; Mathematics (STEM) Education,Outreach and Workforce Program, Grant Number N000141812770. In addition, the first author’swork is supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Programunder Grant No. DGE1745048. Any opinion, findings, conclusions, or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of thesponsors. References[1] G. Xiao, "A Study on the bridging strategy between the theory of fluid mechanics and engineering applications," Advances in Computer Science Research, vol. 91, p. 6, 2019. https://doi.org/10.2991/msbda-19.2019.35[2] J. Hertzberg, B. Leppek, and K. Gray, "Art for the sake of improving
classroom observations, analytic and reflective notes [34]were generated and logged in an audit trail, while the identification of codes and their origins werecarefully noted. It was also during this process that emerging themes were identified, whichinformed interview protocols for member check interviews. Throughout the coding process, wecompiled transcripts and field notes with the help of hyperRESEARCH. We assigned codes toeach data set, extracted the list of codes and used those to assign codes to the next data set, addingnew codes as they were generated.Once all qualitative data were completely coded, we analyzed them to identify themes in thecodes. With trustworthiness in mind, we identified themes that were common to at least threedifferent
wasa feeling of being overwhelmed with “no chance of getting a good grade.” On the positive side,these students remarked about an improved way to learn and the utilization of many outsideresources as necessities in this modality. Online Course (OLC): The comments replicated most often reflected a feeling ofdetachment and isolation, as well as a feeling of being on their own and learning by themselves.Similar to responses in the face-to face modality, these learners also provided a majority ofnegative comments stating that the courses were more rigorous and required additional time forstudying. Additionally, respondents believed they “learned a lot less” and faculty were viewed asrestrictive with limited access and delayed feedback. The
presentation from an earlier student team for the same CSR projectassignment.The literature regarding teaching presentation skills to students includes Stuart’s case study [8],which reviewed techniques used in a graduate presentation skills class. Stuart suggested thatthese techniques be adapted to presentation classes for undergraduates as well. Her class utilizedtechniques such as video recording of student presentations for later review by the student, peerrehearsals, and assessments of PowerPoint slides. Stuart’s graduate class established twofundamental rules for student presentations. First, every aspect of the presentation's preparationand delivery should reflect respect for the audience, and second, student presentations need to be"carefully
. Thesereported values are consistent with the reported values from the 2019 survey of 94.8% and88.7% for the same two questions respectively reporting no significant drop off in the quality ofthe workshop from moving to online from on ground.Figure 9: Student Question 3.Figure 10: Student Question 4.Figures 9 and 10 report on the use of citation managers and usefulness in career; 90.3% ofstudents found citation managers valuable in some way, and 96.2% rate it likely that they willuse the information in their engineering careers. The 2019 survey reported these values as 93.8%and 98% respectively. These four tables, taken together, clearly reflect that the students foundthe learning and knowledge valuable, used what they had learned, and regard the
mission of the program is “to prepare technically-orientedmanagerial professionals and leaders for business, industry, government, and education byarticulating and integrating competencies in Renewable Energy.” The program preparesgraduates for jobs in the fields of energy and renewable energy systems as well as regulatory andgovernmental agencies. To meet the demand for well-rounded graduates who are knowledgeablein both technical and economic aspects of renewable energy systems, an interdisciplinarycurriculum was developed, consisting of a multitude of selected courses from across theuniversity. In 2018, the name of the program was revised to the “Sustainable and RenewableEnergy” program to reflect the increasingly broad array of energy
will focus on assessing these two project objectives: (i)Impact on students' problem solving and cognition skills, and (ii) Impact on students' ability tocommunicate to a wide range of audiences. Evaluation of the learning objectives will draw onassessment incorporating pre-and post-surveys, student performance, and student/facultyinterviews. Laboratory reports will be used to generate formal assessment data to evaluate students'cognitive skills at each level. We will study students’ self-confidence in problem-solving and theirlearning gain in the affective domain using self-reflections and faculty observations.Throughout the development, we learned the importance of intensive communication with alldepartment stakeholders, including students
ProgramsPurpose: These unique platforms and programs help us to support and guide our students.EduGuide is a platform that provides a path to where the students want to go by using simplesteps of content and weekly challenges of reflection. YesSHECan is a program dedicated toencouraging more women to be part of STEM, and they have connections to professionalsdedicated to skillful workshops.! Topic: YesSHECan WorkshopsPurpose: We invite the YesSHECan program to our class 7 times to introduce six uniqueworkshops. The topics were: Resume Building, Self Discovery, Confidence Building,Communication Skills, Financial Literacy, and finally, Motivation and Time Management. Thestudents were enthusiastic about these workshops, and they were always very grateful to
equity, reflected in her publications, research, teaching,service, and mentoring. More at http://srl.tamu.edu. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Rapid and Formative Response by the Engineering Education Faculty to Support the Engineering Faculty and Students throughout the Extreme Classroom Changes Resulting from the COVID-19 Pandemic Lance L.A. White Donna Jaison Samantha Ray Dr. Kelly Brumbelow Dr. Sherecce Fields Dr. Luciana R. Barroso Dr. Karan Watson P.E. Dr. Tracy HammondIntroductionThe planning and consideration for complex issues
