protocols and guidelines for students working athome. During in-person instruction, it is straightforward to model proper safety protocols andmonitor students to ensure compliance. For example, reminding students to wear safety glasseswhen soldering, or to disconnect a circuit from the power source when changing components.Several adjustments had to be made to minimize risk for at-home electronics work. First, weremoved the requirement of soldering from the projects. Students were provided with “plug-and-play” solutions such as solderless breadboards and jumper wires. Circuit safety instructions wereprovided to participants in writing, and students were asked not to begin working with their kitmaterials until proper technique was taught and modeled
assigned lecturesout of class, it is important to know what kind of impact this has on a student’s learning experience[6, 13]. By students managing their own time, some students will submit the required quiz morethan a day earlier than some of their peers. With the submission time of quizzes varying betweeneach student, it is important to be able to identify if this impacts a student’s overall performancein the course. A starting point for understanding student behaviors is their approach towards self-scheduling the commitments required for a flipped course. Although all students have differentschedules impacting when assignments are completed, alongside other factors, this paper strives tounderstand more about how a student’s approach towards the
. Emmett is a certified Project Management Professional and since 2018 has supported strategic global and online initiatives in engineering, including developing online modules to train global engineering competencies. He is the author of the books Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of US Garden Writing (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016) and with David E. Nye, Environmental Humanities: A Critical Introduction (MIT Press, 2017). With Gregg Mitman and Marco Armiero, he edited the collection of critical reflections and works of art, Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene (University of Chicago, 2018). His humanities scholarship has appeared in the journals Environmental
improvementideas without significant input from the teacher or peers outside of the team. This point in theprocess—after this internal teamwork yet prior to the team’s formal development of a subsequentplan—is a space in which teachers can facilitate a whole class discussion to enable teams to learnfrom one another and perhaps revise their initial ideas about design performance andimprovement [22]. This provides an opportunity for the teacher to help students move away frombeginning designer and towards informed designer behaviors (e.g., from making changes that donot focus on problematic areas toward making changes that do) [21]. It also enables the teacherto facilitate discussions about diagnostic troubleshooting, identifying design failures
, many researchers and educators areinvestigating anxiety interventions and their effects on student outcomes in science andengineering courses to improve student outcomes for underrepresented groups in STEM[12–15].For instance, Harris et al. tested the effectiveness of test anxiety interventions such as expressivewriting and reappraising physiological arousal on exam performance [13]. They found that theseinterventions, though they did not change the level of self-reported test anxiety in students, didincrease exam performance. Other studies have similarly shown that expressive writing exercisescan be effective in increasing cognitive abilities, particularly when performing problems requiringa high working memory [14]. Many other studies have
. Essentially, as acommunication platform itself, Zoom allows us to be “hands-on” with these topics. Wedeveloped such interactive exercises on topics including multi-level signaling, MIMO, mediumaccess control and network routing.In this paper, we will describe our experiences with implementing a set of such remotely-taughtlessons on wireless communication and networking offered to high school students. Thesecombine write-ups and interactive Zoom sessions that leverage Zoom features to engage studentsand have them experiment with the lesson concepts. Even after schools return to in-personlearning, these sessions could serve as the basis for remote summer camps or after-schoolprograms that could introduce communications concepts to high school students
Podcasts Questionnaire” (SSEPQ), as proposed by[12], was used. The questionnaire, validated by its creators, consisted of 10 Likert-type items thatevaluate student's perception regarding learning podcasts and their content adequacy, ease of use,usefulness and benefits (See Appendix). This SSEPQ questionnaire, having five response optionsranging from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree”, was distributed by email to students toanswer. In addition to the SSEPQ questionnaire itself, students were invited to freely write downany further comments in an open-ended format.In order to further inquire upon students' perception regarding the general working strategyproposed (FC + P strategy), a survey known as “Student Response to Instructional Practices
