on the anomalous expansion of water between 0o C – 4o C and alsodepicts how the density decreases from 4o C on. Students interactively explore the changes in densitywith temperature and the nonlinear nature of this change. They are asked to reflect on whether themeasurement of mass or volume is more important for accurate density estimation. The dashboard isalso used to reinforce fundamental assumptions such as the incompressibility of water or lack of changein water density due to normal pressure fluctuations.Figure 2: Interactive Dashboard for Density-Temperature Relationships (the dashboard can be accessed from: https://vuddameri.com/shiny/CE3105/Lab1a/)The second dashboard (Figure 3) explores the salinity
fromrespondents who completed our previous surveys.In order to investigate how participants navigated the COVID-19 pandemic, we asked them tocompare their experiences before and during the pandemic as well as to prospectively consider afuture as we begin to recover from the pandemic (defining these time periods as the Fall of 2019,2020, and 2021, respectively 1). Similar to other surveys that had begun to assess the impacts ofthe COVID-19 pandemic, we asked about current employment and changes in work performanceand caregiving responsibilities. However, we also asked respondents to reflect on interpersonalsupports, social connections and belonging, and practices/changes that respondents want tocontinue moving forward. Survey items included a variety of
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another taking initial responsibility forpublications related to calculus performance as well as publications on financial aid and calculusperformance combined (Searches 1 and 3). The authors first conducted a review of abstracts,retaining those that appeared relevant enough to warrant a deeper look. Abstracts were deemedrelevant if they reflected one of the research questions. Many papers had some of the keywords,but did not combine them in ways relevant to our research questions. For example, from Search1, excluded papers fell broadly into categories related to calculus or precalculus course design,bridge program development, or predicting first year GPA and retention based on admissioncriteria. In addition, duplicates were removed during this
educationby enabling faculty leaders to integrate SCADA into existing energy technician educationalprograms. The modular course has been distributed to the CREATE network of educators and isavailable for free download at www.CreateEnergy.org.Figure 2: Screenshot of the SCADA Curriculum Modules available for downloadDevelopment of the CREATE SCADA Lab Trainer BoardA SCADA Lab Trainer Board was designed to reflect common equipment for systemscontrolling and monitoring large plant operations such as water, power, or waste utilities. TheSCADA Lab Trainer Board is meant to provide a platform for aspiring plant technicians, andengineers, to experiment with common components, communication protocols and softwarepackages used in SCADA systems. The lab
about thespeaker’s education and career pathways, and their experiences in data science.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.2123260. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation. This project has received funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under grantnumber G-2021-16976.References[1] K. Domdouzis, P. Lake, and P. Crowther, “Big Data,” in Concise Guide to Databases: A Practical Introduction, K. Domdouzis, P. Lake, and P. Crowther, Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021, pp. 141–163. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030
nonverbalinteractions such as observation and reflection [29, p. 284]. Caregivers’ role is to connect“children’s present understanding and skills to reach new understanding and skills” and tosupport “dynamic shifts over development in children’s responsibilities” [29, p. 8]. From thisview, a parent-child dyad is a unit of interactive learning rather than isolated participant from thesocial context. Verbal and nonverbal interactions are windows to analyze the process of buildingmutual understanding around STEM concepts between caregivers and children.MethodsThe data for this study was collected as a part of a larger program focused on supporting family’sengagement as engineers in their home environment. As part of the program, families self-selected and
as an approximate measure of their abilities. Under a competency-based model, studentsare assessed on their ability to demonstrate mastery of course content through a series of repeatableassessments. Overviews of the approach are provided by Carberry [2], Siniawski [20], and Hylton [11].While the full effects on student learning of a standards-based course model are the subject of muchdiscussion and research, a few trends are becoming clear. Central among these is the notion that studentachievement should be judged on the basis of continual development, rather than a one-time score. Assuch there is tremendous opportunity for formative assessment and reflection. Additionally, Sadler [19]noted that such a scheme offers a number of advantages
