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Community engagement is a pedagogy that integrates engagement with a community, local or global, with academic content. In engineering and computer science the engagement is often the design, delivery and support of projects for NGO's, human service agencies, educational institutions and governmental agencies. Community engagement has been supported in the literature for enhancing learning and motivation...
When new faculty arrive for a new position at a college or university, they are typically flooded with information on all the "things to know and do" before the start of their first semester. They often participate in orientation sessions that give them snapshots on human resources, research protocol, departmental requirements, getting a computer account, using the library, using the course...
The need for more sustainable solutions makes design an increasingly complex task. New supportive tools and methods are thereby required to stimulate creative thinking to generate new sustainable proposals. Multi-disciplinary design teams need especially in the conceptual design phase more support. Therefore a design method was developed which focuses on the creation of proposals in the conceptual...
A broad array of efforts have focused on multiplying student pathways to engineering, particularly for groups that have been historically underrepresented such as ethnic minorities in the United States. Among such efforts, summer programs have been a widely used mechanism to stimulate and nurture engineering identity and agency in students from a relatively young age. At a large Midwestern University...
A National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored project was initiated in 2011 at the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (MME), Miami University, with the aim of creating online learning modules to increase the efficacy of the coursework. The modules were designed to instil proficiency in computational and experimental analysis, and were grouped along five thematic lines in the form...
Mission trips from Ohio Northern University to the Dominican Republic during the past three years have involved running engineering workshops for teachers in secondary-level schools. These workshops included design challenges often found in a first year engineering course, discussions on learning styles, and methods of integrating an engineering mindset into the Dominican curriculum. Given the great...
The primary goal of this mini-workshop is to assist participants in creating Inquiry Based Learning Activities (IBLAs) that promote better conceptual understanding for their students. This is part of more general goal of transforming engineering classrooms into more interactive formats that promote student engagement and lead to improved student outcomes. Specifically the workshop will introduce participants...
Understanding student motivation is an essential aspect of effective course design. Since motivations are related to learning outcomes ranging from critical thinking to creativity to lifelong learning, helping students develop positive motivations toward learning is critical for the engagement and success of tomorrow's STEM graduates. In this workshop, we explore the specific roles that instructors...
This workshop is meant for all lecturers and researchers of the conference, to experience the benefits of improvisation for themselves or for their students. In educating the inventors of our future, it is important to address creativity as a condition for innovation in Engineering courses of study. Part of the creative potential lies in the ability of divergent thinking. This looking for not yet...
The Project to Integrate Technical Communication Habits (PITCH) is being implemented in the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven across seven engineering and computer science undergraduate programs. PITCH develops written, oral and visual communication skills in students starting in the very first semester and continuing through all four years of each program. Communication...
Community Engagement or Service-learning is a rapidly growing pedagogy in higher education and has come under increased visibility within engineering and computing education. It has been cited as a potential tool for increasing student engagement as well as diversity among our engineering, technology and computing student bodies. It also has opportunities to prepare the next generation of professionals,...
Developing engineers for a changing world presents a greater need for students to understand simulations. Understanding mathematical models and simulations are skills that all engineers need for industry and research, but many engineering students lack a conceptual understanding of how to develop them. This workshop facilitates conversations about the future of engineering education with an emphasis...
Evaluability assessment (EA) is used to determine the readiness of a program for outcome evaluation. For engineering educators, obtaining meaningful outcome evaluation findings can be illusive. Determining whether a program is ready for such an evaluation, has critical importance, particularly as expectations for engineering education programs to have real impact, continue to increase. EA use is on...
We proposed a multi-agent and multi-player artificial school class game. This game has been designed to solve the bullying problem in school. Human players participate in the game and interact with other players, or agents, to make friends with those who have similar sense of values.
Android operating system, which is the most popular platform for smartphones and tablet computers, has an original memory managing system, which is call “low memory killer”. In case of lacking of memory, Android operating system terminates processes until enough memory is available. It selects targets in order of pre-defined priority and consuming memory size regardless of its re-launching time, its...
Since 2010, we have been developing a vibration watch application which can run on a visually impaired person's mobile phone. Our watch indicates the time by the number of vibrations. Although our watch worked effectively, its use was limited to Japanese mobile phones which can use Flash contents. In this paper, we propose a new version of the application which can operate on smart phones world-wide...
Understanding individual classroom culture is essential for constructing effective learning and teaching contexts. Largely underutilized in STEM classrooms to date, discourse analysis can serve as a tool to uncover, understand, and shape unique classroom culture. Used as a reflective tool, discourse analysis can enhance pedagogical understanding of quality and quantity of student participation and...
This special session presents applications of the philosophy of engineering to the understandings of engineering design. The philosophical basis of engineering provides particular insight into framing and interpreting design experiences. This interactive sessions/workshop aims to discuss and analyze engineering design and its place in engineering education. This includes examining perspectives from...
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