tasks. It “involves solving problems,designing systems, and understanding human behavior” [3], all part of daily routine like trying tofigure out how to dress up or what to do when the water pipe in the bathroom breaks. Theseexamples involve identifying the problem and thinking of the best possible solution, breaking theoriginal problem into smaller tasks, reformulating the problem in a way it reminds us ofsomething we are familiar with, planning, learning, and developing an action plan in the presenceof uncertainty [3].Wing [4] comments that one of the most important aspects of CT is the concept of abstraction todefine patterns previously identified, generalize, and do a parametrization. The capacity toabstract is precisely what will allow
. This study showed apotential for black women to effectively identify with CS. One reason could be due to the natureof CS and the variety of spaces it provides to accommodate one’s interest. Moreover,establishing settings in CS that foster the equity and inclusion of black women may be vital toimprove representation. Aforementioned, support systems and mentorship opportunities couldassist in this effort, which could promote increased representation of black women inadministrative, managerial, and related positions of leadership in CS that could further motivateyounger black women to aspire to pursue careers in this field.To expand upon this study, it is the plan to explore specific problems and hurdles that racial,institutional, educational
networking, wikis, and alternate reality worlds have grown significantly. Some instructorsshare their course materials and teaching ideas broadly, which expands learning and educationequity. Online content such as open educational resources (OERs) have been developed to supporthigher education students. Open educational resources are teaching, learning, and researchmaterials, commonly in the digital medium and public domain; an open educational resource maybe released under an open license [1]. In other words, an OER allows others to access, use, adaptand redistribute the materials at no cost. An OER may include complete courses, individual courseunits or modules, textbooks, lesson plans, syllabi, lectures, assignments, game-based learningprograms
reflective exerciseon their own learning, with biosystems engineering students to identify skills and discoverprofessional ambitions [8], with multidisciplinary undergraduate student teams to address‘wicked’ problems [9], with teaching practitioners for assessment discussions [10], and withstaff in an Education School to identify university’s strategy and planning [11]. The use ofLSP opens the door to the externalization of ideas more explicitly, with a deeper meaning,facilitates internalization of new knowledge and accelerates socialization by structuring theinteractions within the group [9]. It opens the door to ‘play’, facilitates communication bylowering the barrier, putting people at ease which fosters students’ insights and self-awareness
ability to gain the perspective of thetarget audience. By gathering feedback from a broader range of participants, event organizerscan gain more accurate insights into visitor experiences and perceptions, which can inform futureevent planning and development that aligns with the target audience perspective. Thepreliminary results of the meme analysis show that meme creation has great potential as a way toexplore participants thinking, particularly for demographic groups that have a history of non-participation (teenagers and historically marginalized populations).Figure 2: Examples of memes created.In summary, the visual method used in this case study is the creation of memes by participants asa form of data collection and evaluation. The
collectively to gain ameaningful understanding of sociocultural phenomena reflected in their autobiographical data”[32, p. 23-4]. In our case, the autobiographical materials are our past experiences as women inengineering as well as the panel discussion transcript. The sociocultural phenomena we arestudying is the panel topic, the role of women in building diversity, equity, and inclusion inengineering.We plan to follow the iterative process outlined by Chang et al. [32] for conducting acollaborative autoethnography: data collection through both individual writing and reflection andgroup sharing (i.e., our panel discussion and subsequent meetings); and individual data review,coding, group meaning-making and theme search. Specifically, we plan to
-0.07 -0.10 0.00 0.02 0.73 -seem to be? (1.58)Significance and implicationsIncorporating opportunities for consequential agency into more traditional laboratoryexperiments is important and worthwhile, however, it is not well understood how and whatchoices would have the most impact on the student’s perception of agency. Therefore, weconducted exploratory factor analysis to evaluate a survey as a means to measure different facetsof agency. We found strong support for items measuring agency as responsibility, authenticity,agency in the communication domain, agency in the experimental design domain, andopportunity structure. In our ongoing work, we plan
