but gained an appreciationof other disciplines. The author plan to continue using this approach but will refine the code to acookbook of smaller functions that students can select and use as needed. More advancedstudents will be able to modify functions or write their own.References[1] “Raspberry Pi Pico”, https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-pico/, accessedFebruary 13, 2023[2] “Micropython”, https://micropython.org/, accessed February 13, 2023[3] “Circuitpython”, https://circuitpython.org/, accessed February 13, 2023[4] “Arduino-pico”, https://github.com/earlephilhower/arduino-pico, accessed February 13, 2023[5] “Thonny Python IDE for Beginners”, https://thonny.org/, accessed February 13, 2023[6] Jack, H., & Barakat, N
general, each of our participants appreciated the HyFlex modality for having the optionto choose remote attendance on any given day, while otherwise planning on being in-person astheir default mode of class participation. They spoke about their preference of the HyFlex formatas opposed to the fully in-person format, while the others also mentioned how HyFlexaffordances were useful and how their absence would have inhibited their course experience.Though a few interviewees did note that participating online on some or most days did result insome drop of attention levels, no one reported feeling any awkwardness in small groupconversations or miscommunication due to the HyFlex format.Accessibility Considerations and Accommodations Perhaps the
others. For example, if weuse final exam performance on a statics exam to measure academic achievement, it is likely thatthe scores students obtain are coming primarily from their participation in class rather than theirextra-/co-curricular involvement. It is possible that a planned future activity for this study –conducting interviews with students, as explained in the “Future Work” subsection of this paper– may shed some light on how extra-/co-curricular participation impacts their academicachievement.The sample size is also smaller than we would have preferred, leading in some cases to numberstoo small to yield meaningful results (e.g. only four participants were involved in a servicelearning activity, so the results for this type of activity
continuous learning, the first twoproject-based learning courses are intended to be team-taught. The team established guidelinesfor ensuring that collective decision-making remained part of the course development process fornew integrated PBL classes, while ensuring that lead instructors have the necessary autonomy tomove forward with course design and delivery. The intention is that at least three months prior tothe start of the semester, lead instructors will present their course syllabus to the full group fordiscussion and approval. The syllabus will include course outcomes, an outline of coursecontent, a breakdown of assessment plans, and their intended approach to project-based learning,including expected student deliverables. Once approved
. Thetraining is online and provided by a well-recognized organization, EverFi. Training forundergraduate students is optional. For faculty and staff, the University has set in place arequired DEI Training Component for performance plans, which can include EverFi training,among other activities.The NC State College of Engineering desired to provide additional attention to the importance ofdiversity for engineers. Desiring to maximize effectiveness, in-person training was selected,despite the difficulty of enforcing a required in-person training for thousands of students. As afirst step, a diversity, equity, and inclusion module was designed for use during new studentorientation. This module consisted of a 45-minute session led by engineering DEI
information can be accessed too.3.3.2 Workshop information sharing Participants showed interest to share the information learned in the workshop with theirstudents or colleagues through different methods such as hands-on activities, videos, and writingin the school newsletter, as summarized in Table 5. Table 5: Participants’ intention to share workshop information. Yes. Through hands-on activities and videos. I would talk to them about it. Yes... share info about organizations that presented. Yes, hopefully, will be able to purchase the robot. The learning curve will be smaller. Yes, I plan to discuss my notes with colleagues and the administration. I also plan to discuss the needs with students to continue to motivate them
-oriented curriculum model on Renewable Energy Sources (RES) as an important solution to theenergy problem, and training talents with relevant skills and qualities have become a key part oftheir overall energy strategy. Based on Taylor Principle and PDCA Cycle Theory (Plan, Do,Check, Act), this paper proposed a “Student-centered Inquiry” RES course model together withthree reference templates for the design, teaching, and evaluation processes of the course.In 2020, Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) received a grant from the U.S. DOE under itsMinority, Education, Workforce, and Training (MEWT) program to implement a comprehensiveeducation and training program to strengthen STEM education and increase the pipeline ofqualified workers, especially