of the real-life system. Students will alsobuild alternatives to the current system to improve the system's key performance measures. Inaddition, more data will be collected in the future course. This data will help in analyzing theeffectiveness of the CLICK approach across several courses in the IE curriculum. The usabilityof the learning modules will also be revised based on the students’ feedback.AcknowledgmentThe authors would like to thank the National Science Foundation for funding this work underGrant # 1834465. Any opinions, findings, or conclusions found in this paper are those of theauthors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors. The authors would also like tothank Xing Chen for his help in animating the 3D
is seen either via the lens of structural componentpresence/absence or via their thought process (content, discursiveness and reflectivity). Thisleads to the observation that students focus on articulating the claim rather than justification ofthe claim. Seah and Magana (2019) note that student arguments were not supported by sufficientor quality evidence to justify their design choices in Information Technology.IMPLICATIONSThese findings have implications for future research, for the development of instructionalmaterials for engineering classrooms, and for undergraduate engineering degree programs. Asengineering educators and researchers begin to explore this topic, they have many lessons tolearn from the extant research in science and math
supporting students.Project Mission and Reflection on the COVID-19 Impact on ProjectThe COVID-19 pandemic and its resultant impact across all sectors of the economy, education,and even people’s daily lives have challenged us to embrace system-wide digital transformationinitiatives and rapid-cycle innovations. Like many post-secondary institutions, FAU isreconfiguring itself and the education it is providing students in ways previously unexpected. TheTitle III Leadership Team has been working within our own College of Engineering and ComputerScience as well as in close collaboration with our State College partners to maximize our strengthsand resources in ways that enable us to more efficiently reach every student desiring to completea quality post
-test toassess the effect of the classroom intervention on students.For qualitative analysis, student reflection data, prompted with open-ended questions, will becollected to provide insight to improve the intervention strategies. Thematic coding will be usedto analyze the open-ended questions.ConclusionThe Engineering Education Pilot program described in this paper aims to produce data that willinform one another to understand how this intervention is able to provide supports for students’career pathways. In this paper, we outline the theoretical bases for this work, SCCT, and IBM.Together, these frameworks inform the types of interventions to be implemented with 8 th-gradestudents in low-income areas. The results of this work should provide
found that “Good cooperation between development team and client” and “Goodrequirements” were the two qualities most beneficial to projects [37]. The Standish Group’sCHAOS reports also emphasize the importance of user involvement and complete requirements,and pre-2000 reports are frequently used to illustrate the connection between requirements andproject success [15], [29], [37]. Newer reports frame the factors differently, yet still point to aclear connection between user or stakeholder needs and clearly stated requirements,recommending that projects focus “on a narrow set of features and requirements, which usersfind easier to understand and absorb” [39]. Bahill and Henderson reflect on famous failures toconsider if poor requirements
backgroundIn 2006, Jeannette Wing, at that time, head of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon,promoted the term computation thinking (CT). She defined computational thinking as "a range ofmental tools that reflect the breadth of the field of computer science."[1] (p.33). In this same article,Wing invited the community to see CT not only as a set of skills concerning computer scientistsbut every professional.After 2006 a significant movement of supporters of CT started to look for a formal definition andcomposition of CT. In the last 14 years, over 20 definitions and frameworks for CT have beenproposed [2], [3]. Nevertheless, although there have been increasing efforts to compile a singledefinition, those were unsatisfactory[4]. It is the
then highlighted. Thisinformation grounds the research questions that were explored in this study.BackgroundWithin civil engineering, there is debate over the extent that a master’s degree or similar formalpost-baccalaureate education is necessary for professional practice. Reflective of this debate arechanges in ASCE’s Policy Statement 465 and the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge(CEBOK) over time [4,5,6], as well as changes in the National Council of Examiners forEngineering and Surveying (NCEES) model law. The current version of Policy 465 states:“ASCE believes that the most effective means of fulfilling the formal educational requirementsof the CEBOK is by completing a baccalaureate degree in civil engineering from an ABET-accredited
Yale University’s School of Management. [Statements attributed to Corinna Ward were not made in her capacity as an associate of Capital Group and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Capital Group or its affiliates.] American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Comprehensive Review of US Minor Degrees in Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical Engineering and Unmanned Air SystemsAbstractThe demand for graduates with aerospace engineering skills is outpacing the annual number ofgraduates from US academic organizations. Minor degrees programs in aerospace engineering (orsimilarly titled) are less common than bachelor and postgraduate degree programs
- Feedback 3 10.7 Mixed design - Questionnaire 4 14.3 - Reflection reports 1 3.57 - Focus groups 1 3.57 - Game play log files 1 3.57 - Interviews 2 7.14 Game development - Questionnaire 2 7.14 - Experiments 3 10.7RQ5. What were the sampling methods and sample sizes used in the articles
