time a student is taught to use a model for asystem in the Laplace Domain only, they lose the fact that the controller designed will not workover the whole range of the input constraints. In fact, that is more a rarity than the norm. Transferfunctions for lime kilns, cardiac arrest patients, reactive etchers, etc. do not hold for the range ofinputs outlined in final projects given to students[8]. Representing a nonlinear multivariableprocess by a matrix of transfer functions leads to real repercussions for students that think theseare at least close to accurate models that reflect a dynamic range of responses over the inputconstraints. And instead end up with a system that a single controller can regulate. There are nooperating regions
when looking for an industry practitioner to be a lecture guest speaker,most of the time you have some experienced white male, which reflects the non-diversefield as a whole and the issue about diversity and inclusion”. Faculty instructors also agreedwith the difficulty of accessing a diverse group of practitioners which makes it moredifficult to ensure diversity when inviting them to any academic activity (e.g., capstonementorship, workshops, conference speaker, lecture guest speaker). To know how companies involve their employees in DEI, we asked practitioners ifthey knew (awareness) about DEI Statements in their company. We found that, out of the249 participants, 71% of professionals identified DEI statements in their companies, 12
: 15 Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference Copyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering Education2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference Figure 11: After Improvement X-bar Control Chart - Spring 2022 Figure 12: After Improvement R Control Chart - Spring 2022We can see from the above control charts, the turning process was in-control for the spring 2022semester. This was an indication that the applied improvements were useful to improve theturning project in the IENG 303 course. Moreover, the students’ comments in the SEI for Spring2022 semester positively reflected these improvements.Samples of IENG 303 Students Comments – SEI
How well did 4 4 4 examination questions reflect content and emphasis of the course?LimitationsDistance learning strategies were limited to one summer semester (8 weeks). Foreshortenedteaching period had not been used with this course prior. However, after course completion,students indicated an interest in hands-on laboratory experiences that supplements simulationtechnology.Conclusions and RecommendationsThis paper focused on the technological aspects of a casting curriculum that substitutes inconventional and non-conventional academics. During a pandemic period and thereafter,engineering education was
transitioning to and from remote learning.This survey was given in Winter 2022, which was a unique term at the University of CaliforniaIrvine because courses started online and returned to in person later in the term. Moreover, it wasnot clear at the beginning of the term when courses would return to in person, only that theywould eventually. Therefore, this was a particularly disruptive term for the students who had allpreviously experienced the transition to online learning in Spring 2020 and had transitioned backto in person courses by Fall 2021, only to return to online courses in Winter 2022 due to thespread of highly contagious COVID-19 variants. This provided a unique opportunity for studentsto reflect on their experiences adapting through
monitoring. The societal impact of the project, energy scavenging methods, alsomakes students more aware of what engineering can do to address current energy issuesworldwide and how to provide long lasting power supply for environmental monitoring systems.Presently we are modifying the content of the project to address the main concern that thestudents of the project team expressed in their reflection papers, i.e. the level of complexity andthe amount of time needed to complete the project. The project presented above, together withother projects proposed by the authors in the areas of renewable energy, energy harvesting andwireless sensor networks have been used to draw student’s interest in the field of renewableenergy sources, advanced and
. The next subsection discusses theresponses of students to the open-ended questions in the survey. Table 3. Responses of previous students on some reflection type questions Strongly Strongly Question Disagree Neutral Agree Disagree AgreeMore likely to work at getting correctanswers on current courses 4% 15% 21% 45% 15%Looking
other in countless ways” (p. 68)34. Race and gender, as well as other sociallyconstructed concepts that contribute to one’s identity, must be understood intersectionally. Intersectionality is defined as how socially-constructed social categories such as race andgender intersect and influence experiences 50,51. Instead of examining race, gender, sexualorientation, and other markers of difference as singular identities, Riley & Pawley (2011) useintersectionality to look at individuals’ experiences through their narratives which reflected theirintersecting identities 51. In looking at the intersectionality of race and gender and its effect onmentoring, intersectionality can provide insight into how race and gender influence
supervisors presented the task. In addition, they received detailedinformation on the scope of the project, the timetable and deadlines and the evaluationcriteria.During the semester the students went through the following stages1: 1. Researching the topics 2. Finding the technical and mathematical solutions 3. Acquiring the relevant background knowledge and skills 4. Designing and programming the software 5. Documenting the process from research to development and finally to output 6. Reflecting on project management, team work and the performance of individual team members in the form of a brief written appraisal 7. Handing in software and documentation on a pre-defined dateThe role of the project advisors, as subject experts
controlled.” 9 After discussing several casestudies, students were then invited to identify opportunities within the mobile app arena: whatneeds do they think that they, their peers, or their families have, that could be addressed withapps; how could existing apps be improved to better meet consumers’ needs? In the first twocourse offerings, students discussed their ideas and formed their own teams within the groupmembership policy presented earlier in this section. In the third and fourth course offerings, weformalized the team creation process by encouraging students to post their reflections on an“Idea Bounce” blog; the students then “pitched” their app ideas in class, and listed their threebest ideas in order of preference. The instructors then
