common intervals within each chord type holdregardless of musical key.This commonality of intervals led the music student to conceive of a spreadsheet-baseddatabase with lookup functions to identify correct notes in each chord driven by the musicalkey. With little experience with databases and spreadsheet functions, the music studentreached out to the engineering students for help.ProblemsAs expected, the community college music theory student spends a lot of time studying,writing notes, listening to chords, and memorizing note intervals within chords. Many musictheory students do so. The community college’s target homework for a 3-credit course suchas music theory, is 6 to 9 hours of homework per week. For this study, one music studentwith
Union, both in chemical engineering. In 2011, he received the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division ”Engineering Education” Mentoring Grant and in 2015 he received the Ray W. Fahien Award. His research interests include particle technology, transport phenomena, and engineering education. His current educational research is focused on peer instruction, technology-enhanced active learning, and electronic textbooks.Prof. Matthew W Liberatore, The University of Toledo Matthew W. Liberatore is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Toledo. He earned a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all
Northwestern’s Advising-as-Teaching model in which the first-year advisors and the first-year engineering program instructors are one and the same.Dedicated first-year instructors and advisors, as at Northwestern, were not feasible in ourengineering programs however, most notably because our engineering students share a firstsemester engineering design experience, rather than a first year design experience We insteadaimed to replicate what we perceived as the most influential and helpful elements of theNorthwestern Advising-as-Teaching model – regular, meaningful, interactions between studentsand their 360 Coach and E-Team (engineering team) peer mentor. Our 360 Coaches may achievethis regular interaction within the context of the first-semester
. Studentathletes and non-traditional students who had to miss class more that their peers were strongearly supporters of flipped classrooms in our department and on our campus. Being able to get alecture while on the road for sponsored athletics or work greatly benefited those students, whilehelping the rest of the class with active learning in the classroom itself.However, in March of 2020 the world shut down for an unprecedented global pandemic.Students were exclusively doing all of their coursework over the internet; with platforms such asZoom becoming an hourly duty. New concepts such as Zoom fatigue became familiar foes forfaculty and students alike. Particularly impacted were those in their last year of high school andfirst year of university
center is located at both the Singapore University of Technology and Design and at MIT. He also runs an engineer- ing consulting company which specializes in training in engineering design. Dr Jensen regularly teaches courses in ”Innovation in Product/Systems Design” at the SUTD/MIT Academy and in other venues. He has trained hundreds of design teams in ”Innovation in Design of Products, Processes and Services” and has overseen the creation of dozens of patents. He has written over 135 peer-reviewed papers and has secured grants for approximately $4 million in research and consulting funding.Gregory ReichJoshua GuintoJared Lush ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Using the Kolb
elements of the flipped classroom.There is a huge variety of engineering programs available to students in the U.S., butexamination of the curricula often reveals a large amount of curricular uniformity, especiallyamong programs in the same or similar disciplines. Engineering programs in mainstreamdisciplines such as civil or mechanical engineering often struggle to differentiate themselvesfrom their competitor peers. Use of studios and promotion of studio culture in undergraduateengineering programs as exemplified in art & design, architecture, and landscape architectureprograms could be a way to enhance learning, improve the student experience, and truly make aprogram stand out in terms of offering a unique engineering educational
about theassessment of these approaches with solutions involving students writing their own learninggoals, there being personal development goals alongside learning goals, and even the mentioningof emails from students a few years out of the program. These discussions revealed that characterformation can take many forms and that assessment of these interventions remains challenging atthe classroom and university-wide level. This workshop has led to a working group at NotreDame to rethink the approach to character formation for engineering students across the Collegeof Engineering. This is an ongoing project that has informed our approach at various stages andremains an active area of conversation and pedagogical development.Ethics at WorkDr
inequity in STEM, and indenying the existence of the challenges women in STEM are forced to navigate, men reifyexisting gender disparities [40] For example, in their study of over 700 participants in which30% of respondents were faculty, Handley et al. [40] found that men were less receptive toscholarship that examines gender bias in STEM than their women peers. The failure of the majority of men to acknowledge the well-documented issue of genderinequity in STEM makes men allies all the more important [40]. Although allies may not be ableto affect the beliefs of all men, they may be able to influence some colleagues – both women andmen. In the case of supporting women, the efforts of a man ally may support a woman’sretention in a STEM
