A Course Based Approach to Recognizing Student Efforts in Engineering Design Competitions

Dumond, Patrick

doi:10.24908/pceea.v0i0.10539

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“…In some cases, students feel compelled to cheat to try and keep up in their courses due to a sense of overwhelming workload [38]. Ironically, a majority of students are able to find time for extracurriculars such as design teams, so some institutions have responded by creating courses that credit these types of activities [39].…”

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“…Other approaches include courses that run parallel with extracurricular design projects for credit, or those that teach leadership [48] [39]. These courses attempt to leverage the learning environments of students outside the classroom to confer sound knowledge and practices.…”

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“…There are mixed results when it comes to evaluations such as report-writing, as students don't always appreciate the "extra" work [39].…”

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confidence: 99%

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What to do? A Review of the Academic Time-Based Decision-Making Literature

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2019

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Time-based activities at Universities are shifting toward a more transactional approach, yet there is little understanding of the time management capabilities of students in adapting to a more flexible structure. Although many studies report on efforts to address engineering students being stressed, surfacelearning oriented, and prone to missing class, few studies address how these relate to students’ time management. In an effort to explore how students value, prioritize, and spend their time, this paper proposes a new term, “Academic Time-Based Decision-Making” (ATBDM), which lies at the crossroads of time management, selfefficacy, and self-regulated learning. Factors influencing ATBDM are currently mostly speculative, although class scheduling, social norms, and the internet and social media are frequent causal suggestions. It is also unknown as to how ATBDM is conducted across the breadth of students, which skills or “tools” are employed, and whether the process or influencing factors change over the course of time. A research study to explore why and how engineering students make academic decisions is proposed. By providing deeper insights into the factors influencing ATBDM, it may be possible to develop more effective support or intervention to assist students in making balanced and positive choices.

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What to do? A Review of the Academic Time-Based Decision-Making Literature

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2019

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“…This maker culture and accessibility to these rapid prototyping technologies have had a significant impact on student interest and engagement in other aspects of our engineering programs as well. This has been demonstrated by a significant increase in the number of students involved in extracurricular activities such as engineering competitions, community outreach and active participation in many other faculty initiatives [8].…”

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“…Recently, the University of Ottawa has made a tremendous effort to revamp engineering design throughout its engineering programs by creating common first and second year interdisciplinary project based design courses [7]. These are followed up with program specific engineering design courses in third and fourth year [10], as well as optional interdisciplinary engineering design courses available to senior students [8]. In many cases, these new course rely heavily on project based learning, which is quickly gaining traction as an important tool in engineering education [11].…”

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Introducing and Sustaining Traditional Fabrication Methods in the Context of Teaching Prototyping for Engineering Design

Dumond¹

2018

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The introduction of Makerspaces across Canada has made it much easier for universities to provide engineering students the opportunity to “close the loop” on engineering design, by giving students the means to implement their projects. However, with the introduction of newer rapid prototyping technologies such as 3D printing, students forget or are unware that traditional fabrication technologies can often be more efficient then these new technologies, depending on the situation.This paper discusses the development and sustainability of traditional fabrication methods through the development of low cost dedicated facilities used in interdisciplinary engineering design courses. The introduction of these traditional fabrication methods have proven to increase the efficiency, creativity and critical thinking of engineering students related to the development of quick and iterative prototypes for their engineering designs. However, much work remains to be done if these facilities are to be optimized and sustained in this new engineering education paradigm.

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A Course Based Approach to Recognizing Student Efforts in Engineering Design Competitions

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What to do? A Review of the Academic Time-Based Decision-Making Literature

What to do? A Review of the Academic Time-Based Decision-Making Literature

Introducing and Sustaining Traditional Fabrication Methods in the Context of Teaching Prototyping for Engineering Design

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