Engineer of 2020 attributes. This study will also be ofinterest to educators considering how the attributes described in 2004 remain relevant in 2020and may spark conversation about how these attributes may need to be adjusted in the future.The study will be of particular interest to those responsible for recommending and implementingcurricular changes in engineering programs.BackgroundThe report titled The Engineer of 2020, published in 2004, is a product of the National Academyof Engineering[1]. The committee responsible for writing the document included 18 people: 12affiliated with academic institutions, 4 affiliated with technology-based companies (IBM, HP,Telcordia, and Reliant Energy), 1 affiliated with a national laboratory (Sandia), and 1
and networking as well as teaching basics in Java programming language and hands-on exercises on Raspberry Pi.4. The Mobile Programming (1.5 weeks) covered mobile operating systems and hands-on experiences on writing Android programs accessing the web. Figure 3: Overview of RET Site: CoMET ProgramSelected module highlights. In the Design and Fabrication of Environmental Sensors Module, ateam of teachers from middle and high schools participated in the design, fabrication andcharacterization of electrochemical sensors that can be used for water quality monitoring. Inorder to establish the knowledge basis for their activities, a faculty mentor provided a series ofshort course lectures each day before teachers
. She is an Associate Editor for the ”Journal of American Indian Education” and has authored or edited three books and numerous articles in peer reviewed national and international journals. Her most recent edited volume was published in 2019 and is called ”The Price of Nice: How Good Intentions Maintain Educa- tional Inequity.”Dr. Ricky Camplain Ricky Camplain, PhD is an assistant professor of Health Sciences and the Center for Health Equity Re- search at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Camplain is a Comanche scholar who was trained in epidemio- logic methods at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health where I received a Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH
felt the learning gainswere less because students were “missing the point” of the labs, as “we're not interested in whatyou got as a result. We are more interested in knowing why you've got what you got.” This couldmean that a targeted pedagogical training intervention specific to online-specific strategies topromote deeper, more critical thinking might be useful to GLAs and increase their self-perception of their role [6]. Strong peer support and a mentor system might also help relievesome of the pressure from adjusting quickly to a new role as a result of the transition tohybrid/online labs [14].Table 1: Salient themes from the graduate perspective and supporting quotes 1) Lack of “The interaction with students in the online
• Conduct status reports and peer reviews • Submit status reports • Demo project • Submit final work plan and demo project • Conduct a team postmortem • Conduct and report a team postmortem14-15 Final Report, Presentation/Demo, and Project Packaging Final Report and Presentation/Demo • Package project code and documentation for next team • Give a comprehensive presentation describing project • Submit a final report and make a final development over the semester and demo the project in presentation/demo to a general audience its final state. Table 1: Team Software Project Course
sustainability, and July focused on convertingproject course implementation to online formats (due to COVID-19).In order to facilitate effective sharing of information and peer learning, SUMMIT-P uses twoprotocols during project meetings that provide a format for effective and fruitful discussion. Thetwo protocols, Descriptive Consultancy protocol and Success Analysis with Reflective Questionsprotocol, have historically been applied in the K-12 education community [4]. The DescriptiveConsultancy protocol [5], originally developed by Nancy Mohr and revised by Connie Parrishand Susan Taylor in August 2013, was modified by McDonnough and Henschel [6] and has beenadapted for this project to help presenters think more expansively about a particular
(Criterion 3) of ABET [12],Pimmel [19] developed and tested a series of short modules aimed at teaching these skills. Hisresults of the students’ perceived confidence in their ability to use technical skills indicated thatthe use of those modules produced a successful and significant effect on student learning whencompared to a control group that did not participate in the modules. These studies proposed thefollowing strategies for developing students’ conceptual understanding and technical skills:learning activities that involve cooperative work, contain opportunities to practice the skill andreceive feedback, and incorporate written, oral and graphical writing in a professional context.While these studies suggest teaching methods to enhance
research activities, have been invited to number of international conferences as Invited Speaker, chaired panel discussions and numerous international conference sessions. He has served on more than 220 international conference program committees. Furthermore, he has published number of articles in peer- reviewed international journals and conferences. He is an active member of ACM, ASEE, ASEE/PSW and CSAB.Dr. Shakil Akhtar, Clayton State University Dr. Shakil Akhtar is currently Professor of IT and Computer Science at Clayton State University. Be- fore this he was the IT Department head from July 2007 to December 2008. He was a Professor in the College of Information Technology at UAE University from 2002 to 2007
