. Reasons for attending included the need for motivation and addressingstruggles they were facing in their programs. These reasons point to challenges students facetransitioning to graduate school (e.g. balancing act). Students were reassured after attending thisworkshop that they possessed or could enhance the skills needed to persist and achieve successin graduate school.For the second PEGS21 cohort (entering Fall 2017), we applied first cohort feedback byencouraging the students to attend GradPathways workshops in pairs or groups as a means tofurther build community within the group. Time during seminar was also dedicated to eachparticipant sharing the two workshops they planned to attend. A list of these workshops andplanned attendees was
students’ knowledge competence in the subject matter and the ECSETresults demonstrated the good potential of using the module in increase students’ self-efficacy.In this study, the outcomes from three different universities are presented. Comparing the resultsacross these universities is ongoing, which will provide insights on the contributing factors thatcause the variation in the effectiveness of the module. Implementing the mobile learning modulein a graduate level course is also under planning to further evaluate the adaptability of themodule to different level of courses. The authors have made a commitment to share thedeveloped mobile learning module to the general public, free of charge. For interested parties,please visit https
research interests are in improving active learning environments, authentic assessment, and the development of classroom pedagogy to improve professional skills in engi- neering students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Examining the Impacts of Academic and Community Enrichment Resources on First-Year Civil Engineering StudentsIntroductionThe Citadel School of Engineering conducted a critical internal review as part of strategicplanning in 2011, which pointed to limited retention efforts for students that are many times illprepared for college, especially engineering. Following the 2011 strategic planning efforts was aperiod of
the attention to the entire class todiscuss the problem collectively. Such a plan is that of one of the authors going forward. It isbelieved that the first part, in which each student attempts the problem not only via equations,but more importantly through written elaboration, is vital and that the instructor emphasize that astudent’s thought process is what will be given most weight in grading. Typically, there is greatdisparity in student preparation and ability upon arrival in EELE 201, and allowing each studenttime to digest and attempt the problem on his/her own is justified. There is evidence thatcooperative learning combined with metacognitve training is effective in promotingmathematical reasoning and metacognitive knowledge [23] and
stakeholder interaction (defined before the course). Incorporatingstakeholder interaction into curricular goals might be necessary, as a prior study showed thatwhile design teams might develop ambitious plans for stakeholder interaction, they are likely todrastically reduce the level of stakeholder interaction they conduct during the design course24.Additionally, we have identified several project traits (Table 4) that may facilitate increasing thelevel of stakeholder interaction during design. This demonstrates the importance of projectselection when developing design courses that seek to emphasize specific design processes (suchas human-centered design). The project traits identified here could form the basis for additionalresearch in the area of
least, I can understand what is happening the next time I havea window seat on an airplane.”Student 45 – “Although I barely skimmed the surface of the intricate world of mold design, I feelconfident that my research will be beneficial if I enter the steel industry as planned post-graduation in May. Being able to compare the sand casting process to concepts discussed in thecourse has definitely helped me grasp concepts better and understand the importance of flowcontrol.”Student 46 – “Not only that but I think a research project like this was good because it made meapply knowledge I've gained from a lot of the classes I've taken in my previous three years…”Student 49 – “From a big picture point of view, this project was certainly beneficial. I
example the poster produced for the ET Undergraduate Research Conference was subsequently used in a UIC open house for industry.This project also provided much valuable insight about how the ET Program and the UIC maywork better on capstone project collaborations in the future. Much of this insight is applicable toa wide range of student projects involving collaboration with industry and research centers.Common to projects where two or more students work together, there is often a challengeinvolved in regard to equitably distributing the project tasks among students, ensuring that eachteam member is engaged, and in assessing the contribution that each student made to the aproject. In future collaborations it is planned to distribute project
