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College professors routinely are required to work in four entirely different environments - in the office or classroom, at home, on a mobile device, and on a public computer in a library or Internet cafe??. Each of these settings impose unique requirements for the management of information. This three-hour workshop provides the college professor with an overview of the challenges to proper management...
This is an annual workshop where participants will be engaged in proven strategies and techniques for writing engineering education proposals to and managing projects for programs such as, but not limited to, the National Science Foundation (NSF) divisions of Undergraduate Education (DUE) and Engineering Education and Centers (EEC). Through active discussions, collaboration, and sharing of experiences,...
This paper outlines a project aimed at addressing the issue of the scalability of online academic support. This project is being run during the Autumn semester at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) Toowoomba Australia, in conjunction with the Australian Digital Futures Institute. The study attached to the project will use Design-Based Research to evaluate the effectiveness of a simple, but...
We report on the recent activities of PRISM, an electronic hub to support integration of digital resources into 6th - 12th-grade STEM classrooms for Indiana teachers. Specifically, this presentation gives a description and a preliminary assessment of the efficacy of integrating a course management system (Moodle) into a range of 6th - 12th grade content courses.
This workshop will expose participants to the utility of the Java-DSP education software in multidisciplinary signal and data analysis applications. The session will be interactive and participants will use and assess an exercise that involves step-by-step online simulations using J-DSP. Examples of prepackaged online laboratory exercises that can be disseminated in certain types of courses will also...
In response to recommendations provided by the Danish government, in order to meet the challenges we are facing in our globalized world, we have recently redesigned one of our courses in the global business engineering program. We are striving to make innovation as a topic even more relevant by studying how companies can innovate that are above and beyond traditional product development. This broader...
Effective education in the field of traffic operations and control requires efficient delivery of theory, applications, and live demonstration or tutorials to help students understand the subject. While practical engineering knowledge is usually imparted through carefully designed experiments conducted in laboratories, traffic operations require repetitive observation of traffic behavior (or simulated...
Courses on some topics of computer science are being offered in postgraduate studies not directly related to computing. Such is the case of a course in distributed systems as part of a telecommunication postgraduate study in our institution. These courses present special challenges for curriculum design and instruction, as they often are made up of students who are both uninformed about computer science...
This paper describes our goal of creating a set of narrated dynamically worked-out problems for the electric circuits students using a Tablet PC. The examples are intended to improve problem-solving skills by enhancing understanding of the key concepts and the way that they should be utilized in solving circuits' problems. Improvement in understanding will be measured through carefully aligned course...
Cultural practices in India that dictate that individuals remove their footwear before entering homes and places of worship creates a challenge for visually-impaired people in identifying and collecting their footwear as they leave. This paper describes an interdisciplinary service-learning project, involving students in Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Mechanical Engineering (ME)...
This workshop presents a framework for developing an idea in engineering education into a project suitable for an NSF education program and then writing a competitive proposal for that project. The workshop begins with strategies for evolving nascent ideas about engineering education into well formulated projects with clear outcomes and goals. Next, an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses in the...
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Oklahoma (OU) is currently experiencing a decline in new enrollments that is similar to the national trends for engineering disciplines. In an effort to increase the interest in ECE and engineering in general, outreach activities focused on advanced technologies and innovative demonstrations are being deployed. These recruiting...
This paper discusses a tool to study the relations among group members of a social network that evolve using a virtual environment. Understanding how these relations are built and maintained is essential to foster favorable conditions that can facilitate collective and individual learning. The focus of interest is how inner relations affect both the collective and individual learning of its members...
Educational assessment using process management approaches is tacitly built upon business models which envision student learning outcomes as product specifications. These approaches often pay insufficient attention to student personality and lifestyle parameters and how these parameters interact with instructional approaches to affect student performance. To complicate matters, student attributes...
Students who struggle to learn mathematics often do not engage in problem-solving during class and feel that learning mathematics is a solitary undertaking. We now use Tablet PCs in a networked undergraduate classroom configuration that allows students to view and annotate the instructor's Powerpoint slides in real time and also participate in interactive problem-solving. Students save their own annotated...
Scientific studies have established the importance of engineering demonstrations, yet comparatively little is known about what makes some demonstrations more effective than others. In this study we investigate the pedagogic effect of demonstration construction quality. This study considers two build qualities: ??raw?? and ??polished??. Raw demonstrations use prototype-quality construction techniques...
Recently, there has been considerable focus on incorporating the concept of sustainability into academic curricula across the United States. In keeping with this trend, Georgia Southern University has sought to introduce a minor in sustainability that will be offered to students on campus. This aforementioned effort has been presented in this paper though the development of a systematic methodology...
In this work in progress paper the author presents preliminary evidence from ongoing research that suggests that the organization of current pedagogy in short class sessions leaves prevents students from engaging in a dialogue and is partly responsible for student disengagement from engineering. The author draws on theoretical literature on dialogic inquiry and preliminary data from analysis of two...
A major component of the "Bologna process" is shifting the focus from instructor-centered "teaching" to student-centered "active learning". This change, however, poses an additional burden on the instructor's resources. Besides, the simultaneous redesign of all degrees has allowed universities to exploit synergies. In the Carlos III University, this has led to the creation...
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