ourinstitutions. This shift has changed the mindset in both students and faculty, greatly expanding the rangeof problems that students can explore at the sophomore level. Computing projects offer the ability tointroduce more open-ended problems in the mechanics courses where students can think about certainconcepts more deeply. It also provides the opportunity to introduce important ideas of numerical analysisin a way that makes those techniques immediately relevant. The projects also encourage students to getmore creative, in courses often viewed as skill development, by seeking means to verify their codes andthen use those codes to explore the target problem without the encumbrance of tedious hand calculations.Requiring that each student write a full
policies (e.g. tenure clock extensions) and developingresources for faculty and evaluators (e.g. guidance on writing COVID impact statements). Wenext discuss emergent challenges as well as implementation strategies, including working withcampus stakeholders, promoting awareness of policies, and adapting existing programmingtargeting recruiting, retaining, and promoting faculty from underrepresented groups. Weconclude by offering guidance for how institutions can remain attentive to COVID-19 impactson faculty careers in the coming years, with a focus on ongoing evaluation of new policies andprogramming, and institutional research to monitor equity
network of computers that stores transactional data in replica across every com-puter (node) in the network. This data is called a distributed ledger. The following are the coreblockchain architecture components: nodes, transactions, blocks, hashes, chain, miners and con-sensus.3.1.1.1 NodesA node [4] is a user or computer within the blockchain which is also known as peer or participant.Nodes are distributed across a widespread network and carry out a variety of tasks. All nodes on ablockchain are connected to each other and they constantly exchange the latest blockchain data soall nodes stay up to date. They store, spread and preserve the blockchain data. Figure 1 shows howmultiple nodes, designated in the Ethereum implementation as Ethereum
Paper ID #32955Exploration Elective: Students from all Disciplines Explore Engineeringand SciencesDr. Esmeralda Campos, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico Dr. Esmeralda Campos is a postdoc researcher at Writing Lab at Tecnologico de Monterrey, and she has taught undergraduate physics courses at the School of Engineering and Sciences. She obtained her bach- elor degree in Engineering Physics at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. She studied a Master degree in Education, with a specialization in Science teaching and learning, and moved forward to the PhD in Educational Innovation, both at Tecnologico de Monterrey
primary motivation for writing this paper is that in 2020, because of the COVID-19, severalinstructors worldwide had to move their courses to online environments. My experience transitioningfrom teaching face-to-face to online learning environments two years before COVID-19 could help otherinstructors strengthen the skills and knowledge needed for succeeding in online teaching. Besides thetypical challenges related to being a subject matter expert and even a pedagogical expert tied toteaching any course, online teaching of large course environments offers additional challenges. Forexample, mentoring several undergraduate peer mentors (AKA undergraduate teaching assistants) anddeveloping strategies that engage students and retain students until
(15.2%) compared to enrollment patterns in the general student population (21.7%). Disparitiesin enrollment are partnered with inequitable rates of course completion, with historicallyunderserved students completing 71% of these courses with a grade of C or better, compared toan 82% course success rate for their peers. These demographics mirror national demographictrends that indicate student access to degree and career opportunities in STEM offered by twoyear colleges disproportionately favors students who identify with hegemonic norms in STEM[2],[3]. The SEECRS project represents one institutions attempts at designing programming todismantle structures that reproduce these disparities.Beginning in 2018, Whatcom Community College started
backside of your concept map, please write down answers to : a) In your presentation, what about that concept was difficult to explain to peers? b) What ideas did you get from the group to understand this concept better?While concept map exercise was completed by all students when they came to the class wherediscussion activity was held, the self-reflection on concept maps was turned in by 46 students outof 86, for an extra credit. From student responses to prompt a), the difficulties students reportedin explaining to peers were thematically coded. The frequency of the concepts mentioned asdifficult to explain was also accounted for generating a word cloud. Student responses to promptb) were analyzed to get an insight
