enhance analytical abilities and promote problem-solving skills usingmultiple levels of abstraction [15]. Institutes define the CT according to unique goals and standards, meaning no unifiedCT definitions exist among researchers. For example, the International Society for Technologyin Education (ISTE) defines CT as a systematic approach for solving problems in computersciences and other subject areas and careers [16]. According to the K–12 Computer ScienceFramework, CT is closely related to computer sciences, specifically the capabilities ofcomputers for solving various problems using algorithms. The framework includes corepractices for promoting the computing culture, collaborating using computing, definingcomputational problems
Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy graduate program at Michigan State University in 2010. Her current research focuses on three key areas: (1) de- signing, developing, and conducting validation studies on assessments of content knowledge for teaching (CKT) science; (2) examining and understanding validity issues associated with measures designed to assess science teachers’ instructional quality, including observational measures, value-added measures, student surveys, and performance-based tasks; and (3) extending and studying the use of these knowl- edge and instructional practices measures of science teaching quality as summative assessment tools for licensure purposes and as formative assessment tools
researcher], and [our social scientist] come into play because I think [the faculty are] going to be more receptive to reaching out to them, talking to them, and also summarizing what students are thinking through the focus group meetings and they can bring back what the students are overwhelmingly saying. This approach is not working for the majority of the students and maybe that presents a strong enough reason to change.Similarly, a social scientist at another institution said of their teammates: [They] are not small actors in having created an environment where people felt like they could contribute and do interesting things. They're understated heroes in that regard. They're trusted
of Connecticut as a part of the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (NSF-RED) project, ”Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engineering Innovation”. In her time at the University of Connecticut she has also worked as a Research Assistant for NSF CAREER project ”Promoting Engineering Innovation Through Increased Neurodiversity by Encouraging the Participation of Students with ADHD” and has served as Program Assistant for the related summer program for middle school students with ADHD. Prior to join- ing the University of Connecticut, she spent eight years as a public school teacher in Connecticut, where she maintained a focus on providing a varied learning environment and differentiated
outstand- ing publication awards from the American Educational Research Association for her journal articles. All of Dr. Borrego’s degrees are in Materials Science and Engineering. Her M.S. and Ph.D. are from Stanford University, and her B.S. is from University of Wisconsin-Madison.Patricia Clayton, University of Texas at AustinGabriella P. Sugerman, University of Texas at Austin Gabriella Sugerman is a queer, white, female graduate student in biomedical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition to her research in biomechanics, she is focused on expanding participation in difficult dialogues around equity and inclusion within engineering higher education.Cassandra Prince, LGBTQ+ STEM Issues and Advocacy
students (which isvaluable), nor faculty-student relationships (which is also valuable), but also amongstfaculty as an essential component of post Covid education.In the past ten years, this single online, pre-engineering collaborative accounts for theequivalent of over 2% of Native American engineering students annually graduating witha bachelor’s degree in engineering [9], accomplished through building trust andcommunity. Throughout the program's tenure, student-student relationships, student-instructor relationships, and instructor-instructor relationships were all intentionallyfostered through the structure of the collaborative. The students are very capable andthe program supports their efforts through a culturally-appropriate emphasis
for initiatives to im- prove the professional skills of engineering graduates. LaMeres teaches and conducts research in the area of computer engineering. LaMeres is currently studying the effectiveness of online delivery of en- gineering content with emphasis on how the material can be modified to provide a personalized learning experience. LaMeres is also researching strategies to improve student engagement and how they can be used to improve diversity within engineering. LaMeres received his Ph.D. from the University of Col- orado, Boulder. He has published over 90 manuscripts and 5 textbooks in the area of digital systems and engineering education. LaMeres has also been granted 13 US patents in the area of
