collaboration and communicationand disrupted project schedules. While the pandemic created many barriers to the capstonedesign experience, it also provided a substantial real-world constraint for students to assess andaddress. In this respect, the pandemic was an unanticipated learning opportunity for students tolearn how to improvise, innovate, and adapt over the course of their design experience.A limited number of studies have examined how the capstone design experience changed duringthe pandemic. Jamieson reflected on the challenges during the pandemic and strategies used topreserve the quality of the students’ learning experience in a chemical engineering capstone, asenior design course and a transdisciplinary freshman course. One of the key
reflected on their concepts acrossboth concept generation sessions. Our research goals were to identify how designers consideredpeople and whether their process changed with the request to explicitly include drawings ofpeople within sketches. The conceptual sketches and associated “think-aloud” transcripts werethen analyzed to determine the impact of the representational prompt on engineers’ thoughtprocesses and design outcomes. With a simple intervention to represent people within sketches,we found several positive effects on how engineers considered people during design.BackgroundHuman-centered design (HCD) has been an important approach in engineering since the 1980s.This framework is commonly used in design when solutions to problems are
on designer one “frequently if not always” for transitional tasks such asplanning, setting team goals, and developing strategies. The number “1” in the (1,2) positiondepicts designer 2’s reliance on designer 1 for the same function. The relations reflect the surveyresponses of the designers and are directional and of equal magnitude. The disconnect of nodesthree, four, and five to the other designers in this DSM indicates a weak connection of the networkat this particular threshold and function [61]. Twelve DSMs are constructed representing the threeleadership functions and three communications modes at two distinct frequency levels. Designer (Sink) 1
[10], as online learningexperiences lacks the overall interpersonal connections that would otherwise be present in face-to-face courses [11]. Hands-on learning also proves to be challenging, such as medical studentsreporting that “online classes proved to be an excellent opportunity for theoretical subjects likebasic sciences but not suitable for clinical subjects like clinical skills” [4]. These challenges areall reflected in engineering design education, where social group dynamic is vital for projectsuccess, and the hands-on component cannot be conveyed as effectively online.Many of the concerns around the impact of online learning on students and the effectiveness ofcontent delivery for engineering design education can be addressed with
]. Collectively, our findings are in line with caring pedagogy research [39] thatreports increased motivation and learning outcomes on the part of students when they perceivefaculty as caring about them by getting to know students and providing constructive feedback[40]. This line of work suggests that part of why learner-centered instruction is effective is thatstudents increase in their engagement and see more opportunities to learn, such as from feedbackand from peers. Faculty who care and hold high-but-reachable expectations for students may seesimilar expectations and behaviors reflected by students.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1623105. Any opinions, findings, and
chance to reflect on their improvements and progressand realize where designs might fail. This is a critical piece in the engineering self-efficacy development[13]. Second, it allowed the professor the opportunity to understand which students required moreindividual support and design coaching in the classroom. Those that were independently problem solvingand constructing could be left to their own devices. Those that were stuck were offered more guidance andprompting to help move the activity along. If the activity were done in teams, those that struggled to getstarted might not get the opportunity to independently construct limited fidelity prototypes due to the natureof team dynamics and would miss this critical part of the design realization
workshop but rather a year-long teacherprofessional development program that provides teachers with 100 contact hours to acquire andapply new knowledge and reflect on their teaching practices. Several studies emphasizecontinuous PD that occurs periodically throughout the school year to best support teachers asthey make adjustments to their lessons and teaching practices. [17,18,19,20]. In addition to PDduration, teachers in AMP! learn how to shift their current lessons to include more effectivestrategies such as inquiry-based and team based lessons [21,22]. Inquiry based teaching can bedescribed as an open communication between teachers and students to freely ask questions topromote conceptual understanding and puts an emphasis on lesson
characteristicsof engineers in the future. Writing in the year of 2020, when engineering education yet againfaces looming paradigm shift driven in part by a global pandemic and major powers’ adjustmentin attitudes and strategies to globalization, we attempt to reassess visions of “engineers for thefuture,” as reflected through policy discourses in the United States and China, two major playersin global engineering education. For this purpose, we present a careful reading of recent policydocuments published by the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the ChineseMinistry of Education (MoE).The NAE (2018) report Understanding the Educational and Career Pathways of Engineersresulted from a study commissioned by the Academy to “understand
resumes on file, especially from successful internsor contractors who could just as easily by-pass the online job advertising recruitment process. Also, it shouldbe noted that job description may not provide a complete reflection of the type of work an engineer does onthe job. The nature of the work conducted by engineers evolves as time and projects go on, meaning theactual activities of a practicing engineering may be very different from those that were written into the jobadvertisement. In addition, the rate of occurrence of activities within a job posting is unlikely to reflect theproportion of time spent on each activity by the engineer. While acknowledging these limitations, the researchteam does not claim that the findings of this paper