their non-ELC peers.BackgroundPrior research has suggested several potential contributing factors to lower rates of academicsuccess and retention within undergraduate engineering. These include lack of support andrecognition [2], inadequate advising [3], and feelings of disconnection to peers and faculty [4]–[6]. In addition to these factors linked with negative student outcomes, research has alsoidentified a host of best practices linked to positive student outcomes. Called high-impactpractices, these include learning communities, first-year seminars, writing-intensive courses,problem-based learning, collaborative assignments, and research and service opportunities [7].Specific to engineering, the use of hands-on collaborative design projects
pedagogy, we found them surprising.As a result of this survey, it became clear to us that many of our university’s instructors neededto be engaged in more conversation and training around pedagogical research, rather than beingleft to come to their own conclusions about what they feel the most important elements of theirpedagogy are. We may not have anticipated this particular need when we began designing theITM, but it is precisely the kind of opportunity it was designed for nonetheless.Beginning in the fall of 2020, the commission began to integrate the ITM into many of thepedagogical development activities it offers: actively during the annual workshop andconference, during new faculty training, and voluntary peer observation, as well as
International Online Learn- ing; Sloan-C Blending Learning; eLearning Consortium of Colorado Conference; SUNY Online Learning Summit (SOL); DOODLE; the Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference (TLT), and the Con- ference on Instructional Technologies (CIT). All of her presentations focused upon the various topics that support her mission for student success and efficient class management. Loretta has been recognized by Open SUNY as an Open SUNY Fellow Expert Online Instructional Designer. In addition, she is a member of the MERLOT Teacher Education Editorial Board and a MERLOT Peer Reviewer Extraordinaire. As a certified Quality Matters Master Reviewer and peer reviewer in general, she peer reviewed numerous
ofwork confronting each team. Based on student comments provided in the student course ratingof the instructor, the laboratory work was a highlight of the course.The introductory course taught to electrical engineering and computer science students in the fall2019 semester included a robot building team project and competition designed to further engagestudents with the course content. Teams consisting of three to four students were formed at thestart of the project. Each team was given the task to assemble a small robot and write softwarefor the same such that it is capable of following a path designated by a line on a surface. Allteams were provided with an identical package of the hardware components necessary toassemble a robot chassis. Two
scientific research. Finally, this activity encouragesstudents to practice making explicit connections between mathematical concepts, real-worldengineering problems, and policy.“Graph Theory and Gratitude”In the second activity, designed for the closing weeks of a course, students are invited to writenotes of appreciation, anonymous or otherwise, for peers who have elevated their learningexperience during the semester (additional details in Appendix B). These notes are collected anddistributed to their intended recipients; based on the flow of notes, the instructor constructs ananonymized directed graph (Figure 2).This activity reinforces numerouslearning objectives. At a basic level,by presenting yet another context inwhich a data set is
to think about experiences they had working in teams in othersituations and contexts. With these experiences in mind, students were asked to individuallybrainstorm attributes of an ideal team member by writing down as many attributes as they could,with each attribute written on a separate sticky note. The brainstorming session lastedapproximately five minutes. Reflection Brainstorm Introduce the Map attributes to Identify Identify attributes Share identifiedattributes of an definition of three elements of top 15 self and peers attributes with ideal team teamwork as a virtuous teamwork
by stress patterning; (2) low-cost, crack-tolerant, advanced metallization for solar cell durability; (3) thin film processing and nanoscale surface corrugation for enhanced light trapping for pho- tovoltaic devices; and (4) microsphere-based manufacturable coatings for radiative cooling. He has close to 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals and over 200 invited/contributed papers at academic insti- tutions, national laboratories, and conferences. He received a UNM Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award in 2005 and an NSF Career Award in 2001. He is a recipient of STC.UNM Innovation Award consecutively from 2009 to 2018, and he was elected as the 2018 STC.UNM Innovation Fellow. Dr. Han holds 17 UNM
Paper ID #33359Examining In-Person and Asynchronous Information-Seeking BehaviorInstruction Among First-Year Engineering StudentsDr. George James Lamont, University of Waterloo George Lamont is a member of the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. George is one of many instructors who teach first-year communications courses to engineers and sciences, in addition to courses in writing and rhetoric.Ms. Stephanie Mutch, University of Waterloo Stephanie Mutch works in Information Services and Resources at the University of Waterloo Library. Stephanie holds an MA in Criminology and
