Teacher Perception of Workshop 4.5 4 Score on 1-4 scale 3.5 3 2.5 2 1.5 1
University incollaboration with Bay de Noc Community College. [1] This software was developedspecifically for incorporation into an academic curriculum to give institutions an opportunity tooffer training in situations where robots cannot be afforded, or to augment training in limitedaccess scenarios.This paper will explore the implementation of the “RobotRun” software into an existing roboticscourse as a “Virtual Lab” component. This “Virtual Lab” is then run in parallel with lecture, anda hands-on lab, reinforcing weekly concepts. The course “Programming Industrial Robots” isoffered as an elective, and as course two of a four course robotics concentration for the ElectricalEngineering Technology (EET), and Mechatronics Engineering Technology (MCET
combustion engine performance, wind power, and development of aheat flux meter. The course ends with a formal final project report and a formal finalbriefing. While a lot of effort, the course was highly praised during the last ABETaccreditation visit. Student feedback from industry also confirms this. A discussion willbe made of assessment tools used in this course. This course is taken in addition to acapstone senior design course. IntroductionAll accredited engineering programs must have a component of experimental design intheir curriculum. ABET Criterion 3b states “Engineering programs must demonstratethat their graduates have an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as toanalyze and interpret
mentoring.Giovanni Bautista, University of Massachusetts, LowellDr. Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Dr. Yanfen Li is an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2018. Dr. Li has extensive experience in engineering education focusing on recruitment and retention of underrepresented and under resourced students and engineering pedagogy. Her work spans the areas of curriculum instruction and design, program design and evaluation, and the first-year college experience. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A Systematic Review of Instruments
Paper ID #34297Virtual Reality Laboratory Experiences for Electricity and MagnetismCoursesProf. Raluca Ilie, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Prof. Ilie is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her primary research is the development and application of high-performance, first principles computational models to describe and predict the conditions in near- Earth space leading to geomagnetic storms. Prof. Ilie’s focus is on developing new approaches to study the dynamics of plasmas and electromagnetic fields in the geospace
and market student to the global • Curriculum includes: • Resume & Cover letter workforce • Applying to appropriate positions • Interview preparation• Prepare students for work abroad through • Professional expectations in the workplace culture, language, and workplace difference • Goal setting & Reflections
Introductory ThermodynamicsAbstractThis paper describes a laboratory component for a sophomore level introductoryengineering thermodynamics course. The class is core component of the EngineeringScience curriculum at Borough of Manhattan Community College. The introduction of thelab is part of a greater curricular modification to invigorate engineering education atBMCC by integrating real world situations and active-learning based instructions intoclassroom. Thermodynamics is an abstract subject. Many students lack first handexperience with the subject matter. They resort to memorization rather than gaininganalytical understanding of concepts. The Lab component is designed to create anopportunity for students to accumulate
(feasibility) ofthese ideas is also addressed. In engineering education, a number of techniques are implementedto develop creativity and enhance ideation capabilities of students. These techniques includebrainstorming2, brainwriting3, collaborative sketching4, morphological analysis5, transformationaldesign using mind-mapping6, design by analogy7, principles of historical innovators8, and variouscombinations of the aforementioned techniques9. Developing an ability to innovate has beenapproached through improvisation10, the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ)11-20, and theS-field (also referred as Su-field) theory21.One of the commonly used techniques in ideation is brainstorming (especially when solvinggeneric, non-engineering problems
group learning process of an open-endedcreative mechanical design course for technological creativity cultivation. Surveys andsemi-structured interviews were collected and analyzed to evaluate the curriculum, and tounderstand students’ learning difficulties to determine directions of improvement. Overall, thetop three abilities students gained were: (1) Efficient use of time to reach consensus; (2) Growthof problem-solving ability; and (3) Development of teamwork strategies. Finally, lessons learnedfrom this study are presented to help develop a cooperative classroom atmosphere and toimprove the effectiveness of this course in following years.I. Introduction In this study, we follow the principles of Seat and Poppen [1] that students must
Sustainabil- ity Practices, energy management of Data Centers and to establish Sustainable strategies for enterprises. He is an Affiliate Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, focusing on the energy efficiency of IT Equipment in a Data Centers. As a means of promoting student-centric learning, Prof. Radhakrishnan has successfully introduced games in to his sustainability classes where students demonstrate the 3s of sustainability, namely, Environment, Economics and Equity, through games. Stu- dents learn about conservation (energy, water, waste, equity, etc.) through games and quantifying the results. He has published papers on this subject and presented them in conferences. Before his teaching
AC 2010-822: EXTREME EXPERIENCE INTERVIEWS FOR INNOVATIVEDESIGNS: CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT OF A NEW NEEDS-GATHERINGMETHODMatthew Green, LeTourneau University Dr. Matthew G. Green is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at LeTourneau University, Longview. His objective is to practice and promote engineering as a serving profession, with special interest in improving the quality of life in developing countries. Focus areas include remote power generation, design methods for frontier environments, and assistive devices for persons with disabilities. Contact: MatthewGreen@letu.edu.Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin Dr. Carolyn C. Seepersad is an assisstant professor of
