obtain studentinformation and preferences. This study examines the process of students providing theirpreferences after learning about the available projects.This study stems from a well-established capstone design program where students work inmultidisciplinary teams for two semesters in planning, designing, building, and testing projectsprovided by industry, academic and service sponsors. In this program, students are placed inteams by the program staff, based on their responses to the course Project Ranking Survey (PRSurvey), which they complete after learning the descriptions of each project. The staff has twogoals when assigning students to projects. First, that projects have the ideal talent for success, asidentified by the coach, and
class sections was capped at 49 students, and most of thestudents that registered to be in-person still opted to attend the class virtually. Figure 1: Weekly plan of the CS1 flipped courseFigure 1 shows the standard weekly timeline for the course. Since the course used the flipped class-room model, students were expected to watch module lectures and complete the weekly gradedquiz before class. Class time was reserved for reviewing the content taught in the video lecturesand completing in-class programming problems with the instructor and peers. Students worked onthe module homework assignments outside of class, which were due at the end of the week.The key programming concepts covered in the modules included input/output
fall quarter of their first academic year both Scholars andother pre-major engineering students throughout the department were invited to complete a presurvey, with entry into a gift card drawing offered as an incentive. The research study receivedInstitutional Review Board approval and all participants completed an informed consent form atthe time of their first survey administration. To create a matched group of Comparison students,individuals were identified within the pool of non-Scholar pre survey respondents who weresimilar to Scholars in terms of academic trajectories (i.e., planned major) as well asdemographics (self-identified gender, race/ethnicity, and first-generation student status). BothScholars and the identified Comparison
top. To prepare the rollout plan for the sensitization and adoption ofOER, it is mandatory to understand the existing situation/awareness among the facultymembers. Determined Internally INDIVIDUALS may be Volition INSTITUTIONS may be against of OER adoption. against of OER adoption. to adopt OER Availability of relevant OER of requisite quality Capacity to find, use, create and/or
an artifact of the time-constraint associated with the in-class preparation constraints or the planned usage (the examsare solved by individuals, not teams of students) is unclear.From a performance standpoint, the same course (with the same instructor) was taught in 2021,2022 and is currently being taught in 2023. In 2021, using individually prepared study guides,student performance between exam 1 and exam 2 decreased by 2.9 points (mean). In 2022 (thefocus of the current study and analysis), student performance between exam 1 and exam 2decreased by 2.5 points (mean). In 2023, students individually prepared study guides for exam 1and exam 2 (similar to 2021), and the student performance between exam 1 and exam 2decreased by 3.7 points (mean
. Eventhough the proposed framework can serve as a template to design a course-wide game for anycourse, the focus of this paper was how to utilize it to motivate exploratory learning of studentsthat go beyond the basics of a STEM course. Three cases studies were conducted in threedifferent engineering and science discipline, all of which demonstrated positive impact onstudents learning.The implementation of the proposed gamification framework requires a significant amount ofupfront game design work and manual effort to maintain the game during the course, which maypose a challenge for instructors. To overcome this, we plan to explore the possibility ofautomating a portion of the gamification-related tasks, such as automated tracking of gamestatistics
atengaging students in exploring real-world engineering and engineering design principles focusedon K-12 engineering education and offers more than 1,800 lessons and hands-on activitiescontributed by 57 contributors (including 40 National Science Foundation (NSF) funded GK-12and Research Experience for Teachers (RET) engineering education grants) and with over 3.5million users annually (TeachEngineering, 2023). The students had the opportunity to pursueclassroom testing of their designed activities and lesson-plan publication with TeachEngineeringafter the intervention (after the post-survey) unless they notified the course instructor to object tothis pursuit.Survey InstrumentThe survey instrument began with an informed consent statement. This was
multivariate statistical modelsthat control for psychological safety and demographics. In future work, we plan to exploremultivariate analysis. 1IntroductionThis paper examines how teamwork experience may shape or be shaped by students’ engineeringidentity (EI). Engineering identity can be defined in whole by how much a student seesthemselves as an engineer (Tonso 2006). Alternatively, EI can be defined in a multi-dimensionalway, including performance/competence, interest, and recognition (Hazari, et al. 2010, Carloneand Johnson 2007). Survey instruments for both definitions have been developed and validated(Choe, et al. 2019, Patrick, Borrego and Prybutok 2018). Both definitions will be used in
,application, and operations.In April 2021, Vaughn College applied for an FAA grant to educate the next generation ofpilots and aviation professionals as part of the Aviation Workforce Development GrantsProgram. The grant aims to provide a tuition-free early higher education experience for highschool students, allowing them to fulfill 80% of the UAS certificate program’s credits duringthe summer, evenings, or weekends while they are still enrolled in high school. The FAAstrongly supports this proposal because creating a robust pipeline of skilled and diverseprofessionals is essential to maintaining the safest and most efficient aerospace system, andeducation needs to start from young adults. The college plan to recruit students fromeconomically
