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For engineering students, functioning in a ??smaller, flatter world?? means gaining an education that extends them into global experiences. These experiences are personally developing by fostering development of 1) better self-understanding, 2) improved communication skills, 3) improved adaptability, 4) stronger self-reliability and 5) stronger capacity for working effectively with others from different...
The Engineering Leadership Program is entering its fourth year as a co-curricular program at Iowa State University. It is a values-based learning community for engineering students passionate about contributing to their communities, locally or globally. As the program has grown from 15 to over 80 scholars, it has experienced creative challenges such as retaining a sense of community, succession planning,...
Having a single numerical value to represent a student's overall level of achievement is useful. At Curtin University of Technology, it is the course weighted average (CWA) - an average of percentage grades received for each course. At Virginia Tech, it is the grade point average (gpa) - an average of values based upon letter grades for courses (letters initially based upon percentage grades). To...
Engineers must not only have design and technical skills, they must also possess the ability to work in and lead teams, adopt and adapt to change, and act as leaders who can think in terms of the bigger picture. To develop these skills, engineering students must be actively involved in their education and trained to continually learn. Many engineering students have become accustomed to traditional...
Freshmen engineering retention rates are low in universities across the country even though recruiting efforts target the highest quality high school students. This study addresses the effect helping students cope with academic failure and if this can be used to increase student retention. This paper discusses an approach by the University of Pittsburgh's Freshman Engineering Program in order to address...
Data from the Academic Pathways Study, a component of the NSF-funded Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, were used to investigate engineering student involvement in extracurricular activities. The study design used a variety of methods: the results presented here are from longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys of engineering students as well as interviews with graduating seniors...
This paper presents the evaluation of an alternative procedure to facilitate engineering students' reflective learning in the context of situated learning experiences. The procedure takes the format of a focus group with specific triggers to elicit students' accounts of critical learning experiences. This reflection starts from students' concrete, intuitive feelings of consternation when their prior...
Based in Eccles expectancy-value motivational theory, this research qualitatively examines engineering faculty members' beliefs about which skills are important for their students' success as future engineers, how these skills are taught, and if the students have these skills upon graduation. Consistent with ABET outcome criteria, the results show that faculty participants believe technical, interpersonal,...
The distributions of Myers-Briggs Type Indicators, Preferences, and Temperaments for entering and graduating BSME students and the mechanical engineering faculty at the University of Houston are presented and compared. Based on long-term averages, the S-, T-, J-, SJ-, ESTJ- and ISTJ- preferring individuals appear to have some positive correlation with success in our mechanical engineering program...
There are two compelling constraints on the delivery of effective engineering mathematics education at university: Decline in the mathematical preparedness i.e. confidence and ability of engineering students, and the predominance of the passive learning-leaning traditional lecture mode of instruction. In this paper, we present a formative teaching paradigm, consisting of the use of specific question...
The main objective of this experience lies on the development of positive learning aptitudes on engineering students. The experience presented in this paper has been carried out with the help of the problem-based learning (PBL) methodology. Solutions of medium-high complexity problems by students make them work on the development of different skills. The teaching model turns into a significant and...
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