is, paraphrasing myself from above, is to attend to the configuration of the curricula,its particular pedagogical strategies, how they cultivate students’ identity, the nature of theirprograms’ educational cultures, student-teacher relationships, deliberate recruit, career advising,etc. By attending to the entire educational system, and not focusing on discrete “creativity”knowledge chunks, engineering educators are more likely to reliably arrive at robust educationaloutcomes of enhanced student creativity, but then those changes will come at a cost toeducational outcomes currently achieved. Engineering educators may wish to assume there is nofriction between engineering and design educational logics, and hence to define their
interviewed for this analysis, with eachinterview following a semi-structured interview script and lasting approximately 90 minutes.Students volunteered to be interviewed after a brief introduction to the project by the authorsduring the participants’ engineering courses; additional students were invited to participate viasnowball sampling. The students in this analysis represent a diverse array of majors inengineering and lab-based sciences, at all levels of their respective undergraduate careers, avariety of socioeconomic and regional backgrounds, multiple political perspectives, and adistribution of genders (including trans/gender non-conforming students).The interview protocol moved from rapport-building questions, through open-ended
, tours, and social activities thatfacilitated mutual experiences, conversations, and friendships. In between scheduled class andinformal homework sessions, students went together to lunch, where the first author was alsopresent, and participated in dialogues ranging from the class work to career plans, summer travel,generic complaints, and current events. Students had the opportunity to discuss their respectivebackgrounds, interests, goals, aspirations, and challenges with the instructor during class trips,formal dinners at the beginning and end of the course, and small-group dinners. Undoubtedly,the individual student-instructor relationships developed and the learning community establishedand positively influenced learning. Within the
Boulder. He co-directs Project EPIC, an NSF-funded project since 2009 that investigates how members of the public make use of social media during times of mass emergency. Professor Anderson leads the design and implementation of a large-scale data collection and analysis system for that project. Prof. Anderson was a participant in the first cohort of the NCWIT Pacesetters program, a program de- signed to recruit more women to the field of computer science and encourage them to pursue their careers in technology. As part of his Pacesetters efforts, Prof. Anderson led the charge to create a new BA in CS degree at CU that allows students in Arts and Sciences to earn a degree in computer science. This new degree
influence, and thus theability to separate those influences from their own design processes. Here, a social scientific lenson the CAD learning activity can be productively integrated with the more technical approach ofteaching command and strategic CAD knowledge.While all students whose career paths intersect with CAD should gain practical and theoreticalexpertise with relevant CAD platforms, students whose educational experiences and potentialcareers may span different disciplinary domains would benefit by being agile in terms of howthey talk about what they know. In particular, these practitioners need to be able to translate theirpractical expertise and disciplinary understandings into other domains: moving from, say,engineering to design, or
challenges for educators [12].Engineering education scholars Juan Lucena and Jon Leydens suggest incorporating contextualdetail into more traditional technical problems that students are presented with. They proposedoing so by asking traditional technical questions in ways that require students to interrogatepotential circumstances of problems they are given in class [13]. This can be done in ways thatdo not forfeit the technical requirements demanded of an engineer, but rather complementlearning in the classroom to better mirror (and prepare students for) the socio-technical worknecessary for acting as Engineering Changemakers or, simply, for successful careers inengineering.This paper details the first iteration of a module to incorporate
computerengineering elective courses. However, at the very least, exposure to these concepts could helpChE students to better understand and collaborate with other engineers later in their careers. Table 1 – Overview of ModulesExamples of Other 3D Printed Devices Intuitive and disruptive technologies like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and 3D printing (i.e.,additive manufacturing) have made prototyping and device development easier than ever. Indeed,many scientists have already taken advantage of these technologies to design their own labequipment (see Table 2 for examples), including small centrifuges, syringe pumps, pipettes,thermal cyclers, microscopes that can save images on a smartphone, and many more [1,2].Specialized
. Scholar. Dr. Wood joined the faculty at the University of Texas in September 1989 and established a computational and experimental laboratory for research in engineering design and manufacturing, in addition to a teaching laboratory for prototyping, reverse engineering measurements, and testing. During his academic career, Dr. Wood was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the United States Air Force Academy. Through 2011, Dr. Wood was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Design & Manufacturing Division at The University of Texas at Austin. He was a National Science Foundation Young Investigator, the ”Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in Engineering,” ”Uni- versity Distinguished Teaching
program because in this framework students are led to view the coursecontents as unconnected pieces. Thus, students lack the understanding of how theseunconnected course materials build on each other to form the core knowledge expected of acompetent electrical engineer. This lack of understanding manifests itself in low studentmotivation, interest, and knowledge regarding the discipline. Furthermore, it results in studentsperceiving a lack of value and career opportunities relative to the amount of effort required togo through the program [1]-[4]. As a result, attrition rates in engineering departments havebeen higher than expected. For example, the number of American students earning bachelor’sdegrees increased by 16% over the past 10 years