. also by the administration in their campus infrastructure plan Facing decreasing enrollments in some foreign languages, if the engineering program were to grow.many liberal arts universities are reducing the number of Participating institutions often have different academiclanguages offered and variety of courses in remaining calendars, with their own start dates, exam periods, andlanguages. The TLC was started to provide additional breaks. Learning consortium class schedules are generally a Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference The University of Texas at Austin April 4
, handling stress, etc. Service and Civic Responsibility: Engineering is a service profession. Engineers are charged to use their talents and gifts to solve problems that impact others. The performance and practice of engineering is an act of service. Understanding of Engineering Ethics: Engineers are expected to exhibit the highest standards of honesty and integrity. Engineers are to hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public. Those whom engineers serve deserve nothing less. As one example, the competencies are also used in the required first-year seminar course, wherestudents create action plans and write goals to
, Synopsys, and Cadence), which areused in almost all U.S. universities. Note that the VHDL library is platform independent and istherefore already compatible with Synopsys.5.2 Future WorkThe authors are planning to expand upon this work through the following:1) Develop new educational modules focusing on additional asynchronous circuit topics, such that asynchronous circuit concepts can be incorporated into a larger variety of Computer Engineering courses.2) Develop semi-static VHDL, transistor-level, and physical-level libraries of fundamental Page 12.911.11 asynchronous components, such that students can easily compare asynchronous circuits
concept of managing their time in a diligent manner oncethey have been given access to the facilities to work on their laboratory assignments in a muchless time-constrained fashion. Despite definite statements that indicate that the laboratoryassignments are analogous to conventional homework assignments, it usually takes one or twoweeks to realize that the assigned activities can not be accomplished within the confines of theassigned laboratory sessions. The students come to realize that additional time is necessary, notonly to execute the laboratory assignments, but just as importantly, to plan how they will beaccomplished, put together a well considered design of software, in the case of themicrocomputer course, or hardware, in the case of the
, Boston, Mass.10 Ulrich, K. and S. Eppinger, 2004, Product Design and Development, 3rd Ed., McGraw-Hill, New York.11 Cagan, J. and C. M. Vogel, 2002, Creating Breakthrough Products: Innovation from Product Planning to Program Approval, Prentice Hall, NJ.12 Green, M. G., 2005, "Enabling Design in Frontier Contexts: A Contextual Needs Assessment Method with Humanitarian Applications," PhD Dissertation, Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin.13 Davis, D., S. Beyerlein, O. Harrison, P. Thompson, M. Trevisan, and B. Mount, “A Review of Literature on Assessment Practices In Capstone Engineering Design Courses: Implications for Formative Assessment,” Proceedings of the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual
’ selections,more or less data manipulation was required, but their eventual goal was to estimate the signal tonoise ratio by taking the standard deviation of the primarily DC signal. Periodic perturbationssuch as sound waves increased the standard deviation of the received signal by up to 20%. Thestudents measured this increase and were asked to generate a plot of frequency vs. standarddeviation.5 – Developing Non-interactive Course ContentThe process of developing 18 hours of video across the six experimental setups became mucheasier over the course of production. However, the initial setup and planning dictating preciselyhow taping would be done proved to be a very iterative process. Despite being a fairly trivialconcern, lighting proved to be an
grantsand the P-12 Research Seminar Series), graduate research assistants, undergraduate researchassistants, and faculty scholars.The second, education/learning, includes the two week-long INSPIRE Summer Academieshosted at the university (one for local teachers, one for national teachers), academic year teacherprofessional development opportunities, and the Bechtel Fellows Program. The Bechtel FellowsProgram allows highly qualified teachers to work with the INSPIRE team during the summer.These teachers arrive prior to the summer academies and helped with the planning, curriculumdevelopment and refinement, and implementation of the summer academies.The final method by which INSPIRE hopes to achieve their goals is by engagement/outreach.This is done
