development [9]. Idea generation, synonymouswith brainstorming, focuses on generating a large quantity of ideas in a short period of time, withlists ranging from 50 - 100+ ideas. Concept development works to pare down and combineelements of this list into manageable numbers, no more than a dozen or so for consideration. Ashuman-centered design is a defining characteristic of design thinking, the finalized list ofsolutions should reflect the user’s needs in an end product [9]. For those who wish to develop adesign thinking mindset, practice in divergent thinking or thinking creatively, is an essential step.Creativity is often referred to in the idea generation step of design thinking, as it is of great aidwhen developing a large list of potential
provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment,establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives." Therefore, engineering schools must preparestudents with teamwork skills and incorporate teamwork as a significant part of their engineeringcurricula (ABET, 2021).Team participation is typically evaluated through peer evaluations or through instructorobservation of individual team members. Several tools have been developed to assess individualperformance, such as the Team Effectiveness Questionnaire (TEQ) or the ComprehensiveAssessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME). These assessment tools are based onself-reflections or peer evaluations. However, the efficacy of these tools has been questioned.At the University of
Indigenous people and settlers in our region across time.For the entire set of resources, see the SPV Lab website or email michelle.e.jordan@asu.edu.Note: This material is based on work supported in part by the National Science Foundation (#2055395). Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material arethose of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of NSF.
engage with whatresearch is, how it affects society, how entrepreneurial mindset affects the process of doingresearch, and what they might gain by becoming involved with UGR. The activities paired witheach video are as follows:What Is Research? This video is paired with two activities, a “Minute Paper Reflection” and an“Interview with Researchers”. The purpose of the minute paper activity is to have students reflecton their conception of research in order to expose students to research as a career path and toaddress misconceptions about research. The activity begins with an open discussion among thestudents about their understanding of research. The instructor then directs students to watch the“What is Research?” video. Students will complete a
project had a meaningful andpersonal impact since students could relate to their experiences during the pandemic and weremotivated to build the DIY filtration system to positively impact the lives of school-goingchildren. In addition to building the C-R boxes, students also plot graphs to show theeffectiveness of the boxes in removing particle number concentration. They measured the noiselevels and vibration for different fan speeds of these box filters to ensure the fans were not tooloud during teaching sessions. Each week students submitted engineering logs of their buildingprocess. Students were also asked to reflect upon their design and testing methods and developefficient design improvements. Students also highlighted their learning
iterativeprocess [42]. However, the vast majority of the design activities involved more of a trial anderror or tinkering approach to building the prototype.Table 3. NGSS Promoted in Engineering Interventions Category N NGSS Physical Science Core Ideas 24 NGSS Life Science Core Ideas 10 NGSS Earth & Space Science Core Ideas 8 NGSS Engineering Design Performance Expectations* 3-5 ETS1-1: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes 33 specified
research;and developing leadership, communication, and professional competencies. After two years ofdevelopment and implementation, we are also able to discuss lessons learned and strategies forscaling the model. We present findings from students in the program and a reflective interview ofthe project leadership team. In order to adopt this innovative education model, students, faculty,and universities need understanding of career pathways and opportunities beyond traditionalacademic pursuits.IntroductionWe formed the Pathways to Entrepreneurship (PAtENT) graduate education model to addressthe need to develop and train advanced engineering students in the art of entrepreneurship.Workforce estimates show that only 10% of doctoral graduates in STEM
on active learning in smallgroups solving similar types of problems. 0.2The high percentage of students scoring inthe advanced and proficient ranges of all 0elements within the Engineering Habits of 1 2 Score 3 4Mind may also be contributed to the Figure 3. Breakdown of student scores from BEN 401involvement of metacognition reflection habits aspart of the course curriculum following a class-wide poor performance on a low-stakes quiz earlierin the semester. After the poor performance, the instructor streamed the Skillful Learning,“Reflecting on Our Thinking” YouTube video [5