of the elements underagency for learning, that is self-reflectiveness, self-regulation, forethought-extrinsic, forethought-intrinsic, intentionality- planfulness, and intentionality- decision competence.Initial Self-Efficacy, Self-Determination, and Agency LevelsAnalysis of the initial levels of each of the three constructs was carried out. A single-factorANOVA analysis was done on the pre-survey (2022) to compare the constructs and assess meandifferences. A post hoc analysis was done further using a Tukey HSD test to check forstatistically significant differences between the frameworks. These comparisons were performedto determine which constructs students were experiencing at the start of the course. The sameanalyses were done on the pre
computationalfluid dynamics simulations [23] (Li et al., 2017) while in in the mechanical engineering andmanufacturing fields, near real- time result streamlining with detector networks, imageprocessing, and tangible user interfaces are common uses of AR [23].In civil and construction engineering, AR was used to examine how students could use 2Ddesign plans to understand the sequence of constructing a wall in a typical residential building.This experiment had two groups of students, where the first group recorded their results on a 2Dworksheet the other group used AR [26]. The task the students were given were aimed atresembling a typical carpentry task that one might encounter on a construction site, and theresults showed that even though the students who
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-sought andthought-out goals as the first step to course curriculum development followed by an assessmentplan and learning plan. Backward design is like a “road map” to a set destination.3.2 The Seven Factors Analytical FrameworkComplementing the backward design model by Wiggins and McTighe (2005) [30], we developour goals as a first step for our proposed first-year undergraduate happiness and wellbeing course.The Seven Factors Analytical Framework conceptualized by us in a previous study [31] and seenin Figure 1 helped us develop six goals for our course. The framework was conceptualized basedon an exploratory study involving undergraduate engineering students’ interviews. The study isexplained in the methods section below.The seven factors
they met outside the classroom if they would be interested in beinginterviewed about their experiences.The interviews were done individually or in a group of two students based on the participants’availability. The original plan was to perform focus groups but often students did not respond atthe same time, making scheduling individual interviews easier. The researchers did not observedifferences in the answers from focus groups or individual interviews. For example, the studentswere asked “If you feel comfortable, did finances play a role in your track selection?” and allstudents chose to answer the question, often saying which option was the most affordable tothem. The students knew their peers in the focus group from the class at least for
It became clear even from the early stages of designing and conducting this researchwhat a significant element the differences between institutions posed. Contextual factors, bywhich we mean specific, often contingent facts or background circumstances that shape theconditions for conducting this research or the resulting findings, continuously popped up asissues in our planning and research design. Often they rose to our attention because somefactor was not shared uniformly amongst participating institutions. Some key examplesinclude that undergraduate engineering degrees in the Netherlands are three years long,whereas in the U.S. and China take four years; that all incoming undergraduate engineeringstudents at some universities begin
new procedures, plan for optimal methodologiesor pursue best practices. This was new territory for everyone.After the COVID-19 pandemic slowed, the hospital maintained the visual management systemsimplemented during this project to attempt to ensure a balance of room allocations even as roomassignments were more consistent with the 3-room assignment pre-COVID standards. TheCOVID suite of rooms was maintained, requiring the maintenance of the newly created supplyarea and restocking system by mid-shift nurses. As volumes decreased, charge nurses noted thevalue of training nurses of more efficient techniques to increase the speed of care for all patients.This not only assists with patient satisfaction but also helps to prepare for future times
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workingthrough difficult obstacles. Students were handed a role card with the description of theresponsibilities for each role and given 5 minutes to plan amongst themselves. Students were thenallowed to enter the escape room before the 55-minute timer began counting down (Figure 1).The puzzles were organized into multiple concurrent pathways to provide students with theoptions for exploration, collaboration, and to prevent potential bottlenecks at more challengingpuzzles. Successful completion of each of four pathways will provide students with one of fourdigits to a bottle labeled as “The Cure”. Successful escape occurs when all four numbers areentered in the right sequence before the timer runs out.Figure 1: (Left) Two students attempting to solve a
assessments will be needed to validate these initial findings.Future WorkThe authors plan to deliver a second iteration of the class with updated curricula based onstudents’ recommendations and instructors’ experiences.ReferencesAbr`amoff, M. D., Roehrenbeck, C., Trujillo, S., Goldstein, J., Graves, A. S., Repka, M. X., and Silva III, E. [U+FFFD]2022). A reimbursement framework for artificial intelligence in healthcare. NPJ digital medicine, 5(1):72.American Association of Colleges and Universities (2022). Value rubrics - global learning.Bielefeldt, A. R. and Canney, N. E. (2016). Changes in the social responsibility attitudes of engineering students over time. Science and engineering ethics, 22:1535–1551.Braveman, P., Arkin, E., Orleans, T
