workshop ended with a reflection and an energy andappreciation exercise. The workshop primarily employed negative brainstorming techniquesillustrated in The Idea Agent [10] and therefore the session was titled ‘How to make engineeringprograms worse for female engineering students.”The researcher developed an agenda and workshop documents that included an event flyer, theworkshop process, the workshop rules, a positive focus area worksheet, a four-field matrix, anenrichment tool, and instructions for the ten-thousand rose finale. These documents will bediscussed in detail, but are also included in Appendix A.The agenda for the 2-hour workshop is presented below: • Introduction (Workshop Rules) (10 minutes) • Positive Focus Area
these areas, creating a challenging environment particularly forunderrepresented engineering students. To combat this issue, a video and activities weredeveloped to emphasize teamwork and inclusion. The video was created by two students whohad taken the course in the previous year. It presented background information, mindful teachingabout inclusion, some discussion of the students’ personal experiences in the course, and anintroduction to the activities. The three activities that were developed were (1) a communicationgame, which allowed students to practice clear and respectful communication, (2) a teamworkand collaboration game, which aimed to show that each member of a team had somethingvaluable to contribute, and (3) a reflection and
knowledge gained from reading publications from professional journalssuch as the International Society of Automation (ISA) - InTech Journal, in implementingIndustry 4.0 in the ET curriculum. (2) Present the results along with a reflective analysis of theimplementation in the pilot Summer III 2022, Control Systems course. (3) Present the process forintegration of additional professional journals such as IEEE, Journal of Engineering Technology(ASEE), and Journal of Manufacturing Processes (SME), in the concentration-specific courses inthe ET Program. (4) Deliberate the importance of integration of professional journals as ateaching strategy to augment the classroom learning experience in the department’s ETAC(Engineering Technology Accreditation
between first-year and fourth-year studentsthroughout an open-ended, real-world engineering project, a handful of intervention strategiesand tools have been devised. The critical objectives of the intervention techniques are to providea framework to facilitate mentor-mentee interaction and to encourage meaningful interactivitybetween the involved parties. Providing some structure aims to motivate active involvement,learning, and leading among students, as opposed to passive observation. To understand andappreciate the students' perceptions of peer mentorship for engineering education, surveyinstruments will prompt student responses and reflections. These survey tools are curated withquestions and prompt to guide mentors and mentees for an
trajectories, student motivation, and learning. Sreyoshi has been recognized as a Fellow at the Academy for Teaching Excellence at Virginia Tech (VTGrATE) and a Fellow at the Global Perspectives Program (GPP) and was inducted to the Yale Bouchet Honor Society during her time at Virginia Tech. She has also been honored as an Engaged Ad- vocate in 2022 and an Emerging Leader in Technology (New ELiTE) in 2021 by the Society of Women Engineers. Views expressed in this paper are the author’s own, and do not necessarily reflect those of organizations she is associated with. Learn more about Sreyoshi’s impact - www.ThatStatsGirl.comDr. Racheida S. Lewis, University of Georgia Dr. Racheida S. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor
the makerspace lab environment available, it is possible to readily integrateexperiential learning. This can occur as an informal practice or as a project-based assignmentwithin a course. The reflection portion of the experiential learning cycle as proposed by Kolb [9]enables the student to transform experience into learning. Thus, begins a reflection on our actionsand experiences as a department.Continuous Improvement MindsetAs a department managed by engineers, it is not surprising that each semester is approached witha continuous improvement mindset. Taking the time to reflect on the successes and challenges ofprevious efforts. The management of the S-STEM awards broadens those reflections beyond thecurriculum content and places more
course and an undergraduate science course. Participants describedtheir values and motivations in relation to their learning though stories about specific aspects ofthe course curriculum. An empathy map, a design thinking tool, was used by investigators toanalyze each interview, identifying needs and insights about students’ engagement in eachcourse. Based on this initial understanding of student learning challenges, researchers generatedideas to improve learning. Participants were then invited to join small focus group discussions toshare their feedback and contribute their own ideas on the reimagined learning experience.From researchers’ reflections and collaborative discussions, three themes emerged in relation tofundamental learning problems
