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Lifelong learning (LLL) has been long recognized by educators as a valuable attribute that can be an impetus for improved student learning. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria (2000) require that engineering programs produce "graduates who pursue life-long learning through continuing education and/or advanced degrees in engineering or related fields". Many...
Engineers participate in the Maker movement. Some Makers do not pursue formal engineering education but both the engineering field and their own vocational advancement could readily benefit. We seek to understand Young Makers in K-12 and how might their knowledge, skills, and attitudes prepare them to pursue advanced STEM education and careers. From the Engineer of 2020 list of characteristics we...
In this paper, the effectiveness of our approach for engineering education at an early stage is presented. It is designed for 15 or 16-year-old students who have just begun to take lectures for a specific specialized field of engineering in our college of technology. Here, how to encourage their learning motivation for various fields of engineering becomes important. Therefore, our program was designed...
Engineering professional societies, engineering education thought leaders, and academics in engineering education have established the need to promote systems thinking in engineering students so they can deal effectively with the future complexity of engineering practice. Universities and schools have taught systems thinking, but currently there are limitations in measuring the effectiveness of these...
There have been numerous calls to improve undergraduate teaching in engineering to attract and retain a larger and more diverse engineering student body. This work-in-progress paper will describe research that will explore the perceptions of engineering professors over the past 17 years to gain a better understanding of the climate for quality teaching in engineering. This study builds on surveys...
During the past two years, we investigated the Louisville, Kentucky hackerspace as a venue for hosting undergraduate engineering student projects. The projects took place at LVL1.org, a collaborative workshop in downtown Louisville. There are such "makerspaces" or "hackerspaces" in most medium to large-sized US and European cities. Our nine participants developed a strong sense...
Constant changes in technology pose continuous challenges for higher education institutions that are training the engineers of the future. These changes are making it necessary to adapt the curriculum in order to develop the skills needed by the XXI century engineer. Moreover, instead of thinking in a large curriculum reform at a specific moment, it is necessary to define curriculum management processes...
A novel educational methodology applied to power electronics applications is presented in this paper. A project-based learning and a specific scenario for promoting active learning in power electronic education are combined. The proposed scenario is a complete photovoltaic solar generation power system, designed for incorporating all basic power electronic conversions. The project-based learning methodology...
Nurturing design skills in students is in the heart of all engineering curricula. While academic courses and capstone activities inject the design process in students, involvement in practical design activities is believed to have higher impact on student preparation for engineering professions. Capitalizing on this fact, this paper aims to study the impact of Shell Echo-Marathon (SEM), an international...
Teamwork has been considered as an important learning outcome for engineering graduates. A pilot study on teamwork training was conducted in a joint degree programme between a leading British university and a top Chinese university in 2011. A supplementary experiment in the module "Personal Development Plan" was carried out using a large sample (624 students) to compare different methods...
Traditionally, the energy systems area, or any science, technology, engineering, and/or mathematics (STEM) area, in general, has been male- dominated. Because of this, women in these fields have had a tendency to stand down when it comes to aiding in innovation and practicing a profession within specific fields, such as energy systems. To counteract this effect, research and educational activities...
"Flipped classrooms" have been tested in engineering education through the on-line delivery of lectures using speech-synchronized PC-screen-capture technology (SS-capture) to increase engineering students' enthusiasm towards studying. The SS-capture system records Screenshots as a series of still images synchronously with input from a microphone. The resultant recording is akin to a slide...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been collaborating since 2010 with the Singapore Ministry of Education to help develop the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). One element of this collaboration, the Global Leadership Program (GLP), aims to provide SUTD students with the opportunity to interact with the MIT community and experience MIT's academic culture, while...
Many engineering programs are implementing hands-on engineering experiences early in the curriculum, typically in the form of a project-based course in which students design and build a prototype as a team. However, research on these courses suggests that task orientation is correlated with gender, as are the increases in self-efficacy observed. As engineering self-efficacy is a critical determinant...
This paper presents the application of knowledge-based epistemology of engineering to the understandings of the engineering design process. This work aims to extend discussion on Philosophy of Engineering into its impact on our understanding of engineering design. The question this paper aims to address is how a knowledge-based philosophy of engineering supports the distinctive challenges in distinguishing...
I often hear faculty speak of students not taking responsibility. Students who do not read the assignments, miss or turn in incomplete homework, or do not actively participating in lab assignments and still expect a good grade! Simply put, more and more students are not taking responsibility for their own learning. But I don't believe that the reason is because students don't want to do so. My question...
In order to improve University Quality Education, and develop the practical ability of research and innovation of Undergraduates majoring in Biomedical Engineering, this project probes into the development of innovative experiment program for Biomedical Engineering and research on the practical ability cultivation for undergraduates from various aspects, intended to choose interesting experiment topics,...
Engineering education influences the level of technological development and industrial production. Therefore, how to improve the quality of engineering education has become an important concern in engineering university. FSAE was applied to study the quality structure of engineering students in this paper. and results showed that the quality of engineering education was improved. The improvement of...
In engineering education, self-development ability is very important. It is said that to cultivate the ability, group learning is very effective. The group learning is to form groups with several students and to assign projects to the groups. However, simply dividing students into groups and giving assignment are not enough to obtain good educational effect. Besides giving assignments to students...
Society today is the information society, with global connections, telepresence, omnipresence, instantaneity, wide reach, multi formats, convergence, and more. People don't live without technology, then, what the technology can do for education? Despite all technology available, the education still suffers from old problems: distance between technologies and teaching methods, the students have difficulty...
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