one inch high, see Figure 3c). The vertical walls of the heating unit arecovered with aluminum foil that reflects the heat and increases the temperature of the plasticsheet that is mounted in an aluminum frame that sits on top of the heating unit. The distancefrom the heating element to the plastic sheet is 6.5” when the plastic is not heated. The sheetmetal pan is mounted on four 1.5” x 3.5” wooden studs, see Figure 3c), that elevates the pan withthe heating element from the base of the heating unit. The distance between the base and pan is9.5” and the distance between the studs in Figure 3c) is 9.5”. The distance between the studs andthe outer wall in Figure 3a) is 1”.Figure 3a) Heating unit for thermoformingFigure 3b) Heating element
Humanitarian Engineering CourseDesignAn introductory Humanitarian Engineering course was developed and incorporated into theminor. This course focuses on contextualizing skills [9], empathy building, and fostering studentself-awareness regarding their positionality in colonial contexts and power dynamics as it relatesto community-engaged design work [12], [13].The initial course covered content on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals,global lifestyles and assumption making, global natural resource and technology distributions,colonization, valuing ways of knowing, traditional ecological knowledge, participatorydevelopment practices, career paths in HE, social impact companies, supply chainconsiderations, reflection techniques, and several
themodules when they are not subject matter experts, providing a cheat-sheet of FAQ studentquestions or connecting them with a content expert to offer external support could be beneficial.AcknowledgementThis work was made possible by a grant from The National Science Foundation (Grant no.1935683). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The National ScienceFoundation.References[1] R. Panigrahi, P. R. Srivastava, and D. Sharma, “Online learning: Adoption, continuance, and learning outcome—A review of literature,” Int. J. Inf. Manag., vol. 43, pp. 1–14, Dec. 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.05.005.[2] S. Appana, “A review of
, orentrepreneurship, which reflects their interest in pursuing either a career in industry/government, attendinggraduate school, or working with a small business/start-up upon graduation. Unlike Flit-Path, Flit-GAPpathway selections are a collaborative effort coordinated among the three institutions. The collaborationworks on multiple fronts (1) sharing internship opportunities between institutions located in metropolitanareas with a strong presence of industry, government entities, where remote opportunities are enhanced,due to COVID, and expected to continue being enhanced after COVID; (2) offering opportunities to researchpathway students to be co-advised by research mentors located in more than one institution; 3) offeringentrepreneurship pathway
shared aspects of identity. Our ownprevious work has focused on how the process in our training practice transforms theseknowledgeable students into effective peer educators and mentors through a cycle of training,observation, reflection, and goal setting [19]. As a corollary to this we also want to interrogatethe impact this new emphasis has on enrolled students’ and facilitators’ feelings of belonging andconnectedness within their workshops and to the larger Cornell community.To support development of community and inclusion, seven trainings in each of Spring 2022 andFall 2022 included emphasis on the use of identify affirming ice breakers and sharing theresearch of social belonging on learning [18]. This training included modeling different
your mental health, it is hard to know that you are not alone in how you are feeling. Normalizing the conversation about mental health makes it much easier to share and work through things.”During Fall 2022-2023, ERASe partnered with the Russ College of Engineering Student Senatorto host a wellness week for the college. The students proposed and led the following activities: • Mindfulness and Journaling: a group meditation followed by a journal reflection • Planting healthy roots: Focus on the correlation between taking care of a plant and decreased symptoms of depression and anxiety. With financial support from Ohio University Student Senate, students were provided with materials to plant succulents and
on diverse stressors,one closed-end question on students’ satisfaction, and two open-ended questions on the students’perceived challenges in graduate experiences. The closed-ended questions on stressors askedparticipants to reflect on their graduate education experience and indicate the extent to whicheach of the 21 stressors disrupted their ability to perform academically and/or professionally. Another question asked participants to rate their experience as a graduate student at theirinstitution. Response options for the 21 stressors and one satisfaction questions were arrayed ona five-point Likert scale from 0 (none) to 4 (severely), and a five-point Likert scale from 1 (Veryunsatisfied) to 5 (Very satisfied), respectively. The two
