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year, faculty members elected to focusonly on Track A students.In the STEPS curriculum, engineering, physics, and mathematics faculty members haveconstructed a curriculum to help students more closely link concepts from the three subject areas.Engineering faculty members have also constructed functional requirements for engineeringdesign projects to help students build tighter connections among the three subjects and tofacilitate broad adoption of the curriculum. Based on the functional requirements projectsshould: ‚ Anchor concepts of physics and mathematics in an engineering task ‚ Relate to social and practical needs to help students connect course to career ‚ Relate to specific follow-on engineering classes ‚ Require
-choice type questions becauseacademically weak students can get lucky by picking the right answer and academically strongstudents can get the question wrong by being tripped up by the wording. Allowing students towrite a couple of sentences to defend their answer can mitigate both of these concerns. By Page 11.521.7keeping the responses short, such questions are not very difficult to grade and the extra timespent reading pays off in a more accurate assessment of the student. Questions of this sort aregood practice for engineers who, during their careers, are often faced with selecting the bestoption to address a problem.Multiple choice
attractive than ever to the academe. In order to be successful, today’s collegestudents are computer literate and prefer to integrate their studies with work and family toachieve their career goals. Because technology has been socially embedded in their life, they aremore receptive to emerging technologies connected to both their personal and academic life.Many higher education institutions –– both public and private –– are aggressively pursuingoutreach to students without regard to geographical boundaries. These efforts are makingavailable degree and non-degree program offerings using electronic media. The institutions useinstructional delivery methods that do not require the student to be physically located at the samesite as the instructor
. However, engineering students require a more mathematically rigorouspresentation. This paper presents a method for teaching the topic of infinity in freshman levelmathematics course on discrete mathematics for engineering students, based on the ideas ofbijection and equivalency within the topic of set theory. We also present some ideas of how theconcept of infinity can be targeted in the K-12 environment.I. IntroductionAs part of long-standing efforts to enhance engineering education, the ASEE surveyed prevailingtrends in K-12 education1. Aiming to determine teachers' attitudes towards engineering as anintellectual and career challenge for their students, the ASEE study reveals an interestingparadox. It discovers that an overwhelming majority of
design phase and prototyping. With respect tocommunication instruction, teams write an update memo and present an oral project update aboutonce a month. Further, they learn the importance of critical listening, evaluation, and feedback,as they are required to provide oral and written feedback to other teams upon completion of theirpresentations. Finally, the third course in the senior design sequence consists of the construction,testing and optimization of the proposed design. Students continue to write update memos andalso prepare a poster presentation and final report.In sum, Mechanical Engineering students work in teams, speak, and write throughout theirundergraduate career as they complete design, manufacturing, and lab assignments. With the
: A Case StudyThe context of this case study is the development of a technology-focused, transdisciplinaryprogram at a large research-intensive Midwestern university. This program is part of a largerinitiative supported by the university to experiment with new educational approaches. The visionfor this initiative was to prepare students to succeed across their future career—which mayinclude jobs that do not exist today. A group of interested faculty fellows were charged withinvestigating new educational approaches that met the values of: (a) viewing the student as awhole person; (b) welcoming diversity and access for all; (c) student autonomy; (d) risk-takingas an important component to learning; and (e) openness fostered through sharing
). It requires complexthinking, analysis (Katehi, Perason, Feder, & Committee on K-12 Engineering Education, 2009)and engineering mindsets (Katehi et al., 2009; Radaideh, Khalaf, Balawi, & Hitt, 2013) that aredifficult to teach directly. In higher education, engineering design skills are developed throughin-depth design courses taught separately from the bulk of engineering sciences courses. Thisbifurcation has been blamed for students and graduates who don’t see connections betweencontent math and science courses and engineering practice and careers (Froyd & Ohland, 2005).As higher education continues to struggle with bifurcation the Next Generation ScienceStandards (NGSS) (NGSS Lead States, 2013) encouraged engineering design
global and from interdisciplinaryteam? What behaviors and milestones are critical for new team members to develop mutual trustwith other team members?In graduate level engineering settings, this type of research could be helpful in three practicalrespects. First, today’s graduate students are tomorrow’s experts working to lead global andinterdisciplinary teams in industry and in academia. By illuminating mechanisms by whichcollaborative competencies such as trust are developed and the impact they have on collaborationsuccess over time, there is a potential for graduate students to be able to be more immediatelyproductive in their future careers. Second, determining the role of trust in research groupcollaborations could “jump start” the
