Innovation, design and entrepreneurship for engineering students: Development and integration of innovation and entrepreneurship curriculum in an engineering degree

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pech ◽  
Barry Lin ◽  
Chung-Suk Cho ◽  
Hassan Al-Muhairi
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

scholarly journals A supervised method for unbiased peer-to-peer evaluation. An experience with engineering students

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Francisco J. Simois
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Engineering Problem ◽  
Peer Evaluation ◽  
Continuous Evaluation ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Interesting Alternative

<p class="Textoindependiente21">Continuous evaluation is an assessment method which has some appealing advantages but also implies an increase of the teacher’s efforts and it may be unfeasible if the class is large.</p><p class="Textoindependiente21">Of course, new technologies may be used to implement automatized evaluations, but it is usually quite difficult to carry them out when a complex task like an engineering problem is to be judged.</p><p class="Textoindependiente21">An interesting alternative is a peer-to-peer evaluation, that is, the students themselves review their works. Nevertheless, one drawback is that it is likely that the grades are overrated. Although this is a well-known problem, not much effort is usually put into solving it. In this work we propose a novel method to limit this inconvenience, which is that the teacher randomly supervises a fraction of the students tasks.</p><p class="Textoindependiente21">In this paper we present the results of such an experience carried out in a Signal Processing course within a Robotics Engineering degree. More precisely, four different sets of problems were solved by the teacher in class. At the same time, they were peer-to-peer reviewed by the students, following the indications given by the professor. Later, when the random supervision is performed, a penalty is applied if a major flaw in a student’s evaluation is detected. Thanks to this strategy, the scores tended to be more and more accurate according to the teacher’s criteria.</p><p class="Textoindependiente21">Finally, the results of a survey anonymously fulfilled by the students to assess this experience are also presented.</p>

scholarly journals Correlation between students’ workload and attendance as related towards final grades: A case of study on Statistics for first-year Engineering students.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos De la Calle-Arroyo ◽  
Licesio Rodríguez-Aragón
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
High Ratio ◽  
First Year ◽  
Monitoring Strategy ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Student Workload ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Final Grades ◽  
The Relationship

In this work, a monitoring experience of student workload and attendance is presented. During four academic years, from 2015 until 2019, first-year students of an Engineering degree have been asked, three times a week, to estimate their autonomous workload devoted to the Statistics subject. The monitoring strategy has been anonymous, open and voluntary and has shown a high ratio of participation: 407 students out of 433. To generate the final dataset this information has been combined with attending records to classroom-based lectures and final grades achieved. Results indicate that declared student’s workload hardly reaches the 90 hours of autonomous work established in the ECTS ratio of our university. Nonparametric comparisons show strong statistical evidences of the relationship between final grades in the subject and declared workload and attendance. We find that attendance is crucial in order to achieve a homogeneous workload along the semester and a success in the subject’s grading.

scholarly journals Supporting medical innovation and entrepreneurship through curriculum-integrated information literacy instruction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander James Carroll ◽  
Shelby Hallman
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Biomedical Engineering ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Medical Innovation ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Literacy Training ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

This presentation will share the results of a longitudinal cohort study of undergraduate students matriculating through the UNC &amp; NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. Over the last few years, students in this program have participated in an experimental, specialized information literacy training program aimed at preparing them to navigate the labyrinth of business hurdles associated with medical innovation and entrepreneurship. This longitudinal study, led by two librarians, sought to determine whether an intensive, specialized information literacy training program could introduce undergraduate biomedical engineering students to the complex environment surrounding innovative design in healthcare and medical entrepreneurship in order to improve their design projects. In addition to discussing our study’s results, we will share our lessons learned from conducting this study and some possible implications for professional practice. We will close with a discussion of the challenges involved in partnering with an academic department to conduct formal assessments of student learning, and by sharing practical strategies that other librarians can use to identify opportunities to build similar partnerships at their local institutions.Originally presented at the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) Annual Meeting 2018 in Durham, NC on August 20, 2018.

scholarly journals A Design-Based Learning Approach for Fostering Sustainability Competency in Engineering Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2958 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiliang Huang ◽  
Annan Peng ◽  
Tongguang Yang ◽  
Shuguang Deng ◽  
Yuexia He
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
System Thinking ◽  
Sensor Technology ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Passive Learning ◽  
Teaching Procedure ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