exposing naturalized structures of a worldview. Just as Archimedescouldn’t physically find a place from which to stand with his imaginary lever, as engineeringeducators we cannot locate ourselves outside the chronotopes we naturalize.AcknowledgmentsThe author gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided for this work by the KernFamily Foundation through the Coalition for Life-Transformative Education (CLTE). Thisarticle solely reflects the opinions and conclusions of its authors and not the Kern FamilyFoundation, the CLTE, or the individuals associated with these organizations.The author gratefully acknowledges matching funds provided for this work by the Dean’s Officeat the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern
engineer that comes from a family of educators and engineers who preached to me thepower of education. It is from these roots that my passion for education and engineering comefrom but also my strong belief that education is power and everyone is entitled to it. ThoughI attended a four university for engineering. I believe that community college is becoming acritical pathway to educating and diversifying engineering. With this in mind I realize I mayhave an outsider looking in perspective and that as a researcher it is difficult to separate mypositionality from my work (Secules et al. 2021). Through peer review and self reflection Iidentify when these biases may be presenting themselves within my work and take theopportunity to have effective
encouragement than the average student receives. However,the participation in professional development activities may also reflect the intentional selectionbias for the ACCESS programs and/or the possibly higher ambition among ACCESS students.Those students who had significant ambition and academic credentials to apply and be selectedfor the ACCESS scholarship are those students who are likely predisposed to look for andengage in professional development opportunities that they understand can help them prepare fora successful career.4.5 Perceived Value of ACCESS-sponsored ExperiencesThe NSF S-STEM ACCESS program facilitated several types of events, including: Technicaland professional development seminars, CyberWVU club, summer internships
functioning. Periodic check-ins will have to be implemented in future iterations to dedicatetime for students to reflect and internalize their experience through group discussion.The UG students did not have the same first semester design course as the CU students. Adesign process overview was provided via a specific lecture to the UG students and by makingrelevant materials available for their reference. However, they voiced concerns of feeling at adisadvantage because of this, which may have affected their comfort or ability to contribute, atleast initially. Ongoing discussions are on how UG faculty can incorporate a more formaltraining on the principles of design to their students during the academic semester prior toprogram implementation.3.3
utilize their preexisting capital to socially engage withothers from similar backgrounds. The on-campus social prominence of upper-class students mayconsume the limited capital of lower-class students in imitating upper-class students, rather thanusing it for scholarly dedication and hard work. Scholars of social justice and equity argue that structural characteristics of historicalinstitutions and ethnic groups' relations are responsible for the prevailing norms of students'college success in engineering education culture[12]–[14]. Those institutionalized norms extendthe privilege to the competitive and individualistic practices associated with the White majoritystudents, but minority students conventionally do not reflect those
increasingly necessary to better prepare a futurecyber workforce. However, AI and cybersecurity are difficult areas of study, appeal to differenttypes of students, and individually require significant commitments within a fixed number ofcredit hours. Both AI and cybersecurity are already quite challenging disciplines, requiringcurricula already packed with prerequisites and difficult and time-consuming coursework. Suchpacked curricula are common in STEM degrees and pose challenges whenever new materialneeds to be integrated. Furthermore, instructors in AI and cybersecurity are not usuallycross-trained: an expert in cybersecurity rarely has expertise in AI and vice versa. This deficit isthen reflected in the study body, resulting in few cross-trained
) Sessions on pedagogy (growth mindset, pair programming, PBL, real-world connections,culturally relevant pedagogy, student identity and intersectionality).Each day of PD ended with teachers using the last half an hour to reflect, debrief, and respond tothese survey questions: What went well today? What could be improved as we move forward?What was one success you had today? Is there anything else you’d like to share?. At the end ofthe 3 weeks, we administered a summative feedback survey with mostly Likert scale items to getfeedback on various elements of the overall PD and learning experience. In addition, we alsoasked teachers how likely they are to use the learning of CSF:DC with NetsBlox in their classes inthe coming year and how they planned to
