ourlecture halls, and preparing for their professional careers. This next generation of engineers haslived their entire lives as beneficiaries of the information technology revolution. They are skilledin instantaneously researching a topic on the internet and making global connections with a fewswipes of their fingers. These skills give digital native students awareness of themultidisciplinary facets (social, cultural, political, economic, and technical) of contemporaryengineering problems as well as prime their penchant for team integration [3], [4]. ABET, the higher education accrediting body that helps set an engineering student onto theroad towards professional licensure, also recognizes that multi-disciplinary teamwork is arequisite skill
[5]. The module producedstatistically significant gains in students’ understanding of the concepts presented; however, theirmodule did not include microfabrication [5]. A conference proceeding described student projectsbased on point-of-care diagnostic devices, which allows students to integrate foundationalknowledge and skills in a technology that will benefit society, particularly developing nations[6]; however, their microfluidic chips were manufactured with CO2 laser cutting, which is notyet as accessible as other rapid prototyping technologies. Lab-on-a-chip research has also beenused as a course-based project, showing gains in knowledge, confidence in abilities, interest, andlikelihood of pursuing a career in this area; however, after
job market. are analytical in perspectives andCourse 6 1) Case analysis of Two case ethical expectations about the sweatshops; 2) Student analyses and a reasoning. role of ethics in their choose and analyze a case final report. careers. related to corporate ethics; 3) A semester-long project on a Fortune 1000 company and LPU’s performance on corporate social responsibility and sustainability. 4) In-class ethics debate on an ethical dilemma.Course 7 Two 50-min lectures on
group. General (0/4) (3/4) Another set is (1/4) Success to me (2/4) Definitely communication social skills, would be getting the talking to larger knowing how to student to calm groups of people. interact with people. down, finding out what the problem is.Context 3: MIME and ENGR Recitation (four LAs)MIME 101, ENGR 111, and ENGR 199 are introductory engineering courses. MIME 101provides students with an overview of mechanical, industrial, manufacturing, and energy systemsengineering careers and
project manager, senior engineer and consultant. He has taught and developed undergraduate and graduate courses in power electronics, power systems, renewable energy, smart grids, control, electric machines, instrumentation, radar and remote sensing, numerical methods, space and atmosphere physics, and ap- plied physics. His research interests included power system stability, control and protection, renewable energy system analysis, assessment and design, smart microgrids, power electronics and electric machines for non-conventional energy conversion, remote sensing, wave and turbulence, numerical modeling, elec- tromagnetic compatibility and engineering education. During his career Dr. Belu published ten book chapters
clinical settings and of real life problems I should be expecting as an engineer.” “I expect to gain insight on what the real world applications of the biomedical engineering field are and what might really interest me as career/internship/research pathways after I graduate.” “Taking this course, I will develop greater insight into what I will be doing in the field when I graduate. Through the clinical observations and discussions, my problem-solving and leadership skills will improve while my experience and knowledge in biomedical engineering will increase.” “When I research biomedical engineering, what I find generally gives a narrow look and broad explanation at what exactly I can do with my degree. Although I am very interested in what I find
globally. To be ready to enter the workforce upon graduation, today’s engineering studentsare expected to develop the skills and knowledge that are fundamental to engineering careers in theirundergraduate years. The Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) has determinedthat fundamental skills include social skills, such as how to communicate effectively or function inmultidisciplinary teams, as well as proven technical skills, such as an ability to apply knowledge of math,science, and engineering [6], [18]. These skills can be referred to collectively as 21st century skills as theyprepare an engineer for contemporary work [7].The acquisition of 21st century skills by undergraduate engineering students may be catalyzed byengaging
related to SDG 5: Gender EqualityStudents were required to attend the “Women in STEM” forum at the LACCEI conference inCosta Rica. Most of our female participants found the experience of talking about genderequality "empowering," while the male participants mentioned the need to to transformthemselves into "male champions," and increase awareness amongst their peers. Table 5showcases questions that arose as a result of conversations related to SDG 5, which speaksdirectly to gender.Table 5: Questions on “Gender Equality” (SDG 5) to Stimulate Online Blogging within theInternational Engineering ContextsQuestions ConferencePlease discuss your thoughts on the Career-Life Balance session
