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learning outcomes more. A project once focused on just soldering circuit boards hasresulted in students now creating entirely new network protocols, schematics, and electricalcomponents to meet the design challenges they face. More importantly they feel this project isgeared towards solving a challenge which they deem is important to their learning outcomes. While not directly assessed in the first seven years of this project we are looking to see if thisability to expand their skill sets and take on new and growing challenges yields over time moreself-confidence. This is both focused on their professional and academic careers and whether thisself-confidence leads to better performance in coursework overall. These types of studies havebeen done
to STEM careers are enhanced in Appalachia and West Virginia(WV) 1-2. WV is far below the national average in percentage of STEM degrees (21% vs. 30%).17% of adults over 25 in WV have a Bachelor’s degree (lowest nationally); many communitieshave much lower rates 3. Thirteen of 55 WV counties are “low education counties” where “25percent or more of residents 25-64 years old had neither a high school diploma nor GED.”4.Project TESAL is a three year Math Science Partnership providing proximal context fordeveloping the model described here. Structurally, Project TESAL involved two weeks ofprofessional development each summer, two days each semester, and classroomobservations/support (see Figure 1). Participating teachers remained in the program
, students noted frustration in the inability to ask questionsand receive quick feedback for the traditional format. Students felt the professor was willing tohelp, but sought more in-class examples and time for questions.Many of these issues were resolved in the flipped format. Students welcomed the ability to workon assignments during class time, and enjoyed the ability to receive instant feedback. Not onlydid students mention enjoying the class, but several students noted excitement about the coursematerial and future career opportunities. Additionally, feedback directly concerning the professorwas overall positive.Future WorkThe assessment presented in this paper suggests that some difficulties related to onboarding newfaculty can be alleviated
engineering coursework and the design process of undergraduate students in project-based courses.Dr. Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University Kristen Wendell is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Ed- ucation at Tufts University. Her research efforts at at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach focus on supporting discourse and design practices during K-12, teacher education, and college-level en- gineering learning experiences, and increasing access to engineering in the elementary school experience, especially in under-resourced schools. In 2016 she was a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). http
described with equations." "Definitely, this module is going to assist me in a variety of my classes in the future along with my career in civil engineering. I will be taking water resources, concrete design and a few other classes that deal with physics which this module can assist in." "I probably wouldn't use this one specifically. I would probably use the other ones more than this one." "Yes, this could be very handy when in the design phase of a prototype of some sort. It is very convenient to be able to pull up a module and input the information you have in order to find out what you need to know at the click of a button, instead of having to do tedius calculation as well as
: Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED)grant, we are now integrating the liberal arts directly into our engineering courses in a newgeneral engineering curriculum that reframes traditional engineering content around its broadersocietal contexts. Rather than focus on specific disciplinary knowledge students might need for aparticular career, we are developing a curriculum focused on strengthening the critical skillscommon across engineering disciplines, such as design, analytical problem-solving,communication, and the ability to make interdisciplinary connections. In addition, we recognizethat graduates must understand the profound social responsibility that comes with being anengineer. In alignment with the mission of
student engagement may not be enhanced ifthere is no student motivation, as important informal learning aspects were discussed and weresaid to be associated with skill developments in urban planners and architects (Gray, Nicosia &Jordan, 2012). It has been observed that high school student experiences on the college educationprepares the students for a professional career environment and for following their potential rolemodels in STEM fields (Dakeev, Heidari &, Elukurthi, 2016). Moreover, knowledge is oftenacquired via collaboration, and people become learners and teachers alike (Banks, Au, Ball, Bell,Gordon, Gutierrez & Heath, 2007), indicating another appeal for a curriculum service learningtype activity that is efficient for both
] undergraduatemajor.” The same survey also indicates that more than 75% of those surveyed say they wantmore emphasis on five key areas including: critical thinking, complex problem solving, writtenand oral communication, and applied knowledge in real-world settings.As part of the larger goal to better prepare students for career success and personal development,improving students’ critical thinking ability has been a significant initiative of the University ofHartford’s strategic plan since 2014. In the fall semester of 2017, we implemented a coordinatedlarge-scale project that aimed to promote students’ critical thinking through a series of newly-designed troubleshooting exercises embedded in all fundamental DC electric circuits labs forengineering
Program, the authors invited many of ourcolleagues to join us in creating an interdisciplinary class experience. We have drawn on severaldepartments in the School of Engineering, not only to bring in other fields of knowledge but alsodifferent approaches to pedagogy. We have exploited some interesting new initiatives within theSchool of Engineering, such as the “Smart Cities” project developed by the Department of Civil,Construction and Environmental Engineering. We also encourage guest speakers to tell thestudents a little about their education and career choices, as we feel this provides valuablemodels for our students, most of whom are in their first or second year of studies and havelimited interaction with engineering faculty.In planning