assess theeffectiveness of the online virtual conversion. This was a similar problem that crossed over to the2021 online iteration of C-Tech2 as well. 3. EVALUATION A. LimitationsSome limitations to this evaluation are that the data that is used is emails from students thatdecided to send a follow-up email so we have a skewed sample. It is possible that all studentexperiences are not reflected in our subset of students represented with our data. Only qualitativedata is analyzed to provide some context into the differences between the student experiences(this is more of a reflective, lessons learned, sharing camp design paper). Looking forward, thecollection of quantitative data to compare specific
much.The topic "extracurricular experiences and plans for working or further study" appears the mostin the objective document, then appears majorly in the positive document (for more than aquarter). Before the pandemic, 21.4% of the neutral and negative words related to this topic.However, during the pandemic, this topic is not obviously reflected in the neutral and negativewords; instead, more words tend to directly express their negative sentiments. Therefore, it isdeducible that even though students' negative sentiments were expressed more directly, thesenegative emotions were not strongly relevant to "extracurricular experiences and plans forworking or further study".To investigate what content these directly expressed negative sentiments are
furthercustomize the tools to reflect their research career stage and mentor relationship. Finally, in thementor meetings, the mentor and mentee will negotiate to arrive at an agreed format of the tools,which later serve as the roadmaps for the mentee to follow to achieve his career goals. The AMPP model targets mentor and mentee pairs for training, requiring a strategicapproach for recruitment of participants by departments or schools. Faculty who are currentlyadvising students through their early research careers are the prime target. The faculty’s interestand commitment to the program ensure their participation and contribution to the trainingsessions. Furthermore, they are more willing to recommend student participation, encourage theuse of
provides scores based on the stages of Kohlberg’s Theory of MoralDevelopment [23–25]. The Defining Issues Test was revised over time in an effort to providescores that better reflect ethical understanding, allowing for better evaluation using the DIT-2 (e.g.[26, 27]). Other ethics evaluations include the Perceptions and Attitudes toward Cheating amongEngineering Students surveys (PACES), the Moral Judgement Test (MJT), and the Engineeringand Science Issues Test (ESIT). Studies use the PACES-1 survey primarily to evaluate studentperceptions and definitions of academic dishonesty [28, 29] while the PACES-2 survey is used toevaluate a theoretical model of ethical decision-making in cheating [27, 30]. The Moral JudgementTest (MJT) is based on
design a dam to holdback 10 feet of silt and 20 feet of water with 5 feet of water on the opposite side. Students wereexpected to pick between various concretes and show that their dam would not slip or tip. Costcalculations and height calculations were required with a penalty for a dam that was too high (asit irritated the neighbors). Students turned in their projects in three ways: using a Google formwhich allowed us to check student calculations, as a homework file which included their FBDsand analysis, and as a project report to include reflection, etc. The repetition of the problems helpstudents to connect the different topics in class. The final reflection asks students to comment onwhat value is created by such a dam.
) embracingambiguity, 14) promoting technology savviness, 15) developing a work ethic for getting thingsdone, 16) designing for people through an empathetic approach, 17) applying differentdisciplinary lenses to problems or opportunities, and 18) being reflective and embracingcriticism. These items could give insight toward establishing a set of shared practices for theteaching of innovation that could bridge across disciplines.Institutional Barriers and Strategies. According to the stakeholder (i.e., faculty andadministrators) interviews, creating a shift in the paradigm of undergraduate innovationeducation, or undergraduate learning more broadly, faces multiple barriers to bothimplementation and student participation. In general, the interviewees noted the
milestone-baseddelivery method. This delivery system allowed the project to stay relevant throughout the yearand the learned knowledge from the project culminates as the course progresses. Thismethodology also allowed the students to immediately apply what they just learned on a portionof the project, as opposed to having to recall information learned weeks or months prior. Anotherunique aspect of this PBL methodology, is that, at the end of the semester an overall final projectwas due, which contained the five milestones. These five milestones were previously graded andreturned to the students shortly after they were due, therefore, the students were given theopportunity to reflect, and learn from their mistakes in their initial attempt at the
) Resumes (3) Alumni (1) Design Teams (1)Though most of the advising focused on academic concerns, the analysis reflected that theadvisors’ work was not simply focused on coursework but advising students through academicstruggles, academic and major choice, and how to interact with faculty. “I had a student who picked electrical engineering and she's like ‘Oh, I didn't really know a lot about it, so I thought maybe I major in it and find out about it.’ But what she found out was that it wasn't for her…we're here to help them learn what is involved in their major and understand what they're getting into.”--Advisor 01-03