’, decision biases. Decision biases are systematicand predictable errors in judgment that can negatively impact engineering decision making.Decision biases are especially prevalent in complex and ill-structured problems involvinguncertainty and risk [4], the very types of problems and decisions that civil engineering studentswill face in their careers. For example, planning fallacy and optimism bias explain the highfrequency of cost overruns and benefit shortfalls [5]. Decisions tend to be biased toward known,traditional solutions (status quo bias) and focus on present costs and benefits (cognitive myopia)rather than life-cycle or long-term sustainability [6]. Status quo bias also appears in engineeringdecision-making processes through procedures
Table 4 in the Appendix. This classintentionally does not introduce the different engineering disciplines explicitly, but rather focuseson teaching skills that engineers use and encourages students to both document and reflect onthose skills. The engineering disciplines do, however, appear in the course through a series ofvideos which are called “Day in the Life” videos. In these videos students hear from industryprofessionals and upper division engineering students about how the weekly topic is currentlybeing applied within their projects and/or careers. Each unit consists of videos, readings,tutorials, discussion boards, and/or simulations which teach the students new concepts, and guidetheir practice in applying the skills being taught. Each
returned to the University of Dayton to pursue an academic career. His research interests are in fluid flow and heat transfer.Dr. Michael J. Elsass, University of Dayton Michael Elsass is the Director of the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Dayton. He received his B.Ch.E in chemical engineering from the University of Dayton and his M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from The Ohio State University. He then served two years as a post-doctoral researcher at both The Ohio State University and UCLA. His research interests are process systems engi- neering, process diagnosis, and simulation and modeling. He has instructed the Unit Operations Labora- tory for four years. c
, supporting the learning. Educational psychologist 1991, 26 (3-4), 369-398.11. Ryan, R. M.; Deci, E. L., Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations: Classic definitions and new directions.Contemporary educational psychology 2000, 25 (1), 54-67.12. Dunlap, R. A., Sustainable Energy. Cengage Learning: Canada, 2015.13. Landis, R. B., Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career. Discovery Press: Los Angeles, CA,2013.Appendix ABill of Materials for 1 Solar Panel Box 1Item Source Item # Unit PriceSparkfun RedBoard programmed with Arduino SparkFun.com DEV
materials. Ms. Matin has over 3 years of experience of teaching in architecture and interior design field at Azad Islamic University and Eastern Michigan University. She has been LEED Green Associate since 2016.Dr. Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University Ali Eydgahi started his career in higher education as a faculty member at the Rensselaer Polytechnic In- stitute in 1985. Since then, he has been with the State University of New York, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and Eastern Michigan University. During 2006-2010, he was Chair of the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences, Founder and Director of the Center for 3-D Visualization and Virtual Reality Applications, and Technical Director of the NASA
communicated theirentrepreneurial desires, while students in EMGT330 are exploring career paths in leadership andmanagement, in or related to their technical discipline.Tactically, each student was provided an email with an access code and instructions for takingthe assessments. Each administering agency provided the content of the email. Once studentsreceived the access codes, the process flowed smoothly (i.e., no technical problems). However,there were a couple of instances in which students did not complete both surveys. After the datacollection, students were queried to gain insight into their experience when completing thesurveys, such as time allotted, clarity of questions, and understanding of results. Finally,students were asked to express
Paper ID #19321Computer-Mediated Peer Review: A Comparison of Calibrated Peer Reviewand Moodle’s WorkshopDr. Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Patricia ”Pat” A. Carlson is a transplanted middle westerner, having spent her childhood in Norfolk, Va. She came to Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology early in her teaching career and has taught a variety of courses over the past three decades. Dr. Carlson has held a number of American Society for Engineering Education summer fellowships that have taken her to NASA-Goddard, NASA-Langley, the Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland, and NASA’s