appointment in Integrative Systems and Design at the University of Michigan. She studies curriculum, teaching, and learning in postsecondary settings, most often in engineering and interdisciplinary undergraduate programs. She is particularly interested in how faculty attitudes, beliefs, and cultures influence their curricular and instructional practices and how these in turn affect students’ learning. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 The Value of Co-Curricular Experiences: Perspectives of Third Year Biomedical Engineering StudentsAbstract. Many studies have examined student engagement in university settings as a
showingsomething unexpected the students realize a gap in their knowledge and have a newfoundfascination and personal motivation for solving the mystery. The preceding steps help to engagethe students on an emotional, behavioral, and cognitive level, and thus induce intrinsicmotivation. This paper will discuss the pedagogy of the“Room with A VUE” system and concludewith a case study of curriculum development aimed at creating hands-on exploration experimentsin materials engineering to apply the system. This paper is not meant to be a resource of visualdemonstrations – such a resource is forthcoming from the author. The system to be discussed is rooted in the psychological motifs of behavioral,emotional, and cognitive engagement. Motivation
semesters from Fall 2012 to Summer 2014. Fall 2012 class was taught in the traditional lecture format and used as the control group in the Page 26.1087.5 study. All subsequent semesters were taught in the flipped format with slight variations.Results and DiscussionA student needs a “C” or better grade to successfully complete the course and continue furtherinto the curriculum. In Fall 2012, only 54% of the students that started the semester received themarks required to take further courses in the curriculum. This number includes the 28% thatdropped the course during the semester. It should be noted that the course is not designed to be aweed-out
oftendemotivated and discouraged the overly competitive nature of engineering [13], open-endeddesign tasks could provide welcoming and positive experiences for underrepresented groups.Historical overviewAt our large, southeastern university, we offer a Physics for Engineers course sequence but donot have an introductory, design-focused course. As such, we have historically supplemented ourphysics for engineers courses by integrating team-based design projects and instruction. Tojustify this, the projects have always been closely tied to the course content, which has often ledto relatively closed-ended project contexts. For instance, for many years, the design task in themechanics course was a mousetrap car that had to accomplish some goal that varied from
century state that programs must demonstrate that their graduates have anunderstanding of professional and ethical responsibility, an ability to effectively communicate,the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a globalsocietal context, and a knowledge of contemporary issues3. In the past, required courses such asIntroduction to Engineering or Professional Issues in Civil Engineering typically includedinstruction in ethics issues.In Florida, there is pressure from the state legislature to reduce the number of credit hoursrequired for graduation4. This places courses that introduce student engineers to societal issues,ethics, and the role of the engineer in jeopardy because they are neither required nor
theycan meet the energy demand of a growing population for both the short-term (5 years) andlong-term (100 years). In their analysis, the students first consider providing power throughlocally available natural gas and coal which has an expected finite lifetime based on the Hubbertcurve for coal and natural gas extraction. The first plan then for energy is to potentially use thesefossil fuel resources in conventional combustion power plants that follow thermodynamicscycles such as the Rankine, Brayton and Combined Cycles. The students are given specificationsfor existing power plants and are allowed to refurbish and or retrofit the components to predictenergy production. Their simulation analysis is done with a series of MATLAB® codes that
competition. The opportunity to learn new skills and exercise autonomy in a well-structured environment was also highly valued. And, the most common dislikes centered aroundgroup-related challenges, the disconnect between project components, time and workload issues,technical frustrations with robotics, lack of clarity or guidance, repetitive assignments, and adesire for more meaningful or engaging work. These themes suggest opportunities for improvingproject integration, communication, time management, and student autonomy in future iterations.ConclusionThe project effectively fostered key skills essential to engineering education, includingteamwork, communication, critical thinking, and reflection. By challenging students to identifyand address an
shortchanges academia’s more importantcustomers…its students, and America at large. It subjugates imaginative, creativeleadership skills to “in the box” thinking. The approach satisfies short-term industryneeds while defocusing the leadership crisis in American industry.Consideration of an advance along the continuum from “market pull” dominance moretowards “technology push” thinking is proposed. The question is rephrased as “Whatshould tomorrow’s industrial leaders be learning today?”I. IntroductionThe future of American industry depends on the directions set by today’s engineeringstudents. Whether these students become followers or leaders is largely up to them. But
practices and procedures that are incorporated into thedesign and development process, i.e., a system of checks and balances. Design controls makesystematic assessment of the design an integral part of development. As a result, deficiencies indesign input requirements, and discrepancies between the proposed designs and requirements,are made evident and corrected earlier in the development process. Design controls increase thelikelihood that the design transferred to production will translate into a device that is appropriatefor its intended use. 6 Medical product development from concept to market requires a considerable amount ofknowledge at different job levels. Various disciplines may be involved throughout thedevelopment cycle from