and international students. Thus,the internship coordinator and faculty members have modified the format of the experience,adding in-house research projects sponsored by the faculty members along with external researchexperiences including National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU) or similar programs. In addition to REUs, some students are also findingemployment directly at the partnering colleges.For the assessment process, the program has utilized student and employer surveys in gainingfeedback for continuous improvement. Student surveys are based on the perception of studentson attaining the ABET student outcomes (a-k) while supervisor surveys are performance metricsand competency based. This paper will
Paper ID #15002Using and Evaluating Remote Labs in Transnational Online Courses for Me-chanical Engineering StudentsMr. Dominik May, TU Dortmund University Dominik May holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from TU Dortmund University (Germany). Cur- rently he is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Center for Higher Education at TU Dort- mund University in the area of engineering education research. In his position he is managing several research and development projects on engineering education and technical training. Furthermore he of- fers workshops on professional teaching and learning for engineering
Education (HE) Project was undertaken, involving 14 universities in the UnitedKingdom, in which the learning dimensions were shown to be valid for these HE populations23.These seven dimensions of learning were adapted as a theoretical framework for this pilot study.Qualitative codebooks24 for use with hypothesis coding of the data, a method most often usedwith content analysis25, were subsequently developed. Two qualitative codebooks were generated: the first an aggregated version with one tothree key phrases to describe each learning power as defined by Deakin Crick et al. (2004)6. Asecond, more comprehensive codebook was developed using the same seven categories butextensively defining each, as well as including a list of 3 – 12 behaviours
mentoring.Dr. Melissa Danforth, California State University, Bakersfield Dr. Melissa Danforth is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Computer and Electri- cal Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB). Dr. Danforth is the PI for a NSF Federal Cyber Service grant (NSF-DUE1241636) to create models for information assurance education and outreach. Dr. Danforth is the Project Director for a U.S. Department of Educa- tion grant (P031S100081) to create engineering pathways for students in the CSUB service area. She is also the co-PI for an NSF IUSE grant (NSF-DUE1430398) to improve STEM retention and graduation, the Activities Director for a U.S. Department of
unit, soil and irrigation water analysis laboratory, nursery,earthworm production unit, medicinal and aromatic plant garden, sheep and goat farm, fruitorchard mother block, shade-net, and hydroponic project. The college has departmentallaboratories that are renovated and furnished with state of the art equipment. The college isaccredited by the university through 2018-19 and offers a three-year diploma program, whichadmits 90 students after graduating from high schools. The admissions are based on students’performances in the high school graduation examination, which is a government managed state-wide examination. The main objectives of the diploma program are, 1) to develop competence amongst itsstudents for solving problems related to
select results from an NSF-funded project aiming to address some of thesegaps in the literature. This longitudinal study was conducted across four universities and focusedon the ethical development of undergraduate engineering students. Preliminary analysis ofinterviews from the first phase of this study identified a number of major themes in the data set,two of which are important to highlight here: 1) influences on students’ ethical perspectives (e.g.,academic curricular, extracurricular activities, family, etc.) and 2) learned outcomes, defined asinsights, learning, or realizations related to ethics, morality, and values. Deeper investigation ofthe relationship between specific influences and students’ insights related to ethics can provide
College at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. He is a registered professional engineer (PE), a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering. His areas of interest include mathematical modeling, project modeling and analysis, economic analysis, systems engineering, and efficiency/productivity analysis & improvement. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Lessons Learned: Program Structure for a Formalized New Faculty Orientation Alice Grimes Air Force Institute of
course from project / process management and one course from interpersonal skill development Elective courses allowing students to pursue broader interests Capstone project requiring student to demonstrate application of principles learned through the programSeveral options are available to satisfy the capstone requirement: it can be completed as a projectunder the guidance of a faculty member or industry partner, a paper developed under theguidance of a faculty, or as an internship in industry. Depending on which capstone option ischosen the MEng can be completed in one academic year of full-time study or one year plus anadditional semester.The College has offered the MEng degree in all the same disciplines as the traditional
Paper ID #27204Assessing the Data Analysis Training of Engineering UndergraduatesMrs. Eunhye Kim, Purdue University, West Lafayette Eunhye Kim is a Ph.D. student and research assistant in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research interests lie in engineering design education, especially for engineering stu- dents’ entrepreneurial mindsets and multidisciplinary teamwork skills in design and innovation projects. She earned a B.S. in Electronics Engineering and an M.B.A. in South Korea and worked as a hardware development engineer and an IT strategic planner in the industry.Nathan M. Hicks, Purdue
understand the content ofthe design project, they are able to address the boundary between being precise and being clear.For even an experienced technical writing teacher, who might have twenty different researchtopics in a class, the ability to comment on precision is challenging. Another advantage of our approach is the depth of the content. Assuming that a student ina typical technical writing course spends 3 hours outside of class for every hour in class onassignments and assuming that 2 of those hours are spent on the writing, the student would spendat most 15 hours researching the topic of the document sequence. However, because eachstudent in Effective Engineering Writing has one entire design course (with 2 hours of largelecture and 3
