, commented “I really enjoyed thisclass, and [Calculus] has been my favorite series of classes here at WIU.” This student’scomment illustrates that he/she does not view mathematics as a ‘necessary evil’ dictated by adegree plan; rather, this student recognizes its worth and expresses his/her appreciation for thethree-semester sequence. Students also recognize the value of understanding the ‘why’ behindthe procedures for solving calculus problems. In the Calculus I course evaluations in the fall of2019, one student wrote, “She is always able to provide an explanation of why things in Calculusmust be done a certain way, which really helps to further my understanding.” By encouragingstudents to focus not only on the ‘how’ but also the ‘why’, they begin
stilldeveloping the ability to consider multiple points of view outside of their own [28].ResultsEngineering design practicesBased on our iterative rounds of observation and analysis, we used the following criteria toidentify engineering design practices in girls’ behavior: ● Problem scoping: Identifying multiple aspects of the overall design problem, considering criteria or constraints that the design should meet. ● Ideation: Generating and planning possible solutions to the design problem, including divergent thinking, brainstorming, and considering different forms a design might take. ● Testing: This included both large-scale tests of a design’s function, and small-scale tests of parts of the design. In activities without
American women pursuing careers in science29.In addition to the impacts parental support and encouragement had on women's STEM interests,parent education and experience in STEM-related career fields were also frequently addressed inthe literature. According to Espinosa25, students currently active in STEM were motivated bytheir parents to participate in STEM-related extracurricular events outside of the school. Parentswho motivated their children were also involved and successful in STEM careers themselves.This seemed to be a key element in encouraging students to clarify their ambitions and plans,with parents aiding their children to pursue meaningful career opportunities. Moakler's 30 findingssupported Espinosa's25 argument, as students with
) improve their ability to function effectively on a team whose members togetherprovide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks,and meet objectives, and (4) enhance their ability to acquire and apply new knowledge to real-world problems. These benefits were achieved to significantly higher degrees in our PBLcapstones than in traditional coursework during the pandemic and suggest that PBL can besuccessfully implemented in a persistent COVID environment to achieve engineering studentoutcomes through a variety of mediums.KeywordsProject-Based Learning, COVID-19, distance learning, Engineering education, ill-definedproblemsIntroductionThis paper presents an evidence-based study of the benefits of using
included or that they belonged over the semester. Virtual team interactions alone donot seem to be enough to foster community, and a more structured engagement format is neededto bring students together with each other and with their teaching teams.References1. A. Wigfield, J.S. Eccles. “Expectancy-value theory of achievement motivation,” Contemporary Educational Psychology, 25:68-81, 20012. B.D. Jones, M.C. Paretti, S.F. Hein, T.W. Knott, “An analysis of motivation constructs with first-year engineering students: Relationships among expectancies, vales, achievement, and career plans,” Journal of Engineering Education, 99:319-336, 20103. R.W. Lent, M.J. Miller, P.E. Smith et. al., “Social cognitive predictors of adjustment to engineering
, there is the risk of disclosing too muchof an invention or idea publicly, which will invalidate the ability to patent since it is ‘de facto’ inthe public domain. By simply filing a provisional patent application, which is far less expensive,the entrepreneur can adequately preserve their patent filing rights, while fundraising [31]. Oncethis process is reviewed and the freedom to operate is established, then the entrepreneur or start-up can plan the patent process.Figure 4: Freedom to Operate Flow DiagramShould I invest in a patent?For an entrepreneur or start-up organization, the patent question is more granular. Is it worthpatenting my invention or not? What is the return on my investment? What is the risk and/orconsequence if I do not patent
week of thesemester using data collected from a survey that was conducted on the first day of class. Surveyquestions ranged from questions about gender and race/ethnicity, to educational experience incomputer programming and other engineering concepts. The groups were created taking intoaccount the diversity of student prior educational experience. One of the major concerns that instructors have about active teaching, or any instructionalmethod other than the traditional lecture format, is regarding content coverage. Thus, it isextremely important to carefully design classroom activities to ensure the completion of theentire curriculum for this course. Much of the planning work for this project centered on thedesign of the class