is shown in Table 4. Table 4: Grading for Project 1 Evaluation % Written Memo 40% Presentation (Instructor Score) 30% Presentation (Rocket Feedback) 10% Reflection 20%Project 2: Router Cutting with CAMThe purpose of this project was to introduce the built-in CAM plugin for SolidWorks. Before thisproject was assigned, the students completed all 18 video tutorials in the CAM learning path onthe MySolidWorks training site [8]. These videos described the steps for setting the cuttingparameters
instruction leads to student autonomy, constructive investigation, goal-settingcollaboration, and enhanced communication skills. Projects like this also address a wider set oflearning styles, promote critical and proactive thinking, and reflection. Mills et. al. [2, 8] argue thatthe current engineering programs do not provide sufficient design experience to students. Becauseof this, graduates often lack communication skills and teamwork experience. Engineeringprograms need to develop more awareness among students of the social, environmental, economic,and legal issues. These issues are better addressed in a project-based learning environment than inany other classroom setting. Mills et. al suggest that they are part of the reality of
state of the literature in aspecific area without using formal quality examination in the inclusion or exclusion criteria [6].An ScR may also indicate whether conducting a systematic review would be appropriate [7].2.1 The Scoping Review Protocol. During the initial phase of the ScR, the research team must becritically reflective of the process, re-visiting prior stages to ensure that the final review meetsthe project's desired scope and research questions. The research team currently consists of anengineering librarian, two literature reviewers, and one content expert. Arksey and O'Malley'smethodology informed thedevelopment of the scoping review ScR S age Ob ec e O c
resultsseem to suggest there might be a favorable bias in the sections taught by the faculty in the videos(502 and 503).End of Semester SurveyA survey was created and administered near the end of the course that asked students to reflect onthe course. The questions aimed to assess if the students were enthusiastic about the course, if thecourse helped in solving real-world problems, and if the students were interested in pursuing amaster’s or doctoral degree in the subject area. For comparative purposes, this survey was firstadministered as a baseline survey in a section of the course that did not implement the videos inFall 2021, when significantly fewer students took this course (off-schedule group). The results areshown in Figure 2. Students
with my cousin's death, my community being affected, my mental health, and just well being in general. To make a long story short, no matter how much I tried to explain it to this Professor, he did not care. [J7-1F1-3S]7. Reflective “Reflective” was defined by participants who shared three instances in which the events ofthe dual pandemic gave pause to “normal” life and enabled people to think more about the realitiesof others; realities that they may have never given much consideration to otherwise. An exampleof this is seen by one participant who shared “I believe with the cancellation of most major sportingevents or anything with a gathering of large crowds, we are forced to look at these things a bitmore.” [G3-2F3
influence transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) students’interests in and intentions to pursue engineering? This paper aims to provide preliminary insightsinto TGNC students participating in this course by exploring their unique perspectives. Anunderstanding of TGNC student experiences in the e4usa course will help to improve the course,while also exposing the policies and practices in the field of engineering that continue tomarginalize these students.Limitations We acknowledge our small sample size as a major limitation of this quantitativeexploration of TGNC student experiences in a pre-college engineering course. Our sample size issmall, but it is also unfortunately reflective of the overall TGNC representation in engineering.The
hierarchy, which in turn is responsible for supervising and coordinating the work of subordinates. Employment in a bureaucratic organization is expected to be full time and long term, with opportunities for advancement—in short, a career. (p. 3)In many organizations today, such bureaucratic arrangement has morphed into more flexible and“flat” structures (see [3])—but even within those structures, with smaller manager ranks andfewer hierarchical levels, people report to people, i.e., accountability and decision-makingauthority rolls up from contributor to leader.Overall, these relationships reflect an organization’s reporting structure. A reporting structurecaptures three key features of work: chain of command, span of control, and
biomedical engineering curricula in universities across the UnitedStates [5]. For example, programs like Johns Hopkins University’s two week long clinicalobservation program for undergraduates [6] and the authors’ institution’s unique two semesterlong Engineering in Surgery and Intervention Course for graduate students [7] attempt toincorporate a clinically immersive aspect to the traditional biomedical engineering corecurriculum. Through the use of grades, survey data, reflections and other measures, theseprograms show promising improvements to students’ abilities to understand and identify clinicaland surgical needs as biomedical engineers. However, few testable instruments exist that can beused across different programs to assess their efficacy
