, CLW (now Cassidy Turley), and Jacobs Advanced Planning Group, which seeded her interest in understanding the relationship of workers, workplaces and technology. She has held a variety of positions in engineering, architecture, interior design, and con- struction firms, which drives her interest in teaching essential communication skills to students in those fields. Gobes-Ryan is on the Board of Directors of The Environmental Design Research Association. In this organization she has also served as Co-Chair of the Workplace Environments Network (WEN) since 2000 and Co-Chair of the Communication Network since 2016. She is a member of the National Communication Association. Gobes-Ryan is a Florida Licensed Interior
consistency across teams. Each sectioncomprises multiple project teams. A common design process, where interactions withcommunity partners is central, guides students through the design process. Once a project isdelivered, a new project is identified by students, their faculty mentor(s) and communitypartner(s). Example projects include assistive technology, database software for human servicesagencies, and energy-efficient and affordable housing solutions [1-3].Spring 2020 move to onlineLike many campuses, Purdue University moved online in March of 2020 and sent students homewhere possible. This began an odyssey that would last into 2021. The major milestones areshown in Figure 1. Before the formal announcement, the staff prepared plans to move to
approaches to equity. Titled “Power, Equity,and Praxis in Computing,” the course plan is discussed and assessed through three facets: thecourse’s purpose, its content, and its (intended) learning environment. The purpose of the courseis to make space for undergraduate computing students to explore how systems of power arecoproduced with computing so that students can practice making social justice-centeredtransformations as critical participants of their field. The content of the course plan is organizedthrough modules that overview opportunities and considerations for intervention in computing.The learning environment is discussed through commitments to queer and critical racepedagogies, interdisciplinarity, and mixed methods in which teacher
sufficient preparation. In order tolearn and retain ways of continuously gaining knowledge across disciplines, students must alsopractice processes of self-regulating their own ways of learning. In the context of atransdisciplinary design education course, we used in-class critique as a type of metacognitioninstruction. Through thematic coding of student reflective writings, this qualitative study revealspatterns of metacognition that emerged as student teams identified problem spaces, conductedproblem framing research, and proposed solutions. Results indicated that while some studentswere prompted by the critiques to advance in cycles of metacognitive Knowledge andRegulation, the metacognitive action of planning was largely overlooked
needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors. ● ABET Student Outcome 3: an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences. ● ABET Student Outcome 4: an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts. ● ABET Student Outcome 5: an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet
activities. They identify learningneeds, plan and implement the activity or curriculum, assess the learning outcomes, and makedecisions about how and to whom outcomes are reported, whereas the organization providessupport when needed or invited. Full community control demonstrates a great degree of equityand power sharing, with the community as the authority.Fourth, the community has agency over the outcomes, while acknowledging that educationaloutcomes are influenced by social, economic and structural factors. Thus, mature projectsinclude interventions also address social, political or economic barriers to participation. In suchprojects, community members collect and control their own data, and their own narrative, andthe data are used in ways that
attain these non-cognitive competencies, which are goals for K-12 and higher education [10].Given the raised awareness for the importance of these non-cognitive skills, assessmentsdeveloped to measure these are essential. As per the NASEM report recommendations, thespecific skills or constructs need to be clearly conceptualized and must be designed, developed,analyzed, and interpreted based on stakeholder needs [10]. The purpose of this research paper isto introduce a new and innovative methodology to the engineering education researchcommunity, named Concept Mapping [11], which has traditionally been used in evaluation andprogram planning in the health sciences. This methodology will be explained in the context ofhow it was used in developing
self-motivation, distractions, technical issues,and computer illiteracy. These virtual issues are huge, problematic factors that affect studentsacross the board, regardless of the subject matter. However, given than many already perceivethat STEM subjects are too hard to begin with make it even more difficult for teachers trying toeducate and inspire students in a virtual environment. Taking all this into consideration, it isimperative for faculty to effectively plan an outreach that provides an environment for studentsto feel comfortable venturing into fields of studies which they do not feel comfortable with.Building upon this current body of knowledge, our outreach plan sought to integrate necessaryaspects of teaching that would be fun
‘Real-World’ Question 2019 What tools would you use to analyze historical natural disaster response patterns in an effort to decrease response time and increase resource availability immediately following a natural disaster? Start by determining what information you would collect, and then explore the tools/analysis techniques you would apply to that information in order to draw a meaningful conclusion. 2020 Imagine that you are a data scientist working for the World Health Organization. Propose a plan to analyze historical natural disaster response patterns in an effort to decrease response time and increase resource availability immediately