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team members, it is possible thatimplementing it as a hands-on activity would bring additional value. A hands-on activity wouldrequire additional planning, resources, class time, and clean-up but may be worth the effort,especially in the context of a first-year engineering course that does emphasize hands-onactivities and prototyping. Therefore, this is a step that will be considered in the future.Although the survey results suggest that the video and activities had value, the actual effect onteamwork was not formally measured. Measuring the effect conclusively may be challengingdue to the many factors that affect how a team functions (the members of the team, the classroomenvironment created by the instructors and teaching assistants, the
a distraction if the familiaritythey have with the term does not align with the context being described. With assumedexperiences having a familiarity with context items or events could be helpful when answeringthe questions. As we continue to assess remaining concept inventories, we plan to expand on ourknowledge of the groups most represented in these questions. At the conclusion of thisassessment, we will have categorized almost 200 inventory questions. Engineeringundergraduate students consist of several racial, ethnic, and cultural groups made up of bothdomestic and international students. These students are from a range of socioeconomic andgeographic backgrounds. Within these students, there are a variety of experiences that
based ontheir needs, interest, and career goals. The program evolved given its high student demand and toeffectively align with industry needs.Figure 2: The systematic approach of SEE coursesAlso, with the design rigor, the SEE program is continuously improved and updated based onindustry needs. Due to which, the course topics within workshops, varied over time. Also, newand more courses were added need-based. These topics and course identification and offeringsfollow a systematic process. Please refer to Figure 2 for the approach, which explains the steps toidentify topics, develop and design the training courses customized for the engineering context,plan their implementation, and offer them to students. The concurrent process ends with
andpublishing patterns.Journal articles and conference proceedings were originally planned as the formats to beexamined but as the research proceeded it was determined that a) there was sufficient material toexamine the patterns focusing only on the journals and b) that publishing in conference venueswas potentially different enough to warrant a separate study. Finally, as neither of the authorswas fluent enough in other languages to warrant including them, only articles published entirelyin English were included, i.e. an English abstract alone was insufficient for a study to beincluded. This filter was applied inconsistently by the database vendors so some of the originalnumbers include papers that were written in a language other than English but
study hasexamined how these variables differ in relation to students’ levels of mathematics proficiency.Thus, much knowledge is left to be gained.Present StudyThe current study is a part of a larger, grant-funded study focused on cultivating InclusiveProfessional Engineering Identities within engineering majors. Participants in the study werefrom a large, R1 university and were all first-year students planning to major in engineering orcomputer science. The university divided the students into three different engineering tracks fortheir first year, representative of their level of mathematics preparation upon college entrancebased upon their mathematics achievement and coursework in high school. Students onEngineering Track 1 were deemed to be
gender pronouns is related to their experience using thembefore living in the U.S., with longer exposure to the U.S. leading to increased use of genderpronouns. For international graduate students who have lived in the U.S. for less than one year,the preference for using gender pronouns is greatly different from their peers who have been inthe U.S. longer, suggesting that new international graduate students could benefit from additionalguidance about gender pronouns to assist them in adjusting to the college environment. Buildingfrom this pilot study, we plan to investigate how international engineering students’ perceptionsof gender identity and gender expression practices change over time and identify factors thatinfluence these changes. Then
(participantdesign solutions).In the second stage, n = 25 engineering faculty from various universities attending the First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) conference completed the first ACJ session. Thesecond ACJ session was completed by n = 46 first-year engineering students from the samelarge public R1 university as the initial research stage; however, it should be noted that due tothe timing of the panel and the data collection activities, none of the panelists had personallycompleted the ping pong design task. The student ACJ panel was conducted as part of aclassroom activity. For both ACJ panels all participants for each session took part at the sametime in large open plan spaces
remote learning environment suggest that redeveloping acurriculum with specific targeted courses or activities with remote learning components could bebeneficial to students that prefer or need to reduce the time spent driving to attend all the coursesin person. Since about 60% of the respondents reported that the remote learning was notconducive for their learning, departments may plan a period of transition to support students andhelp them develop good study habits in this online setting. This finding opens the opportunity toidentify courses that programs could deliver fully or partially online, as well the opportunity tooffer some of the courses with multiple sections in different delivery modes (fully remote, in-person, or Hyflex). 5
know about different kinds of STEM jobs.• Question #2: Because of this STEM lab, I am better at building things.• Question #3: This STEM lab has taught me skills that will help me do better in my science classes at school.• Question #4: Because of this STEM lab, I know I can be a scientist or engineer one day.• Question #5: This STEM lab has provided me with the knowledge necessary to understand science concepts.• Question #6: This STEM lab has helped me see that I am a science person. Fig. 6: Program Impact Survey Results for April 2023Future DirectionThe future of VSL includes a plan to continue with once-a-month offerings with two distincttime options. In addition, program leadership is investing time in