ExperiencedAs previously mentioned, the department has over the years produced thousands ofundergraduates who built successful careers in the construction industry. A graduate programhad existed in the college for many years with a CM area of specialization, graduating only oneor two students a year. The approval of a department administered MS in Building ConstructionManagement in 2011 eventually grew to a graduate student enrollment of approximately 40students in addition to the over 400 undergraduates in the department.As is common in much of construction management higher education, faculty in the programhave significant industry experience with less emphasis on research-based graduate degreeexperience. Many faculty have graduate degrees that did
and intensive summer bridgeprogram. The purpose of STEP is to provide incoming College of Engineering (CoE) students(1) an opportunity to become familiar with the university community prior to the start of theiracademic career, (2) academic enrichment in subjects known to be historically difficult for first-year students at the particular university, and (3) opportunities for personal and professionaldevelopment. STEP participants take courses in chemistry (lecture + lab), calculus, andengineering fundamentals.STEP 2016 consisted of 63 incoming first-year students accepted to the CoE. Although notexplicitly advertised, some participants had not been accepted into the CoE and had anopportunity to be admitted though their performance in STEP
tends to focus almostexclusively on distinctive professional responsibilities – that is to say, ethical issues that arecommonly presented by the immediate practice of the work typical of each. For undergraduates,this is professional ethics in an industrial or consulting context.1 For graduate students, whosetraining is preparation for a career in research, this is typically research ethics, implicitly in anacademic context.2 Thus, both construe the responsibilities of the engineer relatively narrowly.In particular, the concerns of each taper dramatically as the borders of the immediate work siteare crossed. While some focus is of course necessary and appropriate, the present narrowness hasarguably become unhealthily myopic, particularly
the academic experience, although the student did think it willmake material more related across courses. Perhaps the most interesting comment was from asenior student, taking the course out of the typical sequence, who indicated that while doing thismake versus buy assignment he/she had a “full circle moment” by realizing the impact of all theskills and knowledge gained in all the courses that can be used when starting a career. Thispreliminary feedback suggests that the stated project goals were shared by student impressions.Future improvements to the case study in IE302 include the ability to present the assignment abit earlier in the semester and provide even more opportunity for students to explore the inputdata needed to answer the make
throughout theireducational career [13]. Similar results were confirmed for fifth graders in a separate study [14],and for learning-disabled students in [15] Another study, [16], showed that first graders learnedand retained at a significantly higher rate when imagery was used, and further, the studentsshowed higher level of creativity with usage of imagery [17], a result that can be exploited inhigher-education problem-solving. A more recent study [18] reports the effect of using visualthinking software to improve writing skills of students with mild disabilities, and another one[19] provides a practical best practice example on how visual thinking is used to enhance studentbackground knowledge.Although, these studies were performed at the level of
to use Inventor™ 3D CAD computer program to create engineering designs and teach them how to 3D print the designs using advanced 3D printers. 2) Teach students thermal and mechanical engineering 3) Introduce the students to applications of advanced manufacturing (AM) to enhance their interest in pursuing college degrees that would prepare them for careers in AM. 4) Improve students’ communication skills.The process that we developed was mostly oriented toward the middle school students and it wasformed from three steps: - Teaching the heat transfer phenomena, - Teaching energy, and the conservation of energy, - Learning the use of heat transfer software. 3Dr. A.C
in the engineering profession, providing students with positiveexperiences in engineering design within the academic setting may serve as a catalyst for futurecourse selection and career pathways [18-20].IV. MethodWe now detail the steps we took to develop and implement the ADE instructional frameworkand the associated data collection that occurred concurrently with these steps. First, we detail thesteps we took to develop the framework and the four associated EDTs during the 2016-2017academic year. We then detail the steps we took during the first phase of classroomimplementation during the 2017-2018 academic year.IV.a. Development of the Instructional FrameworkIn the Fall of 2016, the research team used the ADE instructional framework to
leader’s vision is disingenuous, people sense it. The EIcompetency that matters most to visionary leadership, however, is empathy. The ability to sensewhat others feel, and understand their perspectives, helps a leader articulate a truly inspirationalvision.Coaching. The coaching style is really the art of the one-on-one. Coaches help people identifytheir unique strengths and weaknesses, tying those to their personal and career aspirations.Effective coaching exemplifies the EI competency of developing others, letting a leader act as acounselor. It works hand in hand with two other competencies: emotional awareness and empathy.Affiliative. The affiliative style of leadership represents the collaborative competency in action. Anaffiliative leader is