scale was retained without reservation for this study. Table 6: Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Autonomy Subscales Item Loading Goodness of Fit Indicators Satisfaction of Autonomy Needs At work, I feel a sense of choice and freedom in degrees of freedom (df) = 2 the things I undertake 0.656 c2 = 1.828 (p = 0.401) I feel that my decisions on my job reflect what I 0.820 RMSEA = 0.000 really want I feel my choices on my job express who I really
. 1849454.and tidal energy are becoming increasingly significant. Numerous breakthroughs are being madeto transform these renewable energy sources into forms that may be used. The Current-Voltage(I-V) and Power-Voltage (P-V) curves from the solar array simulator will be generated andplotted during the simulation of solar cells in the MATLAB environment.Silicon Nanowires- Fabrication and Optical Characterization (Norfolk State University)The creation of effective solar cells and intelligent lighting is the aim of this research. Usingmetal-aided chemical etching (MACE), silicon nanowires (SiNWs) will be created, and theireffectiveness in lowering the surface reflectance of silicon wafers will be examined. Optical andscanning electron microscopy
better understanding of the engineering design process.Tags: pre-college, engineering, engineering design process, innovation, creativity, high schoolINTRODUCTIONFor decades, the US has identified a shortage of engineering professionals. The nationaldiscussion on the shortage of engineers in the market started as early as 1959, with empiricalevidence of the need for more engineers and scientists to meet the demands of the growingcountry [3]. The conversation initially focused on increasing the workforce to compete withother countries [4]. Recently, the conversation shifted toward the need for skilled engineers whobring new ideas and perspectives to the profession. Reflecting this trend, stakeholders, includingNAE [5], NSPE [6], and ASEE [7], are
: Reflecting on the research process,” The Qualitative Report, Oct. 2014.[48] J. Feldkamp, “The Rise of TikTok: The Evolution of a Social Media Platform During COVID-19,” in Digital Responses to Covid-19: Digital Innovation, Transformation, and Entrepreneurship During Pandemic Outbreaks, C. Hovestadt, J. Recker, J. Richter, and K. Werder, Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021, pp. 73–85.[49] A. Bhandari and S. Bimo, “Why’s everyone on TikTok now? The algorithmized self and the future of self-making on social media,” Soc. Media Soc., vol. 8, no. 1, p. 205630512210862, Jan. 2022.[50] E. Simpson, A. Hamann, and B. Semaan, “How to Tame ‘Your’ Algorithm: LGBTQ+ Users’ Domestication of TikTok,” Proc. ACM Hum. Comput
look like, which is__” Like it’s fine to be 63 curious about what people are from. But like to make it into this game is really__ 64 and like it happens a lot, which is kind of weird. I guess because like I don’t look what 65 they want me to look like, they got very confused.In lines 55 to 65, Amber reflects on the frequently occurring “guessing game” around Amber’sidentity/ies- which further highlights how society’s focus on normative racial categories can beproblematic for individuals who do not fit neatly into these boxes. The stereotype people hold aboutChinese people (“I don’t look what they want me to look like”) might contribute to people’s confusionregarding Amber’s identity. Even though Amber acknowledges that
to pause and reflect on how these experiences may impact our classrooms going forward.In fact, some of these experiences may actually have produced encouraging outcomes and if so,we need to take the time to assess and evaluate how to translate them back into the learningenvironment of our classrooms going forward. One may even be able to argue that the onlineexperience had a positive impact on learners that, for one reason or another, were notcomfortable interacting in an in-person classroom. For these students, we might say that theonline experience gave them a front-row seat and perhaps allowed them to engage morecomfortably. For other students, the exact opposite might be the case. Additionally, with onlinelearning there were also new
) adversity in the course is common andnormal and b) these struggles tend to be temporary and surmountable with time and effort. It doesso with five parts, delivered in the following order: 1) The instructor verbalizes the normalcy and surmountability of adversity in college and in the course more specifically. 2) Students are asked to complete a writing exercise in which they reflect on the challenges they have already experienced in college and how those challenges might change with time. 3) Students are then presented with stories written in the first-person and attributed to more senior students. These stories are tailored to the classroom environment following focus group input from prior students in the course. The
Applied Science at Northwestern University and the Associate Director of the Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research. Dr. Cole’s primary teaching is in capstone and freshman design, and her research interest are in engineering design education.Dr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has pub- lished two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” with Donald Visco, and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance” with father Donald Dahm.Dr. Bruce K. Vaughen, American Institute of Chemical