• How does vascular stiffness • Calculate wave speed using propagation and affect wave propagation? multiple pressure waveforms. reflections Sarcomere force- • What are the mechanisms of the • Simulate sarcomere experiments tension Frank-Starling relationship? using the Hill model [7]. relationships Ventricular • What are end-systolic and end- • Simulate pathologies using elastance diastolic elastance? pressure-volume relationships. • Use a lumped parameter model to Systems-level • What are the physiological simulate an
scores for all eight items were averaged to calculate the mean self-efficacystrength scores. Lower scores were indicative of weaker self-efficacy percepts, while higherscores were indicative of stronger self-efficacy percepts. The computed Cronbach’s α was.89, reflecting adequate internal consistency.Outcome Expectation (OE). Ten measures were used to determine participants’ OE, inspiredby Lent et al. (2003). Participants were required to answer their level of understanding withstatements that contained positive outcomes resulting from obtaining a Bachelor of Sciencedegree in engineering (e.g., “graduating with a BS degree in engineering will likely allow meto earn an attractive salary”). Their answers were ranked from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5
to provide diverse perspectives on pressing topicswithin academic and non-academic communities. Individuals participating in panels are usuallybrought together to express a wide range of viewpoints and to combine ideas, research, andexperiences. We see an opportunity to extend panel discussions to have enduring impact bybroadly distributing the data synthesized during the panel discussions. The use of paneldiscussions as a research endeavor has the potential to broaden researchers' ways of knowing, yetknowledge transfer from panel conversations to peer-reviewed publications has to this point beenminimal.This paper highlights a methodology for analyzing panel discussions, discourse content, andpanelist reflection to produce research results
and Design, the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, and the College Art Association. She joins the multidisciplinary design faculty eager to explore the problem-solving potential of mixing art and design with engineering. You’ll likely find her designing learning toys and games for her students, fiddling with the latest techno-crafts, or maybe just playing with blocks. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Student Learnings and Teaching Insights from a Multidisciplinary Engineering Design CourseAbstractThis paper presents an analysis on student learnings and a reflection on teaching in amultidisciplinary design course. With the rapidly
card on EngineeringUnleashed.com,and (5) Upload a minimum of four completed student metacognitive reflection submissions tothe learning management system.2.1.2 Curriculum Development - Training Overview The professional development training followed the backwards curriculum designapproach ([11], a structured approach to curriculum development that ensures student learning isguided toward assessments designed to provide evidence students have mastered the learninggoal or objectives. Participants received peer and facilitator feedback three times throughout theprofessional development program. The Learning Goal was provided to the participants [8]. The purpose of the learninggoal is to articulate how students will be changed as a
ideas, formed teams,worked to identify and address important elements and issues, and presented their project. Thispaper briefly describes the current and planned structure of the Palm GreenLab; describes theStartup Weekend; reports results from participant reflections; and outlines lessons learned andfuture directions. Projects included agricultural products, education software, and electionsoftware. During the weekend, participants completed a Strength - Improvement - Insight (SII)reflection. Strengths focused on teamwork and collaboration, entrepreneurial thinking, andcreativity and problem solving. Improvements focused on teamwork issues and the foodprovided. Insights focused on the value and challenges of teamwork.1. IntroductionPalm
these environments. However,whether LGBTQ students experience self-concept or social fit may determine avoidancebehaviors that may ultimately lead them to abandon a STEM major and their STEM career goals.The disclosure of LGBTQ identity to others then reflects both higher self-concept fit and socialfit in that LGBTQ students can be their “true selves” in STEM environments and have theirLGBTQ identities validated by their peers. The decision to compartmentalize LGBTQ identitieswithin STEM environments reflects social identity threat posed by a lack of self-concept and/orsocial fit. Given what prior research has indicated about the LGBTQ climate in STEM, then,these environments would be expected to pose more social identity threat than many
thinking and reasoning. To be effective problem-solvers, students mustunderstand the relationship between the MKT, SRC and SRM throughout the problem-solving activities.Four research questions will guide the research: (1) How do students perceive their self-regulation ofcognition (SRC) and motivation (SRM) skills for generic problem-solving activities in EM courses; (2) Howdoes students’ metacognitive knowledge about problem-solving tasks (MKT) inform their Taskinterpretation?; (3) How do students’ SRC and SRM dynamically evolve?; and (4) How do students’ SRCand SRM reflect their perceptions of self-regulation of cognition and motivation for generic EM problem-solving activities?A sequential mixed-methods research design involving quantitative and