criteria included predetermined end users, electrical/mechanicalcomponents that must be integrated into the escape room design, and floor plans to build.In this work, we assess student performance with the Creating Value Direct Assessment [18] inboth the standard and honors course sequences of our FYEP at the beginning (see Figure 1) ofthe Appendix for the first assessment) and end (see Figure 2 of the Appendix for the secondassessment) of the 2021 spring semester. The deployment of the assessment before contentcoverage supplied students an example scenario to identify points of value creation while thedeployment at the end of the academic year required students to identify a scenario based ontheir semester-long design project. Upon collection of
Engineering department. Coordinator of final year projects in the department and an enthusiast of Innovation.Dr. Justin J. Henriques Justin Henriques is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison Univer- sity. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in systems engineering, a masters in urban and environmental planning (M.U.E.P.), a B.S. in applied science, and a B.A. in pJoseph Towles, Swarthmore College Joseph Towles is a Lecturer jointly appointed in the Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering De- partments at Stanford University. Joe completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. Joe also completed a research post-doctoral fellowship in the Sensory Motor Performance Program at the
change impacts can bemitigated with urgent action to increase climate resiliency and drastically reduce greenhouse gasemissions. There is great need for sustainable development of our societies, which enables us tomeet our present needs “without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirown needs” [2]. To achieve this, many industries must make changes to manufacturing andproduction methods in order to prioritize resource efficiency and reduction of emissions andwaste, while meeting demands of an increasing consumption population.In 2015, the United Nations adopted the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, providingan ambitious plan to address global problems, including climate change, environmental health,poverty, and
laboratory” tool of Open LMS was added to the project in designthinking methodology step. Using this tool, students can submit the initial seminar planning tobe evaluated by teachers and at the same time do peer review of other groups activities [18],[19], [20]. They can ask questions and made reflections about other groups activities sodeveloping critical thinking during this process before submitting the final seminarpresentation.The “evaluation laboratory” tool consists of a peer evaluation mechanism, enabling, in additionto sending open feedback, through suggestions, the elaboration of parameters for workevaluation (structured feedback). This resource can also contribute to issues related tointerpretation skills, critical analysis and the
from Sharif University of Technology, and a B.S. degree in civil engineering from Tabriz University. Her research interests focus on mental health and wellness in engineering, retention of engi- neering students from underrepresented groups, engineering student interactions with peers and faculty, and system thinking and system analysis. Dr. Gholizadeh has also work experience as an educational data analyst and strategic planning project manager.Prof. Ed P Gatzke, University of South Carolina Ed Gatzke is currently the Faculty Principal for the Green Quad Living and Learning Center at the Uni- versity of South Carolina. For eight years he served as the faculty advisor for the USC Engineering and Computing Living and
examinedfour cohorts of students for three semesters: (a) fall 2018 sophomore students, (b) fall 2019sophomore students, (c) fall 2018 junior students, and (d) fall 2019 junior students. Thesophomore and junior students’ persistence was tracked over a period of three semesters— thusthe pre-COVID-19 cohorts (i.e., fall 2018 cohorts) did not have their education disrupted overthis time frame (fall 2018 to fall 2019) by COVID-19 while the COVID-19 cohorts (i.e., fall2019 cohorts) did have their education disrupted in spring 2020. Next, due to our large sample,we were able to break down and examine student persistence rate by student demographic groups(i.e., gender, financial need, first generation status, and race/ethnicity).Plan of Analysis We
Engineering Connect,was designed for the first-year students in an engineering department with the idea of increasingstudent success, engagement, and retention. The program was implemented into a CornerstoneEngineering Design course being offered for first-year students in the engineering department.The students were assigned to complete weekly reflections on the course Canvas space onmatters related to their learning and campus experiences as an engineering student. The inputsfrom these weekly reflections were analyzed by faculty each week and an engagement plan wasset in place with the students who were identified as needing help and guidance on courseworkand/or campus related matters. Also, the students having a successful week were