associated with teachingthe course include consistency across sections as well as limited teaching experience among newinstructors.As additional context, the College uses the framework of the “World-Class Engineer,” which wasdeveloped within the Leonhard Center. This framework is used as a set of guiding principles forstudents on what to strive for in their undergraduate path and into their careers and is often usedin strategic planning by the College. The attributes of the World-Class Engineer include solidlygrounded, technically broad, globally engaged, ethical, innovative, excellent collaborators, andvisionary leaders. This framework is relevant to this study as it served as the foundation for someof the instructional changes made within the
approachin preparing graduates for engineering careers is to require students to attend classes, listen toinstructor’s lectures explaining the basic theories and concepts related to the subject; and observeor participate in solving example problems during lectures. Students are also asked to read thecontent of the required textbook describing the theories and concepts.Textbooks used in undergraduate engineering course cover basic concepts and theories in eachchapter and provide several example problems to help students gain a better understanding of thetheory and engineering applications. At the end of each chapter, textbooks frequently include alarge set of problems to be used as homework assignments. The purpose of homework is forstudents to gain
influence of students’ individual characteristics(e.g., personality, prior knowledge, values, motivations) on their interpretation of theirexperiences and subsequent understanding or perspective shifts [8]. Further, student decisions toengage in global activities after returning from a global experience can increase the long-terminfluence of the global program on their attitudes and career plans [9]. These studies suggest thatalthough the structure and components of global programs can influence program outcomes,there can still be different pathways for students who have the same experience. As argued byStreitwieser and Light, global education research has often focused only on aggregate programoutcomes and not individual student experiences, but
general, the commentswere focused primarily on Contributing and secondarily on Having Related Knowledge, Skills,and Abilities; not all five CATME dimensions. However, when detailed comments are given,they often provide additional insights into peer ratings and explanations for the CATMEexception codes. These insights into team functional or dysfunctional behavior provideinformation to the instructor that goes well beyond what can be obtained from the peer ratingsalone.1. IntroductionWorking in teams is widely viewed as a key skill for having a successful career. However,effective team behavior does not necessarily come naturally to many students. In engineeringeducation, developing teamwork and communication skills, among other things, are
. He has taught courses focused on first-year engineering students, materials science and engineering, en- gineering design, systems thinking and engineering leadership. He has a PhD in Polymer, Fiber Science from Clemson University. His research background is in the synthesis of polymer nanocomposites and engineering education. He was trained as a Manufacturing Process Specialist within the textile industry, which was part of an eleven-year career that spanned textile manufacturing to product development. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Convergent Approaches for Developing Engineering Leadership in UndergraduatesAbstractHere we describe a shared approach to engineering
IntroductionEvery measurable quantity in the physical sciences is a tensor. Mass, distance, time, position,velocity, acceleration, momentum, force, torque, work, energy, pressure, charge, the electric andmagnetic fields, temperature, heat, entropy, stress, strain, moment of inertia, curvature—these areall tensor quantities. Every time we write down an equation, perform a calculation, take ameasurement, run a simulation, or perform an experiment, we are dealing with tensors in one wayor another. Indeed, the very laws that govern the universe are most conveniently formulated astensor differential equations. It is therefore no exaggeration to say that, as scientists andengineers, we work with tensors on a day-to-day basis throughout our entire careers. And so
solution’ when the research paper is completed.The new instructions for the research paper project and presentation are given in Figure 2 andthese deliverables are due during the last week of the quarter. The text narration in the newinstructions came mostly from the KEEN framework, depicted in Figure 1. The narrative wasadapted to fit the course description and content of EE 463. The research project intends toincrease students’ development of entrepreneurial skills to further their career in engineeringwhile understanding research trends in communications.Research Paper and Presentation Based on Author’s Air Force ExperienceThe idea of the project was based the one of the author’s Air Force experience during his twenty-six years in managing
. However, some items still needed to be cut, as thegoal of piloting these two surveys was to shorten them and combine them in to one. As a result,we looked back to interview data gathered previously [11] and determined that the best items tocut were 'My family sees me as a SCIENTIST' and 'Others ask me for help with SCIENCE'. Thefirst was cut due to statements from students that, as they became increasingly specialized intheir graduate careers, their families were less familiar with the work they were doing and theylooked to them less often for recognition and approval. The second was cut to maximizeparsimony, as it potentially conflated 'recognition' with 'performance/competence' and there wasalready an adequate number of 'recognition
the author of several technical publications, including 17 journal papers and two book chapters. She received an NSF CAREER award in 2014. Dr. Marais has worked in engineering for two decades, first in industry and then in academia. She holds a B. Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Stellenbosch, a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of South Africa, and an S.M and Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT.Hanxi Sun, Purdue University Hanxi Sun is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Statistics of Purdue University. Her research focuses on nonparametric Bayesian statistics and applied statistics. Hanxi received a master degree in Statistics at
