that cybersecurityjobs will grow over 28% over the next few years [1], while the Center for Cyber Safety and Ed-ucation similarly reports that there will be 1.8 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs by the end of2022, reflecting a 20% increase from 2015 [2]. These reports indicate a great need for individualsto be trained and employed in cybersecurity for the U.S.’s safety and security. To help address thisissue, in 2020 the Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Headquarters (AF JROTC HQ)and CSforALL formed a partnership to investigate how computer science (CS) and cybersecurity 1Reinking and McGill ASEE 2022education
accessibility of education. Her current research is focused on the adoption of pedagogy innovations by instructors, specifically the use of reflections and application of the entrepreneurial mindset. Her previous research experience includes examination of implicit bias in the classroom, and application of VR technologies to improve student engagement. Darby hopes to pursue a career in STEM education and educational research.Kaitlin Mallouk (Assistant Professor) Kaitlin Mallouk is an Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Coordinator in Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University. Prior to beginning that role, she spent five years an Instructor in the Mechanical Engineering and Experiential Engineering
of our high school STEM pathways program pilot, we havedemonstrated promising results in spite of the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.Based on student surveys from the 2020-2021 academic year, participation in the dual enrollmentcourses and co-curricular activities of the iDRAW program has demonstrated a positive impacton STEM career interest and students’ perception of impact of the program on their preparationfor college and a potential career in a STEM-related field. Somewhat surprisingly, these surveysdid not show an increase in student STEM self-efficacy. This needs to be investigated further andpossibly reflects the impact of the pandemic and the fact that the courses were taught remotelyfor the entire year.The potential
cohortof students surveyed in MFGE 261, it is important not to let the introduction of new modalitiesundermine their face-to-face experiences. As shown in Figure 11, 70% of the class felt that useof remote attendance should be limited to either exceptional circumstances or to no more than25% of the class meeting times. At the same time the cohort was unanimous that remoteattendance should in some way be an option. This likely reflects their positive impressions of theadditional flexibility that this option provides when they encounter difficulties attending classesduring the term. Figure 11. Responses to Question on Conditions for Remote Class Attendance Post-PandemicMore narrowly, when asked if Microsoft Teams® should be available and used in
the sub-populations of interest have a general lack of interest in engineeringand do not connect well to the ideas presented in the items.5. Conclusions & Future WorkThe application of an Engineering Design Value Expectancy Scale (EDVES) grounded inExpectancy-Value theory as proposed by Eccles and Wigfield and synthesized from several pre-existing instruments readily allows evaluators of such an instrument to reflect on their self-efficacy, value-expectancy, and identity with engineering and engineering design [3-6] [9-10].Such an instrument also allows educators to determine where students stand and dynamically teachrelevant concepts in a manner that enhances all three of these facets for students. In particular,applying this tool in the
away package content, and other logistics during the execution day. Itconcludes with discussion on lessons learned by hosting faculty members from the design andimplementation process. A. Target groupInitially, only first-time, incoming (both frosh and transfers) women students were considered asthe target group of invitees, but, due to extremely small numbers, the returning female studentswere also invited. As a result of including incoming and current students, the program wasrenamed a (re)orientation program to reflect the diversity in the student participants.Additionally, many students spent their entire first year remotely due to COVID19, thustechnically returning, but would be new to attending classes on campus. Due to this
members, creating andapplying project management skills and being able to provide constructive feedback. Thislearning outcome maps to the definition of the following themes: Managing projects, working inteams and Iterating with Peer Feedback. Another learning outcome of the course is to“Demonstrate proficiency with implementing an engineering design process” which includescollect, analyze, represent, and interpret data and to use systematic methods to develop solutionsfor problems maps to the definition of the following themes: Data-driven Design andPrototyping with a Purpose. Students' reflection on themes directly related to the studentlearning outcomes supports the argument that this course was a success in promoting a learningenvironment even