to explore their own implicit bias in the areas ofrace, gender issues, and age (the core focuses within the course). Key elements of successful implementation into the engineering leadership environmentincluded creation and access of peer support and a course operational agreement that studentswere invited to sign that outlined inclusive pedagogical approaches and mindsets. Access to peersupport during the process of building skills necessary to facilitate a course like the onedescribed in this project could be achieved by engaging with diversity offices or other experts,participating in reading groups, or paying consultants with expertise in developing instructorcapacity in the areas of diversity and inclusion. In the case of the
national exemplar in teaching engineering ethics. Her book Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility will be published by The MIT Press in 2021. She is also the co-editor of Energy and Ethics? (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019) and the author of Mining Coal and Undermining Gender: Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West (Rutgers University Press, 2014). She regularly pub- lishes in peer-reviewed journals in anthropology, science and technology studies, engineering studies, and engineering education. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the British Academy.Dr. Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines Juan Lucena is
-face and online instruction. Our results demonstratea significant increase in teamwork effectiveness for online instruction. In addition, our thematicanalysis shows particular strategies adopted by teams that led to improved team effectiveness inthe online instruction environment.IntroductionProfessionals working in the Information Technology (IT) sector are expected to be proficientwith domain-specific technical skills, while also being able to solve problems by working withtheir peers, users, and clients [1], [2]. As such, IT professionals are required to be proficient withsocial skills such as communication and teamwork [3]. Furthermore, competence in writing andproficiency in management skills are described as critical to being successful
theamount of time that would be devoted to coding. One of these respondents wrote, “runninginto errors is innately frustrating.” Two more students (7%) were put off by the piecemealprocess, with one explaining that it was hard to stay excited about the project when it is spreadout across several semesters. One student (4%) was nervous about continuing the project,writing, “it's intimidating to learn so much about something that used to be ‘untouchable’ forme.”Students’ responses to the StRIP Instrument are detailed in Table 1. The four StRIP subscaleswere considered at the beginning of semester 5 and at week 8 of semester 5, after thecardiograph lab was completed. Overall, these findings demonstrated that students are engagedin the engineering
]. Exercising her agency, Mariabella urged me (andthe group) to consider the displaced persons in the park as particular stakeholders in the design,with distinct needs and requirements. It led us to a distinctly different design space. Wedocumented this idea on the brainstorming paper in the moment. The group later took upMariabella’s idea by 1) including the displaced persons in the park amongst the differentpopulations we surveyed for the design, which led us to 2) focus our design efforts on seating inthe park. The structures of Mariabella’s and Ava’s peers could have constrained this suggestionthrough disagreement or challenge. As the people enacting the curriculum, the group leaders andI could have constrained Mariabella’s suggestion
betterunderstanding of various financial areas. The Global and Cultural Awareness competency areaprovides opportunities for students increase their cultural awareness respect, and understandingof diverse cultures. Personal and Professional Development focuses on personal growth that willlead to students becoming more confident in themselves, and a better employee. Students tracktheir progress and share their accolades with peers, advisors, and employers using Suitable, animpact measurement tool for academic institutions. Bucks+ was originally adopted by the Business + Innovation Department and is modeledafter Temple University’s recently developed Fox Leadership Development Program (FLDP)[20]. This program is a graduation requirement for Temple's
basically all that I deal with in terms of practicalengineering” (F3). This shows that while faculty solve research ill-structured problems, the waythey view industry ill-structured problems differs, which may indicate two different possiblemethods to solving these problems. The two faculty who mentioned they do not solve ill-structured problems on a regularbasis stated that they solve other types of problems such as “how to structure a class” and “howto write a tenure recommendation letter” (F9) and that they do not have time to solve ill-structured problems due to dealing with politics and networking. This indicates that due to non-research responsibilities, some faculty do not think they solve such problems, which may suggestwhy there is