rarely presented as a concern. Sledge-hammer approaches were common.Experiment procedures that might discover the threshold for success were rarely promoted. Preconceived Notions – Some reports clearly reflected the team’s preconceived notions of theproject goals or requirements. Project narrative was ignored by some teams. Many groups ignore privacyand thermal comfort issues mentioned as critical concerns in the project brief and proposal opening the doorright after a shower similar to their practice at home. Some team even suggests bringing in box fans blowingair into the bathroom. Ineffective Internal Team Collaboration – In student teams, collaboration rarely resulted in evendistribution of work and, by inference, learning
safety tips werealso reviewed. Our goals for incorporating the toy adaptation module included providingstudents with an opportunity to: ● work together as a team towards an end goal and hone team working skills through collaboration ● make a difference in the local community by increasing access to accessible and developmentally important toys, and apply knowledge to create a positive societal impact ● hone technical skills including soldering and circuit analysis, and gain hands-on experience in problem-solving ● participate in hands-on exploration of circuitry concepts ● engage in conversations and reflection regarding concepts of accessibility of universal designLab Session: Teams of ~3 students were
be gleaned from their perspectives [5], [7]–[9]. Analysis ofdiscrepant cases that fall outside the norm is a critical strategy in qualitative research [7]–[9].The uncertainty and inconsistency involved in such outlier cases do not invalidate theparticipants’ stories but instead reflect the complexities in the phenomena under study [5], in thiscase, mentorship. Discrepant cases can provide clues to generating innovative hypotheses andunderstandings not readily apparent in more common responses [5], [8], [10], and, as such,require close examination to reveal their meaning [8].We leverage attachment theory as a psychological and developmental lens [11], [12] to guidethis study. Attachment theory has been extensively used to examine mentoring
. Compute relevant response L. Apply work/energy principlesGrading for MasteryIdentifying the mastery objectives, requiring them for all solutions, and assessing every other week resultsin a lot of data and information on how each student approaches problem solving. Instead of recordingperformance on each assessment as a single score, we look for and track demonstrations of masteryobjective by objective. This approach helps students to break away from the scoring mentality and focusbetter on their strengths and weakness as reflected in their progress with respect to the mastery objectives.Mastery is defined as a redundant demonstration of an ability to perform a given objective. The coursegrade is based upon the
example, students are asked to consider the ways in which the lyrics they analyzeaddress collective action and the pursuit of equity for the common good in order to promote asociety that is just, considering equity for all individuals that reflects the cultural and socialdiversities amongst them. These ideals are baked into a Hip Hop-inspired consciousness, andautomatically considered in the analysis exercises that students participate in. This approach guidesstudent creatives to design, create, and write songs that remix themes that advance theirunderstanding of not only the 7 principles, but also their understanding of race, equity, and justicein their daily lives. EarSketch The Your Voice is Power curriculum is also centered around
on tension and compression members, small groups of students arepresented with the foam model and corresponding handout which is included in Appendix B.Students determined the cross-sectional dimensions and height of the column using a ruler, thencalculated slenderness ratios (as defined by NDS 2018 Section 3.7.1.3) [13]. After reflection onhow these ratios may affect buckling behavior, students induced two buckling scenarios bypressing on the top of the model to simulate a concentrated axial load as shown in Figure 3. Thefirst scenario involves a completely unbraced length, in which the column buckles along theweak axis in single curvature. The second scenario involves bracing along the weak axis at mid-height, in which the column will
” “Give more time to reflect and think on the process. It would also allow us to design a better structure and build it better.” “Use more CE403 concepts. Could work on different pieces of it throughout the semester as we learn the relevant concepts.” “Providing more example/reference material because the first few assignments were very confusing and took a long time. Videos or other resources on it would be very helpful.” Figure 13: Student Feedback on the open-ended question: “What changes do you recommend making to improve the engineering design project experience?”The final student feedback data analyzed were responses to Likert questions included in theanonymous course-end-feedback survey for the last
