thisexercise to careers in chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering. Through these activities,the participating students learned about energy and about the work of engineers. They furtherlearned that engineers and engineering impact their everyday lives, and, more importantly, thatthey can think and act like engineers.Lesson Impact: The initial impact of this unit was on 180 students in the participatingclassrooms. However, the students shared their enthusiasm for the unit with their friends, whoshared the information with their mathematics teachers. Christie has now been invited to assistthe two remaining sixth grade mathematics teachers in teaching the same unit. The total impact isapproximately 350 students. Assessment instruments were
have effective oral, written, and graphical communicationskills). The wording gave the impression that it was describing skills and knowledge thatstudents should have at the time of graduation rather than future career and professionalaccomplishments. The
and visualization, and engineering system dynamics. His work has been recognized with multiple best-paper awards. He conducts workshops in student team-building, team-formation and peer evaluation, in laboratory assessment, and in effective teaching. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Layton worked for twelve years in consulting engineering, culminating as a group head and a project manager. He is a guitarist and songwriter and a member of the rock band “Whisper Down”.Thomas Adams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Thomas M. Adams is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman
: Accumulating Advantage for Women in Science and Engineering.”During her various talks, she stated: "Science and engineering (S&E) departments need more women as faculty-and not only to show their undergraduate students (the majority of whom in some disciplines are now women) that a career in academia is a viable path. Yet applications from women for advertised faculty positions in S&E departments rarely match the numbers of women granted Ph.D.s. The disproportionate absence of women who have chosen not to enter the applicant pool for faculty openings gives notice that an unhealthy environment exists in S&E departments and institutions. The women aren't broken: the system is."Dr. Rolison’s message, although bleak
, hardware and materials necessary for administering the exercise. We will also behappy to provide further guidance and assistance as may be required.AcknowledgmentsWe are grateful to the many students and teaching assistants who participated in or contributed tothe development of this project, and in particular to Denis Terwagne and Stephen Morgan, whoplayed important roles in the development of the Instrumentation Lab. We also thank the MITDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering for financial support. P.M.R. thanks theU.S. National Science Foundation for support under awards CMMI-1129894 and CMMI-1351449 (CAREER).Bibliography[1] G. Muller and J. Senior,“Simplified theory of Archimedean screws”, Journal ofHydraulic Research, 47(5), 666
the Ph.D. Program in Science Education at Stony Brook University (SUNY). Dr. Nehm has authored or co- authored 50 journal articles and book chapters and presented more than 100 conference talks and papers. Dr. Nehm currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, the Journal of Science Teacher Education, and the Journal of Science Education and Technology. He also serves on the advisory boards of several national science education projects, and has served as Panel Chair for several NSF programs. For several years he has served on the NARST Outstanding Dissertation committee. Dr. Nehm’s major awards include a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, a teaching
-escalating and youngest ethnic group. It isprojected that the Hispanics will comprise 31 percent of the U.S. population by the year 2060and will become the largest ethnic group by then29. Nevertheless, low enrollment of Hispanics inSTEM disciplines and lack of professionals in STEM-specific careers is a major concern tomany. As a major Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) in southern Texas, __ University has beenengaged in providing quality education in STEM disciplines to Hispanic and other minoritycommunities. The university intends to reduce the class drop rate for early college education inengineering, mathematics, and physics curriculums. According to the enrollment in Fall 2013 theuniversity has more than 7,431 students who are studying in
an economicallyand infrastructurally developing country (Q6 and Q9). Overall, the students articulated that theprogram enriched their academic careers (Q10).Another source of lessons learned in service learning comes from final reports and personaljournals submitted after completion of the programs. Journals serve the purpose ofdocumentation during the entire service-learning process. Journal entries include a pre-trip entryabout expectations, numerous entries during the trip, and a post trip reflection which ties togetherthe community context and the engineering project17. Both MdL and Choluteca students reportedthat they became considerably more experienced and skilled in manual labor. More significantlyhowever, they experienced the entire
