professionals was notinterpreted to be lacking. However, the survey results show that there is a lack of emphasis ontechnical standards in the undergraduate engineering curriculum and a large recommendation forengineers across all sectors (students through engineering professional colleagues) to take acourse in technical standards basics, as was proposed in the survey.Mechanical, electrical, and materials were reported as the engineering disciplines in which atechnical standards course would be most desirable for respondents. Engineering disciplines thatreceived the highest amount of write-ins for the Other option include architectural and nuclear.While participants were able to select more than one discipline, each of the four listed abovereceived 80
adopted from the UVM Mindfulness Program [24]. On Fridays, students were exposed toother contemplative learning activities (5-7 minutes) aimed at developing a deeper awareness ofself and others. These activities, labeled 'Nuggets of Wisdom,' included reflective writing, deeplistening, insight mediations, and mindful conversations. See Appendix A for examples.Qualitative and quantitative data were gathered from (i) weekly surveys, (ii) SFG interviews, (iii)instructor's journal reflections and observations, and (iv) students' performance in the course.This WIP paper utilizes data from (i), (ii), and (iii). Survey data was collected starting the 10 thweek of classes. A total of 5 weekly surveys administered anonymously using Qualtrics weresent
? Generating their own questions. Challenging assumptions. Investigating areas of their own choosing. Making predictions. Curiosity Acting on their curiosity (researching, "googling", etc.). Explore alternative or Considering multiple points of view. contrarian views of accepted Providing constructive criticism. solutions. Providing feedback to peers
understanding and interest in career pathways, the lack of interest in entrepreneurshipand research and high number of undecided responses at the end of the first cohort year areworthy of further investigation. Figure 1 Overall Pathway ChoicesFig 2 shows pathway choice by gender. Out of the 23 participants who chose internship, 14identified as male, 6 identified as female, and 3 participants did not report their gender. Werecognize that male and female are understood as terms for biological sex and not genderidentity, but this graph is in accordance with the current phrasing of the survey instrument. Weare working to update the survey in future iterations. There was a non-binary and a text write-inoption, but these were
, aligning with the profession’s values, and developing a professional identity[6]. Thus, the study of social belonging confidence in students, particularly through professionalsocialization, is a key step in understanding persistence in the field of ML/AI. We study socialbelonging through the lens of confidence, another predictor of persistence [7]–[9]. We define socialbelonging confidence as how confident a person feels that they will fit in with the social and culturalaspects of a profession and develop meaningful relationships with their peers. Belonging uncertainty,defined by Walton and Cohen [10], may be interpreted as a lack of this confidence.Lower levels of confidence have been found to negatively affect persistence of women and girls
complexity. R is also open source, making the platform and packagemore accessible to the community. We chose to write our package in R because of theexisting packages for analyzing data from MIDFIELD, namely midfieldr [16] andmidfielddata [17]. The midfieldr contains ready-to-go functions for properly processing dataat the student level, and the second package is a stratified random sample from MIDFIELDfor users to practice on and explore. The data produced from this project will be madeavailable in a similar format. We anticipate the output synergizing with the broader goal ofexpanding access to and participation in MIDFIELD’s development [18].Data CollectionAlthough originally intended for project communication alone and standardization to
decide to collect pieces of information fromtrusted sources (peer-reviewed articles) to create a model to help explain to Thomas why it wassuggested that he give his son the antibiotics (350 mg/dose) twice daily spaced approximately 8 hours(hint round up to 500 minutes for easier modeling of the input drug). Thomas tells you that his son gulpsthe liquid antibiotics very quickly. After some searching you find the following information: • Gut volume of average 5-year old: 100 mL • Average blood volume of 5-year old: 5.8L • Volume of Ear Canal: 1.2 mL • Rate of exchange of antibiotic from the gut to the blood: 8.75 mL/hr • Rate of exchange of antibiotic from the blood to the ear canal via capillaries: 3.15 mL/min
methodwas published in the Journal of Information Science. Designed as a way for students to evaluateinternet sources, RADAR is an acronym for Relevance, Authority, Date, Appearance, andReason for writing. Since the term is a palindrome, the evaluation can be done in either orderwithout losing effectiveness. The big difference between CRAAP and this tool is this flexibility[6]. Depending on student and research needs, starting with Relevance or Reason can be the mostappropriate to help with the evaluation of resources.In 2017, librarians at the University of Waterloo adopted RADAR in their information literacysessions. The librarians asked students to evaluate both an academic article and an online sourceon an engineering topic of choice, then