andacts as visual map to reinforce the connection of the course topics to one another. The Ganttchart also is an introduction to how to manage a project by planning tasks that need to becompleted in serial and what tasks can be done in parallel to have a distributed workload over thetime period while finishing the project on time.Tasks #1 and #2 are done as individual technical reports. Students do not necessarily come tothe course knowing any of the students in the class. Thus, the first two weeks is a time for thestudents to begin to meet others during the two-hour lab sessions and to force each student to beinvolved in all aspects of writing a technical memo report. Any weaknesses in technical reportwriting and formatting in MS Word are to be
retentionof chemistry concepts, there are no specific follow-up courses where biological concepts can beassessed.Bibliography1) Collura, M., S. Daniels, J. Nocito-Gobel and B. Aliane, Development of a Multidisciplinary Engineering Foundation Spiral, ASEE 2004 Annual Conference, Curricular Change Issues, Session 26302) Collura, M.A., A Multidisciplinary, Spiral Curricular Foundation for Engineering Programs, NSF Department- Level Reform Planning Grant, EEC-0343077, $99,928, August 14, 20033) New Biology for Engineers and Computer Scientists, A. Tozeren and S. Byers, Prentice-Hall, 20044) Essentials of General Chemistry, by D.D. Ebbing, S.D. Gammon and R.O. Ragsdale, Houghton Mifflin Co., NY, NY, 20035) Saliby, M.J., P.J. Desio
students learn to adopt a systems engineering mentality thatemphasizes sound engineering trade studies, rigorous requirements traceability, and meticulousinterface control. They also learn to plan project schedules and budgets with contingencies,handle team personnel conflicts, and manage setbacks such as unanticipated requirementschanges, procurement delays, or failed ground testing.When candidates become comfortable with the responsibilities of leading a small team, they aregiven lead status by Excom when such positions open, and they begin mentoring their own teammembers. Thus, S3FL’s “see one, do one, teach one” paradigm is fulfilled, as a student is able toobserve and learn from the actions of a lead, then take on a leadership role, and in
project was already laid out, we could concentrate on the work that was necessary to complete a capstone project. The concepts of abstracts, annotated bibliographies, proposals, PowerPoint, and poster boards could all be illustrated effectively using this existing project. ExpressPCB software, project cost, and planning with the use of Gantt Charts were also introduced."2.0 Was the class project effective in enhancing your technical skills? • "The project introduced the soldering onto printed circuit board, which I had no prior experience with in the past. In addition this project allowed us to work on design improvements
the course of the semester project status, learning, and student assessment (grading)is addressed by tasking the student groups to prepare memorandum at appropriate pointsduring the project. Table 5 lists the four additional project memos that the student teamswere asked to prepare.Table 5 – Subsequent Memos2nd memo due September 25th at the beginning of class. 1) Revise your 1st memo considering that your first experiment should take 1 hour and 15 minutes (class time). You should keep this very simple and consider using the physical and mathematical model in the case study. You need a very detailed plan for your experiment. Where will you get the equipment for the experiments? 2) Develop the mathematical model in
. Success in this competition is based on a combination of factors; theability to combine recent advances in concrete technology with the concepts of navalarchitecture; the use of effective project management; and the motivation, creativity and spiritof a team of young men and women who take extreme pride in their work.4At the concrete canoe competition, there are four main areas that are judged; finished product,oral presentation, written technical report and the races, each part now worth 25% of the totalcompetition points. To successfully address the project of designing and building a concretecanoe, students must plan the structure of their engineering design team. Initially, the teamsmust focus on designing a fast and maneuverable hull, a
students varied greatly in terms of their current stage of the graduate process.A few students had started participating in the Program as undergraduates, while others wereclose to the time when they planned to complete their qualifying exams. This heterogeneity,combined with the Program Director’s basis in engineering, made it more difficult for theseminar to fulfill the same role as it had with the first cohort. Furthermore, the bench sciencemajors in the second cohort already had support groups in the form of their lab groups. Thestudents who lacked this support—such as the lone African American woman in the mathematicsdepartment, a program in which students often work in solitude—were subsequently unable torely on the seminar in the same way