-based training programs have developedonline sketching interfaces to incorporate sketching exercises into their curriculum.Formative feedback is known to support self-regulated learning [7]. However, it is challengingfor a computer-based training program to provide customized formative feedback for students’sketches automatically. Writing constructive feedback to students’ sketches requires domainexpertise to determine what type of mistakes a student made since sketching questions couldhave an enormous number of possible incorrect answers. Therefore, though time-consuming,sketching exercises are often manually graded by instructors. A recent computer-based trainingprogram, eGrove’s Spatial Vis [8], either provides limited feedback on the
author of nine chapters on an ecological psychology approach to instructional design and has authored more than two dozen peer reviewed research papers. His work has appeared in many major journals including the Journal of Educational Computing Research, the Journal of the Learning Sciences, the Journal of Research on Science Teaching, Instructional Science, and Educational Technology Research and Development. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #33866Mike’s research concerns how people think and learning, and specifically how technology can
globalization. Standards are the reason that a plug fits into the wall, a firehose fits all fire hydrants, and why all USB’s work in different computers and more. A standardis a collectively agreed upon set of rules, regulations, requirements, measurements, or technicalspecifications that are published by an organization [1]. They are published by national standardbodies that provide the means for writing and disseminating new standards. Table 1 shows a listof frequently accessed standards organizations and their commonly used acronyms. Due to a lackof peer-reviewed articles on the subject on accessing standards, the authors felt that conducting asurvey of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) would prove useful to analyze standardsacquisitions and
’ mentalhealth as they tried to focus amid distracting environments. With a lack of preparedness for the pivot and the complex effects it had on course delivery,critical student comments on negative experiences were expected. Furthermore, certain studentpreferences may have arisen as they adjusted to unfamiliar and/or ill-planned learningenvironments [5]. Documented impacts on students observed both by the authors and in publishedpapers to date have included [6-9]: • Academic stress factors such as reduced face-to-face social interactions • Limited networking presence with college personnel (faculty, staff) as well as peers • Longer response time for communication via e-mail or other online platforms • Extra assignments to make
management skills, effective learning strategies, and positive habits of mind.Dr. Jon Harcum, Clemson UniversityLaurel Whisler, Bristol Community College Laurel Whisler is Associate Dean of Library Learning Commons at Bristol Community College in Fall River, MA. In this role, Whisler provides strategic leadership for developing learning capabilities through the services and resources of the library and the tutoring/writing center. Previously, Whisler had served nearly ten years at Clemson University as Coordinator of Supplemental Instruction and then as Assis- tant Director and Coordinator of Course Support Programs in the Westmoreland Academic Success Pro- gram. In that capacity, she provided vision and direction for the
and oversees studio activities, twograduate teaching assistants (GTA) from the COE lead each session. During previous in-personofferings of the course, the studio sections were held in a specially-designed classroom spacethat was equipped with smartboards, projectors, moveable workbenches and extensive wall spaceand partitions for students to write on with erasable markers. The innovative room designprovided the opportunity for a highly collaborative hands-on learning environment for thecommunication and technology activities.Open studio sessions along with instructor office hours were held several times a week forstudents to drop-in, as needed. During in-person studio sessions, students had access to a varietyof open-source technologies used
right to live in a healthy environment… the issues addressed center onequity, fairness, and the struggle for social justice by black communities.” [11] Justice drawsattention to “equity, recognition, and participation” [8]. Participation and interactions that valuedifferent perspectives and avoid a deficit model are key conditions for social justice [13].The term ‘environmental justice’ appeared in 80 conference papers associated with the AmericanSociety for Engineering Education (ASEE), based on a search in the ASEE PEER system [14].The majority of the EJ conference papers were associated with the Liberal Education /Engineering and Society (LEES) division (11), Engineering Ethics division (11), andEnvironmental Engineering division (7
them with codes. For example, when a participant described studentsobtaining professional skills through their participation in a student organization, the responsewas coded as “development of professional skills in student organization”. In the third phase, theresearcher grouped codes with similar meanings to understand the emergent patterns and nuancesin the data. Thematic analysis helped the researcher identify three themes and gain a deeperunderstanding of faculty members’ prevalent perceptions of student career preparation for eachskill. In the last phase, peer debriefing was utilized to increase the credibility and trustworthinessof the qualitative data analysis [27]. For this step, the first author checked the themes with thesecond