CurriculumAbstractThere are many emerging universities and colleges in Middle East and Eastern Africa that aretrying to adopt their own engineering programs to suit the accreditation system used in Canadaor United States. However, knowledge of the accreditation process is not always understood orcompared. This paper explains in detail the accreditation process, specifically developing a civilengineering program, using both the accreditation rules and regulations in Canada and comparesthem to the United States regulations. The paper includes a list of proposed courses needed to becompleted by students to obtain a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. The developedcurriculum aims to also deliver a new program that reflects excellence and leadership
. Hammond is dedicated to diversity and equity, reflected in her publications, research, teaching, service, and mentoring. She has also been recently appointed as the Speaker-Elect of the Faculty Senate. More at http://srl.tamu.edu and http://ieei.tamu.edu.Dilma Da Silva (Professor)Santana Cruz GonzalesSara Amani Sara Amani is a Graduate Research Assistant at Texas A&M University. She graduated as a chemical engineer from Texas A&M University at Qatar and is currently a PhD student of the Multidisciplinary Engineering focusing on engineering education. She also works at the Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation (IEEI) at Texas A&M. Her research interests include women in engineering, mental health / well
include difficulty concentrating, establishing new routines, lack of motivation, logisticalproblems with online learning, loneliness, financial concerns, missing friends and family, andchange in sleep [21]. Within the engineering student population, the most common stressors facedby students were change in social activities, change in school/housing conditions, changes in sleepand changes in eating [12]. While some of these are similar to the stressors seen in typical collegesemesters, many are a reflection of the variety of methods of course delivery and social isolationdue to the onset of the pandemic.Perceived Coping StrategiesCoping strategies provide an outlet for students to relieve stress which can promote well-being andacademic success
courses across thevarious schools. It also kept a critical focus on equity, which is the underpinning of our entireresearch study.Although we found no negative effects per se, we acknowledge that engaging in this process canMcGill, Snow, et al ASEE 2022be tedious. We continually engaged in a cycle of discussion-reflection-review that repeated severaltimes within each CAPE component, in part because the ToI process was new, the CAPE frame-work was new, and the intervention was new. As each of these become more familiar to us andto other researchers and evaluators, using ToI-CAPE to study equity-focused interventions willbecome much easier.Despite the challenges and limitations we
, increased thecapacity of the college to manage a project at this scale. Over time, it also increased the capacityof the grant’s Principal Investigator (PI), a faculty member who brought over 30 years ofindustry experience but had not yet led a grant project. This material is based upon worksupported by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education Programunder Grant No. 1801177. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation.Project COMPLETE is a collaboration between Louisiana Delta Community College (LDCC)and Louisiana Tech University (LA Tech) to expand instrumentation workforce pathways
reflective of the diversity of the skills and practicesthat exist in industry.In the case studies reviewed for this paper, the number of specializations under each engineeringtechnology program vary greatly. The types of specialization can include Mechanical orManufacturing Engineering Technology, in general, or focus specifically on Supply ChainManagement or Systems Engineering Technology. Due to the considerable differences amongspecializations, the IAB can be a great asset in ensuring that each program continues to staycurrent to industry trends. By including diverse board members with different productionspecializations, the program administrators can receive more feedback on what to include in eachprogram, crafting each program to fit the needs
experience, while data from recent memory usually camesometime after the event from reflection by Kayla. When there was any notable experience orevent in her life that could potentially relate to the work, a journal entry would be recorded usingthe date, title, theme, narrative, and analysis. Data from recent memory was recorded the sameway, the only difference being the time between the event and the entry.We used a co-constructed approach in this work, similar to our previous work [35] as well asMartin and Garza [4]. Kayla recorded her experiences in a journal and self-analyzed them. Then,Gretchen would read the entries which helped to raise new questions and probe deeper intoemerging themes. Kayla and Gretchen have been meeting regularly for the
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timeline andnumber of responses received. Table 4. Data Collection Instrument Timeline Number of Responses Pre-Survey August 2020 9 Mid-Project Survey December 2020 9 Year 1 Survey April 2021 8 Year 1 Interviews April 2021 8 Year 2 Survey December 2021/January 2022 6The survey consisted of 89 Likert-style items and 7 open-ended response questions, with onlyminor wording changes to reflect timing of the survey in relation to the project. Responses werematched across each
variety of stakeholders who they must negotiate with to make an actionabledecision. This paper will explore first-year undergraduate engineering students’ identification ofethical issues in a context-specific RPS on facial recognition technology (referred to as FRT).2. Relevant Literature Engineering ethics instruction has been acknowledged as a fundamental learning goal forstudents to be trained before they graduate into the professional workforce [6]–[8]. Although thegeneral principles of ethics in engineering are standard and reflect ethics in other professions,engineering professionals have to deal with applying this way of thinking in a constantlychanging world. As Barakat & Carroll [9] describe ethics as “the side of engineering
