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particular context [11].To guarantee student training continuity, our university began training processes for faculty invirtual classrooms. The platform used was Blackboard Learning, which allows one to build andmanage online courses, provide training in that format, and carry out tutoring and monitoring.The academic year in Chile begins the first week of March, and the online migration of classesbegan the second week of the same month. In the case of the Entrepreneurial Vision module, therecipients were first-semester students of the Faculty of Engineering, most of whom had noprevious experience at the university, even less so when everything became online.Faced with this new scenario, we confronted the following question: What is the challenge
an Applied Geophysics course, for a Geology major from a privateuniversity in Chile.Innovation ProposalFigure 1 shows the main stages of the innovation proposal known as “FC + P” (FlippedClassroom + Podcasts). Each of the boxes seen in the figure are associated with podcastplanning, production and distribution, including any prior asynchronous activities associatedwith said podcast, while the design and execution of the synchronous class itself is alsoconsidered.At the Planning stage, and following indications by Quintanal [17], when designing podcasts foreducational purposes, both setting the learning objectives and the means to achieve them must betaken into account. Thus, for the Applied Geophysics course, the syllabus was carefully
Engineering Education, 2021Systems Thinking Tools in a Graduate Biological Engineering Class - A Work in Progress Author and AffiliationsAbstractWhen technological challenges involve complex systems that include interactions with othercomponents or agents, the system can exhibit unexpected and counterintuitive behavior. Systemsthinking is useful in such cases but is rarely taught in engineering courses that do not explicitlyinclude ‘systems’ or ‘systems dynamics’ in the syllabus. This work-in-progress describes anapplication of systems thinking concepts in an undergraduate and a graduate course inAgricultural Waste Management at North Carolina State University. Two specific systemsthinking tools were introduced to help
with an electrical engi-the instructors took several steps to ensure student success. neering background, they were new to software engineering.ENGAGING UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS FOR NATIONAL CAPTURE-THE-FLAG(CTF) IN CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION 5Traditional electrical engineering undergraduate curriculum • Active and accessible faculty membersoffers the students knowledge on how to code; however, the • Teamwork in quickly solving problemsabsence of courses such as Algorithms and Data-Structure • Student empowerment through providing the support andin the current electrical engineering syllabus lead to student guidance for successweaknesses in
for course learning outcomes. Data was collected pre-and post-completion of the course project. For clarity outcomes were numbered on the graphswith the corresponding question shown underneath. *Indicates questions developed from MSQL[88]–[90] . **Indicates course learning outcomes from the syllabus of the course.General Engineering self-efficacy (questions provided in Supplemental Information S2) was highin both the pre- and post- surveys with no statistical difference found in pre and post surveys oracross sections. This was expected in a junior cohort. Median responses of 4 (agree) were givento questions relating to engineering problem solving, such as “I am confident in my ability towork on a problem until I find the best solution
vulnerable communities, inthe development of their reports. For example, in the smart infrastructure group, one studentadvocated for including a section on the needs of people with disabilities.The course size is typically about 15 students. The small environment allows for communitybuilding to occur early in the semester, starting with an acknowledgement in the syllabus of theimpact and challenge of current events on the students’ lives. Take care of yourself. Do your best to maintain a healthy lifestyle this semester and practice self-care. You are my primary concern. No class lecture or assignment is as important as we are as individuals. The past several months have been rife with heinous, traumatic acts of racism, as
/guidelines are formed to ensure bothteams (EEP and ECE SD) get a fulfilling experience; however, none of the teams get an undueadvantage over the other teams in their respective classes. These rules also help the EEP teamwith their “sponsorship” role for the ECE SD team since, for most of them, this is the first timethey have been in this role.Grading and assignmentsBoth teams must complete their respective class deliverables based on their respective instructorsand class rubric. Both teams are graded separately based on the individual course policies andassignment rubrics by their respective instructors. Neither of the teams can assist the other teamwith their class assignments or graded project deliverables as part of their course syllabus