Likert response questionsfocused on the course format and themes that appeared in the pre research survey. The followingdemographic information was collected and used to create a description of the participants andthe format of the courses they took: sex, high school graduation year, living situation and theformat of the classes students were taking. There were other questions on the survey that are notused in this study.Data were collected using an anonymous Qualtrics survey emailed to students at the end of fall2020 semester. Participation was voluntary and the survey was anonymous. As an incentive forparticipation, students received a small amount of extra credit for completing the survey.After the surveys were completed, the datasets were
discussions center around engineering ethical scenarios derived from theEngineering Ethics Reasoning Instrument (EERI) [10] developed at Purdue University, and ToxicWorkplaces: A Cooperative Ethics Card Game (developed by the researchers). The questionsposed to the student groups center around primary morality concepts such as integrity, conflictingobligations, and the contextual nature of ethical decision making. Please see [10] for the EERIquestions used (Nurse Schedule Software, Water Quality Testing) and [15] for details of the ToxicWorkplaces game. In order to recruit first-year engineering students at an accredited New England university,an announcement was made to their first-year course. From there, interested students filled out
to search, what is considered a highly cited paper in the field, and whatis acceptable to cite in terms of sources. It was noted by one faculty that a standalone researchmethods course was not offered in their department for graduate students, which they viewed asa “deficiency.” A different faculty member admitted, “I don’t know why I don’t ask you [theengineering librarian] to come [to class to speak] now that I think about it.” Another stated thatwhile they do require scholarly research and literature reviews in their graduate courses, they donot discuss assessing the quality of the references the students find.The Impact of COVID-19 on the Teaching Needs of Engineering FacultyBeyond electronic access to library materials and resources
this paper.Mr. Yousef Jalali, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Yousef Jalali is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He re- ceived a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering and M.Eng. in Energy Systems Engineering. His research interests include interaction between critical thinking, imagination, and ethical reasoning, interpersonal and interinstitutional collaboration, diversity, equity, and inclusion, systems thinking, and chemical en- gineering learning systems. Yousef taught chemical engineering courses for a few years in his home country, Iran, and first-year engineering courses for several semesters at Virginia Tech. He has provided service and
divisions.1. IntroductionThe IDEA Engineering Student Center at the University of California San Diego’s Jacobs Schoolof Engineering was established in 2010 to focus on engineering student diversity and inclusioninitiatives following a series of racially charged incidents affecting our campus’ Black students.IDEA is an acronym that stands for Inclusion, Diversity, Excellence, and Achievement. From itsinception, the IDEA Center aimed to focus on 1) outreach, 2) recruitment and yield, 3) academicsuccess and enrichment, and 4) retention and graduation for underrepresented minority (URM)students.The 2020-2021 academic year was pivotal for the IDEA Center for several reasons. First, it wasthe Center’s 10 year anniversary and the beginning of a strategic
, engineering, and mathematics. He is a published author in Chemistry Education Research and Practice (CERP) and has served as a reviewer for both CERP and the Journal of Chemical Education.Mr. Patrick M. Chaffin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COS) Mr. Patrick Chaffin is a Ph. D. graduate student at Purdue University conducting chemistry education research. His research interests are focused on exploring the dynamics of student-tutor interactions and students’ transfer of knowledge across the disciplines of STEM. He is a published author in Chemistry Education Research and Practice.Dr. Marcy H. Towns, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COS) Dr. Marcy H. Towns is the Bodner-Honig Professor of Chemistry and Director
professional highest networking interests promotion indicate) theoretical skills degree expertise Percentage of respondents Figure 1: The reasons for you to purse an industrial doctorate Here, the learning outcomes were mainly assessed from the dimensions ofknowledge and skills. Students improved significantly overall, with an average scoreof 4.53 out of 5. Among them, the improvement of knowledge was the most obviousand both were above 4.87. The following top five were academic research ability,interdisciplinary thinking, analytical thinking, innovative thinking and engineeringapplication ability. Relatively, the bottom three were teamwork skills
study goes on to add that itis still a problem in a remote classroom. This means that educators have to keep working on howto make students' experiences better. Analysis from the data showed that remote learningimpacted students’ ability to support each other in project-based learning processes. This papershows that having both cooperative and individual learning-based pedagogies may be moreeffective for high school engineering students. This year, several more high schools adopted theE4USA engineering curriculum in hybrid classrooms. Additional data is being gathered tofurther explore the themes that emerged from this study. Specifically, the research team willexplore the nuances of institutional type (rural, urban, all girls, etc
