judgements, including how to respond to the same fivescenarios that we posed to them during the initial beliefs interviews. Using judgements across thegame narrative, we generated a standardized percentage of the rate that each criterion wasprioritized or disregarded to represent criteria rankings based on behavior. Immediately aftercompleting the game, participants completed a post-game reflection where they re-ranked the sixprocess safety criteria and provided justification for their judgements within CUP, allowing themthe opportunity to offer any contextual justifications for their behavior. After the pilot study, thegameplay and reflection data will contribute to answering the second research question regardinghow engineers actually behave while
about who their customer is, what needs the customerhas, and how to meet them. In other words, they are developing an entrepreneurial mindset [2].In order to meet this shift in societal thinking, the importance of exposure to engineering [3] andentrepreneurship earlier in education increases. In this study, Science, Technology, Engineering,and Mathematics (STEM) Pre-Service Teachers (PSTs) enrolled in an engineering educationcourse where they completed an entrepreneurial Problem-Based Learning (PBL) unit. ThroughPSTs’ reflections, post-assessments, and lesson plans, we gathered their perceptions regardingthe integration of entrepreneurial mindset within their content and future teaching. The researchquestions we investigated are: 1
towards student mental health and circumstances during the pandemic. • Focusing on change for the long-term, not specific to the COVID-19 period. • Mitigating potential academic misconduct challenges.In response, the first-year engineering design curriculum was adapted to a flipped classroom modelusing a modular approach for content. For each module, a framework of individual and team-basedreadiness assessment quizzes, videos highlighting key content, associated studio activities, and a finalmodule exam was used to assess student learning. For each term, deliberate activities that aimed tohelp students build resilience to the stress of isolation included a personal time off (PTO) planningand reflection exercise, creating a community
local vendors in their countries.Student Reflection SurveysCourse benchmarks focused on responses from student evaluation surveys and performance on the finalproject showcase. Three sets of surveys were conducted to assess students' perceptions of the course.First, pre-course questions not listed in this paper gathered students' location and preferred team roleassignment in the first week of classes. Students were then paired into a team of up to 5 students basedon their survey entries. Additional surveys were conducted during the mid-and end of the semester. Thesurvey questions shown in Table 4 was conducted mid-semester to analyze students' experience in thecourse with the intent to circumvent any pitfalls before the completion of the project
semester. During thosemeetings the instructor played the role of “the client” or “the senior engineer in the consultingfirm.” These meetings prevented the students from falling behind and provided them with usefulinformation to continue the design. Also, during the meeting, each team showed what they havedone up to that moment. There were no points for attending the meetings. To assess the PBL implementation, the students were required to take a shortened versionof the NCEES FE exam at the beginning and at the end of the semester. They also took a finalCATME survey and were asked to complete a set of questions reflecting on the project work. In Fall 2019, the design tasks were modified after the course sequence was adjusted
analytical frameworks (e.g., from data science or complexity science) and (3) conducting design-based research to develop scaffolding tools for supporting the learning of complex skills like design. He is the Program Chair for the Design in Engineering Education Division for the 2022 ASEE conference.Titiksha Singh © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comExploring how students attend to the nature and dynamics of complexity in their design problemsAbstractAuthentic design problems necessarily reflect the complexity of real-world dynamic, open systems thathave numerous components and nonobvious connections across different systems or
themselves as not creative and reported that they lacked talent in thearts. Forty percent (40%, n=2) described it in terms of innovation, and none of these participantsexpressed that they had talent in the arts. Participants reflected on the interview question, “Describe how you view yourself as acreative person.” Eighty percent (80% , N=12) of all participants reflected on artistic talent as aprimary measure of creativity, and 73% (N=11) referenced innovation. A notable difference ofstudents with the lowest levels of CSE was that only 40% (n=2) of these students mentionedinnovation, in contrast to 83% (n=5) and 100% (n=4) of participants with medium and high CSErespectively. Participants with higher CSE highlighted their talent and enjoyment