disciplines.We hope that this reflective paper is helpful to other summer camps and outreach programs thataim to broaden participation in engineering. We look forward to learning more from theengineering education community.References 1. Chen, K.C., Schlemer, L.T., Scott, H.S. & Fredeen, T. (2011), Evolving a Summer Engineering Camp through Assessment. ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings 2011 2. Chen, K.C., & Belter, D., & Fredeen, T., & Smith, H., & Magnusson, S. (2009), Inspiring A Diverse Population Of High School Students To Choose Engineering As A Career Path. ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings 2009 8Appendix I
creating designs that last: Participant 3: I guess to incorporate sustainability and resiliency into my future career I would, you know, be designing things to last. Uhm, not designing to just fix the problem, but also designing it to fix the problem and, you know, keep fixing the problem 10 years down the road.For Participant 2, the inclusion of sustainability in the civil engineering code of ethics providedevidence of the importance of sustainability to the work of practicing engineers. He said: It’s in there, it’s in the code of ethics. You’re supposed to think about your sustainability and as long as we practice those fundamental cannons, that’s what you’re supposed to look into all the time and make
, basketball, guitar, etc.) and Value Symbolic Images (e.g., sketches to depict the USnational flag, institution mascot). Over these two typologies, participants demonstrated thegreatest degree of intersection focusing their drawings on the hobbies that best inform theirindividual identities as well as the symbols that represent the institutions, disciplines, andmetacognitive reflections. While most of these depictions did not explicitly connect toengineering, much of the discipline-specific symbolic drawings were images of mathematicalsymbols and computers. These particular symbols may be related to the educational componentsthat inform students’ major and career choices. Without longitudinal evidence, however, makinginferences about student interest
by the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Nelson is a 2010 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and the IEEE Signal Processing, Communications, and Education Societies.Dr. Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University Margret Hjalmarson is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University and currently a Program Officer in the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Infor- mal Settings at the National Science Foundation. Her research interests include engineering education, mathematics education, faculty development and mathematics teacher leadership. c American Society for Engineering
development students.Dr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor and Associate School Head in the School of Civil and Environmen- tal Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a study to characterize prac- ticing engineers’ understandings of core engineering concepts. He is a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education.Mr. Benjamin David Lutz, Oregon State University Ben Lutz is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Engineering Education at Oregon State University. His research in- terests include innovative pedagogies in engineering design
[14]. Studentsperformed proficiently in the course and felt much more confident in their computing abilities,and felt the course was important and useful to both current studies and future careers. Tilburydeveloped web-based MATLAB learning materials in the domain of automatic controls; thelearning materials were coupled with MATLAB homework [15]. Tilbury found that studentbehavior while working on MATLAB homework included frequent quick references to thelearning material.Researchers have also analyzed student learning and usage of small auto-graded coding exercisesin introductory programming courses that are not based on MATLAB[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Edgcomb found that students completed 25% of assigned exerciseswhen no points were
research can have a variety of models asillustrated by [18]. Despite the normal perception of one-on-one (faculty/student) mentoringprogram, student’s perception of how they are best supported appears to include a multi-mentoring approach, with a network of people who take interest in the student’s success [18]. Inaddition to understanding what students perceive as supportive mentoring, whether one-on-oneor the multi-person, successful mentoring must be detailed to include five components:communication, psychosocial support, career/professional development, science integrity, andresearch development [19]. However, in order to achieve such outcomes during a summerSURE program, then an interdisciplinary/multi mentor approach would seem most
to thestudents; keeping the number of students limited meant that the instructor could provide one-on-one help to each student beyond what would be available in a lecture or flipped class.Students were given a brief description (included as an appendix here). Ten students wereselected to fill out two teams of five students. The students included eight men and two women,nine sophomores and one junior, with intended careers of Aerospace Engineering (2), AppliedMathematics (1), Computer Engineering (1), Mechanical Engineering (4), and NuclearEngineering (2). Neither student grade-point averages nor prerequisite grades were available asthis pilot was intended as a proof-of-concept learning opportunity and did not include studentadvisors or
the criticalconsequences of a decision, when students did not see the situation relevant to their career orsituation, they tended to fall for fallacies and/ or to rationalize the situation. The finding from my research suggests that an interaction of individual’s characteristicsand characteristics of moral issues affect the decisions of individuals. This further supports theoverall argument of the ethical decision model provided by Trevino (1986). According toTrevino’s (1986) model, individual and situational variables interact with the cognitivecomponent to determine how an individual is likely to behave facing an ethical dilemma. Another finding is that although there is a lot of emphasis on ethical theories andframeworks in
flexibility, innovation, and creativity.References[1] C. H. Mann, “A Study of Engineering Education,” The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Bulletin 11, New York, N.Y. 1918[2] J. S. Russell and W.B. Stouffer, “Survey of the National Civil Engineering Curriculum,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, vol. 131, n 2, pp 118- 128, April 2005.[3] ABET, Inc, “Accredited Program Search,” [Online], Available: http://main.abet.org/aps/Accreditedprogramsearch.aspx [Accessed January 2018].[4] American Society of Civil Engineers, “Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century,” [Online], Available: https://www.asce.org/uploadedFiles/Education_and_ Careers/Body_of_Knowledge