example, without beingable to analyze difference, power, and privilege in organizations and interpersonal interactions,as well as take positive action to foster inclusion and interrupt unjust or inequitable dynamics.13DCI considerations are also interwoven in the fabric of the technical research for ASPIRE; wecannot build accessible transportation infrastructure if we do not consider issues like equity andjustice in access along multiple axes of diversity;14 assessing benefits and risks for environmentalhealth;15 and enactment of inclusive and just participatory processes for infrastructure planning.16How do we develop an engineering workforce with these needed capacities?We realize we are not the first, and surely will not be the last group of
critical thinking capacities alongside those of students, we propose here somemodular lesson plans. These plans are designed from the perspective of engineering educators atliberal arts institutions where there may be more precedent for dialogues at the intersection ofengineering, social science, and humanities compared to other institution types. These could beintroduced in the context of “traditional” engineering science plans before or simultaneously withthe deeper work of dismantling and reconceiving knowledge production in engineering andengineering education.Lesson Plan I: Understanding Engineering as PoliticalIn this lesson, students will explore the concept of futurism, think about select historical examplesof technologies that were
. The stories shared in the classroom are impactful. Depending on the narrative, aparticular story could convey a message that people of color do not belong in the engineeringfield. In addition, such narratives may create stereotypes that educators continue to perpetuate.WOCSEC provided a safe place for female engineers of color to act as storytellers as they sharedtheir experiences while in college and in their careers. Their stories were impactful and provideda space for counter-narratives that were rich with authentic discussions regarding the realities ofmatriculating as a female of color in engineering.University InitiativeIn 2018, the University of Cincinnati adopted a strategic plan with three major platforms:academic excellence, urban
its own College orSchool, as is often the case at other universities. The placement of the department in MCAS isintended to facilitate engineering as a liberal arts subject. The plan is for the program to becomeaccredited as well. These institutional factors meant that we had a substantial amount ofinstitutional support to design an ambitious, interdisciplinary program of study for our students.5. Theoretical frameworksIn thinking about how to develop MMW into a Core course that fulfills requirements in naturalscience and history (as well as a course that can contribute to ABET accreditation), we decidedto introduce students to a series of theoretical frameworks that integrate engineering andtechnology with problems of context.One of the
thedepartment interacts with students, and that this is important on a department level.We found that across engineering disciplines there is a different expectation about pursuing anengineering career after graduation. Students pursuing bioengineering, for example, were lesslikely to indicate that they planned to pursue an engineering career, which might be expectedgiven the interest of some bioengineering students to attend medical or dental school.Self-reported stress, anxiety, and depression was found to be high in our study [14], which agreeswith previous work on mental health in college students [5]. However, while we found that theaverage self-reported stress, anxiety, and depression scores of all participants do not differ acrossengineering
addition to thestudents in the program, family members were invited to participate in the activities so that itbecame more of a family affair than simply a student-only program. Twelve students participatedin the program that was remotely delivered over a period of two months. A pre-program survey ofthe participants was performed before the start of the program and a post-program survey wasconducted after the program. Additional details of the program, the surveys, and the measuredlearning outcomes will be presented in this paper along with plans for program expansion.IntroductionPhiladelphia has the highest poverty rate among the largest 10 cities in the country[1]. Reflectiveof the high poverty rate, Philadelphia residents are more likely than
, likely have implications forengineering students’ interest in continuing in engineering and professionals’ plans to stay intheir engineering jobs. Indeed, persons with disabilities are equally likely to enter engineeringmajors, but graduate with engineering degrees at lower rates. Similarly, only 65% of personswith disabilities who have an engineering or science degree are employed in STEM, versus 85%of persons without disabilities [9]. I thus examine students’ and professionals’ intentions to stayin engineering in the future.MethodsEngineering Students: ASEE Diversity & Inclusion SurveyThe ASEE Diversity and Inclusion Survey (ASEE-DIS) includes 1,729 students enrolled in anengineering program in one of eight US colleges or universities. 4 A
Introduction to Blended, Flipped, Mastery Learning Document: FYI The objective of this unit is to familiarize students with the technologies used in this course, to aid students in creating a personal plan for success in this course, and to begin to establish peer-peer interaction among students. By the end of this module, students should: 1) be able to access Canvas for course materials 2) be familiar with the vocabulary and concepts that differentiate classroom and online education 3) understand the concepts of ‘adult learning’ and ‘mastery learning’ 4) have, in mind, a plan for successfully completing this course 5) complete at least one
aims to graduate engaged professionals and community members.AcknowledgmentsWe thank the students who shared their time and insights as participants in our study and theinstructors who helped us recruit participants. We also thank Beata Johnson, Casey Wright, JosieNardo, Donovan Colquitt, and Elizabeth Sanders for reviewing an early draft of this paper andsharing constructive feedback. We also acknowledge the National Science Foundation forsupport under the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) under grant number DGE-1842166. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of theauthors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] “AACU 2018-22 Strategic Plan