lots of siblings and niece and nephew and I am expected to help them as much as they want. Other chores came up too. So I moved back into the dorm... It’s quieter and good to have free time. My brother who is my roommate and the other roommates get me out of my room to dance and do stuff. Staying in my apartment, I can’t use my meal plan (during the pandemic), and I’m not a good cook, so I don’t eat well. My family brings food to me. I don’t have money so I wasn’t eating well.”Similarly, another student noted: “I guess I made my change this quarter because I came back to campus because in the spring – at my house, I don't have a desk, and then at the time, we only had one computer for my
absorption, perceived usefulness,service quality, system quality, information quality, accessibility, and privacy/security. Based onthe findings from focus group discussions, theoretical foundations, and empirical evidence, wewill hypothesize an innovative and integrated technology acceptance model for eLearning.In near future, we will analyze reliability of the models, fitness of the measured models, andconvergent validity by performing confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). We also plan to studyracial bias in E-learning. The framework and outcome of this study provide valuable guidelinesfor ISE departments that allow better understanding of Generation Z students' needs and theiracceptance of e-learning.Introduction and background:The COVID-19
goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives."[44]. The hybrid mode improves remote students' learning 3 outcomes via creating a collaborative and self-learning environment. All these transferable and 4 remote working skillsets help students better prepare for their future academic and career roles 5 (Table 3). Table 3. The potential benefits for acquiring transferable and remote skillsets Skills Capstone project at senior year Future careers Collaborative Students need problem-solving skills for their Collaborative problem solving (CPS) is Problem-solving Capstone projects [45]. critical to generate efficiency
despite challenges.V. Future work Future plans for this work include conducting more interviews with eligible participants.We will also establish interrater reliability for coding interviews using a priori codes andemergent codes. Finally, our goal is to use the experiences shared by the LAs to weave togetherprofiles of the student learning experience during this time of crises.References[1] Otero, V., Pollock, S., McCray, R., & Finkelstein, N. (2006). Who is responsible forpreparing science teachers? Science, 313(5786), 445-446.[2] Otero, V., Pollock, S., & Finkelstein, N. (2010). A physics department’s role in preparingphysics teachers: The Colorado learning assistant model. American Journal of Physics, 78(11),1218-1224.[3
much as by what an individual’s end goals are, their engagement with a wider set ofexperiences, and the way these contribute to the overall process of becoming. The contingentapproach has some similarities with bricolage [39] or process of creating meaning through theresources available at hand. Levi-Strauss contrasted the bricoleur against the engineer whodevelops new tools and organizes resources according to a well thought through plan with adefined end. While the engineer’s work is precise with elements of permanence, the bricoleurcombines elements that already exist in ways they were not intended for.Another way to frame these two approaches is that methods based on necessity are causal whilethose based in contingency are teleological
andtechnologists to plan and conduct heavy maintenance and modifications, freighter conversionsand digital equipment modifications. The production of UAS aircraft is expected to increasesubstantially by 2030 [16]. Deloitte [17] expects defense to grow at 2.8%, space launch servicesto grow 15% or higher year over year, and space exploration and space investments to grow in2021 globally. While this is not a complete estimate of forecasted demand, it does show thatdemand is strong in the aerospace industry.Women and BIPOC in Aerospace. Early in developing higher learning institutions, mostprograms that required an interest in technical fields limited enrollment to men [18]. Womenwere not considered "worthy" of this kind of study as they would become
themselves. Men who are less qualified, both academically andtechnically, are hired, while some intelligent and well-prepared women go unemployedor are forced to work outside their fields of expertise. High academic achievement isviewed by Iranian women as a kind of insurance policy to make discrimination lesslikely, or at least more difficult. However, not all discrimination against women isintentional, as aptly noted by Perez [36], who extensively catalogues the ways in whichwomen are missing from data sets used for planning and decision-making. Defying family and societal norms, which deem women less capable than men,is another motivating factor for Iranian women. Discriminatory employment laws add towomen’s challenges, but even without
years. It aroused in me a tremendous interest in paleontology and, after theevent, I investigated what I could do to study fossils. I contacted a paleontologist and biologistfrom the Austral University of Chile. She motivated and guided me in all my concerns andquestions, opening the doors to the world of paleontology. So I can say that thanks to thismeeting, I managed to connect with something that I love and plan to study after finishing myfirst university degree."Students agreed that all the event activities, such as talks by outstanding researchers, science andtechnology workshops, and poster sessions on salient women in STEM in history, were excitingand tremendously motivating, considering it necessary to have these in future event