get full creditfor submitting a correct numerical answer or no credit if the submitted numerical answer wasincorrect. Sometimes, students understood the concept and made a calculation error. They weretreated the same as the students who never understood the concept.Offering partial credit for an exam is an interesting topic by itself among the educationalcommunity. Some faculty members do not give it, while many others do. The methods fordetermining partial credit include reviewing exam papers manually [12], asking and reviewingpost-exam reflections from the students [13], and conducting in-person interviews [14]. Somefaculty members went in the other direction of eliminating partial credit and supplementing itwith extra credit problems [15
interviewed. The feedback from the students and reflections from the faculty wouldprovide guidance about the integration of the undergraduate research experiences into the coursesto broaden the impacts of undergraduate research on learning and teaching. In the future, at leastanother two cohorts of students. especially from underrepresented groups, will be recruited. Wewill have a longitudinal study to explore the impacts of undergraduate research experiences onlearning and teaching using a mixed qualitative and quantitative method.KeywordsResearch Experience for Undergraduate, Drone Swarms, Artificial Intelligence. 1. Introduction Studies showed that interdisciplinary undergraduate research activity efficiently improvesstudents’ learning and
everything before writing a first draft, is an incrediblyimportant piece of the process of writing that forces the writer to begin organization and synthesisprior to drafting [2-5]. The motivation for this work comes from a decade of experience teachingtechnical and professional communication to engineering graduate and undergraduate students andthe observed resistance to engaging in prewriting. The majority of students encountered prefer tojump straight into writing, seeing prewriting as a cumbersome task that takes up time withoutseemingly obvious benefit. Reflecting on student resistance to pre-writing activities, such as thepopular outlining, raised the question of what other, perhaps less traditional, approaches might beoffered to students as
first-year gateway courses beforereaching technical proficiency in biomedical engineering. Another strategy toincorporate ethics into the curriculum focuses on senior capstone courses with anemphasis on designing for clients and diverse stakeholders, but this approach lacksthe appropriate scaffolding of ethical principles applied to engineering problemsthat mirrors scaffolded technical content. Accepting the broad nature of abiomedical engineering degree, we aim to engage undergraduate students ingaining proficiency and efficacy in incorporating ethical inquiry into technicalknowledge that improves student engagement with course content and allowscritical reflection on technical challenges for their future careers. We believe thatan iterative
expansion of the CW.In the past year, we have focused on (a) analyzing extensive interviews with faculty members toinvestigate aspects of the educational systems that influence the propagation of the CW in fivediverse institutional settings, (b) a multi-institutional “Common Questions Study” expandedfrom last year, (c) student metacognitive responses to complex concept questions, (d) machinelearning of constructed responses, (d) continued development and review of concept questions,and (e) development of adaptive instructional tools.Ecosystems Metaphor for PropagationIn this project, we use an ecosystem metaphor to understand the propagation of an instructionaltool, the Concept Warehouse [9]. This metaphor reflects a socio-cultural perspective that
settings [7]. This work-in-progresspaper will outline our strategies for transforming the MCTE track at Duke University, includingthe needs identification, initial findings of student and curricular success, infrastructure changesto support our enhanced tract, and future directions to iterate on our courses. We also present thefirst iteration of our improved MCTE track courses, learning objectives for lecture and student-centered laboratories, and feedback on further improving these core courses to reflect the dynamicchange in the biomedical engineering space.From traditional engineering courses to an enhanced MCTE track Our BME curriculum requires students to take Bio201L: Molecular Biology as aprerequisite for their initial required BME
questions by having students grade them using the samerubric as the instructors. They observed that students matched the instructor-determined gradesless than 50% of the time. However, the rubric required students to discern between a “minorerror,” a “minor logic error” and a “significant conceptual error,” such that poor performance onthe calibration task may have been reflective of students’ inability to discern between these typesof mistakes.In this study we will examine preliminary data collected in an engineering statics course toobserve whether our students follow trends observed with postdiction calibration in other fields.Specifically, we are interested in determining if: 1) High-performing students are better calibrated than low