of Mines has been refining a ‘Job ShopApproach’ to capstone in an environment dedicated to implementation of a design firm model withstudents working on multiple projects at different stages of development. A recent study of our studentexperience and overall course assessment provided opportunities for reflection on areas for continuedgrowth.Within HCDS, the dynamic nature of the design studio allows for project timelines that do not alignneatly with the academic calendar. Students serve simultaneously on three different projects over thecourse of two semesters, providing a multi-project, multi-team, multi-client, and varied timeline learningexperience. Similar to traditional capstone models, HCDS student teams work through the designprocess
approaches in thecontext of bioengineering. The course is taught as an active-learning course with lecture andproblem solving sessions in class, 8 homework assignments (roughly every two weeks), 3quizzes, 3 midterms, and a project. This course was chosen because all students in the programwere enrolled, providing consistent access to the whole cohort, and because the course had threeevenly spaced midterms, each worth 15% of the overall grade, which allowed for ease ofcollecting performance information used in the study.InstrumentsLearning styles:In this study we use the Index of Learning Styles [5, 11] which is an on-line survey instrumentused to assess preferences on four dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal,and
activities.With a shift to an online format over the past two years, various components of the programstructure were reimagined to accommodate the online learning environment and to emphasizeinterconnectivity between all community members, including participants, student leaders andprogram staff. Upper division student leaders, who completed the program the previous summer,were empowered to take on specific roles within the program and were engaged in developmentof program goals, activities, and reflections. They were provided autonomy over several keyprogram components including academic preparation, community building, metacognitionfacilitation and robotics challenge implementation. The student leaders’ intentional engagementwithin various facets of
. Students explore and internalize new concepts without the stress of strict assessments based on objectively correct answers 3. It showcases that any language students use is welcome in the classroomLanguage is an expression of individual identity and often a link between home-knowledge andacademic-knowledge. Valuing home knowledge is important in the context of building uponfoundational concepts [9, 10]. When students can bring their whole selves to class and expresstheir curiosity in their own language without discrimination, student success increases [11]. Thewriting-to-learn activity presented in this paper is a modified process log where students wereassigned weekly reflection assignments (focused free-writing) where they chose between
to conceptualize the engineering judgment process usingthematic analysis; Phase 2 involving the design and dissemination of pedagogical approachesbased on our results. This paper primarily reports the preliminary results of Phase 1. This projectis an instrumental case study using semi-structured artifact-based interviews as the primary datasource. Our semi-structured interviews are designed to focus on the ways students constructengineering judgments and produce engineer identities through their written projects. Coursedocuments (including assignments and related material) as well as reflective field notes andanalytic memos are used to provide additional contextual data. The data from this project providea foundation for an understanding of
goals of this study and skeptical of its limitations. In particular,we are struck by the fact that minimal interpretation of The X-Files accompanies the formalstatistical and qualitative assessments of audience responses. Respondents assign descriptiveadjectives (“strong,” “intelligent,” “confident”) to the character of Dana Scully, but neither thoserespondents nor the study’s authors otherwise interpret the series’ dialogue, visual construction,or narrative structures. While it is understandable that many discussions of STEMrepresentations would reflect the empiricist, positivist epistemologies of the disciplinesthemselves, we maintain that the interpretive lenses of cultural and media studies are at least asurgent. One cannot measure the
engagement, and cognitive awakening) to hopeful.Instructional Design and Reflective Writing PromptA team-based, engineering mechanics-based PBL unit was designed using the human-centereddesign (HCD) for communities approach [4] [33]. The HCD for communities approach builds onthe empathic precursory steps described in HCD for users and Design Thinking [34]. The PBLunit tasked students to design a fictitious truss bridge at one of three candidate sites at a nearbycommunity. The PBL unit was ill-structured in that their selection of any candidate site impacteddisparate stakeholders thus requiring research on the community, interviewing real communitymembers to understand their wants and needs, and a deliberative learning
pre-studyof existing and best practices (activity 1 in figure 1) and on establishing and testing out virtualSTEMlabs (activity 4) as well as on recruiting schools, pre-college engineering institutions andteachers to LabSTEM (activity 5). In early 2022, the iterative process of developing a problem-based and STEM-integrated teaching approach and testing it in practice has commenced(activities 2 and 3).Preliminary findingsAs DBR allows for, and emphasizes the continuous reflection on and adapting to potentials,challenges, and critical issues in practice to improve theories, methods, designs, and practicingawareness and reflexiveness is crucial in all stages of proposing, preparing, facilitating andassessing research and educational designs