work place. In the professional Art and Engineering I'm going to be a field I will apply this setting, especially as an have alot to offer each engineer construction technique while engineer, it is crucial to other, but to wastewater treatment conducting a group think of everything meaningfully facilities and water discussion to collect all you're doing and how it incorporate one into conveyance related aspects or is going to affect not the other, you need to infrastructure when I views about my only you, but everyone work from the get out of college and I planned infrastructure who will be affected by
] In the earlystages of course planning we developed clearly defined learning outcomes that allowed usto determine the skills and competencies that students would achieve by the end of thecourse. Crafting specific and measurable learning outcomes ensured that the coursecontent aligned with and supported the learning goals of the students. The next step in the course development process was to determine how we would measurethe students’ progress and performance. The learning outcomes for the course are highly focusedon developing skills and proficiencies in engineering experimentation. We determinedthat authentic assessments would be the most appropriate means to measure students’achievement of the learning outcomes. For each of the 6 course
Paper ID #32775Are you sure about that? Introducing Uncertainty in UndergraduateEngineeringSophia V. Yates, Smith College Sophia V. Yates is a junior studying engineering sciences in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. She is interested in structural engineering and engineering education. Yates is planning on pursuing a graduate degree in STEM education after her time at Smith College.Dr. Christopher H. Conley, Smith College Chris Conley is currently a research affiliate with the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. He has served on the faculties of four institutions over the last three decades. He has
both within and acrossdesign courses. Not only can reflection support students’ meaning-making of a course’s learningobjectives [28], but reflection is a key design skill [34, 36]. This sentiment is akin to Schon’s[34] discussion on reflection-in-action versus reflection-on-action. For example, written studentreflections throughout a course can prompt students to reflect on experiences they occur (i.e., in-action). Thus, instructors should aim to craft opportunities for students to engage in criticalreflection during classroom experiences. While authentic learning opportunities (e.g., ‘real-world’ projects) often elicit reflective practice, they can be time-consuming to plan [37]. Thus,smaller, more frequent reflection exercises, such as the
interactivity between the sub-models of a unit (including their assembling and disassembling of the subparts) is also animportant feature to consider in the future. In addition, UI and development interface can beimproved to make it more user-friendly to both the stakeholders - students and instructors (toimplement their course content). A new version of the app with complete models for a samplecourse is planned to be uploaded to the android play store in the future.5 ConclusionThe work discussed in the paper provided an opportunity to learn how technology can be used toimprove the learning process in education. Unity, Vuforia, C# were used to build an AR mobileapp that can be used in teaching complex 3D models in engineering. The prototype contains a
furtheruse their perspectives for more informed intervention design.In this work in progress paper, the findings that are presented are a part of an ongoing NSFfunded project to understand how to get more Black male engineers to pursue advanced degreesin engineering and go into the engineering professoriate. Of the research questions that are a partof the ongoing work: 1) What factors influenced Black males to pursue graduate degrees inengineering? 2) What assets/strengths do Black males possess who persist or plan to continue inengineering beyond undergraduate studies? Only research question 1 will be explored in thispaper. This manuscript provides a brief review of the literature and overview of the study’smethodology. Findings are then presented
taking the Linear Algebra course or the Introduction to Proofs course present some risk whether they will obtain their bachelor’s degrees and do so in a timely manner. • The S-STEM Program Director collaborates very closely with the UTA Undergraduate Mathematics Advisor to assess each undergraduate mathematics major’s academic progress, mathematical preparation, academic resilience, expected date for obtaining the undergraduate degree, effort spent by the student on academic studies, etc. The UTA Undergraduate Mathematics Advisor knows each of the mathematics majors very well as she is directly involved in the student’s degree plan and she interacts with each student at least several times during