. • Developed Separate evaluation instrument for each focus area. • Conducted several evaluations site visits.Faculty involved: Seven (7)ResultsIn this project, faculty peer observation was conducted in two groups, with one group focusing onthe flipped classroom model and the other on lecture-based teaching method. Both groups startedby developing a peer observation instrument that was specific to their teaching modality. The maincontent for these two instruments is shown below in table 1. This instrument was used to gatherfeedback from peers on various aspects of teaching, including course design, classroommanagement, and student engagement. The results of the evaluation showed that the peerobservation process encouraged instructors to reflect on
programming constructs, (2) facilitatingcollaborative learning, and (3) implementing pedagogical strategies for differentiation. Thesethree practices are not novel; in fact, they are supported by extensive research in computingeducation and cognitive science [7, 8, 9, 10]. We provide reflections on strategies to adapt thesepractices to support instructors in resource-constrained settings in enabling computing for all.MethodologyThe approach discussed in the paper is exploratory and incremental. The first author, who alsoteaches an introductory programming course, observed that towards the end of the semester, manystudents who completed his introductory programming course voiced uncertainty regardingvarious concepts covered in the class. The
objectives of the module 0% Lesson Theory-focused passive content with 10% automatically graded quizzes at the end of the content. Emulate Long-form video showing worked 20% example problems using a think-aloud protocol. Students are required to submit the emulated problem solution. Activity Akin to traditional homework, these are 30% new problems that can be solved using the tools and techniques shown in the emulate and lesson content. Reflection Self-reflective survey about the students’ 3% learning. Next Steps Project mini-milestones aimed at
, sophomore laboratory course?IntroductionThis work-in-progress study assesses the impact of reflective practices, including peer reviewusing a co-created rubric, on written assignments in a sophomore-level, biomedical engineeringlaboratory course. As an introduction to experimentation, the course covers the statistical designof experiments and the quantification of measurement data quality. Topics include problem-solving skills, scientific writing, and hypothesis generation amongst other research-related topics.Evidence-based pedagogy used in the course includes standards-based grading and reflection.This study is motivated by work demonstrating the inclusive and effective nature of peer review,co-created rubrics, and standards-based grading. An
entrepreneurial-mindedlearning (EML) with DEI efforts through the design prompt. It is beneficial to make connectionsfrom historical designs to inspire novel approaches to design opportunities. Reflecting onindividual’s unique designs and their individual influences from historical approaches can bringawareness. It can be difficult to initiate conversations around DEI, especially in engineering designclassrooms. The incorporation of DEI in this DfAM workshop helps to naturally coach students toengage in an inclusive classroom environment where they feel an increased sense of belongingand become more socially aware of others differing cultures by talking about one’s own uniquebackground with classmates. This workshop spearheads discussions on diversity
equipping faculty with the knowledge and skills necessary to create such opportunities. This work is integrated with Dr. Zastavker’s efforts to understand the ways in which such environments may be sup- ported by critically reflective practices and how these environments serve to induct engineering students into educational careers. One of the founding faculty at Olin College, Dr. Zastavker has been engaged in development and imple- mentation of project-based experiences in fields ranging from science to engineering and design to social sciences. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Lessons Learned doing Secondary Data Analysis in Engineering
Practical Wisdom (phronesis) is the integrated virtue, developed through experience and critical reflection, which enables us to perceive, know, desire and act with good sense. This includes discerning, deliberative action in situations where virtues collide. Flourishing Individuals and Society Figure 1: Adapted from The Jubilee Framework of the Building Blocks of Character [15].In the context of engineering education, a few publications have previously leveraged the JubileeFramework [3], [4], [30] – [31]. These character virtues can be mapped to the seven ABETstudent outcomes further clarifying their applicability in engineering (Table 1). Multiple virtuesmay map to multiple ABET outcomes and there is room
engage with students preparing to transfer.In addition, in year 4 program leadership transitioned due to a new role at new university and morestudents support requests of leadership at both the two-year college and the four-year transferuniversity than originally anticipated. This has resulted in reflection on the program administrationand the people and structures that sustain it. This poster will include summaries of scholaractivities, transition in and impact on program leadership, program evaluation results, and researchfindings from the first cohort of students that have transferred and completed a full year at theirnew institution.IntroductionThe Engineering Scholar Program (ESP) project aims to increase the graduation and persistenceof
, many institutions increasedofferings of diversity trainings for faculty and staff. But whether those diversity trainings wereeffective is up for debate, with evidence pointing to some promising initiatives but fewinstitutional changes that disrupt racism [13]–[15] and some well-intentioned trainingsexacerbating the problem of bias [16]. In turn, many campuses moved to embracing student-centered pedagogies. Tools and resources, such as the “Advancing Inclusion and Anti-Racism inthe College Classroom: A rubric and resource guide for instructors” [17] and “Toward anantiracist engineering classroom for 2020 and beyond: A starter kit,” [18] were developed to helpfaculty reflect on their identity and positionality, consider their students’ lived
, e.g., course department, as confounders for model to remove. Using this method,for the difficult dimension, the model learns to identify words that are more correlated withhigher difficulty ratings but not correlated with quality ratings.From these word lists, two of the authors manually annotated the words that were valid membersof the different dimensions based on fixed criteria. For example, the word “helping” would countas helpful but not clear because helpful words should reflect positive social behavior while clearwords indicate effective communication. Next, we adapt these lists to the original CCE dataset bycomputing the nearest neighbors to the words in each dimension, using word embeddings trainedon the CCE text data [22]. Computing
and assessed in different contexts.More specifically, Chinese immigrant STEM workers comprise a high percentage of all foreign-born workers in the U.S. Therefore, comparing the Chinese and American teamwork assessmentsystems can be conducive to constructing a generalizable understanding of teamwork assessmentin cross-cultural contexts [11].In addition, much literature discusses how to develop and assess teamwork. For example,portfolios, reflections, observations, tests, rubrics, and questionnaires are common teamworkassessment methods. However, less literature outlines how teamwork in engineering educationmight be implemented in different cultural contexts. We must fill this gap because abundantliterature already points to the importance and
slowlyincreased (Cunninghame et al., 2016), this group still remains largely underrepresented in STEMdisciplines (Moon et al., 2012). This discrepancy in representation reflects larger issues ofmarginalization in STEM fields and higher education at large. Current support structures fordisabled people remain ineffective, as accessing necessary resources requires navigatingphysical, cultural, and bureaucratic barriers (Groen-McCall et al., 2018). These barriers onlycontinue to widen for disabled students planning to pursue engineering careers (Prema & Dhand,2019), as seen in the high unemployment rate for disabled scientists and engineers, which isgreater than that of the entire U.S. labor force (Lee, 2010; NSF, 2017). Yet, disability is rarelyincluded
industrial robots to perform many jobs and real-world applications that could beboth unsafe and unpleasant to people. The midterm project used to integrate (EM+ Bio +STEAM was given to the students focused on real-world problem-solving and experientiallearning opportunities. The students were required to finish this project within four weeks aspart of the integration of the new interdisciplinary project (crossing the realms ofentrepreneurially minded learning, STEAM, and bio-inspired design), students completed aphotovoice metacognitive reflection aimed to understand their perceived learning outcomes.Preliminary thematic analysis conducted on the metacognitive reflections showcases three corepatterns within the data. First, students generally
Jamboard 3:00 Policy, Research, Practice RoomsDAY 3:00 – Facilitated conversation: Building on the Breakouts, Stacey Large-group Chat/ONE 3:30 Sexton Shareout Jamboard 3:30 – Break 3:45 3:45 – Doing equity work in a politically charged environment: Facilitated Chat 4:45 Dynamics between the personal and systemic Discussion 4:45 – Closing Reflections: Applying the policy landscape to Closing
assistants, and 2 instructors. The coursework consisted ofasynchronous online learning assignments, lecture reflections, lab worksheets, four codingprojects, and four online assessments.Description of Flexible Deadline PolicyWe implemented a generous flexible deadline policy during the Fall 2022 academic semester. Themajority of assignments were eligible for submissions after the deadline through the last day ofclasses. Students could submit assignments eligible for the policy by the original deadline for upto 100%. Depending on the assignment eligible for flexible deadlines, submissions after thedeadline could earn up to around 90%-95% of the original assignment’s points. Since this was thefirst semester in which we piloted this policy, we informed