both as learners and virtuousprofessionals, this work focuses on an exploratory scale for assessing student valuation ofresilience and factors in academic resilience that appear optimal for learning outcomes.At the time of this writing, this work in developing an instrument for assessing studentvaluation of resilience is still in progress. The paper presents our resilience scale, itsinitial findings, and the validation process for assessing academic resilience. Thisincludes a brief introduction relating value with factors related to optimal learning thatare also present in our construct of academic resilience.IntroductionBeliefs related to self-efficacy have been found to significantly enhance a student’sacademic performance over the academic
Education, Sustainable Infrastructure, Resilient and Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction, and Circular Economy. He also holds professional credentials in LEED Green Associate for sustainable buildings and ENV SP for sustainable infrastructures as well as several micro-credentials in the commercialization of research. As a Ph.D. Candidate, Piyush has published a dozen peer-reviewed journals and several conference papers. ¨Ms. Claudia Calle Muller, Florida International University Claudia Calle M¨uller is a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). She holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica del Per´u (PUCP
a professional educationcomponent consistent with the institution's mission and the program's educational objectives andpromotes diversity, equity, and inclusion awareness for career success [3]. "The need to feelbelongingness and linked with others" is how relatedness is defined (Baumeister and Leary [8]).According to studies, learning environments that provide a sense of connectedness to peers,parents, and instructors can enhance motivation and improve academic results (Ryan, et al. [9]).Self-efficacy, engagement, interest in school, higher grades, and retention have all beenconnected to feelings of relatedness, which are measured in terms of "school environment" andinstructor-student connections (Inkelas, et al. [10]). Research on
. At the time of this writing, they all work in a large, Southeastern research-intensive R1higher education institution in the United States. Some of the authors do not self-identify asLatiné/x but rather by their home country (Villanueva et al., 2022). All authors have differinglevels of educational experiences, both in their home country and in the United States. All havecommonly migrated to the United States as part of their professional growth. Each of themconsiders themselves to be insiders of their Latin heritage and culture but outsiders to theexperiences the other authors have faced. All recognize that their identities are non-Monolithic
research” or “grant-writing activities” have been understoodunder very different angles based on cultural settings, communicational abilities, or even financialsources. Therefore, when working together, various misconceptions regarding proposed tasksrequired consistent clarifications among multicultural participants. This factor caught authors’attentions: the issue was broader than just limited English proficiency of the local Uzbek facultyor students. Even those who spoke English fluently, they thought very differently about goals andoutcomes of common team working. As an American faculty-member who works withinternational graduate students on a routine daily basis, multicultural communications became atopic of the author’s special interests
semester. In addition,students complete two peer reviews for each project they work on. Moreover, their writing andoral communication skills are assessed through weekly project updates and final presentations.Weekly reading quizzes are also developed from the biography of Steve Jobs (by WalterIsaacson), The Secret of Apollo (by Stephen B. Johnson), and Inviting Disaster: Learning fromthe edge of technology (by James R Chiles). The Biography of Steve Jobs provides a greatexample of the importance of collaboration in innovation and entrepreneurship. Students whojoin the program read this book during their first year in the program. Those students who areable and permitted to do a second year in the program read and take quizzes from Johnson’sbook
provided the big picture status of the project.Over the course of this project, students were successful in characterizing the dynamic forces andvibrations experienced via a design of experiments (Figure 2(a)). These results along with thegraduate mentor’s numerical analysis have been documented as a peer-reviewed conferenceproceeding [1] and eventually as an archival journal publication [2]. Students also finalized thedesign of an actuator and manufactured a functional prototype (Figure 2 (b) and (c)) along withperforming psychophysical tests to understand human perception to the vibration and its changes(Figure 2(d)). The human perception study provided useful information to determine theessential aspects of force and vibration that needed to be