This paper provides and illustrates a design-based learning (DBL) approach for fostering individual sustainability competency in engineering education. We performed two studies with engineering students in typical educational activities. The first study helped students perform a topic-specific design task in the practicum unit of a sensor technology course, which compared the performance of the DBL approach and conventional passive learning approach. The second study guided students to develop innovative projects for participating in the "Internet Plus" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (IPIEC). To validate the proposed approach, stakeholder questionnaires and performance evaluations were implemented. The results show that the DBL approach was viable for sustainability competency teaching in terms of learning demand and teaching procedure. We found that students in the DBL group gave more prominence in the individual competencies, such as system-thinking, multidisciplinary applications, and collaboration. These findings suggest that applying the DBL approach to train sustainability competency in engineering education is beneficial for promoting students’ abilities in dealing with challenges involved in sustainability practice.

scholarly journals Exploring Formative Assessment Possibilities: Building a 'Teamwork Discourse' with First-Year Engineering Students Online

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Senna Fouché ◽  
Erika Müller
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Professional Orientation ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
Residential University

Effective teamwork is one of the Engineering Council of South Africa’s (ECSA) exit-level outcomes. To achieve this outcome, one has to learn specific discourses and behaviours related to teamwork. Professional Orientation is a first-year engineering module offered in an extended engineering degree programme at a residential university in South Africa. This module assists students in developing a ‘teamwork discourse’, using engineering-based projects that follow the CDIO framework. In 2020, these projects transitioned fully to a virtual environment due to Covid-19 restrictions. The iPeer Learning Management System tool for peer- and self-assessment was used in this research to investigate whether first-year students were able to apply the teamwork discourses taught to them when completing the projects online. A quantitative analysis of the iPeer results reflected that while 54% of the students remained consistent in the two projects, 16% showed an improvement, and 30% showed a decrease. The reasons for these results could be varied. Thus, a qualitative analysis of the students’ comments for increased and decreased marks was also conducted to assess how the relevant teamwork discourses were applied and to what extent. These findings confirmed that teamwork discourses could effectively be applied by a smaller percentage of first-year students.

scholarly journals EXPERIENCES WITH INTER-YEAR CAPSTONE DESIGN TEAMS

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. D. Mann ◽  
D. S. Petkau ◽  
K. J. Dick ◽  
S. Ingram
Keyword(s):  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Design Teams ◽  
Team Leaders ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
The University ◽  
University Setting ◽  
Capstone Design

Design teams in industry are composed of individuals with diverse backgrounds at various stages of their careers. A unique set of group dynamics will be created with one member, likely someone with sufficient experience, assuming the responsibility of being the team leader. Design teams formed in engineering classes within the university setting typically consist of individuals at the same stage of their academic training, thus students do not experience the same group dynamics as they will find in industry. In an attempt to give undergraduate engineering students this experience, inter-year design teams were formed from engineering students registered in courses representing different stages of completion of the engineering degree. Students registered in the final-year design course were expected to assume the roles of team leaders or coleaders. This paper will discuss a number of issues that were observed with inter-year capstone design teams. It has been concluded that the disadvantages of inter-year design teams outweigh the advantages.

scholarly journals Engineering students' perceptions of innovation and entrepreneurship competences

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Edwards ◽  
Luis M. Sanchez-Ruiz ◽  
Edmundo Tovar-Caro ◽  
Enrique Ballester-Sarrias
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

Contribution of Project-Based Learning on Social Skills Development

2022 ◽  
pp. 119-145
Author(s):  
Ariana Araujo ◽  
Heidi Manninen
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Engineering Degree

The scope of this chapter is to describe and share experiences of two industrial engineers that had practiced project-based learning (PBL) during their engineering degree. Currently, authors look backward with a different perspective related to PBL as they are working as industrial engineers in different areas for 10 years in a multinational environment. Such experiences provide to the students the opportunity of developing soft skills that would be difficult to obtain following a traditional expositive lecture, more focused on individual work. Several challenges and advantages of learning by doing with PBL prepare students and contribute for their professional life because this kind of learning is closer to the professional daily life. In this chapter, four main experiences faced by the authors as engineering students are reported. Furthermore, the importance of experience like that and its contribution for the professional life is explained from the authors' point of view.

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