Paper ID #36943Teamwork Perception in Engineering Programs through the Lens of Genderand RaceDr. Raheleh Miralami, Mississippi State UniversityDr. Saeed Rokooei, Mississippi State University Saeed Rokooei is an assistant professor in the Building Construction Science program at Mississippi State University. His professional responsibilities include project planning and management as well as architectural design practice in private and public construction and engineering firms. He has taught in architecture and construction programs since 2006. Dr. Rokooei’s primary research interests include simulation and serious games
reflectiveactivities such as discussions.ConclusionData collected by this study has provided our department with a valuable perspective on thelearning preferences of the undergraduate engineering student and faculty populations. While werealize that this was a small sample size, based on the data collected we can conclude from thisdata set that students and faculty exhibit a large variety of learning preferences. A statisticallysignificant difference in the learning preference distributions of faculty and BE students wasfound for the Active/Reflective scale. For the other scales, the populations exhibit similarpreference distributions. Future plans for this study include scaling this study to includeBiological Engineering students, Engineering Technology or
after working atDr. Jin Ho Jo Dr. Jin Jo is a Professor of Technology at Illinois State University, teaching in the Sustainable and Renew- able Energy program. Dr. Jo also leads the Sustainable Energy Consortium at the university. Dr. Jo is an honors graduate of Purdue University, where he earned a B.S. in Building Construction Management. He earned his M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University, where he investigated critical environmen- tal justice issues in New York City. His 2010 Ph.D. from Arizona State University was the nation’s first in sustainability. His research, which has been widely published, focuses on renewable energy systems and sustainable building strategies to reduce the negative
Approach section of this paper. Tangibledevelopments meant to support feasibility also included an LbE planning template, which givesspace to record the teaching elements we have identified. As we have developed new comparisonsessions for classroom use (on our own or with teachers), we have leveraged these templates toguide our thinking. The template serves as a generative tool by eliciting thinking about theinstructional experience. For example, debrief questions are organized to help teachers align keyconcepts with conceptual, technical, and transfer-learning elements (see Fig. 3). We have observed challenges to teacher time in preparation for the comparison sessions,although it has gotten easier with practice, based on our experience
,institutional support, and networking capacities. In addition to the dimensions mentioned earlier,we included the PERMA-profiler (Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, andAccomplishment) to assess the factors of flourishing and well-being of the GESs and determinethe impact of the components mentioned above. We plan to apply the refined survey versionduring the spring semester of 2023. The results will help identify the needs and resources ofGESs and their social determinants. Additionally, it will allow the design of programs,workshops, or events that the engineering faculty of Purdue University could create to supporttheir GES.IntroductionInternational students are a significant workforce in the United States (U.S.) academy. In
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prevention, employee engagement, strategic planning, andteam relationships [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. Kolko [9] argues that “There’s a shift under way in largeorganizations, one that puts design much closer to the center of the enterprise. But the shift isn’tabout aesthetics. It’s about applying the principles of design to the way people work” (p. 1). DTand human-centered design work because of empathy, learning to embrace failure whileprototyping many different ideas, and sharing and co-designing with clients, project partners, andco-workers [10, 11].Although much as been written about the phases and exercises involved in DT [12] and relatedhuman-, empathic-, and culture-centered design models [13], less is known about how thesesessions are facilitated
, most African infrastructural development works (mostly involvingengineering) are contracted to immigrant workers who deny local residents of opportunities forskill development [35].For this reason, in 2013, The African Union unveiled ‘Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want’, ablueprint to transform the African continent into a powerhouse of the future in a series of five 10-year plans geared to improve the continent’s socio-economic development [36]. The first of thesefive stage-plans involves identifying key priority areas, defining strategies and policy measures,providing actionable information to key stakeholders with measurable outcomes, and outliningstrategies required to ensure the availability of resources to achieve set goals. There remains