(enabling a more comprehensive game to be created) or choose to begin anew project to demonstrate their diverse skillsets.The Studio and Capstone experience is important to gaming students not only from an academicperspective, but to their careers as well. In addition to a résumé, game developers are often re-quired to show a visually impressive portfolio that provides evidence to future employers of theirdevelopment skills. Students understand this and therefore take the class seriously. However,they have had notorious difficulties with finding professional-looking assets for their games.While our university contains degrees in new media, few students possess skills in 3D animation
, Purdue University RANJANI RAO is a doctoral student in Organizational Communication in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. She earned her masters in Media, Technology and Society from the same department in 2008. Prior to joining Purdue, Ranjani worked as a journalist with Indo-Asian News Service in New Delhi, India after obtaining her BA (Honours) in Economics from Delhi University and Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi. Ranjani’s research explorations in communication have included careers in the context of immigration, media and family communication, work-family dynamics and qualitative research methods in engineering
department toward anoutcomes-driven, student-centric, constituency-aware culture, while also growing thedepartment’s research portfolio. A lesson learned from this experience concerns the need forleadership to be willing to cross boundaries to get things moving beyond level 1. It wasserendipitous that this mathematics faculty member (who became chair), a former aerospaceengineering major who turned to mathematics in his undergraduate career, self-engaged himselfin the needs and issues being experienced by applications-oriented engineering majors andfaculty members. Page 24.328.8The first major STEM integration project that the mathematics department
knowledge or to practice transferring that knowledge to new situations, that knowledgeis useless. Thus, is it better to develop skills to become adaptive experts and hope students learnmore content knowledge later in their careers, or better to deliver the content and hope studentsbecome effective thinkers later?This question also presents another debate. If there are currently professional engineers who areadaptive experts and thinking critically and reflectively, without having an undergraduatecurriculum that emphasizes those concepts, do they even need to be emphasized? If theyabsolutely cannot be taught, as Edwards and Thomas suggest,135 then spending the time to do sowould certainly be wasteful. However, the heavy influence of disposition
envisages adifferent curriculum structure that can bring together the two literacies [14]. At this time itlies outside the plausibility structure.An alternative curriculum structure.In the middle nineteen seventies the Minister for Education in Ireland approved a project thatwould allow a few schools to develop a transition year between the junior cycle of post-primary education when students take a public examination called the Junior Certificate (15+years) and the first year of the two year programme for the Leaving Certificate (17+ years).The idea was that students should be freed from their studies for examinations and that theyshould undertake studies that would help their personal and career development. They wouldcontinue with some
ExercisesENG 694 was offered in autumn 2011 to upper-level students interested in designing,developing, and testing C/C++ software for the first design iteration of the Proteus. The studentswho enrolled in ENG 694 had completed the first year robot design project earlier in theiracademic career. As such, the emphasis of ENG 694 involved using the controller with smallrobotic vehicles, but in contrast with the freshman course, students were given a standardizedpre-built robot rather than being required to construct one. This allowed focus on programmingthe Proteus. This atmosphere allowed for low-risk testing of the Proteus hardware under realisticconditions. As a byproduct, the course allowed the students already familiar with high levelembedded
information literacy competency requirements The recently revised Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board’s accreditation criteria6have higher expectations of information research skills for undergraduate engineering graduatesthan ever before. Among the 12 graduate attributes, problem analysis, investigation,communication skills, ethics and equity, and life-long learning are closely associated withinformation literacy (IL) competencies and can be addressed by academic librarians themselvesor in collaboration with different units on campus. IL training may help this group of studentsbecome better empowered to use information effectively, which has the potential to contribute totheir overall academic and career success.Role of undergraduate
success in their professional careers. We focused on threeimportant skills in oral presentation: audience analysis, message coherence / focus, and messagedelivery. A team of five faculty--four from ECE and the CAC director--worked together todevelop a rubric to evaluate students oral presentation skills in the sophomore design (ECGR2252), junior design (ECGR 3157) and senior design (ECGR3253 and ECGR3254) courses. Theimplementation of the process began by using the rubric in Appendix (a) to evaluate student andteam presentations in each of the four courses above. We videotaped the presentations forstudents to review later so they could learn from their mistakes. We followed teams of studentsfrom the sophomore design in the spring 2012 to the