will remain a mainstay after their acceleratedadoption during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have undertaken a why-what-how approach tocall for needs-driven innovation in education, like why there is a need for change (the need),what is the recommendation (the solution) and how those could be implemented (the plan). Weintroduce a strategic framework for how engineering institutions, faculty, and students must startconsidering their options, experimenting with alternatives, and start planning now. A shift in themindset, leverage digital technologies, and change in the structure are taken as the central ideasleading to solutions to the identified problems themselves and affecting the long-term goals ofaccessible access to affordable, relevant, and
perspective, before coming to a conclusion on an ethical course of action[14]. However, despite understanding an appropriate course of action, individuals may stillbehave unethically. Explorations of unethical behavior have explored this process using theTheory of Planned Behavior [15, 16] and identifying obstacles to ethical behaviors [17]. In astudy on temptations to engage in unethical behavior in academic settings and work settings(e.g., undergraduates with internship experiences), similar decision-making processes andmotivators were identified in the academic and work settings, although with differentialimportance in their model [18]. For example, engaging in cheating behavior in high school waspredictive of decisions to violate workplace
that makes working classstudents like me even able to pursue graduate studies … would be gone.”Richard described the impacts the union has on students’ standard of living and an example of aunion campaign for improved transgender health care led by transgender members: “… your standard of living has kind of been set by how much it is that the union has been able to push the university … One of the big wins that has … come out of the past three years has been … our trans healthcare coverage ... back in like 2017 … the university, pretty much said like ‘go away, like this isn't something that should be in the contract,’ … Now like I think our university has one of the best like trans health coverage plans in
and undergraduate research experiences inform and influence college students’ career decisions and future plans. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, June 24-27.44. Trenor, J. M., Yu, S. L., Waight, C. L., Zerda, K. S., & Sha, T. L. (2008). The relations of ethnicity to female engineering students' educational experiences and college and career plans in an ethnically diverse learning environment. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(4), 449-465.45. Herkert, J. R. (2005). Ways of thinking about and teaching ethical problem solving: Microethics and macroethics in engineering. Science and Engineering Ethics, 11(3), 373-385.46. Cameron, K. S., &
Paper ID #32692The Virtues of Teamwork: A Course Module to Cultivate the Virtuous TeamWorkerDr. Michael D. Gross, Wake Forest University Dr. Michael Gross is a Founding Faculty and Associate Professor of Engineering and the David and Leila Farr Faculty Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Wake Forest University. He is part of the team that is planning, developing, and delivering the brand new Engineering program, a program viewed as an opportunity to break down silos across campus and creatively think about reimagining the undergraduate engineering educational experience, integration and collaboration across
. 9Individual value propositions are blended into team value propositions, and teams present oncustomer discovery (primary and secondary research), financials, a technology roadmap, aventure plan, and final presentation comprising all their previous work. This approachunderscores the process approach as students build the final presentation throughout thesemester. Using a process approach allows them to refine their final presentation and helps thembuild confidence in their presentation skills.All presentations are evaluated via the Google Survey tool, which offers immediate feedback(see Figure 7). Students receive numerical feedback as well as comments from classmates andinstructors. Students also upload their files so the writing instructor can coach
of the model offered opportunities to explicitly definestakeholders as well as to illuminate and discuss both the recourses provided and the valuegained by each of the various stakeholders through the engagement project deliverables andprocess.IntroductionCommunity-engaged learning or service-learning is the integration of academic learning withwork that supports the greater good within local or global communities in order to enhance theacademic learning, address needs within the community, and to give students broader learningopportunities about themselves and society at large. Within engineering, the pedagogy is oftenused in design or project-based experiences where a physical deliverable, software program,design, or plan is produced as a
innovation that I consider exciting or a best practice. There is a lot going on in this class.” (8 Nov 2019).There is also the importance of planning ahead and, while attempting to keep to the schedule,being able to be flexible and move things as needed. Professor B continued: “I think that issomething to do for the spring (assuming I teach [Class B] again) – make a plan, before thesemester starts, for the specific interventions that I want to do, and incorporate them into the[pre-class daily assignments] and course schedule up front.” (1 Feb 2019).At the core of the observed solutions, sociotechnical integration is facilitated by a realisticperspective. Time is a limiting factor in the classroom, both during and in preparation, so lookingfor
and the analytical, being able to structure/organize/ plan a longer term project” and “including business courses like accounting, finance, marketing with the technical classes” 10We note in Table 1 that although “entrepreneurship” is still the least frequently surfaced themeanticipated by the research team, it emerged more frequently than the quantitative results shownin Figure 4 would have suggested. Responses highlighted “creativity” as an aspect
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