. Previously, Dr. Traum was an assistant professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), one of the top-ten undergraduate-serving engineering universities in the U.S. Dr. Traum coordinated MSOE’s first crowd-funded senior design project. He also co-founded with students EASENET, a start- up renewable energy company to commercialize waste-to-energy biomass processors. Dr. Traum began his academic career as a founding faculty member in the Mechanical & Energy Engineer- ing Department at the University of North Texas - Denton where he established a successful, externally- funded researcher incubator that trained undergraduates to perform experimental research and encouraged matriculation to graduate school
withoutwell-defined requirements might struggle meeting such course expectations. While both project-styles potentially result in good projects, equitably assessing both within the same course canprove quite challenging.While most students tend to respond favorably to their design experiences, it should berecognized that this major design experience does, in fact, introduce a certain level of stressbeyond that typically associated with other courses. The size and complexity of projects pursuedin most senior design programs are often the most complex project students have experienced atthis point in their academic careers. Additionally, many students are stressed when required toformally communicate [5], yet such communication is a common component to
could continue to build upon these tools through our electronics careers. The challenges for me were interpreting the labs especially when a couple of them had unclear objectives of what we were meant to accomplish. There were also errors in the labs which suggest that they had not been tested. In our first lab the wires in the photos were in the incorrect positions of the board, yet if this lab had been constructed and tested… shouldn’t it have easily been identified that the wires were wrong before the photos were taken because the LEDs would have failed to light.”Table 6. Student feedback for 2016 Winter Quarterground (traditional face-to-face) class for
Virginia. Her research interests include engineering design education (especially in regards to the design of complex systems), student preparation for post-graduation careers, approaches for supporting education research-to-practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Preparing Students for a Collaborative Engineering Design Work Environment: A Study of Practicing EngineersAbstractRecent studies within design and engineering education have focused on better preparingengineering graduates to function within an industry design environment. Increased emphasis inthis area is motivated by a growing concern that graduates are entering industry with littleexperience engaging
Anne College (later Universityof Maryland Eastern Shore). As with most of the segregation schemes of the era, Princess Annewas poorly funded, never fully staffed with qualified personnel, and never had proper investmentin infrastructure. Parallel to the public education enterprise, the inequality of the system waspropagated by racist and intransigent stakeholders and justified through various legal loopholesand racist cultural assumptions.One particular aspect of inequality between the two systems was access to professional trainingin specific career paths. In the 1930s, this was brought to the fore by a legal challenge to theUMD law school in Baltimore. The result of this legal challenge was a new separate-but-(more)-equal law school at
another career; Interest is the enjoyment (or lack of) experienced in doingengineering activities; and Utility is the perceived usefulness (or lack of) of becoming anengineer and/or earning an engineering degree (Matusovich et al., 2010). The authors conductedlongitudinal semi-structured interviews of 11 participants (5 men and 6 women) during their fouryears of undergraduate engineering education. They found that all four Eccles’ value categoriesare present; that attainment value plays a prominent role, but not an exclusive role, inparticipant’s choice to earn an engineering degree; and that the four categories are not mutuallyexclusive. In summary, the researchers found that participants can be categorized with high orlow engineering-related
group presented their though on the activity. The activity also did a great job in teaching real-world situations. Interesting and provided needed perspectives It made me feel like I am in the industry. Also it opens my mind to imagine my future career. It was a good intro into real life application. This activity showed how little hiccups can turn into big problems. This was good instruction into the relationship between developers and customers after deployment. Great activity that made me look at different situations from real life
factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Di- vision Apprentice Faculty Grant. She has also been recognized for the synergy of research and teaching as an invited participant of the 2016 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Ed- ucation Symposium and 2016 New Faculty
expectation of the team for the cornerstone design project is to provide a technicalpresentation. Each team is responsible for preparing a ten minute presentation over their actionsfor the semester. The target is for students to present their decision making strategies, and howthose decisions impacted overall performance. The presentation is a great opportunity to discussfuture improvements or changes the team wishes they could have made, all the while presentingtheir successes for the semester.From an educational standpoint, the technical presentation simulates a task that is common toreal world engineering careers. Finding success in a technical field is dependent on the engineerclearly presenting his/her work to others. The technical presentation
the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). http://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/wendell/Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach Chelsea Andrews is a Ph.D. candidate at Tufts University in STEM education. She received a B.S. from Texas A&M University in ocean engineering and an S.M. from MIT in civil and environmental engi- neering. Her current research includes investigating children’s engagement in engineering design through in-depth case study analysis. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Elementary student engagement with digital engineering notebook cards