me skills and techniques directly applicable to my career Diversity of LM2. In this course, many methods are used to involve me in learning learning methods LM3. Lab experiences assist me in learning concepts LM4. Developing the design project is a good learning experience LM5. This course demonstrates how to apply concepts and methodologies LM6. This course contributed to my ability to work in a team to solve problems CC1. This course contributed to my ability to use theoretical equations from fluid, heat, and mass transport topics to
Professor in the School of Information and the Director of the Learning Ed- ucation & Design Lab (LED Lab) at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. Throughout her career, her work has focused on issues of collaboration and learning, looking specifically at how sociotechnical systems can be used to support effective collaborative processes and successful learning outcomes. She is the co-editor of the volume, Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition, and co-author of several highly cited book chapters on col- laborative learning. Her recent work has focused on assembling and utilizing institutionally-held student data to design and evaluate new ways
any engineering career path. In anotherexample, focusing on instilling ‘action-oriented’ EM in undergraduate students, Gerhart& Carpenter [27] associated EM with a set of skills such as creativity, innovativeness andcritical thinking. Similarly, other researchers presented EM as a reasonable substitute forentrepreneurial skills [28], [29]. 4In other articles, researchers included specific traits in addition to skills in theirdescriptions of EM. In one example, Pistrui, Layer, & Dietrich [30] argued that EM is notspecifically associated with an entrepreneur but rather with other professionals such asengineering students who can think
gives students acomprehensive understanding of Data Mining principles based on major concepts covered inacademia and required by job market. The concepts included in the course are intended toprepare students for careers that involve applying Data Mining skills.We do not have adequate evidence and feedback from the students who have taken the course toverify that the provided strategies are the best overall approach. Future study may include astatistical analysis of how effective our proposed curriculum is in accomplishing our goals ofpreparing students with Data Mining skills, catering to undergraduate level students, andpresenting concepts relevant to Data Mining. This would solidify our proposed curriculum’seffectiveness and provide valuable
portable sensing platform is to try to bridge the gapbetween the existing mechatronic courses and their potential benefits in industrial applications.From the course development standpoint, the portable sensing platform designed in this project isto provide new lecture and lab materials that are closely related to the modern mechatronic areas.The integration of the microcontroller units with other intelligent sensors focuses on theapplication aspects of the courses will help students gain more hands-on experiences andbeneficial to their career choices. From the research perspective, the developed portable sensingplatform can be viewed as a prototype of testbed that can be used for verification of researchideas and algorithm developments
served in engineering and management positions within Eastman Chem- ical Company from 1991-2000. A faculty member at NC State since 2000, Dr. Bullard has won numerous awards for both teaching and advising, including the ASEE Raymond W. Fahien Award, the John Wi- ley Premier Award for Engineering Education Courseware, NC State Faculty Advising Award, National Effective Teaching Institute Fellow, NC State Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award, George H. Blessis Out- standing Undergraduate Advisor Award, and the ASEE Southeastern Section Mid-Career Teacher Award. She is a member of the editorial board for Chemical Engineering Education and serves a Director of the Chemical Engineering Division of ASEE. She will be a co-author
Auckland, NZ, developer of the Xorro assessment authoring tool Xorro-Q. His entrepreneurial career spans education, health, energy and gaming sectors. Pablo is an enthusiastic advocate for solutions and practices which open new learning and collaboration horizons.Mr. Wyatt Banker-Hix P.E., California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo Wyatt Banker-Hix is a licensed professional engineer in the state of California with over four years of industry experience in structural and transportation engineering. He also serves as a part-time lecturer at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) in the Civil Engineering department. He enjoys teaching a hands-on materials laboratory course sprinkled
background in Mechanical Engineering. He pursued his Bachelor from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in the same subject. His research interest lies in Additive Manufacturing, Fracture Mechanics, Powder Metallurgy. He also likes to engage with students to help them learn better as he pursues a career in research-based academia while working as a teaching assistant at his graduate school.Mr. Vishal Bhimrao Zade, University of Texas, El Paso Vishal Zade is a PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering at University of Texas, El Paso. He has been working on his research with bulk ceramics and helping students as a Teaching Assistant. c American Society for Engineering Education
behaviors to consolidate, manifest and persist in theprocess which needs to be defined jointly. professional practice throughout life.The formation process requires a follow-up of the Ethical formation is a complex, difficult and time-student's evolution. This implies that the team of consuming process to build. It requires pedagogicalfaculty accompany and offer feedback permanently mediations throughout the entire engineer educational process from the beginning until the endof the career. It is not achieved with isolated Engineers: Exemplary Education Activitiescourses. It must be integrated to the curriculum. and Programs. Washington, DC
aboutengineering skills generally and visualization in particular. 44 Students responded to the pre-survey and 24 to the post survey, 37 students completed the course.The course, ECS 101 Introduction to Engineering (Civil), is a required course for civil engineeringmajors. The learning outcomes for the course are that students: get exposure to civil engineering,career opportunities, and the engineering education process; develop an understanding of theengineering code of ethics, professional licensing, and an engineer’s responsibility to society; getexposure to several of civil engineering’s supporting technologies, including infrastructure, soilmechanics, transportation, structures, and materials; develop the skills to “learn” course materialthrough a