an actual5 m/s impact speed, it is inferred that equation 𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑒 𝑉𝑉𝑡𝑡 = 𝐼𝐼 should yield 5/0.7545 = 6.63 m/s. Eachlaunch has two major inputs: total mass and total impulse of the engines included (and actuallyfired) in the mass. The impulse equation results in either an effective mass of 8.66/6.63 =1.31 kg(vs. 0.3138 kg in Table 4) or a total impulse of only 0.3138 x 6.63 = 2.08 N-s if the original massis kept. This approximation worked well. Effective mass is the average launch and arrival masses.It is not practical to procure engines with any desired impulse value. It was easier to add excessmass to busses to reduce the impact speeds, but no bus was made heavy enough as reflected inthe example above. Each team made its busses
avessel model in which sea spray droplet trajectories are analyzed under actual weatherconditions. The paper also presents an initial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis of theairflow around the vessel to better understand the likely location and rate of ice accretion. Theresults indicate that current regulations vastly underestimate the effect and amount of topsideicing on vessels and its overall effect on safe vessel operation. Student learning in each stage ofthe project is described and an overall reflection on student education, in the framework ofABET Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) Student Outcomes, is also presented.BackgroundThe Scandies Rose—a crabbing vessel based in the Bearing Sea—sank from heavy weatherconditions
paragraph-format criteria into individual components.The use of Bloom’s Taxonomy to describe expected levels of topic coverage has been retainedbecause: 1) the Committee considers this fundamental to the intent of the CEBOK3 process, and2) because such description provides the accreditation community (faculty and programevaluators) a common basis for aligning expectations regarding curricular topic coverage, whichmay be lower than assumed by some faculty and some evaluators. Program criteria are intendedto reflect minimum levels of coverage in the curricula of all covered programs. However, therevised opening phrase grammatically required the conversion of “Bloom verbs” to nouns in thesubsequent lines (e.g., “apply” is changed to “application of
allowed, the projectshifted goals and became heavily focused on background research onto which nutraceuticals were best touse and how the business aspect of PowerGum could grow from humble beginnings. When the followingsemester (Spring 2021) allowed for limited in-person research after a few weeks had passed, a groupmeeting was held and schedules were developed for who could go into the building on what days. Inaddition to this, research goals were altered to reflect people’s lab research and many other necessarymodifications were made. Thanks to the help from Dr. Gary Thompson and Mr. Prince Atsu, PowerGumwas able to find out how to best store samples and how to work necessary equipment in order to expediteany testing process. In addition to
deliver projects. Collaboration represents a key component in interdisciplinarycourse delivery for successful interdisciplinary student experiences in team-based learning (TBL)strategies. The goal of TBL strategies is to help students understand the advantages of interdisciplinarycollaboration skills [15]. TBL strategies are suitable for interdisciplinary education to cultivate a culture ofcollaboration among students [16]. In TBL, cooperative learning groups of students working in teams isone of the most common forms of collaboration that interdisciplinary course design adopts. Here, studentsengage with a learning attitude that promotes learning reflection and improves their performance [17].Bailey et al. [15] identified that members of the same
innovation. https://venturewell.org/black-women-engineers/Voepel, M. (2021). Golden inspiration: USA Volleyball’s Black stars helped make history – andcan serve as catalysts for changes in the sport. Andscape. https://andscape.com/features/golden-inspiration-usa-volleyball-black-stars-helped-make-history-and-can-serve-as-catalysts-for-changes-in-the-sport/Walther, J., Sochacka, N. W., & Kellam, N. N. (2013). Quality in Interpretive Engineering Education Research: Reflections on an Example Study. Journal of Engineering Education, 102(4), 626-659. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20029Zenquis, M. R., & Mwaniki, M. F. (2019). The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Nationality in Sport: Media Representation of the Ogwumike
prepared to complete entrylevel tasks and possess similar skills and knowledge since the three parties (the institution,ASCE, and ABET), all have strong ties to engineering education, and promote similar outcomes.Figure 1: CEBOK3 Knowledge Outcomes [4]A Professional Organization and the BEC:Over twenty years ago, a group of structural engineers, the Basic Education Committee (BEC),were interested in describing a model, a core curriculum, which could form the basis forindividuals entering the structural engineering profession. One that reflected the technicalattributes engineering firms sought from new hires and one that students could refer to fortraining during college. The BEC was and is still composed of practitioners and professionallylicensed