experience), watching (reflective observation), thinking/modeling (abstractconceptualization), and applying/doing (active experimentation). Kolb’s learning cycle has beenused in various engineering education programs such as civil2-4, mechanical4, chemical2, 3, 5,industrial6, aeronautical4, and manufacturing2, 3, 7 engineering. Thus, active experimentation likebuilding mechanical objects as visualization aids, building mechanical parts as a newmanufacturing process, and building prototypes as steps in the design process or research, is anessential part of the learning process.The success of rapid prototyping projects in engineering education, albeit using expensive 3D
the Learning Sciences,Vol.9, No.3, pp.313-314.26. Oakes, W. C., Jamieson, L. H., and Coyle, E. j.,(2001), “EPICS: Meeting EC 2000 Through Service Learning,” Proc., ASEE Conference and Exhibition, Session 3461.27. Bright, A., and Dym, C. L., (2004), “General Engineering at Harvey Mudd: 1957-2003,” Proc., ASEE Conf. and Exhibition, Session 1471.28. Adams, R. S., Turns, J., and Atman, C. J., (2003), “Educating Effective Engineering Designers: The Role of Reflective Practice,” Design Studies, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp.275—294.29. Mills, J. E., and Treagust, D. F., (2004), “Engineering Education- Is Problem – Based or Project - Based Learning the Answer?” Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, www.aaee.com. Au/journal
, Harman reported the existence of 368 higher education institutions providingfor over 1.5 million students and in 2013, Nguyen et al .report 419 institutions enrolling 2.2million students, reflecting the large growth in higher education occurring in Vietnam.11The country is undergoing a social and economic planned transformation, and like China, isforging its own path in the development and application of a “socialist-oriented marketmechanism.” The higher education system is under a major structural and policy reform, moving Page 24.972.12Vietnam from a Soviet model of higher education towards a western-styled system. The reformis being planned in the
methods approaches.26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32ResultsThe significant findings from our research efforts, so far, fall into six primary categories, relatedto the six categories discussed above in the brief literature review. Our findings are summarizedbelow along with further explanation. Page 24.977.6 1. A student’s sense of belonging in classes and major is strongly associated with academic engagement and other positive outcomes.26 Belonging reflects the experiences of a student in the STEM environment and has implications for what they do in class (effort and participation) and how they feel about their
worksupported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program underGrant No. DGE-1333468. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation. Page 24.991.11References1. National Academy of Engineering. (2004). The engineer of 2020: Visions of engineering in the new century. Washington DC: National Academies Press.2. National Academy of Engineering. (2009). Engineering in K-12 education: Understanding the status and improving the prosects. Washington, DC: National Academies
rather significant typographical error that any competent copy editor shouldhave corrected. Figure 3. Poor website advertisement for a publisher-based conference18Grammatical errors may also be found in the titles of certain journals, such as 66 of the 72journals published by Advance [sic] Research Publications that all begin with the phrase“Journal of Advance Research in. . . .”19 In addition, predatory journal sites tend to be “poorlymaintained,” with dead links, and may include purloined images reproduced without permission.9Explanatory sections on journal websites may exhibit language that reflects poorly on editorialstandards. International Journal of Latest Research in Engineering and Computing, forexample, identifies itself
concepts to transportation. 3) Next, students engage in hands-on activities, utilizing and applying the main concepts of the day’s lesson. 4) Typically, transportation professionals are invited to club sessions, where they provide a multimedia presentation pertaining to their respective field, a project going on in the community and/or a specific sector of the workforce (e.g., salary information and educational requirements). This presentation tends to take place toward the end of the club period. 5) The program day ends with a “wrap-up” activity to summarize main themes or ideas and record reflections on the day’s
students to share their experiences. Other optionsmight include presenting a poster or giving a talk at a campus or regional symposium, or evengiving a formal presentation to the research group or department. Distilling their experiencesinto a poster or oral presentation gives students valuable experience in communicating technicalcontent, and encourages students to reflect on the their contributions to the larger researchproject.Example ProjectsThis three-step method for mentoring undergraduate researchers is easy for faculty to implementand scaffolds students’ introduction to the research domain. Highly motivated students have theopportunity to gain skills and responsibility as they move through the three stages of thismentoring plan. For
another to Reduction in degree of freedomfreedom perform the task by breaking down (Wood, Bruner, & Ross, 1976) the problem.Marking critical A peer asks questions in order to Marking critical features (Woodfeatures understand why and how the other et al., 1976) came to a certain conclusion. This helps students to identify and reflect on discrepancies in the design.Fading support A peer initially helps another but Ongoing diagnosis gradually modifies his/her role so (Wood et al., 1976
this labor supply gap can use information aboutthe varying STEM career interests of different types of students, such as students fromhistorically underrepresented groups, to most effectively achieve their goals.AcknowledgementsPortions of this material are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation underGrant No. (DUE-1038154) – any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressedin this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation. Portions of the work were also supported by The Golden LEAF Foundation. Page 24.1114.13References1. National