work effectively in teams. Indeed, Kamp [6] writes that personalattributes like autonomy, organizational sensitivity, and empathy are increasingly important injob applications. Developing such a skillset requires that students master the ability to make emotionalconnections among theoretical concepts [7]. This means that engineering educators need toinvolve students at cognitive and emotional levels in authentic, meaningful, and immersivelearning experiences amidst a full curriculum. This study, which uses mixed methods to comparedata from two semesters (one face to face, one online only) of the same Design forManufacturability course, seeks to address this need by investigating the following broadresearch question: How might
specialties include water quality, water resources, remediation of contaminated soil and water, environmental sustainability, hydrology, hazardous waste management, and STEM ed- ucation. Dr. Clark has been blessed to have the opportunity to edit three books, produce nearly forty peer-reviewed publications, in addition to over fifty presentation to national and international audiences. He has also served as a reviewer for numerous technical journals and a panel reviewer for the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Environmental Protection Agency nu- merous times. Dr. Clark’s research interests include combining chemical and environmental engineering techniques for hazardous waste handling
learn a newtopic from online videos. Students complete a JiTT quiz before lecture for assessment, and toensure they watch the videos. Questions are reused from CON homework sets, but theassignments are less complex: ten to twenty MC and up to three free response questions. UnlikeCON, the instructor varies the daily topic based on JiTT results. JiTT quizzes are worth 5% of astudent’s overall grade. During lecture, students apply knowledge with peer-instruction. We usepair programming, a software engineering paradigm where one person is the driver and the otheris the navigator. The driver focuses on the problem and writes/codes. The navigator reads ahead,manages time, and validates. The driver and navigator get the same grade. The
maximum of 8 semesters.Program HighlightsThe DuSTEM program is designed to improved retention of students in STEM. Support isbroken into three areas: financial, academic, and community [1]. These ideas are predicated onthe nine key principles advanced by the non-profit “Building Engineering and Science Talent”which identifies nine qualities of programs that are successful in nurturing well-qualified STEMgraduates [2]. These principles are • Institutional leadership • Personal attention • Bridging to the next level • Targeted recruitment • Peer support • Financial assistance • Engaged faculty • Enriched research opportunities • Continuous evaluationThe DuSTEM program is designed support
STEM to make it the new norm. She has also architected SFAz’s enhanced Community College STEM Pathways Guide that has received the national STEMx seal of approval for STEM tools. She integrated the STEM Pathways Guide with the KickStarter processes for improving competitive proposal writing of Community College Hispanic Serving Institutions. Throughout her career, Ms. Pickering has written robotics software, diagnostic expert systems for space station, manufacturing equipment models, and architected complex IT systems for global collaboration that included engagement analytics. She holds a US Patent # 7904323, Multi-Team Immersive Integrated Collaboration Workspace awarded 3/8/2011. She also has twenty-five peer
statement. I can clearly explain my strengths, interests, personal 22 qualities, and assets. I can effectively building working relationships with Peer Success Teams 8 others.In an open-ended portion of the post-evaluation we asked: “What do you like about theprogram?” The responses, in order of frequency, were: 1) learning practical skills for the jobsearch such as resume and cover letter writing, informational interviews, and job interviews; 2)the collective
country of study (ie. mismatchbetween Australian and China writing styles) may cause complications for students who are in awriting-intensive program [1]. Other challenges include engaging in a new social environment [10] requiring students tosocially and emotionally adapt while potentially leading to culture shock or cultural clashes [1,3,9,12]. This can be aided with supporting relationships among international peers or withdomestic students, as these forms of mentoring are successful in previous literature [4,5]. Mostmentoring opportunities discussed in the literature focus on connecting international studentswith other international students and do not engage much with domestic students, but the desireto connect with domestic students