course. We used this framing to investigate thefollowing research questions (RQ): (1) Do engineering students use spontaneous gestures toconvey ideas? (2) Is there added value by documenting students’ concordant and discordantgesture-speech for formative knowledge assessment? Moreover, we hypothesize: (1) Studentswill produce gestures—whether concordant or discordant—that convey their ideas, and thesegestures will reflect their current understandings of torsion; (2) Some of the students’ knowledgeis encoded in nonverbal forms (i.e., gestures) and thus incorporating gesture information isexpected to provide a richer and more complete assessments of students’ emerging knowledge,related to torsional concepts, that be used to guide
activity for each of themodules in an entrepreneurship class focused on bringing together business and engineeringinnovations. Although role-play activities are effective in allowing students to take on differingperspectives, assessment for these activities can be troublesome, especially for classes of largersize, due to the individualized nature of the activity. Some activities to grade these activitiesinclude concept maps, reflection assignments, and papers conducted in a pre-and-post format tomeasure what students understood before and after participating in the activity. In this study, wefocus on the use of concept maps to serve as an assessment tool for student learning through theguided RPS activity. Concept maps can be used to
the equipment list submitted was correct and still reflected what was intheir final design. The required equipment was then ordered or sourced locally. This wascentrally handled through the department office. Teams were notified as items arrived andconstruction of the wind tunnels took place. The machine shop was available during lab timeand, with coordination, afternoons, evenings, and weekends for them to work on their projects.Design modifications and upgrades were made as students experienced firsthand some of thelimitations of manufacturability. Phase II included a lab report on the final design, themanufacturing process, and lessons learned throughout. Phase III was the final presentation of the projects. This occurred on the last
institution priorto 2005. Reflecting on trends in academia to integrate overarching themes of conservationprinciples, the Department combined these separate courses into a sequence of MC311, Thermal-Fluid Systems I, and MC312, Thermal-Fluid Systems II, first offered in the academic year 2005-2006. Initial offerings utilized several textbooks, but those were mostly existing thermodynamicsand fluid mechanics texts already in publication which lacked the desired integration. To fill thisneed, a senior member of the mechanical engineering faculty composed a thermal-fluidstextbook which served as the course textbook for MC311 and MC312.The course objectives list the primary topics covered in MC311, Thermal-Fluid Systems I: 1. Determine the fundamental
demonstrate the consequences of varying structural model data parameters.The response variables are also parsed, and these values color the mesh according to the standardpractice of FEM software packages. Response variable values are quadratically interpolated togenerate intermediate values and the corresponding colors are used to create a color plot.In this application, options are offered to the user to select which deformation result that theywould like to view. While the deflection or deformed shape of the structural model remainsconstant, the optional coloring of the structural model mesh may change to reflect whichdeformation result has been selected. For example, the user may select a displacementcorresponding to a certain directional
SEVT framework influence student retention?Lastly, we reflected on our results to develop potentially effective interventions.2 MethodsThis study was approved by the university’s institutional review board.2.1 DataWe retrieved de-identified data gathered from our engineering students over the 2018-2019 schoolyears, restricting the dataset to those who were first-time full-time enrollment in fall of 2018 or2019 (N = 995). Variables included: 1. ACT scores (composite, math, English and science/reading). 2. Responses to SEVT surveys, conducted at the beginning and end of the first semester, in- cluding: interest in engineering, perceived costs of studying engineering, self-efficacy, and contingencies of academic
