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Due to the poor performance of students in the Statics course in engineering between 2006 and 2011, whose approval rating was 48.8%, the Engineering School of EAFIT University has developed a virtual platform for students to train and for teachers to evaluate the learning of the subject with a series of exercises implemented in a dynamic system that generates a different version of the exercises for...
This study aims to address how change agents assist engineering instructors in adopting new curriculum. During a two-day workshop, 16 mechanics of materials instructors from community colleges and universities around the Pacific Northwest developed hands-on activities and models that they later implemented in their classrooms. Five additional instructors became interested in the materials developed...
The IEEE Education Society started the Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) in 1971, a time of concern for its survival for financial and membership reasons, a time of unrest in the engineering education community around the world, and as is so common, a time of great challenge and opportunities. FIE began with about 100 attendees in Atlanta, led by Demetrius Paris. It expanded by adding the Educational...
The Multiple Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development (MIDFIELD) is expanding to include 113 institutions and is being redesigned and archived to be more accessible to researchers. This special session will describe how researchers can better use or gain access to MIDFIELD. At the conclusion of the session participants should be able to: describe MIDFIELD including...
In this Work In Progress paper, we describe an NSF-funded research project designed to enhance the presence, socialization, retention and advancement of junior and mid-career university faculty from underrepresented minorities (URM) (i.e., African American, Native American, Pacific Islander and Hispanic Faculty) in engineering disciplines. The understanding behind this project is that to increase...
In the scope of the article, there is the presentation of the cyber-higher educational environment feasible by the technical innovations appearing rapidly and the investigation of the methods which can be applied successfully in the educational scene of the future. My goal was to create an educational scene suiting to the digital life of the CE generation students-called Z generation and alpha generation...
In early spring of 2015, an engineering faculty member approached the Director of the Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education and asked for a four-hour ethics workshop for Penn State University graduate students who were involved with the National Science Foundation Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST)...
This paper aims to measure students' level of interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the main focus is on students in grades 9 to 12. Essentially, the goal is to understand the factors behind students' choice of STEM or non-STEM academic tracks. Public and private school students in STEM and non-STEM academic programs participated...
The undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Design curriculum in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Science at the University of Johannesburg is discussed in this paper. The emphasis is on accreditation by the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) and accompanying international accreditation through the Washington accord. The course content in the four undergraduate years of study is given...
The arrival of new electronic devices and high-speed Internet connections have provoked a revolution on the Web design, introducing new concepts as responsive web and OneWeb. Web developments should be able to adapt to any device. Applying these concepts it has been created a web application called "Formulas App", which is a perfect complement for enriching learning scenarios, mainly dictated...
Improved English language skills will enable engineers to keep involved with recent developments in engineering areas. This is important in a learning perspective as it may enable engineers to develop competences needed in new areas of engineering and for job opportunities in an international environment. They not only make good representatives but may also become an important asset in meetings and...
Plexlearning is one Cyberlearning response to Benjamin Bloom's long standing "Two Sigma Education Problem," since 1984. The problem is that Bloom's research confirms that an education system based on Mastery Learning and Expert one-on-one tutoring is significantly more effective than prevailing aggregate-based education delivery system. However, Bloom, this findings have been summarily dismissed...
One of the major activities of National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh has been the training of teachers working in technical institutions especially in the northern region of the country. Three categories of programmes are offered namely Induction Training Programmes, content matter updating programmes and others (pedagogy, management, curriculum development etc...
A deficient access to experimental equipment leads to the usage of remote labs to improve engineering education and open experiments for every student location — and time — independent. The usage of a tele-operative controlled industrial bending process in lecture combines theoretical learning contents with practical experiences. Lecturers can make experiments in interaction with the students, who...
Laboratory work and experimentation is the most important cornerstone in engineering education. However often times there are not resources enough in the laboratories of industrial automation, or enough time to apply the knowledge acquired in lectures. Therefore, it is necessary to have support systems that enable students to learn in an autonomous way and teach them in the management of physical...
Design is one of the highest-level activities in the engineering profession. Compared to many other areas predominantly involving closed-form solutions, design is an open-ended activity, with many possible solutions for the same problem. This shift from the concrete to the abstract makes teaching of engineering design courses more challenging. The target set forth by good academic institutions is...
This work describes the evaluation of problems students have with Moodle2 — an e-learning platform. Special focus lies on international students who could overcome language problems by using learning technology. This includes investigation of how the definition ofproblem generating factors can be evaluated by using the evaluation tool CoALa based on the research method Repertory Grid. An evaluation...
This paper outlines and discusses the use of Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA), a qualitative approach to investigating discourse. FDA offers a theoretical method which reveals, from the discourse, the various power structures affecting engineering students in their first year. This method has been unexplored in the STEM educational research field, but has been used successfully in psychology,...
Quality Engineering Education has been identified as the foremost thrust area in India. The thrust is mainly due to the new establishment/enrichment of various core engineering industry sectors like Automobile, Healthcare, Agriculture, Avionics, Structural, Telecommunication and Mobile Technologies. Currently even though the country graduates a bulk volume of engineers every year, a major composition...
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