accounting of how the experience generated by thecrossroads that the program creates, share how they are served by the program. The experiencesgenerated between the professional interdisciplinarity, the approach to infrastructure’ssustainability, and the concept of resiliency have impacted the experience of servingness forstudents in the program. This paper presents students’ reflections on the contribution of RISE-UP in students’ development of the following non-academic outcomes of servingness:leadership identity, critical consciousness, research and graduate school aspirations and civicengagement.2. Methods and Results.The methodology selected for this study is based on case studies. Case studies can be used togain insight on in-depth personal
Latino/a/x teachers. The research teamcoached teachers to create and adapt engineering lessons for their students, which included a highpercentage of students classified as ELs. Together we created a community of practice that fosteredconfianza (trust) [9] and colaboración (collaboration) where teachers could share and have access toexpertise from member of the community of practice, and facilitated through both formal and informalinteractions. These strategies were intended to serve as a resource for collaborative reflection anddeeper learning of and about engineering and funds of knowledge. Three researchers with expertise inengineering, bilingual education and learning sciences facilitated the coaching sessions whereworkshops, monthly
end ofthe course. This work-in-progress study explores the range of ways undergraduate studentsattended to sociotechnical dimensions in a first-year engineering computing course, by analyzingwritten reflection responses to readings focused on the racially biased outcomes of a ubiquitousmedical technology, the pulse oximeter. These initial findings add to a growing body of literatureon including sociotechnical topics within undergraduate courses, and will help informpedagogical approaches to support students in developing sociotechnical ways of thinking withinengineering.Conceptual Framework for Developing Sociotechnical LiteracyThis work-in-progress study is focused on a first-year computing course that has been redesignedto incorporate
foundation.Over the course of this project, we have explored the complexities of teaching and learningsociotechnical thinking in three undergraduate classes located in three departments at twouniversities. Two of the classes are design-focused in the first and second years of engineeringcurricula and the third is an upper-division engineering science core course (see details in“Courses”). Our mixed-methods study attempted to measure sociotechnical thinking via a survey([5], [14], [15]). It also used qualitative data from student focus groups, faculty reflection logsand student work to examine the manner in which sociotechnical thinking influences students’development of their identities as engineers [16], explored the interconnection between
of the outsider perspective throughout the narratives. For some, it is fromengineering, for others, it is from the new paradigms in EER.Lastly, we found the act of writing, discussing, and reflecting on these positionality statements auseful exercise, which helped not just our process in developing a description of EER, but also inunderstanding who we are as researchers.Positionality StatementsJeff: As a relatively new qualitative researcher, I am just beginning to understand my ownepistemology. At this time, I believe I have a pragmatist post-positivist worldview combinedwith a constructivist curiosity. This has been reinforced by my employment and success intechnical disciplines (software engineering, human-computer interaction, project
for/contribute to the “culture” that is created/fostered. Instead, minoritized studentsand professionals are often expected to “persist” with more “grit,” following targetedinterventions [13], [14]. This misplaced focus has resulted in a significant knowledge gap andlack of cultural competence in most computing graduates entering the workforce [15]. This isfurther demonstrated by reports of discrimination in academic and professional environments[16]–[23], as well as events like the #BlackInTheIvory and #ShutDownSTEM Twitter hashtags[which highlighted the anti-Black racism experienced by Black students, faculty, and staff atpredominately white institutions (PWIs)] [24]. This is also reflected in the Kapor Center’s TechLeavers report, which
to identifythree constructs, research integration, quality, and beliefs. Research integration is a second orderlatent factor with four latent first order subscales - Reflection, Participation, Current Research,and Motivation [11]. The measure is a student self-report measure designed to capture students’experiences related to research in their programs. The reflection subscale provides insight intothe research process and how it leads to results of a project or program. The Participationsubscale provides insight into students’ involvement in and contributions to scientific research.The Current Research subscale identifies the content related to research instructors are providingto their students as well as the general environment. Lastly