groups (SA4)When students reflected on what they needed from their study groups, some trends were similarto those of lab groups. For example, 21.3% of students prioritized individual accountability intraditional learning while only 14.1% did so in remote learning. This downward trend is similarto what students said about their lab groups. With regard to individual accountability, whilestudents made more frequent comments about interpersonal and social skills in remote learningwith regard to their lab groups, the increase in these types of comments in their study groups wasmuch larger. Students in remote learning mentioned interpersonal and social skills with respectto their peer groups at over twice the frequency (22.7%) of students in
-Centred Designing Task composed of two sections: The first was for thestudents to compare the structural development of either district, and reflect and make theconnection of how many of the human needs (of the Matrix of Human Needs of Satisfiers)are already considered in each plan, and therefore see how that is reflected in the quality-of-life reports of the residents of either district.The second section was to design a Human-Centred Design for the people of Shatila, with thepurpose and intention of positively impacting their quality of life in both the short and longrun. They were encouraged to include as many of the human needs (of the Matrix of BasicHuman Needs and Satisfiers) that the people of Shatila ought to have currently missing
and Physiology I 25 Heart rate Measurement CEGR 324 Structural Analysis and Lab (Sec 1) 9 Stresses and Strains CEGR 324 Structural Analysis and Lab (Sec 2) 6 Stresses and Strains IEGR 305 Engineering Thermodynamics (Sec 1) 10 Specific Heat Capacity IEGR 305 Engineering Thermodynamics (Sec 2) 23 Specific Heat Capacity PHYS 206 University Physics II 23 Sound/Reflection and Refraction of Light TRSS 414 Traffic Engineering 30 SoundMSLQ AnalysisThe Motivated Strategies for
codeswere refined to reflect observed patterns in the career possibility discussions in the data.Conceptually similar codes were grouped into a set of categories (Academia, Industry, andOther). Interview questions that probed relative importance or interest in specific career pathswere not asked; as such, the coded mentions of a career path were considered to represent astudent’s awareness of a career possibility. Additionally, the research questions and analyticapproach presented aimed to explore what students perceived as possible rather than plausible ormost interesting.A code was counted if it was mentioned at least once by a participant. Because the intensity ofthe students’ awareness or interest was not the focus of this study, multiple
conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of theauthor(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] E. P. Cunningham, “A typology of mathematical moments in kindergarten classrooms,” Ph.D. dissertation, Graduate College, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 2018.[2] E. R. Banilower, P. S. Smith, K. A. Malzahn, C. L. Plumley, E. M. Gordon, and M. L. Hayes, Report of the 2018 NSSME+. Chapel Hill, NC: Horizon Research, Inc., 2018.[3] C. N. Lippard, M. H. Lamm, K. M. Tank,and J. Y. Choi, “Pre-engineering thinking and engineering habits of mind in preschool classroom,” Early Childhood Education Journal, vol. 47, pp. 187-198, 2019.[4] B. L. Dorie, T. R. Jones, M. C
respect. The significance of faculty being available to meet may reflect the significantdemands that especially minoritized women face in managing multiple priorities on their time.One ethnographic study recounts how Inez, a minoritized multiethnic female student, felt hinderedacademically by her professors’ lack of availability outside of office hours [11]. Anotherminoritized female student, Kitatoi, expressed her frustration with attempting to receive help fromher instructors outside of office hours [39]. As a single mother, Kitatoi had competing prioritiesand a more flexible instructor could have better assisted her learning alongside her continued focuson other important obligations. Cole [41] also found that minoritized students believe
ofengineering, and a time for students to reflect upon and decide the majors and specialties theywill pursue thereon (Ngambeki, 2009). It is also a time when students’ beliefs of engineering andits education are reinforced (Hutchison et al., 2006). The content and experiences offered aspart of these courses present an opportunity to support students in developing their beliefs andattitudes towards engineering. We teach students that engineers design, apply math andscience to solve problems, program, make decisions, have different areas of specialty, but oftenmiss or convey only implicitly that engineering at its core is a human endeavor, one that ispracticed for people, with people, and as people (Fila et al., 2014). To engineer better meansengineering
between higher educationinstitutions and governments in securing their repatriation. Back in their home countries, manyinternational students faced issues with unstable internet access, limited space to work and studyin their own homes, and time zone differences which made it difficult to adapt to and learn in theremote setting. These difficulties were compounded for Asian international students by a rise inanti-Asian sentiment and hate crimes in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Significantincreases in Sinophobic slurs on Twitter, social media, message boards, and other platforms ofAmerican culture reflected a shift toward blaming the Chinese for the COVID-19 pandemic andamplified negative bias against both international and U.S. Asian students
deepening myunderstanding and empathy with my participants’ experiences.With this mentioned, I am aware that my subjectivities as someone within the community that Iam researching could present a quality threat to the findings of this research. To mitigate thisthreat, I engaged in memoing processes to help me to reflect upon all of the ways in which mysubjectivities could influence the findings. Additionally, I engaged in a “critical friends” protocolwith trusted mentors and colleagues to ensure that my framework was appropriate, my analysismethods were sound, and that my findings were representative of what the data present [33].Results & DiscussionSTEM IdeologyA recurring theme among all four participants was the reflection upon and