c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 The MOOCIBL platform: a custom-made software solution to track the innovation process with blockchain learning tokensAbstractInnovation is becoming more prevalent in education. However, limited tools have beendeveloped to track and characterize the innovation process in education. This paper presentsMOOCIBL, a custom-made online platform that tracks the different processes that occur in anInnovation-Based Learning environment. This study introduces the concept of learning tokens astiny individual trackable pieces, thought of as breadcrumbs documenting students' learning in acourse.Throughout the course, students create tokens that
focusgroup protocol. Furthermore, the elements in Bragg’s model are more within the locus ofinfluence for engineering programs and educators with a focus on the college experience. Futurework could employ a more contemporary and comprehensive model of socialization tounderstand ESI in engineering education.Project ContextThis study is part of a larger project exploring ESI education. The mixed methods project beganwith an online survey that was designed to understand educators’ practices and perspectivesrelated to ESI (for more information, see [23],[24]). Respondents (n=1448) were asked if theyintegrate ESI topics in the courses they teach or the co-curricular activities they mentor and wereprompted to indicate the characteristics of the setting
all grading wasdone by the faculty instructor. Course sizes are typically 20-30 students, with a three-coursefaculty load each semester. If one were to implement this in large courses with multiple graders,consistency in feedback would need to be a focus.If one were to implement this in their own courses, they must make sure the final grade policy iscompatible with the school’s overall policy. In the courses discussed here, the syllabus had adirect mapping of the competency-based grading outcomes to a final university-wide gradingscheme.Note regarding 2020 courses: This work was completed during the 2020 COVID-19pandemic. The original versions were taught using in-person lectures and labs, supplemented inmost cases with on-line recorded
Department, was happy toteach GEOL320 (Geology for Engineers, a popular technical elective for our engineeringstudents). Those three classes, in addition to the two taught by Dr. Quadrifoglio (CVEN322,Civil Engineering Systems, and CVEN349, Civil Engineering Project Management, bothrequired for most our civil engineering students), were eventually deemed suitable to offer a fullsemester abroad to our CVEN (civil engineering) students. All the courses were offered inEnglish following the Texas A&M syllabus as the CVEN ROME program is a faculty ledprogram where students enroll in Texas A&M courses and not Roma Tre courses. iii. Organizational StructureThe CVEN Rome Program has been deployed twice so far with this main structure
forimprovement was creation of a collaborative and inclusive environment. Overall, most scoresincreased between semesters. This may be a function of more time spent together as a team,learning each other’s nuances, and figuring out how to best work toward a common goal. Withthat stated, the teamwork survey was completed after the March 2020 pandemic stay-at-homeorders were issued and courses went online. There is a chance that greater empathy was realizedduring those trying times, especially considering that the competitions were canceled for 2020.The 2020-2021 teams responded (Table 7) with higher agreement with “my team fosters acollaborative environment” and “my team fosters an inclusive environment” than the 2019-2020teams. Overall, the 2020-2021
. ABET Learning Outcomes 3 (regarding effective communication) was adequately addressed. 4. The diversity and inclusion topics were introduced to the class with minimal additional preparation effort on the behalf on the instructor. 5. No technical coursework (traditional civil engineering calculations and analyses) was removed from the course to create room in the syllabus for the topics of diversity and inclusion. 6. Students felt comfortable sharing their thoughts through both verbal and written means of communication. 7. Students clearly gained an appreciation of the broader socioeconomic impacts that engineering projects have on communities. 8. The case was robust enough, and the teaching interventions
or control [2],[44], [45], [46]. Table 6. Summary of themes identified from participants’ approaches to developing their students’ sense of Autonomy (i.e., sense that one has a choice and control of one’s learning). Themes Participant Approaches (Direct Quotes) Student involvement in program/course Feedback on different phases of project refinement Assessment on team dynamics Graduating seniors' input for future advising Input on syllabus Student to demand that