opportunities for individual interactions between faculty and student, especially on the concern of student welfare. 2: Satisfaction R The level of enjoyment students have in the class. 3: Innovation S The extent for which the faculty plans unusual activities teaching techniques and assignments to create student learning. 4: Student Cohesion R The level of which students know, help, and are friendly towards each other during class. 5:Task Orientation P The extent to which class activities are clear and well organized. 6: Involvement R The extent to students actively and
positive effect in solving puzzles in the pirate game.4 DiscussionWe have presented the design of two games that have found success in the classroom to helpunderstand university level linear algebra curriculum. The games were designed to work with anexisting inquiry oriented curriculum and demonstrated that games can be successfully integratedwith inquiry oriented pedagogy. In the next steps we plan to run a mixed-methods basedproficiency measuring study that looks at students of linear algebra from multiple demographics(novice/experienced; undergraduates/pre-service teachers) and collect data on decision choicesmade in both the bunny and pirate games. We are particularly interested in learning how thedecisions evolve with game repetition and if
sequence ofsteps to solve a problem. Problem decomposition is breaking down a problem into smaller andmore manageable segments. Pattern recognition involves finding generalizable features acrossdifferent problems and the potential for cross-applicability. Lastly, debugging is testing for errorsand correcting them. While abstraction and decomposition are terms consistently appearingacross studies, the other components used to define CT may vary [7]. However, the central ideamaintained is that CT equips individuals with a framework for solving problems in a structuredand systematic way, regardless of the domain in which the problem arises. CT is closely relatedto engineering principles in planning and assessing complicated systems meant to
surveys will be taken to understand how the faculty understand their positionality, what they have learned during their participation in the professional development experience, and how they plan to continue the work beyond the professional development experience. A few faculty will also take part in an interview where they will be asked in greater detail about their experiences in the professional development experience and their viewpoints on the teaching and learning experiences of MS in STEM. To answer the third question, the students of the participating faculty will be asked to complete their course evaluations which will include questions that inform the work of the grant to measure the extent to which their
collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meetobjectives.Outcome 6: An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze andinterpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions.Design of Experiments: Guidelines and InstructionsAn average of three to four different experiments are performed by the students in this courseduring the semester, where they get to apply principles learned in earlier courses. The studentsare introduced to the underlying theory in class which relate to the experiments they will becarrying out (for example, 1st and 2nd order systems models which can be related to the thermaland vibration experiments respectively). In addition to the theory, students have guidance
facilitationand teaching, learning basic maintenance, and contributing to the Makerspace community.Program Specialists with domain-specific expertise facilitated the CoP programs with supportfrom full-time supervisors. Before launching the program in Fall 2022, the CoP facilitators and supervisors engagedin comprehensive planning sessions to determine the most critical tools and skills to be taughtduring the community sessions, as well as opportunities to practice these skills. They alsodeveloped facilitator rubrics to evaluate the community members' competencies. These rubrics,given in Appendix A, organized the hard and soft skills of each tool area associated with each ofthe aforementioned outcome goals into 5-point Likert scales. Following the
responsibilities included production planning, forecastingand reservoir maintenance. This production planning and forecasting consisted of history matching andprediction based on selected drilling. The reservoir maintenance included: water/gas injection and gas liftfor selected wells to optimize reservoir production plateau and prolonging well’s economic life.Terra Tek, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, 1985-1987; Director of Reservoir Engineering; Responsible of con-ducting research for reservoir engineering projects, multiphase flow, well testing, in situ stress measure-ments, SCA, hydraulic fracturing and other assigned research programs. In addition, as a group directorhave been responsible for all management and administrative duties, budgeting, and
