Experiential Learning Based Engineering Curriculum to Develop Meta-Competencies

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahed Siddique ◽  
Amy Bradshaw ◽  
Patricia Hardre´ ◽  
Farrokh Mistree
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
University Of Oklahoma ◽  
Instructional Activities ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Course Sequence ◽  
Development Of Competencies ◽  
Systemic Development

The competitiveness of the U.S., which is linked to our standard of living, is dependent on our ability to produce a large number of sufficiently innovative engineers prepared to address issues related to complex systems. Hence, our focus is on research and the associated development of curriculum and instructional activities that address the engineering competencies related to innovation. In this paper, we present a hierarchical curriculum design model, grounded in experiential learning. The model addresses curriculum design from multiple levels: design of experiential activities to provide targeted scaffolding and support for engineering students to develop competencies, then mapping the competencies at course, course sequence, and curriculum levels, for systemic development of competencies at higher order cognition. We illustrate the hierarchical approach for the design of a three-course sequence around the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) Racing team at University of Oklahoma, Norman, to foster meaningful learning, innovation, systems-level thinking, and the attainment of career-sustaining skills through authentic experiences. With a view to stimulating discussion, in this paper we highlight some of the salient features of our plan and some issues that warrant further investigation.

The construction of innovative computer practical training education model in the environment of multiple intelligences Internet of Things

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Yanli Bao
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Training Model ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Operational Strategies ◽  
Workflow Technology ◽  
Computer Knowledge

This paper takes the application of workflow technology in a multi-smart IOT message-driven practical training execution system as the research background, analyzes the current situation and problems of the practical training execution system, and reconstructs and optimizes the original on-site practical training model and business methods according to the future development needs of the practical training execution system. This study draws on the theoretical perspective of the computer knowledge body to deeply recognize and understand the connotation of computing ability from the levels of knowledge, skills, and attitude, forms a basic understanding of computing ability through literature combing, and refines the core elements of computing ability through a combination of enterprise case study, content analysis, and questionnaire survey, strives to form a more systematic and in-depth understanding of the connotation and elements of computing ability. It also provides a reference for the clarification of computing ability training objectives of computer science teachers under the trend of intelligence. Facing the enhancement of computing ability of engineering students majoring in computer science at the undergraduate level, the objectives of computing ability cultivation are clarified, the key points of computing ability cultivation mode are refined from three levels: curriculum design, teaching operation, management, and control, and three typical computing ability cultivation modes embedded in undergraduate computer education are constructed: knowledge module combination mode, computing context experience mode, and intelligent industry-leading mode. The operational strategies and implementation paths of the models are discussed in depth. This study emphasizes that, based on the analysis of the characteristics of the trend of intelligence, the computing ability cultivation model is not static.

urban consumer culture

2005 ◽  
Vol 183 ◽  
pp. 692-709 ◽  
Author(s):  
deborah davis
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Music Videos ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
City Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
New Consumer ◽  
Material Standard Of Living ◽  
Material Standard

over the past decade, urban residents have experienced a consumer revolution at multiple levels. in terms of material standard of living, sustained economic growth has dramatically increased spending on discretionary consumer purchases and urbanites have enthusiastically consumed globally branded foodstuffs, pop-music videos and fashion. at the same time, however, income distribution has become increasingly unequal. some scholars therefore emphasize the negative exclusionary and exploitative parameters of the new consumer culture seeing nothing more than a ruse of capitalism or marker of all that is negative about post-socialist city life. building on nearly a decade of fieldwork in shanghai, this article disputes such a linear interpretation of subordination and exclusion in favour of a more polyvalent and stratified reading that emphasizes individual narratives unfolding against memories of an impoverished personal past, and a consumer culture that simultaneously incorporates contradictory experiences of emancipation and disempowerment.

A FRAMEWORK FOR BOOSTING THE AUTONOMOUS AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING FOR UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS UNDER BLENDED LEARNING

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Santillán Sánchez ◽  
Juan Mosquera Feijoo ◽  
Luis Cueto-Felgueroso ◽  
Beatriz González Rodrigo ◽  
Fernando Suárez Guerra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering

Managing Dilemmas Embodied in 21st Century Engineering

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salman Ahmed ◽  
Minting Xiao ◽  
Jitesh H. Panchal ◽  
Janet K. Allen ◽  
Farrokh Mistree
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Collaborative Group ◽  
Group Setting ◽  
The Core ◽  
Development Of Competencies ◽  
Personal Competencies ◽  
Core Characteristics