]. In this capstone study, results show success when students applied thebasics notions of the BIM Execution Planning Guide [29] in setting up the team’s infrastructure.A reflective exercise of students first exploring the process generation then asking for faculty toreview the plans was more beneficial to their overall planning than providing immediate lecture-type instruction. Two key steps that all teams needed to develop and execute are listed below.Only file repository will be discussed in this paper as it is impacted by the team functionalitywhereas software workflows are primarily focused on technical usage of engineering software toget results from one platform to another. Defining the software workflows they plan to follow
. Participating faculty first attenda workshop to learn what elements of the classroom process they should focus on and how toprovide helpful observations to their colleagues. They meet in their groups after the classroomobservations have been made to debrief one another and then submit a reflection paper on theirexperiences to the project leadership team. The goal of the program is for faculty to be able toobserve and be observed by colleagues in a non-evaluative environment.The Peer Observation Program has been run three times (spring semesters of 2018, 2019 and2020) with the number of faculty participants at 11, 13 and 15, respectively.(c) SOS (Steering Online Success) STEMDuring spring 2020 the university, like most, transitioned to fully online
equity, which is reflected in her publications, research, teaching, service, and mentoring. More at http://srl.tamu.edu and http://ieei.tamu.edu.Samantha Ray, Texas A&M University Samantha Ray is a Computer Engineering PhD student at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on creating intelligent systems for tasks that require human-like levels of understanding. She has previously worked on human activity recognition (HAR) systems for promoting healthy habits and educational tools using sketch recognition and eye tracking.Dr. Paul Taele, Texas A&M University Paul Taele, PhD, is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A
opportunities for current students, and toopen up the pool of possible students interested in this field. Expanding educational opportunitiesby developing online delivery of wind energy graduate courses is one strategy to address muchneeded diversity in the field. Building upon the literature of previous successful consortiumdevelopment, a new replicable model for setting up a consortium was created, called the Rapidmodel, with the name reflecting the goal to implement a new consortium within one year.Researchers conducted a study to determine the effectiveness of the model, through observingprogram meetings, interviewing faculty, staff and administrators engaged in the consortiumdevelopment work, and examining course sharing outcomes. Researchers
those next in line to successfully compete for tenure-track facultylines are not receiving sufficient mentoring, the structural systems of power in higher educationare persisting. If this is the case, the call to action in diversifying the engineering professoriate isgoing unheard.Funding AcknowledgementThis research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Alliances for GraduateEducation and the Professoriate (AGEP; award numbers: 1821298, 1821019, 1821052, and1821008). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations are those of only theauthors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.ReferencesAllen-Ramdial, S.-A. A., & Campbell, A. G. (2014). Reimagining the pipeline: Advancing STEM diversity
haveunderscored the importance of individual-level psychological variables to diversity dynamics inorganizations as well [24].Such attitudes reflect individuals’ impressions and beliefs about people, objects, or issues [25]and are often deeply ingrained during early life and last throughout adulthood [26]. Connectingemployees’ attitudes about diversity to their prior socialization, Roberson et al. [22] state that,“[E]mployees not only bring their personal experiences with them but generational and historicalexperiences from their families and social groups” (p. 495). The attitudes that are more popularor carry more weight at a certain level, such as a nation, organization, or workgroup, thenbecomes that shared culture at that level [27], a phenomenon
, stereotype attitude, organizational culture, working environment, and jobrecruitment issues [6], [22]. Not only that, some studies on the women working in constructionshow that the majority of them work in secretarial or office positions than in the field [6], [13].Expanding further on issues of underrepresentation, in the study conducted by Fielden, et. al[13], it is reported that the construction industry has a poor image and the workers are consideredas ‘cowboys’ creating a macho stereotype. Sadly, the view of construction as a “man’s world” isstill reflected even in recent studies of women participation in construction [23]. Coupled withthat, women’s social image as being delicate and sensitive deters girls from considering pursuinga career in
men opt for technology [1]. Within different fields, thesegregation shows as differences in occupations, wages, and career paths. Research hasshown that the careers of women and men diverge upon labor market entry and continue todiverge along the career [2]. Much of the divergence reflects the horizontal segregation ineducational choices, but also the career paths of women and men with the same educationalbackground differ in many respects. This vertical segregation has not been studiedextensively in Finland. Understanding the gender differences is necessary to design effectivemeasures to reduce the vertical segregation and promote equality in the engineeringprofession.Horizontal and vertical gender segregationAll over the world, women and
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persistence. Developingwelcoming environments for students to build friendships, gain experience with research, andallowing them to present their research to others can all be beneficial. Going forward, weencourage educators to offer increased opportunities in alignment with the work described here,to foster student interest, and to broaden participation in graduate fields.AcknowledgementThis study is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation [CollaborativeResearch: Florida IT Pathways to Success (Flit-Path) NSF# 1643965, 1643931, 1643835]. Anyfindings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect theviews of the National Science Foundation.References[1] “Report - S&E Indicators 2018 | NSF