activities and discussions students will build an understanding of the ties between multiple disciplines. To identify these ties, students will engage in activities that build participation and questioning strategies for workshops and lectures, problem finding, analogical and metaphorical thinking, and collaboration in multiple formats. The collaboration of students, faculty, and visiting artists will encourage students to explore their own interests as they are situated within the boundaries of disciplines and provide strategies to create and innovate within and among disciplines.As a central element of the course, students engage in Lerman’s Critical Response Processfeedback with peers to promote
Paper ID #32564WIP: Engaging Software Engineering Students in Synchronous andAsynchronous On-line CourseDr. Bruce R. Maxim, University of Michigan - Dearborn Bruce R. Maxim has worked as a software engineer, project manager, professor, author, and consultant for more than forty years. His research interests include software engineering, human computer interaction, game design, social media, artificial intelligence, and computer science education. Dr. Maxim is Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Michigan—Dearborn and the Nattu Natarajan Professor of Engineering. He established the GAME Lab in
characteristics of students that persist in the Loyola University Chicago Engineering program from the Class of 2022 and 2023? • To what extent and in what ways does a curricular emphasis on active learning promote student engagement and persistence among engineering students, particularly women?Based on the research literature, we hypothesized that students enrolled in the Loyola UniversityChicago engineering program would have a higher level of persistence than students in otherEngineering programs. Also, we hypothesized that engagement would be more critical forwomen than men for persisting in the Engineering program. 5DesignParticipants
Champaign Alison Kerr received a doctoral degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from The University of Tulsa. Her research interests include training development and evaluation as explored across a variety of academic disciplines and organizational settings. She is currently assisting on a number of training projects aimed at developing engineering students on relevant non-technical professional skills including ethical practice and presentation. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Chemical Engineers’ Experiences of Ethics in the Health Products IndustryAbstractWhile ethics education for chemical engineers has been emphasized, potential
composition course” (p. 2). As a new engineering school that is not weighted down by 100+ years of traditionalcurricular design, Rowan is in an ideal position to create an innovative, comprehensive, andintegrated approach to engineering communication. The small size of the Rowan student body(15-35 students in each entering class and 66-140 students total) undoubtedly makes integrationeasier, but this paper demonstrates strategies for engineering-communication collaboration thatcan be applied in any context. It is also worth noting that, unlike several of the innovativeprograms that have emerged over the years, the program at Rowan is still going strong.2010 Papers: Greater Awareness of Published Research and Building on the Intellectual
Science: Collaborative Explorations, vol. 16, no. 1, p. Article 3, 2020.[11] V. Piercey, R. Segal, A. V. Filippas, T. Chen, S. Kone, R. H. Hargraves, J. Bookman, J. Hearn, D. Pike and K. Williams, "Using Site Visits to Strengthen Collaboration," Journal of Mathematics and Sciences: Collaborative Exploration, vol. 16, no. 1, p. Article 4, 2020.[12] B. Poole, L. Turner and C. Maher-Boulis, "Designign a Student Exchange Program: Facilitating Interdisciplinary Mathematics-Focused Collbaoration among College Students," Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations, vol. 16, no. 1, p. Article 13, 2020.[13] J. Bowers, B. D. Poole, C. Maher-Boulis, A. Schwartz, A. Bloomquist and E. Slate Young, "The Roles and
into two main categories based on Bloom’s Taxonomy verbs tounderstand which competencies might be: 1) Taught in classrooms – referring to competencies that utilize Bloom’s Taxonomy verbs in levels 1 through 3; and 2) Supplemented by experiential learning – referring to Bloom’s Taxonomy levels 4 through 6. Category 2 is not meant to supplant the teaching of these competencies in the classrooms, but provides an opportunity to explore how students and the curriculum might benefit from industry collaboration and inclusion for competencies that require higher levels of learning, according to employers.The verbs were categorized into Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy of Educational Objectives sixcognitive levels [17, 18], whereby
with the WFU Program for Leadership and Character and many colleagues across the university. With inclusion being a core value, she is proud that the WFU Engineering team represents 60% female engineering faculty and 40% female students, plus 20% of students from ethnic minority groups. Her areas of expertise include engineering identity, complex problem solving across cognitive and non-cognitive domains, recruitment and retention, PBL, engineering design, learning through ser- vice, character education in engineering contexts, etc. She also conducts research in cardiovascular fluid mechanics and sustainable energy technologies. Prior to joining Wake Forest University, Olga served as a Program Director at the