In this session we describe in four parts the pedagogy and out-comes of a course Designing for Open Innovation designed to empower 21st century engineering students to develop competencies associated with innovating in an inter-connected technologically flat world: 1. Competencies for Innovating in the 21st Century, [1]. 2. Developing Competencies In The 21st Century Engineer, [2]. 3. Identifying Dilemmas Embodied in 21st Century Engineering, [3]. 4. Managing Dilemmas Embodied in 21st Century Engineering - this paper. In the first paper we describe the core characteristics of the engineering in an interconnected world and identify the key competencies and meta-competencies that 21st century engineers will need to innovate and negotiate solutions to issues associated with the realization of systems. In the second paper, we describe our approach to fostering learning and the development of competencies by an individual in a group setting. We focus on empowering the students to learn how to learn as individuals in a geographically distanced, collaborative group setting. We assert that two of the core competencies required for success in the dynamically changing workplace are the competencies to first identify and then to manage dilemmas. In the third paper, we illustrate how students have gone about identifying dilemmas and in the fourth paper how they have attempted to manage dilemmas. In papers three and four students have briefly described the challenges that they faced and their takeaways in the form of team learning and individual learning. In this the last of four papers in this session, we focus on how students learned to manage dilemmas associated with the realization of complex, sustainable, socio-techno-eco systems, namely, energy policy design. The example involves the identification of a bridging fuel that balances environmental, economic and socio-cultural concerns. The principal outcome is clearly not the result attained but a student’s ability to learn how to learn as illustrated through the development of personal competencies in a collaborative learning framework and environment.

scholarly journals Improving Biomedical Engineering Education Through Continuity in Adaptive, Experiential, and Interdisciplinary Learning Environments

2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Singh ◽  
Dawn Ferry ◽  
Susan Mills
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Real World ◽  
Biomedical Engineering ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Clinical Learning Environment ◽  
Interdisciplinary Learning

This study reports our experience of developing a series of biomedical engineering (BME) courses having active and experiential learning components in an interdisciplinary learning environment. In the first course, BME465: biomechanics, students were immersed in a simulation laboratory setting involving mannequins that are currently used for teaching in the School of Nursing. Each team identified possible technological challenges directly related to the biomechanics of the mannequin and presented an improvement overcoming the challenge. This approach of exposing engineering students to a problem in a clinical learning environment enhanced the adaptive and experiential learning capabilities of the course. In the following semester, through BME448: medical devices, engineering students were partnered with nursing students and exposed to simulation scenarios and real-world clinical settings. They were required to identify three unmet needs in the real-world clinical settings and propose a viable engineering solution. This approach helped BME students to understand and employ real-world applications of engineering principles in problem solving while being exposed to an interdisciplinary collaborative environment. A final step was for engineering students to execute their proposed solution from either BME465 or BME448 courses by undertaking it as their capstone senior design project (ENGR401-402). Overall, the inclusion of clinical immersions in interdisciplinary teams in a series of courses not only allowed the integration of active and experiential learning in continuity but also offered engineers more practice of their profession, adaptive expertise, and an understanding of roles and expertise of other professionals involved in enhancement of healthcare and patient safety.

scholarly journals Student Perceived Value of Intensive Experiential Learning

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Don R May
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Theory Model ◽  
Expectancy Value ◽  
Service Programs ◽  
Undergraduate Experience ◽  
The Impact

Experiential learning has become a common part of many engineering students undergraduate experience and is frequently accomplished using the service learning model. Intensive service learning for engineers is typically characterized by the type of “high risk” projects associated with developing world, humanitarian based service programs. In this research an expectancy-value theory model is used to evaluate student perceived value of service learning experiences. The model is applied to a case study where both engineering and non-engineering student participated in more than 25 projects over a 12 year period. Seventy-six percent of the respondents indicated that they most highly valued either the importance of the humanitarian mission or the impact of the experience on their perspective on life. Cost (monetary, time and effort) was ranked the least important factor. In all eight categories students rated the value (quality) of the experience higher than their expectation. Evidence suggests that, for engineering students, the value of the experience relative to their career should receive more emphasis and that professional role confidence may be an issue for female students. The results aid in assessing program efficacy and identifying areas where improvements can be achieved. 

scholarly journals A DESIGN-CENTERED LABORATORY CURRICULUM FOR FIRST-YEAR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Lam
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Biomedical Engineering ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Laboratory Course ◽  
Structured Design ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Design Projects

A new first-year biomedical engineering laboratory course was created using a problem-based learning approach. Centered on four semi-structured design projects and experiments, the laboratory course was designed to facilitate meaningful experiential learning. Preliminary analyses of survey results suggest that the semi-structured nature of lab activities is viewed both positively and negatively by students, depending on their perception of preparedness for the project. Its correlation with student performance will be better understood with thorough study of other components of survey results.

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