faculty redefine our commitment tolanguage teaching as the teaching of multiple literacies, not just language learning. Thiscollaboration required us to move away from traditional course planning and normativeassessments and to increase learning by presenting linguistic and cultural content in anintellectually challenging manner, commensurate with our institutional disciplinary andinterdisciplinary offerings, and capitalizing on our students’ motivation and drive forapplied (“real”) studies. The pilot collaboration helped inform students that language is aculture-based performance, situated in various public, private, and cross-disciplinarycontexts. Recent language research reflects an understanding of multiple literacies associally bounded and
students’ technical skills through individual robot design,inter-robot communication, and system integration, one goal of the IDC is for students todevelop project management and communication skills. Thus, a variety of deliverables wererequired over the course of the IDC including: 1. Conceptual Design Written Report (Due in week 1). To emphasize the importance of planning in the design process, each sub-team was required to present a conceptual design to the instructor before they were allowed to begin actual construction of their robot. This report included: a. the problem statement in the students’ own words, b. a list of objectives and deliverables, c. a schedule with important milestones and task
, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Julia M. Williams is the Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment & Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her articles on writing assessment, electronic portfolios, and ABET have appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, and the International Journal of Engineering Education. She is also the recipient of a Tablet PC Technology, Curriculum, and Higher Education 2005 award from Microsoft Research to assess the impact of tablet PCs and
Page 12.985.10applicability. This may include an animation, images, a prototype, models, plans, etc.Our initial four-semester attempt at including video productions in the classroom wasaccompanied by on-line material related to video editing software and equipment usage. Studentteams shared low-end digital video camcorders and used Apple iMovie to edit their material.While students had no difficulty acquiring basic skills in video editing, we have observed thatquality of final videos varied significantly due to level of interest and prior knowledge. Shortlectures on the following topics are necessary: A) storyboarding, selection of appropriate content,B) a selected editing software, e.g. iMovie, C) 3D animation basics (as an extension to
class. These assessments include observations by different instructors,anonymous student surveys, student focus groups, and observed student problem solvingsessions. Overall the kits and the integrated approach have had a positive effect on the class.Students and instructors have both enjoyed using the modular kits. Student groups of three tofive have been used with students happier with the smaller groups. For the larger groups,students have suggested a planned rotation of formal roles to insure everyone in the group isinvolved. Students like the integration of kits and simulation into the classroom setting and haveshown a particular preference for class sessions where a short activity is used to raise an issueand then followed up with
AC 2007-1817: PACE GLOBAL VEHICLE COLLABORATIONMason Webster, Brigham Young University Mason Webster is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and has completed two internships in China at a Lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant. Next year, he plans on attending graduate school to pursue a Master of Business Administration degree.Dan Korth, Brigham Young University Daniel Korth graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University in April 2007. He speaks Spanish fluently and has spent time living in Peru. While at BYU, he participated in the development of a prototype unmanned
- 15 A. Life Cycle Analysis Framework B. Life Cycle methods and software C. Inventory Analysis D. Impact Assessment E. Data location and integrity F. Sensitivity Analysis G. LCA interpretation H. LCA Weighting I. LCA Limitations J. Life Cycle Cost Analysis As time allows K. Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing As time allows L. Project Presentations*Note - this outline is a general roadmap of the topics that we plan to cover in this course. The actual pathtaken and time spent on these topics will vary as we work our way through them
? "I feel that this class project was very rewarding and I enjoyed seeing the subsystem components coming together to form a complete system. The project walked us through a complete system which emulated concepts that I will need in the senior design process, and in addition to the material I learned about RF systems the course provided a review of earlier coursework. I feel that I am well prepared to start senior design next year. I also would have liked to learn about Microsoft Project beyond the simple Gantt chart because I plan to use project management software for senior design
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