Paper ID #23589Development of an Introduction to Circuits Course and Lab for MechanicalEngineering Students via Systematic Design of InstructionDr. Grant Crawford, Quinnipiac University Grant Crawford, PhD, P.E., Colonel (retired) U.S. Army, is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of Career Development for the School of Engineering at Quinnipiac University. He is the former Director of the Mechanical Engineering Program at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Grant graduated from West Point in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Me- chanical Engineering. He earned a M.S. degree
identified the Chair of Scrap as something that affects how they designtoday and/or is a main takeaway from the class (which they completed more than two years priorto the interview). A set of quotes about the Chair of Scrap from actual responses is shown inTable 1.Chris1, a senior about to graduate, speaks to “vividly” remembering the Chair of Scrap from thefirst week of her college career. Pat speaks to the assignment “hammering home” through a“shock and awe” approach the need to focus on users and solving the right problem. Five of thesix refer to how almost no students talk to the users as part of the Chair of Scrap and that thatwas the main point. All six directly connect the Chair of Scrap project to learning about theimportance of engaging
to near- and long-term assessment will enable not only MAE but also otherengineering schools and departments to offer concrete learning outcomes and produce actual datato support those outcomes.There is much yet to learn. We are looking forward to the insights that that data most certainlywill provide. Still, we believe that we have made a promising start toward planning andimplementing an alternative communications curriculum that empowers students to actually be“work-ready” as communicators when they begin their professional engineering careers. And,while we must be careful with our inferences so early in the research process and from such asmall sample size, we believe that it is at least safe to suggest that the pilot ENGRC 2250 has hada
scientific writing support, and then describe our activity including asummary of possible benefits and challenges. We conclude in section 5 with some thoughts onhow we see our program developing in the future, and also with a summary of our impressionson the usefulness of this learning community initiative to provide scientific writing support toengineering graduate students.2 Engineering graduate students and scientific writing2.1 The importance of scientific writing for engineering graduate studentsGraduate students must share the results of their research, mainly by writing and publishingscientific papers, in order to disseminate their ideas and begin the path to a successful career, beit in academia or industry. Studies have shown that
and potential collaborationbetween engineering librarians and mechanical engineering faculty. For the course in this study,the plan for next year will be to use these instructional activities again. It also has started thediscussion of where additional library collaboration earlier in the mechanical engineeringprogram would be appropriate and beneficial. This additional exposure and training will buildfamiliarity with information fluency skills, which may be perceived as difficult, but are essentialin the professional environment.Works Cited[1] G. Kerins, “Information seeking and students studying for professional careers: The cases of engineering and law students in Ireland,” Inf. Res. Int. Electron. J., vol. 10, no. 1, Oct. 2004.[2] S
U.S. National Science Foundation’s Early Career Award in 2009. He is co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research (CHEER) published by Cam- bridge University Press, New York, NY. Dr. Johri earned his Ph.D. in Learning Sciences and Technology Design at Stanford University and a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering.Dr. Aqdas Malik, George Mason University Aqdas Malik is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Information Sciences and Tech- nology, George Mason University. His multidisciplinary academic and industry experience spans two key disciplines: Human-Computer Interaction and Social Media Communication and Analytics. He is currently engaged in a
fromtheir disciplines, they also develop and apply professional skills important to team functioning,which will translate to their future careers. The large-scale, long-term projects mirror situationsstudents will encounter in the workforce. As they join large ongoing projects, they are onboardedby peers, but also take responsibility for their own learning as they get up to speed. They dealwith decisions made in previous years and with documentation developed by others; conversely,their own documentation becomes a resource for the team. They also learn and apply professionalcommunication skills, communicating problems to the appropriate individuals and navigatingconflict. 6. Multi-disciplinary teams are encouraged but not required. Multi
. One thousand and eighty-four responses were collected; 520 collected betweenweeks 1 and 3; 222 responses between weeks 4 and 6; and 342 responses collected betweenweeks 7-9. The average participation rate across the clases for participation in at least one of thefeedback commenting opportunities was 66.3%.Data were collected roughly every 3rd week on different topics. In week one students providedpersonal information about their styles of learning and engineering interests. Every weekstudents provided ‘Muddiest Point’ feedback about the concepts and content they werestruggling with [4]. Additional feedback responses were collected about exams and quizzes, thelab section of the course, career planning and goals, and end of semester comments
Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teaching practices in design education, the effects of differing design pedagogies on retention and motivation, the dynamics of cross
faculty member at Oklahoma State University working on terahertz frequencies and engineering educa- tion. While at Oklahoma State, he developed courses in photonics and engineering design. After serving for two and a half years as a program director in engineering education at the National Science Founda- tion, he took a chair position in electrical engineering at Bucknell University. He is currently interested in engineering design education, engineering education policy, and the philosophy of engineering education.Dr. Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial