, use Facebook [39]. Students believe Facebook can be effectively used as an onlinelearning environment [7].Instagram: Instagram has over 800 million users, with one-third being students, making it asuitable platform for learning [40]. It offers a visually stimulating platform for sharing anddiscovering content, engaging students' attention, and promoting their creativity. Students canshowcase their work, share ideas, and connect with professionals in their field. Instagramfeatures live videos, stories, and hashtags, which can be used to host live events, tutorials, anddiscussions around specific topics or interests. Studies show that Instagram can enhance students'learning process through visual aids, improve writing skills, aid in project
design,especially during the front-end of design processes. The development of design observation skills forengineering students presents challenges, however, including the effort required to reachrepresentative observation sites and the uncertainty involved in real-world design environments.Students have often struggled to demonstrate recommended practices in sociotechnical designactivities such as observation, yet may need observation skills during design project opportunitiesincluding curricular and co-curricular design projects. In addition, skills development may beespecially challenging and critical when design environments are difficult to access, such as those insensitive or remote locations. Therefore, this study explored the efficacy
of physics, Yang, Baek, and Swanson (2020)used a project-based learning approach to integrate components of CT in eight lessons onairplane design to learn about physical forces in a class of 6th graders. The pre-post results oftheir study show that students’ CT skills improved significantly after the course. In a follow-upstudy (Yang et al., 2021), similar gains are reported in design-based projects that integrate CTbased activities into a science context (investigating life on Mars) and an engineering context(designing earthquake resistant bridges). Student thinking in both cases is scaffolded by aproblem-solving process and connections are made to CT at each point in the process.Increasingly, K-12 education has recognized the importance of
Converged Platform Power Thermal Throttling Specification that maximizes re-usability across CPU generations and computing segments. She was the recipient of 20+ Intel Corporation awards for contributions to major product and industry initiatives. She is a member of ASEE.Prof. Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University Branimir Pejcinovic received his Ph.D. degree from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a Pro- fessor and former Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education at Portland State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He has led department-wide changes in curriculum with emphasis on the project- and lab-based instruction and learning. He was awarded the best paper award by the ECE
. Derrick James Satterfield, University of Nevada, Reno Derrick Satterfield is a doctoral candidate in Engineering Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on engineering graduate students’ experiences and motivation centered on career planning and preparation.Dr. Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and their learning experiences. His projects involve the study of studenDr. Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University As an assistant professor of engineering education at Florida International University
. Having an understanding of what contributes to barriers to belongingness has helpedinform the scope and data analysis of this project. In summary, the three barriers to belongingdiscussed were faculty interaction with women students, negative interactions with men-identifying peers, and stereotype threat.Research Statement While the literature abounds with studies evaluating the impact of varying REU programson student participants, less attention has been placed on evaluating specifically the experiencesof women REU participants. It is important to ensure that these experiences are inclusive andcontribute to positive experiences for all students, including women students. The researchquestions for this study seek to investigate: (1) How
engagement projects, evaluation tools and tech- nology, and gender issues in STEM education. https://orcid.org/0000- 0002-0383-0179Prof. Marcela Silva, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile Marcela Silva is the Academic Director at the Engineering Faculty of the Andres Bello University in Campus Santiago. She works as a teacher in the Construction Engineering career and supports innovation and entrepreneurship courses. She obtained a BacheloDr. Carolina Alvarado, California State University, Chico Dr. Alvarado is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Science Education at California State University, Chico. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics and a doctorate in Physics Education from
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sources were part of a larger research project with the researchethics protocol approved by the Canadian university.In the survey, instructors were asked about the changes in their teaching practices and theirprofessional development activities from 2020 to 2022; their perceptions of certain teachingpractices in terms of teaching effectiveness; and their views on how to move forward. Theresponse rate of the instructor survey was 20%, based on the completed 81 responses. Of the 81instructors who completed the survey, 64% were tenure-stream faculty members, and 36% wereteaching-stream faculty members or sessional instructors. The respondents had varying lengthsof teaching experience, with 43% having taught more than 20 years, 29% having 11 to 20
also a Graduate Administrative Assistant for the Bioengineering Department and assists with advising students throughout their academic careers.Dr. Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants Catherine E. Brawner is President of Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She received her Ph.D.in Educational Research and Policy Analysis from NC State University in 1996. She also has an MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a bachelorˆa C™Dr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies
apply. Figure 3: Data AnalysisSkills related to CodingIn addition to “Programming Languages” section, to investigate the need for coding related skillsin more detail, we asked alumni to rate how relevant the following practices for their job are (eachon a 5-point Likert Scale): • Skill 1: “Working with big coding projects collaboratively” • Skill 2: “Managing workflows and version control” • Skill 3: “Testing and verifying code” • Skill 4: “Finding your way around complicated chunks of code”These practices can be considered to be specific to software engineers, however, in Figure S1 weshow that for approximately half of the MSE graduates
proof that they achieved the goal or on the way to achieve goal.For evidence, homework, quiz, project, midterm and final exam are the tools to evaluate students. 4Evaluation criteria or contents need to be almost same for all modalities. Table 1 summarizesHyFlex student attendance pattern for class size of 20 students. From the table it is clear majorityof the student prefer to attend in-person although online participations allowed more flexibilities.This may be happed due to nature of course.Enhance Students Learning in HyFlex Environment Students and instructor need to work together to create effective HyFlex environment. Toprepare students for these modalities instructor should provide
: Consider the flexibility and portability needs of veterans when choosing delivery methods for microcredential. Online learning, blended learning, and experiential learning methods could be considered.4) Develop assessment strategies: Create assessment strategies that effectively evaluate veterans’ knowledge and skills. This could include hands-on projects, case studies, and real-world scenarios.5) Collaborate with industry partners: Partner with industry experts, employers, and data science organizations to ensure that the microcredential aligns with the current demands of the field and meets the needs of employers.6) Evaluate and refine: Regularly assess the effectiveness of the microcredential and make improvements as needed based
, efforts made to diversity campuscannot be chalked up to individual accomplishments or failures, but rather demonstrate howinstitutional cultures determine which policies are adopted and acted upon [13]. We have selected these frameworks to reflect our commitment to better understanding howinstitutions, in conjunction with individual actors, can improve their diversity outcomes.Furthermore, our rationale is to look specifically at the institutional barriers that participantsmention that prevent them from being effective at carrying out diversity work, even if they arecommitted to that effort.Methods, Context and SampleThis paper developed from a larger project aimed at creating a sociotechnical framework toview, analyze and understand the
generate a moreinclusive classroom [6].The term STEM was first used in 1990 by the National Science Foundations in the United Statesas an acronym for policies, projects, and programs in the disciplines of Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). STEM programs and projects have been developed forprivileged populations that have had access to the best schools and universities in the world, sotheir benefits for vulnerable populations such as migrants and refugees have not been studied.However, STEM Education presents barriers and myths that discourage the interest of children andadolescents in these disciplines [7]. This context makes necessary an educational intervention atearly ages so that children become interested in STEM
Paper ID #39326Work in Progress: Introducing a coffee break to improve exam performanceand reducing student stress in construction majors ´ Esteban ToscanoRaulVanessa Guerra, University of VirginiaDr. Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ MiguelAndres is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Uni- versidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with emphasis in Sustainable Construction from
drink redeemable at the department’s cafe.Collected responses were divided into two groups based on whether or not students completed theassignments. For each, plots were constructed to represent the responses to Likert items. Shortresponses were subject to multiple rounds of inductive coding. Axial coding was then utilized togroup related codes into thematic groups where appropriate. A researcher experienced withqualitative analysis but external to the project was given the resulting codebook and a randomsubset of student responses. Interrater reliability was calculated using Krippendorff’s Alpha andfound to be 0.84, well exceeding the accepted minimum threshold of 0.68 [23, 24].ResultsThe results of the study are divided into four categories
the world. Developments overthe past decade have focused on sustainable long-distance aviation technologies, urban airmobility, low-cost access to space, and the commercialization of human spaceflight, to name buta few. These and other projects continue to demand talented engineers to support their researchand development. The NSF REDO-E grant supporting this study identifies several ways in whichdiversity in engineering consistently yields improvements across many facets of the discipline.Groups with higher diversity consistently demonstrate improved overall performance [1] as wellas improved understanding of relevant subject matter [2]. Such groups are also more adept atmaking ethical decisions [3], which is of especially critical
engineering [15],engineering programs have focused on the alignment of course LOs, curriculum (e.g., classactivities, tasks, projects), and assessment to achieve the various educational outcomes necessaryfor professional practice.Two weaknesses of the alignment between the LOs and their assessment is that instructors rarelyuse LOs as a basis for student assessment, and students are rarely asked to use them as the basisof self-assessment of their abilities. When explicitly using LOs for assessment, instructors arebetter able to ascertain the extent to which students are achieving the LOs [3], [16], [17]. Whenstudents are asked to reflect on their abilities by referring explicitly to the LOs, their attention isdrawn to what they should be learning and
students expend on their learning, while the self-reflectionphase occurs after the learning efforts, and it helps in mediating students’ reaction to theirlearning. The cyclical nature of the self-regulation theory is completed with the forethoughtphase, which facilitates students’ subsequent learning cycles. Figure 2 below is the self-regulation model.Figure 2: Self-regulation model culled from Zimmerman [15]III. MethodologyA. Research Design and Project OverviewThe setting for this case study design is the Probability and Statistics for Engineers course at aUS Southeastern R1 university. The title of the course is introduction to the field of probabilityand statistics with an emphasis on topics and problems relevant to engineering. The
: interdisciplinary projects that provide safe drinking water to underserved communities in El Paso, Ciudad Ju´arez, Puerto Rico, and Haiti; a bridge that connected communities in Puerto Rico; a solar charging station for natural disasters in Puerto Rico; innovation and entrepreneurship activities on water quality sensors and phyto-remediation; remote sensing applications using Hyperspec- tral cameras on UAVs for water quality and agricultural applications; and study abroad opportunities that ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Paper ID #40102 advance the emerging field of Peace Engineering in
the students to determine one of two audiences first: Is this person trying to learn?Or is this person giving you grief? Either way a four-step heuristic script can help: (1) Optional graciousappreciation; (2) Return to the mission; (3) Provide some evidence; and (4) Offer to follow up. Afteroffering the heuristic, Author 1 provided a number of example scripts. “Thanks for that question. We see our mission as a problem-solving mission: to address the exclusion of particular groups of people from engineering and STEM more broadly. So, in terms of problem definition, particular end users fall outside of the specs for this project and organization because, simply put, not all end users face this problem. In the
independence, increasing self-efficacy gains,and reinforcing a growth mindset [16]. By taking time to cover the general problem solving stagesin class, they reduced the amount of students stuck in the design process that didn’t know how toapproach solving a problem by 2.3%. Additionally, Loksa and Ko explored how self-regulationimpacts student success on programming projects [5]. In their think-alouds, they found that themajority of participants explicitly verbalized planning. Only two of their participants from a CS1course did not mention planning. They noted that the more participants mentioned planning andcomprehension monitoring, the fewer errors the participants tended to have, indicating that havingstudents focus more on planning stages of
. This was evident in students’ discussions and the time it took forthem to complete the goals associated with each engineering challenge. Another tension that instructors encountered was their desire to facilitate socially constructedknowledge while encouraging independent thinking. This was rooted in the nature of someactivities, which relied upon jointly created designs. One instructor commented that the 3-Dprinting activity only allowed for one design per team to be printed: I would rather have such a project where every student has their own computer so they can utilize more of the design time and what not… It would have been maybe kind of more creative to have each student have their own design rather than have one
the lab and going to our work area. And this is the whole of the canoe which concrete gets placed on. And then that's how the canoe is created. So, I think this glimpse made me feel like an engineer because throughout my college career so far, most of our work has been just very ... Like writing, you don't actually get to see real-world applications.”Under theme 2, students described spaces where they were able to get together with other students tosocialize and plan outside of the classroom setting such as crafting projects, club meetings, and potlucks.One University B student described her crafting project, Figure 4: Cider made by RedShirt student to unwind after a test. “I was like in a quiz
Platform4.1 Application to Skills Development 4.1.1 Relevance to Mining EngineeringThe following summarises the relevance of the Simulacrum to skills development for miningengineers: • Puff-Puff test: Test in which the effectiveness of the ventilation system is assessed through visual inspection of the time taken for a puff of smoke to move between two designated points. • Ventilation design: Used to support design projects for mining engineers in order to optimise the ventilation system in an underground mine. This is particularly useful when considering that many operations in South Africa are undergoing a change from diesel to electric equipment which affects temperatures, diesel particulate matter and
. The third author is a faculty memberin an Educational Psychology program and the primary investigator of the second study.She is an experienced researcher who has used CI techniques on many projects and offeredher own wisdom during the second study. The fourth author is an undergraduateengineering student who conducted many of the interviews in the first study together withthe first author. The first and fourth authors were conducting CIs for the first time duringthe study and took extensive field notes to document their process. In the first study, thefirst and fourth authors were concerned about developing a survey as novices and lackingintuition about survey design, and they were encouraged by the second author to exploreand document the
mean that engineering is relegated to only high school students, if atall, despite the advantages it can bring to K-8 classrooms. Many times, these misconceptions canbe defeated by giving teachers specific examples and approaches to a more problem-based and aholistic approach to integrated teaching.Designing for TeachersProgram Objectives and Audience NeedsCustomizing teacher professional development sessions ensures relevancy for teacher needs inimplementing engineering content knowledge and hands-on open ended engineering challengesinto their classroom. The K-8 school principal requested an overview of engineering and how itrelates to Science, Engineering, Technology, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) and Project BasedLearning (PBL). Recognizing
, Architectural Technology, and a Master’s in Facility Management. His field experience includes residential and light commercial construction. He has been an architectural designer as well as superintendent for single and multi-family residential construction projects. Mr. Ray worked as an engineering design manager in the Building Components Manufacturing Industry for over fifteen years.Dr. Brandon Sorge, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis Brandon Sorge is an Assistant Professor of STEM Education Research in the Department of Technology Leadership and Communication at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI. His research interests include all aspects of STEM education, espeDr. Katrenia Reed