the answer?”, Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, 2003–2004,www.aaee.com.au/journal/2003/ mills_treagust03.pdf.[21] Swenson, Jessica, Mary Rola, Aaron Johnson, Emma Treadway, Alice Nightingale, HodaKoushyar, Jin Woo Lee, and Kathryn Wingate. "Consideration for Scaffolding Open-endedEngineering Problems: Instructor Reflections after Three Years." In 2021 IEEE Frontiers inEducation Conference (FIE), 2021.[22] Treadway, E., Swenson, J. and Johnson, A.W. “Open-Ended Modeling Group Projects inIntroductory Statics and Dynamics Courses.” Proceedings of the American Society ofEngineering Education Annual Conference, Virtual, 2021.[23] L. K. Berland and B. J. Reiser. “Making sense of argumentation and explanation.” ScienceEducation, 93(1
; Implementation PlanningTool provided by CSforALL [5]. The tool and the workshop enabled schools to reflect on theirown community values, beliefs, resources, and needs to develop a feasible plan for implement-ing sustainable Computer Science (CS) and Cybersecurity curriculum. Each of the teams left theworkshop with a comprehensive 3-month, 6-month, and one-year plan for implementation. Theworkshop also had sessions for guidance counselors, teachers, JROTC instructors, and admin-istrators to provide guidance and resources for their schools. The workshop was also precededby one-day congressional visits from teams from 10 schools to inform policymakers about theJROTC-CS initiative.Post-workshop activities included webinars to support the schools
learning engineering design fit withinthe traditional Navajo worldview?” [16], is an exemplar of this category. It is important to notethe directionality of this question; the authors do not ask how a Navajo worldview might fitwithin a philosophy of learning engineering design, but rather ask the opposite, and in doing sogive primacy to an Indigenous way of knowing even within the domain of engineering activities.This approach reflects the language of the fifth tenet of TribalCrit, a constituent tenet of the“Centered Indigenous Paradigm” category, which states that “the concepts of culture,knowledge, and power take on new meaning when examined through an Indigenous lens” [13, p.429]. In practice, this requires one to recognize the authority of
women lacking confidence and intimidated by the emphasis on mathprerequisites in CS classes and the male ”know-it-alls” in the classrooms [22]. For higher educa-tion institutions, it is important to systematically approach the inclusivity issues in the CS depart-ment with department and faculty, especially female faculty support. A community of like-mindedwomen is essential to support the career change journey with peers/mentors support throughout thelearning and working environment. Lastly, women tend to develop career aspirations associatedwith social values. This was reflected in a study explaining why women are not pursuing a CSdegree due to their career interests clustering around helping fields [11]. The growth of the digitaleconomy
week to support students. For the advisors/instructors assigned to the course,statistics per week of support is min = 1.0, max = 4.0, mean = 1.46, and mode = 1.0 hours.Comparatively, the industry mentors reported the following weekly statistics of min = 1.0, max =2.0, mean = 1.11, and mode = 1.0 hours. This difference was expected as instructors are hired tobe closely associated with coursework.For mentoring of capstone students/teams, programs utilize many different methods [27-28].According to Pembridge and Paretti [29], seven of the most common mentoring styles as indicatedby literature are presented, as follows: • CHALLENGE students by questioning as a way of reflection/justification of decisions. • PROTECT students from failure by
disciplines to solve complex and multifaceted design andresearch problems [14], [15]. This is especially true in the QIST industry, where theoreticalphysicists, electrical engineers, and data scientists routinely interact [6]. Having interdisciplinaryteams of students collaborating on in-class exercises, coding assignments, and projects isexpected to enhance the learning experience by promoting high-level cognitive skills such asproblem-solving and critical-thinking [16]. When this high-level thinking is combined withmetacognitive reflection, students are able to develop expert learning skills by being able to usethe appropriate reasoning strategies and concepts to solve new problems [17].Our first offering for these courses is planned for the Spring
student’s abilityto participate as active subjects within their own learning process and within the development ofthe world at large, in part by rejecting the “banking system” of education–the one-way deposit ofknowledge from teacher to student [17]. Presenting HEI topics through the lens of criticalpedagogy invites students to reflect on their position within this seemingly objective field and toact in a way that will uplift themselves and their work towards a more engaged and conscientiousstate [18]. Within this framework, students are urged to contribute their unique perspective whilewelcoming that of their peers, learning to hold multiple truths at once, and accepting new waysof thinking. While the administration in our department generally
Librarians in OER Development: A Case StudyBackground of the GrantThe grant that is the focus of this study received $759,629 from the U.S. Department ofEducation in 2021 to develop high-quality and innovative OER over a three-year period.Conditions for the grant from the Department of Education reflect many of the issues behindOER creation noted in the previous section. The grant emphasizes collaboration between manyinstitutions and stakeholder groups in the creation of materials that fill gaps in OER resources. Italso calls for the development of materials that have a wide application in higher education toreduce costs for a maximum number of students. The grant, in addition, emphasizes the creationof materials that support the learning of