proposalfor an industry partnership to build a bulk antibody manufacturing capability in the UK (p299),Fourth, it sold the Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre to an American company (p299).Fifth, an onshore manufacturing capability for mRNA was not created. But the governmentdid sign a deal with Moderna to establish a research and manufacturing facility in the UK inJune 2022 (p 299)Related to these failures is an announcement in February 2023 that AstraZeneca propose tobuild a pharma ingredient plant at a cost of $369 million in Ireland rather than Englandbecause of corporate taxation and the NHS sales levy. It should be noted that Astra Zeneca isBritain’s largest provider of R & D [13].Finally Bingham and Hames write”“The ethos of the
lifelong learners [4], [5]. For astudent to be a self-regulated learner, they must develop an understanding and awareness oftheir learning and should be able to use that awareness to control their learning process [6].Self-regulation in students can be achieved through development of three metacognitivestrategies: Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluating [7].Instructors can use a variety of activities to promote students' metacognitive engagement,such as think-alouds, guided mastery, Socratic questioning, narratives (dialogue andstorytelling), concept mapping, and reflective writing. Including activities that provide anopportunity for reflection enhances students' self-regulation abilities [8]. Self-evaluation andreflection are two activities that
impacted by a problem more than others. • Engineers can use computational tools to frame a problem. • Scientists may consider one or more characteristics when defining “heatwave.” • A data visualization can be useful for summarizing a large dataset. • A computer has to be provided with an algorithm (a set of instructions) written by a human in order to produce a data visualization. • A human’s experiences and beliefs may influence algorithms that they write. (YES, 2023b, p. 7)As students work toward these educational goals, they learn ways that CT informs the details oftheir own technology and some of the broader ramifications of CT and engineering in society.Medicine Cooler Alarm: In this two-lesson module, students think
community [8].Early studies have indicated that co-curricular experiences contribute to engineeringundergraduates’ professional identity development [8, 25, 26]. For example, Eliot et al. [27]found that engineering students’ experience in internships, co-ops, and volunteer work helpedthem construct their professional identity. The researchers further suggested that students’professional identity formation was shaped by multiple factors, such as their interactions withtheir family, peers, faculty, and employers [27]. Similarly, Villanueva and Nadelson [9]demonstrated that professional identity development was influenced by their experiences,personal and professional knowledge, and professional interactions. Thus, it is important thatengineering
as important as content knowledge,” we refer to a practice as an intentionalbehavior with specific meaning within a community. In addition to easing the burden oneducators trying to inspire the next generation of engineers, these strategies are based on bestknown practices to 1) retain students as populations across the United States decrease and changedemographically, and 2) to graduate engineers ready to tackle incredibly complex socialproblems.During this formative time in engineering education, the curriculum, interactions with facultyand peers, and course options give students insight into which skills are necessary and which aresupposedly optional for practicing engineers. Berdanier [11] makes it clear the “optional” skillsoften are
has become more explicitin recent years, the preamble to the National Society of Professional Engineers’ (NSPE) [14]code of ethics has stated for decades, “The services provided by engineers require honesty,impartiality, fairness, and equity, and must be dedicated to the protection of the public health, 1safety, and welfare” (emphasis added). Likewise, ASCE has recently integrated a specific focuson equity with/for peers into their code of ethics [15]. Non-discrimination and anti-discrimination (each of which are ostensibly DEI-related) were recently introduced into the IEEEcode of ethics [16] and NSPE code of ethics [17], respectively. These
accounts for the differences?Literature ReviewLiterature was identified by searching various databases (Web of Science Core Collection, Webof Science Inspec, and ASEE Peer) for keywords, which included “disparities”, “academia”,“women”, “engineering”, “inequities”, and “gender”. The identified records were screened forrelevance, availability, and duplicates. In total, 110 papers were selected to be analyzed from allareas of academia in a full-text analysis. 30 papers were disqualified after review for not fittingthe scope of the study. Some of those reasons included a focus on undergraduate students and afocus on women in engineering in the industry. 18 papers focused on engineering and wereanalyzed to identify disparities for women, the causes of