component to data science is extracting the data in various ways. A very common method of collecting this data is through web-scraping various web pages. This workshop introduced students to the concept of web scraping and writing python scripts to automate this collection method. • High Performance Computing Workshop: A mechanical engineering professor at WTAMU hosted a workshop about high performance computing and the utility it has in a variety of disciplines. The students who participated had the opportunity to actually SSH into the WTAMU HPC cluster and run various distributed systems scripts. Tentative 2- Day Hackathon schedule can be found in Figure 1. Day Time
, which iswhy learning communities or cohorts have shown success in a student’s first year [17] especiallyfor underrepresented, first generation, or low-income students. In a recent study [17], a learningcommunity was built along with a summer immersion program, a peer mentoring program, and afirst-year experience course. The summer immersion program linked science and social justiceissues with hands-on activities and built a sense of belonging. The results showed increasedsuccess in the first year and those that participated were more likely to graduate. The study notedthat this type of community may not be appropriate for commuter populations if studentintegration cannot be balanced with maintaining connections to their home communities.Overall
in characterizing graduate-level attrition, persistence, and career trajectories; engineering writing and communication; and methodological development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: Toward a Holistic Understanding of Engineering Student Success in Mechanical Engineering across Educational StagesAbstract: This WIP paper will present our results to date in conducting a multimethod single casestudy, which is appropriate for deeply understanding multiple stakeholder perspectives within abounded environment, in our case, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at PennsylvaniaState University. The in-progress goal of our team in Mechanical Engineering at
usable low word errorrates, the generated text output is an incomplete representation of a multi-party conversation; Inshort, it solves the “what” but not the “who.” This creates barriers to our ideal of an inclusive andequitable learning community. Thus students who are deaf or hard of hearing are furthermarginalized and excluded from multi-party peer discussions with non-deaf participants becauseit is hard to visually follow who is speaking. To address these communication barriers, weutilized the Human Centered Engineering Design framework to identify a set of features thatovercomes the above barriers. This paper explores computerized diarization techniques thatutilize a wide set of algorithms and audio metrics to assist in speaker
short profiles ofeach participant to elevate their unique stories and identities; the profiles were approved by theparticipants. Each chose a pseudonym for the study and some details about them are excludedintentionally to protect their privacy.Student ProfilesEsperanzaEsperanza was a sophomore student in the winter of 2022. She identifies as Christian, cis-gendered,female, heterosexual, and as multiracial and Hispanic but does not speak Spanish. Esperanza wasdiagnosed with a physical disability that causes nerve pain that impacts her hands and feet, whichaffects her ability to walk, write, and do lab work and results in physical exhaustion that requires her torest to recuperate. She also is affected by asthma and anxiety. She chose not to
explanations, opinion, judgment, etc Ind Individual thinking/problem solving. CG Discuss clicker question in groups of 2 or more students WG Working in groups on worksheet activity OG Other assigned group activity, such as responding to instructor question Prd Making a prediction about the outcome of demo or experiment SP Presentation by student(s) TQ Test or quiz W Waiting O Other – explain in comments Instructor is Doing Lec Lecturing RtW Real-time writing on board, doc. projector, etc. Fup Follow-up/feedback on clicker question or activity to entire class PQ Posing non-clicker question to students (non-rhetorical) CQ Asking a clicker question AnQ
questions and how they interacted with their peers during thediscussion. The students held steadfast to the discussion guidelines, exhibiting respect andconsideration for their fellow students, allowing for a deeper conversation. As the class consistsof senior engineering students, the expectation was that they would be able to identify theengineering failures, but may struggle with the discussion on racial inequities due to a lack ofexposure in previous engineering courses. Surprisingly, the students understood and articulatedthe impact of institutional discrimination on the events leading up to and response to HurricaneKatrina.However, not all of the students reviewed the reading material prior to class. Since a largeportion of the class had not