-based choices, employing empathy when evaluating conflicts of interest, trade- offs and uncertain knowledge and contradiction with problem constraints (ABET outcome 4) 35. Demonstrates self-awareness and ability to be a reflective practitioner with values, empathy and guardianship of one’s immediate environment (ABET outcome 4) 36. Understands and reflects on the norms and values that underlie one’s behaviors (i.e., normative thinking) (ABET outcome 4) 37. Understands that every person has a role in being environmentally responsible and has the right to be informed about the environmental/social/economic impacts of the products they purchase, consume and discard (ABET outcome 4)Communication
employers in engineering industry. To nameone example, HP CEO Carly Fiorina graduated from Stanford with a degree not in a technicalfield, but in history. In 2016 the CEO and at that time Presidential Candidate said of liberal artseducation, “I learned how to condense a whole lot of information down to the essence. Thatthought process has served me my whole life… I’m one of these people who believes we shouldbe teaching people music, philosophy, history, art.” The hiring process Elon Musk has developedfor SpaceX and Tesla Motors reflects a similar sentiment, with many of the interview questionshinging on the ability to process and condense information down to a succinct remark orexplanation. To Musk as well as many other new engineering and
to help students verify their own readiness. Second,students completed a short homework assignment with each lab, and then graded it themselvesso that they reflected on their work and their understanding (as in [22]).Grades in this version of the course were based on four graded components: problem sets,quizzes, lab reports, and exams. The weights assigned to each component of the course appearin Table 2.Week Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lab1 Introduction Dynamics and Thevenin Oscilloscope Loading2 Diode Physics Diode Circuit Models Diode IV Curve3 BJT Physics BJT Circuit Models BJT IV
instructor’s frequent observations of immediate disengagement andwithdrawal of participation during these activities. For these reasons, we will consider whatadditional scaffolds, curricular revisions, and instructional strategies can be introduced into thenovice classroom to better foster engagement with course material within peer collaborativeactivities to be authentic to what is expected and productive in engineering industry settings.Sharing and Utilizing Peer Feedback While tightly interwoven with the tensions related to peer collaboration, there are uniqueconsiderations with regards to how each of the student groups offered, received, reflected on, andacted upon peer feedback for attaining insight into how students’ experiences and thus
used data from institutional documents and observations tofurther triangulate our interview data. The first author used NVivo software to analyze the transcribed data using two levels of coding.During first-level coding, she inductively coded the interviews by identifying high-level conceptsand themes which emerged from the interview data [27]. To increase the trustworthiness of thisstudy, the author used annotations to capture her evolving reflections, questions, and feelings [27],[28]. During second-level coding, the author used an iterative process of revising and combining Table 1 Student profiles: pseudonym, gender, race, institution type, major, and year in college Pseudonym Gender Race
spatial language by teachers, parents, and peers highlights theimportance of spatial relations in everyday life which can spark a heightened sense of spatialawareness [22].The purpose of this paper is to explore results from a qualitative study of how high school agedBLV youth used spatial language during a virtual engineering experience administered by theNational Federation of the Blind (NFB). Findings from this study can provide recommendationsto enhance language in curricula that better reflects BLV studentscontent and may ultimately encourage more BLV students to pursue careers in STEM fields.MethodsData Collection Site and ParticipantsData was collected during synchronous virtual Zoom sessions of the Engineering Quotient (EQ)program, an
curriculum consists of a required design-related engineering course eachsemester of their first and second years. Though various courses in the engineering curriculumhave the potential to provide opportunities for entrepreneurship development, these courses aredesigned specifically to promote EM growth in students. The first year course is focused onenhancing technical skills such as CAD software, programming, and statistical analysis, as wellas enhancing entrepreneurial skills such as teamwork, leadership, creativity, and decision-making. EM is introduced in this course through the KEEN 3C’s: Curiosity, Connections, andCreating Value, and their design projects reflect each of these core EM elements. First yearstudents were exposed to two