that“inclusivity” and the “presence of better educators” are not commonly cited reasons whyinternational students come to the US for higher education [4], [5].The presence of international students is often described in terms of its socioeconomic benefits tothe host countries [6], but this perspective often cloaks the associated nuances of studying abroad.One commonly cited statistic on this topic is that international students contributed more than $45billion of revenue money to the United States within one calendar year [7]. Yet, other studies haveattempted to expound on the benefits of developing interculturally competent graduates throughthe interactions between domestic American students and their international peers [8].International
utilization and application of their STEM knowledge. Networking with their peers - bothwithin their program and the national network - amplifies the experience and has the potential tocontribute to future career development. Participants, in the work itself, are given the opportunityto take ownership in the development of curriculum development and classroom management,building potential for self-efficacy development. Finally, the three interconnected strands holdmany connections to the Actua Future Skills Framework; “delivering results” requiresintellectual development, “working with others” draws from networking skills and institutionalknowledge; and future readiness draws from the three strands and makes connections to theparticipant’s future
influences design cognition more broadly.Prof. Patricia K. Sheridan, University of Toronto Professor Sheridan is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream at the Troost Institute for Leadership Ed- ucation in Engineering (ILead) and the Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies in Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP), and is cross-appointed to the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. Prof. Sheridan teaches teamwork and leadership in the first-year corner- stone design courses and oversees the integration of teamwork and leadership learning into the upper-year courses. She previously designed an online team-based self- and peer-assessment system that was used in multiple
methodology for making thisconversion was available, which became a key motivation for writing this paper. A number ofworks chronicled the relative advantages and disadvantages of the quarter and semester systems.Bostwick et.al. [4] contended that conversion to the semester system negatively impacts on-timegraduation rates and specifically lowers first-year grades, decreases the probability of enrollingin a full course load, and delays the timing of major choice. Johnson and Kestler [5] conducted amixed methods study, involving a sample of Midwestern university students’ favoritism towardquarters and semesters, the students’ predicted and perceived changes to their motivatedbehaviors, and their self-reported motivation/learning strategies during the
to the youth participating in engineering outreach.Keywords: Role models, engineering education, outreach, elementary, career planningIntroductionIn this paper, we use data from a three-year study of an engineering outreach program tochallenge the notion that youth engaged in engineering outreach programming readily take upnear-age peers or adults as role models. This is not to say that this does not occur in certaincases, but we do not think that it occurs as readily nor at the magnitude that we and others in thefield have believed that it does.Outreach programs for youth often attempt to position adults as role models, usually with thegoal of inspiring youth by messaging that they, too, can be like the role model or do what theydo. In
, philanthropic efforts, college courses, and research grants and publications. She currently holds the following Quality Matters Certifications: Master Reviewer, Peer Reviewer, Ac- celerated Designing Your Online Course F2F Facilitator, Accelerated Improving Your Online Course F2F Facilitator, Reviewer Course for Program Reviews, and Applying the QM Rubric Face to Face Facilitator. She is a board member of the Winston-Salem State University Foundation, National Girls Collabora- tive Project, American Association for the Advancement of Science National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, an advisory member for Nvolve, Inc, and several grants. She is also a member of sev- eral associations, including the Alpha Zeta Omega
states have outlawed race-based AAsince the mid-1990s: California, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire,Oklahoma, and Washington. At the time of writing, the US Supreme Court had heard oralarguments in two separate court cases brought against Harvard University and the University ofNorth Carolina; the court’s decision will likely be decided in June 2023 and will have far-reaching consequences on the state of AA within the US [4].The nine state-level affirmative action bans occurred through a variety of methods in twobranches of the government: executive and legislative. The AA ban in the state of Florida is theonly ban to be enacted via the executive branch; this ban was implemented via an executiveorder by the governor in