described. Many of the testing tools only consistently provide statement andbranch coverage.26 From the results shown in Table 2, second to last row, labeled Average, thevalue in the branch coverage column was consistently lower than the values for statement cover-age. The results of the study support the claim that branch coverage subsumes statement coverage.In future studies we plan to investigate other subsumes relations, e.g., multiple condition coverage(MCC) subsumes branch coverage. One limitation of extending the study is that most freely avail-able tools only provide statement and branch coverage, which is two of the less efficient white-boxtesting techniques as reflected in the subsume hierarchy
in this figure. The “Other” 90% 15.5% 16.5%reasons included sleeping in, subway delays and 100% 7.7% 13.8%commuting, and having a test on that day. Themajor difference in the “Too much work” Figure 3. Primary Reason for Missing Lecturesresponses could be due to the fact that one ofthe other courses in this term modestly reducedtheir design project requirements from 2012 to2013. However, this is likely only part of thereason given that the change was not as drasticas the data reflects. The fact that 16% of theinverted cohort chose “Too early” is likely dueto the fact that of the three lecture sections, onesection did have a 9 AM class, while for thetraditional
reflected in a brief questionnaire atthe end of the semester, as shown in Table 1. Of the 20 students, 19 preferred using spreadsheetsto conventional methods (one preferred using traditional engineering factors). Voluntarycomments were strongly supportive of the spreadsheet approach. Based on these results, theSpring 2014 course is being held in a computer lab. Table 1. Student Responses to the Computer Lab Question 1a and 1b What is the value What is your (N=20) of using Excel in recommendation class? regarding having
engineering courses. And I saw civil and I saw that there was a lot of equivalencies so that I could just keep going with the course and not really pay attention to co-reqs. Because I’ve already taken the co-reqs and pre-reqs. I: So you went to civil because many of the courses that you had taken would apply in civil? M: Yes. Yes.When reflecting on the transfer experience, Mike noted that he had been admitted to D-State as afreshman and chose to go to Southeast D-State instead. I: So what do you think would’ve been different if you had decided to come here as a freshman? M: I probably wouldn’t even gone through engineering. I probably would’ve stayed
significant differences between the groups’ ratingsof their advisors’ effectiveness. However, there were several interesting trends in students’ open-ended responses. A disproportionate number of direct-pathway students mentioned anappreciation for their advisors’ assistance networking and for those that serve as a professionalmentor, which could possibly reflect returners’ higher likelihood of having past experiencewithin the field and existing professional connections. There were also interesting trends in someof the negative characteristics identified by students. Returners were much more likely tospecifically critique their advisors’ management style, whereas direct-pathway students morefrequently asserted that their advisors were difficult to
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National Science Foundation (NSF)under awards 722221 and 0939065. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe NSF.References[1] Bernold, L. E., Spurlin, J. E., & Anson, C. M. (2007). Understanding our students: A longitudinal study ofsuccess and failure in engineering with implications for increased retention. Journal of Engineering Education, 96(3), 263-274.[2] Denning, P. J. (1992). Educating a new engineer. Communications of the ACM, 35 (12), 82-97.[3] Froyd, J. E., & Ohland, M. W. (2005). Integrated engineering curricula. Journal of Engineering Education, 94(1), 147-164.[4] National Research Council (Ed.). (2002
a Team-effectiveness Inventory18. This inventorypresents 27 competencies that comprise three aspects of individual team-member effectiveness:organizational aspects (project management), relational aspects (interpersonal relations), andcommunication aspects (information presentation and discussion) as shown in Table 1. Thesecompetencies are developed in students through the use of an online Team-effectivenessLearning System that allows students to complete and reflect upon self- and peer-assessments oftheir actions along these competencies. The inventory is comprised of a 7-point behaviourallyanchored rating scale for each competency which describes what each of the competenciesshould look like in a team working at the ‘performing’ stage of
videos from a previous offeringof the course. These videos are linked from the Moodle Courses homepage. A short reflection onthe video is due at noon the following Monday.Required MaterialsThe required BME 201 Course Handbook will be sold by the UW Chapter of the BiomedicalEngineering Society (BMES) during the first lecture for $20.00. There are no other requiredtextbooks. Videos, slides, and written materials will be provided on Moodle Courses. Printing access (such as through your CAE account) will also be needed for somesupplemental materials to your handbook such as Lab 2 and notes about the design project.Course HandbookThe BME 201 Course Handbook contains notes about design project topics, the lab materials,and starting space for your
showcases will be used to promote bothtechnological literacy and the “TECH393: Technology in World Civilization” course. It is likelythat this effort will steer additional students into the course as well.Conclusions, Reflections, and the FutureThe study of past technologies utilizing recreated artifacts, collected objects, graphic images,pictures, videos, and display cases has enhanced the student's knowledge of technologicalliteracy. The relationship between people and technology is now better understood in terms of itssocial, cultural, political, and economic aspects. The problem solving ability of previousgenerations of humans along with their desire to invent and develop new tools, techniques, andprocesses are also more appreciated. The