30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Building on A Century of Progress in Engineering Education. Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37135)最新文献
{"title":"Mentor programme in digital creativity","authors":"H. Andersson, Erland Flygt, H. Ahlberg","doi":"10.1109/FIE.2000.897631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2000.897631","url":null,"abstract":"In 1999, Chalmers Medialab initiated a voluntary mentor programme for students with a special interest in digital media. The purpose of the programme is to enhance the students' skills within the field, to recognize the value of student competencies, and to identify and promote good ideas. The students work in interdisciplinary projects and have access to high-end research equipment. Thorough documentation ensures process tracking and side-effect management. Participation in the programme is a strong additional qualification, and interest from industry is great.","PeriodicalId":371740,"journal":{"name":"30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Building on A Century of Progress in Engineering Education. Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37135)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127911625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engineering students as expert witnesses in mock trials","authors":"K. Tarhini, David E. Vandercoy","doi":"10.1109/FIE.2000.897578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2000.897578","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to report our experience with senior civil engineering students serving as expert witnesses in simulated civil court actions involving a structural failure. The uniqueness of this exercise was two fold: (1) it forced students to completely understand the causes of the structural collapse so they might clearly explain those causes, and (2) it compelled collaboration with third year law students to present the failure evidence in mock trials. Three mock trials were performed as part of a Trial Practice course offered during fall 1999 term at the School of Law. Three teams, each consisting of two engineering students and two law students, were assigned to represent the plaintiff designer, and contractor in each trial. Each team of engineering and law students met several times to discuss the assigned case and prepare each other for the mock trial. Engineering students had to explain in lay terms all the technical concepts involved in the case and give their opinion of the probable cause of failure. Law students prepared the engineers to testify as experts in a courtroom setting under direct and cross-examinations. The students argued and presented their cases in the presence of a practising judge. The students gained valuable experience in teamwork, communications, performing under pressure in a courtroom, and understanding the importance of each discipline in the litigation process. The experience of testifying as experts in a courtroom showed the engineering students the importance of details, technical competency, objectively, reviewing the work of others, and the ethical dilemmas in professional practice. This experience encouraged engineers to collaborate with lawyers and prepared them for the future possibility of being involved in litigation and testifying in a courtroom.","PeriodicalId":371740,"journal":{"name":"30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Building on A Century of Progress in Engineering Education. Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37135)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127320012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding engineering students for better recruitment strategies: a four-year study","authors":"M. Anderson-Rowland","doi":"10.1109/FIE.2000.897619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2000.897619","url":null,"abstract":"Engineering enrollments are declining. Interest in engineering is near a 20 year low among entering college freshmen. At the same time, the demand for engineering in the US is great, with foreign national students being brought to our country to help fill the gap. The situation calls for increased efforts in recruitment and retention. Since many university budgets are shrinking, accountability is expected for all invested funds, including those used for recruitment and retention. To better allocate resources to recruitment and retention efforts, a pilot survey was first administered to engineering freshman at ASU in the fall of 1994. This survey was refined and continued for an additional four years. Evaluations of the surveys in the first few years revealed some surprises. In the first survey, the primary reasons for attending ASU for an engineering degree was similar for both women and men: a good engineering school, close to home, and good weather. Surprising results, obtained from early surveys, showed that over fifty percent of the junior college transfers only decided on engineering after they attended college. Contrary to expectations, the data also showed that for underrepresented minority engineering students, it made no difference if they took the Introduction to Engineering class in their first or second semester. We look at the freshman engineering class longitudinally with four years of data. The paper examines if there have been any changes in recruitment and retention efforts during the last four years in response to information learned through the early surveys.","PeriodicalId":371740,"journal":{"name":"30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Building on A Century of Progress in Engineering Education. Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37135)","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114903548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Syntax error analysis as a problem solving technique","authors":"A. T. Rose","doi":"10.1109/FIE.2000.896587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2000.896587","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional problem solving in technical courses involves a problem statement followed by extracting a given and required from the verbiage. A detailed solution then follows. This is not the only form of problem students will encounter in industry. Often the industrial problem has a solution but an error is present in the result. Debugging the solution then becomes a new problem requiring a different set of skills and techniques. To expose students to this type of problem, a syntax error analysis concept is proposed. The concept involves giving the students a problem statement along with an erroneous solution. Students are required to analyze the problem and determine where errors occur in the analysis. A preliminary trial using this type of problem has been conducted and student feedback obtained. The results will be used to further develop and improve this type of learning experience.","PeriodicalId":371740,"journal":{"name":"30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Building on A Century of Progress in Engineering Education. Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37135)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133529536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inquiry-based experiments in the introductory physics laboratory","authors":"Robert Ross","doi":"10.1109/FIE.2000.897684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2000.897684","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes a significant effort to improve the second semester general physics laboratory at the University of Detroit Mercy by incorporating inquiry-based laboratory experiments. The inquiry-based laboratory experiments are modeled on published research results. We require the students to confront their misconceptions by directing them through a process of inquiry. The students use simple and inexpensive materials to perform experiments on direct-current circuits, magnets, electromagnetism, and optics. They use these experiments to develop operational definitions for technical terms, construct models of the relevant physical phenomena and apply the models in new situations to test their predictive capability. The paper describes some of the laboratory experiments, and describes their effect on student outcomes. Student attitudes toward these laboratory exercises are also presented.","PeriodicalId":371740,"journal":{"name":"30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Building on A Century of Progress in Engineering Education. Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37135)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116926471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experience using Web-based media in distance learning","authors":"D. Gustafson, W. Hankley","doi":"10.1109/FIE.2000.897634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2000.897634","url":null,"abstract":"Distance learning is experiencing tremendous growth. The demand for continuing education among employed software engineers is increasing. Universities need to improve the environment and delivery of the course material for distance learning. The Computing and Information Science department at Kansas State University has experimented with the use of Web based media to replace video tapes for distance learning courses in its Masters of Software Engineering program. The experiences of the instructors and students are discussed.","PeriodicalId":371740,"journal":{"name":"30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Building on A Century of Progress in Engineering Education. Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37135)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116979107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From transfer to transformation: towards a framework for successful dissemination of engineering education","authors":"S. Fincher","doi":"10.1109/FIE.2000.896602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2000.896602","url":null,"abstract":"The article describes a framework for successful dissemination of disciplinary-specific education expertise, and illustrates its use with examples from project EPCoS (Effective Projectwork in Computer Science) (http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/national/EPCOS). Project EPCoS was funded from 1996-1999 by the UK Fund for Development in Teaching and Learning to: identify, make explicit and systematize existing best practices in computer science student project methods and techniques; to realise techniques for transferring project work practices between institutions; and to execute and evaluate such transfers.","PeriodicalId":371740,"journal":{"name":"30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Building on A Century of Progress in Engineering Education. Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37135)","volume":"284 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132535633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cheating: student attitudes and practical approaches to dealing with it","authors":"T. Harding","doi":"10.1109/FIE.2000.896568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2000.896568","url":null,"abstract":"The preliminary results of educational research conducted at Kettering University is described in which students in an introductory engineering materials course (MFGE-370) were asked to complete a survey on their perceptions of cheating. The overall objective of the research was to determine those things students believed constituted cheating, the frequency to which they cheat and their attitudes about what steps could be taken to curtail cheating within a course. Practical approaches to effectively dealing with cheating are also discussed including using learning objectives for writing fair tests, promoting group work through cooperative learning teams, holding review sessions before tests and building a good rapport with students. Data were gathered from 65 students in two offerings of the course.","PeriodicalId":371740,"journal":{"name":"30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Building on A Century of Progress in Engineering Education. Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37135)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128381755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The idea of instructional leadership in engineering education","authors":"J. Heywood","doi":"10.1109/FIE.2000.896582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2000.896582","url":null,"abstract":"During the last thirty years, the period of the Frontiers in Education conferences, there has been a research movement that has studied school effectiveness and thus the factors that lead to school improvement. While this movement has been of considerable interest to politicians and policy makers the idea of such research has made little impact on higher education where ideas derived from industry such as total quality management seem to have had greater effect. Associated with the school effectiveness movement is the concept of educational leadership and an ancillary concept of instructional leadership neither idea of which has infiltrated higher education. In parallel with these developments the study of qualitative and quantitative methods of educational research has made considerable progress. The purpose of this paper is to argue the case for instructional leadership in higher education and to indicate the qualities and knowledge required by those who might be asked to carry out such a task in engineering education. The paper begins with a summary of the research on school effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":371740,"journal":{"name":"30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Building on A Century of Progress in Engineering Education. Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37135)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128625068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Castra, S. Acha, J. Perez, A. Hilario, J.V. Miguez, F. Mur, F. Yeves, J. Peire
{"title":"Digital systems and electronics curricula proposal and tool integration","authors":"M. Castra, S. Acha, J. Perez, A. Hilario, J.V. Miguez, F. Mur, F. Yeves, J. Peire","doi":"10.1109/FIE.2000.896548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2000.896548","url":null,"abstract":"To transmit the teaching of digital electronics today, considerations are outlined which must be kept in mind. Digital electronics is evolving quickly and its techniques and tools have revolutionized the manner of analyzing simulating, synthesizing and verifying digital systems. Microelectronic development is more and more dependant on the technology and on design methodology. Standard hardware description languages (Verilog and VHDL), together with simulation and synthesis tools are some of the drivers behind microelectronic development. The \"constructivist\" model in the teaching-learning process proposes: significant learning as opposed to memorizing; structuring and sequencing of content; learning through guided discovery and a spiral or recurring procedure. These circumstances, together with pedagogical concern and the knowledge and experience that the authors have acquired as digital electronics teaching Professors have resulted in the formulation of a curricular proposal to transmit this updated teaching method. Using this teaching model as a base, the aim of the proposal is to have the student studying digital electronics acquire the theory and practices (know-how) from the beginning by using current design methodologies and CAD and EDA tools that the students will use in their professional future. Another objective of this method is to provide students with multimedia applications as a learning resource.","PeriodicalId":371740,"journal":{"name":"30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Building on A Century of Progress in Engineering Education. Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37135)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131633751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}