Requirements Certifications Databases - - OS Linux - CompTIA Linux+ Networking Co-req CE CompTIA Network+ Cloud Essentials (CE) - AWS Cloud Practitioner Cloud Infrastructure and AWS Solutions Architect - Associate Pre-req CE Services (CIS) Cloud Computing Capstone Co-req CIS -The course sequence was designed in conjunction with an AWS Educate team. The Educate staffassisted in the design of course sequencing and degree plans to leverage educational experiencein teaching cloud technologies. The core of basics of
answeredfastest (many in 20-30 minutes). Thequickest response time for a challengeproblem was 40 minutes.Finally, one can examine when studentspost questions or look for the solutions.Figure 4 shows that most question postsoccur at the outset of the exam. Theseposts were likely a planned method forpassing the exam, rather than impulsiveacts of (like the posts that occur near theend of the exam). Notably, students arelooking for answers at the outset of theexam as well, but views increase over theduration of the exam. Because of Figure 4 – Timing of students posting (red) orlimitations of the data set, it is not known if looking (green) at Chegg during the 2-hour examlooking truly increases over the exam time period for the whole
judiciouscombination of CPUs and co-processor accelerators like FPGAs or GPUs. This significantlyaccelerates arithmetic intensive workloads (like Artificial Intelligence projects), by leveragingthe power of data-level and task-level parallelism.Thirdly, we also present a couple of tried and tested approaches for delivering hardware basedelectrical and computer engineering courses in online format. These FPGA lab relatedapproaches have been successfully implemented in courses at different universities worldwide.Even as different universities plan a phased return to in-person instruction, we feel confident inasserting that these approaches will have an enduring positive role in creating a robusteducational system that can disseminate hands-on electrical
opportunity to deepen the technical knowledge in a way that was not initially planned as “I was working out of the main office, because of coronavirus cutting short my internship I was not able to be stationed at a specific job long enough to engage in an in-depth study of a particular area. On the contrary, being based out of the headquarters, I was able to study a broad spectrum of projects and areas.”• Essential skill development Like many industries, technical skills are required for the construction industry, but essential skills like interpersonal communication, time management, and problem-solving are not always as developed in students’ experiences as they need for their careers. Employers often remark about the
session with each new breakout room team, the students woulddiscuss individual working styles and plan how to work optimally with each other. The team ofinstructors served as coaches: monitoring the breakout rooms using affordances of the virtualspace to inspect student work in-progress and entering a breakout room to coach. Lectures werereserved for short framing discussions at the beginning of classes or clarifying lessons at the endof class. EA also included a single team project. Teams of two were assigned by the instructors 3through a match-making survey that asked students to indicate project topics of interest as wellas working style and
did not intend for these exam wrappers to have such knowledge gainsbut were pleasantly surprised to know that their students learned more from their exam wrappersthan what was planned. These trends show that the RKGI strongly measures learning outcomesfor intentionally designed factors, but also gives insights to other potential knowledge gains theinstructor might be inadvertently including in their reflection activities. Table 3. Sample student scores representing both high knowledge gains and low knowledge gains for different reflection activities. Factors and Item Student 1 Student 2Engineering Self In doing this reflection
highly valued the hands-on experience and both recognizedand appreciated the time and effort that was put into the creation and distribution of the kits. It should be noted that the development, assembly, distribution, and debugging of the kitswould not have been possible without a significant level of support. In addition to the cost ofthe kits themselves, several undergraduate tutors were hired to help with the kit development andassembly, and both undergraduate and graduate tutors were hired to help with the course itself. Thedevelopment process also required a significant amount of time and planning prior to the start ofthe course. Based on instructor observation and student feedback, a few kit updates are currentlybeing made for the next
Paper ID #32757Design and Implementation of Experiential Learning Modules forReinforced ConcreteDr. Matthew D. Lovell P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Matthew Lovell is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and he currently serves as the Interim Senior Director of Institutional Research, Plan- ning, and Assessment office. He is also serving as the director of the Making Academic Change Happen (MACH) program. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University, and he holds his PE license in Indiana. Matt is very active with respect to experimentation in the