address calls for greater workplace and college readiness as well as increase thenumber of students who consider a career in a STEM-related field.Despite the rise in interest in providing students with learning experiences that foster connection-making across the STEM disciplines, there is little research on how best to do so or on whatfactors make integration more likely to increase student learning, interest, retention,achievement, or other valued outcomes. Indeed, there is considerable confusion about just whatintegrated STEM education is and how, if at all, it is different from STEM education that is notintegrated.This paper summarizes the findings and presents the recommendations from a recentlycompleted study of integrated K-12 STEM
and their so- lutions. Her research also involves working with educators to shift their expectations and instructional practice to facilitate effective STEM integration. Tamara is the recipient of a 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for her work on STEM integration with underrep- resented minority and underprivileged urban K-12 students. Page 24.805.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Introducing an Instructional Model for “Flipped Classrooms” -Part (II): How Do Group Discussions Foster Meaningful Learning
risk analysis for over twenty five years. He served for two and a half years as a research mathematician at the international operations and process research laboratory of the Royal Dutch Shell Company. While at Shell, Dr. Mazzuchi was involved with reliability and risk analysis of large processing systems, maintenance optimization of off-shore platforms, and quality control procedures at large scale chemical plants. During his academic career, he has held research contracts in development of testing procedures for both the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army, in spares provisioning modeling with the U. S. Postal Service, in mission assurance with NASA, and in maritime safety and risk assessment with the Port Authority
Paper ID #10820Learning Engineering Dynamics with a Videogame: A Look at How StudentsPlay the GameDr. Brianno Coller, Northern Illinois University Brianno Coller is Presidential Teaching Professor at Northern Illinois University. Early in his academic career, he studied complex dynamics and control of nonlinear systems such as turbulent boundary lay- ers, turbomachine instabilities, aeroelastic instabilities, bicycle dynamics, and traffic. More recently he has been studying the complex nonlinear dynamics of students learning engineering in the context of a videogame
Association for Computing Machinery, forexample, clearly states that in cases of copying without citation, the ACM “will inform theDepartment Chair, Dean, or supervisor of the authors.”45 Obviously, this may have detrimentaleffects on an instructor’s career, in addition to any other publication sanctions imposed by thejournal.Empirical StudyDue to the paucity of empirical studies available on plagiarism, the authors developed two onlinesurveys, one for faculty and another for journal editors, to gauge the current climate and level ofconcern regarding plagiarism in the fields of communication, psychology, engineering (includingengineering technology and engineering education), technology, and biological sciences. Atheoretical overview, survey methods
excitement for their major-making them an ideal conduit to promote the benefits and provide advice for thechallenges that await them as they progress through their academic career.11 The upperclass students used in teaching the SolidWorks module all have industry experience usingthe software from co-op and in some cases have taken an upper level course inmanufacturing that utilizes the software.To prepare for the teaching experience, the pool of students drawn from the ASMEchapter at Northeastern University consulted with the ASME faculty advisor to reviewthe tutorial material and teaching strategies. The class is tutorial driven with a facilitatorshowing modeling steps to the students via a projection screen in a typical classroom setup with
realize an innovation and a focus onthe value proposition. We helped them develop the necessary skills such as communication andteamwork. We promoted the importance of persistence through failure and regular criticalreflection. We helped prepare the students for success in their careers and personal lives so thatthey can make an Impact.AcknowledgmentsWe are grateful to all of the faculty, staff and outside guests who helped
students that they can use in all aspects of their careers. Onepartial measure of success is the ideation, or number of solutions that students can develop tosolve a given problem.This paper describes a study of ideation performed over the past four years. The college andhigh school students involved were evaluated before and after learning several techniques ofproblem solving, as well as many other activities and ideas. The results and analysis of theseevaluations are described in detail.Overview of CourseThe course “Inventive Problem Solving in Engineering” (EGN 4040) has been taught at FAU forthe past eight years. While most students who enroll are engineering majors, some studentsmajoring in the sciences, arts and humanities have participated
American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationResistance to the Alternative Design by Faculty and Students Both of us have spent most of our careers teaching undergraduate engineering students tocommunicate more effectively. We have also taught graduate students and practitioners andinteracted extensively with engineering faculty. In our attempts to get faculty, students, andprofessionals to think critically and adopt a more effective alternative design for slides, we haveencountered resistance that was both strong and surprising. Practical Reasons. For this strong resistance to using the alternative design, weprobably