failure to meetstakeholder expectations among others. [13] It also noted that a lack of education in leadershipto support the current prevalent career path of "starting from primarily technical work throughproject management and into management and leadership." [13] There was an intensecompetition for desired leadership positions that was shared in common with other engineeringdisciplines, as well as from non-engineers. The best example of this is in project managementwhich requires better educated civil engineers. In the case of the latter, more and more non-engineers are managing "civil engineers with the principal reason being that the non-engineerspossess stronger leadership, communication and business skills" and leadership positions
they havestrong concepts developed and are sure of the directions or specializations they will choose intheir future careers. Students’ concerns suggested that working in a remote laboratory in theearly years of an engineering degree could deprive them of learning some basic but essentiallaboratory skills.Hence this study highlights some important issues relating to remote laboratoryimplementation in the first-year of engineering degree. Students’ experiences and responseshave identified the need to consider whether remote laboratories can provide the opportunityfor students to acquire all of the essential laboratory skills. Further consideration is needed ifremote laboratories are to be blended into regular engineering studies so that
system. Heating elements were more commonly omitted, perhaps dueto students’ unfamiliarity with resistive heating devices, a concept generally introduced to themin a Junior-level class. There were also students, particularly in the group post-learningfunctional modeling, that gave more direct, black box responses in place of components asdiscussed in Figure 11. Word descriptions of a function can be found both in pre- and post-groups, but post- responses generally use more formal functional wording.Another study using these instruments could compare student responses to experienced engineersworking in industry or research, to gauge the effect career experience could have on mentalmodels of simple systems. Both the hair dryer and car radiator
his engineering education research interests focus on experiential learning at both the university and K-12 levels. Dr. Carroll serves as a voting member on ACI Committee S802 - Teaching Methods and Educational Materials and is Chair of the Career Guidance Committee for the ASCE - St. Louis Section. He has eight years of formal experience with K-12 engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 The Influence of Grading Bias on Reinforced Concrete Exam Scores at Three Different UniversitiesIntroduction Grading student exams fairly and effectively remains a challenge for many professors.Maintaining consistency among students on the
-ed market would work better if students knew more about the careers and wages of graduates of programs they’re considering and families knew more about the likely return on their big investment.” Lowering barriers to entry – old rules “including an archaic system of deciding what’s a college for purposes of federal aid and what isn’t, may be preventing innovation…”There is no shortage of ideas on how to fix the growing concerns of higher education. Lookingback over twenty five years of literature reveals tens upon tens of potential solutions. While theseare specific recommendations for colleges and universities to follow most are really nothing morethan basic practices in any business/industry looking to increase
. Prior to her role as project manager, Sarah worked asthe SEI Coordinator for a local high school and has also developed an inclusion program for Migrant andImmigrant students that utilized co-teaching and active learning as keystones of the program. She beganher educational career as a high school teacher, teaching courses in English, math, and science. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Coaching and Feedback in a Faculty Professional Development Program that Integrates the Entrepreneurial Mindset and Pedagogical Best Practices into Capstone Design CoursesAbstractThis evidence-based practice paper reports on the impact of individualized coaching as part of abroader
highest. Students’ written commentssuggest the course is achieving its goals: “I learned that engineering is not enough to solvebig problems;” “Even I can think like an engineer and help people;” and “Everyone shouldtake this course.”Future collection of data will offer an increasingly robust picture of student outcomes at thecourse level, but a longitudinal assessment – whether our students are more likely to chooseto participate in Grand Challenges or similar opportunities over their college careers – alsofaces challenges in our campus’ current Banner informational management system. Althoughthe academic data is robust (majors, minors, study abroad and other credit-bearingenrollment), other participation in other activities such as community