transferring. Belonging and Self-efficacy survey data especiallyduring the pandemic will be carefully analyzed and correlated with students’ performance longitudinally.Practices that generated results will be expanded and disseminated for replication.7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE-1832553. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material arethose of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The PIespecially acknowledges the late Melissa Mercer-Tachick, President and Lead Consultant of MUSEEducational Consulting. Melissa designed, meticulously administered, and analyzed the survey and
work was provided by the National Science Foundation Scholarships inScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S STEM) program under Award No.2028340. 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.References1. Bailey, T.R., K.L. Hughes, and M.M. Karp, What Role Can Dual Enrollment Programs Play in Easing the Transition between High School and Postsecondary Education? 2002.2. Blackhurst, A.E. and R.W. Auger, Precursors to the gender gap in college enrollment: Children's aspirations and expectations for their futures. Professional School Counseling, 2008. 11(3): p. 2156759X0801100301.3
to the consistency of the assessment. To bereliable, an instrument's reading must reflect the true state of the variable being measured. In otherwords, unless the variable being measured has changed, the instrument's results should stay stable."The ratio of the estimated true score to the observed score" is one way of evaluating the reliabilityof a test as shown in equation below: True Score Reliability = Observed ScoreFor an investigation to qualify as reliable, different researchers need to do the same experimentunder the same conditions and get the same results. Additionally, it is associated with the abilityto repeat the process. On repeated
Foundation under GrantDUE-1930282. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.The authors would like to thank all speakers for taking time to prepare and deliver the seminarsand panels, and for their sincere help and support to the ACCESS scholars and other WVUstudents.8. References[1] Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Information Security Analysts, https://www.bls.gov./ooh/computer-and-information- technology/information-security-analysts.htm, accessed May 10, 2022.[2] K. Goseva-Popstojanova and R. A. M. Hensel, “Educating the next generation of
move to align the center of the edge finder to the edge of the workpiece? 40. The most commonly used work holding device on the vertical milling machine is a: 41. Which of the following best describes the procedure for drilling a hole?Questions to collect student feedback on the activity (post- assessment only)As you are aware, you received instructional material in an alternate augmented reality (AR)format. Please reflect on your learning experience and answer the following questions.The following questions all work on a 7 point scale defined as follows:1 – Not at all true of me2 – Untrue of me3 – Somewhat untrue of me4 – Neutral5 – Somewhat true of me6 – True of me7 – Very true of me 42. I liked learning using the AR experience I
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students at the university (current retention of 2020participants is higher than institutional averages), and for the institution as a recruiting andstudent preparation tool.This work was funded by the National Science Foundation Award #1928611. Any opinions,findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of theauthor(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.References[1] A. Enriquez, Langhoff, N., Dunmire, E., Rebold, T., Pong, W., "Strategies for Developing, Expanding, and Strengthening Community College Engineering Transfer Programs," presented at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2018.[2] M. Khasawneh, Bachnak, R., Goonatilake, R., Lin, R
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decreasednoticeably during the pandemic. A drop from pre-test to-post-test Grit was observed throughoutthe three academic years. However, LPD students’ Grit was markedly higher than thecomparison group before and during the pandemic.Table 6. Summary Data of Mean Score Reflect No Significant Change across Academic Years 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021 Leadership Self-efficacy 4.61 (11) 4.42 (18) 4.26 (25) Motivation to Lead 4.16 (10) 3.83 (17) 3.86 (25) Grit-8 Scale 3.72 (26) 3.46 (7) 3.78 (22) Graduation 100% (9/9) 100% (11/11) 100% (3/3
higher educationsystem is reflected in the unevenness of internal resource distribution and the mismatchof supply and demand in the external market relationship. Due to limited resources,China has long implemented the system of building key universities, namely,concentrating resources on a few elite universities with favorable bases. In practice, thekey universities are mainly research universities directly affiliated to the centralgovernment with a focus on cultivating academic talents. In addition, China's highereducation system bear a “open secret”, that is there exists a status pyramid where AOUsand other local universities have long been at the bottom of the whole higher educationstructure. Therefore, in a rather long period, AOUs and other