course tools page is accessed through the homepage and takes users to a page containing“tools” including links to journal entries, course evaluations, team evaluations, the grade book,calendar, chat room, the discussion boards, the Purdue Visualization Test (first IE course) andthe MATLAB assignment drop box (second IE course). The grade book is the most accessedsite on WebCT. Instructors and GTAs can access and enter all student grades and students canview their individual records. The “Course Sorcerer” icon takes students to an OSU surveyingtool where they answer journal questions about the course, instructional team, and future plans;can question the instructional team about lectures, labs and policies; and can complete the finalcourse
; attended “Ethics Summer Camp” for three years at the University of Montana;joined an ethics professional organization; and attended and spoke at ethics conferences fornearly 20 years. While this activity is not the equivalent to an academic degree in philosophy, itdoes impart significant knowledge and a sense of confidence for teaching ethics.How to squeeze ethics into an already full ET curriculum is another important consideration, onethat requires planning and creativity to ensure that students achieve both technical and ethicslearning goals and meet ABET criterion 5E [13]. Shorter and less complicated cases obviouslyrequire less class time than larger cases, and both have advantages. Macroethical cases, thoseassociated with the profession or
instructionalguidance on preparing for an oral exam for both examiners and examinees, need to be consideredand carefully planned. Our StudyThe full project aims at developing oral exams that maximize their formative benefits to ourstudents and addresses the design challenges associated with their scalability and adoption forhigh-enrollment classes. In this paper, we focus on understanding the full picture of oral exams:connecting students’ psychological and learning experiences with their academic performancesacross several courses. We specifically aim at addressing three components of oral exams. First,we examine the overall psychological experience on the student’s end in preparing for, during,and after the oral exam. Specifically, we asked students
)?” Group average All students (N = 189) 0.17 Students who are planning to take -0.02 the oral assessment (N = 36) Students who are not planning to 0.14 take the oral assessment (N = 15) Figure 7. Initial student comfort level reaching out the instructional team (from the pre
collection for this study were: interviews, background information, and memos written directly after the interview. The findings reported in this paper are part of a larger study interested in understanding engineering students' math experiences during COVID and a holistic view of their choice of major. he screening questionnaire asked students to report their current math class, planned major,Tintended major when they started college, demographic information, and questions about their high school years. The participants self-described their gender and racial/ethnic identity, so the descriptors used in the table are the participants' words. Six people were included in this study; their information with pseudonyms can be found
African American (Student Demographics | Institutional Research & Planning, n.d.).Student 11 commented earlier in this paper that she was the only African-American student inmany classes. Yet, these experiences are not limited within the classroom but were alsoexperienced on campus as described by Student 6: We've experienced that as black people at XYZ University in general. Those microaggressions of something as simple…well I guess it's not simple…assuming our major and assuming that we're not engineers at a predominantly engineering school. Or even that we don't even go here when we're on campus. It's kind of like, ‘Oh are you visiting? Are you someone else's friend? Are you from [another university in the
doing the work assigned to him,”which may have stifled Charles’ own personal plan for his contributions to the project. Overall,Thomas’ (and the instructor’s) perception of the two ISTP team members’ personalities asunmotivated led to Thomas employing controlling leadership methods that exhausted him andalienated the rest of his team. Theme Summary. As a preface to the discussion, a brief summary of the success andteam dynamics of each team is provided in Table 5. Page 24.909.15 Table 5. Success and team dynamics theme summaries by team. MBTI Type Females Final Team Team SuccessTeam
results, rather it highlights the tools needed to reach them; 3)revision and assessment plans. The evaluation process can include self, peer, student tofaculty, and faculty to student assessments to ensure that the learning objectives are met; 4)promoting participation and involvement through proper social organization of the studentsgroups, faculty, and public community. The students’ groups and forums should bestructured to promote participation. The participation should provide structure for thenecessary roles and interaction needed for project completion, which may include mentoringroles of faculty, mentoring and/or advising from industry professionals and even studentsgroups.Ayas and Zeniuk [7] suggested two additional elements for PBL model
understanding andspecification of the user and task requirements, and (3) iteration of design solutions. Theseprinciples are critical in completing the processes and achieving the standards defined in ISO13407 (a standard on HCD)19. The process for performing HCD, as defined in this ISO, includesthe following steps: (1) Planning – Successful HCD brings together the stakeholders of the project to determine how HCD can contribute to the overall goals of the project and how it will be integrated into the overall design process. (2) Understanding and Specifying the Context of Use – This stage includes identifying the stakeholders and the context: What are the required objectives and tasks associated with the design? To
University, West Lafayette Joyce B. Main is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Page 24.1200.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 The Distribution of Family Friendly Benefits Policies across Higher Education Institutions: A Cluster AnalysisAbstractAlthough the underrepresentation of women in science and engineering tenure