systems companies in the Midwest. In addition to one U.S. patent, Schilling has numerous publications in refereed international conferences and other journals. He received the Ohio Space Grant Consortium Doctoral Fellowship and has received awards from the IEEE Southeastern Michigan and IEEE Toledo Sections. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and ASEE. At MSOE, he coordinates courses in software verification, real time systems, operating systems, and cybersecurity topics. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Assessing the Effectiveness of Individual Reflections on Video FeedbackAbstract: We know from research that feedback to students is
assignment where students must interview stakeholders in the translational pipeline for drug delivery products. After exposure to these topics, students are tasked to write a review and present to the class on a drug delivery topic of their choosing in groups. Several class sessions are dedicated to in-person group presentations. For Semester A, a new, dedicated HD and SDOH module was included prior to in-person group presentations.3.5 HD and SDOH module intervention An asynchronous online-lecture was developed by course instructors in which students were exposed to public health topics of HD and SDOH. Students were tasked to answer a pre-survey on their engineering social agency awareness and familiarity on HD and SDOH
-19 has affected all aspects of life, including how we travel. As faculty membersresponsible for teaching infrastructure courses across four universities, the authors collaboratedon creating a teaching module addressing this critical issue. The module focuses on the impactsof COVID-19 on different transportation systems from various stakeholder perspectives. Themodule was implemented in two universities (n = 25): Southern Methodist University (SMU)and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech, NMT) in fall 2020and will be implemented again at other schools in fall 2021. This paper presents the resultsobtained during the first implementation of the COVID-19 teaching module during the fallsemester of 2020 and addresses how
engineeringtopics and skills. Bucciarelli, Drew, and colleagues have developed example modules of thistype. One explores the historical development of the engineering of cantilever beam failure, alesson that brings together the history and philosophy of science with static mechanics. Eachmodule is problem-based and benefits from collaborative instruction. The LSE model has alsobeen suggested as a “transformative solution” to the persistent problem of low enrollment ofwomen in STEM majors and careers [10]. Although some courses and online modules in theLSE mold exist, the broader curriculum remains, according to the authors, a “sociotechnicalimaginary” useful for demonstrating to conventional engineering educators that real integrationwith the humanities is
education, with a particular focus on theexperiences and needs of groups historically limited in participation in engineering and otherscientific disciplines.Data collection and sourcesWe collected both primary and secondary data. Primary data included the responses to a designtask, complemented with information about the course by compiling ENG-DIV course materials(e.g., syllabus, fieldnotes) about the experiences of students. Although these materials and thecourse are not the main focus of this work, they allowed us to contextualize and capture a partialpicture of participants’ experiences during the quarter, including the nature and level ofinvolvement in the course activities and the plausible learning environments where the activitiesof the
tried to revise howshe gave feedback, taking cues from Haswell’s “minimal marking’ paper [36].In Spring 2019, Alice learned about Kristen’s work on visualizing arguments. Simultaneously,Alice was revising the course to be able to be presented online pre-COVID (although withsynchronous components). Alice and Kristen worked together over spring 2019 to incorporatesome of the ideas Kristen had been developing into the course. Kristen advised on a structure tointroduce the content, suggested papers, modeled graphical page forms on papers my studentswere reading, and Kristen’s graduate student, Kehinde, produced 4 introductory videos forAlice’s students to watch.Casey, as a scholar in chemistry education, took a different course with Alice on race
emphasizethat consideration is a necessary component in order to solve the complex problems faced inthe field of engineering.The initial implementation of the class was in the Spring semester of 2020. The class is asophomore level course required for integrated engineering students moving forward. TheSpring class consisted of 18 students, 17 being second year students, one being a third-yearstudent. The class included6 women and 12 men taught primarily by a White male professorwho has conducted research on socio technical dualisms that exist in engineering in the past.The course description stated in the syllabus: Ever wonder what “energy” really is? In this course you will learn the engineering behind both energy production and consumption