well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem. • MS-ETS 1-3. Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among sev- eral design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria for success. • MS-ETS 1-4. Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved. • MS-PS 4-1. Use mathematical representations to describe a simple model for waves that includes how the amplitude of a wave is related to the energy in a wave. • MS-PS 4-2. Develop and use a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed, or
attention to whetherconcepts could validly fit in other locations than is reflected in a primary map. Should a primarymap control for this, this adapted traditional scoring method would likely be an effective scoringmethod. C. Categorical The adapted categorical scoring method has little differences from the originalcategorical scoring method which comes with some concerns in the fill-in format. This methodwas time consuming both in categorizing the concepts generally, and in interpreting participantintent for categorization in the context of each specific map. A scorer using this method shouldhave clear understanding of the topic and its underlying concepts. On top of the more rigor required to assess a map categorically, some
% 90% Palm Beach Broward Figure 9. State College Participants DemographicsIV. 4 - State College Transfer Students’ Performance to FAUThis section reports findings on the performance of state college transfer students who enrolled atFAU. Table 6 and Figure 10 reveal that overall performance, as reflected in student GPA, waspositive for students who came to FAU from both state colleges. The data were drawn from thefirst three HSI cohort participant groups at each College. Table 6 - Summary- State College Students who Graduated from FAU State College Students Completed # of Number of Credits at State Overall FAU
could not.AcknowledgementsThis work was made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF # 2100560,2015688, 2015741, 2015909). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation. This work was also made possible by the NSF Summer ResearchProgram at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (NSF # 1950597) and the mentorship I received.References[1] K. Beddoes, "Selling policy short? Faculty perspectives on the role of policy in addressing women’s underrepresentation in engineering education," Studies in Higher Education, vol. 43, no. 9, pp. 1561-1572, 2018.[2] M. R. Riney and J. Froeschle
either Discord or a Google account.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the NSFEAGER Grant DUE-1745922. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions, or recommendationsexpressed in this paper are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation. The authors extend their gratitude to all interview participantswho allowed us to add their narratives to this study. The authors also extend their appreciation tothe anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments and feedback.References[1] C. Hodges, S. Moore, B. Lockee, T. Trust, and A. Bond, “The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning,” Educase Review, no. 27
category, as well as some representative statements pulled fromthe transcripts. Note that some students’ answers may have included aspects of more than onecategory.Based on these categorizations, 40% (2/5) of students were able to express an answer thatindicated that they not only made some observations relevant to the main concept during theactivity but were also able to make a cognitive connection between those concepts andapplications involving real structural systems. However, as was more clearly explained in theiranswers to the indirect questions, the students possessed at least some prior conceptualunderstanding, so their answers do not exclusively reflect what was gained during the activity.The indirect assessment question results in Table
were facilitated synchronously.One reason to pursue synchronous remote instruction is that not having mandatory class periodscan be hard for students to navigate [3]. In both remote and in-person, a variety of instructionalmethods can be employed during synchronous instruction to increase student motivation andenhance learning, many of which focus on “active learning”. This author embraces Bonwell andEison’s [5] definition of active learning as “anything that involves students doing things andthinking about the things they are doing.” As Prince [6] concludes from his wide literaturereview, even brief activities introduced into lectures can increase learning. Short discussionbreaks [7], pauses for reflection [8] and any small activity that
the deployment of the solar panel array at 500 meters above ground, at T+112 seconds. Bottom pictures compare the 48-minute period of the payload in the shade with the following period with full sunlight, with the solar panel array reflecting sunlight minutes before balloon separation.Results The results from the Arduino Mega and Teensy microcontrollers were labeled in theGraphs 3 to 6, detailing the measurements from altitude, outside temperature, voltage, and currentthroughout the flight. Only one data file, with an equivalent amount of data logs, for the Teensytesting unit was written throughout the entire flight, meaning this unit has not shut down once andhas also sent all its data to the Arduino Mega unit
reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation. The preliminary stages of this work were supported by funds fromthe Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost at The Pennsylvania State University aspart of the university’s strategic seed grant program related to transforming education. We wouldalso like to thank David Sturrock, Senior Fellow at Simio LLC, for valuable conversations, andYihang Hua, an undergraduate researcher at Penn State University, who assisted in developingthe ISBL modules and associated simulation models used in this paper.References[1] S. G. Ozden, O. M. Ashour, and A. Negahban, “Novel simulation-based learning modules for teaching database concepts,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc. 2020, doi