forpurchase approval.Figure 3. Example of unacceptable, marginal and acceptable justifications for project team purchasingrequestsThe IPPD classroom lab space is an open floor plan that has surveillance video. The classroomand lab rules remind the students that this is a place of work, a shared facility, with many teamsworking at the same time. Below is an example of how the student will learn how to be more Page 24.1240.12business minded in the classroom and in their future workplace. [Case Study 9] One of your teammates constantly talks about non-‐IPPD related topics (relationships, sports, gossip, etc.) when your team
an intention “to offer players a chance to immerse themselves in a fantasy RPG [role-playing video game] that has a compelling plot while experiencing the classical game-play system that has endeared itself to the hearts of thousands of gamers in their childhood.” The hardware items needed to properly run the proposed game, such as specific memory requirements, graphics, and sound cards, are also presented here. • Project Description: Narrative of project design, flowchart (CS1); review of relevant literature, pseudocode (CS0); concept map and storyboards (EG1). A step-by-step plan of how students plan to implement their game in Alice is the main component of this section. This includes
had no effect 8% It was really helpful that I could go back to it later 56% It helped me understand things better 63%A majority of the students indicated that having prerecorded lectures would be helpful in more oftheir classes but it was interesting to note that 23% thought it was good for the current class(Dynamics) but not for other courses. In subsequent work, the authors plan to investigate thereason for this. Question 3 - Overall, how did you feel having the added resource of online lecture videos affected your performance in the class
at least one D, F or W – all have a tendency to delay graduation, though the effect is much more pronounced for men than for women.Future work includes looking at additional behaviors of interest: students involved in the Greek system or other similar organizations on campus that take a lot of time outside of class, the influence of co-op semesters and internships, the influence of undergraduate research, living in on-campus housing or not, changing majors and/or Colleges.We also plan to look at ethnicity and race, and whether URMs also exhibit the same behavior aswomen and white men (we suspect that is not the case). We also plan to conduct interviews, bothone-on-one and in focus groups, to better uncover the rationales
students on both current work and future plans. These Page 23.1058.12connections not only provided female stayers with professionals to turn to for information andsupport, but also connections they could tap in the future when seeking employment. In other words, these experiences helped them develop the kind of social capital that could be particularlyhelpful in their future engineering pursuits.2 In fact, some stayers reported that they had alreadysecured a job (i.e. post-graduation or additional internship or co-op) as a result of their
audience in the service course. Sincere and detailed answers toopen-ended questions are similar in depth and value to what can be collected (at a muchhigher cost) in focus groups. The frequency of surveys and prompt availability of theirresults render this feedback formative: some of the necessary changes can be readilyimplemented during the semester.An additional value of the student feedback involves continuity of the learners’experience: at the end of every semester we ask students enrolled in the course to provideadvice to the students who plan to take this course in the future, and we convey their(wisest) advice to new students as part of the course syllabus.In order to provide incentives to students and collect feedback representative of the
transnational engineering programs and partnerships that do exist have oftenbeen fruitful. For instance, the Nanyang-Singapore-MIT Alliance, which was created in 1998by the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, and the Page 23.1209.3Massachusetts Institute of Technology has collaborated successfully to promote research andcollaborations in science and engineering education35. It has created five graduate degreeprograms focused on research in global engineering and is now one of the largest interactivetransnational education initiatives in the world with plans to expand its programs andinternational outreach in the coming
components, like units and dimensional analysis, tying mathematics andengineering together. The course added more of an engineering appeal to the traditionalmultivariable calculus and differential equations material with the use of engineering-basedhomework problems, test questions, and projects. The projects typically tackle problems inmechanics, electrical systems, population dynamics, optimizations, etc. designed to address themajor focal areas of the course. This paper includes projects that tackle first-order ordinarydifferential equations (ODEs), second order ODEs, and multivariable calculus.IntroductionWith a year of planning between the School of Engineering and the Mathematics Department, anew four-hour course was developed to incorporate
understanding the pressing issues including legislative opportunities (new CSEdcoordinators, call for state CSEd plans, or funding allocated for CSEd).The sessions during the Initial framing phase on subjectivity and bias and, relatedly, on engagingothers with the data story are important in enabling the teams to understand in advance a) howthey want to own their state BPC story and b) how others in the BPC arena make choices abouthow they present data in ways that may be counterproductive to the ECEP team’s BPC advocacywork. These sessions are both cautionary and empowering for the teams.Understanding the data ecosystemWithin the first 6 months of the first CMP cohort the research team designed a process thatallows for a clear understanding of where
dedicate a full class to the issue.This dedication showed great support for our project, but it limited any interventions to 2 hoursin length. The intervention team would need to focus on activities that could be accomplished in2 hours, but that might still have a meaningful effect on this critical issue. This focus set theparameters of our malleability assessment.3.5 Interventional Study DesignAfter discerning the need and scope for intervention through our initial research methods, theeducational intervention was planned with the following guidelines: 1. The intervention should target the first-year engineering classroom to ensure a similar rhetorical infrastructure to the previous research. 2. The intervention should focus on