identity draws on three constructs reflected in similarresearch in physics, math, and science broadly: subjective interest in the subject, external feelings ofrecognition, and competency beliefs. That these concepts overlap with related frameworks forunderstanding students’ motivation to succeed and perform in STEM education is perhaps unsurprising,but results in a complicated picture of how EI forms and what role it might play in students’ trajectories.To disentangle expectancy value constructs of motivation and EI measures of competency beliefs, wouldrequire a simultaneous consideration of both- an approach absent in the current literature[8]. While a gooddeal of this work focuses on the factors that inform matriculation into engineering
from the larger community of thesurrounding town. Many of the students who attend St. Teresa’s live on this side of town, wherethere is quite a bit of poverty. Most students receive government-funded scholarships to attendthe private school, which is owned and run by a Black woman native to the local community.The school serves students pre-K through eighth grade. Roper Developmental Research Schoolis a public school affiliated with a University. The student population is selected by lottery andrequired to reflect the demographics and socioeconomics of the school-age population of theState. Participants were recruited and consented through a convenience sampling, by word ofmouth through researchers’ contacts in the schools and
limit their professional effectiveness since our study of engineering judgment in student writing clearly indicates that technical work is clearly mediated through communication practice. This finding is also reflected in Wilde and Guile’s (2021) use of the concepts of situated judgment and immaterial activity. They note that material production includes interprofessional teams’ idea generation and digitalFigure 2. High-level themes and sub- exchanges of ideas, suggestions, and recollections that
from over 75 interns from across the JHU/APL,16 day-of volunteers/mentors, and 8 judges (a total of approximately 25 JHU/APL staff members).There was a diverse representation of race and ethnicity, with the majority of students identifyingas Asian and Black or African American. This reflected the high participation of students from theCIRCUIT and ATLAS internship programs. Survey responding students identified as 56% male,40% female, and 4% other/prefer not to say. Academic disciplines represented by students werediverse, unlike traditional hackathons which often see participation primarily from software-oriented majors. Table 1: Represented Academic Majors at Net-Hack 2022 Academic Majors Represented Aerospace Engineering
dispositional changes in STEM self-efficacy and identity.Students completed surveys and reflections at multiple points throughout their internship,including a retrospective pre/post survey capturing dispositional shifts during the experience.The results of the internship experience on student intern participants educational andprofessional plans at the 3 sites are evaluated in this paper. Results show significant gains onitems related to professional discernment (desire to work in a STEM field, use technical skills,on open ended problems for the betterment of society) for participants at all sites. Additionally,there are differences by gender.OverviewBeginning in 2015, the College of Engineering researchers and staff at UNIVERSITYdeveloped, piloted
, and pictures describing weekly progress. Thisallowed the instructor to track the progress asynchronously and provide formative feedback.Also, the students attended weekly meetings to update their progress, reflections, and futuresteps. At the beginning of Week 12, the students were assigned into smaller groups of 5 to workon designing, assembling, and operating the manufacturing line. The training evaluation includesthe following criteria: • Task 1: Could robotic arm 1 be activated by the voice module? • Task 2: Could robotic arms 2 and 3 pick up the cube and place the cube back on the line? • Task 3: Could robotic arm 4 detect the color of the object and sort it in terms of red, blue, yellow, and green? • Task 4: Could
to understand what this process may entail.According to some graduate education scholars, there are four core elements related to graduatestudents' development of an identity congruent with the norms and values of their field:knowledge acquisition, investment, involvement, and engagement (Weidman, 2006). Knowledgeacquisition describes how students learn skills and information that will help them perform wellin their new role as a Ph.D. student, as well as gain an understanding of what academic successentails. Through knowledge acquisition, students become aware of normative expectations of thePh.D. student role and can make a realistic assessment of their personal ability to pursue theirdesired career. The student's investment reflects their