the company, “. . . and then where I’m at now,[shifting from] the technical side to the supervisory side, it’s more managerial tasks and also thedesign.” (P-3). The nature of one’s responsibilities and roles also reflected a level of experienceand competence in the company. For example, the following quotes describe first an experiencedindividual’s role and responsibilities compared to the second quote from someone relatively lessexperienced in the organization. [experienced] I work with everybody. I’m like the top of the triangle for the project in the field. I work with the project manager and all my contractors, suppliers, vendors, customers, etc. They all go through me and then I work with project management and my
teaching in his life. This was when his views of issues of equity started to surface.Each participant’s experiences contribute to a fuller sense of the challenges facing gendered and/orracially-minoritized students in introductory engineering programming courses. Interestingly, theauthority and social infrastructures proved to be the most important for the three student participants,reflecting existing scholarship about the importance of community, mentorship, and student dispositionsof confidence in programming education. The physical and operational infrastructures also discouragedactive participation by all students, while challenges with the economic infrastructure didn’t surface inthese interviews. 7. Future workOur ongoing research and
students’ willingness to reflect on their understanding, to identify misconceptions andareas of deficiency, and to make adjustments to improve learning and performance [1], [11],[12]. Constructive well-designed feedback has also been shown to improve student motivationand self-efficacy beliefs [13], [14]. Academic integrity research argues that meaningfulsupportive feedback empowers students, reducing their likelihood to cheat [15]. Educatorsadopting formative feedback as an instructional intervention too can benefit from the process, asit can offer them valuable insights into students’ understanding of the subject material to helpinform their pedagogy [16], [17].While most of the earlier research focused either on feedback to students as a
fivedistinct sections: an introduction to the module, followed by a prior knowledge review, the corecontent, a knowledge check, an application task, and then a reflection activity. For moreinformation about the structure of the learning block modules see [16], [25].Each interview consisted of two engineering scenarios such that participants engaged with a totalof four distinct scenarios. Within each interview the scenarios were presented sequentially.Participants were first shown a problem statement that included information on the background,goal, and requirements for the problem. After reviewing the problem statement, they were askeda series of questions broadly centered around gauging participants initial impressions of theproblem, how they would
high frequency of testing is a positive washback because it encouragespractice and review[32]. Having high-frequency quizzes develops good study habits, theyconducted an experiment where they concluded that students with weekly testing performedbetter than the no-testing group [33]According to Elsalem [28], students who pass their exams do not always learn and vice versa. Inpart, because grades are being used as an indicator of academic achievement [34]. Grades areimportant for students in practical terms, but they don't necessarily reflect the amount ofknowledge the students have acquired, their understanding of the subject, or their creativity inthat field, which means that the results obtained may not represent the level of knowledge
, contextual, and perception-based phenomena of interest, asemi-structured approach was used when collecting data [51]. Focus groups consisted of four tofive participants, lasted about one hour, and were conducted at the end of each semester. Thefirst author led all focus groups, with the second or last author as a secondary interviewer andnotetaker. At the end of each focus group, the first author compiled these notes, information onhow the focus group went, and initial impressions of the data into summarized memos.Guiding questions prompted participants to reflect on their interest in their current majors andminors (if applicable) as well as how this interest has changed since the previous focus group.The guiding questions targeting interest were
project-basedlearning framework. Section 5 concludes by reflecting on the outcomes of the proposed project-basedlearning approach, offering insights into future directions and potential improvements, anddiscussing approaches for developing other engineering courses using a similar methodology.2 Setting Up RRBot in ROS and GazeboIn this section, we outline Assignment 0, designed to assist students in setting up a reliabletoolchain for the proposed PBL framework. For the project-based assignments in the course, we usethe RRBot model, which stands for “Revolute-Revolute Manipulator Robot”. The RRBot model iscommonly used as a starting point for more complex robot models, as it provides a relatively simplebut realistic example of a robot with joint