simple activity, the IM, to be implemented. Theeducator scaffolded conversation around inclusion in multiple ways. She was also aware of herlimitations, as someone who was interested in promoting inclusion in her course, but did nothave enough previous experience with creating inclusive spaces. From here on, we will refer tothe educator as Dr. YH.Scaffolding a DEI InterventionIn an effort to virtually build a community in Fall of 2020 that addressed issues in diversity,equity and inclusion, the Dr. YH took the following actions in an Engineering Design course: 1. Included a DEI statement in the syllabus. This statement was discussed in the first class session. This action was a part of a new department wide effort to
Paper ID #34558Transforming Curriculum to Improve STEM Learning and Advance CareerReadinessDr. Ekaterina Koromyslova, South Dakota State University Dr. Ekaterina Koromyslova is an Assistant Professor in Operations Management. She teaches several courses, including Operations and Supply Chain Management, Engineering Economic Analysis, and De- cision Making in Management. She has several years of industry experience as an analyst-consultant for manufacturing companies and as a leading manager in supply chain and logistics. Her research inter- ests are in engineering education, including learner-centered teaching strategies
&M University. He is also the Assistant Lab Director at the Sketch Recognition Lab.Dr. Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University Dr. Thomas is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineer- ing at Texas A&M University. She is a member of the Engineering Education Faculty in the Institute for Engineering Education & Innovation at Texas A&M. She enjoys project-based learning and incorporat- ing active learning techniques in all her courses. She received her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 2010, focusing on developing robotic motion planning algorithms and applying them to computational biology problems including protein folding. She continued this work as
at home or virtually, and without being in the same location as other students. o Examples: conducting a literature review, design a product/machine using CAD or other software, programming of remote/virtual machines, conducting simulations in virtual environments, and carrying out hands-on activities at home with mailed- in kits. • When viable, allow students more flexibility with their trajectory through the course or program they are enrolled in, including postponement to a later semester. • A comprehensive syllabus is helpful in helping students with understanding class requirements and instructor expectations, and is even more helpful in a situation where
. While the instructor did not teach this course again due to rotating instructor coverage,she implemented this approach in her Thermodynamics course.Details are presented in Appendix A.Thermodynamics (Spring 2020)While an epic finale approach was already planned, the instructor felt it was particularlyappropriate given the quick pivot online during COVID in Spring 2020. All students had beenassessed individually on partial exams and a cumulative FE-style quiz. The epic finale wasconducted virtually on Zoom and was less structured. Students were placed into random breakoutgroups and asked to figure out how a hospital ventilator works with schematics drawn,components identified, and technical considerations and related to thermodynamics and
model combines the student input variables(i.e., background, purpose…) and the learning outcomes, while taking into account the learningexperience and educational environment (i.e. courses, teaching/learning activities, structure,facilities…) [8].Building on the above-mentioned conceptual models, this work proposes a Context Canvas as anactionable framework to facilitate gathering information and finding correlations between theelements that influence the ideation of educational concepts. As a design tool, the context canvasaims to help educators move from the problem space to the solution space in the process ofeducational solution development.This paper is organized as follows. First, overviews of conceptual models for design are
5 3 3 2018 6 5 10 1 4 0 2019 4 9 8 5 1 1The first day experience consisted of a welcome, schedule, pre-assessment, module pretest,networking, campus tour, library workshop, and lab tour. A program syllabus and a schedulebooklet detailing daily commitments within the program were given to the teachers. The teacherswere enrolled in an online learning management platform to access handouts, notes andassignments online. For each module, a faculty mentor provided lectures to introduce theresearch and then had teachers work with the mentors to participate in
entrepreneurship principles for the betterment of the community they were part of. Thedetailed structure of the class comprising the study of affordable and accessible engineering throughsocial innovations, frugal engineering, and servant leadership is discussed in the next section.2. Description of course: Thesis, synopsis, course material, and executionUsing global cases of social innovations, students in the class researched and studied the fundamentalsof (1) engineering social innovations, (2) globalization, and (3) leadership for effective implementationand success. The course also involved a project component where students were challenged for theidentification of project statements and developing a well-thought-out engineering solution for