Integrative Graduate Education Research Traineeship (IGERT). He is the co- author of five refereed journal articles, four book chapters, twelve refereed conference proceedings with full paper, and holds two co-patent applications. Dr. Cruz was awarded funding to support his research from the Consolidated Central Valley Table Grape Pest and Disease Control District, the CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology and the California Energy Research Center. His referee experience includes perennial membership on program committees for the IEEE Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), the IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Industries (AI4I). He was also the Finance and Registration
sustainorganizational initiatives [31]. The fundamental principles for AI suggest that the inquiry shouldbegin with appreciation, should be collaborative, and should be applicable. AI begins with theidentification of positive attributes and then connects those attributes with the community’svision and action for change [32]. Thus, AI research methodology is highly generative in natureand consists of a 4-D cycle of phases: discovery, dream, destiny, and design. For example, AIresearch methodology places emphases on strategically engaging stakeholder representatives(key faculty at the host institutions, students, and graphic artists) in a networked improvementcommunity in order to gather relevant contextually bound data pertaining to each
chemistry. He is currently involved in a research project that aims to develop an observation protocol for STEM lessons and relevant training materials that are directed at improving the quality of STEM instruction in K-12 spaces. His primary research interests include assessment of student learning in STEM contexts, exploration of how integrated STEM is enacted in the secondary level (especially in chemistry classes), and assessment and promotion of students’ conceptual understanding of chemical concepts.Khomson Keratithamkul, University of Minnesota Khomson Keratithamkul is a PhD candidate in the STEM Education program at the University of Min- nesota. His research interests primarily revolve around K-12 STEM education
examined, to offer insightinto how students’ perceptions regarding their professional communication skills evolve underdifferent teaching approaches. Additionally, differences in the achieved learning outcomes forthe effective communication among these student groups were explored and compared, usingquantitative and qualitative research methods.Quantitative Analyses Survey data was used to conduct quantitative analyses. Overall response rate in the firstwave of the survey was 100% in the Supply Management Class and 68% in the Principles ofMarketing class. In the second wave of the survey, the response rate in the Supply Managementclass was 85% and in the Principles of Marketing class 72%. The observed response rates werereasonably high for
process that involves participatory practice (Emam et al.2019). It requires teams of individuals working together to achieve a singular vision and a predefined setof goals (Crosbie 1995). In a learning environment, students and faculty need to cooperate to achievecommon goals in a highly collaborative nature consistent with the industry the designed building will serve(Daniels 2002). To equip students with the skills for interdisciplinary collaboration, many accreditingboards of different disciplines require collaboration as a learning criterion, although they do not dictatewhich disciplines should collaborate or in what setting (e.g., studio, seminar or lecture) collaboration shouldbe achieved (ABET 2019; NAAB 2020). Although the Landscape
a semester that is already packedwith other course requirements and activities. With other priorities demanding student andfaculty time, realizing interaction between industry experts and students in design courses may ormay not be achievable. Research to understand the value of expert interactions may informeducators as to the pedagogical value and provide support for including these activities in designcourses.In this paper, the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Design Competition wasselected for three reasons: 1) interaction with experts is part of the competition requirements, 2)winning design proposal packages are available on a website for the ACRP Design Competition[1], and 3) the authors have participated in the
?," Career Outlook, U.S.Bureau of Labor Statistics, September 2015.[29] Strayhorn, T. L. (2010). Undergraduate research participation and STEM graduate degreeaspirations among students of color. New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010(148), 85–93. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/10.1002/ir.364[30] Bergerson, A. A. (2009). College Choice and Access to College: Moving policy, researchand practice to the 21st century. ASHE Higher Education Report, 35(4). San Francisco: WileyPeriodicals.[31] Hines, E.M., Harris, P.C., Mayes, R.D., & Moore, III, J.L. (2020). I think of college assetting a good foundation for my future: Black males navigating the college decision makingprocess. Journal for Multicultural Education, Vol. ahead-of-print No