Organization. (2020). Global progress report on water, sanitation and hygienein health care facilities: Fundamentals firs[5] Baquedano, F., Cheryl, C., Ajewole, K., & Beckman, J. (2020). International food securityassessment, 2020-30. Electronic Outlook Report from Economic Research Service| 2020 (GFA-31): v+ 74 pp 4 ref.[6] Debnath, K. B., & Mourshed, M. (2018). Challenges and gaps for energy planning models inthe developing-world context. Nature Energy, 3(3), 172-184.[7] Debnath, K. B., & Mourshed, M. (2018). Challenges and gaps for energy planning models inthe developing-world context. Nature Energy, 3(3), 172-184.[8] P. Polak, Out of poverty: What works when traditional approaches fail. Surry Hills,Australia: Read How You Want, 2010.[9
Design Graphics.The Introduction to Engineering course, first taught in the fall of 2015, encompasses a widerange of outcomes. They include understanding the engineering profession and specificdisciplines, developing an academic plan and student success skills as well as an appreciation ofworkplace behavior and teamwork. One of the greatest strengths of the course is the opportunityfor new students to network and develop friendships in their first year of the program. While it isrequired for the NSF scholars, on average 90 students enroll in the course over each academicyear. This is roughly 40% of the first year ECS student population. The emphasis on developingconnections to the engineering profession and fellow students is accomplished with
study were primarily from the environmental engineeringdiscipline, which has a larger proportion of US women graduate students (42% at the MS level;[7]). Some insights can be gained by looking at differences between men and women at thegraduate school application stage. Baker et al. [8] found that while 69% of high achieving (3.5GPA) male engineering seniors planned to apply to graduate school, only 32% of high achievingwomen seniors were planning to apply. Reasons women students cited for not applying tograduate school included the “chilly climate” in male dominated engineering programs, lack of 1knowledge about the process of applying to graduate
ranked values of the program, asreported by students, are learning from industry mentors, making friends in the program, as wellas learning from academic mentors (Fig. 5). During the intense three-week training, the firstbarrier students faced was to collaborate with a team of students with diverse backgrounds,interests, and grade years, both online and in-person. This requires students to quickly learn andmaster team capabilities, to take initiatives and be bold, be able to motivate and inspire others, aswell as to plan ahead and allocate resources and time smartly. The unique mentoring system withacademic, industry, and onsite mentors addressed the challenge commonly faced by PBLmentors, where the three mentors serve as the three pillars to
visual study tools ratherthan traditional reading-writing methods.It is important to consider that through the application of different teaching methods theknowledge can be further approached. In architecture, it is necessary to make relationsbetween theoretical aspects and concepts with much more practical and technicalapplications. Thus, the requirement of having a broad comprehension of topics and therelations between them is fundamental. Through mind maps, graphic relations can be madebetween the several topics covered on a course. Visual tools can help “clarify the relationshipbetween material objects and concepts to understand” [3]. The critical challenges faced byan ArPM (Architect Project Manager) are ‘poor planning,’ ‘unfamiliar
- Adj Server - Noun Autonomous - Adj Optical - Adj Concrete - Noun Intelligence - Noun Analog - Noun Biomechanics - Noun Pollution - Noun Window - Noun Order - Noun5. LimitationsWhile in this work we only used four different departments, we plan to expand our analysis toother departments from other colleges, where we might find even more prominent differences instudent enrollment based on gender. The outcomes of this study will inform and guide futureresearch that is needed within departments.Our filtering might have disproportionally affected the courses remaining in the BMEdepartments, which in general have fewer enrolled students. There are less courses in thatdepartment that
studentsparticipating are performing, at baseline, approximately the same as other students in their age anddemographic range in terms of their quantitative score on instruments such as the EERI and DIT-2.Analysis of surveys completed both before and after the introduction of the game-based ethicaleducational interventions have not shown significant differences: changes in ethical reasoning afterformal engineering ethics instruction (either via games or through more traditional approaches likecase studies) show no significant changes and effect sizes are all small.Since student ethical reasoning as measured by these instruments seems stable over the course ofsingle semester, we planned to collect follow-up data from senior engineering students to see ifthere
concepts are reintroduced or reframed from previous chemical engineering coursesfor the context of the material at hand. Further, this course serves as a cross-disciplinary electiveacross multiple programs, with previous enrollment having included students fromcivil/environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, and integrative engineering.The Spring 2022 instance of Atmospheric Engineering and Science comprised of 3 seniors, 8juniors, 8 sophomores, and one first-year student. With the exception of two junior students,whom were environmentally-focused integrative engineering students, students in this instanceof the course majored in or planned on majoring in chemical engineering. Though first-yearstudents are broadly discouraged from taking