, Gabe has gained significant appreciation for the importance of clearly- defined, structured, and supported pathways for program participants. Gabe has a Bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State University in English; Creative Writing. He lives in the East Bay and enjoys exploring new rivers, lakes, and beaches in the area.Mr. David Gruber, Growth Sector American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Experiential Learning during COVID-19: A Systemic Approach for Increasing Diversity in Smart ManufacturingAbstractExperiential Learning is a key component in Engineering and Engineering TechnologyEducation. However, the current engineering an
final grade and is holistically graded withguidance from a 26-item grading checklist divided into four categories: content, organization,design, and style/grammar/punctuation (see Appendix A for this checklist). This checklist guidesstudents while writing their reports, students during peer reviews, and instructors during grading.For grading, the checklist is used with about 25% of the grading weight given to each of the fourcategories. Students, teaching assistants, and instructors have appreciated the detailed guidanceprovided by the checklist—assignments that meet all items receive a 100% grade. Across andwithin the categories, individual instructors may weight what they deem most important givenwhat they have emphasized in class. For
faculty mentorship and career outcomes, includingnumber of peer-reviewed articles, number of conference presentations, salary, and jobsatisfaction? Previous studies on mentoring faculty have largely focused on medical fields (Levinsonet al., 1991; Palepu et al., 1998; Reid et al., 2012). Our study extends the literature by focusingon faculty working across a wider range of fields, including engineering, science, health, andsocial sciences, as well as across different academic institutions, by analyzing nationallyrepresentative data from the National Science Foundation Early Career Doctorates Survey(ECDS). Research findings demonstrate whether the likelihood of having a formal/informalmentor differs across faculty subgroups, and identify
Paper ID #34889Development of Multidisciplinary, Undergraduate-Led Research Program inSoft RoboticsMs. Adia Radecka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I’m an undergraduate student studying Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois. My focus is in the bioengineering subdivision: imaging and sensing. I have experience working with SoftRobotics, Arduino, and writing literature review. Traveling is a passion of mine, I have studied abroad in Rus- sia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Italy. I love meeting new people, developing new experiences, and solving problems.Ms. Alyssa Bradshaw, University of Illinois at
l changes mechanism/medication began to fail. When I started writing my dissertation, I became coping coping completely paralyzed with anxiety. I started seeing a therapist, who mechanism/behaviora mechanism/behavioral referred me to a psychiatrist. I was diagnosed with ADHD and l changes/to-do-list changes Generalized Anxiety Disorder at age 32. coping coping The anxiety disorder diagnosis didn’t surprise me, but ADHD did. mechanism/behaviora mechanism/therapy
% Lack of infrastructure 15% Concerns about the review process 13% Difficulty finding collaborators 5% Percentage of total responses Other factors 8% Figure 1. Factors preventing MSI faculty securing NSF CISE funding (n=104).When respondents spoke about time issues, their concerns centered around time needed to (a)cover their heavy teaching loads, (b) pursue research funding opportunities, (c) write proposals,and (d) conduct the research. A couple of responses alluded to poor timing of submissiondeadlines. Lack of time due to heavy teaching loads was the most frequently mentioned
retainingwomen engineering students? Do the virtual measures foster the same levels of self-efficacy inwomen engineering students as the previously offered face-to-face interactions? Do womenengineering students feel additional isolation from their peer group and perhaps question theircareer path when faced with an increased amount of online presence and the removal of criticalprograms aimed at increasing retention?While it is impossible to know the long-term impact on women engineering students due to thepandemic, it is possible to measure the immediate change in self-efficacy, sense of belonging andconfidence in program of study. This study measured changes in self-efficacy, belonging andconfidence of undergraduate women engineering students at a
suggest. Immediatelyfollowing the pitch, each student writes a short written reflection about how peer andinstructor feedback may have modified the focus or scope of their project, or helped thestudent identify additional resources.With their final paper topic fully vetted and scoped, each student writes an annotatedbibliography and 6-8 page rough draft, which is peer reviewed in class and commentedon by the instructor. Each student writes a reflection on how they will edit their draft dueto feedback they received in peer review or how they were inspired to do somethingdifferently by reading another student’s draft. The final draft is due at the end of thequarter. See selected topics for final papers in Table IV. Table IV. Select Examples of