Theory uses a formalized network diagraming convention to model environmentalsettings [13]. The network diagram consists of a Subject, Mediating Artifacts, Object, andOutcome. The Subject uses external (LMS, computer devices) and internal (plans, strategies)tools to complete an Object (milestone) thereby achieving a desired Outcome. The tools, alsoknown as Mediating Artifacts, are imbued with cultural, historical, and social significance.Mediating Artifacts influence the behavior of the Subject using them, and in turn, the largersocial environment the Subject inhabits. A simple example is shown in Fig. 1. A Subject(Student) is tasked with writing a report on “Activity Theory” (Outcome). The Student (Subject)uses ChatGPT, Wikipedia, and Google
point in the past was negotiated with the otherdepartments in sort of an agreement that they came to in how the students will be graded. I don'treally know the details of that it's been there for longer than I have…And we've just kind of keptdoing that same thing.” It must be noted that instructors had autonomy to write their own midterm exams as Jacknoted that the instructors were “responsible for making the tests for their sections,” but not thefinal exam as the final was a standardized, multiple-choice exam for all sections and was writtenby the course supervisor. In triangulating this finding with the public documents from the institution, such as thefaculty and student handbooks, it showed consistency in one dimension and
. Students enter the program as rising juniors orseniors, and instructors are Ph.D. students with at least a year left in graduate school. As such,these former students are, at the time of writing, in high school (in 11th or 12th grade), their firstyear of college, or their second year of college. All former instructors are currently in academiccareers, including continuing as Graduate Research Assistants, Postdoctoral Researchers andFellows, Research Engineers, and Teaching Professors. Students have enrolled in Purdue’sengineering programs and indicated a preference for civil engineering, but no formal statisticsare maintained on previous students.The course was first taught in the summer of 2020 and continues to be conducted every summer.Due to
American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity (CoNECD), Frontiers in Education (FIE), as well as major psychological con- ferences.Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University Catherine G.P. Berdanier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Penn- sylvania State University. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from The University of South Dakota, her M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and her PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research expertise lies in characterizing graduate-level attrition, persistence, and career trajectories; engineering writing and communication; and
Paper ID #38301”Better Living through Chemistry?” DuPont & TeflonDr. Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology Marilyn Dyrud retired in 2017 as a professor emerita in the Communication Department at Oregon In- stitute of Technology, where she taught classes in writing, speech, rhetoric, and ethics for four decades. She received her BA in 1972 from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA, and her graduate degrees from Purdue University: MA in 1974 and PhD in 1980. She became involved in engineering education by joining ASEE in 1983 and is currently active in two divisions: Engineering Ethics and Engineering
Program information Connections to peer mentors & supports SJ: Data on belonging in STEM ADEI definitions Identity & Examples of equity in STEM Bias & Prejudice Belonging How identity pertains to engineering Social Identity Wheel (case studies) Story Sharing ENGR: Engineering design process Socially just mindset & contexts How Engineers Role of failure in design Social impact of product/design Make Decisions
twentieth centuries. The creation of MIT'sUndergraduate Research Opportunities Program in 1969 encouraged an explosion in popularitysuch that Undergraduate Research Programs (URPs) became fairly common globally by the1990s.Developing and maintaining URPs benefit students, faculty mentors, and the university equally.Incorporating a research component along with a sound academic foundation enables students togain research and professional experience, work on real-world applications, develop oral andwritten communication skills as well as better relationships with faculty and peers [1]. Accordingto Thiry et al. [2], "Through coursework and out-of-class experiences, students describedlearning to work and think independently, to take responsibility for
efficacy, COVID-19hindered many students’ ability to allocate time for studying and well-being in the same mannerthey had prior to the pandemic, partially due to the way it “distorted [their] flow of time” [4].Students recorded the effects of this alteration in time diaries, writing that “the effort put intoclass feels more intensive yet yields much worse results”, and even when they could completetheir work, “it takes much longer” [2]. These responses suggest that students are no longer gettingthe expected returns from their time spent studying. In [5], a modified version of the TimeManagement Behavior scale [3] was used to evaluate the time management behaviors ofundergraduate electrical and computer engineering students prior to the pandemic