students’ feedback onthe corresponding ACCESS program activities. The evaluation of the impact of ACCESSactivities on students’ success is presented in Section 5, followed by the description of thelessons learned and future plans in Section 6. The concluding remarks are given in Section 7.2. Awarded ACCESS scholarships and contribution towards increasing the annual enrollment of students in the B.S. and AoE in CybersecurityTo be able to achieve the first objective, the ACCESS project team carried out a wide range ofrecruitment activities to reach high school students and current WVU students at differentacademic stages. To increase the diversity of the applicant pools and subsequently among therecipients of the ACCESS scholarship, the
structural behavior by the time they graduate. This necessitates the inclusionof structural analysis and design topics into the curriculum and the subsequent assessment of thestudents’ understanding of the basic concepts of structural behavior in each accreditedConstruction Management program. These programs must therefore develop and implement anassessment plan to measure their students’ attainment of the ACCE SLO’s and devise andimplement corrective actions where needed. Keeping the number of required learning outcomesto a reasonable level that sets minimum standards ensures that assessment serves its intendedpurpose of improving quality without becoming a heavy burden on programs.Table 1. Required ACCE [1] student learning outcomes for bachelor
-based research methods class. They were mentored byan B.S. student (and past URSP participant) who took the day-to-day lead on managing theproject. The URSP freshman, the B.S. student, and their faculty advisor met once per week todiscuss project progress and develop forward-looking activities. Figure 2 shows the Gantt chartdeveloped by the team, which evolved throughout their two semesters of interaction. The Ganttchart included both project-related experimental work as well as a section to plan the authorshipassignments and progression toward completion of this ASEE Conference paper. Action itemswere planned in week-long time intervals with milestones coming due the week a deliverablewas needed to meet an internal or external deadline. One or
RVfpga EdX course and the workshops that we havegiven internationally. We conclude by describing future improvements we plan to implement thisyear and by summarizing the course’s features and what we have accomplished.2. RVfpga Course Goals, Overview, and StructureThe RVfpga course aims to enable users to understand and use a commercial RISC-V core andsystem and then learn how to extend the system for learning, research, and experimentation.Users are expected to have a fundamental understanding of digital design and computerarchitecture in general before beginning the course. Such topics are covered in many textbooks,including Digital Design and Computer Architecture: RISC-V Edition [12]. The RVfpga coursethen builds on and expands those topics
STEM. Craftingmitigation plans aimed at student success should be research based and implemented to welcomeand benefit all students. Researchers have worked to identify predictors of STEM persistence,both before matriculation and after. A student’s level of academic success before matriculation isa strong predictor of STEM persistence. These predictors include standardized test scores andtaking calculus in high school [9], [10].Research has found that, after matriculation, a student’s likelihood to complete an undergraduatedegree was linked to a student’s level of academic and social integration. Tinto [11] definesacademic integration by a student's academic performance and their perception of their ownacademic experience. Therefore, it
%Supported learning MSE concepts 56 % Adapted to MATLAB 11 %Improve Python skills 56 % Would distract from MSE 11 %Already planned to use Python 33 % Too difficult to understand 11 %Improve DS skills 33 % Not helpful for the reports 6% (a) Used the modules, nused = 18. (b) Did not use the modules, nnot = 11.Table S4: Top reasons for (a) using and (b) not using the Python-based online modules.Percentage is given out of the number of students who identified with each group.Multiple selections were allowed and thus percentages may not sum to 100 %. Question Topic
-down>10) Taking into account students’ skills, abilities, and interests in helping them <6-option <6-option choose courses. drop-down> drop-down>11) Knowing the student as an individual. <6-option <6-option drop-down> drop-down>12) Encouraging students to assume responsibility for their education by <6-option <6-option helping them develop planning, problem-solving, and decision-making drop-down> drop-down> skills.Part 2: Please read the following 18
engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts; 5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives; 6 an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions; 7. an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.Student Feedback and Lessons LearnedEvery semester, the university administers the Student Perception of Instruction