the experience and expertise ofthe team members.Best Practices: Design in the ClassroomWhen engineering and design students graduate and leave the classroom, they will likely go out into theworld as professional problem solvers in their chosen disciple, where they will be confronted with open-ended, ambiguous, and downright messy challenges, thus experiential learning will be a key aspect toprepare them for their professional careers.16 In the classroom, students in all disciplines under theumbrellas of design and engineering will at some point complete ‘design projects’ as part of theircurriculum. It is the responsibility of the educator to expose students to exploratory projects that mimicreal-world design scenarios. The IDEO Field Guide To
’ race, gender,and major on their notecards, we would like to ask for their year in school. This would allow usto explore how students openness to diversity and cultural change efforts fluctuate from the timestudents begin their college career through graduation. For the group responses, we did not askstudents to record the gender, race, or major make-up of their small group. Going forward, wewould like to capture this information in order to see how the diversity of the small groupsimpacts the discussion. This would enable us to explore questions such as: Are white malesmore receptive to the case study when they are in a group with multiple women or people ofcolor? How do the experiences of women and people of color change when they are the
Education at Purdue University. He is a CAPES grantee and also professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Technology at the Instituto Federal de Educac¸a˜ o, Ciˆencia e Tecnologia da Bahia. He is a mechanical engineer and holds a Bachelor’s degree in law and a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering. He has been teaching at different levels, from the first year of technical high school to the final year of mechatronic engineering course, since 1995. He also has considerable experience in the design and implementation of mechatronic and production engineering courses. His non-academic career is centered on product development and manufacturing processes.Dr. Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University
withincredible speed.”71 One day, our students will complete their degrees, embark on careers, andfunction as designers of technological artifacts that will affect the rest of us. In many cases, thepredominant concern will be to develop an item that has a functional purpose: someone uses itfor a specific reason.But they may not understand that the design process also involves ethics, that technology notonly enhances our lives but directs our behavior, that technology reflects not only function butvalues as well. Quantification is just one part of the design process; ethics completes it.Recognizing the ethics inherent in technology helps that “tiny group of engineers” design for thegood of human experience, creating objects that reflect positive values
.14Integration of robotics for teaching science and math under the TPACK framework has thepotential to advance the technological components, yield rich pedagogical strategies, render noveland effective representations of disciplinary content, and thus produce a novel instantiation of theTPACK methodology.Application of robotics in middle school STEM education is appropriate because, in middle school,children begin to make decisions about courses that are of importance for their future careers, andyoung women and minorities begin to lose interest in STEM studies.15-19 Thus, it is critical thatmiddle school teachers effectively engage their students in STEM disciplines. With the recentproliferation of robotics in K-12 environment, implications of robotics
thermodynamic and hydrologic properties of pavements. She is interested in a career in civil engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Extending the 2015 Capstone Design Survey: Data from Australia and New ZealandAbstractCapstone design courses are common in engineering design programs, but they varysubstantially across institution and department. The goal of the decennial capstone design surveyinitiative has been to capture data from capstone design courses every ten years to identifycurrent practices and changes over time. The 1994, 2005, and 2015 surveys have focused almostexclusively on capstone programs within the United States. This paper documents an initialextension of the 2015 survey to
shown in the perception of makingand engineering, as participants in the making community were also found to relate their work tothe work engineers perform and found both fields to be admirable. This correlation may suggestthat there could be a smooth transfer of interest and a higher likelihood for students involved inmaking to self-identify as engineers, thereby building their tenacity in continuing to study theSTEM fields in their future educational and career endeavors.3. MethodsWe conducted a multisite case study which explored two underrepresented populations ofstudents and their engagement with 3D printing, a common digital fabrication tool that is widelypopular with the maker movement. We provided students at each site with access to 3D
Alabama. Dr. Burian’s professional career spans more than 20 years during which he has worked as a de- sign engineer, as a Visiting Professor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a Professor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as the Chief Water Consultant of an international engineer- ing and sustainability consulting firm he co-founded. He served as the first co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development at the University of Utah where he created pan-campus degree programs and stimulated infusion of sustainability principles and practices in teaching and learning activities across campus. Dr. Burian currently is the Project Director of the USAID-funded U.S.-Pakistan Center for