longer belong to the class or are connected to theirclassmates. As a result, class attendance also dropped to unpreceded levels.Active learning is defined as in-class work by students that goes beyond simply listening to theinstructor and taking notes [6]. Students can be involved in tasks as simple as answering a simplequestion to more involved exercises that require the students to reflect on their learning and thepresented contents [7]. Varying content delivery method, which includes using active learningexercises, every 10–15 minutes of the lecture time was suggested to retain students' attention [8].In traditional classrooms, active learning was proven to increase student learning, problem-solvingskills, engagement, and interest in the
amplifier A2 of PA designFig. 5 ADS Smith chart utility for TGF series transistor amplifier stability circle centres andimpedance depiction for f0 = 4.9 GHz, suggestive of Capacitive Reactance (–jX) in the lower half of stability circles in Smith chart TABLE I. S-PARAMETERS FOR TRANSISTORS T1 AND T2 NPT AND TGF SERIES HEMT [6]-[7] Parameter Transistor T1, NPT Transistor T2, TGF GaN FET, HEMT GaN FET, HEMT Forward Reflection S11 = 0.84∠102.40° S11 = 0.9∠178.27° Reverse Transmission S12 = 0.05∠1.94° S12 = 0.01∠20
engineers. Studentsneed to work with data to process and present it effectively[13]. Spreadsheet calculations anddisplay tools provide a basic skillset and introduce fundamental programming concepts whichwill prepare them for more sophisticated programing in subsequent coursework.Objective 5Technical communication skills, like many other skills, are developed through practice. Studentsare introduced to the key aspects of technical writing and given several opportunities to practice,receive feedback, revise, and reflect [14,15]. They also learn about best-practices for oralpresentations and have opportunities to practice presenting as well. In the redeveloped course,students receive mentoring and feedback about their written semester project reports
people to look beyond their self-interest, andinspires people to reach for the improbable. The effectiveness of vision, though, depends on boththis affective reaction and also perceived utility: affective reaction reflects the extent to whichfollowers would find the plan to be attractive, leading them to want to be affiliated with theorganization, and perceived utility reflects the extent to which followers believe a plan wouldlead to effective organizational change [5]. Regardless of the extent that feelings of affiliationincrease, the perceived utility will be stronger to the extent that followers see the vision as usefulnot only for the organization but for them personally, too. Because transformational leadershipboth articulates a vision and
selection of portfolio content; the criteria forselection; the criteria for judging merit; and evidence of student self-reflection” [1].Archbald and Newmann [2] and Paulson, Paulson, and Meyer [1] were among the firstproponents of the idea that students should be active developers and assessors of their ownportfolios, and there is general agreement in the assessment community that students musttake the lead in documenting their learning. Towards that end, most portfolio assessmentsystems provide students at minimum with a general outline or “menu” of contents(suggested and/or required entries) and the evaluative criteria that will be applied.The AP ® Studio Art portfolio assessment has served as a critical model in conceptualizinga considerably
engineering itself. As such, K-12 engineering educationshould emphasize this interdisciplinary nature. Finally, engineering thinking involves critical andcreative problem solving and using informed judgment to make decisions. Moreover, learners inengineering education should be independent and reflective thinkers capable of seeking out newknowledge and learning from failure in problem-solving situations. These common pedagogical features present in both frameworks are sufficientlydocumented in the literature to improve student cognitive outcomes. For instance, English andcolleagues [21] and Li and colleagues [22] emphasize the benefits of integrative approaches toSTEM education, particularly when engineering content is present in the lesson
Persona External design Course design team Course design team creator consultant (cross-disciplinary) (mostly ECE) Persona Design observations First- and second-hand First- and second-hand background and ethnography observations from observations from course personnel, course instructors, written reflections and written reflections and feedback, surveys, feedback, assignments, assignments design observations Other analysis
; KDNuggets, 2015; Koschinsky, 2015; McGregor & Banifatemi,2018; Spanache, 2020; Syngenta & AI for Good Foundation, 2017; Vieweg, 2021). The maingoal of the proposed toolkit is to create a broad and accessible framework that can be used byresearchers who do work in the fields of applied data sciences. This toolkit is intended to serve asa planning, evaluation, and reflection guide for research teams who leverage data sciencesmethods and tools in their work. Developed by the ESJ group, the toolkit provides guidance onthe development of data science research projects that moves toward more ethically and sociallyjust processes and outcomes, while generating new knowledge, opportunities, and ideas for thefield at large (Brown & Mecklenburg