Undergraduates can be kept actively engaged through a variety of methods. One important method involves the use of high-frequency, low-stakes (HFLS) testing. In practice, this involves the repeated use of evaluation mechanisms that have little impact on a student’s grade. The remainder of the work presented herein will present some [...]
Scholastic honor societies are among the student organizations which are commonly available for engineering students. These groups provide recognition for academic excellence, e.g. class rank, often combined with other activity or service requirements. The immediate and long-term benefits of student participation in student organizations are well documented, cf. [1]. [...]
Serving IEEE as an ABET Program Evaluator There are many ways for each of us to provide service to the profession and the world through IEEE. One way that I have found rewarding is serving as an IEEE program evaluator (PEV) for ABET. Nearly twenty years ago, I was [...]
Any number of issues can disrupt the day-to-day schedule of our classes: winter weather, illness, travel to conferences and meetings, and jury duty to name just a few. Some of these we know about in advance, and we have time to either find a substitute to cover our lecture, [...]
Service learning projects effectively engage engineering students by tying what they are learning in the classroom to a real-life community challenge. Through service learning, students get equipped for the workforce by defining, designing, building, testing, and deploying engineering-based solutions by working hand in hand with a community organization. Students [...]
The Gateway to a Successful Engineering Career The ideal successful engineering professional should not only depend on their learned technical skills but should embody professional skills which cannot be taught in a classroom, only developed in the real world. EPICS in IEEE provides students with a hands-on opportunity to [...]
Let's Talk about Academic Integrity Ethical conduct is essential in professional life. As with other professional organizations, IEEE has a Code of Ethics that defines professional standards of conduct. Academic programs need to introduce students to ethical expectations related to their career preparation as well as to their conduct [...]
Tenure Track: Tips for Making Your Case as a Candidate Launching an academic career often means trying to become a permanent member of an academic institution. Tenure is a commitment that is made primarily based on the university’s needs—not the achievements of those seeking tenure. Typically, a doctorate is [...]
The Ins and Outs of Program Accreditation: An Introduction for Faculty Members Engineering Program Accreditation. When most people hear those words their eyes glaze over. Either they don’t understand what it is, or they feel it is not relevant to what they are doing in engineering education. As a [...]
Demystifying Compliance with ABET Criterion 4 In the early 1990s ABET, the accreditation agency for engineering and technology programs, initiated a process to move away from inflexible criteria focused on what is taught and which courses are taken to criteria focused on what is learned. The Engineering Criteria 2000 [...]