from a larger research study at the sameFinnish University, which investigates students’ conceptualizations of and experiences ininterdisciplinary education. Specifically, the dataset consists of seven semi-structured interviewsconducted with graduate students during their first year. These interviews form part of alongitudinal study, with follow-up interviews planned to track changes in students’conceptualizations, experiences, and learning gains over time.The semi-structured nature of the interviews was designed to provide ample opportunity forstudents to share their prior experiences, expectations of their interdisciplinary studies, and theircurrent experiences in the program. The questions during the interviews were intentionally broadand
describe the contact between students and faculty in the following way, “Frequent student-faculty contact in and out of classes is the most important factor in student motivation and involvement. Faculty concern helps students get through rough times and keep on working. Knowing a few faculty members well enhances students’ intellectual commitment and encourages them to think about their own values and future plans” [32].The sending of emails by faculty to students, which is the focus of this paper, supports the firstand sixth items in the list of Chickering and Gamson, namely “ ‘contact between students andfaculty’ and ‘communicates high expectations’ ” [32].ApproachThe published Signals and Systems course
manufacturing cell integrated with collaborative robotand 3-axis cnc machine.Students in the Engineering Technology programs are required to complete a yearlong three seriesof capstone course MET 42X Senior Design Project. This three-quarter course sequence aims totrain the students in identifying projects of relevance to society, in planning and scheduling asolution, and in entrepreneurial activities that may result from the project. The course is worth threecredit hours per quarter offering. The course is also intended to cover an industrial project startingfrom the proposal writing and conceptual design to final prototype building and concept realizationsteps. The course is focused on proposal and project progress report writing, prototype
recognize ourwork will not be complete before making our initial recommendations to the director and studentworkers in the makerspace, we feel the right time to engage in inclusive community building andnorm setting is when a makerspace is first opening. Thus, our initial findings and early-stagerecommendations will be shared midway through this study. In year two, we plan to conductfollow up interviews to track the results of our suggested interventions on the makerspace’sculture in terms of inclusion and exclusion. We imagine the second round of interviews may alsoreveal new areas of importance that we may have missed in our initial round of interviewcollection. Further literature grounding will also occur in year two.To better understand how to
development of courses that enroll students in engineering anddesign for an interdisciplinary exploration of a specific engineering topic (e.g., compositesdesign in [10] to development of workshops oriented towards PhD students to help them thinkmore creatively about their dissertation topics [10] to development of concentration areas withmultiple courses to facilitate the interaction of engineering and arts students and enableaesthetically informed technological innovations [11].To support the development of creative thinking skills of engineering students in HerbertWertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida, a series of workshops led bypracticing artists were planned. The fundamental art pedagogy centers around four
, we will discuss how PNP was implemented in our introduction of electricity andelectronics class. Samples of the course plan and activities will be discussed. Class observationswere conducted to assess students engagement in our class during the Fall 2023 semester. Thesetup and results of those observations will be presented in the next sections.I. Selecting the fixed core structureThe fixed core structure in our PNP implementation was a guided hands-on activity for each classsession. To accommodate varied learning paces and ensure all students could complete thecontent, we assigned two class periods (equivalent to 4 hours) for each in-class activity. The 6activities were named teamworks
schedules, andlecture materials. This included a daily “Foundation” of the 5 lean principles ensure the benefitsof repetitive practice, yet in different formats to ensure student engagement. 1.4.1.4 Pull. With respect to pull, LEI states that customers should be able to “pull” thenext product when desired rather than it being “pushed” on them from inventory stockpiles [28].While we did not directly allow a large class of students to work self-paced, we migrated ourmaterials to modular mini-lecture of 25 minutes so that topics were easily moved based onexternal variability, such as mid-western winter storms. Furthermore, we plan to further shorteneach to ten minutes to enable a YouTube channel. 1.4.1.5 Perfection. Finally, LEI states
-generatedcontent within the context of engineering management education, emphasizing the criticalimportance of upholding academic integrity. It explores the far-reaching impact of AI on theeducation sector, highlighting the emergence of AI detection tools that resemble plagiarismdetection tools aimed at evaluating the authenticity of student-submitted work. This studyexamines the efficacy of several leading AI detection tools, offering insights into their accuracyand dependability. Engineering management, with its diverse subfields encompassing leadership,organizational management, strategic planning, financial resource management, projectmanagement, and legal considerations, faces opportunities and challenges in integrating AI-generated material into
Paper ID #43174Opening the Doors for International Students: Are We Ready?Dr. Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University Sushil Acharya, D.Eng. (Asian Institute of Technology) is a Vice President for Research, Grants and Global Initiative. A Professor of Software Engineering, Dr. Acharya joined Robert Morris University in Spring 2005 after serving 15 years in the Software Industry. His teaching involvement and research interests are in the area of Software Engineering education, Software Verification & Validation, Software Security, Data Mining, Neural Networks, and Enterprise Resource Planning. He also has interest in