Paper ID #22361Voices of the Millennial Generation: Connections Between Physics, ScientificLiteracy and Attitudes towards Future Space ExplorationMs. Danielle Roslyn Montecalvo, American University Danielle Montecalvo is a May 2018 graduate from American University in Washington, D.C. with a B.A. in International Studies and Physics. She recently served as an intern on the Space Studies Board at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and for the Office of International and Interagency Relations at NASA Headquarters, where she worked on space policy initiatives and public outreach projects. In the
(2014) HRC (2014) harassment 30% 52% Seriously considered No workplace antidiscrimination leaving protection (US) Movement Advancement Project CAMPUS CLIMATE WORKPLACE CLIMATE 28Heteronormative Climate1. Heteronormative statements and assumptions2. Unwelcoming environment – discussions of equality, power, hostility are not considered appropriate3. Gendered conceptions mapped to orientation4. Passing and covering
student is calculated from a weighted average of his/her grades onhomework, pop quizzes, project (group), mid-term exam, and final exam. Five homework wereassigned throughout the semester, and each assignment typically consisted of 5 to 7 questionsthat are mostly chosen from the textbook (about 70%) and the rest (about 30%) are designed bythe instructor.2. Treatment group and Control GroupThe students were divided into two groups: the treatment group and control group. The treatmentgroup were provided with solutions before the homework deadline. The students in this groupwere required to correct their homework themselves by using a pen of a different color andcomplete the homework autopsy prepared by the instructor. The control group did homework
work.Red team reviews for new faculty, CAREER proposals, big proposals. (Can work really well ifyou can hire an outside consultant -- former program officer.) Mentoring Mid-Career Faculty Questions for Table Discussions1. What topics/issues are most important to focus on whenmentoring mid-career faculty?Three phases: write proposal and identify partner, proof of concept of project, full-blownproposal, Mid-careers include people who want to accelerate their career and want to moveforward. Target industrial partner.Promote tenured and associate professor and continue to succeed, be a single PI, researcherleader, training someone to be professional service leader, usually funded more than one agencyonce
toprovide engineering students with the basic skills needed to succeed in higher level courses andan early introduction to the engineering discipline [2], [3]. Institutions with FYE courses orprograms (i.e., multiple FYE courses in a sequence) create these courses in the way they best seefit to help their students succeed. However, this means that programs vary significantly in bothcontent [4] and in matriculation patterns [1]. These FYE courses are some of the earliestexposures that students have to their engineering disciplines; however, their impact on students’engineering identity and community development is not well understood.This project seeks to answer the question, “How do students who are pursuing engineeringdegrees through pathways that
for FEWS. Figure 1. Project objectives mapped to components of the Traineeship under the Stewardship framework.The key components of theTraineeship are: 1) Dissertation research on a FEWS issue for the generation of new knowledge; 2) A graduate certificate in Data-Driven Food, Energy and Water Decision Making, which consists of 3.5 credits of core courses and 9 credits of electives as described in Table 1 that represents conservation of knowledge; 3) A Graduate Learning Community [3] for transformation of knowledge that includes a two-year series of monthly workshops and weekly small-group activities designed to enhance the trainees’ interdisciplinary
learning to design teaching and learning, program content and structure, student assessment, and continuous course improvement techniques. She managed and was a key contributor to a two-year pilot project to introduce blended learning into the chemical engineering capstone design courses, and is the author of a number of recent journal, book, and conference contribu- tions on engineering education. Her research focusses on how to teach innovation and sustainable design practices to engineers and develop a curriculum reflective of engineering practice requirements. Recently she has taught a short course on how to design and teach process engineering courses to professors in Peru and workshops on Metacognition and
comments and responses on thewebsite, and often adapt substantial aspects of the course based on student feedback. In this way,students have a voice in shaping the class. Additionally, students vote on topics to cover for thelast few weeks of the semester; this community process allows them to further exercise controlover their own learning. Students also have agency over their learning at the end of the coursewhen they can complete an optional final project. The projects typically consist of writing apaper about a topic we did not cover in depth in the course, and can replace part of an examgrade. In addition to having agency over their learning, the final project option also providesopportunity for students to define what is interesting and
Expected Outcome Control Setting Academic Model Academic content Teacher-led Primarily a single Mixed model Product within Teacher – student Single or multiple constraints of collaboration classes, community academic requirements Entrepreneurship Model Product Student led School and CommunityTABLE II shows the features of entrepreneur-oriented education paradigm in comparisonwith other models [13]. POL distinguishes itself from project-based learning with thesefeatures: the
honored as a promising new engineering education researcher when she was selected as an ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Recruiting More U.S. Women into Engineering Based on Stories from MoroccoIntroductionThe objective of this project is to examine the differences between Moroccan and Americancultures with regards to prevalent messaging about engineering. This examination will help usdetermine the factors that contribute to women's decisions to pursue engineering degrees athigher rates in Morocco and similar non-western cultures. Due to a partnership between ouruniversity and the International