thatpositively impacted instructor and student collaboration included comfortable and flexible(movable) furnishings, sufficient space between collaborative groups, an abundance of white-board surfaces, and digital technology for sharing ideas. Providing a flexible, open design allowsfor easier movement and encourages social interaction among peers and students, enablesstudents and instructors to share knowledge, and creates a feeling of community and engagement[6].Flexibility in the university classroom is becoming increasingly important to meet limitedclassroom space needs and support multiple learning and instructional methods. Studies haveindicated positive perceptions of students and instructors when furnishings allow for moving andadjusting to
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 methodological development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Synthesizing Indicators of Quality across Traditions of Narrative ResearchMethods: A Procedural Framework and Demonstration of Smoothing FramesAbstractThe purpose of this methods paper is to describe and discuss one of the main indicators ofquality in narrative analysis, which is the process of narrative smoothing. Narrative analysisrefers
deliberately build good working relationships based onthe personal interests and needs of others. A common objective of working with others was theneed to learn something. Additionally, one expressed that, “if you’ve got good relationships withyour techs and your site managers and your boss and your peers it’s a lot easier to get stuff doneand I think a lot more enjoyable to get stuff done” (Newcomer-06-experienced hire).There were also comments indicating that having empathy for others was important to theirwork. The comment of ‘being in another’s shoes’ or ‘knowing what it is like on their side’expressed the idea that a deeper understanding of another person’s situation was an importantrequirement for work. One participant described that, “each site
increasing numbers and “a clear need andcall for critical global competencies, they remain lacking in college graduates and the workforce[11].” At the same time, study abroad programs are trending shorter. At the writing of this paper,64.9 % of students enroll in study abroad programs shorter than 8 weeks in duration [10].Historically, an entire semester abroad had been the convention for decades. This invites thequestion of whether and how practitioners can develop these requisite global competencies asshorter sojourns abroad undergird the paradigm.The extent to which participants acquire global competency during study abroad continues toelude researchers despite their best efforts. Assessment is a multidimensional challenge,complicated by limited
interests [12]. Thissignificantly impedes the sense of belonging of non-traditional learners and those whosepreferred communication mode is other than reading and writing. The purpose of this project wasto support engineering instructors in redesigning their courses to support and engage a broaderrange of neurological and cognitive functioning within students to support and promoteparticipation of non-traditional thinkers and problem solvers in the engineering fields. Thepurpose of this study was to investigate instructors’ conceptions of neurodiversity to provideinsight on the effects of the professional development on instructors. Additionally, it follows thatinstructors' views about neurodiversity affect the ways in which they support (or do not
author supported the firstauthor in writing and editing this paper.Results All pre-camp and post-camp survey items were compared between Camps #1 and #2 to see ifthere were any items with statistically significant differences. In the comparison of pre-surveysbetween the Nomination Camp and Self-Selection Camp, six items showed a statisticallysignificant difference change: 1. Engineers mainly work on machines and computers. (p = .012) 2. Engineers mainly work on things that have nothing to do with me. (p = .012) 3. More time should be spent on hands-on projects in science or technology activities in school. (p = .000) 4. I would like to (or already do) belong to a science or technology activities club. (p = .009) 5. How
example “I think that previously I was veryafraid of coding and it seemed like kind of a large part of engineering and now that I understandsome of the basics I'm less intimidated and more enthusiastic.” One student proposed a clearconnection between skills, reward and persistence, writing, “I am more enthusiastic becausethrough these engineering courses I have become a better problem solver and I want to keepexperiencing that feeling throughout my career.”Student data indicated that the semantics instructors use in the classroom are vitally important inaiding students to identify the new skills they are learning and why they are learning them,whether teamwork, algorithmic thinking or problem solving. This was most evident in our datawith respect
andexperiment with communication algorithms through the writing of software. A diverse set ofSDR software frameworks and hardware platforms exists, many of which have been employed ineducational pursuits to individual advantage and disadvantage [5].The range of learning activities in which SDRs have been deployed mirrors the breadth of PBL.This has included use in guided laboratories for wireless communication subjects [6] up to largecapstone or senior design projects with a significant digital communications component [7]. Alsocommon are extra-curricular design competitions which aim to promote research or educationalobjectives by having teams from different institutions compete to design the best performingsystem for a common problem statement