displaced student professional identity development related tothese intrinsic factors and their intertwined relationships with context and politics wereassociated with identity invisibility. Identity invisibility is multidimensional, but overall, in thisreview it referred to the ways higher education structures and demographics in a resettlementarea rendered displaced students “invisible,” based on their social identities, whether it was in thelack of concern for people seeking refuge in immigration laws or school planning and policies.This influence primarily impacted the types and levels of support displaced students receivedupon arrival to their resettlement institutions, but it also had to do with the invisibility ofdisplaced peoples
Alliance members brought with them based on their previous experiences, which ultimatelymay influence early dynamics within the Alliance as it formed, particularly as agendas were beingset and five-year plans were being created. Our two research questions for this study are:RQ1: What were the Alliance members’ prior experiences in collaborative networks that they bring into the new Alliance? 1 We use the definition of racial/ethnically underrepresented groups as defined by one of the partner organizations,which aligns with U.S. federal statute and the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering. However, as re-searchers we recognize a need to include Southeast Asians, such as Hmong Americans, who are also underrepresentedin STEM
increasing students' course grades and motivatingthem to continue studying biology.Another subtheme from the EVT review was a focus on differences in expectancy-value beliefsin students based on biological sex. An excellent example of this focus within engineeringeducation comes from a study by Jones et al. [47]. The researchers were interested in first-yearengineering differences in self-efficacy expectations, engineering success expectations,engineering identity, engineering values, achievement, and career plans between male andfemale students. An interesting finding was that males had higher expectancy beliefs, includingthose related to self-efficacy than females, but both populations saw losses in their expectancyand value beliefs over the first
shown to enhance presentations andis recommended to contextualize facts and other information in engineering [9]. Additionally,SDL has been used to develop personal and professional competencies and to encourage studentsto reframe their own experiences both retrospectively and prospectively [10, 11]. It can also allowindividuals to articulate their plans and assist in capturing the needs of others.Within our institution, we infused SDL into a required, non-traditional undergraduate course inthe biomedical engineering (BME) department called “The Art of Telling Your Story” [12].Whereas other works have considered how SDL could help students define their identity and theirself-concept [4, 10, 12], our research extends the prior knowledge to
quantity. Literature is sparse on assessing Outcome 6 directly in both architectural and more holistically civilengineering [19] where as many papers and best practices for Industrial, Electrical, Mechanical andBiomedical Engineering experiments have been regularly documented [20-21]. The organizing principle ofmany traditional engineering laboratory courses are their pre-planned experiences wherein studentsduplicate technique(s) to learn it [6-7]. Such approaches lack the element of solving authentic engineeringproblems [19]. Knowing the formal definition from ABET on Outcome 6, the AE program at The PennsylvaniaState University breaks down Outcome 6 into two sections: 1) 6.1. Select and apply appropriate methodsto collect, analyze
, in turn, lead to negative outcomes, such as impacted cognitivefunctions [11] and eventual burnout [30].The associate professor, Alex – “I hate that hierarchy of mentor-mentee.” Alex identifies as aLatina scholar and Faculty of Color. For mentorship to be effective, she believes, " [b]uilding …trust is key. Then, being strategic about goals and … provid[ing] strategic advice." Alexdescribes strategic as “not just any advice, [like] ‘oh, here's this [random workshop],’ but reallylooking at it as a roadmap. You have a strategic plan of where [does the mentee] see [themself]in the next three, five years.” Alex considers a mentor someone who understands their menteeand avoids espousing generic advice: “As a senior mentor, you need to have some
women-centric conference and events: Two field trips were planned and carried out by the authors during the spring semester to this day. Both the trips were to the same regional ACM-W Celebration conference (https://women.acm.org/category/celebrations) due to its close-proximity and affordability. Spring 2021 trip was a virtual with 8 women undergraduates attended. Spring 2022 conference and trip was in-person with participation of 34 computing students where 70% were women.Thus far, the three initiatives have been funded through a few small campus fundingopportunities such as discretionary funding from departmental budgets overseen by thedepartment chair, the school-wide budget overseen by the dean, and college