Paper ID #28845Small Teaching via Bloom’sDr. Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary Dr. Marjan Eggermont is a Teaching Professor and faculty member at the University of Calgary in the Mechanical and Manufacturing department of the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary. She co-founded and designs ZQ, an online journal to provide a platform to showcase the nexus of science and design using case studies, news, and articles. As an instructor, she was one of the recipients of The Allan Blizzard Award, a Canadian national teaching award for collaborative projects that improve student learning in 2004. In 2005
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center for Earth System Sciencesand Remote Sensing Technologies (CESSRST), the NSF REU program has attracted first-generation college students and underrepresented minority STEM students from the twenty-threecolleges within the City University of New York system. The students are trained through severalmini courses for the first three weeks out of a nine-week summer research program. The coursescover topics on MATLAB, Geographic Information System Mapping, Basic Statistics, andRemote Sensing, and they provide the necessary background for research projects related tosatellite and ground-based remote sensing of the hydrosphere, the lithosphere, the biosphere, theatmosphere, and the cryosphere
learners,the equipment vendor’s reactions are described. This project narrative suggests that when acompany designs a new product with auditory alerts, they should also add visual alert signals inorder to benefit a wider range of users. In addition to following Universal Design principles, it isfar more effective in terms of both cost and time to implement this in the original design insteadof needing to make aftermarket modifications.BackgroundIn American culture, deafness has typically been portrayed with a negative stigma; it is a medicalcondition of being unable to hear, an impairment, and a disability [1]. Engineering culture showssigns of this medicalized view of deafness. For instance, (hearing) engineering students mightwork on
skills students hoped to learn and/oraccomplish included programming, completing Calculus credits, mini-projects, working withother majors in projects, and coding. Social skills connected with academics included getting tomeet and connect with professors and mentors. Professional goals included visiting companiessuch as the New Balance Company, meeting environmental engineers, meeting inspiring peoplesuch as panel participants drawn from several local companies, and improving communicationskills. It is important to note that New Balance Company stood out, because this visit highlightedto students the varied nature of engineering careers that may be available to them. Finally,several responses emphasized social connections and getting used to
Education Annual Conference, Tampa, Florida, June 2019[3] E. Scott, R. Bates, R. Campbell and D. Wilson, “Contextualizing Professional Development in the Engineering Classroom”, Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Washington, DC, October 2010[4] J. Sharp, “Interview Skills Training in the Chemical Engineering Laboratory: Transporting a Pilot Project”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2008[5] J. Sharp, “Behavioral Interview Training in Engineering Classes”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, June 2012[6] E. Glynn and F. Falcone, “Professional Development for
Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. Among these are twointeractive demonstrations housed in an acrylic display case intended to facilitate theunderstanding of SMAs and their possible applications. The demonstrations have been designedto show SMA wire actuation displacement and force in an interactive, easy-to-use fashion.To further enhance undergraduate learning in the area of smart materials, the development ofthis interactive demonstration was assigned as a senior capstone design project allowing fourstudents in mechanical and electrical engineering to gain hands-on experience in designing anintelligent system.The Interactive SMA DemonstrationGeneral Description of the Interactive SMA DemonstrationFour undergraduate senior
. The students’ response to this teaching method wasoutstanding, and the score of the Students’ Opinion of Instructors’ Survey (SOIS) for this coursewas the highest at the university level.IntroductionComputer Aided Design has become an integral part of any construction project. Traditionalpaper blueprints are quickly becoming too primitive to meet the needs of the current buildingindustry. Architects now share CAD drawings to expedite the design development and reviewcycles in order to increase construction productivity. In addition, researchers suggest that usingCAD increases the students’ creativity and problem solving [3].Familiarity with the development and exchange of CAD drawings is now a necessary skill inmost engineering fields in
provided on the instructor’s resources compact disk (IRCD) for Callister’s textbook were shown and discussed. • Accessing the Internet to obtain freely-available materials information and simulation programs; e.g., MATTER project in UK (www.matter.org.uk). The web site contains information, property data, application notes, on-line experiments, and case studies on a number of industrially-significant aluminum and ferrous alloys. The students were asked to explore this website and subsequently take a quiz (also available on the same website) during one of the laboratory sessions. • Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing at Stanford University: How Everyday Things Are Made? (http
, England where he was also Director of Teaching and Learning for Engineering and later Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Currently, he is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University.Ilene Busch-Vishniac, McMaster University Ilene Busch-Vishniac is the Provost and Vice President (Academic) of McMaster University, the institution credited with the creation of problem-based learning. She has led a project to revamp the curriculum in mechanical engineering programs in order to attract and retain a more diverse community of students while maintaining or enhancing technical rigor. In addition, Dr. Busch-Vishniac is known for her work in acoustics
Program at Purdue University. In addition to his PhD in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology, Dr. Yadav also has Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Yadav has undertaken both quantitative and qualitative research projects and has a strong familiarity with both types of analyses. His research includes the use of case-based instruction in STEM disciplines.Gregory Shaver, Purdue University Greg Shaver is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. He is also a graduate of Purdue University's School of Mechanical Engineering, having obtained a Bachelor's degree with highest distinction. He holds a Masters