other. This is reality.This knowledge gained in this project pretty much stays within this project and does not help in away to predict the next similar project except providing clues and interest in similar tasks. This iswhere AI will make a difference as described in the next section.AI’s Approach for Time Estimation PredictionThe data for this project from Table 1 will be entered in the AI database as a flat-file – alltasks(te) and the project (Te) total actual units of time. For AI large amount of such project, datais key for analysis and more accurate output. For this research as noted in earlier sections, a largeAI database with similar data was created with over six hundred projects to reflect real-worlddata for this research and was
presented above. Such advice isstrongly reflective of a postfeminist sensibility. This is not to say that the women on the siteidentity personally with postfeminism as a philosophy or are even aware of it. The advice theyprovide, however, aligns with dominant postfeminist narratives and cultural ideas about howwomen can achieve success in the contemporary workplace. They emphasize the need forwomen to overcome any other issues or obstacles they may encounter as individuals (whether ornot they perceive of them as being related to gender). Women on the site promote the idea of a‘can-do’ woman who takes control of the situation and is confident.Minimizing and ReframingOne common piece of advice to women often with respect to gendered barriers was to
at-risk communities water wells. The storytellers were given three months to write their narratives with the target eventdate of March 1, 2019. They met with their story mentors (co-authors ME and SR on this paper)in November and December 2018 to discuss ideas and preliminary monologue content, followedby phone meetings with two Story Collider coaches every other week starting mid-January untilthe event to discuss experiences they thought were essential to their personal stories and craftingtheir monologues. They were asked to deeply reflect on their role as engineers and scientists insociety and contrast their ideals to real-world experiences and challenges while working withtheir
cultureof STEM departments [21], makes it more difficult for students who do not reflect these imagesto enter the community of practice [2], [22, p. 1207]. Engineer, researcher, student, and educator roles are commonly enacted by engineeringdoctoral students during their graduate studies [23]. While these academic roles may align with adoctoral students’ interests, they may also be strictly defined by the institution that the doctoralstudent serves. For example, a doctoral student may or may not be interested in being in the roleof an educator but may have to be a TA as part of their graduate program. However, regardlessof how interested they are in that role, the expectations and structure of their behaviors whenenacting that role are
community college faculty can contact the MNT-ECor visit our website (micronanoeducation.org) for more information on joining this program.AcknowledgementsThis project was supported by the Micro Nano Technology Education Center (MNT-EC), NSF ATEDUE 200028, and by the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), NSF EEC 1227110. Theopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References: 1. J. A. Hewlett, “Broadening Participation in Undergraduate Research Experiences (UREs): The Expanding Role of the Community College,” CBE-Life Sciences Education, Aug. 2018. 2. G. Bangera, S. E. Brownell, “Course-Based
equity and accessibility for all. These methods are summarized below.1) Combine synchronous and asynchronous learning options to provide both flexibility for self- paced learning and humanized interactions in the class. [10]–[13]. All the course materials, schedules, and assignments were managed using iLearn. Weekly pre-recorded lectures, usually composed of two or three 30- to 50-minute videos, were posted to iLearn as shown in Figure 2(a). At the end of each video lecture, exercises were added to reflect the topics covered in the video. A shared Google doc was created to collect questions from the students on the video lectures. The weekly video lectures were designed tailored to the weekly lab activities. Students must watch
undergraduate research. The survey questionswere generated based on recurrent conversations the faculty advisor had with his undergraduatestudents during research meetings, office hours, or arbitrary settings. Moreover, the survey1 Cohort 2 information is in parenthesesincluded an open-ended question that provided students an opportunity to reflect and share abouttheir experiences in engaging in a research group setting. Descriptive statistics were employed foranalysis and presentation of data results. The authors note the following limitations of the study:(a) small sample size; (b) self-developed survey instrument; (c) convenient sampling procedure.The administered survey consisted of nine questions for Cohort 1 and Cohort 2: Question 1: Faculty
competency. 9Fig. 2: Comparison of IDI scores pre- and post- program. Eleven students showed an increasingtrend and seven students showed a decrease.Conclusions The Sustainability Across Sectors – Sweden program impacted students’ short- and long-term academic and professional paths. The summative teaching evaluation scores reflect thatstudents gained new cultural perspectives and that the program integrated Swedish culture intothe curriculum. Students also recognized the program in the larger context of their engineeringmajor at Purdue University. The short-term benefits continued and evolved to shape studentschoices regarding graduate school, thesis research topics, additional intercultural
guidelines: To what extentshould caregivers be provided with information and facilitation to engage their children in theprocess of STEM moments?AcknowledgementThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1759259 (Indiana University) and Grant No. 1759314 (Binghamton University). Any opinions,findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of theauthor(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. References[1] Pontecorvo, C., & Girardet, H. (1993). Arguing and reasoning in understanding historical topics. Cognition and instruction, 11(3-4), 365-395.[2] Crowley, K., & Callanan, M